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So I've been watching ESPN with Opening Day 2017 and they keep mentioning that it's the day to take a pic of yourself with a baseball cap on.<br />
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It was 1986. I had been home from a year in Israel for about 6 months and the Mets had made the playoffs and then were in the World Series. There was only one problem. The 6th game of the World Series, which could have been the last, was being played on Simhat Tora, a Jewish Holiday that caps off our month-long Autumn holiday season (which begins with Rosh Hashana and includes Yom Kippur and Sukkot). On certain Holiday days, we don't write, drive, turn on lights and, most importantly that night, we don't turn on televisions.<br />
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In addition to the above, Simhat Tora is also a night where most of us (Religiously Observant Jews) go to synagogue and sing and dance with the Tora. My siblings and I also did this thing called "Shul Hopping" where we would go from synagogue to synagogue singing and dancing as late as we could (mind you, we walked everywhere).<br />
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We grew up playing cards. We played Gin Rummy, Casino, Spit. When we were in our teens, my brother Aaron and I started playing bridge with our parents (and grandfather) -- I would partner with Mom and Aaron with Dad (or Pop, our grandfather). When my sister got older, it was my sister, Chani, and I and Aaron and Mom.<br />
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Mom taught us all solitaire when we were young. We used to play solitaire (each of us, that is) whenever we were alone. Then came computers and I got addicted to solitaire on the computer (I still am to some degree) -- and I even taught Mom some of the games I found on the computer games.<br />
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I recall being in grammar class in elementary school and our teacher was teaching us past tense and past participles. I recall seeing a chart in our grammar book that showed which words went with "should have" or "could have" (like "should have come" or "could have gone") as opposed to words used without "have" -- like I came, I saw, I conquered (ok, "conquered" could go both ways....)<br />
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I remember thinking that everyone knows that, this grammar stuff is easy. And, to be honest, for me it was. I didn't realize until way later that the reason it was easy was because my family spoke in a grammatical fashion. My mom (and several of my aunts/great-aunts who were teachers) would correct me if I misspoke and used inappropriate verbiage.<br />
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<li>I'm going to <i>lay</i> down [my answer to that "what are you going to lay down?"]</li>
<li><i>Yous</i> guys [unlike Hebrew, English doesn't have a plural for "you" except in the south]</li>
<li>Between you and <i>I</i> [Between you and <i>me</i>]</li>
<li>Joe came over to help Nancy and <i>I</i> [would you say "Joe came over to help <i>I</i>"? Why does the <i>me</i> change to <i>I </i>when Nancy is added to the mix?]</li>
<li>Dangling participles of any sort [particularly those where the meaning is ambiguous]</li>
<li><i>Alls</i> I want to do is... [<i>Alls</i> is not a word -- <i>All's</i> -- as in All's Well that Ends Well -- is a contraction meaning "<i>All is</i>"]</li>
<li>I should have <i>came</i>; I should have <i>went </i>[I should have <i>come</i>; I should have <i>gone</i> respecively]</li>
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(For those of you who didn't grow up with the grammar/usage police at your door, <i>Lay</i> means put -- you can put your body down, but you can't just put down -- you have to put something down -- <i>Lie </i> means recline. What makes it confusing is that <i>Lay</i> is the past tense of <i>Lie</i>, so today I <i>lie</i> down, yesterday I <i>lay</i> (not <i>laid</i>) down, in the past, I have <i>lain</i> down. As for dangling participles, my favorite is courtesy of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&hl=en-US&q=charley%20weaver" target="_blank">Charlie Weaver</a> in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Charley-Weavers-Letters-Mamma-Arquette/dp/B0007DL4EG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394394389&sr=8-1&keywords=charlie+weaver+letters+from+mt" target="_blank">Letters from Mamma</a> -- his Mamma wrote (I'm quoting from memory, so forgive me if I'm off a bit), "I met an Eskimo with one tooth named Nanook. I don't know what his other tooth's name was.")</div>
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<i>When Steve <nobr>Jobs</nobr> passed away, even though I had known he was ill and I had never met him, I still felt as though I were losing a family member. Apple II series and Macintosh computers have been part of my life for somewhere around 30 years. I initially learned to program on an Apple computer (using Apple Basic). My first system was a Macintosh and, though I mostly use a PC now, I still consider myself a Mac partisan. I have also spent many a happy hour listening to music on my iPod shuffle. Thank you, Steve Jobs, for plugging me in and inspiring me to express myself in my artwork.</i><br /><br />After hopping from college to college, major to major, and vocation to vocation, I found some direction thanks to Apple and Macintosh.</div>
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<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/workshop/how-steve-jobs-affected-me" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1a67b8; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="type=text" class="text_img_right" src="http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/400/draft_lens18655494module153977609photo_1321371334power_to_the_people_mouse" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; max-width: 400px; vertical-align: middle;" title="type=text" /></a>I had tried math, then I tried languages. I tried fashion and jewelry design and television/radio. But none of them actually took. (Ok, so I'm still working on the jewelry designs, but you'll see more of that later, and I'm also re-inspired to work on my fashion designs and I added graphic design, but I digress). So after working my way through a bachelor's degree in TV/Radio and taking a year of <nobr>MBA</nobr> classes (another thing that didn't take), I decided to try computer graphics.<br /><br />My brother was a programmer at the time and worked at home on occasion on an Apple II system (II+ initially). So, when he had one of the Apple computers at home, my brother taught me some commands, and, voila, I was on my way. I created an animated rainbow which went into other routines. I wanted to take some computer art classes, so I took my disk (the old 5 1/4" floppy disks that were really floppy) and showed this piece to the professor of the class I wanted to take and he loved it so much, <i>he</i> asked <i>me</i> to <nobr>sign up</nobr> for his class (If I recall, what he actually said was, "you have to sign up for my class."). During the course of, well, the course, the instructor loved everything I created and even asked me if he could use my final project in the next semester's syllabus. (It was a real kick to see the next semester's students working on <i>MY</i>project.)<br /><br />The first time I sat down at a Macintosh computer was at the home of a friend. I sat down and could immediately draw something. When my sister bought a Mac, I often had an opportunity to sit down and learn the computer. And then, I got a job working on a Mac. So when I went looking for my own computer I only looked at Mac computers. And, when I actually bought my own Mac (with a laser printer) I was thrilled. (I recall, somewhere around that time, when I was looking at systems, a friend of mine was also looking to get a computer. After looking at systems, she went PC and asked me, about my then new Mac, "Does it have windows?" I answered her: "Mac doesn't need 'Windows' -- 'Windows' is a PC simulation of the Mac system." I don't think she got it.)<br /><br />Though I currently work on a PC, I'm still a Mac partisan. I miss my Mac (which, after 15 or 16 year went belly up last year, though I have most of my artwork on an external drive).<br /><br />Thank you, Steve Jobs, for the computers of my life (not to mention my purple iPod shuffle)</div>
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Everyone has some holiday memories from their past. These are some of mine.<br /><br /><i><b>Disclaimer: </b>Halloween is not a Jewish holiday, but as American Jews we are exposed to many customs and celebrations that are shared in the United States. Because Halloween is not one of our holidays, our memories of Halloween are often more passive than active.</i></div>
