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Iron Beast Poster - Toys In The Attic Show
This is our letterpress poster for the Toys In The Attic show opening at the Soo Visual Arts Center on Dec 4th from 6 to 9PM. The show features both custom toys and toy inspired posters. Proceeds benefit Toys For Tots. Hey, that's tomorrow night! We hope to see you there. These beasts are in fact our toys. The graphic beasts are constructed from various press parts and form into a crest that commemorates ten years of printing here at Studio On Fire. The dog latin phrase reads "Iron Beasts Make Great Beauty". It is printed in fluorescent and dark silver inks on Crane Lettra Flo White 220lbC at 13 x 13 size.
It was ten years ago this month back in 1999 that the first C&P was lowered into the then basement studio. More to come on our own ten year anniversary party soon.

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NAPLES, Italy — Ben Ainslie's sailing team has moved into the lead after winning the second fleet race on the opening day of the America's Cup World Series on Thursday.
The four-time Olympic champion skippered JP Morgan BAR to victory in the second race for 21 points. Emirates Team NZ has 20 points after winning the opening race but finishing fourth in the next outing.
Ainslie's team is also through to the semifinals in the match racing after beating Energy Team of France. Luna Rossa Piranha joins it after beating Emirates Team NZ in the quarterfinals. The Naples leg of the World Series is the last before the Louis Vuitton Cup for challengers begins on July 4 in San Francisco.


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whatsgoingon wrote:Now, if data are fake in any way, then the data are fake; they are not half fake or part fake; they are just plain fake.
As I've said, repeatedly: Any photo/image of an Event (as described to us in the media) that is shown to be faked means the Event (as fed to us by government and media) DID NOT HAPPEN. Period.


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I had a fun and enlightening chat with Line Genie co-founder, Trevor Schwartz about his new product. Coming from the ranks of Raytheon, he and his partner, John Clifford discovered that many Boston area clubs had long lines and it was hard to get in. They found a solution for these clubs to honor their best customers that committed to spend and the venue included a huge a perk, no cover charge. I'm looking forward to the expansion of this company to many other cities that desperately need it. The whole story is here:
http://www.startupleak.com/linegenie-noline-nocover/ "In 2010, John Clifford, co-founder of Line Genie, was going to a party for a co-worker at a popular Boston venue. Upon arrival, he realized that half of the party was already inside; the other half was stuck outside in line and missing the celebration. This spawned an idea…"


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By Alison Mahnken / For the Courier
It began as a joke between a mother and daughter.
Vanessa Menke, the daughter, and her mom, Jayne Barth, are the proud operators of Jake's Brew Bar and Cafe in downtown Littleton.
Just around the corner stands their first baby, Kate's Wine Bar, at 5671 S. Nevada St.
"Kate's has been open for four years, and we were joking one day that it'd be great to have two spots, Kate's on one side, Jake's on the other," Menke says.
The owners of the Gardens at Columbine, an assisted-living center, have purchased an adjacent lot and want to demolish the existing home and build a senior care facility for about 22 residents.
The Gardens' main building at the southwest corner of Platte Canyon Road and West Ken Caryl Avenue is in Arapahoe County, while the proposed building would be in Jefferson County.
The weekly farmers market brings a splash of life and color each Wednesday to the parking lot at the Aspen Grove Lifestyle Center.
The annual event kicked off summer 2012 on June 13, with some 35 vendors plying an eclectic collection of loosely defined local goods, including coffee beans, bread, Alaskan salmon, rock art, dog leashes and fabric bags. Stands offered Colorado-grown fresh cherries, apricots and other produce. The farmers market, which continues through October, is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The upscale food-court atmosphere that prevails at so many farmers markets has prompted Jeffco health authorities to impose stricter regulations on food vendors selling items typically offered at restaurants.
Some small-business operators are complaining, and some are choosing to take their offerings elsewhere.
Whole Foods Market has applied to the Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Division to open a retail store in the former Circuit City building at 5155 S. Wadsworth Blvd.
The owner of the building is listed as DCL Wadsworth, and the applicant is Jushua MacTaggart, according to the Jeffco planning and zoning website.
The building has 33,000 square feet and is zoned commercial.
Attempts to reach a person in management at the Whole Foods Rocky Mountain Regional Support Center in Boulder were unsuccessful.
About 25 people turned out at the Ken Caryl Ranch House on May 8 to view the latest proposal for development on 14 acres at Shaffer Parkway and West Ken Caryl Avenue, south of the Homewood Suites in the Ken Caryl Business Center.
The land is currently zoned commercial/office/retail plus multifamily for a combination of retail, restaurant, office and residential development, on 10 acres east of Shaffer Parkway and 4 acres west of it.
Bert's All American Market is so patriotic it opened on the Fourth of July last year.
Owner Bert Waisanen prides himself on operating a fresh-food neighborhood grocery store focused on Colorado products and, beyond that, all-American products.
"It's not that I'm against ethnic foods," explains Waisanen. "We carry a lot of ethnic-style foods. I'm just pro-local."
After pioneering similar developments in Longmont and Highlands Ranch, entrepreneurs Glenn McWilliams and Mike Ard are starting construction on their third high-end storage complex, on 6.3 acres at Shaffer Place and West Chatfield Avenue in the Ken Caryl Business Center.
Raw chicken stored next to avocados and hand sinks used for dumping mop water and food preparation contributed to an average of about 3.6 critical violations found at local restaurants in the past year, instances that can contribute to food-borne illness.
The local health-department average represents a slight increase over the same period last year, which through a prior Columbine Courier analysis found less than 3.5 critical violations per restaurant in South Jeffco.
Littleton is assembling a volunteer think tank to envision the city's future economic development.
Over the course of six months, professionals in business, development and banking will hash out a plan the City Council would use for guidance — a step some council members said is necessary to help boost the city's economic prosperity.
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I have been an atheist since I was 15. I am now 26, and have read the full range of standard atheist arguments. The first one, which because it was first, probably had the most significant impact on me was George H. Smith's "Atheism: The Case Against God" which I purchased on Amazon along with Judith Hayes's "The Happy Heretic." I remember reading both books while thinking every page or two, "I considered this very point as I was losing my faith!" Later I read books by Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and so forth.
Each book was pretty much the same damn thing, but I loved reading them because I loved to see people in "my side" making such lucid, clear, wonderful arguments. I used those arguments when defending my atheist viewpoint to my friends. I don't seek out argument by any means, but I certainly welcome a debate when it comes my way. I think most people that join sites like ThinkAtheist are probably like me in this respect. I love nothing more than the opportunity to talk about religion, and I'm anything but religious.
I have noticed, as I see my new atheist friend's blogs, facebook posts, and twitter conversations, that they all crave this debate. One recent blog post was merely a two sentence invite to IM her and debate atheism vs. theism.
What is it about us that makes us crave the debate so much? What makes us read these books that merely reinforce what we already know? I love nothing more than youtubing a Christopher Hitchens slapdown just because it gives me goosebumbs and makes me feel good that there are people out there articulating the atheist argument with such brash eloquence. Maybe I am weird, but I don't think I am wrong.
Maybe our inquisitive nature - which made us atheists in the first place - makes us more predisposed to reveling in debates, arguments, disagreements, and defenses of our view. But that's just a theory. ;-)
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'Things" have to proven to an atheist, and science doesn't mind being proven wrong. It just keeps on trying and proving theories. Religious people of every persuasion live in fear, or just want to keep their power base.
I started questioning the morals and ethics of the church from age ten. Read the bible, and found it scary, vicious and logically impossible.
Learn more, about how jewish women are treated, how the catholic church doesn't believe in contraception, so women were having huge families, and dying young in the process. And now we are getting arrogant, spoiling for a fight muslims, with their women covered from head to toe, and they are really scary.
I love a good discussion - but the reason I am on this site, is that I also need like minded people, and religions were impinging on my space more and more. Chaplains going into secular schools, rampant pedophilia, misogyny on a grand scale.I love reading other peoples comments, and the discussions cover just about anything you can think of.
Have a look at The Math of the Great Flood by Martin Pribble on the Think Atheist site - I love to learn and get facts 'for discussion'. It's really good fun.
One nit in semantics mainly. 'Proven' means different things colloquially and scientifically.
So I would like to explore that.
Science doesn't technically "prove" things - it falsifies bad hypotheses and the evidence supports others. Well supported hypotheses eventually become accepted Theories. But every scientific theory of any significance has open issues that have not been resolved within the theory. And scientific theories are usually limited to the realm in which they have been tested and are supported by evidence (while extrapolations are considered predictions which need to be tested - and ultimately either support or disprove the hypothesis).
Newton's Theory of Gravitation was extremely accurate and withstood tests for centuries - it was and still remains extremely accurate within those realms of measurement (that of everyday experience). But in the more extreme realms we found discrepancies and needed a refined theory to fit the new data. But the important to thing to note is that Gravity did not go away - our understanding of it deepened with Special and General Relativity. And even within those theories there are realms of physics where we know where we have gaps in our understanding and predictions yet to be verified.
But the Facts of the observation do not disappear - our understanding of how they arise changes.
So when scientists make extremely detailed observations of allele frequencies changing over time in populations - and we observe all the genetic changes expected (insertion, deletion, substitution, chromosomal changes, etc) these are the Facts of Evolution and they will not go away. But we can still learn more about the mechanisms of Evolution and how cells work. But there are sufficient facts supporting Evolution at the genetic level that the proposition that some kinds of genetic changes are impossible such that they would limit speciation to "kinds" - this is a falsified hypothesis. The Evolutionary hypothesis is well supported by the data (hundreds of thousands of times) - and the special creation hypothesis failed (doubly so because it has never even been proposed as a proper hypothesis).
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that we don't have absolute 'proofs' for much of anything, but that is the honest position. That doesn't mean we are absent all Facts or that we don't understand how many things work at some level.
I have stopped debating Science with Theists. Now I will only discuss the nature of Belief and Faith. I try to get across to them that what they call evidence is only argument or an appeal. As Heather Spoonheim (site member) posted a while back - No more free science lessons. (what a relief!!) It is a waste of time. So now I just show up their cogmitive dissonance by creating some Doubt in their minds which sometimes leads to some using their criticial reasoning brain again.
What makes us read these books that merely reinforce what we already know?
If you think about the reasons that we read, we can break them down into two basic categories: pleasure (affirmation of beliefs falls into this category) and knowledge.
For the first part, it seems to be a part of human nature to seek the comfort provided through affirmation of one's point of view or beliefs. That's why it gives us such pleasure to watch Dawkins do his thing and why Christians hang on every word of Kurt Cameron. It's not that people seek these things out to challenge their intellect, but instead they do so to feel good.
For the second part, I've always asserted that if you're not in a state of discomfort, you're not learning or challenging yourself. This is a philosophy of learning that I take from playing music. As a musician, we tend to like to play things we know because it's easy and instantly gratifying, but this gratification is just a sign that no learning is taking place. If you're struggling and in a constant state of discomfort, then real learning is taking place, assuming you have the skills necessary to systematically address the material until it becomes comfortable. I find this directly translates to all types of learning.
So, to directly address your question, if we're reading books that reinforce what we already know, then we're doing it for the gratification that comes with someone affirming your beliefs.
To a certain extent, that's why many of us (or dare I suggest all of us) are here… because we find comfort in a community where we all hold essentially the same ideals. Of course there are other reasons and benefits to being a member of a community, but if it didn't feel good to join, why bother?
I could write an entire essay addressing everything you have brought up, but to spare everyone, I will only briefly address the question "Why do atheists crave debate?"
When you hold a strong opinion or belief, I think the natural inclination is to want to share it, but even more than that is a strong willingness to defend it when attacked. Considering atheists/ atheism is under constant attack from the religious community, a natural outgrowth of that seems to be an enthusiastic willingness or need for debate. Statistically speaking, atheists are considered more educated and intellectual than their religious counterparts, so again debate and exchange of ideas seem to go hand in hand with this group.
I absolutely agree with you. Have you ever looked at Christian sites and read the comments? There are Atheist trolls galore. I avoid trolling but you are right, I look for invitations to discuss religion. I think it stems from being surrounded by Theists all day everywhere I go. I live in TX so the Atheist community is far and few between. I do have one atheist friend and he is the person I talk about religion with the least. I always think I can make this one point to them that will cause the light to go off. The light went off for me once, it was a great moment for me. I want to share that with others. Wishful thinking sometimes I guess.
Also, if you like reading books on religion. My favorite author is Bart D. Ehrman. The things I have learned from his books are the arguments that absolutely have the greatest affect in talking Christianity with others. Even Christians don't care about the old testament which seems to be the way most Atheists attack the religious. That has a smaller affect on them than people think. They have already been conditioned to ignore the Old Testament.
>Later I read books by Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and >so forth. Each book was pretty much the same damn thing, but I loved reading them because >I loved to see people in "my side" making such lucid, clear, wonderful arguments.
I had to think about what you meant by pretty much the same damn thing. Even after taking in the context of your entire message, it still is not entirely clear to me.
The same thing pretty much being that of what?
What is it about us that makes us crave the debate so much?
If we are talking about those who seek out places such as this, I do not overall see the majority of atheists craving debate.
What makes us read these books that merely reinforce what we already know?
I do not find it to be merely reinforcement to read books from various authors on what we think we know. The best analogy that comes to mind at the moment is that of considering them like the different flavors of Linux.
I love nothing more than youtubing a Christopher Hitchens slapdown just because it gives me goosebumbs and makes me feel good that there are people out there articulating the atheist argument with such brash eloquence.
Ah, this does assist me with understanding more of where you are coming from. I do not align up with your sentiments with the example you provided.
Maybe I am weird, but I don't think I am wrong.
I do not think you are weird, nor do I think you are precisely wrong.
Maybe our inquisitive nature - which made us atheists in the first place - makes us more predisposed to reveling in debates, arguments, disagreements, and defenses of our view.
I do not find that inquisitive nature is the overlying reason for a person to declare themselves an atheist.
It is very simple.
Atheists are still in a minority to the religions of the globe.
They argue to be right and convince others of their superior trail of thought
Its human nature to want to be correct and since religion always retaliates hard with statements, the atheissts end up agrueing back. This loop just resets as it has been for hundreds of years.


