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Most Effective Ayurvedic Practice for Your Mouth
Hello eveybody,
I just found a great article on ayurvedic mouth care, and wanted to share it, feel free to go on the actual website if you need more info.
Article by Ashley Pitman
Do you ever wish you could brighten those pearly whites without chemicals?
Almost everyone I know who cares about their body is eager to find ways to get positive results without sacrificing the integrity of their own well-being and the well-being of our lovely planet.
That means those bleach trays and teeth whitening products on the market don't exactly qualify. They have you ingesting boatloads of toxins like coal tars, fluorides, aspartame, aluminum and benzene.
So, if having a healthy mouth and brighter, whiter teeth is a priority for you, but ingesting carcinogens are not, you're going to love oil pulling.
Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic ritual where you swish oil (like coconut oil, sesame oil or sunflower oil) around in your mouth for about 20 minutes and then spit it out.
Dr. Bruce Fife, whose written an entire book on oil pulling, says the oil acts like a cleanser.
"When you put it in your mouth and work it around your teeth and gums it pulls out bacteria and other debris. As simple as it is, oil pulling has a very powerful detoxifying effect. Our mouths are the home to billions of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other parasites and their toxins. Candida and Streptococcus are common residents in our mouths. It is these types of germs and their toxic waste products that cause gum disease and tooth decay and contribute to many other health problems including arthritis and heart disease. Our immune system is constantly fighting these troublemakers. If our immune system becomes overloaded or burdened by excessive stress, poor diet, environmental toxins and such, these organisms can spread throughout the body causing secondary infections and chronic inflammation, leading to any number of health problems.
Although there's no scientific evidence to support these claims, there are 3,000 years worth of personal testimonials from people India and a growing number of testimonials from people in the U.S.
I was personally inspired to start doing it about a year ago to help repair some of the damage I had done to my mouth and teeth from a decade of having an eating disorder. The most noticeable effects for me have been whiter teeth, healthier gums and more clear skin. It's been a great addition to my morning routine!
When done daily this practice is incredibly effective for:
- Brightening & whitening teeth
- Healthier gums
- Removal of mucus
- Boosting the immune system
- Preventing bad breath
- Increasing energy
- Having a clearer mind
- Decreasing headaches
- Clearing the sinuses
- Alleviating allergies
- Better sleep
- More clearer skin
- Regulating menstrual cycles
- Decreasing inflammation
- Improving the lymphatic system
- Improving PMS symptoms
How to oil pull:
- Drink 1 cup of water on an empty stomach.
- Melt 1-3 tsp. of organic, cold-pressed vegetable oil (I like coconut oil the best) in your mouth or over very low heat in a double boiler.
- Swish through your mouth for 20 minutes while youre busy doing something else. The first few times my gag reflexes reared themselves and it was a little difficult keeping the oil in my mouth, but I persisted and by the third day it was fine. If you have this problem too, I recommend sticking with it.
- Spit into trash, compost or outside in the grass (just not in the sink - we dont want to clog the pipes).
- Swish water through your mouth to rinse.
Take Action Now:
- Get yourself some oil and try oil pulling tomorrow morning (I do it while I'm walking my dog).
- Leave a comment below with any thoughts, tips or ideas on the topic.
- Let your friends and family in on the oil pulling secret by sharing this post!
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Thanks for the Information. One can also find number of herbs and species in Ayurveda effective for number of oral disorders.
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Just a few of tips about oil pulling (gandusha):
-One tablespoon of oil is enough. The volume of liquid will increase in the mouth as saliva is added.
-Oil can be sesame (tila tailam) or coconut.
-Coconut oil can be warmed by simply submerging a container in another container with hot water.
-There's no need to drink water before, but it's good to rinse the mouth and scrape the tongue.
-After 20 minutes (or whatever time you can manage) spit into a napkin, paper towel, wad of toilet paper, etc., then dispose in trash.
-Rinse the mouth with salty water.
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5 Foods You Should Never Eat On An Empty Stomach! Constipation And Indigestion
You can do lots of things on an empty stomach. For example, is better experienced with an empty belly. Going to bed on the full belly can quick the body fat to maintain those additional calories because with belly fat sleeping needs little power.
One may believe its a healthful choice to consume a banana or even drink the cup of coffee very first thing in the morning. However, they may be all those foods which shouldnt become eaten with an empty belly.
But, there are specific things that you need to avoid with an empty belly. Here are some of these.
Tomato vegetables are full of nutritional vitamins, antioxidants, as well as soluble components. However, whenever eaten with an empty belly, these components combine with gastric acid and due to constipation And indigestion which could lead to stomach prevent. This places pressure on to the belly, which causes a good ache, and it is especially harmful to people who currently suffer from ulcers or acid reflux disease.
heading for which freshly made a cup of tea or even coffee very first thing in the morning can perform you much more harm compared to good. Consuming coffee with an empty belly increases the level of acidity, constipation, and indigestion, which in turn leads to heartburn as well as indigestion during the day. Drinking green tea on an empty stomach may suppress the actual secretion associated with gastric fruit juices and decreases bile as well as acid within the stomach. It may also reduce your hunger.
Eating your own favorite hot and spicy foods with an empty belly can prove harmful. It interferes with the organic acids found in the stomach, and could, in fact, trigger an acidic response in the stomachs lining. A typical symptom of this kind of reaction is actually cramped.
The next time a person eyeballs which continental breakfast time, think again. Although croissants, as well as Danishes, tend to be delicious, they are full of Candida, which is a kind of bacteria which irritates the actual stomach liner and may trigger flatulence. No one wants which!
Alcohol consumption on an empty stomach leads to the alcoholic beverages to straight hit the actual bloodstream and a cause of constipation and indigestion. The actual alcohol is actually distributed rapidly throughout the entire body and causes blood vessels in order to widen. Additionally, it causes a short-term decrease in heartbeat rate as well as blood pressure. Since the blood alcoholic beverages, concentration raises so really does the loss of manage.
this should become a no-brainer. In fact, you should never consume bubbly drinks actually. Studies have demonstrated they boost the risk of malignancy, heart disease, diabetic, constipation and indigestion and liver organ damage. Soda pop normally consists of about eight to ten teaspoons associated with sugar that, on an empty stomach, is equivalent to injecting half a dozen times just as much sugar within your blood compared to should normally be found. This produces an insulin rush that triggers a good adrenaline spike, followed by the sugar higher. Not to mention, drawback symptoms later on!
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When brushing, put the fibers of the toothbrush at a 45-degree point close to the gum line, to such an extent that the fibers are in contact with both the teeth and the gum, brush utilizing a forward and backward, here and there development, when you are done rehash a similar technique for the internal surfaces of your teeth and gum...
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Thank you so much for this thread.


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Quoins are clamps used to lock type into place within a frame called a forme.
Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'.
The type is taken letter by letter and placed into a 'setting stick' -- a wood or metal tray held in one hand and the words are built into lines of type of a set width.
The lines are then put together to make a page inside a metal frame called a "chase". Spaces in amongst the page are filled with wooden or metal "furniture". The furniture is level with the surfaces of the type blocks so as not to pick up any ink. The spaces between the chase walls and the page are filled with expandable "quoins". Quoins, when tightened, lock all the type and furniture securely within the chase (now called a "forme").
The forme is placed on the press and printing commenced.
Physical Description
The quoin consists of a wedge shaped piece of serrated metal, usually used as pairs, that can be progressively tightened.
This item was donated by the Dimboola & District Historical Society to enable Peter Marsh, Research Associate, to set up type for the Fawkner Press display in the Melbourne exhibition. The type has been set up to reproduce the first page and other sections of the first printed edition of the Melbourne Advertiser. The first page is as the original but the second page is not complete. Peter Marsh has included his own acknowledgment in the second page so that there can be no mistake as to its provenance. Fawkner used foundry type; monotype was not available until the 1840s. Foundry type is cast differently from monotype. Only the newspaper title of the 'replica' is in foundry type.
The item was originally used in the printing of the Dimboola Banner newspaper. The contents of the newspaper office were donated in situ to the Dimboola Historical Society in 2004 and became part of the collection of the Dimboola Banner Printing Museum, which is owned by the Society (the building was purchased for the Society). The item was then donated to the Museum by the Dimboola & District Historical Society.
The newspaper office closed when the Dimboola Banner was sold and production shifted to another town with more modern equipment. The paper ceased to be printed with letterpress in the mid 1980s.
It is not possible to date the item or to determine their provenance as equipment came from various sources, for example from other local newspapers that closed down. The 'material' could be dated anywhere from 1879, which is when the first issue of the newspaper came out. It can be described as an example of 19th century technology.
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Donation from Mr Dale Conway - Dimboola Historical Society, 01 Jul 2007
Mr Peter Marsh, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2007
Text: HEMPEL/TRADE/HEMPL/PATENT/MARK.
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10.2 cm (Length), 1.7 cm (Width), 2 cm (Height)
[Link 1] accessed 9 October 2008 Melbourne Advertiser first printed edition (#10)


