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I feel that way all the time. It's probably my biggest pet peeve regarding religious people. I probably dislike it most when they talk about themselves, though. It just makes me sad to hear that they can't admire their hard work enough to give credit for what they have accomplished. It's like they think so little of themselves that they can't even admit how successful they have been.
Like the athlete ywho trains hard everyday for years with all the latest sports science, nutrition and medical backup along with a team of professional trainers. He goes out, wins a medal and the first thanks goes to his god. WTF?
Or the patient who give thanks to god that the doctor (with 30 years specializing in the area) was able to cure him.
Jesus must be turning in his grave still with all the false applause he gets.
I second the athlete comment. Same as people who wear "jesus" over the companies who sponsor them. The sponsor can't complain because it's so sacred...
I've been doing my clinical rotation at a Baptist funded hospital and it has irked me everyday when the chaplain comes in and thanks god for all the healing while I am sitting there pushing IV drugs and giving a bed bath. Just eats at me knowing I can't say a damn thing either.
People are just really ungrateful these days
While still married, my wife's 16 year old nephew was killed in a motorcycle accident. I went to the funeral. Hundreds of people packed in that church wondering-why? He was not wearing a helmet and was going about 60 over a small bridge. He was a great kid and I used to go fishing with him. The priest called for somebody to come up and say something. The eyes of a hundred christians gazed at me, and i was getting the elbow; me already a closet non-believer. After what seemed like hours I got up to the podium. They were probably expecting some "god called his child home" bullcrap, but instead I gave them a story about how years earlier I taught him to tie a knot, it took a while to teach him. When he actually caught a fish with a knot he had tied, he was so proud. The entire church erupted into a mixture of laughter and tears. The priest proceeded to corrupt the story with the "apsotles all being fishers of men"..damm it!
I want to carry on living my life in such a way that if I die before I'm old, people say, "It was bound to happen - look what she was doing!", and not, "so sad, she was at the supermarket checkout when it happened".
I love your story, RobertPiano - the priest didn't corrupt what you said, he just jumped on the bandwagon of success :)
When I'm on my deathbed and look back on my life I would like to think that the things I look back on is things that I have achieved and worked hard for. I had study hard and educate myself, in times of hardship, I had to pull myself out of it, I can not give any god any credit for anything in my life nor blame for the things I lack. When I paint it is not a god given tallent that he blessed me with, both my parents paint so it's more genetic than a blessing. And the purpose of all of this I don't know " to look back and say I survived this and then log my head to the side with my last breath" my bit of theatrics there ;) ;)
It always irks me that people try think that something good that happens is because of god.
I have a niece who, on facebook, just went into ecstacy about a beautiful morning that god had provided for her enjoyment. This on a morning when people in the midwest were waking up to death and destruction caused by a tornado. I wanted to ask my niece where was their beautiful morning.
Yeah, God wanted to send you some nice weather that morning just because you're so special. Unfortunately God had to rip some tornados across the plains to get your weather front there on time. But he knew how much it would brighten your day and it just tickles him to get facebook likes!
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Josephine A. Tondiglia 89 of Ravenna passed away peacefully at the Akron City Hospital on Friday December 21, 2012. She was born November 25, 1923 in Bedford, Ohio to Pompeo and Mary (Romito) Iarussi.
Mrs. Tondiglia lived in Ravenna most of her life. She retired from Ametek in 1989 and had also worked at Oak Rubber. She was a member of the Immaculate Conception Church in Ravenna and at one time was a member of the Italian American Club and the VFW Post 1055 Auxillary. Her passions were gardening,flowers, and ballroom dancing.
She joins in rest her beloved husband Vincent P. Tondiglia, who died January 29, 1989, her parents, Pompeo and Mary Iarussi, her sister and brothers, Beatrice Weyant, Ralph and Remo Iarussi. Survivors include her children, Karen (Doug Scholz) Tondiglia of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Mary Jo (Mike) Ryan, Yvette Labonte both of Ravenna, Paula (James) Ruggiero of East Aurora, NY, Vincent Tondiglia of Dayton, Thomas (Tracy) Tondiglia of Stow, her ten grandchildren, four great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Calling hours will be 10:30 AM Friday December 28, 2012 until time of funeral services at 12:30 PM at the Shorts Spicer Crislip Funeral Homes Ravenna Chapel. Burial will follow in Grandview Memorial Park Ravenna, Ohio. The family requests that memorials may be made to the donor's favorite charity. Condolences and memories may be shared with the family at www.sscfuneralhomes.
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Cookbook:Pattaya Fried Rice
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Cookbook | Ingredients | Recipes | Cuisine of Thailand
Pattaya fried rice (Thai:นาซีโกเรงปาตตายา), called Nasi Pattaya in Malaysia, is a Thai dish made by covering chicken fried rice in an omelette pouch. [1]
This recipe is similar like Omurice, of Japanese cuisine.
- 3 tbsp. olive oil (2 tbsp. for frying and 1 tbsp. for making an omelette)
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped finely
- 2 red chillies, cut small 1 cm
- 2 shallots, sliced finely
- 2 chicken fillets, cut 1,5 cm
- 1 cup green peas
- 1 carrot, diced
- 1 scallion, cut small 1 cm
- 2 cups (700 g) rice
- 2 tbsp. tomato sauce
- 2 tbsp. nam pla
- 1 tbsp. salt
- 1½ tbsp. pepper
- 1 small jalapeno, minced
- 2 egg for making omelette
- Heat the oil on non-stick pan. If the oil is hot, fry the garlic and shallots and stir until brown and looks fragrant.
- Add the chicken fillet, carrot, green peas and red chilli, stir at 2 minutes. After that, add the rice.
- Add the nam pla, tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Cook until all mixed.
- Heat the oil after cooking fried rice. Mix the egg and put into the pan, after looks like omelette, flip it over once the bottom side is lightly brown.
- Put in a bowl of the fried rice at the center of the omelet and wrap up the 4 edges and flip it over a serving plate.
- Served hot.
- ↑ "Pattaya Fried Rice" (in English) (HTML). http://www.mykitchensnippets.com/2008/07/nasi-goreng-pattaya-pattaya-fried-rice.html. Retrieved June 28 2009.


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A Taste Trippin' Party!
Last night I went to a taste trippin' party at the Drake hotel in Toronto (I'm living in the city now).
This is something I have wanted to do for at least a year. I was so excited! At a taste trippin' party you eat something called a Miracle Berry. It has a funny effect on your tongue that makes it so that everything sour tastes sweet for the next hour. I've been dying to know if it really works.
So BF and I headed over and were each presented with a berry in a shot glass and a sheet of instructions.
