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Caption this photo.
Caption this photo.
Blake Stacey says
"Mine eyes have seen the glory hole becoming of the Lord … He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword…"
Ulysses says
My robes become dazzling white with new Miracle® detergent.
lockwooddewitt says
ChasCPeterson says
When you ain't got nothing, you've got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel (x2)
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
By a rolling stone?
Anri says
"Jesus? Do I look like someone from around here to you?"
WMDKitty -- Survivor says
Still not a ginger. Oh well, at least the chameleon circuit is working this time.
chigau (not my real name) says
Oh my head.
I'm never drinking Judas's wine again.
Why am I wearing a kimono?
PZ Myers says
"Clear! No ragheads hiding in this cave! But bring in the flamethrower to be sure."
sidhe3141 says
John, I told you not to let me sleep until noon again…
autumn says
I remember partying with the gang, made a bad joke about the wine being blood. . . And now where the hell am I?
Peter was right, Jerusalem is a fucking awesome city!
Cholmondely Haberdash says
"Call for Mr. Indiana Jones?
Mr. Jones?"
Pierce R. Butler says
This artist hasn't read the story: Zombie Jesus rolled that rock away – and stalked out (of the hole where they'd dumped his carcass about 36 hours before) upon the unsuspecting city of Jerusalem – before the sun came up.
I've drawn an exquisitely detailed, biblically-correct miniature of the scene here: •
Rob Grigjanis says
Don't let the stone hit your arse on the way out.
carlie says
Bio-Dome: the prequel.
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"See? I told you that con would be easy to pull off. Just have to hide for a day or two before heading home."
Rip Steakface says
"Finally managed to crawl out of that dungeon. Let's check what new gear I've picked up…"
moarscienceplz says
"THREE DAYS and still no paramedics!"
Goodbye Enemy Janine says
Smells like something crawled up my ass and died.
moarscienceplz says
"I'm sorry sir, we are out of the '25 Lambrusco, but we do have an excellent Chianti."
moarscienceplz says
"Is it stalagmites or stalactites that hang from the ceiling?"
robro says
"Excuse me, guys, but I'm going to the loo. I'll be out in a few millennia."
timothya1956 says
Three days I've been gone and you clowns can't invent an axle?
Susannah says
"What a dump! They even stole my sandals!"
Chris Clarke says
"Dopey dopey doh… aw, fuck: my shadow. Six more millennia of patriarchy, everybody."
Jonathan Hartley says
"WTF? I went in as a Palestinian Jew and came out as a white European Christian".
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
"I'm the champion of hide and go seek, LOSERS! "
PZ Myers says
Breaks into song:
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gathered together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
The branch on the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea (Gold to the sea)
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
Now Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come
When the world is mine
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
Hammer of dog says
[voice of god]"Um.. son.. this is kind of embarrassing… but could you do that whole passion thing again? I forgot to put film in the camera."
Caine, Wonder-wench says
Jonathan Hartley:
"WTF? I went in as a Palestinian Jew and came out as a white European Christian".
chigau (not my real name) says
Really early in the thread for a Godwin.
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"The hills are aliiiiiiiiiive with sound of…"
*runs away*
R Johnston says
I will use my mighty power of time travel to make a fortune selling bleach and razor blades to ancient two-bit hustlers! What could go wrong with that plan?
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
"The hills are aliiiiiiiiiive with sound of…"
Caine, Wonder-wench says
:points finger: PZ started it!
Carlos Cabanita says
Today, I overheard a comment from a Portuguese woman while seeing the TV series 'The Bible': Oh this Jesus is so handsome! And he is even a Portuguese boy!
dobby says
"OK, you are supposed to yell 'April fool' now."
Chris Clarke says
"Bloody hell. That obnoxious white dove is hogging the feeder again."
Caine, Wonder-wench says
Today, I overheard a comment from a Portuguese woman while seeing the TV series 'The Bible': Oh this Jesus is so handsome! And he is even a Portuguese boy!
:laughs: Priceless.
No One says
"Ha ha, very funny… *fucking apostles*"
Abu Iksander says
"Not many people know what their life's worth is. I do. Seventy grand. That's what they took from me. And that's what I was going to get back."
Caine, Wonder-wench says
No One:
"Ha ha, very funny… *fucking apostles*"
Hahahahaha. Have a cookie.
Abu Iksander says
"You'd think after three days of lying on my back, I would have given up any idea of getting even, just be a nice guy and call it a day. Nice guys are fine: you have to have somebody to take advantage of… but they always finish last."
pacal says
Jesus: "That was some weekend!!"
Alex the Pretty Good says
Got hammered two days ago, only wakes up now.
Truly a Great Friday.
Caine, Wonder-wench says
Abu Iksander, either you have some rather serious issues or you're just really bad at this captioning stuff.
broboxley OT says
Okay boss, I hid the golden plates now what?
DonDueed says
"What brain-dead hobbit designed a ROUND door for a rectangular doorway?"
Larry Poppins says
Kenny Loggins ruins Easter
carlie says
All at once I've had enough
As if I'm made of sterner stuff
I take a breath and open up the door
Dawn breaks hard and falls on me
For just one moment I can see
The pale blue sky
I close my eyes because
The world's so bright and beautiful I have to look away
Braced against the beauty of another perfect day
As I go to pieces and the breeze blows me away
One more blue sunny day…
cag says
Billy Jesus here for Michael Jackson Miracle Whitener. You too can look like me, just send $19.95 for the Miracle Whitener, but wait, if you call within the next 10 minutes we will double your offer. Be twice as white, just pay extra shipping and handling. Don't miss out, call now, 666 666 6666.
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"Wait — I can explain
On the day I went away
Was all I had to say
Now I
Want to come again and stay
Oh my
Smile and that will mean I may
I've seen blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realise I'm going home
I'm going home
Everywhere it's been the same
Like I'm outside in the rain
Free to try and find a game
Cards for sorrow cards for pain
I've seen blue skies
through the tears in my eyes
And I realise — I'm going home
I'm going home
I'm going home."
Goodbye Enemy Janine says
zb24601 says
Chris Clarke says
Abu Iksander, either you have some rather serious issues or you're just really bad at this captioning stuff.
I think Abu was just trying for hard-boiled Easter noir.
athyco says
Abu Iksander's pulling in Mel Gibson lines from Payback (and I'm kinda shamed to know that). I guess Passion of the Christ reminded him of that Gibson masterpiece.
My caption:
Just as long as we're clear. You've got the cleaning bill since I have to keep the holes in my hands and side for that asshole Thomas Didymus.
Goodbye Enemy Janine says
Caine, Wonder-wench says
Abu Iksander's pulling in Mel Gibson lines from Payback (and I'm kinda shamed to know that). I guess Passion of the Christ reminded him of that Gibson masterpiece.
Oh. Never saw that. Chris, thank you too.
Lofty says
Use new "Smugly" washing powder, makes everything come out whiter than whitey.
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
"Is "blindingly white" a bit too much? It is, isn't it?"
athyco says
I so ♥ the bunny noir!
Caine, Wonder-wench says
I so ♥ the bunny noir!
Agreed. That was fabulous.
Félix Desrochers-Guérin says
"WTF? I went in as a Palestinian Jew and came out as a white European Christian".
Palestinian goes in, European comes out. You can't explain that.
Ichthyic says
"Dudes! Come check out my new crib!"
cubist says
"Everyone agreed that the Reverend Boltzmann's remake of the famous "big stone ball" scene from INDIANA JONES was not entirely well thought-out."
firstcircleofhell says
"Can't wait to see how the Unitarians explain this shit."
2-D Man says
"Now which way to Whiterun?"
cartboy says
Well, That wasn't so bad!
anuran says
All I can say is
He has Risen!
Maureen Brian says
"Either this artist can't do perspective or that stone never sealed the tomb. I could have been out 2 days ago."
davehooke says
Mister Trouble never hangs around
When he hears this Mighty sound…
Marcus Ranum says
"OK, who left the seat up?"
robro says
My FB page is full of Easter cheer this morning from some Southern relatives: various images of Jesus plus a wealth of threatening pro-gun posters. Interesting isn't it?
anuran says
#72 robro – Mine has some of the Easter cheer, lots of joyfully blasphemous images and a lot of stuff about candy. We obviously have rather different friends
Caine, Wonder-wench says
We obviously have rather different friends
No, you obviously have rather different relatives.
carlie says
Get your coat and grab your hat
Leave your troubles on this doorstep
And just direct your feet
to the sunny side of the street…
carlie says
I have to say, one of the benefits of having left fb is that I don't get that deluge of Christianity every holiday. It's quite nice.
starskeptic says
Easier than dancing with the Balrog…
Chris Clarke says
You are at the entrance to a deep dark tomb, its round stone door rolled to one side.
shut door
The tomb's round stone door is locked in the open position.
You have: stale bread, dried fish, wine cork, key, olive oil, crown of thorns, three nails
use key
You pull the key out of the folds in your robe. It falls through the hole in your hand and rolls out of sight.
Red-Green in Blue says
chigau (not my real name) says
yazikus says
Your comment just made my day! -Scurries off to play hitchhikers guide to the galaxy-
niftyatheist, perpetually threadrupt says
Jonathan Hartley
"WTF? I went in as a Palestinian Jew and came out as a white European Christian".
Felix #62
Palestinian goes in, European comes out. You can't explain that.
(shinyinternet!) :-D
Acolyte of Sagan says
Jesus was clearly impressed by his tour of the Indiana Jones film set….
niftyatheist, perpetually threadrupt says
Is this open thread the place to admit that I found it pretty depressing when I looked at my facebook feed this morning and saw otherwise sensible people posting explicitly religious statuses. People who you know must battle cognitive dissonance every single day to continue to hold these ridiculous beliefs in their minds alongside their other more rational thoughts. I kid you not, I have a friend who is a biologist working in DNA/evolutionary research at a prestigious university who posted this morning, "Christ is risen! He is truly risen!" It just leaves me baffled and wondering do I even know these people? AHHH…anyone else?
