tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70083697021708067452024-02-21T03:10:59.594-08:00My daily journeylafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.comBlogger380125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-83586583036722833992019-04-18T14:23:00.001-07:002019-04-18T14:23:58.218-07:00BLACK WHOLE <br />
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For the first time in the history of our Universe we have an actual picture of a Black Whole. Einstein theorized their existence. I was delighted to see that they seem to appear to be as we have depicted in all our science-fiction television and movies. I look forward to the years ahead and what we will find concerning the event horizon.<br />
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Capturing a black hole, living in space and a new human relative: This week in space and science</h1>
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And that's not all. The fossils of a previously unknown human relative were discovered in a cave. Scientists found an exoplanet and considered how life might thrive on other exoplanets. Declassified U2 spy plane images revealed archeological features lost to time.</div>
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And unfortunately, a mission to the moon ended by crashing into it. <span style="color: #737373; font-size: 12px;"> </span>Here's everything you might have missed this week in the world of space and science news.</div>
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Einstein was right (again)</h3>
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On Wednesday, the world was introduced to the<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/world/black-hole-photo-scn/index.html" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: var(--cnn_red); color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">first photo of a black hole</a>. And then a million memes erupted, tagging such phenomena as the eye of Sauron from "Lord of the Rings" and suggesting cats as the real cause. </div>
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The supermassive black hole resides at the center of the galaxy M87, 55 million light-years from us. It's now been named <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/world/black-hole-name-powehi-scli-intl/index.html" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: var(--cnn_red); color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">Powehi</a>, a Hawaiian phrase referring to an "embellished dark source of unending creation."</div>
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Scientists used a global network of eight telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration that effectively created an Earth-size telescope. In the image, a central dark region is encapsulated by a ring of light that looks brighter on one side. It acts as confirmation of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.</div>
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And then the world was introduced to the smiling face of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/us/katie-bouman-mit-black-hole-algorithm-sci-trnd/index.html" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: var(--cnn_red); color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">Katie Bouman</a>. The monumental effort of capturing this image and sharing it with the world wouldn't have been possible without Bouman, who developed a crucial algorithm that helped devise imaging methods.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab compared a photo of Bouman among stacks of hard drives to a famous 1969 photo of computer scientist Margaret Hamilton standing next to the thousands of sheets of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo Project.</span></div>
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lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-66656481963457931272018-03-20T19:21:00.003-07:002018-03-20T19:21:39.808-07:00something to remember <div>
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Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.</div>
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A recent episode of the dystopian television series “Black Mirror” begins with a soldier hunting down and killing hideous humanoids called roaches. It’s a standard science-fiction scenario, man against monster, but there’s a twist: it turns out that the soldier and his cohort have brain implants that make them see the faces and bodies of their targets as monstrous, to hear their pleas for mercy as noxious squeaks. When our hero’s implant fails, he discovers that he isn’t a brave defender of the human race—he’s a murderer of innocent people, part of a campaign to exterminate members of a despised group akin to the Jews of Europe in the nineteen-forties.</div>
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The philosopher David Livingstone Smith, commenting on this episode on social media, wondered whether its writer had read his book “Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others” (St. Martin’s). It’s a thoughtful and exhaustive exploration of human cruelty, and the episode perfectly captures its core idea: that acts such as genocide happen when one fails to appreciate the humanity of others.</div>
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One focus of Smith’s book is the attitudes of slave owners; the seventeenth-century missionary Morgan Godwyn observed that they believed the Negroes, “though in their Figure they carry some resemblances of Manhood, yet are indeed no Men” but, rather, “Creatures destitute of Souls, to be ranked among Brute Beasts, and treated accordingly.” Then there’s the Holocaust. Like many Jews my age, I was raised with stories of gas chambers, gruesome medical experiments, and mass graves—an evil that was explained as arising from the Nazis’ failure to see their victims as human. In the words of the psychologist Herbert C. Kelman, “The inhibitions against murdering fellow human beings are generally so strong that the victims must be deprived of their human status if systematic killing is to proceed in a smooth and orderly fashion.” The Nazis used bureaucratic euphemisms such as “transfer” and “selection” to sanitize different forms of murder.</div>
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As the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss noted, “humankind ceases at the border of the tribe, of the linguistic group, even sometimes of the village.” Today, the phenomenon seem inescapable. Google your favorite despised human group—Jews, blacks, Arabs, gays, and so on—along with words like “vermin,” “roaches,” or “animals,” and it will all come spilling out. Some of this rhetoric is seen as inappropriate for mainstream discourse. But wait long enough and you’ll hear the word “animals” used even by respectable people, referring to terrorists, or to Israelis or Palestinians, or to undocumented immigrants, or to deporters of undocumented immigrants. Such rhetoric shows up in the speech of white supremacists—but also when the rest of us talk about white supremacists.</div>
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It’s not just a matter of words. At Auschwitz, the Nazis tattooed numbers on their prisoners’ arms. Throughout history, people have believed that it was acceptable to own humans, and there were explicit debates in which scholars and politicians mulled over whether certain groups (such as blacks and Native Americans) were “natural slaves.” Even in the past century, there were human zoos, where Africans were put in enclosures for Europeans to gawk at.</div>
