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If there's only one thing to be remembered from "Kon-Tiki," an engrossing fictional recounting of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl's famed voyage across the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft, it's this: The man didn't know how to swim.
This fact -- and the deep-seated fear that must have haunted him on his aquatic adventures -- throws into sharp relief a derring-do that would challenge even the most seasoned ocean enthusiasts. His ambitions are captured in all their seagoing glory in this stirring drama, nominated for this year's foreign language Oscar (though the version being released in the U.S. is in English; the filmmakers made a separate version in Norwegian).
This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Jakob Oftebro as Torstein, left, and Tobias Santelmann as Knut in a scene from "Kon
This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Jakob Oftebro as Torstein, left, and Tobias Santelmann as Knut in a scene from "Kon Tiki." (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company)
The year is 1947, and Heyerdahl (Pal Sverre Hagen), an amateur ethnographer, is determined to prove that Polynesia was settled from the east by native South Americans, not from the west by Asians, as most think. He, and a few who trust in his vision, construct a huge raft in the style of indigenous Peruvians and set sail in an attempt to show it could be done.
Their voyage became a media sensation at the time and even led to a documentary, also called "Kon-Tiki," that won the Oscar for best documentary in 1951. (In 1969, he would cross the Atlantic in a papyrus boat and that was the subject of a 1972 film, "The Ra Expeditions.") But that first trip also was responsible for the breakup of Heyerdahl's marriage and tested the loyalties of the friends who made up his crew.
In the sense that it's about one man against the elements, "Kon-Tiki" echoes "Life of Pi." Yet, whereas the kid at the heart of "Pi" is at the mercy of the wind and ocean and has no idea where he's going, Heyerdahl wants to control both and has a firm destination in mind.
Hagen brings a palpable sense of determination to the part of Heyerdahl, but it's no one-man show. Anders Baasmo Christiansen as engineer Herman Watzinger, a man who seems never to have set foot on a boat before, has the right amount of nervous bravado, while Gustaf Skarsgard, Jakob Oftebro and Tobias Santelmann, playing more experienced sailors, possess the laid-back intensity of men who know what they're doing -- even if, at times, they may question the man they're doing it for.
Beautifully shot in the Maldives, Thailand and other locations by directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, "Kon-Tiki" has the look and feel of a big, bracing adventure. It skirts many of the emotional issues (you'd think the father of two would have been a bit more torn apart by the collapse of his marriage) in favor of high adventure with hungry sharks and monster storms.
But then you remember that Heyerdahl didn't know how to swim, and all those pesky little details disappear under the surging waves.
* * * ½
Rating: PG-13 (for a disturbingly violent sequence)
Cast: Pal Sverre Hagen,
Anders Baasmo Christiansen and Tobias Santelmann
Directors: Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg
Running time: 1 hour,
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Are Highland Council suggesting that some employees might have to give up their social media profiles?
It's a tricky one for many people, their social media existence and their work place. Quite a lot of folk on twitter tend to say what they do and then add "views are purely my own" or similar. A regular reader has sent us a link to a document that went before the Finance Housing and Resources committee at Glenurquhart Road today so it is all done and dusted now. Anyway, the document is all about the Council and its staff's use of Social Media.
There were some appendixes listed for approval. This observer was particularly interested in the first part of section 5
"5. Using Social Media for Personal Use
As the use and popularity of social media grows, the lines between what is public and private, personal and professional have blurred. The Council respects their employees‟ right to personal use of social media out-with the workplace.
However, staff should be aware that actions in and outside work that affect their work performance, the work of others, or adversely affect the Council‟s reputation, may become a matter for the Council.
Considering the following points may help avoid any conflict between personal use of social media and an employee‟s employment with the Council:
If staff already use social networks or blogs for personal use and have indicated in any way that they work for the Council they should remove these. The personal image projected in social media affects an individual‟s reputation and may affect the reputation of the Council. Criticising the Council, even on a personal blog can be damaging. By identifying themselves as a Council employee within a social network, they are connecting to their colleagues, managers and even Council citizens." Read the entire document here.
There were other points under item 5 but is this observer alone in finding the above paragraph a bit disconcerting? We have the word "may" in the second paragraph and then the word "should" in the third para.
"Should remove," are we to take that to mean remove the social network or simply any references to your work? If you are a Council employee how do you keep the fact that you work for the Council from people you've known all your life, or all the residents in your town or village that will cross your social network path? If you say you are a teacher and live in the Highlands for example, then are you not giving away the fact you work for the Council? Is the above paragraph too intrusive? The day is done however, and the above material will either have been agreed or thrown out.
Anonymous said...
Standard thing, I work for a large organisation and we are warmed what we can and not do on social media's.
Boat race said...
It may seem a stern warning from the council but I'm afraid that some folk who use social media seem to be unaware that what they write on their Facebook or Twitter page can often be seen by the world, not just their circle of friends.
All too easy to post 'I've had a bad day at work because of x' and for it to be seen by Joe public with the knowledge that this person works for the council
Censorship? maybe, but where do you draw the line?
There is also the problem that with the advent of smart phones that you don't even need to use your work computer to post or receive messages on social media. Should we ( the council tax payers) be paying for folk to be using this media at work when they should be working!? A difficult question
Anonymous said...
This would seem to go much deeper than using social media in the workplace,"If staff already use Social netwoks or blogs for personal use.... What about employees who do not use social media at work, but in their own time? Is this a draconian blanket ban for all council employees?
APTSec said...
I have not read the whole document so I am just putting out some general points. There seems to be an assumption that the actions (and who knows that these might be)through social media of some staff may well lead readers of that social media to think less of the organisation and its other employees.
So, tell me, would it be ok to be elected or employed if you were say, a misogynist or a racist or had very extreme views on issues, or were in the habit of doing daft things or spreading gossip or being irresponsibly under the influence of substances as long as you kept this well hidden, so that it did not reflect badly on the council?
Are large organisations afraid that the relaxed atmosphere of social media will be just too tempting to those bottling things up?
Surely what we should be looking at is what behaviour large organisations would think would reflect badly?
Of course there is always that thing called 'free speech' but would that extend to 'cyber bullying' or incitement of hatred against ones fellow man.
Anonymous said...
Makes one wonder about the members use of social media?
Greg said...
Don't post anything on social media you wouldn't want your mother or your boss to see. Simple.
Anonymous said...
Go on STRIKE!!
Tory Boy said...
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Beal Garden at MSU is the oldest continuously operated university botanical garden of its kind in the United States
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on February 05, 2014 at 10:18 AM, updated February 05, 2014 at 10:28 AM
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"We consider ourselves an outdoor laboratory," MSU Professor of Plant Biology Frank Telewski tells Kirk Heinze on Greening of the Great Lakes. Telewski is the curator of MSU's W. J. Beal Botanical Garden and Campus Arboretum. "We've been in continuous operation since 1873 when Professor Beal first founded us.
"It's a very magical place, and a very important place for people beyond its scientific and educational value."
The ice storm many Michiganders experienced last Christmas has led to extensive tree and limb damage, says Telewski. "On north campus alone, we have over 300 trees that were impacted with broken branches. We actually lost more trees on campus during the November wind storm than we did in the December ice storm, though.
"Fortunately for us humans, our bones will heal; trees don't heal, we can't reattach a limb," Telewski says. "But trees are resilient and can regrow if they aren't severely damaged."
Telewski recommends homeowners consult a professional before they try to take care of damaged trees in their own yards.
"There are issues of safety with using a chainsaw safely and climbing into trees," he says. "It's best to get a certified arborist who knows what he's doing."
Telewski adds that the main thing most of us don't know about trees is "that trees can respond to their mechanical environment, particularly to wind loading and to ice and snow loading. Trees are very dynamic organisms that sense and respond to their environment.
"If we can better understand the biomechanics of trees and better understand how trees are resilient and how they can respond, then we can cultivate them in the landscape in such a way that we minimize their failure. Then we'll be farther ahead than we are today."
Please click on the arrow below to hear Telewski's Greening of the Great Lakes conversation with Heinze.
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:19:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Archman Subject: Special Assistant 14 Special Assistant Part 14 By Bald Hairy Man e-mail or This is an adult story intended for adults. It is a fantasy, so I again remind you that I have done away with the requirements of safe sex, and have included no gestures toward common sense either. These are all new stories. Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions or comments. I spent the night at Watson's apartment. Wizard woke me at three and screwed me a second time, then again at six. I was relaxed the second time and more like Jell-O than a man the third. As I relaxed, Wizard got deeper and a bit more aggressive. Less tense, I enjoyed it more. "Jason, I've never been able to break in a man so fast before," Wizard whispered to me. "What do you mean?" "It takes a long time for most guys to relax enough to enjoy it," he said. "For some, it's just the novelty of having my monster in their ass. It's not fun for them. They think of it as a genital trophy." "Like the fish that didn't get away mounted on the wall?" I asked. Wizard gave me several deep thrusts before he answered. "I guess you could put it that way," he replied. "I get the feeling you like this as much as I do." I couldn't answer him right away. He had shifted my position and the telephone pole in my ass hit something new. It was almost too much. Watson woke. "Have you guys been at it all night?" he asked. "Not quite all night," Wizard replied. "You have nice friends." "He's good for a Republican," Watson replied. With that comment Wizard gave me a hard thrust and we both shot off. It's hard to have a simultaneous orgasm, but Wizard and I did it. We twitched and shivered together, each ejaculation was perfectly timed. I went off to work, but I said I'd get to the Library of Congress to hear Wizard's lecture later in the week. It was a busy week for Rolf and for me. He had several appointments and an interview for a magazine. I took him to a meeting with the former Secretary of State. She lived in a rather quiet and unassuming house near Washington Cathedral. I was surprised when Marty appeared. I didn't know the other men and women, but I had the feeling I should have known who they were. I soon realized these were the Assistant Secretaries and Under Secretaries who actually ran their departments. I dropped off Rolf at 2:00 and picked him up at 5:00. Rolf didn't talk on the return drive, so I let it slide. Rolf would tell me what was up when he was ready. A few weeks later I found out I had made points with Rolf by not asking. He told me the meeting was disturbing and he needed time to think it over. If Rolf was disturbed that evening, the next morning's Post worried him even more. The Press Secretary was found dead, floating in the reflecting pool at the base of the Lincoln Monument. The article said, "White House functionary killed in freak accident." That was hard to believe. The White House Press office did its job and the official story seemed to be accepted by the mainstream media. There was some whispering about being considerate of the dead man's family. No one seemed to think it was odd when a healthy advisor to the President went for a walk sometime between two and three in the morning and accidentally fell into the reflecting pool and died. Kevin Magnuson, our detective friend dropped in a few days later and gave us the inside scoop. The Park Police found the Press Secretary nude below the waist, drowned in two feet of water. There was no blow to the head and the best guess was that someone had held him down. There was a high level of alcohol and of Crystal-Meth in his blood. He apparently had been gang raped, or gang banged before he died. Sperm from six men was found in his ass and rectum. The F.B.I. was handling the investigation and the Metropolitan police were specifically excluded from the case. This really rubbed the Metropolitan Police the wrong way. They were use to dealing with delicate situations. After all, a parking ticket served on a diplomatic car could cause an international incident. They knew how to deal with sensitive cases. I told Kevin of my experience with Steven in the Cosmopolitan Club. Kevin knew most of what I told him and had guessed the rest. "I wonder if the Press Secretary shared Steven's fantasies? He may have taken his abuse fantasies to the wrong group of men," Kevin said. "Or perhaps his fantasies became a problem, or he became a rival for Randall's affections. Someone decided to get rid of him," Rolf suggested. "His taste for masochism could have been his undoing. It would be easy to use that as a cover for a political assassination." "He has a wife and several kids," Kevin said. "There may be an effort to spare them embarrassment." "I don't believe anyone in this administration gives a shit about a family's humiliation," Rolf said. "Look what they did to Vince Foster's family. No, it's a good way to escape from the very real embarrassment of a family-values administration with a few gay masochists in its innermost circle." We discussed to possible scenarios with Kevin, but found none of them particularly convincing. I took to watching C-Spans broadcasts of the daily White House briefings. Much to my surprise Randall was still there and seemed to asking questions. He seemed to ask a question at just about every briefing. Whenever the acting Press Secretary got caught in a difficult line of questioning, he would call on Randall for a soft ball question. Steven was Randall's patron in the White House. When the Press Secretary died, Randall's White House career blossomed. Randall's involvement with the White House increased. I wondered if the Press Secretary had been an impediment to Randall's career, or had blocked Steven's plans for advancing his protegee. Before the murder Randall was quiet and in the background. Afterwards, Randall was much more in view. He was well on the way to becoming a fixture at the daily briefing. One thing didn't change. Randall continued to wear a day pass rather than the plastic encased photo identification badge all the other reporters wore. The Press Secretary's death caused remarkably little stir, so little it was impossible to believe the White House had not applied massive pressure to keep it quiet. Kevin came at the end of the week and gave us an update. He was working on the case. "The FBI has it under control," he said. "Does that mean what I think it means?" Rolf asked. "They are looking into international terrorism and the chance possibility a homeless man killed him," Kevin explained. "It's hard to visualize six, homeless, gay, rapists meandering down the Mall at three in the morning. It would be laughable if a man wasn't dead. Murder ain't funny in my book." "Could it be a love triangle?" Rolf asked. "Steven is clearly attached to Randall, but the Press Secretary was younger and more attractive. Steven doesn't take losing easily and will do anything to win." "Lying, cheating and stealing is a long way form murder," Kevin said. "Steven Martineau is the arch-type of the white collar criminal. It would be a stretch for that sort of man to use violence." "Masochists are complicated men," Rolf mused. "Senator Wilburn had the problem. He craved sex, but felt it was sinful. Wilburn needed a dominant sadist to force him into sexual acts. He could only enjoy sex if he was forced to. Most sadists are play acting, but some are disturbed. Most problems started with men who were play acting, but got carried away." "Senator Wilburn died of a heart attack as I recall," Kevin said. "Was that really the case?" "Technically, that was true," Rolf explained. "He was bound and gagged and had a panic attack while being whipped. It was tape recorded, so there was no question it was at Wilburn's own request. No charges were filed." "Have you found any leads?" I asked. "Other than terrorists and sex-crazed, homosexual homeless men, I mean." "We have enough DNA evidence to identify the men if we find them," Kevin answered. "Normally I would think the sexual aspect would exclude government agents, but our adventures in Iraq and at Gitmo make it's clear to this administration gay rape is as American as apple pie." "I never thought there would be American torture chambers," Rolf commented. "Apparently homosexual sex is evil unless it's forced on unwilling prisoners." "I never thought of it that way," Kevin mused. We talked for another ten minutes and Kevin had to get back to work. That evening Rolf and I went to the Library of Congress and heard Wizard's lecture. We got there a little late, but a good looking young man gave Rolf his seat and I stood in the aisle. Wizard's lecture was impressive. He had a knack for putting complicated scientific concepts into easily understood terms and building up his argument logically and seemingly effortlessly. He wasn't an alarmist, but by the end of the lecture I sensed we were at a turning point. Deep in my heart I knew there was no way the current administration would be able to respond to, or even understand or the problems that faced us. The lecture lasted an hour and a half, but it seemed like thirty minutes. Afterward, we went to a reception in the lobby. At first I thought the reception was for defeated Democratic Presidential candidates, but I did pick out one Republican Senator. I also ran into Gill, my acquaintance from the weekend in the country. He and Wizard were friends. As we left, I saw the young man who gave up is seat for Rolf. I thanked him. He was James Wilson and was an aid to the minority leader of the house. He lived in Georgetown, so we gave him a ride home. My gaydar wasn't perfect, but I got some strong vibes from him. By the time we got home, it was clear Rolf was the object of attraction. Wilson liked older men. I returned to my apartment and James stayed for a drink with Rolf. When I got back, my answering machine was blinking. It was Gill. He wanted me to stop in for brunch the next morning. I returned the call and said I'd be there. Gil was staying with a friend in the Watergate Apartments. The view was spectacular. His friend was a curator at the National Gallery, Nate Bullock. Wizard, Watson and the Bishop joined us for breakfast. Nate was friendly and unassuming. At five feet five, balding and bearded, he was just plain ordinary looking. He and Gill were the odd couple. Gill was as distinguished as Nate was ordinary. Nate was a great cook and the food was a long way from my standard Egg McMuffin breakfast. The conversation was good too. Bloody Mary's and Screwdrivers contributed to the open and pleasant conversation. I was a pleasant morning. The party was winding down when I walked in on Nate giving Watson a blow job in the bedroom. For some reason I was incredibly horny and hard as a rock, so I joined in. "I'm sorry," I said, "That looks too good to pass up." "No problem at all," Nate said. "I added a little booster to breakfast. Everyone one should be hot to trot." He was right. A minute or two later everyone was in the bedroom, stripping. Everyone was horny and just as hard as I was. I was afraid I was getting a reputation as a bottom, but with Nate there, I didn't need to worry. My interest in anal sex was but as a modest hobbyist compared to Nate. He was a 100% bottom sex pig. He loved it. Nate was also wildly enthusiastic about it and his enjoyment spread. In my sexual experiences, anal was the high point of the sexual experience, the main course. With Nate as the Master of Ceremonies, fucking was the appetizer as well as the main course and desert. He liked ass holes. Rimming, licking and fucking, he liked it all. It was also clear he was a size queen. He had a tight ass and it wasn't easy, but he loved them big and he loved to watch a guy take a big one. That is where I came in. I had taken both the Bishop and Wizard as well as Gill. Nate watched me sit on Wizard's cock as the Bishop worked his cock into his own, very tight hole. Nate moaned and twitched as the monster organ penetrated deeply into his rectum. Wizard sat on a chair and I was facing away from him as I impaled myself. Nate was on his hands and knees as the Bishop fucked him. Nate's face was in my crotch and he tried to lick my asshole and Wizard's cock as we fucked. Once the Bishop's pubic hair touched Nate's ass, Nate was out of it. He was in a sexual trance, responding to the thrust of the horse cock. After ten minutes Wizard and the Bishop traded places. I knew Gill liked to fuck, but Watson wasn't that interested. I didn't spend much time site seeing when I was fully impaled, but when Wizard held me up, so only his cock head was in my ass, I noticed Watson was fucking Gill doggie style. Clearly both men enjoyed it. I don't know what Nate had put as a "little booster" in the food, but we went at it like dogs in heat for two hours. I didn't get tired. Shooting off several times, I stayed hard. The only time my ass was empty was when I traded partners. I had two rest periods, one with Gill and one with Watson. They were both well endowed, but after wizard and the Bishop's monsters, they were relaxing. After the first half hour, the sex dissolved into a haze of pleasure. It was like a long sexual banquet, with each course flowing one to another. Watson's cock was a surprise. He had a fireplug like organ and it was unexpectedly exciting. I don't know exactly what it hit, but it rang my chimes. A little bit later Gill was fucking Nate when Watson realized there was more room in Nate's ass and he was able to enter Nate's hole and share it with Gill. Watson shot off and pulled out. I saw an opportunity and shoved my cock into Nate's gaping hole. Nate had been tight at the beginning of the session, but by now he was open enought to drive a train to his ass. With two cocks it was a tight fit, but Watson's cum provided addition lubricant. Nate's ass was quivering and spasming. He tightened his ass and held my cock against Gill's. we rubbed to two organs together. I could move more than Gill, so I was essentially masturbating his cock with mine. I looked at Nate in the eye, he smiled and then tightened his ass as much as he could. Gill began to moan. I felt his cock twitch and I knew he was shooting. My entire body shivered as my balls exploded. When I pulled out, sperm drooled from Nate's ass. Gill and I were wiped out, lying prone on the bed. Nate got up. 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How To See Tonight’s Meteor Shower
Take advantage of this rare chance to see the Quadrantid meteor shower
The Quadrantid meteor shower, as visible at twilight. Photo by Mila Zinkova
If you can drag yourself out of bed and into the chill of a early January morning, you might find yourself looking at a rare treat: the Quadrantid meteor shower. Early in the morning hours of January 4, from roughly 2 to 5 a.m. local time across the country, this annual meteor shower will be visible in the Northern hemisphere, peaking with an intensity that will approach 100 shooting meteors per hour.
“What’s going on is the earth is going through a debris trail,” says Timothy Spahr, astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “You’re dealing with very tiny particles, dust-sized in a lot of cases. When they enter the atmosphere, they burn up immediately, and that makes a meteor.” The particles that make up the Quadrantid shower originate from an asteroid named 2003 EH1, which many scientists believe was actually once part of a comet. Because the particles enter at speeds as high as 90,000 miles per hour, they burn up high in the atmosphere and leave a glowing streak across the sky.
The Quadrantid shower is unusual in that it continues for a relatively short duration—only a few hours, as compared to more famous showers, such as the Perseids, that last for several days—but with a high degree of activity. “Under a dark sky, we are talking about 100 visible meteors per hour, so that means a little more than one per minute,” Spahr says. “Many people assume that these showers have millions of meteors all over the sky, but you’ll see around one per minute. And that’s actually pretty cool, because you register when you see each one.”
With the moon projected to set at around 3 a.m. and clear forecasts for much of the country, tonight has the potential to be a rare chance to see the Quadrantids. Most years, because of their brief duration, moonlight or cloudy conditions obscure the show. This year, experts recommend going outside once the moon has set—and, of course, dressing warmly, with projected nighttime temperatures in the twenties or teens in many places. Because of the show’s timing, the best viewings are expected in the Eastern United States.
Meteor-gazers are advised to watch the Northeast part of the sky, and find as dark an area as possible. Give your eyes some time to adjust to the dark and be alert, as most meteors flash by in a second or less. A live feed of the skies above Huntsville, Alabama, is available on NASA’s web site.
One of the biggest factors that determine how many meteors will be seen is something that most people cannot control: location. For those stuck in big cities—like this reporter, based in Washington, D.C.—ambient lighting will reduce the visibility of the meteors significantly. ”A really dark sky makes a huge difference, and most people in the world never see a dark sky because they live in cities,” Spahr says. “If you drove two hours to the west of Washington, say, and got up in elevation a little bit, it would be very nice.”
Still, this is one meteor show that even city-dwellers can appreciate, if not as much as those in the country. “It will be a lot less in a city, but you will still see some meteors tonight,” says Spahr. “Some of these particles will end up, for just a few seconds, as bright as Venus, so those you’ll be able to see from pretty much anywhere.”
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Medical doctor abusing female patients caught on video
An Italian doctor was filmed by a reporter crew using an hidden camera while he was touching and kissing a patient’s intimate parts.
After undressing the patient, the abusing doctor make her lay in the examination table and begins caressing her breast, kissing her and trying to reach other intimate parts of her body.
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Law & Order stirs vaccination pot
I have vaccinated all my three boys more or less on schedule, but it is more inertia than science; when Everett was born, I wasn't in a community that questioned vaccinations (my husband's best man was a pharmaceutical sales rep, for one), and it wasn't until later that I started wondering if filling babies full of toxins was really the best approach. By then, it was almost time for public school, and I didn't want to face filling out forms stating my "religious" refusal for one child, but not another.
But I know lots of you urbanMamas don't vaccinate; parts of Oregon have some of the highest rates of vaccination avoiders in the country. And last night on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, I felt as if I was seeing one of my friends on trial. After an 11-month-old died from measles -- and her mom, a distracted and turbulent Hillary Duff, buried her in a parking lot, thinking she'd killed her -- it was decided that the real "culprit" was a mom who'd decided not to vaccinate her son. The baby and the little boy had been at the same playground after he'd been infected by an Amish teen with measles. The city of New York put the non-vaccinating mom on trial for murder. Seriously?
Not only were non-vaccinators called out in scathing tones for their lack of medical degrees and their dispassioned uncaring for all others ("I don't make choices for those kids!" said the mom shrilly), but the way the writers portrayed the woman was unforgivable; on the stand, she goes on a rant claiming that the baby would have died anyway, because Hillary Duff's character was a "bad mom" (true, but really) and she was a "good mom" and thus she deserved to get off. She did, much to the disgust of most of the SVU crew, who kvetched about how she'd gotten away with murder. The ending was too complicated and horrifying to describe here.
I was shocked that such an extreme viewpoint, which took the "mommy wars" media invention and ran with it in the ugliest way, was firmly established by a TV show I've often loved as the moral right. Did you watch the show? What did you think? Will you be watching Law & Order again?
Believe it or not, Law & Order is not the best source of information about vaccination. If you're concerned about your child's health talk to your pediatrician instead of watching TV.
Wow. I didn't watch, but that is pretty extreme to put a non-vaccinator on trial for murder (and if you're going to go that route, why didn't they put the Amish parent on trial too?)
Unfortunately or not, mainstream TV shows are often used as public health message carriers. In fact, in some countries it is done deliberately. I've watched Law and Order here and there and noticed that they really push a conservative agenda, social and political.
They didn't bring up a key reason that people might want to consider vaccinating (and might relate to better than the threat of death); that you are making choices for your child that limit their lifestyle (or life), that they might not make themselves. For instance, traveling or working in developing countries, or in some medical settings.
It's not that hard to selectively vaccinate and spread them out. I was creeped out by the amount of vaccinations that my baby was getting, and asked them to start spacing them out as possible (so we wouldn't have to start new series, etc). Next baby will be on the Sears schedule. I do think it is responsible to vaccinate, but in that biologically unformed system, I hate to have Hep. B injected, just so they can get it done before they're 12 years old.
I think it's very good that there is pressure, questioning the safety of vaccines and their ingredients. There are a lot of public health trends that are are as yet unexplained, and too difficult to correlate in studies because the studies don't cover the lifetime of the vaccinated. However, there are higher known risks with not vaccinating.
I don't even usually watch the show but my roommate roped me into last night-- meaning, he was watching it and I was too lazy to get off the couch. However, once it was abundantly clear that they were moving from "missing child episode" to "we're going to preach about vaccinations episode" I got my lazy ass up. I didn't watch the rest, and am now glad I didn't. I knew it was going to be ridiculous.
The vaccination debate is very important-- who shoots their kids full of stuff without consideration? (well, lot's of people I guess)-- and it has many ideas, views, and pros and cons, and L & O putting in their (very one-sided, badly presented) two cents is just stupid.
Wow, I don't know if it's coincidence or conspiracy, but last week's episode of Private Practice also had a "bad mom" who didn't vaccinate, and her son ended up dying from measles. In a "valiant effort" to save her and her other child from herself, her doctor flew across the room and plunged a needle of vaccine into her son's arm before the mom could stop him. The ignored legal ramifications, stereotypes, etc. were overwhelming.
Both L&O, and PP are terrible, terrible shows - just the kind of mindless drivel I love after a long day of kids and night class. But, as a mom who selectively vaccinates, I feel I need to contact both shows and complain/educate. I encourage others to do the same.
"Unfortunately or not, mainstream TV shows are often used as public health message carriers."
This is so true. Anecdote time, I cannot tell you how many times someone has brought up the Nip/Tuck episode in a circumcision discussion.
this sounds awful. i haven't watched any of the L & O franchise in sometime. SVU deserves a special place in hell, in my view, because they really do end up glorifying the same violence against women that they think they're decrying... I remember the one episode that made me give it up: the woman cop went undercover at a women's prison to try to find a prison guard rapist, and almost gets raped herself for her trouble. It was absolutely too repugnant to watch. And I'm someone who thinks that we *should* be concerned about female inmates, who are so vulnerable, but that show was so smarmily written [and acted] as to be just exploiting them all over again... So, not surprised at all to hear that L &O can't get at the nuances of the vaccination issue.
I also saw the Private Practice episode a month or so ago, and it made me furious. I actually have followed almost all the guidelines for vaccinations (but we waited on the MMR until my son was well past 2). BUT, my husband and I made the vaccination decisions, and the fact that the show's plot line took the decision to vaccinate out of the mother's hands and into the doctor's hands was just plain wrong (and frightening, actually.)
After that episode, I stopped watching the show. Probably should never have watched it to begin with because it's just mindless drama and a waste of time, but the vaccination episode put me over the top.
I'm a fan of L&O, but I do hate it when they get preachy. I guess my response is that there's a valid point to be made with this. If you don't vaccinate, you do put other kids at risk of getting serious diseases. I understand the nuances of vaccinations, and I'm one of those who couldn't fathom giving a Hep B shot in the hospital so I didn't. I try to hold to the belief that it is an individual decision, but it also really isn't a decision that applies just to an individual. I guess I wonder how many people who make the decision not to vaccinate because they determine it's the right thing for their own child factor into the equation that they are also making decisions for other people that may not be the right one for them.
Do you know anyone who's suffered the crippling effects of polio? Well, neither do I, thanks be to God. The numbers simply don't lie: The chances of injury or death from vaccination are infinitesimal compared to the odds of injury or death from the countless diseases that were crushed by the discovery of immunization.
I'm not opposed to individuals being informed about WHY vaccinations are the right thing to do, but this wishy-washy validation of people doing the 100% wrong thing just because they made an "informed" decision is hogwash. I can make an "informed" decision to drive 55 MPH past an elementary school at the afternoon bell because I know there's not a cop around, but that will NEVER make it the right decision. How about if I make an "informed" decision to let my infant play in the cat box and risk toxoplasmosis? Choosing not to vaccinate is not one bit different - it's choosing to play the odds for no good reason other than to elevate the parent's own inflated sense of self-importance simply by being contrarian.
There are also a tiny few instances where a seat belt or child safety seat has contributed to the death of a passenger in an auto accident. Do I go out and blame "Big Safety"? Or do I push for a "gradual" implementation of safety measures - not using a safety carrier for children for the first six months of their lives? How about twenty-four months - just to be sure?
Of course, if my kid isn't buckled in properly, that doesn't present any danger to another child. And that's the point, isn't it? Parents who choose not to vaccinate have the luxury of being irresponsible because so many of the rest of us are keeping their kids safe indirectly.
There are and always have been individuals in our society living with paranoid delusions of some demonic shadow movements trying to enslave us. There have been masses of people who feared the Masons and other secret societies, and there are still those who believe Zionist Jewish banking conspirators pull the strings to start world conflicts. The campaigners against "Big Pharma" are just more of the same - paranoiacs ready to latch on to any half-baked theory to blame for their dissatisfaction with this flawed world we live in and the simple realities of human frailty and mortality.
But you know what has changed human life profoundly for the better in contrast to centuries of suffering and death? Vaccinations.
JM.....I think I love you.
I agree with JM. Thanks for speaking so well. If we all made these "informed" decisions for our children, it wouldn't be very long before all of these diseases that we have vaccinated against are back in full force.
A 4 year old who hasn't been vaccinated might be able to recover fairly easily from the measles. But, a 6 month old infant who is not yet old enough to be vaccinated and is exposed to that 4 year old might not recover. How do you tell that 6 month old's mother that because of someone else's selfish "informed" decision killed her baby?
JM, Hepatitis B is transmitted through direct blood-to-blood contact, unprotected sex and unsterile needles or during childbirth by infected mothers. It is not transmitted casually.
Now, according to you, I (not a Hep B carrier) am under a paranoid delusion when I consider the likely activities of my infant and conclude that unsafe sex and needle-sharing won't be among them. According to you, my decision to skip this vaccination on a newborn baby (who can always get it a few years later) is not informed by facts about the likelihood of his actually contracting Hep B, but rather on my "half-baked" campaign against "Big Pharma."
Well, I beg to differ.
Zinemama, don't play like that.
I'm not laying down the law on every possible vaccination, and by making it about Hep B exclusively, you're just building a strawman - attempting to take me down by attacking an argument that isn't at the core of the discussion.
What do you want, for me to specifically address each and every vaccine? And maybe I should break out each component of each vaccine - not just MMR but separately for each of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella? How about not just for DipTet, but for Diptheria and Tetanus separately?
You're right - Hep B is not contagious under normal circumstances. I myself didn't get it until I travelled abroad to a couple undeveloped countries (and no, I didn't engage in any risky behaviors as you described). But trying to use this fact as a cornerstone of some blanket refutation of my argument is either poor form or just poorly thought-out.
I was with you until there, JM. I am pro-vax, but if you honestly believe that pharmaceutical corporations are more concerned with you and your child's well-being over the almighty dollar, you are a naive fool. They are lobbyists that serve stockholders.
I wasn't aware that there's a law against advancing humanity and making money at the same time, You so crazy. What a crazy idea!
I'm not in any way championing the pharmaceutical companies. Heck, Pfizer bought out my hometown pharma company for the formulas and gutted the city's economy by shutting most operations down.
The point is that casting pharmaceutical companies as mustache-twirling villains using vaccines to turn us into sheep distracts from the core question: Are vaccines effective tools in combatting deadly, contagious diseases? If the answer is yes, then, well, what do you know? I'm actually willing to pay for that, and for my children. And who am I to say that pharmaceuticals companies shouldn't, well, get paid for protecting me from virulent contagions?
JM, it's not about Hep B exclusively. It's your contention that parents who research vaccines (and not on scary anti-vaccine websites, but using books written by MDs and material provided by the CDC), are somehow deluded and paranoid when, based on that research, they opt out of certain vaccines or choose to space them out.
You said of such parents that we are "choosing to play the odds for no good reason other than to elevate [our] own inflated sense of self-importance simply by being contrarian."
Well, that's downright demeaning. I don't make these decisions for my children lightly and certainly not to elevate my own self-importance.
That's what I objected to in your post.
Yay JM! I am frankly sick of other Portland parents who make us feel as if we're bad parent for "injecting my child with poisons" -- my husband and I have actually been told that's what we've been doing by vaccinating.
Are you aware that Dr. Sears is running on the good name of his father and he makes quite a fortune for his book as well as for having people come to his clinic to get vaccines separately. He is taking advantage of our fear based society for his monetary gain. Please don't let the fact that he is an MD provide you with a security blanket that this is the correct thing to do. If you opt not to vaccinate, don't do it simply based on his book. Do your research as well as being aware of all the horrible diseases that we are risking have return to harm our loved ones.
wow, ladies. lets step back a moment. the post asks "Did you watch the show? What did you think? Will you be watching Law & Order again?" The vaccination argument is like beating a dead horse. There have been plenty of other posts, anti/pro vaccine, that have let you guys rip each others hair out. reread those posts and save us all some time, instead of reposting the same ol' stuff.
i did not watch the show and don't plan to in the future.
Jodi, I haven't read Dr. Sear's book, which came out quite recently, I believe. (My kids are older). Personally, I found Dr. Stephanie Cave's book very informative and unbiased. I liked the way she breaks down each VPD, and assesses the risks and benefits of the vaccines for each. (She is ultimately in favor of vaccines, by the way). I also relied on the CDC's Pink Book. I would never make a decision like this based on a single source. I don't know anyone who would.
Provaccine, I hope you realize that those comments are not representative of people like me. This is a complex issue and I don't hold people who arrive at a different decision in contempt. It's too bad you have run into people who are just plain rude.
Honestly? If that happened to me, I'd want someone to be held responsible. Really, if I took my infant to the park and he got a fatal illness that someone could have avoided by vaccine, I'd want them to be held responsible. How is it different than a drunk driver killing a child? I'm not pleased with myself that I feel that way, but I'm being honest.
I can honestly say, JM, that I have never come across a person less educated on the topic of vaccine safety, let alone vaccine effectiveness.
"But you know what has changed human life profoundly for the better in contrast to centuries of suffering and death? Vaccinations." I think you're forgetting about the most important advancement in human health to date: the flushing toilet.
Please, please inform yourself.
Kathleen, they wouldn't have been able to tie the Amish family directly to the death of the infant because he didn't come in direct contact. It would be up to the mother who didn't vac to go after him if she wanted, but she wouldn't have a case because she didn't take all measures to avoid being infected. Not to defend the show, but just to answer your question!
I have never like Law and Order SVU. I really like the other ones and will watch them again. As for the vaccination question: I think vaccines certainly have their place and I have vaccinated my daughter. I think vaccines should be spread out more because I agree that too many at one time might be harmful and overwhelming to a small body. As for the children who aren't vaccinated only time will tell how they do and how they will affect those that are vaccinated.
It's funny, Jenni, you call JM uneducated, yet you offer no actual information yourself, nor do you provide any sources. Here's one:
You don't believe any of this, of course, because it's all lies made to scare us, right? The CDC is just a tool of the military-industrial complex, right?
The possibility of injury from vaccine is there. But if not getting vaccinated is like playing Russian roulette with one bullet in one six-chambered revolver, getting vaccinated is like playing Russian roulette with one bullet in an armory of weapons.
Someone can be totally, completely educated about every horrible, heartbreaking possibility resulting from a vaccination, but it's about the ODDS. The ODDS don't lie.
So, I did not see the episode of SVU, but as a fairly frequent watcher of the show in times past, I think that I can imagine how it went.
Unfortunately, TV, even prime time TV, is the primary source of medical information, even just information on current issues, for most people. Wrong to perhaps display an opinion so aggressive, but in the end, probably truly for the overall good. Compare to the situations on daytime soaps which dare to portray gay/lesbian relationships...Most of us here probably laud these decisions...as it seems to make these things mainstream and more "acceptable" to those who perhaps don't know such a couple personally....
So...on to my thoughts on some of the other issues expressed on this thread...primarily because I can speak with at least a bit of experience. I am a US trained infectious diseases specialist (and I have mentioned that before here in discussions of vax...) who now works in the drug regulatory agency ..and actually works with licensing of some vax. So I must speak to the scepticism of both sides of this fence....
I honestly think that the CDC/FDA and the ECDC/EMEA (European equivalents) and the drug companies have the primary goal to promote the health and welfare of society. I think that this is borne out from the governmental side by the fact that most decisions made by the CDC/FDA are the same as those made bu the authorities in Europe (decisions made separately mind you...actually very little collaboration). Don't get me wrong, there are differences...and sometimes those differences may be important. For instance, in Europe, vax against chickpox is not recommented...but hey, my children have been vaxed against meningitis and tick born encephalitis which was not done in the US. Drug companies do have to answer to their shareholders...but the physicians, scientists, and epidemiologists who work for them are good people...most all of the people I know have all considered and perhaps have chosed to work for the industry...and actually, I feel good about that...I want them to have smart people with integrity working for them....
Now just on to vaccines....be prepared. More and more will be on the way. This issue will only grow larger and larger. With the introduction of certain vaccines, we "force" the microbiological world to evolve (just like the use of antibiotics forces resistance)....vaccines are being developed which offer more "expanded" coverage..given our pressure and perhaps factors unrelated to vax, bacteria which before were not prevalent now are and are causing disease...We now have a vaccine against cancer..the human papilloma virus...I am sure more will come....And of course, I think no one would argue that a vax against HIV would likely be worthy of a Nobel Prize...
Furthermore, more infectious diseases are emerging...4 new ones in 10yr since I graduated from medical school (SARS, monkey pox, avian flu, and now swine flu)...all the result of our "encroachment" on each others and animals territories. Also the emergence of previous lesser prevalent diseases given climate change...amoebic encephalitis which was diagnosed in roughly 15 persons last year in the south and dengue/malaria which will reach the south US in time....
Not to be a fear monger, just telling it like it is. Vaccinations are an important part of our society...I will concur that the toilet was a remarkable invention against infectious diseases...but (and I apologize as I had said it before...) it was the reason that smallpox was eradicated nor the reason that polio almost is....
Sorry..what a shame to typo the last sentence of my comment....the toilet was NOT the reason diseases have been eradicated...vax are!
The Problem With Dr Bob's Alternative Vaccine Schedule
This article just goes to show . . .in medicine never take the word of just one MD. That is the difficult part of the lay public learning how to handle "scientific research". Certainly there are very intelligent people out there that can make appropriate choices, however the vast majority of the population may not make smart choices and put the rest of society at risk. I am not a fan of L&O making these points, but somehow society needs to know the risks of not vacinating. Unfortunately, my own father and his brother had polio as his mother did not vaccinate him or his brother even though the vaccine was on the market already.
Do people like JM seriously think that this world was a cesspool of disease before vaccines came along? That every disease that we currently vaccinate for was a rampant epidemic? I'm not implying that no vaccine has had any improvement on our mortality rate, but I get really frustrated with the fearmongering from people who would have us believe that, for example, we would all know a few children crippled from polio if it weren't for the polio vaccine. The truth is, polio had greatly declined the year before the vaccine was made. Epidemics are cycles - waves that come and go. We still see these waves in things like SARS and the swine flu. These illnesses do not take over the whole world for lack of vaccines; they come and they go in occasional waves. Certainly, some vaccines have had some benefits for society, but the attitude that anyone who doesn't give their child every vaccination is by default a horrible, careless parent is absolutely ridiculous and uneducated.
For more information, a great resource book is Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide by Aviva Jill Romm.
Oh, and as a response to the odds thing, the odds are overwhelming that a child with vaccinations will develop more allergies and other autoimmune problems than a child who is not vaccinated. THOSE are the odds that made me choose not to vaccinate my children yet, though my daughter's 105 degree fever after her last vaccination certainly got the ball rolling in my quest for more information. Now that my older daughter is three, I plan to start vaccinating her again, one vaccine at a time. That is my personal decision, and I think every parent should have the right to look at the information that is out there, like I did, and make the decision that they feel is best for their child. We are the parents, and our children's health is our responsibility. God forbid that we just take a line from either side of the debate and go with it, without taking any personal responsibility for the choices that we must make.
As for L&O I think their motto is "ripped from the headlines" , taking issues that are relevant to our society and creating an episode. Maybe you can email and ask them to make a counterpoint episode that comes froma different perspective.
If the CDC is your authority on this matter, God help you.
Time to lay off the coffee, JM. Sheesh. Chill out.
I'm still curious about a non-vax response to the idea that this story could really happen. I'm not intending to put anyone on the spot or to ask them to defend their decision. I understand the reasons people don't vax, and I try to be open-minded about it. Personally, I'm weary of the name-calling debate over it because no one is saying anything new or particularly influencing that we haven't already heard. I'm just really curious about how a non-vax advocate answers the possibility that this could occur. It's really not a scenario I had considered before. Have you?
mom22, I don't suppose that I can adequately answer the question you have asked, but instead of using an example as recently incendiary as the measles, consider influenza. A vaccine exists and the suggestions with regard to who can be vaccinated and when are changing in favor of being more inclusive (definitely not talking about the N1H1 business we're learning about lately).
So let's say that a friend of yours had an opportunity to have the flu vaccine, but declined. Imagine that members of her family began to develop flu-like symptoms shortly after having spent a nice afternoon with your family. No one becomes terribly ill, just the usual aches and snot and discomfort. Perhaps some of the members of your family become ill. One of your family members becomes particularly sick and is diagnosed with pneumonia. Is that your friend's fault? Was no one else in your community a possible source? I don't think it's necessary to imagine fatalities in order to discuss this subject.
Do you personally bear any responsibility for the health of your family? For providing adequate nutrition? For recognizing signs of illness (I do believe that fever with a rash present is pretty universally regarded as something that warrants the attention of a Dr.)? I'm certainly not implying that a healthy diet, adequate rest and hydration are a kind of panacea guaranteed to cure all ills, but aside from treating symptoms, what other advice would you receive from a doctor? And how much personal responsibility do we have for ourselves and our own care?
