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`Noles Fall to Cougars
The No.36 ranked Florida State women's tennis team fell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to No.31 Washington State.
`Noles Fall to Heels
The No.7 seeded Florida State dropped their quarterfinal round match to No.2 North Carolina today 4-2.
`Noles Take Hokies
The junior class stepped up and contributed in all four wins as the Seminoles topped Virginia Tech today 4-0 in the first round to the ACC Championships.
ACC Ready
The Seminoles will begin ACC Tournament play on Thursday at 12 p.m.
A Tough Loss
The Seminoles fell 4-3 to Virginia today.
FSU Hopes to Repeat Run to ACC Championship Match
FSU Defeats Maryland
'Noles Gear Up For Auburn
FSU vs. UCF Highlights
2012 Season Preview
Received a preseason ranking of No.99 in singles...teamed up with Carolina De Los Santos and posted a 5-2 record in doubles during the fall season...advanced to the semifinals in the main draw of the ITA Southeast Region Championships...competed in a stealthy amount of tournaments over the summer, including the Junior Championships at Wimbledon....defended her crown in doubles at the British Junior National Championships in addition to capturing the singles title.
Freshman: Singles:
Finished her freshman season 17-8 in singles...ended the season with two wins at the NCAA Tournament against SMU's Heather Steinbauer 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the second round and Lisabeth Castaneda 6-0, 6-0 from Southern University en route to a eight match winning streak...defeated three ranked opponents in singles during her freshman campaign.
Doubles: Played the majority of the season with Francesca Segarelli and recorded an overall doubles record of 16-10 in the spring...over the course of the spring season, the duo defeated five ranked opponents...the pair reached their highest ranking of No.47 in the beginning of the season, fell to No.81, then finished strong climbing back up to No.51.
High School:
Seaborne finshed at Cheam High School a year early, arriving on FSU's campus when she was 17...made the finals of singles in Nottingham ITF in 2010 and was crowned the champion in doubles play in week two...won the Edinburgh ITF Double championship...captured the doubles title at the 2010 British Junior National Championships in doubles...competed at the Junior Wimbledon Championships in 2010...qualified for the R32 at Roehampton Grade 1 ITF...advanced to the semifinals of singles at the Edinburgh ITF and Newcastle ITF in 2010.
Personal: Born March 7, 1993...majoring in criminology...daughter of Jan Littlemore and Michael Seaborne...made the dean's list with a 3.75 GPA in the spring of 2011.


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Why I chose Fletcher: Working as a banker in emerging markets, I was constantly faced with the shocking asymmetry in financial access which separated the handful of large established business houses from the thousands of micro-enterprises (perpetuating inequality of income and opportunity). I wanted to attend a policy school to broaden my understanding of how policies can enable local businesses to access capital. I wanted to learn how policy innovations can broaden financial access and how effective collaboration between governments and the private sector can foster economic growth. Fletcher's unique multi-disciplinary approach to education, coupled with professors who have more than just an academic understanding of global subjects, convinced me of Fletcher's superiority. But the clincher was the Fletcher community. The people I met from the school were affable, sincere and helpful, to the extent that I think Fletcher chose me as much as I chose Fletcher.
On the diversity of the school: It is difficult to imagine the full range of diversity that Fletcher's student body represents. I share my apartment at Blakeley Hall with a news producer from Al Jazeera and a Peace Corps volunteer. I have met people from every imaginable profession - from human rights practitioners, to military professionals, to diplomats-in-training, to bankers. It has been such a great experience.
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Reading Room at Ginn Library
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Danish Chronology; Trip Overview, Part 1
Chronology, the cornerstone of the blogging world with its reverse chronological organizational structure, can be terribly challenging while traveling. I haven't had nearly as much time to write about the visits as I'd hoped and I'll be putting up bits and pieces over the next few days as I can get videos and pictures edited and some thoughts on paper. This is my eighth visit to Denmark during the past six years; it is always a particular treat to be here. So, as I'm working on that, here's a quick overview of each visit.
Kevin Godbee, of PipesMagazine.com, and I arrived on different flights from the US, but within a few minutes of each other. After taking care of airport necessaries and a quick stop at the hotel to clean up, we set out for Peter Heding, who lives and works in a small town near Roskilde. Peter holds a PhD in biology and until a few years ago worked in diabetes research. Deciding that wasn't the life for him, he became a full time pipe maker in 2006. Today, he's making some amazing pipes and we got to see a couple of stunning diamond graded pipes that he had just completed, plus got to spend some time watching him work and generally chatting about goings-on.
That afternoon, we swung south on Sjaelland to Praesto, where we met Lasse Skovgaard Jorgensen at his new workshop. Lasse grew up in this beautiful part of Denmark, so this is actually near where I visited him when we first started working with Lasse's pipes in 2005. Lasse has been playing musical workshops lately, in large part because he rented space from Stanwell a couple of years ago, and then Stanwell shuttered that factory this spring. For now, he's using some space near his grandmother's home, not far from where he grew up. Officially, he's on vacation right now, something that Lasse takes particularly seriously, so he met us at the workshop and he hadn't been there in a couple of days. With a spread of perhaps a dozen beautiful pipes (most of which will arrive at Smokingpipes.com sometime soon) on the table, we set about playing around in the workshop and he shaped a pipe while we took a little video and shot some pictures. We went out to dinner, but I was so tired and jetlagged by then that I was a bit hazy, I think we had a really nice time.
The following morning (yesterday), we got up and drove up to north-eastern Sjaelland to visit Lars Ivarsson. I've already mentioned this some in my one previous trip post, so I won't delve into again here, except to again say that Annette's (Lars' wife) lunch was amazing. Given that Lars smoked the fish (that sounds like something pipe related, but he smoked a literal salmon, which we literally ate!) and shot the deer, perhaps he should get a nod for his culinary contributions too. We also spent a bunch of time talking about Sixten's early career, as well as Lars'. I'd heard all of this before, but in bits and pieces but never felt like I had the story coherently. I recorded the conversation and I'll turn it into something readable sometime soon. Five hours visiting Lars and Annette sped by in what felt like about an hour. I could (and have on a number of occasions) simply listen to Lars talk about pipes and pipe making in Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s for hours.
That evening, almost on a lark, I called Tom Eltang while we were driving back towards Copenhagen from Lars'. Tomorrow, we'll spend the whole day with Tom in the workshop, so last night's visit was very much on a whim. Tom gave Kevin the grand Eltang workshop tour, which never ceases to be fun for me too, though I've probably seen him give it a half-dozen times. Then I showed Tom my wounded soldier, one of the new Tubos pipes that I'd been smoking since Chicago that I had unceremoniously bitten through the stem of during a particularly intense meeting one afternoon (for the record, smoking a pipe in a meeting makes you seem smarter; biting through the stem and spitting out bits of vulcanite does not). In classic Tom fashion, he whipped out a new stem for me and I was smoking it again an hour after I showed him the problem. We'll see Tom again tomorrow.
This morning we set out at a little after 9am to visit Peder Jeppesen of Neerup Pipes. Peder makes about 2,500 pipes a year, so the whole structure of his workshop and his methods are rather different from those we're seeing elsewhere on this trip. Given that he makes about ten pipes a day on average, he must work with speed and efficiency, making excellent pipes available at reasonable prices. With the closure of Stanwell and the distribution of its production to various countries, Peder is the last factory-shape pipe making in Denmark, and he is indeed something of a one-man factory. I got some great video of his various processes, so I'll get that up in the next few days also.