Acolyte of Sagan says
For a qualified carpenter, Jesus always had a problem making doors fit…
Matt G says
I was just mostly dead.
Let's see. We can go for the old tried-and-true:
"By this time, my lungs were aching for air."
We could go for the obvious:
"Counterweights, people! These stones are fucking heavy."
Or the historical:
"I'm not sure you needed a millstone to seal a door. Also, why am I European? I have yet to invent Champaign!"
Or the geeky:
"Really, Dad? A fucking Grue?"
So many choices.
kemist, Dark Lord of the Sith says
"Dude, where's my car?"
jimnorman says
Will you guys knock it off up there? Some of us have to work tomorrow. And turn that damned light off.
Acolyte of Sagan says
"Saddle up the T-Rex, Ken, I'm going Judas hunting"
Caine, Wonder-wench says
Acolyte of Sagan:
For a qualified carpenter, Jesus always had a problem making doors fit…
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a carpenter, not a stone mason!"
carlie says
Dammit, Chris wins again!
I'm thinking we need more "Caption this photo" entries.
Everybody loves capping.
Asher Kay says
Nicely done.
Acolyte of Sagan says
Caine, Wonder-wench
31 March 2013 at 5:35 pm
Acolyte of Sagan:
For a qualified carpenter, Jesus always had a problem making doors fit…
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a carpenter, not a stone mason!"
Heh heh :-)
How about "OI, BEARDIE, GET OFF THE FUCKING TRACK BFORE THAT TRAIN HITS YOU!"
Asher Kay says
"Uh, Mary? I think you're going to want to go out the *back* door."
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"What's with the millstone? Dudes, bros…you totes got that part wrong, that's not what I was saying."
Acolyte of Sagan says
Is he singing "Anything Blaine can do, I can do better"?
cicely (mumblemumble-SomethingHalf-Witty-mumblemumble) says
"By Me, that was one helluva shit! I've never felt so clean inside!"
John Morales says
"Which way to the catwalk?"
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"It's the millstone miracle door! Comes complete with a track kit, easy to assemble! This door can withstand anything! Order yours now, 500 easy payments of 100 shekels, and shipping costs! Don't delay!"
chigau (not my real name) says
You know, there are two open threads…
SteveV says
Abu Iksander's pulling in
Mel GibsonLee Marvin lines from PaybackPoint Blank.
Sigh: I'm getting old.
athyco says
MattG @….oh my fsm…86:
I was just mostly dead.
"And unlike Westly, I actually did say, 'To blaaaaaaaaave.'"
chigau (not my real name) says
He does look a bit like Kenny Loggins.
ChasCPeterson says
"Barkeep! Another Rolling Rock!
Put it on my Dad's tab."
cicely (mumblemumble-SomethingHalf-Witty-mumblemumble) says
I so ♥ the bunny noir!
DonDueed says
"Jesus? Yes… that's what they called me. I was Jesus the Grey. I am now… Jesus the White!"
chigau (not my real name) says
Lofty says
Excuse me, but the lightbulb's blown in here.
patchmonkey says
The Big Labowski watches the very luminous UFO ascend, wonders why they left the big flywheel.
tsig says
I'm back, I'm mad, gonna kick some Roman ass.
tsig says
You saw the first movie "The Passion of the Christ"
Now see the sequel The Revenge of the Christ"
Caine, Wonder-wench says
I'm back, I'm mad, gonna kick some Roman ass.
A little more "Daaaamn, I look good. Totally wrong outfit for ass kicking, though."
"Hey, guys! Check it out. It's my Ted Neeley pose. Get it? Get… Oh, never mind."
Gregory Greenwood says
"Me? A grave robber? No, no – you have it all wrong – this is my tomb. I used to be dead, but I got better…
travisrm89 says
Five more weeks of winter.
LykeX says
This artist hasn't read the story: Zombie Jesus rolled that rock away…
Well, that depends on which version of the story you go by. Mark, Luke and John tell it as you say (about the only thing they agree on in their accounts), but Matthew says an angel rolled the stone away after the women arrived. What's really neat is that the tomb was already empty, so either Jesus ghosted out, or he replaced the stone after crawling out.
No explanation of why the roman guards (if they were there, accounts differ again) didn't notice that the very corpse they were guarding got up and walked away.
Completely unrelated: really handy tool for comparison between gospels.
"Is it stalagmites or stalactites that hang from the ceiling?"
Stalagmites might hang from the ceiling, but they don't.
chigau (not my real name) says
Stalagmites might hang from the ceiling, but they don't.
I hate mnemonics.
dalestanbrough says
Is…that my right foot over there?
kreativekaos says
'Shit, just my luck– I come outta da votin' booth, and dey run outta da, 'I voted for Romney stickers'!
Audley Z. Darkheart (liar and scoundrel) says
Caine, Wonder-wench says
Stalagmites might hang from the ceiling, but they don't.
No, no, it's "Stalagmites might reach the ceiling.
Holms says
"OK guys just FYI, there ain't a toilet in there. Went anyway, LOL!"
Ulysses says
Hey Mom, the next time you go to the store, we need more asswi…er, I mean, toilet paper.
chigau (not my real name) says
No, no, it's "Stalagmites might reach the ceiling.
See? Mnemonics suck.
Uncle Ebeneezer says
I've been up partying for three days straight. Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
robro says
@ anuran #73 —One of us isn't so lucky, but then I have relatives who think that Jesus and guns just go together like butter and grits.
jimnorman says
I told you the Monty Hall paradox was bullshit.
carpenterman says
"Remember now, boys: what happens in the Garden of Gethsemane, *stays* in the Garden of Gethsemane."
chigau (not my real name) says
Monty Hall
oh, bravo
mattand says
Oh, hai! I can has rezerection now?
brazenlucidity says
"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"There's a cat in here. Tag says 'Schrödinger'."
cyberCMDR says
That Plato dude was right! The real world is outside of the cave!
sparks says
"Next stop: Disneyland!"
cyberCMDR says
What an uncomfortable bed. Last time I stay at the Hard Rock Hotel!
cyberCMDR says
I'm the Doctor and I just regenerated. Has anyone seen my TARDIS?
redwood says
"Hey, Pops! Where's the skytaxi you promised me? And don't give me that flying horse crap, that's for that other guy."
grumpyoldfart says
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
blacksteel says
Worst Weekend. Ever.
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"Man, I don't want to apparate home, last time I splinched myself."
UnknownEric is GrumpyCat in human form says
"Man, I can't wait till the 1970s. Everybody's gonna want to look like this."
procyon says
Stalactites hold tight to the cieling
procyon says
Nichodeemous says
Pictured: Jesus "Harold" Christ, Cleric of Yahveh, strikes a confident pose before entering the demilich Acererak's fabled Tomb of Horrors. He was never seen again.
Mike says
Dan Fogelberg's Greatest Hits
theophontes (坏蛋) says
"One day I got so hammered, I woke up in a cave three days later."
Stalactites have to hold on tightly.
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
…if Jesus was a carpenter, why is having wood sinful?
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
Also, people keep calling Jesus a zombie, but we know he was a vampire – he rose from the dead after being buried and drinking his blood makes you more like him!
bad Jim says
I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.
andrewbrown not the one from the grauniad says
Walter, he peed on my rug!
Danny says
"And I, Jesus, shall take up the mantle of White Ranger and swear to defend the Earth from the vile forces of Rita Repulsa!"
Caine, Wonder-wench says
"For I am every dead thing…I am re-begot of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not."
ednaz says
Abu Iksander @ 40
I told her I'd stop killing if she quit hooking.
I think we were aiming high.
Crudely Wrott says
Awake to the Zest of New Life!
Erzatz Brothers Sleep Products introduces the Solid Stone Mattress!
"You'll sleep as Peacefully as the Dead and wake up to New Life!
Guaranteed,* accept no substitutes.
*see fine print for multiple disclaimers
ottotellick says
Okay, the trap door, the lever, the food and water, the sh*t hole — everything checks out. Let's go ahead with the arrest and "crucifixion". (You better be sure the guards are going to have the right "nails"!) And let's not have nobody else get "buried" in here before I do – that would be awkward. Now, who did you say is fronting the money this gig, and when do I get my cut?
Charly says
"Has anybody got any aspirin, please? Got the worst hangover, ever."
Alex the Pretty Good says
"I'm not dead yet!"
OS: "Oh quit whining. You'll be stone dead in a moment."
Meta – though it isn't my first language, I always liked the French mnenomic:
stalacMites Montent
stalacTites Tombent
rq says
I can never find the Big Dipper…
Didaktylos says
I told you I wouldn't be seen dead in this neighbourhood …
shelldigger says
Whadaya mean I have to "earn" a black belt? Im frickin Jesus!!
Gregory Greenwood says
"Well, that is the final practice run for my escapology act done. I will have to get around to writing up my notes about how I do it; having a bespoke tomb with hidden counterweights to roll back that stone built, faking a crucifiction and paying off the local officials to claim I was dead – it was a master stroke, if I do say so myself.
Nah, I'll get round to it later. Even if I forget, what's the worst that could happen? I mean, you would have to be a total fool to actually think this resurrection business is real…"
Brother Ogvorbis, Fully Defenestrated Emperor of Steam, Fire and Absurdity says
"Jesus Christ! Get your grubby hand off the wall. I spent all day yesterday washing the walls and now you put your grubby mitts on it. grumble, grumble, grumble"
"Sorry, Mom."
dalestanbrough says
Stalactites – c for ceiling
Stalagmites – g for ground
clayhale says
"So the last thing I remember is walking into that Roman hotel with some nails and asking them to put me up for the night."
