text:
Monday, August 31, 2009

That's Gonna Leave A Mark

I bruise easily. At any given time I am usually covered with small bruises on my arms and legs. We won't even mention the blackberry scratches and the needle marks that were made by the pokings of fresh-mown hay. Now normally that is not a big deal but at times I do have to go socialize in the real world. A world where women have smooth mark-free appendages....and flawless manicures, but that's pushing it. This weekend I have a wedding to attend. My niece is getting married. I have a lovely sleeveless linen dress to wear to the occasion.
I've been dieting.
I've been exercising.
I've been guarding my arms and legs from anything that will leave a bruise. So this weekend when Hubby brought home a log splitter to take care of the mountain of wood we have I groaned inside. I explained to Hubby my desire to go to the fancy wedding bruise-free. He said not to worry, all I had to do was push one lever.

That's all, just one lever.

As I set my plastic lawn chair in front of that lever, and before I could finish my first cup of coffee, it became very apparent that I would need to do more than push one lever to get the mountain of wood into the shed. Besides the person flicking the lever has to wrassle wood. My arms would not stand up to any wrassling and a round that rolls off the pile could hit an unsuspecting ankle and leave......a bruise!

I decided to stack the wood. So this weekend I spent my days stacking 5 cords of firewood. One piece at a time. Slowly I grabbed the wood with both hands and gently placed it on the pile so there would be no bounce. Dressed in long jeans, to protect the shins and ankles, and long sleeves to protect the arms, I methodically placed each piece of wood like a puzzle piece. When Hubby smashed his finger between the log splitter and the log I was sympathetic but secretly glad it wasn't me. I stayed clear of anything that could leave a mark on my mark-free appendages.

This morning every muscle in my body aches but I am proud to say I am bruise-free..
but it is still too early to let down my guard.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Pony For Sara

My very best friend, Sara, came over on my birthday to bring me lunch and to visit the farm. Sara and I have been best friend since we were 11 years old. She is the other half of "the goat girls", as her dad used to call us. We both had goats and were in 4H. Living fairly close to each other we spent a lot of time running back and forth with goats at our heels.
Oh we had fun. Especially this time of year when our parents would drop us off at the fairs and pick us up 10 hours later. Can you imagine doing that today?
Oh we were trouble. Sara looking all innocent but usually coming up with the ideas...and the means.

So when Sara came out the other day we were full of "remember when" stories. She reminded me, when she saw the llama, of the man at the fair that sold chain-link fences and had a pen set up with a llama in it. He use to let us walk the llama around the fair for him. A llama 40 years ago was a major attraction and we got a lot of attention. I'd forgotten about that.

Her daughter brought up one of her favorite stories of her mom and me growing up. It is very bitter-sweet when I look back on it now.

I grew up with ponies and horses but Sara didn't. She had the room all right and a nice barn but her dad would never get her a pony. So when it came time for me to sell my first pony, Sara really wanted it but her dad wouldn't buy it. He offered to trade my dad an old...and I mean old Lafayette car for the pony. My dad came over to look at it while Sara and I kept our fingers crossed.
But my dad said no.
Sara was very disappointed. I was disappointed. I wanted my dad to just give her the pony but noooooooooooo.

A few days went by and Sara and I were going to paint a sign to advertise the pony. I had found an arrow shaped piece of plywood, left over from my brother's attempt to build a hydroplane, that would make a perfect sign.
I asked Sara to paint the letters since she has beautiful handwriting. I told her to write "Pony For Sale"
As she got busy painting the sign I went about my business of cleaning out the goat stall.
Sensing she was done I walked over as she whipped it around to show me her handiwork.

"PONY FOR SARA" the sign read.

Deep in thought she had written what was in her heart, not her head.

We laughed until we cried.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Half A Century

Today I turned 50. To some that sounds old to some that sounds young. Some days I feel old, some days I feel young. Turning 50 is a bit freeing. You have heard people say they know who they are at 50. I know who I am at 50 but I knew who I was at 30 as well. But at 50 I know how I want to spend my time and whom I want to spend my time with.

At 50 I realize I can't change anyone...only how I respond to them.

At 50 I have decided to spend my time with people who are kind and positive. People that make me feel good....because I've spent too much time with people that don't.
People that make me laugh...because I like to laugh.

At 50 I am going to take better care of myself so I can be middle aged at 50.

Because 50 is the new 40...

or so my mom tells me.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

A Tale Of Two Cats

There are two cats that call my little farm home. Both dumped by their previous owners they have unwittingly come together to live in harmony. NOT. Oh no there is no harmony here. They hate each other. Dottie has good reason to hate Martha. Martha is hateful to her. She will run all the way across the field to attack poor Dottie who is minding her own business. Poor Dottie...and she was here first.
Dottie was found by the side of the road with her mother and brother a few years ago. I had just lost our old cat and didn't want another. I'm not really a cat person. A lot of good that did me. I suddenly had 3. The mother kitty went to live at my sister's and I took the two kittens down to my farm to be barn cats. That was just fine with Dottie's brother Spencer, a slightly feral cat, but Dottie aspired to be some one's house kitty. Delicate and sweet and very photogenic, she would have been a fine house kitty but no one wanted her. I asked everyone...twice. So she ended up living at the farm , perfectly content until Martha showed up.

Martha, formerly known as Sparky, is the product of divorce and dysfunction. When the neighbor's son from a previous marriage came to live with him he brought along his cat. When his step-mother wouldn't let him keep her in the house he plunked her down outside where the rowdy dogs and loud people drove her to run away. She didn't run far, just on the other side of the fence where she took up residency in Ole Yeller. That suited her just fine until we hauled Ole Yeller away and she needed to find a new home. All this time I had been feeding her so she just moved closer, making her home in the hay tent. Not seeming like a Sparky I renamed her Martha after a cat from my childhood.
Now Martha is a fine cat. She loves people, is good with the dogs, and is very pretty to look at. But she has an evil side. She hates other cats and lives to terrorize my poor Dottie. Spencer has disappeared all together. I have thought about boxing her up and handing her back to the Dysfunctions but what good would that do. She would be back in a few minutes. I thought about posting her on craigslist and finding her a cat free home. So far I've done nothing. Dottie now lives with the goats and seems quite happy there. When they go out to pasture, she goes out to pasture. When I feed the goats I feed Dottie too. She has a good life.
But looks wistfully at the life she once had.

Before the face of evil.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Going Home

Cora Belle is going to the fair. She doesn't know that yet but she does know that she got to go back to the farm where she was born to get her hair cut.

She had a chat with her momma....

Head butted her auntie......

And was very popular with the young boys....can anyone say cougar?

Alice? Alice? Nope just Walker, Alice's brother.

While she was socializing I was taking pictures. Here are a few of my favorites.

A relative of Marigold. And I thought there were no more Nubians there. Isn't she pretty!

Cute kids...

Minimancha Jammies that gives the milk that tastes like CANDY!

Leave those young boys alone Cora Belle....

this is your future.

Monday, August 17, 2009

When I Grow Up

I have a niece M.B. She is a child of my heart. An animal lover from the start I could always relate to this wonderful girl. Now she is grown but still mad about animals just like her Aunt Goatgirl. She is such an adventurous person. After college she lived on a sheep dairy in Tuscany for a year and is now living in Prague teaching English as a second language. As someone that has always been afraid to do anything new I have always admired her spirit and wished I could do some of the things that she has done. I mean really...a farm in Tuscany!
M.B. grew up on a farm too. A proper farm with a two story white farmhouse, some big red barns full of cows, horses, chickens, cats and dogs. You've heard of the boys with toads in their pockets...well that was our little M.B. One day her city slicker mother was doing the laundry and felt something in M.B.'s pocket. Yep, it was a toad. She brought home animal after animal well into college and made them at home on the farm.
So the other day, while home for the summer from Prague (doesn't that just sound so romantic?)she and her mom came to visit Auntie Goatgirl and see all the animals. She brought along her darling Czech dog Penny. Well really she is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that was born in Prague.

There dogs can go anywhere with their owner and Penny reflects that calm demeanor that comes when dogs have been well socialized and are allowed to accompany their owners anywhere.
We had a great visit and M.B. took lots of pictures. I think she really liked the pigs....

As did her city slicker turned farm woman mom......She is the only person I know that actually uses a cup...and a SAUCER!

The pig girls really loved them. Now the pigs don't give it up for free and are usually very standoffish with strangers.
They have to be sure you don't like bacon before they will let you touch them. They had no problem letting M.B. and her mom get close. Even though I'm sure they like bacon...and ham.
Nor did Alice....

So my hat goes off to this wonderful young lady who doesn't stay in the box but follows her dreams.

I want to be just like her when I grow up!

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go Shopping

It has been pretty sad around here with the death of my adorable little Sunny but my friends have come to my rescue. First off it was a trip to Nordstrom Rack to check out the sale on new arrivals. While I did get a pair of shoes for an upcoming wedding, it still wasn't enough to shake goatgirl out of her funk. It was time to bring in the big guns....goat shopping. The goatfarmer felt like I needed a field trip to the most wonderful goat farm around, Poppy Patch in beautiful Montesano, Washington. I contacted Shannon at Poppy Patch and inquired about a dry yearling that I was interested in. She has a great pedigree and I have been thinking about adding another Nigerian doe to the herd since Lexi and Semi-Sweet appear to be in their golden years. Shannon said that yes indeed the goatfarmer and goatgirl could come out and look at the goats.

So yesterday we piled into the jeep and took off for Montesano. It rained off and on so our plans of stopping in Satsop to get hay would have to be on hold. Besides Hubby needed the truck to go motorcycle riding. The second best thing that goatgirl likes to shop for is hay, and I have a feeling the goatfarmer feels the same.

Rustic iron gates welcomed us to Poppy Patch farm and we were met by Shannon and her large friendly Great Pyrenees as we got out of the car. We dodged puddles as we walked to the large barn. Shannon opened up the big door and I was overwhelmed by the beautiful smorgasbord of lovely Nigerians. They were all there...including the beautiful Poppy Seed.

