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The Confundus Curse and My Inaugural Talk…

9:00 p.m.
Who thought it was funny to give a bookworm convert her very first Sacrament Meeting talk the same week the magnum opus of one Mr. Harry Potter was released? Who. My Bishop, that’s who. And due to total lack of discipline and complete disregarded for my own goals, here I sit, 9:13 on Saturday night, no talk, a pile of notes, some e-mails and a thoroughly ingested, already dog-eared copy of The Deathly Hallows. Priorities, eh.

My talk was supposed to be spring boarded from a talk by President Faust from 2004- along the lines of making sure we’re getting the right spiritual messages. Yeah, I spent the last few days chewing my cuticles as I wondered where Neville got the Sword of Gryffindor at the very last possible minute, and wondering “Why Dobby, why?”- I think I missed the message…

It’s not the first time I’ve missed the message.

Long before I became a member of this Church, when I was practically still a girl- I met my husband. I was 17, he was 22- and according to him, it was love at first sight. I felt it too, but this was one of those times I missed the message. We did become fast and best friends, but never dated. The first time he proposed to me, I was 19-and just didn’t get that this could possibly be the love of my life. The second time, I was 24- and very wrapped up in my career- and still didn’t get the message.

Finally, when I was 27 and he was 32, I had walked out on a particularly disastrous date with yet another “wrong” man- and was on my way home when a Bob Dylan song came on the radio. Mulling over the questions “Why are so many of the guys I date such a waste of time? Why does this always go wrong? Why can’t I find someone more like David?” Mr. Dylan’s lyrics penetrated my fog. Ah-hah! It seems so simple looking back- almost comically so- but it took me ten years to get that the Lord already had given me my husband, had placed him right in front of me, and nothing in my life was going to work out until I got that message. We were married only a few months later, and finally getting that one message has been the linchpin of my life.

It makes me wonder how many messages I’ve missed, how many beautiful things I may have bulldozed over because I was more interested in my own plan than in listening to the Lord. What can we do to cultivate inspiration in our lives? How do we distinguish between our own sometimes selfish impulses and the voice of the Spirit?

Moses got to talk to the burning bush.- that was pretty clear. But it seems the Lord has only chosen once to address his servant thus- mostly he still uses, as he did in the time of Elijah, the still small voice. This can be hard to accept, and even to recognize- especially so if we are hoping for a burning in the bosom, or a heart afire.

11:40 p.m. The kitchen is calling me and I must have some icy cold lemonade and a small taste of the Cheetos I bought for the kids.

I time myself, and I’m nowhere near the 10 minutes. *sigh*

When I first joined this Church almost five years ago, I had really learned my lesson with not listening in regard to choosing my husband, so when I walked in, and felt the Spirit, I knew I was home. But- even then, even after I was baptized and became a Later Day Saint, against the wishes of my entire family and almost everyone I knew, I was still waiting for those stones to glow, for the shaft of light, for Nephi to show up so that I could proclaim that “I knew!”. It never happened.

It never had to happen.

The Lord had a different plan- while I was waiting on Moroni to show up and chat in my room at night, the Lord was bursting open that tiny mustard seed in my heart, and a that mustard seed brought with it miracles. One of the miracles is that the still small voice “whispereth through and pierceth all things” it’s there- the voice of the Lord is always there. If there is a problem with the reception, rest assured, it’s mine.

President Faust says “Messages come to us individually and directly from a divine source and though our presiding officer in the Church.” Twice a year we have the supernal gift of hearing our living prophet and apostles address us as a people. These wise and inspired counselors are giving us roadmaps of how to progress and how to hear the still small voice. They are giving us, in Technicolor, the message.

We all know what we need to do be inspired. Even my Sunbeam can rattle off the simple things- say our prayers, read our scriptures, be kind, follow the commandments. As adults, sometimes we get sidetracked and confounded by the very simplicity of this plan… But it must be harder than that, right?

Seek to build the kingdom of God. Take a personal stand in this life. Strengthen and safeguard our families. Walk righteously and humbly before the Lord. Be honest. When we do these things, we are preparing ourselves to hear the still small voice, we are opening ourselves to inspiration.- we are being obedient to God.

12:17 a.m. It’s all starting to be incoherent. Bed sounds really, really divine. I can get up at 5 a.m. before the house wakes up and finish, right? Sure I can!

7:27 a.m. What!? Why did you let me sleep so late!? And why on Earth, this of all days, do the kids sleep past 6 a.m.? Flying down the stairs, here I sit, empty stomach, bags under my eyes, no one ready for church- and a stellar talk. Whoo. Hoo. The irony does not escape me.

So here I sit. Church starts in an hour. I think I may finally be a real Mormon.

  1. Did you miss this post on “How to Give a Sacrament Meeting Talk: An Open Letter to Converts”?

  2. Simply wonderful. If you can deliver your talk with as much spirit is this fun blog post, then you are golden.

  3. Tracy,
    I am assuming that this is your talk. If so, it is perfect!

  4. Just out of curiousity, what was the inspirational Bob Dylan song?

  5. Kevin Barney says:

    Yeah, this blog post itself would make an excellent talk in its own right; I hope with John C. that is your plan.

    In any event, please let us know how it turned out!

  6. What a great talk. Thanks, Tracy.

  7. Tracy: The sorting hat.

  8. When I typed the last line, I realized that I had my talk. This is pretty much it, and it went off fabulously, I think. At least that was the feedback.

    The song was this:

    So the sorting hat can pull the Sword from thin air?

  9. Reread the last couple of chapters of Chamber of Secrets — that’s how Harry gets it the first time around . . .

  10. Kevin Barney says:

    Congratulations, Tracy! You’re no longer a sacrament talk virgin; after five years, it’s about time. Your talk was absolutely terrific.

  11. Steve Evans says:

    Way to go, Tracy. We’re proud of you!

  12. John Williams says:

    This was a good post (even though you are apparently a Harry Potter fan) and would make a great sacrament meeting talk.

    I like personal stories in talks… it makes them more interesting.

  13. Thanks, Tracy. For some reason I like the phrase “moral clarity” as describing how I experience the spirit. A sense of seeing through the haze rather than of glowing stones or well-muscled angels.

    Great talk.

  14. Great Talk, Tracy. My youngest son is struggling right now with why his prayers aren’t always answered, and you’ve reminded me of some very important things. I’ll use some of your thoughts for a springboard to discuss in FHE tonight.

    Thank you.

