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Montero models fatherhood after dad
LOS ANGELES -- It's been more than three years now and the pain has eased a bit, but Miguel Montero still longs for one more conversation with his late father, Angel.
"Just to talk to him on the phone would be enough," Montero said. "If I could have him for one minute ..."
LOS ANGELES -- It's been more than three years now and the pain has eased a bit, but Miguel Montero still longs for one more conversation with his late father, Angel.
"Just to talk to him on the phone would be enough," Montero said. "If I could have him for one minute ..."
Montero's voice trailed off, but really no further explanation was needed. He is a son who misses his father.
Montero spoke to his father every day without fail, including the night of March 11, 2009. Then he was awoken by a phone call the next morning with news that Angel had died suddenly of a heart attack.
The D-backs were in the middle of Spring Training at the time, and Montero left the team for a few days to attend the funeral.
"It was really hard for me, because during Spring Training, I usually called him every morning on my way to the field," Montero said. "And when he passed away, it was hard, because I didn't have anybody to call at six in the morning."
Montero's road to the big leagues was not a smooth one. Growing up in Venezuela, he was told by scout after scout that he was not good enough to play in the Major Leagues. It was not until D-backs vice president of Latin Operations Junior Noboa signed him that he finally got his chance.
Through the rejections, it was Angel who kept his son's spirits up.
"He was the biggest supporter in my career," Montero said. "He was the person that taught me how to believe in myself even when others don't think you can do it. He told me to believe in myself and do everything that I do with passion. He said if I didn't want to do it, don't waste my time."
Angel told his son when he was growing up that if he wanted to be a good player, Montero should pay attention to the guys who were already in the big leagues.
"He used to let me sit down in the living room and watch games with him," Montero said. "I was like, 'I don't want watch games, I want to play.' He said, 'That's how you're going to learn how to play.' He was impressive, because he was a guy that grew up watching soccer, but if you talked to him about baseball, you would be amazed how much he knew about the game. Watching the games with him, he was like a good manager. He had a pretty good idea what he was talking about."
When Father's Day rolls around this year, Montero will of course think of Angel, but the pain of the holiday has lessened for him since the birth of his two children, one of whom is named after his father.
And while there are not many regrets that get left between a father and son as close as Montero and Angel were, the one thing that still bothers Montero is that Angel passed before he got to see his son win the everyday catching job and become an All-Star.
"At least I can say that I had a great father who supported me and I had somebody right there when I needed it," Montero said. "I think he was the best father in the world. He was my role model. I just want to be like him and teach my kids the way he taught me. I probably won't be as good a father as he was, but I'm going to try and be the best father I can be."
As Angel would tell him, if you're going to do something, do it with passion.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.


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When you get Phyllis Sclafly and Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America together on the same radio show, you know the result is going to be something special. It's like they meld together like a Transformer into one giant wingnut with amazing powers of derp.
Schlafly: Tell us what you think about the real importance and the role that traditional marriage has played in our society and must play in our society if we're going to continue to be a free country.
Crouse: Well, I think we're all used to hearing the arguments that marriage is best for individuals, it's best for women, it's best for men, it's best for children. And I have a whole book on how marriage has really, the demise of marriage has really hurt our children. But I think the thing that is really relevant right now is the fact that marriage is so good for communities, for nations.
Wait, did the Supreme Court eliminate marriage? Did they say that no one can ever get married again? *checks the Google* Nope, they didn't. They did make it a bit easier for some married couples to file their taxes. What does that have to do with any of this demented hysteria? Not a thing, of course.
Crouse: Conservatives, far too many, are unwilling to die for it. They are too complacent, they are too laissez faire, they really do not understand the impact of what's happening in this country, to the point that they are willing to take a stand and make a difference. Far too many people are saying, 'Well, I live and let live. I'm not going to be judgmental. This is what I believe, but I'm not going to foist my beliefs off on other people,' or, 'I can't go out there into the public square and say these kinds of things.' I think we have to discover a courage, we have to be very brave, we have to be willing to say, 'This is where I stand. These are the values that made this country great. These are the values that are important to me and to my family and to my family's future and to the family of this country.'
Can you imagine being such a deranged bigot that you'd be willing to die to stop gay people from getting married? One guy, at least, has already done that in France, killing himself on the altar of a cathedral to protect same-sex marriage. Fundamentalist Christians just love claiming fake martyrdom. She seems to be calling for real martyrdom — you first, of course, not her.


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As the now-familiar members of the "Entourage" cast worked their way down the red carpet on the Paramount lot Wednesday night to officially open season 7, talk focused on the show's final year and the inevitable movie follow-up
The news that season eight of the show would be the last has been floating around for a while, but series creator Doug Ellin reconfirmed it to EW.com. "I think we've got 20 more seasons in us," Ellin said. "But we're not going to do that."
The more important task is breathing renewed life into the series which lost some of its magic at the end of season 6. From the sneak-preview episodes viewed on Wednesday night, that magic is back in a big way.
But eight would seem to be a good number to stop, keeping the familiar characters from heading into that disturbing "Friends" cycle of stunted emotional growth. If the Vince, Drama and company were still hanging out at the pool together well beyond that, it would start getting pretty sad.
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Idaho patients on Oregon medical marijuana face border ordeal
Forty percent of marijuana seizures in Idaho consist of Oregon medical marijuana, according to Idaho State Police records - legal in that state in the right circumstances, but not for anyone across the border in Idaho. On the stretch of I-84 where ISP Trooper Justin Klitch patrols, it's 53 percent, the AP reports. That's led to an odd phenomenon on the Idaho border, in which longtime Idahoans risk arrest to go home from picking up their pot in Oregon, and they often get caught. "It's like crossing the Berlin Wall," an Idaho woman told AP reporter Nigel Duara. "It's like going into another country." Click below for Duara's full report.
On Idaho border, Ore. marijuana finds its way out
NIGEL DUARA,Associated Press
ON THE OREGON-IDAHO BORDER (AP) — Hurtling down I-84 with a bag of medical marijuana and no legal right to possess it, the 23-year-old Idaho man with the crooked grin drove out of Oregon, making a break for home.
But he was soon glancing at his rearview mirror as it filled with blue bursts from a cruiser's lights. He pulled over, studying his rearview, and watched as a very big Idaho State Police officer wearing a black Stetson walked his way.
The trooper said he smelled pot. The young man thought about lying, but didn't. He stepped out of the car, accepted a pat-down and a ticket and was sent on his way.
David Kosmecki was on the same trip dozens of others make on this hilly spit of four-lane asphalt every week, leaving Idaho to buy medical marijuana in Oregon. Police argue the number of travelers is more likely in the hundreds.
Even in Oregon, Kosmecki doesn't have legal access to pot, but a friend does, one who strolled into a border marijuana co-op and walked out with an ounce of Hindu Kush. In his home city of Kuna, Idaho, marijuana costs Kosmecki $300 per ounce and the quality is iffy. In Oregon, he gets high-quality, sticky bud every time, and it's $60 cheaper.
More than a decade ago, voters made medical marijuana legal in Oregon, which critics say sent plentiful supplies into markets gray and black. They added a quirk unique to Oregon's law: Out-of-staters can get in-state pot cards, too, as long as they have an Oregon doctor's signature. Across the border in Idaho, simple possession can mean a trip to jail.