Microbes exist and we have very little control over them, propagating the illusion that we do is not helpful and renders people helpless in relatively benign circumstances, let alone in the face of more serious health issues.
Having the measles is not a death sentence. It used to be a common childhood illness that wasn't any more frightening than having the chicken pox was when I was a child. Women who had measles in their childhood carried lifelong immunity. That immunity was available to their infants via breast milk. That immunity got the equivalent of booster shots when those infants grew and acquired measles. Mostly a non-sequitur at this point, since that cycle has been broken. And not to say that having the measles was a lovely risk free experience, I can't think of much that is.
For us, vaccination is medically contraindicated. Even if it wasn't it is highly unlikely that I would vaccinate my son at this point. There will be some risk/benefit consideration due as he approaches adolescence with regard to the possible complications of mumps in an older boy, but that is some way off.
I find it interesting that the vaccine manufacturers carry zero liability for their product. I find it interesting that it can be pretty clearly shown that improvements in diet and hygiene have had at least as significant an impact on VPDs as vaccines themselves. I find it really disheartening that the concept of herd immunity is something people take for grated as a truism.
Jenni 7,
I think there's really know way to know how prevalent the diseases controlled by vaccines would have become, but there are experts who speculate based on their expertise. One way to look at it is to see how many people are affected some vaccine-able diseases in countries that have the disease and don't vaccinate (developing countries). For the people in those countries, I'll bet they wish they had access to the vaccines. Also we do know that public health has improved in the last 75 years in developed countries, and there are numbers for things like smallpox and polio that we know are nearly eradicated, but did exist before.
It should be tossed out that the physician who first published these studies linking MMR to autism has been found to be wrong by several large scale clinical trials. And that he, in fact, was found to be fraudulent and charged with professional misconduct by the UK's General Medical Council.
Just wanted to add, in terms of knowing where the source of whatever germ is, the neither the whole cell, nor the acellular pertussis vaccines prevent transmission, for example. So just because the ignorant hippies down the street didn't vaccinate their kid, doesn't mean they're the source; someone you know may well have a subclinical infection particularly since it is not known exactly how effective the vaccine is, or for how long. Live virus vaccines (e.g. MMR) can shed.
JM, thanks for putting it so well. I agree with you, but couldn't find those words to express how I felt.
My old friend didn't vaccinate her children, not out of research, but simply to be "anti-establishment". It's unbelivably scary when children's health is linked to parental dissidence.
just curious about your statement, " I find it really disheartening that the concept of herd immunity is something people take for grated as a truism."
what is the evidence against it?
Thanks for the thoughtful discussion. I just wanted to gently remind everyone of our cardinal rule to be respectful, please try to temper personal attacks or snide remarks (http://urbanmamas.typepad.com/urbanmamas/2007/03/urbanmamas_poli.html).
I watch L&O and probably will not boycott it as I see it as entertainment. There's a formula to the show especially with the cops messing up making the DA's job harder (e.g., supressing evidence, etc.). They're original case is usually messed up, and they usually need to figure out a way find new evidence or find the need to go after someone else for the crime. It is sad that people use the information on TV shows as fact and cannot separate entertainment from reality.
Thank you for posting that hau. It has gotten stressful lately checking the comments. Like walking in to the middle of a fight or something.
Rebecca, not everyone who skips or delays vaccinations does so because of fears about autism. (I'm not saying you said this, but it's a common perception that autism is the only factor people consider). Other ingredients, like aluminum and formaldehyde (for example) concern some parents, as does the age at which vaccines are given, the number of them given at once to an immature immune system, and the risk of reaction to a particular shot vs. the risks of the disease itself. There are a lot of factors to consider.
And Eve, if it's really true that your friend didn't vaccinate her kids solely to be anti-establishment, that's very sad. That is not the norm among the delayed/selective or non-vaccinators I know.
Sorry, I meant to say, other ingredients besides thimerisol (the preservative never conclusively associated with autism but nevertheless removed from most vaccines anyway)are of concern to parents.
Hi Rebecca,
What I meant is that herd immunity is something of a myth. It can not be determined exactly how effective any given vaccine is in any given person, or how long it will or will not last. In the case of something like Hib, there are issues such as serotype replacement (sure, you're vaccinated against the B-type of Haemophilus Influenzae, but by eradicating that particular colony of organisms, you have left a blank to be filled by others).
The idea of herd immunity is like the absolute value of a number, according to proponents--it is a thing that exists, that can be obtained, that truly is an absolute. That simply isn't possible because of the myriad variables involved in human biological reality.
Wow, JM, thank you, (although I might have said it a bit more gently :) ). I get so tired of getting the big eyed stare from all of the "informed" Portland mothers when I say that I vaccinated on schedule.
Personally, the best scholarly, peer-reviewed, MEDICAL article (not Jenny McCarthy, blogger, or some other C-list celebrity)I read postulating one (not THE one, just one) of the possible contributors for the genetic links for autism was advancing paternal age. Let's face it, people have kids a lot later now than they used to. More children live past the age of 1-2 (when most autism symptoms begin to manifest themselves) now than 100 years ago. But that doesn't nearly make the headlines that vaccines and Big Pharma conspiracies do. We wouldn't want to tell people to start having kids younger, right? I tend to side with most medical experts on the theory that autism is a genetic disorder with a myriad of causes. I don't believe there is any one smoking gun for such a complex disorder with an incredible range of manifestations.
As far as the entertainment angle goes, didn't that stupid show Eli Stone have an episode where he was winning some big settlement proving that vaccines caused autism? Honestly, I'm glad attention is being brought to the issues through television-it gets the discussion going.
Finally, even though I don't believe vaccines cause autism, I don't feel that autism is the worst thing that could happen to my child. I'd rather her be autistic than to lose her to a secondary infection stemming from measles or polio. I guess what it comes down to, for both sides, is "What if I failed to do something that could have protected my child?" For some of us, the greater threat is infectious disease. For others, its autism. All of us are trying to be good parents and protect our children.
herd immunity is not a myth. perhaps another word to use would be model. and furthermore a model which when applied has consistently produced the predicted results.
for example, rates of measles have increased in the UK and the increases in outbreaks here in the US in correlation with a decrease in vaccinations secondary to the Wakefield scare and other concerns about additives. we have successfully decreased rates of H. influenzae pneumonia in the elderly because we have vaccinated the young.
furthermore, this theory is used by public health officials as a tool to contain outbreaks, as happened with meningitis in new zealand. it will be used as well if H1N1 2009 becomes the deadly pandemic it may have the potential to do (the pandemic of 1918 began similar to this one, with a flurry of activity in the spring before its deadly deluge in the following autumn).
your comments regarding our ability to predict the response in an individual is true, but we are not talking of individuals, this is population concept.
population based models are constructed to account for the "myriad of variables" in individuals.
Vaccinated people can still be carriers of the viruses they are vaccinated against!
I will never watch SVU again. This last episode made me sick.
What about the mother of the dead little girl? Her daughter has measles, therefore a high fever and an evident rush all over the body but insted of taking her to a hospital or doctor what she does? She spank her and go back to sleep! Measles is a disease ralrely fatal for kids or babies IF properly treated (and this is a fact even if somebody is trying to make us believe is the most dangerous illness ever). But instead of prosecuting this careless mother they decide is more "appropriate" to prosecute a mother who choose not to have her own son vaccinated and take good care of him during his illness. Ridiculous! I wonder who the producer of this episode is...a pharmaceutical industry?
But Rebecca, it's a model generally based on immunization in infants/children. It doesn't account for waning immunity in adults (although I am aware that there are more and more efforts made to encourage vaccination and booster shots in adults), which was once addressed by the circulation of VPDs that acted on their own as a kind of "booster" for adults who had already acquired immunity. So it becomes a self limiting concept. A good example of a failure of herd immunity would be the mumps epidemics in the US and the UK, while another consideration would be that in the case of smallpox, quarantine is also required, vaccination isn't sufficient.
I think that this is a difficult concept all the way around, and even as an ID MD (not a vaccinologist) there is much I do not know about vaccines.
However, what I do know is that we have come a long way in the field of infectious diseases, preventing large amounts of morality and morbidity with the use of vaccines. Herd immunity is a model which works, but I am sure that it has its shortcomings, as you mention with mumps, smallpox. Another good example would be that of pertussis which has run a bit rampant in Oregon in the past few years. We use other tools, such as vax boosters later in life, quarantine, etc to contain spread of disease.
But all in all, quotes on this thread like "...if the CDC is your authority, God help you" and "herd immmunity is somthing of a myth" are really not called for, in fact, disrespectful to the medical/ public health community. I know these people, as I worked in the Acute and Communicable Diseases Division of Oregon Health Services, and these are some of the brightest people I know. In fact, it was the department in Oregon that was responsible for discovering the source of some very large nationwide outbreaks, salmonella in almonds a couple of years back to name 1. And many of my former colleagues work at the CDC, and I personally think they do a damn good job!
Fine if you don't want to vaccinate your own children, just say a word of thanks to all the parents who vaccinated theirs and the CDC/OR public health department...they are the reason disease rates are low and outbreaks are contained...and your children are as safe as they are!
Rebecca, I certainly didn't mean to belittle anyone with my statement about herd immunity, and I apologize if that felt like a personal attack to you. I simply don't accept/agree/what have you that the answer is that simple. I feel that it becomes a circular argument.
I also have strong feelings about personal freedom when it comes to medical intervention. My father is an MD, my brother is a medical professional of a different stripe, and I myself have training to provide limited medical care. I do not disregard the tremendous services that medical and scientific professionals provide. I grew up in a living room littered with editions of JAMA and similar publications, however, when it comes to the health of my family, I do not take anything for granted. Not those who do vaccinate, neither those who do not. Least of all those who would place my child into a "for the common good" category on either side of any argument.
Please, if you will, have some fil mjolk for me (I miss that stuff!), and let's be grateful to have strong, healthy children--in spite of or because of whatever it may be.
Wow! We've got some smart mamas on this board! Rebecca and Laurie (and others), I appreciate your thoughtful, intelligent discussion of this (even if I didn't fully understand all of it!) This is what I like to see on UM. Respectful conversation; agree to disagree. It's definitely possible to get your opinion heard without judgment and name calling.
Thanks ladies.
A timely article in this week's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine..
And a nice reminder of the benefits of vaccination!
An important study...vaccine preventable diseases are still around today...and unvaccinated persons are vulnerable!
I was disgusted by the episode. So much propaganda on the TV these days. I never watch Law and Order but it happened to be on and it sparked my curiosity. I was shocked at how the episode ran saying that you are an irresponsible parent if you don't vaccinate. I can't believe anyone loves their children more than I do and I made an informed decision not to pollute my beloved childrens bodies. I am distraught that I did not learn about the dangers of vaccinations and the side effects/problems in the future before I gave my children most of their innoculations. I implore all of you to research and not blindly listen to your doctor who gets alot of kick backs from the drug companies. If you don't think that part is true you need to wake up. I worked in a doctors office for several years and saw it first hand. The bribes and the pressure were non stop. we have been brainwashed to think this is normal and natural. All pro vaccine people I am 100 % sure are spouting back what they have been told, not hard raw research
and I also think JM needs to get of their almighty high horse and read. Obviously they only read VC andrews and crap, being informed and doing your own research is the right thing to do, just sitting back and doing what you are told like a good little sheep is why this world is going down the tubes. I bet they believe everything they read in the tabloids as well. Good little sheeple JM, government loves submissive obedient slaves like you
Assertions such as "the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks" or that "the risks of vaccines are infinitesimal" are based on extremely skewed and faulty statistics. The FDA has estimated that only ten percent of vaccine adverse reactions are ever reported by doctors! Which means that the actual risks of vaccines are FAR GREATER than the "statistics" seem to indicate.
The FDA is hardly a loony fringe group of anti-medical-establishment fanatics. Quite the contrary - their bias would naturally be IN FAVOR of the medical establishment. Other studies have estimated the side effects of vaccines to be far greater than even the FDA estimate. Please remember and consider this whenever you hear about how "safe" vaccines are.
What do folks say about the statistics like this: TWO of my uncles died in childhood from diseases that we vaccinate against today. What is an acceptable level of risk? I don't know the answer, but how many children used to die before we had vaccines to protect them?
One uncle died before his 3rd birthday of diptheria (yes, diptheria), and the other (my father's older brother) got polio as an early teen.
Everyone loves their kids, make your chioce but don't call me a puppet or uncaring or any of the other names so casually thrown around when I have had actual deaths in my family from preventable diseases.
To Josh and others: Just a reminder that adverse event reporting after vaccination does not have to be done by the medical community. Anyone is free to report adverse events: the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System through the FDA and the CDC can be accessed by everyone.
Working in pharmacovigilance at the present time, I can say first hand that it is hard to collect this data.. privacy issues make it almost impossible to prospectively follow subjects who receive vaccines and monitor them closely. This would be ideal but completely impractical. The foundation of pharmacovigilance therefore is to rely on the medical profession AND the patients to report. Any lack of data that the regulatory agencies is not entirely their fault...patients have rights but also responsbilities. We can better the system if we choose to collaborate with them....
I'm an adult man with AS, also an SVU fan. Dramatically, "Selfish" wasn't one of their better episodes, but I thought it was OK. The episode didn't get into any particular controversy about vaccines. One of the points raised explicitly is that, if people DO choose not to vaccinate their children, they should limit how much time the child spends in public places
Why didn't she keep her baby at home? Your baby is more likely to catch and die from regular flu, hantavirus, plague, SIDS ...
than to catch and die measles.
regarding "Your baby is more likely to catch and die from..."
Come again?
Plague: the last big plague epidemic in this country was in Los Angeles in 1925, according to the CDC. Since then, there have been about 10 to 15 cases reported each year, mostly in rural areas. Thanks to the same modern medicine that gave us antibiotics, patients who catch plague (typically from an infected animal, like a flea) don't die. They recover fully.
Hantavirus? From 1993 (when it was identified) to 2007, there were a whopping 465 cases of hantavirus in the entire country, from people who breathed air contaminated with rodent hair, droppings or saliva. That's not 465 a year; it's 465 over 14 years. None of them were babies; their ages ranged from 10 to 83 years. About a third of the patients died.
Flu: About 50-100 children die of the "normal" seasonal flu every year (of about 36,000 deaths from seasonal flu overall, mostly among the elderly). About 5 to 20 percent of the U.S. population get the seasonal flu every year.
And finally - a baby can catch SIDS? That's contagious now?
Until the measles vaccine was developed in 1963, there were about three to four million cases in the U.S. every year, and an average of 450 deaths. Every year. And those were typically kids. Because measles is so very, very contagious, more than half of people had had measles by age six and 90 percent by the time they were 15 years old. Due to vaccinations, measles is no longer considered endemic in the United States - our outbreaks are typically imported by travel. So if we didn't have roads or airplanes or boats, we might not have to worry about vaccinating people against it. Worldwide, 242,000 children died of measles in 2006.
Childhood Vaccinations Hoax - Not Effective and at Worst, Harmful
by Heidi Stevenson, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) It's taken as an article of faith that vaccinations have improved our lifespan. We take our children to the doctor for their injections without question. We think of ourselves as bad parents if we don't. It's simply one of those things that we don't question, as if it's obvious. It's gone so far now that, as has been so well documented on NaturalNews, parents are threatened with prison, and their children are forced to get vaccinations at gunpoint (http://www.NaturalNews.com/021572.html) . Medical tyranny in Texas turns teenage girls into HPV vaccination profit centers.
The reality, as documented by the American Medical Association's own journal (JAMA) in the January 1999 issue, is that there is no connection between death from infectious diseases and vaccinations; that's right, "none".
First, let's look at the dates for when vaccinations were first introduced in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control:
* Measles (one of the Ms of the MMR vaccination): 1963
* Mumps (the other M of the MMR vaccination): 1967
* Chickenpox: 1995
* Diphtheria (the D of the DPT vaccination): First licensed in 1921, but not widely used until the 1930's
* Pertussis (whooping cough, the P of the DPT vaccination): First developed in the 1930's, widely used by the mid-1940's
* Tetanus (the T of the DPT vaccination): First used as a childhood vaccine in the 1940's.
* Rubella (German measles, the R of the MMR vaccination): 1969
There are several others, of course, but they are either too recent to take into account or not truly associated with childhood illnesses, such as smallpox and polio, which are more appropriately considered epidemic diseases.
The JAMA Study
The number of deaths from nine different infectious diseases, in some cases, groups of diseases, were tallied. They are:
* Pneumonia and influenza
* Tuberculosis
* Diphtheria
* Pertussis
* Measles
* Typhoid fever
* Dysentery
* Syphilis
All but AIDS were chosen because they were the most common cause of death by infectious diseases in the first half of the 20th century, with the exception of polio, for which data are not available for all years covered by the study.
Graphs showing numbers of deaths by age, by infectious disease deaths as a whole, by specific infectious diseases, and by all disease causes are shown plotted by time, from 1900 through 1996.
Results of the JAMA Study
With the exception of 1918, when the influenza epidemic struck, the rate of deaths from infectious diseases show a fairly smooth rate of decrease from 1900 through 1980, at which point a slight rate of increase develops. This link shows the associated JAMA graph: (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/conten...) .
Deaths graphed by groups of diseases show some variations, but interestingly, the most significant improvements are in typhus and dysentery (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/conten...) . Both of these diseases show almost no deaths after 1960. Interestingly, there is no vaccination for dysentery and most people are not vaccinated for typhus.
Tuberculosis rates show a curve similar to the overall infectious disease rate. The death rate from pneumonia and influenza from 1970 through 1996 shows a general increase, in spite of the ongoing vaccinations for influenza and the introduction of pneumonia vaccines in 1977 and 1983.
Diphtheria shows its greatest decrease of deaths prior to 1920. There was a spike in diphtheria deaths during the early 1920's, shortly after the vaccination was introduced, and then the rate of decrease continued as before the vaccination's introduction. Whooping cough (pertussis) and measles showed the same general trend of decrease during the 20th century.
Finally, take a look at the chart for death rates from all disease causes (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/conten...) . From 1900 through the 1920's, the infectious disease rate goes down at an impressive pace. This is a time during which there were no vaccinations against childhood diseases. The rate of decrease of deaths from 1940 through 1960 continues at about the same pace. Then, it starts to level out, in spite of the fact that the vast majority of children are vaccinated during this time.
Now, take a look at the same graph showing the death rates from all causes. This should make you nervous. The rate of death from all disease decreases slightly from 1900 through 1920. However, after this, when vaccinations start to be introduced, the death rate from noninfectious causes starts to increase. It isn't a huge amount, but it's definitely there. Most significantly, the increase in death rate from noninfectious causes starts when vaccinations are introduced.
What Can Explain the Reduction in Infectious Disease Rates?
Since it's obvious from the AMA's own documentation that vaccinations have little or no effect on the outcome of infectious disease deaths, then there must be other issues at play. If one looks at the history of the 20th century in the U.S. then it isn't too difficult to see what has changed. This was the era of improved overall hygiene and adequate food.
It was when clean and abundant water became the norm. It was when systems to clean wastes from public water supplies became standard. It was when septic and sewer systems to separate people from disease-producing wastes were introduced. It was a time of relative plenty, when people grew larger because of adequate food. In other words, it was a time of relative wealth and public works for good water and sewage treatment.
This is the most likely reason behind the decrease in infectious diseases, not the medical system's vaunted vaccinations.
Why Are We Vaccinating Against Childhood Diseases?
This is the multi-billion dollar question. Parents usually have their children vaccinated because the idea of not doing it simply doesn't occur. We have been thoroughly indoctrinated with the concept of "deadly" childhood diseases. Yet, there is no documentation showing that death rates from these diseases have been improved by vaccinations. As the data from the AMA itself shows, there is every reason to believe that these vaccinations are not effective, that we need to look to other reasons for the decrease in these disease deaths.
Even more significantly, the AMA's own data shows a possible link between an increase in death coinciding with vaccinations. Whether this is a cause-and-effect link is not proven at this time. However, with the AMA's record of not looking into the effects of vaccinations - of not even requiring that after-effects be reported - it's clear that the allopathic (standard) medical system is not going to sort this out. That leaves us with no option but to assume the worst - that childhood vaccinations not only do little or no good, but they may be doing great harm.
The question, of course, is "Why?" As with any corporate-controlled business (and make no mistake, the medical industry is big business) the answer always goes back to the same thing: money. Filthy lucre. There are millions and billions of dollars, pounds, euros, and other currencies to be made by both the pharmaceutical firms and the doctors themselves.
The Bottom Line
For the medical industry, the bottom line is the bottom line. For each of us and for our children, the bottom line is completely different. It's the quality of our lives. In the end, the only ones who must live with the results of vaccinations are the children and adults whose bodies have been pierced by the needles injecting them.
This article focused on the most common childhood vaccines, the ones noted for childhood diseases and also the ones that have existed for the greatest amount of time. However, readers may find the following information about when vaccines have been introduced to be of interest:
* Anthrax: November 20, 2002
* Hepatitis A: HAVRIXR vaccine in 1995, VAQTAR vaccine in 1996
* Hepatitis B: First in 1982; in 1986 a recombinant DNA vaccine issued; in 1989 a second recombinant DNA vaccine issued
* Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b, not a true influenza virus, but a bacterium): First licensed in 1985, but a "new improved" form licensed in 1987
* HPV (Human papillomavirus): June 8, 2006
* Influenza: First introduced in 1945; ongoing updates developed year after year in attempt to keep up with viral changes
* Meningococcus: First in 1974 against one of five major subtypes; others introduced 1981 and 2005 for original subtype and three others; no vaccine exists for fifth subtype (B), which is the cause of 65% of meningitis cases under age 2
* Pneumonia: 1977 for 14 types of bacterial pneumonia; 1983 "improved" vaccine for 23 types of bacteria; a specific vaccine aimed at children under age 2 developed in 2000
* Polio: Jonas Salk killed virus vaccine in 1955; live vaccine in 1961; "enhanced formulation" introduced in 1988. Note that the death rate from polio had already decreased dramatically, to a tiny fraction of where it had been at the beginning of the century, before the vaccine's introduction.
* Rotavirus: February 2006
* Zoster (shingles): May 26, 2006
To see how the medical establishment presents nonsense studies falsely "proving" that their treatments and drugs are useful or harmless, read Dissecting a Thimerosal Study (http://www.NaturalNews.com/022237.html).
NaturalNews's Mike Adams has been pointing out problems with vaccines. A recent must-read is his exposé, HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed: FDA Documents Reveal HPV "Not Associated with Cervical Cancer" (http://www.NaturalNews.com/022404.html).
About the author
* Heidi Stevenson, BSc, DIHom, FBIH
* Fellow, British Institute of Homeopathy
* Gaia Health (http://www.gaia-health.com)
She can be reached through her website: www.gaia-health.com
Historical Data Shows Vaccines are Not what Saved Us
by Richard Stossel, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) With all of the hype surrounding the H1N1 swine flu virus lately, everyone is very concerned with the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and rightly so. This is a very important question that we must all ask ourselves and find out what the truth is. As the debate rages on an even more important question has rarely been asked. Do vaccines even protect you from the viruses and illnesses that they claim to?
If you only get your news and information from mainstream news and educational sources, then the question about whether vaccines are effective is never even raised. This lack of discussion gives the perception that they are so effective that only a crazy or ignorant person would even think otherwise. Of course that is the perception that they are trying to get across to you, but that is far from the truth.
In fact if you take a look at some of the historical facts on the effectiveness of vaccines you will begin to see that not only did they too often not protect people from the very diseases that they claimed to but they actually caused outbreaks of those same diseases they were hyped to prevent.
From vaccinationdebate.com website
Take a look at some of the historical data below showing various vaccination programs and the outbreak of that very disease either immediately to several years later.
- In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don`t Get Stuck, Hannah Allen)
- In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People`s Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)
- In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on measles which stated, "Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children." (JAMA, 21/11/90)
From NaturalNews website
Viera Scheibner notes that the annual death rate in Europe prior to 1940 from diphtheria was "negligible (less than 300 deaths per million)." After this date, when mass vaccinations against the disease were begun, "unprecedented" diphtheria epidemics followed in "fully vaccinated subjects." Mass vaccinations against tetanus and whooping cough also began in many countries in the 1940s, and were followed by outbreaks of the "so-called provocation poliomyelitis.
- Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means by Ron Garner
Childhood vaccinations may also be one element that contributes to allergy, in a way that is similar to the mechanisms of the hygiene hypothesis. The vaccinations that prevent childhood illnesses may actually be making children more vulnerable to allergic disorders, by changing the natural function of their immune systems. Specifically, the vaccinations appear to make kids` immune systems too Th-2 skewed, with a relative deficit of Th-1 activity.
While the dangers of vaccinations are greatly understated by most health authorities, the advertised benefits are greatly exaggerated. For instance, incidence of the four leading childhood killer diseases - diphtheria, pertussis, scarlet fever, and measles - had already declined 90 to 97 percent before the introduction of vaccines, due to improved sanitation and hygiene.35
Homeopathic remedies may also help reduce the side effects of vaccinations. Dr. Kotsanis makes the following recommendations regarding vaccinations: Before vaccinations, give L-glutamine (500 mg), vitamin C (500 mg), and vitamin B6 (50 mg) daily for six weeks. Give probiotics (two times per day) and aloe vera juice (2 oz in divided doses, 2-3 times daily) for three months before and after vaccinations. Make sure the child gets plenty of pure water daily.
- Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Larry Trivieri, Jr.
Immune systems are even harmed by vaccinations because even though they may protect the body from one strain of infectious disease, they weaken the immune system against future strains. Fortunately, there are many products to help boost immune system function. But remember: Even with the help of these products, proper immune system function requires greatly reducing exposure to synthetic chemicals and non-natural substances, as well as following the 3 principles of health discussed in the first half of this chapter.
- Natural Health Solutions by Mike Adams
After you were born, during your preschool years, you got every little cold or virus that came along, but your immune system was getting some heavy-duty instruction on things to defend against. Vaccinations, too, "schooled" your immune system. So as the years passed, illnesses and immunizations helped your body`s immune system begin to develop memories of what was body-friendly and what was body-menacing.
- The Vitamin D Cure by James Dowd and Diane Stafford
So what are some of the true reasons why disease decreased and disappeared in the last century? From his book `Health and Healing` Dr Andrew Weil said it best with the following statement;
Of course each person must weigh all of the evidence and data and then decide what is best for themselves and their families. This information is provided to help the reader make an informed and educated decision on this subject and to come out from under the ideas that we have been led to believe that vaccination automatically equals 100% immunity to disease.
Health and Healing, Dr.Andrew Weil
About the author
Vaccines Exposed: A Hidden Crime Against Our Children
by Rami Nagel, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) "The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective," said Dr. Len Horowitz. I am a father, and in the course, I have spent a reasonable amount of time researching vaccines in order to determine the most sensible cause of action for my daughter.
According to the US government's own Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in 1998 there were 88 vaccine related infant deaths, in 1999 there where 73 infant deaths, and in 2000, 73 infant deaths. This trend of between 70-90 reported infant deaths continues yearly through 2007.
In 1993, FDA commissioner David Kessler reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that, according to one study, "Only about 1% of serious events are reported to the FDA."
Based on this report, and other studies regarding the reporting of "serious events," one comes up with an estimated figure that 1-2% of all serious adverse vaccine reports are actually recorded. When you combine the VAERS data together with the adverse events reporting studies, there is only one dreadful conclusion. In the United States each year, anywhere from an estimated 3,900 to 7,800 infants are poisoned to death, as a direct result, of being vaccinated.
If this figure is too startling or shocking for you to swallow, consider an ultra-conservative figure that states that 10% of adverse vaccine events are reported. Even with that figure, we can be sure that about 780 infants are poisoned to death every year.
When one child is murdered by a violent person, as a culture, we put forth the maximum amount of anger, hatred, and punishment towards such a sick person. We all know in our hearts, that children need to be honored, cherished and protected from harm. We are united as a culture in the belief that hurting children is bad, and wrong.
However, when there is documented evidence that proves, beyond any doubt, that hundreds, and likely thousands of infants, are murdered every year by vaccines in this country, we consider it to be good public policy. With the recent vaccine events in Maryland, one can conclude that since a certain percentage of children will die, and a higher percentage will become permanently disabled, that Maryland's state vaccine policy is a policy of state sponsored child debilitation.
I want you to really take a moment here to pause and reflect on this experience that is so painful and vast; that many of us do not want to take the leap of faith to realize the gravity of what I am, as well as many others, are saying about vaccines. We have a national policy that supports the murder of completely innocent infants. The cost is particularly high to the parents who are shocked when they find their newborns poisoned to death. Part of a way our government has decided to mitigate this harm is through a system of compensation for vaccine injured children. The burden of proof to receive compensation for this program is extremely high. Very few parents who apply for an "award" qualify for the money. In the past 18 years, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has paid out $782,638,751.16 for 908 "awards."
Look At Vaccines Moralistically
As a culture, we accept, tolerate, advocate, and make laws that promote the unlawful murder of thousands of infants because we have a belief system, and a public policy, that allows these children to be the "necessary" sacrifices of what is believed to be an unassailable system of vaccinations. The purpose of murdering perhaps several thousand infants per year is because we think that the good of the vaccine policy helps other children live and thus supposedly outweighs the known harm caused.
Now, I am going to bring up a critical example to show you the error of the current vaccine paradigm that allows for children to be harmed. Imagine that one of these children was your own. Or, imagine that one of these individuals was your mother, your sister or brother, or a saint. Are you telling me that one of the greatest examples of the cruelties of humanity, sacrificing helpless infants, is justifiable to supposedly save others? Is it really good public policy to crucify some children to supposedly prevent diseases in others?
If it was your child, would you volunteer your child to be the sacrificial lamb of our public policy?
Do not volunteer your child anymore and allow them to be the next lamb of our hideous public policy, do not vaccinate your child!
The truth is, every child's and every infant's life is valuable. Each being is precious, full of life and warmth, each infant is god-like. Every person on this planet counts and deserves the chance to live a healthy life. Since we have a public policy that allows for innocent children to be harmed, and at times murdered, then this policy must stop immediately.
We know for sure that at least 70 or more children are murdered yearly, and more likely several thousand children are murdered every year. When any individual or government sponsors vaccines; this is the equivalent to sponsoring the crime of murder. This is an outrage!
This first argument against vaccinations has come to you allowing the broad assumption that vaccines work, and that the losses of human life are thus justifiable because many more lives are supposed to be saved by vaccine public policy.
Yet the belief that vaccines work, flies in the face of any reasonable scientific inquiry because there has never even been one. Expert vaccine researcher Dr. Philip Incao MD testified that, "Incredible as it sounds, such a common-sense controlled study comparing vaccinated to non-vaccinated children has never been done in America for any vaccination."
In simple English, we have no real, double blind scientific studies that show that any vaccination works as it is intended to work. In case you are wondering, normal vaccines are approved for use with only short-term studies, many times the studies are 30 days or less. It is hardly scientific to study the effects of vaccines for such a short term, when vaccines are designed to work for several years at a time. Thus, the long term effects, and the long term effectiveness of vaccines, have never been proven; let alone reasonably studied by the people who unconditionally believe in their good.
Because "Safety testing of many vaccines is limited and the data are unavailable for independent scrutiny"; in the year 2000, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on vaccine mandates. With such limited evidence, they stated that mandatory vaccination "is equivalent to human experimentation." Unethical human experimentation was banned by the Nuremberg Code after the horrors of World War II were exposed (Nazi experiments on their prisoners).
Not only do vaccines not work, they actually cause diseases. According to the same US government Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, there were approximately 1400 serious events from vaccinations for people of all ages, per year, from 1991-1996. Serious events include: permanent disability, hospitalization, and life threatening illnesses. And we can know for sure, due to the low reporting of serious vaccine events, that the actual number of diseases caused by vaccinations is 10 - 100 times this number, meaning vaccines cause 14,000 - 140,000 serious events (diseases) per year. In some cases, such as with the Hepatitis B vaccine given to infants and children, the vaccine causes more harm and injury that the disease of Hepatitis B in infants and children.
Published studies from reputable journals have linked vaccines to causing AIDS, autism, cancer, diabetes, hearing/vision loss, hepatitis B, mumps, measles, polio and rubella.
At this point you might be wondering how it is that vaccines can cause so much destruction.
Why Vaccines Cause Diseases
Our body is equipped with an immune system. The immune system I am referring to is not just helper cells and anti-bodies, we have several lines of defense against infection and illness. We have saliva that is full of germs, and we have skin to protect our organs. We have a liver and kidneys to cleanse our blood and excrete toxic waste. We have our lungs to take in fuel, and excrete the waste of cellular metabolism.
In order to make a vaccine, one needs to render the virus, or germ, ineffective and find a way to introduce it into the body. In order to make many batches of this virus for injection, the virus needs food to grow off of. To grow a vaccine virus, the virus is cultured on a variety of nutrient rich substances; like monkey kidney cells, aborted human fetuses, calf serum, guinea pig embryonic tissue, fetal tissue, and other foul things. Once you have this large batch of "disease," and you can imagine how sick and putrid this mix is, you need to remove all the impurities and isolate the virus (or germ) that you want to inject into someone. Now isolating just the virus from this milieu is impossible. Yet we try anyway, we bleach and cleanse the serum and get mostly the virus, plus many contaminants. Now, when the body gets injected with this virus, it will immediately seek to repel it, especially since it is rare for a disease to be introduced into the body directly through the blood stream. Vaccine creators had to find ways to keep the altered virus or germ from being immediately repelled from the body, and this is one purpose of adjuvants, vaccine additives.
Every vaccine contains MSG as one such additive; other vaccine additives include, thimerosal which is mercury, antibiotics, anti-freeze and other poisonous and acidic compounds.
Now imagine your helpless infant. They hardly have an immune system as their bodies' lines of defenses. Their organs are still growing and forming. It is our public policy to inject infants soon after birth, directly with a syringe full of foreign substances. The injection dosage is not carefully measured to be specific to the exact body weight of the infant, and the dose has never been independently screened to be free of contaminants. Immediately after the injection, the body goes into life saving procedures. If you have a healthy and robust child, you will be lucky to get away with a cold or flu-like symptoms, as your child's body tries to excrete all of the impurities just injected through its organs of purification: such as the kidney's, the liver, and the skin. If you have a less robust child, their body's defense mechanisms can fail one after the next, especially after repeated injections. When the body's internal purifiers fail, the blood-brain barrier becomes compromised; that is why a known side effect to vaccines is a high-pitched screaming. The screaming is the nervous system of an infant being damaged and breached as it was never meant to be. Many children are autistic because of vaccinations as the toxic poisons in the vaccines get lodged into places that can alter and affect the nervous system; including brain and spinal column development.
Dr. Albert Sabien, developer of the oral polio vaccine, has changed his vaccine position widely. In a 1995 lecture, he said, "Official data have shown that the large-scale vaccinations undertaken in the US have failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection."
With this in mind, we have before us one of the most horrific, disturbing, and incompressible crimes ever committed. Each and every day, thousands of parents along with local and state governments, schools, doctors and politicians, allow this crime, and even promote this crime, as it continues to go unnoticed by the masses.
Let me add one final note to this article. You may have heard of these supposedly great humanitarian organizations going into the third world and providing community service by vaccinating poor children against diseases. Given your new awareness about the lack of evidence of vaccine efficacy, you might wonder what these organizations are really doing? This is what the World Health Organization asked themselves in an internal review, after noticing that an AIDS epidemic seemed to follow where they were vaccinating.
Vaccines in the Third World
On May 11, 1987, The London Times, one of the world's most respected newspapers, published an explosive article entitled 'Smallpox Vaccine Triggered AIDS Virus'. The story suggested the smallpox eradication vaccine program sponsored by the World Health Organization was responsible for unleashing AIDS in Africa. Almost 100 million Africans living in central Africa were inoculated by the WHO
(www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cf...) .
In Dr. Campbell Douglas's 1987 report titled 'W.H.O Murdered Africa' he writes that, "There is no question mark after the title of this article because the title is not a question. It's a declarative statement." (www.biblebelievers.org.au/who.htm)
Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize claims, what is a common belief in some parts of Africa, that, "In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare."
Kihura Nkuba spoke about Polio vaccine genocide in Uganda. "At the main hospital in Mbarara during that month of 1977 more than 600 children had died following polio vaccination. 600 children! So even some of the timid medical practitioners who were initially afraid to come out, started coming out giving information and saying 'Oh, we knew this oral polio vaccine was trouble because as soon as the child receives it, they get a temperature and their health goes downhill and there is nothing that you could do.'" (www.whale.to/a/nkuba.htm)
You need to know why you have been led so far from the path of truth. You need to know that when you see media reports that promote the good of vaccines and their effectiveness, such as news or television reports, that these reports are completely fake and fabricated.
This leads me to the conclusion that some of the most powerful forces are at play, since they can easily and freely put manipulative and false material into the public's eye.
Healthy children come from healthy parents who eat whole and unrefined organic foods, who avoid processed foods like pasteurized milk, processed sugar, cheap vegetable oils, infant formulas, and processed flour products that are so prevalent in our food supply.
If you want your child to be healthy and disease free, do not give them a polluted body. Do not violate the purity of your child's blood.
Loving our children means not giving them vaccinations and it means that we need to inform other parents as well that vaccines are indeed shown and proven to be deadly.
Spread the word and do your part in ending this heinous crime.
"The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective," and now you know why.
May you and your children experience peace and happiness beyond vaccines.
Learn more about vaccines and their harms from this free, well referenced resource that includes many detailed and specific vaccine links as well as references to many points made in this article. (www.healingourchildren.net/vaccine_...)
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What if you didn't get the flu vaccine and gave my grandma the flu, which killed her? Would you expect me to hold you responsible for her death? No vaccine protects against the virus 100%.....none. They offer a lot of protection, but not complete. Which is why this episode was ridiculous. People get measles, pertussis, flu, etc even when they have been vaccinated. In addition, there are many viruses that can kill infants that are not yet formulated into vaccines. The episode was ridiculous.
Kinda in the middle of the whole vaccine thing (see both sides), but I will say, L&O, Sport Utility Vehicle almost always pulls both medical information and legal precedent out of their collective bottoms. My two faves:
Olivia (with full on pompous, self righteous blather) lecturing a very stupid teen mommy in a prego pact with her firends, "don't you know the risks and birth defects of teen pregnancy??? Like DYSLEXIA???"
Okay, everyone knows a baby born to a teen mommy in not getting the greatest start in the world in about 90 catrillion ways--and there are many birth defects (with some evidence of certain forms of palsy) being very much linked.
That said, A) dyslexia isn't one of them (most evidence indicates it's congenital). B) Dyslexia isn't a birth defect---your mind just works differently. And yes, I'm mildly dyslexic, my daughter more so and it most assuredly runs in my family. Given that there are captains of industry, world leaders and geniuses with it, it's hardly anything to be ashamed of or guard against.
My favorite legal ridiculous plot:
Liv is undercover in prison to catch herself a prison guard sex abuser/rapist. She gets slightly fresh with the guard capitan, so he decides he'll "teach her" by forcing her to perform oral sex on him. She's only saved by Finn in the nick of time (revealing the show's rather paternalistic bent, as well).
The show claims that an undercover police officer wouldn't be able to get a conviction against a corrections officer, because he claimed he was just "subduing a prisoner" (yeah, with his fly unzipped and her handcuffed). But they're ultimately able to get a conviction, because a former inmate is able to identify him by a scar on his body.
Yes, so an ex-con is more credible than an honored detective and he totally couldn't have claimed it was consensual. It's a silly show and one I no longer watch
Something new from Australia about the stunning efficacy of their national HPV vaccination campaign:
Vaccines are not "toxins." I am sorry you have been misinformed, but I support holding ignorant people responsible for the harm they cause, unwittingly or not. There are enough credible sources on the internet to convince any reasonable person that vaccines are largely safe, extremely effective, and nothing short of a medical wonder. If you want the freedom to keep your children unvaccinated, then you assume responsibility for the consequences of that decision.
It's like those religious loons who believe visiting doctors demonstrates a lack of faith in the healing power of Jesus Christ. You are entitled to your fringe science-phobic beliefs right up until the point a child dies, then we put you in jail.
I just watched the show and I have to say it was incredibly irritating. I turned the channel and I'm tempted to throw out the show all together. It really got under my skin the way the portrayed that mom and the way that mom acting. As soon as her trial started I changed the channel.
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Hyderabad Holidays
An almost 500-year old city with a rich history, Hyderabad is the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is situated on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River. Formerly known as Bhagyanagar, this city was founded by Sultan Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah in the year 1590. It got its old name from Bhagamathi, who was Sultan's beloved. After she converted to Islam and changed her name to Hyder Mahal, the city was rechristened as Hyderabad. Subsequently, the city served as the capital of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, later referred to as the Nizams of Hyderabad. They ruled over the region until 1948, a year after India attained independence from the British Raj.
The audacious history of Hyderabad is rooted deep in its tradition and culture, which is a fine blend of modernity and tradition. Making steady progress in terms of development, Hyderabad has grown into one of the leading hubs in the country for IT and pharmaceutical companies. Boasting of numerous attractions in the Old City along with other places of interest in the neighbourhoods, Hyderabad has emerged as a popular historic destination in the country.
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• Shopping in Hyderabad
The number of shopping options in Hyderabad is sure to leave travellers exhausted. Hyderabad abounds in stores that sell a wide variety of products, such as pearl jewellery, handicrafts, bangles and clothes, among others. Tourists who want to buy local goods can explore marketplaces like Laad Bazaar and Gulzar House. Popular stores in the city are Shilparamam, Lepakshi, Jagdamba Pearls, Bidri Crafts and United Designers, to name a few.
• Restaurants in Hyderabad
The local food of Hyderabad is a mixture of the Nizam-special Mughlai cuisine and the culinary traditions of South India. A food lover's paradise, Hyderabad offers some of the most delicious local fare, such as biryani, haleem, mirchi ka salan, gosht and falooda. Cafe Bahaar, Chutney's, Taj Mahal Restaurant, Angeethi, Chung Hua, Utsav and Kebab-e-Bahar are a few recommended restaurants for tourists visiting Hyderabad.
• Things to do in Hyderabad
The number of heritage monuments, ancient palaces and majestic forts in Hyderabad is incredibly high. During a sightseeing tour of the city, tourists can primarily visit landmarks like the Char Minar (a monument with an iconic status), Macca Masjid, Falaknuma Palace, Golconda Fort, Qutub Shahi Tombs and Asman Garh Palace. Other local attractions that are worth a visit include Archival Museum, Birla Planetarium, Hussain Sagar Lake and Bagh-e-aam. Tourists who are interested in some fun and adventure can visit places like Ocean Park, Go Goa Aquarium, Snow World and Friends of Snakes Society.
• How To Reach Hyderabad
By Road: Roadways connect Hyderabad with various cities in southern and western parts of India, such as Bangalore, Mumbai and Chennai.
By Rail: Tourists can take a direct train to Hyderabad from Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Pune.