  15. Awesome talk! Reading this post made my day! I’ve been a member all my life and the level of originality and personal insight that’s in this post is something that I strive for every time I give a talk or a lesson!

  16. Tracy,

    Wonderful words- you have a gift for writing, and thank you for sharing.

    As our family also enjoys Harry Potter, I would revise JW’s post #12 to say …especially because you are a Harry Potter fan…

  17. p.s. I admire your husband’s patience and persistence!

  18. Tracy, my 19-year-old son said to tell you that you are his hero – both for the first two paragraphs and the title.


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Day 311 : Flush and Flash

Work today brought me to the recently revamped NEWater Visitor Centre. I’ve been assigned to shoot the centre and its new exhibits since I have some experience with photography. It is not within my job scope but I don’t mind helping my company, Digimagic Communications, save some cost.

Procuring clean and safe drinking water for an ever growing population has always been a strain on our land scarce petite nation and a politcal tumour with Malaysia where we import most of our water supply from.

To satisfy our thirst, Singapore began recycling water in 1974 for industrial purposes to free up reservoir catchments for human use. More than 20 years later, water purification technology came of age and the reclamation of wasterwater from sewage was made possible. In 1998, NEWater was born.

The NEWater Visitor Centre traces Singapore’s hydro-struggles and the evolution of NEWater as our long-term solution to hydrating the nation through a highly interactive gallery and a peek into the wastewater treatment processes.

More than 70% of earth is covered in water but only less than 1% of that ratio is fresh water. A human can generally survive for 3 weeks without food but only 3 days without water. That’s why clean water is so precious!

Getting to the NEWater Visitor Centre can be inconvenient as it sits at an obscure location. I took a cab here.

Reception lobby of the centre with a mosaic of images showing people’s relationship with water.

The gallery comprises 2 zones – 1 zone features a hive of interactive exhibits to help visitors learn about water conservation; the other is a walk-in tour of the NEWater factory that helps visitors understand the various filtration and purification process that NEWater deploys.

The night soil man brings back memories of my childhood staying at my grandparents’ shophouse at Bencoolen Street. Back then, our toilets didn’t come with a flushing system and we depended on these men to clear the wastes daily. The stench was unbearable.

Visitors can take a self-guided tour of the NEWater production facility to learn about the various steps in reclaiming sewage water.

These are not bolsters for a mega pyjamas party but a magnification of the filtration barriers that block large sediments.

Purification capsules at work to clean wastewater.

A commitment hall where visitors can post a digital pledge to conserve water.

This replica of a deep sewage tunnel links one zone of the gallery to another.

Learn more about water usage and wastages in our daily life with this installation to identify areas and ways to conserve water.

Partial pano view of the interactive zone of the gallery which features some pretty cool games.

My company produced the floor-to-wall interactive map projection where visitors can learn about where our water sources come from. Known as the 4 National Taps, Singapore gets our water supply from reservoirs, purchases from Malaysia, desalination of seawater, and NEWater.

It’s a long way in and out of the NEWater Visitor Centre. After my photography session, I waited for a long time but no cabs came to the centre so I walked all the out to the main road to get one. Shortly after I got into a taxi, heavy rain came. Phew!

NEWater Visitor Centre

Address : 20, Koh Sek Lim Road, Singapore 486593

Tel : 6546 7874

Opening Hours : 9am – 5pm (Tuesday – Sunday)

Guided Tours : 9am, 10.45am, 12.30pm, 2.15pm, and 4pm

Admission : Free

2 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. galangpusa
    Nov 19, 2012 @ 16:15:33

    Nice photos you got there! I can sense that you have an “artistically-fulfilling” job. I’m envious hehe.

    • Darren Ng
      Nov 27, 2012 @ 16:10:19

      thanks for dropping by and complimenting on the photos🙂 don’t have to be envious, i’m in a deadend 9 to 6 office-bound desk job. nothing artistic, and i try to delude myself into thinking it’s fulfilling! lol

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10-minute reading time

A few weeks back, bedtime was spiraling out of control. The kids share a room; they would be wound up at bedtime and the transition to sleep was not happening smoothly. We had a big, big problem on our hands.

We solved the problem with 10-minute reading time. The kids have to be in their beds. We dim the lights. We set a timer for 10 minutes. It has to be quiet during that time. Then we turn out the lights, do the picture (remember the elephants?) and sleep comes more easily.

Complete transformation. It is awesome.

Tabitha, the other night, wanted to color. We talked and agreed that she could do it sometimes. As is the nature of 5-year olds, she soon wanted to know the limits.

The following conversation took place on Wednesday night this week.

Tabitha (five years old): I know I can’t color every night but can I tonight?

Me: Yes.

T: Then read, then color the next night?

Me: I don’t know. I think reading twice before the next color is better.

To be clear. It was not my intention to get into a math conversation at this point. I just wanted her to go to bed.

No, this move on my part was truly about literacy, not math. I don’t want 10-minute reading time to turn into 10-minute coloring time. I really, really like the idea that books will become part of my kids’ independent bedtime routines.

But Tabitha loves to know the rules she’s playing by. And when those rules are based on numbers, they’re going to lead to math every time.

T: So read-read-color-read-read-color…like that?

Me: Right. That sounds like a good ratio.

T: Or read-read-read-read-color-color?

Couple things.

First of all, I used the term ratio with absolutely no expectation that she would process it, and I am quite sure that she did not. I have long been an advocate of using good vocabulary with my children—there is no shame in not knowing the meaning of a word, but also no sheltering them from the fact that these words exist. This is at least partly the source of their substantial vocabularies. But I do not believe she knows the word ratio.

Secondly, Tabitha’s reformulation of the 2:1 ratio as 4:2 blew me away. It nearly slipped past me without notice. I was focused on getting them to bed; we were in the truly final phase of that process. I had pretty much tuned her out.

But when I looked at her, I could see she was expecting a reply. She needed to know whether she could get two coloring nights in a row by doing four reading nights in a row.

So I replayed her question in my mind, counting the reads.

Me: Yes. That would be fine. You may do that.

Performance assessment: ratios

It’s time for a performance assessment.

This is not multiple choice.

If you have been reading along, you know that I advocate talking math with your kids as the mathematics equivalent of reading with them 20 minutes a day.

Furthermore, you have surely read each of my thousands of words on Common Core’s vision of ratio, rate and unit rate.

And yesterday I proposed a bit of alternate text for the Progression on Ratio and Proportion.

Your assessment task is this.