Brother Ogvorbis, Fully Defenestrated Emperor of Steam, Fire and Absurdity says
Damnit. I'm not going to law school. I got nailed on my boards!
AlanMac says
Jesus ? Yes that's what they used to call me, Jesus the Grey. I am Jesus the White!
randay says
This isn't what I expected when I booked my vacation in Norway.
Blake Stacey, try Mark Twain's version. The beginning: "Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword;
He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored;
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has
His lust is marching on.
DLC says
:singing:: "Always look on the bright side of Death "
New and Improved Jesus, now with Whitening!
"Man, I've been Punked! "
Eurasian magpie says
"All'alba vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!"
great1american1satan says
"You moved the headstones, but you didn't move the bodies!"
"Back up in yo ass with tha Resurrection!"
Can I make a joke that isn't a pop culture reference? Hm…
Not tonight apparently.
Don Quijote says
Dad, somebody has stolen my Cadburys cream egg!
DanDare says
Its not my fault, you're the one that made a fucking round door for a square hole!
DanDare says
Gandalf the Grey? Yes, that's what they used to call me. I'm Gandalf the White now.
Caine, Wonder-wench says
Fuck, people – read the other comments first!
sundiver says
With apologies to Gary Larson: "I feel like I've been dead for three days". Stolen from a panel he did that his editors thought maybe wouldn't go over too well; he only published it in "A Prehistory of the Far Side".
FossilFishy(Anti-Vulcanist) says
"Fucking cops! Calm dude, just keep calm. They can't see shit from up there. Gotta remember to score Judas a couple of bags, putting the op back there was fucking genius."
dcg1 says
Reply to 8) by PZ Myers
Forgive him father, for calling people who dwell in desert countries "ragheads".
Even the Athiests are embarrassed by his presence in their ranks. They want to get rid of the mysogenists first however, before they start on racist bigotry and language.
mikecline says
crazy ass falsetto… "well you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man no time to talk"
Gregory Greenwood says
dcg1 @ 179;
Forgive him father
Sorry, we don't recognise undetectable phantasms as paternal relatives 'round these parts.
…for calling people who dwell in desert countries "ragheads".
I think you need to consider the context of this comment. While I can see why you find the use of that term offensive, I am pretty sure PZ was referencing the brutal and unjustified (and clearly at least partially religiously motivated) violence of the illegal wars faught in the Middle East. Wars with a very toxic racist undertone initiated by former President Bush – a man who literally saw himself as the red right hand of his god – and fought in part by an American military infamously riddled with christian religious extremism – hence jesus calling in the flamethrowers.
Even the Athiests are embarrassed by his presence in their ranks.
Citation needed. You do realise that 'atheists' aren't some single, unitary movement, right? We come in all manner of political affiliations and social philosophies. PZ most certainly has opponenets within atheism, but most of them are reactionary misogynist bigots who despise PZ for his progressive attitudes and the stand he has taken against sexism, or hardcore libertarians who hate anyone who doesn't worship at the altar of the invisible hand of the free market.
They want to get rid of the mysogenists first however, before they start on racist bigotry and language.
The 'atheist movement' (in so far as there is such a thing) certainly has a deep rooted problem with misogyny that requires (and is beginning to receive) urgent attention, and it is equally true that a movement that is still predominantly made up of White middle class men also has problems with discrimination along other axes, including racism. However, racist bigotry is not tolerated on Pharyngula – PZ was mocking the attitude of religiously motivated racism, not endorsing it.
ChasCPeterson says
so…looks like we'll all be keeping the day jobs, then.
myeck waters says
Broad shoulders: check
Muscular body: check
Lantern jaw: check
I don't think I've ever seen Jesse Ventura so overdressed before.
I'd love to see JV portray JC as he recites the story of the good Samaritan.
Nick Gotts (formerly KG) says
Laundry was a more advanced craft than indoor plumbing in first-century Palestine.
cmaximus says
"I sure hope no one noticed that me, Jesus H. Christ, the almighty creator of everything, had to open a door in order to escape from a cave…"
"Jesus Christ that thing was heavy!"
charleypie says
"Man what a weekend. Managed to lose 3 days and Judas… Ah well, YOLO."
(And never let me use that awful work ever again. This is what Jesus makes me do *shudders*)
chigau (not my real name) says
" I prefer Dos Equis."
UnknownEric is GrumpyCat in human form says
"Why yes, I use Clorox bleach to make my whites whiter."
Brother Ogvorbis, Fully Defenestrated Emperor of Steam, Fire and Absurdity says
He once died for three days. Just to find out what it was like.
UnknownEric is GrumpyCat in human form says
L'oreal. Because you're worth it.
dianne says
"Don't even bother. I've already found all the eggs the Easter bunny left in there."
stevem says
re everyone:
great captions all around, applause, bravo.
I apologize for this brief interruption but I must throw out my long standing nitpicky objection to this "holy day". 3 days? 3 days? when did we count nights as days? He "died" on Friday(evening) and "rose" on Sunday(morning). So how is Saturday 3 days. oh, 1)Friday night, 2)Saturday, 3)Saturnight. bah humbug, is their counting of years equally aberrant? Is that why they say Noah lived 600 years when they counted each month as a year? (or somesuch)
er, just wondering…
Mike says
Dude, you're trying to get logic out of the Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Hour. Don't do that, some religidiot will mistake your confusion for a genuine need to know. If that happens you'll never get the bastards off your doorstep.
Cosmic Teapot, not the Antichrist. says
OK Cephas, that's stocked for a weekend party, now I'm ready for my crucifixion. What, what do you mean they crucified Brian?
3 days? when did we count nights as days?
They counted the start of the day from sun set, so that is :
Day 1 – Thursday evening -> Friday (Death)
Day 2 – Friday evening -> Saturday
Day 3 – Saturday evening -> Sunday (He rose on the third day)
chigau (not my real name) says
Jesus was dead for portions of three days.
and the myth doesn't say "72 hours later", it says "on the third day".
Subtract Hominem says
"Nope. I can still lift it. Hey dad! Bigger rock!"
chigau (not my real name) says
Thursday is not involved.
he died on Friday before sunset – Friday
dead all day – Saturday
still dead Saturday sunset – Sunday
moarscienceplz says
Apparently, you've never read a brochure for a vacation resort.
Tom J says
"Silly rabbis, death is for kids! Yeah, Passover sure is a hoot. Hey Magdalene, cue up that Freddie Mercury song from Highlander. What? Oh, never mind.
♫♪ I am immortal, I have inside me blood of Kings. No man can be my equal! ♪♫
cicely (mumblemumble-SomethingHalf-Witty-mumblemumble) says
"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.
:) :) :)
jackjesberger says
Where the hell did he get the clothes?
Gregory Greenwood says
Tom J @ 199;
"Silly rabbis, death is for kids! Yeah, Passover sure is a hoot. Hey Magdalene, cue up that Freddie Mercury song from Highlander. What? Oh, never mind.
♫♪ I am immortal, I have inside me blood of Kings. No man can be my equal! ♪♫
So that is how jebus survived crucifiction and being stabbed with a spear…
There can be only one!
carlie says
Where the hell did he get the clothes?
That was in one of the translations of Matthew 28: "He has linen, just as he said."
Tom J – There can be only one!!!
carlie says
That's it, Gregory! Draw your sword!
macallan says
"I got better"
Michael says
"Hey guys, I just had a great idea for a sci-fi show. It's set in a space station which will be the last best hope for peace…since I kinda sucked at it."
Owlmirror says
Damn, but the geometry of that tomb is definitely non-Euclidian. And he looks like he's dressed as a cultist. He's clearly been resurrected by ancient arcane science.
I bet 5
bucks pieces of silver that inside is a shrine to Dogon with runes scribed in Old Enochian, and that an eldritch breeze blows from inside the cave system carrying the faint batrachian sound of voices of a lost elder race chanting in an unspeakable ritual to an ancient cyclopean god.
(Call of Cthulhu: Ancient Judea)
NB for DMs: Actual paleoarchaeological site of Gesher Bnot Ya'akov
macallan says
"I've slept too long!"
dcg1 says
181 Gregory Greenwood.
…for calling people who dwell in desert countries "ragheads".
"I think you need to consider the context of this comment. While I can see why you find the use of that term offensive."
That was the whole point of my post!! .
As for citations: you make a lot of assumptions about motive with no evidence. I'm an atheist and find the casual use of racist language by privledged white middle class males both offensive and embarrassing!.
It should not be used!!!!
Acolyte of Sagan says
"Yes, I have bleached my skin. You don't think the 'merkins are gonna accept a brown saviour, do you?"
Howlin' Wolf says
Jesus leaves the safe house so that now he could go into the witness protection program after testifying against the Roman Mafia.
Rich Woods says
"You want to use the cave next? Sure. But I'd give it a minute, if I were you."
macallan says
"I've had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking tomb!"
weldonribeye says
"No, I'm not wearing underwear, and, yes, I did just wake up. Is it that obvious?"
shelldigger says
"Oh….the quarter goes in the slot" "I feel stupid"
Howlin' Wolf says
Lance: You are not bringing this fucked-up bitch into my cave!
Vincent: This fucked-up bitch is Marsellus Wallace's wife! Do you know who Marsellus Wallace is? Do you? If she croaks on me, I'm a fuckin' greasespot!
tim rowledge, Ersatz Haderach says
I have a friend who is a biologist working in DNA/evolutionary research at a prestigious university who posted this morning, "Christ is risen! He is truly risen!"
fastlane says
What day is it? Oh, I guess that was a good friday then.
If it were a Great Friday, I woulda been out at least two more days. Now, someone get me a bloody Mary. (No offense mum.)
ChasCPeterson says
"You want to use the cave next? Sure. But I'd give it a minute, if I were you."
ffs, read the OP's title, if not the comments.
