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Moms-to-be who choose a friend or relative to act as their doula during delivery are more likely to have a positive birth ex-perience. In a study of 600 first-time moms, half were given the chance to select a close friend to be trained as a doula. Those who were assisted in the delivery room by a handpicked doula reported feeling better after the birth, as well as about themselves and their newborns, compared with women who did not have a doula.
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Valentine's Day. Most girls in relationships love it. Everyone else hates it. Cat Wrangler and I? It's an excuse to have cheese fondue at home. A much better, cheaper option than dining out in LA during one of the busiest restaurant nights of the year. Also, traffic is horrendous because everyone is trying to get to their date location. To put it in perspective, there's traffic, LA traffic, LA holiday traffic and then LA Valentine's Day traffic. Yeah.
Shredding blocks of cheese isn't CW and my idea of fun. Plus, I'd be more likely to shred my fingers instead. I'm really accident prone. Like "see a pot hole a mile away and still fall in it" clumsy. It's a wonder I haven't injured myself more while in the kitchen….
To save ourselves time and prevent a visit to the ER, I just buy those fondue blocks you melt in your pot. Get a loaf of good bread (I recommend La Brea Bakery's Rosemary Olive Oil or Roasted Garlic loaves), some of those Lil' Smokies sausages, some veggies/fruit like celery, apples, broccoli and you're good to go. Quick, easy and delicious.
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Ever since ISPs like Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter began imposing monthly data caps on their Internet customers, there's been criticism that so-called "data hogs" — the folks who are the top consumers of data — aren't actually responsible for much of the potential network congestion issues faced by Internet providers.
The idea goes like this: While there are certainly some broadband users who download far more data than others, their use tends to be relatively consistent, and may even peak during the ISP's most-idle hours in the early morning. Conversely, ISPS tend to face their biggest traffic loads in the late afternoon through about 11PM, as home Internet users come home, check their email, romp on Facebook, and maybe watch or download some high-definition streaming video from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, or Apple. In those times, the "data hogs" usually aren't any more "piggish" than anyone else. ISPs' network congestion, then, mostly stems from the swarms of everyday users jumping online to do ordinary, everyday things.
The idea that usage caps are a blunt, inaccurate tool to control network congestion is not new. However, the CEO of the mid-sized ISP Sonic.net has recently thrown a new notion into the mix: what if those data caps are about protecting ISP's television businesses?
The idea behind data caps
From an ISP's point of view, data caps are usually presented as a way to prevent over-zealous users from consuming an unfair share of network bandwidth. As the capacity of broadband connections to the home has grown, individual home users are now capable of subscribing to Internet services that would have been in the realm of commercial operations and even ISPs just a decade ago. ISPs don't necessarily have the back-end network and peering capacity to deliver 100 percent of the bandwidth sold to their subscribers at any given time. While ISPs work to build out their infrastructure, they rely on the fact that not every customer is going to be online all the time, demanding their full allocation of bandwidth. ISPs might not be able to give all their customers all their allocated bandwidth all the time, but ISPs gamble that being able to give most of their customers most of their allocated bandwidth most of the time ought to be good enough. After all, most Internet users don't have the technical background to reliably measure the bandwidth their receiving from their ISP at any given moment.
[Source: Google Measurement Lab]
The idea that bandwidth is a limited, precious commodity at ISPs is what leads to data caps: They're a form of rationing. Imagine a community experiencing a famine. If each family was rationed one bag of rice a week, it wouldn't tolerate a single individual walking off with five bags of rice every day. That's how ISPs characterize so-called "data hogs:" consuming an unfair share of bandwidth, to the detriment of other users on the network. Take more than your fair share, you'll be punished — either by being required to pay more for service, or by having service limited or terminated.
Who do data caps punish?
To challenge the notion that so-called "data hogs" are slow things down for everyone else, industry analyst Benoit Felten issued a challenge a couple years ago on his personal Fiberevolution blog (to separate it from his professional work as an analyst): If ISPs were willing to provide him with a particular dataset about their usage patterns, he would conduct a full analysis on it for free, and publish the results regardless of whether they backed up his personal assertion that heavy data users were major contributors to network congestion.
Felten carries some clout in the industry — he's not some random blogger with a weird notion. Nonetheless, it surprised no one when ISPs failed to clamber to Felton's doorstep and offer up exactly the data Felton wanted. After all, if he was right, there would be public data analysis refuting the fairness of ISP data caps. However, a single ISP did answer the challenge: mid-sized California ISP Sonic.net. CEO Dane Jasper has been saying for years that data caps aren't necessary to manage Internet usage, and saw Felten's call for data as a way to put his money where his mouth was. And, while it's based on data from only a single ISP, Felton's analysis (published by Diffraction Analysis and summarized on his blog) is telling. While the top 1 percent of data customers do account for 20 percent of overall bandwidth consumption, they represent only 14.3 percent of the top 1 percent of data users during peak hours.