By Air: The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad is served by regular flights from most of the major domestic and international cities.
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Mariah protested loud and often when her first hits collection, #1's, was released that the album was not a hits collection: "I haven't been recording long enough for that!" Nothing will age your catalog like leaving your record label, however, so when she flew the Columbia coop for Virgin in 2000, her old label assembled Greatest Hits for release a couple months after the monumental disaster of Glitter, her Virgin debut. Now, this move was surely designed to further wound the ailing Mariah, but this kind of collection was essentially inevitable, and it's about as good as it could be, containing all of her big hits (including songs that did not make it to the top of the charts) over the course of 28 tracks. This is certainly helpful, since it rounds up everything, but its double-disc running time is a bit of a detriment, since it simply is too much. By the end of the second disc, the collection feels a little padded, and her music simply sounds better in the more concentrated collection of #1's, since it runs smoother and has all the really big hits (with the notable exception of the original version of her best single, "Fantasy"). But if you want more simply for archival reasons, this will suit the bill (even though the packaging is unbearably skimpy: no notes, just publishing information and thumbnails of the single covers, which is like having no packaging at all).
Nacido(a): 27 de marzo de 1970 en Huntington, NY
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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Christopher relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He walks around with drawings of faces with different emotions in order to understand someone's facial expression. He knows every prime number up to 7,057. He hates the colors yellow and brown. He knows all the countries of the world (and their capital cities). He doesn't lie and he hates it when people touch him. He is also autistic.
This book takes you on a journey with Christopher as he writes a book, meets his mom after years of believing her dead, and solves the mystery of the neighbor's dead dog. I recommend it. It is a very fun and interesting read. Written from the perspective of a young autistic boy, it makes you think about things differently and gives you insight into the mind of an autistic person. This story is sure to draw a smile from you as you wish for Christopher's happiness.
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Message Queue Task
Updated: 17 July 2006
The Message Queue task allows you to use Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) to send and receive messages between SQL Server Integration Services packages, or to send messages to an application queue that is processed by a custom application. These messages can take the form of simple text, files, or variables and their values.
By using the Message Queue task, you can coordinate operations throughout your enterprise. Messages can be queued and delivered later if the destination is unavailable or busy; for example, the task can queue messages for the offline laptop computer of sales representatives, who receive their messages when they connect to the network. You can use the Message Queue task for the following purposes:
• Delaying task execution until other packages check in. For example, after nightly maintenance at each of your retail sites, a Message Queue task sends a message to your corporate computer. A package running on the corporate computer contains Message Queue tasks, each waiting for a message from a particular retail site. When a message from a site arrives, a task uploads data from that site. After all the sites have checked in, the package computes summary totals.
• Sending data files to the computer that processes them. For example, the output from a restaurant cash register can be sent in a data file message to the corporate payroll system, where data about each waiter's tips is extracted.
• Distributing files throughout your enterprise. For example, a package can use a Message Queue task to send a package file to another computer. A package running on the destination computer then uses a Message Queue task to retrieve and save the package locally.
When sending or receiving messages, the Message Queue task uses one of four message types: data file, string, string message to variable, or variable. The string message to variable message type can be used only when receiving messages.
You can also configure the task to use the SQL Server 2000 format for messages.
The task uses an MSMQ connection manager to connect to a message queue. For more information, see MSMQ Connection Manager. For more information about Message Queuing, see the MSDN Library.
The Message Queue task requires that the Integration Services service be installed. Some SQL Server 2005 components that you may select for installation on the Components to Install page or the Feature Selection page of the SQL Server Installation Wizard install a partial subset of Integration Services components. These components are useful for specific tasks, but the functionality of Integration Services will be limited. For example, the Business Intelligence Development Studio option installs the Integration Services components required to design a package, but the Integration Services service is not installed, and therefore the Message Queue task is not functional. To ensure a complete installation of Integration Services, you must select Integration Services on the Components to Install page. For more information about installing and running the Message Queue task, see Installing SQL Server Integration Services and Integration Services Considerations on 64-bit Computers.
The Message Queue task fails to comply with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 when the computer's operating system is configured in FIPS mode and the task uses encryption. If the Message Queue task does not use encryption, the task can run successfully.
You can configure the message types that the Message Queue task provides in the following ways:
• Data file message specifies that a file contains the message. When receiving messages, you can configure the task to save the file, overwrite an existing file, and specify the package from which the task can receive messages.
• String message specifies the message as a string. When receiving messages, you can configure the task to compare the received string with a user-defined string and take action depending on the comparison. String comparison can be exact, case-sensitive or case-insensitive, or use a substring.
• String message to variable specifies the source message as a string that is sent to a destination variable. You can configure the task to compare the received string with a user-defined string using an exact, case-insensitive, or substring comparison. This message type is available only when the task is receiving messages.
• Variable specifies that the message contains one or more variables. You can configure the task to specify the names of the variables included in the message. When receiving messages, you can configure the task to specify both the package from which it can receive messages and the variable that is the destination of the message.
When configuring the Message Queue task to send messages, you can use one of the encryption algorithms that are currently supported by Message Queuing, RC2 and RC4, to encrypt the message. Both of these encryption algorithms are now considered cryptographically weak compared to newer algorithms, which Message Queuing does not yet support. Therefore, you should consider your cryptography needs carefully when sending messages using the Message Queue task.
When receiving messages, the Message Queue task can be configured in the following ways:
• Bypassing the message, or removing the message from the queue.
• Specifying a time-out.
• Failing if a time-out occurs.
• Overwriting an existing file, if the message is stored in a Data file.
• Saving the message file to a different file name, if the message uses the Data file message type.
Integration Services includes a task that sends e-mail messages.
For more information about this task, click the following topic:
The following table lists the custom log entries for the Message Queue task. For more information, see Implementing Logging in Packages and Custom Messages for Logging.
Log entry Description
Indicates that the task finished opening the message queue.
Indicates that the task began to open the message queue.
Indicates that the task began to receive a message.
Indicates that the task began to send a message.
Indicates that the task finished receiving a message.
Indicates that the task finished sending a message.
Provides descriptive information about the task.
Indicates that the task timed out.
You can set properties through SSIS Designer or programmatically.
Configuring the Message Queue Task Programmatically
Release History
17 July 2006
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• Added table of custom log entries.
14 April 2006
Changed content:
• Added information about the cryptographic weakness of the RC2 and RC4 algorithms.
• Updated note about using encryption when operating system is configured in FIPS mode.
5 December 2005
Changed content:
• Added information about FIPS 140-2 compliance.
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[Wine] Photoshop leaving toolboxes behind
Stephen Gentle lists at stephengentle.com
Sun Jan 20 06:27:20 CST 2008
I was going to file a bug report for this, but I thought I'd check here
first, because I'm not sure if this is a wine bug, or something to do
with Photoshop or Compiz.
Most times when I close Photoshop CS2, I'm getting the one or more of
the tool pallets left behind on my desktop. I have found no way to get
rid of them - apart from restarting the X server. I tried xkill but it
just hits whatever is underneath.
Is this a known bug? I couldn't find a bug report.
I assume that it's Wine (or Photoshop) because I've never seen a native
application do this.
Here's an example - just the colour swatch has stayed this time -
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Subject: Skype - a better alternative to Vonnage
Date: 2010-01-13 17:32:21
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Response to: Skype - a better alternative to Vonnage
I have used Skype for a few years to keep my minutes down on my cell phone. Skype is not designed to take the place of regular phone service where Vonage is. You cannot call 911 from Skype but can from Vonage. At about $30.00 per year to make outgoing calls to the US and Canada without any special equipment except a microphone, which is built in with my laptop, I find Skype to fit my needs very well. Vonage is $300.00 per year which is 10 times the cost of Skype and the calls are always very clear. Of course there is the limitation of 10,000 minutes per month, but that has not been an issue for me.
My point is that comparing Skype to Vonage is like comparing apples to oranges. They are different services and each one has services some people need where the other one doesn't fit that persons needs. I am going to help my friend set up Vonage in a few days (I have a computer business) where they are changing from Qwest. Skype is made to suppliment whatever service you have, not to replace it. | <urn:uuid:46a4ade5-e27a-4301-bba5-6dc862a9c607> | http://archive.oreilly.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/99080 | en | 0.952638 | 0.02658 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Baseball Hall of Fame 2013: Criticism of HOF Shutout Is Undeserved
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Baseball Hall of Fame 2013: Criticism of HOF Shutout Is Undeserved
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Like every other player on the ballot, Roger Clemens was not voted into the Hall of Fame
Blame for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting should not fall at the door of the voters.
The Baseball Writers Association of America can often be a fickle bunch. Many journalists turned a blind eye to the steroid culture in baseball, and now they're doing the same to the players of the era.
As pretty much every fan already knows, no players were voted into the Hall of Fame this year, the first such year since 1996 (via
While the BBWAA can sometimes be a wholly detestable group in terms of their members' outdated opinions, fans shouldn't be castigating the group.
In this case, the BBWAA got it right.
However, this is not a defense of the voters who chose to simply lump in every single player from the mid-'90s and determine that simply by virtue of playing in that era, every player was guilty.
It's incredibly hypocritical for journalists to have sat back and never asked any questions or made any noise to now grow a conscience and feel compelled to ostracize the very same players they enabled.
There's a difference between taking a principled stand for the right reason and getting up on a soap box simply to declare that you're holier than thou.
This is more a defense of ESPN's T.J. Quinn, who refrained from voting altogether. He abstained, so his ballot was not counted whatsoever, meaning it didn't hurt any player eligible for the Hall.
Quite frankly, this is a complex issue that shouldn't be handled by baseball journalists. Voters are too emotionally involved to find the right solution to this problem.
No, this should fall straight into the lap of baseball commissioner Bud Selig.
Yes there are alcoholics, drug addicts, spousal abusers, racists, dirty players, etc. currently in the Hall of Fame. To a certain extent, it is hard to condemn players of the steroid era while essentially condoning the illicit actions of those players who came before.
But this is the MLB's problem. This is their Hall of Fame, and yet the people in power choose to sit back and let the BBWAA do the dirty work.
There was always going to be a reckoning point to come as people would come to wonder why it is that, with the exception of the Veterans' Committee, it's simply journalists alone who get to determine a player's legacy.
Quinn brings up Albert Belle as an example of how the vindictiveness of voters can trump on-field performance. Belle was a dominant hitter in his prime, and yet because he didn't treat reporters well, many used that against him in his Hall of Fame candidacy.
Then you have a guy like Jack Morris, whose numbers aren't impressive, but he had such a dogged determination and threw a 10-inning shutout in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.
That was unquestionably a great performance. One performance doesn't make a career. Don Larsen threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, and he's not in the Hall of Fame.
Fans shouldn't be blaming the BBWAA, because its been a largely inept group for a long time. People just didn't figure it out until now.
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Hands on a Blackberry: Making an HTML5 site work in old Blackberry (hint: remove HTML5 elements)
The Blackberry has been reacting very differently, and badly, to the mobile theme compared to iPhone and Android.
What i've learned from having the BlackBerry for a couple days is that it is not able to apply CSS to HTML5 elements such as hgroup, article, and footer.
In the blackberry branch i've swapped these elements for divs, and the improvement has been great.
HTML5 placeholder via form alter
In a module OR a theme:
* Use the HTML5 placeholder attribute to add help text to the search box.
function PROJECTNAME_form_search_block_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
$form['search_block_form']['#attributes']['placeholder'] = t('enter search terms');
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deals4 coca-cola glasses green tint glass vintage…
@stantonl33: Do you you anti-malware, keep it up to date, and scan regularly? I suspect PayPal related malware more than the dealgenius website.
Purchased these this morning. Paid via paypal. Since 9am this morning I've had a couple thousand dollars in fraudulent transactions on my card attached to my paypal account. Apparently they need to do some security checks on their website.
Needless to say I had a bad shopping experience with this website and would NOT recommend it.
@baybei: They'd make kind of cool window planters for herbs, it you were into that retro thing.
What I was saying is, while Dollar Tree may have them, not everyone would have access to them. I know none of my Dollar Trees have these, or they didn't the last time I walked around one.
My biggest concern would be the quality. After having several Coke glasses from The Dollar Tree shatter into a million pieces while trying to clean them or placing them into a sink (which is NO FUN!), I don't know if their quality is as good as the ones you could get elsewhere. That was my main point. In fact, I'm not even sure the ones from the offer are any kind of good quality, seeing someone posted that they are very very fragile scares me. The most I would buy these for was to put them in a collection (if that). Shattered glass in your sink/hand is no fun, and even in a collection you'd have to clean them occasionaly.
christmas tree shop has these for 99 cents in both green and clear.
Actually, this is the cost to buy the world a coke (in 2011 dollars):
Which, incidentally, is less than Coke's annual marketing budget
@baybei: I'm pretty sure people would understand that if they didn't have a Dollar Tree nearby then there's wouldn't be a better deal for them.
I believe the post was just to inform anybody was was interested in the glasses---and might even be going to a Dollar Tree or who happened to be very close to one---a better price might be possible.
I'm pretty sure the original poster wasn't demanding that you or anybody else go to Dollar Tree for them, or even buy them at all.
I believe most of the deals posted here are meant simply to inform of what is out there that you might be interested in and not be aware of. Obviously, if you aren't interested, or the deal doesn't work for you, then you are free to ignore it.
Again, just to be clear---you are not REQUIRED to buy the glasses at Dollar Tree--or to buy them at all.
While they may be cheaper at a Dollar Tree, the question is if you are close to one and if they carry them. I happen to work near a Dollar Tree 45 minutes away from where I live, and I'm even luckier to have 3 Dollar Tree stores within 7 miles (15 minutes) of my house. I have never seen this style Coke glass at any of them (yet), and the Coke glasses (the regular bell shape) we did get from them broke within a couple uses (being washed or just placed into the sink!). The bell shape Coke glasses I've bought elsewhere have yet to break (unless we dropped them). I wonder if the quality is the same.
Can never have too many coke glasses.
@cmatsaki2: "driving around looking for Dollar Trees"? Have you heard of the Internet? Judging by the up-votes, more than a few people are glad someone mentioned these are $1 there.
@johnt007871: There are few Dollar Tree items I have found cheaper elsewhere. But usually not enough savings to go to a different store for. I don;t just go there for the savings, although it is nice to shop someplace where I can buy anything I want without mulling over the expense. I like it because it has such a wide variety of useful items in a comparatively small store.
@moondrake: You know some of the stuff in Dollar Tree is actually like .89 or .79 elsewhere right?
Like I used to get a certain energy drink there, but I found Big Lots usually has it for .79. Makes a difference when you're stocking up. RIP IT!
I have a Coke collection theme for part of my kitchen, and I've been looking for these. I have the regular glasses, but the can shaped ones are unique. I've been to the Dollar Stores around me looking for them and none of them stock the can shaped glass. Good deal for me.
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@donslin: Yeah, I go to Dollar Tree more often than I go to the supermarket. Disposable dishware, zip bags, food storage containers, closet organizers, small bungee cords, gift wrap, picture frames, home office supplies, arts and craft supplies, movie theater candy (some of it very retro)... it's the most useful store on my list.
Eh. :l Normally make mini gift baskets around the holidays with these. They're very-very fragile.
@cmatsaki2: But you can always find lots of other useful stuff, holiday decorations, 2/$1 greeting cards, and cheap snacks at Dollar Trees. I go in for poster board and end up spending $30.
i just use a can opener to cut the top off of the can. and no i don't do it in a way that would cut my mouth.
Sold on the green tint look. Plus I'm not driving around looking for dollar trees to save $1 (net of tax).
Yeah - I was also going to say, you can go to the Christmas Tree Shops and get them $1/ea also.
I don't drink Coke but I think the glasses are cute :)
they're cheap because nobody wants a glass shaped like a can...
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Topic: RGB SMT LED Cube, resistors, drivers, and shift registers. (Read 28122 times) previous topic - next topic
Wow! that was a really good explanation. So, #2, bad idea, on the voltage divider on the shift register power source, I'll look seeing if I can fix that with a VR circuit.
Resistors and caps came in. I can put some filtercaps on my shifters now.
I may pair up some 100 ohm resistors to put on my 3.3v test RGB leds too to test the 3.3v have something setup like the 3rd example.
I may also be able to rig up the cube similar to the 1st example, I have a 7 piggybacked 74hc595 shift tower soldered up for the cube.
but that still has to wait for me to take care of other business first :(
I've been experimenting, before wiring anything up to the cube. I had a rig setup for running 8 RGB LEDs on 3.3v, but I decided to undo that, and set it up for 5 volts, because it wasnt working, and I wanted to start with something easier.
So, re-soldered it up with resistors (8 100 ohm on the red, and 150 ohm on the blue and green). I have the cathodes (the negative side) soldered to a wire, and the anodes soldered to resistors, that are soldered to 3 piggybacked 595's. I soldered up a few .1uf caps to where I hook the 5 volts up to the shift registers. I made a couple jumpers to power the 595s from the 5v and gnd pins on the uno, and a jumper from the cathode to the gnd on the shift registers.
No LEDs would light up. just to see if If the LEDs would light, i tried hooking up the 5v to the resistors, no luck, but in the process, I touched the cathode wire with the 5v wire, and some leds lit up. I took the ground wire off of the cathodes, and hooked 5v to it, and it seems to work fine (runs the shift pwm demo).
Im confused though. I double checked everything, and my LEDs seem backwards. The schematic shows pins 1,2,3 as cathode, but on all my RGB LEDs, you hook up 5v to that side, and ground on the other side to light them.
I double checked the datasheet online and the only odd thing I can find is the symbol for the LEDs looks funny, on the blue and green leds there is a symbol that looks similar to an LED next to the regular LED symbol.
Im including the image from the ebay auction
Tom Carpenter
Look at the pin numbers on the bottom right diagram (you can ignore the zener diodes). The have drawn the image as if it were from looking at the back.
If you then look at the top left diagram, the cathode is marked with a triangular notch.
The good news is that if you have in fact wired everything as common anode, it is a lot easier to control as you can now use the TLC5940's or any other LED current sink to drive them.
Oh, that was my first thought (that I had wired them common anode), but no matter what side you look at the part, the triangle bit is on the cathode, right? (topside vs upside down). The test unit I made was a 19 gauge wire soldered to the leads that are on the same side as the triangle.
I've checked all the LEDs I've setup, and they all seem to use the + on the side with the triangle, and none work with the - hooked up on the side with the triangle.
I wish I had some tlc chips to test it right now.
Im curious about the funny looking LED symbols in the diagram. Green and Blue look weird, they have a reversed looking diode on top of the regular diode. zener LED? I dont understand.
The LEDs are pretty bright, I think I will need to make tiny diffusers for the LEDs.
Tom Carpenter
Interesting. That means that the diagram is wrong (the mark is the anode not the cathode).
The Zener diodes aren't LEDs. I am not sure why they are there, but I would guess for some sort of overvoltage protection?
You can see the little triangle corners all lined up with the heavy gauge wire. I have a few test setups like this and all of them have all of the cathodes (triangle sides) connected together.
I do have a set of 8 just like these, only with resistors, and they are running on 3 shift registers. I have them wired up rgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgbrgb, but after reading the code, I would like to have wired them up rrrrrrrrggggggggbbbbbbbb. Its running shiftpwm rgb demo.
I guess one of the benefits of using shift registers and resistors is when you have something goofy like this happen, shift registers will still work.
This is what im working with right now, its a test unit that is setup the same as the ShiftPWM example (even though the LEDs are marked otherwise.)
Im running the 8 RGB LEDs off the arduino, The power supply is via USB (using a usb phone charger, I think its 500ma)
it seems to me that I should be having power issues when its running all the LEDs at 100% (24 LEDs * 20ma =480m. Thats about 160ma per shift register, and about 1/2 amp on the arduino.
according to this site:
thats not really a problem? I also noticed that there is a picture of 16 RGB LEDs, which is what I will need to do for the RGB cube,
I do have the cube mounted on a case, I have to solder up 48 resistors, and 6 shift registers, which is going to be kinda messy.
This is the next test Im doing, its running the LEDs on a 3.3v power supply, and possibly running the arduino off the 12v that powers the 3.3v circuit, but probably running on the 5v from the usb, I dunno.
The one Im wiring up actually has 100 ohm resistors, I didnt have any 47 ohm resistors.
The wiring between the shift registers and LEDs looks crazy, but i think it will be easier to solder up.
Heres a video of the 3.3v with voltage dividers (like the 3.3v setup in the previous post:
As you can see, it didnt work right, it did make the LEDs light up, but It was pretty wrong.
Heres a video of the 5v test setup (it uses 8 RGB LEDs, 8 150 ohm resistors, 16 100 ohm resistors, and 3 shift registers.) In this video I also include the 3.3v setup, without the voltage dividers, it runs pretty good w/out the dividers, but It may be causing some kind of damage, i dunno.
Instead of soldering up a bunch of resistors, and shift registers, I did a little googling instead.
Check out what I found.
This guy built a 4x4x4 RGB cube using 64 LEDs, some wire, perf board, and a nano. No resistors or transistors or chips of any kind, just some wire, leds, board, and nano.
The way he solved the problem was like using geometry to solve a accounting problem.
I did a lot of soldering yesterday. I found some unused xmas lights that had wires in groups of 3, about the right lenght for my project. I cut, stripped, tinned, and soldered them onto the resistors that I had previously soldered onto the column wires on the cube. I ended up having to untwist the wires to move them through the case, and it ended up pretty ugly. I will probably end up replacing those wires, but they will work for now.
Before green wires:
After green wires:
The horror!
Soldering away...
Which brings us to here:
Now that I have the shift registers wired up to the ribbon cable (clock, latch, data, ground), and wired to the LEDs, I need to figure out how to source current to the common planes.
In my first cube, I used 20 pins, 4 pins sourced 5v (through 220 ohm resistor). I upgraded that cube to using 2 shift registers to control the sink, and sourced 5v via 4 pins through 220 ohms.
I recently upgraded that cube to 16 100 ohm resistors on the column(sink) pins, and removed the 4 220 ohm resistors on plane(source) pins.
In my RGB shiftpwm tests, I sourced 5v to the common pins via the 5v pin on the uno (Originally I had it from a 5v power supply, but later I moved it to the uno for portability).
It seems to me, each of those are drawing too much current through the arduino.
Im considering a few different approaches, I could add a shift register (this is what i had originally figured that i would do). using 4 bits to source the current, and having the other 4 for added features, like buttons? or sound?, I dunno really.
Then I realized that mixing those bits in with the column pins may make shiftpwm, or other however I may control those bits more difficult, and a separate shift register may be better.
I figured, I could use 2 bits for sourcing the current per plane (1 8bit chip to source 1 48 LED plane), but it seems to me running the current for 48 LEDs through 2 shift register pins will be too much for it.
In my previous post, with the 4x4x4 RGB cube, they are able to do this with 64 RGB LEDs, and no other parts. I guess they are able to do all the current control via PWM, and since the red LEDs need a lot less voltage than the other LEDs, it somehow must adjust.
Also, Ive noticed other people posting about making 4x4x4 RGB cubes, if you are making a similar cube, post in this thread with how you are doing it, and what features you are thinking about.
I havnt lit this cube yet, Im still not sure how i want to source 5 volts to the 4 planes. It seems to me that I should be similar to my other cube, but I need to deal with 3 times as many LEDs.
I have built an SMD version of the asher glick cubes spire.
I also came up with a way to do this with 8 RGB LED Spires, but I havnt figured out how to do the 8 led spire in SMD.
I've figured out 2 ways to do the 8 LED spire. One way is to simply build 2 4 LED spires, and rotate the top spire 45 degrees from the bottom spire. Instead of 4 leads, you will have 8.
The more interesting way is instead of using the pi/2 rad formula for rotating the LEDs, use pi/4 rad, and iterate it 8 times (instead of 4). This should end up with 8 leads and 8 charlieplexed RGB LEDs in one column. I have to wait for LEDs to arrive before I can build a spire.
Nov 18, 2012, 07:55 pm Last Edit: Nov 18, 2012, 07:59 pm by Hippynerd Reason: 1
I just read up on the ULN 2003 chip, and it looks like a great way to source 5 volts to each layer. It says it can source upto 500ma, that sounds like plenty compared to a single arduino pin. It looks like I hook ground up to pin 8, 5v to pin 9, and use the first 4 pins for input, and last 4 pins for output to each plane. WahBam plenty of current, with a few pins unused. If I had a ULN2803, I could pair up the 8 arrays into 4 arrays for twice the current.
This way, I can modify my old software for the cube to shift out 48 bits instead of 16, and it should work on this cube. I think i can probably use shiftpwm with this cube too.
Still waiting for new RGB LEDs to arrive... They are common cathode, I will use them to make a charliecube like asher glicks. I cant wait to compare the 2 cubes :D
An update on the 4x4x4 RGB Cubes.
The charliecubes seem to be working great. I have built a couple, and have been running them 24/7 on 5 volts via USB. I have also run them via the Vin with 18v, and they work fine, but the chip gets warm, so I went back to 5v.
The more proper cubes are still under development, one uses TLC5490, and the other uses shift registers and resistors. I built a 48 bit shifter for the anodes, and am using 2 shift registers to sink the 4 planes. I think I need almost 1 amp, and 2 shift registers wont be enough for that probably, so I may need to modify it.
I have a few ULN 2003a chips, and I had thought they would work for sourcing, but that may not be the best solution.
I have been investigating using p-channel and n-channel mosfets. There are a lot of them, and I dont know which ones would be appropriate. It seems the ones in the smaller packages are too small (1/4 amp), and the bigger packages are way bigger than my needs (4 amp).
What are good ways of supplying sink/source to the planes? Is one way vastly superior to another?
Another consideration is circuit board space, im using very small boards with little space, so space is as much consideration as cost (ideally both would be small.)
Shift registers, mosfets, darlington arrays are what I have been looking at, but maybe I should look at other options too?
I think i have found a good current source for my TLC5940 cube,
Manufacturer Part No: IRF3205
Mosfet Type N-channel
Current Rating 110A
Rds (On) 8m?
Voltage Rated 55V
They are under $1 each, and seem to be a good n-channel source. I need about 1amp max.
Im still uncertain about sinking on the shift register cube. I had originally built it with 2 shift registers to sink, but I think I will need lot more than 2 shift registers for that.
I've ordered some of these p-channel mosfets, we will see if they will work.
Manufacturer Part No: IRF9540
Transistor Type:MOSFET
Transistor Polarity:P Channel
Drain Source Voltage, Vds:-100V
Continuous Drain Current, Id:-23A
On Resistance, Rds(on):117mohm
Rds(on) Test Voltage, Vgs:-10V
Im still interested in other options, ULN ?
For what im doing, I only need 1amp max, are there other parts that might be more suitable? These mosfets seem way bigger than I need. I think I could also do the same thing with a pair of ULN2803s, but I think that would be less energy efficient, and probably a worser way to do it if its running on batteries.
What are some good ways to source/sink
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| I notice you mention only one chip is currently working as isr source.
| But isn't there two independently configurable pins connected to irqs
| from that one chip? I didn't dig into the schematic, not sure.
We have two physical chips on there, one at the "top" near the earpiece
and one at the "bottom" near the mic. The top one is at 45 degrees to
the bottom one. Having two is something to do with being able to sense
the attitude of the phone in space and not just the position.
Both of the chips interrupt the CPU independently at 100Hz when they are
being read from, but only one of the CPU interrupts has the magic power
to wake from suspend -- the other one is just a regular interrupt that
can't do it. But I don't think it will make much difference to the wake
threshold scenario since both sensors see a gross action if you pick the
phone up or whatever.
Separately, there are two INT pins on each chip, but on A6 we only
connected one of them to eliminate the pullup. You can select any
interrupt function on to either interrupt, it didn't seem that we need
more than one at a time.
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December 2nd, 2007
07:41 AM ET
10 months ago
Kucinich uncomfortable with Iowa's priority status
DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) – Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said Saturday he has "concerns" over how the Iowa Democratic Party handles their first-in-the-nation caucus, adding that those involved in the process play "inside baseball."
"[The party] has done the people of Iowa a disservice by trying to rig the debate," Kucinich said. "I have some concerns about the process here. It's more insular than many other states."
Kucinich, attending the Heartland Community Values Forum in Des Moines, was asked by reporters whether or not he will be campaigning any more in Iowa leading up to the caucus on January 3.
"I'm here [now]," he told CNN. "I mean let's talk about some things that are apparent. I'm here. "
Kucinich added that there are other states he has to "give some love to, as well."
Asked what he meant by his claim that the state's Democratic party has "rigged the debate," Kucinich responded, "I'm not going to say anything else about it.
An Iowa Democratic Party spokeswoman declined to comment.
-CNN Iowa Producer Chris Welch
Filed under: Dennis Kucinich
soundoff (16 Responses)
1. Jed in Texas
Sorry Dennis,the Bilderberg Conference Members have already decided whom the next nominee and President will be and her name isnt Kucinich,even though I think your OK. Also voters dont have the guts to vote for a short man,they would rather vote for a tall moron. LMAO
December 1, 2007 10:55 pm at 10:55 pm |
2. Anonymous
If it wasn't for the rigged election process nobody would even know where Iowa is.
December 1, 2007 10:58 pm at 10:58 pm |
3. Independent in IA
Dennis....who? Is this gentleman a candidate for something?
December 2, 2007 01:41 am at 1:41 am |
Asked what he meant by his claim that UFO's have abducted him and his wife, Kucinich responded, "I'm not going to say anything else about it.
Asked what he meant by his claim that there are other states he has to "give some love to, as well." Kucinich responded, "I'm not going to say anything else about it.
December 2, 2007 02:42 am at 2:42 am |
5. Jaik , chicago, IL
Dennis is working against a rigged system, he always has been. That's part of why he keeps running each time against any odds of winning. He is demonstrating real heart and commitment representing a disenfranchised part of the electorate.
December 2, 2007 03:43 am at 3:43 am |
6. person, oregon
hey KEITH JAMES LOUTTIT...keep going with that Kucinich u.f.o. bit, its really clever, if you stay up all night maybe you can find another 200 forums to post it on.
That topic certainly works much better for you to attempt to discredit a candidate with real integrity than talking about the issues.
December 2, 2007 04:22 am at 4:22 am |
7. Cody Harding, Kinsley, KS
Instead of tackling the major issues, such as healthcare, immigration, and the housing market, he insists that he is playing against an unfair system.
Senator Kucinich: Act like a president. Or at least the general equivalent. Otherwise, don't be surprised when you lose face in the polls.
As for the UFO bit, I am asking why any being that is intelligent enough to design a Faster than Light Drive would talk to someone like Kucinich. Either the various probes during the years have bred desperation, or maybe they need to be pointed to someone who could relay the message better.
December 2, 2007 07:21 am at 7:21 am |
8. Mary - Greensboro, NC
Thank you "by a person" for your comments regarding KEITH JAMES LOUTTIT.
December 2, 2007 08:52 am at 8:52 am |
9. Daniel ~ Longview, WA
Many of you people commenting on these posts make fun of, ridicule, call names...of people you have never met, and really know nothing about.
You show your ignorance and lack of thoughtful insight with every word you type.
Most of the cantidates are or have been public servants, have been elected by the people to various positions in our United States Government.
The are not stupid. They are not crazy.
These are intelligent articulate individuals who have ambition, drive, and the acumen to get things done.
Why aren't any of you running for President?
December 2, 2007 10:09 am at 10:09 am |
10. andrew s. rostolder hillsdale nj
dude, get a life. who wants a guy who hasn't the vaguest idea of real life. you are living in a make believe world. flowers in your hair is an idea who's time has passed. you are so 20 minutes ago. enough already......
December 2, 2007 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
11. David, Encinitas, CA
Regardless of whether you agree or not with his views, it is obvious that Dennis Kucinich is highly principled and cares deeply about his country. Those who choose to mock him are pretty lame.
December 2, 2007 10:37 am at 10:37 am |
12. David MTL Ca
HEs got the brass Balls needed in this day and age where the other candidates meander he walks the line
he stands tall and is the man of the democratic party to beat
the rest of the democrats are slush funded idiots at best
December 2, 2007 11:38 am at 11:38 am |
Dear person...
I couldn't agree with you more...
December 2, 2007 11:45 am at 11:45 am |
14. Alyssa, Lancaster, PA
What Dennis Kucinich doesn't realize is that major reforms to the primary system (meaning going to a regional primary or other plan) would shut him out of the system entirely. He wouldn't have the money to sustain a campaign of any kind.
December 2, 2007 03:04 pm at 3:04 pm |
15. Tina Lazar, Frederick Maryland
"...the practical outcome of political democracy in all large communities under modern conditions is to put power into the hands of richnewspaper proprietors, advertising producers and the energetic wealthy generally who are best able to flood the collective mind freely with the suggestions on which it acts."HG WELLS
Don't tell us who is winning, let us vote. Look at the actions the candidates have taken in Congress and tell me who is standing for truth and justice? Kucinich has proven he is willing to work for the people not the special profiteering interestes that have run our country for too long.
December 2, 2007 03:47 pm at 3:47 pm |
16. Monique, miami, FL
Kucunich is right. Iowa does not represent america.
Obama's campaign promises to people in Iowa (and New Hampshire) in order to get votes are detrimental to other states.
Plus the weather is terrible for campaigning.
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NLP holds it as crucial in human cognitive processing to recognize that the subjective character of experience is strongly tied into, and influenced by, how memories and perceptions are processed within each sense, in the mind. It considers that expressions such as "It's all misty" or "I can't get a grip on it", can often be precise literal unconscious descriptions from within those sensory systems, communicating unconsciously where the mind perceives a problem in handling some mental event.
Within NLP, the various senses in their role as information processors, are known as representation systems, or modalities. The model itself is known as the VAKOG model (from the initial letters of each of the five senses), or since taste and smell are so closely connected, sometimes as a 4-tuple, meaning its 4 way sensory-based description. A submodality is a structural element of a sensory impression, such as its perceived location, distance, size, or other quality.
Representational systems and submodalities are seen in NLP as offering a valuable therapeutic insight (or metaphor) and potential working methods, into how the human mind internally organizes and subjectively attaches meaning to events.
Representational systems within NLPEdit
Overview of representational systemsEdit
NLP asserts that for most circumstances and most people, three of the five sensory based modes that seem to dominate in mental processing:
• visual thoughts - sight, mental imagery, spatial awareness
Notation and strategiesEdit
Step Activity Notation What it's being used for
1 auditory external Ae Hear the question
2 visual internal Vi picture to oneself the meaning of the question
3 visual external Ve look at the dress
5 kinesthetic internal Ki get an internal feeling from looking at it
7 auditory external Ae reply
Eye movements (accessing cues)Edit
Grinder and Bandler identified pattern of relationship between the sensory-based language people use in general conversation, and for example, their eye movements (known as eye accessing cues). [3]
A common (but not universal) style of processing in the West is shown in the attached chart, where eye flickers in specific directions often seem to tie into specific kinds of internal (mental) processing. NLP also suggests that that sometimes (again not universally), such processing is associated with sensory word use, so for example a person asked what they liked about the beach, may flick their eyes briefly in some characteristic direction (visual memory access, often upwards), and then also use words that describe it in a visual sense ("The sea looked lovely", and so on). Likewise asked about a problem, someone may look in a different direction for a while (kinesthetic access, typically downwards) and then look puzzled and say "I just can't seem to get a grip on things". Taken together, NLP suggests such eye accessing cues (1) are idiosyncratic and habitual for each person, and (2) may form significant clues as to how a person is processing or representing a problem to themselves unconsciously.
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• Down-right -- Kinesthetic (K) -- "to grasp a concept" or "to gather you've understood."
Eye movements to the left or right for many people seem to indicate if a memory was recalled or constructed. Thus remembering an actual image (Vr) is associated more with up-left, whilst imagining one's dream home (Vc) tends (again not universally) to be more associated with up-right.
Subjective awarenessEdit
The use of the various modalities can be identified based by learning to respond to subtle shifts in breathing, body posture, accessing cues, gestures, eye movements and language patterns such as sensory predicates. [4][5]
Representational systems are also relevant since some tasks are more optimally performed within one representational system than by another. For example, within education, spelling is better learned by children who have unconsciously used a strategy of visualization, than an unconscious strategy of phonetical "sounding out". When taught to visualize, previously poor spellers can indeed be taught to improve. NLP proponents also found that pacing and leading the various cues tended to build rapport, and allowed people to communicate more effectively. Certain studies suggest that using similar representational systems to another person can help build rapport[How to reference and link to summary or text], whilst other studies have found that merely mimicking or doing so in isolation is perceived negatively.[How to reference and link to summary or text]
It's also notworthy that a dysfunction such as schizophrenia is in principle just as structured and as capable of modeling as any positive skill, and much valuable information can be learned about how certain people with schizophrenia do key processes in their illnesses by exploring how they use their senses and the strategies employed.
Some exercises in NLP training involve learning how to observe and respond to the various cues in real time. [How to reference and link to summary or text]
The preferred representational system (PRS)Edit
In a review of research findings, Sharpley (1987)[7] found little support for individuals to have a "preferred" representational system (PRS), whether in the choice of words or direction of eye movements, and the concept of a preferred representation system (PRS). Similarly, The National Research Committee found little support for the influence of PRS as presented in early descriptions of NLP, Frogs into Princes (1979) and Structure of Magic (1975). However, "at a meeting with Richard Bandler in Santa Cruz, California, on July 9, 1986, the [National Research Committee] influence subcommittee... was informed that PRS was no longer considered an important component. He said that NLP had been revised." (p.140)[1] The NLP developers, Robert Dilts et al. (1980) [4]proposed that eye movements (and sometimes gestures) correspond to accessing cues for representations systems, and connected it to specific sides in the brain.
As discussed by Druckman, there are many systems of NLP. While Dilts et al may have deemphasised PRS some trainers have expanded on the notions. For example stereotyping people as "stuck" in a certain style of thinking. For example, visual people talked faster, spoke in a higher pitched voice, whereas kinesthetic people spoke slower and with a deeper timbre.
A literature review by a team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne identified 71 different theories of learning style.[8] In conducting the review, Coffield and his colleagues selected 13 of the most influential models for closer study, including most of the models cited on this page. The researchers examined the theoretical origins and terms of each model, and the instrument that was purported to assess types of learning style defined by the model. They analyzed the claims made by the author(s), external studies of these claims, and independent empirical evidence of the relationship between the 'learning style' identified by the instrument and students' actual learning.
Learning stylesEdit
Main article: Learning styles
One of the most widely-known theories assessed by Coffield's team was the visual, auditory and kinaesthetic (VAK) learning styles model.[9] The conclusions about the VAK model were unequivocal:
See alsoEdit
External linksEdit
Notes and ReferencesEdit
• Bandler's Using Your Brain for a Change (Real People Press, 1985)
• Seki's Inner Vision: an Exploration of Art and Brain, OUP, 2000.
1. 1.0 1.1 Druckman (1988), Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, and Techniques
3. Bandler, Richard & John Grinder (1979). [- Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming], p.15,24,30,45,52., Moab, UT: Real People Press. -.
4. 4.0 4.1 Dilts, Robert B, Grinder, John, Bandler, Richard & DeLozier, Judith A. (1980). [. Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume I - The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience], pp.3-4,6,14,17, Meta Publications, 1980. .. ..
5. Dilts, Robert B, DeLozier, Judith A (2000). Encyclopedia of Systemic Neuro-Linguistic Programming and NLP New Coding, p.75, 383, 729, 938-943, 1003, 1300, 1303, NLP University Press. ISBN 0-9701540-0-3.
6. Skinner, H. and Stephens, P. (2003). Speaking the Same Language: Exploring the relevance of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Marketing Communications. Journal of Marketing Communications Volume 9, Number 3 / September: 177-192.
7. Sharpley C.F. (1987). Research Findings on Neuro-linguistic Programming: Non supportive Data or an Untestable Theory. Communication and Cognition Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1987 Vol. 34, No. 1: 103-107,105.
9. Dunn, R., Dunn, K., & Price, G. E. (1984). Learning style inventory. Lawrence, KS, USA: Price Systems.
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I have a small home server running Ubuntu 12.04 with an external hard drive attached to it. The external hard drive is mounted with autofs. Autofs basically unmounts a hard drive if it isn't used for a specified amount of time and automatically mount them back if some one tries to read / write from the mount folder.
Autofs and Samba working correctly my only problem now is:
• The samba shares are located within the external hard drive, I only want to share sub-folders. E.g.: the music folder on the hard drive.
• Autofs mount the harddrive to /automnt/external. If you access the folder the drive will be mounted and you can access the music folder (/automnt/external/music)
• If the drive is unmounted and some one tries to access it samba apparently just tries to access the music sub-folder which is not yet accessible.
My question: Is it possible to tell samba before allowing access one of the shares to run a little script (ls /automnt/extern would do) to make sure the drive is mounted?
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Doesn't make sense to me. It is impossible (for samba and anything else) to access /automnt/external/music without accessing /automnt/external first. I would look for the solution in the autofs area. What happens if you export /automnt/external and the external drive is not connected when Samba starts but connected later and then an access is tried? – Hauke Laging Feb 22 '13 at 14:08
@HaukeLaging it works if I share the whole drive, so yes, autofs does not seem like the perfect solution anymore and could be replaced with something handling the job better. This question was out of curiosity and because it would be very simple to add a line in the smb.conf and write a bash one-liner. – TheHippo Feb 22 '13 at 14:12
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By using \lstinline{mysourcecode} I put some code within my document.
I would like to avoid that this code is broken to a new line, if possible. so, if the codeline itself is less long than a full textline, then I would like LaTeX to make no linebreak if the code is somewhere in the middle of the textline, but make the linebreak before \lstline if not doing so would cause the code onto two lines.
How to do that?
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Welcome to TeX.sx! Could you please rephrase your question and include proper punctuation. Having three if-clauses into one "sentence" is a little confusing. It would be even better if you actually add a minimal working example (MWE) that shows all cases. – Martin Scharrer May 18 '12 at 9:23
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The following MWE provides \lstInline[<options>]{<code snippet>} as a complement to \lstinline that tests whether the in-line code will fit within the remainder of the line, otherwise it issues a line break.
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\usepackage{linegoal}% http://ctan.org/pkg/linegoal
\usepackage{listings}% http://ctan.org/pkg/listings
\lstset{#1}% Set any keys locally
\begin{lrbox}{\mylisting}\lstinline!#2!\end{lrbox}% Store listing in \mylisting
\setlength{\@tempdima}{\linegoal}% Space left on line.
\ifdim\wd\mylisting>\@tempdima\hfill\\\fi% Insert line break
\lstinline!#2!% Reset listing
Here is some text and \lstinline!some code segment! as well. \par
Here is some text and \lstInline{some code segment} as well. \par
Here is some text, then a little more text,
and finally there is also \lstinline!some code segment! as well. \par
Here is some text, then a little more text,
and finally there is also \lstInline{some code segment} as well. \par
The driver behind the line break conditioning comes from the linegoal package the relies on zref's savepos module. \lstinline is first set within a box \mylisting inside \lstInline, to establish its width. If it exceeds \linegoal (the remaining space available on the line), a line break in the form \hfill\\ is issued, after which \lstinline is called again.