And the restaya: day jobs.
myeck waters says
If I wanted a day job I wouldn't have broadband, Chas.
nikki630 says
Look … up in the sky …
It's a bird
a plane !!!!
it's SUPERMAN!!!!!!
chigau (not my real name) says
If I wanted a day job I learn how to say, "Anything to drink?".
kevs says
But you said it was a tomb with a view!
erikthebassist says
Jesus emerged from the tomb with a bit of a chip on his shoulder.
azpaul3 says
god damn prick
Shane Street says
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
Jesus Christ! It's only Saturday!
No go the fuck to sleep!
Acolyte of Sagan says
"And I, Jesus Son of God, declare unto you that everything I say will be true for all eternity……or until the Gnu Atheists turn up, whichever comes first".
natashatasha says
"Screw this, two days to respawn?!"
mickll says
Today's Sunday School lesson, Jesus emerges from the closet…
raj says
[voice of God] "I said, '30 days', not '3 days'! Go back in and die again!"
phillipbrown says
"I am just going outside and may be some time"
"Put that bloody light out!"
"Did someone say 'toga party'?"
gakxz1 says
So you're sure a portrait will convince them? Christ, I should've asked dad for a camera phone.
gakxz1 says
"You can tell the good messiahs from the bad by their pose. I call this my number 7."
joanimal says
when did we count nights as days?
Ever since the hotel industry marketed 3 day weekends as starting at 2pm friday and ending at 11am sunday, which if I have done the math correctly is less than 48 hours.
Wait a second… the hotel industry didn't exist… the means Jesus invented the 3 days is less than 48 hours hotel standard. That bastard!
Gregory Greenwood says
carlie @ 204;
That's it, Gregory! Draw your sword!
No swords for me – I am strictly a Watcher…
koncorde says
"I am just going outside and may be some time"
Gregory Greenwood says
dcg1 @ 209;
That was the whole point of my post!!
And I was trying to point out that PZ was deliberately mocking the attitude of religiously motivated racism. Accusing him of the very form of bigotry he is so clearly lampooning seems a tad unreasonable.
As for citations: you make a lot of assumptions about motive with no evidence.
Do I indeed – care to provide some examples? Remember; I have been commenting here for some time, and am already aware of PZ's stance on the issue of racism. I characterise his outlook the way I do for good reason – can you say the same?
I'm an atheist and find the casual use of racist language by privledged white middle class males both offensive and embarrassing!
It should not be used!!!!
Not even with the obvious intent to mock that prejudiced attitude and those who hold it? Context cannot simply be ignored to bolster your point here, however much animus you hold for PZ.
I also find it curious that as a self declared atheist, you open your post @ 179 with the words;
Forgive him father
That wouldn't be a freudian slip, now would it…?
I would also point out that in your original post @ 179 you wrote;
Even the Athiests are embarrassed by his presence in their ranks.
(Emphasis added)
This clearly suggests that atheists as a notional group – or at least such a substantial portion of atheists that their opinion can be taken as indicative of the view of the broad sweep of atheism – find PZ 'embarrassing'. This is hardly the same thing as simply stating your own personal opinion.
Also, the use of the term 'the atheists' clearly positions atheism as a group with which you do not identify, else you would have written 'we atheists', 'other atheists', the 'broader atheist movement' or some such, and yet in your very next post you claim to be an atheist. What are we to make of this?
If you are an artheist as you claim, do not presume to speak for the rest of us. If you are not, then I would suggest that your time and effort may be better spent elsewhere.
Brian says
No, no, it's "Stalagmites might reach the ceiling.
See? Mnemonics suck.
Only if you pick sucky mnemonics! The mnemonic I was taught was:
Stalagmites grow on the ground.
Stalactites grow on the ceiling.
Chris Clarke says
On Old Olympus' Towering Tops, Stalagmites Can Flirt And Other Queer Stalactites Just Brought Us Nine Pickles.
chigau (not my real name) says
Chris #239
notes on a clavichord?
cranial nerves?
Egyptian dynasties?
the ingredients in the ultimate pizza sauce?
Mnemonics suck.
thumper1990 says
"Psst! Judas! Are… are they gone? Did they buy it? PfffftBWAhahahaha! Oh… Oh, dude, give Longinus a bell; let's hit a bar, see how long it takes these morons to work it out…"
thumper1990 says
"…It got better."
(a shiny interent for anyone who can tell me what film I'm referencing)
Lofty says
la tricoteuse says
thumper1990 @#242 isn't it "I got better"? (She turned me into a newt!)
Cosmic Teapot, not the Antichrist. says
chigau (not my real name)
Thursday is not involved.
he died on Friday before sunset – Friday
If that was in response to me, you appear to be disagreeing with me by agreeing with me. Thursday sun set to Friday sun set, day 1.
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Those Vera Wang knock-offs get everywhere.


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Im getting a new laptop (its being shipped) and it comes with vista home basic. Im gonna give it a whirl but what firewalls even work with vista?
The one build-in?
Oliver's Law:
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
I've been using PC Tools Firewall Plus for a while now - it's free and compatible.
Story: I use PC-Cillin Internet Suite 2006 on my laptop ( XP ) because I like the AV and the firewall has multiple configurations ( like home, wireless, office. ) It has some annoyances, but when I have to boot to Windows it does what I expect.
So when my son got his new computer ( Vista Home ) I attempted to install the 2007 version: it works now, but what a bear to install at first.
If you are going to use PC-Cillin ( only the 2007 version works with Vista ) and you have ATI graphics, PC-Cillin does not mix well with the ATI Catalyst software!
I finally ( after I found my own solution ) found an answer that I have not tried.
They recommend installing it in stages: on first install DO NOT install the firewall, then once the AV is up and running, go back and install the firewall using PCCTool.exe .
If you just go ahead and run the full install with the Catalyst software installed, the machine will lock, it won't let you uninstall PC-Cillin, .... a real mess. ( And Vista is so grand about what you can't do to try and fix it! Even as Administrator. )
What I chose was to just uninstall the Catalyst software, then load PC-Cillin.
It is still using the graphics driver, just not the Catalyst software.
He won't use that software anyway.
If and when ATI fixes it, maybe he'll decide to install it.
And like many other products, PC-Cillin checks for other anti-virus products ( and anti-spyware such as Spy-Bot ) and suggests you uninstall them first.
( for a list see What are the third party products that Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 detects during installation? )
" And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be" --Miguel Cervantes
Sir Dice - is the built in firewall any good? I know it now supports inbound traffic but isn't the os still easily exploitable or prone to worms?
Negative - that firewall looks okay. How is it on system resources?
IKnowNot - I wont have ATI graphics it will be intel x3100 but thats good to know :-)
I use Vista Business and I like the firewall that comes with it. It's no longer limited to just blocking inbound. Under Administrative Tools, there's Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. I'm very impressed with the configuration options now.
While it's not as easy to setup as third-party firewalls, I'm going to have to give MS a thumbs up for the work they put into it. Will it pass leak tests and the like? I have no idea. Hopefully someone has the time & resources to test this puppy sometime soon.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his - George Patton
I agree with ShagDevil on this one, I am running home premium and the built in firewall works well, and is easily configured. The notebook came with Norton's as well for AV protection.
Give the builtin firewall a look over before investing in a 3 party one.
~ I'm NOT insane! I've just been in a bad mood for the last 30 years! ~ Somepeople are like Slinky's: Not good for anything, but the thought of pushing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face!
Yeah I will - ill have to do some testing with it. Thanks guys!!
Originally Posted by oofki
Sir Dice - is the built in firewall any good? I know it now supports inbound traffic but isn't the os still easily exploitable or prone to worms?
It'll protect you from remote attacks.
A personal firewall has absolutely no use if you run everything as administrator. An administrator account has the privileges to open ports or even shutdown your PFW.
Originally Posted by Negative
I've been using PC Tools Firewall Plus for a while now - it's free and compatible.
I'll happily second this suggestion, i've been using it on my 2000pro, XP pro vista boxe's for some time now, and it does a excellent job
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I am becoming very sensitive to everything. Just the slightest amount of over-abundance in consumption can really take a toll on my body. Just the slightest under-provision can cause my muscles to ache with weakness, from what appears to be lack of calories. But i tend to keep myself on the abundant side so that i don't under-nourish myself and become weak. I follow the Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret- circa 1920's. My diet has become limited to Steamed and Raw - Fruits (fresh, dried, frozen), Vegetables (starchless), Nuts (soaked), and either Sweet Potato or Quinoa for times of need when the amount of fruits and veggies is not enough for the work i must do. The latter foods are on the wane, because they are the heaviest foods i can eat with minimal side effects. I work in the garden 5 days per week, on a friends farm, this allows me to have a home away from the city, and try to grow my own food so that i can have a relationship with what goes into my body. And i usually have a fast for one day on the Sabbath. When i fast i become so open and aware, My inharmonies are slowly eliminated as the fasting progresses, I am beginning to see that inedia will be eazy if i can just find the time to undergo The Process.
Heavy Food really throws me off balance, fruit and vegetables heal me. There is a part of me that really just wishes i could eat whatever people normally eat and i will be just fine. But whenever i have even the slightest over-nourishment of a simple bowl of Quinoa, it can make the pores of my skin all stuffy, my face disheveled, the bags under my eyes slightly swollen, and my vigor and joy disappear. This effect usually happens when i have a heavy meal before bed, so i usually will have a salad with steamed veggies for dinner.
I sometimes use cannabis as a spiritual sacrament because it has an effect on the consciousness, however i usually will Ingest it, because the experience is more clean and clear. Just one inhalation of the smoke can make me dumb-high for hours. Depending on how much i Ingest: i can experience a slight uplift in Joy, to a completely humbling and opening experience to the subtleties of the natural world and its many levels of consciousness.