In other words, over 85 percent of bandwidth consumption during peak hours did not come from the heaviest data users. If Sonic.net's data can be generalized to other broadband providers — and, of course, there's no way to know for sure — it would mean that data caps do a very poor job of punishing people for causing network congestion.
The threat of Internet video
So why are ISPs so interested in data caps? One possible answer is suggested by Sonic.net's Dane Jasper: TV.
Most of the United States' leading ISPs (Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T, Charter, Cablevision) also offer television and voice services. These so-called "triple plays" bundle phone, television, and Internet together onto a single bill. While all three services generate significant revenue for these companies, the video portion is the most expensive to operate, thanks in part to the myriad of regulations surrounding the paid-television industry but also the complex licensing involved in carrying cable channel packages. That's why, in a typical "triple play" bill, cable television service is often the greatest portion of the fee (depending on channel package).
The problem, of course, is that consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet for their video entrainment, opting for so-called "Over The Top" (OTT) solutions like Netflix, Amazon Video-on-Demand, and Hulu over broadcast television, cable service, and television operators' video-on-demand services. Increasingly, consumers are considering these companies to be broadband providers, rather than television providers, so they're tending to cancel cable services while signing up for broadband.
This is generally a bad trend for paid television providers. Instead of collecting money from customers who subscribe to television packages, the money goes to the likes of Netflix. From the network operators' point of view, they took all the trouble to build out their network, bring broadband to people's homes, and get everything operating, and now OTT video providers are swooping in and threatening to break off one leg of their three-legged revenue stool. (Another leg, voice services, is under similar assault from VoIP solutions like Skype, Google Voice, and Vonage.) That's one reason why big ISPs like Comcast are looking to charge services like Netflix usage fees for accessing their customers.
One way television providers can dissuade customers from canceling their television service is with Internet usage caps. Data published this January by research firm Nielsen (PDF) finds that, on average, Americans watch 32 hours and 47 minutes of television every week. That converts to over 4 hours and 40 minutes every day. And that's an average: While some consumers watch considerably less television, an equal number watch considerably more.
Now imagine if that television were all shifted to OTT providers like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video-on-Demand, and others. Netflix's top high-definition streams run at about 4.8Mbps, or about 36 MB per minute. Multiply that across the average television consumption of 4 hours and 40 minutes a day, that's a little over 10.1 GB of data consumption per day. Take a typical 30-day month, and average consumers come in at just over 300GB of bandwidth utilization just for television alone.
Many ISPs begin capping data at 250GB per month; some cap data usage at lower levels (often corresponding to lower-priced broadband packages); some have higher caps.
Granted, not all customers are going to pull in reasonably high-quality high-definition content, so their bandwidth utilization will be lower. But the point stands: If typical television watchers were to shift their habits to broadband viewing, they would suddenly find data caps very limiting.
The dirty secret
ISPs imposing data caps claim that "data hogs" — loosely, customers pulling down more than 250GB a month in data — are disproportionately consuming network resources, causing congestion, and impacting Internet performance for other customers. However, it's important to remember that broadband providers like Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS, and others are delivering their television content to their customers via the same IP network infrastructure that supports their broadband Internet service.
If a television customer watches the average four hours and forty minutes of programming a day in high definition (or, perhaps, has multiple televisions or DVRs accessing standard-definition content) they are already consuming bandwidth in the same ballpark as data usage the providers categorize as abusive. Of course, television and broadband Internet access are separate services for which providers bill separately, but from the point of view of network congestion, it's all just data going down the same pipes. In general terms, average television users utilize the provider's network as heavily as "data hogs."
What's fair?
With the FCC's proposed regulatory framework for network neutrality being challenged by the likes of Verizon, there is very little regulatory framework that can be applied to ISPs or backbone providers management of their networks. For now, they're essentially free to do what they want, whether that be blocking particular applications (like file sharing) or imposing data caps.
However, as consumers and governments increasingly look upon Internet access as a right, rather than a privilege, ISPs may find it difficult to justify limiting or severing Internet service for simply for being used. Few question that ISPs need to be able to manage their networks, both in general terms and on a real-time basis. However, it's increasingly apparent data caps are an artificial policy that seems based on broadband operators' pocketbooks, rather than their network capabilities. Hopefully, responsible ISPs will develop new polices that more transparently manage network loads, such as limiting top-bandwidth consumers only during periods of peak network loads, regardless of how much bandwidth they may consume in an hour, day, or month.
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Genuine independent filmmaking is a grueling process of fund-raising, budget squeezing, bargain-location scouting, and cast cultivating — with plenty of sputters and glitches along the way as money runs out on one phase and needs to be scraped together again for the next.
