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Christmas, the 800 pound gorilla of holidays, is once again upon us. Every year, I envy my childless brother, who insouciantly flaunts on his own blog how free he is to blithely ignore Christmas. Oh, he enjoys the vacation time, which allows him to spend his disposable income gallivanting about the globe (most recently Taiwan) instead of spending it on a lot of plastic crap, designed to satisfy the outsized expectations of a bunch of self-absorbed human pupae for exactly six-point-eight minutes.
What? Am I not exhibiting the correct cheerful demeanor?
I do, in fact, enjoy Christmas. I do, in fact, spend a lot of time planning activities that I think my kids would enjoy. I peruse my local paper and jot down the dates of Christmassy events - for the past two years I have made an advent calendar of events, complete with paper doors for them to open every evening and read the event planned for the next day. It might be a local concert or it might be hanging christmas lights at home. My community is very civic minded and there are a goodly number of really cool holiday events - when those are lacking I plan home based activities such as baking gingerbread cookies or making christmas cards to mail out to relatives and friends.
One of the very biggest events in any Christmas season, obviously, is buying and decorating the tree. I'm not going to google at this time of night, but you and I both know that probably 99% of Christmas trees sold in this country are cut trees - read: dead trees. There is an argument to be had about the environmental impact of the christmas tree industry - some people maintain that the carbon sequestered by the growing of all those trees is greater than the carbon released by their harvest. I don't know about that - but I can say for certain that buying and planting a live tree is better than buying a cut tree.
That is what we did every year that I remember, growing up. Never in my memory did my mother buy a cut tree. We were lucky to always live in a private home on a suburban lot that allowed for the planting of at least one tree a year. For many years after we moved away, my mom would take us driving back through old neighborhoods, and point out the trees we had planted years before. She would name the trees as she pointed them out: "Look, there's your brother's blue spruce. That one is your weeping pine."
During the years that I lived in a house on an urban lot on Seattle - from 1992 to 2006- we never had a Christmas tree. Since I didn't have space to plant a live tree, I chose to not have a tree at all. Instead, we made gingerbread houses, or I bought long sheets of green butcher paper and we cut out a simulated tree and taped it to the wall and decorated it with glitter glue and potato stamps. Moving to our current homestead, a windswept 5 acre property that could really use many more trees, was happy for many reasons, but not least for the chance to have a live Christmas tree every year and plant it the following spring. I sited an area on the west side of the property that I planned to fill with Christmas trees, slowly. When my children were grown, if we kept cup the custom, we would have a Christmas tree grove for them to inhabit and imbue with meaning.
We have planted some five Christmas trees since we moved here. Many more fruit trees; but they don't come into this story. We re-used a few Christmas trees because they have become very expensive in recent years. And one of the trees we planted died, covered in blackberry vines and smothered by canary grass. But there are still five live trees, and there is still a lot of space to plant future trees. I have a vision of a lovely, full grown grove of evergreens on the western border of our land, home to native birds and mammals.
The day that the advent calendar said "buy a Christmas tree" was a day that I was working all day long. I asked Homero to please take the girls and get a tree. I told him in simple language to buy a LIVE tree. I didn't think it was terribly important thing to emphasize - after all, we had had live trees in each of the last five years. But knowing that Homero is - how shall i put this? CHEAP - I made it quite clear that I knew a live tree would be expensive, but that that was simply a fact of Christmas.
I'm not entirely certain I have managed to describe how important it is to me not to have a cut tree. Do you, gentle reader, understand? If not, let me fill you in on a few details that my husband was already aware of. As well as attending a Christian church, I consider myself a pagan, a follower of the western and northern European pre-christian traditions. Trees are the very basis of the sacred calendar in this tradition. My oldest daughter, Rowan, was named for the sacred tree that presides over her birth month. She is a practicing witch. Trees - living trees - are the foundation of the knowledge of the Wiccan tradition. Having a dead, cut tree in our home would be, quite literally, sacrilege.
So my husband bought a cut tree. He took the kids, while I was at work, and drove around town, and decided that the live trees were too expensive. By the time he communicated to me what he had done, it was a fait accompli. The dead tree was already installed in our living room.
Oh I was so upset. We were talking by text: I said "I am bringing home a live tree anyway! You just bought the goats lunch!" Rowan and I both felt righteously indignant. We felt that our beliefs had been trampled and slighted. We felt that an atrocity (albeit a small one) had been committed in our name. We felt a burning need to remedy the situation. However, the prospect of dragging the dead tree out of the living room (a prospect I considered) seemed too drastic. That would only make me into a Savonarola, a crazy zealot, an extremist. Much better that I attempt to model flexibility and adaptability.
On my way home, I bought a small live tree. I was driving a volkswagen golf - I had to find something that would fit in the trunk. I ended up with a five foot tall arborvitae. I also bought a bag of large pinecones, and a sack of birdseed. At home, Rowan and I smeared the pinecones with peanut butter, and then rolled them in dishes of birdseed. We tucked the cones into the branches of the small live tree, which Homero set up right outside the kitchen window. That was his gesture of reconciliation, arranging a sturdy base for our live tree. This past week, we have enjoyed watching spotted towhees and black capped chickadees eating the seeds from the tree.
And in the living room, a lovely cut evergreen is decorated with lights and homemade ornaments. I am trying to look at it with appreciation and joy. It will feed the goats, after the twenty-fifth. I hope that those whose say that the tree sequestered more carbon dioxide in its life than it will give up in it's decomposition are right. I hope that during it's life it provided shelter and sustenance to many small creatures. I hope that the life of this tree amounted to something lasting. In the meantime, we will honor it's life by appreciating the beauty of its adorned branches.
Happy Solstice. Merry Christmas.
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I recently shared a moment with my readers in which I recounted the trouble I'd been having breathing.
After visiting a lung specialist at the behest of two urgent care doctors I had seen in December, I underwent a battery of breathing tests and x-rays. The lung specialist informed me that the breathing tests revealed that my lung capacity was a meager 54%. The x-rays he ordered were inconclusive so he ordered a high resolution CT scan of my lungs.
The CT scan was done on February 4th and I have waited and waited and waited for this day to find out the results.
Meanwhile, Adrienne of Adrienne's Corner, read the post about my health scare and called for prayers. As the word spread, good friend and blogger Bob Belvedere of The Camp of the Saints did the same.
This site was visited by so many wonderful folks who wished me well and promised prayers for a good outcome that I was overwhelmed.
So here's what happened yesterday. My appointment was at 11:15AM. All the doctors were running late. I was finally called into the examination room at 11:55AM. At 12:29 PM my doctor entered the room.
I sat there frozen—too scared to ask THE question.
I know my eyes were as big as saucers when he said, "Well, it's not bad, but it's not 100% either." The CT scan is showing me that you do not have interstitial lung disease. What it does show is that you have chronic bronchitis and possibly occupational asthma."
He said that my shortness of breath on exertion, cough, fatigue, and chest congestion were most likely from chronic bronchitis.
Here, I will admit that I thought bronchitis was no big deal, but now I know differently. Chronic bronchitis is a long-term, often irreversible respiratory illness. To be categorized as having chronic bronchitis you must have a daily mucus-producing cough (check) that persists for at least three months a year (check), at least two years in a row (check). This is not to be confused with acute bronchitis which is a mild inflammation of the air passages of the lungs that clears up in a few days.
So, what the doctor thought initially, that I had restrictive lung disease turned out to be wrong based on the CT scan. But, I'm not out of the woods either. Turns out I do have COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that can lead to gradual deterioration of the lungs. It's the fourth-leading cause of death in this country.
My doctor prescribed an inhaler called Dulera®. It's specifically for asthma. He wants to see me again in 30 days to see if this medication helps.
I want to thank all the folks who stopped by here to leave their thoughts and prayers. If ever there is a time that you feel prayers don't work. Kick yourself in the pants. It does. Perfect strangers were stopping by telling me they were joining the prayer brigade.
I guess the best way to say how much you guys mean to me is to quote Anne Frank, "Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone."
God bless you all. Thank you.
God bless you all. Thank you.


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Hanging out the laundry
A lady told me about her recent vacation in San Francisco. She was shocked, she said, to see underwear hung out to dry on balconies above busy streets. She guessed she was old-fashioned because she would never pin her underwear to a clothesline and put it on display to the world. It wasn't modest.
This amused me a little because this lady is no shrinking violet. She spent a number of years driving 18-wheelers all over the nation with her husband. She's a plain-spoken person without airs, and she's about 15 years younger than me. Of all the things that she might have been shocked at in San Francisco, I wouldn't have predicted underwear on clotheslines.
