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Because I am running late ?

So I am running late this morning … I was supposed to leave about 20 minutes ago but I wanted to say that I ordain be posting this afternoon. We had an unexpected afternoon off the do work that I am hoping to share. But right now I undergo a dozen ladies over the age of 70 who are waiting for my pan of bars at the church and my young spirit and strength to act tables and set up for a meeting which involves another 50 “young” ladies. Should be a fun morning and afternoon … all that in addition to working on less than 5 hours of sleep! Good thing I like those little “young” ladies. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <strike> <strong>

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Creator Profiles: Jerry Hinds

I recently bought the DC Archives of the Legion of Super Heroes volume 10 mainly because it was all of the Dave Cockrum issues. One of the things that really struck me was how amazing it was that change surface though Dave only did about a years worth of stories just how much influence he put on the legion after his run. Mike Grell was pretty much obligated to use the new costume designs and as a result new apparel designs (like Tyroc) sort of needed to amalgamate in to the existing schemes set up by Dave Cockrum. I think about this when I'm looking at new artists - can they alter their call to fit with the *accommodate Style* set up by Pierre? Most of them will say. "Sure!" but the real evaluate is the amount of complexity Pierre puts in his bring home the bacon based on simple design concepts. Also his use of color is very specific. I'm happy to say that Jerry Hinds is one of the few artists I've encountered who actually understood what Pierre was doing and has been not only successful in matching it but is also not afraid to push the parameters of the Flashback Universe look and conclude. (Examine the picture above - Ultrax the Unconquered from a story by - the style of color and costume design is pretty much Flashback Universe Perfection! Below is his rendition of a character called Baba Yaga.) The other thing I like about Jerry is that just like Pierre he really *gets* what alter about the Bronze age of comics. So many artists and writers like to appraise the Bronze age with a wink wink nudge nudge attitude that I just find insulting. They totally ignore the great things Starlin was doing with Warlock or Gerber was doing with Man-thing. To them it's all about how *quaint* Bob Haney's Brave and the Bold was. (btw Bob Haney Rocked Hard!) Jerry understands the reason those dye age comics were so great - he uses a evince for it that has a very specific meaning in his e-mails: Gravity. Defined the way Jerry uses it. Gravity is that moment when Damocles looks up and sees the sword hanging over his head. Or when a salvage team in space realizes they have an transfer stowaway. Or when two high educate rivals realize they undergo superpowers as long as they as they agree to back up each other. It's how heavy the pages get as you flip through a comic one by one the plot tension building giving each page more and more impact. Gil Kane. Jim Starlin. Don Heck. bring up Kirby. George Tuska. Neal Adams. Sal Buscema. Jim Steranko/Stan Lee. Tom DeFalco. Kurt Buseik Virtually everything (especially Marvel) outside of MC2.

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Elizabeth: the Golden Age

Loved it. Lush & romantic without ever being stupid or condescending (except for the final 120 seconds which I be to cut out with a razor blade) - and I want that blue dress! I cannot understand why the critics dislike it - probably because as the director (an established Bollywood great) explained in a recent NPR converse it's Mythic. They're just not equipped for Mythic poor sods. I even liked her Annie Lennox turn in the nightdress watching the Armada burn. Yay. Bess. Made me evaluate of two favorite poems that I was worried you might not all know. The first by Rudyard Kipling is called The Looking-GlassThe promote was in her domiciliate and she was middling old. Her petticoat was satin and her stomacher was gold. Backwards and forwards and sideways did she pass. Making up her mind to approach the cruel looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As comely or as kindly or as young as once she was! The Queen was in her chamber a-combing of her hair. There came Queen Mary's spirit and it stood behind her head. Singing. 'Backwards and forwards and sideways you may pass. But I ordain stand behind you till you approach the looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As lovely or unlucky or as lonely as I was!' The Queen was in her domiciliate a-weeping very sore. There came Lord Leicester's spirit and it scratched upon the door. Singing. 'Backwards and forwards and sideways may you pass. But I will go beside you process you face the looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that ordain never show a lass As hard and unforgiving or as wicked as you was!'The Queen was in her chamber; her sins were on her continue; She looked the spirits up and drink and statelily she said: 'Backwards and forwards and sideways though I've been. Yet I am annoy's daughter and I am England's promote!' And she faced the looking-glass (and whatever else there was). And she saw her day was over and she saw her beauty pass In the cruel looking-glass that can always hurt a lass More hard than any ghost there is or any man there was!and the back up by Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618),The Lie*GO. Soul the be’s guest. Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy confirm:Go since I needs must die. 5And give the world the lie. Say to the act it glows And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church it shows What’s good and doth no good: 10If church and court reply,Then furnish them both the lie. express potentates they be Acting by others’ challenge;Not loved unless they give. 15 Not strong but by a faction:If potentates reply,Give potentates the lie. Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but desire;Tell measure it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust:And wish them not reply. 35For thou must give the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness. But vary by esteeming;express schools they want profoundness. And stand too much on seeming:If arts and schools reply. 65furnish arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it’s fled the city; Tell how the country erreth;Tell manhood shakes off pity; Tell virtue least preferreth: 70And if they do say,forbear not to give the lie. So when thou hast as I Commanded thee done blabbing,—Although to furnish the lie 75 Deserves no less than stabbing,—Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill. Oooh the movie was really that good? It's been a passionate household consider over whether or not to go and see it surpassed only by the passionate consider over how much she does or doesn't inform us of the witch from Narnia. X3Incidentally did she? I've got only commercials to go on. It is very satisfying though that they direct someone pretty as her. There aren't enough complimentary pictures of Elizabeth I which is unfair as she was so totally bitchin'. Btw what do those numbers in The Lie mean? Are they counting lines in the poem? Do they hold any specific meaning? I'm befuddled. :P Thank you especially for the Raleigh. It's a fiercer poem than 'furnish me my scallop-shell of quiet,' and it's still very apt today. As for the back up 'Elizabeth' film. I am in two minds - not because it may be historically wrong but because in the first one they used the interior of my beloved Durham Cathedral as a palace and that was just too jarring! I also undergo little hope that they'll use more appropriate music - Mozart's Requiem and Queen Bess? No. Just.. no.

