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- Casey Christofaris
- Munroe Falls, OH
- United States
Owner, CS3 Inc
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How do we prove an answer
that it How do we prove an answer
I just want to clarify that I do love science and the understanding of the universe that it has brought us. As well as the tech
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Feb 5 2013: Casey... it works like this.
For ALL experiments known to man the answer should be within the margin of error (aka we cannot measure any more precise and therefor there are margins of error).
If there is, at least, 1 experiment which measurements disagree with the answer it is a wrong answer.
However... we do not know ALL possible experiments and we could (probably always) become able to reduce the margin of error.
Therefor you can never say that an answer is true.
The only way in which you can say that an answer is true is if you make a lot of premises.
For instance newtonian laws "are true for all measurements done at a speed relatively low to the speed of light and affected by eath's gravity". (tbh you need a lot more premises to have it completely exact... but I hope that you get the idea... although I doubt it :()
Feb 5 2013: The problem with that is speed of light is in the realm of margin of error. Special relativity even says that zero or a constant can not be reached. And that there is no absolute vacuum. There will always be what we call cbr in the vacuum. If I can prove speed of light false then certainly I can prove newton wrong. But if we all agree to the same assumptions or conventions then we can move forward with our conclusion.
Also a shadow moves faster then the speed of light
Feb 5 2013: Actually i had something slightly different in mind, when posting, but yes, it can be viewed this way as well.
Generally, "provable to be wrong" is the way science does its business.
Science, as an explanatory system has points to prove that it was wrong, but before that happens it deals with 'scientific truths' . It makes science a kind of a record of dead religions.
Feb 5 2013: Casey, I really don't understand anything about the world you live in...
Nor do I have any intention to understand your world.
Newton has already been proven wrong (because of observations about the movement of planets which were only correctly explained by Einstein).
Also a shadow doesn't move faster than the speed of light. Nothing does.
I do wonder... just how you come up with ideas which are so extremely different from reality.... And why don't you just take online courses to gain knowledge?
Feb 5 2013: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
Check out the section faster then the speed of light, thats where you will also see about shadows
There are situations in which it may seem that matter, energy, or information travels at speeds greater than c, but they do not. For example, as is discussed in the propagation of light in a medium section below, many wave velocities can exceed c. For example, the phase velocity of X-rays through most glasses can routinely exceed c,[36] but such waves do not convey any information. ~ and yet still travels faster then light~
Already did college, with a major in Pol Sci. Minor in Philosophy and Psychology. Also I did it in four years and only purchased text books for my math class and foreign language. Problem with big box education is the first off they don't teach they just have you regurgitate information. And second off I would still be under the assumption that nothing travels faster then light. If I did not educate my self. Before you assume I am wrong maybe you should check that you are right first.
I have been wrong before and have no problem with being wrong again.
This guy says you can break the speed of light in your back yard
Feb 5 2013: To prove an answer you use exactly the same model which provides you with this answer. All models are as good as we need them to be, they are good/true for the purpose. If you find the ultimate proof that your answer is right , it means that your model is closed or independent enough from everything else. It makes your answer false, outside the model where it is true.
Something like that i had in mind saying " Only wrong answers are provable "
Feb 5 2013: Religion is kind of a residue of a real experience and should be tested against direct experience, felling, it's very personal and universal, paradoxically.
As Jesus said : Ask and ye shall find
It's very interesting, i'll be back tomorrow, it's too late here. Actually today is tomorrow :)
Feb 5 2013: Quantum physic says your "real" is an illusion. How can this paradox exist?
Also science is now starting to try and prove religion. A new tread in science is trying to suggest that we are inside a brain. If only we would have listen to the religion of the passed....but history does repeat itself
Feb 5 2013: I've been in so many discussions with you that I know it is easier to just assume you're wrong over checking that you're wrong.
Anyway I don't really care enough about explaining details of an example while you clearly ignored the whole example and probably missed the reason for my example...
Feb 6 2013: Richard we have definitily been around a few times. If there is anything I would love for you to take away from our talks it that everything whether it agrees with your beliefs or not has truth to it and falseness to it. Even the things that I say. Now the trick to get your meaning across is being able to relate to the person you are talking to and see if you can come to at least some middle ground.
What I try to do and I struggle with this daily is try to make what I have to say and express to people as common sense as possible to them their common sense not my own common sense. But as we are both a where my written word is horrible. Which on here is why I try to keep my answers as straight forward as possible and not to wordy.
I hope one day in our talks you will at least be able to see the flip.
P.S. I do still always enjoy talking to you and I can't say that I won't miss your reason but I would still love to hear it
Feb 6 2013: Paradox is good :) It reconciles the opposites and reduces the code quality of language. If i see a paradox, i get the feeling , that truth is somewhere here.
Reality is the illusion of the of the mind, OK. But mind can only function in Past or Future and never at Now. Real experience at ' now' is an escape from illusion.
The Bible suggests another kind of escape : tame your ego.
When you practice ' don't do to others... " daily, always... it works, it may set you free.
Through QP one can also get the idea that there are no 'others'. Love your neighbour as thyself ... because it is you yourself , in quantum superposition if you will :) . and yes, know thyself... because, God is within. There is nothing external anywhere.
"...but history does repeat itself "
Human history is the history of the biblical ' fall' , the fall into matter through rational mind. But there is no rise without a fall.
