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PARIS -- Jimmy Connors lashed a backhand return for th break, and as he walked to his chair for the changeover, everyone at Stade Roland Garros stood up and roared.
The noise didn't cease as Connors got up, poured water over his head to wash away the sweat and the tears, wrapped his face in a towel and returned to the court to serve out the fourth set against Michael Chang.
Connors double-faulted to 15-30, but then ripped a forehand, and you could feel 17,000 hearts riding the ball into the open court. Chang missed a backhand. It was set point. But Connors netted a backhand, and the mournful scream could be heard down to the Seine.

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Coach Kelly and Shakeology is a proven recipe for SUCCESS !! In a one month challenge of adding Shakeology to my regular boot camp training, I have reached 50 percent of my goal to reduce and firm my stomach! Definitely try the chocolate flavor blended with banana. You will be amazed at the results.
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DIY Play Kitchen with Cute Look and Affordable Price
Creating DIY play kitchen is such a good idea for any of you who have a little daughter. It can be such a good idea for utilizing her to play a role. Of course, hunting products of play kitchen is something easy. Almost at all toy stores are selling such the product with the various designs, materials, and of course ranges of price. Sometimes, we just feel that it is so pricey for such a toy, or perhaps we also feel too worried that the materials which are used are not safe for kids. Still, the little princess always wants to play the play kitchen as if they are a great mom or chef.
When we feel worried on getting or purchasing the play kitchen for the lovely little princess, why don't we think about making the play kitchen yourself? That will be a good idea since we can use anything around us. Using the unused materials will be such a great idea, as like by recycling the old unused furniture, carton boxes, and many others. Then, we can use our creativity to make it ourselves. What we can do is finding the ideas and takes an action. Thus, we will get the cute play kitchen in budget. We also can do it with our kids for the fun quality time as well.
DIY Play Kitchen Faucet
If we are interested in making the DIY play kitchen, of course we also need to deal with the details properly so that it will look not only fun but also look real. One of the details which we need to make is about the faucet. For making DIY play kitchen faucet, we can simply use Styrofoam which is shaped as like a small faucet and then paint it. Another idea is installing the real faucet which is small and not that weight, as like the plastic faucet.
DIY Play Kitchen Burners
Since details play a great role in anything including on making the DIY play kitchen, we need to be really detail on dealing with the details. That is including on making the DIY play kitchen burners. That is really essential to be made. The simplest way is by painting it by ourselves as like burners. Another simple recycling idea for the play kitchen burner, we can use the old unused discs or CDs. Arrange them on the cabinet which we have made and they will look like burners.
DIY Play Kitchen Sink
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DIY Play Kitchen Knobs
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Silvery gibbon
|Silvery gibbon[1]
|A female and young
|Scientific classification
H. moloch
|Binomial name
|Hylobates moloch
(Audebert, 1798)
|Silvery gibbon range
The silvery gibbon (Hylobates moloch) is a primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. Its coat is bluish-grey in colour, with a dark grey or black cap. Like all gibbons, silvery gibbons lack external tails, have dorsally placed scapulae, and reduced flexibility in their lumbar regions. They have long, curved fingers and very long forelimbs relative to their hind limbs. On average, they reach 8 kg in weight.
The silvery gibbon lives exclusively on the island of Java (Indonesia), where it inhabits deeply hidden portions of the rain forests. It is diurnal and arboreal, climbing trees skilfully and brachiating through the forests. Brachiation is aided by the possession of mobile wrist joints, full rotation of the upper arm, and the ability to lock elbows in suspension. Its diet consists of fruits, leaves, and flowers.
Every three years, on average, the female gives birth to a single young, after a seven-month gestation. The offspring is nursed for about 18 months and lives with the family group until it is fully mature at about eight to ten years old.[2]
Threats and conservation[edit]
The silvery gibbon ranks among the most threatened primates. It is listed as Endangered on the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species,[2] with the population appearing more stable than in a 2004 assessment of the species being Critically Endangered, which suggested there was a 50% chance of the silvery gibbon becoming extinct within the next decade.[3] Habitat destruction on densely populated Java continues to reduce the natural range of the species. Many gibbons are also lost to the illegal pet trade, when adults are hunted so their young can be sold in the markets as pets.[3] There are less than 2,000 silvery gibbons in the wild on eight sites that are considered to be genetically viable for the continuation of the species. There are also a dozen small, non-viable populations. Mount Halimun Salak National Park sustains the largest population of ca. 1,000 gibbons.[3] Other large populations of several hundred are found in the Gunung Ciremai National Park and Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park.[4] In the latter there is a Javan Gibbon Centre that rehabilitates ex-captive gibbons.[5]
Several zoos operate silvery gibbon breeding programs. Despite these efforts, the future survival of this species is in question.
Like all gibbon species, the silvery gibbon lives in pairs and stakes out territory that the pair strongly defends; it has relatively small territories of about 42 acres. Females sing to declare their territory several times a day, and if strangers are spotted, the male screams loudly in an attempt to scare them away. The majority of the solo song bouts or scream bouts are produced by the females.[6] The female vocal bouts occur after 0500 hr, with the vocal bout activity peaking around 0600 hr. In contrast, the male vocal bouts primarily occur before 0500 hr.[6] The males are usually very aggressive to others.
Some experts recognize two subspecies of Hylobates moloch:[7]
- Western silvery gibbon or western Javan gibbon, H. m. moloch
- Eastern silvery gibbon or central Javan gibbon, H. m. pongoalsoni
These subspecies are not recognized by the IUCN Red List.
- ^ Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b c Andayani, N.; Brockelman, W.; Geissmann, T.; Nijman, V. & Supriatna, J. (2008). "Hylobates moloch". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2008: e.T10550A3199941. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T10550A3199941.en. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ a b c "The Silvery Gibbon Project". Retrieved 2007-12-11.
- ^ Supriatna, Jatna. "Conservation Programs for the Endangered Javan Gibbon" (PDF). Primate Conservation. 2006 (21): 155–162.
- ^ The Silvery Gibbon Project: "Conservation Projects" Archived 2013-12-20 at Archive.is, retrieved 20 December 2013
- ^ a b Geissmann, Thomas; Nijman, Vincent (5 February 2009). "Calling in Wild Silvery Gibbons (Hylobates moloch) in Java (Indonesia): Behavior, Phylogeny, and Conservation". American Journal of Primatology. 68: 1–19. doi:10.1002/ajp.20203. PMID 16419119.
- ^ Geissmann, Thomas. "Gibbon Systematics and Species Identification". Retrieved 2006-04-13.
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Vice President Namadi Sambo on Saturday urged the contractors handling National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) projects to hasten action on meeting the Dec. 2013 deadline for completion.
Sambo gave the directive in Abuja while presiding over a project management meeting of the NIPP.
He commended the level of work done by contractors handling the generation projects of the NIPP, saying that most of the projects had been completed while some were at appreciable stages.
He, however, frowned at the slow pace of work on some transmission projects across the country.
"One of the areas that is now of great challenge is to ensure that we deliver our transmission projects. 2013 is the end year, it is the end year for all NIPP projects; Nigerians must receive the power that we are able to generate, and that is why you have been given this assignment.
