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Come on, Ellen. You don't know what to do with that any more than I do.
- The Thunder topped the Grizzlies in a 3 OT thriller to even their series at 2 games a piece. Whether it's the Mavericks, Grizzlies or Thunder that win the West, it'll be a feel good story regardless.
- Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon has accepted Maryland's offer to coach the Terps. While Turgeon is obviously a great X's and O's coach, I still think Tubby Smith's ties to the Maryland recruiting base would have made him a better hire. Maybe he really is past his prime in the eyes of AD's.
- Fashion has swallowed Tom Brady and it won't let him go.
- Tiny High School sophomore point guard Aquille Carr has been offered a $750,000 contract from a pro team in Italy. Hello, none-and-done.
- 25 celebrities that are older than you thought. Bill Shatner is 80? Wow.
- What really turns a woman on? Short answer: They still don't have a clue.
- Will online dating help these X-Men find love? Click the link to find out.
- A news segment on the Shake Weight is just as hilarious as you might think.


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Space AirlinesTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
One day in Atlanta, Cut-my-own-throat Dabney was trying to convince Fred to buy his company, Space Airlines. He told Fred, "My company is the wave of the future! We've already got hundreds of space planes operating, but I need to cash out to start another venture in oranges. All I'm asking for is ten million dollars, and that's cutting my own throat!"
"I don't know," said Fred, "it doesn't sound too feasible to me."
"Look, I can prove that the planes are flying, " the slick salesman replied. "That's why I brought you out here at night. Here, face south and look up into the sky. Can you see those moving dots? Those are the planes flying through space to their destinations."
After looking up for a minute, Fred did see the moving dots. He looked at them for a while before turning to Dabney and exclaiming, "I'm out of here you crook!"
What made Fred so sure that Cut-my-own-throat Dabney was a crook?
AnswerWhile Fred was looking at the moving dots, he realized that he was looking at satellites orbiting the Earth, not "space planes". From the Northern Hemisphere, where he was standing, he knew that he could look south to see the satellites orbiting the earth above the equator.
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beet, cauliflower, and cucumber pickles photo by vsimon
We are making a list and checking it twice. Sorting through our colorful pickle and jam selection, choosing just the right kind for each recipient. Wouldn't you like to get some summer in a jar?
These gifts took some forethought. We pickled and preserved this summer. But the time spent then is paying BIG dividends now.
We had an overabundance of produce in our garden. We ate it, gave to the local food pantry, froze, dried, and canned some. This was the first time Vince made pickles and jams using a water bath canner. He became a canning maniac. 🙂
Many nights after dinner, 6-12 jars of new pickles would appear. All of the pickle recipes were from The Joy of Pickling by Linda Ziedrich.
These are mighty tasty pickles that brighten up winter meals with loads of flavor and color.
Beets were wonderfully flavored with cinnamon, allspice berries, whole cloves, brown sugar and cider vinegar.
Turmeric makes the Indian style cauliflower and cucumber spears sunny yellow. They are also highly spiced with garlic, cumin seeds, fresh ginger, a bit of very hot carrot pepper, distilled vinegar, and salt. These are my favorite.
Whole red cherry peppers were pickled with a garlic clove, bay leaf, several whole peppercorns, distilled vinegar, and salt. They are so pretty with the green stems intact.
Dills, dills, dills. We have many.
These are pretty too. One recipe of sliced cucumbers has a sliver of hot carrot pepper, a chunk of red cherry pepper, whole dill seed heads, and yellow mustard seeds.
Another recipe of chunked cucumbers has dill heads, grape leaves, garlic, another sliver of carrot pepper, black peppercorns, distilled vinegar, and salt.
plum jam photo by vsimon
Vince made plum, ground cherry with orange, tomato, tomatillo, and arctic kiwi jams. Our homemade jams are made with love and sugar. We left the high fructose corn syrup out, unlike most store bought kinds.
The plum and ground cherry jams are winners!! These are perfect slathered on wonder buns. We need to make more next year.
ground cherry jam with orange photo by vsimon
One orange tomato jam used pineapple tomatoes flavored with ginger. Another jam used yellow peach tomatoes flavored with lemon.
Both of these jams are good on toast. And also make excellent pan sauces for pork or chicken. Just cook the meat, then melt a bit of jam in the pan. Scrape up the browned bits and you have an instant sweet and tangy sauce.
Great gifts, don't you think? Plan ahead and next year you may be able to share your riches too.
Note to self, buy more jars.


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Parents have an important voice
This week the Talk early, talk often series continues on the SAAM Blog with a guest post from sexaulity educator Alison Bellavance, M.Ed., CSE.
As a sexuality educator, I'm often called upon as a resource for parents and caregivers. In my own family, I'm the resident sex ed expert. I regularly help my mom field questions from my internet-savvy little brother and help my sister explain boundaries to my three year old niece. Through my work at Planned Parenthood, I also receive countless phone calls from parents and caregivers asking for advice, resources and guidance on raising healthy and happy kids. Often they are nervous asking about sexuality-related questions, but they realize the importance of having accurate information. Thinking about all of these parents, who often put aside their own potential feelings of embarrassment or discomfort to ask for help, is what led me to write this blog post.
Parental involvement is a key factor in helping children grow up to be sexually healthy adults. People often assume that sex ed is the health or sexuality educator's job. While we educators play an important part, we need parents on board too. Parents are a child's first sexuality educator and teach them (from a very young age) about the values and beliefs of their family. Parents are also there when a classroom teacher isn't - on the weekends, when they are nervous about their first date, and when they are dealing with their first break-up. Parents have opportunities to demonstrate their own values and reinforce messages from the classroom, making them applicable to everyday life.
Kids grow up fast, and parents hope that they are prepared for the changes and challenges they will face. So often I hear adults say things like, "Well I'm sure my child learned about puberty in school, right?" The best way I can answer that question is to encourage parents to ask teachers or administrators exactly what is being taught in their child's school. Policies around sexuality education vary from state to state and district to district. Don't assume that specific content is being covered or how it is being taught. As a parent, you have the right to know what information your children are (or are not) receiving about topics related to puberty, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, relationships, etc. Once you know what is being taught, you have the opportunity to advocate for the curriculum you believe should be in place. If you are unhappy with the current curriculum, make your voice heard.
While your child's school may offer sex ed, it is also important for parents to know what messages about sex and sexuality your children are actually receiving. Parents can find this out by asking their children about what they talked about and how they feel about what they've learned. You may be thinking, "Okay, great but how do I bring it up?" Parents frequently want to know how they can start a conversation around healthy sexuality with their children. Many feel unsure about their own comfort level and are uncertain about answering the questions their children may have. One way to address this is to organize a program for the parents in your circle. Sexuality educators are often willing to speak at PTA meetings, parents groups, faith based organizations, etc. about increasing parents' knowledge and comfort level. This allows parents to practice answering questions in a safe and supportive environment. It also lets parents lean on each other as a resource.
Once you're ready, start asking questions! Find out what they've been learning in health class. Look for teachable moments in everyday life. Help them find more information and resources when they need them. Encourage your child's school to participate in community-based efforts such as Let's Talk Month and World AIDS Day. Before your know it, the conversations will become easier and your kids will have a strong sex-ed foundation for a healthy life.
Alison Bellavance, M.Ed., CSE is the Director of Education at Planned Parenthood of Northeast, Mid-Penn and Bucks County. Alison has specific expertise in the intersection between healthy sexuality and sexual violence prevention and provided consultation on the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's 2012 & 2013 SAAM campaigns. Alison is also an Adjunct Instructor at the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University. Follow her on Twitter at: @AliBellavance


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Since Microsoft released the out of band patch detailed in MS08-067 yesterday, an exploit and worm have already been developed and seen in the wild. Dave Aitel announced the exploit yesterday in his DailyDave mailing list. SecurityFocus has the exploit available for download here. Alexander has also published his decompiled version of the vulnerable function. Stephenl has a nice description of how he reverse engineered the patches to determine the specific vulnerability.
The ThreatExpert Blog has a very nice description of how the worm, named Gimmiv.A operates. Gimmiv.A creates three files in the %system%\WBEM\ directory: winbase.dll, basesvc.dll, and syicon.dll.
ThreatExpert reports
"After dropping and loading the aforementioned DLLs, the worm will collect system information from the compromised computer, collect passwords from the Windows protected storage and Outlook Express passwords cache, and post collected details to a remote host. The details are posted in an encrypted form, by using AES (Rijndael) encryption.
Details collected by Gimmiv.A are then posted to a personal profile of the user "perlbody", hosted with http://www.t35.com hosting provider. At the time of this writing, there are 3,695 entries in that file. Every line contains an encrypted string, which could potentially conceal current victims' details, indirectly indicating how many victims have been compromised by this worm so far.
The most interesting part of this worm is implemented in the DLL basesvc.dll. This DLL is responsible for the network propagation of the worm."
If you cannot immediately patch your systems, the best defense is to restrict access to ports 139 and 445.
For additional detail, see this Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research & Defense blog posting.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has a page dedicated to Gimmiv.A, which they are calling a trojan rather than a worm.
McAfee has a nice description of the exploit code as well.
You can verify your anti-virus vendor detects Gimmiv.A at virustotal.com


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Topic: Mom diagnosed with CC
Hi - First time posting. My mother. age 71, has just been diagnosed with intrahepatic CC. She had been feeling sick with sinus trouble, tiredness and loss of appetite since right after Christmas. Her internist finally got really concerned about three weeks ago when mom began to have unexplainable fevers. She was sent for a CAT scan and there they found "spots" on her liver, a week later she was in for a biopsy and by the end of the week was told she has liver cancer. By Tues. the following week (6/19) she had a appt. with an oncologist who confirmed it to be intrahepatic CC, with no apparant metastisis to other parts of her body. The oncologist, as is typical I believe, has not been forthcoming with what is going on in my mother's body - the information provided to mom is about colon and pancreas cancers, nothing on CC. Here is the hardest part for us - mom is in Stage 4 of the cancer and we only found this out by directly talking to the doctor about why mom was not referred for a second opinion and not directed to some clinical trial. The oncologist also told us that most likely mom only has 6-12 months, with treatment maybe a little more - to my knowledge mom and dad are unaware of this fact. Today (6/26) as I write mom is starting chemo with Avastid and Gemzar (we think) which we believe is a last ditch effort for mom. Everything we have read on CC indicates to us that there is nothing short of God intervening that will heal mom at his stage - there is no standard protocol for treatment and certainly no cure at this point as she is not a candidate for transplant. *****I apologize for being a little vague about some of the details but my mother and father have always been quiet and secretive about their medical histories. Therefore I am not completely aware of the chemo agents and other drugs being administered to my mom.*****
Can anyone offer advice. Everything we see on this site so far seems to be from many who have caught the CC at an earlier stage and this therefore seems to give more options in terms of transplant and resection. If anyone has experience with this CC at this stage, I would appreciate some feedback. Also, we would like some advice from those who have gone before on how to talk to mom about the fact that, statistically speaking, her time on earth is most likely limited. As I said the oncologist is painting a more rosy scenario for mom and dad - such a rosy picture that they have told friends and family the treatment looks like it has promise. I think this is extremely unfair witholding of information. Should we try to insist that the oncologist be up front and tell mom the truth or let it play out? I would want to know the truth, but I am not mom. I know optimism is a great motivating factor but I don't want my mom igonorant about what is happening and what will happen to her as this cancer does what it will do. Already it appears this CC is moving fast, in the last week alone mom's abdomen has begun to swell and is getting uncomfortable, her ankles are swelling, she has no appetite and she is beginning to get a little jaundiced. I love my mom, I want her around for many years - my wife and I have 5 children, the only grandchildren for mom and dad - but it is hard to know what to do when it seems I have more knowledge about her cancer than she does.
Thanks for a wonderful site.
Rob and Lewanne