tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152489019416247392024-03-12T23:02:17.076-04:00In the MomentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.comBlogger260125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-64640781179043464402014-09-28T15:00:00.000-04:002014-09-28T15:00:57.970-04:00Unsaid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10px;">Incredible! This first, semi-biographical novel by Neil Abramson has me wanting more...more of the kindness.
I've read <a href="http://www.skipprichard.com/conversation-neil-abramson/">Skip Pritchard's review and Conversation with Neil Abramson</a> and then watched the accompanying YouTube video.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-34974088171063215522013-05-13T13:17:00.001-04:002013-05-14T13:29:16.994-04:00Canadian astronaut coming home<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KaOC9danxNo" width="400"></iframe><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-17720046175935059142013-04-21T16:46:00.001-04:002013-04-21T16:46:05.866-04:00Words are worse than sticks and stones<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Again, Canadian slam poet, <a href="http://www.shanekoyczan.com/"><b>Shane Koyczan</b></a> has brought his intelligence to the table to highlight the experiences of bullying, from an informed point of view.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/59956490" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/59956490">To This Day</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/tothisday">To This Day</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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In addition, here is <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/live-a-life-to-do-with-beauty-shane-koyczan-at-ted2013/"><b>Shane's TED Talk</b></a>:<br />
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You can also read the text of Shane's spoken art performance at the Vancouver Olympics describing the Canadian experience, called <a href="http://flash-in-the-moment.blogspot.ca/2010/02/we-are-more-shane-koyczan.html"><b>We are More</b></a>.
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-9569376585709036832013-03-26T00:11:00.005-04:002013-03-26T00:22:00.371-04:00Premiere of Scars of Shame Documentary<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 8;">A cartoon my niece made on Facebook with the Bitstrips app for my sister Pam. <b>Caption:</b> Pam can hardly wait to watch Angie's documentary for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14;"><b><a href="http://www.skinpickingsupport.com/2013/03/19/conference-dvd-cover-scars-shame/">Scars of Shame - Documentary Film Screening</a></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"><a href="http://www.trich.org/involved/cal-conference.html">20th Annual National Conference on Hair Pulling & Skin Picking Disorders</a> at Renaissance Newark Hotel, New Jersey, USA</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Saturday, April 20, 2013: 8:30 - 10:00 p.m.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">The premiere of the first skin picking documentary! In the film, Angela Hartlin, author of Forever Marked: A Dermatillomania Diary, invites us into her world for an intimate portrait of her daily struggles as she deals with skin picking disorder. A brief Q & A will follow the 46-minute film. Parental discretion is advised.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-731875502757208392013-03-16T18:04:00.001-04:002013-03-16T18:04:28.505-04:00Nekofont cat<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">At the risk of branding myself forever as a crazy cat lady, I'm the following link where text input will be converted to a cat font: <a href="http://nekofont.upat.jp/">http://nekofont.upat.jp/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Cat:</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-57762128267851201112013-03-13T04:30:00.000-04:002013-03-13T04:30:32.910-04:00Our digital footprint<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DLyP5BrAUes/UUA4wpfi_wI/AAAAAAAABMs/1Co4lWknJ6o/s1600/like.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DLyP5BrAUes/UUA4wpfi_wI/AAAAAAAABMs/1Co4lWknJ6o/s320/like.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Tori Floyd at The Right Click wrote a humorously, informative article about <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/facebook-likes-may-reveal-more-wish-share-170223984.html" target="_blank">predictive liking</a>. This article and the supporting PDF chart published on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) reveals that that every time you 'LIKE' on Facebook, you are being <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2013/03/07/1218772110.DCSupplemental/st01.pdf">sorted and categorized</a>.<br />
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It's not a real brain stretch to realize that every social network you belong to or search engine you use do the same thing.<br />
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It's all about the stats and trends, folks. Marketers and corporations depend on this information. Example: the <a href="http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profiles/blogs/top-15-most-popular-social-networking-sites">Automotive Digital Marketing Professional Community</a><br />
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Why don't we exercise our digital voices by mindfully indicating what we want?<br />
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Just a thought...