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<img alt="" class="text_img_right" src="http://i3.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/400/draft_lens14578181module127887691photo_1287676935Ghosts_small_10_17_10.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; max-width: 400px; vertical-align: middle;" title="" />My first memory of Halloween was when I was about 4 or 5. My Mom dressed me up as a cat (a wild cat) with drawn on whiskers. We then would go to the door when the "Trick or Treaters" came and I interacted with them (most of the "Trick or Treaters" were older than I at this point). (My Mom said she did this because the year before I was scared of the costumed children and she wanted to show me that these were just other children under masks and with costumes.)<br /><br />When we moved East from the Mid-West, into a four family house, our neighbors invited us to go "Trick or Treating" with them (my brother and I had never been "Trick or Treating") and we went out and came home with a lot of candy.<br /><br />When moved to our own home, it became a bit of a ritual for us over the years to wait together and answer the door and give out candy to "Trick or Treaters".<br /><br />But probably my strongest memory of Halloween was one year when Halloween was on Saturday or <i>Shabbat</i> (the Sabbath) for us. At the time, we were living in a 4 family house and our apartment had 3 doors, one in the <nobr>kitchen</nobr>, one in the dining/living room and one into my bedroom. We were going to be moving that night and into the next day and, because of that (and that I would be spending the night, while my parents were "directing traffic", with my best friend) I was trying to take a <i>Shabbat</i> nap that day (something I rarely did when I was that age). But the "Trick or Treaters" didn't know that the door on my room was part of an apartment they had already visited, so they kept knocking on my door (and waking me up).<br /><br />For the most part, my memories of Halloween are good. In the past few years since we moved to our current residence, while we don't get many "Trick or Treaters", one of our neighbors puts out a lot of Halloween <nobr>decorations</nobr>. One of my favorites is a snake (since I love snakes) but he also has a lot of sound affects that I enjoy.<br /><br />I'd love to hear other people's memories. Add yours in the comments section.</div>
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compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-37272280024168992822014-03-09T10:05:00.000-07:002014-03-09T10:05:17.368-07:00Should Pot Be Legal?ื"ื<br />
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Let Them Smoke Pot!</h2>
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While I have never smoked pot myself, and I wouldn't smoke it even if it were legal, I don't see any reason why smoking pot shouldn't be legal. Whatever we feel about it, cigarette smoking is legal as is drinking alcohol. For better or worse, I don't think pot is any more dangerous than either smoking or drinking. So why not legalize it?</div>
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The legalization of Pot in Washington got me thinking. If Marie Antoinette were still alive today, what do you think she would say? I thought she'd say, "Let them smoke pot!"<br /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: #8654d6; border: 2px solid rgb(235, 12, 142); color: #f0cba5; float: left; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 245px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 4px; text-align: center; width: 139px;">
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compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-44611470524801833102014-03-09T09:13:00.003-07:002014-03-09T09:13:36.854-07:00Punchballื"ื<br />
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When my family moved to our current community (before my sister and the younger of my two brothers were born), my brother and I started going to the local Yeshiva (Jewish religious school) day school. When we got to the community, it was January and I started in first grade and my brother started in kindergarten. Every day we had two small and one large recess (there were two lunch periods -- one for kids 1st-4th grades and one for kids 5th-8th grades and we each had recess when the other group had lunch). When I was younger, I played jump rope. (When my brother was in Kindergarten, he only had a half-day of school)</div>
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<img alt="" class="text_img_right" src="http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/400/draft_lens19610964module160229032photo_1341805425a____0.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; max-width: 400px; vertical-align: middle;" title="" />Punchball is a game similar to baseball, only there are no bats, no pitchers and the ball is pink and rubber. In my school, we had a fenced in field with a wire fence on two sides, a <nobr>wood fence</nobr> bordering the neighbor's backyard, and the school building with a black painted metal staircase leading to the side door into the building's main floor. Our bases were as follows: the fence along the street was home, one support leg of the staircase was first base, the jungle gym in the center near the neighbor's fence was second base, a spot along the side stone fence under the wire fence equidistant from home with first base was third base. To the right of the jungle gym was a slide that stood at the entrance to "the alley", an extension of the playground that was where we would aim, since balls going down "the alley" would go downhill and be hard to get home before the hitter scored.<br /><br />Ground rules were: fly balls caught from the air or if they bounced of the school building or the third base fence (both of which were foul balls) were out. Three fouls were out (since strikes were basically non-existent since the hitter held the ball in his/her weaker hand and punch it with our stronger hand's fist. A ball hit over any fence was out (even the neighbor's fence, which was fair, since we had to climb the fence into the neighbor's backyard to retrieve the balls).<br /><br />When I was in 5th grade, I was a fair to middling player, not bad, but not great. The summer I was officially going into 6th grade (I say it that way since I never did go to 6th grade, early in the school year -- I was sick the first week of school -- the school told my mother they'd like to <nobr>skip</nobr> me to 7th grade, but I digress) we spent the summer at the beach and I attended a day camp/summer school program. One of the things we did in this program was <nobr>play</nobr> punchball. During this summer, I was playing punchball with other girls, most of whom had never played punchball before, so I was one of the better players. Because of the confidence I had from this and because my skills gave team captains confidence enough in me to allow me to play most of the time, I developed into a really good player (when I would come up, the other team would play far back, and assumed I would hit a home run -- no fence, legging it out after hitting it far -- and most of the time I did).<br /><br />When I was in 8th grade (and my brother was in 6th grade), I was in one of the first trades in my school's history when I was traded for one of my brother's classmates to my brother's class. He and I made a great double play combo (I played first base and he played on the jungle gym).<br /><br />I miss punchball, but I have some great memories of recesses playing punchball with the boys (Oh, did I forget to mention that I was the only girl who played regularly and was taken at all seriously as a player).</div>
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compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-75863285359038555032014-03-09T08:22:00.002-07:002014-03-09T08:22:29.397-07:00Growing Up ADHDื"ื<br />
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<i><nobr>Attention Deficit Disorder</nobr></i> is what they call it. I really don't quite understand why. We ADDers don't have a deficit of attention -- we pay attention to <b>everything</b>! And <i>Disorder</i>????? It's just another way of looking at the world.<br /><br />Some people look at the world straight on. I keep turning things every which way until I see a solution.</div>
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<a href="http://www.printfection.com/compugraphd" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; color: #1a67b8; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="text_img_right" src="http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/400/draft_lens19648155module160762260photo_1343792196_a______0.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; max-width: 400px; vertical-align: middle;" title="" /></a>In addition to our Cafe Press and Zazzle sites (see other modules), we also have a store on "Printfection" which includes cutting boards (good wedding or housewarming gifts), mugs and cups, tees, etc.<br /><br />This frosted mug is only one of the many items at our store:<br /><br />(Click on the picture to go directly to our shop site)</div>