When I thought about it, I couldn't remember seeing any sort of underwear hanging on the clotheslines at Mennonite and Amish homes. I can say with certainty that they hang cloth diapers outside to dry, but beyond that, I'm not sure.
When I used a clothesline faithfully for a number of years, I hung out the whole family's underwear. I usually hung the undergarments on an inside line, behind the sheets or towels.
We live in the country. The clothesline was barely visible from the road, but someone who drove into our yard might have seen the laundry well enough to identify individual pieces. To be honest, I wasn't too worried about it.
I asked Isaac (my 19-year-old son) what he thought about underwear hanging in plain view on the clothesline. He says that if he ever sees anything like that, he's going to lodge a complaint with the board of governors immediately. He also says that the only good weapon for fighting something like that is satire. Whatever, Isaac.
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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update May - June 2013
Turtle Project
The high season of egg laying for Olive Ridley turtles started on 15th June. Night patrols managed to find 50 nests in June alone. All these nests were laid by Olive Ridley turtles and they were successfully relocated into our protected artificial beaches. Patrols have also increased from once a night (starting at 1am) to twice a night (starting at 12am and 5am) to account for the increase in turtle activity, as well as, sadly, the increase in poaching activity. In May and June we have managed to only lose four nests to poachers, so our patrols are working well to cover our 24km stretch of beach.
Over these last two months we have officially decommissioned the north hatchery and started to extend the south hatchery so all our rescued nests will be in one place. The extension is still on-going as hopefully we will be filling all our current space and needing more.
Some of our afternoon activities have been helping to prepare the hatchery for the coming high season, including putting up the shade cloth, to keep an optimum temperature for the eggs, and removing a palm tree (or two!) and their many roots from the hatchery so that when the hatchlings emerge they are not trapped by the roots and we can release them into the ocean. We have also started to use a grid system in the hatchery so that keeping track of all our nests becomes easier and more efficient.
Lagoon Birds Biodiversity Study
These past two months we have been trying to standardize the length of our bird surveys on our local lagoon, Chupadero. We now spend 20 minutes per survey. We also have two different types of survey- "Sweeping" and "Still". The sweeping surveys are done to get a better view of the different species of birds found down channels and the "still" surveys are when we have an open area and have a good panoramic view of 360 degrees.
Currently we utilise 6 different survey spots. However with the wet season on the way the rising waters will cut off one of our more popular spots, El Caiman, and open up other areas for surveys.
We also use two different methods of exploring the lagoon. A motorboat, where a local man takes us to our furthest areas normally about a 45 minute drive away, and our own paddleboat, which, depending on the skills of the paddlers, can take anywhere from half an hour to two hours to arrive at our survey areas!
Some of our most regular sightings are Roseate Spoonbills, Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, Anhingas and Brown Pelicans. The past two months have been fantastic as the breeding season is on and as a result we have been lucky enough to see mating displays, territory disputes and the last week of June has seen large numbers of fluffy young chicks all around the lagoon.
Crocodile Farm
Working in partnership with the staff at the crocodile farm we spend our time there each week helping muck out the crocodile pens, keeping the whole area tidy, clearing new paths for visitors, and, most recently, we have been helping find wild nests from the adjacent lagoon. These wild nests are then relocated in a safe area so that when they hatch they can be protected.
In addition, Projects Abroad has been asked by the staff there to compile a species list of all the birds seen here. This means we use their specially built wooden path that surrounds the lagoon to conduct our surveys. Since the conception of this project in mid-April we have found 61 different species of birds. These include four species of woodpecker, three species of trogon, three species of oriole and three species of hummingbirds. We see many more species but they are gone too quick to identify! We add to this list each time we do a survey and there are many more species to find.
We have also participated in two night surveys of wild crocodiles in two different lagoons. The first survey was the lagoon adjacent to the farm, which has been previously surveyed but needed an update of information. Using a rowing boat and a large torch we make a count of all the crocodiles. Where possible we estimate the size of the crocodile whereby we use the size of the head and multiply it by 10 to gain the approximate total size of each individual. The second survey was a much larger lagoon about a five minute drive from the farm where over 100 crocodiles were spotted!
Beach Clean-ups
An important part of turtle conservation is intensive beach management. A priority in such management is keeping the beaches where egg laying occurs clear of rubbish. This helps reduce the chance of a turtle aborting an egg laying attempt. To do our part each week we make sure that the 2km stretch of beach directly in front of camp is kept clean and, when time allows, we clean further afield too. We also participated in a community beach clean for a beach approximately 40mins away from camp. This helps to increase our standing within the community and show we are not afraid to get stuck in and get our hands dirty.
Camp Maintenance
These past two months have seen a lot of maintenance activity on camp. We have started to build a new house that will become an office in the long run but can also be used as a bedroom when we are running the camp at full capacity. Our current bunkhouse has also seen some improvements with a new brick wall running along the bottom of the seaward side an extra coat of wood finish to help protect against the elements. The end room of the bunk house is being transformed into a new kitchen area, which will help us to feed all of the volunteers we will be receiving over the summer months.
Flora Blackett
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I simply cannot say it better than Seth does from 2oceansvibe. Standard Bank, I'm talking to you. I know you need to reach me so I can fill out this and collect that. But I'm not going to answer your private number. I don't care if I never get my new credit card. Really, I don't.
And to those friends of mine who insist on taking off their caller IDs because I don't take their calls every time they phone, you are pretty much the reason I have stopped answering my phone completely. You have spoilt it for everyone.
Seriously, y'ulle. I'm a busy person. My hair smells like rich mahogany. Why can't you just send a text message?


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whats with that "I like it when people have sex with me any time" attributed to anonymous. That doesn't seem very noteworthy 22.214.171.124 06:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Mae West added. How can this page NOT have Mae on it?! Jmacwiki 23:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article
- Give more than you take in sex, to feel euphoria
- Sex is like math: you add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and pray you don't multiply!
- Feras Yaghmour
- Music is like Vodka, You can mix it with almost everything; a dinner, a dance, or sex.
- Feras Yaghmour
- Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
- Don't knock masturbation. That's sex with someone I love.
- Sex is an emotion in motion.
- My family never raised me to have a vagina.
- An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?
- From the perspective of scripting theory, same-gender erotic preferences are elicited and shaped by the systems of meaning offered for conduct in a culture. What is usually construed as culture against "man" or culture against nature is thus actually conflict among differently enculturated individuals or groups.
What is required is a constant recognition that acts of usage and explanation are acts of social control in the strong sense, that "homosexual" and "homosexuality" are names that have been imposed on some persons and their conduct by other persons - and that this imposition has carried the right of the latter to tell the former the origins, meaning, and virtue of their conduct.
- Great sex is great, but bad sex is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
- Just fuck and fuck the consequences
- ...if you are fat, no matter what you wear, nothing is going to make you sexier.
- Steve Austin
- In lieu of creativity, there is an undue emphasis on sexuality.
- Jay Christian Emerte
- Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.
- John Stoltenberg (1989)
- Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they become its advocates.
- Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
- Sex concentrates on what is on the outside of the individual. It's funny because I think it's better inside.
- Alex Walsh
- Sex is one of the 9 reasons for reincarnation, the other 8 are unimportant.
- Henry Miller
- Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
- We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between--we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it.
- Minnie Bruce Pratt
- When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.
- Frederike Ryder
- When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
- Girls are like catalysts, they just speed up the reactions of lives of boys either in a positive way or in a negative way.
- Madapathi Srinath
- The problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time
- Sex COULD kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent. It's ugly. And it's messy. And if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun, the human race would have died out eons ago.
- House, Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison)
- Sex is a lot like pizza, when it's good, it's really good; when it's bad, it's still kinda good.
- Brandon Lyon
- Ridley Scott


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Here at AudiobyRay we have both Mixing & Mastering experience for over 9 years.We mastered over a 1000 EDM tracks, Stem Mastering sessions, and countless DJ Mixtapes so far
How Good Are My Ears? Improving Your Hearing Skills For Mixing
This video is NOT sponsored by SoundGym – it's just a fun place to do these challenges :)
I do believe that the most wholesome way of developing your listening skills is to make a lot of music / do a lot of mixes and keep listening to a lot of music that you love, however, these sorts of audio challenges did help me identify some weak spots in my hearing and I also thought it was a lot of fun!
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About In The Mix
In The Mix is all about simplifying the recording, production, mixing and mastering process and helping you unlock your creativity. No matter which DAW you use or what equipment you have, I'm determined to help you succeed. I try to share as much as I can about the industry and give an insight into the world of music production and the business behind it by showing you how to release and sell your music online.