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Early psychological research on dehumanization looked at what made the Nazis different from the rest of us. But psychologists now talk about the ubiquity of dehumanization. Nick Haslam, at the University of Melbourne, and Steve Loughnan, at the University of Edinburgh, provide a list of examples, including some painfully mundane ones: “Outraged members of the public call sex offenders animals. Psychopaths treat victims merely as means to their vicious ends. The poor are mocked as libidinous dolts. Passersby look through homeless people as if they were transparent obstacles. Dementia sufferers are represented in the media as shuffling zombies.”</div>
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The thesis that viewing others as objects or animals enables our very worst conduct would seem to explain a great deal. Yet there’s reason to think that it’s almost the opposite of the truth.</div>
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At some European soccer games, fans make monkey noises at African players and throw bananas at them. Describing Africans as monkeys is a common racist trope, and might seem like yet another example of dehumanization. But plainly these fans don’t really think the players are monkeys; the whole point of their behavior is to disorient and humiliate. To believe that such taunts are effective is to assume that their targets would be ashamed to be thought of that way—which implies that, at some level, you think of them as people after all.</div>
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Consider what happened after Hitler annexed Austria, in 1938. Timothy Snyder offers a haunting description in “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning”:</div>
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The next morning the “scrubbing parties” began. Members of the Austrian SA, working from lists, from personal knowledge, and from the knowledge of passersby, identified Jews and forced them to kneel and clean the streets with brushes. This was a ritual humiliation. Jews, often doctors and lawyers or other professionals, were suddenly on their knees performing menial labor in front of jeering crowds. Ernest P. remembered the spectacle of the “scrubbing parties” as “amusement for the Austrian population.” A journalist described “the fluffy Viennese blondes, fighting one another to get closer to the elevating spectacle of the ashen-faced Jewish surgeon on hands and knees before a half-dozen young hooligans with Swastika armlets and dog-whips.” Meanwhile, Jewish girls were sexually abused, and older Jewish men were forced to perform public physical exercise.</div>
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The Jews who were forced to scrub the streets—not to mention those subjected to far worse degradations—were not thought of as lacking human emotions. Indeed, if the Jews had been thought to be indifferent to their treatment, there would have been nothing to watch here; the crowd had gathered because it wanted to see them suffer. The logic of such brutality is the logic of metaphor: to assert a likeness between two different things holds power only in the light of that difference. The sadism of treating human beings like vermin lies precisely in the recognition that they are not.</div>
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What about violence more generally? Some evolutionary psychologists and economists explain assault, rape, and murder as rational actions, benefitting the perpetrator or the perpetrator’s genes. No doubt some violence—and a reputation for being willing and able to engage in violence—can serve a useful purpose, particularly in more brutal environments. On the other hand, much violent behavior can be seen as evidence of a loss of control. It’s Criminology 101 that many crimes are committed under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and that people who assault, rape, and murder show less impulse control in other aspects of their lives as well. In the heat of passion, the moral enormity of the violent action loses its purchase.</div>
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But “Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships” (Cambridge), by the anthropologist Alan Fiske and the psychologist Tage Rai, argues that these standard accounts often have it backward. In many instances, violence is neither a cold-blooded solution to a problem nor a failure of inhibition; most of all, it doesn’t entail a blindness to moral considerations. On the contrary, morality is often a motivating force:</div>
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“People are impelled to violence when they feel that to regulate certain social relationships, imposing suffering or death is necessary, natural, legitimate, desirable, condoned, admired, and ethically gratifying.” Obvious examples include suicide bombings, honor killings, and the torture of prisoners during war, but Fiske and Rai extend the list to gang fights and violence toward intimate partners. For Fiske and Rai, actions like these often reflect the desire to do the right thing, to exact just vengeance, or to teach someone a lesson. There’s a profound continuity between such acts and the punishments that—in the name of requital, deterrence, or discipline—the criminal-justice system lawfully imposes. Moral violence, whether reflected in legal sanctions, the killing of enemy soldiers in war, or punishing someone for an ethical transgression, is motivated by the recognition that its victim is a moral agent, someone fully human.</div>
lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-33019164112526796942018-02-24T19:20:00.002-08:002018-02-24T19:20:25.677-08:00While watching a show I was watching my television show called “a place to call home” a son was being visited in the hospital by his father he was being treated for homosexuality and his next treatment was to be a lobotomy. I was dumbfounded by the idea that a lobotomy could be a treatment for homosexuality.<br />
In the United States open till 1971 and much more will being used as treatment to cure homosexuality.<br />
A quote from an article that I’m going to list below : <span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , serif; font-size: 20px;">men and women were rendered mentally disabled through the torture of castration, lobotomies, forced chemical treatments and experimental treatments. The horrors experienced by hundreds are almost too hard to comprehend in America.</span><br />
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Homosexual Dachau? This name doesn't have anything to do with World War II. More than any other mental institution in the United States, Atascadero State Hospital (photograph) was a chamber of horrors for homosexuals. The tag "Homosexual Dachau" was well-earned for its forced lobotomies, castrations and brutal treatments practiced at that facility. Hundreds of gays and lesbians were forcibly sent by their families to be cured of homosexuality which, as recently as the early 1970s, was considered a sexual and psychological disorder.<br />
The 1950's were an especially dark time for homosexuals. Because of the witch hunts by Senator Joseph McCarthy, Americans started passing horrible and oppressive laws against homosexuality. Same-sex behavior was linked to treason and Communism in that period. Ironically, Senator McCarthy had many homosexual aides at the time led by lawyer Roy Cohen. As the witch hunt spread across America, homosexuals with no politics were sent to the worst institutions imaginable.<br />
Even up until 1971, simply being a homosexual could result in a life sentence. Twenty states had laws stating that the mere fact you were a homosexual was reason for imprisonment. In California (of all places) and Pennsylvania, we could be put away for life in a mental hospital. In seven states castration was permitted as a way to stop homosexual 'deviants.'<br />
At Atascadero State Hospital, doctors (I use that term loosely) were permitted under an obscure California law to commit those who practiced sodomy into the hospital. Once admitted, normal men and women were rendered mentally disabled through the torture of castration, lobotomies, forced chemical treatments and experimental treatments. The horrors experienced by hundreds are almost too hard to comprehend in America.<br />