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UPDATE: The FOMC's updated macroeconomic projections are out.
2013 GDP growth forecasts were lowered to a range of 2.3-3.0 percent, down slightly from September's estimate of 2.5-3.0 percent.
2012 GDP growth forecasts were lowered to a range of 1.7-1.8 percent from 1.7-2.0 percent in September.
2014 GDP growth forecasts were lowered to a range of 3.0-3.5 percent from September's estimate of 3.0-3.8 percent.
15 of the 19 Fed officials see rates below 1 percent in 2014, while 10 of 19 see rates at 1 percent or higher in 2015.
Here is a link to the full report >
ORIGINAL: Minutes away from the release of the FOMC's updated macroeconomic forecasts and projections for the future path of the Fed funds rate at 2 PM ET.
In the Fed's latest policy decision, announced at 12:30 PM today, the following language was used to describe the economy:
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in October suggests that economic activity and employment have continued to expand at a moderate pace in recent months, apart from weather-related disruptions. Although the unemployment rate has declined somewhat since the summer, it remains elevated. Household spending has continued to advance, and the housing sector has shown further signs of improvement, but growth in business fixed investment has slowed. Inflation has been running somewhat below the Committee's longer-run objective, apart from temporary variations that largely reflect fluctuations in energy prices. Longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.
Most don't expect much revision to the forecasts, but SocGen economist Aneta Markowska says that the Fed's "2013 GDP forecast published in September still looks relatively high at 2.5%-3% and is at risk of being revised lower."
While BofA's Michael Hanson, Priya Misra, and John Shin don't see much scope for forecast revisions, they say there is something else the Fed could do to "innovate" at this meeting with regard to forecasting:
At this meeting the FOMC economic projections will also be updated, but we do not expect sizable forecast revisions given the macro uncertainties. One potential innovation, mentioned by Vice Chair Janet Yellen, would be to list joint economic and policy forecasts — that is, grouped by FOMC member, without identifying each forecaster. That way, the market could better distinguish a long policy hold past the onset of the recovery — which is what the FOMC committed to in September — from a less optimistic outlook warranting even more easing.
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Video: Driver goads officer into his losing temper
The officer approached the vehicle after it circled a crime scene several times
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SIDNEY, Neb. — Video taken Friday night of an encounter between an officer and a motorist has since gone viral, and shows an officer losing his composure after repeatedly asking the driver why he was circling an apparent crime scene.
The man filming, who is identified by dispatchers in the video as Steven Bell, was parking his vehicle when Officer Scott Tobler called in his plates to dispatch.
Tobler can be heard calling the vehicle 'suspicious' before he approaches and asks Bell for his license and registration.None
"Why are you circling my crime scene?" Tobler asks Bell, who states he does not have to answer. "Why are you constantly following us?"
A second officer appears in the video and removes Tobler from the situation when he shows his frustration with the difficult motorist. Bell tells the second officer, who is not identified, that he would like to file a complaint against Officer Tobler, to which the officer complies and takes his information.
Bell told the Star Herald that he had not yet heard from acting Police Chief Joseph Aikens as of Monday. He claimed that the Sidney Police Department has been "harassing" him since his arrest for felony child abuse in 2012, and began carrying around a scanner and camera to film law enforcement activities.
"I know my rights," Bell told the Star Herald. "I was not committing a crime. If police officers can capture us on camera, they should expect us to turn the camera on them."


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Yet, this upcoming film (starring Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra), and especially its lyricist, Gulzar, challenge this view with a rather delicious platter of words that is second to none among all soundtracks released this year. One need not go past the title song to appreciate the effort. On the strength of these lyrics alone, they've succeeded in toning down the angst associated with the title, and even invoked the sympathy of listeners. The music to this song sounds like the fusion of Pakistani rock from the 1980s and trumpets and orchestration befitting a grandiose theatrical score. With vocals by music director Vishal Bharadwaj, a fantastic track overall, with emphasis on the contexts implied by relatively simple words. You can listen to it at this link. Here's my translation:
A couple other lyrical snippets from as many tracks I must highlight for entirely different reasons. Let's begin with Pehli Baar Mohabbat, with vocals by Mohit Chauhan (remember what we were saying about him in the July releases post?). Pehli Baar Mohabbat contains a reference to lovers under a fig tree consuming squirrels' leftovers. Hold on to that thought, and check out this video of a classic Urdu poem:
In a nutshell (pun intended), the poem by Allama Iqbal, titled 'The Mountain and the Squirrel', and partly derived from this (credited) work by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is nothing but a cute little story to remind children that no life in this world is without purpose. It's amusing, too. A mountain questions the need for the existence of a squirrel, claiming might given its height and size. The squirrel responds by reminding the mountain that despite its height, it can't even climb a tree, and despite its size, it cannot crack a nut. And that nothing or no one is useless or indeed 'lowly' in "nature's factory"!
Now, isn't it wonderful to connect the two? Squirrels, nuts, blessings, love, purposefulness, and being reminded of 'lowly' status. This is what one paragraph in Pehli Baar Mohabbat (listen here) and the theme of the title song share with the poem. I wonder if this is Gulzar's way of paying tribute to one of the most revered Urdu poets of the modern era. If it is, it's a stroke of sheer genius, because the character singing 'Kaminey' the title song seems to fit right in as someone trying to climb a mountain of the journey that is life. My hypothesis (and I know it's wacky) aside, it's a great song, regardless, and the sequence of the use of the two songs discussed so far will probably determine the nature of the film's climax.
This next one is obvious. The following from a Jigar Moradabadi poem:
Ek aag ka dariya hai aur doob ke jaana hai.
Understand that love isn't easy,
It's a river of fire which one must drown in, to cross.
Gulzar's tribute in the powerful Fatak (vocals by Sukhwinder Singh and Kailash Kher) involves a reminder to practice safe sex. "Love isn't easy," it begins. "It's a river of fire...let not this ship sink." It's interestingly worded, and for a valid cause. (Aside: That Moradabadi poem is also the source of the couplet with which every Nasir Hussain Productions film begins. Moradabadi was also mentioned in this post on Kohinoor (1960).)
And finally, I can't help but smile in awe every time Raat Ke Dhaai Baje plays (listen to it here). For one, there's a very cute-sounding Rekha Bharadwaj (albeit for very few lines) along with at least three other great singers, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala, and Suresh Wadekar. It's the use of beledi with those lyrics that makes it so pleasing to the senses. I hope it's more tastefully choreographed than two excellent songs in Omkara (2006; that soundtrack was delivered by the same director-lyricist duo) by the same female leads, which left a lot to be desired (but I know I'm among the small minority to hold that opinion). The only downside to this track -- and it's a big one -- are the English lyrics that add much clutter to an otherwise near-flawless song. Such a shame, but fair enough to overlook given all that is right with it.
There's much more in the soundtrack. Dhan Te Nan starts off in a very conventional manner, but is anything but conventional once it gets past the first half minute or so. Interesting piece on its choreography (from here):
Here's the trailer. Now this is going to be huge at desi parties, and I can't wait ;)
All we can ask of a soundtrack prior to the corresponding film release is that it portray a strong sense of identity, and that it contain signs of a strong narrative. Based on the soundtrack to Kaminey, one can tell there is more substance associated with the film than one would have imagined given the title. If the narrative carried by the soundtrack offers fair indication, then, the film will be more substantive than people still expect. Too bad it involves all those guns, which means I'll likely wait for the DVD. Oh, well.
Gulzar gave us lyrics to what I consider is the best and most complete soundtrack of 2008 (Yuvvraaj), and he's back at it in this Vishal Bharadwaj-directed musical journey, easily among the two best soundtracks of the year, second only to the music to Delhi-6. It does contain the most exceptionally well-written lyrics of 2009, for which it is a welcome addition to any music collection. Listen to all songs in their entirety at this link. Chances are you'll want to get your own copy, and fast!
Music rating: 3.75/5 (Very, very good!)
A 4.5/5 for the lyrics, and an easy 4/5 without the below-par remixes included in the album with an otherwise excellent series of songs. Good going Vishal B.! Shahid Kapoor, the stage is set for one of the biggest successes of your career. Will it materialize?
Official website: http://kaminey.utvnet.com/
iTunes store link: This link
Also see: This post at Darshit's blog