The South Fork might not be the obvious first choice of filmmakers on a shoestring (given the cost of getting things done here, and a production's reliance on the weather for exterior scenes). But for her 30-minute short feature "The Sea Is All I Know," Jordan Bayne found a wealth of good will and generosity here, much of it stemming from her film's lead actress, Melissa Leo.
Ms. Leo, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar back in February for the movie "The Fighter," has a lifelong association with East Hampton, because her father, the writer and bayman Arnold Leo, lives in Springs.
Ms. Bayne spent large blocks of time on the South Fork in the early 1990s and she recalled its beauty fondly during a recent conversation. She was part of a community of artists and other creative people who flocked to the beach at Gibson Lane in Sagaponack and hung out in farmhouses and barns before the real estate market went from gang-busters into true, mad overdrive.
Her plot centers on an estranged couple whose terminally ill daughter requests help in ending her life. Ms. Leo is the mother and Peter Gerety, one of her co-stars on "Homicide: Life on the Street," plays the father, a fisherman.
"When I wrote the film, I knew so many beautiful spots and friends that it made sense to shoot the film" on the South Fork, she said. She had met Ms. Leo on the set of "One Night," a film released in 2007, and began writing "The Sea Is All I Know" the same year.
"I started off acting and thought it was all I was going to do with my life. But I saw that there were no roles for women unless it was a sexy woman on the arm of some guy or a prostitute. I did both those roles and they're not too complex. I started writing for myself, to make more complex roles." Although she still teaches acting, once she started directing her first short film, "Argo," she decided she no longer wanted to be both behind and in front of the camera.
"Jordan has a strong quality to her. I wouldn't want to name it," Ms. Leo told The Star last week. "When she got in touch again, I told her, 'I knew I hadn't seen the last of you,' and she had this amazing script."
"Melissa and I talked about this a lot. It was a lot of the reason why she wanted to do the film," Ms. Bayne said. "People are very uncomfortable with their relationship to death. I thought it was an important topic, but from the beginning I thought I wrote a story about love." Over the course of the film, "that estranged couple go through so many things because of their daughter dying. They are forced to face so much about themselves and their own belief system. It's about what it's like to love someone beyond your own needs, to let them have dignity in their final moments. I never meant to write a story about assisted suicide, but I did and when I was done, I could see the power of that."
Ms. Leo said that while Ms. Bayne's film "is so beautiful it could be set anywhere," she was pleased to help integrate the story into "the world of the East End that I know so well." She asked her father to help.
"It was a pleasure to link up my dad and Jordan to facilitate the authenticity on the boats," Ms. Leo said. "She's clever enough to have made up the scenes herself, but the connectedness is beautiful." Ms. Leo, who still visits her father on occasion, when she's not on location for a movie or in New Orleans shooting the HBO series "Treme," was not in the scenes shot on the East End, but did her bits on City Island in the Bronx.
Mr. Leo appeared in the 1995 movie "Last Summer in the Hamptons" with his daughter and helped Ms. Bayne with suggestions and permits for locations. He also introduced her to Brad and Cynthia Loewen: Mr. Loewen's pound traps are featured prominently in the short film. "It's really fascinating technology," Ms. Bayne said, "because it's set up from a system of netting that hasn't changed for 200 to 300 years."
Through her filmmaking and getting to know the Loewens, she developed a genuine respect for the fishing traditions of the area and the challenges the old fishing families face. "Brad is a 13th-generation fisherman. He's out there, but he's the last in the line. It's a tragic thing. He understands why his son feels he can't make a living wage doing it and he thinks he's right."
Mr. Loewen, who was initially hired to pilot his boat and provide some instruction to make the scenes look realistic, ended up with so much screen time that he has been sent paperwork to join the Screen Actors Guild. "If you're in a scene for a length of time, you're considered an actor," he said. "We were out in the boat, lifting the trap, and Peter and I were just talking about fishing, having a conversation. I wasn't supposed to be in the scene but the director said, 'Talk all you want.' " In the end, they needed him in the scene so that Mr. Gerety did not look like he was talking only to the fish.
"It was nice footage,"Ms. Bayne said, "something he didn't expect, nor did I. Brad was just Brad. There is an ease about him; he's comfortable with who he is just going along with things." She added that Mr. Gerety told her it was "one of the most wonderful days of his life to go out fishing with Brad."
Ms. Loewen, an artist and a baker, contributed to the film, too. One of her paintings was used in a scene and she provided the crew with iced tea and brownies during the two extremely hot days of filming last June. Mr. Gerety bought the painting.
The couple were impressed by how down to earth the cast and crew were. "They weren't celebrities, even though they are celebrities," Ms. Loewen said.
"Although the film is not about fishermen, the character is a fisherman and they didn't treat it at all like a stereotype. They didn't come across as a bunch of beer-swilling fools," Mr. Loewen said. "It's a human story about a very human dilemma, and I'm very grateful for that."
