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J.D. Pardo will soon make waves in 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2,' in which he will play half-vampire Nahuel.
He's hunky enough to spark the formation of Team Nahuel to do battle with Team Edward and Team Jacob in the teen film franchise. Look at that chiseled face — from the chest up, he looks carved in stone.
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Putz or Schmuck?by W.J. Elvin III
Filed under: Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Satire
Submitted by W.J. Elvin III: Sorry to see where the Washington Times is cutting 40 percent of staff, maybe Rev. Moon needs more imaginative promotion of his product:
Berlin's History Res-Erected: Giant Penis Sparks Bizarre Media War
by Thomas Hüetlin
Spiegel Online International
December 3, 2009
Four decades ago, the mass-circulation tabloid Bild did its best to squelch the 1968 student movement in Berlin. This year, the German capital has seen the conflict swell once again. And it has resulted in some rather stiff competition.
The shimmering, gold-colored high-rise building that publisher Axel Springer had built in the 1960s is just a stone's throw from the offices of Berlin's legendary left-wing Tageszeitung newspaper, more commonly known simply as the "Taz." But for someone looking from the 17th floor of the Springer building, where the main editorial offices of the influential tabloid newspaper Bild are located, a few trees block the view of the gray building that houses the editorial offices of the Taz, a publication that appears to believe even today that it has the right to dictate what it means to be left-wing in Germany.
But what exactly does it mean to be "left-wing" these days? Is it left-wing to attach to the outside of the Taz building a sculpture of Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann showing him naked, wearing red glasses and cheap brown loafers and equipped with a penis that extends all the way up the front of the Taz building? Or is it just in poor taste?
Diekmann, 45, is standing in front of the Taz building on Rudi Dutschke Street. He is wearing a gray pinstriped suit and brown brogues that look like they cost several hundred euros. He tilts his head back to take a look at his enormous pink doppelganger. "I came all the way down here to see it because there are trees blocking my view," says Diekmann. "But I still haven't quite figured out who the sculpture on the front of this building is supposed to depict."
Well, Diekmann himself, of course.
At this moment, Diekmann looks a little like the American comic actor Buster Keaton, who always looked slightly sad. But there is also a trace of triumph and irony in his face. "It can't be me," he says. "The artist, Peter Lenk, expressly denied that it's me."
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An odd dispute has been the source of excitement in Berlin's media community in recent weeks. On the one side of the dispute is Taz, published by a cooperative, constantly on the verge of bankruptcy and with a paid circulation of 65,000. On the other side is the editor-in-chief of Europe's biggest newspaper, Bild, the cash cow of the Springer Group, with a circulation of more than 3 million.
Lenk, 62, an artist from Lake Constance, attached his anti-Springer installation, "Peace Be With You," to the façade of the building with the approval of Taz management. It didn't take long before the installation had triggered anger and outrage — but not from the gold-colored high-rise nearby. In fact, the displeasure over Lenk's piece came from the fifth floor of the Taz building, where Ines Pohl moved into an office four months ago as the publication's new editor-in-chief.
"If the artist Peter Lenk has his way, I'm going to have to lock up my bike every morning under a six-meter-long schlong for the next two years," Pohl says. "What a pathetic provocation. How tedious. I'm just not interested in this inflated smugness that revolves around the sad, never-ending male rivalry over who has the longest penis." She wants the sculpture removed.
Diekmann can hardly believe his luck, now that his adversaries are turning their weapons on themselves. The satire that was intended to expose him has become a comedy about the Taz editors and their image of themselves. While chaos was erupting at the Taz, Diekmann began a game of self-deprecating jujitsu on his blog.
In a blog entry titled "The Naked and the Reds," Diekmann scoffs at his counterparts at the Taz, who have apparently "become so humorless and bitter recently that you have to ask yourself: Are these people truly brothers in spirit?" In another entry, entitled "How Much Dick Is Acceptable?", he gleefully commiserates with his esteemed colleagues over at Taz: "I had a feeling this would happen. Now my Taz comrades are tearing each other apart over that naked monument."
Pranksters and Reactionaries
The world has been turned upside-down on Rudi Dutschke Street. The team that likes to claim that its job is to stir things up in bourgeois society now finds itself with its back against a wall adorned by an art installation it approved. Meanwhile, the supposedly reactionary die-hards at Bild are using the tools of the modern prankster to stir things up at the Taz. The casual observer could be forgiven for being confused by the strange goings-on at the two papers. Who exactly are the revolutionaries here, and who is bourgeois?
Kai Diekmann, at any rate, appears to derive a certain Mephistophelian glee from playing the Springer prankster. When he walks through the door of Sale e Tabacchi, an Italian restaurant on the ground floor of the Taz building, he seems about as energetic and self-confident as if he owned the place.
The restaurant was once a favorite of the editors at Taz, who had worked out a deal with Sale e Tabacchi whereby they could get lunch for a bargain €3.50 ($5.20). Germany's poorest editorial staff once had the country's best cafeteria. But then they began finding fault with the food. Nowadays Diekmann uses Sale e Tabacchi as a living room of sorts, and he even launched his book "Der grosse Selbstbetrug" ("The Great Self-Deception"), a critique of the German student protest movements of the late 1960s, at the restaurant.
"Enemy territory? Not at all," says Diekmann. For some time now, Taz employees have been eating lunch in their own cafeteria, where "Fennel au gratin with gorgonzola béchamel sauce, bulgur and vegetable pilaf" can be had for €5.95.
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ST. LOUIS, Missouri, and BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- A team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL) and the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson led by SPIE Fellow Samuel Achilefu have created a pair of high-tech glasses that help surgeons visualize cancer cells during surgeries, which glow blue when viewed through the glasses.
Achilefu, a professor of radiology and of biomedical engineering at WUSTL and co-leader of the Oncologic Imaging Program at Siteman Cancer Center, and his team developed the technology that incorporates custom video, a head-mounted display, and a targeted molecular agent injected into a patient that attaches to cancer cells, making them glow.
Viktor Gruev, SPIE Member and assistant professor of engineering at WUSTL, and Rongguang Liang, SPIE Fellow and professor of optical engineering at UA, assisted with development of the glasses. WUSTL graduate students Suman Mondal, Shengkui Gao, and Yang Liu and UA postdoctoral fellow Nan Zhu also played key roles. Mondal and Gao are members of SPIE
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Achilefu has also published extensively in SPIE publications such as the Journal of Biomedical Optics, including the 2013 study he coauthored as part of a special section on fluorescence molecular imaging that details the development of the high-tech glasses (available via open access).
The wearable technology was used during surgery for the first time on 10 February.