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Monday, October 31, 2011
Nonetheless, the climate change brought about by global warming that was predicted by weather scientists has become a reality and is impacting all of us in one way or another very realistically. It's no longer a theory, obviously. The early winter we're having in the Northeast is a perfect example.
Yes, seasonal anomalies have occurred throughout history, including in my lifetime and yours, but not the extent they are occurring now and in recent years. As we all know, or can learn, by checking the stats, the warmest years on record have all occurred in the past decade, and rainfall records and extreme temperature variations etc. have occurred in the last few years as well.
So even though there are a few pre-winter Nor-Easters on the records over the past few hundred years, when you combine the one we just went through this weekend with other extreme record-breaking weather events of the past few years, welcome to the future brought to you by global warming.
I was up in the Berkshires at my oldest son's family's place where over a foot of heavy wet snow fell. We were actually snowed in, but luckily retained power. When the snow stopped Sunday morning and the cars were dug out and what looked like a foot and a half of snow was shoveled and brushed off them, my youngest son and I drove back to Jersey in a rare snowscape that was more like a movie dream sequence than a Christmas card.
The seasons in this part of the world were so finely tuned by nature [and evolution (oh no!)], that by the time the first really heavy snow of winter came, all the leafs were off the trees and the amount of snow that could accumulate on a tree branch was minimal, almost more of an outline than a burden.
But this weekend the snow was so thick and wet (the "snowflakes" looked more like small snowballs) as it accumulated on branches still full of leaves, it became too heavy for the branches to bear the weight and they either bent low to the ground (it was a trip to watch my daughter-in-law just tap a long branch of a ten foot tall bush bent down to the ground with the snow shovel and watch the snow fall off as the branch sprang back like a catapult and stood straight up in the air again as though brought back to life from near death) or broke entirely and were strewn across roads or smashed onto roofs of cars and houses often pulling electrical and telephone wires down with them.
The trip back was stunning and challenging. The countryside was so profoundly beautiful all covered in not just pristine whiteness but a whiteness that looked poured and melted in a unique way and amount. I pointed out to my son how rare a sight it was because nature normally doesn't cause this kind of snowfall until after the leaves are gone and the trees can withstand it.
It was stop and start as we sometimes inched our way around fallen branches and trees and in one case under one that had fallen in such a way as to create a tunnel only one relatively small car at a time could go through (buses and trucks and bigger vehicles were forced to turn back).
Even when we got further South into lower New York state and were on a big highway not a two-lane country road, there were still moments when branches or trees would fall or bend and block a lane so that at one point a car several vehicles ahead of us hit their brakes so hard it created what looked like the smoke from a big fire and the smell of burning rubber stayed with us for miles.
At one point on a back country road a snow-laden branch fell up ahead of us onto the road and, as often happens in adrenaline charged moments, seemed to occur in slow motion as I watched it hit the road and managed to find an extremely narrow path around it just in time. And then made it home to find our street blocked by fallen branches (the trees around here and up North are often so large that a "branch" is the size of a small, or not so small, tree) that took wires down with them.
Most of the trip there were no stoplights working or store lights on and the usual roadside joint we stop at for lunch (the famous "Red Rooster"—at least famous in that area of the central Hudson Valley) as well as all the others were closed because of no power.
We passed two gas stations in the several hour trip that had lines extending out from them reminiscent of the 1970s gas shortage, only more so. One line seemed to extend for more than a mile with folks out of their cars hanging out talking, the cars pulled onto the shoulder of the road and backed up as far as we could see. They were the only gas stations with their own generators I guess.
My youngest doesn't have school today. Even though the snow is mostly melted here, at least in the streets, so it would normally not be considered a "snow day" it still is, because there are so many trees and branches that have downed wires that it's unsafe for the kids to walk down many blocks in our town for fear of accidentally touching a live one.
If this were the only odd weather event of the past decade, or of my son's life, etc. it would not be unusual. But in his now fourteen years there have been many, and more and more as the years pass. This is a result of the climate change being caused by global warming and almost every scientist, and close to a total consensus of weather scientists, acknowledge this.
Yet the rightwingers, including the main one who comments on this blog, continue to idiotically taunt us "liberals" with the reality of unusually cold winter weather for early Fall, but have been and will be nowhere in the comments threads when the inevitable (these days anyway) hot spell hits between now and next summer and breaks all records in that direction, despite the fact that I will, as I always do, point that out to them when it occurs. Their silence will be, as always, deafening, because anything that doesn't support their ideological beliefs is ignored or denied despite reality.
[PS: Just got back from driving my son to a friend's and saw trees that had crashed onto houses, down power lines, including just half a block from his old school, and only one lane of traffic on many streets because of the piles of branches etc. and to further make my point above, this kind of scene has become relatively common in the past few years and since I moved here a dozen years ago.]
23 comments:
- Bea F. said...
Doesn't matter whether you call it Glabal Warming or Global Change, the idiots who refuse to look at the evidence are going to believe whatever they want. Let's just try to keep them out of office.
- October 31, 2011 at 12:58:00 PM EDT
- Lally said...
- October 31, 2011 at 1:15:00 PM EDT
- Connie said...
Former skeptic, Richard Muller, has admitted his error in an article in the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576594872796327348.html?KEYWORDS=global+warming
"When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups. We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that. They managed to avoid bias in their data selection, homogenization and other corrections.
Global warming is real. Perhaps our results will help cool this portion of the climate debate. How much of the warming is due to humans and what will be the likely effects? We made no independent assessment of that."
According to Jon Stewart, the study was funded by the oil interests.
- October 31, 2011 at 2:10:00 PM EDT
- Lally said...
Thanks Connie, I saw that story too. It's incredible when it's in their own paper or record (The Wall Street Journal) and coming from one of their own and they still don't accept it!
- October 31, 2011 at 5:08:00 PM EDT
- tom said...
Some of them are still harping about "Climategate" even though that was discounted over a year ago. We are suffering the opposite kind of weather where I live. Too warm for this time of year. Normally we would have had several small snow storms by now. The warmer weather means the big lake will stay warmer longer and seeing as it is our snow maker - when it does get cold we have a potential for a lot of snow. That's good here. We depend on snow for winter tourism. On the other hand the past two years - the snow stopped at the end of February - not good. Erratic weather patterns are part of the global change.
- October 31, 2011 at 5:16:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
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- October 31, 2011 at 7:00:00 PM EDT
- tom said...
Odd. When I look at their data it shows a rising land temperature. Not sure how this other chart was created. Interestingly the Daily Mail is a conservative paper - or should I say has conservative bias.
- October 31, 2011 at 10:14:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
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- October 31, 2011 at 10:24:00 PM EDT
- Lally said...
sorry Tom, but I deleted the comment you were responding to, as well as his response to your response. I'm just tired of the same old strategy. Anyone can go back over the years I've been doing this blog and find many many comments by this rightwinger insisting that there is no such thing as "global warming" and claiming there's no proof for it. than I, or someone in else will offer the data proving there is, and then he will offer some rightwing source saying there isn't, then more people will offer overwhelming references to scientists and their evidence that there is, and then he will do one of three things (and the same holds true for any argument over any rightwing ideological position he holds, or parrots actually because they always echo the rightwing talking point of the moment) and those three things are: 1) change the subject, 2) resort to name calling, or, as he did in the comments above, 3) pretend to be reasonable by saying like saying what he was claiming was not that there isn't global warming, but that there's no proof it's manmade or that humans are contributing to it. (Which obviously is not what he was saying only a few comments ago!) And then returns another day in another comment thread to start the process all over again. It's a very old and often successful political ploy. Rick Perry allows the birther issue to percolate when it's winning rightwing support and then drops it when it's disproven, then brings it up again to see what help it can bring his campaign later, and when he's reminded it's been definitively disproved (or more likely when he's convinced it's gaining no new traction) he says he was just poking fun, i.e. was misunderstood by too serious "liberals" etc. and changes the subject. Et-endlessly-cetera. The right in fact depends upon the reasonableness of the near left, that is liberals, as well as centrists, to be willing to concede some points on most issues, just as they're willing to compromise on many. But the right just takes advantage of that tendency to undermine any arguments against their positions and to misdirect their opponents and help the right in the continuation of their misinformation campaign and miseducation of their followers. In other words they disarm their more liberal and centrist opponents with what seems like reasonableness but always in the service of driving home their ideological propagandistic point(s) which they will never concede, unless their corporate masters see it is in their corporate interest to do so. There are plenty of blogs and other internet sites that support and propagate the rightwing agenda with their distortions of the truth and of what those who oppose them believe in and are. "Jim" can take his opinions there.
- November 1, 2011 at 12:18:00 AM EDT
- Robert G. Zuckerman said...
FYI, my father, of blessed memory, was a hardcore conservative. An Orthodox Jew, a brilliant thinker, he read the New York Times every day because it pissed him off --- yet he could finish the crossword puzzle in minutes. His fantasy was to get a Ford F150 pickup truck with a shotgun mount. My Dad fully acknowledged that which we refer to as Global Warming - dangerous change in our world climate as a result of man-made endeavors/industry/population etc. One of the last things he did before dying was to write a brilliant two page treatise on how to solve global warming and save our planet.
As much as I love and honor my father, I don't know about this whole global warming thing. I mean, I just opened my freezer and the peas are frozen solid - which I'm unable to reconcile with the notion of global warming!
- November 1, 2011 at 2:19:00 AM EDT
- tom said...
That's okay, Mike. I live in one of those states where Republicans were elected in 2010 because nobody really listened to what they were saying. Now corporate taxes are cut and the poor, the middle class and retirees are being taxed more to make up for the loss. Schools and communities are receiving less money and some self-proclaimed conservatives are finding out how it effects them and their families. The next election will be interesting.
- November 1, 2011 at 6:53:00 AM EDT
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- November 1, 2011 at 5:55:00 PM EDT
- tom said...
Freedom of religion - yep
even for Muslims
Freedom of speech - yes, isn't that what the Occupy movement doing?
Checks and balances between the three branches of government - sure
The power of the federal courts to review laws. of course - do you want me to go on?
- November 1, 2011 at 6:52:00 PM EDT
- Lally said...
Sorry Tom, had to delete another lie. The man can't read, comprehend, acknowledge, accept, etc. anything that contradicts the dictates of his ideology and those who propagate and interpret it for him.
- November 1, 2011 at 9:53:00 PM EDT
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- November 2, 2011 at 1:18:00 AM EDT
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- November 2, 2011 at 1:27:00 AM EDT
- Robert G. Zuckerman said...
I was in the Aventura Mall in Miami a few weekends ago, and it was more crowded than I'd ever seen it in my fifteen years living there. More people were out shopping, now, during Obama's presidency, than any time in the Bush years. Hmmm...just as early snow negates global warming, surely, this negates a weak economy.
- November 2, 2011 at 7:50:00 AM EDT
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- November 2, 2011 at 8:12:00 AM EDT
here is "the crux' of Our present situation and
.... good luck to Us going forward
how do you expect to have any meaningful discussions if you delete anything that "rubs you" the wrong way?
the motto of the USA should be:
Hate is not a family value
Ignorance is Bliss
- November 2, 2011 at 9:10:00 AM EDT
the malls are crowded here too! It's been cold so
that is where the old folks and the poor who can't afford to heat their homes go to stay warm
and because they can't afford DECENT food go to get a Dollar-Double-Cheeseburger and a Dollar French Fries
Obesity used to be (in America) a sign of wealth now?
it s an health epidemic.
- November 2, 2011 at 9:32:00 AM EDT
- Lally said...
Anonymous, if you want to see what I deleted, go back through the archives, or just this week's comments and see what the blog stalker I delete had to say. It hasn't changed in the several years I've been doing it. What he says changes only according to what the rightwing line of the day is, but the point is always the same. Which is: any criticism of the right means those critics don't believe in The Constitution, or they want radical Muslims to create Shariah law in the USA or et-endlessly-cetera. I can put up with some mild name calling or distortions of the facts from commenters on this blog, but to let one person dominate the comments with relentlessly repeated lies and name calling that always eventually reaches extremes beyond what anyone else has written here, is like letting someone come into my home and take it over just because I invited them to a party once (at which, I might add, they insulted me, my friends and other guests, and refused to leave when asked to!).
- November 2, 2011 at 9:58:00 AM EDT
attitude and signification just doesn't
"thicken the stew"
if you research the definition of RANTER
you'll find that this guy really isn't one !
hang in,
- November 2, 2011 at 2:14:00 PM EDT
Hydrocarbons in the atmosphere create a hole in the ozone layer making the temperature warmer and the warmer it gets, the more ice melts and water evaporates creating moisture in the air which falls as rain or snow.
Is that it? Sounds plausible to me. I believe in many scientific inventions, but have no idea how they work. This seems elementary
- November 3, 2011 at 12:18:00 AM EDT