"I know we have all prepared our plans to meet this target, but our analysis has shown a lot of weaknesses in most of you and that is why today we will discuss these programmes and come to final understanding and agreements by all of you in ensuring that by Dec. 2013 we have 100 per cent completion of all our transmission projects in the Niger Delta Power Holding Company,'' he said.
The vice president appreciated the nation's power generation capacity, saying that as of December last year about 4,517.6 megawatts were injected into the national grid.
He warned that government would not take it lightly with any contractor who failed to meet the target of all the NIPP projects.
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Summer internships at the Westport Historical Society allow students to get a sneak peek into the inter-workings of a history museum while earning course credit. Interns will engage in hands-on projects, fieldtrips and learn about the museum field. Join us for a summer centered on unlocking history!
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WHS is an educational organization that focuses on making history accessible for all audiences. Westport has a large number of families; children are a large part of the community. Summer camp at WHS aims to create lasting connections to history that will inspire a life-time love for learning about the past.
The summer camp assistant will support the Education Department in planning and implementing camp. Additionally they will help with posting on social media about daily camp activities, including trips around Westport and other site visits.
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WHS is located at the Wheeler Bradley house, an 18th century home with a rich past. The stories of these families and the house itself can always be expanded to provide visitors with a stronger connection to the past.
Over the summer the intern will complete in-depth research including subjects such as: the families who lived in the house, inventories of the house, census records, servants and/or slaves, the original layout of the house and blueprints.
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Last October the Comic Reel reported that Marvel had signed a deal with French company Antefilms Productions to produce an animated TV series based the Fantastic Four comic book characters, producing 26 half-hour episodes targeted for premiere in the United States and other countries in late 2006.
Now, courtesy of an anonymous Gallic source, we are happy to present the first images from that Franco-American alliance.
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Last weekend, after nearly a year of last visit to our favourite flea market in Amcorp mall, we decided to give it a visit. After all, he loves to pick out antiques and old toys for his collection.
Guess what he nearly bought this time? An old transformer figure. He was excited when he sees it and spent nearly a couple of hours evaluating and appreciating it. However after much consideration on whether he will really use it and the suitable place to store it, he decided heavy heartedly that he doesn't need to own it
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Sheet resistance is a popular and convenient integrated circuits concept. The resistance of a strip of material is given by
R = ρL/A,
where ρ is the material's resistivity, L is the strip's length, and A is the strip's cross-sectional area. Ideally, each layer in an integrated circuit has no thickness variation across the wafer. The resistance can then be rewritten as
R = (ρ/t)(L/W) = Rs(L/W),
where Rs is the sheet resistance of the film. Thus the resistance of a strip in an integrated circuit is fully characterized by its sheet resistance and its aspect ratio, L/W.
The concept of sheet resistance can also be applied to the ion implanted regions of a crystalline wafer, even though the resistivity of these regions varies with thickness. In this case, the sheet resistance is very well approximated by
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Gardening program hosted by Jim Wilson and joined by Bob Smaus, Roger Swain, Lucinda Mays and Peter Seabrook as international travel correspondent. Series chef is Marion Morash. Special correspondent is Holly Shimizu. The Boston-based Victory Garden (w/ Roger Swain) is located at a private residence; Victory Garden South is at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia; Victory Garden West is at Roger's Garden Center in Corona del Mar, California. Original program: Crockett's Victory Garden - premiered April 6, 1976. Hosted by Jim Crockett. Second host Bob Thomson (for 12 years till 1991). Series release date: 1976
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Get on the cutting edge of your garden with these innovative ideas.
MAKE it green, wherever you are! Host Jamie Durie picks plants that can cope with pollution if you live in the city. ENJOY art in the garden. Visit the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park with lifestyle co-host Sissy Biggers and learn the basics on how to choose beautiful art for your garden space. BRING the outdoors in. Host Jamie Durie demonstrates how to liven your office space with plants. EXTEND the gardening season. Eat fresh through the winter with lessons from gardener Kip Anderson on how to grow in a cold frame.
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- Color counts. The red and bright pink hues reflected throughout the food and decor set the stage for a sexy, vibrant event and the energy of the crowd followed.
- Push the envelope, but within reason. The tasting menu gave guests plenty of tastes to love without making them feel guilty if they found one or two they didn't like. It's so important for guests to leave feeling "wowed" overall instead of dwelling on an unhappy experience. It's hard to find that balance when serving up ethnic or otherwise exotic food, so small plates are a good tactic.
- Crowd curation is everything. I learned this at my last job, but it bears reinforcement. The quality of the crowd can make or break a dinner/party/conference as much (or even more so) than the food. A great spread doesn't matter as much if you're surrounded by a snooze of a table. Take a look at your guests' backgrounds, careers, marital status and make sure to shake things up a bit, especially if you're doing assigned seating.
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Microsoft could slap the word "Halo" on a steaming pile of cow dung and it would sell millions of copies on the Xbox 360, so powerful and popular is brand Master Chief. Halo Wars, Microsoft's first non-FPS, non-Bungie developed Halo game, defies any cynicism gamers might have about the "milking" of the franchise. Not only is it a lot of fun, and unmistakeably Halo, but it's just about the best RTS on a console.
It's also a hell of a brave move, when you think about it. A console RTS isn't an obvious choice for Halo's first tentative steps outside the realm of FPS. They don't tend to sell wonderfully well on consoles and, as PC gamers always argue, you're constrained by controls that are never as good as the mouse and keyboard. We've seen admirable efforts (Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Tom Clancy's EndWar), but it's safe to say no developer has conjured up an analogue stick-based control system that gives you the speed and level of control the mouse and keyboard provides. Halo Wars isn't the game to solve that problem, but developer Ensemble, of Age of Empires fame (and sadly no more following its closure by MS), has come tantalisingly close.
Halo Wars uses a simple but ingenious control system that combines presses of the face and shoulder buttons with taps of the d-pad. At its most basic, moving the targeting reticule (cleverly nicked from Bungie's FPS games) over a unit, say a UNSC Warthog, and pressing the A button selects it. Moving the left thumb stick to another part of the map and pressing the X button will command that Warthog to go there. Press the X button on an enemy unit, say a squad of Covenant Grunts (those little guys whose cute quips and screams are a hallmark of the series) and the Warthog will attack it. Many units have special abilities, and to use them you need to press the Y button. So, a Warthog's special ability is to ram - run over enemies for more damage, just as you love doing in the FPS games. Press Y on the squad of Grunts and the Warthog will slide over them in true Halo fashion - cue cute alien yelps and the flying of bodies into the distance.
Halo Wars starts to get clever with its unit selection system. It's here that most RTS games on consoles fail - simply being able to send different groups of enemies off towards different objectives, or flanking, or any of that multitasking stuff, is incredibly difficult with a joypad. Ensemble's solution is a simple one: to select all units that appear on screen you press RB, and to select all units on the entire map you press LB. If you want one particular unit type among those you have already selected (small unit icons display at the bottom of the screen), pressing RT cycles through them. You're also able to select all units of the same type by double-tapping A with the targeting reticule over one of them, and you're able to select units manually using a paintbrush style technique - pressing and holding A produces an expanding circle that selects all units within its diameter.
