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I've been enabled! After being enticed to go on a shop shop with my so-called stitching friends, I have been lured into the world of hand-dyed merino and alpaca wool! Who knew this stuff could be so addicting? One soft touch of an aloe vera treated ball of sock yarn was all it took. Have I no willpower at all? Obviously not if you could have seen the balls of lovely self patterning wool that have now made up my newly formed Yarn Stash. And of course I had to treat myself to a set of Brittney needles, a set of 5, to further along my habit.
But this habit can't last too long....only a few days left to New Year's Day and my resolution - no more Stash buying! I'm starting up the wagon .... No pattern buying until something is finished. Of course that goes along with my other resolutions - eating healthier, exercising more, and any other bad habits of mine that I can think of and are really far too many to list here.
Hmmm, I wonder how long I'll last.......?
Friday, December 29, 2006
Knit Shop Hop
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Sunday, December 24, 2006
Its Christmas Eve!
One more day to go! The big day is just arriving too quickly and I want to just sit back and savour every moment.
I have been away from the computer as we were having serious internet troubles the past couple of days and I wasn't able to load anything, blogs or otherwise. So I'm afraid I'm far behind in blog reading and commenting. That will have to wait now until things get a little quieter after Christmas.
But I did want to at least get this in:
Merry Christmas, One and All!!!
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
My RR Returns!
And here it is ~ my Prairie Schooler Country Seasons Round Robin ~ its back, just in time for Christmas! I am absolutely in love with this RR, it turned out just awesome! And now I can't wait to get it framed, and join another RR on the Robin's Nest! Thank you so much Vash, Lynn and Anne, who did such fantastic stitching.
I'm not quite ready for Christmas yet, but getting there. I still have some last minute wrapping to do and hope to find some time later this afternoon to get it done....before Kelly and Chris arrive. They are on the road now for their 12-14 hour trip. Ugh, that's an awful long ride!
I finally picked up my poor neglected Houses of Hawk Run Hollow and have put some stitches in the past couple of nights. I really love working on this and it makes me wonder why I've left it for so long. I hope to get a progress picture up soon.
And I have also been planning my Pay-it-Forwards for the new year and already have decided on 2 specific things to work on. Hopefully I'll be able to get these done in the winter and mailed out to Sharon , Vonna, Cindy, Su, and Rachel.
Beta blogger has not been cooperating again with my commenting on other blogs. I hope Blogger gets these little kinks worked out soon! But I finally was able to log in to the Monthly Ornament Blog that Nicki set up. This is a SAL for the fourth weekend of the month to work on ornaments and hopefully keep us working on some ornaments so we don't end up in December with no Christmas stitching having been done (like me :-( Anyone else want to join in?
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Monday, December 18, 2006
One More Week to Christmas!
The big countdown is here - one week to go! And my shopping is done, just a little wrapping left to go.
I got my Christmas bonus last night and I really had a moment's hesitation before I opened the envelope....since I had already spent it, anticipating the amount I would get. I have never done that before and after spending years making the typical 'mother' comments, don't count your chickens and all that....I wondered if I had jumped the gun and overspent. So it was great relief that I felt when I saw it was the same amount as last year. Phew! I can now start stalking the mailman for the Mystery X kit from European Cross Stitch.
I had a nice little post last week about my taking the plunge and ordering Mystery X from Chatelaine and the kit from ECC. Even included a cool picture of all the silkies in the kit that I had snatched from their site. But Blogger decided it didn't like this post. For some weird reason, that particular post made my template go kerflewy. Even when I deleted the picture part of the post, it still pushed all my posts to the bottom of the blog. So I had no choice to delete it. Hopefully these little kinks will all get worked out soon. I think I'm able to start commenting again. Last week I ended up giving up on those also, since my comments were either published over and over or didn't show up at all, once Blogger forced me to re-register over and over.
And the countdown is on for Kelly and Chris - they arrive sometime on Wednesday night from North Carolina. They will be here for 10 whole days!!!
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Saturday, December 16, 2006
Happy Birthday Kelly!
My little girl is 21 years old today! I had to include a picture of her very first birthday party so here's a picture of her and I 20 years ago. Looking back at that, its hard to believe that much time has gone by and Kelly has fully grown in a beautiful young woman. Okay, okay, no more sentimental stuff here, Mom's are too good for that. I'll save it for when I see her in person!
And here is a picture of Kelly (on the right) last Christmas with Carrie and me. I love the family shots we had done last Christmas. It was actually a Christmas present for hubby but I think the pictures of all our family are something that we all treasure.
Happy Birthday, Kelly! I can't wait to see you in 4 more days!!!!
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Friday, December 15, 2006
Guild RR
I finished up the latest exchange for the our Guild Christmas Tree RR. This is Cindy's and she wanted a more traditional theme with bright colours. Easy to find a little pattern huh? Not in any of the numerous JCS ornie issues that I have stockpiled. I had to revert to pulling out some of my C/S books and finally found something in a Donna Kooler book called 555 Christmas designs.
I decided on the pine bough with the 3 ornies and got these stitched and finished in the evening, so its ready to hand off at our Christmas party next week. I'm so anxious to see how mine is coming along, I chose Celtic Knots as my theme. We're not to see them until the finish and they have already been handed off 3 times.
I took apart my poor doggie ornie and as I thought there is minimal fabric left at the corners, as I had trimmed these when I put it together. I have to admit the picture looked better than he did in R/L, think of a stitched piece framed very wrinkled and not stretched well, and that's what it looked like with a too small piece of mat board stuck inside the ornie. So thanks for the great ideas - I think he's going to be finished into a little pillow instead. But if I have time...and the inclination for more stitching....I found 2 more similar style ornies in my JCS issues. One has a bunny and a tree, and the other a kitty and a tree. I still have the same gray linen that I used...another thought I had was to stitch the 2 new ones and make the 3 into a banner. Would look cute, eh?
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Poor little ornie....
I originally tried to finish it with mat board and glue and ended up chopping the fabric around the edge far too short and I faintly remember throwing something into the snow in the yard after I burned my fingers one too many times. So I finally just sewed an envelope style ornie, filled it with piece of mat board (not large enough) and some quilt batting, and the result is a really messy little thing. Its also far too big to hang on the Christmas tree as its about 4 1/2" x 5".
But I feel guilty with this little doggy, I really should try something new with it but I have a feeling there is very little fabric left around the edge any more. Any thoughts?
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Friday, December 08, 2006
A Christmas Gift
Brrr, its chilly out there today -13 C but bright and clear. Luckily the forecast doesn't have this deep chill lasting too long and by Sunday the temp will be back up to 6 C. Crazy weather!
And crazy time of year ~ I have big plans this weekend for finishing up my Christmas cards, wrapping presents, and some more shopping. And we have hubby's Christmas party on Saturday night.
Meanwhile I've made a little progress on my present for my boss Lynda. I make her something every year and she is very appreciative which makes it even more enjoyable to do. This is what I have on the go right now, its a small bellpull called Happy Snow Days from an older issue of Cross Stitch Collection.
Have a good weekend, all!
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
A new look...
It was time for a change to my blog template, Autumn is definitely over and although the outside isn't completely snow-covered yet....the ground is frozen and there has been frost and a light dusting of snow the past few mornings. Winter is a-comin'.....
And so is Christmas! For which I haven't done much of anything except to get our house decorated and the stockings up. Work has been crazy busy the past 2 weeks and one of our full-timers is off cruising her merry way around the Caribbean right now, so that means even more work. I'm hoping my poor arms will hold out!
I took a couple of pictures of stockings I made a couple of years ago. Bad mum that I am, I haven't stitching stockings for everyone...yet ;-D
I think I'll be posting pictures of Christmas things I have made in the past as my turbo needles have finally run out of octane. I don't think I'll have much of a chance for any stitching until the holidays come.