The difference creates a kind of tectonic fault line where the states meet. At the epicenter of where it might break loose is Trooper Justin Klitch of the Idaho State Police.
Klitch, the trooper who arrested Kosmecki, is a six-year veteran. His father served 30 years in the state police and his grandfather was a city cop in Ohio. Klitch tried to leave Idaho and avoid law enforcement, first in Alaska and then in Puerto Rico. He saw the toll of the job etched on his father's face. But home beckoned.
He applied to other places, but turned down job after job. Finally, the Idaho State Police called.
Now, he has a month-old son of his own. He has earned professional accolades for making more DUI stops than any other trooper, and he prefers that to pot busts at the state line — drunks kill people, he said.
"I'd take a drunk over a pound of dope any day of the week," Klitch said.
But pot possession is often what Klitch finds.
Forty percent of pot seizures in Idaho came from Oregon medical marijuana, according to Idaho State Police records. In Klitch's sector along the border, it was 53 percent.
Officially, only 196 people in Idaho have medical marijuana cards from Oregon, and their best hope for purchasing the drug is Bill Esbensen.
Esbensen and three co-founders opened the 45th Parallel marijuana cooperative in 2010, and its location in Ontario, Ore. about 5 miles from the border isn't a coincidence. Esbensen said he knows people from Idaho, Utah and Nevada need medical marijuana.
"We have oncologists all over the state of Idaho and other states sending patients to our clinic," Esbensen said. "They're afraid to speak out in their state, but they're willing to send them over here."
Eastern Oregon is not a traditional fit for a medical marijuana cooperative. Hours from Portland and sparsely populated, the eastern third of the state is part of one massive Congressional district, the only one in Oregon where Republicans outnumber Democrats.
Kosmecki, the 23-year-old arrested in Idaho, said his friend got his marijuana from Esbensen's establishment. While not surprised, Esbensen said there's nothing he can do about it. He compares his operation to a pharmacy. Once the prescription drugs go out the door, he has no further control.
Esbensen said he has raised two daughters, each in college, and sold a successful car dealership. With enough money to leave, Esbensen could relocate to a place friendlier to his lifestyle. But that, he says, would violate the trust he's established in the area, leaving behind hundreds of people who rely on him for marijuana. He, like Klitch, is rooted here out of a sense of obligation to his family and his professional practice.
Now, he devotes all of his time to the clinic.
He said he knows of people who have moved to Oregon, just to make sure they're following the law. He also knows of several Idaho patients who regularly make what can be a harrowing journey across the border and back.
People like Kendall Jeffs.
When Klitch, the state trooper, looks for signs a driver is concealing something, he checks for sweaty palms, visibly-thumping heart, thrumming carotid artery.
Jeffs, 41, would be an easy mark. "I just tighten up," she says, and indeed as the Idaho border approaches on I-84, her hands grip the steering wheel tighter. She breathes faster. Her toes curl. Her eyes widen.
Jeffs won't say how often she makes this run, nor will she reveal the route she typically uses. But traveling back from the 45th Parallel to her family farm in Idaho, she's visibly shaking.
This, she says, happens every time.
Jeffs said she is a recovering addict, mostly meth. While atop a moving onion harvester a year after getting clean, her hand caught in a weed. The weed yanked her arm into the gears, severing two fingers. She got one finger sewed back.
Marijuana is the only way she says she can treat the pain from her missing finger, she said. She picks at her hand often when she's nervous.
Klitch, the state trooper, makes her very nervous.
She's been stopped by him before, though her boyfriend took the charges of marijuana and paraphernalia possession. She herself is facing marijuana charges, for a home search she said was illegal. She knows Klitch is somewhere close, and thinks about him every time she crosses back into her home state.
"It's like crossing the Berlin Wall," she said of the trip. "It's like going into another country."
She realizes she could move to Oregon, but like Klitch and Esbensen, she is tied to the land, an area her family has farmed for 100 years. On 5,000 acres they grow sugar beets and alfalfa and kidney beans. Leaving Idaho, even just across the border, would mean leaving her father and brothers and son, who all work the farm.
Oregon's medical marijuana law touches each of them — cop, cooperative owner, cardholders and other users — pushing them toward the border and two very different views of what is legal. Their ties to this expanse of sand dunes and sagebrush split by the Snake River make it unlikely they'll leave.
"It seems sad," Jeffs said. "I'll never leave Idaho. It's in my blood, but it's not safe for me here."
Reach reporter Nigel Duara on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/nigelduara
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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As Jennifer Aniston makes the promotional rounds for her latest comedy, "We're the Millers," in which she plays a stripper, she's also setting the record straight on a few things.
A) She and fiance Justin Theroux are not nudists, and B) Katie Couric shouldn't concern herself with Aniston's personal life.
Appearing on E!'s late-night gabfest "Chelsea Lately," Aniston joined pal Chelsea Handler in a few off-color conversations.
The first being that Aniston, 44, has taken up her fiance's nudist lifestyle, according to a magazine article that Handler read to her on the show.
" 'Jen's started to embrace her curves at home since longtime lover, nudist Justin, has persuaded her to join in on the fun,' " Handler read. " 'She was hesitant at first but now she finds it extremely liberating and they spend entire days at home without any clothes on and even cook naked.' "
"What are you reading? Star magazine? Oh, OK. Yes, they're reliable," Aniston huffed sarcastically. "We don't walk around nude, darling. I mean, we do when it's appropriate."
But that didn't stop the sassy Handler from dropping in a few factoids of her own.
"I've seen Justin nude, I hope you know that," Handler said.
"Yeah, well, that's because you barge into places you shouldn't be barging into. But he's comfortable enough in his skin," Aniston replied.
As to the mag article, Aniston said, "That's not true. It's B.S."
Which brought Handler to another topic: how hard it is to be real-life best friends with the "Friends" alum when everyone wants to know the details of her personal life.
"Katie Couric was asking me on her show about your wedding and I had to act like I didn't even know you were engaged because I didn't know that was out," Handler said. "Then she was like, 'Well, everyone knows about it!' So, I felt really stupid."
"What's Katie Couric? Is she a legitimate journalist? Is she getting tabloidy? Wasn't she on the 'Today' show?" Aniston asked.
"She was on the 'Today' show," said Handler. "She got a demotion to her own show."
Whoa. Poor, Katie.
Anyway, earlier this week Aniston also cleared up wedding rumors swirling around her and fiance Theroux.
"We just want to do it when it's perfect, and we're not rushed, and no one is rushing from a job or rushing to a job," Aniston told the Associated Press. "And, you know, we already feel married."
"We have yet to set any dates. There have been no canceled weddings. There have been no postponed weddings," Aniston said. "There have been no arguments about where to get married. Just clearing all that up."
"We're the Millers," costarring Jason Sudekis, hits theaters Aug. 7.
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TLC Launches New Thursday Night Block
-- New Series HELI-LOGGERS Joins the Returning STREET CUSTOMS on February 5 --
January 9, 2009
(Los Angeles, Ca.) TLC will premiere a new block of programming on its Thursday night schedule beginning February 5, 2009, it was announced today by the network. New adventure logging series HELI-LOGGERS and the return of car-customizing docu-series STREET CUSTOMS promise viewers even more energy-packed excitement every week.
"Fan-favorites like AMERICAN CHOPPER and LA INK have made our Thursday block a destination for fascinating characters in unique environments, and these series are a great complement to the night," explained Nancy Daniels, SVP Production & Development, TLC.
