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Come with me onboard the U.S. NAVY's Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) for a day of shooting flight ops, as the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (ABECSG) conducted a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) somewhere in the Western Atlantic on January 28, 2019.
The goal of COMPTUEX is to achieve certification for deployment, assessing the strike group's ability to conduct military operations at sea and project power ashore through joint planning and execution of challenging and realistic training scenarios. During COMPTUEX, ABECSG is evaluated on their ability to integrate all assets of the strike group into a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force, and their ability to carry out sustained combat operations at sea.
HUGE thanks to the US Navy & all those serving aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln for their generous hospitality. I was incredibly honored, humbled & impressed with their expertise, efficiency & professionalism. And thanks as well to VRC-40, the RAWHIDES, for some unforgettable flying and getting us to & from the ship safely!


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Will resounding victory for Chris Christie translate to national success?
Polls predict New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will easily win a second term in Tuesday's election. But the left does not view Christie as a moderate, and many wonder if the Democratic-leaning state would go his way in a presidential election.
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A second term all but assured, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is casting himself as an inclusive Republican who transcends political lines and a pragmatic leader whose results-oriented approach offers valuable lessons for dysfunctional party leaders in Washington.
"We need to send a message to all of America that the only way our state and our country gets better is if people work together across the aisle," Christie said during a rally in the campaign's waning days at an Elks Lodge packed with pro-Christie Democrats.
"My job is to be the CEO of this state, not to be some ideologue," he added.
It's a closing message that doubles as the opening argument for a prospective presidential run. But a resounding victory Tuesday in a Democratic-leaning state over a little-known and underfunded state senator, as polls suggest is likely, doesn't automatically translate into success at the national level.
Democrats and Republicans agree that Christie always was positioned to win big in his first re-election test. Challenger Barbara Buono has struggled to attract support from even her party's most devoted allies.
Signaling how little confidence she has inspired in the party, the Democratic Governors Association, which is designed to help Democrats win governor's races, spent less than $5,000 on the New Jersey contest while pouring more than $6 million into the Virginia election, also Tuesday.
Other would-be Christie critics shied away from New Jersey, giving the incumbent little resistance as he sells himself as an electable GOP leader with particular appeal among women and minorities, groups that Republicans elsewhere often struggle to attract. Christie's advisers suggest that would be his pitch during any future national campaign.
Beyond New Jersey, Democrats express regret that they didn't do more to highlight Christie's political warts, challenge his economic record in a state with high unemployment, and use the moment to exploit his vulnerabilities ahead of a possible national run.
Outside groups were reluctant to spend money on a race perceived as unwinnable for Democrats, particularly when there was a more competitive contest in Virginia.
"At no point in this race was there tension he might lose," said Bill Burton, who led the super political action committee devoted to President Barack Obama's re-election. "What you don't know is if his feet were really put to the fire, could he keep from lashing out?"
Christie tried to insulate himself from any real challenge from outside groups by spending big on advertising.
His campaign spent $11.5 million on television and radio ads through Election Day, compared with Buono's $2.1 million, according to SMG Delta, a Virginia-based firm that tracks political spending. The only other major player on television was Garden State Forward, a PAC formed by the state's largest teachers union, which spent almost $1.8 million against Christie.
Left-leaning groups that did engage struggled to make their criticisms stick.
"Chris Christie is not a moderate," said Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, which works to elect Democratic women and argues that Christie, who opposes abortion rights, isn't good for women. "When you sell a false bill of goods, it is going to catch up with you."
Democrats complain that Christie skirted scrutiny for saddling taxpayers with a $24 million tab by scheduling two elections three weeks apart to avoid sharing the ballot with Democrat Corey Booker, who just joined the U.S. Senator.
They call attention to Christie's decision to use taxpayer dollars on a post-Superstorm Sandy advertising campaign that featured him in a starring role, and cite the questions that Mitt Romney's vice presidential checking team raised about the governor's medical history and early political career.
Even with polls predicting a big victory, the Christie camp is trying to lower expectations in a state that Obama won by more than 17 points. Should Christie break the 50 percent mark, he would become the first Republican governor to do so in New Jersey since 1985.
A number of Democrats attended the Harrison rally Friday night.
"This is a blue town. This is a blue state," said Gina Davies, a lifelong Democrat who praised Christie's support for a local redevelopment project. "I like the fact that he makes tough decisions."
She's never supported a Republican before, but is willing to forgive Christie's positions on gay marriage and abortion — Christie opposes both. But she won't be so forgiving if he goes after the White House.
"I wouldn't vote for him for president," said Davies, a 33-year-old financial analyst, as she held a large Christie sign that proclaimed "Strong Leadership."
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The Garmin GSD25 Sonar Module is a remote network solution that provides outstanding fishfinding and bottom tracking capabilities. It offers dual-channel 1 kW CHIRP, plus Garmin CHIRP ClearVü™ and Garmin CHIRP SideVü™ sonar scanning for the clearest scanning images on the water. The images sent to your compatible Garmin chartplotter have target details so clear and precise, you can actually distinguish between small and closely spaced fish at key fishing depths all the way down to 5,000 feet.
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"Welcome to La Cava del Tequila!" I was among the first group of taste-testers for the 2009 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival's inaugural Tequila Tasting Seminar today, and I wanted to bring you along with me. So, shall we to Mexico?
The line was a little out of hand prior to the event, but sooner or later we were all checked off the list and seated in our assigned seats in the Cava.
Epcot's Tequila Ambassador, Hilda Castillo, expertly led us through an informative and interesting seminar.
Hilda first described the background on Tequila, including its origin (Tequila, Mexico, where Hilda's from), its source (Agave), its process, and its categories. There is a brilliant mural on the side wall of the Cava that depicts the life cycle of Tequila processing, including the growth of the Agave plant, the cooking down of the plants to create Agave juice, the fermentation into Agave wine, and the distillation of the Agave wine into Tequila.
From there, Hilda told us that we would be going through the tasting focusing on the following: Look (Sight), Aroma (Smell), and Flavor (Taste). She explained that different types of Tequila get their distinction based on the amount they're aged. New Tequila, called "Blanco," is very clear and very strong — think "gas fumes in your mouth," because that's what I tasted when we swished the Blanco Tequila! "Reposado," or "rested" Tequila is a shade darker and significantly smoother than Blanco. Finally, the "Anejo," or "aged" Tequila is a dark gold color and has a more "oil-like" consistency. This has the smoothest flavor of all.
From there, Hilda led us through an aroma exercise. Because each type of Tequila had a specific aroma associated with it (lime with Blanco, cinnamon with Reposado, and coffee with Anejo), she had us smell a sample of the aroma before smelling each Tequila sample. Hilda showed us the three different ways to "perceive the aroma" of Tequila in order to gather the three different scents — sweet, alcohol-strong, and spicy/sweet — that are emitted.
Finally, we got to taste. Hilda began with the strongest of the three and moved on to the richest of the three. The Blanco Tequila exploded in my mouth. We were supposed to swish for five seconds, and that was practically impossible. This alcohol was so strong my tongue went numb.
The Reposado and Anejo went down much smoother, but based on my experience with the Blanco, I took MUCH smaller sips!
Once finished with the Flavor segment of the event, we were served three small appetizer tapas — shrimp cocktail, a crab tostada, and a chicken tostada — to complement our Tequila.
Overall, the event was lovely. Hilda is extremely knowledgeable and did a fantastic job as presenter, teacher, and adviser. I know that many of these are already sold out for the remainder of the festival, but if you get the chance, make a reservation (407-WDW-FEST). It's a great experience!
I've copied out the Epcot Tequila Bar menu here. Happy perusing!
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Ray Lum (1891--1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and an American original. This 1972 film by William Ferris and Judy Peiser captures the essence of this one-of-a-kind figure who seems to have stepped full-blooded from the pages of Mark Twain. In his special world he was famous for trading, for tale-telling, and for common-sense lessons that had made him a savvy bargainer and a shrewd businessman. His home and his auction barn were in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where mules were his main interest, but in trading he fanned out over twenty states and even into Mexico. A west Texas newspaper reported his fame this way: "He is known all over cow country for his honest fair dealing and gentlemanly attitude..... A letter addressed to him anywhere in Texas probably would be delivered."
The book Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men by William Ferris with an introduction by Eudora Welty is available from the University of Mississippi Press.
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Nautic Partners has been negotiating a sale of its fragrances business Agilex Flavors and Fragrances to buyout firm MidOcean Partners, according to Dow Jones's LBO Wire.