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Thom Hartmann, whose "Attention Deficit Disorder: A New Perspective" was the first book I read <nobr>about ADHD</nobr>, wrote many books about ADD and ADHD. While many other sources had more negative perspectives of ADD (as in "how to <i>manage</i> it"), Thom Harmann's books are more positive (as in "the world needs ADDers").<br /><br />Here are some of them -- I've read 4 or 5 of his books and I've found them all helpful.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I'm still on that journey and I'd like to chronicle my experiences so far. If you are a success, please leave me your advice. I'm </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">all ears</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> so to speak.</span></div>
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Update 6/4/2011: I found another site to sell my art work. I still haven't sold anything there (or at Printfection) but you can see some of my designs in an RSS feed at the bottom of this entry. I hope you like the changes.</div>
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Update 5/8/2012: I <i>finally</i> sold something on a site other than Cafe Press and Zazzle! I made two different sales for my "Baby Book of Opposites" one in <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/878424" style="color: #1a67b8;">English</a> and one in <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/882189" style="color: #1a67b8;">Hebrew</a> from Spoonflower!</div>
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If you are looking for advice in this lens, I don't think you're going to get much. This is just about my experiences as a budding internet entrepreneur.<br />
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Since I was a teenager, I've wanted to be a fashion designer. I used to supplement my babysitting money by knitting and crocheting doll clothes (which I designed myself) and I would sell them through a concession store in a nearby town.<br />
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When I was college age, I decided to pursue this interest. I started taking classes at a well respected <nobr>fashion school</nobr>. I tried to learn how to take my ideas and make them into clothes. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past either of the beginning level courses (flat pattern design, which I tried twice, and draping). So I tried jewelry designing.<br />
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What I thought was going to be a class on stringing beads turned out to be a class on <nobr>how to make</nobr> silver and gold jewelry. I did a number of designs using wax models (which I created) and sent them to the caster and then polished them up. I really enjoyed it and started selling some of my designs to co-workers of mine and my mother's. I did sell a number of pieces, but not enough to support myself.<br />
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I also learned to render (draw/paint) jewelry designs. I created quite a few designs with paints on a semi-slick gray paper that was available at art supply stores. But it took a long time. I had to do an initial shape in my sketch pad, trace it on tracing paper, pencil up the back for a makeshift carbon paper and retrace it onto the gray paper. If the design was a multiple of one shape, I had to repeat this process. Then I would use a special water color set to paint it to look like gold. This was a tedious process and only a small percentage of my ideas ended up on paper, particularly since it took me about 2 days to complete one design. (Years later, when I updated my first Mac computer to system 7.2 and could then use the Power Point that came with my Microsoft bundle, I developed a way to create the designs on Power Point. This took me a lot less time -- about a 1/2 hour per design -- so many more of my designs have actually been created on paper and some of them were even created in silver, brass or plastic)<br />
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I also started drawing clothing designs. Since I didn't know how to draw figures, I would trace figures from comic books and fashion ads without the clothing they were wearing and draw clothes on them. Over the years, I have collected quite a number of pages of designs. Some of them I even have up on <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~compugraphd/page9f.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1a67b8; text-decoration: none;">my web site</a>.<br />
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I took some time away from all this to get a college degree (BA in TV/Radio), get credits toward a second degree (in computer art), work as an office manager, a programmer, a tech writer and probably sixty or seventy other things.<br />
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Along the way, I got into graphic design (took an adult education course in it) and computer graphics. I began "doing" computer graphics on an Apple II series computer.<br />
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I did some graphic design work, mostly freelance. One of the places I did graphic design work was a tee shirt design company and I did a design of what I later called "Strong Jewish Women".<br />
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Fast forward several years. I got tee shirts printed with this original design (I still have quite a number of them left). I was trying to sell those when a friend of mine told me about <i>cafe press</i>. So I started designing things on cafe press (I still do). Then another friend told me about <i>Etsy </i>(to put up my hand done things). Another friend of mine told me about <i>Zazzle.</i><br />
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So, now that I have so much of my artwork up on different products, I needed a way to "get the word out". For this I use Squidoo (which isn't quite as helpful as in the past, but I digress), Facebook and these blogs.<br />
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Off the net, I pass out business cards and do <i>pre-holiday boutiques</i> where I show off my growing inventory of products. I'm not selling tons this way, but it does seem to get better each time.<br />
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But I'm still, after over 8 years, in that limbo state. I'm still trying to get a foothold with my internet business. I hope it's just a matter of time, but sometimes I wonder.......</div>
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What is it about ghosts that scare us and entertain us so much? I can't answer that question (unless it's that we think of it as a way to keep our loved ones in our hearts) but I find it interesting that they show up in a variety of roles, scary and funny.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">I grew up with TV. My first exposure to ghosts was cartoons of</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/41939/casper-the-friendly-ghost-ghost-of-the-town--super-spook" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1a67b8; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;">Casper the Friendly Ghost</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">. I also was a huge fan of the TV show</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FybaVXc-Nc" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1a67b8; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;">Topper</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">. These ghosts were not scary.</span></span></h3>
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I suppose that because I don't like scary movies, I have mostly only been exposed to ghosts as amusing, entertaining, lighthearted figures. The ghosts in Blithe Spirit, the Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Harry Potter are part of this pattern.<br /><br />I also used to like a program called "My Partner the Ghost" that was a British import about a private detective who gets murdered and comes back as a ghost to help his partner find the man who murdered him. But he stays around to help his partner after that.<br /><br />So as long as people <nobr>continue</nobr> to write about friendly, nice ghosts, I'll continue watching.</div>
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<a href="http://www.printfection.com/compugraphd/Ghosts-Coffee-Mug-11oz/_p_5925409" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1a67b8; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="text_img_right" height="200" src="http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/400/draft_lens14427801module149717416photo_1303501615four_ghost_mug_4_22_2011." style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; max-width: 400px; vertical-align: middle;" title="" width="200" /></a>We have a <nobr>store</nobr> on "Printfection" which includes cutting boards (good wedding or housewarming gifts), mugs and cups, tees, etc.<br /><br />This cutting board is only one of several Halloween themed items at our store:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.printfection.com/compugraphd/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1a67b8; text-decoration: none;">Compugraphd Printfection site</a><br /><br />(Click on the picture to go directly to this product's page)</div>
