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it was a friend's last day of work friday. i started a scarf for her at the beginning of the week. when i went to finish it on thursday, it had come off of the needles (i don't know how) and i had to start all over! i finished it. it was VERY long but very skinny. i used different yarns for a dressier type scarf
my dobbie socks
my friend jean sent me a package a little while ago. lovely ginger cookies AND a wonderful pair of woolen dobbie (you'll know if you read harry potter, i'm told) socks! i love them so much
Posted by Unknown at 12:51 PM 2 say what you mean, mean what you say
you go grrrl!
War protesters sue for right to bare breasts
Mendocino County women who have been baring their breasts at various venues to protest the war in Iraq are in Sacramento federal court seeking an order prohibiting the California Highway Patrol from arresting them during a planned noon demonstration Monday at the Capitol, the (registration-restricted) Sacramento Bee reported Friday afternoon.
The women's group, Breasts Not Bombs, is suing CHP Commissioner Mike Brown and two of his officers over a warning that if the women demonstrate while topless, they will be arrested and charged with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.
The group claims it also was warned by the CHP that if its members are convicted of indecent exposure they may have to register as sex offenders. It also claims the CHP said its admonition did not apply to male members of the group, who are free to go topless during the demonstration.
A court declaration of Sherry Glaser, a member of the group and its spokeswoman, says the planned political protest "focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on various initiatives (on Tuesday's ballot) we oppose that Governor Schwarzenegger supports."
it's a shame
a harmless essay on homosexuality cannot be published in a high school newspaper. katie (the author of the essay) and i agree. we don't think homosexuality is a choice (who in their right mind would choose to be abused, hated, discriminated against, misunderstood, denied rights and benefits and on and on and on)
Principal Stops School Paper from Publishing Article on Homosexuality
Published: November 04, 2005 1:44 PM ET
ORANGE PARK, FL (AP) A high school principal has withheld published copies of a student newspaper to eliminate an opinion column written by a student about homosexuality. Katie Thompson, a 17-year-old senior, wrote the column "Homosexuality is not a Choice," for the Oct. 10 edition of the student newspaper at Ridgeview High School. Ridgeview is located inClay County, about 12 miles south of Jacksonville.Thompson, who is bisexual, said her teacher approved the 300-word essay, but Principal Toni McCabe objected and claimed the subject was "too mature for a high school audience."Telephone calls Friday to McCabe, Clay County School Superintendent David Owens, school spokeswoman Darlene Mahla, all five School Board members and Thompson's home were not immediatelyreturned.According to an e-mail sent by Mahla to School Board members, the school principal was able to intercept the newspaper, Panther Prints, before it went to students."A member of the school's newspaper staff wrote an article that was placed in the opinion section of the newspaper about her sexuality as a lesbian and her Christian views," said the e-mail obtained by The Florida Times-Union.The newspaper also obtained a copy of Thompson's column, which reads in part:"Homosexuals do not choose to be the way they are. It is a biological stimulation of the brain. ... Some individuals think that they, with their extreme religious beliefs, can turn homosexuals to a heterosexual status. Those people, along with other homophobes in our country, set up counseling groups for homosexuals to try to change them."Thompson said she was called to McCabe's office and told the newspaper would not be circulated because of her article...........
extrava danza and osama
i thought this rather amusing. personally, i cannot watch the tony danza show for longer than three moments. i was with my sister yesterday and she had tyra on. i cannot watch her either. BEAUTIFUL woman, but not much upstairs. don't even get me started on dr phil and oprah
Pro-Marriage? Then God Hates You
I am somewhat obsessed with The Tony Danza Show. The show is amazing. Mr. Danza is a truly unique soul. Recently, after mentioning a charity he was involved in, for either soldiers, children, or both, and right before launching into Extrava-Danza (his daily quiz game), Tony tossed off a throwaway line. He does it all the time. With his trademarked charm (I know you can't trademark charm, but Tony's laws are based on his own Danza-tution), he went—"We really gotta get that Osama guy."
"We really gotta get that Osama guy."
Tony's right. We do. For those not in the know (if you haven't heard of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or The Hold Steady—that's you), this "Osama guy" that Tony Danza is talking about is Osama bin Laden. Who is he? He's only America's numero uno enemy-o! What'd he do? Is he a bullshit artist? Yes! But it's way bigger than that! He's not at the tippy-top of America's shit list for just trash-talking. I won't go into it, but let me just give you an idea of how bad this guy is—if you google "Osama country music"—you will find a lot of songs and flash games that take this motherfucker on. You will find a parody of Rick Nelson's Garden Patry called Osama Party. (Sample lyrics: I went to Osma's party to find out about his friends/ A chance to show the world who we are up against. Chorus: But it's all right now/ We learned our lesson well/ You see, we can't let Sadaam go unless he kills himself.) U.S. intelligence couldn't make a connection between Osama and Sadaam, but parody songwriter Rudy Ramirez had no problem. The trick—poetic license. It would be much simpler for investigators if they replaced investigation with poetic license to solve crimes.)
Still, thanks to the relentlessness of celebrities like Tony Danza to "get that Osama guy," it keeps a fire underneath President Bush (the first openly gay president in over 25 years—25 dog years—so only about 3 1/2 human—which means W. is the first openly gay president since himself! I just double-called the President gay—once directly and once using roundabout logic!) ...........................
i wanted to share this story
( Brian struggles to get out of bed the day after his tracheotomy at Walter Reed. The damage to his throat was caused by tubes that had been inserted after his rescue in Iraq. The scar on his left thigh shows where doctors attempted a vein transplant to save his other leg.(Bradley E. Clift)October 30, 2005)
it's a long one. it was in our sunday paper. brian grew up a couple of towns over in east hartford. i never knew him but i'd like to have a beverage and a butt with him now.
Pieces Of Brian A Year In The Life Of A Stubborn, Stoic, Solitary Marine Who Gave More Than His Limbs To The War
By JIM FARRELL, Photographs By BRADLEY E. CLIFT
He says he never, ever wonders who was responsible for digging that hole in that field on the outskirts of Fallujah and packing it with scraps of metal and explosives and rocks and anything else that could destroy vehicles and shred skin.He says he never, ever wonders who detonated the bomb that erupted with a boom and a flash and sprayed the shrapnel that tore through the night.........................
'Boston Globe' First with Full Probe on Alito's 'Vanguard' Conflict
By E&P Staff Published: November 03, 2005 3:50 PM ET
NEW YORK For two days, media outlets have briefly reported that new U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., ruled in a 2002 case in favor of the Vanguard mutual fund company at a time when he owned more than $390,000 in Vanguard funds. The Boston Globe today published the first in-depth look at the matter. Among other things, Globe reporters Sarah Schweitzer and Michael Kranish revealed that court records show that Alito later complained about an effort to remove him from the case -- despite an earlier promise to recuse himself from cases involving the company.It's a local story for the Globe, as the case involves a nearby Jamaica Plain woman still fighting to win back assets of her late husband's individual retirement accounts, which had been frozen by Vanguard after a court judgment in favor of a former business partner of her husband.Her lawyer, John G. S. Flym, a retired Northeastern University law professor, said in an interview with the Globe that Alito's ''lack of integrity is so flagrant" in the case that he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court nominee.His cient, Shanee Maharaj, 50, discovered Alito's ownership of Vanguard shares in 2002 when she requested his financial disclosure forms after he ruled against her appeal. ''I just started seeing Vanguard after Vanguard, and I almost fell to the floor," she told the reporters at the home she shares with a friend. She lost her own home during the lengthy prolonged litigation. ''I just couldn't believe that it could be so blatant."The Globe reports:"In 1990, when Alito was seeking US Senate approval for his nomination to be a circuit judge, he said in written answers to a questionnaire that he would disqualify himself from ''any cases involving the Vanguard companies.'......
startling!
Vatican: Faithful Should Listen to Science
November 3, 2005, 7:46 PM EST
VATICAN CITY -- A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason. Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture, made the comments at a news conference on a Vatican project to help end the "mutual prejudice" between religion and science that has long bedeviled the Roman Catholic Church and is part of the evolution debate in the United States. The Vatican project was inspired by Pope John Paul II's 1992 declaration that the church's 17th-century denunciation of Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension." Galileo was condemned for supporting Nicolaus Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun; church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe. "The permanent lesson that the Galileo case represents pushes us to keep alive the dialogue between the various disciplines, and in particular between theology and the natural sciences, if we want to prevent similar episodes from repeating themselves in the future," Poupard said. ..........
all the news that is fit to print
hey, blogs are where i get most of MY news.
