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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Computers 2, Bears 0
somehow I don't think a tablet would do this:
headsup DaveBarry
Man Fights Off Bear With Old Computer in Siberia
The unidentified man was looking for non-ferrous metals at a dump in the Tomsk region on Saturday when he was spotted by the bear, which immediately rushed toward him, the Interfax news agency reported Monday, citing local ranger Sergei Yelnikov.
When the man saw the bear coming, he picked up a computer that was lying nearby and threw it at the animal, before both ran away in opposite directions, the report said....
on the other hand frightening off bears? There's an app for that.
This is not the first instance of technology coming to the rescue in the case of a bear attack.
In July, a man in the eastern Sakha republic had an extremely lucky escape after his phone turned on as he was being mauled by a bear.
The phone's startup noise was enough to frighten away the beast, and the man, who had sustained a bite wound to his head, escaped with his life.
headsup DaveBarry
stuff around the net
It's a papist plot!
remembering the British hesitation to use the Gregorian calander.
Back then, the Puritans and Cromwell were as bad as any Islamic country, at least to Catholics and the Irish, but since winners write history, few modern commentators discuss it.
headsup TeaAtTrianon, who just published a new historical romance...and whose older book is on Scribd, so I will be able to read it.
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MaryBeard discusses learning Latin and gerunds.
essentially she says read the book, and then she'll help you on what you don't get...but don't expect her to spoon feed you in basics of grammar.
actually, I had to look up gerunds myself:
In Tagalog it would be "pag play"... for more examples: link
actually Latin was a bit easier to learn than non Indo European languages like ChiShona or Tagalog. You have to learn grammar, but to speak, you have to learn to translate phrases/ meaning, not words.
My main problem for learning Tagalog is that my brain is no longer nimble, and I am too lazy to keep up the drills that are necessary to learn vocabulary.
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it's a bomb!? Is it terrorism?
SP notices Canadian loggers find a Japanese Balloon bomb from WWII..
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Culture wars in Catholicism.
The Africans and the Potawanami answer the PC.
link2
link3
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vodcast of the week from Boingboing.
remembering the British hesitation to use the Gregorian calander.
Back then, the Puritans and Cromwell were as bad as any Islamic country, at least to Catholics and the Irish, but since winners write history, few modern commentators discuss it.
headsup TeaAtTrianon, who just published a new historical romance...and whose older book is on Scribd, so I will be able to read it.
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MaryBeard discusses learning Latin and gerunds.
essentially she says read the book, and then she'll help you on what you don't get...but don't expect her to spoon feed you in basics of grammar.
actually, I had to look up gerunds myself:
Gerund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerund
Wikipedia
In Tagalog it would be "pag play"... for more examples: link
actually Latin was a bit easier to learn than non Indo European languages like ChiShona or Tagalog. You have to learn grammar, but to speak, you have to learn to translate phrases/ meaning, not words.
My main problem for learning Tagalog is that my brain is no longer nimble, and I am too lazy to keep up the drills that are necessary to learn vocabulary.
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it's a bomb!? Is it terrorism?
SP notices Canadian loggers find a Japanese Balloon bomb from WWII..
This bomb was part of a bizarre and desperate scheme to give the Americans and Canadians a taste of the bombings they were inflicting on Japan and Germany. In November 1944 the Japanese Army's "Special Balloon Regiment" began releasing the first of over 9,000 hydrogen filled balloons. These were expected to float with the prevailing westerly winds all the way from Japan to the west coast of North America. Each carried an 18 kg (40 pound) bomb that would explode on landing, injuring anyone in the vicinity or starting a fire. It was believed that these bombs would cause forest fires in the heavily wooded northeast coast of the United States and across the border in British Colombia. At least 300 (and perhaps as many as a thousand) of the balloons actually did reach North America, but only three are known to have caused any damage. This amounted to six dead civilians and two brush fires. The Japanese apparently missed the fact that most of this area was thinly populated and also a rare “temperate rain forest.” The region is very damp most of the time and not conducive to wild fires.
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Culture wars in Catholicism.
The Africans and the Potawanami answer the PC.
link2
link3
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vodcast of the week from Boingboing.