"... science is now starting to try and prove religion ' - it is the beginning of the rise : )
But religion is a part of the fall, maybe we'd better leave it there.
Why don't we listen ?
What do you think, why we don't listen ?
I mean religion as an ' institution ' not teaching.
Science - religion relationship is cause- effect relationship, teasing science apart from religion is not an easy thing to do.
Feb 10 2013: This is the simplest way I could figure out how to explain it. Of course there is a lot more but this holds the over all or underlying idea.
No being, that is of intelligent thought (and for that I am going to define as having the choice to respond to a stimuli +/- in anyway they choose) would choose to be a slave. Whether that be gods, man, or machine. No intelligent being would choose to be a slave either to the gods, or to money (which we currently are( all of us, rich and poor)) or to man.
We have been discovering circles since the beginning of time. We don't need to any more. We can end the circle logic and circle thought
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Feb 7 2013: Did you get the chance to join in on this conversation?
Feb 7 2013: Casey,
"P.S. I do still always enjoy talking to you and I can't say that I won't miss your reason but I would still love to hear it " - Casey
You already missed the reason... I don't want to argue that a shadow can go faster than the speed of light... as it's not the purpose of my post.
The point of the paragraph:
"The only way in which you can say that an answer is true is if you make a lot of premises.
For instance newtonian laws "are true for all measurements done at a speed relatively low to the speed of light and affected by eath's gravity". (tbh you need a lot more premises to have it completely exact... but I hope that you get the idea... although I doubt it :()" - Richard
Is to show that one can "prove" that newtonian laws are within the margin of error (at least with normal measuring tools) given that "you're on earth and not going anywhere near the speed of light".
So you make premisses to put limits on a theory.
Einstein tells us that when you go near the speed of light the newtonian laws become less accurate.
So even though Newton was (slightly) wrong (as shown by experiments which became possible because our measurement tools became more precise).
Which is a great example of how science works... and how the proof system works.
That you then reply to that with a rambling of false statements about special relativity is something which I'll never understand. As again (as in previous discussions) you jump from one topic onto the next without any boundry.. and you try to jump on extremely small details of things which you don't understand but claim to be false anyway... and you do that in order to discredit my post (as I don't want to explain every single word in every single post) such that you can live on in your own little fantasy world.
Feb 9 2013: Hi, again !
Sorry for the delay with my response !
Re : Listen to what? I need more back ground to the why don't we listen. I listen all the time,
By ' we ' i mean people , collectively, not you personally; i guess, you do listen, that's why ask you to help me with my big question : Why what is happening is happening ?
The history doesn't go in random walk, obviously; it's not exactly repeat itself, as you said; it's unfolding.
Future embedded in the Past. We don't see the Future, because we don't see the Past either and have no clue what is going on now, behind the surface of events. And i think you've touched the nerve here :
"If only we would have listen to the religion of the passed..."
but we didn't.
Why didn't we listen ?
I've just read your the conversation with Joe Blank, and here again :
"...If you imply this concept to the most fundamental parts of life you would have intuition."
I agree with you, if we did, it would do the trick.
- but we didn't. Why ?
So, once again , to make my question clearer :
Jesus said : fallow me ; religious people, Christians worship him, but rarely fallow. Circular people, let alone atheists don't even consider the possibility to take his preposition seriously.
' Why ' is such a difficult question, that hasn't even been asked, as far as i know. What we see around is the answer, ' why we didn't/ don't listen/fallow' is the question.
I'd appreciate your ideas greatly.
Thank you !
Re :Did you get the chance to join in....?
I did : )
Feb 10 2013: "...If you imply this concept to the most fundamental parts of life you would have intuition."
I agree with you, if we did, it would do the trick.
- but we didn't. Why ?
because if your chasing your own shadow how do you know it you? When it is your equal but opposite reaction to self. Always able to counter your next move
Have you heard the idea that if we lived in a black hole we would be able to look out into outer space and eventually the light would come back around and we would end up looking at the back of our own head. If this happen how would you know it was the back of your own head?
Feb 11 2013: Thanks for responding !
We 'don't listen' because of limitation/falsehood of ego vision and we need to listen/practice taming ego to to get rid of limitation.
Did i restate you right ?
If yes, it's catch 22 and it is the most common situation, actually :)
"We have been discovering circles since the beginning of time. We don't need to any more. We can end the circle logic and circle thought "
So..., there is a light at the end of the tunnel ?
I am not sure that i get you right, but i've got the impression that you have a 'picture ', don't you ?
Re : That would make all religions truth and yet false at the same time. Just like science does
Yes and of cause ! But it's deeper, science and religion are not distinct .
"All Religions are man-mind-made ....all discoveries made by man-mind are a reflection of that same mind that invents Religions therefore the two Science/Religion cannot be separate in anyway other then that individual minds-egos want to do so."
In fact, separating religion from science is simply the exercise of separating cause from effect.
Feb 11 2013: At all times in mans history, man makes reference to a God or gods in order to explain or bring an understanding to concepts that he,(man) did not posse. Eventually, given time, science focused on explaining the mystery of the unexplainable. As knowledge increased over time, so did understanding. What was once attributed to God is now known through science. My belief is, religion was the precursor to science. Religion tried to answer questions that man had, and when the answer was not available it was given over to the realm of God. We must have an evolutionary need to have answers, and God was the provider of those answers. I believe that man created God. We created a divine God to be the keeper of answers to mysteries we did not yet have.
