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- Original Teaching: Hell: NO!
- Date: July 28, 1993
- Location: Calvary Temple in Sterling, VA
- Teacher: Pastor Star R Scott
- Scripture: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerors, and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 21:8
- Review By: Jason Felton
Witches, Ghost, Ghoblins, Skeletons, and Jack-o-lanterns. October is the month many people celebrate the spooky holiday of Halloween. What's the scariest costume I can come up? How haunted can I make my house? Will I play some tricks this year, or maybe I'll just give out treats? For the next few days that's all people will be talking about. Well, this week I want to talk about something that nobody seems to be conversing about these days- the reality of hell. Friends, let me tell you something. It's not a trick and it certainly will not be a treat!! Hell is a very real place, and it's truly more frightening than anything you could imagine!!
I once had a person say that they were basically going to throw a party to celebrate the devil. They were going to have devil's food cake, deviled eggs etc… Basically saying that hell and the devil are one big joke. Other people say "I'm going to party with my buddies in hell. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome!!" Let me tell you something folks. There is NOTHING that is awesome about hell. Hell, is a place of literal, spiritual fire in the spirit realm and it will last forever. In Matthew 13:50 the Bible says that Hell is a place where there will be weeping, and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Mark 9 says it's a place where the worm dies not and the fire is never quenched. Unlike the bar in "Cheers," Hell will be a place where nobody will no your name. You will be a totally forgotten being. You will be aware of everyone, but won't care for anyone. And no one will care for you. It will be a place where NOBODY will hear your screams and cries for help. Sound like a party yet? Well maybe it hasn't started. Let's continue.
In Luke 16:19-31 Jesus tells the parable of the rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. You can check it out if you get a chance; but long story short the rich man who had everything here on earth except Jesus, died was buried and went to hell. Maybe this is where the party starts? Let's look. In verse 23 it says that the rich man while drinking and hanging out with his buddies… Oh wait that's not what it says. It says while he was looking up from hell in torment, he pleaded and begged for mercy. In verse 24 it says that it was so hot in the flames that he was begging for just a single drop of water for temporary relief. Anything to quench the flames!! Finally in verse 28 we see that not only was Hell a place that he wanted to escape from, but he pleaded that somebody be sent to warn his brothers to change their ways so they could escape this place of eternal torment. So we've looked at several scriptures now, but we've found no mention of a party.
"Well thank God I'm a pretty good person!" Unfortunately there's a lot of pretty good people going to hell. Did you see that video above? Those are some scary statistics about the reality of Hell!! "Yeah, but I'm not a murderer, rapist, or anything like that. In fact I haven't committed adultery or done anything remotely bad." Well for those of you who say that I ask you to take a look at Revelation 21:8. We see here that not only are the "really bad people" going to hell, but it also says liars, idolaters, and as a matter of fact ANYBODY who doesn't believe God and His Word (in totality)!
People often say" Well God's a God of love and mercy. He wouldn't do anything like that." Or maybe you've asked this question, "How can a good God send man to the hell that you're depicting?" Man was never intended to go to Hell, but the Bible teaches that Hell was created for the devil and his angels. Unfortunately, because of the pride and rebellion of man Hell is now open to us as well. Hell, is for anybody that is a rebel and who exalts their own will above the will of God (Luke 12:5-9). Before you question the justice of God, first understand the condition of man. Every good thing we have is a free gift of God. it is neither deserved or earned. He is a God of love and mercy, but He cannot go contrary to who He is and suffer iniquity and rebellion to his sovereign being.
It is just for every man to be judged and cast into hell and Romans says every one of us has the knowledge of God within ourselves and are without excuse. Thank God though that He has done everything to keep man from going to Hell. Remember John 3:16? God loved the world so much that He gave his only son, that whosever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The good news is that God is not willing that any would perish (2 Peter 3:9). However, you cannot come in your own righteousness. There is only one way you can come and that is through the finished work of Jesus. The free gift of God's love and forgiveness is available to you today. No one who comes and repents before Him with a broken heart will be rejected (Psalm 51:17). The price has been paid!!
So as we close for today, I implore you to stop falling for the lies of the devil. The devil has already been sentenced to eternal damnation, and his number one goal it to take you down with him. He will tell you hell's not that bad. He will tell you you're too good of a person to go to hell. He will tell you that God would never send man to hell because He's too nice. Folks those are all lies that Satan wants you to believe so you can join him in eternal suffering. Hell is very real and all those who don't have Jesus as the Lord of their life will find themselves in that lake of fire. Don't be tricked by Satan!! Jesus is the real treat!! I want to leave you with these questions (please feel free to comment!!):
What's your perception of hell and does it line up with what God has to say about it?
How are you avoiding becoming a spiritual zombie on your way to hell?


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Interference Combines Mark Of The Ninja, Cyberpunk
Many games let you hack things. Too many, I might argue, especially when the result is some half-baked mainframe-smoking minigame. Interference, however, is taking a far more interesting approach, allowing you to hack reality in order to stealthily maneuver around dead-eyed killbots in a cyberpunk noir sidescrolling world. Basically, think Mark of the Ninja, but levels are both playgrounds for the fleet-footed and Rubik's Cubes for the gargantuan-brained. It's a neat setup, but based on a newly released free demo, it still needs a fair amount of work.
I do wonder why no one carries umbrellas in these cyberpunk noir worlds, seeing as global warming or some other nefarious force has ensured that gloomy rains pitter-patter perpetually. Maybe future augments keep skin desert-dry at all times or something – although that sounds… equally unpleasant.
At any rate, Interference's mechanical foundations are solid, but the demo left me wanting. For one, I found stealth to be more or less unforgiving, which forced a number of frustrating trial-and-error-heavy situations. Areas offered multiple paths (well, one or two, anyway) but not multiple approaches. Regardless of which path I chose, I had to quickly react to barrages of robots, lasers, and other obstacles directly.
Mark of the Ninja's influence was clear in these sections, but that game's brilliance lied in its openness to cold, calculated pre-planning, feet-pajama-soaking improv, and everything in between. Now, maybe Interference's goal is to specialize in tough-as-nails trial-and-error. If so, more power to it, but that's not really something I personally enjoy. And maybe later levels are more interesting, but I can only judge what I played.
Hacking, similarly, seemed to revolve around singular "correct" solutions. The demo's levels basically were Rubik's Cubes. They started out as jumbled, impassable series of obstacles, and I had to solve them. That's fine (and even fairly interesting, in some cases), but I couldn't help but feel like there was a rich vein of untapped potential pulsing just beneath the surface. What if Interference not only offered multiple paths of actual consequence, but I could also create them myself? Sure, it'd probably leave the game ripe for the breaking, but as is, out-of-order levels just felt like an artificial extra step. Fix level, then proceed as you normally would in any other game, etc. Again, this element of the game didn't strike me as bad, per se. Just lacking. Flavorless.