The second half of the show was hot with talk of western droughts, oil rigs outpacing coral reefs for fish productivity, giant carnivorous kangaroos, a new idea about asymmetry involving the Higgs particle, Ebola updates, and why we dance when we hold our pee.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Tinicum Quarentine hospital (Philadelphia)
From Atlas Obscura:
it's just south of the airport, although putting yellow fever victims in that area, which is swampy and presumably full of mosquitoes, was probably not a good idea...yellow fever is spread via mosquitoes...
more at wikipedia
Nowadays, they'll probably put ebola into specialized rooms in the hospital (we had one such room in our IHS hospital, where the air pressure kept air from escaping into the hallway, but instead kept the air through filters to outside the hospital. We used it for our TB cases, usually until the cultures came back negative or they had 2 weeks treatment meaning that they were probably not producing enough germs to be contageous.
Ebola is a matter of strict procedure with body fluids of very sick people with vomit and fluid coming from all orifices that can kill you.
However, smallpox, SARS and other air borne disease (e.g. birdflu) can infect passersby...
In such attacks, there simply would not be enough rooms so separate hospitals would have to be designated for these diseases.
when I was in medical school, there was still a TB hospital and older docs told us about the children's infectious disease hospital that closed in the 1950's...it had a bell, to call for the nearest doctor to do an emergency tracheostomy when children's throats became blocked by Diphtheria membranes...
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related item: CDC has a report on how Firestone kept Ebola from spreading among their 80 thousand employees.
lower risk patients were kept separate from other patients (the problem being that malaria and other diseases look like early Ebola infection).
this article gives details of the CDC's work in Liberia starting in July..
and this one is about the health care workers infected. The problem is that patients presented to the ER and were not immediately diagnosed and so infected others.
The current Lazaretto complex was originally constructed in 1799 to deal with the devastating Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 which killed thousands in Philadelphia alone, and forced the government from the city which had been the seat of power up to that point. The disease center held a large main building with a number of smaller support structures, and as with many disease hospitals, its own burial ground. Once completed, the center became the gate through with anyone (and anything, as goods were inspected for contagion just as thoroughly) coming to the city in the early 1800's had to pass before entering the city. According to some estimates, a full third of Americans have ancestors whose first steps on American soil were walking into Lazaretto.
The facility operated until 1895 when the use as a disease hospital ceased and it became an airbase for a number of years until it was finally abandoned
it's just south of the airport, although putting yellow fever victims in that area, which is swampy and presumably full of mosquitoes, was probably not a good idea...yellow fever is spread via mosquitoes...
more at wikipedia
Nowadays, they'll probably put ebola into specialized rooms in the hospital (we had one such room in our IHS hospital, where the air pressure kept air from escaping into the hallway, but instead kept the air through filters to outside the hospital. We used it for our TB cases, usually until the cultures came back negative or they had 2 weeks treatment meaning that they were probably not producing enough germs to be contageous.
Ebola is a matter of strict procedure with body fluids of very sick people with vomit and fluid coming from all orifices that can kill you.
However, smallpox, SARS and other air borne disease (e.g. birdflu) can infect passersby...
In such attacks, there simply would not be enough rooms so separate hospitals would have to be designated for these diseases.
when I was in medical school, there was still a TB hospital and older docs told us about the children's infectious disease hospital that closed in the 1950's...it had a bell, to call for the nearest doctor to do an emergency tracheostomy when children's throats became blocked by Diphtheria membranes...
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related item: CDC has a report on how Firestone kept Ebola from spreading among their 80 thousand employees.
Firestone implemented administrative and environmental modifications to convert an outpatient health clinic separated from the main hospital to meet the infection control standards of an Ebola treatment unit (ETU) following guidance developed by Médecins Sans Frontières (Figure 3) (1). The facility can house 23 patients, including those separated as having confirmed, probable, or suspected Ebola (Figure 3). By April 9, Firestone had completed the construction and certification of its ETU.
lower risk patients were kept separate from other patients (the problem being that malaria and other diseases look like early Ebola infection).
Patients with suspected Ebola were sent to the ETU. From August 1 to September 23, three patients were sent to the ETU with suspected Ebola following this screening protocol; one of the three had confirmed Ebola.the article also goes on how teams monitored contacts as outpatients...if you want the details go read the whole thing.
Additional triage was conducted to prioritize patients who required hospitalization but were not suspected of having Ebola based on their signs and symptoms. Patients who had some signs or symptoms of Ebola but not those meeting the national Ebola case definition were isolated in a single, dedicated room. HCWs used standard precautions (combined features of universal precautions and body substance isolation depending on levels of care required during hospital admission) (2) and periodically screened for additional signs and symptoms of Ebola throughout the hospital admission. Patients with illnesses subsequently meeting criteria for suspected Ebola were transferred to the ETU. During August 1–September 23, 10 patients initially admitted for care at the hospital with non-Ebola diagnoses were housed in individual rooms. Among the 10 patients, four had suspected Ebola and were transferred to the ETU; three of the four were eventually confirmed as having Ebola. After establishing this secondary triage of patients admitted for standard non-Ebola care, no additional high-risk exposures were identified among HCWs.
this article gives details of the CDC's work in Liberia starting in July..
and this one is about the health care workers infected. The problem is that patients presented to the ER and were not immediately diagnosed and so infected others.
