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It has come to our attention that some of our clients have received an email that, on the surface, appears to be from Wells Fargo Bank. It looks something like this.
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In fact we also received one of these. It looks VERY legitimate–until you hover your mouse over the Proceed To Update Here link. If you're using an email client program, like MS Outlook, Thunderbird, or similar, hovering your mouse over the link should cause the link's target URL to appear in the program's status bar at the bottom left of the window. You'll see that the domain name is NOT wellsfargo.com, which means the link is bogus.
PLEASE DO NOT click this link. If you did click the link, and if you entered your wells fargo login credentials, CONTACT WELLS FARGO IMMEDIATELY by phone and take steps to protect your account.
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04/01/2016 – Email Being Blocked by ProofPoint
Recently we became aware that a third party spam filter called ProofPoint is blocking mail from our server. Because this is a third party service, we have no way of knowing ahead of time what businesses or email providers may use them to filter spam. If you receive a bounce email that says your message was undeliverable, please make sure to look far enough down to view the actual reason for the bounce. If it mentions ProofPoint, that is what we're talking about here.
Through their online form, we have submitted a request to be unblocked. Along with this request we also told them that, as far as we can tell, our server is not on any of the hundreds of blacklists checked by our tests. Plus we asked them to send us information on why they are blocking us, so we may resolve the issue if it still exists. As of noon today, we have not received a reply.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause and hope to have the problem resolved in the near future.
01/26/2016 – UPDATE: Email to Comcast, AOL, and Q.com
As of this morning, our email is again getting to AOL.com users. If anyone can confirm the status of our email to Q.com users, please let us know. Thanks!
01/25/2016 – UPDATE: Email to Comcast, AOL, and Q.com
The missing Reverse DNS entries for our mail servers were replaced yesterday within a couple of hours after we discovered the problem. Delivery to Comcast addresses was restored relatively quickly. We're not sure about Q.com addresses as we don't have one of their emails with which to test. DNS at AOL apparently has not yet updated as they're still blocking us as of about 11am this morning. However as soon as their DNS updates, we'll again be able to send mail to AOL email customers. Again we apologize for any problems this may have caused and appreciate your continued support.
01/24/2016 – Email to Comcast and possibly AOL and Q.com
We were just made aware of a problem getting mail delivered to users of Comcast mail and possibly AOL and Q.com. Some mail is being returned and the bounce message mentions a lack of reverse DNS for our server. This feature had been in place since the server switch, so we're not sure why it changed. However we're in the process of taking care of it now, and hopefully it will be fixed by the end of the day. Because this is a DNS issue, and DNS takes time to propagate all around the internet, after the fix is in place, it could take 6 to 8 hours for the fix to propagate in North America, and 24 to 36 hours for the rest of the internet. We regret any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your patience and understanding during the propagation period.
05/14/2015 – Good News!
For those of you who have been having difficulty getting email through to users of att.net, bellsouth.net, and pacbell.net, we've been informed that they are removing our mail server IP address from their blacklist. This should take effect in the next 24 hours or so if it has not already done so. If you continue to have trouble sending to people at these domains after tomorrow, please let us know by sending us email, or by giving us a call at 303-796-3000.
Thank you! :-)
04/29/2015 – Old Server Ready to Come Offline
It's the end of April. Hopefully by now everyone who wished to migrate their email and SquirrelMail address books to the new SmarterMail server has done so with no problems. The old server is scheduled to be taken offline after April 30, but it may linger a few days into May. PLEASE NOTE that once the old server is taken offline, it will not be available again. If you still need to migrate your email, please do so as soon as possible, or contact SOS4Net at 303-796-3000 to notify us of a delay.
While the idComm home page will always remain online, you can get to webmail faster by going to the new webmail login page and bookmarking it (i.e. saving it in your favorites). Moving forward, everyone should now be using the following URLs for idComm webmail and information on using your webmail on the new server.
|Check webmail on the NEW server using SmarterMail. Also edit Trusted Senders, block specific addresses or domains, or set a vacation message.
|webmail.idcomm.com, webmail.sos4net.com (same system, same login), or https://mailhost.idcomm.com/ if you'd prefer a secure connection.
|How to check your junk email folder
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Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?
By JOHN PILGER
Counterpunch, MAY 31, 2017.
"The unsayable in Britain's general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy.
Critical questions – such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist "assets" in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst – remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal "review".
The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years.
The LIFG is proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation which seeks a "hardline Islamic state" in Libya and "is part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by al-Qaida".
The "smoking gun" is that when Theresa May was Home Secretary, LIFG jihadists were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe and encouraged to engage in "battle": first to remove Mu'ammar Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria.
Last year, the FBI reportedly placed Abedi on a "terrorist watch list" and warned MI5 that his group was looking for a "political target" in Britain. Why wasn't he apprehended and the network around him prevented from planning and executing the atrocity on 22 May?
These questions arise because of an FBI leak that demolished the "lone wolf" spin in the wake of the 22 May attack – thus, the panicky, uncharacteristic outrage directed at Washington from London and Donald Trump's apology.
The Manchester atrocity lifts the rock of British foreign policy to reveal its Faustian alliance with extreme Islam, especially the sect known as Wahhabism or Salafism, whose principal custodian and banker is the oil kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Britain's biggest weapons customer.
This imperial marriage reaches back to the Second World War and the early days of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The aim of British policy was to stop pan-Arabism: Arab states developing a modern secularism, asserting their independence from the imperial west and controlling their resources. The creation of a rapacious Israel was meant to expedite this. Pan-Arabism has since been crushed; the goal now is division and conquest.
In 2011, according to Middle East Eye, the LIFG in Manchester were known as the "Manchester boys". Implacably opposed to Mu'ammar Gadaffi, they were considered high risk and a number were under Home Office control orders – house arrest – when anti-Gadaffi demonstrations broke out in Libya, a country forged from myriad tribal enmities.
Suddenly the control orders were lifted. "I was allowed to go, no questions asked," said one LIFG member. MI5 returned their passports and counter-terrorism police at Heathrow airport were told to let them board their flights.
The overthrow of Gaddafi, who controlled Africa's largest oil reserves, had been long been planned in Washington and London. According to French intelligence, the LIFG made several assassination attempts on Gadaffi in the 1990s – bank-rolled by British intelligence. In March 2011, France, Britain and the US seized the opportunity of a "humanitarian intervention" and attacked Libya. They were joined by Nato under cover of a UN resolution to "protect civilians".