The task

Imagine you have a 12-year old daughter. She has been learning about ratios and is assigned the task of finding real-world applications of them, as found in the media. She comes across an article that interests her. You strike up a conversation about the excerpt below.

Defend or critique any of the following claims:

(1) The Common Core Progression on Ratio and Proportion will be helpful to you as a parent in discussing the relationship between this passage and her homework.

(2) The distinctions being made (among ratio, rate and unit rate) in the Common Core Progression are useful and meaningful for interpreting this passage.

(3) The discussion proposed in yesterday’s post will be helpful to you as a parent in discussing the relationship between this passage and her homework.

(4) The distinctions being made in yesterday’s post (among ratio, rate and unit rate) are useful and meaningful for interpreting this passage.

The passage

Joe-urban discusses parking at urban grocery stores:

However, David Taulbee, Architectural Manager of Publix, notes that parking at many of their urban stores is full only at peak times, so that sacred parking ratio of five per thousand is called to question, particularly if the store has other parking options nearby like shared, on-street or bicycle parking.

(N.B. That’s five parking spaces per thousand square feet of retail space.)

Your work will be scored on the basis of relevance and the use of evidence. It will not be scored on the extent to which you agree with the scoring committee’s views on these matters.

Ratcheting back the rhetoric on Common Core

Bill McCallum writes in the comments here at OMT:

 I don’t think that effort [to define terms such “ratio” and “rate” that CCSS leaves undefined] deserves quite the ridicule it is receiving here, but never mind, the criticism will be taken into consideration nonetheless and inform the final draft. I’ll only say that if I had a dollar for every time someone told me the answers to all these questions were obvious, I’d be a rich man. Of course, the “obvious” answers are mutually self-contradictory. This seems to be an area where it is very difficult indeed to find common language, and where emotions run high.

Fair enough. I’m happy to tone things down a bit.

I do need to observe that no one here at OMT (least of all me) has suggested that the answers to the questions at hand are “obvious“. I agree that they are not obvious at all, and I agree that it is very difficult to find common language with respect to these ideas. (Although this last bit is tricky; if we all use the same words but mean different things by them, are we speaking a common language?)

No, my critique is not at all that Common Core has failed to state the obvious definitions.

My critique is that I see no evidence that Common Core-either the Standards or the Progression on rational number-take into account research on how children learn this content, nor do they seem to coincide with everyday uses of these terms. In the era of No Child Left Behind and “evidence-based practice”, I find it troublesome that results of important research work such as that in the Rational Number Project or Cognitively Guided Instruction don’t seem to form a basis for either document.

I find it surprising that there are no research references in the Progression.

In my work with Connected Mathematics, I have many times had teachers ask for definitions of rate, ratio, fraction and rational number. As writers, we have hashed out these ideas many times as well. Answers are not obvious and reasonable people can disagree.

But we sort of agree that answers to these questions ought to be consistent with, and explain relationships to, uses of these terms in mathematics and the world. I don’t understand why this isn’t the starting place for the Progression.

So how about this for a first attempt at the relationships involved here?

ratio is a multiplicative comparison of two quantities (usually both are non-zero). Conventionally, we use the term “ratio” to apply to part-part comparisons, but this need not be the case.

We can express ratios in several forms. If there are 5 girls for every 3 boys in a certain class, we say that (1) the ratio of girls to boys is 5 to 3, (2) the ratio of girls to boys is 5:3, (3) the ratio of girls to boys is \frac{5}{3}, (4) there are 5 girls for every 3 boys.

The fraction notation \frac{5}{3} is problematic in early ratio instruction because children may confuse it to mean that \frac{5}{3} of the students are girls. Children are accustomed to fraction notation being reserved for part-whole relationships; for this reason the notation should be saved for later instruction.

The term rate suggests change. We tend to talk about a “ratio” in static situations where the values remain constant but a “rate” in a situation where the quantities are changing. In the girls and boys situation above, it would be correct to say that there is a rate of 5 girls for every 3 boys, but this feels awkward. If students were enrolling in a school and there were 5 girls enrolling for every 3 boys, the term “rate” is a more natural fit.

unit rate is a rate where one of the quantities being compared is 1 unit. If we enroll five girls for every three boys, this is not a unit rate. We could say that there are \frac{5}{3} girls per boy enrolling at the school, or \frac{5}{3} girls for every boy. For every (non-zero) unit rate, there is a reciprocal unit rate. So we can also say that there are \frac{3}{5} boys per girl.

What counts as a unit varies. When computing a “unit rate” for buying pop, we could compute the cost per ounce, the cost per can, the cost per six-pack or the cost per case of 24. Which of these is considered a unit rate depends on our choice of unit.

To summarize the discussion, ratios and rates are different mainly in connotation. Each expresses a multiplicative relationship between two numbers (as opposed to an additive relationship, for which we use the term “difference”). Unit rates are important forms of rates because of their intimate connections to algebraic and calculus ideas such as slope and rate of change.

It’s just a first stab at discussing these terms in this context, but is consistent with common usage and focuses the discussion on the main idea that is important at this level-rates and ratios are about multiplication relationships, which are the heart of proportional reasoning.

Going back to the lawn example that has been the focus of discussion here as well as over at the Common Core Tools website, this would suggest that “7 lawns in 4 hours” is a rate (there is change involved, and it’s not a part-to-part relationship), and that there are two unit rates: \frac{7}{4} lawns per hour and \frac{4}{7} hours per lawn.

Again, I am not claiming that these relationships are obvious. But if a couple of important goals for the Progressions work are (1) clarity and (2) usefulness for teachers, professional development and curriculum development, I think my proposal above is an improvement over the present document.

Please show your work

I always appreciate when my local Cub Foods does the math for me. It saves me a lot of time.

But what if I want 5? Or 17?

Quick survey on mathematical correctness

OK. Quick survey. Two questions.

Ignore all motivational and tangentially related conceptual issues. Accept for now that two people are using ratios to compare amounts of money. Jim has $300; Christopher has $250.

question 1

Jim writes a ratio this way:

The ratio of the amount of money Jim has to the amount Christopher has is 300:250.

Christopher writes it this way:

The ratio of the amount of money Jim has to the amount Christopher has is $300:$250.

The question: Is one of these more correct than the other?

Question 2

Jim and Christopher notice that all of their money is in 10-dollar bills. Therefore, it makes sense to write their ratios in a different form.

Jim writes the new ratio this way:

The ratio of the amount of money Jim has to the amount Christopher has is 30:25.