The Invisible women
LINK
Acclaimed photographer Steve McCurry is documenting the abuse of migrant domestic workers from Asia as part of his latest project. McCurry, who is known for iconic photos such as Afghan Girl (1985) has captured images of women who have returned from stints as domestic workers in the Far East and Middle East with disturbing stories of physical, mental and sexual abuse.
The images make for unsettling viewing – you can see a selection of them here. (NYTimes link).
Stuff around the net
An Ebola Czar whose expertise is political spinning and no experience in medical matters.
Oh yes: And he thinks there are too many people in the world.
What could go wrong?
one side effect of all this is a distrust of institutions that bodes ill for the US
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and we were told that sending home a sick person who had contact with ebola proved that Texas was a backward area of the country. Then what does that make of Virginia?
First hospital kept her in the ambulance for 20 minutes then sent her to a second hospital who used a checklist, not a blood test, to decide she was okay.
Headsup FR
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Saudi Cleric claims Twitter is the source of all evil.
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Joseph Pearce reveals that Shumacher was Catholic.
FR link and discussion.
Actually, I knew that: Small is beautiful has links to Chesterton and the Catholic idea of subsidiarity, i.e.living simply and keeping things as close to home as possible instead of letting the Leviathan nanny state do everything.
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For later reading: Blessed Karl, who inherited an Austrian empire in the midst of WWI...
more HERE
Professor MacMillian's on the Versailles treaty includes a discussion on the devastation caused by the empire's collapse, although the nationalists view the episode as liberation.link2
what is past is prologue?
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CT scans suggest that some ancient Pharaohs didn't have osteoarthritis, but ankylosing spondylitis.
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Oh yes: And he thinks there are too many people in the world.
What could go wrong?
one side effect of all this is a distrust of institutions that bodes ill for the US
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and we were told that sending home a sick person who had contact with ebola proved that Texas was a backward area of the country. Then what does that make of Virginia?
First hospital kept her in the ambulance for 20 minutes then sent her to a second hospital who used a checklist, not a blood test, to decide she was okay.
not in the link, but apparently she hadn't visited an ebola area.
Later that day, it was determined that the patient who had been turned away from the Virginia Hospital Center not only did not have Ebola, but that she did not even need to be tested for Ebola.
Headsup FR
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Saudi Cleric claims Twitter is the source of all evil.
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Joseph Pearce reveals that Shumacher was Catholic.
FR link and discussion.
Actually, I knew that: Small is beautiful has links to Chesterton and the Catholic idea of subsidiarity, i.e.living simply and keeping things as close to home as possible instead of letting the Leviathan nanny state do everything.
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For later reading: Blessed Karl, who inherited an Austrian empire in the midst of WWI...
more HERE
Professor MacMillian's on the Versailles treaty includes a discussion on the devastation caused by the empire's collapse, although the nationalists view the episode as liberation.link2
what is past is prologue?
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CT scans suggest that some ancient Pharaohs didn't have osteoarthritis, but ankylosing spondylitis.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Family news
Joy and Ruby went to Manila for deliveries and Ruby has to give a speech for her homeschool sponsoring school to get credit.
She has to memorize the speech and then give it.
I couldn't help her: When I took a public speaking class in college, we learned to use "talking points" and give the details spontaneously, not read a speech or give it by memory (similar to how actors give speeches).
That is why I was bemused when the press went viral criticizing Sarah Palin for having notes written on her palm. They implied she was stupid, but didn't notice she wasn't reading from a teleprompter like other politicians, but was using the technique I learned in college, i.e. use notes or an outline only.
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Black kitty lost a kitten when PapaDog managed to get the box containing her kittens off the high shelf. Luckily the other kitties were deep inside the box and I saved them on time.
So now Black kitty, aka Pandera, has moved her family to the back of Lolo's closet shelf, behind his underware.
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She has to memorize the speech and then give it.
I couldn't help her: When I took a public speaking class in college, we learned to use "talking points" and give the details spontaneously, not read a speech or give it by memory (similar to how actors give speeches).
