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Curse the fates that have two games at the same time. No way to avoid the basketball score, even if I stayed off the net. Our TV is a projector so the painter tape over the portion of the screen that is the ticker on ESPN trick, just won't work.
Big game for Pitt as it is the difference between bowl eligibility and the ignominy of not even managing a 6-6 record. To say nothing of only managing 2 conference wins in the final go-round.
The options are either the Pinstripe or Beef bowl if Pitt wins. The Beef O'Brady Bowl just announced that incoming Big East team — but presently a C-USA refugee — Central Florida will be the C-USA rep. Pitt, as you may remember, had to cancel their home game with UCF for this year when the Big East thought TCU was joining. That led to the need to schedule Gardner-Webb at the last minute. So there could be a whole logic to it all.
It took this long (5yrs) to displine Saddler? then on his last game of his career??
Announcer: "Voytik goes down with the sack"
Me: "That was so Sunseri"
Announcer: "Voytik at 15 quadruple pumps and throws the ball out of the back of the endzone as time expires and Pitt is down 3″
Me: "That was so Sunseri"
Detroit 22-4 run since being down 8-0 … all since Detroit switched to the zone.
I'd LOVE to know what goes thru his bonehead thick skull as those plays start to develop. If I can see what's about to happen, why can't he??
Pitt's O line is getting beat a lot up front.
Those of us who have watched Scatter-armseri for three years knows the odds are that Tino WANTED to throw a post but couldn't.
OMG, I cannot WAIT for the Sunseri regime as Pitt QB to be OVER! I'm soooo tired of being cynical!
Brightside at least he didn't fumble.
Should be 17 or 21- 0
Back to hoops…
Yea that's why he wasn't voted a team captain as a 5th yr senior QB.
Hail to Pitt!
Pitt football winning. PITT basketball gets the win.
Nice Saturday. Let's hope the Black and Gold can bring one home tomorrow.
There are 3 great teams in the SEC, no doubt, Alabama, LSU, and Florida.
Then there are some good ones. Georgia and Texas A&M, without question.
I get that, and I give that up unconditionally!!!
What gets me though is, no one ever talks about the el crapola in the conference.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Vandy, Auburn this year, the Mississippi's most years, Missouri.
Yes, they are the best conference, but it just bugs me when announcers and such talk about the conference year after year like it's 14 teams of the Steelers, 49'ers, Cowboys and Packers.
Nothing but Super Bowl teams. I mean, some of the announcers literally embarrass themselves sometimes.
They're the best, they're great, I get it.
Pitt just beat Kentucky (SEC) a couple years ago.
Watched another second half of an emerging Pitt basketball team on the computer.
Watching the game on TV… an asswhoppin'.
Hopefully tomorrow they announce that we will play the Hoopies in NYC.
97 is a beast. Hail to Aaron Donald.
Going to the Ravens/Steeler game tomorrow. Hope we can get the trifecta. Don't want to make losing to these assholes a habit.
I understand your point.
Missouri played five teams ranked in the top 10 this season.
Hope they can put together the Manhattan Brawl
Ray padding stats, well deserved.
What's the over/under on Tino throwing an interception?
Hail to Pitt!
Two victories in one hour – hard to top that.
Congrats to players.
I predicted 6-6 at the before the 1st game..
Amazing you can still reach a bowl game when you lose to a D2 team and some other horrendous teams, like Uconn.
But according to ESPN we should feel fortunate to have been led by the great Sir Tino. The way they talk him up, I'm expecting Mel Kiper to continue the diatribe and get our Tino drafted. After all he did pass HOF'er Marino in Total Offense. Right
Good victory, lol
It helps to play a team like USF who basically layed down in the 1rst Q. Reminiscent of the 1rst Q of the Va Tech game. That was one of the worst teams I've seen for awhile in FBS, even worse than UConn. Still can't believe we finished below .500 in this version of the BigLeast. IKR.
Well at least we leave this schmuck conf, as a winner, sort of. Don't know how I feel about possibly playing the Hoopies in a Bowl. They have actually played a lot of real football teams this year. We would need a lot of turnovers to stay in the game I believe. Anyway we can get the USF QB to somehow tranfer to Wvcc before the bowl game.
Just a thought
Won their last two games. Could have easily lost them, and been 4-8, and we would all be saying the same things of "wait till next year", "let's see what the coaches recruits can do" etc. etc., including myself.
They didn't, they won the last two.
Chryst's first year. Pounded Va. Tech, shoulda, woulda, coulda, but had Notre Dame beat, and was Notre Dame's closest game to being eliminated from the NC.
Had some horribles, YSU, the UCONN abyss.
6-6, won the last two. Going to a bowl. (yes, meaningless, watered down, but better than being in the group of 60 that aren't going.) i.e. recruiting, practice time, and at least giving the seniors that fought so hard a trip.
Ya, we had some penalties tonight, and the "o" line had some lapses, etc. etc.,
but, frankly, what I saw was a total ass-whipping.
This game was a lot closer to 49-3 than it was to 27-24!!!
I don't get to say this too often, but after the 1st quarter, there was no doubt in my mind who was going to win this game. None at all.
Hail to Pitt!!!
The game should have been closer to 49-3. Just looked at the stats, USF had like 121 yards of Total Offense. Pathetic and just what the Doctor ordered for our boys in Blue & Gold.
Onward to……Beef, Liberty or Pinstripe.
Please, please anywhere but Birmingham Bridge Bowl again. Although is that closer for Sal & Roxy or would the Liberty be closer. Memphis should be closer to Knoxville than Birm. if Sal still has a job at UT. Didn't see anything.
So I actually have some optimism for the future of this team…I think that if we had this coaching staff last year, this year might well have turned out a lot different…
Lets hope we get a chance to meet the Hoopies in NY…Hail To Pitt!
If your O is always 3 and out it puts a strain on your D.
Toni took one of the worst sacks ever: certainly the worst sack by a 24 year old non-Mormon college QB!
Todd Thomas is a stud.
The suspension of Cam reminds me of the guy in Buffalo a few years back: the special teams whiz who on the day of his last game, after pre-game ceremonies in his honor, got kicked out early.
If Cam committed a suspendable offense, then he needed to be suspended. Candidly, Jones is a better player.
Anyone see the 2007 rankings on TV. Granted it didn't last long but USF and BC in the top 5!
I like USF's future more than BC.
I like ours even better.
Not sure what else you can ask for in a football game rather than that.
Sunseri still takes terrible sacks. Always has and always will no matter where he's playing.
My point precisely. Good to see you come around on this!
Someday, I'll grace the board with my overtime strategy regarding offense and defense and which to choose and when.
Yeah, I know Tino takes silly sacks, but that 29 yard sack AND FUMBLE set college football back 60 years.
Can you say "Live Wire?"
LOL My Noo Yawk Jets are dumb enough to pick Tinoboy in the 5th or 6th round.
Next year will see a much improved Panther team against better competition…HTP!!!
This little tidbit tells us we have something to look forward to.
Wait until Chryst has a quarterback who can win the close games.
I'm hoping to see Pitt play in the Big Apple against WVU but any bowl invitation is better than having players sitting home dreaming of what might have been.
Good luck to this senior class. You have memories that will last a lifetime – we Panther Alumni and fans sure do.
It would have been nice to see a backup quarterback get some playing time this season but coach Chryst's decision to stay with Tino should help Tino's successor know that he will not be pulled from a game for making a bonehead play.
One aspect of Tino's game that I'd like to see in our next quarterback is that he be as durable as Tino. I'm sure other Pitt fan's will have other wishes…
If Pitt gets an invitation to the Memphis bowl, so be it but I'd like to see Pitt play and defeat WVU to squash all Mountaineer fans' braggadocio who like to invade this Pitt blog. HTP!
Just curious, how many total yards receiving + YAC did Shanaham have, and did that also break a record?
PITT BBall looks goods. I really like the second half adjustment that Dixon does. Could be a fun year.
I wish him well though.
Shell has yet to show he's capable of being counted on to carry the load.
He's obviously got some talent, but certainly not the breakaway back many mistakenly thought he would be coming out of high school.
By next year, after adding at least another ten pounds, Shell will be limited to being more of a power back than anything else. And the way he runs, he's going to need every one of them with the pounding he's going to take.
A better offensive line will help, but Chryst has to get lucky and find a back, if not with true breakaway speed at least someone, who can get through the holes quickly.
Corey Clement would have been that back. Maybe it's Jo Jo Heath who's coming in for a visit.
you can only win the game in front of you and Pitt did that. I don't think there is a person on this board who doesn't believe the Pitt Program is on an upswing and in good hands with the current coaching staff! HTP!
Jo Jo Heath would be good too but he's a little old.
Pitt will once again head to a bowl played in an empty stadium somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In any case it will be a big plus for our younger players and a chance for our seniors to showcase themselves for the NFL.
He will get drafted by 5th round…
Many people have said, Shanny is a TE playing the WR position.
Pass catching TE are extremely valuable and highly sought after in the NFL these days.
Next year is a different story though with at least two QBs who will battle it out – and could be three depending on whether the staff wants to give Anderson a shot.
Pitt won their last two games.
Pitt is 6-6 and is bowl eligible.
Pitt has put behind it the turmoil of the last two seasons.
The bad news is that….
Tino Sunseri will play quarterback for one more Pitt Panther game.
The better news is that…
Tino Swunseri's Pitt career ends after the next game.
to take both Pitt and WVU, so I'm not sure WVU deserves better than the Pinstripe.
Bill Stull was disliked almost as much heading into his senior year. He had two things in his favor though. 1. He was likeable 2. He won and put the team on his back a few times and won Panther Nation over.
Tino has not been very likable and has never "won" a game in the 4th quarter (at least as far as I can remember).
I'm not saying it's fair but it's the way it played out.
He was subject to a lot of criticism, but that comes with the position. Especially for a 3 year starter. He put up some nice numbers, but I think those stats in proper context will always be his legacy.
A lot of the announcers all year have just been playing up the "three year starter" and "fifth year senior" angles but the guys last night offered a slightly different context — one that a lot of people have been pointing out on here for awhile.
My first choice, obviously, is playing WVU in the Pinstripe Bowl. NYC is nowhere near me, but at least it won't be just another meaningless bowl game.
My second choice would be the St. Pete bowl game because it's 45 minutes from my house.
Comment by Dan 12.01.12 @ 10:53 pm
Nope haven't seen wbb for months and haven't seen Frankcan for awhile either. Week or two.
Comment by Reed 12.02.12 @ 4:37 am
That's what ESPN said during the game. Think it was Total Offense they said. Palko was a lot better QB, took us to a BCS bowl in his Sophomore year. No comparison !
Comment by MariettaMike 12.02.12 @ 9:29 am
lol I agree with that, nothing but nothing, come hell or high water could get Sir Tino OUT of the game.
Not even 3 different head coaches.
Comment by PittofDreams 12.02.12 @ 10:20 am
You are exactly right PoD
Ray Ray was the only game changer, play maker on this team. The kid just needed a slit in the line or one block and he was gone.
He was the best RB in the country last year before he got hurt. His performance in an offense which created space, was just incredible.
If you remember he even caught the attn and got commented on by LeBron after the USF game last year. One great athlete recognizing another. He certainly should have a good career in the NFL, as their offenses are starting to create more space, score more points, etc. In an effort to make the league more exciting, Steelers/Ravens non-withstanding.
If Ray Ray gets on the right team like Larod Stephens did, he could be a real star. Another in a long line of great PITT RB's.
So you're saying Sir Tino is then the 3rd or 4rth best QB to ever play at PITT based on statistics ?
Or some objective (?) ESPN analysts (Brock Huard ?) Who have seen Sir Tino play a couple times. lol
Is that what you're saying ? Really
Hail to Pitt!
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From ESPN the Magazine "The Rise of NCAA SuperConferences"
Wisconsin's offense appears to be just fine.
70 points with a 3rd string QB against someone the caliber of Nebraska. That ain't Gardner Webb folks.
Yes I've been hearing the Libery Bowl as well against Tulsa ( and guess who's spread) (current Tulsa coach is a leftover of Graham's staff, Tulsa won C-USA)
Both bowls would be the Pinstripe. Seems like that bowl was created for them by ESpn. lol
B10 looking at GT but I cannot believe GT would entertain going to play all sports in Midwest.
It is musical TV chairs.
UCF could have beaten OSU that day: only their "wide eyed" mistakes took them out of the game.
PG says our ACC conf. pals Cuse get NYC with
the Hoopies.
Which confirms my hypothesis from above. lol
But, I love the matchup. Ole Miss. SEC. Someone we haven't played in forever, if at all.
Singin the Birmingham Blues
I was hoping for the Peabody Hotel in Memphis instead. Oh well drinks will be more economical at the Redmont. Always a bright side !
Helped a lot against YSU !
must live in the same area!! i saw u on the tube. yellow shirt right?
BigEast teams have done well against lower echelon SEC teams this year.
Buttgers won @ Arkansas
Syracuse won @ Mizzou (when Mizzou needed a win to get to 6 wins)
Ole Miss has a dual threat QB who passed for 19 TD's and ran for an additional 8 TD's. Also throws a lot of picks (15). Haven't seen him play so I can say if he's worse than Sir Tino.
Kind of weird for a program with over 600 wins.
Pitt has never played Ole Miss. That's the one thing that will make it interesting – but Go Pitt!
It is not just any AD that would give Dave Wannstedt a contract extension, then have no Dave Wannstedt, then hire Mike Heywood, then have no Mike Heywood, then hire Toddie praise the lord Graham, then have no Toddie Graham, then hire Paul Chryst (maybe, because all of the reports were he was against him, and wanted to hire the legendary Mario Christobal).
Hats off to Paul Chryst. If Pitt had a real QB this year, even a Bill Stull, it would be playing in a BCS bowl. This may be the best 6-6 team in the country. And there could not be a person that deserves a bowl game more than him. The guy is a total class act.
But, I will admit, he is no Bill Callahan.
Any word on recruiting on the recruiting outlook?
We will fall behind by 3 TD's and Sir Tino will lead his first ever and last ever 4rth quarter comeback to lead us to victory.
I've had a vision ! lol
P.S. won some money on Charlie Batch today so anything is possible
And Georgia covered the spread !!
It will be nice to see how we play now that we have a head coach for the first time in this bowl.
ole Miss should be an interesting game.
Just hope/pray that SP does not get a contract extension.
"To get to run out of that tunnel with my boys one more time before I take my talents to the next level, and I'm happy about this."
Very solid team at 6 and 6.
Passing offense competitive with Pitt. Rushing better than Pitt. Overall Defense better than Pitt.
Ole Miss Qb Bo Wallace does have a tendency to turn the ball over. The other good news is he's no relation the other Wallace from Ole Miss and not nearly as fast.
Guessing Pitt will be the underdog in this one.
Two pretty evenly matched teams. Sets up as a hard fought physical football game.
However, Ole Miss is ranked 13th in sacks with 34 to Pitt's 23.
When you're playing against Tino this alone can make you the BETTER Defense.
See, my wife caught scent of that potential last week and already has us ready to make reservations at a NYC hotel with a room overlooking Central Park. She wanted to see "The Lion King" on Broadway and ring in the New Year in the Big Apple as well during our stay in the city. So needless to say, we were going to spend a few days in New York City if Pitt played there.
Tickets to the Pinstripe Bowl x2 $250
Three nights hotel reservations $1,900
Three nights hotel parking $180
Three days dining $400
Broadway play tickets x2 $225
New Year's Eve party tickets $180
The required "shopping" bill $900
Sitting at home watching the Panthers beat Old Miss on TV with beer in hand on Jan 5th, PRICELESS!!!!!!!!
I LOVED Wanny and really wanted to see him thrive. But I got tired of getting kicked in the onions by losing every game — EVERY!! game — which would have given Pitt a BCS bowl, especially with too much talent for such continual underperformance.
And an argument can be made that Wanny should have been fired just for recruiting Tino the Magician, but I'll let Wanny write off that brain fart as 20/20 hindsight.
Plus Wanny played NFL-style offense from 20 years ago (read: boring) instead of learning & adapting to the modern college game. All of which was tolerable (barely) until his guys started a private crime wave.
Todd Graham was absolutely the right idea, albeit maybe the wrong guy or two years ahead of time, or both (Coach-Killer Tino running TG's offensive was like running the Kentucky Derby riding on a donkey…).
My main knock against Stevie-P was killing the Script unis and "Pitt" brand.
He is obviously a damn good O coach. His best characteristic IMO is that he is aggressive during games. Something we have been longing for.
This spring the staff will not be installing from scratch. They will start with player already having a good understanding of the play book. That is a huge difference from this past spring. Add the extra practices for the bowl game and you are advancing even more before next year.
Is that Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" that I hear?
Forever and ever, Hallelujah!!!


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Breast cancer treatment after 5 years?05/12/2008 |
I was diagnosed with breast cancer 5 years ago and since then have taken Tamoxifen for 3 years and Arimidex for 2 years. Now what? My doctor is suggesting that I start taking Evista. I can`t find any information on suggested treatments for breast cancer after five years. Where might I look for information? Thank you.
This is a question for which there is no clear answer, but here is what we do know: There are good trials showing the effectiveness of "switching" from tamoxifen to Arimidex using 2-3 years of each drug (the treatment you have completed). There is a large body of experience with a full 5 years of tamoxifen followed by five years of another aromatase inhibitor, letrozole. Raloxifene is a drug which can prevent new cancers in those at high risk, but I am not aware of any experience with the drug in cancer survivors to reduce late recurrences. Its primary use is to prevent and treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. As an aside, you did not state your age, but I assume you are postmenopausal, as aromatase inhibitors are only effective in such women. Also, this treatment has only been studied in invasive breast cancer.For patients who switch from tamoxifen between two and three years, we do not know if any additional aromatase inhibitor is helpful. There is an ongoing national NSABP trial that may answer the question and perhaps the trial is open somewhere in your community. On the study, women are randomized to additional aromatase inhibitor (drugs such as Arimidex or letrozole) or placebo after completing a course of treatment like yours, because experts are studying what to do at completion of five years of combined tamoxifen/aromatase inhibitor treatment. If this study, called B-42, is available to you, I suggest you consider joining. You might go to the NSABP website and look at the contact list for the study for participating institutions in your area. Try this link: http://www.nsabp.pitt.edu/B42_Information.asp. Outside of a clinical trial, I usually balance the risks and side effects of continuing the aromatase inhibitor for a full 5 years against the risk of cancer recurrence. This becomes a discussion with the patient balancing these factors.
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I need to pick out 4 x86 instructions and explain the encoding that is used with each one. It's suggested that I find "Intel's Programmer's Reference Manual" to do this with. I had another similar problem for Sun SPARC where I found this was helpful: http://www.sparc.com/standards/V8.pdf Pages 90 and 91 gave a very concise explanation of various commands like ldsb, ld, ldd, and so on. I found this for Intel, http://download.intel.com/products/processor/manual/325462.pdf I'm not sure if it's for the correct chip, and it seems to be anything but concise... I can't find anything in that manual that explains the encoding used for any instructions. Does anyone have a more helpful manual to look at (something that resembles the Sun SPARC manual I found, but for X86?) Edit: Volume 1, Chapter 5 gives a list of instructions and brief explanations of what the instructions do, but then fails to explain the syntax that the person writing assembly code should use or the binary encoding that'll be used.
In that Intel doc, see Vol. 2, Ch. 2, Heading 2.1. The instruction-set encoding is insanely complex, with various prefixes and such, because it was gradually extended over a long period of time, from the original 8086. If you want something easier to decode, find a manual for the 8086. I don't see a typical encoding table in the doc, probably because the instruction-set is too complex for that to be effective. Instead, I think you'll have to reverse-engineer a few instructions. The above Vol. 2, Sec 2.1 may be of use for understanding where things like addressing-mode field, operation field, operand size, etc. are placed. And some things are modal (an opcode may have different results in different modes). Start by picking some of the basic operations, like ADC, ADD, AND. Look at the opcode byte. Figure out which bits change for each different operation, each addressing mode, etc. Once you have a basic pattern, look at other basic opcodes, like OR, SBB, SUB, XOR.


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This makes the Conservative credibility the key feature of this stratagem. If people don't believe the British Prime Minister, then the gambit fails.
The current plan takes years and this will be seen as just an excuse to break promises later. This means for the scheme to work the timetable will need to be brought forwards as debate develops.
The Conservatives are trying to get two election wins out of the current referendum promise timetable and it will be easy to judge if it is a strategy too far.
If it is seen that political credibility is stretched by the long timetable it will be accelerated, if the intent is real. If it is just a political ruse then the timetable will be left long and vague.
So if you hear the U.K. government is bringing the referendum issue to a head you can guess that the U.K. is going to leave the EU. This exit will of course have hugely consequences.
So what is the big idea behind this?
Remaining in the EU does ultimately mean the U.K. losing its sovereignty but avoiding this is only part of the big idea. The really big idea is reform of the nation, changing its place in the world. It is about redefining Britain.
But to what? To become the Switzerland of the 21st Century.
- Call it the chocolate and cuckoo clock strategy.
- Is the country geographically isolated? Check.
- Good at financial services? Check.
- Inventive? Check.
- Does it make chocolate? Oops sold that to the Americans…..
Could the U.K. be a haven in an increasingly homogeneous and socialist world? Could the U.K. prosper once again as "perfidious Albion," an autonomous sovereign country able to compete with a crumbling Europe by being a best of breed competitive country? Should Britain instead become a region of a new socialist welfare mega-state?
You can see the argument, even if Switzerland itself is heading the opposite direction.
As such the whole strategy even if born from electoral necessity is a huge deal for the U.K. and the EU too.
It is a massive go it alone gamble and one that could make an un-re-electable, deeply unpopular government into the UK heroes of a new British future. This is of course the flaw.
Politicians these days have no vision and no guts and everyone knows it. As such, for better or worse the In/Out referendum is not going to happen.
As we are seeing in Japan, once elected politicians making necessary and popular promises to change the system, funk it when they have to actually fight the system they now lead.
The referendum gambit is unlikely to work, as the politicians will not carry the credibility necessary to be trusted to follow through.
The Conservatives will not have this credibility unless they quickly stake it all on this promise of a referendum or "tie themselves to a tree" in some other way, which of course they will not do.
So unless a real tangible revolution breaks out, anyone scared of the U.K. leaving the EU can relax it is not going to happen.
The age of epic politics is over and the U.K. is going nowhere.
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It was recently suggested to me that someone thinks I could be a spy, and that when I have my phone out I'm texting my wife to tell her about bad stuff that's happening. I find that thought humorous. But (for what it's worth) below you'll find a transcript of every text my wife and I have sent to each other since the teacher work year started. I don't delete them. You're welcome to look at my phone whenever you like (just ask and I'll hand it to you). If you suspect that some texts are missing, say so and I'll produce a bill you can take home and reconcile (text by text) with the list below.
Got it! :) 4:45pm Oct 8
Where r u? 8:45pm Oct 7
CC: I wondered 5:10PM Oct 6
Home. I appreciate you not locking the backdoor. My keys never occurred to me. 5:01PM Oct 6
CC: Ok 7:48AM Oct 6
I just remembered you're going to Kimball. Don't go to the boe just for my badge. 7:46AM Oct 6
CC: Don't forget cabinet man today 7:34AM Oct 6
CC: I'll try 7:25AM Oct 6
Will you try and get my badge today? 7:22AM Oct 6
CC: K 4:12PM Sep 30
He's gone. Email him… 4:11PM Sep 30
CC: Yes 4:10PM Sep 30
mr lane wants you to email him and let him know whether to come on Monday 4:09PM Sep 30
no net or phone since before the mouse 9:36PM Sep 29
text me when you're. I'm beating up tucker… 4:29PM Sep 29
k 6:45PM Sep 26
CC: Want me to wait till u get here? 6:44PM Sep 26
Moving 6:40PM Sep 26
CC: Construction just before the rt 80 turn 6:40PM Sep 26
Stuck in Coretta. Wreck maybe. Can't tell. 6:37PM Sep 26
CC: Where r u? 6:36PM Sep 26
CC: Yes leaving in a minute 6:34PM Sep 26
U still in War? 6:32PM Sep 26
lol 5:39PM Sep 26
CC: 6-8 teachers 5:38PM Sep 26
What is "plan" on tomorrow's calendar? 5:37PM Sep 26
CC: I guess 5:30 Sep 26
That sounds like you're at least part SIS instead of not SIS.
CC: Not this time but he wants me to go eventually 5:26PM Sep 26
So… Wednesday? Charleston? 5:24PM Sep 26
CC: Must be aCCess mail. I'll check it when I get upstairs/ 5:22PM Sep 26
Sent u an email. Yes, sitting here next to Billings. 5:19PM Sep 26
CC: Did u go to Welch? 5:16PM Sep 26
CC: I'm going back to school for a bit 4:30PM Sep 26
u still meeting? Let me know what u do. Love, greg 4:12PM Sep 26
sorry 7:41AM Sep 26
CC: will you bring my hasp 7:00AM Sep 26
I don't know what this means 10:18AM Sep 14
I gove up. dew we 6:34 Sep 23
CC: Where r ralph's keys 8:01PM Sep 21
CC: In flos office 4:11 Sep21
Watching sandwiches bake. Where will you be? 4:10PM Sep 21
CC: I would walk over there but carry all this stugg 4:40PM Sep 20
CC: *phone number omitted* 4:36PM Sep 20
Still no Ralph 4:36PM Sep 20
CC: Still no Ralph? 4:32PM Sep 20
Waiting……… 4:31PM Sep 20
k 4:58PM Sep 16
Leaving 4:57PM Sep 16
home 4:29PM Sep 16
*names of student government election winners omitted* 3:22PM Sep 16
I've been asked to text you and ask what to do next. 5:08PM Sep 7
So u were right about my dr time. I looked on my way to the car. I made it. Waiting on a shot. New antibiotics. 4:00PM Sep 4
CC: Leaving 5:01PM Sep 2
CC: K 4:29PM Sep 2
Text me when you leave and I'll consider actually getting dressed. 4:29PM Sep 2
CC: K 10:33AM Sep 1
Sitting in Dr Duty's office near the florist on Fincastle. 10:32AM Sep 1
I'm here 4:15PM Aug 31
Leaving Welch. I'll be a little late I guess 3:35PM Aug 31
CC: I hope not 2:42PM Aug 31
While I know that game exists, I don't really know the rules. I'm afraid I'm going to end up at the ER for antibiotics before Tuesday. 2:39PM Aug 31
CC: just finished a game of duck duck goose 2:36PM Aug 31
CC: Me too 3:45PM Aug 30
I'm out 2:56PM Aug 30
Billings wanted me to ask you for the keys to mboyd's old room. I forgot. 2:29PM Aug 26
CC: Ok 12:20PM Aug 20
I presume they'd bill our insurance. But I'll ask. 12:20PM Aug 20
CC: Free? 12:18PM Aug 20
Flu shots available on demand at CVS. Just walk in. 12:17PM Aug 20
Fyi Flo just told everyone that if they don't have a laptop they should see you at 10am 8:12AM Aug 19
CC: Can u come help me with a teport 3:33PM Aug 18
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My phone at work (and the spy in me)...
My phone is a valuable tool to me at work. Recently I've been keeping track of what students still need to take a particular standardized test in the note app on my phone. It's my calculator, my timer, and the only watch I carry. It has my Google calendar (which is filled with mostly school related things). I have Dropbox on my phone: that holds a huge number of things (including schedules). I have alarms set on my phone that tell me my C&P is about to be over, or that the day is about to start, etc. I could go on…
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Christopher J.H. Wright is the international director of the Langham Partnership International (known in the United States as John Stott Ministries). Langham Partnership provides literature, scholarships and preaching training for pastors in Majority World churches and seminaries. Wright has written several books including commentaries on Deuteronomy and Ezekiel, Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, The Mission of God and Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament.
As this year's Page Lecture Series speaker, Wright discussed the topic, The Bible and the Mission of God. Drawing upon his book, The Mission of God: Unlocking The Bible's Grand Narrative, Wright's first lecture was "Reading the Whole Bible for Mission, What Happens When We Do?" and his second examined "God, Israel and the Nations: The OT and Christian Mission."
Wright stated, "The Bible is God's engagement with God's world through God's people for God's purposes." Understanding this underlying theme throughout the Scriptures, Wright said, we begin to live into that same story.
Noting how many evangelicals use the Old Testament as a "check box" for prophetic Messianic foretellings of the coming Christ, Wright contended, "Jesus spoke of himself by referencing the entirety of the Old Testament [Luke 24:27], and this is something we can never forget when reading the Old and New Testament."
Reading in the Bible that God is intimately engaged with his world, specifically culminated in Jesus of Nazareth, Wright said, "We are to read all of the Bible missionally. Thus, God is with a mission and humanity has been given a mission and that is to live before all peoples as redeemed witnesses of the True God.
"If you read everywhere and anywhere in Scripture," noted Wright, "the purposes of God are redemptive and missional. Many evangelicals miss the holistic purposes of what it means to be God's people." Discussing the importance of behavior, society, ethics, politics and other various arenas in life, Wright acknowledged that God desires for us to promote these spheres well and live them faithfully before him.
"From the beginning to the end of the Bible, God's 'business' is definitively the Nations," said Wright. "Nations, I define, are not to be understood in the modern sense like nation-states, but peoples of common degree of culture, traditions and language."
After walking the chapel attendees through the Old and New Testament, Wright concluded, "Here is this marvelous vista of the Nations in Yahweh's international and sovereign providence. All nations are created by God, under God's governance and all fall short of God's glory and stand under his judgment. Thus, the Scriptures remind us that like Israel, all Nations can experience the redemptive grace and mercy of God."
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Mercury Deposition Greater near Major U.S. Cities
Atmospheric deposition of mercury is about four-times higher in lakes near several major U.S. cities compared to lakes in remote areas, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Atmospheric deposition is the predominant pathway for mercury to reach sensitive ecosystems, where it can accumulate in fish and harm wildlife and humans. Coal-fired power plants and industries are among the primary sources of mercury emissions. Mercury emissions can travel far in the atmosphere, and the relative importance of local, regional, or international mercury emissions to natural waters is generally unknown.
This is the first study to quantify the relation between mercury fallout and distance from major urban centers. The study included lakes nearby, and remote from Boston, Mass., Albany, N.Y., Montreal, Canada, New Haven, Conn., Tampa and Orlando, Fla., Chicago, Ill., Minneapolis, Minn., Denver, Colo., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Portland, Ore.
To better understand geographic patterns of mercury deposition, the USGS analyzed sediment cores from 12 lakes with undeveloped watersheds near to (less than 30 miles) and remote from (more than 90 miles) several major urban areas in the United States. Mercury deposition in the near-urban lakes greatly exceeds amounts found in remote lakes. The full report can be found in the journal Environmental Pollution.
"With all of the environmental issues requiring attention, this study is an excellent example of how science can help target our attention and actions to geographic areas where mercury's toxic impacts are likely to be the greatest in the near term on both ecosystems and humans," said USGS director Marcia McNutt. "This study also helps scale the distance over which atmospheric deposition of mercury is most severe, although no region escapes mercury contamination."
Mercury emissions were previously known to contribute to global air pollution, but the importance of deposition near sources was less certain. Mercury deposition to South Reservoir, a protected water supply lake six miles north of downtown Boston, Mass., was five-times greater than mercury deposition to Crocker Pond, 130 miles to the north in western Maine. This pattern was repeated in near-urban and remote lakes in other parts of the country.
"This finding could have important implications for management of mercury emissions to reduce the risks mercury poses to humans and wildlife," said USGS scientist Peter Van Metre, author of the study. "The results illustrate the importance of reducing mercury emissions in the U.S. and not focusing only on emissions globally."
The study is part of the USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program, which has been using age-dated lake sediment cores from across the United States to evaluate contaminant trends. Other lake coring studies have found elevated mercury levels in urban areas. However, many urban lakes are affected by urbanization in the watershed, which makes it difficult to distinguish atmospheric mercury deposition from other sources of mercury pollution.
An important factor in this study was finding and sampling lakes in undeveloped, protected watersheds in and near major cities. The findings of this study support previous conclusions from models that indicate increased mercury deposition near major cities.
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I have just had a Glucose Tolerance test, which came back as 10.5 and my iron count was 190, what does this mean? Age being 58 female and high blood pressure? thank you
Although I am not able to comment on your glucose tolerance test, your iron count does appear to be a little on the high side. Repeating the total iron binding capacity and ferritin level would be reasonable follow up just to make sure iron overload is not present.
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Joseph is a small mountain town in northeast Oregon. Situated six hours east of Portland at 4,150ft above sea level, and surrounded by the towering Wallowa and Seven Devils mountains, Joseph is a rather picturesque small mountain town.
With a population hovering around 1,000 Joseph maintains a thriving main street (yes, they literally have a Main Street) equipped with local breweries, bank, library, cafes, and art galleries.
The physical town of Joseph is less than one square mile. Though, the community is often referred to as Wallowa County, as the surrounding unincroporated areas add to the recreation and other opportunities. The county borders Idaho to the west and Washington to the north.
Enterprise, the closest larger town, is just five miles away with larger town comforts such as a Safeway grocery store and a BJs warehouse club.
For such a small town Joseph has plenty of events and celebrations packing the calendar. From a classic car show, to traditional Fourth of July celebration, triathlons, Native American celebrations, sled dog races and more. For the locals, a summer-long farmers market with accompanying concert series offers access to local fresh produce.
While there isn't exactly a dedicated bicycle shop in town, the local hardware store has kept up with local demand by expanding their bike offering to an entire room. Several of their employees were even sent to the United Bicycle Institute in Ashland, OR to be schooled on the basics of bikes.
A beautifully pristine lake nestled between snow capped 9000′ mountains, nearby Wallowa Lake offers camping, hiking and boating. There is even a tram that can be taken up to the top of the mountain. Bring along your mountain bike, and you've got the equivalent of a shuttle-ready mountain biking nirvana.
There is also a recreational train, the Eagle Cap Train, offering relaxing scenic rides through the local mountains.
There is a local ski run, void of the tourist drawing amenities it is a locally-run area. With one t-bar and one rope tow up the mountain and a 640′ elevation gain its the perfect little mountain for kids, beginners or just drama-free fun.
Local Business
For such a small town there is a shockingly long list of local storefronts:
Joseph's Sheep Shed is a local yarn shop and fiber gallery.
Bee Crow Bee is a local shop offering a line of carefully handmade bath & body products.
Mad Mary is a shop offering "everything fun & fattening". It's a fun gift shop and soda fountain all in one.
Lodging options are plentiful. From B&Bs like Barking Mad Farm where you can stay in a turn of the century farm house with views of the mountains. To the basic Indian Lodge Motel and the East Street Cottages.
Though they certainly feel all four seasons, the weather in and around Joseph is rather mild, as being in a valley surrounded by mountains shelters the area from many of the extreme weather fronts.
The local economy, while healthy, does rely on government jobs (being the largest area employer). Average income hovers just below $30k, with the average two bedroom house priced around $100k.
The lifestyle in Joseph, OR is summed up pretty well by the county chamber:
"When you are 65 miles from a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart, and two and a half hours from a mall, you will find a whole new definition of the phrase for quality of life – It's a "way of living". Here, the focus is definitely not on consumption. It's on family and community. It's on entrepreneurship. And perhaps above all, it's on outdoor beauty and recreation."
We first heard of Joseph when Russ & Laura rolled through and interviewed Dan Price. Then Tammy at Rowdy Kittens visited while on a writing retreat. Joseph, by all accounts, is a delightful mountain town.
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You identify with it, you wield it with pride, and you strive to follow in the tradition of the fine players that paved the way before you.
You've collected etudes, method books, and instructional videos. You have hundreds of recordings by the masters of your instrument and each week you take lessons and faithfully practice.
Before you know it this instrument becomes the center of your musical and creative output. Your life as a musician starts when you pick it up and stops when you put it down.
But what would happen if you took away that instrument? What if I stormed into your practice room and snatched that instrument out of your hand?
Suddenly you're standing there all alone in an empty room – are you still a musician?
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Right now, as you're reading this, think of a melody in your mind. Can you create these sounds without your instrument?
This probably sounds ridiculous, why would you do that? Well, I used to think the same thing…
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In a written statement, the company said Dallas-based Comerica Bank "was temporarily unable to fund our operations yesterday based on the present state of the negotiations for the financing plan for the period through closing of the deal between Norwalk and the buyer, IRG/Blackbird Capital Partners. Negotiations continue and we are hopeful for a quick resolution to these negotiations."
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Stuart Lichter, president of Industrial Realty Group, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that his company had ended its acquisition effort. He did not return a call to The Blade seeking comment.
Norwalk Furniture Chairman Jim Gerken could not be reached for comment yesterday. However, the company's statement indicated hope that operations at the furniture maker could resume.
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Paradigms, Magickal Reality, Forum Farces (U)
This post was written by Donald Michael Kraig
on February 10, 2010 | Comments (5)
Recently, a group of self-styled skeptics (that is, they're actually debunkers) in New Zealand needed to do something to get some attention so they made a very public display of devouring "overdoses" of homeopathic remedies. According to this report, the result of this action "forced the New Zealand Council of Homeopaths to admit openly that their products do not contain any 'material substances.' Council spokeswoman Mary Glaisyer admitted publicly that 'there's not one molecule of the original substance remaining' in the diluted remedies that form the basis of this multi-million-dollar industry."
For their decisive action and valuable revelation, I give the NZ Skeptics and others who participated in this silliness my first "Duh!" award.
Homeopathic remedies, as I understand it, are based on two concepts. First, that "like cures like." If you have a problem, say a cough, a substance that causes a cough can end up ending the cough that you have. And second, you don't need to overwhelm a problem. The tiniest amount of a remedy can be effective.
Both of these things seem contradictory to what we "know." But what we "know" isn't the only possibility, it is simply something we have been brought up to believe. It's a paradigm, the way we view the world which forms the basis for the theories of science we all know. The thing is, it is just a paradigm and not the only paradigm.
I gave those New Zealanders the "Duh!" award because if you ask any homeopath how much of a "material substance" is in one of their remedies they'd easily say, "So little as to be unmeasurable." Those debunkers didn't need a meaningless show to discover that information. But if there is no physical substance in the remedy, how could it work?
And that's the point. Homeopaths work under a different paradigm than those pseudo-skeptics.* They believe that putting a substance in water effects the water, even after careful multiple dilutions to a point where there may only be one molecule of the supposedly healing substance in a gallon or more of water. It is literally unmeasurable.
So the question is, how could such influenced water work?
One possible answer might be found in the works of Masaru Emoto. Emoto published a book called The Hidden Messages in Water where he shows photos of water crystals and how they're different when different thoughts are projected at the water just before it is crystallized. A peer reviewed, double-blind study seems to have confirmed these results, although I think the test was too small.
If we can adopt a paradigm, a way of looking at the world where thoughts can influence the structure of water, it's not a stretch to say that substances—including those of homeopathy—can do the same.
Indian Astrology
This brings us to what may be the oldest, continuously practiced form of astrology in the world, the astrology of ancient India. Known as Jyotish (or inaccurately as Vedic Astrology), it has a complex system of remedies for problems indicated in an astrological chart. One of the types of remedies uses certain precious, semi-precious and similar gems.
Traditionally (and I think this "tradition" may have been started by a gem-selling relative of an astrologer!) you are supposed to use the largest and highest quality gems you can afford. However, common people often use tiny bits of very impure gems. Some people go a step further. They put the gems in a glass of water, and after a time, drink the water. Many people swear by these remedies, even though I doubt if any "material substance" from a chip of diamond can be found in any of the consumed water. Although homeopathy per se is only a bit over 200 years old, it is in harmony with a paradigm that goes back thousands of years.
A Little Goes a Long Way
It is believed by many people that certain herbs can help with keeping men's prostates healthy and even return them to health. Recently, I heard a commercial claiming that their product has 3,000 times the potency of the typical herb. The assumption here is that if a little is good, a lot is better. This thinking is part of the typical Western paradigm.
But consider this: we need zinc in our diets. If you don't get enough you can suffer from skin diseases, stomach ailments, hyperactivity, hair loss, loss of sex drive, loss of sensitivity of the senses, and many other symptoms. Everyone needs zinc. But if you get too much you can suffer from vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure, urine retention, jaundice, seizures, fever and worse. A little is good. A lot is bad. Perhaps, then, a tiny amount of influenced water (homeopathic remedies) can have a positive result while an "overdose" will have no effect at all.
Keeping an open mind to the possibility of other paradigms is part of magickal reality. I believe it is the way a magickian should approach all aspects of life. This does not mean, however, that a magickian should accept everything as true. Rather, I believe that a magickian should be a true skeptic—have an open mind until the evidence is in. As it says in Crowley's Book of the Law, "Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not over much!"
And success has nothing to do with some showboating debunkers drinking water. It will come from double-blind studies. And that brings me to my next subject.
Farces on the Forums
Internet forums, where people should be able to discuss things, are a great idea. Or at least they should be. Unfortunately, many forums end up having a few bullies take over (often friends of the moderators) and woe be to anyone who dares challenge them!
The topic above was brought to my attention by a friend of mine, Charles, who frequents various forums under different names (in fact, Charles isn't his name and he wants to keep his anonymity). Recently, he drew my attention to a forum that is supposedly about Paganism and magick where members were gloating over the "fraud" of homeopathy revealed by the debunkers. In my opinion (and my friend who posts there agrees with me), these were decidedly not Pagan or magickal attitudes. He pointed out that they proved nothing and that one of the prime supporters on the forum holding that position had a financial interest in being against homeopathy. One person posted a list of studies that supposedly showed homeopathy didn't work. Charles told me he read the studies and they either said there wasn't enough information, stated that homeopathy appears to work in some situations, or were not done well. He pointed this out on the forum. The result was that he was insulted and called names, a moderator sent him an obscene (and illegal) email, and when he continued to stand up to and disagree with the bullies, he was banned and told he should "learn civility."
We had a good laugh over that.
It would seem that on that particular forum Paganism has been overrun by closed-minded materialists who were unwilling to admit that their paradigm was not the only paradigm. I want to go on the record in saying that although there are closed-minded people out there, such attitudes are not the majority of magickal people and not what Paganism is all about. Unfortunately, you may find such people on internet forums. Look closely; there really aren't many of them although they are often prolific in their posting.
My paradigms and beliefs are not the only ones. Neither are those of the New Zealand Skeptics, Charles, or the bullies who haunt internet forums and think theirs is the only way.
In a recent talk, I described how Paganism had evolved into many paths and that we can find strength and unity in our diversity. But we can only do so if we agree to acknowledge the paradigms of others as valid and "agree to disagree" rather than insisting, "I'm right. You're wrong."
As Rodney King, whose beating became the focus of riots that took place in Los Angeles in 1992 said, "Can't we all just get along?"
UPDATE: No sooner had I posted this than I found a wonderful article on the case for homeopathy, including concepts debunkers won't touch (such as homeopathy's successes with certain epidemics and with animals) and links to studies supporting its effectiveness. I also support the article's statement that "advocating for or using homeopathic medicines does not preclude appreciation for or use of selective conventional medical treatment." You can read the entire article here.


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11 comments on "The currency collapse has continued unabated. Once again all major fiat currencies have fallen relative to gold. And once again Bitcoin's performance absolutely crushes gold and silver."
Bitcoin is just another unbacked fiat currency. It really doesn't matter if it is paper or electronic. Encrypted or not it still has no value in and of itself. There is no exchange of value for value therefore bitcoin like all the other fiat currencies is a fraud and certainly is no store of value. Silver, gold or even copper coinage is a superior money and currency to all fiat because the reserve and standard of value is in the coin by virtue of the metal, weight and purity. Don't be fooled by laws made by crooks and slick advertising. Gold and Silver is the real deal and real money.
Bitcoin seems to have real potential and I have been wanting to purchase some however you pretty much need a cell phone and a digital wallet which limits the demographic that has access to bitcoin. Its hard enough for people to have confidence in owning "physical silver" yet alone a "digital wallet". Which is safer?
Well put, Steven. I think the same about Bitcoin it´s just another Ponzi. If it were backed up by the famous Max Keiser silver coin, then it would be a very serious currrency. You get the feeling here today, gone tomorrow.
No one takes it so it can be all its weight in gold can it Max Keiser?
Steven, bitcoin doesn't need to be backed by anything any more than gold itself does. Both are backed by faith that they will maintain its value over time relative to other currencies and commodities. Bitcoin is MORE scarce than gold, making it even more deflationary than gold. We'll be mining gold from the earth and other planets indefinitely. But Bitcoin inflation will cease in 140 years when 21 million bitcoins (or 2.1 quadrillion satoshi) have been created. 90% of all bitcoins will be generated in the next 16 years. This fact is backed up and provable by 100% transparent mathematics, cryptography, and peer consensus of the network – not any self-interested whims of politicians or bankers. I wouldn't discount bitcoin until you spend a little time understanding its foundations.
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You don't need a cell phone. There are lots of sites wich will take a bank transfer, or PayPal, or let you use something like Western Union or Moneybookers. I made a site of how to buy bitcoins in different countries, here: http://howtobuybitcoins.info/ -
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you dont even need any knowledge whatsoever to hold bitcoins as new regulation has now made it possible to have a bank account denominated in BTC's so you get a sort code account number debit card etc just as normal yet you hold bitcoins, when your employer pays you its simply converted from the currency you were paid in to BTC's.
only bank that does this currently is https://bitcoin-central.net/
you also get $100,000 of FDIC insurance.
Dan, no bitcoin deposits are not FDIC insured. And none of your deposits at bitcoin-central.net are FDIC insured as their payment services license comes from France.
The bitcoins are not fdic insured but the equivilant value of them is.
All their doing is holding the value of the BTC's in traditional currency so it has the effect of having a normal bank account so when you withdraw bitcoin central simply do an instant currency exchange. And yes I know its in france and you can get an insured account anywhere in europe.
I love the concept of bitcoin. It is a classic symptom of what ails the world today. The problem is the monopoly of the money supply by a few who believe they can rule over us by controlling what we can use in exchange of goods. Bit coin, the movement toward comodity backed money, gold money, local currencies, trade scripts or barter banks and real notes anything that removes the present cental bank monopolies will do the trick. When someone figure out how to convert these store of wealth between each other as easily as a JPEG to MP3 then that will signal the end of the govenment sponsored money monopoly and that day can't come soon enough for me. Money freedom will bring people together and stop the world being owned by the few with access to the printing presses and hearts as black as the inside of a black cow on a dark night. The power to creat wealth belongs to the people and has been stolen by bankster and government scoundrels.
some great info, thanks everyone
We live in turbulant times, if Bitcoin is digital what happens if the gov just decides to take it over? no impossible. what about if an emp or large solar flare like the one that blacked out Ontario and New york awhile back? how do you continue commerce if its not tangable and in your hand?