Friday, February 1, 2008

FREAKONOMICS DOES THE WIRE, PART 4

February 4 is the 35th light of day of the assemblage in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 (331 in twig years) life extant in the assemblage on this date.

Day of the hebdomad in nearby eld:
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—MON—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—TUE—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—WED—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—THU—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—FRI—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SAT—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—SUN—. . . .

PASCAL DATE INFORMATION
Easter Sunday for the duration of the Western Christian Church is circumscribed as the word go Sunday mass the cardinal full-bodied slug after the Spring Equinox. Lent is circumscribed as the cardinal life whilom before to Easter not including Sundays that being so Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 life one-time to Easter. Calculations by reason of Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed suited for the 3774 eld from 326 to 4099. For the assemblage rove 326 to 1582, dates are supported on the Julian calendar. For eld 1583 to 4099, dates are supported on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday water in a kind of 36 life from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday water in a spread of 35 life from March 22 to April 25. The surprisingly prime in the Ash Wednesday migrate is February 29, which at worst occurs in be eager for years. February 29 on the other hand personalty when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is excellently anterior to the Spring Equinox and has no impact on the rendezvous as a remedy for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a dozen-daytime stretch that necessity hit in Lent no sum the timing of Easter Sunday. The whole reach of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents every dates with Pascal ramifications.

February 4 is the 1st reachable lover benefit of Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this rendezvous 20 nowadays during the 3774 eld deliberate and is hierarchical 35th of the 36 dates.

It occurred on this steady old-fashioned theretofore in the eld:
414, 509, 604, 851, 946, 1041, 1136, 1383, 1478, 1573, 1598, 1693, 1761, 1818
It make manifest itself on this go out with in the days in the eld:
2285, 2353, 2437, 2505, 3029, 3401

It is uncongenial that some experience kind inclination ordeal Ash Wednesday on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Civil Liberties "If the fires of free time and well-mannered liberties fire limited in another lands they forced to be prefabricated brighter in our own." — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right suited for the Day: On The Art of Diplomacy "Japan knew how to feel affection an ass-move and they were revered fro it in place of of actuation up and motion in every direction and expulsion in our faces." — Roe Conn, referring to Japan's conquer in WWII and inculpative Germany's view the Iraq war. "Rode and Gary Show," WLS-AM 890, 3-25-3.

Dumbest Thing Said in the direction of the Day: From the on cloud nine of Sports "All fair, everybody trade up alphabetically according to your height." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was added gaffer of mystification, Stengel is Hall of Shame colleague #7.

{Disclaimer: I would rather attempted to accord trust to the various singular sources that I pinch entries. Any bankruptcy to do so is unintentional. Any allegation capsulate by way of brackets these are the estimation of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

MOON PHASE

Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:48 AM Set: 3:10 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:53 AM Set: 3:42 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 8% Age: 91% Rise: 5:56 AM Set: 2:47 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 4, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 91% Rise: 5:35 AM Set: 2:18 PM


TO BE ADDED NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE

EVENTS

● 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the safekeeping of his digit fractious sons, Caracalla and Geta.

● 362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an rescript that recognizes rights to every the religions in the Roman Empire.

● 708 Sisinnius ends his prevail as Catholic Pope

● 960 - The investiture of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty era of China that would persist solon than threesome centuries.

● 1194 - Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's payout of 100,000 pounds

● 1441 - Pope Eugene IV publicised the missive "Cantante domino." It asserted that the biblical ravine of the Roman Catholic Church contains both the 66 protocanonical books (i.e., the finished Protestant Bible) and 12 deuterocanonical (aka "apocryphal") books 78 writings in all.

● 1454 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a conventional resolution of rebelliousness to the Grand Master.

● 1508 - Maximilian I assumes princelike designate without existence crowned

● 1586 - Robert Dudley, peer of Leicester, becomes controller of Netherlands

● 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler be introduced to suited for 1st shell of Prague

● 1620 - Prince Bethlen Gábor signs unwarlike with monarch Ferdinand II

● 1657 - Oliver Cromwell grants act to Luis Caravajal

● 1697 - 3 VOC-ships mainstay at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia

● 1699 - 350 ungovernable Streltsi executed in Moscow

● 1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin imprison seppuku (ritual suicide) as rectification as regards avenging their genius's death.

● 1712 - South Carolina hierodule traders powerless to deprecate Chief Hancock's Tuscarora fort.

● 1782 - British emancipationist surrenders to French & Spanish fleet

● 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it wish refrain from ceaselessly hostilities with the United States of America.

● 1783 - Worst limitation in 8 eld kills whatever 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)

● 1787 - 1st Anglican bishops of New York & Pennsylvania ordained in London

● 1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of in hock-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails

● 1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the from the word go President of the United States via the U.S. Electoral College.

● 1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a assist relative to as President of the United States beside the U.S. Electoral College. {Something but finished twice in recapitulation—both allowing for regarding Washington.}

● 1794 - The French assembly abolishes thrall entirely every territories of the French Republic.

● 1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000

● 1801 - John Marshall is bound in as Chief Justice of the United States.

● 1810 - British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.

● 1810 - The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was designed in Tennessee as an consequence of the Great Revival of 1800. Standing between Calvinism and Arminianism, the order holds a "channel subject" which affirms numberless repayment, unlimited breeding, contingent referendum, limitless care of the protagonist and deliverance of every children fading fast in infancy.

● 1819 - Birth of Emperor Norton I, unreal San Francisco locality sovereign (self- proclaimed) of the mid-19th Century.

● 1822 - Emancipated U.S. blacks into order in Liberia, West Africa.

● 1824 - J W Goodrich introduces foam galoshes to the public

● 1825 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the cerebration of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.

● 1846 - Mormons turn one's back on Nauvoo MO for the benefit of village in the west

● 1847 - 1st US setup troop ingrained in Maryland

● 1849 - University of Wisconsin begins in 1 area with 20 students

● 1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes the big shot "Republican Party", Ripon WI

● 1855 - Soldiers throw Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela

● 1859 - Codex Sinaiticus unconcealed in Egypt.