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First Ascent of Barbed Wire at Lincoln Woods
3/8/01 Western Massachusetts
On the morning of Friday March 2nd, Boston based climber Gene Yazgur was shot six times in the head, chest, and both legs. His roommate, Michael Lenz, was shot in the head and killed, and Gene's beloved dog Samson was also shot and killed. The alleged assalaint was Daniel Mason from whom Gene had recently won a $118,000 settlement because of a "road rage" traffic dispute. Mr. Lenz died of three gunshot wounds to the head as he slept. Unfortunately the noise did not wake up Gene. Mr. Mason allegedly started by shooting Gene in the head through his chin. However instead of killing Gene this only woke him up. Gene was then shot three more times in the chest, and as he tried to flee he was skillfully shot once in each leg, breaking both femurs. The killer then left him for dead, but Gene managed to call 911 on his cell phone despite his wounds.
He currently remains in a coma although his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. Gene has many friends here in Western Mass. He went to school at UMASS and while he was there he befriended many local climbers. He climbs with an awesome "take no prisoners" style and retreat is never an option. His fearless and tireless approach has earned him the nickname Gene The Machine among his friends. His ability to get himself in the middle of fantastically difficult situations is unparalleled and nearly everyone he has climbed with has a Gene story that borders on unbelievable. In our small community his reputation so precedes him that the first time he came into my gym I instantly recognized him and introduced myself before he said a word. Although if he had spoken, his thick Russian accent would have given him away immediately. None of us who know him are surprised that he survived being shot six times, and while we are aware that he has a long way to go to make a full recovery, noone is betting against him. He is after all The Machine.
At Farley there is a boulder problem called Half and Half (V6). The boulder looks like a giant cube standing on one of its points. Half and Half starts under a 45 degree overhang on a small crimper with an awful left foothold, chucks to hidden jug, and then tops out via a hard and scary rockover on your heel. Since its FA last fall, Ken Majka has proposed a sit start. His claims that it would go were so ridiculous that no of us would even bother telling him he was on Crack before we shook our heads and walked away. The move Ken envisioned starts left hand on the foot hold of the original Half and Half and right hand pinching a horrendous obtuse arete. There are no feet, and you must throw three feet to the 1/4 inch starting holds of Half and Half. However because your body is in the wrong position to start the problem you must campus to the hidden jug at the lip. I've seen Slashface, I've seen the Buttermilker, I've seen The Fly. None look more improbable to me than these two moves.
Today Farley is blanketed by over three feet of snow as is much of the rest of New England. The sun from yesterday melted just enough snow to make the few pieces of rock not covered with snow, covered with ice instead. I like bouldering in winter. To me bouldering at Farley today was not a option. This morning Ken woke up early before work for a good breakfast, some coffee, and to read the latest on Gene in the Boston Globe. The story is right there on the front page of the City and Region section and the new details it gave about Gene's heroic survival sat with Ken all day at work. Originally Ken and Gene were going to drive down to the Red River Gorge next week for some spring break climbing and Ken has spent the week since Gene was attacked wishing there was something he could do. Getting off work at 4:00pm Ken headed straight to Farley. After the 20 minute drive, and a 20 minute hike past wet boulder after wet boulder he arrived at the base of Half and Half and what must be the only dry holds at Farley. The hard part was all dry leaving only the scary top out to clean off. Ken did his best to brush off the lip but it was still dripping wet when he started work on the sit start. To my knowledge noone else has even attempted the sit start to Half and Half because none of us believed that any amount of work by any person would get the thing done. After about 45 minutes of trying Ken hung from the jug on the lip about to mantle on the FA. He tells me that even though the finishing move (which involves rocking over on a shitty heal smear that starts out as a heel hook) was soaking wet, he was never scared or even nervous. The only though that mattered was:
"If Gene Yazgur can survive being shot six times and still call 911 there is no way I can possibly fall off this move."
Soon Ken was standing on the lip looking up at a 45 degree slab covered in three feet of snow. Instead of downclimbing to a hang and jumping to the pads he did what Gene would do in the same situation and dove in, frontpointing to the top in his Red Chilis. When he was done Ken Majka stood on top of what is surely the hardest boulder problem in Massachusetts: The Machine (grade unknown)
Gene Yazgur survived the shooting despite being shot 8 times (initial reports said six) and having to go through 17 surgeries. The shooter was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. As far as we can tell, The Machine has only seen 2 or 3 sends since the FA, including a 2nd by Dave Graham who confirmed rating at V12, and Andy Salo who says the problem consists of one really hard move.