Last September, a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee inquiry concluded that then Prime Minister David Cameron had taken the country to war against Gaddafi on a series of "erroneous assumptions" and that the attack "had led to the rise of Islamic State in North Africa". The Commons committee quoted what it called Barack Obama's "pithy" description of Cameron's role in Libya as a "shit show".
In fact, Obama was a leading actor in the "shit show", urged on by his warmongering Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and a media accusing Gaddafi of planning "genocide" against his own people. "We knew… that if we waited one more day," said Obama, "Benghazi, a city the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world."
The massacre story was fabricated by Salafist militias facing defeat by Libyan government forces. They told Reuters there would be "a real bloodbath, a massacre like we saw in Rwanda". The Commons committee reported, "The proposition that Mu'ammarGaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence".
Britain, France and the United States effectively destroyed Libya as a modern state. According to its own records, Nato launched 9,700 "strike sorties", of which more than a third hit civilian targets. They included fragmentation bombs and missiles with uranium warheads. The cities of Misurata and Sirte were carpet-bombed. Unicef, the UN children's organisation, reported a high proportion of the children killed "were under the age of ten".
More than "giving rise" to Islamic State — ISIS had already taken root in the ruins of Iraq following the Blair and Bush invasion in 2003 — these ultimate medievalists now had all of north Africa as a base. The attack also triggered a stampede of refugees fleeing to Europe.
Cameron was celebrated in Tripoli as a "liberator", or imagined he was. The crowds cheering him included those secretly supplied and trained by Britain's SAS and inspired by Islamic State, such as the "Manchester boys".
To the Americans and British, Gadaffi's true crime was his iconoclastic independence and his plan to abandon the petrodollar, a pillar of American imperial power. He had audaciously planned to underwrite a common African currency backed by gold, establish an all-Africa bank and promote economic union among poor countries with prized resources. Whether or not this would have happened, the very notion was intolerable to the US as it prepared to "enter" Africa and bribe African governments with military "partnerships".
The fallen dictator fled for his life. A Royal Air Force plane spotted his convoy, and in the rubble of Sirte, he was sodomised with a knife by a fanatic described in the news as "a rebel".
Having plundered Libya's $30 billion arsenal, the "rebels" advanced south, terrorising towns and villages. Crossing into sub-Saharan Mali, they destroyed that country's fragile stability. The ever-eager French sent planes and troops to their former colony "to fight al-Qaida", or the menace they had helped create.
On 14 October, 2011, President Obama announced he was sending special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops were sent to South Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent was under way, largely unreported.
In London, one of the world's biggest arms fairs was staged by the British government. The buzz in the stands was the "demonstration effect in Libya". The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a preview entitled "Middle East: A vast market for UK defence and security companies". The host was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a major investor in cluster bombs, which were used extensively against civilian targets in Libya. The blurb for the bank's arms party lauded the "unprecedented opportunities for UK defence and security companies."
Last month, Prime Minister Theresa May was in Saudi Arabia, selling more of the £3 billion worth of British arms which the Saudis have used against Yemen. Based in control rooms in Riyadh, British military advisers assist the Saudi bombing raids, which have killed more than 10,000 civilians. There are now clear signs of famine. A Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes from preventable disease, says Unicef.
The Manchester atrocity on 22 May was the product of such unrelenting state violence in faraway places, much of it British sponsored. The lives and names of the victims are almost never known to us.
This truth struggles to be heard, just as it struggled to be heard when the London Underground was bombed on July 7, 2005. Occasionally, a member of the public would break the silence, such as the east Londoner who walked in front of a CNN camera crew and reporter in mid-platitude. "Iraq!" he said. "We invaded Iraq. What did we expect? Go on, say it."
At a large media gathering I attended, many of the important guests uttered "Iraq" and "Blair" as a kind of catharsis for that which they dared not say professionally and publicly.
Yet, before he invaded Iraq, Blair was warned by the Joint Intelligence Committee that "the threat from al-Qaida will increase at the onset of any military action against Iraq … The worldwide threat from other Islamist terrorist groups and individuals will increase significantly".
Just as Blair brought home to Britain the violence of his and George W Bush's blood-soaked "shit show", so David Cameron, supported by Theresa May, compounded his crime in Libya and its horrific aftermath, including those killed and maimed in Manchester Arena on 22 May.
The spin is back, not surprisingly. Salman Abedi acted alone. He was a petty criminal, no more. The extensive network revealed last week by the American leak has vanished. But the questions have not.
Why was Abedi able to travel freely through Europe to Libya and back to Manchester only days before he committed his terrible crime? Was Theresa May told by MI5 that the FBI had tracked him as part of an Islamic cell planning to attack a "political target" in Britain?
In the current election campaign, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has made a guarded reference to a "war on terror that has failed". As he knows, it was never a war on terror but a war of conquest and subjugation. Palestine. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Iran is said to be next. Before there is another Manchester, who will have the courage to say that?" SOURCE
A Note From The Gull
Thank you, John Pilger.
"Fair is foul and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air."
---Macbeth (I.1.12-13)
Everywhere there is brazen subterfuge. Witness this latest gem from the mainstream media. Which is why I no longer take anything for granted and whatever I do take, is accompanied by not just a grain but a huge sack of salt. I still allow myself to be very grateful for small mercies like the rare times when politicians express their objections to the unchecked arrogance, greed, disrespect, rapaciousness, hypocrisy, fake humanitarianism that some nations display in their dealings with the sovereign territories and homelands of other peoples. Not many of the citizens of these aggressor nations appear to be comprehending the full import of the Armageddons that their "leaders" have arranged in the past and are plotting even now to bring down on other nations. Not many of the citizens of these aggressor nations see any equivalence between the grief and rage and despair and destruction caused by a terrorist attack and the grief and rage and despair and destruction caused by foreign aggression. Even fewer of these citizens have the courage to make or express the connection between their countries' actions abroad and terrorism.
On a related matter, our Prime Minister recently registered his discomfort with the ability of the current secretary general of the Organisation of American States to function without bias in that organisation's dealings with the sovereign state of Venezuela. Apart from registering his concern and displaying the dignity that speaking the truth requires, he had nothing to gain from making this stand. In fact, there might have been a worried pause in the snuffling and chomping at the feeding trough as diners wondered how this defiance might adversely affect their meals down the line. But it had to be said and in this matter he proved that, according to Mighty Sniper, although we are small we often prove that we are indeed overwhelming in worth.