Poppy Seed has won every show she's ever been in. There were Nigerians of every size, shape and color and since it was raining, and anyone with goats knows they don't do rain, they were all in the barn.
I didn't know where to look first. Nigerians come in about every color so it was visual overload compared to if you were looking at...hmmm...let's say a herd of Saanens for instance.
We would point to a goat and ask Shannon about it. Not only did she know all of their names she had perfect recall on their pedigrees. She takes wonderful care of her goats.

As luck would have it I wasn't drawn to the doe I went to go look at, nor her to me. I set my sights on a lovely doe named Cute As A Button....that wasn't for sale. No amount of begging (it was shameless) convinced Shannon this sweet little goat should be mine. Not only did I love this little goat, she loved me too. Everywhere I went she was right there asking for scratches. Buttons didn't follow the goatfarmer as she kindly pointed out to Shannon. The goatfarmer was in my court. Not that it did us any good.
So my last plea was....If you ever want to sell this doe please let me know first. Shannon kindly agreed.

We left with an empty crate in the back of my jeep but I learned a lot during our visit. It is important to look at all sorts of goats to see what you like and what you don't.

They say that one sign of intelligence is the ability to delay gratification. I must be getting smarter. The younger me would have left with the other goat but the older more intelligent me is holding out for a goat named Buttons.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Monday, August 10, 2009

Me And My Shadow

Alice loves me. She follows me everywhere. But it's time for Alice to be a big goat now so yesterday I put her and Semi-Sweet in with the goat herd. Besides there is much more to do in there.

There are logs to jump on.

Filbert to play with.

Cora Belle is not impressed.

A big white llama to guard you.

Leaves falling from trees.

Little goat houses for napping with your mom.

It can be very tiring being a big goat.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Sonoita-Highland's After Glow

Sunny was born 8 years ago at a very fancy Miniature Horse farm in California. He was a 32 inch palomino no nonsense kind of guy. When I saw his picture last year I had to have him. I couldn't get that face out of my mind. So my friend Gail, her daughter Ashlee, and I went to Tacoma to "just look" at him. Needless to say we fell in love and loaded him up into the back of my jeep and took him home.

At first Sunny was a bit of a disappointment. He wanted nothing to do with me. He hated being brushed and loved on and was known to give any unassuming animal a good swift kick if they tried to get near his food. He had the swing around and kick down to a science. He also had a way of looking innocent when I swung around to see what he had done. He'd be grazing casually.

So I got out my clicker and started to clicker train him. He loved to work for treats. The bonding had begun. I started to love and respect him for what he was not what I had hoped he'd be. Even though he didn't enjoy the human touch he stood well for hoof trimming and vet care. My vets loved him. All the other animals learned very quickly that Sunny liked his personal space and to give him lots of room when goatgirl was doling out the treats.

In the last few months Sunny had come around. He started to come over to see what I was doing and when I got down to his level he enjoyed a good head rub. Gail said it takes about a year to truly bond with your horse and we were approaching the year mark.

Hubby liked him just the way he was. He would reach out to pet him and Sunny would turn away. Hubby didn't care. He called him "Sunny Jim" and talked to him without petting him. Hubby has no expectations for our animals so is able to love them for what they are. Sunny was one of his favorites.

Sunny was just damn cute to look at. He brought smiles to everyone that saw him. Even on his last day as I walked him up and down the street to try to relieve the pain and get him to poop people stopped and talked or just drove by with a huge smile on their face. The whole neighborhood was praying for Sunny's recovery by the end of the day.

All my friends got a chance to run behind that little horse and get that goofy grin on their faces. It was just fun for some reason to trot down the street behind this little gentleman.
Luckily goldilocks got a chance to feel the wind in her hair and get the goofy grin when she visited in July.
It was something that was important for me to share with her, my new daughter. They looked so cute together. Both small and blond.

My friend called yesterday,the one that made his bridle and driving reins, and said, "We had fun with him didn't we?"
Yes we had fun!
I was just expecting 20 more years of it.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Hubby and I are heartbroken. Last night at midnight we had to make the unbelievably hard decision to put our beloved Sunny down. Fine on Thursday and dead by Friday has left us shocked and grieving.
He had a blockage in his intestines that was getting worse by the minute. Anyone that has experienced colic in a horse knows the frustration of not being able to fix the pain. Yes surgery was an option but we would have had to drive him to the hospital two hours away and the vet said that even then it was iffy at best. Most believe that a horse can be worse off after the surgery. So after trying everything possible to fix it and two vet visits we decided to put Sunny out of his pain.
Miniature horses are prone to such blockages because their intestines go from very big to very small in a small amount of space with a bend toward the end. The bend is where things get stopped up. I did know this from reading it online but chose to put it out of my mind. Sunny as small as he was did have very large poops.
To see your significant other sobbing over the body of his beloved little horse was the last straw. I said it once before but I will say it now with certainty,
I will never own another horse again. Period.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

A Visit To The Funny Farm

One of the benefits of having a personal petting zoo is that everyone wants to come visit. Recently, my sisters-in-law brought some of their grandkids to see the animals. What fun we had. Sometimes I get a little nervous about having children around the animals. I want it to be a good experience for all...including the animals. I don't want anyone crying at the end of the visit. Especially me.

Does it look like anyone was crying?

Seven polite delightful children that happen to be my great-nieces and nephews mingled among the critters with bags of carrots and peanuts (highly recommended by Marigold)
Not once did I have to say...Stop, don't feed them that. Or.....Wait, you can't play in their drinking water. Or....Stop chasing the chickens.

I heard things like...."Aunt Goatgirl, would the pigs like a carrot?"
"May I pet the llama?"
"I love Alice"

Sunny was a huge hit.

Cora Belle would not leave the baby alone. She was fascinated.

My handsome nephew loved the llamas. This picture made me a little sad about Penne going to greener pastures...but only for a minute.

By the end of the day we were calling this little guy "Goatboy"

Now their choice of footwear had something to be desired. Just don't call them will date you.


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Type: response

text:
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Read All About It

Today we had a very important visitor to the farm. A reporter, Susan, from the Peninsula Gateway, came out to take pictures and do a story on the Key Peninsula Goat Club. Several members and the reporter came out after school, enjoyed the sun, and cuddled goats.

New member, Maree, with Herron Hill Silver Lining, one week old. The smile says it all.

Mimi Foxmorton said...

Ohh, *I* want to be in a Goat Club!
How wonderful!

IsobelleGoLightly said...

She is properly interviewing the important GOAT first! Tee hee.

Marigold said...

For a guy with no ears that Silver really gets around.

Danni said...

What a fun day :-)
And look! The sun is shining!!

warcinfo:
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-228-65-216.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-09
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for February 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Week 18, Monday 10/24 - Pilates

Training stats for the day's pilates ...

City, State: Chico, CA

Location: Chico Sports Club

Course and/or Class: Pilates Mat Class

Terrain: N/A

Distance and/or Time: 1 hour

Speed or RPE: 6 (somewhat harder)

Monday, October 24, 2005

Ooooooo. There be pain, matey! Not the down-and-out-kind, but the "Oh my, I have a muscle there that I didn't even know about, but boy is it sore from last time" kind of pain. This Pilates thing is work. It's so weird to try a new class and not be very coordinated or to become confused about how to do a particular move or transition. I know that these things come with practice, so I'll be patient. It's still a humbling, but terrific, experience.


text:
A Groin Gone Bad!

My crotch hurts.

Okay, maybe that's a bit extreme and too graphic for our imagination, but truth is, my right groin muscle HATES me right now. I played soccer today with a bunch of insane, rough-playing, guys. Last week when I played, I was really into it. Today, I just wasn't "feeling it" and I think it showed. But that's not the point. The point is that I started to get tired of being runaround and out-maneuvered, so I began to up my game. I got rougher, more aggressive in my plays for the ball, and I ended up getting into some serious face-offs with some of the guys. One of the plays ended with me and a guy both missing the ball and crossing legs and feet at full force from opposite directions. His right pink-shoe clad foot went into my right black cleated foot and both of us were stopped dead in our tracks upon contact. I actually think my foot bounced off of his a little bit. In any case, my foot went instantly numb and a shock of sorts travelled up my leg and well into my lower back. It subsided fairly quickly and I resumed play, but every kick thereafter was weaker, and my fine motor control of the right foot seemed impaired. I realized after a half an hour that my right foot was dragging across the grass as I "ran." It didn't take me much longer to realize that I couldn't lift my foot off of the ground more than an inch or two without excrutiating pain radiating out of my groin.

PANIC! My triathlon is less than a month away!

Let's hope it heals with IB Proferin and a heating pad tonight.

Lisa said...

Oh no! I hope it heals fast!

Amber D. Evans said...

Me too! So far, I've kept the heating pad on it, gotten lots of rest, and haven't done any kind of exercise. Today was the first day I wasn't limping around, so I think I might try some easy spinning and/or swimming tomorrow.

Definitely no kicking soccer balls, though!


text:
Hammering out the details in Canada's new euthanasia regime

Michael Cook
20 Dec 2015
Reproduced with Permission

Last February Canada's Supreme Court declared that denying patients access to assisted suicide and euthanasia is a violation of their human rights. The federal, provincial and territory governments were given a year - until February 6, 2016 - to enact legislation consistent with its decision.

This week the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying released a report with points which should be incorporated into legislation throughout Canada. The changes to the legal system and medical practice are massive and unprecedented. There are only two months to go before the Supreme Court's deadline, although the federal government has requested a six-month extension to ensure "a thoughtful, sensitive and well-informed response."

It's hard to predict whether all of the Advisory Group's 43 recommendations will be implemented in all of Canada's 11 jurisdictions. But if they are, Canada will have the world's most advanced euthanasia legislation - even more progressive than the Netherlands and Belgium, which are currently the world leaders.