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Why That Banana or Onion Might Feel Like Three Martinis
Woke up with a hangover? It isn't just heavy alcohol consumption that can bring on a massive headache the next day; some researchers say a range of unexpected foods, from cheese to pickles to citrus fruit, can do the same.
The idea that eating, say, a banana or onion can trigger a headache is controversial. What little scientific research has been done on the subject has often been inconclusive. And most studies depend on patients reporting what they ate before headaches set in, data that aren't always reliable.
What's more, the possible biological links between food and headache aren't clearly understood. Some experts believe there may be a chemical reaction that leads to some headaches, while others think foods could trigger a vascular response involving nerves and blood vessels around the head. A newer theory suggests that certain foods may prompt an immune-system response that triggers headache. A possible culprit is tyramine, a naturally occurring chemical in food.
Despite a lack of evidence, there is widespread belief that certain foods are associated with both migraine and tension-type headaches, the most common type. More than 50% of migraine sufferers change their diet or avoid specific foods, according to an analysis of studies on headache triggers published last year in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology. As many as one-third of people who regularly get common headaches have reported a link between eating and drinking and headache, the analysis said. Although heavy alcohol consumption is generally associated with hangovers, that biological mechanism isn't clearly understood, either.
An estimated 10% to 15% of the population suffers from repeated migraines, mostly women, while as many as 40% of people regularly get common headaches. Headaches can be triggered by a range of things, from stress to lack of sleep to a change in the weather, and every person is susceptible to different triggers, or combination of triggers. Experts say food can be another factor that sets off a headache. But a big difference is that people might be able to avoid the foods that prompt the ailment, says David Buchholz, an associate professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University and author of the book "Heal Your Headache."
Dr. Buchholz says he suggests to patients with severe headaches that they temporarily stop eating certain foods that appear to be linked to the condition. The tricky thing is that headache triggers vary widely between people. A food that prompts a headache on a day when a person has had little sleep, for instance, might have no effect on another day.
Taking the Bite Out of Food Headaches
The National Headache Foundation suggests patients might want to limit their intake of tyramine, a chemical that occurs naturally in certain foods, to help control headaches. Here are some foods containing tyramine or other substances believed to be headache triggers:
- Aged, dried, and fermented meats and fishes, such as pepperoni and salami
- Aged cheeses, such as blue, Brie, Cheddar, provolone and others
- Fermented soy products, like miso, soy sauce and teriyaki sauce
- Beans, sauerkraut, pickles and olives
- Alcoholic beverages such as Chianti, sherry, burgundy, vermouth, ale and beer
- Foods containing as ingredients monosodium glutamate, nitrites and sulfites
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Ellen Loughrin, 51, went to see Dr. Buchholz a few years ago after suffering from fatigue, vertigo and other symptoms as a result of migraines. "I really resisted the idea that foods could be the source of this, especially a whole bunch of foods that are promoted as essential for your health and an optimal way of living" like avocados, legumes and bananas, says the Rochester, N.Y., resident, who works as a project manager for a software implementation company.
Ms. Loughrin says her symptoms a year later were much reduced. She avoids pizza, oranges and peanut butter, one of her favorite foods. Yogurt, also, is off the table. And she reads labels carefully to make sure there are no onions in packaged foods. "In a few years I may start experimenting and adding some of the trigger foods," she says. "Right now quality of life is worth more than the foods."
"There's a fairly long list" of foods that can potentially trigger headaches, says Linda Porter, a pain-policy adviser at the National Institutes of Health. "I think the difficulty is that the triggers may be more a combined effect from different things. They can sometimes be a little bit hard to identify." Still, she says, if it isn't an essential food, it's worth eliminating it from one's diet.
The National Headache Foundation suggests patients might want to limit their intake of tyramine to help control headaches. Tyramine's connection to headaches came to light with the advent of a class of antidepressants, known by the acronym MAOIs. The drugs block an enzyme that breaks down excess tyramine, which can boost blood pressure and cause headaches and nausea when it accumulates in the body.
Certain foods, including some aged cheeses, pickled products and nuts, have relatively high levels of tyramine, which is formed from the normal breakdown of an amino acid. Tyramine can accumulate in foods that are aged, fermented or stored for long periods, experts say. Other potential headache triggers include some foods with nitrites, such as processed meats; citrus foods and juices; freshly baked goods with yeast; soy products; and caffeine and alcohol, even in very small amounts. The most commonly reported dietary headache trigger is monosodium glutamate, or MSG, a flavor enhancer that may be added to canned vegetables and soups and processed meats. The time interval between consuming a trigger food and contracting a headache can be a few hours to 48 hours.
"If I have MSG, the next day I'll have such a terrible headache I feel like I've had about 1,000 drinks even though I haven't had any," says Amy Worcester Lanzi, of New York City. "You get to the point where you just avoid it." Other trigger foods for the 39-year-old include hot dogs and other processed meats, flavored chips and sugary treats, she says.
A small group of studies has looked at the possibility that certain foods set off an immune-system response that triggers headaches, although results have been mixed.
David Dodick, a neurology professor at the Mayo Clinic and chairman of the American Migraine Foundation, cited a randomized, controlled study published in 2010 that tested 30 migraine patients on diets that either included or excluded foods associated with high levels of antibodies for each person. After six weeks, the diets were reversed. The study, published in Cephalalgia, the journal of the International Headache Society which Dr. Dodick edits, found that participants had significantly fewer migraines when they avoided certain foods. Food isn't the primary cause of migraines, but it can induce or aggravate attacks, the study said.
A similar study, involving 167 migraine patients in the U.K., found that participants on diets eliminating trigger foods had fewer headaches, but the difference wasn't statistically significant. The study was published in 2011 in Nutrition Journal.
But another study, published in December's edition of Headache, the journal of the American Headache Society, looked at migraine sufferers who also have irritable bowel syndrome. The randomized, controlled study, which involved 21 participants, found that eliminating certain foods associated with an immune-system response could effectively reduce symptoms from both disorders.
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If I hear another person talk about "learnings" from their landing page test, I'll have to scream.
We all want to create "meaning" and see the larger patterns in our tests that can apply to other circumstances. This is natural and can serve as a shortcut that can be used instead of thinking in the future, and applied to similar situations. But the world is very complex, and trying to generalize universal truths from a single landing page test result is often a horrible idea.
Unless you're running a very simple head-to-head split test, and you change only a single tactical and self-contained page element, such as a headline or button color, any "learnings" are likely to be very dubious indeed.
The reason for this is known in science as "false causality." As a common scientific saying goes, "Correlation does not imply causation."
The phrase above doesn't use the word "imply" in its common sense (i.e., to suggest). The scientific sense of implies (taken from formal logic) can be better translated as requires.
The phrase refers to a common error that people make. They assume that because two effects are related or occur together, one causes the other. This isn't necessarily the case. There may be a third, previously unrecognized, lurking variable (also called a confounding variable, or confounding factor) that causes the other two.
For example, if I told you that half of auto accidents occur within five miles of your home, you might conclude that there's something inherently dangerous about driving in your neighborhood. You might theorize (as some have done) that perhaps you're more absent-minded, hurried, or on autopilot during short errands and trips near your home.
This seems reasonable on its face. However, it's dead wrong.
What If I told you that half of our driving occurs within five miles of the home? Now a very different picture emerges. The accident rate per mile is the same -- we just happen to be near our homes more of the time.
The confounding variable of miles-driven was ignored, and led to an erroneous conclusion that driving close to home was inherently more risky. We then used this false conclusion to generate all kinds of spurious explanations for the observation.
In landing page optimization, many people also insist on extracting so-called "learnings" from their test results. Hindsight is used to rationalize why a particular landing page version had a higher conversion rate.
For example, I may test two call-to-action buttons: orange and green. If the green one performs better, I may be tempted to conclude that my audience likes the color green more than orange.
However, there may be another explanation: the contrast of the button color with the main color theme of the page. If my page were predominantly orange-themed, the orange call-to-action button would seem muted and may get lost in a scene composed of similar colors. The green button color may stick out and seem more prominent because of its contrast, and not the actual color used.
Trying to rationalize results after the test is a dangerous activity, because it may cause you to inappropriately fixate on elements of your design that had nothing to do with the performance improvement.
Try to restrain yourself from engaging in this kind of after-the-fact myth construction. Instead, focus on coming up with diverse and interesting ideas for every one of your landing page tests.
Retesting things that you already "know" is definitely in order. Otherwise, you're simply working based on assumptions. And as they say: When you "assume" you make an "ass" of "u" and "me."
Keep an open "beginner's mind" and continue to see each test as a new experience.