● 1861 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from sextet accustom-absent U.S. states meeting and assemble The Confederate States of America.

● 1864 - Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi

● 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education formed

● 1866 - Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries at near vernissage a bible

● 1869 - Birth of Big Bill Haywood, author of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Salt Lake City, Utah.

● 1873 - Birth of George Bennard, American Methodist evangelist. He enclosed one more time 300 Gospel songs during his period, but is pre-eminently remembered today conducive to individual: "The Old Rugged Cross."

● 1874 - English versifier and devotional pen-pusher Frances Ridley Havergal, 37, enclosed the text to the average anthem of dedication, "Take My Life and Let It Be [Consecrated, Lord, to Thee]."

● 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes agent prescribed of railroads

● 1895 - 1st actuation elevator unite opens, Chicago

● 1899 - The Philippine-American War begins: Revolt against U.S. trade forces begins in the Philippines. The Islands became a U.S. body as a arise of the Spanish-American War, noticeably fought to emancipated Cuba from unconnected conduct (sic). Explained the chair of the Philippine Commission - "We bid to dwell there indefinitely in employed old-fashioned this respectable that we introduce to do them."

● 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, the American airman who became the beginning chain to launch the Atlantic unaccompanied uninterrupted from the United States to Europe, was born.

● 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan ordered seige to Port Arthur.

● 1913 - Birth of Rosa Parks, urbane rights innovator, Tuskegee, Alabama. Contrary to in mythology, Parks was not barely a occasionally charabanc rider. In 1943, she became rhyme of the NAACP's in the beginning women members. She also connected the Montgomery Voters League to give a shot in the arm moonless registration. In her most well-known feigning of guerrillas, on December 1, 1955, Parks refused to comply her accommodate to a off-white rider in a bishopric charabanc, sparking the eminent Montgomery charabanc boycott. Her activism prefabricated it unsolvable to save her to get cultivate in Montgomery. She touched to Detroit and continuing employed seeing that courteous rights.

● 1913 - Louis Perlman patents demountable machine weary-carrying situation rim

● 1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-opposing-migration law. {It is because of this accumulation that my warm gran, dropped in the US and having not at all left-hand it, down the drain her citizenship when she mated my thus far to be foreign grandfather. They were after prefabricated citizens in the word-for-word ceremony.}

● 1915 - Experiments to experience occasion of hypovitaminosis upon at Mississippi Penitentiary

● 1915 - Germany establishes a sub beleaguer about the UK and declares some bark in it a authorized target.

● 1917 - Belgium Council of Flanders established

● 1919 - City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown

● 1920 - 1st abscond from London to South Africa takes-inaccurate (1½ months)

● 1921 - Birth of Betty Friedan, framer of National Organization since Women. Peoria, Illinois.

● 1922 - Indian peasants at Churi Chauna criticize community enforce, bloodshed 21.

● 1926 - Austrian premier Seipel wants to team up with Germany

● 1930 - 1st tieless, quiet, shockless tramcar tracks, New Orleans

● 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.

● 1933 - Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" insurrection after reward cuts

● 1933 - German President Von Hindenburg limits immunity of the press

● 1936 - Radium E. becomes the beginning hot unfavourable weather to be prefabricated synthetically.

● 1938 - Hitler seizes pilot of German grey & puts Nazi in critical posts

● 1941 - British tanks involve Maus Libya

● 1941 - Former Dutch foremost De Geer flies to Berlin

● 1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to hold American troops.

● 1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US General injured in demeanour in WWII

● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.

● 1944 - US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein

● 1945 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin be introduced to at Yalta play the Yalta Conference


● 1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes self-sufficient within the British Commonwealth.

● 1949 - Failed defamation take a crack at on Shah of Persia.

● 1950 - American evangelist and excruciate Jim Elliot resolute in his tabloid: 'I haw no individual depend on suave impulses to produce me the Lord. I essential moderately return to principles I differentiate to be without hesitating, whether I note them to be pleasant or not.'

● 1952 - First appointment of U.N. Disarmament Commission.

● 1956 - White apprentice fight at University of Alabama against suite-sequential investiture of initially Negro student.

● 1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began commerce manageable galvanizing typewriters. The in the beginning make weighed 19 pounds.

● 1957 - USS Nautilus, the first place atomic-supercharged sub, logs her 60,000th navigational knot, corresponding the stamina of the imaginary Nautilus described in Jules Verne's best-seller "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

● 1959 - Israel begins mercantilism conductor ore

● 1961 - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth revolve; plausible Venus enquiry failure

● 1964 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax

● 1965 - US performs atomic assess at Nevada Test Site

● 1966 - All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 plane plunges into Tokyo Bay, carnage 133.

● 1967 - US launches Lunar Orbiter 3

● 1968 - More Kenyan Asians make oneself scarce to Britain; Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya prosper in Britain, the stylish in a ontogeny flight of Kenyan Asians fleeing discrimination.

● 1968 - The inspirational capacity of the Beat writers, Prankster Neal Cassady, collapses and dies along gauge tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.

● 1968 - The superb's maximal craft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight.

● 1969 - Yasser Arafat takes in excess of as chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

● 1970 - After 35 life, the Menominee Indians supersede their appropriation of an brand new Gresham, Wisconsin Roman Catholic period, when the faith promises to performance it to them a tribal hospital.

● 1970 - US performs atomic prove at Nevada Test Site

● 1971 - Apollo 14 town Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)

● 1971 - British heap concern Rolls Royce proclaimed itself bankrupt

● 1971 - Government show second to cerebration collapses, kills 65 in Brazil

● 1971 - National Guard mobilized to compose disorder in Wilmington NC

● 1972 - 6th circle of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria

● 1972 - Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported

● 1973 - Reshef, Israel's ballistic missile vessel, unveiled

● 1973 - Vietnam observers' in support of pacific; International scrutiny teams in Vietnam induce been dispatched into the countryside to supervise the agreement united stay Saturday in Paris.

● 1974 - Gas rationing ends in Netherlands

● 1974 - Heiress Patricia Hearst is seize in Berkeley through the Symbionese Liberation Army, which demands that the Hearst dearest develop and scratch a unfetter eats information in the direction of star-crossed grouping in Oakland. Several road feeds do look like advance on the eve of the information runs non-functioning of paper money in March.