Obviously moving the camera with the left thumb stick isn't an efficient way of getting about the map, especially when your bases are being attacked and you're trying to initiate an assault of your own. Thankfully, you don't need to use it. Indeed once you get used to the controls you won't want to. Instead, you'll use the d-pad to get around. The d-pad allows you to hurtle the camera to your bases and various armies, as well as access your UNSC Leader Powers - an AOE heal, for example, or a MAC Blast from the orbiting space ship Spirit of Fire. Because you're able to move about so quickly, you're able to adequately cope with what the game, and other human players, throw at you.
But where Halo Wars gets really smart is with base building. Halo Wars follows the ridiculous RTS conventions that have underpinned the genre since Dune II (who, exactly, am I buying things from?), but shapes it in a way that keeps everything very manageable and console friendly. There are only a few base locations on any map - you can't build a base just anywhere. Each base has a set number of building sites and turret foundations, and you can construct one facility on each building site. Pressing A with the targeting reticule over a building site opens up construction options. This brings up a radial menu (similar to that found in the console versions of EA's Red Alert 3). You can move around the various build options with the left thumb stick, and cue up as many units as your resources afford.
So, you'll probably want to start with one or two supply pads, which allow you to receive resources from the Spirit of Fire. Then you'll want a barracks, which allows you to train infantry units. To climb up the tech tree you need to build reactors. Then there are air pads for air units, vehicle depots for vehicles and field armouries for special upgrades. It's basic, but it's easy to digest, and given that the game only allows you to build on building sites, you never waste time wondering where to place buildings - essential for a console RTS.
Halo Wars' unit selection, unit movement and base building mechanics combine to provide a remarkably intuitive control system. You never feel constrained, hand-tied, unable to deal with what's being thrown at you. There's room for improvement - being able to build units and upgrades from anywhere on the battlefield, ala Red Alert 3, instead of having to manually travel back to a base and do it from there would have been much more efficient - but the highest praise we can lavish on Halo Wars' controls is to say that you don't notice them, a bit like a good referee.
Halo Wars is divided up, as is RTS convention, into two distinct parts: campaign and multiplayer. The 15 mission campaign, which will take you at least 10 hours to work through depending on difficulty level, can be played solo or co-operatively (much more fun) via Xbox LIVE or system link. Story wise, Halo Wars is set 20 years before the "Halo Event" - Halo 1 on the original Xbox. So, no Master Chief. Instead, we've got the UNSC's disappointingly generic chisel-jawed American soldier type Sergeant Forge, who doubles as one of the UNSC Leader units. The game begins with Captain Cutter, commanding the Spirit of Fire, AI Serina (who consistently annoys - bring back Cortana), and Professor Ellen Anders, the headstrong scientist, arriving at Harvest, a planet devastated by five years of war. It's not long, though, before you're chasing the Covenant across the galaxy. We're under strict instructions to avoid spoilers, but what we will say is that the Covenant are in pursuit of Forerunner (mysterious long gone aliens) technology, which they believe will allow them to build an army so powerful that it will wipe the humans out in the blink of an eye.
The campaign offers a good deal of fun, but it feels a tad uneventful, unfortunately, and a bit of a slog. Indeed the tremendous CGI cut scenes steal the show (forget a live action movie, make it CGI). Objectives range from taking a small number of predetermined forces on a trip through a map to hour long skirmishes involving multiple base building and advancement through the entire tech tree. It's not easy, either. Some players will hit a brick wall when Ensemble ramps up the difficulty level during mission four - you need to protect three passenger ships as they load up with civilians amid an intense Covenant invasion. Even on the default difficulty, the Covenant isn't afraid to pound you from all directions as often as it can. In order to complete the game, you need to get used to skipping about the map quickly and hardwire the rock, paper scissors combat - vehicles beat infantry, infantry beats aircraft and aircraft beat vehicles - into your brain.
Despite the lack of a wow factor, Halo fans will enjoy unravelling the back story the campaign provides to the ever expanding, and complex, Halo universe (a time line with unlockable entries proves a strangely compelling motivator). Because it's on console, and because Halo FPS fans will make up most of its audience, Halo Wars' campaign is under more scrutiny than campaigns in other RTS games, which, let's be honest, usually amount to nothing more than a glorified tutorial for multiplayer. That certainly isn't the case here. In fact, Halo fans are guaranteed to get that "Halo feel" from the game, despite it being an RTS. Ensemble's done a great job of capturing the spirit of the series. Warthogs are perhaps the best example: they power slide around just like they do in Bungie's games. The sound effects, too, are bang on: everything from that classic Needler burst to exploding plasma barrels. Even the menus and the music are classic Halo.
While the graphics are, from the default perspective and further out, impressive, it's perhaps telling that you can't zoom in to the degree that you can in other RTS games. Explosions are pretty, and the game handles mass chaos without breaking sweat. But the physics are a mixed bag. Yes, enemies will spiral off into the distance when they suffer particular powerful blows, but vehicles break apart like Lego when they're destroyed - you almost feel like you can pick up the pieces and click them together. Still though, the overall feel is unmistakeably Halo. Those expecting the immediacy and impact of the FPS games will be disappointed, of course, but you can't accuse Ensemble of "not getting" the franchise.
The multiplayer, however, struggles to captivate, in part due to the lack of races (only the UNSC and Covenant are playable) but also because the races work so similarly. Covenant base building follows the same constrained model as the UNSC. You can only build a citadel, as it's called, in predetermined spots, and can only build structures on the pads provided. For supply pads see warehouses, for barracks see halls. There are subtle differences: the Covenant can protect their base with a shield generator, for example, and gravity lifts transport units to the leader unit, but you can't help but feel that the addition of just one more playable race would have improved multiplayer immeasurably. In Ensemble's defence it's hard to see where that race would come from - the Flood doesn't make much sense as a playable race (ever seen a Flood tank, or Flood base?), and the fact that it's a console RTS doesn't leave much room for manoeuvre in terms of adding complexity, but PC RTS players will feel that the game is a little light weight.
Overall, Ensemble's greatest success is that it's managed to conjure up a console RTS that is fun and doesn't suffer from its controls. Indeed those ex-Ensemble staff who have now gone off to form new companies can be proud of Halo Wars, the studio's final game. By virtue of the control system it's the best console RTS available. There are problems of course - the campaign is a bit of a slog, the multiplayer lacks variety and PC RTS players will no doubt dismiss the game, saying it would have been better on the PC (there's a degree of truth to that) - but those issues don't prevent Halo Wars from being as good as RTS games get on console. It's the perfect opportunity for 360 owners who have never played an RTS before to see what all that geeky micro-management stuff is all about.


