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If you're planning a Halloween Party this October, and need some fresh (and freaky) ideas for your buffet table, there's an app for that – it's called Halloween Party Planner, and its coming soon to your iPhone.

Created by a Scottish programmer and Spanish artist duo in Edinburgh, the app features backgrounds inspired by some of the city's more haunted locations, including Greyfriars Kirkyard, a place well known to ghost spotting aficionados for its spooky goings on.

Inside the app you'll find a host of fun and easy to make Halloween dishes, ranging from simple snacks and starters, to main meals, cakes and desserts, and a selection of traditional Halloween specialties from around the world.

In addition to assembling this creepy collection of recipes, illustrator Amanda Vazquez has produced a collection of 10 exclusive Halloween Party invitations, only available in this app. Those that prefer to communicate digitally these days will appreciate the ability to fill out the invitations on device and email to guests, but they are perfect for printing too.

Guaranteed to make your Halloween festivities a scream, Halloween Party Planner will be haunting the App Store from October 1st 2011 with all content included for just 69p, no mischievous additional purchases waiting to jump out and startle you!

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venuu 18

what mean with ja, ja, ja? btw it sounds like hollands for yes, yes, yes

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LOL! It´s "HA HA HA!" in spanish

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funny, but shouldn't it sat ha, ha, ha than? as it is a english page. but funny that spanish and hollands have same word, but mean diff

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Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

Online ISSN 1552-4485; Print ISSN 0033-569X

Initial-boundary value problem to systems of conservation laws with relaxation

Authors: Zhouping Xin and Wen-Qing Xu
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 60 (2002), 251-281
MSC: Primary 35L65; Secondary 35B30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1900493
MathSciNet review: MR1900493
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Abstract: In this paper we consider the initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for the one-dimensional Jin-Xin relaxation model. The main interest is to study the boundary layer behaviors in the solutions to the IBVP of the relaxation system and their asymptotic convergence to solutions of the corresponding hyperbolic conservation laws in the limit of small relaxation rate. First we develop a general expansion theory for the relaxation IBVP using a matched asymptotic analysis. This formal procedure determines a unique equilibrium limit, and also reveals rich initial and boundary layer structures in the solutions of the relaxation system. Arbitrarily accurate solutions to the IBVP of the relaxation system are then constructed by combining the various orders of the equilibrium solutions, the initial and boundary layer solutions. The validity of the initial and boundary layers and the asymptotic convergence results are rigorously justified through a stability analysis for a broad class of boundary conditions in the case when the relaxation system is $ 2 \times 2$.

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Holiday Gift Guide: Pat Brannon Books

This is another one of many great reviews and giveaways that Joy of Momma Joyner and I will be bringing you with our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide!!

Do you love to read books with your children or maybe you have a child that is old enough to read to you. We love doing both in the Anderson household. There are many times in the evenings that Bubba will sit down and read a book to Pumpkin and Sweet Pea. If you remember in the past I did a review of a book called The Quirky Kids Zoo by Pat Brannon and I am so happy to have teamed up with again to bring you some more wonderful books.

Christian Books, Santa

These books are all so wonderful to read and my favorite is "Walk Softly You're Steppin' On My Heart". It is filled with many inspirational Christian poems. The kids all loved "The Year Santa Refused To Wear Red". They said Santa seemed like a cowboy and they love cowboys. They found it amusing that Santa wanted to give up his famous red suit to look like a cowboy instead. Jake really enjoyed "Mudpuddles and Muscadines" because it is a heartwarming and sometimes humorous collection of Southern anecdotes.
 These are three of many wonderful books that Pat has written. I would highly suggest checking out all Pat's books they make wonderful additions to anyone's book collection. Pat has been gracious enough to offer a signed copy of "The Year Santa Refused To Wear Red" and "Mudpuddles and Muscadines" to one lucky reader.

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  1. I love to read so it is really hard to pick. I read Green Eggs and Ham to my daughter when I was pregnant with her and now we read that to her little brother in my belly - so I will go with that one :)

  2. My favorite book of the two you posted would be Mudpuddles and Muscadines. I think my grandkids would love it!
    My personal favorite book is one I read when in my teens. 'Good-bye, My Lady'. It's about a boy and his dog...

  3. My favorite book is Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse! Thanks for the awesome. By the way, I love the Thankfully Homemade button!!

  4. My favorite book is Sense and Sensibility. My daughter's favorite at the moment is The Snowy Day.

  5. Brown Bear Brown Bear! My little girls current fave!

  6. I love to read JD Robb books but I love reading any funny to my grandkids.

  7. Hmm.. My favorite book... I am not much of a reader myself, but I did manage to read the Twilight series and enjoyed it!!!

  8. The Bible is my absolute favorite, and then there are tons in 2nd. I love to read to the kids and myself!

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Nothing says “Holiday Spirit” like grabbing a snack and some hot cocoa, then jumping in the car to take in the lights and sights of the season!  In and around the Des Moines metro, the choices are plenty when it comes to areas for your tour de lights.  We’d like to take this opportunity to highlight just a few of our faves!

First up, the obvious: Jolly Holiday Lights!  Drive through Water Works Park to enjoy one of Central Iowa’s most beloved traditions!  And don’t forget a stop at Santa's Wish Shop where you can talk to Santa, get a snack or even snag some stocking stuffers! See link for admission prices and hours.

Next, be sure to plan a drive through of a few well-known Beaverdale neighborhoods!  Beaverdale Lights is a show of about 50 homes on Ashby and Wallace Avenues east and west of Beaver Avenue.  Some of these are historic homes with serious holiday cheer!

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While you’re out and about in Des Moines, see to it that your tour involves a drive to 200 North Main Street in Grimes.  This is where Bob Jordan and his family set up their elaborate indoor and outdoor display every year. And just to put this one in perspective, the Jordan’s have so many lights that they beginning the decorating process in October!  A show said to use more than 1,000 feet of drop cord, the 2010 show used 127 plastic snowmen and 74 Santa Claus statues. The family gives all proceeds to the Special Olympics – a win, win in our book!

Looking to stay a little closer to home, Ankeny friends?  Our town is proud to feature several well-lit neighborhoods known for their festive-ness and magnificent light displays!

Perhaps the most popular is the famous Gingerbread Lane on Richland Court and the nearby Richland and Rio Circles.  This year these streets will be collecting canned goods (December 13-14, and 20-12 from 6-8pm).  These neighbors have a story to tell and do so using lights and decorations!

Called the city’s best kept Christmas light secret, some homes in The Country Club division boast beautiful displays and lots of holiday spirit.

Of course, the well lit and decorated homes in and around Ankeny are too numerous for us to mention all.  But we want to know?  Where have you found the best light displays and festive decorations?  We’ll be checking the comments and making sure to take your advice!


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Your Guide To Buying Women Clogs

Clogs can be characterized by open heels, closed toes, and wooden soles. However, times have really changed, and now they are regarded as any shoe with a platform heel, open heels, thick soles, and closed toes. Clogs and mules are usually confused as they are interchangeable. The main difference is that mules can have any form of heel including stilettos. You can find some clogs that have closed heels. Such types are meant for women in various professions, that must be on the feet throughout the day like in the medical field.

Clogs were very popular in the 1970s. However, the recent appearance in top fashion magazines has brought this trend back again. The good thing about them is that they add volume and attitude to an outfit.