The Federal Trade Commission reportedly granted the deal early antitrust clearance. The report says terms of the deal couldn't be determined, although New York-based MidOcean seeks to invest at least $25 million of equity per transaction.
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40 Years of Innovation For the last 40 years, Century has been at the forefront of martial arts innovation. One of our best inventions (if we do say so ourselves!) is the freestanding training bag. These days the bags are so ubiquitous you might have seen one without knowing it came from Century. Back in the early 1990s, that certainly wasn't the case.
All training bags used to be hanging. These are great bags. In fact, they're still popular. But they posed a problem for gym owners whose schools didn't have the right structure, or those who didn't want to drill into their ceilings. Bag stands partially alleviate the problem, but they are hard to move and don't let you work all the way around the bag.
But Century's Research and Development team members are problem solvers. In 1995, we released the world's first freestanding bag, the Wavemaster®. It was a hit! Today, we offer an entire line of Wavemasters, from the Cardio Wavemaster® to the heavy-duty Wavemaster® 2XL Pro. In 1998, we introduced another game-changer – BOB® the Body Opponent Bag. BOB was the first freestanding training manikin and has also evolved into a line of his own, with the BOB® XL, Bobby Bully and VS. BOB®.
Sometimes you need something to slam as well as strike. So Century created the Versys™ line. Check out the versatility of the Versys™ bags here, on our site.
Different Bags for Different Needs Why so many different bags, you ask? The answer is simple. It's because there are so many different martial arts! And why are there so many different martial arts?
That might actually take a book or two to answer. We'll just stick to covering why the bags are the way they are, and what they're used for.
Taekwondo is a kick-heavy art, so it requires a sturdy bag with a large surface area. The Taekwondo Wavemaster® was built to accommodate. Other bags that are great for taekwondo are the Wavemaster 2XL Pro (the version with scoring zones, if you're super cool!), or a hanging heavy bag like the Creed Muay Thai Bag. The 2XL and Creed bags are also great for Muay Thai, another kicking art, as well as karate.
What about martial arts that have little, if any, kicking? Judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu players will both benefit from training using the Versys™ VS.2 bag. Like all the Versys™ items, it is freestanding, but features tripod legs and two hooked arms so you can work throws and takedowns. Unlike a human, it doesn't complain about being slammed into the mat again and again. It's perfect for groundwork practice.
These are all common sport martial arts. If you're learning a martial art primarily for self-defense – like Jeet June Do or Krav Maga, the BOB® bag (or BOB® XL or VS.BOB®) is what you want. This manikin bag lets you practice striking a human-shaped target, complete with a scowling face so you won't feel bad for hitting him.
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Made in the USA There are many great things about getting your bags from Century. One is the variety. Another is knowing you're supporting an American company. Our headquarters are located in Oklahoma City and employ around 200 Oklahomans, or "Okies," as the locals say. Our facility includes a warehouse where we make Wavemasters™, BOBs®, and many of the other cool products you get from Century!
Tested by Champions One of the perks of making our own products on site is that we're easily able to test them in the real world. Not just your standard quality-control test (although we do that too), but a martial arts quality test.
Many people in our company are martial artists. We have two on-site training studios, and during the week, over a dozen classes are taught at lunch and after the work day. Whenever our R&D team has as new product, they bring a prototype to class. Everyone has fun kicking it, punching it, slamming it, and beating up on it as much as possible. If it breaks, R&D takes the prototype back and engineers a way to make the final product better. If it doesn't break, they make it better anyway, because they thought of some improvements while watching the class work.
Century also works alongside professional martial artists when making our products. We send samples of certain new products to John Hackleman's The Pit gym, where MMA fighters test it out. We've also teamed up with Matt Hughes and Ricardo Liborio, to name a few. Highest Quality Materials We have more official tests too. Our products undergo rigorous testing to ensure they meet industry standards. We fill our bags with high-quality material. We firmly believe that the better the equipment you train with, the better your training results will be.
Branded for Excellence You know the importance of having your school's name and logo on your uniforms. It creates a unified feeling of team spirit and helps promote brand recognition. Take those benefits one step further by branding your bags with your gym's logo as well! Custom bags make your school look great. They add another element of professionalism to your environment. If you don't have a logo, Century will help you create one. Just give your Century Customer Service Representative at (800) 626-2787 with any questions!


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Why I Don't Mind Turning 30
With my 30th birthday getting closer everyday (I turn the big 3-0 this May 29th), I can't even tell you the amount of times I've had people make a huge deal out of this impending shift into a new decade. Nine times out of ten, I hear my peers commiserating over "30", saying it in whispered tones, turning 30 into the Voldemort of birthdays. Growing up I can still remember a friend's older sister who celebrated her 29th birthday four times, and I have a cousin who to this day won't recognize the fact that she entered her 30s…in the '90s.
But why do we have such an aversion to ending our 20s? What about 30 is so scary?
As for me, my 20s were amazing. Wild. Beautiful, even. In between all of life's important moments, the bullet points on the broad timeline of this past decade, there's been a whole lot of figuring it out – "it" being, you guessed it, life. Now, at the fairly young age of 29 I still have a long, long way to go, but I am fairly certain that as my life goes on, I will look back to my 20s as a time of self-discovery. And if that is indeed the case, then I am hoping that my 30s will be a time to enjoy all of the "stuff" I figured out.
I think some people are scared of 30 because it feels like the end of youth, that it's a distinct marker between being young and getting older. I've talked to a few girl friends about it, and some have told me that it's a birthday that makes them feel not only old, but as if they should be doing something. And more often than not, their something doesn't exactly match up to their fantasy of what a 30-year old should be doing.
It's hard trying to measure up when you've created an imaginary ruler in your mind. And I think it's easy to get caught up with dreading birthdays rather than celebrating them. But when you really think about it, is there a more joyous occasion than marking the passing of a year, noting all of its lessons, trials and triumphs, and gearing up for a new one?
As I enter these last months of my 20s, I'm excited. I don't mind turning 30, and here's why:
Like I said above, I loved this past decade. But so much of it was spent trying to find myself, and with that comes a roller-coaster of emotion. During these past 10 years I became an adult. I went away to college and learned more about myself than I could have ever imagined. I dated the wrong guys and figured out exactly the kind of qualities I wanted in a partner. I made new friends, I lost some old ones. I realized that the only constant in this world is change, and sometimes the hardest part of growing up is letting go of relationships that I thought would last forever. But the silver lining? Realizing that life is all about meaningful connections. And knowing this allows me to keep "quality over quantity" in mind and put time and effort into those who matter, forging strong bonds with just a few people rather than many.
To me, turning 30 is exciting. I know who I am, I know what I want out of life and for the most part, I've figured out how to get there. It's not even about accomplishments; married or not, children or none, career or still figuring it out – it's about self-realization and being able to say, "Hey, you- I love you!" to that reflection in the mirror. Accepting myself has been the hardest journey of all, and although I'm not there yet, I'm a heck of a lot closer than I was at 21.
And the best part? I'm at a point where I fully realize that I am the master of my own destiny. The maker of my day. The determiner of my future. I've grown up and away from blaming others for my mistakes or unhappiness. I've learned that I can look to no one else when I fail or succeed. It's all me. And I now know that it's futile to try to live up to anyone else's idea of success or happiness. This is my one life, and I'm sure as hell not going to waste it trying to people-please. Everyone will always have an opinion, but unlike my 20-something self, my almost-30 self now knows to take what others say with a grain of salt. I will never be able to please 'em all. Each individual in this wide, wide world has an idea of what living this life is to them, and my choices will always, always go against someone's, somehow.
So as I look back and think about all of the things I've learned, I feel lucky that everything I'm taking away from this decade I get to practice in a new one. My 30s are a time for taking care of myself and being healthy. It's about enjoying the time I have and savoring every single moment with my loved ones. It's about being kind. It's about looking back at the beautiful naivety of my 20s with humor and acceptance, and realizing that it's all brought me to this very moment.
And so I welcome in this next decade. I'm excited. Bring out the party hats, the noise makers, put up the streamers and blow up the balloons! I couldn't be happier to enter this next chapter, a time that I wholeheartedly believe will be the best yet. And I hope you'll join me. I'm so over feeling like I should dread each impending birthday, especially this next one. I want to celebrate everywhere I've been and everywhere I'm going. I want to live this one life of mine- really, really live it- and at the end of my journey I want to look back down the road and feel a sense of pride and accomplishment that I truly did.
So bring it on, May, I'm ready. Happy almost-30th birthday to me.