The most notorious was a Dr. Walter J. Freeman who perfected the ice pick lobotomy. He jammed an ice pick through a homosexual's eyes into the brain and performed a primitive lobotomy. According to records, he treated over 4,000 patients this way around America and it is estimated that nearly 30% to 40% were homosexuals. He believed deeply this was the only way to cure homosexuality.<br />
A caller into an NPR Radio talk show about lobotomies recalled a cousin who was a homosexual. She said,<br />
PAT (Caller): Yes, I'm Pat from Naples, Florida. I just wanted to tell you about a cousin of mine who, in her late 30s or early 40s, was forced into a lobotomy by an uncle of hers who had some control over her finances. And she was forced into a lobotomy because they said she was a homosexual. And she lived after that in somewhat sheltered situations, like a boarding house, but she never could hold a job and she certainly is not as lucid as your guest. She was eccentric. She had no emotion, only showed emotion as she learned it. But it was only because she was a homosexual that they gave her a lobotomy. ........ And she herself told me how and why she had had the lobotomy. And at that point in her life, she was in her 70s and she said, `Oh, well, that was the right thing to do because they told me I was homosexual.' "<br />
The difficulty in documenting so much of this history is that most of the records, history and data have been destroyed. Families were often adamant about not leaving any trace of the overwhelming shame of having a homosexual in the family and they often erased the gay relative's presence on earth. Many individuals who were terrorized died in the institutions or were made mentally disabled with an inability to recall. Or unable because of their torture to share their journal.<br />
The work we do today for our freedom must honor them. They never got a chance. We have a chance. Let's not lose itlafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-34376697897334434312017-10-09T20:02:00.000-07:002017-10-09T20:02:08.937-07:00Interesting Brain Difference <br />
Men's and women's brains react differently when helping others, study says<br />
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There is pleasure in both giving and receiving. Does gender influence which of these pleasures we prefer?<br />
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In women, part of the brain showed a greater response when sharing money, while in men, the same structure showed more activity whenthey kept the cash for themselves, a small study published Monday in Nature Human Behavior found.<br />
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Women tend to be more altruistic than men, previous studies have shown.<br />
As Philippe Tobler, co-author of the new study, sees it, "women put more subjective value on prosocial behavior and men find selfish behavior more valuable."<br />
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"However, it was unknown how this difference comes about at the level of the brain," Tobler, an associate professor of and social neuroscience at University of Zurich, wrote in an email. "But in both genders, the dopamine system encodes value."<br />
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By "encode," he means the activity in our brain changes in proportion to the value we give social experiences.<br />
Searching for answers for why women and men are not equally selfish, he and his colleagues focused on the dopamine system.<br />
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Dopamine, which plays a fundamental role in the brain's reward system, is released during moments of pleasure, yet it also helps us process our values. This mental ability transpires within the brain machinery known as the striatum. Latin for "striped," the striatum is threaded with fibers that receive and transmit signals from the cerebral cortex, the thalamus and other brain regions.<br />
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Tobler and his colleagues designed a series of experiments to test how dopamine might influence the behavior of men and women. Fifty-six male and female participants made choices between sharing a financial reward with others or keeping the money for themselves.<br />
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Given only a placebo before making decisions, women acted less selfishly than men, choosing to share their money with others. However, when their dopamine systems were disrupted after they received a drug called amisulpride, women acted more selfishly, while men became more generous. Amisulpride is an antipsychotic normally used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.<br />
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"Based on the opposing priorities of the genders, interfering with the dopamine system has opposing effects," Tobler said.<br />
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In a second experiment, the researchers used functional MRI to investigate changes in the brain while eight female and nine male participants made choices. Compared with the males, the striatum in females showed more activity when they made a prosocial decision.<br />
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According to Anne Z. Murphy, an associate professor of neuroscience at Georgia State University, other research has shown "that females are more prosocial. We find it more rewarding, and if you manipulate dopamine signaling in the brain, you can make females less prosocial and males less selfish." Murphy was not involved in the study.<br />
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Still, she said, the study brings "greater awareness to the fact that there are brain differences in male and females."<br />
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"It just shows, once again, that people can point to a biological basis for some of the characteristics that are prototypically male," Murphy said. These traits would include selfishness, self-promotion, generally, a hard-driving profile.<br />
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"Now, you can point to another biological basis for it," she added, "And rather than using this knowledge to divide us, maybe we can use this to help make society a better place."<br />
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For instance, she said, when women act in more altruistic ways, they shouldn't be regarded as less deserving than male colleagues who are more self-promoting.<br />
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Gender differences in the brain may not be due to structural differences — for example, variations in region size or shape based on sex, noted the researchers. Gender differences in the brain could be functional. This would mean a flood of the very same neurotransmitter — dopamine — might cause a very different response in women than in men.<br />
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"It may be worth pointing out that the differences are likely to be learned," Tobler said.<br />
Though male and female tendencies may be learned, Murphy said, these behaviors are not acquired in a single lifetime.<br />
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Instead, these preferences develop over time based on the differing roles of females and males: "reproduction versus resource-gathering," Murphy said.<br />
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"You see similar behavior in rodents," she said, noting that female rats act in more altruistic ways than males. "It's evolutionarily conserved. It's shaped by history."<br />
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The study has implications for drug research, Tobler noted.<br />
"Historically, medical drugs were often tested primarily on men and sometimes drugs have been found to be more effective in men than women," he wrote.<br />
