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A good and busy Christmas this year.  We stayed in Louisville because Anita’s too close to due-date to travel.  Had 7 different family engagements in two days and enjoyed every one… though at the end of things we are certainly tired.  We had too much food and too much sugar, enough sleep and a great [...]

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Inside Toyota’s hybrid factory | CNET News.com:
TOYOTA CITY, Japan–While you’re touring the assembly area in Toyota’s Tsutsumi auto plant, your mind keeps telling you that you’ve been here before.
Then it hits you.
It’s a lot like the Snow White ride at Disneyland. Robotic cars filled up with wiper blades and other parts [...]

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Check out this wonderful (heh) picture of molly and Sarah going to Sarah’s wedding…

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Engineered cells beat cancer in human test | Chicago Tribune:

In a small study of patients with terminal skin cancer, Maryland scientists have demonstrated for the first time that genetically engineered immune cells can kill off large tumors.
The research, conducted by a team at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, remains highly experimental, and it worked [...]

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Anita, our step sister Maddie (14), and I went to Houston, from July 20 through August 1st.  We drove.
[map First, we drove to and camped at the Hot Springs National Park, during the hottest part of a heat wave.  Our A/C could occasionally not keep up, it was so hot… so when we ended [...]

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Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
This is a great article, full of well cited and reasoned points… pointing towards a conclusion which may well get [...]

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According to the article: Transcendental meditation good for stress: study it goes a bit further than just getting relaxed…

Practicing transcendental medicine not only mellows the mind but may also calm the body’s damaging responses to stress that leads to heart disease and diabetes, researchers said on Monday.
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Meditation has been previously shown to lower blood pressure, [...]

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I have really slacked on the the posting recently… I’ve had a good amount to talk about, but haven’t had the motivation to write anything. (at least none that coincides with available time)
I’ve played a lot of frisbee with cuda, and most recently at a hat tournament near Cinci. We even were lucky [...]

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