Another panel, appointed by the Federal government when conservative Stephen Harper was prime minister, has also submitted a report, which has not yet been made public. Two of its three members argued against assisted dying before the Supreme Court, and its recommendations are bound to be quite different. However, October's election brought in a new government which supports assisted dying, so the report may end up in the dustbin.

The Supreme Court held that a competent adult person who clearly consents and has a grievous and irremediable medical condition that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition may be offered physician-assisted dying. With these conditions as a foundation for legislation, the Advisory Group hammered out its recommendations. It acknowledges that "the idea of physician-assisted dying remains ethically challenging for some". But it does not appear that it tried to accommodate the dissenters.

Here are some of the more contentious recommendations.

Unsurprisingly, the report provoked very different reactions. In the Globe and Mail, André Picard described it as a refreshing step forward. "iI doesn't rehash age-old arguments about whether assisted death is right or wrong, moral or immoral, legal or illegal. Rather, the starting point is that, given the Supreme Court ruling, this is going to happen, so it should happen in a clear, coherent fashion."

But in the National Post, Andrew Coyne decried "the absurd logic of assisted suicide". He points out that the rationale for the decision and subsequent legislation is "unlimited personal freedom". PAD is being sold "as a release from suffering; not as an evil to be prevented, but as a service to be provided (indeed, the panel recommends it be done at public expense). This presents the right to die, not as a limited one, such as the right to drive, but as an unlimited one, inhering in all persons - rather like the right to life."


text:
The South

Where tea is sweet and accents are sweeter; summer starts in April; front porches are wide and words are long; macaroni and cheese is a vegetable; pecan pie is a staple; Y’all is the only proper pronoun; chicken is fried and biscuits come with gravy; everything is darling and someone is always getting their heart blessed. -unknown

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Kindergarten Graduation!

Well, the year went by extremely fast.  Kindergarten graduation has come and gone.  It is a little bittersweet, but I couldn't be happier for Reese.  He has come a long way!

Walking in
Reese was chosen, along with some of his fellow classmates, to lead a song.
Leading the audience in Blue Skies and Rainbows
The hat has started migrating around the head.
Reese has to be different :)

I love this picture of him receiving his diploma.
Receiving his diploma.
Proud Parents

First day of school picture, and last day of school picture.  Wow, it sure did go by fast!

banner (2)

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Reese being Reese

1.  Since Reese has been playing ball, I have noticed that he likes to move around a lot in the outfield.  I am not surprised.  Last night he made me laugh though.  I looked out there and one of his coaches had yelled at him to get ready.  He stands with his legs a little apart and crouches down a little and puts his hands on his knees.  I am thinking, "Well good, now he is ready."  Then I look out there and he is looking over his shoulder at his rear end, and viewing it as he shakes it.

2.  Melany called me Monday and said that Reese had thrown up at lunch at school.  I immediately thought to myself, "he seemed fine this morning."  I started to ask her if he was not feeling well and she said not to worry about it.  The story she got when questioning him on what happened was this:  "I was eating and watching (child) across from me.  He was playing with his banana and making stuff come out of it and it made me throw up."

3.  This morning when I went and woke him up for school, with his eyes still closed from sleep he said, "Mom, do you know what happened in my dream?"  I said, "no Reese, I don't know."  He said, "Well, you were in it." (as if I should know because of that)

Love him!

banner (2)


text:
Leftovers for dinner

Leftovers are a wonderful thing! They don't require cooking - just reheat. They are often times better than the first time. And they give you something to look forward to. We had beef stroganoff yesterday for dinner and enjoyed leftovers tonight, which meant no cooking for anyone.

I am grateful for meals that can be eaten more than one day and thankful to not have to worry about what to eat for that second meal. Plus, it tasted as good tonight as it did yesterday!

Post a Comment

About This Blog

My posts are random. They cover a variety of subjects, but are mostly about things I enjoy, am inspired by, or catch my attention at that moment. I don't ever want to offend anyone by anything I write. This blog is a way to express myself and the interests I have. I hope you enjoy what I share.

  © Blogger template Shush by Ourblogtemplates.com 2009

Back to TOP


WARC-Truncated: length

text:
 This mom-entrepreneur’s nonnegotiables: Fit, color and fabric | Inquirer Lifestyle
Monday, February 19, 2018
  • share this
B List

This mom-entrepreneur’s nonnegotiables: Fit, color and fabric

/ 07:05 AM December 08, 2017

Marielle de Leon Lazaro refers to her style as “mommy”—highlighting how she prioritizes comfort and convenience above all. Most working women probably fall under the same category even if they aren’t necessarily moms.

Lazaro, a co-founder of Tali Handmade, is often called a social entrepreneur. Along with her partner Liza Crespo, she employs female inmates of a local city jail to produce the brand’s line of local accessories. The brand’s goal is to empower women at a grassroots level.

That same no-nonsense approach (her company was hinged on merging sustainability and design) also applies to her skincare regimen.

“I like to keep it simple,” she says. Her vanity kit is low-key, and her method of discovery unusual. Instead of seeking out advice from beauty sites or magazines, she went a different route: “I just literally would go to the pharmacy and ask the pharmacists.”

How would you define your style?

Mommy style—very simple, classic with clean lines. I like to move around in what I wear and something I can take from day to night if needed. Having four kids and working in manufacturing, my style has to be utilitarian enough.

What would we find on your bathroom shelf?

Tali Handmade, a social enterprise that employs female inmates to produce accessories, recently debuted a new clutch in a fan-shaped design that utilizes the company’s signature colorful aesthetic.

Current favorites include A313 Vitamin A tube, No. 7 Microdermabrasion exfoliator, O.Live shampoo and the conditioner counterpart, La Roche Posay Hydraphase Eye Gel.

How’d you discover them?

I went into the pharmacy and asked the pharmacists. More often than not, they really know what you should try, and it works!

Do you follow any beauty sites or a makeup artist to get tips?

I seldom wear makeup. I’m more of a concealer, blush and curler type of person and I’m good to go. My daughter knows more about makeup than me.

You have naturally beautiful skin. What’s your secret?

I like to keep it simple. It’s just wash, exfoliate and I apply A313 and eye gel at night. I’d say I’m low-maintenance when it comes to skincare and have not been the most religious up until recently.

What skincare or treatments do you invest in?

I get a facial maybe once or twice a year, and then have diamond peels quarterly.

Are there beauty traditions you learned from your mom that you still follow today?

Yes! I remember she would put olive oil or coconut oil on her hair—I still do the same when I feel my hair drying out.

I read about applying olive oil on the hair from Seventeen magazine in the mid-’90s. I tried it and it was kind of greasy.

Marielle’s vanity staples: A313 Vitamin A tube, No. 7 Microdermabrasion Exfoliator, O.Live shampoo and conditioner, La Roche Posay Hydraphase Eye Gel

How does it work for you?

I find that if you wash it twice after application, it takes away the oiliness.

You’re a busy mom and entrepreneur. How do you get dressed for the day? What are the elements of a daily outfit?

Dressing up is done in a rush, unless there’s an event at night that I have to attend. Then I’d take more time, as it has to be something I can wear at night and would still work just by changing flats to heels. I used to buy clothes based on what the trend was, but as I got older, I realized my basic nonnegotiables would always be fit, color and fabric. For daily wear, fit is most important—it can conceal a few pounds and always makes one look put-together.

Do you believe in uniform dressing?

Yes! Because it makes life less complicated. I tend to lean toward crisp white long sleeves, which can be worn with practically anything as well as be taken from day to night.

If we were to go through your closet, what would we encounter?

Crisp white shirts, dark-colored jeans, long-sleeve tops in different colors and fabrics.

What are your top five go-to clothing labels?

For fast fashion, it’s Zara and Mango. Lately I’ve been enjoying local designers/brands—those made by indigenous tribes, but made relevant and modernized and can be worn every day. It makes for a great conversation piece—brands like Kaayo, Filip+Inna and Zarah Juan.

How did you form your label Tali Handmade?

Having been in manufacturing, I was at a point where I was looking for some meaning in the everyday hustle. I’ve always been a restless soul, too, trying to see what else can be done. It came up in a conversation and I said yes to it. It was therapy for me, something to do that would directly impact the lives of the hands that make it.

“I honestly love the idea of slow fashion—items that take time to do, with stories woven into them as they aremade,” says Marielle.Here she wears a Kaayo jacket, Zarah Juan slides and Tali Handmade clutch.

What does the brand stand for?

At its core, Tali Handmade wants to empower women.

How would you define its aesthetic?

Bold, colorful but a bit structured. We have been dabbling in using raw leather—edges that are not perfect or super finished. I personally like it to look as handmade as possible, that’s why no two pieces are really alike.

You have been developing a lot of cool, new stuff lately: new purses, new shoes. What are your favorites?

I guess you can say that this collection is my favorite. We have also added more of the handmade touches in this collection—hand-braiding of leather, hand-stitching of leather strips, etc. It is more labor-intensive, but we are happy and honored to be working alongside leather artisans who also want to bring back the heyday of leather manufacturing in the Philippines. They are just so passionate about it that we now seldom hear them say it can’t be done.

As a purveyor of a local label, do you seek out other local labels?

I love local labels! I think we are having the best of them at this point, with many young designers trying to incorporate local artisanal touches to their designs. I also honestly love the idea of slow fashion—items that take time to do, with stories woven into them as they are made.

Don't miss out on the latest news and information.
View comments

Subscribe to INQUIRER PLUS to get access to The Philippine Daily Inquirer & other 70+ titles, share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download as early as 4am & share articles on social media. Call 896 6000.

TAGS: Marielle de Leon Lazaro, social entrepreneur, Tali Handmade
For feedback, complaints, or inquiries, contact us.

© Copyright 1997-2018 INQUIRER.net | All Rights Reserved


text:
Tech Culture

A Day in the Life of an AR Applications Engineer

To help you learn a little bit more about what it’s like working at OPS Solutions, we’re starting a new series featuring some of the talented people that are helping us revolutionize the enterprise augmented reality industry. First up is Brad Foley, an AR Applications Engineer on our crew.