I sun-gazed everyday for about 6 months back in 2009, then i moved to a region that was more cloudy at dawn and dusk. This had an incredible effect on my consciousness and abilities to sense and utilize subtle vibrations. I also enjoy sunbathing, sleeping outside to dream with fresh air, pooping in the ground, walking barefoot, and bathing in fresh living water (warm & cold).
The temptation of other foods is heavy, not only that, but this temptation involves other things, like video-games all day, or movies late into the night, even sexually- with moments of vivid fantasy along with masturbation, which often leads to a dissipation of sexual energy through the lower chakras. It seems the addictions that i have are for one thing, and that is the feeling of loosing life-force, or as the scriptures say "Wasting ones substance in riotous living". I do feel like the Prodigal Son trying to make my way back to the Fathers House, but inquiring more debts along the way. It is as the farmer who plows the field and then looks back to the former life, but if he does not prepare the garden he will not taste heaven.
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Zimbabwean despot "laughing" Bob Mugabe's government has rubber-stamped new laws granting his cronies free reign to snoop on communications in the impoverished state.
The Harare harlequin's "Interception of Communications Bill", which was proposed last year, was waved through by his parliament last week.
It hands the communications minister powers to dish out warrants for raiding post, emails, web browsing, and phone lines. Calls were already heavily monitored by the regime at the behest of its increasingly powerless judiciary, so the bill basically cuts out the middle man and acknowledges the internet age.
It compels ISPs to install bugging equipment and make it available to the government at their own expense. Reports say China will offer the hardware.
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Good news for people in India who care for the environment, but the cost of these cars will be dear to their pockets. With 104 percent duty levied by the Indian Government the ex showroom price would be 21.50 Lakh INR.
Here are the details about the new Honda Hybrid from the Honda Indian website
Wish there are more buyers, so that Honda thinks about having a plant in India, as we could see the prices of these cars coming down.
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Bruce Dern's 'Transcendent Performance' In 'Nebraska'
Back in May at the Cannes film festival, Bruce Dern won the best acting award for "Nebraska." That movie is now opening in theaters in the U.S. and here's film critic Kenneth Turan with a review.
KENNETH TURAN, BYLINE: It's the letter everyone's received. The one that says you've won a million dollars but is actually about selling magazine subscriptions. But what if someone truly believed they'd won that million? And what if that individual was your crabby, cranky father and he insisted on going to prize headquarters to collect his money? In person.
That is the premise of Alexander Payne's poignant and ruefully funny "Nebraska." It's shot in beautiful wide screen black and white and it allows 77-year-old Bruce Dern the opportunity to give the performance of a lifetime as Woodrow T. Grant, Woody to his friends. "Nebraska" opens with Woody lurching unsteadily towards us down a busy highway. But where is he going? His son David, played by "Saturday Night Live's" Will Forte, soon finds out.
BRUCE DERN: (as Woody) I'm going to Lincoln if it's the last thing I do.
WILL FORTE: (as David) I can't let you go.
DERN: (as Woody) It's none of your business.
FORTE: (as David) Yes, it is. I'm your son.
DERN: (as Woody) Then why don't you take me?
TURAN: David eventually agrees to drive his father, just to prove him wrong. Woody is stubborn and bad-tempered and circumstances beyond David's control detour the trip to the fictional hamlet of Hawthorne, Nebraska, Woody's home town.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as Bernie) Hey, there, Woody. Remember me? Bernie Bowen. How you doing?
TURAN: Woody can't help but tell folks about his million dollar windfall and he soon becomes the talk of the town.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as Bernie) We're all real happy for you. And real pleased you thought to stop back home and share the big news.
DERN: (as Woody) Thanks, Bernie.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as Bernie) Hey, watch your wallet.
TURAN: These characters are all unknowing participants in a comedy of the everyday absurd but everyone in the film is allowed the dignity of being doggedly themselves, delusions and all. None of this would have been possible without Bruce Dern's transcendent performance as the battered and baffled Woody. His character reminds us, as does this wonderful film, how little it takes to make us happy, and how hard it is to get even that.
MONTAGNE: Kenneth Turan reviews movies for MORNING EDITION and the Los Angeles Times. This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
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Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Center for Strategic and International Studies that a the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf region wouldn't be measured in terms of battalions.
"That's the future," he said. "Not necessarily the United States of America sitting there with half of the United States Navy positioned in the gulf, but rather ... a long-term strategy that's feasible given the resources available."
He noted the U.S. military strategy in the region was designed to contain Iraq under Saddam Hussein. With the Iraq war over, and the engagement in Afghanistan winding down, the U.S. Defense Department has refocused its efforts on the Asia-Pacific.
Dempsey said the Defense Department would bolster its presence with regional allies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Policy analysts have described the so-called pivot to Asia as ill-guided given the emergence of al-Qaida affiliates across the Middle East and North Africa. Dempsey said the military would work to do more with less in the region.
"We just have to figure out, 'How do we help you do more, so we can do less?'" he said. "But that doesn't mean less well."


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As Facebook and Twitter become as central to workplace conversation as the company cafeteria, federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.
Employers often seek to discourage comments that paint them in a negative light. Don't discuss company matters publicly, a typical social media policy will say, and don't disparage managers, co-workers or the company itself. Violations can be a firing offense.
But in a series of recent rulings and advisories, labor regulators have declared many such blanket restrictions illegal. The National Labor Relations Board says workers have a right to discuss work conditions freely and without fear of retribution, whether the discussion takes place at the office or on Facebook.
In addition to ordering the reinstatement of various workers fired for their posts on social networks, the agency has pushed companies nationwide, including giants like General Motors, Target and Costco, to rewrite their social media rules.
"Many view social media as the new water cooler," said Mark G. Pearce, the board's chairman, noting that federal law has long protected the right of employees to discuss work-related matters. "All we're doing is applying traditional rules to a new tech-nology."
The decisions come amid a broader debate over what constitutes appropriate discussion on Facebook and other social networks. Schools and universities are wrestling with online bullying and student disclosures about drug use. Governments worry about what police officers and teachers say and do online on their own time. Even corporate chieftains are finding that their online comments can run afoul of securities regulators.
The labor board's rulings, which apply to virtually all of the private sector, generally tell companies that it is illegal to adopt broad social media policies — like bans on "disrespectful" comments or posts that criticize the employer — if those policies discourage workers from exercising their right to communicate with one another with the aim of improving wages, benefits or working conditions.
But the agency also has found that it is OK for employers to act against a lone worker ranting on the Internet.
Several cases illustrate the differing standards.
At Hispanics United of Buffalo, a nonprofit social services provider in upstate New York, a caseworker threatened to complain to the boss that others were not working hard enough. Another worker, Mariana Cole-Rivera, posted a Facebook message asking, "My fellow co-workers, how do you feel?"
Several of her colleagues posted angry, sometimes expletive-laden, responses. "Try doing my job. I have five programs," wrote one. "What the hell, we don't have a life as is," wrote another.
Hispanics United fired Cole-Rivera and four other caseworkers who responded to her, saying they had violated the company's harassment policies by going after the caseworker who complained.
In a 3-1 decision last month, the labor board concluded that the caseworkers had been unlawfully terminated. It found that the posts in 2010 were the type of "concerted activity" for "mutual aid" that is expressly protected by the National Labor Relations Act.
"The board's decision felt like vindication," said Cole-Rivera, who has since found another social work job.
The NLRB had far less sympathy for a police reporter at The Arizona Daily Star.
Frustrated by a lack of news, the reporter posted several Twitter comments. One said, "What?!?!?! No overnight homicide. ... You're slacking, Tucson." Another began, "You stay homicidal, Tucson."
The newspaper fired the reporter, and board officials found the dismissal legal, saying the posts were offensive, not concerted activity and not about working conditions.
The agency also affirmed the firing of a bartender in Illinois. Unhappy about not receiving a raise for five years, the bartender posted on Facebook, calling his customers "rednecks" and saying he hoped they choked on glass as they drove home drunk.
Labor board officials found that his comments were personal venting in a response to his stepsister, not the "concerted activity" aimed at improving wages and working conditions that is protected by federal law.
NLRB officials did not name the reporter or the bartender.
The board's moves have upset some companies, particularly because it is taking a law enacted in the industrial era, principally to protect workers' right to unionize, and applying it to the digital activities of nearly all private-sector workers, union and nonunion alike.
Brian E. Hayes, the lone dissenter in the Hispanics United case, wrote that "the five employees were simply venting," not engaged in concerted activity, and therefore were not protected from termination. Rafael O. Gomez, Hispanics United's lawyer, said the nonprofit would appeal the board's decision, maintaining that the Facebook posts were harassment.
Lewis L. Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute, said social media rights were looming larger in the workplace.
He said he was disturbed by a case in which a Michigan advertising agency fired a website trainer who also wrote fiction after several employees voiced discomfort about racy short stories he had posted on the Web.
"No one should be fired for anything they post that's legal, off-duty and not job-related," Maltby said.
As part of the labor board's stepped-up role, its general counsel has issued three reports concluding that many companies' social media policies illegally hinder workers' exercise of their rights.
The general counsel's office gave high marks to Wal-Mart's social policy, which had been revised after consultations with the agency. It approved Wal-Mart's prohibition of "inappropriate postings that may include discriminatory remarks, harassment and threats of violence or similar inappropriate or unlawful conduct."
But in assessing General Motors' policy, the office wrote, "We found unlawful the instruction that 'offensive, demeaning, abusive or inappropriate remarks are as out of place online as they are offline.'" It added, "This provision proscribes a broad spectrum of communications that would include protected criticisms of the employer's labor policies or treatment of employees." A GM official said the company was appealing the board's findings.
