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Following a few PLLEEASSES from Richard I have finally found a few moments to (dictate while my lovely wife types) so that you guys can learn a little about me and ask the burning questions. I built my first bike when I was sixteen while on work experience with an eccentric yet highly skilled frame builder in Melbourne Australia. We lived out of town a bit, too far to run to see mates so riding was the only option. I did a whole lot of racing as a junior with guys who went on to ride for pro teams. At the ripe old age of 17 I was mowed down by a car travelling at 120kph (75mph) just meters from our front gate on return from a training ride. I still carry the scars and the biomechanically challenged body that the accident created.
In order to ride again without pain I took a keen interest in biomechanics and from there built myself bikes with seat angles of 75 degrees to 69 degrees.
I was lucky enough at a young age to have a mentor in the industry and to have access to a workshop full of tools. I then went on to complete an apprenticeship as an Aircraft Mechanical Engineer while still riding and building primarily for myself and a few mates. I started selling my first commercial bikes in 1996 and Baum cycles became a full time job in 2001.
Our business model in Australia is direct to the consumer, with majority of customers coming direct to the factory for a fit. The build and finishing process is completed in house at Baum, and given that I'm pretty damn fussy when it comes to details that suits just fine. I have built lugged, pressed and investment cast (both with silver and brass), fillet brazed (silver & brass), TIG in steel, aluminium and titanium. Currently primarily building titanium but I still ride a steel bike.
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DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A Syrian government minister Sunday congratulated ally Russia for engineering a plan to avoid a showdown with the United States over chemical weapons.
Ali Haidar, minister of national reconciliation, told Russia's RIA Novosti news service the proposal to place Syrian gas under international control was "the achievement of Russian diplomacy and Russian leadership."
"We welcome these agreements," said Haidar. "On the one hand, they will help Syrians come out of the crisis, and on the other hand, they prevented the war against Syria by having removed a pretext for those who wanted to unleash it."
Moscow, a major supporter and arms supplier to the Syrian regime, proposed international supervision over Syria's chemical weapons as the United States threatened a military response over the August gas attack that killed around 1,400 people in Damascus.
Russia and the United States agreed Saturday to the proposal, which would lead to the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal next year.

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Season series: This is the fifth and final game of the regular season between the Winnipeg Jets and St. Louis Blues. The Blues are 3-0-1 against the Jets; two of the four games have gone to shootouts.
Big story: Winnipeg moved within four points of the final Stanley Cup Playoff spot in the Western Conference when it earned a 7-2 win against the Dallas Stars on Sunday night. The victory snapped a six-game skid (0-3-3). St. Louis, which is seeking its third straight win, sits atop the NHL standings with 99 points, two ahead of the Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks.
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Jets: Winnipeg hindered its playoff hopes with its recent slide, but the Jets received contributions across the roster Sunday when they cruised to a 7-2 win against Dallas at MTS Centre. Dustin Byfuglien had two goals, Blake Wheeler had four assists and Jacob Trouba, Michael Frolik, Evander Kane, Ollie Jokinen and Tobias Enstrom also scored to help the Jets gain ground in the playoff race.
"This is huge," said goalie Al Montoya, who made 25 saves for his first win since Feb. 2. "We're going to enjoy this one and then get right back to work. Nobody is taking any games lightly anymore. The best teams are going to be the best teams. We're going to have to go in there and play that blue-collar game."
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Tarasenko, who ranks sixth on the Blues with 43 points (21 goals, 22 assists), will be reevaluated in six weeks.
With Tarasenko out, the Blues recalled forward Dmitrij Jaskin from the Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League on an emergency basis.
Following the game Monday, the Blues will embark on a four-game road trip that sees stops against the Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs. They will return to Scottrade Center on March 27 to begin a five-game homestand.
Who's hot: Jets right wing Michael Frolik extended his point streak to four games (two goals, two assists) Sunday. Wheeler has six assists in the past four games. … Blues center Patrik Berglund scored twice Saturday; he has three goals and one assist in his past five games. Left wing Alexander Steen is 1-3-4 in his past four.
Injury report: Winnipeg goalie Ondrej Pavelec (lower body) and forwards Chris Thorburn (foot), Mark Scheifele (lower body) and John Albert (upper body) are day-to-day. Forward James Wright (ankle) is out indefinitely and defenseman Grant Clitsome (back) will miss the rest of the season. … Besides Tarasenko, the Blues could also be without forward Magnus Paajarvi (upper body) and defenseman Jordan Leopold (ankle).


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Today I've had another 9/11 Truther email me wanting a "debate," and you know, I'm all out of love. As a skeptic and freethinker, I cherish good argument. I think we all do. But the question always arises regarding when argument is pointless. While I categorically reject the defeatist attitude some people give us, that Christians' minds are carved in stone and any debate with them is a waste of time (all of us who came from Christianity to atheism, like myself and Matt and many of you, disprove that), it is the case that there are some people it's pointless to try to reach rationally. And while everyone's different, I can say one thing they all have in common is the use of their favorite, fallback phrase, which many of them wield as if it were some kind of secret smart-weapon.
So this is a general post, both for the benefit of skeptics and believers, as to why the dumbest and most futile thing you can say in any argument you conduct is to tell your opponent they have a "closed mind." And while it may seem somewhat ironic that I am saying this while, in the same breath, talking about people you can't reach with a rational argument, you will see what I mean below, under point 3.
Here then, in a Cracked-y kind of list, is why you will always, immediately lose any argument you're in, the instant the words "closed-minded" pass your lips (or your keypad).
1. It's an admission you haven't got your shit together.
I have most commonly been called "closed-minded" when I've done such a thorough and comprehensive job of fisking the other guy that the only piece of his ego he can salvage from the shrapnel is just big enough to write those twelve letters on, provided he squints and uses an extra-fine Rapidograph. Calling someone "closed-minded" in response to total pwnage can simply be translated as, "You know, I just can't respond to that. I have no response to make. I am empty like a church on Monday." But you can't just let yourself be totally humiliated, dropping to the mat without so much as taking a final, wild and aimless swing, can you. So what do you have left? Nothing but, "Yeah…well, if you weren't so closed-minded, you'd understand why I'm right!"
The solution here is to make sure you're prepared to defend whatever position you're trying to defend. Have your facts in order. It may not be that you've brought no evidence. But if you've brought voluminous evidence and your opponent is still trashing it, don't just get indignant that he's not overcome by the brilliance of your oratory and spiffy colorful pie charts. Listen to what he's saying, and if it's bullshit, show why, and if it's a sound criticism that you really can't rebut, make a note of it, concede the point, and go back to do further homework. You may yet be able to take him down in round two, in which case you'll have learned something. Or he may be right and you were full of beans all along, in which case you'll have learned something. Even when you lose, you win.
2. You're acting like your position is entitled to less skepticism than others.
Complain all you like about the unfair one-sidedness of that old "burden of proof" thing, but whatever your claim is — that God exists, that alien chupacabras caused 9/11 by transmitting subliminal murder commands into N*Sync lyrics, that Grover was the greatest Muppet — you bear the burden of proof for it. The guy who disagrees or says he doesn't believe you is free to sit on his ass and smile like a smug douchehat (a skill we have honed to a fine performance art in 15 years of The Atheist Experience, I am proud to boast), still not believing you, until you meet your burden of proof.
