"As the saying goes, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Community organizers like Huerta don't teach anyone how to fish: they teach activists how to steal their neighbors' fish. This is what Huerta and her ilk call social justice." --Matthew Vadum
Lydia Fairchild was not biologically related to her children, she was prosecuted for fraud and faced the possibility of having them removed from her custody. Throughout her trial, Fairchild maintained that she had conceived and given birth to all 3 children. Further testing led to shocking results: Fairchild had two sets of DNA, one carried in her skin and the other in her internal organs.
Her children are the subjects of a British documentary called The Twin Inside Me (also known as "I Am My Own Twin").
Lydia Fairchild was pregnant with her third child when she and the father of her children, Jamie Townsend, separated. When Fairchild applied for welfare support in 2002, she was requested to provide DNA evidence that Townsend was the father of her children. While the results showed Townsend was certainly the father of the children, the DNA tests indicated that she was not their mother.
This resulted in Fairchild's being taken to court for fraud for claiming benefit for other people's children or taking part in a surrogacy scam. Hospital records of her prior births were disregarded. Prosecutors called for her two children to be taken into care. As time came for her to give birth to her third child, the judge ordered a witness be present at the birth. This witness was to ensure that blood samples were immediately taken from both the child and Fairchild. Two weeks later, DNA tests indicated that she was not the mother of that child either.
A breakthrough came when a lawyer for the prosecution found an article in the New England Journal of Medicine about a similar case involving a woman called Karen Keegan that had happened in Boston. He realised that Fairchild's case might also be caused by chimerism
This resulted in Fairchild's being taken to court for fraud for claiming benefit for other people's children or taking part in a surrogacy scam. Hospital records of her prior births were disregarded. Prosecutors called for her two children to be taken into care. As time came for her to give birth to her third child, the judge ordered a witness be present at the birth. This witness was to ensure that blood samples were immediately taken from both the child and Fairchild. Two weeks later, DNA tests indicated that she was not the mother of that child either.
A breakthrough came when a lawyer for the prosecution found an article in the New England Journal of Medicine about a similar case involving a woman called Karen Keegan that had happened in Boston. He realised that Fairchild's case might also be caused by chimerism
The word "tragedy" is Greek for "goat-song" because early Greek tragedies honored Dionysus, the god of wine, and the players wore goatskins. Tragedies were noble stories of gods, kings, and heroes. Comedy or "revel," on the other hand, were about lower-class characters and their antics.
Many worked as boazovázzi, or "reindeer walkers," herding the animals over hundreds of miles of terrain and selling their meat come slaughter season. The reindeer were a cultural and economic centerpiece for the Sami people. Chernobyl poisoned their way of life by turning the reindeer radioactive. Thirty years later, the reindeer walkers are still devastated.
Who is....Ludwig von Mises?
In 1939, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep was published. Chandler was fifty-one, an ex-oil company executive who had taken up writing at the age of forty-five after being fired for alcohol-inspired absenteeism. This was his first novel, and the first of seven featuring the inimitable but much-copied Philip Marlowe.
Using genetic fragments extracted from ancient remains spanning almost 30,000 years, scientists reconstructed the DNA of people who lived in Europe between 35,000 years and 7,000 years ago.
Focusing on mitochondrial DNA they were able to trace their maternal lines, and found that specific genetic markers present in the population suddenly disappeared at the end of the ice age.
The new findings suggest that all non-African people moved out in a single event, some 50,000 years ago.
Further evidence showed that the M-haplotype was gone completely from Europe by 14,500 years ago.
But the DNA analysis unveiled another secret.
One of the biggest changes to the European population, the researchers said, was the takeover of the population at the same time. This coincided with the warming climate.
'We uncovered a completely unknown chapter of human history: a major population turnover in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age,' explained lead author Professor Johannes Krause.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in WWII, there are more than 73,000 Americans still unaccounted for.
The Yezidi, or Yazidi, are members of a syncretistic religion that developed during the 12th century and mingles folk traditions with the beliefs and practices of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. According to Yezidi tradition, the world is under the care of 7 Holy Beings, or Angels. Preeminent among these is Melek Taus, or the Peacock Angel, leader of the archangels and a demiurge whose tears of repentance quenched the fires of hell. The Peacock Angle is seen as a demon by orthodox Islam and thus devil worship.
Syncretism: noun. 1. the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. 2.: Linguistics: the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language. New Latin syncretismus, from Greek synkrētismos federation of Cretan cities, from syn- + Krēt-, Krēs Cretan. First Known Use: 1618
The writer Carson McCullers held a luncheon so Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) could meet Marilyn Monroe. Dinesen was increasingly debilitated by the syphilis she had contracted in her Out of Africa years, and reduced to about eighty pounds by her anorexic diet (oysters, grapes and champagne), still chain-smoking and taking amphetamines . She thought Monroe "almost incredibly pretty," full of "unbounded vitality" and "unbelievable innocence" -- "I have met the same in a lion cub that my native servants in Africa brought me. I would not keep her."
A thought/question about minimum wage. A typical worker in Haiti makes only $2.75 a day. Because jobs are so scarce (approximately 70% do not have regular jobs), it is said that those who do have jobs are afraid to speak out against unfair labor practices. Sounds reasonable. But there is another question to ask. If this is so abusive, why doesn't a market develop to take advantage of it? For example, if the abusive company makes widgets, why doesn't a competitor come in, raise wages, steal the workers and dominate the scene?