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A scandal in global warming research is unfolding that isn’t going away. Internal correspondence from the Climate Reseach Unit (CRU), the research center and ground zero for global warming advocacy, was released that reveals that the top global warming scientists hid data that proves the earth has been cooling for the last ten years, conspired against colleagues that were global warming skeptics, and cooked the numbers to keep the lucrative grants coming. It is taking time to digest all the facts but you can read some preliminary conclusions here: London Telegraph, Pajamas TV, Fox News, Washington Times, (Google “climategate” for more).

Global warming was of course the centerpiece of the Ecumenical Patriarch’s pastoral message to America during his trip to the United States a few weeks back. The Green Patriarch embraced the Progressive environmentalist agenda, so much so that he lent the full weight of his office to urge the passage of political legislation such as the Copenhagen Protocols that global warming advocates argued was needed to stop imminent environmental catastrophe.

We warned the EP’s handlers that the Mississippi River Symposium and the Washington, DC public relations offensive last month was a dangerous road to take. We objected that a leader of the EP’s stature was lending his moral authority to legislation built on questionable (now shoddy and corrupt) science. We rejected the political correctness that shaped many of his public statements, especially the elevation of secular moralism and apocalyptic alarmism, while ignoring the critical issues like the continuing devaluation of human life seeping into western civilization. We pointed out that two other prominent religious leaders of the West, Pope Benedict and Patriarch Kirill, have no trouble making these important moral distinctions.

Progressive environmentalism will suffer a grave blow when the corruption revealed by the release of CRU documents is fully comprehended. The Ecumenical Patriarch hitched his wagon to the environmentalist agenda and garnered heaps of praise by secular elites for his, well, “progressive” leadership.

It will prove to be a debilitating blunder. Sanctifying cultural fads and political ideologies carries a penalty. The moral stature of the Ecumenical Patriarch will diminish as the corruption of the CRU is further revealed. The basking in accolades from civic authorities and cultural gatekeepers will be seen as the abrogation of moral authority that it is. Opportunities for substantive leadership have been squandered, and the Church and the culture are the poorer for it.

  1. George Michalopulos :

    This has the potential to be as huge as the UN’s food-for-oil scandal.

    At the risk of making a political point, it appears that the US Senate in 1998 (majority Democrat) and George W Bush (GOP) in 2001 were 100% justified in not adhering to the Kyoto Protocols. During that time, the economy of the US grew by $6 trillion dollars while that of Japan and the EU remained static at best. Just think of all the obloquy heaped upon Bush for 8 years for not signing Kyoto? Now who looks foolish?

    Now of course we’re hell-bent on going 100% in the opposite direction. It’s our turn to have a “lost generation.” And for us Orthodox, the sad thing is that we’ll be exposed as charlatans because “the First Throne of Orthodoxy” made Gaia-worship a cardinal tenet of our faith.

    I know I’ve been hard on the Phanar, and I realize that many of its proponents have played the victim card, a la “do you know how many assassination attempts the EP has had to endure?” etc. And it’s true. The purpose of course was to shut up his ever-growing legion of critics. Yet let us examine this: suppose that (God forbid) a tragedy occurs. For what? Because the mean temperature of the earth may have been elevated by 1 degree Fahrenheit? (Which we now know is a lie.) I wish nothing untoward to happen to His Holiness, but if something bad occurs –to any of us for that matter–wouldn’t it be better it be because of our steadfastness to the Gospel rather than to Al Gore?

    Lest we forget, Gore is a world-class hypocrite who has the carbon footprint the size of Godzilla and who is a multimillion many-times-over because he’s created an artificial market in selling carbon credits. This is nothing but a scam, no different than the RC church selling indulgences during the Renaissance. How big of a fool is Gore? He recently went on Jay Leno and stated that the core temperature of the earth was “several million degrees.” In reality, it’s about 5,000 degrees. Not only is that man a liar and a hypocrite, but a fool. (Just compare the scrutiny that Sarah Palin is subjected to in comparison to Gore. Not even close.)

  2. The folks over at RealClimate are heavy into damage control 😳 :

    See “The CRU hack” post of 11/20/2009 and “The CRU hack: Context” post of 11/23/2009. Combined comments… over 1,400. 😯 Wow!

    (And, thanks for the smilies! 🙂 )

  3. On the other side, check out Climate Depot, where you can buy your “hide the decline” T-shirt.

    Lauren Morello of ClimateWire has an update in the New York Times. Read Stolen E-Mails Sharpen a Brawl Between Climate Scientists and Skeptics.

    The Cato Institute’s Michaels says he believes the true impact of the data breach won’t be felt until next year, since it’s unlikely that nations will assent to a new binding agreement next month at U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen.

    “Whatever happens, this is going to go on — there are just too many of them,” Michael said, referring to the CRU files. “It’s like whack-a-mole. And the whack-a-mole nature of it means it’s going to be prolonged. We’re now seeing people get into the computer code, and that’s going to have a life of its own.”

    Listen to Laura Ingraham’s interview with climatologist Patrick J. Michaels.

  4. I just saw – get this – carbon offsets available for purchase for your cell phone!

    I don’t know about yours, but my cell phone emits ZERO carbon dioxide. This is rich.

    I asked the girl at Best Buy if they sold very many ‘carbon offsets’ for cell phones, and she said ‘yes,’ and was ‘pretty sure’ it goes somewhere useful. Then she asked my wife and I if we were scientists.

    I responded, “No, but I can read.”

    I did not try very hard to mask my incredulity, and despite her insistence that Best Buy, surely, would make sure it goes to…somewhere….that will help…well?

    Man, if only I would have thought of this myself, I could retire after one Christmas season.

    This really is the scam of the century, and the scientific community is to blame for permitting the politicization of junk science, and the proliferation of such manure all the way down to the classroom.

    • Michael Bauman :

      Science these days equals grant money–the whole system is corrupt and those who challenge it are penalized.

      Hey, souund familiar?

  5. The only way for the CRU, et.al. to make this go away is to make the climate change debate (and the statistics and formulas) more transparent. If this is the result of the e-mail and document disclosure, well then… all the better. If the CRU continues with the bunker mentality then those on the other side will be justified in their incredulity, and they should throw these pejorative items up at every opportunity.

    How long before we pressure our elected representatives for an open Congressional hearing?

  6. “We can no longer afford to be passive observers in this crucial debate,” Patriarch Bartholomew says, “If we are to save our planet sacrifices must be made by all.”

    From “The climate e-mails and the politics of science” by Ivan Kenneally in The New Atlantis:

    For years, the left has spun the debate over global warming in the starkest Manichean terms. Those who disagree with the scientific and policy orthodoxy have been maligned as greedy capitalists bent on raping the earth of its natural resources for cheap material gain; they have been cast as the benighted enemies of reason itself. Efforts to publicly challenge the science behind global warming have too often resulted in professional and political character assassination. To be skeptical about the fashionable scientific and policy platform aggressively advocated by the mainstream media and self-indulgently championed by the Hollywood elite is nothing less than an “assault on reason,” to borrow Al Gore’s hyperbolic rhetoric. In predictably technocratic fashion, the left has claimed its own peculiar position as the only scientifically legitimate one—everything else reduces to craven interest, manifest dishonesty, or antiquarian faith.

    [ … ]

    Hillary Clinton famously remarked that during the Bush years it was “open season on open inquiry,” rehashing the familiar charge that a faith-based obscurantism dogmatically dismissed not only the claims of legitimate science, but also the very claims of reason itself. President Obama has stayed true to the liberal posture that whatever policy he happens to advocate is the only one substantiated by empirical science. However, it has become increasingly clear that the president’s claim to rigorously adhere to a science of politics—a science that provides unprejudiced information upon which he can craft sound policy—has been overtaken by a politics of science—the crass and Procrustean transformation of whatever data is available into further confirmation of his own ideological commitments. Australian writer Andrew Bolt has suggested that the CRU e-mail leak is a “scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science.” But the greater scandal may be that the United States and the rest of the world are considering enacting energy-restrictive and economy-damaging climate policies based on ideological distortions of scientific fact.