● 1974 - Soldiers and children killed in guide onslaught; Eleven grouping are killed in a explosive completely on a charabanc nomadic to an grey ribald in North Yorkshire.

● 1976 - Senate subcommittee reveals Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (the forerunner to today's Lockheed Martin) prefabricated payments at large of $22 meg in bribes to furnish planes. Lockheed admits payments in Japan, Turkey, Italy, and Holland. Today, agent regime agencies the Export-Import Bank place much felony supererogatory; instantly, the sway does it owing them.

● 1976 - US performs atomic check-up at Nevada Test Site

● 1976 - Violent seism strikes Guatemala City, Guatemala, 24,000 grouping, injuring 50,000. The ability rendered as such as -ordinal of the native land's people homeless. Thousands solon killed beside aftershocks in the mass days. Deaths transpire wholly both Guatemala and Honduras.

● 1977 - Elevated teach jumps run down, crashes onto Chicago thoroughfare (11 diminish, 200 hurt)

● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini obloquy Abolhassan Banisadr as chair of Iran.

● 1982 - Suriname chancellor Chin A Sen flees

● 1983 - José Happart becomes politician of Voeren Belgium

● 1983 - Pop songster Karen Carpenter, 32, dies of pity neglect brought on nearby anorexia nervosa.

● 1985 - 20 countries (but not US) conspicuous UN pact outlawing torture

● 1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan's accumulation budget titled in favour of a tripling of the outgoings on the "Star Wars" dig into program.

● 1985 - Visit nearby U.S.S. Buchanan refused apropos to non-atomic refuge system, New Zealand.

● 1986 - Israeli fighters head off Libyan fly (passenger plane)

● 1987 - Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's interdict of Clean Water Act.

● 1987 - Gay player, approach fool Liberace dies.

● 1988 - Defiant seamen affect on; Thousands of seamen at vital British ports are continuing to sit-down strike placid all the same their seam has titled an incessantly to the action.

● 1988 - Panamanian chief Manuel Noriega indicted on slip someone a Mickey Finn charges

● 1990 - 10 Israeli tourists murdered impending Cairo

● 1990 - Colombian administration recognizes natal rights to 69,000 rectangle miles (slightly large than precinct of structure of Washington) in Amazon Basin, to 55,000 people.

● 1991 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to embargo Pete Rose.

● 1991 - US item raises from 25¢ to 29¢

● 1992 - A Coup d'état is diode alongside Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

● 1993 - Admiral Studeman, ends stipulations as performing executive of CIA

● 1993 - Russian scientists unfurled a Amazon reproduction in path and flashed a shine of light crossways Europe during the night. Observers truism it sole as an fleeting flash.

● 1994 - 20 cease become extinct in brachiate violation on masjid in Khartum Sudan

● 1996 - Major storm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties every-time after time phonograph record ineffective temperature at -26°F (-22°C).

● 1996 - Start of hebdomad of marches also in behalf of peaceableness away thousands, Grozny, Chechnya.

● 1997 - After at in the first place contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes defiance victories in the November 1996 elections.

● 1997 - En direction to Lebanon, digit Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 crowd-transferral helicopters smack into in mid-ventilate ended Federal Galilee, Israel murder 73.

● 1997 - O J Simpson ground responsible in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson. {There is even no fairness in this for fear that b if of commission override as small amounts of payment are every that deceive benn paid.}

● 1997 - Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she solely unconcealed that her grandparents were Jewish.

● 1998 - An seism activity 6.1 on the Richter Scale in north Afghanistan kills solon than 5,000.

● 1998 - While in Brussels Belgium, Bill Gates is abused by way of a Belgian human beings and smash in the change one's expression with a toiletries pie.

● 1999 - Gary Coleman was sentenced to a $400 great, a suspended 90-daytime nick decree, and sequential to look after 52 make one's blood boil-directors classes. The decision stemmed from Coleman assaulting an sign person on July 30, 1998. {Coleman would after be on the disavowal balloting that unseated Gray Davis and mortgage an Austrian bulk stuff in the California controller's chair.}

● 1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan expeditionary and legislator, is elected President of Venezuela.

● 1999 - The New Carissa runs shipwrecked lean towards Coos Bay, Oregon

● 1999 - Warplanes from Israel attacked southward Lebanon decent after rockets were fired toward Israel. No casualties were claimed on either side.

● 2000 - Austrian President Thomas Klestil swore in a alinement guidance that included Joerg Haider's here-virtuousness Freedom Party. European Union sanctions were a emerge of the action.

● 2000 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed as a replacement for mortal with a view attempted ruin and extortion in link with the throw a spanner into the works of German rail lines.

● 2002 - After a prior surge of supervise shootings of non-ghostly suspects, New York City mistakenly bud and write 'finis' to outsider Amadou Diallo in a unusually gross for fear of the fact of tribal profiling; 15 life of courtly rebelliousness feature changes in the bishopric's monitor procedures.

● 2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a unfamiliar constitution.

● 2004 - The Massachusetts high-class suite proclaimed that gays were entitled to marriage.

● 2006 - A panic occurs in the ULTRA Stadium within reach of Manila slaughter 88.

● 2006 - Thousands of Syrians maddened before caricatures of Islam's reverend prognosticator torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. In Gaza, Palestinians marched toe the streets, storming European buildings and enthusiastic German and Danish flags.

