Are moms who feed their kids fast food condemning them to a life of sickness and obesity?
It is common sense, of course, that produce would taste better when raised in accord with nature. However, it has now been proven with scientific evidence.
Researchers at Washington State University found this to be true in lab taste trials where organic strawberries were regularly said to be tastier.
I want the best tasting food that I can get! Duh!
5.	Science has gotten a little hasty with some of its new inventions.
Organic fought for 13 years to become federal law, but GMOs for example, are swiftly becoming acceptable. An astonishing 30 percent of our cropland is growing GMOs at this time.
Organic foods are the only way to ensure that dangerous chemical, cloned foods and other scary science isn't making it to your plate.
I don't know about you but I don't want my kids eating cloned food, pesticides and other harmful ingredients.
Organic may or may not be what you choose for your family but I hope that it has become clear that there is some solid evidence in its support. I hope that the points outlined in this article have shed some light on why I choose organics for my family.
We are all doing our best with the resources and knowledge that we have. It is no one's place to judge the mom at the drive thru after a long day at work. Instead, let's have honest and open and helpful discussions with one another.


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The Bible says in I Timothy 5:8 "But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and worse than an unbeliever. I believe the Bible is very clear that we should provide for our families, but what if you are not here to do that anymore?
Today, I would like to focus on one of the 5 building blocks to a good financial plan that Jerry has been teaching for sometime now and that is protection through life insurance.
When was the last time you looked at your life insurance coverage? How long has it been since you sat down with a calculator and considered your loved ones' financial needs? If it's been a while, you're in good company. Most of us craft our life insurance programs with care when purchasing a policy, then forget to revisit the subject as times change. Of course it's only natural to avoid thinking about the possibility of our death. Still, the payoff can be worth the extra effort it takes to perform a periodic review.
If it's been more than five years since your last life insurance checkup, you may be missing opportunities to take advantage of newer life insurance policies that are more cost-effective and competitive. Policies purchased years ago may not be capable of fulfilling your current needs. Changes in the life insurance industry in recent years should inspire you to review your coverage. Interest rates that are being credited to your old whole and universal life policies may have decreased, making your current policy less cost-effective than newer policies that could possibly provide equal coverage with lower premiums. However, with a new policy you will face a new suicide clause and incontestability period.
You don't want to leave your heirs legal and tax problems that could have been avoided. Beneficiary designations will override a will, so it is important to review your beneficiary designations on your life insurance policies.
Use the Rule of Two when naming your beneficiaries. Name two backup beneficiaries for every person named. If the primary beneficiary dies before the insured, failure to name a contingent beneficiary may cause the assets to go into Probate where there is a risk of higher costs and creditor access. I have seen many times where people have not named a contingent beneficiary or they have simply named their estate as the contingent beneficiary and this is a major mistake.
Another major planning error of a life insurance policy is naming an improper owner. This error can possibly result in higher estate taxes being levied and with the possibility of the Bush tax cuts expiring at year end, this error of having an improper owner on a life insurance policy could cost your beneficiaries thousands of dollars in estate taxes.
What kind of events should trigger a life insurance checkup?
1. If you are newly married.
5. If you have had a major career change.
So please take some time to review your life insurance policies to make sure they are set up properly and that they will provide enough money to care for your family in case you are not here to take care of them yourself.


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Browsing subject area: Gun control -- United States (Include extended shelves)
Gun control -- United States
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Filed under: Gun control -- United States
Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001), by Alexander DeConde (multiple formats at Northeastern)
Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture (some illustrations omitted; 1999), by Violence Policy Center (illustrated HTML at vpc.org)
Automated Record Checks for Firearm Purchasers: Issues and Options (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
Assault Weapons and Accessories in America (1988), by Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence and New Right Watch (Organization) (HTML at vpc.org)
"Use the Schools": How Federal Tax Dollars are Spent to Market Guns to Kids (Washington: Violence Policy Center, ca. 1994), by Susan Glick and Josh Sugarmann (HTML at vpc.org)
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), by Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
Following the Gun: Enforcing Federal Laws Against Firearms Traffickers (2000), by United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (page images at HathiTrust)
Project Safe Neighborhoods: America's Network Against Gun Violence (2004), by United States Bureau of Justice Assistance (page images at HathiTrust)
Things You Can Do to Defend Your Gun Rights , by Alan M. Gottlieb and David B. Kopel (text at saf.org)
Filed under: Gun control -- Montana
Shooting for Respectability: Firearms, False Patriots, and Politics in Montana (c2003), by Montana Human Rights Network, contrib. by Ken Toole (PDF at mhrn.org)
Filed under: Gun control
Targeting Ammunition: A Primer (Geneva: Small Arms Survey, c2006), ed. by Stéphanie Pézard and Holger Anders (PDF with commentary at smallarmssurvey.org)
Society Under Siege: Licit Responses to Illicit Arms (1998), ed. by Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse and Sarah Meek (PDF files at issafrica.org)
Smoke Signals: Selected Writing (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2016), by Simon Chapman (PDF with commentary in Australia)
Filed under: Gun control -- Africa, Southern
Hide and Seek: Taking Account of Small Arms in Southern Africa (2004), ed. by Chandré Gould and Guy Lamb (PDF files at issafrica.org)
Filed under: Gun control -- South Africa
Society Under Siege: Managing Arms in South Africa (2000), ed. by Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse and Clare Hansmann (PDF files at issafrica.org)
Filed under: Gun control -- Australia
Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's Fight for Gun Control (originally published 1998; this edition Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2013), by Simon Chapman (PDF with commentary in Australia)
Filed under: Gun control -- Europe, Western
Rampage Shootings and Gun Control: Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe (London and New York: Routledge, c2017), by Steffen Hurka (HTML and PDF with commentary at taylorandfrancis.com)
Filed under: Firearms -- Law and legislation
Filed under: Firearms -- Law and legislation -- Africa, Southern
Filed under: Firearms -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
Filed under: Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States
Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Timothy D. Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
Putting Guns Back Into Criminals' Hands: 100 Case Studies of Felons Granted Relief From Disability Under Federal Firearms Laws (Washington: Violence Policy Center, 1992), by Josh Sugarmann and Kristen Rand (HTML at vpc.org)
Filed under: Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Periodicals
The American Rifleman , by National Rifle Association of America (partial serial archives)
Filed under: Firearms -- United States -- Data processing
Filed under: Firearms -- United States -- Periodicals
Shooting Sports USA (National Rifle Association publication begun in late 1980s; online from mid-2009) (partial serial archives)
Filed under: Firearms -- United States -- Use in crime prevention -- Periodicals
America's 1st Freedom (disaggregated articles online from this and other NRA publications), by National Rifle Association of America (partial serial archives)
Filed under: Firearms -- United States -- Testing
American National Standard Voluntary Industry Performance Standards Criteria for Evaluation of New Firearms Designs Under Conditions of Abusive Mishandling, for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers (ANSI/SAAMI Z299.5-2016, c2016), contrib. by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute and American National Standards Institute (PDF at saami.org)
Filed under: Assault weapons -- United States
Filed under: Firearms -- Purchasing -- United States
Filed under: Firearms -- Social aspects -- United States
Joe Camel With Feathers: How the NRA With Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (Washington: Violence Policy Center, 1997; two appendices omitted), by Susan Glick and Josh Sugarmann (HTML at vpc.org)
Filed under: Firearms -- Standards -- United States
Filed under: United States
A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
Filed under: United States -- Antiquities
River Basin Surveys Papers (partial serial archives)
Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)
Filed under: United States -- Appropriations and expenditures
Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)
Filed under: United States -- Armed Forces
America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)
Filed under: United States -- Biography
Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Cambridge Sketches , by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers , by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
With Americans of Past and Present Days , by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 , by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Success Factor , by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