Being an FL Studio Power User I also focus tutorials on getting the most out of FL Studio, My DAW of choice.
Micahel Wynne is a recording artist and mixing engineer with a passion for teaching (and instant ramen).
In 2015 I discovered my enthusiasm for music and audio; I learned how to record and produce songs in my university student room with a just cheap laptop and FL Studio. After several months of working in audio sessions between school assignments, I decided to leave uni with a 2-year engineering diploma to pursue a career in music. I wanted to learn everything I could about the industry and the artistic process, so I started making original music as half of the duo "Miavono".
In late 2016 I began my journey on YouTube, sharing my knowledge and experiences with audio in the form of tutorials on "In The Mix". I quickly grew a community of over 120,000 producers, artists, and audio professionals, a group of people whose passions aligned with mine. Last year I built my own home studio from the ground up in my back garden, set in the rural highlands of Scotland, and have since been supported by and involved with some of the greatest people in the industry.


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OUCH: 12-Year-Old Gets Hurtful B-Day Punches! (Some Kids Make A Boy Cry In Flatbush, N.Y)
These lil guys is crazy. They Show What Happens When You Turn 13, They make the kid cry in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Credit to Malik Fresh
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A man pleaded not guilty to charges he faces in a 2007 murder case.
Gustavo Adolfo Enamorado Dubon, 22, of Honduras, was indicted on premeditated murder and armed kidnapping charges last week.
Dubon is accused of killing Francisco Cuevas, who was reported missing in Nov. 2007.
Cuevas' remains were found inside a box in Palm Beach Gardens in April 2008.
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In the span of six days, Philadelphia fans will get the chance to watch the best American soccer players, men or women, at PPL Park.
The US Soccer Federation and the Philadelphia Union announced on Monday that the newest MLS stadium, which opened in June, will host a US Men's National Team friendly against Colombia on Tuesday, Oct. 12 (8 p.m. ET, ESPN2 and Galavisión).
The match will come less than a week after the US Women's National Team hosts China in preparation for World Cup qualifying on Wed., Oct. 6.
It will be the second USMNT match in Philadelphia in less than five months. Bob Bradley's men previously beat Turkey 2-1 in their final send-off match before the 2010 World Cup on May 29 at Lincoln Financial Field.
The USA will be looking for their fourth ever win against Colombia in their 15-match all-time series. It has been more than three years since the two countries met at the 2007 Copa América, which ended in a 1-0 win for Colombia. Bradley was the coach at that time, but it is unclear whether he will still be at the helm for the Oct. 9 and Oct. 12 matches against Poland in Chicago and against Colombia in Philadelphia.
Tickets for the US Men's National Team match will go on sale on Friday at noon ET.


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Past Director's Lecture Series
The Director's Lecture Series has been offered each winter at the Arnold Arboretum since the arrival of Director William (Ned) Friedman in 2011. The series features experts addressing an array of topics related to Earth's biodiversity and evolutionary history, the environment, conservation biology, and key social issues associated with current science. Past lectures are detailed here, with links to video or audio for select lectures.
Giving Voice to Nature: with Richard Powers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and William (Ned) Friedman
Richard Powers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Arnold Arboretum Director William "Ned" Friedman join voices in this guided conversation about trees. Melding readings with discussion; drawing on mystery, lore, and science; they convey the challenges and rewards of trying to represent non-humans—speaking both for and as the trees. Enjoy this animated and enriching convergence of arboreal thinkers.
The Future of Environmental Protection
Gina McCarthy, Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard University
Monday, May 13, 7:00–8:15pm, Hunnewell Building
International cooperation on mitigating climate change has lost momentum since the US withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement last year. What does this mean for the health of the planet and the life it supports? Gina McCarthy has dedicated her 35-year career in public service to environmental protection and public health. In this talk, McCarthy will discuss current efforts at the federal level to rollback core public health protections and actions taken to counter climate change. She will also address recent attacks on the field of science. Then, looking forward, she will lead a discussion on future challenges in public health and the health of our planet.
Replaying Life's Tape through the Lens of Plants
William (Ned) Friedman, Arnold Arboretum Director and Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Monday, January 22, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
What can an understanding of the history of photosynthetic life tell us of the human condition? Are we, as a cognitive species, an absolutely inevitable consequence of several billion years of evolution? Or, should we wake up every morning with an exhilarating sense of the sheer improbability of just being! For decades, going back to the book Wonderful Life, by Stephen J. Gould, the debate as to the probabilities of intelligent life evolving not only here on Earth, but throughout the universe, has ebbed and flowed. None of the chief protagonists in this debate (zoologists, microbiologists, or philosophers) has ever thought about how an understanding of plant evolutionary history might bear heavily on the conclusions one reaches. Professor Friedman will discuss how just a few tweaks to the evolutionary history of plants might ultimately have precluded human life from evolving on Earth – and whether such tweaks could occur upon replaying life's tape.
A Field for Women's Work
Dava Sobel, Author and Science Reporter
Tuesday, February 13, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
In the late 19th century, botany was the science generally deemed acceptable for a woman to pursue. At the Harvard College Observatory, however, women were welcomed as computers, observers, and discoverers of new celestial phenomena. They attracted international attention as they created a taxonomy for the stars and found a way to measure distances across space. Dava Sobel, author of The Glass Universe, Galileo's Daughter, and Longitude among others, will speak about the women of the Observatory, their careers devoted to the heavens, and their passions encompassing plants and all things natural.
The Fingerprints of Sea Level Change in a Warming World
Jerry X. Mitrovica, PhD, Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Monday, March 26, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
Sea level changes are a particularly dramatic consequence of global warming and estimates of the average rise in sea level over the past decade are routinely reported in the media. However, such estimates obscure the fact that observed sea level changes vary dramatically around the globe. Professor Jerry Mitrovica will describe the sources of this variability and focus on the unique patterns – or fingerprints – of sea level change that follow the melting of ice sheets and glaciers. Those of us who live on the US east coast should be far more concerned about the fate of the distant Antarctic Ice Sheet than the future of our neighbor, the ice sheet that now covers Greenland.
When Darwin Met Thoreau
Randall Fuller, PhD, Herman Melville Distinguished Professor of American Literature, University of Kansas
Monday, April 30, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
On January 1, 1860, Henry David Thoreau learned about a new work of science entitled On the Origin of Species. Within a month, he had read the book, taken extensive notes, and begun to incorporate Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection into his understanding of nature. In this talk, Professor Randall Fuller will recount Thoreau's deep engagement with what remains one of the most important concepts of the nineteenth century. Fuller is the author of The Book that Changed America.
Responses to Anthropogenic Climate Change: Predicting the Future Requires Knowing the Past
Camille Parmesan, PhD, Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, and Chair in the Public Understanding of Oceans and Human Health, National Marine Aquarium, University of Plymouth, UK
Tuesday, October 4, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
Camille Parmesan's work focuses on the impacts of climate change on wildlife, from field studies of American and European butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species on land and in the oceans. She has participated in US and international assessments of climate change impacts and provided formal testimonies for the US House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and the Texas Senate Natural Resources Committee. Camille has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which in 2007 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Naomi Oreskes
Naomi Oreskes, PhD, History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Monday, March 6, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
Naomi Oreskes' research focuses on the earth and environmental sciences, with a particular interest in understanding scientific consensus and dissent. Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change" (Science 306: 1686) has been widely cited, both in the United States and abroad, including in the Royal Society's publication, "A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change," in the Academy-award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, and in Ian McEwan's novel, Solar. Her 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming, co-authored with Erik M. Conway, received the 2011 Watson-Davis Prize from the History of Science Society.
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA, Former Professor of Biographical Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
Monday, March 20, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
Richard Holmes is an award-winning British author best-known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism. Recent books include Falling Upwards, How We Took to the Air: An Unconventional History of Ballooning, and The Age of Wonder, both winners of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Holmes' other books include Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit, Coleridge: Early Visions, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage. He was awarded the OBE in 1992, and is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the British Academy. His new book, This Long Pursuit, is a confessional chronicle and pilgrimage that takes him across three centuries, through much of Europe and into both his intellectual passions as well as the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to his book is a powerful evocation of the lives of women—both scientific and literary.
