The CDC has produced trading / collectors cards for infectious diseases.
CDC-Global Health Odyssey-
Disease Cards - Set 1This card set has photos and information about some of the infectious diseases that CDC studies. You can view the set online OR download and print your own copy.
I’ll give you my Barry Bonds rookie card for that Ebola.
O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title:–Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.Romeo.
I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptiz’d;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene 2
William Shakespeare
Marine Corps News Room: Japan renames Iwo Jima, upsetting vets
TOKYO — Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima — site of one of World War II’s most horrific battles — at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say has been hijacked by high-profile movies like Clint Eastwood’s “Letters from Iwo Jima.â€
By Hans Greimel - ASSOCIATED PRESS
The new name, Iwo To, was adopted Monday by the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute in consultation with Japan’s coast guard.
From the Maverick Philosopher:
Why should we call Burma ‘Myanmar’? Why this concession to political correctness? We don’t call Germany Deutschland, Italy Italia, or Austria Oesterreich
From Wikipedia:
Mumbai “Bombay†redirects here. For other uses, see Bombay (disambiguation).
More From Wikipedia:
Saint Petersburg “Leningrad†redirects here. For other uses, see Leningrad (disambiguation).
And in related news… the last instance of the word “prune” has at last been expunged from the California Dried Plum Marketing Board’s website.
Is it thought control by Orwellian Newspeak?
More questions on Bill Tammeus’ blog “Faith Matters”:
Will Tony Blair convert to Catholicism? I don’t know, but that’s the reported speculation. And if he does, will that balance out King Henry VIII’s rejection of Rome? Hmmm.
To the first question, I don’t know either, but any comments on the matter are welcomed.
I’ll take the second one; No, Bill, it doesn’t. Only one thing could ever repair that tear.
I have a Blog drafts folder that is chock full of stories of prominent, faithful, intelligent people finding their way to Catholicism. For the most part, I expect these shall stay drafts and I’ll never bother with the ‘publish’ button. I simply can’t be trusted not to gloat.
We’ve been mascotless here at Inedible Ink for the nearly two years since the Great Native Persons Team Names debacle of mid 2005 where the prior mascot was sent packing without so much as a severance package. You, dear reader, don’t seem to have noticed. Your persistent non-noticing has already led to cuts in the athletics department’s budget and what we referred to euphemistically as a “reshuffling” of the editorial and kitchen staffs. While that seems to have worked out for the best, with less damage caused by errant golf balls, and the spelling in the cafe is perfect, it must be admitted that no blog can shrink it’s way to greatness.
For your consideration, I propose the STANLEY 85-610 Max Grip Locking Adjustable Wrench as a possible mascot.
Stanley calls it two tools in one. Drivel. Those idiots have obviously never driven a nail with one. How about a ten-inch-wrench-pliers-emergency-escape-hammer- paperweight -compass-and-self-defense-calipers?
Our previous mascot was truly superior to this one in every way, but consider the possibilities: A tool buyer at the ‘Depot wrinkles his brow and thinks “What is that?” That is us. Rummaging through a toolbox in need of a wrench you find this thing and think that you’d use it if you knew how, that should remind you of this blog. Your two most favored tools, a vise grips and an adjustable wrench, made confusing and irrelevant by careless combination. That’s us. Your kids will leave it on the lawn for a winter. That’s us. It’s filed under both “Home” and “Hardware”. That’s us. In a battle with the riding mower this tool will leap out of the grass to ruin the blade and fly into traffic doing a passing $450 station wagon $449 dollars of body and radiator damage, it will die brilliantly. That last bit might not be us, but we are a glint of metal in the deep grass.
Am I the only guy here who’s ever turned a nut with a pliers?
Let me know what you think.
The following questions are from Bill Tammeus’ blog. I’ll indent the questions quoted and interject my own thoughts between them.
Faith Matters
I’ve got lots of questions for you about prayer and events like these, but I’ll try to limit myself to a few basic ones:* What difference does it make if one person prays or a billion people pray if they’re essentially praying for the same thing?
