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Mmm, that Thanksgiving dinner was good. I'm just waking up from it.
Hey, there are still two days left of free shipping from Charlie's Playhouse. I can't compete with Wal-Mart's 105% discounts on everything, but there you have it.
Here's the first installment of a series I'll call BONC, or the Barnyard of Old New Critters, which highlights oddball creatures from the fossil record. Why "old" and "new?" They're old because they lived millions of years ago, and they're new because scientists just dug them up recently and nobody's heard of them yet. Why "barnyard?" Because "museum" and "gallery" were too stuffy. We need to round up our kids and get into the barnyard with these creatures, pet 'em, feed 'em, name 'em, and befriend 'em. Whenever there's a new BONC, wake the kids!
BONC #1: A half-naked turtle
Which came first, the turtle's top shell or its bottom shell? Well, we just found out. A new turtle fossil -- with a name too difficult to pronounce so let's not even bother -- shows that the bottom shell came first. This critter lived in water and evolved its bottom shell to protect against attacks from meanies swimming below it. It wasn't until millions of years later when it moved onto land that it needed a top shell to protect against meanies tromping or flying above it.
Think of a turtle that lives on land today. It's got a big old hard shell on top to protect against predators. That makes sense. But it's got that other one on the bottom. Why? How on earth would it be attacked from below? Hawks who sit in holes and wait for a turtle to crawl over it? A really really tiny tiny fox? No, this is ridiculous. That bottom shell is just a leftover from millions of years ago when it lived in water. Cool.
Next time you see a turtle, ask your friends which came first, the top or the bottom!
See an artist's drawing and read more more about this BONC creature here.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Barnyard of Old New Critters (BONC) #1
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You can't compete with the Walmart discount, but I am also virtually guaranteed not to get trampled by your blog.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the New Old Critters update. I have my staff preparing to lobby for me to be BONC #14.
Hooray for Charlie's Playhouse!
LOVE your BONC series!ReplyDelete
My kiddos love anything to do with animals -- making it about prehistoric animals just makes it even better as far as they're concerned!!!
We'll be heading to the library tomorrow (we're homeschoolers) to check out some books about turtles (& anything we can find about preshitoric ones as well)!!
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What If doesn't take too many surprising turns to get where you know it's going to go, but it handles each turn with consummate professionalism.
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At the end of the day it's a typical romedy, but it manages to seduce you into rooting for it. Off the charts chemistry between Radcliffe/Kazan, plus grounded and convincing dialogue really brings this tale of romance to life. It's hilarious as it is heartfelt in sincerity and that really helps transcend the tropes of its genre
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I have some statistics for you all to ponder. Who remembers that old left fielder for our Phillies named Pat Burrell? It's been a while, but if you still have some memories of him, these numbers could be of interest to you. I just thought we'd take a look at Pat's numbers in Phillies' wins against Pat's numbers in Phillies' losses.
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Batting avg-.296
Slg %- .570
In Phillies losses...
Batting avg- .215
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And here is another quick look at the spring performances of John Mayberry Jr. and Greg Golson. Golson was traded for Mayberry in the offseason, as Texas and Philadelphia swapped former top draft picks.
As of this writing, Mayberry Jr. is hitting .277 in 11 total spring exhibition games, with 3 homers, 8 RBI and 1 stolen base.
Golson has played in 9 games, and has a lofty .438 batting avg., with a homer, 2 doubles and 7 RBI. Greg has been been caught in his only stolen base attempt.