In a ruling in September, the board also rejected as overly broad Costco's blanket prohibition against employees' posting things that "damage the company" or "any person's reputation." Costco declined to comment.
Workers Freer to Post As Bosses Are Told To Back Off
As Facebook and Twitter become as central to workplace conversation as the company cafeteria, federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.


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New-grad ODs have new online resource
"We're here to make life easier for those new graduates."
For new grads, by new grads, NewGradOptometry.com provides young optometrists a website that is tailor-made to help them make an easy and educated transition out of the scholastic setting and into the professional world. And importantly for new graduates—it's absolutely cost-free.
NewGradOptometry.com serves as a gateway for new optometrists to access informative articles that run the gamut in terms of professional topics, from licensing and insurance to business strategies and clinical skills. The website also offers success stories from post-graduates across the country.
"We're here to make life easier for those new graduates," says Matthew Geller, O.D., founder of both NewGradOptometry.com and the online student site, OptometryStudents.com.
There can be a lot to consider immediately out of academia, Dr. Geller explains, and still more to learn about the practical side of optometry that can leave new ODs overwhelmed as they transition into their careers. The new website partially stems from Dr. Geller's own post-graduate experience, and his desire to offer young ODs a relatable viewpoint on the post-graduate transition that will give them a leg up moving forward.
"Instead of feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin, hopefully, these resources will help them be more likely to take on a bigger responsibility, maybe a more difficult route, and feel more confident in doing that," Dr. Geller says.
Site visitors are asked to create a user profile that entitles them to download the free e-book, "How to Get Your Optometry License—A Guide to All 50 States," and to access content that will be updated monthly. Dr. Geller hopes to expand the online resource with mobile tools and career matchmaking in the near future.
The new graduate site stems from a partnership among Dr. Geller and a core leadership team of newly graduated optometrists that include, Quy Nguyen, O.D., Ryan Corte, O.D., Mikilyn D'Angelo, O.D., Stefania Paniccia, O.D., and Antonio Chirumbolo, O.D.
Essilor of America and Vision Source are the exclusive sponsors of the new website.


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How do you stop flames in a remote forest before they turn into a wildfire? With a parachute, a folding spade and a chainsaw – we visit the Smokejumpers, the U.S. Forest Service's elite firefighting unit, in training.
The airfield is barely more than an asphalted runway in the middle of a vast plain in Okanogan County, deep in the U.S. Northwest. Gray squirrels scamper about, and a warm summer wind fills the star-spangled banner over the small, wooden command center. But the men here at the airfield have no eyes for its everyday poetry. In bulky jumpsuits, with upturned collars and scuffed kneepads, they are busy checking their equipment – one more time – and again. In an emergency, the final check could save their lives. "Backpack?" – "Ready!", "Buckles? – "Ready!", "Belt?" – "Secure!" The questions and answers fly back and forth across the airfield of the North Cascades Smokejumper Base in Winthrop, in the U.S. state of Washington. A final snap of carbine hooks, then Stephen Pofelski, Nick Glatt and eight other smokejumpers, with the swaying gait of dancing bears, climb aboard the twin-engine turboprop airplane from which they will leap 30 minutes later.
Smokejumpers – that's the name of this elite unit of the U.S. Forest Service, which consists of 400 men and women selected from among 10 000 firefighters. These crews are the first to tackle the flames of the first forest fires that break out every spring, mainly in the U.S. southeast, and eat their way across the country as far as California all the way through to winter. Smokejumpers extinguish fires before they turn into an inferno. To do so, they have to get to the point where the fire starts up quickly as possible. It would take them too long in a fire truck, and some areas simply cannot be reached from the land, so they jump toward the fire – out of an airplane, with a parachute.
In the belly of the red-and-white Casa C 212, Pofelski and the others sit, heads bent, on hard plastic seats the color of dirty snow. The airplane is narrow with a short tail section, hence the smokejumpers' nicknames for it, "slipper" and "flying shoebox." The crew listens closely to the crackling radio as they wait for permission for flight Jump 09 to take off. Shortly after, the airplane rises into a royal-blue sky.
The smokejumpers' battle is sheer manual labor. Taking off from one of a total of nine bases in the west of the United States, they have no water or foam with which to extinguish the flames when they jump out of the airplane over the mountains in Montana, the expanses of Alaska or – as here, in Washington State – over dark-green forests and mountain slopes. All that awaits them on the ground are trees, jagged rocks, wild animals, marshes and slopes overgrown with poison ivy – and the flames, of course.
Sometimes they can hear the fire before they see it, says Pofelski, 31. Pencil-thick veins stand out on the biceps beneath his olive-green T-shirt and his flaming-red beard reaches down to his chest. "It sounds like a freight train thundering by – like a campfire but a thousand times louder." First he hears the crackling and feels the heat. "Sometimes, we fly toward a green wall of trees without seeing any flames, but the fire is growing beyond it." The smokejumpers' weapons are special tools like the Pulaski, an axe with a horizontal blade on the back, the McLeod, a pick with a sturdy rake on the other end, and the classic folding spade and motor saw. The tools are thrown down after the firefighters, in boxes that also contain their provisions.
Eighteen is the minimum age for a member of this elite unit, but most come with a few years of experience on fire trucks or as paramedics. How long can anyone do this incredibly tough job? Fitness is the only deciding factor. Some, says Pofelski, are still jumping at 58. He himself is only in his second season with the smokejumpers and so far, he has done 51 jumps. He started by toiling through the weeks of grueling admission training. He no longer knows the exact number of push-ups, sprints and distance runs he did, but what he will never forget are the three-mile route marches he had to complete with 50 kilos of equipment on his back – in under 90 minutes. Winthrop's 30 jumpers were called out on 20 missions last year, so it was a relatively quiet season, way different from the record year of 1970, when there were 200 fires raging. There are more than 16 000 square kilometers of forest in the area around Winthrop, which is almost twice the size of Berlin. The next fire could break out almost anywhere. "I feel no fear when I'm out firefighting," says Pofelski, "but I do have great respect for fire, as every one is different."
A fire can burn uphill and down, an leap – sometimes even across a ravine
The battle against the flames is waged in as orderly a fashion as possible: Ten smokejumpers always work their way from the heel of a fire or another strategic point along its flanks so that ultimately they have it encircled. Their aim in working around to the front of the fire is to deprive the flames of fuel by cutting swathes, digging corridors around the blaze and sawing down trees and bushes. That, at least, is the theory. A fire can burn uphill and down, leap – sometimes across ravines – and move at over 35 kilometers per hour. As it proceeds, sand melts into glass and iron becomes molten in the flames of over 1200 degrees Celsius, and some fires spark flame tornadoes. The wind is just as dangerous as the fire itself, says Pofelski. "If it turns, the flames can suddenly rush in your direction, a small column of smoke can soon become a hissing wall of fire, and the hot air can make your windpipe swell dangerously."
The annual wildfire season is growing longer all the time – also as a result of climate change – and that's tough on the smokejumpers, who only get to take a breather after long months of firefighting far from civilization. During that time, they live is frog-green barracks beneath lime and pine trees, in cramped, airless rooms each with two wooden bunk beds. Last winter and spring were unusually wet, but the humidity has long since seeped into the forest floors and the county's mountain rivers. Pine needles crunch drily beneath boots, bark crumbles between fingers like dry toast, branches are like matches just waiting to be lit – possibly by a flash of lightning, a spark from a locomotive braking a little too hard or a cigarette carelessly flicked away.
In the old days, spotters in observation towers kept watch for columns of smoke in the forests, and the firefighters would often arrive too late. Then David Godwin, Vice Chief of the U.S. Division of Fire Control, had the idea of parachuting into trouble spots. His superiors thought the idea crazy, but Godwin went ahead and experimented in a small town in lumberjack country, first by throwing dummies out of an airplane and then taking the leap himself along with some volunteers – and so the smokejumpers were born.
The ten men are preparing painstakingly for the new season. Again and again they repeat the elementary steps. First off, dry runs on a metal tower behind the barracks that resembles a sawn-off utility pole. From there, they practice abseiling – in case they land in a tree. And of course, they practice jumping. "You have to trust your experience," says Pofelski, "once you're in the air, you run on autopilot and focused only on a good landing. You've practiced the moves hundreds of times over, but it takes a while till you are ready to jump out of the plane." Just a few days after the training session at the tower, the flying shoebox circles a small clearing in the middle of a pine forest. The mountain panorama beyond looks straight out of a cheesy old movie. The airplane door opens; a black strap is stretched across the exit. The drone of the propellers resounds amid the rustling of the treetops and birdsong.
The jumps into the clearing are the highpoint of training and at the same time, mark the opening of the smokejumping season. Suddenly, a black dot comes into view beneath a blue-and-white circle in the sky and slowly tumbles earthward. Legs emerge, and arms can be made out, pushing and pulling on the ropes of the parachute, and the figure rapidly takes on a beige color: It's a smokejumper. What appears to be a gentle descent reveals its true speed at landing. Legs first, Stephen Pofelski shoots like an arrow to the ground, his feet kick up dust that swirls around his legs like a furious galaxy. Even if the smokejumpers act cool and experienced, on landing, they still high-five each other, laugh and whoop. The men are ready for the coming season, for their new battles, and soon enough, they will be standing behind a firewall somewhere in the middle of nowhere, overtired yet again and covered in heat blisters, with nothing but scree, mountains and impenetrable terrain ahead of them, ready to put out the flames before they are out of control – as fast as humanly possible.
million hectares of forest burned in the USA in 2017.
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US dollars in damages were the result.
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households in California, the worst-hit state in the U.S., are threatened by forest fires.
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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UPDATE! As if the Dan Wheldon story couldn't get any sadder, a Las Vegas newspaper columnist claims Wheldon and his wife Susie got matching tattoos the night before his fatal wreck at yesterday's Las Vegas Indy 300.