Interference's ideas are intriguing and its world is striking, but I really, really hope it opts to push further. It has all the tools to become something really special. It just, you know, should maybe think about rearranging them first.

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Tripp Fuller's 2017 interview of theologian Thomas J. Oord may stanch the bleeding and lower the evangelical body count. Which can only be good. The casualty lists burgeon each and every day: Former zealots are not only abandoning the partisan-tinged label, they're shredding the underlying heritage and theology.
This doesn't have to be. There's an alternative path that still wends its way through mainstream Christianity. The trail smells of roses; you hear chirping birds; you can walk barefoot on soft clover.
Many so-called "ex-evangelicals" were raised in an especially scholastic form of Calvinism incubated at Princeton Theological Seminary during the 19th century. The Old Princeton theologians (primarily Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, and BB Warfield) flourished powerful intellects and gave cogent arguments in the face of unorthodox theological Modernism, which largely originated in Germany. But they frowned on anyone who didn't color inside their rigid lines. Warfield (1851-1921), who still looms like a giant nearly a century after his death, was especially critical of Pentecostals and anyone else who didn't line up with the 17th-century Westminster Confession. Warfield was eventually lifted high as a fundamentalist hero (to be fair, he may have rolled in his grave at that). He's practically canonized among today's neo-fundamentalists and restless Calvinists.
There are, indeed, congenial Calvinists such as Tim Keller and Richard Mouw, who've inherited the mantle of the more genteel Dutch Calvinism. And, really, Warfield himself should not be dismissed. He did his best and, like Hodge, he was civil.
Unfortunately, many of his followers snub all other Christians as theological inferiors. They seek out errors, ignore their own logical inconsistencies and dubious biblical interpretations, and portray their own theology as orthodoxy's only valid stream. Most frustrating, they read their opponents in the worst possible light. You'd swear they're deliberately misunderstanding them.
Some reared in Princetonian Calvinism eventually see its curled lip, flee, and then bray from ex-evangelical land.
And I whisper "If only." They've missed that orthodox alternative, nurtured in 18th-century British Methodism under the leadership of John Wesley.
Traditional Calvinists tend to anchor themselves in God's sovereignty (which they define as God's control over everything); Wesleyans embrace sovereignty as well but center in on God's love. Traditional Calvinism was birthed the Reformation's fiery, take-it-or-leave-it polemics; Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican clergyman in Post-Puritan England, born in era weary of religious wars. He tapped into German Pietism and Eastern Orthodox church fathers and plumbed wisdom from all orthodox Christian traditions. He once pleaded: "Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences."
Oord describes thirteen reasons to "go Wesleyan." The theology is wider and richer. There's more latitude for questions, less fear of accusation. Perhaps that's why Wesleyans bend more easily than some rigid Calvinists but often don't break. At least that's what I've seen.
A couple of caveats: Oord himself is a nice guy and a sincere child of Jesus, but he has ventured beyond the comfort zone of many orthodox Wesleyans. He advocates Open Theism (the future doesn't exist yet and, therefore, is flexible: God doesn't exhaustively know it) and flirts with Process Theology. His definition of Process Theology is fairly innocuous (and enigmatic — find it in a two minute video here), but many of its champions hold a semi-pantheistic view of the universe in which creation can actually change God. I can't go there. Greg Boyd gave a sound argument for Open Theology in God of the Possible, but I've chosen not to die on that mountain — partly because there are equally sound arguments against it.
And a word about the Wesleyan quadrilateral (we arrive at our theological conclusions via the Bible, traditional teaching, reason, and experience): The term was coined not by Wesley but by American Methodist theologian Albert Outler (1908-1989). Wesley viewed himself as a biblical theologian.
Oord also says Wesleyans are more open to alternatives to traditional marriage. I disagree. Both the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America endorse homosexual marriage. Their roots are firmly planted in Calvinism. The United Methodists recently rejected a pro-gay proposal.
Caveats aside, Oord's invitation is well articulated. I urge disappointed Calvinists to come to the party. There's a broader orthodox Protestantism awaiting. Think of it as an alternative mainstream. Smell the flowers and hear the birds as you watch the video.


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Dietary fat has made a huge comeback in recent years. Everyone with any sense at all agrees that healthy fats are an essential part of the perfect diet. What still trips many people up is trying to identify what
of fat is
for you.
Ask a mainstream dietitian and they will swear that saturated fat from animal fat should be replaced with polyunsaturated vegetable oils. Unfortunately, this approach, which came out of the faulty belief that saturated fat caused heart disease, has only made things worse, resulting in skyrocketing obesity rates and an increase in chronic diseases like diabetes.
Thanks to research led by Dr. Artemis Simopoulos, we know that for optimal health, a different approach is necessary. In determining fat intake, we need to focus on eating fat in the right ratios and planning fat intake within the context of the overall diet.
What Are The Different Kinds of Fat?
Most foods don't have just one type of fat. They are complicated mixtures and will contain different types of fat; however, people typically label them based on whichever type of fat predominates. For example, olive oil is roughly 70 percent monounsaturated fat, 15 percent polyunsaturated fat, and 15 percent saturated fat but we typically label it as monounsaturated fat.
Saturated fat
primarily comes from animal products such as fatty cuts of meat, eggs, or dairy. Cooking fats that contain saturated fat include butter, tallow (beef fat), and lard (pig fat). Coconut and other tropical oils also contain saturated fat.
Monounsaturated fat
comes from fruit, nuts, and some seeds. Olives, avocados, almonds, pistachios, peanuts, and sesame seeds are examples of foods with a decent amount of monounsaturated fat.
Polyunsaturated fat
is made up of omega-3 and omega-6 fats. There are three kinds of omega-3 fat: ALA found in flax oil and some other seeds and nuts, and EPA and DHA, found in fish. Grass-fed dairy and meat also contain some omega-3 fat. EPA and DHA are also present in algae and some wild green plants like purslane.
Omega-6 fats are found in seeds, some nuts, and grain-fed meat and dairy. There are two types of omega-6 fat, LA (found in seeds and nuts) and AA (in animal products). People on a Western diet consume the majority of their omega-6 fat from grain-fed animal products and seed oils, such as corn, sunflower, safflower, cottonseed, and soy bean oil.
An Evolutionary Approach
Studies show that humans evolved eating a diet with close to a 1-to-1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fat. Due to a dramatic change in our food supply over the past 50 years, this ratio has gotten skewed closer to 20-to-1 of omega-6 to omega-3 fat.