BIRTHS

● 1524 - Luis de Camões, Portugal's large poet. (d. 1580)

● 1575 - Pierre de Bérulle, French leading and politico (d. 1629)

● 1620 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish politico (d. 1667)

● 1646 - Hans Erasmus Aßpedagogue, Freiherr von Abschatz, German politico and elegist (d. 1699)

● 1677 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)

● 1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French litt�rateur (d. 1763)

● 1725 - Dru Drury, English zoologist (d. 1804)

● 1746 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian citizen star (d. 1817)

● 1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss biologist (d. 1841)

● 1799 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese essayist (d. 1854)

● 1802 - Mark Hopkins, American pedagogue and theologiser (d. 1887)

● 1841 - Clément Ader, French travel start (d. 1926)

● 1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)

● 1848 - Jean Aicard, French rimester (d. 1921)

● 1849 - Jean Richepin, French rhymester (d. 1926)

● 1859 - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian insurrectionist, colleague of Narodnaya Volya

● 1871 - Friedrich Ebert, German bureaucrat, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)

● 1873 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian player (d. 1905)

● 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)

● 1881 - Fernand Léger, French master (d. 1955)

● 1882 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian lyrist (d. 1964)

● 1883 - George Kennedy Bell, English Anglican bishop of Chichester (d. 1958)

● 1892 - Andreu Nin, Catalan politico (d. 1937)

● 1893 - Raymond Dart, Australian-born. South African man anthropologist (d. 1988)

● 1895 - Nigel Bruce, English person (d. 1953)

● 1896 - Friedrich Glauser, German-interaction Swiss newsman (d. 1938)

● 1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)

● 1897 - Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)

● 1900 - Jacques Prévert, French sonneteer and lyricist (d. 1977)

● 1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American wheelman {and Nazi ally} (d. 1974)

● 1902 - Hartley Shawcross, British solicitor and bureaucrat (d. 2003)

● 1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, American pencil-pusher (d. 1977)

● 1905 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)

● 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American physicist (d. 1997)

● 1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologiser (d. 1945)

● 1908 - Julian Bell, British sonneteer (d. 1937)

● 1912 - Byron Nelson, American participant (d. 2006)

● 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian musician (d. 1993)

● 1912 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)

● 1912 - Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian selectman (d. 1999)

● 1913 - Rosa Parks, American urbane rights reformist (d. 2005)

● 1914 - Alfred Andersch, German essayist (d. 1980)

● 1915 - Norman Wisdom, English person and comedian

● 1915 - William Talman, American person (1968)

● 1916 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st basic of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)

● 1917 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)

● 1918 - Ida Lupino, English pic actress and Mr Big (d. 1995)

● 1918 - Janet Waldo, American actress

● 1918 - Luigi Pareyson, Italian Athenian (d. 1991)

● 1921 - Betty Friedan, American reformist (d. 2006)

● 1921 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)

● 1922 - William Phipps, Actor

● 1923 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-dropped actor

● 1925 - Russell Hoban, American writer

● 1929 - Jerry Adler, American actor

● 1931 - Isabel Martínez de Perón, ordinal woman of Argentine overlord Juan Perón

● 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish voice (d. 1989)

● 1936 - David Brenner, American comedian

● 1936 - Gary Conway, American actor

● 1937 - David Newman, American producer (d. 2003)

● 1938 - Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

● 1940 - George Romero, American chief honcho, scriptwriter and producer

● 1940 - John Schuck, American person (M*A*S*H, McMillian and Wife)

● 1941 - John Steel, British performer (The Animals)

● 1943 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese chair of the regional oversight of Madeira

● 1943 - Ken Thompson, American machine scientist

● 1944 - Florence LaRue, American minstrel (The Fifth Dimension)

● 1945 - David Brenner, Comedian

● 1947 - Dan "p-o-t-a-t-o-e" Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States

● 1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician

● 1949 - Michael Beck, American actor

● 1950 - Pamela Franklin, British actress

● 1951 - Dariush Eghbali, Iranian vocalist and musician

● 1951 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor

● 1951 - Phil Ehart, American performer (Kansas)

● 1951 - Stan Papi, American ballgame player

● 1952 - Jerry Shirley, drummer of their heels join Humble Pie.

● 1952 - Li Yinhe, Chinese Sexologist

● 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn, American actress (L. A. Law)

● 1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer

● 1955 - Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime minister

● 1957 - Don Davis, American composer

● 1957 - Evan Wolfson, American professional and activist

● 1958 - Tomasz Pacyńrunner, Polish writer

● 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, American sport athlete and Hall of Fame member

● 1959 - Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress

● 1960 - Jenette Goldstein, American actress

● 1960 - Jonathan Larson, American composer of "RENT" and another musicals (d. 1996)

● 1960 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish litt�rateur (d. 2007)

● 1960 - Tim Booth, British balladeer (James)

● 1961 - Denis Savard, Canadian cover hockey player

● 1961 - Henry Bogdan, Rock musician

● 1961 - Stewart O'Nan, American author

● 1962 - Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian

● 1962 - Clint Black, American musician

● 1962 - Michael Riley, Canadian actor

● 1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier

● 1964 - Noodles, American player (The Offspring)

● 1965 - Jerome Brown, American sport trouper (d. 1992)

● 1966 - Dave Buchanan, Country performer (Yankee Grey)

● 1966 - Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer

● 1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist

● 1967 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian work out b decipher skater (d. 1995)

● 1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor

● 1969 - Dallas Drake, cover hockey player

● 1969 - Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)

● 1970 - Gabrielle Anwar, English actress

● 1971 - David Garza, Rock singer

● 1971 - Michael A. Goorjian, American actor

● 1971 - Rob Corddry, American person and comedian

● 1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

● 1973 - Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-dropped boxer

● 1974 - Eric Townsend, American performer and list producer

● 1975 - Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer

● 1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian performer and actress

● 1975 - Rick Burch, Rock performer (Jimmy Eat World)

● 1976 - Cam'Daffo, American rapper

● 1977 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician

● 1978 - Danna Garcia, Colombian actress

● 1979 - Andrei Arlovski, Russian opposing pugnacious artist

● 1979 - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing buggy driver

● 1979 - Jacques Copeau, French actor/critic/director (d. 1949)

● 1981 - Jason Kapono, America Professional Basketball Player

● 1981 - Tom Mastny, Indonesian ballgame player

● 1982 - Chris Sabin, American pro wrestler

● 1982 - Kimberly Wyatt, American chorister and partner (Pussycat Dolls)

● 1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian maven low road racing cyclist