Dinosaur Landscapes and the Beginning of Flowers
Peter Crane, Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University
Monday, February 1, 7:00–8:30pm, Hunnewell Building
It was once famously said that plants and animals "dance to a different evolutionary beat." There is no more striking example than between 140 and 65 million years ago when dinosaurs dominated the global landscape. While some changes in dinosaur communities certainly occurred through this period, much more dramatic was a major upheaval in the composition of the world's vegetation, including the first appearance and rapid rise to dominance of flowering plants. Discoveries over the past 35 years, combined with new paleontological techniques, have provided previously unexpected insights into the expansion of flowering plants about 100 million years ago, including the nature of the earliest flowers. Subsequently, for more than 30 million years, dinosaurs shared the landscape with plants very similar to those of today, but these unusual ecosystems came to a sudden end when dinosaurs met their demise in one of the most dramatic of all mass extinctions. In contrast, flowering plants not only persisted, but flourished and evolved in new ways, resulting in the more than 350,000 flowering plant species that now sustain us and enrich our lives.
The Director's Lens on Plants: Five Tales of Plant Obsession
William (Ned) Friedman, Arnold Arboretum Director and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Monday, March 7, 7:00–8:30pm
Arboretum Director William (Ned) Friedman has an eye for detail and infectious enthusiasm when the subject matter is plants. For nearly two years, he has been regularly walking in the Arboretum's living collections, intensively photographing and documenting these magnificent plants and their biological magic. In this evening session, Ned will share his images and stories of some of the most wonderful and ephemeral phenomena that he has had the good fortune to observe in the Arboretum. Join us for an interactive session on buzz pollination in the rhododendrons; the quest for the perfect picture of a young red larch cone; the incredible lightness of winged birch fruits; nectar guides (for insects) and the "Nedbud" redbud (Cercis canadensis) mutant; and magnolias in fruit. With spring nearly in sight, he will celebrate some of the extraordinary beauty of the Arboretum's plants and whet your appetites for the year to come.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
Charles C. Mann, journalist and writer
Monday, April 4, 7:00–8:30pm
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately cleaned streets and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that has been called man's first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Combining science, history, and archeology, Charles C. Mann will present a transformative look at a rich and fascinating world, radically altering our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Mutants in our Midst: Darwin, Horticulture, and Evolution
William (Ned) Friedman, PhD, Director, Arnold Arboretum and Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Monday, January 12, 7:00–8:30pm
Director Ned Friedman spoke of the horticultural varieties that we grow in gardens as premier examples of the ongoing process of evolution: random mutations that lead, on the rarest of occasions, to novel and desirable biological characteristics. Throughout his life, Charles Darwin (as well as other nineteenth century evolutionists) looked to the world of horticulture and plant domestication to gain critical insights into the generation of variation and the process of natural selection that underlie evolutionary change. Dr. Friedman explained how horticulture played a central role in laying the foundations for discovering evidence of evolution as well as the process of evolution and also argued that modern botanical gardens can and should become a leading force for the promotion of evolutionary thinking.
The Oldest Living Things in the World
Rachel Sussman, Photographer
Monday, March 2, 7:00–8:30pm
Since 2004 Rachel Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling the world to photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older. Her work spans disciplines, continents, and millennia: it is part art and part science, has an innate environmentalism, and is underscored by an existential incursion into Deep Time. Her original index of millennia-old organisms, The Oldest Living Things in the World, has never before been created in the arts or sciences. Attendees enjoyed her awe-inspiring photographs and heard what it means to bear witness to organisms that perhaps predate human history and that may survive well into future generations.
China, Biodiversity, and the Global Environment
Peter Raven, PhD, President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden
Monday, March 23, 7:00–8:30pm
China boasts not only the largest percentage of the world's population (19%) but also one of Earth's richest and most diverse floras. Yet its economic rise as an industrial nation and its population density, with the associated environmental degradation, put this biodiversity at risk. Add in climate change and it is a recipe for disaster. Professor Peter Raven, a leading botanist, advocate for the conservation of biodiversity, and one of the co-editors of The Flora of China, a joint Chinese-American census of all the plants of China, is uniquely qualified to assess the consequences of over-population, industrial pollution, economic inequalities, and natural resource exploitation in China—consequences not limited to that country but affecting the entire global environment. In this talk, Dr. Raven considered what it means for humanity to lose thousands of species to extinction, many before they are known or described by scientists. He presented his thoughts on reversing environmental degradation in China and around the globe and what is required to move all people toward an ethic of conservation and securing sustainability.
Environmental Lawlessness
Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard University
Monday, April 20, 7:00–8:30pm
What happens when laws and regulations don't keep pace with changes in technology, science, and society? The answer, according to Harvard Law School Professor Richard Lazarus, is lawlessness. Come learn some of the history and circumstances behind the country's current but outdated environmental laws, how the original scope and intentions of these laws may no longer match the scope of the problems we face today, and the lawmaking challenges we now face as we seek to address the mounting environmental risks posed by deepwater drilling, natural gas fracking, and climate change. Professor Lazarus, who teaches environmental law, natural resources law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts at Harvard Law School, was the principal author of Deep Water–The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (GPO 2011), the Report to the President of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission. He spoke of lessons learned from this environmental disaster and how new regulations in line with current technologies are needed to better protect the environment as we tap our natural resources.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt, PhD, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University January 27
Stephen Greenblatt spoke about his book, The Swerve, an innovative work of history and thrilling story of discovery in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. This last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—was a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
Déjà vu all over again: Denialism of Climate Change and of Evolution
Eugenie Scott, PhD, Former Executive Director, Chair, Advisory Council, National Center for Science Education February 10
Both evolution and global warming are "controversial issues" in education, but are not controversial in the world of science. There is remarkable similarity in the techniques used by both camps to promote their views. The scientific issues are presented as "not being settled", or that there is considerable debate among scientists over the validity of claims. Both camps practice "anomaly mongering", in which a small detail, seemingly incompatible with either evolution or global warming, is held up as dispositive of either evolution or of climate science. In both cases, reputable, established science is under attack for ideological reasons. Eugenie Scott deconstructed the arguments and identified the ideologies that hinder widespread understanding of evolution and responsiveness to climate change. View the talk on WGBH's Forum Network and read an article referenced in her talk.
Darwin in the City: How Modern Civilization Drives Evolution
Carl Zimmer, Columnist,The New York Times March 24
When we picture evolution, we think of fish crawling from the sea hundreds of millions of years ago, or birds evolving into new species on remote islands. But evolution takes place today, in the most unexpected places–in city parks, in farm fields, and in hospitals. Humans, scientists now recognize, are a powerful evolutionary force, pushing life in new directions. Now, researchers are wondering where we're headed. Carl Zimmer, author of Evolution: Making Sense of Life, will present some of the ways that modern civilization drives evolution and current thinking about humans as a force of change.View the talk on WGBH's Forum Network.
Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Extreme Fermented Beverages
Patrick E. McGovern, PhD, Scientific Director, Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health, University of Pennsylvania Museum April 14
Fermented beverages have probably been with the human race from its beginning in Africa. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, will describe how enterprising our ancestors were in concocting a host of beverages from a vast array of natural products (honey, grape, barley, rice, sorghum, chocolate). As humans spread around the planet, this had profound effects on our cultural and biological development. Some of these beverages, including the earliest alcoholic beverage from China (Chateau Jiahu), the mixed drink served at the King Midas funerary feast (Midas Touch), and the chocolate beverage (Theobroma), have been re-created by Dogfish Head Brewery, shedding light on how our ancestors made them and providing a taste sensation and a means for us to travel back in time. The talk will be followed by a tasting of ancient beers recreated by Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales. Participants in the tasting must be 21 or older.
Plants, The First Three Billion Years: A Reflection on the Nature of Evolutionary History
William (Ned) Friedman, Director, Arnold Arboretum, and Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University January 14
Plant biodiversity. How did it all begin? And what are some of the key evolutionary twists and turns that have deposited us into a world teaming with photosynthetic life? Join us as we explore how lunch for a unicellular organism inadvertently laid the groundwork for the first plants, and how they then went on to produce exquisitely beautiful multicellular photosynthetic lineages dozens of times, only one of which made it out of the water and onto land 475 million years ago. And finally, we will reflect on what might have been (and what might be) if one or two of these twists and turns had gone differently in evolutionary history.
Biodiversity 2013: Crisis and Opportunity
James Hanken, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Curator in Herpetology, and Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology; and Professor of Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University February 25
The state of biodiversity in 2013 presents a tremendous paradox. Biodiversity science is more productive today than ever before; the rate of new species discovery, for example, is higher than it's ever been. At the same time, the rate of species extinction is increasing dramatically due to human-mediated environmental degradation on a global scale. This crisis for the future of biological diversity offers unparalleled challenges and opportunities for the professional scientific community, which is responding with new approaches and a heightened sense of urgency, with increasing focus both on conservation of species and their habitats and on the major drivers of extinction.
