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10 Steps To X Out Your Ex

Can’t stop obsessing over your ex? Learn how self-hypnosis can help lessen your breakup pain in a matter of minutes — including how to do it yourself anytime, anywhere in 10 quick, easy steps.

By Kimberly Dawn Neumann

rying to move forward in your dating life while still suffering the pain of lost love? Here’s one way to snap out of it: by learning self-hypnosis. According to certified clinical hypnotist Bryan Toder, practicing certain self-hypnosis techniques (such as disassociation) can help heartbroken or love-obsessed individuals feel as though a painful
We’re seriously in a hypnotic trance most of the day.
breakup happened months — even years — in the past. “While hypnosis won’t cause someone to ‘forget’ an ex — I mean, you’re not getting a lobotomy, you’ll still feel something — it can turn down the volume of the hurt almost instantly,” explains Toder. “It works because it allows your brain to process the old thoughts differently. Your old patterns are now new patterns, and like a broken record, can’t be played the same way again.” With self-hypnosis, you can stop rehashing things in your head and wondering why your relationship ended.

So, how does it work? Everyone has both a conscious and a subconscious mind, and the subconscious mind — which is highly suggestible — usually lurks in the background, but is never 100% turned off. “When you’re hypnotized, the conscious mind is moved to the back burner for a bit and the subconscious mind moves to the front. So if you’re given suggestions that are both safe and you already want to do — say, for weight loss or quitting smoking or to fix a relationship — they will be embedded in your subconscious mind and your behavior will change,” says Toder. “When you’re done with the hypnosis, your subconscious mind returns to the background and your conscious mind is now at the forefront once again.” But the new thought patterns you’ve established while you were hypnotized will linger on. Neat trick, huh?

Most of us regularly enter into a hypnotic state without even realizing it
The other thing you should know is that getting hypnotized is not some weird thing that only desperate people do. The truth is that most people already spend lots of their time hypnotized without even realizing it! “We’re seriously in a hypnotic trance most of the day… while watching TV, brushing your teeth, picking up a book to skim a few pages but having no idea what you just read, driving your car to work without remembering how you got there (highway hypnosis), or simply staring into a spot and daydreaming,” says Toder. “Anytime you don’t really have to think about something and your mind goes elsewhere, your subconscious mind is actually doing all the stuff for you — and that’s how hypnosis works.” So if you’re already doing it without realizing it, why not harness the power of hypnosis to help you forget about your ex?

It’s important to know that all hypnosis is also self-hypnosis. “When you listen to a professional hypnotist speak, you are actually hypnotizing yourself — you’re simply listening to someone telling you what to do. I may be the one giving you the steps to follow, but your mind is doing all the work,” advises Toder. “It’s nothing magical; it’s nothing mystical. It’s not like those shows on TV where someone waves a watch in front of you and your eyes suddenly glaze over.” Instead, it’s more like taking a deep breath and going through a subconscious process, like guided meditation.

Are you ready to give it a try? Then complete the following 10 steps — and in about 90 seconds, you can start putting your emotional baggage (read: that painful ex!) behind you.

Step 1: Take a deep breath and focus your mind
Hypnosis can be done with your eyes open or closed. Unless you want to quickly memorize all 10 steps, you should try this first with your eyes open; so, find a spot on the wall and just stare into it for a few seconds before proceeding. (Note: If you think closing your eyes will make you feel more relaxed, try recording these steps into your voicemail and playing them back as you follow along — just make sure to leave a long enough pause for you to complete each step). Whatever method you choose, begin by taking a deep breath in, and then slowly letting it out.

Step 2: Scan your body for any physical pain manifestations
Now, think about your ex and start mentally scanning your body for any spots where you feel physical pain. Surprisingly, painful emotions can actually cause a physical response in the sufferer. “If a live tiger was in front of you, your heart would race, you would probably break out in a cold sweat and have this fight-or-flight response — and that is a physical manifestation of an emotion,” explains Toder. “On a smaller scale, when you have a breakup, you may actually feel hurt, pain or another feeling in your stomach or heart.” Keep in mind that this feeling could show up anywhere, so try not to overanalyze this step in the process. Instead, just try to concentrate on locating any pain you might feel. What’s it like? Remember this feeling.

Step 3: Assign that feeling a specific shape
“The brain tends to store memories and feelings holographically (i.e., in 3-D),” says Toder. “Therefore, the feeling that you have — let’s say it’s in your chest — if you really think about it, it will actually have a specific shape.” It could be a star or a heart, a ball or just a blob — but if you really give it some thought, something particular should materialize in your
This technique really is a way to get a change occurring in people within minutes.
mind. (If it doesn’t, just assign it an arbitrary shape that corresponds with your current emotional state.)

Step 4: Move that shape approximately two feet away from your body
“This is how I help people get rid of pain. If someone has a headache, I ask [this person] to locate the pain and then move it away from [his/her] body,” says Toder. “Just imagine that the pain is floating in front of you.” If you’re having trouble figuring out how to mentally move something that doesn’t actually exist, pretending to do it should be enough to put you into a trance-like state (similar to daydreaming), according to Toder. So, imagine that you’re moving the pain away from your body until it’s floating in front of you so you can get a closer look.

Step 5: Inspect the object thoroughly from all sides
Now that you’ve got the shape you’ve assigned to your pain floating in front of you, it’s time to give it a thorough inspection. “Notice all of its qualities,” advises Toder. “Is it flat, or 3-D? Is it moving? What color is it? Is it smooth or rough? You’ll be surprised by your own answers.” As you inspect your “pain shape,” assign as many identifying features to it as you possibly can — the more specific, the better.

Step 6: Change the object’s identifying characteristics completely
Got a clear picture of what your breakup pain looks like? Good — now, change everything about it! If it’s yellow, turn it blue or imagine a pattern instead. If it’s the size of a rubber ball, turn it into a pea or shrink it down even smaller in size. These are the characteristics you need to change, according to Toder. “For example: If a feeling has a certain quality to it — let’s say it’s a warm feeling, and it’s kind of yellow and sits in your chest and it’s maybe four inches in diameter and it’s moving — if you can take that and change the qualities to make it small, dark, dull and boring, and then move it away from you, it will change how you feel about it,” explains Toder. “It’s not because you’re tricking the brain; rather, it’s simply the way the brain encodes this information.”

Step 7: Put the symbol of your pain behind you
Now envision moving the changed object away from your body — preferably behind you. “Imagine just pushing it away — far, far away,” says Toder. “First, [push it] out of the room. Then a block away, then down the street, and then a mile away. Do this slowly and deliberately. Truly believe that you are putting those feelings/the object far behind you.” You see, the brain organizes items into certain locations; the things you love usually appear clear and right in front of you when you visualize them, while things from the past or that make you feel uncomfortable often seem to be slightly blurry and appear to the side or behind you in your field of vision. By disassociating and pushing this symbol of your pain behind you, you’re accelerating the brain’s natural tendency to eventually put the feelings associated with your breakup in the past.

Step 8: Break your self-hypnotic state
Now that the hard part’s over, it’s time for you to snap out of it — literally. “You need to break your [hypnotic] state, because throughout this whole thing, you’ll actually be in a hypnotic trance — and at this point, it’s time to get [yourself] out of it,” says Toder. While just about anything can help shake you out of your trance, Toder says that getting up and walking around the room is an easy option. Just make sure that both eyes are open, then take in a deep breath, hold it for a second, let it out slowly and then stand up, take another deep breath, and sit back down again.