"This technology has great potential improve patient outcome and enhance decision making for health-care professionals," Achilefu said. "Our goal is to make sure no cancer is left behind."
Cancer cells are difficult to see, even under high-powered magnification. The high-tech glasses are designed to make it easier for surgeons to distinguish cancer cells from healthy cells, helping to ensure no stray tumor cells are left behind during surgery.
Currently, surgeons are required to remove the tumor as well as neighboring tissue that may or may not include cancer cells. The samples are sent to a lab, and if cancer cells are found in neighboring tissue, a second surgery often is recommended to remove additional tissue.
"We're in the early stages of this technology, and more development and testing will be done, but we're certainly encouraged by the potential benefits to patients," said breast surgeon and WUSTL associate professor of surgery Julie Margenthaler, who performed the procedure in February, in a press release issued by WUSTL. "Imagine what it would mean if these glasses eliminated the need for follow-up surgery and the associated pain, inconvenience and anxiety."
The glasses could reduce the need for additional surgical procedures and continued stress on patients, as well as time and expenses. Margenthaler said about 20-25 percent of breast cancer patients who have lumps removed require a second surgery.
Achilefu worked with Washington University's Office of Technology Management and has a patent pending for the technology. He also is seeking FDA approval for a different molecular agent he's helping to develop for use with the glasses, which specifically targets and stays longer in cancer cells.
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A young Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy has to wait until Monday, September 3, 2012, to know whether she will be given bail, after a judge adjourned her case on Saturday, September 1, 2012. The case has focused attention on Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws that can result in prison or even death for insulting Islam. Human rights activists have long criticized the laws that help to persecute non-Muslims and settle personal scores.
On September 2, the arrest of an Imam named Khalid Chishti, in Islamabad, provided a new twist to the blasphemy case involving Rimsha Masih, a minor Christian girl.
The Imam, prayer leader of the Jamia Aminia mosque in the Mehria Jaffar neighborhood of Islamabad, was arrested on Saturday night after a person named Hafiz Muhammad Zubair, recorded a statement against the cleric before a magistrate. Zubair testified that he saw the cleric stuffing pages of the Quran in the bag of the Christian girl and implicated her under the contentious blasphemy law.
Police arrested Chishti based on this statement and produced him before a judicial magistrate, and then remanded in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for 14 days.
Earlier, Zubair told the media that the incident took place while he and some other men were in 'aitekaf' (seclusion) in the mosque during the holy Islāmic month of Ramzan. He said, "The bag brought to the mosque, had nothing in it. When he (Chishti) was given the bag, he went inside the mosque and pulled out two or three pages and added them to the bag. I told him what he was doing was wrong. He told me that it was evidence against the Christians, and a way to get them removed from the area."
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Khalid Chishti in a television interview last week accepted that he had, during a recent sermon, called for the eviction of all Christians from the neighbourhood if they did not stop their prayer services because "Pakistan is an Islāmic country given by Allah."
The new evidence against the cleric could help defuse the blasphemy case against the Christian girl.
- The Economics of Hate (pakistaniaat.net)
- On Dishonest Maulvis, Harsh Laws, and Minority Rights (pakistaniaat.net)
- Rishman: Another Victim of Unjust Laws and Communal Hatered (pakistaniaat.net)
- Cleric held in blasphemy case (news.iafrica.com)
- Imam arrested in Pakistan blasphemy case, stirring tensions (lbcgroup.tv)


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Living the Airstream life means being outside more and enjoying our great outdoors. It also means increased exposure to the natural elements, including sunlight. Having fun in the sun brings immediate happiness, but it can also take a cumulative toll on our skin and bring discoloration, pain, premature aging, wrinkles, lesions, cancer, and sometimes death.
Last year I noticed a few skin lesions on the left side of my face, so I had them checked by my dermatologist. I had limited improvement with hydrocortisone, but they did not go completely away. Last week my biopsy results indicated that the largest lesion is actinic (solar) keratosis (AK), a skin growth caused by exposure to sunlight. This can be the first step in the development of skin cancer and needs to be treated. As I write this, I am on day 2 of a two week course of applying a 2% solution of Fluorouracil (an antimetabolite) directly on the lesion. During this period the lesion will become inflamed leading to a crusty scab that will slough away and be replaced with new, and hopefully, healthy skin.
(The largest lesion is the reddened vertical area about an inch from my mustache; the red spot is the shave biopsy site)
I've read that during the treatment phase, I can expect some discomfort and an unattractive face. I'll spare you the day-by-day pictures, but for those who would like to see the process and one man's interesting story with photos, click here. (Keep in mind he was using a 5% cream.) I also found this article on actinic keratosis helpful, along with this one.
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So, I will try to avoid a sunburn by applying a good broad-spectrum sunscreen, SPF 30 or higher, during our next scheduled outing at South Carlsbad State Beach, CA, after Labor Day. While living the Airstream life, it's easy to forget to apply sunscreen, as seen in Rich Luhr's Tour of America post, "Airstream life on the Sea of Cortez" (but you'll see in one of the post's photos, that Rich keeps his hat nearby).
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Yesterday I purchased a little cup of custard for her from the hospital cafeteria. I have always been a fan of custard and I thought she was going to love it. I expected lots of thanks and hugs and a happy drive home.
When Mel got into the car, I presented her with the custard cup. She looked excited and asked me to open it. She took one bite. "I don't like it," she said. "It tastes bad."
I tasted the custard and she was right. It tasted like cardboard.
"Can I have something else?" she asked.
Usually I keep an emergency snack pack of Skittles in my pocket, but I had recently changed coats, so I had nothing else to offer her. "Sorry, honey," I said. "We'll have a snack at home."
"But I'm SO HUNGRY!!!!" she wailed. "I'm going to get a rumbleache!"
"Well, what would you like me to do??" I retorted.
She didn't have an answer, but continued to sob as I strapped Baby into her carseat. I recently purchased a new coat for Baby and overestimated her size, so she's basically floating in this comically large pink coat. And because we're frightened into making the carseat straps ridiculously tight, Baby was screaming by the time I had her secured.
I started the car with both kids crying in the back seat. My blood pressure felt like it was a million over a billion. I considered maybe stopping for fast food on the way back, but really, the only stop I wanted to make was at my OB/GYN to get sterilized.
I don't like stress. Stress stresses me out. While I adore my kids more than anything, it would be so nice to be able to take one shower without someone busting in on me and asking when I'll be done. It would be nice to spend a whole day in bed getting to do whatever I want to do. Something like that feels selfish, even decadent, to me now.
For a brief time, I was trying to do some meditation to help me relax, but in general, I just couldn't find 10 quiet, uninterrupted minutes in my whole day to do it.
