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"Realism and Relativism in Policy Analysis and Evaluation." Errol Morris' recent critique of Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science is relevant to policy analysis and evaluation, indeed to the social and human sciences more generally. How can scientific research designed to assist action in particular contexts bridge the gaps between Morris realism and Kuhn's supposed relativism? This paper provides examples of how "objective" analysis can respect and enhance differing "constructions" of reality. November 2018
"Engaging Corruption: New Ideas for the International Monetary Fund." The IMF's standard ways of engaging with countries need redoing for complicated, politically loaded issues like corruption. This paper suggests what might be done inside the Fund and with client countries to enable more effective policies. The proposed methods could lead to a broader rethink of how the Fund does business. August 2018.
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Corruption." Corruption is one of the most discussed concepts in the world, but neither scholars nor citizens seem to agree on what they are talking about. This paper tries to clear the underbrush—and perhaps also clear the air. November 2017.
"On Romance and Intimacy." How do they fit into a full human life? November 2017.
"Corruption Across Countries and Cultures." Different countries and cultural clusters exhibit different patterns and densities of corruption. This paper asks, "So what?" September 2017.
"Genetic Adaptation to Historical Pathogen Burdens." Ancient diseases triggered genetic adaptations that persist today. This study represents a proof-of-concept that may pave the way to the analysis of future aggregate measures coming from whole-genome sequencing/genotyping data. (With Johannes Fedderke and Valerio Napolioni.) July 2017.
"Policy Analysis and Evaluation in a Fact-Free World." This week the new semester began at Claremont Graduate University, and I'm teaching two graduate courses that ordinarily would be easy to motivate and justify. In our current political climate, both courses may represent the enemy. January 20, 2017.
"Corruption and the Rise of Donald Trump." Are there causal connections between perceptions of corruption and the success of Donald Trump? November 2016.
"Rejuvenating Governance in China" The Communist Party of China is redoubling its efforts against corruption, emphasizing even more discipline. The CPC also wants to reform the style of governance: to rejuvenate the party, bring it closer to the people, avoid bureaucracy and arrogance. How might this be done? Through examples of success—studying them, sharing them, cloning them. November 2016.
"From Reform to Implementation (A)" A pioneering mayor fosters responsive governance but finds the process stalled. What would you advise? The first part of a teaching case co-authored with Melissa Mahoney. June 2016.
"From Reform to Implementation (B)" How collaboration and participation were fostered through excellent design and exemplary leadership, with outstanding results in terms of public services, economic progress, and civic dignity. The second part of a teaching case co-authored with Melissa Mahoney. A Teaching Note is available on request. June 2016.
Foreword to "It Can Be Done" Twelve success stories from the Philippines show how public-private collaboration can catalyze deeper democracy and improved public services. June 2016.
"Engel-Klitgaard Interview" The transcript of an interview conducted by the chair of Chile's nonpartisan Anticorruption Commission covers topics ranging from culture to success stories. May 2016.
"A Primer for the London Anti-Corruption Summit" How can this path-breaking event go beyond the usual indignation and cynicism? How about a contest? May 2016.
"Development Given Geography, Climate, and Genes" How are these "deep roots" of development related to development outcomes such as per capita income, governance, disability-adjusted life years, fertility, and self-reported happiness? How might causal relationships be identified? What difference do findings like these make for policy choices today? March 2016.
"Diagnosing Deep Roots of Development: Genetic, Disease, and Environmental Factors." Using new data about the country-level frequencies of ACP1 genes and a novel identification strategy, this paper shows how historic genetic adaptations to ultraviolet exposure and disease have causal effects on per capita income today. The policy implications include protecting from ultraviolet radiation, controlling tropical diseases, and using specific nutritional supplements. Jan. 2016.
"Addressing Corruption Together." How can donors and recipients of foreign aid work together to take on systemic corruption? Success stories and economic theory convey practical insights, though econometric findings don't. A process called "convening" can bring together international knowledge and local knowledge in ways that catalyze creative, effective action. May 2015.
"On Sharing Expertise." The tension is ancient and universal: we want the fruits of expertise, but we mistrust the arrogance and tin ears of experts. How, then, to manage the sharing of knowledge and experience we are eager to access, without the tyranny of experts we are all eager to avoid? April 2014.
"How Much Do Rights Matter?" Do improvements in civil liberties and political rights lead to improvements in GDP? Yes, but it's complicated. This paper explores the travails of estimation with a new twist: countries are heterogeneous. Dec. 2013.
"The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development." Many institutional reforms in developing countries have fallen short of expectations. Why? What can be done? Dec. 2013.
"Gratitude." Gratitude is good for us, and we can help ourselves become more grateful. Here's how. Nov. 2013.
"Tackling Corruption in Thailand." Poor governance is holding back Thailand's economic progress and contributing to its political unrest. Reformers sometimes start on the wrong foot–for example, new laws. What's better? Oct. 2013.
"Deciding Whom to Become." If we don't already know, how should we choose what to do with our lives? In a word, experiment. Revision of a Commencement Address. May 2013.
"Ideas for Improving Governance in Pakistan." As the country experiences its first-ever democratic transition, how can it live up to the promises made by each political party to foster good government? April 2013.
"Public-Private Collaboration and Corruption." Public-private-nonprofit partnerships will be increasingly important in addressing the world's most difficult problems. But they embed risks of collusion and corruption. What can be done? Nov. 2012.
"What Will Work Here: Inferences from Evaluations in Complex Ecologies." This address in the Presidential Stream of the American Evaluation Association argues that evaluations should move beyond "the study" for "the decision," to the convening of multiple actors to define issues, reconsider objectives and alternatives, digest promising practices, and forge new relationships. Many promising methods exist. It is time for a convening…about convenings. October 2012.
"The Quality of Government." What is good government? How much does it matter, and why? And—a crucial practical issue for a world in need and upheaval—how can it be improved? Sept. 2012.
"Social Media: A New Tactic in the Fight against Corruption." Around the world new applications of the social media augur progress against corruption. A key step will be moving from complaints to systems analysis to collective action. May 2012.
"Toward a Turning Point against Corruption." The fight against corruption needs new approaches that address political cultures, informal systems, and the practicalities of implementation. Fortunately, success stories can instruct and inspire. April 2012.
"Toward Results-Based Government in Colombia." Colombia has made impressive progress in public-sector reform. One interesting initiative is SINERGIA, touted as a successful innovation in evaluation. March 2012.
"Designing and Implementing a Technology-Driven Public-Private Partnership." India's remarkable universal identification project is a game-changing innovation in public policy and private finance. It is also an outstanding, and risky, example of collaboration between government at many levels, the private sector, and civil society. June 2011.
"Fighting Corruption." An overview of lessons learned from efforts to combat corruption around the world. June 2011.
"Making a Country." South Sudan is the world's newest country. A few years ago, leaders convened to address the prospective challenges of good government. What did they conclude? January 2011.
"Economic Gangsters." Poverty, violence, and corruption have connections that can be understood through economic analysis. Good data and good economics can lead to improvements. October 2010.
"Tackling Corruption in Haiti Is Possible." Haiti is a graveyard for reforms. The great quake and the reconstruction effort offer an opportunity to tackle one of the country's chronic problems, systemic corruption. March 2010.
"Addressing Corruption in Haiti." Based on analysis of Haitian realities and the lessons of international experience, this paper provides practical guidance for tackling corruption in Haiti's reconstruction and development programs. February 2010.
"Leadership and Universities." How does the president's job in higher education differ from business, government, or civil society? What is "inspirational leadership" and how important is it? What personal traits are important–and which ones are at risk? A talk to the Claremont Leadership Roundtable, a monthly meeting of about 25 professors from the Claremont Colleges. October 2008.