Just because the scintillating truth of your beliefs is obvious to you doesn't mean it will be obvious to others, or that it even should be. People believe things, whether they are true or false things, because they have been given reasons that they think makes whatever they believe worthy of belief. Whining that someone's being "closed-minded" because they don't find the reasons you're giving them persuasive is, like point 1, just you throwing up your hands and giving up.
You simply can't get around having to provide good reasons (what skeptics call "evidence") to someone you think should, if not share, at least give some degree of merit to your beliefs. If you're tempted to throw "closed-minded" at them, remember that "open-minded" doesn't mean "believe whatever you feel like, because why not." Though the two are often confused, "open-minded" is not another word for "gullible."
3. You are in all likelihood being a hypocrite who's projecting his ass off.
Allow me to present salient clips to illustrate the point from the Truther email received earlier today. Early on, he states…
It has been awhile since I popped by the 911Debunking site, but as you requested, I spent a couple of hours there again. What can I say…terrible articles and silly rhetoric backed by unsubstantiated photos and randomly chosen witness reports. It is a terrible site.
And then later:
Unfortunately, their evidence and science contradicts what I see, so I cannot believe what they say. What could their motivations be? Perhaps they are simply lying to themselves (denial) – that is my gut reaction. But perhaps they are being malicious, or are trying to save their skins. Whatever the reasons, it doesn't matter – the evidence does not support their flimsy claims. And as I am a skeptic, I cannot accept their arguments, no matter how many credentials they wish to display.
Get all that? Any evidence that opposes what he's chosen to believe deserves nothing less than instantaneous, categorical, contemptuous dismissal. Obviously, these scientists are mistaken, or lying, or have some shadowy nefarious agenda, or have been been cowed in their terror of Trilateral Commission ninja assassins. But whatever it is, they're wrong. Full stop.
If the atheist experience was able to objectively look at the evidence provided by the truth movement, you would be compelled to support. This would be powerful, as I am finding that almost all atheist organizations seem to tow the line. You are looked up to – inspiring leaders of reason. Please re-consider your position, as I think you may start the house of "skeptics" to fall if you relate the proper information. This would be a great thing for society, as IMHO, the atheist and skeptics societies have failed miserably with their duty to seek the truth. But this can change, and reason and evidence can push through faulty conjecture.
I will end with a few video links – I beg of you, watch with an open mind – a thinking mind – ask yourself "what am I seeing".
Please consider my evidence with an open mind, a thinking mind! You know, like the kind of mind I had, until I learned the truth, and decided I could finally go ahead and close the fucker.
So, yeah. Hypocrite. Projector. Don't be That Guy. Thank you.
Disclaimer and disclosure.
Is it the case that, the utterly useless fail of the insult notwithstanding, there are closed-minded people in the world? Why, yes. See above. The people who plea most for open-mindedness are usually the ones whose minds are most closed to others. Have I ever been closed-minded about anything? Am I still? I hope not to be. But I may be. And in circumstances where the facts — "facts" defined here as objective truths independently verifiable, regardless of how I feel about them — are solidly against a particular view, like creationism or geocentrism, I feel very comfortable having a closed mind to those ideas. Though I would add that in the case of proven falsehoods, you're not being "closed-minded" to reject them, simply smart.
But as a tool in your rhetorical arsenal, to call your opponent "closed-minded" is pretty much only ever used by people with untenable positions that they defend poorly, with a surfeit of emotion and too little evidence. The minute you say it in an argument, you've lost. You should have brought your A-game in the first place.


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- "Lessons Learned: Emergency Management Planning for After-school Programs." U.S. Department of Education, Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center. http://rems.ed.gov/docs/LL_Vol4Issue4.pdf
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Compare and contrast; 51,760 packed into the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria in South Africa for the opening match of the World Cup against Serbia as opposed to a kick about in Milton Keynes in front of 8,000 against Latvia. Same thing no? The Black Stars pitched up here, trying to have funions 5645 miles from where they possibly should have been. Primarily on a mission to avoid the current trend of getting injured before the greatest show on earthtm.
Latvia for their part had clearly been instructed to only show a passing interest in this game and to only kick heels metaphorically. Aside from an injury to star turn Michael Essien, an alleged assault by Serbian coach Milovan Rajevac on Laryen Kingston at their Parisian training camp and a recent 4-1 defeat to Holland, things had been going swimmingly well for Ghana in the run up to this match.
For the second English game running I hit the Paul Doyle Guardian jackpot. We have a very unofficial (he doesn't actually know about it) arrangement whereby he writes an actual match report and I get to enjoy the hospitality and make silly notes about irreverent goings on around me. He was quite a find today because there was lots of stuff going on which reduced my partner in crime Stuart Fuller and I to fits of frequent giggles.
To our immediate left in the press box there was a chap shouting screaming and a hollerin into a couple of very old Nokia phones. Mogabe, for it was he, works for Radio Focus. Focus? The bloke was focused alright. He is a bloody legend and if you're reading this at BBC HQ then make this lad part of your 295 team (that is a fact by the way - Ed.) coverage at the World Cup. Maybe substitute him for Martin Keown - nobody will notice.
That was not all that was amusing us, oh no. One seat down from Mogabe sat another hero in the making. Kofi works for the Ghana FA and to my mind has officially the best job in the world. He updates their Twitter feed during matches. Throw to Ghana, Ghana go close but no cigar, Latvia shot, these were the tweets that he was sending in between updating his Facebook status and relaxing. Follow @GhanaFA during the next few weeks, he is going to be one of the stars of the tournament. I want your agent by the way Kofi old chap - see me afterwards.
With Michael Essien out injured, there is a very real chance for a new African star to be born during the World Cup. I'm going to wager that it'll be Kwadwo Asamoah stepping into his £450 Nike boots. Everything went through Asamoah during this match, he pulled strings, showed of his array of dribbling skills and acute passing that along with Kofi and Mogabe will make him a multi-millionaire this time next year. Loud and clear: Kwadwo Asamoah will be a name you're all familiar with by the time En-ger-land go out on penalties in three weeks time.
Ghana won this particular match 1-0 with a late goal. It was just reward for their fans who'd had the P-A-R-T-Y in full swing all day. They came, they sang, played instruments and ran on the pitch for a joyous and harmless pitch invasion at the end. In return the stewards tried to stop them at their every turn. They frantically waved their arms about, tried to stop them sitting there or standing there. Have you ever been to a fiesta in Accra lads? I don't think so. Fair to say Milton Keynes had never seen the like.
Afterwards a fairly bored looking duo of Prince Tagoe and Asomah Gyan batted away questions from the assembled media alongside Ghana gaffer Milo. In absolute fairness to them, as soon as it ended they came alive and posed for photos and signed autographs for anyone who wanted them. Refreshingly, these lads don't own a pair of billy big boots. The fans and players of Ghana made a huge impression on me this afternoon. I now want them to win the World Cup. Good luck and God bless your homeland Ghana.


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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, also known as Srila Prabhupada, (1 September 1896 – 14 November 1977) was a Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual teacher and the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the Hare Krishna Movement.
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- Actually, it doesn't matter – Krishna or Christ – the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age.
- The Science of Self-Realization. Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1977. Vanipedia
- In Kali-yuga vice increases to such a point that at the termination of the yuga the Supreme Lord Himself appears as the Kalki avatara, vanquishes the demons, saves His devotees, and commences another Satya-yuga.
- Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Chapter 8: Attaining the Supreme, purport (1972)
Quotes from Books: Loving GodEdit
- Love of God is dormant in every living entity.