Did I mention I have a week off at Christmas? and that Kelly and Chris are coming home for the holidays!!!!!!!
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Lynn's Finished RR
C'est fini!
This is Lynn's completed Lizzie Kate round robin. I finished off Spring the other night, after Lynn (Autumn), Vash (Summer) and Anne (Winter) did their sections. It came out lovely and I think Lynn will be happy with it.
Sorry for the wrinkles in the picture, but this little piece has certainly done its fair share of travelling and has a wee bit more to do before it gets back home.
This is the last RR from the Robin's Nest to be done for this group and we're done. There are some new exchanges starting up and I think a new RR will be starting in the new year. If anyone is interested in joining, please click on the link.
And meanwhile I've started stitching on a Christmas giftie for my boss. Pics to follow....
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Monday, December 04, 2006
A Clown.....and dragons, and castles and knights.
Do you know these clowns? Well the one on the left is my son, Nick, and the other his buddy Ian, who took part in the local Santa Claus parade this past Saturday. It was a chilly morning with the temperature hovering around the freezing mark but they still managed to hand out their fair share of candy canes to all the kiddies watching the parade.
Meanwhile at home, it was a busy weekend, with some house cleaning and decluttering, finally getting some drapes hung in my living/dining rooms, and valances, which were taken down the next day - didn't like 'em! And the house is looking ever so festive with our Christmas tree and decorations put up.
And the dragons, and castles and knights? Well I kept dreaming about them last night, after several games of Carcassonne over Saturday and Sunday. Carrie and JF brought it home after a game's night at a friends and introduced the rest of the family. I'm definitely hooked, or I should say, we are all hooked! There goes my stitching time!
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I was just looking through the dinner thread for something to cook for tomorrow, and saw that you guys are pregnant. Congratulations.
Happy birthday, Helix!
You give booze for Christmas!! Why the HELL aren't you on my friends list??? *hugs*
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The Dumping Ground
The Dumping Ground on CBBC is a continuation of the long running Tracey Beaker series set in a children's home. The earlier series was first broadcast in 2002 and ran until 2010, and the Dumping Ground takes up the action where the previous series left off.
The Tracey Beaker series, including the Dumping Ground were based on a series of children's novels written by Jacqueline Wilson, which deal with adult themes affecting children such as mental illness, family break up and foster care. Sometimes controversial for this use of adult themes in children's fiction, Jacqueline Smith is one of the most widely read children's authors and these TV adaptations of the books provide a hard-edged setting for children's drama.
The Dumping Ground carries on the theme and story from the children's home, Elmtree House and features a young cast of characters as the home's residents as well as the staff, social workers and parents. Catch up with the latest episode of the Dumping Ground via youriplayer.co.uk
The Dumping ground – as the children call the home, is "a dumping ground for difficult kids" and the drama centres around many difficult issues such as addiction and family break up. Despite that, this drama series is fun, exciting, and very popular with older children and the young teen age group.
The Dumping Ground has a brand new cast of children but essentially the feel and format of the programme is the same as seen in the Tracey Beaker series. The drama is filmed using live actors but the action is moved along by the use of lively animations in a cartoon style. Three new characters Faith, Mo and Floss head up the new cast, although fans of Tracey Beaker will be pleased to see some familiar faces too.
The Dumping Ground first aired on CBBC in Spring 2013, with new series planned in the future.
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Are Azaleas Hiding Your Windows?
A Bay Weekly reader lamented over how tall her azaleas had grown. She could no longer see out of the living room windows and would have to pay to have them replaced. I told her that all she had to do was cut them back to at least two inches below the ledge of the window. The plants would rejuvenate. The expression on her face clearly indicated that she thought me a complete idiot.
Plants are survivors. If you know which species can be rejuvenated and which cannot, you can save much time and money. Azaleas, rhododendrons, mountain laurel, cherry laurel, lilacs, privet, hollies, pyracantha, roses, forsythia, weigela, viburnums, yews and buddleia can be pruned back to individual stems that will renew branches.
How to Prune Boxwood
Many years ago, I planted English and American boxwood together in a hedge. The American box is now twice as tall as the English. Can the American box be cut in half and trimmed without killing it?
Boxwood can be pruned very severely in early spring and will bounce back with lots of sprouts along the stem. However, I encourage you to sterilize your pruning tools with alcohol. Boxwood blight has been reported in Maryland, and the disease is spread by pruning tools as well as by insects. I am advising boxwood owners to prune boxwoods like the English do, by reaching into the plant and snapping the branches. Boxwood wood is very brittle and the branches break easily providing they are less than half an inch in diameter.
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Prune these species severely in early spring, before new growth begins.
These species can tolerate severe pruning because they have a high population of latent vegetative buds hiding beneath the bark. Vegetative buds occur naturally in the axils of most of the leaves that are produced in each stem. In general, only vegetative buds near the ends of a stem generate new branches. The remaining buds remain dormant and are activated only when something happens such as pruning, freeze damage or some accident.
When you prune severely in early spring, the large root system forces the latent buds into active growth. If you prune a large azalea severely to only single stems, you will notice a profusion of new growth along the stems by early June. By mid to late June, you will need to thin the branches to allow a minimum of two to four inches of space between them. If you don't thin or space the branches, the population of branches will be too dense and you will likely see some dying from excessive competition.
However, such species as arborvitae, junipers, chamaecyparis, spruce, Leland cypress, pine and fir will die if you prune the plants down to single stems with no needles attached. These species develop vegetative buds only in the clusters of needles or adjacent to needles near the ends of branches. Prune these plants severely, and they will not recover. Leave no visible needles and the plant dies.


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Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play a couple of high school classmates who find themselves thrust back into the high school fish tank years after graduating – this time as undercover cops. But their investigation isn't the only thing they have to figure out. They find that they have residual issues from their own high school experiences that they need to work through, and of course, they need to figure out how to deal with each other.
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Hitler, Stalin and Castro agree with you. Once again you illuminate European ignorance of American facts. In America we have a massive festering problem with criminal immigrants (and American born blacks) entering our country, and with them they import their violence. The fact is that these violent criminal types live in the high crime areas that Democrats rule (Democrats are really socialists here). Those who live in the violent Democrat areas are subject to criminals who know that the citizens have been disarmed by the neo-socialists in power, so they run around with no fear of being shot by a good gun carrying citizen...The opposite is true in Republican areas that allow the citizens to carry guns. In the Republican areas (like Texas) the criminals realize the citizens "pack" guns and they are in extreme fear that they will get blown away by some redneck if they dare try to victimize anybody...The government also realizes, where the citizens own and carry guns, that if they dare attempt anything that resembles a fascist (socialist) action against the citizens will be met with the fury of a public who will rebel and prevent another European type socialist abuse of force.Geronimo79 wrote:The right to carry arms... ehmzz.. so by getting more weapons in the world it gets saver.... mmm.. if I dont have a gun i cant shoot it....thats my point of view.. And in basicly every country here has a NO GUNS law.. only for police/army and special clubs. For every 10 kills in 1 day in america we have 5 a month in the whole of Europe.
Americans have realized that the only insurance the citizens have against a fascist state, or a criminal threat, is the opportunity to protect themselves. It is not the white NRA member who is victimizing people, it is the Democrat voter in the Democrat district who are victimizing those who have no ability to protect themselves.
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Parenting is one of the most vitally important occupations on the face of the earth. It most definitely takes much energy, work and effort to be successful at it. To be successful at something, you must understand what your role is and what your goals are before you get started. So let's first define the […]
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Mud or Stars
>> Saturday, December 19, 2009
I am a person who keeps important paper for as long as I can. You never know when you will need the information. It is the writer in me. I can't help it. Anyway, the other day I was going through some old cards, yes I save those too. I am sentimental. I found a white index card with an encouraging message that a friend gave me during my early days of marriage. I started remembering the feelings that came back when she gave the card to me. I was having a hard time in my marriage and she said I hope this encourages you. She is a single professional who was reading a book, she never told me the title of the book, that simply put, encouraged her. She said, "I hope it will encourage you also". It was only two lines that read like this:
Two women looked through prison bars,
one saw mud the other stars.