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May brings us "Mother's Day" and June is the month for "Father's Day". But I'm not married and I have no children of my own. But I adore my nieces and nephews. I even have great-nieces and great-nephews. So I was thrilled to find out that July 26th is Aunts and Uncles Day.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em;">When I was younger, one of the gadget catalogs sold a bumper sticker that said, "If I'd known grandchildren were so much fun, I'd have had them first!" Well, as an aunt, I felt as though I got that deal. While I definitely changed my share (and then some) of diapers, done my share of babysitting, feeding, chin wiping, reading stories, etc., I also get the hugs and fun, the excited nieces and nephews on the phone, my excited great-nephew saying my name over and over again running the to computer when his Mom (my niece) and I are on Skype together.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">Most of my nieces and nephews used to live in the same town as we do, but those nieces and nephews who used to live here now live halfway around the world. I miss them all terribly. I do, thanks to generous parents, get the opportunity to visit every two years or so (whenever there's a "</span><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">Simha</i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">" -- happy event -- like weddings, bat mitzva, bar mitzva, etc.) and members of my sister's gang come here occasionally.</span></span></h2>
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I love being an Aunt.</div>
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compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-61827701215521841322014-03-02T23:03:00.000-08:002014-03-02T23:04:23.496-08:00Should Gay Marriage be Legalื"ื<br />
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Many states in the US have voted to legalize Gay marriage. It's a tough fight; so many people feel that marriage should be defined as being only between one man and one woman. Back in the 1800s, Utah became a state based on the Mormon population denouncing polygamy.<br />
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While tradition in the US seems to lean toward the "one man/one woman" marriage template, many loving gay couples are kept from this public proclamation of their love. Many feel cheated; many feel discrimated against.<br />
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Because I don't think people should have sex outside of marriage, I believe Gay Marriage should be legal. I feel I have no right to ask gays to "keep themselves for marriage" so to speak if there isn't that option open to them. Absent that, I would accept a commitment ceremony, since so many states don't have legalized Gay Marriage.<br />
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I personally think that people who think their religion doesn't support gay marriage need to remember that in the US, there is a separation of church and state. My religion says that I can't drive a car on Saturday. I don't think there should be a <nobr>law</nobr> outlawing driving a car on Saturday. It's MY religion. So if your religion says that gay people can't get married, don't marry someone of your gender. But allow those who don't have that religious issue to follow their conscience. Marriage is a commitment between two people who love each other; allowing that commitment for gays is better for society because marriage stabilizes the home.<br />
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September 6th is "Read a Book Day".<br /><br />When I was young, I hated reading. I think part of the reason I hated reading was that I:<br />1) had to read what my teachers wanted me to read<br />2) had to read the book within a certain time frame (when the assignment was given to when the report was due)<br />3) had to write a book report when I was done<br /><br />But as I got older, and the classes I was taking were more in the category of subjects I liked, for the most part the books we were asked to read were more likely to be books I enjoyed. Also, as I began to read on my own (after college), I got to choose to read the books I wanted to read.</div>
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One of my first short stories, "<a href="https://www.createspace.com/3978413">The Princess Who Wanted to be Beautiful</a>" started out as a bedtime story for the children of a close friend. I had been worrying about the "Disney Syndrome" whereby all the heroes are beautiful and all the ugly people are villains. This is a story about a princess who has heard that all princesses are beautiful and doesn't think she is beautiful. She decides to go to a wizard and ask him to make her beautiful but along the way she makes some friends and learns a lesson about herself.</div>
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<br />compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-47572260827775418642014-03-02T15:10:00.001-08:002014-03-02T15:10:06.333-08:00Witches and Wizards in Fictionื"ื<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">But I didn't really have a lot of "magic" again until I started watching</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">Charmed </i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">and reading the</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">Harry Potter</i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">and</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">Septimus Heap</i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;">series.</span></span></h2>
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<i>Bewitched</i> and <i>I Dream of Jeannie</i> were both on TV in the 1960s. They were both sitcoms and showed the funny side of magic. Both shows probably trace their genre back to movies like <i>Bell Book and Candle</i> and <i>Blythe Spirit</i> (which probably inspired both the <nobr>movies</nobr> and TV show <i>Topper</i>, about a banker who moves into a house haunted by a bon vivant young couple of ghosts). Both<i>Bewitched</i> and <i>I Dream of Jeannie</i> show the 60s ideal of domesticity within the framework of witchcraft or genie magic.<br />
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OK, I admit it. I am a die-hard Mets fan. Please don't try to figure out why. It doesn't have anything to do with their won-loss record (obviously). I'm not a masochist. And, yes, the Mets have been in the World's Series more times than many other clubs in the years since 1962 (the first season the Mets were in existence). But, in the years they haven't made it to the post-season, the Mets have often tortured their fans.<br />
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This feels as though it's going to be one of those years. The past two years have been torturous. Two years ago, the Mets, for the first time, had the National League's leading hitter (by average), Jose Reyes. Last year, the Mets had the National League Cy Young Award winner, R A Dickey. Both players moved to other teams over the off-season (Reyes first to Miami in 2012 and, then, to the Toronto Blue Jays and R A Dickey signed with the Blue Jays over the 2012-2013 off-season). <br />
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So we're now in 2013 and they Mets, who started off reasonably well, have now lost 6 games in a row and are now 10 and 15. While I haven't seen them all, I have seen the end of the last two games and in both of them, they were not behind until the last play of the game. In both games they went into the 9th inning ahead by one (last night it was 2-1 and tonight it was 1-0). In neither game did the starting pitcher stink. In both games the hitters didn't hit much on either side. <br />
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(Oh, BTW, the title is "Let's Go Mets" backwards)
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Around these parts, there is a lot of talk on the news programs about a "Madam" who was running a "cat-house" in a building in Manhattan. There are blow by blow reports on how they arrested an upstate NY woman for running a brothel in the city (Manhattan) and how they put her bail at $2 million and how they won't let her out of jail even though a local lawyer put up his mansion as collateral. There are also reports on how they are "talking" to her second in command (her lawyer professes her innocence). <br />
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All this prosecution and scandal all begs the questions I have for them: <br />
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1) Is there no more important crime within the boundaries of New York City than prostitution? <br />
2) Are our prisons so empty that we need to keep a woman in prison because she made a living from men's weakness? <br />
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3) In this day and age, why is prostitution still a crime?<br />