That is why I was bemused when the press went viral criticizing Sarah Palin for having notes written on her palm. They implied she was stupid, but didn't notice she wasn't reading from a teleprompter like other politicians, but was using the technique I learned in college, i.e. use notes or an outline only.
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Black kitty lost a kitten when PapaDog managed to get the box containing her kittens off the high shelf. Luckily the other kitties were deep inside the box and I saved them on time.
So now Black kitty, aka Pandera, has moved her family to the back of Lolo's closet shelf, behind his underware.
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Stuff around the net
Billy Boyd, aka Pippin, whose poigent song is the background for the Hobbit trailer (and was sung in the ROTK) is writing the end son for the third Hobbit movie.
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Cardinal Kasper is so mad at being outed as a racist that he is threatening to sic reporters on the reporter who quoted him accurately and had the tape to prove it.
Father Z has details and links.
Heh. There is a "jounolist" for the church dissadents? that might explain much of the bad reporting on what went on.
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a lot of this is about the PC elites trying to change the church's laws on sex and being non judgemental in the name of "compassion. But things are more complicated than that, because often this allows the elite sociopaths to ignore the harm they do to others.
A good example of putting things into perspective is this essay by old lefty Archbishop Cruz (ret) on the murder of one of our boy-girl prostitute by a US Marine...
full rant moved to my other blog.
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GetReligion complains that the SciAm essay on religion and ET gets it wrong.
And no one seems to notice that angels are "ET's"
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Cuba helping in the war on Ebola.
An interesting story, but the inclusion of deliberate bias in this "news report" shows why AlJezeerah is despised by most Americans.
and MomJones has the five most stupid response to Ebola in the USA.
It is not spread through the air, or by mosquitos. It is spread via body fluids, so unless someone spits, pukes, has diarrhea, or has sex with you, you won't catch it.
The main danger is to caretakers and those who clean up the place.
If it was airborne, half of those in the apartment complex and hospital would be dying. That is why SARS was a lot scarier than Ebola...
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the world's smallest dog.?
more here.
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Slideshow of Hubble's greatest hits.
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Wired article on the bed bug wars.
no, it smells good but doesn't kill the bugs.
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Cardinal Kasper is so mad at being outed as a racist that he is threatening to sic reporters on the reporter who quoted him accurately and had the tape to prove it.
Father Z has details and links.
Heh. There is a "jounolist" for the church dissadents? that might explain much of the bad reporting on what went on.
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a lot of this is about the PC elites trying to change the church's laws on sex and being non judgemental in the name of "compassion. But things are more complicated than that, because often this allows the elite sociopaths to ignore the harm they do to others.
A good example of putting things into perspective is this essay by old lefty Archbishop Cruz (ret) on the murder of one of our boy-girl prostitute by a US Marine...
full rant moved to my other blog.
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GetReligion complains that the SciAm essay on religion and ET gets it wrong.
And no one seems to notice that angels are "ET's"
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Cuba helping in the war on Ebola.
An interesting story, but the inclusion of deliberate bias in this "news report" shows why AlJezeerah is despised by most Americans.
and MomJones has the five most stupid response to Ebola in the USA.
It is not spread through the air, or by mosquitos. It is spread via body fluids, so unless someone spits, pukes, has diarrhea, or has sex with you, you won't catch it.
The main danger is to caretakers and those who clean up the place.
If it was airborne, half of those in the apartment complex and hospital would be dying. That is why SARS was a lot scarier than Ebola...
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the world's smallest dog.?
more here.
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Slideshow of Hubble's greatest hits.
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Wired article on the bed bug wars.
no, it smells good but doesn't kill the bugs.
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Stuff around the net
Car as Power Plant
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the X rated version of ancient Greek myths that you didn't learn about in High School.
and for the geek set, the latest Percy Jackson book, last of the series, is now available. Ruby has the series.
Spoiler: In this one, the ADHD geek Leo (not the son of Zeus or Percy) wins the day
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NPR blames the fact that guys like wargames for the lack of women in tech, but in this discussion I agree it's this reason: The guys learned to type themselves so didn't need secretaries.
even medicine swelled up with women when it changed from hard science to touchy feely stuff and following flowcharts instead of encouraging independent thinking.
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and strategyPage analyzes why women can do well in "combat" but that the muddy infantry carrying 100 pounds of supplies might put them at a disadvantage.
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if you love Lego and the Hobbit, here is a two hour vodcast for you
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the X rated version of ancient Greek myths that you didn't learn about in High School.
and for the geek set, the latest Percy Jackson book, last of the series, is now available. Ruby has the series.