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There's no better feeling than being called a n00b by a three-year-old girl after she knifes you several times over in rounds of Call of Duty. Right?
Maybe not so much. I consider myself to be pretty good at first-person shooters, but not even I can compare to the teenagers that have ample time to spend practicing their "skillz" in online shooters. I am therefore, by comparison, probably a n00b to them.
This adult man, usually busy with a full-time job, also struggles with the same unfortunate situation. Except his humiliation takes new heights when he finds that his murderer RosieABC is a three-year-old girl and not, as he undoubtedly wished to think, someone with a speech impediment.


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The production crew of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is planning to shut down part of Hollywood Boulevard for two nights next week, but before you get too up in arms about the traffic inconvenience, know that they have a really good reason to do it.
How do free concerts by Justin Timberlake and Paul McCartney sound?
Kimmel's show will close down a quarter-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard from Highland Avenue to Sycamore Avenue outside the studio where the late night show is taped on Monday, Sept. 23, and Tuesday, Sept. 24. But the closure isn't part of some private Hollywood shindig (that'll be the Oscars early next year). Instead, the street closure is in anticipation of the crowds who plan to show up for the free concerts put on by two of the biggest names in music.
McCartney will be first on Monday, with the standard Kimmel couch interview followed by the performance. Timberlake will follow on Tuesday evening. Both shows will take place during the standard Kimmel show taping time, around 4:30 p.m.
Tickets to the shows are available through the website: www.JKLTickets.com.
Of course, those who just want to head home early to avoid the Hollywood traffic nightmare can watch the shows streaming on the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" MySpace page.
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And They Say Customer Service is Dead
Apparently this cake was ordered from an upscale local bakery, but when the customer came to pick it up the order had been "misplaced". To remedy the situation, the decorator on duty - no doubt in a rush of self-sacrificing heroism - grabbed another finished order, wiped off the inscription with a paper towel, and wrote what you see.
So, on top of the big cloudy wiped-up area, the inscription is misspelled and in quotation marks. And while we're on the topic, what is with the wide-spread love affair between cake-decorators and quotation marks? Is it written on the order that way? Are they just practicing their mad piping skilz? Or do they assume everything written in icing is somehow less sincere? (I "Love" You, "Happy" Birthday, Thanks for Being Our "Dad", etc)
At any rate, let's all "Congraniate" "Nicole" and "Mark" on finding the best "customer service" in town. And guys, we mean that. "Really".


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When sailing coach Nathan Handley popped back to New Zealand in June he was asked how he rated his 470 women's pair Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie's Olympic prospects.
Aleh and Powrie had won the Sail for Gold regatta on the Olympic venue at Weymouth for the second consecutive year, they had finished fourth in the world champs in Barcelona a month earlier and five years ago won the world 420 crown.
This told several things: they were in strong form; they had a clear liking for the Olympic venue, having come to know its intricacies well; and they knew the feeling of scaling the sailing heights.
It had been 28 years since a New Zealand crew had won an Olympic title, other than standing up on a board. That was Russell Coutts in the Finn at Los Angeles.
New Zealand Olympic sailing hadn't been that flash for some time. So when the question was popped to Handley he was cautious, but the sub-text was clear. "There's a lot of work to do and sailing's a funny old game. You need a few things to go your way. But they're in a pretty good head space. They're certainly not over-confident, but we're definitely in the ball park, that's for sure."
And so it proved. Going into the medal race, Aleh and Powrie were equal on points with British sailors Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark. Both had won two of the 10 fleet races. The Dutch pair were third some way back. A minimum of silver was assured.
In the event, Aleh, at 26 two years the older, and Powrie made no race of it, romping away to win, while Mills and Clark had a 'mare, finishing ninth out of the 10 crews.
"I was thinking about it last night and I thought silver was going to be a big deal," Aleh said after receiving her medal. "I don't think a New Zealand woman has ever won a gold medal in a sit-down boat and I'm sitting down and we have got one now."
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Oklahoma City Rep and American Theatre Wing to Present DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN, 2/8-17
Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre continues their Eleventh Season with Rob Becker's DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN. Defending the Caveman holds the record as the longest running solo play in Broadway history. Caveman is also now a worldwide rock-solid tour de force that has won the hearts of millions and it's sure to win yours. Caveman has been seen in 45 countries and translated into 18 different languages (and counting!).
A hilariously insightful play about the ways men and women relate, Caveman has both sexes roaring with laughter and recognition. Affectionate nudging between audience members occurs during the performance as they recognize themselves in the stories being told on stage.
Defending the Caveman makes us laugh at ourselves about all the ways men and women fight, laugh and love. That's why couples all across America and around the world are in love with Defending the Caveman.
The wildly popular comedy Defending the Caveman was written by Rob Becker over a 3-year period during which he made an informal study of anthropology, prehistory, psychology, sociology and mythology. Caveman has since become a peacemaker in the ongoing misunderstandings between men and women.
Caveman originally opened in San Francisco in 1991 and soon moved to Dallas. After a year in Dallas-now an unqualified hit-Caveman went on to sold-out engagements in Washington DC, Philadelphia and Chicago, before opening on Broadway in 1995. After running two and a half years, playing 702 performances at the Helen Hayes Theater, Caveman entered the record books as the longest running solo play in Broadway history. Caveman has been touring theaters all around America and around the globe ever since.
The CityRep production stars John Venable. Tickets are $8 for Students, Teachers and Military Personnel (with ID), $20 (groups of eight or more), $30 (matinees) and $35 (evening performances), and may be purchased by calling the CityRep Ticket Hotline at 405.848.3761 or the Civic Center Music Hall Box Office at 405.297.2264 or 1.800.364.7111. Tickets may be purchased online through the CityRep website at www.cityrep.com, or through the Civic Center Music Hall Box Office website at www.okcciviccenter.org.
Friday, February 8, 2013 7:30 pm Preview
Saturday, February 9, 2013 1:30 pm Matinee Preview
Saturday, February 9, 2013 7:30 pm Opening Night Performance
Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:30 pm Matinee
The Schedule continues as follows:
Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:30 pm Special Valentine's Day Performance
Friday, February 15, 2013 7:30 pm Performance
Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:30 pm Matinee
Saturday, February 16, 2013 7:30 pm Performance
Sunday, February 17, 2013 1:30 pm Closing Matinee
CityRep (Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre), under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Donald Jordan, is one of only three Equity professional theatre companies in the state of Oklahoma, and as such provides a vital service to our community by presenting programming that is reflected in major arts communities around the country-and to our Oklahoma professional theatre artists by providing an Oklahoma venue for employment and an artistic home. CityRep operates under an agreement with Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.


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Topocoding API - Developers
The service provides information about altitude and topography for places on the Earth. Sources for topographic data include the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and the GTOPO30 project of the U.S. Geological Service (USGS). Data describes contours and primary features of all continents except Antarctica at a horizontal resolution of about 90 meters. API methods support submission of a place or list of places, specified by latitude and longitude or GPS coordinates, to retrieve altitude, distance apart, and intermediate locations. The API generates an altitude profile for the route between the specified places, which can help to route's steepness or to verify the visibility of one point from another. Distance measurements account for the curvature of the Earth.