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Every time a story on this comes up on the news, all I can say is, "Who cares?" I don't care that this woman was a Madam. I don't care that she was running a brothel. I do think it would be better if there was zoning in the city for a "red light" district. I do wish they would legalize brothels and regulate them. I do wish they would be required to pay for medical treatment and blood tests that would make this process safer. And, if it were legal, it could be taxed: Sales tax, income tax, excise tax, you name it. This would lift some of the tax burden from the poor and middle class.<br />
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We have a perfect model for legalizing prostitution. We have Nevada. Use Nevada as a model for legalizing prostitution. <br />
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This case seems, to me, to be the perfect time to introduce such a law. Why should (mostly women) prostitutes be put in prison? Why aren't the "clients" put in prison? (Hint: Maybe because they're mostly men and often politically powerful?) From my perspective, going to a prostitute shouldn't be a legality issue. I think using a prostitute should be between a husband and wife, a man and his significant other, not a matter for law enforcement. Let's legalize prostitution and regulate and tax it. This is a moral matter, not a legal matter. Let's place it where it belongs and stop demonizing prostitution.compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-18437143342873863032012-01-23T12:48:00.000-08:002012-01-23T12:48:10.315-08:00Heroes and Villainsื"ื<br />
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Back in August 2009, Failed Messiah had a post called <a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2009/04/americas-worst-rabbi.html"><i>America's Worst Rabbi</i></a>. Read it and them come back here to continue.<br />
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While I agree with Rabbi Safran that people are making a much bigger deal of Bernie Madoff (I think the reactions to him, the out of proportion punishment he was given, a punishment that serves only to partially assuage people's need for vengeance, a punishment that murderers, rapists, kidnappers and terrorists often don't even get, shows that our society is overly obsessed with money and cares more about money than it does about people), I also think that there is little to admire in the man. Back then, I wrote a blog entry on this subject on my "<a href="http://jewishsandwich.blogspot.com/">Jewish Sandwich</a>" blog called "<a href="http://jewishsandwich.blogspot.com/2009/03/he-madoff-with-all-cash.html">He Madoff with all the Cash</a>" which talks about my feelings about Bernie Madoff. To be honest, in retrospect, he could be let out of prison today and he will have already received the worst punishment, that being the knowledge that his actions led directly to his son's death by suicide. <br />
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All that having been said, I want to revisit the part of Rabbi Safran's article where he doesn't give "Sully" Sullenberger his due. "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Sullenberger">Sully</a>", who, besides keeping a cool head and safely landing the plane in the Hudson River, besides not leaving the plane until he was certain <i>EVERYONE</i> was off the plane and safe, is also currently a spokesperson for St. Jude's Hospital (which shows where his heart is -- in helping others). And, this past week, we have a perfect contrast to Captain Sullenberger -- we have <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087704/Costa-Concordia-Captain-Francesco-Schettino-I-left-I-FELL-lifeboat.html">Captain Francesco Schettino</a> of the Costa Concordia. Yes, I know someone is innocent until proven guilty, and I don't know what I would have done in his shoes. But I do know that people who tell the truth generally will tell a story that may expand as time goes on as the person recalls more details, but it doesn't change with the wind. Captain Schettino's story has changed more times than the death toll number has changed. <br />
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But even if he did "fall off the boat", he clearly didn't do all he could to save lives, clearly didn't search to see if there were people who needed help, didn't coordinate rescue efforts with his crew. Granted, his ship is larger than was "Sully's" airplane. But instead of being "proactive", instead of reporting right away that they needed help, he and his crew seem to have taking more time seeing if they could keep it quiet than trying to coordinate rescue. The passengers were left in the dark, not knowing what was happening, not knowing what to do to save themselves. <br />
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The Costa Concordia was a tragedy, a tragedy that could have been averted if the Captain had been a man more similar to Captain Sullenberger. I doubt the entire fault lies with the Captain, but, if Captain Sullenberger <i>hadn't</i>, G-d forbid, landed the plane with the skill and forethought he did, the ensuing tragedy would not have been his fault either. With his bravery and insight, his knowledge and his caring, no lives were lost. That, Rabbi Safran, is why, even though part of his actions was self-preservation, Captain Sullenberger is a hero and Captain Schettino isn't.compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-48648184311575248032011-12-07T07:59:00.000-08:002011-12-07T07:59:40.924-08:00Reyes of Sunshine??????ื"ื<br />
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I have always had a "special" s*** list for men (or women) who left the spouse who stood with them through their training/college years only to have the spouse dump them when they made it big. In this category, I would place people like Jim Carrey, Roseanne Barr and Robin Williams. <br />
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And I'm a Mets fan. I've been a Mets fan for a long time, as long as I can remember. It's ingrained in me. For the most part, I like the players on the team (there have been a few exceptions over the year, but they have been few and far between). <br />
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Jose Reyes used to be one of my favorite players. He started with the Mets when he was very young. His 9 seasons with the Mets have been productive, but they have also been plagued with injuries. He gave the Mets a lot in those years, but the Mets also stuck with him, despite injuries. <br />
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After 9 seasons with the Mets, Reyes did something that no other Met ever did; he won the batting title. As a Mets fan, I was rooting really hard for him. But I also had some difficulty feeling really good about this because I knew in my heart of hearts that if he won the title, it would be VERY unlikely that he would sign with the financially plagued Mets. <br />
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To make matters worse, as soon as the rumor mill started grinding, it because more and more obvious that not only wouldn't Reyes sign with the Mets (apparently they weren't even talking), but he would be signing with a team in the Mets' own division, a team that was in the group of teams that they will be playing more than the other teams in Major League Baseball. <br />
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So now that the other cleat has dropped and Reyes signed a 10-year (longer than he played with the Mets) contract that rivals a huge Power Ball Jackpot, I am angry. I feel as though I was left after sticking with a spouse through the lean years (granted, Reyes years have rarely been totally lean, but, by the same token, his true potential never totally came through), after the Mets built a stadium designed to be a triples-hitter's (like Reyes) paradise, after the fans have loved him and cheered for him and showered him with affection that is rare among New York fans. Maybe he's spoiled. He doesn't realize how rare that sort of adulation is, particularly in NY. But I will adulate no longer. I will, from my perch in my house, boo him when he comes up against the team that nurtured him. <br />
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The nice thing about this happening now is that I have time before the season to forget Reyes, to move him from the beloved category to the despised category that I usually reserve for players who I heard abuse their spouses, children or animals. I hope by season's start some players I have loved will still be with the Mets (I just heard yesterday that Angel Pagan was traded away -- that I can't blame Angel for, any more than I can blame Carlos Beltran for leaving, since he was also traded). Good riddance, Jose Reyes. Take your dirty money and run.compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-69083722658418287782011-08-19T08:46:00.000-07:002011-08-19T08:46:41.979-07:00Supplemental Securityื"ื<br />
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<i><b>Disclaimer:</b> I am NOT a doctor or even a licensed nutritionist or any other medical or para-medical person. I only know what I read and what I hear from my alternative medical practitioners. This is not supposed to be a substitute for medical advice from either allopathic or alternative medical practitioners.</i><br />