Premiering at 10 PM ET/PT, HELI-LOGGERS transports viewers to the rain forest of Northern British Columbia, where a rowdy group of loggers risk their lives to provide the world with lumber, a resource often taken for granted. Performing one of the most dangerous jobs, the loggers use an enormous Boeing Chinook helicopter � the only one of its kind in Canada � as they work against the clock, battling perilous terrain and extreme weather. They do this all while maintaining an eco-friendly, environmentally sustainable mission.
In STREET CUSTOMS, returning with its second season at 9 PM ET/PT, TLC spotlights the talents of car-customizing star Ryan Friedlinghaus and his unorthodox approach to managing his West Coast Customs family of artisans and technicians. Each episode chronicles the boundary-busting cars that the crew take on � ranging from customizing modern styled street rods to chopping up $100,000 luxury vehicles, often for an impressive client list that includes sports icons, Hollywood elite and famous car aficionados. STREET CUSTOMS is produced on site at West Coast Customs' shop in Corona, CA.
STREET CUSTOMS is produced for TLC by Pilgrim Films & Television; executive producers are Craig Piligian and Ralph Wikke, and co-executive producers are Mitch Rosa and Ian Jones. HELI-LOGGERS is produced for TLC by World of Wonder; executive producers are Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
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TLC's innovative docu-series and reality-based programming include favorites Jon & Kate Plus 8, Little People, Big World, What Not to Wear, and LA Ink. TLC defined home design with Trading Spaces and continues to renovate the genre. TLC's daytime lineup includes the Emmy Award-winning A Baby Story. The channel is available in more than 96 million homes in the US, nearly 8 million homes in Canada and through the website at www.tlc.com. TLC is part of Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world's number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries.


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Broadcasters Working Hard To Cripple Dish's Consumer Friendly Sling TV
from the get-the-hell-out-of-the-way deptYou might recall that two years ago just around this time Dish technically won the CNET best of CES award for its Hopper auto-ad-skipping DVR technology, but CNET owner CBS trampled its own editorial policies by not only telling CNET to pull the award from Dish, but also banning CNET from writing reviews about the product. The excuse CBS gave was that CBS and Dish were involved in ongoing litigation over whether ad-skipping violated copyright, though of course the real reason was that CBS simply didn't want Dish's consumer-friendly product getting any more media attention than was absolutely necessary.
After the rather ridiculous fiasco, CNET reporters resigned and CEA took the "best of CES" honors away from CNET and gave them to Engadget. Fast forward a few years and Engadget has brought things full circle, this year awarding Dish's new $20 Sling TV service with the best home theater product award, best software/app award, and best of CES overall award. With perhaps an extra dash of hyperbole, Engadget declares Sling TV to be the beginning of the end for traditional television:
"Many of us have been waiting, hoping and even lusting after Sling TV before we'd ever heard of it: an internet TV service that gives you the channels you love, on any screen, anywhere, without a subscription to traditional cable or satellite TV service. Our long wait finally, blessedly ended at CES 2015. Sling (don't call it Dish) TV is a big deal, folks. It could very well be the beginning of the end for traditional pay TV here in the US, and that's not something I ever thought possible before this week. That, friends, is why Sling TV is taking home three Best of CES awards, including Best in Show."That's probably overdoing it. While we noted that the service is a big deal because it finally breaks ESPN out of the traditional cable bundle, the lack of live broadcaster channels (for now), the inability to record programs, and the scattershot content catalog don't quite make this a cable TV killer yet -- though it's at least a step in the right direction (2015 looks to be the year streaming video finally leaves the cradle). Of course, like Dish's Hopper DVR, Sling TV very nearly didn't exist, and it came only after Dish was willing to give more than its pound of flesh to change-averse broadcasters.
Dish had to promise ABC that it would disable ad-skipping for some ABC content on Hopper to secure licensing rights. CBS (busy cooking up a $7 a month streaming service of its own) then proceeded to make it clear Dish would have to jump through even more hoops if it wanted similar deals (which haven't been struck yet). Apparently Dish's contract language with broadcasters also includes a clause whereby the satellite provider has to stop advertising the service if it reaches five million viewers, since you certainly wouldn't want a streaming television offering to get too popular and disrupt the cozy cable and broadcast status quo.
And those are only the contract restrictions we know of. Again, ad skipping and streaming TV aren't really all that innovative anymore -- but they are in an industry that fights tooth and nail against a litany of common-sense things consumers want (greater freedom in channel selection, fewer ads, prices that don't skyrocket at four times the rate of inflation). And Dish's uphill fight likely isn't over yet; should the service see any kind of traction you can be sure the cable companies and ISP will come crawling out of the woodwork, demanding the same kind of interconnection deals they struck with Netflix should Dish want its traffic to continue flowing unhindered.
So forget about the best of CES award, we really should be doling out an annual "I ran the gauntlet of protectionist legacy jackasses and still managed to somehow release a consumer-friendly product" award.
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Ancestor Seekers by the Root Bound is a group of people that meet at the Lemon Grove Library once a month to share their genealogical data. We welcome beginners to advanced to attend. We meet the 3rd Wed of every month at the Lemon Grove Library from 6 to 8 pm. All are welcome to attend.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Genealogy Societies and Why to Join them
I will say I have heard some pretty sad stories from people across the US regarding the state of some societies and the non caring of helping their members. Now that indicates to me why some are failing. But let us look on the bright side.
Let us say you live at least 20 miles from a library and a society and you do not feel it worth being a member. You feel you never gain anything from them to help you.
Well, what have you done to help them? I find the more I help others the more knowledge I gain and the more information I have to share with others. That information is no good to me if I can not help others with it. I am not that big of an ID. Yes I apply that data to my research but why keep it to myself. One never knows when what you share may be the light bulb going on to help someone else. Many times even if I have read it before or heard it before someone else at that event may say it a bit different and then I know what I need to address in my research.
A societies benefits are varied. Let us start with fellow members in arms, then topics we all can share to assist us given by the society, newsletter, maybe a quarterly pamphlet, Yearbook of all members, (why so you can find whom else may be searching your same kin), Surname files, queries asked and answered, personal help on a specific problem in your research, computer knowledge shared at many societies today, knowledge learned about which program is best for your needs. Almost sure each society has a five generation surname chart filled out by their members for people to scan through, some even have this data up on line.
The speakers that may be brought in or knowledge shared by fellow members is always worthwhile and interesting and can be applied to your own research situations.
As genealogists we have learned to adapt to the changes brought about over the many
many years of research. Changes are many in the last 20 years and many more are coming
best place to learn about them is at your local or near local society.
Yes, you should join the society where you are doing the bulk of your research. You have many benefits by being a member. I helped one of my favorite societies to come up to speed into the modern world by acquiring a computer. They now have a web page.
That helps everyone.
I have to say I am a staunch supporter of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society and helped to co found it long ago. I was not active when it was finally completed but sat through many meetings to get us up and running in the 1980's. I went back to work and could only pop in once in awhile for a few more years.
I think of the 8 to 12 people who started it and today we have over 100 members again.
When I was President we also had a high number, My Huffman cousin was President a bit before me and that was so cool. Another learned cousin was President after me.
It is amazing the things one can learn and enjoy by being a member. It just could be they are setting there waiting for the push to be more involved. Anyone young or old can be a viable help to a society.