You put the berry in your mouth, remove the skin and pulp and let the seed rest on your tongue for two minutes. Spit it out, and two minutes later you're ready to go!
They had all kinds of foods to try. There were lemons, limes, oranges, sour soothers, pickles, cheeses, brussel sprouts, mustards and apple cider vinegar to drink. This had better work!
The lemons and limes tasted just like candy! I was amazed! The flavour of the limes was indistinguishable from sweetened limeade. The oranges were so sweet that I actually didn't care for them. BF normally has no tolerance for sour food so he was pretty excited too.
Next I tried one of the pickles and a creamy cheese. I was disappointed to find that the restaurant had provided us with sweet gherkins and feta cheese, I wanted something with bite! Later I found out that they were in fact very, very sour pickles and sharp goat cheese, it was just that under the influence of the miracle berry, I honestly couldn't tell!
There was a gruyere cheese that tasted normal, the berry didn't seem to affect it. The sour soothers just tasted like regular candy, say Swedish berries. The mustards were intensified in flavour. I could barely eat them they were so strong! The brussel sprouts were delicious! They just tasted like yummy raw vegetable with none of the bitterness that makes uncooked brussel sprouts generally so unpalatable. And the vinegar had such a pleasant taste, unlike anything I've ever tasted before. John couldn't get enough of it.
The experience lasted about 20 or 25 minutes before it started to wear off. It lingered for about an hour after that, so the lemon wedges went from tasting like sweet candy to tasting like sour candy to tasting like sour lemons.
Afterwards we walked down the street to a bar for some drinks. They all tasted funny because of the berry. I had a cosmo and all I could taste was the vodka at first because the berry took away all of the bite of the lime and the cranberry. BF's beer was sweet and delicious and without the bitter aftertaste. As time went on though and the berry wore of I realized it was actually a really well made cosmo and I actually didn't like BF's beer after all.
It was a really cool experience, I think everyone should try it at least once. Although we had the actually berries, you can also order the berry in tablet form, I know ThinkGeek carries it here.


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7 Test-Taking Skills To Teach Your Child
by Cindy Short and Sue Welch
There are specific skills and strategies involved in taking tests that can help your child do his best.
1. Directions
2. Wording
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4. Pacing
5. Choosing Answers
6. Math
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There's a great article in National Geographic online that poses the question, "Why Do Babies Twitch in Their Sleep?". Most parents assume (myself included) that it has something to do with dreaming, but new research is showing that it's more about developing a brand-new nervous system.
"...these sleep twitches actually have an indespensible purpose: to teach a newborn what all of its limbs and muscles can do, and how to use them in concert to interact with the big, wide world."
Why Do Babies Twitch in Their Sleep? (Adorable Video Edition) | NationalGeographic.com


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Columbia Shasta Ridge
14 oz / 396 g (Size 9.5)
Nice looking and durable but terribly uncomfortable…
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Nice looking and durable but terribly uncomfortable seams.
- Attractive
- Built to last
- Very uncomfortable seams
Local retailer had these on sale for $28, wanted so bad to buy a pair. They look really sharp and Columbia stuff is made to last so I was psyched, but apparently there was a reason they were trying to dump these at such a low price. But when I tried them on I discovered they have very uncomfortable protruding seams on the underside of the tongue.
I tried to adjust the tongue and tweak the fit a bunch of times, wearing them laced up with a tight fit first and then a loser fit to see if I could get rid of the irritating seams. I walked around the store in them several times hoping to achieve a comfortable fit but to no avail. Tried up-sizing a half size but that didn't help either — same exact irritation with the 2nd pair.
Every time I tried them on the rough seam section rubbed the top of my foot, and I could tell it would be really irritating over time. Both left and right shoes had the exact same problem too, so I don't think it was coincidence.
Hated to pass up such a good price, but hard to put a price on blistered feet.
Where to Buy
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Indiana - Energy Storage Standard
Policy Components Questions
- 1. Does state have a procurement target or requirement for energy storage? No
- 2. Does a utility program or other state policy related to energy storage exist in the state? Yes
- 3. Is there a documented process for periodic review of progress toward the state's energy storage goal? No
- 4. Does the state offer incentives or other support to promote energy storage systems? Yes
Policy Component information last updated July 30 2018
There are a number of policy opportunities to take advantage of the growing technological advances and declining costs within the energy storage sector. These include incentives and requirements to deploy storage by utilities as well as incentives for customer sided energy storage to manage both distributed renewable resources and fluctuating demand. For more information, see the full policy brief.
For more information on the components of the policy see the full policy brief.
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Ideally, your travel arrangements should bring you to Newport directly or to the Providence or Boston airports.
You can reduce your luggage by mailing some of your belongings to Salve Regina ahead of time. Please contact the Office of International Programs to make arrangements prior to shipping any packages.
As you travel through the U.S., there are a few things to consider. Many stations will have baggage handlers and other helpers available. It is customary to tip these people around $2 per bag handled.
You should make sure you have small U.S. bills ($1, $5, $10) to meet these needs. You should consider having at least $500 in cash. You will also need to pay cash for any taxi service and some shuttle services. At most transportation stations, tickets can be paid for with credit cards. Some bus and train stations are not staffed. You will find adequate information posted at these sites, but no one to answer questions.
Traveling by Air
Salve Regina provides one-time shuttle service from the Boston airport to campus. You should contact the Office of International Programs with your arrival information at least two weeks before you arrive. If you cannot make the shuttle, you will need to find alternate transportation to Newport.
If you fly into Boston, you may take the Peter Pan bus ($32) from the airport to the Newport bus terminal, called the Gateway Center. A taxicab from Boston to Newport is not recommended, as it will cost $200 cash.
Traveling by Bus
You may travel to Newport by bus, although some transfers may be required. The only bus company that serves Newport is Peter Pan Bus Lines. Remember that the travel time on a bus is much longer than a car. A bus trip from New York City will take about 7-8 hours.
The cost varies with the distance you travel, but you can expect to pay around $75 to $95 one-way. While you can usually purchase tickets upon your arrival at the bus station, it is highly recommended that you purchase your ticket in advance. In making your reservations, your final destination should be Newport. You can be picked up at the Newport bus station, but arrangements must be made ahead of time.
You can also take a taxicab from the Newport bus terminal, called the Gateway Center, to Salve Regina for about $10 if you have not made prior arrangements to be picked up.
Traveling by Train
There are Amtrak train stations in most major cities. If traveling by train, you should make Kingston, R.I., your final destination. You can be picked up at the Kingston station, but arrangements must be made ahead of time.