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-18423889165505506652013-03-09T05:38:00.002-05:002013-03-21T02:16:13.779-04:0020th Annual National Conference on Hair Pulling and Skin Picking Disorders<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Angela Hartlin will be speaking at the <a href="http://www.trich.org/involved/cal-conference.html"> <b>20th Annual National Conference on Hair Pulling & Skin Picking Disorders</b></a> - April 19-21, 2013 | Renaissance Newark Hotel, New Jersey<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">She will facilitate <a href="http://www.trich.org/involved/cal-conference-sched.html"><b>two sessions</b></a> at the conference and unveil her <b><a href="http://www.skinpickingsupport.com/2013/03/19/conference-dvd-cover-scars-shame/">documentary film</a></b> on Saturday, April 20, 2013:<br />
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<b>Session 4 - Tickets to Happiness</b><br />
1:00 to 2:15 p.m.<br />
Finding activities that build self-esteem is vital to helping us feel better about ourselves! In this workshop, kids will choose “tickets” that list various activities that we either like to do or would like to try. Once the tickets are given out, we will paste the tickets onto a piece of paper that will help us remember the things that make us happy, and when we feel stressed or anxious or sad, we can turn to our list for ideas on how to relieve anxiety. This list will also give parents insight into motivations for their children.<br />
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<b>Session 6 - Fearing Intimacy</b><br />
4:15 to 5:30 p.m.<br />
This workshop is for adults 18 and over. Intimacy can be a frightening idea for a sufferer of a Body Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB). When the time comes to find a partner, it can be daunting because the sufferer must learn how to be open about their insecurities, be honest about all feelings, and engage inter-personally to help a relationship blossom. In an open forum, we will talk about what it means to be intimate with another person. Intimacy of physical and emotional natures will be the focus of this workshop; having an honest discussion about these feelings many of us are ashamed to have accompanying our BFRBs can help identify specific issues so we can come up with solutions and bring clarity to them.<br />
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<b>Scars of Shame - Documentary Film Screening</b><br />
8:30 - 10:00 p.m.<br />
The premiere of the first skin picking documentary! In the film, Angela Hartlin, author of Forever Marked: A Dermatillomania Diary, invites us into her world for an intimate portrait of her daily struggles as she deals with skin picking disorder. A brief Q & A will follow the 46-minute film. Parental discretion is advised.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"><b>The official DVD cover:</b></span>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Updated: March 21, 2013</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-64792183021013172602013-03-06T01:08:00.000-05:002013-03-06T01:08:36.725-05:00Email from the cat<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10;">My Basset hound got an email from one of her long-distance pals. Surprising, considering the level of disdain displayed when Bella visited her.<br />
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<b>Email</b><br />
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Hi Bella!<br />
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Just wanted to let you know you'll feel better & more energetic in a day or two. I went for the same type of operation last month. I'm
now able to concentrate more on my playtime, nap time and mealtimes.<br />
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Take care,<br />
- MeeMaw<br />
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<b>Reply</b><br />
<br />Dear MeeMaw:<br />
<br />Woof! My servants have tied a horrible cone on my head. It's embarrassing...they will pay!<br />
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Ah yes! nap time. I should be able to extend my 18-hour nap to a rounder figure, say 20 - maybe even 22, if my serfs don't pester me too much.<br />
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I've got a lot of eating to catch up on. Hopefully tomorrow I can figure out how to get out of this collar and chow down in
comfort.<br />
<br />Love,<br />
- Bella</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-7290433674513257612013-03-05T22:21:00.001-05:002013-06-03T23:11:05.926-04:00Wayward physics<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll be able to say TIL (today I learned) at <a href="http://what-if.xkcd.com/35/" target="_blank">What If?</a> answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday. <a href="http://what-if.xkcd.com/35/" target="_blank">What If?</a> is a subsection of <a href="http://xkcd.com/">XKCD</a>, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm and language. You might also enjoy <a href="http://blag.xkcd.com/">XKCD Blag</a>.<br />
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Quote: "You can use heat flow to come up with simple rule of thumb: If an unused charger isn't warm to the touch, it’s using less than a penny of electricity a day. For a small smartphone charger, if it’s not warm to the touch, it’s using less than a penny a<em> year</em>."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-87276503876517559602013-03-05T21:14:00.003-05:002013-03-05T21:14:42.509-05:00Ever had one of these days?<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RZ6sBj38m0U/UTamQHRlETI/AAAAAAAABKs/Du6Ps5BuwEc/s1600/002.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RZ6sBj38m0U/UTamQHRlETI/AAAAAAAABKs/Du6Ps5BuwEc/s400/002.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Bella, our Basset Hound got spayed today. She's NOT impressed.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-26357368564128453022013-03-04T23:17:00.001-05:002013-03-04T23:18:56.000-05:00Steven Pinker on language<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1IHGvnSj4Kc/UTVxgq0ir8I/AAAAAAAABKU/k7KHvgBEQIM/s1600/language.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img height="115" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1IHGvnSj4Kc/UTVxgq0ir8I/AAAAAAAABKU/k7KHvgBEQIM/s400/language.jpg" width="400" /></a>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">TedTalks: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought.html">Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal</a> is an informationally dense talk. You can use the transcript menu option on the bottom, right of the video to read along while listening.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/steven_pinker.html">Steven Pinker's bio</a> - Quote, "Linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts -- the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others. In his best-selling books, he has brought sophisticated language analysis to bear on topics of wide general interest."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-71871262551711459502013-03-03T08:24:00.002-05:002013-03-03T08:39:02.145-05:00Get your Downton Abbey fix<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J7Oazgjd0kY/UTNO1-e4hII/AAAAAAAABKE/8okys_b7Cxo/s1600/downton-abbey-cast.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="67" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J7Oazgjd0kY/UTNO1-e4hII/AAAAAAAABKE/8okys_b7Cxo/s400/downton-abbey-cast.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">If you are still withdrawing from your Downton Abbey addiction, perhaps these links will help:<br />
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<a href="http://tatertotsandjello.com/2013/02/free-downton-abbey-season-three-printables-and-party-ideas.html">Printable quotes from Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.graspingforobjectivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Downton-Abbey-Explained2.jpg">The Simple Explanation of Downton Abbey</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.happyplace.com/topic/season-3">If Downton Abbey took place entirely on Facebook: Season 3</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/television/Cast+comings+goings+Downton+Abbey+announced/8041356/story.html">New casting details for Downton Abbey 4th season</a><br />
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<a href="http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/downton-abbey-road/">Downton Abbey Road</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/print-out-vultures-downton-abbey-paper-dolls.html">Printable Downton Abbey paper dolls</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/01/downton-abbey-bingo.html">Downton Abbey Bingo</a><br />
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<a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/41025046577862766/">Downton Abbey Cartoon</a> on Pinterest<br />
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<a href="http://chirravutever.tumblr.com/post/21382316482">Disney's Downton Abbey</a><br />
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<a href="http://pinkpackratatplay.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-downside-of-downton-abbey.html">The Downside of Downton Abbey</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12926432-lady-almina-and-the-real-downton-abbey">Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle</a>
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-19671216778972504292013-03-02T23:02:00.003-05:002013-03-02T23:02:53.758-05:00Soft-edge piecing for quilting<a href="http://www.jinnybeyer.com/ax_commerce/browse_fabrics.cfm?collectionID=057C3085-CA6B-F6AA-2F14475A543D1C72" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="67" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P3KcV5NKM7k/UTLGKyZusJI/AAAAAAAABJ0/XN_tx8cRlh0/s400/renaissance-garden-fabric.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"><a href="http://www.jinnybeyer.com/">Jinny Beyer Studio</a> has beautiful quilting patterns, tutorials, fabrics, notions and tools. She also has a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/JinnyBeyerStudio?feature=watch">JinnyBeyerStudio </a>channel on YouTube.<br />
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I'm particularly enamored by her paisleys in the <a href="http://www.jinnybeyer.com/ax_commerce/browse_fabrics.cfm?collectionID=057C3085-CA6B-F6AA-2F14475A543D1C72">Renaissance Garden</a> fabric collection and the beautiful technique she uses called soft-edge piecing, which is a perfect way to highlight the beautiful paisleys in quilts. <br />
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She has provided a free, downloadable Renaissance Garden <a href="http://www.jinnybeyer.com/assets/ax_content/files/46457C5F-EABC-5697-8D16478D997D944B.pdf">quilt pattern</a> and soft-edge piecing <a href="http://www.jinnybeyer.com/assets/ax_content/file/Solstice/SE%20Piecing%20Instructions.pdf">instruction sheet</a>. There is also a video tutorial for soft-edge piecing, which you can view below. </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yTnGb-wUMsg" width="400"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-18240640801064038762013-03-02T00:22:00.001-05:002013-03-02T00:22:24.206-05:00What makes us happy?<div style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">
TEDTalks has created a 7 video series of lecturers discussing the various aspects of happiness.</div>
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Quote, "We all want to be happy. But how, exactly, do you go about it? More stuff or less? More choice or less? The answers -- from psychologists, journalists, Buddhist monks -- may surprise you.</div>
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What makes us happy?</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Great flashmob marketing: <a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/colin_robertson.html"><b>Colin Robertson's speaker profile</b></a> on TED.<br>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Dustin Thompson started his YouTube channel <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShutterSchool?feature=watch">TheShutterSchool</a> to help beginners and advanced photographers learn new techniques and enhance their photography skills. <br />
<br />So far there are 3 videos posted and I look forward to new additions.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Al_uPgfCg">Welcome to The Shutter School</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb3e9U1HeyM">Episode 1: Black and white head shots made simple</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wy_-XhK320">Episode 2: Levitation Photos</a></span></li>
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So much so, I decided to search the title, 'Whew! What a relief to learn this...' to see its general origins of the email and whether any articles were written the the subject matter.<br />
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General origins:<br />
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<li>New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor
<a href="http://psychology.nd.edu/faculty/faculty-by-alpha/g-a-radvansky/" target="_blank">Gabriel Radvansky </a>suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/relief-experiment_b_1415373.html" target="_blank">The Psychology of Whew!</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/5/464" target="_blank">On Near Misses and Completed Tasks: The Nature of Relief</a></li>
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My favourite articles written on the subject matter explored a relatively unstudied concept: relief.<br />
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<b>Subject: Whew! What a relief to learn this...</b>
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Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?<br />
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Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.<br />
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Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.<br />
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Thank goodness for studies like this. It's not our age, it's that damn door!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-30186499040223084752013-02-24T07:59:00.001-05:002013-02-24T08:02:07.090-05:00The evolution of Mom dancing<iframe frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n33117" width="400"></iframe><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;">Michelle Obama grooving on the Jimmy Fallon Show to promote her Let's Move campaign to end childhood obesity.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-79731945018279068092013-02-23T15:32:00.002-05:002013-02-23T15:33:09.471-05:00A 3D arts & crafts pen<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DQWyhezIze4" width="400"></iframe></span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-8251221555917605372013-02-23T10:37:00.001-05:002013-02-24T01:34:10.729-05:00My amazing Flashy-boy<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wy77K5iDIro/USjco0xeDDI/AAAAAAAABH8/7HJwy7jdt80/s1600/Flash_5+mos.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wy77K5iDIro/USjco0xeDDI/AAAAAAAABH8/7HJwy7jdt80/s320/Flash_5+mos.jpg" /></a><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10;">We enjoyed 13 years of kitty-cat love with our <b><a href="http://www.cfa.org/Breeds/BreedsKthruR/NorwegianForestCat.aspx">Norwegian Forest cat</a></b>, Flash.<br>
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Flash was the second wegie we have owned. I previously had another named Gismo.<br>
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When Gismo died, I immediately put an order in at Misty Mountain cattery in Montreal for a B&W male from the next litter. The breeder sent me pictures via email of his progression because she won't let them leave the mother cat until they are over 16 weeks old. I had to wait about 9 months in total but it was a good space of time to ready myself for another cat.<br>
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Misty Mountain Flash drove home with us after our vacation in the Laurentians and the Santana Supernatural concert in Montreal. He was perfect! He slept curled up on my lap the entire trip, only leaving to use the litter we had set up in the passenger foot well. He captured both our hearts.<br>
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He was a dear little boy and both Mike and I deeply loved him. <br>
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We miss him but know that our memories will linger for our lifetime.<br>
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According to <b><a href="http://www.cca-afc.com/en/showcase/desc/norweign.html">CCAFC</a></b>, "This is a very old breed, who have lived in the forests of Norway for thousands of years and played a part in Norse mythology. In the early 1970'a a group of Norwegian cat fanciers formed a group to try to preserve this breed called Skaukatt in its homeland. In 1979, the first breeding pair were imported to North America.<br>
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The fur of the Norwegian is a semi-long, double coat consisting of a woolly undercoat covered by a smooth, water-repellent, outer coat. The ruff of a mature cat frames a strong-chinned, intelligent face with almond-shaped expressive eyes. The ears are large, tufted and lynx-like tip tufts are desirable. This is an easy care coat that requires only moderate grooming.<br>
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The general appearance of the Norwegian is that of an alert, healthy, well developed, muscular cat. The body is of moderate length, heavily boned and powerful.<br>
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These large, friendly cats have people-loving personalities and adapt well to almost any household. Their robust constitution makes for a long, healthy life."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-57602801225256973022013-02-21T23:58:00.001-05:002013-02-22T13:54:38.827-05:00The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eB1GWz3gVco/USb6CYjVsyI/AAAAAAAABHo/PJbY1YgjnaM/s1600/nutrition-panel.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="352" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eB1GWz3gVco/USb6CYjVsyI/AAAAAAAABHo/PJbY1YgjnaM/s400/nutrition-panel.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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My RSS feed presented me with<b><a href="http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/43669430869/the-extraordinary-science-of-addictive-junk-food" target="_blank">The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food</a>,</b> which is an OP ED of The New York Times' report called <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html">The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food</a></b>.<br />
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Not wanting to break with tradition, I've titled my OP ED of the NYT report the same.<br />
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I don't understand why people don't get it.<br />
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These food manufacturers are not the least bit interested in food or nutrition.<br />
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They're interested in profit.<br />
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Like many manufacturers, they create the need however they can.<br />
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These are corporations, not altruistic organizations watching out for our best interests.<br />
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How else could they get people to freely choose something to eat that has a nutrition panel that reads like the above? Breakfast anyone?
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Sad but true.<br />
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You can learn how to read food panels for the USA's FDA <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=915248901941624739" ref="http://www.fda.gov/food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/NFLPM/ucm274593.htm">How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label</a></b> or for Health Canada's <b><a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/label-etiquet/nutrition/cons/index-eng.php">The Nutrition Facts Table</a></b><br />
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-42174619376649422772013-02-19T12:03:00.000-05:002013-02-19T12:03:03.669-05:00Secrets Of The Dog Park - Basset Hound<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pnSPeOSVpww" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10;">As a Basset Hound owner, I can attest to their wily ways of total human subjugation.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915248901941624739.post-83880293761172890792013-02-18T12:31:00.000-05:002013-02-18T12:31:12.391-05:00Canadian shame<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bh4CHejmUUg/USJkvDRy08I/AAAAAAAABHM/9PUmPQBG3-M/s1600/canada-shame.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bh4CHejmUUg/USJkvDRy08I/AAAAAAAABHM/9PUmPQBG3-M/s320/canada-shame.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10;"><a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/at-least-3-000-deaths-linked-to-indian-residential-schools-new-research-1.1161081#.USJkfD1s_ok.blogger">At least 3,000 deaths linked to Indian residential schools: new research | CTV News</a><br>
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Usually, I'm proud to be Canadian but this is an unconscionable historical record.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05225123062584976279noreply@blogger.com0