Step 9: Re-assess your emotions afterward
Hopefully, you’ll feel more detached from the breakup pain after completing steps 1-8. But even if you don’t feel markedly different right away, simply relaxing and practicing these steps should help reduce your focus on the breakup the next time you start feeling down on yourself. If you’re facing an intense burst of level-10 “I miss my ex” pain and this exercise helps dial it down to an 8 or 7½, that’s progress — and good reason to keep practicing it. “Maybe it’ll get down to a 6 or a 5, and if you can turn that into a lower number, it won’t disrupt your day. Instead, it will almost feel like you broke up months or even years ago,” says Toder. “This technique really is a way to get a change occurring in people within minutes, whereas therapy could take years.”

Step 10: Repeat steps 1-9 as needed
Though doing this exercise only once may be enough to ease your breakup pain, you never know when a pang of loneliness or a flash of regret might strike in the future — so feel free to repeat these steps anytime you feel yourself backsliding into sadness again.

The three-step “fast fix” version
Need a faster fix when sadness strikes you? Try this three-step exercise for a quick tune-up anytime you need it (especially when a breakup’s still fresh):

1. Close your eyes and think about your ex. Most of the time, you’ll probably see his/her face right in front of you, in very close proximity to your own and in full color.
2. Shrink the image of your ex down to the size of a postage stamp, switch it to a black-and-white version, and then move it far behind you.
3. Open your eyes again. You should feel a bit better already.

Now that you know how put meddling thoughts about your ex behind you, you can start mentally making room for your next (and even better) new love!

Kimberly Dawn Neumann has been called the “Carrie Bradshaw of Broadway” due to her two careers as a performer and writer. She is the author of The Real Reasons Men Commit and countless magazine articles, and she’s also the founder of
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Alice’s Restaurant

…That once there was a wisp of glory called Camelot...Don’t let it be forgot   That once there was a spot   For one brief shining moment that was known   As Camelot

Director Arthur Penn had the prescience to make a film about the Sixties, Alice’s Restaurant, and in this instance, the waning of that era, 1968 and 1969. (The title came from Arlo Guthrie’s album of the time. Unique in that one whole side was devoted to one song, 18 minutes or so.) And he had the intelligence to make it while the era was going on. In many ways the film is an unintentional documentary of the times. Two other films, A Walk on the Moon and Hair have been able to capture here and there the perfume of those times, but they came after the Sixties had ended.  Alice’s Restaurant, for me, captured the ineffable. I remember little of seeing it in 1969 but as I reflect through what is a dim recollection I was touched by the sadness of the film, or perhaps my own sense of lamentation for what was now ending. I had the serendipitous good fortune to have spent two summers, ’68 and ’69, in Woodstock.  I had lived it.

I  associate easily now to Camelot that I saw in 1968. Deeply moved by Richard Harris’s plangent rendition of what was the last song in that lush musical, King Arthur instructs a page to go tell the world that there was a fleeting moment that was Camelot, if I recall the words. It is a sentiment that roils one’s sensibilities.  That “fleeting moment” also applies to my experiences in upstate New York. I was 28, I was 29 and I was an emotional sponge, absorbing everything about me — the head shops, the flamboyant dress, the beads, the bell bottom jeans, the sideburns and long hair, the middle-aged women getting off city buses in the town square of Woodstock acting as if they were missing something — indeed, they were; the real artists who inhabited lovely homes outside Woodstock, a few that I got to visit and chat with. The Elephant restaurant in which I annoyingly asked for my burger after what I felt was an inordinate time to wait and faced with the immortal answer, “It’s cookin’.” Ah, yes, time.

A little outside Woodstock was a massive church that was built during the Depression, probably a WPA project,with stout timber, overhead rafters, stolid history, heavy doors with ornate wrought iron creatures applied to the wood, arts and crafts style — frogs, bugs, spiders, things like that; it later, much later, became a Buddhist center. And there was an old Catholic priest who lived on a nearby small mountain in a log cabin and church who people had visited for years just to say they had done so, to acquire his “wisdoms”; and he had  old tapestries in the small church that he said were given to him by Marshall Field. I recall a trinket from his conversation with me, that at one time there were bears on that mountain. Was this a scene out of The Razor’s Edge? Many years later I came again to see him but learned he had died, his affairs left unsettled, and I saw his old rooms in the back of the church all gutted by the wind, snow on his desks, scattered testaments and assorted religious paraphernalia on tables as if a scene out of Lost Horizon.

I stayed for two summers at the home of a teacher friend. I remember  two young people voicing their regretful frustration that they couldn’t get to the Woodstock festival which was really in Bethel because the New York Thruway had been shut down because of the traffic — an unheard of event for the time. I remember going swimming in a local pond filled with groups of young people, younger than me — I felt like a voyeur — completely nude, having fun and I began to lose, if only slightly, some of my uptightness as a human being. And the tits weren’t bad at all, nor the voluptuous asses. Ah, Monet on the rocks. Shedding the integument of the cosseted Fifties, I was becoming a human being. Are you, reader, or have you ever been aware of becoming a human being? It grabs you from behind, a delectable pickpocket, except something is given you rather than purloined.

It is beyond my writerly skills to capture the  monarch butterfly that was Woodstock. I am left with shards, like stained glass pieces in my palm. What I remember was a special atmosphere, of a rock band playing in some back room in a house that fronted the street, the coffeehouses that introduced me to cappuccino, the tiny bridge that crossed the stream in the middle of town that coursed into the woods, the complex, varied and interesting stores that catered to tourists with T-shirts, and other accouterments of the era — head shops were antique stores in those days, everything arrayed in whatever assortment you chose.  Given my rearing, I got high on art – for some reason, light boxes were the trend, relationships, sights and scenes and have no regrets for it. I was totally aware of what was happening to me to the extent that I could be. I was limited child trying to become a man. I was now open to experience.

Something had happened. Sounds like Joseph Heller‘s novel. Something had happened to me, was happening to me. For several years deep into the Seventies I would travel upstate, often in winter, leave my wife– she understood my need, and daughter at home and take a pilgrimage to Woodstock. I would buy a hot steaming cup of coffee, a sandwich of cheese and ham slathered with mustard on beautiful home baked slabs of dark raisin bread, the bread loaves slumbering in the store window. I visited a local lake which was frozen over, placed the coffee on the dashboard, the steam misting up the windshield, the sandwich to my right on the passenger seat. Nothing was in my mind except all the memories of that lake. Years later I’d take students up to the lake in the spring and winter to allow them to capture twice-fold only one essence that I had experienced.

 (Look everyone, share with me everyone, it is here that I changed, I grew, began to feel who I was and to put away thinking for a while — what was the slogan then, die to your mind and come to your senses.)

On one visit I saw a man in his late twenties or early thirties, dressed in black with a black cape and walking his even darker dog through the street. I remembered him from about eight years earlier, wearing the same attire, and probably with the same dog. And what occurred to me was that time had stood still for him, he was repeating a repetition compulsion of his own making. He had become a dinosaur in the La Brea pit of Woodstock. After that, I put away forever my visiting Woodstock for the fleeting moment could not be recaptured. I chose to go on and live. Life as rehab, the spell had been broken..

I had experienced a slo-mo epiphany in Woodstock in 1968 and 1969, and a different one now.

