Isn’t this a violation an individual’s right to religious freedom?
Praying football coach on leave
Hasn’t the ACLU and atheists and others taken the first amendment and twisted its meaning? I don’t think it’s “freedom from religion” as in we’re to take religion out of public life. Freedom of religion means this football coach can pray on the field. No one is coercing the students to pray with him.
A man is not complete until he is married, then he is finished.
So, I recently read the fascinating book “In the Kingdom of Ice” by Hampton Sides. It was about the attempt by the USS Jeannette to reach the North Pole in 1879. One moment in history which I found very interesting is captured in the beginning of Chapter 6. The chapter starts out describing the events of the first week of July 1876 in Philadelphia. It was America’s 100th birthday and Philadelphia was hosting a world’s fair, called the Centennial Exhibition. For those of you familiar with the Philadelphia area, it took place on nearly 400 acres in Fairmount Park, across the Schuylkill River. It was the first time America hosted a world expo and it was attended by nearly ten million people over that summer.
Some of the new inventions were: the Remington Typewriter, a complicated stringed device called a Calculating Machine and “a curious gizmo that a bearded Scotsman named Alexander Graham Bell was calling his “telephone””. Bell read from a Shakespeare play at one end of the hall and people at the other end could hear Bells’ voice. Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil said, “My God, it talks!”.
Also present were young inventors, George Westinghouse, George Eastman and Thomas Edison. At the Japanese Pavilion they featured a fast growing pea plant called Kudzu. This was also where Americans were first introduced to Heinz Ketchup, Hires Root Beer and bananas. The bananas were served in foil with a fork.
I like reading historical novels that involve adventure and the human struggle against the odds and I highly recommend “In the Kingdom of Ice”. It is an amazing struggle against virtually impossible odds.
So I was recently telling Deb Jendrasek, treasured FOCM member about old jokes from when I was a kid. I asked if she remembered any of the book title/author jokes. She had never heard of them and so I wondered maybe others never have or maybe some of you have just forgotten them. Some might call them “corny”, but nevertheless I am going to share them. If anyone knows any others, please respond and add to the list or maybe you can come up with new ones. Let’s see what y’all can come up with.
Squeaky Door by Rusty Hinges
Open Kimono by Seymour Hare
Yellow River by I.P. Freeley
My first job out of college was for the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome Co. The company was owned by a charitable trust, The Wellcome Foundation. When they sold the company to Glaxo in 1995, it provided the Wellcome Trust with significant amounts of money, which they continue to use to fund research all over the world. One such study is described below. I also found it interesting because, as a twin, it is interesting to see research done on twins because one serves as the control for the other.
Researchers at King’s College London have investigated a new method that could be used by GPs to quickly determine the number of moles on the entire body by counting the number found on a smaller ‘proxy’ body area, such as an arm.
Previous studies on a smaller scale have attempted to identify mole count on certain body sites as a proxy to accurately estimate the number on the body as a whole and found that the arm was the most predictive.
This study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, used a much larger sample of participants to identify the most useful ‘proxy’ site for a full body mole count as well as the ‘cut off’ number of moles that can be used to predict those at the highest risk of developing skin cancer.
The researchers used data from 3594 female Caucasian twins between January 1995 and December 2003 as part of the TwinsUK study protocol. Twins underwent a skin examination including recording skin type, hair and eye colour and freckles as well as mole count on 17 body sites performed by trained nurses. This was then replicated in a wider sample of male and female participants from a UK melanoma case control study published previously.
Scientists found that the count of moles on the right arm was most predictive of the total number on the whole body. Females with more than seven moles on their right arm had nine times the risk of having more than 50 on the whole body and those with more than 11 on their right arm were more likely to have over 100 on their body in total, meaning they were at a higher risk of developing a melanoma.
These findings could help GPs to more easily identify those at the highest risk of developing a melanoma (skin cancer).
