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WASHINGTON, DC--The government is getting involved in fitness in a way it's never done before. The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) will develop comprehensive guidelines, drawn from science, to help Americans fit physical activity into their lives, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced yesterday. He made the announcement during his keynote address at the National Prevention Summit, an annual HHS-supported event that highlights successful initiatives in disease prevention and health promotion.
"Physical activity is vital to promote and maintain health, but it's easy for many of us to overlook," Secretary Leavitt says. "The physical activity guidelines will underscore the importance of physical activity to America's health and assist on the journey to a healthier life. Good health -- wellness -- doesn't just happen. Wellness has to be a habit."
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans will be issued in late 2008. The Physical Activity Guidelines will summarize the latest knowledge about activity and health, with depth and flexibility targeting specific population subgroups, such as seniors and children. The guidelines were inspired by the president's personal dedication to physical fitness and his desire that every American have access to science-based guidelines, Leavitt says.
Leavitt underscored the importance of shifting from a treatment-focused society to one that values prevention-based care. Treatment for chronic diseases accounts for 75 percent of what America spends on health care each year, and overweight and obesity affects an estimated 66 million individuals. The government plans to emphasize the four pillars of the HealthierUS initiative -- physical activity, good diet, healthy choices and preventive screening.
"Changing the culture from one of treating sickness to staying healthy calls for small steps and good choices to be made each and every day," Secretary Leavitt says. "These physical activity guidelines will encourage the creation of a culture of wellness across America."
The president's proposed FY 2007 budget for the federal health department calls for $640 million on obesity-related efforts, which will fund a range of activities from research into obesity to regulating the labeling of trans fats.


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As a baseball fan these games are fun to watch. No matter what the records are the Cubs and Cardinals always seem to play close, hard-fought games. Tonight was no different as Travis Wood and Lance Lynn were locked in a battle all night long. The Cardinals took an early 1-0 lead on a solo home run from Allen Craig, and that's all they would get the whole night. The Cubs erased that deficit and turned it into a lead in the fourth inning, all with two outs as well, something this team hasn't been great at. Alfonso Soriano looped a single to right then Nate Schierholtz put a good swing on a 3-1 fastball and deposited it in the right center, well more center than right center, bleachers to give the Cubs a 2-1 lead and that's how this one would end. Tremendous job top to bottom tonight from the Cubs, love beating the Cardinals, and hey, that's two wins in a row!
At The Plate – Lance Lynn came into this one 5-0 and he didn't disappoint as he matched Travis Wood pitch for pitch. The Cubs didn't generate a lot as they only had five hits, but it was enough for the win. Starlin Castro had a rough night at the plate and made a questionable error, but did manage a double in his last at bat to finish the night 1-for-4. Alfonso Soriano was a big part of the offense tonight going 2-for-3 with a run scored, fonsi has his average up to a respectable .276, need more production out of him however. Nate Schierholtz was the offensive hero tonight going 1-for-3 with his fourth home run of the season, two RBI's and a run scored.
On The Mound – How about Travis Wood, he was outstanding again tonight and has been all season. Wood improved his record to 3-2 and lowered his ERA to a sparkling 2.33 by going 6.2 innings giving up one run on five hits while walking two and striking out eight. Carlos Marmol (yes I held my breath when he came in) was really good in this one. Marmol worked 1.1 scoreless innings giving up two hits while walking one, but he worked around the free pass. Kevin Gregg has been reborn, he was spotless again in the ninth inning, he didn't give up any hits and struck out one.
Up Next – The Cubs go for the sweep, okay it's only a two game series, but a sweep over the Cardinals is a SWEEP OVER THE CARDINALS. Carlos Villanueva will battle Jake Westbrook at 1:20 PM CST, both pitchers have been outstanding this year, should be another good one.
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Leopard Sharks are beautiful, undulating shallow water swimmers with lovely variegated-colour dorsal pattern markings, common and familiar along the California coast. They are eight inches long at birth and rarely grow to more than four feet in length at maturity. If they are able to escape fishermen, they can live to thirty, even forty years. Despite their dangerous-sounding name, they present no threat to humans. (There is a single record from 1955 of a leopard shark harassing a skin diver, causing him to develop a nosebleed.) Leopard sharks mate in summer. Females give birth the following spring. On the northern California coast, bays, sloughs and lagoons offer protected breeding areas. Females drop their pups in beds of eelgrass. The eelgrass provides both shelter and food. For some time the slowly-growing pups continue to forage in tidal flats and shallow coastal waters, possessing the uncanny ability to move out of enclosed areas just in advance of the retreat of the tide.
We lived for many years on a point above Duxbury Reef, a rock protrusion jutting out into the ocean from the Bolinas mesa. On summer's days we made small family expeditions onto the broad shallow tidal flats. Often there were young Leopard Sharks gliding in and out of the small pools created by the rocks. We waded among them without any sign on their part of recognising, much less minding, our presence.
Which was all a very long time ago; but in the way of pleasant memories, that one had remained fixed, "as if sempiternal..."
Until yesterday, that is, when my bravely seagoing partner of these several voyages hove dripping into view, ducking in from the latest wild pre-dawn rainsquall with the daily newspaper.
On the front page, under the top (so this is news?) stories -- latest breaking developments in sexual misconduct among the powerful and great of the anthropoid group, eighty percent of baby products contain or may contain toxic additives -- was this arresting headline: Excessive rainfall is possible killer of leopard sharks.
The story told of a Leopard Shark die-off -- when state officials "decline to use the term 'die-off'" you've got to worry that something's up -- caused by... too much rain.
From Kelly Zito's report:
This winter's heavy rains -- beneficial to so many species -- may, in fact, be diluting saltwater in San Francisco Bay so dramatically that leopard sharks are dying in the very spots where they prefer to give birth and search for food, scientists said Tuesday.
State biologists investigating a rash of leopard shark casualties around the region over the past month think the torrents of freshwater flowing into shoreline lagoons may be throwing the body chemistry of the fish fatally off balance.
"They might be going into these coves to pup," said Carrie Wilson, a marine biologist in Monterey with the California Department of Fish and Game. "If there's more freshwater intrusion and low salinity, it's very tough on these animals."
...hundreds of leopard sharks and rays also died in 2006, the last year rainfall was this far above normal.
More than 100 adult and juvenile leopard sharks have been found dead since mid-April... several scientists and members of the public have reported seeing the animals gasping and thrashing before death, suggesting the sharks could have injured themselves after falling ill.
The first wave of sharks washed ashore near a residential neighborhood in Redwood City. Since then, dozens of the strikingly patterned bottom-feeders have been spotted along the shores of Foster City, San Francisco and Marin County, according to Sean Van Sommeran of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation.
Longtime East Bay resident Corky Schweizer observed a shriveled adult leopard shark carcass just south of San Francisco Airport on Saturday morning. He said the animal's remains caught his attention because they were so far above the waterline.
"It basically looked like it had launched itself out of the water," Schweizer said...
Though they don't venture out into the deep sea, [leopard sharks] do favor water with salinity levels at the higher end of the spectrum, said Wes Dowd, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove.