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Here are photos of the gift baskets onemagicalchristmas has worked so hard on:
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I loved being able to make gift baskets this year so next year for our gift exchange I am doing gift baskets as well. May be movie gift baskets.
Those look nice, I am sure she will love them
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I look forward to shopping each year but dread it when I am done or out of money. I love seeing everyones faces when they get there gifts though
wow, onemagicalchristmas ur fast and u have ur gifts ready already and they are all lovely and shows ur thoughtfulness in it...makes me love and feel christmas more
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It's almost the weekend. That means it's almost time for hiking. Here are a few ideas for great trips around here. All are easily doable as a day trip from Snohomish County.
Ashland Lakes: A short, sweet trail. This trail off the Mountain Loop would be great for kids. There are probably still even some nice, ripe berries to munch on. Read about it here.
Tonga Ridge: This is an easy hike off U.S. 2. It starts high and stays high. The only steep section of note is at the beginning. It's a nice ramble along a ridgetop. On clear days, the view is lovely. You can wander for as long or short a time as you like. If you feel like a dip, Fisher Lake is a nice place for a swim. I've heard the trail is busy on weekends, but I've only hiked it on a weekday when we didn't see another soul. Read about it here.
Hidden Lake Peaks: You'll have to work for this one, but it's worth it. It's off the recently reopened Cascade River Road, which is along the North Cascades Highway. Roundtrip is 9 miles and you'll climb more than 3,000 feet. You'll get stunning views and a fun fire lookout. Read about it here. Read about a scramble route here.
Barclay Lake: This is a super easy hike. It's nearly flat and only about 4 miles long. Perfect for all ages. It's off U.S. 2. Read about it here.
Monte Cristo: The fascinating old mining town is still accessible. Eventually, work to clean up the area will close the area temporarily. This hike is off the Mountain Loop Highway. Read about it here.
Surprise Lake: This is a steep hike to a gorgeous lake. If it's a warm day, you won't be able to resist jumping in. The hike is off U.S. 2. Read about it here.
Goat Lake: This is one of my favorite hikes. It's long, more than 10 miles, but it's not hard. I love that you can make it into a loop. I like to take the upper trail on the way up and the lower trail on the way down. It's off the Mountain Loop Highway. Read about it here.
Lake Dorothy: This is a quick trip. It's only three miles, so it's good for bringing along kids. You'll enjoy some great waterfalls on this trip, too. This trail is off U.S. 2. Read about it here.


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Gebo Burka of Ethiopia pulled away from a persistent Lani Rutto of Kenya to win the 29th annual ASICS L.A. Marathon men's race on Sunday morning.
Burka and Rutto broke away from the lead pack, which ran a somewhat pedestrian pace early on, and the 26-year-old made his move with five miles to go and held off several challenges from Rutto to win in a personal best 2 hours, 10 minutes, 37 seconds. Rutto finished 11 seconds back.
Burka broke away from Rutto on a slight ascent along San Vicente after the 21-mile mark. But Rutto, who has run a faster marathon than Burka, pulled alongside him as they headed into the final mile, along Ocean Boulevard. Burka, an accomplished 10,000-meter run, surged ahead again and was never threatened. Rutto was 12 seconds back in 2:10:48.
Erick Mose of Kenya, won won last year's race, rallied from well back off the pace to finish third in 2:12.56, 2:20 behind the lead. Gabriel Proctor of Mammoth Lakes was the top American finisher, placing sixth in 2:15:17 in his marathon debut.
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Investigators say three relatives conspired to kill a 64-year-old man who lived in their home.
Dorchester County sheriff's deputies said 37-year-old Sonny Ray Jones Jr. sneaked up to Jimmy Edwards as he fed his chickens in his backyard on Feb. 1 and fired three shots into his head.
Authorities say Edwards' stepdaughter, 54-year-old Mary Grooms and her husband, 67-year-old Endsley Grooms, then helped get rid of the gun and lied to investigators to hide the crime. Jones is Mary Grooms' son.
Jones is charged with murder and armed robbery. Authorities say $44 and a checkbook were stolen from Edwards. The Grooms are each charged with murder. It wasn't known if any of the suspects had a lawyer.


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Martellus Bennett apparently loves to tell a good Tony Romo joke.
The New York Giants tight end made an appearance Wednesday on "Good Morning New York" on WNYW-TV to talk football and practice his short-range catching ability. When co-host Dave Price threw a football that bounced short of his intended target across the set, it reminded Bennett of his former teammate.
"Kinda looked like Tony Romo throwing that ball," Bennett said, via LarryBrownSports.com.
He repeated himself when asked to clarify.
Bennett is in the midst of a career year after four disappointing seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. That's why no one in Dallas wants to hear a word from Bennett, who has 25 receptions with a career-high 305 yards and three touchdowns so far in 2012.
Bennett has had his own beef with Romo over the years. He wanted Jon Kitna to start in 2011. He has made other remarks about Romo since changing teams.
Things didn't work out for Bennett in Dallas, and Romo certainly wasn't the root of all his problems. But the Cowboys host the Giants this week, so it's a good time for a little trash talk. Because, you know, Giants-Cowboys never has enough juice on its own.
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'On the pave.'
My dynamic cycling linocut!
All images © 2007 Richard Lee - All Rights Reserved.
I'm exhausted and happy after completing my first linocut since art school days. I started right after I picked up the supplies last Wednesday. Four days later, with plenty of effort, its done.
The linocut is a printmaking technique invented by the German expressionist artists of Die Brucke formed in Dresden, 1905. To start, a sheet of linoleum is used. The same material used in contemporary flooring. A design is cut into the surface with various special, sharp blades. Ink is applied with a roller and impressed onto a substrate(paper).
My finish cycling image is 4" X 5" on a 8" X 10", 140 Ibs, cold pressed acid free, natural white, watercolour paper.
Tedious & very involving work.
I'm cutting into the linoleum.
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About halfway through ESPN's two-hour, "Say It Ain't So-sa," special, the broker who owns the authenticated bat that Sammy Sosa used to hit his 498th career home run, did something remarkable. He and another man held the ends of the bat while a third man used a hand saw to slice through the barrel.
It wasn't quite "Fear Factor" but it was captivating television for midafternoon on a Wednesday.
When the sawing was done, moths did not fly toward the light. There was no cork in sight. Nor SuperBalls. Nothing but pure maple.
"Well, he hit one without cork in it," Bobby Valentine cracked.
Now, thanks to a Major League Baseball production that smacked more of a spin control than an investigation, we know Sosa owns 76 bats that do not reveal "foreign substances" when they are X-rayed.
The only Sosa bat known to have been loaded with cork was the one he last used in a game before getting caught. It's also the only bat that should matter.
