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Winter Weekend Auction Features Sports, Space, and Presidential Memorabilia
Contact: Paige Rohe, 404-420-5129
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ATLANTA, GA….Historic memorabilia from the White House, presidential elections, the space race, and American sports are among the more than 100 items up for public auction in Port St. Lucie, Fla. on Feb. 7, 2009 during the Carter Center's annual Winter Weekend celebration. The auction, which has both live and silent components, will help support the work of the not-for-profit Carter Center, advancing peace and health worldwide. Last year, the highest bid item at the annual fundraiser was a bench of hard maple wood hand-crafted by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, which sold for $300,000.
Online bidding is available for both the live and silent auctions:
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Special auction items include:
Original artwork and rare prints by President Carter;
The only baseball in the world hand-signed by five U.S. presidents (Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush);
A certificate commemorating the 40th anniversary (July 21, 2009) of the first "man on the moon," signed by Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong;
A Heisman Trophy football signed by 22 Heisman Trophy winners including Sam Bradford, the 2008 Heisman winner;
Fly fishing trip with President and Mrs. Carter at the fabulous Brigadoon Lodge;
A 2.1 karat diamond necklace, diamond earrings, and silver service;
A bottle of President Carter's homemade, private-label wine;
Guitars signed by rock stars, and a rare, handmade classical guitar by the Rodriguez family;
Persian rugs, tapestries, and collectables;
Luxurious vacations in Florence, Italy; Palm Springs; Napa Valley, U.S. Virgin Islands; North Georgia, Grand Hotel – Mackinac Island; and Club Med resorts;
Signed photos of President Carter and other presidents as well as of President Carter and the Dalai Lama;
Handmade furniture and a handmade, custom-built canoe; and
A Whirlpool complete outdoor kitchen (valued at $20,000).
"Waging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope."
The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide. A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, the Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 65 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; improving mental health care; and teaching farmers to increase crop production. Visit www.cartercenter.orgto learn more about The Carter Center.
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The only baseball in the world hand-signed by five U.S. presidents is up for auction on Feb. 7, 2009, during the Carter Center's annual Winter Weekend celebration.
This year's Carter Center Winter Weekend celebration, to be held in Port St. Lucie, Fla., offers the rare opportunity to bid on original artwork and exclusive signed prints by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. This painting depicts the farm bell mentioned in President Carter's best-selling book, "An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood."
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Who leads on climate and energy in the General Assembly—and how to get your legislators to up their game
July 25, 2017 by Ivy Main
Sierra Club Legislative Chair Susan Stillman presents the Good Government award to Senator Chap Petersen. Photo credit Sierra Club.
Each year the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club issues grades to Virginia legislators for their votes on bills related to energy and climate change. It's not an easy task, especially in the House, where too many good bills die on unrecorded voice votes in small subcommittees, defying attempts to hold legislators accountable. Other bills become victims of party politics. In spite of this, the scorecard manages to separate the champions from the also-rans, not to mention the boneheads running in the opposite direction. Guest blogger Corrina Beall, Legislative Director for the Virginia Sierra Club, lays it all out for you.
By Corrina Beall
The Sierra Club Virginia Chapter 2017 Climate and Energy Scorecard grades the Commonwealth's state-level elected officials on their votes during the 2017 General Assembly Session on legislation that will have an impact on Virginia's energy policies and standards to fight climate change. Eighteen of Virginia's 40 senators and 36 of 100 delegates received a score of 80 percent or better on the 2017 Scorecard, reflected in their A+, A and B grades.
Check out your Senator's and Delegate's grades and let them know what you think! Thank them for supporting good environmental policies, or let them know that they need to do better. Scorecard available online, here: http://www.sierraclub.org/virginia/general-assembly-scorecard
As a voter, your elected officials care about your opinions even when you disagree. Regardless of party affiliation, your legislator will be interested to know that passionate environmentalists live in his or her district. Even if you never thought it was possible, you may be able to find some common ground. Talk with your legislator about shared values, and from there, the outcome of a friendly conversation about how we govern is anybody's guess.
Legislators at all ends of the political spectrum need to hear from environmentalists who live in the districts they represent. The environment isn't a partisan issue: everyone wants clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and to protect those resources for future generations.
Nine legislators deserve your special thanks this year for their work to protect our environment our air, water or land during the 2017 Legislative Session. Seven will be awarded by are receiving awards from the Virginia Chapter this summer:
Senator Chap Petersen, Good Government Award
Senator Scott Surovell, Water Champion Award
Delegate Mark Keam, Energy Freedom Award
Senator Jennifer Wexton, Energy Freedom Award
Delegate Rip Sullivan, Legislative Leader Award
Senator Jeremy McPike, Environmental Justice Award
Delegate Kaye Kory, Environmental Justice Award
In addition, Senators Amanda Chase and Richard Stuart will be recognized for outstanding contributions on specific bills that help protect Virginia's water quality from the consequences of our fossil fuel dependency.
Here is the full run-down:
Senator Richard Stuart (R-28) has led on water quality issues in coastal Virginia during his tenure in the Virginia Senate. Since the first commercial oil well was drilled in 1896 in Virginia, it is estimated that seven thousand oil and gas wells have been drilled in the state. Until 1950, there were no permitting or environmental requirements of well operators– and wells no longer in use were not plugged or closed, but simply abandoned. These abandoned wells, and those that are abandoned by insolvent companies, are called "orphan" wells.
According to the latest state review of oil and natural gas environmental regulations, there are at least 130 orphaned wells in Virginia. Orphaned wells that predate regulation often go unnoticed because their locations were never recorded. According to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), the cost of plugging an orphaned well is between $50,000 and $60,000. It took fifteen years for DMME to accumulate sufficient funds to complete a project of plugging seven wells.
Virginia's orphan well program is funded by fees charged to well operators when they apply for a well site permit. The fee was set at $50 in 1990, and remained stagnant until this General Assembly Session. Sen. Stuart introduced successful legislation Senate Bill 911 that will increase the fee from $50 to $200.
Senator Chap Petersen (D-34) showed remarkable leadership by proposing to repeal a statute enacted in 2015 (the now-infamous SB 1349), which froze electric rates at levels that are designed to allow Dominion and Appalachian Power to over-collect money from customers. Virginians are now paying too much for their electricity because our largest utilities are earning unjustified profits. Petersen's bill would have unfrozen utility rates, and allowed for base rate reviews for both utilities, ultimately resulting in lower electric bills and possibly a refund to consumers.
Additionally, Petersen sponsored Senate Bill 1593, which would ban political contributions from regulated monopolies. Petersen's stand brought the issue of money in politics to the forefront, a focus that has spilled over into the gubernatorial race.
Senator Scott Surovell (D-36) introduced successful legislation this year to place a moratorium on coal ash disposal permits until the issue has been studied and information has been provided to the regulating entity, the Department of Environmental Quality. Senate Bill 1398 requires Dominion to assess a range of alternatives for disposing or recycling coal ash, the toxic byproduct of burning coal for electricity.
Despite the dangers associated with coal ash, it remains both ever-present and under-regulated. Coal ash is the second largest industrial waste stream in the United States. Vast quantities of poorly-contained ash sit in numerous pits along many of the Commonwealth's most prized rivers, including the James, the Clinch, and the Potomac Rivers. In many cases, coal ash disposal sites are located upstream from popular fishing, kayaking, and hunting destinations.
The bill is an important step toward protecting every Virginian's right to clean water. Senator Amanda Chase (R-11) co-patroned the bill. Chase raised the profile of this issue and rallied support around this measure, and after a weakened version of the bill passed in both chambers, she pushed for the Governor to strengthen the bill by amending it to include a prohibition on future issuance of permits until the studies are submitted to DEQ in December of 2017.
At the Request of the Virginia Distributed Solar Collaborative, Senator Jennifer Wexton (D-33) and Delegate Mark Keam (D-35) introduced companion legislation to establish community-owned renewable energy programs in Virginia with Senate Bill 1208 and House Bill 2112. Community-owned projects are not legal in Virginia, but could provide the option to power homes and businesses with clean energy for renters, apartment and condo dwellers, low-income families, and buildings that have unfavorable characteristics for on-site generation like deep shade.
Development of wind or solar energy that provides power to multiple community members leverages an economy of scale to reduce the price for each individual customer. By owning or leasing the solar or wind system, each community member taking part in the project can reduce his or her utility bills. Although these bills failed, they helped legislators understand what a true "community solar" bill looks like, and have helped set the stage for future efforts.
Delegate Rip Sullivan (D-48) introduced a suite of bills on energy efficiency this year in addition to a bill to establish renewable energy property tax credits in Virginia, HB 1632. Sullivan's bills include HB 1703 (energy efficiency goals), HB 1636 (adjusting energy efficiency programs' criteria for approval by the SCC), and HB 1465. Only HB 1465 passed.
House Bill 1465, which will become law in July, requires the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy (DMME) to track and report on the state's progress towards meeting its energy efficiency goal. Virginia has a voluntary goal, set in 2007, of reducing electricity consumption by 10 percent by 2022, and we are only a tenth of the way there. Despite the modesty of our goal, at our current pace we will not attain it. This legislation requires that the Governor, the General Assembly and the Governor's Executive Committee on Energy Efficiency will receive an annual report on our progress. Sullivan's bill will provide a tool to hold the Commonwealth accountable for reaching our energy efficiency goal, and increase government transparency.
Senator Jeremy McPike (D-29) and Delegate Kaye Kory (D-38) introduced Senate Bill 1359 and its companion, House Bill 2089, which require every public school board in the state to adopt a plan to test for lead in each school's drinking water. Children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of lead poisoning, but often do not look sick. Lead in the body can cause brain damage and developmental problems including learning disabilities, impulsive behavior, poor language skills and memory problems. This bill will become law in July.
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2 thoughts on "Who leads on climate and energy in the General Assembly—and how to get your legislators to up their game"
Mark Stevens says:
Thanks for this post. I used it to send a 'Thank you' email to 18 legislators who ranked high on the Sierra Club list and the following message to those who received a bad score (not exactly reaching out in a friendly way as per your suggestion, but more my style) –
I am disappointed by your low Sierra Climate and Energy score.
Renewable energy is the future. And how fast the United States gets there matters. Renewable energy is to this decade as computers were to the 80's. China understands this, and is pushing aggressively forward. As a zero sum game where only one will prevail, any policy decisions supporting non-renewable energy will hurt this country the long term.
Please consider this in future votes.
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Pregnant women can safely undergo essential dental treatment and receive topical and local anesthetics at 13 to 21 weeks gestation, says a study published in the June issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association.
Although obstetricians generally consider dental care safe for pregnant women, supporting clinical trial evidence has been lacking. To address this issue, researchers compared safety outcomes from the Obstetrics and Periodontal Therapy Trial in which pregnant women received scaling and root planing (deep cleaning) and essential dental treatment (defined as treatment of moderate-to-severe or fractured or abscessed teeth).
The researchers randomly assigned 823 pregnant women with periodontitis to receive scaling and root planing, either at 13 to 21 weeks' gestation or up to three months after delivery. (Experts recommend that pregnant women defer elective care before eight weeks' gestation and during late pregnancy.) The researchers determined that 483 of these women also needed essential dental treatment. Three hundred fifty-one of the women completed all recommended treatment.
Throughout the trial, obstetric nurses reviewed medical records to monitor subjects for serious adverse events. The authors defined these events as pregnancies that ended in a nonlive birth and other adverse events that did not result in pregnancy termination (including hospitalizations for more than 24 hours because of labor pains, hospitalizations for any other reason, fetal or congenital anomalies and neonatal deaths).
The research team was led by Dr. Bryan Michalowicz, professor of periodontics, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Minneapolis.
The not-for-profit ADA is the nation's largest dental association, representing more than 156,000 dentist members. The premier source of oral health information, the ADA has advocated for the public's health and promoted the art and science of dentistry since 1859. The ADA's state-of-the-art research facilities develop and test dental products and materials that have advanced the practice of dentistry and made the patient experience more positive. The ADA Seal of Acceptance long has been a valuable and respected guide to consumer dental care products. JADA, a monthly journal, is the ADA's flagship publication and the best-read scientific journal in dentistry.


