text: Ancient Gold Electroplating, JOSMAN087 posted:11/28/2011 9:06:10 AM So I have a friend whose child is doing a science project and she tells me that he is making a "baghdad battery". Suprising to everyone in the conversation and afterward even to me I had never heard of this. So i started looking into it. "Baghdad battery" After seeing this I started looking into what it could have been used for and found that its possible that it was used for electroplating... Electroplating wiki This reminds me of the story of the annunaki and thier hunger for gold... (interesting tidbit, i came across this...200,000 yr old annunaki) lead me to this history of anunnaki and xfacts nibiru and anunnaki I have been trying to figure out if it is possible to hook up more than one of the batteries together and possibly have enought power to actually do something. Theoretically if the current is the same they can be harnessed together to create more power. Maybe magnetically charge soemthing in order to "move" solid stone rocks to where they want to go. VERY INTERESTING TO ME! But just some stuff that an average everyday conversation can turn into in "my" mind.spooky1 posted:11/28/2011 12:14:31 PM I just saw this yesterday on ancient aliens yesterday!breeld posted:11/28/2011 7:42:07 PM Yeah, the Baghdad battery is very interesting. Supposedly they also found cave or wall drawings of lightbulbs, which the battery could have been used to power up.LincolnGenghis posted:11/28/2011 8:51:52 PM In Reply To:breeld posted:11/28/2011 7:42:07 PM Yeah, the Baghdad battery is very interesting. Supposedly they also found cave or wall drawings of lightbulbs, which the battery could have been used to power up.And that one was an interesting find also. This was due to the low oxygen level inside the Great Pyramid. Nobody is actually able to explain with certainty how they were able to see in there to get around. Numerous people have come forward and stated that the oxygen levels in there are too low to have torches burning, and there are also no tell tale signs of torch use on the walls or ceilings. (soot, burn marks ect..) The Baghdad battery by itself would not have the juice to power a bulb, but enough of them wired together could. Or possibly some more advanced larger versions of it yet to be found. JOSMAN087 posted:11/29/2011 4:09:24 AM In Reply To:spooky1 posted:11/28/2011 12:14:31 PM I just saw this yesterday on ancient aliens yesterday!Maybe its a sign.spooky1 posted:11/29/2011 7:34:28 AM In Reply To:JOSMAN087 posted:11/29/2011 4:09:24 AM Maybe its a sign.Maybe, from the ALIENS.AWSOME!Levinus posted:11/29/2011 8:14:41 AM I'm fascinated by ancient stuff like this. As you all know, I love physics. Adore it. So when I find stuff that just...doesn't add up...I can't get enough of it. I don't know where to begin. Explaining this using science is, well...unnecessary. Its a bloody battery. The same kind of battery in your car. No question about it. WTF is it doing in ancient times? I have no clue. I know a little something about building pyramids and other ancient structures. Lets face it, moving huge stones is possible. There are plenty of methods to do it. Sure, none of them add up how things like the pyramids were built in such short time...but whatever. I'll give skeptics that. We can move big rocks. But there are so many structures out there that, as a physics lover, I can't wrap my head around. Ever heard of Sacsayhuamán? This weird building in Peru totally baffles me. If you've never heard of it, I'll explain as best I can. Firstly, they are huge rocks stacked up in lots of various wall-like arrangements. They are arranged so precisely that you can't fit a sheet of paper between them. Is that really unusual though? No. Rocks are heavy and we can move heavy rocks. What is unusual to me is that these rocks were quarried, and quarried with precision. We are talking about granite here. GRANITE. Granite has traces of quartz in it, which is a 9 on the hardness scale. The only thing you can use to cut quartz is a 10 on the hardness scale. The only thing we know of that can do that is diamond. Just google up some Sacsayhuamán. It just doesn't add up. I fail to believe ancient cultures had industrial diamond-tipped saw blades. What is worse, these stones were carved out horizontally...which we can't even do today. A culture could use a laser, but there are no burn marks. They just...were excavated. Check out Coral Castle too. Gobekli Tepe. This stuff just doesn't make sense. And it isn't just odd ball stuff, this is major stuff. We are really missing a huge piece of the puzzle here. How is it that all of these cultures, even some modern examples like Coral Castle can be built? There are rumors of geomagnetic "lay lines" of some kind. Honestly, I'm not sure about that. I have a friend in the field that may give me some answers. I was under the impression that our geomagnetism fluctuates and has no fixed position, aside from the poles. Even if there were these lay lines...that doesn't mean I can just...pick up a huge rock. Or harvest it without cutting tools. I just can't put it together. Why would these ancient civilizations with limit resources waste so much TIME building these things? Think about it...ever day you would be so focused on group survival. Gathering, hunting, farming. You wouldn't have a few hours to kill each day like you do now. No time to relax. So why are they investing valuable time in building nonsense like this? Think about it. Do WE create any huge monolithic structures today? No. It takes up time and resources that we don't have available. Things like Gobekli Tepe....moving just ONE stone would be a team effort for an entire village. A team project that would take weeks. Same with the younger stone henge. Why would you risk life and limb to do this? Humans just don't do that. We aren't any different today than we were back then. Honestly ask yourself...if your church told you to abandon your family and home for weeks or months to retrieve a stone and drag it across the land, would you do it? Or would you tell them to stick the stone up their ass? What about your boss? Who could compel humans to do this? We honestly just don't have it in us. Think about it, we can't even work in retail without having a union involved. I do have two theories. Firstly...the really amazing and permanent stuff is visible because it is permanent. Of course. All the other ordinary dumb stuff is harder to find because it is ordinary and fades with time. It is only natural we WOULD be left with the really cool stuff. It creates an illusion of them all being connected, which they aren't. Secondly, that doesn't change the fact that they exist. Or the fact that we just can't duplicate it today. Architecturally, many societies were more skilled and advanced than us. We just have to admit it. They are using more complicated mediums, no modern tools, and they can do it better than we can with all of our awesomeness. We can't cut into granite the way they do. We can't build pyramids. We can't raise and balance stone quickly or with such ease. Remember again, count in cultural stuff here. Our vast global population of 7 billion and we can't round up a few thousand to build a monolith? Sure we have sky scapers, but would those last 12,000 years without maintenance? Yeah right. Some of these things we have found will CONTINUE to last for another 12,000 or longer. I guess what I'm trying to say is...we are dumb as hell. I've dedicated years to the study of the natural world and I can't figure this out. Think about it. My life literally revolves around physics. Its what I do. I can calculate the trajectory of celestial bodies, predict weather, create light and fire without flint. This stuff is MAGIC to ancient cultures. Yet when I look at some of their buildings...I can't do that. I can't DESIGN that. I can't ENGINEER that. A team of stone masons, architects, mathematicians, and astrophysicists couldn't put some of this together. It is safe, I think, to assume that previous ancient cultures were vastly more powerful than we are. The Egyptian pyramids were just the tail end of a superior society. When our society ends...what will remain? Anything? Maybe some of our roads? Gravel quarries where our huge cement buildings once stood? Nothing like the pyramids. If we really looked, I think the baghdad battery is the least of our unusual discoveries. Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Alrighty then, let's bring on the FOTD! I was in Tallahassee during the Thanksgiving holiday and refused to get into any of that Black Friday madness. Okay, I kid. I actually had plans to make it to Macy's at 4 a.m. but was too busy partying it up with friends to go. I did, however, manage to snag that Lancome beauty box that I was desiring.
Spend a little less than $40 on any Lancome product(s)….and you get ALL of this for $48.50. A bit of a stretch but I figured this was the best time to try out some of Lancome's products. Mommy dearest and I went half. I purchased Lancome's Magnifique..
Another "grown up" fragrance that I absolutely adore! I'll review that in the coming "Let It Clump" posts. I decided to play around with my Lancome eyeshadow palette to see how the colors' texture compared to other brands.
I mean the colors are definitely pretty enough. A little too shimmery for my liking but I was loving the intensity of the colors when I initially swatched them.
