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Genetic Manipulation (Domestication) of Plants and Animals
This topic presents an interesting problem. On other pages in this series, we have discussed evidence showing that our ancestors were "sophisticated" and intelligent-- as opposed to the evolutionists/materialist representation that they were primitive, backward, knuckle draggers. Here, the tables are turned.
The current evolutionary paradigm holds that our "primitive" ancestors were "sophisticated" enough to carry out the domestication of plants and animals in a way that would challenge and does challenge scientists today working in the field of genetics--and we don't believe that they could have been sophisticated enough. Scientists working in that field today have many up in arms because of their miniscule genetic manipulations, and rightfully so. Yet, they cannot come close to duplicating today what our ancestors are supposed to have done with plant genetics, which was to allegedly take non-edible plants and turn them into entirely new "perfect" grains that make up a large part of the diet of all living humans.
According to the Bible, early men had long life spans (up to and above 900 years) and were intelligent. A central location for: the development of cities; the grains we eat and the "mother language" to name a few -is the so-called fertile crescent (Iran-Turkey)--an area where the Bible says the ark of Noah came to rest. But could even the people of that time have had the know how to "see" what the results of their labor (cross-breeding plants)would be hundreds of years later?
Much more likely, man was able to make slight improvements in plants by crossbreeding--but corn, wheat and other nourishing foods were provided as-is by the Creator. Although rejecting Darwinism, these authors are still influenced by it, believing that they should find "parent plants" for current grains and other edible plants.
The following two articles shed some light on the problems evolutionary theory has with plant and animal domestication. In short, it can't account for it. As it happens, few people seem to have taken an interest in this topic and the ones who have here are "Directed-Panspermists". Directed Panspermia: "The idea that life might have been intentionally spread throughout space and seeded on the surface of other worlds by a guiding intelligence."
This warning is for Christians. These writers are no friendlier to the truth of God than they are to Darwinism. They are willing to see the problems with evolution theory and to expose them but still are unwilling to put any faith in God--not yet anyway. We provide these articles because they highlight some very interesting information. We ask you to use your own judgment and knowledge filter here.
Excerpted From: Mysterious Origins of Crop Plants
By Will Hart, Genesis Race.Com
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....It may seem that I am writing this article to either raise awareness of Genitically Modified Plants(GMOs), to alert you to their potential dangers, or to sing the "gee whiz" praises of our newest industry.
However, none of the above is my actual intent. My concern is altogether different. I want to know exactly how we got here so quickly? I recall the days when horses were harnessed to pull ploughs and manure fertilized fields.
In fact, that form of agriculture was developed in Sumer and lasted some 4500 years. What happened since the 1950s? How did we get here -- in the broadest sense from the wild grasses, the ancestors of modern cereal crops -- to these Frankenplants?
If you think that our modern geneticists and plant scientists know the answers and can point to the evidence showing how our primitive Stone Age ancestors domesticated wild plants, you are a victim of a scientific shell game.
That is what you are supposed to assume. However, the history of plant domestication is fuzzy, full of 'missing links' and logical inconsistencies though the public is given the impression that the history of agriculture holds no real mysteries.
We are told in our history and anthropological textbooks that our fist civilizations were spawned on the heels of the 'agricultural revolution, which occurred in major river valleys. What the textbooks fail to tell us is that our Stone Age predecessors did not harvest and eat the seeds of wild grasses during their long sojourn through the Paleolithic era.
They were hunter-gathers who subsisted on leafy greens and lean muscle meats. How come they suddenly figured out how to domesticate and turn into major food sources circa 5,000 BC?
This raises some obvious and very sticky questions concerning the period of trial and error experimentation and development that must have gone into domesticating wild wheat into bread wheat and wild corn into the domesticated variety.
Let us begin with the enigma of the modern corn plant. The humble origin of corn remains mysterious because the ancestral wild plant has never been located. It is an established, scientific fact that corn is a cultigen, a plant engineered by humans.
This means that it has become so altered by humans that it cannot reproduce naturally and is entirely dependent upon man's continued cultivation. In short, it is now a manmade plant and has been for some time.
Scientists have not been able to trace the lineage of corn to the ancestral wild plant. How can this be if the 'agricultural revolution' only occurred 7-8,000 years ago?
Corn is a form of wild grass, as are the majority of the other major crop plants, there is no good reason for the ancestral variety to have vanished and/or become extinct. 10,000 years may seem like a long time in human terms yet it is a very short time in terms of the evolution and life span of a plant species. There are ancient plants that have existed continuously for hundreds of millions of years.
If you believe that our ancestors domesticated crop plants, you have to start by assuming that people without any agricultural experience were brilliant enough to select and breed the best wild seed candidates to turn into major cereal crops.
It is a historical fact that in spite of 5,000 years of continuous agricultural development we have not genetically bred a new major crop from a wild species. Just how ingenious were out Stone Age predecessors who performed this agronomic feat without any agricultural or genetic knowledge?
Basing the agricultural revolution on the notion that people who lacked any understanding of the scientific basis of plant breeding created edible crops from inedible grasses seems a very shaky premise. Skepticism is warranted due to the fact that, if it actually occurred, this was the riskiest of gambles, since it represented a complete departure from the only way of life and only food sources that Stone Age people knew.
But first let's step back to an earlier point and ask how we know that 100,000 generations of Stone Age humans did not eat wild grass seeds. Our guts are still not adapted to digest uncooked grains.
After all we are not birds. In addition, our Paleolithic ancestors lacked the technology to harvest, thresh, process and cook wild grass seeds. The seeds of wild species are miniscule and they are attached to the seed heads making them difficult to harvest and hardly worth the effort.
These are little known facts that raise deeper issues. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors mainly subsisted on leafy greens and lean muscle meats. If they lacked an extended experience with wild grasses how did they know which ones to select to turn into wheat, rye, corn, barely and rice?
In other words these are still the principal food crops that our civilizations are based upon. After at least 5,000 years of continuous agriculture we do not seem to have improved upon the first selections of our 'scientifically ignorant' ancestors. That hardly seems logical.
This amazingly prescient selection of wild seeds seems not only more than a little surprising it looks to border on being a minor miracle. There are an estimated 195,000 flowering plants that they could have turned into food sources and primitive man chose less than .01 to base agriculture upon.
This happened at a point in time when people had no concept of domesticating plants or animals, which means no experience with artificial selection.
To further appreciate the paradox that this situation imposes upon us we have to understand, domesticated crop plants are nothing like their wild ancestors. Farmers have long known this fact. The differences are so great that most of the specific ancestral locations of our cereal crops remain a mystery.