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What Nate Oats Said About Darius Miles, Alabama Basketball Player Arrested For Murder
Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats spoke to reporters a day after Crimson Tide player Darius Hairston Miles, 21, of Washington, DC, was one of two suspects arrested on capital homicide charges. Oats began his press conference by offering his condolences to the family and friends of victim Jamea Jonae Harris, the 23-year-old woman who was shot.
"I would like to start today by sending our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Jamea Jonae Harris," Oats said Monday. "A young woman, daughter and mother who was snatched away from a senseless act far too young. This is an incredibly sad situation. Our hearts are with their loved ones. We keep them in our thoughts and prayers as they continue to mourn."
Miles was detained without bail, according to the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit. Miles was released from the team on Sunday.
Oats said staff brought the team together Sunday night.
"I thought it was important that we're all here to support each other in this situation," Oats said.
Oats said in his opening remarks that he could not add anything that has not already been communicated about the investigation as it is pending.
"You may have some questions, but there is nothing I can comment on regarding Darius' situation and the investigation," Oats said.
Another suspect, Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of Charles County, Maryland, is also facing murder charges and was also detained without bail. An email from the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit states that Davis is not affiliated with UA.
Oats said there were lots of hugs when the team met last night and everyone knows what services the university is offering to help the team deal with this situation.
What was Oats' message to its players?
"It is truly a tragedy, especially for Jamea and her family," Oats said. "I wish we didn't have to address this situation, but we have to pull together as a team at this point and… really be there for each other."
Oats was asked if the incident was limited to Miles or if other players were involved.
"All of our remaining team is traveling to Nashville and will be available for the game tomorrow," Oats said.
Oats said he received a call about Sunday morning's shooting. He immediately called Alabama Athletics Director Greg Byrne. Oats said the two have begun implementing their plan to deal with the situation.
According to the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit, the shooting reportedly took place on the 400 block of Grace Street off University Boulevard and appears to be the result of a minor dispute between the victims and suspects.
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Officers from the Tuscaloosa Police Department and the University of Alabama Police Department were called to the scene of a reported shooting at approximately 1:45 a.m. near the Walk of Champions at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Responding officers contacted the driver of a vehicle who had called for help outside the stadium when they saw a UA police vehicle.
Captain Jack Kennedy, commander of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit, did not specify Sunday who investigators believe pulled the trigger, but he said both suspects face charges because their actions led to Harris' death.
The driver of the vehicle, not Harris, told officers the vehicle was shot and he fired back in self-defense, possibly hitting one of the attackers.
After speaking to witnesses and viewing CCTV, investigators said Miles and Davis were identified as suspects.
Miles had only played six games that season and missed time with both an ankle injury and what Oats described as "personal reasons" after the Mississippi State Game. Miles was ruled out for Saturday's season with an ankle injury.
"He actually returned to DC to take care of that personal matter that he was away with for a couple of weeks," Oats said. "He had the ankle injury which kind of lasted. He had several problems. They all had nothing to do with that incident on Sunday morning."
NNick Kelly reports on Alabama football and men's basketball for The Tuscaloosa News/USA TODAY Network. Reach him via email: [email protected] Follow him on Twitter: @_NickKelly.
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Mark Buehrle, White Sox legend
You can't say enough about the things Mark Buehrle has done for this franchise.
On The Field
– Career record: 132-90
– Since 2001, he has pitched more than 200 innings and won at least 10 games every year
– 4 All-Star game selections (1 start)
– Started Game 2 of the 2005 World Series (which the Sox won) and got the save in the wild Game 3 which went 14 innings
– 2007 no-hitter against Texas (one walk to Sosa was the only blemish. Sosa was then picked off and Buehrle still faced the minimum)
– Hit his first career home run this year in Milwaukee
– And now, a PERFECT GAME
Mark Buehrle's style is something that makes this accomplishment even more special. For years, baseball "analysts" speculated he would never pitch a no-hitter. They would give him the benefit of the doubt for being a great pitcher, but said he'd never do it since his stuff is not overpowering and he's a guy who relies on things like location and his defense. Never say never because Mark has made all those people look foolish.
Mark is also a great defender and says one of his goals is to win the Gold Glove. Besides that, 20 wins (he had 19 in 2002) and the Cy Young, there isn't much left for Mark to achieve. That's saying a lot for a guy who really flies under the radar considering what he has accomplished.
The best part of Buehrle's success is that he's a great guy. He has fun with the game and appreciates the fans. He is as close as an athlete can get to being a regular guy. He is very modest and humble. From spending times with the fans to sliding on the tarp during rain delays, Mark is one of the good guys in this game. Just like in his 2007 no-hitter, Buehrle spent most of the game talking to his teammates in the dugout, jokingly asking them "did you know I've got a no-hitter going on?". His teammates love him for his personality, but also appreciate his traits on the field. The defense must love playing behind one of the quickest workers in baseball. Mark appreciates the White Sox and showed his loyalty by taking a favorable deal a couple years ago. He could've been traded at the time, gone on to make a lot more money, and pitched for teams like Boston (who were rumored to be the favorites to land Buehrle in a possible trade), but he took less and accepted an extension in Chicago.
Game Tidbits
There have been a lot of fun facts coming out from the game today.
– The Sox offense today? 5 runs on 6 hits. That 5-6-0 looks just as special as the Rays' line on the box score (A great job by Josh Fields today to take advantage of his start)
– The umpire, Eric Cooper, also called Buehrle's last no-hitter. The real ironic part? Cooper's number is 56, the same as Buehrle.
– Dewayne Wise, who had the amazing game saving catch, was a member of the 2004 Atlanta Braves. That is the team that Randy Johnson threw a perfect game against. I can't say enough about Wise (and by the way, Wise robbed Gabe Kapler. Last year Chris Young had a perfect game in the 8th inning until Kapler hit a home run). I have given him and the Sox a beating regarding their decision to keep Wise on the major league team, but I will gladly eat crow today. Does history change if Wise was sent down this week when Quentin came back? The ground that Wise covered, the timing, holding on to the bobble, the circumstances…WHAT A CATCH
– The fact that it was done against the Tampa Bay Rays makes it even more impressive. The defending A.L. champs currently have the 3rd best batting average and 2nd best on-base percentage in the A.L.
– 1st place! This win put the Sox in a tie for first place with the Detroit Tigers. The Sox now go to Detroit for a huge 4 game series, including a double-header tomorrow.
And I will finish this post with a cool little story Mark told after the game. Mark and A.J. Pierzynski have a running joke about personal catchers whenever someone else catches Buehrle. Today it was Ramon Castro (who actually caught Buehrle for the first time ever. Castro was acquired from the Mets this year. I guess there's another fun little connection, since the Mets have never had a no-hitter in their history). Before the game, Mark and A.J. were joking with each other about it, and had a conversation that went something like this:
A.J: Come on, you never go deep into games anymore, you've got your own catcher, throw a complete game
Mark: I don't know, I think I've past the point where I can finish my own game (something the Sox post-game crew joked with Buehrle about on July 2nd in KC. Buehrle pitched into the 9th but had to be pulled for Jenks to close the game)
A.J: Come on…just go out there and throw a no-hitter
Mark: But I've already got one of those
A.J: Alright, then throw a perfect game…
CONGRATULATIONS MARK BUEHRLE
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July 20th Pregame – White Sox bring up Quentin, send down Anderson; Rays come to town
The Carlos Quentin is back…and it comes at the expense of Brian Anderson. Let's start off with Quentin. Obviously, sticking Quentin in the middle of the order is going to help both the entire lineup and the bottom of the order. It'll be interesting to see how Carlos does. The general belief is that he is still banged up, but the only way he'll be able to play is to tough it out and play through pain. Because of this, Sox fans probably shouldn't expect the MVP performance of last year, but he is still a welcome addition.
Mark Gonzales, White Sox beat writer, has the lineup today per his Twitter account (http://twitter.com/MDGonzales/status/2743867038):
Pierzynski – C
Quentin – LF
Getz – 2B Nix – 2B (Update: Not sure if Getz was scratched or if Mark just had it wrong)
Fields – DH
Floyd – SP
Quentin starts off hitting 6th, which is a nice move since the Sox offense has been doing well recently and too much pressure isn't thrown onto Carlos. I am a little surprised he isn't a DH tonight. Thome is sitting against a lefty (even though he is red hot. Ozzie loves those %s…). Tonight the Sox face the talented David Price, who showed everyone what he had during last year's playoff run. Price hasn't won a game on the road this year, and has been roughed up in a few of his starts, but is coming off a good start.
Let's face it, the Sox offense has been fine recently. If the Sox want to win games, the pitching has to step it up. Floyd beat the Rays in Tampa this year, but has had his share of struggles. He has been good at home, and his great June showed hope of a return to last season's form, but he has been average in his two starts in July (though his last start in Minnesota was better than his stats lead on).
Now, back to Quentin…there has been speculation these past weeks about who would be the roster casualty, and it's Brian. For many Sox fans, this is a tough pill to swallow. The move makes me wonder about Ozzie playing favorites and having some personal problem with Anderson. Since Anderson, a great defender, was slated to be the CF heir in 2006, he has battled Rob Mackowiak, Darin Erstad, and an older Ken Griffey Jr. for playing time. The problem with Anderson has always been his offense, but he has never really gotten a chance to prove himself. He had a tough start at the plate, just like Gordon Beckham when he came up, but Beckham got time and came out of his hitting woes in a fury. Now if you compare Dewayne Wise to Brian Anderson, you start to really wonder why this decision was made. Here are their stats this year:
Career numbers tell the same story. Anderson is also a good base runner and a much better defender. In fact, he has been used as a late game defensive replacement many times since 2005. Remember, Quentin in LF also moves Podsednik, who is not the strongest defender, to CF. Wouldn't it be smarter to keep a guy like Anderson on the team…? Something's not right here…
Written by chisoxchatter 3 Comments Posted in Dailies	Tagged with Brian Anderson, Carlos Quentin, Dewayne Wise, Gameday, Lineup, Ozzie, pregame, Rays, White Sox