Resetting \lstinline (rather than just using the boxed value \usebox{\mylisting}) allows for the code segment to wrap around multiple lines and also properly stretch/shrink, if needed, within the regular text.
Any changes in the start position of the code segment will require a recompile to properly work - a requirement when working with the \label-\ref system provided by linegoal.
showframe was just used in this example to highlight the text block boundary, and is not needed in the usage of \lstInline.
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Marilyn Chandler McEntyre's many books show a concern for fostering careful habits of reading and writing among Christians. In her new title, What's in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause (Eerdmans), McEntyre, professor of English at Westmont College, offers brief meditations on biblical phrases that, for one reason or another, have stopped her short and occasioned further reflection. Laura Turner, a Her.meneutics contributor, spoke with McEntyre about the value of dwelling on passages of Scripture that grab our attention.
How should we react when a Scripture passage gives us pause?
For me, it is rooted in lectio divina, the practice that Benedict taught his monks in the fifth century. It's slow reading of very short passages of Scripture, listening for the word or phrase that addresses you. You're listening for something that invites the Spirit to open doors of association, memory, and feeling.
Say you encounter a phrase like "is my shepherd." On the second reading you might ask, "What is this about? Where I am being summoned? Why did this touch me in some way?" Then you could give those thoughts some silence. On the third reading, you can open up further and ask what the invitation might be, and how this might be giving you specific direction.
You talk about memories that arise while pondering a phrase in Scripture. Is there power in reexamining them?
Allowing a phrase to work as a trigger can create little moments of summoning. Those moments say, "Just walk through this door and see what comes up."
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Why cell phone locks and required data plans are unfair
In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon answers questions about device unlock policies for consumers who travel abroad and why a smartphone used only for voice and text messaging needs a data plan.
Aside from monopolistic cable providers that force their customers to buy expensive bundles of TV channels they might never watch, wireless operators may be the only other businesses I know of that often force their customers to buy expensive services they don't really want.
In this edition of Ask Maggie, I answer two questions from readers who highlight this point. In the first question, a reader asks if he can avoid hefty international roaming fees by getting his brand-new Samsung Galaxy S4 phone unlocked so that he can use a foreign carrier's wireless service while he is abroad in Spain for the summer. He also asks if he can really get 4G service in Europe.
In the second question, another reader wants to know why he is being forced by his carrier to pay for a data plan for a smartphone that is only used for text messaging and voice calls.
While mobile operators might argue that these policies help protect their investment in building costly infrastructure to offer these services, the reality is that they have these policies, because they can. The more services they can force you to buy, the more revenue they generate.
How irksome cell phone locks cost you money
Dear Maggie,
I'm a college student, and I'll be studying in Spain this summer. I'm ready for a new smartphone upgrade this month. And I'd like to get the new Samsung Galaxy S4. I was wondering if I will be able to get my new phone unlocked so that when I go to Spain for the summer, I can use a Spanish carrier's SIM card instead of AT&T's international plan. Do you have any advice for me? Also, I want to know if I replace my AT&T SIM with a 4G SIM card from a Spanish carrier if I can still get 4G speeds.
I appreciate your help.
Dear Henry,
The first thing you should know is that if you buy your new Samsung Galaxy S4 from AT&T and you get it for the subsidized price, you won't be able to get your device unlocked for your trip. If you are under contract with AT&T and you have not paid the full price of your device, AT&T will not supply the unlock code.
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This policy on device unlocking has changed in recent years. As a longtime AT&T customer myself, I have been able to get devices unlocked to be used overseas while still under contract. But now AT&T's policy states that this not the case.
So unfortunately for you, if you want to use this phone while you are traveling in Spain, you will have to sign up for AT&T's international roaming plan. The plan offers you a slight discount on voice calls and text messages. And you can buy buckets of data, which also offer a discount as opposed to paying for data by the megabyte. But in general, these international plans are pricey. And since you will be in Spain for the entire summer, you will likely spend more money using one of these international plans than if you used a local SIM card from a Spanish provider.
One way to get around this issue is to buy your Samsung Galaxy S4 at full price. Of course, this isn't ideal since a new Galaxy S4 will cost you about $640 from AT&T. One thing to keep in mind is that if you buy a full-price Galaxy S4 from AT&T, it will still have a lock on it. Even at full price, the device is made specifically for AT&T. And unless you ask for the unlock code it will be locked when you buy it. This means, you will have to ask AT&T for the unlock code for that device. But since it's paid for, AT&T should provide you with this code without a problem.
You could also try buying an unlocked international version of the phone on eBay or Amazon. But it will likely cost you even more -- $700, $800, or even more. And it may be difficult to get your hands on one since the unlocked international versions of the phone are selling out quickly online.
This is the main reason why I think it is ridiculous that carriers are allowed to lock their devices and refuse customers the ability to unlock their phones for use on another carrier's network. This issue of locked phones versus unlocked phones was highlighted earlier this year when the Library of Congress refused to exclude cell phone locks as part of the antipiracy law that protects copyright.
As a result, unlocking a device without the carrier's permission is now illegal . Most of the major operators, including AT&T, say they will unlock a phone once it's paid off. And all the legislation I've seen proposed to solve this problem also suggests consumers should be able to unlock their phones once they're paid in full. But no one seems to see the practical problem this presents for people who travel. It seems unfair and anticompetitive to refuse a wireless subscriber the option of using a dramatically less expensive alternative to his carrier's international roaming plan.
As for your second question: Will the Galaxy S4 operate on a 4G wireless network in Spain? It depends on what you consider to be "4G." There are no carriers in Spain offering 4G LTE right now. LTE is considered the fastest 4G wireless technology available today. While European carriers plan to deploy LTE in the future, right now most support HSPA+ technology. This network technology is capable of offering network speeds that can be similar to an LTE service. This is why AT&T and T-Mobile also call this service "4G." AT&T, which has deployed LTE, also has HSPA+ technology in its network.
For the most part, when people talk about 4G, they mean LTE. So the short answer to your question is a simple no. You will not get 4G service in Europe. But you may be able to get similarly fast speeds.
Even if European carriers offered LTE today, the Galaxy S4 would still be unable to roam onto those networks. Why? The radio frequencies that U.S. carriers are using for LTE service are not the same as the frequencies carriers in Europe plan to use. As a result, a phone designed for AT&T's 4G LTE network will not be able to access another LTE network unless the device includes the same spectrum support.
Since AT&T won't unlock your new Galaxy S4 unless you pay full price for it, what should you do? First of all, I don't think it's worth it to buy the Galaxy S4 at full price just so you can use it abroad with a foreign SIM. My advice is before you upgrade to the Galaxy S4, get your old smartphone unlocked. If you are out of contract, which it sounds like you are, and you're a customer in good standing with AT&T, this should not be a problem. I'd use the older, unlocked smartphone while in Spain instead of the new Galaxy S4. This way you can put a Spanish SIM card in your unlocked phone and you'll save yourself some more money. If you still want to buy the Galaxy S4 before you leave, go ahead. You can always put the device on airplane mode and use all the Internet-enabled features and apps when you are in a Wi-Fi hot spot.
I hope this advice was helpful. Good luck with your summer semester abroad!
Why is AT&T forcing me to pay for a data service?
Dear Maggie,
Almost three years ago, I bought an iPhone 3GS with a new two-year contract from AT&T. It came with a $30 unlimited data plan. My two-year agreement ended in June of 2012. I bought the new iPhone 5 in October and kept my old unlimited data plan.
I gave my old iPhone to a family member, and I added her to my plan for an additional $9.99 per month. She just put her old SIM card from her flip phone into my old iPhone. She still only uses her phone for voice calls and text messaging. She does not use any data, unless she is in a Wi-Fi hot spot.
For over a year, AT&T didn't charge me for data on the iPhone 3GS, because that line didn't use data. But then a few months ago AT&T charged an extra $30 on my monthly bill. I contacted customer support, and I told them that the old iPhone 3GS doesn't use data. They refunded my $30.
A month later, the same thing happened again. I contacted customer support, explained the situation, and they refunded me my $30. But this time the representative said that was the last refund for me. And she said that AT&T would start charging me for data every month even though this iPhone 3GS doesn't actually access any data.
My question to you is, why is AT&T able to charge me for this data when this phone isn't actually using the data service? It doesn't seem fair to me.
Dear Jason,
I agree with you a 100 percent that this is not fair. But unfortunately, it is AT&T's policy. And it's the policy of just about every wireless carrier on the market. They all require smartphone customers, regardless of whether they enable the cellular data function on their device or not to purchase a data plan.
The reason why is simple: This is how AT&T and other carriers make money. They do not make much money on voice calling or text messaging anymore. Data is where the money is. And they will do what they can to make sure every wireless subscriber is paying for data. You have to remember the overall goal of a wireless carrier is to get consumers to spend more each month on services. With wireless penetration well above 90 percent in the U.S., this is one of the only ways an operator can grow revenue. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said as much during the company's most recent earnings call.
A wireless carrier might argue that it's only fair to ask all smartphone customers to chip in the full price of a data plan since it costs billions of dollars to build these networks. Operators may also argue that it only makes sense to force subscribers to sign up for a data plan if they have a smartphone, because the phone is designed to do much more than make phone calls and send text messages. But the reality is that for frugal consumers, using a hand-me-down device and accessing the Internet only when in a Wi-Fi hot spot is a much more affordable way to use a smartphone.
This approach doesn't offer ubiquitous access, but for some people, it works just fine. It sounds like that's the case for your relative who inherited your iPhone 3GS. If you are interested in a less expensive option and your family member only wants to use data in a Wi-Fi hot spot, you may want to check out some prepaid options that offer this type of service or can at least offer you a less expensive monthly plan.
Republic Wireless may be a service to consider. It has a $19-a-month plan that offers unlimited talk, text, and data. The company actually uses Wi-Fi networks throughout its coverage area to offer the data service. The only downside for you is that your relative would have to buy a new phone. And right now, the handset choices are very limited.
Sorry I don't have better news for you. Good luck!
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Apple Could Pay $400M for Fixing E-Book Prices
MANHATTAN (CN) - Consumers and state attorneys general revealed Wednesday that their deal over Apple's fixing of e-book prices could lead to $400 million in payments.
"This outcome would represent a consumer recovery of more than 200 percent of the maximum estimated consumer damages, placing this case among the exceedingly rare cases that provide consumers nationwide with double the amount of their estimated damages," lawyers for the consumers wrote in a 24-page memorandum seeking a federal judge's approval.
Apple had fought longest when faced with several antitrust class actions against it and publishers Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Penguin, Hachette and HarperCollins.
While the other publishers settled those claims for a total of $166 million, Apple went to a bench trial last year that ended with U.S. District Judge Denise Cote finding that it had played a central role in the price-fixing conspiracy.
A damages trial was initially slated for this month, and the consumers' expert would have urged the jury to reach a $280 million figure. Antitrust law meanwhile supports tripling that figure.
The 2nd Circuit made the future of that trial uncertain, however, when it advanced Apple's appeals of multiple Cote decisions. That court stopped class action notification and seemed primed to postpone the trial.
Before those issues could be resolved, Apple reached an unspecified settlement with its opponents last month. The details of that agreement came to light with the filing of Wednesday's memo.
If the appellate court orders a liability retrial, consumers will receive a smaller recovery of $50 million.
The consumers will collect nothing if the circuit clears Apple of violating antitrust laws.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman estimated that consumers in his state stand to recover "7 percent, or as much as $28 million" of the total payout.
"This settlement proves that even the biggest, most powerful companies in the world must play by the same rules as everyone else," Schneiderman said in a statement. "In a major victory, our settlement has the potential to result in Apple paying hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers to compensate them for paying unlawfully inflated ebook prices."
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While mobile companies are doing their best to make cellphones as sleek and futuristic as possible, retro junkies keep taking them apart and turning them into ironic, yet functional, pieces of art like these. The first mod, from Grooveking.com, makes an old Motorolla DynaTAC 8000X or "Zack Morris phone" into a Bluetooth headset, that'll get 8-times the juice of a normal battery. The second project, from DIYHappy.com, takes an old NES controller (which has already gotten the Bluetooth treatment in the past) and fills it with the guts of a Nokia 3200 – yes, the American Idol phone. You need a little technical know-how to make these for yourself, but after you get the hang of it, all of your gadgets might end up crammed into NES controllers. Sadly, the Nokia 3200 doesn't have Bluetooth so you won't be able to use these two devices together, but we look forward to the future when our Xbox 360 controllers and Treos are turned into seemlessly-integrated retro kitsch.
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Let's face it: "One" isn't the most creative name for a smartphone, even if OnePlus couldn't resist the wordplay. We wouldn't call the company headed by ex-Oppo exec Pete Lau unoriginal though, as we can't claim to have seen another smartphone developed with such transparency. OnePlus has been systematically posting info about "the perfect smartphone" to its announcement forum, seemingly as it's decided upon. We still don't have any clue as to what it'll look like, other than its dimensions are smaller than those of Sony's Xperia Z1, but we do know it'll sport a 5.5-inch 1080p display on the outside, with a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 and 3,100mAh battery within. The company's also been working with partner CyanogenMod on "mystery tech" to optimize battery performance, and most recently, has teased an always-on voice recognition feature, while also polling suggestions on what phrase should trigger it. Probably the most interesting number thus far is the One's sub-$400 price tag, however, and although there's much left to learn about the device, we're most certainly listening. | <urn:uuid:e89c906e-9935-4a83-b720-7e33613c74f4> | http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/12/oneplus-one-specs/?ncid=rss_semi | en | 0.979736 | 0.364537 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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On 9/11 I was a grade 5 Canadian student sitting in class waiting for class to start. For some reason the teacher was running late to get to class, not just ours but a couple of them. About 10 minutes after class was supposed to start our teacher came back and took us out immediately for an assembly. We were a small school and never had anything like a big emergency assembly so we were confused.
When we got into the gymnasium we were all seated on the floor and the principle took the stage. We knew something was off because she was usually smiling and talking to people before she began but she was silent and serious. She told us about what was going on, about how the twin towers were hit. Most of us had no idea what was really happening so it kind of just brushed off of our shoulders. That day was an early day as we were sent home at lunch time.
Only when I was home had I realized why the adults were concerned. I watched on television as they showed the planes, watched the towers crumple to the ground, watched people running and screaming for their lives. I still had no idea how far this was happening away from me but I was scared.
I remember my parents friends in a panic because their family was in New York at the time, my friends at school seemed depressed because of their parents worries...
Only a few years ago did the toll of the event actually hit me. As a child it was confusing, I didn't understand how things worked and I don't think I actually realized that people were dying inside the buildings as they collapsed. Today when I think about it (and write this) I feel a strange sadness even though I didn't know a single person who passed. I feel sad for the horror they were put through in their final moments and the pain that all of their families went through as they waited to learn the fate of their loved ones.
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i remember that day, at least i think i do remember. I remember watching it on the news, and i remember seeing 2nd plane hit (on the news) and surreal is a good word to describe it i think.. (btw, im 18 years old now)
I couldn't forget this day I tried but I can't
I still remember the 26/11 terrorist attack
I live in Australia and i remember seeing the planes hit the towers on the news and it seemed so surreal . It was a day the world will never forget and never forgive those responsible
Hi Jupiterfalling,<br />
I'm sorry to hear about your expediences + unhappiness that happened to you, because of the Sept 11, 2001 disasters.<br />
I was within 2 hours of New york City, when NYC was attacked. I include that, just to say a little about what my experience was on that day.<br />
It's strange, but in my area of the USA, + on a lot of PTSD sites that I've seen, most Western people don't talk about the 9/11 attacks, much. strange, huh?<br />
I'm sorry to hear that these events made you feel bad.<br />
Have a Good Day, <br />
My gf was working in midtown Manhattan since before 8am that morning. Going into a late shift that day shortly after 10am near our home about forty miles upstate, i turned around and headed back home as soon as i realized what was being said on the N.Y.City news station i had on since leaving home almost ten minutes earlier. When i finally spoke to my gf after her call to our house got through over the busy lines, she said all the bridges into and out of the city and environs were closed and she'd be staying at her sister's apartment overnight or however many days until the bridges reopened (she commuted by bus during her work week). Then she started to cry and told me she hadn't been able to reach her sister by phone. Her sister worked in a high-rise office building North of the towers and lived in an apartment building South of the towers; both were in sight of the towers. In fact, her sister, in her office that morning, turned in her chair toward her office window and saw the horrific fireball the very moment the first plane hit. I'll be writing my story in this group soon. But the only other thing i want to relate to you is that living in Southeast upstate New York, everyone was aware of what likely would happen if a nuclear bomb hit N.Y.City: hundreds of thousands if not. millions of people would flee upstate in panic and terror and fear. And in a situation like.that, desperate people do desperate, abnormal things they wouldn't otherwise do--like threaten others' lives and even kill for food and other things needed for survival. It was the tv news saying all incoming reports painted this as being caused by terrorists, however, that made me think about defending myself--especially after "our country being attacked" was posited on the news. So i calmly got my two personal, licensed pistols and the half dozen ammo magazines i had, my ten or so boxes of self-defense and target rounds, loaded all the magazines and both pistols, laid them on the bed in our spare bedroom, and looked over toward the window, which looked down toward our driveway and the street, and thought of the incredible likelihood of being attacked in my own house by a foreign enemy--or the less incredible likelihood of being attacked by my fellow Americans.
When I first saw it, I thought it was a promo for a new movie, but sadly I was wrong. It was such a huge unbelievable and completely unimagineable act of evil. For the families who have suffered and are still suffering my heart goes out to them. Unimaginable the pain and hurt!!!!!!! It has affected everyones life in some way or other and will for generations to come !!! Both young and old!!!
One man from my gf's large pharmaceutical firm where she worked was at a special meeting being held in one of the towers and lost his life that morning (though she didn't know him). When i saw the front page of the New York Times months later in 2002, i was shocked at the unbelievable and completely unimaginable photographs i saw: people in the midst of falling to their deaths after jumping off the upper floors of their office building to escape being consumed by the horrific fire behind them. God rest the souls of all who were.murdered and all who gave their lives to try and rescue them at the towers and the Pentagon that day and all the innocent people murdered on the plane that day in Shankesville, Pennsylvania.
I was fully adult - indeed a newish father. I was home in UK looking after son and wife, who was in bed asleep with a minor illness at 2pm our time when I heard the radio news; put on the TV, and decided I should wake my wife.<br />
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So saw almost all of it. live.<br />
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When news of the other attacks came and of the plane still flying, I recall saying "Bush has GOT to shoot it down". Which apparently he had commanded - though not needed thanks to the heroes in the plane.<br />
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Very hard to understand the twisted minds that wanted to do it.
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Arab Anti-Israel Cartoonists ‘Pig Out’ on Swine Flu
Swine flu epidemic has provided an excuse for cartoonists in Britain, Jordan, Qatar and UAE to depict Israelis as pigs, the ADL has found.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 5/6/2009, 9:36 PM
ADL website
Arab cartoonists in several countries have seized upon the swine flu epidemic to portray Israel and its leadership as pigs – an animal considered unclean by both Jews and Muslims. The Anti-Defamation League, which combats anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice, has collected several such cartoons.
The swine flu epidemic, which has spread from Mexico to the United States, Canada, Britain, Spain and New Zealand, also infected a few Israelis. This fact was enough to get some poisonous cartoonists’ quills working in Britain, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Dog (with Netanyahu likeness) "Iran is a common danger threatening both the Jews and the Arabs."
Akhbar al-Khalij, Bahrain
"The World Health Organization is Warning from a World Epidemic – the Swine Flu".
Al Watan, Qatar
"The Peace Process."
Al-Watan, Qatar
"The flu in Israel"
Al-Watan, Qatar
Al-Watan, Qatar
"Racism flu"
Al-Khalij, UAE
From right to left: "Mad Cow"; " Bird Flu"; " Swine Flu."
Al-Quds al-'Arabi, UK
"Swine Flu Arrives in Israel"
Ad-Dustur, Jordan
"Netanyahu's peace"
Al-Watan, Qatar
Netanyahu holds a piggy bank with an olive branch in its snout.
Ad-Dustur, Jordan
"The Spread of the Settlements Flu between Jerusalem and the West Bank."
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Evaluation based on oral examination including the interpretation of a short passage from one of the texts discussed during the semester (30%) and attendance (70%).
The course requires the knowledge of the Classical Mongol language.
Overview of Mongol historical sources, reading and interpretation.
I. Classification of genres: inscriptions, genealogies, histories, biographies. History of research.
II. The Secret History. Its structure, sources, internal genres. Authorship. Date. Transmission. Lost chronicles and their echoes in Islamic and Chinese sources.
III. Mongol and Sino-Mongol inscriptions of the 13th and 14th centuries. Turfan and Kharakhoto documents.
IV. Mongol rulers’ letters to Western Mongol documents in the Early Ming Hua Yi Yiyu.
V. Historical sources of the time of the Buddhist Renaissance. The White Chronicle.
VI. The versified biography of Altan Khan of the Tumet. Historical information in Ligdan’s Kanjur.
VII. Mongol and Oirat princes’ letters in Russian archives.
VIII. Blo-bzang bstan-‘dzin’s Golden Summary. The Anonymous or Shorter Golden Summary. The Yellow History. Asaraltu’s History.
IX. Sagang Sechen’s Jewel Summary, its structure, historical and literary values, manuscripts,Manchu and Chinese translations.
X. The Oirat Zaya Pandita’s biography by Ratnabhadra. Zaya’s colophons. Oirat histories (Gaban Sharab’s chronicle; History of the Four Oirats, etc.). Neichi Toyin’s Vita.
XI.Mongol histories in the Manchu era. Dharma Guushi’s Thousand-Spoked Golden Wheel; Rashipungsug’s Crystal Mirror, etc. Injannashi’s Summary of his novel The Blue Book.
XII. History of the Jebtsundambas. History of Erdeni Juu.
XIII. Buriat chronicles. The Constitution of the Mongol Theocracy. Amar’s Short History.
XIV. The Oath of the People’s Party. History of the National Revolution by Choibalsan, Losol and Demid.
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Flash does a bunch of things. One of these is video, with or without DRM. Another is structured graphics, and another still is basic Web stuff you could probably do with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript... if you had the same easy development tools.
Flash is not going to be significantly more CPU intensive on these latter two things than any other web technology. Which is of course why Jobs has been trying, successfully, to frame the whole argument around video. Sure, an action game in Flash would be fairly inefficient on a handheld. So would an action game done in Javascript.
Of course, Flash video is either VP6 or H.264... and here's where Apple cheated most of all. There's no reason H.264 in flash shouldn't run just as fast as any other H.264 on your portable device... and in fact, YouTube players on both Android and iPhoneOS do exactly this. Flash itself can't do this on the iPhone, simply because they don't have the necessary video acceleration APIs in the OS. MacOS didn't even have this until earlier this year. Windows has for several years, and the new one (DXVA 2.0) is very good... takes 1080/60p playback on my desktop from stutting video at close to full CPU (all cores) to about 12%, since I have a GPU that can help out.
Jobs really wants to kill Flash, or wound it enough that no one cares he won't support it. Right now, it's clear that Flash is popular enough that iPhones are second-class web browsers.. they can't see much of the web. It's not just video... I tried to order a hamper for my wife on last week. You need Flash to check-out. Stupid, sure, but it's widespread enough that websites use Flash this way, and there's absolutely no reason that wouldn't work just dandy on a smartphone (of course, I was browsing on an Android phone... I expect to get the "full web" soon enough).
So misdirecting this toward free video, Apple can make Flash sound evil and "open" things like VIDEO tags (albeit with proprietary format H.264 being their only intended target) sound good. But it's more complex than that.
Having made Flash non-essential, Apple won't get chastised for not supporting it... the Macfaithful and iPhonies are already parroting Jobs' denouncements of Flash. This leaves Apple and the iTunes store as the only source of paid video for the iPhone, since paid video invariably means DRMed video. And you don't get DRM in HTML5.
This is also why Microsoft is doing the same thing, pushing H.264 and only H.264 in the web browser and claiming to dump Flash support in IE9. It's not just that Microsoft copies everything Apple does (they do, but it's more). But Microsoft, of course, owns Silverlight, a direct competitor to Flash. They can deliver DRMed content via Silverlight... partners like Netflix already do. MS will have Silverlight on Windows, no Flash, and Silverlight on all devices.
Devices accelerate H.264, but not Ogg Theora, thus the push for H.264 only. But this also makes things difficult for small companies like Opera, who can't afford H.264 licensing in their free browser, or FOSS folks, who can't legally provide an open source H.264 CODEC. And that's just fine with Apple and Microsoft... making them the second-class browser is just not a problem, but a side-effect advantage. And of course, the FOSS people are playing right into this, building Theora into the browser, rather than using any CODEC supplied by the OS, which could include H.264.
Curiously, only Google is doing the thing that most benefits customers: support everything. They have H.264 and Theora support in Chrome, and they're working with Adobe to extend Flash. If Flash is truly evil, the market will move away from it, but only when that's possible. HTML5 isn't even finalized until 2012 at best, and there are no replacement authoring tools that make HTML5 as easy as Flash. Maybe they will but, but keep in mind, most Flash is "programmed" by content people, artists and all, not programmers. So these tools matter. They are the sole reason Flash is popular.
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Who determines validity of skill set?
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I don't think that people intentionally misstate their skill set. I do think that many people don't really realize their limitations or the limitations of the skill set that they possess.
Someone who has many hours on the water but has it in lakes or on flat conditions may not be the person to judge how worthy a boat is for someone that is looking for a boat that has certain characteristics.
I've reviewed many incidents where the paddler in question is considered to be experienced and an 'intermediate' paddler. Upon examination, it's easily determined that they didn't have the skills to cope with the rough conditions or other scenario's that led to them being rescued and written about in the paper, magazine etc.
Where this comes into play in reviews, I don't lend much credibility to a reviewer who is new, just bought a boat or won't use it in similar conditions that I would, to say nothing of similar physical characteristics.
Similarly, I generally chuck reviews that give the lowest score...unless there are a lot of them.
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must anger
In the world of humans, the unique use of codified symbols and sounds -written and spoken language, pain or the threat of pain can be perceived from written and verbal sources. Humans may not perceive an immediate physical threat, but pain can be felt psychologically. Due to humans' capacity to imagine the distant future, the threat of pain can also arise purely from the imagination, and not be based on anything happening in the immediate present. In humans, anger often arises when another human being is perceived to violate expected behavioral norms related to social survival. These violations break social or interpersonal boundaries, or may be ethical or legal violations.
Etymology and Conception
The English term "anger" originally comes from the term angr of Old Norse language; a language that was spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300. According to the linguist Anna Wierzbicka, the exact conception of anger can vary from culture to culture. For example, the Ilongot language of Philippines does not have a term exactly corresponding to the English term "anger." In this language, the closest term expressing the concept of "anger" is liget (glossed as ‘energy, anger, passion’).
This term plays a crucial role in the culture and life of Ilongots and has a competitive character related to envy and ambition. Wierzbicka explains the distinction between the English anger and the Ilongot liget more explicitly as follows:
X feels anger
(a) X thinks: R did something bad
(b) X doesn't want such 'bad' something to happen
(c) X feels badly toward R because of that 'bad' something happening
(d) X wants to do something bad to R because of that
X feels liget
(a) X thinks: I don’t want people to think that they can do things that I cannot do
(b) I want to do something because of that
(c) I don’t want to think:
“Someone will feel something bad because of that”
“I don’t want to do it because of that”
(d) X feels something because of that
(e) X can do things because of that which other people can’t.
Modern psychology
Anger is viewed as a natural and healthy response that has evolved to enable us to deal with threats. Three types of anger are recognized by psychologists: The first form of anger, named "hasty and sudden anger" by Joseph Butler, an 18th century English bishop, is connected to the impulse for self-preservation. It is shared between humans and animals and occurs when tormented or trapped. The second type of anger is named "settled and deliberate" anger and is a reaction to perceived deliberate harm or unfair treatment by others. These two forms of anger are episodic. The third type of anger is however dispositional and is related more to character traits than to instincts or cognitions. Irritability, sullenness and churlishness postures are examples of the last form of anger.
Anger can potentially mobilize psychological resources and boost determination toward correction of wrong behaviors, promotion of social justice, communication of negative sentiment and redress of grievances. It can also facilitate patience. On the other hand, anger can be destructive when it does not find its appropriate outlet in expression. Anger, in its strong form, impairs one's ability to process information and to exert cognitive control over his behavior. An angry person may lose his/her objectivity, empathy, prudence or thoughtfulness and may cause harm to others. There is a sharp distinction between anger and aggression (verbal or physical, direct or indirect) even though they mutually influence each other. While anger can activate aggression or increase its probability or intensity, it is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for aggression.
The external expression of anger can be found in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and at times in public acts of aggression. The facial expression and body language are as follows:
The facial and skeletal musculature are strongly affected by anger. The face becomes flushed, and the brow muscles move inward and downward, fixing a hard stare on the target. The nostrils flare, and the jaw tends toward clenching. This is an innate pattern of facial expression that can be observed in toddlers. Tension in the skeletal musculature, including raising of the arms and adopting a squared-off stance, are preparatory actions for attack and defense. The muscle tension provides a sense of strength and self-assurance. An impulse to strike out accompanies this subjective feeling of potency.
Physiological responses to anger include an increase in the heart rate, preparing the person to move, and increase of the blood flow to the hands, preparing them to strike. Perspiration increases (particularly when the anger is intense). A common metaphor for the physiological aspect of anger is that of a hot fluid in a container. According to Novaco, "Autonomic arousal is primarily engaged through adrenomedullary and adrenocortical hormonal activity. The secretion by the andrenal medulla of the catecholamines, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, and by the andrenal cortex of glucocorticoids provides a sympathetic system effect that mobilizes the body for immediate action (e.g. the release of glucose, stored in the liver and muscles as glycogen). In anger, the catecholamine activation is more strongly norepinephrine than epinephrine (the reverse being the case for fear). The adrenocortical effects, which have longer duration than the adrenomedullary ones, are modiated by secretions of the pituitary gland, which also influences testosterone levels. The pituitary-adrenocortical and pituitary-gonadal systems are thought to affect readiness or potentiation for anger responding."
Neuroscience has shown that emotions are generated by multiple structures in the brain. The rapid, minimal, and evaluative processing of the emotional significance of the sensory data is done when the data passes through the amygdala in its travel from the sensory organs along certain neural pathways towards the limbic forebrain. Emotion caused by discrimination of stimulus features, thoughts, or memories however occurs when its information is relayed from the thalamus to the neocortex. Based on some statistical analysis, some scholars have suggested that the tendency for anger may be genetic. Distinguishing between genetic and environmental factors however requires further research and actual measurement of specific genes and environments.
Most commonly, those who experience anger explain its arousal as a result of "what has happened to them" and in most cases the described provocations occur immediately before the anger experience. Such explanations confirm the illusion that anger has a discrete external cause. The angry person usually finds the cause of his anger in an intentional, personal, and controllable aspect of another person's behavior. This explanation is however based on the intuitions of the angry person who experiences a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability as a result of their emotion. Anger can be of multicausal origin, some of which may be remote events, but people rarely find more than one cause for their anger. According to Novaco, "anger experiences are embedded or nested within an environmental-temporal context. Disturbances that may not have involved anger at the outset leave residues that are not readily recognized but that operate as a lingering backdrop for focal provocations (of anger)." According to Britannica Encyclopedia, an internal infection can cause pain which in turn can activate anger.
Philosophical perspectives
Ancient philosophers argued that anger can be only experienced by humans: animals cannot become angry because they lack reason. Ancient Greek philosophers, describing and commenting on the uncontrolled anger, particularly toward slaves, in their society generally showed a hostile attitude towards anger. Galen and Seneca regarded anger as a kind of madness. They all rejected the spontaneous, uncontrolled fits of anger and agreed on both the possibility and value of controlling anger. There were however disagreements regarding the value of anger. For Seneca, anger was "worthless even for war." Seneca believed that:
The disciplined Roman army regularly defeats the fury of the Germans.... In sporting contests, it is a mistake to become angry ..., and in response to personal injury, the only relief for great misfortunes is to bear them and submit to their coercion... If the misfortune is unbearable, then suicide should be preferred to rage.
Aristotle on the other hand, ascribed some value to anger that has arisen from perceived injustice because it is useful for preventing injustice. Furthermore, the opposite of anger is a kind of insensibility, Aristotle stated. The difference in people's temperaments was generally viewed as a result the different mix of qualities or humors people contained. Seneca held that "red-haired and red-faced people are hot-tempered because of excessive hot and dry humors." Ancient philosophers rarely refer to women’s anger at all, according to Simon Kemp and K. T. Strongman perhaps because their works were not intended for women. Some of them that discuss it, such as Seneca, considered women to be more prone to anger than men.
Medieval era
During the period of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, philosophers elaborated on the existing conception of anger, many of whom did not make major contributions to the concept. For example, many medieval philosophers such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas agreed with ancient philosophers that animals cannot become angry. On the other hand, al-Ghazali (also known as "Algazel" in Europe), who often disagreed with Aristotle and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on many issues, argued that animals do possess anger as one of the three "powers" in their Qalb ("heart"), the other two being appetite and impulse. He also argued that animal will is "conditioned by anger and appetite" in contrast to human will which is "conditioned by the intellect.
A common medieval belief was that those prone to anger had an excess of yellow bile or choler (hence the word "choleric"). This belief was related to Seneca's belief that "red-haired and red-faced people are hot-tempered because of excessive hot and dry humors."
Modern times
The modern understanding of anger is not much more advanced than that of Aristotle. Immanuel Kant rejected vengeance as vicious because it goes beyond defense of one's dignity, and at the same time rejected insensitiveness to social injustice as a sign for lack "manhood." Regarding the latter, David Hume had argued that since "anger and hatred are passions inherent in our very frame and constitution, the lack of them is sometimes evidence of weakness and imbecility." Two main differences between the modern understanding and ancient understanding of anger can be detected, Kemp and Strongman state: One is that early philosophers were not concerned with possible harmful effects of the suppression of anger. The other is that recent studies of anger takes the issue of gender differences into account. This does not seem to have been of much concern for the earlier philosophers.
The American psychologist Albert Ellis has suggested that anger, rage and fury has partly roots in the philosophical meanings and assumptions humans interpret transgression through. According to Ellis, these emotions are often associated and related to the leaning humans have to absolutistically depreciating and damning other peoples humanity when their personal rules and domain are transgressed.
Religious perspectives
Anger in Buddhism is defined here as: "being unable to bear the object, or the intention to cause harm to the object." Anger is seen as aversion with a stronger exaggeration, and is listed as one of the five hindrances. The Buddhist spiritual saints, such as Dalai Lama, the spiritual Guru of Tibetan monks, sometimes get angry. However, there is a difference; most often a spiritual person is aware of the emotion and the way it can be handled. Thus, in response to the question: "Is any anger acceptable in Buddhism?' the Dalai Lama answered:
"Buddhism in general teaches that anger is a destructive emotion and although anger might have some positive effects in terms of survival or moral outrage, I do not accept that anger of any kind as a virtuous emotion nor aggression as constructive behavior. The Gautama Buddha has taught that there are three basic kleshas at the root of samsara (bondage, illusion) and the vicious cycle of rebirth. These are greed, hatred, and delusion--also translatable as attachment, anger, and ignorance. They bring us confusion and misery rather than peace, happiness, and fulfillment. It is in our own self-interest to purify and transform them."
Medieval Christianity vigorously rejected anger as one of the seven cardinal, or deadly sins although some Christian writers at times regarded the anger caused from injustice as having some value. Saint Basil viewed anger as a "reprehensible temporary madness." Joseph F. Delany in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1914) defines anger as "the desire of vengeance" and states that a reasonable vengeance and passion is ethical and praiseworthy. Vengeance is sinful when it exceeds its limits in which case it becomes opposed to justice and charity. For example, "vengeance upon one who has not deserved it, or to a greater extent than it has been deserved, or in conflict with the dispositions of law, or from an improper motive" are all sinful. An unduly vehement vengeance is considered a venial sin unless it seriously goes counter to the love of God or of one's neighbor.
In Hinduism, anger is equated with sorrow as a form of unrequited desire. The objects of anger are perceived as a hindrance to the gratification of the desires of the angry person. Alternatively if one thinks one is superior, the result is grief. Anger is considered to be packed with more evil power than desire.
The Qur'an, the central religious text of Islam, attributes anger to Prophets and believers and Muhammad's enemies. It mentions the anger of Moses against his people for worshiping a golden calf; the anger of Jonah at God in a moment and his eventual realization of his error and his repentance; God's removal of anger from the hearts of believers and making them merciful after the fighting against Muhammad's enemies is over.. In general suppression of anger is deemed a praiseworthy quality and Muhammad is attributed to have said, "power resides not in being able to strike another, but in being able to keep the self under control when anger arises.
In Judaism, anger at the sight of wrong done is holy. If the anger kindles into passion, it will become however conducive to strife. According to the Hebrew Bible: "He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he that is hasty of temper[A. V. "spirit"] exalteth folly...A wrathful man stirrers up strife: he that is slow to anger appeases strife...He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty...Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools." In the Book of Genesis, Jacob condemned the anger that had arisen in his sons Simon and Levi: "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel"
Of God or gods
In many religions, anger is frequently attributed to God or gods. Primitive people held that gods were subject to anger and revenge in anthropomorphic fashion. The Hebrew Bible says that opposition to God's Will results in God's anger. The Hebrew Bible explains that:
God is not an intellectual abstraction, nor is He conceived as a being indifferent to the doings of man; and His pure and lofty nature resents most energetically anything wrong and impure in the moral world: "O Lord, my God, mine Holy One... Thou art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."
Christians also subscribe to the God's holiness and his anger in the sight of evil. This anger, they hold is not inconsistent with God's love. They also believe that the wrath of God comes to those who reject Jesus.
In Islam, God's mercy outweighs his wrath or takes precedence of it. The characteristics of those upon whom God's wrath will fall is as follows: Those who reject God; deny his signs; doubt the resurrection and the reality of the day of judgment; call Muhammad a sorcerer, a madman or a poet; do mischief, are impudent, do not look after the poor (notably the orphans); live in luxury or heap up fortunes; persecute the believers or prevent them from praying;...
Coping strategies
According to Leland R. Beaumont, each instance of anger demands making a choice.. A person can respond with hostile action, including overt violence, or they can respond with hostile inaction, such as withdrawing or stonewalling. Other options include initiating a dominance contest; harboring resentment; or working to better understand and constructively resolve the issue
Ancient philosophers
Seneca addresses the question of mastering anger in three parts: 1. how to avoid becoming angry in the first place 2. how to cease being angry and 3. how to deal with anger in others. Seneca suggests that in order to avoid becoming angry in the first place, Seneca suggests that the many faults of anger should be repeatedly remembered. One should avoid being too busy or deal with anger-provoking people. Unnecessary hunger or thirst should be avoided and soothing music be listened to. To cease being angry, Seneca suggests "one to check speech and impulses and be aware of particular sources of personal irritation. In dealing with other people, one should not be too inquisitive: It is not always soothing to hear and see everything. When someone appears to slight you, you should be at first reluctant to believe this, and should wait to hear the full story. You should also put yourself in the place of the other person, trying to understand his motives and any extenuating factors, such as age or illness." Seneca further advises daily self-inquisition about one's bad habit.. To deal with anger in others, Seneca suggests that the best reaction is to simply keep calm. A certain kind of deception, Seneca says, is necessary in dealing with angry people.
Galen repeats Seneca's points but adds a new one: finding a guide and teacher can help the person in controlling their passions. Galen also gives some hints for finding a good teacher. Both Seneca and Galen (and later philosophers) agree that the process of controlling anger should start in childhood on grounds of malleability. Seneca warns that this education should not blunt the spirit of the children nor should they be humiliated or treated severely. At the same time, they should not be pampered. Children, Seneca says, should learn not to beat their playmates and not to become angry with them. Seneca also advises that children's requests should not be granted when they are angry.
Middle ages
Maimonides considered being given to uncontrollable passions as a kind of illness. Like Galen, Maimonides suggested seeking out a philosopher for curing this illness just as one seeks out a physician for curing bodily illnesses. Roger Bacon elaborates Seneca's advices. Many medieval writers discuss at length the evils of anger and the virtues of temperance. John Mirk asks men to "consider how angels flee before them and fiends run toward him to burn him with hellfire." In The Canon of Medicine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) modified the theory of temperaments and argued that anger heralded the transition of melancholia to mania, and explained that humidity inside the head can contribute to such mood disorders.
On the other hand, Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi classified anger (along with aggression) as a type of neurosis, while al-Ghazali (Algazel) argued that anger takes form in rage, indignation and revenge, and that "the powers of the soul become balanced if it keeps anger under control.
Modern times
According to R. Novaco, anger is an emotional response to provocation. R. Novaco recognized three modalities of anger: cognitive (appraisals), somatic-affective (tension and agitations) and behavioral (withdrawal and antagonism). In order to manage anger the problems involved in the anger should be discussed Novaco suggests. The situations leading to anger should be explored by the person. The person is then tried to be imagery-based relieved of his or her recent angry experiences.
Modern therapies for anger involve restructuring thoughts and beliefs in order to bring about a causal reduction in anger. These therapies often comes within the schools of CBT (or Cognitive Behavioural Therapies) like modern systems such as REBT (or Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy). Research shows that people who suffer from excessive anger often harbor and act on dysfunctional attributions, assumptions and evaluations in specific situations. It has been shown that with therapy by a trained professional, individuals can bring their anger to more manageable levels.
The therapy is followed by the so-called "stress inoculation" in which the clients are taught "relaxation skills to control their arousal and various cognitive controls to exercise on their attention, thoughts, images, and feelings. They are taught to see the provocation and the anger itself as occurring in a series of stages, each of which can be dealt with."
While the early philosophers were not concerned with possible harmful effects of the suppression of anger, modern psychologists point out that suppression of anger may have harmful effects. The suppressed anger may find another outlet, such as a physical symptom, or become more extreme. John W. Fiero cites Los Angeles riots of 1992 as an example of sudden, explosive release of suppressed anger. The anger was then displaced as violence against those who had nothing to do with the matter. Another example of widespread deflection of anger from its actual cause toward a scapegoat, Fiero says, was the blaming of Jews for the economic ills of Germany by the Nazis.
As a strategy
As with any emotion, the display of anger can be feigned or exaggerated. Studies by Hochschild and Sutton have shown that the show of anger is likely to be an effective manipulation strategy in order to change and design attitudes. Anger is a distinct strategy of social influence and its use (i.e. belligerent behaviors) as a goal achievement mechanism proves to be a successful strategy.