Read More


text:
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Storing Solar Energy the Way Plants Do

One of the chief complaints about the practicality of solar energy has been: what do you do when the sun isn't shining? MIT researchers have come up with an answer: using a technique similar to that used by plants during photosynthesis. The development of a new catalyst to produce oxygen when an electrical current is passed through water, working in combination with another catalyst that produces hydrogen gas, becomes a powerful mechanism for charging fuel cells. This stored energy can be released as needed, a virtually carbon-free source of electricity that is available day or night.

As quoted in an article for the MIT News by Anne Trafton, Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, who has co-authored a paper on this discovery for the July 31, 2008 issue of Science, sees this as a landmark advance in energy production.

"This is just the beginning," said Nocera, principal investigator for the Solar Revolution Project funded by the Chesonis Family Foundation and co-Director of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center. "The scientific community is really going to run with this."

Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past.

Nocera also points out that the amount of sunlight that strikes the Earth in one hour is sufficient to supply the energy needs of the entire planet for a year.

In a video post on the MIT site, Nocera talks more about the potential of this new process.


text:
Thursday, 13 August 2009

Cuddly Buddly/Paper Pretties and Other Stamps For sale

Daisy and Dandelion Stamp sets for sale £3.00 each including postage.

Pickles and Onion
Daisy and Dandelion
Candyfloss and Marshmallow

These adorable stamps are by Paper pretties. I would like £4.00 for each stamp including Postage and packaging. I have to say these stamps ink up beautifully and you geta perfect image every time!!! they are grey rubber and have eazimount on them except the show off which is a clear stamp.

I would like £2.00 for each cuddly buddly stamp including p & p. Payment by paypal, cheque or postal order, cash sent registered post.

Annies Heart

Winter Fairy

Soldier Bear

Teddys patchwork Heart

Master Kyle

Emmy sitting

Kyle Sitting

£15.00 including postage

Please email to thank you.

Anesha said...

Sent two emails. Anesha

Nannieflash said...

Morning Sweetheart, hope the clearout is making you feel better, I just wanted to let you know that Ive left you something on my blog, take care with love and hugs Shirleyxxxx

Cazzy said...

Hi Linda, I just bought the third set down, paid a lot more than that and postage! Flip, wouldn't have bothered if I saw this first, and only bought it to make the postage worth it!

Cazzy x

You Tube Giveaway running till the 6th April

I am running a give away on my You Tube Channel, the closing date for entering is the 6th April.  For a chance of winning you need to subscr...


text:
"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” -Albert Einstein

{ Thursday, January 21, 2010 }
In times like these, when I'm practically up to my eyeballs in homework assignments and papers, I must remind myself of the practical truth that school isn't everything. Sure, it's hard to believe when I'm a novice undergrad just navigating my way through the beginnings of college, but I know it's the honest to God truth. I'm keeping up with my workload and juggling everything else in my life, so I should give myself a little pat on the back.
Who else is already stressing over their second semester?
When I find myself criticizing my efforts in school, I look to Natalie Portman for inspiration. Not only do I love her for her impeccable sense of style, but also for her intellect and level-headedness. Graduating from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and fluent in over three languages, Portman is an actress I've always respected for more than her abilities on-screen.

"I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star." -Natalie Portman

That little bit of academic inspiration will certainly hold me through the week. In other news, I finally received the Buried Life t-shirt I won from MTV! I love it :)

#41: Make a toast at a stranger's wedding.
Apparently this little task will be completed on next week's episode. Can't wait!

jayne said...

that shows sounds so cool, I must watch it

Natalie Portman got more roles probably b/c she went to school and can actually handle tough parts ironically. She is a great inspiration!

Jennie said...

weird... i just put a complete biography post of natalie yesterday....

AudreyAllure said...

that's the exactly the same reason why i'm such a fan of natalie portman. she's beautiful, smart, and talented!

Romeika said...

Natalie is so gorgeous and grounded.. :)

Lexie said...

did you see brothers? she was amazing in it. i'm surprised she didnt get any nominations!

Post a Comment


text:
» » Brooklyn Chase

Free Porn Videos

Hot Mature Moms/Milf
Welcome to the site of is a site for adults. Porno video online watching videos on the site without any registrations. At us you will find erotic and a porn videos of all kinds and directions. Updates every day in this we are helped by the users themselves, they download videos from easy erotica to hard fuck, free sex online is not just an mature mom videos, but also a professional fuck with multimillion-dollar budgets. In my opinion, amateur video is more interesting, because people are shot in porn not for money, but for their own pleasure. Particularly interesting sections of Russian porn, because there are posted videos with beautiful teens girls. In the youth porn section there are a lot of videos with young girls and guys, all of whom turned 18 We have not only porn, but a lot of beautiful erotic, so come to us more often, watch porn videos in HD quality.
We do not own, produce or host the videos displayed on this website. All videos are hosted by 3rd party websites. We have no control over the content of these websites. We take no responsibility for the content on any website which we link to, please use your own discretion while surfing the links


text:
SWPS Rhythm Resources History Rhythm Festival Help

World Rhythm FestivalProduced by the Seattle World Percussion Society
login: pass:
Printer friendly mode
Scenes from the 2008 World Rhythm Festival

Photos by Jerry Sitser

dancechekoteneric classkeithfrenchyfrenchybackdrumoonstartylerharidcdsaxacrljnbalhugboydidgegirlsdidgehalindacartwheelcarbellydancerblissbabydunscapoeria

Photos from past years' Festivals:

The World Rhythm Festival is presented by:
World Rhythm Festival Art by Don Baker
Building Community Through Rhythm

Festival Art by Don Baker
Website and hosting by Zorin
© 2002 - 2010 Seattle World Percussion Society - a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation


text:
Tips for Partners of Panic Attack Sufferers

The experience of a panic attack is unlike anything that can be described in words. Panic attacks occur when your body starts reacting as though it is in severe danger, even when no danger occurs. While it is in many ways irrational, the fear itself is not only real – it is considered to be identical to the reaction that a person would have if faced with some type of event.

The complexity of panic attacks makes them very difficult to live with. But they can also be difficult on the person’s partner. If you’re the partner of someone with panic attacks (PPA), you’re probably filled with a range of different emotions, including:

  • Empathy – You can see the fear and sadness in your partner’s eyes.
  • Frustration – You can see that nothing is wrong and they are worried about nothing.
  • Confusion – You can’t always tell what to do and say, or how you can help.

Being a PPA is difficult, because your partner is struggling with something that literally (not figuratively) affects the chemicals in their body, and can cause them to think differently, feel differently, and struggle with an issue that not even they understand.

Tips for Being a Good PPA

Panic attacks have a lot of similarities, but they can also differ. Some people experience almost entirely physical symptoms, and feel as though they’re having a heart attack or they’re about to die. Others experience more mental symptoms, which – although followed by physical symptoms – cause more mental stress than it does physical stress. Some get irritated, some get depressed, and some move on like nothing happened.

There is no perfect strategy for being a good PPA, but you can consider the following tips:

  • Let Your Partner Talk About It – For those struggling with panic attacks, the greatest enemy is being inside of your own head. Make sure your partner feels safe to talk about their symptoms and issues with you, because if they start to hold it in, the panic attacks can get worse or become more frequent.
  • Don’t Bring It Up – Although it may sound strange, you should also not bring up panic attacks unless your partner asks you to. This is because panic attacks can actually be triggered by concern over panic attacks. If you bring up your partner’s panic attacks while they’re feeling great, it could cause them to start fearing panic attacks and bring one on.
  • Be a Source of Positivity – It can be hard to be a PPA, but your partner needs you to be as positive as possible – at least while it is occurring. Show them you still love them and that you care about them, so that they know you’re not changing how you feel about them just because of their high anxiety issue.

It’s okay to be a bit frustrated at times. See if you can talk about it with your partner when your partner brings it up. If it is causing significant stress on the relationship, you can also consider couples counseling with a Long Island Psychologist that understands both relationships and anxiety, so that you both can get the help that you need.


text:
From Liquipedia Smash Wiki
This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling. You can assist by editing it now.
This article is a stub. You can help Liquipedia by expanding it.

[e][h] Peach
Character Information
A (6)
Source Universe:
Other Smash Titles:
14 Frames
19th of 26
24th of 26
25 Frames
24 Frames
16th of 26
10th of 26
5th of 26
Fast Faller:
22nd of 26
21st of 26

Peach is unlocked by default as one of the game's initial 14 characters. She has a unique set of techniques such as float cancelling and turnips that set her apart from other characters. Her recovery is one of the best in the game thanks to her ability to float and her up special. As a result, she is able to go far off stage in order to edgeguard her opponents. Peach also possesses a very strong down smash and forward throw.

Not everything is so nice and peachy, however. Peach's light weight and slow fall speed allows her to be KO'd at relatively low percents. For example, she is guaranteed to be KO'd by Fox's up smash at around 75% on Yoshi's Story. Peach's ground movement is also relatively slow in comparison to other characters, rendering tech chases difficult.

Unlike other characters, Peach has the unique ability to float in the air, maintaining her vertical position for about a couple of seconds. If the jump button is held, Peach will start floating at the apex of her jump. She can also float at any time during her jump animation by holding the jump button and flicking the control stick downwards. One consequence of this is that Peach can float at ground height and use aerials against grounded opponents.

Float Cancelling[edit]

If Peach uses an aerial while floating and releases the float during the attack, her landing animation will be the same as if she had performed an empty jump. This landing animation lasts only 4 frames, being shorter than both her aerials' usual landing lag (22 frames), and L-Cancelled landing lag (11 frames). Peach MUST hit the ground while the attack is still being performed for this to work however. As a result, the player is able to effectively perform another action immediately upon landing. For example, Peach can float cancel a forward aerial into a jab or grab without fear of being shield grabbed by the opponent. Another application of float cancelling is to perform an aerial immediately out of shield.

Double jump L-cancel[edit]

To double jump, hit the jump button twice, followed immediately by attack (while still airborne). Doing this negates the first jump, which not only allows for an immediate aerial attack, but essentially never forces her to leave the ground. L-cancelling after the aerial attack allows another double-jump L-cancel combo to be used almost immediately, making this technique particularly useful once mastered.