- Multiple books, 1970 to 1977. Vanipedia
- Love of God is not an ordinary commodity. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was worshiped by Rūpa Gosvāmī because He distributed love of God, kṛṣṇa-premā, to everyone. Rūpa Gosvāmī praised Him as mahā-vadānya, a greatly munificent personality, because He was freely distributing to everyone love of Godhead, which is achieved by wise men only after many, many births. Kṛṣṇa-premā, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is the highest gift which can be bestowed on anyone whom we presume to love.
- Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 chapter 23 verse 8, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Vanipedia
- When one's relationship with the Supreme Lord is established, the next program is to act in that relationship. This is called abhidheya, or activity in relationship with the Lord. After executing such prescribed duties, when one attains the highest goal of life, love of Godhead, he achieves prayojana-siddhi, or the fulfillment of his human mission.
- Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā 7.146, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1975. Vanipedia]
- Although there is no difference between a devotee in śānta-rasa or dāsya-rasa, vātsalya-rasa or mādhurya-rasa, one can still make a comparative study of the intensity of love in these different transcendental positions. For example, it may be said that dāsya-rasa is better than śānta-rasa, yet transcendental love of God is there in both of them.
- Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā 8.83, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1975. Vanipedia
Quotes from Books: Racism and HomophobiaEdit
- It is said in the sastras that the head of the body represents the brahmanas, the arms represent the ksatriyas, the abdomen represents the vaisyas, and the legs, beginning with the thighs, represent the sudras. The sudras are sometimes called black, or krsna. The brahmanas are called sukla, or white, and the ksatriyas and the vaisyas are a mixture of black and white. However, those who are extraordinarily white are said to have skin produced out of white leprosy. It may be concluded that white or a golden hue is the color of the higher caste, and black is the complexion of the sudras.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, chapter 14, verse 45, purport. Vedabase
Quotes from Books: Regression of ScienceEdit
- Among all the luminaries shining in the sky, the sun is the chief, and in the Brahma-samhita the sun is accepted as the glowing eye of the Supreme Lord. There are fifty varieties of wind blowing in space, and of these winds the controlling deity, Marici, represents Krishna. Among the stars, the Moon is the most prominent at night, and thus the Moon represents Krishna. It appears from this verse that the Moon is one of the stars; therefore the stars that twinkle in the sky also reflect the light of the sun. The theory that there are many suns within the universe is not accepted by Vedic literature. The sun is one, and as by the reflection of the sun the Moon illuminates, so also do the stars. Since Bhagavad-gita indicates herein that the Moon is one of the stars, the twinkling stars are not suns but are similar to the Moon.
- Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Chapter 10, verse 21, purport. Vedabase
- The Moon is also on the level with the heavenly planets, and only persons who have performed virtues only — performing sacrifices, giving charity and undergoing severe austerities — can be allowed to enter into the heavenly planets after the duration of life of the body. Arjuna was allowed to enter into the heavenly planets in the selfsame body simply by the grace of the Lord, otherwise it is not possible to do so. The present attempts to enter into the heavenly planets by the modern scientists will certainly prove futile because such scientists are not on the level of Arjuna. They are ordinary human beings, without any assets of sacrifice, charity or austerities.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 1, Chapter 15, verse 12, purport. Vedabase
- The gross materialists do not believe in the existence of God or the demigods. Nor do they believe that different planets are dominated by different demigods. They are creating a great commotion about reaching the closest celestial body, Candraloka, or the Moon, but even after much mechanical research they have only very scanty information of this Moon, and in spite of much false advertisement for selling land on the Moon, the puffed-up scientists or gross materialists cannot live there, and what to speak of reaching the other planets, which they are unable even to count.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 2, Chapter 3, verse 11, purport. Vedabase
- The floating of the planets in the weightless air is due to the inner constitution of the globes, and the modernized drilling of the earth to exploit oil from within is a sort of disturbance by the modern demons and can result in a greatly harmful reaction to the floating condition of the earth.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 2, Chapter 7, verse 1, purport. Vedabase
- Modern scientists and astronomers try to explain the cosmic situation and the vastness of space, and some of them believe that all the glittering stars are different suns. From Bhagavad-gita, however, we understand that all these stars (naksatras) are like the Moon, in that they reflect the sunshine [BG 15.12]. They are not independent luminaries.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 16, verse 4, purport. Vedabase
- How the Ganges water reaches the various planets from the top of the universe is explained herein. Celestial airplanes carry the water from the planets of the sages to other planets. So-called advanced scientists of the modern age are trying to go to the higher planets, but at the same time they are experiencing a power shortage on earth. If they were actually capable scientists, they could personally go by airplane to other planets, but this they are unable to do. Having now given up their Moon excursions, they are attempting to go to other planets, but without success.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 17, verse 4, purport. Vedabase
- According to the description of this verse, the hundreds and thousands of stars and the great planets such as the sun, the Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter are not clustered together because of the law of gravity or any similar idea of the modern scientists. These planets and stars are all servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda or Krishna, and according to His order they sit in their chariots and travel in their respective orbits.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 23, verse 3, purport. Vedabase
- Although Rahu attempts to attack both the sun and the Moon, they are protected by Lord Visnu. Being very afraid of Lord Visnu's cakra, Rahu cannot stay in front of the sun or Moon for more than a muhurta (forty-eight minutes). The phenomenon that occurs when Rahu blocks the light of the sun or Moon is called an eclipse. The attempt of the scientists of this earth to go to the Moon is as demoniac as Rahu's attack. Of course, their attempts will be failures because no one can enter the Moon or sun so easily. Like the attack of Rahu, such attempts will certainly be failures.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 24, verse 3, purport. Vedabase
- It is understood from this verse that the predominating deity of the Moon is the maintainer of all the trees and plants throughout the universe. It is due to the moonshine that trees and plants grow very luxuriantly. Therefore how can we accept the so-called scientists whose Moon expeditions have informed us that there are no trees or vegetation on the Moon? Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says, somo vrksadhisthata sa eva vrksanam raja: Soma, the predominating deity of the Moon, is the king of all vegetation. How can we believe that the maintainer of vegetation has no vegetation on his own planet?
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 6, Chapter 4, verse 6, purport. Vedabase
- The word garuda in this verse indicates that there are planets of great birds like Garuda. Similarly, the word uraga indicates that there are planets of enormous serpents. Such a description of the various planets of the universe may challenge modern scientists who think that all planets but this earth are vacant. These scientists claim to have launched excursions to the Moon, where they have found no living entities but only big craters full of dust and stone, although in fact the Moon is so brilliant that it acts like the sun in illuminating the entire universe. Of course, it is not possible to convince modern scientists of the Vedic information about the universe. Nonetheless, we are not very much impressed by the words of scientists who say that all other planets are vacant and that only the earth is full of living entities.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 7, Chapter 4, verse 5-7, purport. Vedabase
- Modern scientists attempt excursions to other planets, but they have no information of how many different types of oceans and seas there are within the universe. According to their experience, the Moon is full of dust, but this does not explain how it gives us soothing rays from a distance of millions of miles. As far as we are concerned, we follow the authority of Vyasadeva and Sukadeva Gosvami, who have described the universal situation according to the Vedic literature. These authorities differ from modern scientists who conclude from their imperfect sensual experience that only this planet is inhabited by living beings whereas the other planets are all vacant or full of dust.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 7, Chapter 4, verse 15, purport. Vedabase
- Modern scientists and so-called scholars think that there are no living entities on planets other than this one. Recently they have said that they have gone to the Moon but did not find any living entities there. But Srimad-Bhagavatam and the other Vedic literatures do not agree with this foolish conception.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 7, Chapter 14, verse 36, purport. Vedabase
- Soma, the predominating deity of the Moon, is the source of food grains and therefore the source of strength even for the celestial beings, the demigods. He is the vital force for all vegetation. Unfortunately, modern so-called scientists, who do not fully understand the Moon, describe the Moon as being full of deserts. Since the Moon is the source for our vegetation, how can the Moon be a desert? The moonshine is the vital force for all vegetation, and therefore we cannot possibly accept that the Moon is a desert.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 8, Chapter 5, verse 34, purport. Vedabase
Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's RightsEdit
- As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation. Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family. By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery. According to Chanakya Pandit, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy. So the different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them, and thus their chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for participating in the varnasrama system. On the failure of such varnasrama-dharma, naturally the women become free to act and mix with men, and thus adultery is indulged in at the risk of unwanted population. Irresponsible men also provoke adultery in society, and thus unwanted children flood the human race at the risk of war and pestilence.
- Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Chapter 1, verse 40, purport. Vedabase
- Now, in the Manu-samhita it is clearly stated that a woman should not be given freedom. That does not mean that women are to be kept as slaves, but they are like children. The demons have now neglected such injunctions, and they think that women should be given as much freedom as men.
- Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Chapter 16, verse 7, purport. Vedabase
- Women as a class are no better than boys, and therefore they have no discriminatory power like that of a man.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 1, Chapter 7, verse 42, purport. Vedabase
- Mahabharata is also a division of the Vedas, but it is meant for women, sudras and dvija-bandhus, the worthless children of the higher section. The less intelligent section of society can avail themselves of the Vedic instructions simply by studying the Mahabharata.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 7, verse 29, purport. Vedabase
- A woman's attachment to her husband may elevate her to the body of a man in her next life, but a mans attachment to woman will degrade him, and in his next life he will get the body of a woman.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 31, verse 41, purport. Vedabase
- Generally, separation between husband and wife is due to womanly behavior; divorce takes place due to womanly weakness. The best course for a woman is to abide by the orders of her husband.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 4, verse 3, purport. Vedabase
- However great a woman may be, she must place herself before her husband in this way; that is to say, she must be ready to carry out her husband's orders and please him in all circumstances. Then her life will be successful. When the wife becomes as irritable as the husband, their life at home is sure to be disturbed or ultimately completely broken. In the modern day, the wife is never submissive, and therefore home life is broken even by slight incidents. Either the wife or the husband may take advantage of the divorce laws. According to the Vedic law, however, there is no such thing as divorce laws, and a woman must be trained to be submissive to the will of her husband. Westerners contend that this is a slave mentality for the wife, but factually it is not; it is the tactic by which a woman can conquer the heart of her husband, however irritable or cruel he may be. In this case we clearly see that although Cyavana Muni was not young but indeed old enough to be Sukanya's grandfather and was also very irritable, Sukanya, the beautiful young daughter of a king, submitted herself to her old husband and tried to please him in all respects. Thus she was a faithful and chaste wife.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 9, Chapter 6, verse 53, purport. Vedabase
- In this regard, the word vikhyatam is very significant. A man is always famous for his aggression toward a beautiful woman, and such aggression is sometimes considered rape. Although rape is not legally allowed, it is a fact that a woman likes a man who is very expert at rape.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 25, verse 41, purport. Vedabase
- When a husbandless woman is attacked by an aggressive man, she takes his action to be mercy. A woman is generally very much attracted by a man's long arms. A serpent's body is round, and it becomes narrower and thinner at the end. The beautiful arms of a man appear to a woman just like serpents, and she very much desires to be embraced by such arms. The word anatha-varga is very significant in this verse. Natha means "husband," and a means "without." A young woman who has no husband is called anatha, meaning "one who is not protected." As soon as a woman attains the age of puberty, she immediately becomes very much agitated by sexual desire. It is therefore the duty of the father to get his daughter married before she attains puberty. Otherwise she will be very much mortified by not having a husband. Anyone who satisfies her desire for sex at that age becomes a great object of satisfaction. It is a psychological fact that when a woman at the age of puberty meets a man and the man satisfies her sexually, she will love that man for the rest of her life, regardless who he is. Thus so-called love within this material world is nothing but sexual satisfaction.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 25, verse 42, purport. Vedabase
Quotes from Books: Religious and Cultural ElitismEdit
- As far as the approved method is concerned, it is enjoined in the sastras that intelligent men in this age will take to the sankirtana movement, and by so doing they shall worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Caitanya, whose bodily complexion is golden and who is always accompanied by His confidential devotees to preach this Krishna consciousness movement all over the world. In its present condition, the world can only be saved by introducing this sankirtana, this Krishna consciousness movement. As we have learned from the previous verse, one who is not in Krishna consciousness is considered a thief.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 18, verse 8, purport. Vedabase
- Materialistic people are sometimes called sudras, or descendants of monkeys, due to their monkey like intelligence. They do not care to know how the evolutionary process is taking place, nor are they eager to know what will happen after they finish their small human life span. This is the attitude of sudras. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission, this Krishna consciousness movement, is trying to elevate sudras to the brahmana platform so that they will know the real goal of life. Unfortunately, being overly attached to sense gratification, materialists are not serious in helping this movement. Instead, some of them try to suppressit. Thus it is the business of monkeys to disturb the activities of the brahmanas.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 14, verse 31, purport. Vedabase
Quotes from Books: Violence and DictatorshipEdit
- But Steve Goldsmith was shaking his head. Prabhupada looked at him, smiling:
"There is still a problem?"
"It's just that... well, it's been proved dangerous to repress the sex drive. There's a theory that we have wars because . . ."
"People are eating meat," Prabhupada interrupted. "As long as people eat meat, there will be war. And if a man eats meat, he will be sure to have illicit sex also."
- Prabhupada: Your Ever Well-Wisher, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, 2003. p. 77.
- Following in the footsteps of Maharaja Pariksit, it is the duty of all executive heads of states to see that the principles of religion, namely austerity, cleanliness, mercy and truthfulness, are established in the state, and that the principles of irreligion, namely pride, illicit female association or prostitution, intoxication and falsity, are checked by all means. And to make the best use of a bad bargain, the personality of Kali may be transferred to places of gambling, drinking, prostitution and slaughterhouses, if there are any places like that. Those who are addicted to these irreligious habits may be regulated by the injunctions of the scripture. In no circumstances should they be encouraged by any state. In other words, the state should categorically stop all sorts of gambling, drinking, prostitution and falsity. The state which wants to eradicate corruption by majority may introduce the principles of religion in the following manner:
- Two compulsory fasting days in a month, if not more (austerity). Even from the economic point of view, such two fasting days in a month in the state will save tons of food, and the system will also act very favorably on the general health of the citizens.
- There must be compulsory marriage of young boys and girls attaining twenty-four years of age and sixteen years of age respectively. There is no harm in coeducation in the schools and colleges, provided the boys and girls are duly married, and in case there is any intimate connection between a male and female student, they should be married properly without illicit relation. The divorce act is encouraging prostitution, and this should be abolished.