Tiedens, known for her studies of anger, claimed that expression of feelings would cause a powerful influence not only on the perception of the expresser but also on his power position in the society. She studied the correlation between anger expression and social influence perception. Previous researchers, such as Keating, 1985 have found that people with angry face expression were perceived as powerful and as in a high social position. Similarly, Tiedens et al. have revealed that people who compared scenarios involving an angry and a sad, attributed a higher social status to the angry character. Tiedens examined in her study whether anger expression promotes status attribution. In other words, whether anger contributes to perceptions or legitimization of others’ behaviors. Her findings clearly indicated that participants who were exposed to either an angry or a sad person were inclined to express support for the angry person rather than for a sad one. In addition, it was found that a reason for that decision originates from the fact that the person expressing anger was perceived as an ability owner, and was attributed a certain social status accordingly.
Showing anger during a negotiation may increase the ability of the anger expresser to succeed in negotiation. A study by Tiedens et al. indicated that the anger expressers were perceived as stubborn, dominant and powerful. In addition, it was found that people were inclined to easily give up to those who were perceived by them as a powerful and stubborn, rather than soft and submissive. Based on these findings Sinaceur and Tiedens have found that people conceded more to the angry side rather than for the non-angry one.
A question raised by Van Kleef et al. based on these findings was whether expression of emotion influences others, since it is known that people use emotional information to conclude about others’ limits and match their demands in negotiation accordingly. Van Kleef et al. wanted to explore whether people give up more easily to an angry opponent or to a happy opponent. Findings revealed that participants tended to be more flexible toward an angry opponent compared with a happy opponent. These results strengthen the argument that participants analyze the opponent’s emotion in order to conclude about their limits and carry out their decisions accordingly.
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Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which currently operates under the umbrella of the Columbia/Epic Label Group. It is a premiere label for Sony Music. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres.
Epic Records was launched in 1953 by CBS for the purpose of marketing jazz and classical music that did not fit the theme of the more mainstream Columbia Records. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases. This has included such notables as the Berlin Philharmonic, Charles Rosen, the Juilliard String Quartet, Antal Doráti conducting the Hague Philharmonic and George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra.
By 1960, the label's musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records (which, at the time, had a reputation for releasing material by more established acts) from being overstuffed with newer artists. Subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July and Jeff Beck. Several of the British artists on the Epic roster during the 1960s were the result of CBS's Epic/Okeh units' international distribution deal with EMI; Epic recordings were issued by EMI on the Columbia label before the contract with EMI expired, at which point CBS Records began issuing Epic label material on the CBS label until Epic UK was established in 1971 as a CBS imprint.
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the Chicago Federation of Labor, placed there after full investiga
tion of the pressmen's lockout and because it was. a Hearst paper
that first locked out the union pressmen.
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tion contemplate investigating Chicago's crime wave, and especially
the employment of thugs, sluggers and ex-convicts as newspaper
circulation boosters and strikebreakers.
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in Chicago, and its relation to vice and crime, is bound to be given
to the entire country, even if they are powerful enough to suppress
the truth in Chicago. As a friendly tip, I suggest that any Chicago
newspaper that is in this slugging game get out of it mighty quick.
Some day the people here may get men in office who will get
after the men who hire gunmen; they may go after the men
Down at Lawrence, Mass., Ettor and Giovannatti were locked
up on a murder charge of being accessories before the fact. The
difference between their case and that of a rich man who hires gun
men to fight his battles against labor, and murder is committed by
such gunmen, is that Ettor and Giovannatti didn't hire ex-convicts
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vited the assessor to visjt me and assess The Day Book, so I could
pay taxes. I haven't paid a cent of taxes in Chicago, and the as
sessor hasn't called yet.
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Are publishers a privileged class? Won't they let me pay taxes
when I want to?
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servant one morning: "Mary, you
must be very careful of the coal.
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Michael Swan's Practical English Usage 629.3 (hereafter, "PEU") says:
Will can express certainty or confidence about present or future situations.
As I'm sure you will understand, we cannot wait any longer for our order.
This example sounds awkward to me. As PEU indicates, here will expresses certainty about the present situation where you well understand the emergency. I think there is an ambiguity. It could also be interpreted as just a future auxiliary showing that you will understand the reason why it is now urgent some day in the future but not now.
Can I use must here to express my certainty? Or just omit will to maintain the intended meaning?
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If your purpose is to write a letter of cancellation, omit the first half of the sentence entirely. It is unnecessary: "We cannot wait any longer for our order." This makes it clear. Such sentences benefit from brevity. – KCH Apr 20 '14 at 15:55
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In this case, I don't think there's any ambiguity because the intent is pretty clear.
The intended meaning here is something like this: in the present, the email is being written by the person who placed the order. In the near future, the email will be read by the person who is supposed to be shipping the order. At that near future time, the writer is confident that the reader will understand that they cannot wait any longer for their order.
It wouldn't be interpreted to mean "you won't understand when you read the email, but at some future point after that I think you will understand" because that doesn't really make sense in the context; there's no event mentioned that would cause this change from not understanding to understanding. Here's an example where there would be:
I'm afraid I simply can't loan you any more money; you're spending it on frivolous things and you never pay me back. I know it seems harsh now, but you will understand when you're older.
Here the speaker presents a clear opinion that the listener won't understand now, but that an event (growing up) will occur in the future that will make them understand when they look back on this.
Now, as for your suggestions. Must doesn't say quite the same thing. There's a social nuance to the original phrasing; they aren't confident the reader will understand. But they say they are confident because that makes it harder for the reader to come back and say "You placed your order with us and that's final! You're going to wait however long it takes!" Since they've already approached it as "I'm sure you're compassionate toward our situation and are going to be understanding about this", they've made it harder for the company to turn around and hold them to the order. That's why they used phrasing like that, not because they actually are sure they'll understand.
So the reason must doesn't work is because it's confrontational. It doesn't say "I am confident that when you read this you will understand." It says "I am confident that you are required to understand--you have no choice but to understand." So for one thing that doesn't actually say the same thing... It isn't simply saying that the understanding will happen, it's saying that the understanding is required to happen for some reason. It's compulsory. So the two have different meanings, and the version with must is less likely to elicit the response the writer is looking for, because it's missing that subtle manipulation.
Simply omitting will doesn't quite have the same meaning, but it's close enough that it could be reasonably used in this situation. "As I'm sure you will understand" means "in the near future when you read this, I am confident you will understand." "As I'm sure you understand", without the will, means "I'm sure that you already understand, even as I write this, before you've even read it." So there's the implication that the company already knew they'd taken too long to fill the order before they were contacted; they understand already that their customer cannot wait. But this is a pretty small difference in practice; the meaning that's intended is going to be understood whether you use the will or not.
I think what's most likely to be used in this situation is can rather than will. (I get that the book was trying to give will examples, but I still feel like I should explain this.) The version with will sounds a little formal, and without it you do have that implication that they already understood. So you can take the middle road and use can:
As I'm sure you can understand, we cannot wait any longer for our order.
Here can means "As I'm sure you are able to understand, have the capability to understand, are an empathetic person who can sympathize and will understand..." You're complimenting them by assuming they're an understanding person, and assuring them that you think they are definitely able to understand the position you're in and respect it and follow through in the right way. I think this is probably more common than the version with will, and it also has another subtle difference that changes the tone of the conversation a bit.
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I would thought it would be a military order. And the situaion would be an urgent one. Someone would urge his commanding officer to take immediate action before he is given an order to do. This context could make your explanation invalid in some aspects, I suppose. – Kinzle B Apr 20 '14 at 15:01
In this case, I think the ambiguity would exist. This is how I imagined the scenario when I came across this example. And of course your explanation is valid for your context. How about mine? – Kinzle B Apr 20 '14 at 15:12
+1 Outstanding. – StoneyB Apr 20 '14 at 15:29
@ZhanlongZheng The ambiguity is not there in use; the 'default' understanding of "I'm sure you will understand" is that the only futurity involved is the lapse between utterance and 'decoding'. Any futurity beyond that would have to be made explicit by the speaker with something like "As I am sure you will come to understand. – StoneyB Apr 20 '14 at 15:34
Thx for your complements. Wendi did an excellent job, too. That makes perfect sense now! @StoneyB – Kinzle B Apr 20 '14 at 15:37
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ELM Board Member Profile: Tom Powers
By Marisa Hobbs, ELM Intern
Tom Powers has been President of the Boston Harbor Island Alliance since 2004. He has also been an ELM Director for five years. His past experience includes positions with USGen New England, Inc., the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, where he held various positions including Acting Commissioner. The following are excerpts from an interview with Mr. Powers.
Where did you grow up?
I was born in Newton, Massachusetts and when I was ten I moved to South Dakota. So I had a split between essentially nine years in Newton and nine years in South Dakota before going to college. I went to college in Ohio (Oberlin) and migrated east after that and wound up here in the early 70s for law school and stayed here ever since.
After attending Oberlin College, why did you decide to attend Harvard Law School and John F. Kennedy’s School of Government?
I wanted to go to law school because I wanted to do environmental work. The best avenue I could see to get into environmental protection was a law degree.
I then practiced environmental law for twelve years at the Department of Environmental Protection, but then had a chance for a fellowship at the Kennedy School, an opportunity that allowed me to switch over from advising people on their legal options to making environmental decisions myself. It seemed like a more direct way to protect the environment. I was very lucky and managed to turn the Kennedy School degree into a decision-making job at DEP.
What made you go into the environmental field in the first place?
The primary thing I can think of is an outing club trip to the Smokey Mountains in 1969. I was just struck by how beautiful they were, how important clean air was, how much it made me happy to be outdoors. It was all that, combined with the 60s / John F. Kennedy time period of trying to figure out how you can contribute, what government can do for people, and how you can contribute to government. These were all parts of why I went into the environmental field.
Why have you remained in the environmental field for so many years?
It’s enormously rewarding to think you are protecting the planet and trying to make it better for your fellow citizens.
What career achievements are you most proud of?
I was a primary author of the Coastal Wetlands Protection Regulations when those were still administered at DEP in 1978, and those were pretty cutting edge at the time. They went much further and were much farther reaching, and they became a model for other regulations. Along the same line, one of the most challenging sets of regulations was revising the Title 5 Septic System regulations in 1994. They were also enormously controversial so they involved working with a wide range of people, taking a broad view of what was both environmentally protective and in the public interest, and keeping in mind economics and jobs and all the other aspects of regulatory kinds of things.
In my current job, my proudest achievement is being able every day to help build the national park for the Greater Boston Area. That park will be cherished for decades once it is fully established using the amazing but under-developed resource of the Boston Harbor Islands, particularly because that resource reflects the amazing environmental achievement of cleaning up Boston Harbor.
What is your favorite aspect of being President of the Boston Harbor Island Alliance?
Working with a wide range of people both inside and outside of government to build a steadily improving park that will hopefully draw generations of kids to be out of doors and have a love of the environment. If they are sitting behind computers, they are not going to have the same degree of love for the environment as they would if they were out on an island and breathing salt air.
How did you get involved with the Environmental League of Massachusetts?
I have been a member of the Environmental League since the 80s. It was clearly an organization that was doing what I believed in, which is advocating for environmental protection. So I think that I have been part of it for that long and gradually got more involved. Then, five years ago I was approached to be one of the board members and that sounded like a great opportunity.
Aside from environmental affairs, what are your favorite hobbies or interests?
Sports—running, cycling and hiking in particular. Reading. Following politics, but not participating first hand. And family. And a garden. It’s sort of all consistent with being outdoors and putting your hands on the environment.
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N1 (Stage 1) sleep
The lightest stage of non-REM (NREM) sleep. Slow eye movements are often present.
N2 (Stage 2) sleep
The second stage of non-REM (NREM) sleep. EEGs during N2 sleep show sleep spindles and K complexes on a background of relatively low-voltage, mixed-frequency EEG activity.
N3 sleep (Stage 3 or slow-wave sleep [SWS])
The deepest stage of non-REM (NREM) sleep, characterized by a larger amount of synchronized slow-wave EEG (brainwave activity) than in other stages. These slow waves are called delta activity. During slow-wave sleep the brain becomes less responsive to external stimuli; it is considered the deepest sleep as it is the hardest stage from which to awaken. The 1968 categorization of the combined Sleep Stages 3 or 4 was reclassified in 2007 as Stage N3.
A sleep disorder marked by excessive daytime sleepiness and sometimes cataplexy and other symptoms. Narcolepsy affects an estimated 1 in 2,000 people.
A nerve cell in the brain and other parts of the nervous system that conveys nerve signals through complex networks regulating sleep, arousal, consciousness, speech, walking, and many other behaviors.
A chemical (such as serotonin or norepinephrine) that permits nerve signals to bridge the gap, or synapse, between nerve cells. Neurotransmitters usually excite or inhibit activity in downstream, target neurons.
Night terror
A sleep disturbance that occurs during the non-dreaming stages of sleep (generally, deep slow-wave sleep). An individual experiencing a night terror is often overcome by panic but cannot easily be aroused because of the deep level of sleep in which this phenomena occurs. Unlike nightmares, night terrors generally lack visual imagery and are most often not remembered upon awakening. See also nightmares.
A sleep disturbance that occurs during REM sleep (dreaming sleep) and has frightening content. Nightmares often result in either partial or total arousal from sleep since it is relatively easy to wake from REM sleep. See also night terror.
Occurring or active during the night rather than during the day.
Non-declarative memory
See procedural memory.
Non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep
A resting state in which a person has little consciousness of the environment, low cortical activity, and almost no internal thoughts. NREM sleep consists of three different stages: N1 (light sleep), N2, and N3 (deep sleep).
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
A condition in which a person stops breathing for at least 10 seconds, with such cessations occurring repeatedly during sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea is akin to an extreme form of snoring. Sleep apnea is usually due to complete or partial obstruction of the airway in the back of the throat. Sleep apnea is common in obese, elderly males, but can also occur in children and females.
Neurotransmitters that normally promote stable wakefulness and help regulate REM sleep. In people who have narcolepsy with cataplexy, there is a loss of neurons that produce orexins. Orexins are also known as hypocretins.
A term describing individuals who are predisposed to stay up late and to be at their best in the evening. Also termed “evening-type.” Contrasts with “lark” (see entry). Such owl and lark predispositions may have a genetic component.
Troubling or undesirable behaviors that intrude during sleep, such as sleepwalking. They often are associated with abnormal or partial arousal and typically disrupt normal sleep.
Parasympathetic nervous system
One of two subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system branch generally is involved in recuperative and maintenance functions of the body, such as digestion. These two subdivisions usually work in opposition (like a brake and an accelerator in a car). Thus, for example, slowing the heart can be achieved by simultaneously decreasing sympathetic activity (reduced acceleration) and by increasing parasympathetic activity (increased braking).
Periodic limb movements disorder (PLMD)
A sleep disorder characterized by leg movements or jerks that typically occur every 20 to 40 seconds during sleep, causing sleep to be disrupted and leaving the person with excessive daytime sleepiness.
Periodic limb movements of sleep (PLMS)
Leg movements or jerks that typically occur every 20 to 40 seconds during sleep. The term periodic limb movement disorder is used if the leg movements produce daytime symptoms (see entry).
Phase shift
A shift that moves one’s typical sleep or wake time to a different part of the circadian cycle.
Polysomnogram or polysomnograph
A recording of a person’s sleep, using several physiologic signals such as brain waves (electroencephalogram), eye movements (electrooculogram), and muscle activity (electromyogram), as well as breathing patterns the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream, heart rate, and body position. A polysomnogram is used to evaluate patients in a sleep laboratory for potential sleep disorders.
Prefrontal cortex (PFC)
A region of the brain that plays a critical role in the formation of cognition, directing goal-oriented thoughts, and executive function. The PFC is particularly vulnerable to the effects of sleep deprivation.
Procedural memory
The long-term memory of skills and procedures, or “how-to” knowledge. Also called implicit memory.
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What would you like to know about your future?
Yesterday's discussion of the movie TiMER veered into the difficulties of knowing your fate. It got me wondering what people would want to know about their future. Take our poll and tell us.
Below are several questions that people might want to know about the future. Most of them are morbid, but then, if we had a lot of faith in the future we wouldn't trying to steal its answer sheet while its back was turned. If you can, please elaborate on why you want to know something, or what would you do if you got a certain kind of news. For example: if you found out you were only going to make a little money, would you blow it all on a wild and extravagant youth, or would you live as a hobo while you were young and strong and have a comfortable old age? If you found out you were going to die at 25, would you drop out of school or go for your PhD as early as you could?
I left out, "I don't believe in it," or "I wouldn't want to know anything," for a reason. They're no fun. No one is going to invent something like this. There is no risk. Pick what you're most curious about.
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In the past year the world of MMA has had its fair share of problems. Injury blighted UFC cards, sub-par main events, the slow and meandering death of Strikeforce are to name but a few. But the year has also been loaded with a plentiful number of things to cheer about. MMA fans witnessed the welcome return of Georges St-Pierre after his injury. Ronda Rousey blew up so much that Dana White was forced to renege on his promise that no women would fight in the UFC. So to celebrate all the good things of the year past and to usher in the new year, here is Fox News Latino’s MMA awards:
Fighter of the Year: Benson Henderson
The year 2012 has been dominated by non other than Benson Henderson. How could it not be? The man won the UFC lightweight belt in his first fight of the year with a unanimous decision against a tough as nails Frankie Edgar. The same Frankie Edgar who seemed to have had possession of the lightweight belt for what seemed to be eons.
That was the first statement of intent. The rematch with Edgar in an even tougher encounter saw Henderson’s arm raised once more courtesy a split decision. With two bouts of monumental difficulty what did Henderson do? Well he squeezed in another fight high up on the difficulty scale by fighting and distributing a festive beat down on Nate Diaz. How good was Henderson this year? Well, the fact that he won all three of his bouts with relative ease against opponents who have cemented permanent spots in the upper echelons of the sport shows Henderson is not merely a hype. Henderson is a legitimate pound-for-pound fighter who will be feared in the sport for years to come and 2012 was the year he fulfilled his promise.
Knockout of the Year: Edson Barboza
At UFC 142, in the middle of the third round of an evenly contested fight against Terry Etim, Edson Barboza delivered what will easily go down as the knockout of the year. As Etim advanced towards Barboza in the middle of the Octagon, the Brazilian did something that generally happens only in movies and daydreams. He pivoted on one foot, swung his other leg like a sickle 360 degrees and chopped down Etim like a mere blade of grass. Etim was lifeless way before he hit the canvas, while Barboza walked away soaked in nonchalance as if nothing special had happened. But something special had happened. Barboza had delivered the first spinning heel kick knockout in the history of the UFC and ensured that people’s jaws would be left ajar for quite a long time.
Fight of the Year: Chan Sung Jung SUB4 Dustin Poirier
Going into the fight on UFC on Fuel TV 3 Poirier had never been defeated at 145 pounds. But in the fourth round the fight was waved off after he had been choked out by Jung, “The Korean Zombie” in a fight of the year that few would forget. In a matchup that produced back and forth action, with oodles of blood what more could fans have wished for? Flying elbows and kicks, late second reversals, incredible chins. The fight had it all. As for the ending? Who could have foreseen the brabo choke being handed out to Poirier? The result saw Jung catapult himself into title contention against featherweight supremo Jose Aldo. He had finished all three of his previous opponents since being signed by the UFC as part of the World Extreme Cagefighting merger and the win against Poirier will surely mean "The Korean Zombie" will live to fight on an even bigger stage.
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Using mySQL 5.0.51 on Solaris .
At intermittent times it looks like MySQL is getting 'stuck' . The disk usage on the server spikes to 98% busy from reads. I used dtrace (specifically DTrace toolkit - iosnoop) to track down what processes was using all the reads. Mysql was calling tablename.TDM hundreds of times per second. There was no more than average load on the webserver that could account for this. There were no cronjobs running, and no other utilities like mysqldump or anything. It is a master / slave replication setup.
As a jury-rigged fix, I altered the mysql table from 'tablename' to 'tablename2' and then back to 'tablename'
This fixed the problem temporarily, and "unsticks" mysql. The disk usage goes back down and dtrace is no longer showing hundreds of reads to 'tablename.TDM' / second.
A couple ideas I had are:
1. MySQL version bug
2. Infinite loop somewhere in my application (which i'm not sure how likely this is)
3. ??
Has anybody seen this before or have any insight?
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Have you checked your slow query log? Is it enabled? – Zoredache Mar 10 '10 at 17:44
Didn't have it enabled, will enable it tonight during slow hours – bonez05 Mar 10 '10 at 19:58
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Uh, renaming tables randomly is a horrible idea.
Look at the MySQL process list to determine what processes are loading the system. Use:
show full processlist;
There's also utilities like mytop and mtop that are handy.
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Isolating is going to depend on your environment. Where are the connections from?
If localhost can it only be a system script or do you have an application being served from your DB?
If remote host, what function does that remote host serve? Is it different from others? Does it have scripts or is it only an application?
It should be fairly quick and simple to isolate the source but not necessarily the cause.
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def. agree with not renaming tables, but had to do something. will get mytop. Thanks – bonez05 Mar 10 '10 at 16:58
Connecting from DB server so essential localhost, i also have to webservers attached to the db server, which are running mysql connections and apache. but i'm doing my debugging right from the db server itself. as a side note the table in question has 600,000 records, which i think mysql should be able to handle, but maybe this is an issue – bonez05 Mar 10 '10 at 18:32
That makes it more difficult to isolate from a connection perspective. If you're running unoptimized queries against an improperly indexed table, it's definitely plausible that is the source of the problem. Zoredache provided a good recommendation as well. – Warner Mar 10 '10 at 18:47
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In cost accounting, product mix refers to the mix of products you produce. Sales mix refers to the mix of products you sell. They are broadly related. Every company deals with limited capacity, so smart decisions about product mix can greatly increase your profit. You just need to work out the most profitable product mix you can.
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The next-generation Apple iPhone rumors are in full swing, as we’re fully expecting the iPhone 5 (maybe on Sprint too) and Reuters is now reporting that Apple suppliers are building an 8 GB iPhone 4 like device too. Could this be the cheaper iPhone 4S we’ve heard about?
The report said that Apple suppliers are building a device that’s similar to the iPhone 4 but which will only have 8 GB of memory. The thinking is that this will enable Apple to create a cheaper iPhone, one which could do better in certain markets or which could possibly be sold without a contract at a somewhat affordable price.
“Apple may want to push into the emerging market segment where customers want to switch to low- to mid-end smartphones from high-end feature phones, which usually cost $150-200,” said Yuanta Securities analyst Bonnie Chang told Reuters.
This logic kind of makes sense too, as Apple generally does like to offer multiple price points for its products. Its Macbook notebooks can be purchased at various pricing and the iPod has long had multiple prices and configurations. One could also think that iCloud could alleviate some of the concerns about storage space.
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Phoenix Gilman Shares Diet Information for Weight Loss and Treating ADHD
Thursday, August 21, 2008 by: Kevin Gianni
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(NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at ( . In this excerpt, Phoenix Gilman shares on maintaining serotonin levels in ADD, ADHD and weight loss.
The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Phoenix Gilman, the author of "Diet Failure - The Naked Truth About Weight Loss"
Phoenix: This whole thing with ADD, ADHD, if people and the parents and everyone were to come to understand that everything we put in our body obviously affects us physically, but to understand that it also affects us mentally and emotionally, our ability to concentrate, this whole ADD, ADHD, well no wonder most of these kids are bouncing off the walls and can't focus. One, we have to remember what it was like to be a child, first of all. That to me is so important. That child has so much energy that should not be harnessed with a drug. If parents were to understand that everything they put in their child's diet, even though they probably think, I'm sure they think they're doing right with the low fat milk and the cereals and all that, and the bagels. But all those foods are all very high GI. And the juices and things like that and of course, what kid doesn't enjoy a Red Bull which is nothing but caffeine and sugar. All those things deplete that brain chemical which, among many things, will lead to more cravings, more binge eating and the so-called ADD, ADHD.
Kevin: Yeah.
Phoenix: So, just by understanding that a healthy diet will help tremendously in that child being able to focus and to lose the weight and to be a much healthier child without having to drug them with, you know, Ritalin or Strattera.
Kevin: Sure. And with kids, if we can move into that for just a little bit...
Phoenix: A-ha.
Kevin: I mean, kids like chicken fingers and french fries and ketchup. How do you get them to, as a parent...
Phoenix: Yeah.
Kevin: ...what does a parent do to get them to eat a healthier diet?
Phoenix: Well, that's another excellent question because I talk about it in the book, you know, I wrote the book in a dialogue form to give a voice directly to the consumer. And so, the woman says to me, "Well, you can eat like that because you don't have children. I have children." And I wanted to put that out there, because I do understand that when you have kids, that's a whole other thing. I don't have to worry about anyone, it's just me. However, there is no better time to help your child than now when he is a child. They might not like it right away, but you can do it slowly. There are things that you can just start to incorporate. I mean, most kids like eggs. You can start with that instead of giving them breakfast cereal every morning.
Kevin: A-ha.
Phoenix: You know, Hot Pockets and Pop-Tarts and things like that. Slowly start to put other healthier things in there. And the dietary supplements as well, Kevin, those are crucial to be able to maintain that brain chemical so you can maintain this healthy way of living and eating. It's even though in our industry we have to... those standard claims, "keep away from children". However, if I had a child, knowing how safe it is, I would have them on supplements because I know that is the most important thing for me, to maintain that brain chemical so I can get on with my life and do the things that I need to do; staying and eating healthy is the most important thing. So, that would be a good place to start to also then really educate yourself to know what's healthy, start there and then also get on that supplement.
Because that's the key. That's the key. Again, all diets, generally ninety-eight percent of all diets fail unless you understand how to maintain that serotonin. That's really the missing link for any of the diets that are out there.
Kevin: Right. And you talked about supplements a little bit. What are some of the ingredients in a healthy supplement regimen?
Phoenix: A-ha. Well, for me, I don't really get too much into that, my key focus, as I said, is to help maintain serotonin.
Kevin: Yeah.
Phoenix: I have my own personal thing. I mean, I'm not really big on overloading on supplements even though I'm in the industry. I could be taking twenty or thirty a day based on what the reports say that you need. I try to get as much as I can naturally through my food. I'll take a good multiple vitamins and minerals supplement.
Kevin: A-ha.
Phoenix: I take in extra Vitamin E and B. And other than that, the most important one for me, if I only had to take one, it would not be any of those, it would be the product that will elevate my serotonin. And the ones that I recommend in my book, I don't promote my products in my book even though I spent four years developing supplements to prove these theories, that I had read, the clinical theories, it is about sharing those products and the supplements that people can go in any health food store and get. And by far, the one that is the favorite of mine and has the most wonderful studies to support and what I have used in all my products in the last seven years, is called 5HTP, 5 hydroxy-tryptophan.
Kevin: OK. Tryptophans, OK.
Phoenix: Yeah. And there's other ones that I list but that is by far the best, and they could be picked up, as they say, it's great. Because why? It's safe, it's affordable, it's effective, extremely effective and no prescription required.
Kevin: Wow. That's interesting. And what does it do chemically?
Phoenix: Well, actually the 5 is an amino, it's a natural amino acid, it's found from the Griffonia seed, a plant out of Africa, South Africa.
Kevin: A-ha.
Phoenix: And it is the closest thing to serotonin. It crosses easily the blood-brain barrier, which the blood-brain barrier is very, very protective for obvious reasons. From anything that can go in there. But the 5 has what I like to call, the "Key" to quickly get across that barrier. And so, once it gets in across the blood-brain barrier, it transforms into serotonin, thereby elevating this brain chemical.
Kevin: Wow.
Phoenix: And unlike any diet that anyone's been on in the past, Kevin, I always say, you know, "What do we think about when we're on a diet?" We think about all the foods we can't wait to eat once we get down to that perfect size.
Kevin: Yeah, it's true.
Phoenix: And so diets are associated with starvation, deprivation and frustration. And eventually, we end up with our head in the bag for whatever it is we crave. Because, we don't know what's driving us to consume those things, it's this depleted brain chemical. So, unlike any diet that anyone's been on, whether you're trying to lose weight, whether you want to help alleviate depression or ADD or help lower your risk for heart disease, cancer, all those things, it is absolutely imperative to be able to maintain it. And to maintain it with a safe effective dietary supplement, Kevin. Once you're able to maintain that brain chemical, the most amazing thing happens and that is, you will no longer be driven to consume those things. You could have those foods, those trigger items, those comfort foods that you thought you couldn't live without, you could have them right in front of you and you would no longer want them. Why? Because the brain is now satiated. It's content. It has no need, no desire to push you for those things. And that is what makes this work long-term.
Because what happens when you maintain the serotonin, you subsequently stabilize the insulin. You're no longer consuming the food and/or beverages that constantly trigger the insulin, making the body store more fat, leaves depression, more cravings, all the issues that will come to a cycle, you now start to stabilize in the body. The body starts to burn its own stored fat instead of constantly triggering it, and that is the crucial long-term link.
Kevin: Wow. It sounds just fantastic to be able to have that power.
Phoenix: A-ha. It is. Absolutely. That's why I have so many wonderful testimonials. People say, "Look, for the first time in my life, I'm not driven to consume those." They just simply lose the desire. And a lot of people say, "Oh, you know, I just found new willpower." I said, "I don't care what you want to call it as long as it's working."
Kevin: Yeah.
Phoenix: What it is is just simply, because it happens within your own head, it really is. It feels like, "Wow, I finally got it." But it's nothing more, you know, not to take away, it's powerful but it's simply nothing more than you finally understanding how to safely maintain that neurotransmitter.
Kevin: Wow. You just mentioned testimonials. Why don't you share with us, you know, a story or two about how this has worked for the people you worked with.
Phoenix: There's two I'd love to share. There's one, it's so emotional, though, it was a woman who heard a radio show I was doing out in Minnesota and I do that really early in the morning and she wrote me and she said, "I heard you one cold wintry morning on WCCO and I almost drove off the road in shock of how you could know what I struggled with all my life with food addiction, carb addiction, never being able to keep the weight off. I felt like such a failure." Anyway, this woman went on to lose forty-five pounds in about four months, which is a nice, steady pace, not too quick...
Kevin: Yeah.
Phoenix: ...which I tell my clients, "Look, I will never tell you you're going to lose thirty pounds in thirty days. I'm not even going to tell you you're going to lose fifteen pounds in thirty days. This is about coming to understand the long-term solution, and to how far you want to take it, if you add in working out, doing some weight training to help build that lean muscle mass, you could take it probably a little quicker but it is, for me, always about long-term." But anyway, that woman with a huge... she was a binge eater for her whole life. She was about my age, forty-seven at the time. And she just could not control it. She said, "I felt like such a failure." Having lost the forty-five pounds, she had kept it off for a year, which is a huge success, because sometimes, like people say, "Oh, I can lose the weight. It's keeping it off that's an issue." So, most of the people that I have helped now, the book has been out a year, these people have maintained that. And she says now, she says, "You know Phoenix, it is so wonderful to finally be able to go out to dinner with my two boys, enjoy a meal, have a nice piece of pie without wanting to eat the entire pie."
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The B-52's are post-punk legends whose avant-garde sounds and kitschy style put them on the map in 1979, when most popular music was either angst-ridden anarchy or whipped-cream disco. Unlike other bands who ushered in new wave (Devo, Adam & the Ants) the B's had hot chick singers.
Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson were cool, funky, sexy and vocally stunning—and they've made listening to and looking at the B-52's all the more savory. So when we got to speak with Kate Pierson, there's only one thing we could think of to say:
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Kate Pierson: [laughs] Oh! I'm hot?
Mmm-hmm. Do you ever get tired of hearing that? That you're hot? Because you are. Hot.
I don't hear it as often as I'd like! Maybe people don't say it to my face. Often they'll say, "You look taller onstage" and "You look better in person," and I don't know how to take that. I guess it's a compliment, but then, do my pictures suck?
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So, were you really a folksy activist when you were a teenager in New Jersey?
Yeah, I wrote topical folk songs—I was in my own band, the Sun Donuts. We all had guitars, and we wrote folk protest songs about Vietnam, the destruction of the environment, civil rights, you name it. I always had a political consciousness. When I was in high school, I couldn't wait to go to college so I could protest—I was burning to get my views out there.
How did you start raising goats?
It wasn't my object. But my husband at the time, Brian, and I wanted to do a "back to the land" thing and live on a farm—it was one of the hippie things I hadn't done yet. When we came back from Europe, we met some people who were all driving to Georgia to hike the Appalachian Trail and one of them was in Athens and could give Brian a job. We moved there and ended up renting a place on Eloise Maxwell's farm—it was $15 a month, no running water and no heat. It was the most beautiful spot. It really was kind of like that room in the "Love Shack" video. And I wound up raising goats.
Geez, you were really into the granola! When did you cross over into the campy-mod thing?
I always had a weird sense of humor, and I always liked to dress up—a ham from birth. When I met the B's in Athens, we just all clicked with that offbeat sense of humor—dressing up and wearing wigs. The beehive thing was a stark image for that time—really out of context for 1979. Our image was like a Fellini drag-queen thing. People actually thought Cindy and I were drag queens for a while.
Was John Waters an inspiration?
Oh, god, yes. We had a John Waters festival once when we were doing the Cosmic Thing tour, and we just watched all the John Waters movies on the bus, and the bus driver was straight out of Florida and was like, "What are you all listening to back there? What's going on!" We had the curtain drawn, and we're watching this guy fornicating with a chicken, and it was a total gross-out. I'm not that into gross-outs, usually, but it was funny.
What about Yoko Ono? There seems to be some Yoko in the creature calls of "Rock Lobster."
Absolutely—she's a hero of ours. At the end of the song, with that eiyee-ak-eiyee-ak, that's from her. We did that in Whammy!, too. We were all listening to Yoko way back when we first started. And then there was that great John Lennon quote in Playboy where he said that before he and Yoko did Double Fantasy together, they were in the Bahamas and they heard "Rock Lobster" on the radio, and he said, "C'mon, Yoko, it's time for us to start making music again." So he felt, I guess, that people were finally being influenced by Yoko, so their time had come around again. It was really exciting to know that he liked us.
It must have been a boon when you got to record some of his songs on last year'sLost Songs of Lennon & McCartney album with Graham Parker and Bill Janovitz.
It was great. We recorded the songs and did a short tour, and it was a really different experience than being out with the B's. We stayed in crummy hotels and played in smaller places, and it was really intimate, really fun. And the music was great—it was fun to explore those songs.
When is your solo album coming out?
I'm doing some recording this week. It's all original stuff, a mixture of rock, dance-oriented songs and some singer/songwriter type stuff. It's been delayed a lot. The B-52's have been on this constant tour for the past few years, doing gigs as they come up, so we fly somewhere every couple of weeks.
Aren't you exhausted?
Um, I am.
Because you've also been doing the Chanteuse Club with Maggie Moore in New York.
Oh, she's fantastic. She and Gail Ann Dorsey and I started doing the Chanteuse at Joe's Pub. We wanted it to be with rotating singers with us as the core performers. The only rule is that we sing without a lot of instrumentation, just with piano or guitar. It's not really traditional cabaret—we do mostly original stuff—but at the end, we all sing together on "Up, Up and Away" and "Love Will Keep Us Together." It's really fun. Debbie Harry is going to do it soon, and Christina Amphlett of the Divinyls.
You never stop! Then you have your new Kate's Lazy Meadow 1950's motel in the Catskills!
I'm here at the Lazy Meadow right now! I'm not working, of course. I'm lazying here in the meadow. It's so beautiful—the trees are blooming, and there's a creek, and Pearl, my English Bulldog, just ran through the mud and is running all around like a dirty little hippo. I just got back from the tour, so I'm trying to rest up.
How's your hair?
[laughs] It's tired, too! It's been standing up for so many years. I don't really do the wig thing anymore. When the weather calls for a wig, you should put one on, but sometimes you can outcamp yourself. So I think the giant wig has had its day.
Well, wig or not, you're still hot.
The B-52's perform with Scissor Sisters and the Messies at the House Of Blues, 1530 Disneyland Dr., Anaheim (714) 778-2583. Sun., 8:30 p.m. $52.50-$55. All ages (16 and under with guardian). For info on Kate's Lazy Meadow Motel, go to
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Bad Voodoo's War
Bad Voodoo's War
Deborah Scranton
ANNOUNCER: Tonight on FRONTLINE: They call themselves the Bad Voodoo platoon.
ANNOUNCER: And they're being sent back to Iraq to be part of the surge.
Spc. JASON SHAW: A lot of these new guys don't know what they're getting into.
ANNOUNCER: They will discover that the war has changed.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN, Platoon Leader: We're used to kicking in doors, taking the fight to the enemy.
ANNOUNCER: And they must fight new frustrations-
RADIO: Just got hit by an IED.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: We're waiting to get blown up, and we're not allowed to fight back.
ANNOUNCER: -battle through their fatigue-
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Tonight's going to be a heavy night.
We're just running ourselves into the ground.
REV: Dear Heavenly Father-
ANNOUNCER: -and conquer their fears.
REV: -we come to you to watch over us and all these convoys.
ANNOUNCER: -the inside story-
SOLDIER: Pull up! Pull up!
ANNOUNCER: -of Bad Voodoo's War.
RADIO: Handcuff Charlie Bravo 2-3. We have an IED det!
DEBORAH SCRANTON, Director: [voice-over] This is the U.S. military's Joint Forces Training Center, Camp Shelby, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I came here to meet a platoon of National Guard soldiers-
DEBORAH SCRANTON: -who were getting ready to be deployed to Iraq.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN, Platoon Sergeant: Three, jab, one, right? Power cross, two. Three is going to be a hook.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: The first person I met was the acting platoon leader, Sergeant Toby Nunn.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: And then sprawl, you get down. And then you get back up. The whole time, you run in place.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: The platoon sergeant is the father figure. I'm responsible for the care and welfare of, you know, the 30 guys underneath me.
One, two, sprawl! One, two!
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: One! One! One, two!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: In just a few weeks, Sergeant Nunn must have the 30 men in his platoon ready for combat.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: One, two, sprawl!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: They'll be going in at the peak of the surge.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: One, two, sprawl!
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: This is going to be my third real combat deployment, my ninth overall deployment. But I [unintelligible] thought of myself as a warrior, just a kid from the bush up in Canada. I grew up in a large logging center. I'm a little guy. I wanted to do something with my mind more than with my hands. So I came to the United States hoping to get a little break on college. And somewhere along the way, I realized that paying for college by yourself is expensive!
So I joined the Army, started off as a young private and joined the infantry. Kosovo kicked off. I got sent to the Balkans, the right place to learn about what humanity really has to hold, both good and evil. And then I joined the Strykers. And that's where I went to Operation Iraqi Freedom I and II with the Tomahawks.
Then I came to California. And shortly thereafter, I got a letter in the mail. Going back.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Toby's platoon calls itself the "Bad Voodoo" platoon.
SOLDIERS: Bad Voodoo!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: And they are not typical National Guard soldiers.
SOLDIER: Hoo-ah, hoo-ah, hoo-ah!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Almost all of the men are prior active duty. They're not weekend warriors.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: What they're looking for is distance and direction, all right, so yell out the three Ds, I'll yell them back to you. Mainly, just shoot [expletive deleted].
Spc. JASON SHAW: I'm going to [expletive deleted] some [expletive deleted] up, Sarge.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: All right. We got to watch our cussing. How about, "We're going to decisively engage and destroy enemy targets and combatants."
Spc. JASON SHAW: That sounds like a plan!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Most are highly trained infantrymen.
Spc. JASON SHAW: We're going to decisively engage enemy targets and combatants.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: And many have already served multiple tours to Iraq.
[ Explore the soldiers' stories]
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Specialist Shaw found out that some of us had been selected to go. He wasn't. And he called me up and he was, like, "Hey, Sergeant," you know, "do you think I could come along?"
Spc. JASON SHAW: I'm going to show you how it's done. Ha!
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: He explained that some of these guys are his friends. He's, like, "They're my brothers. I want to go."
DEBORAH SCRANTON: So Jason Shaw volunteered to go back to Iraq.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Enemy 9:00 o'clock, 100 meters!
Spc. JASON SHAW: This is my third tour to Iraq. In 2003, we did the initial push into Iraq from Kuwait, all the way up into Baghdad. We stayed there for a while. We called it Hotel Hell. In 2005, we went back, did personal security detachment in Baji, Balad, Tikrit and Samarra- five cities. There's been a lot that's happened, a lot to deal with. It makes you not care about anything.
You're dead, son! You're dead, son!
I did counseling at the VA. I saw a psychiatrist and a psychologist, and they said I had PTSD. Obviously, a lot of people have.
I'm the best gunner there is, son!
A lot of these new guys who've never been over there before don't know what they're getting into. So I figure if I've been there one, two, three times before, you know, there's something I can do for the good of the cause, so I'd like to go back again and maybe do one more tour. This is it, so-
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Hey, make sure when you get that first trace on target, you're shooting a little low.
Spc. JASON SHAW: Sergeant Nunn's the smartest guy I know. I feel really safe going with him, more than anybody I've ever been with or wanted to go with.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: There you go! There you go! Stop shooting the lift and start hitting the targets!
Spc. JASON SHAW: He gets things done the way they need to be done. He's Bad Voodoo, you know? You can't really mess with Voodoo, so-
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: I got a nickname back in the Balkans, through an event where a Muslim and a Christian were arguing and they felt like I might not be neutral. And I told them I didn't care either way what religion they were and it had nothing to do with mine. I told them I was Voodoo. So since then, this nickname has kind of followed me. And when the guys were voting on what they wanted to name the platoon, someone nominated Bad Voodoo. It was real nice that they chose that and real flattering for me. But they really are. They live up to it.
What are you watching, bud?
SOLDIER: The Lion King. [laughs] Miss the kids, so I have to watch The Lion King.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It's kind of hard not to care about these guys.
It's actually a good movie.
I got this wonderful family of 32 guys.
SOLDIER: C'mon, honey. Let's go. Get to the safety briefing.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: I'm excited to be part of their experience, but I'm also a little disappointed that that's coming at the expense of my own family.
REAGAN NUNN, Wife: Get in there, Jeffrey!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Toby's family back in California was growing just as he was being sent to Iraq. His wife, Reagan, was four months pregnant.
REAGAN NUNN: What's in there?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: There's a lot of excitement with that, you know, and I feel like I'm being negligent in my duties. Last time I came back, my son, he asked me not to go anymore.
TRISTIAN NUNN, Son: How's that?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Not bad. You got up there pretty quick.
He told me, "I'm right here. Focus. We got stuff to do." So I was, like, "Right, you are my focus and I will stay right here." And then I made a liar out of myself.
When my son was just a baby, I got a Tickle Me Elmo. That is my little piece of home.
That little Elmo's been in more countries than the majority of the guys in the platoon can spell.
OFFICER: I am an American soldier!
SOLDIERS: I am an American soldier!
OFFICER: I am a warrior and a member of a team!
SOLDIERS: I am a warrior and a member of a team!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Training was over, and the men were headed to Iraq.
OFFICER: I stand ready to deploy!
SOLDIERS: I stand ready to deploy!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: They asked me if we could work together to capture their experiences.
OFFICER: The enemies of the United States of America-
SOLDIERS: The enemies of the United States of America-
DEBORAH SCRANTON: [on camera] You should record that.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: You're not recording.
