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Reading about the United States Justice Department investigation of Ferguson, Missouri has me thinking about what happened to Leonardo da Vinci when he was a young man. The Justice Department investigation has decided that, after the botched investigation, the evidence was too contradictory to support a criminal prosecution of the Ferguson, Missouri officer who shot Michael Brown. Instead, they are going after the City of Ferguson, for the way its criminal justice system operated. DOJ is … [Read more...]
If you are visually oriented, the roots of the controversy around Leonardo da Vinci's alleged identity as a homosexual pedophile are in this fifteen minute YouTube video: http://youtu.be/wCLNCsBYQPA The basic reason history has labelled da Vinci a homosexual pedophile is covered in the video. I also allude to two secondary reasons: bad biographers (one of whom was undoubtedly a pedophile with ulterior motives for accusing da Vinci) and the fact that he was undoubtedly close to two … [Read more...]
Plot Summary: Da Vinci Detects Murder and Sex: A Mystery of Homosexual Persecution in Renaissance Italy Featuring Its Greatest Artists
Thousands of historical murder mystery fans have enjoyed A Borgia Daughter Dies (4 of 5 stars with 150+ reviews on Amazon!), which tells the true history of the Borgia family and of Leonardo da Vinci's early life, with Leonardo as principal detective. Now Leonardo is back, forced by his real-life patron Niccolo Machiavelli to pursue killer(s) and re-live his arrest during the witch hunt for homosexuals conducted by Florence's diabolical Office of the Night. My lawyer friends may be as shocked … [Read more...]
Lucrezia Borgia's life: second half
Lucrezia Borgia spent the second half her life in Ferrara. After two marriages that ended in bizarre and terrible ways--as you will see if you watch the Showtime series-- her last marriage to the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso I (or Alfonso II if you count how many husbands she had named Alfonso), was relatively tranquil. In fact, her life had a fairy tale quality. She lived in this giant brick castle, complete with a moat and dungeons underneath. (There would not normally be ice on the … [Read more...]
The Real History of the Borgias
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5 Easy Pieces – Recycled Book Art
As part of a series called 5 Easy Pieces, we'll be gathering our favorite upcycled, re-purposed, vintage, and handmade stuff from around the web for you to buy or make yourself. So stay tuned for quick lists of 5 must-haves and get ready to wish you had thought of that.
Delicate Waves
Old catalogs and phonebooks take on a new life in this delicate sculpture. Made in France, this piece of art ($39) is comprised of careful folding techniques. For more book art sculptures, visit Etsy.com/shop/Abadova.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The story of an Irish-American family during the turn of the century comes to life. Detailed 3-D sculptures ($125) are made from the pages of the 1940's novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. For more depicted novels, visit Etsy.com/shop/MYARTNOOK?auto=format.
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When Mary Davey looks back on her long history of public service, perhaps her favorite accomplishment is helping create the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Q & A: Questions and Anthology Answers with Christina Fugate
As an occasional contributor to anthologies (and perhaps a future anthology editor), I always welcome the chance to talk to those who have put together a popular collection.
Christina Fugate edited The Mothering Heights Manual for Motherhood: Volume 1 , released in May and recently held the number one spot in the mothering category at Amazon. Christina is a filmmaker, columnist, blogger and (need I say this?) a mother. I picked her brain just before she pulled the computer plug for a few weeks to enjoy some California summertime with her husband and children.
LR: Any topics or themes in the essay submissions which surprised you?
Christina: The use of the word perfection, over 96 times.
LR: Anything which you expected to see, but didn't?
Christina: I was surprised more moms didn't write about working at jobs outside of the home and how one juggles (or not) family life and personal needs.
LR: How many submissions did you receive?
Christina: I received over 100 submissions; 28 essays are featured, and I also invited submissions from several poets.
LR: When you decided which essays to include, what were the main criteria?
Christina: I looked for a unique voice and point-of-view in the essay. Sometimes that was in a form of a story, list or anecdotes. Some of the decisions were not mine but those of the previous publisher I was originally working with on the book. Once I took over the project, I did not have time to re-edit the manuscript and make the Mother's Day deadline.
LR: Tell me about the title and subtitle.
Christina: The "manual" idea came from the fact that my husband has car manuals all around our house. One day, I thought to myself, I need a manual to tell me what to do with parenting. The subtitle came from the question posed for the essay contest and my continual griping about doing laundry and cooking.
LR: You turned around the print anthology pretty quickly. And you also ran, concurrently, an online essay contest.
Christina: This was a lot of work and a natural diet. (I dropped poundage which is now back on.) I would never advise someone to host a contest, collect the entries, edit and publish a book in five months.
LR: I love the book's trailer. What's on tap for promotion in the coming weeks?
Christina: I am taking most of August off to re-group. This has been an exciting but stressful time. I had an intervention from my husband who has insisted I put my laptop away and spend time offline relaxing. But I am doing some private book events and a reading at Joseph Beth Booksellers in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky on August 23.
LR: How can contributors to anthologies help to promote the book and themselves?
Christina: They need to toot their horn more! Send a copy of the book to their local newspapers and radio. It is so hard to get published, but an anthology can open a lot of doors.
LR: Tell us about your next project.
Christina: I am finishing up Transforming Matter, a film I have been working on for four years. It tells the story of poet Donna Hilbert and her struggle to find love and happiness after the sudden death of her husband.
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- Michelle O'Neil said...
This is a great interview. I admire Ms. Fugate for her accomplishments and for unplugging her computer!
Twitch, twitch at the very thought.
You would make an AWESOME anthology editor.
P.S. Thanks for your ideas today. They will help me immensley!
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BMC has a golden opportunity to take a different track with Numara than it has for past mid-market acquisitions (see Magic Solutions), and it must do so if it hopes to build on this one and drive new revenue for the long haul. Numara enjoys a massive installed base of customers with its Track-It and Footprints product lines in the small and mid-market. They have been hard at work rounding out their portfolio to include Client Management (software management, systems management, and OS management), and other areas. Numara has been on a journey to re-invent itself and has been succeeding. Further, we believe that the culture of the Numara organization and BMC's will align well, as long as Numara is given the autonomy and investment they need to grow their portfolio and momentum in the field.
BMC Will Need Time To Work
Numara customers should expect relatively little change in daily operations for the first few months, as BMC aligns the organizations. If history is a reliable guide, BMC will typically give a larger acquisition such as this the opportunity to remain mostly intact, and inject key people and processes to help align the acquired organization with the BMC culture and ways of doing business. If this holds true for Numara, customers should see it as a positive step.