    • Imagine being a GOA staffer, internet worker, press officer, speech writer etc. You have spent countless hours promoting the Green Patriarch only to realize that the vision of the Green Patriarch is a lie and a sham created for political purposes.

      I would be pretty depressed if I just gave you months working on countless Green Patriarch items and its all for nothing.

      Illusions are going to die hard at the GOA as well.

      • That’s the risk of shifting your focus from eternal verities to momentary policy concerns. While I would agree with the EP about the need to change our approach to the world that God has entrusted to us, the diagnosis remains sin, and the Church’s traditional and deeply transformational solution remains sacramental asceticism permeated by the love of Christ. This is the only cure for humanity’s essential crisis and all of the various ongoing crises that emerge from it. In comparison to such a glorious solution, “climate change policy” still looks like a mess of pottage to me.

      • Fr. Johannes Jacobse :

        Andrew, I’ve been thinking about your comment ever since you made it. No doubt it is deflating to give such effort and talent to what amounts to support of a fraud, but this is only part of it. More important, what explains an entire Church being pushed to embrace global warming?

        I get that not everyone is a news junkie, and for many the culture debates are either a background din or high screech. But think about what we witnessed: all of the internal machinery of the GOA was geared toward making global warming a moral crusade. Call it the Al Gorization of Orthodoxy. They even had web games for kids! The entire effort was so outlandish we have to ask if there was any clear thinker in the bunch.

        Just think about this. 😯 If such time, effort, and money went into sanctifying a corrupt agenda, what does that say about their discernment, caution, preparation, intellectual rigor, informed decision making and such? Not much. We witnessed the full weight of Orthodox moral authority sanctifying a political program with no apparent regard for the veracity of the science, saw concerns about the partisanship between politicos and the religious waved off, and did not even see any pragmatic calculation that the entire project could blow up in their face.

        Well, blow up it did, and just two weeks after the extravaganza was completed. Now, as it sinks in how egregious the crimes (yes, crimes) committed by these fraudulent scientists really are, how can the Orthodox leaders who used their moral authority to sanctify this fraud be trusted with other things?

        There is not good way out of this. If they say they were duped, well, so much for credibility and leadership. If they say they knew, then they join the ranks of the fraudulent. I wonder if they understand the box they are in.

        Global Warmists Caught Red-Handed

        • Father, I think we could probably fill a book with the numerous moral and social contradictions in the GOA. These contradictions loom lage in many parishes and Church offices. It is embedded in the culture of Greek Orthodoxy in America.

          There is no question though that the whole Green Patriarch debacle is the result of the dumbing down of Greek Orthodoxy in America.

          I believe Fr. Richard John Neuhaus of blessed memory said it best “When Orthodoxy is optional, sooner or later it will be proscribed”

    • Ed Begley’s non-responsive rant is a textbook case of the radical leftist environmentalists approach in “debating” any subject they consider sacrosanct. They never bother to actually discuss the specific issues, the evidence, or the facts. They dismiss any of the objective contradictory information and fall back on a “mantra” or “talking point” that completely ignores the issue at hand. The other tried and true leftist tactic Ed employs is disregard the question and the objective facts and attack the messenger at all costs. Never admit to any of the information presented, and continue to point your finger in the questioner’s face and intimidate them into silence.

      • Poor Ed Begley. The Telegraph’s James Delingpole has posted a clip from the Not Evil Just Wrong documentary showing Ed shedding fake actor tears at an event. (Apparently, Ed’s crocodile tears weren’t the only thing faked by global warming hysterics.) Begley’s talk followed, by the way, one given by the recently departed green jobs “Tsar” Van Jones. Delingpole:

        What the CRU’s hacked emails convincingly demonstrate is that climate scientists in the AGW camp have corrupted the peer-review process. In true Gramscian style they marched on the institutions – capturing the magazines (Science, Scientific American, Nature, etc), the seats of learning (Climate Research Institute; Hadley Centre), the NGO’s (Greenpeace, WWF, etc), the political bases (especially the EU), the newspapers (pretty much the whole of the MSM I’m ashamed, as a print journalist, to say) – and made sure that the only point of view deemed academically and intellectually acceptable was their one.

        Neutral observers in this war sometimes ask how it can be that the vast majority of the world’s scientists seem to be in favour of AGW theory. “Peer-review” is why. Only a handful of scientists – 53 to be precise, not the much-touted 2,500 – were actually responsible for the doom-laden global-warming sections of the IPCC’s reports. They were all part of this cosy, self-selecting, peer-review cabal – and many of them, of course, are implicated in the Climategate emails.

        Now peer-review is dead, so should be the IPCC, and Al Gore’s future as a carbon-trading billionaire. Will it happen? I shouldn’t hold your breath.

        Also on the Telegraph, Gerald Warner explores the “ethos of the climate alarmist industry”:

        At this most sensitive moment the whole climate scare is threatening to unravel with literally immeasurable consequences. The seriousness with which the Americans are treating this has highlighted just how pivotal the CRU at East Anglia is to the global warming hype. As American newsmen are pointing out, East Anglia claims the world’s largest temperature data set and its findings and mathematical models were incorporated into the IPCC’s 2007 report, which the US Environmental Protection Agency admits it “relies on most heavily” in deciding that carbon dioxide emissions must be curbed.

  7. The deafening silence of the MSM is curious – especially since one of the worst businesses today is publishing. Yet the major papers think that by ignoring this story it will go away. With more people getting their news via alternative sources, the first casualty of that foolish decision will be the ONE thing the media relies on to sell its product: credibility. (Oh well, sell that too while you’re at it.) Eventually – as with so many other stories – they’ll be forced to cover it (and then explain it away so they can justify ignoring it). Ah, the blindness of the passions, wrapped up in a self-serving ideology.
    At least we have a nifty music video.

  8. Well, that didn’t work. Try this link.

  9. George Michalopulos :

    Chrys, I think “Hide the Decline” is going to be THE emblematic icon of this whole fiasco.

  10. Whom to trust?

    When it comes to science we must rely on others. There is no way to check everything yourself and repeat all that has been done up until now. You may be sure that no scientist can do every current experiment, or even follow every current argument! For most of us many (most) of the “scientific facts or truths” are a matter of faith. More than this, we are not even conscious of the fact that one is taking another’s word!

    Much too often we fall into a trap: we want so badly to be regarded as intelligent people. We get lost looking at the close to infinity new concepts, definitions, new theories and hypotheses. In doing so we miss the big picture.

    Any science book features the billions and millions of years it took for the planets to form, for life evolve and so on. We do not want to believe that God did everything because, well, we are rational people. Instead we replaced God with some ‘gods’. These gods have names like: time, gravity, strong force, nature, you name it. Because these gods are lower case g gods, they ofthen fail. Only God can conciliate all the current scientific theories! The god gravity who is resposible for the formation of the galaxies, stars and the planets in our solar system failed. Calculations show that around 90% of the matter in the universe is invisibile. This is the so called dark matter/energy and we needed to invent the concept because otherwise the gravity god does not explain properly how the universe works. Now we can happily go hunting the invisible dark matter.

