SIDEBAR #58 - Travis Alexander forum

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[YESorNO]

Yes, it's an old telephone chair.

Here's a fancy one.


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That coffee table in your pic didn't look like a telephone chair that you could sit on to me. :thinking:
I had one and it was strong enough to sit on (got rid of it along with lots of antique furniture a while ago when I downsized).

I like this pic- the color of the walls are beautiful (would love to have a library like this one, so I wouldn't have to get rid of any of my precious books :facepalm: )

Link: http://1cqgxm3l59yi2wwbnn3qy35h.wpe...Newcastle-Maine-For-Sale-7-e1445861110652.jpg

I like this house, with all the furniture/decorations, just the way it is- just my style (this is in Connecticut):

http://hookedonhouses.net/2016/01/19/lovely-old-lake-house-for-sale-connecticut/

 

[YESorNO]

Some music for today:

Lament for a Frozen Flower

[video=youtube;6GVDoNS1wsA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GVDoNS1wsA[/video]

 

[YESorNO]

Well- guess I should start posting the news now:
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L. Kirk Nurmi ‏@_nurmilaw 7h7 hours ago
Since so many of you have been so kind and supportive, I wanted to let you know that I am currently recovering from my latest (cont )

L. Kirk Nurmi ‏@_nurmilaw 7h7 hours ago
(Cont) treatment and that I will be undergoing some testing in the upcoming days to assess where I stand. Hopefully I will have great(cont)

L. Kirk Nurmi ‏@_nurmilaw 7h7 hours ago
(News) to share with you in the upcoming weeks!

L. Kirk Nurmi ‏@_nurmilaw 3h3 hours ago
What a thrill to spend some time with @CareyPenaTV - hope you enjoy the interview!

Life After Jodi Arias: Kirk Nurmi Talks about Surviving the Trial, Losing 75 pounds, and His Current Battle — with Cancer (podcast and article)

http://inspiredmedia360.com/life-af...75-pounds-and-his-current-battle-with-cancer/
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California Governor Rejects Parole of Manson Follower, 73

"Gov. Jerry Brown has rejected parole for a third time for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson 46 years after a series of bloody murders rocked Southern California.

Bruce Davis was convicted of the 1969 slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea. He was not involved in the more notorious killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others.

Brown said on Friday that the 73-year-old Davis remains a danger to public safety, saying in his decision that the "horror of the murders committed by the Manson Family in 1969 and the fear they instilled in the public will never be forgotten."

The governor said Davis spent years downplaying his role in the family.

"As I've discussed twice before, Davis's own actions demonstrate that he had fully bought into the depraved Manson Family beliefs," Brown wrote in his decision. "He not only watched as Manson cut Mr. Hinman's face open with a sword, but held him at gunpoint while Manson was doing so."..."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-governor-rejects-parole-manson-follower-73-36465267

Link: http://www.trbimg.com/img-53e517d9/turbine/la-me-ln-bruce-davis-20140808/650/650x366

He's not smiling now- idiot.
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JUDGE UPHOLDS MURDER-FOR-HIRE CONVICTIONS FOR CHARLESTON BANKER, MISTRESS

"A South Carolina judge this week upheld murder-for-hire convictions against Wendy Moore and Christopher Latham after the pair attempted to argue they were not guilty of a 2013 plot to have Latham’s estranged wife, Nancy, murdered...

A grand jury brought an indictment against Moore and Latham in August 2013 and they were tried in February 2014. While Moore was found guilty of all counts against her, Latham was found guilty of only a single count, using interstate facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. In their appeal, the couple argued “their Fifth Amendment right to indictment by a grand jury was violated” because of how instructions were presented to the jury..."

http://www.newsweek.com/murder-hire-wendy-moore-chris-latham-charleston-418340
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Dad Killed and Buried, Feds Say, Son Collected Pension

"Jason Henry Davis failed to report his father's murder and began collecting his dead dad’s pension and Social Security checks, according to a new federal indictment.