OAS head must step down, says Rowley.
Published on Jun 1, 2017, 1:49 pm AST
By Kim Boodram Multimedia Desk
PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Wednesday revealed that during his official visit to Chile he called for the removal of Luis Almagro as secretary general of the Organisation of American States (OAS), over Almagro's engagement of Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, in a "derogatory" manner.
Almagro in March accused Maduro's government of carrying out a "self-coup" after that country's Supreme Court took over the functions of the opposition-led Congress.
Speaking at a press conference at Piarco International Airport on Wednesday on his return from a three-day visit to Chile, Rowley said the Trinidad and Tobago Government registered it "strong objection" to the actions of the OAS with regard to Venezuela in discussions with Chilean president, Michelle Bachelet,
Rowley said Almagro must step down if the OAS is to reclaim its reputation, which has been compromised.
"TT made its position clear to Chile as a leader in South America, that it is our view as a long-standing member of the OAS, that the leadership of the OAS at this point in time, needs to change," he said.
The PM said T&T does not interfere in the affairs of its neighbours and will not be encouraged to do so now.
He said it is now the position of this government that the OAS has been compromised and cannot play a significant role in treating with Venezuela's present difficulties.
Rowley said he has stated to Bachelet that, "The OAS has now removed itself from any meaningful participation and has deteriorated now into partisan attacks and it's threatening to have the same effect on Caricom."
He also remarked on Caricom's role in the issue, saying, "If we are not careful Caricom too could destroy itself as an honest broker with respect to any involvement in assistance in Venezuela and their internal problems."
He added: "If Caricom wants to be taken seriously and to speak with a louder voice, then matters of this nature should be Caricom initiatives rather than individual countries going off and taking individual positions, sometimes influenced by interests that may not be our interests."
Asked if T&T will from now on abstain from OAS votes, Rowley said, "Yes, we are not supporting the initiatives that are not in our view, helpful in treating with the difficulties in front of us." SOURCE
Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.
Mweh ka allay!

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Publish Date: 9/24/2015 1:00 PM
We have arrived in Santiago. We walked for 33 straight days. Some days were 12 milers and as many as 18 miles or more in one day. We reached our destination. We decided not to rush to reach the city. Mary had accidentally banged her knee on the table at the restaurant the night before and it was a little tender.
We left the hostel at 8 AM just as the sun was coming over the eastern horizon. The hostel was pretty nice, fairly modern. I thought we had a nice location along a back wall. After arriving in Pedrouzo, we showered and then went looking for something to eat. We found a place almost across the street. Which was good, because our desire was not to walk far. After a good meal we looked for the church. That was a little further than we wanted to go, but we found it. Mass was at 6PM.
Mass was really good. The priest spoke only in Spanish, but he gave a wonderful homily. How do we know it was wonderful? We asked some bi-lingual friends what he had said after mass. We could tell that the congregation was enjoying the sermon and we knew the priest was talking about 5 things he thought represented a good pilgrimage. We just didn't have all the facts and we wanted to get it right.
Publish Date: 9/22/2015 3:01 PM
Today we started early because we had reserved a room at an albergue and we had to get there by 2pm or we lost the reservation. Mary set a blistering pace in the dark morning mist. Sunrise is at 8 am but this morning we had clouds and fog so it was darker than yesterday. The path through the city was okay but then leaving the city it became more difficult.
That is pattern we experienced a number of times. The yellow arrows are easy to find in the city, but we get to our first questionable decision point and we stand around looking for the proper path. Sometimes we back track a little or guess a direction with hopes of finding a marker later on. In the dark all this becomes more difficult. We have learned to look for well worn paths or to look down the street for a familiar official sign.
This morning we picked up a guy from France we have seen for a number of days. He was sitting saying the rosary waiting for help in finding the markers. Then a couple of women from Ireland joined our merry band of adventurers. We all had our lights on in the morning darkness looking for indicators. Once found we would all take off in that direction.
There haven't been many churches opened in Galicia much to our sorrow. But today that all changed. We visited four churches this morning. The highlights include a church made in the 11th century in the Romanesque style. The ceiling was painted in the 12th century and it still looked wonderful. The altar was from the 8th century and a baptismal font came from the 13 th century.
Publish Date: 9/21/2015 12:00 AM
We have walked for 30 days with only 3 days till we reach our destination of Santiago de Compostela. It has been an amazing journey. We are in the Galicia region of Spain known for the rain it receives. Well we are extremely lucky because the weather has been beautiful for walking. It starts out cool in the high 40s but then warms up to the low to mid 70s. With plenty of sunshine.
The weather report actually is showing only a little chance of rain tomorrow. Excellent. The rest of our walking days limited chance of rain.
Yesterday we started late because we went to church with two priests visiting from the states. They stayed in the same albergue as we did. They helped to celebrate the Mass the previous day, but since it was Sunday morning now they still wanted to do a Mass. They didn't want to wait for the 11 am Mass at the church, that would make it difficult to do the Camino. Like us they didn't want to chance finding a church having Mass at exactly the right time in their journey pass a small village along the way. So they were able to get the monastery to allow them to offer Mass at 8am.
They invited Mary and I to Mass with them. This truly was one of the best spiritual treats of my Camino. They invited us to the altar. The Mass was in English in an old monastery that had been around for centuries with just the four of us. Wow.
Publish Date: 9/19/2015 5:42 PM
Today we started late at 8 am. We were almost the last people out of Triacastela walking the Camino.
We got lost or at least missed a turn this morning. We were climbing a hill on a small mountain road. We saw a yellow arrow but must have chosen the wrong direction. That isn't hard to do. Luckily the road intersected with the path further up the road.
When we reached the top we were presented with a wonderful sunrise over the surrounding countryside. The fog was heavy in the valley but it was clear on the mountain.
We walked among small farming communities. We were on cow paths. We saw 3 types of cows today. A brown or tan cow with large horns. A white kind of shaggy cow. And a jersey cow or black and white cow.
Publish Date: 9/19/2015 5:22 PM
We are sitting in a restaurant in the little village of Triacastela on day 27 having tapas. It was a short 12 miles that were mostly down. Tomorrow we hope to go to Sarria.
Yesterday, Mary's birthday, was a brutal up hill climb going up 700 meters in less than
10 kilometers. The views at the top of Ocebreiro were fantastic. Mary did an excellent job on the hills. Her cardiovascular system has improved this trip.
We were able to go to the laundromat and get 3 days of wash done. The village only has a
Publish Date: 9/13/2015 3:49 PM
We visited Leon, Spain yesterday and then we walked 35Km today. Leon was wonderful. Today we walked in rain for the first time. We went 35 KM yesterday for no other reason than we could.
The days are passing rapidly. We only have 11 days of walking left if we stay healthy. We entered Leon expecting to rent a taxi at the gates. Then go to the hotel we had reserved. Freshen up and go see the Cathedral. It didn't end up working that way at all.
We walked to the Cathedral. We decided we needed something to eat. My coworker, Bill, asked us to see his friends who owned a restaurant. So we used Google maps and the nice lady on the phone directed us to the restaurant, LA Palomo. We had an excellent meal of trout and beans. Wonderful!
Then we went to see San Isidoro church. Then we walked the 2 KM to the 5 star hotel we decided to stay at in Leon. After freshening up we went back to do a tour of the Cathedral.I think I liked this Cathedral most of all. It had a cohesiveness the others don't have. Burgos Cathedral was amazing, but they had added on too many chapels.
Publish Date: 9/8/2015 12:00 AM
Today we are sitting at the albergue in Terradillos de las Templarios. We are at the halfway point in our journey. We have walked over 250 miles or 400 kilometers. I truly didn't think we would be able to do this. Mary has been a real trouper walking through bad knees and the pain of shin splints.
We are sitting and having a beer and chips. We left Burgos 4 days ago. The weather has improved. Well it has gotten warmer. Today was perfect with temps in the low 70 and all sunshine and no wind. A perfect day.
The WiFi has been not so good. Even when the signal is excellent there are 50 to 100 people trying to use the bandwidth. We have visited churches along the way. One had been converted into a museum. They had a wonderful painting of the Annunciation. The artist was unknown but just an amazing painting. The art and engravings inthe churches are fantastic. They have a system where you have to place a Euro into a box to turn on the lights of the altar. I think that is fair.
Yesterday we entered a church that instead of the gaudy gold there were paintings of the life of Christ. I tried to take a photo but the lighting and angle weren't good so it didn't turn out. It was funny because we woke at 6am to make sure we reached the church while it had opened hours. We hoped to arrive before 1pm and we reached the village at 10 am. We ate breakfast and saw the caretaker open the door. The walking was generally flat and Mary was feeling little pain so we were moving faster than 3 mph.
Publish Date: 9/2/2015 12:00 AM
Today finds us in Ages, Spain only 14 miles from Burgos. We are quite excited that we have managed this distance. We hoped we could but we had doubts especially those first few days where we hurt so much.
We went further than the book recommended today because it was cool and we were feeling good. We still have aches and pains everyday.
The weather has changed significantly the last couple of days. It has rained with hail one day and was cool and cloudy all day today. The hail didn't effect us since we had already found a room for the night.
Publish Date: 8/30/2015 12:00 AM
We have been walking for 8 days now. It has been interesting, tiring, painful, fun and a real learning experience.
We never know what the next day will bring. We started with the cool mountain air of the Pyrenees that turned into blistering hot near 100 degrees of the La Rijo wine country. The mountains and the hills have continued to plague us. The up hills slow us down and the downhills are steep and strewn with a lot of different size rocks that are difficult to traverse.
The people have tried to be patient with us. I try to use my un poco Espanol which irritates most of them. I ask a simple question expecting a yes or no, but end up getting more information than I can process. I get a real thrill when I ask the question and get an answer I understand.
Publish Date: 8/24/2015 12:00 AM
Mary and I started our journey to Santiago Spain. The first day we started in Saint Jean Pied de Port in France. The goal was to arrive in Roncevalle, Spain before nightfall.
The weather started out cool and overcast. We had thunderstorms during the night, but just clouds as we walked. We needed to cover about 28 kilometers for the day.
The first 5 hours of the walk was up hill. Even Though the mountain was steep, it wasn't enough to prevent farmers from pasturing their animals. We saw cows, pigs, horses, donkeys and sheep. They all had cow bells which sounded like wind chimes in the early morning fog.
Publish Date: 8/16/2015 5:45 PM
What will I wear each day on the Camino, here is a picture.
Daily wear for the Camino.
Publish Date: 8/6/2015 12:00 AM
We leave for Spain soon. Here are clothes I am bringing.
Well this isn't all the clothes I am bringing. This is only the cold and wet weather gear. I am told it rains in Spain. Especially as we get closer to the west coast and the city of Santiago de Compestala, we are expecting many days of heavy down pours.
We have purchased a rain jacket and rain pants to keep the rain off of us. Our back packs have a rain shield that you can put on the back pack to prevent it from getting wet and helping to keep your clothing dry.
Publish Date: 2/16/2015 12:00 PM
Bill Welter's Book, "The Prepared Mind of a Leader, Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions and Solve Problems"
What are the important aspects of a leader? What's the difference between an innovative leader and the everyday run of the mill leader that is going nowhere? How can you use your leadership skills to solve business problems and move your company to the next business peak?
These are the questions that are answered by my friend, Bill Welter, in his book, The Prepared Mind of a Leader. Bill and his co-author, Jean Egmon, identify the eight skills leaders use to innovate, make decisions, and solve problems.
Publish Date: 12/25/2014 8:00 PM
The reason for the season. The Birth of the Christ Child.
We had a wonderful day this Christmas. The weather was clear and the driveway didn't have any snow on it, so we didn't have to worry about accidents with the elderly relatives. We had a small group this year of only 11 people. Which is okay because that fits rather nicely around our dining room table.
We went to Midnight Mass over at St John the Evangelist Church. The choir sang some hymns from 11:30 PM until the mass began at 12. The dancers did a great job with their ballet type moves. They are young teenage girls with different ballet capabilities. But, the number inspired us telling the message of the newborn child.
Publish Date: 12/20/2014 7:00 AM
See above for some of the titles I read in 2014.
I had a good laugh this morning when I opened my email and saw an email from Goodreads. What was so funny? The email showed that I had read only two books for the year. Say What?
Goodreads is a web site where you can go and update the books you are currently reading or have read this year or even previously. You can write reviews for the books you read. You can hook up with your Facebook account and everytime you finish a book then Goodreads updates Facebook and notifies your friends that you have just finished reading a book.
Publish Date: 12/19/2014 7:00 AM
Ten Ways to get Out of the Christmas Blues
This list was inspired by a comment on Facebook where a friend expressed dissatisfaction with a feeling of the Christmas Blues. I am usually upbeat this time of year as I listen to Christmas music in the car and at home. I am involved in the church choir so there is a lot of fellowship with other members. I get to see my family and the act of buying gifts for loved ones is just a wonderful experience.
I know not everyone has my disposition to optimism and joy so this list will hopefully give you a chance to feel some of the joy that I feel this time of year. I just know doing these things will make you feel better because it will take your mind off yourself and allow you to look outward to helping others. In the act of giving you receive.
Publish Date: 12/18/2014 9:00 PM
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Publish Date: 12/18/2014 8:00 PM
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Publish Date: 12/8/2014 5:00 PM
Sunday morning I was setting up for our annual event at the parish hall to give our congregation an opportunity to find out all the different vocations we offer at the parish. We do this for two reasons, one to make our members aware of the different services we offer at the church and two to give members the chance to join a group. There may be talented individuals that weren't aware of a service that they might like to help with at the church. This allows them to evaluate it to see if it fits with their talents and desires to participate in the parish community.
Anyway, while getting ready for the parishioners to come into the room I began talking with friends who were also setting up and I got the news that our beloved Priest, Father Ted Schmidt, had died. He will be sorely missed as he was instrumental in helping to get the parish grade school back on a strong financial footing. The school had just been awarded the Federal Blue Ribbon award for high quality school systems. The school was paying for itself with higher enrollment numbers. There was pride among the teachers, the parents and the students.
The parish finances were looking better and the community was paying down the amount owed to the Chicago archdiocese for a building project implemented in 2001. Father Ted was active with the youth at a couple of Catholic high schools in the area mostly with the football programs. He was honest and straightforward and wasn't afraid to express his opinion on the church's teachings. The congregation loved him.
At this time we don't really know what happened to him. He was complaining of flu like symptoms on Saturday and had the associate pastor say the 4:30PM mass that day. We suspect a heart attack occurred. The associate pastor found him after 11PM and was not able to revive him. Father Ted was 70 years old. His funeral is scheduled for Friday, December 12th, 2014. Truly a sad day for our parish and all those who loved him.
Publish Date: 12/6/2014 10:00 AM
Title page from the Christmas at Pops Concert at Springbrook Community Church in Plainfield
We had a great time last night at a Christmas Concert at Springbrook Commmunity Church in Plainfield, Illinois. It was titled Chistmas at Pops and was their fifth season. It was a wonderful concert with a lot of audio visual props.
We were invited to the concert by our daughter, Theresa. She plays and teaches the bassoon. She has been playing since junior high school and received a scholarship to the University for her abilities with the bassoon and studied under the principal bassoonist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. But now as an adult she teaches and plays occasionally.
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On a tour of Edinburgh's Festival City the other evening I noticed a statue outside the National Museum of Scotland Read more
iPhone apps for visitors to Edinburgh
If you're an iPhone user, then there are some Edinburgh Apps which you might like to download ready for your visit.
If you're staying at Craigwell Cottage, you'll have access to free wi-fi and many of our guests find it helpful for keeping up to date with their emails or booking tickets for events while they're here.
Edinburgh Spotlight's iEdinburgh app gives you an insider's view on places to eat, current events and perennial favourites around Scotland's capital city – you'll even find a review of Craigwell Cottage in there.
The new app for Edinburgh Bus and Tram provides up to the minute information about bus timetables.
If you are looking travel outwith Edinburgh by bus or train then Traveline Scotland is a useful App to download.
Getting last minute tickets at last year's Edinburgh Festival and Fringe was made more exciting by the Theatre Ninjas app – great if you're in town and want to take in a show.
And if you're an Ian Rankin fan and would like to take narrated walks round the Edinburgh featured in his novels, then the Ian Rankin's Edinburgh app is the one for you.
The Walking Through Time app developed as a joint project between Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, and the National Library of Scotland overlays historic maps on present day ones so that you can see historic changes as you walk round the centre of Edinburgh.
Do you have a favourite app for your mobile phone which you've used when visiting Edinburgh? Leave me a comment and I'll check it out.


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Gaming Detail
The NYSP Gaming Detail was established in 1993 with the advent of Native American Gaming in the State. Currently, there are Gaming Detail Units throughout the State at four Native American Casinos located at:
- the Turning Stone Resort & Casino operated by the Oneida Indian Nation in Verona, Oneida County (unit formed 7/15/93, facility opened 7/16/93),
- the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino, operated by the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in Hogansburg, Franklin County (unit formed 4/1/99, facility opened 4/5/99),
- the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Resort, operated by the Seneca Nation of Indians in Niagara Falls, Niagara County (unit formed 1/16/03, facility opened 12/31/02),
- and the Seneca Allegany Hotel & Resort, also operated by the Seneca Nation in Salamanca, Cattaraugus County (unit formed 4/30/04, facility opened 5/01/04).
The Seneca Nation opened a third casino, the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, in the City of Buffalo, Erie County. At this time the State Police Gaming Detail is providing a presence with Members assigned to the other Seneca facilities, while negotiation between the State and Seneca Nation are on-going. It should be noted that prior to each Gaming Detail unit being established, temporary fingerprinting details were created to perform fingerprinting from several weeks to several months prior to opening of each unit.
Gaming Detail Casino Units throughout the State, are unique in their interaction outside the Division for several reasons, including but not limited to the following: each Unit maintains an on-site presence during all operating hours at the respective casinos, twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week; the assigned Investigators perform both criminal and non-criminal investigations although the majority of the case load involves background investigations required by the Nation-State Compacts for all employees and vendors conducting business at the gaming facility. These background investigations are conducted at the request of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board. The casino operator may employ no employee or manager unless the Board has previously approved the individual.
The level of scrutiny to which employee applicants are subject depends upon the nature of their responsibilities at the casino and their degree of access and ability to influence gambling activities on the gaming floor. At a minimum, all applicants are fingerprinted and must undergo a background investigation by the New York State Police - Gaming Detail. Pursuant to each gaming compact, enterprises or individuals wishing to conduct gaming-related business with a Class III gaming facility must be temporarily approved in advance by the Board and then undergo a thorough registration and licensing process. These enterprises range from sole proprietorships to publicly traded multi-national corporations. Each business applicant and their principal officers and employees must be fingerprinted and undergo an extensive background investigation conducted by the New York State Police - Gaming Detail. At the conclusion of this background investigation, the Board reaches a decision whether the business entity is suitable to conduct business with a casino.
The Gaming Detail has established contacts throughout the country with gaming related regulatory agencies and the experience and expertise of several Members of the unit have been utilized at training programs and as consultants to other gaming jurisdictions.
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Ice-T and Coco are planning to procreate. Ice already has three kids from previous relationships, but Coco wants a baby. Ice has allegedly promised that if their show, Ice Loves Coco, gets picked up for a second season, they'll try to get pregnant. Apparently Coco reminded Ice that if she gets knocked up, her butt will get bigger, and he is down with that. So! Names? Coffee? Chai? Little Latte? [Bossip]
Katy Perry's "E.T." has sold over 4 million digital copies, and it's her fifth song to do so. She's the only artist to ever have five songs pass the 4 million mark in digital sales. And she did it all despite having a crippling disease that turns her boobs into cupcakes. [Perez]
Jay-Z and Will Smith are in negotiations with Emma Thompson to create an updated version of Annie that will star Willow Smith. Pretty sure I can get behind this project, especially if Thompson plays Ms. Hannigan. This seems like a good time to listen to "Easy Street". [Vulture]
Heidi Klum is mostly naked in the new ad for Project Runway. [AdWeek]
- Apparently Lindsay Lohan failed that urine test because she drank kombucha. She says: "I am responsible, and I'm following the rules and obeying my judge and the Los Angeles judicial system." [TMZ]
- According to a source, "Lindsay has been writing and developing a script based on her experience under house arrest. It's horror movie." Hahaha stop. My stomach hurts from laughing so hard. [Showbiz Spy]
- Lindsay shot a comedy sketch before court yesterday. [TMZ]
- Prince will not record another album right now. "The industry changed. We made money (online) before piracy was real crazy. Nobody's making money now except phone companies, Apple and Google. I'm supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It's like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There's no boundaries. I've been in meetings and they'll tell you, 'Prince, you don't understand, it's dog-eat-dog out there'. So I'll just hold off on recording." He also says: "I personally can't stand digital music. You're getting sound in bits. It affects a different place in your brain. When you play it back, you can't feel anything. We're analogue people, not digital." I dunno, if Prince says it, it must be true. [Contact Music]
- Ooh. Scarlett Johansson spent the night at Justin Timberlake's apartment. In the morning, she asked him if they should go for breakfast, and he said yes, let's bring it on in to Omletteville. [The Sun]
- Here are three sneak-peek looks at The Hobbit. [EW]
- Aaron Sorkin and John Krasinski are teaming up for an HBO mini-series about the Chateau Marmont. Raise your hand if you will watch the crap out of that. [Digital Spy]
- After season 5 is over, Jersey Shore will be recast with cheaper tan drunk people. [ONTD]
- By the way: The Jersey Shore kids will start shooing season 5 in Seaside next week, which means no phones, no internet, no friends, no family. The producers are trying to keep them "in the zone," but it sounds like imprisonment, kinda. [TMZ]
- Elisabetta Canalis continues to take care of her pets despite being dumped by George Clooney. Amazing. [Daily Mail]
- George Clooney and Renée Zellweger made a pact that they would marry each other if no one else would have them. [Showbiz Spy]
- Hot ticket: Nikki Sixx will give a lecture about photography in August. [LA Times]
- The goth model accused of dating Mel Gibson insists they are just friends. [People]
- "This fkn Govermnent couldn't find it's Ass with Both Hands & a Map!" — Cher. [ONTD via Twitter]
- "We are absolutely blissed out in love over here! I finally found out what love really means. Don't worry, I'm not writing an album full of sappy lullabies… Not yet, anyways?" — Pink's such a happy new mom. [People]
- "I have to admit that I like my breast to be firm and pert. My mother always told me that the perfect breast fits into a champagne glass. I found that cool and was happy that my breast stayed small." — Cameron Diaz, some of us have cereal bowl boobs and think that is cool. [Showbiz Spy]


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3' to 6' peeling surf with 16kt to 24kt cross off wind, common poly 6' surfboard on a 10m Rally (2012), 15 to 24 deg Celsius water temp. Average session = 2 hours.
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Pure DWTS Season 12 – Petra Nemcova Surviving 2004 Tsunami To Dancing With The Stars
According to Petra and Dimitri's twitter accounts, it sounds like they may have returned to the States? I hope so. I'm excited to see them get some media attention like the other couples soon. Also, I didn't realize Petra had been through a devastating and heart breaking experience when she was critically injured and lost her fiance, Simon Atlee, in the 2004 Thailand Tsunami. Below is a take from The Survivers Club.
Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova is set to appear on the ABC reality competition "Dancing with the Stars" more than six years after she was critically injured in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, reports CBS News.
The devastating tsunami struck while Nemcova, now 31, was on a photo shoot in Thailand with her fiance, Simon Atlee. Atlee was killed in the disaster, and Nemcova had to be airlifted to safety after the wave broke her pelvis and left her with severe internal injuries.
In the months following the tsunami, Nemcova had to go through months of intensive care and physical therapy as she worked to regain the ability to walk. The source says that her appearance on "Dancing with the Stars" will be particularly poignant, as her dancing will represent a significant achievement in the wake of her having to fight to walk again after the disaster.
Since her near-death experience, she has continued to model, working for lingerie company Victoria's Secret and appearing on the covers of magazines like Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.
Petra talks below about her experience for what happened that day. Note what she says about the "beautitul moment" in it all and what she says about "staying calm".
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FOX Sports 1 Features Top Thoroughbred Races in Newly Created Series
New Package Premieres Feb. 2014 from Gulfstream Park
New York - FOX Sports and The Jockey Club announced today a multi-year agreement to air prominent graded stakes races starting in 2014 from many of horse racing's best known tracks on FOX Sports 1, America's new sports network launching Saturday, Aug. 17.
The newly created package of nationally televised races consists of up to 10 telecasts per year. Each telecast includes two top stakes races featuring the leading horses in North America.
The agreement also includes international and Spanish-language rights, including the ability to air races on FOX Deportes, the nation's leading Spanish-language sports network
The announcement was made by FOX Sports Executive Vice President of Production and Executive Producer John Entz and The Jockey Club Chairman Ogden Mills Phipps.
"We're proud to partner with The Jockey Club and to place a bet on the future of Thoroughbred racing," said Entz. "FOX Sports 1 is all about making sports more fun, and few events in sports are as much fun as a day at a great racetrack. Our partnership with The Jockey Club highlights the elements that make horse racing fun: the power and grace of the Thoroughbred, the challenging puzzle of handicapping, and the social aspect of a day at the races. We look forward to showcasing the highest level of competition in one of the most storied of all sports."
"The Jockey Club is thrilled to be joining forces with FOX Sports to showcase many of this country's most prestigious races before a national television audience," said Phipps. "Increasing the national television presence of Thoroughbred racing continues to be a key component of our fan retention and development efforts under the America's Best Racing banner, and it will be gratifying to see Thoroughbred racing alongside Major League Baseball, college basketball, college football, NASCAR, and UFC events on the new FOX Sports 1."
The race series features graded stakes races from some of the most historic racetracks in North America, including Del Mar, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Santa Anita Park and Woodbine as well as the race tracks of the New York Racing Association.
The new series premieres on FOX Sports 1 on Sunday, February 9, 2014 from Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida and features the Grade 1 Donn Handicap and the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap. The complete 2014 schedule of races will be released at a later date.
The race series spotlights many horses that previously competed in Triple Crown races.
About The Jockey Club
The Jockey Club, founded in 1894 and dedicated to the improvement of Thoroughbred breeding and racing, is the breed registry for North American Thoroughbreds. In fulfillment of its mission, The Jockey Club, directly or through subsidiaries, provides support and leadership on a wide range of important industry initiatives, and it serves the information and technology needs of owners, breeders, media, fans and farms. It is a founding member of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities and the architect and sole funding source for America's Best Racing, the broad-based fan development initiative for Thoroughbred racing. You can follow America's Best Racing at followhorseracing.com as well as on social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, and Instagram.
About FOX Sports 1
FOX Sports 1 is a new national 24-hour multi-sport channel launching on August 17 and boasts nearly 5,000 hours of live event, news and original programming annually. The channel has seven pillar sports: college basketball and football, MLB (in 2014), NASCAR, NFL (ancillary programs), soccer and UFC. College football is highlighted by regular season coverage of Big 12, Pac-12 and Conference USA games, while the college basketball spotlight shines on the Big East, Big 12, Pac-12 and Conference USA and the Big East men's basketball tournament. Starting in 2014, select MLB League Championship Series and Division Series games as well as regular season games are coming to the channel. FOX Sports 1 also carries select NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events beginning in 2015; NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races; the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race; and all Speedweeks coverage, including Daytona 500 Qualifying, Sprint Unlimited at Daytona, (2014, 2017-22) the Budweiser Duel, and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NCWTS Practice and Qualifying sessions. Additionally, FOX Sports 1 carries NASCAR RACEDAY, NASCAR VICTORY LANE and RACE HUB shows. The channel also carries the world's most prolific club soccer competitions, like UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and CONCACAF Champions League, along with the world's oldest soccer competition, the FA Cup; plus CONCACAF Gold Cup; CONCACAF Qualifiers, EURO 2016 Qualifiers; 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers; FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019; FIFA Men's World Cup in 2018 and 2022. In addition to Saturday pay-per-view preliminary cards, Wednesday nights are home to the UFC with UFC TONIGHT, live events and THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER. In Feb. 2014, FOX Sports 1 partners with The Jockey Club for newly created package of nationally televised races featuring the leading horses in the country. FOX SPORTS LIVE is FOX Sports 1's flagship 24/7 news, opinion and highlights program, providing around the clock coverage through regularly scheduled programs, hourly updates and an information rich ticker. Original programs include: FOX FOOTBALL DAILY, CROWD GOES WILD, a new live sports entertainment talk show hosted by Regis Philbin; and the groundbreaking BEING: documentary franchise. FOX Sports GO, a groundbreaking authenticated mobile sports experience for iPhone, iPad, Android devices and the web, serves as the channel's digital extension. The app offers more than 1,100 live games and events from cross FOX Sports, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Sports' 22 regional sports networks, as well as scores, highlights, news, stats and analysis. For more information visit www.FOXSports.com/FOXSports1.


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Michigan native and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton showed up at last night's Tigers-Royals bout at Comerica Park, partying in Justin Verlander's suite and launching a Twitterstorm.
She seems to be enjoying herself quite a bit. I don't blame her; baseball games are damn good occasions to get drunk and I spent a lot of the year I was 20 years old going to Tigers games and trying to buy alcohol. Nobody who ever hooked me up was a star Detroit pitcher, though, which is where this might get a bit hairy.
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- Courtesy of WrestlingDVDNews.com, here is the official synopsis for WWE's RAW 20th Anniversary box set that comes out later this year:
"The 20 Greatest Episodes Uncut Unedited. WWE presents the Raw 20th Anniversary Collection, a 12 DVD set packaged in a deluxe digipak. Includes 20 of the greatest episodes in full on DVD for the first time. Featuring classic matches and moments including Lita vs. Victoria in a Steel Cage Match, Undertaker, Triple H & Shane McMahon vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock & Mr McMahon with Special Guest Referee Shawn Michaels, The Rock vs. Mankind in a No Disqualifications Match for the WWE Championship, Rob Van Dam vs. Santino, CM Punk vs. Matt Hardy and much much more."
- Santino Marella announced on Twitter that the grand opening of his Battle Arts Academy in Canada will be Tuesday, September 3rd. There will be a grand opening party on Sunday, September 8th from 7pm until midnight. Everyone is welcome.


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Host plant finding in the specialised leaf beetle Cassida canaliculata: an analysis of small-scale movement behaviour (2007)
1. Host plant finding in walking herbivorous beetles is still poorly understood. Analysis of small-scale movement patterns under semi-natural conditions can be a useful tool to detect behavioural responses towards host plant cues. 2. In this study, the small-scale movement behaviour of the monophagous leaf beetle Cassida canaliculata Laich. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) was studied in a semi-natural arena (r = 1 m). In three different settings, a host (Salvia pratensis L., Lamiales: Lamiaceae), a non-host (Rumex conglomeratus Murr., Caryophyllales: Polygonaceae), or no plant was presented in the centre of the arena. 3. The beetles showed no differences in the absolute movement variables, straightness and mean walking speed, between the three settings. However, the relative movement variables, mean distance to the centre and mean angular deviation from walking straight to the centre, were significantly smaller when a host plant was offered. Likewise, the angular deviation from walking straight to the centre tended to decline with decreasing distance from the centre. Finally, significantly more beetles were found on the host than on the non-host at the end of all the trials. 4. It is concluded that C. canaliculata is able to recognise its host plant from a distance. Whether olfactory or visual cues (or a combination of both) are used to find the host plant remains to be elucidated by further studies.