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One Man's Weeds
The dandelions are popping up all over a field near my house as spring finally makes an appearance here in the Midwest. On the less tended lawns of my neighborhood, the profusion of cheerful yellow gladdens me.
Why are dandelions considered weeds, plants that need to be eradicated with toxic chemicals? They look so lovely, at least until they go to seed. Even then, the fuzzy grey tops are fun to blow on and scatter. And you can even make wine out of dandelions!
Walking around our yard with an expert in horticulture, my husband and I will point to plants and ask, "Is that a weed?" I sometimes feel that if you have to ask, maybe you should just leave it be.
As in other areas of culture, deciding what makes a beautiful or desirable plant is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. For instance, we have a Japanese maple in our front yard that my hubby despises. But one would hardly call it a weed. I realize that some plants take over and kill grass or other plants. So I understand why you might want to get rid of such weeds. And truth be told, the foliage of the lowly dandelion is nothing to write home about.
Still, after a long hard winter, I am ready to welcome just about any growing thing around my yard and my neighborhood. Even the cheeky dandelions.
Tags beauty, dandelions, horticulture, weeds
Our Dangerous Attraction to Ourselves
An Israeli teenager plunged to his death at Yosemite National Park recently while posing for a photo. He had been trying to recreate a popular pose taken at Telegraph Rock in Rio de Janeiro wherein the subject dangles off the side of the rock. The difference was that Telegraph Rock is much closer to the ground than the site at Nevada Fall where the young man lost his grip and fell. ("Israeli teen who fell to death in Yosemite was posing for photo," Chicago Tribune, April 23, 2019)
The impulse to document our lives has never been more widespread than today. We carry little cameras around in our phones and snap anything and everything: our friends, ourselves, our food. It's not enough just to experience that hike to the top of Nevada Fall. We have to prove we were there. More than that, we have to garner lots of likes by pulling a foolhardy stunt like dangling off of a rock.
Our narcissism is actually killing us. A recent Washington Post headline reads, "More than 250 people worldwide have died taking selfies, study finds." As the lead author of the study, Agam Bansal, points out,
"Taking a toll on these many numbers just because you want a perfect selfie because you want a lot of likes, shares on Facebook, Twitter or other social media, I don't think this is worth compromising a life for such a thing." (WaPo, Oct. 3, 2018)
Recently I had occasion to go through old photo albums, and I enjoyed the memories conjured up by the pictures there. Documenting vacations, holidays, and rites of passage for my children has given me something special to hold onto and recall in the future. But often we overdo the photos and videos of an event and fail to experience it in the here and now. And certainly, no one needs to remember that delightful piece of avocado toast we just had to take a picture of at brunch the other day.
Our modern penchant for selfies may be a sign of insecurity. Look at me, these photos seem to say. Don't I look fun/athletic/sexy/cool? Maybe it's normal to want to be seen, and we finally have the technology to make it happen easily. But we need to take stock of this self-centered behavior. Not only is it obnoxious at times, but it just may be the death of us.
Tags modern technology, narcissism, selfie deaths, smartphone cameras
Yesterday at Easter Sunday Mass, I saw something I hadn't seen in a long time: Easter bonnets! As a female growing up Catholic in the 60s, I was well aware of the requirement that all girls and women cover their heads when entering the church. We girls wore small circlets of lace called chapel veils while some women wore long, flowing mantillas, a Spanish veil. In a pinch, my sisters were known to bobby pin a piece of Kleenex to the tops of their heads!
But at Easter, we got a brand new hat to wear with the pastel Easter dress my mother had sewn each of us girls. I loved my "Easter bonnets" and, remembering them from my own childhood, bought them for my own daughters when they were little. But over the years, wearing hats to Mass has become uncommon. The Catholic stricture for women to cover their heads was removed in 1983. No doubt the chapel veil and mantilla manufacturers cried.
So I was delighted yesterday to see several young girls sporting wide-brimmed white straw hats to complement their Easter dresses. But the piece de resistance was the mother of two bonneted girls, who walked into church sporting a large pink confection that would be perfect for Ascot or the Kentucky Derby. They sat in a pew next to us, and I dubbed them the best dressed family at Easter Sunday Mass.
I realize that hat wearing is still common at some other Christian churches. And Orthodox Jewish women wear hats to synagogue. But for the most part, decorative, fanciful hats for women are a thing of the past. I can't say I'm all that sorry. I don't look good in hats and wear them primarily for warmth in winter – or occasionally to shield my face on a hot summer day.
But I do kind of miss the grandeur of the annual Easter bonnet. After all, it inspired a song by the great Irving Berlin. Maybe the bonneted ladies at Mass are starting a trend. Maybe next year I'll brave it and wear a fanciful hat myself.
Tags Catholic Church, Easter bonnet, Easter Sunday Mass, hats
How Sweet It Is!
I'm sorry to say that after giving up dessert for the 40 days of Lent, I haven't lost my sweet tooth. On the eve of Easter, I can almost taste those dark chocolate marshmallow eggs I crave.
I was really hoping I'd lose my taste for sugar, villain number one according to the latest nutritional advice. It's sugar, we are increasingly being told, not fat, that we should be avoiding. And I think that's because as with many things in life, we take our love for sweetness too far.
In the olden days, sugar was a luxury item. It was used sparingly to sweeten coffee or tea. Mother might bake a cake for a special occasion, but people otherwise didn't get much refined sugar in their diets. In wartime, sugar was one of the things that was rationed.
But as modern technology made all kinds of convenience foods available and cheap, sugary foods and drinks became ubiquitous. One of the biggest sources of calories in the American diet comes from soda pop, which is loaded with sugar. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in particular is a molecularly altered sugar that is believed to interact in harmful ways with the human body. (Thanks for that science-y info, cousin Trish!) And HFCS is the main ingredient in most sodas.
And switching to diet drinks does not seem to help people lose weight in the long run. I think that's because the artificial sweeteners still make us crave sugar. And I think that is behind my annual failure to curb my sweet tooth during Lent. Not having banished all sugar from my diet, I still want it.
Sugar is synonymous with fun and celebration. Every party features sweets: from birthday cakes to Christmas cookies to Easter candy. When I was a child, in the evening while we watched TV we were allowed to pick out a candy bar for "treat time." Dessert was always the reward for having eaten those horrible green beans. Sweets are the stuff of childhood dreams. Why else would Roald Dahl have written the fantasy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Why else would the Brothers Grimm imagine a candy-studded gingerbread house to lure the unsuspecting Hansel and Gretel into the witch's clutches?
Tomorrow the Easter Bunny will leave some delicious chocolate at our house. Luckily, the treats the Bunny brings are far too pricey for me to wolf down in one sitting. So I'll pace myself (and share with the family). I may never conquer my sweet tooth, but let's hope my Lenten abstinence from them will help me better appreciate the delights of sugar.
As Shakespeare would say, "Sweets to the sweet!"
Tags candy, Easter, soda pop, sugar
Notre Dame, Notre Coeur, Notre Ame