Dowd studied the effect of low-salinity water on leopard sharks as part of his thesis. In his experiments, Dowd found that when salinity fell to 19 parts per thousand, the sharks thrust their noses and fins out of the water in an attempt to survive.
Earlier this spring, sensors in some parts of San Francisco Bay recorded salinity levels below 15 parts per thousand, Dowd said. Seawater salinity maxes out at about 34 or 35 parts per thousand.
"When (salinity) moves lower ... it becomes harder for the sharks to compensate for that change in their environment," Dowd said. "They don't cope well."
Though Wilson acknowledges the possible link between the deaths and the rapid influx of freshwater, she declined to use the term "die-off"...
Whatever the roots of the problem, shark specialist Van Sommeran suspects that he and his team of volunteers are collecting only a fraction of the ailing animals.
"We found 50 (sharks) in one canal in Redwood City alone," he said. "Now we're getting calls from Millbrae, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Sausalito -- it seems that the affected area is expanding."
San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2011
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Leopard Sharks (Triakis semifasciata) cross paths in the kelp forest tank, Monterey Bay Aquarium: photo by npzo, 23 August 2008
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CHICAGO -- There are several races going on in the White Sox clubhouse at any given time. But it's not for who can get the most steals, home runs or RBIs.
The races are instead between a couple of remote-control dragsters owned by Chris Sale and Adam Dunn. It's one of many ways White Sox players stay loose during the grind of the 162-game season.
"I don't know, maybe it's the youth movement, although all the guys with the remotes are the older guys," said a laughing Tyler Flowers of the remote-control vehicles in the clubhouse. "You know, it's been like that since Spring Training. I think we've established that we're going to work hard. Whatever it is -- Spring Training, now, playing the game -- we're always hustling, not quitting. I think those are the kind of things that almost enable you to continue to do that on the field. You've got to kind of have a break and cut loose.
"We're at the field and around these guys more than our families, so we've got to kind of entertain ourselves and each other to stay loose, and keep the emotion and everything and the adrenaline and the excitement on the field."
Dunn and Sale's dragsters are easily the most expensive models in the clubhouse. Sale won the race while Dunn's dragster rammed into the leg of Adrian Nieto, who was sitting innocently at his locker, jarring loose Dunn's front right wheel. Flowers is the de-facto mechanic in charge of all repairs.
As Flowers mentioned, the elder statesman of the clubhouse, 38-year-old reliever Scott Downs, was also driving around a remote-control car. Players have also messed around with a miniature remote-control helicopter.
Flowers said the fact that the team's veterans are leading the shenanigans has helped young guys feel comfortable in the mixed-age clubhouse.
"I think it just probably helps with that relationship, especially with the number of young guys we have," he said. "I mean, we still have a few rookies, not like we did last year when we had all those rookies, but I think it kind of opens up those lines of communications almost, it kind of breaks that barrier. At least when I came up, there were a number of veteran guys here where you were almost more hesitant to say anything stupid or say anything.
"I think it definitely breaks that up where guys are a little more comfortable with each other, and I think that carries over to the ballgames and in the dugout, everything."


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Yesterday, we showed you the bizarre aftermath of the women's individual épée semifinal, which was won by Germany's Britta Heidemann after a timing error put another second on the clock and allowed Heidemann to score a decisive touch on South Korea's Shin A Lam. Shin then proceeded to remain on the piste for more than an hour, pending an appeal that she eventually lost.
For a complete roundup of how it all went down, check out The Guardian's two-minute animated recreation below. They used Legos!
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Brooksie! I posted something some time ago about avatars and atavars under the impression that a latter-day avatar was some proxy creature which engaged in a simulated relationship, usually violent, with other illusions in a computer game. Now you tell me it's really just a little photograph of yourself? Or is that someone else?
I do think you deserve recognition for being the first on this forum to stick your face next to your thoughts, but so far we've been building little pictures of one another through our words alone and I hope you'll forgive those like myself who prefer it that way.
Brooksie: I believe you really are the first, at least among the regulars! Maybe others will follow suit. (Maybe I will too, if I get bold enough.) :-)
Feeling quite combobulated.
You are correct. An avatar is usually a substitute or representation of oneself; however, as the gatekeeper of an online group that involves actual f2f meetings, I tire of people posting pics of their black labs and Homer Simpson. That is indeed a (recent) pixelated version of me, and since I am in pixels, couldn't that then be an avatar? ;)
I'm delighted to be able to animate this amiable thread. Like many of you, I'm INFP. I teach biology at a French-speaking university in Quebec. Grew up in Alberta, where like Pat I was a good speller. Both parents were raised on the farm; my mother became a school teacher and my father drove trains. I was a stickler for correct use of English until I had to learn a new language, which for me was French at an age that made learning difficult.
I've since learned enough Spanish to get by in Catalunya, and then lost that by spending a wonderful year in Portuguese in Brazil. Ironically, I now find myself obliged to encourage the improvement of the usage of French among my francophone students, but I do not discourage the adoption of anglicisms.
I have a daughter I dote on. And a sweet Italo-Brazilian girlfriend who speaks 6 languages and read Homer in ancient Greek.
I'm grateful to everyone who has contributed to this board; for me it is a treasure-house of insight, amusement. amazement and apprenticeship. I aspire to the judgment and grace of your posts.
Oh, by the way, my name is Bird. I chose burred on the 'spur of the moment' (pardon the unintentional pun) but it's now woven into the site and I guess I'll stick with it.
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Another Canadian. And, unless my detective powers fail me, one who did a degree in BC.
A few more of us and we'll be ready to make our move.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Shhh, kem, they might get wise to us, eh?
I'm another physics / engineering type. I don't seem to have time to be a regular poster here, but I still look for eggcorns and other misuses of the language. I work in a field where a large number of my peers have English as their second language, which definitely increases the number of interesting mistakes I hear.
I have a Spanish-speaking grandmother, I studied French in high school and a little Japanese in college.
I took the Meyers-Briggs in high school and came out an INTJ. I took it more recently and was very close to the border on all axes but classified as an ENFP. I don't THINK I've had a total personality transplant since high school (although I'll admit to having adapted better socially) so I tend to find the test kind of annoying.
Hobbies include reading voraciously, playing viola sporadically, birding opportunistically, and raising a 2-year-old.
I'm a TEFL teacher originally from the UK and I've been in Spain for twenty years. Chomsky said something about observers of a language being part of it but distanced from it.I came to this forum from the language log. Like others I'm from a family of readers, punsters and amateur linguists. Another important aspect, I believe, is my liking from an early age for doing rebusses(rebuses, rebi?) and then cryptic crosswords, but I find I need to brainstorm with another person to finish them. My father spoke Welsh although I don't, and I've forgotten most of my French, German and Latin.
One thing I've noticed about TEFL teachers is after a while we get very blasphemous, obscene and scatological. We control our output so much of the time in class that when we are with each other we use the time to have a good swear and make off-colour puns; this might partly explain my unfortunate tendency to see innuendo in everything.
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On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
So you swear like a Spaniard now, Juan. Or something like that – I don't actually know how the Spanish cast imprecations. Like other Catholic countries, I would guess that religious icons figure heavily there, and bodily functions are more mundane. I did learn some potent Catalan expressions while living north of Barecelona. The Catalans up the ante by compounding the sacred and the profane. Bracing.