If you read the Cloffice post last week (if you didn't, you can click HERE to go check it out!), you may recall I said I'd do some additional blog posts about the different parts of the makeover, otherwise it would've been one loooong post;) So today we're going to talk about the little shelves I made for the itty bitty nook to the left.
It seemed like such wasted space, if we were making this our office. And shelves seemed like such an obvious choice. Always a good idea to go vertical when you're short on space. But talk about a tough one to figure out. It's so tiny, and there's a duct behind that wall, so didn't want to drill in there (we had an issue with that when drilling in the desk – more on that in the desk post!). So basically, I had to hang the shelves from the back wall.
This could work! So I put six in the cart (two for each of the three shelves I envisioned), and kept on walking.
I found a piece of wood for about $5 that could be cut into three pieces easily. I left the store and got to work.
….then I got the level out and started getting the brackets up!
…and put the shelves on top.
They don't hold anything heavy – more like some extra space for little odds and ends, a jar of pens, a faux little plant, a bowl of memory cards for the camera, that kinda stuff. So I wasn't concerned about the weight factor. If I wanted to hang anything heavy, I would've gone a different route.
They were fairly quick and easy – and inexpensive! The brackets were $3 a piece. So under $25 for the whole project! Not too bad.


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Trump endorses rival against Idaho Gov. Brad Little
The former president is backing Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who has sought to undermine the current governor.
Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin wrote in a tweet that it was "a great honor" to receive Trump's endorsement, and that there's "much more to come from the two of us." | Nathan Howard/Getty Images
By Zach Montellaro
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin's bid to primary Gov. Brad Little, as the former president looks to further remake the Republican Party in his image.
Trump's Tuesday evening endorsement of McGeachin does not mention or even allude to Little, who first won the office in 2018. Instead, Trump praises her as "a true supporter of MAGA since the very beginning" who has his "Complete and Total Endorsement" to be the next governor of the state.
McGeachin and Little have been locked in a bizarre power struggle, as she challenges him. On several occasions when Little has left the state, McGeachin has used her authority as acting governor to issue executive orders often in relation to various pandemic-related mandates, which she has tried to ban. Little has then rescinded those orders.
A spokesperson for Little did not immediately return a request for comment. A spokesperson for the Republican Governors Association noted that the RGA supports its incumbent governors, but did not comment further.
McGeachin wrote in a tweet that it was "a great honor" to receive Trump's endorsement, and that there's "much more to come from the two of us."
Idaho Gov. Brad Little delivers his State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 in Boise, Idaho. Behind Otter, from left to right, are: President Pro Tem Sen. Brent Hill, R-Rexburg; Speaker of the House Rep. Scott Bedke, R-Oakley; and Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger) | Otto Kitsinger/AP Photo
Big problem for Little: Trump's endorsement of McGeachin could present an existential challenge for Republicans. Unlike other Republican governors the now-former president has raged against — including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine — Little has done little to draw Trump's ire, at least publicly.
Recently, Little tweeted that it was "an honor to be recognized" by Trump at an event. Trump gave Little a brief shoutout at a gala for the America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit closely aligned with the former president, held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Nov. 4.
"We also have Gov. Brad Little, who is a terrific gentleman," Trump said a week ago. "Thank you Brad. He's working on a project."
Trump's endorsement suggests that deference may not be enough to stop the former president from cannon-balling into any election.
Ximena Bustillo contributed to this report.
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Those Rights Include Right to Disagree
William F Torpey
Graduated NYU 1964. Worked in NYC in public relations 2 years then as reporter/news editor 32 years at The Hour newspapers. Retired in 2000.
European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
The United States Constitution
There always seems to be more issues dividing us than uniting us. If it's not one thing it's another. It's the story of humanity.
This is a free country! We can think what we want to think, believe what we want to believe, go where we want to go, say what we want to say, do what we want to do!
We can associate with anyone we want or belong to any club or group we care to join. In this country we are fortunate because our founding fathers, knowing the importance of individual rights, tried to spell them out in a document called the "Bill of Rights" -- and they did a darn good job, too.
But little did they know what 300 years of development could lead to -- despite their valiant effort to put flexibility into the Constitution to make it viable for centuries to come.
The founders could not have foreseen the extent of our disagreement over rights: state's rights, voting rights and abortion rights; the right to work, right to life, the right to live and the right to die, the right of the minority to be free from the tyranny of the majority -- and one right I reserve for myself: The right to be wrong!
Rights! Everyone wants -- no, demands -- his rights.
And then there's gay rights; the latest battleground.
The nation is clearly badly divided on the gay question; their opinions cover the entire spectrum from total opposition to total support.
A recent UConn poll indicates that support in Connecticut for President Clinton's lifting of the ban against homosexuals in the military is waning.
The numbers also indicate a generation gap: People under 30 approve of gays in the military by a much larger margin than people over 60. There are those who say the sexual orientation of any individual is nobody's business; others, tagged homophobes by those who preach tolerance for gays, say it is unnatural and abhorrent to be homosexual and, therefore, homosexuals should not be approved and, perhaps, not even tolerated.
Many people have developed negative attitudes about gays from those who have had a high profile over the years: Gays who have accosted them on the streets, gays arrested in public places, gays seen disrupting parades.
'Just Like Everyone Else'
In the past decade or so, previously low-profile gays have "outed," telling the world they're just like everyone else and maintaining that their sexual orientation has nothing to do with how they do their jobs.
They say, as the Clinton Administration does, that one should be judged by his behavior, not by his sexual orientation.
I say gays do have rights, but they are human rights, not gay rights.
Gays have a right to be gay, but not the right to others' approval.
Fairminded, Not Judgmental
Fair-minded people are not judgmental about other people. Just as one's religion is his own business, so is one's sexuality.
But, while I respect your right to your beliefs, I am not obligated to permit you to teach them to my children.
This column was written for The Hour newspaper of Norwalk, Conn., on Feb. 13, 1993. I now write my views on a wide variety of topics on HubPages.
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6 years ago from South Valley Stream, N.Y.
Thank you, mbuggieh, for your welcome contribution to the conversation. My opinions on these issues, I admit, have been influenced by having been taught as a boy by the good Sisters of Charity at St. Peter's School in Yonkers, N.Y., as well as observations on the streets of Yonkers back then. But my views have moderated considerably over the years -- even since I wrote this piece in 1993.
mbuggieh
Civil liberties are those protected by the Bill of Rights. Among these: Freedom of AND from religion, freedom of speech, due process, privacy rights. Civil rights are the right of each of us to be protected by the government FROM each other. One cannot have civil liberties if one does not have a government protecting civil rights because there will always be someone trying to curtail the rights of someone else because they have deemed that someone else a problem to be solved. We see this all too clearly in history with efforts to curtail the rights of people of color, of women, of people with disabilities, of gays and lesbians.
This is why laws are needed to protect basic human rights. Read the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution. Read the political thought of the Enlightenment which informs each. The message is clear: Governments are "instituted among men" to protect civil liberties---to protect the "inalienable rights" we are ALL---without reference to being (among other things) a person of color, female, disabled or gay or lesbian, born with.
Your rights end where they infringe on the rights of another. Your right, for example, to hate homosexuals because your religion tells you too ENDS where my right to freedom FROM your religion and my right my life begins.
And finally, for anyone who thinks the Founders did not understand that disagreement and conflict would emerge in a democratic society, read some history. Read Madison's NOTES ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION and pay particular attention to his effort to sell the US Constitution to anti-federalists as a document that would curtail majoritarianism and protect the rights of minorities.
12 years ago from South Valley Stream, N.Y.
Thank you for your comment, stanskill.
stanskill
12 years ago from Greensburg, PA
Acceptance isn't important to me neither. That is why I wrote a proposal to my community to make these conversations obsolete for future generations.
Yeah, it seems they want to be sure you know they are gay and keep shoving it down our throats. And heaven forbid you say anything negative, then they cry fowl.
You said it Bill we don't have to have it taught to our kids as being normal.And frankly, the thought of it turns my stomach. I really feel creepy at the idea of being in a rest room with one. It's just unnatural. Good observation on tolerance. I notice the same thing. We seniors are pretty much anti gay, our kids, tolerate it a bit more. Our grand kids think it is OK. In a discussion with one of my granddaughters, I told her Satan has done a good job at getting sin accepted in society in the past 50 years.
I agree. They have rights . I also have rights. It seems that they want to infringe on my rights. As you wrote . I have the right not to approve of them . I DON'T. What they do in their privacy is their business and not mine. JUST DON"T TRY TO SHOVE THE GAY LIFE STYLE DOWN MY THROAT.