It's a mystery why MLB felt the need to confiscate and examine every Sosa bat it could find in the middle of Tuesday night's victory over Tampa Bay. If ever there was an open-and-shut case, this was it.
Sosa went to the plate with a corked bat from his personal collection. Jeremi Gonzalez shattered it, cork flew everywhere and Sosa was exposed as a guy willing to make the occasional compromise.
Suspend him. Move on. Get over it (except that last part isn't going to happen).
Does Sosa's explanation make any difference? It shouldn't.
Does it matter what was, or wasn't revealed, when his other bats were examined? It shouldn't.
Sosa is clearly 100 percent guilty. Would he be 120 percent guilty if two or three other corked bats had turned up in the keeping of Cubs' clubhouse manager Tom Hellman? Conversely does it really tell us anything that MLB says the confiscated bats were clean?
I don't think so. For one thing, MLB Executive Vice President Sandy Alderson admits there was a gap of "several innings" between the first-inning ejection and the clubhouse sweep for Sosa bats. You don't need Johnnie Cochran to know that's a problem.
Even if the clubhouse was clean, what about any funny bats that might have been in the trunk of Sosa's car? What about any ones he might keep at his condo for just those special moments?
Bottom line: People are going to believe what they want to believe. The only two things we really know are that the slugging icon used an illegal bat in the 7,164th at-bat of his 15-year career.
And he'll never be looked at the same again.
Why drag out the painful aftermath with this 76-bat salute?
Cubs President Andy MacPhail said "76 clean bats would validate [Sosa's] story" about accidentally using a bat he goofs around with in batting practice. Alderson, a no-nonsense sort with impeccable credibility, makes you wonder if MLB is being so thorough in hopes of helping repair Sosa's image.
He offered a strange explanation for why MLB would consider checking bats Sosa previously has donated to the Hall of Fame.
"It is possible the bats in the Hall of Fame might be tested, I think primarily in support of Sammy and the explanation he has given," Alderson said. "I want to emphasize that testing all these bats was done in part to determine if any more had been tampered with. But just as importantly, we feel strongly that it was important to test these bats in the belief that what Sammy told us, in the hope that what Sammy explained, was accurate."
Is the prosecutor looking for alibis?
MLB has a major credibility problem here. In the last decade, it has sold no commodity more than the thrill of the long ball. No one has been a better salesman than Sosa.
With attendance down and skepticism up—in part because of revelations and accusations about an increase in the use of steroids and amphetamines—can baseball afford to see the great man fall from his pedestal?
Sosa, who always seemed to enjoy curtain calls, limos and good seats at the State of the Union address, now seems to be having second thoughts about living with the legend he created.
"The media today, they had me like I'm a criminal," Sosa said before Wednesday night's game. "That really bothered me, hurt me. They speak of me like I do something out of this world.
"It's a mistake. We're all human. Nobody's perfect in this world."
Please, don't let this be Frank Thomas all over again. A guy who set an enormously high standard and then turned paranoid and bitter when things got a little tougher. A guy whose skills head downhill with years left on his contract.
In my opinion, Sosa knew the bat he took to the plate Tuesday night was corked. These guys don't pick bats out of the rack like they're playing pick-up-sticks.
Sosa definitely knew that home runs have been a lot harder to come by lately—12 in 256 at-bats over 71 games since Aug. 17, 2002 (one every 21 at-bats) compared to 286 in 2,887 at-bats over the unprecedented run that began in 1998 (one every 10 at-bats).
So he looked for a little edge, one he really didn't need.
That's all anybody needs to know.
Forget what radiologists say about those 76 bats. The only X-ray that might tell us anything is one of Sosa's head.
About halfway through ESPN's two-hour, "Say It Ain't So-sa," special, the broker who owns the authenticated bat that Sammy Sosa used to hit his 498th career home run, did something remarkable. He and another man held the ends of the bat while a third man used a hand saw to slice through the barrel.


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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
21 comments:
- AncientBriton said...
Micah 6:3
- April 13, 2010 at 6:06 AM
- Matt said...
I don't mean to be insulting to my brothers and sisters out there who are sincere, pious Episcopalians, but...
what is the deal with the Episcopal church and it's silly, flamboyant style?
Seriously. I truly would like to know what's behind that.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:27 AM
- Katie said...
They're all style and no substance.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM
If Liberace were ordained...
- April 13, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Clowns. Squint a bit, blur the photos - clowns at a circus. Scary ones...
- April 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Elephantschild said...
Somewhere, over the rainbow....
- April 13, 2010 at 11:27 AM
The more pious we are, the more mortified we are by these clown costumes.
- April 13, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Reminds one of a definition of "a career in the Anglican communion": promotion to more exotic vestments. Gracious.
- April 13, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Can anyone seriously doubt the Roman Catholic Church's assertion that She is the ONE, TRUE Church of Christ after seeing these outlandish outfits?!
- April 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Matt said...
I'm sure that's true; but why does the leadership of the Episcopal church seem to be so committed to making a mockery of the Faith?
Actually I do doubt it, but that has nothing to do with anyone's vestments.
- April 13, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- PrSBlake1 said...
Some of these comments are unfair. True, the vestments are a bit over the top, but it is not fair to suggest they are committed to "making a mockery of the faith." I think that is not true and not fair.
- April 13, 2010 at 9:19 PM
- Antient Scholar said...
These comments are not unfair - they appear rather balanced. A "sartorial train crash" is the most charitable way of describing these scenes. Individualism gone bonkers - and that is reflected in the "me, me, me theology" promoted by these clowns.
- April 14, 2010 at 3:12 AM
- margaret said...
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- April 14, 2010 at 3:20 AM
- margaret said...
I agree that they don't mean to make a mockery of the faith, it only seems that way to people who think the faith is Christianity. I'm not quite sure what the faith is but I am sure that until I discovered this blog the only place I'd ever seen anything quite like these vestments was Glastonbury in the 70s.
- April 14, 2010 at 3:22 AM
Matt wrote " why does the leadership of the Episcopal church seem to be so committed to making a mockery of the Faith?"
It is a source of both puzzlement and pain to many of us who actually believe that the Faith isn't just about you or your individuality or whatever outlandish "statement" you wish to make in a given moment.
This website provides limited comfort in the realization that embarrassing vestments (and the wooly-headed mindset which often accompanies them)is not restricted to Anglicanism/ECUSA.
- April 14, 2010 at 3:50 AM
Time to institute a dress code. Or inforce the one you have. Red is the customary liturgical color for an ordination or installation. Only two of the six or seven in these picturese are so attired, and the only ones who don't look like they've dressed for a costume party.