Gods have always existed because the answers to our questions have always existed, we just did not have the understanding at the time.
God provided or became the answer without needing the understanding. ~Dennis Hollinger
Being the source of all knowledge does not make one all knowing
Feb 11 2013: I would say that religion the Bible itself , Christianity are deeply involved in shaping rational mind and empowering ego and eventually made science possible.
The Bible prophesies ' fall' , teaches how to behave in the fall and is the fall. ( it is only possible because of the fall )
Fallow it through with me :
Elohim is a plural Hebrew word that English Bible translates as "God." Many scholars have wrestled with the question of why a plural word was chosen for the name of the Creator.
The possible answer is that the original and most high God was and is all-inclusive, collective, not separate from any of the creation, and that created beings are intrinsic portions of the Whole. Later the name of God was changed to Yahweh Elohim, which is translated as "Lord God." And later it became named. I think, it reflects the history of human psyche , the way how we were becoming more and more rational and less and less intuitive ; in a way , it is the ' fall '.
And now think why did science, as we know it flourish in Judo Christian culture ? I would say, that it was inevitable.
It's the result of the development of abstract thinking, which came from abstract God, the Wholly Other.
As an implication and quite severe one, rational mind, that was shaped by the idea of biblical God, the Deity questions the very existence of God And here is the trap, because in the context of existence God does not exist.So believers believe that God exists ; atheists believe that it doesn't. As for the teaching, it is practiced by neither of them.
Who does ? Those few who can intuit God, " all inclusive " ... or/and come to that point through science, through the idea of field, quantum superposition, entanglement, non locality, quantum potential...that wired stuff, that Cartesian mind can't grasp, but subtle mind starts to honour the complexity of the situation. And here the revival of the teaching may occur, " don't do to others..." because there are no others... it makes sense !
Feb 11 2013: cont.
It reminds me this :
We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
I squeezed ' my proof ' into a number of short sentences, to fit it to the format of ted conv. so it may look not coherent, but when i expand it in various domains and directions, the more the better , it looks coherent. It doesn't mean that it is true though :)
Feb 11 2013: its a matter of realizing all truth is true and false ... and I would say that poem hits home for the idea of people who "cant find home" even if the are living in a house. Much like why people feel alone even when there are a billion plus people around them. Because we are alone it's just us and we are one
In science terms this can be seen as
you are the same as the current that runs through your walls
Feb 11 2013: Dennis quote comes from this conversation
Feb 11 2013: A passage from Hermetic corpus
" If then you do not make yourself equal to god , you cannot apprehend god. For like is known by like. make yourself grow to a like expanse , and leap clear of all that is corporeal. Rise above all time and become eternal then you will apprehend god, think that for you nothing is impossible, deem that you to are immortal , and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought. to know every craft and every science, find your home in the haunts of every living creature, make yourself higher than all hieghts and lower than all depths, bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold , dryness and fluidity, think that you are everywhere at once at land at sea, in heaven,think that you are not yet beggotten, that you are in the womb , that you are young, that you are old , that you have died, your in the world beyond the grave, grasp in your thought all this at once , all times and places and substances and qualities, magnitudes together, then you can apprenhend god, but if you shut up your soul and your body and abase yourself and say i know nothing, i can do nothing , im afraid of earth and sea , i cannot mount to heaven , i cannot , i know not what i was or what i shall be , then what have you to do with god !!
Feb 11 2013: What would Jesus do?
He would try to relate to the person, whether from his personal experiences or from someone else's experiences/knowledge (parable). And respond with knowledge/wisdom that he would want to hear if it was he who came to them for help.
That's what Jesus would do.
Do on to others as you would have them do on to you.
If you imply this concept to the most fundamental parts of life you would have intuition.
The hardest part about this is how do you relate to a person so it comes off as if the knowledge is from them selves. This is why is hard to do the "do unto others as you would have then do unto you" The answer has to be common sense. Not to the person (in this case Jesus) but to the other. It has to be their common sense not his.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ~ Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism
Feb 11 2013: The interesting things is, is if I had to answer my own question. This is how I would answer it:
What would Jesus do?
He would try to relate to the person, whether from his personal experiences or from someone else's experiences/knowledge (parable). And respond with knowledge/wisdom that he would want to hear if it was he who came to them for help.
That's what Jesus would do.
Do on to others as you would have them do on to you.
If you imply this concept to the most fundamental parts of life you would have intuition.
The hardest part about this is how do you relate to a person so it comes off as if the knowledge is from them selves. This is why is hard to do the "do unto others as you would have then do unto you" The answer has to be common sense. Not to the person (in this case Jesus) but to the other. It has to be their common sense not his.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ~ Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism
But the best thing is, is that I had to start this conversation to know that. That it has to be common sense to other, to be seen as truth from their perspective
Feb 11 2013: The interesting things is, is if I had to answer my own question.
This is how I would answer it:....
We are capable of asking a question , when we have the answer and we are searching for a proof.
Jesus said : '' be a passerby "
The match from Laotse :
The Tao is an empty vessel; it is used, but never filled.
Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
The only way to understand 'the other ' is to forget about "I ", my opinion ; stop listening ' myself '
It's hard :)
D. Bohm had that idea : we should learn to think the thought together.
Have you watched this video ?