The crazy thing is, I don't think I have that much more stress than the average mom. Yes, I work, but lots of moms work. Yes, I have two small kids, but I know lots of working moms who have three or four small kids.
Maybe we're all giant balls of stress. There's this woman I always see at the daycare who comes to pick up her three year old and her twin toddlers, and she always looks so miserable. Is it just a given that when you're a working mom of small kids, you're going to be constantly stressed out? Will I just not be able to relax for another 4-5 years?
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Try the meditation at work...I put a sign on my office door...ReplyDelete
"Will I just not be able to relax for another 4-5 years?"ReplyDelete
You've got it. You are now on 24-hour patrol and as you suggest - it will be another half a dozen years before you will be able to rest for a minute. For which you will be exceedingly grateful.
Aren't kids fun ?~!
Christie: I did consider that, although these days I'm often racing to get to daycare on time as it. I doubt I'd be able to relax enough to meditate with that in mind.ReplyDelete
I only have one child, but the car screaming particularly stresses me out! Like tachycardic, short of breath level stress! My husband can just drive right through it looking totally content!ReplyDelete
when they start yelling in the car, mama yells back. :) (only half kidding)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2012 at 4:51 PM
for the future, buy a bunch of granola bars, fruit snacks, crackers, etc and stick them in the trunk.ReplyDelete
I once knocked a passenger side rear view mirror off my car when the kids were screaming in the back. Now I get mad when they bicker. Then there are mornings like this one, where they are singing and dancing (miming the words hysterically) along to the music, and cracking each other up. It makes it worth it. No, you don't get to relax, but in a few years, they will get reasoning better, and that makes it easier.ReplyDelete
I had a friend who had an early memory of being a kid fighting in the back of the car with her brother, and her mother pulled the car over and just started sobbing. I remind myself of that story when I feel overwhelmed, as a reminder that everyone feels that way sometimes.ReplyDelete
I think we need an "It gets better" campaign for mothers of young children. It is SO hard and it DOES get better. My kids are 8 and 10 and I like parenting them so much more than when they were little. There are of course things I miss from their tiny little days but in general, I'm way less stressed now than I was before.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2012 at 8:50 PM
I am 33 weeks pregnant and sometimes I secretly wish I were put on bedrest. I wouldn't have to deal with my toddler, residency, washing dishes - with a valid excuse.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2012 at 8:55 PM
it's probably a terrible thing to say, but they won't remember those moments. they cry from frustration, hunger, to get attention, etc, but as long as they are loved (which i know they are) they'll be fine. so feel free to try to tune them out (not that i'm any good at it)ReplyDelete
I can so relate. I'm a family physician with a 3 and 6 year old. I actually feel more relaxed in the clinic than at home. But yes, it does get better. So hang in there...ReplyDelete
It DOES get better, although it is worse in other ways. Mine are older - 17, 14, 12. I do sometimes - not always - get to take a shower without being interrupted. And work as a full time gynecologist is definitely my easiest hours of the day. But they are awesome and SO worth it :)ReplyDelete
- GPCanadaJanuary 18, 2012 at 10:57 PM
I have a 7.5 month old and 2 year old twins. I feel like I am at a breaking point multiple times in the day. Their fighting and crying especially in the car makes my heart race and break into a full on sweat. Dealing with tough patients in the ER or delivery room is way easier to deal with than the everyday of raising my hooligans!ReplyDelete
- mamadocJanuary 18, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Yes, you will be unable to relax for about another 5-6 years.The life of the working mother with small children makes a squirrel cage look relaxing. But it does get better. Eventually they grow up and leave home.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Consider grandparents babysitting 24/7 for a week or so at a time while you take a vacation. Surprisingly for me it was my grandmother who did that. With my own mother though, no matter how passionately I complained that I do not have a moment to use a bathroom, and they both do not sleep through the night (ages 6 and 8 at the time), alas, her answer was silence on the phone. I am not sure, but I might be getting PTSD symptoms with nightmares about me in the bathroom not being fast enough and screaming or crying in the background somewhere in another room. I love your "stress stresses me out". I will be quoting this now.Can't agree with above poster though. I would not want to be empty nested. They are purporse of my life and keep me going. There is so much at every stage, and we plan things - education/fun together. It is so deeply rewarding to see your efforts pay off. And when my 6 yo told me : "If I grow up and become rich I will still love you" Mmm, those sweet melting moments.ReplyDelete
- doctor momJanuary 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM
I used to feel this way and then I discovered the beauty of hiring a college student to do the daycare pick ups and get dinner rolling for me. It eliminates the frantic last part of the day freak out where I am usually cursing under my breath saying, oh crap, I can't believe I have to see a patient with a problem that takes 40 minutes and they were scheduled at 4:40 and how in the world am I supposed to make it to two different pick ups and get home and then feed my kids something nutritious when I just feel like I need to collapse sensation. I really wish I would have done this years ago!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2012 at 1:49 AM
I'm so thankful to have stumbled upon this blog! Reading all these shared experiences has lightened my isolated stressed head . as a resident with a teething 5mo and a cheeky 2yo.. I'm thankful for this blog, for iPhones in the car, for playschool, for bedtime, for wine and coffee, for tickling and cuddles, for a husband and for faith, but still I'm thinking of throwing in the medical towel is the stress worth it?ReplyDelete
As I read your post I am hiding out in my call room at the hospital working on a journal club talk, but also enjoying the chance to drink a cup of tea without being interrupted every five minutes. It's actually been lovely. Now I'm excited to go home and see the little monkeys and get some hugs and snuggle time and be pestered about what's for dinner. Sometimes everybody just need a little time to recharge however they can get it. Of course now that I've said all this, the pager will probably proceed to go off every five minutes and interrupt in worse fashion than my kids ever could!ReplyDelete
Stress is not a good sign, if we want to live healthy and happy. So don't let stress heavy on you. Do meditation, you will live a better life.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Can't you use a bit of discipline? It sounds like she's spoiled.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Just an FYI, the baby shouldn't be wearing a coat at all in the car seat. You can't get it tight enough with the coat on.ReplyDelete
Just put her in the car seat and put the coat on backwards over the buckled carseat.
The only way you can have a coat on a kid in a harness is to first buckle the baby in without the coat and tighten it appropriately. Then remove the baby and DO NOT ADJUST THE STRAPS. Put the coat on and the baby back in. If you can buckle it over the coat without adjusting the straps, it's okay. If you cannot, it's too loose and baby could fly out even in a relatively minor crash.