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Matt Stutzman competes on behalf of the United States in archery at the 2016 Paralympic Games.
Archery has been a medal sport since the Paralympic Games Rome 1960, which were the first Games held. The competition format for the Paralympic Games is identical to that of the Olympic Games. Archers shoot 72 arrows from a distance of 70 meters at a target of 122 centimeters, trying to achieve a perfect score of 720.
At the 2012 Paralympic Games, held Aug. 30-Sept. 5 at Royal Artillery Barracks, the U.S. Paralympic Archery Team claimed two medals in the men's individual compound competitions. Jeff Fabry won the gold medal in the men's individual compound (W1) event, becoming the first U.S. archer to win the Paralympic Games since 1984. Matt Stutzman won the silver medal in the open event.
Archery competition is open to men and women with physical disabilities including those with amputations and limb loss, spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries. Athletes can compete either standing or in chairs.
Archery by impairment group
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| Spinal Cord Injury/
Wheelchair User
| Traumatic
Cerebral Palsy/Stroke
|Intellectual Impairment
* Dwarfs are not eligible for Paralympic archery
The U.S. Paralympic Archery Team and the day-to-day operations of the high performance program are overseen by USA Archery, the National Governing Body for both Olympic and Paralympic archery in the United States.
For more information related to Paralympic archery, visit USAArchery.org. To find a local program in your community, visit the Paralympic Resource Network.


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WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifters -- Earth Class, and the film is about a future in which Earth has become so overrun by trash that it's uninhabitable for humans. 700 years before the movie takes place, the entire human race lives in an orbiting space ship, and sends robots down to the planet to clean it up. Flash to the present, and the project has failed. Only one robot is left on Earth still at work cleaning the place, and his name is WALL-E. WALL-E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for.
It's a testament to the amount of faith Disney must have in the newly acquired guys of Pixar that they're letting them actually make and release this movie. Not because it's about robots. If last summer's Transformers box office has taught us anything, it's that robots are an easy sell. Once they graduate from dinosaurs, every little kid wants his own robot, and WALL-E is just the right size to feed those pre-adolescent robot fantasies. Robots are no risk, but making a silent movie definitely is.
Pixar is proud of it, and they've been pretty open about describing WALL-E as a "space-set remake of a 1931 Charlie Chaplin film about a blind girl wooed by a tramp she mistakenly believes is a rich man." That's right, this little robot is a stand in for Chaplin, and rumor has it that a good portion of the film will be almost entirely silent, except for whatever bleeps and boops a humble robot might make alone on an abandoned, garbage dump planet.
Will audiences be able to handle it? At this point does Pixar even care? They're on a roll which is almost unprecedented in the history of Hollywood, with an unbroken string of both critical and financial hits. Pixar can afford to lose money on one, quirky little art project. If that's what WALL-E is, I'm sure the industry will get over it, eager to cash in on whatever their next brilliant idea is.
Ultimately though, taking risks like this is what has made Pixar what it is. They've always taken chances, pushed the envelope, and it's paid off. Unlike almost everyone else who's making family oriented movies, they're never content to stick with a formula, or shove out a movie full of princesses and singing just because they know kids will shell out money to see it. WALL-E is just another extension of that philosophy, that refusal to conform, that determination to drive for innovation which, hey was once embodied by the Walt Disney run Disney company. Maybe that's why Disney bought them out, and then handed the keys to the Magic Kingdom over to Pixar's executives. Pixar is making more than movies, they're making magic. WALL-E, perhaps more than any of their other recent instant classics, is a symbol of their dare to be different philosophy, and it's bound to be sprinkled with plenty of Pixar fairy dust.


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A federal judge sentenced two partners in an armored-car stick up crew to 32 years and a day each in prison.
Erick Wilson, 28 from Columbia and David Marquise Howard, 29, from Baltimore held up employees of Dunbar Armored at gunpoint, stealing cash from them. The robberies, carried out in Maryland and Washington, D.C., took place between 2008 and 2011, earning the pair and their crew $765,000.
Wilson was sentenced Wednesday and Howard Tuesday. Both pleaded guilty to six robberies.
Wilson's mother Regina McCullom, 49, and Howard's girlfriend Gloria Martino, 29, have also pleaded guilty to their roles in the scheme and are awaiting sentencing.
Prosecutors said the crew was highly organized, wearing disguises, purchasing cars specifically for each job and using disposable cell phones to communicate during the robberies. Sometimes they would rent hotel rooms to use as a base and a place to divide up the stolen cash.
But other parts of the plot were less sophisticated. When investigators caught up with the crew and arrested Howard, he took them to a spot in Baltimore where he had buried a bag containing $10,000.