Given all this, I can now write about Alice’s Restaurant.  Seeing it again on TV, quite by accident, I recalled how it had captured, for all time, at least in my mind, the pace, the slowness, the movement of deeply lived and felt time, the casualness, the sharing and bartering, the exploration of how to be in new relationships that I had experienced in Woodstock. Evolving is a heady experience if you can put off the need to arrive.

Essentially Arlo Guthrie in his first record brilliantly satirized the stupidity and the ridiculousness of authority filled with itself, in this case a police officer in Stockbridge, Mass who cites Arlo and friends with a ticket because they dumped garbage in the town dump. The record takes off from there and satirically goes after the draft system and Whitehall Street where Guthrie as well as myself endured the testing, urine samples, and coughing to check for hernias by demented doctors.

The movie has Guthrie’s music played as rich commentary on some of the scenes which are fictionalized and many which are based on fact. Alice’s Restaurant, if I recall, really was a deconsecrated (mumbo jumbo) church bought by Alice, and thanksgiving dinner was served here as a ritual as a kind. It was a gathering place for all kinds during that time, the young huddled masses of the Sixties. What is very moving is the end when we see Alice standing at the church door and the camera moves away from her ever so slowly past a tree and then another and then it stops so one is left with the passage of time, time stopped, and one is, like I was, haunted by this. It was all over, much like our individual lives when it is time to move on.

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Are Software Developers Respected by “Business People”?

In the Hacker News thread for my last blog post, there were a couple of comments that really got me thinking about the role respect plays in bad office design.

Is it time to get depressed yet? This has been a topic for such a long time. It was in Peopleware in 1987. I thought I discovered the topic when Joel (On Software) wrote about it in 2000. While a few people seem to enjoy open offices, the overwhelming majority of developers I know, or who chime in on HN, value a quiet place to work and dislike open offices.

And yet, not only has nothing changed, it seems to be getting worse. It couldn't be more clear to me that developers, at least on this issue, simply have no clout as a profession. There may be a few individuals who can make demands, but on the balance, these are decisions imposed on us, as a group, and we are apparently unable to do anything about it.

-- geebee

In a response to the above comment:

30 years ago programmers were highly respected. We were mysterious to others and we were able to influence things like office layouts and the like.

At some point over that time period, things shifted. Programmers became seen as "geeks" who didn't really understand business and "business guys" took over.

They have no concept that we might know what we're talking about because "office space is the realm of business."

We're not capable of decision making and we have no understanding beyond our weird obsession with those stupid computers. -- that's how they see us. They'll lie and say otherwise, but deep down and a fundamental level, that's how non-technical people see us.

-- MCRed

Is this true? Are software developers “geeks” that lack clout and respect with the “business people”?

If so, why is that? Have we earned our lack of clout/respect? I have some thoughts on this that I’ll explore in a future post.

In the meantime, let me leave you with this question: If you believed that an employee of yours did extraordinarily challenging mental work, which required extreme concentration, would you put them here to do that work?

Classic open plan office

Just Wear Headphones

In the comments people have written in response to my posts about open plan offices, a common theme was that of headphones (or earbuds) and how they are oversold as a solution to office noise.

In this post, I want to elaborate on a few issues with headphone use that hold them back from being a silver bullet.

Developers using headphones and earbuds

Physical Hearing Damage

There are permanent physical consequences from prolonged headphone use. The effects accrue gradually, and as such people don’t notice that it’s happening.

From the American Osteopathic Association, Dr. James Foy explains:

I stress to my patients and the parents of my patients that if you can’t hear anything going on around you when listening to headphones, the decibel level is too high.

As a rule of thumb, you should only use [personal audio] devices at levels up to 60% of maximum volume for a total of 60 minutes a day. The louder the volume, the shorter your duration should be. At maximum volume, you should listen for only about five minutes a day.

ENT physician, Dr. Michael Seidman, continues in an article from the New York Times:

If you listen to music with earbuds or headphones at levels that block out normal discourse, you are in effect dealing lethal blows to the hair cells in your ears.

When you’re working in an environment so noisy that you have to pump music (or white noise) into your ear canal so loudly that it blocks out the other noise, you are doing permanent damage to your hearing.

Music Is Distracting

This is one of the trickier issues to discuss, as people love music and have a hard time separating the pleasure they get from listening to music from their effectiveness while listening to music.

If you ask software developers about what they blast out of those ubiquitous headphones, you’ll get answers like this:

"It's not just something in the background to help me concentrate; it's a source of inspiration, a door to free my mind from our day-to-day routines, and, at the same time, it's a way to memorize an experience," says Ortali. "I play tracks in a loop, sometimes the exact same track all day long. It's a way to connect with the lyrics, and move the tempo beneath my skin."

Scientific minds get very un-scientific when it comes to their favorite music.

In a terrific article from The Atlantic,How Headphones Changed the World:

In survey after survey, we report with confidence that music makes us happier, better at concentrating, and more productive.

Science says we're full of it. Listening to music hurts our ability to recall other stimuli, and any pop song -- loud or soft -- reduces overall performance for both extraverts and introverts. A Taiwanese study linked music with lyrics to lower scores on concentration tests for college students, and other research have shown music with words scrambles our brains' verbal-processing skills. "As silence had the best overall performance it would still be advisable that people work in silence," one report dryly concluded.

If headphones are so bad for productivity, why do so many people at work have headphones?

That brings us to a psychological answer: There is evidence that music relaxes our muscles, improves our mood, and can even moderately reduce blood pressure, heart rate, and anxiety. What music steals in acute concentration, it returns to us in the form of good vibes.

Headphones give us absolute control over our audio-environment, allowing us to privatize our public spaces.

People conflate the positive psychological effects of creating a cocoon of their favorite sounds in an environment of noise they can’t control with positive effects on their productivity.

Feeling of Vulnerability

As I touched on in a previous post, seating people with their backs to a high-traffic area leads to a constant sense of unease and vulnerability.

Back to the action

People in this position have lost their sense of sight to detect when someone is approaching them. When you add headphones to the equation, they’ve now also lost their sense of hearing.

Headphone use in a noisy open plan environment can be a catch-22. The noise is so oppressive that you want to block it out, but then you have to deal with the feeling of vulnerability and frequent startles of people approaching you from behind without hearing them.

So What to Do?

Headphones are not the new walls. Give people a quiet place to work or let them work from their own.

Side Note: Noise-Cancelling Headphones

I want to quickly address “noise-cancelling” headphones in particular, as they are mentioned often as a quick fix for the problem of office noise. The technology at use was designed to cancel the low, constant rumble of aircraft engines. So while it may work to cancel the noise of your office air conditioner, it’s powerless against the voices of your co-workers (the real noise you’d want to cancel in an office environment). Read some of the reviews for the popular Bose QuietComfort noise-cancelling headphones, and you’ll get the picture.


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By Mayo Clinic Staff

Fainting occurs when the blood supply to your brain is momentarily inadequate, causing you to lose consciousness. This loss of consciousness is usually brief.

Fainting can have no medical significance, or the cause can be a serious disorder. Therefore, treat loss of consciousness as a medical emergency until the signs and symptoms are relieved and the cause is known. Discuss recurrent fainting spells with your doctor.

If you feel faint

  • Lie down or sit down. To reduce the chance of fainting again, don't get up too quickly.
  • Place your head between your knees if you sit down.