As for an "unfortunate tendency to see innuendo in everything", this is the spice of life, no? To paraphrase Peter (I haven't looked up exactly what he said so colourfully), here in the forum, we have never shrunk from forays into the never regions.
I just took the Meyers-Briggs and came out ENFJ, but I have no idea whether the test has any validity, as I haven't looked into the research behind it. Having had some training in psychotherapy and the basics of psychological testing on my way to getting my MA in Counseling, I'm fairly skeptical of psychological testing in general; so much in that field is crapola.
Born and raised in Michigan, but have been in Santa Rosa, California for a number of years now. My work has been mostly in mental health/human services.
I took French in high school, but never got anywhere near fluent. I am a bit of a wordsmith, with good natural writing/editing/proofreading skills. I have won small awards for my poetry (both written and slam performance), my short fiction, my online column on critical thinking (The Gospel According to Dixon—check it out), and my short humor writing. RE: that last category, I'm an editor at OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form), and I get published in the Washington Post's weekly Style Invitational contest on an average of about twice monthly—mostly just honorable mentions, but it's fun and it keeps the mind supple. I think many eggcornistas would enjoy the wordplay in the Style Invitational.
Other interests: Too damn many! Most arts and sciences. Philosophy. People. Social criticism—some see me as a curmudgeon. Public speaking. I enjoy my collections of comic books and unusual music. And I'm wild about women. Woo woo!
ENFJ – you and booboo. I think Myers-Briggs and tests of that elk are a fun parlour game. You answer a whole bunch of questions and they tell you what you just said. Sometimes it's useful to state the obvious. Looking at your blog, I'd have to say that gregarious Idealist-Teacher-Organizer might be a shoe size you'd feel comfortable in, Dixon. Maybe if "Lover of Musicke No One Else Can Stand" were thrown in. I know that last bit fits me pretty well, too.
Actually, David, your description of me is pretty much spot on. I'm curious about exactly what musical artists or types you like. We may like some of the same stuff.
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Actually, David, your description of me is pretty much spot on. I'm curious about exactly what musical artists or types you like. We may like some of the same stuff.
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night blocks out da heavens like a big black shiny bug
its hard soft shell shining white in one spot well
it's a hard place that i'm living but i'm doing well well
We'd better continue this through other channels!
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A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
Okay, David, other channels it is…
Unlike others here, I do like to talk about myself, but I'll hold back here.
I taught math at various colleges for 32 years, with a few breaks selling home security systems, and being shipping and receiving manager for a small company. I also taught ESL for three years. I'm now the director of a math help center. I've studied 5 foreign languages, but retain a little fluency only in German. I've always been interested in words and their oddities. One of my favorite hobbies is Cryptic Crosswords, which have spoiled me so that I now find regular American-style crosswords boring – you either know the word or you don't
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Weathering Change takes us to Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru to hear the stories of four women as they struggle to care for their families, while enduring crop failures and water scarcity. As the world's population hits 7 billion in 2011, the film shows how women and families are already adapting to environmental challenges that threaten their health and their livelihoods.
Weathering Change documents how family planning, girls' education, sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation are part of the solution. The film calls for expanding access to contraception and empowering women to help families and communities adapt to the effects of climate change.


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Shift to mobile Internet hits Baidu profit
(AP)—Baidu Inc., which operates China's leading search engine, said Thursday its quarterly profit edged down 0.4 percent as it spent heavily to promote mobile services amid an industrywide scramble to keep up with users who increasingly surf the Web on smartphones.
Baidu earned 2.8 billion yuan ($459.9 million) in the three months ending Dec. 31, the Beijing-based company announced. Revenue rose 50.3 percent compared with a year earlier to 9.5 billion yuan ($1.6 billion).
Marketing and administrative costs surged 135 percent, which the company said was due to higher spending to promote mobile services. Research and development spending jumped 80 percent.
Baidu and rivals are spending heavily to attract users who are migrating rapidly to surfing the Web on smartphones, tablet computers and other wireless devices.
China has the world's biggest Internet market, with 618 million people online at the end of 2013, according to an industry group, the China Internet Network Information Center. That included some 500 million people—or more than 80 percent of the total—who go online wirelessly.
Mobile accounted for more than 20 percent of Baidu's quarterly revenue, according to chairman Robin Li.
"Our efforts to drive mobile adoption among customers gained significant traction throughout the year," said Li in a statement. "Building out our platform to capture the huge opportunities ahead remains our focus for 2014."
Baidu's market share in traditional personal computer-based search is more than 80 percent. But in mobile it faces intense competition from companies such as Qihoo 360, which launched a rival in mid-2012.
Baidu has expanded into music downloads, online video and other services. In July, it announced the acquisition of a smartphone apps distributor, 91 Wireless, for $1.9 billion.
Baidu's latest revenue growth "suggests some of the heavy investment is starting to yield some returns," said Barclays analyst Alicia Yap in a report.
For the full year, profit edged up 0.6 percent over 2012 to 10.5 billion yuan ($1.7 billion). Revenue rose 43.2 percent to 31.9 billion yuan ($5.3 billion).
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Top-seeded Marin Cilic will face Jurgen Melzer in the Zagreb Indoors final on Sunday.
Cilic rallied past defending champion Mikhail Youzhny 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 Saturday, while Melzer defeated Robin Haase 7-6 (2), 6-3.
Cilic was given two time-violation penalties before advancing to his 16th career final. He was penalized for the first time in the opening set and again in the third, when Youzhny took a 3-2 lead but failed to win another game.
Youzhny received treatment to his left leg at the beginning of the first set, but downplayed the problem.
"I would not even call it injury. It happened during the match, it was kind of tightness," he said. "Marin played very well."
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What's worse than a megalomaniacal madman at the controls of a train in the bustling New York City subway? How about a mile-long train carrying a toxic freight and a massive amount of diesel fuel, with absolutely no one at the wheel.
Some train wrecks are hard to watch. Others, you simply can't take your eyes off.
A massive, mangled mess of metal, leaving a long trail of destruction. As a metaphor – for life or art – it's rarely a good thing.
But in movies, a runaway train on a collision course can really stoke the fire of an action/drama, and get you choo-chooing your fingernails in tense anticipation.
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What's worse than a megalomaniacal madman at the controls of a train in the bustling New York City subway?
How about a mile-long train carrying a toxic freight and a massive amount of diesel fuel, with absolutely no one at the wheel.
What tension actor Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott couldn't muster in last year's mostly forgettable "Taking of Pelham 123" they make up for a thousand fold in the truth-based "Unstoppable," which filmed partially in a Brewster rail yard and featured local people as extras and consultants.
There's no bad guy in "Unstoppable," a la John Travolta's goateed grunt in "Pelham," just an unreasonable, unsympathetic, out-of-control train, which if it crashes, could easily decimate an entire town.
The triple-7 train was set loose by a lazy, dopey train yard worker (played by Ethan Suplee), who while parking it, stepped out of the cabin to flip a track switch, leaving it running, and failed to get back on board.
Train yards have safeguards in place, of course, to correct this kind of flub.