"Step Back or Step Up." A new evaluation of the World Bank's efforts to improve government notes that the impact has been small and also that the Bank doesn't take on high-level corruption. What now? Should the Bank step back or step up? May 2008.
"Universities Have the Responsibility to Tackle the World's Toughest Problems." One of a university's special callings is to take on the hardest issues, even those that seem intractable. This article, a version of which appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, describes how this might be done. February 2008.
"A Holistic Approach to the Fight against Corruption." This talk was the President's Invited Keynote Address at the Second Session of the Conference of State Parties to the United Nations Convention against Anti-Corruption. It discusses what corruption is and how systemic corruption can be reduced, if never eliminated. January 2008.
"Contested Summary Measures." Constructs such as IQ and GDP—and, possibly, many others—can be overused or dismissed in a classic but unhelpful pattern. How might we begin thinking about and using contested summary measures? October 2007.
"Three Reminders about Leadership." Common descriptors of leaders, such as commander, designer, or even leader itself, should be questioned, at least regarding leadership at universities. May 2007.
"Global Action and Social Change." Why research universities have to provide leadership on the world's most difficult problems. Brief introduction to a student-led research conference. March 2007.
"Catholic Studies in a Secular University." Why should a School of Religion at a secular university seek a Chair in Catholic Studies? With our unique mission of teaching students what it means to be inside and outside a community of faith, Catholic studies will add depth and resonance, and its exemplars teach us about experiencing God and serving mankind. Brief remarks to a presentation and panel discussion on "What Catholicism Will We Choose for the 21st Century?" and the symbolic launch of a campaign for a Chair in Catholic Studies. February 2007.
"Subverting Corruption." What can be done to fight corruption when the people in control are themselves corrupt? Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007. The definitive version was published in Global Crime, Volume 7 Issue 3, August 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution.
"From Here to There in the E-Health Revolution." These brief introductory remarks at a conference note the slow adoption of health information technologies and ask how we might speed things forward. December 2006.
"A Pattern in an Infinite Regress." As we think about what teachers do, and then what teaching teachers entails, we begin along what seems like an infinite regress of evidence and reflection, passion and inspiration. Brief introductory remarks to a meeting of Deans of Education. October 2006.
"More Like Us." This 2006 Convocation address contextualizes the strategic planning now underway at Claremont Graduate University. It reviews important recent critiques of graduate education and shows how CGU has the seeds of the answers. CGU can provide leadership in graduate education and help solve some of our region's and our world's most important problems, by being "more like us." October 2006.
"Social Advocacy and Universities." Advocacy doesn't naturally fit with academic culture. But social advocacy that is passionate, positive, practical, and concerned about proof can contribute much to university life. September 2006.
"The Ideals Gap." Successful candidates this fall will appeal to our hearts through their ideals and to our heads by connecting their programs to ideals. September 2006.
"Invisible Evidence." Might cultural analysis help us advance academic debates about what constitutes credible evidence? These brief remarks introduced the Stauffer Symposium for 2006. August 2006.
"What is the legacy of Peter Drucker?" How might we think about trying to extend that legacy now that he has passed? May 2006.
"Fear." How might research about fear help us, and our world, do a little bit better? These brief remarks introduced an arts and humanities conference on fear. April 2006.
"Neuroeconomics Welcoming Remarks." These brief introductory remarks at a conference ask how neuroeconomics might help us understand heterogeneity among people and, through that, lead to better treatments and public policies. April 2006.
"Are Great Leaders Also Great Followers?" These brief introductory remarks for a conference on "followership" suggest that aspiring leaders should ask "Of what or whom am I a follower?" and "What does it mean to be a great follower?" February 2006.
"Thomas Schelling and Policy Analysis." Thomas C. Schelling shares the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. He has also taught valuable lessons about how to do policy analysis.
"Interview." The University's magazine The Flame interviews the new CGU President and his wife (Fall 2005).
"Choosing and Using Performance Criteria: The Case of Foreign Aid." In many areas of public and private life, we need to choose and correctly use measures of performance. How should this be done? What factors need to be taken into account? 2005.
"The Quantitative-Qualitative Divide." In academia, an almost cultural barrier exists between researchers who favor quantitative methods and those who spurn them. How might this barrier be bridged to the benefit of both sides? 2005.
"Getting Insights from Experts." How can we learn best from experts? A somewhat frivolous example from interior design suggests some general lessons. 2005.
"The Elephant Is Peace and Freedom." (Part I) (Part II) (Part III) What is southern Sudan like? How might a new government be formed virtually from scratch? This long document, with photos, is a personal portrait based on a trip in April-May 2004. A text-only version, without the PowerPoint presentations, is available here. In addition, a book version with photos, maps, and the PowerPoint presentations is available via blurb.com. You can see a preview here:
The Elephant Is Peace and Freedom by Robert Klitgaard
"How to Use Partnerships: An Imaginary Conversation." Increasingly, projects and programs are carried out through partnerships involving government, business, and civil society. How should prospective participants decide whether and how to enter such partnerships? December 2004.
"Taking Culture Into Account: From 'Let's' to 'How'." Why, although people have studied culture for a century or more, don't we have well-developed theories, practical guidelines, and close professional links between those who study culture and those who make and manage development policy? This chapter investigates four possible explanations: culture clashes within academia; fear of the misuse, both scientific and practical, of cultural knowledge; the inherent difficulty of studying cultures scientifically, or the methodological difficulties of modeling and estimating culture-by-policy interactions; and the possibility that some success stories have been underpublicized. The chapter recommends a renaissance of applied cultural studies through the consolidation and generation of knowledge about 1) how cultural diversity affects what people do and want; 2) how cultural factors interact with other variables in the "production" of development, good and bad; and 3) how culture itself is affected by various kinds of development and other factors. April 1992.


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When we knew we were moving, I first packed up my work room. I knew I'd be inundated with a million other house projects and I didn't want the distraction that a room full of fabric would most certainly bring. I don't think I realized the longing that I would have to get back into making but it was there and it was strong. That was July. I didn't unpack my work room in the new house until close to October. And then I just stared at things. It took a while to find my sewing mojo. It took me a while to even get the room arranged. We were so wrapped up in everything else that my energy was zapped when it came to making.
At Rio's birthday party she wore an adorable little cape that I'd randomly come across months before she could even fit into it. I suddenly found myself hyper-motivated to figure out how to make adult-sized capes so I could have my own. I had sewing motivation finally! I figured it out, fell in love with it and proceeded to mass produce them, as seen by these samples. This was actually my first pattern to completely draft and edit on my own, which I'm pretty proud of! Somehow, I let sharing them here fall through the cracks. A few were sold at Indie Emporium and the rest I shipped on over to Out on a Limb in Oklahoma City.
The moral of this cape-y story? Don't force creativity as it will find you. At least, that's what works for me! And capes are wardrobe gold. Fact.
I've since moved on from my cape assembly line to more quilt-y creations but I have a sneaking suspicion that more capes are right around the corner.


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The Christian Moerlein event facility, at 1621 Moore Street, is in the company's Over-the-Rhine brewery. The site is a wonderful slice of Cincinnati's brewing history, with underground tunnels once used for lagering beer in a cool space before there was refrigeration.
The brewery isn't new to hosting bands and parties, providing Bockfest with its main hall and festival tent each year. The Moerlein outdoor stage will replace MidPoint's stage held at Grammer's since 2009.
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BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth sailing squad continued the fall season over the weekend, competing on the Charles River at Boston College's Central Series.
How it Happened
The weekend began with a postponement due to a lack of wind but eventually the pressure built on the point that racing was possible. The limited breeze made for a challenging day. Team captains Isabel Rombult (Boxford, Mass.) and Alix Blair (Gloucester, Mass.) sailed in the A division with Shannon McKeown (Franklin, Mass.) and Melanie Muzyka (Pembroke, Mass.) in the B division.
As the day progressed, the B team was able to settle into a rhythm and spent the afternoon in the middle of the fleet, while Rombult sustained an injury but chose to continue racing through the end of the day.
On Sunday, the Corsairs were underhanded as Rombult was unable to compete. This bumped McKeown and Muzyka into the A division. After yet another slight postponement, the sea breeze picked up enough for some slow moving races. The Corsairs were able to stay in the mix for the entire day, finishing each race with several boats behind them, however with only one boat scoring for the day, it was not possible to avoid a last place finish over all.
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UMass Dartmouth closes out the fall season at the Dark of Night Regatta on Thursday, Nov. 9, hosted by Tufts at Mystic Lake.


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Let's say you're browsing Google Web Fonts for a free font to use on your website. You find one you like...
You think it will look nice as headings on your site. So you follow the directions on Google Web Fonts "quick use".
1) Copy/Paste CSS link to page:
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Spicy+Rice' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
2) Copy/Paste font-family CSS to your headings CSS:
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {
font-family: 'Spicy Rice', cursive;
/* Your other headings CSS */
And alas! You've done it, your headings are now in your specially picked out font:
But then you start to notice that the font is a bit muddier than you'd like. It might be hard to explain, but it just doesn't look as good as when you picked it off Google Web Fonts. Or maybe someone else notices and:
The problem is the font is muddier than you originally saw it, and it's all about
You see, the default font-weight for headings in browsers is "bold" (or more specifically, 700). And if you looked carefully when choosing this font, you might have noticed:
You might fall prey to this if:
- You don't use a reset and didn't specify a
font-weightfor headings (defaults to user-agent style of
- You use Normalize.css instead of a reset, which doesn't adjust the
boldis consistent cross-browser default.
- You explicity set
boldon headings (like you might if you use a reset).
This isn't Google Web Fonts or the font itself's fault. It's just this font doesn't come in a bold weight and you are asking for it specifically. That means the browser tries to bold the font for you, which is something it's able to do but isn't particularly good at (hence the muddiness).
Fixing it is as simple as being specific with your font-weight to match what the font offers.
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {
font-family: 'Spicy Rice', cursive;
font-weight: 400; /* Be specific */
/* Your other headings CSS */
So yeah. In short:
This is a problem most common in decorative fonts where it's most common there is only one font-weight available. I'd say fonts from paid services like Typekit generally offer fonts with a wider variety of font-weights available, but that's not to say it can't be a problem with Typekit, as it's smart/recommended to load as few weights as you can get away with to lighten the load of your page.
Also note, this is a common problem with italics as well. Say you decide to load a normal, bold, and italic version of a font. If you then have text that is both bold and italic, the browser will have to fake it (because it doesn't have a bold-italic version available) and it will look bad. It happens to me on this site, but I don't think loading an extra whole version of the site is worth it so I just try to avoid it.


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FACT: We waste at least a third of the world's food.
National Geographic 2014 Emerging Explorer and activist Tristram Stuart says "ridiculously strict" cosmetic standards among consumers play a major role. His solution: Eat foods often considered too ugly to sell. Stuart works to inspire people to join a "food-waste revolution," with initiatives like volunteer harvest programs and free communal feasts of food that would otherwise be wasted.
Click here to read more about Tristram Stuart and his work.
Tristram Stuart thinks we should do something revolutionary with food: Eat it.
The British author calls the problem of food waste "scandalous and grotesque" and cites statistics to prove it:
One-third of the world's food is wasted from plough to plate.
The planet's one billion hungry people could be lifted out of malnourishment with less than a quarter of the food wasted in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe.
The water used to irrigate food that ends up being thrown away could meet the domestic water needs of nine billion people.
Until a few years ago, the colossal scale of food waste was largely unaddressed. But Stuart's 2009 book, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, and the grassroots initiatives he launched have lifted the topic from obscurity to prominence worldwide.
"We want to catalyze a food-waste revolution one person, one town, one country at a time—helping stop needless hunger and environmental destruction across our planet," he says.
In 2009, Stuart launched what has become the flagship event of his global food-waste campaign: Feeding the 5000. Created entirely of food that would otherwise be wasted, the free feast in London has been replicated around the world.
"These events give people a clear, tangible idea of food-waste problems and potential solutions right where they live," Stuart says. "A few years ago most big U.K. supermarkets wouldn't even talk to food redistribution charities—today they all do."
Stuart has also successfully campaigned for retailers to relax strict cosmetic standards for fruit and vegetables. "Farmers leave up to 40 percent of harvests rotting in fields because their produce doesn't conform to the perfect size or shape big supermarkets demand," Stuart says. "This even happens in countries like Kenya where millions of people are hungry."


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Sock Summit is over; it's time to go back to real life. What's a knitter to do? I could go check out the Oregonian's re-cap of the event here. I even saw myself in the video!
I could buy some more yarn! The Noro Silk Garden Lite wasn't the right yarn for the new project in my head, so I went to Twisted to get some Silk Garden Sock. But I got distracted by this Jojoland Melody superwash, which is really soft. It also has a really long color run, and a very slow change to the next color. I think it will do what I want, but there's only one way to find out. The S-word. Yes, swatch!
The colors are much richer than you see here; I can't quite capture them.
I wanted to mention something that really struck me last weekend. Cat Bordhi began her class by having everyone give their names, and tell who taught them to knit. I love the honoring of the ones who came before. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts, friends, co-workers, Youtube! You can trace the lineage back, in much the same way that piano students can trace their teachers back to Mozart. Cat was also really good about crediting ideas, such as Judy Becker for Judy's Magic Cast On and Magic Toe, and Jenny Staimann's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off. It's because of this that I can say that I learned my modified way of making an SSK (slip 1 as if to knit, slip 1 as if to purl, knit off together through the back loops) from Meg Swansen, who probably learned it from her mother, Elizabeth Zimmermann, and that was a modification of the SSK that was invented by…Barbara Walker. And so it goes.
Some other news: Abundant Yarn and Dyeworks, one of the Sock Summit sponsors, is closing their brick and mortar store. They'll still have an online presence, but this is a big loss for Portland. I'm sad to see them go.
Megknitficent (Ravelry name) is knitting her own wedding veil, and she had several teachers and students at Sock Summit knit on it. That will be a wonderful keepsake! And maybe she should get in touch with the woman who made this amazing wedding dress.
That's the news from here. Knit on!


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COBWEB CORNERS: Two buildings before Pikes Peak's summit houseBy Mel McFarland
I never get enough information about the top of Pikes Peak. The present summit house was built over 60 years ago to replace two previous buildings. One was originally the weather station, and the other served the Pikes Peak Highway.
The weather station was built of stones, many of them found right at the top, to be able to withstand the extremes of weather seen up there.
In 1872, efforts were made to get the US Army to locate a weather station on the summit. The next year work started on the shelter where soldiers would live year- round. The first building was quickly built, serving only briefly.
The formal station opened in October 1873, starting a severe test for the crew assigned the task of recording the mountain's weather. There were three in the first crew, two more in Colorado Springs, and another with the job of handling supplies. Initially, the weather reports were sent to Colorado Springs using mirror flashes, but with the mountain's unpredictable visibility, a telegraph line was built.
Sgt O'Keefe is by far the most famous soldier to be assigned to the station. He wrote fabulous tales of his time on the mountain and sold them to various eastern publications. He is best known for stories about his wife and daughter (who never actually existed) and their time on the summit. Tourists flocked to the top, asking about the daughter's grave, and they would be shown a board with the name "Erin O'Keefe" on it long after the sergeant had moved on!
Over the years the weather damaged the structure, and the military abandoned the station in the late 1880s. It was occasionally used by hikers as a shelter until the Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway reached the summit in 1891.
The railroad used the building as its station and made many changes to it. The biggest was the addition of hotel rooms along the west side, but the most striking construction was the multistory tower. It was certainly striking, as the greatest danger at the top is lightning, even during snowstorms! The view from the tower was quite impressive, with a 360-degree view of the horizon, but the electricity in the air often danced on the metal railings. The structure lasted until a fire in the 1950s.
The old highway summit house used to be west across the relatively flat summit parking lot from the weather station. It was built in 1916. It too eventually had a tower and was lost to fire in the late 1950s. But you can still find the concrete and tile floor. The Pikes Peak Hill Climb finish line is a short distance away.
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The Annual Lenten Whine
February 18, 2015
Long time blog readers are well aware that this is my absolute favorite time of year, a solemn and profound forty days of reflection, sacrifice, and personal growth. I am so looking forward to sharing my many insights and revelations with you during this season of penance and fastHA HA HA NOPE.
Oh Lent. You're here again.
One thing that is a teeny bit different about THIS Lent as opposed to all my other Lents is that I actually DID think about it BEFORE it arrived. I wondered what to do with the kids, what I should give up, what I should add to my life, and wondered all of it BEFORE this morning. Progress!
Which isn't to say I came up with any ideas or made any decisions. Of course. I am still not sure about the kids, for example. I have read a bunch of suggestions from helpful People Who Observe Lent Properly and I hope I can put a few of those into action. As for myself, I deleted the Twitter and Facebook apps from my phone, as a way to be more present in my real life and with my kids. And I decided to give up chocolate. Real chocolate. Actual chocolate. Chunks and bars and bites and bags of bittersweet Ghirardelli chocolate chips, aka Maggie's Lifeline When The World Is Going Kaput.
I spent a long time trying to figure out what I would give up. Giving up food always seems so EXPECTED. Heaven forbid I give up something boring, right? Giving up social media seemed like a good idea until I thought about all the people with whom I communicate purely through social media, and how those are IMPORTANT people, not people I can ignore for 40 days. So deleting the apps from my phone makes it possible to keep in touch with those folks while curbing the actual issue, which is the incessant scrolling through Twitter whenever I have a free five seconds. But it wasn't like I felt EXCITED about my sacrifices, right? There was nothing I thought of that burned brighter in my brain, all, "YES! I am the thing you should sacrifice! Giving ME up will be the MOST meaningful!"
But when I thought about this a little more I realized that there was probably NOTHING in my life that was going to stand out as The Thing I should sacrifice because (dum de dum dum ) I DON'T WANT TO SACRIFICE ANYTHING. Duh. This is why it's called a sacrifice. I am not going to be EXCITED to give up ANYTHING. And so I decided to go with something that, while embarrassingly un-original, would definitely be the most day-to-day sacrificial, and that would be my handfuls of medicinal chocolate. It's going to be horrible. Prepare yourself for plenty of whining.
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Reported: 1/13/2009 11:33:41 PM 23:33
Posted: 3/19/2009
Location: Highland Park, IL
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|9/3/06 Highland Park, Illinois Cylinder Shaped UFO
While waiting for the Cheap Trick concert to start we were sitting around on the ground taking in the great evening. The wife and kids were there an a few friends. I can't drink spirits so I laid back on the blanket. I was starring up watching ballons float away when I noticed way, way up in the sky. This was no ballon. Taking a guess if it was about the size of a bus, it was about 2 miles up no con trail. It took about a half hour to go from South to North. I have good eyes so I kept watching it until it moved from view. Darnest thing!


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Superintendent Howard Caldwell informed the board there were several factors taken into consideration. Factors considered were smaller school enrollment, decrease in state aid, cost of school cooperatives increasing, and needed purchases for the school in the health and safety program.
"I wish I could do something about the figures," Caldwell said. "The state keeps changing the calculations each year. The Community Service fund will see a drastic decrease. The district will be able to levy less as we'll receive more state aid in that area."
"It's going to cost the taxpayers more money to run the school," Caldwell added. "The debt service fund will see a 14 percent increase as the combination of local levy and net tax capacity rate will affect the amount we receive from the state. The state sets the figures and the district has no control over the funding."
"The new excess levy referendum funds do not take effect until next year, 1999-2000. The district will receive $454,648. Under the old referendum, the district received only $364,000.
HACA stands for Homestead and Ag Credit Aid. The state provides the districts funds to offset the taxes within the school district.
The school district's Truth in Taxation hearing on the levy is set for Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. in the elementary school media center. The formal adoption of the levy will take place at the board's second meeting in December (Dec. 22).
In other business:
•The board approved updating the district's driving and parking regulations. This gives the Paynesville Police Department authority on school grounds.
•The board approved the family and medical leave policy to accommodate the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1995.
•The board approved using compensatory revenue funds to hire a paraprofessional to work with three Spanish speaking students in the district. Claudia Fletcher, Belgrade, and Lou Louis have been working with the students to learn English.
•The board approved an agreement to participate with the Stearns County Family Service Collaborative. Through the collaborative, the district has been able to utilize the services of a part-time therapist from the Central Minnesota Mental Health Center.
•The board approved hiring Rhonda Adams and Trudy Gorton, to work as instructional assistants in the ECFE Learning Readiness Program.
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2020: Texas Gladiators (1982)
2020 Freedom Fighters
Anno 2020 - I Gladiatori del Futuro
One Eye Force
Texas v. 2000
Nomination Year: 2014
SYNOPSIS: Post-apocalyptic movies can typically go one of two ways. Either they can go big and over-the-top, or they can go low-budget and sneaky.
2020: Texas Gladiators is an early-'80s Italian post-apocalyptic film that really tries hard to go over the top ... but it can't quite manage it. There are battle trucks like in Warlords of the 21st Century, but they're small and not impressive. There are battle dune buggy / cars like in Warriors of the Apocalypse, but they're also small and unimpressive. In a lot of ways, this is a post-apocalyptic film at low budget and about half-size.
At the beginning, a group of villains is attacking a church -- killing priests and raping nuns. Five Texas Rangers show up and kill all the bad guys. One of the Texas Rangers (Catch Dog) decides to rape a girl that was hiding in the church. Another one of the Rangers (Nisus) catches him at it, and after a fight, Catch Dog is expelled from the Texas Rangers.
A few years later, Nisus has left the Texas Rangers, and is working at a Power Plant along with the girl that he saved (Maida). Nisus is extremely strong, and has built a nice life with Maida. They even have a child together.
This cannot last, and a bunch of bad guys (lead by evil mastermind Black One) armed with guns and shields-with-big-holes storm the power plant. The holes are some kind of energy barrier that repels bullets.
Black One is moving to secure the power plant. Nisus resists, and at about the half-hour mark, our main character is killed by the bad guys. So ... I guess he wasn't the main character after all.
Cut to a post-apocalyptic casino. Halakron (leader of the Texas Rangers) notices that a local gambler has dog tags ... Nisus' dog tags! He wants them, but the gambler insists on playing Russian Roulette for them. Suddenly we are in The Deer Hunter -- but on a smaller scale, and less impressive.
Halakron gets the dog tags, and finds Maida. He gets the story from her, and they (Maida, Halakron, and the two remaining Rangers, Jab and Red Wolfe) head off to the CALTEX power plant.
The thing is ... Black One didn't attack the power plant randomly. Not only is he interested in their method for generating power from reconstituted mine sediment, but he's working with Catch Dog, who wants to eliminate the remaining Texas Rangers.
Catch Dog and his hired thugs attempt to ambush the Texas Rangers, but are unsuccessful. The Texas Rangers lay their own trap, managing to kill the hired thugs, and convince Catch Dog that they've been killed.
They still need to find a way to get into the compound, though. And Black One's men are all armed with those thermal shields! What to do?
This is the point at which 2020: Texas Gladiators hauls out its jaw-dropping innovation. Since it's post-apocalyptic Texas, our heroes encounter a group of post-apocalyptic stereotypical Red Indians.
Halakron talks the Indian Scouting Party into taking him to their Village, where he Speaks with the Elders in front of the Wigwam. There is a Sacred Drum, of course. In the end, he gets them to agree to a trial-by-combat, of sorts. Jab provokes one of the Braves, and they fight. Jab wins, and so the Braves will assist the Texas Rangers in their assault. This is crucial, because while the shields-with-holes will resist bullets (because bullets are hot), arrows and spears pass right through (because arrows and spears are cold).
In the end, the Texas Rangers liberate the base, and Maida is reunited with her child, but at a great cost in both lives (theirs) and sanity (ours).
Now I know how to survive in the grim future Texas of the year 2020 -- stay the hell away from Texas!
- "Whoops!"
Way to make an "S" out of yourself.
The chemical plant is in danger of overheating. Nisus must hurry and "close the hydrogen B valve" as quick as he can. We know it's dangerous, because it says EXSPLOSIVE [sic] everywhere. And just in case we were thinking of forgetting, they keep cutting back to a sign that reads DANGER EXSPLOSIVE.
- Actors/Directors of Note
Actor Claim to Fame Peter Hooten Hal Yamanouchi Sabrina Siani Geretta Geretta she was in Terminator II, but not that Terminator II Donald O'Brien
Director Claim to Fame Joe D'Amato was born Aristide Massaccesi George Eastman Spaghetti Western actor, then soft-core, then fantasy (such as Big Ape in After the Fall of New York. But what he really wanted to do was direct.
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In addition to access to free training courses provided to its members by the NFRC, as a member you can gain access to various training providers, including the National Construction Colleges (NCC), that are affiliated to NFRC. All have close relationships with the NFRC in regard to training and skills competitions. Here's how they can help you keep on top of your game.
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- Stamps: Stampin' UP! Good Neighbors(SAB 2010), Trendy Trees
- Ink: SU!: Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Versafine Onyx Black
- Paper: SU! Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, black, Heidi Grace Designs DSP
- Other: SU! scalloped border punch, Perfect Layers, black jewels, SU! Melon Mambo ribbon, Stamp-a-ma-jig
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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4 comments:
- Jenny Gropp said...
CUTE! The little clouds are perfect!
- January 11, 2011 at 7:05 PM
The paper is by Heidi Grace Designs, called A Little Bird's Tale/Row of Icons. I love the paper and just happen to have some also...8-) Thanks for sharing a great way to use it.
- January 11, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- Miriam said...
Thanks for letting me know Tina! I'll correct. Miriam
- January 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Colleen Dietrich said...
Your DP really goes well with the tree and clouds. Such a sweet card.
- January 12, 2011 at 10:44 PM
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What it's like recovering from a long-term injury
I'm looking back on a year of very low activity on this blog. I never thought I'd slow down this much. There are three primary reasons for it. I can share two of them, one today and another tomorrow or Tuesday. The first one has to do with what it's like recovering from a long-term injury. There's more to it than most people realize.
Recovering from a long-term injury
It's been eleven weeks since my fourth foot surgery for a complicated tendon problem. I'm approaching four years since the injury and the first surgery. I'm in physical therapy now to re-strengthen my lower limbs. On most days it's about an hour of home therapy, but if I'm having scheduled PT at the hospital it takes about two and a half hours out of my day. Everyone is predicting this will last a year.
That's not the worst disruption, though. I've just thought of a way to explain it.
This is my story, but it's many other disabled persons' story, too. I'm sure it's the same for many stroke patients, only (I'm sure) much more so. If you've got a friend or family member with a long-term disability or injury, I'm writing this for them as much as for myself. I suggest you ask them to read this, and then ask if it helps them describe any of what they're going through. The physical aspects are challenging in ways that are easy to see. To every long-term disability, however, there's a hidden challenge that others may not easily understand. I'm hoping this will help.
I'll start with an analogy. This will communicate best if you've ever helped anyone learn to drive.
It was fascinating to me, when I was helping my son and daughter learn to drive, just how much mental energy they spent on operating the vehicle: how much to turn the wheel, when to hit the brakes in order to stop on time, how hard to push the pedals, and so on. They had almost no capacity left to notice things like traffic lights changing or cars merging onto the expressway. I had to serve as their eyes for them; they literally didn't have mental space left over see the things a driver needs to see to drive safely.
They could navigate to familiar places but they could never have followed a map to someplace new. Their minds were fully occupied with making the car move forward without hitting anything, and that was all they could do. For experienced drivers, of course, none of that involves any mental effort whatsoever. When was the last time you actually thought about how fast to accelerate out of a turn?
Similarly, when's the last time you had to think about how to take a step? I don't mean taking a step on rough or uneven ground, but just walking across your living room. During this phase of my recovery, I spend at least some mental energy on every step I take.
I had developed habits, you see, of sometimes walking flat-footed on the left foot, and sometimes pushing off sideways, so as not to irritate the injured part of the foot. My balance-control muscles are badly out of shape, so for stability I tend to walk with my feet spread further apart than they should be. None of that is healthy walking technique. I'll never correct it unless I concentrate on it. Meanwhile, though, there's that balance thing going on. I really do start to lose my balance sometimes.
My foot tires easily, which calls for further energy devoted to decision-making, as I 'll explain in a moment. By "tires easily," I mean for example that this morning I got as far as making the coffee and feeding the cat before my foot delivered its first complaint of fatigue. That was the best it had done since the last surgery. Even a short-lived experience of normalcy like that, while pleasant, was distracting. I couldn't help noticing and thinking about it.
Pain is tiring in itself, and pain is present with nearly every step I take. Sometimes it's a debilitating ache that goes all the way up into the hip. Sometimes overuse doesn't lead to pain, though. Sometimes with little warning and without any standard sensation of pain or tiredness, my ankle simply decides not to hold me up. I've only fallen the floor once from that happening, and it was when I was already leaning forward to look get a shoe out of my closet; still, it's a disconcerting and debilitating feeling to know that my foot might just decide not to do its job of holding me up on the next step.
So as I said, that leads to further decisions: Do I use crutches? The answer is often yes, if I'm going further than just across the room. But what if I need to carry something? Do I use a backpack? Most of the time I do, but it's not much help if I want to take a coffee cup along. I have to pause to get my car keys out of my pocket. A phone call will stop me dead in my tracks.
Mostly, though, I have to think about every step I take. To be standing upright isn't just a physical challenge for me. It's a matter of expending constant extra mental energy on ordinary activity. I used to walk a mile every afternoon. It was usually my most productive "think" time of the day. Now if I'm walking, if I'm thinking about anything other than walking, then by necessity I'm thinking about two things at once. Either that, or else I'm walking in those bad habits I mentioned above. It's tiring to work that way.
Last night I had a great night's rest, nine full hours. Today I had nothing urgent to do, and I got about a 90-minute nap. I feel fairly rested for the first time in weeks. I think now you might understand better why I would feel that way.
That's part of what's been slowing me down: I don't have as much energy to think and write as I'd like to have. I keep thinking I'm going to get this blog active again. I do think that day is coming. There's more going on, though—much better news than this, mostly, though with a bittersweet side to it as well. I'll be back with it in a day or two.


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Get in the Game: Covenant Relationship
In-Game Interviews: Engaging Others
Leading By Example: Leadership
Personal Fouls: Relationships and Sex
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text: I have long been involved in one of the key civil rights causes of our day: the struggle for marriage equality. As a lawyer in Canada in the past, I was involved in same-sex marriage litigation in that country. That was early in the last decade, around 2002. Ever since, I have written about the issue and engaged in debate about it. I now feel I've heard it all – all the arguments against marriage equality. And I feel very confident at this point saying that none of the arguments against marriage equality holds up in the light of logic.


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USC seeks new deal for Hyman
University in preliminary talks to keep athletics director at post until he retires
USC leaders have had preliminary discussions with athletics director Eric Hyman about a contract extension that could keep Hyman at USC until he retires, according to members of the university's board of trustees.
Retiring USC president Andrew Sorensen, who hired Hyman away from TCU three years ago, was involved in the contract talks with Hyman prior to Friday's announcement that Harris Pastides, USC's vice president for research and health sciences, would succeed Sorensen.
"Andrew Sorensen wanted to make sure that anything that was discussed was something the new president could agree upon," board chairman Herbert Adams said.
Pastides, who has been at USC since 1998, said he likes the job Hyman has done and is in favor of extending his contract, but he first wants to consult with the trustees.
Hyman, 57, has two years remaining on the five-year contract he signed in 2005.
The current deal, which expires on June 30, 2010, is worth a guaranteed $430,000 a year with an additional $75,000 in incentives. Hyman also receives $250,000 in a tax-deferred retirement plan if he remains at USC through 2010.
Mike Mungo, a longtime member of the board's executive committee, said Hyman should be rewarded for getting the athletic department's budget back in order. Hyman took over a department that lost $2 million in Mike McGee's final year as athletics director and steered it back into the black.
Hyman, named the national athletics director of the year at TCU in 2004, also has replenished an athletics department reserve fund that had been drained to $3.3 million two years ago. USC expects to have $8.7 million in the fund after the 2008-09 fiscal year.
Mungo said he would recommend that Hyman be given another five-year contract with a rollover clause "for two or three years to let him go to 65."
"I think this guy does everything right, everything the right way. He's a team player," Mungo said. "He is forthcoming. When he has an idea that he wants to do, he talks to you. He calls you up. ... If we've got to vote on his money, he talks to us and explains it to us before we get to a board meeting."
But Mungo said Hyman should not expect a big raise.
"He makes as much as the president does now so I don't think it would be any big sums of money," Mungo said. "When you make over $500,000 a year, you can't (complain)."
Hyman declined to address the contract talks, saying it would be "more appropriate for other people to comment on something like that as opposed to me."
Eddie Floyd, another longtime trustee who is on the executive committee, said he believes Hyman has done a good job, but does not want the board to interfere with Pastides.
"It seems like if we're going to get a new president, (a contract extension for Hyman) should come as a recommendation from our new president," Floyd said. "I don't think we ought to jump in and start extending contracts. If we're going to do that, the president ought to do that. If he makes a recommendation, than we can make a decision. That should be his prerogative."
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The Special Task Force in Plateau State said it will set up a committee to investigate the killing of a police inspector at Mikang on Monday.
The inspector was allegedly shot by an army corporal attached to the STF at a checkpoint in Mikang.
STF Commander, Maj.-Gen. Henry Ayoola, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on Wednesday that the committee would soon be constituted to investigate the incident.
The STF boss described the incident as very unfortunate and pledged to ensure that justice was done.
He confirmed that the soldier involved in the incident had been arrested and was currently being detained.


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Account limited after 15 years of selling
Here's one I'm sure you have all heard before. Been with eBay since US inception, been with PayPal since it's inception. Retired from professional selling some 10 years ago but kept accounts with eBay & accounts (multiple) with Paypal.
Mostly used the eBay accounts to buy but we are moving house so want to offload some of our household stuff locally & listed items on eBay. eBay make it compulsory to include Paypal as an option for payment.
All goes well, we sell some stuff, everybody is happy they get bargains because we sell cheap.
I state on all my listings that we much prefer cash on pick up but some guy buys 2 quality bedside table with a couple of matching bedside lamps thrown in for $35 —- for some reason he pays with Paypal. All seems OK, the bloke picks up his stuff, can't believe it's so cheap & leaves positive feedback.
I check my Paypal account & they have frozen the funds ($35 minus commission) because they claim
1) We are new sellers & they need to verify we are legit? (after 15 years trading)
2) They need to verify the buyer has been sent the item & is satisfied with it & leaves positive feedback when this is obvious.
Firstly I reported fraudulent behavior within Paypal's internal system stating they had stole my funds to which I received a nonsensical email reply explaining the funds were in my account but held until they verified the buyer had been shipped the item & they were happy with it. What part of positive feedback translates into "buyer is not happy"!
So I telephone Paypal & get a nice Philipino person who keeps spouting the Paypal regulations about how they are obliged, in the interests of buyer &seller to steal my money for 21 days (or longer if they see fit) waiting to see if the buyer is happy or I am a "fraudulent seller".
Of course the nice Philipino person was not authorized to help me so he passed me on to another nice Philipino person (in Manilla) who supposedly is more senior. I asked the nice Philipino representative if he was actually in direct employ of the criminal organisation know as Paypal or simply answered the phone in Manila from a call center. Didn't really get a definite answer on that one. Anyway end of the day the crims at Paypal have my money & the bloke who took my stuff is probably also being debited so they have double dipped.
I know it makes no difference to eBay or Paypal that my next step will be to cancel our Paypal accounts & I will discuss with my wife whether we may also just cancel our several eBay accounts after 15 or so years. Basically I just feel I should not support what this online trading company has become.
Posted: May 27, 2015 at 4:09 pm
4 Responses to Account limited after 15 years of selling
i know the feeling, i have a slightly different issue but similar myself in that my pp account was actually originally an x.com account and whenr paypal bought out and merged x.com ( somewhere between 97 and 99) my x.com was converted to a paypal account, and during the merger and account change over i was robbed by paypal of $500.00 and here is it 2015 and i am STILL fighting pp to get my funds back whereas most would have already filed a lawsuit i havent for several reasons. problem is the longer you let pp string you along the harder it will be to get what is rightfully yours and in my instance i have attorneys waiting for me to give the go ahead to proceed with legal action and when i do i am going to go for all court costs, attorney fees and a LARGE amount for compensation and will NOT settle. if you do the math you will see just going from say late 98 is 16 years ( yeas YEARS) i have been trying to get satisfaction and the sad part is i fall into a rare category of problem coming during a merger, software of the time, and possible mistake by person working to move records electronically from x.com to paypal which is making me proving difficult but also pp records are also wrong claiming i didnt have pp account till 06 and didnt have fleabay till 07 which is also inaccurate and i actually have an eye witness whom has been present and aware of issue since day 1.
with that said i am contacting pp daily now and documenting, recording calls, and using speaker phone for communication wherever possible with witnesses around. the more i get the better my case up to and including e-mails from customer service that are never from the same person twice, e-mail from "executive support" with a non working contact number for the person sending the e-mail ( number is actually to put in your number to check voice mail or put in number to reach person you need but the number of the person needed was not included) and replies to the "executive" e-mail address never get a reply back.
also it is important to note that NONE of the corperate office phone numbers for paypal are accurate company lists as in san jose cali but the area code on the phone number is for nebraska, i personally believe this was done BY DESIGN to keep people like us from being able to get ahold of the people we need to or make our complaints known to paypal.
I have had the same complaints as others here. I only used PayPal because I am a sole proprietor in international exchange programs and was a bit concerned about the safety of receiving funds from such countries as Ukraine, Russia and China. PayPal sounded like a good idea at the time. I receive payments next day via PayPal from AirBnB where I am a hostess. But as an independent business woman, it is a nightmare. Yes, 21 days holds on funds and then another 3-5 days to be paid. And then a 3% fee on top of it. Honestly, I will just give out my bank information next time. At least I get the funds in 3-5 days and at a flat $15 receipt fee. It is stupid of me to not believe that my very capable bank cannot alert me to questionable funds received by countries with questionable banking systems.
Long story short … I have to wait several months to bill an agent. Wnhy do I need to wait another month after billing and receiving money to get my funds?
Because those problems with Ebay and PayPal I quit selling already. They loose profit on my sales.


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Bret Miller paints a blue streak through the pink world of breast cancer
For years, Bret Miller was told not to worry about the hard nugget the size of a lima bean underneath his right nipple.
He first mentioned it to a doctor in 2003 during a physical to play football at Shawnee Mission East when he was 17. "They were like, 'You're 17. It's puberty,'" he recalled in the living room of his parents' Prairie Village home. "'It seems like a calcium buildup. You're in puberty. It will dissipate. They come and go.'"
But it didn't go away. Because it wasn't calcium. It was breast cancer.
In fact, Bret Miller's cancer wouldn't be diagnosed for another seven years — one of the reasons he has committed himself to being the male face of a cancer that is 100 times more likely to be found in a woman.
October — National Breast Cancer Awareness Month — is awash in pink. Miller, 27, knows that's a good thing for the disease that's the second leading cause of death by cancer in women.
The year he was diagnosed, he and his mother, Peggy Miller, started the Bret Miller 1T Foundation to add a little blue to the conversation.
"This is still a women's disease," Bret Miller said. "It's always going to be that way. I'm not trying to steal the thunder from anybody. I have gotten some dirty looks from some women, but I'm not trying to steal their thunder.
"I'm just trying to educate people and let them know that it is possible. That's where the whole foundation came from."
With his foundation's pink and blue ribbon tattooed on his chest and proudly displaying his mastectomy scar, Miller is determined to let men know: Breast cancer can happen to you too.
His ultimate goal is to build grow the Bret Miller 1T Foundation into "the Susan G. (Komen for the Cure) of male breast cancer."
He and his mother are clearly motivated. They got Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to both declare this week Male Breast Cancer Awareness week. Twelve states have now made the declaration, and Peggy Miller traveled to Oklahoma City for a proclamation last weekend.
Miller has been interviewed for an upcoming HBO documentary about men's breast cancer. A short documentary about his case is shown to Shawnee Mission East students. And he's one of only two men named as Models of Courage for Ford's Warriors in Pink breast cancer awareness campaign. For that program, he's made widely distributed videos telling his story and encouraging men nationwide to start thinking about breast cancer.
One of the reasons Miller's cancer went undetected for so many years is that breast cancer in men is exceptionally rare. It makes up only 1 percent of the cases of breast cancer nationwide. The National Institutes of Health estimates that while 232,340 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, 2,240 men will be. Almost 40,000 women will die of it; 410 men will die.
In fact, the disease is so rare that Medicaid guidelines aren't written to include testing and treatment for men enrolled in the program, which leads to men often being denied treatment.
Several months after his football physical in high school, Miller had another physical before entering the University of Kansas as a freshman. He mentioned the lump. And again the doctor said it was likely just calcium and nothing to worry about.
"He thought the same exact thing as the doctors before — calcium deposit, keep an eye on it if it changes size or whatever," he says.
While at KU though, the hard ball began to worry him a little bit, especially when pressure was applied to it.
"It had kind of started hurting. Not a lot, just a little pain," he said. "If I did squeeze it, there was a yellow-orange-ish discharge. (I was) thinking it was a cyst or whatnot. A fluid buildup."
The discharge didn't alarm him; he figured it was dissolving. "I was just thinking, maybe it's finally going away just like the doctor said," Miller said.
After graduating from KU in 2008, he moved back to the metro and took a job managing facilities at the Carriage Club country club in Kansas City. In 2010, about a year after getting health insurance for work, he again mentioned the hardness under his nipple to a doctor.
This time, though, the doctor said it needed to be checked out. Miller was sent to a clinic for an ultrasound. The physician never uttered the word "cancer."
He drove to the clinic for the ultrasound, and that was when he first realized he didn't fully understand what the lump could be.
"So I walk in there — big ol' letters: 'Women's Clinic,'" he said.
Still, the possibility of having breast cancer didn't register. "It's where they have the (ultrasound) machine, that's all I'm thinking. Nothing is clicking that it's breast cancer," he said.
He even remembers chuckling at the forms he had to fill out in the clinic waiting room. "They hand me the clipboard, I'm filling it out. Name, address, insurance — when was your last menstrual cycle? Are you pregnant?" he recalled.
But things got serious quickly.
The technician doing the ultrasound called the on-call doctor.
"She comes in and literally does a triple-take. She's looking at the screen, looking at me. Looking at the screen, looking at me."
The doctor order a mammogram. Is this physically possible? Miller thought. He wasn't even sure how the doctor was going to conduct the scan: What are they going to squeeze?
The mammogram showed a mass, and Miller consulted a surgeon who was confident that it was a deposit of calcium and that it should be removed. On April 27, 2010, Miller had surgery to remove the mass.
"The next day, I'm back at work at the country club. More numb than anything," Miller said. "As I'm leaving the country club, I get a call from the surgeon. He doesn't ask me if I'm sitting down, if I'm driving, whatever. He kinda goes, 'The preliminary pathology reports have come back, and it says it's breast cancer.'"
"I love them all dearly," Peggy Miller says of her children. "If God had to choose anyone to give cancer to, this is the one out of the four of my kids."
Bret Miller's eyes remain dry, and he rarely gets emotional when talking about his ordeal.
His mom, though, lets her emotions flow freely.
Bret is the kid who doesn't get fazed, she said. After all, Bret's her kid who played nose tackle for the Shawnee Mission East Lancers while weighing only 130 pounds as a freshman. Bret's her kid who routinely works 50 hours between his Carriage Club job and a gig tending bar at Tango Del Cid in the Power Light District and still remains cheerful and active when he's not on the clock. He's the kid who recently volunteered his bar tips to get tumors removed from the legs of the family's boxer, Dakoda.
He's the most unflappable member of the family. Even when he got the cancer call from the surgeon.
"I was like OK Uh? All I was thinking was, am I getting punked right now? Where's Ashton (Kutcher) and the cameras?" he said of the MTV show that filmed pranks on people.
Peggy leapt into action. Her first task was to reach out to every member of their extended family to put together a complete family history of cancer. The good news was that there was no direct line of cancer in Bret's genetics. That meant that after surgery, the chances were lower that the disease would return.
A second opinion confirmed the need for more surgery. Since the cancer hadn't spread into his lymph nodes, and no cancer was detected in his left breast, he opted for a single mastectomy. He went under the knife May 18, 2010.
The surgery, done at St. Joseph Medical Center, was a success. The cancerous tissue was removed, and Miller came through fine. He was left with a scar several inches long, and no right nipple, but the cancerous tissue was removed, and so far it hasn't spread anywhere else.
A prayer Peggy Miller said the morning of her son's mastectomy to the patron saint of lost causes set the family in motion for raising awareness about male breast cancer.
"I have big faith in St. Jude," Peggy Miller said, through tears. "We prayed to God and to St. Jude that morning. You make Bret well, I will promise you I will tell the world."
With her son on the road back to health, Peggy Miller, an Episcopalian, began to follow through on the promise she made to God and to educate people about breast cancer in men.
Her son had already started educating the public through Facebook posts about his diagnosis and surgery. Even in those early days, he showed a flair for fun — a key part of his foundation's attitude. Just before the surgery, he posted a comic goodbye to his right nipple. "It's been a good 24 years," he posted.
Peggy Miller's activism lands somewhere between a hobby and a part-time job. "My husband, my other three kids probably would wish I would I stop talking about it," she said with a laugh.
There have been a couple famous men with the disease, including the late "The Price Is Right" announcer Rod Roddy, who advocated late in his life for men to get mammograms, "Shaft" actor Richard Roundtree and Kiss drummer Peter Criss. But its rareness is why Peggy Miller doesn't blame doctors for missing it in her son.
"Why would I ever expect a male doctor to look at a male patient, especially Bret's age, and say, 'Oh, I think you have breast cancer'? I wouldn't," she said.
And that's exactly why she and Bret are working together to build the Bret Miller 1T Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to educate young people, especially men, about breast cancer.
By launching his own organization, Miller aims to spread his message of early detection to young people. The foundation's mission is to build "awareness and early detection for young women and men through the knowledge of survivors."
He plans to send breast cancer survivors to colleges and high schools nationwide to educate students about detection.
During the process of learning about male breast cancer after her son's diagnosis, she had what she calls her "Oprah a-ha moment." She asked Bret and Bob if doctors had ever checked their breasts.
"They both said, 'No. They check everything,'" down to the testicles, "'But not our boobs.' I said, 'Oh my gosh, you men don't even have a chance in hell. You don't even know,'" she said.
Indeed, the National Institutes of Health notes that survival rates are the same for men and women when the cancer is caught at the same stage. Men, however, are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage.
Lon McCroskey, the breast surgeon who performed Bret's surgery, has been practicing since 1981 and treated about 15 to 20 cases of male breast cancer in his career. He said the treatment for male breast cancer is very similar to the treatment of female breast cancer. It's important to catch it early, he said.
"Male breast cancer is very curable, just like female breast cancer, if it's caught early," he said.
Bret's work to raise awareness of breast cancer in men is particularly important because breast cancer in men can indicate that breast cancer is in a family's genes. "Male breast cancer is a red flag for a problem in the family," McCroskey said. If male breast cancer is found, he said, other family members should get tested to see if they have elevated likelihood of getting cancer.
"If that family is tested, you might find that other members are at risk," McCroskey said. "And you can prevent breast cancer in those patients if you know that they're at high risk of developing breast cancer."
The revelation that men aren't checked for breast cancer sparked Peggy Miller to pursue a simple mantra for the organization's mission. The first point she makes to people is that you don't have to have large amounts of breast tissue to get cancer. Any amount of breast of tissue can become cancerous. "If you got boobs, this can happen to you. It doesn't discriminate," she said.
Spend any time with Peggy in the cluttered home office that serves as headquarters for the family's film production company and the Bret Miller 1T Foundation, and it's clear she has done her research into breast cancer. As far as she can tell, Bret is the youngest man ever to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Usually men aren't diagnosed until they are in their 60s.
To help raise awareness, the Millers worked with the National Consortium of Breast Centers, a nonprofit professional membership organization, to create
online videos
showing up-to-date and doctor-recommended methods for self examinations for both men and women. The videos have been viewed by people from around the world, Peggy Miller said. And her family's new activism is already paying off for herself. Using the methods in the videos, she found two non-cancerous lumps in her own breasts a couple of months ago.
"It has saved lives. People have found their lumps. I found mine, because of it," she said.
Bret Miller wants his foundation to be full of fun — hosting events at bars.
"Everybody has a 5K or a fun run. You have to do something different. Think outside of the box," he said, during the foundation's first fund-raiser in late September at the bar and concert space Kanza Hall in the One Block South development in Overland Park. While the family had participated in charity walks and hosted fundraisers for other breast cancer nonprofits, this was the first for the Bret Miller 1T Foundation.
There was a resoundingly nontraditional feel in the bar. A video of Bret chatting with female breast cancer survivors played on TVs throughout the space. And a couple dozen volunteers milled about in blue T-shirts, selling raffle tickets and tending bar. The night culminated in a country rock concert by the band Walker McGuire. It had the feeling of a fun night out, and 342 attendees raised $3,647 for the foundation.
Miller wants to appeal to a younger crowd and get young men educated.
"To quote George Carlin, saliva over a long period of time, swallowed in small amounts, can cause cancer. It seems like no matter we do in our society or world, cancer is inevitable. It's going to happen. It strikes people that are in phenomenal shape. It's a genetics thing," he said.
The Millers are finding out that promoting education about breast cancer among men can cause friction between them and traditional, female-focused breast cancer charity groups.
Peggy Miller says that experiences with those groups have been a little prickly. She recalled asking one cancer patient support group that she didn't want named to help Bret. A member of the group's leadership told her that the organization is for female patients only.
"I said, 'Well you know what? As these men get this cancer, you guys need to rethink your purpose.' She said, 'Well, I don't know if that will ever happen,'" Peggy said.
There's also resistance among some traditional breast cancer nonprofits to highlight the disease among men on their websites and in marketing campaigns.
Friction between breast cancer nonprofits is a fact of the industry, said Leawood resident Barbara Unell, founder of the nonprofit Back in the Swing. Unell started her organization focusing on getting survivors post-treatment care in 2000 after her own battle with breast cancer.
"I don't feel like I'm in competition or running against them," she said of other cancer organizations, but there's only so much money to go around. "There is a fight, if you will, for that dollar."
She added that because most research and breast cancer nonprofits are focused on female breast cancer, raising awareness of the disease in men is a laudable focus. A male friend was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and she said there's a tight connection between population groups targeted by awareness groups and research funding.
"Where research dollars go, that's where a lot of the awareness follows. And vice versa," she said.
The Millers are determined to grow their foundation. They have found success in getting several states to declare a week in October for male breast cancer awareness.
Additionally, the foundation is organizing an event called Tops Off New York, a photo op in which male and female breast cancer survivors will pose topless. The fundraiser will benefit the Millers' foundation as well as the male breast cancer organization
and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's male breast cancer research project.
As they get the Bret Miller 1T Foundation going, Peggy says their message needs to be simple: The public needs to stop thinking about breast cancer the way it does now.
"It's not just pink. It's a pink and blue world now. If you've got boobs, you can get it," she said.


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Check out our guest blogger of the day, Mary of Curlybyrdie Chirps.
I think every woman should have a red dress during the holiday season and this H&M dress is priced just right. I loved taking pictures in this dress. I almost felt like Mariah Carey on her Christmas special—so festive. My lovely daughter was my photographer today and we made a day of it. At 15 this girl is wise beyond her years! Im a proud Mama.
This dress is one of my Sunday Scores. This dress is that perfect red and this dress is priced at $20...how could I not? My other score is also from H&M. It is this beautiful jacket with gold chain on the sleeve. I am obsessed with this jacket. It was originally $59 and I ended up getting it for $22...now that's a score. I will be featuring this jacket on my next 2 blog post styled in different ways. I think its the perfect holiday find. I hope you fashionistas had an awesome weekend.


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A brand new adventure begins with the new graduated cadets of police academy. These two police officers have a very tough mission. The thieves who are entered a mansion to rob, captured the people who live in mansion. The thing what these two officer need to do, is to save these captives. There are twenty rooms in this mansion and there are tough puzzles that you should solve in each room of this mansion. You don't have much time. Start the operation immediately and save the captives.
Game controls:
Player 1:
Move: "W,A,S,D"
Fire: "F"
Open boxes: "G"
Player 2:
Move: "I,J,K,L"
Punch: "O"
Good luck!