Murphy explained that "preclinical studies have shown that females require approximately twice the amount of morphine than males to produce the same level of analgesia."<br />
All opiates that are metabolized in one specific way produce what is known as a "sexually dimorphic response," she added.<br />
"People are starting to look at whether cannabinoids are sexually dimorphic. It's been suggested that cannabinoids are more effective in females than in males," she said, with a lot of preclinical data showing this is the case.<br />
© 2017 Cable News Network, Inc. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved.lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-70138613785858848612017-09-20T21:58:00.000-07:002017-09-20T21:58:04.399-07:00Solar Eclipse 2017 I wanted to document a solar eclipse August 21, 2017 the first time an eclipse pattern will cross the North American continent in 90 years.<br />
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On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the <a href="https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-glossary#for_row27" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0054a6; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">path of totality</a> can see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the <a href="https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-glossary#for_row11" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0054a6; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">corona</a> - can be seen, will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a<a href="https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-glossary#for_row26" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0054a6; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> partial solar eclipse</a> where the moon covers part of the sun's disk.</div>
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Lots of people! Everyone in the contiguous United States, in fact, everyone in North America plus parts of South America, Africa, and Europe will see at least a partial solar eclipse, while the thin path of totality will pass through portions of 14 states. </div>
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This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location. For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.</div>
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You can see a partial eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun, anywhere in North America (see “Who can see it?”). To see a total eclipse, where the moon fully covers the sun for a short few minutes, you must be in the path of totality. The path of totality is a relatively thin ribbon, around 70 miles wide, that will cross the U.S. from West to East. The first point of contact will be at Lincoln Beach, Oregon at 9:05 a.m. PDT. Totality begins there at 10:16 a.m. PDT. Over the next hour and a half, it will cross through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. The total eclipse will end near Charleston, South Carolina at 2:48 p.m. EDT. From there the lunar shadow leaves the United States at 4:09 EDT. Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds.</div>
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Times for partial and total phases of the eclipse vary depending on your location. This<a class="ext" href="https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0054a6; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> interactive eclipse map<span class="ext" style="background-image: url(https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png); background-position: 2px center; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(22, 76, 158) !important; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; height: 10px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 10px;"><span class="element-invisible" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute !important; vertical-align: baseline;">(link is external)</span></span></a> will show you times for the partial and total eclipse anywhere in the world.</div>
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You never want to look directly at the sun without appropriate protection except during totality. That could severely hurt your eyes. However, there are many ways to safely view an eclipse of the sun including direct viewing – which requires some type of filtering device and indirect viewing where you project an image of the sun onto a screen. Both methods should produce clear images of the partial phase of an eclipse. <a href="https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0054a6; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Click here</a> for eclipse viewing techniques and safety. - Picture taken by Eric Crouse </div>
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lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-49233095644872206812017-08-20T10:16:00.000-07:002017-08-20T10:16:30.403-07:00Because I want to understand and never forget<br />
Monumental Lies: Charlottesville’s Lee Statue Was Designed to Erase a History We Need to Remember<br />
Ben Davis, August 17, 2017<br />
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[Y]ou had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides…. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.<br />
Tuesday evening’s statement by the president was an appalling dodge, a nasty bit of self-serving obfuscation in an hour of heartbreak.<br />
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Perhaps the “very fine people” the president is referring to includes the twitchy, armed-to-the-teeth gentleman who told Vice News that the only thing he didn’t like about Trump was that he let his daughter marry a Jew?<br />
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I just want to say a quick word, however, about the historical meaning of that “very, very important statue,” and of Trump’s proposition that many “very fine people” came to the so-called “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia merely to defend the symbols of a virtuous Southern heritage.<br />
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The president has very effectively appropriated the term “fake news” for his own ends. I hope, then, that I am not walking into a trap when I say that the important thing to stress about the contested monument to Robert E. Lee is that it represents “fake history.”<br />
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Moreover, its particular brand of fake history is engineered to do exactly what it is doing now.<br />
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Looking at just how helps to understand the particular bond between the wealthy populist and the feral throngs of white nationalists who descended upon Charlottesville last weekend.<br />
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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press about protests in Charlottesville after his statement on the infrastructure discussion in the lobby at Trump Tower in New York on August 15, 2017. Photo credit should read Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.<br />
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As Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields emphasize in Racecraft, the “moonlight-and-magnolias” imagery, the cult of the heroic “Lost Cause of the Confederacy,” and the whole Confederate nostalgia industry in general was a product of the New South, not the Old. It was archaizing, but not archaic. “Only in the 1890s did the Confederacy become an emotional symbol,” they write.<br />
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Across the world, the late 19th century was epicenter for what historian Eric Hobsbawm termed “the invention of tradition.” Massive economic and social change in the era of unchained capitalism triggered a revival in various rituals that looked to the past, to give the semblance of continuity and wholeness to a rapidly changing world.<br />