If this train was just a "coaster," it wouldn't take much to stop it.
And there are ways to automatically engage its airbrakes.
But it's not coasting; it's soon at full-throttle. And the airbrakes aren't an option either – the brake lines aren't connected.
Worse yet, it's hauling 10 train cars full of a toxic, highly-flammable, glue-making chemical.
And if it can get to Stanton, Pa., without crashing head-on into another train or derailing, there's an elevated, S-curved track that has the potential to drop the train and its freight onto fuel tanks and wipe the city off the map.
It's basically a missile – the size of the Chrysler building.
Putting out fires and maneuvering close calls in the control room is Connie (Rosario Dawson), safety inspector Werner (Kevin Corrigan) and the money-minding manager Galvin (Kevin Dunn), who don't see eye-to-eye much on how to minimize the damage.
Meanwhile, veteran engineer Frank (Washington) and rookie conductor Will (Chris Pine, who played Capt. Kirk in last year's "Star Trek" reboot) are on another train in hot pursuit of the runaway engine, with a wild-eyed plan that might just work.
"Unstoppable" is thrilling, and its characters are genuine and relatable. While you hang to the edge of your seat, 98 minutes go by in an awesome blur, much like the film's runaway train.
So do I recommend it?
Just try stopping me.
Two train wrecks on DVD
Potentially bad news from a doctor's regular check-up sets "Solitary Man" car magnate Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas) on a self-destructive course.
In the six years that pass unseen between that brief prelude and the opening credits, Kalmen's auto dealership empire has crumbled and a happy marriage has dissolved into a series of dirty, debasing one-night-stands with women at least half his age.
His life is a train wreck. And instead of getting it back on track, Kalmen seems determined to see just how much lower he can go.
His relentless womanizing is hurting his relationship with his grown daughter (played by Jenna Fischer of NBC's "The Office") and young grandson; and turns an opportunity for a fresh career start sour real quick.
Near the bottom of the barrel, for Kalmen, is moving in with his happily-married childhood friend (played by Danny DeVito) in his old college town and taking students' sandwich orders in his pal's diner.
But it gets worse.
And despite this flick's dark-comedy designation, it's mostly painful to watch.
The brightest spots are the scenes chewed up by Douglas and DeVito, close friends in real life, together on screen for the first time since 1989's "The War of the Roses;" and Jesse Eisenberg as a clueless college sophomore who gets schooled on seduction by lady-killer Kalmen.
News that Douglas is battling throat cancer makes his character's health scare more poignant. And his charm and charisma is undeniable.
But, ultimately, "Solitary Man" just leaves you in a sad and lonely place.
And in "Jonah Hex," wild-West-style bandits pull a train heist and make off with a key cog in a modern-day weapon on mass destruction.
And this train goes from zero to ridiculous in record time.
Based all too loosely on a comic-book character, "Jonah Hex" stars Josh Brolin as the scarred, surly cowboy with a death wish.
John Malkovich stars as the sinister Quentin Turnbull, the turncoat who made Hex watch as his family burned alive, and who gave him his deformed mug.
Now Turnbull, believed dead, is plotting an attack on the Civil-War-divided United States to coincide with Fourth of July celebrations.
And Hex will go through hell, literally, and high water to stop him.
In the film (though not the comic), Hex has the ability to conjure dead souls with his touch, whom he interrogates to find and bring to justice his arch nemesis.
But nothing – certainly not Megan Fox as a feisty harlot – can revive this corpse of a cowboy comic-book adaptation.
Trailer time
A tourist (played by Johnny Depp) meets an extraordinary woman (Angelina Jolie) on a train in Italy, and as one might expect, a thrill ride ensues in "The Tourist," pulling into theaters Dec. 10.
Soon, this innocent, hapless tourist is dodging bullets and bad guys with the woman of his dreams, whose deliberately put him in harm's way.
Why? That's what he'll have to figure out for himself in this spy-like caper.
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Students Learning To Manage Money Through The Investment Club
SOCORRO, N.M. January 21, 2011 – A core group of Tech students are learning the ropes of investing, the stock market and financial research – and using real money.
Pat Miller earned a bachelor's in petroleum engineering at New Mexico Tech in 1961. After retiring from the industry, Miller decided to give back to his alma mater in personal and unique manner. In 2006, he donated $100,000 to start the Pat Miller Student Investment Club.
Club president Ryan Halton, a senior management student said, "We're having a great time, especially when we get in heated debates. "Students get excited when they realize that they can make money."
The club meets weekly, but Halton spends several hours every day researching investment opportunities and communicating with club members via e-mail. The club has actively sought out advice from three investment experts. Students met with Charles Murphy, a vice president with Merrill Lynch in Roswell, Lee Munson, an entrepreneur who uses statistical analysis, and Jake Tolk, a Tech management graduate now working for UBS in Santa Fe.
"When the current officers took over, we liquidated the portfolio and started from scratch," Halton said. "In doing so, we realized how little we knew. Self-taught wasn't the best, so we talked to the experts. Between the three of them, we got a tremendous amount of information about what to do and how to do it."
Halton said club members use a variety of tools to conduct research and apply their classroom knowledge as well. They use widely available sources like Yahoo Finance, Google Finance and mainstream media reports, as well as professional investment services like Morningstar.
Each week – and sometimes every day – the club buys, sells and trades stocks, bonds, index funds and other investment options. Halton said the club members reach consensus on investments before making any moves.
The club is set up so that students don't have access to the funds. Department of Management chairman Peter Anselmo serves as a de facto broker, carrying out the students' activities.
The club's activities have helped students understand the lessons they've learned in the classroom, Halton said.
"You have to learn from mistakes and from experience," Halton said. "So many things in the real world aren't the same as in the textbook. Through the Investment Club, we can see the consequence of our actions."
Club member Scott Woody said the overall experience has been very rewarding.
"It's good to see how other people view these theories," Woody said. "We meet as a large group and it's really informative to see how other people see things."
In just four months, the club has increased its portfolio's value by 15 percent. Two of their biggest successes were investments in Google and CoinStar. They bought Google at $500, then sold at $620. The club held CoinStar for six weeks and saw the value increase 49 percent.
"Our accounts are making moves and making noise," Halton said. "You can't analyze it perfectly and get it right every time, but we're using tools that help us make good decisions."
Anselmo said the club's results in just four months are phenomenal.
"I think their methods are somewhat conventional, but their results are remarkable," Anselmo said. "The way to do it is hard work and that's what they're doing. They're not running sophisticated models, but they're spending the time doing research."
Club member Joaquin Roibal – also the Student Association president – said he has learned much about investing through the club's meetings and activities.
"I joined because I am interested in the economy and the way things work in the stock market and bonds and investing," he said. "But I had no idea about it. I had no idea how to purchase stocks or evaluate them. This has given me a lot of insight about how to invest and save money."
One piece of advice club members heard from the experts was to invest in areas that they know. Roibal, who is a mineral engineering senior, has brought mining investment opportunities to the club.
The club has purchased stock in Mosaic Potash, a Carlsbad mining company that regularly employs Tech students, both as interns and as full-time employees. The club is also considering Newmont Mining, U.S. Gold and precious metals as potential investments.