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Susan Freinkel, Science Writer and Journalist March 11
As coal fueled the industrial revolution, one could say that plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realize it's not such a healthy union. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. And yet each year we use and consume more; we've produced as much plastic in the past decade as we did in the entire twentieth century. Journalist Susan Freinkel will speak about our dependence on this material, guiding us through history, science, and the global economy to assess the real impact of plastic in our lives. She'll present a new way of thinking about a substance that has become the defining medium—and metaphor—of our age. Her book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, will be available for purchase and signing.
The New You: How Symbiosis Studies Have Undercut Biological Views of Individuality
Scott Gilbert, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology, Swarthmore College April 8
What defines an individual? Can an animal be construed an individual if its anatomy, physiology, development, and even its immune systems depend on symbiotic microorganisms? What becomes of the genetic and evolutionary individual when inherited symbionts provide selectable variation for the host? Animal plus symbiont equals…what? Super-animal? Team? Holobiont? Have we been lumping and sorting erroneously only to learn through advances in biotechnology that individuals are really communities or, perhaps, relationships? Join us for a mind-bending presentation that may leave you reassessing your place in the biosphere.
The Evolution of Big
Ned Friedman, Director, Arnold Arboretum, and Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University January 9
Think you know trees? Ned Friedman reveals an amazing period when there were no trees, and then, in the blink of a geological eye, several different groups of plants evolved the ability to increase their girth and qualify for placement in an arboretum. Get a sense of what forests looked like over three hundred million years ago. Learn about the (sad) extinction of all but one of the early arborescent lineages of plants and find out which evolutionary group of trees survived to populate the Arnold Arboretum and today's forests.
The Global Forests of Greenhouse Earth
Kirk Johnson, Vice President of Research & Collections and Chief Curator, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
February 6
Earth's climate has passed from times characterized by huge ice caps to times when there was almost no ice at all and both Greenland and Antarctica were covered by forests. Kirk Johnson studies fossil leaves to refine geologic time, reconstruct ancient landscapes, track climate change, and document the evolution and extinction of species and ecosystems. For 30 years he has been chasing the 50–100 million year-old-forests of the last great global greenhouse period. In this lecture, he takes you on a journey to an entirely different Planet Earth—an environment that may help us to better understand changes occurring in our own time.
Art as a Source of Information on Horticultural Technology
Jules Janick, James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture, Purdue University
March 5 Watch the lecture on YouTube »
Works of art from antiquity to the present constitute an alternate source of information on horticultural technology and science, providing significant information on subjects such as the history of technology, crop evolution, lost traits, and crop dispersal. Sources include ancient mosaics, sculpture, illustrations of medieval manuscripts, renaissance paintings, and illustrations from illuminated and printed herbals. The uses of art as a source of horticultural technology are illustrated using examples of Paleolithic sculpture and painting, Egyptian and Mesopotamian sculpture and painting, ancient Greek paintings, Roman mosaics, Medieval illuminated herbals, and Renaissance art in its many manifestations including illustrated prayer books, frescoed ceilings, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and woodcuts from printed herbals.
Exploring Terra Incognita: The Extraordinary Diversity of Microbes on Us, in Us, and All Around Us
Noah Fierer, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder March 19
Watch the lecture on YouTube »
Microorganisms are ubiquitous and abundant on Earth. You inhale thousands of microbial cells in every breath and your body is home to 100 trillion of them. Only in the past few years have we been able to describe the enormous diversity of microorganisms that live in familiar environments, including your forehead, your computer keyboard, plant leaves, and the soil in your garden. In this lecture, Noah Fierer speaks about recent work exploring microbial diversity on the human body, the effects these organisms (most of which are not pathogenic) may have on our health, and how we may be able to use bacteria for forensic identification. He also discusses ongoing work exploring bacterial diversity in the atmosphere through which unexpected sources of airborne bacteria in U.S. cities have been identified. His presentation highlights some future research directions in the burgeoning field of microbial ecology and how this research will likely alter how we think about 'germs' and human-microbe interactions.
A Darwinian Look at Darwin's Evolutionist Ancestors
Ned Friedman, Director, Arnold Arboretum, and Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University January 10
For over a century before the publication of On the Origin of Species, naturalists, theologians, atheists, horticulturists, medical practitioners, poets, and philosophers had advanced evolutionary concepts for the diversification of life through descent with modification. The early history of evolutionary thought will be examined through the lens of Charles Darwin's highly personal views of his evolutionist ancestors. We will examine the question of what set Darwin apart from the dozens of advocates of evolution who preceded him. Is Darwin truly deserving of his place in history? Come find out!
Restoring Hawaii's Marvels of Evolution
Robert Robichaux, University of Arizona February 7
Evolving in splendid isolation over millions of years, Hawaii's native plants exhibit patterns of diversity that are unrivaled elsewhere on Earth. Especially striking are the many examples of adaptive radiation, in which original immigrants to the islands evolved into dazzling arrays of plants exhibiting great variation in form and habitat preference. Yet Hawaii's native plants face an uncertain future. Many native plants, such as the exquisitely beautiful silverswords and lobeliads, now teeter on the edge of extinction. Join botanist Robert Robichaux of the University of Arizona and the Hawaiian Silversword Foundation as he discusses recent efforts to restore Hawaii's marvels of plant evolution.
The Good, the Bad, and Occasionally the Dead: Humanity's Relationship with Earth's Nitrogen
Alan Townsend, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Arizona February 28
How do we lead the lives we want while maintaining healthy ecosystems that can support future generations? These challenges will define the coming century, and one of them lies at the heart of the most fundamental of human needs: the need to eat. Come hear about the occasionally odd and often dramatic history of humanity's relationship with phosphorous and nitrogen, the good these chemical elements do and the harm they cause, and ultimately, the reasons we can have hope for a better future.
Our Constitution's Intelligent Design
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III March 28
In 2005, Judge John Jones presided over the landmark case of Kitzmiller v. Dover, and thereafter rendered an opinion holding that it is unconstitutional to teach the concept of intelligent design as an alternative to the theory of evolution. In the aftermath of that ruling, Judge Jones, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, was subjected to intense criticism. Judge Jones will highlight some of the lessons he learned from these experiences, including the development of his passion for judicial independence, and a belief in the need for better civics education, particularly related to our three branches of government.


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And analysts expect the bloodshed and violence to continue for the foreseeable future. A spokesman for the regime said earlier this week that Gaddafi's forces were able to fight on "for years." Contingency measures and "alternative plans" have been made, he explained, to ensure that the battle for Tripoli will rage on indefinitely.
Meanwhile, NATO boss Anders Rasmussen said the military alliance would fight for as long as necessary. "I'm not going to guess about any time frame," he said during an interview with the Russian RT news agency. "We are prepared to stay committed as long as it takes to fully implement the UN mandate."
An unidentified military official cited by the New York Times this week said Western "commandos" were already on the ground offering "fairly extensive" help to the rebels. And calls for even more NATO "boots on the ground" continue to grow as the prospect of "nation building" looms.
A leaked document obtained by a British newspaper actually outlines NATO and rebel plans for a post-Gaddafi Libya. According to the document, confirmed as authentic by the Western-backed rebel National Transitional Council, mass arrests of Gaddafi supporters conducted by a foreign-controlled "task force" will begin if and when the dust settles.
The plans reportedly factor in lessons learned from the bloody aftermath of "regime change" in Iraq. Measures to deal with a "hostile fifth column" and different rebel factions, for example, have been taken into account.
Among the most concerning elements of the scheme: The new regime will keep large swaths of the Libyan dictatorial "security" apparatus intact. Many of Gaddafi's former henchmen will even be allowed to maintain their positions provided they swear allegiance to the new regime.
The outline also states that the new rulers' propaganda will immediately flood the nation through radio stations and other media. Citizens would reportedly be informed that their new government was firmly in control and that they should remain calm.
As The New American reported on August 26, a draft Constitution for Libya based on Sharia law, created with Western assistance, is ready to be imposed on the nation. "Islam is the religion of the state and the principal source of legislation is Islamic jurisprudence," states the proposed new Constitution.
Even after the rebel regime is entrenched, however, outside intervention will be far from over. The U.S. government, European powers, the Chinese regime, Egypt, Russia, and countless other authorities — sometimes through the United Nations and a range of supranational institutions — will then begin the next phase of regime change and nation building.
Other influences will be vying for power, too. "The outside actors seeking to take advantage of Libya's fault lines do not necessarily need to be nation-states," noted Scott Stewart in a report for the private intelligence firm Stratfor. "It is clear that jihadist groups such as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb see the tumult in Libya as a huge opportunity."