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Post-Reconstruction Virginia, however, invented a form of rose-colored romanticism that had a particularly sinister cast.<br />
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The pioneering Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), founded in 1889, was the very first statewide historic preservation society in the United States, period.<br />
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The Southern society ladies who proselytized the late-19th century wave of Confederate museum, memorial, and monument building were very specifically out to create a new civic myth, a view of the past that could serve as a balm against the evils of the present as they saw it.<br />
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The Reconstruction Era (1865-1977) had seen newly freed blacks participate in political life to an unprecedented and, in the minds of their former masters, unacceptable degree. The cause of Confederate preservation would aid in reconsolidating the prestige of traditional Southern elites. They sought, as James M. Lindgren wrote, “to win through monuments and pamphlets what Lee had lost at Appomattox.”<br />
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This new program, it is interesting to note, was not just a matter of reasserting an Antebellum racial hierarchy. It also reflected the demands of the contemporary class struggle.<br />
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Why was Virginia specifically ground zero of Confederate myth-making? After the fall of Reconstruction, in 1879, a new force known as the Readjuster Party had risen up among poor Virginians. The Readjusters united poor whites and poor blacks with a program based on funding public education and challenging finance capital, aiming “to break the power of wealth and established privilege”—meaning the power of the white commercial and planter elite.<br />
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That elite counterattacked (as they had during Reconstruction) by stoking racial resentment as a wedge to drive this coalition of have-nots apart. A bloody riot in majority-black Danville on the eve of the 1883 election, provoked by a confrontation between Democrats and Readjusters, was used to flood the state with propaganda about threats to order by black rule. The racist Democrats retook the state from the Readjusters.<br />
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Such was the political backdrop for the emphasis on the Lost Cause mythology that percolated in Richmond in the 1880s.<br />
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Venerating the humble white soldier for his loyalty to wise generals like Lee provided an alternative identification for lower-class men, used to pry them away from those pesky class animosities. As Reiko Hillyer writes, “If the faithful slave was central to the mythic past that justified the Jim Crow present, then the faithful Confederate soldier might encourage obedient behavior among the working classes of the New South.” (White women got the myth of the eternally chaste and loyal priestess of the homefront, when actual Southern women had often bitterly opposed the unequal impositions of the war.)<br />
If Virginia’s brush with the Readjusters was the immediate background for the birth of the Confederate monuments boom, that movement’s spread across the South was set against another cross-race insurgency—one whose influence was so dramatic that its name has passed into the political lexicon.<br />
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This was the Populist movement. In its original 1890s sense, “populism” was powerfully left-wing—and its most radical arm was in the South.<br />
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The Southern poor were hard-hit by a fierce agricultural depression, ripped-off by rapacious railroads and monopolies in basic goods. “The left Populists formulated and won support for a program unique in Southern history before or since,” Jack Bloom writes in Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement. “They proposed to organize a political coalition around the growing similarity of the economic conditions facing both black and white farmers.”<br />
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Once again, the Southern political establishment responded with vote fraud, coercion, bribery, and violence against blacks. “The danger of ‘negro domination’ was raised once again,” Bloom writes, “and once again, note, it was by the upper-class whites.”<br />
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An intensified myth of Confederate identity provided the imaginary alternative to the menace of “negro domination.” The Southern Poverty Law Center has a useful timeline of Confederate monument construction. It is no coincidence that it dramatically spiked during the Populist period. (A second spike of Confederate veneration came in the 1960s, as a rejoinder to the civil rights movement.)<br />
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By 1912, the Confederate Veteran would boast that the movement “caused more monuments to be erected to the soldiers of the Confederate Army then have ever been erected in any age of the world to any cause, civil, political, or religious.”<br />
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For its part, Charlottesville’s 14-foot-tall bronze Lee was designed in 1924 by New York sculptor Henry Shrady, well after the defeat of Populism and the consolidation of official segregation with Jim Crow laws. It was unveiled as part of a conclave of the Sons of the Confederacy, an organization established in Richmond in 1896.<br />
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In a useful article, University of Virginia Ph.D. candidates Sophie Abramowitz, Eva Latterner, and Gillet Rosenblith trace how the spread of the various Confederate monuments that dot Charlottesville, including the contested Lee statue, has always been about more than commemoration of the past. Their placement has been part of cementing spatial domination over the city’s black community, marking the edges of public spaces in the process of being claimed for gentrification.<br />
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Neo-Nazis encircle counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville on August 11, 2017. Photo by Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images.<br />
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When President Trump pipes up for the “very fine people” unaccounted for within the weekend’s “Unite the Right” protests—those innocent Southern history buffs hidden among the torch-wielding white nationalists—he is dissembling.<br />
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But he is also just re-activating the historic function these monuments were constructed to perform in the first place: not to communicate a real past, but to concoct an image of white greatness romanticized and sanitized enough to provide a semblance of a popular base for unscrupulous white elites.<br />
“The South Will Rise Again” shades easily over into “Make America Great Again.”<br />
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But the other half of the equation should not be forgotten either. This romance of the Confederacy, with its combination of fantasized glory and actual, thuggish violence, has always shadowed something else: the fear of movements that challenge both racism and class hierarchy.<br />
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In that sense, it is actually the multi-racial crowds of counter-protesters—at least one of whom gave her life standing for justice last weekend—who can claim the real heroic history in Charlottesville, the history that Robert E. Lee’s image was raised to suppress.<br />