"Being in the club helps me on both sides," Roibal said. "What I know about mining helps me in investing. And what I'm learning about investing helps me understand that side of the mining industry too."
The club holds about 15 different investments, all of which have changed since September, Anselmo said. The club purchased stock in Abercrombie & Fitch before the holidays and reaped the rewards of a strong commercial season. The club also saw profits from holding stock in Apple.
"That's fairly conventional stuff, but it's working," Anselmo said.
Anselmo said the 2010-2011 version of the club is fulfilling the vision of founder Pat Miller. He graduated from Tech in 1962 and worked in the petroleum industry.
"He graduated and got a good job – as most Tech students do," Anselmo said. "He started investing and had to learn the hard way how to manage his investment portfolio. His idea was to donate the seed money for the club to give students experience in analysis and all the other things they need in their lives to manage their own money. It's turned into much more than that."
Anselmo said the club's meetings with investment professionals were truly eye-opening experiences because the students got a first-hand glimpse into the world of high finance and investing.
The Pat Miller Student Investment Club is a rarity because undergraduates make the decisions with real money. Many university clubs only offer virtual investments for undergraduates. Some schools have real accounts but only for graduate students.
"At Tech, the undergrads do 99 percent of the work," Anselmo said. "Obviously, because of the exceptional quality of our undergrads, they can handle the analytics and be successful investors."
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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Is Beauty in the Face of the Beholder? – "We concluded that individuals, if given the opportunity, seek to promote 'positive assortment' for Self's phenotype, especially when the level of similarity approaches an optimal point that is similar to Self without causing a conscious acknowledgment of the similarity." – on assortative mating, via race/history/evolution notes.
3.4-7.9% Neandertal admixture in Eurasia? – "'Our analysis allows us — for the first time — to formally reject a history of ancestral population structure and instead reveals strong support for admixture from Neandertals into Eurasian populations at a higher rate (3.4%-7.9%) than suggested previously.'" – @dienekes'.
and speaking of neanderthals: Neanderthals made leather-working tools like those in use today.
Genetics and alcoholism – "Abundant evidence indicates that alcohol dependence (alcoholism) is a complex genetic disease, with variations in a large number of genes affecting a person's risk of alcoholism. Some of these genes have been identified, including two genes involved in the metabolism of alcohol (ADH1B and ALDH2) that have the strongest known affects on the risk of alcoholism. Studies continue to reveal other genes in which variants affect the risk of alcoholism or related traits, including GABRA2, CHRM2, KCNJ6 and AUTS2."
Sense of smell has a genetic flavour – "Richard Newcomb of the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research (IPFR) in Auckland and his colleagues have found the most convincing evidence yet of a genetic basis to the differences in people's odour perception." – via hbd bibliography.
Immigration and inbreeding – "[T]he more inbred a country is, the more restrictive the attitudes of its population are on the issues of immigration and citizenship. Conversely, the more outbred a country is, the more its inhabitants tend toward unrestricted open borders." – from the awesome epigone.
Religious people are less intelligent than atheists, analysis of over 63 scientific studies stretching back over decades concludes – "Study found 'a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity' in 53 out of 63 studies." – via nelson.
Jason Richwine and some Hispanic data – "In summary, if one uses scholastic data as a measure of ability, then there was some significant narrowing of the White/Hispanic gap in the early 1980's, but that reduced gap has persisted thereafter. This finding discomforts those who predicted that the gap would never change, and those who said it was closing fast and would shortly disappear. Both are wrong, are partially right." – from dr. james thompson.
Why can't we talk about IQ? – from jason richwine. (in case you live in a cave. (~_^) )
ORIGINAL PAPER: Strong genetic influence on a UK nationwide test of educational achievement at the end of compulsory education at age 16 – @dr. james thompson's blog. also Revealed: how exam results owe more to genes than teaching – "New research by Professor Robert Plomin shows genes are more important than we like to think."
Archaeology: The milk revolution – "When a single genetic mutation first let ancient Europeans drink milk, it set the stage for a continental upheaval." – @nature. see also Impressed Ware and Linear Pottery – Linearbandkeramik from greg cochran.
Variable mutation rates – age of puberty and There can only be one! from greg cochran.
A Tentative Ranking of the Clannishness of the "Founding Fathers" and The Cavaliers – from jayman.
Race matters when a patient needs a stem cell or marrow transplant – "If you become ill with a blood cancer or other disease that requires a stem cell transplant, here's an uncomfortable fact: Your race matters." – why that fact should be *uncomfortable*, i have no idea, but i do admit that i'm odd. – via nelson.
Population Structure of Hispanics in the United States: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis – "By comparing genetic ancestry of MESA Hispanic participants to reference samples representing worldwide diversity, we show major differences in ancestry of MESA Hispanics reflecting their Caucasian, African, and Native American origins, with finer differences corresponding to North-South geographic origins that separate MESA Mexican versus Central/South American samples. Based on our analysis, we define four subgroups of the MESA Hispanic cohort that show close agreement with the following self-identified regions of origin: Dominican/Cuban, Mexican, Central/South American, and Puerto Rican." – via nelson.
Perception of skin color in sub-Saharan Africa and Great hair … and how it evolved – from peter frost.
Book Review: The Righteous Mind – Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012) by Jonathan Haidt – from staffan. also James Q. Wilson and the Defense of Moral Judgment.
Why We Profile – from m.g. @thosewhocansee.
Classical eugenics and genetic engineering – from elijah armstrong.
Smart Enough to Know Better: Intelligence Is Not a Remedy for Racism – "Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers — they're just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study."
Maternal urge decreases by a QUARTER for every 15 extra IQ points – from satoshi kanazawa.
Autistic girls have more 'masculine' brains and are 'affected by the condition in a different way to men'
Personality May Predict If You Like Spicy Foods – "Those in the group who fell below the mean AISS [adverse to risk taking] rapidly disliked the meal as the burn increased. People who were above the mean AISS [prone to risk taking] had a consistently high liking of the meal even as the burn increased. Those in the mean group liked the meal less as the burn increased, but not nearly as rapidly as those below the mean."