Ms. Bayne just recently completed "The Sea Is All I Know" and has begun sending it out to film festivals in hopes of both exposure and a shot at distribution. At 30 minutes, it is an unusual length for a short film; its subject matter is also tough. She hopes that the Hamptons International Film Festival will take notice of the setting and story. She also plans to bring it to Cannes for its Short Film Corner, which is a showcase for pieces that are out of competition but seeking distribution.
"I'm hoping to do as many film festivals over this next year as I can," she said. She also is optimistic that Ms. Leo's Oscar win might help shift the movie to the top of the pile. "If 100 films are submitted and if they see Melissa Leo in mine, I think they will give us a closer look. She gives us a higher profile."
Musing on the changes in her professional life, post-Oscar, and its possible impact on Ms. Bayne's movie, Ms. Leo said, "It's a really hard call to make. As things go, as much has not changed as has changed. Jordan has a beautiful but difficult film. It's not what you typically see in a film festival . . . but I would really love to have it screened on a big screen."


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House minority leader Nancy Pelosi ripped Republicans for a second day on the House floor, accusing them Wednesday in an extemporaneous speech of fiddling like Nero. Tuesday she indicated Democrats would staunchly oppose raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67. Medicare will not be used to "underwrite and subsidize tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country," she said.
The San Francisco Democrat said Wednesday she is "willing to take the chance that this House would give over a two-thirds vote for a middle-class tax cut" that also raises rates on top earners. Pelosi, a master vote counter, contends Republicans would cave if her discharge petition were put to a vote.
Casting her eye on Texas Republican Pete Sessions, Pelosi said, "Do I detect your smirk to mean that Republicans will not vote for a middle-class tax cut, Mr. Sessions?"
Based on GOP leadership's warnings to members to make plane reservations home on Christmas eve and book return flights on Dec. 26, Pelosi said, "They are going to put this off to the very last minute," reminiscent of a year ago when House Republicans refused to approve a payroll tax holiday until it got "too hot for them to handle."
"Every time you come to this floor it's an existential question, why are we here?" Pelosi mockingly said. It is obvious watching her in the fiscal cliff fight why Pelosi was not ready to exit the leadership.


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Whew. Times have been busy around here! Sam & I got a feisty little bobtailed cat named Ripley (see here) who has been taking up our free time, and we took a nice jog into the Midwest to spend vacation time with my family for a week, which was awesome.
We are all big fans of Frank Lloyd Wright, so taking a 4 hour walking tour of Taliesin East in Wisconsin (in some of the most scenic country I've ever been in) was grrrreat! His life story is full of genius, adultery, murder, arson, graverobbing, priceless Japanese art, capes, and seemingly endless & self induced bankruptcy. He is quite the character. His architecture may not always be the most practical, but it is breathtakingly beautiful. (for any of you who don't know who Frank Lloyd Wright is, I suggest educating yourself.)
PLUS, once the end of June and July rolled around, I just got buried in an avalanche of work and have been behind on sharing it with you! Without further ado, here's some mashups of all my spots for that Invisible World project I kept promising to post (see if you can guess the invisible item each is referring to! Answers at the bottom!):
In the first mashup, clockwise from the left: Germs, the Jet Stream, Morning Breath, and a letter from the Title!
In the second mashup, clockwise from the left: DVDs, Dust Mites, Air Quality, Radio Waves, and Computer software!
I've also been doing the illustrations for Pagepath Technology's monthly newsletter--here's 4 months worth:
My style has been changing around a bit, but since Pagepath is very flexible with what they're looking for I'm using their illustrations as mini experiments. I've been tiptoeing a little more into texture land, although I won't be able to show some of my most recent explorations until September. Expect another update soon, I have some big news to share with everyone and plenty more illustrations to put up!


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Imagine going into the Russian woods to pick mushrooms and stumbling upon rows of abandoned military equipment. According to EnglishRussia that is exactly what happened to one Russian photographer. These amazing pictures are the result.
Not being able to read Russian keeps us from being able to confirm these vehicles were actually discovered in the middle of the woods and not just photographed on the edge of an old military base. Either way it's clear whoever parked these vehicles isn't coming back for them anytime soon.
We can only ponder exactly when and why these military vehicles were abandoned in the woods and hope someday we come across something this cool while out for a nature walk.


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The podium is decided
In recent seasons, the yellow jersey has still been up for grabs going into the final time trial. If that's the case again, this course could prove an inspired choice. anyone who's got some significant strength left in their legs will feature today. The rolling course, which includes the opening part of the climb to chamrousse, won't overly favour time trial specialists such as Fabian Cancellara, but will appeal to the likes of the Schleck brothers, who should be able to take some advantage of their prowess on the hills. The podium places will finally be settled today.
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Sylwester Szmyd says...
"If I'm honest, I don't even count it as a stage. My Tour's finished. My job is simply to stay inside the time cut. This won't be won by one of the GC guys – they'll have given too much. Actually, strike that. It'll be won by Cancellara, of course it will!"