Here's what I used:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Lancome palette (GOLD-inner lid, GREEN-outer lid BROWN-crease..and the highlight color)
Clinique's brush on gel liner in Black
Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide on Eye Pencil in Black
Dior DiorShow mascara (gave it a whirl again)
MAC Studio Finish concealer in NW45
NYC Color Chroma Face Glow in Sandstone
MAC Nightmoth lip liner
Lancome Coquette
Too Faced I Love Myself Mirror Lip shine
OMG, is this not personality
overload or what? HA!
And don't even get me started on the amazement that is Lancome Bi -Facil makeup remover. This make-up remover has been hailed as the greatest of all removers and I can see why. One swipe and it's ALL gone.
Do you have any favorites from Lancome? Or did you cop any hot beauty sales during Black Friday? Tell me, tell me!
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"Our company's accomplishments working on the leading edge, and my usefulness, would be far less were it not for business aviation. "
Driver education on a higher plane
Some pilots choose to grow slowly from the skill level they acquired to earn the basic license, and they never venture beyond the confines of the standard envelope. Most, however, push that envelope, either for the personal challenge or for professional advancement. Aviation offers plenty of ways to do this, with ratings to be earned that advance pilots to instruments, two engines, seaplanes, gliders and helicopters. The best way to expand on the basic stick-and-rudder skills that serve as the foundation of all else is to turn the world upside down and learn aerobatics.
But what is there for a driver to aspire to? To a greater extent than pilots, drivers seem for the most part content to get by with merely reaching their destinations in one piece. And we've all seen alleged vehicle operators rolling down the highway eyes akimbo, eating, reading, grooming and texting while tasked with holding close-formation clearances as tight as those required of the Blue Angels.
Combine this sorry state of driver involvement with the woefully low standard of proficiency that earns a driver's license, and the appeal of courses such as those offered by BMW at its U.S. campus in Greer, S.C., is undeniable. I recently paid for our 22-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter to attend, respectively, the two-day adult ($1,095) and two-day teen ($895) driving courses at said BMW facility, and it was money well spent (see sidebars). BMWCCA members get a 15-percent discount.
This came about after I had placed the winning bid for a slot in a $3,295 two-day BMW Performance Center M School course that the car manufacturer had donated to a charity auction to benefit the late Paul Newman's Hole In The Wall Gang Camp. This course, too, is money well spent; the price includes hotel accommodations and all meals, and drivers get to keep the new helmet worn on day two as a trophy. The instructors are personable, patient and talented not just at driving but at teaching. They don't take themselves too seriously, either. During the introductions, one senior mentor shared with us that his hobbies are taxidermy and collecting vintage Barbie dolls. Matt Mullins, a racer who has driven cars on the ragged edge for many movies, led our course and it ran with a precision the military would be proud of.
Unlike the lower-priced courses on which two people share driving and riding in 135s and 335s, this M School course allowed 17 students to drive mostly solo in M3s, M5s and M6s. We started in M5s on the skid pad, a circle of polished concrete made ice-slick by water sprinklers, working at arresting oversteer and understeer and practicing one of the basic tenets of advanced driving-point your eyes where you want to go, and your hands and feet will take you there. Pointing them at the presumed point of impact, a powerful instinct for the uninitiated, seals that fate. I spent more time pointed backward than forward. More M5 work on a slalom course followed.
Other topics during the first-day ground school (mercifully short, considering the finely engineered classrooms that awaited outside) included basic but overlooked items such as steering-wheel grip, mirror placement and tire contact patch-where the rubber meets the road, it's all hanging on the surface area of a few ham sandwiches. The PowerPoint presentations showed us the theory on how to negotiate corners by identifying the braking point, turn-in point, apex/clipping point and exit point and explaining the dynamics at work on weight distribution and tire adhesion.
The real learning, of course, came from driving the cars the way they were designed to be driven and taking them to a level that would not be prudent on public roads. The course builds on itself, to the point that the afternoon of the second day offers the opportunity to put into practice on one uninterrupted circuit all the lessons learned in earlier segments on sight lines, braking, cornering, accelerating and upset recovery.
On the second day, we had been introduced to steering using the accelerator pedal on the longest corner of the track. Lifting off the throttle at the apex of the turn to shift more weight to the front tires persuaded the car to turn more tightly toward the exit point with zero movement of the steering wheel.
At the appointed time for our main event on day two, a thunderstorm moved over the track. Much as I cursed the heavy rain at the time, it handicapped all of us equally and provided a real test of ABS and compromised tire adhesion and traction in a controlled environment. In retrospect, this was a big bonus.
M School is the driver's equivalent of an aerobatics course. Even if I never take my M5 to the track, I now drive it having felt its limits and their onset, an experience that provides the quiet solace of knowing that the car offers a huge reserve of handling capability in the everyday world.
BMW Two-day Teen Course
I was lucky enough to attend the BMW Performance Center driving school for teens this past summer. When my dad told me about it, I pictured a bunch of teenagers stuffed in a car with an instructor, watching what should be done and then playing a "Chinese fire drill" sort of game when the time came for each to get a turn at the wheel.
Boy, was I wrong! In my class, there were about 20 of us, and each pair shared a car. We drove 335 diesels through about a dozen courses and obstacles. Our instructor led the group in the beginning of each course and explained what we had to do, and then he pulled off to the side and gave advice and comments through our walkie-talkies.
Of all of the courses, my favorites were the skid pad, the high-speed lane change and double lane change, the performance drive and the waterwall. We also learned the right way to brake, approach a tight turn and do a slalom at high speed. Since I live in New Jersey, it's essential that I know how to handle a car when it is skidding on ice. I learned that in this course, and the skill will definitely come in handy during our harsh winters.
In the waterwall exercise, we were directed to a straight road that had hidden fountains shooting walls of water into the air. Our instructor, a few hundred feet away, controlled which fountains went off and when. Through our walkie-talkies, he told us to approach the road and avoid the waterwalls at all cost, even if that meant having to brake almost to a stop to make a 40-degree turn.
It got more interesting, though, when our instructor told us to approach the road and, as we were dodging the fountains, we had to answer a question of his choice by talking into the walkie-talkie while driving. This exercise was done to show how hazardous it can be to talk on the phone while driving. Every person in our group hit the water at some point when answering the questions.
It goes to show that our brains were focused more on answering the question than on dodging obstacles, and we failed miserably.
The performance drive was one of my favorites because we had the chance to test a full lineup of BMWs and take them out on a larger course, which meant being able to push the pedal to the metal. The cars we tested included the Z4, 135, 550 and 750. I was impressed with the Z4 and 550 and would love to have gone home with either of the two. The 750 was, without a doubt, a strong and well built car but I felt as if I was driving a hearse-a fast hearse, that is.
I figured the performance drive marked the end of our dream, but again I was wrong. We then took X5s off-roading on a carefully built all-terrain course. The course had steep hills, rocks galore and a flowing river that we had to tackle. The instructor taught us to take advantage of the steep uphill and downhill controls, which were extremely useful in overcoming the obstacles. I have always loved the X5, so being able to try it out in the environment it is best suited for, beyond just driving it, was a dream come true.
The BMW driving school provided me with a thrilling experience. I have never had so much fun behind the wheel. With this in mind, I am definitely going to be a BMW driver for life-as soon as I can save up enough money to buy my first one. -Felicity Moll
BMW Two-day Adult Course
If my young driving career were to be compressed into a SportsCenter "Top 10" highlight reel, eight or nine of the clips would come from BMW's Performance Center in Greer, S.C. Our classroom for the two-day adult car control class was a fleet of alpine-white 335s and Imola-red 135s that drove as smoothly as on their delivery day. Each of our two days on the track began with a warm-up slalom through five or six cones where we were reminded of the importance of keeping our eyes far ahead of our most immediate obstacle. This highlighted an overarching theme of the training: that our hands and feet follow our eyes. The slightest glance away from one's intended line through a curve would pull the car inches or even feet off track and butcher an otherwise smooth, fast corner.