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I'm a long time vegetarian and vegan (34 and 22 years respectively). Though I didn't make either decision (giving up meat/poultry/fish/leather/fur first and then adding dairy/eggs/lanolin etc. to the list) for health reasons. But somewhere along the line I did begin to be interested in health and nutrition and, of late (within the past 5-10 years I suppose) I've been downright obsessed with it. Health and nutrition books populate my bookcases and I subscribe to several health and nutrition magazines and newsletters. <br />
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About the same time I "went vegan", I also stopped taking medications. I don't even take aspirin. Most people find this very surprising (many even find it hard to believe). There are situations where I might take medication (particularly if it would be to treat an acute infection or injury) but I would then have to deal with the "fallout" (for example, taking antibiotics causes an imbalance in the body of bacteria vs. yeast -- for the most part, they keep each other in check, but antibiotics kill all bacteria without regard for whether or not it is helpful to the body's function -- if I were to need to take antibiotics then after I would have to pump up my body on probiotics and prebiotics). <br />
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One of the reasons I read a lot about health and nutrition is that I need to read about supplements and herbs to know which ones help the body regain equilibrium (as in how to treat different health issues to assist your body in healing itself). <br />
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Toward that end, I read a lot about this subject. My Mom has even "jumped on the bandwagon" (not that she doesn't take any medication, but she also takes supplements, etc.) -- this began when she went to a doctor for some muscular pain she was having. The doctor asked her what she wanted him to do. All he could recommend is semiannual cortisone (or something similar????) shots, something that, thank goodness, she cringed over the very idea of. <br />
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I had just been reading in one of my health newsletters about vitamin D and how prevalent vitamin D deficiency is, particularly in seniors, particularly in people who avoid the sun and particularly in the Northeast (all three conditions apply to my Mom). And, as it turned out, one of the symptoms was muscle aches. So she tried increasing her vitamin D and within days, the aches went away. <br />
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A few days ago, she had a bit of food poisoning (she thinks, anyway) and I gave her ginger tea (hot water with a few slices of ginger root in it) and, voila! Within a short time, she was feeling better. <br />
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I myself take many supplements, including vitamin D, vitamin B complex, niacin and niacinimide, and iodine. Some I take on my own (though I run them by my alternative medical practitioner) and the others I take on the advice of my alternative medical practitioner. With the help of these supplements, I have lowered my blood pressure, my cholesterol (though I think my vegan diet made the biggest dent in the cholesterol since I eat precious little saturated fat and no cholesterol). <br />
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So I was pretty intrigued by an article about <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20012644-10391704.html">The 12 Most Dangerous Supplements</a>. I was curious as to how many of them I had heard of (7) and how many I had ever taken (none). The ones I might have considered taking (and with herbal preparations one should <b>always</b> either do research or discuss with their medical practitioner (allopathic -- that's MDs -- or alternative -- naturopaths, osteopaths, chiropractors, etc.) or both (with me, I try to do both). <br />
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It's ironic, from my perspective, that they spend so much time and effort trying to make it seem as though thousands upon thousands of people are dying from taking bad supplements. But they ignore the myriad side effects of medications. <br />
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Just about every day I see commercials from some law firm trying to find victims of this or that medication (Avandia is the big one right now, but there are so many drugs with potentially fatal side effects that once Avandia isn't there another one will pop up). So why is there such a fuss made of supplements and herbal preparations? <br />
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Too many people just follow what their doctors say. But most of the doctors just take symptoms and make a diagnosis and from the diagnosis they pick a medication from the a list and write a prescription for it. Doctors get most of their information about drugs from the pharmaceutical company representatives, who convince the docs that these are the only solutions to these specific issues. So most people are putting their faith in the drug companies. And I think most of them are doing this without understanding the consequences. <br />
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Most drugs work by suppressing a symptom, whereas most nutrient supplements and herbal preparations work by helping the body heal itself. What happens with drugs is that they suppress a symptom (say high blood sugar) but they haven't been proven (and in many cases, as a matter of fact, they have been proven to NOT) to save lives. Oftentimes, they cause more deaths than they save. (An example is diabetes drugs -- there was a study to see what would be the ideal dosage of diabetes medications that would prevent heart attacks in diabetics. What they found -- they had to stop the study early -- was that the drugs themselves <i>caused</i> more heart attacks! Everyone was surprised <i>even though this also happened in the late 1960s when they tried this with diabetes drugs from that era!</i> <br />
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I think people need to remember that the doctors won't have to live with the consequences of their prescribing. Only the patient has to live (or die?) with the fallout. So it behooves everyone to take control of his/her own health. Do more research, read magazines and books. Be an advocate for yourself and your family members.compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-4615639421081952442011-04-08T13:32:00.000-07:002011-04-08T13:32:02.816-07:00Hasn't Charlie's Sheen been tarnished yet?ื"ื<br />
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There are always people one hears about even when one doesn't want to. Over the past months, I would include Muสฟammar al-Qaแธแธฤfฤซ (Moammar Gadaffi or however his name might be spelled in the English transliteration) and Lindsay Lohan are right up there on the list. <br />
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But I have to tell you, the person who I think it stretching his [way more than he deserves] "15 minutes of fame" to breaking point is Charlie Sheen. He's insulted people, offended people, ruined his career (not to mention screwed up the careers, at least temporarily, of his co-stars on "Two and a Half Men") and been booed off the stage in his "One Man Show[off]". So why are GSN and Drew Carey giving him yet another opportunity to prove to the world what a self-centered, ego-maniacal, immature, self-entitled individual he is?<br />
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There are so many people in this world (and even just in this country) who are nice people, who are talented and intelligent, who can't seem to make a decent living and people are wasting their money showering this low-life with adulation (or, in some cases, just money -- after hearing of how he was booed off the stage in more than one locale, I was reminded of a verse my Mom taught us when we were kids -- "Cy and I went to the circus/Cy got hit with a rolling pin/We got even with the darned old circus/We bought two tickets and we didn't go in")<br />
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Ok, so I have some advice for you all out there in big-city land -- <I><B>DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON CHARLIE SHEEN!!!!</B></I> If you really want to get something for your money, how about supporting the arts by buying products created by artists -- check out <a href="http://www.cafepress.com">Cafe Press</a>, <a href="http://www.zazzle.com">Zazzle</a>, <a href="http://www.printfection.com">Printfection</a>, and <a href="http://www.printpop.com">PrintPop</a> . Buying from these sites is, IMHO, a much better use of your entertainment/arts dollar. Of course, the fact that I have shops on all these sites doesn't hurt. (If you are so moved, the links to my shops are on the side of this blog under the heading <b>Compugraph Designs' Stores</b>)compugraphdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225642965851132889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8072793079231935389.post-13521175070505750012010-10-29T12:46:00.000-07:002010-11-01T20:40:51.084-07:00Project: Runway and Michael Costello and meื"ื<br />