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Shahrukh, Bipasha etc to perform at Business tycoon Mittal's Birthday Bash
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal's brother Pramod Mittal will be celebrating his 50th birthday on 1st September. Pramod heads the Ispat Industries and the Mittals are known to have extremely lavish celebrations. This time as part of the celebrations the Mittals have roped in Shahrukh Khan, Bipasha Basu, Celina Jaitley and Dia Mirza to perform at the event. The steel tycoons are known to rope in bollywood celebs for their special occasions and earlier during Lakshmi Mittal's daughter's wedding the family roped in Shahrukh, Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee to perform at his daughter's mehendi ceremony. The entire birthday bash will be organized by the Moranis and the approximate amount that will be spent for the occasion is said to be around Rs 5 crores.
According to sources the event will be held at a posh classy hotel in London on 1st September. Sajid Khan will also be hosting the event along with the other stars. The event will witness Shahrukh playing James Bond and the three sexy bollywood ladies will get a chance to romance Khan. According to sources "The performance shows the birthday boy getting kidnapped while SRK is called in as Bond to look for him and also to find out who the culprits are. As part of the operation to find the culprits SRK romances Bips, Dia and Celina who have a connection with the kidnapping. SRK and the girls will dance to plenty of bollywood songs." The Moranis have organized the entire performance and the event will be done in English as the guest list mostly comprises an English speaking audience.
Ali Morani, one of the organizers said "Although we are organizing the show I don't have any idea about the performances. As for SRK he might attend the event." Clearly everyone involved in the event wants to keep the event low key at this point of time and don't want to reveal much. Dia Mirza confirmed that they were invited to the event but also stated that they would merely be guests at the event. Well looks like bollywood celebs performing at various private parties are surely going to be the next trend in bollywood.
Shahrukh is certainly getting back on track going by the number of events that he has been attending recently, firstly the music launch of Zindaggi Rocks , then the Filmfare bash and then the music launch of his film Don . Its definitely good to see the King Khan back in action.


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Last LIVE Show of 2011 – NEW ALBUM
For those who don't know, I have completed a new album titled "Dinosaurs On Broadway" that will be released in February. Check out some new songs on my Reverbnation or on my SoundCloud pages
And I'll be performing in Calgary for the last time of 2011 at Blind Beggar with Penny Fortune (awesome!) and Grimehouse
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Please note that outside the UK this painting may be delivered dismantled in a tube if postage is excessive. It is easy to rebuild needing only a stapler, you can follow the original creases and there are stretcher wedges to use if it is not tight enough. A local framer could help you if required. Obviously, this is done to keep delivery costs down. Any probs contact me through this site.
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Other People's Paintings only Much Cheaper: No3 Mondrian (On Chunky Canvas) (2018)
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MATTAPOISETT — Mary Ellen (Garey) Cooper, 86, of Mattapoisett, died November 30 at Brandon Woods Nursing Home in New Bedford. She was the wife of Frank E. Cooper, Sr.
Born in Flushing, NY, on June 15, 1931, Mary later moved with her parents, the late Mary (Malek) Garey and George Garey, to Somerville, MA, where she graduated from Somerville High School. Mary worked at John Hancock Insurance Company in Boston prior to marrying in 1951, having six children, and living all over the United States in her 23 years as a Marine Corps wife. She especially loved living in Hawaii, saying the saddest day of her life was when they had to leave that paradise. She moved to Mattapoisett village with her family in 1964 and fell in love with the town beach, the band concerts, and Center School playground, which served as her family's front yard. She was a talented figure skater and taught her children and grandchildren how to skate on frozen cranberry bogs and local ice rinks.
Mary retired from the financial division at Compass Bank in New Bedford in 1993 after 18 years. She enjoyed an active retirement with her husband on trips to Europe, long cycling trips, attending Broadway musicals, picnicking at PawSox games, cooking with her grandchildren, and being inseparable from her beloved Jack Russell Terrier, Molly.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Frank E. Cooper, Sr., and her sons Frank E. Cooper, Jr. and his companion, Sue Brownell, of Mattapoisett, Timothy J. Cooper of Mattapoisett, Thomas M. Cooper, Sr. of Mattapoisett, Michael J. Cooper and his companion, Kim Faria, of New Bedford, and daughter, Christine A. Cooper, of Mattapoisett. She leaves behind three grandchildren: Christopher Cooper of FL, Thomas M. Cooper, Jr. of Mattapoisett, and Bridgette Cooper and her fiance Allen Ferreira of New Bedford. She also leaves two step-grandchildren, Jennifer Gill of Fairhaven and Robert Gill of New Hampshire. She was also great-grandmother to Lacey E. Cooper of Minot, N. Dakota and step-great grandmother to Chandra Perez-Gill and Mischa Tomasia , both of Fairhaven. Mary was predeceased by her son, Robert. G. Cooper of Tampa, FL, her daughter-in-law, Linda E. Cooper of Marion, and her grandson, Patrick J. Cooper of New Bedford.
Her visiting hours will be held on Tuesday Dec. 5th from 4-7 PM at the Saunders-Dwyer Mattapoisett Home for Funerals, 50 County Rd., Route 6, Mattapoisett. Her Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday Dec. 6th at 9:30 AM at St. Anthony's Church in Mattapoisett. Burial will follow in the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation, in Mary's name, to the Alzheimer's Association at alz.org. For directions and guestbook, please visit www.saundersdwyer.com.


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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2009, 10(4), 1445-1464; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms10041445
Impact of Methylglyoxal and High Glucose Co-treatment on Human Mononuclear Cells
Department of Bioscience Technology and Center for Nanotechnology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li, 32023, Taiwan
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Received: 19 January 2009 / Revised: 13 March 2009 / Accepted: 26 March 2009 / Published: 31 March 2009
(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
AbstractHyperglycemia and elevation of methylglyoxal (MG) are symptoms of diabetes mellitus (DM). In this report, we show that co-treatment of human mononuclear cells (HMNCs) with MG (5 μM) and high glucose (HG; 15 – 30 mM) induces apoptosis or necrosis. HG/MG co-treatment directly enhanced the reactive oxygen species (ROS) content in HMNCs, leading to decreased intracellular ATP levels, which control cell death via apoptosis or necrosis. Concentrations of 5 μM MG and 15 mM glucose significantly increased cytoplasmic free calcium and nitric oxide (NO) levels, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), activation of caspases-9 and -3, and cell death. In contrast, no apoptotic biochemical changes were detected in HMNCs treated with 5 μM MG and 25 mM glucose, which appeared to undergo necrosis. Pretreatment with nitric oxide (NO) scavengers inhibited apoptotic biochemical changes induced by 5 μM MG/15 mM glucose, and increased the gene expression levels of p53 and p21 involved in apoptotic signaling. The results collectively suggest that the treatment dosage of MG and glucose determines the mode of cell death (apoptosis vs. necrosis) of HMNCs, and that both ROS and NO play important roles in MG/HG-induced apoptosis. View Full-Text
Keywords: High glucose; methylglyoxal; apoptosis; ROS; nitric oxide
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Obama hasn't even waited for the suspects in the San Bernardino shooting to be detained and has already started pushing his gun control agenda.
As law enforcement continued to work to clear the site of a the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, President Barack Obama demanded Congress take action on stricter gun laws.