I keep looking at the post I wrote, and I can't find the part where I asked for obnoxious advice from busybodies.ReplyDelete
- MommadocFebruary 14, 2012 at 4:55 AM
So happy to find this blog! I spent the last decade alone trying to keep up my skills and be a perfect mommy to 4. I so worry that you only have one chance to raise them right, but I am so tired from the job and have limited energy to give at home. Who understands this life besides we doctor moms?ReplyDelete


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This article was written by Jenny Sugar and repurposed with permission from POPSUGAR Fitness.
Losing weight isn't about committing to one healthy choice—the journey is made up of lots lifestyle decisions that you make every single day at any given time. Seriously, every hour is an opportunity to do something that can bring you closer to your goal! So here's your around-the-clock guide to feeling slimmer by bedtime.
6 a.m.
Wake up, and drink a big glass of water. It'll fill you up and get things moving to prevent belly bloat. Eat a small snack that offers quick carbohydrates and a little protein, such as half a banana and a few almonds—eating first thing jump-starts your metabolism.
And if you have time, exercise! Morning exercisers tend to work out longer and more intensely than those who sweat it out during other times of the day. Plus, it'll keep the fire lit under your metabolism, so you burn more calories all day long.
7 a.m.
Do some stretches in the shower. You should also eat a filling breakfast that includes protein and fiber—at least 10 grams of each. Don't be afraid to fill up on healthy carbs because enjoying them early ensures you'll have time to burn them off later.
8 a.m.
Make your lunch for later, which should include low-fat protein, fiber, fresh veggies, whole grains, and fruit for dessert. Might we suggest these lunch-packing tips for a weight-loss friendly meal?
9 a.m.
Fill up a cup or water bottle once you arrive at work, and sip on it throughout the morning. Staying hydrated will prevent hunger pangs.
10 a.m.
Take a break from work to snack on some satisfying fiber. Just be sure to keep it under 150 calories, like with these snacks.
11 a.m.
Take a few minutes to fill in your food and fitness journal, writing down what you've eaten and how much you've exercised. It'll give you an idea of how many calories you're allowed the rest of the day, and seeing your stats from the previous weeks will motivate you to stay on the healthy path.
12 p.m.
Get moving by going for a walk with a co-worker, bike riding to run an errand, or grabbing that set of dumbbells under your desk (if readily available) and doing these strength-training moves. Any chance to move is better than sitting still.
1 p.m.
Remember that lunch you packed? Start chowing down! Enjoy it with the best calorie-free beverage: water.
2 p.m.
If you can, take that afternoon meeting for a walk around your block. Whether you're on the phone or meeting in person, walking and talking can help you think more clearly while burning some calories. The same benefits apply if you ask a co-worker to step outside for some fresh air.
3 p.m.
Have a 150-calorie snack to keep energy levels going till dinner. This could include a little something sweet like these 150-calorie desserts since a small indulgence can prevent overeating later.
4 p.m.
Sip some green tea. The caffeine will give you a little pep, and green tea has been shown to suppress your appetite and increase your metabolism.
5 p.m.
Depending on the weather and the distance from your office to your place, try to walk or bike home from work if you can. Not only will it burn some calories, but it can also relieve work stress, which can trigger overeating.
6 p.m.
Make a low-cal dinner filled with veggies, low-fat protein, and whole grains—these vegetarian options under 300 calories are great choices. After dinner is made, put away leftovers before sitting down to nosh to prevent going back for unnecessary seconds.
7 p.m.
Brush your teeth while doing this two-minute butt and leg workout. It'll tone your tush, and that minty breath will prevent mindless late-night snacking.
8 p.m.
If you like to relax in front of the TV, do these strength-training moves during commercial breaks.
9 p.m.
Get your workout gear ready for tomorrow morning. Slip into your pajamas, and do these yoga poses to encourage sleepiness.
10 p.m.
Snuggle into bed on your way to dreamland. Getting enough sleep is proven to help with weight loss.
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Pot Roast
Adapted from Cooking Light October 2004
8 servings (serving size: 3 ounces roast, 1 onion wedge, about 3 carrot pieces, 4 potato halves, and about 1/4 cup gravy)
- 1 (2-pound) boneless chuck roast, trimmed and cut in half
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1 10 oz package sliced cremini mushrooms
- 1 tablespoon cracked black pepper
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 medium onions (about 3/4 pound), quartered
- 1 (16-ounce) package carrots, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 16 small red potatoes (about 2 pounds), halved
- 1 tablespoon olive oil oil
- 1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons water
1. Combine roast, soy sauce, and garlic in a large zip-top plastic bag; seal bag, and marinate in refrigerator at least 8 hours, turning bag occasionally.
2. Bring broth to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat; reserving broth mixture.
3. Remove roast from bag, reserving marinade. Sprinkle roast with pepper and salt, gently pressing pepper and salt into roast. Combine reserved marinade, broth, and tomato paste; stir well, and set aside.
4. Place mushrooms, onion, carrot and potato in a 6-quart electric slow cooker; toss gently. Salt and pepper the vegetables.
5. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add roast,
browing well on all sides. Place roast over vegetables in slow cooker.
Pour tomato paste mixture into pan, scraping to loosen browned bits.
Pour tomato paste mixture over roast and vegetables.
Cover with lid; cook on high-heat setting 1 hour. Reduce to low-heat setting, and cook 8 hours or until roast is tender. Place roast and vegetables on a serving platter; keep warm.
Reserve liquid in slow cooker; increase to high-heat setting.
6. Place flour in a small bowl. Gradually add water, stirring with a whisk until well blended. Add flour mixture to liquid in slow cooker.
Cook, uncovered, 15 minutes or until slightly thick, stirring frequently. Serve gravy with roast and vegetables.


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Ready for more name quotes?
From an essay by Hans Fiene about BuzzFeed's criticism of Chip And Joanna Gaines' church:
"People who give their kids weird names are unsophisticated morons," I thought to myself when I was 23 years old and busy substitute-teaching a class full of kids named Brysalynn and Traxton.
Then, a few years later, one of my closest friends had a kid and named him something dumb. At the moment of said dumb-named kid's entrance into this world, two options stood before me. Option A: I was wrong about baby names, and it was, in fact, possible to be an interesting, intelligent person while also being sweet on absurd baby monikers. Option B: Despite having a mountain of evidence that my friend was interesting and intelligent, this was all a ruse and he had been a moron the entire time.
From The Toast, an in-depth look at "ship names" — short for relationship names, i.e., name blends that represent fan-created relationships between fictional characters:
Onset conservation is also why we get Drarry (Draco/Harry), Dramione (Draco/Hermione), Klaroline (Klause/Caroline), Sterek (Stiles/Derek), Stydia (Stiles/Lydia), Clex (Clark Kent/Lex Luthor), Chlex (Chloe/Lex), Phrack (Phryne/Jack), Cherik (Charles/Erik), CroWen (Cristina/Owen), Bedward (Bella/Edward), Brucas (Brooke/Lucas), Brangelina (Brad/Angelina), and so on.