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Ok, so I didn't meet Michael Costello, but I would love it if I could talk to him. He struck me as being a very sweet person, but something about his experience reminded me of my life.<br />
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Now, don't get me wrong -- I love my parents. But they grew up in a different world, they grew up in the world of "college education is the ticket to permanent vocational security" and "work for the same company/organization for 20-30 years and then you retire on a nice pension". And, while my Mother's family has artists (like writers and musicians), she seems to have internalized my father's family's depression mentality (my father's sister, though she's artistic, was a school teacher -- the safe profession for women of her are -- her daughter and granddaughter have a cake decorating business and the cakes are gorgeous -- though if you've ever read my <a href="http://bayitandgarden.blogspot.com/"><i>Bayit and Garden</i> blog</a> you know I wouldn't eat a bit if them)<br />
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I have been designing since my teens. I used to knit and crochet Barbie doll clothes and I would sell them at a local concession store. I've never actually learned how to sew and make patterns well, so most of my clothing designs (with the exception of a couple of sweaters I knitted and a couple of dresses someone made for me for my sister and brother's weddings) are on paper only (mind you, I never learned how to sketch well either, so I trace figures and draw the clothing on them). I did go to Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in "the city" (aka Manhattan) part time at nights for 3 years, but I learned more about jewelry designing (I can make some of my jewelry and I have made quite a few and even sold some, but most of my jewelry designs, which I DID learn how to render well -- I even developed my own method of designing on the computer -- like my fashion design, are only on paper -- or pixels). I did try learning "flat pattern design" (I tried twice) and draping, but I was so far behind after only a few weeks that I dropped the courses each time (I was more concerned about credits back then than learning).<br />
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But after 3 years and only 19 credits (6 of which were in science and astronomy), I left FIT and went to college full time, majoring in TV/Radio and nothing with art or drawing in it. And that was the end of my design career. <br />
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Part of this was because my parents never encouraged me (actually,for the most part, they discouraged me -- my Mom <i>still</i> says XX years later, that I should have worked for the government like she did -- despite my telling her that I actually tried getting a job with the government on numerous occasions). The first people in my life who have encouraged me are a friend (who sometimes works with me to get my business going) and my niece, who just started design school in Israel. For the past 20 or so years I have been working off and on as a freelance graphic designer and for the past 4 or so years I have been working on my <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/compugraphd2">Cafe Press</a>, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/compugraphddesigns">Zazzle</a> and <a href="http://www.printfection.com/compugraphd">Printfection</a> stores. <br />
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So my message to Michael: I love you. I love your work. I think you're very talented. Keep in mind, not every idea a designer has is great. We all have horrible designs in there somewhere. But if you listen to your voice (and, in your head now, I have a feeling you'll hear Tim Gunn's voice whenever you step back and look at your newest creation). I know I would love to see you in the future. If you have faith in yourself you WILL succeed. And, one favor if you ever do see this blog entry, leave me a comment. <br />
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(If you want to see some of my clothing sketches, you can see them <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ecompugraphd/page9f.html">here</a>.)<br />
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So yet another promising baseball season ends without the Mets making it to the post-season. In my opinion, it's not that the Mets don't have good players. Reyes, Wright, Beltran, add to them Ike Davis, Angel Pagan and lately Ruben Tejada (I think if we could either get back Frenchie or if Bay would come back, we would have a solid starting line-up). <br />
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Lately, Lucas Duda and Nick Evans have been making some noise (I like Nick Evans -- I think he's a good young player and I've been watching him for a while). <br />
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I wonder what Gil Hodges (am I showing my age????) would have done with the current team. I like the new (and some of the old???) pitchers. K-Rod is a huge question mark (holy Plaxico Burris, Batman! Talk about "shooting yourself in the foot"!) -- wish he weren't such an idiot from a human perspective. Dickey has been the best surprise, but Gee and Niese.<br />
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So I hope this bodes well for next year, particularly with a new GM and manager. Here's to 2011! May it be our best year yet!!!!<br />
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The sports news lately has been very depressing. The Mets have been raising losing to a new art. <br />
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But last night's sports news added to this -- not only did the Mets lose, but they traded away a player who I have considered a bright spot in the dim haze of the Mets' 2nd half of this season. I know he hasn't been hitting well (who on the Mets has???) but his arm is worth a few home runs a week, in my opinion. <br />
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I'm a real Mets chauvinist, so if I like any players from another team, particularly the Braves or the Phillies, it's generally because I see something in that player that I think would work with the Mets and help the Mets. Jeff Francoeur was just such a player. <br />
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In a previous blog entry, I spoke of how much Jeff Francoeur gives to the team. I think his infectious smile also makes him a favorite with fans. This is good for the morale of the fans and the players, in my opinion. <br />
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I don't know about other fans, but I'll miss Jeff Francoeur. I think there are different dimensions each player can give to a team and when you are trying to build a winning team. The Mets have (and have had) the talent; they just need to work together in a cohesive manner to truly be a winning team. This is something the Mets don't have right now, and trading away Jeff Francoeur takes away just one more element from the equation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/jewishcalendar/">About the Jewish Calendar</a><br />
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It's amazing how quickly <a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/queens/jetblue-passengers-slater-was-rude-20100812">Steve Slater</a>, a flight attendant who claimed that he was fed up with rude passengers, cursed over the loudspeaker, grabbed a beer and slid down the safety slide has become a "folk hero" of sorts (sort of in the category of <a href="http://www.awesome80s.com/Awesome80s/News/1984/December/22-Subway_Vigilante_Goetz.asp">Bernhard Goetz</a>, I would think). It seems that service workers seemed to identify with Mr. Slater.<br />
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I was reminded of a few things in my life when this happened. My mom didn't believe for one moment that Mr. Slater was justified because recently I (who usually get along quite well with the flight attendants, often talking to them on long flights) had an incident with a flight attendant. A few months ago, I was on a flight (a puddle jumper with only one flight attendant) and had some difficulties with a nasty flight attendant. It started when he refused to let me go to the bathroom before the flight left the gate. It continued (I don't recall what the second "thing" was) and came to a head when he wouldn't give me more water (I'm diabetic and need a lot to drink or I get dizzy). So on one of my myriad trips to the bathroom, I saw an open water bottle and took it from the galley and brought it back to my seat. When "Mr. Personality" saw me with the bottle, he tried to take it from me, wrestling with me over the bottle. When he realized he would not be able to take the bottle from me, he crushed it rather than allow me to drink from it. He had the Captain call ahead and I was met by a woman who I assumed was supposed to escort me out of the airport, but when I told her what happened, she laughed and realized that I wasn't some crazed terrorist or criminal, intent on disruption their flight. I laughed the whole thing off (after sending a narrative of the event in an e-mail to the airlines and promptly put the incident in the cobweb covered filing cabinet in the nether regions of my brain and didn't think about it again until Mr. Slater's incident -- and it took my Mom reminding me for me to extract this from it's place in my brain).<br />