In the 1970s, due to the now disproven belief that saturated fat causes heart disease, the USDA came out with dietary guidelines recommending the replacement of saturated fat with vegetable oils such as canola or soybean oil in the hopes that this shift would lower heart disease and reduce obesity. At the same time, there was a large increase in industrially raised cows, chickens, and fish. These animals receive primarily grain-based feed, leading to an increase in omega-6 fat in conventional meat, fish, and dairy products.
The result is that Westerners eat a diet very high in omega-6 fat. This unbalanced ratio is associated with a number of diseases, obesity, and related health problems. Why does this happen?
#1: Increase in Inflammatory Compounds: Eicosanoids
High levels of omega-6 intake lead to production of eicosanoids, which are biologically active compounds that cause inflammation, harming the blood vessels and increasing blood viscosity (how thick your blood is), vasoconstriction, and cell growth. The result is high blood pressure and poor vascular function, negatively impacting cardiovascular function and increasing heart disease risk.
#2: Activation of Brain Reward Centers: Endocannabinoids
A high omega-6 to -3 ratio increases endocannabinoids, which are compounds that affect appetite and energy expenditure. Endocannabinoids activate receptors in the brain, increasing appetite and food intake so that people eat more calories. They also enhance sweet taste and the craving for high-fat, high-sugar foods that are highly palatable. These are the same receptors that are activated in response to THC from marijuana and are the reason that people often get the "munchies" when they are high.
#3: Increase In Fat Cells
The omega-6 fat arachidonic acid (AA) increases the development of new fat cells and the growth of existing fat cells. AA also inhibits uncoupling protein gene expression that is linked with body temperature regulation. When uncoupling proteins are activated, body temperature increases so that you burn more calories—a mechanism that is thought to be one reason diets high in healthy fat are associated with better weight management.
#4: Reduction in Insulin Sensitivity & Other Hunger Hormones
You probably know insulin is a hormone released in response to an increase in blood sugar (from eating carbs) and it allows the body to store energy as fat. When cells become less sensitive to insulin, more insulin is needed to get the same effect, which results in the body spending more time in fat storage mode. It is also associated with increased hunger and food intake, so there is more energy available for the body to store as fat. Omega-6 fats reduce insulin sensitivity but they also act on the central nervous system to alter the hormones that regulate hunger, resulting in people having bigger appetites and eating more calories.
Benefits of A Balanced Ratio
When the omega-3 to -6 ratio is more closely balanced a number of good things happen:
Blood flow
increases and the health of blood vessels is improved. For example, when people with high blood pressure took 2 grams of fish oil (supplying omega-3 fats) for a year, systolic blood pressure decreased by 2.7 mmHG and diastolic by 1.3 mmHG.
burning increases because omega-3s also increase the browning of white fat, so that it is more easily burned.
Energy expenditure increases
so that the body uses more calories. For example, one study found that fish oil supplementation increased energy expenditure by 51 percent after eating.
Insulin sensitivity and glucose utilization are enhanced
so that the body is better able to use energy instead of storing it as body fat.
Hunger management improves
due to a decrease in the dysregulation of the endocannabinoid system. Sensitivity to leptin and other hunger-related hormones also increase.
The stress response is more balanced,
with lower release of cortisol and less anxiety and depression.
Genetic & Gender Differences
A high intake of omega-6 fat is harmful for everyone, however, certain populations are more adversely affected. Genetically, people with the gene variant known as Halotype D experience an increase in the production of arachidonic acid (AA) from linoleic acid (LA) that is most closely associated with the negative effects of omega-6 fats. About 50 percent of African Americans, 40 percent of Caucasians, and 33 percent of Europeans have halotype D, making a skewed omega-6 to -3 ratio more harmful for these populations.
Gender also impacts how the omega fats are metabolized. With the same diet that is high in omega-6 fat, women experience higher conversion of pro-inflammatory eicosanoid compounds, which have inflammatory and obesity effects. In one recent Danish study, increasing omega-6 fat intake was associated with fat gain and increased waist circumference in women, while the opposite was shown in men.
What Can You Do To Rebalance Your Fat Intake?
The first step is to decrease your omega-6 fat intake and bump up your omega-3s. Start by eliminating seed oils like corn, soy, sunflower, safflower, peanut, etc. Avoid processed foods, which almost uniformly have omega-6 fat added to them. Restaurant meals are often cooked in omega-6 oils, so watch out for this as well.
Try for two servings of wild-caught fatty fish a week and choose grass-fed meat and dairy because these foods will be high in omega-3 fats. Taking fish oil is another option. Just be sure to get a good quality fish oil that is not oxidized (rancid). You can test your fish oil by taking a tablet and chewing it up. It should taste mild and bland, not fishy or nasty.
Once you've got the biggest omega-6 offenders covered, you want to increase healthy nut and seeds. Walnuts, almonds, flax, sesame, and chia seeds are all good sources of the omega-3 fat ALA. Soak nuts and seeds to soften them so they are digestible. To avoid them becoming rancid, buy small quantities, keeping them in the fridge in an air-tight container.
Eating green vegetables and dark colored fruits, such as kale, chard, broccoli, berries, plums, etc., is also important because these foods will provide antioxidants to help eradicate inflammation and protect cells from the effect of polyunsaturated fat that has been oxidized or damaged.
Include other healthy fats so that you get a wide range of nutrients. Be sure to include some saturated fat from butter, meat, or coconut oil so that you get cholesterol necessary for synthesizing steroid hormones.
When cooking, choose fats that are not easily damaged by heat. Never cook with polyunsaturated fats. Olive oil can be used for lower temperatures, but opt for oils that are mostly saturated when grilling or using high temps. Coconut oil and butter are great options.
eans (great norther, garbanzo, and black beans) provide insoluble fiber that get broken down into short chain fatty acids such as butyric and propionic acid, which can improve the health of your digestive tract. They also contain a large quantity of alpha-lipoic, which is a protective component of omega-3s.
Finally, use the principles of quality and variety. Always choose foods in their most natural state. This is just as important when choosing protein and carbohydrate sources as it is for fat. Protein should come from meat, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, and beans. Carbs should be vegetables, fruit, and boiled grains. Include a wide variety of foods in your diet to get a diverse nutritional profile and avoid food intolerances.
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Leitrim Canal Run 5 Km says thanks
Thank you to the over 200 walkers and runners that attended the Leitrim Village Canal fun run and walk on Sunday, July 22.
This was a real community day out with young and not so young taking part. The event raised €1500 for the North West Hospice and Leitrim National School.
A big thank you to the parents association of Leitrim NS namely Orla Beirne, Carmel Curley, Fiona Dolan and Aisling O'Boyd for registration and timekeeping.
Thanks to the Civil Defence, to our stewards Brian Connors, Gabriel Cox, Gerry Murphy, John & Adam Casey, Niall, Sean and Micheal Guckian, Eugene, Joe Earley, Jim Doran, Johnny Gill, Brendan Prior and Seamus Flynn.