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Creating No Point is slooow, I made about 15 seconds of new material yesterday. There better be no mistakes at all when the start rendering day comes.
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Marriage market in Shanghai
I've heard that there is some sort of dating market in Shanghai that's located in one of the major parks. Basically parents (often against their children's will) go there to put up posters giving information about their child's height, weight, job, etc. However, success rates are extremely low. China, like other East Asian countries, is a very age conscious society where you HAVE to do certain things / be at a certain status at certain ages
Shanghai (CNN) -- Liu Jianle smiles as he spots a potential suitor for his recently divorced niece among a sea of white personal ads pegged to a board.
Pencil in hand, he jots down the man's details -- 33 years old, 1.7 meters tall (5 feet 7 inches), 140 pounds, a property owner, divorced but no kids.
The only wrinkle is that his salary is $800 a month, not high by Shanghai standards. No matter, says Liu, his niece has a good job.
Welcome to Shanghai's marriage market.
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Matchmaking: Chinese style
Each weekend, mothers, fathers and, in Liu's case, concerned uncles, come to a sun-dappled corner of Shanghai's People's Park to find Mister or Miss Right for their children.
Some write posters by hand listing their offsprings' vital statistics -- height, age, income, education and their hukou or registered hometown -- and pin them to umbrellas or shopping bags. Others come with a notebook to see what is available.
Liu is a veteran. He found his son a wife here and they've been married for more than a year.
"She's 1.69 meters tall (5 feet 6 inches) and beautiful like a movie star," he says. "He was happy to get the introduction."
With young Chinese told to put education and work before finding love, many struggle to find boyfriends or girlfriends, a source of deep concern for their parents in a society which emphasizes the survival of the family line.
Worried family members are joined by professional matchmakers, who try to make a living from the unusual gathering.
The city even organizes an "annual love and marriage expo" to help young people find love that attracts 18,000.
"A lot of kids who were born after 1980, they don't have siblings. So they grow up in an environment where you don't have the experience to meet with people of the opposite sex," Song Li, the founder of an online dating service, told CNN at the event in May.
READ: China plays the dating game
The market has been around since 2004, says Li, who runs a professional matchmaking service from the park. With almost three times as many women looking for partners than men, it can be difficult to make a successful match.
Men can register for free, while she charges a fee of $500 for her female clients.
She also has an age limit; men born after 1970 can sign up, but women must be under 33.
"There's a shortage of superior men," she says by way of explanation.
READ: China's 'leftover women' choose to stay single
It's a similar story at Fan Dongfang's booth. He says he matches 20 to 30 people a year and brandishes a clutch of wedding invitations as if to prove it. He also has a glut of women on his books.
"There are too many leftover women in Shanghai," he says, using a popular term to describe an educated, single, urban women over the age of 27.
"Their standards are too high."
While the numbers stack up in favor of Chinese women -- according to the China Statistics Bureau, there are now 34 million more men than women in China -- this doesn't mean they will pair up easily.
READ: China's biggest problem? Too many men
Chinese men tend to "marry down" both in terms of age and educational level, observers say. Plus, many of China's unmarried men live in the countryside.
Distance is no obstacle to the parents' matchmaking ambitions, nor is their children's consent.
One mother displays a handwritten A4-sized poster in a clear plastic wallet seeking a match for her 36-year-old daughter, who works as an accountant in Toronto. The market has an "overseas corner" for parents who have children living abroad.
"I can't give you my name because my daughter doesn't know I'm doing this and I don't want her to find out," she says.
"I just want her to find someone with a stable job, who is tolerant and open-minded."
READ: Dating website makes money off infidelity in Asia
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China is getting to be a huge clusterfuck. Hypergamy is not only tolerated but encouraged in the culture. That is not to say that there are not good Chinese women - there are, of course, but good luck finding lasting happiness there. Being from the U.S. and now living/working in China, I think big countries are just generally not such great places to be.
China is trying to rise in the world and is actually accomplishing this. But at what price? Consider that a child is perpetually in school, always worried about grades. They don't have time to play and to relax. Then it's university, where the same study-study-study thing applies of course. Then it becomes about getting not just a job, but getting to be the "head of a company," or a doctor, or some other high status job. Ask a boy what he wants to be when he grows up, and he'll say CEO or just "rich." Ask a girl what she wants to be or do when she grows up and she'll say similar things OR that she wants to marry a rich guy.
Money, money, money. Busy, busy, busy.
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China is quickly becoming the new West. It's still better socially than the States, but that's not saying much. Everything is always business, money, and status. What will it get the Chinese people? Not much in the end I think. China has a lot of problems, many of which I did not realize before getting here. And you always have to consider the problems with fitting in there since foreigners are always outsiders.
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Bridlington Mayor, Councillor Liam Dealtry, has officially opened a new building development in the town.
Housebuilder McCarthy and Stone enlisted the help of Cllr Dealtry to open the doors to Chestnut Court, its new retirement living development.
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Yup it's true, I even have the photo to prove it. We're 20 weeks pregnant and I couldn't be more excited – I'm going to be a dad!
Now, I can't seem to help myself, I always relate big events likes this back to business. Since finding out, I've been more focused than ever before on what needs to be done to move my business forward.
I've been stopping ineffective tasks and projects to ensure I'm focusing on the 20% that gives the biggest impact. My 10th of January deadline can't be missed! It can't be postponed and we're going to hit it no matter what. This is perhaps the best way to get things done.
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anyone else have an awful new years?
one of the worst nights of my life.
did you get punched in the face by a girl you like and then face the wrath of everyone you thought was your friend?
That sounds entertaining. No, seriously though that does sound as if you may have had as much fun as me.
I could tell you what happened but I may face horrible reprisals from the real world. As it turned out I saw the new year in sitting in a parked car on my own. Nuff said.
got punched,
got shouted at by a large amount of people and my sleeping bag was given away to a homeless person in a fit of petulance.
it wasn't even my sleeping bag either, i was borrowing it.
i got very ill.
it wasn't good after one am.
That sounds like
a relatively good new year's eve. I would actually love to have a new year's like that one day.
Went out for an hour, only to have unwanted groping, ex-boyfriends and small talk extreme.
Came home only to face James BLUNT and TS Tunstell singing TOGETHER.
After, I needed a stiff drink after the intitial shock.
definatly a
yes, it rained, it sucked, i sobered up before it turned midnight, sucked.
no it was ace
Listened to music has much as i wanted without being disturbed and drank some beers !
that sounds terrible fishy
mine was averagely crap. Nothing terrible happened, it was just another un-exciting/expensive night out.
oh yeah
you were at the academy, right?
the cooler was really ace until all that kicked off. i quite like that place.
Miserable lot
Mine was much fun
mine was brilliant. We danced and sang songs and I discovered my new calling as a drummer. Houseparties are the way forward!
mine was also great
got drunk, had fun
actually i went to the cooler too
last minute arguments, followed by indecision, followed by a trip to the cooler.
i left at about 2 i think.
was fairly wank, the music was tolerable, but i was too drunk and i was hanging out with a slightly crappy group of people.
sounds like we both were.
there was edan at the fiddlers...but i only found out about that on saturday, and at seventeen pounds a ticket i had to decline.
Twas okay in the end
Me and my mate watched Temple of Doom then we played guitar over Pedator with the sound off.
I think it turned New Year just as the improbably mine car ride with Indie began...
I did too.
Thats 3 on the trot now. I fucking hate new year's eve.
was run of the mill and very low key.......went to a bar in cardiff, drank til pretty boozy and then sort of spend large amounts of the night staring into thin air in a world of my own.....mulling over what i am going to do this year!
highlight of the night being my mate pulling a girl that looked just like gary neville....and he told her this and the smakced him and went off with a middle ages fella wearing a kilt!
Was quite good actually. Which is good, cause the last 3 years have all been awful
I just got pissed
and played drink Balderdash for several hours. It might actually have been one of my best new years.
I had
the best time ive ever had on NYE. Went to Lost to see Juan Atkins the detroit techno master. Danced solidly from 10 till 6. Steve Bicknell and Luke Slater were really good too. Did anyone else go to this?
Jeff Mills is going to be at the same club (Soundshaft/Lost) on Feb 26th I think.
i went to
my mates house, where we drank for about 5 hours, watched Jules Holland (which was shit, but the countdown was ok) listened to LCD Soundsystem, then we fucked off to another house party, played Tekken Tag and danced to Goldfinger. It was good, but went all too fast and i've got work tomorrow.
was fun. we were planning to go to a burlesque club night in bethnal green but that was sold out so we ended up in a party in brick lane complete with rooftop terrace and djs for each of the different rooms. i danced a lot and spilled wine over myself.
mine was crap.
i worked till 12.
till 12! for gods sake. in fact, only till 11.55 cos then we stopped serving got a drink in ourselves and toasted the NewYear(boring fucks didnt even bother with a countdown). which then meant i had to wait a while till i could drive but couldnt find anyone who stayed out long enough to join.