"The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there's some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently," Obama told CBS News Wednesday after the shooting.
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Mandemar overviewIf you're looking for a new favorite getaway, look no further than Mandemar. Though Mandemar might not have many well-known attractions, you don't need to venture far to visit Joadja Vineyard and Harper's Mansion. You can take some time to discover the surrounding area and sights like Berrima Gaol and Centennial Vineyards.
Where to stay in MandemarWhether traveling for business or pleasure, Mandemar can accommodate all visitors. You can shop as many as 21 deals for Mandemar accommodations on Hotels.com, some with discounts of up to 35%. We have room prices as low as 57 USD per night and here's a breakdown of hotels by star rating in Mandemar as well as in the surrounding area:
- • 5 5-star hotels from 106 USD per night
- • 26 4-star hotels from 85 USD per night
- • 6 3-star hotels from 57 USD per night
How to get to MandemarFly into Wollongong, NSW (WOL-Illawarra Regional), 30.1 mi (48.5 km) from the heart of Mandemar.
What to see around MandemarHere are some recommended places to see in the surrounding area:
- • Joadja Vineyard (3.5 mi/5.6 km from the city center)
- • Harper's Mansion (4.8 mi/7.7 km from the city center)
- • Berrima Gaol (4.8 mi/7.8 km from the city center)
- • Centennial Vineyards (6.8 mi/10.9 km from the city center)
- • Bou-saada Vineyard and Wines (6.9 mi/11.1 km from the city center)
When to visit MandemarWondering what time of year to travel or what should be on your packing list? Here are some seasonal norms to help you plan your vacation:
Seasonal temperature averages
- • January-March: 78°F day, 58°F night
- • April-June: 73°F day, 45°F night
- • July-September: 67°F day, 42°F night
- • October-December: 78°F day, 49°F night
- • January-March: 9.37 inches
- • April-June: 8.82 inches
- • July-September: 7.36 inches
- • October-December: 9.49 inches


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Amanvana Resort & Spa is the only resort in Coorg with such an intimate view of the River Kaveri. The private bungalow is cushioned at a stone's throw away from the river. Listen to the giggles of the serene waters or spend time reading a book. Sit beside the river with your book. Enjoy our special riverside barbeque or go on an exciting river trek Experience both calm and adventure at one of the best weekend getaways from Bangalore. Experience enthralling calmness at one of the best weekend getaways from Bangalore.
One of our most romantic experiences - the riverside barbeque - is your dream dinner date come to life. Enjoy delicious snacks and wine beside the river. Let the river's music be the perfect backdrop to your conversation. Later, as dusk falls, enjoy the crackle and warmth of a fine, appetising barbeque! Of all the resorts in Kushalnagar, we offer the best river experiences.


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Lake Hamilton gave attendees at the Hot Springs Classic a PERFECT cruising day on Friday, April 7, 2017. No wind! Not a cloud in the sky! Not too hot – not too cold – just right!
We started with a sweet breakfast at Clay and Patty Thompson's lake home. They've added to the boardwalk complete with cleats for our dozen classic boats to tie up. The outdoor kitchen at the dock was new this year. This dock is the home of Summertime, a 1949 Chris Craft Sportsman 25′ with twin Chris Craft engines.
After morning cruising, lunch time was at Fisherman's Wharf and then afternoon cruising. Participants got to see more of Lake Hamilton than ever before – who could pass on this perfect day for boating?
Burban & Water is right at home on Lake Hamilton. Owned by Fred Burban, she is a 1965 Chris Craft Commander 38′ with twin Chevrolet engines.
Event Chair Mike Langhorne leads the tour of Lake Hamilton from the deck of Pu Haps owned by John and Marilyn Davenport. Pu Haps is a 1961 Owens Sea Skiff 25′ powered by a Flagship 185.
Sea Rafter made her maiden voyage this weekend after a four-year restoration. This beautiful 1953 Chris Craft 18′ Riviera is owned by Mike and Deb Binns.
Saturday was show day at the Garvan Woodland Garden's dock. There was a steady stream of visitors to view the variety of classics. A big hit was this 15′ aluminum 1960 Cadillac Coronado with a 40 hp Johnson. She is owned by Roy Showalter and Parker Showalter.
Steve and Karin enjoy this eye-catching candy-red XK-18 Chris Craft Ski Jet named XKape owned by Steve Spinharney.
John and Glenna Ganster brought this beautiful 1964 Shepherd Runabout 22′ with a Chrysler 350 named Shep '64.
Heartland Classics Chapter President Mike Yancey and Denese had fun in their 1979 Caravelle 17.5′ with a Mercruiser 165.
This perfectly preserved 1986 Cobalt BR21 with a Mercruiser 260 has been owned by Stuart Perry since it was ordered in 1986 and is at home on Lake Hamilton.
More beautiful Chris Crafts from Oklahoma. Here is Dan and Alicia Diehl's 1955 21′ Cobra,-and a 1940 Chris Craft Custom Runabout Barrelback 19′ powered by a Chris Craft engine named Woodwind owned by Buddy and Sherri Butler.
Pina Colada returned to the lake after some time out to be restored. She is a 1962 Century Resorter 19′ with a Gray 240 owned by Paul Hastings.
It was fun to have the Watkins family back with us. The next generation now has a classic boat – this 1989 Mastercraft 19′ Prostar 190 powered with a Ford Windsor 351 named Three Buoys captained by Collier.
Wheaties was there at the lake but needs a new fuel pump. We'll see her running at the next event. Other members who added to the fun were Scott and Linda Hendren, Bill Murphy and Jan Wofford, and Chuck Gibbs and Kathleen Barrett.
Missouri boats that added to the show were:
Free Spirit, the beautiful 1996 Hackercraft 26′ Runabout Double owned by Forrest and Kally Bryant,
and Wood Carver, a 1965 Carver Commander 17′ with an Evinrude 70hp outboard owned by Don and Kathy Parker and Chickadee, a 1955 Chris Craft 15′ Utility owned by Richard and Cara Moist.
Fun people, fun weekend on a beautiful lake.


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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Ellen & Jeff
Ellen & Jeff
Morningside Presbyterian Church
Lambert Place
What a way to finish off the year! Ellen and Jeff are just such a fun couple. I knew it would be a great wedding just from our first meeting at Taqueria del Sol. We sat back over tacos and talked about the big day. Every single time I met with these guys they just laughed and smiled the whole time. Both Ellen and Jeff are the sort of people that you are just happy whenever in their presence. I had such a great time at the wedding!
When the wedding finally came, it went off just flawlessly. Ellen and Jeff decided to meet up before the wedding for their pictures and I am so happy they did! The colors were perfect with a little bit of light shinning through the yellow and green trees. Ellen made a stunning bride. Her blue eyes seemed to glow brighter then the trees behind. Thank you guys, I had a blast!
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The winners of the first Pioneros award will be honored in a testimonial campaign in 2006 to demonstrate how marketers and agencies are using Hispanic online advertising effectively and growing that market.