We must ponder what this really means. What are the implications of our scientists not being able to trace the specific wild ancestors of modern corn, wheat, rye, barely and rice?
When we look at the problem of how our ancestors, lacking in both tools and knowledge, domesticated wild plants it is really tantamount to pondering how the Great Pyramid was conceived, designed, engineered and constructed with stone tools and primitive methods.
There is something out of focus in the picture we have of the history of civilization on this planet, how and when agriculture and precision-engineered architecture were developed and by whom.
It is as if our ancestors were gathered around the campfire inside a cave and one was using his hands and fingers to tell stories by throwing shadows against the wall one minute; the next minute they are watching satellite TV and giddily channel surfing. That is how great the gaps are between the late Stone Age and the birth of agriculture and civilization.
How were these quantum leaps made and where is the evidence to support the orthodox theory that humans engineered them? The real problem with the orthodox scenario is the lack of a long incubation period during which early humans experimented with selective breeding and with constructing megalithic stone monuments.
Agriculture should -- and not doubt actually does-- extend back tens of thousands of years and not the 9,000 that modern science contends. The creation of dogs from wild wolves, a true genetic engineering feat, is proof of this.
A more thorough examination of these issues, including evidence that human beings could not have domesticated wild wolves 15,000 years ago and turned them into man's best friend appears in The Genesis Race.© 2004 by Will Hart
Excerpted from: "THE LITERAL CREATION OF MANKIND AT THE HANDS OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT"
by Lloyd Pye
.....There are two basic forms of plants and animals: wild and domesticated. The wild ones far outnumber the domesticated ones, which may explain why vastly more research is done on the wild forms. But it could just as easily be that scientists shy away from the domesticated ones because the things they find when examining them are so far outside the accepted evolutionary paradigm.
Nearly all domesticated plants are believed to have appeared between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, with different groups coming to different parts of the world at different times.
Initially, in the so-called "Fertile Crescent" of modern Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon came wheat, barley, and legumes, among others. Later on, in the Far East, came wheat, millet, rice, and yams. Later still, in the New World, came maize (corn), peppers, beans, squash, tomatoes and potatoes.
Many have "wild" predecessors that were apparently a starting point for the domesticated variety, but others—like many common vegetables— have no obvious precursors. But for those that do, such as wild grasses, grains, and cereals, how they turned into wheat, barley, millet, rice, etc., is a profound mystery.
No botanist can conclusively explain how wild plants gave rise to domesticated ones. The emphasis there is on "conclusively." Botanists have no trouble hypothesizing elaborate scenarios in which Neolithic (New Stone Age) farmers somehow figured out how to hybridize wild grasses and grains and cereals, not unlike Gregor Mendel when he cross-bred pea plants to figure out the mechanics of genetic inheritance. It all sounds so simple and so logical, almost no one outside scientific circles ever examines it closely.
Gregor Mendel never bred his pea plants to be anything other than pea plants. He created short ones, tall ones, and different colored ones, but they were always pea plants that produced peas. (Pea plants are a domesticated species, too, but that is irrelevant to the point to be made here.)
On the other hand, those Stone Age farmers who were fresh out of their caves and only just beginning to turn soil for the first time (as the "official" scenario goes), somehow managed to transform the wild grasses, grains, and cereals growing around them into their domesticated "cousins." Is that possible? Only through a course in miracles.
Actually, it requires countless miracles within two large categories of miracles. The first was that the wild grasses and grains and cereals were useless to humans. The seeds and grains were maddeningly small, like pepper flakes or salt crystals, which put them beyond the grasping and handling capacity of human fingers.
They were also hard, like tiny nutshells, making it impossible to convert them to anything edible. Lastly, their chemistry was suited to nourishing animals, not humans.
So wild varieties were entirely too small, entirely too tough, and nutritionally inappropriate for humans. They needed to be greatly expanded in size, greatly softened in texture, and overhauled at the molecular level, which would be an imposing challenge for modern botanists, much less Neolithic farmers.
Despite the seeming impossibility of meeting those daunting objectives, modern botanists are confident the first sodbusters had all they needed to do it: time and patience. Over hundreds of generations of selective crossbreeding, they consciously directed the genetic transformation of the few dozen that would turn out to be most useful to humans.
And how did they do it? By the astounding feat of doubling, tripling, and quadrupling the number of chromosomes in the wild varieties! In a few cases they did better than that.
Domestic wheat and oats were elevated from an ancestor with 7 chromosomes to their current 42, expansion by a factor of six. Sugar cane expanded from a 10-chromosome ancestor to the 80-chromosome monster it is today, a factor of eight.
The chromosomes of others, like bananas and apples, only multiplied by factors of two or three, while peanuts, potatoes, tobacco and cotton, among others, expanded by factors of four.
This is not as astounding as it sounds because many wild flowering plants and trees have multiple chromosome sets. But that brings up what Charles Darwin himself called the "abominable mystery" of flowering plants. The first ones appear in the fossil record between 150 and 130 million years ago, primed to multiply into over 200,000 known species.
But no one can explain their presence because there is no connective link to any form of plants that preceded them. It is as if….dare I say it?….they were brought to Earth by something akin to You-Know-What.
If so, then it could well be they were delivered with a built-in capacity to develop multiple chromosome sets, and somehow our Neolithic forebears cracked the codes for the ones most advantageous to humans.
However the codes were cracked, the great expansion of genetic material in each cell of the domestic varieties caused them to grow much larger than their wild ancestors. As they grew, their seeds and grains became large enough to be easily seen, picked up, and manipulated by human fingers.
Simultaneously, the seeds and grains softened to a degree where they could be milled, cooked, and consumed. And at the same time, their cellular chemistry was altered enough to begin providing nourishment to humans who ate them. The only word that remotely equates with that achievement is: miracle.
Of course, "miracle" implies there was actually a chance that such complex manipulations of nature could be carried out by primitive yeomen in eight geographical areas over 5,000 years. This strains credulity because in each case in each area someone had to actually look at a wild progenitor and imagine what it could become, or should become, or would become.
Then they had to somehow insure that their vision would be carried forward through countless generations that had to remain committed to planting, harvesting, culling, and crossbreeding wild plants that put no food on their tables during their lifetimes, but which might feed their descendants in some remotely distant future.
It is difficult to try to concoct a more unlikely—even absurd—scenario, yet to modern-day botanists it is a gospel they believe with a fervor that puts many "six day" Creationists to shame. Why? Because to confront its towering absurdity would force them to turn to You-Know-What for a more logical and plausible explanation.