Thanks to our MC Enda McDonagh, also to Coleen Regan, Catherine Moreton, Bridie Doran and Hilda Reylonds for organising tea and refreshments after the race. Thanks to Leitrim NS board of management for the use of the school.
Special thanks to Waterways Ireland for sponsorship of trophies and John Peirce, Chairman of the Midsummer Festival & Seamus Regan for their support for the race over the past number of months. Finally thank you to the Mulvey family for presenting the Cyril Mulvey perpetual cup to the Male and Female race winners.


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An Air Force colonel has been demoted and retired after recently allowing a senior non-commissioned officer to take her oath of re-enlistment with a dinosaur puppet on her right hand.
Master Sgt. Robin Brown, the SNCO who was taking the oath, is facing administrative action in addition to losing her full-time position at the Tennessee Joint Public Affairs Office, according to the Air Force Times.
A third SNCO, who allegedly recorded the event for Brown's children to watch later, has also been reprimanded and removed from his post as unit first sergeant, but will remain with the Air National Guard.
The re-enlistment ceremony was recorded and shared on social media earlier this month, with the 50-second video catching the attention of the military community on Facebook.
The video eventually reached Lt. Gen. Scott Rice, Director of the Air National Guard, and he immediately reprimanded all who were involved in the situation. "I understand your outrage and frustration," Rice said in a statement. "Let me say, I'm equally shocked and dismayed by this event that mocks such a cherished and honorable occasion. … This action goes against our very foundation."
The Adjutant General of the Tennessee Air National Guard, Army Major General Terry Haston, announced the disciplinary actions that would be taken on Wednesday, along with a statement of his own.
"I am absolutely embarrassed that a senior officer and a senior NCO took such liberties with a time-honored military tradition. The Tennessee National Guard holds the Oath of Enlistment in the highest esteem because that oath signifies every service member's commitment to defend our state, nation and the freedoms we all enjoy. Not taking this oath solemnly and with the utmost respect is firmly against the traditions and sanctity of our military family and will not be tolerated."
Haston made it clear that the situation was limited to those who had already been identified and disciplined, saying that it should not reflect poorly on the many who continue to serve every day with honor and integrity.
"The actions of these three individuals in no way represent the professionalism, honor, and courage of the 14,000 Soldiers and Airman in the Tennessee National Guard," Haston said. "This act does not define our organization nor the men, women, and families that sacrifice so much every day for our state and nation. I am truly honored to lead such a professional organization."


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J.D., St. Thomas School of Law, 2008
B.A., University of Wisconsin, 2005
Minnesota, 2008
Natalie Lund focuses her practice on litigation, particularly in the area of workers' compensation. Natalie is an experienced litigator who has successfully represented clients in all phases of litigation, from providing advice at the inception of a claim, to obtaining favorable results at administrative hearings, settlement and motion practice, and prevailing at the Minnesota Supreme Court. The breadth of her experience allows Natalie to effectively advise her clients regarding their rights and obligations under the Minnesota Workers' Compensation system.
In her spare time, Natalie likes to pretend she does things like yoga, running and traveling, but then she realizes she has two kids in diapers, and has no time to do anything.
Speaker at various workers' compensation seminars and workshops
Co-chair and Speaker, 2019 Minnesota Workers' Compensation Institute
Speaker, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Minnesota Chapter of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) 2019 Annual Seminar
Speaker, Attorney Ethics, 2017 Minnesota Workers' Compensation Deskbook Seminar
Speaker, Litigation Process and Settlement Strategy, Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry Workers' Compensation Summit, June 2015
Speaker, Medical Implant Costs: Approaches to Deal with Medical Implant Markups, Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust Workers' Compensation Seminar
Speaker, Like, Comment, Share: Ethical Considerations for Attorneys Utilizing Social Media, Nuts and Bolts CLE Program, HCBA New Lawyers Group
Dean's Award, Upper Level Writing, Bioethics, 2008
Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association
American Bar Association
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Mary Green celebrates the turn of the year with traditional treats.
This is the time for celebrations of the plenty of the year, stoking up for the harsh realities of January and February.
Long before Christian times there were midwinter festivals in northern countries. Common elements were feasting, fire and the rebirth of the year.
People made as much warmth, noise and food as possible to fight off winter dark and rekindle the spark of new life. Even in our modern times we follow a lot of these practices.
And there has been bounty this year! I learned a new word – it has been a "mast year". This is a year where trees and shrubs have had an exceptional crop of nuts, fruit and berries: the word "mast" is still used for the fruit of the beech tree.
You could see it around this autumn: the ground thick with acorns under the oaks, edible sweet chestnuts, glossy conkers, hawthorns and apples trees laden with fruit.
This kind of year comes rarely, a combination of weather factors. It will be a good year for holly berries.
The turn of the leaf was very late, but my ash trees had a spectacular few days before the autumn storms got them. Oaks stayed green well into November.
I find I am thinking nearly every year that autumn leaf colour comes later. I heard a scientist saying recently that this is true: climate change means earlier springs and later autumns.
Even though some of our springs don't come so early because of our immediate weather conditions, autumn is almost always later now than it was 50 years ago.
When we look at celebratory winter food, there are two obvious themes. One is meat, especially game, beef, pork and poultry. The other is sugar and all things sweet, including imported fruit.
These are of course things that were usually unavailable in winter for ordinary people, so were part of special feasting. They also fit with how people lived.
Meat and poultry killed in autumn meant animals didn't have to be fed through the winter. Game was killed out of its breeding season. Sugar preserved fruits after the end of their season, and imported oranges and raisins filled the gap when your fruit crop had finished.
Unfortunately neither sugar nor meat is a special treat these days. Imported oranges and dried fruits aren't anything unusual.
The winter spread can often seem like an even less healthy diet than normal. But the urge still seems to be there to make mincemeat, roast potatoes in goose fat, and warm sweet mulled wine.
If we are going for something special, we can try one of the older breeds of turkey, reared free range, a properly hung piece of mature beef or rare-breed pork, or a good free-range goose or duck.
The flavour is worth the extra expense. Last Christmas I had a rib of Withybed longhorn beef so big it would hardly fit in the oven!
I understand there will be some locally reared meat from Soay sheep, an ancient Hebridean breed, on sale in December at Cooper's Farm. This will be hogget: too old for lamb and too young for mutton.
Eating young lamb is a bit like eating baby sweetcorn: a kind of foolish conspicuous consumption. Let the lamb grow and you can feed more people off it, and it tastes better.
There won't be much left to forage when you get this, but you may still find sweet chestnuts. There are trees around here, and I have had some good roast ones already this year.
The last time I remember finding enough to be worth eating was 2006, but they are worth the wait! They are great savoury with poultry and game or in vegetarian roasts, or can be part of a sweet – nice with apples.