Interactive ad spending is growing rapidly in the Hispanic market but totaled only about $60 million
|Paul Suskey
Four of the Pioneros are from full-service Hispanic ad agencies, one is from a multicultural media-buying shop, and three started their own Hispanic interactive agencies. One is a marketer, and one runs a Hispanic Web site.
The honorees are:
- Eugenio Bryan, HispanicAd
- Alberto Ferrer, Vidal Partnership
- Anne Howard, La Agencia de Orci
- Jorge Mercado, Accentmarketing
- Gilbert Monge, Century21
- Debra Nason, Bromley Interlink
- John Santiago, Media 8
- Marla Skiko, Tapestry IP
- Paul Suskey, Media 8
- Lee Vann, Captura Group
"We wanted innovators, strategic and creative thinkers, and people who at times had to take risks," said Liz Sarachek Blacker, senior VP-media at One Economy who chaired the IAB's Los Pioneros subcommittee. "We used the same criteria to evaluate all the candidates nominated."
One of those selected from about 300 nominations for 50 different people was Gilbert Monge, director of interactive marketing at Century 21, where
|Gilbert Monge
His team also produced a Web site for Hispanic Heritage Month in September highlighting the cultural contributions and achievements of Hispanics.
Marla Skiko was promoted in July 2005 to VP-director of digital innovation at Publicis Groupe's
|Maria Skiko
"We know the [multicultural] consumer segment," she said. "We'll do VOD, mobile and more broadband."
In one project that integrated online and offline media, Tapestry IP worked with Spanish-language TV network Univision to create a mini-telenovela for Procter & Gamble Co.'s Secret body spray. Five one-minute episodes aired during commercial breaks in a popular Univision novela this fall, but they could also be viewed on Univision's Web site, where there were more photographs and information about the characters from "El Secreto de Jazmin," just as with a real Univision telenovela.
"We'll try and do more things like that, with a couple other P&G brands," Ms. Skiko said. "The next one will probably be in mid-January."
Alberto Ferrer is building one of the largest digital media departments at a Hispanic agency as VP-director of direct
|Alberto Ferrer
Mr. Ferrer has a background as both a marketer and a direct marketing and digital expert in the general market. At AT&T, he managed acquisition and retention efforts for U.S. Hispanic customers, then worked at WPP Group's J. Walter Thompson Direct on Kodak and Wunderman, leading the Dell Computer business, and at Citibank for the Latin America market. He created an interactive marketing department at Wunderman.
Jorge Mercado, digital marketing manager & media supervisor at Interpublic Group of Cos.' Accentmarketing
|Jorge Mercado
"The Internet fills a void," Mr. Mercado said. "They feel comfortable in English or don't consume Hispanic media, but they're on sites like terra.com checking out music or researching Hispanic celebrities."
Debra Nason, VP-managing director, Bromley Interlink, the online unit of the largest U.S. Hispanic agency, Publicis Groupe's Bromley
|Debra Nason
She joined WPP Group's Bravo Group to develop an interactive unit, Bravo 2.1, to do integrated online work for clients including Sears, Visa, The New York Times and AT&T Wireless. She joined Bromley in January.
Eugenio "Gene" Bryan is the CEO of HispanicAd.com, a 6-year-old Web site for the U.S. Hispanic
|Eugenio Bryan
One of the most recognizable figures in the U.S. Hispanic media industry, Mr. Bryan is a familiar face at most Hispanic conferences and events.
John Santiago and Paul Suskey co-CEOS of Media 8 Digital Solutions, Miami, founded their
|John Santiago
"A trend we've seen lately is a significant amount of investment in development," he said. "Before it was just campaigns, but now they're adding customer service in Spanish, and building Hispanic portals that before were just English or very little Spanish."
Lee Vann started Hispanic online solutions firm Captura Group, San Diego, in 1999. At Captura,
|Lee Vann
"This is the starting point for Hispanics to find government sites, and to send them to various agencies," Mr. Vann said. "About 25% to 30% of government sites have Spanish, which puts the government ahead of the corporate world."
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What does it mean to say yes? We know what it means to say yes, but what does it really mean to say yes? To what, or to Whom do we say yes when we say yes to God? How do we say yes to God, when we are not sure what that yes means? Can we really say yes if we are not clear on what that yes means?
Samuel said Yes to God, but he first disturbed Eli several times saying yes to Eli, before he realized that the call he heard was the call of God. And then, when he said yes to God and heard what God had to say, I suspect he was not entirely sure he had done the right thing, because the news for his mentor, Eli, was all bad.
Noah said yes to God, and spent the next 120 years saying a lunatic's yes to God, building the modern day equivalent of a space ship in his backyard, becoming the laughingstock of neighbors, family, and friends. Then, having never experienced a storm of any kind before, he spent an entire year cooped up in the ark while the his world was inundated by a storm the likes of which would not be repeated in 10,000 years, never mind our little storms of the century.
Moses said yes to God, albeit reluctantly, and spent his twilight years on a journey which few people in the vigor of youth would attempt today, leading to freedom a people whose most common complaint was a whining desire to return to slavery in Egypt, because there at least they were fed. Throughout this journey the Israelites were commonly on the verge of mutiny and Moses in danger of losing his life. In the end he was not allowed to enter the Promised Land, because of an overzealous moment of weakness in a life of saying yes.
Would any of these men have said yes to God had they known in advance what that yes would require of them? Can they really have said yes if they did not know where that yes would take them? Maybe these were just poor souls who said yes and found themselves in a mess they could not have imagined previously; found themselves swept away in a current that was larger than they were.
That actually sounds a lot like our own experience of life, does it not? Sometimes we too find ourselves caught up in a swell that threatens to overwhelm us. Sometimes we walk in verdant, sunny plains and wonder how life could be so good. How often do we consider God? How often do we hear God's call on our life in the mundane moments of a humdrum life? How often do we consider how our apparently inconsequential decisions are in fact a yes or a no to God?
But how can we say yes to a God who constantly eludes our confident grasp? How can we say yes to a God whose ways are too lofty for us to understand? Why would we say yes to God when it seems God has left the building? Why would we say yes to God when we have but the vaguest notion of what we are saying yes to? That would seem imprudent. We need to have a contract with an iron-clad escape clause that covers any eventualities, should we realize we have been duped, and what seemed to be the call of God turns out to be a fantasy or a nightmare. That would be the wise course, right?
Wrong. Why? Because saying yes to God is not saying yes to an idea, or a plan, or a religion, or a creed. Saying yes to God cannot be a saying yes to any cozy or even lofty expectations of what that yes will mean. If we know what we are saying yes to, we are not saying yes to God. If we know what we are saying yes to we may be saying yes to a fantasy, or a profound idea, or an eminent religion, all of which easily morph into an idol, but none of which are God.
Saying yes to God is saying yes to the unknown and the unknowable. Saying yes to God is saying yes to what will forever elude our comprehension. Saying yes to God is saying yes to a mystery. Saying yes to God is sort of like . . . Getting married. Saying yes to a lifetime commitment to your best friend is not saying yes to a house, though the yes may be consummated in a lifetime of commitment that is worked out in a house. Saying yes to a spouse is not saying yes to fantasies of vacations together in the sun, though the yes may be enhanced by such fringe benefits. Saying yes to a spouse is not saying yes to dreams of career and family, though these may immeasurably enrich the yes in years to come.
