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UC Davis Medical Center ranks among the top 50 hospitals in the nation and number one in the Sacramento region, according to the results of U.S. News & World Report's 2011-2012 best hospitals survey, published online today. In addition, 26 UC Davis physicians are included on the list of U.S. News Top Doctors.
US News also named UC Davis among the nation's Most Connected Hospitals for adopting information technology to enhance patient safety and quality of care. UC Davis was one of 118 hospitals to receive the designation for its leadership in the adoption of electronic health records.
U.S. News evaluated about 5,000 hospitals to rank the best in 16 adult medical specialties, from cancer to urology. UC Davis Medical Center ranks 39th in cancer care and 46th in orthopaedics, placing it in the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide.
In addition, U.S. News ranks UC Davis Medical Center as the top hospital in the Sacramento metro area with nine high-performing medical specialties: cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; ear, nose and throat; geriatrics; gynecology nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; pulmonology and urology.
The rankings will appear in the U.S. News Best Hospitals guidebook, which will be available Aug. 30.
This year's rankings include the U.S. News Top Doctors list, which includes 26 UC Davis physicians whose expertise spans 20 specialty areas. Developed in collaboration with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York City-based company that has worked for nearly two decades to identify the nation's top doctors, the Top Doctors selections are based on nominations submitted by other doctors and reviewed by a physician-led research team.
UC Davis Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Ann Madden Rice said the recognition is the result of the hospital's outstanding physicians, superior nurses and dedicated staff, and their commitment to providing exceptional patient care.
"This honor is a testament to our employees' unwavering commitment to placing UC Davis Medical Center at the pinnacle of patient care in the Sacramento region and the nation," Rice said. "I am deeply proud of our successes in developing new, innovative treatments and technologies that are advancing health and transforming health care here and around the world."
The U.S. News ranking summarizes the quality of inpatient care examining the balance of nurses to patients; mortality statistics; patient safety; reputation; the numbers of procedures conducted; and other care-related measures such as technology and patient services. Hospitals that appear on the list often pioneer new treatments, conduct translational research and exploit the latest advances in imaging, surgical devices and other technologies that advance health.
UC Davis is one of only 65 hospitals nationwide with a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. At the UC Davis Cancer Center, top specialists provide compassionate, comprehensive care each year for more than 9,000 adults and children and offer access to more than 150 clinical trials. Through the Cancer Care Network, UC Davis collaborates with community hospitals and clinics to offer the latest cancer services to patients throughout the Central Valley and Northern California.
The UC Davis Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is a leader in state-of-the-art surgery, research and education, with a level I trauma center and a musculoskeletal research center that are among the most sophisticated and interdisciplinary in the nation. The program encompasses nine subspecialties, a 24-hour level I trauma center and programs for pediatric patients at Shriners Hospital for Children - Northern California, as well as access to leading-edge clinical research trials.
The U.S. News survey showed that UC Davis Medical Center's nurse-to-patient ratio -- 2.7 registered nurses per patient bed -- is among the nation's highest. In cancer, only Yale New Haven Hospital, the Mayo Clinic and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center have higher nurse-to-patient ratios, with 3.2, 3.1 and three nurses per bed, respectively. In orthopaedics, only Mayo and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center had higher ratios, with 3.1 and three nurses per bed, respectively.
In separate specialty and school rankings released by U.S. News earlier this year, UC Davis Children's Hospital ranked among the nation's best in pediatric urology, and the UC Davis School of Medicine ranked among the best medical schools in primary care and research.


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President Bollinger Assesses Supreme Court Decisions in Seattle and Louisville Public School Cases
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's decision today to limit the use of voluntary school desegregation plans in Parents Involved in Community Schools Inc. v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County (Ky.) Board of Education:
"It may be too early to tell whether these two decisions represent the first act of a national tragedy of withdrawal from the historic and unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The goal of racial integration inaugurated by Brown has been among the noblest of America's ambitions. The need for steadfast commitment to achieving this goal has been reinforced by numerous decisions of the Court over the past half century. The two narrowly decided cases today seem, sadly, to represent a new course and a significant impairment of the commitment of Brown."
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, a former dean of the law school and president of the University of Michigan, was the named defendant in the twin Supreme Court cases – Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) – which respectively affirmed and clarified diversity as a compelling justification for affirmative action.
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The first-ever meeting of the SSC Specialist Group Chairs took place 11-14 February 2008 in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates and was generously sponsored by the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi.
The meeting, attended by over 80 Specialist Group chairs as well as key IUCN Secretariat from headquarters and regions, was a resounding success. The SSC design for the future, IUCN policy, the World Conservation Congress, tools for species and area-based conservation planning, communications, Red Listing and assessment work, networking and many other issues were discussed – allowing the Chairs to share their knowledge and experience with each other. The feedback from the meeting has been positive and a full meeting report will be available in the near future. A post-meeting webpage will also be available with links to a photo-sharing site where all delegates can load their photos.


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Durant gives himself 'The Servant' nickname, announces Westbrook return
Kevin Durant has been called several nicknames over his career, from "Durantula" to "The Slim Reaper."
But Durant has his own ideas on what he should be called when it isn't Kevin or KD, and it might surprise you.
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"You can call me the servant," Durant said in a Grantland interview (via The Oklahoman). "I like to serve everybody. My teammates. Ushers at the game. The fans."
Durant has had to answer questions about an appropriate nickname all year, so it figures that he took it upon himself at some point. Always in the nice guy role, he did wonder aloud whether it was narcissistic to anoint yourself with a nickname.
"I know it's kinda weird to make your own nickname, but I like that one better," Durant said after mentioning "The Servant" nickname.
Durant also dropped a line about Russell Westbrook returning in the first game after All-Star Weekend, which happens to be against the Miami Heat on this upcoming Thursday.
The Thunder have yet to give an official word on when Russell will be back, however, according Darnel Mayberry of The Oklahoman.