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"Everything began with a sleazy, clicheic 69 tweet." This is how this letter was supposed to start. I felt the need to let the entire world know what is happening behind the scenes.
I thought that if I put on paper all the evilness, the beauty, the challenges, the roads I travelled for several years, it would help me somehow go through the ordeal. Because the ordeal didn't stop when it was supposed to stop. No, ladies and gentlemen. The ordeal went on even with uninvited guests. Guests lacking minimum of decency. Guests driven by such malice, alienation and lack of respect, that everybody involved froze in place speechless and baffled.
But lets not digress. As you can suspect, what we thought it was miraculous and divinely brought to our paths vanished from my heart. And I think... out of the entire story, this is what hurts most. Stealing from me all the moments we shared. Influenced or not, on purpose or not, it doesn't even matter anymore. The wounds are so deep and so "unhealable", that only hatred can do real justice. But hatred is such a big and useless word. Rationality, cold blood and determination sound better. More to the point.
Therefore, the story that needed to be told is dead. Too many words were spoken on all sides. Good ones, but mostly bad ones. Unimaginable ones. Broken, raw ones. One thing is when somebody makes himself a life without you, giving up on you with the easiness you click the Block button on Twitter, but another thing is when somebody is using you shamelessly to put order in his life, in the process allowing the above mentioned guests to behave as if the world had turned into a place without laws and where anarchy prevailed.
I am robbed. Mercilessly. Walking Dead like inner life. No wonder a fly is buzzing me, as if I dont exist. And I dont have palms to slap it. A stone instead of a soul. Now that we know the robbers, what exactly can we do? Society is not on their sides. So the right and correct solutions will be searched for. Because the world is unbalanced.
They say people change. Or maybe not. Maybe they were like this all this time. Merely faking everything, because I was at hand, offering support even when I was sleeping.
The feeling we call love, the longing, the desperation provoked by absence is still there nevertheless. And most probably will always be. But when somebody dies, then its over. You cannot talk to a dead person, right?
I kept the part of the deal we had until the very last second. Now it is time to take care of liabilities and damages. Because too many provisions of the contract were violated. Not even millionaires would get away with so many mistakes, errors and damages done with a clear purpose in mind: you die, because I don't care, while I live happily ever after. Thank you. You were such a lady. But its time to focus on my wellbeing. Oh...and yes. Thank you. Because I know you will keep your mouth shut, while I dance. I am smiling. You see? I am cool. You are cool. Oh...you are not? Ahhh, you are in pain? So what...?
The story goes on. It is being written right now. But not with love and admiration. Not with a smile, a tear and a joke. Because he doesn't deserve. I don't deserve. The guests don't deserve. At all. Eventually we all failed to be human. Broken toys thrown in a greyish attic, where there is no light, no warmth, no air. The story is being written with dripping blood right now.
Life will settle things on its own. And I despise life for letting such a crime happen. Life is just a cheap brothel. And we circle around inside it, wearing too much make-up. We have the audacity to believe that, if we shove in front of the audience our sad face with a black trace of the smudged mascara, they will feel pity and they will save us all from the misery. Delusional. We deserve to be here.
Because we chose, step by step, to stay in it.
But then again... until we meet, stay tuned. And alert. It is over when I say it is over. Because...loyalty is gone now. We are on our own. I paid my price. With interest and all. Time for others to pay, too. I will even put a good word with the bank. Why struggling to reimburse big hunches of sorrow over a short period of time under such a pressure? Dont worry. I will arrange lifetime small and intense instalments for you.


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For today's Lenten prayer, I have scanned a yellowed and dog-eared card found in my dad's old Catholic missal (the prayer book with the Latin and English words of the Mass). I love the "Our Father," but this one is the "My Father." As in, my father lived this prayer. He also embodied its earnest, fervent midcentury style, being a Catholic convert from the era of Fulton J. Sheen's Life is Worth Living broadcasts. The prayer is called "Learning Christ":
My dad's life was indeed "strong in its purpose of sanctity." He lived his faith in every encounter, as a father, neighbor, insurance salesman, passing motorist...but perhaps most of all as husband. The man who saved this prayer card was married (after a 15-year courtship) to a beautiful but troubled woman who lived her life in the grip of fear, insecurity, anger and cynicism. I believe I am the offspring of the world's greatest optimist and its darkest pessimist. And in all the years of their marriage, my father never gave up his patient campaign to ease my mother's embattled heart. Turn the card over, and his inscription (Q for Quentin, M for Mathilde) reveals that he gave it to her four years before they finally married, while he was still a military policeman guarding FDR during World War II.
"Learning Christ" might sound a bit sanctimonious or impossibly pious to our post-modern ears. After all, therapy and self-fulfillment are our touchstones now, not "putting ourselves aside." But you will have to take my word for it that the man who lived this prayer was the happiest man I've ever known, and the freest. He lived each day in joy and died at peace, beloved by all who knew him. Through him, I "learned Christ" a little more every day. Corny as it sounds, I am quite convinced he is a saint. If you're in the market for an intercessor, Richard Quentin Becker would, I'm sure, be happy to hear from you.