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"Expect a battle for the win between the big powerhouses of Cancellara, Martin, Millar versus Contador. Not a day to have bad legs if GC is your game. There's a lot on the line today."


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Pat Robertson Has Seen Our Demise!
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Does anyone actually listen to this guy? I don't care if you are a right winger and devout Christian...do people actually believe what this man says????
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Yes, that last line is pretty laughable.
I'm Christian and don't give what he says much attention - or any. But I do know some who do.
As for his predictions, guys in his ilk have been making those same kinds of predictions for centuries...millenia. It's hard to take seriously.
Last year, I had to the opportunty to attend a class dealing with bblical interpretations of Revelation, the apocalypse and "the rapture." In brief, according this class, the 'popular' ideas about these things are not theologically consistent with the rest of the Bible, and Revelation, upon closer, scholarly study, does not mean what the 'conventional wisdom' suggests. If anyone is interested in more detail, I'll try to dig up the book we used in that class. It was very interesting. The author of the book, a Christian scholar, was not shy about making the claim that a lot of folks out there spouting off about 'the rapture' and interpreting Revelation are charletons.
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Fifteen or twenty years ago, Robertson was one of the few televangelists worth listening to; he was well-spoken and reasonable for the most part. Since he got into politics, he seems to have gone off the deep end. I can't say that his prediction is entirely unreasonable in this case; the way we (the U.S.) are viewed by the world, and by terrorist organizations in particular, it is quite likely that we will be attacked again in the relatively near future. Will millions die? Doubtful, given the current technological level of most of the extremist groups; however, Iran is already claiming that if anybody interferes with their "right" to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, they just might build a bomb and use it. And I would say that Israel or the U.S. would be primary targets. Technically, I guess, that would be an act of war rather than a terrorist attack, but since Robertson has gone nuts, I'm sure to him most Middle Easterners would be considered terrorists, and an Islamic government would be by definition a terrorist government.
As for the leg press claim, I saw another article about that. His trainer is apparently a record-setting leg presser (???) and defends the claim. It has nothing to do with an energy drink, though; I don't recall any mention of a magic elixir in the article. Maybe that came later. It does seem unlikely, though.
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At least Robertson wasn't asking for money. I remember a few years ago Oral Roberts made the claim that if he didn't bring in $5 million dollars within a certain time period God was going to take him home. Jay Leno made fun of the story by saying that Oral had said that if he didn't get $2 million by that afternoon God was gonna punch him in the nose.
I don't listen to any of these guys. Pat Robertson has been off his axis for a very long time.
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One of the great things about this country is that you can say, print or broadcast just about anything you want, it's guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States, this also means that if you can get enough people to believe whatever it is you're selling you can collect money, buy a TV station, make silly broadcasts, predictions, etc.
I've always felt that Mr. Robertson was on the extreme side of things and lately I would have to say he's kind of a nut, and he'll go right on being one, it's his right, just like it's the right of the rest of us to ignore him if we choose to do so.
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Ah, Patty-whack, I quit watching you and you go off the reservation yet again!
Robertson tends to save up the money begging for those pledge drive hes has several times a year for the real 700 Club and the various higher level of donation.
His political clout coasted for waaaaayyyy too long on "shook up George H W Bush in the primary in 1988".
I used to watch the opening news segment and his commentaries/responses to the various items. Now that his son Gordon fills in most Fridays it became less fun. IL loved to see when he would say crap like this. His "stock up the end of civilization is near" routine during the lead-up to Y2K was classic, since as part of his warnings he would usually point out that starting less than 18 months to a year ahead was probably too late. Thanks for the leadtime, Pat.
I was surprised at the uproar over his advocating the assassination of Hugo Chavez, since he used to suggest the US farm out the assassination of Yassar Arafat to Israel quite often. His reasoning was that the Arab nations and peoples couldn't hate Israel anymore than they already did so why not let them go ahead and kill him.
Praying away the hurricanes from Virginia Beach works, except when it doesn't.
The prayer campaign to "move the hearts" of O'Connor, Ginsburg, and/or Stevens to vacate the Supreme Court to make way for more conservative Justices would have been funny if he hadn't taken it so seriously. He kept invoking the line "move the hearts" to leave the bench due to age or ill health rather than say "pray for these folks to drop dead", which is what he pretty much wanted.
His advocating taking sex ed. out of the schools and letting kids learn about it the same way his kids did, by watching the animals on their farm was too damn funny and should be better remembered.
He had one of the
authors on when it was in the news about their claims that legalizing abortion lead decades later to the signification drop in the crime rate. Robertson did try to argue with the guy, mostly seemed to think that the books title was
wild. He, or his producers seemed to ignore or not care that years earlier they had Christian economist Larry Burkett on the show who argued that legalized abortion had basically stunted the American economy by wiping out millions of future members of the workforce and taxpayers. However good the economy was doing at the time, it was late in the Clinton era, we would have been an even stronger economic powerhouse if they had only lived and grown up.