Scientists also found that the area above the right elbow was particularly predictive of the total body count of moles. The legs were also strongly associated with the total count as well as the back area in males.
Lead author, Simone Ribero of the Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology said: “This study follows on from previous work to identify the best proxy site for measuring the number of moles on the body as a whole. The difference here is that it has been done on a much larger scale in a healthy Caucasian population without any selection bias and subsequently replicated in a case control study from a similar healthy UK population, making the results more useful and relevant for GPs.
“The findings could have a significant impact for primary care, allowing GPs to more accurately estimate the total number of moles in a patient extremely quickly via an easily accessible body part. This would mean that more patients at risk of melanoma can be identified and monitored.”
The study is being published in the British Journal of Dermatology.
Looks like global warming is not all man-made and mankind can actually do something to help. Cut down the lianas vines and shred them to use as mulch. Let’s organize lianas vine cutting safaris. We can form groups to live in the jungles for weeks at a time chopping these down. Come on everyone, it’s for the future of Mother Earth, we’ve got to do something! We know we can’t count on Al Gore, Brad Pitt, HiLIARy Clinton, Michael Moore to give up their private jets, so it’s up to us.
Nations around the world are attempting to come up with an agreement to curb CO2 emissions. All the while vines are strangling jungles, reducing their ability to recycle Co2.
The specific plants at blame are lianas vines, which are commonly found in tropical rain forests across the world. ‘Lianas’ is not refer a taxonomic group of specific plants, but instead is more akin to “shrub” or “tree.” Lianas vines are long-stemmed, woody vines that crawl up trees and into canopies.
Now these vines are threatening to reduce the ability of jungles to store and recycle carbon. Researchers believe that the lianas vines, which are spreading aggressively across tropical rain forests, could reduce the overall Co2 recycling ability of tropical forests by 35 percent.
http://www.natureworldreport.com/2015/10/meet-the-newest-climate-change-villain-lianas-vines/
(Disclaimer: if sarcasm was not detected in the first paragraph, it should have been)
Another series of quotes noted and shared here that are shown completely out of context from the business meeting in which they were heard.
He’s a champion vegetable grower,
– John Schneider
Is it the size of his vegetables?
– Erica Hill
This is the kind of thing you can read on the plane or something like that.
– John Schneider
I probably couldn’t handle 60 emails a day.
– John Schneider
Gonna spend a lot of time herding cats.
– Lee King
You can’t read this.
– Lee King
I’d be a moron if I didn’t talk about this circle.
– Lee King
All we need is 300 RFPs and it will get us to $500 million and we’ll be happy.
– Lee King
The heart – can’t live without it.
– Lee King
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Background: This all started at a US Sales meeting and in order to stay focused on what was being said, I started writing down the business cliches, like “let’s circle the wagons”, “let’s table that”, “always be closing” and then count how many times they were said. As I began paying attention, I would hear a phrase that was appropriate for the context in which it was said, but wow, it sure was amusing to see the phrase just sitting there by itself. That lead me to put them into a slide show show so the phrase was seen in its purest form along with the person who said it. As this practice became known, the slide set became the unofficial and humorous wrap-up presentation, kind of a summary of the things stated over the course of the meeting.
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Why do they do this? Dredging up the past that we’re trying to eliminate from our shameful history as a nation. These cannons were used by traitors to America. Digging them up to put in a museum is an affront to all peace-loving Americans!!! Join me at “signmypetition.com” or visit: stampouthistory.com to stop this shameful divisive baiting.
http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article36910053.html
#stampouthistory
#ilovesarcasm
Around Labor Day every year in Wilmington, NC thousands of little yellow butterflies show up. In the back yard one day, as several were fluttering about, I got to thinking about the name butterfly and I wondered if they weren’t originally called flutterbies and one day someone mixed it up and said butterfly. I suppose butterfly came from these creatures being the color of butter and they fly. But for me, I now call them flutterbies, because that’s what they do, they flutter by.
