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Kovacevic: Lucky '13 for Steelers? Why not?
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In the spirit of the new year, when a half-empty glass turns half-full with the tick of a clock, when unused two-point plays represent hope for the future rather than rockhead moves of the past, even an 8-8 season for the Steelers can be cast in a positive light.
Can't it?
OK, then, I'll try instead — in the spirit, of course — to conjure up 13 good thoughts for the franchise going into 2013 …
• Heath Miller.
(Hey, this is easy!)
• You will love Steve McLendon — and not just because he seemed to make a splash play in half of the, oh, two or three snaps he'd get at nose tackle each game.
You'll also love the fire of a kid who, when I asked him Sunday to describe his style, replied: "My unique style is built from three guys: I want to be powerful and strong like Casey Hampton. I want to be smart like Chris Hoke. And I want to be elusive and quick like Jay Ratliff."
That's Dallas' star nose tackle.
"Get those guys together, and that's Steve McLendon."
• Dan Rooney is back.
He's 80 now, and the ship is still Art II's to steer. But if all the old man's presence achieves is avoiding another case of the team president picking offensive coordinators, that'll be plenty.
No matter your feelings on Bruce Arians or Todd Haley, it's hard to dispute that the dumping of the former was the front office's most un-Steelers-like move in quite some time.
• Might have been a mere snapshot, but it was nice to see Haley and Ben Roethlisberger walk off Heinz Field together after the game Sunday, chatting and laughing all the way into the locker room.
I've expressed doubts about whether they'll ever bond over the "Rosetta Stone" playbook, but the next visible sign of snarl between them will be the first.
• Lawrence Timmons.
If you don't know, then you haven't been watching.
• The Steelers appear to be $12 million over the salary cap for 2013, which sounds ominous. But remember that Omar Kahn, the Steelers' cap wizard who someday will heal the ozone layer in search of greater challenges, took on a similar task in 2011 and still scrounged up enough loose change to sign LaMarr Woodley, Troy Polamalu and Timmons.
This won't be a big deal. One prominent guy will go — I'm guessing Hampton — but others will simply take cuts or defer.
After which, Omar can begin confiscating aerosol cans.
• Signing Keenan Lewis is paramount, and I'll be surprised if it doesn't get done. I know he's making some noise now, but he loves where he is.
If it doesn't happen, though, it shouldn't escape notice that Cortez Allen was terrific in covering for Ike Taylor. His five takeaways in the final two games accounted for a quarter of the team's season total.
"I am extremely blessed to make that happen," Allen said.
Same can be said for the Steelers at a vital position.
• The Bengals are the new AFC North power?
• Eventually, the Steelers have to quit messing around with Max Starks, don't they?
Every summer, it's the same drama as to whether he'll be back. Roethlisberger dons a No. 78 jersey in Latrobe, Starks passes a physical, signs for the minimum, suits up in the nick of time and steadily holds down left tackle — the toughest job in football — game after game.
Starks pointed to his grass-stained socks Sunday and said, "I saved a piece of Heinz Field, just in case I do go."
No reason for that to happen.
• Stop messing around with Ramon Foster, too.
Every summer, he's the backup at both guard positions, at least until others drop around him and he starts all year long. Yeah, i know a first-round pick went into David DeCastro and that Willie Colon can move mountains with a pink finger when healthy, but the latter hasn't made it through any of the past three seasons.
Durability counts.
Foster and Starks have two things in common, one being that they were the only linemen to avoid parentheses after their last names and the other being they're about to try the open market.
I know this one isn't likely but felt compelled to ask, anyway.
"It's possible," Foster said Sunday with a grin, "because Maurkice Pouncey has generously offered to give up some of his pay to keep me."
That apparently was news to the All-Pro center at the next stall: "I did what?"
• James Harrison will be kept, which is right, but maybe someone will challenge him to be much more of a leader than he's been known to be.
If nothing else, ask him to belligerently impose his rigid workout regimen on Woodley.
• Mike Tomlin.
See Timmons explanation above.
He's a good coach who had a lousy year. Happens.
• They're the Steelers.
They've had seven losing seasons in 40 years.
The only one this century, 2003, was followed by a 15-1 gem the very next winter and the Lombardi the year after that.
Anyone really want to bet against a bounce-back?
Did I even mention the QB?
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Dr. Mark Massey and his assistants from Greater Springfield Endodontics, Inc. received a plaque of appreciation from Good Samaritan Care Clinic, according to a press release from Good Samaritan Care Clinic.
The plaque honors the volunteer service and commitment of the group. Massey and his assistants travel to Mountain View one day each month to serve uninsured patients by providing free extractions at the clinic, a nonprofit health provider that serves uninsured and low-income patients from southern Missouri.
CFO gains grant for disaster training
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks has received a grant to offer an in-depth and customized disaster resiliency training program for nonprofit agencies to supplement the community-wide emergency operations plan.
The $248,000 grant will provide training for two cohorts - the first beginning in March focused on Springfield-Greene County and the second beginning in October for the Joplin-Carthage area. The application for the Springfield-Greene County program is available at: www.formstack.com/forms/CFO-resilientcommunity. The application deadline is 5 p.m. Feb. 15.
The program differs from general disaster preparedness training because the 15 agencies selected to participate will attend four daylong class sessions and work with facilitators between class sessions to develop customized plans to fit each organization. At the end of the program, successful participants will have the opportunity to apply for implementation grants of up to $5,000 each.
Class participants also will be expected to become part of an ongoing network of "next responders" that may be called upon by the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management for assistance in a community-wide disaster.
Ava location assists low-income seniors
The Southwest Missouri Office on Aging in Ava is the newest Ozarks Food Harvest Senior Food Box Program site, helping serve low-income Douglas County seniors with nutritious food. Ozarks Food Harvest's Senior Food Box Program supplements the diets of low-income seniors with USDA commodity foods at 17 locations across 15 southwest Missouri counties.
Seniors interested in participating in the program can sign up at the Ava Office on Aging at 109 N.E. Second in Ava weekdays from 1 to 3 p.m. The senior food boxes will be distributed at the office.
OTC Lebanon Center receives $2,500 gift
The Lebanon plant for Emerson Climate Technologies presented the Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning program at the Ozarks Technical Community College Lebanon Center with a gift of $2,500. The plant won a competition between Emerson's facilities that was held in honor of the company's 100 millionth compressor, as well as the 25th anniversary of Copeland Scroll compressors.
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McMillan Street will be closed between the intersections of Fig and Chestnut Avenues for approximately 8 hours, Turchi said.
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An invitation to many, from a man with a tender pastoral heart.By
I was sad the day I heard Bishop Thomas Tobin was being moved from my native Youngstown.
He was the first bishop I ever met. It was shortly after he was made bishop of Youngstown and he visited the small Tridentine chapel I grew up at shortly after it was made a personal parish and the Fraternity of St. Peter was brought in to minister to the faithful. It was the first time a bishop had visited that chapel that I know of. He had come to do Confirmations, which he did according to the old rite, despite not having a smooth facility with the Latin language. His humble demeanor and easy, welcoming smile made an impression on me; especially because of the years our little chapel had fought bitterly with his predecessor over whether we had the right to exist canonically (long story–I may write a book someday–but we were never excommunicated or formally schismatic).
Years later I heard a story about his first act as the new bishop of Providence. The morning after he was named, even before he was officially introduced as bishop, he made a surprise visit to the minor seminary. A friend of mine who was a seminarian there at the time said they all were awakened rather early by the rector and other administrators who were frantically trying to get the house ready for the unexpected arrival of the new Ordinary. His first act was to meet with the men who were dedicating themselves to assist him in serving the people of his new see.
A year or two ago he had a public exchange of letters with then-Representative Patrick Kennedy in which it was clear his only intention and desire was to help a wounded soul understand the truth and true charity of the Catholic position on certain matters.
Now we have a letter he penned "to inactive Catholics,"all those who have abandoned the practice of the faith or rejected it, for whatever reason. I recommend reading the whole thing, but a few excerpts:
If you were baptized a Catholic, you're a Catholic for life – even if you haven't been to Mass for years, even if you've renounced the title and joined another Church. Your baptism infused your soul with Catholic DNA – it defines who and what you are.