Gherardini DNA Sample Could Identify "Mona Lisa"
bonus: BBC is biased toward the left, study finds – "The BBC is twice as likely to cover left-wing policy proposals than those that are right-wing, a study has found."
bonus bonus: The smell of fear more powerful than previously realised
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bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science – "History: How the unlikely and unexplainable, strange and terrifying, spawned the age of science."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: The lost voices of Britain before WW1: German recording of British PoWs reveals a rural society rich in now extinct accents that varied from village to village
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany – "Collection of fairytales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth had been locked away in an archive in Regensburg for over 150 years."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: and funniest online sentence from last week – from the derb (of course!): "The latest round of revelations about Weiner, reported by Radio Derb last week, have certainly caused his poll numbers to detumesce." – heh! (^_^)
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text: Horitaka: Mini San Francisco Tattoo Adventure By Molly Skobba and Takahiro "Horitaka" Kitamura And here we go again! I've been super busy tattooing and also getting ready for the SFO Tattoo Convention coming soon and haven't had a chance to blog lately. No problem, my amazing girl Molly has been on it and wrote a few words about Ben's last visit to San Jose. Enjoy... Molly Skobba: I have really come to enjoy living in California. There are so many interesting people to meet here in the tattoo world, the up-and-coming and the classic living legends. I had the honor of meeting two tattooists this week that represent both generations, and actually got tattooed by one of them. I had wanted a tattoo from Ben Grillo and it just happens that it will remind me of a really fun day. Ben had been doing a guest spot at State of Grace for a few days, so a few of us (Jill Bonny, Ben, Juan Puente, Taki and I) decided to spend a day in San Francisco to shoot photos and visit a couple of friends of Taki's at their tattoo studios. We stopped at the amazing Ed Hardy's Tattoo City, and hung out for a few minutes with the super cool dudes there. Then proceeded to run around and snap photos around Chinatown and Union Square. We ended the day at The Diamond Club, Bill and Junii Salmon's studio. It was an honor to meet such living legends in tattooing. Chris Danley and his girl plus a few other friends joined us and we chilled for a bit. Ben took some cool photos of our group and we all ended up getting a bite of sushi together. It was a perfect way to end the mini-adventure. The next day was my appointment with Ben and I was stoked to get one of his famous miniature tattoos! It was literally an ink-and-go situation, Ben had to catch his fight and leave in an hour. With Ben's light touch and skill it was a quick 45 minutes, leaving me with a gorgeous black and grey miniature rose beautifully placed under my right thumb. I thanked him; he packed his stuff and then took off with Taki to the airport. Thank you Ben for the fun day and killer tattoo!


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A Hair-Raising Miracle
Give me back my sister immediately!
This is what 16-year old Yitzchak Slutzky shouted as he frantically dashed into the Nazi headquarters of the occupied village where he and his younger sister had been hiding for several months. They were the only survivors of their Polish Jewish family and Yitzchak had made it his mission to protect his sister from any harm. Returning one day from his foraging for food, he learned that their bunker had been discovered and his sister taken away to the Nazi headquarters which he now entered in a fury.
The Nazi guards drew their guns but before they fired an order came from their commander to let the youngster enter his office. When Yitzchak repeated his demand to this Nazi officer, he received a taunting response.
If you can show me hair growing on the palm of your hand, he said with a cynical smile, I will give you back your sister.
Yitzchak urged him to repeat his promise and then stuck out his hand. The Nazi, product of a German kultur that the devil has hair on the palm of his hand, almost fainted. He kept his promise and Yitzchak and his sister succeeded in surviving the Holocaust and reaching Eretz Yisrael.
Yitzchak often told friends that story of his miracle and explained the background. As a boy of seven he enjoyed walking through his fathers large bakery and looking at the various machines. One day he stuck his hand into a mixer and some of the skin of his hand was torn away. A primitive job of grafting was done at the hospital with the doctor taking skin from a part of his body on which grew hair. This disfigurement troubled Yitzchak and his family and he was forced to keep his hair-bearing hand in his pocket when he was outside.
Only after that dramatic encounter with a Nazi officer trying to have some sadistic fun at his expense did he realize that his accident was Heavenly devised to save his life and that of his sister.


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Students preparing for return to Kenya
PLAINVIEW - Night classes are nothing new to college students. But few classes on the campus of Wayland Baptist University involve singing praise choruses in Swahili or studying African culture.
But for one group of Wayland students, the class is preparation for a mission project they'll be participating in May 2-21 to Kenya. The trip will involve 10 students, Wayland BSM director Donnie Brown, and his sister-in-law Holly Starcher of Amarillo, doing mission work in Maralal.
The trip is a continuation of a five-year partnership with the Kenya Baptist Theological College and Herb and Becky Cady, missionaries serving there. An academic partnership naturally lent itself to mission endeavors, with Wayland sending the first group of student missionaries in the summer of 2002.
This year, the group will be focusing on the Maralal area, which the previous mission group only visited briefly. That group spent four days witnessing hut to hut and saw 30 people come to know the Lord. Brown said six churches have started in the area since their 2002 visit.
On this trip, the team will be working with two high schools in the area, doing discipleship programs and playing soccer and basketball with the students. Students will also be sharing the gospel among the Samburu people using storytelling techniques they've learned. A few minor construction and renovation projects are also in the works for the missionaries.
The Wayland missions group will be working closely with missionaries Herb and Becky Cady, giving Becky more time for her literacy efforts with local mothers while the WBU group entertains the children. Dr. Vaughn Ross, professor of biological sciences and a former missionary to Kenya himself, will accompany the group again.
Brown is excited about getting to work among the Samburu on the coming trip, since the work they began two years ago will be continuing.
"The missionaries there say they're seeing incredible things happening," Brown said. "There's openness to the Gospel and people are giving their lives to God. We're anticipating seeing God do amazing things in the lives of our students and through our students."
Brown said this trip was deliberately planned to focus more on one area and one people group in Kenya.
"Two years ago, we really wanted to give students a variety of missions experiences, so we went to two orphanages and let them love on kids, we did a chapel at a local high school and played sports with them and did evangelism in Maralal," he explained. "This year, we're trying to concentrate more on this one area while still giving students a variety of experiences. We plan to come back again to the same area and continue to get a sense of what God is doing there."
The trip is organized through the Baptist Student Ministries arm of the Baptist General Convention of Texas as a Special Impact Team. The group will fly to Nairobi and spend a day at Brackenhurst Conference Center in preparation for the mission before making the eight-hour bus ride to Maralal.
Besides enrolling in and attending a special missions course to prepare them for the trip, students have also been responsible for raising both funds and prayer support for their journey. The trip is costing each person around $3,000.
One student from the 2002 trip, senior Kaci Risser of Matador, is returning to Kenya this year. She said the short time spent among the Samburu on her first trip was enough to interest her in returning to the African nation, and she jumped at the chance to go back.
"I really enjoyed being with the people there and learning about their lives and their culture," Risser said. "I wanted to go back and spend more time with them."
Brown feels the trip is a great way to expose students to foreign missions and said it fits perfectly into the BSM's mission statement.
"This really allows students to help others meet Christ. Students will grow in their relationship with God as well, and they'll see the world in a whole new way," Brown said. "It'll radically change their perspective."
For information on making a donation toward the Kenya mission trip, contact Brown at 291-3595.


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Monday, March 2, 2009
Cooking with Basic Food Storage: Rice Recipes
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Thank you for the yummy sounding rice recipes! Rice is a big favorite in our household, so new recipes are always welcomed.:)
- March 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Becky said...
Bless you for posting rice recipes that don't have all sorts of weird ingredients I never buy!!
These are easy. I'm all about easy.
- March 2, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- Jeannetta said...
You gave some good things to try, thank you. I mostly wanted to say your photo of the rice was beautiful :)
- March 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- FlipFlop Mom said...
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- March 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM
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- April 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM
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I just made the rice pilaf. I used dehydrated carrots and celery as well as dehyrdated onions with extra salt and pepper. It was fabulous! My family loved it. Thanks so much. This is a keeper.