To domesticate a wild plant without using artificial (i.e. genetic) manipulation, it must be modified by directed crossbreeding, which is only possible through the efforts of humans. So the equation is simple. First, wild ancestors for many (but not all) domestic plants do seem apparent.
Second, most domesticated versions did appear from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago. Third, the humans alive at that time were primitive barbarians.
Fourth, in the past 5,000 years no plants have been domesticated that are nearly as valuable as the dozens that were "created" by the earliest farmers all around the world. Put an equal sign after those four factors and it definitely does not add up to any kind of Darwinian model.
Botanists know they have a serious problem here, but all they can suggest is that it simply had to have occurred by natural means because no other intervention—by God or You-Know-What—can be considered under any circumstances. That unwavering stance is maintained by all scientists, not just botanists, to exclude overwhelming evidence such as the fact that in 1837 the Botanical Garden BIN RAS in St. Petersburg, Russia, began concerted attempts to cultivate wild rye into a new form of domestication.
They are still trying because their rye has lost none of its wild traits, especially the fragility of its stalk and its small grain. Therein lies the most embarrassing conundrum botanists face.
To domesticate a wild grass like rye, or any wild grain or cereal (which was done time and again by our Neolithic forebears), two imposing hurdles must be cleared. These are the problems of rachises and glumes, which I discuss in my book, "Everything You Know Is Wrong—Book One: Human Origins" (pgs. 283-285).
Glumes are botany's name for husks, the thin covers of seeds and grains that must be removed before humans can digest them. Rachises are the tiny stems that attach seeds and grains to their stalks.
While growing, glumes and rachises are strong and durable so rain won't knock the seeds and grains off their stalks. At maturity they become so brittle that a breeze will shatter them and release their cargo to propagate.
Such a high degree of brittleness makes it impossible to harvest wild plants because every grain or seed would be knocked loose during the harvesting process.
So in addition to enlarging and softening and nutritionally altering the seeds and grains of dozens of wild plants, the earliest farmers had to also figure out how to finely adjust the brittleness of every plant's glumes and rachises.
That adjustment was of extremely daunting complexity, perhaps more complex than the transformational process itself. The rachises had to be toughened enough to hold seeds and grains to their stalks during harvesting, yet remain brittle enough to be easily collected by human effort during what has come to be known as "threshing."
Likewise, the glumes had to be made tough enough to withstand harvesting after full ripeness was achieved, yet still be brittle enough to shatter during the threshing process. And—here's the kicker—each wild plant's glumes and rachises required completely different degrees of adjustment, and the final amount of each adjustment had to be perfectly precise!
In short, there is not a snowball's chance this happened as botanists claim it did.
As with plants, animal domestication followed a pattern of development that extended 10,000 to 5,000 years ago. It also started in the Fertile Crescent, with the "big four" of cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, among others. Later, in the Far East, came ducks, chickens, and water buffalo, among others.
Later still, in the New World, came llamas and vicuna. This process was not simplified by expanding the number of chromosomes. All animals—wild and domesticated—are diploid, which means they have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.
The number of chromosomes varies as widely as in plants (humans have 46), but there are always only two sets (humans have 23 in each).
The only "tools" available to Neolithic herdsmen were those available to farming kinsmen: time and patience. By the same crossbreeding techniques apparently utilized by farmers, wild animals were selectively bred for generation after generation until enough gradual modifications accumulated to create domesticated versions of wild ancestors.
As with plants, this process required anywhere from hundreds to thousands of years in each case, and was also accomplished dozens of times in widely separated areas around the globe.
Once again, we face the problem of trying to imagine those first herdsmen with enough vision to imagine a "final model," to start the breeding process during their own lifetimes, and to have it carried out over centuries until the final model was achieved.
This was much trickier than simply figuring out which animals had a strong pack or herding instinct that would eventually allow humans to take over as "leaders" of the herd or pack. For example, it took serious cajones to decide to bring a wolf cub into a campsite with the intention of teaching it to kill and eat selectively, and to earn its keep by barking at intruders (adult wolves rarely bark).
And who could look at the massive, fearsome, ill-tempered aurochs and visualize a much smaller, much more amiable cow? Even if somebody could have visualized it, how could they have hoped to accomplish it?
An aurochs calf (or a wolf cub for that matter) carefully and lovingly raised by human "parents" would still grow up to be a full-bodied adult with hard-wired adult instincts.
However it was done, it wasn't by crossbreeding. Entire suites of genes must be modified to change the physical characteristics of animals. (In an interesting counterpoint to wild and domesticated plants, domesticated animals are usually smaller than their wild progenitors).
But with animals something more…something ineffable…must be changed to alter their basic natures from wild to docile. To accomplish it remains beyond modern abilities, so attributing such capacity to Neolithic humans is an insult to our intelligence.....
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Virtualized infrastructures can yield great complexity. Even one considers the topology of an infrastructure, that is, how hypervisors, virtual machines, networks and storages are connected, we face a complex configuration problem. How can we be sure that the system is configured correctly and securely?
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The summer showcase season for high school prospects for the 2014 First-Year Player Draft is in high gear. It started with the Perfect Game National Showcase and continued with USA Baseball's Tournament of Stars. The most recent event, finishing on Saturday in Syracuse, N.Y., was the East Coast Professional Showcase.
The four-day showcase, featuring prep talent from all over the eastern United States, is run by Major League scouts and gives the industry an opportunity to see players over a longer stretch than in a one-day All-Star Game setup. It allows pitchers to throw more than once, and often for as many as three innings, as opposed to the one-inning stint they'll get at the two All-American Games taking place later this month.
The Area Code Games is set up similarly, with multiple games over several days. That's currently taking place in Southern California, giving scouts a must-see 1-2 event punch that leads to a ton of frequent-flier miles.
There were dozens of scouts in Syracuse taking in the action, and not surprisingly, that led to a wide variety of opinions about what they saw. There was a bit of consensus about who the top players were in the showcase, and the list below reflects conversations with a range of scouts, from area guys up to scouting directors, about the top pitchers at the showcase. While there was a small handful of players who were almost universally praised, there was a fairly large group -- with too many names to list everyone -- who was thought to play well, even if they didn't necessarily separate themselves.
1. Dylan Cease, RHP, Milton HS (Ga.): In his first inning of work, Cease threw a steady diet of 95- and 96-mph fastballs in a very effective inning. His velocity dropped in his second and third innings, not typically an issue, and he did have trouble commanding his breaking ball a bit. Still, Cease had as big of an arm as anyone at the event.