If you'd like to read more on this topic, you can visit 10 Things I've Learned in my 20s- Part One and Part Two on my personal blog.


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This new edition was recognized as a highly commended title by the British Medical Association at the 2017 BMA Medical Book Awards . Regarded by both students and instructors, Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, 4th Edition , offers an integrated mechanism-based and systems-based approach to contemporary pharmacology and drug development. An easy-to-follow format helps first- and second-year students grasp challenging concepts quickly and efficiently. Each chapter presents a clinical vignette illustrating a therapeutic problem within a physiologic or biochemical system; followed by a discussion of the biochemistry, physiology, and pathophysiology of the system; and concluding with a presentation of the pharmacology of the drugs and drug classes that activate or inhibit the system by interacting with specific molecular and cellular targets. Chapters are integrated into sections that focus on organ systems and therapeutic areas of highest importance. Clear, concise illustrations highlight key points, and drug summary tables offer quick access to essential information. The Fourth Edition features: Comprehensive updates to all chapters, including recently approved drugs Nearly 40 popular and practical Drug Summary Tables with state-of-the-art information on clinical applications, serious and common adverse effects, contraindications, and therapeutic considerations A new chapter on drug transporters , and extensively revised information on drug-receptor interactions, pharmacodynamics, drug toxicity, and pharmacogenomics Key changes to Section 1: Fundamental Principles of Pharmacology, which now provides a comprehensive framework for material in all subsequent chapters Hundreds of meticulously updated and colorized illustrations , including many that are new or substantially modified to highlight new understanding of physiologic, pathophysiologic, and pharmacologic mechanisms
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Semen concentration and quality fell in French men between 1989 and 2005
New research shows that the concentration of sperm in men's semen has been in steady decline between 1989 and 2005 in France. In addition, there has been a decrease in the number of normally formed sperm. The study is published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction [1].
The study is important because, with over 26,600 men involved, it is probably the largest studied sample in the world and although the results cannot be extrapolated to other countries, it does support other studies from elsewhere that show similar drops in semen concentration and quality in recent years.
The researchers used the French assisted reproduction technology (ART) database Fivnat, which collected data from 126 main ART centres in France. They examined semen samples provided by men who were the partners of women undergoing fertility treatment because their Fallopian tubes were blocked or missing – in other words, the couples' infertility was due to these problems rather than to any problems with the men's sperm.
They found that over the 17-year period there was a significant and continuous 32.2% decrease in semen concentration (millions of spermatozoa per millilitre of semen), at a rate of about 1.9% per year. The researchers calculated that in men of the average age of 35, semen concentrations declined from an average of 73.6 million/ml in 1989 to 49.9 million/ml in 2005.
In addition, there was a significant 33.4% decrease in the percentage of normally formed sperm over the same period. Changes in the way sperm shape (morphology) was measured during this time may partly explain this decrease and make it difficult to give an estimate for the general population. However, the researchers say that these changes do not account for the total decrease in the quality of sperm morphology observed over the study period.
In their paper, the researchers write: "To our knowledge, it is the first study concluding a severe and general decrease in sperm concentration and morphology at the scale of a whole country over a substantial period. This constitutes a serious public health warning. The link with the environment particularly needs to be determined."
One of the authors, Dr Joëlle Le Moal, an environmental health epidemiologist at the Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint Maurice, France, said: "The decline in semen concentration shown in our study means that the average values we have for 2005 fall within the 'fertile' range for men according the definition of the World Health Organisation. However, this is just an average, and there were men in the study who fell beneath the WHO values. The 2005 values are lower than the 55 million/ml threshold, below which sperm concentration is expected to influence the time it takes to conceive."
The researchers also looked at how well the sperm moved (motility) and found that the proportion of motile sperm increased slightly from 49.5% to 53.6% between 1989 and 2005.
Although they made adjustments for variables that could affect the results, such as the men's ages, the season, the centre where they gave their sperm samples, and the technique (standard in vitro fertilisation or intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection), they were unable to control for socioeconomic factors, including smoking and weight, which can affect semen quality and concentration. However, the authors say that, even though ART is equally accessible to the whole population, it tends to be the better educated who undergo it in France and they are less likely to smoke and to be overweight. "Therefore, the real values for sperm parameters in the general population could be slightly lower than those that we present and the decreases could possibly be stronger," they write.
The authors say that there needs to be more research into the possible causes for the decline in semen concentration and percentages of normally formed sperm, but other studies have pointed to the role played by environmental factors such as endocrine disruptors (chemicals that disturb the body's normal hormonal balance). Furthermore, such factors could induce epigenetic changes (changes in the way genes and cells behave) that might be passed down the generations, and which could contribute to a longer process of decline in men's fertility.
Dr Le Moal said: "Impairments in the quality of human gametes (male sperm and female eggs) can be considered as critical biomarkers of effects for environmental stresses, including endocrine disrupters. Firstly, this is because gametes are the very first cells from which human beings are built up during their lifetimes. According to the theories about the developmental origins of health and diseases, early (foetal, postnatal, but possibly also preconceptional) exposures may have an impact on adult health; the testicular dysgenesis syndrome hypothesis could be regarded as an example.
"Secondly, it has been shown in humans and animals that intergenerational effects may occur after foetal exposures, particularly via epigenetic changes. If such exposures and effects occur in successive generations, accumulated outcomes are plausible. So the observed trends could be the result of several generations' changes."
For this reason, the authors say they are concerned that there could be effects on the next generation's health.
"Our public health warning may help health authorities to reinforce their actions on endocrine disruptors, hopefully at the European level, and to sustain research as well as monitoring systems," said Dr Le Moal. "We plan to implement a national monitoring system with the French competent authority (the Biomedicine Agency), which now runs the national registry of ART. Our example could help other countries to implement their own systems. International monitoring systems could be a good idea to understand what is happening on human reproductive outcomes around the world, and evaluate public health actions in future," she concluded.
[1] "Decline in semen concentration and morphology in a sample of 26 609 men close to general population between 1989 and 2005 in France", by M. Rolland, J. Le Moal, V. Wagner, D. Royère, and J. De Mouzon. Human Reproduction journal. doi:10.1093/humrep/des415


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Sunday, February 24, 2013
To Kill a Murderer
Over the next twenty years, Dunlap and his lawyers did everything possible to get their client off. They claimed that his trial lawyers were incompetent, that he was abused as a child and that he had mental problems. That same claim is made by the defenders of nearly every murderer on death row. There has yet to be an inmate on death row who isn't a mentally ill child who was sexually abused by his incompetent lawyers.
Dunlap's case went to the Colorado Supreme Court three times and once to the Supreme Court. And that means that after twenty years, he may finally be executed. The taxpayers of Colorado have spent millions fighting Dunlap's lawyers. Aside from the usual attempts to keep Dunlap from facing the death penalty, the ACLU sued Colorado over exercise privileges for the Chuck E. Cheese killer.
"Depriving Mr. Dunlap of fresh air, sunshine, and outdoor exercise for 15 years is cruel and unusual punishment," the ACLU legal director said last year.
In Georgia, the murderer sympathy vote is swarming around Warren Lee Hill.
Like Dunlap, Hill is a multiple murderer. In 1986, Hill shot his girlfriend 11 times. Four years later he beat another inmate to death in prison with a nail-studded board. Hill was finally on the verge on being executed, but his defenders had one last gimmick arguing that Georgia can't kill Hill, because he only has an IQ of 70.
America's greatest mentally retarded president, Jimmy Carter, came out in Hill's defense and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in a half hour before Hill would have faced justice. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is not supposed to handle death penalty cases, but activist judges know no boundaries and the court has stepped in to halt two of Georgia's executions in two days.
Hill only began claiming that he was retarded in 1996, ten years after his original murder, at which point his IQ scores, formerly in the mid-70s, dropped down to a more appropriately low level. Despite supposedly being retarded, Hill had managed to serve in the military and hold down steady jobs, not to mention murder two people. But no one has established whether Hill is mentally retarded within a reasonable doubt.
Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, who has also claimed that drone strikes are a war crime, declared that "the world community is again watching Georgia with great concern as it prepares to carry out another grotesque and unjust execution." The South African Heyns did not say whether he would be willing to be locked in a cell for 24 hours with Hill and a nail-studded board.
Andrew Cook, the other death row inmate on whose behalf the 11th Circuit intervened, came up with an even better gimmick. Cook claimed that he couldn't be lethally injected with pentobarbital without a doctor's prescription. What should have been a punchline to a standup comedian's joke is an actual tactic that pro-murderer death penalty opponents are using to stop Georgia from killing murderers.