If peach is airborne, one can simply hit jump then attack in rapid succession for a quick aerial attack. Double-jump L-cancelling with bair to any enemies behind Peach is particularly useful, especially against Fox, Sheik, and Marth.

Wall Bombing[edit]

Peach's side special can be repeatedly used against a wall. If each side special is smashed and executed with the correct timing, Peach will slowly gain height. This technique can be used to recover on stages such as Yoshi's Story or Final Destination. Use of wall bombing to stall is banned in tournaments.

Peach's down special makes her pull a turnip from the ground. This move is special because of the fact that she can pull out 8 different kinds of turnips, with a chance to pull out 3 unrelated items: the Beam Sword, a Bob-omb, or Mr. Saturn. The more powerful the turnip is, the rarer it is to attain. The weakest and most common turnip is the normal, "smiley face" turnip, which deals 6% of damage and has the lowest knockback. You have a 59.873% chance of getting it, putting its chances to be pulled well above any other type of turnip. The strongest and most elusive turnip, on the other hand, is the Stitchface. It deals 34%, has the most knockback, and you have a 1.711% chance of pulling it. The items you can get are even harder to acquire, so their appearances are few and far between.

Type Damage Probability
Normal 6% 4445/7424 = 59.873%
Eyebrow Eyes 6% 762/7424 = 10.264%
Line Eyes 6% 635/7424 = 8.553%
Circle Eyes 6% 381/7424 = 5.132%
Carrot Eyes 6% 381/7424 = 5.132%
Wink 10% 508/7424 = 6.843%
Dot Eyes 16% 127/7424 = 1.711%
Stitch Face 34% 127/7424 = 1.711%
Mr. Saturn N/A 3/768 = 0.391%
Bob-omb N/A 2/768 = 0.260%
Beam Sword N/A 1/768 = 0.130%

Notable players[edit]

Color palette for Peach

Useful Links[edit]


text:
"Grow Yourself Complete"

Uncharted Territory

I feel as if there is much unknown; a great need for light and inner perspective through love and gentleness.  I feel there are many new paths being opened that most have not walked before.   I believe we are living in uncharted territory.

The truth of ‘what is’ is far more exciting than anything I can make up.

I am seeing all of ‘this’ as an adventure.   This is an adventure of new territory, new paths, new ways, new endings and new beginnings.

This is the adventure.  Today is the day.

I am walking forward through love.  When I walk forward through love, fear dissipates.  When I walk in excitement of a new adventure, I know openness, willingness and curiosity.

I love adventures.

Today is the day to think of everything that is new, questioned, uncertain and scary to be considered an adventure.

May you adventure on any and all territory that is in front of you as new or different; challenging or scary; wonderful and awe-inspiring.

Let yourself be part of this adventure of a lifetime and may you be open to exploring all that is you within every circumstance that arises.


text:
25 February 2015

Great Escapes - Airs Feb 25th

Voices of a Lynching from Radio Diaries
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote the song Strange Fruit after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree. But a third boy escaped being lynched that fateful day, 80 years ago, in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was believed to be the only African American to have survived a lynching. Decades later, a box of recordings was found in a basement. They contained the recollections of people who witnessed or took part in the events of that day.

Tulsa's Slow Integration from This Land Press
John W. Franklin is the grandson of an African American lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa race riot.  In this recording made for the series "Just Passing Through," Franklin shares his grandfather’s memories of the race riot, his father’s memories of racism and his own memories of the beginnings of racial healing in Oklahoma.

Picture a Box from The Memory Palace
The incredible story of Henry "Box" Brown who escaped slavery by mailing himself to freedom.

18 February 2015

Best Actress - Airs Feb 18th

The Actress by Ruth Draper
Monologist Ruth Draper meticulously studied the people around her. She then spun these observations into rich, droll, poignant one-person sketches, which she presented at parties - eventually leading to great fame and stardom. John Gielgud described her as "the greatest individual performer that America has ever given." In the mid-50's, when she was 70 years old, she finally reluctantly, submitted herself to be captured on tape. We will hear one of these brilliant recordings...
On tour in Paris, a temperamental diva meets with a parade of callers. To some—the maid, her dog—she speaks French; while with others she employs heavily accented English. But when her impresario informs her that her favorite leading man will not be allowed to accompany her on an American tour, she displays her displeasure in a mellifluous Slavic-sounding tirade.

Queens of Bollywood from Tablet Magazine
Ruby Myers a.k.a. Sulochana. Esther Abraham a.k.a. Pramila. Farhat Ezekiel a.k.a. Nadira. From the earliest years of Bollywood, these and other Jewish actresses garnered starring roles. And while they may have looked somewhat exotic to moviegoers, they came from Baghdadi Jewish families who had been living in India for decades. Reporter Eric Molinsky speaks to film scholars, as well as friends and relatives of these once-beloved but now mostly forgotten stars of Indian cinema, to find out how they became the “go-to girls” for leading female roles in the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond.

11 February 2015

The Music of Love - Airs Feb 11th

The Music of Love by Dheera Sujan
Where does timeless, brilliant, romantic music come from? In this program, pianist and astrologer Gary Goldschneider discusses how the music inspired by great amorous passion - pieces such as the theme for Romeo and Juliet, or Wagner's Liebestod - are perfect illustrations of Love's perfect partnership with death and suffering rather than long, happy marriages. Most of the great composers suffered when it came to their own love lives. So we wonder, can great art be created without that essential element of pain? Part of Vox Humana's series The Stars of Music.

04 February 2015

Silence and Noise - Airs Feb 4th

The Search for Silence from Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening
In the noisy modern world, silence has become an ever more desirable – and fashionable – state. We read books about it; go on retreats to find it; and soundproof our living and working spaces in its name. But when we have it is it what we want? In the final episode of the series, Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers the modern quest for quiet and asks whether what really makes us humans happy is a little noise.

Noise Retold by Matthew Herbert
We will close our program with an epic sound-effect sound-scape. Mr. Herberthead of the New Radiophonic Workshopretells the story of the Noise: A Human History by remixing the entire series using only the sounds themselves - sans narration. Matthew is an electronic musician who is perhaps most famous for his controversial sound-art album 'One Pig.'


text:
[FPSPACE] Unha-3 failure - early review

Morris Jones morrisjones at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 12 20:20:53 EDT 2012

I've been watching various news sources and have gleaned the following data.
*) Failure seems to have occurred after roughly one minute of flight.
*) Failure involved the first stage.
*) Unha-3 has crashed into water.
Now there will be a scramble to retrieve debris, much of it conducted covertly.
Morris Jones, Sydney

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/fpspace/attachments/20120413/6fd29348/attachment.html>

More information about the FPSPACE mailing list


text:
Re: Candidate message to TAG re httpRange-14 resolution

From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:57:58 -0500
To: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
Cc: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, AWWSW TF <public-awwsw@w3.org>
Message-ID: <1296500278.2070.6859.camel@dbooth-laptop>
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:45 -0500, Jonathan Rees wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:
[ . . . ]
> > I mean, if someone is going to make ambiguous statements, we can't stop
> > them.
> Correct - anyone *can* say what they like, but they can be held
> accountable for what they. You have to imagine the conversation that
> follows from a misunderstanding. "You said that the license applied to
> R!" "No I didn't, I said it applied to S!" "But don't you use the URI
> to refer to R? That's what everyone else does." "No, nobody says I
> have to so I don't feel bound by that convention." "Then how was I
> supposed to know you meant S instead of R?" "You were supposed to read
> the content of R. It's obvious if you do that." "But I'm just a stupid
> search engine.  I only look at the copyright statement. You expect me
> to read and understand the whole document so that I know the URI is
> supposed to mean S instead of R?" "Yes, it's my URI so I get to use it
> however I like." "If I grant you this plausible deniability, how can I
> ever hold anyone accountable for anything they say?" "That's your
> problem. You're using the wrong technology for that." "Judge, what do
> you say?"

Excellent scenario.  And I agree that accountability is important.  I
think if we can find a way to explain both the accountability theme and
the fact that ambiguity is relative, it will be a big step forward.

> Yes, you can poke holes in this story, but my point is the form of the
> story, not the details. Meaning is burden of proof. If there's no
> accountability (or as Alan R says no way to be wrong) there is no
> semantics. If it turns out the "semantic web" has no semantics any
> more maybe I will need to initiate the creation of a new technology
> (and attending social system) that does.
> Jonathan
Received on Monday, 31 January 2011 18:58:27 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:21:08 UTC


text:
Re: DOM based API

From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:55:00 -0400
Message-ID: <484979F4.7090909@w3.org>
To: public-geolocation@w3.org

Hi, Folks-

(- public-webapi, just to reduce cross-posting)

Maciej Stachowiak wrote (on 6/6/08 12:58 PM):
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Mark Baker wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I am interested in working on a specification of a DOM API that allows
>>> Web pages to access the user's geolocation information (e.g. latitude
>>> and longitude).
>> I'm very glad to see somebody mention using the DOM API for this kind
>> of information, right off the bat.  I'm a big believer in reuse, and
>> feel that this API is an obvious candidate for reusing the DOM, i.e.
>> providing a "Location" Javascript object that's also a DOM Document.
> I don't understand why you would want the "Location" object to be a DOM
> Document. (It needs a better name, by the way, so it doesn't conflict
> with the Location object that is window.location.) And I don't think
> that is what Andrei had in mind, as I understand it, he just wants an
> API that aligns well with the DOM, not necessarily one that makes
> non-markup information appear to be part of a Document.

I think I read the idea of hanging it off the Navigator object instead
of the Document or Window object, which puzzled me... a request for
access comes directly from a particular site, so granting it should
apply only to the requesting tab/window.

> I think presenting geolocation info as a Document would have the
> disadvantages of more memory use and less obvious access for authors.
> What are the advantages?