If someone else faints

  • Position the person on his or her back. If the person is breathing, restore blood flow to the brain by raising the person's legs above heart level — about 12 inches (30 centimeters) — if possible. Loosen belts, collars or other constrictive clothing. To reduce the chance of fainting again, don't get the person up too quickly. If the person doesn't regain consciousness within one minute, call 911 or your local emergency number.
  • Check the person's airway to be sure it's clear. Watch for vomiting.
  • Check for signs of circulation (breathing, coughing or movement). If absent, begin CPR. Call 911 or your local emergency number. Continue CPR until help arrives or the person responds and begins to breathe.

If the person was injured in a fall associated with a faint, treat any bumps, bruises or cuts appropriately. Control bleeding with direct pressure.

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Interview: Pam Grier takes trip down memory lane, with fans' help

About Last Night

Pam Grier plans on taking a break from fan conventions and autograph signings for a while following her many movie theater and autograph show appearances in the Chicago area this weekend. It's not that the blaxploitation movie legend doesn't enjoy meeting fans. She calls the interaction “rewarding.” It's just that Grier appears to be next in line to get the Hollywood biopic treatment.

“My memoir (‘Foxy: My Life in Three Acts') is being turned into a film,” Grier said over the phone Monday from her Denver-area ranch. “I'm a consultant on the project. It should start filming in January. My story is funny, formidable, dangerous and edgy. It's kind of Forrest Gump-y.”

Grier, who said the lead role has yet to be cast, has lived quite the life. In addition to a film and TV career that spans 40 years, Grier was sexually assaulted, she faced Jim Crow-era racism as a child and she dated NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and comedians Richard Pryor and Freddie Prinze, the latter of whom she met in Chicago while on “The Irv Kupcinet Show.”

But at 63 years old, Grier doesn't seem ready to retire just yet.

Grier will appear in “The Man with the Iron Fists,” in theaters Nov. 2. The martial arts film stars Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA, who directed it and also co-wrote the story with Eli Roth. Co-stars include Oscar-winner Russell Crowe and former WWE Superstar Dave Bautista.

“I play RZA's mom in the mid-1800's,” Grier said. “We're slaves. If you know the story, the mother is given her freedom but instead wants her son, who is in trouble, to be free.”

Quentin Tarantino directed Grier in 1997's “Jackie Brown” and is a producer on “Iron Fists.” Fans ask Grier often about the eccentric Tarantino and if he's, well, a little off (“He's just extremely talented,” she says she tells them). They also want to know why she no longer sports her trademark afro (“If I'm in a movie theater, people wouldn't be able to see behind me with my big ‘fro,” she jokes).

Grier will meet with fans Friday at Hollywood Blvd Cinema in Woodridge and Sunday at Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville (both of which will screen her films “Foxy Brown” and “Jackie Brown”). She also will appear Saturday and Sunday at the Hollywood Show autograph convention at the Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O'Hare hotel. Also slated for the show: actors Martin Landau and Loni Anderson, both of whom will make Hollywood Cinemas appearances this weekend as well.

“Sometimes you get caught up in the moment and your health, family and some deal that's on the table, and you're thinking ‘Where will I be in five to 10 years?'” Grier said. “But (fans) never get tired of you and always want to know what you're doing next. They know everything you've said and when you said it. For me, it's rewarding and fun. They help you revisit your journey.”

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The Easton Area School District is accepting applications to join the school board.

Last week, Vice President Kerri Leonard-Ellison resigned from the board, saying she wanted to spend her time working with charities.

She resigned two weeks after a grand jury report recommended she resign to rid the district of a culture of severe mistrust. Leonard-Ellison, a seven-year board member, denied the grand jury report had any basis on her resignation.

The seat, representing Region III, is for one year. Applicants must be 18 years old and live in Region III, which includes Forks and Lower Mount Bethel townships and Easton's Third Ward.

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Opinion: It is time for government union employees to contribute more to their health insurance costs

In The Morning Call story, "Union to Brown: Have a lump of coal," the top officials of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union called Northampton County Executive John Brown a real Grinch and offered him a bag of coal because of his position on increasing county employee out-of-pocket expenses $500 to $4,000 to their health insurance costs.

Although I am not a resident of Northampton County and am not directly affected by this issue, these union demands are common in most government worker and teacher contracts.

I have just added up the contributions of my wife and me to our Medicare and supplemental insurance cost. In 2015 we will be paying $8,742.

It is time for everyone to contribute more to their health insurance costs and not expect those who are not union members to subsidize those who are.

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Professor Dirk Brockmann's Research Featured on CBS Show "NUMB3RS"

The crime: A group of thieves has been stealing lottery tickets from locations around town.

The question: Where will they strike next?

The solution: Professor Dirk Brockmann's research.

At least that's how things work in the universe of the CBS show NUMB3RS, which follows an FBI agent and his mathematical genius brother as they solve crimes using, as the name suggests, numbers. In the episode that aired on Jan. 8, investigators use fractional diffusion equations from "Professor Dirk Brockmann's work with human mobility networks" to determine the area where the thieves will strike next.

Brockmann, associate professor of engineering science and applied mathematics at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, has used data from WheresGeorge .com — a site where users enter the serial numbers from their dollar bills in order to track their travels — to find out the patterns and regularities that govern human mobility.

From that information, Brockmann was able to reconstruct a comprehensive multi-scale human mobility network for the United States that includes small scale daily commuting traffic, intermediate traffic, and long distance travel by air.

Based on this mobility network, Brockmann has modeled how diseases spread throughout the country, and he and his research group have also created a map of large scale community boundaries in the United States, different from those defined by administrative state-line boundaries. These effective maps show that some states, like Missouri or Pennsylvania, are essentially cut in half. Other boundaries coincide with geographic features, such as the Appalachian mountains.

"It's intriguing what kind of geographic patterns are hidden in the way we travel from place to place," Brockmann says. "But this is just the beginning of using large scale human behavior to gain insight into these structures. It'd be interesting to see for instance what effective borders would look like in continents like Europe where lots of borders are national boundaries."

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Abu Dhabi: Siraj Malayalam, a Kerala-based daily here, will serve as a media conduit to the Indian community in the UAE for the Abu Dhabi Police.

Siraj, which has an edition from Dubai, has signed a MoU with the Abu Dhabi Police to this effect.

Major General Khalil Dawood Badran, director general of the finance and services at Abu Dhabi Police and Al Sheikh Abu Bakr Musliyar Kanthapuram, head of Siraj Publishing Group, were present during the signing of the MoU Sunday.

MKM Abbas, editor in-charge of Siraj paper, signed the MoU on behalf of the paper.

Badran said the paper plays a role in educating the Indian community in the country about laws and regulations, especially in the security and police fields.

Kanthapuram said light will be shed on police awareness message, especially the efforts of the ministry of interior to deal with violators of the residency law through provision of correct information.

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Da Vinci Code wins Book of the Year

Dan Brown’s controversial best seller has won the WH Smith book of the year title at the British Book Awards in London. The novel is based on the premise that Jesus married Mary Magdelene, they had children, and the bloodline survives to this day. Perhaps because it is a book it hasn’t yet stirred up much response from our religious media watchdogs. But that is set to change next year when it is released as a film starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, and Sir Ian McKellen.

Only the Vatican has been actively condemning the book, with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Genoa particularly worried about “people of simple faith and unsophisticated culture“.

It astonishes and worries me that so many people believe these lies […] The Book is everywhere. There is a very real risk that the people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true.

(He was talking about The Da Vinci Code. Stop sniggering!)