    A Cristian has a clear understanding: God Almighty made the Heavens and Earth, all that is seen and unseen (invisible). The Holy Spirit is giver of life, the “Spirit of Truth, Who art in all places and fillest all things” and Christ is “the Way, the Truth and the Life”. We have thousands and millions who laid down their lives and suffered to proclaim this Truth.

    Any science book and science news presents all sorts of calamities to come:
    global warming, magnetic field reversal, the fate of the universe, asteroids heading our way, deadly invisible comets, etc. These calamities are to occur sooner or in thousands of years. Are these threats meant to distract us from the real, huge calamity that is unfolding under our very eyes: the millions of lost souls due to confusion (due to misleading perhaps), which has led us dangerously close to a spiritual death of mankind?

  11. Paragraph two (above) should read:

    “Yes, our planet is continually exploited by the rich; to the terrible cost of the poor, impoverished, the enslaved and starving.”

    Sorry for the typo!

  12. cynthia curran :

    Well, what about the poor polluting too. In the US, certain regions, the poor have more children than the rich, and contributed more to water pollution since more people leads to more waste products. Hispanic immirgation to California for the past 30 years is a case of point of that state growing perhaps 10 million more than it would without that kind of immirgation. And many of those that support poor people are in favor of them immigating to the US where they would polluate more.

    • Cynthia, let’s not confuse a regional issue with a global one. Your remarks about California may be legitimate, but you are addressing a separate issue; one that that involves the US/Mexico border, etc. (If these Mexicans were not in California, they would be living some place else on planet Earth.)

      The debate the original news item sparks off is whether global warming is politically or scientifically driven, and where the Church stands on the issue. At the risk of over-simplification, it comes down to which is more important: sanctity of human life or the environment.

      Obviously, we need an environment to sustain human life, but the far greater challenge is the self-destruction and brutal suffering, in a myriad of forms, that human inflicts upon fellow human. The Judeo-Christian tradition has a word for it: ‘sin‘. The planet may well be destroyed by the global consequences of sin within the human condition long before our mis-use of natural resources and pollution pays its ultimate toll. But addressing sin is not a popular item on the global political agenda.

      Thank God that Jesus Christ God’s son came in human flesh to save the whole world. Our task is to be bearers of Divine revelation, in order that spiritual sight may be restored to the blind, by which we might come to God’s Kingdom in repentance and faith, and prepare for His return in glory, that “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) that the Liturgy/Eucharist continually anticipates.

  13. Writing in yesterday’s Financial Times, MIT researcher Michael Schrage offers this:

    Dubbed “climate-gate” by global warming sceptics, the most outrageous East Anglia email excerpts appear to suggest respected scientists misleadingly manipulated data and suppressed legitimate argument in peer-reviewed journals.

    These claims are forcefully denied, but the correspondents do little to enhance confidence in either the integrity or the professionalism of the university’s climatologists. What is more, there are no denials around the researchers’ repeated efforts to avoid meaningful compliance with several requests under the UK Freedom of Information Act to gain access to their working methods. Indeed, researchers were asked to delete and destroy emails. Secrecy, not privacy, is at the rotten heart of this bad behavior by ostensibly good scientists.

    Why should research funding institutions and taxpayers fund scientists who deliberately delay, obfuscate and deny open access to their research? Why should scientific journals publish peer-reviewed research where the submitting scientists have not made every reasonable effort to make their work – from raw data to sophisticated computer simulations – as transparent and accessible as possible? Why should responsible policymakers in America, Europe, Asia and Latin America make decisions affecting people’s health, wealth and future based on opaque and inaccessible science?

    They should not. The issue here is not about good or bad science, it is about insisting that scientists and their work be open and transparent enough so that research can be effectively reviewed by broader communities of interest. Open science minimises the likelihood and consequences of bad science.

  14. First question that comes to my mind is: what is the scale of the phenomena?
    Is this an isolated case or similar stories are being played out in medicine, energy related research (mentioned here the cold fusion), earth sciences, astronomy? Politically motivated and industry-funded research is questionable since those who are paying want certain selected results.

    Second question is: how long has this been going on? What about the beginning of the so called scientific revolution? My guess is that back then some research areas were ideologically driven.

    And the last question is why was the Patriarch so long and deeply involved with this?
    Reading the life of the Saint of the day, Monkmartyr and Confessor Stephen the New of Mt St Auxentius (http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp) I found out that Constantine, the Archbishop of Constantinople was a zealous iconoclast.

    It was again Constantinople who imposed the new calendar which almost lead to a schism in the Orthodox Church. The schism was avoided by a compromise: keeping the date of the Eater as previously established, the first full moon after the spring equinox.
    People started to be suspicious toward Constantinople but it does not bother them. Widespread ignorance makes room for any affirmation.

  15. cynthia curran :

    I think your right I’m talking abut the issue too narrow. And I not against Mexicans and Central Americans having a better ecnomonic situation.

    • Cynthia, your reply is very gracious, God bless you …and California! 🙂 I used to live in Eureka, Ca., it still has not dropped into the sea; but we did have earthquakes – and it doesn’t survive in the movie 2012. But then…. what does? (Please forgive my light-hearted comment!) John in London

  16. about making the issue too narrow. my editing

  17. George Michalopulos :

    I don’t want to get into the immigration battle right now, but I do think it is incumbent on a sovereign nation to restrict its borders, otherwise, it’s not a sovereign nation. The degree, the extent, or the quality of its laws in this regard are up to the nation in question.

    IMHO, I don’t view immigration as an ecological crisis as the impact of man is minimal. Sure, people can trash their micro-environment (think about the aesthetic differences between a trailer park and a subdivision), and a mass migration of refugees can overwhelm local resources or cause desertification, but the ability of the earth to rebound after such an assault is remarkable. Look at Prudhoe Bay after the Exxon Valdez. Basically, if we mind our manners, the earth can take care of itself. Otherwise, there would not have been this mad rush to falsify data to show the reality of Anthropenic Global Warming (AGW). If it was truly man-made, then the figures would have spoken for themselves. They didn’t, hence “Climaquiddick/Climategate.”

    (BTW, in the 10 days since this story broke, the word “Climategate” has seen 9 million internet hits.

  18. Does Anyone know if the EP is actualy going to “Hopenhagen” to push the climate agreements? I know he supports it but is he going to warm up the old private jet and make a visit?

  19. George Michalopulos :

    Andrew, might as well. In for a penny, in for a pound.

  20. Warm up the Jet! It Looks like “Hopenhagen” is on the EP’ schedule.

    Old Rowan Williams will be hanging out with the EP for some feel good dialogue and common prayer. It will be the ecumenical/green equivalent of dueling banjos.

  21. George Michalopulos :

    Poor Rowan Williams, it was unpleasant seeing the Pope castrate him in such a public fashion. Maybe he can work whatever magic Anglicanism has left on the EP.

  22. John Couretas :

    Seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it? Remarks from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s Mississippi Symposium. (The Copenhagen conference opens Monday):

    Welcome message from former US Vice-President Al Gore

    Your all Holiness,

    I would like to welcome you to the United States and, in particular to the South. My own home is in Nashville, not far from New Orleans.

    From the days when I first addressed you as the Green Patriarch, our paths have crossed many times but we have both kept our course, struggling for a better future for our planet with the hope that our efforts will not fail.

    Never has it been more imperative to act than now.

    Never before have the dangers been so great, nor the opportunities so vast.

    And still, we know, although much has been achieved, the bulk of the work still lies ahead of us.

    Often we think how long will we have to fight? Why are the people in charge not responding with the urgency required?

    It turns out that raising ourselves above the personal interest is much harder than we thought.