In fact, countless reports already indicate that huge stockpiles of advanced military weapons are ending up in the hands of Islamic extremists, many of whom played a key role in the rebellion from the start. And that is causing serious problems as the weaponry — missiles, machine guns, and possibly even chemical weapons — begins to circulate around the world.
Even in Libya, however, the flood of armaments could lead to more trouble. "Between the seizure of former Gadhafi arms depots and the arms provided to the rebels by outside powers, Libya is awash with weapons," Stratfor noted in its report. "If the NTC fractures like past rebel coalitions, it could set the stage for a long and bloody civil war — and provide an excellent opportunity to jihadist elements."
On the other hand, the new Libyan regime could — and likely will — seek to disarm the population, as many "experts" are advocating. But according to some analysts, that could easily lead to more tyranny and bloodshed, potentially worse than what was experienced under Gaddafi's dictatorship. Evidence of widespread brutality by the NATO-backed rebels continues to surface almost daily.
If captured alive, Gaddafi and his main minions will almost certainly face war crimes trials at the International Criminal Court — thereby further legitimizing the institution. But similar crimes by NATO and its proxies on the ground will almost certainly go unpunished, creating an atmosphere of impunity that could contribute to further atrocities.
While the new government will retain large segments of Gaddafi's regime in place, some important changes have already been made. As The New American reported in March, in the first weeks of NATO intervention the rebels had already announced the creation of a new central bank to replace the existing state-owned monetary authority. A new oil regime was also put in place.
Perhaps even more troubling for the U.S. than growing chaos in Libya, however, is the precedent established by Obama's unilateral decision to use military force without even consulting Congress. If the decision remains unchallenged, analysts expect many more undeclared wars in the coming years, with Syria, Iran and a host of other nations already in the crosshairs.
"The current situation in Libya may be a short term victory for Empire, but it is a loss for our American Republic," explained GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in an August 25 statement, noting that Libya's future looked bleak as well. "We have spent over $1 billion on a war that this administration has fought not with the consent of Congress but under a NATO flag and authorization from the United Nations."
Congressman Paul, like Obama before being elected, noted that the President is bound by the Constitution to seek authority from Congress before engaging in military action. "And so, our government continues to spend trillions of dollars in overseas foreign wars while we face unsustainable debt, a looming dollar crisis, and our Constitution seems to lose any meaning," he noted. "These actions will sink our country if we do not reverse course."
Incredibly, as The New American reported months ago, U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that a high-level American delegation to Libya in 2009 was swooning over the Gaddafi regime. U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman called the dictatorship "an important ally in the war on terrorism," while Sen. John McCain assured the regime that the U.S. government wanted to supply Gaddafi with military equipment.
America's foreign policy of variously backing dictators and terror groups before turning against them has left a trail of death and destruction in its wake. But despite being in violation of the Constitution, re-thinking it appears to be off the table for now.
Instead, as Libya spirals out of control and the death-toll mounts around the world from Iraq to Afghanistan, the prospect of even more war grows larger every day. And if current trends continue, critics say disaster will be the inevitable result.
Photo: A man walks past the rubble of a home that was destroyed by a NATO bomb allegedly killing two children and their mother in Zlitan, Libya, Aug. 4, 2011.: AP Images


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Does Madbull moscarts fire harder? (2009-08-11)In this Bite The Bullet article, we will attempt to put a figure or at least a more accurate guideline fps range for a moscart shot's fps by comparing the values with muzzle velocity from known guns.
Test idea:
All muzzle velocity measurements will be given in feet per second (fps) via the Guarder chrono using KSC .20g ammo.
Using the home-made ballistic gel made in a consistency to measure regular airsoft gun shots, the guns with known fps values will be shot into the gel yielding a penetration measurement that is found by using a vernier caliper which, in turn can then be compared with the penetration of the moscart shots.
It is understood that the initial BBs towards the front of the moscart will be propelled in a slower speed than the ones towards the rear of the moscart since the gas accelerating the round will disperse around the environment as soon as it leaves the barrel of the moscart, deceleration will occur due to aerodynamic forces such as friction.
With that in mind, a few guns with different power ranges must be used to provide a range of penetration distances to act as a control. All the shots will be fired into the same gel block to ensure the viscosity is constant throughout the test. The following guns have been chosen for the purpose of this test:
- A low powered springer pistol (176fps)
- NBB Ruger loaded with 134a (283fps)
- a stock TM M4 AEG (257fps)
As seen in the pictures above, the NBB ruger proves to show it has the higher penetration power with the TM M4 AEG showing slightly less penetration than the Ruger as there is only 26fps difference.
With the control shots made on the gel block, we now have an idea of how far the penetration will be at a known fps, we can now compare this with the penetration with the moscart shots.
Knowing a charge of gas can have just under 200 rounds sharing the energy provided, a lower limit control shot must be produced. This is where the low powered springer pistol is useful, with the NBB Ruger yielding 280fps and the springer pistol at 180fps, we now have the upper and lower control figures to work with.
Having proceeded with the upper and lower limit control shots, the measurement shots can then be taken with the other guns. This is to help determine the power of the moscart shots by narrowing down the error margin when comparing the penetration distance.
Every gun was chrono'd to give an idea of the correlation between the penetration distance and the fps figure. The moscart is then fired on a fresh part of the gel block to ensure it will not interfere with an existing penetration path within the gel block. After all the control shots and moscarts were fired into the gel block, the block was cut avoiding every penetration path made by the BBs so that the penetrated distance was not interfered. When measuring the penetration distance, an incision was made in front of the BB to allow the round to fall out, where it will leave a cavity clearly seen shortly after the round exits the gel allowing the measurement to be made with more precision.
With the 190rds moscart, it is clear that the penetration is not very spectacular. As mentioned previously, 190 rounds shared per charge of gas will considerably lower the average fps of the rounds. In a nutshell, the rounds will have a lower penetration power due to this.
Using the 90rds moscart, it is clearly shown on the first picture that the initial impulse is high, it was able to move the testing platform even with a brick placed behind the gel block (hidden under the blank sheet of paper to reduce contamination) to hold the gel block steady for testing.
Finally, using the 120rds Madbull moscart, it is obvious that it can offer a higher output power even when using 30rounds more than an alternative moscart. With its high output power, it was able to cut a circle around the gel almost penetrating the same distance as the 180fps springer did on a single shot.
Results and summary:
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Springer pistol
NBB Ruger
190 rounds moscart
90 rounds moscart
Madbull 120 rounds
With the Madbull 120rounds penetrating over 6mm ahead of the 90rounds moscart, it is clear that the madbull design really does have a higher output power both by looking at the damage caused on the gel block as well as by the penetration distance. Assuming the 6mm variance is proportional to the higher fps when comparing the difference between the TM M4 and the NBB Ruger, the difference in fps between the 120 rounds with 90 rounds moscart is by around 26fps and comparing the 120 rounds moscart with the springer pistol, with the same linear comparison, it would give a reading of around 135fps.
Even though using the ballistic gel allowed us to see the Madbull moscart is indeed more powerful and also gave us a closer idea of the penetration power with a ballpark figure on its fps values. This is not completely accurate as a fps reading since the BBs towards the front of the moscart will be at a slower fps creating the inital contact with the gel, which does not allow the stronger follow-up shots on the discharge to have a direct hit on to the gel causing the power to be reduced as it had either deflected the follow-up shots or created more resistance during the penetration.


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The victim's wife says she was out with friends the night of the murder and that she and her stepson arrived home at the same time and found Philip's body.
The victim's son wouldn't or couldn't provide details about where he was or who he was with the night his father was killed.
Raquel Santos left work at the victim's house the day of the murder after a disagreement with a household member. Warning: Contains some strong language.
Joey Beecher was supposed to meet with the victim on the night of the murder, but said his boss didn't answer his knocks on the door so he left.
Detectives Armstrong and Murphy interviewed Stacy Beecher to get more information about her husband Joey's alibi.
The detectives spoke to Benito Flores to try to find out whether there was any truth to the rumors that he sold drugs to the victim's son.
Javier Montoya reluctantly agreed to tell the detectives a little about the legal matters he was working on for Philip Fontaine just before the murder.
Gerald Archer talked about Philip Fontaine's typical banking activities, his family's access to the accounts and his transactions just before he was murdered.
Kenny Ross is serving time on a drug charge and sometimes provides information to assist with investigations. He claims Grant Fontaine was once his customer.