European drug companies are refusing to supply drugs that can be used for lethal injections to the United States leading to a shortage of pentobarbital. Lethal injection however is only the most painless way to kill murderers. There are other less cleaner ways that states will have to resort to if the drugs aren't available. The electric chair is used in nine states, the gas chamber in four states and the firing squad in two states. If we ever run out of bullets, gas and electricity, New Hampshire, the Live Free or Die state, authorizes an old-fashioned rope hanging if the drugs run out.
Cook, who can't be killed without a doctor's prescription, murdered a young couple by a lakeshore lover's lane 18 years ago. There is no word on whether he got a doctor's note before killing Grant Henderson and Michele Cartagena. Cook didn't know the young couple, he just wanted to see if he could kill someone and get away with it. Now he wants to see if he can get away with murder by demanding that a doctor write a prescription for his lethal injection.
In Florida, the battle is on over Paul Augustus Howell. Howell tried to murder another member in the Jamaican Posse drug ring with a pipe bomb because she could tie him to the murder of another drug dealer over a kilo of cocaine. The bomb was put inside a microwave oven which was gift-wrapped and driven to her in a stolen car by a member of the gang. The car was stopped along the way and Jimmy Fulford, a state trooper, unwrapped the booby-trapped oven suspecting that there were drugs inside. Instead the bomb exploded in his hands. That was over twenty years ago.
Apparently getting a death threat from the associates of the man you are defending in a previous case represents a conflict of interest.
Like every other murderer out there, Howell's lawyers have also claimed that he was abused as a child and might be mentally ill, if not mentally retarded. With that kind of legal obstacle course, it's a wonder that any murderer ever makes it to the end of the line. But you can always count on Texas to deliver the goods.
In 1994, Carl Blue filled up a Big Gulp cup with gasoline, threw it at his girlfriend and then set her on fire with a lighter. Carmen Richards-Sanders died horribly after clinging to life for 19 days with burns over 40 percent of her body. Even in Texas it took 19 years to get Blue, who had been smoking crack before the attack, to his final end.
Along the way, Blue's lawyers claimed that he was also retarded because he had been born premature and had to be kept in an incubator and that the attack had only been a prank, even though Blue told his girlfriend, "I told you I was gonna get you" as she was burning up.
Blue said that he didn't feel that he was guilty of murder, but that he still expected to go to heaven and wanted to be buried in a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. There's no telling whether he will get his wish, but the cowboy state did execute the Big Gulp killer, making him the first Texas killer to die this year. And the second killer in the United States to be sent beyond the reach of any living ACLU lawyer and into the jurisdiction of the dead ACLU lawyers in the underworld.
In Tennessee, Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on death row, is also pleading mental illness and mental retardation. In 1995, Pike lured another girl whom she suspected of trying to steal her boyfriend into the woods, stabbed her with a meat cleaver and carved a pentagram on her chest. The torture went on for 30 minutes until the victim's skull was finally smashed in with a chunk of asphalt. Pike even kept a piece of her victim's skull in her jacket as a souvenir, despite claiming that the brutal murder had just been another prank that got out of control.
At her sentencing, the prosecutor read a letter that she had written to her boyfriend. "Ya see what I get for tryin' to be nice to that hoe? I went ahead and bashed her brains out so she'd die quickly instead of letting her bleed to death and they f***ing fry me!"
Like Hill, Pike didn't stay idle in prison. Instead she tried to murder another inmate with a shoelace over yet another romantic triangle. And she filed numerous appeals. Her original lawyers were incompetent and she suffered from PTSD and all sorts of mental problems. The latest filings claim that Pike should have gotten a change of venue, a fairer jury and a gag order on the media. It claims that death by electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment and that the victim's skull should not have been submitted into evidence. Finally the claim claims that Pike's original lawyers were incompetent because they failed to argue that the death penalty was illegal under international law.
As February fades, these are just a few of the battles being fought for decades by prosecutors against the murderers and their defenders. It is a long slow war that costs millions and that ends only when the needle goes in and the life of a murderer ends.
The Pro-Murderer Anti-Death Penalty lobby is very wealthy and very active. The rights of criminals have always been more protected than those of victims and the war being waged on the death penalty is an international campaign.
While the parents of victims wait decades for closure, the international left wages a ceaseless war against them.
In Tennessee, the mother of Pike's victim has been waiting nearly twenty years to bury that piece of her daughter's skull. As long as Pike lives, the State of Tennessee has to hang on to it as a piece of evidence in the legal war between Pike's defenders and the People of Tennessee. Only when Pike is dead, will her victim finally be buried at last.
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We ought to empty our death rows and transport the inmates and their ACLU defenders to a secluded island. Then we can see who wins the battle of the survival of the fittest.ReplyDelete
At least we wouldn't have to worry about murderers ever dying of old age.
Norm, I have a way better plan, Kill them. ALL of them. Weld steel plate over the doors and windows of the prisons and gas everything inside with dry nitrogen. KILL THEM ALL. Evey Lawer, judge, Polition,and felon.ReplyDelete
Of course a murderer is crazy. You can't have a normally functioning brain and still commit some of these horrendous acts. Why is this even a logical argument?ReplyDelete
- Bob Moore25/2/13
There is precious little justice in this world, butReplyDelete
be aware that there is more justice coming than these
idiots want:
Isaiah 5:20-21, 23-24, Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise
in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away
the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and
the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root
shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall
go up as dust: because they have cast away
the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word
of the Holy One of Israel.
Don't doubt it folks.
I totaly agree with NormanF but they should send all those incompetent lawyers there, too!ReplyDelete
- Vegas Dave25/2/13
Fantastic job, as usual. The progressive left fails to see the damage caused by coddling criminals. Criminals no longer fear punishment or prison, which they view as measure of status.ReplyDelete
Only harsher punishment, work camps, forced labor, solitary confinement, elimination of work out rooms, etc.. will lead to improvement.
Only saints who are also geniuses deserve to die for their crimes. In every other case, it's someone else's fault.ReplyDelete
I agree with you AG.ReplyDelete
Yet the legal definition of insanity is pretty much the same--the ability to distinguish right from wrong. That's subjective in the mind of virtually all killers.
It's sad, though, that people with genuine, long established histories of severe mental illnesses are sentenced to death. All the more so if they are the victims of ineffective assistance of counsel:(
Vegas Dave is also right. IMO a lot of repeat offenders see prison life as an extension of gang life aka substitute families. Their prison "homes" provide free housing, three squares a day, free health care, free TV, free exercise yards, free high school and college education etc.ReplyDelete
Freedom itself? That doesn't seem to be an issue for them since they don't have to lift a finger for anything they need. They also have the option of working in prisons so they can buy stuff the prison doesn't provide, and to keep their minds and hands busy.
So they have all of the comforts of home so to speak in their minds and all of their needs are met free of charge. They're career criminals and have chosen this life.
Russia takes a much, much more extreme approach when it comes to prison life (watch Russia's Toughest Prisons on You Tube). Some of it borders on torture but some of it can and should be applied to make US prison life unpleasant enough so that criminals never want to go there again.
The Onion weighs in on Warren Lee Hill:ReplyDelete
I'll give some (very limited) 'credibility' to the motivations of the aclu when they start advocating for the RIGHTS of the victims. Until then, as far as I am concerned they are nothing but a bunch of lying lawyers who are no better than the criminals they 'defend'.ReplyDelete
Sadly you do not want a system where murderers do not have the right to appeal and promote defenses no matter how inane. There have been too many death row inmates who have also been exonerated over the years using new DNA science. The problem is that death is permanent and you need to give every inmate the same rights even those caught red-handed. You cannot pick and chose who is and is not worthy of rights, the Bill of Rights does not work that way for anyone or any right.No it isn't fare to the victims nor their loved ones, by any means, but it would be worse if the state executed an innocent person. Sorry but the obligation of the state is not to the victims but to uphold the rule of law and no justice is not always fair, just like life.ReplyDelete
And yes there are those diametrically opposed to the death penalty. They too are entitled under law to promote their ideals. The reality is that it actually costs less per capita to just keep someone in prison for the rest of their lives, rather than sentence someone to death because of the court costs. The trick could be to make sure there really is no possibility of parole for those sentenced to real life imprisonment. Until that happens then the death penalty is society's way of extracting the greatest sentence for the most horrific of crimes, but no one ever said the implementation of the death penalty should ever be easy.