The leg press thing, I've read about elsewhere. Many folks who agree he lifted it say he used a form that is considered cheating in exercise and competition circles. Besides, unless a bull or horse falls on you while you and the young 'uns were getting a closer look during your husbandry lessons, how often do you need to lift that much weight?
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I'm no bible thumper so I'll leave it at that... These televangelists like Pat undermind there mission with there wacky demands and crazy claims. Anybody remember one of them see a 900 foot Jesus in the desert? Or smacking someone in the forehead and all the the sudden they are cured and you can be saved for the low-low price of $1000.00 for Jesus! These nut jobs should be banned for TV for stealing for the elderly as that is there target group it seems.
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Smacking foreheads sounds like Ernest Angley or maybe Benny Hinn, although his faith healing-fu was a more gentle form more like faith healing tai chi. Peter Popoff maybe? Angley with his head smacking and his "Herb Tarlek-style" bad clothing was a favorite of mine on late night Sunday TV when I was little, seeing him probably helped sow the seeds of my later skepticism, I could not take the man seriously, turned out he was very popular among kids I knew staying up too late.
Until looking it up I forgot about Roberston' s telling Dover, Penn. no to pray to God if a natural disaster happened since they had turned their backs on God by rejecting intelligent design for the school science curriculum.
Or his defense of and financial ties to then Liberian dictator and American prison escapee Charles Taylor. A plane Robertson had refurbished as a flying hospital with funds donated by viewers and supporters, was found to have logged many more flight hours being used as a transport plane for Robertson's commercial interests in Africa than humanitarian or relief efforts.
Also his attempt to buy and reopen a closed petroleum refinery in California. I noticed after he was denied permission to enter the refinery business, pro-alternative energy stories began to air more often on
The 700 Club
I better stop too, I've already had two parts in this rant. Like I said Robertson had been a favorite target of mine, he's provided so much good(bad) viewing over the years.
Now if you want to laugh and get angry about an out and out conman huckster religious crook, with a pair you'd need a radio telescope to calculate the size of since he's so bold and arrogant, look up Rev. Ike.
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Gelsamel wrote:Nordic Einar wrote:My concern for Draw Muhammad Day is that you will have little to no effect on discouraging extremists, but will very effectively continue to Otherize Western Muslims, increasing the likelyhood of discrimination and bigotry. I kind of thought it was for granted that you'd probably offend a shit ton of foreign Muslims too, but since my concern with the day has to do with otherizing Western (read: Liberal/Moderate) Muslims I didn't bother discussing how this will affect the blood pressure of Iranian Clerics.
Wait a second, you keep saying western as if this is a locality/culture issue but you're presenting 'western Muslims' as though they're synonymous with 'sane' (as someone else put it) Muslims. You do realise that DMD originated because RevolutionMuslim, an Organisation based in New York City, threatened the creators of South Park, right?
I'm not saying all of US muslims are extremist of course, it's just disingenuous to suggest that Western = Nice and Liberal and Eastern = Ax Crazy Fanatics.
It's more than a little Orientalist, but then again the terrorists themselves are more than a little Occidentalist.


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The Three Ring Notebook
I thought the first place would be to build a family tree. Hum...I would be number 1, my folks number 2, my grandparents number 3,...no, no, there would be 4 grandparents, then 8 great grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, then 32, 64, 128, 264.... man - o - man, what a mess. It would certainly be easier to forget the whole thing. Somehow I could not let it drop. It must have been that infection everyone who does genealogy recognizes : "The sicker you get, the more to like it." At any rate, I began by drawing lines on a blank sheet of typing paper turned side ways. One straight line, a branch to two straight lines, branch to four straight lines,... etc. etc., ... It did not take long before I taped a second sheet to the first, drawing lines and branches, taping more sheets to this. I then asked myself, what did I know? I started adding the names to the lines on the pages one by one. It soon became clear that I really did not know a whole lot! Some names, very few dates, and very little about their lives. Who were they really?
Wow, I had a lot to learn. I folded my taped pages...now what? A notebook I thought! I will put everything together in a notebook. Typing paper turned on its side does not fit a three ring notebook! Oh man! I will have to start over with larger pieces of paper! I started to laugh, a little better planning would be needed in the future for my three ring notebook. As I write this blog, I now have in my genealogy library more than 250 three ring notebooks!
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That is a lot of them. Thanks for sharing! We look forward to more of these insights from your research...ReplyDelete
Welcome to the Geneabloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.
May you keep sharing your ancestor stories!