An important point. Our inactive Catholic brethren have the grace of baptism and, in most cases, have tasted the Bread of Angels, and in lots of cases, even have the grace of Confirmation. These are all working in favor of those of us who wish to help them return to Holy Mother Church.
He lists three basic reasons why people may have left the Church: disagreement, boredom, scandal, and laziness. Then he goes through them.
For disagreement he plainly states that the Church teaches what she teaches for a reason: give it a second shot and see if it wasn't just confusion or a less-than-stellar teacher who taught you. He says, "Sometimes, we find, good folks get bad information and that leads to confusion and then alienation."
On boredom, he admits:
Sometimes, it's true, leaders of the Church haven't fed the flock very well – sometimes we haven't provided sound and challenging teaching and preaching, and sometimes our worship has been banal and bland. Perhaps we haven't been very kind or welcoming. I apologize for that; we can and should do better.
(Emphasis mine.) I think the bold section is more important than most would admit. But also, he immediately challenges the reader: "On the other hand, when you attend Mass it shouldn't be all about you – the focus is God!"
On scandal, he says:
I hope you'll forgive us and give us another chance. Members of the Church – including priests and bishops – are completely human. Sometimes we say things and do things that are totally unacceptable, even immoral. But let's face it – we belong to a community of sinners – that's why we begin every Mass by calling to mind our sins and asking for God's forgiveness. The virtue of forgiveness is an essential part of the Christian life – we all need to seek and grant forgiveness now and then.
Beautiful–"we belong to a community of sinners." A retreat master I once had preached that the only thing that qualifies us for God's mercy is our sinfulness, and that there is that odd moment in the Exsultet, the most joyous hymn of the Church, chanted at the Easter Vigil proclaiming the resurrection and the Lord's victory over death, "O happy fault! O necessary sin of Adam! Because of which we have such a Savior!"
It is a backward-seeming sentiment, but truly to forgive is perhaps one of the most important aspects of being human–it is one of the most God-like actions we can presume to undertake, considering our relationship to Him is one of nearly constantly needing forgiveness.
Then his final theme was personal laziness, he exhorts the inactive Catholics to give thought to their relationship with God and to consider the importance of the Church (her sacraments, her teaching, her sainted examples) in overcoming the complacency and striving for the burning fire of God's love.
And he wraps up with a call to a mutual arrangement:
You need the Church – you need the teachings of the Church, the life-giving sacraments of the Church, and the support of a community that shares your faith and values. But the Church also needs you – we need the gifts of your time and talent, your faith and commitment. The Church has an awful lot to offer you, but if in fact we've been imperfect fulfilling our mission, in serving the Lord and caring for one another, perhaps you can help us to do better.
The communion of saints includes the Church Militant–we here on earth–striving with one another to build the kingdom of God. No one does it on his or her own, and we cannot do it without the grace received through God's Church.
I hope his letter is read and shared far and wide this Advent season.


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By Stuff They Don't Want You to Know via YouTube
As humanity's understanding of science and technology evolved, magic seemed set to become another historical footnote. Except, that is, for the people that still practice it today.
By Stuff They Don't Want You to Know via YouTube
As humanity's understanding of science and technology evolved, magic seemed set to become another historical footnote. Except, that is, for the people that still practice it today.
The world-wide appetite for paranormal stories is a magnet for hoaxes. Some hoaxes are simply light-hearted fun but others have more serious consequences such as contaminating genuine research, wasting public money and destroying careers. Love them or hate them, here is our pick of the top ten paranormal hoaxes of all time […] …
When Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered early in the 20th Century, a curse was found inscribed over the entrance: "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king". Before long, stories were being told about unnatural deaths of workers on the site. "King Tut's Curse" eventually found its way into popular culture and set the stage for a whole sub-genre of horror stories and movies.
In 1980 the security officer for the original excavation site admitted that stories had been circulated to scare away thieves. Historical records show that most excavation workers went on to lead long and healthy lives.
In 1917 and 1920, young English cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffith produced a series of photographs depicting themselves interacting with fairies. In modern times it is hard to imagine how anyone could be fooled by these obvious fakes, but in the early 20th Century they were convincing enough to attract a huge following and dupe such notables as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
It was not until 1981 that Wright and Griffith admitted the hoax, although they continued to claim that they had indeed seen fairies and that one of the photos was genuine.
More info: The Cottingley Fairies
In 1869, workers digging a well in Cardiff, New York, uncovered what appeared to be the petrified remains of a giant 3-metre (10-foot) man. Archaeologists declared the body to be fake but the public reaction was more accepting, especially among those who considered it evidence in support of biblical history. The body became a business asset as crowds paid for a glimpse. Showman P.T. Barnum tried to acquire the body but eventually made his own replica, causing additional controversy over which was the genuine giant.
In December 1869, tobacconist George Hull confessed to the hoax. The body was sculpted from concrete and buried a year prior to the well-digging.
During the 1970s Uri Geller enjoyed huge success with his mentalism acts, based largely on his alleged ability to bend spoons with his mind. Geller staunchly defended his claim to supernatural powers until hard evidence finally caught up with him. A 1982 book by James Randi exposed Geller's tricks, and Geller was caught numerous times on camera manipulating stage props (e.g. pre-bending spoons). He has since earned a reputation for frivolous litigation after a series of failed lawsuits—mostly against people who publish unflattering material about him.
Despite never officially "outing" himself, Geller has tacitly confessed to the hoax. In 2007 he expressed the following change of heart: "I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer….My entire character has changed."
More info: Uri Geller
In 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr shot and killed six members of his family in Amityville, New York. A year later the Lutz family moved in, only to move out 28 days later claiming they had been terrorized by ghostly presences. Their story became a best-selling book by Jay Anson and the basis of a series of films. The franchise has been highly successful, banking on the claim of being a true, verifiable story.
On closer investigation, however, it seems that not much if any of the story can be verified. Police and other records contradict the book's account and many holes have been found in the story. In 1979, lawyer William Weber claimed: "I know this book is a hoax. We created this horror story over many bottles of wine."
By Joe Nickell via The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry – CSI
Can people move or alter physical objects simply by using a hidden power of the mind called psychokinesis? I have encountered many claims of such powers in the course of my work (since 1969) as a paranormal investigator. And I have pretended to have such ability myself—both as a professional stage magician and mentalist (a magician specializing in apparent psychic feats). In the fall of 2012, I attended a workshop that enabled me to investigate the latest popular expression of psychokinetic metal bending.
The term psychokinesis (formerly telekinesis), or PK, derives from the Greek words for "mind" and "motion." Together with extrasensory perception (ESP), it constitutes what parapsychologists refer to as "psi" to describe the two seemingly closely related phenomena. However, the existence of psi has never been proven and, indeed, according to a sympathetic source: "Despite decades of research, psi continues to elude physical and quasi-physical theories of how it functions; it operates outside the bounds of time and space" (Guiley 1991, 468).
PK describes the alleged power of mind over matter, including such "micro-PK" acts as subtly influencing how thrown dice will land, or "macro-PK" feats like levitating a table or producing so-called "poltergeist" effects (actually, typically the tricks of children1). Psychokinetic metal bending is another alleged macro-PK phenomenon.
It appears that the first major performer of apparent PK metal bending (PK-MB) was Israeli-born former fashion model and nightclub magician, Uri Geller (b. 1946) (Figure 1). Claiming to be guided by super beings from a distant planet, Geller appeared to read minds, bend keys and cutlery with PK, see while blindfolded, and perform other feats—all of which skilled magicians easily duplicate. (I, for example, have driven a car while blindfolded [Nickell with Fischer 1992, 77].) He typically refused to perform when magicians were observing but, nevertheless, was occasionally caught cheating.