    Your All Holiness, your perseverance in this struggle is demonstrated yet again by this waterborne Symposium.

    As Martin Luther King said, “Let’s not become silent about things that matter.”

    Al Gore

    Closing Remarks — His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

    We have come toward the end of our journey on the Great Mississippi. It was a journey that started in Memphis and concluded in New Orleans. A journey that learned from the Native American and from the African Americans. A journey that revealed the promise of the river and also uncovered the betrayal by humans. A journey that described the rich and diverse history of the region, as well as the hospitality and resilience of its people. A journey that started with “soul” and ended with “blues”. A journey with images of beauty and disaster, but also renewal and hope.

    We will return to our homes with clearer insight into the damage we have brought to God’s creation – ecological and social. We will come away with a sober reminder about how the deliberate actions of our greed, or the delayed actions of our indifference, destroy natural habitats and human lives. We will carry with us a sense of urgent responsibility for the situation here, as well as globally.

    We know now that we can never forget this city! We recognize that we must remember it in our prayers, as in our generosity, as in our pressure on politicians, as in our local or broader efforts for the preservation of this planet – from whatever position each of us holds: as a religious leader and as a scientist, as an elder and as a theologian, as a government official and as an NGO, as a local resident and as a global citizen.

    We are profoundly indebted to the extraordinary representatives of renowned scientific organisations and academic institutions, as well as to the leaders of religious groups and secular agencies, for their generous presence and contribution to the success of this, the 8th of our international interfaith, interdisciplinary Ecological Symposia, organised by Religion, Science and the Environment under the exceptional direction and skilful management of Mrs. Maria Becket.

    May God bless all of you as you return to your homes and positions. Let us not forget our responsibility toward this city as a microcosm of God’s creation, that is crying out for our gentle care and gracious renewal. Let us no longer be silent as we approach the meeting in Copenhagen. Let us persist and protest about what really matters – namely, the salvation of the soul of this planet.

  23. More EP Shenanigans! Check this out

    350 is an Act of Repentance

    The EP is still hawking man made global warming. Nobody sent him the climategate memo.

  24. Amazing Article!

    Galileo and the Dangers of Faith Based Science

    Now consider this, Could it be that the Green Patriarch is the modern day equivalent of the Pope at the trial of Galileo???

    The comparison is compelling on some levels.

    • The article cited appears to be based on a number of popularly-held myths. You might want to check out “Galileo Goes to Jail – And Other Myths about Science and Religion,” a book that was

      “rigorously researched and well footnoted, and written by 25 of the leading historians in the English-speaking world.”

      To quote a couple of relevant excerpts from The Weekly Standard review (Oct. 19, 2009):

      “. . . readers discover that Galileo never really was imprisoned (nor was he tortured). . . “

      While Christianity wasn’t the only factor that gave rise to modern science, it was certainly no hindrance. As one scholar put it, “The Roman Catholic Church gave more financial and social support to the study of astronomy for over six centuries, from the recovery of ancient learning during the late Middle Ages into the Enlightenment, than any other, and probably all other, institutions.”

      More to the point, George Michalopulos (the very same who often comments on these pages) wrote a terrific review of the new book by David B. Hart which demolishes this fiction. (If you wish to read it, it is on a sister-site: OrthodoxyToday.

      As for Galileo, Hart plumbs the historical record and proves that he was a prickly character who needlessly and with malice often provoked his many academic enemies. More to the point, his own astrophysical theories were not in themselves correct as his inquest pointed out. Indeed, the Church had no problems with his theories as they were essentially the same as Copernicus’, who some eighty years earlier, had received the imprimatur of the Church. And almost always left out of the modern secularist critique of the Church was the fact that he was a devout Christian, indeed more so than his great friend, Pope Urban VIII, who lavished upon him great accolades, pensions, and awards (thus further inflaming Galileo’s many enemies). More damningly, Galileo himself was not intellectually honest. He castigated competing astronomers such as Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, more out of spite than conviction. Indeed, it is Kepler’s system of celestial mechanics which we use today.

      While I am not surprised by the growing Climategate scandal (way, way too much money and power on the line), it is dishonest for the author of the linked article to take a (heavy handed) swipe at “faith-based science,” especially since – as the books described above both note – it was (at least in part) the faith of the Church in the the reason and care of God that provided the foundation needed to study the cosmos (literally “well-ordered” creation – the very opposite of chaos). Unfortunately, anti-Catholic myths have been a useful and socially-acceptable staple since the Reformation. Not that there aren’t genuine points of disagreement, but honesty is always essential.

      Unfortunately, a Chesterton noted, those who stop believing in God don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything. Most of the time, this disbelief seems to have a strong moral motivation behind it: God gets in the way of what one wants to do, so it’s easier to deny God than one’s self. A truly “faith-based” approach would (or should) have a deep respect for fact; by contrast, once one has rendered “truth” and “fact” as merely relative, one can feel free to “use” facts in the service of one’s agenda. (This appears to be a key assumption behind the agenda-driven journalism that has dominated our J-schools for at least 25 years and may be the element most responsible for the fragile credibility of the MSM.) So, perhaps it is not surprising that a handful of scientists with the chance to grab an awful lot of prestige and influence decided that Climate policy was their ticket.

  25. Global-warming fraud harms science
    Fellow academics shocked by Climategate

    Physicist David Wright “…never did I see groups of people plotting to hijack the peer review process in order to shut out those who disagreed with them, or discussing how to hide data that did not look good for their side of the debate.”
    Few academics outside those directly snared in the e-mail exchanges are defending or downplaying what happened. Asking a scientist to “delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith [Briffa] re [the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report]” is really asking someone to destroy evidence. The “trick of adding in the real temps to each series … to hide the decline [in temperature]” means just that: hiding data that disproves one’s position. Even most scientists can understand that is wrong.

  26. Jay Richards on AEI’s Enterprise blog:

    For years, I’ve warned fellow Christians not to confuse environmental stewardship with climate change alarmism. My experience is that many Christian environmentalists simply accept the conventional wisdom when it comes to the science, rather than studying it carefully. They place a lot of weight on the credibility of mainstream views. So I’m hoping that Climategate will cause many of them to rethink their uncritical embrace of what they learn from the cover of Newsweek.

    Of course, I’m not holding my breath waiting for mea culpas from, say, the Evangelical Environmental Network and National Religious Partnership for the Environment. But there are some hopeful signs among individual Christians who think about these issues. For instance, on November 20, “Blackadder,” at the (generally conservative) American Catholic wrote a post, “Are the GOP and/or Conservatives Anti-Science?” Among his examples: conservative skepticism about “evolution,” vaccines, and—you guessed it—global warming:

    I do find it startling that so many conservatives still reject the idea that human activity is a major cause of global warming. Not only that, but in discussions about the subject people often will use arguments or bring up points calling into question the validity of scientific knowledge in general, or in areas completely separated from the subject (one person recently told me during a discussion about global warming that there wasn’t any evidence in favor of heliocentrism).

    So in one short paragraph, Blackadder links skepticism about AGW (anthropogenic global warming) with heliocentrism, while using the bugaboo “anti-science,” which is an adjective often used by proponents of conventional wisdom to dismiss anyone who doubts said wisdom. Blackadder isn’t taking seriously the skeptical critiques of climate change orthodoxy, or even following the climate debate carefully. He’s just following conventional wisdom.