The renters probably only wanted to enjoy the Florida sunshine and maybe some homemade salsa when they moved into a trailer on Seashore Drive in Palm Beach County.

But when they dug into the backyard one day in 2013 to plant tomatoes, they found the skeleton of a murdered man—sparking an investigation that led this week to the arrest of the slain man’s son.

Jason Henry Davis was there when his father, Henry Davis Jr., was strangled to death and buried behind their trailer in the Palm Breezes Club trailer park, but he didn’t report the murder and began collecting his dead dad’s pension and Social Security checks, according to a new federal indictment. The 37-year-old has always insisted his dad’s ex-wife—his mom, who died of cancer in 2011—was the killer, a source told The Palm Beach Post. Prosecutors say in court papers that Davis “was present” when his father was murdered, but haven’t revealed any other details about the murder...

Davis will appear in court January 27 for a bond hearing. He faces up to 20 years in prison on the top count of wire fraud...."

http://www.newsweek.com/dad-murdere...while-son-collected-his-pension-checks-418415
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[YESorNO]

The FBI's 9 most wanted fugitives still on the run

"On January 16, the FBI captured Myloh Jaqory Mason, also known as Colorado's "Scream Robber," one month after Mason debuted on the FBI's most wanted list.

The following individuals on the FBI's list have alternate identities and are considered armed and dangerous.

All photos and captions are provided by the FBI..."

http://www.businessinsider.com/fbis-10-most-wanted-fugitives-still-on-the-run-2015-12
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California eyes 1-drug executions amid debate

"Californians face a watershed year as they prepare to decide whether to resume executions that stopped a decade ago or end them entirely.

While advocates jockey to put both choices before voters this fall, officials overseeing the 746 condemned inmates on the nation's largest death row are pushing ahead with plans to use a single lethal drug to meet legal requirements amid a nationwide shortage of execution drugs.

Supporters said at a public hearing on Friday that crime victims have waited too long for justice as the state dragged its heels in adopting a new method of execution..."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-eyes-drug-executions-amid-debate-36441158
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Virginia serial killer Charles Severance sentenced to life in prison

"Given a last opportunity to speak before he was sentenced to life in prison, convicted serial killer Charles Severance rambled. He cited the Book of Common Prayer, Henry VIII, “Elizabeth” and “the 37th article of religion.”

“It is lawful to wear weapons,” he concluded. Then he went silent.

Unmoved, a Fairfax County Circuit Court judge imposed a punishment of three life terms plus 48 years. The result was not a surprise: Jurors had recommended the sentence last year after finding Severance guilty of murder in three slayings in Alexandria over the course of nearly a decade. But that didn’t lessen the emotional impact of Thursday’s hearing..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...a176c6-bfb0-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html

WS thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ne-Lodato-murdered-Alexandria-2003-2014/page6
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Husband charged with doctor's slaying in affluent NYC suburb

"The husband of a pediatrician at a New York City children's hospital was charged with murder after she was found stabbed in a shower at their multimillion-dollar suburban home, authorities said Thursday.

Jules Reich, a tax specialist at a New York City firm, was arraigned Wednesday night in Scarsdale village court on a second-degree murder charge, according to the Westchester County district attorney's office.

His 58-year-old wife, Dr. Robin Goldman, was found dead on Wednesday. Police responded after receiving a 911 call of a woman seriously injured at the five-bedroom, four-bath property, which sits on 1.29 acres. An autopsy was planned, but she suffered multiple stab wounds, the prosecutor's office said..."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pediatrician-slain-home-affluent-york-suburb-36417476

WS thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...lence-Jules-Reich-Kills-Wife-Dr-Robin-Goldman
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And even more stupids :sheesh:

Listen to this 911 call: Marijuana dealers get high and call police on themselves

"Rexburg, ID — Authorities have released a 911 phone call from a drug trafficking arrest that has people shaking their heads.