2. Mac Marshall, LHP, Parkview HS (Ga.): Marshall had suffered a minor oblique injury at the Perfect Game showcase in Minneapolis, so this was his first time back on the mound. He clocked 90-92 mph, but typically throws much faster. But Marshall commanded his breaking stuff well and was very efficient.
3. Touki Toussaint, RHP, Coral Springs Christian Academy (Fla.): One of the more projectable pitchers at East Coast, Toussaint was up to 94 mph and showed a curve and a slider. He wasn't always consistent, though he did get better as his outing went on, and scouts love his arm and upside.
4. Sean Reid-Foley, RHP, Sandalwood HS (Fla.): Scouts like to see improvement as the summer goes on, and Reid-Foley threw better at East Coast than he did during Tournament of Stars. During three hitless innings, the right-hander was at 92-94 mph with his fastball, with a ton of sink.
5. Sean Blewett, RHP, C.W. Baker HS (NY): A local kid from just outside of Syracuse, Blewett is going to make scouts travel back to New York next spring. At 6-foot-6, there's projection here, and he hit up to 93 mph during his outing.
6. Cobi Johnson, RHP, James W. Mitchell HS (Fla.): The son of former big leaguer Dane Johnson, the big right-hander was very efficient, throwing just 28 pitches over three innings. He showed a very good breaking ball, had excellent command and threw everything downhill.
7. Justus Sheffield, LHP, Tullahoma HS (Tenn.): Sheffield could have been higher up on this list, perhaps hurt slightly because he more or less threw the way people have come to expect. There's also the fact that he is a bit undersized, albeit while throwing left-handed. Sheffield reached 94 mph in this event, but some feel he needs a tighter breaking ball.
8. Joe Gatto, RHP, St. Augustine Prep (NJ): Gatto is 6-foot-5 and touched 94 mph. While he was very fastball heavy, he maintained his velocity for three innings and filled up the strike zone.
9. Grant Holmes, RHP, Conway HS (SC): Holmes faced Sheffield and more than kept up. The 6-foot-2 right-hander reached 94 mph and showed a very good breaking ball.
10. Jake Godfrey, RHP, Providence Catholic HS (Ill.): Godfrey threw his fastball 91-93 mph and coupled it with a very nasty curveball.
Other pitchers of note: Austin DeCarr, RHP, Salisbury School (Mass.); Foster Griffin, LHP, The First Academy (Fla.); Alex Destino, LHP, North Buncombe HS (NC); Zach Shannon, RHP, Anderson HS (Ohio); Alex Faedo, RHP, Alonso HS (Fla.); Bryan Dobzanski, RHP, Delsea Regional HS (NJ); Justin Steele, George County HS (MS).


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Bribery, Blackmail, and Implementation: Thoughts on Federal Policy
The second in a five-part series
People of a certain age—which is to say, mine—can instantly recall the "I'm Just a Bill" installment of the "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoon series. In just three minutes, an aspiring statute lounging on the steps of the U.S. Capitol made the legislative process memorable and even misleadingly melodic. But, having taught America's children "how a bill becomes a law," the series' creators never produced the obvious sequel: "What happens after a bill becomes a law."
Perhaps this topic was simply too disturbing for Saturday-morning television. After all, when it comes to transforming a public law into public policy, the American political system is for adult viewing only: It prominently features bribery and blackmail.
Effective policy implementation is problematic for many reasons. Primary is the fact that American government is not an "it," but a "they." Policy execution must be overseen by a large number of organizations and individuals within and across levels of government. These multiple personalities bring to bear divergent financial and administrative resources; they have uneven incentives and motivations to comply; and they are constantly tempted to wait for a new political coalition and a better deal. In short, as Alexander Hamilton put it in 1798: "How widely different the business of government is from the speculation of it!" The result, he worried, was "delay and feebleness." Too often, of course, that has served as a fair description of federal education policy.
Indeed, education policy is particularly poorly suited to hierarchical command and control. It is an arena where the federal government faces competition both for the right to act at all and to have anything like the last word. National policy must be turned over to state and local actors with their own constituencies to please and their own independent authority. There are a lot of moving parts here—for a start, 50 statewide education bureaucracies overseeing approximately 14,000 districts, close to 100,000 school principals, and 3.6 million teachers (not to mention 55 million schoolchildren).
Worse, good policy depends crucially on how it is crafted, not simply the merit of the original idea. But political consensus often requires ambiguity, not exactitude. For example, during the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act, the idea of accountability was widely supported. But there was little agreement on what that concept ought to mean in practice. Thus, the language of the law met the needs of an odd coalition wedded to diverging priorities, but not of those who would have to implement it.
The irony here is that successful lawmaking can readily lead to problematic law. It doesn't help that as soon as a bill passes, factions start seeking to change it—whether in Congress, the courts, state capitals, or the regulatory arena. The fight's immediate winners declare victory and seek to move on.
But American politics is not a prizefight, with clear and sporting rules and an acknowledged winner. It is instead, as the late, great James Q. Wilson once observed, a bar fight. There are no real bounds on participation, tactics, or weaponry. Just when it seems settled, it starts up again in the alleyways outside, pulling in new combatants with new energies. In recent years, the theater of operations has only expanded, and the bipartisan sheen of education policy has been worn off by the creeping nationalization of partisan polarization.
What works, then, if dictate rarely does? The short if uncomfortable answer returns: bribery and blackmail. We have seen both in federal policy.
As early as 1862, with the passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act enabling the creation of land-grant colleges, the federal government caught on to using federal resources to encourage states to follow federal preferences. Similar strings have yanked the states into doing much else—for example, imposing annual tests for grades 3-8. While the federal government pays only a small fraction of national education costs, it doesn't take a lot of money—especially in tight fiscal times—to change behavior. (In fact, as we have also seen, granting waivers of statutory requirements might be enough.)
And a lot of money can lead to a lot of change, as the federal Race to the Top grant program suggests. Even states that failed to win were clamoring to make important policy changes along the lines laid out by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his $4 billion-deep wallet. True, promises made may remain unachieved. But one lesson of the Race to the Top is simple and familiar to any parent: Bribery works.
So does blackmail. While this could simply mean a federal threat to take cash away if compliance slackens, more intriguing for present purposes is the kind of blackmail pursued in classic detective mysteries. Comply, warns the blackmailer, or something you don't want known will be publicized.
The data and transparency provisions of NCLB follow this second approach. By requiring states and districts to publish data on grade-level educational attainment—and to do it frequently, consistently, and broken down by student subgroup—the federal government put real pressure on states to improve or be embarrassed. States were also forced to enhance their administrative capacity to implement widespread testing and to gather and use the data gained from it. All this gave educators, administrators, and parents additional, and more actionable, information about school and student achievement.