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Preparedness Quotes
"Many areas of the world have experienced difficult economic times. Businesses have failed, jobs have been lost, and investments have been jeopardized. We must make certain that those for whom we share responsibility do not go hungry or unclothed or unsheltered. When the priesthood of this Church works together as one in meeting these vexing conditions, near miracles take place.
"We urge all Latter-day Saints to be prudent in their planning, to be conservative in their living, and to avoid excessive or unnecessary debt."
- President Thomas S. Monson, October 2008 Priesthood Session, General Conference
"Avoid the philosophy that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities until we make them so. Many enter into long-term debt only to find that changes occur; people become ill or incapacitated, companies fail or downsize, jobs are lost, natural disasters befall us. For many reasons, payments on large amounts of debt can no longer be made. Our debt becomes as a Damocles sword hanging over our heads and threatening to destroy us."
- President Thomas S. Monson, April 2006 General Conference
"We have built grain storage and storehouses and stocked them with the necessities of life in the event of a disaster. But the real storehouse is the family storeroom. In words of revelation the Lord has said, 'Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing' (D&C 109:8.)"
President Gordon B. Hinckley
"We need to make both temporal and spiritual preparation for the events prophesied at the time of the Second Coming. And the preparation most likely to be neglected is the one less visible and more difficult--the spiritual. A 72-hour kit of temporal supplies may prove valuable for earthly challenges, but, as the foolish virgins learned to their sorrow, a 24-hour kit of spiritual preparation is of greater and more enduring value.
"We are living in the prophesied time 'when peace shall be taken from the earth' (D&C 1:35,) when 'all things shall be in commotion' and 'men's hearts shall fail them' (D&C 88:91.) There are many temporal causes of commotion, including wars and natural disasters, but an even greater cause of current 'commotion' is spiritual." Elder Dallin H. Oaks
"Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency…(and) God will sustain us through our trials." President James E. Faust
"We live in a most exciting and challenging period in human history. As technology sweeps through every facet of our lives, changes are occurring so rapidly that it can be difficult for us to keep our lives in balance. To maintain some semblance of stability in our lives, it is essential that we plan for our future. I believe it is time, and perhaps with some urgency, to review the counsel we have received in dealing with our personal and family preparedness. We want to be found with oil in our lamps sufficient to endure to the end."- Elder L. Tom Perry, Ensign, Nov. 1995
"Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food. . . and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food free." President Thomas S. Monson
"Just as it is important to prepare ourselves spiritually, we must also prepare ourselves for our temporal needs. … We have been instructed for years to follow at least four requirements in preparing for that which is to come.
"First, gain an adequate education. Learn a trade or a profession to enable you to obtain steady employment that will provide remuneration sufficient to care for yourself and your family. …
"Second, live strictly within your income and save something for a rainy day. Incorporate in your lives the discipline of budgeting that which the Lord has blessed you with. As regularly as you pay your tithing, set aside an amount needed for future family requirements. …
"Third, avoid excessive debt. Necessary debt should be incurred only after careful, thoughtful prayer and after obtaining the best possible advice. We need the discipline to stay well within our ability to pay. …
"Fourth, acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life [if local laws permit such storage]. Obtain clothing and build a savings account on a sensible, well-planned basis that can serve well in times of emergency. As long as I can remember, we have been taught to prepare for the future and to obtain a year's supply of necessities. I would guess that the years of plenty have almost universally caused us to set aside this counsel. I believe the time to disregard this counsel is over. With events in the world today, it must be considered with all seriousness." - Elder L. Tom Perry, October 1995 General Conference
"Maintain a year's supply. The Lord has urged that his people save for the rainy days, prepare for the difficult times, and put away for emergencies, a year's supply or more of bare necessities so that when comes the flood, the earthquake, the famine, the hurricane, the storms of life, our families can be sustained through the dark days. How many of us have complied with this? We strive with the Lord, finding many excuses: We do not have room for storage. The food spoils. We do not have the funds to do it. We do not like these common foods. It is not needed -- there will always be someone to help in trouble. The government will come to the rescue. And some intend to obey but procrastinate." - The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.375
"All too often a family's spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress" - Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
"Be prepared in all things against the day when tribulations and desolations are sent forth upon the wicked." D&C 29:8
"Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earthquake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not aquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them." President Ezra Taft Benson
"Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." D&C 6:34, 36
"I believe that the Ten Virgins represent the people of the Church of Jesus Christ. . . They (five foolish) had the saving, exalting gospel, but it had not been made the center of their lives. They knew the way but gave only a small measure of loyalty and devotion.
"The foolish asked the others to share their oil, but spiritual preparedness cannot be shared in an instant. . . . This was not selfishness or unkindness. The kind of oil that is needed to illuminate the way and light up the darkness is not shareable. . . . In our lives the oil of preparedness is accumulated drop by drop in righteous living." - President Spencer W. Kimball
"We encourage families to have on hand this year's supply; we say it over and over and over and repeat over and over the scripture of the Lord where he says, "Why call ye me, Lord, Lord and do not the things which I say?" How empty it is as they put their spirituality, so-called, into action and call him by his important names, but fail to do the things which he says." - President Spencer W. Kimball


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Published on September 28, 2012
Many women continue to be sexually active after menopause and most say they are satisfied with their sex lives, particularly if they are married or have a regular partner, a large new study shows.
Among women who reported being dissatisfied with their sex lives, however, 57% said they wanted to have more sex, while only 8% said they would have preferred to have less.
The study is a new analysis of health information collected on more than 27,000 women ages 50 to 79 who took part in the government-funded Women's Health Initiative study.
As researchers expected, sexual activity declined with age. The main reasons women said they stopped having sex were the loss of an able partner, poor health, and poor quality of life.
The finding that many older women would prefer to have more sex was something of a surprise. Previously, doctors had believed that women stopped having sex as they got older because their sex drives fizzled.
"This is the first study that indicates that [older] women would actually like to have more sex," says Gisele Wolf-Klein, MD, director of geriatric education at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
"We know sexual activity decreases with age, and we do attribute that to lack of a partner, but we thought that women were kind of happy with this. That it didn't represent a major problem. Well, that does not seem to be the case," says Wolf-Klein, who was not involved in the research.
"These people are looking and interested in resuming sexual activity," she tells WebMD.
For the study, which is published in the journal Menopause, researchers looked at information collected on 27,357 women who were followed for about five to seven years.
The primary goal of that trial was to measure the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women.
To that end, researchers asked women who signed up for the study questions about their sexual health and functioning.
Nearly half of the women in the study reported having sexual activity within the past year at the start of the study. That number was higher, however, nearly 70%, among women who were married or who had a steady partner.
Increasing age, lower income, lack of a sexual partner, a higher BMI, and health problems like heart attacks, depression, and arthritis made it less likely that a woman would say she had sex within the last year.


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CENTREVILLE | Jody Byrd is a man still mourning the death of his wife, not the cold-blooded killer prosecutors have made him out to be, his attorneys said Monday.
CENTREVILLE | Jody Byrd is a man still mourning the death of his wife, not the cold-blooded killer prosecutors have made him out to be, his attorneys said Monday.
But Byrd's actions aren't those of a mourning husband, said prosecutor Pamela Casey. He's changed the details of how he found his wife dead in the driveway of their Brierfield home 14 years ago, she said. The details that he has stuck by, she said, never added up in the first place.