If they would carry out executions within a week of being found guilty, the murder rate would take a drastic drop. Contrary to what some people believe, 99.9% of people in jail and on death row belong there. The rare innocent ones would have to be absorbed like all those polls they do where they say it may be plus or minus a number. There is very little justice for victims in this country. I witnessed a murder back in 1987 and was a main prosecution witness. They couldn't bring up another case where he shot someone because he was a minor. So he got to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, although it was pre-meditated murder (I saw him take careful aim with a rifle and kill my friend.) The case never went to trial. He got five years. Two years for the killing and three years for shooting across a public road. He is out today like nothing happened, somewhere, and he will kill again in the future.ReplyDelete
I have an idea for those who state that it is too costly to execute a murderer or our prisons are over crowded: Ask the Russians if they would re-open some of their Gulags in Siberia. I am presuming that it would be cheaper to contract out having the Russians do it for us. As I see the matter it would be a win-win situation. We get rid of our criminal trash, and the Russians get to make a ruble from it, and keep so folks employed. Siberia is one very big and cold place. I am sure that once the word gets out that you very likely will serve your prison term in full in Siberia, it will serve as a deterent to many bad guys.ReplyDelete
My ideal of a swift and just legal system for murderers/drug traffickers is Singapore.ReplyDelete
You receive a fair trial, due process of law, you get to appeal your sentence but when everything fails, you are promptly executed.
The best thing about the island city state is it has zero tolerance for drug traffickers. If you come into the airport there with even a small amount of contraband substances, you will presumed to have intent to traffick in drugs unless you can prove otherwise in court.
And death is the sentence for drug trafficking. And due to its harsh justice system, Singapore has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. You break the laws there at your own risk.
It's a tough call these days. Welfare or prison. Both offer a pretty decent living. Being a productive member of society just doesn't hold the appeal it once did.ReplyDelete
- Rick26/2/13
The real issue here is that the Left, and many sympathetic on the Right, don't believe in purposely harming others, for any reason. Even in self-defense.ReplyDelete
This ties into their desire for gun control. In their view, it's better to let someone else kill you than it is to fight back and kill them first.
At the heart of the problem is the idea that Good is fundamentally no different from (and certainly no better than) Evil. Not just pacifism, but sacrifice; that if we were just nice to Evil, if we gave Evil what it needed, everything would be OK. The truth is that giving Evil what it needs, makes it stronger; it's never enough. The process also assaults the Good, depriving them precisely because they are the Good.
- semperfi26/2/13
@Rick ... you said "The real issue here is that the Left, and many sympathetic on the Right, don't believe in purposely harming others, for any reason. Even in self-defense."ReplyDelete
Except the Left has no problem killing unborn children, approx 1.3M a year in the U.S.
I agree with the rest of what you wrote. Our culture diminishes the line between Good and Evil. No longer are there stark, black-and-white contrasts, but a nebulous "grey" with a lack of personal responsibility.
Powerful words and I'll bet you only scratched the surface of the tragedies.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your work Daniel, you are a must daily read.
- Anonymous27/2/13
The death penalty is an issue with which I struggle. On the one hand many of these monsters deserve the most painful termination imaginable. On the other hand...do we really want to continue to give the state that power? Government's relentless appetite to intrude and take over every aspect of our lives is insatiable. I like the idea of removing the power to kill us from their arsenal.ReplyDelete
It's a real conundrum.
- Anonymous28/2/13
If there were no death penalty, the same arguments would be used against Life imprisonment with no possibility of parole and if there were no life sentences, the arguments would be made against 25 year terms. This is exactly what has happened in the UK, where not only is there no death penalty, there is virtually no prison time for even serious crimes. The true goal leaves the elite, which inflicted the misery upon everyone, safe behind high walls with guards. And the people? Suffering.ReplyDelete


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Artist's rendition of Cahokian settlement.
Researchers have employed 600-year-old metalworking techniques to gain a better understanding of copper artifacts left behind by the Mississippians of the Cahokia Mounds, who lived in western Illinois from 700 until 1400 AD.
The researchers, from Northwestern University, were able to identify how the coppersmiths of Cahokia likely set up their workshop and the methods and tools used to work copper nuggets into sacred jewelry, headdresses, breastplates and other regalia.
"Metals store clues within their structure that can help explain how they were processed," said David Dunand of Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and co-author of the paper. "We were lucky enough to analyze small, discarded pieces of copper found on the ground of the excavated 'copper workshop house' in Cahokia and determine how the metal was worked by the Cahokians."
The researchers also tested theories that some archeologists had made about the coppersmiths' techniques. One idea was that they made large copper pieces, like ceremonial breastplates, by "laminating" sheets of copper together through a hammering technique. But the lamination could not be reproduced, even with much greater weights achievable with a modern press.
The other hypothesis ~ that the Cahokians used copper knobs or copper rivets and other mechanical devices to secure sheets of copper together ~ seems more likely.
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PD Links
Floss Manual - Excellent Resource This free manual has excellent tutorials and great lists of PD objects organized by function - math, audio, glue, etc. http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data
Programming Electronic Music in Pd This is another great resource with lots of examples. http://www.pd-tutorial.com
Pages where people have posted interesting projects http://guitarextended.wordpress.com/category/software/pure-data/
Official Pd Documentation http://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/
Freesound This isn't a Pd source per se but it is an invaluable resource. Create a free account and you can get all sorts of sound material for your patches. http://freesound.org
Interesting Articles
Miller Puckette recounts the history of Max and music patchers after 17 years http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/
Wiki page on Max with information about Pd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software)


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As Pope Francis takes over stewardship of the Catholic Church, he will also focus on the more worldly task of cleaning up the Vatican's finances.
At one of the last meetings they held before electing the new pontiff, the church's cardinals were briefed on moves to reduce financial secrecy and address failings in controls that have drawn criticism from regulators and led to a temporary halt to card payments inside the Vatican this year.
During his time as pontiff, Pope Emeritus Benedict introduced new laws, created a supervisory body and hired a top Swiss financial crime fighter in a bid to raise standards. But he fell short of his goal of having the Vatican included on a "white list" of states.
"[Pope Francis] has only to look that it goes on, that these weak points are taken up seriously," Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Austria told CNN. "I'm convinced he will do, (as) he has done in his dioceses, he will do it in the Vatican, in a very decided but also human and Christian way."
One of Benedict's last acts was to hire German industrialist Ernst von Freyberg as head of the Vatican bank, filling a vacancy created in May 2012 when Italian banker Gotti Tedeschi was removed by his fellow directors for incompetence.
In response to a critical report by European anti-money laundering experts Moneyval last year, the Vatican appointed Swiss lawyer Rene Bruelhart to head the newly created Financial Information Authority and lead its push for greater transparency.
"We hope that the reputation of the Holy See will really gain when Pope Francis continues the work that Pope Benedict has begun: to clean up what needs to be cleaned," Schoenborn said.
Related: Pope Francis - Full coverage on CNN
The first non-European pope in modern times, and Latin America's first, Pope Francis has criticized the Vatican bureaucracy and shows every sign of leading in the simple and austere style represented by the inspiration for his name, St. Francis of Assisi.
Returning to the Vatican after prayers at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on Thursday, he insisted on stopping at the residence where he had been staying to pay the bill himself. He also chose to share a bus with other cardinals after his election Wednesday, rather than ride in a car that had been prepared for him.
The Vatican has been wracked by internal power struggles over its murky finances for decades. It is trying to shake off a shady reputation that dates back at least 30 years, to the death in London of Roberto Calvi, known as "God's banker".
Calvi was found hanging from a bridge and his death has never been fully explained. He was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, in which the Vatican bank held a small stake.
Besides the 500-or-so inhabitants of the world's smallest state, the Vatican bank serves thousands of Catholic charities, religious orders and dioceses around the world. It has some 33,400 accounts and about $8 billion in assets.
Experts believe the risk of financial crime at the Vatican to be low. But they're concerned that the bank's global reach, high volume of cash transactions and lack of information about some account holders could make it a target for organized crime.
The Moneyval report led to the suspension of card payments at Vatican shops and museums for six weeks earlier this year after the Bank of Italy refused to give Deutsche Bank approval to continue operating systems within the city-state.
Payments resumed last month after the Vatican struck a deal with Switzerland's Aduno to provide the service, sidestepping the regulatory authority of the Bank of Italy, which is restricted to EU-based financial institutions.


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Benefits of Collagen Supplements
This blog does not intend to provide diagnosis...