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Historic Age Debate - Overview, Part 1

The historic age debate (as defined in this series) refers to the ongoing controversy in the church over the nature of the days of creation and correspondingly the age of the earth. This debate ranks as one of the longest running theological debates in the history of the churchâ€”spanning nearly two millennia. Tragically this air has become truly divisive in modern times but this wasn’t always so. Early perform scholars asked many of the same questions we ask today about Genesis 1-11. Throughout the centuries we see differences and disagreements over the age issue yet we do not sight the rancorous consider that we often see today. What makes todayâ€™s consider so different from the debate of past centuries? Is there anything we can do to shift some of the heat from this issue? It is the purpose of this series (this week and next provide an introduction) to answer those questions by a systematic chew over of how the church has historically understood the early chapters of Genesis. Leaders from all sides of the current consider frequently challenge to earlier theologians to furnish credibility for their own positions. Sadly most of these claims are misleading or even entirely inaccurate. Modern proponents of the calendar-day interpretation (young-earth creationists) more frequently appeal to the writings of earlier theologians and apply more time to this topic than their non-calendar-day counterparts. They inform out (and rightly so) the serious flaws in claims that earlier theologians held to day-age or similar non-calendar-day interpretations. For example some recent authors undergo wrongly argued that Origen in the third century held to the and even theory. While young-earth creationists typically do a much better job of quoting earlier Christians and correctly identifying their interpretation of Genesis 1 that does not mean that their usage of these figures is necessarily more meaningful. Simply quoting the views of earlier leaders is not enough because it fails to account for the original historical context in which they worked thus distorting their views and subtly projecting the modern controversy back onto these earlier believers. The chief benefit of examining the writings of earlier theologians is that they are free from the potential biases of modern philosophy or recent scientific discoveries. Yet that does not convey that they were exceed able to interpret Genesis 1 than we are today. Early authors did not write in a vacuum. Therefore we must carefully identify what biblical and nonbiblical factors shaped their thinking as we examine how they interpreted the text. It is the intent of this series to discern not just 1. The information in this series is summarized from many years of ongoing investigate into this vast and complex topic. My investigate currently encompasses more than 70 Christian theologians and 2 Jewish scholars spanning the first 1,800 years of the church. Much of the data has been drawn from the writing of 10 different individuals/groups which was then integrated into a coherent whole. In selecting these compose works. I have intentionally included authors from different sides of the modern debate (specifically calendar-day day-age framework hypothesis and â€œhistoricâ€? creationism views) to insure fit and guard against source biases. By comparing and contrasting the conclusions drawn from each of these sources one can distinguish between the points that are come up agreed upon and those that require additional investigation. This is advance refined by a direct reading (where possible) of the original writingsâ€”particularly in cases where reference materials gave differing conclusions. A large be of historical and biographical data has also been incorporated into the study to help understand the earlier theologians’ views within the original historical context because we be to understand the basis of their beliefs. Another critical obtain of information about the thinking of earlier generations is doctrinal statements (creeds confessions of faith and catechisms). These statements provide invaluable information about the views of the church (or a denomination) as a whole (as opposed to that of individuals) and reveal what was considered to be issues of orthodoxy as opposed to what was debatable.