The call, released by the Rexburg Police Department and obtained by EastIdahoNews.com, details an incident nearly a year ago on Jan. 23, 2015, when two out-of-state drug traffickers got high and called police to turn themselves in..."

http://fox2now.com/2016/01/21/liste...alers-get-high-and-call-police-on-themselves/
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Four dead in worst Canada school shooting in decade, suspect caught

"Four people were killed and others injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan on Friday and a male suspect is in custody, Canadian police said.

Officials have not given a motivation for the shooting in La Loche, about 600 km (375 miles) north of the city of Saskatoon.

"Obviously this is every parent's worst nightmare," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who initially reported five people were killed. He was in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum.

Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has stricter gun laws than the United States. In the country's worst school shooting, 14 college students were killed at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. A shooting in 1992 at Concordia University in Montreal killed four..."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-shooting-idUSKCN0V02KT
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Joe Arpaio ‏@RealSheriffJoe Jan 19
Contrary to multiple media reports I am NOT resigning as Sheriff. I appreciate the calls from citizens Rest assured, I'm not going anywhere.
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Dinosaur attempts to shovel snow with its useless little arms (with video) :giggle:

When big storms hit, like the one that is currently making its way up the East Coast of the United States, it's important to help your neighbors out.

Well, one fortunate neighborhood in Tennessee received a little bit of help from a shoveling dinosaur..."

http://mashable.com/2016/01/22/snow-shovel-dinosaur/#uqCFK6YlOmqg
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Planet’s heat record shattered — and 2016 likely to be even warmer

"Last year was far and away the hottest the planet has seen since at least 1880 when record-keeping began — and 2016 is likely to be even warmer, federal scientists said Wednesday.

The historic heat, confirmed by both NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, continues an alarming trend that climatologists say is driving shifts in worldwide weather with places like California saddled with less snow, rising seas and potentially more wildfires..."

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Planet-s-heat-record-shattered-and-2016-6772012.php
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Resistance Is Futile: You Will Be Assimilated Into Windows 10

"We are Microsoft MSFT +3.85%. You will be assimilated into Windows 10. Resistance is futile.

It seems that Microsoft has decided to fashion its Windows 10 strategy on the Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

First, Microsoft did its best to make the new operating system inviting. It reversed gears on many of the controversial features that made customers object to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1—making the Windows 10 experience and interface much closer to Windows 7. Best of all, though, Microsoft made the upgrade to Windows 10 FREE for systems running Windows 7 or later.

It should be a no-brainer to upgrade. And yet, there is still a large percentage of Windows users who refuse to make the switch, even for free. Part of that backlash is a function of privacy concerns. Windows 10 is much more seamlessly integrated with the cloud than previous versions, and many of the features of Windows 10 and the Cortana virtual assistant rely on access to email, calendar information, and location data. There are definitely benefits to sharing this information with Windows 10, but many consumers just don’t trust Microsoft...

There were reports of many users receiving the complete Windows 10 installation file on their systems even when they hadn’t requested or approved it. Microsoft just wanted to be proactive and plan ahead by putting the file there. You know, so it’s ready when the customer inevitably decides to pull the trigger. Just in case..."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybra...mpaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix#76c5e9851ceb
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'But You Did Not Come Back' recalls a father lost to the Holocaust

Marceline Loridan-Ivens writes a love letter her father and begs readers not to forget the victims of atrocity

"Seventy years have passed since Marceline Loridan-Ivens was liberated from Theresienstadt after nearly two years in the Nazi death camps. Yet her experience remains as raw as ever – which is part of the point of this searing, profoundly moving memoir, But You Did Not Come Back.

Loridan-Ivens was rounded up at age 15 along with her father, Solomon Rozenberg, from their chateau in southern France. They were deported together to Birkenau-Auschwitz, in Poland, the country whose anti-Semitism Rozenberg had fled as a young man. “You might come back, because you’re young,” she remembers her father telling her, “but I will not come back.”

He was, alas, right. Loridan-Ivens’s memoir, written all these decades later, takes the form of a heartbroken love letter to the father she never stopped missing..."