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The Lehigh Valley IronPigs this season will have video games activated by men and boys urinating. And the Pigs have managed to pair the games with men's health messages.
The Lehigh Valley IronPigs this season will have video games activated by men and boys urinating. And the Pigs have managed to pair the games with men's health messages.
The owners of the urinal gaming system say the east Allentown ballpark at Coca-Cola Park will be the first sports arena anywhere to have the game. Lehigh Valley Urology Specialty Care will provide the marketing messages.
It works this way: As a patron approaches the urinal, sensors detect his presence. A quick video or message appears on the screen, but as the individual steps forward, it's "bladder up."
The game kicks in.
Sensors track the individual's stream, and when that stream hits a target, points are earned. The first will be a downhill skiing game where the goal is to hit penguins.
Captive Media, the British company that created the system, said an average game lasts around 55 seconds. Seem long? Not when you consider that the park sells 32-ounce Cokes and beers to help you wash down your peanuts and Cracker Jacks.
After getting their score — and washing their hands — players can enter a code on a smartphone and report their score. They then can view their position on a leaderboard online, and high scores will be displayed in real time on digital boards in the stadium.
"An ordinary, boring trip to the washroom becomes the highlight of the evening," said Ed Gundrum, an international salesman for Captive Media.
The quick video messages, plus some strategically located signs in the rest room, provide an advertising opportunity that Captive Media says customers never forget.
"When people come out of the washroom and we ask them what ads they saw," Gundrum said, "they know."
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For some reason today, every time I hit tab in the terminal, this shows up:
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Bea Arthur would have turned 89 today, so if you don't already own the complete series DVD box set, tonight's a good night to get drunk and go shopping on Amazon (and as long as you're buying, feel free to send us one too, we won't mind). Other birthdays of note: Buckethead and Carrie Prejean. The internet wanted you to know.
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Flames rally from two goals down to level Lumberjacks, 6-2
March 22, 2014 | Marlborough, Mass.
Not many ACHA Division II teams have the depth that Liberty University's DII men's hockey team does, as it showed as the Flames second-round ACHA DII National Championships game against Northern Arizona progressed, Saturday at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough, Mass.
The Flames (25-7-1) ran four lines at full strength throughout the contest and overcame a 2-0 deficit early in the second period to torch the Lumberjacks (26-12-1), 6-2, scoring three goals in the second and three more in the third.
"Our depth paid off for us today," Liberty Head Coach Chris Lowes said. "They ran three lines and we ran four and all four lines were rolling, especially in the second and third periods."
Liberty (2-0) is now the only undefeated team in its four-team pool and can clinch a bid to Monday's Final Four with a win or a tie against New Hampshire on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. The game will be webcast live on pay-per-view.
"Every team's a little banged up and bruised and tired," Lowes said. "Hopefully, our conditioning will play out in our favor."
As well as they played in the first period against Northern Arizona, the Flames were upset to be trailing 1-0 on a two-on-one break finished by freshman forward Ryan Thompson, who beat Liberty junior goalie Cary Byron inside the post off an assist from senior defenseman Dillon Butenhoff.
Then, with 18:00 left in the second period, Butenhoff netted an unassisted goal.
"We were pretty disappointed to be down 2-0 because we were the stronger team," Lowes said. "The first period, we were pretty dominant. We went down, 1-0, but we still felt confident. When they got another one, the guys just responded and got three goals, the first two within 30 seconds of each other to tie it up."
Josh King scored Liberty's first goal with 10:45 left in the second off a two-on-two rush, lifting a wrist shot over the goalie's pad off an assist from fellow sophomore forward Jeremy Miller.
"That really gave us a spark and ignited us," Lowes said.
Twenty-three seconds later, senior forward Brad Docksteader evened the score at 2-2, finishing far-side off the post and in off a beautiful two-on-one drop-back pass from freshman forward Devon Docksteader.
"We scored back-to-back and at that point, the momentum was all ours," Lowes said.
Less than three minutes later, Brad Docksteader netted the go-ahead score off an assist from junior defenseman Clinton Nigh for a 3-2 advantage, and the Flames were only getting warmed up.
"Then in the third, it was still a tight game, but we poured it on," Lowes said. "With our energy level, they found themselves clutching and grabbing, trying to slow us down and take away our speed."
Sophomore defenseman Parker McIntyre scored with just over five minutes elapsed in the third period on a delayed penalty.
"We pulled our goalie to give us a man advantage and Parker took a nice pass from Bobby Cervone, who found him trailing the play, and scored on a slapshot from the top of the circle in the middle of the ice," Lowes said.
Less than five minutes later, Devon Docksteader made it 5-2 with the first of the Flames' two power-play goal, off assists from junior defenseman Clinton Nigh and Brad Docksteader before Nigh capped the scoring, finishing feeds from sophomore forward Paul Ingles and Brad Docksteader with a one-timed slap shot from the top of the circle off the goalie's shoulder.
Liberty was able to stay out of the penalty box for most of the contest and went on seven power plays to just four for the Lumberjacks.
Northern Arizona actually outshot Liberty 25-24 for the game, with Byron making 23 saves to secure the win.
Now, the Flames are in the driver's seat for a trip to the semifinals.
"If we win, we go on, if we lose, we would be facing a tie-breaker situation with New Hampshire and Grand Valley State," Lowes said, assuming GVSU, which defeated the Wildcats 5-2 on Saturday, beats Northern Arizona. "Their only way to stay alive is to beat us. You need to win to go on, you don't want to have it come down to a tie-breaker."