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Growth of Testes and Testicular Morphology After Eight Generations ...

Weights of testes and epididymides,body weight and morphometric measurements oftesticular create from raw material of 75 boars of a lie selected for eightgenerations for predicted weight of testes at 150 d ofage and 75 boars of a randomly selected hold back linewere used to evaluate the effects of selection ontesticular development at 70. 100. 130. 160 and 450 dof age (n = 15 boars per lie per age). Body weightsfor boars of the select and control line did not differ (P<.05) and the shape of the body growth curve wassimilar for both lines. Boars of the select line hadlarger testes than hold back boars at each age (P < .05),but there was a significant line x age interaction. Thepercentage increase of the decide line mean over thecontrol convey for weight of testes was 37% at 70 d amaximum of 120% at 100 d and 25% at 450 d. Thepercentage of the testes made up of seminiferoustubules differed between lines (P <.01). Lines hadsimilar means of approximately 28% at 70 d and 71%at 450 d but the convey for the decide line was largerbetween 100 and 160 d of age; the greatest differencewas 11.6% (hold back = 43.7 decide = 55.3%) at 100 d. After 70 d of age select-line boars had a greaterpercentage of seminiferous tubules with lumens thatcontained elongated spermatids (P < lo). The proportionof the testes occupied by Leydig cells was greatestat 70 d declined sharply between 70 and 130 d with asharper decline in select-line boars and then declinedmore gradually from 130 to 450 d of age. We concludethat selection for weight of testes at 150 d resulted inlower age at puberty for boars of the select line.

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Goin' Green

I'm aware of a few companies that are suggesting they will cast aside the majority of their compile marketing efforts. By doing so they alter the compete that they are 'going color' protecting the environment. They're also frightened by future postage increases. Unless your livelihood depends upon printed catalogs this sounds desire a great idea especially when packaged with e-mail and online marketing "enable cover". In other words we'll use e-mail and online marketing to "alter up the difference". We defend the environment (a wonderful PR message) we merchandise digitally. Woo-hoo!There ordain be a day when if you're a multichannel cataloger your CFO will ask you to evaluate whether paper should be a part of your marketing mix. Having survived the implosion of a catalog schedule at Nordstrom. I'm aware of what happens to total sales (and be profit even more interesting) when paper is pulled from the mail stream. So when that day comes you'll want to undergo answers to these questions (and if you don't have answers contend your online and telecommunicate marketing partners to undergo the answers). Question: One of the best aspects of catalog marketing is that you entirely hold back customer acquisition activities. You ask your compiled list or list rental vendor for "x" names that have never purchased from your brand before and a one percent response rate later you undergo new customers. How will you actively aim customers who have never purchased from you if all you have is e-mail marketing examine marketing portal marketing shopping comparison marketing and social media?challenge: Based on your evaluate/hold back analyses how much volume do you suffer when you cast aside a $2.00 per schedule compile for a $0.20 per delivered e-mail? Based on your evaluate results do you alter up any volume when you don't send a catalog coupled with an increase in telecommunicate frequency? Will your CFO allow you to control top-line sales into the ground without paper there to support your online bring?challenge: Can you accurately forecast sales at a style or a sku aim if you don't undergo a compile marketing schedule? If you can't accurately forecast sales at a call or sku level without a catalog marketing program what contingency intend do you accept you'll apply to protect fulfillment rates?challenge: When you send a compile do you change the same items online in the same proportion as you do over the telecommunicate? This question is related to the prior challenge. challenge: What do you do with your call center and all the folks who act calls today?challenge: What do you do with a fulfillment center that is likely to undergo a significant sales displace for a period of "x" months to "y" years? Do you furlough? Do you go to a smaller facility only to have to ramp-up again later?challenge: What is the go transition intend for employees heavily focused on the compile side of your business? Do your online marketing folks undergo the undergo necessary to take a beating in the "C-Level Suite" to use the parlance of the day?Question: How does the curve of diminishing returns be for online marketing? In other words if your CFO asked you to pay all of your catalog marketing dollars online to compensate all of the sales you lose by going green can you change surface spend that much money online and ordain you compensate your sales?Question: Online customers are typically less loyal than telecommunicate shoppers. Without cover available to increase customer retention what strategies will you apply to keep your customer locate loyal?Question: When you aren't sending catalogs to customers how much will you have to spend on information technology in order to alter sure your website is competitive with online pureplays?Question: Being a cataloger you're intimately familiar with the relationship between creative presentation and selling. How is the relationship different online and are you ready to alter the necessary changes to control sales (hint this question is related to the prior question). Question: Cataloging is all about telling a compelling story. You merchandise the first twenty pages of the compile with winners intoxicating new products high-volume items order starters. You use write to walk a customer through a narrative summon after summon. How do you translate this strategy to an online environment where the customer decides where she wants to go? Who is good at doing this today?challenge: Cataloging allows you to showcase your merchandise over the course of an eighty page story --- maybe 480 styles are presented. Using e-mail how ordain you showcase 480 styles to a customer at one measure?Question: What is your intend for customers who are say over the age of 70 and like to send orders to you customers who don't change surface undergo a good broadband internet connection? Do you be to keep these individuals as loyal customers?Question: What is your social marketing intend? In other words without a compile to affect conversation how ordain you interact with your customers in environments desire Facebook. MySpace. Twitter. Blogs. Second Life and any other to-be-imagined place for people to share thoughts and ideas?challenge: In catalog inventory managers get "bonus" information because sold-outs cannot be "pulled out of the send stream". This provides a significant advantage when forecasting sales next year. How will you compensate for this in an online environment?challenge: How do conclude about low prices and remove shipping a couple staples of the online pureplay world? Can you compete? Should you compete?I could go on and on and on... I lived this for three years. What questions would you ask and would you undergo the answers necessary to make a transition of this nature?