Jess Chonowitsch has not made pipes since mid-2006, when his wife Bonnie fell ill; he has spent his time in the past four years caring for her rather than making pipes. I last saw him in 2007, and while I've called periodically and suggested we have coffee now and then when I've been in Denmark, it's been so difficult for him to get away that we'd not been able to make anything happen. This trip, I was delighted to be able to finally see Jess again. I've always enjoyed my time with both Jess and Bonnie. Jess has a quiet gentility that is so evident in his pipes. And he has such a rich history in the pipe world that simply being able to sit with him and pick his brain about pipes or pipe making is a very special experience. So, we sat in the garden for an hour and a half and just chatted. Jess is starting to get to where he can make pipes again, having spent time cleaning and organizing his workshop properly for the first time in a long time. I am very excited to see what he does over the next year or so. There's been much speculation as to whether he would start making pipes again; I'm quite confident that he will.
So, tomorrow, on to Tom Eltang's shop for the day. That should be a lot of fun. On Tuesday, we're headed to Mac Baren in Svendborg in the morning and to see Peter Heeschen in the afternoon. Wednesday we go to Orlik in Assens, then to Kent Rasmussen in Aarhus. On the last day, we'll head up to the tip of Jylland to visit Mogens Johansen (Johs) in Frederikshavn, then on back to Copenhagen. To misquote Tom Eltang, "It's good to be a pipe seller!".


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Dan, from the Zazzle store LibertyManiacs, talks with us about his interests and his family and friends who are also Zazzlers. Check out the interview below and don't forget to check out his store LibertyManiacs!
Zazzle: Give us a brief bio, where you're from and what you started making art
Dan: My name is Dan McCall, I live outside of the Twin Cities in Minnesota with my wife and three little boys. I've been doing art as long as I can remember, literally. I think my earliest memories are of drawing on scratch paper my parents gave me at three or four years old. About 9 years ago I started Libertymaniacs.com, which is on Zazzle.
Zazzle: What's your inspiration for your designs?
Dan: My two main sources of inspiration are my love of liberty and humor. Mix in some politics, add a dash societal absurdity, popular culture, and a heavy kick of news and you basically have an eternal, all-you-can-eat, steaming hot bowl of inspiration.
Zazzle: How many hours do you typically spend working on your Zazzle store?
Dan: I do it full time. I'm working on stuff at least 9-5 all week and much of that finds its way to Zazzle in one way or another. With all the new products Zazzle has started offering over the last few months, however, there really aren't enough hours in a week to catch up!
Zazzle: When you're not creating art, what are your other hobbies?
Dan: With three little boys – two in diapers still – hobbies aren't exactly the sort of thing my stage in life lends itself to very well. I work a lot, so I try and soak in as much time with my family as possible when I'm away from work. When I do have a little "me time," I enjoy reading and watching movies with my wife.
Zazzle: How do you promote your store?
Dan: Social media is probably the most enjoyable way to promote because it's interactive. I do fun things like presidential debate commentary on Facebook, which allows me to talk with fans of Liberty Maniacs and have lots of fun. I occasionally sponsor events, or partner with other organizations. We do radio ads, blog ads, all sorts of stuff. I've been lucky to get a fair amount of buzz in the press lately because it's political season, so that's been fun.
Zazzle: What is your favorite Zazzle feature? How do you use it?
Dan: The best Zazzle feature is clearly customization. I'm pretty sure it's an important ingredient in my products' success at Zazzle too, because it allows me to make products that have pretty incredible depth. The ability to make a template product that people can customize and make completely their own is pretty amazing.
I've done a fair amount of graphic tees where you can jump in and move elements around to make a completely one-of-a-kind shirt. I've also done loads of political satire where people can make a politician saying something absurd or timely that's really pretty cool.
The design engine is really pretty elaborate on Zazzle if you think about it. So it's really cool to sort of give people the rudiments of a design and let them go off and really make it theirs.
Zazzle: Who is your favorite Zazzle seller (besides yourself, of course)?
Dan: There are tons of really great artists and store owners on Zazzle. I'm pretty biased, though, because my brother (DiaryofFools), sister (LivandSophie.com), brother-in-law (LowSchmaltz.com), and close friends (kimiyo_prints) are all ProSellers and hugely talented.
Zazzle: What got you interest in selling your art Zazzle?
Dan: Zazzle's a great commercial platform for individual expression. That's the primary reason I'm on Zazzle. This is really an important time for independent artists because never before has there been a successful forum like there is today to market and sell your art to people all over the globe. It already is now, and will further fundamentally reshape how and why people buy merchandise and how they interact with art. The ability to be on the cutting edge of this transformation is really important to me. It's why years ago when Zazzle approached me to build a presence for LibertyManiacs.com on Zazzle I was so intrigued.
Zazzle: What tips can you give someone who is just starting out on Zazzle?
Dan: Patience. People that have heard my story in the paper, or know me as an acquaintance, sometimes think that you can jump in, create a Zazzle store, and then make enough money to really change your life almost overnight. Now, going full time is a possibility for a growing amount of people, but it's like any business; if you're starting from scratch then it's going to take a long time to build a following. Most importantly, it's going to take time to produce quality products that are going to sell.
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MILTON — Milton fans have been hoping to see their football program get back to its glory days, something for which fourth-year coach George Goodwin is striving.
If Danville coach Jim Keiser, who has led a recent resurgence by the Ironmen, is right, that time for Milton may be now.
"I saw them in person and on film and from what I saw, they have a really good team," Keiser said.
He said the Black Panthers, who host the Ironmen Friday night in the season and Heartland Athletic Conference Division I opener, are doing a nice job running Goodwin's system and, in addition, "They have size and they come off the ball well."
Keiser added that, along with fourth-year starting quarterback Brady Chappell and halfback Jayson English, the Black Panthers have a lot of good skill people.
"They present a lot of challenges," he said.
The Ironmen are the pick by many Valley coaches as the team to beat in the HAC-I and a top challenger again in District 4 Class AA.
Said Goodwin, "This team is picked to contend and if we want to be in that hunt, we have to get out of the gate quickly."
Danville returns senior quarterback Weston Baylor and his backfield mates, senior fullback Sam Dressler and senior halfback Isaiah Croll. Senior Zach Kozick, injured in the preseason and a game-time decision this week, returns at wide receiver.
In addition, the Black Panthers will face a returning linebacker corps that was arguably one of the Valley's best a year ago with Isaac Troutman and Caleb Klein on the outside and Tom Brouse, Eric Haney and Croll inside.
Both teams have plenty of veterans. Goodwin said he hopes his veterans can play up to the level of Danville's.
"We know who they're going to get the ball to, they are looking to get it to Dressler and Baylor is going to put it up," Goodwin said.
"We have to stop their big guns, Dressler, Croll, Kozick and Baylor and, offensively we need to control the line of scrimmage.
"We are senior-laden and we have some guys up front we think we can run behind. We were able to do that in our scrimmages and we have to continue to be able to do it in week one," he said.
"And we have to keep Brady Chappell upright," he added.
Milton, which saw its own fine linebacking group lost to graduation, has switched to a 5-2 defense and Keiser said it is one of the most difficult defenses he has seen.
"I just think they are very good at what they do. They have nice defensive ends (seniors Clayton Messinger and Chris Reuss) and they are physical in the middle (with linebackers Josh Brown, also the fullback this year, and Justin Shipe.
Most coaches worry about mistakes in opening games and Keiser is no exception.
Keiser said that was his biggest concern. He said his running backs did a nice job of taking care of the ball last year, "but we still had penalties."
"The team that makes the fewest mistakes will be the successful team," Keiser said.


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What would daily life be like with Romney in the Oval Office, and what do the inner planets have to do with your bedsheets?
Lower Hudson Valley residents and professionals—who double as Patch bloggers—have the answers and more in this weeks' essays.
On the social front, Young Democrat and gay-rights activist Joseph Coe sounds off on National Coming Out Day this past Thursday.
"Some may ask why I celebrate this day," Coe pens. "I celebrate National Coming Out Day because I know there are people who are still forced into silence. I also know that change is possible."