Dr. Bill ;-)
Author of "Back to the Homeplace"
and "13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories"
Thanks Dr. Bill. It appears that you have done a lot to tell your own family stories. It is good to know that I am not the only infected person out there!ReplyDelete
Just started a new blog on the content of all my three ring notebooks. This will give you an idea of how all this got started and organized. It is called The Jones Genealogist Research Notebooks. You can search the content to see if any topic/subject might be helpful.ReplyDelete
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What pressing issues facing our country do the pundits think you don't care about today?
Stateline.org: 23 states face budget gaps in '09
Like a college student fishing for stray quarters in the sofa cushions, states are tightening their belts, dipping into their rainy day funds and hoping revenues will pick up.
But many states are bracing against a faltering economy they expect to get worse.
Anemic revenue returns forced 16 states to patch nearly $12 billion holes in their current budgets, up from the seven that faced shortfalls last November, while in 23 states, budget gaps totaling at least $26 billion have emerged for their 2009 budgets…
…the stalled housing market, rising oil prices, plummeting consumer confidence and creeping unemployment rates have hit all but a few energy and farm states' budgets. Consumers and businesses are spending less, so state tax revenues are dipping.
The G Spot looks at the disability policies offered by the three leading presidential candidates:
Disability policy as such is not the kind of thing you're likely to hear very much about this election season. The mainstream media will not report on it. You won't hear the candidates questioned on this issue during the debates. Yet it is a subject of profound importance to millions of Americans…
…for people with developmental disabilities (e.g., mental retardation, autism, and the like) … early intervention programs are crucial, as are other therapy and education programs. And these programs, especially early intervention, have profound, and strongly positive, effects. People with developmental disabilities are in far better health, are living longer, are achieving more, and are living productive lives to a far greater extent than was ever thought possible even a few decades ago. It's kind of miraculous, actually. And it is all because of the government.
But getting the right kind of education, training, and therapy at the right time is crucial. And that's where the problems begin, because these programs tend to be chronically underfunded.
VetVoice: Fort Bragg Barracks: Shades of Walter Reed?
A Fort Bragg soldier's father uploaded a YouTube video of photos he took of his son's barracks earlier this month. The video shows the deplorable living conditions to which his son and the other soldiers of his unit in the 82nd Airborne Division returned after a 15-month-long deployment to Afghanistan.
The most shocking photo, in my opinion, is the one of the soldier standing in the latrine sink, trying to unstop a drain, while human excrement and urine fills the floor below him.
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It is related that our Prophet (saas) said: The Hour will not come until the Qaim [Hazrat Mahdi (as)], my descendant, appears. This will be a time permitted by Allah. Those who follow him will be saved, while those who hang back will be perished. O servants of Allah! Fear Allah: WHEN HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) APPEARS, ABANDON EVERYTHING AND RUN TO HIM BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS. Because he is the caliph of Allah [Muslims' spiritual leader] and my heir. (Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 51, P. 65; Al-Hurr al-Amili, Ithbat al-Hudat, Vol. 6, p. 382)
... If Allah permits you to see this RUN TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO HIM [FOLLOW HIM] AND NEVER ABANDON HIM. IF YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL, NEVER ABANDON HIM IF YOU REACH HIM AND FIND THE TRUE PATH. Ah – and he pointed to his chest – how I long to see him." (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 252)
LET NOTHING HOLD YOU BACK FROM SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO HIM [FROM BEING HIS FOLLOWER, FROM FOLLOWING HIM] those who hold you back are those who have always sought refuge in corruption. If they speak, they speak evil, and if they are silent, they are impious and perverse.(Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 252)


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The Bobcats have now been selected to the South/Southeast Regionals for an impressive 17th-consecutive year, with the string beginning in 1998. During that span, Georgia College has emerged as the South/Southeast Region Champion twice last winning it in 2012.
Receiving automatic Southeast bids are tournament conference champions from the PBC, South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and Conference Carolinas (CC) with USC Aiken, Carson-Newman University and Erskine College getting the nod as respective conference tournament winners.
The South and Southeast regions will account for seven berths, the most of the four geographic regions. The West and South Central regions will account for six berths. The Midwest and Central regions will advance four teams, while the Atlantic and East regions will receive three berths.
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The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Local group turns over 'forgotten' documents to Miami tribe
Cindy Klepper - Monday, August 26, 2013 8:01 AM
Originally published Aug. 22, 2013.
The documents, which were to change the future of a nation, signify their importance by their appearance.
Hand written in elegant script on oversized sheets of paper, the largest document is bordered in gold leaf with a gold medallion dangling from a green ribbon woven through the corner.
That document, a treaty signed by the Miami in 1838 at the Forks of the Wabash, and eight related documents were given to the Miami when they were signed.
But for years, they've lain forgotten, first in a local Catholic church and later in the archives of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Other than faded lettering and creases from being folded, the documents appear to be remarkably well preserved.
Now, 175 years later, the rediscovered documents have been returned to the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma for preservation.
It's not that the contents of the documents have remained unknown all those years; additional copies were given to the federal government and their contents are readily available online.