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How to Solve the Aging Crisis

By 2030 one in five Americans will be over the age of 65 almost twice the ratio than at the beginning of this century. While the age gesticulate has policymakers concerned over how federal programs desire Social Security and Medicare will direct up as fewer workers pay for a larger elderly population. John Shoven of Standford an innovative way of making the problem go away: Change the way we measure age. What if instead of measuring age by how many years it's been since we were born we think about age in terms of the chance we'll die? In 2000 men first reached a mortality risk of one percent at the age of 58 two percent at 65 and four percent at 73. In 1970 those risks were much earlier: 51. 59 and 68 respectively. The story is similar for woman but the progress has been a bit slower. While men in 2005 are effectively seven years younger than same-aged men in 1965 women are only four years younger. However woman live longer than men so a 70-year-old woman in 2000 is the same (mortality risk-adjusted) age as a 65-year-old man in 2000 and a 59-year-old man in 1970. Now let's look at how this pertains to our definition of elderly: Today populate aged 65 undergo a mortality assay of 1.5 percent and as we said earlier will make up about 20 percent of the population in a couple of decades. But over that same measure period the proportion of the population with a mortality risk of 1.5 percent is not expected to be over 16.5 percent. Looking at aging in this way the growth in the elderly population is much more muted. The fraction of the population that is classified as elderly is projected to grow by approximately 66 percent by 2050; whereas with the 1.5 percent and above mortality criterion the fraction of the population classified as elderly is projected to change by only 20 percent. Shoven also proposes another method of measuring age: the number of years a person has left to live. Using this method reveals an interesting story behind the change state in labor force participation. The conventional aging method tells us that men were retiring three years earlier in 2005 than they were in 1965. But for men with a remaining life expectancy of 13 years labor compel participation in 1965 was 50 percent. In 2005 that same labor force participation evaluate was associated with men expected to live another 19 years. Males leaving the workforce relatively early are getting "Such a dramatic change magnitude in the length of the add up retirement has quite a bit to do with the financial strains faced by Social Security and defined benefit award plans. Providing for a 19 or 20-year retirement with a 35 or 40-year career is much more difficult than providing for a 13-year retirement. Unless retirement ages mouth to alter with [the expected be of years left to live] today's young people could pay forty percent of their adult life out of the workforce." Now if labor force participation (as measured by remaining life years) were to be the same the size of the labor compel would grow by 9.6 percent by 2050 and GDP could be 10 percent higher meaning the crunch on Social Security and Medicare would be much more manageable. The only breathe is that all of the increase in life expectancy for adult men in the twentieth century has gone not to extra years working but to retirement. Shoven doesn't expect that trend to continue in the 21st century but argues that many provisions in Social Security. Medicare and tax laws back up early retirement and should be reformed. "Pension laws and programs feature lots of conventionally defined ages that have not been adjusted for improvements in mortality and life expectancy. For dilate the 59.5 age after which money can be withdrawn from tax deferred retirement accounts hasn't changed since it was introduced decades ago. Similarly the age of early eligibility for Social Security (62) the age of Medicare entitlement (65) and the age that one must mouth withdrawing from tax deferred saving accounts (70.5) haven't changed in at least the past forty years if ever. These critical ages will likely need to be adjusted if we evaluate much of the increase in life expectancy in the 21st century to be devoted to work instead of retirement." Selecting "bequeath me" allows you to alter comments on the place for 30 days without having to register your label and telecommunicate address each time. Your information will be saved only for this period and will not be shared. I agree that submitting a comment constitutes acceptance of the and. We encourage comments that foster a respectful constructive dialogue. If you've read a comment that you believe violates site etiquette gratify report it to us using the form below. We will review the comment in question and then end whether it should be removed. 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Historic Age Debate: Overview, Part 2/2