What should be troubling is that all of the noncomformists in these pictures are wearing Bishop's mitres, i.e., the people who ought to know better and set a better example.
- April 14, 2010 at 1:10 PM
How much do want to be the homily was about unity in diversity?
- April 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- MamaMaria said...
And Jesus said, "Go forth, baptizing in brightly colored vestments of all styles by Izaac Mizrahi and Louis Vattone. All offending colors shall be held offending. All colors of strikingly stunning hue shall be retained."
And they went off, two by two, hopping, skipping and jumping. Amen.
- April 15, 2010 at 11:30 PM
Ecclesiological matters aside, wouldn't it have been better for the rest of the bishops in attendance to just don choir dress and get on with it?
When Vatican II was convened, the bishops in attendance all wore matching copes and mitres.
Still, ++KJS, please stop wearing your installation outfit. It's gotten old.
- April 17, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Deviant vanity. Glad they're having a good time on their way to the eternal lake of fire.
- May 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM
Hello - the vestments look like a rainbow threw-up - now you know why Roman Catholic clergy all vest the same - It leads one to ask where are the elephants? - such a circus - needn't ask to send in the clowns/
- May 8, 2010 at 12:24 AM


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The Perfect Roasted Duck
by Amy Lignor
The hunt, itself, is a memory that lasts a good long time. But for those who do not wish to head to the taxidermist, a recipe to create a mouth-watering meal is another path to consider.
Some will say that a perfect, whole roasted duck is more like a creative idea than an actual fact. Yes, it is true that a combination of crispy skin, tender meat and just enough fat to make a perfect roasted duck seems like something that can only be had if a true "wizard" lives in the household. However, there are ways that can make this dream a very appetizing reality.
Any wild duck that has a layer of fat one-eighth of an inch or less on its breast is at the center of a true feast. Then, when it comes to ultimate success, the temperature of the oven is the key. The smaller the bird, the hotter the oven. Various species have their own "best oven temp." When it comes to Teal, the species cooks better at about 500°F, while a large mallard, canvasback or small goose (from the cackler to the Aleutian) cooks better in an oven set closer to 450°F. Preheating is also a must. Do not put the bird in until the oven hits the right temperature.
Now, we get in to personal taste. You need to decide what you want to feast on when it comes to the amount of crispy skin and perfectly roasted meat. Obviously, the longer your trophy bird cooks the more done your meat will be, and the crispier your skin will be. For those who like medium-rare breast meat, take it to a solid medium, even medium-well: still pink, but definitely cooked through for the perfect taste. Why is that? Because the legs can get cooked enough to eat. There are pictures swirling out there on the Internet of whole roasted canvasback, cooked in a 475°F oven for 22 minutes. Although everything is done, spots can be seen on the legs where the skin did not crisp.
It is also important to note that geese can be a little harder to roast. They tend to be older and tougher than ducks. Large geese, such as normal-sized specklebellies, snow geese and typical Canada geese can be roasted whole. So for those looking for a base recipe to help get that mouth-watering meal, this is most definitely a prime path to take:
Prep time for four small ducks (teal, wood ducks, wigeon); or 2 to 4 larger ducks (or small geese): Make sure to prep for thirty minutes in order to help the birds come to room temperature.
Cook Time: 12 to 30 minutes, depending on the duck chosen.
Make sure to have on hand lemon or orange wedges, salt, celery stalks, as well as black pepper.
Set the oven to 450°F or higher. Small ducks are best cooked at high temperatures. Then let the oven preheat a good 20 to 30 minutes, and check the temperature before cooking. Let the ducks rest at room temperature while the oven heats up.
If the duck is reasonably fat, use a needle to pierce the skin where there is a great amount of fat under it. This comes at the front of the breast, between the breast and legs, at the flanks, and all over the back of the bird, but be careful not to pierce the meat of the breast.
Rub lemon over the bird and dust it well with a good salt product (Fleur de Sel is a great choice). Then stuff the spent lemon or an orange wedge inside the duck.
Place a few celery stalks onto an oven-proof pan so you can rest the ducks on top. This will prevent the ducks from sitting in their own juices.
Time to Roast: Allow 10 to 15 minutes for Teal or other small ducks; 13 to 20 minutes for anything up to the size of a gadwall; 18 to 25 minutes for a mallard or canvasback; and, 25 to 45 minutes for a small goose. The real key here is to get that internal temperature between 140-145°F at the deepest part of the breast meat.
Take the meat out, move to a cutting board and tent the duck(s) loosely with foil. Small ducks should rest at least 5 minutes; large ducks, closer to 10; and, geese up to 15.
When it comes to sauces, the choices are endless and they are all yours. A simple pan sauce can be made by removing the celery and stirring a tablespoon of flour into the drippings. Allowing this to cook on the stove until it becomes the color of coffee-with-cream, can be delicious. Then, anything from a tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce to some wine or brandy can be added to create a wild game sauce that's truly unbelievable to the palette.
A huge selection of sauces can be found all across the Internet, and even side dishes that go perfectly with your roasted duck success. Then, the rest is easy. Eat and enjoy! After tasting that perfect duck, you will want to hunt each and every day in order to bring the next luscious 'trophy' home.
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Ain't stalking no bitches though they always with a nigga
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Just a couple niggas in a boxcar that bitch go lime
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Y'all all loafin goin through the motion hit me on the rock don't drop no cocaine
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No catfish
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Turns out this kid played just last week for only forty people in his hometown. Now he is all over the place. The internet – changing lives every day! Good for him, I say!


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One of the reasons I've been hesitant to take on Jensen's book in any substantial way has to do with the difficult, vitriolic "discussion" of pornography and sex work both within feminist communities and in the world at large. These are emotional issues (as they should be), and there is an understandable tendency toward oversimplification and over-generalization on all sides of the issue. As with many other issues, especially when they're discussed on the internet, the idea of giving a charitable reading to something sort of goes out the window--and I totally get that, since aspects of Jensen's book make me want to claw my eyes out in frustration, rather than "read charitably".
Which is why I have actually enjoyed the recent discussions between Meghan Murphy and Hugo Schwyzer, which were an attempt to have a conversation about "pornstitution" that would help everybody better understand at least some of the disagreements between (some) sex positive feminists and (some) anti-sex-work feminists (it is difficult to use neutral terms here). Just the attempt to have the discussion was refreshing, and I commend both Megan and Hugo for making the attempt; that said, most of what was clarified for me was the problems with the arguments (and attitudes) of the anti-sex-work folks. Which has led me back to re-reading the Jensen book, and working on some posts about the book, and about the anti-sex-work positions in general.