("Olicity Is Real" was trending on Twitter recently…I wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing ship names on birth certificates.)
From the 2007 New York Times obituary of actor Tiger "Tige" Andrews:
Tiger Andrews was born on March 19, 1920, in Brooklyn; he was named after a strong animal to ensure good health, following a Syrian custom.
(He was one of the stars of The Mod Squad, which started airing on TV in 1968. His nickname, Tige, was one of the top debut names of 1969.)
From a footnote in a 1986 translation of the book Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824) by French scientist Nicolas-Léonard "Sadi" Carnot:
Sadi was named after the thirteenth-century Persian poet and naturalist, Saadi Musharif ed Din, whose poems, most notably the Gulistan (or Rose Garden), were popular in Europe in the late eighteenth century. It seems likely that Lazare [Sadi's father] chose the name to commemorate his association, in the 1780s, with the Société des Rosati, an informal literary society in Arras in which a recurring theme was the celebration of the beauty of roses in poetry.
From Ed Sikov's 2007 book Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis (spotted while doing research for the Stanley Ann post):
Manly names for women were all the rage [in Hollywood movies] in 1941: Hedy Lamarr was a Johnny and a Marvin that year, and the eponymous heroines of Frank Borzage's Seven Sweethearts were called Victor, Albert, Reggie, Peter, Billie, George, and most outrageous of all, Cornelius.
Speaking of Cornelius…some comedy from John Oliver's 2008 special Terrifying Times:
[A] friend of mine emailed me and he said that someone had created a Wikipedia entry about me. I didn't realize this was true, so I looked it up. And like most Wikipedia entries, it came with some flamboyant surprises, not least amongst them my name. Because in it it said my name was John Cornelius Oliver. Now my middle name is not Cornelius because I did not die in 1752. But obviously, I want it to be. Cornelius is an incredible name. And that's when it hit me — the way the world is now, fiction has become more attractive than fact. That is why Wikipedia is such a vital resource. It's a way of us completely rewriting our history to give our children and our children's children a much better history to grow up with.
From Piper Laurie's 2011 memoir Learning to Live Out Loud:
It never occurred to me that I didn't have to change my name. For the last twenty or thirty years, I've admired and envied all the performers who have proudly used their real names. The longer and harder to pronounce, the better.
(Was Mädchen Amick one of the performers she had in mind? They worked together on Twin Peaks in the early 1990s…)
From a New York Times interview with Lisa Spira of Ethnic Technologies, a company that uses personal names to predict ethnicity:
Can you give an example of how your company's software works?
Let's hypothetically take the name of an American: Yeimary Moran. We see the common name Mary inside her first name, but unlike the name Rosemary, for example, we know that the letter string "eimary" is Hispanic. Her surname could be Irish or Hispanic. So then we look at where our Yeimary Moran lives, which is Miami. From our software, we discover that her neighborhood is more Hispanic than Irish. Customer testing and feedback show that our software is over 90 percent accurate in most ethnicities, so we can safely deduce that this Yeimary Moran is Hispanic.
From Duncan McLaren's Evelyn Waugh website, an interesting fact about the English writer and his first wife, also named Evelyn:
Although I call the couple he- and she-Evelyn in my book, Alexander [Evelyn Waugh's grandson] has mentioned that at the time [late 1920s] they were called Hevelyn and Shevelyn.
(Evelyn Waugh's first name was pronounced EEV-lyn, so I imagine "Hevelyn" was HEEV-lyn and "Shevelyn" SHEEV-lyn.)


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Wednesday, 25th June 2008 by Alex Turnbull
The skeptics amongst you might initially think that this bizarre twisted lake isn't
natural real, but rather that the Google engineers have just discovered Photoshop's Twirl feature. However I assure you that it is real, as it's only a few minutes down the road from where I work!
This is actually a sculpture, "Landform" by Charles Jencks – an immaculately sculpted earth, grass and water monument in the grounds of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. The artist describes it as being "based on a strange attractor and the flow of earth and traffic".
The best thing about Landform though, is that you can wander around all over it, as several people can be seen doing on the day this image was taken.
Read more about Charles Jencks and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art at Wikipedia.
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China is erecting huge industrial complexes in remote areas to convert coal to synthetic fuel that could make the air in its megacities cleaner. But the complexes use so much energy that the carbon footprint of the fuel is almost double that of conventional coal and oil, spelling disaster for earth's climate, a growing chorus of scientists is warning.
Efforts by China to develop so-called "coal bases" in its far-flung regions have received scant attention beyond the trade press, but scientists watching the effort say it could cause climate damage that eclipses worldwide climate protection efforts.
The facilities, which resemble oil refineries, use coal to make liquid fuels, chemicals, power and "syngas," which is like natural gas but extracted from coal. The fuels and electricity are then transported to China's big cities to be burned in power plants, factories and cars.
Currently 16 coal base sites are being built and many are operational. One being constructed in Inner Mongolia will eventually occupy nearly 400 square miles—almost the size of the sprawling city of Los Angeles.
CLICK HERE to take this exclusive Google Earth tour of China's coal base plans (interactive map + photos)
Driving China's desire to create coal bases are its soaring energy demand, abundant coal resources, lack of inexpensive alternatives and the need to move coal power production out of its cities—which are already drowning in smog from dirty coal plants. Meanwhile, its energy-hungry economy is booming to meet insatiable demands of consumers in America and Europe for cheaply manufactured products.
By any measure, China's coal base plan is the single largest fossil fuel development project in the world. So while more coal bases could mean cleaner air for many urban Chinese, scientists fear a nightmare scenario for global climate change.
By 2011, humans had added 531 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading global body for assessing climate science. That figure means countries have already blown through more than half of the world's "carbon budget"—or the maximum amount of carbon humans can spew into the air to keep warming below 2-degrees Celsius, the threshold that would trigger runaway warming.
Experts estimate that if China's planned coal bases are built, the country's emissions would likely hit 10 billion tons a year—putting it on track to consume the world's remaining 349 billion tons by 2050.
"This is a major change in China," said Robert Jackson, director of Duke University's Center on Global Change, of the coal bases. "If they proceed, both water use and greenhouse gases would skyrocket."
China's Dirty Air: A First-Hand Look
Speeding 200 miles per hour on a bullet train over the crest of a hill toward Beijing, China's air pollution dilemma becomes clear—as trees, farm buildings and power poles fade into a grey haze.
It's as if a heavy fog has filled the air. A young Chinese student riding the train on that August afternoon explains that it's air pollution.