Spoiler: In this one, the ADHD geek Leo (not the son of Zeus or Percy) wins the day
====================
NPR blames the fact that guys like wargames for the lack of women in tech, but in this discussion I agree it's this reason: The guys learned to type themselves so didn't need secretaries.
even medicine swelled up with women when it changed from hard science to touchy feely stuff and following flowcharts instead of encouraging independent thinking.
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and strategyPage analyzes why women can do well in "combat" but that the muddy infantry carrying 100 pounds of supplies might put them at a disadvantage.
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if you love Lego and the Hobbit, here is a two hour vodcast for you
Bad reporting or incompetence?
I'm not sure what the Army is doing in Liberia, but now I read they are the 101 airborne, and they had 4 hours training and no protective suits.
Yes, I know: They are supposed to be buildling tent hospitals, but as I have written before: There are buildings, some even with running water, that could be used for hospitals.
So why use tents (well tents are airconditioned, so maybe that's why).
But Liberia has shut down all reports on Ebola, so the folks are dying quietly in the slums. a lot of slum dwellers were Kru or other tribes, while the gov't is run by the AmericoLiberians, even tho the presidentess is not of that lineage she is essentially schooled in the US and part of the establishment (Think World Bank appointment). Think Apartheid, by blacks.
The civil war there that killed a quarter million people was essentially a tribal uprising that resulted in tribes killing each other, both in Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea. The "second civil war" was merely a continuation of the first civil war, and the result was "women for peace" put in the present president with the help of outsiders. And one wonders about Firestone here...payoffs to armed groups to be left alone is illegal but normal (including here in the Philippines).
Hobb's Leviathan suggests that the mess needed a strong gov't, but it took the NWO about 20 years to bother to do so.
One thing few Americans realize is that third world countries have only so many people who are competent, so often the only answer to the chaos caused by "popular uprisings" is chaos, and then folks prefer peace.... a dictator is take over by the same group of people who supported the same dictator. Egypt is another example of this.
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Oh China is taking over their "Traditional" areas, never mind that other countries have custody of them for 50 to 500 years. Obama talks of a pivot to Asia, but the only result is that no one trusts him. The Philippines is too weak to fight, so expect more takeovers of our traditional fishing grounds.
The USMarine who killed one of our boy girl prostitutes is not going to help matters here.
And the real danger is that Japan might not stand for it.
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The fake report released by the left wing "reformers" at the bishop's conference was voted down, and the press is having a field day condemning the bishops who insist that right and wrong might apply to matters of sex.
I say it was a fake report for two reasons: One, it was long and complicated, and no one had time to write such a report during the meeting, meaning it was written beforehand to tell the bishops what they should think.as David Warren noted:
again, David Warren:
Damn Aussies and Africans and rural hicks....
Well, anyway, the final report is actually much better.
But the press is disappointed but has replaced the old meme ("compassionate church") with the new meme ("divided church").
Oh well.
nothing new here, as St. Athanasius could tell you.
Don't expect any report with Wuerl's name on it to actually recognize some things are sinful. We saw how he nicely overlooked sin when he was in Pittsburgh...and Dolan and the new Chicago guy will go along with the "niceness" agenda because they want to be seen as nice guys.
Who could spoil their fun? Hint.
Damn Potawanamis....
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update FatherL blasts bad reporting and the usually pessimistic MarkMallet is upbeat. and posts the entire post meeting speech of the Pope...bookmarked for later reading.
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Yes, I know: They are supposed to be buildling tent hospitals, but as I have written before: There are buildings, some even with running water, that could be used for hospitals.
So why use tents (well tents are airconditioned, so maybe that's why).
But Liberia has shut down all reports on Ebola, so the folks are dying quietly in the slums. a lot of slum dwellers were Kru or other tribes, while the gov't is run by the AmericoLiberians, even tho the presidentess is not of that lineage she is essentially schooled in the US and part of the establishment (Think World Bank appointment). Think Apartheid, by blacks.
The civil war there that killed a quarter million people was essentially a tribal uprising that resulted in tribes killing each other, both in Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea. The "second civil war" was merely a continuation of the first civil war, and the result was "women for peace" put in the present president with the help of outsiders. And one wonders about Firestone here...payoffs to armed groups to be left alone is illegal but normal (including here in the Philippines).
Hobb's Leviathan suggests that the mess needed a strong gov't, but it took the NWO about 20 years to bother to do so.
One thing few Americans realize is that third world countries have only so many people who are competent, so often the only answer to the chaos caused by "popular uprisings" is chaos, and then folks prefer peace.... a dictator is take over by the same group of people who supported the same dictator. Egypt is another example of this.