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Beef Bourguignon | Beef Stew Recipe | Blizzard Comfort Food Recipe | Valentine's Day Dinner Idea
Comfort Food Recipes | Beef Bourguignon (French Beef Stew)
Guys love "Meat & Potatoes." Show your Valentine how much you care by making him the perfect Beef Stew (Beef Bourguignon) for a cozy Valentine's Day Dinner for Two. It is a great combination of delicate French flavors and methods for her, with manly meat & potatoes for him. Can't wait until Valentine's Day? It is also great to make on a Snow Day (like today, for some of us!)... check out the photo above from my kitchen window this morning.
Beef Bourguignon sounds complicated and intimidating. Or at least I thought it did. Until I made it, and discovered it was just beef stew with herbs and red wine. What makes it even better is that it is done all in one pot, and it makes the house smell amazing.
2-3 pound Chuck Roast
3 tablespoon of olive oil
2 teaspoons of sea salt
2 teaspoons of pepper
4 cups of chicken stock
2 cups of red wine
5 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of rosemary (dried or fresh)
1 bunch of fresh thyme
4 bay leaves
1 cup of carrots, 1-inch dice
1 cup of potatoes, 1-inch dice
1 cup of mushrooms, 1-inch dice
2 tablespoons of butter
2 tablespoons of flour
1 loaf of crusty french bread (baguette)
1 clove of garlic (raw)
Coat the Chuck Roast with olive oil, salt & pepper. Heat a large dutch oven on the stove top for 2 minutes, then sear the roast for 2-3 minutes on each side. Add stock, wine, garlic, and herbs. Cover and put it in the oven for 4 hours at 225 degrees.
After 4 hours of cooking, add the carrots, potatoes and mushrooms. Cook for for 30-45 minutes longer. Remove from the oven. Place the pot on the stove, and remove the roast from the stock and wine sauce, placing it on a platter. Cover and let it cool for 10 minutes. Leave the sauce (with herbs and vegetables) in the pot on the stove.
Meanwhile, thicken the sauce (that remained in the pot) by microwaving 2 tablespoons of butter in a small bowl. Add 2 tablespoons of flour to the butter, stirring it until smooth. Whisk it into the sauce until smooth. Cook on medium heat until the sauce begins to bubble and thicken. You may add another batch of the thickening mixture, if you desire.
Remove the fat and bones from the Chuck Roast. Shred the beef into large pieces back into the sauce.
To serve, slice the baguette, then toast it a 400 degree oven for 5 minutes. Rub the piece of raw garlic onto each piece. Place one piece into the bottom of each soup bowl and ladle in the beef stew.
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NCSAM Tip #3: What You Should Consider to be a Secure Password
Passwords are the prevalent means of authentication. Even though there have been many complementary authentication mechanisms and schemes, passwords are used almost everywhere that a user wants to prove that he knows a secret that only he is supposed to know. On the other hand, if someone else can guess that password, along with the username (often easy to find), then he could pretend he is the user and do all sorts of things on his behalf. We have seen multiple examples of corporate executives having their personal email accounts hijacked. We have seen celebrities having their Twitter accounts stolen and posting things they would never do. We also have seen studies that show that a vast majority of users still use standard and pretty easy password to guess.
It is common knowledge that passwords need to be hard to guess; that is a requirement. Andy Balinsky's post describes some guideliness about choosing numeric passwords (aka for handheld devices). In the same context, David McGrew's post provides a script that can generate random keys that can be used for pre-shared key authentication. Electronic user passwords are a little different because they involve letters and completely depend on the user (system checks are usually also employed). Users need to be able to chose and remember them in order to use them when needed. But the "hard to guess" and the "easy to remember" requirements don't go well together and that is the basic challenge.
But what is a secure password? In other words, what is a hard-to-guess password? Entropy has been one of the criteria to express the hardness to guess the password. The higher the entropy the more secure the password. NIST's SP800-63 (2006) provides Electronic Authentication Guidelines and defines levels of protection, with Level 1 being the simple username/password scheme that we use very often. NIST's recommendation for Level 1 passwords in 2006 was to have 10-bits of entropy. That means that in-band guessing of a password should have 1 out of 2^10 chances of succeeding. With a lockout limit in the system, we understand that password guessing will be pretty hard in this case. At the same time, user passwords don't tend to be completely random. They can be based on words or names. The entropy of man-chosen passwords seems to be less than the entropy of randomly chosen ones. If we use a word as a password, given the first letter, the probability of the second letter is not 1/# letters in the alphabet. Thus what users choose in order to be able to remember is not as hard to guess as choosing a random combination would be.
On top of that, off-line attacks add an extra concern on passwords. If someone managed to get the hash value of a password (passwords are required to not be kept cleartext) he could try all possible combinations in order to guess it. If the password contained words from a dictionary he could first use the dictionary to match on a hash and thus find the password. Or he could even use pre-computed Rainbow Tables in order to faster do an exhaustive search to find a match from the dictionary. Thus it is clear the default passwords, words that exist in dictionary and common passwords, would be the first ones an attacker would try in an offline password guess attack.
To summarize, almost everyone knows that we would like our personal passwords to:
- have high entropy (long and complex enough, containing non-traditional/special characters)
- NOT be common words, default, or commonly chosen passwords (i.e "12345")
- easy enough to remember
Almost all of the above are checked against by authentication systems when we are setting a password. Password strength nowadays is considered adequately strong over 8-characters of length. But again, entropy is not only a function of length, it also depends on letter probabilities, so a long password doesn't mean that it always has high entropy.
Password choosing is a well-publicized problem, even though there are still many, many insecure passwords out there. What is often observed is that security-aware individuals come up with hard-to-guess, almost random-looking passwords for each system to which they are required to log in. Then they need a password management system to be able to remember all the complex passwords. That doesn't always have to be the case. Passwords can be easy to remember. They can be different in every system but they can have a common part that is reused. We don't need to use letters and numbers randomly. We can alternatively use small phrases altering letters and exchanging words. NIST's SP800-118 draft (2009), in section 3.2.4, summarizes methodologies of choosing a password.
It has been said before, but it is still very often neglected, passwords need to be chosen carefully. As part of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month Tips, we would like to suggest everyday users revisit their passwords in various systems and think if they are long and secure enough. Then come up with a rule of how they want to chose and maintain their passwords, and how to intermingle letters, words, numbers and special characters in a fashion that they can remember. Nobody wants to be the next celebrity with a hijacked Twitter account…
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In this piece, I want to explore some of the reasons why it is becoming more difficult for Episcopalians to live into the identity of a Via Media Church. A couple of recent (and, I believe, by no means unique) experiences raise the relevant issues.
First Experience: An Episcopal friend shared with me that her EFM mentor has confidently declared to the group that Jesus' death was not an atonement for anybody's sins and that the resurrection of Jesus never happened. Jesus simply had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And the resurrection is just a 'myth.'
Second Experience: I've recently been using the Nicene Creed as a resource for teaching a Youth Confirmation class. Because we recite it every Sunday in the liturgy and it has been repeatedly affirmed by successive Lambeth Conferences and General Conventions as "the sufficient statement of the Christian faith" (The Book of Common Prayer, p. 877), I think they need to know something about what we're affirming as the faith of the Church.
So one day I'm working on the second part of the Creed with its affirmations of the uniqueness of Jesus as Lord and Savior, the union of Jesus' two natures (one divine, one human) in one person, the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, etc.
Later that evening, I attend a gathering of other Episcopalians and hear much of what I was working on earlier in the day rejected and opposite views affirmed – including Gnostic and Arian Christologies, a Marcionite view of the Bible (an OT God of judgment and wrath vs. a NT God of love and acceptance), and a radically subjectivist understanding of religious truth.
These sorts of experiences trouble me, not because I don't embrace religious and theological inquiry (I do), and not because I wish to affirm a Monolithic model of the Church against an Over-Personalized model (I don't). They trouble me because they are not uncommon in the Episcopal Church. And because they provide empirical evidence for ecclesial anomie.
A + nomos: literally, "against rule" or "against law."
Anomie is a situation in which the norms that define and make the shared life of community possible are (a) forgotten, (b) known, but rejected, or (c) never known to begin with.
In the Episcopal Church, the norms that give us our identity and make common life possible include Holy Scripture, our Constitution and Canons, and the liturgies and rubrics of The Book of Common Prayer.
We have the norms we need to sustain a common, faithful life. But the evidence for anomie is mounting. It arises especially in the growing chasm between praying and believing. We pray using The Book of Common Prayer, but our common prayer does not necessarily shape what we believe about God, Jesus, the Church, etc. We corporately affirm what the Eucharistic prayers say about Jesus and what the Nicene Creed articulates as the faith of the Church. But as soon as the liturgy concludes, we individually feel free to revise or repudiate everything we've corporately affirmed.
We are no longer sufficiently formed by the norms we already have.
Take the first experience I cited above. It troubles me that someone who says they don't believe in the atonement and in the resurrection is willing to pray belief in the atonement and the resurrection, yet is also apparently unwilling (or unable) to allow that praying to shape his/her believing. This doesn't simply turn the old patristic maxim that "praying shapes believing" on its head. It implodes it by shifting the locus of authority away from the liturgy (the "work of the people") to individual conscience. When that happens, the overriding norm for truth is private and subjective rather than corporate and intersubjective.
This issue becomes even more serious when we look at the vows taken by clergy. In the ordination rites, the ordinand makes this vow before God, the bishop, and the gathered assembly (including signing a statement to this effect, which is then signed by witnesses):
" … I solemnly declare that I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church" (The Book of Common Prayer, pp. 513, 526, & 538).
The "Oath of Conformity" represents a deeply countercultural commitment. For as fashionable as it is for many bishops, priests, and deacons to take a stand on any given issue because their conscience dictates it, we clergy have promised to be conformists. We have solemnly promised that the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church over-rides individual conscience by setting the boundaries for what is and what is not normative. As a consequence, we clergy have voluntarily given up our "right" to ecclesial disobedience.
When Episcopal clergy ...
- alter the language of the liturgies in The Book of Common Prayer, or even write our own Eucharistic Prayers for use in place of authorized prayers;
- dismiss the directives of rubrics;
- substitute a "new and improved" creed for the Nicene Creed, or even drop it from the liturgy altogether;
- act contrary to canon law and encourage others to do the same (by promoting communion for the un-baptized, for example);
- support the belief that we can achieve Anglican ends through Congregationalist means by allowing parishes to vote on whether or not they choose to remain members of the Episcopal Church;
- substitute the "spiritual authority" of the Primates' Meeting (which has no grounding in legitimate, conciliar authority) for the Constitution, Canons, and General Convention of the Episcopal Church;
- and/or publicly affirm that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, but only for persons who choose to accept him as such
... then we reject the norms of the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church for the private judgment of individual conscience.
This is anomic Anglicanism.
Its consequences are far-reaching. Not only does it make it increasingly difficult to see the background of agreements against which our disagreements are recognizable (and perhaps bridgeable). But the extent to which we treat canons, rubrics, approved liturgies, ordination vows, etc., as arbitrary impositions to be ignored when convenient (or when circumstances trouble our conscience) is precisely the extent to which we repudiate our membership in the Episcopal Church.
Most of us wouldn't dream of tolerating this kind of anomie in our society ("Sure, Congress passed that law, but we're going to do things differently in this town!"), or in our marriages ("Yes, honey, I promised to be faithful to you in the marriage vows, but my conscience leads me to have sex with someone else on the weekends.").
And yet we tolerate it in the Church.
Some even actively celebrate it.
If our praying shapes our believing less and less, and if clergy are unwilling (or unable) to keep their vows and promises, then it makes perfect sense why the only available alternative to the subjectivism of the Over-Personalized Church appears to be the objectivism of the Monolithic Church with its insistence on the individual's inflexible submission to hierarchical authority.
Embracing conscience over conformity with the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church, we bring the crisis of anomie upon ourselves. It's a crisis that makes the Over-Personalized and the Monolithic Church types - and their inability to co-exist - appear to be the only viable options. And one which makes normlessness appear to be the only norm.