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  1. Christopher Shell says:

    Even the author himself says he believes in the version of the origin of Christianity presented in the book, and begins his book with a page of ‘FACTS’ – the implication being that where he is speaking of matters in the real world (art, architecture, codes, secret societies & rituals – and even by implication history) he is being factual.
    Unfortunately he usually refuses interviews. More than ten debunking jobs have been done on his work.

  2. Tania says:

    The book is great, and it doesn’t say anywhere that it is factual – it is a work of FICTION. But yes, some people do believe it, and that’s up to them. I think there could be some truth in it.

    LMAO about the last comment…*cough* Bible *cough*

  3. Christopher Shell says:

    Hi Tania-

    Forgive my ignorance, but what is LMAO?
    Would you deny anything I have said in my comment?

  4. Adam Bowman says:

    Laughing My Ass Off, apparently. These acronyms confuse the eternal damnation out of me as well.
    Having never read the Da Vinci Code, or any of the books that support or debunk it, I would have to say that he does imply that a lot of it is factual through his bit at the start, Dr Shell suggests. Whether or not it is, I shall refrain from commenting, purely out of ignorance.
    (I am inclined to believe it, myself. But I like a good conspiracy.)

  5. culfy says:

    In the front of the Da Vinci Code, it states that everything in the book relating to Opus Dei, the Priory of Sion etc is fact.

  6. Christopher Shell says:

    I have discussed the fact/fiction issues in the Da Vinci Code at:

  7. Tania says:

    Sorry Christopher I’m so used to using shorthand; yes LMAO does mean Laughing My Arse Off…
    No I do not disagree with any of your comments, the author does indeed state at the beginning of the book that all the info about The Priory of Sion and Opus Dei, and also all the info about the picture locations in the Louvre is correct. The rest is just one of many conspiracy theories, it just threatens the Church and their foundations. I think it’s a brilliant theory that is as likely as any other.

  8. Tania says:

    Oh and by the way I just visited your site and the analysis of the book. I would just like to say that I found it intriguing and answered a lot of my questions about the Da Vinci Code. Well done!

  9. Christopher Shell says:

    Two things puzzle me though:
    (1) How can you both approve my site and also approve the DaVinci Code ‘theory’? The two are opposed to each other.
    (2) Don’t you think it is only specialists who are qualified to say whether the theory is good or bad?
    Non-specialists can say whether or not they might WANT such a theiry to be true. But unless they have the background knowledge, their opinion would not be worth much. Just like my opinion on car mechanics, or fashion, is not worth much.

    Unless people have any knowledge of the historical periods in question (and Dan Brown is not a specialist in thesee things: he is an English teacher), then they are not yet qualified to say whether they think a theory is likely.
    They can say that they LIKE the theory (because it fits in with their wants and wishes) but that is not at all the same as saying that the theory is likely to be correct.

    Surely you know that the fact that a theory threatens the Church is not (in itself) evidence that the theory is correct. There are people with anti-Christian agendas, just as there are people with Christian agendas.
    Forget agendas. Concentrate on hard evidence.
    Not a single New Testament professor anywhere in the world, whether they are Christian, Jewish, agnostic, or atheist, takes Brown’s so-called ‘theories’ seriously.
    The man in the street doenst realise this. The man in the street might like Brown’s ‘theories’ to be true.
    But big publicity is not at all the same thing as big plausibility.
    And whether or not a person might want the theories to be true, that has absolutely nothing to do with the question of whether they actually are true.
    For that we must turn to evidence, and to specialists: both Christian and non-Christian specialists have written several books debinking the Da Vinci Code theories.

  10. Tania says:

    I didn’t say that the theory was true, I just said that it was brilliant. By that I mean that it was a well thought out well reasearched idea (according to me anyway), and that just because there is no mention of any of it in the Bible (which is probably a load of rubbish anyway) does not mean that it is not true.

    And I didn’t say I believed in the theory; I merely said it was ‘as likely as any other’. Which it is.

    I do not appreciate people telling me that I cannot believe in a theory just because I haven’t been educated in the matter. Yes I think the theory is good, and yes my opinion may mean bugger all because I am not qualified to say so. But I *do* have a right to state whether I think it is good or not. Whether my oppinion means anything to you es not matter to me; you have the right to state yours, and I have the right to state mine, regardless of the fact that you are obviously more aware of the topic than me.

  11. Christopher Shell says:

    Hi Tania

    I disagree!! (sorry!)

    If the topic is one where I have no knowledge (eg car mechanics) I dont voice an opinion, I just say I am unqualified to hold an opinion. Which is absolutely true. I am unqualified.

    If the theory is ‘as likely as any other’ then all theories must be equally likely. Which means that true theories are equally likely to crackpot ones. Come, now! You dont really believe that informed and uninformed opinions are really ‘equally’ likely to be true. If they were, then my opinion on car mechanics would be ‘equally likely’ to the opinion of a trained car mechanic. But it isnt, and surely you dont believe that it is.

    ‘The Bible…which is probably a load of rubbish anyway’ – another case in point. It is only those who have not looked into a topic in any great depth who can make such wild sweeping generalisations. But this particular matter is an important one. Best to suspend judgment and not give any opinions until youve looked into the matter.

    After all, I never give any opinions on car mechanics. And quite right too!!

  12. Tania says:

    Well I have to say that is a fair enough argument – good point – but I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one!

  13. tom p says:

    So if one has no knowledge on a subject, then one cannot comment informedly onit, eh “doc”?
    So does that mean that your squad of gullibles and biblical absolutists will stay out of commenting on the meejah from now on? or that you’ll simply defer to scientists when it comes to evolution?
    go on, say it, baby, you know you want to

  14. Tania says:

    That was what I was trying to say Tom….I don’t really have a way with words!

  15. tom p says:

    I thought you rather admirably led him onto a trap made of his own illogic

  16. Christopher Shell says:

    Tom –

    Read my previous remarks. The whole point of the evolution debate is that one should pay more attention to experts than nonexperts.
    The topic is not merely a scientific one but also a logical one to some extent. on logical issues I can at least comment. On scientific ones it would be no good listening to me, when there are so many trained scientists around, so I would plead ignorance. All my previous comments have been logical ones not scientific ones. Both are relevant.

    Hey Tania-
    You must think I am a beast, but the ‘agree to disagree’ thing is nonsense as well. It means we have chosen not to think/research/discuss any more – and clearly anyone would prefer the approach that persists with thought/research/discussion to the approach that simply throws in the towel. The former approach, alas, is linked to relativism which is a self-refuting philosophy.

  17. tom p says:

    Where does non-scientific comment have a place in dicussions of evolution? Where does logic have a place in religious theories?
    Relativism is not a single philosophy. It is a rejection of the absolutism preached (not argued, mind you, but preached) by most religions. You claim that all goodness stems from ‘god’. If this isn’t relativism (since it means there are no inherent goods or bads, just decrees from ‘god’), then I don’t know what is.
    this is why many here are suspicious of your title

  18. Christopher Shell says:

    Both scientific and philosophical training can help in the discussion of evolution. It is a matter of biology; it is also a matter of metaphysics: what sort of things exist, or can exist?
    Logicians (not that I am one, tho’ I have had some logical training) can help biologists in pointing out two kinds of things:
    (1) where their presuppositions have not been examined;
    (2) where their points are self-contradictory.
    But everyone would agree that the more disciplines one is trained in, the more helpful it is and the more angles one can see. Biology plus logic is always going to be better than mere biology. Alas (being without scientific training, albeit with a love of Darwin and the Beagle voyages), Im capable of neither – only of logic without biology. But there are plenty of ppl who are.