I'm not sure I'd count it as an advantage, but there is the way KDDI
[1], DoCoMo [2], and (as information) Microformats [3] deals with this
in markup.  I'm not suggesting we align around that, more mentioning it
for context.

I'm sure it's out of scope for the Geolocation API, but it might be
interesting to discuss how location could be codified in markup such
that if you found a resource that had a specific location (a web page
for a pizza place), a user could find the relation between their current
location and that place.  I know, more of a service, but I thought I'd
toss it out there.

[1] http://sideshowbarker.net/gps/
[2] http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/service/imode/make/content/gps/
[3] http://microformats.org/wiki/geo

-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, SVG, CDF, and WebAPI
Received on Friday, 6 June 2008 17:55:36 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:33:49 UTC


text:
Metadata Questions

From: Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:39:57 -0400
Message-Id: <92B48BC7-EE4B-4596-979F-20268C52BFE1@typesupply.com>
To: WOFF Working Group FONT <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
I've run into a few more metadata questions while working on the validator...

- In the uniqueid element, should the id attribute be required?
- For elements that have defined text sub-elements, should the spec require at least one text element?
- Should the credits element require one credit element?

Received on Thursday, 4 November 2010 14:40:24 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:34:14 UTC


text:
Regrets - June 16th

From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:01:44 +0100
Message-ID: <BANLkTikesjZxWWiYZYpSRVj4Ei76v-uoLQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: XProc WG <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
My thesis proposal presentation here in Edinburgh has been scheduled
right over our call.  So, please accept my regrets.

That also means Henry won't be able to attend either.  We'll be having
too much fun deciding my fate.  :)

--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
Received on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:02:20 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:32:49 UTC


text:
FYI: RE: Character Encoding Question

From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:46:43 -0500
Message-Id: <>
To: "IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Older message that wasn't sent to this list, but forwarding it on for issues
list completeness.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin J. Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 8:23 AM
To: John Boyer; Tom Gindin
Cc: w3c-archive@w3.org
Subject: RE: Character Encoding Question

At 00/11/29 10:12 -0800, John Boyer wrote:
 >Hi Tom and Martin,
 >Actually, it appears that the info on p. 20 of Unicode Standard 3.0 was
 >slightly misleading.  They talk of using UTF-8 as an encoding format.
 >However, while I think of UTF-8 as encoding all of UCS-4, they appear to be
 >only using UTF-8 to encode the portion of UCS-4 that Unicode represents,
 >which is the 16 x 64k character regions that compose the BMP.
 >So, the prior sentence was still sufficient.  The following would appear to
 >do the trick:
 >"use Normalization Form C [NFC] when converting an XML document to the UCS
 >character domain from an encoding other than UCS-4, UTF-8, UTF-16,
 >or UTF-16LE."

I think you are close with the above, but I think you should change it to

"use Normalization Form C [NFC] when converting an XML document to the UCS
character domain from any encoding that is not UCS-based (currently,
encodings include UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE, UCS-2, and UCS-4)."

Why my change:

- There are also others in the IANA registry
    (look e.g. for 'unicode' or 'iso10646').
- There are things we know apply but we don't want to mention (UTF-7).
- We don't know what other might come up (hopefully none :-).
- UCS-2 is mentioned because it's not the same as UTF-16.

Please feel free to send this to the involved lists for further

Regards,   Martin.

 >Note, that UCS-2 and Unicode seem to be equal, and seem to be encoded in
 >of the above UTF-16 formats (i.e. UTF-16 *is* Unicode).  This is why I did
 >not mention them in the list.  OK?
 >Thanks again,
 >John Boyer
 >Team Leader, Software Development
 >Distributed Processing and XML
 >PureEdge Solutions Inc.
 >Creating Binding E-Commerce
 >v: 250-479-8334, ext. 143  f: 250-479-3772
 >1-888-517-2675   http://www.PureEdge.com <http://www.pureedge.com/>

Joseph Reagle Jr.
W3C Policy Analyst                mailto:reagle@w3.org
IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair   http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/
Received on Tuesday, 12 December 2000 13:46:48 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:21:35 UTC


text:
Response to RAND - negative

From: Neil Timms <neilt@netvigator.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:47:39 +0000
To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Message-Id: <20010930234739.305a86ce.neilt@netvigator.com>
Re patents

I would rather not have any patents RAND license schemes associated with W3C standards or recommendations. I feel that software patents in the present form only slow the pace of innovation in the field of computing. Their extension the W3C standards and recommendations would also create a situation where (and this may exist) companies use the W3C as a 'Trojan horse' to get *their* idea of standards accepted before producing a patent backed license scheme. I think that this would be a matter of integrity for the W3C to avoid adopting standards, recommendations, schemes, or software where this may occur.

Neil Timms

Please reply to neiltimms@bigfoot.com.
Open standards attachments are better. RTF is fine for documents.
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 19:39:56 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:06:43 UTC


text:
[Bug 1070] New: redirect?

From: <bugzilla@wiggum.w3.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 02:37:02 +0000
To: www-validator-cvs@w3.org
Message-Id: <E1CwAO6-0001Tb-CC@wiggum.w3.org>

           Summary: redirect?
           Product: Validator
           Version: 0.7.0
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.stuff4beauty.com
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: check
        AssignedTo: link@pobox.com
        ReportedBy: customerservice@stuff4beauty.com
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org

Can someone help me understand this. When I go to check my home page
stuff4beauty.com and ALL my main pages for W3C validation, there is a note
that says:

This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!

And it should NOT say this because our doc tag is 4.01 Transitional and when I
check these pages from my hard drive (file upload) it shows valid 4.01

And then it also has a note that says:

The URL you gave me, , returned a redirect to .

We do not have our page redirected.
Received on Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:37:02 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Wednesday, 7 January 2015 15:17:19 UTC


text:
Thursday, April 7, 2011

a story of indeterminate conclusion.

two weeks (and two days) ago, i delivered my first job application to a major Christian school in town. yes, it's that time peeps - five weeks until graduation. it's craziness.

anyway. the school i applied to last week wasn't one i had originally researched and planned as an option. it was a spontaneous thing. i heard about an opening for a prek teacher, and i figured it was well worth a try.

it felt like a God thing. so outside of my plans, my view.

exactly two weeks ago, i got called by the school principal to schedule an interview. that interview was today. that interview went seamlessly.

basically, i am their top pick for the job, but they can't give it to me until enough children are enrolled for next year. (that enrollment is pretty much just a matter of time.)

so, i kind of sort of have a job for next year. the thing is...the salary really stinks. it's just short of what would be enough for me to stretch into an independent lifestyle. (also known as: i couldn't rent an apartment on this salary. it's just not that feasible - at least not without strings attached.)

and so i chuckle at God because He's so unpredictable, and i breathe some deep breaths and consider changing my picture of what next year looks like, and i leave myself open to the possibilities. i don't know what will happen yet - if i'll take this "job-to-be" or compare it to others or what.

but i'm trusting. that counts for something. He gives the desires of my heart, even when He has to give me the desire before He can fulfill it.

that's my story for tonight. to definitely be continued. (and to all you who prayed for the interview - many thanks. :) and much love.)

  1. Honey Bunny,
    I am praying. You are so precious, as you continue to trust in our loving God-He will show you His will.
    I love you and am so proud of you.
    Aunt Sudy

  2. i love you. thanks for sharing. praying. xoxo

  3. still praying. I love you. excited to hear what the Lord is doing and what He is continuing to do as you trust in Him and follow His lead. xoxo


text:
Friday, April 3, 2009

"Green" Ideas

With Earth Day soon approaching I thought it would be a good time to become more Eco friendly. Do you have any great tips you'd like to share? Any great ideas to get the kids involved? One of the reasons I love natural products in because it is not harmful for kids to be around. I'd love to learn new ways to have my kids help out and help make a difference. Below are some things that I do.

1. Wash laundry in cold water (except towels and sheets)
2. Use hand towel in dryer (helps absorb water which dries clothes faster)
3. Cut dryer sheets in half
4. Use natural laundry detergent
5. Use Borax for laundry softener and cleaning (love this stuff)
6. Use natural cleaning products...I used to use vinegar and water most of the time, but recently switched to a hydrogen peroxide and water mix and LOVE it! Cleans great and better yet no smell!
7. Online billing to save on paper waste
8. E-mail my newsletters to customer to save on paper
9. Use ceiling fans
10. Use natural soaps and lotions (Love, love, love my Ciao Bella line)
11. Buy fruit from local market (just started doing this a month ago)
12. Pass Miss K's clothes to Miss A or family and friends
13. Make my own natural products (make some of my own make-up, facial astringent, deep hair conditioner, etc..There are many more great recipes I have found online that I am itching to try out.)
14. Recycle, re-use and re-purpose (always trying to improve in this area)

1 comment:

Kidcessory Haven said...

Hi Jennifer-

Just found your blog on mompack...looks fantastic!!

Hope you can check mine out too at


text:
02:02 PM
Connect Directly

TIAA-CREF: What Digital Innovation Really Looks Like

Joseph Sieczkowski, CTO of TIAA-CREF, says the model for how digital innovation can change a business is well documented, and financial firms can embrace it.

What does Joseph Sieczkowski, senior managing director and CTO of TIAA-CREF, say when people ask him to describe digital innovation? "It's like what Netflix did to Blockbuster," he said at the InformationWeek Financial Services/Dell Think Tank roundtable event today in New York.

Three key factors on which Netflix innovated helped it surpass the entrenched model for renting videos, Sieczkowski said: customer experience, operational excellence, and changing the business model. "All of a sudden, you don't have to drive to the store. And it's not like you got to the store and there was someone in the back room who knew what you wanted to watch. And you can acquire content differently without worrying about cost associated with physical space. You can put your customers first."

He was joined on the panel by David O'Connell, senior analyst for Aite Group, who cautioned that the digital world means that, like Blockbuster, financial institutions are subject to outside pressures from startups attacking the weak points of their business models.