The New Web Slingers
Politcal bloggers scoop the mainstream media on Plamegate
By TIM DICKINSON
Clearly, it was the wrong moment to declare war on the blogosphere. Barely a week before the New York Times went public with its baffling account of ex-star reporter Judith Miller's unholy entanglement with vice-presidential aide "Scooter" Libby, the paper's executive editor, Bill Keller, proclaimed that Weblogs do nothing more than "recycle and chew on the news." Pride, as ever, goeth before the fall.
Caught flat-footed on the CIA-leak story, the Times saw its lunch handed to it by the new blogging elite. Leading the charge were the upstart gumshoes of RawStory.com, the pundits of the Huffington Post and a rear guard of Internet editorialists, all taking the Gray Lady to task for failing to practice the very "journalism of verification" that Keller claimed set the Times apart.
Bloggers now routinely break the major stories of the day. And their reports are getting sucked into the twenty-four-hour news cycle. "They're looking for scraps, rumors," says MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann. "They'll spend hours that I don't have to go digging." According to John Byrne, the twenty-four-year-old whiz behind the Raw Story, "Bloggers go where the mainstream media fears to tread."
Here is a roundup of the bloggers who've led the media pack on Plamegate.
The Raw Story"Drudge makes shit up. We make every effort not to make shit up," says RawStory.com's Byrne. An Oberlin grad who launched Raw Story to escape the drudgery of freelancing for The Boston Globe, Byrne took a job at his father's medical office to support his blog ambition. Having founded two alternative pubs in college, Byrne runs his site on a tight budget: "We spend $250 a month -- it's incredibly cheap."
Hoping to establish a counterweight to the conservatism of the Drudge Report, Byrne started Raw Story in February 2004. The site is now breaking news the old-fashioned way -- with paid reporters. The investment has yielded a pack of Plamegate exclusives: Raw Story was first to report that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was seeking to indict Libby for obstruction of justice and that Fitzgerald had "flipped" two vice-presidential aides to cooperate.
"People talk to us because we're not the mainstream," Byrne says. "Sources who haven't been treated well by, say, The Washington Post -- they come to us." Readers, too, are tuning in, at up to 500,000 a day...........
cake-prolonging the magic
cd of the day
it's not their newest but i think it's their best
here are the words to my second favorite song on the cd: satan is my motor
I've got wheels,
Of polished steel,
I've got tires that drive,
The road,
I've got seats that selflessly,
Hold my friends,
And a trunk that can carry,
The heaviest of loads,
I've got a mind that can steer me,
To your house,
And a heart that can bring you,
Red flowers,
My intentions are good,
And earnest, and true,
But under my hood,
Is internal combustion power,
And Satan is my motor,
Hear my motor power,
Satan is my motor, motor,
Satan is the only one,
Who seems to understand,
I've got brakes,
I'm wide awake,
I can stop this car,
At anytime,
At the very last second,
I can change directions,
Turn completely around,
If I feel so inclined,
Satan is my motor,
Who seems to understand...
(oh mexico is my favorite song on this cd)
maybe it was only because they were giants fans
or maybe they WERE profiled (hey, if they were in a sensitive area, why wasn't it marked as such????)
FBI: Muslims detained at stadium weren't profiled
President Bush was in the stadium that night
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) -- Five Muslim football fans were detained and questioned during a game at Giants Stadium because they were congregating near an air duct on a night former President Bush was in the stadium, the FBI said Wednesday.
Some of the Muslims said they did not know they were in a sensitive area, and they complained that they were subjected to racial profiling while they were praying, as their faith requires five times a day.
"I'm as American as apple pie and I'm sitting there and now I'm made to feel like I'm an outsider, for no reason other than I have a long beard or that I prayed," said Sami Shaban, a 27-year-old Seton Hall Law School student who lives in Piscataway.
At a news conference Wednesday, Shaban said he and four friends had just gotten to the September 19 New York Giants-New Orleans Saints game when they left their seats to pray. Around halftime, 10 security officers and three state troopers approached the men and told them to come with them, Shaban said.
The men were questioned and then were not allowed to return to their seats, but were instead assigned to seats in another section, Shaban said. Three guards stood near them, and escorted them to their cars when they left the stadium, he said.........
a coincidence?
you tell me? i do have to keep reminding myself i believe in karma. what goes around comes around. i have to remind myself not to think ill thoughts of others. even if they are the most evil vile creatures on this goddess' earth
Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu
Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing. October 31, 2005: 10:55 AM EST By Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune senior writer
NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.
Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.
The forms don't reveal the exact number of shares Rumsfeld owns, but in the past six months fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead's stock from $35 to $47. That's made the Pentagon chief, already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet, at least $1 million richer.
Rumsfeld isn't the only political heavyweight benefiting from demand for Tamiflu, which is manufactured and marketed by Swiss pharma giant Roche. (Gilead receives a royalty from Roche equaling about 10% of sales.) Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is on Gilead's board, has sold more than $7 million worth of Gilead since the beginning of 2005.
Another board member is the wife of former California Gov. Pete Wilson.
"I don't know of any biotech company that's so politically well-connected," says analyst Andrew McDonald of Think Equity Partners in San Francisco.....
Utah judge with 3 wives fights for job
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- A judge will ask the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to let him stay on the bench after a commission that oversees judges ordered him dismissed because he has three wives.
Those pursuing the case against Judge Walter Steed say his plural marriage creates a conflict: After taking an oath to uphold the law, he shouldn't be breaking it.
"You can't have it both ways," said Colin Winchester, the executive director of the state's Judicial Conduct Commission.
The commission issued an order seeking Steed's removal from the bench in February, after a 14-month investigation determined Steed was a polygamist and as such had violated Utah's bigamy law.
Bigamy is a third-degree felony in Utah punishable by up to five years in prison, but Steed's attorney, Rod Parker, said Utah's attorney general and the Washington County prosecutor have declined to prosecute his client.
Steed has served for 25 years in the southern border town of Hildale, handing down rulings in drunken driving and domestic violence cases. Parker contends the bigamy statute is only enforced in rare cases, such as when someone has been duped into marrying someone who already has a wife.
"There is no allegation that it's affecting his performance on the bench," Parker said. "It really is truly only about his private conduct."
The complaint against Steed was filed with the commission in November 2003 by Tapestry Against Polygamy, an advocacy group founded by ex-polygamous women who organized to help others leave the handful of secretive religious colonies that adhere to the practice..............
ANOTHER i don't believe in hell
BUT if there is one, the people responsible for this WILL BURN
Indonesian Christians Terrified After Children Beheaded
POSTED: 7:16 am EST November 1, 2005
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesian troops were on high alert Monday, bracing for a new cycle of sectarian violence in a province where machete-wielding assailants beheaded three Christian schoolgirls and seriously wounded a fourth.
Religious leaders called on their followers to remain calm and to refrain from revenge attacks, reminding them that investigators have yet to determine who was behind Saturday's grisly murders in Central Sulawesi province.
Suspicion has fallen, however, on Islamic militants responsible for a series of attacks on Christians since a peace deal in 2002 ended a bloody conflict that killed as many as 1,000 people from both communities.
National police spokesman Maj. Gen. Aryanto Budihardjo said there were no key suspects in the killings, and that only six people have been questioned so far -- among them the wounded teenager who was being kept under close watch at a police hospital.
He blamed the attacks on "terrorists" seeking to destabilize the province "just as relations between Muslim and Christian communities were improving," and said the perpetrators should not be allowed to plunge the region back into violence.
The attack, which occurred days before the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, has dominated national TV reports and been splashed across the front pages of newspapers.
Many people fear Muslims, flocking to outdoor markets and shops to prepare for the celebration marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, could be the target of Christian retaliatory acts.
Preparing for the worst, the government deployed more than 1,500 soldiers and police armed with assault rifles across Central Sulawesi Monday, the large majority of them in the predominantly Muslim town of Poso.
Muslim leaders condemned the weekend killings, but cautioned Monday it was too early to lay blame.
"Until authorities arrest the killers and disclose the motive, it's too early to say this attack was religiously motivated," said Syafi'i Ma'arif, leader of Indonesia's second-largest nonpolitical Muslim group Muhammadiyah...........
ANOTHER wtf??????????
Rumsfeld hints at more troops in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coming off one of the deadliest months for American troops, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated that the number of U.S. forces in Iraq could rise temporarily as Iraqis prepare to vote in mid-December parliamentary elections.
"We have had a pattern of increasing the number of coalition forces during periods when there was an expectation that the insurgents and terrorists would like to try to disrupt the political process," Rumsfeld told Pentagon reporters.
Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they expect insurgents to expand their attacks as the elections approach, but would not say exactly how they plan to protect U.S. soldiers from the growing number of roadside bombs.
"We'll decide what we're going to do about December as we go along, but it would not be a surprise to me that the commanders would want to have some sort of an overlap there" between arriving and departing units, Rumsfeld said.