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<br />lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-6423971897368116602017-08-15T14:03:00.001-07:002017-08-15T14:03:55.828-07:00 The beginning of a new world order ?January 22, 2017<br />
It is just days after Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States which was overshadowed by violent protest and many groups across the country participating in Million Women Marches across the country. The unrest that can be seen on our country is unprecedented in the past I had disagreements with our Presidents policies but I was never in such fear as I am with the President we have now. The country is so divided it's difficult to even openly discuss your views the woman living next to me Sarabelle changed her political party from Democrat to Republican I believe after Barack Obama became president which to me means there must be a very deep underlying distrust of blacks and people that are different. The fact that in the last eight years being "gay, or transgender", a woman running for president blacks fighting for what they deserve frighten people. Liberals agendas oppressing the white man sadly people are hurting I've seen banks and car companies being bailed out and the American dream being set by the wayside you no longer can see your way out of poverty and everyone is angry.<br />
<br />lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-856457319409105272017-08-15T14:01:00.000-07:002017-08-19T12:03:52.308-07:00OMG so much has happened TRUMP August 15, 2017<br />
I am writing this so I will remember the events in the months and years to come. I feel we have been living in a simmering pot, never really coming to grips with the issues related to the Civil War. The overwhelming racism in our country is number one. We elected Barack Obama as our President and that lit the cigarette that started a slow burn. The majority of our country felt safe enough to express their views the LBGTQ community wanteded rights they felt they had always deserved rightly so along with Women not tolerating sexual harassment at home or in the workplace. For many men this was turning their world upside down. Then along came a man Donald Trump who would set everything back- the world could be set right again plus he would give them their jobs back. Some Americans thought these " groups " they didn't understand would be shoved back in the closet, minorities could be handled as usual along with women.<br />
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So much has happened first of all Donald Trump somehow got voted president of the United States future generations will look back at this time and wonder we were thinking. We elected a very dangerous narcissist who complicates our lives. At this present time he is in a "word battle" with the president of North Korea which I hope does not escalate into a nuclear war.<br />
During the time of the election Democrats nominated Hillary Clinton and I thought she was the best person for the job. She was a strong woman who unfortunately was married to Bill Clinton those two factors I feel kept her from being elected my own mother-in-law did not vote for her because she was married to Bill Clinton. Madeline did not vote in the election as many other democrats did not vote which caused Donald Trump to win. We have the world we have because people were complacent they just didn't care now we have to deal with a man at the top that has no business being president and has ties to the Russian Government that may or may not have influenced the election.<br />
The Trump family is more interested in shoring up that business profits during his election years then running the Government. <br />
There is a great deal of nepotism that goes on, his daughter is in his cabinet his son-in-law and his son are helping to run the government his friends are in positions of power it's just a very corrupt structure. <br />
To get elected he courted the Nationalist party and the KKK so they now feel that their voice is being heard and they can come out of the woodwork as we saw in Charlottesville.<br />
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"This Week on Washington Week: The aftermath of white nationalist protests in Charlottesville</h1>
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Every once in a while, an event strikes at the core of American society. The Charlottesville, Virginia protest that turned into a violent melee is one of those defining moments. </div>
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White nationalists gathered for the "Unite the Right" rally ostensibly to protect a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. However, over the course of two days, tiki torch-carrying participants shouted racist and anti-Semitic messages and clashed with counter-protestors. It made people question America’s values. It sparked debates about racism, anti-Semitism, justice, and the power to conquer hate. It united a community in song to honor the people killed. And it tested America’s leaders.</div>
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White nationalists gathered for the "Unite the Right" rally ostensibly to protect a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. However, over the course of two days, tiki torch-carrying participants shouted racist and anti-Semitic messages and clashed with counter-protestors. It made people question America’s values. It sparked debates about racism, anti-Semitism, justice, and the power to conquer hate. It united a community in song to honor the people killed. And it tested America’s leaders."</div>
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<br />lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-46081442782823050032016-10-26T00:18:00.000-07:002016-10-26T00:18:06.211-07:00 Wow it's been a long time Well I'm back, it's been such a long time since my last post. My daughter got married in August of 2015 and my father died the following March. Dad's health began going downhill at Christmas he wa unable to leave the nursing home. Jenni and her husband Brian came in for the funeral it was lovely to see them despite the circumstances they were on able to come in for Christmas. Our Brian has been busy doing is art- he continues to work with fellow artist from Philadelphia, locally at the Pajama Factory, and was involved in a very large show in Michigan.<br />
We discovered the night of dad's Viewing that tragedy had hit James, my brother, wife's Lee family member died from a brain aneurysm. It turned out that many of Lee's family have been diagnosed with brain aneurysms it turns out that Lee herself has two aneurysms in her brain. One aneurysm has been operated on and been resolved unfortunately it was a very dangerous operation with some complications so her doctor is very conflicted about her having more surgery to take care of the next aneurysm. Lee is grappling with the question of whether to have surgery Annica and Metta have been tested and do not have any aneurysms seen. James is planning a trip to the Netherlands to help distract his wife from such a monumental decision of whether or not to have surgery.<br />
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We have two more weddings in the family Ryan and Kristen are being married in April of this year and Metta and Elizabeth will be getting married next year along with on Gary side of the family Matt will be getting married next year.<br />
On a sad note we found out this week that my sister-in-law Janet was having difficulty with her eyesight so she went to the emergency room where they discovered a brain tumor. She had surgery earlier this week and received the diagnosis today that she has a glioblastoma tumor in her brain she will be leaving the hospital I'm going to a rehabilitation center to recuperate. After some time she will be receiving radiation followed by chemotherapy. Gary's side of the family has some very very rough months to come we are all very concerned for Janet.<br />