Bruno Coleman was one of the victim's business competitors. It's no secret that the two men did not like each other and often had conflicting interests.
As a longtime bartender at a popular bar & grill, Will Sands knows a lot about the people who come in and what they're talking about.
Philip Fontaine's longtime secretary Karen Lewis spoke to the detectives about the victim's relationships with his family, friends and enemies.
Officially, Dawn Thurman was Philip Fontaine's personal trainer, but it was an open secret that she was also his mistress.
Amber Dunn, a friend of the victim's mistress Dawn Thurman, spoke to detectives about the relationship between Philip Fontaine and Ms. Thurman.
The detectives re-interviewed Joey Beecher to review his alibi and to find out if he knew Philip Fontaine was considering changing his will to benefit Joey.
The detectives re-interviewed Grant Fontaine to try to nail down where he really was the night his father was killed.
The detectives asked bartender Will Sands to come in again so they could try to find out if he "forgot" to mention anything in his first interview.
Kyle Parker works as a personal trainer. Most of his clients are women, and he provides additional services to some of them, including Ashley Fontaine.
The detectives pressed Grant Fontaine for more details about his fight with his father and whether he knew about the $15,000 cash his father reportedly had.
The detectives re-interviewed Raquel Santos to learn more about her boyfriend Benito Flores and her fight with Ashley Fontaine. Warning: Contains some strong language.
While the Flores/Santos search was still ongoing, the detectives re-interviewed Benito Flores about his whereabouts the night Philip Fontaine was killed.
John Franklin owns a farm that Philip Fontaine was trying to buy. Mr. Franklin recently contacted the detectives to say he had information about the case.


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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/uticao ... sp_ommatchLawrence "Larry" Elmer 1953 - 2016
HOLLY LAKE RANCH, TX - Larry was born in Utica, NY, to Ruth and Bernard Elmer on November 29, 1953, and passed away peacefully on December 24, 2016.
He attended Marist College. He joined the Navy in 1975 as a nuclear submariner on the U.S.S. James Madison, SSBN 627. He was Honorably Discharged in 1982 and went to work for TXU, where he became an Electrical Training Instructor at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Station. He worked increasingly challenging Information Technology roles prior to leaving TXU in 1998, having worked his way up to Director of Information Technology. He ultimately retired in April 2013 as the Sr. Director of IT Infrastructure for the University of Texas Systems.
He is survived by his wife, Debbi, of Holly Lake Ranch, TX; his children, Christine Trowell (Aaron), Marcus Elmer, Regan Mort (Paul) and Tucker Cappella; his mother, Ruth Elmer, of Manlius, NY; his three grandchildren; and siblings, Mary Beth Elmer (Peter Baskin), Shelley Hovey (Jim) and
Matt Elmer. He was predeceased by his father, Bernard, and sister-in-law, Kellie Elmer.
The family would like to thank the doctors and caregivers who traveled the cancer journey with
Larry and Debbi. We thank Hospice of East Texas for their caring support during the past two months.
You all do a demanding and difficult job and there is a special place for all of you in our hearts.
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Today was my first day back in work in a week. I had a wonderful and relaxing staycation, but I had to get back to reality at some point. The day didn't start out on the right note however. I didn't sleep well last night. I tossed and turned and I had weird dreams. Because of my lack of sleep last night, I overslept a little this morning. Not enough to be late work, but enough so that I didn't have time for a morning workout.
But I made up for the late start by having some leftover pancakes that Corey made me the other day. I had a couple of blueberry pancakes topped with fresh strawberries and maple syrup.
Yummy! A delicious way to start the day and it turned my morning away. How could I be in a bad mood after a breakfast like that? 🙂
I prepped my lunch for work last night so it would save a little time this morning. I expected today to be a bit busy (which it actually wasn't), so I needed a nutritious lunch and nutritious snacks to keep me full and satisfied. I get so cranky when I get hungry.
For lunch, I made some Egg Salad and had that on multigrain bread. I also cooked some bacon and added it to the Egg Salad.
I don't know why I didn't do that before. The addition of bacon makes the Egg Salad so much more delicious! But since when does bacon do anything else?
My snacks included: some green grapes . . .
and some homemade pretzel bites with mustard.
I think I have learned my lesson when it comes to pictures. I used to take all my pictures of foods I took to work at work. However, the lighting is just awful. It's all fluorescent so the pictures have a greenish tint to them. Now I take most of my pictures at home. The pictures come out so much better.
I will show you an example of what I mean. The above picture of my pretzel bites and mustard were taken at my home.
Here is an example of a picture of them taken at work.
See what I mean? And the picture doesn't even look that bad on my camera. The camera fools me. Then I upload it and it looks neon.
I'm glad I took a break from work over the last week. I was beginning to feel burnt out. But I went back to work today energized and refreshed. I felt ready to tackle the day.
Luckily, I got off work at a decent hour. Because I missed my morning workout, I found myself craving a good workout after work. I was excited for it. I did Jillian Michaels No More Trouble Zones, followed by 20 minutes on the elliptical. That Jillian Michaels workout is no joke. This is the second time this week I have done it and it was just as intense as the first time. My shoulders are killing me, as are my glutes. My triceps will probably be sore tomorrow.
After my workout, Corey and I had a dinner of whole wheat pasta, grilled chicken and organic pasta sauce. I also had some roasted broccoli on the side.
Now I need to relax a little and try to ease the soreness from my muscles. Poor Callie hasn't been feeling well all day. She has had a bit of an upset stomach all day and part of the reason I didn't sleep well is because she was tossing and turning all night. I think she's feeling a little better now. She seems to be catching up on her sleep and I am looking forward to following suit! Good night everyone.


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We're excited to announce that Google Tag Manager has publicly launched Auto-Event Tracking, which lets you measure events happening on the page without writing HTML or Javascript. Those of you measuring events in Tag Manager today will already have minds racing with the possibilities - skip ahead to the screenshot. Everyone else, read on.
As sites become more dynamic and want to understand users' site experiences in more detail, business owners need to know more: how long are visitors staying on a particular page? How are they interacting with interactive elements like image carousels? How many are clicking the Contact Me button? How many are clicking outbound links? Increasingly, site analytics are incomplete without answers to questions like these.
With Google Tag Manager's launch of Auto-Event Tracking, we're excited to announce a solution that provides the power of event tracking without needing to write code. By using the new Event Listener tag, you can tell Tag Manager when you want to listen for events, and then write detailed rules for what to do when an event happens. See an example of listening for form submits here:
Once you have your event listener set up, you can have tags fire based on form submits using a rule that looks for the event gtm.formSubmit. (Of course, Tag Manager supports more than form submits: it also includes clicks and timer events.) You can also make sure you're getting the right form by using our Auto-Event Variable macros that let you narrow things down with attributes like the element ID and the form target.
The end result: you can deploy event tracking to your site and send event tracking data to Google Analytics without adding any code to your site. You can deploy measurement campaigns faster, and not writing custom code makes your solutions more robust.
Of course, it's easiest to see the whole picture by walking through a full example. Check out the following resources for more:
- Tracking Google Analytics events with Tag Manager in our Help Center
- Auto event tracking with Google Tag Manager at Justin Cutroni's Analytics Talk blog
- Event Listener documentation and Event Tracking Macros documentation in our Help Center
We're looking forward to getting your feedback - let us know what you think!
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Rolling Stone released their list of the 50 Funniest People Now placing Louis CK at number one.
The internet has been a hotbed of debate recently after Facebook posts from comedian Kurt Metzger criticized the UCB Theater for not paying performers on their weekend shows.
Matt Besser and Ian Roberts discuss how and why they started the UCB theatre in New York, the UCB philosophy, and the economics of the theatre in this bonus episode of the improv4humans podcast.
NBC has picked up a multi-camera sitcom from stand-up and Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney. Seth Meyers said it best via Twitter; this is "great news for people who like funny things."
Huffington Post Comedy did some 30 Rock research to bring us Liz Lemon's Life Lessons for Ladies.
Splitsider asked comedy bookers in New York and Los Angeles to help them rank the Top 10 Up-and-Coming Comedians on Each Coast (former Philadelphia comedian Josh Rabinowitz is listed at number eight in New York, congrats, Josh!)
The AV Club started their new series SketcHistory this week with a breakdown of "Dalai Lama" and "Monk Academy," from Mr. Show's season four episode "It's Perfectly Understandishable". The new series promises to "get the story behind some of our favorite comedy sketches from the people who made them."
Have you ever wondered what some comedy superstars were doing when they hit the quarter-century mark? Splitsider compiled this list of 50 comedians at age 25.