Even as the coercive part of the law allowed or even encouraged states to drop their standards denoting what counted as "proficient" achievement, the transparency features allowed those standards to be compared via widely respected measures such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Publicizing report cards that found state standards were far less challenging than NAEP standards has helped pressure states to raise them, albeit slowly. This has also turned into a way of encouraging the adoption of higher common, ostensibly voluntary, standards through Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers.
As all blackmail victims do, the states have argued that this is unfair. They have a point, if the measures utilized do not adequately reflect true student achievement. But it is the threat of such blackmail that can prompt states to seek better measures.
In short, bribery and blackmail can work in complementary fashion to enhance school accountability. But all of this is hard and frustratingly indirect. The federal government sets ends far better than it dictates means, but is tempted by state shirking and credit-claiming politics to make promises it cannot keep. (Say, for instance, the promise of 100 percent academic proficiency.)
Thus, as Congress lurches slowly toward reauthorizing the NCLB, which is the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, federal policymakers need to be realistic about both the levers of the American political system and the effects of the policy reform they prize. How will things actually work if a given federal policy is enacted? What incentives and constraints will that policy provide and operate within? How can joint action lead to success rather than stalemate? We don't need to put it to music, but we do need to think more seriously about what kind of a bill ought to become a law.
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even if it is, is there a page somewhere that provides a list of supported syntax?
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Post-surgery, Wood can still bring the heat
CLEVELAND -- Count Indians reliever Blake Wood among the increasing number of Tommy John surgery success stories. During Wood's brief outing against the Royals on Tuesday night, one look at the Progressive Field radar gun was all one needed to know he is fully recovered.
Wood's first pitch of the ninth inning was a 100-mph fastball to Kansas City's Billy Butler and the hard-throwing right-hander did not let up. Only two of the dozen heaters fired at his former team registered under 98 mph in Wood's three-batter appearance.
"You feel stronger," Wood said, "because you've had more time than you've ever had to work out, get stronger and work on the stuff you wanted to work on that you didn't have time to do during the season, to feel right mechanically. It's that, plus the new ligament."
Wood and Indians starter Danny Salazar -- both with Tommy John ligament-replacement surgery on their resumes -- have reached triple digits on the radar gun this year. A few lockers away from Wood in the Indians' locker room, fellow Tommy John-recipient Josh Tomlin laughed.
"I got the same ligament he got," Tomlin said of Wood. "Same one as Salazar, too. Why am I still throwing 88?"
According to brooksbaseball.net, which compiles PITCHf/x data from every Major League game, Wood's 99.43-mph average on Tuesday night was the second-highest velocity average he has posted in a game since Aug. 29, 2011. Across the 2010-11 campaigns with Kansas City, the 28-year-old Wood averaged 95.5 mph with his fastball.
Wood, who underwent surgery on his elbow in May last year, fully understands that pitch speed is not the only important element on the mound. In 26 1/3 Minor League innings this season, Wood issued 18 walks between stints with four Cleveland affiliates. Through two relief outings for the Indians, the right-hander has three walks and one strikeout.
"You want to get physically where you want to be first, get your stuff back," Wood said. "And then you can work from there. Right now, I feel like, 'All right, my stuff is where I want it to be.' Now I need to start doing other things better, like controlling the running game, working on command. That's going to happen with getting to pitch more."
In 2011, Wood appeared in 55 games for the Royals, posting a 3.75 ERA with 62 strikeouts and 32 walks in 69 2/3 innings. Kansas City exposed him to waivers over the winter, and Cleveland claimed the sidelined reliever on Nov. 2, giving him a chance to continue his recovery with a new team this season.
"I couldn't be more thankful to an organization," Wood said. "At that point, I was five months out of surgery and I was just hoping to get a chance somewhere. It was a lot of hoping, not thinking that it was going to happen. I'm glad they did. I'm hoping they're glad they took a chance on me, because I'm certainly very thankful that they did."


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Community Medical Center, an affiliate of RWJBarnabas Health System, is a 592-bed, fully accredited acute care hospital offering area residents world-class medical treatment with the comforts of hometown care. Opened in 1961, CMC has evolved into the state s largest non-teaching hospital and Ocean County s largest and most active health care facility caring for over 24,200 inpatients, 142,500 outpatients and 81,400 emergency department patients each year. Community Medical Center is dedicated to advancing the quality of life and health of our community while delivering compassionate care for our patients. Our core values include: Compassion, Quality, Accountability, Integrity, Diversity and Teamwork.
Obtains patient blood samples by venipuncture or capillary puncture using aseptic techniques and collection skills. Performs all duties integral to the identification and preparation of specimens for assay. Performs venipuncture at Skilled Nursing Facilities, draw stations, and enters lab orders as required.
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In this step-by-step tutorial, Nashville guitar tech John LeVan demonstrates how to convert an electric guitar with a bolt-on neck into a growling baritone. He also offers valuable tips on installing tuners, adjusting a truss rod, filing nut slots, balancing pickup output, and setting intonation.
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DIY Face Toner
When Life Gives You Apples, Make a Facial Toner
Looking for a natural facial toner, but coming up short? Luckily, whipping up your own version is as easy as slicing up some skin-brightening apples. It also includes witch hazel, which contains a bevy of antiseptic and anti-inflammatory benefits, as well as the ability to nix greasy skin. Follow these easy steps to make your new favorite face toner to firm and even out your skin's texture.
What You Need:
- One green apple
- 1/2 cup lukewarm water
- Mesh sieve
- 1/4 cup witch hazel
- A small spray bottle
- Take the green apple and cut it into small cubes. Leave the peel on but remove the seeds.
- Combine the apple and water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Once it boils, remove from heat and allow it to cool completely.
- Strain the mixture through a fine mesh sieve into a clean bowl. Stir in the witch hazel.
- Apply the toner with a clean cotton ball, or pour it into an empty spray bottle and spritz on.
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This week's challenge over at TMITA/PCC is brought to us by Danielle Lord. Since this image is for St. Patrick's Day, you can see where why the challenge went where it did. :o) Green & Gold for the colors to be used outside the image and a twist to add some metal somewhere. I wish you could see my pp better because it has some foil type lines running through it, but they really don't show. I heat embossed the swirls you see in the background and just added some gold brads for my metal twist. Not sure if I am really thrilled with this, but I started making it about 10:00PM this evening, so... it is what it is. Although, I really love the little saying that is on the front. So, I might make another and do something else. I rarely send cards out for St. Patrick's day, so I made my sentiment so I could use it as a more everyday kind of card.