[Insurers Expect Arms Race to Acquire Tech Capabilities]

"Banks are facing competition because there's so many ways to pay your bills now, and while there are cheap ways that banks can give their customers to pay their bills easily, that's not being provided by internal IT departments, but by third parties," O'Connell said. That means more firms have access to the technology that consumers seek, and firms must decide whether they want to take on software development themselves.

Sieczkowski supports internal development. TIAA-CREF recently appointed a chief digital officer to help unite the digital strategy across business units. "There are specific things that will give you a competitive advantage, and some of our technologists are second to none," he said. "We have to be good stewards of our constituents' money and do it the right way."

That was the tactic taken by MetLife, according to Aite Group's Todd Eyler, who is working on a case study with the insurance firm. Facing declining sales in certain customer segments, MetLife set up a new division for direct sales, products, pricing mechanisms, and an outsourced technology infrastructure.

"Crisis can sometimes be the mother of invention," Eyler said.

[Even Insurers' Best Customers Are Leaving]

When it comes to existing in an omnichannel world, O'Connell said financial institutions are doing a good job of setting up channels for outgoing information, but they need to do a better job of leveraging that data for a two-way conversation. But Stacy Swanstrom, senior vice president for Nasdaq, said that it can be difficult for financial companies to work with intermediaries to the customer, because of fears over information security.

"There's a lot of opportunities in terms of taking and displaying data to tell customers what they can do better," she said. "But our customers are sometimes reluctant to give up their mid and back office. It's worth a lot to them."

Nathan Golia is senior editor of Insurance & Technology. He joined the publication in 2010 as associate editor and covers all aspects of the nexus between insurance and information technology, including mobility, distribution, core systems, customer interaction, and risk ... View Full Bio

Comment  |
Print  |
More Insights
Newest First  |  Oldest First  |  Threaded View
User Rank: Author
12/10/2014 | 1:01:08 PM
Digital transformation
Love that quote from Eyler - "Crisis can sometimes be the mother of invention." That perfectly captures the situation that many insurance companies are facing right now. Hopefully we'll see them rise to meet the challenge and drive digital strategy, and avoid the fate that Blockbuster had.
Register for Insurance & Technology Newsletters
White Papers
Current Issue
Insurance & Technology Digital Issue
Innovation? Check. Core modernization? Check. Security? Check. Today's insurance IT challenges don't stump this year's Elite 8.


text:
Thursday, April 28, 2011

CDC vaccine scientist who downplayed links to autism indicted by DOJ in alleged fraud scheme

Natural News
By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
April 28th 2011

(NaturalNews) CDC researcher Poul Thorsen, who famously headed up the "Denmark Study" that many claim disproved any link between autism and vaccines, has been indicted in Atlanta by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, money laundering and defrauding research institutions of grant money.

Poul Thorson is a scientist who formerly worked for the CDC, and over the last several years, he oversaw millions of dollars in grant money that was used to conduct research to "prove" that vaccines have no link to autism. Dr. Thorson's research papers include the famous "Danish Study" entitled Thimerosal and the occurrence of autism: negative ecological evidence from Danish population-based data. (

This paper concludes that thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative used in vaccines around the world, has no statistically significant link to autism. It is one of the key papers used by vaccination proponents who argue that thimerosal is safe to inject into young children. That Poul Thorson's credibility is now being called into question by a federal indictment of fraud and money laundering will, of course, have ripple effects throughout both the vaccine industries and autism support groups (more about that below).

Follow the money

According to the official announcement of the indictment, Thorsen was awarded grant money by the CDC as far back as the 1990s. He arranged for the grant money to be awarded to an entity in Denmark, where he provided "input and guidance" for the research projects.

From 2000 to 2009, the CDC awarded $11 million in grant money to two Denmark government agencies to study, among other things, the possible link between vaccines and autism. In 2002, Thorsen moved to Denmark and became the "principal investigator" for the grant money, responsible for administering the research money that the CDC awarded.

But here's where things get interesting: According to the Dept. of Justice, Thorsen began allegedly stealing grant money by submitting fraudulent expense documents that were supposedly related to the Danish study. These fraudulent expense documents were given to the Danish government, Aarhus University and Odense University Hospital, the institutions involved in the research.

From February 2004 through June 2008, says the DOJ indictment, Thorsen allegedly submitted over a dozen fraudulent invoices requesting reimbursement for expenses that were fabricated. Interestingly, these allegedly fraudulent invoices were signed by a laboratory section chief at the CDC, indicating that someone inside the CDC was either duped by Thorsen or potentially involved in the alleged fraud.

What was Thorsen claiming in these allegedly fraudulent invoices requesting reimbursement? He claimed that a CDC laboratory had conducted work in conjunction with the research and was owed funds out of the grant money. These invoices were then handed over to Aarhus University, where Thorsen held a faculty position. Aarhus then transferred "hundreds of thousands of dollars to bank accounts held at the CDC Federal Credit Union in Atlanta," says the DOJ.

But here's the clever part: Those bank accounts were not official CDC accounts at all. They were allegedly private bank accounts belonging to none other than Dr. Poul Thorsen.

Once the money was transferred into Thorsen's private accounts, Thorsen "allegedly withdrew it for his own personal use, buying a home in Atlanta, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and Audi and Honda vehicles, and obtaining numerous cashier's checks, from the fraud proceeds," says the DOJ.

According to government documents, Dr. Poul Thorsen, one of the key researchers in "disproving" any link between vaccines and autism, allegedly defrauded the scientific research community of over one million dollars.

Aarhus distances itself from Thorsen

More details are revealed through a statement issued in January by Aarhus University, which sought to sever its ties with Thorsen. It says, "Unfortunately, a considerable shortfall in funding at Aarhus University associated with the CDC grant was discovered. In investigating the shortfalls associated with the grant, DASTI and Aarhus University became aware of two alleged CDC funding documents as well as a letter regarding funding commitments allegedly written by Randolph B. Williams of CDC's Procurement Grants Office which was used to secure advances from Aarhus University. Upon investigation by CDC, a suspicion arose that the documents are forgeries." (

This letter goes on to state that Dr Thorsen was essentially hoodwinking others into thinking he was still a faculty member at Aarhus University:

In March 2009, Dr. Thorsen resigned his faculty position at Aarhus University. In the meantime, it has come to the attention of Aarhus University that Dr Thomsen has continued to act in such a manner as to create the impression that he still retains a connection to Aarhus University after the termination of his employment by the university. Furthermore, it has come to the attention of Aarhus University that Dr Poul Thorsen has held full-time positions at both Emory University and Aarhus University simultaneously. Dr Thorsen's double Full-time employment was unauthorised by Aarhus University, and he engaged in this employment situation despite the express prohibition of Aarhus University.

The federal indictment against Thorsen

Today, Thorsen is facing 13 counts of wire fraud and 9 counts of money laundering. NaturalNews spoke with the Department of Justice and confirmed that extradition proceedings are under way to bring Thorsen to the United States from Denmark, although no particular timetable for that extradition has been announced.

Thorsen now faces up to 260 years in prison from the wire fraud charges, and up to an additional 90 years in prison for the money laundering charges, plus a total of $22.5 million in possible fines. In addition, the federal indictment also contains a so-called "forfeiture provision" which seeks the forfeiture of the personal property Dr. Thorsen allegedly purchased with money he stole from the CDC's grant activities: A house in Atlanta, two cars and a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Stephen H. McClain and Michael J. Brown, both out of the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta). This Atlanta office has a well-known reputation for going after crooks, regardless of the political implications. This is the same office, for example, that indicted Atlanta's own mayor for corruption and tax charges in 2004 (

The prosecuting attorney for that case, Sally Quillian Yates, is the same attorney contributing to this case. She said of Thorsen: "Grant money for disease research is a precious commodity. When grant funds are stolen, we lose not only the money, but also the opportunity to better understand and cure debilitating diseases. This defendant is alleged to have orchestrated a scheme to steal over $1 million in CDC grant money earmarked for autism research. We will now seek the defendant’s extradition for him to face federal charges in the United States."

Understand what is being alleged here: That Thorsen stole taxpayer dollars intended for medical research, then pocketed them in his own private bank accounts and used the money to buy luxury items for his personal use. This is a man with a history of strong ties to the CDC, research universities and medical journals. This is a person whose research has been widely quoted by the vaccine apologists who say vaccines are safe. And now, in the midst of all this, how many mainstream newspapers do you see covering Thorsen's indictment and his ties to the CDC? Virtually none.

This is the great untold story of an alleged criminal ring operating inside the CDC, with the purpose of falsifying research that would "disprove" any links between vaccines and toxic side effects.

The upshot of all this

What you read above are the facts of the case. What you're about to read is my own opinion analysis as the editor of NaturalNews. While I spoke with the U.S. Attorney's Office on these matters, what you're about to read are my own opinions, not theirs.

For starters, given that the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the American Journal of Epidemiology and many other medical journals have published Dr. Thorsen's work, will they retract his scientific papers now that he has been indicted for fraud and money laundering?

Or do the medical journals only retract papers only from those whose research suggests that vaccines do, in fact, have a link to intestinal disorders and neurological problems in children? Remember, of course, that the conventional medical industry almost couldn't wait to denounce Dr. Andrew Wakefield's research, based on only the flimsiest of allegations which don't even stand up to basic scrutiny. And yet when one of their own "insider" scientists like Dr. Poul Thorsen is indicted for fraud and money laundering, they don't question the integrity of his scientific research in the least. In fact, the CDC is now publicly defending his research! His research is still openly cited on the CDC's own website! (

So don't hold your breath waiting for the medical journals to denounce Dr. Thorsen's research. His so-called "scientific findings" are such an important cornerstone in the false "scientific" evidence dispelling any link between vaccines and autism that they would probably let his research stand even if he was convicted of rape, murder and incest. No criminal is too criminal for the medical journals, it seems -- especially if his conclusions support the vaccine industry.

Secondly, did you notice that the allegedly falsified invoices submitted by Dr. Thosen to Aarhus University were signed off by a CDC lab section chief? Someone inside the CDC, in other words, was enabling Dr. Thorsen to allegedly engage in this fraud. The question is: Was this person a co-conspirator?