Particle-laden smog has been enveloping wide areas of China more often and reaching ever-higher levels due to growing use of energy as hundreds of millions of its citizens moved out of poverty. The smog kills 1.2 million Chinese prematurely each year, according to a World Bank estimate in 2013.
Indeed, a two-week trip in China—traveling in a big circle from Beijing south toward Shanghai, west to Xi'an and then north through Linfen and Shanxi Province, the heart of China's coal country—becomes a smog travelogue. Even in August, a time of year that's normally clean compared to winter and early spring when pollution peaks, the air is thick with haze, although it is nothing like the pollution sieges of the past two winters. Then, young and old alike had to stay indoors. Working adults wore masks when they commuted to work. Emergency rooms were flooded with respiratory patients.
On the surface, the source is readily identifiable.
"Too much coal," exclaimed Natural Resources Defense Council scientist Fuqiang Yang, waving his hand across his face. Fuqiang, senior adviser on energy, environment and climate change in NRDC's Beijing Office, said China needs to move to cleaner forms of energy and greater energy efficiency to clean up its air and address climate change, rather than depending upon coal.
But that's easier said than done.
China produces 70 percent of its electricity from coal, using it to make steel and concrete as it builds whole cities, and burns 47 percent of all the coal that's mined each year in the world.
"It's hard to see that changing anytime soon," said Barry Jones, general manager of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute in Australia, an energy industry-funded organization that promotes CCS technology. He thinks that cleaning up coal by capturing and sequestering the carbon emissions ultimately is needed, yet admits efforts are nascent. If all goes well, by some estimates, by 2020, China will be able to sequester about 10-20 million of the more than 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide it emits annually today.
The Worldwatch Institute estimates at least a third of those emissions stem from producing exports for the U.S. and other nations as China increasingly serves as the world's workshop. "Outsourcing has led to tremendous pollution in China," said Steven J. Davis, University of California at Irvine professor of earth sciences. He's been studying the amount of emissions attributed to exports produced in China since 2010.
CCS won't put a dent in those greenhouse gas emissions, either, particularly now that China is moving to clean up its air in novel ways by using even more of the mineral Marco Polo marveled at when visiting ancient Cathay in 1292.
A Coal Base Almost as Big as L.A.
Far from its major population centers along the coastal plain, state-owned companies like Shenhua, the world's largest coal company, are busy building huge coal bases to make the most of China's most abundant energy resource. Several complexes, at varying stages of completion in Shanxi Province, Inner Mongolia and other inland areas, already are turning coal into more power, synthetic natural gas, gasoline, chemicals and fertilizer.
The process extracts these materials by heating up coal in the absence of oxygen so it turns into gases instead of burning. Those gases then are captured and used as chemical building blocks to make the other products. The problem is that it takes a lot of energy in the form of electricity or other means to heat up the coal. This combustion releases carbon dioxide to the air. Burning the products from the process—be it syngas, or liquid fuels—releases yet more of the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Researchers estimate the complete cycle releases almost twice the carbon to the air as burning the coal alone in a power plant.
The biggest coal base is Shenhua's Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base in Ningxia, about 700 miles west of Beijing. Conceived in 2003, Shenhua said it broke ground in 2008 on the 386-square-mile coal base. That's an area about three-quarters the size of Los Angeles that's being covered bit by bit over a period of some 17 years with coal mines, power plants, power lines, pipelines, roads, rail tracks and all manner of chemical processing plants with their towers, smokestacks and tanks.
Since beginning its planning in 2003, Shenhua says it's brought on line "a large number of coal mines, coal chemicals, electric power, railway, and coal deep processing projects," as well as a coal-to-methanol production plant.
In 2012, Shenhua broke ground on a plant to turn coal into liquids that can be used for a wide variety of products, including fuel and plastics. The project is so huge that engineers used the world's largest crane to set in place the unit that's to serve as the heart of the plant, a 2,155-ton Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reactor that's as high as a 17-story building.
By 2020, Shenhua hopes to complete the base, which by then is planned to produce 30,000 MW of power, along with a constellation of products ranging from gasoline to chemicals. It's to consume 100 million tons a year of coal from surrounding mines.
Ironically, the bases stand a decent chance of cleaning up dirty air in China's coastal cities by moving coal-fired power production to remote inland areas, not to mention yielding synthetic gas to pipe to cities.
Unstoppable, with Major Climate Implications
About the only thing that may stop the bases from being fully built is that they need large amounts of water in a water-tight land, according to Greenpeace activist Lifeng Fang in Beijing. He thinks that water represents the upper limit on further use of coal.
But Jackson, the director of Duke's Center on Global Change, differs. He maintains China will merely move herders and farmers off already dry land in its interior and transfer their water rights to the coal industry, which produces more economic value than agriculture with the water.
Already, the government is moving herders off their grazing land into cities in Inner Mongolia where conflicts have arisen around Shenhua's coal base in Ordos, according to Enghebatu Togochog, director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center.
"It's increasingly tense," he said, noting that violence has flared numerous times in the past three years as herders trying to stay on their land engage in confrontations with coal company employees charged with building the Ordos coal base.
Meanwhile, while water and ethnic conflicts may have slowed the coal bases, China's National Development and Reform Commission last year approved China National Coal Company to begin working on a coal-to-chemicals plant at the Yulin coal base in Shanxi Province.
Also last year, the first major syngas plant in Datang, Inner Mongolia, began operating. It's capable of producing 4 billion cubic meters of gas each year and is linked to Beijing through a new 267-mile-long pipeline. Like natural gas, syngas is much cleaner at the burner tip than coal.
For comparison, the bases already being built will emit more than three times as much carbon dioxide by 2020 when completed than fully developing the Canadian tar sands will loft into the atmosphere. The tar sands will add 420 million tons of carbon dioxide a year by then, according to the environmental organization, while China's coal bases in development will boost that nation's emissions 1.4 billion tons annually by 2020.
Jackson believes Greenpeace's assessment is right because of all the energy it takes to turn coal into syngas or liquid fuels. On a lifecycle basis, Jackson points out syngas emits up to 82 percent more greenhouse gases than mining and burning coal in conventional power plants.
China has approved nine syngas plants, according to Chi-Jen Yang, a research scientist at the Duke center, who's been tracking developments. Ultimately, 40 syngas plants are being planned, including five already approved at Ordos. If all are completed, they will release 110 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere over 40 years, according to Chi-Jen, and they represent just a portion of the various coal processing facilities being planned and built on the coal bases and other scattered locations. That amount alone—110 billion tons—would represent almost a third of the carbon budget that's remaining to all nations between now and 2050 if humanity is to avoid irreversible global warming.