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Jenni has had some rough months lately her hormones have been up-and-down and with trying to get pregnant her exercise routine has been greatly disturbed it's difficult to try to get pregnant and plan to run an Iron Man, something has to give and the massive exercising is on the chopping block. This decision is extremely difficult for Jen because exercise is her key to life and with it greatly reduced she feels her hands are tied. She can't get the stress release that planning for an Iron Man or marathon provides her making list making plans following through doing the exercise regiment and then running the race at the end is her escape.<br />
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One last thing my husband Gary has finally retired from the job which caused great internal celebration there were no wild parties are going on vacation he was just glad to be away from a very caustic environment. He was very happy to have a job after leaving young industries but working for a man that seem to be his total opposite in philosophy just caused a great deal of stress. Gary's coworkers were generally very nice - we ran into his boss today walking through the home show and he completely Ignored us, it looked as if he was afraid of Gary. Gary is working part time at a water conservancy whatever that means 5 to 10 hours a week and he loves it. It keeps him busy in the morning while I'm still sleeping then he comes home and we work on things around the house.lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-84583694241681240952016-04-10T19:53:00.000-07:002016-04-10T19:53:45.620-07:00So Proud Once Again of BrianMy son Brian will have an exhibit opening at Eastern State Penitentiary on May 6th of this year so if you are in the Philadelphia area please plan on stopping in. The exhibit will be up for at least an entire year.<br />
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His bio:<br />
"Having spent time in solitary confinement as a teenager in a juvenile psychiatric facility, the artist relies on his personal experience to create a sound collage of layered vocal tracks on Eastern State’s audio tour player. He replicates the sensation of being alone, consumed by one’s own thoughts in solitary confinement".<br />
<strong><img alt="Brian Spies" height="188" src="http://www.easternstate.org/sites/default/files/36-7.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 5px;" width="150" /></strong>"The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (where he was awarded the MFA Faculty Award) in the spring of 2012, Mr. Spies relocated back to his hometown to continue to develop his practice. Brian has been exhibited at spaces ranging from Deitch Projects’ Art Parade and ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan to other venues, large and small, throughout The United States. He maintains a small studio space in Williamsport where he continues to explore the conceptual frameworks of power and exploitation.<br />
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<strong>"Meet the Artist</strong><br />Brian James Spies (born 1979 in Williamsport, PA) is a visual artist working in a variety of mediums, with a focus on printmaking and photography, whose work explores contemporary society’s relationship to power. He graduated with honors from Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with a Concentration in Photography in the spring of 2002. In May 2010 Brian graduated from The Maryland Institute College of Art with a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. Upon the completion of his MFA fromThe Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (where he was awarded the MFA Faculty Award) in the spring of 2012, Mr. Spies relocated back to his hometown to continue to develop his practice. Brian has been exhibited at spaces ranging from Deitch Projects’ Art Parade and ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan to other venues, large and small, throughout The United States. He maintains a small studio space in Williamsport where he continues to explore the conceptual frameworks of power and exploitation." (as seen on Eastern State Penitentiary Philadelphia)<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The bride is the daughter
of Karen and Gary Spies, of Loyalsock Township. She graduated from Loyalsock
Township High School in 1999. She received a bachelor's degree in sports
management from Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, in 2002, and a law degree from
Marquette University, Milwaukee, in 2006. She is employed by Milwaukee County,
Milwaukee, as assistant district attorney.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Karas
is the son of Jill and Greg Karas, of St. Francis, Wisconsin. He graduated from
St. Francis High School in 2000 and received a bachelor's degree in psychology
from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin, in 2008. He is
employed by Wauwatosa East High School, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, as an education
assistant, head baseball coach and assistant girls basketball coach.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matrons
of honor were Susie Allen and Jenna Merten.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bridesmaids
were C.J. Bacelis-Bush, Gina Karas and Jennifer Possing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flower
girl was Mohrin Karas.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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bearers were Noah Karas and Drew Possing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Best
man was Joseph Kooping.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Groomsmen
were Nick Blanchet, Tim Arndorfer and Robby Dubinski.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Following
a trip to Ochos Rios, Jamaica, this month, the couple will reside in Milwaukee.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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WXPI Williamsport Community Radio has begun the WXPI Diversity Outreach Project Media Broadcast Training Series mini course at the Williamsport Area Middle School.<br />
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Everyone struggles with invisible difficulties everyday. I know when I would go to the store with my arm brace on then go without it the store personnel treat me differently. When I read this article online I realized that it summed up many of the problems I experience.lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-79538136717307844072013-10-27T16:01:00.001-07:002013-10-27T16:01:20.222-07:00Our need to survive lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-15693530209949022772013-03-14T22:17:00.000-07:002013-03-15T22:25:31.522-07:00One More Decision<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">It has been such a long time since my last post. To catch
everyone up I will fill in some details. Well, I discussed my diagnosis in an
earlier post but here are some specifics: I have Invasive ductal carcinoma, ER/PR
negative with HER2 negative, Grade 2, Basel cell are present,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Margins are clean,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had a <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sentinel <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">lymph node</span> biopsy
that was negative, and overall I have GRADE 1 Breast Cancer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds impressive doesn’t it however that’s
not even half of what I should know. I have spent hours listening to my doctors
and nurses then I go home spending hours with my nose in Breast Cancer books
and more time perusing the internet. I don’t have enough information to make an
informed consent. There are times when some of the test I have had done that come
back as negative but because of the method of testing will turn out to be positive.