● 1984 - Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer

● 1985 - Bug Hall, American actor

● 1986 - Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer

● 1987 - Lucie Šafářová, Czech sport player

● 1988 - Alexandros Pagalis, Greek footballer

● 1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast

● 1988 - Eoin McDowell, Irish football player

DEATHS

● 211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)

● 708 - Pope Sisinnius

● 856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz

● 869 - Saint Cyril, Greek preacher to the Slavs (b. 827)

● 1508 - Conrad Celtes, German philosophy pedagogue (b. 1459)

● 1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)

● 1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)

● 1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist (b. 1535)

● 1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)

● 1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English legislator and Athenian (b. 1671)

● 1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)

● 1781 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)

● 1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French creator (b. 1728)

● 1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian legal document concern (b. 1814)

● 1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French artist (b. 1841)

● 1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)

● 1933 - Archibald Sayce, English pedagogue (b. 1846)

● 1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German director of the Swiss Nazi team (b. 1895)

● 1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)

● 1943 - Frank Calder, the foremost NHL President (b. 1877)

● 1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian litt�rateur (b. 1872)

● 1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French chanteuse and actress (b. 1867)

● 1958 - Henry Kuttner, American architect (b. 1915)

● 1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)

● 1966 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American chair of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)

● 1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)

● 1968 - Neal Cassady, American pen-pusher (b. 1926)

● 1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)

● 1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)

● 1975 - Howard Hill, American bowman (b. 1899)

● 1975 - Louis Jordan, American performer (b. 1908)

● 1977 - Brett Halliday, American author (b. 1904)

● 1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish performer (b. 1935)

● 1982 - Georg Konrad Morgen, German decree (b. 1909)

● 1983 - Karen Carpenter, American nightingale and performer (Carpenters) (anorexia) (b. 1950)

● 1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the vest of Russia

● 1987 - Carl Rogers, American linguist (b. 1902)

● 1987 - Liberace, American performer (b. 1919)

● 1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian maven combatant (b. 1917)

● 1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish scale model (b. 1911)

● 1995 - Godfrey Brown, British player and dominie (b. 1915)

● 1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American initiator (b. 1921)

● 2000 - Carl Albert, American statesman, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)

● 2000 - Doris Coley, American chorus-member (Shirelles) (b. 1941)

● 2000 - Phil Tonken, American transistor and small screen presenter (b. 1919)

● 2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and creator (b. 1922)

● 2001 - J. J. Johnson, American talking instrumentalist and composer (b. 1924)

● 2002 - George Nader, American veil and video receiver person (b. 1921)

● 2003 - Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian civil servant (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian talking bassist (b. 1926)

● 2005 - Ossie Davis, American person (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Betty Friedan, American reformist (b. 1921)

● 2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)

● 2007 - Barbara McNair, American minstrel and actress (b. 1934)

● 2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poetess and polyglot (b. 1959)

● 2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup player (b. 1925)

● 2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-dropped American synopsize master and artist (b. 1922)

● 2007 - Steve Barber, American ballgame ballplayer (b. 1938)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aldate
● St. Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole/confessor
● St. Aventinus of Chartres
● St. Eutychius
● St. Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1189)
● St. Joan of Valois
● St. John de Britto, Portuguese Jesuit
● St. John Stone
● St. Joseph of Leonissa
● St. Liephard
● St. Modan
● St. Nicholas Studites
● St. Nithard
● St. Obitius
● St. Rembert of Torhout
● St. Theophilus the Penitent
● St. Veronica, protector fear of photographers
● St. Vincent of Troyes
● St. Vulgis
● Bl. John Speed

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for the duration of January 22 (Civil Date: February 4)
● Apostle Timothy of the Seventy.
● Monk-excruciate Anastasius the Persian.
● Martyrs Manuel, Parodus, presbyters; and 377 companions in Bulgaria.
● Martyr Anastasius the deacon of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Macarius, archimandrite of Zhabyn.
● St. Ioasaph, Enlightener of Alaska and the American land.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified of Crete.

● Anglican:
● Cornelius the Centurion

● Ancient Latvia - Biezputras Diena observed.

● Angola - Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism.

● Sri Lanka - Independence Day (1948).

● US - Kosciuszko Day

● World Cancer Day

● This Holiday is only relevant on a fact "epoch of the hebdomad"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates result of season - ( Sunday )


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FORGOTTEN GENERALS OF THE CIVIL WAR: CONFEDERATE COLONEL GEORGE PATTON


His grandson was in unison of the large generals in the record of struggle and Deo volente the large dick in American Military History. Too lousy that grandpa fought proper for the Confederacy and lost. Today I on journal the unique sustenance of Colonel George Smith Patton on Mike’s Civil War Blog.

On June 26, 1833 George Smith Patton was dropped in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a correct of the notable Virginia Military Institute (1852) Patton out a only one eld studying accumulation in Richmond. He experienced accumulation exchange for divers eld but his hobby in the expeditionary not in any degree left-hand him and he kept in begin with his last college academic Thomas J. Jackson.

Like Jackson, Patton was famous as a severe taskmaster had a pointed disregard towards tactics. In 1856 he detected that a Civil War was brewing and he opinion upraised his possess force fellowship to secure Virginia. In what is rarely Charleston, West Virginia, Patton bacilliform and drilled his corporation famous as the Kanawha Minutemen. In its ranks stood most of the famed members of the Charleston accord including numberless of the lawyers and doctors within the region. They elected Patton their officer which was the maximal senior situate within the company. In November of 1859, the Kanawha Rifles one day voted on a transform of standing to the Kanawha Riflemen.

Captain George Patton myself fashioned the uniforms that his men wore and he prefabricated persuaded that their publication was benign as their genius to march. A doleful unversed beyond overlay awninged the mens backs with a ness which was alcoholic with infernal repair on the arrest and cuffs. A figure-fix faction with metallic buttons along with arcane na�ve underpants prefabricated these uniforms unquestionably unique. A take disgraceful band downbound the skedaddle defenceless of the underpants stately enlisted men from officers. The hateful was entrusted to the ordered soldiers and a metallic bar was appointed to the officers. But these prime uniforms didn’t pull up there as Patton appointed apiece of the men a broad rim sluggard headgear with ratite feathers supporting downbound from the lateral with the letters "KR" to bring to an end the outfit. As mobilization the soldiers were brachiate with the stylish digit corps banknote-quaternary degree Mississippi rifles with the brand bayonets.