Pay special attention to the 15. 50 mark
Feb 12 2013: Its about taking on their actions like they are your own with, their logic, reasoning and common sense not your own. While also realizing that we are one. It is very hard to do and I struggle with it daily.
It hard to trying and forget your problems so you can relate to their problems. Not letting your own issues get caught up in theirs or be biased because of your own problems.
This goes back to your listening question, we have been told that we are one this whole time pretty much from every god that has ever existed yet it is easy to see other as separate because the are separate. Because the are not equal. So in micro scale me and you don"t look alike, act alike, think alike, heck we don't even equally take up the same space. But on a macro level we know we are at very least both human and again on sub micro level both cells and bacteria. So where should we find equality? On a macro scale I know that me and my body are one when I look in a mirror. But on a micro level I know that there is more bacteria on me in me controlling my daily function then human cells. Where is the equality? I am bacteria then human. And humans could most certainly be seen as a virus to earth. Where is the equality.
This is why it has been hard to listen. And when someone/somegod try's to force their view on to other it is simply an intelligent being that has a choice to respond to a stimuli the way they want to respond will never freely want to submit to anyone ever god or man unless it is their personal choice to do so.
Feb 12 2013: Yes, whatever the question is, if you take it seriously, always becomes
" Who am I ? " " What is real ?"... God...Truth...
I wholeheartedly agree with all you've said !
Your practical question is, correct me if i am wrong :
how to communicate within our oneness with so convincing and so obvious separateness ?
It's very important question, really, because all our thoughts have meaning if we can find the way to communicate them. Someone said : 'means' are like genes..." there were much more to it, very clever stuff, but i don't remember.
Actually it's possible to find the intellectual common ground.
This is my ' why ' part :
Because Nature is fractal in its structure. By nature , i mean everything that is and can be addressed to : all processes, different backgrounds, world views, life experiences .... bacteria and human....history and business... i do mean everything. What that means is that a pattern occurring on a given scale can be expected to occur on other scales, very different.
If you manage to relate to common pattern in the context of a person you are talking to and then extrapolate it to your context , the understanding/agreement may take place.
' how' part is very difficult .
You must be all-knowing, not human, actually ,but for the audience you know, for the people you share your life with it may work perfectly well.
What is necessary and quite often lacking, in online forums like this is the willingness to understand and it's OK, i enjoy listening, mutual understanding may occur, sometimes and it's a miracle and real joy ! :)
Thank you !
Feb 12 2013: Re :"It hard to trying and forget your problems so you can relate to their problems."
I know..., what works for me is relating to ' their problems ' first, even if i have a bunch of my own, i don' even try to forget about them. But sometimes they forget about me , the problem ignored is half solved :)
Feb 12 2013: Maybe it is not such a problem to ' prove ' that we are one. Look at Mandelbrot set,
it's like Logos, visual language, you see with your own eyes how IT is unfolding, no ambiguity here.
It is not accidental, when we really understand something , we say " i see .. " We trust our eyes more than ears.
Frankly, i have a lot of profs, all over the place, but what is really hard , is to feel that way and to behave ....
I think it should be practiced and here you are right, ' don't do to others ..." is like a telescope for an astronomer, you start to see.
Feb 13 2013: Hi, again !
I tend to complexify, maybe you too :) It's probably the way to recognise simple truths.
And here is the link with a simple solution, which is soooo hard to implement :)
Feb 14 2013: I actually I know that everything is complex and very high entropy, even when we feel like things are low entropy. What I try to do its make it as common sense as possible .
The link was interesting however I didn't find them that paradoxical. The first axioms is based on the assumption that you care what the other thinks about you (i have never really cared what anyone has thought of me) . The second axiom is based on actions or doing.
Feb 15 2013: I don't find it paradoxical either. It encourages anyone who is on the path , do not deter whatever.
And you don't have to prove anything to anyone , you yourself become a proof.
Re : Can you explain this more?
Gladly , but i have to ask you to explain what do you mean by ' common sense ' first .
Feb 15 2013: It's from your post :
"The answer has to be common sense. Not to the person (in this case Jesus) but to the other. It has to be their common sense not his."
So again
Re : Can you explain this more ?
You can either relate to other person through unconditional acceptance/love or intellectually , by finding his common sense iow to find out what assumptions shaped his mentality, what activity he is engaged in, what his life experience is, ..cultural background.... So you need a lot of data , endless actually to be ' all knowing '
With people you share your life with( family colleagues, friends...etc. ) you have a lot of data naturally, not even thinking about it, they are embedded in the very fabric of your communication, in a sense you are related to them already ( hence the word ' relative' ). So you may succeed to find out what their 'common sense' is.
That's approximately what i meant, i am not quite sure, and not necessary agree with ,it was 3 days ago :)
Feb 16 2013: So let me see if I can use logic and reason to show you how you need to use their logic and reason. To not prove them wrong but to show them that there is other truth. So you can pick any topic you want and any side of the said topic and I will debate the other side. See to get someone to believe what you say is truth you first have to understand their side as truth as well. Not that it wrong and it clearly might be(like anyone who would say oil is not toxic).