Christopher writes it this way:

The ratio of the amount of money Jim has to the amount Christopher has is $30:$25.

Same question: Is one of these more correct than the other?

Bonus questions

What is the general principle at play here, in your view? And to what extent does that principle matter?

Huh? Making sense of Common Core

OK, I get it. The Common Core State Standards are about large-scale coherence. Stay focused on the big picture of getting everybody going in the same direction, then tweak things later, blah, blah, blah… I get it.

And yet kids’ education is at stake. And teachers’ jobs in the era of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. And the quality of curriculum that has to bend over backwards to align with these standards.

So when I dig into the details in my capacity with Connected Math, I get indignant about places where things don’t make sense. Consider the case of ratios at sixth grade:

6.RP.2. Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.”

I’m OK with this. I’m not thrilled with the “unit rate a/b” part, but it’s not a train wreck. Let’s look ahead to seventh grade, shall we?

7.RP.1. Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other quantities measured in like or different units. For example, if a person walks 1/2 mile in each 1/4 hour, compute the unit rate as the complex fraction 1/2/1/4 miles per hour, equivalently 2 miles per hour.

The complex fraction (1/2)/(1/4)? Are you kidding me? Just try verbalizing this:

I walked one-half-over-one-fourth miles per hour.

Does anyone ever talk about rates this way? Ever?

No way! The only way to even come close would be to say,

I walked a half a mile in a quarter of an hour.

But then that’s not a unit rate. For some reason Common Core is obsessed with unit rates-strictly defined. If I thought this were a throwaway line, I wouldn’t be worried. But it’s not a throwaway. That sixth grade standard above? It had a footnote:

Expectations for unit rates in this grade are limited to non-complex fractions.

So the Common Core writers didn’t just make this (1/2)/(1/4) unit rate nonsense up on their first pass through seventh grade. Oh no-it was important enough to go back and exclude it from sixth grade. And important enough to use up one of only three footnotes in the entire 6-8 math standards. The other two? Here’s the next one:

Computations with rational numbers extend the rules for manipulating fractions to complex fractions.

Are you sensing a theme here?

Right, it’s this other odd obsession with complex fractions (i.e. fractions in the numerator and/or denominator).

And the third footnote:

Function notation is not required in Grade 8.

UPDATE: Reader Sean steps up to defend this standard in the comments below. I highlight his objections in a later post, and then respond in yet one more post on this topic.

Sign at entrance to the exhibitThe setup

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has an exhibit titled “50/50”. The premise is that half of the exhibit was selected by public vote online and the other half of the exhibit was selected by museum curators in response to the public selections.

The questions

In the photo below, we see the public half of the exhibit on the left. The curators’ side on the right is masked in black. In fact, you can only see about 2/3 of the public’s side; the remainder is past the left-hand edge of the photograph.

The exhibit-public on the left, expert masked on the right.

(1) How many works are in the exhibit?

(2) How many did the public choose?

(3) How many did the experts choose?

Click here to see the unmasked image.

The museum claims approximately 200 works in the exhibit. Now how many do you think the public chose?

NOTE: I shall return to gather the necessary missing data-photographs of the entire exhibit. I don’t count anywhere close to 200 total in these images.


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Type 2 Diabetes Primary Prevention for At Risk Girls

This study has been completed.
Information provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Identifier:
First received: July 2, 2003
Last updated: January 12, 2010
Last verified: January 2010

Purpose: To evaluate two approaches to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes in young girls.

The Need: We are experiencing an epidemic of childhood obesity. Rates of obesity have doubled to tripled in the past two decades, with the highest rates among poor and ethnic minority girls. Type 2 diabetes (what used to be called adult-onset diabetes) is now showing up in overweight children, and more children are manifesting precursors of heart disease and stroke.

Our Two Approaches:

  1. A state-of-the-art nutrition education program with monthly newsletters mailed to girls and their parents and quarterly evening lectures/educational events at school sites, including cooking demonstrations and games to improve nutrition and increase physical activity.
  2. After-school dance classes held five days per week all year long at school sites from the time school lets out until 6PM. Dance classes will include a 1-1.5 hour supervised homework study hall each day, and emphasize both traditional ethnic dances and popular dance.

Participants: Second, third and fourth grade girls and their families will be eligible to participate. All activities are free of charge. To be able to perform a valid evaluation, to be able to accommodate all girls at their own school, and to be fair about which girls receive which program, families who wish to participate will be randomly selected to participate in either one program or the other (nutrition education or dance classes). Each family will participate for two years.

Evaluation: Trained Stanford staff will perform all evaluation procedures with participating families in their own homes at the beginning and every six months. Families will be compensated for their participation.

Condition Intervention Phase
Diabetes Mellitus
Prediabetic State
Behavioral: Nutrition Education
Behavioral: After-school dance class
Phase 2
Phase 3

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind
Primary Purpose: Prevention

Further study details as provided by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK):

Estimated Enrollment: 240
Study Start Date: April 2003

Ages Eligible for Study:   7 Years to 10 Years   (Child)
Genders Eligible for Study:   Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes

Second-, third- and fourth-grade girls, aged 7-10 years of age enrolled in one of the participating schools will be eligible. Our goal is to be as inclusive as possible. However, girls will not be eligible to participate if they:

  • have been diagnosed with a chronic illness that affects their growth and/or weight (e.g., type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, inflammatory bowel disease)
  • are taking medications potentially affecting their growth and/or weight (e.g., methylphenidate HCl, systemic steroids)
  • have Asthma (not exclusionary alone) but have taken systemic steroids (oral, intravenous, or intramuscular) for a period of more than 21 days in the past year
  • have a condition that limits their participation in physical activity enough that they are not able to participate in Physical Education at school (e.g., significant structural heart disease)
  • are pregnant
  • are unable to complete the informed consent process.
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT00063674

United States, California
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304
Sponsors and Collaborators
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  More Information Identifier: NCT00063674     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: T2DPPG (completed)
Study First Received: July 2, 2003
Last Updated: January 12, 2010
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK):
health education
obesity prevention
diabetes prevention

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Prediabetic State
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases processed this record on December 08, 2016


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Cleaning ACL Bottles

Earlier I discussed how to clean antique bottles that are embossed. (Be sure and read that entry also for helpful cleaning hints)

 Now, I will cover how to clean ACL (Applied Color Label) bottles, sometimes referred to as Painted Label bottles.     With cleaning ACL bottles a little more care and time have to be taken.