Rather, a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma explains, the transfer represents the recovery of a piece of tribal history.
"These documents are tied to a period of time that our ancestors were struggling to stay in their homeland," said Daryl Baldwin, who accepted possession of the original treaty from the board of the Historic Forks of the Wabash on Friday, Aug. 16. "These treaty documents are representative of that struggle."
Baldwin, who serves on the cultural resource advisory committee of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, also received seven additional documents, signed in 1842 and 1843, granting land along the Wabash, Salamonie and Mississinewa rivers to specific members of the Miami Tribe. The ninth document is an original plat of Huntington that belonged to Chief Francis LaFontaine, the son-in-law and successor of Chief Jean Baptiste Richardville.
In the treaty signed by Richardville, the Miami ceded all their land in Indiana to the United States government in return for 1,200 acres, which included a gristmill and sawmill, and annuities. The document includes a map of the 1,200 acres retained by Chief Jean Baptiste Richardville; part of that land now makes up the Forks of the Wabash Historic Park. The rock where it's believed the treaty was signed is still there.
"That treaty was the first time the federal government asked the tribe to think about relocation," Baldwin said.
By 1846, most of the Miami, Richardville's family among the exceptions, were being moved west of the Mississippi River.
"They didn't really have choices in that period," Baldwin says.
The documents stayed with Richardville's family until the mid-1930s, says Sue Strass, a Huntington resident and a descendant of Richardville.
"I don't have any written knowledge of this," Strass says, but she and her cousins - Charlene Wirtner and Rosalie Boyle - believe they've pieced together the story. All three women were on hand for the presentation of the documents to Baldwin.
"When my grandmother moved into town, I'm sure she took them to the church for safekeeping," Strass says.
The cousins' grandmother was Cecelia Archangel LaFontaine Owens, the granddaughter of Chief Richardville and daughter of Chief LaFontaine. She moved from the Forks to a smaller house in town because she wanted to be closer to her church, Strass says.
The church was St. Mary Catholic Church, located at the top of the hill on North Jefferson Street in Huntington, and Strass believes Owens - who had probably run out of room in the small house - asked the church's pastor to store the documents for her.
The documents stayed at St. Mary's until the mid-1980s, when they were inadvertently packed up with the papers of a priest who had served in Huntington but had been assigned to a new location. They stayed with him, boxed up with his own papers, through several moves, Wirtner believes.
Eventually, the priest became aware of what he had, and turned the documents over to diocesan officials. The documents were stored in the diocesan archives, to be rediscovered only recently when a new archivist was looking through the files.
Strass says she was never aware that the treaty and other documents were in storage at St. Mary's or that they had been transferred to the diocesan archives. She learned of their whereabouts only when the diocese gave them to the Forks of the Wabash, something that happened almost by accident.
"There was a woman at the diocese office and she heard the archivist talking about these papers," says Wirtner. The archivist knew the documents didn't belong with the diocese, but wasn't sure where they should go.
The visitor, Wirtner says, was familiar with the Forks organization, knew it was putting together a museum and suggested giving the documents to the Forks.
In the spring of 2012, says Forks President Jim Scheiber, the diocese contacted the Forks to see if it would be interested in accepting ownership of the treaty and other documents. The board agreed to accept the documents, and has now agreed to present them to the tribe.
Until a final disposition of the documents was worked out, the Forks board stored the papers at Bippus State Bank. They were kept in archival paper in a locked, fire resistant part of the bank for about a year and a half, bank President and CEO Ryan Warner says.
In return for turning the documents over to the Miami for preservation, the Forks will receive high quality copies of the documents to place on display.
"They need to be with the tribe, preserved indefinitely," Strass says.
That's exactly what will happen.
The documents are now the property of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Baldwin says. The tribe has a partnership with Miami University in Oxford, OH, and together they have established the Myaamia Center at the university.
Myaamia - "That's how you say Miami in our language," explains Baldwin, who serves as director of the center - is dedicated to the revitalization of the Miami language and culture.
The documents will be restored and their content made available online as part of the tribal archive, Baldwin says. Copies of the documents could be returned to the Forks as soon as October, he says.
Complete caption: Representatives of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the Historic Forks of the Wabash pose with a treaty signed in 1838 by the Miami and the United States government, along with related documents. The papers, recently rediscovered after having been in storage for years, were presented to the Miami Tribe by the Historic Forks of the Wabash on Friday, Aug. 16. On hand for the presentation were (from left) Charlene Wirtner; Daryl Baldwin, a member of the cultural resource advisory committee for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Rosalie Boyle; Jim Scheiber, president of the Historic Forks board; and Sue Strass. Wirtner, Boyle and Strass are great-great-granddaughters of Miami Chief Jean Baptiste Richardville, who signed the treaty, and Boyle also serves on the board of the Historic Forks organization.


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