If you're prone to pulled muscles and sore joints, heed physical therapist Meryle Richman's advice—even an innocuous task like raking leaves can lead to injury. To prep for outdoor autumn activities sans backaches, read more here.
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I don't have the perfect formula for the life-work balancing act; it's an ongoing goal for all of us. But I've developed solutions
that have helped me maintain a grasp on that balance. I hope these ideas will add up to a healthier life for you, too.
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And as a working adult, it's important to factor in time to take care of yourself. Sure, without kids it's possible you may
have more flexibility about when you can catch up on sleep—and you can allow yourself to become more worn out, thinking it
will only affect you. But this is terribly unhealthy. People who take work home with them inevitably don't relax or get quality
sleep. What happens when you're fatigued? Your work suffers, and your health declines. So all this time you may have spent
trying to improve your career may ultimately damage it when you start coming in to work exhausted and burnt out.
Aside from negative effects on your career, you miss out on what's most important—time with loved ones. No matter how much
you may think you love your job, remember what my wise mother once told me: "When you die, no one is going to care what you
did at work and how many hours you put in ... but your impact on those around you and your loved ones will create a legacy."
This always scared me, but these words are powerful and ring true. So you take every extra ER shift they ask for, and you
constantly perform extra duties outside of work; when you are 60 you may look back at the time when you had more energy and
could physically do more and wish you had spent it otherwise.
Madness, multiplied
Finally, whether your situation matches these scenarios or you're balancing other forces, remember you can create a balance.
It takes effort and practice. Once you find the right equation, you'll feel happier, healthier and less stressed.
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DALLAS (SMU) — Paul S. Krueger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the SMU School of Engineering, has been named as a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development CAREER award from the Division of Chemical and Transport Systems of the NSF. Each year, the NSF grants a total of 300-350 CAREER awards to scientists who show strong potential early in their career. Krueger will receive $400,000 over a 5-year period of research.
Krueger's research will investigate a new pulsing method for the propulsion of very small vehicles through air or water. His innovative propulsion system is similar to that used by aquatic creatures like jellyfish and squid. Krueger's propulsion research might one day be used to propel centimeter or smaller size vehicles used in microsurgery or in the creation of micro-submarines to explore undersea caverns, or possibly on small aircraft used for military surveillance.
"The potential for Professor Krueger's research is far-reaching," said School of Engineering Dean Stephen Szygenda. "His work envelops both biological and mechanical worlds with groundbreaking applications for military uses, medical breakthroughs and undersea exploration."
According to Geoffrey Orsak, associate dean of engineering, Krueger's research reflects new trends in engineering. "Increasingly, this type of multipurpose solution to real-world technical challenges requires engineers to combine innate creativity, cutting-edge skills and the ability to meld wide-ranging concepts into useful applications."
Krueger joined the SMU faculty as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2002 after receiving his Ph.D. in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 2001.
Yildirim Hürmüzlü, chair of mechanical engineering, lauded Krueger's selection as a CAREER award recipient. "Recognition from the NSF is a great honor. It brings national attention to one of our outstanding engineering professors and to the world class research being conducted at SMU."
Krueger received the Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award for Distinguished Research in Hydrodynamics in 2001 and the Rolf D. Buhler Memorial Award in Aeronautics in 1998.


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The New York Islanders came back twice to tie the Florida Panthers 2-2 and win the shootout via a Frans Nielsen backhand.
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The New York Islanders squeaked out a shootout win over the Minnesota Wild with a Frans Nielsen backhand after Andrew MacDonald's goal was equalized by Cal Clutterbuck.
The New York Islanders stopped Sidney Crosby's 25-game points streak and rebounded from an ugly game against the Rangers to down the Penguins in the shootout.
A late Mark Streit equalizer and an outstanding NHL debut for Matt Martin helped the Islanders get to the shootout, where they prevailed 4-3.
The Islanders continued a 14-game roll, pulling into a tie for 7th in the East with a 1-1 shootout win over the Panthers.
Rick DiPietro earned his first win since December 2008, as the Islanders continue to roll, slipping past the Sabres in a shootout (2-2).
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Well, six games into the season, Hodges likes what he sees from his Jaguars.
"I really feel like we had a good first semester," Hodges said. "I can definitely tell we are getting better every day and have our best basketball ahead of us. The thing I really am excited about is how hard these guys are playing and how well they are playing together. Hopefully that continues and we continue to make improvements."
Westmoore has a 4-2 record. It's only losses have been t top ranked Edmond Memorial in the season opener and to Norman High in the finals of the Durant Classic.
"The thing I have been most proud of with our guys so far is how we've battled back in a few games," Hodges said. "We haven't gotten off to the best start in a few games, but we continued to fight and got ourselves back into those games and won a few of them. I've always said with this group when they play hard and defend like we need too, we will be a tough team to beat."
The Jaguars return only two starters from last year in Trey Ayala and Tripp Fuller. Both have come up with big games in the early season.
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He was born on January 5, 1943 in Broken Arrow to Ernest and Edna Willis. Elmer grew up in Locust Grove. He was in the US Navy during the Vietnam War where he served 3 tours. Survived by his wife Wanda of the home, his son Roy Moffeit Jr and Wife Mickey of Claremore and his daughter Rhonda Mayo and Husband Ray of Peggs; Brother John Willis and Wife Donna of Claremore; Sister Phyllis McFarland and husband Dallas of Locust Grove; 7 grand children and one Great grand child; several nieces and nephews.


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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
According to a 2009 poll, around 1% of American adults reported eating no animal products. In 2011 that number rose to 2.5%--more than double, but still dwarfed by the 48% who reported eating meat, fish or poultry at all of their meals. In this country, most of us are blessed with an abundance of food and food choices. So taking into account our health, the environment and ethical concerns, which diet is best? Are we or aren't we meant to be carnivores?
Clinical Researcher & Author, 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart
President and Co-Founder, Farm Sanctuary
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Neal Barnard, M.D., is Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., who guides numerous clinical trials investigating the effects of diet on body weight, chronic pain, and diabetes. Barnard's most recent study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes was funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has authored dozens of scientific publications, 15 books for lay readers, and has hosted three PBS television programs on nutrition and health, ranging from weight loss to Alzheimer's prevention. As President and Founder of the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Barnard has been instrumental in efforts to reform federal dietary guidelines. He also leads programs advocating for preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research.
President and Co-Founder, Farm Sanctuary
Gene Baur, President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, has been hailed as "the conscience of the food movement" by Time magazine. Since the mid-1980s, Gene has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our system of cheap food production. His book, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food (2008), a national bestseller, is a thought-provoking investigation of the ethical questions surrounding beef, poultry, pork, milk, and egg production. It describes what each of us can do to promote compassion and help stop the systematic mistreatment of the billions of farm animals who are exploited for food in the United States every year.
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Chris Masterjohn pursued a career in health and nutrition after recovering from health problems he developed as a vegan by including high-quality, nutrient-dense animal foods in his diet. He earned a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2012 and currently researches the physiological interactions between fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published six peer-reviewed publications and has submitted one manuscript for review. He also writes two blogs. The first, The Daily Lipid, is hosted on his web site, Cholesterol-And-Health.Com. The second, Mother Nature Obeyed, is hosted by the Weston A. Price Foundation at westonaprice.org. The opinions expressed in this debate are his own and do not necessarily represent the positions of the University of Illinois.
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The arrogance of the moral position on "not eating anything with a face" is staggering.
You would arbitrarily place a higher value on life which has a form and experience more similar to yours and place a lower value on life which has a form and experience different from yours. You would say one form of life is ok to kill and eat without guilt and another is not.