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Step into my office, fellow I&O professional, and join me on a brief but rich journey of imagination. Imagine you're a business jet sales sales rep. Now imagine that this morning you went to the garage where you keep your company car and for the second time in a month, the key fob won't open the doors and you have no other way in. You have a big airplane deal on the table with the head of an investment bank in the city in 1 hour, and it's a 50 minute drive. Just then…as if to mock your dilemma…a voice from the car says "I'm sorry Dave, you do not have access to this car. Would you like to request access from the car's owner?" "IT'S MY CAR", you shout! You think of your boss and what she's going to say: "You should have allowed more time, Dave. Remember, YOU are responsible for your quota. Everyone has the same challenges. It's up to YOU to think ahead."
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PlanetOne Skybox at Phoenix Open Attracts Agents, Vendors
If you're a golfer who also happens to be a PlanetOne agent or vendor, then the Phoenix Open is probably on your "bucket list." And if you are one of 50 who received an exclusive, all-expense-paid invitation to attend the 2011 tournament as Ted Schuman's guest last month, then you might be ready to die and go to golf heaven.
But for the rest of the telecom agent community, there's always next year. That's because PlanetOne has opted to include the Phoenix Open on the 2012 list of VIP events hosted by the Scottsdale-based master agency, and they're putting their own spin on the ball.
Capitalizing on the company's "We Win Together" promotional theme, all PlanetOne agents who make or break a $20,000 new-sales threshold will automatically qualify to attend the "Greatest Show on Grass" next year, slated for Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2012.
"This was our first year to participate as a company," said Ted Schuman, PlanetOne president and founder. "We were given the opportunity to purchase a skybox on the illustrious 16th hole, and the four -day experience blew us all away."
The 2011 Phoenix Open was held Feb. 3-6 this year, and is a 72-hole PGA Tour event. It is broadcast nationally by The Golf Channel and viewed by millions.
Mike Reardon, president of Pro Vision Communications in Phoenix, is a PlanetOne agent. He's also a long time member of the Thunderbirds, the charitable organization that hosts the Phoenix Open.
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Ohio Stadium has employed an innovative recycling program for several years. In Autumn 2011 Ohio State is taking bold steps to advance the program further. Ohio Stadium is the largest stadium in the world to attempt to move toward Zero Waste, which refers to diverting 90% of trash from the landfill by recycling and composting. Bins for recycling and composting will be available throughout the stadium and all items purchased inside the stadium will be either recyclable or compostable to achieve Zero Waste.
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Son of God
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17. On Infinites In Geometry, And Sir Isaac Newton's
The labyrinth and abyss of infinity is also a new course Sir Isaac Newton has
gone through, and we are obliged to him for the clue, by whose assistance we
are enabled to trace its various windings.
Descartes got the start of him also in this astonishing invention. He advanced
with mighty steps in his geometry, and was arrived at the very borders of infinity,
but went no farther. Dr. Wallis, about the middle of the last century, was the first
who reduced a fraction by a perpetual division to an infinite series.
The Lord Brouncker employed this series to square the hyperbola.
Mercator published a demonstration of this quadrature; much about which time
Sir Isaac Newton, being then twenty-three years of age, had invented a general
method, to perform on all geometrical curves what had just before been tried on
the hyperbola.
It is to this method of subjecting everywhere infinity to algebraical calculations,
that the name is given of differential calculations or of fluxions and integral
calculation. It is the art of numbering and measuring exactly a thing whose
existence cannot be conceived.
And, indeed, would you not imagine that a man laughed at you who should
declare that there are lines infinitely great which form an angle infinitely little?
That a right line, which is a right line so long as it is finite, by changing infinitely
little its direction, becomes an infinite curve; and that a curve may become
infinitely less than another curve?
That there are infinite squares, infinite cubes, and infinites of infinites, all greater
than one another, and the last but one of which is nothing in comparison of the
All these things, which at first appear to be the utmost excess of frenzy, are in
reality an effort of the subtlety and extent of the human mind, and the art of
finding truths which till then had been unknown.
This so bold edifice is even founded on simple ideas. The business is to measure
the diagonal of a square, to give the area of a curve, to find the square root of a
number, which has none in common arithmetic. After all, the imagination ought
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I love public holidays. I don't like how I get shafted by work (ending one contract on the Friday, starting the next one on the Tuesday meaning I don't get paid for today, although everyone else does) but hey - it does mean a four day week, so eight days of work and then we're off for a weekend in Melbourne. So why do I like public holidays? Seagulls.
Actually I adore the day before a public holiday because that's when I see the human seagulls out in full effect buying cheap meats.
Over at the local Woolies here in Norwood they always run the meat out on a public holiday at about 4:30pm - they close at 5pm, and they either have to dump the lot or take it home. And as everyone knows, you don't eat your own food if only because you know exactly what it is and no-one willingly eats guinea pig, rat or pigeon labeled as chicken. So out it all goes.
When this happens the flocks come in - the flocks of seagulls. They'll hover around the sales guy who walks along with a large set of price reduction stickers and a marker pen, and wait, not very patiently mind you, for him to whack the sticker on the meat with that magical half price. If he doesn't move fast enough the seagulls get shitty. They'll pick the choice cuts they want up and move it to an area directly in front of where he's working. This means that he'll get to their cuts first, mark them down and off they'll go.
Oh if only it were that simple. You see the flocks don't move on that easily. Like throwing a chip to a seagull, these little old creatures will stay there, waiting for that magical roast of horse labeled beef that'll be marked down from $20 to $2. It never happens, but they'll wait for it.
The best part? They fight. Like all territorial birds they'll fight for their turf, their standing and their food. I've seen these dear old blue rinsed Ray Martin lovers start to punch each other, they'll push, swear the vilest of insults and generally carry on like, well, seagulls at the beach. They'll load up in bulk. They'll stand there and pinch things from each others hands, shopping trollys - anywhere really. They'll complain that the fat slag over there has more than she can carry. They'll whinge endlessly and the noise is brilliant. Plus when the fist-fights start...well, there's nothing funnier than seeing two little old dears bitch slapping each other over a packet of sausages made from cardboard and saw-dust, but labeled pork.