First, let’s discuss the ACL process.  The paint used on the bottles are actually ground colored glass that is baked onto the bottle. A silk screen with the drink name or design is used to apply the ‘paint’ while the bottle is still hot. If multi-colors are used the bottle has to pass the various silk screens and have the multi-colors applied. Then the paint is baked on, passing through an oven.

            ACL soda bottles began to appear in the 1930’s. This process still in its infancy, these early bottle ACL labels did not hold up well. In fact any bottle made from the 1930’s to the early 1960’s may have ACL that will come off easily and extreme care must be taken while cleaning.   I found this out the hard way. 30 years ago I found a 3 color ACL (the more colors a bottle label has, usually increases the value)  I rinsed it under luke warm water and was shocked to see the label lift off and float off the bottle. As soon as the label hit the sink it disintegrated and went down the drain. I went from having a $100 bottle to a worthless bottle in 2.3 seconds flat.

            Many things make the ACL unstable, exposure to the sun, weather, being buried, etc.  You should always check a small spot on the label before you do any major cleaning.  If it comes off easily, try to clean all around the label with a damp cloth.

            Most soda bottles made from the mid 1960’s to the 1990’s have a better quality ACL process and should be OK to soak, etc. (be sure and check an area first, exposure to sun, etc. can still make the ACL unstable even on these newer bottles) If in doubt, than don’t clean it.

  If you check the ACL and it seems good, I use the same methods as described in the embossed bottle cleaning. Soaking in warm water with soap, Windex or 409 (or all three).

Let them soak for a day or two, changing out water if needed.  Bar Keepers Friend does wonders on cleaning the ACL labels. (Don’t use comet, too abrasive).  A soft sponge will be needed as well as bottle brushes to scrub the outside and inside clean.  ACL bottles can not be tumbled to be cleaned like embossed bottles can.  The process would take off the ACL paint.

  I hope this helps you out with cleaning those bottles you might have lying around.

Happy Cleaning!

18 Responses to “Cleaning ACL Bottles”

  1. Michael Shugg Says:

    I have been told the best way to clean bottle with petroleum jelly (Vaseline) and just a lot of elbow grease I have never tried this yet

  2. cocacolabottleman Says:

    First, let me say it was great meeting you at the Springtime in Atlanta Convention. Hope you had a great trip home to Australia.
    I have tried using petroleum jelly before with less than desirable results. If you have an embossed bottle that has been buried and looks frosted, the jelly will give it a nice glossy look. But, the bottle will be slippery, show finger prints, etc. I never had much luck with Vaseline on bottles.
    Take Care,

  3. Michael Shugg Says:

    Hi Doug,
    I must say meeting you and your kind words make a great friendship

    I also was so please to meet you and ever-one else at the convention. And here in Australia Coca Cola is not a very big hobby. It all in the USA. I attended the Atlanta Chapter last year (2009) and was so impressed with friendly nature of the club. That is why I joined the club after spending the days and visiting Coca Cola places. I feel I need to attend a convention to get the real feeling of Coca Cola. So I decided to join in at Spring time in Atlanta 2010. And let me tell you it was well worth the trip back to the states. I will return back as soon as possible. With so many miles between us (Australia and USA) I do hope our friendship will stretch that far. Now with email and internet I feel I am apart the Coca Cola Family.
    Happing collecting and take care

  4. cocacolabottleman Says:

    You will have to come back to the National Coca-Cola Club Convention in 2011. It will be here in Atlanta and is a GREAT convention. Usually a very large crowd with lots of great people and a lot of great Coca-Cola Collectibles.
    We are very glad you were able to make it over to see us and be part of the Coca-Cola Club family. Hope to see you again!
    Take care,

  5. glenn g gunnell Says:

    I read your notes for cleaning of the painted label bottles ,you said these bottles cannot be cleaned like embossed bottles, after many months of playing with this I found a way to clean these bottles, it may not always get them back like new , but most time helps, i have been doing these bout 5 or 6 years, thanks glenn

  6. gino Says:

    hi mate,
    have a few ww2 coke bottles that have been recovered from the bottom of the ocean, they are whitish in apperance and scuffed, can these be cleaned or polished up, if so how? thanks.

    • cocacolabottleman Says:

      Well, bottles that have been buried or in salt water can be cleaned. First try a vinegar solution and let them soak. Scrub them with a scrubber sponge after they have soaked. This will not remove all the issues your bottle has. There are people who have a bottle tumbler (similar to a rock tumbler) which will remove a thin layer of glass and any scuffs and scrapes with it. It usually runs around $25 to $40 per bottle. Do a search on the internet for bottle tumbler for more information.
      Hope this helps!

  7. Kirk Says:

    I would be curious if you have ever come across a method to purposely remove ACL. I have a couple different bottles that are new and of little value, but I like the graphics and display them on a shelf in my kitchen. Unfortunately on a couple of them, there is a bar-code in ACL on the side that distract (and cheapens the look). I tried sanding one off, but it scuffed up the side. It was with interest that I read your article to learn that it is actual ground colored glass that is baked onto the bottle.

    • cocacolabottleman Says:

      I don’t know of any way to remove ACL completely. Once the ACL is fired on, it bonds with the glass, making it nearly impossible to remove all signs of it being on the bottle. I think you are stuck with the bar codes. I agree, they do take away from a bottles appearance.
      Glad to hear you found some interesting info on the blog.

  8. Tracie Says:

    I am wondering did they make Fakes in all of the years? I have a heavy green glass10oz. Coke bottle with Coke in white and it has one of those Ping marks in the glass at the bottom of it. its perfectly round. This bottle came out of the ground that use to be a real working junk yard.
    Thanks, Tracie

    • cocacolabottleman Says:

      I don’t think there are ‘fake’ Coke bottles out there. There are some that were made to look like an older bottle as a commemorative bottle from The Coca-Cola Company. When you say green, do you mean the light green Coca-Cola bottles are OR is it dark green? A few glass companies made bottles using the incorrect color glass, etc. which was not supposed to be done, but people working there did it anyway.

  9. Tracie Says:

    I have been cleaning out bottles with CLR and it seems to work better than anything else. I was wondering if it will etch the glass inside the bottle? Also what is the best book to get with helping to determine the value of the bottles.
    Thanks, Tracie

    • cocacolabottleman Says:

      CLR is pretty strong, so be sure and follow the directions, don’t make it stronger than it says. On older bottles, it could etch or discolor the glass. As far as books, there isn’t one source for a good value guide. Bill Porter has a list of embossed contour bottles that show if they are rare or not, but no prices for values.