They've been around a long time, having been introduced by the Romans, much longer ago than the more familiar horse chestnut. If you want to see some really fine ancient chestnut trees, go to Piper's Hill Wood between Bromsgrove and Hanbury. They have beautiful ridged, twisty bark. But don't forage there – it's a nature reserve.
One of the best winter treats, which is not expensive or fatty, is red cabbage with chestnuts. Finely slice red cabbage and add sliced onions, garlic and apples. Turn in some hot rapeseed oil for a few minutes with spices – pepper, cloves, maybe juniper – and add red wine and chestnuts.
Slow cook and let the aroma fill the kitchen! Somehow the red colour adds to its festiveness. And of course, buttery, garlicky sprouts and chestnuts can even convert non-sprout-eaters.
You should find other nuts this year: I have seen English walnuts and cobnuts on sale. Nuts are another traditional Christmas food. They are very good as a source of protein, and do well both in stuffing for poultry and in vegetarian nut-roasts (a much-mocked food which can be delicious.)
They complement grains and beans to provide the whole range of protein needed if you don't eat animal products. Any nuts just lightly roasted in a dry pan are delicious, or dress them with a little tamari soy sauce or salt and pepper for a savoury, or spices and honey for a sweet treat.
We don't preserve food in the ways we used to, now that we have freezing and chilling. Now, English apples and pears can be kept as they are all through the winter. They are kept in strict conditions without air or warmth. This way they need no preservatives.
The ability to keep apples through the winter has reinvigorated the English apple industry. You shouldn't need to buy imported apples until well into the spring.
Previously the main ways of keeping fruit were using sugar, or alcohol, combined with the exclusion of air, or drying. My mother used to bottle apples and pears in sugar syrup (as well as storing them raw in the attic as long as possible). Now we all fill the freezer compartments!
Drying has gone a bit out of fashion, but is very effective. You can dry apple rings or pear slices, slicing them finely and putting them overnight in a very low oven.
Or you can make fruit "leathers" from pureed damsons or plums, again slowly dried to a thick strap-like consistency. These will both keep well. Although you don't add sugar, they are very high in natural fruit sugars, so not reliable as one of your healthy five a day!
Sloe gin is the best known of our alcoholic preserves: you should have made it by now if you want to drink it at Christmas. This year I have made damson gin from my bountiful trees: you can do it without sugar as the alcohol is sufficient preservative.
You can of course experiment with other fruit and other alcohol: blackberry gin or plum vodka for example.
Mincemeat is a fine old tradition. It was originally made with meat, together with apples, dried fruit and spices. This sort of sweet/savoury mixture was a strong feature of medieval English cooking, and was the origin of Christmas pudding too.
Sugar, spices and alcohol helped to preserve meat. Nowadays only the suet remains from the meat, and that is often not real suet these days. But mince pies were luxurious enough to be banned by the Puritans when they wanted to get rid of the more licentious elements of Christmas celebrations.
To make traditional mince pies, use minced mutton, available at farmers' markets, or if you can't get that use hogget or lamb. I usually quickly sear the mutton in a frying pan with a little salt, so I can drain off some of the fat, leaving just enough to hold the mixture together.
Add grated apple, plenty of any dried fruit (try including some chopped apricots), chopped fresh lemon and orange peel, and all the wintry spices. These are nutmeg and cinnamon, possibly cloves or allspice and ginger.
There's no need to add sugar – the dried fruit is full of it – and the mutton fat replaces the suet. Stir it all up briefly and add some brandy or whatever alcohol you like. It'll keep a few days in the fridge, or you can freeze it for later.
Make the pies with ready-made pastry if you like, or make your own with wholemeal spelt flour for an extra special treat. It would be in keeping with the season to use butter in the pastry, or you can use English rapeseed oil.
The only problem with real mince pies is how to fit them into our modern diet. We're so tied to savoury followed by sweet that we don't know what to do with something that's both. So have them on their own with some mulled wine or fruit juice – perfect Christmas Eve food.
Mulled wine is much better if you make it yourself: the ready-made kind is usually far too sweet. If you add some fruit juice to the wine you don't really need sugar. Try cider or beer instead of wine too: both can be spiced and warmed.
If you have any left over berries in your freezer – blackberries or elderberries – blitz these into juice and strain them into wine with some spices – lovely! The same spices, of course: ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves. Don't overheat it or you will lose all the alcohol.
The wassail is the traditional forerunner of our mulled wine. Usually it was mulled cider or beer. Wassail is the Old English "waes hael" – "may you be healthy" – and the drink was named after this toast.
The drink was ceremonial and celebratory. It was done at Yule (Christmas and New Year) and also at other times to bring good fortune to the cider harvest.
Cider or ale, or sometimes mead, was mulled with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg and topped with slices of toast. So, you could literally drink a toast. Sometimes fruit was added. Shakespeare wrote about "When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl" – crabs being crab apples.
The wassail was sometimes taken round the orchards and the pieces of soaked toast hung on the branches as a blessing. It was also provided for visiting mummers who came round to big houses enacting plays at Christmas (described by Thomas Hardy in The Return of the Native) and later to "waits" or carol singers.
It was customary for the players and singers to ask for the wassail and in return to bless the household with good luck for the year. Mummers plays are still carried out, including our New Year's one from the Alvechurch Morris.
I hear that the St Jude's storm in October may have destroyed one of England's most ancient cider orchards in Somerset, so I guess they didn't wassail enough. At least we have now all heard of St Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.
All these midwinter traditions have in common the turning of the year: the death of the old and the birth of the new. Christianity intensified them with the story of Christ's birth becoming attached to this time of year.
The fires and hot drinks and feasting, and red holly berries, are all ways of banishing the darkness of winter and lighting the spark of new life.
Christmas food also reminds us of our links with the rest of the world – the spices, oranges and raisins coming from afar. I hope you have a chance to relax and enjoy the earth's bounty this Christmas.
When the St Jude's storm passed us by, I dug out this poem that I wrote in 1987 just after the great storm. I had just got a new job which was to change my life.
Light my paper and stand clear
trees rain markets crashing
I ride the storm on my new broom
spelling my way forward
Head for the full moon
gunpowder in my nostrils
Can alter the clocks
Oh I would be a beech or an oak
shaped like humanity
such wild colour at my passing
Every year I burn
Put on a new cloak of gold
how I become it
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SEO Advice for Bloggers, Straight from the Horse's Mouth
At a recent WordCamp conference, Matt Cutts, one of Google's most outspoken authorities, weighed in with some advice for bloggers. Some of what he had to say was real news and some of it just reinforced common SEO wisdom, but it was all very useful information. The video of Matt's presentation is shown below. If you don't have an hour to watch the whole thing, I've also summarized some of Matt's more notable points.