In this article:
- Types of Collagen in the Body
- How We Destroy Our Collagen
- Foods Which Increase Collagen Production
- Joint and Bone Health
- Arthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Tendon Strength
- Skin Health
- Less Cellulite?
- Fewer Facial Wrinkles
- Anti-aging
- Nail and Hair Growth
- Other Benefits
- Leaky Gut
- Cardiovascular Health
- Supplementation
Muscles, bones, skin, and tendons are composed primarily of collagen, the most abundant type of protein in the human body. To be specific, collagen consists of 30-35 percent of all the protein in the human body. Collagen protein is also known as connective tissue and is responsible for stabilizing our skin and maintaining joint movement and flexibility. In addition, collagen provides our skin with elasticity. Studies show that collagen supplementation has many benefits, which include reduced facial wrinkles and helping to get rid of cellulite. I will discuss this further in this article.
As we age, our skin loses its elasticity and becomes more wrinkled. The are many reasons for this- reduced ability to manufacture collagen is partly responsible while life's stressors and oxidative damage also play a significant role. Those with extra melanin in their skin are more protected from ultraviolet sunlight and ultraviolet damage, which I call "melanoprotection". However, those with less melanin are at higher risk for solar damage and increased risk for premature aging.
Collagen supplements usually consist of the following amino acids, which scientists separate amino into three categories:
- Essential amino acids- This type of amino acid needs to be consumed in the diet and cannot be manufactured by the body. They include lysine, serine, threonine, leucine, valine, phenylalanine, methionine, isoleucine, histidine and hydroxylysine.
- Conditionally-essential amino acids- This type of amino acid the body can usually make, but under physically stressful states, the body may not make enough and supplementation may be helpful. They include glycine, proline, glutamine (glutamic acid), alanine and tyrosine.
- Non-Essential amino acids- This type of amino acid is very important to the body, but they are labeled non-essential as the body is able to make them. Consuming this amino acid in the diet is not required but doing so is NOT harmful. They include hydroxyproline, arginine and aspartic acid.
Various collagen manufacturers use different sources for their product. While some use bovine (cow) sources, others use fish. California Gold Nutrition uses a quality marine sourced collagen which makes it perfect for pescatarians, that is, those who avoid all meat aside from fish.
Collagen supplements contain a wide variety of amino acids necessary for hair growth as well as skin, tendons and bone health. Collagen is a good option for those who may want to ensure they are getting adequate amino acids but want to consume them using a gluten- and dairy-free supplements. Weightlifters frequently use collagen supplementation to ensure they maximize muscle growth. Sometimes they chose whey protein powder.
Types of Collagen in the Body
Scientists have identified at least 28 types of collagen. However, 90 percent of the collagen in the human body is Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, and Type 5.
- Collagen Type 1 – Composes tendons, organ and bone. Type 1 collagen accounts for 80-90 percent of our collagen.
- Collagen Type 2- Cartilage in knees, shoulders and other joints
- Collagen Type 3 – Main type of cartilage of reticular fibers. Commonly present with Type 1.
- Collagen Type 5 – Use to make hair and present on skin surface.
How We Destroy Our Collagen
Collagen levels start to diminish after age thirty-five. While we cannot stop time, there are some lifestyle behaviors many undertake that speed up the loss of collagen and subsequently, aging. Smoking is the number one thing a person can do to destroy and lose their collagen—it is the main reason a smoker often appears older than his or her chronological age. Exposure to excessive sunlight and frequent sunburns damage our collagen, as does a high-sugar diet that is low in antioxidants.
Foods Which Increase Collagen Production
While a supplement can help ensure a person is getting adequate collagen, there are also dietary measures a person can take to optimize collagen production. Holistic nutritionist Kim D'Eon recommends a list of foods to help one's body make more collagen.
- Vitamin A rich foods such as carrots, sweet potatoes, apricots and eggs
- Green leafy vegetables such as kale, spinach, and broccoli
- Onions are rich in sulfur, which is important for cartilage production
- Garlic is also rich in sulfur, which is important for cartilage production
- Blueberries provide antioxidant protection
- Raspberries provide antioxidant protection
- Oranges are high in vitamin C, which is needed for collagen production
- Bell peppers are high in vitamin C, which is needed for collagen production
- Strawberries are high in vitamin C, which is needed for collagen production
- Nuts, like almonds, walnuts, legumes, and seeds are high in amino acids
- Bone broth is high in amino acids, which are the building blocks of collagen
Joint and Bone Health
Scientific studies have shown that collagen supplementation can be helpful in optimizing joints and helping bone strength. Consuming a healthy diet and being physically active is also crucial to joint health.
Osteoarthritis results from the destruction of cartilage within joints. It is estimated that more than 250 million people are affected worldwide. In an attempt to avoid prescription medications, which have potential side effects, many choose natural arthritis supplements to reduce pain associated with inflammation. Perhaps we can help rebuild collagen and prevent loss of cartilage?
A 2017 study using an animal model showed that collagen supplementation not only reduced inflammation in joints but also prevented the loss of cartilage in the joint.
As one ages, bones become thinner. Osteoporosis is diagnosed by a doctor when bone density is thinner than expected for a person's age. A doctor will order a bone density test to determine if the condition is present. Those with osteoporosis are at increased risk of bone fractures, the most commonly seen is a hip fracture during an accidental fall. Risk factors for osteoporosis include smoking, vitamin D deficiency and being a female 65 years of age or older.
According to studies using animal models, collagen can help increase bone strength. A 2005 study showed increased bone strength when a collagen supplement was taken.
Tendon Strength
Tendons are thick fibrous cords made of collagen. Tendons connect muscles to bones and are responsible for movement. Ensuring strong tendons is important to help prevent injury. Tendon injuries are common among athletes and weekend warriors. According to a 2005 study, collagen supplementation improves tendon strength while a 2016 study showed collagen supplements can help increase the Achilles tendon thickness in animal models.
Skin Health
It is estimated that worldwide, women spend 382 billion dollars on makeup and beauty supplies. Most of these products do very little to reverse the signs of aging though some do protect against solar damage. Due to exposure to chemicals and toxins, many elect to use natural beauty supplies and soaps. However, the question is, how can we also improve our skin from the inside out?
Studies show that collagen supplementation has numerous benefits for skin. Studies have shown that oral collagen supplementation could be helpful for those with cellulite and wrinkles. It may also improve the growth of hair and nails. It is estimated that during our mid-thirties, we start to lose about one percent of our body's collagen yearly- supplementing with collagen should be considered.
Less Cellulite?
Cellulite is a condition that people have tried to reverse for decades. A double-blind placebo-controlled 2015 study concluded: "…long-term therapy with orally administered BCP (Bioactive Collagen Peptides) leads to an improvement of cellulite and has a positive impact on skin health". In this study, women took collagen for at least 6 months. An improvement was seen as early as 3 months.
Fewer Facial Wrinkles
According to a 2014 study in Clinical Intervention in Aging, collagen replacement helps reduce skin wrinkles. In addition, a double-blind placebo-controlled study in 2014 showed improvement in skin elasticity in test subjects who took 2,500 mg of collagen daily for eight weeks, when compared to those who took a placebo pill. Another study in 2012 showed improvement in wrinkles and dryness when 1,000 mg of collagen was taken for 12 weeks.
A 2016 study in the Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture concluded that the use of oral collagen "led to more improvement in facial skin conditions, including facial skin moisture, elasticity, wrinkles, and roughness".
A 2008 study concluded, "These results suggest that collagen peptide is beneficial as a dietary supplement to suppress UV-B-induced skin damage and photo-aging". A 2015 study in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology reported a similar result with oral collagen supplementation. The researchers concluded, "The oral supplementation with collagen peptides is efficacious to improve hallmarks of skin aging".
Nail and Hair Growth
Strong nails and healthy hair are an indicator of one's overall health. A 2017 study in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology demonstrated that supplementation with 2,500 mg of collagen resulted in a 12 percent increase in nail growth rate and a 42 percent decrease of broken nails. Also, four in five agreed their overall nail appearance improved.
Other Benefits
Studies show that collagen can also be beneficial in those striving to improve their gut health. Collagen can also be helpful in optimizing cardiac health.
Leaky Gut
Collagen helps to support intestinal health. A primary reason is the high levels of the amino acid glutamine, or glutamic acid, in oral collagen supplements. Glutamine provides "food" for our gut's healthy bacteria. Learn more about Leaky Gut and other ways to optimize gut health.