- The citizens of the state must give in charity up to fifty percent of their income for the purpose of creating a spiritual atmosphere in the state or in human society, both individually and collectively. They should preach the principles of Bhagavatam by (a) karma-yoga, or doing everything for the satisfaction of the Lord, (b) regular hearing of the Srimad-Bhagavatam from authorized persons or realized souls, (c) chanting of the glories of the Lord congregationally at home or at places of worship, (d) rendering all kinds of service to bhagavatas engaged in preaching srimad-Bhagavatam and (e) residing in a place where the atmosphere is saturated with God consciousness. If the state is regulated by the above process, naturally there will be God consciousness everywhere.
- Gambling of all description, even speculative business enterprise, is considered to be degrading, and when gambling is encouraged in the state, there is a complete disappearance of truthfulness. Allowing young boys and girls to remain unmarried more than the above-mentioned ages and licensing animal slaughterhouses of all description should be at once prohibited. The flesh-eaters may be allowed to take flesh as mentioned in the scriptures, and not otherwise. Intoxication of all description-even smoking cigarettes, chewing tobacco or the drinking of tea-must be prohibited.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 1, Chapter 17, verse 36, purport. Vedabase
Quotes from other SourcesEdit
- We are not teaching some ritualistic process, that "You become Hindu. You become Christian. You become Muhammadan." We are simply teaching, "You try to love God. You have forgotten God. You have declared, 'God is dead.' These are all nonsense. God is there. You are here. You are suffering because you have forgotten God. You try to love God. Your normal life will come back. You will be happy." This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
- Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.7-10 - Los Angeles, January 6, 1969. Vanipedia
Quotes from other Sources: False PropheciesEdit
- Nobody is enjoying the result of civilization created by atheists like Ravana, Kansa, Aurangzeb, Napoleon or Hitler. Everything is in oblivion and this teaches us the lesson that the materialistic plans of the present age will also meet with the same fate after a lapse of 50 years. Therefore blind materialism does not bring in any permanent relief in the world.
- Back to Godhead article by Bhaktivedanta Swami, April 20, 1956. Vanipedia
- So we are engaged in these material activities, but we forget at the same time that there is ready, atom bomb. As soon as there will be declared war, these things will be finished, immediately. These people are not declaring war. America is not declaring war against Asia, Russia or China. They are thinking because they know they have got the deadly weapons, atom, and that is the now diplomacy. When there will be war, the first dropping of atom bomb will be victorious. Aah, victorious.
- Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 6, Chapter 1, verse 6; Sydney; February 17, 1973
Quotes from other Sources: Loving GodEdit
- Serving means developing love. So unless you develop your love for God you cannot serve Him. Anywhere. Whenever you give some service, it is based on love. Just like mother giving service to the helpless child. Why? Love. So similarly, our life will be perfect when our love is perfect with the perfect Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then it is all right.
- Lecture - Seattle, September 30, 1968. Vanipedia
- If you want to love God, there is nothing throughout the whole world which can check you. Simply you have to develop your eagerness: "Kṛṣṇa, I want You." That's all. Then there is no question of checking. In any condition you'll increase your love, increase your love.
- Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 1 - Los Angeles, May 3, 1970. Vanipedia
- Just like Lord Jesus Christ. He never advised to, for economic development, for industrial development, or this and that. So many things. He sacrificed everything for God. That is one test, that "Here is a lover of God." He was punished that "You, you stop this preaching," but he did not. So that is love of God. He sacrificed everything. That is love of God. So the ideal is Lord Jesus Christ, and the follower must be, at least to some extent, to that point. That is test. So we say that you follow any religious path. That doesn't matter. We want to see whether you are lover of God. That is our propaganda. And if one is serious about loving God, it doesn't matter in which way he'll develop that dormant love.
- Room Conversation - August 14, 1971, London. Vanipedia
- Those who are yogis, bhakta-yogis, because they are in love with God, Kṛṣṇa, they are seeing every moment within their heart the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Anyone you love, you see always within your heart. Similarly, if you have love for God, Kṛṣṇa, then you can see Kṛṣṇa always. That is called yoga system.
- Lecture on The Nectar of Devotion - Bombay, December 27, 1972. Vanipedia
Quotes from other Sources: Racism and HomophobiaEdit
- This is Vedic civilization: plain living, high thinking. And poor thinking, poor in thought, poor in behavior, and living with motorcar and this, that, nonsense. It is all nonsense civilization. A first-class Rolls Royce car, and who is sitting there? A third-class negro. This is going on. You'll find these things in Europe and America. This is going on. A first-class car and a third-class negro. That's all. Is it not?
- Room Conversation, October 5, 1975, Mauritius PrabhupadaBooks.com
- Certainly we are not going to say these things about the negro people publicly; we have no distinction between black or white, or demon or demigod, but at the same time, so long as one is demon or demigod, we have to behave in the proper way. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu; He had no distinction between a tiger and a man. He was so powerful that He could convert even a tiger to dance. But so far as we are concerned, we should not imitate and go to some tiger and try to make him dance! But still, tiger is equally eligible like a man. So, you can understand that these talks are not for the public, as they have not got the ability to understand. Basically we have not got hatred for anyone, but when one is demoniac or atheistic, we should try to avoid their company. A preacher's business is to love God, to make friendship with devotees, to enlighten the innocent, and to avoid the demons. This principle we shall follow. But in higher devotional life, there is no such distinction.
- Letter to Satsvarupa, San Francisco, 9 April, 1968 PrabhupadaBooks.com
Quotes from other Sources: Regression of ScienceEdit
- Just like modern scientists. They are calculating that the Moon is full of dust, but according to Vedic literature Moon is not full of dust. There are also higher living entities. And from…, from your practical reason also, you can just understand that a lump of dust cannot be so brilliant so that it is illuminating the whole earth. It is not possible. Anyway, let the scientists go on with their own research work. So far we have got information from Vedic literature, all the planets — sun planet, Moon planet, Venus — they are all full of living entities, and they have got different types of body.
- Lecture on Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 7, verse 18; New York; October 12, 1966 PrabhupadaBooks.com
Quotes from other Sources: Religious and Cultural ElitismEdit
- Why not make me an Hon. teacher in the Religion Department for teaching the cult of Lord Caitanya which is the living religion of the world. All other religions of the world are carried by more sentiments than philosophy but Caitanya cult is full of philosophy and transcendental sentiments or emotions.
- Letter to Kirtanananda, New York, 14 April, 1967 PrabhupadaBooks.com
Quotes from other Sources: Violence and DictatorshipEdit
- Prabhupada: Yes. That is Tulasi dasa's remark. So in many passages of his poetry he has not done very justice to woman. And another poetry, he writes, dhol gunar sudra nari. Dhol gunar sudra nari ihe sab sasan ke adhikari. (?) Dhol gunar pasu sudra nari, ihe sab sasan ke adhikari. Dhol, dhol means drum, mrdanga. Gunar, gunar means… What is called English? A fool, fool. Illiterate fool, what is one word?
- Brahmananda: Buffoon?
- Prabhupada: Maybe buffoon. Buffoon is sometimes troublesome. But gunar means he doesn't understand very nicely.
- Brahmananda: Dullard.
- Prabhupada: Dull, dull. Dhol gunar, dhol means drum and gunar means dull. Sudra, and the laborer class. Three. Dhol, gunar, sudra, and pasu, household animals, just like cows, dogs.
- Brahmananda: Pet.
- Prabhupada: Pet, like that. Dhol gunar sudra pasu and nari. Nari means woman. (laughs) Just see. He has classified the nari amongst these class, dhol, gunar, sudra, pasu, nari. Ihe sab sasan ke adhikari. Sasan ke adhikari means all these are subjected for punishment. And what about the guest?