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I know I am stretching the definition of 'Iraqi' here, but Deborah Abdulla is married to an Iraqi and her children are half Iraqi. Anyway, its such a great blog that I will have to make her my honorary Iraqi for the week just to include it.
Indigo-Daisy is about poetry (her own and others), peace, recipes and fun. Here is a sample...
The laws of my soul
there are three major types of laws that people will follow,
the laws of the land,
the laws of the church,
and the laws of the soul
if there should come a time when they are not equal, and I must choose one over the other
I shall choose to follow my soul,
for I can step outside of the land and the church,
but I can not step outside my soul.
~Deborah Abdulla


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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Buccaneers coach, rookie RB fighting for playoff berth Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coach Raheem Morris and RB LeGarrette Blount conducted conference calls with the New Orleans media today as they Bucs prepare to face the Saints on Sunday. The improved 9-6 ...
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coach Raheem Morris and RB LeGarrette Blount conducted conference calls with the New Orleans media today as they Bucs prepare to face the Saints on Sunday. The improved 9-6 Buccaneers have as much to play for as the Saints on Sunday as they need a win and a tie or loss by the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants to qualify for the playoffs. Nevertheless, this a vastly improved club over last year's 3-13 edition, led by QB Josh Freeman and young players like Blount and fellow rookie WR Mike Williams. Below are transcripts of the conference calls:
Head Coach Raheem Morris
Do you consider last years win at the Superdome as a springboard for your success or for what could come?
I dont know if it was an indicator of anything, but last year was about us going out and trying to improve every week. We had a young team last year and we were developing a young quarterback. We had just put him in against Green Bay for his first start, then he had a nice showing against the Super Bowl champs last year. They werent the Super Bowl champs at the time, but we certainly knew they had the will and intangibles to do what they did last year and it was a great test for Freeman to put him out against you guys. He went out. We played well. We played fast. We played hard. We played consistent and we were able to get a win there and a very significant win for us in our development and where we wanted to go. It only helped us generate some positive pub for the offseason to get us going in the right direction. Right now were just building and keeping trying to continue to grow.
Youve been watching film on that Atlanta game. What are your thoughts on the Saints defense considering they are not forcing as many turnovers, but that they have given up fewer points and yards?
Theyre really playing grade A football across the board. Gregg Williams does a great job with scheme. He does a great job with putting his players in position to make plays. Thats why they were a great opportunistic defense last year. Plays happen and turnovers happen when technique and opportunity meet. For whatever the case is, just not as many opportunities have presented themselves because if they do, usually those guys cash in. They have great ball skill guys in Tracy Porter and (Jabari) Greer and Darren Sharper, one of the best of all time and (Jonathan) Vilma, all those guys. They do a nice job of hustling to the football and causing turnovers. Theyre tackling better, even better this year than last year and theyre just playing harder. Thats going to make them a better defense all around. Thats what theyve done. Thats what theyve become.
When you saw the emotion that the Saints had in that Monday night game, its pretty evident that they were pointing to it for a while. Did you use that as an illustration to your team? Have your guys been pointing to this game given what happened when the Saints came to your house earlier this year?
No. We play one game at a time. This is another great challenge for our football team. We dont ride the emotion of roller coaster. We go out and try to play each game as an individual game as what it is. We control, what we can control. The only thing we can do is go out and try to get our tenth win against the Saints this week. There are no emotional ties. We dont ride that kind of roller coaster here. We stay even keel. Were young. Were hungry. Were focused. We have our own goals. Were building this team for the long term. Thats what we want to go out and do this weekend.
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I think the first place I came across the idea was at Jenny Levine's blog – see The Shifted Librarian: The Exeter Public Library Does Netflix .
Here I am two years later still wondering how Netflix is working in libraries. Is it still working? Have the executives at Netflix shut everyone down? Did all the 'naughty' libraries get a copy of "There Will Be Blood" as recommended in that NEWSWEEK article? I really wanted to know.
So, I decided to just go ahead and ask.
I chose to check in on the Cook Memorial Library way up in Tamworth, NH from that article in Library Journal. Library director Jay Rancourt had this to say about Netflix's successful and continued use in her library:
Yes, we are still using Netflix. We are circulating two at a time now. Very popular service. Even more so in this lousy economy. There are (red) cards on the circ desk to be filled out by the patrons with their request. We queue the patron requests up on the Netflix website, and loan only one unit per person at a time. Then the patrons must queue up again. It's a two-day rental to keep the queue moving. I think it's well worth the $13.99 per month it costs…
I did the math and I'd say she's getting a great deal. Economically, it's like buying one new DVD a month, but having access to around 30. Smart, smart, smart. Why not take advantage of an easy and inexpensive way to provide users with what they want? Way to go Jay!
It looks like no one has seen any kind of 'reminder' from Netflix the corporate entity banning libraries from using this service. I'm sure they realize how many new subscribers they will gain from the pool of people who have access to their service through libraries. Impatience is commonplace in America, eventually everyone wants their own subscription. Netflix should consider paying libraries to offer the service!


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Have a relaxed mindset, and never panic during your night driving. Being fearless and sticking onto the road rules would make you half a way through the journey. We have seen some new drivers, who panic in some situations causing them to applying break forcefully, shaking the gear leaver to know in which number of gear they are in or clicking the viper blades or indicators coming in action when they panic. Try not to be that, stay calm and do your actions.
Keep your windshield clean. Remove off the stains, dried drops, smudges, finger prints, dust and greasy matters to have a clear vision of the road in the night driving glare. First, lift the vipers from the bonnet using your hand and de-dust it, then pour a sufficient amount of water all over the windshield and allow draining. Now, use your viper gear to clean the windshield by squeezing the detergents stored under the hood. Following these steps will make you to avoid mild scratches on your wind glasses and have a clear vision on the road.
Applying the viper as such to clean the windshield may swipe up the dirt and mud particles accumulated around the blades and can cause permanent scratches on your windshield.
Additional care should be paid for car driving, especially by the beginners to moderate skilled drivers during night times, than during the day. Driving the car at night times seems to be a scary part for many drivers due to the glary vision of the opposite vehicle that leads them blind for some microseconds when passing by. Keep in mind, glary visions are the main dangers of driving at night.
For this, avoid seeing the light beams of the opposite vehicle and concentrate on the road space required for the lively movement of your car during the exact crossing time of the opposite vehicle. While crossing, if you are not sure about the road, don't apply, but be ready to pedal on the brake, particularly when you travel on the road where you handled some patches and damages already.
Use your high and low beam indicator wisely. Use high beams at night driving only when you see no cars on the opposite side. Flipping from low to high beam for a while can actually help you in finding the pot holes, humps, broken ridges and the damaged roads even at long distance with a shadowed vision.
Pull down the high beam to low level to make your nearby road visible while you pass the opposite vehicle on the same road. This on the other hand, indicates the opposite vehicle driver to do the same, so that both the drivers may have a better vision in low beam (some drivers don't obey this and no need to worry about it). If you head other vehicles coming opposite continuously, try to be in the low beam position. This will help the opposite driver to have his vision properly without your high beam.
Keep your eye sights long to the end of the road covering almost all the area of your road. Try to understand this. When you drive in dark, try to keep your sight sticking to the regions as your car head lamps explore new areas of the roads. Actually, this will help us to have some time to react when we find some abnormalities on the roads like, humps, potholes, speed breakers and etc.
Roads are always associated with patches and damages contributing to small to large damages to the vehicle. In some bad cases, a neat, smooth road ends all of a sudden and continues to be a bad, damaged roads with pits and hard rocks. This is often faced during the night driving time causing the car more vulnerable to hurt, especially when you drive at a constant high speed. When you face such situation, slowing your car immediately may harm your car, as the vehicles following you don't expect this from you. In such cases, switch your parking light in one hand and this can indicate the drivers coming behind you to control their speed without hitting your car's back.
I have tried this many a time where I felt safe.
Especially, when you lead on a road followed by three or four vehicles behind you at constant speed wouldn't expect you to stop or slowing suddenly for a bad scenario in the middle of the road unexpectedly. Sometimes running your car on the damages roads is better than getting hit by the rear following vehicles.
If you want to stop your car crisply in such cases, cut down your speed from 100 km/h till it reaches to 60-50km/h and release the brake and re-press the brake pedal hardly once again will make your car stop safely. Not to harm your co-passengers, give signal to your passengers on emergency braking.
Sleepy drivers are really the dangerous giant in the roads of both day and night driving whom we need to get rid of. But more often, the vulnerability is higher at night times due to less traffic and perfect time to sleep, especially for those who are tired of driving from long distance. Even research has been done on this and found that tiresome drivers take micro sleep for 6 to 10 seconds without their knowledge.
Giving a short horn during overtakes, particularly for long vehicles like trucks, lorry, buses and etc., would add another layer of safety for you. Pressing the horn for twice would make the truck driver to have a notice on you and your activities.
Sometimes we see groups of vehicles flocks together on overtaking heavy loaded or long vehicles. In such situations, based on the chance of crossing one another, you may have to remain in the flock by driving at slow speed for a while. Later the group gets disperse as vehicles move ahead overtaking one after another. In such cases, we might continue to stay in the same lane, while one or two other vehicles of same lane direction would move to the opposite lane to overtake. If you are among the one behind the vehicle travelling in the opposite lane, it is more responsible job for you to have your safety.
Sometimes the overtaking vehicle would come back into its own lane, while heading another vehicle on the opposite lane. Also, the overtaking driver may have time and space only for his vehicle to pass on, where you might end up in trouble following him on the opposite lane. This generally happens to many drivers when they lose their patience in staying in the flock of vehicles for some time. During overtakes, as you have a vehicle before you, try to see through his windshield to get an idea about the opposite lane vehicle. This can actually help you to have some extra time to decide to slow down or coming back to your lane again
Give short horns at regular intervals (pom pom pom) than pressing the horn to give a long press (poooooooom). This might sound funny, but it actually works. Especially, when we get in contact with other roads passing across or the road that connects to the highways. Giving such short horns would make the people to notice about your car coming being ready to cross the road.
Some roads are broad for long distance and later divides into two roads, while a short half a meter height divider separates two roads which has blurred marking or with no reflector stickers. This type of dividers is risky specifically when they start after coming down from a bridge. All kinds of such problems are not such a big problem in daylight, however, in the night driving, especially when we travel on the new roads, it is highly important. So beware of short divider.
Turning roads are actually a trap for us, it seems simpler than they actually appear. This is not about the hair-pin bending where we would not be at a pace of speed.
When you don't get the vision of the bending road, for sure be alert and bring the speed down is on the safer side. Never misjudge the road curve for our safety measures. At times, some open land roads have some treats like, that we might not know whether the road bends to the right or left until you reach closure. Make sure you stick on to the lane and pull down the speed in such situation without being panic.
Having juices and beverages on travel might add a great value for the journey, however small bottles of less than a litre may cause some trouble if it is on the floor unnoticed in dim light, as they may run in between the three pedals. But no need to remember a horror scene whenever you see a pet bottle in the car, rather just keep an eye on them when you are handling them.
When you feel sleepy, never hesitate to leave the driver's seat for the sake prestige or fame. A real driver never takes chances in collapsing the whole happy journey or the fun of driving a car. Feeling tired and sleepy after a long continuous drive is actually a human nature and some of us really feel shame telling we feel sleepy and handing over the car to our spouse or friends. Most accidents happening at night time are higher due to lack of sleep of the drivers which is bad for us and others too.