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Bush-honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
Small to medium-sized shrub with shimmering shiny green and copper foliage, and delicate, small yellow flowers that are produced all summer and are an important sources of nectar for bumblebees. A plant of edge habitats and anthropogenic sites (roadsides, clear-cuts, ditches), it thrives in a range of soil and light conditions, from dry to seasonally flooded, sun to shade. Native from Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, south to Virginia into the Appalachians.
By Pamela Johnson
Many of us were introduced to the nectaries of honeysuckle flowers when we were children. Summer's delights were distilled into that first bead of sunlit sweetness stolen from the base of honeysuckle's trumpet. The flower most often purloined and sampled was probably from a vining Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), an introduced ornamental now creeping steadily from intentional plantings, into the landscape, throughout New England.
There are other exotic honeysuckles, also garden escapes, well-established in Maine. With the inadvertent help of birds who eat their fruit and evacuate the seeds, these honeysuckles can "travel" across fields, roads, into woods, far from their origins of cultivation. One species, European honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum), is a vine, like Japanese honeysuckle. The other non-natives are large, shambling bushes (L. maackii, L. morrowii, L. tatarica, L. x bella, L. xylosteum) that leaf out in May, produce quantities of fruit, and outcompete their neighbors which might include some of the less bumptious native bush-honeysuckles – especially the delicate American honeysuckle, Lonicera canadensis. An easy method of distinguishing native and non-native honeysuckles, at any time of year, is to examine the center of a broken branch or twig: exotic honeysuckles are hollow-stemmed; native honeysuckles have a white pith, or core.
One of our native bush-honeysuckles is placed in a different genus than its cousins the Loniceras.[1] Diervilla lonicera, along with its southern relatives Diervilla sessilifolia and D. rivularis, has seed capsules, rather than fleshy, berry-like fruits containing seeds. Diervilla lonicera, northern-bush honeysuckle, is found throughout Maine in a variety of habits. And felicitously, this indefatigable shrub is more available in nurseries, and being planted by landscapers and gardeners.[2]
Bush-honeysuckle might be overlooked when its stems are unclothed, just a haze of fine, pale branches in winter. In every other season, Diervilla lonicera charms. Nascent foliage emerges in unusual tints of coppery green and bronze; the tender new growth of stems is crimson. New leaves and branching stems, produced unstintingly throughout summer and early fall, maintain these colors; the branches arch stylishly as they lengthen.
The complexity of colors is especially appealing when bush-honeysuckle flowers. Small greenish-yellow buds appear in early June and open later in the month. Pairs and trios of flowers reside in lower leaf axils while branch tips have a long-blooming terminal cyme providing a durable feast for nectar-seeking insects, as well as hummingbirds.
While summer progresses, older foliage (lower on the branches of bush-honeysuckle) is deeper green and less silken-looking than newly manufactured growth, but a blush of red remains. In autumn a few flowers may linger while the shrub's leaves extinguish themselves in a final blaze of yellow, orange, burgundy or scarlet.
The constant floral banquet benefits butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) and any long-tongued insects who can probe for nectar. Aside from native bumblebees, (Bombus affinis, B. terricola, B. vagans) the Sphingidae (called sphinx moths as larvae, and hawk or hummingbird moths as adults[3]) sip bush-honeysuckle's flower nectars from long straw-like mouth parts. Smaller short-tongued insect diners include the Anthophoridae (digger bees) the Megachilidae (leafcutter bees) and the Halictidae (sweat bees, Lasioglossum species). After any of these attendants have visited, and incidentally pollinated the flowers, bush-honeysuckle's flowers turn deeper yellow, salmon, peach then red, adding other colors to the shrub's lively palette.
Deer browse bush-honeysuckle but in most cases this encourages branching and flushes of colorful new growth. Thickets of bush-honeysuckle provide sturdy shelter for ground-nesting birds.
Diervilla lonicera's extraordinary, long season of bloom makes the shrub a workhorse in the garden. Its height, less than four feet, combines and accommodates perennials in a traditional border. Northern bush-honeysuckles are essential in hedgerow plantings, filling the flower void when most companion native shrubs and trees are busy setting fruit. Its drought-tolerance, resilient root system, indifference to soil conditions, and ability to re-sprout, make the bush-honeysuckle a primary candidate for erosion control, or planting in difficult sites like driveway margins. Assault by snowplow does not faze Diervilla lonicera. The somewhat brittle stems may break under heavy snowload, but this seems to be a rather natural pruning and regeneration mechanism. Bush-honeysuckle, in gardens, responds well to thinning of older stems.
Once identified in the wilder landscape, bush-honeysuckle will enchant you with its surprising colors, and its thrum and wriggle of feeding bumblebees. Favorite roadside patches include a neglected strip alongside an old blueberry barren where Diervilla lonicera is spliced with Spiraea alba, white meadowsweet (Thalictrum pubescens) and Rosa carolina's broad pink flowers, with eruptions of Thalictrum pubescens, tall meadow-rue- a fairly riotous tumble of texture and bloom. Another is a pure colony that lies across a ledge like a ferruginous blanket. Yet another wild planting sits beneath a delicate canopy of mountain maple (Acer spicatum), the bush honeysuckle's foliage darker green in the shade and punctuated by a bright green of assorted ferns.
Diervilla lonicera spreads readily from its stoloniferous roots, forming clonal stands. Plants are easy to grow from seed, gathered in late fall when the seed capsules dry and turn dark brown. The seed is small, dark-colored with a slight greyish bloom when ripe. Seeds can be sown immediately out of doors, lightly covering the seed with sand or, stored dry in the refrigerator and sown in spring.
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[1] The three eastern North American Diervillas were named for Doctor Marin Dièreville, a French surgeon who voyaged to Acadia, now the eastern provinces of Canada, in 1699. Little is known about Dr. Dièreville, even the accurate spellings of his first and last names. Returning to France after a year in the New World, he published an account of his sojourn Rélation du Voyage du Port Royal de l'Acadie ou de la Nouvelle France, in Rouen, in 1708. His collection of twenty-five Acadian plants found its way to Joseph Pitton de Tourneforte, and it was Tourneforte who named the North American bush-honeysuckle for Dièreville. If the adventurous doctor arrived in Port Royal in October, as he reports, he may have been in time to see a few late-season bush-honeysuckle flowers clasped by a nimbus of scarlet leaves.
[2] Diervilla lonicera is recognized by the nursery trade for its own merits and it is most often sold as a straight species, that is, not yet, widely hybridized for what plant breeders consider desirable traits they think consumers prefer. Other native species, including the southern bush-honeysuckle, Diervilla sessilifolia, are too frequently found as selected cultivars, bred for characteristics which may interfere with faunal associations (sterile, pollen-less flowers is the most notorious sales gimmick).
[3] Tallamy, Douglas W. 2007. Bringing Nature Home. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, Inc.
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When an international celebrity of Luciano Pavarotti's magnitude dies, it's only to be expected that there will soon follow a flood of posthumous recordings. But what to make of the posthumous hoagie?
You'd think that in a town where Pavarotti spent not a little time and kept an apartment and where there are sandwiches named for Gloria Estefan, Larry Gatlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Pesci, and Fyvush Finkle (to rattle off just a handful), there would already be at least one Pavarotti. The man, after all, was a prodigious foodie and a relentless pastavore. He stood six feet tall in his stockings, weighed some 350 pounds, and always carried a giant white handkerchief that one suspects might have served as an impromptu tablecloth as well as a brow-mopper. In short, if ever there were a man who deserved to have an overstuffed sandwich named after him, it would be Pavarotti. And yet, as far as the UG can tell, Alidoro's might be the first Pavarotti this town has ever seen.
Never mind that old fans of the sandwich shop (which was formerly known as Melampo and run by the fearsome Alessandro Gualandi) will recognize the Pavarotti combo as one that was previously listed on the menu as an Arzibubo — a Gualandi name, and one whose meaning was lost on everyone except perhaps Gualandi himself. (An Italian friend of the UG after some head scratching surmised that Arzibubo was Florentine dialect for someone who is complicated or confused.) And never mind that Pavarotti might have preferred, rather than salami, his beloved prosciutto di Parma or perhaps some mortadella from the Emilia-Romagna region where he was born.


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Religions aside, it's all for a good cause… →
I don't think there is such a thing as a soul mate
I get the thrill of the concept, of course. There's a lot of romance built around the idea that there's only one person for everyone and it's only a matter of meeting..somehow, somewhere… Hell, much of Hollywood has grown rich off that storyline, even while the stars of those films divorce their spouses every four months. Still, the dream lives on.. that one, that only, soul mate for forever and ever. I can certainly understand the desire to credit deities or fates or kismet or karma when "stars align" and everything just seems to be working out perfectly but, as the The Washington Times reports, it takes more than thinking you're soul mates to be sure your marriage will last.
"Soul mate" couples are often happy at first, because they have intense emotional and personal connections, said W. Bradford Wilcox, lead author of the article in the Sept. 1 issue of Social Science Research.
But their unions are at high risk for disenchantment and divorce because it's hard to sustain such intensity in a long-term relationship, he said.
Instead, couples who have the best chance for lasting happiness are those who are strongly attentive and affectionate with each other (like soul-mate couples) but also believe that marriage is lifelong, and that they should be part of larger social and religious networks.
"In a word, the more spouses embrace the married state, and the institutional norms that go with it, the more they enjoy it," wrote Mr. Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project.
And that's the crux, isn't it? People buy into this idea that a soul mate is possible and that tends to create a false assumption that no work will be required to maintain the connections and sustain the relationship. I won't deny that compatibility is key (probably second most important thing after chemistry) but they're right about that intensity thing – that early rush of whoohoo is delightful but it can't possibly last long enough to build two lives around. There's got to be more in a relationship than two people having a fondness for the same music or movies or sexual positions. There have to be better reasons than that to build something solid on, especially if there's any desire to have it endure. There's got to be something bigger and stronger and longer lasting under it. A real foundation that has less to do with lust and random coincidences and more to do with wanting to make things work, especially when faced with the inevitable challenges that will crop up.
The religion/social connection thing is interesting, too. I would pass on the religious aspect of strengthening a relationship but certainly like the idea of having some kind of social network to be a part of as a couple. It's not healthy to be too self-absorbed (even when it's very, very fun). Joining a club, or staying close with family, or even being able to count on support from reliable friends can help with maintaining a solid bond.
Anyway, the article also mentions a poll done that had to do with people getting grilled about whether they believed in soul mates and whether or not they thought they found one. Weirdly enough, answers varied as much by (American) geography as they did by age.
In the South, Midwest and West, between 96 percent and 97 percent of spouses were sure they had married the "right person," but in the Northeast, only 90 percent thought they had married correctly, with a whopping 10 percent answering "no" to the "right person" question.
Age also made a difference. An astonishing 100 percent of spouses ages 18 to 29 said they married the right person, and older spouses (in the 45-59 and 60-and-older age brackets) were also confident they had married correctly, with 97 percent and 96 percent agreeing, respectively.
But those in the 30-44 age bracket were a tad wobbly, with 92 percent saying they had married the right person and 8 percent saying they had not.
Sucks for those 8%, I suppose, but even if the 92% weren't lying, how many of those relationships could statistically end in divorce anyway?
There is little that is "for sure" in this world, so why would soul mates be exempt?
Am I being hard on "true love" here? I don't think so. I think people can certainly wind up with people who wind up being all they ever wanted and more. I think those are the lucky people and they're even luckier when the feeling is mutual.
But the quest for perfection, that there could be one who's just right, one who's better than whoever you might be with now.. I think that's why a lot of decent relationships that could be long lasting wind up flopping. If one or both people continue to look for that better fish all the time, they're never going to appreciate what they've got in the bloody boat right now. The idea that there actually IS one right person for anyone..how many decently terrific people will the hunter ignore while that search is on?
Not to get all maudlin, but how many times could the hunter have experienced joy and happiness and love in the time wasted looking for that perfect someone who might not even exist at all?
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2 Responses to I don't think there is such a thing as a soul mate
George W. says:
I don't believe in "soul mates" either. I think at some point in your life you are ready to settle down, and when two people who are generally compatible are both ready, you take the next step. I have a lot of chemistry with my wife, and it has never really waned, although I can attest that marriage has been a lot of effort.
The concept of a soul mate is likely part of our higher than necessary divorce rates in this country. If there is such a thing, it comes from effort and work, not just providence or chance.
From another angle, it could also be argued that divorce is a "simple" method to get out of a relationship people never should have been in in the first place. In some cases maybe couples therapy or counseling of some other kind maybe could mend some bridges and break down some walls. Instead of doing that, though, they'll take the divorce route because less work is required in the long run, assuming kids aren't part of the property split, of course.
But yeah, if it's clear early enough that too many problems add up to no good stick-together solutions, why keep at it? "Soul Mate" be damned, I'd rather be happy…


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Pulls out cheddar Pringles That'll be 30 cogs, please!
Would you like more, miss?
I'm full, thank you. BUT I'LL BE BACK.
You're welcome! Come back soon to Stanley's Pringle Emporium!
UUHhhh, I guess I'll be that!
Man! You guys have been busy!
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Canvas - Animated Short Film
A project in Oakland, CA by Chainwheel Productions
An animated short about a man who struggles to regain his passion after suffering a loss
Dates: Feb 19th -> Mar 31st (40 days)
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We Hit Our Goal!
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We did it!! A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to make this happen. We are beyond humbled and grateful for the support and so excited to bring this project to life. We can't wait to share it with all of you! We'll be introducing a few... (Read More)
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Q: How do I initialize an Model object in RoR? I'm creating a website where I want every user to start off with certain values for their attributes.
Here is the class:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  attr_accessible :name,
              :email,
              :goal,
              :measurement,
              :bmr_formula,
              :fat_factor,
              :protien_factor

end

In rails console --sandbox I'm able to change the values. But I want to start the object off with certain values.
For example, I want measurement to begin with "US", bmr_formula to begin with "Katch"...etc instead of nil.
right now, everything starts with nil.
I'll proceed to show what I've tried with the results each attempt got.

Here is what worked:
after_initialize do
   self[:measurement] = "US"
   self[:bmr_formula] = "katch"
   self[:fat_factor] = 0.655
   self[:protein_factor] = 1.25
   puts "User has been initialized!"
end

1.9.3p125 :001 > user = User.new
User has been initialized!
=> #<User id: nil, name: nil, email: nil, goal: nil, measurement: "US", bmr_formula:
"katch", fat_factor: 0, protein_factor: 0, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
1.9.3p125 :002 >

Thanks for the help everyone!

Full Class:
attr_accessible :name,
              :email,
              :goal,
              :measurement,
              :bmr_formula,
              :fat_factor,
              :protien_factor

def initialize(measurement)
@measurement = measurement
# bmr_formula = "katch"
# fat_factor = 0.655
# protien_factor = 1.25
  end

Console:
1.9.3p125 :001 > user = User.new("US")
 => #<User not initialized>

Bottom of Class:
 def initialize
    @measurement = "US"
    # bmr_formula = "katch"
    # fat_factor = 0.655
    # protien_factor = 1.25
  end

Console:
1.9.3p125 :001 > user = User.new
 => #<User not initialized>
1.9.3p125 :002 >

Bottom of Class:
self.@measurement = "US"

Console:
SyntaxError: /Users/Nick/Code/Rails/fitness_app/app/models/user.rb:10: syntax error, unexpected tIVAR
self.@measurement = "US"

Class:
after_initialize :measurement,
                 :bmr_formula,
                 :fat_factor,
                 :protien_factor

 def defaults
   self.measurement = "US"
   self.bmr_formula = "katch"
   self.fat_factor = 0.655
   self.protien_factor = 1.25
  end

Console:
1.9.3p125 :001 > user = User.new
 => #<User id: nil, name: nil, email: nil, goal: nil, measurement: nil, bmr_formula:
nil, fat_factor: nil, protien_factor: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
1.9.3p125 :002 > user.measurement
=> nil
1.9.3p125 :003 > user.bmr_formula
=> nil

A: I would use the after_initialize callback:
after_initialize :default_values
def default_values
  self.status ||= 'P'
  self.measurement = "US"
  self.bmr_formula = "katch"
  self.fat_factor = 0.655
  self.protien_factor = 1.25
end

A: You can use before_create to get in there and muck with things before the object is saved for the first time. If you need it before you've ever saved it, you can use before_initialize to accomplish something similar.
You'd also just want to set self.measurement, not self.@measurement.

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Melania Trump Insists Donald and Billy Bush's 2005 Conversation Was Just 'Boy Talk'
By Tierney McAfee
Melania Trump is opening up about husband Donald Trump's 2005 comments about women in two new interviews.
In a sit-down with CNN's Anderson Cooper that is set to air Monday night, the wife of the GOP nominee says that then-Access Hollywood host Billy Bush "egged on" her husband to make "inappropriate" comments about women in 2005.
"I said to my husband that, you know, the language is inappropriate. It's not acceptable. And I was surprised, because that is not the man that I know," she said.
Melania questioned whether her husband and Bush "even knew that the mic was on" and chalked their conversation up to "boy talk."
"And he was led on — like, egged on — from the host to say dirty and bad stuff," she said.
Melania added that she had never heard her husband use the kind of language he used on the recording, which revealed Donald Trump saying that when you're a "star" you can "grab [women] by the p—y."
"That's why I was surprised," Melania told Cooper. "Because I said like, I don't know that person that would talk that way, and that he would say that kind of stuff in private."
"I heard many different stuff — boys talk," she continued. "The boys, the way they talk when they grow up and they want to sometimes show each other, 'Oh, this and that' and talking about the girls. But yes, I was surprised, of course."
In another new interview that will air on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, Melania told Fox News Channel's Ainsley Earhardt about her reaction to the 2005 tape, and the conversation she had with her husband after it was released on Oct. 7.
"Those words, they were offensive to me and they were inappropriate," Melania said. "And he apologized to me. And I expect — I accept his apology. And we are moving on."
"I — this is not the man that I know," she added. "This is — we could see, as I always said, as my husband said, as well, for a successful businessman, entrepreneur, entertainer to achieving so much in his life, being in so many shows, so many tapes, it's very hard to run for public office. And he did this anyway. He said, I want to help American people. I want to keep America safe. I want to bring back jobs, bring back economy, so our children, our futures will be the best way possible."
Melania's interviews come 10 days after The Washington Post released a leaked 2005 recording of Donald Trump boasting to Bush about kissing and groping women without their consent. The business mogul was married to Melania at the time.
Melania's comments to Earhardt on Fox and Friends are similar to the statement she issued shortly after the tape was released. "The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me. This does not represent the man that I know," she said at the time. "He has the heart and mind of a leader. I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world."
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Asked by Earhardt whether it was fair for the media to bring up the past indiscretions of Donald Trump or Bill Clinton in the 2016 election, the former model pointed to the New York Post's publishing of nude modeling photos of her from the 1990s earlier this year.
"Well, if they bring up my past, why not?" Melania said.
"So they — they're asking for it?" Earhardt asked.
"They're asking for it," Melania replied. "They started from the — from the beginning of the campaign putting my — my picture from modeling days. That was my modeling days and I'm proud what I did. I worked very hard."
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Spain is indeed very beautiful, particularly the area round Barcelona. That is in the province of Gerona and there is a lot of French spoken there. It is the Costa Brava and extends from Port Bou on the French border to Sitges below Barca. Great place and that part of the country is not infested with the Holiday Poms.
Costa Blanca is very beautiful. I have been planned to buy a fantastic property around the coat there. But after thinking over, I gave it up. I only spent there some time only in summer, it is not worth. But I can still remember the property. So sweet!