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book...e-Back-recalls-a-father-lost-to-the-Holocaust
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Holocaust survivor donates tiny 'freedom shoes' to Auschwitz museum

"Ninety-year-old Auschwitz survivor Batszewa Dagan on Wednesday said she had donated a pair of miniature shoes that helped her live through the Holocaust to the museum at the site of the former Nazi German death camp.

The Polish-born Israeli received the tiny, handmade good luck charm from a fellow inmate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in southern Poland during World War II, when she was just a teenager.

"(The woman) was sad and she was talking about her daughter, how she missed her, and was thinking if she would ever leave this place," Dagan said in a statement released on the museum website.

"And she made me a surprise. She made these tiny shoes for me. She said, 'Let them carry you to freedom'," she added of the slippers barely a centimetre (half an inch) in length..."

http://www.afp.com/en/news/holocaust-survivor-donates-tiny-freedom-shoes-auschwitz-museum

(This picture released by the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Oswiecim on January 20, 2016..)
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Ex-Auschwitz medic, 95, to stand trial on Feb. 29

"BERLIN: A 95-year-old former medic at the Auschwitz death camp will go on trial next month on at least 3,681 counts of accessory to murder, German authorities said Monday.

Hubert Zafke was a medical orderly at the camp from Aug. 15, 1944 to Sept. 14, 1944. During this time, 14 trains carrying prisoners – including the teenage diarist Anne Frank – arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau where many would eventually be killed in the gas chambers.

Ahead of proceedings due to begin Feb. 29, prosecutors said Zafke was "aware of the purpose of the Birkenau camp as an extermination camp" as well as of its structure.

"Given his awareness, the accused lent support to the organisation of the camp and was thereby both involved in and advanced the extermination," said prosecutors in an earlier statement as they charged Zafke for complicity in the "cruel and insidious killings of at least 3,681" people..."

https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/W...chwitz-medic-95-to-stand-trial-on-feb-29.ashx
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[YESorNO]

Flint Water Crisis Forces EPA Official To Resign
The EPA said it will take greater control after failures by local and state government

"he Environmental Protection Agency boss for the Midwest resigned Thursday amid ongoing fallout over the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

As the EPA's Region 5 administrator, Susan Hedman helped oversee the state's handling of Flint's water, which became toxic after the city switched its water source nearly two years ago.

EPA head Gina McCarthy accepted Hedman's resignation "given Susan’s strong interest in ensuring that EPA Region 5’s focus remains solely on the restoration of Flint’s drinking water," the agency said in a statement.

The EPA also issued an emergency order -- something it had previously resisted doing -- that will give the agency more control of the water situation after determining the city and state responses to the crisis "have been inadequate to protect public health and that these failures continue." Among other things, the EPA will begin sampling Flint's tap water and posting results online..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flint-water-crisis-epa_us_56a16670e4b076aadcc601a4?
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Thousands of birds found dead along Alaskan shoreline

"...They were dead seabirds, in what he would discover were likely record numbers, a sign the ecosystem was being troubled by abnormally warm ocean water.

The dead birds, common murres that had starved, were lined up and left where the tide had dropped them on the shore.

"We have never found close to 8,000 birds on a 1-mile long beach before," Irons said of his early January discovery. "It is an order of magnitude larger than any records that I am aware of."

Biologists like Tamara Zeller have been boating around Prince William Sound scanning the beaches for dead and sickly murres. They also count the birds floating in the water, she told CNN affiliate KTVA...

Heather Renner, a supervisory biologist at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, said the Whittier die-off is part of a much larger event that started in August.
Renner estimates that 100,000 common murres have died..."

www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/us/alaska-bird-die-off/index.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003


[video=cnn;us/2016/01/22/alaska-bird-die-off-dnt.ktva]http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/us/alaska-bird-die-off/index.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003[/video]
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[YESorNO]

Herbal Supplements Are Often Not What They Seem (with video)

"Americans spend an estimated $5 billion a year on unproven herbal supplements that promise everything from fighting off colds to curbing hot flashes and boosting memory.