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McDonald's eyes longer breakfast hours
OAK BROOK, Ill. — McDonald's is in the early stages of looking at whether it can extend its breakfast hours.
Fans of the Egg McMuffin have long wanted the option to get breakfast at McDonald's after 10:30 a.m. But offering both breakfast and lunch was considered logistically impossible give the limited space in kitchens.
Still, it's an option the chain is eyeing more seriously as people's eating habits change, particularly for people in their 20s and 30s.
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"We know, as an example, that breakfast on the weekend cut off at 10:30 doesn't go very well," Jeff Stratton, head of McDonald's USA, said in an interview.
Stratton declined to provide details on how McDonald's would serve breakfast later in the day, saying, "We're just beginning."
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THIS is How You Show Hungry Who's Boss
Both Wreckporter Colee R. and I instantly recognized this "Go Team" Wreck:
It's Hungry from those Weight Watcher's commercials! You know, this guy?
Now, Weight Watcher's wants you to banish Hungry (who I must say is the most adorable junk-food-pusher since my hubby John) by joining some program of theirs. However, the decorator of the above CCC and I have an even better idea: eat cupcakes.
See, eating cupcakes is ALSO an effective way to banish Hungry. Right? Seriously, you can't argue with this kind of logic.
And in case this is the first you've seen of the adorable orange monster, here's one of his commercials airing approximately every 20 minutes 'round these parts:
Colee, is it wrong that this makes me hungry?