You would deny your equal position in the ecology of the planet to that of a bean sprout or a worm because you have arbitrarily defined your own central nervous system and sensory organs and cognition as special or important enough to place you outside of it. You imagine special responsibilities for yourself because of this imagined special position, you choose forms of abstinence from your evolved place in the ecosystem as a form sacrament for your moral philosophy. This moral philosophy is simply another presentation of the spirituality of self-worship.
Maybe this is what you need to do to feel personally fulfilled. Then do it and be happy. But, just like other evangelicals engaged in self-worship disguised as moral philosophy, you feel compelled to make others like you to validate your feelings. Just like young earth creationists and intelligent designers, you deny evolution, you deny that humankind is mundane, you cherry pick studies and anecdotes, you use the language of science to describe philosophy, you attempt to obfuscate the broad variation in lifestyles, genetic makeup, and complexity of the real world and environment, all to persuade others to be more like you.
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I've been vegan for 9 years. I run 100 miles races competitively and have perfect health. Not a single issue, no injuries, no headaches, no digestive issues. 7 months ago I went to a diet of JUST fruits and veggies and I am THRIVING. The key is eating lots.
For those of you who say a vegan diet is unhealthy:
Any diet (vegan or non-vegan) can by unhealthy if not done properly. Just because someone is vegan does not mean they are eating only processed sugar, corn, soy, etc. Many vegans are whole food vegans, meaning they only eat fresh fruit and vegetables and whole grains (not the processed stuff). If you eat a balanced diet of plant-based food, you can obtain all the nutrients you need, including vitamin B12. Even the ADA has stated that a vegan diet, if done properly, can be perfectly healthy.
To Justin Credible:
You wrote the following: "Animals are not like us. They have no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret. Don't get me wrong, I like animals and all. I just don't see the point in crying over dead animals who never even feared death to begin with"
You may have never studied animal behavior and evolution in college. I did. I earned my degree in evolutionary biology. I have also spent years working as a veterinary nurse and have attended multiple seminars on animal cognitive behavior and emotions. You are flat out wrong when you say that animals have "no knowledge of sorrow or regret." Just ask a veterinarian (who has a doctorate degree) and they will tell you that animals not only experience sorrow and regret, but they also experience grief, gratitude, and both physical and emotional pain. As Charles Darwin said: "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
"The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage..."
-- Sri Aurobindo,
We used to justify slavery by saying that blacks were inferior to whites (ie: conception for our own advantage). We justified this cruelty because it "benefited" our economy. Well, raising animals in crowded pens and boiling them alive (pigs and chickens) without proper stunning is cruel and it does NOT benefit our health. There are plenty of healthy vegans out there. I am an ultra runner and know plenty of other ultra runners who have been vegan for years and we run 31 mile plus races in the mountains. We thrive on this diet. Others may "thrive" on a factory farm animal-based diet, but their diet directly contributes to suffering, and it is not ecologically sustainable in a planet with over 7 billion people. Don't presume to know what animals are thinking or feeling. After all, you are an animal yourself.
Without going into Ecological and ethical issues and just approaching this issue from a scientific perspective, as a nutritional scientist (I am an assistant professor, teaching Clinical Nutrition and nutritional biochemistry) I find that the claims made that a vegan diet is better than an omnivorous one and that meat is the cause of various diseases are not supported by the literature. And it really doesn't matter the speaking skills and knowledge of the people in the debate. What really matters is what good research shows. As so I would like to bring some points to the discussion:
1) The fact that a vegan/vegetarian diet improves various health markers in the short term doesn't say it is a better diet than a well balanced omnivorous diet, because when you do a trial where diet A is a vegan/vegetarian diet and diet B is the typical SAD (which is a nutritional nightmare) or even the recommended AHA one (which has been shown to be scientific incorrect by multiple lines of evidence), the only thing you can say is that quitting a SAD diet is beneficial. But this happens with many diets and not just vegetarian ones: low carb, low glycemic index diets, Zone diet, Med diets, etc. for instance, there are already 2 trials with a Paleo diet (which includes meat) showing good results in diabetic patients when compared to a Mediterranean or prudent diet. And there are many high protein, low carb diets (that obviously include meat) showing these diets improve various metabolic markers when compared to a prudent diet.
To really now if a vegetarian/vegan diet is better than all omnivorous diets you have to put it to test and very few studies have actually done that. Bottom line: almost any diet that puts away from the SAD will improve your health (at least short term);
2) when someone goes on a vegetarian/vegan diet not only changes the diet but also the lifestyle, which makes it very hard if not impossible to draw conclusions about the single variable that explains their health status. This is supposedly one of the reasons why red meat has been associated with some diseases in epidemiological studies and whole grains inversely associated. People who eat more red meat also smoke, are physically inactive and eat fewer fruits and veggies. On the other hand those who eat whole grains do the opposite. Is it the red meat then? Is it the whole grains? Or is it the whole lifestyle?
3) various prospective and retrospective studies observe that vegetarians do not live longer than omnivorous and many omnivorous follow a SAD, so how can this be? This is enough to make me skeptical.
4) it is very well known that a vegan or even vegetarian diet can lead to various nutritional deficiencies/insufficiencies not because plant foods do not contain it, but because their bioavailability in plant foods (especially whole grains) is low: B12, B6, DHA, Iron, Zinc, Cysteine, Taurine. A diet composed of meat, fish, eggs, dairy, fruits, vegetables, tubers, nuts is much more nutrient dense and the bioavailability of most nutrients in these foods is better than in whole grains (which form the basis of many vegan/vegetarian diets)
5) many researchers have analyzed the health status and dietary habits of various populations around the world and have found that non western pre-agriculture populations are virtually free of modern diseases and that none is totally vegetarian - there's always some animal foods in their diets. Even Okinawa that has a fair amount of very old healthy people includes some animal food in their traditional diet. Many of these researchers have implicated grains, refined sugars, refined vegetable oils, processed foods, meat from feedlot obese animals as well as lifestyle as possible explanations:
6) to better understand the poor quality of the research and arguments used to support a vegan diet here's a link to a debate:
Whether or not you agree with the FOR side, you have to admit they did a much better job than the AGAINST. The FOR guys were well armed with knowledge, data, and facts, and delivered them with confidence. The AGAINST guys seemed hesitant, didn't have any facts to back up their arguments, and resorted to ad hominem attacks. FOR wins!
My father was born Amish and we grew up Mennonite in Lancaster County, PA, eating meat and potatoes literally every day. My grandfather died of a heart attack at age 40. At age 33 I went in for a routine physical and found my cholesterol was hovering around 300, even on statins. With the council of my doctor, I started eliminating all red meat (still eating fish occasionally) from my diet and over the course of a year my cholesterol dropped 100 points (without medication), and I lost 30 lbs. The elimination of red meat, and the introduction of nuts, beans, and fruit was literally the only dietary change I made. Just began to feel great. Today I'm a competitive long-distance runner fueled exclusively on plants and am in the best shape of my life.
Everyone has a personal story. As runners, we need to focus on "soft" foods that our bodies can digest efficiently. Red meat is obviously not one of those foods. But personal stories aren't enough. I think there are two primary questions missing from this debate, outside of ethics and sustainability, and purely from a nutritional standpoint. 1 - everyone focuses on the positives of what's in red meat, protein obviously is one. But if you consider the total picture (such as excessive l-carnitine and iron for examples) what impact does the total ingredient deck have on health? And 2 - fairly simple, what impact does eating red meat have on digestive health? Exploring these questions openly and honestly leads away from the polarization topic of meat, and more to it's effects, which trickle out much further than taking a bite.
Caveat - my wife and I co-founded a meat alternative called "neat". And while we're not taking a combative position on this topic as a brand, we try to simply equip people with the information to make a informed decision - producing an alternative, and letting people decide for themselves where it fits in their diet.
Assuming we don't buy into the health concerns of "eating anything with a face", or that we don't nutritional have to include animals in our diet, then why do we shun eating horses & dogs that are commonly consumed in other parts of the world?
I was vegetarian for a very long time, close to vegan except for fish; I ate a lot of soy as well. I slowly added poultry back into my diet, and then two years ago I was diagnosed with Hashimotos Thyroiditis. I also became Pre- Diabetic. To my dismay as I began to do finger sticks regularly I found that all carbs including fruit raised my blood glucose a lot. Now I am working hard to keep my carb intake very low. I eat a fairly high fat diet, good fats, moderate protein and low carb. It is the only thing that works...obviously to keep my BG low. As it is I still wake up with a BG level of around 100mg. I don't believe that vegetarianism can work for me and I am dubious about any diet that cannot provide all the nutrients, i.e, B12. I don't believe that we are meant to take supplements. That has always been something that has stayed in my mind since I started vegetarianism about over 40 years ago. So I venture into this new world of the Paleo diet with most of my colleagues and friends thinking I'm crazy. I look forward to more debates on vegetarianism, veganism vs the Paleo diet. Thanks. Cyd
The percentage of vegans is up higher than posted here. 7% now claim to be vegan or roughly 22 million. This is a social justice movement that is getting stronger and stronger. People opposed will some day look like racists do now!
Here's a video to help everyone understand why so many people are making this life affirming choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr4HZ7ukSE
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It takes a lot more energy to make animal protein for food than it does to make plant protein for food. The reason is you have to feed animals plants in order for them to build muscle. A large portion of the food we grow in this country goes to feed animals instead of humans. Most of the plants we feed animals does not turn to animal protein, it turns to manure, a lot which is unprocessed and pollutes rivers. It would be more efficient and cleaner if humans lived on a plant based diet. A plant based diet is no less healthy than a diet with meat in it. Look at athletes like Brendan Brazier, Venus Williams, Aaron Simpson, Jake Shields, Rich Roll, Laura Kline and several others.
The Pro-meat arguments were stronger in every way. The No-meat arguments were irrelevant and unsupported by actual science. The only real argument they have is that you animals have to die. Which i am okay with because i believe its more ecological, sustainable and I feel healthier. Factory farms, non pasture raised animals are another story. Eat meat just make sure its coming from a sustainable healthy source.
Who cares what we ate once upon a time? Have we really not learned - after all our history with racial, gender and sexuality segregration and discrimination - that we don't have to be slaves of our past beliefs and habits?
Now, if our past eating habits signified any necessity in eating animals, then the non-vegans would have had a point. But there is none. We can even disregard Neal Barnard's strong scientific case that eating meat is actually dangerous for us. The key point is that we don't need to cause misery for animals. So why do it?
So we live in an age, where it definitely is not necessary to eat animals. We also live in an age, where scientist has erased any doubt that animals are sentient beings with consciousness, feelings and preferences - all animals; pigs and chickens just as much as dogs and cats.
Most people recognize that animals have emotional lives, can be deeply miserable when treated like commodities, and very happy when they are treated with kindness and allowed to follow their natural urges.
Most people care about animals. Not as much as they care about humans, and I am not arguing they should. The key point for me is not animal equality, power or rights. The key point is that with our superior intelligence and power comes responsibilites. When we have the choice in how to treat the animals - when we don't need to eat meat - we should choose kindness and compassion, rather than violence. We should treat them as we would have wanted to be treated, if someone had the power over us.
It is actually kind of obvious.
How in the world can any thinking person consider that the worlds poor people can even feed the farmed animals when they require so much grain, or grasses to be healthy? We feed a WHOPPING 70% of grains grown today to farmed animals. THAT is obscene and disrespectful to poor children starving while fattening animals takes the lions share of crops.
I hope those who voted against the motion have a good look the films, Earthlings, and , The Ghost in Our Machine, as well as visit the slaughterhouse where all those "happy" animals end up , another form of a concentration camp that turns feeling beings into products. HOW SELFISH!
For me, it doesn't even matter whether people feel better on a vegan diet, and those that do not are DETOXING from years of poisons leaving their cells. What matters is that finally, after ten thousand years of brutal domination of sentient beings, we leave them in PEACE and stop abducting their young, and body parts . The violence we do to them, we do to US!
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I have a severe problem with this debate. The narrator seemed quite bias to the vegan side. We have hundreds and hundreds of different disease that are directly linked to a number of different things not discussed in here.
Was the question was about eating things with a face because of health reasons or because you don't want to hurt their feelings.
You can't make your argument for the health aspect with the justification of not eating meat because 1. it has a face. and 2. you're going to hurt their feelings. So basically the vegans answer to the question is not a matter of health or because it has a face. There aspect is to justify their delusional rational of personifying the animals. I am not saying that there answer is wrong. It may very well be true to them, in there reality, from their perspective, but it is an answer to an entirely different question. The question the vegans are answering is not about health, it's about feelings.
Animals are not like us. They have no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret. Don't get me wrong, I like animals and all. I just don't see the point in crying over dead animals who never even feared death to begin with.
Going back to the health aspect there are so many issues with health that are linked to nutritional deficiencies that you can only get enough nutrients from with meat. (IE. vitamin A, cholesterol, ext.)
This debate seemed more like an attack on those who eat animals rather than trying to justify there reason for vegan-ism. I believe because subconsciously the vegans in this debate fundamentally know they are wrong and that is why that cannot come up with a rational logical answer to being vegan. If it is a spiritual reason, or a something along those lines, that's one thing, it's a personal choice. But based on our physiological nature eating a purely vegan diet expecting to live a longer and better quality of life physically is fundamentally wrong.
Joel Salatin states that "The China Study has been
debunked by so many experts".
Is he talking about the 23 year old elementary school Denise Minger? Campbell responded to her which I was actually surprised.
People always like to hear good things about their bad habits.
The China Study critically questions meat eating, plain and simple. And Neal Barnard is clearly the scientific winner in this debate.
In terms of health, eating very little meat has been shown repeatedly to be preferable by so many peer reviewed studies, including the China Study.
In terms of an ethical debate, a farmer-thinker like Wendell Berry in lieu of someone like Joel Salatan, who I do like at times, but seems incapable of balancing the arguments, would have been more stimulating. As a grower, I can say that Salatan doesn't understand crop-based agriculture very well.
Also, the irritation, volume and desperate sarcasm from the "meat side" is itself irritating and rather telling. They turn it into a lame CNN or Fox News style debate at times.
Interesting but could've been better!
It seems the argument centers more on the emotional aspect of killing an animal, rather than what is the proper diet for homo sapiens. That's not what it is supposed to be about.
Our ancestors ate whatever plant food they could find. They also hunted, and enjoyed chunks of fresh meat. Period. What is bad today are all the starches and processed junk. Eat mostly veggies with the occasional meat and you should be good to go. I heartily recommend range fed bison as the best choice. Approximately 10,000 years is not time enough for us to have evolved away from this basic diet. It is but a second in time.
Don't forget that meat provides many nutrients that can never be obtained with a vegetarian or vegan diet. And hopefully the real truth about the low-fat BS will come to light. I have visions of construction workers, farmers etc. trying to work after eating a low fat breakfast of yogurt and fruit. Get real!
Let's see, how did humans evolve eating? Oh yeah...
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My thanks to Andrew John for alerting me to some impending Crimson on the radio. Andrew writes "its been a long time since I was able to point out to my mother
that King Crimson are refered to in the BBC Radio Times. Get yourselves
tuned to Gideon Coe this Thursday and wallow in the recognition only
occasionally the popular media affords our band. What is
chosen to be played will be interesting in itself." The session in question is likely to be the old BBC In Concert session taken from the Concertgebouw Night Watch concert. We wait with baited breath until Thursday!
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Nina Simone's Direct Action On Royalties
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jan 31, 2013
My thanks to homeoffice for sending in this. "Just ran across this older bit today on the interwebs...good old Nina,
if only the kind folks of DGM could go back in time to get Ms. Simone to
handle the backpay issue, she seems sure of how to handle it
here...good stuff"
Bernier's Looking Over The Edge Of Death
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jan 29, 2013
Ex-Stick Men member Michael Bernier has posted up a rough mix of a work in progress called Looking Over The Edge Of Death. Michael writes "I thought I should share this new track's process. Ive been dealing with the gauntlet of medical analysis
and speculation over my mysterious brain growth anomaly and the
seizures while trying to complete my newest CD. This track music was
inspired by the terror experienced within a grand Mal seizure yet
translated through my subjective suspicion as to how KC would approach
it. Sort of a tribute to KC while also a sonic insight to my experience
under the veil of flatlining. Im still tweaking it but I always like
feedback and sharing the steps along the way. OK
back to tracking...cheers!" You can listen to the track here. You can also listen and buy Michael's last album, Leviathan here.
Famous Formentera
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jan 29, 2013
My thanks to Ricj Mlinar for this item about the island of Formentera's links with popular culture.
Latest DGM Press Release
:: Posted by David S on Mon., Jan 28, 2013
Ground-breaking multimedia project challenges the Music Industry
A sleepy village in Wiltshire seems an unlikely place for a media revolution even if it does involve earl grey tea-drinking Vicars, retiring rock stars and (in a twist worthy of Monty Python) a video-blogging flatulent drummer.
The intent of THE VICAR CHRONICLES, based around the exploits of the legendary music producer, The Vicar, and released this week by DGM Ltd, could not be more simple: to expose the ill-treatment of musicians and artists at the hands of the evil empire of the music industry. An industry, in the words of guitarist Robert Fripp, founded on exploitation, oiled by deceit, riven with theft and fuelled by greed.
Even the copyright statement is a challenge to the status quo: DGM Ltd accepts no reason for artists to give away the copyright interests in their work by virtue of a common practice which is out of tune with the time, was always questionable and is now indefensible.
No revolution would be complete without a street protest and Punk Sanderson, author of The Vicar Chronicles, recently took his protest to the London offices of Universal Music Group, the largest record label in the world, releasing a Youtube video of himself holding placards and breaking wind in protest at each broken contract.
Its like the OCCUPY movement only smellier. Weve called bankers, politicians and phone-hackers to account now its time to blow the wind of change at the major record labels. They trample over musicians rights and rather than owning up and offering fair settlement, reach for expensive lawyers. It would cost over £300,000 to fight them in the courts whos got that kind of money?
It has taken ten years for The VICAR CHRONICLES to see the light of day. It is only now possible due to recent changes in the media landscape.
A few years ago, a project of this magnitude involving novels, graphic novels, audiobooks, videobooks, albums, even a potential TV series could only have existed with the unlikely support, given the content, of a major label and book publisher, co-creator, David Singleton, explains. Now it took just two meetings. One with Robert Kondrck, co-founder of iTunes, who flew into London, and the other with Dan Slater, the head of Kindle at Amazon in Seattle.
The Vicar Chronicles, by Punk Sanderson, are released through Amazon and iTunes. Sherlock Holmes meets Spinal Tap, an ingenious series of whodunits set in the music industry, blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
Good Evening Vancouver!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 28, 2013
The Crims pull off a cracking gig on the last night of their North American tour in 1981.
Farting Vine
:: Posted by David S on Fri., Jan 25, 2013
Technology lovers will know that today saw the launch of VINE - Twitter's new 6 second video tweets. And one of the very first VINE messages was apparently by none other than The Vicar's very own Punk Sanderson.
Punk did, of course, use this new medium to send out yet another "Fart For Your Rights" message - so this was presumably the world's first Farting Vine (although thankfully I think he may finally have run out of wind).
One can do nothing other than applaud his efforts (from a safe distance).
We Fart on the Beaches
:: Posted by David S on Fri., Jan 25, 2013
A Third Video in the Fart For Your Rights campaign against UMG on behalf of King Crimson has been posted on YouTube - with Punk Sanderson once more on the streets in Kensington.
His liner notes invoke the spirit (who knows, maybe even the humour) of the backs-to-the-wall, David-against-Goliath master himself, Winston Churchill, in his fight to "blow the wind of change" at the major Record Labels.
For the campaign to succeed it needs our support, so please watch and share.
Maartin Allcock Giveaway!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Jan 25, 2013
Mentioned in recent weeks on Robert Fripps diary, Chilli Morning, a new album by Maartin Allcock has a version of Discipline on it and we have a copy to give away to a good home.
In Deep With Tony Levin
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Jan 25, 2013
Check out this new interview with Tony Levin where he discusses the making of the latest album from Stick Men, Deep. Tony is currently at the NAMM show as documented on his diary. You'll also find concert dates in March for the Crimson Project over on the front page.
Andrew Keeling's Festival Appearance
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Jan 25, 2013
Andrew Keeling's work, Reclaiming Eros, will be performed at the Two Rivers Festival taking place in Birkenhead on February 8th. You can find out more about the event and festival by taking a look here. Andrew's is a keen walker and gets out despite the rather grim weather experienced recently in the UK. Check out his diary for some great photographs taken while out and about in Andrew's beloved Lake District. Elsewhere in Keeling world you can take a look at this page about his recent collaboration with Robert Fripp, The Wine Of Silence.
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EAST ST. LOUIS — A 22-year-old security guard for a public housing complex was shot in his foot during a struggle on Wednesday with a man who previously had been banned from going to the Waverly Building.
Police caught the suspect shortly after the 4:30 p.m. shooting. He was captured nearby in the 3200 block of Linden Avenue.
The guard, who is from Belleville, was taken to an area hospital and did not suffer life-threatening injuries, according to Cortez Slack, chief of security for the East St. Louis Housing Authority.
Slack did not release the guard's name but said he was in fair condition.
After the guard asked the suspect to leave the Waverly Building at 2901 Waverly Ave., the two men began to tussle with each other, Police Chief Michael Floore said. The suspect was able to grab the guard's gun and then shoot the guard.
The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested in a wooded area where there are a lot of vacant homes.
Slack did not know why the suspect had been banned from the public housing complex but confirmed the suspect was on the list of people banned from going to public housing complexes.
Officers flooded the area after the shooting. Along with the housing authority security team, officers responded from East St. Louis, the U.S. Marshals Service, Illinois State Police, Brooklyn and Washington Park.
Contact reporter Carolyn P. Smith at 618-239-2503.


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UPDATE (Dec. 6, 10:32 a.m.)—A man died and firefighters were injured as emergency crews battled a heavy fire early Thursday at a home in the Baldwin and Jacksonville area.
The Baltimore County Fire Department, in a news release, identified the victim as 62-year-old William Spencer.
Around midnight, about 80 firefighters from 20 units in Baltimore and Harford counties responded to the fire in the 5600 block of Sweet Air Road, according to the release.
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Photoshop abuse.
Take a look at the album cover for Soundgarden's new release of old songs.
Weird.. Brad Mehldau's cover of 'Black Hole Sun' just shuffled its way into my speakers.
Scary. Chris Cornell get a Mac for his birthday?
I like it a lot.
That looks like a screen cap from the "Afghan" level on Modern Warfare 2 with a dog poorly compositied over it.
And by "compositied" I mean to say "composited." :-/
Yeah this looks like something an 18 yearold would make.. I don't like it at all...
My love of surrealistic work tells me it's certainly interesting...
You'd think Soundgarden might be able to spring for a decent album design.
surreal work like this is already on its way out, and the entire foreground is not working for me at all.