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Juicy Tidbits
Matt had a lot to say. Here are some of his most noteworthy observations.
- If you think Google hates your site, get over it. Algorithms don't hold grudges.
- WordPress is very good for SEO right out of the box.
- The SEO Title Tag Plugin can be very helpful for your rankings.
- If you have a choice about how to structure your URLs, use dashes to indicate word breaks. If you use underscores, though, don't bother making the switch. Just be sure to use one of the two.
- Put your blog in a sub-directory rather than the root in case you want to do other things with your site later. It might also get people to link to your home page and your blog separately for double the link juice. Just don't name the directory "wordpress."
- Be sure that post creation dates are easy to find.
- If you want to get listed in Google News, you need to have multiple authors.
- Full text RSS gets more loyal readers. Partial feeds just get more page views (not sure about this one).
- When considering video vs. podcast, check your rating on hotornot.com. If you got 6 or lower, go with a podcast. 🙂
- Use a different stylesheet for mobile content.
- Having a lot of slashes in your URL, such as for the date, doesn't cause problems in Google. It might still cause problems in Yahoo or MSN.
- Communicate with Google through the Webmaster Console. It's a great way to monitor for any potential ranking problems.
- If you're popular enough that people might want to hack you, consider making your wp-admin folder only accessible via a white list.
Common SEO Advice
Matt also provided a number of good tips that are just common sense when it comes to SEO. For those of you who may be new to SEO, here are the important ones.
- When writing titles and copy, use words that people might type to search for your post. Don't forget synonyms and plural versions of those words. Put the same consideration into category names.
- File extensions make no difference when it comes to search engine rankings. Just make sure to never use .exe.
- Search engine spiders and visually-impaired users have one thing in common: They both like alt text on images and other media.
- When you're moving your domain, use a 301 redirect to preserve your rankings.
- Don't put too much work into meta tags. Google doesn't pay very much attention to them.
- If you want to be ranked, make sure your site can be crawled.
- Decide whether or not to use www in your URLs and be consistent about it. The yes-www plugin is great for this. Also be sure to set your preference in the Google Webmaster Console.
- Query strings are treated the same as static URLs. Just be sure to limit the number of parameters to two or three.
- Supplemental pages need links to get out of the supplemental index.
The real take-home lesson from Matt's presentation, and one that's echoed time and again by SEO professionals and successful bloggers alike, is to focus on content first and rankings second. If you have one, you will get the other. More importantly, it doesn't pay to try and game Google's algorithm.
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11 Responses to "SEO Advice for Bloggers, Straight from the Horse's Mouth"
serach Engine Optimization is a very important aspect of getting the page rank correct. Some tips include structured url's,putting your blog's in sub-directory and finally affliation of your site with good SEO company's could do wonders to your webpage ranking. The other thing is that wordpress and RSS are very good tools associated with SEO
That is correct, Christoff. Generally speaking, any tag that adds emphasis to a word increases a page's relevance for that word. Traditionally, header tags provide the most emphasis, followed by formatting tags such as <b>, <strong>, <em>, and <i>. Exactly how much weight is given to these is debatable, but they are known to add a little juice.
That being said, I would advise against overusing them. Stick to Matt's advice and write your content for readers first. If every other word is bolded, it will only hurt your blog.
I read somewhere that BOLDING your keywords where they appear in your body text will assist the search bots. Is this true?
Keep in mind, Ankur, that this is Matt's advice. I believe he's telling the truth with regard to Google lending little value to meta tags, but that doesn't mean other search engines don't still use them. They can still be beneficial if used correctly.
If you're seeing more traffic from Google after implementing meta tags, I would explore other factors that may have caused the increase. Rankings are, after all, affected by dozens of different variables. I think chances are good that the boost is from something else. If you really want to test it, remove the meta tags and see if your rankings drop back to their previous levels. 😉
Jermayn Parker
some kewl information. Amazing how even though this information has been around for a while, after someone at google has talked about it. Its now the right thing to do 😆
I find it a little funny..
Thanks Daniel and Stephen for your answers! Well regarding Don't put too much work into meta tags. Google doesn't pay very much attention to them. I don't think this is the case, because since the time I have included keywords( of-course relevant keywords!) in my meta tags…have started getting more traffic from google.
Ankur, my SEO instincts tell me that this is something Google likes to see for search queries related to freshness, such as Google Blog Search and the advanced search option that allows you to search for material in the past few months. I don't think it will hurt not to have it. Since Matt's asking webmasters to volunteer this information, though, I imagine it could only help.
Oh, and thanks for the heads up, Donncha. My mistake.
Ankur, Matt has not stated that if your blog do not display dates it will lose rankings on Google SERPs.
That being said it appears that Google's algo likes to know when a content was published (even though I think there are better methods for this instead of the timestamp on the blog post…).
I would not worry too much about not having the timestamp. There are some popular blogs using this approach also, like Copyblogger and DoshDosh.
Hi Stephen,
Am not sure about Be sure that post creation dates are easy to find Could you please explain this a bit more.
My blog theme doesn't require to display post dates. Can that effect my google ranking also?
WordCamp it is :). Thanks for the heads up.
Donncha O Caoimh
SEO conference? It was WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco! Great weekend, and I think most people there were hanging off every word Matt said.
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Tom Hiddleston's Instagram account appears to have been hacked.
The actor set up the social media account two weeks ago, and has so far posted pictures of himself from the set of his forthcoming movie Thor: Ragnarok.
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Before Patty Doel died two years ago, she still had hopes that her daughter, Tara Calico, was alive and would be found.
After 20 years of searching and praying, Tara's family still has no answer to the mystery of what happened to their bright beautiful daughter who vanished in broad daylight on her daily bicycle ride on N.M. 47.
The University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus student never returned home, leaving her family and an entire community to wonder and wait for any word about her fate.
Patty Doel died in Port Charles, Fla., at the age of 64 in May 2006 from complications from a series of strokes she had suffered. Her husband John, Tara's stepfather, said Patty had severe dementia and wasn't able to speak for the last year of her life.
"We passed notes back and forth for about eight months, but after that it was more difficult to communicate," Doel said in a telephone interview. "She was still concerned, and she still expected Tara to walk in at any time."
Patty and John Doel moved to Florida five years ago, leaving behind the community that had stood by their sides since the day Tara disappeared. Even after 20 years, Tara's family still thinks about her every day.
"It's gotten harder because we still don't know," said Tara's younger sister, Michele Doel. "If I'm driving down the street and I see someone who possibly resembles her, I find myself watching them — staring. It's hard just not having closure and not knowing what happened. Statistically, the odds are against her, and if she's not alive, we still need to know where she is."
Michele's hope is that if Tara is still alive, that she's not suffering. And if Tara isn't alive, her sister just prays that she didn't suffer long.