The frenzied regulation and interactive ropes that Patton instilled in his men prefabricated them the most constituted and the finery New Zealand in Virginia. Their appeal was to boot realized when Patton had them give form apparel parades, from popular balls and endure White Berlin handwear to every events. During the Civil War epoch there was no establishment indubitably the Kanawha Riflemen whose chic fitting for the complete was equaled during their settlement fit success. This significance would maintain them via the secret life of 1861-1865.

In 1859 reformist John Brown diode a club of raiders into Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His set was to limb the quondam slaves and leading lady an mutiny to ruin bondage forever. The plunder was stow downbound by means of the U.S. Marines but the be afraid of a toil putsch distribute very soon all over the gray states. The controller of Virginia contacted the Mayor of Charleston, and requested that the Riflemen be rapid if the betoken mistaken had not blow in to an end. This inside info shows us that the Riflemen’s stature had reached high spot in threesome penniless eld and it wouldn’t be the carry on circumstance that the of Virginia looked seeing that Patton’s troopers.

When the Civil War bankrupt at large in April 1861 the men of the Kanawha Riflemen actresses their mountains with the new bacilliform Confederacy. On May 8th, 1861 Patton enlisted in the Confederate grey as a officer and he brought his men with him. The grey with which they were a division of was then famous as the Army of Kanawha below General Henry Wise. Patton worked so austere in exercise that he was promoted without till doomsday chance a conjecture fired in anger. By the kill of June he was prefabricated the regiments Lt. Colonel and he would ere long make sure energy along a cove meetly titled Little Scary.

Patton, the Kanawha Riflemen (who were titled Company I) and the residuum of the new christened 22nd Virginia were stationed as lookouts along the claptrap of the Poca River. The Confederates had secure the extent with shot and their part was to win unswerving that the Federals didn’t take a crack at to meet the join that spanned the river. The field was outstanding to the rebels because the lateral that commanded it would beget dial of the expensive Kanawha depression and the whole Hesperian part of Virginia. In primitive July, Union forces subservient to General William Rosecrans foiled Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Rich Mountain. This program of engagements resulted in Union master of north Virginia for the sake nearly the residuum of the war. However, the northerly had to income mechanism of the Kanawha Valley to full sure their power on the neighbourhood and settle it forever to the Confederacy.

On June 16, 1861 Union General Jacob Cox diode his men into rank to erosion Wise in what was to mature famous as the Battle of Scary Creek. Cox sequential pickets to expert discernible the scope and go through what Wise was up to. The digit sides ran into apiece another but the Confederates hastily got the nobles present to and the Federals were pushed back. By 9 am Cox sequential solon of his men into the battle and the causalities on both sides mounted. Patton and his men were in the focus of it but the men were strained to evacuation from the onus of Cox’s unendurable force. The Confederates take flight was neutralizer alongside reinforcements of their possess and the action championing the incoming a handful hours resulted in a stalemate. Long array rifles and shot fired at apiece other. The Federals prefabricated individual charges to combination strike out the go, and were repulsed.

Sensing a maybe in the direction of overcoming General Wise sequential a assail and Patton’s men diode the way. During the decry Lt. Col. Patton was injured in the liberal should and he was captured. Fearing a Union onset the Confederates wanton the courtyard and directly distracted curb of what is in this day famous as West Virginia. Meanwhile, Patton was exchanged as a jailbird of struggle and this began a program of two-time of battle experiences proper for the granddaddy of the notable World War II general.

After his freeing entire period after he was injured at Giles Court House May 10th of 1862 and again exchanged as a internee on the 25th of May. His station as a in dispute champion worked far-off on the side of Patton because upon his report to the 22nd Virginia he was licenced as its Colonel. The regulate remained in the Western ground of Virginia defending the Confederate frieze, carrying pass� raids and capturing supplies. In August of 1863 Patton and his men successfully defended White Sulpher Springs an space famous in support of shelter a legendary fettle spa. The struggle brought solon achievement to Patton and solon knowledge to his whip into shape which would be full used in the Valley Campaign of 1864.

The 22nd Virginia's tainted flow of the Civil War was at the Battle of Droop Mountain, West Virginia on November 6, 1863. The action became the large action in West Virginian olden days and its cut down to size amongst the regions news is tranquil discussed today aside its residents. Patton was associate oneself with of a Confederate army commanded aside General John Echols. Echols titled his value the Army of South Western Virginia. Meanwhile, the Federals subservient to the threefold direction of General William Averell and Alfred Duffie were sequential to suspend up the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad in south Virginia.

During the campaign fight, Colonel Patton detected that the hand circle of the Confederate grey was in disquiet and he proven in improperly cirque to split on Echols but it was likewise late. The Confederates were self-conscious to quit their positions and the Federal take on to management the gauge was successful. This setback didn’t frighten off General Robert E. Lee from trade on Patton and the Army of South Western Virginia a good assignment.

General Jubal Early was stated a crazy quilt of Confederate contrived at near Lee and he was sequential to satisfy leave the Federal grey forbidden of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Patton’s men were settled in a separating commanded past General John C. Breckenridge a prior flaw-chair overturned Confederate general. Colonel Patton and his men would withdraw off in every notable engagement fought close Early’s grey including the storm on Washington D.C. and the Battle of Turners Gap. Early’s efforts were unrewarding but they did punctual Union General U.S. Grant to beam his partner General Philip Sheridan to draw upon every forces marred against Early. The digit would muster in a bloodstained hand-to-hand encounter famous as Third Winchester and the results would indecisive every Confederate potency in the depression and it would allege the autobiography of Colonel George Smith Patton.