From that time on I realized your outlook on your situation is important and up to you, not the other person. Everyone's relationship and life has problems. It's how you choose to handle them. The mental state you decide to be in makes a world of a difference. So I now pass the index card to you. "I hope it will encourage you also."


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Hip-Hop Rumors: A Second Kanye West Sex Tape Being Shopped?
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Gotdaggit! If the horror of one Kanye West sex tape is bad enough, but TMZ is saying there is a second tape. How this happen? Peep:
Kanye West is a sex tape master -- TMZ has learned, the rapper filmed himself doing the deed MORE than once in recent years ... and TWO tapes are currently being shopped to the highest bidder.
The reports are true ... a Kanye sex tape featuring a young woman in a hotel room is making the rounds -- but what you haven't heard ... there's a second tape and the 2 are nearly identical.
Both tapes are impressively long -- the first is roughly twenty minutes ... and the second is more than FORTY. And we're talking constant action. Seriously, the guy takes no breaks. It's incredible. Almost Sting-like.
We're told the tapes were both shot several years ago with exes.
The tapes are currently being shopped to media outlets by a third party.
Sources close to Kanye tell us the rapper has no idea how the videos were lifted from his computer -- but if anyone releases the footage ... we're told Kanye plans to go after the culprits with a legal vengeance.
Kanye's current GF Kim Kardashian rose to fame after her sex tape was released. And now, her boyfriend has steamy sex tapes of his own. So we gotta ask ...
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Valerie Harper says: 'I'm alive. I'm feeling good.'
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Valerie Harper announced last week that she has incurable brain cancer, but she wants everyone to know she's feeling great.
"I'm alive. I'm feeling good. I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can."
Since her announcement last week, Harper tells USA TODAY, "the phone has not stopped, or the texts, or the e-mails. It's incredible." But she worries that people "have a picture of me in a bed or a wheelchair or in trouble. Three months may be accurate (for her life expectancy), but it is not the whole truth. I could have a seizure within a week because of the nature of this cancer," or, she says, she could live much longer.
"I can't say it's terminal. I'm saying it's incurable so far, but we're all terminal. No one is getting out of this alive," she says. "The key is, don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral."
The star of the classic sitcoms Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Harper says that even though she is undergoing chemotherapy, "I feel better now than I did when I first started feeling symptoms." She said those were "few and far between" but included some back pain and nausea, and "a weird feeling in my jaw."
Her cancer is not considered curable, but she's having the chemotherapy with the hope the treatment will slow its spread.
"My husband says if we can slow it down, more stuff may come up," possibly new cures or treatments. "They are working fast and furiously for all of us; they're not doing this for Valerie Harper because she played Rhoda. They are doing this for cancer patients."
Her doctors' best guess: "It could a be a week, it could be three months or perhaps six months or a year. I'm already at eight months from first symptoms. I'm trying to get ready to say goodbye, and also ready to say hello if we have spontaneous remission.
"Miracles occur," she says, "or people die the next day."
A round of media appearances, which included The Doctors and NBC's Today show on Monday, as well as the cover story in this week's People, were to allow her to break the news "while I was still able. I figured I'd let everyone know the truth at one time.
"I also want people to have a path forward in terms of facing death with less fear, and a real urgent call to live in the now. Don't waste the time you do have. We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive. I felt sharing my experience may be of value or assistance in some way to others."
Writing her memoir, I Rhoda, which was released in January and which celebrates her victory over lung cancer several years ago, also inspired her to talk about what's happening now. "That may have opened me up to share this new chapter. I say I'm cancer-free at the end of the book, but that insidious guy, those cancer cells, came back."
As to how she's coping, she says: "I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend. I'm living pretty normally.
"I've had a great run. I'm going to be 74. Life does not owe me a shred. I don't want to go, but it's the reality, and I'd love people to have less fear about death and encourage them to be here now. There's a lot of work to do, a lot of transformation. We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do. It's a joyous part of life."


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Opinion analysis: Vaccine manufacturers immunized from design-defect liability
Section 22(b)(1) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA) provides that
[n]o vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1, 1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.
Yesterday, in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth (No. 09-152), the Court held that the NCVIA "preempts all design-defect claims against vaccine manufacturers brought by plaintiffs who seek compensation for injury or death caused by vaccine side effects." (For more background on the case, you can read my preview of the argument and my argument recap.) In so doing, it likely closed the door on thousands of claims by parents alleging a link between vaccines and childhood autism.
Justice Scalia wrote the opinion of the Court, which was joined by five other Justices "" the Chief Justice and Justices Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, and Alito. (Justice Kagan was recused.) In holding that design-defect claims such as petitioners' are preempted, the Court relied heavily on the text of the statute. It construed the word "unavoidable" in light of the "even though" clause that followed it; thus, the Court explained, a side effect is "unavoidable" if it occurs despite proper manufacturing and warning. The vaccine's design must be taken as a given for the word "unavoidable" to have effect; otherwise, the Court continued, a side effect could always have been avoided "by use of a differently designed vaccine not containing the harmful element." Moreover, the fact that Congress specifically preserved liability for claims alleging defective manufacturing and inadequate warnings implies (by omission) that it did not intend to preserve state-law design-defect claims.
The Court considered, but rejected, the textualist arguments advanced by Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg in dissent. Among other things, the Court disputed the contention that the statutory term "unavoidable" is a term of art that was intended to incorporate comment k to Section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, which addresses "unavoidably unsafe products" and purportedly required a case-by-case inquiry. The Court reasoned that there is no reason to think that the word "unavoidable" on its own "" which, it noted, is "hardly a rarely used word" "" refers to "unavoidably unsafe products." And in any event, it continued, in 1986 "" when the NCVIA was enacted "" courts disagreed on the meaning of that phrase. Additionally, the Court explained, the "even though" clause on which the dissent relies "is meant to signal the unexpected: unavoidable side effects persist despite best manufacturing and labeling practices." By contrast, by reading proper preparation and labeling as prerequisites for preemption in addition to unavoidability, the dissent would "eliminate[] any opposition between the "even though' clause . . . and the word "unavoidable.'" Finally, although the Court conceded that its interpretation rendered superfluous a portion of the text, it countered that the dissent's nullification of the "even though" clause precluded the application of the rule against superfluity.
The Court then turned to the structure of vaccine regulation and the NCVIA. The licenses issued for vaccines require certain warnings, directions, and manufacturing methods, but the FDA does not regulate design defects. Similarly, the NCVIA "micromanages manufacturers" in every respect except one: "how to evaluate competing designs . . . ." Moreover, the Act captures the benefits of design-defect torts by (1) providing for federal agencies to improve vaccine design and (2) compensating victims generously. Having devised this scheme, the Court concluded, Congress's omission of design-defect liability seems to reflects a "sensible choice to leave complex epidemiological judgments" to experts instead of jurors. Finally, the Court found support for its holding in what it described as the "Act's structural quid pro quo": vaccine manufacturers fund the NCVIA's victim-compensation scheme in exchange for protection from costly litigation. Exposing manufacturers to liability for design-defect suits "" which the Court described as "the most speculative and difficult type of products liability claims to litigate" "" would do little to encourage their involvement.
The Court also disputed the dissent's interpretation of legislative history. But given the Act's "text and structure," the Court felt it unnecessary to "resort to" legislative history in forming its judgment.