"Whoever knows something about this, I hope that they come forward because, as hard as it's been on them to live with that information, they have no idea how hard it's been for our family," she said.
While Patty never gave up hope that her daughter was alive, John said he's felt for years that Tara didn't survive whatever happened to her. He said if Tara could have come home, she would have.
"Patty knew that I felt that way, but she continued to hope to hear from her," he said. "We would discuss it frequently, and I would tell her my reasons that if she (Tara) was able to, she would have contacted us. And being that so much time has gone by, I didn't think it was practical that she was still alive."
Tara Leigh Calico was 19 years old when she disappeared. She was a sophomore in college, worked at a local bank and had plans to become a psychologist. She was described as a very intelligent young woman who was athletic, outgoing and had many friends.
On the morning of her disappearance, Tara left her Rio Communities house at about 9:30 a.m. to go on her daily bike ride on N.M. 47. She took her mother's pink Huffy bicycle because her bike had developed a flat a day or two before. When Tara failed to return home, Patty went out looking for her, thinking that she would find her walking home with a disabled bike.
Needless to say, Tara wasn't there — she wasn't anywhere.
"I was 15, a sophomore in high school," Michele remembered. "I remember one of my sister's best friends and her boyfriend came to get me from school. They picked me up, and when we got home, there was a bunch of cops."
Michele remembers being briefly filled in that Tara hadn't come home from her bike ride and that people were out looking for her. The house was in chaos — people going in and out.
"I didn't understand what was going on," she said. "I just assumed that she maybe had gone a different way and that we were going to find her. I didn't think that she was missing until later on that evening when I started to realize how serious it was. But I just kept thinking that she was going to come back."
In the days, months and years following Tara's disappearance, her family never gave up working on finding out what happened to her. They pleaded for any kind of information, appearing on national television and investigating the case themselves.
"We were both deputized after Tara's disappearance and were able to investigate the case," John Doel said of himself and Patty. "It allowed us to do two things — to carry weapons and also to be able to contact any other law enforcement agency on behalf of the sheriff's department regarding the case. We were both commissioned as auxiliary deputies.
"It's been a rough 20 years, especially on Patty. It was extremely hard on her, but she never gave up hope — she never quit."
Another person who has never given up trying to find answers in the case is Valencia County Sheriff Rene Rivera. While he wasn't on the force when Tara initially disappeared, he began his career the next year and began receiving information about the disappearance.
"I've actually been working on this case ever since I started with the sheriff's department in 1989," Rivera said. "People would come up to me and give me information, and I would write a report and turn it over to the detective who was working the case. Once I got into Detectives in 1996, the case was given to me."
In the years since the disappearance, Rivera and other investigators have been following up on any leads they've received, including a Polaroid photo of an unidentified female discovered in Port St. Joe, Fla., in June 1989. A white Toyota van had been parked in the spot prior to the discovery of the picture. The photo was discovered on the ground in a convenience store's parking lot.
The picture depicts a long-legged young woman and a smaller boy lying on some sheets and a blue striped pillow. Their mouths were covered with duct tape and their hands tied behind their backs.
Some people at first believed that the boy in the picture was Michael Henley, a 9-year-old boy who vanished in April 1988 in northern New Mexico. But Henley's remains were found in the Zuni Mountains in 1990. The Federal Bureau Of Investigation examined the photo and couldn't determine whether the girl is Calico, but experts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say they don't believe it is her, Rivera said.
"I don't think it's her," Rivera said of the picture. "It does resemble her quite a bit, but I don't think it's her. And if the picture is of her, it could have been taken here and then transported somewhere else."
Other leads Rivera has followed up on over the years included a possible sighting in Florida as well as alleged burial locations throughout Valencia County. In the past five or so years, Rivera has obtained search warrants for various properties where someone said Tara's body had been buried.
"We've dug both by hand and with backhoes," the sheriff said. "Any lead that we got, we followed through with it because we didn't want to leave anything out."
Despite all those leads coming up empty, Rivera says he knows what happened to Tara that day and who is responsible. While he won't say who the suspects are, he did say that he's received information over the years that two men, who were teenagers at the time of Tara's disappearance, found her riding her bike on the rural road that day and had help afterwards disposing of her body.
But it's that one piece of evidence that is keeping the sheriff from making an arrest — Tara. He said he hopes that, with the anniversary of her disappearance, the people responsible, or those who know what happened that day, will lead them to her so they can finally close the case.
"We do have a case put together, but we want to make sure that this case is a concrete case to where we'll be able to effectively do our jobs," he said. "We're just waiting to get a little more evidence — her bicycle, her clothing or Tara herself."
Rivera said several people have told him that, while riding her bike, Tara was approached by these two individuals in an older model Ford pickup truck. He said these two people had been following her, grabbing at her, trying to talk to her.
"The information I have is that the truck accidentally ended up hitting her," Rivera said. "I believe the truck bumped her bike, at which time she fell to the side of the road. From there, the individuals took her."
The sheriff thinks that the two men knew Tara, and that they got scared and she may have threatened to call law enforcement. He says the two men panicked, took her and killed her.
Rivera said two other people may have become involved in the situation afterwards and have knowledge of what happened to her and where she may be buried.
"If Tara was killed, I would say her body is still within the county," he added. "I think that she's still in the same general area that she was taken."
After 20 years, the sheriff hopes that these suspects — or even anyone who they told what happened that day — will come forward and finally put an end to the case.
"I'm hoping that this time around, these people will finally realize that it's time to talk and time to put her to rest," the sheriff said. "Enough is enough. At this point, I'd like to recover her body. I wanted to do it before her mother died, but she still has family and they want — they need — answers."
When John Doel learned through the media that Rivera has two suspects in mind, he said he would hope that arrests would be made regardless of whether the sheriff's department was waiting for more evidence.
"I thought it was silly when I heard it," John Doel said. "There's such a thing as circumstantial evidence, and I know, in other places, they've gotten a conviction on strong circumstantial evidence. It should have never been said unless they're (the sheriff's department) is willing to make an arrest and go forward with it."
Tara's stepfather and sister said while they're always hoping someone will relent and come forward, they do hope that one day the family will find closure.
"We have, to an extent, moved on with our lives, but it's always in the back of my mind," said Michele, who is now a mother herself. "I've learned to appreciate people more and things that people normally take for granted.
"I just want to express how grateful my family is for everyone who has done anything during this process for us," she added. "We're eternally grateful for those who helped, and I want them to know that we sure do think about them."
Anyone who has information about the case is asked to call Detective James Purdy, 866-2400.


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With the specter of bioterrorism, many people are casting about for ways to protect themselves and their families. The most commonly sought item is a gas mask. But experts warn the gas mask is overrated as a protective device against biological agents such as anthrax.