    ‘Where does logic have a place in religious theories?’ – Dont understand. (1) Logic has a place everywhere, unless we are planning to be illogical, which is not a good move. (2) The category ‘religious’ is vague & incoherent. But insofar as I can understand the term ‘religious’ at all (what does it mean???) it seems to me that it was precisely the religious ppl who were Jesus’s enemies. The Jesus whom ppl follow isnt/wasnt a ‘religious’ person (how meaningless can one get?) but an historical person.

    ‘Not argued but preached’??? R u sure you have the right target here? Argument (not preaching) is the staple diet of all serious debaters on this site.

  19. Tania says:

    Sorry to butt in here with the evolution argument, I’m not going to comment on it because to be honest I feel I am under-qualified *according to Doctor Chris*, so I am insuperior and therefore have no right to comment on this topic. *cough cough*
    But to continue with the previous discussion, I merely said we should ‘agree to disagree’ so that I could hold the peace and not get into an even more aggressive discussion. I can see this is getting no where, and cannot be bothered to have a one sided discussion; it is obvious that the both of us aren’t going to change our minds, as we both have (opposing) strong views on the matter.
    Tom – thanks…love the quote “Where does logic have a place in religious theories”. It’s the quote of the day!

  20. Christopher Shell says:

    Hey Tania-
    What’s wrong with being under-qualified? There are millions of things in the world to know about, and every single person is underqualified to comment on at least 90% of them.
    Socrates was considered to be the wisest man who had yet lived, because he was the first one to realise how little he knew.
    You said ‘we both have strong views’…but surely the point is that it is impossible to have any views (strong or weak) unless one has first looked into the subject a bit. When one does so, one will often change one’s views.
    Until that time, one has no views. No beliefs. No opinions. Only wishes. And wishful thinking never made anything true.
    If it’s only aggression that you are worried about, it is perfectly possible to have the same discussion in a peaceful way. Though remember that people often misinterpret precise, accurate and clear expression to be aggression. Some people even misinterpret all disagreement as aggression. No issues are likely to be solved while people hold either of these misinterpretations.

    Re ‘religion’, read my comment 18. I am and always have been anti-religion and pro-Jesus.

  21. tom p says:

    No. evolution is not a matter of metaphysics. It is a matter of biology. And scientific theories are scrutinised from every posible angle, usually by rivals who would love to blow a hole in someone else’s theory. As far as I’m concerned, everyone should be interested in such things – they’re fascinating, and addressing them from a viewpoint of seeking to increase knowledge, rather than spouting mumbo jumbo is always helpful.
    Religious was used in the sense of deriving from a soi disant god, such as christianity.
    The theories for the creation of the universe, the world, and the inhabitants of the world propounded by christianity (and indeed any other religion), are utterly illogical and nonsensical. logci clearly has no place in them, nor does using such religions as a basis for one’s life.
    I was not saying that anyone here was preaching, merely that religions do. Hence the term ‘preacher’ used for priest.

    Of course, one can have views, beliefs or opinions on things that one has not looked into. eg, I have not looked into Peter Sutcliffe’s ‘yorkshire ripper’ killings, yet it is my firm belief that it was wrong. it is my opinion that he should not have done it. in my view, he’d’ve been better off not doing it. I’d say that I have to disagree with you on that point

  22. Tania says:

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with being under qualified, that is my point. And how can you assume that I have not looked into these things? Just because you have ‘resaearched’ all this stuff doesn’t mean that I haven’t.
    Like I said before it doesn’t look like we’re getting anywhere, so I’m not going to continue arguing about MY VIEWS. And yes, I do have views which I am entitled to. I’m sorry but I’m not going to change my mind any time soon – you’ve not convinced me to change MY VIEWS.
    Basically I agree with what tom said in the previous post – I have opinions and I will stick to them regardless of whether they’re appreciated or not.

  23. Christopher Shell says:

    Hi Tania
    That’s exactly the point.
    The world is divided into openminded people and people who ‘are not going to change their mind soon’. Why belong to the more closedminded group rather than to the openminded group?
    The fact that you have already made up your mind proves that your opinions are not opinions at all – they are just wishes. If someone openminded encounters evidence that means they have to change their mind, they will change their mind. For all I know, I might encounter such evidence tomorrow. That’s why I would never say ‘I wont change my mind soon’. Because one can never know that.

  24. Tania says:

    I am a totally open minded person – that is why I am interested in these things like JSTO and the Da Vinci Code – things that are different.
    When I said I had made my mind up I meant about the whole ‘worth of an opinion’ debate. I wasn’t referring to subject of the Da Vinci Code, I was talking about the points you made about what I should and should not say was good/bad.
    I will not change my mind any time soon about this – I will always give my opinion on whether I think something is good or not; regardless of my “qualifications”. Not because I am not open minded (in fact I am the extreme opposite of this), just because I know that I am entitled to give my opinion. Even if you are more qualified or whatever it is.
    Look whatever you say this is going round in circles; you’re never going to understand what I mean. Because it seems as is you are the ‘closed-minded’ one here, not me. And it looks like a lot of the other posters on here will agree.

  25. tom p says:

    doc – tania has a point. An opinion does not have to be formed from study, but arises from thinking about something (or in some cases, not thinking about it). Your description of her opinions as ‘wishes’ does seem like an attempt to belittle her understanding of the issue.
    you’re again sending an argument down into a cul-de-sac over semantics, thus diverting attention from the fundamental point, which you were both interested in discussing. It’s very infuriating, y’know

  26. Christopher Shell says:

    It’s annoying I know – but actually it is very often the unexamined presuppositions which are the weak link in a given point-of-view.

    Surely it is not possible for someone open-minded to use the phrase: ‘I will not change my mind any time soon about this.’?

    An opinion formed from study is a proper opinion.
    An opinion which is willing to learn from those who have studied is also a proper opinion.
    An ‘opinion’ which is not willing to learn from those who have studied is most likely a wish rather than an opinion. Even professors learn new things every day, & that’s why I cant think of any good reason why anyone should close their mind to doing so.

    Hi Tania-
    When people disagree with other people, they do so because they are being honest and truthful, not because they are trying to make friends or lose friends. When they disagree, they will become unpopular with people who can’t distinguish between focussing on issues and focussing on personalities. I am well used to that, and Im not out to be popular (though of course it would be nice). When the name of the game is debate, then Im out to be accurate and truthful. Once someone is unpopular, then people will use all sorts of adjectives about them, including ‘closed-minded’, even when they are the very people most likely to use actual supported argument rather than assertion. In short, the adjectives people use about other people are nothing to do with the quality of their arguments, and everything to do with how popular or unpopular they are.

  27. tom p says:

    I can’t believe that you’ve so spectacularly missed the point yet a-blooming-gain.
    Tania stated categorically

    When I said I had made my mind up I meant about the whole ‘worth of an opinion’ debate. I wasn’t referring to subject of the Da Vinci Code, I was talking about the points you made about what I should and should not say was good/bad.

    If anything, this is a position of principle, rather than just an opinion, and one which you seem to really hold too (after all, to give one example, you’re happy to discuss statistics (well, at least demand them) without ever having studied them). A principled position is one that one is unlikely to change any time soon, unless circumstances change, of course.