Cardiovascular Health
A large component of blood vessels consists of collagen, Type IV specifically. Vitamin C, lysine and proline are key components required for healthy collagen formation. In 1989, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling proposed "A Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease". He proposed that sufficient vitamin C, proline and lysine could help keep the arteries strong and prevent atherosclerosis. Collagen supplementation provides these important nutrients.
There are various formulations of oral collagen supplements available online. Some are of bovine (cow) origin while others are marine (fish) in origin. I recommend at least 3,000 to 5,000 mg daily be taken. Taking an additional 1,000 to 2,000 mg of vitamin C should also be considered to help optimize collagen strength and production.
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storefronts are always so interesting in other countries; how people display things and make products attractive to the public. check these fresh ideas from european communist storefronts! making a little go a long way, for sure. all photos taken by david hlynsky between 1986 and 1990 behind the iron curtain.
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Water: Good for You and Your Teeth
We all know water is great for our bodies—but do you know how important water is for your teeth? Take a look at these three fascinating ways that water benefits our pearly whites.
1. It washes away debris. Why does this matter? Some drinks aren't just high in acid—they're high in sugar also, both which can leave its mark on your teeth. Not only is water refreshing, it helps to wash away the residue left behind after sipping something sweet.
2. It keeps your teeth strong. How? Most municipal water contains fluoride, which is often referred to as "nature's cavity fighter."
3. It fights dry mouth. Saliva is necessary to help fight tooth decay as it helps to wash away leftover food. But when your supply of saliva runs low, dry mouth runs rampant. Reaching for a cool glass of water to fight dry mouth can help take the place of saliva until we can help you reach a permanent solution.
Sealants Seal Out Cavities
With so many nooks and crannies on our teeth, bacteria-causing cavities have plenty of places to wreak havoc in the mouth. Fortunately, sealants are an excellent way to keep decay at a distance.
Composed of plastic, sealants are a thin liquid coating that is painted on the chewing surfaces of the teeth. They're often used on children's teeth to help prevent tooth decay, but adults who are more prone to decay may benefit from them too.
The application of sealants is painless. We will first clean the surface of the tooth. Sealants, which harden quickly, can last for about a decade as long as teeth are properly cared for.
While brushing at least twice a day and flossing one or more times a day are essential oral hygiene habits, sealants provide extra protection against plaque. Contact us to determine if you or your children would be a good candidate for sealants.


text: Back Borage Oil Other name(s): gamma-linolenic acid, GLA General description Borage oil consists primarily of the essential fatty acid gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). GLA is an omega-6 fatty acid which is necessary for many body functions. Medically valid uses Borage oil currently has no documented valid medical uses. Unsubstantiated claims Please note that this section reports on claims that have NOT yet been substantiated through scientific studies. The GLA from borage oil and other botanical oils may reduce inflammation and be useful with arthritis and reducing allergy symptoms. Dosing format Sources differ widely on the recommended dosage for borage oil, partly because of the many conditions it supposedly benefits. Follow packaging instructions for correct dose. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not take borage seed oil. Side effects, toxicity, and interactions Gamma-linolenic acid is considered relatively safe. Questions have arisen about the toxicity of borage oil. Evening primrose oil seems to be a safer source of GLA. Both borage oil and evening primrose oil reportedly lower the seizure threshold and should not be taken by individuals requiring anticonvulsant medication. Some omega-6 fatty acids such as GLA may increase or decrease the effects of certain medications. You should check with your doctor before taking borage oil. Additional information The combined essential fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6) should make up 1 to 2 percent of the total caloric intake. The recommended ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids is approximately 1:1 or 1:2. Because of the increased use of vegetable oil in the United States, most American diets are closer to 1:20 to 1:30. Borage oil contains approximately 18 to 26 percent GLA. Other plant oils also contain GLA: Evening primrose contains between 7 to 10 percent, and black currant oil contains 15 to 20 percent. Click here for a list of reputable websites with general information on nutrition.


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Candice Miller voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Read statements Candice Miller made in this general time period.
Title: Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007
Vote to pass a bill that eliminates the income tax on mortgage debt forgiveness on primary residences for people in financial hardships and lowers the amount of a gain made through the sale of most non-primary residences that is not subject to income tax.
Title: Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007


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Discussion of all social, political and cultural aspects of the American Civil War battles fought in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Antebellum to modern day perspective of the material culture effects of these engagements, both military and civilian. From time to time your blog host will examine other Civil War sites such as Manassas, Gettysburg, and Petersburg. All original material copyright 2022 by John F. Cummings III
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
New Year - Old Sites: Juxtaposition - Chancellorsville
6 comments:
- Corey Meyer said...
How much did the rebuilt Chancellorsville house resemble the 1863 version?
- February 2, 2012 at 4:44 PM
- John Cummings said...
Based on what we know from period art renderings, and ground level archaeology, the main difference is that there was a symmetrical wing on the right of the central porch that was not rebuilt, as well as an extension from that wing going north. Also, the roof line went from a multi-level, gable and possible combination shed roof design, to an overall, one height, mansard style for the reconstruction.
John Cummings
- February 3, 2012 at 9:18 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi John, I live near the Chancellorsville house and enjoy the old pictures of the house and Plank Road. Can you recommend any other resources where I can see more old pictures of Chancellorsville house and Plank Road like the one you posted courtesy of Kathleen Covin?
- April 13, 2012 at 4:19 PM
- John Cummings said...
For those interested in other images of the Chancellor House, I would suggest going to the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs website. In the search criteria simply type in Chancellorsville and you should find numerous images of the house after it burned as well as some great archaeological report renderings. There are also numerous images to be found drawn on site by newspaper artists of the day. That link is : http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
The staff of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park also produce a fine blog that has featured many posts about the area. It is well worth browsing. That link is here: http://npsfrsp.wordpress.com/
And, there is also a wealth of information to be had about the family at: http://spotsylvaniamemory.blogspot.com/2012/03/chancellors-part-1.html
Thanks for commenting.
John Cummings
- April 14, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Hi John,
I've been interested in the house for years and wanted to find out when it was rebuilt, and burned down (1927?). I came across a photo of the building supposedly taken in 1876, as well as a drawing from 1884 from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. They were uploaded on the whatwasthere website hopefully oriented at their proper locations against Google Streetview.
Dave G, Halifax NS
- January 19, 2014 at 12:00 PM
- John Cummings said...
You are correct, the second incarnation was destroyed by fire in 1927. It had been rebuilt by 1872, per Noel Harrison's excellent book on Chancellorsville Battlefield Sites, published by H. E. Howard in 1990.
Thank you for following my blog.
- February 10, 2014 at 5:02 PM


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Auntie Anne's C.A.R.E.S. Golf Giveaways
July 10th, 2013 No comments
The WJTL Golf Crew will broadcast live from the Auntie Anne's C.A.R.E.S. 18th annual golf tournament on Friday, July 19th. It will take place at Conestoga Country Club, Meadia Heights Golf Club and Crossgates Golf Club. Proceeds benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, Shades of Greatness and Children Deserve a Chance. There are still a few openings at the Meadia Heights location in Lancaster for this 4-person scramble. Registration opens at 6:30 a.m.; start time is 7:30 a.m. Lunch and prizes are included, plus a celebrity appearance by Philadelphia Eagles All-Pro running back, LeSean McCoy.
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Tune in to WJTL all day long on Thursday, July 11th for golf prize pack giveaways! Each includes a golf visor, golf balls, Auntie Anne's pretzel coupons and more. If you win one, you'll be entered into the grand prize drawing. The big prize (valued at $400) is registration for 4 golfers at the 18th Annual Auntie Anne's C.A.R.E.S. golf tournament (Meadia Heights location).
*You must not have won from WJTL in the past 30 days in order to qualify.
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*Winner will be chosen randomly from all 10 qualifying winners.
*Grand Prize winner will be announced on the Get Up & Go Show Friday morning, July 12th.


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About the Portlet Bridge
The Portlet Bridge is an implementation of the JSR-301 and JSR-329 specifications to support JSF within a portlet with additional enhancements to support other web frameworks.
Which Portlet Bridge Version Should I Use?
This project covers 2 specifications. The 1.0 branch covers JSR-301 and 2.0 branch covers JSR-329. These specifications support JSF 1.0 and 1.2 respectively.
The 3.0 branch supports JSF 2 in a portlet.
Current development is focused on the 3.x series, which brings JSF 2 support to Portlet Bridge. There is no specification underway for JSF 2, but work on this project will be part of driving the content of that specification when it commences.