U.S. troop levels rose to a peak of 161,000 before the October 15 election on the new constitution, but dipped to 158,000 as of Tuesday. There were 159,000 U.S. troops in Iraq for the January elections.
Rumsfeld also defended the government's decision not to permit United Nations human rights investigators to meet with terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay. Three U.N. experts were given permission to visit the facilities in Cuba but said they won't go if they could not interview prisoners............
why aren't we JUST SAYING NO?
how blind and stupid are they?
they (the democrats) finally changed into a new fresh pair of frilly panties and are ready to roll! i sure as shite hope it ain't too late!!!
frist is turning it back on democrats??????? (well the dems are NOT innocent by any means but they are NOT the ones who lied to get us into this goddess forsaken war or committed treason by outing a covert cia operative). what the hell are they protecting? i just don't get it. ALL of the evidence is before them. they choose to pretend everything is just and everything is fine. i have TWO words for them:
Senate Emerges From Closed Session on Iraq
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer Tue Nov 1, 6:52 PM ET
WASHINGTON -Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue.
"They have repeatedly chosen to protect the Republican administration rather than get to the bottom of what happened and why," Democratic leader Harry Reid said.
Taken by surprise, Republicans derided the move as a political stunt.
"The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leadership," said Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee. "They have no convictions, they have no principles, they have no ideas," the Republican leader said.
Democrats sought assurances that Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas would complete the second phase of an investigation of the administration's prewar intelligence.
After about two hours, senators returned to open session having appointed a six-member task force — three members from each party — to review the committee's progress and report back to their respective leaders by Nov. 14.
Roberts' committee produced a 511-page report in 2004 on flaws of an Iraq intelligence estimate assembled by the country's top analysts in October 2002, and he promised a second phase would look at issues that couldn't be finished in the first year of work.
The committee worked on the second phase of the review, Roberts said, but it has not been finished. He blamed Democrats for the delays and said his staff had informed their Democratic counterparts on Monday that the committee hoped to work on and complete the second phase next week.
"Now we have this ... stunt 24 hours after their staff was informed that we were moving to closure next week," a clearly angry Roberts told reporters. "If that's not politics, I'm not standing here."
In mid-afternoon Tuesday, Reid demanded the Senate go into closed session. The public was ordered out of the chamber, the lights were dimmed, and the doors were closed. No vote is required in such circumstances.........
you GO mom and dad
don't let them take your babies (for an illegal and unjust war)
Military Faces Parental CounterattackHigh School Recruitment, a Longtime Tradition, Raises Worries in Wartime
By Lori ArataniWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, November 1, 2005; B01
For as long as Principal Alan Goodwin can recall, military recruiters -- in their crisp, carefully pressed uniforms -- have stopped by Walt Whitman High School to chat with students about the benefits of a career in the armed forces. They set up tables, greeted students with a firm handshake and passed out glossy brochures.
But a visit this fall to the Bethesda school by recruiters had parents firing off frantic missives on the school listserv. They demanded to know exactly what recruiters were doing on campus and why the parents had not been told in advance. Goodwin was puzzled.
Recruiters "have been allowed on campus for as long as I can remember," Goodwin said. "But maybe people are more sensitive about it now because of the war."
In past years, parents at Whitman and other high schools across the country may have paid scant attention to calls from military recruiters, but as the war in Iraq continues and the number of casualties grows, parents seem to be growing increasingly sensitive.
Now many parents -- aided by such anti-recruiting groups as the San Francisco-based Leave My Child Alone -- are demanding that school boards make it easier for families to prevent military recruiters from contacting their sons and daughters. They are mounting e-mail and letter-writing campaigns telling families they can block school systems from releasing student information to military recruiters. Even such national educational groups as the PTA are getting involved in the effort to get the word out..............
oh no (that he's leaving) but me me me me me i'll take the job!
Epstein quits as Red Sox general manager 31-year-old turns down three-year deal worth $1.5 million annually
Updated: 3:30 a.m. ET Nov. 1, 2005
BOSTON - At 31, boy wonder Theo Epstein was ready to step out on his own.
The Red Sox general manager walked away from his hometown team on Monday, stunning Boston and the baseball world just one year after helping the franchise win its first World Series championship since 1918.
"I gave my entire heart and soul to the organization," Epstein said in a statement. "During the process leading up to today's decision, I came to the conclusion that I can no longer do so. In the end, my choice is the right one not only for me but for the Red Sox."
Epstein will continue working for a few days to assist in the transition and prepare for the offseason. The Boston Herald, which first reported the news on its Web site, said the Yale graduate has told associates that he might leave baseball, or at least take a year off.
The Dodgers, Phillies and Devil Rays have GM openings, but none has a $120 million payroll to match the one Epstein was given in Boston. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Dodgers had no comment on Epstein, though owner Frank McCourt, a Boston native, could be interested.
And who will the Red Sox get to replace Epstein? The Boston Globe reported that Padres GM Kevin Towers, a favorite of Red Sox president Larry Lucchino, is the early favorite..................
Once the youngest GM in baseball history and still the youngest to assemble a World Series champion, Epstein was reportedly offered about $1.5 million a year for a three-year extension. That was quadruple his previous salary but still short of the $2.5 million the Red Sox offered Oakland's Billy Beane in 2002 before hiring Epstein.
from tom paine - a who's who of the campaign to invade iraq
didn't we know this already?
eating cabbage and broccoli and more fruits and vegatables and not smoking will help prevent cancer? (although the study on the polish women was quite interesting). by the way cabbage and brussel sprouts are the ONLY vegetables i don't like.
Smearing skin with broccoli can help reduce risk of cancer
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Eating cabbage, cooking meat with garlic and smearing your skin with extract of broccoli can all help reduce the risk of cancer, scientists have found.
A series of studies presented yesterday to the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research add to the burgeoning evidence that changing your diet may be among the most effective ways of prolonging your life. Up to a third of cancers are thought to be associated with diet. Experts say eating more fruit and vegetables is the second most effective way to cut the risk of cancer, after not smoking.
In the latest studies, researchers from the University of New Mexico investigated the rapid rise in breast cancer among Polish women who emigrated to the US. The risk of breast cancer was three times higher among Polish women living in America than in their counterparts at home, suggesting a strong environmental factor.
Dorothy Rybaczyk-Pathak and colleagues evaluated the diet of Polish immigrants living in the Chicago and Detroit areas. They found that those who ate raw or short-cooked cabbage three times a week had a significantly reduced risk of breast cancer compared with those who ate less than one serving a week.
In Poland, women eat 30lb of cabbage and sauerkraut a year, compared with 10lb a year for US women. Those who ate most cabbage during adolescence had the lowest rates of cancer. If cabbage is not to your taste, you could try rubbing an extract from it on your skin. Scientists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found it halved the rate of skin cancer in mice. Cabbage is a member of the brassica family which includes broccoli, brussels sprouts and cauliflower. These vegetables contain glucosinolates which are broken down by chewing or cutting into sulphoraphane, which has been shown in previous studies to have anti-cancer properties..........
one more step in the correct direction
Muslim women launch international 'gender jihad' Giles Tremlett in Barcelona
Monday October 31, 2005 The Guardian
Marching under the banner of a new "gender jihad", Islamic feminists from around the world this weekend launched what they hope will become a global movement to liberate Muslim women.
The meeting, which drew women from as far apart as Malaysia, Mali, Egypt and Iran, set itself the task of squaring Islam with feminism. That meant not just combating 14 centuries of sexism in the Muslim world, participants said, but also dealing with the animosity to Islam of many western or secular feminists. They insisted that many of the fundamental concepts of equality embraced by feminism could also be found in the Qur'an.
Gender jihad is the struggle against male chauvinistic, homophobic or sexist readings of the Islamic sacred texts," said Abdennur Prado, one of the meeting's Spanish organisers.
Those readings had been provided by Muslim scholars who, over the centuries, have been almost exclusively male. "Male chauvinism is the destruction of Islam as a well-balanced way of life," Mr Prado said.........
once again mindin' everybody's bid-nez BUT OUR OWN
US steps up planning for a Cuba without Castro
By Guy Dinmore in Washington
Updated: 12:42 a.m. ET Nov. 1, 2005
US planning for Cuba's "transition" after the demise of Fidel Castro has entered a new stage, with a special office for reconstruction inside the US State Department preparing for the "day after", when Washington will try to back a democratic government in Havana.
The inter-agency effort, which also involves the Defense Department, recognises that the Cuba transition may not go peacefully and that the US may have to launch a nation-building exercise.
Caleb McCarry, the Cuba transition co-ordinator, is working on the project within the Office for Reconstruction and Stabilization, which was established by the Bush administration to prevent and prepare for post-conflict situations.