Before I begin with the book though, a preview of some of the ideas I want to examine, starting with just a little piece of the conversation that Meghan and Hugo had, because I think it highlights a particular theme that the anti-sex-work folks just get wrong.
Can People Choose Sex Work?
Meghan is frustrated with actual sex workers who put themselves forward as examples of people who have chosen to do that kind of work, and who don't consider themselves particularly oppressed. She says:
"Re: the teeny minority of self defined "sex workers" who enjoy it. Since when is enjoyment or pleasure or *feelings* of empowerment–*feelings* in and of themselves- the same as truth or reality? What sort of argument is being made here? Feelings are also socially constructed in a capitalist/patriarchal society: think of mania for commodities; see the mobs going crazy after sports events (like in Vancouver now?). Lots of feeling there: does it mean consumerism and mob-violence is ok? Men feel empowered by raping: so, do we validate rape? Abolitionists of slavery didn't care what made a few slaves content–slavery is wrong. Selling people is wrong, no matter how content someone is to sell themselves. These ideas about individual empowerment and pleasure are all part of the way we are bamboozled in neoliberalism. Since when has being content with one's lot stood as an argument that one's lot is therefore just and right? We don't have to tell an individual woman "porn star" about what her "experience" is in order to critique the prostitution of women as a societal institution–to critique the demand by men that women's bodies are for sale."
But of course people who want their voices heard aren't speaking up because they think their choice means that everybody has the same choice that they do. Instead, some folks who do/did this kind of work offer themselves up as counterexamples to the claims that some radical feminists make that sex-work can't even exist as work, because one can never, ever choose it without being in some sense coerced. Murphy chooses to place the term sex work in scare quotes when talking with Hugo, which follows suit with the idea that there just is no such thing as sex work, because all sex work is coercive. A sex worker who wants Meghan to listen and acknowledge that some porn work is chosen freely isn't asking Meghan to then never critique porn as a larger industry; she (or he, or zie) is asking Meghan to ditch the claim that doing porn can never be a choice.
And clearly there are lots of folks who don't have a free choice--sex trafficking, for instance, is a clear case of coercion (and, because it's obvious coercion, we shouldn't call it sex work. And clearly there are huge problems with the production of pornography--but that still doesn't mean it is the case that folks can never choose to do sex work. Some anti-porn folks acknowledge this, but when they continue to use scare quotes around the phrase sex work, I'm not sure why they don't understand that folks who do sex work feel silenced by that.


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Call for Papers Biotechnology Computing Track Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 28 Maui, Hawaii --- January 3-6, 1995 The twenty-eighth annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) will include a three day conference track on Biotechnology Computing. The Biotechnology Computing Track provides a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, and system building activities in all areas of computation related to biology. It includes presentations of original research, tutorials, advanced seminars and a distinguished guest lecture. The conference is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computer Society, and the Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM). Advances in biotechnology generally and in the international Human Genome Project are creating an explosion of fundamental biological data underlying all life processes. The computational problems in gathering, managing and analyzing this explosion are daunting, but the challenges are exciting and the potential payoff is very high. Every aspect of computer science is involved, from algorithm development, systems integration and advanced database management to image analysis, parallel computing, artificial intelligence and robotics. The Biotechnology Computing Track presents the leading edge of this research in five minitracks, each focused on a rapidly evolving research area. Relevant papers are solicited for each of the minitrack areas listed below. Papers must be previously unpublished, and should be from 22-26 double spaced pages in length, including figures. Submitted papers are subject to a rigorous peer review process with written reviews from at least five referees. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which is also made generally available by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Prospective authors are urged to contact the appropriate minitrack chair as early as possible. Please leave adequate time for international mail, as all deadlines are firm. For general information, or proposals for tutorials, advanced seminars and review papers, contact the track chair: Lawrence Hunter (hunter at nlm.nih.gov) National Library of Medicine Building 38A, Mail Stop 54 Bethesda, MD 20894 USA +1 (301) 496-9300 +1 (301) 496-0673 (fax) The other members of the Track steering committee are: * Tom Marr, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA * John Wootton, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA * Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University, Japan * Peter Edwards, Aberdeen University, Scotland DEADLINES: Full manuscripts must be RECEIVED by June 15, 1994 Notification of accepted papers will be sent by August 31, 1994 Accepted camera ready copy must be RECEIVED by October 1, 1994 International mail can be slow. We recommend use of courier services to international destinations. BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPUTING MINITRACKS AND CHAIRS. Please contact the relevant minitrack chair as soon as possible for further information on the requirements and deadlines for that minitrack. * Project-Oriented Databases and Knowledge Bases in Genome Research: Database and knowledge base tools and technologies that support the management of specific research groups or purposes, e.g. community databases for specialized research groups, laboratory notebooks, data management system supporting experiments, links between different databases, biological function knowledge bases, knowledge representation for biological functions and data models and structures for genome data. Toshihisa Takagi (takagi at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108 JAPAN Tel. +81-3-3443-8111 ex.613 Fax: +81-3-3440-6173 * Parallel Computing for Computational Biology: The use of parallel and distributed computer systems and software in computational biology, including for molecular modeling, protein folding, sequence analysis, linkage analysis and other problems in the biological sciences. Timothy G. Mattson (tgm at ssd.intel.com) L. Ridgway Scott (scott at uh.edu) Intel Corp., Supercomputer Systems Division Mail Stop CO6-09 14924 N.W. Greenbrier Pkwy Beaverton, Oregon 97229 USA phone: +1 (503) 531-5627 fax: +1 (503) 531-5501 * Stochastic Models and Grammars for Bioinformatics: including hidden Markov models, regular grammar, context-free grammar, stochastic grammars and other stochastic approaches to recognize or analyze genetic/protein sequences and their structures. 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And how cool is it that there is now evidence that dinosaurs ate birds?
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Almost Heaven Harp Circle meets monthly on the third Thursday, from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Church of the Brethren, 464 Virginia Avenue, in Morgantown, WV. All welcome, we have extra harps for beginners and the curious.
Directions: From downtown campus, take Stewart up hill, bear straight on Willowdale, 2 blocks, and take left at Center Street. Two blocks on Center to Virginia, church is on the corner of Center and Virginia.
If lost, call John Lozier, 304 276 5141
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 #archlinux - The official support channel
- 3 #archlinux-offtopic - The off-topic channel for Arch Linux
- 4 Other useful information
The official Arch Linux IRC channel is #archlinux on the Freenode network.
There are also a number of other channels dedicated to Arch Linux maintained by community members, see http://www.archlinux.org/irc/.