The sight of the venerable Parisian cathedral Notre Dame on fire filled onlookers around the world with horror and sorrow. Unlike most of the disasters that make news worldwide, this one thankfully involved no loss of life. And yet the dismay so many of us felt on Monday as centuries-old treasures of art, architecture, and religion threatened to go up in flames was only too real.
Across the Seine, the crowd broke into spontaneous prayer and hymns as they watched smoke billow up from the spire of the medieval cathedral. To imagine a Paris without the iconic edifice complete with gargoyles and flying buttresses was, well, unthinkable. Notre Dame is one of the most visited landmarks in the world. Hundreds of people have been posting photos and memories of their own visits to Notre Dame since its very existence became imperiled Monday. The wealth of art and the breathtaking feat of engineering that has held up the 12th Century structure for so long are irresistible for art lovers, historians, and even casual tourists.
But Notre Dame is first and foremost a monument to the Catholic faith and the devotion of its followers who risked life and limb to build such a beautiful and imposing structure. Catholics hold a special place in our hearts for Mary, "Our Lady." No doubt many Catholics fervently begged Our Lady to intercede with Christ to save her namesake church.
I have nothing but admiration for the tireless efforts of firefighters to contain the blaze and limit the damage to Notre Dame. Much in the same way as the builders of Notre Dame in the Middle Ages, these courageous Parisians risked their lives to save a building. Luckily only one firefighter was injured while working to put out the flames. Still, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of divine intervention in saving the venerable cathedral.
The fire at Notre Dame has brought public awareness to three other fires that occurred in the past two weeks at historically black churches in Louisiana. The fires were no accidents, however. They were incidents of arson, and a white man has been charged with hate crimes in connection with the destruction of the three historic places of worship. A Go Fund Me campaign has since raised $1 million for reconstruction.
All of this has occurred in the midst of the Lenten season and Holy Week, the preparatory 6 days before Easter, the Christian celebration of resurrection and new life. In the past few weeks the flames of hatred and destruction have raged. On Saturday night, the flame of the Easter Candle will be lit at churches all around the world to symbolize the return of the Light of the World, Jesus Christ.
The response to the fires in Louisiana and Paris, whether religious or secular, has shown that the human spirit will always rise up to champion goodness, beauty, and hope. A fitting message for the Easter season and the arrival (finally!) of spring.
Tags architecture, art, Catholic Church, Christianity, Easter, Louisiana church fires, Notre Dame fire
Thoughts and Prayers (Part 2)
"What if we've been thinking and praying about mass shootings for decades and Jesus sent us an army of determined Moms in red shirts"
– @BobbyHoward63 on Twitter
The quote above refers to an activist group of intrepid women who form the organization Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. In recent years, the Moms in their bright red t-shirts have been seen all across the country in statehouses trying to get common sense gun legislation passed.
The mission of Moms is simple: Restrict gun ownership to law-abiding citizens by strengthening background checks and eliminating loopholes in gun laws. Demand the safe use and storage of guns so that children and other innocent people aren't victims of accidental shootings. Create laws that get illegal guns off the the streets.
As part of a larger advocacy group called Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action was a response to the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that scarred the nation perhaps more than any other mass shooting in the past few decades. The thought that first graders can't even be safe in the confines of their school got these moms on the march.
Over the past five years, this stalwart group of women has had many successes in the realm of gun safety. Everything from getting background check legislation passed to getting candidates favoring gun safety elected has been part of a slowly winning agenda. While there is still much work to be done, there is hope that America can gain control over the terrible scourge of gun violence in our country.
The Twitter quote above reminds me of a story about faith and action. A man's home was being flooded, so he climbed to the roof and prayed for God to rescue him. After some time, a boat came by and offered to ferry the man out of danger. "No, God will save me," he assured the would-be rescuer. A while later, a police helicopter hovered overhead and dropped a lifeline down for the man. "No, God will save me," he said as he declined the rope. Eventually the floodwaters covered and drowned the man. When he got to Heaven, he demanded of God, "I prayed for you to rescue me. Why didn't you?" God's reply? "I sent you a boat and a helicopter! What more did you want?"
Sometimes we fall back on thoughts and prayers because we feel helpless and scared. We think meaningful change is out of our hands. The women of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America beg to disagree.
Don't mess with the Moms!
Tags faith and action, gun legislation, mass shootings, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, political advocacy
The Pendulum Swings
The Waitrose candy company has had to apologize for releasing a dark chocolate Easter duck called "Ugly." People took to Twitter to complain about the name for one of a trio of candy ducklings, the others being named "Fluffy" and "Crispy." (Jack Guy, "Store withdraws chocolate ducklings over racism complaint," cnn.com, April 9, 2019) Such is the state of race relations in modern society.
For literally hundreds of years, people of color have had to fight against the perception that their skin color makes them less than: less intelligent, less moral, less human. Blacks who could "pass" for white used their skin color to their advantage while at the same time feeling they were betraying their own people. In the Sixties, the slogan "Black is beautiful" began to reclaim the dignity and power of African-Americans. The Civil Rights movement made great strides towards equality for people of color, but racism continues to persist.
In recent years, the Black Lives Matter movement has shed light on continuing racial bias, particularly in the area of law enforcement. The shooting of black suspects, the mass incarceration of minorities and differential sentencing based on skin color have all rightly been the targets of vociferous protest. But increasingly, litmus tests to determine how "woke" a person is threaten to trivialize the very real threats that racism still poses in our society.
Social norms are like a pendulum that veers wildly from right to left. In the bad old days, African-Americans were called "colored," expected to be nothing more than servants or laughable minstrels. It was considered funny, not appalling, to don blackface. I recently listened to a Malcolm Gladwell podcast about the entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., and how he had to swallow so much casual racism just to make it in the world of entertainment. Gladwell includes a snippet of a Shriners Club roast given to Sammy. His so-called friend Dean Martin rattles off a series of horribly racist jokes at Sammy's expense: references to watermelon-eating and even lynching. And the worst part? Sammy has to laugh at it all to be part of the club.
Today the pendulum is arcing far to the left, and every instance that might potentially be seen as racist is put under the microscope and dissected on social media. Does the hapless naming of a candy duck indicate a deep-seated prejudice towards dark skin? It might. I do think that little things – habits of speech in particular – affect the way in which we perceive the world around us. If the references to the ducks had been sexist, I would have been annoyed. But I worry that focusing on these minor issues will create a backlash and hamper progress in social justice.
Let's hope the swinging of the pendulum begins to slow and that people of all ethnicities, social classes, and skin colors can feel equally valued and respected in our culture.
Tags race relations, racism


The action-platformer Funk of Titans is now available for the PS Vita and PS4 in North America and tomorrow in Europe digitally via the PlayStation Network.
Funk is the music of Gods. Zeus, the father of all of them, created and shared it with the rest of the Universe. The humans have been dancing to and singing funky songs since the birth of time and give thanks to Zeus for receiving this blessing. Now, however, Pagan Titans have created other rhythms in the form of Pop, Rock and Rap and they are using them to influence the humans, turning them into empty headed, dancing minions.


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After an excellent opening weekend, director Laxman Utekar's Luka Chuppi has reported a steady performance on Monday as well despite a normal working day. Due to positive word of mouth, the movie showed a strong uptrend over the weekend and now all set to emerge next hit of the year.
Being the much-anticipated release, Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon in lead roles, Luka Chuppi has got succeed to hit the target right as expected and received mostly positive reviews from the critics as well as the audience across the country.
Presented by Maddock Films, this romantic comedy-drama was released with large-scale promotions and got a decent start. On Friday, it did the business of 8.01 crores,. Then on Saturday, the movie took a healthy jump and collected 10.08 crores.
On the next day i.e. Sunday, with a further growth, Luka Chuppi raked the business of 14.04 crores and raised its opening weekend total collection to 32.13 crores. Now it has entered on weekdays and still has a strong hold over the audience, especially in metro cities.
On Monday due to a holiday, it got an almost similar response as of Friday and minted the amount of 7.90 crores. With this, its 4 days total collection has become 40.03 crores nett from 2100 screens across India.
While the adjacent release, Abhishek Chaubey's Sonchiriya has also received positive reviews from the critics and showed an uptrend over the weekend but still remained overall low. It did the business of 1.20 crore on Friday, 1.50 crores on Saturday & 1.90 crores on Sunday.
On Monday, Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar & Manoj Bajpayee starrer this action-drama has faced drop in footfalls and managed to collect 0.80 crore on Monday to raise its 4 days total collection to 5.40 crores nett from 720 screens across India.


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R.I.P. Jackie Mason, clown prince of puncture comedy
By Marion DS Dreyfus
Granted, the man was no poster child for fidelity, maybe. We never met so many women who, when we dropped the name Jackie Mason -- as opposed to other known… female appreciators -- would confide airily, "Yeah, he asked me out, too." Even though he was reputedly, and in the memorial squibs on Google and everywhere else, married since the early 1990s.
It was always sort of…hazy. After all, here he was, asking them out. Maybe he was, as the furphy had it, separated?
Jackie Mason in 2006 (Photo credit: Carl Lender CC BY 2.0 license)
He hung out in our neighborhood, particularly one favorite patisserie, the now-closed, Au Bon Pain. We went with him to a couple more favorite hangouts, where the wait-staff, particularly the women, knew him by his first name, knew his likely orders, knew him well enough to ask solicitously if the table was to his liking, his chair comfortable, the table setting acceptable. He asked me if I had a cell phone. "Of course," one answered. "Could I make a call?" he asked. "Sure," (Who wouldn't say that?)
But every fellow comic who wandered by, and there were at least three, in my own earshot, got the same question/request.
"Jackie," we asked, "why don't you GET a cell phone, instead of asking everyone and the waitress to use theirs," we asked, maybe a tad impertinently, but pertinently.
"Why should I?" he shot back. "I don't need one."
This was a really funny person, a former rabbi, scion of a family of rabbanim. His elder brother officiated at a wedding we were quite close to. Anyone who frequented Broadway for the past 30-odd years, however, would tell you how screamingly hilarious were Mason's one-man nonstop laughter-packed extravaganzas over the years. It didn't matter either whether you knew his shtiks. You still ended up roaring so hard your stomach hurt from rolling, gasping laughter.
Didn't matter, either, whether you were Jewish, his favorite go-to on many a topic, or Gentile, another vein of hilarity to mine for all observational nuggets of comedic gold. Everyone convulsed with his rat-a-tat fast, heavily accented or feigned delivery, sometimes in false Hindu, or British tones, sometimes in condescending haute social-climber modes.
When you walked with him on the New York street, and you'd meet up with a friend or associate, he'd assess the person with an appraiser's eye for beauty or whatever trait, then ask his usual, "You Jewish? You gotta be Jewish…" --which he meant as an intro to some further ethnic infra-dig joke the person usually laughed with.
He pilloried OJ Simpson's "Not guilty" travesty verdict. You could no longer think Simpson innocent once you underwent Mason's blood-spattered spiel onstage on the gore that drenched The Juice on the subject of the murder of Ron Goldman and Simpson's nearly beheaded lovely wife, Nicole Brown.
Mason was equally devastatingly on point about the Israeli-Palestinian situation, the Vietnam War, Iraq/Iran, Bubba Clinton, and Monica, the string of Presidents and their foibles and fair ladies he'd observed during his long (not long enough) tenure on this earthly coil.
Once, I ordered a plate of food in his company. He ordered a black-and-white cookie. As I forked in some food, he picked noncommittally at my food. Quite a bit. I asked why he didn't order a plateful for himself. "I'm not hungry," he responded neutrally. He then gave me the cookie. "But," I protested, "don't you want this cookie? You ordered it…?" He looked penetratingly at me, "Do you think for one minute I would give you this cookie if I wanted it?" My digestion was interrupted time and again to laugh and chortle, as he never stopped being deadpan hilarious. Even when he chided me for being five minutes late, wounding him, apparently, to the quick. Never have I been upbraided so scaldingly as by his razor tongue barbs. Oy, vey.
On the phone, he was always in a hurry to set up appointments but wouldn't settle to a proper conversation. "Wait a minute, Jackie," I commented once, "what's your hurry already?" Moment of silence. Not long. "At these prices--?"
You couldn't get through three minutes without a fast comeback, a retort, a multi-language (Yiddish or a dash of slang, or some foreign-sounding made-up word) riposte, reducing the recipient to a gale of giggles.
Somehow, as with Rush Limbaugh, recently gone from our midst, I never considered the possibility -- even though I know that death does, in the end, claim all of us -- his passing, at the age of 93 (who knew? I'd have guessed he was in his 70s, or at the most, 80s, but I'm a notorious bad guesser), was, frankly, sudden. And unfair.
Frankly, it's hard to say Boruch dayan emes in respect of the going-away of this masterful, magical joker, this stocky tummler of tummlers . His disappearance from the scene, without a caustic doubt, makes the world less tolerable, does the opposite of amplifying our lives, lightening our leaden or litigable load.
You won't see it, because this appears in regular print, but in his honor, it was scripted in the typeface known as Jokerman. The least I could do.
Jackie Mason, born Maza, a one-time rabbi -- a forever comedian -- is now Missing. Sadder for us all that he won't be here to comment on the latest government outrage and shanda.
We'll miss him, Borscht Belt or no, he was the funniest, keenest, sharpest. most evocative natural comic I've ever been blessed to have spent time with. And that's no gelacht'er.
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I have been having really, really awful eating habits this week. I am a *little* worried for my WW weigh-in tomorrow. My meals have been great, but my snacking has been terrible. At work, I'm usually fine. But when I get home, for some reason, I just want to EAT! Like my cousin's wife told me, "Skinny girls must not eat!" 😉 But I know I just have to pick myself up, dust myself off, and keep going. And that's exactly what I plan to do.
In other news, I attended a zumba class for the first time last night. I must admit, I was really scared to try it, but it ended up being a lot of fun! I am incredibly uncoordinated and couldn't figure out half the dance moves, but hey – I was moving and I was sweating! That's what counts, right? =) The zumba instructor was a really sweet and energetic lady, and I loved that the class was very diverse – women of all ages and all sizes.
Two nights ago I made baked beef ziti, which was a Weight Watchers recipe. It was SO GOOD. I did tweak it a bit – I used one pound of ground beef instead of 1/3 pound, because that's just ridiculous. Also, I had to change a few of the spices, because I didn't have rosemary, I used less cheese, I used tomato sauce instead of crushed tomatoes and I used cooking spray instead of olive oil. I have listed my tweaks in the recipe below, but you can click on the link above to see the original recipe, as well. In any case, my husband as well as my roommate both gobbled it up (even though my roommate says he isn't "a pasta guy"). The dish was incredibly flavourful, thanks to the spices in the beef.
-Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and set aside.
-Meanwhile, heat a deep skillet over medium or medium-high; add garlic and sauté 2 minutes. Add beef and cook until browned, breaking up meat with a spoon as it cooks; drain off any fat and set pan back over medium heat.
-Add spices and stir to coat beef. Cook until herbs become fragrant, about 2 minutes.
-Add tomato sauce and bring mixture to a boil (be careful when the sauce "pops" – it will create a slight mess on your stovetop!); reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
-Spoon a small amount of beef-tomato mixture into bottom of a glass baking/casserole dish (just enough to cover surface); top with half of cooked ziti. Next, layer with half of remaining beef-tomato sauce and half of mozzarella cheese. Layer with remaining ziti and then top with remaining beef-tomato sauce; sprinkle with remaining mozzarella cheese. Bake until cheese is golden and bubbly, about 30 minutes.


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Appreciating the hits and misses of Man United's number 19 shirt in the PL era
by Harry Diamond 14/01/2021, 07:28
Manchester United completed the signing of Amad Diallo this week after initially agreeing a deal for the teenage winger during the summer, the Atalanta youngster putting pen to paper on a long-term contract at Old Trafford.
The club's decision to spend £37m on an 18-year-old with limited senior experience is a testament to the faith the Red Devils' recruitment staff have in the new addition, Diallo predicted to have a huge future following his exciting emergence in Italian football.
Diallo will be given time to adapt to the demands of the Premier League but has been designated the club's number 19 shirt, one which has had varied degrees of success throughout the Premier League era.
We've decided to look back at the shirt's previous holders and appreciate the hits and misses of United's number 19s:
Manchester United's fabled 'Class of '92' are cemented into the club's history, the six academy graduates who came through the Red Devils' ranks at a similar time before enjoying huge success in the senior side.
Nicky Butt is perhaps the most overlooked member of that contingent with the midfielder having been a fine footballer, making his first-team debut during the Premier League's inaugural season and wearing the number 19 during his first four seasons.
Butt was a combative midfield star who brought energy and tenacity to the engine room, starring during the club's domestic double-winning season in 1995/96 with 41 appearances in all competitions.
The former England international later switched to the number eight and played a key role in the club's Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble in 1999, making 387 appearances for United before later spells at the likes of Newcastle and Birmingham.
Chris Casper
Chris Casper is another player who played in the club's famous FA Youth Cup-winning team in '92, though his success in the senior side was limited to just two league appearances during the 1996/97 season.
The defender – capped once by England at U21 level – only made four appearances in all competitions for the Red Devils before leaving for second tier Reading in a £300,000 deal, though saw his career prematurely ended by a double leg fracture at just 24-years-old.
He later moved into management and spent three seasons in charge of Bury.
Ronny Johnsen
An often unsung hero at the heart of Manchester United's successes either side of the millennium, Ronny Johnsen was handed the number 19 shirt for his debut season following a £1.2m move from Besiktas.
The Norwegian defender proved a valuable addition to Sir Alex Ferguson's squad and featured regularly as the Premier League title was secured in his maiden campaign, winning a further two winners' medals over his six-season stay.
Johnsen swapped to the number 5 following his first season and played an instrumental role in the club's treble-winning season in 1998/99, starring at the heart of the defence alongside Jaap Stam and starting each of the deciding fixtures in a climatic end to the campaign.
Injuries sadly prevented the versatile defender from extending his legacy with the club but he departed English football with 150 appearances in all competitions and having won five major honours in just six seasons.
Having seen an Arsenal side transformed by the arrival of Arsene Wenger complete a domestic double in 1997/98, Sir Alex Ferguson splashed out on a club-record deal for Dwight Yorke in a bid to wrestle back the Premier League title from north London.
Yorke has starred at Aston Villa and arrived with a burgeoning reputation, one he would only enhance with the Red Devils to become their greatest-ever Premier League number 19.
The forward struck up a sensational understanding with strike partner Andy Cole and was named as the Premier League's Player of the Season during his debut campaign, winning the division's Golden Boot after a 29-goal campaign inspired United to a historic treble.
That success was the first of three successive Premier League titles for United with Yorke scoring 48 goals in just 96 league appearances for the club, his partnership in telepathic tandem with Cole amongst the most iconic of the modern era.
Perhaps the most forgettable figure on this list, former Spain goalkeeper Ricardo was signed by the club after forming part of the national team squad for the 2002 World Cup, in the hope he could provide competition for the likes of Fabien Barthez and Roy Carroll.
He spent three seasons with the Red Devils but made just five appearances across all competitions before returning to Spain, though did save a David Dunn penalty on his sole Premier League appearance against Blackburn.
Eric Djemba-Djemba
Manchester United's attempts to overhaul their engine room in the summer of 2002 saw some questionable investments, a series of flops headlined by Brazilian midfielder Kleberson and Cameroon international Eric Djemba-Djemba.
The latter inherited the number 19 shirt from the aforementioned Ricardo in 2003 and was signed to add some bite to the club's midfield options, though he failed to live up to expectations and struggled to adapt to the demands of the Premier League.
He made just 39 appearances before being shipped off to Aston Villa, once again failing to impress and later enjoying a nomadic career that took in spells at an eclectic collection of clubs including Qatar SC, St Mirren and Chennaiyin FC.
The aforementioned Ricardo formed part of a botched succession plan of goalkeepers following the departure of Peter Schmeichel, the void left by the Dane's departure taking some six years to truly fill.
Edwin van der Sar's arrival from Fulham was the deal that finally saw United have a reliable number one, even if the goalkeeping great adorned the number 19 shirt during his maiden campaign at Old Trafford.
The veteran Netherlands international became one of the club's great bargain buys during a glittering six-year spell, winning four league titles and the Champions League – Van der Sar's heroics helping defeat Chelsea in the first-ever all-English final in 2008.
ON THIS DAY: In 2009, Edwin van der Sar set a Premier League record for time without conceding.
He went on to extend it to 1,311 minutes. pic.twitter.com/kLyt7GHK5B
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During that time the goalkeeper also set a new Premier League record after going a staggering 1,311 minutes without conceding a goal, whilst he also became the oldest player to win the title following the club's 2010/11 success, aged 40 years and 205 days.
Gerard Pique has become one of the best defenders of his generation during a career of incredible success at the highest level, though the centre-back struggled for opportunities during a four-year spell at Manchester United in his early career.
Pique made just 23 appearances in all competitions, his finest season coming wearing the 19 shirt as United completed a Premier League and Champions League double in 2007/08.
The Spaniard left that summer to return to Barcelona, where his plethora of success includes eight league titles and three Champions League trophies, in addition to winning both the World Cup and European Championships during an international career that yielded 102 caps.
United's most recent wearers of the 19 shirt have all been academy graduates with Danny Welbeck having worn the shirt for six seasons after coming through the ranks, the forward having burst onto the scene with a stunning goal on his Premier League debut against Stoke in 2008.
The teenager gradually established himself in the first-team setup and became a regular after returning from a productive loan spell at Sunderland, forming part of the side that were crowned as champions in Sir Alex Ferguson's final season in 2012/13.
Welbeck made 142 appearances in all competitions before signing for Arsenal after falling out-of-favour, though injuries have sadly blighted the 42-cap England international's career with the 30-year-old currently at Brighton.
James Wilson is another home-grown product who made an immediate impact at Old Trafford, scoring twice on his Premier League debut after being handed a shock starting opportunity against Hull in 2014.
Wilson was highly regarded in the youth set-up but that double was as good as it got for the forward, despite being handed the number 19 shirt for the 2015/16 season in which he made just one Premier League appearance.
Wilson made 20 appearances for the Red Devils in all competitions and scored four goals, spending time on loan at the likes of Brighton, Derby, Sheffield United and Aberdeen before a permanent move to the latter.
He is currently playing his football with Salford City, the ambitious League Two outfit owned by Manchester United's fabled 'Class of '92' members.
Diallo will be hoping to emulate the previous wearer of the 19 shirt with Marcus Rashford having cemented himself as a crucial figure for Manchester United since his emergence almost five years ago.
Rashford made headlines after netting twice on his senior bow against Midtjylland in the Europa League before another double – in a thrilling victory over Arsenal – just days later on his Premier League debut.
Since then the forward has gone from strength to strength, improving his goal return each season and delivering a career-best 22 goals in all competitions last season.
Rashford's increasing influence was rewarded with the number 10 shirt and he remains a key figure in the current side, scoring 14 times in just 28 appearances this season for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's league leaders.
Pivotal for club and country and a fine example both on and off the pitch, the teenage Diallo could do worse than follow the path set by the Red Devils' home-grown hero.
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NextAndrew Weil and "integrative medicine": The ultimate triumph of quackery?
There has been an ongoing debate about placebos on SBM, both in the articles and in the comments. What does it mean that a treatment has been shown to be "no better than placebo?" If our goal is for patients to feel better and they feel better with placebos, why not prescribe them? Do placebos actually do anything useful? What can science tell us about why a patient might report diminished pain after taking an inert sugar pill? The subject is complex and prone to misconceptions. A recent podcast interview offers a breakthrough in understanding.
On her Brain Science Podcast Dr. Ginger Campbell interviewed Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti, a physician and clinical neurophysiologist who is one of the world's leading researchers on the neurobiology of placebos. A transcript of the interview [PDF] is available on her website for those who prefer reading to listening. The information Dr. Benedetti presents and the expanded remarks by Dr. Campbell after the interview go a long way towards explaining the placebo phenomenon and its consequences for clinical medicine. Dr. Campbell also includes a handy list of references. I'll try to provide a summary of the main points, but I recommend reading or listening to the original.
A common misconception is that the response to placebos is a purely subjective psychological response involving only the cortical level of the brain; but evidence is accumulating that real, measurable, objective subcortical neurophysiologic phenomena are involved. One of the first hints was a 1978 study showing that the placebo response to pain could be blocked by naloxone, a narcotic antagonist drug, indicating that the placebo must have actually caused an increase in endogenous opioids.
Placebos are used in clinical trials methodology, where a placebo group is compared to an active treatment group. Typically, about a third of subjects in the placebo group show improvement, but this doesn't mean all of them have responded to the placebo. There are many other factors that can cause improvement after administration of any treatment, whether effective drug or placebo, including spontaneous remission, regression to the mean, and various kinds of bias on the part of patients and experimenters.
Clinical trials are done to look for a difference between the outcomes with placebo and the outcomes with the drug. Researchers in those trials are not interested in trying to understand why there is an improvement in the placebo group. That requires a different kind of study. Dr. Benedetti is using "placebo balanced design" to tease out the influence of verbal suggestions — expectations — on the action of drugs. Subjects are divided into four groups. The first group of subjects receives the active treatment and is told it is the active treatment (the truth). The second group receives the active treatment and is told it is placebo (a lie). The third group receives placebo and is told it is the active treatment (a lie). The fourth group receives placebo and is told it is placebo (the truth). This design allows researchers to separate the specific effects of the active treatment itself from the nonspecific effects of suggestion and expectation.
In studies of surreptitious vs. open IV morphine administration, patients experienced less pain relief from the morphine when they were unaware that they were getting it. In one brain imaging study, the metabolic response to methylphenidate decreased by 50% when subjects were told they were getting a placebo.
The placebo response is not limited to pain. In Parkinson's disease, placebos have been shown to cause a 200% increase in dopamine release in the brain, with an alteration in the activity of neurons and a corresponding clinical improvement in motor function. Dr. Benedetti has even documented a physiologic placebo response at the level of single neurons. In deep brain stimulation studies, the stimulator doesn't work as well if patients are told it is off when it is actually on.
There is not just one "placebo effect," but many different placebo effects that work by different mechanisms, including (1) anxiety reduction, (2) activation of the reward mechanism (with dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens), and (3) learning.
Placebo responses can be divided into two types: conscious and unconscious. Conscious responses involve suggestion and expectation. Unconscious responses occur with classical Pavlovian conditioning. If you give morphine 3 days in a row and on the 4th day you replace it with a placebo, almost 100% of patients will respond to the placebo as if they had received morphine. When a pill is administered, there is a completely unconscious association between two stimuli: the pharmacologic effect and the psychosocial context, which may include such things as the color and shape of the pill. Unconscious conditioning has been demonstrated in both animals and humans.
Conscious expectations are important for conscious physiological functions like pain and motor performance. Unconscious conditioning is more important for unconscious physiological functions like hormone secretion and activation of different immune mediators. Dr. Benedetti gives this example: if you give a patient a placebo and tell him it will increase his growth hormone levels, nothing happens. But if you give a drug that really does raise GH levels for two days and on the third day replace it with a placebo, the levels will rise with the placebo.
Experimentally, morphine requirements can be reduced by starting with morphine, substituting a placebo for later doses and periodically reinforcing the conditioning with morphine. This sounds like a good thing, but before it could become a useful option in clinical practice, it would have to overcome a number of ethical and practical hurdles. The unconscious placebo responses require conditioning and the conscious ones are problematic too. Even if some patients might get a degree of pain relief from just being handed a sugar pill with a strong suggestion, the effects can't compete with effective pain treatments: the response is generally smaller, less reliable, less predictable, and not sustainable over the long term. I can't imagine that ever becoming standard medical practice, and not just because of the ethical issues.
The doctor-patient relationship is essential to medicine, and placebo effects are an inherent part of that interaction. Communication is vital. Doctors must tell patients what a treatment is supposed to do. When pain medication is given without the patient's knowledge, it doesn't work as well. A clear understanding of the diagnosis is important: a positive diagnosis of something menacing like cancer can make the patient anxious and more aware of symptoms, while a negative diagnosis can reassure, relieve anxiety, and divert attention elsewhere. Lying to patients would undermine a trusting doctor-patient relationship and ultimately even interfere with the ability to evoke placebo responses. Prescribing placebos is uniformly rejected by medical ethicists: instead, we can put our increasing knowledge of placebo neurophysiology to good use without lying to patients.
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As a broadcaster, you make money from Chaturbate by receiving feedback from viewers. The amount you earn will depend on how popular your channel is as well as how often you are on the internet. Chaturbate gives out 50% of all tokens you spend on the site. To maximize your earnings, it's important to build a strong following and to remain active on the site regularly. You can also make money by referring new members to the website. Who to email for chaturbate support.
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You can establish an incentive for tipping your show. The viewers can tip you with tokens (which can be converted to cash) if they enjoy the show. You may also sell other kinds of content for example, custom-made videos or pictures.
If you're having trouble getting views or suggestions Don't fret, there are many ways to market your show and attract attention from potential viewers. For instance, you could make use of social media platforms like Twitter as well as Instagram to inform viewers when you're online. You could also make use of hashtags to help viewers find your show.
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UK Stampin' Up! Demonstrator | make beautiful cards | Crafty Hippy: Ribbit!
Ok, so we are forecast for lots of snow and not rain today, so this card may be a little off-topic (although did you see that nature programme recently with the arctic frog that literally freezes to death then re-animates....??) .....I love this card nonetheless!
I used the Animal Talk set from Stampin' Up! which is a fantastically fun set! As you can see in the image below there is something for every occasion.
I used two shades of green (I used my Color Coach to get the right two shades) which were Wild Wasabi and Garden Green. The little frogs on the outer part of the card are a sneak peek from a set that is coming in the Spring... I thought they went perfectly!
This is a pic of Little Hippy and I in the snow a few years ago, she looks soooo small!
Wherever you are today keep safe and warm ~ and do something crafty!