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My friend has made a blog: http://rayneunwritten.blogspot.com/
Sunday, November 30, 2008
New Blog!
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
New Project!
Now that science fair is over, I have another school project. History Day. Though I do think History Day is more free. The theme this year is individuals in history, so I'm doing Julia Butterfly.
Also, I'm making a crossword puzzle about moi! Maybe I'll bring it to the 60th anniversary, I don't know. I will show it to my friends to see if they know about me.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Yesterday was Hilarious!
- Yesterday mom was in a big tirade, until I spiked her tea with rescue remedy.
- I found my mp3 player in a random basket in the living room. (Thank you short attention span!)
- I managed to stuff most of my drum set into my room.
- And Andelle didn't seem that angry!
- I made a prize for my superlative (Hobo Chic) and now I wish I didn't have to give it away.
- I *kind of* finished my outfit. I'll have to touch it up tomorrow morning.
- Also, I've had this song stuck in my head forever:
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Okay Then...
I have nothing to blog about, so I went online and searched "blog topics" I'm so bored, I'm going to answer these questions about making a blog even though I don't need to :D
Are you certain you know enough about this subject to write about it on a consistent basis?
Well, this blog is about me, and I know a good amount about me to write consistently.
Will this subject offer you enough variety and opportunities to go off on a tangent or two?
Middle School is never boring (except for the learning part...) The point is, it stretches.
Does this subject offer you a way to connect with other people, with yourself, or with the outside world?
Everybody has been 13 before.
Can you write with some authority on this subject?
Authority is my middle name. Actually, it's Tekla.
Do you really love this subject?
I love me!
Is there room for growth in this subject area?
I grow, the blog grows.
Is this blog topic one that gives back and contributes to others?
Yeah, now my mom won't have to ask me how my day went at school. (Kidding, she never asks)
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Orthodontist appointment Monday morning. Wish me luck.
On a happier (kinda) note, it's time to vote for eighth grade superlatives. My friend is telling everyone to vote me prettiest eyes. I'll probably lose to the popular (fake) girls.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Oh No!
I can't find my MP3 player! The last time I saw was on last Saturday. I decided not to bring it when I went to General Smallwood's house to clean. I now pronounce it officially lost! It sucks because it's really small and my only headphones were connected to it, so now the only way I can listen to music is through my crappy speakers. I have a song stuck in my head, and now the only way to listen to it is dad's records.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Chorus Class
In Chorus, we had to pick two Christmas songs to sing. Me and my friend were telling all the boys who would listen what songs to vote for. The songs that won were Santa Baby and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause. Okay then, not too bad. And for festival we had to pick between two songs to start on first. It was between a spiritual and a silly song. Thank goodness the silly song won.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Oh My Bob!
During the 6th grade performance, the eighth graders were stuck in the chorus room listening to their iPods and texting on their cell phones. Meanwhile me and my friend were running around, saying "Phail!" to the people we don't like. Like my former friend wearing gobs of make up and a skirt shorter than mine; to the dork going around and picking fights while wearing a zip-up tie; and to our friend who's a guy because he just plain phails. Later, my friend starts drawing burning crosses (she's agnostic) and this short girl (and I mean really short, who's very mean and acts like she's ten feet tall) comes up and asks, "Do you even know what that means? Are you in the KKK?" and we're like "Nooo." We explain that I'm atheist and that she's agnostic, and that we really don't care. More girls come up and watch us. "Do you know that you go to hell if you don't get baptized?" "How do you know, have you died?" "I know because it says so in the bible?" "Who said the bible was real?" Then this girl, who's a daughter of a preacher or related to one or something, starts going off on us. "I don't know what kind of sh*t you're parents have been teaching you, but God is real..." and she just goes on like that, until one of her friends drag her away while she was still yelling. My friend says to me, "I've only been to church once, and that was to get baptized. My parents said if I've ever wanted to go I could just ask." I told her that when I was christian, I was super christian, and that I went to church all the time. My former friend turned around and smiled. I poked her and said, "Yeah, I went to her church. Her church was weird. They were talking about how we don't come from monkeys or something." Well back then when I was nine it made sense. People related to monkeys? Insane! But now I know better. I turnerd to my friend and said "I will convert you."
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I'm So Alone!
No one's home, and it's so quiet. Today is my chorus concert, so I had to take a shower and scrub my pen tatoos off. I come downstairs, and the TV was on. Interesting... Now Andelle's home. Yay!
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Monday, November 17, 2008
My Ring
I have this cool ring I wear on my left ring finger. It's a crescent moon with a face, and a ying-yang between it's two points, forming a circle. People keep asking if it's a promise ring, or a purity ring. I think that promise rings and purity rings are stupid. Who are you going to promise yourself to when you're in middle school? And purity rings, how hard is it to just refuse sex? Why do you need a ring to remind yourself?
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Friday, November 14, 2008
This Week
- On Sunday, Smallwood had a park meeting, so as mom was sitting down at the big table, I was like "Nooo! Sit next to meeee!" So she was like "Okay, then..." I laughed, saying "I bet you haven't heard that in a while." Then at home in the kitchen, an awesome song popped up on my mp3 player, which caused me to bounce around a lot.
- On Monday, in French class, I got moved next to my friend, which was awesome. Though the teacher has an annoying habit of calling me Helen one second, then calling me Hélène (A-len) another.
- On Tuesday I made my first hack, which caused me to completely deconstruct another one. Also, me and mom have started noticing dad acting funny when he carried his bucket full of beer to the living room because it was cold. Mom said "Imagine if you treated us the way you treat your beer."
- On Wednesday in GTT there was a ub, which was awesome. The sad part is Gateway Tech actually seems fun now, especially since I'm not in the back anymore.
- On Thursday during health, my group had to get rid of a person, so they all looked to me and said "Haven, you're a hippie, you're a pacifist." And I was like "Nooo! They'll eat me! I'm a hippie with social issues!" Of course, they don't think that's possible, but I managed to stay in anyway. Our group had a make a skit about getting proffesional help for serious problems, so they made me a radical hippie pothead named Rainbow. The role I was fine with, the name; not so much. Also, this weird boy on the bus turned to me and said, "Haven, I love you." which was kind of creepy, but hilarious, so I answered "Thanks?" He laughed saying "I'm so high right now. I'm so freaky right now I don't get high, I get low."
- Today I felt really sick since I didn't eat breakfast because I slept in because last night Andelle didn't turn her light off until midnight.
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
My dad is making beer, and it looks and smells so disgusting! But the good thing is the kit came in a box full of dissolvable packing peanuts, that me and Andelle love to nom on. *nomnomnom*
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Super Obama World!!!
As you know, I finished my Mario game, so I needed something else to do. Then I found out about this. It's like Mario, and it's so addicting!
You're Obama in Alaska, fighting pigs with lipstick, Russians, and Palin on a snow-mobile while collecting lapel pins.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
On my birthday, two ponies were born on PI, and I just felt like showing them off.
Minori: A Japanese unisex name meaning "beautiful harbor; village of beautiful fields."
Portunus: Roman sea god meaning "of the harbor."
Now you're probably wondering, "Wait, these aren't ponies." You're right, they're not. They're magical ponies! They're phoenix ponies, my favorite breed of ponies. As you can see both of their names mean harbor. I'm dedicating these two wonderful ponies to this wonderful blog!
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
I've made some interesting observations today.
- Girls carry their books on their hips, holding them up with one hand, sometimes two. Maternals instincts?
- That the two christians in science are getting seriously annoying. In my earlier post, when they were tlaking about religion, I could understand why they were so passionate. But now they were just being buttheads. The girl behind me was combing through my rat's nest of hair, and even cut my split ends off. She just got so annoying, especially when she would hit me if I didn't give her the answers to the busywork, and when she'd always call the boy next to me to comment on my hair. I swear I was going to do something when she started to call my friend a racist when she said she wished McCain won. The boy next to me kept on asking if I brushed my hair at all and telling me my hair was nappy. I finally spoke up when he asked where the periodic table of elements are in the agenda book, and I replyed, "Up yours."
- One girl is officially not my bff anymore. Whatever happened to the tomboy I knew, who were scoff at makeup, and want to be a boy for Holloween. Now she wears lip gloss, eyeshadow, mascara, and eyeliner. For Holloween she went as punk, in black leggings and black, red, and white plaid miniskirt. She never gets on PI anymore and she's stopped riding horses. No more country for her, she listens to the Jo Bros. and Flyleaf. She keeps on saying she has love problems, guys are stalking her, and her parents are stupid and crazy. She's turned into every other perverted girl who hilights her hair insane colors, wears black and hot pink, and loves peace signs as a fashion statement, not a symbol. Before she would be my best friend when her other friends weren't around, and now I'm just an acquaintance all the time; just a neighbor. The final straw was when a fellow girl scout asked if we were friends.
Posted by Haven at 4:04 PM 6 comments
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
At Peace At Last
Obama won, I went on a feild trip to Mount Vernon and met amusing English people, my friends are awesome, I have half a gallon of whole, and I have a red pen. There's still a nagging in my head, a buzzing in my ear, and question in my heart. But listening to my playlist made it all better. Why? This song:
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Mad Exciting!
Lat night during the election, I beat my Mario game! It was freakin' sweet! Oh yeah, and Obama won, which is awesome. This annoying girl on my bus who reprimands me for being atheist was talking about how we're all going to die now that Obama is president elect. She also said that black people only voted for him because of his skin color. So? Let them be, it was their decision who they voted for. I'm pretty sure a lot of white people voted for McCain based on his skin color, too. By the way, Mom still won't tell me who she voted for. But I garuantee, I will find out! It's between Bob Barr and Obama.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
These darn christians I sat in front of and beside in science are just plain annoying. They just randomly started talking about how reincarnation is stupid. The girl was talking about how her pastor said that is you cared about someone, that they should tell them about Jesus; and if you didn't care about someone, let them go to hell. The boy thought it would be hilarious for me to die 64 times a day in eternal flames. They both came to the conclusion that it would be amusing if I was wrong, and that they were ashamed of me. That's great for them and all, but why do they even have to talk to me?
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Halloween was awesome! I went over to one of my friend's house, surprising our other friends who were there to trick-or-treat with us. We went all around her neighborhood, but eventually we had to split apart since one girl had to get home. We went to one person's house so their mother could drive the girl home. Their house was awesome! They had a wii, an air hockey table, surround sound. Then it got late, so me and my friend got droven to her house. We had a candy exchange, hot chocolate, and watched Sweeney Todd. It was a good movie, but creepy.
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HBO has renewed Real Time with Bill Maher for a 13th season, the pay cable network announced Wednesday.
"Bill Maher has been a treasured member of the HBO family since the late '80s, and his irreverent wit and fearless insights make him the perfect observer for these unpredictable times," HBO's President of Programming, Michael Lombardo, said in a statement. "I'm delighted that we can continue to offer an uncensored forum for his original and thoughtful humor."
Returning winter shows: Where we left off
Added Maher: "It's a pleasure to be returning for a 13th season on HBO. It's something you rarely see in Hollywood: an on-again, on-again relationship."
The renewal news comes two days before Real Time with Bill Maher kicks off Season 12 on Friday at 10/9c. Maher previously hosted the similar current events late-night talk show Politically Incorrect, which ran from 1993-2002.
Are you excited for more Real Time?