You all have only seen a small portion of the Photoshop atrocity. There are front and back versions of the art and it's in panoramic format. This link has both pieces near the bottom of the article: http://espyrock.com/news/soundgarden-reveal-telephantasm-artwork
it looks like Chuck Anderson and Nigel evan Dennis's awkward love child
i don't know who soundgarden is but i would love to design the new Boys 2 Men album. I'm thinking art deco meets viking zombie warriors
Way to plop a gradient map layer over top of everything to make it blend together. Like a mish mash of lifted Flikr images.
Does it remind anyone else of Van Halen circa 1985???


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The Daily Star
---- — Congressman has it too good
Recent letters about a 2012 congressional candidate raise controversial issues.
However, this congressman has a very strong record on several counts:
1. He does not want to extend present government benefits to anyone who has not been on the U.S. payroll itself.
2. He believes that budgets can be balanced by raising military spending while cutting taxes.
3. He never votes to decrease his own benefits.
4. He devoutly wants to remain a federal employee, where he has spent nearly all his adult life.
It would be a weeping shame to deny this extraordinary representative his pay and comfortable life at the D.C. trough.
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Amicus Therapeutics believes that it has the opportunity to make a move in the rare disease market - competing with companies like Genzyme for Fabry's Disease patients as an example. This year, Amicus' Amigal was able to capture market share during Genzyme's supply problems with its drug Fabrazyme.
Amicus CEO, John Crowley says "It is good for people to have options for the treatment of rare diseases." See Fierce Biotech.
Posted by Bruce Lehr Feb 16th 2011.


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All the sides near the great Evergreen Forest considered the area to be a Bubble Kingdom. Personally, Warlord Grey Shades hated the term. He preferred the term "Croak Trap." His side of Everclear had spent the hundred turns since the conclusion of the Everlong War to leave that impression on all the surrounding sides, at least. It took a while for some sides to realize that if they send units into the forest, they only emerge on Everclear's terms, but after all the adjacent sides learned this as a fact, Everclear began to see many a peaceful turn. Which is the reason why King Shindig has standing orders for all Warlords to train their units with their full diligence, because peace is the one thing that is always in short supply for Erf.
"Welcome to Everglade," said Warlord Grey Shades, as he walked along the two ranks of ten scouts in front of him. Grey was neither very tall, nor impressively framed for a unit that had once held the station of Chief Warlord. Indeed, if anything he looked only slightly more sturdy than your average stabber, maybe as strong as an unpromoted knight. But his Signamancy gave him the air of a unit you would not want to engage with. The sharp green of his eyes give the feeling of piercing through a unit to see into and though them, and the stubble of his face showed he cared more for results than looks or manners. Not the kind of Warlord anyone would approach half-heartedly unless they knew they would receive a warm welcome, and as he strode before the newly popped units in his mail backed hardened leathers and drab billowing cape, the scouts were sure there was no warmth in him today.
"It's been a while since an entire dispatch of scouts has arrived in Everglade without losing a unit, but don't go thinking that impresses me," lied Grey as he watched every unit in the ranks follow his movement with their eyeballs. A breech of discipline in any other unit, but promising in a scout. "As far as I'm concerned, none of you truly understand anything about the world. But that is why you are here, to learn. I and a few others here will be teaching you what you will need to know in order to serve our side, and keep our borders secure. We have no Lookamancer to watch our lands. We have no Thinkamancer to maintain our lines of communication. We have no Florists to delay charges. And we don't need any of them. The scouts of Everclear are the first and most important line of defense for our side, which is why you are all here, in the most hostile and unforgiving terrain the Evergreen can offer. Only those who flourish here will become true Everclear scouts, and join the ranks of the Farstriders."
Warlord Shades couldn't help but say the name of the Farstriders with pride, and for good reason. The distinction was created during the Everlong War against Everglade and the Hickson tribe. The war lasted longer than any unit can remember without checking a library, and the brutality of the fighting is still a cautionary tale told amongst the barracks. A war between two Forest capable sides in a Heavy Forest with no roads of any kind, it couldn't help but be brutal. The entire war was an uninterrupted series of Search and Destroy missions, only Luck or Fate keeping you from stumbling into a stack larger than your own. And the larger battles reduced entire hexes to Ash terrain. Warlord Shades had been among the first units to receive the Farstrider distinction, and the responsibility of searching, seizing, sapping, and slaying any vulnerable enemy resources. It's not a stretch to say that without the Farstriders, Everclear would never have won the war.
"Any unit that does not flourish here," continued Grey, "will croak trying. No one leaves our classes as anything but a success or a corpse! You will be taught how to survive in hostile hexes. You will be taught to remain undetected by enemy units from any distance. You will be taught how to reconnoiter an enemy force. And you will be taught the Everclear way of fighting. Only after learning all of these lessons will you be able to begin fulfilling your Duty to your side. Do I make myself clear!?"
Not a sound could be heard from any of the new scouts, they just nodded slightly. Another good sign.
"Good. Now, your first lesson-"
Warlord Shades' thought process stopped dead in it's tracks, skipped a beat, and then dove onto a new bearing just quick enough to avoid being detected by the new units.
"-Will be taught to you by Warlady Brittney," said Shades, indicating a blond Warlady from the Hickson tribe that was promoted up from a Piker and who is standing attentively nearby. "She will teach you about the local wildlife. Your quartering will come after."
This was not the plan for the day, as her purpose there was originally just to see to quarters and vittling, but Brittney was just bright enough to adapt to her orders. Stepping forward in her green and grey trimmed Everclear colored armor, with a pair of Hickson shorts underneath, she begins her unprepared speech. "Well, like, the first thing you should watch out for in the marshes are the Haters. They're big foul-tempered beasts with enormous mouths that'll tear into anyone that grabs their attention. And once you get one of them on your case, it's real hard to get 'em off. Best way to deal with a Hater in your way is to lead it to another Hater, cause they're really territorial, ya see, and they'll start tearing into each other..."
Grey turned on his heel and started walking out of the spacious courtyard of the level 4 Everglade before Warlady Brittney had even begun her lesson. Grey continued to stride quickly past the wood paneled buildings that made up it's construction. The city was far messier than a city belonging to a side with a Signamancer should ever look, but the Marsh Capable units the city popped found this setting to be the most relaxing. The defenses didn't suffer for the rough materials used for the empty buildings. The walls were solid, the tower tall, the garrison tough, and the terrain lent itself to natural Dirtamancy traps, so Everglade was left as is after being conquered - though all the living Hicksons at the time were put to the sword. The fact that Everglade was uncomfortable and dangerous to outsiders was why it's a perfect city to use for the training of Farstriders. And even if it wasn't, the Hickson tribe is indispensable to the security of the south and south east perimeter of the Evergreen forest, where marshes predominate the terrain. An invading force would have to cross the marshes in light watercraft to have any hope of attacking with minimal losses, and the Hickson tribe are masters of light watercraft combat. Add to that the stacks and stacks of hard rock golems patrolling along the bottom of those shallow water lanes with boat hooks, harpoons, and halberds to destroy watercraft from below, and you have a path into the forest that has yet to be breached by outsiders.
But Grey couldn't stay here any longer, not even to give the new scouts their first lesson. He's received orders from the King.
Warlord Shades paced quickly and silently through the city, so absorbed in the possible contexts of his orders that he didn't even bother to look at his surroundings. That's why he was actually surprised when he heard his name shouted while crossing in front of the tower of this former capitol site.
"Grey!" shouted an overweight man from the Warlord's blind spot.
Turning to look, Grey saw the Warlord charged with overseeing the city. A stocky man with a horseshoe bald spot, a beard growing only under the jawline, and a stained white undershirt exposed through the opening of a red and blue patterned over shirt made from a material the Hickson tribe call "flannel." A ridiculous type of garment in Grey's opinion, but the Hicksons loved it as much as they did their short cut pants. Warlord Shades returned the wave from the man and called out, "Boudreau!"