First, a quibble with Bill: “Praying for” sounds specific to prayer with a request, let’s keep this more general than that.
On earth it is good to be on a prayer team with a billion members. It is good to have your heart engaged and aligned with your fellow travelers to the grave. Beyond that I wonder if that is the kind of unity Christ prayed for in John 17:21 when He said “That they all may be one”. Also, the Apostle Paul describes the unity of the members of the body in 1st Corinthians 12:12. I think if you’re praying with a billion brothers in Christ it is more likely a sign that you have entered into the one universal body of Christ on earth than it is if you are praying something that no one else is praying. Bill probably wrote “A billion people” nonspecifically, just a whole lotta folks, but it happens that the membership of the Catholic Church is one billion.
* That is, does God count and respond only when the prayer volume hits critical mass?
No, the Bible has stories of God’s response to the single prayers of individuals and God’s will is not subject to override by a 2/3 majority vote. God is perfect, timeless and unchanging. His “mind” is not to be changed.
* Is prayer meant to change God, change the world or change the people praying?
Prayer is meant to align the will of the person praying with God’s will. In prayer we lift our hearts to God. That’s changing us. God can respond, but we’d continue to pray if He didn’t.
* Are well-written, theogically vetted prayers better than extemporaneous utterances?
That’s like asking if cookies baked by a loving child taste better than the cookies you get at a bakery. What Bill calls theologically vetted prayer is the bakery cookie, it’s technically correct, never burnt and the recipe is a known winner. The extemporaneous [defined] prayer is the child’s cookie, it might be oblong, hard and salty but it was baked with love. Do I have to pick, Bill?
* Do you feel differently about prayer if you know that people in Poland and India and Japan and Colombia are praying with you?
No. I might feel differently about those people overseas, but this isn’t about constructed emotional responses. Here is senior demon Screwtape’s advice to tempter Wormwood on matters of feelings and prayer:
“When they meant to ask Him for charity, let them, instead, start trying to manufacture charitable feelings for themselves and not notice that this is what they are doing. When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment.”
The Ironic Catholic gave these questions thoughtful replies to my earlier post here.
From the Oneonta Daily Star:
Bear roams near Coopertown school
An adolescent-sized black bear was seen next to the property on Linden Avenue around 7:50 a.m., Superintendent Mary Jo McPhail said, and a fence around that section of the school helped keep the bear off district property.
It’s nice to know I didn’t kill the last one in town.
// Welcome to the College Rowing Coaches Association - Awards //
The Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) announced its Pocock All-America teams for the 2007 season on Monday. The awards recognize the outstanding performances of rowers from each of the five Division I regions, organized into first and second-team selections.
I’ve always been told that He is a Green Bay Packers fan. But I suppose with Him all things are possible.
row2k Coverage: NCAA Rowing Championships
Cheering section of the year: Dartmouth stroke Anne Kennedy’s older sister is literally a sister - as in a Catholic nun, stationed in Oak Ridge. She and three of her fellow sisters attended all three days of the racing, watching the racing from the 1000 meter mark in full garb, chatting on cellphones to get the results of the racing, and graciously waving to passing media photographers.
I wasn’t either, not until I saw this book review on the NY Times.
Mysteries To Behold In the Dark Down Deep: Seadevils And Species Unknown - Free Preview - The New York Times
Link to the book on Amazon.com:Â The Deep
Now that I think about it, I’m probably afraid of swimming now too, ’cause of Toothy Muppets -Â Muppets in the Wild.
Matt Pottinger - A Trust Murdoch Won’t Keep - washingtonpost.com
I am writing you from Anbar province in Iraq, where I am serving as a U.S. Marine. I don’t get much time to read the news out here, but Rupert Murdoch’s offer to acquire the Wall Street Journal is a story big enough to reach even this outpost.
Two previous posts on Matt Pottinger’s decision to leave his journalism career and join the Corps:
Mightier Than the Pen