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I am so mentally f'd right now. Today, my cheater husband said something that really through me for a loop and made me land straight on my ass.
We were actually about to "get jiggy with it" and he called my chest "melons." Yeah well part of his mistress' email address had melons in it - squeezing them was also part of the email. Whatever she was small chested so I don't get it - however, that just about did it in for me.
I was like, "I can't believe you just said that." He had no clue what I was talking about until I had to yell "Hello - EMAIL?" Then he got it. Whatever he didn't even act like it was a big deal. STUPID IDIOT. You and your stupid use of the word melons.
Then later on, we were talking and he tells me the wedding we are going to isn't serving alcohol. But the groom is getting beer in a cooler for the reception dinner... He says he'll be drinking beer and I was like "Well, I guess I'll just hang out and not drink." He says something else STUPID - "What so I will just drink by myself?"
YEAH YOU IDIOT... I'm not like your mistress who loved to drink beer with you. HELLO - You've known me for how long? 12 years? You know I drink liquor and wine - that's it. Sorry I am not as COOL and FUN as your stupid mistress was and can just down any alcoholic beverage on earth. I'm not an alcoholic like her white trash ass.
So then he gets all huffy how I am taking things the wrong way. No, what I am doing is triggering because of your stupid words. Besides the fact we are about to go back to his grandmother's house. See, the last time I was at his grandmother's house was when I left to drive 14 hours to catch him cheating on me. So yes, I am entering a place where my last memory is telling his grandmother that I had to leave unexpectedly to "save his grandson". That was 2 years ago.
I hate this. And then add that we are going to a wedding...and I hate wedding but I hate marriage... yeah, this isn't a good time for me.
All because he cheated on me... that IDIOT.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Trigger Words Even After Two Years
I am so mentally f'd right now. Today, my cheater husband said something that really through me for a loop and made me land straight on my ass.
2 comments:
that's tough stuff, triggers suck and bigger problem is that they'll never stop. Your partner who betrayed you should have some compassion in it, sounds like he doesnt. He doesn't understnad, wants to think it's ancient history, but it's only as ancient as the most recent trigger.ReplyDelete
I can only give you the wisdom i learned in my therapy... we cannot control what others do, we cannot control the triggers either and when they'll come. All we can control is our reaction to them.
Cheating is probably one of the worst things you can do when you're in a committed relationship. And sometimes when you wanna go back to only just being with your partner and no one else, it can be kind of hard. Your relationship isn't the same after cheating. You may have a new mindset of what you're wanting in a relationship or you may be feeling guilty over your cheating. Either way, the relationship is corrupted and you're left alone figuring out what to do about a situation that is supposed to involve two people,my ex cheated and the guilt lived with him after i confronted him with enough proof of his cheating games with other women,i got help from a hacker who hacked his phone and gave me remote access to his phone activities without touching the phone.if your partners commitment is in doubt,you can contact this cyber genius=hackingloop6 @ g m a i l . c o m,or text +1(7 1 2)2 9 2 6 5 5,he is a legit software hacker.Tell him i referred you.ReplyDelete


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Religious bid for immigration reform
In these early days of 2013, a strong and diverse group of evangelical leaders is renewing a commitment to immigration reform that honors the God-given dignity of every individual.
This moment offers Congress and President Barack Obama an unusual opportunity to come together and reform our immigration process in a way that honors the values of freedom and hard work that all Americans share. Republicans and Democrats alike recognize that our conversation about immigration must change.
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We are glad to see our political leaders catch up to the American people, including evangelicals. For too long, we have watched as families have been separated and our communities have frayed. Now, united, we urge our political leaders to set aside differences and create an immigration process that strengthens our communities and benefits all Americans.
We are bringing our message to Washington — and to our congregations — with the "I Was a Stranger" Challenge, which launched Monday. The challenge takes its name directly from Matthew 25:35, which records Jesus as saying that by welcoming a stranger, we may be welcoming him.
We are inviting believers, including members of Congress, to read short passages of Scripture that reveal God's heart for immigrants each day for 40 days. The challenge also encourages us to pray for immigrants in our communities.
This effort builds on a National Strategy Session in Washington last month and letters evangelical leaders sent to the president and congressional leaders after the election. In both, we have urged our political leaders to introduce common-sense, common-ground legislation within 92 days of the president's Inauguration — 92 because the Hebrew word "ger," which means stranger or immigrant, appears in the Old Testament 92 times.
We also continue to work across the country to educate and mobilize fellow evangelical Christians to support just immigration laws. Support for reform is growing in our churches, denominations, campuses and communities.
The harmony among evangelical leaders across the spectrum is unprecedented, and it did not start with the November election. In June, we convened the Evangelical Immigration Table and issued a statement of principles for immigration reform, signed by more than 150 prominent evangelical leaders.


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Kentucky Ordered To Recognize Same-Sex Couples Marriages
Kentucky Ordered To Recognize Same-Sex Couples Marriages
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John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Judge: Final order requiring Ky. to recognize same-sex marriages expected Thursday
Judge: Final order requiring Ky. to recognize same-sex marriages expected Thursday
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner says Republicans will lead, but backs away from votes — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday defended the House GOP's go-slow approach on immigration, tax reform and replacing ObamaCare, saying the party wanted to avoid repeating mistakes Democrats made and had to face the "reality" of its limited power in Washington.
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Burgess Everett / Politico: Bob Corker: Obama talks 'were never serious'
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Ted Cruz: GOP's 2014 on track to be 2010
Ted Cruz: GOP's 2014 on track to be 2010
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Brewer's Foolish Veto — In addition to the federal government, 18 states have such statutes and about a dozen other states interpret their state constitutions as extending the same protections, according to the letter. The statutes, the scholars write, "say that before government can burden …
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Celebs, Politicians React to Veto of Controversial Arizona Bill
Celebs, Politicians React to Veto of Controversial Arizona Bill
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Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill on Refusal of Service to Gays
Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill on Refusal of Service to Gays
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New F.D.A. Nutrition Labels Would Make 'Serving Sizes' Reflect Actual Servings — WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration for the first time in two decades will propose major changes to nutrition labels on food packages, putting calorie counts in large type and adjusting portion sizes to reflect how much Americans actually eat.
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Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
FLOTUS goes big on food label changes
FLOTUS goes big on food label changes
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Mississippi Scraps Discriminatory 'Religious Freedom' Provisions Following Backlash In Arizona
Mississippi Scraps Discriminatory 'Religious Freedom' Provisions Following Backlash In Arizona
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UPDATED: House subcommittee tosses discrimination elements from religious freedom bill
UPDATED: House subcommittee tosses discrimination elements from religious freedom bill
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The Mammoth Cometh — The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless, for 20 minutes. He was 16. At 13, Novak vowed to devote his life to resurrecting extinct animals. At 14, he saw a photograph of a passenger pigeon in an Audubon Society book and "fell in love."
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Ukraine leader warns Russia after armed men seize government HQ in Crimea
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I'm next? Shit, I'm outta here.
The most expensive zombie movie ever isn't actually that bad.
Zombies attack a casino in Reno. Whatever next?
So there you are mucking about stimulating the pineal gland and the next thing you know your dead colleague returns from beyond.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
If youre a human being, prepare to wish you were a member of some other species.
With Jason's mum dead, who could possibly be the killer in the sequel if Jason drowned all those years ago? Wait a minute...
Just when you thought it was safe to go to an underwater supermarket wearing a special suit constructed out of shopping baskets.


text: This is a journey into sound... 20 December 2014 david Code So I decided to try and get some sound out of my Vocore tiny linux box. It doesn't come with any audio support, so I decided to add a USB sound card. I bought one of these, which I knew worked on the Raspberry Pi, so I knew had Linux support. They're also pretty small: I simply followed these instructions describing how to add USB Audio support to OpenWrt. At first, I chose to install sox as the player (I originally intended to use Madplay, but I don't think it is supported on current versions of OpenWrt anymore). I did not have much success playing mp3 files straight away, I kept getting sox WARN alsa: under-run messages when I tried to use the following command: sox myfile.mp3 -d Although sound was coming out … in chunks, so it was a partial success. But when I added a "-G" parameter to use temporary files (supposed to guard against clipping) like this: sox myfile.mp3 -d -G …then it worked fine for some lower quality mp3 files, but with a considerable delay before playing anything out the speaker. If I tried to play some better quality mp3 files then it was still stuttery. So then I started to experiment with reducing the sound quality, which sox can do easily. So I tried this: sox myfile.mp3 -r 8000 -e unsigned -b 8 -c 1 test.raw …which results in a raw file that can be played with the aplay command that comes with the ALSA soundcard drivers (specifically, the command above gives mono unsigned 8 bit with a rate of 8000 Hz). Whilst this results in a poor quality file, I found that the Vocore would happily play these raw files. In some ways it was kinda cool to hear my original mp3 file playing with a hiss in the background. But then I decided to see what happens if I create a file in "CD" quality, so I tried this: sox myfile.mp3 -r 44100 -e signed -b 16 -c 2 test.raw trim 0 00:30 Note, that to save space on the Vocore I used the trim parameter to just convert the first 30 seconds. Playing that "CD" quality file on the Vocore also worked perfectly, with this command: aplay test.raw -f cd Passing the parameter -f cd means 16 bit little endian, 44100 Hz, stereo and is the same as passing -f S16_LE -c2 -r44100. Here's a screenshot of a CD quality raw file playing on the Vocore with the aplay command. So… what I'm doing now is using sox on another Linux box to convert the mp3 files and then just using aplay on the Vocore to play them. It should mean that sox is not actually required on my Vocore. It also means that playback is immediate and the quality is good. I will need to find a means to store the files, because they're much bigger than mp3, but that's a problem for another day… I'll probably see if I can mount a USB stick or something.


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Identity and Violence: The Violence of Illusion with Amartya Sen
Date: 5/16/2005; 58 minutes
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is widely recognized for his ability to join economics and philosophy, reflected in his work through ethics and a sense of common humanity. In this Hitchcock Lecture from UC Berkeley he explores the violence of illusion. (#9459)
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Celebrity Family Pictures For Week of Sept. 9, 2012
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Stars and their little ones spent the weekend enjoying getaways, hitting the red carpet, and attending Fashion Week. Pink and Carey Hart brought Willow to Paris, while Salma Hayek and her daughter, Valentina, hit the red carpet for France's Deauville Film Festival. Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z showered baby Blue with love during their own French vacation, Ali Landry hosted a car seat education event, and David Beckham carried Harper to a lunch date in NYC.
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Re: Ewoks vs. Boba Fett
The Chosen One wrote:draco fett wrote:
Boba would not let himself get hit by such primitive creatures.
This question is like "the Human-Torch verses a snowman." Boba being the Human-Torch.
i agree with draco
I'd say it's more like Venom vs a jawa rofl (Boba being Venom)
I agree,I also like the comparison lol.No ewok could beat Boba Fett no matter how many of them there are,Boba has tech that makes the storm troopers look like cheaply equipped morons(I kinda think they are...) not to mention the difference in intelligence.
also,no poison dart is getting through Mandalorian armor,sorry,but it's not gonna happen,the logs would(they couldn't get him between the logs anyways),but no dart is!


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ARLINGTON, Texas (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered at Cowboys Stadium on Monday to remember former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was killed at a shooting range by an Iraq War veteran he tried to help.
Kyle, 38, was considered the deadliest sniper in American military history. He served four combat tours of duty in Iraq and elsewhere and won two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars for bravery, according to his book "American Sniper," about his military service from 1999 to 2009.
Kyle was shot to death on February 2 at the shooting range at Rough Creek Lodge, an upscale retreat about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas.
His widow, Taya Kyle, who had a son and a daughter with her husband, said that people always told him he was lucky she stayed with him because he was away from home so often. But she and the children were the lucky ones, she said.
"We will put one foot in front of the other and carry on," she said at the service at the home of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
At the two-hour service, a Navy honor guard carried the coffin, country music singer Randy Travis sang "Amazing Grace" and people from all aspects of Chris Kyle's life - from a friend since third grade to a fellow Navy SEAL - remembered him as compassionate, selfless and something of a prankster.
A funeral procession is scheduled for Tuesday from the Dallas area to Austin, where Kyle is to be buried.
Eddie Routh, 25, is charged with killing Kyle and his close friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, at the gun range and then fleeing in Kyle's pickup truck. Kyle and Littlefield took Routh to the shooting range to try to help him relax and deal with personal problems, police have said.
Routh was arrested near his home in the Dallas suburb of Lancaster hours after the shooting. He is being held in the Erath County jail on $3 million bail.
After the shooting, Routh drove in Kyle's truck to his sister's home in Midlothian, the same suburb where Kyle and Littlefield lived, and confessed to shooting the two men. In a 911 call to Midlothian police, Routh's sister and her husband told the dispatcher that Routh suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and had recently been hospitalized in a mental hospital.
After leaving the Navy, Kyle founded Craft International, a company that provided combat and weapons training to military, police, corporate and civilian clients.
Kyle was the co-author of another book, "American Gun - A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms," which is scheduled to be published in May.
(Editing by Corrie MacLaggan, Greg McCune, Andrew Hay and Dan Grebler)


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anyone have ideas on how to improve the group?
i was hoping folks would share sound fonts and effects and more folks would share music with interesting effects.
ideas anyone?
hey, what's going on? except for Mozart Forever (yay!), no one wants to post to this group? did the bananas all turn brown?
anyone have ideas on how to improve the group?
I was working on a score on the software when it closed unexpectedly.
because of that I lost my score of more than 100 (!) measures.
I tried but I couldn't find him again.
does sombody know a solution?
Please post which song you like best in this discussion and on the due date of the challenge I will see which song has the most votes (ties are aloud, there will be no tiebreakers). You can only give 1 vote and It can't be your song (If you have one for the challenge).
About child growing up and parent conselig; intensional out of expected range notes to create a out of rythm pulse representing a child's instability; very descriptive thing, not too many sentiment here; please critique!!!
the glug: https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/en/files/24-sound-effects/479-glug
let me know if this works and then I can add more, thanks
Hey, I am currently super busy!! Before I start, I'll lay out what my week tends to be:
Monday: Double/triple up on schoolwork. Once a month is nursing home music night (which I can't miss, considering I'm the pianist)
Tuesday: Currently I'm going to my aunt's. Soon will be Piano & Choir (if I go, which I am leaning more towards not going)
Wednesday: Work in the morning, Omnibus in the afternoon, Skating at 3pm, and will be home only for supper
Thursday: I go to my aunt's all day.
Friday: School (double/triple up as needed), Youth in evening.
Saturday: House cleaning
Sunday: Depending on which Sunday is: play piano for both services, nursing home services (I can't miss, I'm the pianist), go to my grandparents for lunch, have company over.
My problem I'm almost too busy for myself to do school.
How do you guys live with being super busy and having heavy schoolwork to do!?!?!?!?
I need advice!!!!!!!!!!
Please message me or comment what tends to work for you.
P.S. with the nursing home service/music night, that are highlights of my month!!!!!! and I can't quit now, consider i leave without them having any accompainment, 'cept a clarinet.
Some folks have wanted to know, "who is chinadoll?" These one or two folks are musescore members with an abundance of free time and curiosity about trivial issues that have nothing to do with music composition. That said (written), let us (me, this is confusing) be clear, they are very nice people and chinadoll is deeply touched (in the head, most likely) by their interest. So here goes.
Chinadoll has beautiful glossy golden brown hair, large soft eyes, a very quiet shy disposition along with an exceptionally sweet and gentle nature. Chinadoll loves loves fresh fruit (especially bananas) and vegetables. Yes, chinadoll is a Syrian Hamster with a bit of a talent for composing music. Late at night when everyone is asleep, chinadoll will tap out the notes on the home computer using her little paws. She loves attention and lots of gentle petting (especially if you give her a treat).
Have any questions about this group? Ask me in this discussion or by private email and I'll answer them.
This took me about a day to compose, Please provide feedback
laughsilly (that's where you are now)
banana group https://musescore.com/groups/banana-group/discuss/5046069#comment-5108578
sound effects and fonts https://musescore.com/groups/fun-silly-amusing-crazy-outrageous-hilarious-soundfonts-and-sound-effects/
downy yellow dingle dork https://musescore.com/groups/the-downy-yellow-dingle-dork-extinction-group
dydd opera group
Write a song about a lonely tarantula that lives in a banana bunch.
The grand price is a vierual bunch of ripe bananas. Now, for a limited time, as a added amazing bonus, a free virtual tarantula. No, I'm lying. Must be the toxin from the tarantula bite that's affecting me. Dizzy dizzy it's all going dark.
Oh, I said it in the title. Anyone?
Starts with a solemn exposition; on 3 begins to evolve to dispointment; witch is completely healed on 10; on 13 the revisiting starts; the disapointment origin stil exists on 15; on 17 it's seen as just a new experince. that is finished on 20.
like best friends brother, make it shine or shut up and dance
create lyrics then say the notes and I well make 2 a score.
This is my first string composition and honestly its not very good, I can't put my finger on what I need to improve and how to improve it though. Any and all tips help a TON. Thank you.


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I'm proud to call Lynda my good friend and critique partner, and happy to have her visiting my blog today. She got her writing start in greeting cards and from there moved onto magazine articles and short stories. After winning several awards for her fiction manuscripts, Lynda signed her first fiction contract and the Madi series was born!
After meeting Lynda, leave a comment for a chance to win a Christmas ornament!
Writer's often say they remember one particular piece of advice that helps them. What's yours? That's easy: Apply the Butt Glue and just write. In spite of my battle with discipline, that book won't get written unless I park my behind in the chair and start typing. Even when I don't feel like it. Even when I have a million other things to do. One of my favorite quotes on writing is "You can fix bad, but you can't fix blank."
Butt Glue—got it. Now that we know your secret, tell us what Madily in Love about. Madi McCall is just coming out of a marital rough patch (you'll have to read Mind over Madi for that whole story) and she's trying to get her marriage back on track. But that's easier said than done, especially because her mother-in-law has moved in, Madi's recently started working again after years of being a stay-at-home-mom, and her kids seem determined to do everything they can to turn her hair even grayer than it already is. Madi attends a "Revitalize Your Marriage with Romance" class at church and gets some great tips…that fail miserably. All she wants is some peace among the chaos. And some quality time with her husband would be nice, too.
Your publisher tagged this series as "Delightful. Witty. Entertaining. Real. Poignant. Light-hearted Women's Fiction at its best." Can you expand on that at all? How does the Madi Series live up to this description? While I certainly hope my stories are delightful, witty, entertaining, and poignant, the word in that description which I feel is most fitting of this series is, "real." Women can relate to Madi because she battles with the same things we all do. No, not just chocolate, although that's one of them! Madi has insecurities that affect her relationships – with her husband, her kids, her mother, her best friend, and God. If there's one thing I know is that we all have "stuff." Maybe not exactly the same stuff as everyone else, but "stuff," nonetheless. Madi helps us realize there are others out there who probably deal with their issues just as poorly as we do sometimes. But God's grace is enough to cover our insecurities, our faults, and weaknesses, even when we mess up and our lives feel insanely out-of-control.
What do you want readers to take away from reading Madily in Love? Although this book has to do with the importance (and fun) of adding romance to marriage, the main thing I hope readers can take away is that even though life seems unmanageable, disorderly, and chaotic, God is always in control. One of the recurring phrases throughout the book—as mentioned by Madi's counselor—is "Embrace this place." In other words, no matter what you're going through, recognize that it won't last forever. And down the road, you might just look back and see just how that "unbearable" season was essential in moving you to a place of growth and necessary change.
So what's next for Madi Lee McCall? I am currently working on the 3rd and final book in the Madi series, due out in the fall of 2013. It's titled Sylvie & Gold. Madi's best friend Sylvie is preparing for her wedding (and if you've read Mind over Madi, you know who she's marrying). With just a few weeks before the wedding, Sylvie is dealing with a lot: Her meddling and feisty soon-to-be mother-in-law, her son's sexting issue, planning her mom's sixtieth birthday party, and her fiance's ex-wife, who has come back to town after a seven-year absence. Sylvie is normally pretty calm and collected. But her stress card is quickly getting maxed out. The question is whether she'll completely lose her cool or find the happily-ever-after she longs for.
Since Taste the World readers are interested in travel, please tell us MIL is set and why you choose that location. The Madi series is set in South Haven, Michigan. I chose that location not only because it's a beachtown, set on the shore of Lake Michigan, but because the winters tend to be extreme, as well. In Mind over Madi, the heavy snow plays a big part of the storyline. Madily in Love is set in the summer, during a heatwave. The best of both worlds.
What are some of your favorite spots in Michigan? Despite Michigan's economic challenges, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Every season is beautiful and vivid. Traverse City is my favorite place to visit in the fall, when the changing leaves are at their peak. Mackinaw Island is wonderful in the summer, Holland is fun to visit in the spring, especially during Tulip Time, when the city is blooming with thousands of tulips. Being surrounded by water, there are plenty of beaches to choose from. And nothing quite tops a Lake Michigan sunset.
Do you have a recipe to share--something from the book, or just a family favorite? Well, Madi is not much of a cook. Takeout is her meal of choice, whether pizza or Chinese. But she does make a mean Mostaccioli, which you posted on your blog last year. This time, because of Madi's chocolate addiction, and because Christmas is right around the corner, I'll share a recipe that's quick, easy and delicious. My family and friends beg for these every year. And because they're so easy to make -- and so good! -- I have no problem complying.
White Chocolate Clusters
White Chocolate Clusters
(a.k.a. "Albino Reindeer Droppings")
Melt in microwave:
1 package White Chocolate CandyQuik
2 T. peanut butter
Stir in:
1 C. Rice Krispies
1 C. mini marshmallows
1 C. (or 6 oz) redskin or salted peanuts
Drop by teaspoonful on wax paper. Refrigerate until firm.
1 package White Chocolate CandyQuik
2 T. peanut butter
Stir in:
1 C. Rice Krispies
1 C. mini marshmallows
1 C. (or 6 oz) redskin or salted peanuts
Drop by teaspoonful on wax paper. Refrigerate until firm.