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Oh China is taking over their "Traditional" areas, never mind that other countries have custody of them for 50 to 500 years. Obama talks of a pivot to Asia, but the only result is that no one trusts him. The Philippines is too weak to fight, so expect more takeovers of our traditional fishing grounds.
The USMarine who killed one of our boy girl prostitutes is not going to help matters here.
And the real danger is that Japan might not stand for it.
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The fake report released by the left wing "reformers" at the bishop's conference was voted down, and the press is having a field day condemning the bishops who insist that right and wrong might apply to matters of sex.
I say it was a fake report for two reasons: One, it was long and complicated, and no one had time to write such a report during the meeting, meaning it was written beforehand to tell the bishops what they should think.as David Warren noted:
since the "deliberations" were secret, they thought they could get away with pretending that bishops agree with them, until a few stubborn "men with chests" decided to " stand athwart history, yelling Stop,"
a week that began in one of the dark moments for the Catholic Church — in the release of a synod Relatio profoundly evil and destructive — has ended fairly well. The response to it from the bishops assembled in the working groups of the synod has been stellar. They have made clear to the world, or at least, that part of the world paying attention, that it was a false and lying document, intentionally misrepresenting what they had been discussing inside.
again, David Warren:
all of which brings to mind this quote:
The Australian, Cardinal Pell — whose “dayjob” is currently cleaning up corruption and incompetence in the Curia — made the initial stand, leading the overwhelming majority of bishops to demand the publication of internal proceedings which the pope’s own agents were trying to suppress. I was immensely cheered, once again, by the courage and clarity of such men as Cardinals Mueller and Burke. Cardinal Napier of South Africa showed in both his clarity and his instinctive statesmanship a wonderful example of what a Prince of the Church should be. And in the “hard lines” drawn by bishops from across Africa and Asia, we could see the future of our Church: that she can indeed recover from the filth and squalour into which she has been led by compromised and compromising Western bishops
- 'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'
Damn Aussies and Africans and rural hicks....
Well, anyway, the final report is actually much better.
But the press is disappointed but has replaced the old meme ("compassionate church") with the new meme ("divided church").
Oh well.
nothing new here, as St. Athanasius could tell you.
Don't expect any report with Wuerl's name on it to actually recognize some things are sinful. We saw how he nicely overlooked sin when he was in Pittsburgh...and Dolan and the new Chicago guy will go along with the "niceness" agenda because they want to be seen as nice guys.
Who could spoil their fun? Hint.
Damn Potawanamis....
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update FatherL blasts bad reporting and the usually pessimistic MarkMallet is upbeat. and posts the entire post meeting speech of the Pope...bookmarked for later reading.
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
Gladiator for a day
A good article on the Roman ruins in Trier, which includes this factoid:
Resident gladiator Jan Krueger steps into antiquity each week from May to October at Trier’s Roman Amphitheater. Wearing loincloth and sandals, he leads testosterone-fueled classes for men wanting to learn firsthand about the physical stamina needed by Roman gladiators — those showmen who participated in life-and-death dramas in front of emperors and an audience of thousands....His classes range from Gladiator for a Day sessions costing $200 to a $4,000 personalized “Extreme Gladiator” program (with hotels and dinners) lasting three grueling days, starting with blunted replicas before the real weapons come out.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Stuff around the web
TeaAtTrianon links to the Metropolitan museum's Monet collection
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the problem of fat fingers in computer programming.
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Urban legends of the Philippines.
No, Siopao does not contain cat meat...and there is no Ronblom triangle
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The good news:
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Heh. Bigoted German tries denying he denigrated Africans, but they got him on tape.
heh: we did not agree to this document
In Asia and Africa, it's called remembering ones history
link
and here is an actual photo
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the problem of fat fingers in computer programming.
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Urban legends of the Philippines.
No, Siopao does not contain cat meat...and there is no Ronblom triangle
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The good news:
Fast-track dieting can be successful long-term
the bad news?
But a new Australian study, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, found that over the long term, fast-track and slow-track dieters were equally likely to regain most of the weight they lost.
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Heh. Bigoted German tries denying he denigrated Africans, but they got him on tape.
heh: we did not agree to this document
In Asia and Africa, it's called remembering ones history
link
and here is an actual photo
Ebola
Lots of nonsense about Ebola.
It is NOT airborne. SARS was airborne, and people in the apartment building upwind from the patient got SARS. Smallpox is airborne, and in a German case, a patient whose room was upwind from the patient got infected.