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"Fast and reliable non-volatile memory of some sort that will replace flash memory
is the dream of more than a few semiconductor researchers and chip makers. And
boffins at IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, think they have come up with a new
encoding technique that will allow for multi-level cell (MLC) phase change memory
to be commercialized at some point in the not too distant future."
|2011-07-13, 18:32
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World's first synthetic organ transplant successful.
|2011-07-14, 09:23
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Computer reads manual, Plays Civ
Oh yes. AI's capable of reading the game's manual to improve their gaming performance... who says manuals are outdated?
|2011-07-19, 02:45
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Darpa Searches for Lifes Master Clock
"Theres a hidden clock that underlies every process of every living thing from when
our cells start dividing to how quickly we age. Researchers at Darpa, the Pentagons
extreme science agency, believes they can find it, using a mash-up of biology,
code-cracking, mathematics and computer science.
If the effort succeeds and, boy, is that a big if the recently announced
Biochronicity program could help us understand why cancer is so hard to beat, how
stem cells self renew and why cells are programmed to die. In other words, itll be one
of the biggest breakthroughs Darpa has ever had."
|2011-07-19, 03:48
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blinded by blood
You can't really alter the telomere though. It's there for a reason, not just to limit our lifespans, but to take damage in place of useful DNA. Maybe if you could repair it, or slow the damage it took (which is what a healthy lifestyle typically does) it would extend our lifespans, but that's kind of scary.
You think we've got problems now? What kind of problems would we have if everyone was immortal? Or far more likely--and far, far worse--if every rich and powerful person was immortal?
Seriously, could you live in a world controlled by robber baron corporatist overlords who can never die? This is cyberpunk dystopia level shit here!
|2011-07-19, 04:09
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As interesting as this research is, I don't think it will go as expected. I remember reading about this guy who takes over 200 supplements daily and leads an extremely disciplined life while waiting for a breakthrough in medical nano-tech, so as to prolong his life as much as possible. I'd rather die at 75 or so, who'd want to live another 50 years of incessant decay?
|2011-07-19, 04:19
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Gamilas Rises
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Location: Republic of California
Age: 43
If one decays. If they do find a reason for the body to basically stop renewing its cells (and make it so they keep renewing when they would normally stop), then one would live longer (you still might die for some other reason we don't know about yet), or at least you could stay active for longer, as I've been under the impression of late that people die when they get old, not just because their body is shutting down, but also because as it shuts down, they can't do the things they enjoy. They get bored with life. My 94 year old grandmother is getting to this point, and by late grandfather likely died because he gave up...couldn't see very well, couldn't hear very well, couldn't walk very well, and his hands didn't work very good. He couldn't read his books, he couldn't conduct the orchistra, he couldn't work in his shop (he was an engineer), and he couldn't hear the television. My grandmother is slightly better off, but she body is just starting to fail her.
If one could still do the things one enjoys doing, then one might have a reason to go on living. But to do that, the body has to at least fuction properly.
But..."people die when they are killed".
|2011-07-20, 02:33
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blinded by blood
By extending our lifespans we also extend the healthy young and middle age. It's not like they just tack on zombie-tiems to the end of a 90-year-old person's life.
I'm actually addressing this in my novel--it is several thousand years in the future, and through various medical advances and genetic tinkering, people are capable of living to be two or three hundred years old. This has become somewhat "normal" and humanity has adjusted as a result--childhood is longer, adulthood is longer, old age is much shorter. Even those who don't have access to cellular maintenance, the major advancements in medicine mean that even the most common citizen will expect to see a hundred and fifty before they die.
|2011-07-20, 23:36
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More on longevity:
5 Ways Science Could Make Us Immortal:
"There are a lot of different ways to keep a human body and mind going long after its expiration date, and experiments are ongoing.
The most promising techniques involve ..."
|2011-07-21, 10:52
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Atlantis lands safely, ending US Space Shuttle program
"Atlantis touched down for a final time Thursday, ending its last mission to the
International Space Station and bringing down the curtain on NASA's 30-year
space shuttle program.
The shuttle and its four-member US crew landed safely at Kennedy Space Center
at 5:56 am (0956 GMT), closing an era of human space exploration for the United
States and leaving Russia as the world's only taxi to the ISS."
|2011-07-21, 15:00
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Gamilas Rises
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 43
Best question is...what is next? I know the Air Force is testing their X-37B. NASA is working on Orion. Private interests have Cygnus and Dragon that are suppose to be up a running by the end of the year, with manned flights sometime after that for Dragon.
So where do we go next?
|2011-07-21, 22:01
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Scientists identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA
Short of it is that two more versions of cytosine are confirmed.
Little longer of it is that this is another step in the process to convert 5-methylcytosine (methylated cytosine) back to cytosine. This has implications for stem cell research because we could possibly remove methylation in an individual's differentiated stem cells (for use in research as an alternative to embryonic stem cells or it can be used for manufacturing individually tailored treatments), and also big implications for cancer treatment because you could possibly reactivate silenced tumor regulator genes.
|2011-07-21, 23:12
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Gamilas Rises
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 43
I still want to see that Clark-based 2001 future...even if it is late.
My question would be how to build a colony with what we are using now? Though I just had a thought...use the ISS as a construction platform like they use to use the space shuttle. They will just need to figure out how to link large sections together in something that isn't modules (cause a ring station or a massive cylinder would be more more condusive to attract tourists and business than the little modules the ISS is made up of now...maybe). Though that is only if they decide to make the station actually have a light amount of gravity via rotation.
That would also give the ISS a purpose other than science and just being there. Also give then a reason to keep it up there longer than 2020 or whenever they think they are going to stop using it. A construction habitat and work platform that makes use of those robotic arms and such. Though it is only rated to serve six people long term at the moment.
|2011-07-22, 12:20
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Molecular Cut and Paste
"A combination of cheap DNA synthesis, freely accessible databases, and our
ever-expanding knowledge of protein science is conspiring to permit a revolution
in creating powerful molecular tools."
Sounds neat. Until someone starts making home-brew biowarfare agents.
|2011-07-22, 12:28
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Fürth (GER)
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Now if we can derive a high level programming language from this, it might be possible to have bio tech developer software soon. I wonder what the programming language could be called then... maybe GOD-PL => Genetic Object Data Programming Language
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