text: In this video from NOVA, you'll learn about how the isopods known colloquially as tongue-eating parasites aren't just about, well, eating tongues. They also have a cool reproductive cycle, complete with hermaphroditism. Plus, you'll get some helpful advice about checking the mouths of your favorite fish for these strange invaders.


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Courts & Crime
Talks underway to resolve 10-year-old California prison death
In life-or-death trials, as in real estate, a lot comes down to location, location, location.
As federal prosecutors and defense attorneys prepare for the long-awaited trial of a former U.S. Penitentiary Atwater inmate, they're disputing over whether it should be held in Fresno or Sacramento.
The maneuvering over venue precedes the trial against Samuel Richard Stone, charged in the 2003 killing of fellow Atwater inmate Michael Anita. But along with their tussles, defense attorneys and prosecutors could also be nearing common ground on a potential plea deal.
"The parties believe that if the government withdraws death as a penalty option the case could resolve without need for (a scheduled) evidentiary hearing," prosecutors and defense attorneys wrote in a rare joint court filing dated July 10.
A revised death penalty decision, and potential plea agreement, could arrive as early as September, according to court documents.
"A lot of cases result in plea bargains," Richard Dieter, executive director of the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center, said in an interview Friday. "Certainly, that can happen."
Defense attorneys could not be reached to comment publicly Friday.
Stone, who was then 24 years old, was already serving a life sentence in 2003 when Atwater authorities placed him in Cell 121 of the prison's Secure Housing Unit. The cell was designed to hold two. Instead, Stone was one of three convicted murderers sharing the space.
Early on the morning of July 30, 2003, according to court documents, correctional officers responded to an alarm and found Anita on the floor, braided strips of a bed sheet wrapped around his neck. He had been stabbed in the chest. The improvised weapons still embedded in him included a pen and a pencil.
"Prison staff and the FBI recount that Mr. Stone immediately said that he had killed Mr. Anita," defense attorneys noted in an April 2013 legal filing.
Stone is Native American, as was Anita and the third inmate present in the overcrowded cell, and factional prison politics were at the root of the killing, defense attorneys have asserted. Defense attorneys have collected considerable information on the Warrior Society, a Native American prison gang, as well as on incidents of Native American inmate violence.
Though it has largely flown under the radar, the case against Stone has a national cast. Attorney General Eric Holder, advised by a national Justice Department committee, initially authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty. One of the two trial prosecutors, former Army Judge Advocate General Corps officer Richard Burns, works out of Washington, D.C.
Stone's lead defense attorney, Donald R. Knight, is based in Littleton, Colo. Stone is currently incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary Victorville in the Southern California desert.
In Washington, the Review Committee on Capital Cases has been quietly considering a lengthy defense request to reconsider the death penalty. The 70-page defense submission includes some 64 exhibits, including videos, and according to a legal filing is "comprised of information that was not available to the parties at the time death was authorized as a penalty in this case."
Trial-level prosecutors have reviewed the material and made their own recommendations. The prosecutors' recommendations remain secret, as do the full review committee's deliberations, but public legal filings suggest some cooperation among prosecutors and defense attorneys.
"The parties have been constantly communicating and acting in good faith with respect to this process," the July 10 joint filing noted. "The parties believe that this effort is important and that it is possible that it will lead to a resolution of the death penalty portion of this case, if not the entire case."
Earlier this year, former Atwater inmate, James Ninete Leon Guerrero, pled guilty to killing correctional officer Jose Rivera in 2008, in exchange for a life sentence. Another inmate charged in Rivera's murder, Joseph Sablan, still faces the potential death penalty if convicted.
If Stone's trial proceeds, prosecutors declared Aug. 20 that they want the trial held in Fresno, noting that Burns' fellow prosecutor Michael Frye, as well as a key FBI special agent work there. Defense attorneys want the trial held in Sacramento, where defense attorney Tivon Schardl and other defense staff work.


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thanks to edmondsallan and a lady named eileen i have new info on my f.m.gibson. he was born in 1825 ga. married lucy ann anderson 1851, had my grgrandpa in 1852.divorced. he then was in panola co. tx. 1860 census. where he had married a lady named elizabeth wyce in 1855. they had susan and j.t.gibson. please help me find more info.what happen after that?where did die?when?
joseph eugene stiles
he is my grgrandfather. i was told my grgrandfather was a tx. ranger lawman in the 1800s .i was hoping to find him by elimination of my other gr.grfathers.. anyone know???
did most families in the 1800s ga. use the naming pattern?if so how do you find the real name of a person if you know the sons name?
lucy ann anderson ,daug. william and mary (polly)hunnicut anderson.... L.A. married a frank m. gibson(f.m.) in 1851 putnam co. ga. does anyone have any info on him? they are my grgrgrandparents
there are so many f.m or frank m. or francis marion gibsons i cant find the one who belong to me. he had to be born abt. 1800 and til 1830 because he married in ga. 1851 and a son was born 1852 milledgeville ga. but.. i know he married lucy ann anderson
in putnam co. ga.in 1851. and hes son elsworth park gibson. these are proven facts. lucy is my grgrgrandmother. elsworth park is my grgrandfather. his son peter conn gibson is my grandfather and marion elsworth gibson (gib) my father. he died when i was 11 and everyone else is dead... so thats all the info i have please help me.