But when people barf, pee, and get explosive diarrhea, caretakers and those who clean up are at risk.
Which is why the nurses are so upset: Not enough protective clothing, and they are often the ones in contact with the sheets etc.... Maybe they need plastic Burkhas...
But airborne? No. Instapundit notes:
of course, the experts insist that maybe the incubation period is longer than stated...however, if the nurse caring for the dead Liberian is already symptomatic, and his family, who lived with him before he went to the hospital, is not, then one wonders if anyone knows anything.
one to 21 day incubation period officially, but some cases came down with the disease later...or were they merely infected from someone else? The real question is if asymptomatic patients can spread the disease.
And how many in Africa have antibodies against it, maybe from asymptomatic cases or infection by other ebola like viruses?
Again I will have to google, but I have a life so may not get around to it
It is NOT airborne. SARS was airborne, and people in the apartment building upwind from the patient got SARS. Smallpox is airborne, and in a German case, a patient whose room was upwind from the patient got infected.
But when people barf, pee, and get explosive diarrhea, caretakers and those who clean up are at risk.
Which is why the nurses are so upset: Not enough protective clothing, and they are often the ones in contact with the sheets etc.... Maybe they need plastic Burkhas...
But airborne? No. Instapundit notes:
THIS IS EITHER JUST GOOD LUCK, OR IT’S MORE SUBSTANTIVE GOOD NEWS: Dallas Ebola Conundrum: Duncan Family Members and Emergency Room Staff Not Ill.
of course, the experts insist that maybe the incubation period is longer than stated...however, if the nurse caring for the dead Liberian is already symptomatic, and his family, who lived with him before he went to the hospital, is not, then one wonders if anyone knows anything.
one to 21 day incubation period officially, but some cases came down with the disease later...or were they merely infected from someone else? The real question is if asymptomatic patients can spread the disease.
And how many in Africa have antibodies against it, maybe from asymptomatic cases or infection by other ebola like viruses?
Again I will have to google, but I have a life so may not get around to it
Thursday, October 16, 2014
kitties
So I woke up at 2 am with a wet cat on my lap.?
So she ended up having kittens on the mattress between me and Lolo...3 so far.
I went out and put her in a laundry basket for safety. Guess no sleep for me tonite.
So she ended up having kittens on the mattress between me and Lolo...3 so far.
I went out and put her in a laundry basket for safety. Guess no sleep for me tonite.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
ebola reston?
If you read the hot zone, you know ebola reston kills monkeys8 but not humans.
about 2 yrs ago, e.reston infected some nearby pigs and a few butchers tested positive for antibodies, but none got sick kr rather none got very sick.
so could reston be used for a vaccine?
I googled and voila found this
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1036760/pg1
http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/how_monkeys_and_pigs_are
bookmarked for later reading, since I am on my tablet....
about 2 yrs ago, e.reston infected some nearby pigs and a few butchers tested positive for antibodies, but none got sick kr rather none got very sick.
so could reston be used for a vaccine?
I googled and voila found this
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1036760/pg1
http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/how_monkeys_and_pigs_are
bookmarked for later reading, since I am on my tablet....
Reality check
my tInstapundit:
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Father Z on the PC document released by "the vatican" on the synod:
my take? It's the Vatican bureaurocracy/NWO Bishops vs Catholics. It's a takeover attempt, similar to the take over of the mainline churches in the US.
The problem? Their agenda has little or nothing to do with traditional Catholicism nor with the problems we face in the third world.
In the 60's, the west decided divorce was the answer for rocky marriages, and the PC theologians in the church delinked sex from childbearing, defying the Pope. We are reaping the whirlwind from these things in the first world, but in the third world, childless children and women deserted by boyfriends or husbands are economic disasters.
Luckily the first thing done by Protestants is to insist on following the ten commandments, which is why the growing middle class in Asia and Latin America are Protestant.
The catholics here are left with the elites (who are often left wing green types, who condemn capitalism but ignore the bribbery by their relatives that stops countries from investing here for jobs that will help the poor). And the poor. Join a protestant church, and you learn morality, hard work and honesty and probably get a job that lets you enter the middle class.
As for gay marriage: well, one doubts it will stop the seduction of the streetkids by rich sex tourists. We already have a major problem with our girls, but this will give a 'greenlight' to our rich gay businessmen to seduce their male employees and insist they are not doing anything wrong.
essentially the agenda is to deny that any sexual expression could be considered wrong.
and yes, I've seen this expressed to me by (mostly) young people, who don't see why infidelity, living together, playing the field, or ignoring their kids to get high with their newest live in boyfriend is "wrong"...