- Govinda dasi: Oh, the guest? It's coming.
- Prabhupada: So sasan ke adhikari means they should be punished. (laughs) Punished means, just like dhol, when the, I mean to say, sound is not very hard, dag-dag, if you beat it on the border, then it comes to be nice tune. Similarly, pasu, animals, if you request, "My dear dog, please do not go there." Hut! (laughter) "No, my dear dog." Hut! This is the way.(?) Similarly, woman. If you become lenient, then she will be troublesome. So in India still, in villages, whenever there is some quarrel between husband wife, the husband beats and she is tamed. (laughs) In civilized society, "Oh, you have done this?" Immediately some criminal case. But in uncivilized society they don't care for court or civilized way of…
- Conversation, New York, April 12, 1969 PrabhupadaBooks.com
External linksEdit
- Bhaktivedanta Book Trust published Srila Prabhupada's works.
- Bhaktivedanta Archives archives Srila Prabhupada's works.
- Krishna.com, a website of ISKCON, promotes Srila Prabhupada's teachings.
- Vanipedia is a wiki which brings to life the teachings of Srila Prabhupada.


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It was getting close to bedtime for James last night. My second grader had grabbed a good book and made himself comfortable on Daddy's side of the bed. (Stories from the good book, actually.)
It seemed a good time to sneak in for a cuddle, so I slipped in on my side and got ready for the uphill climb.
We have one of those "sleep number" beds. My husband, Gary, would be happy sleeping on a rock, so his side is set at 100 ("You sure it won't go any higher?" he asks me all the time). I prefer a more moderate 45 or 55, so it was a bit of a heave-ho to make it over to James's side.
I smoothly slid one of my arms under the lad's head and the other I placed lightly across his belly. Not lightly enough, it turns out.
"Mom…the lapbar is too tight."
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John P. Collier
Myron Tribus Professor of Engineering Innovation
Myron Tribus Professor of Engineering Innovation1-603-646-2355
- A.B., Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College 1972
- B.E., Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering 1973
- M.E., Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering 1975
- D.E., Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering 1977
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Battle of Pea Ridge
"Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., fought March 6th, 7th and 8th, 1862, between the Federal forces, 13,000 strong, under Generals Curtis, Sigel, and Asboth, and the combined Confederate army of the Southwest, 25,000 strong, under Generals Van Dorn, Price and McCulloch- total defeat of the Confederates. The official report of this battle by General Curtis is as follows: 'On Thursday, March 6th, the enemy commenced an attack on my right wing, assailling and following the rear guard of a detachment under General Sigel to my main lines on Sugar Creek Hollow, but ceased firing when he met my re-enforcements about 4 P.M. Early on the 7th I ordered an immediate advance of the cavalry and light artillery, under Colonel Osterhaus, with orders to attack and break what I supposed would be the re-enforced line of the enemy. This movement was in progress when the enemy commenced an attack on my right. The fight continued mainly at these points during the day, the enemy having gained the point held by the command of Colonel Carr at Cross Timber Hollow, but was entirely repulsed, with the fall of the commander, McCulloch. At sunrise on the 8th my right and centre renewed the firing, which was immediately answered by the enemy with renewed energy. I immediately ordered the centre and right wing forward, the right turning the left of the enemy and cross firing on his centre. This final position of the enemy was in the arc of a circle. A charge of infantry extending throughout the whole line completely routed the entire Confederate force, which retired in great confusion, but rather safely through the deep, impassable defiles of cross timber.'" — Frank Leslie, 1896
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I cant! Now I'm torn between huge burning stacks and potion shennanigans! And I hate retaliate fireball like the plague, and I'm unsure about making potions and more powerful! Arrrgh! And untill someone else votes mine will be the decisive one as far as the poll is concerned! And if someone votes one I'll think of the downside and vot for the other and it'll be tied again! Arrrrgh!
Err, why not add a third option - they replace avatar's symbol with the fireball thingy due to the north being all magey and mystical and all that, and stick the cauldron in Naga City?
It would certanly lively up the game, give the northern reward some sense, and reduce the horrible horrible tension of this conundrum! Arrrrgh!
(Voted Cauldron. Possibly want them both in. Voted with 0 testing on the "I know what I'd do with something like that and don't want fireballs chucked at me even if it works in my favour". Which is not really decent thesis material.)


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Johnson City, Tenn. -- The East Tennessee State University athletic department announced today that Donnie Sharp (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) has signed a National Letter of Intent to join head coach Tony Skole's Buccaneer baseball program next fall.
Sharp, a senior at Oak Ridge High School, has made 12 appearances on the mound so far this year. The right-hander is 6-3 with two saves. He has allowed just eight earned runs in 53.2 innings for a stellar 1.04 earned run average.
Sharp has struck out 66 batters (8.61 strikeouts/game) for head coach Tom Froning. As a position player, Sharp is batting .372 this year.
"Donnie will have the opportunity to pitch immediately," Skole said. "He is an extremely talented player that comes from a great family. We are very excited to have Donnie join our baseball family at ETSU."
Sharp joins Justin Adams (Kingsport, Tenn.), Bryan Crouse (Morristown, Tenn.), Matt Hensley (Knoxville, Tenn.), Josh Kite (Greeneville, Tenn.), and Scott Rose (Soddy Daisy, Tenn.) in the 2000 recruiting class.


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On December 6, 2011, Redmond's City Council adopted ordinances 2638 (Redmond Comprehensive Plan), 2639 (Redmond Zoning Code), and 2640 (Redmond Municipal Code) thereby expanding the keeping of domestic chickens (hens and pullets) on single-family, residential properties. This amendment to Redmond's city codes started as a community conversation in 2010. The City Council included this process in the City's periodic amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. As a result, portions of the Plan as well as the Zoning Code and Municipal Code were amended to address backyard chicken husbandry. The Municipal Code now includes a mandatory no-fee registration. Please review the following to learn more about chicken husbandry in Redmond.
If you live in a single-family zone (RA-5 through R-6) you can raise chickens - consistent with Redmond's policies and codes. The few R-8 zones are excluded from this allowance because of their smaller lot size and higher built-density. Multi-family, urban centers, and business areas are also excluded.
The maximum number of chickens (female, hens and pullets) is dependent upon the underlying zoning designation. A no-fee registration must be completed in advance of acquiring chickens.
R-8 zone - 0 maximum chickens
R-6 zone - 4 maximum chickens
R-5 zone - 6 maximum chickens
R-4 zone - 7 maximum chickens
R-3 zone - 8 maximum chickens
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Many resources are available to help you learn more about chicken husbandry and about best land and animal management practices:
Redmond requires a no-fee registration for properties engaging in chicken husbandry. The registration is required for each respective property in advance of chickens being on the site.
Informational Brochure - a helpful, printable form describing requirements related to chicken husbandry
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It's a New Year: Let Us Think, Help and Do
It's a new year, the traditional time to resolve to lose weight (again), and to replace bad habits with good ones. But this year, I'm not going there. Did I overeat during the holidays? Yes. But forget my weight gain. What I want to focus on is why are so many of us overeating when so many others are going hungry. Why aren't we using technology to fix this?