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This past week, on Undercover Boss, there was a repeat of an episode about a CEO of a mail order business (I forget the name) was working undercover with a customer service phone employee who was rude to a customer and he was livid. He later told the employee that this was totally unacceptable. <br />
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This also reminded me of when I was working many years ago as a teller at Chase Manhattan. I often worked the "deposits only" line and I was also the teller that one of the "not exactly by the book, but let's help the customer" officers (whose name was John and he later was the president of a smaller branch) used to bring the upset customers to (because he knew that I would do whatever he asked me to do even if it wasn't "by the book"). <br />
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One day, John brought over someone who was really upset. The customer continued to complain while I was taking care of him. I finished the transaction, handing him his receipt, smiled and said, "have a nice day" and he left. The next customer was a regular of mine and so I started chatting with him. He started staring and I asked him what the problem was and he said that he was shocked that I could take that abuse and still be my normal cheerful self. I shrugged and told him that I knew the customer wasn't angry with me, just the bank. I'd been on the other side myself many times.<br />
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On that episode of "Undercover Boss", there was also an employee who was able to diffuse just about any customer with his charm and "let's make this right" attitude. He personified the cool customer service representative and he managed to resolve issues, feeling that it was his job to have the customer feel good after the call. I have experienced people like that too, in between the obnoxious "I'm right, you're not!" people.<br />
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So what's the real story with Mr. Slater? I don't know. But he's no folk hero to me.<br />
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I'm a long time vegetarian and vegan (33 and 21 years respectively). Though I didn't make either decision (giving up meat/poultry/fish/leather/fur first and then adding dairy/eggs/lanolin etc. to the list) for health reasons. But somewhere along the line I did begin to be interested in health and nutrition and, of late (within the past 5-10 years I suppose) I've been downright obsessed with it. Health and nutrition books populate my bookcases and I subscribe to several health and nutrition magazines and newsletters. <br />
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About the same time I "went vegan", I also stopped taking medications. I don't even take aspirin. Most people find this very surprising (many even find it hard to believe). There are situations where I might take medication (particularly if it would be to treat an acute infection or injury) but I would then have to deal with the "fallout" (for example, taking antibiotics causes an imbalance in the body of bacteria vs. yeast -- for the most part, they keep each other in check, but antibiotics kill all bacteria without regard for whether or not it is helpful to the body's function -- if I were to need to take antibiotics then after I would have to pump up my body on probiotics and prebiotics). <br />
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One of the reasons I read a lot about health and nutrition is that I need to read about supplements and herbs to know which ones help the body regain equilibrium (as in how to treat different health issues to assist your body in healing itself). <br />
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Toward that end, I read a lot about this subject. My Mom has even "jumped on the bandwagon" (not that she doesn't take any medication, but she also takes supplements, etc.) -- this began when she went to a doctor for some muscular pain she was having. The doctor asked her what she wanted him to do. All he could recommend is semiannual cortisone (or something similar????) shots, something that, thank goodness, she cringed over the very idea of. <br />
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I had just been reading in one of my health newsletters about vitamin D and how prevalent vitamin D deficiency is, particularly in seniors, particularly in people who avoid the sun and particularly in the Northeast (all three conditions apply to my Mom). And, as it turned out, one of the symptoms was muscle aches. So she tried increasing her vitamin D and within days, the aches went away. <br />
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A few days ago, she had a bit of food poisoning (she thinks, anyway) and I gave her ginger tea (hot water with a few slices of ginger root in it) and, voila! Within a short time, she was feeling better. <br />
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I myself take many supplements, including vitamin D, vitamin B complex, niacin and niacinimide, and iodine. Some I take on my own (though I run them by my alternative medical practitioner) and the others I take on the advice of my alternative medical practitioner. With the help of these supplements, I have lowered my blood pressure, my cholesterol (though I think my vegan diet made the biggest dent in the cholesterol since I eat precious little saturated fat and no cholesterol). <br />
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So I was pretty intrigued by an article about <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20012644-10391704.html">The 12 Most Dangerous Supplements</a>. I was curious as to how many of them I had heard of (7) and how many I had ever taken (none). The ones I might have considered taking (and with herbal preparations one should <b>always</b> either do research or discuss with their medical practitioner (allopathic -- that's MDs -- or alternative -- naturopaths, osteopaths, chiropractors, etc.) or both (with me, I try to do both)) I checked out more carefully only to discover that they have negative side effects that I wasn't too keen on (so I never tried them). <br />
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It's ironic, from my perspective, that they spend so much time and effort trying to make it seem as though thousands upon thousands of people are dying from taking bad supplements. But they ignore the myriad side effects of medications. <br />
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Just about every day I see commercials from some law firm trying to find victims of this or that medication (Avandia is the big one right now, but there are so many drugs with potentially fatal side effects that once Avandia isn't there another one will pop up). So why is there such a fuss made of supplements and herbal preparations? <br />
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Too many people just follow what their doctors say. But most of the doctors just take symptoms and make a diagnosis and from the diagnosis they pick a medication from the a list and write a prescription for it. Doctors get most of their information about drugs from the pharmaceutical company representatives, who convince the docs that these are the only solutions to these specific issues. So most people are putting their faith in the drug companies. And I think most of them are doing this without understanding the consequences. <br />
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Most drugs work by suppressing a symptom, whereas most nutrient supplements and herbal preparations work by helping the body heal itself. What happens with drugs is that they suppress a symptom (say high blood sugar) but they haven't been proven (and in many cases, as a matter of fact, they have been proven to NOT) to save lives. Oftentimes, they cause more deaths than they save. (An example is diabetes drugs -- there was a study to see what would be the ideal dosage of diabetes medications that would prevent heart attacks in diabetics. What they found -- they had to stop the study early -- was that the drugs themselves <i>caused</i> more heart attacks! Everyone was surprised <i>even though this also happened in the late 1960s when they tried this with diabetes drugs from that era!</i> <br />
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I think people need to remember that the doctors won't have to live with the consequences of their prescribing. Only the patient has to live (or die?) with the fallout. So it behooves everyone to take control of his/her own health. Do more research, read magazines and books. Be an advocate for yourself and your family members.<br />
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