Byrd is on trial for murder in the death of his wife, Desta Dodson-Byrd. He is accused of shooting her with a shotgun at their home in Bibb County on Feb. 25, 1999.
Twelve years passed before investigators charged him with murder.
His attorneys said that the state has no basis to prove that charge, and that the late prosecution of Byrd almost matches the tragedy of her death. Byrd took her own life, said Birmingham attorneys Joe Basgier and Brett Bloomston, who helped win an acquittal for the Jefferson County man accused of killing his wife during a honeymoon scuba diving trip in Australia.
"It's almost shameless that the state has brought this case after this amount of time," Bloomston told the jury during opening statements Monday afternoon.
The time that has passed will help the jury realize that Byrd is guilty, said Casey, the Blount County District Attorney assigned to prosecute the case because Bibb County's attorneys had a full caseload.
"It's time," Casey told the jury. "It's time for Desta to be heard, and it's time for the 14 of you to let the truth be known."
Byrd called 911 at 7:41 the night his wife died. He said he had returned home from his job as a UPS driver to find her lying across the driveway of the home they had recently built. He moved her body closer to the home before placing two unanswered calls to Desta's parents, Casey said. He then called 911, a call that he ended by telling the operator to "take care."
Jurors heard testimony from a neighbor who heard a shot from a .22 rifle that night and from the 911 operator who took the call. They heard the 14-year-old recording of that call, in which the operator described Byrd as remaining calm. He could be heard saying "What happened to your mama?" to their dog that was barking in the background, during a portion of the call when his attorneys described him as sounding distraught.
Casey said she would call witnesses who would testify that Dodson-Byrd's body was still warm when paramedics arrived 20 minutes after the 911 call.
Witnesses will testify that Byrd's timeline of when he left work and when the 911 call was made don't add up, she said. Investigators will testify that they found Byrd's lunchbox and the paycheck he had received that day inside the house.
Byrd's defense attorneys said they would call witnesses who will testify that Dodson-Byrd had eating disorders and issues with her body image, and weighed just 87 pounds when she died.
She had trouble with grief, and had become depressed by the deaths of a favorite aunt and a dog, Bloomston said. He said he expects to call witnesses who will say that Dodson-Byrd used the rifle to take her own life, he said.
"She was troubled," he said.
More than 100 people listed in the court file as potential witnesses include former investigators, friends and family members.
There was little movement in the case for years until friends formed a group called "Justice For Desta," and had billboards placed in Jefferson County that showed a photograph of the striking young woman and the message "Because no one should get away with murder."
The investigators presented evidence to a grand jury, which issued an indictment charging that Byrd killed his wife to collect proceeds from an insurance policy.
Dodson-Byrd's friends and family have said that she was close to very close with her family members, and even worked in the Social Security Administration office in Birmingham alongside her mother and aunts.
She had dreams of becoming a fashion designer, her father said. She was a fan of the rock band Def Leppard and can be seen in the front row in concert footage featured in two of their videos. She was an animal lover who volunteered at the Humane Society.
The trial before 4th Judicial Circuit Judge Jack Meigs is expected to last at least a week.
Reach Stephanie Taylor at email@example.com or 205-722-0210.


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Spiritual renewal and uplifting praise are promised at the 'Gifts of the Holy Spirit Revival' on hosted by Pastor Jynona Norwood and the members of Miracles In Action Faith Center, International.
The services are set for Thursday, June 5, and continue through Sunday, June 8, in the edifice located at 645 West Arbor Vitae Street in Inglewood.
"We welcome the greater metropolitan community to come out for a God-praising, Christ-centered, prophetic time in the Lord," said Dr. Norwood.
Worship begins on Thursday at 7:45 p.m., with the Pentecost Prayer Handkerchief service. On Friday, Dr. Norwood will deliver the 'One Accord Unity Prayer' and a complimentary fish feast with all in attendance.
At 11:45 a.m. on Sunday, parishioners will receive an impartation laying on hands and the Pentecost Prayer blessed oil. The revival concludes at the 6:45 p.m. service where Dr. Norwood will distribute Pentecost Prophetic Calendars for children and adults.
Sharing her testimony about the worship experience, the Rev. Sharon Williams, nurse practitioner, said, "I have been attending Pastor Norwood's prophetic services for decades and brought my brother, Richard Williams, photo to her to anoint and bless.
"She spoke miracles over his life and prophesied that he would become a millionaire! Soon after, he taught my nieces, Venus and Serena, the game of tennis and they have made history in the world of tennis.
The Rev. Williams declared, "Pastor Norwood's prophesy and anointing has blessed our family!"
Dr. Norwood appears on the Word Network on Mondays at 10 p.m., and on KTYM 1460 AM on Monday through Friday at 3:45 p.m. For more information, call (855) 772-9748 or visit ProphecywithDrNorwood.com.


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Cranberry or N-Acetyl Glucosamine (Cystaid) for Cat's with Kidney Stones?
More frustration today as all the info I read and vets cannot agree... Our other cat has a kidney stone, and without an ultra sound we don't know what type of stone it is and what is causing it. We will have to wait until the vet buys one.
For many years she has been taking N-Acetyl Glucosamine either in pure form from Cystaid or a mix of this and other ingredients from Pet Naturals (which may not be good for cats with urinary tract stones). In addition we would like to try Cranberry powder, however, the information we read and hear is conflicting, with some saying good and some saying not good.. So what's the deal here? Anyone have some other information so we can be confused more?
There are quite a few types of stones/crystals that cats can form. Some are dissolvable and some are not. The most common type of dissolvable stone is struvite and the most common type of non-dissolvable stone is oxalate.
Placing a cat on a dissolution diet like Hill's s/d or c/d can quickly dissolve the stone. To create a state of dissolution, Hill's c/d utilizes controlled minerals, vitamin B6, potassium citrate while maintaining a low sodium diet. Additionally it has DHA from fish oil to help increase renal blood flow. There are other types of prescription dissolution diets but many of them like Royal Canin employs very high levels of salt to create dissolution. It is such a high level of salt, that it induces polyuria/polydipsia (increased urine production due to created of diluted urine). Many of the over the counter diets that say they are for cats with urinary issues often employ this high level of salt. High levels of salt can be damaging to cats if any level of kidney disease is present. If blood and urine tests show that the kidneys are normal, then these other diets can be utilized.
Urine testing to help determine likely stone type is ideal but it isn't always easy. Using a diet like Hill's c/d and repeating radiographs every 2-4 weeks to look for change in stone size can be helpful. If there is not change in size or they continue to increase, then calcium oxalate stone types may be more likely and a diet appropriate to that can be utilized. If the stones shrink, then struvite stones can be assumed and the diet can be used longer term. This plan could be discussed with your vet.
I realize that many commercial veterinary therapeutic diets are not always popular but diets like Hill's c/d have a lot of data and a track record of safety. For situations where we have a known medical issue, this can be a safe and effective method to address these types of issues. This may be a plan to run by your vet.
I hope this helps.
Christopher A. Lee, DVM, MPH, Diplomate ACVPM
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