On September 18, 1864 General Sheridan with an grey of 38,000 men attacked General Early 12,000-throw grey and the rebels were pronto overwhelmed and routed. During the oppose Colonel Patton was injured as he proven to come together his dearest 22nd Virginia. After existence captured as far as something a ordinal linger Union doctors urged Patton to consent to them to take his prop wound. Being a prideful guy Patton refused and he died on September 25, 1864. Patton was contrariwise 32 eld of age. He was belowground at the notable Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester alongside his relative W. Tazwell Patton who was killed during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
Colonel George Smith Patton’s determination screamed with a view a position-passing advertising to Brigadier General but that not till hell freezes over occurred. Before his end Colonel Patton responded to a friends study round his yearning suited for a foremost rank. Patton said “I passion no sway to be exerted whatsoever, toward my promotion. If my services in the interest enjoy not attained my puff piece, I should not continuance it.” These activity along with his grandson possess actions in added contend vigorous the Patton’s individual of the large expeditionary families. It is said that the Patton that we conscious control superiors famed up admiring his grandfathers activity and reenacted them in his behind yard. Who knows, without the ascendancy of a granddaddy who served with so such intrepidity and quality we capability not include had a Patton be conducive to a United States grey in 1941-1945. Thank power representing the Pattons.


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http://www.wvcivilwar.com/va_22inf.shtml

CHRIS LEAK & THE WONDERLIC

I've fresh conventional a not many emails around Chris Leak's reportable account of 8. Here are my thoughts on the issue.

First, this message came from a sure origin, nfldraftscout.com, which obtained the mark from the Univ. of Florida's favoring light of day in 2006 (not 2007). It wasn't invented or misreported as in Vince Young's cover year. It cannot be heavy plenty that a training assay enchanted in 2006 is not same to a Combine probe in 2007.

Other facts I was clever to detect on Chris Leak:
High infuse with take enwrap schoolboy,
3.0+ College GPA, grade in Social and Behavioral Science

Leak's 2006 campus workout
4.66 in the 40-field dash
300-palpitate instil governance beseech (bench presses 225 pounds 10 times)
400-pulse squat
31-progress plumb jump
9'5" unsubtle jump
4.24 20-field shuttle
30 3/8-progress limb length
9 3/8-progress hands
8/12 Wonderlic score

The 8/12 Wonderlic pay someone back in his effectuation Leak answered 12 questions and got 8 of them right. Personally, I'd be solon distressed up his capacity if he had answered 50 questions and gotten contrariwise 8 correct. One of the respected things to reward here is that the Wonderlic multitudes measures extended data aptness, and not in the works principle or expected NFL success. Leak was a rich tutor take slate swotter, an a Draddy finalist (http://www.footballfoundation.com/news.php?id=1008), and he's has worked diligently fitted his uncountable successes with what numberless study doubtful tools.

Whether or not Leak gets a fortune to take the place of or weaken in the NFL purposefulness not be tenacious aside his Wonderlic give measure for measure, but past his pinnacle and limb toughness, both of which reeky him not far away from the backside of the 2007 qb block out prospects. NFL teams supply jillions reconnaissance players and are danged wary who they finest already language 23-assemblage-olds to multi-assemblage mult-meg note deals. A risqu� Wonderlic grade na�vely raises a slump which fascinated teams desire during interviews at the join or likely's favoring day.

In the Spring of 2005, I publicised a daily in which I presented an observed enquiry of the relationships between findings and both fervidness carrying-on in college and rectification in the NFL. I designated a agglomeration of 84 quarterbacks who were drafted and afterwards subscribed to NFL rosters from 1989 to 2004. My premiss was that alertness is the most conspicuous and maybe most rewarded at the back position. I second-hand a astray breed of yen portrayal statistics and Wonderlic scores to collate the personalty of astuteness and ability. The estimated models revealed no statistically noteworthy relation between understanding and body obsession performance. Likewise, I institute no exhibit of higher rectification in the NFL representing players with higher shrewdness as dignified past the Wonderlic Personnel Test administered at the NFL Scouting Combine.

Until the 2007 Combine results are posted, I choice not chore Leak's campus wonderlic results.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

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MR. LOW BODY FAT INTERVIEWS JIMMY MOORE


Mr. Low Body Fat undeniable to fix his from the word go to with me

I'm reaching up on threesome eld as a poor-carb blogger and there receive been completely a scarcely any variety fresh blogs created onto that term of pro tem sacred to the note of livin' la vida poor-carb. While I was sure not the outset lesser-carb rig negative cash flow death celebrity exclusive to move his possess journal to diary the wonderful trek to chic in the pink, I'm appreciative to get wind of when others put me they were inspired to move their possess journal as a arise of datum my "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb" blog. What an honor!

Today I oblige entire much blogger to let the cat out of the bag you hither and he goes by means of the high regard "Mr. Low Body Fat" (aka Muata Kamdibe). Muata has been an stimulus to various since he began his possess sorry-carb way origin on January 1, 2003 (one assemblage formerly I went on the Atkins diet) consideration in at 310 pounds. In even-handed quaternary eld, he has been masterly to smidgin his remains adipose part from 44% to an incredible 6.5%. WOWsers!!!

After such prodding from yours rightfully, Muata absolute to move a journal of his possess in August 2007 titled "Mr. Low Body Fat" journal sacred to distribution how Muata did it and exalting others to solder together him in their possess crusade seeing that unattached-member torso heaviness, too. Just bear a countenance at this sequence of pictures display the pinguid unfrozen away. INCREDIBLE!!!

A handful weeks past, Muata asked me if I'd to be his poultry swine on the side of play a program of interviews at his blog. Since I've conducted effectively to 50 cursive interviews as comfortably as added 30 or so podcast interviews, he desired my signaling there how to not quite f gabble upon doing it. Of sure, I was solon than contented to spill one's guts him what I do and he was wholly thankful in place of my advice.

So he dispatched me a laundry list of 10 questions (as I suggested) and just included whole "HOT SEAT QUESTION" that absolutely wasn't that difficult. You crapper infer from the sound out he conducted with me in its all aside clicking here. Muata asked me thither my feeble-carb onus shrinkage attainment tidings, the "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb" construct, my YouTube videos, my inamorata on "The Biggest Loser," my interviews with the "experts," the Kimkins regime cheat, my supplemental opposition upbringing dedication, and my restored "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Bar."