But now there is a new reason for supplement buyers to beware: DNA tests show that many pills labeled as healing herbs are little more than powdered rice and weeds.

Using a test called DNA barcoding, a kind of genetic fingerprinting that has also been used to help uncover labeling fraud in the commercial seafood industry, Canadian researchers tested 44 bottles of popular supplements sold by 12 companies. They found that many were not what they claimed to be, and that pills labeled as popular herbs were often diluted — or replaced entirely — by cheap fillers like soybean, wheat and rice..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/s...en-not-what-they-seem.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
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DNA barcoding detects contamination and substitution in North American herbal products

"Background
Herbal products available to consumers in the marketplace may be contaminated or substituted with alternative plant species and fillers that are not listed on the labels.

According to the World Health Organization, the adulteration of herbal products is a threat to consumer safety. Our research aimed to investigate herbal product integrity and authenticity with the goal of protecting consumers from health risks associated with product substitution and contamination..."

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/222/abstract
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3 Ways to Find Out if You’re Buying Fake Supplements

"...Not only are many of the supplements that you might encounter on store shelves utterly worthless or fake, but some of them are even harmful. Dangerous imports from overseas have been found to be contaminated with heavy metals, which can lead to some significant problems. So this isn’t something to take lightly. As a consumer you need to know what to look for, and wise up before going shopping.

So, what can you do to be prepared? You’ll need to be a conscious, careful consumer. It’ll involve doing some research, and making wise decisions at the checkout stand — even if it means you spend a little more. We’ve boiled the process down to three main points which will help you tell if a supplement you’re planning to buy is genuine or fake..."

http://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fi...youre-buying-fake-supplements.html/?a=viewall
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[Niner]

Good morning! :wave:

LOVE :luv: the hats Wagara!!!

I'm :laughcry: re Victoria Secrets! :lol:

That house YESorNO is way TOO big for me!
I liked a cabin in the woods - with LOTS of windows!! Picture attached. (I hope!)

We had only an inch of rain yesterday - and a bit more rain coming today!

Later! :seeya:

 

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And Zuri, my style is mixed. I do like eclectic, and mix in traditional pieces. I did have my living room done in jewel tones with the sofa in white and blue stripes, two dark blue wing back chairs with a double dropped sided table, a large round glass topped table that was more oriental, and I made pillows and curtain swags with flowers in rose, jade green and a light blue.

I now have a black suede sofa, my rocking chair, and a small Lane recliner (you'd never guess that it's one) with floral tapestry, and I have oriental rugs over old oak hardwood floors (I have a passion for them, even have one on my front porch under my swing . They last two or three years out there. I pick them up at thrift stores, garage sales etc for twenty five bucks or so.) between and under the coffee table, which is a carved wood trunk that dh's father had brought back from Japan when he was there during the war in 1950's.

This is around the fireplace that is eighty years old, that you can crawl into, or cook in (memories of the olden days), and we've had surprises over the years with chimney swifts building nests and we have baby birds chirping. We take them to a bid refuge here in the metroplex.

Anyway, the mantel is almost as tall as me (5'2 1/2), It's all wood with wood molding along the sides, and above it is my twenty four inch Howard Miller that dh gave me for my birthday in 1985. Anna has all my treasures, and pictures of loved ones, and a signed pen and ink sketch from a Tennessee artist, on the mantle, and a Mizaru, Mikazaru and Mazaru in carved out Ivory that someone gave me years ago.

Across from it are double french doors that lead into the dining room.

 

[Niner]

Oops - just saw all of YESorNO's new posts!

California eyes 1-drug executions amid debate

"Californians face a watershed year as they prepare to decide whether to resume executions that stopped a decade ago or end them entirely.

While advocates jockey to put both choices before voters this fall, officials overseeing the 746 condemned inmates on the nation's largest death row are pushing ahead with plans to use a single lethal drug to meet legal requirements amid a nationwide shortage of execution drugs.