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A former Fort Bragg soldier who previously faced charges of soliciting others to kill his ex-wife was charged Wednesday at Iowa International Airport with going through security with a handgun.
Army Capt. John Kurt Thompson was taken into custody by Des Moines police, according to police Sgt. Jason Halifax.
Thompson said he forgot he was carrying the pistol, three magazines containing six rounds of ammunition and a box of bullets, according to a local TV news report.
Thompson was charged with an airport screening checkpoint violation charge, which is a misdemeanor, and released, Halifax said.
In September, Fayetteville police charged Thompson with solicitation to commit a felony and conspiracy.
In court documents, it was alleged that Thompson was plotting to have his former wife murdered.
Those charges were dismissed Jan. 3 because of insufficient evidence, according to court records.
According to the charges filed by Fayetteville police, Thompson and a woman who lives at his address, Carrie N. Trampel, asked two people if they would be willing to kill Lauren Thompson.
Those two had been living in the same house as Thompson and Trampel and came forward to officers after moving out of the home, according to court documents.
Thompson, the pair alleged, had offered a silver 2005 BMW X3, money and a good lawyer in return, according to court documents.
Trampel was booked on identical charges, which were also dismissed in January.
Thompson, originally from Jefferson, Iowa, detailed a court battle with his former wife and his mental health treatment in a letter to the Fayetteville Observer before he was charged.
At the time, Thompson said he was a West Point graduate with 16 years of service who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was assigned to the 18th Fires Brigade when charged in September, but left the unit and Fort Bragg two weeks ago, officials said.
Thompson's next assignment is at Fort Lee, Va., officials said. He is scheduled to report there on Feb. 18.


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- Parent Category: News
Emergency Help for Oklahoma Tornado Victims
Iroquois County organizations are rallying the troops to help the tornado victims in Moore, Oklahoma.
The Trinity Lutheran Church at Cissna Park and the Martinton Fire Auxiliary are collecting items that'll be trucked to Oklahoma. Non-perishable food items, cleaning supplies, bottled water, and other household items are being collected.
The food items and cleaning supplies can be brought to the Martinton Fire House today (5/29) from 5 -7 pm. A truckload of supplies will be driven to Oklahoma this week.
The Trinity Lutheran Church at Cissna Park will collect helpful supplies thru the end of the second week in June. A semi-trailer will be delivered to the victims. Monetary donations will be accepted.
Oklahoma's Emergency Management Agency reports 2400 homes were damaged or destroyed. Some 10,000 people were affected, including the 24 confirmed dead.


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Recently I have been assigned to work on a major requirement that falls between a change request and an improvement. The previous implementation was done (badly) by a senior developer that left the company and did so without leaving a trace of documentation.
Here were my initial steps to approach this problem:
- Considering that the release date was fast approaching and there was no time for slip-ups, I initially asked if the requirement was a "must have". Since the requirement helped the product significantly in terms of usability, the answer was "If possible, yes".
- Knowing the wide-spread use and affects of this requirement, had it come to a point where the requirement could not be finished prior to release, I asked if it would be a viable option to thrash the current state and revert back to the state prior to the ex-senior implementation. The answer was "Most likely: no".
- Understanding that the requirement was coming from the higher management, and due to the complexity of it, I asked all usability test cases to be written prior to the implementation (by QA) and given to me, to aid me in the comprehension of this task. This was a big no-no for the folks at the management as they failed to understand this approach. Knowing that I had to insist on my request and the responsibility of this requirement, I insisted and have fallen out of favor with some of the folks, leaving me in a state of "baffledness".
Basically, I was trying a test-driven approach to a high-risk, high-complexity and must-have requirement and trying to be safe rather than sorry. Is this approach wrong or have I approached it incorrectly?
P.S.: The change request/improvement was cancelled and the implementation was reverted back to the prior state due to the complexity of the problem and lack of time. This only happened after a 2 hour long meeting with other seniors in order to convince the aforementioned folks.


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YIKES! That's a scary-looking shark swimming by the stingray, jellyfish, and starfish!
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Bacillus subtilis MLST Databases
This site uses two linked databases powered by the BIGSdb genomics platform. The sequence definition database contains allele sequence and MLST profile definitions whereas the isolate database contains provenance and epidemiological information. Further details about BIGSdb can be found in Jolley & Maiden 2010, BMC Bioinformatics 11:595.
This MLST scheme was developed by Katie Wheeler and Terry Leighton at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, USA.
Database curated by Dan Zeigler.


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Siri may sound like its dully replying to you from inside a bottomless tin can, but the voice-activated assistant is one of the most interesting iPhone 4S features that Apple's got comin'. Wonder what Siri can do for you? Well, this humongous list is pretty much everything you can ask of your iPhone 4S.
TUAW has a breakdown of what you can ask Siri by category alongside example questions from Apple. The wording here isn't exact, but this will give you a good idea of the kind of questions the stone-voiced Siri can field. Haven't heard Siri speak? It up the video below to find out what it sounds like.
Yeah, maybe Siri is really an old app made new, or the butt of jokes in Japan, or formerly a secret DARPA experiment. We're still willing to give it a fair shake.


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This device might look a bit odd, but I wonder why no one created it before now. It basically allows swimmers to stay completely submerged during their laps, which is pretty cool. With the Powerbreather, you don't strain your neck or come up for air at all.
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This is a project I am finishing up on. I made many of the elements in raster and imported them through [Inflate Image]. The mermaid legs were done using the [Create Line] tool. The body was imported as an OBJ, Chopped up and [Cap Holes] so that I could position the arms easily. The arms were then welded back together and smoothed. The hair was sculpted in blender.
I found the masking tools [Angle] [Distance] [Angle, Distance] and [Limit] to be very good. I used them to select some of the flat objects and twist and raise or lower things and they work very well.
I plan on using this design to slice up and run in my cnc machine.