Saying yes, to a spouse, or to God, is saying yes to Someone. It is saying yes to an adventure which cannot be known in advance, and it cannot be exhaustively planned in advance. In marriage to a spouse, and in life with God, there will be unanticipated events and experiences, from new understandings that force dramatic, complex, and sometimes even traumatic re-orientations of what one has always known to be true, to absolutely unforeseen crises that stretch our yes to the limits, even past our limits.
These are the moments when we must choose - a yes to ourselves or a yes to God. A yes to the familiar and the well-known, or a yes to something that exceeds our vision, a yes to One who is not limited by our vision. We have no guarantees when we say yes that we know how things will be, or that our lives will be as we think they ought to be, but if we say yes to God we know, because of Calvary, that we say yes to ultimate Love, and because of the Resurrection, we know that we say yes to One who is larger than life, to the One who is Life. Saying yes to God does not place God within our confident grasp, it places us within His confident grasp.
And so this challenge to say yes to God. In the midst of paradox and uncertainty say yes to Love and Life. Let us turn from the original temptation to be gods unto ourselves, and say yes to the only true God. Just say "Yes"!
We will now move into a time of silent reflection, a time for you to reflect on the prayers that have been said, the scriptures that have been read, the hymns that have been sung, but most of all, a time to reflect on the God who calls you, and to formulate your response to that call. We invite you to say yes now, and to live that yes in a "conscious and rededicated relationship to God" in the days to come. We have a mic available at the front, and if there are some who want to share their yes with the congregation we invite you to make your way to the front pew during this time of reflection, and after a period of silent reflection Matthew will cue your opportunity to share.
May God bless your yes.


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Having lived through the '60s, I'd say "deep and profound."
American culture will shake at the rafters. The most obvious will be the impact on Big Pharma and the Liquor Lobby, but the ramifications will be much more subtle and far reaching.
First of all, as comedian Dennis Miller has mentioned, if Xanax and grass went head to head to see which is more beneficial, "Xanax would lose." Weed is cheaper, healthier, more effective and more fun to use. Grass encourages social interaction, not isolation. And you don't need an Rx from some hotshot doctor who owns you. Xanax is an anti-depressant; marijuana is a natural euphoriant. There's a big difference. The former is a laboratory concoction of white lab-coated, conservative prudes; the latter is a gift of nature with absolutely NO SIDE EFFECTS. If you overindulge smoke you don't even get sick as with whiskey; you pass out and wake up without even a hangover. The normal response of people turning on the first time is to burst out laughing.
(See the podcast with Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Dean of Harvard Medical School, which I arranged some years ago when there were no legal marijuana states. Also, you can see the plug for Mirror Reversal at the bottom of the first page, the Atheist Novel to the right.)
The Liquor Lobby will be impacted big time. As hippies we'd telephone each other,"Hey man, whip out the Dylan, The Grand Funk Railroad, the Joe Cocker, and some weed, we're all coming over." Bars and lounges will lose because we didn't need strangers overcharging us for a cocktail or glass of beer. We preferred to stay at home without cops spying on us and making petty judgments.
The gun lobby will lose. Personally speaking, grass is biophilic, I didn't even like to look at the damn things—I still don't.
Vanity fashion will lose. The '60s brought on the jeans revolution. We didn't care about designer clothes. You were judged for being a "good guy" and somebody you can trust. Sure we dug ornate shirts and pants, but most of the time we made the clothes ourselves.
These stupid TV sit-coms with the canned laughter will go looking for viewers. We made our own show. We were insulted by TV actors and commercial marketers treating us like we were sixth graders and talking down to us and telling us what to consume. Celeb magazines will stay on the supermarket display stands untouched and unsold. Who cares which movie star got jilted? They're mostly overambitious, perfidious, Machiavellian people. We have our own life.
I can go on and on with more cultural changes. Hope you'll offer others.
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A lot of the Cannabis that is used on a medicinal level, is very low in THC and high in CBD, CBN, and other elements known to relieve pains AND known to alleviate seizures in patients.
So people using this medical MJ, don't actually get stoned, or only a little bit?
As far as "indulgent" goes, to me the word means "lenient" or "permissive".
I looked up "indulgent" online and it usually carries a negative judgement of excessiveness (somehow it's wrong). e.g.
Someone who is self-indulgent gives themselves a lot of treats.
(with a message that there's something wrong with that).
Being "self-indulgent" may indeed be damaging - such as people who get fat because they eat too much sugar and fat. (although calling it self-indulgence is still a moralistic way of putting it).
Addiction could (judgementally) be called self-indulgence.
For some people, MJ may be like that. There is after all, a "Marijuana Anonymous" as I said earlier, and presumably some of the people in it are there because they really do have a psychological addiction to MJ that has damaged them.
It sounds like PMP believes every marijuana user is like that.
The only way that "indulgence" doesn't carry a bad connotation, is when people do it only occasionally, like "indulging in a special treat".
When I googled "indulgence" I got many Catholic references.
Grass should be used when the work is done and the various responsibilities of daily living have been taken care of
When I was studying at Caltech I would get stoned ... after my homework was done.
Later, I dared to post in non-drug forums online, about drug-related things. And I would receive a storm of vituperation, namecalling, denigration. From people who almost certainly would not have made it through Caltech or even been able to learn to do the work I was doing.
The Drug War has encouraged denigration of drug users. That might be part of the reason for it as I said - drugs as a convenient scapegoat to take the focus off other social ills.
I hate Big Pharma and believe they're composed of self-aggrandizing, selfish and brain-washed hypocrites.
Many people might find working for a pharmaceutical company to be an idealistic job. They're helping to make products that might help with diseases.
And, surely you do use pharmaceuticals - you mentioned Viagra. I use some pharmaceuticals that help with my immune system problems, and may be crucial for me.
The pharmaceutical companies spend tons of money on testing drug candidates that don't result in new drugs. They have to get that money back, and those costs are incorporated into the drugs they sell.
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You wrote
Next time you feel the impulse to light up a joint you might want to consider that. Not because it is, or is not, legal but because it will not allow you to live your life to its fullest potential.>>>
To add to Laura's comment, I'd propose to let the individuals decide what's their "fullest potential." Surely you wouldn't tell George Carlin or John Lennon or countless other pot head artists not to smoke because they won't live up to their fullest potential. We could also throw in Sigmund Freud, Arthur Cohan Doyle or even Baudelaire, the French mystical poet. He might have written Les Fleurs to Bonheur, instead.
< I think 'Lord of the Flies' was a more accurate representation of the nature of primitive humanity>>>
Funny you should mention this. It brings back a lot of memories and a few years ago I wrote a book Mirror Reversal focusing on its basic premises. In the mid-'60s, as part of a social psych course with Phil Zimbardo, we analyzed the book for almost ten days.