    Regarding your point to Tania, that the adjectives used about people are not about the quality of argument, that is clearly not necessarily true.
    I’ve spent some time discussing things with you, and there are plenty of adjectives that could be used to describe you (and I don’t mean the sort you hate to hear, even when not about you) based on opinions formed from arguing with you. Some will be positive and some negative, that’s the way things are. It was, in fact, you who brought the name calling into it by implying, none-too-subtly, that you believe Tania to be “closedminded” (sic). The reason you thought she was being such was that yet again you’d (intentionally?) led a discussion down a cul-de-sac. You then interpreted what she was saying about whether or not she was fit to hold an opinion on the da vinci code as though she was saying it about her opinion on the da vinci code.
    She, having read your piece, said that it supplied her with some answers to questions she’d had. If thanking your opponent (for want of a better word) for supplying you with some useful information during a debate is “closedminded” (sic), then I’d like to meet someone you consider to be “openminded” sic.

  28. tom p says:

    In fact, Tania’s firmly held and unlikely to change soon opinion that she has as much right to enter a debate as the next person could be said to be a belief, something that you know all about and clearly base much of your outlook on. Or are you saying that beliefs are just wishes and that you merely hope that ‘god’ exists, but you’re open to persuasion otherwise?

  29. Christopher Shell says:

    Hi again-
    I know! But Im not sure what difference it makes. Because ‘Im not changing my mind any time soon’ is something one wouldnt say about any matter at all, if one were truly open-minded. (There are exceptions, e.g. very obvious things. But that it is a good thing for ppl to offer their opinions about matters on which theyre uninformed -e.g. me offering my opinion on car mechanics – rather than spend the same time becoming better educated- is not obvious.)

    I have no idea whether Tania is open-minded or closed-minded. For all I know she may be a mixture. She was (to date) closed-minded about that particular matter, but that doesnt mean she will automatically be closed-minded about everything.

    It was not her thanks for the article that was closed-minded. When did I say that? (puzzled!!) It was her refusal to budge on the questionable & unpondered modern dogma (witnessed on phone-ins etc) that everybody’s opinion is valid, even equally valid.

    ‘Belief’ is a highly complex word:
    (1) Belief and knowledge are closely connected, since possibly the first prerequisite for knowledge is that it is true belief (cf. Plato’s ‘Meno’);
    (2) ‘Belief’ in the sense of ‘dogma’ is completely different. Dogma (ie unexamined ‘belief’, or so-called belief) is the enemy of scholarship and open investigation.
    (3) We have watertight copper-bottomed 100% knowledge about very few things. About other things, we just weigh up the options, and judge which we consider to be the likeliest. In English, that’s what we call ‘faith’. We have reasonable/justified faith (not 100% knowledge) that the taxi driver is not a crook, or that the plane wont crash.
    (4) Confusingly enough, this is not generally what the New Testament means by faith. The NT has a single word (pistis) for ‘faith’ and ‘belief’, and does not distinguish the two. But neither ‘faith’ nor ‘belief’ is the best translation for ‘pistis’: rather, ‘trust’ or ‘commitment’. That’s why the NT has unusual formations like ‘believe on’ or ‘believe into’ (in old translations). It’s talking about trust/commitment/throwing in one’s lot with. The element of risk/uncertainty is occasionally but not usually what is highlighted (‘We walk by faith not by sight’; ‘faith is the evidence of things not seen’). Usually, by contrast, what is highlighted is commitment to Christ (no uncertainty about his existence is implied, as he is a figure of history . That’s why it’s often best to avoid the words ‘belief’ and ‘faith’ altogether – they are so ambiguous and easily misunderstood.
    (5) If the above emphasis on true belief and weighing up the options sounds a bit like the empirical approach which concentrates on evidence, then that’s exactly what it is. Where we have absolute knowledge go with it. Where we dont (and we usually dont), then go with the evidence. One of the surest & most objective forms of evidence (though often still highly debatable) is mathematical/statistical evidence. Stats are generally imperfect – on the other hand they are regularly the best (& most objective) that we have.
    You’re so right that Im not an expert in stats. But Ive studied logic, and Im ok at pure maths – and these overlap with stats.

  30. tom p says:

    It’s all getting a bit convoluted.
    Tania read a book and said that she admired the central conceit (“I think it’s a brilliant theory that is as likely as any other.”).
    Having read the book and looked for answers to some questions it raised (see comment 8), one could not call her uninformed and especially not closed mineded.
    Tania believes that, given the nature of this forum and that she is at least partly informed on the subject, she should have a right to express an opinion on this book and its central conceit.
    Frankly, she has a perfectly good point and there is no reason why that should change soon, unless a group of intellectual scholars invade this thread and start arguing in such an intelligent manner that the rest of us are reduced to the role of slack-jawed bystanders admiring their logic and intelligence and gasping at their magnificent prose.
    Surely you have to concede that your view is mistaken.
    Asking people to believe the bible (even just the nu testament) and not the da vinci code is about as intellectually honest as asking people to believe winnie the pooh and not swallows and amazons. they’re both works of fiction

  31. tom p says:

    aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! a fecking smiley icon has appeared in my text.
    I did not intentionally cause it to be there. The phrase should have read (see comment eight), but with the eight expressed numerically, ie “8”.

  32. Christopher Shell says:

    Two requests then:
    (1) Can you share your research into the genre of the New Testament with us;
    (2) Can you explain how letters (at any rate, these particular letters) can be works of fiction;
    (3) Can you explain why not a single New Testament professor – out of perhaps 1000 altogether – Jew, Christian, atheist, agnostic – shares your view that the NT is a work of fiction?

  33. Christopher Shell says:

    Make that 3 requests (looks like maths is not my strong point after all…) 😮

  34. tom p says:

    1 – Fantasy. A lead character who c’n feed 5,000 with a couple of loaves and five fishes? Rising from the dead? water into wine? Son of ‘god’? Sounds like fantasy to me. All it lacks is a magic sword and some dragons.
    2 – Any letters could be a work of fiction, if they’re not sent to anyone then an imaginary response is made up. Example:
    Dear Tony Blair,
    why don’t you apologise for taking this country into an illegal war, you smug murdering cunt?
    Yours, Tom

    Dear Tom,
    You’ve got me bang to rights, guv, and no mistake. I’m very, very, sorry. Please pass this on to the people of Britain.
    your pal,
    Clearly fake letters. You want them on lavender-scented notepaper?
    3 – ‘cos it would put them out of a job. A new testament professor is hardly likely to point out that it’s a load of old cock and is hardly an impartial observer. You seem to have remarkable faith in these people who study a single work of fiction for a living.

  35. tom p says:

    Hang on, yet again you’ve ignored when you’ve clearly been shown to be wrong and grasped at an unrelated point to try and take the argument on another tack, so you can pretend that you haven’t clearly been shown to be utterly incorrect. that’s about the 3rd time this thread.
    I despair, I really do

  36. Monitor says:

    LOL. At least we’ve got his m.o. figured out. Let me reply on doc’s behalf.

    Your argument amounts to “I declare that you have shown to be wrong, therefore you are clearly wrong.” Is that tenable?

    There are two possibilities:
    a) I am right, but you do not realise it because of your western presuppositions
    b) I am right, and you know it, but cannot admit it because you are closed minded.

    Which is it to be?

  37. Tania says:

    Ermm….I think both!