Every six months, the National Intelligence Council revises a secret watchlist of 25 countries in which instability could require US intervention. The reconstruction office, headed by Carlos Pascual - a Cuba-born former ambassador - was focused on Sudan, Haiti, Congo and Nepal. In a controversial move, Cuba was added to the list...............
have a most wonderful samhain!
movie of the day - northfork -
i would have NEVER thought to see this movie if i hadn't seen the preview on another disk i was watching.
it is called northfork . no, it's not about a ranch in dallas. it's a tale of a small montana town in 1955. a big power company, with help from the local higher ups is planning on flooding the plain where the town lays (for their new power plant) and opening the dam that they have built. they are now evacuating the last few remaining citizens who refuse to leave for one reason or another. that task falls to six men the power company hired. they all drive the same cars (each in pairs) and dress the same; black suits, ties and a hat. if they evacuate 65 households each, they get an acre and a half of new lake-front property when the project is completed.
there is a little boy who is ill in the story as well. his adoptive parents bring him back to the priest they got him from, saying he is too ill for them to bring on their journey (out of northfork). the priest knows the boy is dying but does his best to care for him.
the story involves death and life and angels and ghosts and outhouses and odd townsfolk and art work and mythical creatures and symbalism like you wouldn't believe. i thoroughly enjoyed this movie and highly recommend it to all. it is a mystic surreal piece of art
ed and his lost love
i was watching the history channel yesterday. i came across a show entitled weird u.s.. the two hosts, mark and mark, were visiting a place called the coral castle. it was built by a man named ed as a tribute to his lost love. he supposedly built it using HAND TOOLS only. there are hunks of coral weighing several tons. no one is quite sure how he did it, but it exists so he did. there is a polaris telescope, a heart shaped table, a sundial and a moon pool among many other things. if i'm ever in florida, i will stop by. i'm fascinated
my blood is boiling
what the HELL are we fighting for? freedom? whose? i thought WE WERE free? theirs? did they ASK US over? i must have missed the part where they did. WE have to make sacrifices? what has HE (our fearless leader) sacrificed? his twins? are they on the front lines? hell, i don't even think they own a pair of fatigues. get 'em suited up and over there and i may just change my mind (or not)
Bush urges patience as support for war shrinks
Says 'best way to honor' the Iraq war dead is to complete mission
Sunday, October 30, 2005; Posted: 7:07 a.m. EST (12:07 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the American death toll above 2,000, President Bush said Saturday the war in Iraq has required "great sacrifice," but that progress is being made and the United States must remain steadfast.
In his third speech on Iraq this week, Bush sought to shore up flagging support for a war that began March 20, 2003.
"The best way to honor the sacrifice of our fallen troops is to complete the mission and win the war on terror," the president said in his weekly radio address.
"We will train Iraqi security forces and help a newly elected government meet the needs of the Iraqi people. In doing so, we will lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren."
Public support for Bush's handling of Iraq is at its lowest point, 37 percent, roughly where it has been since early August, according to AP-Ipsos polling.
'Saddened' by indictment
After a tense week, Bush is spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. Before leaving the White House on Friday, he paused to express support for I. Lewis Libby, who resigned Friday as the vice president's chief of staff after being indicted on perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements charges in a two-year investigation of the leak of the name of a CIA operative.
"We're all saddened by today's news," Bush said, adding that the U.S. justice system assumes that the accused are innocent and entitled to due process and a fair trial..............
we have to be astute enough
to see through the bs in ads. all i can think of is the swift boat veterans against kerry. the man WENT to viet nam (unlike our fearless leader). how DARE they say he wasn't a hero. how dare anyone believe them. at any rate, more of the same just with different players
Hitler in Virginia
by MAX BLUMENTHAL
[posted online on October 26, 2005]
Nearly two weeks after Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore ran two of the most controversial commercials in recent political history, his media consultant would not stand by their truthfulness. "I'd love to belabor that with you," Scott Howell told me when I asked him about the accuracy of his advertisements. "I just don't have the--I can't stand to talk to somebody in the media and be wrong." He then described his ads as "tasteful."
Howell's circumspection was a startling inversion of his public persona. Notorious for his audacious, hyperemotional attack ads, he describes himself as "Little Lee Atwater" after the late fabled Republican negative campaign consultant who was his and Karl Rove's mentor.
Howell has played a critical but unheralded role in securing the Republican Party's recent domination of national politics. He was instrumental in shifting the Senate to the Republicans in 2002 by a one-member margin. In the Georgia senatorial race, he crafted the commercial for the draft-dodging Republican candidate Saxby Chambliss to vanquish Senator Max Cleland, a decorated war hero who lost three limbs in Vietnam, morphing Cleland's image with those of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Two years later Howell's spots contributed to the defeat of both then-Senate minority leader Tom Daschle and Oklahoma Democratic senatorial candidate Brad Carson. Howell's ads on behalf of Daschle's opponent, John Thune, highlighted Thune's opposition to gay marriage. To undermine Carson, Howell created an image of welfare checks being passed to anonymous brown hands. Howell also set the stage for President George W. Bush's re-election victory with the ad called "Safer, Stronger," which appropriated the iconic image of firefighters emerging from the wreckage of Ground Zero with a flag-draped body, a production that used actors and was condemned as phony by the president of the International Association of Firefighters.
Howell cut his teeth in the rough-and-tumble environment of South Carolina politics. Fresh out of college in 1984, he lost a disputed election for a seat in the state legislature. Soon after, he was hired by Lee Atwater, the Palmetto State's hell-raising consultant, who engineered the re-election of Senator Strom Thurmond and oversaw Ronald Reagan's 1984 Southern Strategy. Howell learned the dark arts through close observation of Atwater's dismantling of 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis's career through a series of ads linking Dukakis to Willie Horton, a black murderer who escaped from a Massachusetts furlough program to commit a rape. In 1992 Atwater recommended Howell to another protégé, Texas boy wonder Karl Rove, who hired him as his firm's political director. Howell opened his own consulting company in Dallas the following year, and the Democratic body count began rising.
On his path to becoming one of the GOP's premier admen, the 46-year-old Howell has earned his share of detractors, from immigrant rights advocates to family members of 9/11 victims, one of whom called his "Safer, Stronger" spot "a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people." But for Howell such criticism comes with the territory.
"I'm not nearly as callous as they try to make me," he said. "You know how it is: They hate me because we beat 'em. I guess you could say it's a badge of honor in my business." ...........
lets stop our constitution from being shredded NOW
Culture of Collusion
[from the November 14, 2005 issue]
What started as a common cold for selected Republican officeholders has turned into raging influenza for our democracy. The Democrats are already counting Congressional seats to be gained from the litany of GOP scandals, but we think they misunderstand the nature of this contagion.
Yes, we too would like to see the Democrats regain majorities in Congress and hope that becomes possible. But they--and the media as well--are partly responsible for the sorry state of affairs. Democratic leaders vent predictably over Tom DeLay's alleged money-laundering and the disgraceful response to Hurricane Katrina yet remain subdued on the far larger transgressions associated with the war in Iraq. Republicans wrap themselves in "moral issues" while ignoring the Constitution-shredding immorality of lying to the country and Congress on the largest moral question of all--the decision to invade another nation, pre-emptively and based on fictitious claims.
As we go to press, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is nearing the end of his investigation into the Plame/CIA leak scandal, with indictments of several high-level Bush Administration officials widely predicted. As most readers know, the investigation stemmed from the leak to reporters of the name of Valerie Wilson, née Plame, at the time an undercover CIA agent. In leaking her name to journalists, officials are suspected of having violated the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act and the section of the 1917 Espionage Act that prohibits leaks of classified information to unauthorized people. (Secondary charges stemming from the investigation, such as perjury or obstruction, are also possible.)
We have for years expressed grave doubts about these laws; they inhibit the free flow of information and have a chilling effect on the practice of responsible journalism, especially when government classifies far too much information in the first place. But the Plame investigation illuminates the larger scandal of the Bush Administration's lying to the American people to sell us on an unnecessary war--a war that has cost the lives of 2,000 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis, has fostered terrorism in the Middle East and has set Iraq on the path to civil war. Even if the Plame affair ends without a strong resolution, the far larger scandal of this war and all its associated horrors will be with us for years. The question of impeachment might sound unlikely at this hour, but it is not too soon to study up on the matter--see Elizabeth de la Vega's exploration on page 11...........
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MAG Foundation gets $280K+ to fight Rx drug abuse
The leadership group that accepted the $281,881 check for 'Project DAN' on October 1 were from left: MAG Foundation President Jack Chapman, M.D., 'Think About It' Community Chairman Dallas Gay, Clinical Chairman Tennent Slack, M.D. and MAG President Manoj Shah, M.D.
The Northeast Georgia Medical Center Foundation hosted an October 1 golf tournament that raised nearly $282,000 that the Medical Association of Georgia of Foundation (MAG Foundation) will use to fund 'Project Dan' (deaths avoided by naloxone) in 13 counties in northeast Georgia.
MAG Foundation President Jack M. Chapman Jr., M.D., says that the proceeds from the 'Medical Center Open' will be used to develop and disseminate communications resources that address naloxone (which temporarily reverses the effects of an opioid overdose) and Georgia's 'Amnesty 9-1-1' law (which allows trained first responders to administer naloxone and which provides limited immunity for people who call 911 for drug overdoses) – as well as purchasing prescription drug disposal boxes.
The MAG Foundation has been fighting prescription drug abuse in the state with its 'Think About It' campaign since 2012.
Contact Lori Cassity Murphy at 678.303.9282 or lmurphy@mag.org or go to www.rxdrugabuse.org to support the 'Think About It' campaign with a donation.

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Now is not the time to rest on our laurels (re: Obamacare). We won a battle yesterday, but not the war. We still need to fight back against the Senate's vote against internet privacy. Then the big one-net neutrality. Keep these on your radars and get your voices heard.
Net neutrality is a big deal for bloggers. How will the "little guy" get her voice heard and gain followers if she is expected to compete with larger outlets that will have even more of an advantage?
So there's this new thing called ResistBot It will help you send texts from your phone to the fax machines of your legislators.
Paradoxically, in the age of smartphones, a tweeting president, lawmakers avoiding town halls, and inundated phone lines, I love the idea of filling up our capitols' fax machines in 2017.


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It's a Fibber Christmas
Join the resident at 79 Wistful Vista for this jolly collection of Fibber McGee and Molly Christmas shows.
WELF-NPC Internet Radio Schedule
When you can hear these shows on our live radio station.
One of the most popular old time radio comedy shows of all time, Fibber McGee and Molly were on the air from 1935 until 1959. Jim and Marian Jordan star as Fibber McGee and Molly.
A mysterious Christmas package arrives from Uncle Sycamore causing curious Fibber to have the package x-rayed.
The McGee's snooty neighbor, Gildersleeve, sends Fibber a mean phonograph for the holidays.
Fibber McGee and Molly visit "Christmas Tree Marvin"
And Fibber opens his closet to sneak a peek at his Christmas presents…big mistake!
The Fibber McGee and Molly Christmas collection includes 40 holiday episodes of this well loved comedy old time radio show.
The following is a listing of the shows that will be played on WELF-NPC Radio. Each week we will feature a new show from the list under the heading of show listed above. We will continue to rotate through this list until we remove the show from the radio station.
Show Title Originally Aired
Christmas Shopping 12/09/1935
New Year Celebration 12/30/1935
Christmas Shopping For Nephew 12/20/1938
Uncle Sycamore Package Arrives 12/19/1939
Mailing Christmas Packages 12/10/1940
Radio Phonograph 12/24/1940
Fibber Finds Watch 12/31/1940
Forty Percent Off 12/09/1941
Cuts Christmas Tree 12/16/1941
Fibber Christmas Presents 12/23/1941
Misplaces Christmas Money 12/15/1942
Listening To Christmas Carols 12/22/1942
Looking For A Xmas Tree 12/21/1943
Fresh Start For New Years 12/28/1943
Early Christmas Presents 12/19/1944
Mc Gee Controls His Temper 12/26/1944
White Christmas Trees 12/18/1945
Doc Gift To Mcgee 12/25/1945
Sunlamp 12/17/1946
Night Before Christmas 12/24/1946
Aunt Sarah S Fruitcake 12/16/1947
A Lost Key Ring 12/23/1947
Ten Dollar Gift Certificate 12/30/1947
Early Christmas Shopping 12/07/1948
Christmas Card From Elizabeth 12/21/1948
Making Christmas Cards 12/06/1949
Fibber Mc Geemolly 12/20/1949
0641 Shoveling Snow 12/26/1950
The Spirit Of Giving 12/25/1951
Perilous Horoscope 04/08/1952
Exchanging Christmas Gift From Wallace Wimple 12/16/1952
Surprise Christmas Party For Doc Gamble 12/23/1952
New Year S Dance At The Country Club 12/30/1952
Christmas Fund 11/20/1953
Phoney Ring Investment 11/23/1953
Enters Photo Contest 12/01/1953
Mailing Aunt Sarah S Gift 12/21/1953
Haggling Over A Christmas Tree 12/22/1953
Doc Helps Decorate The Mc Gees Christmas Tree 12/23/1953
Laura The Lopsided Pine Tree 12/24/1953
Spending Christmas At Home 12/25/1953
Exchanging Gifts At Bon Ton 12/28/1953
Planning Elks Club New Year S Party 12/28/1953
Exchanging Gifts At The Bonton 12/29/1953
Disposing Of The Christmas Tree 02/05/1954
Opening Doc's Christmas Cards 12/22/1955
Other shows playing on WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio:
WELF-NPC Main Webpage
Connect to the main web page for the WELF-NPC Radio.
ON-Air Page with Schedule
Connect to the station's on-air page and find out the upcoming show schedule. You can also play the station from this page.
Friday Night Mysteries
It is Friday Night. Get yourself a fresh cup of cocoa, a warm blanket, and snuggle up in a chair next to the fireplaced. Then tune into WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio for the Friday Night Mysteries Night.
Saturday Serials
It's Saturday morning and you know what that means! It's time for all of those favorite radio shows with comedy and adventure from yesteryear.
Show Pages
WELF-NPC News
Find out more about the weekly WELF-NPC news show / podcast with Walter "Mistletoe" Livingstone and Becky "Marshmallow" Livingstone.
Morning Show with Corby Snow
Tune in each morning to the Morning Show with Corby Snow. The show will begin promptly at 9 a.m. with the ringing of the workshop bells, the reciting of the Craftsman Workers Oath, and the Going to Work March.
Matinee Theater
You can now listen to rebroadcasts of the Matinee Theater from the 1940's every Sunday at 2 p.m. on WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio.
The Birds Eye Open House
The Birds Eye Open House was hosted by Dinah Shore and will be rebroadcasted on WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio with a different show each week.
The Charles Dickens Hour
The Charles Dickens Hour is made up of many different old radio shows that had something related to Charles Dickens. Each week WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio will feature a different show on the station.
Part of the WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio's Kids Saturday Morning Show block, we will be rebroadcasting shows from the Little Orphan Annie Show.
Christmas on the Moon
There can be no Christmas without Santa Claus, so when our hero finds out that he has been kidnapped and taken to the moon there is no time to spare.
Who Was That Masked Man? The Lone Ranger is one of the iconic characters in American folklore, and he got his start on Mutual, airing from 1933 through 1954.
Standard School Broadcast
The Standard School Broadcast began airing in 1928 under the sponsorship of Standard Oil of California, making it one of the earliest educational radio programs.
Superman Radio Show
From 1939 right up into the atomic 1950's, Superman was on call in Metropolis. Now Superman is broadcasted on WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio every Saturday morning.
Dick Tracy came from the comic strips to the radio in this great serial. He still fights bizarre villains and the 15 minute shows are filled with cliff-hangers. Tune In.
Howdy Doody Time
What time is it, kids? Take your seat in the Peanut Gallery, It's Howdy Doody Time! Rebroadcasted on WELF-NPC North Pole City Radio every Saturday morning.
The Land of the Lost is a children's deep-sea adventure program about two children who travel in that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea. Lead by Red Lantern, the wisest fish in the sea, Billy and Isabel discover lost objects on the ocean floor.
Flash Gordon first appeared on the comic pages in 1934, following the success of Buck Rogers. Flash soon made the move to radio before the classic film serial starring Buster Crabbe.
Jungle Jim was a long-running jungle adventure show, feet planted firmly in the footsteps of Tarzan, but with the hardware and politics of the modern great white hunter.
Mark Trail
When Mark Trail made his way to the radio from the Sunday Funnies, he picked up a greater sense of adventure, but he still had time to teach kids about life in the Great Outdoors.
Comic Weekly Man
Based on what is published in the weekly paper, The Comic Weekly Man entertains us with a dramatized reading of the Sunday comics, complete with sound effects and music. Young and old alike would follow along with the print copy in hand.
Christmas Mystery
Grab yourself a warm cup of cocoa and curl up by the fire. Tune into WELF-NPC on Friday nights for another episode of Christmas Mystery
Christmas Crime
Crime still happens during the Holidays and Joe Friday, Johnny Dollar, Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, Richard Diamond, and Paladin will make sure that the grinches don't steal Christmas, St Nick, furs, or a statue of Baby Jesus.
Christmas Detectives
Crime does not stop for Christmas, luckily the gumshoes are here with holiday gumdrops.
Untold History Revealed
No, this is not Christmas related, but Santa and the elves love history and this podcast is surely history related.
One of Santa's and Mrs. Claus' favorite Old Time Radio show is Sherlock Holmes. The game is afoot! as radio listeners get wrapped up in the twists and turns of their favorite consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Billed as Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, Suspense offers the of the best of Old Time Radio. The series is the premier mystery-horror radio show with top name talent.
Classical Music Hour
The North Pole City Elves love all kinds of music, and classical music is one of their favorites. This hour is dedicated to classical music.
Rock Music Hour
The elves that work deep in the mountains mining all of the coal for Santa love rock music. This show is dedicated to them and all of their hard work.
Christmas Music Hour
The Christmas Music Hour is one solid hour dedicated to Christmas Music.
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Fidget spinners are the latest craze and, if you have kids, then you've probably bought at least one or two of them. We're not quite sure what is so great about them, but after watching this video, we figured out what they're really meant to be used for.
A few weeks back, YouTuber 22 Plinkster taped a playing card to a one of the trendy toys, then shot through the card while it was spinning. That video led us to this new one and, for the first time, we can say we're excited to see a fidget spinner…get shot with a pistol. As if there were any doubt, he shot right through it.
Hopefully he'll blow one to smithereens in his next video. That's something we could totally get behind.


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Kathryn White.
Author. Book critic. Blogger. Poet. Cat lover. INTJ. Caffeine junkie. Insomniac.
Review: The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
The Grownup is a short, deliciously chilling and twisty tale of a sex-worker turned amateur clairvoyant who gets a bit more than she bargained for when a concerned stepmother comes to her asking for help.
The unnamed protagonist is about thirty years old and makes a living by pretending that she can read auras. She thinks that her latest client, who is concerned about her wayward stepson, will be easy money and happily sets about performing cleansing rituals at the old mansion where the family lives. However, twist upon twist at the end of this short tale leaves our protagonist (and most importantly, the reader,) wondering who, or what, is the real villain and who is the real victim. Flynn's writing style remains as macabre as ever.
My only real complaint about this one is the price, which felt a little excessive for a short story that was read in the space of twenty minutes.
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Review: Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler
Read Me Like a Book is a sensitive portrayal of a young woman who lacks a sense of self and whose journey of self-discovery happens in the most unexpected of ways. Ashleigh Walker is seventeen years old and studying for her A-levels. She has three friends at her local college--the slight wild Cat, straight-laced Robyn, and Luke who sits somewhere between the other two. She has a boyfriend, Dylan, but the reader soon gets the feeling that she isn't really interested in him, and is only dating him because it is what she thinks that Dylan and others expect from her. It's a dilemma that is easy enough for many teenagers to identify with, that sometimes relationships or even hook ups happen not because the pair are truly interested in one another, but because they feel that they should be dating someone. And then, something unexpected happens as Ashleigh gets to know her new English teacher. For the first time, she starts to develop the symptoms of a crush. The only thing is,
Review: Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Exciting Times is the story of Ava, a twenty-two year old university graduate with no money and even less self-esteem who travels to Hong Kong to take up a job teaching English to rich local children. It is also the story of a love triangle between Ava, a wealthy banker named Julian who is trying to get over his ex and allows Ava to stay in his apartment for free, and Eileen, a razor sharp local who is the only genuinely decent person of the lot, or so it seems at first. Initially, I wasn't sure that I liked this story. The first part drags considerably, and there is little to like about a story where the main character basically puts up with being treated like live-in mistress by a man who doesn't love her, simply because her self-esteem is so low that she doesn't think she deserves anything better. And certainly, Ava is an expert in pushing people away. On several occasions, I wrote this off as being just yet another Literary novel that puts the sex life of the dysfunct
Feature Follow Friday
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Category: Abe Saperstein
BOB KARSTENS: A LOCAL HARLEM GLOBETROTTER … IN REDLANDS?
Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open, plus NCAA Final Four connections, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
When the Harlem Globetrotters tip off for their Feb. 17, 2018 appearance at Ontario-based Citizen's Bank Arena, probably few people know the full history of Abe Saperstein's creation from the 1920s. There were two shows, one at 2 p.m., the other at 7.
The 'Trotters are nearly a full century old. Part of their rich history surfaced eastbound from Ontario, about 30 miles away, in Redlands – a long way from Harlem, a New York City suburb.
Around 20 years ago, a man was spotted shooting baskets at the outdoors court at Redlands High School.
The man, who looked to be in his 70s (he was actually in his 80s), was shooting hook shots from half court. If they didn't swish through the net, his shots at least hit the rim.
There he was, hiking the ball through his legs – in the manner of a football center – at the hoop. Again, if his shots didn't go in, they were close.
He broke out three basketballs, dribbling them simultaneously, as if he were hoops-playing magician. I was waiting to cover a high school baseball game a couple hundred feet away. Something was up with this guy, though.
Friendly. White. Outgoing. Gentle. The man spoke in respectful terms.
"I'm Obrey Brown. I write for the local newspaper, covering that baseball game over there. Saw what you were doing and decided to come over."
Bob Karstens, photographed around 1942 and '43, during which time he was one of three white men to play for the all-Black Harlem Globetrotters. (Photo by Harlem Globetrotters.)
"I'm Bob Karstens," he said.
"Bob, it's nice to meet you."
"Thanks. Likewise."
There was something about this guy that was a little different. I have an inner sense about things like these. As we continued to chat, this smallish man who stood a couple inches shorter than my 5-foot-10 height, seemed to brighten up when I told him I was from the local newspaper.
"You might be interested in this …" he started saying.
After three decades in the newspaper business, it's a phrase I heard often enough. Usually, it might come from a pushy parent, or a publicity-seeking coach, or a public relations/Sports Information Director informing me about a once-in-a-lifetime story that I just couldn't miss. Hey, I came after him, though. Okay, Bob, finish what you were saying. "I might be interested in this – in what, Bob?"
Karstens, who was standing in front of me, was not black. As a matter of fact, without his shirt on, I could tell that he needed a little sun. It pays to listen, though.
"I spent a year with them back in the 1940s," he explained, "during the war. When Reece "Goose" Tatum was taken into the Army, the Globetrotters needed a clown prince."
Harlem Globetrotters' Clown Prince Reece "Goose" Tatum went into the military in 1942, opening up a spot for Bob Karstens, who became one of three white players ever to suit up for basketball's magicians. (Photo by Blackthen.com.)
Saperstein, the Hall of Fame orchestrator of the 'Trotters, apparently tapped Bob on the shoulder and said, "You're it."
Abe Saperstein, the Hall of Fame founder of the Harlem Globetrotters, was the man who signed Bob Karstens to fill in for Goose Tatum during the 1942-43 season. (Photo by Wikipedia Commons.)
Karstens himself had been a gifted ball handler from the House of David, the famous traveling bearded baseball team that barnstormed the country. Not known for anything in sports beyond baseball, Karstens told me, but the House of David had dabbled in some hoops during the late 1930s and into the 1940s.
Here's the rub: I didn't believe him – at first. In my business, you've got to hold people at arm's length when they tell you stories like this. I could, literally, tell you stories. He invited over to his house a couple blocks away – down Roosevelt, across Cypress, over on Lytle. When he opened his garage door, he led me to three huge boxes full of stuff.
It was Harlem Globetrotters' memorabilia. Karstens was seen in photos with Saperstein, Tatum, Meadowlark Lemon … Wilt Chamberlain!
Suddenly, my notebook was produced. Pen, in hand, scribbling madly, all the ramblings and utterings he'd voiced over at the high school – you know, when I didn't believe him. I had a lot of catch-up to do, including a bunch more questions.
"How long have you lived in Redlands?"
"Where'd you learn to play basketball?"
"What kind of money did you make?"
"Did you really start that pre-game Magic Circle routine?"
Truthfully, I didn't have to ask many questions. Bob was spinning tale after tale. I could pick and choose. What a story – and I had it! My pen just had to keep up with his stories.
Karstens, who was from Davenport, Iowa, took over for Tatum on the 'Trotters' 1942-43 roster while he served in the military. When the 'Trotters took the court in Ontario, they probably met at mid-court, pre-game, for the Magic Circle routine.
It's recorded: This was Karstens' invention. He organized this ritual. He played on the all-black 'Trotters eight years before the NBA was integrated. Part of the 'Trotters' history is that by playing doubleheaders with those early NBA teams, it allowed the league to grow into prosperity.
Karstens invented the "goof" ball, the ball that bounces in all different directions because of various weights placed inside, not to mention the "yo-yo" ball. 'Trotter fans know the routines well.
This guy lived in Redlands?
He loaned me some photos from his stash for my next day's sports section. I had gold mine of a notebook – quotes, stories and prime history. I sent our photographer, Lee Calkins, over to Bob's house for an updated mug shot of my new best friend; the guy I had cynically, though silently, doubted. I made up with myself, though.
Karstens. The Globetrotters. Tatum. Saperstein. Chamberlain.
Hook shots from half court! You name it.
Karstens, for his part, stayed on his 'Trotters' team manager until 1954, having coached the infamous Washington Generals along the way. After the 'Trotters, Karstens went into construction. By 1994, he was inducted into the 'Trotters' Hall of Fame. At 89, Karstens died on Dec. 31, 2004. I covered his Redlands funeral that was attended by former 'Trotters Geese Ausbie and Govonor Vaughn.
It was another Redlands Connection.


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With her wild hair, sinister grin, and eerie color skin, she is sure to send a shiver down your spine. But there is more to this Pop than meets the eye. The Bride of Frankenstein glows when placed under a black light, just like in the classic movie.
The pop figure is a must-have for any fan of horror movies or Pop culture. So don't miss your chance to add this horrifying figure to your collection.
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Those who thought the monster had died at the end of the Frankenstein (1931) film were mistaken, for he returned four years later in the also classic The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Critics consider it to be a movie more faithful to its origins, with a better script, more impressive sets, beautiful music, and a cheerful, fine sense of humor.
Bride of Frankenstein is widely considered one of the best movies ever made about monsters. It is funny, suspenseful, and even romantic at times.
The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as cinema's most misunderstood monster who now yearns for a mate. Colin Clive returns to play the unbridledly ambitious Dr. Frankenstein, who creates the ill-fated bride (Elsa Lanchester).
Also directed by James Whale (his last horror film) and with an obsessive soundtrack, The Bride of Frankenstein is considered one of the best films, not only of its genre but of all time.
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Need a quick toddler activity? Play matching paths!
Sometimes, it's the simplest activities that can pack in the most learning opportunities. Take this easy activity, matching paths, which involves direction following, ordinal numbers, and important vocabulary. All from a few blocks and a piece of cardboard? You betcha!
Ordinal numbers are first, second, third, and so on. For the toddler crowd, just getting to "third" seems great to me. By Kindergarten, a kiddo might be learning to count to the twentieth position. This activity is a great intro to ordinal numbers, among other key skills.
It couldn't be easier to play matching paths!
I pulled out 9 blocks for myself and my toddler. I made sure that we had the same number and an identical set. I held the cardboard between us making "his side" vs. "my side".
I first made my path. My toddler had his eyes closed and his vision was blocked by the cardboard anyways. The goal: listen to my directions to build a block path that is identical to mine.
I began with ordinal numbers: first is a yellow circle, second is a red square, third is a blue square. I then switched to vocabulary words like "next" and "then".
I will say that sometimes my toddler got all the directions right, and sometimes he didn't. This is an overhead photo of one of the correct and completely matching paths before the "big reveal".
He would giggle and clap when he saw he had done it right.
In the future and going forward, I'd love to have my toddler start making his own path and directing me to build a matching one. Realistically, we are a ways out from that, but this is one of those simple activities that I keep in my back pocket. It's even good at restaurants (think matching paths of sugar packets).
Matching paths is a quick activity that teaches a lot of skills.


Yellowcard recently announced that they have parted ways with bassist Sean O'Donnell, who is leaving for personal reasons. The band has now welcomed in O'Donnell's replacement, Josh Portman, as the band's fill in bass player.
The band will be releasing a new album on Hopeless Records expected out in the fall. Yellowcard's album When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes is available now. View a statement from the band below by click "Read More".
due to personal reasons. You can read a message from him written to you all here.
We are all sad to see him go, but we completely understand his need to make this incredibly difficult decision.
can't wait for you all to meet our buddy Josh.


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Faisel Saeed and his wife, Arifa, recently returned from Israel, where they participated in the first ever Canada-Israel Inclusion Mission. Saeed is an IT security expert at BMO and is a wheelchair-user who serves on the board of March of Dimes Canada. The mission was a joint program of March of Dimes, the Reena Foundation and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. It brought 36 people to Israel, many with disabilities, to visit tourist sites and witness Israel's innovations on behalf of the disabled.
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your disability?
I grew up in Pakistan and unfortunately, that is one of the few countries in the world where polio remains. I got polio when I was very young and grew up with that. I went to school there and after getting my master's, I went to the United States and got my doctorate in artificial intelligence. I came to Canada about 20 years ago and I've been working for a large Canadian bank.
How have things changed in Canada over the years, in terms of accommodating people with your disability?
I have mobility challenges. I haven't seen much material progress in terms of accommodations. There have been some new laws, like the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, but the implementation of those laws has been very slow. So challenges still remain in terms of accessibility. When I came to visit you here at The CJN, the building only had one wheelchair parking spot and there was somebody parked there, without a permit.
Tell me about your pre-trip impressions of Israel, when it comes to accommodating people with disabilities?
My impression was that they are far more ahead in terms of finding new, innovative ways of including people with disabilities into their society. That's why I joined this mission, to visit some of those locations and see what we can learn, as Canadians, and see if there are things we can share with the Israelis.
What did you see while you were there that stands out for you?
I saw two very different extremes. On one side, there is a lot of eagerness, a desire to integrate and include people with disabilities into society. As part of the mission, I got to visit different institutions that are actively doing that, including the Israel Defence Forces.
But on the other side, in terms of people's attitudes and responsiveness, I was a bit surprised.
For example, the people are much more aggressive on the street. They don't look for seniors, they honk at carts and wheelchairs. When we were walking around as part of the mission, other group members would practically circle me and there were two occasions when I almost got hit by cars.
On the sidewalk. They park on the sidewalks. All the infrastructure, like the poles and things like that, are erected right in the middle of the sidewalk, so there is no clearance. And curb cuts are almost non-existent in Israel.
Was it difficult to navigate around Israel as a disabled person – to go to restaurants, public buildings, take transportation, to do the things an average tourist would do?
For most places, it wasn't very convenient. I needed somebody's help. There would be steps, there would be barriers and I would need help to go over those. I was expecting there'd be ramps to go over those. Even in Toronto, some old restaurants have a temporary ramp they can pull out for people in wheelchairs. I did not see such provisions there.
Tell me about the people you were with. Not all of them were in wheelchairs. Did they share the frustrations you had?
There were two of us in wheelchairs. We had one gentleman with a visual impairment. He noted that the elevator music in our hotel was so loud, he could not hear any announcements or anything.
When he crosses the street in Toronto, there is that beeping sound to indicate that the signal is still on, so people with visual impairments can still cross the street. They haven't built those types of provisions in Israel yet.
I understand that during your trip, you toured various institutions and companies that do research aimed at helping the disabled. How does Israel fare when it comes to generating innovations that help the disabled?
We went to two types of institutions. One is the more historic ones, like the kibbutz, and they have been working well in terms of integrating people with disabilities into an independent living arrangement. Within the kibbutz, disabled people were performing duties and being productive.
We also got to visit start-ups that are developing new technologies, to help people with disabilities.
One of the interesting places we visited was ReWalk. That is sort of a body suit you can put on. I met the gentleman who used to be in the IDF and got injured and, as a result of that, he was in a wheelchair for 25 years. With the help of ReWalk, he was able to walk and he walked a marathon.
Would that be something that would interest you, to try that out?
Did you try it while you were in Israel?
No. That's something that has to be custom developed.
Are they planning to introduce it here?
They mentioned that they have FDA approval in the United States, but are still working on the Canadian side.
How do you think Canada and Israel compare when it comes to developing innovative technologies like that?
I think in terms of exploring new and innovative uses of technology, Israel is far ahead of us. They are exploring a lot of new ideas. We met with another start-up that is exploring how pointing devices, like a mouse, can be used for people with disabilities who don't have strong hand controls. We met another company that is adding subtitles to music videos and TV programs, things like that. We met another company, Paratech, which customizes wheelchairs. It was inspired by the guy's father, who was in a wheelchair and they customized it for him, so he could go up on top of a mountain. Now they are applying that to help other people achieve their dreams of going to places and doing things they hadn't done because of their mobility challenges.
In terms of getting around as a tourist, how does Israel compare to other places you've visited?
Israel seems very similar in many ways to other places like Pakistan or Cuba, when it comes to people's attitudes, accessibility and availability of the infrastructure.
Are there any areas where Canada can learn from Israel when it comes to accommodating the disabled?
Overall, there is a very strong push in Israeli society to include people with disabilities into everything. For example, we visited the IDF, where they have supply centres where people with disabilities are an active part of the force and they do very critical tasks that can help save lives.
We visited the Magen David Adom ambulance service. They provide services to the disabled with several forms of accessibility, through special apps and communication technologies, and they have employed people with disabilities in their call centre, as well as their logistics centre.
We went to Kishor, a winery. People with disabilities live there on the kibbutz and they help make wine.
Another interesting place we went to provides nature experiences for people with disabilities. They have a farm with accessible areas. People with disabilities can walk around and participate. I participated in extracting olive oil and making perfumes, making bread, things like that. We don't have anything like that in Canada.
What could they learn from us in terms of accommodating people with disabilities?
Basic infrastructure stuff like I mentioned earlier, like not parking on the sidewalks, making things a little more accessible. In Canada, one area of technology we have lots of is accessibility buttons. Everywhere you go, you press the button and the door opens up. That almost doesn't exist there. They can start using that and make things more accessible that way.
As a tourist, were your impressions of Israel?
I'm not going to talk too much about politics, but my general impression is that it is an area of conflict and that there's always something going on there. We went there and we experienced that it's a very peaceful environment where people of all different faiths are living together and working together.
We toured the different cities. We went to Tel Aviv, the Galilee, Nazareth, Jerusalem. Everywhere we saw Arab shops, people working, people coming across the border from the West Bank, working and going back.


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By Charles P. Pierce
Nutball neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is still out there on the Great Grift Trail, pitching his book, flirting with running for president, and flirting even more vigorously with the very fringes of sanity. Dr. Ben would like to revise and extend his remarks concerning the Affordable Care Act.
The conservative darling was promoting his new book One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future when he agreed to speak to the Beast's Evan Gahr, who asked, "You said Obamacare was the worst thing since slavery. Why do you think it was worse than 9/11?" "Because 9/11 is an isolated incident," Carson replied.
It gets better. You knew it would.
Carson: "Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift." Me: "Right. But what do you think caused specific families more pain-Obamacare or Osama?" Carson: "You have to take a long term." Me: "You're not answering the question." Carson: "Will you listen? You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America. You have to be someone who reads. Who is well-read. I want you to go back tonight and pull out what Saul Alinsky says about health care under the control of the government."
(You will note the sudden reappearance in Our National Dialogue of Armstrong Williams, the disgraced public-relations 'ho for the previous administration. It is impossible to get fired from the job of Being A Wingnut.)
Actually, I would maintain that an awful lot of the changes wrought in the aftermath of 9/11 -- torture, warrantless wiretapping, the Patriot Act, a pre-emptive war in Iraq based on obvious lies and run off the books, 4000-odd American dead -- "fundamentally changed the power structure of America" a helluva lot more than the Medicaid expansion has. Please run, Dr. Ben. Baby Jeebus is my amigo and he says it's OK by him.
Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.
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"I just had ACL surgery on my left knee and my left foot has been numb, does that mean I have a blood clot?"
Zocdoc›Answers›I just had ACL surgery on my left knee and my left foot has been numb, does that mean I have a blood clot?
I just had ACL surgery on my left knee my left foot has been numb since I had my surgery and that was two days ago does that mean I have a blood clot?
I am sorry to hear about your symptoms. It is critical that you discuss your symptoms with the surgeon who performed the surgery, as it is not possible to provide an accurate diagnosis without knowing the full details of your medical history or the procedure itself. In general, patients are at increased risk for blood clots after lower extremity orthopedic procedures because of lack of mobility afterward. This risk is typically higher for joint replacement surgeries and lower for ligamentous surgeries, such as ACL repair. During walking, your calf muscles help squeeze blood from your veins back into your heart. When you are immobile, this does not occur, and the pooling of blood can lead to a clot. With a blood clot in the leg (deep vein thrombosis), patients often experience pain and swelling. Numbness can also occur. You should contact your surgeon to determine if this is a possibility. Other possibilities include nerve damage from the surgery. This could either be due to nerve damage from the procedure itself or because one of the nerves in your leg was compressed for some time while you were positioned in a mechanical sling for the procedure. This can persist for days. I also encourage you to discuss this possibility with your surgeon.
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Thursday 11 May 2017, 7.30pm-8.30pm at Melbourne City Conference Centre
Big Time: James Gleick
It's easy to forget that when H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine back in 1895, the notion of travelling through time was a totally fresh and radical leap of imagination. 'When Wells in his lamp-lit room imagined a time machine,' writes the acclaimed American science writer James Gleick, 'he also invented a new mode of thought.'
Time Travel: A History is the latest book by Gleick, the author of the hugely influential Chaos: Making a New Science, which popularised the idea of 'the butterfly effect', as well as many other outstanding works of popular science. The new book takes a sweeping look at the history of time travel in culture, science, technology and philosophy. With style, humour and rigour, Gleick illuminates surprising links between the notion of time travel and the industrial revolution, the literary modernists and archeological discoveries.
What does our preoccupation with the idea of time travel say about us as a species? And about the idea of time itself? Come and hear this remarkable polymath wax scientific about Wells and wormholes; outer space and cyberspace; the past, present and future.
Presented in partnership with the University of Melbourne's Carlton Connect Initiative.
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James Gleick was born in New York and began his career in journalism, working as an editor and reporter for the New York Times. He covered science and technology there, chronicling the rise of the Internet as the Fast Forward columnist, and in 1993 founded an Internet startup company called The Pipeline.
He is the best-selling author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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This week's theme is author duos we would love to see write a book together.
Kelley Armstrong is one of my all-time favorite authors. She writes amazing characters, and her stories are always phenomenal. Kiersten White's Paranormalcy series reminds me a lot of Kelley Armstrong's work, plus she is downright hilarious. I think this combination would churn out something wonderful!
Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Stacey Kade are both really good at weaving in suspense and mysteries into their plot lines. I think they could come up with something amazing, a mixture between the Project Paper Doll and The Naturals.
Both of these authors completely blew me away, and in both cases it was completely unexpected. I think that Tera Lynn Childs and Kimberly Derting could write an amazing mystery series together, with a heavy dose of sass tossed in.
This required a bit of thought. I knew that I wanted to use Maria Dahvana Headley for one of these, but then came the task of deciding who she should be paired up with. A couple of names came to mind, but then I happened to glance at my shelf and see a copy of Shiver, and it just clicked. These two authors have such distinct writing styles, I would absolutely love to see what they would come up with as a team.
Both of these authors have written some of my favorite books of the past few years. I think their writing styles would merge really well together, and I would like to see Alexandra branch out into a more sci-fi style, more like Kaufman's These Broken Stars.
This one was an absolute no-brainer! These two ladies always go hand in hand together in my head. I am really surprised that a collaboration hasn't happened yet!
Tamora Pierce was another no brainer for this list, though who she should be paired up with was a little harder to decide on. I feel like Yelena and Alanna could have been really good friends if they met, and I'd be really interested to see what kind of world these two ladies would invent for us.
DUDE. Maria Dahvana Headley and Maggie Stiefvater?! YES, PLEASE!
I think Maggie and Leigh would be a pretty great mashup too, though!
I'm intrigued with the Susan Phillips and Jennifer Cruisie combo!
I am surprised that it hasn't happened already, since they are so close!
Riordan and Shan! Now that is one I can see becoming a new middle grade book favorite for everyone!
And Bracken and Kaufman? Give me that book! I want to read that!
I only know a couple of authors on this list but I am sure that whatever pairing you gave them is great :) Thanks for stopping by my TTT!
I have not read books by most of these authors, but I have heard of the and have been wanting to read them. Great list!
Bracken and Kaufman is a great pairing. I would be eager to see what these ladies could come up with.
I need to read nearly all of these authors!
Hi! I'm not sure how much of this I even read because your blog is so pretty! I love how it's all set up and the colors. :) I don't know Susan Phillips, but I know Jennifer Crusie, so she must be good!
I haven't even read most of these authors, so I can't comment on your list, but WOW! Your blog is gorgeous!!
Maria and Maggie would be an awesome combo!
Tera Lynn Childs and Kimberly Derting would kill it together- that is an awesome pair! Also Morgan Rhodes and Richelle Mead would be amazing together too! Great list! Happy reading!
I almost hated making this list because it made me want things that probably won't happen :p But still, we can hope!
Great list! There are a few authors up there I haven't read so it makes imagining the combos a bit harder. But for the pairs I've read both of, you just created a set of awesome new books. I wouldn't even need to see what a book would be about to buy them.
I am glad you like our choices! You should definitely check out the ones you haven't read, the whole list is made up of awesome :) Thanks for stopping by!
I've not read any of these authors but there are definitely a few I plan to.
You have to let us know if you read any of them!
Also your blog is just absolutely beautiful. Omg I adore your graphics!! WELL DONE, YOU GUYS!
You're totally right about Maggie Stiefvater and Maria Headley! They've both got such lyrical writing styles too, it would definitely be neat to see what they would come up with.
Oh! Rick Riordan and Darren Shan would be super interesting to see!