Well, that's it for the challenge and these next two cards I made for a few of my girlfriends that had birthdays. Of course they are late birthday cards, but I am telling you my time just is flying these days and I just can't seem to get ahead of it with all I have to still accomplish. ((big sigh)) Anyways.... enough whining, this first image is "Designer Cupcake" by Paper Cupcake Stamps and can be found in my store here. I must say I am satisfied with both these cards. I mean after all who doesn't love a good cupcake?!?
This image is called "Magnolia Cupcakes" and it too can be found at my store Paper Cupcakes.
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
March 8, 2010
Magical Monday - Color Challenge w/ metal
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Nostalgia - A&W Waffle & Root Beer Float
>> Friday, September 28, 2012
What else would come to your mind when the word "A&W" is mentioned? No other than these, right?
Ultimate nostalgia! I haven't been to A&W for probably more than 10 years...or maybe more than 15 years??! Ah, a DECADE!
The 1st thing that comes to mind when I stepped into A&W was to order a mug of chilled root beer float. Then the other thing that I HAD to have was the A&W waffles with butter & honey/syrup. Nothing else. I don't fancy their burgers & neither did I order their classic coney dog (WS did, that's why I could take a photo of it!).
If not for the totally awesome time of sharing & laughter, I wouldn't have enjoyed the dining experience at A&W tonight :) Three of us practically sat there talking & laughing for 3 hours straight...oh goodness, such joy!! :D Great friends like these are SO hard to come by & as much as I cherish the nostalgia of A&W, I cherish such awesome times spent with friends even more ;)
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Reiki - Bordon
Bordon is a town in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It lies 5.4 miles south-east of Alton and forms a part of the civil parish of Whitehill, the adjoining village. Wikipedia
Hollywater Healing
Bordon, Hampshire, gu350ad
Hollywater Healing is set in lovely Hampshire countryside offfering energy healing techniques such as Reiki, Tai Chi, Qigong and Shamanic techniques for health and [...]Distance: 0.57 miles.
Lizzie Carver
Whitehill, East Sussex, GU35 9EA
I offer Reiki to clients in a variety of settings - at my home in Whitehill, or at Pure Alternative Therapy Clinic, Alton, or [...]Distance: 1.17 miles.
Resa Therapy – Healing Mind, Body and Soul
Liphook, Hampshire, GU30 7QA
07792 114174
I am a qualified massage therapist, Reiki Master Teacher and Rahanni Celestial Healing teacher. I offer a range of therapies to help heal, balance [...]Distance: 2.82 miles.
Amanda Riley Therapies
Grayshott, Hampshire, GU26 6HF
07989 604750
Reiki As a Reiki Master, I add Reiki into all my therapy work Swedish Massage A relaxing therapeutic massage, Swedish Massage is a set of strokes aimed [...]Distance: 4.63 miles.
Helen Gibbs
Liss, Hampshire, GU33 6JT
I am a highly experienced and highly intuitive Reiki therapist. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP - 15 - 20% of the population have [...]Distance: 4.82 miles.
It's Never Too Late
Liss, Hampshire, GU33 7NT
01730 893713
I have been working as an energy practitioner since 1992 constantly developing my 'tool kit'. I would love to live in a world where women [...]Distance: 5.41 miles.
Sue Baker Wellbeing
Liss, Hampshire, GU33 7NT
01730 893713
I offer Reiki healing from my beautiful and peaceful treatment room in my home on the Hampshire/West Sussex border and also to guests at [...]Distance: 5.41 miles.
Hampshire Therapies
Alton, Staffordshire, GU34 4QL
07766 224691
As a Master Teacher I have the pleasure of training people in the beautiful art of Usui Reiki and the Holy Fire Karuna (tm) [...]Distance: 5.58 miles.
Time Out Therapies and Training
Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 3RH
Time Out Therapies and Training invites you to take time out to relax and unwind by offering complementary therapy treatments in No Hands® Massage, [...]Distance: 5.6 miles.
Reiki master Shaun Howard
Alton, Staffordshire
This is a non intrusive way if finding out how to activate your inner healing strength and to release stress which is 90% of [...]Distance: 5.71 miles.
Amethyst Tiger Reiki Healing
Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 1AG
07776 145015
Amethyst Tiger was set up by Arya Ingvorsen, an experienced Reiki Master in the Usui Tradition. Arya is also a clinical hypnotherapist, a shamanic [...]Distance: 5.85 miles.
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Farnham, Surrey, GU9 8LS
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I practise Reiki healing. The treatment promotes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being and is a completely natural and safe form [...]Distance: 7.1 miles.
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Godalming, Surrey, GU8 6DZ
01252 703256
Reiki, roughly translated from Japanese, means "Universal Life Energy". Everything around us (including our bodies) is energy and Reiki helps to balance this. In [...]Distance: 7.98 miles.
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Godalming, Surrey, gu8 6dl
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Godalming, Surrey, GU8 6EL
01252 706995
Nicky has been using Reiki on clients since 2002. She is also a Registered Nutritionist, Master Hypnotherapist, Master NLP Practitioner, Master Time Line Therapy [...]Distance: 8.64 miles.
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Camberley, Surrey, GU16 6AE
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I have been running my business, Relax and Revitalise, since 2005. I have a peaceful dedicated treatment room and as well as offering Reiki [...]Distance: 9.58 miles.
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Aldershot, Hampshire, GU113NE
Natalie has been practicing Reiki since 2008 and has completed her 1st and 2nd degrees in Reiki. She became a Reiki Master in July [...]Distance: 9.73 miles.
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Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 3QR
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Well, hello from a soggy south-west Scotland. I'm Giles, Development Officer for Discovering Dumfries and Galloway's Past and I wanted to tell you on Day of Archaeology 2012 about the project and what we are going to be doing over the next week or so…
DDGP is an exciting new community archaeology project based in south-west, providing training in using geophysical survey to help volunteers record, understand and interpret the region's fascinating archaeology. There's going to be plenty of opportunity for local people right across the region to get involved in the surveys – it's a great way to find out more about buried archaeology without having to excavate.
What is geophysics, and what can we find out using it?
Not all archaeology is about excavation – you may have come across 'geofizz' on TV's Time Team where it's often used to plan where to put the trenches in. Geophysics is a way of mapping buried archaeological deposits – be they ditches, pits or building material – without ever breaking the ground surface.