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Happy Mountain Pet Adoptions
Scene – a well lit cell block lined with cages. Inside each cage is a being.
Two women walk down the aisle between the two rows of cages. They see a lonely dog sadly baying in a deep voice. Off on another row you can hear the yipping of another dog answering him. One cage has a man inside sitting in a chair watching a ball game on TV. Another cage has a homeless teenage girl with spiked green hair. She looks pissed off.
The two women stop in front of a cage where a man is sitting in a recliner watching a TV, Law & Order, Special Victims. He does not notice them. When a commercial comes on he picks up a book and opens it and read, and slamming it shut when the story starts again.
One of the women asks the lady in the blue uniform: How about this one?
Blue Uniform: (looking on clipboard): He is about 65 or 66 years old, which ever, old is old. His name is Edwin.
Lady: Hello Edwin.
Edwin doesn't look up. He just picks the inside of his ear and look at the dead skin in his fingers.
Blue Uniform: We haven't spent much time with this being, it says, frankly, we just haven't noticed it. It says here it goes by the name of "Eddie".
Lady: Does it shed?
Blue Uniform: Yes. It says here it sheds dry skin, dry ear wax, ear hairs, and nostril hairs – as you can see, you don't have to worry about shedding on top of his head.
Lady: Hi Eddie!
Edwin looks up and smiles. He stands up politely, being in the presence of women and all.
Blue Uniform: Sit!
Edwin looks disappointed but sits back down.
Blue Uniform: He is pretty well trained, watch this: Lie down and play dead!
Edwin studies her a minute and sees that she is serious and then carefully bends his knees and put one hand on the floor to support himself and eases himself down in a reclining position.
Blue Uniform reaches into a bag on her side and in a high pitched baby-talk voice: Good boy Eddie!
And tosses him a KFC drumstick. Edwin grabs for it in the air and ends up just swatting it and it lands on the floor. Edwin picks it up and eats it.
Lady: Does he have a pedigree?
Edwin: Do I have a pedigree? My great grandfathers and my great great grandfather fought in the Civil War.
Blue Uniform: Sit!
Edwin: My great –great great great grandfather fought at Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary War…
Blue Uniform: No No! Bad Person!
Edwin: One of my ancestors was the sister of Chief Justice John Marshall!!!
Blue Uniform, pulling out a rolled up newspaper: Play dead!
Edwin: Her son lived next door to the Hermitage near Nashville and was a pallbearer at Old Hickory's Funeral….
Blue Uniform swats Edwin with the rolled up newspaper and he suddenly rolls over and plays dead.
Lady: Well, he has a little age on him, but I think he could do yard work, maybe chop wood, paint the house, and other heavy but simple jobs I have around the house.
As each job is mentioned Edwin's eyes get wider with an angry look and he frowns a little more each time. He slowly get up. Then he hices his leg and lets a huge ripping sounding fart that stinks up the whole area.
Lady: Is he house broken?
Blue Uniform: Well, I don't know, as I said, I haven't noticed this being before. But evidently not.
Lady Number One: What else do you have?
And they walk off the scene.
Edwin sits back down shaking his head and turns up the volume on Law and Order.
The curtain falls. End of scene.
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Review and Giveaway: Fresh Organic Baby
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Fresh Organic Baby was born in 2008 after the owner's son was born, and he began developing allergies, rashes, and colds. Jeff and Michelle Wilkinson began cutting various products out of their lives, and switched to mostly organic foods. The couple soon realized that many baby products had synthetic perfumes and other allergenics or potentially toxic chemicals.
The parents began realizing, by process of elimination, that their son was allergic to dairy, soy, most synthetic fragrances, petroleum products and sodium laureth sulfate. By this point, Jeff had realized that his desire to protect his own child had become a passion to protect all children from a world of deceptive advertising and toxic chemicals.
Now Fresh Organic Baby is here, for everyone who wants an organic baby product for their loved one.
I say loved one because when I was given the opportunity to review products from Fresh Organic Baby, I decided to review the Velvety Soft Babee Lotion and the Conditioning Shampoo and Wash. Even though my youngest child is 10 and I'm over 30, I've always loved using Baby Lotion and I have been known to buy Baby Shampoo on occasion, because it gets the knots out of your hair more easily, and leaves your hair super soft!
So, for the past few weeks or so, my daughter and I both have been using the Babee Lotion and the Conditioning Shampoo and Wash from Fresh Organic Baby. The lotion is creamy and leaves our skin well hydrated, without any added chemicals! It's made with organic aloe vera, shea butter, avocado and jojoba oils, which work to deeply nourish and shield young, sensitive skin, and Organic white tea and vitamin E, which defend against free radical damage and help keep young skin velvety soft. The Shampoo and Wash leaves my daughter's hair (and mine!) nice and soft and it's easy to brush! The all-in-one formula is made from a special blend of organic oils, soothing emollients and mild cleansers to thoroughly clean and condition.
We both love both of these products and I hope that you'll consider Fresh Organic Baby if you're looking for organic baby products.
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Weight helped usher in new era of American hockeyby Brian Compton
It's a moment Doug Weight was hopeful would come, but deep down he had to know it was inevitable.
One of the more talented American forwards to ever play the game, Weight, now an assistant coach with the New York Islanders, will be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Monday night at the Motor City Casino in his hometown of Detroit.
Weight, 42, is part of a class that also includes one of his closest friends, Bill Guerin, along with Cindy Curley, Peter Karmanos, Jr. and Ron Mason. Weight played for six teams in the NHL (New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Carolina Hurricanes, Anaheim Ducks and the Islanders) and had 278 goals and 755 assists in 1,238 games. He added another 23 goals and 49 assists in 97 Stanley Cup Playoff games and helped the Hurricanes win the franchise's lone championship in 2006.
"I've certainly seen a lot of friends be inducted in the last couple of years, and I was hopeful," Weight said. "It meant a lot. It was an exciting call to make to my family, my father, my mother … I'm tickled pink. It's a great accomplishment for me and I'm very proud of it."
Weight is yet another talented center to be entering the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, joining the likes of some of his idols, including fellow Michigan native Pat LaFontaine, a 2003 inductee who entered the NHL when Weight was 13. But Weight knows he never would be in this position without the help of two very important people in his life.
"I looked up to a lot of USA players … Patty LaFontaine was from my area," Weight said. "Although he was only two years older than me, Mike Modano [was a major influence]. [Jeremy] Roenick was coming up.
"[But] my coaches and my family were my biggest influences and my biggest supporters. Me being a hockey parent now, the sacrifice that you give for your kids to get on the ice not only financially, but time. Being from Detroit, [my parents] sacrificed a lot. It's great to look back and think of how I was when I was 19 or 20 years old, just getting in the League to being where I am now … I feel very fortunate, very proud."
Like several other players who have been inducted in recent years, one of Weight's biggest contributions was his role on the team that upset Canada at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey. After dropping Game 1 of the best-of-three final round in overtime in Philadelphia, the Americans earned back-to-back victories in Montreal to win the tournament. Weight had three goals and four assists in seven games.
"The memory is the whole experience, from the time I was picked to getting a call from [coach] Ron Wilson, telling me I was going to play with Brett Hull," Weight said. "Getting there, I was so nervous, but seeing the evolution of the team, the training camp that we had in Providence, to the belief that I started to feel with guys like [Chris] Chelios, [Brian] Leetch, Modano. All these guys walking around the room and I'm like, 'Look at this team.'
"Brett and I were roommates and he said to me, 'We're the best team in this tournament. We're better than Canada this year.' I looked at their roster and it's [Wayne] Gretzky … I mean, every handshake was a Hall of Famer. But I truly believe that he believed it. The veterans on that team portrayed that message. Winning back-to-back games after losing a heartbreaker in overtime in Philly, winning on Friday and Saturday night in Montreal was as surreal as it gets. I played in Canada for nine years. I know what it means to them, and it makes us even prouder that we were able to get into that building and win two straight games against a team with such great players. It was just a wonderful two weeks for me."
Weight also had the privilege of representing his country at three Winter Olympics (1998, 2002, 2006). He helped the U.S. win the silver medal on its own soil in 2002, when the tournament was held in Salt Lake City. Weight had three assists in six games.
"The village, the experience, the buildup, you come to the realization five or six days into it that some of these athletes have given up everything to the point of almost living out of their car and spending everything they can just for one event," Weight said. "It's the greatest sporting event, really, of all sports. To come together, all the nations are watching, the crowd … each one was its own great experience.
"Salt Lake was amazing. It was so close to 9/11, where our country really came together. A United States venue in Salt Lake City, I'll never forget playing Russia, playing Canada. The crowd, I think it was probably only a 4,500-seat arena, but it sounded like maybe the loudest thing I've ever been in, and maybe the most nervous I've ever been. It was a great experience and I was just really fortunate to have made those teams and to have been a part of them."
Just prior to the 2006 Torino Olympics, Weight was faced with one of the biggest decisions of his career. Then a member of the Blues, Weight had a no-trade clause. He was 35 at the time and had yet to win a Stanley Cup. But Carolina wanted him. Karmanos, who owned the club, and Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford felt Weight was the missing piece.
Weight was provided with an opportunity to waive his no-trade clause in exchange for a chance to win the trophy that had eluded him since he entered the League in 1991. He accepted. A few months later, he was on the ice in Carolina with his family, celebrating his first NHL title. The Hurricanes beat one of Weight's former teams, the Oilers, in a wild seven-game series.
"I didn't know what to expect and St. Louis was struggling at the time and I had a no-trade clause," Weight said. "Those rumors start flying around and then the deal was through and I thought about it for a couple of days. I decided that they had a great team and a chance to win. The way Peter put his team together, and Jimmy just took all the pressure off me and just said to be myself. He wanted me to fit in, and I wanted to do the same thing, do anything I could to win.
"If it meant less minutes than I was used to in St. Louis, or being on a second power play, whatever it was, I just wanted to be a part of a winning team. I can't thank them enough for the confidence they showed and the way they treated my family, myself. People often ask me if it takes anything away from the Stanley Cup because you're only there four or five months, and I actually have to open my eyes when I hear that. I felt like I was there for three or four years and a big part of that franchise."
After winning the Cup, Weight returned to St. Louis for another season and a half before being traded again, this time to Anaheim. He had 14 points in 38 games for the Ducks and became an unrestricted free agent. He joined Guerin and the Islanders in the summer of 2008, where the close friends tried to rejuvenate a struggling team.
For Guerin, he was just happy to have Weight back on his side. Not only were they teammates on various U.S. teams, but Weight and Guerin also played together in New York, St. Louis and Edmonton. On Monday, they'll join the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame side by side.
"It means the world to me," said Guerin, who currently serves as the Pittsburgh Penguins' player development coach. "If there was one guy that I could choose to walk in with, it's Dougie. We played together so many times. We for the most part were linemates every time we played. Our relationship, from the time we were teammates on the World Cup team, and definitely with the families when I got traded to Edmonton, we just became tight. He's like a brother. I care a lot about the guy. He's the ultimate teammate and you couldn't have a better friend. The fact that our families are this close is just awesome. I love the guy."
"We played on three teams in the NHL, three Olympics and some World Cups," Weight said. "We just really hit it off. We have a similar sense of humor. His isn't as witty or quick as mine, but he gives it a shot. We enjoy each other's company. We have a great respect for each other and a great complement on the ice as well. As much fun as we like to have, we were very committed and we challenged each other. We made each other accountable. I really enjoyed all the places we played together."
When Weight and the Islanders finished at the bottom of the NHL standings in 2008-09, it led to them being awarded the No. 1 pick at the 2009 NHL Draft. They used it to select center John Tavares, who has developed into one of the premier players in the sport.
"Obviously, everyone knows about what he did for me and how he helped me as a young player," said Tavares, who lived in Weight's home early on in his NHL career. "But he's become a really close friend. He's still so well-respected as a coach and the management side now. But when he was captain, you could just feel his presence when he spoke and when he said things or did things. Everyone would stop what they're doing and listen.
"He made everyone feel so much a part of the team, whether you played less minutes or a lesser role, you were just as important as everyone. It didn't matter, your role or who you were on the team, everyone was important and he brought everyone together. He made sure to involve everyone in everything he did."
Weight retired in 2011, but stayed on with the Islanders as an assistant coach and senior advisor to GM Garth Snow. With his help, New York ended a six-year playoff drought last season. On Monday, he'll take a quick break from his work to relive some of the most exciting moments of his life, which featured several opportunities to represent his country playing the game he cherishes.
"When you put that jersey on, they make sure you realize just how proud of it you should be," Weight said. "I think we all do. I'm very proud of wearing that jersey and I've been proud to be a part of it."