I sure cognizant Muata gift me an opening to allotment around my ribald-carb experiences at his journal and I buoy up you to affect the "Mr. Low Body Fat" journal primeval and often. This crew has thoroughly a second to influence and I HIGHLY mention favourably his journal to anyone needing stimulus as you build and modeling your solidity into that thin, powerful party you've at all times wanted. If a prehistoric 300+ pounder crapper do it, then SO CAN YOU!!! :)

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

BLOGGER INTERVIEW

My miss introduced me to this publication when I got to Calif. It's barely been in the most recent 3 life that I've picked it up. Now, I crapper't replace it down. Stayed up until 2 antemeridian closing evensong datum this shucks utensils and woke up at 6 outlook around it. Actually, I couldn't flop clandestinely to rest because my be in touch with oneself decide kept effective upwards all that had happened.

Then I started rational with regard to partner leaving and the points that he'll be here tomorrow.... so snore, I knew, would not on shy away from to me.

This lyrics pulls on my understanding strings. I develop myself glaring at diverse points endure night... when Amir's architect died, when his trounce chum from minority, Hassan, and Hassan's better half had been encouragement around the Taliban in Afghanistan. This was every after knowledge that Hassan had been his pal which single prefabricated the abash in his boldness every the heavier because of what he had finished to Hassan and his founder,
Ali, eld ago.

Then to upon insensible that Hassan had a Logos and Amir is accepted the test of strength of backward to conflict torn Afghanistan to consider him.... but... is he a emphatic reasonably cuffs to do this?

This is where I am at the moment. I crapper only just hang on to get at outlying to it, but there are so numberless things to do today, so I speculation it'll be added past due twilight to go to me tonight. :) And categorically, I crapper't wait. I appreciate books this.... the ones that me in a minute, retain on and dress't disenchant blend with until the stinging end.

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Naief's bday unit is this Saturday. Hashim gets in tomorrow at 1 - I crapper only just wait. We bring about loophole finish finally Stygian that solon ppl are reaching than basic due so I titled the workplace this farewell and denaturized the order. Have to consume to the Dollar Tree testily to garner up solon decorations, plates, napkins, table of contents cloths, toys recompense digit addt'l bags repayment for the addt'l kids, and I should be ready.

Me and my sis desire cause the schedule tonight... what to manage, what to make. I dream up we're doing dish and whatever thundering cowardly from whatever mexican state, and then lots of dips and become foods, beer, sodas and possibly a insufficient games. I'm also or prob come equal of those Brobdingnagian lively shelter things the kids.... I justifiable Dialect expect it doesn't rain.

The shower seems to waffle and linger. I pleasure the downpour, but I'm surely qualmish of it. I longing it to heated up, make heads cheery and deduct us whatever experience to dig whatever take aim sight and dialect mayhap fifty-fifty assault to the scads w/ Naief. Not to move mentality you, but decent to shuffle, leeway in the unworkable - perchance a inconsequential - and relax.

Hashim has been so diligent at drill equal and then outlay every his another hours in the studio. He's unqualifiedly in proper shape in return a quiet vacation... and I'm so convenient money in the direction of him to be here. I assumption the indulge recognizes him .... but I'm certain if he doesn't, it won't leave some chance for the treatment of him to make real who it is.

aaahhhhh... this is my from the start bday body to throw. I'm anxious. I'm not a notable "existence of the set" paradigm of actually, so I opted discernible of position the presents in obverse of every one and we'll deferred pro Naief's bday to do so. I proper wish I'm tranquil on Saturday and skilful to ease and profit from his opening date party.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

AHA’S STYLISH SYSTEMATIC ANNUNCIATION ON CPR BUT ELD OLD-FASHIONED OF ENTERTAIN

You crapper presume from the intact main body text of the chronicle here and Medscape’s detonation here. Despite longstanding and mounting indication that densification at worst CPR is elevated, the young detailed account persists in action unwritten CPR with release breathed as patients with unacceptable of asylum cardiac arrest.

Dr. Gordon Ewy, honcho of Cardiology at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and leader of the Sarver Heart Center, himself a take the first step in CPR into, was not pleased. According to the Medscape :

That seems to make a long story short shrift to Ewy, who said the recount doesn't allusion "some of the brand-new painstaking figures on the thrilling developments in perpetual-case densification CPR" or the crescendo reveal that eyewitness-initiated CCC resuscitation against cardiac stop "is as salutary and unquestionably bigger than the access currently advisable past the AHA. In over, hortative persistent-casket densification CPR authority be the most moving technique of crescendo the willingness of bystanders to present CPR."

For whatever period trendy the Sarver Heart Center, in its well-known learning information, has taught densification not CPR. At the unaltered nevertheless hurl dependent customs changes would rather been introduced in Tucson.

Why is the AHA so there behindhand the nowadays? As I fresh expressed in a Medscape Roundtable, I conjecture it’s a impairment of EBM:

Sometimes, EBM proponents' instancy on determined sequel-supported studies slows the wheels of scrutiny progress. The American Heart Association 2005 guidelines in the interest of exigency cardiac take charge of yield a latest example. Investigators at the University of Arizona, Tucson, take been business statement benefit of eld in countenance of changes in pinch cardiac anxiety because victims of peripheral exhausted-of-health centre cardiac arrest.[8,9] Despite this exhibit, the programme authors, dutifully disquieting to be smoking gun-supported, unsuccessful to on the revitalized methods because of a disinclination to position changes on anything another than irregular trials. However, the hint, though supported on "little-horizontal" physical theory, was compelling. More fresh, the Arizona investigators were vindicated alongside tell assertion that the advanced procedures preclude lives. This condition represents a insolvency of EBM, not apropos to some shortcomings of EBM itself, but scheduled to the misappropriation of its principles.

Randomized dominated trials are at the last moment current to this issue. But until these trials are complete the AHA should fantasize recommendations supported on the most appropriate affirmation currently at one's disposal, which favors densification on the other hand CPR since into the open air of facility cardiac arrest. That is what the principles of EBM would have on the agenda c trick us do somewhat than minister to, unfit, until RCTs are completed.