The story was an allegory of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. Each character represented a specific Freudian concept: Piggy was the superego, Ralph the ego and the repugnant Jack, the id. Jack was the evolutionary baggage we carry and stemmed from the hindbrain, characterized by base emotions like rage and anger. Modern science has upgraded Freudian concepts to the "R-Complex" or the "Reptilian Factor."
But to me the main character was Simon, the mystic. He's the one who said, "Maybe we are the beastie." In terms of what humans are doing to the planet, this statement is spot on, as far as I'm concerned. I wrote extensively on exploitation of Gaia. I even wrote a poem called "Simon" which was read on the radio and published in the Village Voice years ago. (It's in Pot Stories if you do a search.) To me, Simon representing the power of Reason was the mystical aspect of mankind's psyche. Interesting that Simon was the first to die. (I'll bet you didn't know that it was William Golding who co-founded "Gaia theory" along with the British scientist James Lovelock.)
I think Christopher Hitchens has a pertinent view on this thread. Humans are still in adolescent (if not early childhood) states of evolutionary development. We need a modern-day Simon, in the fashion of Moses, to lead us away from the mental cage that religion and base human nature has imprisoned us. Reason and education alone must solve humanity's problems, but I'll admit if doesn't look very promising for future generations. One thing's for sure, "God will provide" isn't going to work.
Peter, I think you can interpolate from the foregoing what my comments would be on Jean Jacques Rousseau's "Noble Savage" concept. In light of modern science which Rousseau didn't have, we have to go with Golding.
< both you and me prefer not to use MJ on a daily basis. >>>
Laura, this brings to mind a very important point about the educational system. The country still carries a profound subconscious, Puritanical, pleasure-negative bias. There should be discussions about having fun and living well, as much as science and history. The above point is pretty obvious, but yet many people stupidly abuse it and wind up paying a high social or economic price. Grass should be used when the work is done and the various responsibilities of daily living have been taken care of—like a fine cognac.
< I don't see your rationale for focusing on drug co's in particular. >>>
I could be criticizing the booze companies as well – and probably even the cigs; I'm sure even they'll have something to lose. But to tell the truth I hate Big Pharma and believe they're composed of self-aggrandizing, selfish and brain-washed hypocrites. In Pot Stories I call them Machiavellian schemers. Right on!
<Peter's said that MJ use was "indulgent behavior".>>>
I'll get to Peter's input presently. As far as "indulgent" goes, to me the word means "lenient" or "permissive". What's the opposite, "strict" or "Puritanical", perhaps "Spartan." If he said that, I'd like to remind him what board he's on. In sure there's a plethora of Christian sites that think self indulgence is abomination.
A lot of the Cannabis that is used on a medicinal level, is very low in THC and high in CBD, CBN, and other elements known to relieve pains AND known to alleviate seizures in patients. Check out Charlottes Web. Research the benefits of medical Cannabis. It's an amazing plant.
But, both you and me prefer not to use MJ on a daily basis. When I was using it, I only used it once every couple weeks or so, and you said something similar.
The reason for me is because I didn't want to change my consciousness like that, daily.
I did often get a mellow relaxed feeling the day after using MJ. But I wouldn't want to have to get high every evening, in order to get that feeling the next day.
I haven't used MJ for medical purposes, but it seems as a medicine it would have a huge side-effect of making people high.
I had never heard of anti-hangover drugs. If medical MJ were legal, the drug co's would be trying to refine the active ingredient, try to come up with something similar without the side effects. Possibly making a lot of money from that.
I don't see your rationale for focusing on drug co's in particular. There are MANY different reasons one can come up with, that could be motivating the drug war. Here are a few:
- People's discomfort around others who are in a different state of consciousness. We like to feel we have a "mental model" of the person we're talking with. It's part of how we socially connect. I've felt weird talking to people who were stoned when I wasn't - not knowing where their minds were at.
- wish to find a scapegoat for social problems like poverty and racism
- the antagonism of religion towards other ways of changing one's consciousness, like meditation and drugs. Many religious people want God and church to be the ONLY allowed way to change one's state of consciousness.
- Antagonism towards states of mind that aren't oriented to material objects. Although, drugs themselves are material objects, and drug use itself is a kind of consumption.
- Antagonism towards a kind of entertainment that isn't focused on selling you things. Our culture is extremely TV-dominated, and this causes a lot of pathology. People are indoctrinated by the TV.
However, many people get stoned and then ... watch TV. I've heard that blue-collar workers, who are often physically very tired after work, may smoke some sedating MJ, then kick back and probably - watch TV.
What else? I can see why mild drugs like tobacco and caffeine are legal. They don't change people's consciousness enough to seriously interfere with their work.
So why is alcohol would be legal and MJ not? Perhaps because it's easier to make your own alcohol. Yeast is everywhere, unlike MJ seeds.
You can see that I have made similar speculations to you. But they are only speculations - about huge and often unconscious social forces. It would be difficult to verify them, and I doubt that anyone has.
Peter's said that MJ use was "indulgent behavior". I can't find any meaning for this, other than that people want to use MJ, and a wrongness attached to it - for reasons that he never explained.
I would tend to question what is going on with people who are stoned most of the time. Like, are they avoiding something? But otherwise - I don't see any explanation for that badness and wrongness that Peter attached to MJ use in general.
No, I didn't listen to the podcast. I rarely listen to podcasts, I read instead.
How about anti-hangover drugs? Surely you'd agree that it's more advantageous for the drug companies to have booze legal but not pot. Did you listen to Lester's podcast?
How about sex. I recently had to spend 30 dollars for a Viagra pill, which probably cost a dollar or two to make. What a blatant, in-your-face ripoff. I don't know if you ever enjoyed sex under the influence of excellent weed, but believe me there's no comparison. With legalization, Viagra and Cialis would be considered a joke.
why hasn't such an important "gift of nature" as Carl Sagan called it, been studied all along. It's been demonized by the drug companies, that's why. They know how much money they'd lose.
Why do you think this - if what you were quoting was only comedy?
It's easy to blame big companies. Many people especially blame drug companies, for some reason.
If popular anti-depressants like Prozac or Paxil went head to head with marijuana in controlled university experiments, Prozac and Paxil would lose! >>>
I got that one from comedian Dennis Miller.
Surely they would have to do the controlled experiment to find out? >>>
Can't argue with that. But why hasn't such an important "gift of nature" as Carl Sagan called it, been studied all along. It's been demonized by the drug companies, that's why. They know how much money they'd lose.
If popular anti-depressants like Prozac or Paxil went head to head with marijuana in controlled university experiments, Prozac and Paxil would lose!
Surely they would have to do the controlled experiment to find out?
I doubt that a severely depressed person would experience that same day-after-marijuana sense of well-being - you seem to be extrapolating from your own experience there.
Anyway, both you and me say we used marijuana every couple weeks or so. Not every day - I didn't want to use it every day. Someone would have to use it every evening in order to be in that relaxed state of well-being afterwards.
Blaming pharmaceutical co's for the drug war is also very dubious. One can come up with lots of reasons for it, other that pharmaceutical co's. Racism is only one of many other reasons.
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