The stocky governor hurried up to Grey, his belly and neck waddle bouncing as he did so, asking what the hurry was about. Despite the urgency of his orders, Boudreau was not a man to be brushed aside. He'd led four minor campaigns to repel attempted invasions through the Evergreen marshes, the latest being Stopgap's attempt to take Everlast on the eastern fringe of the kingdom, which he fought off with his current Signamancy. He's a Warlord worthy of respect and his current position. But Duty is Duty. "I'll tell you Boudreau, but you'll have to walk with me."
Even with Shades' slightly longer legs, Boudreau had no trouble keeping up, and so with a steady voice he asked the question, "So where ya off ta', Grey?"
"I'm heading to the Aviary, right now. I've been summoned to court."
"HA! Good fer yew! Maybbe you'll be able to get a banquet under yer belt! Live it up whil' ya can, son!" cries Boudreau, despite the fact that Grey is older than him.
Turning into the Aviary where the flight capable mounts for Everclear were kept, Grey shook his head a little and said, "Somehow I don't think I'll have a chance to enjoy myself on this trip, Boudreau." Grey stopped by a nest prepared for a Bluebird, though this one is actually colored a bright yellow. The fowl, seeing that it'll be ridden this turn, gave a very depressed sigh and stood up. Grey used this time to turn to Boudreau and say, "It's an emergency summons. It seems like something very bad is going down."
Grey mounted the Bluebird in one swift motion, which released a resigned moan in response, and was preparing for take off when Boudreau said, "How do you know? That it's something bad?"
Grey Shades turned to Boudreau and flatly said, "Is a court summons ever a good thing?"
And from the branches of a nearby tree, a wild Who Owl screeched.


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New York Times Discusses Keystone XL Project with Prof. Echeverria
October 13, 2011
The New York Times has spoken twice recently with Vermont Law School Professor John Echeverria about the controversial Keystone XL project, which would build a 1,700-mile pipeline from the oil sands of northern Alberta to the Gulf Coast in Texas.
An Oct. 7 story said the U.S. State Department assigned an important environmental impact study of the proposed pipeline to Cardno Entrix, a company with financial ties to the pipeline operator, TransCanada, flouting the intent of a federal law meant to ensure an impartial environmental analysis of major projects.
In a Nov. 1 story, the State Department defended its decision to award the environmental impact study to Cardno Entrix.
Professor Echeverria, one of the nation's leading experts in takings law, has expertise in climate change, constitutional law, land use planning and regulation, and other fields. Before joining VLS in 2009, he was executive director of the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center.


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By Mark Boshnack
The Daily Star
---- — Half of the 2013-14 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Internationalization went to SUNY Oneonta professors.
The four awards announced Thursday encourage the establishment of the new and innovative study-abroad programs in less-commonly traveled destinations, and the exploration of underrepresented academic disciplines in study abroad, according to a release from the State University of New York.
SUNY Oneonta recipients included Robert Compton, chairman of the department of Africana and Latino studies, for a program titled "South Africa and the Quest for Justice and Social Cohesion: 20 Years After the End of Apartheid."
"We are obviously excited," Compton said. He is working on the program scheduled for May 2014 with his fellow professor in Africana and Latino Studies and English, R. Neville Choonoo, who was originally from South Africa.
It will be a chance for the two to blend their different strengths — Compton in political science and Choonoo in literature. The prize includes $4,000 for support of the program and to make participation more affordable for students.
Compton said part of the award will be used to help defray some of the costs for students. He hoped it will help build student interest in the program, which is scheduled to spend three weeks at various locations in South Africa. The course will use technology to meet with South African students online before the trip and afterward.
This was the second time he applied for the award, and the first time he won it.
Also being chosen from SUNY Oneonta was Maria Montoya, assistant professor in the department of Foreign Languages and Literature, for "San Andres Island Teaching Abroad Experience," in Columbia. She did not return a call for comment Thursday.
SUNY Oneonta Provost Maria Thompson said in a statement: "We're thrilled that two of the four recipients of this year's Chancellor's Award for Internationalization are from our campus. Dr. Compton and Dr. Montoya certainly help our students gain broader perspectives of our world and a deeper appreciation of others' experiences. Focusing on geographic areas that historically are less often discussed also brings a richness to their teaching and scholarship, which contributes to the overall excellence of our academic program."


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By KATE COIL
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
As Division of Highways crews begin planning a $6 million bridge replacement project, city leaders are looking into ways to effectively coordinate traffic and emergency services during the construction period.
City Manager Jim Ferguson said inspectors with the West Virginia Division of Highways determined the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge has to be completely replaced. According to the DOH, the bridge was originally constructed in 1966 to replace another bridge in the same location.
"The bridge used to belong the railroad, but there was an agreement where the city took ownership of the bridge," Ferguson said. "The DOH surveyed the bridge and thought there were some repairs that needed to be done. The bridge had some issues and needed some rehabilitation. After they did their preliminary review, the DOH decided the entire structure needed to be replaced for safety."
As part of the plan, Ferguson said the bridge would be raised to a final height of 23 feet, 6 inches to allow for double-decker trains.
Norfolk Southern contributed $200,000 of the original $300,000 the city pledged to pay for the bridge reconstruction. However, Ferguson said the bulk of the money will be coming from federal stimulus dollars awarded to the state.
"This is mostly being funded through federal money from the stimulus with a little city money," he said. "The West Virginia DOH is helping as well. Of course, 80 percent of the project will be funded by federal money. The original estimate was around $1.6 million and the city was only responsible for 20 percent or $300,000. The price tag was then changed to $6 million due to utility issues and other issues they found. We are looking in to see exactly how much the city is going to end up paying."
Ferguson said the DOH will oversee construction but the city has to look into other concerns, such as utilities impacted by the reconstruction of the bridge.
"The DOH is taking the helm on construction, but we will be there to monitor the process and coordinate detours," Ferguson said. "The pillars will be eliminated and the bridge will be bonded at the ends. The plan is to take out the current bridge and built a whole new bridge. All the time frame I have been given at this point is that there will be a final plan and design to be completed by the end of summer, then they will bid the project out in the fall. Construction should start in the spring of 2014."
Ferguson said several utilities will be impacted by the construction.
"There are a lot more utilities involved than you might think," he said. "There is a lot of electrical involved since there are street lights on the bridge that will have to be removed. A large electric grid is in that area as well as stormwater. A lot of the utility companies have come out to do assessments for the project."
Ferguson said one of the main concerns for the city will be traffic flow during the construction period.
"Traffic is one concern for the city," Ferguson said. "There will have to be detours and we will have to determine what is the best route to take for people going to that area. We will have to see how it will impact Bluefield State College as well as the citizens who live directly behind or near that bridge. I believe that is one of the groups it will most impact. There is also at least one business that deals with mining equipment on that side as well. They go in and out with trucks and heavy machinery on the bridge, so we will need to address their needs. We will be keeping the public informed of what is happening and holding public hearings."
Emergency traffic is of particular concern for the city, Ferguson said.
"We will also have to plan with our emergency responders as they won't have access right over the bridge," Ferguson said. "We will be talking to our fire, EMS and police departments about those issues. There are multiple homes and residences that are in that area they need to be able to reach in the case of an emergency, so we will have to come up with alternate plans for them."
Ferguson said the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge is one of the most heavily traveled bridges in Bluefield.
"Of any bridge in the city, this bridge is central and has the highest traffic of any bridge other than the Frank Easley Bridge over Route 52," he said. "We will be working with the citizens to accommodate them as best we can as far as getting them to homes, businesses and the college. We have a year to figure this out, so we have time. I am certain we will be able to work with everyone the best we can."
— Contact Kate Coil at email@example.com