[voice-over] As I did on an earlier film, I set up a virtual embed-
[on camera] So you can mount it on the dashboard, to the side, on the- I mean, you can mount this thing anywhere.
[voice-over] -which involved giving cameras to the soldiers-
[on camera] It's up to you to tell me what's working for you.
[voice-over] -and establishing a close, two-way working relationship while they're in Iraq.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Cam control manual, night shot on-
DEBORAH SCRANTON: [on camera] Yeah, there we go.
[voice-over] The soldiers would be the storytellers, not just subjects. I told them we would tell the story of their war through their eyes, wherever it took them.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: There it is, the silver and white bird of destiny.
Sgt. JOHN-PAUL BORDA: Tell me about your going away at the first time on block leave. Block leave, by the way, is when you get to go home before you go overseas. You get to spend nine days at home. So did Veronica come down and spend time with you?
Spc. JASON SHAW: Yes, she did. I saw her at the airport. She almost knocked me out by jumping on me. The happiest day of my life. And leaving, I cried. I cried. It was very sad.
Sgt. JOHN-PAUL BORDA: Hey, you didn't cry yesterday too much.
Spc. JASON SHAW: I actually did.
Sgt. JOHN-PAUL BORDA: Oh, you did?
Spc. JASON SHAW: I left and went beside the building, as y'all went outside.
Sgt. JOHN-PAUL BORDA: Are you serious? Is that when you went outside?
Spc. JASON SHAW: Yeah, dude. I was upset. It's hard. It's the hardest deployment I've ever had to do.
Pvt. JAKE SIDWA: I'm not really looking forward to this. Just don't want to do it again, man. You wonder how many times you're going to- you know, luck's going to be on your side.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It's an awesome responsibility that I'm being charged with. I got 30 guys. The smallest thing that ever happens, you know, it's- it's going to be hard.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: By mid-summer, tapes from Iraq were streaming in. Toby and his guys were a couple of weeks into their tour.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: That's the north end of Tikrit right there.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: And they had their cameras up and running.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Saddam Hussein's hometown. Believe it or not, this is farmland. Not quite the irrigated, green pastures of America, but still pretty good. An Iraqi checkpoint compound. There's my dash cam, which is filming me inside the cab. There's my POV cam, filming the road in front of me.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: The Bad Voodoo Platoon was spending a lot of time on these roads. The Army had based them at Camp Virginia in Kuwait, just south of Iraq, and assigned them a primary mission of convoy security.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: The mission of our platoon is to secure military and non-military elements to go into Iraq. We pick them up in Kuwait and we escort them to their destination within the theater of Iraq.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: All right, so here we are, getting ready to cross this border, leaving the wire.
Wherever that equipment/personnel need to go, that's where we take it.
Today, we are taking a convoy of tankers.
The surge has brought so many forces and so much equipment back into the theater.
RADIO: Voodoo 7, this is 3. Over.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It takes a lot to get it to where it needs to be.
RADIO: Roger. On out. Looks like there's a south-bound convoy coming down. Over.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: The convoy missions that Bad Voodoo leads take them all over Iraq, all the way from Kuwait up towards the Turkish border. They can be on the road for weeks at a time.
RADIO: Go ahead and pick up convoy speed to 45. Copy.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: For combat infantrymen like these, being stuck in vehicles was frustrating.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: A lot of our guys don't like this mission. I'm one of them. We're used to having our boots on the ground, kicking in doors, taking the fight to the enemy, as opposed to having the fight brought to us and just kind of dealing with it.
He's got [expletive deleted] nothing but gas tanks. Yeah. Push him off the road. Push him off the road! Get off the [expletive deleted] road!
The guys have been joking, you know, this is not convoy security, it's convoy survival.
It's hotter than before.
RADIO: Get on the hard ball. Get on the hard ball. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: We're taking a lot more action. We're being attacked more. The focus of the enemy is to shut down some of these logistical lines.
Oh, [expletive deleted]! It's blowing. It's blowing. Hey, Meier, OK, force people back. Force people back.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It doesn't take much to slow us down. We're very limited by our avenues of movement. The government that is within, you know, Iraq itself has been able to dictate things to us, that we don't have the freedom of movement that we had before, when, you know, we were calling the shots.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Among the Iraqis the Bad Voodoo soldiers must work with are the police and highway patrol. The roads that they travel every day are strewn with checkpoints manned by Iraqis. Toby and his men count on these Iraqis to help keep them safe.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: We're from Bravo Company 160th. We're a small element that represents a large element, and you know, we're here to have this dialogue so that, you know, we can better the relationship.
I told myself last time I wanted to train the Iraqis the best that I possibly could because it was my ticket home-
IRAQI POLICE OFFICER: [subtitles] I want to ask, if the police have a situation with the convoys, who do we complain to?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: -that we could turn this over to them and that we could allow them to do it.
[to police officer] It is important that, you know, we have a better relationship.
But here I am three years later, saying, "Will the Iraqi security forces enforce anything out there?"
[to police officer] When you have an IED and you're trying to cordon it off to block-
Every time I talk to these guys, you know, my trust meter isn't reading in the green all the time. You know, you go through these checkpoints, how many of these guys are counting the vehicles, taking notations of, you know, how we're doing things? It's not that I think you're the enemy, I think you just might have some unsavory elements within you.
RADIO: One Bravo, be advised I have spotted a black Mercedes. He is going northbound on the southbound lane. He was hiding behind a truck.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Keep your eyes on him.
It's a different military climate.
This ROE [rules of engagement] is so [expletive deleted], man! Back in the day, if we get intel, "Black Mercedes, pacing people, gathering intelligence," if that dude rolled up on us, we'd just [expletive deleted] cap him. Bam! Problem solved.
We're rolling around in armored vehicles, waiting to get blown up and not allowed to fight back. We're here to do a job and we just want to do it. When we're getting blown up and they're not doing anything about it, it kind of asses us up.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: The tapes take about a week to get from Iraq to our office here in New Hampshire.
[typing] So where on the outskirts of Baghdad-
With IM and phone calls, though, I'm typically aware of what's happening to them as it unfolds over there.
[ More on the making of this film]
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: What's something that's now weighing on you more than-
DEBORAH SCRANTON: We're always talking about what's going on and how they can capture it on tape.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: What about being on the road all the time, and like, our non-stop missions, like-
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Not just what's happening in the field, but what they are thinking and feeling.
Spc. JASON SHAW: This mission's by far a lot different than any other one I've had, in different ways. It's not combat anymore. It's, like, I want to say, a game. 2003 was totally different.
NEWSCASTER: We just received some of these pictures. This shows the height of the combat.
Spc. JASON SHAW: 2003 was all-out, you saw on the news, combat.
NEWSCASTER: Again, we have some fresh pictures of the fighting for the Baghdad airport and-
DEBORAH SCRANTON: During the Invasion of Iraq, Jason Shaw was part of the battle for the Baghdad airport.
NEWSCASTER: -the hangars that they had to take one by one-
Spc. JASON SHAW: Our Bradley got hit by a tank over there.
NEWSCASTER: -but it is clear this is about as much activity as we have seen-
Spc. JASON SHAW: So we pulled out the Javelin gunners and we started getting shot at by the tanks from both sides of the overpass. And we blew up all three.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: For his actions, Shaw was awarded the Silver Star, the military's third highest award for valor.
Correction: FRONTLINE mistakenly reported that Spc. Jason Shaw received a Silver Star for his role in the battle at the Baghdad Airport during the invasion of Iraq. We regret the error.
Spc. JASON SHAW: I'd just turned 18. I'm 22 now, so I was young.
I've had six of my good friends die. One of my really good friends passed away, had a baby about three months before he died and got to see her once. And now I'm Uncle Jason, so I moved to California just to pretty much help out and try to get everything back together. So I don't want to have to go through that again, though. It's really hard to deal with, so- it's not going to happen this time. I won't let it happen this time.
When I lost all my buddies, I just kind of lost hope. I used to be kind of religious. My last deployment totally made me think otherwise. You know, you pray all the time to keep everybody safe, and then something happens like that. I don't know. I really think it's pointless, in my mind. So it's kind of sad, but it's the way it goes.
Everybody else noticed a big change in my personality. I have a really bad temper with things. I get angry very, very easily. Just hoping that when I come back from this deployment, I don't do that to my girlfriend or friends or anything like that.
But going out every single day, it gets really stressful. You could have five missions or so, six, nothing happened. Go a month without anything happening, and all of sudden-
Hey, get in the truck! In the truck!
RADIO: Just got hit by an IED.
Spc. JASON SHAW: Where they at? Where they at?
We were on a regular mission. Came over the radio, IED, IED! Looked over in front of us, a huge cloud of smoke.
Right there. All right. Hurry up!
Fire covering the road.
Here's where it was right there. Go through it.
First thing I thought is nobody made it out of that. I thought for sure everybody was burning up. I thought it was the vehicle.
Go right. The trunk flew off.
But as we got closer, we noticed it was just the trunk.
Blew off the whole back end of his trunk. Thank God everybody's all right.
SOLDIER: Look at this [expletive deleted] .
SOLDIER: [expletive deleted]
SOLDIER: Blew straight through the [expletive deleted] back, not a scratch on one of these Joes.
SOLDIER: [expletive deleted]!
SOLDIER: These guys are [expletive deleted] lucky.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: With one of their vehicles disabled, the soldiers are under orders to sit and wait for KBR, Kellogg Brown and Root, a private contracting firm, to arrive and recover them.
Spc. JASON SHAW: Right now, we're waiting for KBR pick-up. It's a nice hot day. It's about 130 right now and it's only, like, 10:30 AM. It's hot as heck. Sit and wait game now.
We've been here now eight-and-a-half hours. KBR has still not shown up, so we took it on our own selves to get ourselves out of here. After eight-and-a-half hours of standing out here in the sun, it's now almost dark.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: They had waited all day for KBR until a passing U.S. military convoy came to their rescue.
Spc. JASON SHAW: Luckily, this convoy came by. It's helping us out.
That would be the old tire. Done. Gone. We're ready to roll. We are rolling with half of a Humvee. That's awesome!
It was a pretty scary day. It's kind of scary to know that all your friends could be up there, you know, getting blown up by an IED or EFP.
I can't tell you guys how much I really thought I was done with this crap. I was the sucker that came back.
It's really scary not knowing what going on, so, you know, take every day like it's your last and try to make it as it is.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: When I was in Iraq last time, we had a soldier named Sergeant Jake Demand, great guy, father of two of his own boys and then a little girl that he had adopted. He was one of my friends. He cared for people in a way that, you know, not many people ever have, especially with what it took for him to leave this earth for some of us to stay. I haven't talked about that very often, so-
The guy took 18 rounds on the ramp of a Stryker, bled out on the scene so everybody else could get on the Stryker. Not many people do stuff like that- 90 seconds, eight magazines. He's a real hero. Not many people know that, you know?
I couldn't help but think about these two little boys and this little girl that will never really know what their father experienced over there. And I don't mean the harshness, I mean the sweetness, how he cared for his guys and was always good for a laugh and a great broiled salmon. And you know, these are the stories that are important. The guys, the face that actually goes out and does what people can't imagine is just a regular guy. We are people. And people forget that.
SOLDIER: So what are you going to do for your birthday today, Sergeant?
SERGEANT: I'm going to drink this, the whole thing. I'm going to celebrate. I'll talk to you later, all right? I need privacy.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Combat's just kind of something that happens on the battlefield.
SOLDIER: Sidwa wants to know what you get somebody for their 75th birthday! [laughter]
SERGEANT: Who said that? [expletive deleted]
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: The fellowship with the other guys, that's really what the experience is.
SOLDIER: Happy birthday. I came back just for your birthday.
SERGEANT: Whatever, dude! [laughter]
SOLDIER: We're just worried about you!
Spc. JASON SHAW: You'll never find friends like you've been to war with.
SOLDIER: This is you last night- let me have a drink! You guys left me! I'm going to go to chow without you guys! I hate you guys!
Spc. JASON SHAW: Somebody you trust with everything, your life, which is the biggest thing there is.
Oh, ho, ho, ho! Look at me! I'm the American fun boy! I see Sergeant Baker Schnitzel von Haufen Dorfen! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
It's why I volunteered to go this time. I do it for the guys I'm with, you know, not for anybody else, you know? Now it's getting old. Everybody needs to come home.
We're having an awesome time. It's great.
I don't like the whole reason that we're over here.
I love Iraq. There's not much going on out here again. Nothing goes on here, except for when we blow up. That's about it.
It's ridiculous. I hate it. You know, when are they going to start bringing guys home, you know? I think it's totally pointless.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: As the weeks and months rolled on, it became obvious how much the grind of their mission was wearing down Toby and his men.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It's about 5:00 in the morning, and we are getting ready to go out on what we like to call a "lettuce and tomato run." That's our smartass way of saying, you know, carrying nothing of military significance.
You know, a lot of times you're taking stuff that you know an American soldier will never touch or see. And you're just doing it to hook up some, you know, private contractor.
It's frustrating at times to constantly be doing this stuff. The leadership above us, they don't grasp, you know, the big picture. All they see is we've got to get this many trucks from point A to point B. And they don't think about, you know, what effect it has on the vehicles, what effects that has on the soldiers.
[ Map of convoy security missions]
You're driving on the road for hours and hours and hours and days. It's very monotonous. You try to be hyper-aware.
Hey, tell your tailgun truck and advise the rest of your gun trucks that a black Mercedes pulled in at the southbound lane and it's been kind of following us up a little bit. We're going to battle hand them off to you so we can maintain eyes on.
Constantly looking at every possible little thing.
RADIO: Hey, Roger, Roger. Once you get up there, you've got a southbound-facing small pick-up truck. He's going southbound in a northbound lane.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Is this guy trying to kill me? Is this guy pacing me? Is he counting how many men I got?
There's that white Toyota truck!
It takes a toll on you. When I get done, I just want to close my eyes. My body's not physically fatigued, but my eyes are fatigued. And when you're moving large numbers of personnel and equipment around, you don't get a lot of rest.
The people that are planning the mission, they look at a map of what it's going to take to get from point A to point B and how long it's going to be. But they don't take in consideration what could happen on the road.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: It was clear what was making Bad Voodoo's missions so long. Attacks like this one at a base in Kirkuk, where the convoy was briefly resting and refueling, could keep them trapped in place for hours.
Sgt. JOHN-PAUL BORDA: It's Code Red right now. As soon as we were leaving the tent, an explosion went off, which means probably indirect fire. Then the alarms went off. Code Red means everyone needs to get inside and take cover. Unless it goes down to Yellow, then we're not going to be leaving.
LOUDSPEAKER: Alarm black. Alarm black.
Sgt. JOHN-PAUL BORDA: It's getting worse!
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: What should take a couple of hours ends up being an entire day.
So we eat when we can, sleep when we can, drink fluids by the gallon and hope to say awake. There's a challenge, though, to drinking fluids by the gallon. Guys come down with urinary tract infections because they've been holding it in for so long, kidney stones because they've been drinking too much Red Bull.
We're just running ourselves into the ground. For me, that's been the hardest part to manage. I'm worried about my guys, and I'm always constantly looking at what they're doing and making sure that they're getting rest and eating well. And right now, I'm out here talking to you while they're inside sleeping because I can't sleep, can't rest, you know? This time is a lot different for me. You know, last time I had a battle, a guy I could look to and share and confide in. And this time, I got you, I guess, the camera.
Folks at home, maybe they'll understand, but I won't feel your compassion and sympathy and empathy.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: By the fall, messages from Toby were getting a bit more sporadic and unpredictable. Their missions were getting longer. In late September, Toby sent word that they were heading north again. He said that things were only getting hotter and that their odds of getting hit were getting worse.
[ Read a Q&A with the producer]
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Well, here we are. It's about 2:30 in the morning on the 2nd of October. We have been on the road for a while. We are currently at Anaconda, or other known as the Balad Airbase, a long ways away from home. We just got another change of mission and we are going to go even further north. We're going to go into the Tikrit region.
I wasn't too excited to get this change of mission. The stretch of road between Anaconda and Speicher's known as "IED Alley." It's probably one of the worst stretches of road in theater.
8 Ball, Voodoo 7.
Every time that we've taken it, the people in front of us and the people behind us have both been struck, and always with casualties.
RADIO: Go ahead 7.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Roger. I took a good look at the FLIR [Forward Looking Infrared Radar] all the way down Milton. The good news is the route clearance team did go north. The bad news is it was seven hours ago, and we're the only people going north tonight. So make sure all your people understand that we really need to pay very, very close attention tonight.
Well here, we are. It's about 1:30 in the morning. We're all the way in Tikrit right now. We'll be leaving here in a little bit, and it looks like we're going to be going this route alone again.
8 Ball, Voodoo 7. Who's Rev driving for?
RADIO: Bird Dog.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: There are two Air Force airmen driving the vehicle in front of me-
Bird Dog, Voodoo 7.
-Bird Dog and this kid named Rev.
Hey, tell Rev we really need him to pray a little more, all right?
RADIO: That's good. Copy.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Rev, the kid that is actually driving, is very spiritual, very religious, leads us in prayer before each mission that we go on.
RADIO: Is he a reverend back home or-
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: I don't know what he is.
RADIO: Guy is scared.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Here we are. It's 4:30 in the afternoon. We drove down from Tikrit early this morning. We're just north of Baghdad, FOB called Taji. We're very fortunate we were the only people on the road last night, other than a route clearance team. And they got hit, we didn't. You know, we've been real lucky the last three days. The last three days, you know, mentally and emotionally prepared for the worst. So when we got into our tents, you know, this morning, I just- you know, you don't want to show too much emotion in front of the guys, but it's- I could go hug each one of them, really, "Made it!," you know?
Well, all right, I'm going to get some rest. I'm tired. I got to go out in a couple more hours. And tonight's probably going to be a tough haul, so I'll sign off with that and see you guys soon.
Tonight's going to be a heavy night. Tonight's going to be one of those nights that you guys are going to earn your money over here. The potential is 10 times higher than it normally is. And it's already pretty high, right? All right. Who here has an extra CAT, combat action tourniquet. Who has an extra one?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Everybody should, right? Theater requirement. All right, you got one in your IFAK and you have an extra. Go ahead and take that extra one out now and put it on your door-side appendage. Put it on your leg, all right? Put it above the knee, below the hip. All right? Don't tighten it down, right? That way, if we come to you- chances are, if you're going to hit in your truck, it's going to be on your door side, right? It's going to be hitting that lower appendage and it's going to be knocking you off. The sooner you can get that tourniquet tight, the sooner you are to saving your life from, A, a femoral bleed-out, and B, saving the chances for a better quality life when we get you out of there to safety, check? I'm not saying this to scare you guys, I'm just trying to keep it real with you, all right?
REV: Come on in. Put your hands on your fellow brother. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you this evening, especially tonight to watch over us and all these convoys, no matter where they travel, to watch over us. We ask you to keep your hand over us. Keep us protected. Keep us awake. Don't let us get complacent. Keep our eyes out there. Let us see everything that you see. Lord, give your strength to the C2s and the gun trucks for everything they do is good. And all good comes through you. Lord, we ask you to be with us as we travel these roads and as we push up north. So we ask you to just keep your kind hand over our families back home. Make sure they know that we're OK and just to keep their worries away. Just wash them away, Lord. And we ask you just to keep your eye, just to keep over us. In your most heavenly name we pray. Amen.
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Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Hey, Bird Dog, don't forget we got a bridge coming up we got to downshift for.
There had been some damage to a bridge.
RADIO: Rog. We're going to cross over to the northbound lane. We may have to wait for this convoy to clear.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: We had a temporary bridge in place, but we only had it over one lane.
Go left.
We had to share the- you know, the northbound lane. We were southbound.
Let's see what we got here. Let's see what we got here!
A group passed in the opposite direction, and we waited for them to come over.
Bird Dog, you see that median?
RADIO: Rog. It's looking a little steep, but we have to take it.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: We jumped over to the northbound lane.
RADIO: 8 Ball, Bird Dog.
RADIO: Send it.
RADIO: Iraqi Army vehicle just after the bridge. Right side.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: And we were just coming off that bridge and getting ready to come up to speed when-
IED! We have an IED det LVC. Let's go. Slow down. Slow down! Slow down!
Bird Dog, give me status. Pull up left. Pull up left!
RADIO: Voodoo 7. Voodoo 7. Bird Dog. IED left.
RADIO: Can you roll still?
RADIO: Negative! This is not rolling.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: I can't see [expletive deleted] .
The smoke is heavy. The vehicle's burning.
RADIO: We had an IED det.
RADIO: 8 Ball, it's Bird Dog.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Look for a secondary. Stop. Stop. Look for a secondary.
Viper 6-1, this is Bravo 2-7. Be advised I just had an IED det. I'm about 10 meters short of 3-2 Alpha.
RADIO: Seven, this is 1-Alpha. I'm coming up on your six.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Roger. See if you can go right.
RADIO: Bravo, this is Viper. I understand you had an IED. I believe I witnessed it. Do you need medevac support at this time?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Negative. Not at this time. We have no injuries to report.
Bird Dog and Rev, they made it through, luckily.
RADIO: Hey, Bird Dog, it's 1-Alpha.
RADIO: How am I looking to the right?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It went off right underneath them.
OK, get the lights going again, Bird Dog, so we can advance.
Blew the whole ass of their vehicle off.
RADIO: All right, on the right, right where my go-light is, is the only thing that- I don't see any wires coming from it. Just try to check it out from your angle.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: You're trying to figure out what's debris, shrapnel, what's not, because an IED is typically an initiator for a greater action.
Bird Dog, get them lights back on that thing you were showing me on the bridge.
It's to sucker us into another event.
SOLDIER: They're coming.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: What the [expletive deleted] is that?
-be it a complex attack, a secondary device-
Keep looking at that and tell me what you think it is, bud.
The biggest thing is you want to maintain that calm. You got to look for them shooting, as well as scan every inch of ground that I possibly can to find out if there is secondary devices.
SOLDIER: That looks like- I want to say, like, two PVC pipes sticking up.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Yeah.
SOLDIER: They are about- it looks like two or three feet apart.
Sfc. TOBY: Yeah, but what could it be?
RADIO: Hey, Voodoo 7. You still want the go-lights on?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Yeah, bud. I think that's a secondary.
RADIO: Where is the current location of your secondary device?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It's about 10 feet in front of me.
They didn't just put one bomb, they put many. But we knew where they had come from. The bomb had been placed in the road, in a pothole, and someone had just put that out-
Bird Dog, you see that median?
-because the time from that element coming northbound and us getting across that single-lane bridge going southbound was 10 to 15 minutes, at the most.
RADIO: Iraqi army vehicle just after the bridge.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: The bomb had blown up right at an Iraqi police checkpoint, meaning that the people at the checkpoint are the ones that emplaced it.
Here we are, 4 October. We just got hit by an IED. I want to point out the blast hole. And if I could get you to come at this angle, I want you to see that there's an Iraqi checkpoint right behind us.
Look at this, parts of an old artillery round.
They put shrapnel in the ground, in this pothole. People don't understand what shrapnel really is. This is like a spearhead coming through you, coming at you 50 miles an hour. And you know, when it hits your vehicle in an explosion, you know, it just showers and sprays. It's like going through a hailstorm.
That's probably the [expletive deleted] right there that blew it up.
The warrior in you is telling you, "Go over there and whack every single one of them. Engage them. Let them know that you know that they're the enemy." But then, you know, the leader and politician in you is saying, "This is not going to help the cause. This is not going to win their hearts and minds." You know, I understand. You know, this is their country. They don't want to see Sergeant Nunn and his Bad Voodoo wheels of death rolling through their backyard every day. I got it.
RADIO: Viper 6-1. Be advised we've cleared the roads east and west. Did not see trigger man or any possible complex attacks.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: The secondary devices did not go off. So we were very fortunate. And instead of shooting at the Iraqi checkpoint that blew us up, I gave them a little smile and a wave. And I even saluted them, you know, so that perhaps they knew that I knew, and it didn't work, so touche.
MALE RELATIVE: I see him. Yeah, there he is!
REAGAN NUNN, Wife of Toby Nunn: Where? There he is! There he is!
LAUREN, Reagan's Sister: Hey, Toby!
DEBORAH SCRANTON: In late October of 2007, Toby came home to California on a 15-day leave for the birth of his baby daughter.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: For me to come home to be with my wife as we have our little girl, you know, is just amazing.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: But in the days we spent filming him, Toby had a hard time relaxing.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: All this joy, and you know, overwhelming sensation is going to end abruptly because I have to go back.
LAUREN: Did you throw up a little bit?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: It's too much of that mama's milk.
LAUREN: You know, I'm a baby. I'm going to do that.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: There is guilt. You know, I have two sons and a daughter here. I have 34 sons there.
Oh, that's my little girl right here! Oh, little baby girl!
It's such a double-edged sword.
Oh, you having a hard time with the milk there, wild child?
It really pulls at you and separates you. Trying to flip that switch is very, very hard because they're still in danger, I'm still responsible, you know, and that's not going to end until everyone's back here and it's over.
Spc. JASON SHAW: So what'd you do on leave, Sergeant Nunn?
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Well, you know, I hung out with the boys, just kind of had some nice quiet family time.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: Toby and Jason Shaw both returned from leave in mid-November.
Spc. JASON SHAW: My leave was good, got to see the girlfriend for a while. Everything was real rocky. Everything was getting real rocky before I went home, so-
This deployment's had a big impact on our- my relationship.
She's not liking it at all. At all. So-
It's hard on the both of us because I always have to worry about what's going on back at home, or at least I think I do, and she's always having to worry about if she's going to lose me the next day.
Everything's pretty much gone downhill. Right now, we're not together anymore. We're trying to take a break and take it easy, and hopefully, everything works out for the best.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: By Christmas, the Bad Voodoo platoon had been deployed for more than six months.
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: All right, stockings. There should be one for everyone, right?
Right now, we're at the halfway point. Everyone's in the mid-tour slump.
Somebody promoted you to specialist, so maybe Santa did come.
But everyone's relatively healthy. We got a bunch of bad knees and backs right now, guys are busted up and broken down, but we have all our fingers, all our toes, and we still have all our Joes.
Well, enjoy Christmas today. You guys have a down day tomorrow unless you're doing maintenance on a vehicle. And then the following day, we go to CEDAR. Check? On a platoon mission.
DEBORAH SCRANTON: The men are still running convoy security missions throughout Iraq.
RADIO: I'm going lights out!
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Lights out. We got to get on the right-hand side.
RADIO: It was about 300, 400 meters. They're still firing at me right now!
SOLDIER: Firing!
Sfc. TOBY NUNN: Reload! Hamlin, get down in the well!
RADIO: This is Bravo 211 Gulf. We are receiving small arms fire north of checkpoint 22 Alpha-
DEBORAH SCRANTON: They are scheduled to return home this May.
Written, Produced and Directed by
Deborah Scranton
Toby Nunn
Jason Shaw
Jean-Paul Borda
Jonathan Serbellon
Bryan Hamlin
Ben Nievera
Jake Sidwa
Richard Thomson
Ramon Quezada
Jeffrey Meier
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Seth Bomse
Katherine Robinson
Chetin Chabuk
Robert Peyrebrune
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Max Bentovim
Amy Augustine
Ben Conant
Dustin Howard
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Barbara Alihosseini
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Loren Hutter
Christopher Loverro
Angelica Borda
Nellie Borda
Greg Gardner
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Joseph Davidson
Chuck Hodges
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Martin Smith
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Toby Nunn
Dale Nunn
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Eric Brass
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Mary Sullivan
Tobee Phipps
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ANNOUNCER: But most have not been tested on children.
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JESSICA: Taking my medication makes me more like I'm supposed to be.
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Each depositor insured to at least $250,000 per insured bank
FDIC Law, Regulations, Related Acts
4000 - Advisory Opinions
Insurance Coverage of CDs Invested Through Deposit Broker
January 12, 1988
Claude A. Rollin, Attorney
This is in response to your letter of December 18, 1987, in which you request information concerning the proof necessary to establish a claim for deposit insurance.
In your letter, you indicate that your bank intends to pool its customers' funds and invest those funds, through an independent deposit broker, in certificates of deposit issued by other FDIC-insured banks. You state that the funds would be sent by Federal Reserve Bank wire transfer to a deposit broker, that the broker would then invest the funds in CDs issued by various FDIC-insured banks and that those issuing banks would then send safekeeping receipts directly to your bank at some later date. You ask whether safekeeping receipts or wire transfer receipts (in the event your bank has not received a safekeeping receipt by the time an issuing bank is closed) would be sufficient to establish your bank's claim for deposit insurance. You further ask whether the amount of deposit insurance payable to your bank would be affected by the fact that the safekeeping or wire transfer receipts would be in the bank's name, rather than in the names of the individual customers, and in an amount in excess of $100,000.
Please be advised that the FDIC considers each claim for deposit insurance on a case-by-case basis, considering all the facts and circumstances surrounding each claim. In determining whether a deposit exists, the FDIC reviews the records of the closed bank and any evidence submitted by a depositor to substantiate the claim. There is no fixed rule as to the type or amount of proof that is necessary to establish that a deposit exists. Therefore, I am unable to provide you with definitive answers to the questions you pose in your letter.
You should be aware, however, of the definition of "deposit" which appears in section 3(1) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1813(1). In that section, the term "deposit" is defined, in part, as:
The unpaid balance of money or its equivalent received or held by a bank in the usual course of business and for which it has given or is obligated to give credit, either conditionally or unconditionally, to a commercial checking, savings, time or thrift account, or which is evidenced by its certificate of deposit, thrift certificate, investment certificate, certificate of indebtedness, or other similar name, or a check or draft drawn against a deposit account and certified by the bank, or a letter of credit or a traveler's check on which the bank is primarily liable . . .
Under this definition, if your safekeeping or wire transfer receipts and/or the records of the closed bank indicate that your bank was transferring money to the closed bank for the purpose of making payments on a loan or for some purpose other than making a deposit, then there is no "deposit" within the meaning of 12 U.S.C § 1813(1).
You should also be aware of section 330.1(b) of the FDIC rules and regulations, 12 C.F.R. § 330.1(b), which provides, in part, as follows:
(b) Records. (1) The deposit account records of the insured bank shall be conclusive as to the existence of any relationship pursuant to which the funds in the account are deposited and on which a claim for insurance coverage is founded. Examples would be trustee, agent, custodian or executor. No claim for insurance based on such a relationship will be recognized in the absence of such disclosure.
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Linear momentum conservation vs angular momentum conservation
1. If linear momentum conservation is instantaneous in real time, then angular momentum conservation must be too. In other words, if you want to get something spinning, then you must physically turn something else in the opposite direction. Angular momentum conservation can't be implied, it has to have a physical, observable reality. Is this correct?
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3. Somewhat unclear, but that sounds good.
Are you trying to say that the conservation of linear momentum implies the conservation of angular momentum?
In that case, I could buy into that. It might be preferable to show this more rigorously by making arguments that rigid rotators are collections of point particles which obey linear momentum conservation.
4. We can use linear momentum conservation to induce angular momentum in another body through off center impact and subsequent adhesion. After impact, a non-rotating mass is moving in one direction, while a rotating mass is moving off in the other. Linear momentum is conserved, but in real time we have net angular momentum.
Angular momentum conservation is implied because of the misaligned centers of mass relative to the direction of travel, but remains a potential until the two centers are brought to a halt relative to each other. So how can angular momentum be the direct translation of linear momentum to rotating systems? There seems to be a qualitative difference here. It looks like total conservation remains a property of space until the 2 masses interact. | <urn:uuid:7f3f806e-023f-45ae-af1d-64876e061575> | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/linear-momentum-conservation-vs-angular-momentum-conservation.499040/ | en | 0.92005 | 0.842402 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Does anyone have a great place to buy seafood in this city? I am not looking for live fish, just fresh!! I live in south east, but other neighborhoods are fine.
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1. City Market on NW 21st (and Johnson, I think) is great.
1. You should try Om Seafood
My favorite is actually Uwajimaya in Beaverton.
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Thanks!!! I am gonna try out Om Seafood first since I live in SE, but I will keep the others in mind, :)
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And down the street from Om there's also ABC Seafood, which is the market a block away from Powell Seafood which is a restaurant. Both are recommended depending on whether you're looking to buy or to dine.
2. Uwajimaya has the largest supply of fresh fish, much of it still swimming...
1. Mutual Fish is where many of the city's sushi chefs go.
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I am working my way through the book "The Electronics of Radio" by David B Rutledge", which details experiments on the various parts of the circuit as one builds a "Norcal 40A" transceiver, as a practical way to learn about electronics and amateur radio. It is a very good book.
The driver for the Norcal 40A power amplifier is a 2N2222A transistor, and the kit lists a ferrite bead to go over its base lead. This bead is not mentioned in the book, but it is in the kit's component list and circuit diagram. The specified ferrite bead is 0.146" diameter and 0.138" long, of #64 material, but, unfortunately I have lost it, probably long gone up the vacuum cleaner hose.
In my "come in handy" stock I have a bag of anonymous beads, and also some labelled FX1242 (all the correct size). So, my question is, can I use the FX1242 instead, or, if not, can I easily identify a suitable bead from the mixed bag, if there is one.
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It really isn't all that critical. The bead is being used as a choke to prevent unwanted VHF parasitic oscillations. Any bead in your junkbox should be fine.
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Thanks Dave Tweed,for your reassuring answer. Ironically (almost a good pun there) I found the ferrite bead stuck inside a nut when I checked the hardware bag of the kit. Ah well... – Harry Weston Dec 5 '12 at 20:09
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22 People Survive Okla. Tornado by Hiding in Bank Vault
PHOTO: Fourteen employees of Tinker Federal Credit Union and eight others rode out the tornado in the credit unions bank vault in Moore, Okla. on May 20, 2013.
But living in Oklahoma, Clark had seen so many tornadoes come and go with minimal effect that she decided to stop at the bank because she had a lot of cash in her car from a weekend garage sale at her home.
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Clark, 23, was in the middle of a transaction with a bank employee when tornado sirens started going off.
"We're actually going into the vault," the teller told Clark.
"Me too?" she asked.
"Yes," the woman replied.
For the next few minutes, the bank employees and their customers all moved into the bank's vault, a small room filled with deposit boxes and encased in two feet of concrete. The bank manager and a police officer monitored the situation by watching TV and looking out the window. At least one passerby came into the bank seeking shelter.
Clark was texting her husband about whether she should stay or go. At first he told her she could probably head out, but that text was quickly followed by another one: "Tornado on the ground. Stay."
Soon enough, the lights flickered, the TV went off and the power was out.
"Eventually, everyone was in the vault and the bank doors were closed," Clark said. "We had our flashlight and there's several people in there ranging from a 10-year-old boy on his iPad to these elderly people that just happened to be at the bank."
There were 14 employees and eight other people in the vault. There was one problem: They couldn't get the vault door closed all the way from the inside. Someone took off a belt and looped it through an opening meant to let in oxygen so that they could tug the vault door closed as much as possible, she said.
When it still wouldn't close all the way, the branch manager, the police officer and another employee held the door shut "just in case."
"After our ears started popping, I just remember hearing the windows blow out," Clark said. "I could hear the glass hit the ground. It was still relatively calm for a little bit after that but you could hear things."
"They say [a tornado] sounds like a freight train coming, and I agree with that. But it also just sounds like swirling," she said. "We could hear things moving above us, rotating above us. Things started to hit the bank vault."
The bank manager, she said, was shouting, "Don't let go! Don't let go!"
Another bank employee prayed in Spanish, crying out to God to protect them. Clark recalled getting emotional for the first time, she said, at the memory.
"You see movies. I could just picture in my mind the bank vault door ripping away from us and not knowing what was going to happen," Clark said. "I don't know how they kept that bank door shut. I don't know how long we were actually inside the tornado. It felt like forever."
Debris started flying through the cracks of the door and glass cut the feet of people who were wearing sandals. Clark said it became difficult to breathe because of all the dust and debris.
"As soon as the tornado passed, we were all kind of wondering, 'Is there a building out there?'" she said.
When they believed the twister had passed and tried to open the door, they found that they couldn't and began to smell gas.
"We started smelling gas and I was thinking to myself, we survived a tornado and now we're going to explode," Clark said.
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Kaspersky Lab has discovered that a recently distributed Trojan, Mediyes, was digitally signed using a stolen private signature key whose digital certificate was owned by Swiss firm Conpavi AG.
According to John Grimm of Thales e-Security what the situation shows is how digitally signed code is assessed more favorably by anti-virus vendors from a risk perspective, so stealing the key and creating a perfectly valid signature on the code helps further promulgate the nefarious Trojan before it can be detected.
He said that whenever evidence surfaces such as this, we worry that people will incorrectly assume that the concepts of digital signatures and key management are flawed. The problem is not the concept; the problem is that those responsible for the keys and the digital signature process are not following standards of due care. If the keys are not afforded proper protection, it's easy to find them, steal them and create “valid” signatures over maliciously modified code.
He advises companies never to allow anyone to come into possession of the full plain text of a private or secret key. While the circumstances in this situation are still to become clear, the private key was indeed somehow compromised, which means someone was able to access it in full plain text.
While not listed as a standard of due care, best practice suggests encryption keys should be protected in high assurance hardware-- not software-- since it's an absolute failsafe way to ensure the keys are not exposed outside the protected boundary of a certified, tamper-proof device. The lesson learned here, once the dust has settled, is to ensure that keys involved in code signing are protected in dedicated hardware as opposed to being stored on more vulnerable host computers.
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Which would you prefer?
Discussion in 'NFL Draft' started by 2ToneBlueBlood, Apr 19, 2011.
Which scenario do you like better?
1. Scenario #1 (QB in the 1st, DT in the 2nd)
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2. Scenario #2 (DT in the 1st, QB in the 2nd)
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1. HeadOnASwivel
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Duh, if Bud Adams wanted him they wouldn't have announced publicly that they intend to trade or release him.
2. xpmar9x
xpmar9x Vote for Pedro
I miss you Gut. You haven't posted a lot recently and you're my favorite!
3. TheSureThing
Yeah, and Kobe Bryant pretty convincingly announced to the public that he wanted to be traded from the lakers....before he won his 4th and 5th championships..
People change their minds from a day to day basis...Especially when your talking about an owner with a Texas fetish..
4. Fry
Fry Hatin' is what I do.
Yeah, and the Lakers traded for Pau Gasol and he was happy again. I guarantee you if the Lakers didn't make a move he wouldn't be there today.
5. Architect
Architect Pain Train
I don't think he is a first rounder but I don't think he.will be there at 39 and if you see a QB that can lead ur franchise you take him.
That being said I think in any area of analysis he compares favorably to any other QB in this draft
Didn't put up good stats?! He is the ONLY QB to ever pass for 10,000 yards and run for 4,000. Never threw for less than 20tds and no more than 7 picks. Lead an upset of Boise State.
I usually say this doesn't matter but after VYs score and performance I put a little more stock in it. He scored a 37 (higher than Peyton Manning)
He isn't the most accurate but he isn't bad. He improved in accuracy EVERY ear
Cannon arm, second fastest QB I'm the draft. This guy is an athlete. Tall, good build. Needs to add a little weight
Great kid and ppl have raved about his leadership skills. No character concerns. Steps up in big games
Pistol offense isn't traditional but it is closer to a pro style offense than the college spread with multiple reads
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6. HeadOnASwivel
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The thing is trading out of the top 10 is easier said than done, there is just no guarantee that we'll even get an offer to move down. I do, however, feel we have a real chance of trading with the Lions so they would be able to leapfrog Dallas and select Tyron Smith.
I'd have to go with option A, but I'd replace Fariley with Aldon Smith and round 2 hit Dalton/Ponder/Locker/Kaepernick whichever one is on the board.
7. HeadOnASwivel
HeadOnASwivel Starter
Actually Kobe Bryant publicly announced he wouldn't play for the Charlotte Hornets which is why he was traded to the Lakers on draft day, but that's another story.
You don't to that to a player and ever expect that player to want to be apart of the team. Bud made his decision and there is no way VY will be back. The only reason Vince wants to stay now is for that 12 million he knows damn well that if he is released he's going to be making a much, much lower salary.
8. Gut
Gut Starter
I'm quite busy atm but am trying to find a bit more time with the draft so near.
Keep the posts coming!
9. Gut
Gut Starter
How many QB's and which ones do you think will be drafted before pick 39 and who do you think will be available (QB's)?
Passing for 10,000yds in a college career is excellent. It has much less importance to how high his ceiling is in the NFL. It shows he's been a 4 year starter and that's a good thing. We know he can run so we know he's mobile.
To be specific, he threw for 19 td's in '07 but more importantly, for a 4 year starter, he's been consistently good - not great. While he hasn't thrown less than 19 td's, he's never thrown MORE than 21 td's. Cam Newton threw 30 his first year against much harder competition. He's only thrown more TD's than INT's in 6 of his 14 games this year and that's WITH him being able to run at will. Mallett did it in 10 out of his 13 games purely throwing the ball. Newton did it in 11 out of 14 games.
He threw 2 or more TD's in only 7 of his 14 games. Newton did it in 11 of his 14 games. Mallett did it in 9 of his 13 games.
Yards is not the be all end all since Mallett threw for a gaudy 3800 yards because he had a lot more attempts so it's better to look at YPA. Newton had 10.2, Mallett had 9.4 and Kap had 8.4.
Stats-wise projecting him as a passing NFL qb, he is not on par with either of the guys mentioned. In addition, him being a 4 year starter whould have seen him improve more in TD's. While his accuracy improved nicely (as did Newton and Mallett's), his TD's only marginally increased and he never has been close to a 30 TD season.
The wonderlic only has a negative correlation. All you wanna know is, is his score 25 or above. Scoring a 50 doesn't make sure an NFL starter, it just means you can do it if everything else checks out. I only use a wonderlic to downgrade someone, not elevate them.
I don't like when QB's have to tinker with their throwing motion because you can really mess up there accuracy and it's one more thing they shouldn't be thinking about while standing in the pocket. Kap's motion is too long and it needs to be changed. We don't know how much this will affect his accuracy but it won't improve it (though his completion % could go up simply because db's won't have as much chance to jump his passes).
Great kid and no character concerns, but against Boise and BC in the Bowl game, he under performed. Against Boise he threw 10% below his completion avg for the year, threw 1 td and 1 int, and those stats are in 35 attempts (the 2nd most he had the whole season). Even if you add his rushing TD, he contributed fewer than half of his team's points. Against BC, he had a decent 60% completion percentage but threw for less than 200yds on 33 attempts. He also did not run very effectively.
It is and isn't. While he does have multiple reads and has to read more of a defense than Gabbert or Newton, he still has to learn how to drop back and learn how to read defenses and go through his progressions doing something he hasn't done. He also has had a very strong running game which has put less pressure on him than many other QB's.