There are two main techniques for geophysical survey:
Resistivity: By passing a small electrical current into the ground, and measuring the amount of resistance that results, it is possible to locate buried remains of archaeological interest.
Resistance is related to the amount of moisture in the soil. Around buried walls, for example, the surrounding soil will often be dryer. The current cannot pass so easily through this dry soil, so stonework can often show up as areas of higher resistance. This technique is therefore ideal for locating building walls and foundations.
Magnetometry: This technique detects extremely small variations in the earth's magnetic field, caused when the ground has been disturbed by previous activity. Burning, for instance, will often leave a significant magnetic trace.
Magnetometry is excellent for locating ditches, pits, middens, hearths and kilns – and is great at covering large areas quite quickly.
The great thing about geophysical survey is that the results can be rapidly downloaded on site to a laptop, and even with minimum processing it is possible to define 'anomalies' which can represent buried archaeology. For volunteers on the project surveys this is great – they can see the fruits of their labours in the field. We are aiming to get these very quickly into reports which will be uploaded onto our website, to share them with as wide an audience as possible.
Our next survey
It's all a bit hectic in the office today as we put the finishing touches to our programme for next week's survey. We'll be undertaken both magnetic and resistivity survey at the nationally important site of the Roman fort at Birrens. This continues work that the University of Glasgow have been concentrating on – looking in and around Roman military sites in Eastern Dumfriesshire.
This has looked at fabulous sites around Lockerbie, such as the Roman fort at Dalswinton. As you can see this has added loads of detail (as you can see on the right) to both the inside of the fort of Bankhead and the surrounding area – which aerial photographs have shown to be really interesting.
At Birrens Roman fort, near Middlebie, we'll be focusing on similar things. A group of 6 volunteers will be joining us for 3 days next week to carry out some resistivity survey on the interior – hopefully we'll get detail of the street pattern, as well as an idea of how the buildings – both the barrack blocks and administrative headquarters of the fort – were laid out.
You can find out more about Birrens fort – known to the Romans as blatobulgium (literally the 'flour sack') here.
We're having an Open Day on Saturday July 7th – it'll be a great chance to show the public the results as well as an opportunity to show just how geophysics 'works' – including the amount of walking in straight lines that's involved! The response has been fantastic locally – so here's hoping for some sunshine!
I hope this has wet your apetite both for 'geophysics' and the project – please see our website to keep up to date with the latest – discoveringdgpast.wordpress.com.
The project is jointly funded by the Scottish Government and The European Community, Dumfries and Galloway Leader 2007-2013; The Crichton Foundation and The University of Glasgow.


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Life is funny. We sometimes make the mistake of thinking that we know where life is leading us. Sometimes we end up where we predict or in a place that we intended, but so often we end up surprised by the path, astonished by how it all unfolded.
Two years ago I flew to Seattle for a job interview. I had been living in San Francisco for several years and after having spent a few of those years semi-employed while I worked on publishing my first book, I reached the end of that road and had to go back to work. But life in San Francisco was beginning to feel somewhat stagnant, so I took the opportunity for an interview in Seattle. You see, my eldest brother had lived there for decades, so there were plenty of good reasons for me to move to Seattle. And years prior, when I had visited him during college, I had declared that one day I wanted to live in Seattle.
As I flew into Seattle, I descended into the fog and as I rode in my taxi into the city, I looked at the gray, rainy skies around me. After falling in love with the California sunshine, I knew immediately that I just couldn't see this for myself. I went through the interview (which was for a really interesting job opportunity), but I knew from the moment I walked in the door that I was just going thru the motions. I knew this was not meant to be.
I had rented a place in Capitol Hill for the weekend so that I might get a feel for what it would be like to live there. I went to the yoga studio to which I had many connections. As I roamed around the neighborhood, I thought to myself, "Maybe one day I'll own property here to rent out, but I can't see myself living here." I knew that Seattle was not in the cards for me… or so I thought.
I returned home to San Francisco and I took a job offer that I already knew I did not want. It was a job that would take me back to the corporate rat race, a position that was not aligned with the work of higher consciousness in which I had been engaged through my yoga and writing over the previous years. But San Francisco now being the most expensive city in the country, I knew that I had no choice. I put on my corporate suit, and walked into the uptight, stuffy office, day after day, knowing that this job would crush my soul. I knew I had to get out from the moment I arrived.
A week into that job, I met the man who would become my boyfriend, ironically a Bostonian like me, who had much more recently than I, moved to California. We connected immediately, our Bostonian sarcastic wit creating sparks between us. "Could this be the reason I came to this job?, " I asked myself. I did not know …
Fast forward a year and a half. That boyfriend and I reached the turning point where we were to take it to the next level of our relationship. But the reality was that with the drastically rising cost of living in San Francisco, we simply could not afford to rent a larger apartment, or ever dream of owning in San Francisco. So we began talking about the next chapter.
This was very difficult for me as San Francisco had been the city where I had truly stepped into my inner power and strength, the place where I had healed my mind, body and soul, the place where I had tasted the sweetest, most joyful bliss I had ever known. I was in alignment. I had stepped into my soul's purpose and I knew I was on the path I was meant to be living on this Earth.
But that reality kept crashing up against the reality that one could simply not manage to stay in San Francisco unless they were rich. And even if we stayed, how would we ever save and retire? We wouldn't. We couldn't. I knew a time of hard decisions was upon me.
We began talking about different places we might live. We both had wanted to escape the cold winters of the Northeast and we both loved beach and summer, so we talked about San Diego. But that didn't have the tech market that he needed for his work and it didn't have the vibrant energy that I need in a city. Then we talked about LA. But I had already lived there years before and going back didn't feel right to either of us. Then we explored Portland. Too small, too rainy. So Seattle entered the picture again.
I had tried for years to convince myself that it was the next place I should consider moving, but after that last interview in Seattle, my brother had said to me, "You always consider Seattle, but it's never right. It's just not your city." It really didn't feel like it was.
But the more my boyfriend and I talked, the more Seattle started to make sense. It had a great tech scene for him, my brother and his family were here, it had a great yoga scene and the same progressive, environmental, forward-thinking lifestyle and attitudes with which we had resonated in San Francisco. There was really only one negative: the weather. Those cold, wet, dreary winters. After eight years in the California sunshine, and realizing how happy the sun had actually made me, I just didn't know if it was possible for me to be happy in Seattle.