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Many things in the outdoor world of hunting, fishing, trapping and shooting revolve around tradition.
Many things in the outdoor world of hunting, fishing, trapping and shooting revolve around tradition.
One spring tradition in our family is making a trek to the Delaware River during the annual run of the American Shad. Every spring these anadromous fish make their way from the ocean, up the Delaware River to spawn. It's been that way for generations.
Fishing for shad is not as popular as it once was. Gone are the days of the floating armada on specific pools in the river. I suppose people are too wrapped up in their fast-paced lives these days to enjoy a once a year taste of a unique outdoor endeavor.
A few of us get it together though, and whether its from the banks or out of the boat, we lop and toss out shad darts in hope of feeling the might tug of a shad on our line. Shad are members of the herring family, and so have a slim but flattened body, with sharply forked tail and large, iridescent scales that shimmer in the sunlight. The business end has a scoop-shaped mouth that is cartilaginous like that of a crappie.
The shad don't feed much on the migration to mate and lay their eggs, but they do strike at objects that might be a threat to their propagation. So catching them isn't too difficult, it is just a matter of having a lure in the path of a shad as it heads upstream.
I have my best luck fishing in the current in the deepest part of the channel. If fishing from shore, the dart is cast across the current and retrieved with a pumping motion. If fishing from a boat, I anchor in the current and put one rod out back with the dart dancing in the current and cast and reel with another. If you get tired of casting, prop both rods with the darts out back at varying distances.
When a shad grabs the dart or flutter spoon, you will know it. It is usually sharp and abrupt and you had better have the drag set light or the line will break.
I prefer a medium action rod in longer length, as the fun of shad is in the battle that ensues after hook-up. They run, they dive and they are pretty good at aerobatics. The bas news is that all that fighting usually opens up the hole in that cartilage making unscheduled releases the norm, especially if you bump them with the net.
I suggest carrying a variety of shad darts and or flutter spoons. Get different colors and sizes. The dart should stay close to the bottom, but dance in the current and not settle.
The fun is in the fight they offer. However, consider the shad a delicate resource. They tire easily and should not be played out or they will not survive a release.
The meat is delicious, but they are as bony as a porcupine is spiny. Some people enjoy the roe, or egg sacs, sautéed in butter. Keep one and toss the rest back to help perpetuate the species.


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Jennifer Rohn has a nice bit up at the Nature News entitled "Give postdocs a career, not empty promises" which overviews an issue of scientific careerism that is dear to my heart.
Consider the scientific community as an ecosystem, and it is easy to see why postdocs need another path. The system needs only one replacement per lab-head position, but over the course of a 30–40-year career, a typical biologist will train dozens of suitable candidates for the position. The academic opportunities for a mature postdoc some ten years after completing his or her PhD are few and far between.
The bit is an expansive argument for the problem, no doubt, and Rohn carefully outlines the need for something else in the nature of careers for doctoral-trained scientists. Something other than professorial rank, lab-head (aka PI) positions as the end game. She makes this rather explicit:
I also propose a solution: we should professionalize the postdoc role and turn it into a career rather than a scientific stepping stone.
I ran across this on the Twitts via laudatory forwards from Ed Yong and David Dobbs earlier today. Then some jerk rather snarkily observed that : "when I've made that proposal on blog, at least I've put up a mechanism, rather than pipe dream..."
What I meant by this is that the Rohn piece leaves us hanging. It is all well and good to describe the problem. But in some senses this is an obvious problem. It is discussed endlessly. The solution, some career-type position at less-than-PI level, is not a flash of unique brilliance. What the real question is, in my view, is how our business could be tweaked to accomplish this goal. How can we create these positions within the Universities in our respective countries and under the general funding mechanisms available to us?
I have a specific proposal in mind that could easily operate within the US NIH-funded atmosphere. I probably first alluded to my solution here at the old blog (before DrugMonkey sold out and went all corporate) and most recently in a comment over at the OER blog. As far as I can recall (ok, Google), the fullest description of my proposal was in an entry that I'm reposting, below. My point for today is not that this is the correct solution, rather that it is a solution. A specific proposal that could be acted upon. Perhaps you would like to supply similar proposals, large or small, that could accomplish this goal which has been described so nicely by Jennifer Rohn.
This entry first appeared Aug 6, 2008.
A Policy Forum piece by Michael S. Teitelbaum in Science opines at length on the so-called "structural disequilibria" in biomedical research [h/t: writedit]. This is mostly a recitation of all of the familiar NIH funding woes (including reference to the NIH budget undoubling analysis); if not entirely novel in theme, at least there is a new focus here since Teitelbaum is arguing that until serious changes in the structure of the biomedical research/funding enterprise are put into place we will continue to experience boom/bust cycles no matter what the NIH budget may be. Much is familiar so your eyes may have glazed over after the first or second sub-sections. I wish to draw your attention to something interesting Teitelbaum mentioned right at the end.
He ends the piece with a series of recommendations of which one is that we may need:
New mechanisms to better align the Ph.D.-postdoc systems with demand in the labor market for their graduates, e.g.,
b. Allowing increases in NIH research funds to support career-path biomedical research positions (e.g., professional staff scientist positions) at research institutions rather than depending on temporary students and/or trainees.
This is a relatively common theme of disgruntled post-doc'ing. Some people come to the realization at some point that their career ambitions would be well served by a stable position as a research scientist. Someone who toils away at the bench, in the field or equivalent, conducting and overseeing studies, analyzing data, writing papers without the many, many headaches of being an independent PI with a professorial appointment.
The fact of the matter is that many, many Ph.D. wielding individuals are in the process of serving out such a career. The trouble is that it is not a stable, formal job category. So anyone who makes it to retirement, does so by matter of a series of accidental or lucky steps in joining a lab or labs that can sustain the stable level of funding that is required to maintain very senior Ph.D. level non-PI scientists. This makes this particular ambition a fairly dodgy one.
So what do people with such ambitions do instead? Well, some people jump to industry positions of one sort or another...BigPharma or big/medium biotech. Some just grit their teeth and jump from lab to lab if they have to. Others try for faculty / PI jobs...even though they may not actually want to do so.
I think Teitelbaum's point is that particularly this latter issue increases the pressure with respect to the stream of new PIs with new labs which must get funded with NIH grants. Pressure which might be alleviated by creating a way for individuals who do not want to be PIs with big labs to have a reasonable expectation of a professional career doing the science that they love.
I'll need to be convinced of that. What I do not need to be convinced of is the value of having a stable career path for people who just want to be scientists (in academic labs) without the pressure to jump up to PI-dom. First, because I know quite a number of such people and can see how their contributions to science are great- while recognizing there is no way they are cut out to be PIs. Second because selfishly as a PI, I'd love to get a whack at such an individual in my own lab.
Let me just jump up even higher on my soap box here for a minute and remind you all. The time is still ripe for things to change at the NIH. A fair review would have to admit that much of the hot air of the past two years has started to result in tangible alterations. NIH is listening and many things that turn up in opinion pieces in the GlamourMags have a way of becoming themes for much additional discussion- including from NIH powers that be. So start talking about this issue if you think it is of value.
I have a modest suggestion, of course. The K05 mechanism. Or rather, something much like the K05. The NIAAA and NIDA version of the K05 is the "Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award" of which the Executive Summary says:
The Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award (K05) is intended to provide protected time for outstanding senior scientists who have demonstrated a sustained high level of productivity conducting biomedical research relevant to the scientific mission of the appropriate institute to focus on their research and to provide mentoring of new investigators.
It is expected that most candidates will request five years of support; requests must be for a minimum of three years. Awards may be renewed one time for up to an additional five-year period.
The K05 award will provide salary support of 75 percent of the institutional base salary (up to the current Federal salary cap limit for NIAAA applicants; up to $90,000 for NIDA applicants) for up to five years based on a full-time, 12-month staff appointment, plus fringe benefits. The candidate must devote a total of 75 percent of full-time effort to the proposed program, with at least 25 percent of that effort directed towards mentorship activities.
Candidates must be outstanding established senior scientists and recognized leaders in their field of research, and be able to demonstrate the need for a period of intensive research focus as a means of enhancing their research career and a need for protected time to conduct their mentoring activities.
Candidates are expected to have independent, peer-reviewed research grant support at the time of submitting the K05 application. Additional funds will not be provided to support the applicant's research activities. [emphasis added]
The NCI version says similar things but this is the only other announcement I'm finding at the moment.
What a schweet deal. The K05 is apparently for well-funded PIs to leverage their position by gaining what is essentially salary support and/or buy-out from other institutional responsibilities (like teaching or clinical duties, I assume). Let me tell you that from the perspective of a soft-money investigator this would be a VeryGoodThing to acquire. Ahem. But I'm off track.
Suppose something like this were made available for career Ph.D. scientists as essentially a fellowship. Without any requirement for a professorial appointment and minimal actual research component. The important point being that it is applied for, awarded to and evaluated for renewal by the career scientist with every expectation that this is a career award. There would be details of course. You'd have to have a host lab at most times- but allow for transition if one lab loses grant support or something. Nice and easy for the supported career scientist to find a new lab, don't you think? "Hey, PI Smith, I have my salary supported and I'd like to come play in your lab..." would go over quite nicely. Progress could be evaluated just as with any other award, keeping the pressure on for the individual to publish.
But that's just one way it could work. What say you Readers? Any other ways to support career bench scientists? Where are the pitfalls?


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Genesis 47-48 English Standard Version (ESV)
Jacob's Family Settles in Goshen
47 So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen." 2 And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh. 3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were." 4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." 5 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
7 Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?" 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning." 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
Joseph and the Famine
13 Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone." 16 And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone." 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. 18 And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. 19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's. 21 As for the people, he made servants of them[a] from one end of Egypt to the other. 22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
23 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24 And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones." 25 And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh." 26 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.
27 Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.
29 And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt, 30 but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said." 31 And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.[b]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
48 After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed. 3 And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty[c] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, 4 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.' 5 And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are. 6 And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 7 As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance[d] to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."
8 When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?" 9 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them." 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 11 And Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also." 12 Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him. 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn). 15 And he blessed Joseph and said,
"The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, "Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head." 19 But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude[f] of nations." 20 So he blessed them that day, saying,
"By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope[g] that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."
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Discussion in 'Community' started by Stelliform, May 11, 2003.
Happy Mother's day! Do we have any mothers on MacRumors?
I would think that the number of moms on MacRumors might be the smallest group here....
But Happy Mother's Day to the 2 members I know
happy mother's day, all mothers out there!
gotta love those mac moms!
Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms it is truly an important job! For you love us unconditionally. There is the necessity, character, and permanance of love. The greatest gift is to love! Thank you!
my mom can't turn on a computer w/o
getting help - but I still love her.
Happy MD mommy!


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Also at that time, AEO defined microenterprise development and coined the word "microentrepreneur" to describe a particular kind of business owner. Today, microenterprise is defined as a business with five or fewer employees, which requires $35,000 or less in start up capital. Microenterprise development is the provision of support to microenterprise owners (or microentrepreneurs).
The roots of U.S. microenterprise development sprung from economic programs that arose as a result of the women's movement in the late 1960s. By the 1980s it was evident that an important new economic strategy was developing. As microenterprise development practitioner pioneers began innovative programs in scattered rural and urban areas nationwide, it became evident that an organized communication structure was needed to share knowledge, resources, challenges, and best practices among established and developing microenterprise development programs.
From 1991 to 1999, AEO was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. During the late 1990s the microenterprise development field identified the need for stronger advocacy efforts in support of federally funded microenterprise development programs. In 1999, to have closer access to policy makers on Capitol Hill, AEO moved to its current location in Arlington, Virginia- just across the Potomac River from the Washington, DC.
Today, AEO is an exciting and flourishing organization and the only national member-based association in the microenterprise development industry. Its membership has grown to include not only practitioners, but also advocates, public agencies, funders, individuals, and others who share in AEO's mission.
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Environmental Groups Seek Ruling on Chemical Oil Dispersants
A coalition of conservation, wildlife and public health groups from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Alaska are seeking to compel the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a rule on chemical oil dispersants, saying the EPA's existing rules don't fulfill the requirements mandated by the Clean Water Act.
According to the coalition, nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico to address the Deepwater Horizon incident in April 2010 "with little knowledge or research into the chemicals' toxic impacts."
Currently, regulations dictating dispersants eligible for use in oil spills require minimal toxicity testing and no threshold for safety.
The Clean Water Act requires the EPA to identify the waters in which dispersants and other spill mitigating devices and substances may be used, and what quantities can be used safely in the identified waters, as part of EPA's responsibilities for preparing and publishing the National Contingency Plan.
In October 2010, the coalition sent EPA a notice of intent to sue following the Deepwater Horizon incident. Over 5,000 petitions have also been sent by residents across the Gulf Coast region asking EPA to create a new rule to ensure that dispersants will be used safely in the next disaster.
"The Clean Water Act requirements have been in place for decades, but administration after administration has failed to comply with the law," said Cyn Sarthou, executive director of Gulf Restoration Network, in a statement. "Consequently, there was little data available to EPA officials when they were confronted with the devastating BP oil disaster."
"We're disappointed that the agency doesn't seem to understand the widespread public urgency to initiate this rulemaking process," said Jill Mastrototaro, Sierra Club Gulf Coast Protection Campaign Director, in a statement.
"If a spill or blowout happened tomorrow in the Gulf of Mexico, or any U.S. water for that matter, any dispersant that is used would not necessarily be safe for the waters, ecosystems, response workers or nearby communities," Mastrototaro commented.
Environmental law firm Earthjustice filed the suit on behalf of the coalition, which includes the Sierra Club, Louisiana Shrimp Association, Florida Wildlife Federation, Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Alaska-based Cook Inletkeeper, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, and Waterkeeper Alliance.
A recent study on the possible effects of the 2010 BP oil spill indicates dispersants may have killed plankton and disrupted the food chain in the Gulf of Mexico, the Associated Press reported late last month.
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Let's Get to Know the Arabian Horse
Horses are Beautiful
Each breed of horse, as with dogs, have been bred to bring out certain traits. The Thoroughbred and it's long legs meant for racing. The draft horses and their size for pulling large loads. The same is true of the Arabian, but these traits are very different from the other breeds.
The countries where this breed of horse came from are all deserts. The people were nomadic, traveling the deserts with their families and their animals. These people were very close to their animals, and very often brought their horses right into their tents with them for the night, for they were not only very valuable, but these people trusted their very lives to these animals. If their horse could not get them through this very hot and dry sandy land, they would very likely parish. Therefore, these horses are well known for their friendly dispisitions, and even though they were purebred animals well known for their hot bloodedness, they maintained a calm and trustworthy personalities.
Because of the lack of water in these lands, the Arab horse was bred to not need as much water or food as your other breeds of horses. The average quarter horse, or Morgan, will normally eat flake of hay or alfalfa and about a quart of grain twice a day if they are working, and in comparison, the Arab can easily be satisfied with a little more than half of that, and will maintain their weight and good looks without any grain. They are definitely the cheap date of the horse world.
The Arab is also well known for their smaller size as compared to other breeds. The average size of a purebred Arab will be between thirteen and a half hands to about fifteen hands. An average size for a quarter horse will be from sixteen to seventeen and a half hands. Because of their smaller size, and their calm disposition, they are a good horse for a child who is competing or using the horse for sports or trail riding.
An Arabian can be easily recognized by their beautiful dished shaped face and the tips of their ears not straight, but tipping in towards each other. The animal has large hindquarters, short legs, and a good size chest, The Arabian is all heart, and will give 200% to please you. Despite their small size, they love to race and are winners. They also make good jumpers. They are very smart, and are easily trained.
They are also well known to have little to no foot problems. They have comparatively, the hardest hooves of any other horse. and rarely have problems. Unless you hare exercising them every day on pavement, they can go without shoes with no problems. The horse shoe man only needs to come and trim up the hooves every few months and this horse is good to go.
A Part of Your Family
Once this animal gets to know you, or your children they are the most trustworthy horse you could ever put you family on. As an example, one day my niece and I were riding bareback, just riding the horses to the store which was about a block and a half away from our house. I rode the younger quarter horse, and my niece, who was about eleven or twelve years old on my Arab gelding. I reminded her that if she felt herself slipping off the horse, because we were riding without saddles, to push herself away from the horse, not hang on and slip underneath the horses belly. She smiled at me and said "I know, I know."
Well the difference between I know, and doing it were two different things. The horses trotted for a short distance, and my niece began losing her balance and was slipping off. She let out a little scream, and when I looked back she was hanging onto the horse and slipped under him, falling off under the horse. As I looked in horror, the horses foot should have made it's next step right on her chest, but he very kindly skipped that step and stepped over her and stopped. She got up dusting herself off saying, " Did you see that? Auntie, he skipped over me." That is an Arab in action with your kids. Arabs have been known to protect their riders from snakes, their arch enemy.
A Pleasure to Ride
The Arabians spent so much time with their human family, that they have become a very loyal animal to their masters. They seek out interactions with humans, and will do their best to please their masters, being very easy to train.
Their stamina far exceeds that of other breeds and they can go for hours longer than other horses. Their gentle disposition is genetic and they will show actual affection towards their owners. As a matter of fact, the Arabian breed is the only breed that the United States Equestrian Federation will allow children to handle or exhibit the stallions without incident. This is due to the fact that genetically they were bred to be docile. The only time that you will find an ill tempered Arabian is if they have been abused, mistreated or spoiled.
These wonderful animals are good at whatever you give them to do from western, trail, dressage, jumping or just a family pet. They work hard and have the endurance it takes to be successful at whatever you give them to do. They are a pure pleasure to ride, and I cannot wait until the day I get to buy another one. This is without a doubt, my favorite breed of horse.
Great hub! I love Arabian horses! Beautiful pictures!
Oh, I "love" the Arabian horse breed. They're truly one of the most amazing horses.
I'm actually hoping to own an Arabian horse some day, but we'll see. I've never even actually rode an Arabian horse before though, since we don't have any at the horseback riding stables that I attend.
I'm visiting my friends in England next spring, and I'm going a few horse riding farms with my friend, so maybe I'll get to ride an Arabian horse there. :)
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Hey ddsurfsca, a very cool and interesting article on the Arabian Horse. It was definitely a learning experience for me. Thank you for sharing. :) Thumbs up! :)
What a beautiful animal! Nice job! I voted Up and Useful.