At this time the Portlet Bridge is only supported to run on GateIn.


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Press Release
LAS VEGAS (April 7, 2018) – Jarrett Hurd unified the 154-pound division with a 12-round split-decision victory over Erislandy Lara in an all-action fight Saturday on SHOWTIME before a sold out crowd of 2,579 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs), who entered as IBF Champion, dethroned WBA Champion in just the seventh unification in division history. The difference in the Fight of the Year candidate was a short left hook that floored Lara in the final minute of the fight. Had the 27-year-old Hurd not scored the knockdown, the fight would have been ruled a majority draw.
"It was a tough one, but I went out there and did exactly what I said I was going to do – fight all 12 rounds and get the victory," Hurd said. "I didn't feel like that (I needed the knockdown). I feel like I was in control the whole fight, applying the pressure.
"I don't think it had anything to do with age. I think it was me and the game plan we had to apply the pressure."
Following the thrilling bout, SHOWTIME Sports reporter Jim Gray asked Hurd if he'd like to face WBC 154-pound champion Jermell Charlo, who was ringside, to further unify the division.
"'Swift' isn't ducking anyone," Hurd responded. "I'm No. 1 now. We're calling the shots."
Hurd applied relentless pressure from the opening round, pressing forward against the crafty southpaw. He pounded the body, yet often neglected defense and ate punishing counter shots for 11 rounds. But the difference for Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs), who was making the seventh defense of his title, was the brutal 12th round. With blood seeping from a swollen right eye, Hurd connected on a short left hook that floored Lara for the first time in nearly five years.
"Besides the last round, I thought I was winning this fight easily," Lara said. "That's not to decide the fight. I was winning the fight. One punch in a fight doesn't determine the fight.
"It was a great fight for the fans. I stood there, fought and it was fun. I thought I clearly won the fight. Once again a decision goes against me, but hey we just have to do the rematch."
Entering the fight, Charlo was the consensus No. 1 fighter at 154-pounds. He stated his case for a chance to unify against Hurd.
"I'm down. Let's go. We want that work," Charlo told SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING host Brian Custer. "I feel Hurd only took the fight with Lara because he realized the harder fight is with Jermell Charlo.
"We've been there before with Lara. I know what he possesses. Hurd has to get his defense together because he cannot get hit like that by me. Lara doesn't move like he used to. If he moves like he used to he wins that fight."
James DeGale earned back the IBF Super Middleweight World Championship with a unanimous decision in a rematch with Caleb Truax, taking back the title he lost last December in the near-universal upset of the year.
The 12-round championship affair was scored 117-110 and 114-113 twice. DeGale, who was deducted a point in the 10th for pushing, won the championship rounds – 11 and 12 – on all three judges' scorecards to win the decision.
"Two-time world champion. It feels great," DeGale said. "But full credit to Caleb – he shows he can mix it with the top fighters.
"I'm just happy that I'm a two time world champion and I got my IBF world title back. I'm back, Team Chunky, we're back. Two-and-a-half years I had it and I lost it to Caleb. He embarrassed me, but we're back."
DeGale (24-2-1, 14 KOs) overcame a massive cut from an accidental head butt in the third, which was mistakenly ruled as the result of a punch from referee Robert Byrd.
"I couldn't see from my right eye, DeGale said. "I like Robert Byrd (referee), but today he was a bit wrong. I couldn't see. But I'm just glad I got through it. I showed some heart. In my last fight, I was like a weak little kid."
DeGale connected on 37 percent of his power shots compared to 28 percent for Truax. He now returns to London a world champion with some massive potential fights in the future.
"I want to be busy," DeGale said. "I have a couple years left in this sport."
Truax (29-4-2, 18 KOs), who fought for the first time as a world champion, was disappointed and advocated for a rematch after the scores were announced.
"I thought I did enough to win the fight, but I also thought I was pretty flat and didn't get my shots off like I wanted," Truax said. "I was just a little bit flat. I felt really good coming in but I just couldn't get my shots off like the last fight. He never hurt me, but it is what it is.
"I gave him a rematch straight away so why not do it again."
In the opening bout of the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING tripleheader, Julian Williams scored a career-best win, defeating Nathaniel Gallimore via majority decision in an IBF Junior Middleweight World Title eliminator. Williams, who edge Gallimore 116-112, 117-110, 114-114, is now in position to challenge Jarrett Hurd.
Williams (25-1-1, 15 KOs) set the pace with a strong left jab in the opening rounds of the fight, keeping Gallimore at bay and the action on the outside. That changed around the fifth round as Williams abandoned the jab and the fight moved to the inside. Williams had his best round in the 11th, connecting on a massive left hand that set up a barrage of combos that nearly had Gallimore out on his feet. Gallimore (20-2-1, 17 KOs) survived the round, and Williams wasn't able the finish him in the 12th, but it was clear Williams deserved the decision.
"I wasn't surprised a judge had a draw," Williams said. "Sometimes when you're fighting real close like that, it is hard for judges to score. I knew I won. Once I heard 116-112 and 117-111, I knew I won because I knew he didn't win eight rounds.
"He is a strong fighter, but I knew he was going to do what he did. Start strong early, but I knew he wasn't strong after six rounds.
"The hits to the body was all in the game plan. You have to go to the body in a 12 round fight."
Williams connected on 50 percent of his power shots and landed 37 percent of his total shots.
"I didn't really think I won the fight," Gallimore admitted. "I just let too many early rounds go. I just gave him too many rounds. I had him hurt a couple of times, but he was tough. I should have done more combinations. I will look at the fight and review it, and will make adjustments."


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These are great. there are also markdown days for meats at large chain grocery stores. there could be at the smaller mom-n-pop places, but I usually try to buy from them at peak season. The trick is to have a price limit, as in I pay no more than $2.50/lb for beef and $1.80 for boneless chicken breast. Only once in a blue moon will i pay the teaser $1.99.
there are certain days of the week that the stores mark down packaged meats. i went to the store and watched for it. i also asked when is the busiest days. i come the day after and if no luck, i might even come the next morning if we are very low on meats.
I also am not afraid to talk pricing with butchers and small-time farmers. butchers can refer me to people who bring in their meat. sometimes people only sell to their friends and family, not strangers. if you research why it is better to buy local meat, you might become a friend? This is upfront cost though and remember the price/lb limit.
we also only cook what is the cheapest food to buy. No matter what. we adapt. we have to. we search for what is good and make it. i even made conversation wth a Latino gramma and when she mentioned her son, i asked her what was his favorite food that she made. Very profitable conversation. hot sauce with chicken, rice, and black beans. the rice absorbs the sauce. CHA!
Some other strategies that have helped us:
Plan for a month saved us an additional $50. I tried for 2 months and it didn't seem to add to our numbers enough to offset the amount of planning. It takes an extra minute to plan. The more we plan, the more we save.
We have 1 baked potato bar night where we use all leftovers, plus I add bacon. Bacon is the key to making these leftovers exciting. Very powerful food.
I used to shop flyers and i miss a bunch of them. It became too high maintenance for me. We have 3 kids active in sports, etc. I have to be real about my limitations in order to reduce spending.
In laudry, I use high-end and low-end. Some fabrics don't need the Tide with Bleach Alternative, while others need that and Tide boost. i reasched products, tried using my homemade soap. The cost of new clothing and time spent shopping is important. Also, since we only have $500/yr for clothing for the family, we have to be very serious about the care of our clothes. I am as frugal as possible in this area but believe there are times when the powerful enzyme 'treatment' is helpful. This is an area worth investing knowledge and time. Savings are deep here without loosing quality. Amonia gets out odors, especially in fleece (good for baby jammies). i sort by detergent I am using and save up until i have a full load.
I also pray and look for ways to save $100. This increment is achievable and is a quick target. I can always learn a new way to save a hundred bucks.
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die1958 Drama | War | Romance
Douglas Sirk directed this doomed World War II love story, seen from the German side of the war, as filtered through a distinctly late-'50s Hollywood banality. The film is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the classic World War I anti-war novel All Quiet On the Western Front -- and who makes a cameo appearance in the film as an elderly schoolteacher. The film stars John Gavin as Ernst Graber, a young Nazi soldier home on leave during the height of World War II. While on leave, he falls in love and marries Elizabeth Kruze (Lilo Pulver). With bombs falling all around the young couple, they set up house with a kindly old woman. Then Elizabeth becomes pregnant. But before Ernst can grasp the reality of his becoming a father, he is sent back to the war -- to fight the brutal battle along the Russian front.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide