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Before that, baby steps.
Some of those baby steps involve me allowing authors to write stories and novels using my intellectual property, and then collaborating with them, publishing their stories, and splitting the profits while giving them full power in the relationship.
I blogged about it here, and here. My first collaboration, Jacked Up, which I did with Tracy Sharp, has been available for a few weeks.
Two more collabs are now available. Both were a lot of fun for me to work on, and are a lot of fun to read.
Iain Rob Wright is my kind of writer. He specializes in horror and technothrillers, and did a great job teaming up Jack Daniels with his new heroine, Sarah Stone, in the story Straight Up, now available on Kindle for $1.99.
Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels hates to fly. She hates the cramped leg room and the recycled air. She also hates the fact that she can't get a decent drink. The short flight to Florida is a necessary burden to visit her mother, but what escalates it beyond a mere inconvenience is the fact that the pilot is a gun-toting maniac.
Teaming up with an irritable, badly scarred woman from England, Jack sets about trying to protect the plane and its passengers from the homicidal Captain Clive while also making sure that they don't end up taking a deadly nose dive into the Sunshine State.
STRAIGHT UP by J.A. Konrath and Iain Rob Wright
Air Travel can be murder.
Rob is close to finishing a new novel; a sequel to my technothriller Origin called Holes In The Ground.
Jude Hardin has been commenting on my blog for as long as I've had a blog. It's been fun watching him launch a writing career, and it was really fun teaming Jack Daniels up with Hardin's PI Nicolas Colt in Racked, now available on Kindle for $0.99.
A private investigator, a police lieutenant, and a man wearing a Bugs Bunny mask walk into a bar...
Unfortunately, it's no joke when Bugsy rigs the barrel of a twelve-gauge pump to the back of the bartender's neck.
Together for the first time in this explosive, lightning-paced tale of greed, betrayal, and blood-soaked terror (not really, but it's a fast-paced and funny mystery-thriller), Florida PI Nicholas Colt (Crosscut, Key Death) and Chicago cop Jacqueline Daniels (Whiskey Sour, Shaken) team up to stop the robber before another shotgun shell gets RACKED.
Jude just finished a full length Colt/Daniels novel called Lady 52, which should be available before Christmas.
If you're reading this blog, stop right now and go buy those two ebooks. You can spare the three bucks, and the knowledge I'm about to impart is worth the expenditure.
Are you back? Good. Thanks for your support. :)
And now I'm going to share with you a very cool trick which will allow you to sell more books.
If you've been following this little project of mine, you already know a few things. For the uninitiated, I'll recap.
- My wife, Maria, reads all the submissions and decides if they fit in my universe or not.
- I pay for everything involved in the publishing process, and don't recoup my investment.
- The co-author gets paid monthly by my agent, and we split the money 50/50.
- The first draft of the story is written by the co-author, then I do the second draft, rewriting and adding about 20%-40% to the content.
- The co-author has all the power: they can cancel the deal whenever they'd like, and they have final say over price, platforms, and sub-rights.
- No one gets rich writing short stories, but I'm using shorts as a testing ground for where the real money is--novels.
Earlier I mentioned world domination. Here is my nefarious scheme.
Amazon has provided two big ways to assist readers in finding new ebooks to read. The first we're all familiar with; bestseller lists. Readers who like Female Sleuths can browse that list for the Top 100, and find new authors who write stories similar to the ones that they enjoy. It is possible to manipulate the bestseller ranks by using promotions such as social networks, blogs, Bookbub and Book Blast, and sales.
The second assist Amazon gives readers is the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section on the ebook's Amazon page directly under the description.
The items that appear in that also bought carousel are the result of Amazon keeping track of purchases. Any reader who likes Konrath can look at the also boughts and discover new authors they haven't read before. It's like a reader making a recommendation to another reader. "You like Konrath? Try Eisler."
Right now, in the also bought carousel for Racked, there are ebooks by Konrath and Hardin, which is to be expected. But there are also books by Blake Crouch, Henry Perez, Tracy Sharp, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson--all authors I've collaborated with. But it doesn't only link to our collabs, it links to these authors' ebooks written without me.
Customers who bought Run by Blake Crouch also bought Jacked Up by Tracy Sharp, and customers who bought Jacked Up also bought Kutter by Jeff Strand, and customers by bought Kutter also bought Animal Kingdom by Iain Rob Wright.
This isn't coincidence. This is lineage.
How many authors will be linked with also boughts when I have twenty more collaborative stories and novels live? Forty more? A hundred more?
Does my world domination comment seem a little more plausible now? How soon before every thriller ebook on Amazon has a Konrath title in the also boughts, which not only increases my visibility and sales, but also the visibility and sales of everyone who has ever worked with me?
And what's really cool is that readers benefit as much as the writers do. The collaborators I work with are vetted by me. Co-writing with them is a seal of approval, giving my fans opportunities to discover new voices. The first person I did this with was Blake Crouch, and when we began it was pretty one sided--I sent my fans his way. But as Blake's star has risen, he's been sending more and more fans my way... and Jeff Strand's way... and Henry Perez's way... and Ann Voss Peterson's way... etc etc etc.
I wish I could clone myself so I could get through these collabs faster, but I'm only one guy and I also have to run the business side of my growing empire, so it's taking longer that I'd like. But I'm getting through them, slowly but surely.
If you're a writer, and you haven't written a story in my universe yet, what are you waiting for? Follow the guidelines and submit one. If my wife rejects it, you can always rename my characters and publish it yourself.
And if you're a Jack Daniels fan, I encourage you to read not only Straight Up and Racked, but other collabs I've done, all reasonably priced:
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- Lose Big and Save Big!
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- Healthy Eating Tips: Baked Tempeh Squares
- Recipe: Reduced-Fat Meatloaf
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Recipe Tips for the Lazy ChefBy Joe Wilkes
A little later in this newsletter, you'll find an article I wrote about one-pot meals, with some cooking tips for people like me who want to limit their kitchen mess to one pot. After I wrote it, however, this question occurred to me: "Why wash even one pot?" And sure enough, there are many ways you can make yourself three hot meals a day without dirtying even one pot. All you need is a little ingenuity and a stark phobia of the kitchen sink.
Dishes! Foiled again! One of the greatest inventions ever for the lazy chef is something I call "packet cuisine." There's a wide variety of recipes you can make by placing all the ingredients on a piece of foil, folding it up tight to seal it, and placing it in a hot oven until everything's piping hot and infused with the flavorings you've included. One of my fast foil favorites is super-easy and mess-free. Place a piece of your favorite fish (I'm a big salmon fan) in the center of a large sheet of foil and pull up the sides a bit so the liquids won't run out while you're preparing the dish. Add some lemon juice, fresh dill, scallions, salt, pepper, and a splash of olive oil, then seal up the foil. Bake the fish packet in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes, and you'll have a perfectly steamed piece of fish—with no dishes to wash. I know what you're thinking: "Sounds good. But won't I be up all night washing the knife and cutting board I used to chop the scallions and dill?" Not if you use one of modern man's handiest implements—the scissors! In the interest of hygiene, these should be a dedicated pair of scissors for food, not the ones you cut your hair with, and should, at the very least, be rinsed off between uses. But make sure to cut the scallions and dill or any other favorite herb over the fish, and voilà, flavor with much less fuss!
You can use the foil packet technique to cook chicken breasts (they'll take longer to cook than fish—make sure all pink is gone from center of meat and juices run clear), and if you don't want them to be mushy, you can unwrap them after they've cooked through and toss them under the broiler (on a sheet of foil of course—no point in having to scrub the broiler pan!) to brown them. Pieces of lean beef and pork can go right under the broiler, again on a piece of foil. (Make sure you preheat the broiler first.) Five minutes on each side should give you a nice medium-rare steak (depending on thickness). Also, you can save cleanup time on any ovenware—broiler pan, baking pan, cookie sheet—by lining it with foil before you cook. (Please remember, though, never to use foil in the microwave.) When you're done cooking, pitch the foil, and your ovenware is clean! (And to be environmentally conscious, rinse off the foil and put it in your recycling bin.)
The nuclear option. Of course, the microwave oven has transformed the lazy cook movement more than any other appliance. You can make a variation of almost any dish with just a few ingredients, a paper plate, and some paper towels or plastic wrap.
Some may question whether using paper products is the most environmentally friendly option, and it's true that using a plastic or ceramic dish saves trees lost through excessive paper plate use. Then again, you're not using water to wash the paper plate or sending dishwashing detergent into the wastewater supply. Keep in mind, however, that although paper plates are recyclable, they can't be recycled once they've been soaked with grease or other cooking juices.
My friend swears by Quick Rice Surprise. Stock up on rice. There are a bunch of microwaveable rice products on the market that work well—though we would recommend using brown rice or wild rice, so you get more fiber. First, prepare the rice according to the package instructions, then search your refrigerator for any condiments or leftovers that would go well with the rice (that's the surprise!). Salsa or hot sauce is a great addition to Quick Rice Surprise. Also consider using nonfat cheese, sour cream, or yogurt; any leftover turkey, chicken, or lunch meat; tuna; soy sauce; or your favorite spices. This is also a great way to use up any leftover fresh vegetables, or you could add some frozen, thawed vegetables to the mix.
Actually, frozen or leftover cooked fresh vegetables also make a great base for a yummy spur-of-the-moment microwave dish. I'm partial to nuking some Brussels sprouts and topping them with a little Parmesan cheese and balsamic vinegar for a tasty snack or side dish.
Containers contain the mess. Sure, we were brought up to believe that eating straight from the container or drinking straight from the milk carton was disgusting, but it can also be a very practical way of dining in. For example, I usually buy 16-ounce containers of nonfat cottage cheese. For my first serving, I usually empty half the container into a bowl (which I later have to wash—boooo!); doctor it up with my favorite salsas, hot sauces, or spices; and then eat. The only thing better is the second time I whip up my spicy cottage cheese mixture—in the container! Yes, you heard right. I mix it up and eat it right out of the container and then throw the container in the recycling bin! No fuss, no muss—just a high-protein low-calorie snack or meal! This technique also works great with yogurt and similar packaged items. Also, if you can bear doing a big load of dishes once a week, you can do what I do and cook up a big pot of healthy something or other and dispense the leftovers into recyclable plastic containers for later dishwashing-free (or -delayed) consumption.
The food is the plate. Why do the dishes when you can eat the dishes? There are plenty of whole wheat breadstuffs that have enough structural integrity to be used as cooking and serving vessels. Try a mini-pizza on a whole wheat pizza shell, a whole wheat tortilla, an English muffin, or a lavash. A little tomato sauce, your favorite veggies, and some nonfat or low-fat mozzarella and you're good to go. Or you could make a run for the border. A friend of mine gave me this easy burrito-making tip. She spreads some nonfat refried beans and nonfat cheese on a whole wheat tortilla and sticks it in her toaster oven until the beans are warm and the cheese is melted. Then she adds a little salsa, nonfat sour cream, black olives, and some scissor-chopped scallions on top, and enjoys a healthy vegetarian meal, with no cleanup!
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Down and Dirty One-Pot MealsBy Joe Wilkes
For a lot of us, an elegant sit-down family dinner means serving the chicken without the bucket. Having to work until 5:00 or 6:00 at night and then having to come home and whip up something your children will eat that won't get you reported to Protective Services can be a challenge for anyone. Then after the cooking, the serving, and potentially the force-feeding, you get to spend the rest of the evening doing the dishes and cleaning your kitchen so you can do it all again tomorrow. They never show that part on Martha Stewart. No wonder you have the pizza place on speed-dial. But it's possible to eat both quickly and healthily. Here are a few ideas for getting something nutritious on the table in a hurry, and the best part? Only one pot to clean!
(And for single people, invest in some airtight containers, freeze your leftovers, and be a slave to Lean Cuisine® no more!)
- Get to wok. Instead of summoning the deliverymen with the greasy white boxes, try making your own stir-fry feast. You can cut out most of the extra fat, corn syrup, and sodium your takeout place so kindly provides, and if you can enlist some prep help with the chopping, it takes only minutes to cook, and even less time to clean!
- Heat enough olive, peanut, or sesame oil to keep food from sticking to the wok.
- When the oil's hot, add sliced meat or tofu with some crushed ginger and/or garlic.
- When the meat is cooked through, add your favorite chopped veggies, like carrots, celery, cabbage, onions, snow peas, or scallions (you can chop the veggies while the meat's cooking).
- Add a dash of low-sodium soy sauce or tamari or a little orange juice to make a sauce and serve!
Shortcut: Many grocery stores sell mixes of stir-fry vegetables already chopped and combined in their produce or frozen foods sections. They won't be quite as delicious as freshly chopped, but as long as they don't have any extra ingredients (frozen mixes especially might add some sauce or salt you don't want), they're just as healthy.
- Loafing after work. The humble meatloaf. Most of us remember this classic treat from our childhood. It was usually an alchemic combination of ground beef, bread crumbs, ketchup, and whole eggs. Delicious? Yes. Nutritious? Not so much. Much of the deliciousness came from the beef fat soaking the bread crumbs and combining with the egg yolks to give us a couple of days' worth of saturated fat in one serving. Then there's all the extra salt and corn syrup the ketchup brings to the party. But it doesn't have to be this way—a healthy 'loaf can be made, still be flavorful without the fat, and still maintain enough structural integrity to be repurposed as a sandwich filling the next day.
- Use extra-lean ground beef, or either ground turkey breast or extra-lean ground turkey. Check the label to be sure it's extra-lean—if it just says "ground turkey," it can have 15 percent or more fat, and what's the point of that?
- Next, add some vegetables to the mix. You can add chopped or grated carrots, celery, onions, bell peppers, parsnips—whatever you like. Just watch the amounts of juicier veggies like tomatoes, which can turn your loaf into less appetizing soup. The amount of vegetables should be proportional to the meat. (This is also a great way of slipping veggies to the picky eaters in your family.)
- Instead of adding bread crumbs, try a handful of rolled oats. You'll get more fiber and they won't absorb fat the way that bread crumbs will (not that there's all that much to absorb with this revamped approach to the 'loaf).
- Add a couple of egg whites, which, along with the oats' gluten, will provide enough "glue" to hold the 'loaf together. Also add any fresh herbs, garlic, or other seasonings you enjoy. Mush it all together and shape into the familiar 'loaf form beloved throughout history.
- Most meatloaf recipes bake in a 350ish-degree oven for an hour or so and call for the 'loaf to sit for at least 15 minutes to cool, letting the ingredients take time to cohere and giving the flavors time to marry fully.
Shortcut: Take a look a little later on in this newsletter for a terrific reduced-fat meatloaf recipe that follows the principles we've just laid out for you. It's delish!
Also, not good at separating eggs? Most grocery stores sell cartons of egg whites on their own. Or you can use egg substitutes, like Egg Beaters®. In addition to being healthier, they're also more convenient. No cracking, scrambling, or getting hands and bowls dirty. It may only save a couple of minutes, but those are minutes better devoted to serious 'loafing!
- Stew in your own juices. Stew. Or as I like to call it, my vegetables' last stop before Garbagetown. You're cooking and cleaning out your refrigerator—now that's multitasking! You can call it stew, goulash, gumbo, cassoulet, ratatouille, cioppino, or ragout, but most importantly, you can call it dinner.
- Put a big pot on the stove. Put a little olive or canola oil in the bottom, and when it heats, brown some raw meat, poultry, fish (best if it's not too flaky or delicate), or tofu. (If you're using leftover or precooked meat, just throw it in with the vegetables, and ignore this and the next step.)
- Put the cooked protein aside, drain the fat, and then deglaze the pot with a little red or white wine.
- Next pay a visit to the vegetable morgue, also known as the crisper drawer, and add to the pot whatever looks like it won't make it through the night (some garlic and onions are always good, too—even if they're not at death's door). Root vegetables are traditional favorites here: carrots, turnips, parsnips, and potatoes are all great ingredients for a hearty stew. Smaller ones can be scrubbed, trimmed, and cooked whole; otherwise cut them in one- or two-inch chunks.
- Once the veggies have softened and relinquished their juices, add the meat back in, add some low-sodium chicken, vegetable, or beef broth and/or some no-salt tomato sauce, and cook on low heat until it reaches the desired consistency (about 15 to 20 minutes).
- If you're short on time after work, this could be thrown together in a Crock-Pot® or slow cooker in the morning, and when you return home, dinner's ready!
Shortcut: Most supermarkets' meat departments sell pre-cut cubes of meat or fish, all wrapped up and ready to go. Also, it's always good to have a couple of favorite staple vegetables in the freezer or a can or two of beans on hand to throw into the pot.
- The casserolea pan and a plan. How would the cream-of-anything soup industry stay in business without casseroles? Not to mention the canned-french-fried onion companies. Casseroles, in and of themselves, don't have to be bad for you. They start out with meat and vegetables, which are usually pretty healthy. It's the improvisations that usually get our diets in trouble.
- To begin with, choose lean meats. Sausage-and-whatever casseroles are usually yummy because the other ingredients soak up all the artery-clogging fat from the sausage. Using lean meat or poultry will help keep it healthy from the get-go.
- Also, keep the vegetable-to-meat ratio fairly high. Imagine what a serving of a casserole would look like spread out on a plate in its component parts. You probably wouldn't consider a pound of meat and a Brussels sprout a well-balanced meal. Try to keep the meat to about 4 ounces per serving and fill the rest of the pan with fiber-rich, filling, healthy vegetables (not just potatoes, either).
- For sauces, try to avoid cheese and anything that begins with "cream of," as well as actual cream itself. Canned soups, a casserole staple, usually rely heavily on sodium for flavor. You can do much better by using a low-sodium broth, which you can whisk together with some nonfat powdered milk and corn starch to make a faux cream sauce.
- If you like pasta in your casserole, try using a whole-grain variety.
- And instead of adding french-fried onions, how about thinly sliced almonds to provide a little crunch?
Shortcut: Most casseroles can be assembled a day ahead of time, so if you're anticipating a late day at the office, you can make the casserole the night before, and just pop it into the oven the next day. That overnight bonding time you give your ingredients will make the casserole that much tastier.
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Healthy Eating Tips: Baked Tempeh Squares
Missy Costello, Tony Horton's personal chef, walks you through how to make one of his favorite recipes, Baked Tempeh Squares. (Although when you watch the video, you'll notice that they're technically triangles. Yeah, we like to challenge traditional definitions here at Beachbody®.) Simple to make, gluten-free, savory, and delicious—whip some up today! Click here for the recipe.
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Recipe: Reduced-Fat Meatloaf
Who among us (carnivores and omnivores, at least) doesn't love a good meatloaf? And with 24 grams of protein per serving and lots of healthy veggies, this recipe will let you feed your craving for this classic American comfort food without sending your good eating habits off the rails.
- 1-1/2 lbs. extra-lean ground beef, ground turkey breast, or extra-lean ground turkey
- 2 egg whites
- 1/2 tsp. chopped garlic
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
- 3/4 cup finely chopped celery
- 1/2 cup unsweetened tomato sauce
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
- 1 Tbsp. dried parsley
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place all ingredients in a large bowl and mix together well with wooden spoons or hands. Place on board or waxed paper and shape into loaf, then place in loaf pan and bake for about 1 hour. Depending on the shape and thickness of the loaf, it may need to cook for slightly longer. Serves 6.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 1 hour
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|Fat Total
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|2 grams
|13 grams
|12 grams
|4 grams
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This is the first week of school for the kids, and along with all the forms I've had to fill out again [and again and again], 2 of my daughter's teachers requested a paper to be written about my daughter. For me to describe my daughter, "...in a million words or less." Well, they asked for it. That's all I've got to say. [Snort.] So, with assurance from my daughter that I could write it once and print it twice, here it is:
A Million words or less about my daughter? Well, I didn't hit the "million" part, but here she is:
- She's witty.
- Intelligent.
- Has the most beautiful smile.
- Inquisitive doesn't even cover it. She's not afraid of asking the question, "Why?"
- Athletic.
- Avid reader. Avid. And fast.
- She's shy until she gets to know you. Then, it's "Katy bar the door."
- Has a natural exuberance that gets in the way sometimes of her listening abilities. [But time and experience will help to fix that. I'm sure.]
- Determined.
- Did I mention she's determined?
- She can act tough sometimes, but she's really soft and sweet underneath it all.
- Loyal.
- I have found her thinking outside the box and looking at things from a totally different perspective may drive you nuts, but just take a deep breath, and let her explain herself. She just may have a point.
- Can work well under pressure. [In fact, she thrives on it. She may say she doesn't. But she does.]
- Confident.
- Can look at anything and draw it. Anything.
- Competitive doesn't even cover it. With everything. All the time.
- She's not afraid to lose. She's done that a time or two. She says it's a learning experience. That she just wants to get better. And if she has to lose to do so, so be it. [Her words, not mine. Honest. She takes "losing" much better than me.]
- Has high expectations for herself. And others.
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A series of compositions based upon Minimalistic contemplations in Flamenco, Jazz and Pop. 8 compositions that reflect upon values that bond our community.
The Suite
- Sunset on the Garraf, (Post del sol al Garraf)
- Treason and Courage, ( Traició i coratge)
- Children at Pla , (El riure de nadons)
- Mediterranean Ripples and Kipples
- Sweetness with Rage, (Duclura amb rabia)
- Buleria a les Rambles
- My Soul (La meva anima del dimoni)
- Nostalgia
- Dance with me( Bailas)
Thomas will be performing on spanish classical guitar a series of compositions that portray his experience as an Australian Immigrant in Spain.
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Steve Falk, Percussion ( Melbourne Symphony)
Jordan Murray, Trombone ( Lecturer in Jazz Studies at Monash University)
Wominjika Vocal Quartet
Oscar Neyland: Upright Bass
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From the time of the first Kings of Númenor, it had been tradition for the ruler to take a royal name in the Quenya tongue. This tradition stood until the latter half of Númenor's third millennium, when King Ar-Adûnakhôr defied it. He was the first King to take a name in the native Adûnaic language of the Númenóreans, though a Quenya translation of the name was also recorded.
Ar-Adûnakhôr was succeeded by his son, who inherited the Sceptre in the name of Ar-Zimrathôon. Like his father, a Quenya version of his name was also recorded: Tar-Hostamir, where hostamir appears to mean 'collector of jewels'.


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Making Manimals
If you've been laughing at those Neanderthal presidential candidates who still don't believe in evolution, it's time to sober up. Every serious scientist knows we evolved from animals. The question now is whether to put our DNA and theirs back together.
We've been transplanting baboon hearts, pig valves and other animal parts into people for decades. We've derived stem cells by inserting human genomes into rabbit eggs. We've created mice that have human prostate glands. We've made sheep that have half-human livers. Last week, Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences reported that scientists have created "thousands of examples of transgenic animals" carrying human DNA. According to the report, "the introduction of human gene sequences into mouse cells in vitro is a technique now practiced in virtually every biomedical research institution across the world."
Why have we done this? To save lives. If you can't get a human heart valve, a pig valve will do. If you can't get human eggs to clone embryos for stem cell research, rabbit eggs will do. If you can't use people as guinea pigs in gruesome but necessary experiments on human tissue, guinea pigs will do. All you have to do is put -- or grow -- the human tissue in the guinea pigs. You're free to inflict any disease or drug on a human system, as long as that human system lives in an animal.
In stem cell research, moreover, human cells are the therapy. Under FDA rules, they must be tested in animals before they're tested in people. That means implanting them to see how they change the animals. Meanwhile, we're using hamster cells to make a human protein to treat anemia. We're using mice to make humanized antibodies that produce cancer drugs. We've grown human kidney tissue in rats.
So far, our mixtures are modest. To make humanized animals really creepy, you'd have to do several things. You'd increase the ratio of human to animal DNA. You'd transplant human cells that spread throughout the body. You'd do it early in embryonic development, so the human cells would shape the animals' architecture, not just blend in. You'd grow the embryos to maturity. And you'd start messing with the brain.
We're doing all of these things.
According to the British academy's report, "researchers have constructed ever more ambitious transgenic animals" -- some with an entire human chromosome -- and it's "likely that the process of engineering ever larger amounts of human DNA into mice will continue." We're transplanting pluripotent stem cells, which proliferate and grow many kinds of human tissue. We're doing it early in mouse embryogenesis, and we're implanting the resulting embryos in "foster mice" so they can develop.
We're not doing these things because they're creepy. We're doing them because they're logical. The more you humanize animals, the better they serve their purpose as lab models of humanity. That's what's scary about species mixing. It's not some crazy Frankenstein project. It's the future of medicine.
Now comes the brain.
Neurological disorders affect 1 billion people and kill nearly 7 million per year. To study these disorders, we're doing to brain tissue what we've done to liver and kidney tissue: We're replicating it in animals. We've made humanized mice with Alzheimer's symptoms. We've put human neural stem cells in monkey brains. We've added human stem cells to the brains of fetal mice and grown them into adult mice with human neurons. According to the British academy, it's now standard practice to test human neural stem cells by assessing whether they "integrate appropriately into mouse or rat brain."
Last month, ethicists from Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin detailed a proposal by a Stanford scientist to substitute human brain stem cells for dying neurons in fetal mice. "The result would be a mouse brain, the neurons of which were mainly human in origin," they reported. The payoff, if the fetuses survived, would be "a laboratory animal that could be used for experiments on living, in vivo, human neurons." Imagine that: a humanoid brain network you can treat like a lab animal, because it is a lab animal.
The Stanford experiment wouldn't actually produce a human brain. Most brain cells aren't neurons, and the experiment called for inserting human cells after the mice had constructed their brain architecture. But last year in the journal Developmental Biology, researchers proposed to insert human stem cells in mice before this architectural stage. The resulting "mouse/human chimeras," they argued, "would be of considerable value for the modeling of human development and disease in live animals."
When Stanford's ethicists first heard the proposal for humanized mouse brains, they were grossed out. But after thinking it over, they tentatively endorsed the idea and decided that it may not be bad to endow mice with "some aspects of human consciousness or some human cognitive abilities." The British academy and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences have likewise refused to permanently restrict the humanization of animals.
If you want permanent restrictions, your best bet is the senator who tried to impose them two years ago. He's the same presidential candidate now leading the charge against evolution: Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican. He thinks we're separate from other animals, "unique in the created order." Too bad this wasn't true in the past -- and won't be true in the future.
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Dems remove hurdle to clear passage of Ukraine aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats backed down Tuesday and removed a hurdle blocking passage of legislation to aid Ukraine and sanction Russia for its bold military incursion into Crimea.
With tens of thousands of Russian troops massed on Ukraine's eastern border, Senate Democrats decided it was more important to denounce Russia, codify sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and aid Ukraine rather than push right now for International Monetary Fund reforms.
The Senate set a vote on the altered bill for Thursday. The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday approved its version of the measure and it appeared Congress could send its first retort to Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian Peninsula before the end of the week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, accompanied by fellow GOP lawmakers, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, following a GOP caucus lunch. From left are, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. Relenting to GOP objections, Democrats have decided to remove a major roadblock preventing Congress from passing legislation authorizing sanctions on Russia and providing aid to Ukraine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Democrats wanted the Ukraine legislation to include provisions to enhance the IMF's lending capacity, but Republicans were opposed. And since more than two weeks have passed since Russia's incursion into Crimea, they decided it was important to move quickly to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine and codify sanctions against Putin's inner circle.
Eight Senate Republicans introduced an amendment to the Senate measure to remove the IMF provisions.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he strongly supports IMF reform, but the main thing is to get the aid to Ukraine.
"We have to get IMF reform. But we can't hold up the other," Reid told reporters, adding that the White House was disappointed about removing the IMF language. "As much as I think a majority of the Senate would like to have gotten that done with IMF in it, it was headed to nowhere in the House."
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he too understood that political reality. In a speech on the Senate floor, Menendez said Democrats and Republicans need to join together to send a message of support to Ukraine and a message of disapproval to Putin.
"We cannot and should not stand for the violations of international norms that were perpetrated on Crimea by Russia. The world is watching and the world's superpower cannot be seen as incapable of rising to Russia's challenge," Menendez said.
The move signaled a retreat for the Democrats and the Obama administration, which had promoted the IMF provisions.
Holly Shulman, a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department, said, "We are deeply disappointed by the news that Republican opposition has forced the Senate to remove the IMF quota and governance reforms from the Ukraine assistance package.
"These reforms, which require no new U.S. financial commitment to the IMF, are critical to preserving the United States' leadership and influence at the IMF, and to strengthening the IMF's financial and governance structures in which the United States has the largest share and veto power."
Republicans were happy to see the IMF reforms removed.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said, "By adding the IMF issue to this debate, the administration is choosing to divide Congress, weakening our unified front and delaying this urgent help."
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, agreed. "In choosing to pick this fight with Congress, the administration is signaling to President Putin a real lack of seriousness in actually addressing the Russian government's conduct."
On the House side, the Foreign Affairs Committee passed its own Ukraine aid bill on Tuesday, without any reference to the international lending body.
The IMF provisions would have increased the power of emerging countries in the IMF and shifted some $63 billion from a crisis fund to a general account the lending body could use for economic stabilization operations around the world.
Republicans have long spurned the administration's attempt to ratify the IMF revisions, saying they would increase the exposure of U.S. taxpayers in foreign bailouts. Making the shift now, opponents argue, also would marginally increase Russia's voting power over the fund's finances.
The Obama administration and Democrats counter that unless the U.S. approves the new rules, Washington will lose its influence at the IMF and hamper the body's ability to avert economic meltdowns in places precisely like Ukraine. The U.S. is the only major country that has yet to sign off on the IMF changes.
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Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin
Term: 1943 to 1947 The affable boy orator from South Baltimore, Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin was mayor of Baltimore and Maryland governor. He was known for always wearing a black-eyed Susan in the lapel of his suit jacket, and for his ability to connect with people from all walks of life. He was elected in 1943 to his first mayoral term when he defeated Democratic incumbent Howard W. Jackson by more than 20,000 votes and again in 1963, when he defeated Philip H. Goodman. McKeldin served two terms as governor from 1951 to 1959, when he defeated the incumbent Democrat, William Preston Lane Jr., in 1950. A civil rights activist of stature, McKeldin was able to get a civil rights bill, Ordinance 103, by the City Council. He signed the measure on Feb. 26, 1964 -- ahead of the national civil rights bill signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson later that year. McKeldin's guaranteed equal employment opportunities, education, public accommodation, housing and welfare. Historians have said that because of Ordinance 103, Baltimore was largely spared the urban turmoil that swept most American cities in the early 1960s, until the 1968 riots which came in the wake of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. McKeldin is also credited with appointing the city's first African-American school board member. Other mayoral achievements included the construction of Friendship Airport (now BWI-Thurgood Marshal Airport), Liberty Dam, a new tuberculosis wing at City Hospital, the Civic Center, putting in place the city's slum clearance program, updating the out-of-date City Charter, and the waterfront urban renewal that eventually led to today's redeveloped Inner Harbor. At his death at 73, then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer described him as "a man who scaled the tallest heights, but he never lost the common touch. Mr. McKeldin loved people and the city and, in a way, he belonged to each of us." He served his second term as mayor of Baltimore from 1963 to 1967, when he retired from public life and resumed his law practice. McKeldin is buried in Greenmount Cemetery. Pictured: Two McKeldins, former Governor Theodore R. and his son Theodore Jr., wore traditional garb at St. Andrew's Dinner at the Lord Baltimore Hotel Nov. 29, 1962.
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IconBuilderAugust 30, 2007
At some point in the past few months I had considered writing up how you'd go about saving out icons in multiple file formats. With a bit of Photoshop Action action to automate multiple file format creation, combined with free tools like Apple's Icon Composer and the ICO plugin, you can definitely do it on the cheap.
I'm glad I didn't, because the real answer is of course, inevitably, buy IconBuilder.
During the creation of Chalkwork Basic, I had set up my files in a way that would have required quite a bit of adaptation to work with IconBuilder. I figured I'd give the alternatives a look, and ended up saving out all the various file formats with other tools. It worked, but it required a bit more setup, and the process wouldn't have been easy to duplicate.
Since I've been faced with a much bigger task for the new set (coming very soon), I thought I'd look into the tool built specifically for the job, and wouldn't you just know it, it's pretty darn near perfect. Automatic colour downsampling, one-click access to multiple file formats, and flexibility to produce any size of icon I might need.
So the choice between spending more hours of monotonous work doing it myself or just shelling out for a license kind of made itself.
Now if someone can please just tell me if there's a way to automate saving out a file with multiple icons on multiple layers…The choice between spending more hours of monotonous work saving out icons myself or just shelling out for an IconBuilder license kind of made itself.
Just thinking out loud… what about applescript?
I bought Icon Builder a few months ago but asked them to return my money and lock the serial number. It is a good tool, but not great, for me. Being a Photoshop Plug-in makes it's interface very poor and hard to use. The "put all your icons in this grid file" process is really boring and slow, and I felt it required too much time customizing the app to make it fit my workflow.
"The put all your icons in this grid file process is really boring and slow, and I felt it required too much time customizing the app to make it fit my workflow."
Depends what you're going to ultimately do with it. To generate the icon previews I'll need to do something very similar anyway, so while yes it's boring, I have to do it one way or another. May as well pull double duty and use it for the masters as well as the preview.
But if you're not packaging them for selling, I can see how that would be a drawback.
(BTW - you can also create your own custom grid files that contain multiple icons at multiple sizes. That workflow doesn't quite do it for me, but it's possible.)
Glad you found IconBuilder helpful with your construction needs. Although its UI may have a bit of a steep learning curve, once you know what you're doing, it really is the best way to build multiple files from a single source layer. Plus we have included actions that help get artwork into the grid file quickly and easily.
To answer your question, no, IconBuilder cannot run on different layers. All of your art work must be on the same layer for the filter pass. Using the Jump tool however means that getting around on even the largest master sheets is pretty simple.
I'm in the process of creating an in-depth video tutorial on how to create your own master sheets as well as customizing presets right now. It should be ready in a couple of weeks. Keep an eye out for it. Custom master sheets (with dozens, even hundreds of icons) are where IconBuilder really shines. What used to take days to save, now only takes minutes or hours.
I'm yet to even try IconBuilder as I've been happy using a rather old, but still decent program 'Iconographer' (http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html)
(Stand alone Mac OS X app)
It's a little buggy, it's almost 5 years since the last update, but it's simple and just does the job. Best of all, it's Free.
I'll be sure to give IconBuilder a try at some point though, it looks nice just that the price tag is a bit of a turn-off.
I have not quite yet figured out, how to use iconbuilder. You write that you use it for saving the finished icons right?
However, I was wondering, what your process of creating an icon is from start to finish and whether you would be so kind to share it. And during which part of that process do you use iconbuilder.
Thanks a lot.
The fact that icons even need to be built in different sizes is a sign of how lame OSes are. How about a vector format?
Geoff, I don't think this is necessarily an OS issue, but an aesthetic issue. While vector is ideal and keeps things at their same proportions, some colors and lines that would look nice, crisp and attractive at one size may look horrible scaled down or up. Sometimes you just have to make things more vibrant or more crisp depending on the scale.
If it's only 1 icon in a year and only for 1 platform, then there are much cheaper and easier tools that will do the job and give you a satisfactory result. As a professional, you have no choice, this is the one, the only one.
I found that with this process, IconBuilder Pro makes importing files and creating icons a breeze. One of the key features of OS X icons is their ability to scale smoothly at any size. I like that IconBuilder provides specific settings and tools that take the drudgery out of the process of applying scalability, transparency, and shadow features to newly created icons. Although you need at least a basic knowledge of Photoshop to take advantage of all the settings and tools, I like that IconBuilder does come with well-written tutorials and a user manual that clearly explains the operations. Overall, users who are well versed in Photoshop and who wish to create Mac OS X icons should definitely check out this program. Regards
I use Icon Builder and make icons for my mac all of the time. when i set the plug in for making xp compatable icon files (with a .ico file name) it will export a file, but when i copy it over to my xp machine it looks correct in Icon view in an explorer window, but if i put it on the desktop ithe icon gets cropped (always from the top right if that means anything), anyone can help me ?
Have you tried combining the multi-layers (icon psds) into a Smart Object layer and align them with the IconBuilder's grid? Then, you can turn on/off individual smart object layer to export various sizes with IconBuilder or you can use Photoshop CS3's Script > Export Layers to Files.
Great post and comments.
I don't do icons that frequently so I generally do it with the software I have available which is photoshop.
From the comments it would appear that Iconbuilder would only be worth getting (and learning) if I started to do this on a very regular basis. Feel free to correct me if I took the comments wrong.
Great write up. I have always found Iconographer to do the job fantastically and it is on the cheap which is also nice.
IconBuilder Pro is the easiest tool to learn because the examples and tutorials are top notch. And while I realize that not everyone has experience with Photoshop, it is pretty much the defacto standard for graphics applications.
Um, I realize this thread might be fairly dead, but I would like to bump it and reference the vector or not post above…
I think that it is time to start thinking vector whether you like the quality of it or not. Pixel graphics are not going to easily translate onto high dpi displays… seems like no big deal now, but vector svg is there for the using so my personal process is to do the primary icon design as a vector. adding a SVG variant to the ico bundle would be clutch.


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Whether she's wearing meat or gluing pearls to her face – I have to admit that I love Lady Gaga.
Totally diggin' the new single! Visit here to listen (it plays automatically when you open the page).
Now that I have made that declaration – A video treat for you that Jim brought to my attention (Thank you!).
Seriously – What can be cuter than a chipmunk in slow motion?


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6 Retail Customers Who Give The Rest Of Us A Bad Name
It's probably happened to most of us at some point — You go to the bank, or the store and the person you deal with immediately, and without any apparent cause, assumes you have the IQ of a marshmallow peep. Perhaps that employee is a bad person. Or maybe they have just finished dealing with one of the following customers, any one of whom would make the aforementioned peep look brilliant by comparison.
Over at Reddit, there is an ongoing discussion of the dumbest/most clueless customers people have ever had the misfortune of serving.
The one that kicks off the chat is also one of the many highlights:
Yesterday while I was helping out in Best Buy, a woman approached me with a pink plastic phone case asking how many txt messages it could store in an inbox….
I said she needed to have a cell phone for that. She clearly did not understand.
After about 10 minutes of trying to explain that the case was solely for style/protective purposes, I sent her over to the phone department and let them deal with her for the next HOUR.
Another Best Buy-related gem:
Worked at Best Buy about 4 years ago for a summer. A lady came in insisting that her son wanted a Playstation 3. Then she saw the Wii stearing wheel and said "That will work with the Playstation right?" I told her that the Wii is a different console made by a different company – so no it wouldn't work. She snidely says "Oh. So I have to buy a whole different console from you guys JUST for it to work? Typical." then she adds "But you gotta make commission somehow right?" and walks away.
And then there is this customer who was convinced the bank's phone CSR was hacking her computer while they talked:
I work for a bank, and customers will sometimes call to ask how they can access their account online and do online banking.
I told this older woman to go to bankname.com. She started yelling and cursing at me that I made her go into her e-mail and that she can't believe I'm reading her e-mails.
I tried explaining to her that I can't see her computer as we're talking over the phone..and she probably just got into her e-mail because it was her homepage or the last page she viewed.
She wanted nothing of it. No matter how many times I kept asking her to find the address bar and type bankname.com…she said that it kept bringing her back to her e-mail.
The conversation lasted 45 minutes. She was yelling the entire time. I pretty much wanted to shoot myself in the head.
And the customer who has mentally checked out before paying the cashier:
one time after ringing up a customer I told him his total, he said "ok" and just sat there… expecting me to do something else, i waited a few seconds and said the total again and asked if it was going to be cash or credit, he looked at me like i had two heads, I waited again and said "uhm, are you going to pay for all of this or were you just wondering how much it costs?" (happens a lot more than you think) he gets all huffed up and says in a loud voice "I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO TELL ME THE TOTAL!" i was stunned and really was at a loss for words, another customer behind him apparently got fed up and told him, "she told you three damn times!" he paid and booked it
The customer who would rather argue about the nature of a "bike store" than go to a retailer who can actually help him out:
I work at a bike shop that sells bicycles and other sporting goods. Very obvious when you walk in the door. Had a guy walk all the way across the shop to the back and say "I need a chain for my motorcycle". I pause for a minute, look at the flat fix I'm doing, look back at him and say "well, I think there's an autopart store down the street…" Then we had to fight about what kind of a bike shop we were for a few minutes.
Finally, here are the highlights of the epic story of utter confusion from a Staples print center employee:
Some older lady brought in her laptop and asked if I could print an e-mail off for her. She booted it up and proceeded to get angry because her Internet wasn't working. I explained that she would need to connect to our store wi-fi to work. No, that was unacceptable and 'made no sense'. She 'didn't have to do that at home'. And started yelling at me that I did something to her computer to delete her Internet (??)…
I connected her to our wi-fi… And gave it back to her so she could get to her e-mail. 'See, this is my Internet. I told you…' She half mumbles this in irritation.
Now, she doesn't know where her e-mail is ('usually it's automatically on there!'). I ask her what e-mail she uses. Gmail? Yahoo? Hotmail? She looks at me like I'm stupid. 'why does that matter?' At this point I'm getting pissed off. I have several other customers waiting on me. I mess around on her bookmarks, hoping that it was on there somewhere. Thank god it was. I connected her to the Comcast e-mail site. She doesn't know her fucking password. After a few botched password guesses, she decides to call her son to ask him…
I get into her e-mail. She doesn't remember which e-mail it was. I'm going one by one in her inbox. Nope. She then tells me it was from a few months ago…. I had to sift through 3 months of spam to find it. It was a fucking EXPIRED spa coupon. I pointed out that it was expired and she waved it off and told me to print it out. I explained that I would need to transfer it to a flash drive to print off from our computer. She tells me that it should print off from her computer. 'That's what it does at home!'…
Then, the Windows update thing pops up. I ignore it while I'm trying to transfer the file over.'What are you doing? You can't ignore that'. She pulls the laptop toward her and presses update, which requires it to shutdown. No, she didn't postpone it for '4 hours'. She does it for right. now.
Obviously, the bad behavior of another customer is never an acceptable excuse for a store employee to turn their anger on you. But it does help if we remind ourselves that most retail workers slap on a grin and do their best to put up with clueless customers — sometimes several of them in a day.
"Respect is a two-way street," reads the adorable kitten poster that hangs over my bed… next to my Wilford Brimley collage.
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April 20, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Junior opposite hitter Jake Rosener was named Volleyball Magazine's Scholar-Athlete of the Month in the latest May issue.
Rosener, a native of Cupertino, Calif., was a 2008 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic selection and finished this 2009 season second on the team with 258 kills. Rosener averaged 2.72 kills per game and averaged 1.43 digs per set this season, which was also second on the squad.
Rosener is a biology major, and according to Volleyball Magazine, lists molecular genetics as his favorite class at UCSB.
Earlier this year UCSB Athletics unveiled the BE Great initiative. BE Great is dedicated to maximizing leadership ability, strong on-campus interaction, and general welfare for all 450 student-athletes and Intercollegiate Athletics staff at UC Santa Barbara. BE Great also focuses on personal and career development, diversity, and social awareness, along with ensuring academic success. UCSB has a 92% student-athlete graduation rate.
The UC Santa Barbara Athletics Department is gearing up for the 2009 All Gaucho Reunion, scheduled on campus for Friday-Sunday, April 24-26. Among other events, athletics will hold an evening reception on Friday night and a breakfast on Saturday morning. For more information on the All Gaucho Reunion, please click here.


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BSA swimmer test
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
- Jump feet first into water over the head, level off, and begin swimming.
- Swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: side, breast, trudgen, or crawl. Swim 25 yards using an easy, resting backstroke.
- The 100 yards must be completed without stops and must include at least one sharp turn.
- Rest by floating…Long enough to demonstrate ability to rest when exhausted.
- Jump feet first into water over the head, level off, and begin swimming.
- Swim 25 feet on the surface.
- Stop, turn, and resume swimming back to the starting place.
- Did not complete either of the swimming tests.
Requirement resources
- Diving (has feet-first entries as well)
- Sidestroke - Breaststroke - Trudgen - Crawl - Backstroke - Swimming Turns - Floating
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See Swimming skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: Swimming & Lifesaving merit badge pamphlets • Guide to Safe Scouting • Safe Swim Defense • Safety Afloat
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Student Organizations
Depending on your career goals and interests, there are a number of active student clubs on campus with links to microbiology. In particular, the Pre-Vet Club and the Biotechnology and Microbiology Club have strong connections to our department. Click on the links below to go to their club page:
Pre-Vet Club
Biotechnology and Microbiology Club
Other clubs with links to microbiology include Pre-Dentistry and Pre-Medicine.
Pre-Dentistry Club
The goals of the pre-dentistry club are:
- to foster and develop an interest in those students of NDSU pursuing Dentistry as their career.
- To promote unity and community among students interested in the dental field at NDSU.
- To provide opportunities for students interested in the dental field to participate in professional development activities.
- To make students aware of admission requirements for dental schools.
- To provide the Fargo/Moorhead Metro Area public service.
Pre-Med Association
An organization for pre-medical students aimed at associating members with others with similar interests, improving a member's knowledge of the healthcare field, and providing them with information to succeed as an undergrad.


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It's nice to see heavy hitters in an all-VX video. It was classic Zero form to premiere its new video Cold War in Encinitas at the La Paloma theater. Jamie Thomas started the night in epic fashion getting every Zero skater, past and present, and filmers, onto the stage. Ellington, Copalman, Lopez, Lee Dogg, you name it—it was an epic photo op. What followed once the house lights went down was a 40 minute blitzkrieg of savage tricks you're going to love. Everyone had a full part! No spoilers—go see it/buy it ASAP. Check the premiere photo gallery below.
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Hi Kristine, I'm taking lessons and would like to play against some other people to improve my game. I don't think I'm near your level but if you'd like to give it a shot, let me know....thanks! Jenny
I'm a nurse practitioner, so I don't have a set M-F schedule. I'm off tomorrow-next Monday. Sunday isn't good for me, NFL football games to watch! :) Jenny
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Here seem to be two good books on topic of atta/anatta.if we become attached and try to hold on to things that will inevitably change and disappear, then we are bound to suffer. This argument also seems to be aimed directly at the early Upanisadic notion of the self as an unchaning, eternal absolute that is free from all suffering; in the phrase 'this is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self' there appears to be a deliberate echo and rebuttal of the Chandogya Upanisad's 'this is the self, this is what you are'.10 (Gethin, Foundations of Buddhism, p. 137)
Where Joaquín Pérez Remón argues that we have made too much of the anatta teaching at expense of atta, and a true self lurks behind: "This transcendent self was the one asserted whenever one was made to say of the empirical factors, 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self', a formula that equivalently says, 'I am beyond all this, my self transcends all this'."
Peter Harvey's book argues against the above it seems. Look on amazon book reviews to see a little war where proponents of true-self sort of teaching are giving 1star reviews to Peter Harvey's book, and Steve Collins book selfless persons. Also 1 1star criticism of Joaquín Pérez Remón book.


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A Short, Illustrated History of the San Francisco Bay Area
This series forms the border of the San Francisco Bay Area Visitor's Map.
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1. Short History of the San Francisco Bay Area
2. Formation of San Francisco Bay
3. Native Americans in the Bay Area during the 1700's
4. Presidio established at entrance to San Francisco Bay, 1776
5. Missions established in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1776-1823
6. California becomes part of Mexico, 1821
7. Yerba Buena founded, 1835
8. Ranchos in the Bay Area, 1830's and '40's
9. California becomes part of the United States, 1848
10. California Gold Rush, 1848
11. Population of San Francisco explodes, 1849
12. Levi Strauss caters to gold miners, 1853
13. U. S. Mint established in San Francisco, 1853
14. Clipper ships and San Francisco, 1850's
15. San Francisco's Barbary Coast, late 19th Century
16. Immigration to San Francisco Bay Area, late 19th Century
17. Oakland and first transcontinental railroad, 1869
18. Golden Gate Park founded, 1870
19. San Francisco's first cable car, 1873
20. University of California opens Berkeley campus, 1873
21. San Francisco Bay Area ferries, 1870's
22. William Randolph Hearst and San Francisco Examiner, 1887
23. Leland Stanford founds university, 1891
24. Oakland writer Jack London, 1900
25. San Francisco earthquake of 1906
26. Muir Woods founded, 1908
27. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915
28. Alcatraz Island as prison, 1933-1963
29. Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge open, 1936-1937
30. Amelia Earhart, 1937
31. Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island, 1939-40
32. Bay Area shipbuilding in World War II
33. Physics research and berkelium at UC Berkeley, 1940's
34. Beat Generation at North Beach, 1950's
35. Hippie culture at Haight-Ashbury, 1969
36. Computer development in Silicon Valley, 1970's
37. Super Bowl, 1985
38. Earthquake of 1989
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Monday, April 30, 2012
2012 NFL Draft Winners and Losers
Unlike the 2011 draft overshadowed by the owners' lockout, the 2012 draft was all about action, with pick-for-pick and player-for-pick trades dominating the headlines.
2012 Draft Winners
* Trigger-happy GMs — In the first round alone, nine teams traded up. All told, nearly half the league was involved in a trade involving a first-round pick. Personally, I love that. Trades are interesting, and it makes sense to target specific players rather than just "best available".
* Green Bay Packers — Loaded up on defense, solidifying their pass pressure with edge rusher Nick Perry and interior linemen Jerel Worthy and Mike Daniels. Cornerback Casey Hayward is a nice prospect to eventually replace Charles Woodson.
* Kansas City Chiefs — They figure to be a lot better in 2012 than 2011. Most of that comes just from an easier schedule and better luck with injuries, but they've also made some nice moves in free agency (Eric Winston), with a solid draft including Dontari Poe, the first defensive lineman off the board.
* Pick-for-player trades — Brandon Marshall for a pair of third-rounders. DeMeco Ryans for a fourth-rounder. Asante Samuel for a seventh. Huh? Marshall has as much pure talent as any receiver this side of Calvin Johnson. He has five straight 1,000-yard seasons and just turned 28. Surely a proven number one receiver is worth more than a couple draft choices that might yield starters. Ryans was the leader of a defense that ranked 2nd in yards allowed, a two-time Pro Bowler who's only 27. You're going to replace him with a fourth-round draft choice? Samuel has been one of the league's premier ballhawks for six seasons in a row. Even if he's slowing down, he's a starting corner, and most seventh-rounders don't even make the team, much less the starting defense.
* Cincinnati Bengals — Five picks in the first three rounds, thanks to a trade with the Patriots and the spoils of the Carson Palmer Robbery. Their early selections weren't sexy — a cornerback, three linemen, and a receiver from Rutgers — but after drafting Andy Dalton and A.J. Green last year, it was appropriate for the team to focus on less glamorous positions.
* Jacksonville Jaguars — Addressed their needs. I don't usually like trading up early in the first round, but Justin Blackmon makes so much sense for Jacksonville. The team hasn't had an elite receiver since Jimmy Smith, and it's hard to evaluate a young quarterback when he's throwing to sub-par talent. Pass rusher Andre Branch fills a huge need. The Jags ranked 32nd in sacks in 2009, 30th in 2010, and tied for 25th last year. They're moving in the right direction, but this is a long-standing problem.
* Minnesota Vikings — Another team that drafted for need without reaching for a player who could have been drafted lower. The team has high hopes for Matt Kalil as a franchise left tackle, and was even able to pick up a few extra picks by trading down and selecting him fourth. Their next two choices, DBs Harrison Smith and Josh Robinson, address the team's most vital need: pass coverage. Last year the Vikings tied for the league lead in sacks (50) but allowed the worst passer rating in the NFL (107.6).