Dozens of businesses are sprouting up around food and technology—with a focus on capitalizing on our desire for fine dining. I won't pretend that I'm a stranger to social media platforms that tip me off to the latest new restaurant opening, but what I'd love to see is some of this mindshare going toward helping to curb hunger. I'm not even talking about world hunger (yet) – I'm talking about in our own backyards. According to Feeding America, 48.8 million Americans lived in food insecure households during 2010. And according to a New York Times article a couple months ago, the number of kids signing up to receive subsidized lunches is increasing, due to the economy.
Enid Borden, President and CEO of Meals on Wheels Association in America recently wrote about this very topic. In her article, she quite eloquently asks, "How do we harness the power of imagination and creativity and put them to work in the human services domain? How do we prevent the foolishness of hunger in a food-rich land?"
Can we use our drive to deliver more engaging experiences through technology and apply it to finding new, safe, and efficient ways to divert food waste to those in need? To build social networks that identify where hunger is most prevalent and cross-reference where food surplus exists in a given community? Create a social platform that makes it easier for people to see where they can drop off food at special safe food depositories?
As Borden points out, Steve Jobs promoted the exhortation of the Whole Earth Catalog to "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." But we can all agree that there's a world of difference between hunger for experience or advancement versus hunger for food.
It's a new year, indeed. Let's make it one that puts technology not just toward our own success, but toward a better quality of living for those with whom we share our communities.
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Food, energy and IT are some of the business sectors which will never stop growing. There will always be an increased need for food. Nice article!


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"Hilarious and moving" - The Economist . . . . . . . . "Not to be missed" - Toronto Star
"Is it hot in here, or am I the only one dressed for Poland in the 17th century?" Yisrael Campbell looks more like a rabbi than a comedian, but don't be fooled by the big black hat, frock coat and Hasidic side-curls. Born Chris Campbell, the son of an ex-nun and a Catholic schoolteacher, he converted to Judaism not once, but three times - Reform, Conservative and Orthodox. His spiritual journey began as a drug-drenched teenager in Philadelphia and ended in Jerusalem among the suicide bombs of the Palestinian intifada. So what's to laugh about? It's the way he tells it. CIRCUMCISE ME is a hilarious, searching and moving story of one man's quest for spiritual enlightenment against the bewildering backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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An electric Cadillac. Many drivers on the road today can remember when a Caddy was as big as a diner and drank gas like Bukowski emptying pints at a pub. But such gas-guzzlers are a thing of the past. Today, GM engineers want you to know from the moment you switch on the first plug-in hybrid electric Cadillac, the ELR, that it's the Caddy of tomorrow. You don't hear the rumbling plunge of engine cylinders; instead, you hear a dashing whoosh, the sound de rigueur in the age of Apple and the Prius.
IGNITION: Sitting in a driver's seat that has no fewer than 20 comfort controls and automatically heats your back if it's cold outside, this is the throne you'd expect in a 2014 Cadillac. Slipping into traffic on the streets of Chicago, the ELR has the smooth shiftless, electric power delivery of a golf cart on 'roids. You step on the accelerator and jet forward with barely a sound.
FIRST IMPRESSION: This is fun! The steering is precise, the suspension sporty and yet comfortable enough—hardly the floating boat of the Cadillacs of yore. The brakes are a bit stiff, which we chalk up to the fact that our test car hadn't gone 1,000 miles yet.
TECHNOLOGY: The ELR is basically a Chevrolet Volt dressed up in Cadillac clothing. Unlike a Prius that alternates between battery and gas power, the ELR runs strictly on electric. When the battery runs dry, a little 86-horsepower gas engine kicks in, acting as a generator to recharge the electric motor. A mode selector allows you to pick between touring, sport and mountain modes, along with a "hold" mode that allows you to drive on gas-power to save a battery charge.
RANGE: Zipping onto a freeway, the ELR eases into traffic. It's hardly a beast (a la the Cadillac CTS), but it's got enough surge to merge into freeway traffic without rattling your nerves. Still, you can't help eyeing that battery power gauge. The car can only cruise around 35 miles on a full electric charge, after which the gas engine starts up. You find yourself timid on the accelerator, afraid of draining the battery.
For us, herein lies the point/counterpoint of the electric vehicle, be it an ELR, Volt, Tesla Model S or any other. It's a great option for a driver with a short commute. If you can get to work and back in about 35 miles, then plug the car into an outlet for the night, you might see a gas pump as often as you see your dentist. If not? You're spending a lot of money on a car to save at the pump. Do the numbers add up? We're not sure they do.
DESIGN: Critics have almost universally hailed the design language of the 21st century Cadillac. This four-seat coupe fits the bill, its packaging high in the hips and angled downward toward its nose, so the car looks like it's moving downhill even as it sits charging up in your garage.
The interior is replete with hand-stitched leather and real polished wood. The touch screen radio and navigation controls require no twisting or flipping but simply a soft touch of the finger, which is great, except on cold days when the interface refuses to sense your touch. All in all, the packaging here is Grade-A.
SPECS: $75,000 base price (minus a $7,500 clean-energy tax credit); 181 horsepower and 295 lb/ft torque electric motor; 86 horsepower inline four-cylinder gas engine; 4,050 pounds curb weight; about 9-second zero-to-60 under electric power; nearly 110 mph top speed.
TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY? The gorgeous ELR elicits desire, an impressive achievement both mechanically and aesthetically. The only downside? For a car this expensive, we wish its electric range was more impressive. It's a great option for a luxury car buyer who (in the parlance of old Lee Iacocca) wants fuel economy so bad he's willing to pay anything for it.
A.J. Baime is the author of Go Like Hell and the forthcoming The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm America at War. Reach him at www.facebook.com/ajbaime.
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Comic-Con 2013: Edgy 'Hannibal' slices into suspense of next season
Fava beans and a nice chianti? Neither of those tasty treats were available at the "Hannibal" press event but there were plenty of yummy reveals about what the new season will hold.
Showrunner Bryan Fuller said he came to the iconic cannibal tale with veneration for classics like "Silence of the Lambs," calling it "the perfect movie."
"I wanted to make the kind of show that I would want to watch," he said. "It's a crime procedural in the vein of elegant horror."
Co-producer Martha De Laurentiis said it was Fuller's passion for the project that drew talent in (such as X-Files goddess Gillian Anderson). She also said they were hoping the elegant pyschological drama would gain new viewers over the summer.
"We are hoping people that people who thought the show would be too disturbing have read all of the good reviews and they will discover over the summer and binge on it."
Fuller hinted that the twisted bond between Will and Hannibal will only get more perverse now that the secret about Hannibal is out: "Now that the bag is open, when will the cat jump out?"


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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
May 2009
Designer Protein Grabs Cover
Stable affinity reagent developed as antibody alternative
Curt Boschek
The modeled structure of Top7CB1 is displayed as a cartoon with sheets in red, helices in blue, the 10 best-scored conformations of the inserted CB1 sequence in yellow, and connecting regions in green. At the bottom is the Top7CB1 sequence following the same color scheme with the addition of grey for portions that are excluded from the structure. Enlarged View
Results: Move over, Tommy Hilfiger. Top7CB1, designed by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is grabbing the spotlight. This synthetic protein can specifically bind a protein targeted by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, that can lead to AIDS. Top7CB1 can also be used as an inexpensive and effective alternative to antibodies. The work is the cover story in the May 2009 issue of Protein Engineering Design & Selection.
Why it matters: Antibodies are one of the weapons used to fight disease or detect harmful substances. These proteins are one of the most commonly used reagents in the laboratory because they can be used to bind, recognize and quantify specific targets, such as toxins or proteins that specify different disease states.