Justice Breyer filed a concurring opinion in which he noted that although, in his view, the Court had correctly interpreted the statutory text, he would consider other sources because "the textual question considered alone is a close one." Placing heavy emphasis on the benefits of childhood vaccinations, and Congress's finding that tort suits threatened those benefits, Justice Breyer thought it anomalous to allow inexpert juries to second-guess expert judgments regarding "when a vaccine is safe enough to be licensed . . . ." In particular, he accorded "significant weight" to the view of the Department of Health and Human Services that allowing design-defect lawsuits might threaten the nation's vaccine supply. The Department's opinion was especially significant, he argued, because other "expert public health organizations support its views" on this "medical and scientific question of great importance: how best to save the lives of children."
Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion that was joined by Justice Ginsburg. She argued that the Court's holding "excises 13 words from the statutory text, misconstrues the Act's legislative history," disturbs Congress's "careful balance" between compensating injured children and protecting the vaccine supply, and risks permitting manufacturers to ignore "scientific and technological advancements when designing or distributing their products." She instead concluded that Congress intended for Section 22(b)(1) to preempt design-defect claims only when a manufacturer shows, on a case-by-case basis, "that the vaccine was properly manufactured and labeled, and that the side effects stemming from the vaccine's design could not have been prevented by a feasible alternative design that would have eliminated the adverse side effects without compromising the vaccine's cost and utility."
Recommended Citation: Matthew Scarola, Opinion analysis: Vaccine manufacturers immunized from design-defect liability, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 23, 2011, 10:00 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/02/opinion-analysis-vaccine-manufacturers-immunized-from-design-defect-liability/


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When the film reaches its courtroom finale, I noticed Liam Dunn as the hypochondriac judge and Graham Jarvis as his bailiff. Donna recognized the bailiff but couldn't place him, so I explained that Graham Jarvis had been featured in one of her favorite shows of the 1970s -- MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN -- as Charlie Haggers, doting stage husband of would-be country-western star Loretta Haggers, who was played by then-newcomer Mary Kay Place.
As soon as my mouth invoked her name, I was startled to see a young, still-undiscovered Mary Kay Place walking onscreen to deposit two of the film's plaid carrying cases on the judge's bench!
The IMDb has no record of Mary Kay's presence in the film, as they do with John Byner's uncredited appearance, but there she is, right up front, plain as day. The IMDb lists a 1973 episode of ALL IN THE FAMILY, like MARY HARTMAN a Norman Lear production, as her first onscreen acting appearance.
Graham Jarvis passed away in 2003, but Mary Kay Place continues to make welcome appearances in film and television, currently holding down a primary supporting role in HBO'S BIG LOVE. I've got to wonder if she and Graham had the same agent or something, or if they were even conscious of having worked together in this earlier project when they were subsequently cast as "baby boy" and wife.
Anyway, a discovery worth sharing with the rest of the world.


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I hope to transform others' lives through my work with CFCA.
My name is Teddy Naluwu, and I am 31 years old. I have been a part of the CFCA family for more than 20 years, first as a sponsored child and later as an employee.
I have been working for CFCA for the past seven years, and I currently serve as Kampala project coordinator for Uganda, Africa.
Personally, I am a true believer of change. I have seen myself transform from a humble "country girl" to project coordinator of a sizeable project.
Because of CFCA sponsorship and the education I received, I am able to help break through the lines of poverty within my family.
The CFCA-Kampala project believes that we can make the world a better place through our collective efforts.
Engaging with the families in CFCA project activities is an important aspect of my work that shapes my attitude and performance, and boosts my self-worth.
The sponsored children are glad and confident to share their experiences and aspirations with me, as we share similar backgrounds. They look up to me as an inspiration for their career advancement.
As project coordinator, I have earned the respect and trust of the parents/guardians, who call on me to advise their children about the right career paths.
There have been some challenges in serving a community where I have been raised, given our cultural norms and beliefs. Some parents view me as a young woman, similar to their own child, and so sometimes they are reluctant to respond to the projectís initiatives.
Nevertheless, since we are committed to serving the families, challenges are tackled openly.
We identify the families' interests and the problems affecting them, discuss them within the Sponsored Self-help Group monthly meetings, implement solutions and measure progress toward achieving the desired outcomes.
This has proven the most practical approach that yields visible results ó families growing, realizing their abilities and believing in themselves as they work to uplift their social and economic situations.


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Hundreds gather at 2013 Newtown Yoga Festival
NEWTOWN -- The ancient practice of yoga came to 21st century Newtown on Saturday, as hundreds breathed, stretched and relaxed together during the 2013 Newtown Yoga Festival.
The two-hour session was led by Beryl Bender Birch and Seane Corn. Birch is a spiritual healer and yoga therapist and co-founder of the Give Back Yoga Foundation. Corn is a yoga teacher and spiritual activist who co-founded Off the Mat Into the World.
The event was conceived and organized by Suzy DeYoung, of Sandy Hook Promise, and Jennifer Smith Basset, a Sandy Hook resident.
The two women had reached out to the yoga community to find practitioners to help bring a sense of peace and healing to their town.
"I practice yoga and knew of Seane Corn's work," DeYoung said. "The idea for doing this started when Jennifer and I met. It was Kaia Yoga studio in Westport that recommended Beryl."
"The whole methodology of yoga is a practice to heal and evolve and grow to become more confident. It teaches us to cultivate compassion and loving kindness, to replace anger and fear with love and compassion," Birch said.
Birch and Corn seek to help communities whose members have been traumatized. Yoga practitioners from throughout the state joined them Saturday to help Newtown heal from the trauma experienced with the Sandy Hook shootings.
"Often being traumatized results in a person disassociating from the body. The body isn't a comfortable place to be," Birch explained. "Through breathing and paying attention, you bring the mind back into the body."
Sandy Hook residents who participated in Saturday's session were reluctant to share their thoughts. They walked in groups of two or three in muted conversation from the Newtown Youth Academy Sports and Fitness Center.
Cathy Whelehan, a yoga teacher from Redding, was among those who had come to help the community heal.
"I just wanted to be with everyone and give my offering of love and peace to the Newtown community," Whelehan said, "to help create a conscious, hopeful and healing environment."
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As some of you may be aware, my post from January 20, 2011, entitled "Should We Expect to Find the Temple Ordinances as One Coherent Whole in the Scriptures? Revisiting the Question", generated a lengthy and impassioned discussion in the comments. There was much debate regarding the value of efforts to compare our modern temple ordinances with ancient ones, and the methods that should be used in such an endeavor. I very much appreciated this discussion and believe that many important points were raised. It was decided, by some of the involved parties, that a debate over all of the points that I suggested in the post would be a very large and time-consuming task, and that, therefore, it would be more profitable for us to discuss specific rituals (with the associated Scriptural passages), one at a time.
Before moving on with this project, I would just like to clear up a few points — a few misconceptions, maybe, regarding my initial post. First of all, I would like to emphasize that my answer to the titular question, "Should we expect to find the temple ordinances as one coherent whole in the Scriptures?", was negative. There is, obviously, no passage, narrative, chapter, or any other unit in the Scriptures that presents the Endowment or the entirety of the LDS ritual system as a unity or "coherent whole." I wasn't attempting to argue for such. I did explain where we could perhaps look for temple themes outside of the traditional locations. Towards the end of the post, I went a step further and suggested that there is a possibility that (although this is not all clearly perceptible from the Scriptural accounts) the ancient Israelites may have performed ceremonies in the precincts of their temple that may have contained many rituals that are comparable to what we do today in our temples. I acknowledged that the theories upon which this assertion are based are conjectural/speculative, but I think that they are a good place to start.


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PHILADELPHIA — A multi-institution study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has identified several important risk factors, including a donor's smoking history and recipient obesity, linked to severe primary graft dysfunction (PGD), the major cause of serious illness and death after lung transplantation. PGD is a common complication that affects up to 25 percent of lung transplant patients shortly after surgery. The study also found that some previously identified risk factors, including donor sex, race, age, and means of death, were not associated with PGD.
