My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”
~ Desmond Tutu
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Improve your argument →
Anniversary party →
Group photo from the D’Imperio’s anniversary party this past summer.
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Carbohydrates are way more important →
It’s much more important for your long term health to work on keeping your blood sugar down than it is to work to keep your cholesterol down. It’s especially important when you realize that most people try to keep their cholesterol levels at bay be consuming a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, which is a diet containing, in many cases, a cup and a half to two cups of sugar equivalents per day.
~ Micheal Eades from, «http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/diabetes/the-sugar-hypothesis/»
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Trapped atmospheric waves →
Weather extremes in the summer—such as the record heat wave in the United States that hit corn farmers and worsened wildfires in 2012—have reached an exceptional number in the last ten years. Man-made global warming can explain a gradual increase in periods of severe heat, but the observed change in the magnitude and duration of some events is not so easily explained.
~ Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research from, Trapped atmospheric waves triggered more weather extremes
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Michael R. Eades blog →
What, who?
I recently (2015) discovered Dr. Eades blog. (I had not heard of his books.) His blog contains a wealth of medical science explained in layman’s terms. The first few articles I read convinced me to start at the beginning of his “blog archive” and try to read HIS ENTIRE BLOG. I quickly learned: He has a lot of personal and current events posts which I’m not interested in, and there’s way way too much get through in short order.
What’s really wrong with Congress? →
Everybody seems to agree that Congress doesn’t work.
If you’re liberal, you’re appalled that even something like universal background checks for gun purchases (90% public approval!) can’t pass. If you’re conservative, you’re horrified that nothing can be done about the mounting national debt or the projections for exponential growth in entitlement spending.
And even if you care not at all about parties or ideologies, it’s just embarrassing to watch our leaders create one artificial crisis after another. We’re the richest country on the planet, and yet we’re constantly threatening to shut down our government, default on our bonds, mint a trillion-dollar coin, or do some other weird thing that would shame the generalissimo of a banana republic.
Is this any way to run a super power?
~ Doug Muder from, What’s Really Wrong With Congress?
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Swirls workin! →
One of the worker bees behind the scenes of the Internet. Work hard today, play harder tomorrow!!
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Deconstructing the CAP theorem →
In computing, the so-called CAP theorem (1999-2002) has become both an icon and a bone of contention in the world of databases — a supposed truth about distributed systems. A lot has been written about it since it was formulated, especially around the recent debates on `SQL/noSQL’, but its many hearsay formulations are beset with a number of problems.
~ Mark Burgess from, Deconstructing the `CAP theorem’ for CM and DevOps
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If you work with databases, reading this might be wise.
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Caring and understanding →
Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.
~ Homer J. Simpson, in The Simpsons (“Lisa the Greek”), (1992 TV series, s3e7)
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PA or China? →
Snow dusted, 20 foot tall stand of bamboo. #confused …and the sun’s out?
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