* Quarterbacks — We've known for a long time that Andrew Luck was going to be a high draft pick, and Robert Griffin III got very hot after his Heisman win. But this was probably the best first round for QBs since 1999, with four quarterbacks taken, including three in the top 10 and both of the top two overall.
* Indianapolis Colts — Obviously their draft will turn on Andrew Luck's success at the pro level, but I like that they're putting him in position to succeed by drafting WR T.Y. Hilton and TEs Coby Fleener and Dwayne Allen to give Luck some weapons besides Reggie Wayne.
* Alabama Crimson Tide — Four first-rounders, including two in the top 10, make them the most successful school in this year's draft.
* Pittsburgh Steelers — Remarkable just for the size of their draft picks. The first two went to offensive linemen David DeCastro and Mike Adams. DeCastro, the smaller of the two, goes 6'5", 316. Fourth-round nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu is listed at 348 lbs. Ta'amu alone could make this draft a success if he steps in for Casey Hampton, and at least one of the offensive linemen should help patch a perennial weakness.
* St. Louis Rams — Turned their original first-round pick into three ones, a two, and a five. They probably won't be good in 2012, but they're laying a foundation for the future.
2012 Draft Losers
* Washington Redskins — I believe they got robbed in the trade to get RG3, and I don't understand drafting another quarterback in the fourth round. This team has so many needs, and most of them haven't been adequately addressed.
* The Big Ten — Seven SEC players went before anyone from the Big Ten. Two Baylor Bears got drafted before anyone from the Big Ten. No one from this misnamed conference was drafted until the Lions chose Iowa lineman Riley Reiff 23rd overall. Twenty-two players were chosen before anyone from what is supposed to be a powerhouse conference.
* Miami Dolphins — There are some things I like about their draft, but Ryan Tannehill was probably a reach at 8th overall, and I don't see how Michael Egnew is going to replace Brandon Marshall.
* Kellen Moore — I know his size and arm strength scared teams away, but this is one of the most successful college QBs in memory, and it's stunning that no one even wanted to roll the dice on him in the later rounds.
* Seattle Seahawks — Maybe they got some good players, but they largely ignored their biggest needs. I don't understand how Matt Flynn, or anyone else, is going to succeed with those receivers and that offensive line.
* New Orleans Saints — It's hard to evaluate a team during such a tumultous offseason, with some league-imposed punishments still yet to come. But the Saints didn't have a first- or second-round draft choice, so they certainly can't be draft-weekend winners.
* Oakland Raiders — Still paying for Carson Palmer. Like New Orleans, they didn't have a pick until the third round. Palmer had better return to his 2005-07 form, or the Raiders will regret that trade for a long time.


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Free Beer & Hot Wings: California High School Holds Prom Draft [Video/Poll]
A high school in Newport Beach, Calif., is getting lots of attention because of an NFL-style draft, in which male students are "drafting" their prom dates.
In some cases, students are paying money to one another to increase their draft position.
This whole "prom draft" has sparked outrage among many, even though students of both genders at the school don't really seem to mind that much.
Some say the female students are being objectified, and that this will lead to further trouble down the road.
What do you think? Should students be allowed to hold a prom draft to select their prom date?
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text: Ok, everyone can post in Red's Live, but only experienced members can post in Old Red Guard? I don't really understand why we have to look at two boards and only be allowed to post in 1.....I've been here since this thing pretty much started and i dont know if i necessarily find it insulting, but im pretty disappointed this board once was "For Reds fans, by Reds fans" has now only turned into experienced or paying members only for the Old Reds Guard board....Personally i unfortunately can't sponser any money into this site b/c im in college and am pretty much dead broke. Besides what exactly does it prove being able to have two boards and being allowed to only post on 1? Why not have 1 completely unseen from people that are "inexperience" or "non-paying"? I dont know it really just hit me tonight that its kind of ridiculous that it has been spread apart like this. :confused:


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Besides which everyone who has been here for a while knows if you are going to misspell "hypocrites" then it needs to be "hippocrates" If you gotta do it wrong, do it wrong right.
Really, what is people's problem with homosexuality, anyway, besides the obvious homophobia? Why aren't people more concerned with not eating pigs or wearing mixed fabric? I don't get it.
I don't understand the homophobia either.
Honestly, I don't see how having gays in the society affects any of these people.
-.- We live on a very sad planet.
@Diane - because those people LIKE pig meat and mixed fabric (as well as premarital and extra-marital sex). That's why we call it a "delusional superstition." LOL
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It was seven years ago yesterday that BP's Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and triggering an environmental catastrophe that in many ways has continued to this day. It is a moment I will never forget: I was in a small plane flying over the Gulf that next morning, watching the thick black plume of smoke with a mixture of shock and alarm. That soon [...]Read More »
The big, potentially positive story in Louisiana environmental circles has been the push to restore the state's depleted wetlands. It had become increasingly clear that something had gone terribly wrong in the Bayou State, where the swamps define a way of life — and also perform a very important role. These reedy marshes — as regular readers know well by now — are Louisiana's natural defense barrier. But they've been [...]Read More »
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The main topic on this blog in the last few years has been the danger posed by society's addiction to fossil fuels — an addiction we continue to feed with more and more offshore drilling in the Gulf and elsewhere, with fracking that pollutes our environment and causes earthquakes, and with pipelines that leak and taint our sources of pure drinking water. But in politics they have a saying, that [...]Read More »
Restoring wetlands is certainly an expensive proposition. Even with monies available from sources such as the massive settlement that BP reached with Louisiana, the federal government and other Gulf states over the Deepwater Horizon spill, officials struggle to come up with all the funds needed to replenish coastline and bring back to life marshes and bayous that have been destroyed by energy exploration or damaged by pollution or other activities. [...]Read More »
Despite the growing evidence about problems from tainted wells to earthquakes, it's taken a while for opposition to fracking to build, especially among our elected officials. Back in the mid-2000s when the boom in unconventional drilling for natural gas and oil was just taking off, many governors and other politicians were sold on the promise of new jobs and that natural gas would be a cleaner burning fuel than coal [...]Read More »
Late last year, I told you about the dire situation in the small, mostly black and underprivileged Louisiana community of St. Joseph. For years, residents had complained about the brackish and discolored water that flowed from their tap. But a largely unresponsive City Hall ignored those complaints, as did mostly unaware state and federal regulators. When the city water was finally tested in 2016, officials found shockingly high levels of [...]Read More »
The book that triggered the environmental movement in America was Silent Spring, published by Rachel Carson in 1962. The subject of the book was the indiscriminate use of pesticides such as DDT — which was banned by the federal government a few years later, in part a result of the outcry that Carson had raised. The title refers to the fact that flagrant abuse of these chemicals was killing not [...]Read More »
It wasn't that long ago when the issue of water pollution in West Virginia was front-page national news. You may remember the incident that happened just over three years ago, in January 2014, involving a company called Freedom Industries. To paraphrase the old Janice Joplin song, "freedom" was just another word, in this case, for corporate neglect. A holding tank filled with crude 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol, a highly toxic chemical used to wash [...]Read More »
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WHOO!! The next issue of 'Evolution: Education and Outreach' is up! This issue includes two lesson plans for using HIV to understand evolution:
Molecular Evolution: The HIV Envelope ProteinSweet! I approve! And if you have any specific Qs about HIV in those lesson plans, leave a comment!
Molecular Evolution: HIV Drug Targets and Resistance
I also strongly encourage students, teachers, Average Joes, non-biologists, everybody to check out other articles (they arent too long or scary!). Im lovin T.R. Gregorys explanation of how to understand phylogenetic trees!


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