Review-Journal writer Norm Clarke wrote that Palms owner George Maloof said Wheldon greeted him with a bear hug on Saturday evening at the casino.
But later that night, Wheldon and his wife Susie apparently left the casino and stopped off at a local tattoo parlor for an emblem of their devotion to each other.
A tipster told Vegas Confidential that Wheldon and his wife had their initials — D.W. and S.W. — tattooed on their wrists about 10 p.m. at Huntington Ink at the Palms. A female employee at the tattoo shop declined comment, saying, "Sorry, I can't give out that information."
[UPDATE: Photographer Mark Waters caught Wheldon and his wife showing off their new tats on Saturday night.] There are no words.
(Photo: Mark Waters)


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Southern California Lowriders have definitely seen that bright yellow bomb truck rolling to shows and get-togethers spanning from down south in San Diego, all the way up through Orange County to Los Angeles. The truck is complete with all accessories; including the rear skirts, windshield visor, and side window air conditioning unit. In the last couple years, it has been Ronnie Trejo of Temptation Car Club who has been cruising it here and there, but if you ask Ronnie about his ride, he'll be quick to tell you that it is his beloved father's truck. His father, Ben Trejo, unfortunately passed away back in 2005, but the truck continues to honor his memory. Having been in the family for many years before his passing, this little trokita was the dependable work horse for the family, frequently being used to pull trees. Eventually, when the desire to customize the truck had arisen, Ronnie helped his father bring this stock truck to a whole new level; giving it that undeniable Lowriding look.
The father and son duo, along with some help from fellow Temptation Car Club members, revamped the daily driver into a head-turning force to be reckoned with. The truck soon became a Lowriding icon, especially in Orange County, where they are based. Once Ben passed away, the truck was stored and simply sat for almost seven years. His passing was hard on the family, but over time, it was also hard to see the truck sitting there not being used. Friends and family urged Ronnie to dust off his father's truck and get it back up to running condition. Thanks to their motivation, Ronnie did just that and in 2012, the classic Chevy reemerged better than ever.
Some upgrades were needed after the seven long years. Ronnie purchased a new set of yellow spoke Galaxy wire wheels to match the paint. The headliner and bed's Tonneau cover were falling apart, so Ronnie took it to Auxcion Custom Upholstery (formerly known as A&J's) in Garden Grove. The butterfly steering wheel was donated to Ronnie by his brother Albert "Puppet" Mungia of Classics Car Club. The old two-knob stereo was thrown out and Jose, of Yastuvo Videos Kenwood, installed an in-dash Kenwood unit. The unique compass was made by fellow club member Russell Cardwell and the pipe and pipe holder were given by Dinky of Old Style Car Club. The devil spear and ribs were purchased from "Crazy George" Luna, founder of Viejitos Car Club. Any chrome that had to be re-dipped was given to Peter Tapia, of Anaheim Plating in Anaheim, California.
Ronnie would like to give a special thanks to his wife, Teresa, and their daughters for supporting him during all the sleepless nights the build entailed. Thanks also go to his Temptation Car Club members and to Sergio Avila, Nasario Bastida, Puppet, and everybody else who helped push him to get the truck back out. Ronnie says he has his own Lowriding projects currently in the works, but he is glad that his father is still "riding in peace" through this famous yellow '51.
"Paid His Dues"
Owner: Ronnie Trejo
Vehicle: 1951 Chevy pickup
City/State: Garden Grove, California
Club: Temptation (Orange County, CA)
Engine: Straight six cylinder 235-c.i.d.
Body/Paint: Angel Guillen of Riverside, California originally did the body work and paintjob on the ride, spraying a candy pearl yellow finish. The late Angelo Maisano added the final touches with his trademark pinstriping. Sal Elius, also of Riverside, was the man elected as the airbrush muralist.
Interior: The late Jesse Valadez of both Imperials Car Club and A&J's Upholstery in Garden Grove took care of the upholstery needs, stitching up a two-tone tweed interior with orange accents.
Sound System: Jose, of Yastuvo Videos, installed a Kenwood head unit into the dash.
Setup: Fellow Temptation Car Club member, Richard Rodriguez of Westminster, California installed a whammy hydraulic pump with hardlines. The custom 4-link setup allows the truck to slam down, frame on the ground.
Tires: 155/80/13 Hercules whitewall
Wheels: 13×7 100-spoke Galaxy


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Sarah Goodyear
Sarah Goodyear is a Brooklyn-based contributing writer to CityLab. She's written about cities for a variety of publications, including Grist and Streetsblog.
The other day, something happened in Chicago that made bicycling a little more boring.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced an ordinance that would double the fine for "dooring" a cyclist. Motorists who open their doors into the path of a person riding a bicycle, one of the most dangerous hazards that bike riders face, would have to pay $1,000. This is good. Dooring kills people, like Neill Townshend.
At the same time, Emanuel proposed increased fines for cyclists who break the law, bringing them from $25 up to $50–$200. This is also good.
It was a move that the Chicago Sun-Times referred to as "even-handed." And at least one major element of the bicycling community perceived it the same way. "Too often we see people on foot, on bikes and driving cars traveling recklessly," wrote Ron Burke, executive director of the Active Transportation Alliance, Chicago's largest and oldest cycling and pedestrian advocacy group. "Active Trans supports increased traffic fines as an important way to improve safety (along with better education and infrastructure)."
Not that there isn't disagreement in the city's bicycle community. In fact, if you want to read what is commonly referred to as a "lively debate" on the issue, look no further than the pages upon pages of comments on The Chainlink forum in response to the Sun-Times story.
Some people commenting are mad. The ordinance should have included a provision for "Idaho stops" that would have allowed cyclists to slow at stop signs and red lights before cruising on through! Cars cause more damage when they hit people than bikes do! It isn't fair!
But here's the thing: A lot of other people agreed with the ATA position, saying things like this:
The core of the "scofflaw cyclist" is not reckless endangerment of oneself, requiring protection by some nanny-mayor to keep you from killing yourself. It's the selfish, dickish rudeness of those who ride through stop signs like Mr. Magoo at the expense of people in all directions -- other cyclists, people in the cross walk, and drivers who are waiting their turn -- that makes it very hard for the people doling out the cash for the bike lanes and bike share to quiet the critics.
What's happening in Chicago is the same thing that's happening in cities all over the country: Bicycling is becoming mainstream. According to the city's figures, 20,000 people now ride their bikes to work in downtown Chicago on a regular basis. That's up 200 percent since 2005.
In New York, it's the same story. Bicycles are now a routine form of transportation for tens of thousands of people. The bike commuting rate doubled between 2007 and 2011. In San Francisco, bikes made up 66 percent of inbound traffic on Market Street in a recent count – and it wasn't "bike to work day," when the share rose to 76 percent.
When bike-share hits New York City later this month, biking is only going to get more quotidian, as it has in other bike-share cities such as D.C. or Minneapolis. Sorry, haters, but that's reality now.
Riding a bike in the United States has long been perceived as a statement. Being a bicyclist has been an identity, burdened with its own identity politics. The cyclist as renegade, outsider, maverick, or outlaw – that has been the image, or self-image, depending on where you stand on the "issue" of cycling.
But in the last couple of years, we have been moving at an almost imperceptible pace toward a different kind of reality – one in which American cities, from Chicago to Miami to Los Angeles to Boston and back around again — have been building bike infrastructure, implementing bike-share systems, passing laws protecting bicyclists, and the like.
And biking is slowly, slowly becoming just another way to get around.
The flip side is that in places like Chicago, they have also been ticketing bicyclists for violating laws. In New York, the Department of Transportation has deployed safety officers on busy bike routes to remind people of the right way to ride. Ticketing blitzes seem to be happening more regularly.
This is what has to happen for things to get to the next level.
In New York, the city where I live and ride and walk and drive (which, yes, I do sometimes), cycling manners remain appalling, despite advocacy campaigns like "Biking Rules" to change that. Take as an example Court Street in Brooklyn, a hundred feet from my front door. I walk up and down this busy street several times a day, and on almost every trip I see people riding their bikes against the one-way traffic. It's stupidly dangerous for them, for other cyclists who are riding with the traffic, for pedestrians, and for drivers of motor vehicles who might be forced to swerve to avoid a crash.
If every single one of those people got a ticket every time they tried this nonsense, I would be thrilled.
(My one caveat is that I'm concerned about enforcement being disproportionately aimed at young men of color and becoming part of the stop and frisk problem.)
I am truly sick, at this late date, of people wanting to have it both ways: calling for protected bike lanes and a bike-share system, demanding that cops step up enforcement when it comes to cars, and then blithely salmoning up a major thoroughfare and expecting everyone look the other way.
It makes all of us look terrible and it's a real hazard. Same goes for blowing through a stop sign or red light, or blocking the crosswalk when you're impatiently waiting for the light to change. Not to mention shouting at pedestrians to get out of the way when they are crossing legally. I saw someone yell at an old lady the other day. Seriously?
Have I ever done these things? Well, not all of them. I have never been a wrong-way rider, and I don't yell at small children and older people who impede my relentless forward motion. But I plead guilty to riding through lights and blocking crosswalks in the past. I need to do better.
I am trying to see myself as an ambassador for bicycling and to break the bad habits I formed over years of biking on streets designed solely for cars. If I am going to fight back against the forces that want to intimidate and marginalize me when I am on my bike, I think that riding as squeaky clean as possible is my best strategy these days. The balance has shifted, and with the advent of bike share, modeling good behavior is going to be more vital than ever. Not just to prove the naysayers wrong, but also to be truly safer riders.
Does obeying the law mean that you will reach your destination more slowly? Yes. Over long distances, it can even add a significant amount of time to your trip. Get over it. Plan for it.