As the headlines continue to report cases of anthrax, sales of gas masks are booming. Established firms report a surge in sales, and new companies selling the masks pop up on the Internet every day. Ads tout the masks as protection against chemical and biological attack.
The problem, say experts, is that a gas mask offers a false sense of security. The Center for Civilian Biodefense at Johns Hopkins University flatly recommends that people not buy them. Clifford Mitchell, director of the occupational medicine residency program at the university's School of Public Health, says a gas mask is useless without advance warning of an attack. "In practice, no one would know when an actual release (of a biological agent) took place, so that, unless you had foreknowledge or had enough time so you had both foreknowledge and the opportunity to get and put on an effective gas mask, it really wouldn't serve much purpose," he said.
A gas mask - so named because it was originally designed to protect against poison gas in World War I - fits over at least the face and, in some cases, the entire head. Air is circulated through filters especially designed to keep the air pure and to keep out contaminants. However, unless a full body suit is worn in conjunction with the mask, it cannot protect against contamination through exposed skin.
Several purveyors of gas masks were asked for their reaction. Some refused to comment. But, when pressed, others - whose ads touted their masks as protection against biological agents - said they agree that a mask will not offer protection unless it is worn all the time. However, most ads on the Internet do not mention this fact.
Sean Stockmeyer of the Biologik Gas Mask Company in Nyack, New York, agrees with the experts' contention. But, he says, the mask may come in handy as the war on terrorism drags on. "This war on terrorism is not going to end overnight," he says. "So you might think of it as a like a fire extinguisher next to your stove. Hopefully, you're never going to need it. But you might just want to have it there in case. And maybe sometimes it wouldn't be effective because you've got too big of a grease fire or something like. And that's the same case with a mask. So it's a question of, do you want to roll the dice? And if you're not comfortable with that, then maybe get something for protection."
But, say experts, a mask must be professionally fitted to ensure a tight seal by the wearer - and that takes some training. Moreover, says Dr. Mitchell, a lot of masks being sold are old ones of dubious quality.
Dr. Mitchell believes the sellers of gas masks are trying to cash in on fear by offering false hope. "People are always going to try to market to peoples' fears. But I am concerned that people who are doing this - that is to say, the people who are selling the gas masks - are not doing people a service, in part because they are not telling them what kind of products that they're getting," Dr. Mitchell says. "And for the most part, most of these products would not be effective, even if they were used against small particles such as the anthrax bacillus."
Mr. Stockmeyer says he has been flooded with offers to buy lots of Cold War-era surplus masks from former Soviet bloc countries. But he says he only sells quality masks manufactured in Sweden in good working order which retail for at least $200.
Mr. Stockmeyer notes that, before the current scare, his firm was one of about 16 gas mask sellers one would find in a search on the Internet. Now, he says, the number is double or perhaps even triple that.
But, while he distances himself from the rush of dealers offering less than reliable products, he refuses to condemn them. "Well, you know, it's America. It's capitalism. I'm not going to denounce these people outright," he says.
Mr. Stockmeyer says buying a gas mask is a personal decision - and that consumers should educate themselves before making a purchase.


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Anyone reading yesterday knows today's the day the Amazon Kindle finally launches, and we're live from their big (little) launch event in New York. There are maybe a hundred fifty seats (and people are still filing in), so we'll be getting started here in just a few.
Just the usual pre-event mingling. Surprising this place hasn't filled up any faster. All the event handlers have very austere looks on their faces, as though they're cramming for a really difficult exam, or launching an e-book reader.
We got the first picture of the Kindle! There she is. That angle up towards the left is really severe, this thing is far from flat. Announcer: "We're getting started in just a few minutes..." More after the break.


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Eliza wants your questions! MTV and EW's Pop Candy will be interviewing Eliza tomorrow and they want you to send in some questions.
Sorry, cannot ask from Spain :( Anyway here's my question for if anyone wants to set it up _ would you like better to explore Echo/Caroline as a character or you actually enjoy present 'imprint-of-the-week' routine?
Where else will you find her? Letterman tonight, Good Day NY tomorrow morning, Fallon tomorrow night. EXTRA this Friday. Sounds like the other stuff (AP, tvguidemagazine.com, MTV News, USA Today) probably hits Friday itself.
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Disappointed with the Letterman interview. Dollhouse got buried beneath a rehash of Eliza's hunting stories and overall it was just an off vibe. I know the ratings are up on Letterman at the moment, but I wish she'd been on Conan instead they click a heck of a lot better.
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything but downer reactions to it on Twitter. (1) The hunting thing was already old six months ago and (2) last night the Glee girl got to talk Broadway and Glee, but tonight Eliza only gets to talk about that stupid hunting issue?
Yeah, I'm not sure why the topics brought up were so old, including even getting her to rehash where she grew up, how she got into the business and all that, stuff we've heard a hundred times. Not Eliza's fault though, I'm sure she would have loved to talk more about Dollhouse, or anything else really. You could tell she was uncomfortable talking about the hunting thing but Dave wouldn't move on to another topic.
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Carroll Senior High School teacher Linda Woessner announced this year's Robotics team roster. Woessner is the Robotics coach at CSHS. The following students were selected:
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Vijay Ramesh
Nikhil Ravi
Mike Tice
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Chris Knoll
This year the team will be building two robots to compete in the FTC "Ring it Up" Challenge.


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Reviving Hollywood past with an iClone Machinima twist, Citizen Director Paul Louis releases his latest film inspired by the comedies of Hal Roach. Paul's short film, "The Case of the Missing Plot," showcases iClone's flexible character creation, movement and camera composition. Written by Nick Santa Maria and adapted for the screen by Paul Louis, "The Case of the Missing Plot," cracks the case and a few laughs in a nostalgic and enjoyable iClone movie.
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Sizing Europe is to be aimed at the sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase after he was scratched from his two other entries at the Cheltenham Festival.
Henry de Bromhead's charge took the honours in the Arkle Trophy last March and will again bid for two-mile glory after he was taken out of the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Ryanair Chase.
"He's just in the Queen Mother now. He's been good, we're delighted with him and he's in great form," said De Bromhead.
"He looks well and he always comes to himself in the spring. He's going back to two miles, to what we know he's good at.
"Once we weren't able to conclude about him staying three miles when we didn't go for the King George after it was abandoned and then rescheduled we had to rethink.
"He's spot-on and we're really looking forward to it now."
The nine-year-old started the campaign over further and was runner-up to Kauto Star in the JNwine.com Champion Chase over three miles at Down Royal in November.
After missing the King George he did drop back to the minimum trip for the Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown two weeks ago when he was third to Golden Silver.
Sizing Europe is generally available at 14-1 for the Champion Chase on March 16.