The study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, is the first prospective, multicenter cohort study of risk factors for severe PGD after lung transplantation. It included 1,255 lung transplant recipients at ten U.S. lung transplant centers over an eight-year period. The researchers evaluated potential risk factors for severe PGD previously identified in the literature or with hypothetical clinical or biologic plausibility to be associated with PGD.
A key finding is that lung recipients from donors who were smokers have an absolute five percent higher risk of developing PGD than those who received lungs from nonsmokers. Researchers previously found that donor smoking increased the rate of death for lung recipients; the current study found that the cause of this is an increased rate of serious – or Grade 3 – PGD.
"Even though donor smoking is tied to higher death rates and incidence of Grade 3 PGD, this doesn't mean we should prohibit smokers from donating lungs," said lead study author Joshua Diamond, MD, MSCE, instructor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care at Penn. "Although PGD was higher after receiving a lung from a smoking donor compared with a non-smoking donor, other studies show that overall survival is significantly better than remaining on waiting lists for lung transplantation when donors with a smoking history are part of the donor pool. Given the limited pool of available lung donors, it's simply not feasible to exclude patients who were previous smokers as potential lung donors."
Another key finding is that overweight recipients had an absolute seven percent higher risk for PGD compared with normal weight, and obese recipients had an 11 percent higher risk of PGD. Active research is underway on the immune mechanisms behind this finding. Because of the known association between weight and PGD, lung transplantation centers generally restrict transplant candidates to those with a body/mass index of 30 or 35.
Grade 3 PGD usually occurs within the first three days after lung transplantation. Diamond and his colleagues found that patients with PGD had a 23 percent risk of dying within 90 days of surgery, compared to a five percent risk of those not diagnosed with PGD. After one year, the death rate for those with PGD was 34 percent, compared to a death rate of 11 percent for those not diagnosed with PGD. Therefore efforts aimed at improved understanding, better predicting, and preventing PGD would dramatically improve transplant outcomes.
Jason Christie, MD, MS, senior study author and associate professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, said that further study was needed on determining donor smoking history. "Our study relied on a straightforward question of family members: 'Had the donor ever been a smoker?' We are currently researching better ways to quantify smoke exposure, including passive smoking, using molecular markers. We are also asking why lungs from a smoker would be more prone to lung injury, so that we can give preventative treatments before the transplant."
The study also identified several other risk factors for PGD, including certain types of lung disease and several surgical procedures often used to help sicker patients survive the surgery. In these latter cases it is not clear if the fact that patients were sicker and needed the procedures explained the higher PGD rates or if the procedures themselves resulted in greater rates of PGD.
Other authors from Penn include James C. Lee, MD, Steven M. Kawut, MD, Rupal J. Shah, MD, A. Russell Localio, PhD, Scarlett L. Bellamy, ScD, Edward Cantu, MD, Benjamin A. Kohl, MD, and Ejigayehu Demissie.
The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01 HL087115, R01 HL081619, and R01 HL096845).
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Energy 2050 Bankruptcy
World Energy to 2050
Forty Years of Decline
Our Energy Sources
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Forty Years of Decline
Our Energy Sources
Part 4
By Paul Cherfurka
Coal is the ugly stepsister of fossil fuels. It has a terrible environmental reputation, going back to its first widespread use in Britain in the 1700s. London's coal-fired "peasoup" fogs were notorious, and damaged the health of hundreds of thousands of people. Nowadays the concern is less about soot and ash than about the acid rain, mercury and especially carbon dioxide that results from burning coal. For the same amount of energy released, coal produces more CO2 than either oil or gas. From an energy production standpoint coal has the advantage of very great abundance. Of course that very abundance is a huge negative when considered from the perspective of global warming.
Most coal today is used to generate electricity. As economies grow, so does their demand for electricity. The need to use electricity to replace some of the energy lost due to the decline of oil and natural gas will put yet more upward pressure on the demand for coal. At the moment China is installing two to three new coal-fired power plants per week, and has plans to continue at that pace for at least the next decade.
Just as we saw with oil and gas, coal will exhibit an energy peak and decline, though for different reasons. One important factor in the eventual decline of the energy obtained from burning coal is that we have in the past concentrated on finding and using the highest grade of coal: anthracite. Much of what remains consists of lower grade bituminous and lignite. These grades of coal produce less energy when burned, and require the mining of ever more coal to get the same amount of energy.
In addition to their exemplary study of oil supplies mentioned above, the Energy Watch Group has also conducted an extensive analysis of coal use over the next century. I have adopted their "best case" conclusions for this model. The model projects a continued rise in the use of coal to a peak in 2025. As global warming begins to have serious effects there will be mounting pressure to reduce coal use.
Unfortunately, due to its abundance and our need to replace some of the energy lost from the depletion of oil and gas, the decline in coal use will not be as dramatic as seen with those fossil fuels. The model has coal use decreasing evenly from its peak to a production level similar to what it is today, giving the curve shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Global Coal Production, 1965 to 2050
Of course the increased use of coal carries with it the threat of increased global warming due to the continued production of CO2. Many hopeful words have been written about the possibility of alleviating that worry by implementing Carbon Capture and Storage. CCS usually involves the capture and compression of CO2 from power plant exhaust, which is then pumped into played-out gas fields for long term storage. This technology is still in the experimental stage, and there is much skepticism surrounding the security and economics of storing such enormous quantities of CO2 in porous rock strata.
If coal is the ugly stepsister, hydro is one of the fairy godmothers of the energy story. Environmentally speaking it's relatively clean, if perhaps not quite as clean as once thought. It has the ability to supply large amounts of electricity quite consistently. The technology is well understood, universally available and not too technically demanding (at least compared to nuclear power). Dams and generators last a long time.
It has its share of problems, though they tend to be quite localized. Destruction of habitat due to flooding, the release of CO2 and methane from flooded vegetation, and the disruption of river flows are the primary issues. In terms of further development the main obstacle is that in many places the best hydro sites are already being used. Nevertheless, it is an attractive energy source.
Figure 6: Global Hydro Production, 1965 to 2050
Development will probably continue in the immediate future at a similar pace as in the past. The model for hydro power has its capacity increasing by almost 40% by 2050. This projected growth is gradually constrained toward the middle of the century by two main factors: most useful river sites are already in use, and water flows will gradually be reduced due to global warming. There may also be a general loss of global industrial capacity (and/or rising development costs) due to oil and gas depletion. Nevertheless, the pressure on hydro power to replace energy lost from oil and gas depletion will support continued development even in the face of such constraint.
The graph in Figure 7 is a mix of data synthesis with a bit of projection. I started with a table of reactor ages from the IAEA (reprinted in a presentation to the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas), the table of historical nuclear power production from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007 and a table from the Uranium Information Centre showing the number of reactors that are installed, under construction, planned or proposed worldwide.
The interesting thing about the table of reactor ages is that it shows the vast majority of the world's operating reactors (361 out of 439 or 82% to be precise) are between 17 and 40 years old. The number of reactors at each age varies of course, but the average number of reactors in each year is about 17. The number actually goes over 30 in a couple of years.
The interesting thing about the table of reactor ages is that it shows the vast majority of the world's operating reactors (361 out of 439 or 82% to be precise) are between 17 and 40 years old. The number of reactors at each age varies of course, but the average number of reactors in each year is about 17. The number actually goes over 30 in a couple of years.
Two realizations formed the basis for my model of nuclear power. The first was that reactors have a finite lifespan averaging around 40 years, which means that a lot of the world's reactors are rapidly approaching the end of their useful life. The second realization was that the construction rate of new reactors and their average capacity can be inferred from the UIC planning table.We can therefore calculate the approximate world generating capacity with reasonable accuracy out to 2030 or so.
The model takes a generous interpretation of the available data. It assumes we will build all the reactors shown in the UIC data referenced above: six plants per year for the next five years, nine plants per year for the subsequent ten years, and ten plants per year until 2050. The model further assumes that all reactors will be granted life extensions to 50 years from their current 40, and that no plants will be prematurely decommissioned. It also assumes that each plant generates an average output equivalent to 1.53 Mtoe per year. The derivation of this figure is given in the model data available here.