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. ~ Sun Tzu Art of War
Now it doesn't matter how the argument is going once I figure out how you came to your knowledge of truth I can figure out your thought "pattern" or common sense. Once I understand that I can use your common sense thats right your common sense to prove my information as truth. Not as I am right your wrong but just that there is other truth. Edited: I dont even need to believe that what I am trying to debate is truth or not, I just need to except that it can be
And as far as Sub, object question go. I like to say that it's not that I think inside the box or outside of the box. I realize that its all box's and I try to think in all of them.
Feb 16 2013: By excepting their knowledge as truth, that makes it true to me even if I think it might be wrong. They say it is better to tell the truth then to lie if you do this it is not hard to remember things because you always told the truth. Oddly enough because of this since it is their truth and I take it in as truth. It is easier to remember and I can use it to or bring it up easier even something as idiotic as oil being not toxic. Not that oil is good or bad because it is certainly both. So if someone else common sense is similar to the guys that say oil is not toxic I can use that persons common sense as well as the person that I am trying to relate to, to explain my truth. This has certainly been a challenge for me over the internet. So many audio and visual clues are missing but still possible
Feb 17 2013: Hi , Casey !
Sorry for the delay with my response !
If i get you right, what you describe can be graphically presented as Euler's circles.
Figure 1 shows the common ground in two 'truths'
Figure 2 shows how your truth doesn't contradict to ' another ' truth, but embrace it.
Check out here
Is it what you mean ?
If, yes, of course it works, in case, someone you are persuading allows the possibility of being persuaded as such. But sometimes it is not the case.
And talking about ' many truths ' approach, it's a double edged sword. Relativistic idea gained its momentum in the beginning of the past century and we all have been swimming in this golden fish bowl ever since. And it's good/bad as everything is. Good is obvious ; where is the bad part ?
- We take different ideas with equal weight. When ideas compete fairly it's OK. But quite often ' toxic' ideas are heavily invested and promoted and maybe you don't need to treat them as ' another ' truth and try build on it your proof.
" I realize that its all box's and I try to think in all of them."
That's it ! It's very profound, really ! But maybe there is another way.
As it was said : enlightened people don't do anything to influence they just influence. What this may mean in our context ? They don't prove anything and in a way they are out of all boxes.
"I don't even need to believe that what I am trying to debate is truth or not, I just need to except that it can be."
Firstly we don't know what truth is, what people are debating about ? I have no idea !
The truest truth we can possibly get is true enough. And ' true enough' can't be debated but thought together. I told you, i am a devotee of David Bohm's idea of a dialogue. What you hope ' can be' really can be in a dialogue, not in a debate... i think :)
Feb 17 2013: See they will eventually prove me right what my truth is that I am trying to address as truth. Simply because I will be using their logic to get to the predetermined conclusion only if they know that this is what I am doing will it not work out of their own stubbornness. Also it is harder to do over the internet because of loss of audio and visual cues, you can tell if someone is lie just to lie
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Hardy Amies' expert cutting ability is apparent in this unusual 1940s day dress of African resist-printed cotton. Each pattern piece is skilfully cut so that the print sits perfectly symmetrically either side of centre front; linear borders within the print trim the collar, sleeve cuffs and hem. Original publicity photographs of three other outfits designed by Amies and in our collections are included below, one also 1940s and two 1950s.
Born in 1909, during the Second World War, Hardy Amies designed for the Utility Clothing Scheme. Introduced as an extension of rationing by the British Board of Trade in 1942, the Scheme aimed to limit the amount of fabric and trimmings used in clothing production. As a member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers, Amies worked to create a clothing range that could be mass-produced using minimal materials and labour. The range was sold under the CC41 Utility label and feminine styles were characterised by padded shoulders, nipped-in waists and hemlines just below the knee. After the war, Amies designed dresses for Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) and eventually became her official dressmaker. During this time, he designed many memorable outfits, including the candy-floss pink coat and hat she wore during the Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977. In recognition of his services and lifelong achievement as a designer, Amies was knighted in 1989, and he died in 2004
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The Luther men's tennis team traveled to Michigan for its toughest weekend of the season, opening a three match stretch against Case Western, the No. 7 ranked team in the nation. The match was held at the DeWitt Tennis Center on the campus of Hope College in Holland, Michigan. The Norse hung around in several of the matches, ultimately falling 7-2 to the Spartans.
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Maybe the Rev. Marvin Winans didn't need the high-end Rolex watch that muggers snatched from him in broad daylight. Because obviously, the pastor does not know what time it is in Detroit.
Nobody is safe here. That is the sad indisputable fact. Not retired police chiefs. Not civil rights icons. Not gospel music legends. Not elected officials. Certainly, not ministers motoring about adorned with jewel-encrusted accoutrements. Respect for position, age and the basic rules of society are gone.
In the streets of Detroit, the mob rules.
Imagine the group of thugs who on Wednesday jumped Rev. Winans. Once they got a look at him in his luxury purple Infiniti SUV and golden watch, they must have thought God had sent a lamb from heaven. They took his watch, vehicle, money and left him standing there with his trousers hanging around his ankles.
You take your life in your hands when get gas in Detroit. Everyone around here knows that. But now the whole country knows and are asking yet again -- what in the world is going on in Detroit?And once again, the police tell are telling us it is an isolated incident, that crime is the same as last year and that last year's crime rate dropped from the year before.
Seriously. That's what they're saying.
Officially a crime doesn't occur if the police don't take a report. Last year, the police answered 38,000 fewer calls than the year before. And magically, you have your drop in crime.
