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A weather eye on Keep an eye on the weather California style* *say it softly, one syllable ;-)

Quick note - go to the guardian.Co.Uk and search pharmaceutical industry, there's a current story there that should be dominating the news, except it isn't Here it is: Drug study results withheld

Living outside the USA for as long as I have been doing, and raising a kid here in Europe, I'm really shocked at the trust American parents put in the pharmaceutical industry. Not to mention the pediatricians who work strictly along the guidelines of the AMA which isn't much more than a lobbying Institute for the medical industry these days. Everything that's pushed on you, from 'baby' Tylenol to Flintstones vitamins is either completely ineffective or downright poisonous for your child. .

Flabbergasted in Germany (and backing away slowly)

"(As an aside, read Article I of the Treaty of Paris from 1783. http://www.treatyofparis.com/ Notice that the individual colonies are recognized to be "free independent and sovereign states" by name rather than the union of states being recognized as a single sovereign state. This was not an accident...)" I have a modern rxsmple (that I just learned of). Each state has a separate agreement with the German government regarding transfer of driver's licences for their citizens who move Germany. For residents of some states , a full set of driving lessons, plus first aid a very difficult written exam followed by a practical exam are required while residents of other states only need to pass the written exam and - bam - they get their German driver's license. I say this because I'm from new York and had to go the full monty. Took months and cost me about one and a half thousand dollars. A friend of mine from Texas just finished the same process. But a girl from Florida I know just got hers with only the written test. My buddy and me are both like, Florida? They're like the worst drivers in the country. So I looked into it and the map of states that have this or that agreement seems totally arbitrary. I'm writing this now because I'm actually kind of venting here haha ;-) PS - and correcting autocorrect grrrrr

Happy people are non-conformists. But the inverse isn't necessarily true.

Now we snow... A mess A hundred billion snowflakes Swarm mentality

Huh, I was going to say Basic Training, US Army (Ft. Leonardwood, 1982) and becoming a father. I'll have to dig deeper and find something more original haha. @mith - are those physical limitations still with you? Thank you for sharing that.

Yeah well, many paths... Spend an hour clicking the videos on the sidebar at YouTube and see where you end up haha! TTB is Sunday School in comparison.

I agree :-)

@mith - was joking... I posted it because it's gorgeous

A little on the wushu side but I have to agree, the kid's got depth :-)

Hi Can you post some details about the movement? What actually happens?

A Was at church this evening, the daughter was playing piano. While zoning out and half meditating half listening and half dreaming, I found myself staring at the altar which had a cloth with the alpha and omega on it. I was staring at the A and it occurred to me suddenly that it could represent a mountain, with the wide base at the bottom and the peak at the top. And most incredibly, the line separating the halves! This seemed deeply significant and I want to spend more time with the image.

Körnerkissen... Will check in L8R

What you need to do, starting now, is stop. Stop all energy work, stop all magick , stop all Qigong. Stop all the weird stuff and learn to live mainstream for a little while. Running would be really good. Probably the best activity of all. But just run. Don't make a big fuss about it. Go run every day. If you can do it barefoot, then all the better. Or if you have trouble running, then some other aerobic exercise that you can enjoy and which makes you sweat nice. Just stop the Qigong for a while. Srsly.

Hmmm... I should probably point out that I've been married 27 years to the same woman and my experiences involving attracting females have all been quite unintentional. The 'methods' I described were meant more tongue in cheek, but based on experience. They work, but the psychology behind them could fill volumes. I've in fact put a lot of effort into keeping my distance from women over the years. It's not always so easy. Edit - 28, damn

is this a spoof? I wonder what Lady GaGa pays for a weekend ... I could do a lot more for her for a lot less, is what I'm thinking: <iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/71919803" width="500" height="281" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> hope the link works ...

That's the word for it! :-)

Another way to attract chicks - marry one. Subliminal way to get a chick you already know somewhat interested in you - talk about something banal, anything you can go on for a few minutes about, and interrupt a sentence by saying, very casually, 'you've lost weight', and immediately continue your other conversation. Don't give her a chance to react to the side comment, just keep talking and have faith.

You have my sympathies. Part of my job is translating it from German to English. It affects the Weltanschauung after a while.

Neil Armstrong spelled backwards is: Gnorts, Mr. Alien

You want chicks? Avoid them. They'll flock to you. Same with cats.

Your subject, Chomsky, Transformational grammar, Is it really yours?

Super! Hey, I really like her now. The video was posted to Facebook and it just seemed like comedy at the time... But I'm always happy to find new treasures through unlikely means.