Antibodies can be generated against virtually any target by immunization or by in vitro selection. However, they are large and frequently unstable, which makes them difficult to use for many practical applications. As a result, scientists are working to engineer smaller antibody fragments that remain specific and stable while being easy to produce. But again, designing these engineered fragments to be structurally robust while retaining their binding specificity has been difficult.
An emerging alternative is the use of intrinsically stable proteins as scaffolds for the generation of novel binding agents instead of generating natural or engineered antibodies. In fact, these novel scaffolds could be used in adverse environments such as those found in parts of the human body or in industry, where antibodies fail.
The aim of the PNNL study was to design a highly stable affinity reagent—a specific binding molecule—based on the synthetic protein Top7 to assess its viability as a general affinity scaffold. Top7 is a small protein computationally designed by University of Washington scientists to be extremely stable. Its small size, known structure and very stable configuration make it an ideal scaffold for an affinity reagent.
Methods: The researchers selected a site in Top7 to insert CB1, a peptide constructed from a well-characterized peptide, PDP-CB1, that comes from a region of an anti-CD4 antibody. CD4 is a protein on the surface of immune cells that helps protect against infections such as HIV. Inserting this peptide resulted in the variant called Top7CB1. Team members then evaluated the structural effect of the variant using molecular dynamics simulations that suggested that Top7CB1 retains conformational stability at temperatures greater than 100°C—hotter than boiling water.
The modified Top7 also bound CD4 and, consistent with simulations, was extremely resistant to thermal and chemical structural change—retaining its secondary structure up to at least 95°C. This CD4-specific protein demonstrates the functionality of Top7 as a viable scaffold for use as a general affinity reagent that could serve as a robust and inexpensive alternative to antibodies.
What's next: The PNNL team is currently using complementary determining region loops harvested from antibody libraries at PNNL as diversity elements for building libraries of Top7 variants for selection through yeast surface display. Based on suggestions that the destabilization effects of multiple loop addition are not synergistic, they are also exploring the use of multiple binding sequences at other regions within Top7 to further increase specificity and affinity.
Acknowledgments: The research team includes Curt Boschek (lead author), Thereza Soares, Heather Engelmann, Tjerk Straatsma and Cheryl Baird, all PNNL: and former PNNL staff David Apiyo and Noah Pefaur. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy with Laboratory Directed Research and Development funding through the Biomolecular Systems Initiative. A portion of this research was performed using EMSL, a national scientific user facility sponsored by DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research located at PNNL.
Reference: Boschek CB, DO Apiyo, TA Soares, HE Engelmann, N Pefaur, TP Straatsma, and CL Baird. 2009. "Engineering an ultra-stable affinity reagent based on Top7." Protein Engineering, Design & Selection 22(5):1-8, doi:10.1093/protein/gzp007.


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Ann L. Dunnewold, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist specializing in women's mental health issues related to reproductive function. In independent practice in Dallas, Texas, Ann has provided training and consultation to health systems and professionals on postpartum mood disorders for more than fifteen years. She has been featured as an expert in numerous national television/radio broadcasts and print stories. Ann is also a consultant appearing in "Postpartum Emotions: The Blues and Beyond", which airs in many hospital systems over the Lamaze/Newborn Channel. With Diane Sanford, PhD, Ann is co-author of Postpartum Survival Guide, originally published in 1994 and updated in 2009 as Life Will Never Be the Same: Surviving the Ups and Downs of Pregnancy and Postpartum. She is author of Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box: Cut Yourself Some Slack (and Still Raise Great Kids) in the Age of Extreme Parenting, as well as two other titles on postpartum mental health. Ann served as president of Postpartum Support International from 1996-1998, and played an instrumental role in the original design and content of PSI's course on postpartum mood disorders. A graduate of The Ohio State University, she was honored as the 2008 recipient of the Jane Honikman Award for her commitment to postpartum women and their families.Return to List


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the idea of making new year's resolutions is not only for people of the western world. people here sometimes make them....and as with most of us in the western world, they also are pretty much done with them very quickly.
(i'm thinking that my 'record' would have to be about 2 weeks....i know...awesome, right?)
in one of my classes, we were talking about resolutions and how no one even tried anymore and then, one lady said...."i wrote something for this." all of us were very interested in hearing what she had to say....i mean...really? resolutions? was she serious?
and she was.....in a way.
she then told of us her "resolution".....she decided that this year, she was going to focus on three things: english, tai chi, and volunteering at the hospital.
"i will study english everyday." or
"i will practice tai chi three times a week." or
"i will volunteer twice a week."
focus. she's just going to focus on those things.
i think i like this.
one of the main things i don't like about making resolutions is not the fact that i gave up so quickly, but, the fact that i was so hard on myself for giving up. it was almost as i was giving myself a guilt trip...or tying to anyway. doesn't that sound ridiculous?
so, for the past few weeks, i've been thinking about focusing....i'm liking this idea so much better. a 'non-resolution' kind of thing. guilt and pressure free.
i can handle that.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
the 'non-resolution' post
the idea of making new year's resolutions is not only for people of the western world. people here sometimes make them....and as with most of us in the western world, they also are pretty much done with them very quickly.
7 comments:
- smalltownme said...
I like focus. If you backslide a little bit, it's OK. You just refocus.
- February 01, 2013 12:12 AM
- Cheri @ Blog This Mom!® said...
What smalltownme said. Good one! :-)
- February 01, 2013 12:51 AM
- Anonymous said...
I like it too--my focus this year is self-care. It's a fun one!
- February 01, 2013 4:20 AM
- Janet said...
focus...much more kind that resolve!
- February 01, 2013 6:39 AM
- ChiTown Girl said...
I LOVE this!!!
- February 01, 2013 7:45 AM
- Karen (formerly kcinnova) said...
Focus... yes, that's what I like! It kind of encapsulates my word for 2013, because when you have a word, that is your focus... the place to put your energy is in that word/idea, and the focus allows you to accomplish the other things in life.
(maybe) I will focus on getting my own craft area under control. It has spilled out onto the dining room table and the coffee table.
- February 02, 2013 10:07 AM
- JO said...
Shhhhh.....you are letting out the secrets of the major self-help gurus! (wink). But seriously, that word? Focus? It is kinda responsible for me having lost 40+ lbs, for me being back in school to finish my degree, for the family taking more "us time", etc. Yup, it was focus...not a whole litany of "I'm gonna's".
- February 06, 2013 8:29 PM


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'Kingdoms of Amalur' Studio Can't Pay Back Loan It Borrowed From Rhode Island
Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, which borrowed $75 million from the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, is hurting financially and may be unable to pay back its debt.
That's bad news for people who dug the studio's debut game, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, because it means that we probably won't be seeing a sequel or the long-in-development massively multiplayer online game any time soon.
Joystiq reports that a default on the bond would mean the Kingdoms of Amalur franchise would belong to the Rhode Island taxpayers. At that point the state would probably auction off the franchise for far less than its debt and eat the loss.
Maybe a publisher that respects Amalur's potential could come along, snatch it up and do the series justice. And maybe Schilling will report back to the Boston Red Sox and score a ridiculous signing bonus that lets him pay off the debt and keep his game company's intellectual property. Neither scenario is likely.
Let this be a lesson to states business-promoting organizations: Beware of lending money to baseball legends who are dabbling in the videogame business.