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I was not going to post about this series, as this first posting was above my head, especially the reference to the work of Elisabeth Shown Mills. My needs for that level of detail was not that important, great reading, but a little over my head.
I am not been at my home PC, where I have Roots Magic and FTM2012 installed to duplicate Randy's experience.
Got my attention, because I think Roots Magic 5 and FTM2012 handle "Research Notes" differently. In fact FTM2012 has two places for Research Notes. The People Workspace, Person View, there is a Research Notes ICON, in the Notes Tab on the Left side, bottom on this view. The normal Notes, is where stories are recorded, but there is a Research Note ICON, where you can record generic research notes for that Person.
In addition to that option, we have a Citation Note, for any Fact. I blogged about that here:
In Roots Magic 5, Randy pointed out where his Research Notes go. His example was for a specific fact. If I were to do that in FTM2012, I would record that information in the Fact Notes.
As in my earlier Blog, those notes are available in reports.
I have asked Randy to email me the GEDCOM from Roots Magic 5, so that I can see where those notes appear in FTM2012.
With the current state of the GEDCOM format and with the advanced settings of both programs, it will be very interesting to see where those notes will appear in FTM2012.
I'll post a follow up when I get back to my home PC and/or receive Randy's GEDCOM file.
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LETTER FROM SCOTLAND 16th May 2014
This week we've been celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament…if celebrating is the right word. It is certainly the focal point for our current debate over independence, which boils down to the question: just how much power should the parliament have ?Almost everyone wants it to have more power. Unfortunately we are not being offered a range of powers in the referendum question, only a yes or no to independence. And looking back on it, this is one of the mistakes the Better Together campaign made at the beginning of this whole divisive affair.
John Smith, the Labour leader who's death 20 years ago has been marked this week with the opening of a new Centre for Public Service at Glasgow University, once famously remarked that devolution was "the settled will" of the Scottish people. It has been anything but settled. John Smith may have started the ball rolling but Donald Dewar kicked it on with his famous remark – "devolution is a process not an event."
So more powers are being devolved from Westminster all the time, the latest involves half of all income tax, landfill tax, stamp duty on house sales etc. The Better Together parties have promised still more powers, though, disastrously, they've not been able to agree on a detailed alternative to independence. Thus the referendum debate has become even more confused and uncertain.The prime minister came to Glasgow on Thursday to try to forge a united front against independence, even invoking the spirit of John Smith. But Mr Cameron's "sunshine" speech was not exactly helped by the Chancellor back at Westminster who repeated his warning that there can be no currency union after independence. And the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon was able to dismiss the spring offensive as a "Tory takeover of the No campaign."
The referendum has however brought the dying tradition of the public meeting back to life. I was at a referendum debate in Edinburgh last Sunday afternoon – sponsored by the local churches – and every seat was taken. I could see steam coming out of peoples' ears as they tried to keep their feelings under ecclesiastical control. The Church of Scotland – which holds its general assembly this coming week – has called for a service of national reconciliation in St Giles Cathedral in the immediate aftermath of the referendum in September.
It could be a humbling experience, if the campaigns turn nasty or if the result is close. Perhaps we Scots will be revealed as not the greatest practitioners of democracy in the world. After all, the parliament we have built over the last 15 years is not without its flaws. Its successes I think have included free personal care, free university education, the national parks, the smoking ban and being a national forum. But its failures are legion: the cost, the expenses scandals, its timidity over taxation, its failure to spread power down to local communities and its turgid and ineffective committee system.But parliaments are not the only things that can go wrong. The organisers of the Commonwealth Games suffered humiliation at the hands of their computer experts earlier this week. The sale of the last 100,000 tickets had to be suspended when the on-line and telephone systems designed to handle the stampede collapsed. Then our newest jail, HMP Grampian in Peterhead, which only opened in March, erupted in an old-style riot. Forty prisoners went on the rampage, beating up their new furniture and fittings. Police had to be brought in to restore order.
The brutal world of football also suffered a few shocks this week. The new owner of Hearts, Ann Budge, brought along her new brush on Monday morning and swept away the manager Gary Locke and eight other coaches and players. Instead she's brought in a former manager Craig Levein and promoted Robbie Neilson to first-team coach. The Paisley club St Mirren have also promoted Tommy Craig from within. And in both cases, the new philosophy seems to be to nurture home-grown players rather than take part in the bidding war for outside talent. Not before time.
About the only place were tranquillity reigns is the European election. There are unlikely to be any riots or stampedes at the voting stations on Thursday. But we are all waiting to see if the SNP increase their number of seats from 2 to 3, whether Labour will keep their two seats and whether the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats will hold on to their single seats or whether they will be taken by the Greens or UKIP. Who would have thought that democracy could be so exciting ?


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We think of Google and Facebook as Web gorillas. They'll be around forever. Yet, with the rate that the tech world is moving these days, there are good reasons to think both might be gone completely in 5 – 8 years. Not bankrupt gone, but MySpace gone. And there's some academic theory to back up that view, along with casual observations from recent history.
When I was a PhD student 15 years ago, I studied with Don Hambrick who is a scholar known for a career showing the effects of management teams and directors (for good and for ill) on their organizations' strategies and performance. One of the central tenents of this school of thought on organizations is that senior teams and directors have an outsized influence on organizational outcomes. What's more, their backgrounds (including education and career paths) have a big effect on how they see the world, various competitive situations and the choices they make.
There's another school of thought which takes the opposite view called population ecology or organizational ecology which put forward that managers don't really matter all that much. This view grew out of sociologists who'd taken to study organizations in the 1970s. They assert that organizational outcomes have much more to do with industry effects than who the CEO is and the choices he or she makes. They study birth and death rates of populations of organizations, as well as the effects of age, competition and resources in the surrounding environment on an organization's birth and death rate. Most of these organizational ecology scholars come out of the University of California at Berkeley.
As a graduate student, I didn't have much time for this ecology line of thinking. I believed in the power of the individual executive to overcome all challenges in the external environment. We can always point to dynamic CEOs as case studies, even though the sociologists would say those are the equivalent of celebrating the smarts of lottery winners.
As I age and watch what's happening in the world of Internet and mobile, I can't stop thinking of these ecologists though.
More and more in the Internet space, it seems that your long-term viability as a company is dependent on when you were born.
Think of the differences between generations and when we talk about how the Baby Boomers behave differently from Gen X'ers and additional differences with the Millennials. Each generation is perceived to see the world in a very unique way that translates into their buying decisions and countless other habits.
In the
tech Internet world, we've really had 3 generations:
- Web 1.0 (companies founded from 1994 – 2001, including Netscape, Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL (AOL), Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY)),
- Web 2.0 or Social (companies founded from 2002 – 2009, including Facebook (FB), LinkedIn (LNKD), and Groupon (GRPN)),
- and now Mobile (from 2010 – present, including Instagram).
With each succeeding generation in
tech the Internet, it seems the prior generation can't quite wrap its head around the subtle changes that the next generation brings. Web 1.0 companies did a great job of aggregating data and presenting it in an easy to digest portal fashion. Google did a good job organizing the chaos of the Web better than AltaVista, Excite, Lycos and all the other search engines that preceded it. Amazon did a great job of centralizing the chaos of e-commerce shopping and putting all you needed in one place.
When Web 2.0 companies began to emerge, they seemed to gravitate to the importance of social connections. MySpace built a network of people with a passion for music initially. Facebook got college students. LinkedIn got the white collar professionals. Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon showed how users could generate content themselves and make the overall community more valuable.
Yet, Web 1.0 companies never really seemed to be able to grasp the importance of building a social community and tapping into the backgrounds of those users. Even when it seems painfully obvious to everyone, there just doesn't seem to be the capacity of these older companies to shift to a new paradigm. Why has Amazon done so little in social? And Google? Even as they pour billions at the problem, their primary business model which made them successful in the first place seems to override their expansion into some new way of thinking.
We will never have Web 3.0, because the Web's dead.
Are companies like Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! obsolete? They're still growing. They still have enormous audiences. They also have very talented managers.
What about Apple? Where does it fit in to this classification scheme?
The bottom line is that the next 5 – 8 years could be incredibly dynamic. It's possible that both Google and Facebook could be shells of their current selves – or gone entirely.
The Googles and Facebooks of tomorrow might not even exist today. And several Web 1.0 and 2.0 companies might be completely wiped off the map by then.
Fortunes will be made by those who adapt to and invest in this complete greenfield.
Those who own the future are going to be the ones who create it. It's all up for grabs. Web monopolies are not as sticky as the monopolies of old.
[Long YHOO and AAPL]
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BERWICK, Maine — An charity called Cops for Kids with Cancer is making a difference in 8-year-old Ryan Menter's life.
When Ryan was 20 months old, his family noticed what they thought was a lazy eye. But, an MRI diagnosed the tot with a brain tumor on Dec. 14, 2005. Ryan started chemotherapy at Boston's Children's Hospital in January 2006 and a month later his sight was completely gone.
This past June, the family discovered the tumor had invaded the left temporal lobe of Ryan's brain, which required him to have surgery at Boston's Children's Hospital. Cops for Kids with Cancer is helping Ryan's family meet expenses associated with Ryan's care. The donation from the charity is under the families discretion, whether it be helping to pay for the mortgage, cancer treatments or putting oil in the house.
Cops for Kids with Cancer, began by making donations to the children's oncology units at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Floating Hospital for Children and Tufts Medical Center. The board of directors of the charity decided to not only reach those medical centers, but also find a way to reach individual families affected by pediatric cancer.
The volunteers of this 20-plus board of directors, are all active and retired police officers and law enforcement friends.
"In addition to the crushing emotional toll taken, there is a financial domino effect in having a child diagnosed with cancer. Most often, one parent must leave a job. Some treatments are not fully covered by insurance. It's expensive to come to the city every day to be with your child — gas costs, parking fees and meals can sometimes add as much as $100 a week to a budget already cut in half. Families, once solvent, now find themselves on the financial brink," according to a quote on the Cops for Kids with Cancer website by Chairman of the Board Robert Faherty.
Ryan's mother, Melissa Menter, is very grateful for the help from Cops for Kids with Cancer. "This couldn't have come at a much better time. Berwick Police Department helped us contact the right people and did everything to get us started. This is an amazing program for families," she said. Menter also has another son and daughter both older than Ryan.
Capt. Jerry Locke of the Berwick Police Department said of Ryan," He seems like a really bubbly kid. I think this is a great organization to help him and his family."
Ryan was adopted in 2009 by Southern New Hampshire's University men's soccer team, in which everyone supports him by wearing blue bracelets that state, "Fight like Ryan."
"I can name every player from double zero to 28 this year," said an excited Ryan, during a recent visit to the Berwick Police Department. His mother noted her son could recognize each player's voice as well.
Ryan has just finished week 21 of chemotherapy at the Maine Children's Cancer Program, and potentially has 18 months left of treatment.
With a love of talking and using the phone, Ryan also likes to listen to movies, and to his favorite country band, Rascal Flatts. An inoperable tumor hasn't stopped Ryan from being a country music fanatic or adoring his chocolate Labrador, named Lola Tinkerbelle.