After basics had been established we were pitted against one another in timed trials around small, closed courses featuring obstacles such as slaloms and decreasing-radius corners. From these time trials, we relocated to the skid pad for lessons on recognizing and correcting losses of grip by the front or rear tires. These two exercises were designed to teach us another fundamental lesson of the course regarding the contact patches between tires and road and how braking and accelerating affect them. While these concepts were not new to me, there were students who had never considered them before but who nevertheless made huge strides in their ability to control a car in adverse conditions.
I learned a great deal about the physics of a moving vehicle during my time in Greer, and we had more fun than I'd ever experienced behind the wheel of a car. There is no better feeling than getting the knack of correcting oversteer as the car snaps back from the brink of total loss of control and all four wheels return the car to the desired direction. -Christopher Moll
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China Cuts Off World's Rare Earth Metal Supply
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October 21, 2011 12:40 AM
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The hand giveth, the hand taketh away
China only has about 30 percent of the world's rare earth metal deposits, but thanks to clever planning it today
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found in televisions, smart phones, electric vehicles, and a variety of other devices -- are found in California, Canada, Australia, and Russia, but it will take years to bring them online.
In short the world is
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for now when it comes to rare earth supply. And China's biggest rare earth metal producer -- the Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) has announced that it is severing shipments to the U.S., Japan, and Europe for one month in an attempt to artificially inflate prices.
Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth also plans to buy rare earth metals in an attempt to further move prices upward. The company already controls 60 percent of China's rare earth production, thanks to the Chinese government's decision to merge 35 other local companies into the Inner Mongolia business, or fade them out.
China controls 97 percent of the world's rare earth metal production.
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While the Sichuan province in the southwest and Shandong in the east produce significant amounts of rare earth as well, the Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Group's decision should be enough to move prices significantly.
Doing so will benefit China in a couple ways. First, prices will almost certainly go up, reverse a downward slide. Lynas Corp., an Australian rare earth producer reveals that since June the price of neodymium oxide has declined 34 percent to $157 per kilogram, while europium oxide is down 35 percent at $2,904 per kilogram.
Sun Fan, a rare earth analyst for Goldstate Securities in the southern city of Shenzhen comments in a
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, "The impact on the market supply will be substantial. The dual measures of suspension and purchase will offer support for the rare earth prices and make the prices gradually pick up in the future."
Aside from raising prices higher, the pause in production will allow China to try to kick start its efforts to produce locally produce magnets. When it comes to the production of the magnets used in the electric motors of hybrid and electric vehicles, typically the biggest profit is not realized at a commodity level, but at a magnet producer level. Thus in the past foreign nations like the U.S. and Japan have pocketed the biggest profits. China
hopes to change that
China hopes to supplant its U.S. and Asian rivals as the main producer of electric motor magnets, by choking resource supply to its foreign competitors. [Source: ThinkGeek]
China's Ministry of Land and Resources in September bragged that rare earth metals were the nation's "21st century treasure trove of new materials." It argued that exports should be tightened, choking foreign supply and favoring Chinese manufacturers.
"Then they pop up and say 'Hello, surprise! Give us your money or we will shut you down!' Screw them. Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that." -- Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng referencing patent trolls
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Hello, Kaylee is 6 1/2 months and we started her on solids a couple of weeks ago. Mostley vegies in a baby jar number ones, as I previously thought that is what they were to start on. Well now everything I'm reading seems to indicate there really is no "right exact way" to start a 6month old breast fed baby, being that most of her intake is breastmilk and that she is 6 months. So wouldn't it be ok to just mash up whatever I am eating and feed it to her, as long as it is healthy of corse, like yesterday I had chicken breast broccoli and califlower(steamed) and I just mashed that up for her - she loved it. But then today we had spaghetti and I didn't feel very confident in feeding her that?? So I broke out the gerber greenbeans in a jar! lol Anybody have an answer for me on this issue? Thank you.
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Songs of the Civil Rights Movement - Monifa Brown
January 11, 2016. Posted by Brandy Wood.Add new comment | Filed under: civil rights, martin luther king, MLK weekend
"Jazz speaks for life," said Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1964. "The blues tell the story of life's difficulties — and, if you think for a moment, you realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music."
As WBGO gets ready for the Jazz & Civil Rights Panel Discussion this MLK weekend, we wanted to share some of our cherished tunes inspired by Dr. King and the movement. Saturday Afternoon Jazz host Monifa Brown picked the following songs...
The High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone once declared, "An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times." Simone committed whole-heartedly to boldly accomplish this task every time she took the stage. She owned every song she sung often shedding light into darkness with her haunting contralto. Weaving jazz with gospel roots and classical overtures, Simone transfixed audiences with her potent anthems and riveting performances. She fueled the blues with rage and soothed hymn laced ballads with salty tears…each note crystallized with intention.
Nina Simone's bassist, Calvin Eugene "Gene" Taylor, wrote the song "Why? (The King of Love is Dead)" just days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is almost impossible to listen and not be moved to tears.
"I wish I knew how it would feel to be free. I wish I could break All the chains holding me…"
The incomparable pianist, educator and broadcaster Dr. Billy Taylor penned, "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free" in the mid 50s. However, it was not until Nina Simon's rendition nearly a decade later, that the song garnered widespread attention. Dr. Taylor's own soulful and spellbinding version with Les McCann is as liberating as music can be.
"I wish I could be like a bird in the sky, how sweet it would be if I found out I could fly. I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea and I'd sing 'cause I'd know…."
The brilliant, outspoken and prolific bassist/composer Charles Mingus once said "In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am." This transparency is the beauty of Mingus' music. His composition "Fables of Faubus," was a protest song in direct response to Arkansas Governor Orval E. Faubus' directive to the National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. As the country witnessed this horrifying standoff, the divide been American citizens grew deeper. Mingus was able to convey this rage, despair and hope through his music. The instrumental version was preceded by a version with lyrics that his record label thought to be too controversial to release at the time.
To be in the presence of Pharoah Sanders is to stand before greatness. His gentle and quiet strength along with his humble is both captivating and arresting. Sanders' aura as a person and player are a lot alike. His playing beautifully embodies the Yin and Yang and eb and flow of life. In a matter of minutes his fire breathing tenor can transform into an ethereal tender ballad. Listening to Pharoah is like embarking on a spiritual journey. The tenor titan once confessed, "I try and pray all the time. The day's like one big prayer to me.." This spirit permeates every note that passes through his horn. His music is a healing music. Here is in Germany 2004 with pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Mathew Garrison and drummer Will Calhoun.
Charlie Haden along with Carla Bley in the late 60s formed his Liberation Music Orchestra in response to President Nixon's administration, the Vietnam War and social injustice around the globe. Haden once said, "When you're a sensitive human being and you see the things that are going on around you that aren't human…you have to speak out and do something about it." His ensemble was sound in activism in motion in power. "We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet," declared Haden. That's just what he did. Here is Haden & his Liberation Music Orchestra and Dvorak's "Goin' Home."
Rachelle Ferrell composed the poignant composition "Peace on Earth." Alone at the piano at the 1994 Newport Jazz Festival, Ferrell demonstrates why she is one of the greatest voices of our time. Her prayer is timeless and her performance is flawless.
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared in his opening address at the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: "Jazz speaks for life…This is triumphant music." In the struggle may we all truly see and hear one another and move forward in PEACE.
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Dr. King 40 Years Later
April 4, 2008. Posted by Angelika Beener.Add new comment | Filed under: Anniversaries, balcony, civil rights leaders, Discovery, dr king, dr martin luther, dr martin luther king, dr martin luther king jr, heart, heartbreak, hotel room, humanitarians, luther king jr, martin luther king, martin luther king jr, Masters, memphis tennessee, Notes, post time, rev dr, sanitation workers, time flies, wages, WBGO Community Events, working conditions
Today marks 40 years since one of the greatest civil rights leaders and humanitarians was gunned down and taken away from us.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions.