Meanwhile, coal-to-liquid technology is advancing, as evidenced by approvals for facilities in Ningdong, already under construction, and Yulin. Coal-to-liquids almost doubles emissions compared with using oil-based gasoline, according to Chi-Jen.
That's why building out the coal bases will put China on the road to emitting 10 billion tons a year of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030 and that's even if the nation succeeds in meeting its goal of becoming 20 percent more energy efficient per unit of economic output, explains David Fridley, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who's been studying Chinese energy use since the early 1980s.
Modeling studies that Fridley has worked on at LBNL show that under the most aggressive cleanup scenario, China's carbon dioxide emissions will not peak until early in the 2020s. His projections don't count the impact of the coal bases, but assume China instead will make a radical turn toward renewable energy. Currently, China is the No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, pumping out 8.7 billion tons in 2011, according to the Energy Information Administration, compared to 5.5 billion tons by the U.S., the No. 2 emitter. It's adding up.
"There's no scenario we can conceive of that's rational where coal gets backed out,"said Fridley of LBNL's modeling projections for China's energy future. "Coal is the foundation of their energy system."
China as World's Workshop: America's Role
The U.S. played a major role in turning China into the coal-fired workshop of the world.
At the heart of that story are figures both familiar and beloved by American environmentalists, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. It was Clinton who greased the skids through trade deals in the 1990s for the whole U.S. economy to become dependent upon goods made in China with rock bottom wages for labor and cheap, dirty energy. Walk through a big box retail store today and read where products are made and most likely it's in China.
Ironically, Clinton championed free trade while doing much to clean up the air in America. Clinton's former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, who helped broker free trade deals with China, today admits that the U.S. should have worked harder to include environmental conditions in the agreements. Meanwhile, while Clinton, Kantor and others worked to stoke up trade with China, Gore lectured the central government in Beijing on the need to control greenhouse gases. In 1997, he showed China's leaders the hockey stick graph he later made famous in the movie "An Inconvenient Truth."
Next, coming soon: How the U.S. set up China as a pollution haven and exported its air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions at the expense of U.S. workers and communities.
William J. Kelly is co-author with Chip Jacobs of the forthcoming book The People's Republic of Chemicals (Rare Bird Books). This article and the book have been supported by a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists. Kelly also coauthored Smogtown: The Lung Burning History of Air Pollution in Los Angeles (Overlook Press) and is correspondent for California Current. He served as spokesperson and communications manager for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the smog control agency for Los Angeles, from 1988 through 2001.


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Your Social Security Statement is a concise, easy-to-read personal record of the earnings on which you have paid Social Security taxes and a summary of the estimated benefits you and your family could receive, including potential retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. Once you have an account, you can view your Statement at any time. You'll want to verify that your recorded earnings are correct, because your future benefits are based on your recorded earnings.
In addition to using your personal My Social Security account, you can also prepare for a secure, comfortable retirement by visiting www.myra.gov. There, you'll find myRA, a new retirement savings option from the Department of the Treasury for the millions of Americans who face barriers to saving for retirement. myRA is a simple, secure and affordable way to help you take control of your future. It's free and you have zero risk of losing money.
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One sure way to stay on top of your financial future is to join the more than 28 million people who have opened their own My Social Security account at www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount. The sooner you start planning for retirement the better off you will be.
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Analysis: Bishops' accountability still missing from abuse scandal
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) As the nation's Catholic bishops mark 10 years since they adopted sweeping reforms to address the sexual abuse of children by clergy, the 800-pound gorilla in the chancery remains a lack of accountability for the bishops themselves.
That gap also remains the single greatest obstacle to ensuring the safety of children in Catholic parishes and schools and to restoring some measure of credibility for the bishops -- and, by extension, the entire Catholic Church in the U.S.
"Bishops should be accountable to their people, to their priests," Nicholas Cafardi, a canon and civil lawyer who teaches at the Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh, writes in the current issue of U.S. Catholic magazine.
"But authority without accountability is tyranny," writes Cafardi, who once headed the bishops' National Review Board that was established to ensure compliance with their own reforms.
So why was so little done to hold hierarchy accountable even though the calls for penalties were so insistent?
When the bishops gathered under intense public pressure in Dallas in June 2002, they seemed determined to take dramatic steps, and to a degree they did. Their Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People developed a "one-strike" policy to remove priests credibly accused of a single act of abuse, and jump-started efforts to have the Vatican streamline the process for defrocking abusive clerics.
The charter set up the National Review Board and called for similar panels in each diocese. An annual outside audit would also ensure that all bishops were following the charter's detailed policies on background checks and educating children to recognize the threat of abuse and to report their suspicions.
The bishops even agreed to turn over decades of personnel files to researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice for an unprecedented study into the scope of the abuse in the Catholic Church and why it happened. Yet after all was said and done in Dallas, the bishops exempted themselves from any real sanctions. That self-absolution was considered outrageous at the time, and the passing years have not eased the anger.
"The Vatican also needs to do its job. It appears to have no problem investigating nuns and theologians, but investigating mismanagement by a bishop is not a priority," the Rev. Thomas Reese, a well-known Jesuit commentator, told a symposium last month at Jesuit-run Santa Clara University to mark the 10th anniversary of the Dallas charter.
"Even when a bishop is indicted, no one has the sense to tell him to take a leave of absence until the case is over," Reese said.
Priests themselves also remain upset at the focus on their ranks to the exclusion of their bosses: "In the Dallas Charter, all consequences fall on priests. Nothing is in there for bishops. Diocesan priests are on their own," one priest said in a recent survey of clergy attitudes.
Even 10 years later, concerns remain that a lack of bishops' accountability undermines the church's credibility with the public or, worse, leaves children at risk:
-- Several years after the Dallas charter was adopted, Chicago Cardinal Francis George left two priests in ministry despite multiple, credible allegations of abuse against them and recommendations by his review board that the men be removed. Nonetheless, in 2007 George was elected to a three-year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
-- Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law, who was widely seen as the villain of the scandal that erupted in Boston in 2002, was given a plum job in Rome after he resigned in disgrace and he continues to enjoy the perks of a Vatican sinecure.
-- Last year, Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., was charged with failing to report credible allegations that one of his priests had a trove of child pornography and a suspicious interest in young children. Finn is set to go on trial in September and could become the first bishop ever convicted of a crime in connection with the scandal. Even so, he remains a bishop in good standing in the church.
-- Bishops in Baker, Ore., and Lincoln, Neb., have refused to allow the annual mandated audits to ensure compliance with the hierarchy's own policies. Those bishops have not been reprimanded, and last year Pope Benedict XVI promoted the Oregon bishop, Robert Vasa, to a bigger diocese.