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Jan Berenstain, co-author of the popular Berenstain Bears series of books, was born in 1923.
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Jan and Stan Berenstain met while they were both in art school and then worked together as artists and writers after they married. Their first children's book to be published, The Big Honey Hunt, was about a bear family now known as the Berenstain Bears. The story was the first of more than 50 children's titles in the series. The Berenstains continued their teamwork as co-authors and illustrators of a variety of Berenstain Bears titles until Stan's death in 2005. Jan died in 2012.
Use the Berenstain Bears stories for a family literacy Book Kit initiative in your classroom. Books in this series deal with topics of interest to families, such as starting school, a new sibling, visits to the dentist, and so on. After collecting a set of books, place each into a pouch or bag for travel to students homes. With each book, include a nonfiction book on the same subject, simple home activities, reproducibles, and related parent information for students to share when reading the books at home with their families.
For example, with The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist you could include:
- Diane Swansons The Dentist & You
- toothbrushes donated from a local dentist's office
- this Healthy Teeth article
- a sheet with recipes for healthy snacks and related activities
Modify this project by having a few kits that travel among families or a library of kits that students check out one at a time. The lesson Connect with Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach offers strategies for sending literature activities home with students from low-literate families. Use whatever record-keeping method works best for your classroom.
- Welcome to Berenstain Bear Country!
The official Berenstain Bears website includes a variety of resources. There are activities, a bibliography of titles, full length video stories, and more.
- The Berenstain Bears
PBS Kids offers this collection of activities. Included are interactive reading activities, video and audio clips, games, coloring pages, and pictures of the Berenstain Bears.
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Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds
Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
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A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
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A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
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Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.


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PARIS — More than a decade before the international agency that monitors chemical weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize, John R. Bolton marched into the office of its boss to inform him that he would be fired.
"He told me I had 24 hours to resign," said José Bustani, who was director general of the agency, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. "And if I didn't I would have to face the consequences."
Mr. Bolton, then an under secretary of state and later the American ambassador to the United Nations, told Mr. Bustani that the Bush administration was unhappy with his management style.
But Mr. Bustani, 68, who had been re-elected unanimously just 11 months earlier, refused, and weeks later, on April 22, 2002, he was ousted in a special session of the 145-nation chemical weapons watchdog.
The story behind his ouster has been the subject of interpretation and speculation for years, and Mr. Bustani, a Brazilian diplomat, has kept a low profile since then. But with the agency thrust into the spotlight with news of the Nobel Prize last week, Mr. Bustani agreed to discuss what he said was the real reason: the Bush administration's fear that chemical weapons inspections in Iraq would conflict with Washington's rationale for invading it. Several officials involved in the events, some speaking publicly about them for the first time, confirmed his account.
Mr. Bolton insists that Mr. Bustani was ousted for incompetence. In a telephone interview on Friday, he confirmed that he had confronted Mr. Bustani. "I told him if he left voluntarily we would give him a gracious and dignified exit," he said.
As Mr. Bustani tells the story, the campaign against him began in late 2001, after Iraq and Libya had indicated that they wanted to join the Chemical Weapons Convention, the international treaty that the watchdog agency oversees. To join, countries have to provide a list of stockpiles and agree to the inspection and destruction of weapons, as Syria did last month after applying. Inspectors from the agency were making plans to visit Iraq in late January 2002, he said.
"We had a lot of discussions because we knew it would be difficult," Mr. Bustani, who is now Brazil's ambassador to France, said Friday in his embassy office in Paris. The plans, which he had conveyed to a number of countries, "caused an uproar in Washington," he said. Soon, he was receiving warnings from American and other diplomats.
"By the end of December 2001, it became evident that the Americans were serious about getting rid of me," he said. "People were telling me, 'They want your head.' "
Mr. Bolton called on Mr. Bustani a second time. "I tried to persuade him not to put the organization through the vote," Mr. Bolton said.
But still Mr. Bustani refused, and his fate was sealed. The United States had marshaled its allies, and at an extraordinary session, Mr. Bustani was ousted by a vote of 48 to 7, with 43 abstentions. He was reportedly the first head of an international organization to be pushed out of office this way, and some diplomats said the pressure campaign had made them uneasy.
Mr. Bolton's office had also circulated a document that accused Mr. Bustani of abrasive conduct and taking "ill-considered initiatives" without consulting with the United States and other member nations, diplomats said.
But Mr. Bustani and some senior officials, both in Brazil and the United States, say Washington acted because it believed that the organization under Mr. Bustani threatened to become an obstacle to the administration's plans to invade Iraq. As justification, Washington was claiming that Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader, possessed chemical weapons, but Mr. Bustani said his own experts had told him that those weapons were destroyed in the 1990s, after the Persian Gulf war.
"Everybody knew there weren't any," he said. "An inspection would make it obvious there were no weapons to destroy. This would completely nullify the decision to invade."
Mr. Bolton disputed that account. "He made that argument after we invaded," he said. Twice during the interview, Mr. Bolton said, "The kind of person who believes that argument is the kind who puts tin foil on his ears to ward off cosmic waves."
But diplomats in The Hague said officials in Washington had circulated a document saying that the chemical weapons watchdog under Mr. Bustani was seeking an "inappropriate role in Iraq," which was really a matter for the United Nations Security Council.
Avis Bohlen, a career diplomat who served as Mr. Bolton's deputy before her retirement, said in a telephone interview from Washington on Saturday that others besides Mr. Bolton believed that Mr. Bustani had "stepped over some lines" in connection with Iraq and other matters. "The episode was very unpleasant for all concerned," she said.
Speaking from São Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday, Celso Lafer, the former Brazilian foreign minister, said that in early 2002, he was asked to meet privately with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who a year earlier had praised Mr. Bustani's leadership in a letter.
Mr. Lafer said Mr. Powell told him, " 'I have people in the administration who don't want Bustani to stay, and my role is to inform you of this.' "
"It was a complicated process," Mr. Lafer recalled, "with the United States and particularly John Bolton and Donald Rumsfeld wanting the head of Bustani."
"My view," he continued, "is that the neocons wanted the freedom to act without multilateral constraints and, with Bustani wanting to act with more independence, this would limit their freedom of action."
Getting Mr. Bustani fired took some doing. Washington failed to obtain a no-confidence motion from the chemical weapons watchdog's executive council. Then the United States, which was responsible for 22 percent of the agency's budget at the time, threatened to cut off its financing and warned that several other countries, including Japan, would follow suit, diplomats have said.
Mr. Bustani recalled that the ambassador from Britain, one of the agency's most committed member nations, told him that London had sent instructions to vote with Washington. With the United States and Japan covering almost half the budget, the organization ran the risk of collapsing, Mr. Bustani said.
On Friday, while fielding a flow of messages in his office, Mr. Bustani said he felt gratified about the Nobel Prize news and did not regret his days at the agency. "I had to start it from the beginning, create a code of conduct, a program of technical assistance," he said. "We almost doubled the membership."
He reflected on the contrast between Iraq and Syria. Inspectors from the agency are there now, cataloging the government's stockpiles of chemical weapons as a step forward in Syria's civil war, now in its third year.
"In 2002, the U.S. was determined to oppose Iraq joining the convention against the weapons, which it did not even have," he said. "This time, joining the convention and having the inspectors present is part of the Syrian peace plan. It is such a fundamental shift."