"The good Hillary Clinton - knowledgeable, occasionally thoughtful (as when expounding on the centrality of gratitude in her life) - is inseparable from the bad Hillary Clinton - often dull and entirely incapable of hiding her greed." Tough talk from the WashPo.
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises tried to capture the differences between the natural and human sciences with the following quip: "You throw a rock in water, it sinks; throw a stick in water, it floats; but throw a man into water, and he must decide to sink or swim." Mises was not denying the scientific nature of economics with this tale of human volition. Rather, he was attempting to get across to his audience the essential defining character of the human sciences - we study man with his purposes and plans.--Peter Boettke
There has been talk about the primaries in terms of "Revolution," as in French Revolution. And it is astonishing in appearance--and the distance it implies has developed between the citizenry and its leadership. But there are heavy biases toward the status quo. Half the nation now receives U.S. government benefits - in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, student loans, rent subsidies, school lunches and Earned Income Tax Credits, etc. People who rely on government benefits are unlikely to rally to a party that promises to cut government. And as half the nation pays no income tax, these people are unlikely to be thrilled about tax cuts.
AirBnB report: Nearly four years after Los Angeles County passed new requirements for pornographic performers, the porn industry has spread to nearby counties like Ventura County - and much of that filming is happening in residents' homes without their knowledge. The pornographers are renting homes through AirBnB and bringing their crews in and filming. One woman has sued, saying the value of her house has been undermined. Not to mention the health risks.
New genetic analyses led by MIT researchers confirm that sea sponges are the source of a curious molecule found in rocks that are 640 million years old. These rocks significantly predate the Cambrian explosion - the period in which most animal groups took over the planet, 540 million years ago - suggesting that sea sponges may have been the first animals to inhabit the Earth.
Nearly every feature of the American system of manufacturing, from the elements of the new textile machinery to the concept of interchangeable parts, had actually been conceived earlier by Europeans. But while a few Europeans could see the possibilities, their communities kept them powerless to give their ideas a fair trial. Too many had a stake in the older ways. Industrial progress in Europe required extraordinary courage to break the prevailing pattern; in America it required a willingness to try the obvious. American genius was less for invention or discovery than for experiment.--Boorstin
The writer Carson McCullers held a luncheon so Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) could meet Marilyn Monroe. Dinesen was increasingly debilitated by the syphilis she had contracted in her Out of Africa years, and reduced to about eighty pounds by her anorexic diet (oysters, grapes and champagne), still chain-smoking and taking amphetamines . She thought Monroe "almost incredibly pretty," full of "unbounded vitality" and "unbelievable innocence" -- "I have met the same in a lion cub that my native servants in Africa brought me. I would not keep her."
A thought/question about minimum wage. A typical worker in Haiti makes only $2.75 a day. Because jobs are so scarce (approximately 70% do not have regular jobs), it is said that those who do have jobs are afraid to speak out against unfair labor practices. Sounds reasonable. But there is another question to ask. If this is so abusive, why doesn't a market develop to take advantage of it? For example, if the abusive company makes widgets, why doesn't a competitor come in, raise wages, steal the workers and dominate the scene?
"The good Hillary Clinton - knowledgeable, occasionally thoughtful (as when expounding on the centrality of gratitude in her life) - is inseparable from the bad Hillary Clinton - often dull and entirely incapable of hiding her greed." Tough talk from the WashPo.
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises tried to capture the differences between the natural and human sciences with the following quip: "You throw a rock in water, it sinks; throw a stick in water, it floats; but throw a man into water, and he must decide to sink or swim." Mises was not denying the scientific nature of economics with this tale of human volition. Rather, he was attempting to get across to his audience the essential defining character of the human sciences - we study man with his purposes and plans.--Peter Boettke
There has been talk about the primaries in terms of "Revolution," as in French Revolution. And it is astonishing in appearance--and the distance it implies has developed between the citizenry and its leadership. But there are heavy biases toward the status quo. Half the nation now receives U.S. government benefits - in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, student loans, rent subsidies, school lunches and Earned Income Tax Credits, etc. People who rely on government benefits are unlikely to rally to a party that promises to cut government. And as half the nation pays no income tax, these people are unlikely to be thrilled about tax cuts.
AirBnB report: Nearly four years after Los Angeles County passed new requirements for pornographic performers, the porn industry has spread to nearby counties like Ventura County - and much of that filming is happening in residents' homes without their knowledge. The pornographers are renting homes through AirBnB and bringing their crews in and filming. One woman has sued, saying the value of her house has been undermined. Not to mention the health risks.
New genetic analyses led by MIT researchers confirm that sea sponges are the source of a curious molecule found in rocks that are 640 million years old. These rocks significantly predate the Cambrian explosion - the period in which most animal groups took over the planet, 540 million years ago - suggesting that sea sponges may have been the first animals to inhabit the Earth.
Nearly every feature of the American system of manufacturing, from the elements of the new textile machinery to the concept of interchangeable parts, had actually been conceived earlier by Europeans. But while a few Europeans could see the possibilities, their communities kept them powerless to give their ideas a fair trial. Too many had a stake in the older ways. Industrial progress in Europe required extraordinary courage to break the prevailing pattern; in America it required a willingness to try the obvious. American genius was less for invention or discovery than for experiment.--Boorstin
AAAAaaaaaannnnndddddd....a chart of the commonest surnames in medical practice over time:
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