  10. Tracie Says:

    My daughter and I would say the bottles are light green and dark green.
    Also how do people decide which price to sell their bottles for?
    How do you know how valuable a bottle is?
    Our Coke bottles range from dark green and 6 1/2 0zs. and light green and 26oz and the bottom of it says Cincinnati, Ohio. The clear one is embossed Coke block letters and Coca-Cola in script letters. The bottom of it says Not to be refilled and theirs a 70 and a M with a Hexigon around it and a number 12 beside it.
    Thanks, Tracie

    • cocacolabottleman Says:

      The bottles you have sound like they are from the 1960’s, 1970’s. The Not to be refilled is from 1970. Although your bottles are close to 40 years old, many collectors think of them as ‘newer’ bottles and they don’t have much value at this time. Also many bottles were made at this time which affect the value. Bottles from this time period are worth a few dollars each, maybe a little more. They will need to be in mint condition to be worth that too.
      Hope this helps,

  11. Tracie Says:

    Thanks for your reply, I appreciate your information.

  12. Bob Says:

    I have coke bottles from 1980’s. The ones where teams won championships. When I wash them they look great but when they dry they look a little faded. What do you think would be the best thing to try on them to make them look new? I have not tried anything yet. Thank you

    • cocacolabottleman Says:

      Some people use coat bottles with mineral oil to bring out the faded labels. It is a messy job though. I have also heard of people coating bottles with a polyurethane, but I would test a bottle first before I did a lot of them. I have never done it and don’t know how it will turn out.
      Good Luck

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Last modified 5 years ago

#11552 closed (invalid)

Action menu in Django Admin is not translated (nl-nl)

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: nobody
Component: Translations Version: 1.1-beta
Severity: Keywords: Admin, action menu
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: UI/UX:

The new action menu in Django Admin is not (properly) translated.
For example: The button says 'search' (that isn't correct) and the confirmation screen after you choose an action is still in English.
I'm a Django/Python newbe, so I apology that I didn't include a patch.

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Forgot to mention: I'm using Django 1.1 RC1.

comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by Russell Keith-Magee

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

There are many missing and incomplete translations; this is just one of them. However, this is one of those areas where the ticketing policy is different - rather than opening tickets to report problems, you open a ticket to provide a new translation. If you want to help out, the Django documentation contains instructions on how to contribute a translation update.

On top of that, the NL translation was updated just after RC1 was released. From the look of it, the "Search" string is now translated (as "Zoek"). Please check the most recent SVN checkout before you try your hand at a new translation.

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Adrian4B Adrian4B - 21 days ago 7
C# Question

C# float to decimal conversion

Any smart way to convert a float like this:

float f = 711989.98f;

into a decimal (or double) without loosing precision?

I've tried:

decimal d = (decimal)f;
decimal d1 = (decimal)(Math.Round(f,2));
decimal d2 = Convert.ToDecimal(f);

It's too late, the 8th digit was lost in the compiler. The float type can store only 7 significant digits. You'll have to rewrite the code, assigning to double or decimal will of course solve the problem.


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Mel Mel - 1 month ago 9
Ruby Question

Rails - how to associate nested models

I have an organisation model and I have also made a series of nested models under the folder name "stance". One of those models is called overview.

The associations are:

has_one :overview

belongs_to :organisation

My controllers for stance resources are nested under a folder called stance.

My routes are:

namespace :stance do
resources :overviews

In my stance view partial, I am trying to render the attributes from the overview table.

I have tried:

<%= @overview.internal_explanation %>

<%= @stance.overview.internal_explanation %>

<%= @stance::overview.internal_explanation %>

I want to display this partial in my organisation show, but I can't figure out how to access the overview table. Do I need to add a reference to 'stance' in the associations?

I can see that in the console I need to write:

o = Stance::Overview.create(internal_explanation: "test")

but I can't see how to use that in the code itself.

If you don't use the standard naming convention, then you need to give Rails some hints:

has_one :overview, class_name: Stance::Overview

belongs_to :organisation, inverse_of: :overview

Best place to learn this is to look at the source code comments on has_many and belongs_to. I'd recommend using an editor that has a "go to source"/"go to declaration" functionality that allows you to CTRL-click a method name and jump into the gem code so you can see the comments. I used this via Rubymine when I was learning Ruby and it was an enormous help.


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DhruvPathak DhruvPathak - 21 days ago 10
PHP Question

CodeIgniter : Run a script from command line if the controller is inside a folder?

As stated here :

A page like :

can be run on the command line as :

php index.php myController myFunc myParam

My codeignitor set up has some folders to group the controllers, lets say like this :

myFolder -> myPageController
-> myAdminController

So, the url becomes :

How do I call the same thing on CLI ?
Something like :

php index.php "myFolder/myController" myFunc myParam

Does not seem to work.

You can try with :

php index.php myFolder myController myFunc myParam1 myParam2 ...


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drizzie drizzie - 1 month ago 6
reST (reStructuredText) Question

Where do we handle errors in ASP.NET WebAPI and maintain thin controllers and separation on concerns?

So as I'm working with WebAPI and trying to maintain thin controllers, I'm trying to figure out where to handle exceptions.

So a simple example would be to retrieve a user by email. My API needs to first verify that the user exists. If not, it needs to return 404.

To maintain a thin controller, I want to simply hand off the request to a service somewhere. I want to avoid injecting repositories into my controllers. Now it is the services responsibility to first check if the user exists. If it does, return the user. Where I'm getting confused is when the user doesn't exist.

When the user doesn't exist, is it then the services responsibility to throw an HttpException? If so then, this service would not be considered a domain service but maybe a special rest validation service? If so, does it grab the user then pass the user to a domain service when the user does exist to avoid multiple calls to the datastore?

What about a more complex scenario where I might want to add an item to a shopping cart. The controller will hand off the post request to the correct service. The service will then validate some business rules: cart exists, max order not exceeded, etc.

These are two different types of validation. It feels right to separate them into separate validation services or I end up mixing domain validation with rest validation.

I guess I'm trying to figure out how to maintain the speration of concerns and translate domain validation to rest validation.

If anyone can shed some light on or point me in the right direction that would be great!

My general choice in such situations is using a domain specific exception in service/repository, such as UserNotFoundException. I don't think that it is a good idea for the service to meddle with the dynamics of the web container. You might want to reuse same service for a console application, etc.