Supporters said at a public hearing on Friday that crime victims have waited too long for justice as the state dragged its heels in adopting a new method of execution..."

I wonder how many times we have to vote for this - as I recall - we've had this on ballots quite a FEW times! :gaah:

:wave:

 

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That coffee table in your pic didn't look like a telephone chair that you could sit on to me. :thinking:
I had one and it was strong enough to sit on (got rid of it along with lots of antique furniture a while ago when I downsized).

I like this pic- the color of the walls are beautiful (would love to have a library like this one, so I wouldn't have to get rid of any of my precious books :facepalm: )

Link: http://1cqgxm3l59yi2wwbnn3qy35h.wpe...Newcastle-Maine-For-Sale-7-e1445861110652.jpg

I like this house, with all the furniture/decorations, just the way it is- just my style (this is in Connecticut):

http://hookedonhouses.net/2016/01/19/lovely-old-lake-house-for-sale-connecticut/

I like the style and colors, but it's too big and the walls to high for me.

I like the kitchen. The space, and the table and bench seat under the windows. The painted cabinets make it causal and warm. It also has a farm sink which I'd love to have. I love the shelves above the fridge. It would be a great place for my collection of cookbooks.

The bedroom is more formal than I like, but it's a beautiful room and furnishing. Too fancy for me. Throw some colors in there.

My living room is wider but not as long as that one. And the white painted bricks around the fireplace are like the ones that are at back of our fireplace that backs out onto the front porch and are painted white.

 

[Hatfield]

Herbal Supplements Are Often Not What They Seem (with video)

"Americans spend an estimated $5 billion a year on unproven herbal supplements that promise everything from fighting off colds to curbing hot flashes and boosting memory.

But now there is a new reason for supplement buyers to beware: DNA tests show that many pills labeled as healing herbs are little more than powdered rice and weeds.

Using a test called DNA barcoding, a kind of genetic fingerprinting that has also been used to help uncover labeling fraud in the commercial seafood industry, Canadian researchers tested 44 bottles of popular supplements sold by 12 companies. They found that many were not what they claimed to be, and that pills labeled as popular herbs were often diluted — or replaced entirely — by cheap fillers like soybean, wheat and rice..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/s...en-not-what-they-seem.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
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DNA barcoding detects contamination and substitution in North American herbal products

"Background
Herbal products available to consumers in the marketplace may be contaminated or substituted with alternative plant species and fillers that are not listed on the labels.

According to the World Health Organization, the adulteration of herbal products is a threat to consumer safety. Our research aimed to investigate herbal product integrity and authenticity with the goal of protecting consumers from health risks associated with product substitution and contamination..."

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/222/abstract
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3 Ways to Find Out if You’re Buying Fake Supplements

"...Not only are many of the supplements that you might encounter on store shelves utterly worthless or fake, but some of them are even harmful. Dangerous imports from overseas have been found to be contaminated with heavy metals, which can lead to some significant problems. So this isn’t something to take lightly. As a consumer you need to know what to look for, and wise up before going shopping.

So, what can you do to be prepared? You’ll need to be a conscious, careful consumer. It’ll involve doing some research, and making wise decisions at the checkout stand — even if it means you spend a little more. We’ve boiled the process down to three main points which will help you tell if a supplement you’re planning to buy is genuine or fake..."

http://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fi...youre-buying-fake-supplements.html/?a=viewall
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Thanks YES/NO for all the very interesting links and information you provide.

We all appreciate it very much.

 

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1951 - The Shot Gun Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford makes it to the charts.


[video=youtu;Ihs_V92_kyk]http://youtu.be/Ihs_V92_kyk[/video]

 

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Babies are just plain fun


[video=youtu;iA36LsnRQUk]http://youtu.be/iA36LsnRQUk[/video]

 

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Some toe tapping music to help keep you warm. Wow, it just struck me today they we've kept this sidebar open since May 2013. We've met and found friends along the way. So many emotions expressed. Love and happiness, sadness and sorrow and always a shoulder to cry, and friends to share a laugh with.

[video=youtu;E0F42lasles]http://youtu.be/E0F42lasles[/video]

 

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Do you sense a theme?


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'But You Did Not Come Back' recalls a father lost to the Holocaust

Marceline Loridan-Ivens writes a love letter her father and begs readers not to forget the victims of atrocity

"Seventy years have passed since Marceline Loridan-Ivens was liberated from Theresienstadt after nearly two years in the Nazi death camps. Yet her experience remains as raw as ever – which is part of the point of this searing, profoundly moving memoir, But You Did Not Come Back.

Loridan-Ivens was rounded up at age 15 along with her father, Solomon Rozenberg, from their chateau in southern France. They were deported together to Birkenau-Auschwitz, in Poland, the country whose anti-Semitism Rozenberg had fled as a young man. “You might come back, because you’re young,” she remembers her father telling her, “but I will not come back.”

He was, alas, right. Loridan-Ivens’s memoir, written all these decades later, takes the form of a heartbroken love letter to the father she never stopped missing..."

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book...e-Back-recalls-a-father-lost-to-the-Holocaust
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Holocaust survivor donates tiny 'freedom shoes' to Auschwitz museum

"Ninety-year-old Auschwitz survivor Batszewa Dagan on Wednesday said she had donated a pair of miniature shoes that helped her live through the Holocaust to the museum at the site of the former Nazi German death camp.

The Polish-born Israeli received the tiny, handmade good luck charm from a fellow inmate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in southern Poland during World War II, when she was just a teenager.

"(The woman) was sad and she was talking about her daughter, how she missed her, and was thinking if she would ever leave this place," Dagan said in a statement released on the museum website.

"And she made me a surprise. She made these tiny shoes for me. She said, 'Let them carry you to freedom'," she added of the slippers barely a centimetre (half an inch) in length..."

http://www.afp.com/en/news/holocaust-survivor-donates-tiny-freedom-shoes-auschwitz-museum

(This picture released by the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Oswiecim on January 20, 2016..)
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Ex-Auschwitz medic, 95, to stand trial on Feb. 29

"BERLIN: A 95-year-old former medic at the Auschwitz death camp will go on trial next month on at least 3,681 counts of accessory to murder, German authorities said Monday.

Hubert Zafke was a medical orderly at the camp from Aug. 15, 1944 to Sept. 14, 1944. During this time, 14 trains carrying prisoners – including the teenage diarist Anne Frank – arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau where many would eventually be killed in the gas chambers.

Ahead of proceedings due to begin Feb. 29, prosecutors said Zafke was "aware of the purpose of the Birkenau camp as an extermination camp" as well as of its structure.

"Given his awareness, the accused lent support to the organisation of the camp and was thereby both involved in and advanced the extermination," said prosecutors in an earlier statement as they charged Zafke for complicity in the "cruel and insidious killings of at least 3,681" people..."

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I worked with and on the behalf of Holocaust survivors for many years, and as part of the job travelled to Nazi death and labor camps all over eastern Europe, including Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Birkenau side still has a few barracks intact, and was the site where over a million Jews, many women and children, were murdered in gas chambers upon arrival by train, or worked to death, or suffered other unspeakably terrible tortures and deaths.

The place itself is monument. There are no markers, no plaques , no guides, no interpretations to be found there. The enormity of what happened there is beyond comprehension. There are no words there because there are no words adequate to describe or to explain.

The Auschwitz side of the complex is utterly different. Here one is meant to weep. There are labelled glass cases the size of very large rooms full to the ceiling of victims' hair, likewise cases of suitcases and satchels, and one containing just empty gas cannisters.

And there is a very large room sized case full of shoes... including baby shoes and slippers of every type. Perhaps these incredibly special little shoes will go to that room, in a separate display, these shoes made by a mother who had witnessed the murder of her own child yet was strong enough to hope for the survival of others.


(eta, please allow me. Yehei Shmei rabba mevorakh l'olam ul' almei almaya...)