A handmade retirement card printed on an ivory coloured board and hand-finished with a special 3D shape and silver holographic stars. We hand make each of the special character shapes on these cards, which makes them truly unique.
Supplied cello wrapped with a moss green envelope.


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    Tori, Web Framework for People with Deadline

                The common problem of web frameworks is that even if the framework is
                dead simple to use, deploying sometimes won't be as easy as developing.

Introduction

                    Tori was forked from one of four main modules of Yotsuba Project. Its
                    objectives are:

                        Simplify and minimize the setup and deploying process for tiny-to-large-scale
                        web development.

                        Based on top of Facebook's open-source Tornado Web Framework.

                        Support the deployment as a standalone WSGI server, a WSGI
                        application for Apache 2 (with mod_wsgi) and a Google
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            © 2011 Juti Noppornpitak.

            This website is made on HTML5 technology.

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Wine blogger parodies Lorde, Justin Timberlake…
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Wine blogger parodies Lorde, Justin Timberlake videos
Jason "Stub" Stubblefield's wine parody videos poke fun at the stuffy industry as well as politics and whatever else is on the former U.S. Marine's mind.
By Jessica Yadegaran | jyadegaran@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2014 at 11:10 a.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 7:11 a.m.
Cork Envy's Jason "Stub" Stubblefield is a musician and former Marine who makes video parodies about wine. Well, they're tangentially about wine — and usually involve Stub ("no one calls me Jason"), who has a master's degree in public policy, cracking wise on politics, pop culture or wine snobbery. In "First Growth," the singer-songwriter laments the reasons he will "never try an '82 Bordeaux" to the tune of Lorde's "Royal." "White Zin," a spoof of the Police's "Roxanne," gives cougars permission to stop drinking "that swill tonight." Stub is the cougar in red with the nice gams.
"It sounds cheesy to say I want to demystify wine, but I do want to help people who don't know about wine to discover it," he says by phone from Alexandria, Virginia, where he lives with his wife, a government executive who pops up on the blog as The Rib.
Sometimes the best way to do that is to keep it light and funny. Take "Date Night," a weekly "W(h)ine" in which Stub jokes about our culture's attachment to the term. He doesn't get to the wine recommendation (a 2011 Quivira Zinfandel) until the end, and you don't mind. Same with "Suit and Tie, Sequester Style," which has nothing to do with wine — it's about last year's federal government shutdown. Jon Stewart, looking for a political wine correspondent? Ping Stub at www.corkenvy.com.
First encounter: "At a dinner party in 2001, someone brought a Fetzer gewürztraminer and I remember thinking, 'I could drink two glasses of that.' That's when I realized there were discoveries to be made, because every wine I tried had been so different from the last."
Latest discovery: "I like Tin Barn Zinfandel (Sonoma Valley). It kind of dances on your palate without exploding in your mouth 57 times with more fruit and alcohol than you can stand."
Tuesday night pairing: "We've been having the Pine Ridge Vineyards Chenin Blanc Viognier with a grilled chicken salad almost weekly."
— J. Yadegaran, Staff
Jessica Yadegaran | Eat Drink Play writer and editor
Jessica Yadegaran is a food and dining writer for The Mercury News and East Bay Times, covering dining culture, restaurants, travel and more for the Eat Drink Play section. Jessica previously worked for the San Luis Obispo Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune and Seattle Magazine, where she was the food and dining editor. She graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. degree in journalism and lives in the East Bay. In her spare time, she likes hiking, cooking and spending time with her family.
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    request_method = @input.get('method')         # HTTP Request Method
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    request_headers = @input.get('headers')       # HTTP Request Headers

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UC agricultural and marine scientists fight one of the state's biggest sources of methane: cow burps.
Advance notice of heat waves could help protect the agricultural riches of the Central Valley.
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Scripps researchers use oxygen, carbon dioxide measurements to infer ocean temperature increase.
The university pledges to transition to clean energy by 2025.
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Okay... I am officially losing my marbles. Our scan is in TWO DAYS. Two days!!! THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
12 weeks is so close, I can almost taste it. I can smell it, at least.. and it smells pretty darned good. :) I always said that I'd share the news after we got the all-clear from the ultrasound, so I've got a plan in place for sharing. Most close family members know already, so I don't need to do any surprising announcements there. My grandparents don't know yet, so I'll be ringing them to share the news. All my close friends know, so they're good... which just leaves my overseas friends/people I don't see often - aka, the land of Facebook.
I've staggered my progesterone pessaries pretty well throughout all of this, since I have TWO MORE ready to use: one for tomorrow morning (Sunday) & one for the next day (Monday). After that, I'm done. I'm really happy to be done with them; no more leakage! No more wearing pads like an 80's teenager! Getting my lady parts back! Actually feeling like USING them again, if you know what I mean! All warrant exclamation marks. It's pretty exciting stuff. I'm still terrified of not having the progesterone support, but I'm trying to have faith that my body will know what to do from here on in.
I wonder if they listen for a heartbeat during the NT scan?
I'm desperately hoping for a healthy, moving baby - one that's growing well and looks strong. Wish us luck!
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They will listen for the hb at your scan but you'll probably see it before they let you hear it :) so excited for you! I couldn't hear a hb on the Doppler until about 14 weeks I think.
Yay! I love your updates.
They definitely searched for heartbeats at my 12 week scan, so I would imagine it'd be the same for you. One thing I learned about dopplers is that it can be hard to find the heartbeat if the placenta is anterior-facing (because it's in front of the baby). One of my babies has an anterior-facing placenta and the other is posterior, so one heartbeat is super clear and easy to find with the doppler and the other is muffled and takes forever. Just something to keep in mind when you're waving that wand around!
Can't wait to see you come out on FB and share your happy news with the world!
Even my midwife had trouble finding Caitlin's HB at first, until she was able to feel which side she was lying on. Plus it seemed to be easy to pick up the umbilical cord rather than the actual HB, I couldn't tell the difference until she explained. Her placenta was anterior like a previous commenter mentioned. Anyway, as frustrating as it is, try not to worry that you can't find the HB yourself just yet- even the pros can struggle!
Oh, that is so soon! Fingers crossed for Monday's appointment.
Good luck! We didn't get to hear the heartbeat at the NT scan---we only saw it beating (still cool though).
We opted not to do the NT scan, but I think they started listening for the heartbeats (as opposed to just seeing them on the u/s) at my 11 week appointment and we heard them then. It can take a few weeks longer sometimes though, so don't be discouraged if you don't hear it tomorrow!
Aly,I didn't know you were expecting! Congratulations!! Much love and many wishes for a happy and healthy pregnancy!


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Maryna Zagórska (Maria Zagórska, z domu Woycieszonek, ur. 7 maja 1906 w Sankt Petersburgu, zm. 10 grudnia 1996 w Warszawie), polska tłumaczka literatury pięknej, współpracowniczka Komitetu Obrony Robotników i Komitetu Samoobrony Społecznej "KOR".

Życiorys
Studiowała historię na Uniwersytecie Stefana Batorego w Wilnie. Była żoną poety i członka wileńskiej grupy literackiej "Żagary", Jerzego Zagórskiego. Po II wojnie światowej była m.in. kierownikiem literackim teatru w Częstochowie.

Tłumaczyła z języków: rosyjskiego, litewskiego, ukraińskiego i czeskiego.

W styczniu 1976 roku podpisała list protestacyjny do Komisji Nadzwyczajnej Sejmu PRL przeciwko zmianom w Konstytucji Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej.

Wraz z mężem, Jerzym odznaczona medalem "Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata".

Mieszkała w Warszawie. Matka Włodzimierza Zagórskiego. Jej wnuczką jest Joanna Skórnicka, tłumaczka literatury pięknej i redaktor.

Pochowana wraz z mężem na cmentarzu Powązkowskim (kwatera 169-2-19).

Tłumaczenia (wybór)
 Anatol Sołowcow, Rimski-Korsakow (Wydawnictwo Literackie 1956; seria: "Monografie popularne" – wyd. 2 [nowe]: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne 1975, 1989, )
 Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ravel (Wydawnictwo Literackie 1961; seria: "Monografie popularne"; wyd. 2: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne 1977)
 praca zbiorowa, pod red. A. Czegodajewa, Historia sztuki starożytnej (red. wydania polskiego: Maria i Władysław Leśniewscy; Wydawnictwo Literackie 1967)
 Władimir Sołouchin, Spotkania z ikonami (Wydawnictwo Literackie 1975)
 Lew Wygotski, Psychologia sztuki (oprac. przekładu Tadeusz Szyma; opracowanie naukowe tekstu, wstęp oraz komentarz Stanisław Balbus, Wydawnictwo Literackie 1980, )
 Grigoł Abaszydze, Syn królowej Tamar. Kronika gruzińska z XIII w. (Wydawnictwo Literackie 1985, )

Przypisy

Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie
Członkowie i współpracownicy Komitetu Samoobrony Społecznej "KOR"
Członkowie i współpracownicy KOR
Ludzie urodzeni w Warszawie
Ludzie związani z Częstochową
Pochowani na cmentarzu Powązkowskim w Warszawie
Polscy Sprawiedliwi wśród Narodów Świata
Polscy tłumacze literatury czeskiej
Polscy tłumacze literatury litewskiej
Polscy tłumacze literatury rosyjskojęzycznej
Polscy tłumacze literatury ukraińskiej
Sygnatariusze Memoriału 101
Urodzeni w 1906
Zmarli w 1996