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Of Vermont's state parks and forests
In a recent commentary, Jason Gibbs, state commissioner of the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, wrote an upbeat piece about his department "doing everything it can to generate economic activity and create jobs."Not to nick-pick, but that's a big statement — even for a politician.But let's come back to that in a moment.First, the department gets to sing its praises, which are important for the public to know and recognize. In brief, Gibbs reports that the state's forests products generate about $1 billion a year. To help grow this business, the state is encouraging timber harvests on state land "to help keep loggers working, trucks running and saw dust flying." Importantly, the state is offering these harvests during a time when "many private landowners are holding onto their timber." Gibbs says the effort will result in a nearly 15 percent increase in timber sales this year. In a soft economy, that's no small potatoes.Gibbs' department is also helping entrepreneurs establish biomass facilities and he oversees Vermont's state parks, which contribute nearly $60 million annually to the economy and hire 280 seasonal employees. Currently, the state has 120 projects underway throughout the state's 52 parks, of which the average project size is $50,000. He lauds Gov. James Douglas and the Legislature for providing $6 million out of the state budget for these projects and others, while other states have ignored this important sector.We couldn't agree more with Mr. Gibbs, 32, that the "state forests and parks are valuable economic assets" and that it is our duty to be good stewards of these lands, but we take exception to the claim that the state has done "all it can" to maximize the benefits of these assets.Our hunch is that lots of residents in Addison County who make their living from the state's forests, and others who are fans of Vermont's state parks and backcountry trails, have many ideas to share with Gibbs' department on how to better manage these resources and reap their highest value.We invite their ideas.To get the ball rolling, here's an observation and suggeston from a mountain biker's and hiker's perspective, as well as a former trail crew foreman: • Two summers ago, a lot of rain fell in the mountainous areas of Goshen, Leiceseter, Salisbury, Ripton and Hancock in late July. Lake Dunmore reached near record levels as babbling brooks became raging rivers. Throughout the region streambeds were ravaged, bridges and roads were demolished and large sections of hiking and mountain-biking trails were rendered useless. While the roads and bridges have been repaired for automobiles, I was shocked recently when I biked down the Leicester Hollow Trail. What was once a beautiful, single track trail through a magical, narrow hollow with a small meandering stream running through it, is now a mile-and-half section of rock-strewn devastation. It effectively ruins one of the nicer and easier sections of hiking/biking trails that went from the Churchill House area on Route 73 in Forest Dale to Silver Lake, a high mountain lake and campground accessible only by foot or bike. The same is true for the highly-visited Texas Falls area in Hancock, where hiking and biking trails remain in shambles. In both cases, these areas are state treasures laid to waste.What can Vermont do? Redouble efforts to be sure we qualify for any federal economic stimulus money (call it natural disaster aid, if fixing trails doesn't work); contact our congressional delegation and be sure they know of the devastation; seek help from locals and build state-town coalitions to determine how best to fix, or re-route, these trails. Seek and organize volunteers to help, if no state or federal funds are available.We're not talking about a lot of work or resources. Two crews of 4-6 hard-working college-age students with picks, shovels, a chainsaw and a little know-how would go a long way toward making this area's nicest backcountry trails passable again in a summer's work. Without such an effort, these sections of the state's forest will effectively be off-limits and the intrinsic value — both economic and quality of life — is largely lost.We invite Mr. Gibbs, a former Otter Valley Union High graduate, to swing by to witness the destruction first-hand. We also invite our Addison County readers to make suggestions for other ways Gibbs' department can better reap economic benefits from the state's forests and parks. Surely, the state has only tapped a fraction of the potential that lies within these two bountiful resources. Your ideas may help them achieve even greater benefits for us all.


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Pope's planned Jerusalem Mass roils tensions as 3 faiths claim spot
The Cenacle, named for the Latin word for dinner, is testament to the layers of religious history in Jerusalem _ and the trouble that competing faiths can cause.
According to tradition, it was in the Cenacle that Jesus ate a Passover feast the night before his Crucifixion, instituting the Christian sacrament of Holy Communion. But Christians aren't the only ones who revere the site.
On the first floor is a Jewish shrine to King David, who's said to be buried in a crypt below. The Cenacle's stained-glass windows are filled with Arabic calligraphy, evidence that it once housed a mosque. A decommissioned minaret rises from the top floor to the sky.
When Pope Francis says Mass in the room Monday, the last day of a whirlwind tour of the Holy Land that will begin Saturday in Jordan, he'll do it against a backdrop of recent protest rallies by observant Jews who are upset at what they fear is a Roman Catholic effort to assert control over the building. The norm has been for ritual Christian prayer to be held in the Cenacle only twice a year _ on Pentecost and on Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter.
That tension has been fueled by discussions between Israel and the Vatican over allowing regular Christian prayer hours in what's also known as the Upper Room, where Jesus is said to have intoned the words now enshrined in Christian ritual when he shared bread _ "This is my body" _ and wine _ "This is my blood" _ with his disciples on the night before his execution.
As a result, the area around the sacred building, which Jews call the Tomb of David, has become a religious minefield. Christian clergy say they face rising hostility in the neighborhood.
"I've been spat at. I've been cursed in the street," the Rev. David Neuhaus, the Latin patriarch's vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics, told an Israeli radio station, TLV1. "I think most Christians who walk around in traditional Christian garb have met with this kind of behavior."
Israeli officials scoff at the notion that the Vatican is about to take control of the Cenacle. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said talk of giving the Upper Room to the Vatican was "a crazy conspiracy theory."
"We've been dealing with it for years and denying it time after time," Palmor said. "We've been negotiating church prayers. . . . They want access for organized religious ritual, and it has nothing to do with property rights or ownership."
Hana Bendcowsky, the program director for the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, a group that fosters interfaith dialogue in the city, said the argument over the site was filled with irony. A Byzantine church was built on the site in the fourth century. It was destroyed later by invaders, then rebuilt by Crusaders. The church passed into the hands of the Roman Catholic Franciscans in 1332, to the Ottomans 200 years later and to Israel in 1948.
It was the Crusaders who recognized its Jewish importance, Bendcowsky said. "They recognized the Tomb of King David and built the sarcophagus there," she said, referring to the tomb.
When Israel took control of Mount Zion, where the building is located, it maintained the limitation that the Muslim Ottomans had imposed on Christians: They can visit the Upper Room, but they can't hold regular ritual prayer there. Some pray in the nearby Franciscan convent, a few steps away.
Franciscan Friar Alberto Joan Pari would like to see Christians have more of an opportunity to pray in the Last Supper room, where arguably the Christian Church began.
"It's exciting. It's very deep," Pari said of the room. "If you think that everything started from here. . . . This is a place where you feel a lot of energy."
While little remains of the original room, Pari said one wall contained several bricks from the first structure. This week, the room smelled of wet paint, evidence of last-minute improvements before the pope arrives. Workers hosed down the cobbled alleyways outside. Several police officers watched over the site on both floors.
To enter, Pari rang a hidden doorbell; if it were more prominent, he said, he's sure that hostile neighbors would ring it day and night. On Maundy Thursday this year, just before Easter, Pari said, an Orthodox Jewish man threatened to kill him if he prayed in the Upper Room. He said he was careful not to wear his brown Franciscan habit during the protests. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said no reports of death threats had been filed.
Jerusalem City Council member Arieh King sees things differently. King is the chairman of the ultra-nationalist United Jerusalem party. He arrived at David's Tomb on a motorcycle and wore a wide black biking jacket and a crocheted skullcap as he walked the grounds.
"If we have something that no one can argue about, it's our historic connection to the land, and there is no better way to prove that than by having our kings buried here all over Jerusalem and the country," he said.
King pointed to a smooth paved courtyard; underneath, he said, were the tombs of David and several other Israelite kings. A doorway from the courtyard led to a small synagogue, divided into men and women's sides, where black-hatted men provided a constant rhythm of Hebrew psalms.
Should Jerusalem agree to give Christians the right to pray regularly in the Upper Room, King said, it would pose a problem to the Jewish faithful. According to Jewish law, it's forbidden to pray in the same space as "idol worshippers," a category that many believe includes Christians.
"Jews will not be able to pray here, and this is something no Jew can accept," he said.
Bendcowsky said she worried about the atmosphere in the area over the last few months.
Posters that advertised a concert and demonstration this week were shrill, warning attendees that the pope was coming "to get the keys . . . and thus to pass the Tomb of David to the hands of the Christian Church." In recent weeks, Jewish vandals have scrawled "King David for the Jews" and "Jesus is garbage" on the St. George Romanian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. They also defaced the city's Notre Dame center, where the pope will be staying, with graffiti reading "Death to Christians." No suspects have been arrested, Rosenfeld said.
On Tuesday, Jerusalem police met with Catholic leaders in the Cenacle to work out security arrangements. On Thursday, Rosenfeld said police had issued restraining orders against four Israeli activists ahead of the pope's visit to ensure calm at the site.
Pari said the pope's Mass next week was designed to be discreet.
"We are sure that during his visit everything will be fine," Pari said. "But after, we are a bit afraid of what will happen in the future. . . . If I have a possibility to meet personally the pope, I will ask him to please pray for us, because when he leaves Israel the situation will change."


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