The model takes a generous interpretation of the available data. It assumes we will build all the reactors shown in the UIC data referenced above: six plants per year for the next five years, nine plants per year for the subsequent ten years, and ten plants per year until 2050. The model further assumes that all reactors will be granted life extensions to 50 years from their current 40, and that no plants will be prematurely decommissioned. It also assumes that each plant generates an average output equivalent to 1.53 Mtoe per year. The derivation of this figure is given in the model data available here.
Figure 7: Global Nuclear Production, 1965 to 2100
The drop in output between 2020 and 2037 is the result of new construction not keeping pace with the decommissioning of old reactors. The argument for a peak and subsequent decline in nuclear capacity is very similar to the logistical considerations behind Peak Oil - the big pool of reactors we currently use will start to become exhausted, and we're not building quite enough replacements. The rise after 2037 comes from my estimate that we will then be building 10 reactors per year compared to 6 per year today. The net outcome is that in 2050 nuclear power will be supplying about the same amount of energy that it is today.
A number of factors may act to increase that output. Those changes could include the uprating of existing reactors to produce more power than their original design specification, an increase in the size of future reactors and/or a building boom prompted by concerns about global warming and the decline of oil and gas supplies.
Restraining the increase will be economic factors (construction will become more expensive as oil and gas deplete, driving up the cost of materials and transportation), and continuing public opposition to nuclear power plants, waste storage and uranium mining. At some point uranium mining itself may also become a bottleneck - the current world production of about 50,000 tonnes of uranium per year could need to increase to around 70,000 tonnes per year in order to fuel the increased number of reactors. Of course the amount of additional uranium required will depend entirely on the number of new plants that actually get built.
A number of advanced reactor technologies are presently under investigation or development, including high energy "fast reactors" that produce less waste, reactors that can use more abundant and cheaper thorium as a fuel, and "pebble bed" designs that promise improved safety. None of these technologies are commercially available (and are unlikely to be within the next decade or two), so they have not been incorporated into the model.
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WESTERN TRAVELERS TO GREECE: From Lord Byron to Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Today we travel to exotic places in order to encounter a culture different than ours and to experience another way of life. In the nineteenth century Western travelers would go to Greece for the same reasons, namely in order to encounter a distant, 'exotic' place of the intriguing Orient, which had fired their curiosity, or to have a first-hand experience of the land of the Olympian gods that had captured their imagination. Other travelers visited Greece to study its antiquities, while the more adventurous ones, such as Lord Byron, went there in order to participate in the Greek War of Independence. And, some traveled to Greece simply because they were fascinated by its history, its ambiguous geographical position between East and West, and its liminal position between past and present. This course focuses on the perceptions and representations of Greece by nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American travelers, and it explores their impact on modern Greek history and the construction of modern Greek identity. The course discusses major as well as minor voices in the history of travel writing on Greece, it examines the relation of their travelogues with the discourses of Hellenism and orientalism, and it places them in the contexts of colonialism and imperialism. It also explores the role of gender in travel writing, by focusing on travel texts written by women, who offer a representation of Greece and its inhabitants different than that sketched by male travelers. Students get the opportunity to study key texts and themes in nineteenth-century travel literature alongside certain topics in Modern Greek History. Also, they get the chance to strengthen their writing and analytical skills by writing papers in which they will critically engage with primary and secondary written sources.


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The Apple iPhone is to get dedicated applications from the BBC for its news, sports and iPlayer web channels.
The apps are aptly titled BBC News, BBC Sports Results and BBC iPlayer will be updated feeds of what is on offer on the web at the moment, but in an easier-to-use interface.
Eric Huggers, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, said the applications would be accessible one-handed, proving their ease of use, and that they will comprise breaking news, big headlines and, most importantly, sports results. All this content will contain real-time data.
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There's no official word if the apps will work directly over 3G or if Wi-Fi will need to be enabled to use them to their full effect.
There's also good news for BlackBerry, Android and Palm users - Huggers has also said that the apps will become available on these handsets but no date was given.
The BBC News, BBC Sports Results and iPlayer app for the iPhone have a UK release date of April.
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Sweden's new anti-piracy policy allows copyright holders to quickly obtain the identity of major pirates and prosecute them directly through the courts, without going through the police. And it's scared a lot of Swedes straight.
The drop was measured by Netnod, a Swedish web tracking firm, who found that traffic fell from 120GB/s to 80GB/s on the day the law went into effect.
Christian Engstrom, VP of Sweden's Pirate Party (love it) is not concerned, however. He told the BBC:
"Today, there is a very drastic reduction in internet traffic. But experience from other countries suggests that while file-sharing drops on the day a law is passed, it starts climbing again. . .One of the reasons is that it takes people a few weeks to figure out how to change their security settings so that can share files anonymously," he added.
The law is catching a lot of flak for effectively letting corporations enforce anti-piracy code with lawsuits, rather than leaving them to the police to deal with offenders on a criminal basis. Copyright holders can no go straight to the uploader's ISP, get his IP address and identity, and sue him up good.
From the country that gave us the Pirate Bay, though, I'm sure someone will figure out a way to subvert this. [BBC]


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>Behind the Scenes>I'm being reverse spammed
Spams. We all get them. Studies (I'm being vague so don't ask me to provide references) indicate that 60-97% of all email traffic is spam. With filtering software, the actual number of spams that get through is relatively small. For example, I get about one or two spams a day in my Gmail account. Not too shabby.
As the spam filtering software improves, spammers are finding more novel ways of getting their message out. How lucrative is their operation? That's another topic for another time. With botnets (a network of compromised computers over the internet that are controlled by the hackers), spammers send out tens of thousands of emais from these computers without their owners' knowledge, and without the worry of being tracked down.
To further cover their tracks, they will fill in the sender field with a random name from a legitimate domain. If you look at the sender field in the email, it has nothing to do with the true sender.
In the last three days, my inbox is flooded with bounced spam. A spammer is using runningahead.com as the origin of these emails. A small percentage of email addresses are invalid and are bounced back to the sender. I have a catch all account set up. Any emails that are sent to RunningAHEAD but with an invalid recipient will reach this account. At the peak, I was getting about 50-100 of these bounced emails a minute.
With dozens of users here on RA, and with millions of spams sent out, I'm sure one of you has gotten one of these emails (something about watches as a large discount). I just want you to know that I am just as much of a victim as you.
eric :-)
Weird thing...for years I have had almost NO spam get through the gmail filters. but recently I am getting a few every day. I think you are right about the spambots outsmarting the filters.
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Thanks for letting us know eric!
On the topic of how lucrative they are - I used to think no one was stupid enough to even open them. And then I met my friend's boyfriend (now husband dear god). I clearly remember the day he came into the living room saying "sweetheart you'll never believe it - I'm the 1,000,000th visitor to this website". A few weeks later she had to have a conversation with him about why their credit card was maxed out and he'd bought himself all these "boys toys" type things (Playstation etc). Its ok he said - we're rich - I got an email from this guy in Nigeria....
Yes there are still people out there that are this dumb. And they only need to find a few of them.
SUCKS ERIC -- do you thing that runningahead.com domain is being used or is it possible they managed to set up a spam server on the RA server (or within the RA domain)??? Remote chance of the second, but it has happened ....
IF so -- there are relative in expensive spam filter (of course you know this) but they can block the spam both coming in and going out....I have installed a couple of them and they are pretty simple to set up, dont cost to much and really do the trick......
Im sure a few of us could donate a little sometiing to help buy one if needed......
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With dozens of users here on RA, and with millions of spams sent out, I'm sure one of you has gotten one of these emails (something about watches as a large discount).