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update:
From the other McCain:
Cranky post of the day: A friend on facebook posted a nice comment by Malala essentially saying all we need is love, and I commented that no, all she needed was a bodyguard with an M16.
The backstory of this was that she had been threatened, but did not get a body guard to protect her, and as a result she was shot and several of her friends were hurt when the terrorists hit the schoolbus. A good government would have provided her protection, but then this is Pakistan who couldn't even protect Benezir Bhutto, and where the big shots of their army makes India a big enemy, so they get more money to steal, but they can't find that Osama is living down the street.
Of course a body guard might not have stopped the bad guys: When our nephew was killed, two body guard were shot and killed too, along with the politician's two sons (the politician wasn't there, so survived, and his wife survived when the gun jammed).
but that murder was about who would steal the money from the city's budget, not about religion.
my comment which won't post (internet going on an off).
HEALTH COSTS: Ebola Preparation ‘Will bankrupt my hospital!’ Director Reacts to CDC Prep Call. “Treating one Ebola patient requires, full time, 20 medical staff. Mostly ICU (intensive care unit) people. So that would wipe out an ICU in an average-sized hospital.”
in the past, they had infectious disease hospitals for diseases a lot easier to catch than Ebola. Smallpox anyone?
When we had a cholera epidemic in our African country, we were told to take over a local school and use the schoolrooms for isolation wards. Schools, unlike village homes, usually had running water and toilets, and were one story buildings similar to American motels, with seperate entrance for every room and windows for the air to circulate. And a pit outside to throw garbage and burn it. Chlorox bleach to cllean surfaces works too.
So why are these people put in an ICU?
Ditto for stopping flights. Impossible, but mandating a 36 hour quarrantine for all incoming passangers at the local Marriott while monitoring symptoms and waiting for tests to come back would help.
Just wait till all those folks return from the Haj and watch the epidemic grow.
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Father Z on the PC document released by "the vatican" on the synod:
my take? It's the Vatican bureaurocracy/NWO Bishops vs Catholics. It's a takeover attempt, similar to the take over of the mainline churches in the US.
The problem? Their agenda has little or nothing to do with traditional Catholicism nor with the problems we face in the third world.
In the 60's, the west decided divorce was the answer for rocky marriages, and the PC theologians in the church delinked sex from childbearing, defying the Pope. We are reaping the whirlwind from these things in the first world, but in the third world, childless children and women deserted by boyfriends or husbands are economic disasters.
Luckily the first thing done by Protestants is to insist on following the ten commandments, which is why the growing middle class in Asia and Latin America are Protestant.
The catholics here are left with the elites (who are often left wing green types, who condemn capitalism but ignore the bribbery by their relatives that stops countries from investing here for jobs that will help the poor). And the poor. Join a protestant church, and you learn morality, hard work and honesty and probably get a job that lets you enter the middle class.
As for gay marriage: well, one doubts it will stop the seduction of the streetkids by rich sex tourists. We already have a major problem with our girls, but this will give a 'greenlight' to our rich gay businessmen to seduce their male employees and insist they are not doing anything wrong.
essentially the agenda is to deny that any sexual expression could be considered wrong.
and yes, I've seen this expressed to me by (mostly) young people, who don't see why infidelity, living together, playing the field, or ignoring their kids to get high with their newest live in boyfriend is "wrong"...
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update:
From the other McCain:
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Jesse Bering (@JesseBering) proclaimed that legalizing incest between adult siblings is “moral progress” Thursday at Huffington Post and the remarkable thing is that almost nobody noticed. Just another “expert” endorsing our society’s rapid descent into perverse decadence:
Cranky post of the day: A friend on facebook posted a nice comment by Malala essentially saying all we need is love, and I commented that no, all she needed was a bodyguard with an M16.
The backstory of this was that she had been threatened, but did not get a body guard to protect her, and as a result she was shot and several of her friends were hurt when the terrorists hit the schoolbus. A good government would have provided her protection, but then this is Pakistan who couldn't even protect Benezir Bhutto, and where the big shots of their army makes India a big enemy, so they get more money to steal, but they can't find that Osama is living down the street.
Of course a body guard might not have stopped the bad guys: When our nephew was killed, two body guard were shot and killed too, along with the politician's two sons (the politician wasn't there, so survived, and his wife survived when the gun jammed).
but that murder was about who would steal the money from the city's budget, not about religion.
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