To join the channels, you need an irc client. List of irc clients
/connect irc.freenode.net /join #archlinux
#archlinux - The official support channel
This is the main channel for Arch Linux. The main topic for the channel is support and general discussion about Arch Linux.
The channel is currently +R. That means that you have to register and identify with the NickServ service before you can talk in the channel.
/msg nickserv help register /msg nickserv help identify
Channel Rules
- Follow the guidelines
- Client settings and bots
- If you want to bring a bot into the channel, then ask an operator before you do so.
- Auto-response in channel or in pm is not allowed. The only exception is 'away' responses at nick highlight. (only allowed in pm)
- Channelbot usage
- There is only one official channel bot. 'phrik n=archbot@archlinux/bot/phrik'
- Try to limit the bot usage in channel. Remember, you can '/query phrik' when the output isn't needed in-channel.
- No spamming of bot commands.
- Advertising
- Advertising is not allowed unless an op has given you permission to do so.
- Content/links
- The main topic of the channel is support for and discussion about Arch Linux.
- Talk about general software and hardware is allowed if it does not interfere with the main topic of the channel.
- Anything that is not covered by the previous statements is handled on a case-by-case basis at the op's discretion.
- The main topic of the channel is support for and discussion about Arch Linux.
Channel Guidelines
The main language of the channel is English. If you need help in another language, see the link above regarding other Arch Linux channels. ( You can also do /query alis list #archlinux* )
The channel topic often contains useful and/or important information. It's good practice to read it from time to time. (You can use /topic to read it if your client doesn't display it)
Don't start flamewars, also avoid the "20 lines of 'foo > bar'" discussions.
Don't feed the trolls, if someone is trolling and/or baiting, then ignore them. Also feel free to notify a channel operator.
Spamming the channel is Bad (with a capital B). Use a pastebin if you have to paste something long (more than 3 lines).
Pastie and Codepad are two popular ones within the Arch community. Several pastebin programs exist in the repos, to output the result of a command to a file use
program &> program-output.txt.
phrik (the channel bot) is not your personal toy, abusing him is not allowed. If you want to try out commands or look trough the help function, then do it in a /query or /msg. (Example: /query phrik help <command>)
Don't ask to ask, if anyone is alive or if anyone uses something, just state your question.
Help us help you, ask smart questions. It's easier for us to help you when you ask good/smart questions.
Ask for help, don't demand it, if nobody replies, wait for a few minutes before you restate your question. Most questions get answered by "just another user", just like you. Even the devs that frequent the channel do so on their own time, by their own accord, by their own free will.
Don't be shy, feel free to help others, 'everyone' has something to contribute. The channel is a community effort to provide support, and depends on volunteers.
Help us help you, ask smart questions. It's easier to help you when you ask good/smart questions.
Help yourself before you ask. Read the Wiki and man pages, search the BBS and/or Google. Sticking to this method will often get you an answer faster, and you may just happen to learn something from it.
When asking for help, always reply to people that ask you for more information, if you don't know the answer then say so.
Set a good example; be what you want other people to be. If you act like a moron, then people will respond to you as if you were one. The behavior of those already in the channel is also a big influence on those new to the channel. If you want the channel to be a friendly place, then be friendly to others.
List of channel operators
If you for some reason need the help of an op, don't be shy to /q(uery) or /msg us. Here is the list of ops as of 09 June 2009
- _Caleb_ aka Caleb
- glguy
- WizzoMaFizzo aka wizzo
- tomkx
- codemac
- neri
- Xentac-away aka Xentac
- supa_user
- phrakture
- Xilon
- MrElendig aka Mion
- cactus
- tigrmesh
- Ghost1227
#archlinux-offtopic - The off-topic channel for Arch Linux
Channel Rules
- Follow the guidelines
- Advertising
- Advertising are not allowed unless an op have given you a permission to do so.
- Content/links
- This channel is for any discussions/talk that don't fit in #archlinux, but there are some limits:
- No porn/warez/drugs/racism or similar.
- It's an offtopic channel, not act like a moron channel.
List of channel operators
If you for some reason need the help of an op, don't be shy to /q(uery) or /msg us. Here is the list of ops as of 07.11.2008
- phrakture
- glguy
- _Caleb_ aka Caleb
- WizzoMaFizzo aka wizzo
- Xilon
- MrElendig aka Mion
- cactus
- Ghost1227
Other useful information
Abbreviations and jargon
- Read The Fine Manual (Yes, fine and not f*ing)
- Read The Fine Wiki (Yes, fine and not f*ing)
- Read The Fine BBS (Yes, fine and not f*ing)
- Read The Fine News (Yes, fine and not f*ing)
- [{core,extra,testing,kdemod-...}]
- Usually denotes a repository. Example: "nvidia drivers are in [extra]"
- Arch User Community Repository
- Arch Build System
- ltt
- less than three -> '<3' -> 'love'
- Trusted User
- Bulletin Board System -> 'forum'
- As Far As I Know
- If I Recall Correctly
- In My Opinion
- For The Win
- For The Lose
- nvm
- never mind / forget it
- ymmv
- your milage may vary
- +b / B&
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P06 Genetics of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: the identification of a novel risk locus and clinical subgroup analysis -conference paper abstract-
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The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts
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Biomarkers as precursors of disability
Apostolos Davillas, Stephen Pudney
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Subway Australia has responded to the outcry sparked by the photo of an 11-inch 'footlong' sub that was posted on its Facebook page by teen Matt Corby.
It's questionable.
Here's the statement Subway Australia posted on Facebook:
The post has since been taken down.
The most important part:
"With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, "SUBWAY FOOTLONG" is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length."
But Buzzfeed's Copyranter offers up these examples from a 2008 commercial from Subway. The ad is quite explicit about the length of a footlong – one foot:
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President Bill Clinton said Friday that the United States remained hopeful that Saudi exile Osama bin Laden could be tracked down, said Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
Clinton made the comment when he was asked to respond to a US State Department terrorism report issued this week, which noted that Bin Laden was still at large, added KUNA.
"We are doing our part to change it and I hope we will be successful," Clinton said.
The State Department's report observed that the "Taliban, which controls most of Afghanistan, has allowed various terrorist groups to operate unheeded including the 'base' organization, headed by Bin Laden."
Bin Laden is alleged by the United States to be the mastermind behind the bombings of two US embassies in east Africa that claimed 230 lives.
The United States is offering a five million dollar reward for information leading to Bin Laden's capture - (Several Sources)
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Be warned... this years thread will be a little more personal than in the past due to events in the last 5 months.
While this was for last February alot of what is just as relevant as now.