    Notice that the post appeared on November 20, the same day the news broke of the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. Then, on November 29, Blackadder posted “Conservatives and Science: A Partial Retraction.” Here’s what he says:

    Last Friday I wrote a post, Are the GOP and/or Conservatives Anti-Science, in which I described what I felt was a growing anti-scientific sentiment among certain segments of the conservative movement and the Republican party. One of my examples was continued conservative denial of the reality of anthropogenic global warming. In a case of what you might describe as Really Bad Timing, my post happened to coincide with the release of a lot of climate science’s dirty laundry.

    I’ve now taken a little time to digest the materials from CRU, and I have to say some of the stuff their strikes me as being pretty damaging. If I had to bet, I’d still say that human activity was a major cause of recent warming, and I still maintain that some of the arguments advanced by conservatives on this subject display a mix of scientific ignorance and/or anti-scientific bias (in fact, in some cases conservatives I’ve argued with have admitted as much). Nevertheless, based on the CRU material, I have to say that it was wrong to lump all climate skeptics into the “anti-science” camp.

    Mea culpa.

    Blackadder and others at American Catholic still need to study the substance of the issue, since they’re still appealing to the fake “consensus” on climate change; but this is progress. I’m hoping millions of religious Americans are also considering retractions, if only in the way they think about this issue.

  27. George Michalopulos :

    John, there’s a lot of crow to be eaten. We need to ask the GOA if humble pie is lenten.

  28. cynthia curran :

    What does global warming have to do with whether the Earth is only 6,000 to 10,000 years? Even, how old the Earth is not certain since scientist or historians can’t be certain of anything prior to written langangue about 5,000 years ago among the Egyptians or Summerians. Granted, I doubt that Dinosaurs and man existence at the same time but the bible early history is very similar to early human history information given also by the Summerians, Akkiadians and Babylonians. The Bible is a lot less cruder than those tales.

  29. John Couretas :

    George F. Will in the Dec. 6 Washington Post:

    With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth’s last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only impressive consequence of the climate-change meeting. Its organizers had hoped that it would produce binding caps on emissions, global taxation to redistribute trillions of dollars, and micromanagement of everyone’s choices.

    China, nimble at the politics of pretending that is characteristic of climate-change theater, promises only to reduce its “carbon intensity” — carbon emissions per unit of production. So China’s emissions will rise.

    Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million Americans in 2050, so Obama’s promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen.

    Disclosure of e-mails and documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Britain — a collaborator with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — reveals some scientists’ willingness to suppress or massage data and rig the peer-review process and the publication of scholarly work. The CRU materials also reveal paranoia on the part of scientists who believe that in trying to engineer “consensus” and alarm about warming, they are a brave and embattled minority. Actually, never in peacetime history has the government-media-academic complex been in such sustained propagandistic lockstep about any subject.

    Read The climate-change travesty

  30. John Couretas :

    Times of London (HT: Instapundit):

    The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.

    The new analysis of the data will take three years, meaning that the Met Office will not be able to state with absolute confidence the extent of the warming trend until the end of 2012.

  31. Fr. Johannes Jacobse :

    The global warming fraud is like watching a building collapse in slow motion.

  32. George Michalopulos :

    Perhaps this is why the EP is putting out a seperate warning now about the minorities thing in Turkey? To deflect attention from the recent “Apostolic Journey” fete-that-never-was?

  33. John Couretas :

    Gas up the Gulfstream. From the Telegraph (UK):

    Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges

    Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.

    On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

    “We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”

    Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”

    And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen. “The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s very Danish.”

    The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

    Read more here.

    • Michael Bauman :

      Does anyone here actually think that a little thing like fraud will stop the statists from putting decimating regulations into effect against western industrialized countries while letting India and China run free?

      After all, according the the EPA, the science is settled and CO2 is a clear and present danger to all of us. The Amish may take over the economy.

  34. cynthia curran :

    This is true that Secularists and Protestants and the Orthodox have a view of the Roman Catholic Church being anti-science. Granted, Byzantium held an advantagee during most of the middle ages and the Islam was at its height in the early to mid- middle ages. But Catholic philosophers and scientist built upon the early contributations by the other two civilizations during the latter middle ages, and after the fall of Constantinople, a lot of Byzantines fled to the west mainly to Italy and encouraged more laity education and the Catholic West and later Protestant West took advantage of this.

  35. That the global warming is largely a politically, rather than scientifically-driven agenda has arguably been known for a long time, and I am saddened whenever Church leaders somehow buy into what I personally consider to be largely a deceptive mechanism, by which the global governmental system can gain totalitarian power over peoples and countries. It seems evident that people in high places put out a lot of disinformation, in the hopes of making detractors to the agenda of the day look like politically incorrect fanatics and/or conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, the mass of the populations follow by public opinion or by force, the dictates of the powerful. And of course, in the name of ecological conservationism, civil and religious liberty is under serious threat.

    Yes, our planet is continued explicated by the rich; to the terrible cost of the poor, impoverished, enslaved and starving. May religious leaders of all Christian traditions take the lead in reminding the world that human sin – its rebellion against God – is at the heart of global ecological problems we now face. (see Romans 8:19-23), and that it is not the planet, but humanity, made in the image of God, that needs to be at the pinnacle of our agenda in prayers and action.

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Today we have technology that allows us to build machines to execute standards and take advantage of the design. Does this make a better machine to be used to wash our clothes? Nope.

It makes us design machines that can take advantage of cost factors first and ecology second and us third. One manufacturer still has a washer and dryer set that seems to have gotten caught in a time warp. A machine that is now once again rocketing to the top of the best sellers list because it has in most cases not changed from over 30 years ago. That Brand is SpeedQueen or Huebsch in other Areas of the world such as Canada.

Huebsch is a brand that has a clothes washer with a water level control, and a full set of mechanical controls. Now don't get us wrong they do make other machines that conform to the current status but this one model is unique. It's just like what your grandparents had and just like its big brother from the commercial laundry we used to see on every street corner many years ago.

For those of you that know it fills with an enormous amount of water and has an agitator in the middle. It has a timer, and when you lift the lid, the machine can stop.

Years ago your parents made colorful clothes called Tie-Die. They will know what I'm talking. Those are the shirts that had many colors from that 60's era. These washers from times gone by did one thing very well and that was get the clothes clean.

They lasted because they were designed strong. Average life span was well over 20 years.
Today the average lifespan is ten years if you're lucky and you better follow the right steps to get your clothes clean, or you won't be happy.

If your frustrated with what you have or simply hate your current machine. Let's go back in time with Huebsch and SpeedQueen and get the job done.

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Case filed by Kuwaiti against ex-wife dismissed

KUWAIT CITY, Sept 10: The Family Court dismissed the lawsuit filed by a citizen against his ex-wife. The plaintiff asked the court to cancel the custody for their children granted to his ex-wife due to her frequent travels and chats with a youth through WhatsApp. Attorney Jarrah Al-Anzi, lawyer for the defendant, argued the lawsuit against his client is malicious as it is due to the divorce. He pointed out the case file lacks evidence, adding that the chat record does not necessarily mean an immoral relationship exists.

Citizen fined: The Court of Appeals presided over by Judge Ibrahim Al-Obaid overruled the verdict issued by the Court of First Instance which sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen to two-year imprisonment with hard labor for storming the house of his ex-wife and attacking her family with a knife. The court instead ordered him to pay a fine of KD 300. The brother of the citizen’s ex-wife had testified that he, on the fateful day, was in a car that he had parked in front of their house when the suspect came to him. The suspect grabbed the house keys from him and attacked him with a knife, knocking him down and causing several injuries. The suspect then entered their house where he assaulted their father. The defense counsel Lawyer Mohammed Al-Hussaini said the allegations against his client were malicious. He called for the invalidation of the investigations conducted as they were inconclusive and not serious. He also cited the contradictions in the statements of the witnesses.