I appreciate the note. I'm pretty sure we all know that isn't how you roll. I have yet to receive a fake note and I always validate your digital signature: eric :-)
In the earliest days of my wildly successfully dot-com ventures , I freaked out when I started getting "bounce spam."
I actually looked at some of them and noticed that they're not all even legitimate bounces, that some of them actually mimicked a bounce to get the e-mail to be looked at more closely than usual.
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In the earliest days of my wildly successfully dot-com ventures , I freaked out when I started getting "bounce spam."
I actually looked at some of them and noticed that they're not all even legitimate bounces, that some of them actually mimicked a bounce to get the e-mail to be looked at more closely than usual.
I've heard of a double bluff but never a bouncy bounce.
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John A,
The RA server has nothing to do with the spam. When the emails bounced due to invalid email address or vacation notice, they are returned to the sender. In my case, the spammer forged the sender field by making up a random (email) user name at runningahead.com. As a result, the catch all feature forwarded all of these emails to my administrative account because the mail service didn't know that the emails weren't from me.
The RA server can't set out emails directly so even if they hacked into the RA server, they really can't do much with it.
Only 50 to 100 bounced messages?
With all my domains, that's a light day for me. I have a filter set to automatically delete them now, which sucks when my messages *do* bounce, but oh well.
Thanks for the heads up, and keep up the good work.
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Only 50 to 100 bounced messages?
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Hurricane Sandy predicted to have destructive impact on Massachusetts
Damaging winds, power outages, coastal flooding expected
Gov. Deval Patrick asked that all schools and colleges in Massachusetts close Monday as the behemoth superstorm Sandy promised to bring a destructive impact on the state.
He also asked private businesses to let their employees stay home for reasons of public safety.
Boston and hundreds of other schools had already announced closings before Patrick's request.
"Given the large geographic size and duration of Sandy, Massachusetts will experience moderate to major impacts, including damaging winds for a period of 12 to 18 hours, associated widespread power outages, and heavy rains. In addition, both south- and east-facing coastlines will experience moderate to major coastal flooding and beach erosion.," the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.
Tracking Maps | Potential Impact | School Closings | Harvey's Take
The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning for the entire state of Massachusetts and a coastal flood warning through Tuesday afternoon for seaside communities.
"It is during Monday afternoon into Monday night that most of the wind damage and power outages will occur," said Storm Team 5 meteorologist Harvey Leonard.
In addition to Boston, many other schools announced Monday cancellations on Sunday afternoon.
"Out of concern for the safety of Boston residents, Boston Public Schools will be closed Monday and only essential personnel will report to City Hall," Menino said. "I urge Boston employers to assist the city in keeping residents safe, and allow employees to work from home.:
Patrick said while coastal flooding was expected, the greatest impact from the storm would likely come from wind. Power outages could be greater than those experienced from Tropical Storm Irene, he said.
Patrick also encouraged residents to have emergency cash on hand because widespread power outages will deny them access to ATM machines.
In addition, he reminded property owners to remove dead or weakened tree limbs to minimize damage from strong winds and learn where gas pilots and water mains are located to safely shut off utilities.
"While we continue to hope for the best, we're preparing for the worst," Patrick said.
The storm was expected to continue moving parallel to the Southeast coast most of the day and approach the coast of the mid-Atlantic states by Monday night, before reaching southern New England later in the week.
It was so big, however, and the convergence of the three storms so rare, that "we just can't pinpoint who is going to get the worst of it," said Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
On Saturday evening, Amtrak began canceling train service to parts of the East Coast, including between Washington, D.C., and New York. Airlines started moving planes out of airports to avoid damage and adding Sunday flights out of New York and Washington in preparation for flight cancellations on Monday.
Patrick said the declaration will help Massachusetts officials quickly secure necessary services, supplies and personnel ahead of the storm. National Guard members will prepare supply armories, fill sand bags and position them and other equipment throughout the state, he said. Once the storm hits, they will help with any evacuations, search-and-rescue operations, moving emergency workers and helping local officials with security and traffic control, the governor said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered New York City's transit service to suspend bus, subway, and commuter rail service in advance of the massive storm expected to hit the eastern third of the United States.
Cuomo says the system will be suspended starting at 7 p.m. Sunday.


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Dina Katabi has been selected for the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. In announcing this appointment, Department Head Anantha Chandraksan shared the following message with his colleagues in the EECS Department.
It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Prof. Dina Katabi as the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Katabi is an ideal candidate for this professorship, given her outstanding technical contributions and leadership in wired and wireless networks. The honor of being the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is also held by Prof. Daniela Rus. Both appointments reflect the exceptional leadership set by Dr. Viterbi as a pioneer in the communications field.
Dina's research covers a broad range of research topics related to wireless systems, and her work is characterized by a rare combination of building and deploying practical systems, coupled to rigorous formal analysis. She has authored or co-authored many award-winning and highly cited papers in top networking and telecommunications conferences, and is widely recognized both nationally and internationally as a star among networking researchers. Dina's research toolkit is very broad, as she frequently adapts methods from various fields of applied mathematics such as control theory, queuing theory, and machine learning to solve problems in computer networks. She breaks boundaries separating CS and EE disciplines, and optimizes systems across network abstraction layer boundaries. Dina has been recognized by several awards, including recently the 2012 Grace Murray Hopper Award for advances in network efficiency, a 2013 MacArthur award, and as a 2013 ACM Fellow.
In collaboration with Prof. Muriel Medard, Dina Katabi is known for early demonstrations of practical wireless systems exploiting network coding, a method to increase network capacity that was promising but primarily of theoretical interest until that time. She also came up with an innovative solution to the classic "hidden terminal problem." Dina's approach allows two colliding 802.11 packets to be decoded correctly, without loss of efficiency, and without any requirement for power control or special coding. The paper describing this idea, in an implementation called ZigZag, and an evaluation on a wireless network testbed, received the Best Paper Award at SIGCOMM 2008, the premier conference in computer communications. She has also developed an efficient security approach for implanted wireless medical devices. In such devices, wireless transmissions are typically insecure, allowing eavesdropping, or even intentional device sabotage. Dina and her group devised a solution: a wearable device that acts as a firewall and sets up a secure channel with the base station. This work also received a best paper prize at SIGCOMM, in 2011.
In addition to being an outstanding researcher, Dina has demonstrated exceptional leadership. In collaboration with Prof. Hari Balakrishnan, she started the new Wireless@MIT Center hosted in CSAIL. The center includes about 40 MIT professors and graduate students and has several major industry partners. She has also served as the Program Co-Chair of ACM Mobicom 2010 and Usenix NSDI 2012.
Dina is a dedicated educator and a wonderful mentor to her students. She has been involved with a number of courses, including 6.02, 6.033, 6.263, 6.829, and 6.888. Most recently, she has been involved as a lecturer in 6.033, one of the largest undergraduate classes. She developed a new graduate level class, 6.888, that focuses on labs and hands-on experience with wireless networks, where students develop the full baseband of OFDM systems. Her graduate students have taken faculty positions in top universities.


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"A man walking alone on a deserted beach, brandishing a lantern in his outstretched hand, might be a fool. But, for a ship that went astray on a stormy night, he might be the savior."
Thursday, December 02, 2010
National Geographic Magazine Arabic Edition
Besides my formal academic training, I owe my early education to National Geographic magazine in great part. Along with the National Geographic Channel (NGC) it became my prime source of non-fiction erudition. As a graduate teaching assistant in the States I was fortunate that my designated office contained the department's archives of the magazine. I spent hours on end reading avariciously about geography, anthropology, history and the physical sciences and staring dreamily at the photographs from distant lands and galaxies. On lonely nights and as a bedtime diversion I turned to reading fiction and my intellectual fate was sealed by my mid-twenties.