Highschoolers Stuck In A Van For 5 Hours? What They Decided To Do Has Me In TEARS Laughing!
When you are stuck in the van for five hours… this what happens.
A group of athletes are heading to Seattle and got bored in the middle of the road so they decided to sing Florida Georgia Line – Cruise.
It's not just singing we are about to witness but also their quirky side! They had a little impromptu choreography while sitting!
Watch their hilarious cover in the video below.
As expected, music will ease away the boredom.


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Interview with Helena Machado, Exchange IR (1.8 million euros)
The impact of the expansion of technological systems aimed at combating terrorism and cross-border crime in the EU will be studied until 2020
The Exchange project – Forensic Geneticists and the Transnational Exchange of DNA data in the EU: Engaging Science with Social Control, Citizenship and Democracy, started in October 2015 and will run until 30 September 2020, is led by Helena Machado and is based in the CECS. It has a budget of about 1.8 million euros. This is a Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council. This type of funding is awarded individually to scientists who develop excellence research in the European area, so that they can set up their own teams and develop their area of expertise.
According to Helena Machado, the Exchange project aims addressing the complexities and challenges of the so-called "surveillance society in the 21st century", in the context of an increasingly fragmented Europe, with a view to reflecting on the implications for citizenship, democracy, and social control. The Exchange team is collecting empirical data in the 28 Member States, by conducting interviews and analyzing various types of documentation. At the same time, an in-depth comparative study of five case studies is planned in Portugal, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. "One of the objectives is to understand how genetic technologies are incorporated into criminal investigation processes, and what difficulties and controversies arise in the criminal justice system", emphasizes the researcher.
The Exchange project hired two postdoctoral students and three PhD students who are developing their doctoral thesis within the scope of this study. We will soon hire another PhD researcher, a science and technology manager and two graduates who will have the opportunity to develop their master's dissertations within the project.
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CECS will boost the digital space of the Cultural Recognition Museum
The 'Dynamisation of the digital space of the Museum of Cultural Recognition', which is the result of a partnership between CECS and the Braga Integra project, which Braga Municipal Council is the financing entity, aims to create and make available an autonomous digital platform, the aggregation in this space of relevant information to the training of the migrant population and the active promotion of their inclusion in the host society and the production of multimedia content with narratives about individual paths of migrant citizens residing in Braga. The partnership also provides the creation of a website, tasks that will be coordinated by researchers Luís António Santos and Ana Maria Silva.
Transmedia Literacy International Conference: Registration until February 15
The registration period for the "Transmedia Literacy International Conference" (Teenagers, Tansmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies in the New Media Ecology), which will be held in Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from March 22 to 24, is open until February 15. Registration for congressists with proposals accepted, runs until February 15 and for other participants, as of February 16. The event, is funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 645238, and marks the end of the European Transliteracy project, which began in June 2016. The Portuguese team includes Sara Pereira, Manuel Pinto, Pedro Moura, Joana Fillol and Andreia Lobo.
International Congress "Europe as a Space for Intercultural Dialogue and Mediation": Registration with reduced fees until February 12
The deadline for registration with reduced rates for the International Conference "Europe as a space for Intercultural Dialogue and Mediation", ends on February 12. The Conference, that will be hel at the Unoiversity of Minho, and is organized by CECS in conjunction with other entities, will unleash a space of interdisciplinary debate on the contemporary challenges of contemporary society, addressing issues such as migration, diversity, intercultural communication and mediation in order to deepen the construction of more welcoming, inclusive and peaceful societies.
Summer School on "Surveillance technologies, Criminality, and Human Rights": deadline for submission of proposals until April 3
The deadline for submissions of proposals for the 1st Summer School on "Surveillance technologies, Criminality, and Human Rights" ends at April 3. This Summer School, which is organized by EXCHANGE, a research project hosted by the CECS-Communication and Society Research Center and funded by the European Research Council, will take place at University of Minho (Braga), from June 25 to June 28.
Call for abstracts: ECREA cONFERENCE working group of Journalism and Communication Education Research
It is open until February 19, 2018, the call for abstracts for the 4th Conference of ECREA working group Journalism and Communication Education Research, which will take place under the theme "Trial and Error II" - Innovation and trends between the classroom and the company, anb will be held at University of Minho (Braga), at May, 10-11, 2018. The conference is organized by CECS, with the coordination of Sandra Marinho and the ECREA Journalism & Communication Education TWG management team.
Call for Communications for the 4th Acceleration Academy conference open until February 28, 2018
The call for papers for the 4th conference on the theme of the Accelerated Academy is open until February 28, 2018. The conference, to which CECS is associated, will take place in May 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, and aims to develop and deepen the understanding of academic temporalities as they are lived, understood, controlled, managed, imagined and contested in the contemporary world and what implications they leave to the future.
Call for Papers for the 4th CIMODE until February 15
The contributions to the CIMODE 2018 - 4th International Fashion and Design Congress, are open until February, 15. The Congress will be held in the Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid- CSDMM, in Madrid, Spain, from May 21 to 23, and has several CECS researchers associated. The main theme is about ""Diseño al revés".
CECS is one of the institutions associated to an International Conference at UTAD
The CECS is associated to the International Conference "Portugal in (and during the) First World War", an organization of the Department of Letters, Arts and Communication (DLAC) of UTAD, together with the Center for Transdisciplinary Research "Culture, Space and Memory "(CITCEM). The call for communications is open until February 18, 2018, and the event is scheduled for April 19 and 20.
"The politics of sharing in the context of digital capitalism" at the P. S. on Communication Policies
On February 14, 2018 (2:30 p.m.), in the ICS-UMinho Sala de Atos, ?another Permanent Seminar on Communication Policies will take place, with the presence of Rodrigo Saturnino, postdoctoral student of the CECS, with a research project in the area of communication and digital economy, under the guidance of Helena Sousa. He will speak on "The politics of sharing in the context of digital capitalism: Between legal challenges and social inequalities".
"Communication and Society" journal on the SciELO platform
Indexed about a year and a half ago by SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online, the "Comunicação e Sociedade" journal, edited by the CECS-Communication and Society Research Center of the University of Minho, is now available on the platform of this electronic library, with includes a selected collection of scientific journals. With the availability of "Communication and Society" in SciELO, and given the spread of the journal's visibility in the national and international scientific community, the impact of our scientific work grows. The "Communication and Society" is already indexed at Scopus, Erih Plus, Qualis Capes, Latindex, MIAR, CIRC, among others.
Discourses and Images of Cultural Tourism: call for papers for Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies is open
It is open until February, 28, 2018, the call for papers fot the Revista Lusófona de Estudos CulturaisLusophone Journal of Cultural Studies (v.5, nº2), under the theme "Discourses and Images of Cultural Tourism" /"Discursos e Imagens do Turismo Cultural", which is edited by Zara Pinto-Coelho (CECS) and Roque Pinto (State University of Santa Cruz [Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz], Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil). This issue of RLEC accepts articles based on empirical research, essays, interviews and reviews of relevant works within the theme presented. The publication date of the journal is scheduled for December 2018.
Manuel Pinto is the guest editor of the Revista de Estudos de Jornalismo
CECS researcher Manuel Pinto is the guest editor of the seventh issue of the Revista de Estudos de Jornalismo (2017, december), which is dedicated to the theme "Routes and continuities". The journal is coordinated by the Journalism and Society WG of SOPCOM-Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences, which is associated with CECS researcher, Pedro Jerónimo.
Book Vozes plurais: a comunicação das organizações da sociedade civil presented in Braga and Lisbon
The book Vozes plurais: a comunicação das organizações da sociedade civil (Documenta / Sistema Solar), coordinated by the CECS researcher and lecturer at the Lusófona University of Porto Carla Cerqueira and by Sónia Lamy, a researcher at CIC-Digital and a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, was presented in Braga and Lisbon. Two moments of discussion that brought the perspectives of academia and civil society organizations. In Braga, the book presentation was made by Ana Melo (CECS).
Training in Visual Communication in the framework of the PhD program in Communication Studies: Technology, Culture and Society
"Visual Communication/Visual Syntax. How to study or analyze images? What are the principles of visual language?" were the themes of the most recent training course of the FCT doctoral program in "Communication Studies: Technology, Culture and Society", whose consortium is led by the CECS. The training counted on about two dozen students of the second and third cycles of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho.
Open session on sound language
Sofia Saldanha, author of the documentary series "I do not know what tomorrow will bring", a sound tour in the Fernando Pessoa's Lisbon, was the protagonist of an open class of the Curricular Unit of "Communication and Languages", which took place on January 16, especially dedicated to sound plasticity, and in which she sought the sounds that "drew" the images of a time that we do not live: "These sounds are here for what? For us to have the images".