Is it fair if bikers get tickets when motorists don't? Nope. You know what else isn't fair? Everything. Deal with it.
There is a price to be paid for trying to move beyond the life-threatening rodeo days of cycling in major American cities. It's called civic responsibility. Playing by the rules. Making nice. Whatever you want to call it, it may mean that you're going to have to give up your identity as a special person who does some special activity known as cycling.
You're not so special any longer, just another regular part of the urban landscape. And that means you're going to have to find another way to set yourself apart from the crowd. A bike just won't do it anymore. And that's just great. Sometimes, being boring is a good thing.
Top image: Lissandra Melo/Shutterstock
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Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promised he'd "be back." And, now he is, with a TV project in which he provides the voice for an animated character called "The Governator."
Schwarzenegger told Entertainment Weekly, that he's developing the animated TV show and companion comic book with legendary Spider-man creator, Stan Lee.
Local, state and national politics
The story will focus on a superhero living a double life as an ordinary family man. Schwarzenegger will voice that character.
He says there will be a character based on former California first lady, Maria Shriver. And, the superhero will be referred to as "a former governor."
"The Governator," a combination of a governor and a Terminator, was the nickname famously given to Schwarzenegger when he was elected Governor of California.
The project will be formally announced at a trade show in Cannes, France.


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Secure health data helping patients, doctors improve care and health
Secure health data helping patients, doctors improve care and health
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the release of new data and new opportunities for researchers and developers at the beginning of Health Datapalooza IV. This is the fourth annual national conference on health data transparency, which brings together government, non-profit, and private sector organizations to look at the potential for open data from HHS and other sources to help improve health and health care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released new data – including county-level data on Medicare spending and utilization for the first time, as well as selected data on hospital outpatient charges. In addition, the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released additional information on the adoption of specific electronic health record (EHR) systems, as well as the winners of new opportunities for building innovative tools that build off health data.
"A more data driven and transparent health care marketplace can help consumers and their families make important decisions about their care," said Secretary Sebelius. "The administration is committed to making the health system more transparent and harnessing data to empower consumers."
Today HHS released data and tools that will help researchers and consumers take advantage of health information:
- Building on the release last month of the average charges for the 100 most common inpatient procedures, CMS today released selected hospital outpatient data that includes estimates for average charges for 30 types of hospital outpatient procedures from hospitals across the country, such as clinic visits, echocardiograms, and endoscopies.
- CMS today released new data sets for the first time at the county level: one on Medicare spending and utilization, and another on Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions. Both data sets will enable researchers, data innovators and the public to better understand Medicare spending and service use, spurring innovation and increasing transparency, while protecting the privacy of beneficiaries. The data will also be available through an interactive state level dashboard based on the spending information, allowing users of any skill level to quickly access and use the data.
- ONC released data today from the Regional Extension Centers about the different brands of EHR products used by 146,000 doctors by state, specialty, and each doctor's stage in meaningful use attestation.
- HHS is also co-sponsoring a national competition – known as a "code-a-palooza" – to design an innovative app or tool using Medicare data that primary care providers can use to help manage patient care. The national competition, sponsored by ONC, the Health Data Consortium, and the cloud software company Socrata, will give $25,000 in prizes to the teams of coders and medical experts that build the best tools or apps by the end of Datapalooza.
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is demonstrating the latest applications of its two powerful health databases, the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). HCUP is the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the U.S., representing 97 percent of all inpatient hospital discharges. MEPS is the most complete source of U.S. data on the cost and use of health care services and insurance coverage, obtained through large-scale, annual surveys of families, individuals, medical providers and employers.
- ONC in coordination with the Health Resources and Services Administration selected the winners of the Apps4TotsHealth Challenge, which was launched to help parents and caregivers of young children better manage their nutrition and physical activity. The winning developers, researchers, and other innovators make use of Healthdata.gov data to strengthen these tools and make them more user-friendly. More on the winners here.
- ONC also announced today the launch of the Blue Button Co-Design Challenge, designed to spur the creation of new applications that will allow patients to better use their own health data to improve their own care. The challenge will ask the public to vote on ideas from which developers will build tools to address health priorities determined by public voting.
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Welcome to Little Washington
We invite you to visit this historic landmark fondly known as Little Washington, a tiny village in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where quality trumps quantity and dining and lodging establishments, shops and businesses win one award after another for excellence. It is considered by those who were born here, and those who settled later, a paradise in which to live, work and play.
Where else can you find in a five-block by two-block area the world's best hotel restaurant, the Five Diamond/Five Star Inn at Little Washington), a Four Diamond Bed & Breakfast (Middleton Inn), one of the top 50 shops in the South voted so by Southern Living Magazine (R.H. Ballards), a theatre featuring world-renowned musicians (The Theatre at Washington, Virginia) and a town that still has the same five-block by two-block grid it did when George Washington surveyed and laid it out over 250 years ago.
The Town of Washington is a National Historic Landmark and since the 1800s has been called Little Washington to distinguish it from big Washington, DC., less than 70 miles away.
Little Washington is little, more like an English village than a town, with a population of less than 150 persons, not including two horses, one llama, a flock of sheep and a dozen or so chickens who live in an ornate chicken house with stained glass windows in the Historic District. To get a sense of the whimsical, you can sit on a bench in the center of the town and watch farmers driving John Deere tractors loaded with hay bales go by an antique Rolls Royce or stretch limos parked near the The Inn at Little Washington.
The town's history and architecture has elevated it to the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register. Today Washington serves as the county seat of Rappahannock County and is home not only to the famous Inn at Little Washington but also to several bed and breakfasts, shops, galleries and churches.
Whether you are looking for a romantic getaway, a gourmet weekend, a tour of Virginia's finest wineries, hikes in the Shenandoah National Park, you will discover it all here in Little Washington. Be sure to take back with you a memory of a spectacular sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains to hold you over for what we hope will be your next visit!
In July 1749, a 17-year old George Washington noted in his journal, "In the Blue Ridge Mountains . . . I laid off a town." The young surveyor, assisted by two chain men, laid out the town of Washington in the same five-block by two-block grid that exists today.
The town was officially established by the Virginia Assembly in 1796. There are now 28 Washingtons in the United States, but this is "The First Washington of All."


text: The Beatles 1962-1966 album The Beatles 1962-1966 Love Me Do Please Please Me From Me To You She Loves You I Want To Hold Your Hand All My Loving Can't Buy Me Love A Hard Day's Night And I Love Her Eight Days A Week I Feel Fine Ticket To Ride Yesterday Help! You've Got To Hide Your Love Away We Can Work It Out Day Tripper Drive My Car Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Nowhere Man Michelle In My Life Girl Paperback Writer Eleanor Rigby Yellow Submarine The Red and Blue albums were compiled and released in the spring of 1973, a year when the legend of The Beatles was even bigger than it had been when the group was together. Three years after the break-up, all four former Beatles were enjoying enormous solo success. Less greatest hits collections than surveys of The Beatles' high points, the two double albums became essential introductions for fans who came aboard after The Beatles broke up. For millions of music lovers born after the mid-fifties, these have been and always will be where The Bealtes experience begins. Also, by 1973 it was becoming clear that the breakup of The Beatles was not going to be, as many had believed, a temporary thing. There was still widespread hope that they would reunite at some point, but their continued success as solo artists made it apparent that the four former Beatles were serious about going their separate ways. The Beatles had never had a career spanning Best-Of or Greatest Hits - in a very real senses all of their LPs were Greatest Hits albums. They had more hit singles that could fit on even a double album, and to complicate things, some of the group's most important songs - "A Day In The Life", The Fool On The Hill", and in England even Yesterday - were not released as singles. The Red and Blue albums had to tell The Beatles' story in limited time, necessarily leaving out many big songs while conveying a sense of the whole history of the group. The Red and Blue albums do a superb job of condensing a rich and complicated musical journey into four discs that move easily through a range of styles. Through all the changes we always feel at home - because we are in the company of John, Paul, George and Ringo. They never let us down. Bill Flanagan Author - Evening's Empire June 2010 Paperback Writer - 1s Preview Video of Paperback Writer - 1s Preview Paperback Writer Help! - 1s Preview Video of Help! - 1s Preview Help! Ticket To Ride - 1s Preview Video of Ticket To Ride - 1s Preview Ticket To Ride I Feel Fine Video of I Feel Fine I Feel Fine


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I can't tell if the fan-made trailer for 0x10c—the upcoming game from Markus 'Notch' Person—is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek or deadly serious. The stentorian narration just about screams "irony" but the events setting up Mojang's next game are nothing to laugh at.
Nevertheless, this appears to be one very well-made community-generated trailer. Heck, Notch even said it made his day.
Notch releases new teaser for space sim 0x10c [Destructoid, via VG24/7]


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Election Day has finally arrived in Israel. Surprisingly, considering the amount of electioneering, propaganda and public relations that have been dominating the airwaves and media for the last few months, some people are still undecided.
For those people, and for any interested readers who cannot vote but are curious about the elections, here are some election guides from the Israeli media.
The Jerusalem Post provides a useful Election Day guide regarding the logistics and practicalities of the voting process.
The Times of Israel also provides a similar guide for first-time voters, with a focus on new immigrants who are unsure of the process. They also have a guide on where to find your polling station.
The Jerusalem Post provides a very clever Election Day Compass to help you decide which party most closely fulfills your political wishes.
And just in case all this is not enough, the Jerusalem Post printed a "Guide to the Perplexed" -an overview of all the main parties, their platforms and their leading candidates.
To finish off on a lighter note,
borrowed copied stolen from David, some great politician jokes:
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumb.
~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become Prime Minister; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writer
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~ Variously attributed to Will Rogers and George Bernard Shaw
Just remember: Vote early! Vote often! (Just kidding of course). 🙂
And may the best man or woman win!