Despite that, from the moment Seattle entered our conversation, pieces of the puzzle began falling into place. My boyfriend got a great job interview in Seattle. Also, over the previous year, I had managed to leave the soul-sucking job and had returned to a former job that I had loved, a job that allowed me to work from home. And at this exact time, a colleague of mine left, and the Pacific Northwest territory fell into my lap. And then my boyfriend got the job he had interviewed for, a great job in his dream industry. With that seed planted, I asked my company about the possibility of me moving to Seattle. Having just given me this territory, they were on board with the idea, and the wheels were set in motion.
The next thing we knew we were packing up both of our apartments, loading the pets into the car and moving truck and we were on our way to the Emerald City.
(Ironically we ended up living in the very neighborhood that I had explored two years ago during that job interview – the neighborhood where I had imagined that maybe one day I'd own rental property. And we ended up living, somewhat "accidentally," directly across the street from the yoga studio that I had attended in the past.)
Days turned into weeks, turned into months, and we began to create our new life in Seattle.The transition was hard. I had left my beloved city and yoga community. I had left the apartment which had been my favorite home, the place that had held my life so sweetly for six years, the place where I had awakened and blossomed into my truest self. And not only was I starting over in a new city, but I was also moving in with a partner for the first time in my 40 years. Anyone who has ever lived with a partner knows that that alone is no small transition, never mind adding a new city to the mix!
To add to the challenge, I had also left behind in San Francisco another brother and a very special niece and nephew who only knew life with Aunt Jeannie in it. My heart broke. I missed San Francisco. I missed her breathtaking views. And as the seasons changed, I sorely began to miss her sun. The sky grew dark and gray and depression began to set in. I was lost. I was confused. I was suffocated by confusion. I wasn't sure which way to go.
I struggled through the fall, unsure if I'd made the biggest mistake of my life having given up the security of my rent-controlled apartment (otherwise known in San Francisco as the "golden handcuffs"). I dug deep into my spiritual practice; I began meditating like crazy, really desperately. I kept on with my yoga practice, trying to go as often as possible, seeking out teachers that could even begin to fill the shoes of my amazing and masterful teachers in San Francisco. The search was not an easy one.
But little by little, the right teachers began to reveal themselves. I came to the mat more and more, and new friends started to appear next to me on the mat. I found myself making friends more quickly and easily than had ever been the case in any other city; and I had a lot of experience on this front, having lived in five cities in the past two decades. I was finding friends who were aligned with my path, friends who spoke my language, friends who understood me and related to my experiences. And it started to become clear that the people who were crossing my path were exactly the people I was meant to meet on this next phase of my journey.
This morning I went to a new favorite Bhakti yoga class, a class that I feel extremely grateful to have found as it resonates deeply with my soul on a cellular level. Here I practice with a room full of yogis, as we move gracefully through our poses, chanting in unison and blending our energies with one another. Such beauty. Such connection.
When I sat on the mat today I introduced myself to the woman beside me. She and I shared the common thread of having lived in Los Angeles. At the end of practice, I was commending her on one of the most beautiful and solid handstands I'd ever seen. When I asked her how long it took her to get to that point in her practice, she began telling me about a teacher in LA that had taught her handstand. It was a name I immediately knew, a teacher whose wife I had worked with closely on one of my own writing projects. Not only had this woman and I lived in the same city, but we had both moved to Seattle at the same time and we knew these same people. I knew that our meeting was fortuitous.
This is the synchronicity that I love about yoga. The more one practices yoga, the more these little magical moments occur – I believe sign posts from the Universe confirming that we are on the right path. I thought of the tea that I shared yesterday with a new yoga friend to whom I feel a deep connection, and of the new friends that I seem to be making day after day. And in that moment, I knew that I had found my tribe, and with it, my next home.


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ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRLI) today officially announced the launch of Laboratorio Buena Salud (http://www.LaboratorioBuenaSalud.com ), the first national testing laboratory dedicated to serving Spanish-speaking populations in the United States. All functions and services will be customized to the Hispanic community and business will be conducted in Spanish, including patient and physician interactions.
"Laboratories are about access; we need to do all we can to promote care no matter the circumstances, conditions or language spoken," said Marc D. Grodman, MD, President and CEO of Bio-Reference Laboratories. "People of Hispanic origin are one of the fastest-growing population segments in the United States and account for well over 50 million of our current population and there are those among them, both patients and physicians alike, for whom Spanish is the primary language. They deserve a dedicated laboratory resource that will be able to service them in a seamless, effective way. That is the vision behind Laboratorio Buena Salud. We want to become an integral member of these communities and make it convenient and comfortable for Spanish-speaking individuals and families to take care of their clinical testing needs."
"Since we began working with Bio-Reference more than three years ago, we have been impressed not only with their quality and professionalism but also with their sensitivity to the bilingual needs of our patients." said Paloma Hernandez, President and CEO of Urban Health Plan, Inc.
The laboratory will operate on a national basis as a traditional Spanish-speaking business with bilingual capabilities that will be able to handle English-speakers when necessary. Laboratorio Buena Salud has an extensive support staff, including over 30 dedicated Spanish-speaking customer service representatives who will maintain 24 hour, 7 day per week service for patients and physicians. The website is in Spanish, including technical support for such services as online ordering and reporting. All written communications including patient education materials, results reports and other documents, are also in Spanish. Laboratorio Buena Salud is designed to serve the various Hispanic communities across the country with a clear understanding of the unique needs of these populations.
"If laboratories are about access, successful laboratories should be about differentiation. Sometimes innovation does not mean a new technology but an enhanced clinical service. A key by-product of Laboratorio Buena Salud is the successful commitment by Bio-Reference to provide bilingual services across all elements of our business. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, tens of thousands of people in Hispanic communities across the country will have access to health insurance," according to Dr. Grodman. "We have an infrastructure in place to deal with this demand."
About Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc.
BRLI is a clinical testing laboratory offering testing, information and related services to physician offices, clinics, hospitals, employers and governmental units. We believe that we are the fourth largest full-service laboratory in the United States and the largest independent regional laboratory in the Northeastern market. BRLI offers a comprehensive list of laboratory testing services utilized by healthcare providers in the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring and treatment of diseases. BRLI primarily focuses on esoteric testing, molecular diagnostics, anatomical pathology, women's health and correctional health care.
Statements included in this release that are not historical in nature are intended to be, and are hereby identified as, "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "will" or words of similar meaning and include, but are not limited to, statements about the expected future business and financial performance of Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance suggested herein. Risks and uncertainties that may affect the future results of the Company include, but are not limited to, adverse results from failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations governing our business or government investigations, lawsuits or private actions, the competitive environment, changes in government regulations, changing relationships with customers, payers, suppliers and strategic partners and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
SOURCE Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc.


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