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10. griff33daddy
griff33daddy Special Teams Standout
good points on both i high fived...but to say the least i believe that the SEC had a down year....florida played awfully below expectations and besides auburn and bama--who performed top of their games--arkansas wasnt as good as everyone expected--to slow still for the sec as its more of a speed conference more than power
mississippi state was the one team that actually surprised me out of now where as i didnt expect them to be as decent as everyone else...still the best conference but a down year i believe
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# 202 Morning Farm
Here is a scene with the morning dew lurking in the shadows, before the sun rises on a new day. Oil 5.50" x 8.00" email to purchase.
Anonymous said...
very nice...really feels like morning
Angela Ferreira said...
Is that a river or lake in front?
That brigh green really contrasts with the dark bushes... it makes me want to go there... oohhh its just lovely!
Jon Conkey said...
Thanks Rhonda! I'm looking forward to seeing where this month takes me; "the atmospheric theme". I was originally attracted to the hazy blue shadowed field, in front of those distant blue trees.
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Police can call on troops in an emergency
Scientists from Porton Down have been deployed in the UK a "number of times this year", the government's head of counter-terrorism has told MPs.
The lab mainly specialises in nuclear and biological warfare but the reason for the deployments is not known.
Brigadier Chip Chapman told a committee of MPs he could not go into details for national security reasons.
The Commons defence committee is probing the UK's level of readiness for a terrorist or other emergency.
Lord West said ministers did not know the location and capability of all deployable troops in the UK at any one time but he was confident they could find out "straight away" in the event of an emergency.
The security minister said government agencies were now better informed about the counter-terrorism forces and scientific capabilities available to them - and a compendium had been made available to officials.
Major emergency
Brigadier Chapman told MPs "immediate response" teams from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) had been deployed on a number of occasions in the past year.
"The number of occasions they have been used and the circumstances I can not go into in this forum," said Brig Chapman, director of counter-terrorism and UK operations at the ministry of defence.
To stop this radicalisation and extremism is going to take - and I get into trouble for saying this - about 30 years
Lord West
The DSTL, which is based in Wiltshire, is the UK's leading biological and chemical defence research centre.
It also develops a range of other technologies for military and civilian use, including X-ray scanning equipment and armour.
On the broader question of whether the UK was prepared for a major incident, Lord West confessed he did not know how many hospital beds could be made available in the event of an emergency of the order of 10,000 deaths.
But he said the Department of Health "would know" the figures and plans would be coordinated by the government's emergency planning committee Cobra.
The security minister also said progress was being made on preventing young people becoming "radicalised" but he said it was going to be a long process.
He said he accepted Britain's foreign policy was a "problem" for some young Muslims but the government was now "engaging" with them.
"This isn't going to change just like that. To stop this radicalisation and extremism is going to take - and I get into trouble for saying this - about 30 years, I think.
"But it will become a virtuous circle, it will start getting better and better and we have to embark on it and the recognition of that I think is one of the big things that has happened over the last 15 months."
He said Britain could not "arrest and protect ourselves out of this problem" and the government was "putting work into prisons, into places of worship, into sports clubs" to tackle extremism.
But he added: "I don't pretend for a moment that we are nearly there. I regularly go out and talk to youngsters and some of the reactions I find just amazing, because you think 'how on earth can you believe that' but you need to have a dialogue."
Maritime security
Lord West was also quizzed on whether the government was actively studying ways in which terrorists could launch an attack on the UK.
He said "red teaming," as such scenario planning was known, did take place to a limited degree and various "what if" scenarios were constantly being worked through, including how terrorists might target the UK's financial system.
He also raised concern about maritime security, saying that there was still no way of tracking all shipping movements in British waters.
"In the skies, we pretty well know what is moving, but we don't know that in the waters around our country," he said.
Lord West also stressed that the government's counter-terrorism strategy had saved "hundreds if not thousands of lives".
The peer said he could not go into details about specific plots but measures such as doubling the size of the security services and increasing surveillance were working.
The government is due to publish a new national security strategy next spring, Lord West told the MPs, and it was preparing to unveil plans to make intelligence chiefs give evidence in public, something first flagged up in March.
Explaining the delay, Lord West said the prime minister had been "busy with other things".
He said the government was still considering appointing a minister to act as a "national security adviser," similar to the role played by Condoleezza Rice in the US.
Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth was quizzed about plans to shoot down passenger jets judged to be a threat.
He assured the committee that the final decision would rest with "an elected minister" and that steps had been taken to protect RAF pilots from the psychological impact of shooting down a civilian aircraft.
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1. John Air Force Vet
Does that mean he is comparing Moses to Brittney and Paris? McShame is insulting God and all Jews and Christians by using Mosed for politcal gain. Talk about sacreligous! Mc Shame will stoop to anything. NO HONOR- NO INTEGRITY-Let God be your judge, McShame.
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2. Griff
I stated most of this, 6 months ago.... When a Guy uses Religion like Obama does.. You have to be a Little Sick... Religion is for one person, in his/her own private lives... I don't don't believe in any God...
Just the Planet, and the People who live on it...
3. WallyWutMD
The rotton stinch of jealousy drifts afoul within the duldrums of John McCain's camp.
4. Kevin
The same video could have been made for Ronald Reagon. He also ran on optimism.
5. PG
Pathetic. And these people call themselves Christian? Whatever happen to "blasphemy?"
6. Eric
7. susan
How DISGUSTING McCain can do this?
Slap in the face to religion, slap in the face to Americans.
8. David, Silver Spring MD
John McCain is a jerk.
9. JoelWhy
I just watched the ad on McCain's site. It borders between being patently offensive and entirely pointless.
I think that, just as the Republicans painted John Kerry as being an out-of-touch elitist, they are trying to make Obama appear to have a God-complex. Seems like a pretty weak strategy to me, but we'll see how much the media eats this up and regurgitates it.
10. anon
Didn't Hillary Clinton try this mocking garbage with that "celestial choirs singing" mess?!?!
Have they learned nothing from how that backfired on her?!
November can't come fast enough!!!!!
11. Charles Los Angeles
John McCain, You're a piece of trash.
12. Bob from Kentucky
Does the McCain campaign find the idea of a messiah laughable? That is an interesting position for a Republican to take.
13. Finnally
Finally someone gets it!!!!!!!!!! Dang I thought I was the only one who felt like "Obama" was being shoved down our throats by the so-called "educated" people. If one puts the microscope on these "so-called" educated people one would find nothing but a bunch of pure charlatans and self prophesied quacks like their candidate himself.
14. Tom,Michigan
McWar do you have any thing else to say. Where is your policy initiatives other than lining up with everything Obama was talking like a timetable for withdrawel. How long can you fool Americal people with this. Come out with stuff and not this childish stuff to fool people
15. Tim
Senator McCain you have crossed the line and insulted Christians everywhere with this add. You have hit a new low!!!
16. WOW!
This is the most scurrilous add in American political history.
The implication is obvious... McCain wants to scare people into thinking Obama might be the Antichrist.
This is so offensive it's beyond the pale and McCain should apologize immediately.
American presidential politics sinks to a new low... you should be ashamed of yourself Senator McCain!
17. Dem08
I will support the democratic nominee in November, whomever it might be..However, Obama is the only one to blame for the " attacks" being thrown at him. He has ran a campaign where he was put on a pedistal, he used the media adoration to destroy a more experianced and qualified candidate, and now he is having his tactic turned on him. American's do not like pomp. I do not feel that Obama is truly an elitist or celeberity, but he has allowed his king makers to do this to him. The American people do not care about his race, ( ok, some will), but they do care if he comes across as "the chosen one". Americans believe people should work to get to the top and many do not see Obama as a person that has worked very hard to be the leader of the free world. Sad to say, but my party went with the popular choice, but not the best choice. The Obama campaign needs a Clinton to balance him. Obama supporters hate this, but many democrats are willing to take the chance on the first black man, and the first women to run this country. We need Obama's obvious skills as a world leader, with Hillary's knowledge and experiance. One without the other is another disaster for the democratic party.
18. Enlightened Voter
I just watched mccain on cnn live. What a spectacle. First he couldn't remember the reporters' questions who just finished asking it and then he out and out lied about supporting the MLK holiday which we all know he voted against. This man is a sham and anyone who votes for this deserves the america they get.
19. cedric
wow!! talk about psychological manipulation, McCain is doing everything he said he wouldn't do this election year, and he is doing it the ultra social conservative way. All he has to do next is have a commercial with hunters giving their opinion of Obama. Man the gloves are on the floor now. This is getting sadder everyday
20. Chicago Architect
This is quite sick. I can't believe that this campaign and the GOP can stoop this low.
I hope America can see this as a trick and fear mongering ploy that it really is. I thought only 3rd world countries and uneducated people can be strong-armed and manipulated by messages like this. I really hope that the American people are smarter than to believe in this.
Wake up America, this is fear mongering at its best. Please don't fall for it. You are smarter than this!
21. Lourdes
HAHAHA...saw the ad and it' hilarious. McCain is making a bigger and bigger fool out of himself.
Glad to see they still have no substantive criticisms and nothing good to say about their own candidate!!
Obama 08!
22. Tom in MA
Sounds like a funny ad to me... but the Obamabots are going to flip. Wait for it.
23. Andrew
Oh give me a break! All this does is make McCain come across as bitter and resentful.
24. Enough
This is insulting to the highest order. The republicans will mock the bible to win an election! This is an all time low.
25. ChrisD
That's frigin sweet. I love it. It's so true.
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Been calling them "implementers", but it seems weird to me.
/// <summary>
/// Implementers should implement this. Derp
/// </summary>
protected abstract void InternalExecute();
A point of clarification, I'm interested in what to call the people who create child classes, not the child classes themselves.
"Hey, you there" not "that thing there."
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Calling them developers seems reasonable no? – Chris Nov 23 '10 at 19:44
OPs who wrote this question (@Will) might consider marking the MSDN reference to "you" as best answer for this question. – Yar Nov 24 '10 at 6:32
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MSDN class documentation often uses "you" to refer to developers.
When you inherit from WebRequest, you must override the following members...
You do not typically inherit from ButtonBase. To create your own button class, inherit from the Button, CheckBox, or RadioButton class....
You can also simply state what the requirements are for descendent classes. It is implied that developers are your audience.
In your example, instead of "Implementers should implement this", write "Descendent classes must override InternalExecute to..." or "In descendent classes, you must override InternalExecute to...".
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EXCELLENT point. I was kind of going with the "you don't need to talk about people" idea, but yeah, this is nice too. – Yar Nov 24 '10 at 6:28
I usually say children, child classes or inheritors.
Its not that important; people are going to understand what you mean by Implementers anyway.
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+1 for Children. For me, it makes more sense to read it that way then by referencing the person using the base class – Rachel Nov 23 '10 at 16:47
Child classes sounds correct to me. – Adam Crossland Nov 23 '10 at 16:48
+1 for inheritors. – Anna Lear Nov 23 '10 at 16:55
"Derived classes" – Bruce Alderson Nov 23 '10 at 17:08
If your class is 'Window', are children sub-classes of Window or Child Windows? Also, the OP is after a name for the programmer, not the code. – JBRWilkinson Nov 23 '10 at 18:24
Descendants? (need couple more chars)
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+1 I like descendants too – rmx Nov 23 '10 at 16:49
I think this is a great term. – Dynamic Jun 19 '12 at 15:24
subclasses or classes that extend ThisInterfaceor classes that implement InternalExecute
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"Subclasses" is good... I wonder if "Subclassers" is a word, or if I would have to longform it as "Thoe who create subclasses"? – Will Nov 23 '10 at 17:08
+1 This is similiar to the Javadoc style, which I find very readable for the most part. – Michael K Nov 23 '10 at 17:48
@Will, with all due respect, who cares about the people-who-are-creating subclasses? It's much easier to use passive voice and say, "subclasses must do this" rather than "people who write subclasses should do this." People and subclasses are both valid entities. The former doesn't ADD anything to the comments. – Yar Nov 24 '10 at 6:26
I retract that, to some extent: I like the answer below, that uses "you." – Yar Nov 24 '10 at 6:34
You shouldn't mention the people who code in the doc, but how the base class should be extended, hence, you could call them "implementations"
This base class defines the basic structure of the blah blah blah. Implementations should do XYZ to make it work....
Implementations of this class should also consider...
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Sorry, I'm looking for how to refer to the developers that are extending a base class, not the child classes. – Will Nov 23 '10 at 19:19
I have updated the answer, probably now it makes sense. – OscarRyz Nov 23 '10 at 21:06
I think the word you are looking for is "shouldn't" rather than "don't". – Bruce Alderman Nov 23 '10 at 21:11
@Bruce :P Thank, sometime I wakeup with english mode turned off :-/ – OscarRyz Nov 23 '10 at 23:07
You can call them extenders or subclassers.
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I typically say child class. When talking about inheritance, implementers would be a little confusing to me because it makes me think that the class is implementing an Interface, which is different from class inheritance.
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I'm talking to the developers, not about what they develop. – Will Nov 23 '10 at 19:19
If I had to write documentation speaking directly to a person writing code that extends my base class, I would call them a Developer, End User, or Consumer.
That being said, I think it's generally a bad idea to reference the people using your code in the comments. Comments should state what the code does, not what the developer using it should be doing.
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Then how do you inform the target audience, developers who are extending your code, about things they should be aware of? – Will Nov 23 '10 at 19:18
@Will--your comments are implicitly aimed at them. I mean, have you ever read code with implementation suggestions in it and NOT assumed it was meant for you? – Dan Ray Nov 23 '10 at 19:51
How about: "Descendant classes should implement this. Yes that means YOU."; to stress the point, in case the reader is confused.. :) – dr Hannibal Lecter Nov 23 '10 at 20:20
+1 for your first sentence. – Robert Harvey Nov 23 '10 at 23:56
I want to offer an out-of-the-box idea: let's delete this comment altogether and then we don't have a problem how to phrase it.
The keyword abstract already says it all: one of the derived classes must implement the method. If that's the intent you want to communicate to the implementors of those derived classes, then you're already using this particular language element appropriately.
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Kinda misses the point. – Robert Harvey Nov 23 '10 at 23:57
Comedy should marked as community wiki OR be funny. – Yar Nov 24 '10 at 6:36
IE, users of the base class.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Happy New Year: 2013
Happy New Year, You.
The Fool, Frieda Harris
It's now 2013, and the night before you may have done a few things like drink a lot, eat a bit, might have smooched that special someone (or maybe smooched someone pretending that they were that special someone, or maybe no one at all!), and maybe made quite a few silly booze-induced promises for the upcoming year. [Note: I was going to say something about anything declared by a person when they're drunk should be stricken from the record "because it's all bullshit," but then I realized that I am an insanely open book after I get a few drinks in me. If my words don't give it away, everything else will, ie blushing, etc. When I've been drinking, ask me anything. I'll tell you and I'll mean it. I'm fun for that.] I don't really do New Years Resolutions. But 45% of American usually still do, and only 8% of those folks carry those things through.
The article I linked to gives the top ten resolutions made for 2012. They're not necessarily bad goals to have, but a lot of them feel like they would just fall flat on their faces. If you're not accustomed to the changes you would have to make in order to obtain any of your goals, you're probably going to have a rough time with accomplishing them. Another problem is that people seem to have a tendency to try to jump straight to the goal rather than take a look at all of the little steps it might take to get to that goal. Furthermore, people have a tendency to condition themselves into such mindset that even a relatively simple thing to accomplish is jinxed right out of the gate. They're so used to this one mode of existence that everything else is a pipe dream whether they actually realize it or not. And after writing all of that, Forbes beat me to it last year, but hey, at least I'm on the right track, no?
What I plan to do for the new year is simply this: continue building upon the framework I've been diligently working on for the last few years. Continue breaking down things that no longer serve me. Continue being patient concerning things that are way far off on the horizon until I can be sure about them (because I just may be right).
Specifically, here are some things going on for 2013 already and likely to persist indefinitely as I choose to stay in the Yo until further notice (graduation had better happen, dammit):
• graduating with a BA in Psychology and Religious Studies
• putting together Youngstown's first Gnostic and occult arts collective, and keeping it real as fuck
• maybe begin my search for a Dharma teacher. Maybe.
• continue my research with YSU and/or the psychiatrists
• continue working on my juju skills.
* I wanted to add "prepare for graduate school," which I will do (I guess..), but I'm not putting a particular timeframe on taking on graduate studies just yet.
All of this in hopes that the fruits of these labors overflow into others areas that I am sucking in (and would likely make horribly misguided resolutions about): like not being so chickenshit in certain social situations (which I'm better about, but not god enough), creating an abundant livelihood, improve my community some, maybe even get married one day, and so on and so forth. The five items mentioned that I'm working on now also had their own set of mini-steps that I had to take control of and master a bit, both exo- and esoterically (for example: I dress a hell of a lot better and I can get things to manifest in the oddest of ways). It's about building blocks and wrecking balls.
So maybe my keeping on keeping on is a New Years resolution of sorts, but it's also one that I think makes all the more sense.
RO's Shit Works Out.
And here's the other part of this: Shit Works Out. It does. It really does. 2012 (including the tail-end of 2011) was pretty much a shit storm for me, but everything worked out. True story; they really did all work out, and in ways that sometimes I couldn't even imagine possible. There were times where I'd be standing there, jaw dropped, and eyes bugged because things snapped into place when I thought that I had pretty much screwed myself. Other times, just the mere mention of "nice to haves" got results. Granted, that's a little frightening sometimes.
As R.O explains:
"The results we think we want scare the shit out of us when they show up and explain that, oh yeah, everything in your world is going to change now, and you don't know how it all ends for sure. It might all end badly! But it might all end awesomely too! Especially when you have invisible friends who help, secret occult practices that give you an advantage, and ready access to several kinds of alcohol."
Like I said, it's frightening, but in the way that you're getting what you asked for, it's kicking holes in our conditioned perceptions of reality, and it means that the things you're used to (even if they suck) are going to change; your life is changing. Getting the results I want: it all freaks me the hell out sometimes. I'm still getting used to it. Sometimes I think, "Is that really possible?" Sure it is, and I wouldn't want any of that kind of weirdness to stop. Ever. And I'm going to enjoy it. And let me assure you, it's not like I've lived a crummy life, and things are picking up now; things have been working out for me since day one, but I'm just much more cognizant of it now. Sometimes, I look back at certain points in time and think, "Oh.. damn!"
Everything ends in fits of laughter with me anymore. Some friends have seen me hootin' and hollerin' out in public because the results I was looking for manifested within a couple of hours. I'm sure people think I've lost it.
But really, I'm just enjoying it all. Full immersion, and rolling with it.
And now I leave you with this (because I like it):
"And finally this question, the mystery of who's story it will be. Of who draws the curtain. Who is it that chooses our steps in the dance? Who drives us mad? Lashes us with whips and crowns us with victory when we survive the impossible? Who is it that does all of these things? Who honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us, and at the same time, sings that we will never die? Who teaches us what's real and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us? And Who holds the key that can set us free? It's You. You have all the weapons you need."
- Sweet Pea, Sucker Punch
1. My new year's resolution is to update my blog. HAHAHA ;)
2. Pretty much the same resolutions here; if you want to call them that. ;) Yeah, and update my blog, too. Hehehe... :)
Nice! Happy New Year to you!
3. Happy New Year to the both of you!
@Rose: I think every year I say something about updating my blog more.. well, I guess I did update more than I did in 2011. Hahahaha. :) Maybe I'll improve this year?
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Volume VIII, No. 1, Fall 1980
Salt, Hickory Smoke and Ashes
by Melinda Stewart and Cleo Long
The salty, pungent odor of the smoking of meat from the green hickory wood lingers in the memories of many older people. These thoughts bring visions of the light brown meat hanging in rows from the rafters in the small, dark smokehouse ready to be taken into the house and slowly cooked as the children waited, mouth watering, anticipating the delights of the next meal.
Reading the butchering and smoking story in the Winter 1974 issue of BITTERSWEET reminded Cleo Long of her childhood when the day came in late fall for her family to butcher their hogs, and how her father, Noah Amos, was so particular with the fire the family tended in the smokehouse to smoke just right his family's yearly supply of meat. Early in the spring, she remembered, the family took a day to package the meat and store it in boxes with layers of ashes covering it.
Once a year the neighbors came in to help, and we'd butcher five or six hogs in one day. With the pork we made sausage and lard and also cured and smoked some of the meat.
After the ground up and seasoned meat set a few days, Mother and we girls fried the sausage in small patties, placed them in fruit jars, covered them with hot fresh lard and sealed them. By doing this they kept much longer than if they had been stored uncooked. Sometimes we stored them in two gallon stone jars, again covered with lard.
We always had three kinds of lard which we rendered separately. We canned the leaf lard in fruit jars and used it only for baking. We stored the fat from trimmings in lard cans. We used the fat from the intestines first because my parents thought it became rancid more quickly than other fat from the hog. We usually used it for frying donuts and other cooking and sweets. Lard made good gingerbread and delicious molasses cookies.
After we butchered the meat and cut it up into hams, shoulders, sides and jowls, we cured and smoked it. My father rubbed brown sugar on the meat first, rubbing it in real good with his hands, not on the rind part, but just on the raw meat part. Then he put the salt on the meat, leaving it on scaffolds several weeks to give the salt time to go into the meat.
We had to hang it in the smokehouse next. We had a brick-type smokehouse with a tin roof. A lot of people hung the hams and the shoulders from the lard side so that the grease wouldn't drip out as much. We didn't hang our meat that way. We hung our meat with the string in the hock of the ham and shoulder and hung it with the meat down. I suppose my parents didn't care if the grease did drip out.
We smoked the meat several weeks. We didn't keep a fire going constantly, because it was not good for the meat to have a fire burning in the smokehouse. I remember we did the smoking from the time we got home from school until we went to bed. Then my father worked at it some during the day. My sister and I tended the fire because my brothers were busy with chores and in the fields.
For the fire we used sticks and limbs which my father cut off the hickory trees and stripped the bark off. Basically, we used both dried and green wood. We used the dried wood to have something to get the fire started with, but my father liked the green wood. He usually went out and took the sticks off a tree because then he knew it was hickory. Otherwise, he didn't know whether or not it was hickory. Then he made these into a little fire like a campfire in a pan. We got it started burning and then smothered it with a piece of overalls or an old pan until it smoked. We used a second granite dishpan to turn over the fire at night to keep the fire from rekindling.
After the meat was smoked, we left it hanging in the smokehouse until late February or early March. Then the bugs would start to get bad and would get on the meat after it had been smoked. My father was careful to store the meat properly to assure good clean meat that was free of skipper bugs and other insects such as maggots from green flies. We had a hard time with the skippers. They were a black bug about a quarter of an inch long.
The process that my father used to store meat in boxes full of ashes was a bit unique, I think. Whether it is true or not, my father had the idea that the ashes helped keep the meat from tasting rancid before it was used. We went through this process on a clear sunny Saturday, so the children could be home and help.
We filled the forty gallon kettle with water, built a fire, erected a large scaffold and carried the meat from the smokehouse. While the water was heating, we carefully looked over each piece of meat to assure that there were no openings where bugs might be hiding, for if the bugs were sealed up in the meat, they'd eat on it all summer. When the water was boiling, we dipped each piece of meat into the water to scald it--just long enough to kill any bugs and their eggs.
My father placed the meat on the scaffold where the direct sun could dry it. Sometimes he used old feed sacks to blot the water off. The children were to see that no green flies were around.
When the meat was dry, he cut off the hocks for two reasons. The hock served as a trap for insects since there was a hole through it where it had been hung, making a hiding place for these bugs. Also cutting it off conserved space when storing the meat.
After that, we wrapped the meat in paper. I don't remember too much about the wrapping paper, but I know we had to save every newspaper that came to our home, storing them very carefully in a room upstairs so that they wouldn't get dirty. Today people will say that the newspaper wouldn't be good to wrap meat in, and now I question this practice because of the ink, but we used it, and we also used wrapping paper. Back in the days when I was a kid, we didn't get paper bags when we went to the grocery store. Food was wrapped in brown paper. We saved all of that paper because it was good for wrapping the meat.
After wrapping and tying the pieces of meat with string to hold the paper secure, we put them inside twenty-five pound paper flour bags that we had saved, or other paper bags that might have accumulated. Dad was happy when flour came in cloth bags. They were easier to tie than the paper.
My father had two large homemade wooden boxes, approximately thirty by fifty inches wide and about thirty inches deep which we had filled with wood ashes from the kitchen stove.
He was pretty particular about the ashes. The ashes from the kitchen range were finer than those from the wood heater because nothing was ever burned in the kitchen range but wood. We burned scrap lumber in the wood heater so there was junk like nails in the ashes from it. Ashes from wood heater also had charcoal. Of course, we did all the cooking on a wood stove, so we had plenty of ashes. We had to pour them in a bucket to let them cool till we were sure there was no possibility of fire before storing them in boxes.
He removed most of the ashes from the box to a tub, leaving a two inch layer of ashes in the bottom. He began by placing a layer of meat on top of the ashes and completely covering it with ashes. Then he added another layer of meat covering it with more ashes until the box was full. Of course, there was no way that any ashes could get on the meat because it was wrapped in paper.
He knew where every piece went in the boxes. He had the hams and shoulders in one box and the bacon and jowls in another. This way it was not difficult for us to find the desired meat when we wanted it. When the box was full, he covered it with a frame made of screen wire to keep any mice or rats from entering because on a farm, it's awfully hard to keep mice and rats down.
When we removed the meat, the sack was greasy, so we carefully removed and discarded it and the wrapping paper. When we emptied the boxes after using all the meat, we cleaned and aired them and then started saving ashes again.
Pickling was a method used by my grandparents and some by my parents to preserve meat if we butchered in the summer. We butchered small hogs for summer use since the pork had to be canned, pickled or eaten right away because it would spoil in the hot weather without refrigeration. We filled a twenty gallon stone jar with brine, which is water with enough salt to float an egg. Cut up into five inch chunks, we could keep a whole hog stored in the brine until we could use it. Then soaking the meat in cold water before cooking removed the salt, but if it was cooked with beans, it did not require too much soaking. If the brine was correct, this meat would keep several weeks, although in our family it didn't last that long because there were eight children and hired hands to eat it up. We always shared with neighbors, too. Pickled meat also provided a variety on the dinner table. This was very delicious rolled in flour and fried.
My. parents also preserved squirrels and young rabbits with salt for a short time until the family could use them.
After taking so much time and effort to preserve the meat, the family thoroughly enjoyed all the different cuts. Even the same cuts of meat cured and smoked by different people had their own individual taste because of different methods used, type of salt used, whether sugar was used, and because of varying lengths of smoking time and the care each person took to make sure the fire didn't blaze and the wood used for smoking was right.
Nothing reminds many Ozarkians of their childhood homes faster than the aroma of hickory smoked meat. "All the meat tasted good," Cleo said. "When you worked hard, the meat really tasted good when you returned to the house for a meal."
Usually the little smokehouses common on many Ozarkians farms were filled with smoked hams, bacon and shoulders. "My father smoked one hog for each family member," Cleo Long explained. "Then we butchered two hogs for gifts. They were a welcome gift to our family doctor and our preacher as well as to relatives and friends who did not cure meat." Photo by Ruth Massey.
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Analysis: BioShock Infinite
• In regard to when Daisy Fitzroy threatens to kill the child in the Finktown level, she states that you have to kill the Founders at their roots or else they just grow back. Could this be a reference to the end of the game where Booker realises that the only way to kill Comstock is by killing him/self before the events of the story even started? If he doesn't, then Comstock would continue to exist in other alternate dimensions and therefore, not be defeated. For example, if Booker had just killed Comstock in the fountain when he confronted him, it would create an alternate universe where Booker decided not to kill him, and therefore Comstock could still win in an alternate timeline.
• An often overlooked though important theme of the narrative is the concept of grace, particularly as articulated by twentieth century Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.note Bonhoeffer saw two approaches to finding grace, one of which he dubbed "cheap grace" and the other "costly grace". To him, cheap grace was the idea of dealing with transgressions one would feel guilty about by appealing to God for forgiveness, feeling forgiven, and continuing to transgress while secure in the feeling that they are still righteous and godly. By contrast, he thought of costly grace as something that takes a toll on its seeker, being a transformative thing in which the transgressor becomes The Atoner and seeks to make themselves a better person to address past grievances and genuinely works to find forgiveness rather than just feeling content that God forgives them. This is reflected out in the forms of Comstock and Booker as Shadow Archetypes of one another, with Comstock representing cheap grace and Booker representing costly grace. Both men have done horrible things that they are not proud of and sought to escape from. Comstock took the route of cheap grace, assuming that anything can be forgiven if one simply loves God enough and is loved by God in turn. This allows him to continue to do horrible things, secure in the knowledge that no matter how bad he is, he is still righteous and God forgives him. By contrast, Booker took the route of costly grace, and he has suffered greatly for it. However, despite that suffering he genuinely did (eventually) become a better person for it, and sought to make up for what he did and right the wrongs he has inflicted, though he has never really forgiven himself. | <urn:uuid:7160e77b-40f3-4e56-b224-ae90eb49b724> | http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/BioshockInfinite | en | 0.974271 | 0.264306 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Cleveland's Slovenian commmunity celebrates culinary icon: the smoked sausage
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on September 17, 2013 at 5:00 PM, updated September 17, 2013 at 8:20 PM
KIRTLAND, Ohio -- It was a hot day, one of the hottest of the season. But 90 degrees in Northeast Ohio can't stop the polka music, can't halt the dancing under the pavilion roof, or the dishing up of steaming, sauerkraut-topped sausages.
The 10th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival on Wednesday went off without wilting.
Have you ever watched a serious dancer doing a Slovenian-styled polka? It's not like all the romping at weddings. The steps are small, almost dainty. The moves are complex, with ankles swiveling, toes barely touching the ground and some awesome glides across the floor.
"Happiest Music in the World," is what they call it, fueled by "button boxes" (and accordions) that whistle, croon, make the air sparkle and sway.
What is a kielbasa or klobasa? Ed Oshaben of Raddell's Sausage in Cleveland describes what ingredients make a kielbasa or klobasa for each ethnic group.
The National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum in Euclid helps sponsor the event at the SNPJ Farm in Kirtland. Slovenian Americans have been coming there since 1938, when SNPJ, a fraternal insurance group, bought the sloping, wooded lot and later put up a shelter.
Slovenians, like other immigrants, needed their own insurance because economically struggling people were seen as too big of a risk for most established insurers. Who could make a profit off folks who did lots of manual labor and might not be able to afford enough healthy food or doctor visits?
The Slovenes helped each other. They formed Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota (SNPJ), which translates to Slovene National Benefit Society, says Joe Valencic, president of the Polka Hall of Fame. It still covers Slovenes in Ohio, considered the largest settlement outside the home country.
SNPJ branched out as the community grew, giving rise to social and cultural events as well. The sausage contest helps preserve food traditions and showers stardom on the next "King of Klobasa." The winner gets to hang a banner in his or her store and earn the exclusive contract for sausage-vending at the annual Thanksgiving Polka Party. (Nov. 28-30 this year at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Cleveland.)
At 4 p.m. last Wednesday, Valencic entered a small side building at the park, closed the door to the music and the crowd, and brought three small Styrofoam takeout containers to the judges' table. Picking a winner is tricky in a tight community.
"People are always saying it's fixed," Valencic said. "That's why I did a documentary one year to show the whole process."
Blind judging can be curiously blind.
"There was the embarrassing year when a Croatian vendor won," said Ray Somich, who ran the judging session, and has done so through most of the decade.
Somich asked the five judges to consider texture of the meat grind, the snap of the casing, the seasonings and the overall uniqueness.
"Finally, ask yourself, if you're shopping for your family, would you buy this brand?" he said.
Every judge was different. Some ate dainty pieces, others finished their plates. Some liked it salty, some didn't.
"It's pretty hard to find a bad sausage," said Somich. "There's only good, better and best."
Azman Quality Meats of Euclid took the top spot, as well as the people's choice award from 1,000 voters.
Judge Debbie Hanson of Cleveland Heights reminded fellow panelists of something she heard celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain say about the dangers of ignoring treasured ethnic foods.
If you keep bypassing the little shops to just buy the mainstream supermarket version of Old World foods, the little shops will die out.
"Then some guy from out of town will start making sausages that taste like your mother used to make, and they'll be charging you $30 a pound for it," she said.
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RE: Safe and Secure
By Lerianis on 8/16/2008 6:12:35 PM , Rating: 1
Yes, but what is 'right' and 'wrong'. Each person had to decide that for themselves, and unfortunately (unless they are causing physical harm to someone else or property damage) no one else has the right to dictate to someone else what 'right' and 'wrong' is.
That's a period and done with there.
We just have to start NOT protecting our children, and have them live in the REAL WORLD. That is what my parents did for me when I was young: didn't protect me from jack shit and expected ME to report something if I didn't like it, which I did many times.
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Commodity speculators
Dr Evil, or drivel?
The charge-sheet against commodity speculators is flimsy
See article
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AB ve
Did you miss some charges?
In the information age, price determination can (and should) happen at a virtual market place of producers and end users, there is no need of middlemen with fancy names.
A bad harvest will drive the prices up, but commodity traders make a killing by driving the prices way further up than justified by demand supply gap.
This increase in prices does not benefit the producers at all, like the poor farmers or gold miners.
Price volatility: Gold prices are not volatile they just keep going up, regardless of demand and supply. Yes, its a hedge, but again its trading brings no benefit to its end users or producers.
Who needs the benefit of liquidity in a world full of subsidies and govt, support programs, when that liquidity brings no benefit to the producers.
The commodity traders are only distorting the market and not adding any value to the product.
320 billion out of 1.8 trillion is somehow insignificant ? Has there been a successful counter-revolution to the Marginal Revolution ? Doesn't the large number of trades from outside the real market destroy the diversification being sought ? Of course speculators are needed, but purely paper trades are not, except for hedging by market makers.
Tariq Scherer
PPS: On the impact of ETFs over the market
The London Metal Exchange's LMESword which tracks the actual delivery warrants used to match out excess positions at end of contracts produces a daily report over the actual supply/demand fundamentals operating within the LME Warehouse network.
As far as I know, there hasn't been any unusual activity occurring through LME warehouse stock levels over the recent financial turmoil despite the large moves in price. So far, it's been a pretty orderly move with some capitalization by certain funds but not anything large enough to cause a serious imbalance.
Warehousing for ETPs, as mentioned in the article, could also be set out to earn further uncorrelated 'rents' (eg the ETP/ETF can actually own the warehouse and earn a separate fee-line as a result) whilst always providing an added buffer for demand spikes. In other words: it can add liquidity when needed and store-up an asset, with secure returns, in times of excess...
Further info available from LME themselves:
Tariq Scherer
The benefit of commodities markets are greatly reduced if a few players do actually artificially move the price. I wait expectantly on rulings relating to the silver market.
I personally would much rather hold something that has intrinsic, useful value and is at least slightly scarce, like copper, rather than dollars of which we now know there is a limitless supply of.
Coffee Trader
It is sad to see that even The Economist is missing the point these days in the commentaries on the Commodities markets.
Historical/empirical evidence is just that - history. Remember the expression the "new normal"?
All the evidence you need is in the Open Interest in Commodities markets; there is a reason that the CFTC recently clarified the players in Commodities.
It is glaringly obvious that the Specs/Funds/Hedge Funds have overwhelmed the Commodities markets and many industry players are drowning as a result. The true value of Fundamentals no longer applies.
You mention that we have had speculative bubbles in Commodities before but only in single markets never all of them at once! Have you looked at the CCI or the CRB recently? Talk about historic!
Obviously we all believe in free markets but the problem here is that 90 to 95.00% of what the Specs/Funds/Hedge Funds do is Long-only; they treat Commodities as an Asset Class. Surely you have heard of leverage? It is a relatively cheap trade. The ultimate way to park cash in the last few years has been to sell the Dollar and buy Commodities with little to no regard for the actual underlying Fundamentals. How many times can China be blamed for this, or the weak or inflation (what a story THAT is given such high Commodity prices!?).
The situation is here to stay but at what price to us all ultimately? Can the poor and even middle class (future consumers of all) buy shares in these Funds to hedge their food price exposure? No.
The story is SO much larger than your article which basically states that this is what has happened before so let's not worry about it.
Evils to blame:
#1. money printing out of thin air.
#2 Greedy speculators.
#3 The weather
#4 World's Overpopulation
#5 American's material wasteful consumption disease epidemic.
Agree there must be regulation and law to control certain commodity speculation such food and water. Food and Water are a human right's issue.
Jacking up commodities prices benefit little the hard working producers farmers and miners but most of the money go into the pocket of the speculators. Massive digging mining do lots of harm to the environment. Greedy Speculators deprive the poor of their life basic essentials.
A speculator provides a function that an investor normally cannot. The use of futures to help farmers and producers lock in current prices instead of seasonal prices gives them the opportunity to plan ahead. Where it gets out of hand is when investors using liquid assets, such as pension funds, endowments and more, to buy commodities through ETF, Ishares and futures distorting their price in the near term. We know that the price of sweet crude, for example, is currently significantly over the cost of its discovery and we know this premium is due to speculators postulating that the world is running out of the hydrocarbon fuel. Brazil has discovered an estimated 150 billion barrels in its basins and believes the discovering is not yet over. Yet bringing the resource to market takes time , planning, great skill and money. So I wonder are the speculators driving up the price of hydrocarbons so drillers can justify the cost of finding and bringing the resource to market a good thing or a bad thing? In the near term, it appears to be a bad thing as the consumer has to bear the higher price of fuel at the pump. In the longer term, it is a good thing because it ensures supply into the future. That being said, the Chinese government is actively buying crude and stock piling it somewhere in their country against a rainy day. Whatever their purpose, they are adding to the pricing distortions in the near term but those outside the Heavenly Kingdom can say that there is some solace that they are paying a handsome price for the imported goods.
The same can be said for other commodities and I am sure the miner, farmer or wildcatter is happy to have them in the market. But natural resources can be replaced either seasonally or by investment so there will come a time when the price will again decline due to declining demand and over production. We can only hope that those who drove up the prices will come in to drive them down and that your pension manager had the foresight to sell at the cyclcal high.
It was a pleasant surprise to see the theory of Efficient Markets die the violent natural death it so richly deserved. And I agree the fatality must have been wrenching for many people, not least for the Economist which was always a strong proponent of that nonsense philosophy.
Perhaps with some luck we will see commodity speculation go the same way. There is no reason outside of blind ideology to hold the position that speculators should be permitted in the commodity arena.
Let's look at currencies. George Soros and his ilk have made incredible fortunes by damaging the economies of other countries, but the Economist would argue that is a good thing - that this 'freedom' and 'universal value' and 'human right' must be preserved at all costs,
If we set aside the 'free market' ideology there is no reason anyone should have access to currencies unless needed for international trade. Of course, there are times when the gamblers can smell blood and want to pile into a currency to make a huge profit, but why should they be permitted to do that? Who benefits? Certainly not the victim country, and certainly not international business.
One of the main reasons China will not let the RMB float freely is that the vultures would attack and drive its value far beyond any reasonable mark based on trade demand. To float a currency is to lose all control of it and there is no mechanism to protect against the speculative hordes. There is no valid argument that George Soros contributes to a stable world economy - precisely the opposite.
Metals and foodstuffs are the same. Copper has become unmanageable in today's market. There is no longer a chance for buyers and sellers to set a market price, and the argument that speculators deal only in futures and don't actually take possession is irrelevant. The markets become badly disrupted when uninvolved gamblers are permitted to enter the trading arena.
Consider the recent price activity of cocoa. In what way is that good for anyone, except for the one gambler hoping to profit from a weakness?
The Economist should face the fact that the profits made by these speculators are a tax levied on the market. Every time George Soros makes another billion dollars, the legitimate market participants lose precisely that amount. There is no way to spin this; it's an outright loss to someone. If speculators drive up the price of copper, manufacturers are damaged, and ultimately every consumer pays the full price of those (I would say, illegitimate) profits.
The truth is that we have lost our way, and lost sight of what is real.
Consider the theory of public companies and freely-traded shares. The theory is sound; shares in private companies are difficult to acquire and dispose of, and ownership will be severly limited. But if companies can be widely-held and publicly-traded, then ownership is open to all. Even more, we then have a platform for the timely and convenient acquisition and disposal of those shares. Lovely.
But that was then. Where are we now? Well, the theory presupposes that the purchaser of those shares actually WANTS to hold them, but that's mostly no longer true. Some people may buy shares in Berkshire Hathaway with the intention of holding, but mostly investors have no interest in the shares they buy.
Stocks are purchased on the belief that they will rise, and when that belief changes, the shares will be sold. That's not investing in any real sense; it's gambling. Our stock markets have become casinos.
I would argue that the markets for currencies and commodities have gone the same way. Free, unbridled capitalism is once again acting to badly disrupt orderly economic activity. The ideology is wrong and needs to be rethought.
Just as only a legitimate retailer is permitted to purchase goods at a wholesale outlet, I would argue that only legitimate participants should be permitted to enter any of these other markets.
I don’t believe I have ever seen worse economic reporting from the Economist before. Quoting from the article:
1) “In fact there is little empirical evidence that investors cause more than fleeting distortions to commodity prices. The most persuasive explanation for the rises and falls of commodities is demand and supply.”
Oh really? What about reports and studies from groups like Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, MIT, University of Chicago, Peter Peterson Institute, Oppenheimer, Lehman Brothers, the IMF and G8 finance ministers? All of these and many more have expressed concern about excessive speculation in commodity markets having an undue influence on prices. For a longer list, go to
There was no radical shift in the supply and demand of all of the various commodities that would warrant the profound increase and then decrease in prices in 2008 across the board in a number of commodities – nothing that comes even close to explaining such sweeping price changes.
2) As is true with many writers, you confuse institutional investors with traditional speculators. You are right in your description of traditional speculators as providing liquidity and price information by constantly changing their bets based on their day by day, hour by hour predictions of supply and demand conditions. These types of speculators are beneficial for markets (up to a point, if they grow to dominate a market, they can "financialize" the market and unduly influence prices with their herd mentality).
But this type of speculator is completely different than institutional investors like pension and hedge funds, endowments, etc. speculating in commodities. These speculators don't change their bets based on changing supply/demand realities, but instead plop down truly massive amounts of money on one side of the bet (that prices will go up) and let that money sit there for months or years at a time. These types of speculators actually remove liquidity from the market, through their long-term unchanging bets, instead of adding liquidity.
They also throw off the price discovery function of the markets with their massive one-sided bets (CalSTRS alone wanted to put $2.5 billion into the markets.) Truly this is the only time I have debated with free market economists who argue that a significant increase in demand does not drive up prices. Clearly, billions of additional dollars in relatively small commodity futures markets betting that the price will go up has an effect on that price – as many have shown:
Another big difference between traditional speculators and institutional is their motivations. Traditional speculators constantly monitor supply and demand conditions for a variety of commodities and buy or sell when they see market prices lower or higher than they think they should be. A pension fund on the other hand has infrequent meetings where they decide to "balance out their portfolio" by betting for many months/years at a time that prices will go up. Clearly this kind of decision making upsets markets. Every contract traded for reasons other than supply and demand is a contract that damages the price discovery function of the market.