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We welcome players of all abilities and volunteers who wish to help in running the club in a variety of roles
This year, 2018, we have entered two sides in the Dorset Saturday league and one side in the TT25 Sunday league. In addition, the ground hosts the Rugby club who play on Wednesday evenings in the summer.
The youth outdoor training starts on 13th April on Friday evening for a signing-on night where there will also be a BBQ and bar.
We are entering U9, U11, U13 and U15 teams in the North Dorset junior leagues. Children of all abilities are very welcome to join.
This year we will continue to run a Ladies section with some softball games and will be hosting the ECB All Stars cricket programme.
For more information, please contact the club secretary, Tom Snape


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Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Watering Idea for Straw Bales or Garden Boxes
I have a few tomatoes in straw bales mixed in with the plants in the ground in raised garden boxes. I needed a way to water and didn't want to use a a soaker hose that would end up watering the ground in between the bales and the boxes.
I came up with this idea for a water wand and my husband put it together.
For each water wand you need:
1 - 3/4 inch 4 foot piece of PVC pipe
1- End cap for the PVC
1- Irrigation screw on adapter for PVC
1- Garden hose cut-off
1- Oatey primer and glue that is water proof
Drill small holes in the PVC about 1/8 inch in diameter at 4 inch intervals. Connect the end cap and irrigation screw on adapter with the primer and glue. Let dry a few minutes.
The last photo shows how the water comes out with no splashing. I was able to water each bale in about 2 minutes. It works equally well in garden boxes.
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I did the same thing this year. The only problem I've seen is I seem to be getting more water out of the plugged end. I was thinking about replacing it and putting smaller holes in that end so the pressure would back up and force more out of the connection end. For now, it's working fairly well.
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He died at his home in Pittsburgh, his wife said. The actor, best known for his role as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, had been battling cancer.
Mr Lee paid tribute to his "dear friend" on social media, saying he was "resting in power".
Nunn appeared in dozens of films and TV programmes, including New Jack City and Sirens.


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Following on from the first photos yesterday from "Avengers: Age of Ultron," including the reveal of the film's villain, EW has now posted a new interview with Joss Whedon and some of the cast members from the film which goes into more details about the sequel – specifically the twins (Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch) and the creation of Vision.
Vision's origins reportedly will stick closely to the comic books, with Ultron designing the synthetic, superpowered human character to demonstrate he has the ability to create life. As for the look, the article's writer saw some test make-up footage: "His face seemed to be a little more on the purple side of the spectrum than orange, the overall look of the synthezoid has a slightly more technological edge than the original 1968 introduction. He's a bit more Borg and a little less Crayola"
The character is being voiced by Paul Bettany, who also voices Tony Stark's computer J.A.R.V.I.S. in the "Iron Man" films. That casting, as Whedon confirms, is not coincidence. However, he won't go into detail. It's widely assumed J.A.R.V.I.S.' consciousness will end up being a part of Vision.
Whedon amusingly adds that "By his own admission, Paul's very disappointed that he actually has to show up this time" whereas previously he recorded his lines in a local studio. Whedon calls Vision the fourth member of 'Team Ultron', the quartet of key new characters in the follow-up. The other three are Ultron himself along with the twins Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen).
Describing the differences between this team and the Avengers, Whedon says: "With the [first] Avengers, everybody pretty much had the power of being able to punch somebody. And now we have a woman who can get inside your head and move objects, and a boy that can move faster than anything, and a robot [Ultron] who can self-replicate and is out of his mind. So all of sudden, it's a darker, weirder, tougher world that they're living in."
Describing their characters, Taylor-Johnson says: "He's quick-tempered. He gets agitated. He's impatient. But he's super-protective. He had to become a father figure to his twin sister. He's physical and she's psychological. It's kind of them against the world…My character is very much on the frontline, but he can be quite emotional. You see this beautiful tenderness between them."
Olsen's character on the other hand is kind of crazy due to her inability to switch her mind off: "The reason she's so special is because she has such a vast amount of knowledge that she's unable to learn how to control it. No one taught her how to control it properly. So it gets the best of her. It's not that she's mentally insane, it's just that she's just overly stimulated. And she can connect to this world and parallel worlds at the same time, and parallel times."
Whedon says he didn't trim any scenes due to Scarlett Johansson's pregnancy, but they did make use of three stunt doubles for her more physical scenes with the actress' face to be digitally added in post production.


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Fall projects for kids:ReplyDelete
We have collect chestnuts and use this fun item
to create fun animals in a safe way.
We will also collect colored leafs. I will draw the faces and DD will "dress" them with clothes made of the leafs.
Your LO is adorable. It looks so much better on your LO than in the online store. I got to check it out again!
Have a GREAT weekend
Adorable page!!ReplyDelete
I love this page! The little title piece is so sweet, it's almost bringing tears to my eyes!ReplyDelete
Wonderful layout. I like the frame & the lacing.ReplyDelete
Why are you endind the 52 weeks? I just found you!!ReplyDelete
So glad you are guest designing at Your Scrapbook Stash...one of my favorite places to play :)ReplyDelete
Love the layout, it is adorableReplyDelete
That line is so pretty and I love your border!ReplyDelete
Another gorgeous layout! I would never have known your outer frame wasn't a diecut sheet that you stitched. Glad you pointed out that you made it yourself! It is beautiful!ReplyDelete
This is soo cute! I love the photo booth strip and your lacing! Just perfect!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness...this is just one adorable page Julie@ Love the framing and the lacing, and you are so right....the color combo is fabulous! Thanks for such inspiration!ReplyDelete
wow - thanks for posting the Sophia Blackall info! i am TOTALLY off to check her out.ReplyDelete
your page is fabby - i love the stitching and the whole thing just looks so FINISHED and perfect. i had to read the description because i honestly thought it was digi!


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On Monday American man Shezanne Cassim, along with four other men were sentenced by a UAE (United Arab Emirates) court to spend a year in prison over a video of Dubai teens. The American men had been held since April without being tried in court for jeopardizing the UAE law against cyber crimes. Cassim, a 29-year-old man from Minnesota was also charged 10,000 dirhams, which equates to $2,725 American dollars. The four other men involved are not Americans and they received similar sentences.
The group made 19 minute long video of Dubai teens from Satwa district of the city. The video is called the "Satwa Comedy School" portrays the group of teens as "tough gangsters" listening to hip-hop music and wearing baggy clothing, the teens are actually very mild in behavior.
In the spoof video, Cassim and his friends learn how to act like Satwa G's who learn the correct way to throw a shoe at a newspaper, and how in extreme cases to use a mobile phone to call for back-up.
Cassim worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and has been living in Dubai since 2006. He is being held in a maximum security prison outside of Abu Dhabi for his violation of the UAE's laws on cyber crimes. The US State Department has been voicing its concerns about the basis on which Cassim was charged.


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By Osprey Therian
Part 1 of a four part machinima I made archiving the 2007 The Show Must go On! variety show which performed around the grid (which the 2008 show is doing now). Yes, yes, it's shameful of me since it's my own troupe of players, but it's fun and what we all need is more fun. Now that we are in the Age of Pragmatists silliness might be hard to come by.


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- v. Alternative spelling of philosophize. (UK/Australia/New Zealand)
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See philosophize, philosophizer.
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- v. reason philosophically
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"Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils, ... nor, I think, will the human race."
For close on half a century this man was allowed to philosophise unhindered on the streets of his hometown.
As for me, I paint pictures, listen to music, read books, philosophise and pine.
In some ways the benefit of American politics has been its ability to compromise and experiment with different political philosophise and proposals without completely committing toany.
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We will speculate, agitate, cogitate, publicise, dream and philosophise over afternoon tea, on walks, talks and various outings.
We all have at least one nugget in us and many of us can philosophise? for hours.
It is mentioned in history that the first to philosophise from among them [the Greeks] was Thales of Miletus and he named it philosophy.
But you know, I suppose, that the same thing we philosophise into an admirable good joke for our neighbours, we moralise into a crime against ourselves. '
And on the subject of intelligent design, anyone is free to philosophise about how a designer would create life on earth.
Since expressions of the same grammatical constructions function to express thoughts of multifarious logical sorts, those starting to philosophise (those operating upon ideas and not merely with them) "tend to be blind to the fact that different ideas have different logical powers ¦" (1945, 200).


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I did the upgrade from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro and my installation key is the generic Windows 10 key.
Windows 10 is now activated and it is not an Insider system.
What the heck is going on here?
Did anyone get a real key or are they not going to be used any more?