Then you might catch this domain specific exception and generate a 404 page. I agree with your choice to keep it out of controller. You can specify error handlers for exceptions. There are different levels of error handlers. You can define one for each controller or you can define one for your whole application. Or you can use annotations to mark controller actions that will use your error handler.

I think the shopping cart case also supports this design. You use validation services for validating your cart. If the validations are not successful, then the shopping cart service throws a ValidationException. Your error handler might catch the ValidationException and generate appropriate response codes.

One nice thing about error handlers is sometimes changing requirements force you to run some business logic when a certain error occurs. If you isolate error handling to error handlers, then it'll be easy to manipulate the logic of error handling.


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JPC JPC - 1 month ago 18
Python Question

How to writing a python code to combine multiple csv to excel , without having number read as text excel?

I'm using this csv reader to read all my csv file then combine into xls workbook. But after open excel all number from csv is now read as text.

In each csv it has both letter and number. Is there a way I can compress all number value from csv to let excel know it's number not text ?

import glob, csv, xlwt, os

wb = xlwt.Workbook()
for filename in glob.glob("d:/test/*.csv"):
(f_path, f_name) = os.path.split(filename)
(f_short_name, f_extension) = os.path.splitext(f_name)
ws = wb.add_sheet(f_short_name)
spamReader = csv.reader(open(filename, "rt"))

for rowx, row in enumerate(spamReader):
for colx, value in enumerate(row):
ws.write(rowx, colx, value)"d:/test/compiled.xls")

I would use the pandas library, which would also give you some experience with the overall Python data science stack. Pandas will be smart enough to interpret the correct Excel data types.

import glob, os
import pandas as pd

from pandas import DataFrame, ExcelWriter

writer = ExcelWriter("d:/test/compiled.xlsx")

for filename in glob.glob("d:/test/*.csv")
    df_csv = pd.read_csv(filename)

    (_, f_name) = os.path.split(filename)
    (f_short_name, _) = os.path.splitext(f_name)

    df_csv.to_excel(writer, f_shortname, index=False)

You open a spreadsheet for writing, read each CSV as pandas DataFrame, and then write it to the sheet on a separate tab. The index=False piece is there so that Python doesn't write the default DataFrame index to the sheet, which would give you an extra unwanted column.


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ZacAttack ZacAttack - 1 month ago 6
Python Question

Dowloading data from and want to know how I include my API key with my request?

I am downloading data from with python and I have reached my limit with 50 downloads for today. Users with an account can exceed this limit which I already have an account set up. The error message say I need to put my api key with the request, but to my knowledge it does not say how??

This is the error message

quandl.errors.quandl_error.LimitExceededError: (Status 429) (Quandl Error QELx01) You have exceeded the anonymous user limit of 50 calls per day. To make more calls today, please register for a free Quandl account and then include your API key with your requests.

This is the code I am using it works except for request limit

import quandl
import pandas as pd
from datetime import datetime
import as web

symbols = ['BOE/XUDLTWD','BOE/XUDLCDS','tvix']

pnls = {}
for i in symbols:

a = '/' in i

if a == True:
data = quandl.get(i )
t = i.split('/')
df1= pnls
df1[str(t)] = data

That's how to use your api key properly.

data = Quandl.get('what', authtoken='your_api_key')


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Kai Kai - 17 days ago 10
PHP Question

wordpress secondary database

I code some, but just started helping my church with wordpress, which I am new at. I just couldn't log on, so I looked in a database on godaddy's myPhpAdmin and tried to update the password using md5. (I didn't back-up the database, and now I'm paying for it)

This caused an error so it wouldn't even bring up the login screen, and gave me a screen saying that the program couldn't connect with the database I edited. The thing is, the db that I edited is not the one associated with the wp-config.php, so I can't just try to fix it there, at least not by just changing the password there.

I'm pretty green in this environment, and scared. What should I do next?

Kai Kai

Okay, so I figured it out! Essentially, there were more than one databases linked with this website, however THEY WERE EACH TO DIFFERENT URL EXTENTIONS like /tccnewsite and /wordpress. I found this out in the wp_options part of each table.
Also, there were two kinds of passwords: User Passwords, and Database Passwords. User passwords were changed in the table. Database passwords were changed in goDaddy. Lastly, I had to search through all of my wordpress files (in godaddy's file manager) to find the DIFFERENT wp-config.php files for each sub-domain of the site. Then I could match the Database Password (set in godaddy, not in the database itself) to the password in each wp-config.php.


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c0d3b34n c0d3b34n - 28 days ago 14
C# Question

Watch setting value of properties

is there a possibility to watch value changes of properties without calling PropertyChanged (System.ComponentModel) for every property in setter?

I tried watching my properties with Timer, but this has an unnecessary negative effect on Performance and is too slow (15ms for every run).

Based on your comment, what you need is automatically add INotifyPropertyChanged to classes. This can be achieve in a several ways.

Here is a partial list: Roslyn, Fody, Castle, PostSharp, Spring.Net etc.

To choose one, you need to define your requirements. If you want dynamic proxy\ AOP or to do it with IL weaving or you want to add it with code fix inside VS.


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Get Help

giffgaff pop-up shop launches today

former giff-staffer
23-04-2012 10:27
23-04-2012 10:27

Hey folks,

The day you’ve all been waiting has finally arrived as today we’re launching our pop up shop.  For one week only you will be able to exchange points you have earned for giffgaff branded items. Smiley Happy

We hope that you like the items that we have sourced; we have tried to take on board suggestions that you have given in the past, and added some of our own choices. We’re aware that these may not be suitable for everyone but we’re hoping you’ll fancy something.

Click here to visit our shop

So without further ado the items are:

  • giffgaff branded hoodie
  • giffgaff branded mini speakers
  • giffgaff branded travel mug
  • giffgaff branded iPhone cover
  • giffgaff branded soft shell jacket
  • Nokia 1616 handset
  • £10 Amazon voucher

To give all members a chance to order an item we are only allowing one item per person initially. We will open this up later in week, subject to stock availability.

For more information please visit Rachels post, and remember

1)      Only one product per person

2)      You may only order, if you have enough points, we will not take any card payments

3)      Delivery on all items is free Smiley Happy

Any questions relating to the shop please email

We would love to hear your feedback so please fill in this survey once you have taken a look or placed an order.

Happy shopping Smiley Happy

Ordered the phone, just wanting the hoodie now Smiley Happy

Ordered the hoodie and filled in the survey Smiley Happy

I think this is a very good idea Smiley Happy

Got a hoodie and just filled out the survey Smiley Happy

just had a look and hoodie could be comming my way.