A good explanation of the problem with passive investments in commodity markets can be found here
3) You cite a discredited OECD study as “proof” that speculation is not a problem. To see the myriad problems with that study that make it useless, go to
4) I don’t disagree with you on everything! I too am very concerned about new ETFs taking physical delivery of commodities. This is a very dangerous precedent.
Tariq Scherer
Thank you the Economist for highlighting the critical benefits of liquid commodity markets.
Indeed, demand occasionally outstrips supply, an ongoing reality for any scarce good. The question then becomes: how can we reward suppliers to invest the sufficient capital ahead of time to meet the expected demand?
Spec traders are merely assisting this process. It is a shame that we still need to re-emphasize this reality after over 200 years of successful price discovery and efficient production delivery in futures and commodity markets (the CME/CBOT markets have not suffered a single failed trade in their entire history).
So, to put things abruptly: the market works.
Tariq Scherer
PS @I_thought_you_were_impartial: there's already a lot of research out there over excess beta-tracking and its impacts if you are interested in the issue of ETFs on broader market. As far as commodity markets go, I think the real question should be more whether there are as many 'long' ETFs as 'short' ETFs available to the market...
economical aetiology
Come on I challenge you that any form of speculation based on futures had never been the core principles of puritanical Capitalism.....Capitalism stands for allocation of the most optimum price for anything depending upon its availability and never was it designed for speculation and that too for the future. Moreover prodding the price to climb off the roof particularly in the case of grains when there is glut in the agri-production and the farmers in the developing market had to distress sale is a double whammy on the core principles of Capitalism...
Evils to blame:
#1. Money printing out of thin air.
#2 Greedy speculators.
#3 The weather
#4 World's Overpopulation
#5 American's wasteful consumption epidemic disease.
Jacking up commodities prices benefit little the hard working producers farmers and miners but most of money go into the pocket of the speculators parasites. Massive digging mining do lots of harm to the environment. Greedy Speculators deprive the poor of their life basic essentials.
Tim Madden
The Economist’s series of articles on commodities suffer from a serious omission. Why has no one mentioned the CFTC’s accusation of fraudulent manipulation in the silver market?
If you are interested, search “CFTC's Chilton raises alarm about silver market”
Fat Beard
What could possibly be evil about the government backed counterfeiting cartels creating money from nothing and driving up food prices?
"He who withholds grain, the people will curse him,
but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it." Proverbs 11:26
But don't worthy bankers:
"Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, so a curse without cause does not alight." Proverbs 26:2
Oops! Maybe you should worry.
Sorry speculation just like change for the sake of change is like a dog running around in circles chasing its tail. Sure there may be profit in it but did the trade put any value into the stock? No!
If you say yes, you are poorly mistaken. Shame on you all...
This system of trading is like a virus infecting all market values.
We can only hope the tide will change.
Dear Sir: You mix apples and oranges.
You say the global market in petroleum in ~1.8 trillion and all commodity assets under management are $320 billion.
However, commodity funds are all leveraged at approximately 10:1. (Petroleum is currently leveraged approximately 15:1.)
If we assume that petroleum products make up only 25% of all positions in commodity funds then the fund impacts - assuming they all bet the same direction - are $320 billion X 25% X 15 = $1.2 trillion.
This amount of market participation is not insignificant in a market worth roughly the same value. Even assuming that spec positions will often cancel the funds are still a big element in price movements.
"Yet the benefits that investors bring—the liquidity and price information that make for efficient markets—barely get a hearing."
Isn't the price information speculators send about the market is the very thing people dislike them for? When speculating on shorting, they seem to say: that stock/commodity/currency is overpriced, and consequently the price will drop, the message becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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"The last comment is that there is the symbolic aspect of color. Things like red = stop, green = go are paradigms that you should be aware of and try not to contradict. Don't have green stop buttons and red go buttons."
This is a very interesting point, especially as I've been studying semantics, meaning, and that sort of area for four years or so now. The meaning that someone extracts from something is based on associations they have made between the features of the physical stimuli and other concepts. These bindings between stimuli and concepts are pretty individual and are formed from a person's experiences and learning. So, different people can extract different meanings from the same stimuli. This also occurs in natural language where the meaning that is intended is often referred to as the semantics and the meaning that is received is often referred to as the pragmatics. We all have different knowledge of the language we use, known as our idiolect, and different groups have different diolects.
As members of the same group are often exposed to the same learning and experiences then they often end up with the same bindings between stimuli and concepts, which is why natural language manages to work; however, as learning and experience can differ in subtle ways between members of a group then the bindings should be considered as cultural conventions and not as hard and fast rules that cannot be changed. As As these cultural conventions tend to be transmitted within groups then they cannot be applied outside of groups.
People can also ashave multiple bindings for the same stimuli. In other words, they can associate multiple sets of concepts with the same stimuli. For example, I saw in an earlier message that the colours red and orange were associated with warmth. This association is likely because they are the colours of a fire and we associate warmth with a fire but what if ysomeone had been caught in a fire and been significantly burned by it. My guess is that the person may then also associate danger and pain with the colours red and orange. People seem to use context to disambiguate between the multiple meanings and priming would seem to play a part in this.
So, associations between colours or any other physical stimuli and meaning, emotion, etc. are not going to be the same for everyone. To get it right you really have to know the group of users you are designing for and stick to designing something for them and not for everyone; it's pretty impossible to create something that works for everyone without forcing people to do some learning about your encoding scheme.
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Some past attacks on civilian airliners
Allegations that Malaysian flight MH17, which crashed Thursday near the tense Russian-Ukraine border, was shot down by a ground-to-air missile serves as a grim reminder of risks — rare as they may be — to civilian airliners flying over or near conflict zones.
Here are some examples of previous attacks on civilian aircraft in areas of high tension:
KAL Flight 007
On Sept. 1, 1983, a Soviet SU-15 jet shot down Korean Air Lines flight 007 west of Russia’s Sakhalin island while on a flight from New York to Seoul by way of Anchorage. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed. Moscow acknowledged it shot down the plane but maintained it has strayed into prohibited airspace on a spying mission. The incident sharply increased tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and prompted American officials to change some tracking procedures for civilian aircraft leaving Alaska.
Iran Flight 655
On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy’s guided missile cruiser the USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air civilian airliner on a flight from the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai in the Persian Gulf. All 290 people aboard were killed. The U.S. said the crew mistook the plane for an Iranian fighter jet and believed they were under attack. After eight years of allegations and recriminations, the U.S. and Iran reached an agreement at the International Court of Justice under which Washington agreed to pay millions in compensation, including $61.8 million for the victims’ families.
KAL Flight 902
On April 20, 1978, a Soviet jetfighter opened fire on a Korean Air Lines jet near Murmansk while on a flight from Paris to Seoul, saying the plane had violated Soviet airspace and failed to respond to orders from Soviet ground controllers. Two of the 109 people on board were killed but the pilot managed an emergency landing on a frozen lake near the Finnish border. Investigators determined the plane had veered dangerously off course and Soviet air defense mistook it for a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance jet. The Soviets rescued the survivors and handed them over to U.S. diplomats. The pilots acknowledged they had refused to follow orders from Soviet ground controllers and were pardoned by Soviet authorities.
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
Israeli jets shot down a Libyan Boeing 727 on Feb. 21, 1973 after the plane got lost in bad weather over northern Egypt and strayed into Israeli-controlled airspace on a flight from Libya to Cairo. Two Israeli F-4 jets fired on the plane, which crash-landed in the sand dunes. All but 15 of the 113 people aboard were killed. After an investigation, the International Civil Aviation Organization censured the Israelis, who insisted that the crew’s refusal to heed warnings and erratic behavior in the air led them to consider the plane a security threat. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan ultimately called the attack an “error in judgment” and Israel paid compensation to the victims.
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Two Parts:Describing Yourself PhysicallyDescribing Your Activities
Describing yourself is an important skill personally and professionally. You may wish to meet or date someone, get to know a friend better, or present yourself in a professional context. The rules for describing yourself in French are similar to how you would do it in English, but there are a few distinctions to be aware of. Using these guidelines you will have a basic structure that you can expand on to provide a more personalized description of yourself.
Part 1 of 2: Describing Yourself Physically
1. 1
Introduce yourself. The standard form of self-introduction in French is “je m’appelle” (zhuh mah-pell) which I means “I call myself.” For example, you might say “je m’appelle Robert.”
• The French word for first name is “prenom” (prey–nom). You could say “Mon prénom est...” (mon prey-nom ey) which means “my first name is...”
• The French word for surname is “nom” (nohm). In a professional or commercial transaction if someone asks for your "nom" be sure to provide your last name rather than your first.[1]
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State your age. In English you state your age as something you are, as in “I am fifteen,” but in French you use the auxiliary verb “avoir” which means “have.” You say “J’ai ... ans” (zhai ... ons) which means “I have ... years.”
• Consult a dictionary to find pronounciations of specific numbers.
• You can also describe your age group more generally using the phrase “je suis” (zhe swee) followed by an adjective. “Jeune” (zhuhn) means young. “Vieux” (vee-euh) indicates an elderly man, while “vieille” (vee-ay) indicates an elderly woman. “Je suis jeune” means “I am young.”[2]
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Describe your coloring. Many descriptive words used in English are actually borrowed from French. Brunette and blonde both mean the same thing in French, but they refer only to women. A man would be brun or blond – in both cases the final consonent should be barely pronounced. “Je suis blonde” means “I am blonde.”[3]
• You can also say “my hair is...” followed by a color. The phrase for this is “Mes cheveux sont...” (meh chuh-vuh son). Consult a dictionary for the appropriate color.
• The same construction works to describe your eye color. You would say “Mes yeux sont ...” (mehz-yuh son) which means "my eyes are..." Note that in this case you pronounce the s at the end of “mes” because the next word begins with a vowel.
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Describe your overall physique. The words to describe beauty are “beau” (bo) for men or “belle” (bell) for women. Use the construction “Je suis” (zhe swee) followed by the adjective. “Je suis belle” means “I am beautiful” if you are a woman.
• “Fort” (for) means strong, while “faible” (febl) means weak.
• “Petit” (petee) for men or “petite” (peteet) for women means small or short.
• “Grand” (grahn) for men or “grande” (grahnd) for women means large or tall.
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Indicate your state of mind. The phrase “je suis” (zhe swee) followed by an adjective can convey whether you are happy, sad or experiencing other feelings. Consult a dictionary to find precisely the adjective you want.
• Content (cohn-tahn) means happy, while triste (treest) means sad. You would say "je suis triste" to convey "I am sad."
• Fatigué (fah-tee-gay) means tired. You would say “je suis fatigué” to convey "I am tired."
Part 2 of 2: Describing Your Activities
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State your occupation. The phrase “je suis” (zhuh swee) means “I am.” You should then follow it with the appropriate occupation. Note that the endings of words may change depending on whether you are a man or a woman. A dictionary can help you identify the appropriate suffix.[4]
• Male occupations that end with “eur” (euhr) often change to “euse” (euhz) for women. For example, a massage therapist would be either a masseur or a masseuse.
• Male occupations that end in “ier” (ee-ay) often add an extra e to become ière (ee-ehr) for women. A farmer would be either a fermier or a fermière.
• Male occupations that end in a consonant may add an extra e to become feminine. For example, a male student is an “étudiant” (ay-tood-eeon) while a female student is an "étudiante" (ay-tood-eeont). Note that the final consonant is pronounced only in the female form.
• Many occupations have only one form, regardless of gender, such as "professeur" which means teacher.
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Share your hobbies. As in English, the usual construction for describing a preference for an activity is to begin with a conjugated phrase such as “I like” or “I love” and follow it with an infinitive (unconjugated) verb, such as “to read” or “to sing.” Verbs are in general a single word ending in –er, -ir, or –re. A dictionary will list verbs in their infinitive form.
• “I like” is “j’aime” (zhehm). "I love" is “j’adore” (zha-dor). “J’aime lire” (zhehm leer) means “I like to read.”
• The words “ne” and “pas” on either side of the verb negate the phrase, indicating dislike. "I do not like" is “je n’aime pas” (zhe nem pah). “Je n’aime pas chanter” (zhe nem pas chan-tay) means “I do not like to sing.”
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Describe things you like. In English, when describing something you like, you do not use the article. You would say “I like cats.” To express this in French, however, you do use the article: “J’aime les chats” (zhem lay shah).
• Mon (mohn) or ma (mah) are used as possessives, when you wish to indicate that you like something that belongs to you. Mes (meh) indicates a possessive plural.[5]
• Mon is used when the noun is masculine, indicated in the dictionary by the letter m. “J’aime mon chat” means "I like my cat." Note that it does not matter if you are male, it matters that cat (chat) is a masculine noun.
• Ma is used when the noun is feminine, indicated in the dictionary by the letter f. “J’aime ma tante” means "I like my aunt." Again, it matters that aunt is a feminine noun, not that you are a man or a woman.
• Mes indicates a possessive plural noun, such as “my aunts” or “my cats.” You would say “j’aime mes tantes” or “j’aime mes chats.”
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Use an adjective. The phrase “je suis” (zhe swee) followed by an adjective can indicate your general interests. Note the suffix should change depending on whether you are a man or a woman. The dictionary typically lists the male version first and the female second. “Je suis sportif” (sporteef) for men or “je suis sportive” (sporteev) for women means “I am athletic.”[6]
• If this is too challenging it may be easier to use the above recommendations for sharing hobbies, simply saying “I like sports” or “j’aime les sports.”
• This construction also works to describe personality traits. For example gentil/gentille (zhantee) means nice. You would say “je suis gentil” if you are a man or "je suis gentille" for a woman.
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NOTE: Not client approved SPEC WORK
The bird one... Even though it was cruel, was sort of funny still. This, less funny... A lot less. Being a major catlover might have something to do with my aversion to this ad. Icky.
From The Financial Times via MSNBC:
The car maker said the advert was conceived as part of a "viral" campaign, where short videos are released on to the Internet and redistributed by e-mail, as people find them funny. But it insisted it was not meant to be developed. As an alternative, a clip showing a comedy pigeon being thwacked by the bonnet, had been chosen. That ad caused controversy among some pigeon fanciers and was also condemned by animal rights groups.
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I have 4 cats, 2 rabbits and a dog. After the initial shock of the shear creativity of this clip I fell to the floor laughing my head off (excuse the pun). It's not like they were showing roadkill. I'm sure if it was Sadam Hussein's head in there we would all be cheering. I have to stand up for the twisted mind that thought this up. That person should write for television (maybe they already do !!!!). lets all step back and take a deap breath and find a cat to love. I let my cat watch the clip and she thought it was funny. Sorta like a human watching people being blown up in Saving Private Ryan (which I couldn't take and had to turn off). Anyway, just relax and give your feline a hug.
hell yeah!
I really think this is one of funniest viral film in a long time. It made me laugh a lot and I have send to a lot of my friends without even thinking about it, its not even close to offend me?
Hello. A car is not alive and cant kill cats for real, humans in cars can, but thats another story...
But I don
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Ford and its advertising agency, Ogilvy Mather, acknowledge creating the second clip but insist that it was never meant to be released. They are investigating how the viral spot, which Ford calls "unacceptable and reprehensible," leaked out, angering British animal-rights groups - and promptly getting forwarded around the world via e-mail.
Given that this is the Internet, conspiracy theories abound about whether such cases are, in fact, mistakes. Some bloggers - online journal writers - and other ad industry observers say "accidental" releases of unapproved ads, as well as the dissemination of what appear to be crude but humorous parodies, are actually elements of deeply layered, "subviral" plots intended to further exposure by any means necessary.
Dude. No.
I thought the bird one was funny (i didnt see it coming). It was only knocked to the ground, and in most cases it probably would have lived, but this cat had no way to survive. The messed up part is the fact it was trying to get it head free but the window just kept closing until it had decapitated its poor unsuspected victim. I understand this was completely animated, and that no animals were hurt or killed (at least i hope not). But what really gets me, is that someone who works for ford is that screwed up in the head to think this up and use it to advertise. After seeing this video i am almost positive im not going to get the sportka, and i believe i am not alone
LOL.. Funny, funny, funny, even after 9 years this advertisement still cracks me up. I don't have anything against cats, until they get into the car and decide to make it stink. This should be sent out as a warning to those that own cats, why should a dog get impounded whereas a cat can basically do as it pleases, when it pleases, where it pleases???
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Is there a way to use different sounds for a sms text alert and an email alert? I can't find the setting. I'm on HTC Hero, Android 2.1
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You can customize the Notification settings for both Gmail and Messaging in each of the apps separately.
In Gmail press menu and go to More->Settings and look at the Notification settings section.
In Messaging press menu then Settings and look at the Notification settings section.
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Sorry for the lack of description, I'm using Exchange and Handcent SMS. I'll check Handcent a little deeper – David Lozzi Sep 20 '10 at 19:45
It's important to understand the differences between a platform like Android and the traditional "dumb phone" platform.
With Android, very few applications are "special". By special I mean the OS is aware of them and treats them differently. In Android, an application actually has to manage notifications themselves, there's no way for the OS to somehow figure it out and expose a setting for it. Notification sound customization has to be exposed by the individual application developer, not through Android itself. When an application creates a status bar notification, by default Android will play the sound that you set in the default Notification setting. But the application can explicitly provide a different sound to play. The application would have to manage that themselves (it would be nice if Android allowed apps to register for custom notifications and then it could provide a central location for all of them, but I'm not aware of a facility for doing this).
If a particular application doesn't provide support, contact them and ask them to add it. Take away a star or two from your rating in the marketplace and explain why you did so. Many developers actually listen.
Compare that to the traditional "dumb phone" platform where everything is tightly coupled and controlled. The OS can easily expose settings for individual "apps" because they're baked in and don't really change.
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But, sadly, Skype does not allow one to customize their notification sound.
Does anyone know how to customize the notification vibration ?
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I use SMS Popup to manage notifications for text messages, and leave the email notifications to be handled by the default notification settings. This allows me to set custom sounds, vibrations and LED flashes (hardware allowing) for SMS text messages that separate them from emails and other notifications.
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In the messaging app, click menu button, Settings, scroll to the bottom and click Select ringtone.
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See below how to change your email notification sound, or how to disable it. My android is 2.3.5, gmail is 2.3.6.
You open the gmail app, menu > more > settings, tap in the account; in the very bottom there's an option "Labels to notify". In my case I have "Inbox", which I'm assuming is default; when you click on it, you have a few options:
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Based on the query i am getting some features in pFeatureCursor. I am adding that features into a List(IFeature). When iam iterating the pFeatureCursor and adding the values into pFeatureList all values in the list are replacing with the new reference pFeature Please refer my code below
//List is declared globally
List<IFeature> pFeatureList = new List<IFeature>();
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duplicated or replaced with a new reference? – steffan Jan 15 '13 at 18:31
yes replaced with a new reference – Jagadesh Jan 15 '13 at 18:34
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If what's happening is that all the items in PFeatureList are the same, then try using a non-recycling cursor.
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Thank you problem solved but what actually happening when i replaced true with false plz.. – Jagadesh Jan 15 '13 at 18:39
This determines what type of cursor your search method is returning. Read the API reference for IFeatureClass.Search and also look at resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcobjects-net/conceptualhelp/… under the section Understanding Recycling – kenbuja Jan 15 '13 at 18:52
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KCB v Impala fact file
KCB's Collins Kimani(with ball) leaves Impala's Nato Simiyu stranded during the 2007 Enterprise Cup quarter final victory at Impala Club. The two sides meet on Saturday in a crucial Kenya Cup league clash at the Lions Den.
KCB and Impala were both relegated from the Kenya cup league in 1994, playing in the Second Division Eric Shirley Shield in 1995 where they claimed the top two positions,qualifying for the 1996 Kenya Cup where they have remained ever since.
The two sides went through lean times, sometimes losing by cricket scores in the range of 90-0, 76-3, 44-12 etc before stability and dominance set in.While suffering heavy losses, matches between these two sides would be close affairs, I recall a duel in 1998 on a rainy day at Nairobi School which ended 7-6 to KCB.
1999 would prove a significant year for both sides. With the Kenya Cup league then being played in a format akin to the Super 14, both sides made it to the knockout stages,Impala reaching the final,losing the decider to Quins who had knocked out KCB in the semis.
They met twice in the 2002 Kenya Cup season, KCB beating Impala 16-14 during the regular season but Impala prevailing 14-3 in the title decider as they claimed a third successive title in addition to titles won in 2001 and 2000, the latter coming after a 26 year wait stretching back to 1974.
The 2004 final saw Impala win a fourth Kenya Cup in five years with a close 21-17 win over KCB in the final at the RFUEA.
KCB would avenge this loss a week later with a comprehensive 33-5 thrashing of Impala in the Enterprise Cup final. A sign of things to come.
The 2005 season saw Impala blank KCB 17-0 on a waterlogged Impala Club pitch but the KCB would beat the Gazelles 15-0 in the return match, a result that saw the Lions claim their maiden league title. This Kenya Cup win signalled the start of KCB's current league dominance, they would retain the title in 2006, beating the same opposition in the decider and won the Kenya Cup for a third successive time with a 17-0 win at Mean Machine in August 2007.
Impala have led the 2008 Kenya Cup league for a good bit, but as they visit The Lions Den where they are winless in five years, can they handle the backlash of the marauding Lions who are unwilling to relinquish the Kenya Cup?
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George Harrison on VH1: Yin & Yang with John Fugelsang
Recorded: May 14, 1997
GH: It may sound like a lofty thing to say on VH1, but basically, you know, what are we doing on this planet? I think through the Beatle experience that we'd had, we'd grown so many years within a short period of time. I'd experienced so many things and met so many people but I realized there was nothing actually that was giving me a buzz anymore. I wanted something better. I remember thinking, I'd love to meet somebody who will really impress me. I don't mean because somebody like you know, Burt Lancaster because he was in a movie. I mean, I met Burt Lancaster and he impressed me on that level, but I meant somebody who could really impress me. And that's when I met Ravi, which was funny, because he's this little fellow with an obscure instrument from our point of view, and yet it lead me into such depths. And that's the most important thing, it still is for me. You know, I get confused when I look around at the world, and I see everybody's running around. And you know, as Bob Dylan said, "He not busy being born is busy dying," and yet nobody's trying to figure out what's the cause of death and what happens when you die. I mean, that to me is the only thing really that's of any importance, the rest is all secondary.
Q: Do you think pop musicians are afraid to deal with subjects that are so big, or it just doesn't occur to them, or do people think, Oh, it's not commercial enough, who wants to talk about life itself?
GH: I don't know what anybody else thinks and you know, as the years have gone by, I seem to have found myself more and more out on a limb, as far as, you know, that kind of thing goes. I mean, even close friends of mine, you know, they maybe don't want to talk about it because they don't understand it. But I believed in the thing that I read years ago, which I think was in the Bible, it said, "Knock and the door will be opened." And it's true, if you want to know anything in this life, you just have to knock on the door, whether that be physically on somebody else's door and ask them a question, or, which I was lucky to find, is the meditation, is, you know, it's all within. Because if you think about it, there isn't anything, I mean, in creation, the whole of creation, that is perfect, you know, there is nothing that goes wrong with nature, only what man does, then it goes wrong. But we are made of that thing, the very essence of our being, of every atom in our body is made from this perfect knowledge, this perfect consciousness. But superimposed on that, is through, if I can use the word, the tidalwave of bullshit that goes through the world. . .
Q: It's cable, you can say that.
GH: Yeah, so there's this . . . we're being barraged by, you know, bullshit. But not only that, the way the world is structured or the way creation is structured, we have duality which says, "Yes no. Good bad. Lost gained. Birth death." And it's this circle that you get trapped in, it's like the "Memphis Blues Again," and that's the hardest thing to understand, what is causing both of these things. What's causing day and night, good and bad, it's all the cause and this is the effect. So, I mean, we're getting really transcendental here, but to say that our physical being is really on a very very subtle level, it's just like the sap in a tree is the sap and it runs throughout all the parts of the tree. Now, it's like that, our bodies are manifesting into physical bodies, but the cause, the sap, is pure consciousness, pure awareness, and that is perfect knowledge. But we have to tap into that to understand it, and that's really why for me this record's important, because it's another little key to open up the within for each individual to be able to see it, and turn off your mind, relax and float downstream.
Q: Ravi, you said a very beautiful thing a couple years back in an interview. They asked you what it was like for you to become a big rock star, quote unquote, a big pop star as it were, and I recall you saying that it was easier for you because you were older at the time as opposed to someone like George who was in his early twenties when it happened. Do you think that that may be a reason why you found a search for something deeper in life? I think about you embracing Eastern philosophy, I think about Dylan becoming born again. Do you think it drove you to search for something deeper because you were worshipped by millions and why do you think that it drove you to search for something deeper as opposed to someone like Elvis who had a hard time handling it?
GH: Actually, Elvis, I think looked for something deeper too, because I know that he was, you know, at different times he was involved with different organizations. And I mean, it was sad about Elvis, I think compared to the Beatles, Elvis, I always saw the problem for him was that he was the only one who had that experience. Whereas like hippies, you know, so it takes more people to have that, to share the experience. I mean, the four of us all experienced the thing, and in a way, we gained strength and supported each other in the turmoil. But yeah, I think fame is a good thing in terms of giving you heightened experience or at least more experience. But then, it's what you do with that, or what that uncovers. I think for me, you know, as I say, I realize I just want more. This isn't it, this isn't it, you know. Fame is not the goal, money, although money is nice to have, it can buy you a bit of freedom, you know, you can go to the Bahamas when you want, but it doesn't, it's not the answer, and the answer, you know, is how to get peace of mind, and how to be happy, that's really what we're supposed to be here for. And the difficult thing is that we all go through our lives and through our days and we don't experience bliss, and it's a very subtle thing to experience that and to be able to know how to do that is something you don't just stumble across, you've got to search for it.
Q: Did you experience bliss onstage or in the studio? In a way, did performing put you in touch with that bliss?
GH: Well, we had happiness at times, but you know, not the kind of bliss I mean, where like, every atom of your body is just buzzing, you know. Because, again, it's beyond the mind, it's when there's no thought involved. I mean, it's a pretty tricky thing to try to get to that stage because it means controlling the mind and being able to transcend the relative states of consciousness: waking, sleeping, dreaming, which is all we really know. But there is another state that goes beyond all that and it's in that state, that's where, you know, the bliss and the knowledge that's available is.
Q: When you think about all the talent you assembled and all the money you raised for the album, it was a very controversial thing in Bangla Desh, John Lennon used to get in trouble all the time for his activism, did anyone tell you, you know, look, it's a little bit hot, don't go there. Were you discouraged at all by people for pursuing it?
GH: No, not really. I think that was one of the things that I developed just by being in the Beatles was being bold. And I think John had a lot to do with that, you know, because John Lennon, you know, if he felt something strongly, he just did it. And you know, I picked up a lot of that by being a friend of John's, just that attitude of "well, just go for it, just do it." Like when Ravi said to me, he wanted me and Peter Sellers to come and introduce the show and he could make $25,000. Straightaway I thought of the John Lennon aspect of it which was, you know, film it and make a record of it and you know, let's make a million dollars. And you know, I think that boldness was by having that fame by learning through the Beatles, you know, that you get a bit more clout if you're well known.
Q: Let's talk about the concert, because it's just such a great, I mean, it was really, it's credited as being the first all-star benefit concert, the precusor to Live-Aid and all the benefit concerts of the eighties. How did you go about getting the talent who showed up? Eric Clapton, Ringo, Bob, Billy Preston.
GH: I just got on the telephone in Los Angeles. There was a fellow, there was an Indian astrologer who I'd met in L.A., and so I said to him, "Hey, is there any good particular day to put this concert on?" And he said, August something, August the 1st or August the 2nd. And I thought New York was the best place to put it, just because all the media, and you know, it's in between Europe and L.A. And I checked Madison Square Garden, I found it was vacant on that day, on August, was it the 1st or the 2nd?
Q: The 1st.
GH: And I just got on the telephone and I started calling people and there was certain people I could really, I knew I could rely on, who was Ringo and Keltner, who were the drummers.
Q: Badfinger.
GH: We got Badfinger just to be acoustic guitar players. I was hanging out a lot of the time with Leon Russell and Leon said he'd come and bring Don Preston, and Leon actually was very helpful in the song itself, "Bangla Desh." I kind of wrote the song, but he suggested to me to put, to write that intro, you know, where it kind of sets up the story.
Q: "My friend came to me. . ."
GH: Yeah, so, and then Leon of course played on the single, we quickly made the single to try and get it out on the radio before the show.
Q: How quick was it?
GH: We did it in one night, I think.
Q: Wrote it, recorded it?
GH: I wrote it, you know, one day, and a couple of days later assembled the people who played on it. And I was calling Eric all the time, Eric was in a bad way at that time, had a slight drinking problem or something, but he managed to make it eventually. But that's why we ended up with Jesse Ed Davis, because he was around and so we started showing him the songs we were going to do in case Eric never made it. And then Eric came, and we decided to have them both on, because you couldn't chase Jesse away.
Q: Those three guitarists on one show, it was terrific.
GH: Yeah, Don Preston as well, actually. He was Leon's guitar player. And then Bob. . .
Q: Now tell me, how did you get Bob? How did you get Bob out of seclusion up in New York state to come up and do the show?
GH: I just asked him really, and I don't know, my relationship with Bob is, I don't know, I've always just tried to be straight with him, because he's also been surrounded by a tidal wave of bullshit. And so, I just always tried to be straight with him and you know, he responded. The night before the show though, was a bit tricky, because we went down to Madison Square where they were setting it up and we stood on the stage and it suddenly was a whole frightening scenario. And Bob turned to me and he said, "Hey man, I don't think I can make this. I've got a lot of things to do in New Jersey," or something like that. And by that time I was so stressed out, because I'd just been on the telephone for like, I think it was three weeks, about three weeks of setting the entire thing up. I'd been on the phone about twelve hours a day. And at that point I said, "Look, don't tell me about that. At least you've been on stage on your own, that's all you've ever done. I've always been in a band, I've never stood out front and done that . . ."
Q: You had never done a tour before.
GH: ". . . so I don't want to know about that." And right up until he came on the stage, I didn't know if he was going to come.
Q: When the show began, you didn't know?
GH: Yeah, and I had on a list on my guitar and I had a bit where it said "Bob?" and if you look in the film, I turn around to see if he's around and he's so nervous that he's just coming on, even before I announced him.
Q: He hadn't been onstage in a long time.
GH: So, he delivered. And that really, I think, you know, it really made the show by having, you know, Ravi and myself is one thing, but Bob just gave it that extra bit of clout.
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I denote $p_k$ the $k^{th}$ prime number ($p_1=2$, etc...)
Clearly, for any $n\in \mathbb{N}^*$, $(\log p_k)_{1\leq k\leq n}$ is linearly independent over $\mathbb{Q}$.
My question concerns a possible generalization: is it true that for any $q,n\in \mathbb{N}^*$, $((\log{p_k})^q)_{1\leq k\leq n}$ is linearly independent over $\mathbb{Q}$ ?
I am of course interested in weaker statements : $q=2$, "for any $n$ there exists $q\geq 2$ such that..." or "there exists $q\geq 2$ such that for any $n$...".
I am not an expert in the field, sorry if this is actually trivial.
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Schanuel's conjecture (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schanuel's_conjecture) implies the stronger statement that the logarithms of the primes are algebraically independent. I think statements like these are generally expected to be true but out of reach of current technology. – Qiaochu Yuan Dec 14 '11 at 16:46
Indeed, but I thought that this very particular case might be accessible. – Alex Dec 14 '11 at 16:49
The logs of the primes are linearly independent over the algebraic closure of the rationals, by Baker's theorem. In particular, this solves the case $n=2$ of your problem and variants involving only two primes. I am not sure that helps for the general case, though. Why do you want to know? Maybe a different result will be enough for you. – Felipe Voloch Dec 14 '11 at 18:19
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Monday, August 16, 2010
What fabric burns the fastest?
Today we did an experiment looking at how quickly different fabrics burn. The experiment is relevant to our lives in terms of the safest fabrics to wear in relation to fire resistance. Last week we had looked at fabrics and how easy or hard they are to tear or rip and explored some of the properties of various fabrics.
We discovered today that fabric that had polyster or nylon often took the longest to burn but melted slowly and gave off toxic smelling black smoke and this would not be an ideal fabric to be wearing in the event of a fire. Silk was very hard to ignite and melted around the edges and quickly went out. Cotton burnt quickly but didn't melt. Flannelette burnt extremely quickly and we discussed that this fabric is often what children's pyjamas are made of. Acetate often used in lining of jackets and dresses burnt quickly and melted. We timed how long each piece of fabric took to burn and these results will be analysed in conjunction with our observations.
We had made a hypothesis before doing the experiment stating that "the finer the fabric the quicker it will burn"
Tomorrow we will write up the procedure, observations, results, graphs and conclusion as practice for doing our own investigations for the science fair.
1. hi, im might do this for a school project, what did u put the fabric in?
2. We made a cup shape out of tinfoil to burn the fabric in, and placed it on a baking tray. The experiment was done outside so as to stop smoke alarms going off. The cup shape stopped the wind putting out the flames. | <urn:uuid:f9d013b1-6418-4f4a-9371-7380610abd6c> | http://mrsmcdsclass.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-fabric-burns-fastest.html | en | 0.976678 | 0.092779 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
idmiddle on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:26:57 +0200
division by zero in intnum
I've been having trouble with intnum, and managed to distill it down to the following, which occurs in both 2.3.4 and the latest svn:
? intnum(r=[0.5,-1/2], 1, 1/sqrt(4*r^2-1))
*** at top-level: intnum(r=[0.5,-1/2],1,1/sqrt(4*r^2-1))
*** _/_: division by zero
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My environment: Centos 5.6, Asterisk with freepbx , skype i.e.sends message with parameter skype.sh skype_user message.
Now i wanted to send skype notification so that my asterisk server notification are sent to skype rather than email (or to both skype and email).
I know, there is voicemail.conf, voicemail_general and vm_email.inc, which has these body created.
emailbody=${VM_NAME},\n\nThere is a new voicemail in mailbox ${VM_MAILBOX}
But i dont see where is something like "mail" command.
What my thought to do is: instead of saying "mailcmd" pass system ( /path/to/script) and it would simply send message as rest is already configured.
Any suggestion where i could run script rather than sending email Or Executing script on every incoming call, so that i could send as notification on every call over the Skype. (however, ultimate goal is to achieve miss call notification or voice mail notification over Skype.)
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Ok, i found solution,
It was fairly simple while trying to run script.. with system(/path/to/script)..
previously it didn't work due to the conflicts among the context while trying to intercept freepbx routing with manual routing.
exten=> _.,1,NoOp(Incoming Call)
exten=> _.,n,System(/etc/asterisk/skype.sh CS 'Call From ${CALLERID(all)}')
As it would send notification on every Inbound hosted from same provider (or atleast with same context)
I wrote more to skip if its not certain DDI number.
exten=> _.,n,GotoIf($["${CALLERID(dnid)}" != "44xxxxxxxxxx"]?final)
exten=> _.,n,NoOp(Sending to PSTN Now)
exten=> _.,n,goto(from-pstn,${EXTEN},1)
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This might be helpful..
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i read through, and i will go again, but wont be easy to implement with existing queue or inbound. – tike Jul 9 '12 at 17:02
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Rapper Slams His Babysitter Online & She Slaps Him with a Lawsuit
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Rapper The Game has been slapped with what is being described as the first Instagram defamation lawsuit. He accused his former babysitter of all kinds of horrible actions, and then posted a picture of her on his Instagram account to his 1.1 million followers, and links to her social media accounts. The babysitter, Karen Monroe, says that ever since that, she has not been able to work, she is receiving death threats, and she can't sleep. The idea of warning other people about babysitters (or anyone, really) whom you feel has done you harm and may do others harm is very tempting in this world of instant communication, but it's also fraught with risk.
I won't repeat the allegations that The Game makes in his Instagram rant here, because if they are untrue, it's unfair to the babysitter. However, they are bad enough that they go beyond "she's not a good babysitter" and go into legally hot territory. He also makes it clear that he didn't experience all of these alleged infractions himself -- rather that he "heard" about them from other people.
Frankly, the amount of issues he has with his babysitter, and the seriousness of the charges, makes me wonder how she got past babysitting for his children for one day, let alone for the amount of time she would have had to have been working for The Game (real name: Jayceon Terrell Taylor) to have racked up all of these infractions. One of them alone would have been enough for most people to fire her.
He then goes into rumor territory -- saying how he heard she's doing this, that, and the other thing to other kids -- and some of the charges are truly outrageous and serious. Enough that her employment could be completely affected.
Additionally, he talks about another celebrity, Kelis, whom she is supposedly babysitting for, and then all of the terrible things she supposedly does to Kelis' kid. And he knows this ... how??
He ends his tirade by threatening her with physical violence.
Anyway, it all sounds like a big rant (which he since deleted) that may or may not have truth to it. But he believed she was a true danger to children, he should have called the authorities, or gone through more proper channels. And kept his review of her babysitting skills strictly to what he actually witnessed. Additionally, he could have called people whom she was working for and expressed his concern and shared his own experience.
Trolling through the rapper's Instagram and Twitter feed, it's clear his children are his life. So it's understandable that he got all "papa bear" about them. But you have to be careful what you write in public or you're just a word away from a lawsuit.
Have you ever reviewed a babysitter online?
Image via TheGame/Instagram
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Can Cats See Color?
Cats are not color blind!
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles not only did some research on this question, but actually demonstrated through images how cats see the world around them. Per their “results” they have determined that “Cats are not color blind – they have the ability to distinguish between blues and greens, but lack the ability to pick out shades of red.”
Cats, like humans, have two primary structures in the retina of the eye for perceiving light: rods which help us see light and dark areas, and cones which have pigments to detect particular wavelengths of light. At low light intensities, rods function to distinguish light from dark. You may notice that you see little color in dim light. At high intensities of light the rods do not function, however, the cones do. Humans have three kinds of cone pigments, ones that can detect red, green and blue light. It’s no coincidence that we find these same colors in the screen of an average color-TV set. The ability of an organism to see in “color” thus depends upon the color receptors present in the retina. People (or animals) lacking a specific color receptor are unable to “see” that color. Most often, it appears greyish, or as one of the other colors that can be detected (i.e. purples appearing greyish-blue). Green color-blindness is the most common genetic form of color-blindness in humans, followed by red, then blue.” | <urn:uuid:3f8650bb-69ae-4882-91de-4dee90c04ac5> | http://tica.org/blog/?tag=eyes-of-cats | en | 0.945017 | 0.147112 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Energy 101: Geothermal Heat Pumps
The geothermal heat pump system is an energy-efficient heating and cooling alternative. It moves heat from the ground to a building, or from a building to the ground, through a series of flexible pipe "loops" containing water. This edition of Energy 101, from the U.S. Department of Energy, explores the benefits of geothermal and the science behind how it all comes together. | <urn:uuid:f2c32da9-7852-4f10-afdf-8bf67f72ff51> | http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ge-heat-pumps | en | 0.922422 | 0.09814 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
You can't, and mustn't, deny that the allure of the sci-fi convention is the novelty of meeting and greeting the faded crushes and fallen icons of decades past. It's a kick to shake the hand of Adam West or listen to Maud Adams and Tanya Roberts swap Bond-age stories or watch Traci Lords try to dodge the guys who want her to sign bootlegged reminders of her illicit past. For a few hours, these celebs--some major players in lucrative franchises, some bit parts in the occasional made-for-airplane movies--are trapped in suburban convention centers, and they're yours for the right price: $20 for a signature on a color photo, with a little fan-friendly chitchat thrown in gratis. Such is the blessing and curse of being affiliated with a sci-fi series: Your signature's worth something to someone in some town every weekend, and damned is the fool who passes up... More >>> | <urn:uuid:6ac93ff3-4800-48a4-a205-bcd4d23c1fc1> | http://www.dallasobserver.com/photoGallery/index/283996/0/ | en | 0.9358 | 0.123976 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
By Garth Franklin
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In terms of kung fu action 'Crouching' has easily set an entirely new standard to which new films will be compared. Make no mistake though, this isn't an action film - rather Ang Lee has created a live-action version of a centuries old Chinese fable about two women, a fable which is very drama/romance oriented.
Looks wise this is a truly beautiful movie with amazing locations and intriguing light making each shot as rich as an oil painting. The performances are just as rich too with Zi-Yi doing a star making turn as the main heroinne, whilst Michelle Yeoh gets to show of not only her considerable fighting skills intact but also just how graceful and dignified she can be - a true class act of a lady. Sadly the guys don't do as well, Yun-Fat fills the dignified role easily though is almost too cold throughout the film until the end, whilst Chen does OK but isn't the most interesting of characters.
One of the reasons this'll have difficulty crossing over to Western audiences is that about 80% of the movie is dialogue heavy (ie. lots of subtitle reading) conversations held by people just sitting around in stark rooms - very slow and very serious with almost no jokes to lighten the mood. The pace is very schizophrenic with a repeating cycle of about 20 minutes of drawn-out conversations, followed by a 10 minute burst of intense and gripping action/fighting before it repeats over and over again - each one never mixing as well as they probably should.
As a result tension and intensity comes in a series of spurts rather than slowly building up toward a big ending like in most movies - so the ending feels like a bit of an anticlimax. Nevertheless for those who can appreciate foreign films and don't mind pacing that much, the story itself is quite intriguing with an interesting twist or two along the way but feels overly long. The musical score mostly plays the same tune over and over again which becomes irritating.
Now we come to the action and all I can say is HOLY COW. There'll be lots of comparisons to "The Matrix" as it had fast kung fu and opponents able to do tall leaps on occasion, but 'Crouch' goes far beyond it. For starters throughout the scenes each opponent defies gravity pretty much every second, whether it be leaping from rooftop to rooftop on one jump or flying down the faces of hundreds of metre high waterfalls.
Because its a fable, the gravity-defying spins and leaps actually fit with the story and give it a magical tone though as it progresses they take it a bit too far (eg. a battle scene amongst the trees near the end seems to overdo it). Then there's the fighting itself which is intense - easily 2-3 times faster than the Matrix and it flows far more naturally (you believe the moves are spontaneous whereas a lot of Keanu's tricks felt rehearsed).
Combined with a variety of weapons and you get some really good scenes - the highlights being the big rooftop chase scene between a thief and Yeoh (the first action sequence of the movie), and a REALLY intense fight between Zi-Yi and Yeoh in a training shrine about 2/3 of the way in. That last scene is about ten minutes long, extremely fast and is arguably one of the most brutal one-on-ones caught on film.
Despite a few potential difficulties to translate over to Western audiences, this is one of those films (like "Run Lola Run") last year which should do big business worldwide. It's a truly glorious production which deserves the praise it gets and is a must see on the big screen. Ang Lee has brought an ancient legend alive in one of the year's best. | <urn:uuid:1826f25b-6d6e-4a43-9551-d76f6db3c369> | http://www.darkhorizons.com/reviews/198/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon | en | 0.963336 | 0.180433 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |