http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
Saw the movie. Swank did a good job and even looked like her. Hollywood made her into an adulteress. (I don’t know if she was, but never speak ill of the dead.) Gere was a distraction.
All in all “interesting”.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091015/cm_csm/ynashweb_1
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For Japanese couples forbidden to marry, leaping from Mount Fuji used to be a common place to end their lives, but when the government erected a sign about the pain it was causing survivors, the suicide rate plummeted. Posting on Facebook could have a similar effect.
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I had a boss who committed suicide. It was said that the technology changing scared him. I hope that’s not right. He could have asked for help. THere were a lot of people who liked him for his caring and could have helped ease the transition worries. Maybe life would have been different if he had. Or if we’d known. We’ll never know.
Requiescat In Pacem, Bob, boss in my youth
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http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php
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I’m not surprised. I’m a wonk! It wasn’t very hard.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/story/1270200.html
Posted on Wednesday, 10.07.09
LAND SHARK STADIUM
Historic baseball safe at home in Miami girl’s hands
12-year-old gets historic baseball back, but only after lawsuit filed
BY ADAM H. BEASLEY AND EMILY MICHOT
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After catching the ball, Jennifer was escorted alone to the Phillies clubhouse, where they talked her into exchanging it for an autographed baseball, worth substantially less, said her Fort Lauderdale attorney and memorabilia enthusiast Norm Kent.
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Imagine cheating a little kid. It could be her ticket to a college education. Now that might have been a fair trade.
And, what parent lets their child go alone anywhere today?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/sports/football/30dementia.html?_r=1
N.F.L. Study Finds Link to Dementia
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: September 29, 2009
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A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.
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It would seem that a whole bunch of sports have to reevaluate what is “safe”.
We can’t turn men into women or boys into girls. But, we can take “precautions”.
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http://www.impactlab.com/2009/09/29/lucy-in-the-sky-dies-at-age-46/
September 29th, 2009 at 11:01 am
‘Lucy In The Sky’ Dies At Age 46
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The woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, has died at aged 46, a charity said today. The song featured on the ground-breaking 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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This ranks right up there with Valen’s Donna!
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Donna_Ludwig_still_alive
Makes me sad!
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http://www.reason.com/blog/show/136082.html
Hail to the Islamic Ben Stein!
Nick Gillespie | September 15, 2009, 8:04am
Islamic creationism is on the rise!
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Operating from Istanbul, Yahya is the founder of the Science Research Foundation, an impressive publishing empire that boasts more than 60 websites dedicated to his writings. It provides documentary films and audio recordings in fifteen languages, including Turkish, English, Russian, Amharic and Arabic, and claims to sell more than half a million books a year, including the infamous 850-page, fully illustrated Atlas of Creation, which was sent free in two volumes to dozens of universities, libraries and prominent scientists (including Richard Dawkins) across the world. In painstaking detail, with a mass of photos, graphs and statistics interspersed with verses from the Koran, the Atlas purports to prove that Darwin was utterly mistaken, that each plant and animal was created intact, and that no modification through natural selection ever took place.
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If I was Ben Stein, I’d be upset.
I always thought Ben was thoughtful and accurate.
This fellow may be wrong, But, he’s prolific. He must be funded and have help to do all this.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/world/africa/20cairo.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs
Pigs were the champion garbage consumers in Cairo. Goats just don’t seem up to the task.
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: September 19, 2009
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When the government killed all the pigs in Egypt this spring — in what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu — it was warned the city would be overwhelmed with trash.
The pigs used to eat tons of organic waste. Now the pigs are gone and the rotting food piles up on the streets of middle-class neighborhoods like Heliopolis and in the poor streets of communities like Imbaba.
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“unintended consequences”?
The only difference between their gooferment’s stupidity and ours is in size, scale, and topic.
TARP makes killing pigs look small. “Healthcare”, “Health Insurance”, or whatever they are trying to do will impact one SEVENTH of our economy. Misdirected swine flu versus psuedo climate change.
How stupid can gooferment be?
Very!
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http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/14/1718211/Maori-Legend-of-Man-Eating-Birds-is-True?from=rss
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10597177
Legends of the New Zealand Maori tell of giant man-eating birds. New scientific evidence proves that these birds did exist and were around the same time as humans in New Zealand. From the article, ‘Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast’s eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago.’
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Wow, so the legend has a basis in fact. How much other wisdom has been lost? Think the Firefox collection. Argh!
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Four Ways to Be Happier – About Your Past
from The Coach Approach by Lora Banks
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Rewrite Your Personal History. You can actually sit down and write a version of your personal history simply highlighting all of the great events of your past. Try to stick to some semblance of fact. If you embellish too much or try to put a positive spin on say a traumatic experience, you will find your mind busy judging and debating the details rather than relishing the positivity of the past. And you don’t have to actually write it down. We tell our personal stories all the time and they reinforce how we think and feel about our past. Choose the stories that reflect the the gems rather than the rocks and you will in effect, rewrite history – your history that is.
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ROFL, I kinda did that when I wrote “CHURCH 10●19●62”. I wrote what I thought when I was a child. Carried the story for decades. And, was tickled when it was in print. No one should leave the “universe” with their song unsung. Why leave it to other to write?
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