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Psychedelic art-pop eight-piece Superorganism has been described by many music publications as the most exciting new indie band in 2017 and 2018. Young Post called guitarist Christopher Young (more commonly known as Harry) while the band was touring the US, to talk about their critically acclaimed, self-titled debut record.
"We've been on the road for a while now," said Young, talking about their current US tour. "It's been crazy – big, sold out shows, and great crowds everywhere."
This is just the start of a hectic schedule planned for the year, Young reveals. "We're going all over the place. We're in America now, then we're off to Japan, Australia, back to America, back round Europe, then [Britain]. I think at some point we're heading to Mexico, and Iceland, too, so we're going to see a whole load of the world this year."
Moonchild on new music, time off, and how to juggle multiple skills and responsibilities
This intensive travelling comes off the back of their debut album, which was released at the beginning of March, for which the band created eye-catching CDs and vinyls which glow in the dark.
"We were discussing various things to do with the artwork, and the album name, and it just came up in a Whatsapp brainstorm. We were just spit-balling ideas, and someone suggested calling it Glow In The Dark. We weren't sure about it as a name, but we thought it'd be cool if the record was [fluorescent]."
Although Superorganism are based in London, the band members all have very different backgrounds, with backing singers Rudy and B coming from New Zealand, South Korean vocalist Soul, and lead singer Orono Noguchi from Japan.
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"Even when we're living in the same house, we still work the same – emailing ideas," confesses the guitarist. "It gives you a bit of space to work on things at your own pace, and things you might not try if you were around other people."
Young offers an insight into the challenges he faced trying to make a career in the music industry.
"Be prepared to be extremely resilient. You're going to fail 20 times more often than you succeed, so you need to prepare yourself for that ... the first time you pick up a guitar, your fingers aren't strong enough to form a bar chord. The first 20 times your fingers won't be strong enough, but on the 20th time, they will be. I think the same applies for writing songs, for putting music out, how people react to it and playing live," Young says.
"When I was a kid, I had so many gigs that felt like a failure but eventually you get to this point, and it's just about having that resilience to get there."
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Manipal (Karnataka) [India] April 9 (ANI/NewsVoir): AeroMIT, the aeromodelling team from MAHE, Manipal finished fifth overall, in the SAE Aero Design East 2019 competition, held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, last month. The team from MIT also emerged as the best performing Indian team at the competition.
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New Brunswick man says parents of autistic children are not being heard
CTV Atlantic Published Saturday, August 3, 2019 7:06PM ADT Last Updated Saturday, August 3, 2019 7:26PM ADT
The parent of an adult with autism is voicing his concerns regarding the fact that there are no parents of those with autism speaking at this year's Atlantic Provinces Autism Conference happening in the Fall.
Harold Doherty, who is the father of 23-year-old Connor, is an advocate for families living with children who sit somewhere on the autism spectrum – exactly the reason why he is speaking up about the lack of representation of parents of autistic children at the upcoming conference focused on autism.
"I'll be going to the conference to stand outside of the building with a sign to bring attention to the fact that they are intentionally ignoring parents of autistic adults," says Doherty.
The Atlantic Provinces Autism Conference plans to bring field experts and researchers to Fredericton when it takes place in November. In a statement to CTV News, a spokesperson for the University of New Brunswick says the conference will provide a forum to share behaviour-based research and empirically-supported practices in the assessment, treatment and support of individuals on the autism spectrum, and that it is ideal for practitioners and families.
However, Doherty believes that without the voice of a parent of someone on the autism spectrum, the conference will not be congruous with understanding the full scope of the disorder.
"They're not going to talk about pain and suffering – they're not going to do it," says Doherty. "Because they have an express reference in the agenda to the Autism Canada website dealing with proper language in discussing autism."
Doherty's concerns are not invalid. For those on the spectrum, there is roughly 30 per cent higher likelihood they will also have epileptic seizures – requiring constant supervision from their caregivers.
"Some individuals struggle with comorbid conditions, not just autism, but things that come with it, and they're the ones with the more complex needs," says Rick Hutchins of Autism Connections Fredericton.
Doherty believes issues regarding his needs and the needs of parents like him won't be addressed properly at the upcoming convention – but will nonetheless continue to fight to express his concerns.
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Harold Doherty, who is the father of his 23-year-old son, Connor, is an advocate for families dealing with children who sit somewhere on the autism spectrum – exactly the reason why he is speaking up about the lack of representation of parents of autistic children at an upcoming conference focused on autism.
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My Mother Linda Kimball would have been 72 today. All the family is remembering her birthday. She passed away last June.
Where I work, three of us have had their mother pass away in the last year or two. That is a third of our employees here. Another has a mother-in-law who is very sick and soon to pass. And another of our co-workers had his mother recover from a very bad stroke three years ago. So I have very understanding co-workers.