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Drinking lots of water, eating foods with vitamins and getting plenty of exercise are all excellent ways to stay healthy and potentially prevent kidney stones, however, for some people this will not be enough. Should you develop a kidney stone though, you need to know what to expect.

Most patients who develop kidney stones don’t realize they have them until they begin experiencing pain. This can be felt as a burning sensation when urinating or when you have a need to urinate, but more often it is felt as a pain in the lower abdomen or back that can be sharp and sudden. This pain is often strong enough to send a patient to the emergency room. It’s important to have sharp lower abdomen or back pain treated because this type of pain is indicative of many other illnesses that can be very serious if left unchecked.

Your doctor may use a blood test to check for high mineral levels, but will more than likely use a form of imaging test like x-ray, ultrasound, or CT scan to look for the stone(s) themselves. You will also be asked to provide a urine sample.

Treatment of kidney stones will often consist of a “watch and wait,” approach that may include medications prescribed for pain management. It is critical to drink a lot of water during this time to help flush out the kidney stone and potentially break it apart. While urination may be painful, it is the only way to pass the stone without additional assistance. Drinking cranberry juice may help to break apart kidney stones further and/or prevent infection.

Stones 10mm in size or smaller can be passed on their own, but stones that show little to no signs of moving or are too large to pass will be treated with medication, shock wave therapy or ureteroscopy. Alpha-Beta blockers help relax the uterine wall so that stones pass more easily. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) uses high-frequency waves to break large stones into smaller, passable pieces. Ureteroscopy uses a thin tube in the urinary tract that allows the doctor to break apart the stone and remove the pieces through the tube. These treatments are typically sufficient for most large stones, but unusually large stones may require surgical removal.

With proper hydration, professional consultation and plenty of rest, kidney stones should pass within a few weeks uneventfully and with minimal discomfort. If you suspect you may have a kidney stone, or have experienced any pain similar to that described in this article, you should call your urologist and schedule an appointment. Contact Arkansas Urology online or call 877-321-8452 to speak directly with a provider, today.


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Deep Listening: Animal Collective & Coral Morphologic Dive Deep into Tangerine Reef

Still from Tangerine Reef by Animal Collective and Coral Morphologic.

Tangerine Reef, a new audiovisual album by the musical experimentalists in Animal Collective, evolved out of Coral Orgy, a collaborative performance for which the art-science videography duo Coral Morphologic projected otherworldly imagery of small-scale sea creatures across five screens while the band played new music in response. After the event, at the Borscht Film Festival in Miami in 2017, the musicians retreated to a Baltimore studio to record a definitive version of their set, while Coral Morphologic went home to film all new footage for a final cut of what would be their highest-profile project yet.

Animal Collective might be familiar after nearly two decades of burbling up from the art-minded rock and electronic music underground, but Coral Morphologic works in a more arcane realm. Founded in 2007 by marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay, the duo creates self-described “avant-garde coral macro-videography” by shooting footage in their laboratory in an unassuming house on a residential street in Miami. In a setting that could more easily be a dining room, there is now a living archive of coral species in large water tanks bathed in glowing blue LED light. The cool illumination allows the corals to reveal their natural fluorescence in an otherwise unnatural locale.

The house where Coral Morphologic’s magic happens.

“ ‘Tangerine Reef’ is not an actual place,” Foord explained, “but rather a community of creatures from around the globe that we brought together in our lab to record in a more patient manner than could be done in the wild. We’ve been propagating many of the corals for years. They start out as small one-centimeter fragments grown by other aquaculturists in the U.S. or a nursery in Indonesia, where they are sustainably farmed.”

As caretakers and scientists, Coral Morphologic have conducted extensive fieldwork to document the unique nature of Miami’s coral systems. Over the years they have discovered four zoanthid “soft coral” species, and together they have received grants from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). “My academic background is that of a scientist who turned to art after deciding it was a better medium to convey environmental issues to the public,” Foord said of the duo he created with McKay, who has a background in music and English. “We hope that Coral Morphologic can illuminate a new path where art and science are blended to create personal connections between humans and other life forms.”

Coral Morphologic forged a friendship with Animal Collective—especially the band members known as Deakin and Geologist—through a mutual love of scuba diving and ecological awareness. When they travelled together to Turks and Caicos for a dive trip in 2011, their bond was strengthened as they rode out Hurricane Irene in a hotel. In 2014, they descended into the deep again off the coast of Texas. “The trip we did to the Flower Garden Banks was amazing, especially the night dives,” said Deakin, also known as Josh Dibb. “When you’re diving there’s a blue LED light that adjusts to night, and you put this yellow filter over your mask. It was a magical experience, to be underwater and see that kind of imagery. The stuff in Tangerine Reef has that same kind of effect.”

Coral Morphologic at work.

Tangerine Reef’s extreme saturation and detail are at once astounding and unsettling. Shots include lush abstracted corals in shallow focus against dark backgrounds, like black-velvet paintings from the sea. A monochrome array of fern-like creatures transitions into a speckled neon field, some of nature’s own new-wave design. Another entity that looks like an underwater Venus flytrap has undulating edges that pulsate red and blue in what appears to be some trick of entrapment. The goals of certain biological processes at play upon the screen are obvious, as when a feasting sea cucumber reaches its net-like tentacles out to catch plankton. Other processes turn out to be exactly what you hope they would not be (see: an ejaculating sea anemone).

On the decision to approach Tangerine Reef as an audiovisual album, Foord said, “We’ve tried to make an experience where the audio and the visual elements work together synergistically, like 1+1=3. It is a kind of tone-poem similar to 1982’s Koyaanisqatsi scored by Philip Glass.” Another source of inspiration is Jean Painlevé, a prolific filmmaker whose work with underwater and scientific subjects from the 1920s to the 1980s led to a Criterion Collection release of his work, Science is Fiction, that included a posthumous selection of films scored by the band Yo La Tengo. “The works of Painlevé are really seminal for us,” said Foord. “He was doing a very similar hybridization of art, science, education, and pop culture in an aquarium studio almost a century ago.”

Left to right, Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, Tangerine Reef director John McSwain, Deakin, J.D. McKay, Geologist, Colin Foord.

Working in tandem with the visuals, Animal Collective’s musical palette mimics a descent into underwater realms with slack, swirling guitars and echoing synthesizers that rise and fall in resonance. The first sounds in the recording are distinctive clicks and woody pops. “Those sounds are mimicking the sound of coral,” Deakin said. “Reefs are really loud. When you’re down there, the breathing apparatus for scuba gear is also loud. If you listen between breaths, or if you’re far enough away from other divers, you’re aware of this constant ‘popcorn’ crackling going on.”

Watchers of Tangerine Reef peer into a world that does not pretend to concern itself with human form or focus. In a sort of alienating descent (putting aside any phobias of space, infinity, and the deep), observers are asked to think about what is below and beyond, to intersect with spaces at scales that are not our own and in the service of multiplicities of time, motion, and location. One might expect lots of time-lapse treatment, but when the slower movements of the corals are sped up, it is only to accentuate certain processes. “By speeding up the corals’ timescale to one that humans can perceive,” Foord explained, “we hope that people are able to empathize with them—and, even better, to learn a thing or two about living and symbiosis with neighbors.”

