A beautiful day in Castlegar

Just wanted to put up a couple of pictures from Jass and Michelle's back yard in the morning, kind of like camping...

Cool a golf ball that only flies straight.

Cool a golf ball that only flies straight...   I'm getting me some of these

Tue May 10 01:48pm EDT

New golf ball flies straight off the tee … illegally!

By Jay Busbee

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If you're like me, your tee shots have a tendency to shoot into the woods faster than a scalded dog. Fear not, friends, there's a cure for all of us, as the New York Times tells us: a new, only-flies-straight golf ball! There's just one small catch ...

Presenting the Polara Golf Ball, the ball which is guaranteed to fly straight. It does so because of two different pattern of dimples: a shallow set around the ball's equator, and deeper dimples along the poles. The combination of those keeps the ball flying lower and straighter. It's like magic! The price for these super balls is around $30.

But what's the catch? Ah, there's always a catch. The pattern is illegal according to the USGA, so you can't use it in any sanctioned competition in the United States. And while you could use it in your local scramble, you've got to decide whether it's worth getting caught. But the balls fly so straight!

"It's for the other golfers, the ones who rarely hit it straight," says Dave Felker, a Polara executive with experience engineering Callaway golf balls. "It's for people who want to be embarrassed less, play faster and enjoy it more. I respect the USGA, they help identify the best golfers in the world, but what about the rest of us?"

But Dick Rugge, the USGA's technical director, doesn't much care for that line of reasoning. "For the last 15 years, advances in conforming club and ball technologies have made it easier to play," Rugge said. "So we've already had a 15-year experiment on this make-it-easier logic. And what have been the results? Participation has not gone up. So we're not going to dumb it down. You know the easiest way to get the ball in the middle of the fairway? Walk down there and place it with your hand. Who are you kidding?" (Wait, you can do that? Man, that would totally change my game.)

All right, your turn. The Polara sounds wonderful, but is it something you'd use? Do you worry about the USGA-sanctioned equipment, or will you trick up your game with whatever you can get your hands on?

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In the end

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.

Hmmm is there a link between teh month or season you were born and human maladies?

Season of birth may affect rest life

The season in which you are born may affect everything from your eyesight to your eating habits and overall health later in life, according to a blossoming field of research. The latest study shows that spring babies are more likely to suffer from anorexia nervosa as adults.

"We found an excess of anorexia births in the spring months compared to the general population," said study researcher Lahiru Handunnetthi, of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics. "The idea is that there is some sort of risk factor that varies seasonally with anorexia."

The researchers found that eight out of every 100 people born between March and June had anorexia compared with 7 percent of those without anorexia. This is a 15 percent increase in risk for those born during these spring months.

Influential environments

Previous studies have found similar links between spring births and various disorders, including schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and even Type 1 diabetes. It's possible these diseases are linked to some environmental influence during gestation or the first few months of life, though researchers aren't sure what that could be.

The leading candidates including vitamin D levels, infections that come and go seasonally, changes in nutrition, and even possibly weather fluctuations, Handunnetthi told LiveScience.

These changing environmental factors seem to influence a wide array of conditions:

• A study from 2003 published in the Journal of Nutrition showed that African-American babies born in the summer and fall were smaller than those born at other times. Also, babies of African-American and Puerto Rican decent gained less weight in their first four months if they were born in the fall.
• Babies born in the fall have a 9.5 percent risk of having food allergies, up from 5 percent for babies born in June and July. Those babies born in November or December were also three times more likely to suffer from eczema and wheezing. That study was published in 2010 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
• Moderate and severe nearsightedness, or the inability to see well at long distances, is highest for babies born in the summer months, suggests research published in April 2008 in the journal Ophthalmology.
• Birth month might even affect your biological clock, a mouse study published in 2010 in the journal Nature Neuroscience showed. Mice born in the winter were less able to adapt to a summer light cycle, which could be related to the increased risk of mental health disorders in humans born in the winter, the researchers speculated.
• Leukemia has also been linked to being born in the spring, with a peak in April.

Common causes?

Birth month has even been linked to longevity, which could be because of these other adverse health effects. Studies in Austria and Denmark have found that those born in the fall live longer than people born in the spring.

"When we look at diseases we need to identify the risk factor that led to them," Handunnetthi said. "In general, risk factors could be environmental or genetic. Genetic risk factors you are born with and can't really change. If you identify environmental factors you can mediate them to carry out prevention studies."

These environmental causes are still unclear, though some of these birth-month effects may be related. "Perhaps a risk factor is playing a part that is common to all these conditions but we don't know that yet," Handunnetthi said.

You can follow LiveScience staff writer Jennifer Welsh on Twitter @microbelover. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

A day at Christa's ball game..

Well seems like spring is back (yes I am being sarcastic its cold and wet) but Christa has a game, and at least it's in the covered stadium at MacAurther island... The team doesn't seem to be playing well this season but she enjoys it anyway.. I'll attach a couple pictures of Christa when she gets out....

My Thoughts

My thoughts manifest in to my creations....

Five things I want to achieve
5. Less stress in my life
4. Stop blocking my potential and dreams
3. Make more money, to help my kids and family
2. Improve my health and lifestyle
1. Be a better father to my kids, and person to family and friends

“I desire the benefits and advantages that positive thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors provide.”

Impossible

There's nothing impossible in this world, 'cause in every "impossible" there's always a "possible". Always have a faith! Shared via Tweetcaster

Single

SINGLE is NOT a status. It's a word that best describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others. Shared via Tweetcaster

Appointment in Abbottabad

Appointment in Abbottabad: Scientific American Podcast

The story is called Appointment in Samarra. A Baghdad merchant sends a servant to buy provisions. While at the market, the servant bumps into Death, who makes a threatening gesture. The servant races back to the merchant, borrows a horse and flees to the city of Samarra for safety.

The Somerset Maughan version of the old fable about fate continues, with Death narrating: “Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, ‘Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?’ ‘That was not a threatening gesture,’ I said, ‘it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.’”

Revenge?

No need for revenge. Just sit back & wait. Those who hurt you will eventually screw up & if you're lucky, God will let you watch. Shared via Tweetcaster

Laughing and age

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. Shared via Tweetcaster

Dont think

Don't think, you must simply do it. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. Shared via Tweetcaster

I say what i want to say

I say what I want to say & do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. -Eminem. Shared via Tweetcaster

Trials

@TheQuoteWhore: Trials: not the reason to give up but a challenge to improve yourself. Difficulties: not an excuse to back out but an inspiration to move on Shared via Tweetcaster

Dont cry....

@TheNoteboook: Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't stress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful. Shared via Tweetcaster

GAIAM Desk Yoga Neck Shoulder

Well this really worked, I feel much better, I gotta work on a few of the moves though, a little out of shape

Spring has sprung...

It's about time too. My phone says 22 degrees out and I am loving it. I just finished taking max for a walk at the river and I have the sprinklers going in the yard... here are a couple of pictures for proof. Well I originally intended to publish this last weekend April 29th but it didn't get there it seems... so here it is