I am a member of the New England Historical Genealogical Society, Ohio Genealogy Society, Genealogical Society of Southwest Pennsylvania ,Washington Co. PA, Cornerstone Genealogical Society in Greene Co.PA, San Diego Genealogical Society and others. I have belonged to NGS the National Organization, Berkeley Co, VA society, Berks Co PA society, Also some that have folded, German Research Group of San Diego is no more, great group but run out of helpers.
I am looking forward to rejoining one national one that melded with another society creating a new organization.
I also recommend you rotate your membership if you have resolved problems in one area move the association with a new society to the area you are now researching.
Alas I have so much family from Washington, Greene and Fayette Co., PA I may never been done with them.
Let me share with you what Cornerstone Genealogy Society did for me, as a new member that lives in California many years ago and yet. I had belonged for a year or so and met many new cousins just from query's in the quarterly I received. I decided to go visit them and many new found cousins. I had already paid them to do some research to confirm some data before I came. The lady who did the research met me for breakfast my first day there. She gave me the names of various peoples in the town that could help me in my research in Waynesburg, PA. She also gave me names and addresses of other cousins I was not aware of. When I arrived at the library which they knew when I was coming, they had laid out 20 books for me to go through to find answers to the many questions I had asked them about. I will never forget their generosity and helpfulness.
It freed up my time to hunt for other books. I was able to get more data than I would have had time for if I had not talked to them ahead of time. They had copied the cards with surnames on it of other researches looking for my names. I spent several days in that library and at various cousins homes sharing family stories and events and comparing information and family knowledge.
I learned my Uncle had a twin as a distant cousin there named Jacob Huffman. My Aunt Mae now deceased also had a twin from another siblings line from Henry and Elizabeth Huffman Hoffman. We used many of the same words and terms when talking yet my family had left there by 1870s to IOWA. My Great Grandfather had gone back several times and my Grandfather went once as a 5 year old before he started school. Sanford I never learned if he got back even for his parents funerals. So we had hand written letters shared and not even phone calls until I came along. My Grandfather had migrated on to Wyoming where MOM was born so it was really amazing to see so much the same yet different. We definitely were related.
Join a society even if it's at a distance and learn as much as you can about the place and times they lived. It helps us also to grow in knowledge of ourselves.
O yes, if no Genealogical Society try a Historical Society that is what I had to do in
New York.
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Thank you for your post. Genealogy Societies can be of great service when they reach out beyond themselves and help those with ancestors in the community reconnect. I received super service from several early in my search, and was happy to support their efforts financially as well as with return favors. Keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Rainbow Bath Time!
Bath time can be quite colorful at our house.
Nothing beats a cup or empty bottle as a bath toy.
However, these little
rainbow people
are also quite popular.
Mini-Saurus calls them her "Wiggles".
Some days they are family members,
other days they are fairies and mermaids.
Last night they were circus performers from Cirque du Soleil.
We like to make our own bath toys
with craft foam cut into simple shapes.
We practice our colors
and shapes with Mini-Saurus.
The Frog Princess likes to practice her
with foam letters.
The foam shapes and letters are fun
because they stick to each other,
the walls, even kids!!
So simple and so fun!
Do you have any favorite home made bath toys?
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A man who died after falling from a runabout off the NSW Central Coast was not wearing a life jacket, police say.
A 57-year-old Monterey man was fishing on Thursday from the rear of the boat approximately 1km off Forresters Beach, while his 64-year-old brother from Canley Heights operated the vessel.
Police said the younger man fell from the stern of the boat and was not wearing a life jacket, and his older brother was unable to rescue him.
Just after 1pm (AEDT), emergency services were alerted to a man in the water. The 57-year-old was taken to shore by lifeguards, but attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful, police said.
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A penalty shootout began Spain's era and a penalty shootout could have ended it. Instead, the dream of a unique treble is still alive. A 0-0 draw and penalties with Italy in the quarter-final of this competition four years ago was the turning point, a game that changed Spain's history and changed their future. The man who scored the decisive penalty that night: Cesc Fábregas. On Wednesday night he again stood over the spot after 120 minutes had failed to yield a goal.
Fábregas had been down to take the second penalty but he had talked Vicente del Bosque into letting him take the fifth, admitting that he had a feeling hours before the game that this moment would come. "He told me that he wanted to take the fifth because he was going to give us the victory," the Spain coach said. Now the midfielder talked himself through the moment, convincing himself that he could do it again. And then he ran up and scored, the ball flying into the net off the right-hand post to send Spain into a third successive final.
"Being in another final is a miracle, it's very emotional," Fábregas said of the meeting on Sunday with Germany or Italy, who play on Thursday night. "I had a funny feeling about the penalties and I was thinking about them this afternoon. That life has given me another chance like this is really incredible. When I stepped up to take the penalty I said to the ball that we had to make history and it shouldn't let me down. They told me initially to take the second one but I said no, give me the fifth as I had this premonition."
What Fábregas experienced, Cristiano Ronaldo could not. He was in line to take Portugal's fifth and, he had hoped, decisive penalty. He did not get the chance. Xabi Alonso had seen his penalty, Spain's first, stopped by Rui Patrício but Iker Casillas then saved from João Moutinho.
When it came to the fourth for each country, Sergio Ramos, who had blazed high over the bar in the Champions League semi-final shootout, clipped in a la Pirlo. "It seems to be fashionable now," Del Bosque said. "I was delighted with it." Bruno Alves then thumped his off the underside of the bar and away. As the ball bounced free, it took Portugal's chances of reaching the final with it.
Fábregas scored. Spain had made it. Not the way they would have liked, not without a scare, but they had made it. "The players have played so many matches and they have to show their best in one more," Del Bosque said. "It was a very even match but maybe we were a little better in extra time. They looked a bit tired, but there were few chances before that. It wasn't easy to get through their defence."
This was indeed a game that offered little but tension until extra time when Spain finally created the chances that had evaded them before. Portugal broke from the normal mould employed by those that face the world champions, pressing where others sit, and for a time could feel entitled to the victory. What few opportunities they created, though, were wasted on a night when the ball seemed to be forever flying over the bar and into the stands. Hugo Almeida was particularly ineffective. So too Alvaro Negredo, the striker surprisingly chosen to start for Spain.
An image of Spain's difficulties came with a small inquest by the touchline during a break in the play half an hour in. Spain were struggling to get fluidity, pushed back, under pressure. Andrés Iniesta had curled over the top and the best chance fell to Alvaro Arbeloa, racing into the area in the opening 10 minutes and side-footing over, but the discomfort felt by the Spanish was clear. Raul Meireles and Moutinho had rarely allowed them to settle while Nani and Ronaldo forced them back, the threat always latent.
Del Bosque decided to make a change. The second half was not even ten minutes old when Negredo was withdrawn for Fábregas. Less punch perhaps but more possession. Time to claim back the control that Spain had, for once, lacked. It took a while to arrive though – it would not be until extra time that Spain looked dangerous. And by then, Pedro Rodríguez and Jesús Navas had both come on, to open up the pitch and give pace and incision. Until then a game that had begun with pace and intensity, the ball moved swiftly, had instead become disjointed, labouring towards the full-time whistle.
Just before it got there, Portugal got the break that could have won it. Spain were suddenly wide open, Meireles leading the charge. Ronaldo roared up alongside him and received the pass. His shot was wild. It also went over. It was the story of the night until then. Extra time loomed.
So, perhaps surprisingly, did a different game; at last there was a chance worthy of the name. Pedro, on as a substitute and making a huge impact on the match, Jordi Alba and Iniesta had everyone running off the Spanish bench, seeing the final rear into view, only for the ball to drift agonisingly wide. Sergio Ramos then thumped in a free-kick with the last touch of the first half of extra time and in the 100th minute, there was another opportunity, the game's best. Arbeloa overlapped, pulled the ball back for Navas and his shot from just beyond the right-hand corner of the six-yard box was saved by Patrício. Next Fábregas sent Pedro racing through but as he cut inside, Fábio Coentrão smashed the ball clear. This was Spain's best period: for all the fatigue, they searched for the goal. Alba was screeching forward, Fábregas was involved, Pedro too was determined to run at opponents, Iniesta trying to move the team. Forward they went, at last, their minds were made: Spain wanted to avoid penalties.
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Actor William H. Macy, will offer a bit of Hollywood glamour to a documentary about his home state.
According to the Cumberland Times-News, Macy is going to appear in the Maryland Public Television production "Our Town," which takes a look at Cumberland and Frostburg.
Macy graduated from Allegany High School in 1968, the paper says.
"Getting Bill Macy was beyond our wildest dreams," Rick Lore, vice president of MPT told the paper, adding the program will open and close with the actor, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in "Fargo."
The "Our Town" series travels the state to explore the various enclaves. It's already been to Hagerstown and Chestertown.
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It's crunch time for Obamacare: With less than four weeks left to sign up for coverage this year through the health law's insurance marketplaces, consumer groups, insurers, hospitals and state and federal officials are ratcheting up their enrollment campaigns to deliver more people — particularly young adults.
–Enroll America, a nonprofit group with ties to the Obama administration, is sending buses to Texas and Ohio to talk up new coverage options.
–Tenet Healthcare Corp., a large national hospital chain, is reaching out to people without insurance who frequent their emergency rooms.
–The federal government will air ads during the "March Madness" college basketball playoffs that start March 16, and during shows popular with young people, such as Family Guy, The Vampire Diaries and The X Factor.
After months of emphasizing low-cost deals and the value of coverage, officials running federal and state marketplaces are stressing the March 31 deadline to enroll. By that date, for the first time, most Americans will be required to have health insurance or risk paying a penalty of $95, or 1 percent of income, whichever is greater.
With more than 4 million people signed up in private health plans since Oct. 1, the Obama administration has recovered from the troubled start of open enrollment when few people could get through healthcare.gov, the federal enrollment portal used by 36 states But polls show that many of the uninsured don't know they face a deadline – indeed, most know little about their options to get coverage under the law.
Though large signups may pay political dividends to the administration and make it harder to repeal the law, the final month is also about making sure enough young people sign up to balance out the insurance risk pool, which is vital to keep down premiums in 2015 and later years.
"If enrollment is high and more young people enroll, the administration can point to success," said Paul Ginsberg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change.
Direct Appeals From President, First Lady
The federal government is stepping up advertising on television networks such as ESPN and Fox, and also running less traditional ads on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, which are favored by the young. From January through March, it has an advertising budget of $52 million for both traditional and digital media, twice the amount spent in the first three months of the enrollment drive, according to the Health and Human Services Department.
It is also bringing in big guns: President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and top White House officials are talking up health insurance on selected radio shows with big followings among African-Americans and Latinos, who are more likely to be uninsured.
On Thursday, the president is participating in a town hall meeting in Washington D.C. on Latinos and health coverage, which will be broadcast by some of the nation's largest Spanish-language meda outlets, including Univision, Telemundo and La Opinion-impreMedia.
Jon Kingsdale, a consultant who led the Massachusetts exchange when it began in 2006, said the marketplaces should now be emphasizing the deadline and penalty for failing to enroll.
Though previous implementation deadlines have been extended, officials say there are no plans to do that with the enrollment deadline.
Navigators paid by the federal government to help consumers sign up are stepping up their enrollment events and setting up booths at college campuses, libraries and shopping malls.
"It's all hands on deck," said Jodi Ray, project director for Florida Covering Kids & Families based at the University of South Florida, who leads over 100 navigators in the state. Florida has the second highest rate of uninsured in the country, with about one in four residents younger than 65, or 3.8 million people, without coverage.
Ray said her organization has added navigators and volunteers in anticipation of a surge in interest. The city of Tampa has opened its recreation centers on weekends to help them sign people up for coverage.
"This is a hard deadline…and consumers will begin to feel that pressure," she said.
State exchanges in Connecticut and Colorado are adding staffing and hours to retail stories where people can sign up in person.
'A Lot Of Apathy Out There'
The challenge is immense particularly in areas with high rates of uninsured because getting health coverage may not be part of the culture.
Steve Israel, an insurance agent, last week went to a church in South Bay, Fla., where nearly a third of the residents are uninsured. Only eight of about 75 attendees stayed after the service to hear him talk about new insurance options.
"I think there is a lot of apathy out there," said Israel, a board member of the Florida Association of Health Underwriters. "And I find people don't want to spend the money for insurance, no matter what the cost."
Other agents say they are swamped with people seeking help. "I am seeing a lot of traffic — both walk-ins and people calling trying to choose a plan," said Trish Atwell, an insurance agent in Vero Beach, Fla.
Allan Einboden, CEO of the Texas-based Scott & White Health Plan, said he expects March to be the busiest enrollment month. The insurer is using traditional and social media to coax young adults to buy policies, but efforts have been hampered by political TV advertising in Republican primaries in the state.
"The negative energy from that has been a drag—you can't go on radio or TV without hearing political advertising about how politicians are going to try to repeal the law," he said.
In Colorado, officials running the state exchange are using a recreational vehicle to travel the state to get the word out.
"We want to make sure people know the urgency here and the deadline that if they don't buy this month, they won't be able to buy insurance again this year," said Myung Kim, director of communications and outreach for Cover Colorado.
In Connecticut, which has already exceeded its first year goal by enrolling 138,000 people (40 percent into private health plans and the rest in Medicaid), officials have expanded hours at two brick-and-mortar stores in New Britain and New Haven. The exchange is also targeting towns and zip codes with high uninsured rates for events at libraries, churches and other places.
While outreach workers are stressing the deadline, they are focusing on the benefits of getting coverage rather than threatening people with penalties for not enrolling, said Jason Madrak, a spokesman for the Connecticut marketplace.
Enroll America workers and volunteers say the penalty for not carrying coverage won't be front and center, but they will mention it.
"There will be places where we talk about that and if people are not aware that can be useful," said Executive Director Anne Filipic. "But it won't lead our messaging."


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Bayside Anchor in the running for $250,000
Bayside Anchor, a multi-family affordable housing project proposed for Portland's Bayside neighborhood, has been named one of four finalists in a national competition seeking innovative ways to lower the cost of housing.
The competition, sponsored by Deutsche Bank and Enterprise Community Partners, requested proposals describing new methods for designing, building and financing affordable housing to individuals or families below 100 percent of area median income.
Bayside Anchor's proposal calls for using prefabrication to lower construction costs and speed up construction. The project would be built on a site owned by the Portland Housing Authority.
"We're excited to be part of a team proposing responsible cost-containment strategies and innovative ideas to address the important issue of the cost of developing affordable housing in Maine," said Debora Keller, director of programs for Avesta Housing, which is the project's development consultant.
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Packing is when someone who most likely does not have a penis putssomething in their pants to create a bulge that resembles a guy'spackage. All kinds of people pack, from masculine/male-identifiedtransgender folks to straight women. Packing can be done with a varietyof materials, and for many different purposes. While "packing"frequently refers to wearing a strap-on under one's clothes, one canalso pack more for the shape and feeling of a dick and balls than forfunctionality ("packing soft"). Products like the Soft Pack can be morecomfortable and look and feel more realistic than having a rubber orsilicone dildo in your drawers. However, packing with a strap-on("packing hard") has its advantages, too? there are situations in whichit's mighty convenient to be able to unzip your pants and whip out yourdick.
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Anyone can pack... Drag kings, straight women, dykes, femmes,butches, transmen (FTM's), Daddies, transwomen (MTF's), tops, bottoms,switches, intersex folks, Bob Dole, bio-boys with small penises, leatherfolk, vanilla lesbians...Everyone who packs has their own reason for it. For some folks it'sjust about sex. For some it's integrally related to their butch,boydyke, girlfag or transgender identities. For others it's aboutpower, or about being subversive. Here are a couple of reasons whysomeone might consider packing:
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- To fuck with gender
- For genderplay in a BDSM context
- For purposes of passing (as male)
- To pick up gay boys (or get in touch with your inner fag)
- Convenience (i.e. being able to unzip your pants and get ablow-job at the drop of a hat, without going into the bathroom andstrapping on a harness)
- To confuse people
- To get in touch with your masculine side
- To fill out those tight-ass 501's
- To have discreet (or not-so-discreet) public sex
- It feels good to have a bulge in your pants
- So you can rub up against your lover or someone in a dance club and they'll know how hard you are and that you're ready for them
- You don't have to carry your bag-o'-dicks with you wherever you go
- It gets your girlfriend or boyfriend wet/hard
- No need for penis envy...You can have one of your own.
- You can have as big or as small (and as hard or as soft) a dickas you like, unlike biological males who don't get much of a choice inthe matter
- It is powerfully subversive
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Futureless (2011)
Written by the two partners of LIONarchitecture, Futureless is a new(old) way of both thinking and talking about human's interface with place. Futureless is a lexicon in essay form aimed at reorienting our disrupted experience with the world and beyond. Similar to the concepts of archetypes, the words that constitute this lexicon permeate through all aspects of the world around is. Releasing the constraints of both era and zeitgeist, Futureless is a gathering of timelessness that may lend itself to an alternative way of designing, constructing, and experiencing 'appropriate interface'.
In the pursuit of preparing for the unknown, we are tasked to think in front of our life, to stop living here and live forward. The impetus of a future unknown has little relevance in architecture. To prepare is to fear the future; and to fear the future is to toil in the present. However, an altering of the very way architects speak about architecture affords the ability to design in a becoming manor. We aim to awaken a lexicon of architecture by setting aside language that obfuscates the true nature of architecture, leaving the remnants - the essence of architecture itself - as timeless and therefore futureless. It is our hope that a more verdant path of design is uncovered: one of looking to the past, living in the now and allowing for the future. This can be achieved by first vacating a few terms with which architecture has no concern: wall, ceiling, form, style, building, etc. To shed the weight of these formal explorations is to liberate architecture from that future which is arriving most imminently. We do not offer canons to obey; instead, what follows is a partial offering of a new(old) lexicon for architecture.
Futureless was published in the University of Oregon's School of Architecture Journal, KTISMA - Issue 2: Appropriate Interface on June 1st, 2012.
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Do Vegetarians Live Longer?January 2006
By William Faloon
Excess consumption of red meat increases the risk of heart disease, certain cancers, and other disorders. As a result, health-conscious people are eating more fruit, vegetables, and fish, and are staying away from beef. With all the benefits attributed to plant foods, one might think that vegetarians enjoy a huge life-span advantage over meat eaters.
We reviewed the published scientific literature and uncovered some surprising data relating to diet and longevity. As one would expect, most studies show that those who consume lots of red meat have higher disease rates.1-14 Red meat not only predisposes people to lethal illness, but meat eaters also have increased risks of ailments such as appendicitis, chronic inflammation, and kidney disease.15-20
A huge volume of scientific data confirms the protective role of fruits and vegetables on human health.21-23 So the question is, do people who eat only fruits and vegetables—and no meat—live significantly longer?
What you need to know
Conflicting data exists on the health benefits of following a vegetarian diet. We at Life Extension® analyzed the published studies to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the vegetarian diet. Studies show that one of these advantages is obtained from the absence of red meat, but this is also showing some eventual consequences. There are many adverse compounds found in red meat, but a primary benefit source comes from high quantities of the peptide carnosine. Studies are showing that vegetarians have a significantly lower risk of heart disease early in life compared to meat eaters, but later in life the differences are not nearly as great. One reason could be due to the lack of carnosine in a vegetarian diet. Learn more about these diets and the role carnosine plays in preventing disease.
Unexpected Findings
Vegetarians suffer fewer heart attacks than meat eaters.24-37 Interestingly, this benefit dissipates as vegetarians age. For instance, one study showed that vegetarians under the age of 65 were 45% less like to suffer a heart attack than were meat eaters. Once vegetarians reached the age of 80, however, their heart attack risk was only 8% lower than that of meat eaters.38
Longevity studies of vegetarians produce conflicting data. Some studies do not show that vegetarians live significantly longer.25,29 Two studies of people who consumed very little meat showed an average life-span increase of 3.6 years.39 A huge study of Seventh Day Adventists who ate little or no meat showed longevity increases of 7.28 years in men and 4.42 years in women.40 These data are confounded by the fact that Seventh Day Adventists follow healthy lifestyles free of tobacco and alcohol.
Studies suggest that the longevity benefits conferred by a vegetarian diet dissipate as humans enter their ninth decade.39 This implies that while vegetarian diets reduce disease risk, restricting one's diet to only plant foods does not completely protect against the effects of aging.
What's Missing in Vegetarian Diets?
Vegetarians are often deficient in vitamin B12, and those who avoid meat have long been advised to supplement with B12. While vegetarians are slightly more likely to suffer anemia than are meat eaters, this does not by itself explain why they do not enjoy greater longevity in their later years.
A fascinating paper recently published in the journal Mechanisms of Aging and Development presents an entirely new theory to explain why vegetarians do not live longer.41 It turns out that those who avoid eating beef suffer a deficiency of a nutrient (carnosine) that is critical to preventing lethal glycation reactions in the body.
For the benefit of new members, glycation can be defined as the toxic binding of glucose to the body's proteins. Glycation alters the body's proteins and renders them non-functional. While wrinkled skin is the first outward appearance of glycation, most degenerative diseases are affected in one way or another by pathological glycation reactions.
Diabetics suffer from accelerated glycation that contributes to the secondary diseases that result in premature death.42,43 For instance, glycation's destructive effect on the arterial system results in a loss of elasticity, hypertension, and atherosclerosis.44-47 Glycation is involved in disorders as diverse as cataract, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease.48-57
Unless aggressive steps are taken, many aging adults will suffer the devastating effects of glycation to proteins throughout their bodies. This fact was established recently when it was shown that even healthy people with slightly elevated glycation levels are at higher risk for heart attack.
Vegetarians have higher levels of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in their blood compared to those who eat meat.58,59 This is because an exclusively vegetarian diet would lack carnosine, nature's most potent anti-glycating agent.
For vegetarians who fastidiously adhere to a diet devoid of meat, their "Achilles' heel" may be lack of carnosine. This was confirmed in a paper published in October 2005 titled, "Glycation, ageing and carnosine: Are carnivorous diets beneficial?"41
Does Beef Supply Enough Carnosine?
A recent study of 18 people sought to determine carnosine concentrations in blood plasma after eating beef.60 Each 7.1-ounce serving of ground beef used in this study naturally contained 248 milligrams (mg) of carnosine.
In the study's first phase, meat foods were removed from the diet for 48 hours. When fasting blood levels were measured, no carnosine was present. After the subjects ate 7.1 ounces of ground beef, carnosine was detected in the blood within 15 minutes and continued to increase for several hours. After 5.5 hours, there was again no carnosine in the blood. This study clearly showed that 248 mg of carnosine does not provide the body with all-day protection against glycation reactions.
The reason carnosine disappears so quickly from the blood is the presence of an enzyme (carnosinase) that naturally degrades carnosine in the body. This new study on carnosine blood levels confirms what Life Extension published five years ago. Back in 2000, we advised members that at least 1000 mg a day of carnosine is needed to overwhelm the carnosinase enzyme and protect against toxic glycation reactions.61,62
Commercial supplement companies are still selling 50-mg carnosine capsules and claiming that this low dose is effective. Based on this recent study showing that the body degrades 248 mg of carnosine within 5.5 hours, consumers who take these 50-mg carnosine capsules are obtaining virtually no benefit.
How Does Carnosine Work?
The proteins in our bodies are the substances most responsible for our ability to function and sustain life. Glycation causes the destruction of these proteins. Once too many proteins lose their ability to function, the body becomes prone to degenerative diseases and premature aging.63 Carnosine has been shown to specifically protect against age-related degradation of protein.
Protein degradation occurs as a result of cross-linking and the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). These changes figure prominently in the process of aging and in its typical manifestations, such as skin wrinkling and brain degeneration.62,64,65 Carnosine is effective against cross-linking and the formation of AGEs.66,67 Glycated proteins produce 50 times more free radicals than nonglycated proteins, and carnosine may be the most effective anti-glycating agent known.
An example of carnosine's defense against protein degradation can be seen when proteins are exposed to toxic malondialdehyde (MDA).68 Similar to formaldehyde, MDA causes protein cross-linking and formation of AGEs. Carnosine has been shown to inhibit MDA-induced glycation in blood albumin and eye-lens protein.69,70 Carnosine has also been shown to keep MDA from inducing protein cross-linking.71 One study showed that carnosine actually decreased MDA levels in mice.72
Carnosine's Effects on the Brain
Carnosine is highly concentrated in the brain, owing to the fact that the brain uses carnosine to protect against cross-linking, glycation, excitotoxicity, and oxidation. Animal studies show that carnosine provides broad protective effects in simulated ischemic stroke.73
Abnormal copper and zinc metabolism stimulates senile plaque formation in Alzheimer's disease.74,75 Chelators of these metals dissolve plaques in the laboratory. Carnosine is a potent copper-zinc chelating agent that can inhibit the cross-linking of amyloid beta that leads to brain-cell plaque formation. A signature of Alzheimer's disease is impairment of the brain's arterial and capillary system. Carnosine has been shown to protect the cells that line the brain's blood vessels from damage by amyloid beta as well as from damaging byproducts of lipid oxidation and alcohol metabolism.76
Carnosine Extends Cellular Life Span
Our bodies comprise cells that replace themselves by dividing. There is a genetic limit as to how many times our cells will continue to replicate themselves via healthy division processes. Once enough cells reach their genetic reproductive limit, the organism (the human body) is no longer able to sustain life functions and succumbs to disease or death. Carnosine appears to extend the period of time that cells will continue to divide in a youthful manner.
Laboratory research suggests that carnosine is able to rejuvenate cells approaching the end of the life cycle, restoring normal appearance and extending cellular life span.77,78 When scientists transferred late-passage fibroblasts (a type of connective tissue cell) to a culture medium containing carnosine, the cells exhibited a rejuvenated appearance and often an enhanced capacity to divide.79 The carnosine medium increased life span, even for old cells. Cells transferred to the carnosine medium attained a life span of 413 days, compared to 126-139 days for the control cells. This study showed that carnosine induced a remarkable 67% increase in cellular life span.
These aged cells also grew in the characteristic patterns of young cells, and resumed a uniform appearance in the presence of carnosine. However, when the aged cells were transferred back to a medium lacking carnosine, signs of senescence quickly reappeared. How does carnosine revitalize cells in culture? Some researchers propose that carnosine may rejuvenate cells by reducing the formation of abnormal proteins or by stimulating the removal of old proteins.69
Why Aging Adults Need Carnosine
Life Extension members have long known that carnosine levels in the body decline with age. Muscle carnosine levels in our bodies decrease 63% from age 10 to age 70, which may account for the reduction in muscle mass and function seen in aging adults.80 Carnosine acts not only as an antioxidant in muscle, but also as a pH buffer.81 In this way, it keeps on protecting muscle cell membranes from oxidation under the acidic conditions of muscular exertion. Carnosine enables the heart muscle to contract more efficiently through enhancement of calcium response in heart cells.82 Muscle levels of carnosine correlate with the maximum life span of animal species.
Carnosine has been shown to rejuvenate connective tissue cells,77,79 which may explain its beneficial effects on wound healing. Damaged proteins accumulate and cross-link in the skin, causing wrinkles and loss of elasticity. Carnosine is the most promising broad-spectrum shield against protein degradation.


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This really should be Stornoway's moment to shine. When the band's delicate and introspective melodies emerged on the live scene in 2009, few could have imagined the emergence of folk-rock and its modern tributaries as a Grammy and Brits winning genre. But the world of music has a continually peculiar slant to its vagaries and as such, a band who started out with nothing but instruments, big hearts and a swish of gorgeous melancholy to their name now have the unexpected opportunity to make themselves a household name. If Mumford & Sons can conquer the planet, there theoretically should be no reason why Stornoway – a band with a far broader and more lustrous palate - shouldn't be able to make serious inroads with their second record.
Now Stornoway are not Mumford & Sons, and as such, no further comparisons shall be made. The relevance of the comment lies in how Tales from Terra Firma often appears to be hunting out the mainstream in its carefree ambience, jaunty calls and big, bold choruses with a cocked eye on daytime radio playlists. But combined with a lack of building on their undoubted strengths, this kick towards the mainstream results in the record ultimately coming across as an uneasy truce between newer commercial aspirations and older artistic principles. Nobody wins, nobody loses, nobody is entirely satisfied with the eventual outcome.
From the opening organ, restless acoustic strums, responding trumpet and tumbling couplets of 'You Take Me as I Am', it becomes clear that Stornoway are laying out the scaffolding for a more prominent musical reach. And on those occasions where they manage to temper their loftier ambitions with caution and sensitivity, they can still sound delectable. The hushed melodies and understated mystery of 'Farewell Appalachia' are by equal measures glacially intoxicating and threatening. And the swirling psychedelia of 'Hook, Line, Sinker' comes as an unexpected marvel midway through the record: full of churning rhythms and dark counterpoints. It's a new approach for them, and one that unexpectedly suits their predilection for driftwood undertow mystery. Barry Briggs – as ever – remains a wonderfully beguiling singer; making the record his own by veering between joyful, childlike exhalations and deep, introspective sighs and metaphorical ruminations on the changing nature of his internal and external worlds.
But for each positive, there's another song that simply doesn't hit the target, or simply runs out of space trying to sight its aim. 'The Bigger Picture', despite its sweet melodies and minor-key slants, seems simply an exercise in throwing as many disparate elements together and hoping they attain status, whereas the actually result is frothy and saccharine.
'Knock me on the Head' is woefully misguided and misplaced, both musically and lyrically. Promising wisdom and thrills, it ends up delivering banal couplets and an incoherent collection of ideas before ending in a bemused and clumsy full stop. And then there is the three-song closing salvo: 'The Great Procrastinator', 'The Ones We Hurt the Most' and 'November Song'. Which again, are sumptuous and frustrating in equal measures.
There is much to admire about the teasingly slow build and ghostly Syd Barrett conclusion to 'The Great Procrastinator' but it ends up suspended agonisingly between a huge, dramatic climax and a cathartic understatement; which is the same that can also be said for the dream-laden and fog draped tapestry that is 'The Ones We Hurt the Most'. Uncertainty is present just that little bit too often to fully satisfy. And while it would be unfair to solely blame this on their decision to self-produce the album, you can't help thinking that a more assertive external hand may have honed some of the songs and defined their inner yearnings with sharper clarity.
As ethereally pretty and delectable as Stornoway's seashell frequencies are, it's always been tempting to suggest that they're lacking that final element. And so it goes with Tales from Terra Firma. Only this time, they've overshot rather than undershot their aspirations. They may still be finding their way but from a purely objective standpoint, by album two you are expecting that bit more from a band: that hint of true growth and progression with the foot firmly fixing to the next rung on the ladder. Here, Stornoway are simply treading water; albeit in a larger and more colourful pool.
For all its many laudable attributes, Tales from Terra Firma proves ultimately frustrating: a skilled, capable and talented band still unaware of how best to channel and control their creative energies.
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Adhesives come in many types, classified according to base, viscosity, setting speed, strength and temperature range. Adhesives are based on epoxy, cyanoacrylate, methacrylate, starch or synthetic elastomers. Cyanoacrylates are a class of compounds with quick setting properties and short shelf life. Super Glue, widely used in homes and offices for bonding purposes, is the most well-known cyanoacrylate-based adhesive. Methacrylate adhesives have better hydrolytic stability and cure with the help of catalysts, in contrast to cyanoacrylates that cure in moist air. Epoxy-based adhesives bind by setting or hardening, and the curing often has to be aided by elevated temperatures. Epoxies have a wide range of shear strength, hardness and curing time, and may be mixed with additives such as sawdust, fiberglass bits or glass bits, to alter their properties. Common applications of epoxies are to fill gaps or fix structural joints, and in plumbing. Synthetic elastomers are used in making spray adhesives. Application of adhesives, especially for commercial and industrial purposes, requires accessories, such as mixing nozzles and plungers. Industrial application of adhesives is often done with adhesive guns or hot melt guns, which apply high temperatures in the range of 100°C to more than 200°C to melt circular tubes of thermoplastic adhesives.
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We are excited to share that Cultivate Kansas City is partnering with UMKC to host a 2-day visit by Dr. Vandana Shiva on Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, 2014. Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist and author who is changing the way the world thinks about food, agriculture and sustainability.
Dr. Shiva's lecture, "Cultivating Diversity, Freedom and Hope" will address the value of diversity in nature and in society, as well how the monoculture of the mind can destroy that diversity at every level. She will share what is happening to seed and food, and how "Gardens Of Hope" protect Seed Freedom and Food Democracy.
Her message of local ownership and self-sufficiency in the production and distribution of food offers a powerful case for the development of urban and local food systems that we've seen in Kansas City over the last ten years; her deep understanding of sustainability challenges us to keep reaching across sectors, disciplines, and communities as we grow our regional food system.
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Leaving aside, for a moment, the question of how effective they really were while in office, some American presidents simply loom larger than others in the public imagination: several of the Founding Fathers, for example; John F. Kennedy and his intensely romanticized "thousand days"; Ronald Reagan; Lincoln, of course.
And then there's FDR. The only man elected four times to the nation's highest office (although he would die within months of being sworn in to his final term), Franklin Delano Roosevelt's greatness can be measured, in one elemental sense, by the passions he still excites in both his supporters and detractors. To the former, he was a courageous and compassionate leader — a politician born into great privilege who nevertheless oversaw the creation of America's government-run safety nets for the least powerful among us; a steady hand at the helm during the darkest, early days of World War II; and a man willing to spend most of his political capital pushing for policies and programs that were controversial and even revolutionary in their time, but today form the bedrock of America's social contract.
To his naysayers, of course, Roosevelt's New Deal was not far removed from communism — an egregious example of governmental overreach — while his political philosophy smacked of class betrayal and an un-American belief that the feds can solve every problem we'll ever face, no matter how large or small, how transient or catastrophic.
His wife Eleanor, meanwhile, was even more progressive (and polarizing) than her husband. While her humanitarian work all over the globe in her later years would win her near-universal praise, as a First Lady she was something of a radical — giving her own press conferences (the first woman in her position ever to do so), arguing for expanded workers' rights and sometimes publicly disagreeing with her husband on national issues.
One national issue on which the Roosevelts agreed — to a greater or lesser extent — was that of civil rights. Eleanor was the more vocal and adamant of the two, but it was FDR who signed Executive Order 8802 in June 1941. Geared toward defense workers, 8802 was the first federal action designed to prohibit employment discrimination in the United States. It was, arguably, the most significant action in the realm of civil rights by a 20th-century American president until LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
(Roosevelt's record on civil rights as a whole is somewhat more checkered — especially in light of the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.)
Ed Clark's photograph, meanwhile, of an openly weeping Chief Petty Officer (USN) Graham W. Jackson playing "Goin' Home" on his accordion as FDR's flag-draped casket passes by in April 1945 has, through the years, come to symbolize not merely a nation's grief, but black America's acknowledgement of Roosevelt's efforts on behalf of civil rights.
It's tricky, of course — even dangerous — to presume that one person's emotions can be seen as emblematic of the feelings and thoughts of millions of other people, merely because those people are of the same race. After all, Jackson had played music for FDR, and for countless other people at and around the so-called "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Ga., many times in the past. The two men had, so to speak, a history. The tears coursing down Jackson's cheeks were, assuredly, the outward sign of an inward, deeply personal grief.
But nothing is simple in iconic pictures, and while ascribing a status of "symbol" or "emblem" to Jackson (and his sorrow) might be problematic, the fact remains that significant photographs invite interpretation.
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crashing racing son, Nick Bollea, was involved in yet another accident Saturday after attending an event for a safe driving charity.
While Nick didn't manage to put his best friend into hospital for two years with severe brain damage this time, like he did back in 2007 when he crashed his Pussy Magnet Yellow Supra during a street race, he did make our heads hurt with unintentional irony. The name of the charity Nick was visiting prior to the fender bender? Keep It On The Track, a name we wish Hogan's son would take literally. [PerezHilton]