To answer all this, you have to keep one thing in perspective: During the years of 2006 - 2008 when all this alleged fraud was taking place, the vaccine industry was under increasing attack by scientists who questioned their safety. The evidence linking vaccines with autism and gastrointestinal disorders was becoming increasingly evident and increasingly difficult to cover up. Dr. Julie Gerberding was at the help of the CDC, and she was no doubt trying to impress her future employers at Merck, where she is now the president of Merck's global vaccine division, having left the CDC the very next year following Dr. Thorsen's alleged money laundering scheme.

Question: Did the CDC actively enable and support Dr. Thorsen's alleged fraud in order to "pay him off" for falsifying the research that would supposedly disprove any link between vaccines and autism? And was this being masterminded by Dr. Julie Gerberding as part of her effort to prove her loyalty to Merck, where she now runs the global vaccine division?

Consider the ties here: Dr. Poul Thorsen used to have a CDC email address ( He was on the CDC payroll and spoke at CDC events. He had a private bank account at the CDC Credit Union!

Dr. Thorsen had enough pull with the CDC to get his pet grant project approved, even to the point of having the money wired overseas to a university in Denmark where -- guess what? -- he just happened to be a faculty member with "oversight" of where the money went. For Dr. Thorsen to have pulled off his alleged fraud, he would have needed help from inside the CDC -- from the "lab section chief" who signed his invoices that were submitted to Aarhus University for "reimbursement." Those funds, of course, were then allegedly used by Dr. Thorsen to purchase a home, cars and a motorcycle, among other things.

Was Thorsen a patsy for a larger scheme?

I see two possibilities here: Either the CDC conspired with Dr. Thorsen, or they set him up to take the fall. Every great scam needs a fall guy, you see, and the vaccine industry's fraudulent scientific cover-up of the truth about vaccine dangers is one of the greatest scams ever pulled off in the history of human civilization. The CDC has its fingerprints all over this case, as a former employer of Thorsen, the source of the money (which is really taxpayer money, of course), and even the source of the "lab section chief" employee who allegedly helped make all this happen.

To believe that the CDC may have conspired with Dr. Thorsen is not even a stretch. The CDC, as we've already shown, is deeply in bed with the vaccine industry and the drug companies. That's why the former head of the CDC is now the president of Merck's vaccine division ( It's also why the CDC urges everyone to "get vaccinated" at the first sign of a seasonal flu or an emerging epidemic. The pro-vaccine bias of the CDC has been blatant for years.

Other CDC scientists also involved in the fraud?

Writers Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill from the website have done additional research on this point, and they've found some solid evidence that should raise questions about the CDC's involvement in Thorsen's alleged fraud. As they published recently in an article entitled Poul Thorsen's Mutating Resume: (

In addition, several current CDC employees including Drs. Diana Schendel, Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp and Catherine Rice were affiliated with Thorsen's now-defunct research group. Age of Autism has obtained Internet-archived pages from the Web site of the North Atlantic Neuro-Epidemiology Alliances (NANEA) that list the members of the “Atlanta autism team” including Schendel, Yeargin-Allsopp and Rice, all of whom have been in leadership positions in the CDC’s autism epidemiology projects. Schendel is described as NANEA’s “coordinator at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA.”

This article goes on to say, by the way, that Thorsen was also working with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to alter the definition of "autism" in the DSM-V (the psychiatric industry's bible of diagnosis and treatment).

The CDC, of course, has downplayed the whole thing. It released a statement that attempted to characterize Poul Thorsen's alleged fraud as a "fiscal" matter, not something involving his science, as if to imply that a man can be a crook when it comes to his money, but an angel when it comes to his science.

They said:

"CDC is aware of the allegations by Aarhus University against Poul Thorsen, a Danish doctor who participated in CDC funded research. For the past 10 years, CDC has had a cooperative agreement with the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI) and Aarhus University in Denmark to conduct research studies on issues such as cerebral palsy, autism, alcohol use in pregnancy and Down syndrome. Dr. Thorsen was one of many co-authors on these research projects. All of these were subject to extensive peer review and we have no reason to suspect that there are any issues related to the integrity of the science. The allegations that are fiscal in nature against Dr. Thorsen are being looked into by appropriate authorities."

But the other possibility in all this is that someone inside the CDC wanted to protect the CDC's reputation from all the quackery and fraud they saw happening there. Perhaps they were clued in to Dr. Thorsen's alleged money laundering, and they were sick of it. Maybe they saw Dr. Gerberding collect a multi-million-dollar salary from Merck while the rest of the people were left behind at the CDC collecting government wages. This is conjecture, of course, but it seems reasonable to suppose that someone from within the CDC could be the whistleblower on all this.

And if that someone reads this, we want to hear from you. Feel free to leak internal documents to NaturalNews any time you want, through our public feedback form. We protect the identities of all our sources and we are interested in seeing justice served. If there is an element in the CDC that is knowingly engaged in criminal fraud and conspiracy, that elements needs to be exposed and removed from the CDC for the good of the entire institution. Otherwise, more of this kind of news will only come out in the years ahead, and the reputation of the CDC will only continue to plummet.

Don't think the world isn't noticing already: Just two years ago, the CDC's reputation was relatively high even among natural health practitioners. But after watching the CDC's behavior through these last couple of flu scares, more intelligent people now fully realize the CDC has become little more than a mouthpiece for the pharmaceutical industry. It was the CDC, after all, that helped hype up the Swine Flu scare that resulted in billions of taxpayer dollars being needlessly spent on vaccines which were mostly thrown away unused after the scare passed.

The DOJ earns street cred

The real hero in all this, it turns out, is the Department of Justice (DOJ). Rather than bowing to the profit interests of the vaccine industry, the DOJ is going after Dr. Poul Thorsen based solely on his alleged criminal behavior, not based on politics or science. It's refreshing to know that some elements of the federal government are actually doing good work. I've seen this before from the DOJ in its indictments of various pharmaceutical companies, and I continue to believe that the DOJ may be the last remaining hope for justice at the federal level.

I did tell my contact at the DOJ, however, that they should watch out for pressure from the vaccine industry. There will be efforts made, no doubt, to limit the exposure of this case to only Dr. Poul Thorsen and not involve any other CDC employees or officials. Honestly, in talking to the DOJ about this case, I think they vastly underestimate the level of commitment the drug companies have to their vaccine profit machine; meaning they also vastly underestimate the tactics that are traditionally used by these companies to limit their damage.

For example, most NaturalNews readers know full well that I've had multiple threats placed on my life, I've been stalked, I've been impersonated, and there have been assassination attempts made on other leaders in the natural health movement who have dared to question vaccines. What the DOJ doesn't know (but I hope they will soon realize) is that the drug companies will stop at nothing to get their way: They will poison your dog, hack your website, threaten your family, leave nasty notes in your mailbox, plant fake bombs under your car and do whatever else it takes to get you to back off.

I know that DOJ prosecutors and attorneys will be reading this, so let me share something with you that you need to know: When you go up against the pharmaceutical industry, you are doing battle with what is essentially organized crime. We're talking a modern-day mob here, and they will not hesitate to engaged in attempted bribery, corruption or threats of violence to get their way. If the DOJ begins to uncover a deeper connection between Thorsen, the CDC and the drug companies, beware of the backlash headed your way from both the industry and even the top folks in D.C. The depth of the fraud and crimes being committed right now in the pursuit of vaccine profits is nothing short of astonishing. We've reported on many here at NaturalNews, and yet we've just barely scratched the surface of the real story.

Even the vaccine pushers in the online world engage in precisely the same kind of criminal behavior; fixing online polls, creating robots to maliciously attack anti-vax websites, engaging in the widespread posting of false information, and so on. This is, of course, a reflection of the exact same psychopathic criminal-minded behavior found inside the vaccine industry itself -- an industry staffed by sick-minded human beings who belong in federal prison, not running research for the CDC.

As the editor of NaturalNews, I have publicly, on numerous occasions, called for the Department of Justice to investigate the CEOs of drug companies for fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. While this indictment of Dr. Poul Thorsen isn't all that, it's at least a step in the right direction that may help uncover the truth about what really goes on behind the scenes with taxpayer "research money."

How much vaccine research is based on outright fraud?

It also raises the question: How many other scientific researchers and grant money administrators are on the take, pocketing taxpayer dollars that were intended for research purposes? How many of these people falsify their research data in order to keep getting grant money injections into their private bank accounts? Just how deep does the collusion between the corrupt scientific community and the fraudulent vaccine industry really go?

And, of course, what is the CDC's role in all this? It has been one of the top cheerleaders for the vaccine industry for at least the past decade. Now, we are learning that a CDC section chief knowingly or unknowingly colluded with a physician and researcher who has now been indicted for fraud and money laundering. How high up the CDC does this alleged fraud really go?

I don't know the answer to that. But it's not that complicated to figure out, especially when CDC employees become Big Pharma vaccine employees, and vice-versa. It's all a giant government-corporate-medicine orgy where the scientific trust was abandoned long ago in favor of Big Pharma profits.

We'll do our best here at NaturalNews to find out the rest of this story and bring it to you. That's what we do. That's why we're the 4th largest alternative news website in the world (and growing every day). We bring you the news about the fraud and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry that most mainstream media sources won't dare touch. Subscribe to my free daily email newsletter to receive a daily email that I send out, containing links to the top stories you need to know about. It's free, so sign up now at:

By the way, I strongly recommend that you become a regular readers of which provides outstanding reporting on these issues. Make that site one of your regular sources of information. You'll be amazed by what they are able to report.

Additional sources for this story include:

Learning to 'Live Free' comes from experience and personal growth ... Lets break
our conditioning!

  1. Thanks for posting this article. There is quite a bit of information here that is most revealing. I hope you don’t mind but I added you to my “favorite links” on my blog. Keep up the good work!

  2. You're welcome Louis. Please do we appreciate your support! LFR