Editorial: Let?s talk about mental illness
Rarely a day goes by that we dont hear about cancer or heart disease. And theres good reason to talk about such health problems given the tremendous toll they take on Canadians.
Yet despite that toll, neither cancer nor heart disease is the No. 1 cause of disability in Canada. Rather, that dubious distinction belongs to mental illness, which accounts for nearly 30 per cent of disability claims and 70 per cent of the total costs of disability.
In fact, according to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the total estimated cost of mental illness, in terms of health care and lost productivity, is $51 billion annually. And with a number like that, you would expect to hear more about mental illness than any other health problem, including heart disease or cancer.
Yet mental illness remains one of the few subjects people would rather avoid. According to a 2008 Canadian Medical Association survey, half of respondents would not tell co-workers they have a mentally ill family member. Even worse, about half of those who have experienced depression or anxiety have not discussed their difficulties with a doctor. The reasons for such silence are obvious enough: According to the survey, nearly half of Canadians believe the term mental illness is used as an excuse for bad behaviour, and well over half would refuse to hire a lawyer, doctor or financial adviser with mental illness. And if that werent enough, 27 per cent of survey respondents said they were fearful of even being around someone who is mentally ill.
Despite its prevalence, then, mental illness remains a profoundly stigmatized health concern, and that stigmatization deters people from speaking about the issue. And in what is something of a vicious cycle, that silence ensures that stigmatization will continue, making it even more difficult to speak about mental illness. Fortunately, though, this is not an insurmountable problem; we can begin tackling it by speaking about it, and by listening to those who have experienced mental health difficulties. And Bells Lets Talk campaign encourages and helps us to do both.
Now in its third year, the five-year, $50-million initiative is based on four pillars anti-stigma, care and access, research, and workplace best practices but anti-stigma remains the centrepiece of Bell Lets Talk Day, which takes place today.
Bell will donate five cents to mental health initiatives for every text message, long distance call made (by Bell customers), tweet using #BellLetsTalk and Facebook share of Bell Lets Talk made today. Last year, 78 million texts and calls resulted in an additional $3.9 million for the program.
Thats the talking part. As for listening, Olympian Clara Hughes, who has battled depression, returns as spokeswoman for the third year, and will be joined by composer and performer Stefie Shock and actor-comedian Michael Mpambara, both of whom have faced mental health issues.
It has never been easier to combat the stigma of mental illness. Its as simple as speaking and listening to others about it, any and every day. But especially today.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker softball team defeated Edinsboro University in a pair of non-conference games on Wednesday (Mar. 20) at Saleeby-Stokes Field. With the win the Cobras improve to 18-12 on the year, and remain at 9-5 in league play.
Junior outfielder Sydney Weatherford got things started for Coker in game one, when she hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Sarah Rountree and put the Cobras up 1-0.
In the top of the second Edinboro tied the game at 1 after a solo homerun down the left field line. However, Alex Cataldo was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the second with the bases loaded to draw in the go-ahead run. Rountree would then double to right center to drive in two more runs and put Coker up 4-2.
The Fighting Scots battled back to tie the game at 4, with two runs in the third and one run in the sixth.
Then with one out and two runners on in the bottom of the seventh, Jaclin Poole connected on a pitch to left field to earn the walk-off and preserve a 7-4 win for the Cobras.
In game two, Coker took a quick 4-0 lead on Edinboro within the first three innings. The Fighting Scots however would respond with three runs in the bottom of the fifth to pull within one run of the navy and yellow. Coker was not intimidated however, and put together two shutout innings to lock in the 4-3 win.
Coker's next competition will come on the road when they travel to meet Erskine on Saturday (Mar. 23) in a Conference Carolinas double-header. Game one is scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m., followed by game two at 3:00 p.m.
McDonalds Player of the Game: Jaclin Poole.


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Welcome to Brown Eyed Baker, where it's perfectly acceptable to eat dessert first!
Back in February of 2007, I was living a couple of hours away from friends and family, and winter claustrophobia had begun to set in when I stumbled across a food blog online. I had always loved to bake (a gene my mom claims skipped a generation and went straight from my grandma to me) and enjoyed writing, so this seemed like a perfect way to escape the grey winter days. I figured it would be a creative outlet, perhaps nudge me to try some new, more challenging recipes, and my mom and sister could check out what I was making. That was nearly seven years ago and the rest, as they say, is history. What an amazing journey this has been!
What you'll find here are some of my favorite food groups: desserts, appetizers and loads of comfort food, all made primarily from scratch. My hope is that you leave the site with the insatiable urge to run into your kitchen and whip up what you've seen here, and the confidence to know that you can do it. Growing up in an Italian family, the kitchen was always the hub of activity – it's where everyone gathered to talk, eat and share life while amazing food was being created. I am so happy to have you here in my virtual kitchen and hope you'll return again and again.
About Michelle
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, home of the famed Primanti Bros. sandwich. In a previous life, I worked as a marketing analyst in a few different cube farms. I am entirely self-taught when it comes to the kitchen, learning as I go through cookbooks, magazines, television shows, the Internet, and a tremendous amount of trial and error. My grandma baked by feel; her hands knew when dough was ready and she never second-guessed herself. I try to channel her confidence when I'm in the kitchen, and hope to pass it along to you, too!
When I'm not in the kitchen covered in flour, you can usually find me watching sports, lacing up my ice hockey skates, obsessing over my fantasy football team, playing a rousing game of 500 Bid, or spending time with my husband at our home in Pittsburgh with our two Golden Retrievers, Einstein and Duke.
Getting Around
If you're new here, let me take a moment to show you around the site.
- There is a Recipe Index where you can browse for recipes by category and even ingredient.
- A FAQ page outlines many of the common recipe, blogging and general questions that are received.
- If you're curious about the food photos on the site, check out the Photography page.
- There is an entire list of the kitchen equipment and ingredients that I use on a regular basis.
- You may find the Conversions and Substitutions pages to be helpful when making recipes.
- Follow along as I cross items off my baking bucket list!
Keeping in Touch
There are a number of ways in which you can keep up with new material here on Brown Eyed Baker:
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What Makes A Baby
What Makes A Baby
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Geared to readers from preschool to age eight, What Makes a Baby is a book for every kind of family and every kind of kid.
Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth
Every kind of family and their children will love this visually engaging, informative, and supportive book about where babies come from. Conception, gestation and birth are explained in a fully inclusive way, so that kids (and adults) of every gender and type of family feel addressed – and people and body parts aren't gendered. A great jumping-off point for more discussion with kids about bodies and families by a certified sexuality educator and an award-winning artist/illustrator. Fun, useful, and completely 21st century! For preschool-age 8.
2013, 36 pages
Brand: Random House
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