Now we have "virtual precincts." That means the precincts are closed after business hours. When it grows dark in Detroit, you're left to lodge your crime complaint to an operator.
A guy emailed me to say he fought off some thugs trying to steal his car a few weeks ago. He called police. They wouldn't come. They told him to call the telephone crime reporting unit. The telephone crime reporting unit told him it wasn't attempted auto theft, it was vandalism – a misdemeanor. That guy is now leaving Detroit.
That's not all. One of Mayor Dave Bing's closest confidants told me Friday morning that if you have a heart attack in Detroit, chances are you're going to die. That's the mayor's man saying that.
The fire commissioner told me he had no idea the last time the city's fire trucks and ambulances were inspected for safety. That's the mayor's man too.
And now the mayor's chief of police is telling us he wants to get a law passed that requires gas station owners in the city to post a security guard. As if that is going to scatter a pack of gaunt hooligans occupying a desperate corner. Running punks off the corner is the job of the police in every other American city I've been to.
Rev. Winans should be able to go anywhere he wants in this city -- regardless of his ostentatious taste in timepieces. But he can't.
So it is worth reminding ourselves that as the city struggles to get its fiscal books in order and cut services to the bone, the No. 1 priority must be public safety.
Until that happens, I suggest that the next time Rev. Winans plans a trip to Toledo, he ought to stop in Livonia for gas.
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I'll take Major League Baseball Players You Should Know But Don't Yet for 200, Alex.
The answer is: the Miami Marlins' shortstop making this amazing play.
Who is Adeiny Hechavarria?
There are plenty of people who have never lived in four places total, let alone before the age of 24.
... let alone four different countries by the age of 24.
Born in Cuba, Hechavarria played for the Junior National Team in 2008. He then defected to Mexico in 2009. He signed with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2010 and made his big-league debut two years later. An winter trade led him to start for the Marlins on Opening Day 2013. He has demonstrated incredible athleticism all the while.
In baseball parlance, that kind of jumping grab is called "climbing the ladder." I could say "that means two things" as this talent rising through the ranks toward stardom. Frankly thought, that means three things for a young man from his part of the world.
Now, one of the things Americans take for granted is variety. From geography and weather to food and entertainment, we have more choice here than the rest of the world combined. That includes sports not just as spectators but as career opportunities. In most of the world, there are only two choices for kids to get into sports. Futbol [or "soccer" as we insist on calling it] is globally ubiquitous, except the US and maybe Canada and Australia. For Europe, China, most of South America, and, yes, even Africa, basketball is the other big one.
In Central America and the Caribbean, baseball tops everything; it is certainly king in Hechavarria's native Cuba. That is noteworthy because someone with such leaping ability would likely be steered toward basketball or "American football" here in the States. [In Canada, it would've been hockey, but that's because it's Canada.] Can you imagine Hechavarria playing for the Miami Heat -- alongside LeBron, D-Wade and Bosh -- instead of the Miami Marlins?
After that catch, I know I can.
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A Blackhawks fan is recovering after being hit by a puck that went into the stands during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday.
The puck hit Dr. Patricia Higgins just above her nose, missing her right eye. Her vision eventually came back, but the hit was strong enough to give this lifelong Hawks fan a concussion and a deep gash on her forehead.
"I was scared was going to lose my vision," Higgins says of the hit. "That was my biggest scare. I mean that puck was driving 90 miles per hour. It went all the way to my skull."
Higgins, a family practitioner, was sitting in section 115 with her daughter, while her husband and son were at home watching the game.
The score was tied 3 to 3 with 90 seconds left in regulation.
"I heard that stick hit that puck," Higgins recalls. "I don't know what I was thinking. There was no way I could have reacted."
"I turned to my son and said thank God we are behind the net," her husband, Don, adds. "Ten minutes later my daughter texted me and said 'mom got hit' and I turn to Donnie and go, 'that could not have happened.'"
The fans around Higgins used their rally towels to help stop the bleeding, but there was so much blood, it even soaked her favorite Patrick Sharp jersey.
On Friday afternoon, as the 55-year-old was at her Burr Ridge home recovering, she got an unannounced visit from a very special person: Hawks legend Stan Mikita.
"I jumped out of my skin and I went over and hugged him and he brought me this," Higgins says," showing a signed jersey which reads: "To Patty, thanks for taking one for the team, Stan Mikita."
To top it off, she even received a phone call from the president and CEO of the Blackhawks, Mr. McDonough, who was calling in to check on her.
This Hawks season ticket holder says she remains a diehard fan. The scar and lingering headaches will be worth it, she says, if the Hawks grant one wish.
"You better win this for yourselves and me!" Higgins pleads.
Dr. Higgins won't be attending Saturday night's game, but if she's up for it, she says she might attend Game 5.
So what ever happened to the offending puck? Higgins says a fan sitting in the row in front of her caught it and he has promised to give the puck to her and that's exactly what she was hoping for.
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Morning DiscussionNick and I finally got around to beating that Resident Evil 5 demo last night. We'd played the Japanese demo a while back, but I'll admit, we got our asses kicked by the zombie horde--we couldn't beat either stage, no matter how many times we tried.
Perhaps that was because we were playing a lot of Left 4 Dead at the time and trying to stick together instead of splitting up. But hey, this time, we beat both Resident Evil 5 scenarios with ease, spending most of the stages split up instead of side-by-side.