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">It is maddening
to come to a final decision. At first, I believed I would walk into a Dr’s
office he would tell me the best treatment I would worry over the side effects then
schedule the first treatment but of course being a Crouse/Spies we don’t do
things the easy way. After meeting with my Oncology Doctors’ there was a bump
in the road, my Chemotherapy doc wants me to take part in a Clinical Trial. So now,
I have to explore two different drug regimes that come with different side
effects. Some of the long term side effects are Cardiac in nature vs. Leukemia
plus so much more. How is a person supposed to consider putting poison in your
body that will kill you in 15 years? OMG this is mind-boggling. <o:p></o:p></span>
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</span><br /><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Also consider the
scenario of coming <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up with a treatment
plan and it turns out to be the wrong treatment sometimes the lab performs the
test incorrectly or the method of testing for your specific cancer is incorrect
there are times when HER2 can be negative and positive at the same time. This information
sounds “Sci-Fi” but it happens. I feel I am on a precipice waiting to take the plunge.
All I want is to be told which treatment is best for me and get on with this
diagnosis. I announced that I have the big “C” on January 7 and it is now March
16 come on Karen get your ass in gear and get this moving. The real hard stuff
is yet to come and I am tired of thinking about it and saying “oh I have Cancer”
“I better not I have Cancer” this is not me. Get the diagnosis do research and
start the treatments!<o:p></o:p></span>
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CHICAGO -- People with unrelenting pain don't only suffer from the nonstop sensation of throbbing pain. They also have trouble sleeping, are often depressed, anxious and even have difficulty making simple decisions.<br />
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lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-83730062411795493482012-11-17T11:07:00.003-08:002012-11-17T11:07:47.174-08:00Jenni was at this "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"<embed src="http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=165310911&m=165310896&t=audio" height="386" wmode="opaque" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" base="http://www.npr.org" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-69748194373249976502012-11-16T18:58:00.003-08:002012-11-16T18:58:38.952-08:00My Favorite Chef<object width = "512" height = "328" > <param name = "movie" value = "http://dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf" > </param><param name="flashvars" value="video=http://video.pbs.org/videoPlayerInfo/2261538842&player=viral&end=0" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param > <param name = "allowscriptaccess" value = "always" > </param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param ><embed src="http://dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf" flashvars="video=http://video.pbs.org/videoPlayerInfo/2261538842&player=viral&end=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" width="512" height="328" bgcolor="#000000"></embed></object><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #808080; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 512px;">Watch <a style="text-decoration:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#4eb2fe !important;" href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2261538842" target="_blank">Quiche Lorraine</a> on PBS. See more from <a style="text-decoration:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#4eb2fe !important;" href="http://www.pbs.org/food/shows/the-french-chef" target="_blank">The French Chef.</a></p>lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-13010556582220785442012-10-23T14:41:00.000-07:002012-10-23T14:41:17.842-07:00Gary gets Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At Homecoming of Lycoming College Gary won the Dale V Bower Service Award. The Award was presented to Gary by Jim Burget who was the Best Man at our Wedding and a Theta Chi brother.<br />
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lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-62237838046088569162012-10-07T13:22:00.001-07:002012-10-07T13:22:54.231-07:00The final video of Jenni's Ironman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008369702170806745.post-10062214434686341192012-09-05T20:25:00.000-07:002012-09-05T20:25:11.482-07:00Dad's 92nd birthday<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/VRfZzPGoZgI?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe>We gathered a Carl's to celebrate Dad's 92nd birthday we are so grateful that we still have Dad here to celebrate his special day. Unfortunately it was a small party and I don't know how much Dad was able to hear what was going on around him.because of his deafness. We ate a delicious yellow cake with chocolate icing. Molly Carl's dog was full of energy but so cute. We were informed that she won the GOLD star for obedience at Puppy training class but she does not take her skills home. Molly is following in Georgia's shoes raising heck and eating the house one piece at a time. <br />
The sad news we have is the our cousin Brian Helwig died this past week. We found this out by checking FaceBook the whole story is not been online but we are very sorry to hear such devastating news.<br />
Gary and I are heading out to Wisconsin because Jenni is running an IRONMAN! I will have a post after Jenni has finished.lafaymomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582804193291028382noreply@blogger.com1