Having issues with site, will keep trying

Same having issues Smiley Sad

i was very dissapointed i got all excited but it wasnt what i was thinking i thought get my bank card out but i was like Smiley Sad shame really but yh it is a good idea i thought that giffgaff were opening their own online phoneshop. all in good time ey?.

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Nice, Just a bit anoying that thier is not alot of product description, Such as it the speakers a pair or one as the pic,

Also the metiral the hoodie are made of as can not stand some. ect ect

But Love the idea, hope it get better.


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Susan G. Komen and WWE 'Make Mom Proud'

Susan G. Komen and WWE have announced an awareness campaign, “Make Mom Proud,” to support the fight against breast cancer. The TV and digital campaign, which coincides with Mother’s Day, calls on supporters to do something meaningful for their moms and the other important women in their lives.

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As part of the campaign, WWE will urge fans to support moms by taking steps to educate themselves about the disease, participate in local Susan G. Komen Races in their communities, and donate to Komen, the world’s largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research and community outreach programs. The campaign will be promoted through all of WWE’s assets, including TV broadcasts, Live Events, and digital and social media.

Watch a special "Make Mom Proud" edition of WWE Inbox on YouTube

“WWE fans are making a tremendous contribution to our mission to help women with breast cancer by supporting our community breast cancer programs for uninsured and underserved women, and through our global breast cancer research,” said Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen. “We’re so grateful for the support of the WWE community in our mission to end suffering from this disease.”

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“WWE is dedicated to supporting Susan G. Komen and their fight to eradicate breast cancer,” WWE’s Executive Vice President of Talent and Live Events Paul “Triple H” Levesque said.“Susan G. Komen is at the forefront of breast cancer research and community outreach programs, and I’m proud that the WWE Universe is supporting such an important cause.”

Throughout the month, Triple H and Divas Alicia Fox and Layla will be featured in a series of public service announcements to generate awareness and encourage fans to get involved. Alicia and Layla will also attend the Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure and its surrounding events on Mother’s Day weekend in Washington, an area that has among the highest breast cancer mortality rates in the country.

Susan G. Komen and WWE have a history of success in raising awareness for the fight against breast cancer. In September 2012, WWE and Superstar John Cena partnered with Susan G. Komen to launch the “Rise Above Cancer” campaign. Cena wore co-branded, pink and black ring gear that fans were able to purchase throughout October, raising $1 million to support Susan G. Komen’s mission to eradicate breast cancer and save women’s lives.

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Asteroid Apocalypse March 8, 2012

Posted by bibliosk8er in "Asteroid 2012 DA14", Doomsday.
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There’s this news story circulating about Asteroid 2012 DA14 possibly hitting the earth next year (they say it will not hit…but what to scientists really know? Insane Clown Posse says they lie to us.)

A couple of thoughts…

  1. It isn’t a planet killer, so don’t sweat it unless it hits near you. If you are in its strike zone, you probably won’t have a chance in hell of getting outta the way, so put a couple of yard chairs up on the roof, pop open a cold beverage of your choice, and watch the festivities. Maybe have sex during the big event. How awesome would that be?
  2. Back in the good old days, when people didn’t know shit, they wouldn’t have worried. They’d just be standing there, buying some feed or gingham at the general store, then POOF! Vaporized, and really better off for it. There’s a real comfort in obliviousness.


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Lenovo Keeps Assuring Me That New Computer Is Coming Soon. They’re Wrong

There were three parts to Nazir’s order from Lenovo: a ThinkPad Edge lapotp, a laptop sleeve, and an external DVD burner. Well, one part of the order showed up on his doorstep. That was the sleeve. The rest of it? Who knows? Lenovo personnel keep assuring Nazir that the rest of the order is coming soon. They are wrong.

On November 14, 2012, my fiance and I placed an order for a ThinkPad Edge laptop, a USB DVD-burner and a laptop sleeve. When the order was placed, the estimated ship date was November 17, 2012. The laptop sleeve arrived within days and I thought that we might receive the rest of the order earlier than expected. Unfortunately that was not the case.

The DVD-burner shipped from Hong Kong and remained stuck at UPS sorting facility in Chantilly, Virginia. According to the UPS website, the package could not be delivered as addressed and they were waiting for more information from Lenovo. We contacted Lenovo and were assured they would contact UPS. On November 30, 2012, we called Lenovo again as UPS still had not delivered the package. Lenovo did not have any records of our previous call but once again assured us they would contact UPS and stated they would ship another DVD-burner if necessary. Three days later, the status on the UPS website indicated that the package had been returned to Lenovo. As of today, December 18, 2012 I have not received the DVD-burner even though I have two emails assuring me the DVD-burner would be shipped within 1-2 business days.

During our conversation with Lenovo on November 30th, the customer service representative told us that the laptop had been manufactured and would ship within a day or two. It did not ship and on December 1st, the order status page on Lenovo’s website showed that the estimated shipment date had been pushed to December 30, 2012. Since early December, I have emailed Lenovo almost every day asking them to explain why I was lied to by a customer service representative. And every day, I receive a response stating that the shipment date of December 30th is only an estimate and that I may actually receive the laptop earlier. Lenovo simply ignores the fact that the shipment date has been pushed back and that they had informed me that it was supposedly ready to ship on November 30, 2012. I was also assured that my order had been placed on a priority list and that it had also been escalated to “higher authorities” to be resolved.

Lenovo has a online community (forums) on their website. There are two threads on shipping delays for the ThinkPad Edge. In one post, a poster who placed an order on November 26th received their shipment notification on December 13th. I immediately emailed Lenovo asking them to explain how an order placed nearly two weeks after mine was shipped earlier when my order was supposedly on a priority list. I received a response stating that shipment dates are estimates only.
I have asked Lenovo to provide the direct contact details of a manager or the “higher authorities”. I received a response saying they are not authorized to provide this information. I have asked for a manager to contact me, but I seem only to be getting responses from [A], [P] and [M] in which they write that shipping dates are only estimates. [A] though, was kind enough to offer a $60 discount (for this mess I should be getting a free laptop or one at a steep discount at the very minimum).

Lenovo does not understand the basic tenets of customer service. They have lied to me. They have failed to recognize the mess they have created and they fail to address my concerns. And judging from the threads on their website, I am not alone.

Unfortunately, since their managers and “higher authorities” do not seem to exist, I don’t see what I can do but send a certified letter to their North American headquarters and hope that someone other than [A], [P] and [M] read it.