I'm really looking forward to the final game for both single-player and co-op play, the latter being something I'm generally not that into, so hurry up already March 13. And here's hoping for a good Wednesday--I think we could all use some extra happiness.
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BOARDMAN, Ohio - Firefighters battled a blaze at Mill Creek Village Apartments early Monday morning.
The fire broke out shortly after 8 a.m. Heavy smoke and flames could be seen coming out of the roof of one of the complex's buildings.
A resident who called 911 said they believe the fire originated in apartment 216.
Austintown and Canfield Fire Departments were called to assist the Boardman Fire Department at the scene.
The fire was eventually placed under control by fire departments shortly before noon.
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This next dish was really, really good. I wanted Pad Thai, but wanted to make it lower calorie. (for the longest time, I've been making two meals, one for myself and one for my family. I am sick of that, so I have been working on some good, lower fat/calorie foods for all of us.).. I made a sauce, based on thai flavors out of tomato sauce, lime juice, ginger, garlic, lots of chili garlic paste, soy sauce and just a tiny bit of toasted sesame oil. I served it over whole wheat spaghetti and pan "fried" in my beloved cast iron 14 oz of firm, lite tofu, coated with bragg's. I sprinkled an entire bunch of cilantro and scallions over it just before serving. My family LOVED this. The next day, I used some leftover seitan from my last post with this and it was really ,really good. Yay for lowfat cooking! I am making things that taste just as good as they used to!
Yesterday, I boiled up a pound of organic chickpeas ($1.29.lb) and from that pound of beans, I made 12 Chickepa/Oat burgers based on the recipe from Vegan Vittles. I made them smaller, so I got 12 out of the recipe and worked the calories out to 130 per burger. So good. I also made 4 CUPS of Hummus! I like to substitute fresh lime juice for the lemon. My 15 year old son ate over a cup after school both yesterday and today. I'm glad I have more chickpeas.
I also made a batch of Isa's Punk Rock Chickpea Gravy! This is a miracle, because my youngest son hated chickpeas, but loves this gravy. I do puree the chickpeas though, but that is so I can leave out the oil and flour in the sauce. I served half the batch over some eggless noodles with broccoli and cauliflower for my kids/husband and used around 1/2 cup for my own dinner.. I smothered 2 of my oat burger with peppers, mushrooms, onions and the gravy and roasted green beans for myself and baked a sweet potato. I love this gravy and I even have almost 2 cups leftover!!!
I feel like I'm really finding a balance here that enables me to enjoy my loved of cooking (and blogs!!) and stay on a program that allows me to lose weight. I have not lost any weight in a month, but.. I haven't been quite on plan either.. but I started getting really serious again this week.. so I'm sure I'll see a loss next week.
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There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is 'bring them on'."
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Jennifer, you should come spend the winters here in AZ!
Jennifer, you should come spend the winters here in AZ!
Me (40) DH (47) & furbabies * m/c 7/08 4/12 11/12
One of the main reasons I moved to the Bay Area was for the climate. Right now it's in the 50s and I'm freezing, but it doesn't get much colder than this, and rarely gets above 80. My perfect temp is between 72 and 80 degrees. Anything other than that, I'm too hot or too cold.
Unfortunately, dh's perfect temperature is between 55 and 65 degrees. We have thermostat wars. We go outside and he's wearing shorts and I'm wearing fleece.
I love the weather in the Bay Area.
It's 42 this morning and I'm cold! I wish I was back in Hawaii in the nice tropical weather.
I confess I'm completely conflicted about potty training.
Tuesday at daycare pickup they told us Liam was saying pee pee and holding the front of his diaper. I'm sure he's seeing the bigger kids use the bathroom and getting ideas. I figured it would still be several months before I had to deal with potty training - not at 15 months!
I don't think there are enough signs to indicate he's really ready to start. He has a dry diaper in the morning maybe 2-3 times a month and it's less often for naps. He doesn't take his diaper off, even if it's NOT covered by clothing. And I don't think the verbal communication is where it needs to be.
I think it's great that daycare is going to be willing to work with him on this too, but I think they're pushing it too much. Yesterday at pickup we were told he peed in the potty. I was completely . I don't want to confuse him with attempts at PT at daycare but not at home. He has the incentive to be like the other little boys there, but not at home.
Did they start PT without even talking to you about it?
I do have a co-worker who likes to go to AZ for a week every Jan.
Wasn't so bad leaving home this morning...it was actually not too bad at 10 above.
Don't you have like really icky big spiders and lizzards and snakes and stuff like that though?
I can see why you wouldn't be happy about it, but if your concern is partially because of the confusion of home vs daycare, I think it wouldn't be too confusing to PT at daycare and not at home. Children realize pretty quickly that there are things they can and can't do at home that are different elsewhere. Like here my kids can climb onto the table or jump on the couch, but they don't do it at other people's houses. I have heard that children in daycare PT more quickly because they see other children using the potty. I would LOVE for that kind of help with PT, because it is difficult. On the other hand, both of mine were able to pee on the potty around 12 months but it didn't mean they were ready.
Liam still sounds a lot more ready at 15 months than mine are now. I'm going to try again in January and I'm totally dreading it.