In October of 2010, 122 years after the first issue was published in 1888 the 33rd Arabic Edition of the magazine finally saw the light of day. It followed the inauguration of National Geographic Abu Dhabi TV channel earlier this year. This free-to-air satellite channel is, in my opinion, the UAE's greatest contribution to the Arab speaking World. For the first time I refrain from cursing their petrodollars and am obliged to give them a thumbs-up. After flooding the market with cheapish rubbish in the form of "entertainment" magazines the decision to publish something of substance and value is greatly appreciated albeit being late. While the 3rd issue (December 2010) was released today there remains a significant problem in distribution. Hopefully the publishers, given enough time, can overcome this very serious matter. As far as I understand the Arabic Edition is being printed in small quantities awaiting further market evaluation. The online subscription page is unusable since instead of providing an e-payment option I was "promised" that a representative shall contact me. I was not able to acquire the first October issue and managed with difficulty to find the second one in Beirut. If these logistic hurdles are adequately overcome National Geographic Magazine in Arabic could become a compelling source of education for a new generation of Arab speakers.
My two younger kids and I are already fighting over reading priority of the single issue we have at home. It is a dream of mine that National Geographic TV and magazine impregnate their minds with the light of knowledge, fill their hearts with the desire to discover the unknown, goad them into asking questions without fear of retribution and propel them to challenge their egocentric sense of decency. It is as important to learn that we are not alone on this planet as it is to speculate that we are not the only sentient beings in the universe. Young Arab men and women deserve at least that chance.
|What do you think?
10 comments:
- Isobel said...
Oh! Fantastic, Abufares! I love National Geographic and have subscribed partially for me but mostly for my kids. It's a superb source of information about the world. I'm glad your kids are already diving into the issue with such zeal. Enjoy!
- Gabriela said...
I can tell you are simply delighted with this news. I can imagine your pride of seeing your children fighting over who reads the magazine first. I am so delighted when my nephew asks me things that I know that feeling is awesome.
Enjoy it Abufares. And I really hope you'll find the first issue soon.
Wonderful magazine! We have been a member of National Geographic since the 80's, and enjoy them fully. Is the English version on the market there also? or only the few publications of the Arab version? Are your children fluid in english?
We could certainly get you copies in English if you would like them...
w.b. yeats
- Unknown said...
NG is without a doubt the best source of "world" education kids and adults can have. The sense of an extended human community and our role as guardians of the lives of other species on this planet is the ultimate message.
My only objection over the years was NG political outlook on the world which at times was tainted by the narrow mindedness of the American Right.
I'm happy our kids are getting this chance.
- Unknown said...
Pride and something else too. If I were a smart kid, with an appetite to read and learn, in this day and age in Syria I have one of 2 options: Extremely senseless entertainment magazines OR Religious literature (mostly senseless too I must emphasize).
NG provides for the first time for this generation (there were attempts before to provide sound knowledge in the form of periodicals) an alternative. I only hope that it is here to stay.
- Unknown said...
@w.b. yeats
The English version is available in limited quantities in Damascus but since my kids' English is limited indeed I'm very happy with the Arabic edition, for them and for everybody else as a matter of fact.
Thank you for your generous offer :-) but up until a couple of years ago I was receiving the magazine in my mailbox. Perhaps I should renew my subscription!
- Nancy Reyes said...
ah, we have National Geographic Asia channel here in the rural Philippines and watch it all the time. It gives us joy to see the beauty of the world.
We get it in English, because most people with even a basic education here are bilingual.
- Unknown said...
We have NGA in English here too on satellite TV. It's indeed a window to the world.
Thank you for dropping by.
- KJ said...
I agree; the super photography of NG is what caught my attention and hooked me to it, though I have not spend much time reading as I have ogling over the images (and still, do, as I subscribed to their photo of the day).
It was a great pleasure to meet one of NG's most ambitious photographers, Joe McNally.
- Unknown said...
Back in my college days I aspired to become a photographer/writer for NG. It didn't go the way I wanted like many things in life.
I enjoy most of their articles, save for the politically motivated ones. An undertone of rightist, nationalist and dare I say colonialist view of the world creeps in their journalism destroying their credibility. Luckily without the burden of "A" message NG is one of the best sources of information on the international scene.


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STORRS — The annual game between Rutgers and Connecticut had been developing into an entertaining regional rivalry, with seven contests in the last dozen years decided by a touchdown or less.
But Saturday's game in East Hartford will be the final one between the two programs as conference foes. Rutgers is leaving the American Athletic Conference for the Big Ten next season, and that has added a little motivation to this game for both teams.
"It is a big deal," said UConn quarterback Casey Cochran. "It's a big deal for our fans, it's a big deal for our team. But if you think too much about those extra details, you can trip yourself up a bit."
Connecticut (1-9, 1-5 American) is playing mostly for pride. The Huskies are looking to win their second consecutive game after an 0-9 start.
Rutgers, which has lost two in a row, is looking for a sixth win that would make the Scarlet Knights (5-5, 2-4) bowl eligible.
"I think the players are aware of what the situation is," said Rutgers coach Kyle Flood "Any of those things that serve as motivation are great. But the ultimate motivation is to be 1-0. The ultimate focus is to be 1-0, because something like bowl eligibility is a product of being 1-0."
Rutgers last came into East Hartford in 2011, with a chance to win a share of the Big East title. The Huskies instead handed the Scarlet Knights a 40-22 loss.
"That game is a great example of what can happen when you take your focus off the task at hand, which is to be 1-0, and put the focus on ultimately what the result of that could mean," Flood said.
Both teams have struggled to find a productive quarterback. Cochran is the third signal caller to start for UConn this season. He threw for just 111 yards last week, but led the Huskies to a come-from-behind 28-21 win at Temple, rushing for the tying touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Rutgers plans to start senior Chas Dodd against UConn, after benching Gary Nova, a team captain. Dodd, who was a part-time starter as a freshman and sophomore, has thrown just 46 passes this season, after attempting just one as a junior. His last start was the 2011 Pinstripe Bowl, and he is 1-1 in two starts against Connecticut.
"I've obviously been waiting for the opportunity to present itself and I'm looking to take full advantage of it," he said.
Here are five things to look for as UConn hosts Rutgers.
DIMINISHING RETURNS: Rutgers averaged 40 points while going 4-1 over its first five games this season. The Scarlet Knights have been averaging us over 16 points while going 1-4 in their last five. The teams they have beaten had a combined record of 14-41 going into Friday. The teams they lost to were a combined 45-8.
WINNING STREAK: Connecticut has not won two consecutive games since upsetting Pittsburgh and Louisville on consecutive weeks last November. They lost 10 in a row after that, before winning last Saturday at Temple. Linebacker Yawin Smallwood said the Huskies are hoping to build some momentum from that victory. "The young guys, they know how to win football games now," he said. "They know what it takes to be successful. They had not seen that in the first nine games."
BOTH WAYS: Rutgers Ruhann Peele is expected to get playing time on offense and defense against Connecticut. The wide receiver turned cornerback has both a touchdown catch and an interception this season. He's been practicing at both positions this week because of an injury to receiver Leonte Carroo, which has left the Scarlet Knights thin at that position. "He's worked very hard off the field in terms of managing his time," Flood said.
THIN IN THE SECONDARY: Connecticut will likely play Saturday without starting safety Ty-Meer Brown, and two cornerbacks, David Stevenson and Jhavon Williams. Brown is out for the season with a neck injury, and Stevenson, who made his first start the year against Temple, suffered a season-ending knee injury. Williams has been recovering from a concussion. Byron Jones and Taylor Mack will start at corner against Rutgers. Obi Melinfonwu and Andrew Adams will get the call at safety.
END OF AN ERA: Because of conference realignment, this is the last scheduled game between the two programs, though both have indicated a willingness to begin a non-conference series. Saturday's game will be the 33rd meeting between the programs since 1940. The Scarlet Knights hold a 22-10 advantage and have won six of the last eight.