Renowned American magician and psychic investigator James "The Amazing" Randi once observed Geller up close. Posing as an editor when Geller performed in the offices of Time magazine, Randi saw the simple tricks behind Geller's wonderworking. For example, while Geller pretended to cover his eyes as a secretary made a simple drawing, he actually peeked, thus enabling him to appear to read her mind and reproduce the drawing. Again, while supposedly bending a key "by concentration," Geller had instead bent it against a table when he thought he was unobserved. (For more on Geller's methods, see Randi 1982.)
Geller was soon imitated by other "psychics" who discovered that they, too, could bend keys and spoons. One was Judy Knowles, who impressed London physics professor and parapsychologist John Hasted with her apparent ability. Hasted invited James Randi to observe tests of Knowles in a lab at Bath. Randi arrived with colleagues and his checkbook, offering Ms. Knowles $10,000 if she successfully passed the test, which was designed by Harry Collins of the University of Bath. Collins had tested other spoon benders, but none had been successful, and some children had been caught cheating.
Briefly, the test involved Knowles holding the spoon in a . . .
Via The Skeptic's Dictionary – Skepdic.com
In 1939, Semyon Kirlian discovered by accident that if an object on a photographic plate is subjected to a high-voltage electric field, an image is created on the plate. The image looks like a colored halo or coronal discharge. This image is said to be a physical manifestation of the spiritual aura or "life force" which allegedly surrounds each living thing.
Allegedly, this special method of "photographing" objects is a gateway to the paranormal world of auras. Actually, what is recorded is due to quite natural phenomena such as pressure, electrical grounding, humidity and temperature. Changes in moisture (which may reflect changes in emotions), barometric pressure, and voltage, among other things, will produce different 'auras'.
Living things…are moist. When the electricity enters the living object, it produces an area of gas ionization around the photographed object, assuming moisture is present on the object. This moisture is transferred from the subject to the emulsion surface of the photographic film and causes an alternation of the electric charge pattern on the film. If a photograph is taken in a vacuum, where no ionized gas is present, no Kirlian image appears. If the Kirlian image were due to some paranormal fundamental living energy field, it should not disappear in a simple vacuum (Hines 2003).
There have even been claims of electrophotography being able to capture "phantom limbs," e.g., when a leaf is placed on the plate and then torn in half and "photographed," the whole leaf shows up in the picture. This is not due to paranormal forces, however, but to fraud or to residues left from the initial impression of the whole leaf.
Parapsychologist Thelma Moss popularized Kirlian photography as a diagnostic medical tool with her books The Body Electric (1979) and The Probability of the Impossible (1983). She was convinced that the Kirlian process was an open door to the "bioenergy" of the astral body. Moss came to UCLA in mid-life and earned a doctorate in psychology. She experimented with and praised the effects of LSD and was in and out of therapy for a variety of psychological problems, but managed to overcome her personal travails and become a professor at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute. Her studies focused on paranormal topics, such as auras, levitation and ghosts. One of her favorite subjects at UCLA was Uri Geller, whom she "photographed" several times. She even made several trips to the Soviet Union to consult with her paranormal colleagues. Moss died in 1997 at the age of 78.
Moss paved the way for other parapsychologists to speculate that Kirlian "photography" was parapsychology's Rosetta stone. They would now be able to understand such things as acupuncture, chi, orgone energy, telepathy, etc., as well as diagnose and cure whatever ails us. [new] For example, bio-electrography claims to be:
…a method of investigation for biological objects, based on the interpretation of the corona-discharge image obtained during exposure to a high-frequency, high-voltage electromagnetic field which is recorded either on photopaper or by modern video recording equipment. Its main use is as a fast, inexpensive and relatively non-invasive means for the diagnostic evaluation of physiological and psychological states. [from the now-defunct http://www.psy.aau.dk/bioelec/]
There is even a bioresonant clothing line that has emerged from the "study" of bio-electrography; it's allegedly based on "an astonishing new theory in bio-physics: that the information exchange in human consciousness can be directly influenced and enhanced by vibrations of Light [sic], that we call colors."
Also see: Debunked: Soul Leaving Body Photo (Russian scientist Konstantin Korotkov)
By Jamy Iam Swiss via randi.org
The secret is out: professional storefront psychics are mostly comprised of fakes, frauds, cheats, and con artists. Step into a psychic storefront – especially in New York City or Southern Florida where organized criminal elements of the Romani (gypsy) culture is a significant presence – at your own extreme risk.
Well, maybe that doesn't seem like a secret to many skeptics, but the fact is that since the inception of the modern skeptic movement, skeptics have pursued and possessed specialized knowledge in the realm of paranormal claims such as psychic phenomena. Of course, skeptics are interested in a vast panoply of pseudoscience – a glance down the list of subjects at the Skeptic's Dictionary [skepdic.com] will produce an alphabetical list of nonsense, from the doofus to the deadly, "From Abracadabra to Zombies," as it says on the home page.
But the paranormal is a special area of interest and expertise, partly because of the so-called science of parapsychology, which for more than a century-and-a-half has attempted to establish the existence of psychic phenomena in the laboratory. Unfortunately, this science has yet to produce so much as a single replicable, paradigmatic experiment (as compared with even a "soft science" like psychology which has hundreds of such examples that can be readily replicated by new students and scientists alike).
Another reason for this interest is the role of magicians in the skeptic movement, who themselves possess specialized knowledge not only of deception and illusion in general but also in particular of the methods of psychics, which often encompass techniques that magicians and particularly "mentalists" routinely use in their own work. Thus the magician has been a key player in parapsychology investigation since the first committee on psychical research was organized by "Scientific American" magazine, with Harry Houdini as a member.
And finally – surely far from least – there is the terrible predation and damage that professional psychics do. Whether it is a television talk-to-the-dead medium who entraps people in their grief rather than helping them to return eventually, as they must, to the normal living of their own lives, despite the loss of their loved ones – or professional storefront fortunetellers-and-takers who use their traditional finely honed psychological weaponry to rob people of their dignity and self-respect, their self-control, and often their life savings.
In 1993, the "Nova" television series devoted an entire program, entitled "Secrets of the Psychics," to James Randi and his work as a psychic investigator and consumer protection advocate. Although this episode of the famous science documentary series has been available in various recorded forms, including in segments on YouTube, the program has just been posted in its entirety [here (illuminutti.com) and] here.
The show covers the gamut of psychic claims, and Randi's investigations and insights. He looks at Russian psychics who claim to be able to gain special knowledge about a person just from examining a photograph. He tries to test specially psychically altered water, which seems to (rather hilariously) possess the special quality of being untestable. He looks at claims of the alleged psychic power to alter people's blood pressure and brain waves. The program provides a synopsis of Randi's legendary investigation of the faith healer Peter Popoff, and also provides a useful overview of Randi's debunkings of Uri Geller during Geller's metal-bending heydays.
Oh, and a young long-haired magician with a waxed moustache offers a brief original demonstration of psychokinesis in the first three minutes of the show. Go take a look!
The show is twenty years old but its principles and subjects are as fresh as today's headlines, and literally so.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work.[1] Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, and many others.
In the program, "Randi argues that successful psychics depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe that what they see is the result of psychic powers."[2]
This program is not to be confused with a later UK documentary Secrets of the Psychics, which was transmitted under this title as well as Secrets of the Super Psychics.
By Jamy Ian Swiss via randi.org
Last week, the British newspaper, "The Daily Mail," acquiesced in the face of a lawsuit filed by Sally Morgan, aka "Psychic Sally," a talk-to-the dead medium and self-styled professional psychic. The paper agreed to pay £125,000 in libel damages and issued a full apology for running a story written by the British magician, Paul Zenon, which alleged that Ms. Morgan had relied upon concealed electronics in order to gain information used in a public performance of psychic readings and mediumship.
Here's the story of the settlement and case as reported in "The Guardian"
Obviously this is a tremendous disappointment to skeptics everywhere, because many in the general public will take the judgment as some kind of evidence that Morgan is genuinely psychic. Of course there is no basis in the judgment for such an interpretation because the case was purely about whether the paper could prove that Morgan had used the alleged radio devices and hidden earpieces to gain information about her subjects. The case began when two women who were at the show in question later called into a local radio talk show and claimed they heard Morgan repeating information that they overheard in transmissions from the production crew's headsets. Morgan immediately denied the charges and the venue eventually announced that the crew in question was a local house crew that was not on Morgan's payroll.