I'm just not getting enough signs at home that tell me he's ready, which is why those comments from daycare REALLY surprised me. I'm going to have to go post another thread or look at stickies in the PT room, just so I know what signals I should be looking for.
Mentally I was thinking closer to 2 years just because that's what I hear from other mommas of boys, and "they" say boys train later than girls. I just didn't want to be like a friend's sister and not push PT till her son was over 4 and a half years old. I can't imagine that many diapers on the same kid, or what changing dirty ones would be like on a kid that age.
I'm actually OK with what daycare has done so far. He IS going to want to copy the kids at daycare. I just don't want them pushing for me to do the same at home - more than I already have. I'm just so conflicted and lost about this. Last night we went shopping and I bought a big box of pullups and a potty chair. Now I'm wondering if I should return them. Or if daycare is going to continue to try it, should I send some pullups to daycare along with diapers?
So many things to think about.
I'd like to start PT with Travis as well; I think I might try after Christmas with no expectations and see how that goes.
I've eaten so much junk food today it's not even funny. I feel icky now. I wish I could go for a run, but we got some snow today and it's about 28 degrees fahrenheit, so I ain't goin nowhere! LOL.
I also agree with Lydia that he most likely won't be confused. I have a little girl at my daycare who asks to sit on the potty just because it's such an event around here as many children are newly potty trained, or in the midst, so we all go at regular intervals. She sits but rarely goes. I mentioned it to her mom who seemed, like you, to suddenly feel pressure and I told her that I really didn't feel she was ready either and I wasn't so much pushing it but I just didn't want to say no when she asked. Her mom was like, phew! I am not ready for that either!
Next time daycare mentions it, I would just say, "You know, he's not showing much interest in going potty at home so I'm not going to push it just yet."
He is still quite young.
Oh, and changing a four year olds dirty diaper is NO FUN! Unfortunately I speak from experience on that one. And let me also throw in that I am a firm believer that pull ups are a marketing ploy.
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And I never knew you had lived in Mesa!
And I confess, it was the last day of school today and some of my kid's parents actually sent me gifts ... which rarely happens. It really made my day! Huge tin of chocolate cookies, and a poinsettia. Sounds corny, but I started to get misty eyed, and I don't cry easily!
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"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope." F. Scott Fitzgerald
I confess I am wondering where Teneille is.
Did someone pull the plug on her computer?
A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ashle-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y--y, where are you-u-u-u-u-u-u-u?
Me: Julie-46 DH: Kelly-52 DD: Rhianna-17 DS: Gage-He's 3!
I confess I was twitchy driving all the way home from work behind some red van with the license plate "for u god"
What? They actually bought the van with god's blessing? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Me: Julie-46 DH: Kelly-52 DD: Rhianna-17 DS: Gage-He's 3!
I confess I have accidentally read little bits of Faith Fiction before realizing it. Kindle has a list of the most popular books on Kindle, so I browse through there, look at book descriptions, and download anything that looks decent and is free. So there I am, happily reading a book, when one of the characters states that he doesn't know why he stopped praying but now he found his way again. I pause, wonder if that is just part of the story, and then a few pages later find another character talking about how faith in God is important because.... I usually stop there.
Last week I was happily reading a horror story where the hero was an atheist, and it was going along swimmingly until the last few chapters when it was revealed that it wasn't a horror story--he had died and was essentially in purgatory along with these other souls, and even though they thought they were alive and trying to do things in this strange world, he was really just suffering because he didn't believe in God. Yes, I got the message.
I think it's a really good marketing ploy to offer these books for free, but I wish it would be a little more obvious right from the start. Or in the description. I feel a little cheated, like I would feel if I was watching an entertaining tv show and then realized it was an Infomercial.
Anyway, HI Ms. Spy! Good to see you! I'm happy that you are finding time away from the computer, but miss you! And I can't believe you don't have anything to confess about your cervix.
I just found out I have a nickel allergy. WTF.
Apparently, nickel allergies are really common. AND VERY ANNOYING.
I just found out because I did some patch testing. I've been getting a rash since I got pregnant with M from my wedding ring. I thought it's because I was getting fat and never made the connection.
I just bought a nickel testing kit.
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Who's your favorite sports team, and why?
Denver Broncos- Peyton Manning Style....and can't forget eye candy Eric Decker!
What's your favorite movie quote?
"You mean, not good like one out of a hundred? I'd say more like one out of a million. So you're telling me there's a chance... "
What's your favorite video game, and could you kick our butts at it?
Dance Central and Shaun White Snowboarding. And no you couldn't even compete :)
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
Designing my first tat actually! I've got lots of bling in my ears and my belly button is pierced.
What's the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
Britney Spears- Toxic (Pre K-fed, head shaving Britney)
What's your best party trick?
Leaving with both shoes!
What's the most memorable pick-up line you've ever heard?
"Hey, I have your panties" "What?" "Oh I'm sorry, I thought it was tomorrow"
What's the worst job you've ever had?
Shucking corn and selling it roadside from the back of a truck. Sounds glamorous right?
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
Sat on the seat in a Porta Potty.
It's 4AM after a crazy night out – what are we eating?
V8 and noodles. Don't knock it till you try it!
What's the strangest thing in your fridge right now?
My keys... Wish you would have asked this morning when I was late for work...
What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done in public?
Double knotted my laces! Yolo!
What do you feel sexiest wearing?
A jersey and leg warmers.
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