I wasn't even born when Dr. King was assassinated, but I can only imagine the heartbreak that people felt upon first getting that worst piece of news.
It breaks my heart to think about it as I write this post. Time flies, and many people I talk to can hardly believe its been 40 years.
For me, it's important to really think about and help others to realize that King was not a man who was a dreamer as the media loves to portray. Yes, he was a man of unparalleled vision, and hope. But he was also a leader through action, and the hardest of hard workers. I would ask that on this day, you would read or listen to Dr. King speak about opposition to war, or why it is important to vote, for example. Not only was he ahead of his time but he is timeless. Take the time to really dig into King - the man, not just the dream.
A Change is Gonna Come (I still believe it will...)
January 21, 2008. Posted by Angelika Beener.Add new comment | Filed under: 40th anniversary, ballad, civil rights leader, deep trouble, dr king, dr martin luther, dr martin luther king, forefront, fragile time, Jazz Alive, mantra, martin luther king, martin luther king day, national holiday, presidential race, real possibilities, sam cooke, siblings, spring day, word change, world history
This year will mark the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. On this day - Martin Luther King Day - I reflect longer than usual on the times we're living in. I ponder on how much has changed since his being snatched away from us on that spring day in April. And I wonder what the real possibilities are for our nation to come together. There are still so many who believe that we should not even be honoring the civil rights leader and that his legacy is not worthy of a national holiday. In 2008, you would think we would have come a lot further than this. Then again, at 30 years old, I have older siblings who were alive when Dr. King and others were still fighting for the rights of Blacks to sit in the front of the bus. That always puts things into perspective for me. It's been a long time, but then again...not so much.
With the presidential race and the mantra of change in the forefront of our minds, I can say that I am still hopeful. Many are actually tired of hearing the word change, and want to hear tangible-type strategies for real problems that we are facing at this very fragile time in American and world history. I am one of those people. But if we are already tired of hearing about change, then we've got a long way to go...and so we do. Change is what it took for Dr. King to realize the dreams of so many Americans in this country. Change is what it's going to take to get us out of the deep trouble we're in as a nation four decades later. As I listen to one of my favorite singers, Bilal, sing "A Change Is Gonna Come", it is extremely haunting. Sam Cooke made this civil rights ballad in the heart of the movement, and the meaning is extremely apparent, when you look at the times. When I listen to Bilal - a singer of my generation, sing it here - I listen with a different ear. The fact that the lyrics are still so relevant...and the song is still so haunting let's me know that a CHANGE still needs to come. And I believe it will. Thank you, Dr. King.
Sez Me ... Mohonk
January 13, 2008. Posted by Michael Bourne.Add new comment | Filed under: amateur sleuth, artistic consultant, Books, brener, british barrister, business supporters, caudwell, detective novels, ed mcbain, gahan wilson, great composer, jazzfest, lunceford, martin luther king, mohonk mountain house, murder ink, mystery authors, mystery bookstore, mystery reader, Places and Spaces, Real Life Stories, wbgo, work part time
I've never seen a ghost.
Walking along the corridors, the Mohonk Mountain House looks (and feels spooky) like "The Shining" -- and I've heard that Stephen King was inspired (or spooked) by the hotel. I've been a regular at the "Jazz on the Mountain" festival every (Martin Luther) King weekend since 2000, first as a storyteller, then as a host and performer, now as an artistic consultant -- or something to that effect. Next weekend, the 18th-21st, will be my 9th jazzfest.
Until they invited me, I never knew about the jazzfest. I only knew about the murders...
When I came to New York for real in 1984, I happened to be staying up the block from Murder Ink, the mystery bookstore, back then on West 86th. I'd become friends with the owner, Carol Brener. I'd been a long-time customer, back when I addictively read detective novels. One afternoon, when she needed someone to man the store while she ran errands, Carol called me. I was not busy, and I knew the books enough to answers questions from the customers. I was not working full-time at WBGO yet, and I said okay when she asked me to come work part-time at the store.
Murder Ink was one of the first business supporters to offer discounts to WBGO members. Sy Oliver, the great composer and arranger for Lunceford and Goodman, was a mystery reader. I also got to meet some of my favorite mystery authors, especially Ed McBain and Donald Westlake. I've read more than 60 books by both of them by now. Elmore Leonard, Robert Parker, and Gahan Wilson also came for book signings. I was especially amused meeting Sara Caudwell, a British barrister and author of a series of novels about an amateur sleuth, a British barrister named Hilary whose gender is never apparent. I remember many arguments in the store about Hilary's sex. I felt that she was a lesbian. Sara herself seemed somewhat asexual and smoked a pipe. Sara also was the daughter of the real-life singer in Berlin who inspired the character of Sally Bowles in the Isherwood stories that became the musical "Cabaret" -- or so Carol said.
My favorite customer was a woman who said "I'm going on a scientific project in Antarctica. Could you pick six months worth of mystery books for me?" I could, and I enjoyed doing so, but working in a bookstore was not why I came to New York. There were weeks when I'd jock an overnight shift at WBGO, get back in time to sleep 2-3 hours, then be at the store, and then go back to Newark. I quit working at Murder Ink only when I started working much more on the radio.
I'd only heard of Mohonk back then when someone called the store, at least once a week, wanting to know about the Mohonk mystery weekend. Murder Ink was not involved, but the original owner of the store was one of the mystery lovers who started the weekend. Virtually a live game of Clue, someone gets "murdered" and everyone becomes detectives looking for evidence and interviewing suspects until one of them unmasks whodunit at the climax.
They still have the mystery weekend, upcoming March 14-16 at the hotel, which is on a lake up the mountain from New Paltz. They also have weekends about ice skating, swing dancing, Latin dancing, being Scottish, yoga and meditation, theatre readings, and, among plenty of other delights during the year, an entire weekend about eating chocolate. Andrew Meyer, please note that the latter will be happening February 22-24.
I was first invited to come talk about jazz in January 1999, but I couldn't come until the following year. Since it was soon after Y2K, I was asked to answer the question "Where is jazz going in the Millenium?" My immediate conclusion was "I don't know, but wherever jazz goes is cool." Then I started telling jazz stories, mostly about Dizzy Gillespie, especially about smoking reefer with Dizzy while watching a soap opera. I was apparently a hit and was asked back the next year.
Being on stage like that, getting laughs again from an audience, awakened the dormant actor in me, and rather than talk about the music, I came back to tell stories about my jazz travels. The first year I performed something like a monologue about all the weirdness that happened to me on a WBGO trip to Brazil, including almost drowning in a riptide at Ipanema and getting exorcised by a candomble priest in Bahia. The second year I talked about being there as the world changed in quantum leaps over four years during the jazzfest in Berlin, first going through the Wall and feeling as if I were in a spy novel. Then came glasnost. Then, a few days after we could hear a million people in the streets on the other side of the Wall shouting "Freiheit!" -- "Freedom!" -- the Wall fell, and I still have a chunk of it. Then, one more year later, it was as if the Wall never existed. All the while, the music played on at the jazzfest.
Getting so turned on performing again, I wanted to do something I'd never done. I didn't even know what it could be, but I knew that I wanted to do it with Michael Carvin. He's way more than a great drummer. He's a life force. I called him and said "I have this idea of doing --" and he said "I'm in!" I said "I don't know what it --" and he said "I'm in!" We created what I usually call Duets for Actor and Drummer. I performed songs of Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim but like an actor, not actually singing, although often in tempo with Michael's drums. Songs also from the musical "Kismet" and of Jacques Brel, poems of Stephen Crane, even some Shakespeare. Andrew Meyer and his wife Page came up to see us, and, after all these years of my being a critic on the WBGO Journal, I was finally reviewed myself, by Andrew, on the WBGO website, and a good notice it was. We called our act M2 (Michael Squared) -- which became M2+H when we were joined for several pieces by one of my favorite singers, Hilary Kole, including our performing a scene of Bogart & Bacall.
Hilary and Michael both played several of the jazzfests. I've always booked artists that I like, and I've always brought back artists who've been hits with the audience. One of my favorite years featured all singers, including Roseanna Vitro, Catherine Dupuis, Giacomo Gates, and Mark Murphy. Others who've come over the years have included Eric Reed, Bill Mays, Tom Lellis, Marion Cowings, Renee Manning and Earl McIntyre, Chris Brubeck, Randy Sandke, Sheryl Bailey, and The Drummonds.
Returning this year is Steven Bernstein with the Millenial Territory Orchestra. He's one of the most imaginative musicians I know, and the MTO is always fun. Erik Lawrence plays baritone sax in the MTO and also fronts a group called Hipmotism, which includes Steven playing trumpet. Marya Lawrence will sing with Erik again this year. They're kids of saxophonist Arnie Lawrence and are way talented like their father. I've known them most of their lives, since Marya was 2. Arnie was like a brother to me, so Marya and Erik are my virtual niece and nephew.
We'll also have again this year Dena DeRose and some first-timers, singer Kendra Shank and guitarist Frank Vignola. I booked vibraharpist Joe Locke several years ago, but he came, he played, and he couldn't stay. We like when the artists bring the family and enjoy the whole weekend at Mohonk. This year he'll have his own group and I'll have him also perform with other groups all weekend. We'll end the jazzfest on Monday morning with what I call Parlor Games. All the gigs happen in a parlor, and on the farewell morning I like to mix and match musicians.
We'll kick off the festival Friday evening with The Brazilian Trio (Helio Alves, Nilson Matta, Duduka da Fonseca) and singer Maucha Adnet. I kicked off 2008 with Nilson, Duduka, and Maucha live at The Jazz Standard on the WBGO/NPR New Year's Eve Toast of the Nation. I don't know what the weather will be like over the weekend, but usually it's cold on the mountain. I thought that since it's summer in Rio, opening the festival with musical sunlight from Brazil was ideal.
Being freezing most of the years I've been there, I don't like going outside during the jazzfest. Mohonk is a beautiful castle-like hotel, built in the 19th Century by the same Quaker family that owns it all today. I brought a sketchbook one year and drew it all -- until the ink froze. I much prefer looking outside from the inside. If you have a room facing the lake, you see mostly the mountain, with a little castle at the top. Except for the skating rink, you see pretty much no other signs of civilization. And since the rooms don't have TVs, you really get the feeling of an escape. They also didn't have a bar until a year or so ago, unheard of at a jazz festival, so there's usually some BYOB among the jazzers.
While they have a new spa and oodles of activities beyond the jazzfest, when I'm not listening to music or eating, I'm damn near a pyromaniac. I've never lived anywhere with a fireplace, and I love building the firewood into downright artistic sculptures, then watching everything blaze.
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Championship and Premier Sports
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Before anybody asks silly questions. That should read 'Championship'
Championship programme starts tonight Sheffield v Halifax. Quite a few people have said that they can't afford Sky Sports and Premiership Sports. For what it is worth here is what I do. At the end of the rugby league season I cancel Sky Sports. I leave it 3/4 months until RL starts up again. That 3/4 month's cancellation pays for the Premier Sports fee. I get both for price of one. Of course if you are interested in other televised sports my scheme is no good for you, but if you are a dedicated RL fan in all its forms then that's one way out.
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fev v dews on premier sports sun feb think its 7th
It's the 10th of February 18.00 kick off
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The fancy door on Jim Prouhet's seasonal high tunnel wasn't included in the kit he purchased with funding he received from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). But he does credit NRCS for helping him afford the rest of the structure that allows him an earlier start to his supplemental, subscription-farming business that supplies fresh produce to St. Louis-area families.
Prouhet operates Shared Bounty CSA (community supported agriculture) on his 20-acre farm at Troy. Now in his second year operating the CSA, Prouhet delivers produce to about 40 families who purchase shares of his crops. In exchange for assuming part of Prouhet's farming risk, the shareholders receive about 20 weekly shipments of 17-20 pounds of locally grown produce.
"The high tunnel will help me fill out coolers earlier in the season," Prouhet says. For example, he says that last year his first delivery of tomatoes was July 8, but this year he expects to be able to deliver them around June 1. The tomatoes will join vegetables such as cucumbers, peppers and egg plant later in the summer. The coolers delivered to shareholders" doors now contain earlier crops such as carrots, salad greens, turnips, mixed lettuce and spinach. He also anticipates being able to provide some carrots and greens in the winter with the high tunnel on site.
Prouhet's high tunnel is 30-by-96 feet. The kit cost about $6,000, of which NRCS paid $4,879 through its Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) at the beginning-farmer rate.
"I paid extra so that I could have a larger size," he says. Because Prouhet also has a construction and remodeling business, he was able to add a few other amenities to his high tunnel, such as the fancy door and larger windows.
Mark Palm, NRCS resource conservationist in Lincoln County, says Prouhet is typical of a new type of customer NRCS is able to serve with the addition of high tunnels to its list of EQIP-eligible practices.
"He's not like the traditional farmers we have mostly worked with in the past," Palm says. "High tunnels have brought in more non-traditional customers than any program we've had, by far."
Prouhet says the NRCS assistance allowed him to construct a larger high tunnel than he would have constructed without the assistance. He says he appreciates the larger high tunnel, which allows him to bring his tractor inside it to work the ground.
It's not big enough to grow the quantity of food needed to fill the 100 CSA coolers that Prouhet says would be necessary to support a family, but he says it's large enough to help supplement his construction business and provide a common interest for his family. His wife Ramona helps a lot, and their son Christopher prepares an electronic newsletter each week to let customers know what vegetables to expect that week. The newsletter includes recipes featuring those vegetables. Prouhet also maintains a website (sharedbounty.com) and has been posting short videos of his operation on Youtube because his CSA customers "like to see what's going on out here."
Prouhet says his customers also appreciate knowing where their food comes from and in knowing that it doesn't contain chemicals. Prouhet says his operation is not certified organic, but he does not use chemicals.
NRCS State Conservationist J.R. Flores says Prouhet's use of a high tunnel in his operation is an example of what USDA intended with its Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food campaign. Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food is a USDA-wide effort to strengthen local and regional food systems and the connection between farmers and consumers.
"High tunnels are well suited for people in close proximity to cities who don't have access to large acreages to grow agricultural products," Flores says. "They help small-scale farmers produce the healthy, locally grown crops that an increasing number of people desire. A secondary benefit is that more people are gaining a better understanding of where their food comes from."
Prouhet credits NRCS for providing the financial assistance, and also for keeping the process simple.
"The process was very easy," he says. "There were several trips to the NRCS office to sign papers, but that's about it. Mark (Palm) even brought the contract out to the farm for me to sign."
Prouhet says high tunnels are not difficult to install, so people need not be in the construction business to have one. But if they want fancy doors on theirs, it doesn't hurt.
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Hi, I'm Antonella form Italy. My daughter has nearly 3 months (she was born the 8 of February) and now her weight is 5,240 kg (when we left the hospital her weight was 3,270 kg).
In the last week she gained only 120 grams then. I'm breastfeeding her happily, but I fear she's latching not properly. At the beginning I was full of supply, but now my breasts is not so full. She sleeps at night ALWAYS from 10pm until 3am, and from 3,30am until 6,30am. From 7am until around 9am we co-sleep. Tonight I pumped milk, and I was able to pump 70 grams (only? enough?)
During the day I nurse her very frequently, she stays on my arms nearly all the time: despite this, she sucks a little bit and then sleeps a little bit, then she sucks again and so on.
What I noticed is that she puts her fist in the mouth and she appears very frustrated for a sort of pain in the mouth: is it possible is a matter of teeths?
I feel sad for that, because I'm completely in love with her, I have a crush for her :-) and I don't want to give up...
Could you tell me if you think she's growing well or not? And what can I do to increase my milk supply?
Thank you and sorry for my English vocabulary on that issue... usually I speak in English about human rights protection and international justice!


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last game only 3 players was scoring MELO JR and Chandler with 10 pts
others was invisible and do u think we can compete with Spurs which are playing full roster and have average 50% shooting
we need a miracle like Nets vs OKC
CRAZY❽S' MiX For an erogenous 2013, here at KO.
In our last encounter with the Spurs, it was Raymond Felton's penetration game that dismantled the Spurs hopes of withstanding a furious Knicks comeback.
With Felton out, an exhausted Jason Kidd, a seemingly less reliable perimeter shot team-wide, and some questionable defence, will the Knicks be able to outlast the ever crafty Spurs?
FACT: Chris Copelands dreads each contain enough friction to throw every woman in every fat fighters, weight loss center, dietary clinic etc. in to an orgasmic squirting frenzy. Don't believe me? F*ck you.
Though New York's front office has reportedly worked diligently to move him elsewhere, the MSG faithful were happy to see him come home, as Stoudemire was met with a standing ovation when he checked in at the 3:31 mark of the opening quarter: Unfortunately, the rest of the evening didn't go quite so smoothly for Stoudemire, who somewhat expectedly looked rusty on both ends of the floor, clearly didn't have his legs or wind back after so much time on the shelf and offered relatively little in the Knicks' 105-100 loss to the Blazers.
Shortly after entering the game, Stoudemire got his first touch on the left block, defended by Portland power forward LaMarcus Aldridge, and promptly turned the ball over by stepping out of bounds while trying to make a post move on Aldridge along the baseline. (Here's hoping Hakeem wasn't watching.) He got his first shot up two possessions later, hoisting a jumper from the left elbow that went wanting ... as did his next four shots, leaving him scoreless in 9 1/2 minutes of first-half action.
Things didn't go much better on the defensive end, where he routinely looked lost, especially on a second-quarter pick-and-roll possession on which he completely forgot about Blazers center J.J. Hickson, who cut behind Stoudemire unmolested to the rim to dunk a lob thrown by Portland reserve guard Ronnie Price. Not that Stoudemire was alone in his defensive lapses Hickson torched the Knicks' frontline for 18 points (on 9 for 10 shooting) and eight rebounds in the first half, while sterling rookie point guard Damian Lillard toyed with older defenders Jason Kidd and Pablo Prigioni en route to 12 points and five assists at intermission.
Stoudemire made his sixth shot, scoring his first points of the season at the 3:11 mark of the third quarter on a layup generated by rolling to the rim after setting a screen near the right elbow for Carmelo Anthony. Two minutes later, he sagged along the baseline as J.R. Smith penetrated the paint, drew the defense and dished it off, setting up a big Amar'e dunk over Blazers rookie Victor Claver:
Playing on a minutes restriction as Knicks coach Mike Woodson looks to slowly work the 30-year-old former All-Star into the rotation, Stoudemire finished with six points on 3 for 8 shooting, one rebound, one block and two turnovers in just under 17 minutes. Rust aside, he offered glimpses of an intriguing pick-and-roll pairing with Prigioni on the second unit and, at times, with Anthony in potential starting/closing lineups if nothing else, he draws more defensive attention than nominal starting power forward Kurt Thomas while resembling the unaware defensive liability NBA fans have come to know over the past decade.
Are you a believer? I, Crazy❽s, am not. Apologies.
last game only 3 players was scoring MELO JR and Chandler with 10 pts
others was invisible and do u think we can compete with Spurs which are playing full roster and have average 50% shooting
we need a miracle like Nets vs OKC
hope our team shows up tonight. Going to be hard to win this one without Felton. Novack, Kidd and Brewer need to step up this game
We simply CAN NOT lose this game!
Spurs are playing they're 4th game in 5 nights and are the AWAY team.
Knicks have lost 2 in a row but are certainly fresh from having the weekend off.
Marcus Camby is almost certain to start alongside Tyson Chandler tonight.
I predict W in this one. We have been playing down to competition lately, but i think our players understand who they are dealing with tonight.
Should play D for 48 min. with playoff intensity.
Coach, can you please run a few plays for Novak. If not, dont play him at all.
i dont hate Spurs they are good
but look @ this
2 more hrs till tip off.....errrrr
We beat Miami in Mia w/out Melo beating The Spurs at home without Felton would hardly be considered a "miracle"
They took Melo out of the first game and we still beat them!
Play hard keep T.O.'s down and play D and that's the formula for beating any team even the Mighty Spurs!!!
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
-Jeff Van Gundy
Yes but we played TOP defense then, now we play worst defense in league. Fall down from 1st to 15th.


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So my LO turned 5 months about 10 days ago. We weren't planning to introduce solids to him until 6 months. He is breastfed (no formula) from the breast and from bottles. (I work full-time.)
The past two weeks, he has been waking up every single hour after bedtime (8:30PM) SCREAMING. I try to nurse him back to sleep and he's just PISSED and he won't take the nipple. Last week, we made a bit of progress by introducing a good routine, which included music, rocking, nursing for a few minutes, feeding a 4 ounce bottle and then nursing again (he's a distracted nurser and he's not getting a full 4 ounces before bed so we're bottle feeding him. I pump immediately after he drifts off to sleep.). This put him to sleep for at least 4 hours and then he'd wake up one more time before morning. Perfect! Or so I thought...Saturday comes and we're right back to the same situation...despite the full routine....last night I slept a total of 1 hour if you add all my "naps" between wakings up .... It's killing me. I can't function on 1 hour of sleep at a full-time job.
In an act of desperation, my husband thinks we should try to introduce solids to him tonight to see if the fullness helps him to sleep through most of the night. My lack of sleep is becoming life threatening now since I find myself falling asleep behind the wheel often...and nodding off at my desk at work...and he just wants to get him to sleep so I have some relief and get some sleep.
My question is: Will the introduction of solids really help him sleep longer? Or is that a young wives tale???
For the record, I've tried side-laying position and he screams everytime I lay him on the bed. (He seems partial to inclined surfaces and seems to HATE laying down flat.)


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We know that many people in Whatcom County live on their mobile phones these days, so it's important for the library to be easily accessible whenever and wherever people need access to our staff and rich resources. Our mobile app puts library information just one click away with much faster access than going through a browser. We encourage everyone to take advantage of this new way to use the library by downloading our app today.
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Today, I took my new girlfriend to meet my grandmother. We were drinking coffee when my gran leaned to one side and let out a huge fart. Proud of herself, she added, "That one didn't pay his rent on time!" Coffee came out of my girlfriend's nose. FML
by jay ze punk / 01/29/2013 at 2:56pm / France (Rhone-Alpes) / Love
Today, after much self-doubt and awkwardness, I learned that I look amazing in a little black dress. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to tell my wife. FML
by ohfuckwaffles / 01/29/2013 at 12:28am / United States (Washington) / Intimacy
Today, my sister's boyfriend called while she was out. The second I answered he tried to have phone sex with me. When I explained to him that I wasn't my sister and that we just sound the same on the phone, he replied, "Don't care, let's keep going." FML
by Awkward... / 01/29/2013 at 4:40am / United States (Texas) / Intimacy
Today, I saw a lady who had fainted. I ran over to help, only to find out that she was unstable and had a knife in her hand. She was pointing it at me, and growled threateningly every time I tried to move away. It took the cops an hour to defuse the situation. FML
by thegirlofthedad / 01/29/2013 at 4:48am / India (Maharashtra) / Miscellaneous
Today, I blew a huge gum bubble. My cat was on my lap and decided to shove her face in the bubble. There's gum all over her, and I still have scars from the last time I tried bathe her. FML
by Anonymous / 01/29/2013 at 12:41pm / United States (Iowa) / Animals
Today, I found out that my roommate has been switching my protein powder with chocolate milk mix and brown sugar. Since I work out frequently, I've been consuming large amounts of this and have gained at least 10 pounds of fat. His reason? I turned his bookbag inside out. Once. FML
by fatty milkshakes / 01/29/2013 at 5:56pm / United States / Health
Today, I jokingly asked my girlfriend if she thinks I have a big package. She replied that she didn't want to upset me and get into another fight. FML
by notsobig / 01/29/2013 at 5:39pm / United States / Intimacy
Today, my boyfriend tried to hypnotize me into breaking up with him. FML
by theawfulpresent / 01/29/2013 at 7:28pm / United States (Maryland) / Love
Today, during a date, I discovered that if I cough with my mouth closed, snot will spray from my nose all over the place like some kind of mucus cannon. FML
by Anonymous / 01/29/2013 at 4:23pm / United States (North Carolina) / Love
Today, my fiancé's mother came up to me and told me she loves that I stuck with my soon-to-be husband despite his history and condition. I have no idea what she's talking about, and she refuses to tell me. FML
by Aspireworks / 01/29/2013 at 5:46pm / United States / Love
Today, I went to the grocery store with my boyfriend. I wasn't feeling well so I wasn't paying too much attention to his usual antics. Since he thought I was ignoring him, he decided to grab me roughly by the stomach to give me a hug. I ended up puking right in the middle of the aisle. FML
by oh no / 01/29/2013 at 9:51am / Canada (Quebec) / Health
Today, my mother "checked in" to rehab on Facebook. The same rehab that told her to hand over her smartphone. The dumbass was smart enough to steal my phone and dumb enough to get it confiscated. FML
by motherless / 01/29/2013 at 10:18pm / Australia (New South Wales) / Health
Today, the last customer of the night shift handed me their money along with a wad of their hair. FML
by imwithapples22 / 01/29/2013 at 11:39am / United States / Work
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No question, there has been a satisfying sense of what-goes-around-comes-around pleasure in the downfall of resigned Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, as there is when almost any politician is made an object of public disgrace.
Spitzer was notorious as a confrontational, even bullying kind of character who as New York's attorney general sometimes stretched old laws and abused due process to score political points and ruin peoples' lives.
As we peer more deeply into the circumstances surrounding the outing of Spitzer as an apparent serial user of prostitutes, however, we're struck by the fact that most of the laws used to bring down Spitzer shouldn't have been laws in the first place.
There's also reason to wonder whether Spitzer was targeted in part because he was a prominent politician, and perhaps even because he was a prominent Democratic politician.
Our view is that there is no sound justification for laws prohibiting prostitution in a free society, so long as the transactions are between consenting adults.
And the 1910 Mann Act, which makes it a federal crime to transport people across state lines for "immoral purposes" and which some observers believe Spitzer may have violated, is an extension of central government power the founders would never have believed to be authorized by a Constitution whose main purpose was to limit government power.
Leave those topics for further discussion, however. The actions that apparently brought Spitzer to federal attention had to do with his bank reporting to the feds "suspicious activity" among different bank accounts of his own.
The law requires banks to report transactions of $10,000 or more, and was amended to require reporting of several transactions within a short period of time that could be viewed as "structuring," or a way to get around the $10,000 reporting requirement.
Those laws were passed with the ostensible purpose of discouraging or identifying illicit drug dealers or traffickers. Leave aside the fact that the "war on drugs" has done a great deal more harm to society than the prohibited drugs themselves. These financial reporting laws allow government to invade the privacy of ordinary Americans to an unhealthy degree, and have ensnared quite a few innocent Americans in legal tangles that were entirely unnecessary.
Spitzer is heir to a large real estate fortune — some media accounts put it at $500 million. So it might not be out of line for him to move $80,000 (the estimated amount he spent on ladies of the evening) among his personal accounts as readily as some of us might move a few hundred dollars from savings to checking a few days before the mortgage was due.
The IRS agents informed of Spitzer's transactions are said to have been worried that the activity might have reflected something like a blackmail scheme. Maybe. Or perhaps they were more intrigued by who was triggering the bank reports than by the amounts involved. At any rate they turned the case over to the Public Integrity Section of the federal Justice Department, which launched a full-court-press investigation involving undercover informants, wiretaps, and a "sting" operation (which turned up nothing) two weeks before the liaison we've all heard about.
It's worth noting that the feds showed little interest in the customers of the "D.C. Madam" case last fall; it took media investigations to get the customer list, which included Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter. But the investigators in this case couldn't wait to leak the name of "Client No. 9."
This raises the question of whether this was a politically inspired investigation of a prominent Democrat with presidential aspirations by a Republican-controlled Justice Department. There's not enough evidence to prove this, but there's enough suggestive material that a congressional investigation might be warranted.


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James Monroe Dailey
James Monroe Dailey, 75, of Marietta, died Wednesday (Jan. 16, 2013) at Marietta Memorial Hospital.
He was born May 7, 1937, in Marietta, to Donald L. and Ada Marie Barth Dailey. James has worked at WASCO and was well known throughout the community.
He is survived by a niece, Bonnie Dailey (Jeff Eddy) of Marietta, three nephews, Bob (Marlene) Dailey of New Castle, Ind., Randy Dailey (Bev McFadden) of Waterford and Michael (Ashley) Dailey of Caldwell, four great nephews, three great nieces and one great great nephew.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Donna Dailey and a brother, Larry Dailey.
The family would like to thank Havar, Inc. and the Washington County Board of Developmental Disabilities. A special thanks to Carol McKitrick and her family for all their loving care, and for always watching over him.
There will be a memorial service held on Monday (Jan. 21, 2013) at 11 a.m. at the Marietta Chapel of Cawley & Peoples Funeral Home, with visitation for one hour prior.
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"I can tell you, if we have a case where there really is overwhelming evidence that a player committed a violation of the program, our fight is going to be that they make a deal," Weiner told the Daily News. "We're not interested in having players with overwhelming evidence that they violated the [drug] program out there. Most of the players aren't interested in that. We'd like to have a clean program."
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun are two of about 20 players being looked at for their dealings with Biogenesis, a closed Florida clinic linked to the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs.
Weiner told reporters Tuesday that any suspensions stemming from the investigation likely will be served in 2014, assuming the suspension heads to an arbitrator.
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Al trauwig said the Magic had a 52-30 when they were actually 59-23. Anyways, hope we win tonight. Things I want to see tonight.
Gallinari can't play scared, it seems he's thinking too much. Get him the ball in the post and play nice and loose.
Harrington pass the damn ball.
Duhon you're not allowed to celebrate after a made basket after going 25 for 160 from the field, lol.
Lets shoot 20 threes instead of 40. That is too much and is ridiculous.


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No one tires of delicious latkes on Hanukkah but some of us do tire of making them. These latkes are terrific fresh out of the pan and with the following freezing tips are perfect reheated (so make lots of them and enjoy them all week). Check out our Holiday section for other latke recipes and more Hanukkah food and craft ideas.
Classic Potato Latkes
4 potatoes, peeled
1 large onion, grated
½ tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon seltzer
4 eggs
3 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
Fresh ground pepper to taste
Vegetable oil
Applesauce (see holiday section for recipe)
Sour Cream (optional or use Chobani plain yogurt as a healthy alternative)
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Grate the potatoes, using a processor or a fine shredder. Immediately transfer them to a large bowl and add the onion, lemon juice, eggs, flour, seltzer, salt, and pepper to taste. Mix well.
In a large heavy skillet, heat 1/8 inch of oil. With a tablespoon, spoon the batter into the hot oil and flatten the latkes with the back of the spoon. Cover the pan with the splatter screen to prevent the grease from splattering all over the counter tops and cook top. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes a side, turning only once, until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and then serve immediately with applesauce, sour cream, or dipping sauce.
- Cool completely before freezing in any container
- Line a box or loaf pan with wax paper
- Place latkes on their side, not flat, this will keep them from tasting greasy when reheated.
- Undercook your latkes just a bit. If you cook them too much they will burn when reheated.
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New York Times best-selling author James Rollins takes you to the edge of modern medicine, genetics, and technology, revealing the next evolutionary leap forward: Immortality - a future conceived through the monstrous ingenuity of man....
Galilee, 1025. A cunning Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure: the Bachal Isu - the staff of Jesus Christ - a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power that will forever change humanity if unleashed.
A millennium later, Somali pirates hijack a yacht off the coast off the Horn of Africa, kidnapping a young pregnant American woman and brutally killing her husband. Painter Crowe and his SIGMA team are enlisted for the top secret rescue mission. The kidnapped woman is Amanda Gant-Bennett, the daughter of U.S. President James Gant. Crowe is more than a little suspicious that the kidnapping masks a far more nefarious plot.
In the field, Commander Gray Pierce leads his small team of operatives into the treacherous African jungle to find the missing woman. But what should be a straightforward rescue turns into a fiery ambush and a deadly act of betrayal. As Commander Pierce and his team discover, the hostage is a pawn in a shattering act of terrorism with dark and shocking repercussions. And the danger is only beginning....
Performed by Peter Jay Fernandez.
©2012 James Czajkowski (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
"Another Sigma Win!"
I love to go back and listen to books I've already read because it never fails that there will be a little piece that I may have missed the first go around that I will catch the second time.
Saying Bloodline kept me on edge would be easy, but the edge kept moving! You think that you are on the cusp of understanding it all and then....
The transitions between male and female voices would seem like it would be difficult but Peter Jay Fernandez manages excellently with his change in enunciation and voice inflection that nails each character individually.
I loved the new perspective we received from Cane's. How interesting to hear how such a warrior can perceive others as well as himself.
Keep dishing it up, Mr. Rollins. And don't be afraid to spin off your newest characters into their own world of Sigma missions.
"Deja Da Vinci"
Giving a bad review is almost like having to swat your new little puppy for peeing on the carpet--it's so hard. I held off until now because I want the space used for good reviews that encourage readers -- unless someone else experiences the same thing I did. (I like to look at a person's review history to see whether they give fair, consistently good or bad, respectful reviews.) If I think someone with similar reading tastes to mine might benefit from a low, mostly negative review, I write. Sometimes my low reviews are for just plain old stinkers, others - just because the experience was so disappointing, in spite of decent writing. Bloodline falls into the latter category; not really a stinker, just a re-cycled disappointment. If an author is going to use a familiar plot--he owes it to his audience to add something really big and new.
The two reviews available while I'm writing this couldn't be different, and I think both are accurate for a specific audience...how's that for waivering? If you haven't read a lot of books with this similar plot, like the kind of right-out-of-the-box action familiar in this genre, can't get enough of the formulaic military vs. technology, here's your book. It sounded great... Infact, every time I read the publisher's summary I wanted to try again! But, several tries later, I had to "swat the puppy." It may be that I'm jaded, saturated with Templar Knights and religious relics, secret opperatives and mad scientists; Bloodline was just an amalgamation of so many books that have already trampled this plot into the dust. Rarely do I not care for a narrator; Fernandez did nothing to psyche me up for this promise of "shattering," "shocking," and "treacherous" action--instead he sounded already worn out by it all. Bloodline was not for me; but that doesn't mean there isn't an audience.
It's an OK listen if you need to fill the time. Some of it quite interesting but it went on for way too long.
Liked the camaraderie and the action and back story. The story really didn't need all the crab robots-overdone and silly.
Easy listening voice
Yes, but only once.
Please ask folks who must read medical terms to seek the proper usage. It hurts my head when they don't. C-P-A-P is not ever used as individual letters. It's C-PAP. Any one using a CPAP machine for sleep apnea or medical personnel as in this case neonatal staff, will catch it and wince. Trust me, that's a large audience.
"Committment and conspiracy"
We revisit some of Rollin's favourite team members, and learn more about their relationships and background, as well as meet some new characters.
We also get introduced to some new nasty ones.
There is some now almost obligatory reference to "nano technology" that is somewhat unecessary, but overall, its a fun ride.
Of course. He is good with technical jargon and action, as well as his usual conspiracy stuff.
No,too sprawling and violent.
You'll like it , but it takes some time to get rolling. Stick with it,and you will enjoy I suspect. Id did.
"Up to Sigma Force snuff"
Lots of adventure, twists and turns, all the things one might look for in a take-your-mind-off-reality secret mission novel.
"Pretty darn good"
I really enjoyed this book. Saishan (spell?) connection to the blood line was an interesting shift in the sigma series. One review I read about the book that made me aprehensive compared this book to the Dan Brown book called the Da'Vinci Code. Other than the Templers, there is no simularity to that book. As always, Mr. Rollins does a fantastic job with character development and making a common sense case for the plot lines. I can't wait for his next historical/science based fiction book.
"Superbly Written Again"
Here we are at Sigma Force book 8 and I am still interested. It is not like James takes the same outline and uses again. Wait a minute thats what he did. Some big problem arises and a secret agency named sigma investigates. Painter Crow that boss man has to come up with a way to save Sigma Force from the politicians. In every book Painter finds a way to barely get by. The agents of Sigma face their problems head on and always spend half the book getting their butt's handed to them. Finally though good wins out and Sigma saves the day. After 8 books this outline is old, right? NO sir, I still get surprised when the perfect plan fails and Sigma must start again. I still fear the worst when all seems lost and jump for joy when the heros come through. I should just face reality James Rollins is a good author that writes a good quality book. If you have not read any of the Sigma Force novels, what are you waiting for.
"Just Riviting"
Rollins is a master of the pen, but this book was just remarkable. There were multiple climactic plot lines, surprises. There was great information conveyed regarding the use of military war dogs, I really loved that aspect of this book.
I fully recommend this book to any readers of the genre
"Great Story and Narration"
I have no idea. Personal preference. I like the audio version a lot. This narrator is pretty good. Not as talented as the guy that narrates the Brad Thor books.
Full Black, books by Steve Berry and Brad Thor
He was fair.
The story was pretty good. Learning who the villian(s) are was instrumental, especially since part of this carried over from the previous novel.
Karen L. Syed, Reader/Author/Publisher
"Sigma Rocks"
One of my favorite things about this entire series is the narrator. He has the talent to bring each and every character to life and gives them their own distinct personality. James Rollins is one of very few authors who can make the story an actual character. Not sure how to explain that, but every aspect of his books play an integral role.
Sigma books always keep me hanging on. Rollins takes mundane facts and weaves them into interesting tales. From history to mysteries, every book has its own special roadmap that makes the journey worth every minute invested.
This narrator has piqued my interest and while the only books I've heard him read are there Rollins books, I will definitely be looking for more.
My only problem with this book was Rollin's excessive explanations of medical aspects and the historical points. In previous books he gives us what we need to know, but in terms that most people can easily understand. I found myself a bit intimidated by the details and wanting to skip ahead.
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Jane Ann Witten
Jane Ann Witten, 65, of Marietta, died Thursday (April 4, 2013) surrounded by her family and friends. She was born on Feb. 15, 1948, in Parkersburg the daughter of John and Ruth Phillips Roberts.
She graduated from St. Marys, W.Va. High School and was a member of the St. Marys Catholic Church in Marietta.
She is survived by her husband of 45 years, Ray Witten; and one son, Bill Witten (Mary) of Charleston, W.Va.; and one daughter, Susan Malone (Buddy) of Williamstown. Also surviving are four grandchildren, Tiffany Witten, John Witten, Evan Owens and Bailey Owens; and two best friends, Mary Roberts and Debbie Barron.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a grandson, Derek LaBarre; and a brother, Kenny Roberts.
Funeral services will be held on Monday (April 8, 2013) at 10 a.m. at the Hadley Funeral Home Reno Chapel, 1021 Pike St. with Msgr. John Michael Campbell officiating.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday (April 7) from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.
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