The majority of the film provides macro-scale views of one type of reef-dwelling species at a time, turning the lens toward the minute behaviors and unseen liveliness of non-human species who, as the credits roll, are given credit as actors and collaborators. “The most common question we get about corals and reefs is: Why are they important to humans?” said Foord. “This type of thinking presupposes that a life form is only worth saving if it protects our real estate or offers a cure for cancer. Corals don’t need to justify their existence for anyone’s convenience or protection.”

In the process of entanglement between human and non-human forces, viewers are forced to reckon with our collective reciprocal relationship with these creatures—our ability to help them and to harm—while the corals either adapt or become extinct in the face of climate change. “When you get in the water, you see the reality of how complex the ocean systems are—how incredible the mechanism of the planet is and how crucial those environments are to our lives,” Deakin said. “I hope that’s what comes out of the film for people.”

Still from Tangerine Reef.

All parties involved are fans of Charles and Ray Eames’s 1977 film Powers of Ten, which visualizes the scale of the universe through exponential camera pans and zooms—from a picnic in Chicago out to the edges of space and back again into the cells of a body lounging on a blanket in the Windy City. “What a great film,” said Foord. “It is our intent to make films that resonate from the scale of the microscope to that of a telescope. From our perspective, we see corals as the first astronomers and timekeepers of planet Earth. If we pay attention to them, corals can help elevate human thinking towards the logarithmic scale that Powers of 10 demonstrates.”

In its last half-hour, Tangerine Reef takes a turn toward cosmic noise as the audio and visual effects begin to lock in together especially well. Poignant-seeming voids, geographies, and coral-made mandalas become worlds that collapse inward and expand as the camera retreats. “To be able to present archetypal organisms with a mythos to convey,” Foord said, “is an opportunity we don’t take for granted.”

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Teheran, the vice-president of the Parliament opens to the referendum on the Islamic veil

Ali Motahari calls for a referendum on the hijab. In the event of a referendum he hopes that the country chooses to maintain the norm. However, the protest of women online and on the streets does not stop. Female activists: "Our rights cannot be decided" by men or by a vote.

Tehran (AsiaNews) -A prominent Iranian political leader has opened to the possibility for a referendum on the obligatory veil, a controversial topic that has unleashed protests in the past few months, quashed with arrests by Tehran. However, activists and demonstrators who have promised new street demonstrations to demand that the law be canceled without the need for a popular vote.

In recent days, Ali Motahari, vice-president of Parliament, has called for a national referendum to be held on hijab; he then added that, in his opinion, he hopes "citizens vote to keep the law in force.

The veil became mandatory in Iran following the rise to power of the ayatollahs Islamic Revolution of 1979. At the moment it is not known whether a referendum will become an official proposal and, in this case, when it will be possible hold the vote.

The fight against the veil is not a recent phenomenon, but since the beginning of last year the movement has grown and has gained ever greater vigor and visibility. With online videos and appeals, activists encourage women to remove the hijab and post the protest gesture on social networks.

Yet women have expressed their indignation at Motaharis proposal, because the vote would entrust - in fact –  men a decision on how women should dress. One video shows two women on a motorcycle, without the veil under their helmet. Others chanted slogans and songs including "No to the hijab, I am the leader, you are the leader. We cry out our freedom ". "Our rights - they add - cannot be decided by others through a referendum".

Following the example of the demonstrators in January 2018, which caused dozens of arrests and the condemnation of 32-year-old Nargess Husseini for "removing the headgear in the streets of Tehran", a group of women took off their veils during a walk in a park of the capital.

The video, relaunched by the activists of My Stealthy Freedom, shows the group waving the hijab in the air. Masih Alinejad, founder of the movement, stresses that the representatives of women’s movements in Iran "become more and more courageous" and "civil disobedience grows day by day [...] among religious leaders (conservatives) panic is spreading".

Violating the mandatory headscarf rule can result in a fine of 500,000 rials (about $ 12) and up to two years in prison. In the past, the moderate president Hassan Rouhani, who came to power in 2013, has repeatedly stated that it is not up to police duty to ensure the application of religious norms, including the obligation of the veil. A directive that is not respected and there are tens of thousands of cases of fines or arrests imposed by law enforcement agencies.

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Àsìkò 2018 Cape Verde

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In 2010, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos started Àsìkò, an innovative programme designed to redress the frequently outdated or non-existent artistic and curatorial curricula at tertiary institutions across Africa. Each year a cohort of approximately 12-15 emerging African artists and curators join an international faculty of practicing artists, art historians, curators and writers, for an intensive 35-day course of study in art and curatorial history, research methodologies and professional development. Moving between models of laboratory, residency and academy, Àsìkò privileges experimentation over conventional approaches to art making and curatorial inquiry, encouraging participants to workshop ideas, proposals and projects for long-term development and implementation.

2018 Programme in Cape Verde

After successful programmes in Lagos, Accra, Dakar, Maputo, and Addis Ababa between 2010-2017, Àsìkò 2018 will take place in the Cape Verdean city of Praia. In 1975, Praia was designated the capital of Cape Verde when the country joined Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in attaining independence from Portuguese colonial rule. An archipelago approximately 375 miles off the coast of Senegal, Cape Verde has been dubbed “a nation of emigrants” given that the country’s diaspora significantly outnumbers its local population. Historical patterns of exodus largely  catalyzed by economic conditions has resulted in sizable settlement populations in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the US. Nevertheless, Praia, home to 90% of the country’s local population, stands as a dynamic and cosmopolitan city whose languages, literary traditions, music, food, architecture, religions, and social life bear traces of centuries-long European and African influences. One of Àsìkò 2018’s principle objectives is to question how histories of slave trade and colonialism have shaped the city’s urban ethos and culture, while also exploring how the city and its contemporary art scene forge relations and dialogue across oceans and continents.

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Turf toe is an injury to the ligament at the base of the big toe. It is a painful condition which usually results from jamming of the toe into the ground or excessive backward bending of the toe. As it is more common in athletes playing on artificial turf, especially those involved in field sports such as football, baseball and soccer, it is known as turf toe.

Turf toe is usually caused by a sprain of the ligaments surrounding the big toe joint that aid in the movement of the big toe. Walking, running, jumping, dancing or any sudden movement involving a hyperextension of the big toe may cause a sprain of the surrounding ligaments and an injury to the joint capsule. This may also result in dislocation of the big toe. Another important cause of turf toe includes improper footwear which may lead to jamming or hyperextension of the big toe due to lack of friction between the foot and the surface. A stiff shoe with limited forefoot flexibility is recommended to reduce the incidence of injury.

The predominant symptom of turf toe is pain at the base of the big toe which is sudden in onset. The pain may also be associated with swelling and limitation of movement of the big toe. The joint may be predisposed to arthritis due to limitation of movement because of pain. A direct injury to the bone may result in sudden pain which exaggerates within 24 hours. If left untreated, it can result in a chronic injury.

Turf toe is a soft tissue injury diagnosed by the evaluation of presenting symptoms, history of the injury and physical examination of the injured toe joint. In some cases, X-rays or CT scan may also be used to rule out any other internal pathology.

The immediate treatment of turf toe is aimed at reduction of the swelling and inflammation of the affected joint. The RICE therapy (rest, ice, compression, elevation) can be used for the management of pain, swelling and inflammation. In addition to this, anti-inflammatory medications may also be given to relieve the symptoms. The joint may be immobilized by strapping to prevent further injury to the joint.

Surgical treatment is rarely recommended for turf toe. However, it may be considered in cases of any bone spur formation, to remove the extra growth.

Once the pain has been treated, a recurrence can be prevented by following a few simple measures which include:

  • Wear shoes specifically designed for the sporting activity
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