Paul F. Tompkins has started to release clips from his live show at Largo on his website. The first features Maya Rudolph getting a visit from her future son.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Breadcrumbs: What Are the Naming Patterns in Your Family?
No, silly, not your ancestors! Your family! Did you use any naming patterns when naming your own children? What clues did you leave for your future descendants?
Naming patterns are an important part of genealogical research. Many cultures have used naming patterns. Even ancestors who did not follow the exact naming patterns of their ethnic group may still have named their children after family members. By looking at the names of children we can apply what we know about the naming patterns to try to determine the names of the grandparents. (That's a bit of an over simplification but you get the idea.) It's amazing how effective it is in genealogical research.
There seems to be a free-for-all with naming children these days. And yes, parents should be free to name their children whatever they want. But perhaps what was old will come back in and it will become hip again to name children after family members.
Both of my parents were very interested in genealogy when they started having children. My oldest brother is a junior. That's an easy enough pattern to figure out. Our dad had been named after his grandfather, so if descendants look carefully they will find an extended pattern.
My second brother was given the first and last name of a Revolutionary War ancestor. It's a very cool Dutch name and I think he's always been proud of it.
I was named after my grandmother, Marian, and since she died long before my birth I've always been grateful for that connection. My parents gave me my great grandmother's last name as a middle name. I didn't always love that but I've grown to appreciate it more over the years.
Looking back I think my parent's did a great job naming their kids with a nod toward family history.
So how did my husband and I do? Not too bad really, even if it was mostly by accident.
My oldest son is a junior. That will make it easy for future descendants to figure out that relationship.
My second son is named for my husband's brother who passed away before we were married. It also happened to be used commonly with my mother's German ancestors.
When my third son surprised us, my husband said, "This one is all yours. Name him whatever you like." And just right. I felt no guilt whatsoever in choosing a name without his consultation. He had gotten both of the first children after all. The only check my husband did was to make sure none of the potential names translated badly when spoken in French.
By this time, I was fairly obsessed with family history. I scoured the fan charts to find something interesting and unusual. I picked the most unique name out of the whole lot. It's a German last name and so makes a striking contrast when paired with Pierre-Louis.
I was not the originator of this brilliant idea. In fact, my great grandfather was given this as his first name as well. I've always had a fondness for my great grandfather. He had a larger than life reputation in our family. I was a bit hesitant because of that to bestow his name upon my son. But I did it anyway and almost nothing has made me prouder in this life.
The thing that I like the best was that I was in control of linking the past to the future. My name choices intentionally linked the generations. Young parents might not think of that until it's too late and their family is already established. If you get the chance, encourage newly married couples to consider traditional family names.
What about you? What names and naming patterns did you lay down for your descendants?
Photo credit: Photo by Identity Photogr@phy used under the creative commons license.
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Uh oh! Future generations are in trouble. My children are not named for anyone. They have names we simply liked. Obviously pre-genealogy days.ReplyDelete
Our first 3 children's names were what we liked. Our only son is named for his two grandfather's. Our twin daughters middle names are their two grandmother's names, although in my mother's case it's her middle name, but she always went by that one anyway. It's also my middle name, so I'm cursing this daughter with the fact that if she has a daughter, she must also carry this middle name.ReplyDelete
Same daughter was named for her Grandmother's dog (teasing). Actually, said grandmother named the dog for the daughter she was hoping to have some day, but didn't (had 3 boys, and the oldest daughter was named something else). So in actuality she carried on a name that never was, in our family.
My daughter's middle name is one that came from my grandma, and goes back as a middle name in her line to at least 1810. It's an unusual name too, so it will serve nicely as a breadcrumb for future researchers.ReplyDelete
My son's middle name comes from my favorite ancestor (who is actually my great-great-grandfather's brother...so not so closely related, but he's still my favorite).
Our oldest son carries the middle name of his grandfather. Oldest daughter carries no connection that I am aware of. I read her name in a book and liked it, thought it was different...come kindergarten I found out different :( there were 3 others in her class, maybe I should have stuck with a family name. Our second daughter carries the middle name of her great grandmother and our youngest son...makes many folks happy :D he carries his fathers, grandfathers(my dad), his great uncles (his fathers uncle and actually a well used name in my husbands paternal line, his middle name is his great grandfathers middle name.ReplyDelete
All our children's middle names are family names, and they have my surname as a third name. My oldest son's middle name is after both his grandfathers and is a name that extends back through my paternal line. My daughter's middle name is my great great grandmother's - one I had started researching at the time, and is another common name on my father's side of the family. My youngest son's middle name is the same as his father's, and my maternal grandfather's.ReplyDelete
I actually changed my name slightly by deedpoll in my late 20s, and added in my maternal grandmother's maiden name as a third name. So, a few breadcrumbs for the generations to come! :D
"Step-daughter" was named after me when my ex remarried. (Kinky.)ReplyDelete
As far as I can see, due to lack of hindsight, no-one in the past 50 years has been named after anyone further out than grandparents. And, in most cases, not even that. If anyone's looking for breadcrumbs they'll need a magnifying glass.
I broke the pattern when my own daughter was born. For the previous five generations all first born females were given the same name either as a first or second name. I decided I wanted my own daughter to be an individual and although she has a traditional name I didn't want her to feel stuck in a groove - she can always add the family name if she ever wants to. I've found it can sometimes get very complicated when doing Family History if so many people in a family have the same Christian nameReplyDelete
Son #1 is "the fourth", so there's no question about his line, since all of his names are the same as a whole bunch of his paternal ancestors. Son # 2 get his first and "first middle" names from one of his maternal great- great-grandfathers, while his "second middle" name is his mom's maiden name. Granddaughter has her maternal grandma's first name and maternal great-great grandma's surname as her middle name, while Grandson got one of his paternal great-great grandpa's first names and his maternal great- great grandma's surname as a middle name. While it's not a pattern, it's an echo.ReplyDelete
Side-note: when Grandson was "on the way", I was asked for list of "used" family first names; I sent 'em an Excel spreadsheet with several hundred to try on… Names like "Othmar", "Ordo" and "Theophilus" didn't make the cut.
I'm with Lisa. Although my oldest daughter has the middle name of Rebecca which was only because I liked it. When we named her, both of my grandmother's said "my favorite grandmother was Rebecca" and I never gave that another thought. Until now that I've gotten into genealogy and have learned about these two women. And one of them even had a mother named Rebecca who died giving birth to her. So it turns out that it is a pretty special name after all.ReplyDelete
A wonderful post (as usual)! My sisters and I actually weren't named after anyone. My mother named her first three daughters pretty common names but not the spellings. She stayed with the more French variants (although she is 100% Irish and my father 100% Lithuanian!). I'm Cherie, my sister Michele (one "L"), and my other sister Aimee.ReplyDelete
I suppose because they had all been named after family members she decided for a change. I'll have to ask that question. My husband and I have 2 sons and while we picked fairly common first names (Benjamin and Daniel) their middle names were for ancestors. Our oldest has the middle name of Romand after my husband's paternal grandfather and my youngest has a very common "Edward" for his middle name, but it was my uncle's, and several grandfathers (great and otherwise).
Although I have no children, this is something I've thought about quite a bit. I'm the fifth generation in my paternal line to bear a fairly unusual name. It's my grandfather's and great grandfather's first name, and my father's, great-great grandfather's, and my middle name. It also occurs quite frequently among relatives from both sides of our family, including another great-great grandfather and all three of his sons' middle names. I even have several female relatives with a feminine variant of the name. Both my siblings already used forms of the same name for their sons (the Spanish and Latin equivalents).ReplyDelete
Beyond that, I plan on reusing other frequently occurring family names, and the names of my grandparents as middle names.
Interesting question! This has been a topic of discussion for our family many times.ReplyDelete
Our oldest child bears the only non-family name out of the four. A point he sometimes gives me grief over! His name was one that my husband and I loved so he became Jason.
Next two sons we also wanted "J" names but added family middle names. Son two inherited his father's name, and son three my father's name.
When our daughter was born my mother-in-law was in the final stages of cancer. To show our respect we chose her maiden name for our daughter's middle name.
As she grew older our daughter decided she wanted everyone to call her this name. Thus she has become our Starr.
One of my favorite topics. I wrote about this last month.ReplyDelete
My son's given name is a variation of his father's middle name, and his middle name is his father's given name.ReplyDelete
My daughter's given name is a variation of my father's name, and her middle name is a variation of her father's middle name.
Their father left the naming up to me. I never really thought when I named them of leaving breadcrumbs, but did feel a need to honor those who came before them.