  38. Christopher Shell says:

    Hi Monitor
    What’s m.o.? It means mail order in this part of England 😮

    Hi Tom
    There’s one sure thing: when someone makes a wild sweeping generalisation, they aint an expert. ‘It’s all fiction innit?’, regarding 27 separate writings from 2000 years ago counts as a wild sweeping generalisation.

    Certainly fictional letters are possible. But what evidence would you cite in favour of the New Testament letters being all fictional (ie having had no real recipients)? Im only asking that you produce one out of a thousand accredited NT scholars (and remember that these guys include several who are highly critical of some aspects of the NT) in your support. ‘Cos I can produce the other 999 in mine.

  39. Christopher Shell says:

    Re your original point:
    I dunno. I thought Id answered these points already. Namely: each of us can in theory comment on any matter. Some in a more informed way, some in a less informed, and various degrees in between. Obviously not all our contributions will be equally valuable (eg mine on car mechanics will be of no value whatsoever). This being so, our time would be better spent swotting up on the topics in question before hazarding an opinion. But there’s no law against hazarding an opinion.

  40. What’s m.o.? It means mail order in this part of England

    There you go again, prescribing to things only the meaning you are aware of. It means “mail order” to you in your part of England. I’m sure there are many folk around you that are aware of it as an abbreviation of “modus operandi”.

  41. Christopher Shell says:

    Hi Richard-
    Honestly! I humbly ask for information, I make a feeble joke, and you explode! What innocent activity is there left for me to indulge in? 😮

  42. Tania says:

    Daisy Chaining.

  43. Christopher Shell says:

    LOL @ Tania


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Book 32 of 2012 – John Scalzi – Redshirts

Book 32 of 2012 is a bit of a departure from my normal reading, kind of a throwback to an earlier era when I read a lot of science fiction. The book Redshirts by John Scalzi is actually a semi-mystery. Not a murder mystery, more of a why are all the little people getting killed mystery!

When Ensign Andrew Dahl is assigned to Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, he is thrilled! He was assigned to the xenobiology lab, and would have a chance to serve on “Away Missions”, along with the ship’s senior officers. He soon discovers that on every “Away Mission” the ships officers face some kind of deadly confrontation, while some members of the senior crew , particularly Lieutenant Kerensky get badly wounded. They always seem to survive, while one low-ranking member of the crew is killed!

Dahl soon learns, that one of the crew members actually monitors the movement of the senior crew, so that other members can hide to avoid being selected for the missions. In an attempt to discover what’s happening, Dahl makes contact with the elusive Jenkins, whose theory is the that ship is actually…….That sets Dahl and his friends on a mission to save his ship mates!!

John Scalzi is a terrific writer and blogger. His blog Whatever is great (Note to self read blog more often) The first Scalzi book I read was Old Man’s War, which I loved. I followed that quickly with The Ghost Brigades also great, then I got sidetracked and  The Last Colony is still on my to be read pile!

But back to Redshirts, which is a funny and cleverly written book, that keeps your interest up to the touching ending! Here’s what some others have said about the book:

“I can honestly say I can’t think of another book that ever made me laugh this much. Ever” Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind”

Scalzi takes apart the whole Star Trek universe and puts it back together for more plausibly – and a lot funnier , too”  – Levi Grossman, author of The Magician

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Attack your weaknesses: Running causes muscle tightness throughout the lower body, so you need to work on it regularly with a foam roller. Key areas to hit are the quads, hip flexors (the muscles at the top of your pelvis), and IT bands (along the sides of your thighs). Roll these parts with the foam and hold any particularly ten- der areas until you feel them begin to release—do this before and/or after runs. You can also take preventive measures to protect your knees. The vastus medialis, the muscle on the inner side of your quads, acts as the main stabilizer for the knee joint. You canstrengthen it with the Peterson stepup. Set up a small box or step that’s about eight inches off the floor and stand to the left of it. Bend your right knee and place the ball of your right foot on the step (heel raised). It’s OK for your knee to be in front of your toes. Extend your knee to step up onto the box as you lower your heel to the surface, but let your left foot dangle. Perform three sets of 8–10 reps on each leg and work to raise the height of the step over time.Lastly, run outside instead of on a treadmill whenever possible. Running on a moving belt pulls your legs behind you, doing the work that your posterior chain muscles should be taking on, and that leads to muscle imbalances, Boyce says. “Let the glutes and hams play their role.”

Change tempo: Running is progressed by reaching a total weekly mileage. This should include runs done at different tempos, or paces. Day 1 can be a slower-paced jog for a longer distance—perhaps up to five miles. The next day can be faster, where you look to complete your distance—say 21⁄2 miles—in a shorter time. The combo of endurance and speed wins races.

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Go low: High-top sneakers that provide extra ankle support were popular in the ’80s and ’90s but are giving way to low-tops or mid-range sneakers now. “When you essentially put a cast around your ankle, the stress of running and turning gets transferred elsewhere,” says Ferruggia. Namely, your knees, hips, and lower back. Less-supportive sneakers like a Converse Chuck Taylor allow your ankles to work at stabilizing themselves.

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Take a breather: With the increasing popularity of CrossFit, P90X, and other workout trends that emphasize a blistering pace, some have come to interpret the concept of rest between sets as mere laziness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rest is necessary for the body to recover ATP, the fuel source for muscle cells, and for the nervous system to recruit all the muscle fibers needed to perform the next set. Forgoing it in a misguided effort to push yourself harder will ultimately limit your muscle gains and hurt your performance. According to the Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning, the main text of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, rest intervals between two and five minutes are necessary for maximal gains in strength. To build muscle size, 30- to 90-second rests are appropriate. Demanding lifts like the squat and bench press should be done with longer rests between sets, whereas accessory work, such as lateral raises, curls, and other isolation movements can have shorter breaks.

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Chalk up: Most commercial gyms offer slick barbells with poor knurling (the rough patches on the bar that you grip), making them hard to hold on to and control when using heavy weights. Gyms also tend to frown on using chalk—which keeps your hands dry—and don’t carry it, compounding the problem. “A chalk sock can help you get a better grip without creating a mess,” Bruno says. Found in outdoor adventure stores that cater to rock climbers, a chalk sock is a permeable pouch you can fill with magnesium carbonate. You can squeeze it to chalk up your hands.

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Lift like an Olympian: Schroeder prefers to use the Olympic lifts to build coordination, agility, and power in his clients. “Snatching and jerking your body weight will teach you to maneuver your feet.” Proper form will help you progress, so when you’re not doing them in your CrossFit WODs, practice the exercises at home with a five-foot PVC pipe. The pipe—or any light bar—simulates a bar- bell, so you can ingrain good technique.

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Here’s a snatch-and-jerk mini WOD from Schroeder:

10 sets of 5 snatch drops; 60 seconds’ rest between sets
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10 sets of split jerks; 60 seconds’ rest

If you do CrossFit regularly, we assume the split jerk is familiar to you. The snatch drop and snatch balance may not be. The snatch drop begins in a standing position with your feet about hip-width apart and the bar held behind your head, as in a squat, although with a wide snatch grip. Immediately jump your feet out to your squat stance and drop into a full squat while pressing the bar up explosively. You’ll finish in the bottom of a full snatch. The snatch balance works the same way but you’ll get momentum from the knees first. Dip your knees and explosively extend them to power the bar up.

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Condition yourself: Athletes with backgrounds in aerobic exercise generally have trouble acclimating to the conditioning demands of WODs. That’s because the endurance component in CrossFit is more anaerobic in nature. Below is a stamina- building circuit that Schroeder created.

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