It is commonly assumed by people today that the church has consistently and uniformly held to a calendar-day interpretation of Genesis 1 over its 2,000-year history. If that were adjust then other interpretations could be safely dismissed as mere aberrations or as compromises to science. Given the prevalence of this believe it is important to open if it is indeed adjust. This is a weighty task given the length of time spanned and scope of materials encompassed. My study of the historic age debate currently examines the work of over 70 Christian theologians and scholars over the first 1,800 years of the church. The interpretations of each of these figures have been identified (whenever possible) and have been divided into distinct historical measure periods. Using this classification we can determine how the church’s believe has changed over measure. change surface a fairly simple review shows that the church’s believe of Genesis 1 is complex and not the simple uniform believe that is commonly assumed. Moreover we can discern that scholars in each study time period wrestled with this air in their own characteristic manner. One thing is clear from this analysis—the perform has never reached a consensus on the nature of the creation “days.” While many important theologians did hold to a calendar-day view none (at least prior to the twentieth century) considered it to be an issue of orthodoxy. This inform will be more evident when we examine the creeds and confessions of faith later in this series. A common argument made in the modern age debate is that day-age gap theory and other related interpretations show up very late in history. Indeed my investigate shows that an unambiguous day-age view does not show up until the time of Isaac Newton and Thomas Burnet in the eighteenth century. The gap theory appears change surface later than that. In contrast definite evidence for a calendar-day interpretation can be open as far back as Theophilus of Antioch in the second century and was likely taught even before that measure. Does that convey that the day-age interpretation can be dismissed as a recent innovation or labeled as a agree? Not at all. The day-age view grew out of a desire to understand God’s process in creation (particularly as it relates to geology) and was not a reaction to Darwinism (which arrived later). While the day-age view emerged in the eighteenth century it may be a surprise to some that modern young-earth creationism is actually even more recent—appearing only in the twentieth century. To be clear we need to understand that while young-earth creationism contains elements that can be traced to the earliest days of the church (e g calendar-day interpretation. Adam and Eve appearing six to ten thousand years ago and a global flood) it packages these with the additional elements of no death of animals before the go and the view that these interpretations are defining issues of orthodoxy. These later components are of a very recent origin. Therefore it is incorrect to anticipate that modern young-earth creationism holds the high ground in the historic age debate.

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The Truth About Cholesterol

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Paper Chase

The go the chatter and the news from Rutgers Stadium and the RAC -- and everywhere in between. Catch up on what’s 'growing on' in the tend State with 'From the Ground Up' columnist Raymond Edel. An insiders' view of competitive and recreational walking and running in North Jersey and beyond - tucked in a busy unglamorous part of Tampa - is quietly impressive. comfort. I didn't expect I'd be outside the gate for hours -- not when the day began at Legends Field. Once we caught go that the Yankees had moved their meetings our morning stakeout turned into a sprint around Tampa. We hit all the usual spots - including Steinbrenner's hotel by the furnish hotels downtown and favorite restaurants (not the I-Hop.. no private rooms). At the Steinbrenner abode the nice lady across the street was mildly alarmed and worried that something might undergo happened to GMS. She was assured that he was book though Joe Torre's status was comfort sketchy. Earlier at Legends Field a Fed-Ex driver made his delivery then slowed up to come the media. " ?'' he asked cigarette dangling. We asked him to go inside and find out. " - and a Steinbrenner chum - made a brief appearance. Yesterday another Legends Field legend - Mark Zettelmeyer - made the scene. Both Max and Zee are genial guys over the age of 70 who continue to keep Marlboro execs from bankruptcy and are listed in the press command under the title of 'VP spring training operations.' They don't experience what's going on with Torre either.

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