-- The quality of the diocesan review boards varies widely, and in many cases the recommendations of the board are either ignored or the board is kept in the dark about allegations. That's what happened in Kansas City and in Philadelphia, where allegations were withheld from the oversight boards.
"If Philadelphia's bishops had authentically followed their call to live the gospel, they would have acted differently," Ana Maria Catanzaro, then chair of the Philadelphia archdiocesan review board, wrote after a February 2011 grand jury report detailed allegations against dozens of priests that she and her colleagues had never heard about.
Why haven't the bishops been able to establish a system for policing themselves?
One is personal: Not surprisingly, the bishops are hesitant to set up a system for punishing their colleagues or even to publicly rebuke them in part because they are a close-knit fraternity. They also know that such a system could one day be used against them.
The principal objection, however, is doctrinal: In Catholic governance and theology, each bishop is answerable only to the bishop of Rome, the pope.
No local bishop can take action against another, and the Vatican has in recent years stressed that even the national bishops' conference has a limited role and cannot usurp any papal prerogatives -- such as disciplining bishops.
Benedict has expressed a greater commitment to purifying the church of the "sin" of sexual abuse than his predecessor, John Paul II, but he holds his fellow bishops in such high regard, and is so leery of undermining tradition and authority, that he has taken little action to rebuke those who have been lax on abusers.
At the same time, the pope has moved relatively quickly and decisively to remove not only bishops who are themselves guilty of abuse or possession of child pornography, but also against bishops whose views he considers too liberal.
The contrast between the pope's swift moves against some bishops and his permissiveness toward others seems to shoot holes in the argument that little can be done to hold bishops accountable when it comes to child abuse cases.
When the bishops gather next week (June 13-15) in Atlanta on the 10th anniversary of the Dallas charter, they will hear a progress report from the National Review Board and recommendations for further action. Some are hopeful that those suggestions might include measures for policing the bishops.
But it would still be up to the bishops themselves to give those policies some teeth.


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- Exercises: 3
- Total Sets: 9
- Total Minutes: 30
- Best For: Muscle
- Body Targets: Abs, Glutes, Hamstrings, Quadriceps, Shoulders
In Weeks 5 and 6, you'll train three times a week, with just three exercises per workout. This is heavy, old-school training, using a barbell for presses, rows, front squats, and deadlifts, along with weighted chinups and dips. You'll do more sets for low reps with as much weight as you can handle, taking long rest periods in between.
Weeks 7 and 8 are more of the same, but with a fourth workout, which we call Bro Day, at the end of the week. Bro Day includes six exercises that you'll do as a circuit (completing one set of each exercise before you take a short break and then repeat the circuit). The exercises hit your arms and abs. You'll do all the exercises for 15 to 20 reps, using relatively light weights, with minimal rest in between.
How to Do It
These are hard and heavy workouts. On each set of each exercise, you want to come pretty close to a max effort. It's okay to finish with one rep left in the tank. It's also okay to fall one rep short of the target. What you don't want to do is go outside those parameters—to leave 2 or more reps in the tank, or to fall 2 or more reps short.
Knowing your max effort on any day will be a moving target. Some days you have more than you expect, but some days you have less. A good way to tell what kind of day it's going to be is to do at least one warmup set for most of the exercises, starting light to practice the movement and make sure your body is ready for the work sets.
When it comes to Bro Day, few of us have any idea how much weight to use for sets of 15 to 20 reps. I recommend that you guess on the low side, since you're doing five rounds of five different arm exercises, with just 30 seconds of rest between exercises and 2 minutes between rounds. That's 75 to 100 reps of each exercise. Even if you're curling your grandma's pastel-colored "hand weights," you'll probably feel some fatigue by the time you get past 90 reps.
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I am an optimist. I believe that America's best days are still to come and today's children will live a life far better than their parents and grandparents.
The vast majority of Americans are more pessimistic, and it's easy to understand why. Looking at the behavior and performance of our political leaders, there's little reason for hope.
That's why I look in places like Johnstown, Pa., rather than Washington, D.C. Last month, I spoke in Johnstown at the chamber of commerce annual dinner. I met many good, hardworking people who devote a lot of time, energy, money and talent to making their community a better place to live and work. There were business leaders, a university president, heads of civic organizations, community volunteers, some local politicians and more.
These good people roll up their sleeves and get things done … and they're not alone. According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, 65 million Americans volunteer their time through a civic organization. All told, they contributed just less than 8 billion hours last year, time worth an estimated $175 billion.
The largest number volunteered through churches and other religious organizations (34 percent), with another large group through schools and educational programs (26 percent).
Volunteer activity can be found improving communities in all demographic groups. The highest level of engagement is among those ages 35-44, followed closely by those 45-54. But a third of the nation's volunteers are under 35, and another third are over 55.
There are only modest differences along racial lines, and women are a bit more likely than men to volunteer. People who live in urban areas are somewhat less likely than those in rural and suburban areas to volunteer, but the differences are small.
There are some geographic differences with places in the middle of the country generally enjoying higher levels of volunteer activity. But the big story is that volunteering to solve problems is a truly all-American activity. It can be found in every nook and cranny of the nation, among all segments of society.
People who volunteer are also generous with their wallets. They are twice as likely to donate to charities as other Americans.
The people I met in Johnstown, and the 65 million other volunteers around the country, fill me with hope, because they are addressing the real needs of our society and solving real problems. Many of them, however, don't share my hope for a simple reason. They are so busy solving one problem after another, they don't recognize that they are shaping and saving the nation at the same time.
In America, change always begins in the popular culture and society. Politics and politicians always lag a decade or two behind. That was true at the founding of our nation when the colonies thought of themselves as independent for decades before the Revolution. It was also true for the suffrage movement, the civil rights movement and other great shifts in American history.
That's why I see a bright future for our country. I recognize that there are 535 reasons in Congress to be pessimistic. More important, though, in Johnstown and other communities throughout the land, there are 65 million reasons for optimism.•
Rasmussen is founder and president of Rasmussen Media Group, and a political analyst. Send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I love these shots P, you are a mad man sir.ReplyDelete
Keep it up!
It's hard not to act these things out...these shots reminded me of the age old question, does the guy in the Mickey Mouse costume smile for the camera eventhough he's wearing a giant plastic head ;)ReplyDelete
I don't think the guy in the Mickey Mouse costume smiles for anything.ReplyDelete
Paolo, i don't know how you pulled this off? because i can't see your skull. either way still enjoyingthe process, and trying to get my wife to take my picture, without laughing at me.ReplyDelete
peace out
I would just hand in an whole issue with your photo ref instead of the art .ReplyDelete
when you aren't taking wacky reference are you doing pushups? damn son!ReplyDelete
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