Given what we know of the British libel system, albeit very recently reformed and legally improved, we might speculate that the paper decided that it was less costly to settle now rather than pursue the case in the courts, with an uncertain outcome. Then again, with the theater confirming that the crew in question was not in Morgan's employ, it does seem quite conceivable that the assumptions made by the women callers were in error. It is simply sad to see someone who makes their living on the dubious claims of Ms. Morgan ends up being further rewarded beyond the already grotesque sums she makes portraying herself as a communicator with the dead relatives of grieving supplicants.
But I think there are also lessons to be had for skeptics in these events, beyond thoughts about the British libel system.
Skeptics – even skeptical magicians – can and have often been misled by their own complex theories about how phony psychics ply their trade. When Uri Geller first came on the scene, the noted magician and author Milbourne Christopher theorized that Geller was using corrosive chemicals on his hands in order to achieve his "psychic" spoon-bending. Christopher was an expert magician and a skeptic, but he was fooled by Geller, and concocted an elaborate but completely mistaken theory in order to fill the gap in his knowledge and understanding.
Similarly, the two women who thought that Sally Morgan was getting inside information relayed by her crew were doubtless sincere in their theorizing, perhaps because they did not believe that Morgan was psychic, but could not explain how she was achieving success with her readings.
In a nutshell: ESP stands for extrasensory perception. If you had ESP, you could see, feel, or hear things without using your eyes, hands, or ears. There are some scientists who say they have proof of ESP, but most scientists think the proof is weak and does not support a belief in ESP.
ESP stands for extrasensory perception.
Sensory perception is seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, or tasting. Extrasensory perception is when you see or hear something that can't be seen or heard with your eyes and ears. Such experiences happen outside the normal range of the senses and are said to be paranormal or psychic. Most scientists don't think paranormal events actually happen or that anyone is actually psychic.
If you had ESP, you could see, feel, or hear things without using your eyes, hands, or ears. Somehow your brain would get messages and images from distant places and distant times. If your brain confused you with perceptions from the past and from places far away while you were trying to get dressed, eat breakfast, get on the school bus, pay attention in class, or do your homework, you would have a very hard time making it through the day. As far as we know, this has never happened to anybody.
Mind reading is a type of ESP where a person "sees" what is in another person's mind. Mind reading is also called telepathy. The scientific study of telepathy began over one hundred twenty years ago when it was called psychical research. Today, scientists who study ESP are called parapsychologists and their science is called parapsychology. (Psychical comes from the Greek word for spirit. Many parapsychologists say the mind is a spirit.)
The first scientific test of telepathy was done in England in 1882. Scientists at the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) tested several young girls who said that they could tell what each other was thinking. The scientists put the girls in different rooms and asked those in one room about a card or name of a person that a girl in the other room was thinking of. Many tests were given over a period of six years. The scientists said there was no way the girls could have got as many right answers as they did just by guessing. The scientists also said they were sure the girls weren't cheating. The scientists agreed that the girls were reading each other's minds. The scientists were right about one thing. The girls couldn't have gotten as many right answers as they did just by guessing. But the scientists were wrong about the cheating. The girls—the Creery sisters and their servant Jane Dean—admitted they cheated by using secret signals. This wasn't the first time, and it wouldn't be the last time, that children would fool scientists.
In 1848 two sisters, Kate Fox (age 12) and Margaretta Fox (15), said they heard strange rapping noises in their bedroom. They got people to believe that they were getting messages from spirits. Soon they went on tour with their big sister Leah who was in her mid-30s. They did séances, which became the rage in both the U.S. and Europe. In 1871, the Fox sisters fooled Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), an important scientist who attended a Fox-girls séance in London. Sir William said he tested the girls "in every way that I could devise" and was sure they were not producing the rapping noises "by trickery or mechanical means." In 1888 the sisters confessed that they made the raps by cracking their toe-joints. They made bumping noises by fastening an apple to a string under their petticoats and bouncing it off the floor.
From 1979-1983, two teenagers tricked scientist Peter Phillips into thinking they were able to move and bend objects by their thoughts, a power known as psychokinesis. (Psychokinesis comes from two Greek words meaning mind or spirit and movement. Psychokinesis, when it involves moving an object with mental power alone, is called telekinesis, literally distant-movement.) Steve Shaw (18) and Mike Edwards (17) fooled the scientist for four years through more than 160 hours of tests. One of their favorite tricks was to pretend to bend a spoon or fork with thoughts, a trick made popular by Uri Geller. Geller, however, claimed that he had psychokinetic powers. At one time, he claimed he got his powers from the planet "Hoova" in another star system and a UFO called "IS" or "Intelligence in the Sky."
Skeptics don't think there is good evidence that anyone has moved even a pencil across a table using only the power of thought. Psychokinesis nearly always involves trickery, though we might occasionally think we caused something to happen when it happens right after we thought about it happening. If you point to the sky during a rain storm and say "let there be lightning" and then a lightning bolt shoots across the sky, you might think you caused it. You'd probably be wrong.
James Alan Hydrick claimed to be able to perform acts of telekinesis, such as his trademark trick involving the movement of a pencil resting at the edge of a table.
Here he is exposed as a fraud by none other than James Randi:
It was soon after this appearance on That's My Line Hydrick confessed the fraud to an investigative reporter.
Uri Geller's Tonight Show failure (courtesy of James Randi):
Also see: Top 10 Psychic Debunkings
via LiveScience
There are several claimed types of psychic powers, including precognition (knowing future events before they happen); pyrokinesis (creating fire with the mind, popularized in Stephen King's novel and film "Firestarter"); and telepathy (describing things at a remote location). Among the most dramatic of these is telekinesis (also called psychokinesis, or PK), the ability to move objects through mind power. Though many Americans believe in psychic ability (about 15 percent of us, according to a 2005 Baylor Religion Survey), scientific evidence for its existence remains elusive.
History of telekinesis
The idea of people being able to move objects through mind power alone has intrigued people for centuries, though only in the late 1800s was it seen as an ability that might be scientifically demonstrated. This occurred during the heyday of the early religion Spiritualism, when psychic mediums claimed to contact the dead during séances, and objects would suddenly and mysteriously move, float, or fly by themselves across the darkened room, seemingly untouched by human hands. Sometimes small tables would tip or levitate, disturbed either by unseen spirits or the psychic's mind.
Though many people were convinced — including, ironically, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes — it was all a hoax. Fraudulent psychics resorted to trickery, using everything from hidden wires to black-clad accomplices to make objects appear to move untouched. Magician Harry Houdini investigated and exposed many fake mediums, and even wrote a book about it titled "Miracle Mongers and Their Methods."
As the public slowly grew wise to the faked telekinesis, the phenomenon faded from view. It was revived again in the 1930s and 1940s, when a researcher at Duke University named J.B. Rhine became interested in the idea that people could affect the outcome of random events using their minds. Rhine began with tests of dice rolls, asking subjects to influence the outcome through the power of their minds.
Though his results were mixed and the effects were small, they were enough to convince him that there was something mysterious going on. Unfortunately for Rhine, other researchers failed to duplicate his findings, and many errors were found in his methods.
A few decades later, in the 1970s, a man named Uri Geller became the world's best-known psychic and made millions traveling the world demonstrating his claimed psychokinetic abilities including starting broken watches and bending spoons. Though he denied using magic tricks, many skeptical researchers observed that all of Geller's amazing feats could be — and have been — duplicated by magicians. In 1976, several children who claimed to be able to bend spoons with their minds were tested in controlled experiments at the University of Bath in England. At first the results seemed promising, and experimenters believed they might finally have found real scientific evidence of psychokinesis. However the children were caught cheating on hidden cameras, physically bending spoons with their hands when they thought no one was watching.
Via illuminutti.com – Uri Geller's Tonight Show (lack of) performance (courtesy of James Randi):
James Randi is one of my heroes.
I've just added a new series of James Randi videos from the "James Randi: Psychic Investigator" series from 1991. There were 6 episodes, Randi investigated Mediums, Astrology, Psychic Surgery, Dowsing, New Age, and Psychometry/Graphology – all in front of a live audience.
These video links are now permanently located above, in the pulldown menu links just below the iLLumiNuTTi banner. Enjoy!!! :)
Who is James Randi?
James Randi has an international reputation as a magician and escape artist, but today he is best known as the world's most tireless investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
Randi has pursued "psychic" spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith healers, investigated homeopathic water "with a memory," and generally been a thorn in the sides of those who try to pull the wool over the public's eyes in the name of the supernatural.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including a Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1986.
On October 19, 1993, the PBS-TV "NOVA" program broadcast a one-hour special dealing with Randi's life work, particularly with his investigations of Uri Geller and various occult and healing claims being made by scientists in Russia.
He is the author of numerous books, including The Truth About Uri Geller, The Faith Healers, Flim-Flam!, and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural. His lectures and television appearances have delighted — and vexed — audiences around the world.
In 1996, the James Randi Education Foundation was established to further Randi's work. Randi's long-standing challenge to psychics now stands as a $1,000,000 prize administered by the Foundation. It remains unclaimed.
*From the official James Randi FaceBook page.
via The Skeptic's Dictionary – Skepdic.com
"If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way." —James Randi
"Because a good magician can do something shouldn't make you right away jump to the conclusion that it's a real phenomenon." —Richard Feynman
"Geller is at his ingenious best in laboratories where he is being observed by scientists who believe he has extraordinary ESP ability and think—without justification—that they have ruled out every possibility of fraud." —Milbourne Christopher
Uri Geller is most famous for his claim to be able to bend spoons and keys with his mind. An international star in the psychic circuit, Geller is a Hungarian/Austrian who was born in Israel and lives in England. He claims he's had visions for many years and may get his powers from extraterrestrials. He calls himself a psychic and has sued several people for millions of dollars for saying otherwise. His psychic powers were not sufficient to reveal to him, however, that he would lose all the lawsuits against his critics. His arch critic has been James "The Amazing" Randi, who has written a book and numerous articles aimed at demonstrating that Geller is a fraud, that he has no psychic powers, and that what Geller does amounts to no more than the parlor tricks of a conjurer.
Geller has been performing for many years. The first time I saw him was in 1973 when he appeared on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show. He was supposed to demonstrate his ability to bend spoons with his thoughts and identify hidden objects, but he failed to even try. He squirmed around and said something about how his power can't be turned on and off, and that he didn't feel strong right then. Randi had worked with Carson's producer to change the spoons and metal items Geller planned to use, as there was a suspicion that Geller likes to work (i.e., soften) his metals before his demonstrations, as would any careful conjurer.
View Geller's Tonight Show lack of performance (courtesy of James Randi):
I have always been fascinated and puzzled by the attraction of Uri Geller. I suppose this is because nearly every one of our household spoons is bent and what I would like to see is someone who can straighten them, with his mind or with anything for that matter. Likewise with stopped watches. I have several of those and I would love for someone to use his powers, psychic or otherwise, to make them start running again. Of course, even I can get my stopped watches to run again for a short while by shaking or tapping them, but a permanent fix would be appreciated. There is something mysterious, however, about a person who has built a career out of breaking things.
via The Skeptic's Dictionary – Skepdic.com
Thoughtography was made popular by psychiatrist Dr. Jule Eisenbud, who wrote a book about a Chicago bellhop named Ted Serios, who claimed he could make images appear on Polaroid film just by thinking of an image.
Since the publication of Eisenbud's The World of Ted Serios: 'Thoughtographic' Studies of an Extraordinary Mind (1966), others have claimed to be able to perform this feat. Eisenbud claimed that Serios made his thoughtographs by psychokinesis and that some of them were instigated during out-of-body experiences.
Charlie Reynolds and David Eisendrath, both amateur magicians and professional photographers exposed Serios as a fraud after spending a weekend with him and Eisenbud. Serios claimed he needed a little tube in front of the camera lens to help him concentrate, but he was spotted slipping something into the tube. Most likely it was a picture of something that the camera would take an image of, but which Serios would claim came from his mind rather than his hand. The exposé appeared in the October 1967 issue of Popular Photography. Serios' psychokinetic powers began to fade after the exposure and he has remained virtually unheard from for the past thirty years.
Many years after Serios faded from the paranormal spotlight, Uri Geller began doing a trick in which he produced thoughtographs. Geller would leave the lens cap on a 35mm camera and take pictures of his forehead. He claimed the developed film had pictures on it that came directly from his mind. There is no doubt that the images came from Geller's mind, but perhaps they took a more circuitous route than he says. James Randi, magician and debunker of all things paranormal, claims that thoughtography is actually trickery done using a handheld optical device (Randi 1982: 222ff.; 1995: 233) or by taking photos on already exposed film. Intelligent people who are ignorant of photography are susceptible to being duped about psychic photographs and photographs of prehistoric monsters or fairies, as was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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Italian wildcard rider Alex Salvini has claimed a double Elite class victory at rounds seven and eight of the Husqvarna ACU British Sprint Enduro Championship held at Enduroland, Adstone. Heavy overnight rain before the event ensured conditions were anything but easy, as the championship witnessed its first true mud race of 2012. Thankfully, better weather during round eight saw the course quickly dry out offering competitors near perfect race conditions for round eight.
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Arriving in Adstone as a last minute entry, Husqvarna mounted Salvini wasted little time in getting to grips with the muddy conditions. Immediately setting the fastest time during the opening lap the Italian opened up a ten-second advantage in the Elite class. Improving his pace throughout the day the EWC regular eventually topped round seven by over 20 seconds.
Following a slow start, championship leader Electraction TM's Jordan Rose soon found his way into second place. Beginning to match Salvini's pace during the final few laps, Rose ended round seven in second place overall. Finding the slippery conditions to his liking, KTM's Daryl Bolter fended off a late charge by Tom Church (KTM) to place third. Crashing numerous times during the early morning special tests, Church recovered well to place fourth while KTM's Jamie Law featured strongly on his BSEC debut ride to finish fifth.
With conditions greatly improved at round eight, Salvini placed second to Bolter after the first lap. Upping his pace for the remainder for the day, the Italian set the fastest time in the rest of the day's six special tests to secure his second win of the weekend. Feeling much more confident in the improved conditions, Church started round eight in determined fashion. Battling with Bolter during much of the day for the runner up position, Church overcame a crash on the penultimate lap to secure second. With Bolter finishing third, Rose fought back from a technical problem on lap two to end his day fourth, just five tenths of a second behind Bolter. Husaberg's Simon Wakely put in a solid ride to place fifth.
In the Under 23 class Husaberg's Alex Rockwell delivered an impressive ride at round seven to claim his second win of the series. Quickly adapting to the rutted conditions, Rockwell headed the highly competitive Under 23 class to finish first. Chasing him home for second, KTM's Jonny Walker placed just 20 seconds behind the Husaberg rider. Enduring a crash filled morning Gas Gas' Danny McCanney lost touch with the leading two, ending his day in third. Husqvarna's Jack Rowland was fourth with Lewis Belfield (KTM) rounding out the top five.
At round eight it was Walker that lead the way throughout most of the day. Gaining time on the tricky extreme section, Walker looked assured of his third win of the series until a crash during the final lap of the weekend pushed him back to second. Capitalising on Walker's mistake, championship leader McCanney sneaked through to inherit the win. Unable to repeat his result from round seven, Rockwell finished in third. Rowland again secured fourth while Belfield placed fifth.
Recording his eight consecutive win of the season, KTM's Steve Holcombe was duly crowned the Under 19 BSEC champion. Mastering the wet and muddy conditions at round seven, Holcombe won all but one of the day's eight tests to win his class by over three minutes. Behind him, KTM's James Dent and Husqvarna's Robert Johnson battled hard for the runner up position. Improving his pace towards the end of the day, Dent beat Johnson by five seconds to steal the runner-up spot. With Johnson third, early pace setter Aaron Smith (Husaberg) placed fourth with Stuart Owens (Yamaha) in fifth.
At round eight Holcombe repeated his winning result while Kawasaki's Joe Wootton improved on his round seven performance to place as runner up to Holcombe. Johnson claimed third pushing Dent back to fourth with Owens rounding out the top five.
Brad Freeman continued to be the rider to beat in the 125 Youth Cup. Clearly enjoying the muddy conditions at round seven, Freeman placed nearly four minutes ahead of his nearest rival to secure victory. Josh Gotts (TM) ended round seven 20 seconds in front of KTM's Lee Sealey to place second. With Sealey third, Luke Flack (TM) finished fourth with Jack Staines (Yamaha) completing the top five.
Freeman once again headed his class at round eight as he recorded his second victory of the weekend. Behind him, Gotts, Sealey and Flack fought for the runner-up position. After almost 70 minutes of racing, Sealey beat Gotts by five seconds to claim second. With Gotts third, Flack and Scott Altass (Husaberg) rounded out the top five.
Husaberg's Tyson Maytom-Jones was on top form at round seven to win the Expert class. Making a slow start, KTM's Oliver Hart ended his day in second finishing 20 seconds in front of third place Richard Ely (KTM). Jack Lee (Gas Gas) and James Jackman (Honda) rounded out the top five.
At round eight, Maytom-Jones once again led the way. Fastest on the opening three tests, the Husaberg rider opened up a 25-second advantage over Ely to secure victory. With Ely improving to second, Hart placed third. Daniel Beaven (KTM) delivered a strong ride to place fourth while Lee completed the top five.
In the Clubman class TM's Gethin Francombe headed the standings at round seven when he claimed victory by almost three minutes from Richard Topping (Honda) in second. With Jason Corden (KTM) placing third, Aaron Martin (KTM) and Carl Bale (KTM) finished fourth and fifth respectively.
At round eight Francombe once again secured victory though this time his margin of victory was much tighter. With the duo separated by less than one second entering the seventh and final test, Francombe set his fastest time of the day to secure victory. With Lappin finishing second, Topping placed third with Martin Rowan (KTM) and Corden rounding out the top five.
Jane Daniels clinched the Women's class championship with a commanding double victory at Enduroland. Winning all of the eight special tests at round seven, she comfortably placed ahead of Rhian George (KTM), Katie Walker (KTM) and Liz Childerley (Gas Gas).
With Daniels easily winning round eight, Walker beat George to claim second place with Childerley and Stephanie Rowe (AJP) rounding out the top five.
The Husqvarna ACU British Sprint Enduro Championship concludes with rounds nine and ten at Canada Heights on June 16/17.


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Dec 02, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 0
OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that the Company has signed an asset purchase agreement with Toshiba Corporation, a global technology leader and manufacturer of NAND flash memory, to acquire substantially all of OCZ's assets in a chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding for $35M.
Aug 20, 2013 Ahmed Humayun All News, Hardware News 0
Toshiba Corp. on Monday lifted the curtains off the industry's highest-performing hard disk drive in 2.5"/7mm form-factor. The new series from Toshiba i.e. MQ01ACF drives, offer up to 500GB capacity and boast with 7200 RPM spindle speed.
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We have seen slim external drives, and now Toshiba is giving us an opportunity to view Toshiba's Canvio Slim II. The first generation hard drive by Toshiba was launched last year followed by the launch of Canvio Slim offering as much as 1TB on internal storage space and only measures up to 12.5mm in thickness. It's definitely the smallest and thinnest external hard drive available currently in the market supporting both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0.
Jun 04, 2013 Ahmed Humayun All News, Hardware News 0
It seems like Toshiba has its own charm by doing it three times. Earlier it was the "thrive" series and then coming up a bit short with it's the "Excite" line. The company has completely replaced it with three new models which include Excite pure, Excite pro and Excite Write sharing almost the same body and dimensions.
Apr 30, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 1
Toshiba has announced today a new portable hard drive in the Canvio Connect. The drive will be available in capacities up to 2TB and comes in black, silver, blue, red and white colors. Toshiba says you can share files directly from the device at anytime, although that does require the drive do be connected to an internet-enabled PC that is powered on. So for those thinking this is an standalone WiFi hard drive it is not.
Dec 28, 2012 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 0
Toshiba Corporation will showcase a reference display of an SDHC memory card with TransferJet close proximity wireless transfer technology at the 2013 International CES, to be held from January 8 to 11, 2013, in Las Vegas, U.S.A. The SDHC memory card on reference display will be a product under development, integrating a TransferJet transceiver IC, a coupler, an RF filter, peripheral passive parts, an SD bridge connection circuit, and Toshiba's NAND flash memory.
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Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the Canvio Slim Portable Hard Drive. With a capacity of 500 GB and measuring only nine millimeters thick, the Canvio Slim is the smallest portable hard drive available on the market.
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Time: Noon to 1:30 p.m.Location: Holden Auditorium, Farrell Learning and Teaching CenterFormat: A 60 min lecture followed by a 30 min discussion of research paper chosen by the speaker. Students will be sent a copy of the paper 4-5 days before the class.
TUESDAY, JAN. 13David Wilson, MD, PhD, IntroductionIntroductionTUESDAY, JAN. 20Phil Mason, PhD
Dyskeratosis congenita and cancerPowerPoint Presentation
Dan Link, MD
Congenital neutropenia and leukemiaTUESDAY, FEB. 3Monica Bessler, MD, PhD
PNHPowerPoint PresentationTUESDAY, FEB. 10
David Gutmann, MD, PhD
Modeling NF-1 related tumorsPowerPoint PresentationTUESDAY, FEB. 17Rob Mitra, PhD
Allelic variants and cancer predispositionPowerPoint Presentation
TUESDAY, FEB. 24Karen Wooley, PhD
Treatment of brain tumors with nanoparticlesPowerPoint PresentationTUESDAY, MARCH 3Josh Rubin, MD, PhD
Brain tumor pathogenesisPowerPoint Presentation
TUESDAY, MARCH 10Bob Heuckeroth, MD, PhD
RET signaling in development and cancerTUESDAY, MARCH 17Guojun Bu, PhD
Wnt signaling and cancerPowerPoint PresentationTUESDAY, MARCH 24Paul Goodfellow, PhD
Pathogenesis of endometrial cancerPowerPoint Presentation
TUESDAY, MARCH 31Charles J. Sherr, MD, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Co-Chair, Genetics & Tumor Cell Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Co-Director, Molecular Oncology Program
Herrick Foundation Chair
TUESDAY, APRIL 7Scott Saunders, MD, PhD
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Food Matters: How You Eat Can Help Save the Planet
In his new book, "Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating", author Mark Bittman asks "Could improved health for people and the planet be as simple as eating fewer animals, less junk food and super-refined carbohydrates?". He says "yes" and this lifestyle choice "could help you lose weight, reduce your risk of many long-term or chronic diseases, save you real money, and help stop global warming".
Mark has Book Siging at 7:30 tonight at Powell's Books located at 1005 W Burnside.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
Mrs Bale proudly presents
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Whoohoo! Practically a heat wave! We were that warm on Saturday. It's about time, eh?ReplyDelete
How wonderful! We had a day like that on Saturday. I believe we're back to 50s and 60s for the days and just around freezing through the nights for a few days, but that is very seasonal for late April here. Hope you got outside and enjoyed it!ReplyDelete
Now that I am a grandmother, it seems that I am often late in replying to your most-appreciated comments. But I read them as soon as they come in, and I will write as soon as I can. Please do come back and check. I love these blogging conversations. A little addendum - I've just spent quite a long time catching up with dear notes you left me months ago!! I do hope you can get back to read them. And I'm trying to be much more prompt now!
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Your team's best hitter is at the plate with the winning run dancing off second, you hear the crack of the bat and see the ball laced to the left of second base and a potentially lethal shard of maple helicoptering toward the seats behind the visitors dugout. The introduction of maple as a bat composition is credited to Joe Carter in 1991. Some 50 years earlier ash had replaced hickory as the wood that bats were made from. Maple wasn't illegal, but when the obvious danger was recognized it should have been universally banned by MLB and the MLPAA, but it wasn't.
The players and fans had seen the potential for injury or worse. Pirates coach Dale Long hit in the head with the barrel of a broken bat. Tommy Lasorda knocked to the ground. Then Cubs player Tyler Colvin, whose arm was speared by a 15-inch shard of maple while trying to score from 3rd base and Dodgers fan Susan Rhodes, struck in the face at Dodger Stadium. Players spoke out but little was done.
"I'm not so much worried myself," Scott Rolen said.. "The bats are a hazard for fans more so than players."
Alex Rodriguez, "I've never seen anything like it. Even if I'm 140 feet away [at third] base I'm in danger. Why not ban them"?
In 1991 the level of distrust between baseball and the Players Assoc. was at a level red. Brewers owner Allan Huber Selig and his 'gang of six' were undercutting Commissioner Vincent Fay with a vote of no confidence. Fay's crime was telling ownership that it is their continued collusion against the union that has poisoned the relationship. In 1985, the Commissioner Peter Uberroth encouraged owners not to compete for other team's free agents, this continued until 1987 when the Players Assoc. and Donald Fehr brought charges in Federal Court. The MLBPA was successful and MLB was fined 280 million. Selig replaced Fay and the independent authority of the office of Commissioner and office of Commissioner became a toady for the owners.
In 2008 it was estimated that 60% of the major league players used maple and the incident of shattered bats was one per game. It was then that MLB met with scientists knowledgeable about the properties of wood and bat manufacturers. The MLBPA was not invited to participate. Recommendations were advised and incorporated.
Today the percentage of players using maple has dropped slightly to 55% and the incident of bats breaking is down to .53 per game. Selig feels that this is an acceptable risk.
"I think we've made a lot of progress and we continue to make progress. The union and everybody has been involved," Commissioner Bud Selig said last month at his annual All-Star FanFest question-and-answer session. "You can't have enough emphasis on it. We've done everything we possibly can." Quinn Roberts, MLN.com, 8/3/12
That acceptable risk translates into 1300 maple bats exploding into potentially lethal projectiles. With Michael Weiner having replaced Fehr as Executive Director of the MLBPA and a thawing of the decades old contention, Selig sits back and gives up.
Tom Verducci SI.com 6/19/08 was a reference source.


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"The fears and suspicions engendered by the radical revolutionary ideas adumbrated during the Interregnum made suggestions for even the most modest and logical change anathema for a hundred years to come... Once again the result of the projects of the revolutionaries was the exact opposite of what they had intended... The preexisting élite became more deeply entrenched in property and power. Fear that any change might once more open the floodgate of revolution blocked reasonable reform to meet new conditions for over a century." -- Lawrence Stone, "Results of the English Revolutions," Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776, p. 59 - 61
"Let me be represented as one who trusts his senses, who thinks he knows the things he sees and feels, and entertains no doubts of their existence." -- Bishop Berkeley
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The Revolution You Get Won't Be the Revolution You Planned
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I don't trust anybody who uses "adumbrate."ReplyDelete
The self-contradictory thing about a revolution is that it makes all politics impossible.ReplyDelete
Politics is obviously about reaching a peaceful compromise, rather than overthrowing an existing system.
Revolutionaries, once they come to power, justify new revolutions against them, since others who don't share their views can simply do what they did - ignore politics and go straight for the uprising.
Men like Robert Mugabe learnt this the hard way when his old guerrilla buddies became his biggest enemies.
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November 29, 2015
The staff at the St. Joseph Regional Health Center has been hard at work collecting food within their individual departments.
The health center says part of its mission is to improve the health of the community.
"If you don't have enough food to eat you're health is at risk and I think our staff stepped up and said this is another great way to reach out and help keep the community healthy," Tim Ottinger with St. Joseph said.
St. Joseph set the goal of one item for each team member, to give them the grand total of 2,400 items to donate to Thursday's food drive.
KBTX will be collecting food throughout the day Thursday.
The Food for Families Food Drive will be at the Brazos Center in Bryan, the Kimbro Center in Madisonville, and Mid-South Synergy in Navasota.
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Which NFL player would you like to see have the worst season of his career?
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Which NFL player would you like to see have the worst season of his career?
Oh decisions, decisions. I can't narrow down to one, but for the sake of the vote..I have to go with Brady. Of course, ESPN will have some rationalization for it, like he was too busy ending world hunger or saving a family of bunnies from a burning skyscraper. Who knows, but his mediocre play either A) won't be his fault, or B) spun into a Pro Bowl season by every talking head in Bristol.
Dishonorable mention:
T.O. - I hope passes bounce off him like a check out of my bank account.
Moss - If an earthquake swallowed the entire Raider nation, including Moss, I'd be as happy as a pig in slop.
I gotta go with Owens. His ego was hard enough to deal with. That has now been surpassed by his greed.
Av ....Why would you put KW on this list?...........
Because he plays for a team that could be a rival within the division and there may be Ram fans who would like to see him flop in Arizona.
I voted for Tom Brady, by the way. I seriously can't think of another player in the history of the NFL who has received such a disproportionately large share of the credit for a team's success.
Okay Av.......my bad sorry! Should have made the poll (Which Team) would you most like to see go 1-15....lmao
I went with Vick because of last year's playoff game. I hope he and his team match last year's whiners record!
Close second was TO and Brady. Roethlisberger was up there, too, just because I work with a steelers fan I like to taunt.
Gotta go with Moss. Faider fans are getting a little out of hand and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see the whole Moss experience blow up in their clownish silver and black faces.
I went with Brady: The media is trying to make him out to be the second coming of Joe Montana.Brady is the reason the Patriots have usurped the Cowboys as Americas team.I also think Tagliabue is pulling some of those Media strings.
In my mind, it's a tie between Brady and Smith - Brady just because I don't think he's nearly as great a QB/player as most make him out to be, and Smith because anytime your rival's first overall pick flops, it's good.
Honorable mentions goes to Belichick, who i know is not a player, but I would personally get a smile on my face if his coaching staff leaves and he blows chunks in the AFC East.
I went with Vick..for some reason, I just dislike the guy. He does't play QB very good, all he is, is a glorified RB who sometimes throws the ball. And he gets all this undeserved media attention. So I would like for him to put up numbers similar to that of his injury year, without him actually being injured. That would make me happy.
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I went with Alexander as the Seahawks' rep on the poll.
Here's an example that shows why I hate Brady (or, at least, the Brady that the media has "created").
Take these two QBs:
62 Games Started
2,017 Attempts
1,243 Completions
61.6 Percent Completions
13,925 Yards
97 TDs
52 Ints
92.6 QB Rating
Number of hits on Google search of this QB's name and "future Hall of Famer": 1,940
73 Games Started
2,391 Attempts
1,539 Completions
64.4 Percent Completions
18,598 Yards
129 TDs
74 Ints.
93.2 QB Rating
Number of hits on Google search of this QB's name and "future Hall of Famer": 57
QB#1 is Tom Brady
QB#2 is Duante Culpepper
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Archive for Thursday, September 9, 2004
Season greeting a 21-0 win
Cardinals fly by Eagles in opener
The Eudora Cardinals football team hit the field Friday for the season opener at Wellsville. A sensational defensive effort produced a one-sided 21-0 triumph.
"Twenty-one to 0 is a good way to start no matter how you look at it," coach Gregg Webb said. "We went on the road and faced a rival that I think thought they could beat us. That's a good deal.
"Our kids are 1-0 and feeling pretty good."
The Cardinal program is generating a reputation of defensive dominance. Eudora's defense was phenomenal last year en route to its fourth-straight district title. The Cards yielded more than 20 points just two times.
In the other eight games, Eudora's opponents averaged just more than 10 points per game, including two shutouts.
"We kind of expect our defense to play well," Webb said. "As long as we don't turn the ball over and give the opponents a short field, traveling 80 yards against our defense is going to be tough.
"Our kids kind of dominated, and that gives our kids confidence."
Despite losing its entire defensive secondary from a year ago, the Cardinals haven't skipped a beat -- yet, anyway.
"Going into the game I was really nervous about the defensive backs," Webb said. "They're all new.
"They were a little better than I thought they'd be. They started out a little shaky, but as the game went on, for the most part, they played well for us. And they need to. Our front seven are all returns."
Unfortunately, the offense has yet to regain its 2003 form.
"I was once again disappointed with our offensive output," Webb said. "The way we ran our plays was not as crisp or smooth as it should have been.
"We blocked at the point of attack pretty well, but we never did get to the next level like we should have."
Nevertheless, opportunities were plentiful if not productive.
"We had multiple opportunities in the first half to break the game open," Webb said. "We spent a lot of time inside their 50-yard line.
"Forcing seven turnovers and only scoring 21 points is unacceptable. You have to take advantage of momentum opportunities and stick it in the end zone."
Eudora did strike first early in the first quarter. Cardinal quarterback, junior Kyle Brouhard, hit senior wide receiver Joe Kaup on a 28-yard touchdown pass down the right sideline.
Long touchdown passes have been a scarcity for Webb's teams in the past. But playing to the strengths of his new signal caller, the passing game may find a new focus.
Compared to his predecessor, Brouhard is regarded as less of a running threat. But as was evident by Friday's performance, his arm may rival any in recent Cardinal history.
Eudora's defense took care of the rest. The Cards grounded the Eagles' rushing attack, yielding only 22 yards on 32 carries.
Wellsville's seven turnovers surpassed its first down total.
Senior fullback Brendan Jackson stretched the Cardinal lead to 14-0 with a three-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.
The final Eudora tally was far less conventional.
In a rare move, Webb elected to attempt a 30-yard field goal late in the third. New Cardinal kicker William Bock, a veteran of the soccer program, made the attempt. However, the kick fell a foot short.
Cramping along the Cardinal defensive line forced Bock into a dual role at defensive end. And Bock redeemed himself in quick fashion a minute later forcing and then recovering an Eagle fumble in the end zone for a touchdown.
"He's only about 160 to 165 pounds, but he's awfully quick," Webb said. "He's a first-year senior who is a nice addition to the team. Those kids are rare -- to put a helmet on a kid and have an understanding of the game. He plays hard, and he's a great kid."
The defensive score was the game's last. It wasn't exactly an offensive exhibition of might. The two teams' combined for just more than 200 yards of total offense.
Eudora hits the road again for the second time in eight days, traveling Friday to Osawatomie. The Trojans are coming off a 35-22 loss at the hands of the highly touted De Soto Wildcats.
"Osawatomie is one of those teams people looked at and said they're going to be tough," Webb said. "They've got a bunch of kids back and a lot of size. They just turned it over too many times against De Soto to win. With two minutes left in the third the game was tied 14-14."
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Fraley: Playoff game at Cowboys Stadium no edge for Mavs
The DMN's Gerry Fraley answered this Mavericks question during an on-line chat Thursday.
On whether he likes the idea of the Mavericks playing a playoff game or games at Cowboys Stadium: They would play an entire season getting comfortable at the AAC, learning the bounces in the floor and familiarizing themselves with the shooting background. They'd sacrifice that competitive advantage for a bigger gate by moving a playoff game to Cowboys Stadium. A good idea for owner Mark Cuban's books but a bad idea for a team that thinks it can go somewhere in the playoffs.
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Someone bugged Funko about the figures a while back on their official Facebook Page, and it sounds like we might be seeing a few more pop up here soon. No idea which two they will be, but it's good news for us molded fans!
Which pony do you want to see? Drop it in the comments below!Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 6:17 PM
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By MICHAEL COIT
Empire volleyball teams largely face a tough road in the North Coast Section playoffs with Maria Carrillo, Cardinal Newman, Sonoma Valley and Anderson Valley gaining the most favorable seeds when matches begin Wednesday.
Sonoma Valley's reward for winning the Sonoma County League title and tournament is a first-round bye.
Yet should the Dragons defeat Novato in round two, they'd likely get a road match at top-seeded Campolindo.
"We look forward to taking each team we come up against with fight no matter what the outcome," said Sonoma Valley coach
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[Confession, I was swimming, not lying in Shivasana like I told you I would try to do every day last week. Lying still for 10 minutes is lovely in principle, and in principle I will continue to aspire to do that as often as possible, but I remain attracted to moving meditation. For the record, it was only a 10-minute swim.]
How is it possible for my chest to lose 1.25 inches?
As I mentioned a while back I have been part of a pilot for Life Time Fitness testing a detox program they will roll out next year. The first two weeks were stark: no allergens or artificial anything. The "Do Not Pass Your Lips" list included:
Iodized Salt
Sweeteners (Sugar, Honey, Syrup)
What could I eat?
Lots and lots of vegetables, rice, quinoa, organic meat and fish, beans, legumes. The pilot program provided a vegan protein powder for smoothies, fiber, and supplements to support the liver.
And lots of water. The goal was to drink half your body weight in water daily and poop twice a day or 12 inches. (I didn't make that up, but I've been dying to share it.)
I became a tea drinker. Not easy. I identify as a coffee drinker. I gave up sugar, even high-sugar fruits. I learned I prefer almond milk to coconut milk. I sat in the sauna three times a week, as recommended.
When Thanksgiving hit, I abandoned the detox program for a good four days. And then you know what happened? I wanted BACK ON.
Within that short time span my face broke out, I felt bloated, and sluggish. So, I got back on the detox train, which after the first two weeks allowed us to introduce a formerly forbidden food every three days.
Now I know my body is better off without gluten and dairy. Gluten, not so much because I have an adverse reaction to it, unless you call intense carb cravings an adverse reaction, which I guess I do. I just know the less of it I eat, the less of it I want to eat. Dairy, is a bit harder to let go (I love you half and half, cheese, and yogurt!). But there's no denying it: my skin looks great when I avoid dairy.
Before I talk about the 1.25 inches lost around the chest, let's talk about more impressive numbers.
Before and after the four weeks we took a subjective test regarding medical symptoms. Before detox my score of symptoms hovered in the "upper moderate" range at 45. After detox, the score dropped to 20. (Sadly, the section on "Joints/Muscle" didn't move much.) I no longer had symptoms like stuffy nose, headaches, and insomnia. I dropped big points under categories for "digestive tract,""energy," "mind" and "emotions."
What's more my LDL (that's the "bad" cholesterol) dropped 8 points and my triglycerides were almost cut in half, while my HDL (the "happy" kind) stayed the same. My total cholesterol, which was under the recommended 200 as it was at 164, dropped to 147. So if my cholesterol was good, why would I care? Because there's "normal" ranges and there's "optimal" ranges, and I'm going for optimal, of course!
My weight didn't budge, which was fine, I wasn't looking to lose. Interestingly, most high-intensity exercisers didn't drop weight, most likely because we were supposed to do less and easy, which for some people I think might have been more than nothing. Many in the group who did want to lose weight lost big numbers: 8-10 pounds or more. My body composition did change some, going down negligible amounts. Except my chest. And I was stumped. A whole inch and a quarter lost! How could that be? The injustice!
I even had it measured by the same guy who measured the first time. I wore the same top and bra. He measured me right under my arm pits, though... and that's when it hit me:
I lost back fat! Of course! It's perfectly acceptable to lose back fat! Yes!
As it turns out I won't need your generous offer Heather Morrissey, who is the winner of the book "The Happy Hour Effect: 12 Secrets to Minimize Stress and Maximize Life." Her comment to me, which did make me laugh out loud was:
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Hunter Orth scored 18 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead the host Blue Aces to a win against the Johnnies and sole possession of first place in the Licking County League.
Jack Parsley added 12 points and eight rebounds for Granville (5-0, 4-0). Jason Carter had seven points to lead Johnstown (5-1, 4-1).