I love it. If you ever want some cheap entertainment then wander on down to the local supermarket when the cheap meats go on sale. It's worth the half hour from your life to see how low some people will go for the cheapest quality meats on offer. They'd kill a cat and bring it in if they thought it'd get marked down to $1.50. Next time I'm taking the camera.
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3 comments:
- Gothqueen said...
Um...it's Coles Babe, not Woolies :-)
- Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:23:00 am
- Danny said...
Who cares? it's not like anyone actualy reads this crap.
- Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:56:00 am
- Tim said...
Hey, I read it! What now when I go to Aussie land I won't know what to think!
- Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:38:00 pm
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Windows 8/RT comes with the pre-installed SkyDrive app to help you access the files on the cloud storage more easily. Although, the app is already pretty good in functionality but, now, Microsoft has announced that live tile for SkyDrive app will be supported soon.
The live tile of SkyDrive app will show most recent activity in your cloud storage by Microsoft. You will see the name of most recent files added, the date on which it was added and the folder in which the file resides will also be showed.
This new update for SkyDrive will surely make the SkyDrive app more helpful as users will be able to see which file has been added most recently. The live tile will also look similar to others pre-installed apps of Windows 8/RT which show live tiles.
The update to introduce the SkyDrive app with live tiles support would be released soon and you will be able to get it through Store by following the instructions found here.
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NRMA Motoring & Services has condemned any potential move by the Abbott Government to increase the fuel excise as part of this year's Federal Budget as a cash grab.
NRMA President Wendy Machin has slammed any move to increase the nation-wide tax on fuels, saying it's an unfair increase which will hit nearly every Australian's hip pocket, regardless of their individual circumstances.
"The Federal Government already collects more than it spends on roads and transport infrastructure, so there is absolutely no basis for this unfair tax hike," said Ms Machin.
"Last year's budget estimated $15 billion would be collected from motorists from the fuel tax, however Federal Government expenditure on roads for the same period was estimated at $3.9 billion," she said.
"In other words only 10 cents out of every 38.1 cents per litre collected as the fuel tax is actually spent on road infrastructure, that's less than a third.
"Many people have no option other than to drive, it's an essential cost of living whether it's getting to work or delivering the goods and services our country needs every day.
"Whether you're dropping the kids off to school or visiting a sick relative in hospital, any increase in fuel tax will mean you will pay more.
"Any attempt by the Australian Government to increase the fuel excise without prior consultation would be viewed by the NRMA as a cash grab which would only serve to place increased pressure on the cost of living for everyday Australians.
"Make no mistake, increasing the fuel excise will mean we'll have to pay more for what should be a basic right to mobility.
"The NRMA has long campaigned for the need for the road network to receive a fairer share of funding from the taxes that are currently paid by motorists, including the fuel excise.
"Our Members constantly tell us that the price of fuel is one of their biggest concerns when it comes to motoring and the NRMA will ensure that our Members' interests are forcefully represented at a national level.
"Should next week's Federal Budget reveal any potential increase to the fuel excise, the NRMA which represents 2.5 million Members, along with the other motoring clubs nationally, will step up their fight against any unfair and unjustified tax hikes on motorists."
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Sometime back we created this historical chart depicting oil price and Kuwait stock index since 1994. Last time when we checked this in 2008, the relationship showed a historical correlation of more than 90%. A plain look at the chart would also make one feel that they are not two different lines.
However what caught our attention is the recent divergence between oil price and KSE Index. While the long-term correlation (since 1994) stands at 93%, the last five years correlation is placed at 75%.
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Just like the monster in a "B" movie horror film, this comprehensive healthcare reform just won't die.
Every one of us has an opinion on what can be done to make healthcare better. After all, nothing on this earth will ever be perfect. But this monstrous bill should not pass. It is not just that a sizable majority of citizens simply don't want it. It is also unconstitutional.
Beware politicians who offer to give you new rights. Any government or politician that believes that they can bestow rights inherently believes that rights can be taken away. Remember, it is a fundamental principal of our system of government that we are endowed with our rights by our creator. The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Government cannot give rights. It can only protect rights or trample on them.
How do we distinguish between rights and responsibilities? At first blush, the question may seem obvious. However, as an example, is a person responsible for the provision of his own healthcare or does he have a right to receive it? The state, "that among these rights," means that there are more rights than those enumerated.
Perhaps more information can be gleaned from the Bill of Rights. After all, doesn't that grant all Americans certain rights? The following are excerpts from the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ...." "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." In fact, the Bill of Rights doesn't grant anything. Rather, it prohibits government from trampling on certain enumerated pre-existing rights.
In his campaign for the Presidency, President Obama referred to the rights in the Bill of Rights as "negative rights" and asserted that there should also be positive rights. The protected rights in the Bill of Rights are sometimes called negative rights because each right enumerated in the United States Constitution, and all of the amendments thereto, are restraints on the power of government. Rights, as protected in the Constitution, are something innate within the condition of being human, not something that man can bestow.
The positive rights referred to by our president would be powers conveyed from government to the people. However, our government derives its power from the people and has no powers other than those given it by the people. Therefore, our government can't give to the people any rights as all rights are already possessed by the people.
Still, we haven't answered our question. Is healthcare an individual responsibility or an individual right? It seems that sickness is inevitable. Once sick, do people have the right to compel other people to provide health products and services?
If we examine the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, we may find some additional enlightenment. The entire text of the 13th Amendment is "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
Does any person have the right to compel a medical practitioner to provide medical goods and services? Does anyone have the right to force them to work for a predetermined rate of pay? Isn't that involuntary servitude?
But wait a minute, doesn't the Constitution require that people who are accused of crimes be given legal services? Isn't that basically the same thing? The Sixth Amendment states in relevant part, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, (...) and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense."
The Sixth Amendment's right to counsel is another "negative right," not a "positive right." It states that the government cannot use it near limitless powers against you by accusing you of a crime without making sure that you have someone to advocate your side, even if the government has to pay the legal bill. Only government can declare what is a crime. Only government can prosecute people accused of crimes. Therefore, a limited government must have limitations on its power to regulate the governed through the criminal process. The limitation on that government power is to ensure every accused person has an opportunity to resist the government by having a trial, a jury of peers, and an attorney to help present the case.
But dying is even worse than going to prison. Shouldn't the government do something about healthcare? Government does not have the power to bestow sickness. (At least not the type caused by bacteria or virus). Therefore, there is no inherent countervailing responsibility except in the case of soldiers who are sent into harm's way on our behalf.
If government can give you the right to demand medical goods and services, can't government take away your right to drink caffeine, the right to purchase and eat fatty foods, etc. Would the government have the power to compel you against your will to purchase health insurance or engage in morning exercises like they do in China? Remember, those who believe that they can offer you rights surely also believe that they can take rights away.
Like the hero and heroin in the "B" movie horror film, let us hope that our elected representatives continue to fight against this monster until it is finally vanquished.
Then pray that there are no more sequels.
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Grand Banks Heritage 36 Classic - 2001, Hull No 1131.
A unique opportunity to purchase on of the last built GB 36 Classics.
1 owner Grand Banks 36 Classic, serviced and maintained professionally
on shipyard every year.
This fine GB36 Classic just had the following jobs done to make her ready for the coming season:
Machine polished and sealing on hull and superstructure w. Dulon polish & seal
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Props and shafts cleaned and painted w . Prop Gold
Bottompainted with International Uni Pro
LOA: 11,23 m
LWL: 10,56 m
Draft 1,40 m
Beam 3,86 m
Bridge clearance 6,81 m
Displacement: 12.000 KG
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•2 x 180 amps batteries
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By Anne Tergesen
Envious of the 15%-plus annual returns that Stanford, Harvard, and many other elite universities have earned on their endowments in recent years? Now a growing number of schools are allowing alumni and other donors to invest alongside their endowments. The hitch: You have to be willing to donate at least $100,000 via a charitable remainder trust. That donation will provide you with an immediate tax deduction and an income for life but will stay with the university when you're gone. "This gives people with a charitable inclination who don't have a great deal of wealth access to some of the best money managers in the world," says Phil Buchanan, director of gift planning at Duke University.
For a donor, the wisdom of such a strategy depends on factors such as age and tax bracket: The longer a donor's life expectancy and the lower his or her tax bracket, the greater the potential payoff to piggybacking on an endowment.
In recent years, more than two dozen schools have petitioned the Internal Revenue Service to allow such charitable trusts to invest in "units"—sort of like mutual fund shares—that track their endowments. This unit structure is necessary because some of the colleges' investments, such as leveraged hedge funds, cannot be held directly by the trusts without onerous taxation of their profits.
Harvard, the first to get such a ruling in 2003, says donors have invested more than $500 million of trust assets alongside its endowment. In recent months a slew of others, including Duke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Michigan, have received similar rulings. Still others, such as Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Virginia have filed applications or are weighing such a move. "Many schools with endowments that have generated superior returns have jumped on this bandwagon," says David Leibell, partner at Cummings & Lockwood, a Stamford (Conn.) law firm.
To tie part of your fortune to an endowment, you must first spend about $3,000 to $5,000 to set up a charitable remainder trust. Most donors fund these trusts with appreciated stock. The trust, which can sell the shares tax-free and invest the proceeds in the endowment, will pay you (or any beneficiary you choose) at least 5% of its fair market value each year for a set period, generally for as long as you live. The payout rate is set at the outset by taking into account such factors as interest rates and the age of the person receiving the income.
The more a trust earns, the greater its value, and the higher the payments. For example, if your $100,000 trust has a 5% payout, you'll get $5,000 the first year. If the assets jump to $120,000 the second year, you'll receive $6,000. Should the trust decline, you'll get 5% of the lower value. At your death, whatever remains goes to the university.
Donors have some tax issues to consider. Under the IRS rulings, they would have to pay ordinary income tax at rates of up to 35% on most, if not all, of the trust income. In contrast, if a trust holds stocks, long-term capital gains and qualified dividend income face a maximum 15% tax rate.
The key question is whether the endowments' returns will be enough to more than make up for the higher taxes. The answer, of course, depends on such unknowables as future returns and tax rates. Yale, whose endowment has earned an annualized 17.2% over the past decade, says it could take as many as 10 years for those investing with its endowment to come out ahead. That's why Yale, which received a favorable ruling from the IRS, has opted against offering an endowment-based investment option.
Be aware that once you name a school as your trust's ultimate beneficiary, you cannot change your mind. Moreover, your trust's returns may not exactly match the endowment's, because the university will have to keep some cash on hand to make your payouts. Still, "many people are hell-bent on doing this," says Buchanan. Those returns are just too irresistible.
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Meta-cognition and Design and Technology Education
2002, Vol. 7, No. 1,
Using a case study approach, this paper explores meta-cognition in a design and technology setting. It reviews briefly the nature and role of meta-cognition in design and technology education and then describes a 'schema' that was conceived originally to analyse, but became a means to promote, meta-cognition in the respondents of a study. The main body of the paper identifies and discusses meta-cognition 'in action' of one respondent from that study. Overall, this paper aspires to explore two questions: how confident are we in identifying meta-cognition in practice (what does meta-cognition look like, sound like, in a design and technology milieu?); how can we develop and promote it further in learners?


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Pop culture artist Daniel Edwards, who previously immortalized Britney Spears giving birth and Hillary Clinton's bare breasts in statues of their own, has created a new piece of artwork titled String of Babies in honor of the so-called Octomom Nadya Suleman … behold:
It's the stuff nightmares are made of, not fit for any nursery… But this collectible rubber toy can be yours for the bargain price of your immortal soul. Daniel Edwards, the artist who brought us Suri's poop, Britney birthing, Paris' insides and Oprah's head-with-dogs, has brought his sculptor's sensibility to Octomom with his latest creation, String of Babies', holds a baby bottle upright. The bright pink "toy" features octopuslike tentacles sprouting from a replica of Nadya Suleman's head and cradling eight little identical baby heads and a baby bottle. No word on which of the eight doll-reminiscent heads are supposed to be Noah and Isaiah, the two Suleman infants who on Tuesday were the first of the eight to be released from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif. The press release touting the new addition to the creep-out canon deems String of Babies to be in the ironic, in-your-face style of American Gothic—Grant Wood's much-parodied painting of a pitchfork-wielding farmer and his equally severe-looking wife standing in front of their home. Of course. We're sure countless cultural histories about String of Babies are forthcoming.
Blah! While the Octomom has become something of a pop cultural phenomenon, I can't help but think that all of this crazy attention is exactly the sort of thing she relishes. While I don't necessarily think that she planned on becoming a "celebrity" because of her octuplets (and by that I mean, Nadya Suleman doesn't strike me as the kind of person to possess intelligent foresight) I absolutely believe that she is prolly loving every minute of all of the attention. Now that she has been immortalized by Daniel Edwards, she joins the ranks of other celebs like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Oprah Winfrey and more as subjects of pop culture who will live forever as art … which, to Suleman, is prolly a very nice perk of giving birth to 8 babies at once.
AND GET THIS … YOU can buy this piece of artwork for a mere $199! What a bargain! Is anyone interested in owning this? Should I buy one?
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Missing woman: Cardarella 08-03-07
Hawaii Police Department
Puna District
Captain Steven Guillermo
Phone: 966-5835
August 3, 2007
Report No. C07024814
Media Release
Big Island Police are looking for a 35-year-old woman reported as missing since July 27.
She has been identified as Kimberly Ann Cardarella of Kalapana Seaview Estates in Puna. She is described as Caucasian, 5-feet tall, about 100 to 110 pounds with brown eyes and shoulder-length straight brown hair.
Police ask anyone with information on her whereabouts to call the Puna police station at 966-5835 or the Police Department's non-emergency number at 935-3311.
Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 329-8181 in Kona or 961-8300 in Hilo. All Crime Stoppers information is kept confidential.
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The purpose of this ongoing blog series is to make the Finite Element Analysis software within SolidWorks, more accessible to a wider audience of not-necessarily-engineering users.
In the SolidWorks Simulation dialog for Material Properties, the fields colored RED are the ones that are absolute must-have to perform the analysis. Last month, I blathered at length about the Young's Modulus. This month we will explore the next-most-important material property for doing a linear, static Stress and Strain analysis.
Must-Have: Poisson's Ratio, u
If you pull very hard on an elastic band, you'll notice that in addition to getting longer, the band gets noticeably thinner. This is a behavior that is common to most engineering materials, (though seldom to the same degree that you see in rubber). The Simulation software MUST know this property for each material in your study, in order to figure out how the forces acting on the outside of your solid bodies, turns into stress distributed within the interior.
Poisson's ratio is a ratio of two strains. Since measurement of Strain has no units, the Poisson's ratio is unitless, as well. In the case of a test specimen subjected to a tug in a single direction, the Poisson's ratio is the proportion between; How much the specimen shrinks down, transverse to the pull direction, divided by how much it grows, in the pull direction.
Getting Test Data
In the discussion of Young's Modulus last month, we used this same picture at right of a dog-bone test specimen being pulled in the jaws of a testing machine. We were mostly focused upon the change in length between some marks on the specimen, (the circles at right).
In order to measure a property that is about the material only, independent of the size of our test piece, we convert the resulting stretch values, in inches or millimeters, into Strain, by dividing the total change in length, by the original length:
Engineering Strain = Stretch,(the change in the length) / Original Length
eL = DL / L (strain in the length direction)
We use the same test rig and the same specimen shape to measure the Poisson's ratio. We measure the original thickness of the specimen before the load is applied. Then, as the load is gradually ramped-up, we record the Thickness of the test-section, at each point where we recorded the Length. Again, we want to record these number as a unitless strain, so that the resulting property is independent of the size of our particular test-specimen;
eT = DT / T (strain in the thickness direction)
Poisson's ratio is the ratio of the strain in the transverse direction, divided by the strain in the primary direction:
Poisson's Ratio = u = – eT / eL
You'll notice I snuck in a minus sign in the definition above – the convention when measuring strains is to report Stretch as a positive number, and shrinkage as a negative number. So you'd think that Poisson's Ratio would have to usually be a negative number. The vast majority of materials are going to shrink down transverse to the load. But everyone knows that, and we're all too lazy to carry the minus sign around in every report and table.. So we just add the minus sign as part of the definition, so that we usually get a positive number.
For most materials, we find that the ratio of these two strains, length-strain and thickness-strain, are wonderfully consistent – especially for lower values of strain. So for the useful working range of a material, the Poisson's ratio is a single fixed number, (ranging usually between 0 and 0.5) .
Range of Values for Poisson's Ratio
The more brittle a material is, generally the lower the Poisson' s Ratio. For very stretchy materials like rubber, the Poisson's Ratio is very high, approaching 0.5. Imagine you had a balloon, filled with water. Anywhere you squeeze on the balloon, it is going to bulge out somewhere else. The water is pretty near incompressible, and because it has no solid structure, it can flow anywhere, take any shape, without building up any strain. That's what a Poisson's Ratio of 0.5 means – the material is incompressible.
In fact, our FEA analysis cannot handle a material that flows like water; it can only understand solid materials that obey Hooke's Law, where stress is proportional to strain. So we can't actually ever enter a Poisson's ratio of 0.5 – it would crash your study. But you can get close. In a linear, static study with rubbery materials, I can usually get away with a value of 0.485, but pushing higher will tease the stability monster. If you need to analyze a true rubber, at very high stretch ratios, you have better use the Non-Linear solver, which has a specialized material type called the Mooney-Rivelin model, which can tip-toe much close to the brink of 0.5 than the linear, static solvers can.
Some cork materials have been found to have a Poisson's Ratio at or near zero. That means that as you stretch it in one direction, there is practically no change in size the other two directions.
Some typical values of Poisson's Ratio
Rubber .5
Polyethylene .42
Nylon 6 .35 (unfilled)
Aluminum .33
Steel .28
Glass .2
Cork 0.0
Poisson's Ratio values can usually be obtained from internet sources for metals and most engineering materials. But it can be difficult to obtain for specific grades of plastics. Your best bet is to look for a supplier for a particular grade of plastic, and then call their support line – most plastics houses have an engineering-sales support function whose job is to make it easier to spec their grade of plastic, than a competitor's… So you should be able to get good advice straight from the horse's mouth.
If you are shopping around for different classes of plastic, not yet ready to investigate a particular grade or supplier yet, then the job gets tougher. Personally, I pay $35 a year to belong to MATWEB.COM, and mostly just for looking up plastics. Now, if you tunnel down the search path here to a very specific formulation of plastic, you will frequently find there is no Poisson's Ratio listed on the data sheets. But, if you then back out from the search to the generic listing for that family of plastic, you usually DO find a Poisson's value listed, and you can assume that the value holds true within grade formulations of that species. What you cannot assume is that a glass-filled grade will behave the same as the unfilled plastic – filler content sometimes changes the Poisson Ratio.
Oddball Values
There is a class of material called "auxetics" – these are materials that have a negative Poisson's Ratio. That is, you stretch them in one direction, and they thicken in the transverse direction(s). Fortunately for you, this class of behavior applies to practically nothing. The only auxetic materials in our common experience is: paper; Gore-Tex; some materials engineered for use in dissipative body armor; and a few naturally occurring minerals. If you're simulating something that uses an auxetic material, call in help from an expert.
The bulk of the discussion above applies to doing a Linear, Static analysis of a material that is isotropic – that the material has the same strength properties no matter which way you cut it. But if you are analyzing wood, (which has a grain direction), or FR-4 circuit-board material, (which is laminated), then the material could have THREE Poisson's Ratios, one in each direction. Such materials are called Orthotropic.
What I said earlier, that the Poisson's Ration should never exceed (or really, even be equal to) 0.5, is no longer true for orthotropics. If the material has a different amount of 'give' in the other two directions – the compatibility-of-strains requirement can be satisfied even with Poisson's Ratio values up to 1 and even beyond. And a very high Poisson's Ratio in one direction can sometimes be offset by a negative Poisson's ratio in the other two directions, without the material being considered auxetic.
Some strength data for loblolly pine:
Parallel to the Grain: E = 13,500 GPa u = 0.382
Parallel to the growth rings: E = 1,500 GPa u = 0.292
Paralle to the Grain: E = 1,050 GPa u = 0.328
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Things To Do in Lafayette, the Home of Purdue
Perhaps the Lafayette-West Lafayette area is best known as the home of Purdue University, and there is plenty to see and do on the historic, culture-laden Boilermakers campus. But the attractions don't end there. Parks and historic sites, a wolf sanctuary and a zoo, sports events and golf courses, museums and performing arts venues, fun festivals, diverse dining and topnotch shopping offer exciting options for every visitor.
About 5 miles north of downtown Lafayette in Battle Ground lies one of the area's most unusual attractions: Wolf Park. The 75-acre research, education and conservation park is home to dozens of adult wolves and puppies, along with several foxes, coyotes and a bison herd. Howl Nights on Friday and Saturday give visitors an opportunity to see the wolves up close and lend their voices to a chorus of wolf howls. Park educators give lively talks and visitors can walk the half-mile-loop trail after dark. The park offers lots of daytime events and activities, too.
As the site of the momentous clash between the Indian confederation led by Tecumseh and U.S. military troops led by Gen. William Henry Harrison in 1811, Battle Ground is also a mecca for history buffs. At Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, you'll find a detailed history museum and a historic chapel, along with picnic shelters, hiking trails and a swimming pool.
Historic Prophetstown, a 300-acre living history attraction within Prophetstown State Park, features a re-created Woodland Indian village and a working Belgian draft horse farm. Guests can participate in farm chores every day, or check out workshops, special events and the annual September horse pull. Prophetstown State Park also offers 2,000 acres of adventure, such as camping, hiking, biking and bird watching amid prairie grasses, wildflowers and wetlands that are gradually being restored to their original state.
Adventure at a different pace can be found among three distinct downtown districts. In the Arts & Market district, from Fourth to 12th streets and South to North streets in Lafayette, boutique shops, art galleries, antique stores, museums, live music venues and unique local eateries line the streets. The John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge is the centerpiece of the Wabash Riverfront district. The bridge joins the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette and is perfect for a stroll to enjoy the fall colors along the Wabash River. The Riverfront district also features shops, restaurants and historic architecture and hosts some of the area's largest outdoor festivals. The Chauncey Village district in West Lafayette borders Purdue University and caters to the college crowd with bustling nightlife and Purdue memorabilia.
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Beyond Chauncey Village stretches the Purdue University campus, replete with historic buildings, gardens, outdoor sculptures and fountains. A Tree Trail winds throughout the grounds, and visitors can stop in at the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, explore art galleries in the Stewart Center, Pao Hall and Purdue Memorial Union, or take in a live theater production or concert at one of several performing arts venues. The school also boasts numerous sports venues, including Ross-Ade Stadium, home of the ever-popular Boilermakers football team.
Kids will love Columbian Park Zoo with its nearly 200 animals, or northwest Indiana's largest corn maze at Exploration Acres, which also has a pumpkin patch, hayrides, pedal cars and more.


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T wo degrees Celsius: the point of no return. Once average global temperatures exceed preindustrial levels by this amount, scientists warn, a climate catastrophe could become inevitable. Current projections indicate that it would be too late to prevent sea ice from disappearing, ice sheets from collapsing and rising seas from swallowing heavily populated coastlines.
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The thrift of Scots is often unfairly characterised, but when Murrayfield puts up the "sold out" posters days ahead of a match, it suggests that 70,000 people think they are on to a good thing. Add a near full house for that remarkable win over Ireland and even 50,000-plus for Italy and you can see where they are coming from.
On Saturday at Murrayfield the game between the two teams that started the Six Nations Championship slowly, has the makings of being the tie of the penultimate round. Given a shock result at Twickenham, Scotland versus Wales, third versus second could even settle the championship.
To add a little extra spice – were it needed – Scott Johnson, the man who, in three games, seems to have transformed Scottish fortunes, was once coach of Wales and until a year ago was in charge of the most successful Welsh regional side, the Ospreys. Eight of that side are in Saturday's match-day squad and they have spent the week cheerfully detailing the Australian's eccentricities.
"This is not about me," insisted Johnson when he announced his side this week. Thousands of Scots would disagree because he has already given them back-to-back wins in the championship for the first time in a decade and if he manages to beat Wales it will be three in a row for the first time in the professional era.
When Scotland played – and lost to – England for the 1996 championship, the brothers Gavin and Scott Hastings were still around, as were Gregor Townsend, who has been and gone as a recent Scotland coach, Bryan Redpath and Doddie Weir. And Scotland are being coached by an Englishman, Dean Ryan, the Sky commentator and analyst who Johnson brought in to look after the forwards.
The results, bar the opening-day drubbing at Twickenham, have been eye-opening if contrasting: the backs scoring four tries against Italy while the forwards were key to a remarkable performance against Ireland where they won 12-8 despite being eight points down and stuck in their own half for almost all the first half and 75% of the game.
How did they do it? By going back to basics, doing the simple things well and eschewing the fashionable off-loading game espoused by their previous coach, Andy Robinson. Asked this week if he had ever played in such a one-sided half as the first 40 minutes against Ireland, the man of the match, Jim Hamilton, was quick out of the blocks: "Yes, I've played in one and we were the other team.
"The last Six Nations when we played France we had 70% of the first half, were battering their line and went in three down and lost that game. We've been that team, people quickly forget that."
"I haven't got a bad word to say about Andy," says the Gloucester captain who makes his 44th appearance for Scotland on Saturday, "but we're playing the way now that suits Scotland. We couldn't go on the way we were, because it wasn't working. Results showed that. We've stripped it back to basics. We just looked at ourselves and said what we are. We're a team of big lads, we're naturally physical.
"We tried running the ball, off-loading but we're a team that doesn't score many tries – unless it's against Italy and they weren't structural tries, they were tries off pressure and intercepts. We've stripped it back and realised what's important to our game. For Scotland to win games we have to do as well at the set piece as well as fighting at the contact area."
Which is precisely what they did to Ireland. Amid the mass of statistics showing Irish domination of possession and territory (at one point Ireland had made 37 carries to Scotland's three) the pack claimed at least parity in the scrum – it looked more – and were hugely dominant in the lineout.
If that is down to Hamilton, who calls the lineout and stole several of Ireland's throw-ins, then he is quick to praise Ryan's understanding. "He has a similar outlook to me," says Hamilton. "Rugby's a simple game and that's how he brings it across to the guys. I can't speak highly enough of him. He understands that it wasn't just winning four lineouts, but the way the lineout was influencing other parts of the game. He's very clever and sees things that others don't pick up."
As always the set piece will be key to Saturday's outcome and even without Gethin Jenkins Wales could be a handful in the scrum. Jenkins is replaced at loosehead by Paul James while the No7 shirt, if not the captain's armband, is returned to Sam Warburton. Hamilton will also have the experienced trio of Ian Evans, Alun Wyn Jones and Ryan Jones to jump against, but an awful lot depends on how Duncan Weir handles his first start at fly-half if Scotland are to end the run of five consecutive Welsh wins against them.


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What tire pressure should I pump for Auto X, on my 2008 WRX?
Try the old shoe polish trick I suppose. The ideal will vary depending on the course and the temps and the surface anyway, and since you're asking I'm assuming you're there to have fun -- have fun!
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Stock 17s? Stock tires?
I "believe" the max pressure is 50psi.
Considering your pressure will increase with the heat... plus the heat of the track and ambient air..... I'd say start at 38 cold... and then adjust accordingly.
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The RE-92's will not perform well. It doesn't matter what tire pressure you set them to.
Yeah...I'm going with the stock 17" wheels & tires!!!
I actually went to my first autocross even on the stock wheels and tires, there's nothing wrong with it. If you're going for fun, you'll still have fun. No you won't have the best times in your class more than likely, but so what? This year, I'm going to be competitive, but that year was all about fun.
I ran 36F/36R BTW on the stockers, and they performed I think as well as they were going to, above that there was a little bit of floating around corners. Run, adjust, run again.
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I tried 36/34 at the end and seems good.
It all varies greatly according to the tires you are running and the ambient air temps.
If you are stock all around you might want to fight understeer by adding a bit more air in the rear to encourage some rotation.
With my tires and suspension setup I average 40 psi all around.
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David's Dance: Reflections on 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19
Lectionary Reflections
2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19
July 15, 2012
This summer of year B offers preachers the chance to delve deeply into the extraordinary book of 2 Samuel, the unmatched story of the enigmatic and charismatic David. There simply is no better portrayal of a human being in any literature I know than this one, perhaps even up to the time of Shakespeare. And the writer of this story preceded the Bard by at least 2,300 years! This picture of the second king of Israel is so memorable, so rich, so complex that modern preachers still grope as we attempt to make sense of the man.
Of course, it is true that the church, and even the synagogue, has tried to flatten the picture out that 2 Samuel has provided. "David is good and beloved of God," we have chanted, "and Saul was weak or arrogant or stupid or plain evil and was rightly rejected by God in favor of the boy shepherd of Bethlehem." Yet, even a cursory reading of the long story should give us pause; is it so simple as all that? Is Saul the equivalent of an ancient pedophile while David is one-step from sainthood? At every step of the way, David acts so as to bring at least a small lift of an eyebrow to any careful reader. And the stories of 2 Samuel 6 are no exception.
After Saul's suicide on Mt. Gilboa (1 Sam. 31), David, who has been living among and supported by the Philistines in his own city of Ziklag, acts to further his desire to become king himself. While living in Philistia, David has been raiding cities of the Amalekites and bringing back enormous booty as gifts to his mentor, King Achish. However, he has been telling Achish, a most greedy and ignorant man, that he has in fact been raiding among his own people, the Judeans. This is a lie, of course; what he has been doing is taking the booty left over from his Amalekite raids and giving it to those same Judeans, no doubt whispering as he does so, "remember me when the time comes for me to ascend to power."
And that time comes. David is crowned king at Hebron (the Judean capital) and quickly assumes control of the Judean homeland. He does this in two superb political moves. First, he goes to the house of Abinadab at Baale-Judah ("master or lord of Judah") and recovers the fabled Ark of the Covenant, "the Ark of God, which is called by the name of YHWH of the armies, who is enthroned on the cherubim" (2 Sam. 6:2). We last heard of the Ark when it was captured by the Philistines in 1 Samuel 4-6 but then returned by the Philistines to Israel due to its immense power. Then in 1 Samuel 14, Saul has the Ark brought to the site of a battle, and as a result the battle is successful. But because of a dangerous oath that Saul had laid on his troops, the Philistines are finally victorious over Israel, the result of which is the near murder of Jonathan by his own father.
After that debacle, the Ark is essentially forgotten, finding a resting place with Abinadab. But David knows that the Ark remains an ancient symbol of power and a traditional manifestation of the presence of YHWH, so he decides to reintroduce it to the people as a sign that he, David, is now lord of the land and is the keeper of the ancient and venerable Ark of YHWH. But something terrible and inexplicable happens to the Ark as David moves it toward his capital city of Jerusalem, the city that he has determined to make his own. As the Ark is moving slowly on a new cart, two sons of Abinadab, Uzzah and Ahio (the latter in fact means "his brother," so it may not be a name at all) are assigned to lead the sacred chest. But at the threshing floor of Nacon the oxen drawing the cart stumble and the Ark begins to totter. Uzzah reaches out his hand to steady the Ark, and "the anger of YHWH was against Uzzah and God struck him there" . . . and we do not know what the next phrase means. But the sentence ends, "He died there with (next to?) the Ark of God."
John C. Holbert is the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX.
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Dropbox is trying out a neat new feature that will give it magical Photo Stream-like abilities. Everybody's favorite cloud-storage app has added photo and video import.
In a new "Experimental Forum Build" of the app for Windows, Mac and Linux, photos and videos will be slurped up from any memory card or camera connected to the computer. These will then be sent spinning off to the DropBox servers, ready for access by all your other Dropbox-connected devices.
There have already been some well reasoned complaints over in the Dropbox forums. For instance, some people might take so many photos that they don't want them all clogging up their limited cloud storage. This feature also adds complexity to the Dropbox application itself, when it's already pretty easy to have a third-party app store selected photos inside your Dropbox folder.
On the other hand, anything that makes backing up photos easier can only be a good thing. And as most nerds are at home right now enjoying Mom's home cooking, mightn't it be a good idea to make sure Mom's precious photos are also stored somewhere a little safer than the hard drive of her rickety old PC?
I think it's a great idea, although I won't be recommending the feature to my parents until it makes it into an official non-beta build. And Dropbox has one big advantage over the current version of iCloud's Photo Stream: You can delete those embarrassing Christmas photos.
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Tarak Mehta join hands with Salaam Bombay
So, on the occasion of Anti-Tobacco Day the cast of Taarak Mehta teamed up with one of the India"s largest NGOs in tobacco control- 'Salaam Bombay". The cast of the show showed its full support to hold up the noble cause of "Smoke-free Mumbai". They went all out to educate the masses that have been unfortunately caught up in this vicious circle.
Joining in the campaign will be seen Dayaben along with Tapu sena and Taarak- Anjali. They went on the streets and targeted people who were either smoking or chewing tobacco. In a very interesting and informative manner, they explained the ill effects of passive smoking. They were quite successful in spreading the awareness among the people and encouraged them to say "NO" to Tobacco". Catch the action unfold only on SAB TV


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A Happiness Lesson from Claire Danes
The September 30, 2013 issue of the New Yorker had an interesting piece, John Lahr's "Varieties of Disturbance" about actor Claire Danes.
Though I've never watched My So-Called Life (yes, I know this is unacceptable, and it's on my to-do list), I do love Homeland, so I was interested to read the profile.
Danes was quoted saying something that really caught my attention.
"One of the lessons of her adulthood, Danes has said, was 'that there is real honor in being a total goofball.'"
This struck me, because I've really worked hard, myself, to embrace my inner goofball. Not to worry about seeming dignified or sophisticated or knowledgeable, but to be Gretchen.
In this respect, one of my patron saints is Julia Child, and of all the posts I've ever written, one of my favorites is my encomium to her. She was goofy yet masterly, light-hearted yet authoritative.
Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.
Realizing this was part of my embrace of my love for children's literature. And, therefore, it's especially appropriate for me to quote, in this context, a great master of children's literature. In his brilliant essay, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children," C. S. Lewis wrote:
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
Yes, there is real honor in being a total goofball.
Agree, disagree? In what way do you allow yourself to be a total goofball?
Gretchen Rubin is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Happiness Project—an account of the year she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier—and the recently released Happier at Home. On her popular blog, The Happiness Project, she reports on her daily adventures in the pursuit of happiness. For more doses of happiness and other happenings, follow Gretchen on Facebook and Twitter.
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In my family, personally, there really isn't much honor in being a goofball. For ME, I've always been viewed as acting much younger than my age. I relate better to kids than "grownups" because they are real, and don't have an agenda. At family gatherings I can often be seen sitting on the floor "indian-style" with nieces and nephews playing a board game. I know the rest of my family sees this as immature, because I don't often have a lot to say to them. They deal in the world of self-made billionaires, one-up-man-ship, and "How else can I make you feel stupid?"
I don't know if it's so much being a goofball as a stat of mind. Having a child-like awareness maybe? An openness to things around me? *shrugs* I don't know, really. But it's not an honorable thing where I come from. 🙁
Hi Gretchen,
I enjoy letting go and acting silly. Growing up I tended to be serious unless I was hanging out with my friends. Over the past few weeks I am finally letting my real, light, silly personality out after 4 years online, through my blog posts, videos and social media accounts.
This was easy. I tired of being happy but stiff and a bit terse online. I became more creative. I instantly attracted some exciting new ideas and developments for my blog. Stuff I never could have imagined a few weeks back. All because I started being silly again.
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Wonderful post, Gretchen! Thank you! I love your line, "Enthusiasm is a form of social courage." I couldn't agree more. I suddenly remember being the matron of honor at my sister's wedding ten years ago. Dinner was winding down and she was hoping people would start dancing, but no one was. She was getting a bit bummed out, so I got out there on the dance floor all by myself to get the ball rolling. It was still a tough sell, but the longer I was out there alone dancing by myself, the more dorky/amused/powerful I felt. 🙂
Hi Gretchen,
This post is from a year ago but thought I'd still chime in. My wife and I both love the show "Homeland" and after I finished the article I thought I MUST respond to your question.
I am a complete goofball when I perform an interpretive dance to any show's theme song. I have routines choreographed for the opening credits of most of the shows we watch. (My wife's favorite is my dance for Game of Thrones). I've actually considered recording this and putting them on YouTube. Yes, I even have one for Homeland, although it's a bit difficult to dance to.
Thanks for the great post 🙂


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Ever notice that sometimes you get more help than you need?
Yukon Jack has the need to be noticed. He demands more attention all around. Much more than Riley. But the best helper??? That award goes to DH - I purchased some fabric for the back of this quilt and DH wasn't so crazy about it. I told him I could go find something else. So - today I went SHOPPING and found a red for the back and 6 yards of other fabric. They just happend to "fall into" the cart. What's a girl to do? I just had to buy them :lol: Bet he wishes he kept his opinion to himself- would have been cheaper :!:


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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! OR ELSE.
I am an active participant in the catch and release program. Catch a bottle of wine ... and then RELEASE THE FUN! WOOOOOOOOOO!
Sure, you've got problems. Work sucks, the bills are piling up, and the stress is starting to give you panic attacks. BUT YOU CAN'T BRING THAT STUFF UP RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT'S THE HOLIDAYS AND YOU HAVE TO BE HAPPY OR YOU'RE A BIG MEAN JERK. Okay, fine. Nothing helps the holiday spirit along like a nice bottle to give, receive, share, or even better just keep to yourself.


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