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Explore Aspect Oriented Programming with CodeIgniter
Practical Cross-Cutting Concerns
First, let’s take a look at some of the cross-cutting concerns that can be found in almost every web application.
Logging is one of the most essential functions in a web application since it allows us to trace the code execution flow. When a bug occurs in a live application, we cannot change any code to identify the bugs. Log files are often the only available resource for finding these bugs.
Writing log messages to a file or to the database is the most commonly used method. The information you write to the log may vary depending on the type of application and the logic you’re logging. Some generic points worth capturing are entering into functions, returning from functions, and returning with errors.
function addPost() {
$log->writeToLog("Entering addPost");
// Business Logic
$log->writeToLog("Leaving addPost");
If we think from AOP perspective, the above situation is equal to both before and after advices. Hence around advice would be most suitable for logging.
Authentication and Authorization
Authentication is the process of identifying the validity of a user inside the system. We often use a username and password at a basic level for authentication. Authorization is the procedure of validating access to specific sections in the system. We need to apply both authentication and authorization in many applications.
function addPost() {
// business logic
Authentication and authorization are generally required at the beginning of the business logic. First the user should be logged into the system and then he should have the necessary permission to add posts. These are cross-cutting concerns since they have to be applied to certain set of methods. We would require before advice in the AOP context for Authentication and Authorization.
Transaction Management
Transaction management ensures the consistency and integrity of the data in your database. Consider a situation where you have multiple dependent functions that saves the data to the database inside a single process. If one function fails and the others execute successfully, your database will be corrupted. Hence it’s important use transaction handling in every application.
function addPost() {
// Business logic
catch (Exception $e) {
We commit the data when all of the function calls are successfully completed, and have a rollback operation if something fails. In the AOP context, it will be before advice, after advice and after throwing advice respectively. Before and after advices are common in most AOP frameworks. After throwing advice can be found in advanced AOP frameworks.
How AOP Works
AOP is still not popular in the PHP community, but full-featured AOP frameworks are available for languages like JAVA. In AOP we have the core business logic class on one side and aspects on the other side. These aspects can be applied to core classes at compile time or run time. Frameworks like AspectJ applies AOP at compile time. Since PHP is an interpreted language, we don’t have to worry about applying AOP at compile time, and so it makes more sense to apply AOP at runtime.
As you can see, the core logic and cross-cutting concerns are separated using two PHP classes. Then the AOP framework combines both core and aspect classes at runtime and creates a dynamic proxy class. Dynamic classes contain the advice function calls before and after the actual method class.
There are two types of techniques commonly used in combining aspects with core logic: XML-based configuration and annotation-based configuration.
In XML-based configurations, all the AOP rules for applying cross-cutting concerns are documented in a XML file.
In annotation-based configurations, the rules are defined in-line with the actual methods using annotations. We can use a predefined document comment structure to replace annotations in PHP.
Why CodeIgniter
You might be wondering why I chose CodeIgniter to explain AOP since it doesn’t provide any support for AOP functionality. I did so on purpose to create basic AOP functionality from scratch to help you better understand the concepts and process. If I choose a framework with AOP support, then I would only be able to explain the rule structures and how it works. You wouldn’t be able to apply your knowledge to new AOP frameworks since you don’t understand the basics. Since we are creating everything from scratch here, you’ll be able to adapt to any new framework without much hassle, or even create your own AOP framework someday.
CodeIgniter hooks is another reason which prompted me to choose this particular framework. When a method is called you have to create the proxy class. In AOP frameworks this process is not visible and very complex and hard to explain. CodeIgniter hooks allow us to trigger custom code at certain predefined hook points. Using this, we can trigger custom code on each method call and thus execute AOP functionality. I won’t create proxy classes since creating such functionality requires a lots of coding and is beyond the scope of this tutorial.
Using CodeIgniter Hooks
The CodeIgniter website explains that the hooks feature “provides a means to tap into and modify the inner workings of the framework without hacking the core files.” You can enable hooks by setting the enable_hooks parameter in the config file to true.
There are list of predefined hook points available, but I am just going to explain the hooks necessary for our application. They are:
• pre_controller – called immediately prior to any of your controllers being called
• post_controller – called immediately after your controller is fully executed
Let’s setup a hook to call custom code.
$hook["pre_controller"] = array(
"class" => "AOPCodeigniter",
"function" => "applyBeforeAspects",
"filename" => "AOPCodeigniter.php",
"filepath" => "hooks"
Place the above code in the hooks.php file in the config directory. Then create the AOPCodeigniter class in the application/hooks folder. Now each time a request is made, the class’ applyBeforeAspects() method will be called before the actual controller method. This is will enable us to combine before advices with core logic (in an actual AOP framework, this will be done using the proxy class).
We can use the following code to apply after advices in the same manner as the above code:
$hook["post_controller"] = array(
"class" => "AOPCodeigniter",
"function" => "applyAfterAspects",
"filename" => "AOPCodeigniter.php",
"filepath" => "hooks"
In this part of the series we’ve learned how to identify where AOP can be used considering practical scenarios of real projects, and I have introduced CodeIgniter as a context for creating basic AOP functionality. Now that we have completed the theoretical sections, in the next part I’ll show you how to use both XML and annotation-based methods to create your own rules structures and how to process those rules to apply advices.
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• http://zenshadow.com Trevor Geene
Another great article. I have to admit some of it is a little over my head due to lack of necessity so far in my career, but this is giving me a lot of food for thought on future project that I will face. Looking forward to part 3.
• http://github.com/dublinan Andre Dublin
Instead of using hooks, couldn’t we use a Parent Model or Controller that has a method which accepts the name of the class and method we want to instantiate and call?
class BASE_Model extends CI_Model
public function join_point($class, $method, $data)
$join_class = new $class();
class Child_model extends BASE_Model
$data = 'Hey log me!';
$this->join_point('aop_model', 'log', $data);
class AOP_model extends BASE_Model
public function log($data)
echo $data;
• http://github.com/dublinan Andre Dublin
And it would be probably better to pass the called class by reference as it is done in the system/core/codeigniter.php file when it loads the Hook class
$join_class =& new $class();
or use the common.php method
https://github.com/dublinan/CodeIgniter/blob/2.1-stable/system/core/Common.php line 121
https://github.com/dublinan/CodeIgniter/blob/2.1-stable/system/core/CodeIgniter.php line 121
• http://www.innovativephp.com Rakhitha Nimesh
You can use something like the above code without using hooks. But how can we define the rules for applying cross cutting concerns. Which methods to apply rules which method not to apply rules.
Can you please explain further.
• http://github.com/dublinan Andre Dublin
Ah, I understand what you mean by defining the rules. My approach seems to be more arbitrary. However in the previous article it, I may have misread it, but the advices looked as if they were arbitrarily set. However they do follow some terminology to establish their placement in the software life cycle. If my method seems to break the rules, please tell me what I’m missing here :)
• http://www.innovativephp.com Rakhitha Nimesh
In your code you have included the log method call directly inside the class. Is it going to be inside the constructer or specific function. Not clear about the code. Please explain.
Actually the rules will be disscussed on the final part of this tutorial series. Once it is published you can provide your way of doing that and we can continue the disscussion :)
• http://github.com/dublinan Andre Dublin
Excellent I look forward to the third installment.
• Alex Gervasio
Hey Rakhitha,
I really enjoyed this second post on AOP. Nice work indeed. While I have to admit I’m not a strong advocator of CI, the examples using hooks do make a pretty valid point, as they show in a pretty clear fashion how to keep classes doing just what they meant to be, while keeping all the aspect-related implementation neatly separated, hence adhering to the SRP commandments.
Just for “further reading”, FLOW3 http://flow3.typo3.org/documentation/guide/partiii/aspectorientedprogramming.html is perhaps the only full-stacked PHP framework with a pretty solid AOP implementation currently running behind the scenes. Not only it packages all the AOP shebang, but combines it in a fairly seamless fashion with OOP and the nuts and bolts of Domain Driven Design.
• http://www.innovativephp.com Rakhitha Nimesh
Hello Alex
Thanks for the comment. Feels great to get such comment on my article from an expert like you.
Codeigniter may not be the most optimized way of using AOP functionality. But I think it will help the beginners to get familiarize with basics of AOP. I hope they understand the concept as well.
I haven’t had the chance to use the features of FLOW3 framework yet. I have heard that its the best available at the moment for AOP functionality. Looking forward to learning FLOW3 soon.
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Valley Fever in People
Valley Fever derives its name from its discovery in the San Joaquin Valley of California, where it was also referred to as "San Joaquin Valley Fever" or "Desert Rheumatism."
The medical name for Valley Fever is coccidioidomycosis (often shortened to "cocci" caused by the fungus Coccidioides spp. (C. immitis, C. posadasii)
Area of Distribution:
1. Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
2. San Joaquin and Central Valleys of California
3. Southern Arizona (especially in the Phoenix and Tucson areas).
4. Southern parts of Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Western Texas (especially around El Paso)
5. Mexico (in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua).
6. Also found in semiarid and arid soils of Central and South America.
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Richard Finch (musician)
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Richard Raymond Finch (born January 23, 1954) is an American composer, producer, engineer, and song arranger. He is best known as the co-founder, producer and former bass guitar player of KC and the Sunshine Band. Along with Harry Wayne Casey, he co-wrote six No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Finch's family moved to Hialeah, Florida, when he was an infant. His favorite group growing up was The Beatles. His musical tastes grew to include soul and country and western music. In his early teens, Finch got his first electric bass guitar and began to figure out country music bass lines. He joined several country bands before joining the band Ball & Chain.[1] Finch became interested in audio recording techniques and a schoolmate introduced him to the singer-songwriter Clarence Reid from TK Records. Finch started truanting from high school and spending every free moment at TK Records and eventually was hired as a part-time recording engineer for the label. Henry Stone and Clarence Reid introduced him to Harry Wayne Casey, three years his senior, who worked in the shipping department. Prior to his introduction to Casey, Finch had already established himself at TK as a skilled engineer, with over 127 singles recorded before the age of 17 (including various tracks for the Allman Brothers and Mother’s Finest).[citation needed]
Within weeks of meeting, the Finch/Casey songwriting collaboration began, with their first hit song recorded by Betty Wright and George McCrae ("Where Is the Love" and "Rock Your Baby"). Finch then assembled the future Sunshine Band members, utilizing his already-established friendships with TK session musicians, the guitarist Jerome Smith and the drummer Robert Johnson. The Finch/Casey collaboration produced numerous hits, including, "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", "Get Down Tonight", "Please Don't Go", "Boogie Shoes" and "I'm Your Boogie Man".
Legal issues[edit]
On March 23, 2010, Finch was arrested in Newark, Ohio, accused of having sexual contact with a 17-year-old male. Police stated that during an interview, he admitted to having sexual contact with that teen,[2] and other teens aged 13 to 17.[3] According to Ohio Law, "inappropriate sexual contact" can include any form of touching, including hugging, if the person hugged finds the gesture offensive.
At his bond hearing on April 6, 2010, Finch entered a plea of not guilty to all charges.[4] However, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment. He is currently serving his sentence in Chillicothe Correctional Institution, a medium-security state prison in Ohio.[5]
Finch is a multi-Grammy Award winner and was nominated in the 2010 first round Grammy ballot as producer. He is the recipient of an American Music Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In October 2010, Finch became a nominee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1. ^ "Richard Finch Biography". Retrieved February 10, 2009.
2. ^ Jarman, Josh (March 24, 2010). "Co-founder of KC and the Sunshine Band arrested on sex charges". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
3. ^ "Richard Finch, KC and the Sunshine band co-founder, admits having sex with boys aged 13 to 17", New York Daily News, March 25, 2010
4. ^ Martinez, Edecio (April 7, 2010). "Richard R. Finch: KC and the Sunshine Band Founder Pleads Not Guilty to Sex with Boys". CBS News.
5. ^ "Offender Search Detail: Richard R Finch". Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
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Billion-Year-Old Water Preserved in Canadian Mine
The ancient water contains chemicals that could support life without sunlight.
Water filters out of the floor of a Canadian mine.
Pockets of water trapped in rocks from a Canadian mine are over a billion years old, and the water could contain life forms that can survive independently from the sun, scientists said this week.
The ancient water was collected from boreholes at Timmins Mine beneath Ontario, Canada, at a depth of about 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers).
"When these rocks formed, this part of Canada was the ocean floor," said study co-author Barbara Sherwood Lollar, an Earth scientist at Canada's University of Toronto.
"When we go down [into the mine] with students, we like to say imagine you're walking on the seafloor 2.6 billion years ago."
Working with U.K. colleagues Chris Ballentine and Greg Holland, Sherwood Lollar and her team found that the water was rich in dissolved gases such as hydrogen and methane, which could provide energy for microbes like those found around hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean.
In addition, the water contained different rare gases that include the elements helium, neon, argon, and xenon, which were created through interactions with the surrounding radioactive rock. By measuring the concentrations of isotopes of these "noble gases"—so called because they rarely interact with other elements—the team could estimate how long the water had been trapped underground and whether it had been isolated.
Depending on the noble gas analyzed, the age estimates for the water varied between 1.1 billion years old and 2.6 billion years old—or as old as the rocks in the mine itself.
"It shows us that there's been very little mixing between this water and the surface water," Sherwood Lollar said. "What we want to do with further work is see if we can narrow that [age range] down."
Teeming With Life?
Geologists have long known that a lot of water can be present in continental crust, locked away in microscopic voids in minerals, pore spaces between minerals, and veins and fractures in the rock. But what's been unclear is the age of such water, said geochemist Steven Shirey, a senior scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
"The question is how old is it? Is it water that's part of current circulation with surface water? Or is it water that retains old chemistry and potential biota?" said Shirey, who was not involved in the study.
The new findings, detailed in this week's issue of the journal Nature, is evidence that ancient pockets of water can remain isolated in the Earth's crust for billions of years.
"That's the really exciting part about this study," Shirey said.
Sherwood Lollar and her team are testing the mine water to see if they can find evidence of living microbes. If life does exist in the water, she said, it could be similar to microbes previously found in far younger water flowing from a mine located 1.74 miles (2.8 kilometers) beneath South Africa.
Those microbes could survive without light from the sun, subsisting instead on chemicals created through the interactions between water and rock.
Such "buried" microbial communities are rare, and fascinating for scientists because they are often not interconnected.
"Each one of them may have a different age and a different history," Sherwood Lollar said. "It will be fascinating for us to look at the microbiology in each of them ... It'll tell us something about the evolution of life and the colonization of the subsurface."
Expanding Horizons
The Timmins Mine water could also help scientists understand how much of the subsurface of the Earth is actually inhabited by life. The answer to that question has implications for life on other planets, such as Mars, scientists say.
"It opens up your horizons for what's possible," Shirey said. "If you think that you can have microbial life throughout the entire crust of the Earth, then all of a sudden it becomes very possible that life could live on other planets under the right condition."
That raises questions about potential life in relatively warm rock located beneath the cold surface of Mars, where liquid water could still exist.
"We're looking at billion-year-old rock here and we can still find flowing water that's full of the kind of energy that can support life," Sherwood Lollar said.
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Cedega Linux Revives Linux Gaming
What's In a Name?
July 6, 2004
On June 22, TransGaming announced the release on WineX 4.0, renaming it Cedega Linux. As a rule, I'm skeptical of vendors' claims for their products, but Cedega Linux lives up to its billing: it takes Linux gaming into new territory and puts Linux gaming back on the map. In short, Cedega is fine wine, indeed!
TransGaming renamed WineX "Cedega," which is more conventionally known as a grape used to make Port wine and which enables TransGaming (and columnists) to engage in lots of wordplay. The name change reflects significant changes and improvements in the product:
• Support for DirectX 9.0
• Support for high-performance pixel and vertex shaders
• A new version of the Cedega user interface, Point2Play
Without going into the gory details, Cedega makes it possible to run Windows programs, specifically, Windows games, on a Linux system without having to have copy of Windows installed. Cedega provides all of the necessary Windows functionality because it dynamically links Win32 API calls to native Linux code.
You might think of Cedega as being a "port" of the Windows gaming API to Linux. Supported Win32 APIs include Direct3D for 3D graphics, DirectInput for mouse, keyboard, and joystick input, DirectSound for audio, and so forth.
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Bill C-11 Scheduled For Third Reading at the Senate Today
1. Royal Assent
Gets Royal Assent but when does it actually become into law?
Can’t wait to start hiding on the Internet, time to go dark!
2. Perhaps the ink on paper will not have time to dry before more concessions are annotated from the TPP.
3. Wait… what?
I thought it passed the third reading last week.
Not that it matters. The conservatives want to push this through entirely unaltered, and with their parliament majority, they can do it without needing to worry about any opposition.
When the bill becomes law, *EVERY* person in Canada that simply uses any form of content with a digital lock will be breaking the law… simply by remembering what they saw or heard, since the memories in a person’s brain could be argued to be a type of analog “copy” of the work, and have thus effectively bypassed the digital lock copy protections. C-11 contains no exceptions for making analog copies of digitally locked products, and contains no exceptions even for personal use copies (which is what memories could be argued to be), so it stands to reason that simply remembering something that happens to be protected by digital lock makes you a criminal.
Not that I expect they would enforce it in such a case… it’s absurd to think that they would, but is it not equally absurd that such an act should even be technically illegal in the first place?
4. Where’s the Supreme Court of Canada in all of this?
If this Bill has some things in it that are uncon-
stitutional, can they not step in at any time?
Bill C-11 is very one sided.Most power being given
to the big music companies, but very little
given to the artists and consumers.
Is this true?
And this is just totally unfair, showing
the Cons did nothing to help musical artists.
5. aaaaaaahhhhhh!
Yet another day of feeling powerless.
6. Wrong.
the bill went by second reading and wont become law until after the fat cats return form summer vacation at end of summer….
ALSO to get around the backup issue just download a already cracked dvdr that someone else not in your nation broke the lock on and is giving you an iso to rebuild …after all until that set a files is burned there is no protection and the rcmp state they arent going after non commercial file sharing ( how they know the difference is anyone’s guess and such laws are against the charter too bad geist sold out after the conservatives and there buds sued him….)
yup we dont need no stinking lawyers and cause you listened to him and cory you get what you deserve.
no they all get a 2 month vacation during the summer
thus it wont become law till later an di hear that the second is does there are two charter lawsuits waiting….
the other idea and proof of one charter violation is that if everyone had a store bought dvdr and ripped a back up to there hard drive that violates the encryption rules then you get a 5000$ fine if you turn yourself in , and when you do that say your not willing to pay the fine…..and you don’t want bail….think of the economic chaos that occurs when 6-8 million Canadians are jailed over the a few days ….no doubt in my mind every judge in the land is scared shitless of we the people doing that….
it would be akin to 8 million people turning themselves in for a gram a pot that gets you a year in prison with the new crime omnibus bill that passed….
8 million people not paying any taxes , 8 million people that have to be housed fed and looked after….cant be done….
the question is are you like me willing to take a few days of your life to really stop this law….if not shut up and suck hollywood cock
7. @anono
What have most people really done to try and
stop this Bill C-11 from becoming law? I’ve
signed a couple of petitions, including the one
I had posted links from this site, regarding
the impact this bill would have on everyday
citizens who use the internet. I hardly ever
got a like, or response from the people that
I know.
Yes, if more people were willing to stand up
and do like what they did in the US, shut down
websites for a day etc this bill could have
potentially been shot down. Instead, the Con-
servative MP’s who received the tens of thousands
of complaints against C-11 went ignored.
8. You did a good job Mr. Geist. Thanks again. Can’t always stop a trainwreck, but at least now we know about it.
9. I’m not a lawyer; maybe someone who is can tell me if I’m on the right track as to how a constitutional challenge would proceed. I’m guessing that the argument will be that given that C-11 derives its authority from the federal government’s copyright power (if it doesn’t then it’s unconstitutional on its face), then the anti-circumvention provisions have to be subject to standard copyright principles such as fair dealing and copyright misuse, no matter how much the text of the bill explicitly claims that those principles don’t apply in cases of TPM circumvention. Then what we would consider “evil” uses of TPMs, such as locking out third-party software on smartphones and game consoles, or the cartel-like policies of the DVD and Blu-Ray licensing bodies, could be challenged as copyright misuse the first time a Canadian is sued for unlocking a smartphone or for distributing a Linux Blu-Ray player. | <urn:uuid:70f57b57-e151-4887-81b7-7d14f95db30f> | http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2012/06/c-11-third-reading-senate/ | en | 0.962299 | 0.331167 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Money Matters - Simplified
5 Tips for Credit Card Management
Here’s how to ensure that your credit card works for you and does not become a liability.
Avoid many cards: Though having many cards with no balances help improve your credit score, it could prove counter-productive
With their tremendous financial benefits, credit cards have revolutionized the American way of life. Their universal application has done away with the need to carry cash or sign check books for every single purchase. But their successful application calls for certain precautions.
1. Analyze your Needs
Always opt for a card that will be used over the years. Avoid store cards. Majority of them have introductory offers to dazzle you, but eventually it turns out that these cards offer low credit limit at high interest as compared to ordinary cards.
Experts say that it is beneficial to have two cards. One can handle the day to day purchases and other for big ticket purchases. This will help you keep track of your expenses.
2. Awareness about Card Company’s Policies
Read the terms and condition while applying for a card. This will give you the idea about the customer policies with regard to late payments etc. Do inquire as to when the interest rate is replaced by default rate and ensure that the default rate is universal.
3. Pay on Time
Pay the entire amount due, on time. This aspect is not much publicized by the credit companies that make money on the interest you pay. If you pay late, the credit score falls down. Credit score represents your credit worthiness.
To improve the score, keep your balance below 30 percent of your credit limit. Ensure this by avoiding the items that you cannot afford (emergency being an exception).
4. Track your Spendings
Maintain a check register, or log into your account frequently, at the issuer's Web site. Check your balance by using software like Microsoft Money or Quicken. These personal finance software download all transactions automatically.
Ensure that all, on - time payments are reported. This improves your credit card score.
5. Avoid Many Cards
Though having many cards with no balances help improve your credit score, it could prove counter-productive. There may be instances where you are tempted to use them unnecessarily or at times they can become unmanageable. In such a scenario, it is always beneficial to close accounts, otherwise they will go out of hand. | <urn:uuid:23a9d5ec-a912-48a2-a7fa-99c43377d5fd> | http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20090618/5-tips-credit-card-management-id-1072886.html | en | 0.946129 | 0.09143 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
National Labor Relations Board v. Bradford Dyeing Association/Opinion of the Court
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Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
310 U.S. 318
Argued: and Submitted March 26, 27, 1940. --- Decided: May 20, 1940
The Circuit Court of Appeals declined to decree effective enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board upon the ground that the Board's order, in material respects, rested upon findings that were not supported by substantial evidence. 1 Cir., 106 F.2d 119.
In its petition for certiorari, the Board took sharp issue with the Court of Appeals, asserting that some findings upset by the court were supported not merely by substantial but by 'uncontradicted' and 'undisputed evidence.' The petition also pointed out that the court's opinion was 'ambiguous and inconclusive' and 'left unclear the court's holding as to whether the Board had jurisdiction.' Our inspection of the court's opinion and decree disclosed that the court deemed the Board to be wholly lacking in jurisdiction. Nevertheless, the Board was ordered to proceed in accordance with the opinion which concluded with the indecisive statement that 'if the case should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction' a large part, but apparently not all, of the Board's order should be vacated. The court's decree did not direct enforcement even of those parts of the Board's order not expressly vacated. The Board's petition further pointed out that its motion for rehearing in order to clarify the question of its jurisdiction and to establish the status of 'those portions of the Board's order which the court neither vacated nor enforced' was denied without explanation. Because the Labor Board's petition in challenging the action of the Court of Appeals thus raised questions of grave public importance affecting the administration of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq., and judicial review as provided in the Act, we granted certiorari. [1]
This proceeding was initiated upon charges filed by the Textile Workers Organizing Committee of the C.I.O. Thereupon, the Labor Board served a complaint and notice of hearing on the Bradford Dyeing Association (U.S.A.), respondent here.
In the complaint, it was alleged that respondent in order to discourage membership in the C.I.O., had discharged and refused to reinstate its employees, Edward Nelson and Percy Schofield, because of their affiliation and activities in the Textile Workers Organizing Committee of the C.I.O., (T.W.O.C.); respondent had dominated and supported the Bradford Dyeing Association Employees' Federation, a labor organization, and had refused to bargain collectively with its employees through the T.W.O.C. after a majority had selected it as their bargaining representative.
The Board's jurisdiction was unsuccessfully challenged on the ground that respondent's business involved no activities in or affecting interstate commerce within the meaning of the Act. And, answering, respondent alleged that Schofield was discharged because he smoked during working hours; 'that * * * Nelson was not discharged, that he was insubordinate and defiant, that he did not work and refused to work during the times when he was supposed to be working, that he was on the premises during hours when he was not supposed to be on the premises of respondent and was taking up the time of other employees who were supposed to be working during such time, that * * * Nelson went upon a vacation and has not returned to work after such vacation nor made any statement of his readiness to return to work or made any request that he be put to work again'; that respondent had not dominated or coerced the Federation; and that any labor disputes at its plant were attributable to the conduct of the T.W.O.C.
After this hearing, the Board found that 'a labor dispute' in respondent's plant would widely affect 'the flow of commodities in interstate commerce', with consequent jurisdiction in the Board, and that the charges of the complaint had been substantiated.
The Board accordingly ordered respondent to cease and desist from (1) interfering, or coercing its employees in the exercise of their rights to self-organization; (2) dominating and interfering with the Federation or any other labor organization; (3) discouraging membership in the T.W.O.C.; (4) refusing to bargain collectively with the T.W.O.C.; and (5) ordered respondent affirmatively to offer reemployment to Schofield and Nelson and to make them whole, to withdraw all recognition from and completely disestablish the Federation, to bargain collectively with its employees through T.W.O.C., and to post the usual notices throughout its plant stating that the company would cease its unlawful and unfair labor practices and would treat its agreement with the Federation as of no effect.
In its final decree the Circuit Court of Appeals directed that 'until a new election has taken place by order of the Board, and the employees have expressed their preference as to what group or body shall represent them in any labor dispute between them and the respondent, the order of the Board except as to paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of the case and desist portion of the order, and the entire paragraph 5 ordering affirmative action shall be vacated, the Board then to proceed in accordance with (the opinion passed down this day).' (106 F.2d 125.) As phrased, the decree is not clear but apparently the court vacated subdivisions (4) and (5) of the Board's order. The court's opinion did make clear that under its decree the company was left free to bargain collectively with the Federation and to decline to bargain with the T.W.O.C. Discharges of Schofield and Nelson were approved and the company was released from publishing notices which, if warranted, were 'essential if the employees were to feel free to exercise their rights without incurring the company's disfavor.' [2] Although those portions of the Board's order prohibiting the company's interfering with its employees' union affiliations were not expressly set aside or modified, neither were they ordered enforced. [3] Thus the court's decree gave the Board's order no effect at all.
It did not explicitly so decree, but the Court of Appeals evidently was of the view that evidence was lacking upon which the Board could have found that respondent's business was in or affected interstate commerce. The court expressly found a lack of evidence to support the Board's conclusion that Schofield and Nelson were discharged for union activities and stated its belief that Schofield was discharged for smoking in the plant and Nelson for insubordination, and that 'the finding by the Board that the T.W.O.C. had a majority of the employees of the respondent signed up even to become members of a union under that name is without substantial evidence on which to rest.'
Without specifically passing upon the Board's finding that respondent had unlawfully dominated the Federation, the opinion of the court stated, '* * * Assuming that the president or officers of the respondent influenced its employees to join the Federation, so called, it does not appear by clear and substantial evidence that a majority of the employees ever joined, or indicated an intent to join, the T.W.O.C., * * *.' (Italics supplied.) Since the court did not vacate that part of the Board's order directing the company to discontinue domination of the Federation, we might infer that the court accepted the Board's finding that the Federation had been so dominated. But this inference is opposed by the court's action in vacating the order of disestablishment. The uncertainty in which the court has left the questions of jurisdiction and company domination of the Federation makes necessary a review of the evidence on both, along with other evidence which we think amply demonstrates the justification for the Board's order in every respect.
First. As to Jurisdiction.
A major portion of the opinion of the court below is devoted to its expression of doubts about the Board's jurisdiction, i.e., 'there is no substantial evidence to warrant a finding that the transportation of these materials by the respondent was ever in interstate commerce'; 'there is also lacking substantial evidence that 40 percent of the supplies consisting of chemicals and dyes, which were contracted for in Rhode Island and delivered by the sellers to the respondent's plant in Bradford, were transported by the respondent in interstate commerce, or that they were used by the respondent except at Bradford, though the Board assumed without evidence that they were shipped by the respondent in interstate commerce, but its assumption lacks substantial evidence on which to rest, that would compel this court to accept it as a fact'; 'The respondent, according to uncontroverted testimony, neither sells, transports nor arranges for transportation of the goods into or out of Rhode Island in interstate commerce, which is done in each instance by the customer, * * *'; and 'The Board apparently assumed that the respondent transported goods to its plant and from it, which the uncontroverted evidence disclosed were not the facts.' Referring to waste products which respondent sells in interstate commerce, the court noted that they did not 'exceed 1 percent of the total goods processed' and said that they were but 'a mere incident (of the business) and to which the maxim de minimis might well be applied, even by the National Labor Relations Board.' And the conclusions of the opinion were only stated subject to the condition 'If the case should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.'
There was evidence before the Board which showed:
'The Bradford Dyeing Association (U.S.A.), as stated by its president, is 'engaged in the dyeing and finishing of cotton, rayon and acetate piece goods.' These piece goods reach the plant at Bradford, Town of Westerly, Rhode Island, as unfinished 'gray Goods.' Customers of Bradford, known as 'converters', ship the gray goods to the plant, retaining title, and direct shipment of the goods when processed. Bradford owns no goods or means of transportation, and its customers pay the cost of transportation to and from the plant. A New York office is maintained, however, 'where * * * solicitors (who contact converters) make their headquarters', and advertisements are run in New York papers and trade journals. A majority of Bradford's (converters) are located in States other than Rhode Island, in Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Trenton, and principally in New York City. There are 'very few customers' in Rhode Island. In 1936, 57,000,000 yards of goods were processed and for the first six months of 1937, 29,000,000. About ninety per cent of all goods processed, the processing taking 'an average of between two and three weeks', are shipped out of Rhode Island. 'More than half' of the goods processed come from beyond the borders of Rhode Island.
'Incidental to its business of processing, respondent accumulates and acquires title to 'remnants' which are ends of cloth processed and goods damaged in processing. In 1936, 588,000 yards of remnants were sold by respondent, ninety per cent of which was shipped in interstate commerce. These remnants represented roughly 'just less than one per cent' of the yards processed in that year. For the same year, respondent purchased $355,856.00 worth of colors and dyestuffs, weighing over 235,111 pounds, of which forty per cent came from outside of Rhode Island. The company, during 1935, averaged 688 employees, with wages of $604,614.68, and its gross income from processing was $2,026,156.00. In 1937, the employees on the payroll were nearly 800.'
In its answer to the Board's complaint, the company contended that Nelson was not discharged April 3, 1937, but was merely 'laid off', and on April 2, 'went upon a vacation' and did not return or indicate a willingness to go back to work. However, the company insists, as it has throughout, that Nelson was not a diligent worker and was insubordinate; that he trespassed upon company property after work hours Thursday, April 1st; that 'one or two mornings that week he started work a little late and quit a little early'; that he did not start work Saturday, April 3, until 7:30, a half hour late.
'Prior to Saturday, April 3, 1937, when Nelson was 'laid off', he had worked for the company two years as a carpenter. He had become actively interested in organizing the employees in a C.I.O. union the preceding Monday, March 29, 1937. On that day, he had obtained three hundred and fifty T.W.O.C. cards from a fellow employee (Schofield), who, he heard, 'had some applications for joining the union, the C.I.O.' His distribution of the cards met with quick response and many signed so that on Friday, the company official 'who does all the hiring', approached him and said, 'You're a ringleader of the C.I.O., but you are not going to be fired for it.' Nelson refused to tell this official the names of his collaborators in forming the union and also told him he would not reveal their names to Mr. Summersby, the company's president and general manager. Later that day, Nelson observed Schofield talking with Summersby and was introduced to the latter as 'helping * * * (Schofield) to organize and get these pledge cards signed in the mill.' He was, that same day, Friday, refused admission to a meeting in Summersby's office between some employees and Summersby, but that afternoon, after work, he was called to Summersby's office. There Summersby asked 'why didn't we form a local union of our own' and 'thought it was a much better plan to form a local union.' And Summersby asked that the question of a local union be put up to a C.I.O. committee meeting to be held that night.
'All day Friday and Saturday morning, his foreman 'didn't speak one word to' Nelson. Saturday morning, April 3, this foreman asked him 'when (he) * * * intended to start work' but added that he 'didn't hold anything against' him. When Saturday's work was over, Nelson was sent for by Summersby, who was affable at first, but who became hostile when Nelson indicated he would not go along with a local union. Summersby then asked Nelson if he had been stealing on an occasion when he had returned to the plant after hours to get some T.W.O.C. cards, and asked him if he had begun work promptly that day (Saturday, April 3). Nelson was told by Summersby 'to take two weeks off and cool off.' Nelson insisted he was ready to go back to work Monday morning. His testimony narrated this conversation in part as follows
"Q. Did you ever go back after that for your job? A. No. I didn't. Mr. Summersby told me if I stepped foot on the premises within two weeks he was going to have me arrested.'
'Nelson never went back because a T.W.O.C. official who conferred with Summersby said Summersby would not take him back. This T.W.O.C. official and a Conciliator of the United States Department of Labor said Summersby wouldn't take Nelson back because 'there would be a question of his authority.' In fact, a fellow employee told Nelson that Summersby had said something about firing Nelson and Schofield and 'that he would find some way of getting around it.' On the morning of the day Nelson was fired he had spent a 'couple of minutes' telling other employees about a C.I.O. meeting of the previous night.'
From the testimony of the T.W.O.C. official in question, a T.W.O.C. Director for Rhode Island, Summersby would not rehire 'especially Mr. Nelson.' And Summersby himself stated that he told the Federal Conciliator, 'I couldn't take back either of them because it would break down the discipline of our plant.'
Nelson's foreman testified as a witness for respondent-
'On Friday, April 2, 'I could see that he (Nelson) was talking around more or less, and so I had him come in the shop to work on the trucks. I thought that would be the place where I could watch him better.' He saw Nelson talking to the men early on April 3, before work and until 7:30, although work begins at 7. He reported to his superior that Nelson was 'talking to different ones', and went with Nelson to Summersby who asked Nelson 'if he decided, on some question that they were talking about the afternoon before' * * * (Nelson) said, 'No,' and Summersby said, 'Well, then, if you can't give me a satisfactory answer on that I have thought it over and I have decided to lay you off for two weeks and let you think it over.' This foreman 'knew * * * (Nelson) was interested in the C.I.O., but * * * didn't know anything he said' to the men Saturday morning. On other occasions, he had seen Nelson start late or quit early without ever reporting the fact, and had seen Nelson talk around like that 'quite often' but 'this is the only time * * * (the foreman) ever got mad at him.' This time, he was aware that Nelson had been connected with the C.I.O. for the past week 'and * * * supposed he was still at it.' The foreman admitted that Nelson was 'a very good workman', that he may have worked between 7 and 7:10 on this particular Saturday morning and that on Saturday, April 3, Nelson, after having been spoken to, 'said he hadn't any feelings but what he would go on and do his work all right. And he did after that.' 'According to the Chief Engineer, who ranked above Nelson's foreman-
'Nelson previously 'did a whole lot of talking.' In his three years with the company, he had seen others talking but never laid any one else off for talking. In his view 'when men are talking with one another there is very little work done', but the foreman did not report the men to whom Nelson was talking on April 3, although they also were 'surely' wasting time. The plant rules do not forbid talking.
'Summersby, the president and general manager-
'On April 2, 'inquired as to who (Nelson) * * * was and what he did and if he had been active in the C.I.O. as an organizer.' Nelson, he stated, 'automatically forfeited his job' by not coming back at the end of his two weeks lay off, which was without pay. And if he should apply for work, his forced vacation 'would be on his record and would always be a black mark against him."
Third. Discharge of Schofield.
Schofield, a machine operator, or 'jigger', testified-
'On Saturday, March 27, 1937, he attended a C.I.O. meeting, obtained eight application cards for the C.I.O. and talked to some of his fellow employees about the C.I.O. All eight cards were signed that night. By Sunday, March 28, he had asked for and obtained seven hundred cards which he used during the following week, giving Nelson about one-half on Monday, March 29. By Wednesday, the cards gave out. On Friday, April 2, he and Summersby discussed certain difficulties with the piece work of 'jiggers.' Summersby, talking there in the plant, brought up the C.I.O. and said 'he couldn't see anything in an organization outside * * * (with) * * * big shots * * * running big automobiles and hotel expenses.'
'Summersby then suggested 'a union of our own in the stop.' Schofield attended a meeting in Summersby's office as a member of a committee of 'jiggers', and the subject of the C.I.O. arose again. Summersby said he wouldn't recognize an outside union. When Nelson attempted to enter this meeting, Summersby turned him away and referred to him as a 'troublemaker.' Sunday, April 4, there was a C.I.O. meeting at which Schofield and Nelson were both on the platform. Schofield went to work on Monday, the 5th, continuing to distribute C.I.O. cards. On Tuesday, the 6th, at 2:25 (Nelson had been 'laid off' on the 3rd), a 'charge hand' notified Schofield that Summersby wanted to see him 'in his office right away.' He left his work and went directly to the locker room to wash and change from work clothes. While there, he and two other employees were smoking. An official of the company-a boss dyer-whom he had never seen 'in the locker room, not while the men were changing their clothes'-caught Schofield smoking and said, 'So that's it, you damn fool.' Schofield then went to Summersby's office as he had been directed, but did not find him there. Summersby's first words, on entering the office about twenty minutes later, charged Schofield with smoking, but Summersby refused to tell Schofield why he had originally been sent for before he was caught smoking. Schofield was told to 'take a couple of weeks off.' He had been laid off once before for smoking.
'On the Friday before the Tuesday on which this employee would, he thought, have been taken back to work, a Federal Conciliator and C.I.O. officials conferred with Summersby about Nelson and him. The C.I.O. official told Schofield that Summersby refused to rehire either, and as a result he never went back. Although he 'wanted to go back the first week', he took the word of the Federal Conciliator and the C.I.O. official that he would not be rehired. The two other employees who were smoking when he was caught were not disciplined, although the accosting official could see them. Despite 'No Smoking' signs, it was the practice of the men to smoke on the sly. Other men have been laid off two weeks for smoking, but Nelson was caught and 'others' have been seen by foremen and no lay-offs resulted. Schofield didn't 'know of any one being discharged' for smoking. He was made T.W.O.C. local financial secretary.
'In the words of the C.I.O. official, 'Mr. Summersby saw red the minute I mentioned Schofield's and Nelson's names."
As told by the boss dyer who found Schofield smoking-
'This official had sent an employee to notify Schofield of Summersby's desire to see him; he himself went to the locker room to deliver the message. He asked one of the other employees in the locker room to remember the scene because he 'knew Percy Schofield's character.' It was his duty to detect smokers and he usually laid off, himself, any man found smoking. He had time to lay off Schofield while walking with him part of the way to Summersby's office, but he did not do so. 'It was a peculiar case and I wanted to think before I did anything.' This was the only case in which he had ever reported a smoker to a higher up. He had laid Schofield off for two weeks twice before, for smoking. In six or seven years, he had caught seven or eight smokers of whom, excepting Schofield, only one was discharged. He didn't go to the wash room 'very often.' 'A very short time before' he had heard that Schofield was somewhat active in the C.I.O.'
One of the fellow employees present in the locker-room where Schofield was found smoking, stated that he also had been smoking but was not doing so when the boss dyer came in, and that the third man was smoking at that time but wasn't observed. He got the impression, then, that the boss dyer said something to the effect that he at last 'had' Schofield after having been after him for some time. He 'had never seen * * * (the boss dyer) go to the locker room' before.
Summersby testified that he had been told by Schofield that he was 'interested in organizing the C.I.O.'; and that he discharged Schofield for smoking.
Fourth. Domination of the Federation.
A machinist, employed eleven years by respondent, testified-
'He attended a meeting in Summersby's office on April 6, the day of Schofield's discharge. Summersby 'said that he wouldn't recognize the C.I.O. and that it would be much better for us to join our own union than to be bothered by this C.I.O.' which would require the men to go out on sympathy strikes. This employee saw Federation cards and literature 'on the table' in the company's office. These were 'handed around' and one or two were picked up by the employees present; when Summersby and the vice president of the company left the room, the employees 'seemed to pick them up more frequently.' Temporary officers of the Federation were chosen there, in Summersby's office. A day or so later, the Federation met in the company's shipping room with one hundred and fifty to two hundred men present; Summersby addressed the meeting and said he would not recognize the C.I.O. and that it was better to have our own union. The machinist distributed in the plant the Federation cards which he had 'picked * * * up' in 'Summersby's office'; the Federation cards 'were there."
From testimony of other employees, it appeared that-
'At the meeting on the 6th (the day Schofield was discharged) in Summersby's office, Federation cards and circulars were seen, and an employee distributed these cards; Summersby said 'he would like to have this local union' and 'wouldn't recognize the C.I.O.' Three 'jiggers' had seen Summersby on April 5 about wages and conditions of employment; he 'thought it would be better if we had our own union' instead of paying outside fellows. 'Someone' suggested that cards be passed out for a local union. Word was passed out by fellow workers that the company would pay for time spent at the meeting in the shipping room, at which Summersby 'said he wouldn't recognize C.I.O. or A.F. of L., no outside union', that it would 'be better if we had a local union' instead of paying others to ride around in big cars and that 'he would not tolerate C.I.O.' Workers were seen passing out Federation cards in the plant during working hours. Pay was given for the half-hour spent in the shipping room meeting and this time was included by instruction of the 'boss of the frames.' Federation cards were passed out 'openly' by men on the day of the shipping room meeting. Bosses were seen with cards. One employee was given his Federation card by the boss of his department. Another was asked by his foreman whether he had joined the Federation.'
An employee testified-
'Summersby sent for him on April 6 (the day of Schofield's discharge). The paymaster came to his house for him and said he was glad that this man wasn't 'deep * * * in the C.I.O.', and took him to the office. There Summersby told him he was sorry that men in his line of work (in the gray room) had been left out of the meeting that morning in Summersby's office. This employee had told the men in the gray room that they shouldn't sign cards from a meeting at which they had not been represented. Summersby told him the C.I.O. would take money out of the plant and that a 'committee had gotten together * * * to form this local union, because he informed them that he wouldn't recognize the C.I.O., and they started to organize a union that he would recognize. He said he would recognize the local.' He and Summersby then went into the meeting in an adjoining office ('one is Mr. Pawson's (respondent's vice president) and the other is Mr. Summersby's'). A leader at this meeting in company offices and attended by Summersby, 'said a few of them got together and decided they didn't want a C.I.O., that they thought they would be better off if they had a local union, that they had a talk with Mr. Summersby, and Mr. Summersby wouldn't recognize the C.I.O., and rather than have trouble he was going to see if we couldn't have a local union.' Summersby 'explained advantages of the local union and spoke of the B.D.A."
Another employee supplied evidence that a week or two after Nelson was fired, the timekeeper took him to see Summersby, who asked about a C.I.O. card which had been on the back of this employee's car, and that Summersby then 'said he wouldn't recognize it' and could close the plant down.
The financial Secretary of the Federation stated-
'He was first given a temporary appointment at the meeting in Summersby's office, April 6, when Summersby said 'he didn't like the idea of bargaining outside.' The men present in the afternoon meeting in Summersby's office 'asked for the privilege of using the office to find out how we had made out on our cards.' The meeting in the shipping room was a day or so later. After the morning meeting in Summersby's office on the 6th, this temporary Federation official started passing out Federation cards for which Summersby had given permission. Federation circulars were posted on plant bulletin boards. Federation application cards were passed out by 'all of us that were in the office at that first meeting.' Officers of the Federation were subsequently elected (April 11). 'All us men who were in the office the first day, I think we acted as a committee.' Between April 6 and 11, Summersby permitted the temporary committee to meet in an old company office in the plant. The paymaster gave them a list of the men in the plant by which to determine the necessary fifty-one per cent. On April 9, prior to the election of the Federation's officers on the 11th, this temporary committee presented a letter to Summersby stating that they represented fifty-one per cent of the men. That same day, Summersby granted recognition to the Federation. This employee felt no need for organization, except for 'better feeling' which he thought 'was necessary because the C.I.O. was going to do the same thing.' He helped form the Federation 'partly' to stop the C.I.O., and because the C.I.O. had already started. A company car was used by him on one occasion for purposes of the Federation. Meetings of the executive committee of the Federation were held in a club room 'on property owned by the B.D.A.' This witness engaged as attorney for the Federation one who he knew 'had represented * * * (the company) on some cases'; he himself lives in a house owned by the company. Some Federation dues were collected on the company's premises; members were not suspended for dues delinquency and may also be members of any labor union or society. The Federation started about a week after the C.I.O. drive; it had no income of its own prior to the last week in April. Eventually it affiliated with an outside union still designated 'as the B.D.A. Employees' Federation' 'to bring a little more prestige and to prove to the ones that were skeptical, that we were not a company union."
The first vice president of the Federation testified-
'He negotiated recognition of the Federation, April 9, (three and six days respectively after discharge of Schofield and Nelson) as its acting president. On that day, he called a meeting of the organizing committee in 'the little office in the gray room', showed them that they had fifty-one per cent signed cards, and then went to Summersby's office. In Summersby's office, the witness and company officials counted the signed cards and checked them against a list of employees which Summersby asked the paymaster to get. The cards were not checked to see if each signer was eligible; the management took the temporary committee's word for it. And the cards were left with Summersby. The witness didn't know that the Federation planned to do anything that 'was any different' from what the employees prevously could have done by grievance committees. He had heard rumors that a boss had Federation cards or spoke to employees about them, and believed one man quit work as the result of posting C.I.O. handbills. He spoke at the shipping room meeting and asked Summersby to speak there. Summersby did speak. Along the lines of his conversation at the two previous meetings in his office, Summersby told this gathering of employees that he preferred a local and 'was not in favor of bargaining with the C.I.O."
T.W.O.C.'s State Director for Rhode Island stated-
'On April 7, he saw Summersby and told him T.W.O.C. had 'about seventy-five per cent' of the men signed. Summersby refused to say then that he would recognize T.W.O.C. April 16, the Director, a Federal Conciliator and a T.W.O.C. organizer saw Summersby again and were told by Summersby that 'he had a union' and wouldn't recognize the C.I.O. as he was 'afraid of an outside union.' It was agreed that he would hear from Summersby's attorney after the first (April 7) meeting, but he never heard. A form contract was submitted to Summersby on the 16th, but by that date 'he had definitely decided that he would refuse to bargain with the C.I.O."
According to the company's vice president-
'He was present part of the time at one of the meetings in Summersby's office on April 6, where cards and literature were present and a union was discussed. Summersby was heard to express the opinion 'that he would prefer to deal with a union of his own employees rather than to deal with outside influences."
One of the men present when Schofield was found smoking testified that a salaried employee who reports 'things which are done wrong' came around and asked everybody if he had joined the local union; at the meeting in the shipping room, Summersby said he would not recognize the C.I.O. but would recognize a local; the witness was paid for the fifteen minutes spent at that meeting; the men were told by the time-keeper that they would be so paid. An official of the Federation said, 'The impression was that Mr. Summersby probably wouldn't recognize' the C.I.O.; this official was 'one of the first' organizers of the Federation and conveyed to people the impression that Summersby wouldn't recognize the C.I.O.
As related by Summersby, president and general manager of respondent-
'A wage increase was announced March 31. After he met in his office on April 6, (the day of Nelson's discharge) with the committee of 'jiggers', later the same day he was asked for a place in which the Federation's temporary committee could meet. He answered the request by saying, 'You can have my office and make yourselves comfortable.' That afternoon, as he was ready to leave, the temporary committee met in his office and he was 'advised that they were organizing a local union * * *. I told them that I would grant them the same privileges I would grant any other union * * *.' Two days after recognizing the Federation, he placed and paid for an ad in a local paper, entitled 'The Strike that Failed' because in part, as he said, 'The B.D.A. Employees' Federation had formed and had taken the organization into their own hands, and had shown that they were still real citizens.' Respondent is owned by an English concern and a statement by him appeared in the local paper, on April 25, disclosing the possibility of the company's moving the plant out of the United States if there were to be 'labor uncertainties.'
'He recognized the Federation April 9, and on April 13, told the Federal Conciliator that an election could not be held, since the Federation had already been recognized. And on the 16th, Summersby told Salerno that his proposed T.W.O.C. contract would be taken up with Summersby's lawyer.'
Fifth. Designation of T.W.O.C. as bargaining agent.
The court below found no substantial evidence to support the Board's finding that a majority of respondent's employees joined the T.W.O.C., or that 'the T.W.O.C. * * * ever came into actual existence with authority to negotiate a contract with the respondent.' Much of the testimony already referred to bore upon the genesis of T.W.O.C. at respondent's plant.
'By April 4 he had 'four hundred and sixty-five or four hundred and sixty-seven' signed application cards 'marked down.' The cards were sent to Boston. A few men paid dues but collection was stopped. '* * * we had a majority of cards signed.' Dues are not collected until management grants recognition. No local C.I.O. (T.W.O.C.) entity had been formed for the plant; 'we had the fifty-one per cent, but this company union stuff and discharge and everything came along, and we have just had to wait for this hearing * * *."
Nelson stated that he told the timekeeper, on April 2, 'It's all over but the shouting * * *. We have well over sixty per cent signed up all ready.' And from the testimony of an officer of the Federation it appeared that the C.I.O. drive resulted in a number of signatures, and that both organizations could possibly claim fifty-one per cent of the employees signed up.
As explained by the T.W.O.C. State Director-
'A charter or local is unnecessary for membership in T.W.O.C.; no charter to a local is granted until after recognition. Members of the Federation are members in good standing of T.W.O.C., even if they have not paid dues or initiation fees. The T.W.O.C. cards were brought to him during the first week in April. Summersby, April 9, refused to agree to have the Federal Conciliator, or a third party, count the T.W.O.C. cards. Employees are eligible to membership in T.W.O.C., without formation of a plant local.'
The T.W.O.C. Director's Secretary stated that the T.W.O.C. cards were brought in before April 12. It was agreed at the hearing that, after respondent checked against the original signed cards, T.W.O.C. had a list of four hundred and eighty-two names taken from those cards. And it was stipulated that these cards were signed 'on or before April 10, 1937.'
Shift in membership.
Respondent has contended before the Board, as here, that if the T.W.O.C. did actually represent a majority of its employees on April 4 (as the Board found), a shift in membership had given the Federation a majority when the company on April 9 recognized it as exclusive bargaining representative. However, the Board found that 'the record is clear that, had it not been for the unfair labor practices of the respondent in organizing and fostering the Federation and in persuading, intimidating and coercing its employees to join the Federation and leave the T.W.O.C., the respondent's employees would have remained members of the T.W.O.C.' In view of the substantial support in the evidence for the Board's findings that the company intimidated and coerced its employees and dominated the Federation, the Board properly concluded that 'The unfair labor practices of the respondent cannot operate to change the bargaining representative previously selected by the untrammelled will of the majority.' [7] And, accordingly, the Board was justified in its finding 'that on April 4, 1937, and at all times thereafter, the T.W.O.C., pursuant to Section 9(a) of the Act, was the exclusive representative of all the employees in the appropriate unit for purposes of collective bargaining * * *.'
As one of the apparently alternative grounds of its decision, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared the Board without authority to order reinstatement of Nelson and Schofield because of so-called unlawful conduct and the alleged incitement of a 'sit down' strike within the meaning of the Fansteel case. [8] The opinion stated that 'Nelson even threatened truck drivers delivering materials to the plant with violence, and to destroy spur tracks over which materials were delivered to the plant. * * * The affirmative action that is authorized is to make these remedies effective in the redress of the employees' rights, to assure them self-organization and freedom in representation, not to license them to commit tortious acts or to protect them from the appropriate consequences of unlawful conduct. We are of the opinion that to provide for the reinstatement or reemployment of employees guilty of the acts, which it is not denied were committed in this instance, would not only effectuate any policy of the Act, but would directly tend to make abortive its plan for peaceable procedure.'
We find no such issue raised by respondent's pleadings before the Board. Respondent made request for special findings by the Board, but included none that Nelson and Schofield had been guilty of any unlawful conduct. Nelson categorically denied having made threats of violence. The court was apparently referring to the testimony of a truck driver which appears in the record. An objection of the Board's representative to the introduction of this particular testimony was overruled by the trial examiner when respondent's attorney made the following statement: 'If your Honor please, may I point out that while Mr. Nelson was on the witness stand in cross-examination I asked him if he did not say certain things at this time and place, that this witness has been referring to, which the witness Nelson denies. The testimony of this witness that Nelson did say those things is in contradiction of Mr. Nelson's testimony and is clearly admissible as tending to impeach the veracity of Mr. Nelson's testimony. Aside from that I also submit it as bearing on the type of conduct and the attitude of the representatives and organizers of this T.W.O.C. getting membership and conducting the affairs of this organization.'
This truck driver's helper testified that on the morning of April 8, after Schofield and Nelson had been laid off, he saw Nelson, Schofield and a third 'little fellow from the C.I.O.' 'outside the mill yard.' He noticed Nelson 'going up and down motioning * * * Going like this (illustrating by waiving arms, squatting and standing.)' As this truck driver recollected, Schofield was not 'doing anything.' 'If anybody was looking out the east door they could' see Nelson or Schofield moving their hands that morning; Nelson 'made a motion to sit down, that is all,' out 'on the main road going to the plant.' He 'couldn't say that' any workers would have seen Nelson; he 'couldn't say that, whether they could see out or not. I don't know.' An employee, not Nelson or Schofield, who 'went through the department shouting 'Sit-down strike," was taken for an automobile ride by the company's vice president, talked to, given lunch and sent home to bed without loss of pay and was still working for the company at the time of the hearing. When asked, 'You remember you said, 'Well, we can blow up the railroad?", Nelson answered, 'No, absolutely not.'
Congress has placed the power to administer the National Labor Relations Act in the Labor Board, subject to the supervisory powers of the Courts of Appeals as the Act sets out. If the Board has acted within the compass of the power given it by Congress, has, on a charge of unfair labor practice, held a 'hearing', which the statute requires, comporting with the standards of fairness inherent in procedural due process, has made findings based upon substantial evidence and has ordered an appropriate remedy, a like obedience to the statutory law on the part of the Court of Appeals requires the court to grant enforcement of the Board's order. Until granted such enforcement, the Board is powerless to act upon the parties before it. And the proper working of the scheme fashioned by Congress to determine industrial controversies fairly and peaceably demands that the courts quite as much as the administrative body act as Congress has required.
Mindful of the separate responsibilities Congress has imposed upon the Board and the courts, we have carefully scrutinized this entire record. Within the range of our examination has appeared not merely the testimony but also the procedure followed from the filing of the charge before the Board to final decree of the Court of Appeals. The Board and its representatives solicitously guarded respondent's and intervenor's right to a full and fair hearing; manifested liberality in ruling upon evidence proposed by both sides; and conducted the proceedings in a manner calculated to bring about a just result. And as we have pointed out, substantial evidence supported the result which the Board did reach. [9] Notwithstanding, the court below declined to order enforcement of the Board's order, and the implications of its opinion are that the Board without a proper regard for either the limitations on its power or the evidence made findings all of which had no substantial support.
But in reaching this conclusion the Court of Appeals itself failed to give proper regard to the evidence which was before the Board, which appeared in the record before the court and which we have set out in this opinion. In refusing to enforce the Board's order, the court exceeded the power given it. The cause is reversed and remanded with directions to enforce the Board's order without conditions or qualifications.
^1 308 U.S. 549, 60 S.Ct. 386, 84 L.Ed. --; cf. National Labor Relations Board v. Waterman Steamship Co., 309 U.S. 206, 60 S.Ct. 493, 84 L.Ed. --.
^2 National Labor Relations Board v. The Falk Corp., 308 U.S. 453, 462, 60 S.Ct. 307, 312, 84 L.Ed. 396.
^3 Section 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act gives the Board power to petition any Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States for the enforcement of its order; grants these courts exclusive jurisdiction and provides that 'Upon (the Board's filing a transcript of the entire record in the proceeding), the court shall cause notice thereof to be served upon such person, and thereupon shall have jurisdiction of the proceeding and of the question determined therein, and shall have power to * * * make and enter upon the pleadings, testimony, and proceedings set forth in such transcript a decree enforcing, modifying, and enforcing as so modified, or setting aside in whole or in part the order of the Board.' 49 Stat. 449, 454.
^4 The record indicates that respondent does roughly one per cent of the national total of business in its industry.
^6 Edison Co. v. Labor Board, 305 U.S. 197, 222, 59 S.Ct. 206, 213, 83 L.Ed. 126; cf., National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Corp., 301 U.S. 1, 43, 57 S.Ct. 615, 627, 81 L.Ed. 893, 108 A.L.R. 1352. A strike at respondent's plant in 1929 apparently did result in a stoppage of the flow of the interstate movement of materials to and of processed goods from respondent's plant.
Second. Discharge of Nelson.
^7 Cf. Texas & N.O.R. Co. v. Brotherhood of Ry. Clerks, 281 U.S. 548, 557, 571, 50 S.Ct. 427, 74 L.Ed. 1034, affirming, 5 Cir., 33 F.2d 13, affirming Brotherhood of Railway Clerks v. Texas & N.O.R. Co., D.C., 24 F.2d 426; Id., D.C., 25 F.2d 873; Id., D.C., 25 F.2d 876, 877, 878.
Sixth. The 'Sit Down.'
^8 National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Corp., 306 U.S. 240, 59 S.Ct. 490, 83 L.Ed. 627, 123 A.L.R. 599.
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I just wanted to ask this to clarify if the Catholic and Protestant Churches have different views regarding this matter. Thank you. :)
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There isn't really such a thing as "the Protestant church", I'm afraid. – TRiG May 10 '14 at 18:35
There are too many types of Protestants out there. Anyone who rebels against or protest against the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation era, and their biological or spiritual descendants, can be labelled "Protestants", really. – Double U May 10 '14 at 22:47
You're probably going to have to define 'cybersex' a little more closely as well. – DJClayworth Jun 18 '14 at 2:56
This question has the same flawed assumption as described in Is it valid to ask if “Christianity” teaches anything? Put simply, there is no one "Protestant Church" and the opinions are myriad (although you'd find pretty consistent teachings on this) You might find useful information on this post: Clarification of what sexual immorality is?, which covers the basic principles applied. – David Jun 18 '14 at 3:23
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Does Ccybersex involve thinking of having sex with someone when looking at her? If so, these words of Jesus apply:
Matthew 5:27-28
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I think this would basically be the standard Protestant answer. – david brainerd May 12 '14 at 2:15
There isn't one single protestant church group. There are Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostal, non-denominational, etc, but most (likely all) of them would view cybersex as a form of fornication and, therefore, sexually immoral, and a sin.
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-1 Any denomination, or person, who considers cybersex to be fornication has a basic misunderstanding of the English language. That doesn't mean it's not sexually immoral (if practiced between non-married people). – Flimzy Jun 18 '14 at 19:00
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I have a set of drill bits but no drill. I need to make a hole in a thin surface prone to splitting and don't have a hand drill or a power drill on hand ; what could I use to make that hole?
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a pair of pliers and a something to push against the but end... – ratchet freak Nov 20 '12 at 21:39
Nail and hammer – Steven Nov 20 '12 at 22:05
Most of us here would use that as a reason (aka excuse) to buy the required tool... – gregmac Nov 20 '12 at 22:14
A drill is really an amazing tool. You will find all sorts of uses for it after you get one. I think most people on this site agree. diy.stackexchange.com/questions/53/… – Biff MaGriff Nov 20 '12 at 22:39
Buy a damn drill. – shirlock homes Nov 20 '12 at 23:13
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If the material is plastic hold the drill bit with pliers. Heat the drill bit on the stove. Push the drill bit thru the plastic with the pliers to form the hole. Throw the drill bit away after it has cooled because you have rendered it useless for drilling anything.
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Knife with a sharp point. Dimple the surface with the point and gently twist your wrist. Turn the knife 180 degrees and continue till you've pierced the material. Do the same from the other side till the hole is the size you need. You have to be really gentle but it's a field technique I've used on up to 3/8" thick materials. Then go out and buy yourself a cordless drill so those bits become useful.
And for those who object. When the stuff hits the fan and you're 20 miles from home on your motorcycle, nothing's so useless as the drill motor and case of bits sitting on the workbench. Improvised field repair techniques aren't just for McGyver.
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Most schools do not allow discussions about current political events/people and current religious events/people as a matter of fact: things can get ugly if people can't keep their opinions in check.
I wonder: should those discussions be allowed? Should they be a necessary part of the training? Are schools which forbid these discussions keeping their students from an important part of the growth process? Will they sow dissent in the school and eventually lead to its dissolution? Are they healthy to have?
Clarification: I do not mean students chatting during training sessions. I mean students chatting between themselves.
My concern is about the dynamics that can result inside a school - not from the point of view of the students, but from the point of view of the school.
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@closevoter-- could you discuss your reasoning? For the OP-- when are these discussions occurring? During technique, sparring, after class, in the changing room? – Dave Liepmann Aug 15 '12 at 20:37
"Should"? Who is the arbiter? What's the context? Which MAs use politics and/or religion as part of their training? I don't understand the question. – Dave Newton Aug 15 '12 at 21:13
@DaveNewton I'm confused too. I was thinking just general politics and religion conversations for chit-chat. The subject is way too broad. I don't think question is very constructive (or related to martial arts per the scope in the faq) as it is currently. – Matt Chan Aug 16 '12 at 2:40
Could you define your terms? Do you mean politics as martial art organisation(s) politics? Do you mean religion as in boggly stuff such a ki/chi and other magic within martial arts? If so, could you edit your question a little as I think that would be very much on topic. If, on the other hand, you refer to politics and religion as outside of a martial art context, then you question is overly broad. – Sardathrion Aug 16 '12 at 13:41
Concur with Mr. Newton. I can't imagine a non-anecdotal answer to this question. I think the question may be interesting, and even important, but I don't think it is constructive as we use the term. – Mark C. Wallace Sep 13 '12 at 16:19
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I think schools can have whatever rules they think is best. The idea people "should" do a particular thing is a bit bogus, it's really whatever they want. They could require everyone to wear pink and speak klingon if they like.
You just don't have to go to those schools if you don't like the rules.
I personally have never been to a MA school which has the particular rule you are talking about.
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Yup, their school, their rules. My previous karate school it was not uncommon for political talk with the head instructor before class started. Also talked about poker playing too, – Wayne In Yak Aug 15 '12 at 22:04
I view the dojo as a place to train and lean a martial art. Therefore anything that is not directly related to this, I will either ignore as a student or stomp on as an instructor. I include in this both politics as martial art organisation(s) politics and religion as in boogly and magic stuff.
Now, after class and in the pub/bar, it is the perfect time to talk, debate, and re-make the world. Those conversation should be happening. We have earned at a terrible price the freedom of speech and opinions. Do not see it wasted. You never know what you could learn by just listening. Maybe even apply your martial art principles to debating?
There is a place and a time for everything.
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I don't think the problem should come up.
If people are talking so much that it's disrupting the class, that's a problem regardless of what the topic is. It doesn't matter if it's about their hair and nails, politics, religion, bowel movements, the fights on TV last Saturday, or their charity work.
I like a rather loose class dynamic with a lot of socializing. I'm often the guy talking about the fights last Saturday. But if it's more than a few back-and-forth sentences while waiting in line for forward rolls, something is wrong. That something is not what is being talked about (though general etiquette should be mandatory) but the fact that people are gabbing during class. Training harder is the solution. Failing that, discipline should be expected. Natural consequences are always best--people have a hard time pontificating about their favorite skinhead band when they're in jigoku-jime.
That said, although I don't agree with the political views espoused in many training facilities I've been a part of, I absolutely think that politics and religion and philosophy and sex and life and work and money and hair and nails and bowel movements should all be fine to talk about, within the bounds of etiquette. Such talk should be minimal during class, but copious before class, in the changing room, and at the diner after class.
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Keith's answer hits the ultimate essence of the issue - it really doesn't matter because you can always look for a new dojo.
That said, no matter what, political/religious thought should not be interleaved with training. If that is the case, you are no longer in a dojo, you are in a religious/political school that is teaching you martial arts as well.
Before or after class it doesn't matter, but during class, if you're being given lessons on political or religious thought, you're being turned into a weapon for someone else.
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So you're opposed to the bevy of Christian karate in the Bible belt? What about Buddhism in karate, or Daoism in judo? Where's the line on religion? – Dave Liepmann Aug 16 '12 at 14:07
Aikido and Omotokyo would be another example... – Sardathrion Aug 16 '12 at 15:31
Religion and philosophy are some of the main influences in the development and history of martial arts. You don't have to subscribe to them if you don't want to, but you can't just absolutely and completely ignore those aspects if you are training in one of those particular arts. – Matt Chan Aug 16 '12 at 15:41
@MattChan "if you are training in one of those particular arts" is the key phrase. One's rejection might lead one to train in a non-religious art. – Dave Liepmann Aug 16 '12 at 16:17
+1 because I agree, though I think "blindly following" applies equally to technique and philosophy. – Dave Liepmann Aug 16 '12 at 17:42
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Is anybody home day
Things have deteriorated to such an extent in the United States I believe we should seriously consider a "is anybody home day?" That is, a time for every voting age person in the United States to seriously consider or reconsider what it is they believe and what it is they have done or will do. This should be a day for those who did vote and those who did not vote. On this day I suggest that everyone of voting age should stand in front of a mirror, point a finger at their head, and say to themselves, "is anybody home?" I sadly fear that if they did this it would become apparent that for many, if not most Americans, there has been nobody home.
I believe this to be probably true because for the last four and one half years the American electorate has put up with the most outrageous lies, the most outrageous secrecy, the most outrageous attacks on the constitution, and, indeed, the most outrageous attacks on their intelligence.
It is by now entirely clear, beyond any doubt, that the Bush/Cheney administration blatantly lied to bring about a totally unnecessary, immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional "war." The legal basis for impeachment now exists beyond a doubt. But nothing happens. Nothing happens because (1) the Republicans control the House of Representative where impeachment proceedings would have to begin, and (2) if such proceedings were to actually occur it would become obvious that Democrats as well as Republicans share some responsibility for the disastrous situation in Iraq.
If the United States ever had any moral ground to stand on (dubious) it has clearly disappeared. If we ever had any meaningful good will from others that goodwill has likewise disappeared. The enormity of the war crimes committed by the Bush/Cheney administration are such that it is unlikely the U.S. can ever recover from the disaster they have brought about. It is clear that neither Republicans or Democrats intend to do anything about these terrible and unforgiveable crimes, pretending that they didn't really happen, or they were necessary, or everything will turn out for the better given more time, or things are really not as bad as they seem. In fact, things are worse than they seem. We are engaged in criminal activities on a daily basis with seemingly no way out. To get out would involve having to admit that mistakes were made. But this administration is unable and/or unwilling to admit any mistakes at all. The current situation is unfortunately as close to hopeless as it is probably possible to imagine.
If there is any hope at all it lies in the hands of the American people. Forget anything positive coming from either political party. Go to the mirror. Put your finger to your head. Ask yourself, what are we to do to get out of this terrible situation? Ask yourself, do we really want to continue being led by this band of international criminals? Do you really believe anything they say anymore? Do they have any solution to the problem? Any exit strategy? Any intention of ever exiting Iraq? Is their greed so obsessional they will just go on murdering and stealing forever? What can stop them? The answer is only the American public. We have to rise up and demand a stop to this insanity. Now! Not two years from now. Not ten years from now. Not some hypothetical moment when we have trained enough Iraqis to take over (a time that quite likely will never come as long as we continue occupying their country).
I was once put in a minor position of authority for the first time. I remember asking the man who put me there, "what can I do?" He replied, "you can do anything you want until someone tells you to stop." It is past time for the American people to tell them in no uncertain terms to stop.
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An unbalanced, unfair system–a case study (N=1)
Why are you charged more if you are uninsured than if you are insured?
About six weeks ago, while in clinic, I developed pain in my stomach–specifically, in my right upper quadrant, just below the ribs. I had experienced this a few times before, but this time it seemed more persistent than usual. Following the rule that physicians make the worst patients, I kept working through it until my nurse told me I looked poorly, and made me see my own primary care doc. This led to an ultrasound that afternoon, a diagnosis of gallstones with mild acute cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder). I was in the surgeon’s office the next week, and in the OR a week after that. Fortunately, I had an uncomplicated laparoscopic surgery, and was home within 24 hours.
Over the course of the next few weeks, I began to get my explanation of benefits (EOB) forms from my insurance. These EOB forms highlight how much the hospital charged, what my insurance wrote off (or “discounted”), and what I needed to pay. I am unable to list the costs here due to our system’s insurance contracts, concerns about anti-competitive activities, etc. This is unfortunate, because they expose another area where our system is unfair and unbalanced: if you are uninsured, you will be expected to pay more than if you are insured. This is because insurance companies negotiate with hospitals on their patients’ behalf, and reduce the costs for which patients are responsible. If you are uninsured, and if you don’t know how to seek financial assistance, you pay the full (non-discounted cost) of your medical services. That cost is usually set high enough to ensure your healthcare provider will get the maximum payment possible from insurers…so the uninsured face the full burden of this increased cost.
So: if I were uninsured, I would be required to pay more than any insurance company pays…and my increased liability would be the result of other peoples’ insurance companies negotiating discounts for their patients.
This is crazy. Why do we have healthcare systems that charge so much? Because they feel they need to in order to be able to accommodate insurance companies’ demands for discounted services and still turn a profit–if systems charged the actual cost of the procedure, then they would take a “discount” on that amount and end up losing money. Why do insurance companies expect/demand discounts? Because it helps justify their existence: if that “discount” were the actual price people were charged, there might be less need for insurance. Why was my co-pay a small fraction of the total charges? Because I am fortunate to have really good insurance coverage.
If you have ever wondered whether healthcare costs are really that bad and whether they can bankrupt people, here is your answer. This is a one-person survey (N=1, to use a medical inside joke), so I can’t claim these costs are representative of others’ experiences. But, here in Richmond, if I was uninsured and did not have enough in savings to cover the bill, then I would be scrambling to find a way to pay this sudden medical debt.
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• DocForeman
I was just discussing this with a friend of mine last night.
The disconnect between pricing and care is really troubling. Healthcare has some of the most complicated pricing of any service that Americans use. And yet it is essential.
Even my labrynthine cell phone contract is easier to understand that my medical bills.
We get more upset at “hidden charges” in our credit cards, and data plans, than in our medical bills.
That says something about *us* as patients and consumers. Why do we tolerate that?
• Carmen
You’ll notice that none of these very real disparities are being discussed by the GOP contenders. Our system is completely bankrupt when companies are allowed to profit off of someone else’s misery. That core feature of the health insurance industry feeds all other consequences: lack of access for those without financial means, withholding of care and treatment by insurance review boards, cancelling of policies by insurance companies, etc. This Valentine’s Day there ought to be a card sent to every shareholder of a health insurance firm asking “Will you be a Valentine and stop exploiting people?”
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Judge Quashes Subpoena of UVA Research Records
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• Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
by Pojut (1027544)
They're not all bad...I know that the judges at our local courthouse (which is less than a mile away from our apartment...keeps crime down:-)) vary greatly.
• So do the local ones around me. It'd be nice for a little more consistency.
• In general, local politicians (not really the right term for a judge, I know) tend to be a bit easier to work with than the higher ups. I know a lot of the judges in local courts that I've visited/juried in/etc. tend to be very shrewd people who take their role as an arbiter of the law very seriously. Similarly, most city-council politicians I know tend to work very hard to keep in touch with their voter base and to enact seemingly sane policies. Politics and law at the local level tend to be pretty mild an
• Re: (Score:3, Informative)
by Obfuscant (592200)
In my experience, it's the city council politicians who run based on personal agenda and then push that agenda as much as they can while in office. They also know that they can pass all kinds of stupid "pronouncements" with little to no real meaning other than making themselves look great to the loudest nutcases, so they don't have to worry about what they pass
• Re: (Score:2, Flamebait)
by CronoCloud (590650)
It's an age/affluence thing. Around here, most city council/county board position holders are either semi-retired or have upper middle class/upper class jobs that they can give them plenty of leave/sabbaticals/time off. If you're say, an executive at a heavy equipment company, they'll give you whatever time you need, because they know you will favor their interests.
• by QuantumLeaper (607189) on Monday August 30, 2010 @06:46PM (#33420958) Journal
Judges are not stupid, unlike a lot of people who think the Courts are an extension of the Political machine. People may appoint Judges for political reasons but they should never bow to those reasons.
• Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
I tend to agree. I'm a political junkie by nature, so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems to me that Judges do a good job of holding true to law. The big news going around about stem-cells has a lot of my peers -I work in a University- roiled, but let's face facts, if it's true that he ruled based on a 90s law that forbids stem cell research, then maybe it's time to change the law and not bend it? Same goes for this case, as it was for the big evolution case in PA where a conservative appointed
• by Timothy Brownawell (627747) <> on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:55PM (#33422430) Homepage Journal
Yeah, that's why Judges should be appointed. But local ones tend to be elected, so they need to run for office every so often etc.
• Good (Score:5, Insightful)
by mbone (558574) on Monday August 30, 2010 @06:41PM (#33420908)
If this is not a political prosecution, I don't know what is. As a Virginia taxpayer, I don't mind politicians bloviating, but I don't like them chewing up public resources to do so.
• by garyisabusyguy (732330) on Monday August 30, 2010 @07:29PM (#33421304)
It comes down to suing researchers out of existance if their results conflict with a political stance
This is beyond scary, it is a sign of America moving from a world leader in research to a has-been backwater
• by Score Whore (32328) on Monday August 30, 2010 @08:57PM (#33422042)
Eh? It seems to me that it comes down to needing a subpoena in order to get access to a public employee's work product.
If you want to talk scary, that's scary. Mann worked/works for public universities paid for with tax dollars. Explain why getting access to anything that he does while on tax payer time isn't as simple as saying "hey dude, can we see your work?"
• by AK Marc (707885) on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:51PM (#33422398)
That's as sensible as going up to a road worker and asking to borrow his hammer to do some work back at your house. Sure, the hammer was bought with public funds, but that doesn't mean that the worker must give up his tools or that you have any right to them.
The results of the work should be public. The ownership of the copyright/patent of the results should be public. That's the work product. And that's not what they are after. They have the work product. And they don't like it, so they want the notes and such leading up to the work product so they can invalidate it. And not because it's actually invalid, but because you can take incomplete anything and spin it to be invalid.
• Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
by Hellsbells (231588)
Can you access your local mayor's email account?
Can you download the full schematics for the space shuttle?
Why isn't your local police department's incident reporting system completely open source?
I'm all for increased transparency, but there is no reason that all information from publicly funded work should be publicly available.
- Overheads. The costs of doing this would be huge.
- A lot of publicly funded work is done by private companies, who might not want to release their work to their compe
• by dachshund (300733) on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @12:38AM (#33423414)
Asking to see his work would have amounted to asking for a dump of his published, peer reviewed research papers. They're available without a subpoena. Just because someone works for the public does not mean that they're subject to arbitrary, unjustified investigation at any time, especially when that investigation is expensive and has to be paid for by the public.
And that's all this judge has said: present evidence that this expensive, time consuming investigation is justified, you get your information. Fail to present it, the public will be spared the cost both of the investigation, and the cost of lost research time that the public will have to bear while this individual is investigated for no reason. It's a valuable function, and our government wouldn't survive without it. In a hypothetical world where investigations have no cost, maybe it would be reasonable to allow this to go forward with no justification. We don't live in that world.
I guess that's "scary".
• Note to self: never accept a job in Virginia, and never collaborate with anyone working in Virginia. Sure, there might be little political controversy over cell biology that isn't ESC related, but who knows when a little nero from VA might get it in his head that the bible says I'm wrong.
• by fermion (181285)
What people still have not realized after hundreds of year is just because an authority figure forces other to say something is true doesn't mean it is true. The church torturing Galileo did not make the earth the center of the universe. The church torturing and burning Servetus did not change the function of the heart from pumping blood to regulating it's tides. If the indiana Pi bill had passed, the value would sill be 3.14...
No matter how many people are killed, no matter how much legislation is en
• by kenaaker (774785) on Monday August 30, 2010 @06:44PM (#33420936)
OH NO, what shall he do now.
Attacking climate change was his stepping stone to national prominence...
His life is ruined, ruined I tell you.
• by WrongSizeGlass (838941) on Monday August 30, 2010 @06:44PM (#33420940)
Cuccinelli is trying to use professor Mann as a political piñata to further his career. I'd shit in my hat if I thought for one second Cuccinelli gave a rat's ass about science (except for how science affects the teaching of evolution in schools).
If a climatologist is the biggest fish on Cuccinelli's radar then he needs to take a closer look at local problems that directly affect his constituents. I'm not saying global warming wouldn't directly affect his constituents ... just that trying to silence a scientist just because he doesn't agree with his findings shouldn't be a top priority for politicians (such as those in Cuccinelli's position).
• by Goonie (8651) <{gro.arbmaneb} {ta} {lekrem.trebor}> on Monday August 30, 2010 @06:52PM (#33421018) Homepage
It appears that Ken Cuccinelli is a partisan hack who's using his position as Attorney-General primarily to advance right-wing interests, and thus further his own political ambitions.
Last week he was going after abortion clinics [].
This week it's Michael Mann.
• Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward
The really scary part? In Virginia, the Attorney General usually has the inside track for his party's nomination for governor in the next election.
• > This week it's Michael Mann.
Guess there is more then one Burning Man ... :-)
• Politics aside (Score:3, Insightful)
by hsmith (818216) on Monday August 30, 2010 @06:59PM (#33421074)
Why should a public funded university not have to respond to such requests? Why, if I were to file a FOIA request for the same data would it be denied? My tax money has paid for it, I have every right as I do to FOIA the video tapes of a traffic stop.
As such a website that so often cries for "free information" - it is amusing to see "zomg good!" due to the motivations behind the request and why it was denied.
• by Improv (2467)
Occasionally there are legal reasons why *some* research records can't be released, particularly those containing subject information in human subject experiments. That's not likely to be the case there.
For other kinds of information, it can be an issue if people outside of broad academia try to jump in and play politics with the conduct of research - we already have peer review for that, done by people with a solid understanding of statistics and the standards of the field. We don't want our research popul
• Re:Politics aside (Score:5, Interesting)
by Ironhandx (1762146) on Monday August 30, 2010 @08:05PM (#33421616)
RTFA, it was not a FOIA request. That may have in fact been much more successful. It was a subpoena request for information based on trumped up(invalid) fraud charges. However a FOIA request would have been much less politically advantageous if it went through, which is all that this whole thing was really about, he wasn't looking for evidence he was looking to be able to smear the guys name with the fact that there may have been enough evidence against him to even start a full scale legally backed investigation.
You should be thanking this judge for setting this idiot in his place and not allowing him to abuse the legal system and your tax dollars purely for his own political gain.
It is also still left open for the guy to back up his trumped up fraud charges a little better and resubmit the subpoena request.
Sorry if I'm less than sympathetic towards the guy but his entire career reeks of abuse of power to push nonsensical politically advantageous policies while largely ignoring bigger problems. Global warming and its existence isn't even on my top TEN list of things for politicians to be worrying about.
• Re: (Score:3, Informative)
by canajin56 (660655)
State Freedom of Information Acts tend to be a lot less broad than the federal one (which only applies to the federal executive branch). Using Michigan as an example, you cannot request all documents relating to a given subject. You have to identify what documents you want, and be specific. In that regard, I highly doubt that you could say "I want all of the email sent by this professor to any of these 40 other people, for the last 5 years". That's absurdly broad. You probably could request all of the
• by Arancaytar (966377) <> on Monday August 30, 2010 @07:12PM (#33421172) Homepage
He's abusing taxpayer money to fuel this religious right-wing witch hunt.
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Not much is sacred in Hollywood, but it’s not likely a studio would ever give up a viable franchise.
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This week we check out Mary Weatherford's literally electric painting/neon hybrids at Brennan & Griffin, Michelle Stewart's mysterious and engaging photo grids at Leslie Tonkonow, and a well-curated show of art made by American artists based in Paris during the postwar years at Loretta Howard.
Mary Weatherford at Brennan & Griffin, through Oct. 14
The bold, brushy abstractions in Mary Weatherford's last show at the gallery were inspired by the interiors of caves along the California coast. This time the L.A.-based artist switches things up, drawing on her time in New York in the '80s and '90s. Each of Weatherford's half dozen canvases feature layered, multi-colored swaths of paint dramatically augmented with one or more neon tubes.
Analia Saban at Tanya Bonakdar, through Oct. 20
Despite Analia Saban's participation in many international exhibitions, "Gag" is her first show in New York. Installed in Bonakdar's upstairs galleries, the selection highlights Saban's skill at using traditional art-making materials in exactly the way you wouldn't expect-there's a mostly raw canvas, lightly flecked with paint, with an attached toilet brush cast in acrylic, and approximately 110 pounds of still-wet oil paint heavily pooled in a horizontal sling made of canvas.
Michelle Stuart at Leslie Tonkonow, through Oct. 27
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RE: They need to stop playing the funny numbers game.
By mliska1 on 11/24/2010 5:48:22 PM , Rating: 3
I stand by my retarded thinking. The original poster said that, in an ICE that it takes into account inherant losses through combustion which, of course, are way, way more than the losses of simply putting power in a battery through an electric motor for forward motion. However, he wants to counter that by adding effects of making the power itself through coal combustion and the losses in transmission. These are not the same thing.
If you're going to count only losses in the car's power plant, then you have to count it the way it was measured: using the regular MPG rating of a gas engine to its equivalent in electric power. If you're going to add losses far outside the car itself, such as losses from coal combustion and electric transmission, then you have to add the losses of gasoline refining and transportation as well.
By Reclaimer77 on 11/24/2010 6:47:57 PM , Rating: 1
No he's not. I think you need to read his post again.
By Solandri on 11/24/2010 7:04:39 PM , Rating: 3
You can avoid most of this argument by doing a cost-per-gallon comparison.
Current price of 87 octane gas = about $3.00/gal
From the fine print on the EPA label:
$0.12 per kW-hr of electricity
33.7 kW-hr per gallon-equivalent
($0.12 / kW-hr) * (33.7 kW-hr / gallon) = $4.044/gal-equiv
So from the figures the EPA is using, energy in the form of electricity is more expensive than energy in the form of gasoline. And the only reason EVs are cheaper to operate is because they're more efficient from battery pack to wheels on the ground.
By phantom505 on 11/24/2010 10:55:03 PM , Rating: 2
And to make it even more confusing you're best off using local gas and electric prices. But that would require someone to think... and we can't have consumers doing that!
RE: They need to stop playing the funny numbers game.
By goku on 11/25/2010 3:51:52 AM , Rating: 2
Well you can't have consumers be doing that, you need them to follow obediently to what the government says you should do. If your government tells you this isn't violating your rights or that this is what you should buy, you're going to have to believe that because otherwise you're against the government. If you're having people think about one thing, they might start thinking about other things, and soon might threaten the power of the government to exert control. It's best to keep people hopelessly ignorant as it's easier to control them that way, whether it's in the dealership show room, or when they're being screened by the TSA.
You're either with us or against us.
By phantom505 on 11/25/2010 1:43:39 PM , Rating: 2
There are many things not right with the politics of this country. Three of them is the idea you can be infinitely intelligent, infinitely paranoid, and infinitely able to control what happens in your life. None of these things are possible unless you're God, so yes, you need a summary and an education to understand the summary.
This sticker provides that but what would make sense is to have the local dealers actually post a little info for you that is fact based) on the actual costs of energy.
Government last I check isn't telling you what car to buy, they are encouraging technological growth and a sustainable route. Using fossil fuels will not work forever. More people means more cars. If we keep relying on imported fossil fuels then we have a national security problem on top of an air and water quality problem, on top of potentially numerous other issues.
I wish people on this site would quit trying to over simplify everything, nothing is that simple. If it were we would have already come up with a perfect solution.
By Alexstarfire on 11/25/2010 6:05:25 AM , Rating: 1
You make it sound like it's a bad thing that EVs have a more efficient motor. That's pretty much the only reason EVs are worth looking at after all. ICEs could barely manage half the efficiency at best that most electric motors have now.
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3434 Hurless
Don Hurless
The asteroid 3434 Hurless was named after Carolyn Hurless, an AAVSO merit award winner with a lifetime total of 79,000 observations made from 1959 until her death in 1987. The asteroid was discovered in 1981 by B.A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. Carolyn's name was suggested by Paul Sventek who provided the citation. The following remarks are based on a letter David Cortner sent to me shortly after the name was assigned.
The asteroid will spend the fall of 1994 high in the constellation Taurus, well north of the ecliptic and perfectly placed for nothern hemisphere observers. At its brightest, between late October and early December, it will be no brighter than magnitude 16.4 to 16.0, but its position high in the clear winter sky may make up for some of its faintness. That year the asteroid and the Earth will pass within 124 million miles. The new moons of early November and December 1994 will provide the next best opportunity to pick the asteroid out. [I managed a pretty good photo of 3434 on Thanksgiving weekend, 1994, on Tech Pan from a suburban backyard. I'll post that photo when I can steal the time to prep it for the web. DC]
There will be one other opportunity to glimpse 3434 Hurless before the end of this century.
At the beginning of 1998, the asteroid will be both hidden by sunlight and lost among some of the richest star fields of the summer Milky Way. It will be near magnitude 18.4. Throughout spring, it will move north through Capricorn and Aquarius, gliding just south of the ecliptic. It will brighten to 17th magnitude as it and the Earth close from 320 million miles in January to 190 million miles in early summer. In mid-June, the asteroid enters the constellation Pisces as a 17th magnitude object. In early July it enters Cetus where it will remain for the rest of the year. By the time it enters Cetus, the asteroid will be 'only' 150 million miles from Earth. At magnitude 16.5, it will be within reach of very large amateur telescopes. By the end of July or by the beginning of August, 3434 Hurless will be brighter than 16th magnitude. It reaches perihelion during the first week of August and begins to withdraw from the Sun very slowly. The asteroid will continue to brighten as the Earth overtakes it in our faster orbit. On the last day of August, the asteroid begins retrograde motion. On September 18, the Earth draws within 100 million miles. Closest approach comes on the night of September 30 when the asteroid will be 98.5 million miles from Earth. The asteroid will then be between magnitude 15.5 and 15.0. It will be faint for the few weeks surrounding this date, but not hopelessly faint, just a nice inner sanctum kind of faint. It should be visible with care under dark skies with comparatively modest light buckets.
New moons (and darkest skies) occur around the 20th of each month from September through November 1998. One of those dark moons should offer our best chance to actually see 3434 Hurless. It will remain brighter than 16th magnitude until mid-November. Then, as it lags farther and farther behind the Earth, it will fade quickly through 17th to 18th magnitude by the end of the year.
For perspective, it is interesting to compare these favorable oppositions with a maximally favorable one. At the opposition of 1985, the first following its discovery, the then anonymous asteroid briefly reached magnitude 13.8 - 14.2, easily within reach of even modest telescopes under good skies. This is the brightest it has been since 1980 and the brightest it will be until at least 2018.
These notes about the physical characteristics of 3434 Hurless are based on comparisons of 3434 Hurless with other asteroids of similar absolute brightness, and therefore, presumably, of similar sizes. I know of no photometric studies or UBV measurements which could answer questions about the asteroid's composition or rotation and general shape. [In the years since these notes were written, acquiring this sort of data has become a perfectly reasonable project for CCD-equipped amateurs. DC]
In the absence of particulars, then, let us suppose 3434 is 15km (9.5 miles) in diameter. If mostly metallic (with an approximate density of 7 g/cm3), then its 450 cubic miles contain 13.7 trillion tons of nickel and iron. If stony, then it "weighs" about 5.5 trillion tons (assuming a density of 2.8 g/cm3). From the estimated size and these guestimated masses, we can infer the following physical characteristics.
The sorriest little league pitcher with the sorest of arms could casually toss a ball all the way around the asteroid (a distance of about 30 miles), and catch it an hour or two later or an hour or two after that on the ball's next orbit (or after its next, or its next, or its next...).
From 3434 Hurless the Earth is at most 16 arcseconds in apparent diameter and it is never nearly as bright a planet as Venus is as seen from the Earth. The Earth ventures about half as far from the Sun as Venus does for us. As seen from Hurless, our moon, several magnitudes fainter (a binocular object) is sometimes as far as 8.7 arcminutes from the Earth (about a third the apparent width of the Moon as seen from Earth). Mars and Jupiter are the brightest planets in the sky of 3434 Hurless. Jupiter is sometimes near enough that it's disk could be seen with the naked eye and at those times Jupiter shines about as brightly as Venus ever shines in the skies of Earth. Mars goes through phases as seen from 3434 and shines three or four magnitudes more faintly in the asteroid's sky than Venus does in ours.
Don has presented this material to various groups from time to time. I plan to update this version with photos made at the 1994 opposition near the Hyades, with some "light curves" showing the asteroid's brightness over the years, some maps, lots more numbers, and assorted other notes. Eventually, it would be nice to include UBV and photometric data to establish composition, rotation, and perhaps shape. DC | <urn:uuid:6582e2b0-39b2-46a7-975e-11993205256e> | http://www.davidcortner.com/3434/don_papr.htm | en | 0.958354 | 0.023007 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Redesigned sweeper offers chassis choice
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Wireless monitoring compact excavator
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Construction layout software
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Compact trencher with heavy-duty oscillating tracks
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Mattel Answers a few Fan Questions
May 1, 2010 8:26 am by MegaGearMax
Mattel has been kind enough to answer fan questions on the News page of Mattycollector.com!
MOTU Fans,
We see a lot of the same questions pop up on Facebook and the FanForums, and we thought it might be helpful if we answered some of themhere. Please know that for business reasons, we can't go into greatdetail on a lot of things, but we'll tell you as much as we can.
Q. Why do things sell out so fast and why don't you make more?
The line is clearly picking up more and more fans as we go along. Thisis good news-bad news for fans, because when the line does better itgives Mattel more incentive to keep it going, but things do sell outfaster, making them harder to get.
Production numbers will increase, but it can't happen overnight as raw materials are purchased monthsbefore a figure goes on sale. Adding figures to an existing factoryorder just isn't cost-effective as it would cost us more per figurethan we actually sell them for. For other first-time out items, likethe stands or dioramas, there's just no way to know how many will selluntil we offer them.
We promise you, the Matty team is very aware of everyone'sfrustration. You wouldn't think making toys and selling them on awebsite would be such a complicated business, but it would blow yourmind to see the inner workings.
But here's the good news: MOTUC figures are not a one-time deal! Ifyou missed a figure you really wanted, be patient because we oftenre-release products. We do a second run so everyone has a chance tocomplete their collections.
Q. Why can't you do pre-orders?
We know this issomething fans ask for and we do hear you. It's just not logisticallypossible for a variety of reasons that we, unfortunately, can't go intowith the public. What we do offer is the Club Eternia™ subscriptionprogram that basically lets you "pre-order" a year's worth of figures,although you are only charged when they actually ship to you. Whilethis option doesn't work for all fans, it's the only "pre-order" optionwe can offer.
Q. Why is there only one sale per month?
Thereare a couple of reasons why we have one on-sale date per month. First,we want our customers to save on shipping, which the single sale daymodel accomplishes. As we mentioned below , this is especiallyappreciated by our international fans. Second, because many productssell out quickly, a set sale day is the best option for giving allcustomers a chance at the products they want. We're sorry, but for theforeseeable future, we won't be doing multiple on-sale dates.
Q. Why don't you reduce the 10 per order purchase limit?
A lot of fans are asking specifically about the 10 per order limit.First, a little history. Back when we first started the line, the limitwas only four. This was loudly rejected by fans as not being enough, sowe increased it to ten. This was an especially good way to help ourinternational fans who could combine orders and save on shipping (whichis HUGE for them).
After we made the change, we kept an eye on orders to see how manyfigures people were actually ordering and very few customers wereordering more than three or four. Then, after our Moss Man® sale, ToyGuru personally went through every order and, once again, VERY fewcustomers ordered ten - in fact, there are only a small percentage oforders that are for even more then four figures.
We know people are seeing a lot of figures on the secondary market.We honestly have nothing to do with this market (believe us, no onehere is getting a cut), but we think it's probably people who boughtmultiple Club Eternia™ subscriptions when they were on sale back in thesummer of 2009. The subscriptions were open for three weeks and anyonecould buy as many as they needed or wanted. It's likely some fansbought subscriptions for the sole purpose of reselling them, which theyhave every right to do and we have no control over.
We will increase production as demand continues to go up, and MossMan®, along with other quick sell-out figures, will be back in time.For those customers who want their figures guaranteed with no wait andno hassle, we hope you'll take advantage of the subscription when itgoes on sale again this July.
And speaking of the subscription…
Q. What's the story on the 2011 Club Eternia™ subscription?
The basic structure will remain the same for 2011 as it was for 2010.Although you commit to a full year of figures when you purchase thesubscription, you are only charged for them when they are actuallyshipped to you. For 2011, we are continuing to offer one type ofsubscription (sorry, tiers are just not logistically possible for us),which will be the fan-requested "all-in" model that includes one ofevery product, including quarterly figures and "oversized" figures.
We're still working out the details, but the tentative plan for 2011 is to have the following:
• 12 Monthly figures
• 4 Quarterly figures
• 4 Oversized figures ($30 - $60 each)
• 1 Subscription-exclusive figure (similar to Wun-Dar™)
Please note that before you purchase the 2011 subscription, we willtell you exactly how many of each figure and at what price they'll be.We won't reveal the figure names, but we will tell you how many at eachprice point so you'll know the total purchase commitment amount, notincluding shipping (although you aren't billed until the figures areshipped).
This year, there's another great benefit… in addition to beingguaranteed to get every figure, we're also processing subscriptionorders two business days before the sale, so subscribers get theirfigures shipped before everyone else!
The 2011 subscription will be available starting July 21, 2010(preview night at San Diego Comic-Con), and you'll be able to purchaseas many subscriptions as you like. If you want to be reminded, sign up for email or follow us on Twitter.
Q. What about the 2002 line?
The Masters of theUniverse® Classics line is all about looking at the vintage style firstand sprinkling any other needed elements to create a cohesive line forMOTU, Princess of Power™ and New Adventures. As for the 2002 line, thatline and interpretation of the MOTU world is retired. Yes, there aremany fans who prefer it to the "classic" interpretation of MOTU in thecurrent line, and that's cool. We're also huge fans of the 2002hyper-detail version, but there are no plans to produce any furtherfigures based on this stylized interpretation.
That said, there is some good news: if a character was not inthe vintage line, such as Count Marzo™, for example, we may do it inMOTUC as if it had been a figure in the vintage line and we are"updating" it. So, we will include 200X characters from theshow, just not in the hyper-detail interpretation. We'll also look athow a 200X figure might have used shared parts based on what isavailable in the vintage line. We think this will really bring somemagic to these characters when we do get to them in MOTUC!
Q. If we ask for it, will you make it?
As muchas we'd like to, we can't produce products based only on fan demand.While we love to listen to fans, there are myriad legal, logistic, andtechnical issues preventing many things fans demand from going forward.As often as we can, though, we certainly will, like we did with theflocking on the ears of Moss Man®, and adding a second highlight colorto the sword of She-Ra™.
Q. Can children play with MOTUC toys?
Althoughwe have labeled them "Adult Collector," we still safety test them thesame way we do all of our age 4+ toys. So, yes, children are totallyencouraged to play with MOTUC. But we still don't consider them bathtoys, so Moss Man is not ideal for water play, as some fans have foundout!
See what fans have to say about these answers HERE!
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Marketing Communications Manager
YMCA of Silicon Valley - San Jose, CA
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The Marketing Communications Manager works in coordination with the overall YMCA of Silicon Valley marketing team to lead and direct all marketing and communications activities for the South Valley Family YMCA (subsequently referred to as “branch”). This individual is a key member of the South Valley Family YMCA leadership team and plays a critical role in the overall success of the Y in membership acquisition and retention, program performance and fundraising. This requires working closely with the Executive Director, the branch staff and the entire marketing team that supports the overall YMCA of Silicon Valley (including 11 branches and a resident camp). This manager will develop extensive knowledge of the South Valley Family YMCA objectives and operations and provide input to the overall marketing team in the development of the YMCA of Silicon Valley organization-wide plans. The manager will also implement branch-specific initiatives to complement and coordinate with the overall marketing communications strategy and plans.
The primary objectives of this position are to:
Raise visibility and enhance public understanding of the Y’s nonprofit status and positive impact on the community;
Increase the branch staff capacity to speak in a unified voice, advocate on behalf of the Y, and share compelling stories of impact;
Promote membership and program growth;
Facilitate member retention and deeper member engagement;
Support all branch fundraising efforts;
Promote and protect the Y brand; and
Take initiative to achieve continuous improvement.
Qualifications :
A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university is required.
1 to 3+ years of experience as a marketing and/or communications professional.
Excellent writing skills (samples will be requested).
Overall, exceptional communications skills. Ability to communicate effectively in writing, orally with individuals, small and large groups, and online.
Project management skills. Ability to coordinate/manage/combine input from different sources to achieve desired results.
Customer-focused; results oriented.
Ability to work effectively on a team and as a leader with no direct authority.
Understanding of and ability to implement marketing communications practices.
Demonstrated ability to translate marketing objectives into compelling communications that achieve targeted results.
Ability to work on multiple projects, meet deadlines, and consistently deliver high quality results.
Experience in working with others and working independently to develop marketing collateral, and in managing website content, are highly desirable.
Knowledge and experience with e-marketing and social media techniques and best practices.
Technical proficiency to create e-newsletters and e-blasts with dynamic data using Constant Contact.
Excellent planning and organization skills , with willingness and ability to adapt to changing priorities.
Ability to thrive in a relationship-oriented culture.
Self-motivated and able to motivate others; hands-on and takes initiative.
Graphic design skills a plus, but not necessary.
This position requires a commitment to the YMCA mission and its core values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility, as well as a commitment to developing youth, enhancing well-being, and encouraging social responsibility.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities :
Provide marketing communications leadership for the South Valley Family YMCA (referred to as “branch”) through training, guidance, implementation of initiatives and coordination.
Advise branch leaders on marketing related issues and opportunities and act as a resource for volunteers and branch staff.
Provide branch input in the development and implementation of the association-wide marketing and communications plans .
Coordinate with association marketing to develop a branch marketing communications plan to meet branch needs and complement association-wide plan.
Manage the implementation of effective promotional campaigns that support program and membership growth and retention.
Track and report all branch promotional campaign results and recommend improved and innovative campaign approaches.
Work with the association marketing team to develop, implement and report results from member engagement initiatives .
Promote and protect the Y brand. Ensure brand compliance for the branch, including environmental graphics and all messaging.
Serve as the branch contact point to coordinate and consolidate all graphic design projects submitted to association.
Create branch specific communications pieces (such as schedules, one-page fliers, short-term signs, etc.) using a centralized template system.
Gather and consolidate branch website updates for webmaster to ensure branch website is up-to-date, accurate and refreshed with engaging new content every month.
Develop annual plan and schedule for all branch e-communications and campaigns in coordination with the association plan and schedule. Produce monthly branch
e-newsletter .
Support all fund-raising in the branch with donor and campaigner communications and event-support, in coordination with association marketing and financial development.
Identify and cultivate testimonials and stories from members, volunteers and donors.
Provide branch feedback in the development and periodic updating of the association-wide social media strategy .
Manage all social media presence for the branch in alignment with the association social media strategy and plans.
Perform as an active, contributing member of the overall YMCA of Silicon Valley marketing team and participate in regular staff meetings (at headquarters office).
Provide branch input on association-wide marketing and communications initiatives.
Manage public and media relations within the branch, in coordination with association marketing. Identify and pursue opportunities; draft content for media releases, as needed.
Respond to media inquiries for the branch as appropriate.
Develop and implement a local community communications and outreach plan in coordination with association.
Identify and pursue opportunities within the branch to cross market programs and increase program participation.
Oversee the branch lobby messaging (large screen, etc.) to ensure consistency, brand compliance, and positive impact
Assist branch staff with the planning and implementation of branch events .
Monitor and answer (or manage branch response process for) all general e-mail box communications for branch.
Work together with other branch Marketing Communications Managers to leverage strengths, suggest new initiatives, and drive improvement .
Coordinate tours of the branch as needed to build awareness and understanding (in support of fund and friend-raising).
Work with the whole YMCA of Silicon Valley marketing team to determine the most effective use of advertising dollars for the branch. Coordinate with headquarters to develop ad content.
Oversee/ track budget for marketing and communications activities in the branch.
Monitor local market and competitor trends, gather data, and recommend new initiatives to broader marketing team.
Based on skill set and interest, pursue specific project work on behalf of the whole association.
Demonstrate the Y’s core values in all dealings with members, staff, volunteers, donors, guests, media and members of the community.
Additional Information :
This position has a dual reporting structure to the YMCA of Silicon Valley VP of Marketing and Communications and the South Valley Family YMCA Executive Director.
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When does the gendering start?
(41 Posts)
DancingLady Mon 09-Sep-13 11:35:31
OK, I know it starts at birth. I mean when do I stop having a choice in it? As a feminist, and a child of a non-feminist mum, I always knew I'd raise any DCs differently.
Feel like I'm fighting a losing battle against the people I know who say 'Oh girls just like pink, they all do, you can't help it.' As though it's a gender characteristic.
I have a 3-y-o DD, and all of a sudden (almost overnight after turning 3!) she's into pink, princesses, babies... She was always adamant that her fave colour was blue, she liked Lego, monsters etc.
I believe nurture is far more influential than nature in behaviour - girl children aren't born with a preference for pink and dolls. But me and DH never steered her in either direction.
We've raised her to just like what she likes. DH was aghast that she's into pink and princesses. We discussed this and are now in agreement that we don't want to shame her for liking what she likes.
Do you think that outside influences are a deciding factor on boy/girl stereotypes? My DD goes to nursery (friends with an equal number of boys and girls), but far more influential I think is her 6-y-o friend who lives nearby and we see most days. She is into pink, princesses etc etc. And now my DD is too.
So fine, she can be into whatever she's into. But what worries me is that she's talking about 'boy things' and 'girl things' eg, 'I don't like football, that's a boy thing', and 'I only like girl colours' (being light colours, esp pink and yellow).
Sorry for the long and disjointed post. I'm trying to sort out my feelings about this - and wondering if I'm overreacting too!
grimbletart Mon 09-Sep-13 11:49:31
Pinkification is very recent. It did not exist when I was a child, nor when my children were children. It is true that there was a tradition of pink for a girl baby and blue for a boy baby (as opposed to the opposite in Victorian times when it was blue for a girl and pink for a boy) but in general pink then simply took its place as just one colour among many.
Likewise, as a child in the 50s I and my friends played cricket, football in the park, had dinky toys, built dens, climbed trees etc.
It seems that as women have exploited all their new opportunities in adulthood the trend for girl children has been to try and put them back in their box.
But where, apart from cynical marketing, this backlash comes from really puzzles me. I would like to know what younger MN posters think as, to an oldie like me, we seem to be going backwards in many respects.
DancingLady Mon 09-Sep-13 11:55:39
I agree we're going backwards. I was a child in the 70s and looking at photos I never wore pink! Girls were dressed in bright colours (my mum would never have dressed me in black for example), same as boys were.
My mum wasn't a feminist and I was encouraged to be a little lady (that failed!) but there wasn't the princess obsession we have now, tho I did have dolls.
showtunesgirl Mon 09-Sep-13 12:02:19
I have a slight problem that my DH doesn't think that pinkification is all the prevalent but he did get my point when we went shopping yesterday to buy pyjamas for DD.
The girls' ones were all purple and pink and said things like: Pretty in Pink and My Carriage Awaits. <boak>
I promptly marched to the boys' section and bought her monster and dinosaur ones which were so much more fun. DD who is 21 months did her best monster roar in appreciation. grin
worldgonecrazy Mon 09-Sep-13 12:04:12
I have no idea. I am really fighting against the "girls' things" and "boys' things". I try and explain marketing but it is difficult to express it in terms a 3 year old will understand.
We avoid children's TV, and have extremely limited viewing. There is definitely no pinkification in the stuff we watch, and I avoid shops where the pinkness is extreme, but still it happens, and I have no idea where the influence comes from.
We had a huge discussion on boy bikes/girl bikes. I explained there were bikes that companies tried to sell to girls, but that bikes are just bikes. I actually took her to the bike shop so she could see for herself - the bike she wants is gender neutral, though possibly aimed more at boys because it is space/rocket themed.
nomorecrumbs Mon 09-Sep-13 12:05:11
I was a child in the 80s and quite happy in dungarees, similar tops to my brother, shorts etc.
We played so happily together with Lego and ball games and I would have hated to have been restricted to the pink plastic crap which is marketed towards girls now. Looking back at the Argos catalogue www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619206330728/ from 1985 which was practically my Bible at the time, I don't see as much pink there as I do now - just Barbie and Care Bears. Not ALL toys for girls were pink. It's a bit crap that all the active, sport-orientated toys still have boys posing with them though.
In my more woo musings I do wonder if someone's putting the advertising agencies up to encouraging more 'feminine' girly advertising to encourage these girls to grow up with less ambition and less desire to be career-minded and more SAHM to raise the birth rate (to try and abate the pension crisis etc)...well my History teacher always said we'd start to see this kind of propaganda start in this decade so who knows.
DancingLady Mon 09-Sep-13 12:05:37
showtunes that's brilliant! Yes I usually buy DD stuff from the boys department as I hate all the slogan stuff for girls.
The only princess I want to read about is The Paper Bag Princess - do you know it? Feminist classic for small children. It's ace.
showtunesgirl Mon 09-Sep-13 12:09:01
I was disappointed though, they didn't have the comic strip Pow! Zap! ones in her size. They were soooooooooo cool!
Oh, these are in Sainbury's BTW.
It's funny how people get in a tizz about things though. I have been accused of dressing DD as a boy, like when she is in her Gruffalo coat. Er, the Gruffalo's Child is a girl!
kim147 Mon 09-Sep-13 12:14:29
I had an interesting chat with a gender psychiatrist grin about what "female clothes" were.
When does jeans and a t-shirt became male or female?
DancingLady Mon 09-Sep-13 13:13:53
world we do watch CBeebies, and I'm sure that contributes - some of it is pretty sexist and I do avoid the twee, super-girly programmes. Sarah and Duck is good though!
Children's books are guilty of gendering, esp ones with animal characters I find. All the animals will be male, unless they have uber-feminine characteristics like giant lashes, bow in hair etc... I'll often just switch 'he' to 'she' in these books. It seems petty but I don't want DD growing up seeing females as 'other'. That boys/men are the default and that girls/women are the other.
nomore Not sure I there's a specific 'someone' controlling the ad agencies, but I do see what you mean. I think it's part of a bigger backlash against feminism, but I don't know who benefits.
FloraFox Mon 09-Sep-13 18:39:33
I think this is driven by companies wanting to sell more products - it's harder to hand things down from boys to girls and vice versa if products are gendered. Everything from clothes to toys to furniture needs to be replaced if baby number two is the other sex.
ErrolTheDragon Mon 09-Sep-13 18:59:58
OP - and others - have you seen the Let Toys be Toys campaign? Started by a group of MNers before last Christmas, pissed off by the genderisation of toys. There's a petition you might like to sign.
I suspect you're right that outside influences are - well, influencing your DD. As she gets older she will develop her own character and find her own preferences. My DD liked pink and fairy costumes well enough at 3 ... by 6 she'd turned against them (not that girls necessarily should if that's what they still really like).
FreyaSnow Mon 09-Sep-13 19:02:28
My DD is, I suppose, of the pink generation. She is now a teenager and hates pink. She doesn't hate it from some kind of social perspective of what it may or may not represent. She simply cannot stand the colour because she was surrounded by it and given things that were constantly pink for a whole decade of her life; she is sick of looking at it. I suspect a lot of girls of her generation will not want pinkification for their own daughters.
DancingLady Mon 09-Sep-13 19:44:44
Errol I hadn't seen that, thanks for the link. I know the Pink Stinks campaign and support their message.
Freya it's interesting you say that - my Dneices (now 12) were dressed in head-to-toe pink from birth till they were about 8 or 9... both now hate it, one is tomboy/gamer, other is into vintage and more trendy stuff smile So I know that they do rebel eventually, or if not rebel then at least find their own likes and dislikes.
NiceTabard Mon 09-Sep-13 20:59:06
Ooh for books rosie's hat is lovely smile
I think around 3 they get a lot at nursery from the other children - peer pressure and exposure to lots of other adults many of whom do gender stereotyping without even realising it (it's so entrenched it's hard not to slip sometimes even when you are super aware of it).
I think you need to be careful as while the whole pink princess thing is grim, the last thing you want to do with a girl is give her the impression that "girl's stuff" is shite. Because that's just as bad/ worse. It's a bit of a catch 22 really.
The saddest thing for me was at the end of term last school year DD (then 5) said that she wanted to be a boy. When I asked why she said it was because she like boys things better than girls things so she wanted to be a boy. Also that someone at school had said she was a tomboy. I explained (obviously!) that girls and boys can both do whatever they please and that being a girl is great etc. BUT how can I compete against what is just all over society / the playground every day.
She also asked DH why boys have willies (!) and said that she thought it would be better if everybody had the same. I can understand her logic.
Overall she is happy and cheerful and so on BUT it just makes me sad that she is picking up on this stuff and obviously thinking about it and coming to god only knows what conclusions. (She is the sort of child who does think very carefully about everything).
All in all I'm sure it will be fine but these things just make me feel sad for a while and I wish that we were further along this whole feminist path, so that children could just be and get on with it and not have all this gender nonsense rammed down their throats.
learnasyougo Mon 09-Sep-13 21:38:14
I was just like your DD. I picked up on the message that girls are valued less than boys. I knew I could run as fast, climb as well, be as brave as any boy. I was better than any stupid, wimpish geerrrl!
My mum was concerned at my outright rejection of my gender (I was always pleased to be mistaken for a boy and I didn't have to wear skirts our dresses to school and my name is not obviously girly).
Mum started to tell me about all the ways girls are better than boys -speak sooner, potty train earlier, are better at cooperative games, concentrate for longer etc. that eventually I came around to the idea that I could be proud to be a girl. I was about 9 before I was able to make friends with girls, thanks to my,mum's intervention.
Primrose123 Mon 09-Sep-13 21:59:36
Nomorecrumbs Thank you for linking to the 1985 Argos catalogue. I've had a great time looking at the 'technology' and prices from my teenage years!
NiceTabard Mon 09-Sep-13 22:46:08
learnasyougo I am pleased that your mum was able to soften your ideas when you were little.
I suppose the thing for me, with that, is that I would feel really uncomfortable saying "girls are better than boys at X" or even with a qualifier "girls are usually better than boys at X" as it goes against the whole idea that the sexes are equal. But then if girl children are getting it from all sources that boys are better, then maybe it's OK to counteract that with girls are better, at some stuff. But what? Without buying into gender stereotypes? And how will that progress the situation - it won't. But then again it's my DD not a project. <sigh> I don't know. I don't think I could say that though - girls are better than boys at whatever it might be. it feels wrong to say that, to me.
OddBoots Mon 09-Sep-13 22:50:39
My mum used to dress my brother and me up in matching outfits - there wasn't any pink in sight.
BitBewildered Tue 10-Sep-13 12:28:00
Rosie's Hat is a good book, and I'm very fond of Zog for similar reasons. I like the apps by Toca Boca too, and Okido magazine.
I have a DD (4) and a DS (2.5), so don't want to tell either that they are better than the other. I have noticed other family members telling DD how pretty and good she is and telling DS how cheeky or naughty he looks hmm. He's been told he's a big jessie for wanting a cuddle while DD gets asked for a cuddle. I try, subtly, to reinforce and praise for things like kindness, remembering things, being funny or learning a new skill. On the other hand, I don't want DD to be the only kid in her class who doesn't know about poxy disney princesses, because I don't want her to feel left out. I feel less anxious about DS liking tractors.
grimbletart Tue 10-Sep-13 12:36:14
Two emotions when I read some of the posts above.
1) I am so thankful that I am not a child today or have a child in this era and come from an time when kids were, well, just kids.
2) Enormously sad that parents now have this pink shit and boys are better/girls are better shit to deal with sad
Remain utterly baffled at what has happened over the last 10/15 ??? years.
ErrolTheDragon Tue 10-Sep-13 12:37:34
NiceTabard - I think you're right to avoid the 'girls are better than boys at...' - because it reinforces the idea of gendered roles. Better to go along the lines of 'a girl can do anything she wants'. If you can think of examples so much the better - of individuals who've done x, y or z.
Football? well, I heard the british women's team did very well in the Olympics
Girls can't run/jump/throw/ ... Jessica Ennis
etc etc. Scientists, explorers, all sorts.
learnasyougo Tue 10-Sep-13 12:43:17
instead of trying to raise one gender above the other (dodgy ground, I agree) I think talking about great women in science, politics etc is a good start.
iirc, in 'child of our time' the only black child that showed no or less bias against black faces (as in did not choose the card of a white kid as a preferred playmate over a black one) was a child whose mother really worked hard to teach her son about great historical black figures, Martin Luther king, Malcolm x, Rosa parks, to give him a sense of pride. Even taking him to visit these places at age 6.
you can promote one gender without denigrating the other.
devilinside Tue 10-Sep-13 13:37:24
there was less pressure to dress in pink and play with gendered toys in the 70s/80s, but I still got the message boys were better than girls. In primary school only boys were allowed to carry chairs (we were too delicate), Boys would regularly use the term 'girl or 'woman' as a term of abuse. In fact until I was 20 or so, I assumed that a 'woman' was something negative.
Hopefully, things have moved on, but I can't help thinking gendered clothing/toys keeps girls in a box, where they can be viewed negatively by the world. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't (certainly the case for my 8 year old DD).
LurcioLovesFrankie Tue 10-Sep-13 13:46:45
DS (5) has been through a phase of this - and it limits their options so much (for instance he loves dancing round the house, and I think is naturally good at it, but won't countenance dance lessons).
Google can be your friend.
When DS says things like "Girls can't run countries", a quick google throws up lots of female prime ministers. "Girls can't be generals" - ditto.
Would the same help? "Girls can't play football" - youtube clips of Rachel Yankee.
Book choices - The worst princess - it's brilliant.
DS is showing signs of mellowing a bit - has decided his favourite colour is green (went from pink in the blissful pre-peer-pressure days to blue overnight) and has started to say things like "It's not fair to say girls can't play with X,Y,Z just because they're girls". (Yes, of course he's mimicking me - but instilling the values you think are right is part of being a parent. And if they have any gumption, come adolescence they'll rebel, then as an adult they'll re-assess and decide to keep the ones they think there are good arguments for and reject the others - so I'd better make sure I keep honing my arguments on the FWR boards grin).
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Does anyone know why this happens?
This is my usual workflow for creating various sized web banners.
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A problem keeps occuring that if I modify a movie clip in one document those changes can affect other documents even if they are closed.
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Hey, I’m just back from a meeting in Europe! Pediatric neurology. Couple of observations:
The Europeans are certainly interested in autism. Witness the debates in France about whether it’s the mother’s fault or not. But European physicians tend to put a somewhat different frame about it than we do.
Here, autism counts as a distinct disease. There, it’s really just a chapter in the mental retardation story. And European physicians tend to talk about “MR” rather than autism. Of course all children with the autism diagnosis are not retarded. That’s the purpose of “Asperger’s Disease,” meaning autism with normal or higher intelligence. But over there, “MR” continues to be a valid category while here the term has become taboo.
Why is that?
It’s because American physicians are running scared in the face of a very powerful parents’ lobby. Parents of developmentally disabled children hate the term “mental retardation” because of the pall of hopelessness that enshrouds it. The term is heavy with odium and somehow “autism,” though not a gateway to the sunny uplands, is less stigmatizing. This is why “MR” has virtually vanished from U. S. pediatric centers, and even though many of the autistic children will have subnormal intelligence, this is not the focus. Rather, the classic autistic characteristics of social isolation and a tin-ear for social cues occupy center stage, and intelligence is simply not dwelt upon.
In a way, this is progress. It gets attention off brain power and onto social issues that are much more important to the child. The mania for intelligence testing that gripped US society in the first half of the twentieth century is now easing as we become more interested in helping children fit in than in prepping them for exams. The contrasts between the US and China or Korea could not be more dramatic: There, exam-passing is everything and subnormal intelligence represents a humiliation for the family. The children are kept indoors and experience social death. Here we believe that every child is precious.
So, this is progress. But it is not science. There is nothing wrong with accommodating parents’ very real and very bruise-able sensitivities. But to reduce the complex world of developmental disorders to “autism” makes it harder to do research. The patient population becomes too heterogeneous to study.
Look at what has happened to “depression.” The term has swollen so badly out of shape that anyone the least bit dysphoric will be diagnosed as “depressed” and given “antidepressants” that, in many cases, are quite useless. Lots of different disorders are at play here, some quite poorly defined, and rather than throwing everyone into the depression tub we should be trying to make distinctions in order to come up with specific treatments.
Similarly with “autism”: When every child on the pediatric service becomes “autistic,” the term loses its meaning: genetics and social causation become jumbled together. Treatment responsiveness is lost sight of. For example, lots of kids with the autism diagnosis also have symptoms of catatonia, including self-injurious behavior (SIB). SIB is quite treatment-responsive. So are other forms of catatonia. “Autism” is not highly treatment-responsive, though various psychotherapies may relieve some of its symptoms.
There is a huge irony here. Autism was well described in the European psychiatric literature in the 1920s, and it was certainly differentiated from mental retardation. But the autism craze over here was initiated in 1943 by Leo Kanner, at Johns Hopkins University, a European who claimed to be describing a new disease. Kanner included no references in his paper, although he was Austrian-born and read German (Shorter & Wachtel, 2013).
So as the autism star rose here, the MR star fell. In Europe by contrast, the two diagnoses existed side by side. (It is true that in Europe after the Second World War, developmental psychology and psychiatry were swallowed up by the Freudians, who were more interested in toilet training than in social communication and isolation.) And to this day in Europe, “MR” is a respectable diagnosis.
So what you gain on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts. Here “autism” now rules the developmental roost. There, “MR” is still au courant, though the diagnosis—however scientific—is a cruel and unfeeling one. Here, physicians are cowed by the political power of the parents’ movement. There, the authority of the “Herr Professor Doktor” is unchallenged. Two worlds.
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Motorists try to avoid a pothole on Farragut Ave in Hastings-On-Hudson. Video Credit: Danny LoPriore
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Few things can put a bump in your day like a nasty pothole. Whether they're on the highway, Main Street, or outside your driveway, potholes can cause big problems for motorists.
John Albano, manager of Yonkers Auto Shop, said he hasn't seen many cars come in from pothole damage this year, but low-profile tires cause big problems.
"There's less rubber and more wheel, so the wheel bends easier. Newer cars have these big wheels with very little sidewall," he said. "They definitely were not made for the New York area."
Albano said an average wheel repair runs around $150, though older cars may require repairs up to $600.
Westchester Commissioner of Public Works and Transportation Jay T. Pisco said pothole problems are common across the state right now.
"The county has two crews that are out daily working on potholes on county roads. Between police, municipalities and residents, we have a lot of people sending emails and making phone calls," he said. "So far, I only know of one pothole that has caused any trouble. It made three cars in a row blow out a tire. County vehicles have experienced blown tires on potholes as well."
Some municipalities in Westchester are out each day with crews assigned to fixing potholes to avoid these accidents.
According to White Plains DPW Commissioner Bud Nicoletti, when road material gets warm, it expands and spaces open. Rainfall and snow fall get into the spaces and when the temperature drops, it freezes. The pavement then gets pushed up in spots. Once traffic goes over it, you have the formation of a pothole.
"This weather has been phenomenal in a bad way," Nicoletti said. "To have big swings from 0 to 40 or 50 in one day is a perfect set up for a pothole."
He said his crews took measures in the fall to prevent as many potholes as possible.
"We have a pretty aggressive program we've been doing for many years, which is called crack sealing. It involves filling cracks in the road with a liquid tar asphalt material," he said. "We do that in early fall and try to seal up any splits, alligatoring or cracking in road surface. It helps prevent potholes as much as possible."
Now, two crews are out in White Plains each day filling potholes.
"We're doing everything we can in White Plains to get rid of potholes as quickly as possible," Nicoletti said.
Kevin Winn, highway commissioner of Bedford, said the freezing cycle this winter is especially problematic.
"We've had temperature fluctuations from 5 degrees to 50 degrees in a day. It's taking a toll on all of the roads," he said.
Winn said the town of Bedford works year-round on pothole repair and prevention.
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Coddling Your Eggs Is Good for Them
As a kid, cracking the shell of a soft-boiled egg in my pink porcelain egg cup was one of my favorite parts of the weekend. In high school, making a near-perfect crème brûlée in cooking class was one of my standout moments. In college, they were a cheap source of protein to fortify those bowls of chicken-flavored ramen. And as a full-blown adult, they’re the most versatile ingredients in my kitchen.
But in this lifelong amour d’oeufs, I’d never made or even eaten a coddled egg. I’d come across some stuffy porcelain coddlers collecting dust on antique store shelves, but when Katy Andersen, the Lot18 Gourmet Curator, showed me the Jenaer Glas coddlers design by Bauhaus master Wilhelm Wagenfeld, I suddenly became very intrigued.
Though I’m usually hesitant to bring ultra-specialized devices into my kitchen, function aside, they were just gorgeous objects. And because they’re clear, they wouldn’t require the same blind faith in the kitchen timer that those porcelain numbers would. I invited several friends over to sample my eggy experiments, and got coddling.
Though it might sound otherwise, coddling your eggs does not involve emotionally suffocating them. Or even being overly gentle with them. At its most basic, you break an egg into a well-buttered container, put it in a pot of simmering water without fully submerging it, and basically double boil the thing. It turns out, it’s a little more foolproof than poaching with a bit of practice.
Experiment 1: The 8-Minute Egg
I liberally butter the inside of the coddlers, break an egg into each, pop the tops on, snap on the handy metal closures and put them into a pot filled with simmering water that reaches just above the line of the eggs.
After 8 minutes, they’re still looking soft on top.
But after running a knife around the edge of the eggs to loosen them and plating, it turns out I’ve effectively made funny-shaped hard-boiled eggs. When I cut them open to check the yolk consistency, I end up with two rubbery Pac Men. My companions eat them, begrudgingly.
Experiment 2: The 5 ½-Minute Egg
After giving the coddlers a thorough washing, I re-butter and break some new test subjects into them. After submerging for 5 ½ minutes, the eggs are still looking suspiciously jiggly on top. But in the interest of science, I decide to stop the cooking and test them out.
After removing the eggs from the coddlers, as it turns out, these are just amazing. The yolks are a perfect just-slightly-warmed runny, and the portions of the white that were in contact with the glass have crisped in the butter. My companions forgive me as they scarf these down.
Experiment 3: Cured Cheese and Strawberry Soufflé
These coddlers came with several “not just for coddling anymore!” recipes, including this one. Reading “cured” (aged) cheese in the ingredients list, I was nervous, and briefly considered defecting to crème fraiche. But I had some delicious Spanish Mahón from La Tienda left at home, which seemed like as good a crapshoot as any for this test.
I followed the recipe with a few tweaks: I overdid it a bit with the lemon zest, made some strawberry sauce from scratch with frozen strawberries, sugar and lemon juice, and opted to microplane the cheese to make sure it integrated well.
I buttered the coddlers and sprinkled them with sugar, then added the fresh strawberries and the hot syrup to the bottom.
Then, after spooning in the meringue-sugar-yolk-cinnamon-lemon-zest mixture, I put them into a pot containing about an inch of hot water. I then popped it in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for exactly 15 minutes.
As I’d never made a soufflé before and had heard little about them other than how impossible they are to get right and just how often they fall, I was nervous. But after working through the directions and taking them out of the oven, these little guys were INCREDIBLE. Rich, citrusy, densely flavorful but fluffy-textured, my kitchen companions were raving with each bite. They didn’t last long. And now, I’ve found yet another place for eggs in my kitchen.
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Tomás Cantillo was an 11 year-old boy who worked for a local gang of drug dealers in his neighborhood. He was the younger brother of Andrea Cantillo.
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Tomás' initiation into the gang involved shooting a rival dealer who was selling on their territory. This rival dealer was Christian "Combo" Ortega, Jesse Pinkman' friend and, at the time, employee ("Mandala").
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He was always seen on a bike on the street going around in circles. He was approached by Jesse who buys the meth he carries in his pocket, however he didn't give it to Jesse until money was received by his supervisors ("Abiquiú"). Tomás was later killed after the meeting between Jesse, Gus, and the two drug dealers. The meeting concluded with Gus restricting Tomas' involvement in drug dealing, but it is highly possible that Gus gave the order to kill Tomas ("Half Measures").
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EIA's updated energy subsidy data: same research mandate as last time; same problems likely
My original information suggesting that Senator Lamar Alexander had put in a new request for EIA to update its work on energy subsidies turns out to have been incorrect. The actual requestors this time were from the House side: Congressmen Jason Chaffetz, Marsha Blackburn, and Roscoe Bartlett. I'm grateful to the office of Congressman Chaffetz for providing a copy of the request they submitted to EIA in this matter. That request is included below.
While not submitted by Alexander, the request is nonetheless almost identical to the letter Senator Alexander put in last time around. Congressman Chaffetz' office said this was done purposefully so the data could be compared to earlier studies. In my view, replicating the old scoping is quite unfortunate.
While the comparability is certaintly a benefit, it is not inherently so. First, as I documented last year there have already been substantial changes in EIA's methodology over time so the time series is already problematic. Second, identical scoping means that the more troublesome of the assumptions and policy omissions in the 2007 study will be replicated in the 2011 release. This is a far more important deficit than a time series between 2007 and 2011 is a benefit. The Congressmen could just as easily have empowered a more robust research mandate for EIA, and asked the authors to highlight in a table or chapter how those changes affected the time series data. A summary of how changes in assumptions, data, or other factors influence comparability from study-to-study would be a good thing for EIA to be including anyway.
Aside from the specific problems that using the Alexander research mandate will generate in understating the overall magnitude of energy subsidies and distorting their distribution across fuels, there are a number of broader policy issues that warrant consideration:
• Does EIA or any other statistical or oversight agency (e.g., GAO) of the federal government have the right to enter into a dialog with Congressional requestors over the scope of work they are being asked to do, or are they mere order-takers? This would be important both in terms of resources required to complete the requested task, and with respect to the relevance and accuracy of the results that this expenditure of governmental time and taxpayer resources will generate.
• If EIA did have this right, but didn't exercise it, why not? Clearly the subsidy study is widely cited and of interest to a much broader audience -- even within Congress -- than the three members who put in this particular request.
• When such a request for a non-routine analysis of broad interest to the Congress is placed, should there be a process by which EIA or other statistical agency can vet the scope to a somewhat wider audience -- at least within Congress -- before embarking on the research? Such input at the early stages could result in a much more robust and useful product, but becomes increasingly difficult to integrate once research is well underway and a delivery time has been commited to.
• Finally, if EIA did in fact work through the terms of reference with the requestors and determined the existing structure was appropriate, this too would be a problem.
Honorable Richard G. Newell
U.S. Energy Information Administration
1000 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20585
Dear Dr. Newell:
I am writing to request that the Energy Information Administration (EIA) update the report entitled Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007 with the latest available data, preferably for fiscal year 2010. The information in this report has been used extensively by legislators and the public, providing a compendium of data on federal financial involvement in electricity markets that has proven invaluable. An update using the same approach as the previous report would be very beneficial to Congress and the energy community.
As in the 2007 report, I am requesting that you provide a comparison of the subsidies in the electric power sector for each fuel type (oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, etc.), reporting both the overall annual cost of the subsidy and the annual cost per unit of electricity generated (e.g. cost per megawatt hour). As with the previous report, the scope of the study should be limited to subsidies provided by the federal government that are energy-specific and that provide a financial benefit with an identifiable federal budget impact. The analysis should include the following type of subsidies: tax expenditures, (e.g. deductions, credits, and loan guarantees), direct expenditures (e.g. direct grant programs), federal research and development programs targeting electricity and its fuel inputs, and federal electricity programs (e.g. support for the Bonneville Power Administration). If a significant change to the amount or scope of the subsidy since the 2007 report has occurred, a detailed explanation for the change should be documented in the report.
It would be most helpful if the updated report could be made available to the Congress no later than the beginning of 2011.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.Should you have any questions, please contact Mike Jerman in Rep. Jason Chaffetz’ office at [email address] or [telephone number].
[Signed Congressmen Jason Chaffetz, Marsha Blackburn, and Roscoe G. Bartlett]
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Hypocritical Piracy Alarmists Are Big Into Piracy
Major media companies say online piracy is such a problem that the federal government should adopt a draconian system of blockades and blacklists to stop infringement. But maybe they should first focus on the pirates they pay and employ, who've just been exposed torrenting the hell out of competitors' movies and TV shows.
Media companies are the lead BitTorrent scaremongers, but that doesn't keep them from using the file-sharing system to save a buck. Using a new BitTorrent monitoring service, the website TorrentFreak discovered people at Sony Pictures Entertainment IP addresses downloading "Beavis and Butthead," "Conan the Barbarian" and rock duo the Black Keys, none produced by Sony. Over at NBC Universal, the download action included "Game of Thrones," "2 Broke Girls," and "How To Make It in America," none made by NBC or Universal. (We'll forgive the media conglomerate its "Cowboys and Aliens" download, since it helps distribute the film, but producers Fairview and Imagine Entertainment may still have a legitimate grievance). Fox, meanwhile, was all over Paramount's "Super "8. That would be the same Fox that had a guy sent to jail for uploading "Wolverine."
This torrent traffic were pulled from only a small sample of the total so, as TorrentFreaks notes, is only the tip of the iceberg. Given how controversial the media companies' anti-piracy legislation is right now, it seems bizarre that they'd allow staff to be so brazenly hypocritical. But on a purely practical level, it makes sense: Piracy prosecutions are pursued collectively, through close-knit industry groups like the Motion Picture Association of America, meaning media companies employees pirating things at work don't really have to worry about getting sued. Aren't oligopolies great?
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Breading Has Jumped The Shark
Since this morning, the whole internet has gone crazy for breading, the meme where you put your cat's (or dog's) face into a piece of cut-out bread, take a picture then post it on the internet. Unfortunately, a recent spate of media coverage makes it painfully clear that breading is over.
Breading was picked up by the Melbourne Herald Sun just a few minutes ago.
According to the Herald Sun
The trend is gaining popularity, thanks to a Facebook page with more than 10,000 likes, a post on blogging platform Tumblr and a stamp of approval from Gawker.
So if you have some time on your hands, grab your cat, hollow out some bread, say cheese and voila - you're officially hip.
Come on, Herald Sun, that is so three hours ago. Leave it to the media to pump up a stale meme for cheap pageviews.
Tomorrow Justin Bieber will probably tweet a picture of his cat breaded, and after that it's all over. Three days, tops, before breading features in a Fancy Feast commercial and is a gag in a Family Guy episode. Nothing of the true breading remains but fond memories, and the dozens of pictures in my inbox of people's pets with bread around their heads.
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Starbucks Is Slowly Reviving the Coffee Nerding of America
The Clover was a nerd's way to make coffee. Every parameter precisely, digitally controlled, for the most of tweaky of experimentation—or you can make the exact same cup over and over. Then Starbucks bought the company.
What happened next: Waves of independent coffee shops ditched their $10,000 Clover machines, for practical and philosophical reasons. Starbucks rolled them out to 50ish stores across the Northeast, Seattle and San Francisco. Then expansion stopped. That was almost two years ago.
Starbucks' first Clover showed up in New York around two months ago, in a nearly 20-year-old location that's been converted into a concept store. The thaw is beginning. Starbucks plans to finally expand the Clover's footprint gradually over the next 6-8 months, as they figure out how to integrate the machine into the natural rhythm of stores—which is basically dominated by Frappuccinos these days, not coffee.
In a way, it's a hard sell. The kind of people who would be most interested in coffee made via Clover, designed to pull the most out of a coffee—so shitty coffee would taste shittier—don't go to Starbucks. Starbucks is so reviled by people who actually like coffee that they've experimented with burying the Starbucks name at two pilot stores in Seattle which are designed to look more like the kind of place that serves Intelligentsia or Stumptown coffee. So it's heartening to see them try to live up a bit more to the ideals of caring about coffee and how it's served.
Starbucks Is Slowly Reviving the Coffee Nerding of America
For instance, while 30 days is what Starbucks considers the expiration date on beans in a store—16 days longer than any self-conscious shop would serve them—if you order a cup made with Clover, you're far more likely to get beans roasted within the 2-week mark. (In part because there are limited quantities of some coffees served using Clover, like the Jamaica Blue Mountain they're offering starting tomorrow.)
They're also making use of their spin on Clovernet, which was one of the big hype points of the machine: Shops and their baristas could share, upload and download recipes for coffees made via Clover. Starbucks pushes recipes for each coffee it serves on the Clover—around 4-6—to stores via a similar network, so there are custom parameters for each coffee. African coffees get a different treatment versus South American ones, as they should.
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practical aplications of ALDH inhibition's ability to "Cycle" compounds
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this post is just an introduction i have been researching this effect for the past wile and found a few novel and practical combinations.
SWIM recently found chewing canarygrass sprouts with a tums or two adding balsam fir needle and other 5HT3/4 antagonistic compounds after having predosed with L-lysine and lecithin and inhibitor 6b minus cilantro and allspice. to produce visual effects FAR different in nature to what smoked nn-DMT is like.
at some point(s) in the experience SWIM took basil gelcaps, crushing up tums and putting the powder in a gel cap followed by drops of basil or X liquid is very very effective, smoked basil and canarygrass sprouts at peak of canarygrass basil oral experience, SWIM has become so familiar with basil that as many find with cannabis SWIM can better feel out a substance by how it alters different types of basil experiences then by taking new substances from baseline.
in this respect it seems like basil unlocks a sort of super intuition in me and by smelling, tasting, touching, hearing, or seeing anything you instantly can estimate a ridiculous amount of information regarding whatever data you have interpreted from the senses of your body, reacting to the stimulus from outside the body. SWIM can easily determine the absolute peak potential of any oil bottle instantly upon opening it and smelling the opening SWIM can tell how many different systems in his body are being activated, this effect becomes more pronounced when you stop "using" basil every now and then and instead use it literally at the very least 2-3 times a day everyday all the time without stop, then when you want to really make it noticeable wile doing this you take it in very small amounts every 5 minutes for like an hour straight then at the end after taking single drops the whole time take like 15-30 at once and then again 3-5 more times spacing 5 minutes between every dose.
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Aug 15 09 4:18 AM
maybe SWIM having dosed basil so frequently for so long caused ALDH to shut down for a long time (making many normally inactive compounds potentially active) coupled with the fact that certain types of basil experiences have been noticed to increase SWIM's senses universally, in fact SWIM has developed all kinds of new senses like a sense of perceptiveness towards all sensations your experiencing, it is ABSOLUTELY vital that when people get on a really truly deep basil experience ware everything starts to have that D2 shine THEN at that point is when you should dose 2-5 more times and then go outside or try out one after another all the herbs spices,drugs anything that elicits a response from the senses sometimes just by it activating a sense you are able to realize senses you did not know you had the idea is that the more different stimulus you feed your senses wile on higher dose basil experiences the better you will be able to establish a SENSE of this or that drug,compound,receptor, etc also when you open your 3rd eye and use compounds that hit D2 its nice, like frankincense opens your third eye, but it also opens you to all sorts of other senses you did not know you had.
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Sep 23 09 5:01 AM
the following compounds SWIM has successfully got to "cycle" with ALDH inhibition:
Bufotenin <--- full threshold dose is absolutely amazing (SWIM had no serotonin like issues but would not advise making a piperidine metabolite of bufotenin without first having lots of strong gabaergics on hand to offset what could be only SWIM's suspition of the potential for serotonin syndrome, suspicion based solely on molecular similarity not experience)
Salvia (oh dear god vitamin and mineral deficiency getting progressively worse after first 8 hours, it lasted 3 days and was SWIM's first salvia experience he says he thinks she is quite unforgiving. could be amazing with large doses of time release vitamins and minerals)
THC (oral, inhalation, transdermal etc etc)
Methyl Chavicol
melatonin (possible blurring of boundaries between bufotenin, mexamine, and 5MeO DMT)
PEA (endogenous PEA when you trick your body into consistently making the piperidine analog from endogenous sources is extremely amazing DRAMATICALLY different from exogenous PEA or its piperidine form)
DMT the lines between endogenous dmt and exogenous tryptamine start to become pretty gray right about here
mexamine <--- EVERYONE NEEDS TO START MAKING THIS the piperidine form of mexamine is amazing
fully lucid, fully awake, fully real, fully detached and grounded simultaneously you have a lucid dream wile awake with all the fun parts you can imagine devoid of all the bad parts you can imagine.
i think we need to make an entire thread on time release vitamins and minerals and supplements and herbs everything needs to be tested this way SWIM has found many unexpected substances produce very profound effects when taken in time released as opposed to their instant release default form. a very good example being the sugars in fruit are designed to produce sustained energy throughout the day as opposed to artificial sugars that hit you like crack.
things (everything) seems to show a different side of itself the more times you take it differently and with different things.
people who have done a lot of PEA or 5MeO DMT or D2 psychedelics in general will likely understand what i mean by this, on those compounds often its what you think or do or the way you think about this or that or the way you do this or that that catalyzes the experiences you remember till death.
the fact that is that way alone, IS THE HINT so as that you can keep going with that idea
because of god only knows what being fed to us from every direction we are in a state of extreme deficiency ware in witch we feel the world is only "psychedelic" wile taking part in a handful of plant teachers surely you must understand the absolute hilarity in the idea that we are expected to accept such a frail explanation as reality?
there are no psychedelics, certain substances just seem certain ways from certain perspectives.
the things traditionally thought of as psychedelics just happen to coincidentally have the potential to allow you to FEEL AS IF you have an imaginary and MATHEMATICALLY ACCURATE measuring stick, that can be applied to all the current, past, and potential senses.
if you allow yourself to go into the psychedelics (accept the responsibility that is tied to WHAT FEELS LIKE POWER FROM CERTAIN PERSPECTIVES) they will simply teach you a new language and with this language you will be able to realize that ABSOLUTELY everything is equally a plant teacher. this is what the plant teachers are trying to say go beyond this if you find something that stands out the quality that stood out is not tied to the method or means with witch you got there the part that stood out is actually totally saturating every part of everything hidden away for those that learn the language to interpret their message not IT but THEM everything is an entity the rocks are alive, or rather there is not such thing as something devoid of the quality we refer to as "life"
the psychedelics will just make you hallucinate life experiences weather or not you move past the life experience wile on psychedelics or not or weather you feel you need to not be on them to convince yourself it was YOU making the step forward, is ENTIRELY up to you, you can be god the only "problem" per say is very simple: with great power comes great responsibility, do not think to prepare for the responsibility, just realise that the power is related to relinquishing your sense of need to conquer, its a math formula you can only get the actual true power when you take up responsibility, and by responsibility i mean simply letting go of who you play the game of identifying with as "yourself"
if you do not respect the power itself the power will not respect you quite simply.
you are dealing with an ENTITY in ALL affairs not just wile taking part in x handful of practices or experiences.
by its a math formula i mean true power is intrinsically dependent on the individual or party going back to taking part in sincerely intending to do well, instead of pretending they could ever be doing otherwise.
you are always being sincerely responsible you simply often play the make pretend game of not being
the problem is you do have this measuring stick, it was there the whole time but all manner of toxin keep you in a state of maintained heavy metal poisoning witch makes the measuring stick highly deficient so you feel people must be crazy to act as if you could have a measuring stick
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Sep 25 09 9:52 PM
firstly stop ingesting EVERYSINGLE source of dimethylamine then supplement with whatever is claimed to be the highest tolerable daily dose of L-lysine. then make a salad bowl sized soup out of a few tablespoons of black pepper and boiling water and nothing else (the purer the water the better, Desani is the only bottled water anywhere near pure) then dip your head in this keeping your ears away from it and having it submerge your forehead and temples. from here just apply almond oil or extract to all your chakras 3 times a day for a wile and you will be free from prolactin entirely, at this point start adding in EO's to balance all the chakras 1-3 times a day after a week or two of maintaining balanced chakras you have so little prolactin in your body and you end up with so many D2 receptors that your imagination is real time waking virtual reality.
its literally more efficient for me to explain to you how to get your body to produce mexamine by itself from rice, water, and multivitamin, with the addition of only ALDH inhibitors (so as to prolong the effect) and prolactin inhibitors to allow it to get anywhere.
theirs also the fact that you could take pure mexamine and add a aqueous extract of mexamine to a cup of black pepper tea filtered of solids, and if that does not work try combining the mexamine with something known to break down things of a similar chemical structure to mexamine into aldehydes and then take the aldehyde product and combine it with the piperidine tea or extract and i guess let them sit till they seem to have a different effect than just black pepper and mexamine.
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Sep 25 09 10:40 PM
What I meant was: Have you experienced the mexamine-piperidine molecule? If you have, what process did you use to create this molecule in your body? I want to reproduce it in myself. I don't want to affect the D2 receptors, prolactin level, or chakras in addition to creating mexamine-piperidine, I only want to create mexamine-piperidine. I would rather avoid dipping my head in a bowl of pepper, too; oral supplements are what I'm aiming for rather than transdermal.
But, what are you saying you have done? That by reducing prolactin levels and boosting D2 levels and using specific supplements you have gotten your body to constantly produce mexamine? And what is this business about rice, water, multivitamins, and ALDH inhibitors? Will that produce mexamine and piperidine?
What I'm thinking is this: Melatonin + ALDH inhibitor like Kudzu + Lysine = Mexamine Piperidine
That's a very long shot, which is why I want you to tell me how you got your body to produce mexamine. I didn't really understand what you wrote, lol
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Sep 26 09 12:10 AM
i am certain taking vitamin B6, valerian, melatonin, 5-HTP every night for say 2-6 days or until you notice it should be safe if you have lavender oil on hand and other gabaergics ideally also being nmda antagonists. if you do this and start to get it to work you can take out the 5-htp after a wile and start to go crazy with the other 3 every night getting the effects as if all 4 were taken in equal doses, once your at this stage you can just use 5-htp every so many days to give it a kick and after a wile of getting tolerant to the side effects of 5-htp you are capable of taking frequent enough doses to cause your dreams to spill into your waking consciousness having ones third eye and ideally all other chakras balanced before and during and after this would be a very good idea.
something that would also help enormously is if everyone tried taking blue lotus tea for every night for 1-4 or more weeks straight i guarantee you will notice EXTREMELY PROFOUND alterations in what you had been identifying with as baseline perception. its hard to explain it makes it seem like you had never been at baseline before you reach the level of clarity the baseline produced by chronic blue lotus causes.
blue lotus is by far the most powerful anti-addictive SWIM has ever taken part in, it is capable under the right conditions of producing a state of such high D2 receptor concentration in certain areas of the brain and body, it is on par with all forms of dmt at the very least but has its own nature to it.
it will begin teaching you a language to learn other languages with.
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Sep 26 09 1:06 AM
there is no endogenous or exogenous terms attempting to characterize the source of this or that are flawed due to eggs--> melatonin etc etc
now i am not saying lets give up i am saying there is no framework in actual reality so lets establish one first so that we can even HAVE THE TOOLS WITH WITCH to utilize what we are looking to take part in.
lets establish a floating theory of our own as what endogenous could possibly be.
its when you cut out as many things as possible that you can survive on that you start to learn what i am talking about here, then you probe individual things slowly in various different ways to feel out as many things as you can one after another this gives you a very well rounded perspective.
lets say endogenous is when all you eat is rice and water and a multivitamin/mineral, after a week of this or two for some people a month or two also going to bed in total darkness and then make sure you go to bed on a timer and wake up on a timer EVERY day in total darkness and total bright light as often as possible THIS WILL ILLICIT A PROFOUND EFFECT. i totally understand what was meant when whoever it is that i cant remember now said DMT and other similar things clean the pineal gland the more you use them they are balancing agents and likely much more.
it is ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING when you wake up and instantly know that if you wanted between now and the next time you sleep you may feel as if the day took any different amounts of time whatsoever might have felt like centuries at times might have felt like you finished the day in the blink of an eye but its truly astounding when it gives you the controller to play around with all day for a few days consecutively.
heres a better question what receptors does mexamine effect in what ways in what parts of body or brain?
oh ya i totally forgot, yes i have gotten mexamine to work using melatonin, also liquorice tea at bedtime can induce a very notable waking lucid dream state if you relax yourself and remember to stay awake.
about that whole why the chakras thing? it is absolutely 100% integral that everybody try this a few times because the effects it has on your bodies well being long term is tremendous, almond oil on all chakras can totally do away with arthritis or most pain other then strong stimuli. but the rest of them basically the majority of the time i put an oil on a chakra it is meant for it instantly releases dopamine and a few other things simultaneously with it that combine very nicely each chakra adding something different to the dopamine once you get to the crown you are fully inside the D2 shine happy times.
basically what i am saying is the absolute highest possibly peak of PEA and or PEA/L-dopa combinations is the nature state of the human body at all times otherwise is the deficiency if you balance out your chakras enough you will see this so clearly you will fade away and reality will set in to substitute your infinite doubts.
i have taken melatonin in so many different ways with so many different things i am certain the state achieved by chronic melatonin use at bed time that it produces during the day must be extremely close to or similar to what full chakra balancing feels like.
toastus i have used lots and lots of gamma-terpinene ...... you can figure out ABSOLUTELY anything like it is nothing at all if you balance all your chakras and then keep them balanced and start using Y-terpinene often in all sorts of different ways.
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Sep 26 09 2:41 AM
almond oil or grocery store almond extract
vitamins B6 and E give the same benifit
root chakra: tailbone/bottom of spine
sacral chakra: an inch or two below the belley button
solar plexus chakra: an inch or two above the belley button
heart chakra: center of chest SWIM just makes a circle outwards from the center of diaphragm
throat chakra: center of throat adams apple and back of neck
third eye chakra: center of foreheadanyware from between eyebrows to halfway up to the hairline temples help
crown chakra: center and top of head
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Oct 6 09 4:08 AM
And you got melatonin to convert to mexamine?
sorry for brushing over this without resolving the question you asked, this comes from SWIMs extensive knowledge and experience with the different stages of the human bodies ordinary schedule.
(including the mexamine peak)
when you take large doses of L-lysine daily and avoid dimethylamine sources, and have your own home made inhibitor 6b and take the right things to induce some things and inhibit others frequently you end up making your body turn a lot of molecules into piperidine versions and it cycles many many more than most people would think and after a wile you start to get so used to the effect of piperidine molecules you can instantly notice when a compound has began to act in a certain way because the L-lysine or rather piperidine its bound to makes a very distinctive electric feeling jolt jump through your body, .
the amount of diffirent things that can form piperidine alkaloids and get cycled with strong ALDH inhibition with strong alcohol dehydrogenase induction and mao A induction mao B inhibition as well as strong inhibition of most if not all the enzymes related to ALDH. i am not sure what factor is producing this effect perhaps its SSAO inhibition but when SWIM gets a really good PEA experience rolling with cocoa nibs its hard to compare anything else to it, it has qualities vary similar to certain stages of dxm and ketamine as well as 5 meo dmt, bufotenin, and salvia definitely some part of basil as well. this ALDH inhibition + piperidine combination is also very dangerous and to be taken very carefully by those not extensively familiar with the human bodies various functions. for those who know some of the things needed to be safe with mao a or b inhibitors and also understands the potential pros and cons of the ALDH piperidine cycling system it can be an EXTRAORDINARY teacher in and of itself, with ones 3rd eye and other chakras open and on chronic high dose L-lysine and the other needed things for cycling everything you interact with you can derive a stupidly large stretching amount of accurate information from nothing more than initial estimations.
a really big factor i found out recently was that liquorice root tea in SWIM induces waking lucid dreams fairly quickly after ingestion, these are very very pleasant.
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Nov 24 09 12:00 AM
what i am saying is i don't know EVERYSINGLE thing you eat or ingest in the run of a day/week so i don't know how many things are preventing you from getting the piperidine mexamine working.i DO however know that with this small contained list of foods/supplements i am able to consistently reproduce piperidine mexamine molecules.
your aidea about melatonin is a good idea, in another thread i posted a combo like:
melatonin 5-20mg
5-HTP 50mg +
valerian unknown amount
vitamin B6 100mg + more over time
start off by taking this every night and on the second night if you get overly serotonin-heavy effects reduce the amount of 5-htp and slowly step up the amount of 5-htp over time, when you are taking enough of these to get extremely lucid dreams, usually 100-200mg 5-HTP, mid-high valerian, 10-30mg melatonin, B6 ideally the absolute highest non toxic level of intake daily, at around this point witch is usually 1-2 weeks in (remembering to take away the 5-htp or reduce it for a night when getting more serotonin effect) at this point you can stop taking everything and just closing your eyes produces the same effect progressively more so the darker the room, and at this point taking any 1 ingredient alone or 2-3 in combination allows you VERY LARGE downloads of information regarding what each one was adding to the fully rounded experience of combining the 4. you start to learn the melatonin was likely producing most of the mexamine like effects, wile the others were many assisting synthesis.
after you get melatonin or the 4 combined to produce powerful lucid dream experiences you can easily learn to distinguish when melatonin is converting to mexamine or not and by melatonin i mean the encapsulated hormone AND closing your eyes in a pitch black room for 15-45 minutes.
dancing releases 5-meo dmt SWIM has decidedly come to this conclusion, and perhaps some bufotenin, listening to music and playing music and writing/playing music usually release some nn-dmt and mostly some cocktail of 5 meo and bufotenin with all of these activities releasing a fair chunk of mexamine on top of what i have mentioned. mexamine is kind of the Pi part of the equation its the bottomless well of unique expression that makes up your deepest self, its YOUR unique incarnation's "take" or "spin" on all the other uniqueness of this reality.
prolactin inhibition just so happens to from our ordinary experience of reality allow us to fully FEEL and take part in the "endless freshness" of reality. SWIM has gotten some extremely novel states of mind when combining anti-addictive reverse-tolerant versions of PEA. everything is so ridiculously saturated with endless wells of "d2 shine" or "novelty" or "curiosity inspiring".
you start to realize this is there the whole time, and if you cant take 1 molecule of the world and fill the physical and other universes with pages of the book about that one "piece" of reality, you could say, you have not experience the prolactin "void" yet.
with very strong prolactin inhibition and only orgasming AT MOST every 3 days, combined with very strong chronically increasing NMDA antagonism along with prolactin inhibition, PEA has a INCONCEIVABLY deeper side to show you.
strong or progressively increasing NMDA antagonism and prolactin inhibtion with strong daily exercise or D2 agonization of PEA use essentially is chemically induced wizard-ship.
and by chemically induced i mean chemically INITIATED, once you get the ball moving the momentum stays for the rest of your life.
one of the forum members in a post refers to certain PEA activations as "happy salvia" this is a good way of explaining it.
i think this is basically the up-regulating of endogenous systems to produce a sort of "forced" qigong, this is from wiki i think.
"In the principle circuit of qi, called the Microcosmic orbit, energy rises up a main meridian along the spine, but also comes back down the front torso. Throughout its cycle it enters various dantians (elixir fields) which act as furnaces, where the types of energy in the body (jing, qi and shen) are progressively refined.[46] These dantians play a very similar role to that of chakras. The number of dantians varies depending on the system; the navel dantian is the most well-known (it is called the Hara in Japan), but there is usually a Dantian located at the heart and between the eyebrows.[47] The lower dantian at or below the navel transforms sexual essence, or jing, into qi energy. The middle dantian in the middle of the chest transforms qi energy into shen, or spirit, and the higher dantian at the level of the forehead (or at the top of the head), transforms Shen into wuji, infinite space of void."
certain parts of bufo, 5 meo, and certain types of PEA experiences produce the effects i have heard attributed to mexamine.
the compound made by ALDH cycling tryptophan is somwhat like maxamine but more "cool, but not cold" its got a very strong fear halting component in SWIM, that is not as present if not devoid from 5 meo, bufo, and PEA, theirs also an element of valerian-like meditative thought quieting coupled with intensely fast recall of all types of memory and extremely enhanced general "thought, and thought process quality" i think toastus or one of the other older members use the term "brain streamlining" this is extremely accurate to SWIMS experience with certain types of tryptophan activation.
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Dec 15 09 4:14 AM
the following is from wiki and is a very good place to start investigating for more compounds to potentially cycle:
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Specific reactions catalyzed by MAO include:
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Dec 15 09 4:18 AM
this wiki page here shows a few things that result from mao a or b action on some compounds.
would have posted the actual information itself but the forum wanted a mod to look over it first, and that is not going to happen.
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Dec 15 09 5:26 AM
i have been looking into things that inhibit mao A only and do not effect mao B preferably short acting widely available compounds so as to strongly inhibit mao A and wait for the inhibition to reverse into induction, then to take strong mao B inhibitors with strong ALDH inhibitors and strong nmda antagonists and prolactin inhibitors, followed by PEA so as to attempt to differentiate between the effects of various PEA metabolites.
i would like to share that i have noticed consistently that i get very flat effects from PEA if taken without prolactin inhibitors, i will test soon with prolactin inhibited but nmda left alone.
these things i understand to be vital to getting any effect from PEA at all:
mao A and or B induction or inhibition
ALDH inhibition
ADH induction
prolactin inhibition <- the presence of prolactin seems to impair PEA dramatically.
NMDA antagonism ? i have a few ideas but have not tested with scrutiny yet, will soon.
does anyone know of anything that reduce the length of a compounds duration or that can cause a compounds effects to be more compounded.
i am also trying to find out if any vitamins, minerals, co-factors, foods, drugs, amino acids etc etc induce mao A or B.
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Dec 15 09 7:59 PM
mao A and or B induction or inhibition
ALDH inhibition
ADH induction
I can not agree with you more about prolactin. I find PEA to much more when a prolactin inhibitor is taken. I can't add much more than that i plan on testing NMDA antagonist and maybe ALDH inhibition.
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Dec 16 09 12:46 AM
another thing that seems to have a large impact is if you pre-dose with L-lysine or Lecithin i basically get either no effects or extremely short lived transient effects if i leave out both of those, even one of them can make a massive difference.
as far as i know what you need for best effects are:
L-lysine and or Lecithin (pepper tea filtered of solids works for replacing L-lysine, anything that breaks down into dimethylamine can replace lecithin)
ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase) induction
ALDH (aldehyde dehydrogenase) inhibition
MAO A induction
MAO B inhibition
vitamin C
NMDA antagonism
prolactin inhibition
wile buying or making your own inhibitor 6B is an extremely potent ALDH inhibitor, pomegranate extract inhibits ALDH for many hours ware 6B is short lived in me however combining the two makes 6B last much longer and makes pomegranate much stronger after 6B wears off.
caffeine pre-dose makes PEA several magnitudes stronger in me, i cannot remember if caffeine inhibits SSAO or just ALDH and some other enzymes related to ALDH this should be looked into.
i am planning on pre-loading on 5-HTP before my next PEA activation because of how dramatically it ramped up bufotenin and 5 meo in me, its important to make sure you take the 5-HTP an hour or more before the first PEA ingredients are taken so that it does not get caught in the mao a/b inhibition.
before i started aiming to create PEOA i used the following to activate PEA:
1-2 g L-lysine
100 mg magnesium
20 mg zinc
teaspoon parsley
485 mg cats claw (uncaria tomentosa)
teaspoon olive oil that has been sitting in direct light for quite some time, taste like cat pee ):
100mg caffeine anhydrous
10-20 drops almond extract
5-20 drops star anise EO
10-30 drops inhibitor 6B without the cinnamon, cilantro, allspice, spearmint
15-20 capers in what tastes like vinegar
100 mg rhodiola rosea (root) hydroethanolic extract
50 mg resveratrol extract containing 10% t-resveratrol, 10% viniferin
quercetin 500 mg
500 mg curcumin extract
these are taken in a particular order to maximize effects the last of witch is followed 15 minutes later by 2-3 heaping tablespoons 70-80% dark chocolate cocoa nibs as the PEA source.
2 brazil nuts, 1 g kelp extract (850 mcg iodine) careful kelp and brazil nuts really opens the channel widely make sure to take them for a few days prior to get used to having the channel open all the time before taking as PEA pre-dose.
i notice the side effects others mention from PEA but i find i only get them in my body and only for the first 15-45 minute come up, after the first 50 minutes all the PEA has reached my brain and i find literally as it passes from my neck into my head the side effects dissolve into an intense feeling that is like the euphoric opposite of a migraine.
it always seems to climb up to my throat and progressively get more side effects as it rises but comically it always catches itself JUST before it reaches actual side effects it feels like it swells right to the threshold of the side effects actually being problematic and then tips into purely good effects in me this happens just as it passes my neck witch it climbs to slowly over the 15-45 minutes after ingestion.
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if you take all the ingredients i listed in the post above expect it to last for multiple days especially if you use any amount of L-lysine or pepper tea filtered of solids.
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what i am trying to make is the piperidine version of this:
Mao-b should be inhibited for the highest conversion of PEA to PEOA and dopamine-,3-hydroxylase is the enzyme that converts PEA to PEOA. This paper says that studies show that PEA & MAO-b inhibitors each increase the PEOA content in the pineal gland. Pretty cool stuff, I wonder if you had your post synaptic mao inhibited you could be rocking some extra long extended PEOA as well as other things like Tryptamine.
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my hope is to try to reproduce endogenous PEA with exogenous substances through enzymatic transformation, i have found almost universally the endogenous version of compounds is often several magnitudes stronger than their exogenous counterparts and usually lasts much longer and their is the fact that the endogenous cannabinoid system only self up-regulates and it takes exogenous activation of it to down-regulate, at least that's how i understood a few articles discussing it, i have a feeling this same gimmick applies to most other endogenous systems.
the primary reason i get this impression is because i have done many different kinds of tolerance tests for many of the compounds we use and i have found if you eat multivitamins, kelp, brazil nuts and avoid food with flouride, bromide, chloride, mercury, after a week of taking almost or no exogenous drugs baseline itself starts to resemble a continuously sustained PEA experience that gets progressively stronger the longer you refrain from other substances.
this is especially noticeable when you take chakra balancing oils, because their exogenous effects are highly limited, what they do is use extremely small amounts of the oils themselves and activate an organs endogenous repair system and self regulation system, this leads to a much longer and more pronounced effect than the oil itself causes, i am certain that some chakra activations i have had have released endogenous compounds.
the way some of you guys describe how hordene has a very particular type of stimulation it produces that is not like any other kind of stimulation, well endogenous compounds in me have a very very specific feel that is instantly recognizably different than their exogenous counterparts, they are usually a lot more warm and permeating.
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Let $a$ be a closed point in $\mathbf{P}^1_{\overline{\mathbf{Q}}}$.
Let $Y \cong \mathbf{P}^1_{\overline{\mathbf{Q}}} $ and let $\pi:Y\to \mathbf{P}^1_{\overline{\mathbf{Q}}}$ be a finite morphism which is unramified above $a$. Let $b$ be a point in $\pi^{-1}(a)$.
Can one effectively bound the height of $b$ in terms of the degree of $\pi$, some data depending on the branch points of $\pi$ and the height of $a$?
Ineffectively this should be possible.
Maybe it's more natural to ask if one can bound the height of $\pi^{-1}(a)$ in terms of the degree of $\pi$, some data depending on the branch points of $\pi$ and the height of $a$.
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What do you mean by the "naive height of b" ? (a Weil height depends on a line bundle). ALso, I think $\pi=f$ in your post. – Damian Rössler Oct 3 '11 at 9:10
Since you assume $Y\simeq \mathbf P^1$, it is more natural to give yourself $\pi$ as a rational function of some degree $d$. Then, there are effective constants $c$ and $c'$ such that $ d h(y) -c \leq h(\pi(y)) \leq d h(y)+c'$ for all $y\in \mathbf P^1(\overline{\mathbf Q})$. The constant $c'$ is easy to obtain. The effectivity of $c$ is more subtle (one can get one through resultants, but in a more general setting, some form of effective Nullstellensatz is necessary). – ACL Oct 3 '11 at 21:09
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Let me reformulate the problem in less fancy terms. Let $\pi(x)\in\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ be a rational function of degree $d\ge1$. As ACL noted, there is a standard estimate $$ dh(y) - c_1(\pi) \le h(\pi(y)) \le dh(y) + c_2(\pi), \quad (*) $$ where it is relatively easy to give explicit formulas for $c_1$ and $c_2$ in terms of $d$ and the coefficients of the polynomials defining $\pi$. However, what you seem to be asking is whether we can give formulas for $c_1$ and $c_2$ that depend only on $d$ and the branch points of $\pi$.
I suspect that the answer is no, for the following reason. For simplicity, lets assume that $\pi(\infty)\ne0$, so I can normalize $\pi$ so that its numerator is monic of degree $d$. A rational function of degree $d$ has $2d-2$ branch points, but with this normalization, it has $2d+1$ free coefficients. So fixing the branch points should give a 3 dimensional family of maps with those branch points. By varying $\pi$ within such a family, the values of $c_1(\pi)$ and $c_2(\pi)$ that come from the usual proof will not be bounded. This makes me suspect that by varying $\pi$ within the family, the inequality $(*)$ will fail if we require $c_1$ and $c_2$ to be fixed.
This isn't a proof, of course, but I hope it suggests where one might look for a negative answer to your second question.
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Lose The Gut.
You really must be careful when you make a decision. You make decisions because things need improving but, if you're anything like me (and you are), your gut reaction takes over well before your brain see's the bigger picture. Your gut rarely improves anything. Our lives are full of these regrettable moments. It's the beginning of January so you think you need to better yourself by joining a gym and you feel happy for a minute and then you realise you've spent a fortune on something you hate and you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror wearing shorts and you hate yourself and you hate your awful legs and you hate everyone in the gym because they know how every machine and free-weight works and you're baffled by the skipping rope. Or you feel you deserve better at work and you ask the boss for a raise and he agrees and promotes you and everyone is proud of you and you are happy for a billionth of a nano second because now that you're promoted you realise that you hate your job and your new desk and your new job title and all you've done is leapt another mile away from your dream of being a roadie for These Animal Men. Or you call someone a sell-out and feel smug for a half second after pressing SEND before you remember that you write for The Sun and sell crap Australian beer for a living. Don't listen to yourself ever. You're an idiot. We all are.
I know I am. My New Year's Resolution of not letting anyone away with being rude has finally hit me. It's a really bad idea. I'm going to get killed to death.
Of course, it all has to do with a train. Trains are my nemesis. If something bad is going to happen, a train will be involved. Did you know that the "grassy knoll" leads to a train line? It really does. Trains are bastards. There I was at Paddington station shuffling my way off the train and down the platform when a man rushed towards me, whacked into me at full force and ran off. Because I made this decision to not let rude people off, I listened to my gut and did what any clear-headed, rational person would have done. I tutted a bit and just forgot about it.
Oh. Hang on. No. I didn't do that.
I ran after him.
It wasn't a big run, don't worry. If it was he would have got away and I would have died of stitch. He didn't get far and I caught him. I literally caught him. By his arm. And this is where it got uncomfortable.
He looked all shocked. My gut loved this. My gut was having a great time. Running after this man and grabbing him by the arm was definitely the right thing to do. The scared man asked what was wrong. "You just whacked right into me", I said, still holding his arm. "I'm really sorry", he said. "I'm going to miss my train".
"I know you are", I replied while grabbing his arm now with both of my hands."Because I'm not letting you go".
And that's when my gut stopped laughing and my head woke up. "What are you doing, Michael? A man has bumped into you, so now you've kidnapped him?" My head was very disappointed in me.
The man looked really scared. That made me really scared. Two scared men together on a train platform not knowing what to do. I let him go and he ran.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! What the hell is wrong with me? It's not like he purposely shoved me. Yes, it would have been nice if he had apologised and maybe he'll think twice about that in the future but is that really the point? Is HE the one that needs to think about things in the future? I GRABBED A MAN! I don't grab men. Men push me and I accept it. I DON'T GRAB MEN!
And has this made me change my mind about my New Year's Resolution? Sigh.... No. Of course not. Me and my stupid gut.
That whole thing lasted about 10 seconds but has taken me 4 days to come to terms with. By the way, if you want to join me in my NY Resolution, then please do and let me know how you've stood up against rudeness. First rule: DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN DANGER. Remember, I'm an idiot. Thank you.
Anonymous said...
I love you.
Yes, really, just a little bit, but yes, yes I do.
Meanwhile I presume your "Join Me" style cult / book / TV show / film plans are coming along nicely.... ?
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BE honest: would you rather look at Toby the Lab or the funeral of Kim Jong-il? I thought so.
This is my last post for 2011, an eventful year in fashion, a most peculiar year that saw a feverish spread of luxury brands in places like China and Brazil, chasing new wealth, even as insiders saw the Galliano scandal as a sobering episode for an industry that tends to push its talent hard. I wonder, though, if the insider's influence hasn't waned. To be sure, people admire the genuinely talented, and we're attracted to star personalities both on the runway and in the front row. It's also true that fashion, like everything else, runs in cycles - one moment it's guilty of gluttony, the next it regrets the whole thing. But outsiders seldom feel these mood swings; they just know what they want, and the business side of fashion houses (along with the more astute creative directors, like Christopher Bailey of Burberry) has seen to it that they get what they want.
The other day I was at Bloomingdale's. Christmas had come and gone. The scene was like all the great Saturdays in New York. Husbands and boyfriends were sprawled on sofas, checking e-mail or pretending to be asleep. Families of tourists were trying on sweaters and coats in the men's department; I watched a gawky young Italian man model for his mom and dad, each with a pile of clothes on their laps. As I passed through the second floor, a girl poked her head out of a black-curtained changing room set up for convenience near the aisle and asked her mother to find a different size.
Like other stores, Bloomingdale's was knocking 50 percent off the price of many items. I asked a salesman how things were going. He said: ''Great. We live for the holidays.'' The lack of enthusiasm in his voice made me laugh to myself: yes, retailers do live for the holidays. But a day working on the floor of a department store has to take the starch out of you.
''The week after Christmas is becoming a bigger percentage of our December business,'' said Frank Doroff, the vice chairman of Bloomingdale's, adding, ''It appears to me that there are a lot of tourists in the city.'' He also said that colder weather, deeper discounts and the federal holiday on Monday could have contributed to the crowds.
I agreed with him, but I noticed something else - people seemed be enjoying themselves. The yoke of buying for Uncle Pete and Cousin Alice was off them. They were free to get what they wanted. And the store was scarcely throwing them bones.
Then Mr. Doroff, who was taking a few days off, said he wasn't using his Kindle much lately. ''It feels good to go to a bookstore again,'' he told me, and recommended ''Rules of Civility.'' I laughed, thinking about what the soul occasionally needs, and in the spirit of exchange, offered ''Ordinary Dogs,'' by Eileen Battersby, a wonderful book.
Early in 2012, the blog will be 5 years old. Toby the Lab, who appeared in some of the early posts, along with the late and lamented Fred the Jack Russell, is now 10.
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Google Says Don't Worry, AOL Won't Change Us - But There's Wiggle Room
Seeking to reassure searchers that Google has not sold out to gain the AOL deal, About the AOL announcement from Google vice president of search products & user experience Marissa Mayer offers words of reassurance, as well as a flat out denial that Google will ever have banner ads on the Google home page or search results. First of all, it's nice to see Marissa's finally gotten a better title and VP status! But now let's talk wiggle room.
First, the statement on banners:
So there you have it. Couldn't be more clear cut and hard to reverse, if they change their mind. But the key word here is "banners," which means those horizontal ads typically at the bottom of the page that many learned to ignore after they powered the early growth of the web. You know, like you'll find here on the types of image ads Google itself puts on sites across the web.
Notice there's lots of other ad formats. Why, there are big leaderboards. There are long skyscrapers. How about a medium rectangle? None of these are banners; none of these technically are ruled out by the promise today.
I'm going to follow up with Google on this. My assumption is that "banners" was probably something used quickly and in a shorthand way to mean large, graphical stuff isn't coming to Google and specifically the Google home page and web search results (other parts of Google aren't ruled out by this ban)
Having said that, I just talked with a trusted reporter who tells me that the idea of thumbnails or small graphical images associated with text ads may very well come. Again, I'm doing follow-up -- but if these do come, saying you won't do banners or "crazy, flashy, graphical doodads" probably wouldn't apply to these types of units. There's wiggle room for them.
I've already covered earlier why some small use of graphics wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. But if they should come after what seems a flat-out statement, that's going to raise some eyebrows.
It's also worth reminding that Google has already -- and for some time -- run graphic units to promote both its Google Desktop and Google Toolbar applications on its search results pages. John Battelle gives you a screen shot of the toolbar promo here from October, but that had already happened previously months before, as well. Here you'll see a similar promo for the Google Desktop from back in March -- and I could swear I've seen this or the toolbar ad come up for me last week.
As for the Google home page, it's also worth remembering that Google's put graphic units there as well. Here's an example of that toolbar ad on the Google home page from back in October, and that's hardly the first example. It's not a new thing. It's just a sporadic one.
Finally on image ads, Google's said previously that graphical ads might show up on Google Images and Google Video as part of the deal. So while "crazy, flashy, graphical" stuff may not be on the Google site, other graphical stuff deemed relevant, useful and non-intrusive probably will.
Beyond image ads, Google reassures that results themselves won't be skewed to favor AOL and that "indexing more of AOL's content" is just part of the overall mission of including "all the world's information."
Sure, I believe that. But here's the thing. If Google's doing what it does for everyone, then it should have never -- ever -- been put into the press release on the deal. It's either a business deal arrangement or not. If it's just normal stuff -- which I fully believe will be the case -- then don't let your partner talk it up to score points with investors. Don't sell out in that way, if only that you then have to backtrack to reassure your own users you're really not selling out. By this measure, someone buying AdWords for Google might as well run a release saying that they expect Google will also be working with them to improve content indexing.
The issue of ad credits AOL is getting is addressed, with reassurance that while AOL has some credit to spend, that won't let it necessarily jump ahead of anyone else. Of course, $300 million is a lot of credit to spend, and AOL may not be as concerned about ROI impact as many of Google's regular advertisers are. It'll change the marketplace at least a tiny bit, but fair to say, not in the way of giving AOL some type of favoritism.
What's not addressed is the promotion of AOL video content. Google's going to showcase AOL content in Google Video in some way. I first heard of this when Saul Hansell of the New York Times told me about the plans, when talking with him for a story he later wrote. But the video arrangement didn't show up in his story, so I assumed it was a rumor that Google discounted when he followed up with them. Then in Elinor Mills' article at after the formal announcement, the mention of showcasing was there.
Go to Google Video now. There are two tabs on the home page, with the default to show you popular stuff right on the home page -- which at the moment I assume really is popular stuff based in some way on search activity.
What's the showcase arrangement going to do? Am I going to get "Featured Videos" on the home page now like over at Yahoo Video, where I'm almost certain the only thing making them "featured" is arrangements with content providers?
If so -- or if AOL gets any type of presence on the Google Video home page at all -- that's a radical departure for Google. It has never to my knowledge given a company any type of preferential treatment of that sort, other than perhaps the deal to use as the default dictionary provider. But with, Google can at least fall back to say that they've done a review and think they are the best provider. Why would AOL be featured? Yes, they've got great content. But not because they are the best provider. It's because a business deal was struck.
As I said, I'm doing follow up here, to the degree I can during the holiday period. It's easy to speculate and worry now, while my preference is really to see what they actually do. The reassurances from Google are good, and they've got a long history of being careful to protect the user experience and the impartial quality of dealing with content. But having said that, they are having to put out such reassurances now quite simply because they allowed doubts to be introduced when the deal was announced. A statement like this from Time Warner in the release:
A critical piece of this strategic alliance will be our content, which we will be making more accessible to Google users.
is now forcing Google to do damage control in the way we haven't seen since Google CFO declared clickfraud being a big threat a year ago. If Time Warner content is important to Google users, it should have been included already before this deal. It definitely shouldn't have been mentioned as part of it, generating doubts that other content won't be as accessible. | <urn:uuid:4a205d65-2d12-4eb6-ae01-388e269c8216> | http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2060099/google-says-dont-worry-aol-wont-change-us-but-theres-wiggle-room | en | 0.967701 | 0.044333 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
digital worldA young male who was born to be an entrepreneur drops out from a computer-science program at a prestigious university. He meets a powerful venture capitalist who is so enamored with his idea that he gives him millions of dollars to build his technology. Then comes the multi-billion-dollar IPO.
That’s the Hollywood version of Silicon Valley. But it is as far from reality as is Disneyland. Entrepreneurship is never that easy and the stereotype of the startup founder is not representative of the technology world. Yes, there are a few, such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, who made it big. But they are the outliers—and they too don’t fit the stereotype. Here are six myths about what it actually takes to make it:
1. Entrepreneurs are a product of nature.
A common belief is that entrepreneurs are born and cannot be made. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson once said that he was shocked when a professor told him you could teach people to be entrepreneurs. He explained, “I’ve been working with entrepreneurs for almost 25 years now and it is ingrained in my mind that someone is either born an entrepreneur or is not.” Venture capitalist Mark Suster, with whom I once had a fierce debate on this topic, maintained the same.
They’re wrong. My research team found that, of the 549 successful entrepreneurs that we surveyed in 2009, 52 percent were the first in their immediate families to start a business; about 39 percent had an entrepreneurial father and 7 percent had an entrepreneurial mother. (Some had both.) Only a quarter of the sample had caught the entrepreneurial bug when in college. Half didn’t even think about entrepreneurship then, and they had had little interest in it when in school.
This sample doesn’t necessarily prove my point. But look at some of most successful entrepreneurs that we know: Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jan Koum. They didn’t come from entrepreneurial families. Their parents were dentists, academics, lawyers, factory workers, or priests. I doubt they were writing business plans while in kindergarten or selling lemonade in grade school.
I know many ordinary entrepreneurs who also didn’t sell lemonade. I myself come from a family of government bureaucrats and teachers. I started my career as an I.T. professional and never dreamed of becoming an entrepreneur. But when I was 33, the opportunity presented itself to me to start a company that could impact the world. I made the leap and helped build a business that generated $120 million in annual revenue.
Silicon Valley luminary Steve Blank, who moderated my debate with Suster, adds another perspective. He says “Change the external culture and environment, and entrepreneurship can bloom regardless of its source—nature or nurture”. He’s right. Entrepreneurship flourishes in places where people can learn from and inspire one another, such as Silicon Valley and New York City.
2. The best entrepreneurs are young. If you’re over 35, you’re over the hill.
Silicon Valley investors openly tout their preference for younger entrepreneurs. One famous investor said, “People under 35 are the ones who make change happen … people over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.”
My research teams documented that the average and median age of successful technology company founders when they started their companies had been 40. We learned that as many had been older than fifty as had been younger than twenty-five; twice as many had been over sixty as under twenty. Seventy percent were married when they launched their first business; an additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed. Sixty percent had had at least one child, and 43.5 percent had had two or more children. The Kauffman Foundation also researched the backgrounds of successful entrepreneurs and found similar results.
On a post on Quora, Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp—the most expensive technology acquisition ever—wrote “i incorporated WhatsApp on the day of my 33rd birthday. i had no idea i only had 2 years left.”
Look closer at the technology industry, and you will realize that VCs who say that older entrepreneurs are over the hill are misguided. For example, Marc Benioff was 35 when he founded and Reid Hoffman was 36 when he founded LinkedIn. Reed Hastings was 37 when he founded Netflix; Mark Pincus was 41 when he started Zynga. Pradeep Sindhu was 42 when he founded Juniper Networks and Irwin Jacobs was 52 when he founded Qualcomm.
3. Dropping out is the way to go; education is merely a distraction.
PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel made headlines when he announced four years ago that he would pay students $100,000 to drop out of college. He wanted to prove that higher education is overpriced and unnecessary; that budding entrepreneurs are better off in building world-changing companies than in studying irrelevant courses in school.
His effort proved to be a dismal failure. Some Thiel startups received big media attention and adulation—such as one that announced it would be producing caffeine spray. But none were the successes that had been promised.
The Thiel Foundation quietly refocused its efforts on providing an alternative form of education to college dropouts, and several of its sponsored dropouts returned to school. That’s because there is no substitute for education. Yes, there are good alternatives to universities, but entrepreneurs need to learn the basics of business and management in order to succeed.
Indeed, my research team found that, on average, companies founded by college graduates have twice the sales and employment of companies founded by people who hadn’t gone to college. What matters is that the entrepreneur completes a baseline of education; the field of education and ranking of the college don’t play a significant role in entrepreneurial success. Founder education reduces business failure rates and increases profits, sales and employment.
4. Female entrepreneurs don’t have what it takes to cut it in the tech world.
Women-founded firms receive hardly any venture-capital investments; they are almost absent in high-level technology positions; they contribute to fewer than 5 percent of all I.T. patents and 1.2 percent of open-source software programs. This is despite the facts that girls now match boys in mathematical achievement; that 140 women enroll in higher education for every 100 men; and that women earn more than 50 percent of all bachelor’s and master’s degrees and nearly 50 percent of all doctorates in the United States.
Do female founders receive less VC backing because women are different? Not at all. Research by National Center for Women & Information Technology revealed that there are almost no differences in success factors between men and women company founders. Men and women are equally likely to have children at home when they start their businesses, though men are more likely to be married. Both sexes have exactly the same motivations; are of the same age when founding their startups; have similar levels of experience; and equally enjoy the startup culture.
It’s also not that women can’t cut it in the rough and tough business world. Women-led companies are more capital-efficient, and venture-backed companies run by a woman have 12 percent higher revenues, than others.
5. Entrepreneurship requires venture capital.
Many would-be entrepreneurs write business plans in the hope of finding a venture capitalist to invest in them, believing that, without this funding, they can’t start a company. And that view reflected reality a few years ago. Then, capital costs for technology were in the millions of dollars. But that is no longer the case.
A $500 laptop has more computing power today than Cray 2 supercomputers that cost $17.5 million in 1985. For storage, back then, you needed server farms and racks of hard disks, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and required air-conditioned data centers. Today, one can use cloud computing and cloud storage, costing practically nothing.
Sensors such as those in our smartphones cost tens of thousands of dollars a few years ago. Now they too cost a few dollars or cents. Entrepreneurs can build smartphone apps that act as medical assistants to detect disease; body sensors that monitor heart, brain, and body activity; and technologies to detect soil humidity and improve agriculture. And they can participate in the genomics revolution. It cost $100 million to sequence a full human genome a decade ago. It now costs $1,000. Genome data will soon be available on millions of people, and then billions—allowing entrepreneurs to research the causes of disease.
There are similar advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and many other fields. These technologies too require no major capital outlays.
Venture capital follows innovation. If entrepreneurs build new technologies that customers need or love, money will come to them. They don’t need to wait for venture funding to start.
6. The tech world is for techies.
A common belief is that startup CEOs need to be engineers. Bill Gates argues that liberal-arts degrees don’t correlate well with job creation and that the humanities should be defunded in favor of science, engineering, technology, and mathematics. In Silicon Valley, there is a general bias against liberal arts and humanities. It is very hard for an artist or an English or psychology major to break in.
But note what Steve Jobs said when he unveiled the iPad 2: “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing, and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices.” He taught the world that, though good engineering is important, what matters the most is good design. It takes artists, musicians, and psychologists working side by side with engineers to build products as elegant as the iPad. You can teach artists how to use software and graphics tools, but it’s much harder to turn engineers into artists.
My research at Duke and Harvard looked into the educational backgrounds of 652 U.S.-born chief executive officers and heads of product engineering at 502 technology companies in 2008. We found that only 37 percent held degrees in engineering or computer technology, and that just two percent held them in mathematics. The rest had degrees in fields as diverse as business, accounting, finance, health care, and arts and the humanities.
Critical thinking, communication, and scientific validation are skills that are in short supply in the tech world. And these are skills that are abundant in the humanities.
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I am in a position where both sides of the story apply to me. On one hand I am studying clinical laboratory science with a future emphasis in microbiology. All the campaigns by lobby groups against vaccinations I've heard, read, and processed and I just don't understand. It's such a simple proposition: inject this purified material into your body and you will be protected from human diseases that have wreaked havoc on mankind for centuries. Done. Simple. Between all the vaccinations for the deadly (smallpox) all the way to the innocuous but annoying (varicella/chickenpox) unaccountable lives have been saved.
On the other hand I lie somewhere on the autism spectrum. I know what it's like day-in-and-day-out to have autism. To me it borders on degrading that a lobby group and certain people are saying things like: "this vaccination caused my son to develop autism". Almost like a search for blame rather than a scientific quest for the developmental mechanism leading to autism. Remove "autism" from the quoted sentence and replace it with phrases such as "homosexual thoughts" and "black skin" and you get inklings of homophobia and racism creeping in. To me the "autism" line has some of the same sentiments creeping in.
Those are my thoughts.
As to the original story:
1.) Usually the tetanus vaccine is grouped together with a vaccine for diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). If he isn't/wasn't vaccinated for tetanus he is more than likely unvaccinated against the other two. This is routine in the U.S. but I'm not sure what the general policy is for New Zealand.
2.) Through all my university courses in microbiological fields I have never had real instruction in measles, mumps, or rubella or the viruses that cause them. It's just not important or clinically relevant.[1]Measles, mumps, and rubella have gone the way of polio and smallpox as "things cured by vaccine."
1. Though this may change with the depth and specificity of my future classes
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witch•sploi•ta•tion n. In literature or cinema, the use of the Craft--or, more broadly, paganism in general--for sensationalistic (usually horror-inducing) ends.
You know the genre. Wicker Man I (“the one without Nicholas Cage,” as a local movie marquee put it during the midnight Samhain run last year), To the Devil a many to choose from. Somewhere off in the sticks there are (bwa-ha-ha) still real, live witches (or left-over pagans) and they still practice...(shudder)...human sacrifice. Whoa, dude, way scary.
A coven-sib recently confessed to me that her bookshelves are filled with trashy novels with the word “witch” in the title. Magenta, you're not alone. I resemble that remark myself, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The most amusing are the ones written by people who have done just a little research. Remember that 1964 cauldron-boiler Book of Shadows? In the opening scene, police are called to a gruesome murder in NYC's Central Park. A man has had his belly ripped open, his guts nailed to a tree, and he's been forced to walk around and around the tree wrapping a grim maypole with his own intestines. Yuck.
And he's just the first. Murders galore. Turns out all the victims had been on an inland cruise of England's canals when they happened to stop at a witch village somewhere in the Midlands. Turns out all the witches were off at some jamboree or other that day (must have been Pagan Pride or something), and someone stole a Book of Shadows from one of the houses. Everyone knows that the B of S is the spellbook that every witch needs to hold onto her power, and is something any witch will happily kill to recover.
The things they never teach you.
Do you know Marion Zimmer Bradley's Witch Hill? Yep, her first pagan (if you can call it that) novel, back before she became Lady of Avalon. A struggling young artist inherits an old house in the country from a distant relative, little realizing what she is inheriting along with the house. This is actually a pretty common scenario in the Witchsploitation genre; the same thing happens to Elvira in the film of the same name. (Elvira mistakes her aunt's B of S for a cookbook. You should see what happens at the church picnic.) Until I read this book, I never knew that at the sabbat Old Hornie's pizzle is painted red because it's his job to deflower the virgins of the tribe. Well now.
I have to admit that one of my favorites in the genre is still Tom Tryon's Harvest Home (the novel). (Speaking of Witchsploitation, please don't blame Bette Davis for Harvest Home: the Movie. It wasn't her fault.) Turns out that in a rural Vermont village settled by Cornish immigrants in the 17th century they still celebrate the Eleusinian Mysteries. Whooda thunk? (They brought them over from the Old Country, where they learned them from Minoan traders. Makes sense, of a sort.) And three guesses what they do every seven years to make the corn grow? What a hoot. I reread it in the fall every year, laughing all the way.
Recent years have even seen the emergence of a Witchsploitation sub-genre. Yep, turns out those spooky old viking ways have managed to survive way out in the country somewheres, and guess what they do every seven years to make the crops grow? I'm afraid one can only refer to this sub-genre as Norsesploitation. Sorry.
My friend and colleague Frebur Moore put his finger on the pulse of why Witchsploitation is important. Part of the power of the witch is that anything they say about us—no matter how scurrilous, ridiculous, or trivial—becomes ours, and we can avail ourselves of it. Just by claiming this identity, we enter a treasure-house filled with goodies that we can make use of, laugh at, or throw at each other at will. This is the laughter of those so secure in identity that they can afford to laugh at ridiculous stereotypes. How good is that?
As a matter of fact, when we paint up the hobman before the sabbat, we generally do paint his glans red.
But that's just coincidence.
What's your favorite example of Witchsploitation?
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Roger Clemens: Clemens wants charges thrown out
His lawyers said prosecutors' revelation that a teammate told his wife that Clemens confessed to using a drug "was no accident." They said the prosecutors chose to ignore U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton's order against using her testimony so they could provoke a mistrial because their case was going badly. The mistrial came on the second day of testimony in a trial that had been expected to last four to six weeks.
But the Clemens team argued "this is the rare case" that meets the standard.
"By the time the government provoked the mistrial, its highly experienced counsel had suffered a series of setbacks that cast doubt on the case against Mr. Clemens," defense attorneys wrote. They pointed out that prosecutors have not said they made a mistake and argued that the violations "were critical, hotly contested pretrial issues that no experienced prosecutor could simply have missed when it came time to finalize exhibits and prepare witnesses."
"The government had its day in court and squandered it with misconduct that irretrievably wasted time, money and the opportunity for a one-time, fair resolution of these charges for all involved," Clemens' attorneys wrote in their filing.
In the video, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., pointed out that Clemens' good friend and teammate, Andy Pettitte, says Clemens admitted using human growth hormone in a private conversation in 1999 or 2000. Clemens responded that Pettitte "misheard" or "misremembered" their conversation. But Cummings said Pettitte's wife, Laura, has given lawmakers an affidavit saying that her husband told her about the conversation with Clemens at the time it happened.
Walton had ruled before the trial began that Laura Pettitte's comments were inadmissible hearsay because she didn't speak to Clemens directly. When jurors began to hear about Laura Pettitte's statement, Walton quickly cut off the tape and admonished prosecutors. Clemens attorney Rusty Hardin did not object when the material appeared on the video. But after Walton stopped the presentation, Hardin at first asked the judge to tell jurors to disregard references to Laura Pettitte, but then asked for a mistrial. Walton agreed, saying he didn't know how he could "un-ring the bell" and give Clemens a fair trial with that jury.
Clemens attorneys argued it was the second time prosecutors had violated Walton's pre-trial orders. The first came, they said, during opening arguments when assistant U.S. attorney Steven Durham said Clemens' Yankee teammates would testify that they used human growth hormone. Walton told jurors to ignore the mention of the other players' drug use, since he previously told prosecutors he was concerned that it could lead jurors to conclude Clemens was guilty by association. | <urn:uuid:f05cf25c-e350-46ef-96f8-ff1ba42a1851> | http://wjla.com/sports/content/roger-clemens-clemens-wants-charges-thrown-out-64396 | en | 0.979878 | 0.098076 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Tortured: A Bridge Story between Birthmarked and Prized
Tortured: A Bridge Story between Birthmarked and Prized
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"I'm not going to fix him up if the Protectorat is just going to have him worked over again," Myrna said from the doorway of V cell. "I won't be part of that."
Leon heard her dimly through a haze of pain, and stirred in his chains.
"If we can get him out of here before Miles changes his mind, it'll be over," Genevieve said. "Please, Myrna. You have to help me. Give him something, please."
Kneeling, Leon lifted his head to see Genevieve, his stepmother, working the catch on the metal cuff that held his left wrist, and then she caught his arm when it fell. She retrieved his white shirt from the corner of the cell and wrapped his hand in the makeshift bandage. He tried to straighten, not to sag his torso's weight by his other chained wrist, and the doctor, Myrna Silk, came forward to help support him. A second later, he felt a sting in his shoulder, and Myrna withdrew a syringe.
He swallowed thickly, working his dry throat. "Did they find Gaia?" he asked.
"Your father's searched all of Wharfton and can't find her," Genevieve said. "They've tracked down her old neighbors and her friends but she isn't with any of them."
"So she got away?" Leon asked. If so, it would be the first good news he'd had in four days.
"Yes. So far, at least," Genevieve said. "Guards are looking for her in the wasteland. Why? Did you think we'd found her?"
"Iris told me at one point that they did. I didn't know what to believe," Leon said.
"She'll have to come back," Myrna said. "She can't keep that baby alive in the wasteland."
His other wrist came loose, and with the lowering of his arm, tiny explosions of new pain stretched across his back. Shirtless, he surveyed his bare arms and torso, finding the raw streaks in his skin where the whiplashes on his back trailed around his sides.
The two women helped him to his feet, supporting his arms over their shoulders.
"Watch his back," Genevieve said.
"I know," Myrna replied.
Leon struggled to coordinate his feet, clenching his body as each step triggered pain upward through his muscles.
"Buck up," Myrna said. "No fainting, now. Hear me?"
He focused all his concentration on the cement floor before him, and then the steps as the women guided him down. Disoriented, he began to fear it was only a nightmare, that they were leading him deeper into the prison or a stone tomb where he'd awaken to another round of torture. His instinct was to struggle.
"Leon, please," Genevieve insisted. "You'll be all right, but you have to let us help you."
"You let them do this to me," he said.
"I made them stop," Genevieve said, plainly stricken. "I've been pleading with your father ever since I learned he turned you over to Mabrother Iris."
They reached a tunnel next, and lights that were thinly spaced down the rugged corridor came on one by one as they approached. Though the air was cool, Leon was sweating from effort, and by the time they reached another staircase leading upward, he couldn't go farther. He sank to the steps, breathing hard, grasping his wounded hand with the other to apply pressure. The fabric was saturating with blood.
"Get Mabrother Cho for me, Myrna," Genevieve said, urging the doctor onward past Leon. "He's in the kitchen. Quickly."
Myrna's footsteps vanished up the stairs.
"I'm sorry, Leon," Genevieve said.
Her apologies didn't interest him. "Tell me what I've missed."
"They've focused in on a Wharfton girl named Emily who was a friend of Gaia's, and she verified that Gaia went into the wasteland."
"Emily wouldn't volunteer that information."
"She was interrogated last night." Genevieve's lips tightened. "Miles gave her baby to Masister Khol. They intend to recover the ledgers you stole, unless Gaia took them with her. If she did, they won't rest until they find her. Does she have them?"
He looked bleakly at the floor between his boots. "I don't know where the ledgers are." He'd said it a hundred times in the last few days.
"You must see it's a matter of the utmost importance," Genevieve said. "Those records could guide birth parents outside the wall to the families inside who are raising their advanced children. It would cause widespread panic if parents in the Enclave believed that their children could be identified. They'd be afraid their kids could be stolen."
"Like you'd have cared if my birth parents came for me?" he asked.
"Leon," Genevieve said. "Of course. You're my son no matter what's happened."
Wincing, he tightened the fabric around his injured hand, even though it was doing little to staunch the blood. The tip of his ring finger had been severed from the knuckle up, and his efforts to arrest the blood flow when he'd been chained had not succeeded. Only the combination of his hand being raised high and his wrist shackle restricting his circulation had prevented him from losing more blood.
"I wish you'd just cooperated with him from the start," Genevieve said. "Do you know where Gaia is now?"
"Or where she's gone? Didn't she tell you anything?"
He glanced up grimly. "You think I'd tell you if she did? Now that they've found Emily, my resistance didn't make much of a difference anyway," he said. "That's why the Protectorat is letting me go now, isn't it? He's done with me. Why doesn't he just kill me?"
She put a hand on his arm, and he went still at her touch.
"Don't, Mom," he said.
"Your father's never known how to handle you," she said quietly, releasing him. "But this is the worst of all."
He didn't want to hear it. The man had ceased being any decent kind of father long before he'd ordered Leon's torture. What Leon didn't understand was why Genevieve was still with the Protectorat. How could any woman stay with a man who hurt his own son? She must not love him as a son, either. That's what it felt like to Leon, no matter what she said about protecting him. Her lies only added to the betrayal.
He didn't need this. He had to get out of here. He took a deep breath as the noise of footsteps descending came down the staircase and he shifted. A compact, strong man in a white chef's apron preceded Myrna past Leon.
"What's this?" Mabrother Cho said with false levity. "In trouble again?" Leon looked up to see the cook scowling at his back.
"You don't seem surprised," Leon said. "Give me a hand?"
Mabrother Cho stooped instead, and hauled Leon over his shoulder, careful not to touch his ripped back. He carried him up the rest of the stairs into the kitchen, where he gently deposited him on the long wooden table. Leon shifted heavily over the edge to sit on one of the stools instead.
"If I lie down, I'll pass out," Leon said, and glanced up at the doctor. "See what you can do, Masister."
He held out his hand first. The doctor took it tenderly between her hands, turning it carefully, and unwrapped the torn, blood-soaked fabric. "A bowl of water," Myrna said.
"And more so I can wash his back. And towels. This is ridiculous working like this. At least get me better light."
"I'll get the lamp," Genevieve said.
Myrna opened her black satchel and began laying out medical supplies, including a metal scalpel that she propped over a candle flame. She readied another syringe.
"What's that?" Leon asked.
"Another dose of morphine. It's going to hurt, what I'm about to do for you."
He shook his head. "I can't have it. I have to be able to think."
Myrna regarded him soberly for a second, then set the syringe and the little bottle of morphine aside. "I'll send it with you. When you reach the point you need it, you can take it."
Mabrother Cho returned with a metal bowl of clean water. Genevieve had an extra lamp, which she arranged near Myrna's shoulder.
"Put the bowl there, and stay out of my way," Myrna said, directing Mabrother Cho. "You, too, Masister. No hovering."
Leon was slouched forward, elbows on the table, and when Myrna immersed his hand in the bowl, blood immediately began to seep into the warm water, turning it red.
"You're reported to have a great bedside matter, Masister," Leon said. "Where's that tonight?"
"That's only for patients I don't care about," Myrna said.
Yet when she began cleaning the wound, her touch was gentle and sure. He winced when she snipped away a dangling bit of torn skin, and blotted at the blood with a cloth. Then she hitched the lamp nearer. "It's a clean amputation at least," she said.
"Glad you think so," Leon said. He refused to turn his mind back to how it had happened.
Myrna peered at it closely again, tilting her face as she inspected it from every angle, and then she folded Leon's undamaged fingers down into a fist, keeping his wounded one extended over a clean towel.
"Mabrother Cho," Myrna said. "I need you to hold his arm. Here."
Startled, Leon tensed as the chef pinned his forearm securely against the table.
"You don't want to watch this," Myrna said, tightening her grip around his finger.
Before Leon could argue, she took her hot scalpel from over the flame and pressed the flat side of it firmly against his raw fingertip, cauterizing the flesh with a sharp sizzling noise. The sensation knocked Leon backward and he would have fallen except that Mabrother Cho kept his arm pinned to the table. A pungent, burning scent soured the air.
"Thank you," Myrna said curtly to Mabrother Cho. "You can let him go."
She set her scalpel aside.
"Are you done?" Leon asked, breathless with pain.
The doctor was frowning in concentration, examining his finger again. "Yes," she said. "With this at least. Let's see your back."
She released his hand. He curled his fingers slowly toward himself, scrutinizing the seared end of his finger. The burned tissue was damaged in a controlled, scarlet burn, the bleeding had stopped, and the skin at the edges had singed to a tender brown. His pulse was still hammering in his veins but the pain, oddly, was deadening a little, as if the nerves to his fingertip, which before had been ragged and shrill, now were short-circuited. The significance struck him for the first time: his wedding ring finger had been deliberately stunted, as if he'd never make a fit husband.
"Ouch," he said softly.
"Change your mind yet about the morphine?" Myrna asked. "I could put you out for a couple hours." She put a light dressing on his finger to keep it clean.
"No." He glanced over at Genevieve, who had gone very pale. "You said he could change his mind?"
She hesitated, then nodded.
"Would he come down here?" Leon asked.
"I don't think so," Genevieve said.
Leon heard the uncertainty in her voice. "Can you get together some supplies for me?" She nodded and slipped quietly out.
He'd been barely aware of his surroundings, but now he glanced around the great kitchen of the Bastion, with its rafters high above and a row of ovens near the open fireplace. A bowl of brown eggs was in a familiar place on the counter, and he remembered a blue ceramic teapot on a shelf by the window. How long it had been since he used to sneak down as a kid to visit the cook he couldn't recall, but little of it had changed. Though most of the cooking equipment was tidily put away, four pie dishes on the counter were filled with unbaked crusts that draped gracefully over the edges, and he could see a big bowl of apples had been sliced and sprinkled with cinnamon. In fact, now that he looked more closely, he saw traces of flour across the top of the wooden table, and Leon guessed that Mabrother Cho had hastily moved things out of the way to clear room for his unexpected guest.
"Pies?" Leon asked.
The cook gave a shrug. "I couldn't sleep."
"I'll need some food to take with me," Leon said.
"Where are you going?"
"Into the wasteland. Mycoprotein mainly would be good, and some powdered baby formula," Leon added. "And whatever you have for canteens."
"You're going after the midwife? Do you know where she was headed?" the cook asked.
Leon knew only that Gaia was heading north, and that she had at least a four-day lead on him. Anxiety made him restless.
"Here, hold still," Myrna said. "What's this?" She touched the back of his head.
"I was hit there when they arrested me." He lowered his head to rest on his folded arms, and she cleaned the tender lump on the back of his skull.
"Have any headaches?" she asked.
"Not so bad now."
As the doctor turned to work on his back, he could feel her cleaning the scabby wounds from his floggings and couldn't help flinching. He tilted his face, staring blindly at the piecrusts, and grit his teeth. He searched mentally through his body for one place of him that didn't hurt and settled on the big toe of his right foot. Deep inside his black boot, under the table, that one part of him was okay and he concentrated on that.
Then, after the cleaning was finished, he felt the careful tugs at his back as she sewed the worst of his shredded skin.
"Is that necessary? I won't be able to reach to take the stitches out," Leon said.
"They'll dissolve by the time you heal," Myrna said.
The little snipping noises continued as she tied off the knots, and finally she set aside the curved needle and scissors on the towel in his line of vision. Mabrother Cho brought him a bowl of barley soup to drink. Leon couldn't relax, couldn't let down his guard against pain, but he swallowed the salty, steamy liquid and dipped a crust of the bread in the dregs to swab them up.
"More?" Mabrother Cho asked.
Leon nodded.
"Hold still," Myrna said again.
Next he could feel the doctor dabbing something on his back, a light, cool substance that pulled some of the pain away.
"That's good," he muttered.
She kept at it, working her way from the top, and in the path of her touch, he felt the merciful easing of pain across the back of his shoulders, toward the middle of his spine, and then outward.
"What is that you're putting on?" he asked.
"The sort of thing your girl would appreciate. It's mostly an antibiotic, but I added some tansy she told me about. That's what's soothing. I'll give you some of this to take with you, too."
"You called her 'my girl,'" he said, surprised.
"Isn't that why you're going after her?" He shifted slightly. "Did she ever talk about me?" he asked.
"Not much," Myrna said. "She liked the orange. That was from you, wasn't it?" "Yes," he said.
"I guessed as much."
He would have appreciated a little more to go on, but then, Gaia herself had never been particularly forthcoming. She was the most direct, fearless person he'd ever known, except where admitting her own feelings was concerned. At least, he hoped she had feelings for him. When she'd said that thing about respecting him, as if that was all she did, he'd been startled by how much it hurt, like a clean gouge right through him. Still, she'd gone on to let him kiss her, and that counted for something.
He wanted Gaia to trust him, or more exactly, he wanted to be a person that Gaia would trust, even if no one else ever trusted him. He wondered if she realized he'd risked his life for her. Not that it mattered. He'd have done it anyway. But still, he wondered.
Why did he want so badly to be with her?
"Look at me," Myrna said, sitting down beside him on another stool. Her fingers were still smeared with the frothy, white salve.
He looked up doubtfully to meet her gaze. Myrna's shrewd eyes were devoid of sympathy, but he could see that didn't make her heartless.
"Don't ever blame Gaia for this," Myrna said.
"I don't."
"No. I mean later. Whether you ever find her or not. None of this was her fault."
"I know," he said. "It was my decision. I knew what could happen to me. I know what could happen to me in the wasteland, too."
Myrna rose to rinse her hands at the sink, leaving Leon to rest another minute. His one comfort was that he'd succeeded in helping Gaia escape. He could only believe she was surviving somewhere, somehow. A girl who could come out of prison stronger than she went in, who let hardships deepen her rather than rigidify her thinking, had to be able to handle the wasteland, and as long as she was alive, there was a chance he could find her.
Genevieve returned with an assortment of supplies and a rucksack. "You can't carry anything on your back, obviously," she said, "but is your neck all right? You could hang something around your neck, in front of you."
He lifted a hand to gingerly touch the nape of his neck, which was unscathed. "That'll work," he said.
Excerpted from Tortured by Caragh M. O'Brien. Copyright © 2011 Caragh M. O'Brien. Excerpted by permission of Roaring Brook Press.
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500 Days without Sigma
500 Days Without Sigma
500 Days without Sigma
by Steve Napierski to Images
Good part is that since they’re are robots, getting fat will not be something they’re also doing during their downtime.
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I looked at this picture three times before I realized that Zero was pulling that out of his stomach and not actually scratching his stomach.
• Hozz101
It took your comment to make me realize this.
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If they’re actually robots… then what are they drinking?
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Or if like in many other robot stories, they eat and drink purely as a cosmetic (and partially energy producing) function to better integrate them with humans (remember, they are REPLOIDS technically, never mind they aren’t really). My point is they were created to better function among their humans. Look, act, think on their own, basically be human… except for the guns they make from their hands and superhuman powers.
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They must be low on health.
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Booze. Alcohol helps keep their energy cells running at optimal performance levels.
• Xuncu
Yeah, I go with the Futurama/Bob & George school of thought: Alcohol Fuel Cells. Plus with all they have to deal with, there’s gotta be a time when Rock X and Z just decide “Fuck this, we’re getting shit-faced.”
N’from what I understand of the convoluted timeline:
Classic: Just really well-programmed robots
X series: Reploid DNA, whatever the fuck it’s supposed to mean, is both the AI program and actual DNA somehow
Z: organic components and armored panties
ZX: reploid biology and human-to-android have nearly bridged the gap, so much that Reploids are required to wear Jew-stars bands–er, forehead gems.
Legends: humans and replods are effectively extinct, as the Carbons are their bastard love children. Pre-segregation culture is so forgotten, nobody questions why some Carbons look fully human, and others have blatant metal parts, like Tron’s armored cooter.
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I have never watched Megaman anything, So I really hope you mean Trons armored Scooter….
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He really doesn’t, unfortunately.
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EY - Six growing trends
Six growing trends in corporate sustainability
Sustainability’s growing focus
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Our 2013 survey looked at how companies are responding to a wide range of internal and external forces related to environmental sustainability risks and how well companies are prepared to address them.
Six trends emerged:
1. The “tone from the top” is key to heightened awareness and preparedness for sustainability risks.
2. Governments and multilateral institutions aren’t playing a key role in corporate sustainability agendas.
3. Sustainability concerns now include increased risk and proximity of natural resource shortages.
4. Corporate risk response is not well paired to the scale of sustainability challenges.
5. Integrated reporting is slow to take hold.
6. Inquiries from investors and shareholders are on the rise.
The survey tells us that companies’ response and approach to sustainability issues are influenced significantly by the “tone from the top” - that is, how and how much senior management are engaged in the conversation.
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The robbery happened around 5 p.m. at Lee’s Liquor located at 1800 West 6th Street. According to investigators, a man entered the store while his accomplice stood outside acting as a lookout. One inside the store, the man brandished a semi-automatic handgun at the store clerk and demanded money from the cash register. The clerk handed over an undisclosed amount of cash and the pair escaped on foot. There was no vehicle seen and the cashier was not hurt as a result of the incident.
Both suspects are described as Hispanic. The first suspect is 20 to 25 years old, between 5 feet 4 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs between 140 and 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black poncho with a hoodie, blue jeans and black athletic shoes and has a goatee style beard on his chin.
The second suspect is 20 to 25 years old, between 5 feet 4 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs between 130 and 140 pounds. He was last seen wearing a hooded black sweatshirt and black jeans.
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by jaklumen on Thu 18th Feb 2010 07:39 UTC in reply to "Cult of the nobel clueless"
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I should have made my last post as a reply to this, but see above.
I have experienced the same on the phone, too. I also answer the phone that way by saying my name-- it is not customary in the United States, but I know callers will usually tell me who they want to talk to when I do so.
I had a mobile number for a time that was previously a business number. Sometimes people got very rude when I explained I was just a private resident and was also interested in contacting said business owner (to get him to take care of his business). But it became obvious he had closed shop, told no one, and I just got a new phone with a new number.
There will always be some that don't seem to get it-- again, laziness, ignorance, impatience. They get overcome by emotion instead of working it out logically. This is true of many things, not just computers, and I'm sure you'd agree, which is why responding much the same in kind would not help things. Generalizing them as "unwashed masses", I sincerely doubt, would get them to pick up the soap.
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Sibling Revelry
He is heavy, and he's my brother.
Polestar Music Gallery, 329-4224 $8, 8 p.m. Sun., Aug. 18
New Orleans Restaurant, 622-2563 $5, 7:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 19
Brad's Swingside Cafe, 633-4057 $10, 8 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 22
My brother is playing in town. You should check him out. I recommend him. He's my pick of the week.
Of course, this is an abuse of my position as the Seattle Weekly's sometime jazz critic. But what isn't? As I've mulled over the inappropriateness of previewing my own brother, I've been thinking about the factors that influence all I cover in this paper—what shows to highlight, whom to feature, and, above all, whom to ignore (since that's what I and every jazz writer in this town do the most of)—and I see a lot of bias, whimsy, and convenience in those choices. Some of it is simply the critic's prerogative, some just the shortcuts taken out of necessity. But the factors leading me to write about my brother now are no less clean and "objective" than the factors affecting my choices every other week; in the best world, I just make space for what hits me.
So on the one hand, writing about my own brother is the worst violation of music journalism ethics imaginable. And then on the other hand, I know that if I just happened to hear the tenor solo on "Chazz," the second track on my brother's CD, Few and Far Between (Boxholder), I would be thinking, "Who is that motherfucker?"
My big brother's been in New York, gigging in and around the Lower East Side since 1995, and the five years before that he spent in Paris. He can play in unrestrained free settings with only a drummer, tear up standards in the Joe Henderson/ Sonny Rollins sax trio mode, hold down a chair in large modern enterprises like the Mingus Big Band or the Butch Morris Orchestra, lead ambient/ funk or Moroccan jams. He's done all those things and will offer similar variety during three different gigs here (avant trio at Polestar, more trad trio at New Orleans, open duo with bassist Michael Bisio at Brad's).
Most people, of course, would assume that I am critically biased toward him. But my brother would say—has said—that it's the opposite, really: that, as his brother, I have a harder time appreciating his achievements, recognizing him as an equal member of that company of N.Y.C. jazz musicians whom I write about regularly in the Weekly. Because, of course, he is my brother and I can remember when he was squeaking on a clarinet through the bedroom walls. Back then it was beyond imagining he'd ever be someone whose CD (the one I mentioned earlier) would get a four-star review in Down Beat. I talk to him all the time; I can't interview him. And in our family, we're just plain hard on each other. So it may really be that my brother has a higher bar to meet than most, as far as this jazz writer goes.
But then I can hear stuff that few others do; I hear the '70s CTI soul that grounds his wilder free jazz side, because I was there, on the drums, playing along with Stanley Turrentine and Grover Washington Jr. records in our Bellevue living room, and that thread is still obvious to me today. Sometimes I feel like I can hear the thinking behind his playing, like the film geek who is conscious of all the cuts and angles.
There's a stream of avant-gardism, one especially celebrated in Seattle, in which the players like to imagine music as something invented on the day they started making noise. As much as they avoid any connection to musical history, subvert and avoid traditional strains of ideas and forms—that's the degree to which they feel they're doing something worthwhile. My brother isn't one of those people. He's part of a different school, the school in which you go to school and recognize jazz history as a legacy that you respect as well as build on. Av is no transcriber, though; he's the farthest thing from a Wyntonite. But he is someone who has a deep love of the jazz tradition—its breathy romance, its exhilarating freedom of swing, its black rope of shrieks and squeals.
To my brother, the mark of real art is that it costs something of the person who created it—not money, obviously, but a real piece of themselves. That's something people hear in Avram's playing and something that I think sets him apart from a lot of more celebrated musicians—Dave Douglas and Ben Allison come to mind; they're working it, no doubt, but it never quite seems to be costing them anything.
In my own case, art cost me quite a lot, in a nonmetaphorical sense, since hearing damage forced me to give up the drums. And that's the truly selfish reason for writing about my brother: so I can keep playing along.
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Guesst: Chris Cillizza, Andrew Romanoff, Lynn Sweet, E. Steven Collins, Peter Galbraith
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Anti-war Democrats.
Let‘s play HARDBALL.
Who‘s got our back? The release of the Afghanistan papers have reignited the debate. Is Pakistan our ally or our enemy? Should we be fighting in Afghanistan? That‘s at the top of the show.
Also, for weeks, Fox News and its friends have been whipping up white hysteria over allegations that members of the New Black Panther Party, two of them, intimidated voters in Philadelphia two years ago. The Justice Department found insufficient evidence to investigate the case, and now all seven Senate Republicans on the U.S. Judiciary Committee of the Senate want the Justice Department to investigate itself. Is this yet another example of a rightist strategy to stir up racial resentment among whites by portraying whites as victims of black rule in the country?
Plus, you knew there would be a Republican blowback once Tom Tancredo announced a third-party run for governor of Colorado. Well, it happened last night. Wait until you hear the tape of him going after the state‘s Republican chairman.
Also, what would make someone‘s own daughter take out an ad to say he‘s not a good father and please don‘t vote for him? That family feud coming up in the “Sideshow.
But “Let Me Finish” tonight with thoughts of a profile in patriotism, Marjorie Margolies, a congresswoman who voted for her country.
Let‘s start with all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who sent a letter to Democratic committee chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont on Friday pushing for a hearing, a big public hearing, on a 2008 election day incident in Philadelphia involving two members of the New Black Panthers and whether they violated any voter intimidations laws.
In their letter, the Republican senators write about their concern. Quote, “concern about the politicization of the Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice.” What‘s this latest push about?
Michael Smerconish is a syndicated radio host and MSNBC political analyst. And E. Steven Collins is a Philadelphia radio host. I want—
Michael, you‘ve written about this. I want you to start, then E. Steven, jump in here. I want to try to get a thoroughgoing presentation of what happened two years ago, as best we can understand it. Give us a sense of the neighborhood involved, the voting division involved, what happened, Michael, on that day when we all voted, or most of Philadelphia, I should say, voted for—and certainly that division voted for—Barack Obama for president?
Well, it‘s the 14th ward. It‘s the 4th division. It‘s a public housing development. And as I wrote, it is a division where there didn‘t need to be any voter intimidation in support of Barack Obama of any kind. In 2004, you‘re talking John Kerry 501 votes and George W. Bush 24. So it was a foregone conclusion, because of the minority composition of that voting locale, that Obama was going to clean house.
I have always said this was a case that was about TV and not about turnout. These are a couple of knuckleheads. They are well known to anybody who walks adjacent to City Hall in Philadelphia. They are always looking to create a spectacle. So therefore, I think that their mission was accomplished. They are on HARDBALL yet again tonight.
SMERCONISH: Having said that—having said that, I still think you need an investigation because you‘ve got a Department of Justice lawyer, now former Department of Justice lawyer, who is saying under oath that there was some blowback because there was some...
SMERCONISH: ... political appointees in Justice who didn‘t want this case prosecuted.
MATTHEWS: OK. Before—in other words, we‘re talking about a classic Civil Rights case, where the—where the Civil Rights of the voters in this case were violated, allegedly, by a group—by the fact the government did not investigate. In other words, the Justice Department itself, you say, has to be investigated. That‘s what you‘re saying right now, Michael, the Justice Department of Eric Holder has to be investigated.
SMERCONISH: I am saying that where you a Department of Justice lawyer who under oath is, My colleagues would not pursue this...
SMERCONISH: ... because they didn‘t want a colorblind...
SMERCONISH: ... application of the law, you‘ve got to go to the next step.
MATTHEWS: OK. Who would do the investigation?
SMERCONISH: Well, in this case, I think that the criminal prosecution should have been permitted to continue...
MATTHEWS: No, no. Who investigates the investigators?
SMERCONISH: There should have been a trial in this case! I—
MATTHEWS: OK, what do you want now? What do you want now, Michael?
SMERCONISH: What I‘d like now is a continuation of the criminal
process, the criminal process in this particular case that was forestalled
by Justice because, frankly...
SMERCONISH: ... I think it‘s a worse reflection on the administration...
SMERCONISH: ... if it comes to a close now instead of running to its end...
SMERCONISH: ... because, Chris, this was a one-off case. I‘m not looking to whip anybody into a hysteria.
MATTHEWS: All right, let‘s go...
SMERCONISH: These were two guys in one polling place.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me—let me go to E. Steven on this. Your thoughts? You know this story better than I do. This is a Philly story. It‘s gotten a lot of swirl. The right wing is loving it because...
MATTHEWS: ... it‘s white-black. Your thoughts?
COLLINS: But Chris, the only people who are concerned about it are people that watch Fox TV. I mean, African-Americans, first of all, were not intimidated by a couple of guys, one who wore some jackboots, another guy with a—with a bat. I mean, I‘ve seen...
MATTHEWS: You‘re looking at them right now.
COLLINS: I‘ve seen—I‘ve seen worse things happen on election day, first of all, in Philadelphia. Second, this is inner-city Philadelphia, where nobody—people waited in lines to vote. And it didn‘t work, if they were attempting to intimidate...
COLLINS: ... someone. Now, that‘s number one. Number two, there was an investigation, Michael, and they concluded there was no evidence. So there was no criminal behavior. There was no criminal conduct.
COLLINS: And so what are we talking about?
MATTHEWS: E. Seven, I don‘t care about Milton Street 20 years ago out in front of the gallery, telling the white people to go back to the suburbs. We‘re all used to that crap. I‘m worried whether the Republican precinct workers, the division workers there. Were they intimidated by these guys? Was there any intimidation by poll watchers, any illegality here?
COLLINS: If there was...
MATTHEWS: You say none.
COLLINS: ... illegality—it wasn‘t just a matter of the federal government. You had Philadelphia police and the district attorney‘s office in Philadelphia, and they looked at it, and nothing came of it. So...
MATTHEWS: And they let that guy stand there with a nightclub, looking like a policeman.
COLLINS: Well, was that—did it stop anybody from voting?
MATTHEWS: I‘m asking. No, but did it intimidate the Republican precinct worker there, the division worker there?
COLLINS: Did he file a complaint?
MATTHEWS: If there was one.
COLLINS: I didn‘t see a complaint.
MATTHEWS: Well, OK. I‘m not a lawyer. I‘m asking these questions, E. Steven...
COLLINS: Well, I...
MATTHEWS: ... because a lot of people are wondering.
COLLINS: And I‘m suggesting to you this is small potatoes...
COLLINS: ... as the columnist has written about. This is another attempt...
MATTHEWS: OK, if I went to vote and I saw those two guys there, I would not think it was small potatoes. Anyway, Abigail Thernstrom‘s the Republican vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and here‘s what she wrote for “The National Review.” “Forget about the New Black Panther Party case. It is very small potatoes”...
COLLINS: Very small.
MATTHEWS: ... as E. Steven Collins just said. “Perhaps the Panthers should have been prosecuted under section 11-B of the Voting Rights Act for their actions on November 28th. But the legal standards that must be met to prove voter intimidation, the charge, are very high. In the 45 years since the act was passed, there‘s been a total of three successful prosecutions.”
So OK, let‘s go back to Michael on this. You say there ought to be an investigation. You don‘t think this is just right-wing swirl...
MATTHEWS: ... this is just an attempt by the people on the right, I guess especially Fox, to just keep pushing this—this beach ball in the air until it finally creates some noise.
SMERCONISH: There‘s a lot of swirl associated with this case. I will grant you that. I remember very well on election day when there were individuals who were trying to spin this as indicative of what was going on across the city, or indeed, across the country. And it‘s all very clear now it was a one-off incident. My position is there‘s no such thing as small potatoes.
SMERCONISH: One instance is enough that needs to be prosecuted. Wait a minute, Chris. How about this. What if there were a white hood and a sheet involved and someone—and otherwise, the facts were the same? Would there then be the prosecution of the Klan? Hell, yes, there would be. And there should be in this case.
MATTHEWS: OK, let me go to E. Steven Collins. I get—I mean, E. Steven, I think there‘s a challenge here to the administration of Barack Obama that may well be ethnic. He‘s president of the United States, the first African-American. Eric Holder‘s the first African-American, I guess, attorney general, actually.
MATTHEWS: And I hadn‘t thought about that, but I guess it‘s the case. We‘re trying not to think about these things all the time. But there‘s some people that like to—would like us to be thinking about race all the time. Is that what‘s going on?
COLLINS: Yes. It appears. That‘s what we saw in the Sherrod case. It was such an over—over-examination of everything that happened and every decision that was made. Somebody edited a tape. It was a bad decision to fire her, to force her resignation. They retreated. They offered her a better job.
COLLINS: They learned something. I mean, people make mistakes, Chris. You can‘t use crucify the president and his staff for making a decision. The bigger issue here is the Republicans, the right wing, continue to...
COLLINS: ... attack and attack and attack. And this is small potatoes.
MATTHEWS: OK, let‘s go back to Michael. Michael, I appreciate your thinking because you do try to come down the middle here, and I wonder if there‘s a middle. And here‘s my question. Could this be, since it‘s two years later and on the eve of the big elections coming up this November—and they know a lot of older white voters are going to run this election because they‘re the people that show up in mid-term elections. Michael, you know darn well who the target could be of this campaign. They‘re the people who vote in mid-term elections, older white people, because minorities and kids don‘t tend to vote as heavily around the country as older white people do in these elections.
Now the question is, is this aimed at Sestak? Is this aimed at Democratic candidates in the burbs and the rural areas, to scare them with big-city black politics, to say the Democratic Party is the party of big-city blacks? Is that what‘s going on here?
SMERCONISH: It might be.
MATTHEWS: Even though you may be right about the facts, could that be the motive behind this push?
SMERCONISH: It might be. I mean, Chris, you may thinking three levels beyond where my head is on this issue because I...
MATTHEWS: Oh, come on!
SMERCONISH: ... because I will grant—I will grant you this...
MATTHEWS: You talk about this on the—Philadelphia talks race. I know we know the issue. We try to get past it. We have a great black mayor. Whites voted for him heavily. The city really tries to get past its old problems. I know all about that. Is this an attempt to rip the scab off?
SMERCONISH: I don‘t know what the motivation might be of those senators. Call me naive. I hope that it‘s not what you‘re insinuating, but I‘ll say this...
MATTHEWS: I‘m asking.
SMERCONISH: The more this footage is shown, the more it benefits a turnout campaign for the type of voter that you have described. And therefore, my advice to the Justice Department, to the Obama administration, would have been, politically speaking, prosecute these guys. The best thing you can do politically is lock them up!
MATTHEWS: OK. Right. I agree.
MATTHEWS: ... there‘s nothing the Republican Party likes better than a nice, scared white voter. Let‘s be honest about it.
COLLINS: You‘re implying there was a crime that was committed. And I‘m not sure that the Justice Department...
MATTHEWS: OK, let me ask you about...
COLLINS: ... and the local district attorney...
MATTHEWS: ... the white sheets...
MATTHEWS: Suppose those were white folks with white sheets.
COLLINS: Sure. Then you have a legitimate case. I mean, that‘s intimidation.
MATTHEWS: Now, wait a minute!
COLLINS: I agree with you.
MATTHEWS: Where‘s the symmetry here? You got a bunch of—two black guys, big guys, wearing big boots and wearing—it looks like uniforms to me. And one guy is carrying a pretty dangerous stick there, that he could break some heads with, and that wouldn‘t intimidate you if you had to walk past them and those were—just think about the symmetry what your argument is creating—the problem...
COLLINS: I would. But Chris, honestly, wouldn‘t you need to have someone making a complaint and someone saying, We were, in fact, intimidated, we were not allowed, there was undue pressure put on us? No one...
COLLINS: ... said that.
MATTHEWS: No. I looked at the voting numbers. I looked at the voting numbers. You got 8 votes in that division for the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, in 2000. You had about 24 votes for him again the second time, in 2004. This time, you had something like 13 for the Republicans, about the average of the last two times. So it didn‘t look like there was any bottom—Michael, go back to you—no bottom line repression here. No bottom line suppression. The voting totals came in about what you‘d expect, given the nature of that election in 2008. What evidence do we have, bottom line, of voter intimidation or suppression?
SMERCONISH: We don‘t have anybody that I‘m aware of...
SMERCONISH: We don‘t have anybody that I‘m aware of that stands up and says, you know, But for the presence of these two knuckleheads, I would have gone in and pulled the lever. But as a lawyer, I would say to you the way in which they appear and their mannerisms and the billy club is a prima facie—on its face—case of voter intimidation, in the same way that Steven acknowledged if they were there wrapped in sheets and hoods, it would be a prima facie case on the part of the Klan.
MATTHEWS: OK. I want to thank you both, gentlemen. I hope we don‘t have to revisit this. I hope something gets done. Well, maybe it shouldn‘t get done, but I hope we don‘t have to talk about this one again! Anyway, thank you, Michael Smerconish and E. Steven Collins. I think it was a fair debate.
Up next: Is President Obama committed to a war strategy in Afghanistan that won‘t work? And is Pakistan really our ally, or have we got a problem over there? That‘s next.
You‘re watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: New York Democratic congressman Charlie Rangel is making a last-minute effort to settle his ethics case and prevent a trial, a House ethics trial, that could embarrass him and damage the Democratic Party. The House Ethics Committee chairman, Democrat Zoe Lofgren of California, says secret talks are going on right now between Rangel‘s attorney and the non-partisan staff of the Committee on Ethics. That would be very much like—they‘d very much like to resolve this matter involving—look at him—the very popular man in the House of Representatives who‘s gotten himself into some serious trouble.
HARDBALL will be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. The leaking of the Afghanistan papers the other day has refocused attention on the war strategy of our country and whether Pakistan is truly our friend in this fight or is, in fact, underneath the surface our foe.
Peter Galbraith‘s a former U.N. envoy to Afghanistan. He is now at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. Mr. Ambassador, thank you for joining us. Should we trust the country of Pakistan in its innermost power zones? Are they on our side or against us?
PETER GALBRAITH, FMR. U.N. ENVOY TO AFGHANISTAN: Well, we should trust the government of Pakistan, the elected civilian government headed by President Asif Ali Zardari, because he is very committed to the war on terror. His wife was killed by the same terrorists that we are battling.
But as Pakistani leaders often say, or the democratically elected ones, they can be in office but not in power. And power is held by the army, and in the case of Afghanistan, by the Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan‘s super-powerful spy agency. These are the people who created the Taliban in the 1990s, who—without whose help, the Taliban would not have taken power. they—President Pervez Musharraf, the military dictator, told President Bush that he had broken ties with the Taliban, but the ISI continues them. The Taliban leaders are in Pakistan. So at least from that agency or parts of that agency, there‘s definitely double dealing and deception.
MATTHEWS: One of the central arguments for our continued war in Afghanistan, our American war in Afghanistan, is that we cannot let that government, such as it is, fall because then the government of Pakistan would be threatened, in jeopardy, and it has nuclear weapons. How do we get out of this conundrum that we‘re defending one government in order to defend another government from toppling, when that other government is infested with spies who don‘t support our position on any of this?
GALBRAITH: Well, it is a phony argument. Pakistan is an incredibly
important player in Afghanistan. As I said, the Taliban are the people who
as I said, the Pakistani ISI are the people who helped create the Taliban. The Taliban leaders operate out of Pakistan.
But Afghanistan is not a big player in Pakistan, which is a country that is five times the size of Pakistan. The ethnic composition is very different. And the Punjabis, who are the largest group in Pakistan, 60 percent of the country, are not going to let Pashtun radicals grab those nuclear weapons. So this is—this is simply a phony argument.
GALBRAITH: That said, the—parts of the government are very Islamic. These are the people that the Reagan administration supported in the 1980s through the dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq. They‘ve helped transform Pakistan. They have—the Pakistani Islamists who operate within the government, they control or have access to that nuclear—or those nuclear weapons, and they‘re the people who spread nuclear technology to Libya, to North Korea, to Iran, and to other countries that have not been mentioned yet.
MATTHEWS: OK, we‘re over there—our soldiers are fighting with their lives, some of them losing those lives in this month of blood over there, to defend a government of Karzai. Karzai has been accused of being corrupt. He‘s been accused of having not won this election, having stolen it, and of being a drug user. Is he guilty of all three?
GALBRAITH: He‘s certainly guilty of being corrupt. He‘s guilty of being ineffective, and he did steal the last election. So he is illegitimate. There are credible...
MATTHEWS: Is he a drug user?
GALBRAITH: There are credible reports that he uses hashish, which is actually quite commonly used by people from his part of the country, and that may explain some of his very weird behavior. But I want to emphasize we cannot prove that. But what we do know is, absolutely, he stole the last election. He himself has admitted that. And this is the problem that we have in Afghanistan. We are engaged in a counterinsurgency strategy.
General Petraeus, the general in charge, and everybody else in the U.S. military and foreign policy establishment will tell you that in order for a counterinsurgency strategy to work, we have to have a credible local partner.
And speaking privately, they will also all tell you that a corrupt, ineffective and illegitimate Hamid Karzai government is not such a partner.
MATTHEWS: OK. I‘m going to put you in two positions professionally. You‘ve been in a high position. If you were an American soldier right now in our volunteer army in an officer‘s capacity with decisions to make every day about the lives of your troops, would you stay in the military and fight the war? Do you believe it‘s a war we should be fighting? Do you believe in this war, fighting the insurgency?
Or would you be saying, damn it, these insurgents are a terrible people , but this government is terrible, too; we shouldn‘t be in this war?
GALBRAITH: The fundamental problem is that we cannot accomplish the mission. We have committed 100,000 troops, $100 billion to a strategy that cannot work by the terms of its own authors.
MATTHEWS: What should a soldier do? What should a soldier fighting now do over there? What would you do if you were a soldier?
GALBRAITH: Well, I think we need to change the mission. We need to focus on what it is that we can achieve, because we don‘t have such a partner, a credible Afghan partner.
And there are three things. And I will be very quick. First, half the country is not Pashtun. And Taliban is entirely a Pashtun movement. We can protect the north, those non-Pashtun populations.
MATTHEWS: I have heard that, yes.
GALBRAITH: Second, we can protect Kabul, which is again mostly a non-Pashtun city, which is relatively stable.
And, third, we can strike a terrorists where we get good intelligence, which isn‘t actually all that often. To accomplish the missions which are achievable, we would need 10,000 to 15,000 troops.
Remember, when we commit 100,000 troops, Chris, to Afghanistan, that means those military resources are not available to deal with other national security challenges. Al Qaeda is much more of a threat in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen. And then, of course, there is the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs.
MATTHEWS: If you had to vote right now as a member of Congress aye or nay on continued funding of this war with its current mission, would you vote aye?
GALBRAITH: No. I would vote no because the mission cannot be achieved. And I think it‘s a waste of resources to put people in a mission that can‘t be achieved. And, frankly, it‘s immoral to send young men and women on a mission that cannot be succeed.
MATTHEWS: OK. Well said. I get your position here.
Let‘s bring—stick with us, Mr. Ambassador.
Here‘s Andrea Mitchell, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News.
Andrea, the administration has been confronted here with a lot of evidence now, some of it supporting the challenges just ventured by Ambassador Galbraith there, that the ISI, the spy agency of the Pakistan government, is not really our friend, and then secondly we have got a corrupt government over there in Kabul.
And my question is, does it surprise this administration, what they‘re reading in these documents, or did they always know all of this?
ANDREA MITCHELL, NBC CHIEF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: They knew all of this. They have spoken out in fact very strongly about all of this. Even last week in Pakistan when I was covering Hillary Clinton, she spoke out about again all of this, both very strongly to the officials, to the head of the Pakistani spy agency and the top military leaders there, and publicly to the Pakistani public.
The problem is that what the administration would say is we have been speaking to this. There has been improvement. And there has been improvement in the last few months. Month by month, in fact, they say, there has been improvement, and that these documents which ended in December of 2009 do not acknowledge that.
That said, they are aware of these problems. And they have not really addressed the problems again with Karzai, but they‘re certainly well aware of them. And they‘re aware of the problems that Ambassador Galbraith brought to them when he was still in government.
MATTHEWS: But these are deadly serious issues. But when you have the charge that this government in Kabul that we‘re defending against the insurgency over there is corrupt, unelected and perhaps led by a drug addict, or a drug user, that‘s a hard case for a soldier in uniform to say I‘m out fighting the bad guys. He has to assume that the good guys who are on the other side—or not.
Andrea, is that the problem this president faces into sending more people into fighting this war? And that‘s what he‘s doing. He‘s sending more people into fighting a war on behalf of Karzai, when we have an ally over there we‘re supposedly defending, Pakistan, who may not be deep down loyal to us.
MITCHELL: What the president said today is that he took all of this into consideration when he changed the policy and most recently brought General Petraeus in to continue the new policy that had been articulated and had been led by General McChrystal.
MATTHEWS: Right. OK.
MITCHELL: So, their argument is that they knew that Karzai was a bad actor and that he‘s not been able to extend his reach beyond Kabul, really.
Having just been there last week, I can tell you that it is limited to Kabul. That is the reach of Hamid Karzai.
MITCHELL: But the whole point of what they‘re doing in the next few months leading up to this review in December and of course to the beginning of the withdrawal they hope next July, is to change that game.
I think what they‘re going to end up doing, though, is acknowledging that it is regional and provincial in nature, and that there never will be a national government or a state the way we would define a national government.
MATTHEWS: Is that edging towards a Biden strategy of counterterrorism?
MATTHEWS: Let me back to Ambassador Galbraith.
You have advocated a policy of limited turf protection, basically taking Kabul, the north, and some other areas that are not Pashtun, and limiting our operations in the rest of that country, I assume, to antiterrorism.
GALBRAITH: Yes, that‘s right, because the whole premise of the new strategy is that you need a partner, which we do not have.
I want to come back to something that Andrea said about Pakistan, because it is a very important point. The administration‘s policy in Pakistan has made progress. And in many ways they‘re dealing with the problems that were left by President Bush.
President Bush could have been tough on General Pervez Musharraf, the military dictator, who did control the ISI. But he wasn‘t. He basically let the ISI lie to us and Musharraf lie to us.
Obama is working with a civilian government that doesn‘t really control the ISI, but which is very much on his side. He‘s followed a strategy of supporting that civilian government, building it up economically, and that has produced results.
MATTHEWS: Right.
GALBRAITH: The ISI has turned over some of the Taliban leaders.
Cooperation is greater. They‘re still playing a double game.
MATTHEWS: OK, Ambassador, we have to go.
Thank you so much, Andrea Mitchell, for joining us, our chief foreign affairs correspondent.
And, thank you, former Ambassador Peter Galbraith.
Up next: Is it a bit undignified for President Obama to appear on “The View”? Well, one prominent politician and a good friend of this show, it turns out, thinks the president should not show up on “The View.” Well, we are going to get to that hot one.
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First tonight: Governor Ed Rendell offers a verdict on “The View.” The Pennsylvania governor doesn‘t think President Obama should show up on “The View” this Thursday. Here he is on the “Morning Joe” today.
GOV. ED RENDELL (D), PENNSYLVANIA: I think there has got to be a little bit of dignity to the presidency, and that you wouldn‘t go on...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are you saying, Ed?
JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: What a horrible insult to “The View.”
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ed Rendell, what are you saying?
RENDELL: Well, I think there are some shows—I wouldn‘t put him on “Jerry Springer” either, right?
I think that the president of the United States has to go on serious shows. And “The View” I think is a serious—you can make a case that “The View” is a serious show.
RENDELL: But it also rocks and rolls a little bit. And I‘m not sure he has to go on “The View” to get—to be open to questions.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Well, I think he should do HARDBALL.
Mr. President, consider yourself invited.
Next: a family feud in Oklahoma. Judicial candidate John Mantooth is getting attacks on his character from a very close source, his own daughter. That‘s right. This corner-page ad in a local paper, “Do Not Vote For My Dad,” was paid for by Mantooth‘s daughter and his son-in-law.
The ad says that Mantooth is not a good father and that he would not be a good judge. Adding insult to injury, the ad lists a Web site that the couple created, donotvoteformydad.com. Mantooth says his daughter‘s political attacks have been influenced by a rival—and this is certainly audience—the bad feelings stem from his divorce from his mother. That‘s what he says, the dad says.
Now for tonight‘s “Big Number.”
Gallup came out today with its survey of the major political figures nationally. Who comes out in the highest favorability? No surprise, Michelle Obama with 66 percent. Tied for second police, Bill and Hillary Clinton with 61 percent, followed by General David Petraeus in fourth, and President Obama in fifth place at 52 percent.
The first lady, by the way, outshines the whole field -- 66 percent for Michelle, tonight‘s “Big Number.”
Up next: rocky times for the GOP in Colorado. Tom Tancredo‘s decision to run for governor out there leads to a talk radio screaming match.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Colorado is full of fights for the midterm election. The latest clash is in the governor‘s race, where former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo plans to run as a third-party candidate.
Here he is fighting on the radio with state Republican chairman Dick Wadhams. By the way, its on “The Peter Boyles Show” Monday.
Let‘s listen.
TOM TANCREDO ®, FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN: We have had a number of discussions about the problems we had, because you hate the people you‘ve got on the ballot. You dislike them both. You don‘t trust either one.
You‘ve told me on more than one occasion that your opinions on Scott McInnis are—let‘s say—let me think of the exact term—untrustworthy. Your opinion of Dan Maes, a joke. Those were your words.
PETER BOYLES, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: And you know what? You said the same thing to me on more than one occasion that Tom is saying you said.
BOYLES: I‘m not lying to you. You said that.
I have no idea.
DICK WADHAMS, COLORADO REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN: I have been very open that these two guys have problems.
MATTHEWS: OK. Sounds like one guy is talking about school.
Anyway, it‘s getting pretty rocky in the Rockies. In a minute, I will be joined by Democratic Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff.
But let‘s go to “The Washington Post”‘s Chris Cillizza, who is managing editor of the PostPolitics.com.
You‘re becoming very TV-ready, Chris, I must say. You are looking very natty tonight.
MATTHEWS: People in the newsroom are going to deeply resent you, because you look really good for television these days. And that‘s not a small point.
CILLIZZA: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: No, you‘re looking good.
Let me ask you this question.
What is going on out there? Tancredo is going in as obviously anti-immigration guy. That‘s who he is. And he‘s trashing the Republican candidates, apparently quoting back to party chairman negative things that he told him apparently in private.
CILLIZZA: There‘s nothing better than publicly airing things that were said in private. It‘s kind of a reporter‘s dream.
But, look, Chris, the broader context here, Scott McInnis, former congressman, presumed front-runner in the August 10 primary, has been involved, embroiled in a plagiarism scandal. He plagiarized an essay on water issues for which he was paid $300,000. I need a gig like that at some point.
Dan Maes, the other candidate in the problem, has a campaign finance problem. So, what Colorado Republicans are left with heading into this primary, with is in a week, basically, is two really, really flawed candidates.
I think Tom Tancredo has wanted to get back into the political mix for a while. Remember, he ran for president in 2008. Immigration kind of the issue he wants to bring to the forefront. I think he‘s using the problems of McInnis and Maes to put himself back in the mix.
MATTHEWS: Simple question, why doesn‘t he just run in the primary?
He‘s a Republican.
CILLIZZA: Well, filing deadline has passed by a long shot.
CILLIZZA: I‘m surprised, to be frank, Chris, he didn‘t run before. I thought he might have filed and ran for this.
MATTHEWS: He could have run.
MATTHEWS: ... hot with that immigration issue.
CILLIZZA: He put himself in the mix.
Don‘t forget, too, immigration in a Republican primary, we have seen what it has done. Look at Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona. She wasn‘t even close to winning that primary before she signed the immigration law in that state. Now she‘s the overwhelming favorite.
So, had he gotten in back then, he might well have wound up as the Republican nominee.
MATTHEWS: I think immigration is a huge voting this year, especially in the Southwest, but all across the country.
Let me ask you about Romanoff. We‘re going to have him in and the a minute, Andrew Romanoff.
MATTHEWS: He‘s one of the two top candidates for the Senate nomination in Colorado. He has apparently—just the other day, he sold his house, didn‘t just mortgage it, sold the house he lives in for cash to contribute to his campaign.
MATTHEWS: Well, that‘s putting your money where your mouth is.
MATTHEWS: Your thoughts on a guy doing this kind of thing.
CILLIZZA: I have two thoughts.
One, you‘re not going to be able to question his dedication at this point. Two, the one it reminded me of—Chris, I know you‘ll remember this—Ron Klink, former weatherman from western Pennsylvania running against Rick Santorum back in 2000. Three hundred thousand dollar mortgage on his home after that race looked like it was already lost and he wound up losing convincingly to Santorum.
Obviously, Andrew Romanoff is hoping he‘s not following in Ron Klink‘s footstep. Look, it‘s a big investment. I think it‘s—I think the race is somewhat close. I do think—excuse me—Michael Bennet, the appointed senator in the state, has something of an advantage. He has significant financial advantage.
But in a small turnout primary, Romanoff is the former speaker of the statehouse. He‘s got strong showing among the grassroots. It‘s not unfathomable on an environment like this—
MATTHEWS: Good reporting. Good reporting, Chris. Thanks so much.
CILLIZZA: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Chris Cillizza of “The Washington Post.”
With me now is Democratic Senate candidate, Andrew Romanoff. He faces senator—appointed senator, Michael Bennet, in the August 10th primary. Why would you have a primary in August? How‘s—what sort of clown decision was that when people are on vacation? They‘re not really thinking politics? Is this an attempt to keep votes—the vote down? Or what—is this a Republican thing or what?
ANDREW ROMANOFF (D), COLORADO SENATE CANDIDATE: It does have that affect, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Seriously.
ROMANOFF: You couldn‘t probably pick a worse time to ask people to participate in this process. The good news, a lot of Coloradans are voting by mail. Our law allows candidates to conduct the primary entirely by mail. It allows unaffiliated voters in the state to pick a party and participate in the primary and then shed their affiliation the next day. We got a lot of that going on, too.
MATTHEWS: OK. You sold your house for $300,000. That‘s like burning the ships when people used to arrive in this country from Europe to make sure they‘re definitely going to stay. Is that what you‘re doing? Is this a dramatic statement to your people, “I‘m in this to win”?
ROMANOFF: Well, it‘s expensive to advertise on television, as you know. And I‘m running against a guy who‘s taken more than $1 million from special interest groups. What I‘m putting in is about a quarter of that.
MATTHEWS: Who doesn‘t? Doesn‘t everybody do that?
ROMANOFF: But look—
MATTHEWS: What are—by the way, what are the special interests?
What are the special interests?
ROMANOFF: Drug companies, big Wall Street banks, oil industry.
MATTHEWS: And you‘re not taking any of that money? And you‘re clean in that department—all those departments? You‘ve not taken a nickel from any of those crowds?
ROMANOFF: I‘m the only candidate in this race—one of the very few in America, Chris, who doesn‘t take a dime in special interest money?
MATTHEWS: You don‘t take any money from any executives in any of those companies, period? You don‘t do what the usual, the trick—
ROMANOFF: We‘ve decided not to take a single dime from any political action committee or any political interest group.
MATTHEWS: I know. But do you take it the other way?
ROMANOFF: They got enough politicians on their payroll.
MATTHEWS: No. Do you take the other way where you got—where you go around and dun the executives of the companies and they get paid back later, so they don‘t go through the PAC money?
ROMANOFF: No, that‘s not.
MATTHEWS: You don‘t do that either?
ROMANOFF: No. I‘ll tell you, 95 percent of our donors live in Colorado, and a 100 percent—
MATTHEWS: So, in other words, you‘re not taking any money from insurance companies, medical officials, hospital officials, nobody works in those industries has given to your campaign?
ROMANOFF: You know, we‘ve decided—
MATTHEWS: Just to get the—
ROMANOFF: -- from special interest groups, from political action committees.
MATTHEWS: You‘re repeating yourself.
ROMANOFF: And I think what people are saying is—
MATTHEWS: That‘s what people do when they don‘t want to say something.
Are you taking money from those people who work on those fields, but getting it directly, rather than through a PAC? Yes or no?
ROMANOFF: I understand your question. Look, if—
MATTHEWS: Why don‘t you want to answer it?
ROMANOFF: I‘m assuming that a lot of the folks we‘re taking money from work in lots of fields. You have to raise money somehow. If you say, we‘re not going to take any money from anybody who works for any industry, I don‘t know where the money would come from. How would you fund your campaign?
MATTHEWS: No. It‘s just that what happens in Washington, there‘s a lot of people that keep themselves appearing clean, take money from industries and the special interest, but don‘t do it through the political action committees. They go around and take the money directly from the people working them, and those people get compensated later. That‘s how the game works. And then you say it doesn‘t work in your case.
ROMANOFF: And we actually talked about this. We—yes, we thought, what kind of line can we draw? Should we say we‘re not going to take any money from the groups themselves? That‘s the line we drew. Should we say, we‘re not going to take it from anybody who works for any field, we couldn‘t figure out a way to fund the campaign if we turn down contributions from anybody who has a job.
MATTHEWS: OK. You seem like, I know.
MATTHEWS: I don‘t—you don‘t need to get sarcastic with me. I get you.
By the way, I recognize your courage in selling your house, by the way. Was that a hard decision to watch your house go up on TV commercials? I mean, you‘re watching your house disappear in TV commercials.
And by the way, are you still a resident of the state once you sell your house? Are you a resident once you no longer own the house?
ROMANOFF: I am a resident of the state. I still live at my house for the time being.
MATTHEWS: But where do you reside?
ROMANOFF: My dog does, too.
MATTHEWS: OK. In other words, having sold your house, you still reside there.
MATTHEWS: Therefore, you‘re still—you‘re still eligible to run. It‘s just a funny question, I thought. I never heard of a guy selling a house he‘s used as his residence to run in the election. You sell the basis of your candidacy in a way, don‘t you?
ROMANOFF: Well, it shows you how crazy the system has become. Look, you know, 2/3 of the members of the U.S. Senate are multi-millionaires. I‘m not. Ninety-nine percent of the American people are not. And I will work on reforming the way we finance campaigns.
MATTHEWS: No, you‘re homeless. You‘re homeless, buddy.
ROMANOFF: Not quite.
MATTHEWS: Ha! I‘m just kidding around. By the way, good luck in your campaign.
What‘s the biggest issue between you and Bennet—the realest issue, the issue that really matters to voters that separates you two guys?
ROMANOFF: Well, as I said at the outset, I‘m the only candidate who isn‘t funded by special interest groups. We need a senator for the rest of us. And when it comes to protecting the profits of big banks, to the tax breaks for oil companies, my opponent has said yes. I‘ll say no.
MATTHEWS: So, he‘s in the tank with the special interest, and you‘re not.
ROMANOFF: Well, I want to be clear. He is one of the top 10 recipients of Wall Street cash. He‘s one of the biggest recipients of big oil money. He has voted along those lines.
MATTHEWS: So, he‘s in tank.
MATTHEWS: So you‘re saying he‘s going to be driven—you‘re saying if he gets elected—you‘re saying, if he gets elected, he‘s going to be driven by the people who paid for his campaign. He‘s going to be directed by how he got the money from the oil people and the insurance business.
ROMANOFF: And where he‘s taken his money.
MATTHEWS: And does that corrupt him?
ROMANOFF: All I can tell you is how he‘s voting and where he‘s taking his money.
ROMANOFF: And I can also tell you, these groups wouldn‘t spend millions of dollars on congressional campaigns if they got nothing from anybody in return.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you so much. Andrew Romanoff who sold his house but still is in the state. In fact, he‘s hanging in that house until they come to take it away from him. Up next—thanks for coming on. You got good heart.
Up next: nothing goes as planned when it comes to Rod Blagojevich, including the closing arguments. He did not defend himself in court. He had the lawyer offer a rhetorical defense against the state‘s case, which is pretty heavy.
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MATTHEWS: There‘s a fire storm over religion down in Tennessee. Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey, who‘s also running for governor down there, suggested at a town hall this month that Islam is a cult, not a religion. It started with an attendee‘s question about the, quote, “threat” that‘s invading our country from the Muslims. That was the questioner.
Here‘s Ramsey‘s response. Let‘s listen.
RON RAMSEY ®, TENNESSEE LT. GOVERNOR.: I‘ve been trying to learn about Sharia law. I‘ve been trying to learn what it is—not good, if that‘s what‘s going on. Now, you could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion or is it a nationality, a way of life, or cult, whatever you want to call it. But certainly we do protect our religions, but at the same time, this is something that we are going to have to face.
MATTHEWS: Wow. We‘ll be right back. That‘s trouble.
The prosecution and the defense both made their closing arguments today in former Governor Rod Blagojevich‘s corruption trial.
Joining us right now with more of what happened is “Chicago Sun-Times” Lynn Sweet, and who‘s also with Politicsdaily.com; and an MSNBC contributor, Jim Warren, who is in the courtroom today.
Lynn, you first and then Jim.
I want you to give your summations of how that trial ended today.
LYNN SWEET, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: It ended as it started. The defense said no crime ever happened. The defense said that Blagojevich is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but he‘s not corrupt, and the prosecution said, hey, the man is smart, been elected governor twice, and the man has excuses for everything. Convict him.
MATTHEWS: OK. Jim Warren, is that—is this the dumb defense?
How do you see it?
JIM WARREN, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I think if you‘re in the courtroom, you would have thought that the Blagojevich defense ended absolutely disastrously with a very flamboyant theatrical and very competent chief defense attorney unable to give the defense the summation he wanted to because of some evidentiary rulings by the judge.
So, he really did it with one hand tied behind his back and I think correctly so, given the rules, and had to ultimately portray his client as kind of an indiscreet, big-mouth guy, led astray by aides. And, unfortunately, the day and a half essentially of a government closing really I think on the law totally rebutted that as they showed this clear absolute chronology, this quest to obtain, retain—obtain and retain power—
WARREN: -- and reward loyalists. And, remember, they do not have to show a quid pro quo, but they showed clear intent.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this, Lynn. When everybody watched this nationally, let—let‘s assume he gets convicted. Will that teach the country that you can‘t sit around with your staff and plot ways to steal money?
SWEET: Maybe, maybe not, Chris. It should only be so easy. You know, people have plotted corrupt places. There‘s—you know, they might be investigated. There might be wires. Look at all the congressional investigations that are always ongoing.
MATTHEWS: Yes. But when a guy goes into the can, it does have a certain message to the people. At least the big shots go.
SWEET: It says that you don‘t have to pull off the crime, as Jim said, in order to do something wrong.
Jim Warren, the way you described it, is there going to be an appeal here? If he gets convicted, will there be an appeal?
WARREN: Oh, yes. Absolutely. So, a lot of it will be based on what he was unable to do in this closing argument.
Will there be a big message sent to American politicians? I don‘t think so—other than just assume you‘re being wiretapped because if every American politician was wiretapped the way this guy was, I think we‘d have to quadruple the budget of the Justice Department to handle all the prosecutions.
SWEET: Wiretap—
MATTHEWS: What are you, Mr. Chicago? Are you like saying, don‘t hold it against Chicago, the way we do business, because everybody does it?
WARREN: Right.
MATTHEWS: You are defending your city.
SWEET: And add e-mails, right, Jim, to whatever you should be careful.
MATTHEWS: Is that a Chicago point of view? They all do it?
SWEET: I think—
WARREN: No, it‘s not a Chicago point of view. But, Chris—
MATTHEWS: I do understand what you‘re talking about. You‘re saying in orders, pay-to-play is a normal political phenomenon in this country, play-to-pay.
WARREN: The union guy, the Service Employees International Union, gives him about $2 million over the years, is one surprised they have total instant access anytime time they want it, is one surprised that the White House is using SEIU as an intermediary as they try to push and not so subtly Valerie Jarrett as Senate replacement for Barack Obama?
WARREN: The masses of money in power. It‘s everywhere.
MATTHEWS: Can‘t wait for the jury. Thank you, guys.
Lynn Sweet, thank you.
Jim Warren, I do want to hear what the jury of Chicagoans thinks.
When we return, thoughts about former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies who was the key vote in the 1993 vote for the Clinton economic plan that made all the difference.
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MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with a story about a congresswoman who made a difference. Marjorie Margolies was the key vote in 1993 for the Clinton economic plan that created millions of jobs, more than balanced the federal budget, gave our country a government surplus and began shrinking the national debt.
Margolies cast the decisive vote, 218, that decided whether the new president and Congress could prove to the Federal Reserve board and the country‘s money managers that the government could be trusted to get the country‘s fiscal house in order and keep it that way.
For Congresswoman Margolies, it was a brutal vote for her personally. With Republicans chanting, “Good-bye, Marjorie,” she put her House I.D. card into that slot and cast her vote “aye.” Quote, “I was pressed by all sides, by my constituents, my president needing a victory and Republicans promising my demise. I was in the country‘s most Republican district represented by a Democrat. I voted my conscience, and it cost me.”
Well, she was defeated in the next election by a candidate whose most discernible quality was that he was not Margolies. In one of the wealthiest counties in the country, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, it was not a heavy lift to be a member of Congress that had voted for a budget that while holding the line on spending, also included tax hikes.
The great thing Margolies did was cast the vote that made possible, though she couldn‘t have known it at the time, a chain reaction of very good things. The budget got balanced, indeed went into surplus, and the economy of the 1990s roared and, yes, the rich got richer.
Marjorie did suffer the voters‘ mood. She said not long ago that, “I‘d do it again, I‘d do it again.”
But the important thing is the realization, even at the time of that difficult killer vote that as Humphrey Bogart put it in “Casablanca,” the problems of a few little people don‘t amount to a hill of beans compared to the dangers facing this country.
It‘s now 17 years later and this Saturday, Marjorie‘s son, Marc, will marry Chelsea Clinton. Sometime, I‘m sure someone in that rehearsal dinner at the wedding, I‘m sure we‘ll remember back to that vote on the House floor at the beginning of the Clinton economic era and say, not good-bye, Marjorie, but hello to what this country needs. Now, again, as much as ever, the guts to vote, to cast votes, you‘ll be proud of the rest of your life.
Anyway, isn‘t it nice once in a while when nice things happen to nice people?
That‘s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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These are plans for a battery powered boat hydroplane.
Hydrofoils have been around for some time, but even so, nothing on the boating scene draws every eye like a hydroplane lifting out of the water as it gains speed.
Even the U.S. Navy has been attracted to foils, and has tested them on its fast PT boats. The PS model shown here can be completed in a couple of work sessions.
Surface-piercing foils and air-prop drive give it speed and stability with minimum complexity. Construction is far simpler than you'd guess from the performance. Basically, these craft deliver greater speed because resistance against several small areas (foils) is considerably lower than against a complete, submerged hull. Resistance declines as the craft rises.
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What Are Common Deodorant Ingredients?
Natural deodorants may contain witch hazel, which is derived from the witch hazel shrub.
Many deodorants contain parabens, phthalates, and other chemicals.
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Aluminum-based compounds are typically the common deodorant ingredients, along with fragrances, salts, and parabens. Potassium alum performs a similar function as aluminum, but is often used in deodorants that are labeled natural. The aluminum-based compounds used in antiperspirant deodorants form plugs in the sweat ducts in the armpits which prevent sweat from escaping to the surface of the skin. Skin harbors odor-causing bacteria that proliferate when they mix with sweat, increasing body odor.
Deodorants that are labeled "natural" often use mineral salts, or potassium alum, to inhibit perspiration. It does so differently than the aluminum-based compounds. Instead of plugging up the sweat ducts, or pores, it forms a barrier over the skin preventing sweat from escaping. Potassium alum is a naturally occurring mineral, however, it can be made synthetically in a laboratory.
Natural deodorants designed for sensitive skin often use witch hazel as the active ingredient. Witch hazel is derived from a low-growing shrub also commonly called witch-hazel. It has skin soothing and anti-inflammatory properties and is used in many different herbal remedies. Witch hazel is commonly found in mens' aftershaves to heal and prevent razor burn. In deodorant, it acts as an astringent, which causes pores to constrict, thereby reducing the amount of sweat released.
Fragrances are very common deodorant ingredients. They can be synthetically made, or they can come from plants. Plant derived fragrances are often called essential oils. For those with sensitive skin, there are also fragrance-free deodorants and antiperspirants.
Parabens were once common deodorant ingredients, but are being used less frequently due to health concerns. They're easy to find in a list of ingredients as the word “paraben” is part of the name, for example, methylparaben, butylparaben, propylparaben and so forth. Triclosan and propylene glycol are other common deodorant ingredients. Triclosan, which is classified as a pesticide by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), kills bacteria and is fat-soluble, meaning it's stored in body fat.
Propylene glycol is a form of mineral oil that is used to speed up the absorption rate of some of the ingredients in deodorants and antiperspirants. It can cause an allergic reaction in some people. It is a humectant, which means it helps skin or hair retain moisture.
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還是/还是 (háishì) and 或者 (huòzhě) seem to have very similar meanings:
還是/还是: or; still; nevertheless
或者: or; possibly; maybe
When I want to say 'or', how to I choose which to use, and are there any hard and fast rules about this? Furthermore, are there yet more ways to say 'or'?
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Very good question.
还是 is usually used in asking questions. For example:
你想去北京还是上海呢? = Did you want to go to Beijing or Shanghai?
这是橙子还是橘子? = Is this orange or mandarin?
或者 is usually used in declarative sentence. For example:
我想去北京或者上海. = I wanted to go to Beijing or Shanghai.
你可以叫我小王或者老王. = You can call me Xiao Wang or Lao Wang.
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As a native I agree that 还是 usually has the element of doubt, hence is more commonly used in questions or statement expressing such doubt : "I don't know whether I should go to Beijing or Shanghai." (我不知道我应该去北京还是上海才好。) However it seems to me that 或者 can be used in questions just as well. Unlike 还是, it does not hint an element of doubt. Therefore it is sometimes used to express advice : 或者你要减肥了 (Perhaps you should loose weight) – Gapton Jan 12 '12 at 3:39
Both 還是(simplified form:还是) and 或者 can mean or, and I think the only different is that, "还是" is oral, and “或者" is formal.
You could just use ”或" to mean "or", you could also use “抑(yi4)或",but this word are used more in literature and you won't use it in ordinary life.
Thanks for Cocowalla's reminder.
I think you can use either of them in both question and statement sentence. There is only one thing to take care of. When you ask some to pick one from your choices in a simple sentence(no clause) , only ”还是" is acceptable, and when you express your choice in a simple sentence(no caluse), only "或者" is acceptable.
See my comments please.
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In the Pimsleur Mandarin course, 還是 seems to always be used for questions (你 想 喝 茶 还是 啤酒?), whereas 或者 seems to always be used in statements (e.g. 我 想 喝 茶 或者 啤酒) - is that correct or just coincidence? – Cocowalla Dec 16 '11 at 8:10
lol, that's correct. See my answer! – StarCub Dec 16 '11 at 8:15
Thanks for your reminder, by asking myself how I would say in your examples, I found something interesting. Yes, I would always say"你想喝茶还是啤酒?" and ”我想喝茶或者啤酒“, but I can also say ”你想喝茶吗?或者啤酒?" and “我喝茶还是啤酒，和你没什么关系( whethe I drink tea or beer, that's none of your business." Ok, I get confused. – Huang Dec 16 '11 at 8:20
You see the pattern here? When used reversely, you need to say two sentences here, instead of one sentence. – StarCub Dec 16 '11 at 8:25
I'm thoroughly confused now :} – Cocowalla Dec 16 '11 at 9:12
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Stephen Colbert's joke is on the press
Column ››› ››› ERIC BOEHLERT
By contrast, it was mostly left to non-traditional online outlets to strike a skeptical chord; to make the grown-up observation that perhaps this wasn't the best idea. Over at the Huffington Post, Rachel Sklar, a major-league Colbert fan (as am I), wrote that the comedian's candidacy comes at the wrong time:
Now is the time for the fringe players to slip away. Bye-bye, Brownback, so long Kucinich (we predict) and Gravel (we hope). The race is tightening, stakes are getting higher, and the general feeling is that this is where things start to count. The distraction of a spoof candidate -- even the ultimate spoof candidate -- will just get in the way.
And the media website Gawker made a similar point, although with a bit more snark:
Now, we don't want to sound all imperious and shit, and we get the idea, add a little levity to the race, distract the cranky reporters, take everyone down a peg or two. It's good clean fun. But there's a $46 billion war on, we hear. And! Wildfires! Drought! ...We hope [Colbert's] not still making the Sunday morning rounds come primary time. We like our candidates boring, bland, solemn -- and, you know, a smidge electable, because they'll be the ones in charge of killing foreigners and stuff.
Both feared that Colbert would be an unnecessary distraction. Agreed. But the Colbert candidacy becomes a distraction only if the press allows it to. And the sad fact is the press already has allowed it to, because the press literally drives itself to distraction on the campaign trail. That's not an unfortunate side effect of the process. That's the goal.
Think of political press corps as that fat kid from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Augustus Gloop. For too many journalists, the lure of the Colbert candidacy is akin to Wonka's river of chocolate, the one that lured the candy-loving Gloop into the deep end and got him stuck inside the tubes. The press already seems to do everything it can to avoid covering campaign substance. Instead, it pursues trivia such as haircuts, and laughs, and cleavage, and parking tickets, and head movements, and marital sleeping habits, and chiseled good looks, and cats, and accents. It's clear that the allure of a saccharine story like Colbert's running gag is simply too tempting.
That's because the press has decided to cover presidential candidates as celebrities, as personalities. This media phenomenon became enshrined during the 2000 contest, when the press announced that presidential campaigns were no longer about how candidates might function as presidents; what they might actually do as commander in chief. Instead, campaigns were about personalities -- which candidate was fun to be around and which one was authentic.
The approach is thriving today. Look at the latest research findings from the campaign trail: "Just 12% of stories examined were presented in a way that explained how citizens might be affected by the election," according to Editor & Publisher magazine. "And just one percent of stories examined the candidates' records or past public performance." (The study in question is here.)
All of which means the Colbert candidacy, as a news story, fits right into the media's personality-driven sweet spot.
The Colbert allure also stems from the fact that too many journalists see themselves as being part of the entertainment business, not in the information business. They relate to Colbert and they want to be part of his yuk-yuk world. They want to blur the lines between news and infotainment. And they want to show everyone that they get the joke.
Why else would NBC's venerable Meet the Press invite Colbert on for an awkward 15-minute interview? (And why else would anchorman Brian Williams be hosting Saturday Night Live on November 3?)
The obvious media reaction to the Colbert candidacy should have been to note it as the book-selling publicity stunt that it was, have a chuckle, and move on. Instead, the press lingered, giving the story way too much attention, and often at the expense of more pressing topics.
For instance, ABC's Nightline found time to cover the Colbert candidacy. Yet Nightline has not found time during the last six weeks to cover the war from Iraq. I'm just sayin'.
At The Washington Post last week, Howard Kurtz twice led his daily online media column with the Colbert story. The Boston Globe editorialized about Colbert's candidacy, announcing it "makes a weird sort of sense." The Chicago Sun-Times editorial page also cheered Colbert. And the South Carolina newspaper The State printed a side-by-side comparison between the stated positions of candidates Colbert and John Edwards.
Meanwhile, The Atlantic contacted nearly half-a-dozen election pros and posted a detailed, 1,700-word breakdown of the possible Colbert effect in South Carolina, assuming the candidate's able to get on the ballot there.
Boosting the significance of Colbert's stunt, The Atlantic reported that "[t]he real threat to the rest of the field is the possibility that Colbert might win a delegate or two (and show up at one or both of the national conventions)." But why? What possible impact would Colbert have on either convention if he showed up with one delegate or two? (And trust me, he's not going to.) He would somehow throw the conventions into chaos? Please. The simple answer is it would be meaningless.
The Atlantic went on to suggest that Colbert's best chance for capturing a Republican delegate would come from the coastal district that stretches from Charleston (Colbert's hometown) to Myrtle Beach, despite the fact it is "heavily conservative." So, conservative Republicans in South Carolina are going to vote for a liberal comedian who mocks conservative ideas on a nightly basis through a thinly veiled impersonation of right-wing talker Bill O'Reilly?
It could happen, according to The Atlantic, because "The district also has a pronounced weakness for political gimmicks. Its congressman, Republican Henry Brown, got elected in 2000 after distributing 20,000 "Oh Henry!" candy bars to boost name recognition." Weak South Carolina voters elected Henry Brown to Congress because he passed out candy bars?
Honestly, sometimes I worry that journalists think voters take elections as un-seriously as the journalists themselves do. For instance, ABC's World News, working hard to pump up interest in the story, reported Colbert might "appeal to those who find politics a theater of the absurd." I'd suggest that South Carolinians who are committed to participating in the state's upcoming primary (i.e. voters who take their politics most seriously) are not going to vote on a comedian executing a joke.
In fact, when one of Colbert's staffers contacted the owner of a South Carolina beauty salon, which had been featured in the press as being a hotbed of local political discussion, and asked if Colbert could visit the salon in advance of the primary, the owner was emphatic: No. "This is a serious issue for us," she told the producer.
The salon owner thinks elections are serious business. Colbert does not. And that's fine; he's a comedian. So what's the media's excuse?
Meanwhile, ABC News online posted a detailed investigation into the federal campaign fundraising implications of Colbert's faux run, as did Politico in a lengthy piece, which was the featured article at the outlet's website on October 26. Picking up on that thread, The New York Times editorial board blog, after cheering on the Colbert candidacy ("a stroke of comic genius"), examined its legal implications:
If a television personality who is not a comedian were to run for President, it could be a serious candidacy (and we can think of a few we'd be seriously worried about), using the exposure given to him by his television network to campaign and win votes. [Emphasis added.]
Since Colbert clearly is a comedian, what exactly was the point of The New York Times highlighting campaign rules that don't apply to Colbert's PR stunt? Here's a hint: The Times blog urged Colbert to keep his campaign going "for the sheer fun of it." It's true, the press loves to have fun on the campaign trail. As one Chicago Tribune reporter assured CNN, "Everybody is going to cover Stephen Colbert to a certain extent, because it's going to be fun."
But what about news consumers? After another writer at The Atlantic dissected the possible electoral implications of the Colbert run, suggesting the key voting block for Colbert would be "liberal young Republicans" (do they even exist?), one online commenter beseeched:
Seriously. Please stop. Please tell your friends in the [mainstream media] to stop. Real news should stay real news and fake news should stay on Comedy Central. just freaking me the hell out and seriously wondering if you all are engaging in pharmaceuticals.
But they can't stop. Partly because they don't want to (the story is fun), and partly because news corporations have built these enormous news-gathering machines around this never-ending presidential campaign; a campaign that, day in and day out, produces very little actual news. But the machines must be fed, and what's easier (and more fun!) to feed it than Colbert stories?
Still, journalists strain to justify the attention Colbert receives. From
Yes, we know that Colbert's bid is satire and nothing more. But anyone who follows politics as closely as we do knows that it even serious politics often devolves into theater of the absurd. So why shouldn't Colbert be another actor in the real 2008 race?
Again, when campaigns descend into the absurd it's usually because the press drives them there. (Did we mention the great Cleavage Debate of 2007?) And why shouldn't Colbert be another actor in the 2008 presidential race? Because he's a comedian pretending to be a candidate.
That fact doesn't seem to matter. Howard Kurtz at the The Washington Post wrote: "Holy cow! Stephen Colbert is surging. He's on fire. Truthiness rules! In a new poll, he's at 2.3 percent in the Democratic primary. Before you scoff, that's 0.4 percent behind Joe Biden but ahead of Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel." What Kurtz left unsaid was the fact that Colbert's 2.3 percent easily fell within the poll's hefty margin of error (5 percent), which meant the findings were statistically irrelevant.
Colbert's race did momentarily seem to gain newsworthiness last week when a Rasmussen poll showed the Comedy Central host grabbing an impressive 13 percent when positioned as an independent candidate. (Even though Colbert claims he's not going to try to run as an independent.)
None of the news reports I saw about the polling results mentioned it, but what exactly is the point of conducting a national poll since Colbert is only trying to get on the ballot in one state? Meaning, of the 1,200 people Rasmussen polled, it's likely that, based on census data, maybe 10 or 20 of the respondents were actually from South Carolina. It's like running a national poll on who Americans would prefer to be the next senator from New York; it's perfectly pointless exercise except, of course, that in the case of Colbert it's fun and entertaining.
Nonetheless, on October 29, Good Morning America host Diane Sawyer, in an apparent reference to the Rasmussen poll, suggested that, "If [Colbert] keeps gaining at the rate he's gaining, by the end of November he could be the leading candidate." [Emphasis added]
Question: In the history of modern-day American presidential campaigns, has a new candidate ever entered the race polling at roughly 10 percent and then proceeded to pick up an additional 10 percent each week for four weeks running? Ever? Why would anybody suggest that a late-night comedian might be able to accomplish what no other candidate has ever done in American politics? What would prompt somebody to suggest that Colbert, by next month, might soon be garnering 40 percent and be the leading candidate for president?
Answer: Because it's fun.
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Ant Lion, Giant
This gigantic burrowing insect has an oversized abdomen. A terrifying set of long, hooked mandibles protrudes from its head.
Giant Ant Lion CR 5
XP 1,600
N Large vermin
hp 60 (8d8+24)
Fort +9, Ref +2, Will +2
Immune mind-affecting effects
Speed 30 ft., burrow 10 ft.
Melee bite +10 (2d8+7 plus grab)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Special Attacks sand trap
Str 20, Dex 11, Con 17, Int —, Wis 11, Cha 10
Base Atk +6; CMB +12 (+16 grapple); CMD 22 (30 vs. trip)
Environment warm deserts
Organization solitary or nest (2–4)
Treasure incidental
Special Abilities
Sand Trap (Ex) A giant ant lion can create a 60-foot-diameter, 20-foot-deep pit in any sand or soft earth surface. Creating a sand trap takes 1 hour. A DC 15 Perception check allows a creature to realize such a depression in the sand is in fact a trap. Any creature that steps into the trap slides to the center if it fails a DC 14 Reflex save—such victims take no damage, but they do fall prone. A giant ant lion can make an attack of opportunity against any creature that falls to the bottom of its sand trap. These creatures can move across sand traps at their normal speed and are immune to the trap's effects. Other creatures can navigate the trap's walls with a DC 20 Climb check. The save DC is Dexterity-based.
Perils of the desert depths, giant ant lions construct traps from the shifting sands. These beasts lurk at the base of these pits, half buried and patiently awaiting unwary prey.
Ant Lion, Giant Adult
This spindly insect, borne aloft on four delicate wings, snaps its mandibles in obvious hunger.
Giant Adult Ant Lion CR 6
XP 2,400
N Huge vermin
AC 19, touch 11, flat-footed 16 (+8 natural, +3 Dex, –2 size)
hp 85 (10d8+40)
Fort +11, Ref +6, Will +3
Immune mind-affecting effects
Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (good)
Melee bite +12 (3d8+10)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Str 24, Dex 16, Con 19, Int —, Wis 11, Cha 10
Skills Fly +3
Environment warm deserts
Organization solitary or cloud (2–12)
Treasure none
When a giant ant lion reaches maturity, it creates a cocoon of sand and dirt around itself. Over the course of a month, the ant lion undergoes a dramatic metamorphosis—when it emerges, its body has become elongated and thin and it has gained a set of enormous, lacy wings. Depending on the region, giant adult ant lions are often called giant lacewings, giant damselflies, or giant spindleflies, but regardless of their regional name, they remain ravenous and deadly, replacing the sand trap cunning of their larval form with swift flight and greater battlefield mobility. | <urn:uuid:03c8df29-b225-47b3-a46c-cd643ab8944f> | http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/bestiary3/antLion.html | en | 0.820766 | 0.038959 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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In a village somewhere to the northward a high-caste person had married a high-caste girl from a neighboring village. His mother-in-law lived with them, and she disliked her son-in-law very much because he was a lazy fellow, fond only of gambling. As soon as they were through with their meal she would say to the slaves, "Let that fire go out at once." She did not want her son-in-law to have anything to eat there. Long after dark the man would come in, and they would hear him eating. Then his mother-in-law would say, "I suppose my son-in-law has been felling a tree for me." Next morning he would go out again very early. His wife thought it was useless to say anything. The same thing happened every evening.
When summer came all the people went after salmon, and the gambler accompanied them. After he had hung up quite a lot of this salmon and dried it, he took it up into the woods beside a lake and made a house there out of dry wood. Then he began chopping with his stone ax upon a big tree which stood a little distance back. It took him a very long time to bring it down. After he had felled it into the lake he made wedges out of very hard wood and tied their thick ends
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with roots to make them strong. He tried to split the tree along its whole length. When he had accomplished this he put crosspieces between to hold the two sections apart. Then he baited his line with salmon, with the bright part turned out, and let it down between. He had been told that there was a monster in that lake, and he was going to find out. By and by he felt his line move, but when he pulled up quickly it broke. The next time, however, he pulled it up still more rapidly and the creature followed it to the surface between the two halves of the tree. Then he pushed the crosspieces out so that the halves of the tree sprang together and caught its head while he jumped ashore. He stood on a grassy spot near by to watch. Then the monster struggled hard to get away, and it was so strong that it kept dragging the tree clear under water, but at last it died. Now the man spread the cedar apart by means of his crosspieces, dragged out the monster's body and examined it. He saw that it had very sharp, strong teeth and that its claws looked like copper. Then he skinned it with the claws, etc., entire, dried it very carefully, got inside, and went into the water. It began to swim away with him, and it swam down to the monster's house under the lake, which was very beautiful.
After this man had come up again, he left his skin in a hole in a dry tree near by and went home, but did not say a word to anybody about what he had discovered. When winter came all went back to their village, and the following spring there was a famine.
One morning the man said to his wife, "I am going away. I will be here every morning just before the ravens are awake. If you hear a raven before I get back don't look for me any more." Then he again got into the monster's skin and swam to his house. He found that from there he could go out into the sea, so he swam along in the sea, found a king salmon and brought it back. He took off his skin and left it where he had put it before. The salmon he carried to town and left on the beach close to the houses.
Next morning this man's mother-in-law got up early, went out, and came upon a salmon. She thought that it had drifted there, so she took it home. Then she came in and said to her husband, "I have found a fine big salmon." They cooked it for all the people in the village and distributed the food, as was formerly the custom. Next evening her son-in-law did the very same thing, only he caught two salmon. Then he went to bed. He told his wife that it was he who was getting these salmon, but she must not say a word about it.
The third time he brought salmon in and his mother-in-law found them she considered the matter very deeply. Her son-in-law would sleep all day, not getting up to eat until it was almost evening. Before this he had been in the habit of rising very early in order to gamble. When he got up next day, the old woman said to him, "The idea of starving people who are sleeping all day. If I did not go
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around picking up dead salmon the whole village would be starving." He listened to what she said, and afterward he and his wife laughed about it.
Next evening he went out again and caught a very large halibut, which he also put in front of his mother-in-law's house. By this time the woman thought, "I wonder what this is that is bringing me luck. It must be a spirit. I believe I am going to become the richest person in the world. That is why this is happening to me." When she went out this morning, as was now her custom, and saw the large halibut, she called to her husband and her slaves to bring it up. She felt very proud. Then the chief sent word all through the village, "No one is to go out early in the morning. My wife has had a bad dream," She had not really had such a dream, but she told her husband so because she did not want anybody to get ahead of her. In those days everyone listened to what the chief said and obeyed him. Next morning the young man got a seal and laid it down before the houses.
Meanwhile his mother-in-law treated him worse and worse. She said, "I will never go out again in the morning to find anything. I know that the people in this village would starve if I did not find things." After that she found the seal. Then they singed the hair off, scraped it in water to make the skin white, and cooked it in the skin. The chief invited everyone in the village to his house to eat it. He made speeches and listened to speeches in return which told how his wife had saved all of them. Her son-in-law lay in bed taking everything in. Also when a canoe landed in front of the town his mother-in-law would say, "I suppose my son-in-law has brought in a load of seal," and he listened to her as he lay there.
In the middle of that night the old woman pretended that she had spirits. The spirit in her said, "I am the spirit that finds all this food for you." Then she said to her husband, as she lay in bed, "Have a mask made for me, and let them name it Food-finding-spirit. Have a claw hat a made." So her husband sent for the best carver in town, and he made all of the things she had asked for. Her husband had an apron made for her with puffin beaks all around it.
After that spirits came to her and mentioned what she was going to find. She rattled her rattle, and her spirits would say that she was rattling it over the whole village. Her son-in-law lay abed listening. The whole village believed in her and thought that she was a wonderful shaman.
The first time the woman went out she found one salmon, the next time two salmon, the third time a halibut, the fourth time two halibut, and after that a seal. Now she said her spirits told her that she was going to find two seals, so, her son-in-law who had heard it, went out the following night and found the two seals. His wife felt very badly for
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him because her mother nagged him continually. She talked more and more of her spirits all the time, and the high-caste, people invited to their feasts spoke very highly of them. She would sing how high her spirits were, and the village paid her a great deal of attention. But she called her son-in-law Sleeping-man. She gave him to eat only a few scraps left over, and would say to the people, "Leave some scraps there for Sleeping-man."
Next morning she found a sea lion which her son-in-law had caught that night, and again she felt very proud. Her son-in-law kept saying to his wife, "Always listen for the ravens. If you hear the ravens before I come you may know that something has happened to me. If you hear one before I come get right out of bed." When his mother-in-law invited all the people for this sea lion the people would say, "It has been this way from olden times. The chiefs in a village are always lucky." Then the woman acted like a shaman and said, "The people of the village are not to go over that way for wood, but over back of the village." Although she had not a single spirit she made the people believe she had them.
Next morning the son-in-law went out again, caught a whale, and left it in the usual place. The village people were very much surprised when the chief's wife found it, and she was very proud. She filled a large number of boxes with oil from what was left over after the feast. She had boxes full of all kinds of food, which the town people were buying. They looked up to her as to a great lord.
But her son-in-law said to his wife, "Don't help yourself to any of that food. Whatever she gives us we will take." She was treating him worse every day. The son-in-law also said to his wife, "If you see that I am dead in the skin I have, which has been bringing us good luck, do not take me out of it but put me along with the skin in the place where I used to hide it, and you will get help."
This went on for a long time, but he thought he would not get another whale because he had had such a time with the first. Meanwhile his mother-in-law continued to say spiteful things about him, things to make the village people laugh at him, and now that she had spirits she was worse than ever. Quite a long time after this, however, he did catch two whales and tried to swim ashore with them. He worked all night over them, and, when he got near the place where he used to leave things on the beach, the raven called and he died.
When his wife heard the raven's cry she remembered what he had said, and began dressing herself, crying as she did so. Still she remained in doors, knowing that the whole village would go down to see the monster. Then her mother walked out as usual and saw two whales lying there with a monster between them. It had two fins oil its back, long ears, and a very long tail. All of the people went
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down to look at it and said to one another, "There is a terrible monster there. Come down to look at it. It is something very strange." They did not know what it was, but supposed that it was the old woman's spirit.
At last, when she heard all this racket going on, the chief's daughter started down the steps from the high foundation such as they used to build on in those days, and she wept very loudly as she descended so that all the people could hear her. They looked at her and wondered what was wrong with her, thinking, "What does that high-caste girl mean by calling the monster her husband?" Nobody would go near, for they were afraid of the chief, of the chief's daughter, and of the monster. But, when the girl had come down, she said to her mother, who was still looking at the monster, "Where are your spirits now? You are a story teller. You say that you have spirits when you have not. That is why this happened to my husband." Now the interest was so intense that people had crawled up on the roofs of the houses and on other high places to look at the monster.
As the girl also stood there looking, she said, "Mother, is this your Food-finding spirit? How is it that your spirit should die? Spirits all over the world never die. If this is your spirit make it come to life again."
Then the girl went close to the monster and said to the village people, "Some of you that are very clean come and help me." Her husband had died in the act of holding the jaws of the monster apart to come out, one hand on each. When the people saw this they were very much surprised and said, "He must have been captured by that monster." From that time on this monster has been known as the GonaqAdê't.
The people helped to take the woman's husband and the monster's skin up to the edge of the lake and put them into the hollow in the tree. There they saw the log, broken hammers, and wedges lying about where he had killed it, and reported to the rest of the people so that everyone went there to look. But the old woman was so ashamed that she remained in doors and died. When they found her body blood was coming out of the mouth.
Every evening after this the dead man's wife went to the foot of the tree which contained his body and wept. One evening, however, she perceived a ripple on the water, and looking up, saw the monster flopping around in the lake. Then the creature said to her, "Come here." It was the voice of her husband. "Get on my back," it said, "and hold tight." She did so, and he swam down to the monster's former house. This monster is the GonaqAdê't that brings good luck to those that see him. His wife also brings good luck to those who see her, and so do their children, "the Daughters of the Creek," who live at the head of every stream.
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Higher Cigarette Taxes and Convenience Store Success
January 30, 2012
A study released last year by Dr. Jidong Guang and Dr. Frank Chaloupka of impacTeen attempts to see what impact higher cigarette taxes have on convenience stores. The conventional logic is that higher cigarette taxes mean lower economic success for convenience stores, and they wanted to test that hypothesis.
That is easier said than done, apparently, as their paper states that they couldn't find good data on convenience store profits. So instead, they decided to see what impact higher cigarette taxes have on "number of convenience stores per 1 million people." They seem to gloss over the obvious fact that the number of stores per one million people is not a logical proxy for the stores' financial success. Big stores count as much as little stores; hugely successful stores count as much as marginally successful ones. So the result is bizarre: they conclude that "an increase in the tax rate of $1 per pack will be associated with an increase in the number of convenience stores per 1 million people by 11."
They wisely hide this in their conclusion, merely asserting that their data show that "higher cigarette taxes...have had no negative economic impact on convenience stores." That's smart on their part, as even the most vehement anti-smoking advocate would be hard-pressed to claim that higher cigarette taxes have a hugely positive impact on convenience store profits. But the study leaves the close reader hanging as to why this might be the case. They suggest that this could happen because retail profits rise as stores shift away from higher-taxed cigarette sales to lower-taxed consumer goods. This assumes, however, that the number of stores rising is equivalent to rising profits, which may not be the case. It also is another way of saying that stores' profits are in fact hurt by higher cigarette taxes, but that convenience stores find new ways to make up the revenue loss. The chart included on page 30 of their study (reproduced below), showing the number of convenience stores per capita oscillating wildly over the study period, suggests that the relationship is not as clean as they suggest.
Ultimately, this study simply shows that their metric (convenience stores per capita) is not well-connected to convenience store economic success. If higher cigarette taxes reduces the number of legally-purchased cigarettes, that definitely impacts convenience store revenue.
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Moon Love Spells
Moon Love Spells
There is a myth and a superstition around full moon love spells. People and society thinks they are even more powerful than any other time of spells. This is not always the case. We see tv and movies and get influenced by them. Then you think that moon love spells are the only one's that can make the different. The vampire and the wolf did it. Why can't we have love? Why can't love be that easy? The moon love spells will fix our soul. It is not us, its them. I often wonder about how that makes people think and I see them this way. Full moon love spells is like the drug running through you. You start to think about it and desire it, then you wonder what is doing wrong with the spells themselves. There will never be a time that you can have it all. It is near impossible. I don't know what to think anymore. I just want to be me. I want to be loved. Loved original. Not secondary. Moon love spells could do it all for me too!
So after all the effort was put in and the time invested what do both people think. How does love prevail? It has never prevailed in the past, so what makes love so godly that it could prevail now. I don't understand this myself. Moon love spells are doing to make the world flip and become the exact mental image that you desire. You live in a fantasy world then how do you match it up to the real world. Full moon love spells were once known to be the lover's choice in love potions. People would drink whatever you instructed for you to become under the spells. These were always specific to a full moon. When you took the, you would fall to the ground under the spell casting of it. The moon love spells power puts your body into a trance.
Moon spells come in two powerful, yet opposite moon traits. There is new moon spells and full moon spells that will bring the power of your love relationship back into your hands! Both are very powerful. Both are moon love spells. Only one can challenge the problems in a love life, this is new moon love spells, yet not the full moon love spells.
If you get moon spells, focus on new moon love spells when you need a new start from a serious past with your lover. Then channel in on making them happy and complete using the full moon love spells. The moon love spells on this site come from official spell books. There are no other type of moon spells that could work on a lover, but that of Akychi power.
I see the moon and I wonder if I am alone. I wonder if you can see the moon too! There is no true way to know. You could be under the moon love spells right now as we speak. You could be gazing up just because you want to gaze up to the moon and stars. There is no way for another human to know, but psychics would certainly try their best to make it happen. Full moon love spells will take you to the brinks of your mind and how to releive the misunderstanding. There is not a time that I stopped loving you. I don't know how to make that real to you. I don't know how to make my words mean something more for love. The moon doesn't control it all. Moon love spells will be with you forever.
Please accept my apology, good or bad. The moon is not the ultimate in powerful conjures. New moon love spells will be around for decades to come and there will never be another chance at spell casting. Spell casting is something that we do in honor of the dead in love. We love so much, what do you do next. The moon love spells will keep you safe and warm in a bed. You earned it and it is something that you have worked very hard for too. Love you.
Twilight Moon Spell
A lover’s wakeup call to be exclusively yours!
There is a moonlit power cascading across the rippling effect of the ocean and offering the deep internal power you desire to achieve a perfect love life! The spell cast of this moon love spell will bring the importance of being your lover’s one true love to their eyes.
When you choose priority spell casting and/or triple spell cast of this moon spell, you will have a special sealing of Stardust placed upon your spell to show the physical path home to you! This will guarantee that your lover has the ability to return physically, even if your lover’s heart is already there!
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How To Sell Products And Avoid Kids At The Same Time
The Kaiser Family Foundation wants TV commercials to better target their specific audience --- all to keep kids from getting the wrong message.
In a perfect world of micro-targeted niche networks, all this would make sense.
Kaiser recently released a study finding that 65% of parents closely monitor their kids' media consumption -- and virtually the same numbers of parents still worry kids are seeing too much advertising.
A Kaiser official suggests, for example, no lewd ads during "American Idol" -- which Kaiser seems to feel is a kids' show.
Well, "Idol" isn't a kid's show -- it's a show for everybody. All demographic groups watch "Idol," the highest-rated overall network TV show. Look at the numbers.
Unless a show is on a narrowly-targeted network, such as Nickelodeon or MTV, most on broadcast are going to have a variety of commercials. That's why they still call it broadcasting. Demographics groups -- 18-49, 12-24, 25-54 -- still cover a sizable range of ages.
A commercial watchdog groups now says that the spirits maker Jack Daniels shouldn't sponsor the upcoming AMC series, "Mad Men," a show about the advertising business in the 1960s, in which men smoke and drink a lot, because it violates the industry's self-regulating tenets. The bigger question is -- who will be watching that show?
What happens when a beer commercial runs during NFL, NHL, or Major League Baseball telecasts? Many kids under 18 watch these sporting events -- as well as adults 60 years old. Does that mean beer and other alcohol products can't be advertised on these shows?
You can go two ways: prevent those who are under 18 from watching sporting events, or tell marketers of legal products targeted to older viewers that their commercials - and products -- are now illegal.
Take a look at "Oprah Winfrey" ratings, and you'll see -- though it's a tiny number -- that some 6- to 11-year-olds are watching. Should they be watching? Probably not. Should those kids be the targets of home air freshener or feminine hygiene commercials? Probably not.
But if kids are watching, parents should be sitting right next to them explaining the facts of life: "Yes, that man jumping on Oprah's couch is a big movie star who gets $20 million a movie. But you shouldn't do that in our house -- not unless you've just signed with William Morris."
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deputies recommended for the adoption of the states the articles of union known as the constitution of the United States.
The parties to whom the constitution was submitted were the several sovereign states; they were to agree or disagree, and when nine of them agreed, the compact was to take effect among those concurring; and the general government, as the common agent, was then to be vested with their authority.
If only nine of the thirteen states had concurred, the other four would have remained as they then were—separate, sovereign states, independent of any of the provisions of the constitution. In fact, two of the states did not accede to the constitution until long after it had gone into operation among the other eleven; and during that interval, they exercised the functions of an independent nation.
By this constitution, certain duties were charged on the several states, and the exercise of certain of their powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. On the 23d of May, 1788, South Carolina, by a convention of her people, passed an ordinance assenting to this constitution, and afterwards altering her own constitution to conform herself to the obligation she had undertaken.
Thus was established, by compact between the states, a government with defined objects and powers, limited to the express words of the grant, and to so much more only as was necessary to execute the power granted. The limitations left the whole remaining mass of power subject to the clause reserving it to the state or to the people, and rendered unnecessary any specification of reserved powers.
We hold that the government thus established is subject to the two great principles asserted in the declaration of independence, and we hold further that the mode of its formation subjects it to a third fundamental principle, namely—the law of compact. We maintain that in every compact between two or more parties, the obligation is mutual—that the failure of one of the contracting parties to perform a material part of the agreement entirely releases the obligation of the other, and that, where no arbiter is appointed, each party is remitted to his own judgment to determine the fact of failure with all its consequences.
In the present case that fact is established with certainty. We assert that fifteen of the states have deliberately refused for years past to fulfill their constitutional obligation, and we refer to their own statutes for the proof.
"No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from any service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."
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The Administration's Ear to Telecom
Michael Gallagher sees wireless as a boon to competition, broadband as the path to global competitiveness.
May 24, 2004|James S. Granelli | Times Staff Writer
As 100,000 workers at SBC Communications Inc. conclude a four-day walkout after midnight tonight, California's dominant local phone company is still trying to look for ways to lower its labor costs to better compete against rivals that are luring away customers and squeezing prices.
That competition stems from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a landmark law that opened the Baby Bells' monopoly markets. And now the Federal Communications Commission and the Bush administration are pressuring the Bells and their rivals to negotiate leases of Bell networks and other gear.
Watching the negotiations is Michael D. Gallagher, the Bush administration's principal advisor on telecommunications policy. Gallagher heads the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an agency charged with creating jobs in the telecommunications industry, encouraging competition, spurring innovation and helping improve the economy.
Gallagher, a graduate of UC Berkeley and UCLA's law school, entered government from the wireless industry, where he worked for AirTouch before it was acquired by Vodafone and eventually merged into Verizon Wireless. He sees wireless technology as a way to get around the chokehold the Bells have on local access lines, called loops.
He talked about phone competition, the lease talks and affordable high-speed Internet access during a recent interview at the third annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium at Cal Poly Pomona.
Question: What's your role in the current round of talks?
Answer: The FCC is in charge of it. We have a strong interest in making sure the outcome comes out well. So our role is one of support for the outcome and working together with folks as we can constructively.
Q: So if these talks succeed, does the commission take the credit?
A: Well, I think the American people take the credit. They're the direct beneficiaries of it. When you have a competitive environment, there's an equilibrium that's achieved and you have new enhancements and lower prices, then there is a distinct benefit to our economy and to our citizens.
Q: The Bells control about 85% of the local business nationwide and a growing piece of the long-distance market. Does that share give them unequal bargaining power?
A: We're engaged in a transition. If you go back in legislative history of the Telecom Act and look at the speeches in Congress at the time, you have people who were saying, "We live in a monopoly world right now. We're going to open all that up and have all this competition." And everybody agreed. We wanted to be in the position where we have multiple competitors offering multiple exciting services.
But this road on how we get there is extraordinarily difficult. And that's what we're managing.
Q: So in managing deregulation, does this unequal market share demand that the government have more oversight or stronger oversight of the process here?
A: I think it depends on the nature of the marketplace. What market share did Internet Explorer have in browsers when it first was started? Zero. None. Netscape was it. Netscape was the dominant browser, and today it's still a fabulous browser. But if you look at the shares, very different.
So you have to ask yourself what your expectations are for competition to calibrate what degree of government involvement there should be in a particular industry.
Q: But isn't there a big difference between Internet Explorer and telecom? There's a bottleneck -- the lines to homes -- that is controlled by the network owners and can't be replicated. Is that a monopoly that needs to be opened up?
A: Plenty of people say that Windows is a bottleneck and we need to open that up and make the source code available. But the telephone industry is certainly a very different animal.
Q: It's an essential service.
A: You have to look at barriers to entry and you have to look at substitution of other products. For the local loop today, we're just beginning to see those types of intermodal competitive offerings, which still are not quite fully substitutable.
We have 163 million wireless customers. Massive numbers of minutes are moving to the wireless networks. But even with today's spectrum allocations, they don't have enough spectrum to replace the wire-line phone system.
Also, if you talk to people, they really rely on their wireless, but it's a supplement, a fast-growing supplement. It's not a replacement except for a very small number of people, mainly college students.
Q: Will voice over Internet protocol technology become a replacement?
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Elijah, Alone
There are times when reason escapes me while Bible reading. Elijah’s experience after Mount Carmel is one of those times. Why the repititive question and answer? God’s acceptance of the offering after priests of Ba’al failed to elicit any response from their God has the country responding:
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. (1 Kings 18:39 KJV)
Elijah returned rain to the land, and Ahab continued as king. Doesn’t sound too bad, does it? Well, until Jezebel made her commitment to see to Elijah’s death. Believing her, he ran.
Do we do the same thing? We have a ‘mountain top’ experience, feel so close to God – then a bit of hatefulness drops us into a valley of despair as we watch those who wish to harm us continue happily on their way – often, interfering in ours.
There is only a difference in location in verses 1 King 19:9 and 13 where God asks: What doest thou here, Elijah?
I don’t think that was the right answer. That was an explanation of what he had done, a complaint about how things were going, an excuse for being away from his job, but Elijah did not explain what he was doing. He couldn’t, for he was not doing anything. I’ve been there – oh, no one was seeking my life to take it away, but they took pieces of it. A bit of time here for work, a bit of time there for a child’s activity, a bit of time over here for an obligation. They sought my time, they took it away – and I allowed it. Why is it that church activities are the first to go?
Elijah was wrong, too, when he said I, even I only, am left. Wrong!
We’re told in the next chapter just who these seven thousand people were: Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. (1 Kings 20:15 KJV)
Nope. Elijah was not alone. And, neither am I.
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SubjectRe: Regulator supplies when using Device Tree
On 3/28/2012 3:09 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>> the answer is that we should invent another binding to portray the
>> name of the supply the driver should be checking against. But then
>> it would seem silly to have two bindings that pertain to supply
>> names.
> Absolutely not, that would be broken. The whole point here is that
> supplies of all kinds are always requested with the name the chip uses
> for the supply.
Let's consider an example with two regulators:
regulator@0 {
compatible = "ldo_driver";
foo-supply = <&smps1>;
regulator@1 {
compatible = "ldo_driver";
How do we write a single regulator driver that supports both of these
regulator devices?
Within the regulator driver, we currently have to do an
of_get_property(of_node, "foo-supply", NULL) to determine whether the
device has a supply, and thus whether we should assign
rdesc->supply_name to "foo" or not when calling regulator_register(). Is
there a better way to do this? If we don't do this check for the case
where a device does not have a supply specified in the Device Tree, then
regulator_register() will fail.
Before Device Tree, regulators could get their supply names directly
from the board file like so:;a=blob;f=Documentation/power/regulator/machine.txt;h=ce63af0a8e35ecab32e2f326d13a9a2b33b62909;hb=refs/heads/master#l67
Thus the regulator driver was never concerned about the specifics of a
supply name. And if the supply name was not specified, then the
regulator_register() would happily succeed without any checks in the
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Need a script that will operate on specific pages (Google Contacts, another website) to format numbers entered into a certain field (phone number) in standard format.
For example, if I enter 1234567890 into the phone number field it will format the number as (123)456-7890.
Have been googling for days and have come up empty handed.
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Ok, what's your actual question? What have you tried already? Where are you getting stuck? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Oct 30 '12 at 18:56
What can I use to do this? I haven't found any pre-written scripts that accomplish this. I tried to write my own Greasemonkey script to handle it but could not make it work, could not figure out how to add the onkeyup and onkeydown calls to the input field on the page. If I can figure out how to do that, I think I can use a script like this one in Greasemonkey: entrinsik.com/forums/index.php?topic=176.0 – Blue Oct 31 '12 at 14:17
This is the code I am using to add the Javascript calls to the input field but it doesn't seem to work: document.getElementById("person_contact_data_phone_numbers__number").onkeydown ="javascript:backspacerDOWN(this,event);" document.getElementById("person_contact_data_phone_numbers__number").onkeyup ="javascript:backspacerUP(this,event);" – Blue Oct 31 '12 at 14:22
By the way, those function names are for a different formatting script that I had found that I can't find the link to anymore. – Blue Oct 31 '12 at 14:24
Solved my problem. – Blue Oct 31 '12 at 15:34
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Solved the problem with the following code (borrowed and slightly modified from the link in my previous comment) as a Greasemonkey script:
function formatPhoneNumber(input){
if (input == null) {return null}
// Strip all non-numeric characters and check for '\'...
var plain = "";
var c = input.substring(i, i+1);
if(!isNaN(c) && c != " " || !isNaN(c) && c != "\\" )
plain += c;
// Make sure we have 10 numeric digits
var tenNumeric = /^[0-9]{10}$/;
return "("
+ plain.substring(0, 3)
+ ") "
+ plain.substring(3, 6)
+ "-"
+ plain.substring(6, 10);
//Leave it alone
return input;
var affectedInput = document.getElementById('narf');
affectedInput.onkeyup = function(event) { affectedInput.value = formatPhoneNumber(affectedInput.value);}
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Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012
Floor Speech
Location: Washington, DC
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act, the second phase in the Republicans' Pathway to Poverty plan.
This bill, once again, fails to reach any measure of fairness and shared responsibility. All of us agree that the implementation of sequestration would be a damaging, harmful approach to take in an effort to achieve deficit reduction.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that, instead of taking a balanced approach, the Republicans would replace sequestration with tax breaks to millionaires and special interests while ending the Medicare guarantee, slashing investments that strengthen our economy, and shredding the social safety net. Not surprisingly, important provisions of the Affordable Care Act are in their sights.
The Prevention and Public Health Fund was an unprecedented investment in our Nation's health and well-being, particularly the health of America's women and children. By providing funding for vital cancer and infection screenings, modernizing vaccine systems, and the fight against epidemics like obesity and diabetes, this fund truly invests in our Nation's health, and it will provide savings down the line by helping to catch afflictions early.
By seeking to undermine the Affordable Care Act, the Republican reconciliation bill would eliminate funding for hundreds of thousands of lifesaving screenings, all to score political points with their extreme base.
Mr. Speaker, just a few years ago, when I was 41 years old, I found a lump in my breast, which was confirmed to be cancer in a series of screenings, including a clinical screening just like the ones that this fund provides. These screenings saved my life.
But this bill would prevent 326,000 women from having access to the same lifesaving screenings that I did. It will prevent an estimated 10,300 women from being diagnosed with breast and cervical cancer in its early stages, and it may cost them their lives.
Furthermore, this bill slashes funding for screening for birth defects, developmental disabilities, and hearing loss in children.
How can any of us, in good conscience, cut funding by cutting investments in children's health?
Frankly, as a mom of three young kids, I'm stunned because I think it's just common sense that you don't pay down a deficit our children didn't create by compromising their health.
Our constituents deserve a balanced approach to deficit reduction. The Republicans' approach would deny women like me access to screenings that save lives and deny children the screenings they need so we can keep them healthy. It's unacceptable, and I ask colleagues with a conscience to vote down this terrible bill.
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Directors and NMW (again!)
We have a client who is a significant albeit minority (40%) shareholder in a close UK trading company of which he is also a director.
He seeks to derive his income from the company by way of a mix of directors' fees at the earnings threshold and the balance in dividends (for as long as the law remains as it is). Take it as read that IR35 and the MSC legislation does not apply to this case.
The shareholders, who are all directors, wish to put in place an agreement between them binding them to work exclusively for the company. The company itself is not party to this agreement.
The question has arisen whether this arrangement would be such as to give rise to a contract of employment between the company and the director and thereby bar the director from exemption from the application of the National Minimum Wage legislation.
The solicitors have quoted Trusted Steel Concrete Co v Green [1946] CH115 at us. I do not have access to this in detail, but I do observe that it predates the NMW legislation and seems to relate to the definition of employment as required for the interpretation of the Essential Work (General Provisions) No. 2) Order, 1942. But even if this case is irrelevant we may not be entirely out of the woods.
The other question in my mind is whether HMRC have put out anything in the public domain concerning whether they would pursue the matter even if a contractual employment was held to be in force and thereby bringing it within the NMW.
Is there some general legal principle that allows you to challenge an abusive use of legislation that is applied or pursued other than for the reason of enactment? The NMW was introduced to protect vulnerable employees. By no stretch of the imagination is this a vulnerable individual, employee or otherwise. If it were pursued in this case it could only be for the generation of NI charges and non-compliance penalties, which are reasons outwith the purpose of the legislation. If there is not some common law (or even perhaps EU law) that provides a defence against such abuse then there ought to be.
Could it be a defence that had the full NMW been paid then there would have been insufficient reserves out of which to pay the dividends which the "employee" has enjoyed, so that the employee would have been no better off by the application of NMW? Indeed the imposition of NI charges would leave the director worse off, being a perverse conclusion to the application of NMW law.
I am having a lot of difficulty finding anything in the public domain published officially by a government body stating their policy in this area. There is a passing comment here
that "directors" are not subject to NMW. But this is rather terse and brief and indeed contrary to my hitherto understanding that they are indeed so subject if they have a contract of employment.
If anything, the comments on the HSE website would seem to support the conclusion that they are "employed" in most cases where in practice they work full time for the company, which has worrying connotations for the NMW implications, as reported here:
I searched archived posts in AWeb but nowadays they all point to broken links, or links to documents hidden behind member areas at ICAEW website requiring a login.
Any help out there?
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Clint Westwood
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Author: Daien (guest,
Date: June 24, 2006 at 8:54:22 AM
My first name is Daien. I always thought that it was pronounced like Dianne and I used to wish that was the spelling too. It was not until I was a teen that my parents told me that it was pronouned "Dai-en".
It was not until I was 30 that I learned what it meant. My biological parents (now my Aunt and Uncle) found the name in the back of a book of buddhist stories called "The cat's yawn". A list of priest names were there and the chinese characters that go with it. The translation said "Great Nature". However, nature is described in the sense of the universe and all its relations and connections. I was told by my Japanese husband that this difficult "kanji" (chinese Character) is more like connections so my name is like "Great Connections" or "Great Relations".
I have searched the internet for the name Daien and found a lot related to Africa, Japan and buddhist temples or priests who have taken the name, but I do not know if they share the same kanji.
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Yet another good analysis by the WSJ: CPI, or consumer price index, shows inflation to be relatively benign. Despite this good data, most middle income families are feeling a cost squeeze.
To make matters worse, real wages are not keeping up. By many measures, families are actually sliding backwards. (This is not good for the White House).
Why the disconnect? Some of its due to the outmoded way we measure inflation. Look at what’s is causing a squeeze for the typical family:
Health care costs are way up. Food has gotten pricier. The costs of sending your kid to a decent college is through the roof. Property taxes have risen — and in some areas, quite aggressively. State and City taxes have generally increased. And of course, energy costs are dramatically higher than they were this time last year.
The Journal observes:
“Favorable inflation numbers should be giving President Bush a boost in his re-election campaign. But while official figures show inflation remaining in check, consumers are being pinched by higher prices and that could affect votes in November. At the Sam’s Club warehouse store here, Jim Long now buys food in bulk and complains he can no longer afford steak.
Recently, everyday expenses seem to belie government statistics. The Labor Department’s July inflation report found prices rose 3% over the previous 12 months, down a bit from 3.3% in June and still low by historical standards.
Because food and energy prices can be volatile, economists often look at a gauge that excludes those categories to measure underlying inflation trends. The index, which includes prices for goods such as housing, furniture and cars, has increased at an annual rate of 1.8% in the past year.
This is a perfect example of where classical economics fails: The inflation data is volatile and sloppy, so the focus shifts to a more reliable, but far less informative, analysis: CPI ex-food and energy.
Now if only someone can figure out how I can go about my day without: eating, using heat or electricity, or fuel to commute to work. Hey, we whipped inflation! and all we had to do was ignore the ugly data (a/k/a cooking the books).
Here’s another excerpt:
The Federal Reserve in July pronounced “underlying inflation” to be “relatively low” and said that some of the recent rise in prices “seems to reflect transitory factors.”
For consumers who have been paying about $2 a gallon for gasoline, $5 or more a pound for steak and $3 for a gallon of milk, inflation seems to be a lot higher than the government numbers indicate.
Inflation08252004201315 The consumer-price index, instituted during World War I to adjust wages for the cost of living, is a survey of prices of more than 80,000 goods and services. Categories in the index are weighted for their relative importance to households. Housing, for instance, represents 42% of the index. Changes in the method of computing the CPI have shaved almost half a percentage point a year from the inflation rate since 1995, according to Patrick Jackman, a Labor Department economist. Among other things, the government added an adjustment for quality improvements to the prices of various products.
“The problem is, the everyday citizen still doesn’t feel like there’s a recovery. They judge it by the price of a quart of milk, a loaf of bread or a gallon of gasoline,” says Robert Denton, a professor of political communication at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.
Lower-income voters say they are worried about increased commodity prices, although consumers overall think inflation will remain at an annual rate of about 3% over the next 12 months, according to the University of Michigan consumer survey. Consumers also believe housing prices are too high, and there is widespread concern among older Americans about rising out-of-pocket health-care costs, says Richard Curtin, director of the university’s consumer surveys.
But prices are only part of what is driving consumer unease. Some feel a pinch because their wages have risen less than prices. In July, average weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers in the U.S., adjusted for inflation, were down 0.7% from a year earlier.
That is little comfort to consumers who seem to pay more attention to higher prices for food and gasoline. Prices of meat and poultry are 9.2% higher than a year ago, dairy products are up 14%, and gasoline has jumped 26%, according to the Labor Department.
Inflation creeping higher while real wages fail to keep up? Hardly a beneficial economic backdrop for an incumbent.
Inflation Data May Not Aid Bush
Although Rate of Price Increases Steadies, Consumers Feel Sting of Higher Food, Gas Costs
Michael Schroeder
The Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2004; Page A4,,SB109347145118001226,00.html
Category: Finance, Politics
8 Responses to “WSJ: Inflation Data not good for the incumbent”
1. spencer says:
For those looking at the recent data on real income and poverty in 2003 that showed only the top income groups actually showing increased standards of living the real wage data implies that it is actually worse this year than last.
And remember, real GDP was up 5% last year, yet the overwhelming bulk of the population did not benefit.
2. kharris says:
Oh, please don’t say stuff like that! Economists don’t look at core inflation because they don’t like what they see in the headline number. They look at core inflation in ADDITION to looking at the headline number, because they can learn more by looking at both than just at one. And you know better, so shame, shame.
And “classical” economics is not the same as “standard behavior among economists.” Classical economics is Jevons and Say and Marshall, not a habit of looking at core inflation rather than (actually, in addition to) the headline figure. If Greenspan chooses to say things about the causes of and prospects for inflation with which you disagree, then the thing to say is “I disagree with Greenspan” rather than “classical economics fails.” The latter is barstool talk, the former is, as far as I can tell, what you really mean.
3. Chibi says:
Really good post, B.
Let me tell you how I see things in my daily life:
Housing, most folks’ first priority. Through the roof if you’re trying to buy a house right now. Rents have been flat, but they were already through the roof from the dotcom boom. Food, meat and fish is definately more expensive than even last year. Fruits, vegetables & grains not so much. I don’t buy much prepared food, so I’m not sure about that. My co-payment for my HMO is $20. Those used to be $10. Gas for the car we all know is up. TV, cell phone and internet access charges are more expensive than a few years back. If you want to hire a contractor to do some work on the house or property, those prices have definately gone higher.
However, any sort of manufactured good has gotten either cheaper or amazingly more advanced.
What’s the difference between the two sets of categories? Foreign labor and a (still relatively) strong dollar?
4. Eric chaudron says:
PUllleeeease. don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining. this economy stinks on ice. Housing bubbles, the price of energy rising to it’s true value, and a tax system that is held together by smoke mirrors spit and paper. I weep for the country when the facade falls after the election. Can you say depression?
5. Pete Harrigan says:
I can say depression. I have been hearing it predicted every year since I became aware of economic conditions in the late 70s.
Good post, but I have, as usual, two nits to pick. Housing price increases are probably inflationary to someone who does not own a house, but to a homeowner they feel like a big win. (notice the weasely use of the verb “feel”) Secondly, while college tuitions have gone up, the actual dollar amount paid by most families has gone down. There are more aid dollars available than there were a few years ago and tuition increases have absorbed a lot of them, but real costs to the average student is either down or not up anywhere near the amount of the headline number.
6. I don’t believe this round of housing price rises were inflationary –
it was a f’n of ultra low interest rates
As to college costs, the aid increase — assuming you qualify — aren’t even remotely
compensation for all the increases; tuition, books, room & board, etc.
7. Jeff Lawson says:
You can get steak for $5 a pound, or milk for $3 a galon?? And they say wages in Arkansas are low because it’s cheaper to live here….bleeeaaaah
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titanfall-patchRespawn Entertainment’s Titanfall was released earlier this year which means that it might still be a bit too early to be thinking about Titanfall 2. But what does this mean for Titanfall in the meantime? Well for gamers who might be worried that Respawn would slowly start to support Titanfall less and less, and focus on other endeavors, well you can rest assured that they won’t.
Speaking with the folks at Eurogamer, Respawn’s co-founder, Vince Zampella, stated that they expect to continue supporting Titanfall for a long time. The reasoning behind is because there are still plenty of gamers who are playing the game. He mentions that the numbers on consoles are looking great, but has started to wane a bit on the PC, which is something they are looking into.
When asked for how long will Respawn plan on supporting Titanfall, Zampella replied by saying it depends on how long the gamers themselves plan to play the game. He said that if there are still many fans out there who love the game, then it can be justified to allocate resources towards it, otherwise those resources could be better spent elsewhere.
“If there’s not that many people, or the engagement goes down, there’s a point where those resources are better spent on whatever our next game would be and making that game better. I hope it lasts a really long time and we can do more stuff.” As it stands Titanfall has been dubbed the best-selling Xbox One game to date, so it looks for now, gamers have nothing to worry about.
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20 Questions with Soccer's Sarah Van Sickle
Sarah Van Sickle
Sarah Van Sickle
Nov. 4, 2008
With their final Southeastern Conference Tournament trip approaching, the seniors on the Lady Vol soccer team are looking to close out their careers on a high note. Yet, before Jaimel Johnson, Kylee Rossi, Sarah Van Sickle, Leslie Vineyard and Alissa VonderHaar move on to their next adventure, they're sitting on the hot seat to each answer 20 questions leading up to their final matches with the Lady Vols.
Senior forward and defender Sarah Van Sickle is the only Knoxville native in the senior class and has represented the heart of the Lady Vols over the past four years. Sarah has made 38 starts in her career and played a valuable role off the bench, serving as Tennessee's throw-in expert. A psychology major, Sarah has earned Academic All-SEC honors in each of the last three years and is a member of the leadership team of UT's Athletes In Action organization.
1. If there was one rule you could change in soccer, what would it be?
I wouldn't exactly change a "rule"...but I'd definitely change the trend of a lot of refs calling really weak stuff as fouls (not my K-town refs though...they don't treat my girls like we're fragile China dolls when they call fouls!)
2. What is your favorite place to eat in Knoxville?
Hmm...that's SUPER hard considering I LOVE eating!! But, I keep thinking of my Grandma's house when she makes cheese rice & cornbread! YUM!
3. Which celebrity would you like to date?
Ohhh man, that's an EASY one! Warning: UT football fans will HATE this...but it's Tim Tebow hands down! He's not the most handsome thing to walk the Earth and clearly he's NOT too smart because he chose to be a Florida Gator, however, he's a Godly man and not ashamed of it. There's nothing better than that in my book!
4. What was your favorite game to play in elementary school?
It'd have to be soccer on the blacktop at Fairmont. I was the only girl that would play with all the boys, and I LOVED it!
5. What would you do with a million dollars?
My theory is you never really know until you get it. I'd like to think I'd take care of my dad first, because he's always worked unbelievably hard so that we could have everything we needed.
6. What Halloween costumes are you wearing this year?
Well, some of the girls on the team (Leslie, Speros, Kylee, Jackyra, Alissa and I) have a Wizard of Oz theme going! I'm the Wicked Witch of the West...haha...go figure.
7. If you had a theme song, what would it be?
"I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty...my mom always said it should be my life song given some of the stuff I've gone through (and the fact I'm stubborn).
8. What sound or noise do you hate?
Ambulance sirens because they always mean that someone's hurting...I hate it.
9. If someone rented a billboard for you, what would you put on it?
"A Job Worth Doing Is A Job Worth Doing Well" -Grandpa
I have to have two: Cheese & chocolate spoon cake from McAlisters!
11. If a sandwich was named after you, what would be on it?
12. What is your dream job?
Doing whatever allows me to bring God as much glory as I can. I'm praying that my recent decision to go on staff with Athletes in Action will accomplish that starting this summer.
13. What is something that most people don't know about you?
I'll give you three: I am passionate about dancing, I want a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog (named Zulu), & I love to write (obviously).
14. Whose wallet would you like to steal?
Bill Gates is too cliche...so I choose Alex Crimmins's (our team manager) because she'd FLIP OUT! Haha!
15. When are you happiest?
Honestly, I am the happiest when I feel like I am closest to God.
16. What is your favorite vacation spot?
THE BEACH! Give me palm trees, turquoise water, and a gorgeous sunset, and you have my heart.
17. What is your favorite word?
Faith because it's one simple word with a multitude of meanings. It applies to faith in a higher power, faith in yourself and faith in others, all of which I think are essential to living a fulfilling life.
18. What advice about college would you give to the freshmen?
I love my froshies so much. I want the best for your lives. Never settle for less than you deserve! Don't be satisfied with being average, because you're not! College is crazy. People and circumstances are always changing, so try to hold onto the one thing that's consistent in the middle of all the chaos. Be vulnerable and invest yourself in the right people (even when it's scary to let your guard down). Have fun while you're here, but don't choose "fun" things if they make you compromise who you are or jeopardize your overall happiness. Find your ultimate identity: Yeah, soccer's a HUGE part of your life, but don't solely find your identity there-it can and will change some day, and there's so much more to you than being blessed with mad soccer skills. Last but not least: Never play without heart, get stuck in and rough some girls up for me. Represent: we're TENNESSEE!
19. Always...
Make sure that people in your life know how much they're loved, find at least ONE positive thing everyday, always have faith that God's already given you the strength to get through anything that comes your way and have heart!
20. Never...
Judge anyone else, take the people or things in your life for granted, ever forget where you came from, or put limits on what you can do.
21. Describe fellow senior Alissa VonderHaar in three words...
Gorgeous, compassionate, intelligent
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Mark Madoff’s Suicide
Mark Madoff’s Suicide
Forty-six year old Mark Madoff, Bernie Madoff’s son, committed suicide today, the anniversary of his father’s arrest on December 11, 2008. He is said to have hung himself with a dog leash in his NYC apartment. His two year old son was asleep in the apartment, while his 4 year old daughter and his wife were in Disney World. Yet, another tragedy as a result of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
It seems like a never ending story of destruction and desperation. Bernie Madoff’s 150 year prison sentence does not seem unfair. It is hard to imagine how he feels right now after hearing about the death of his son, but could he be blamed for it? Bernie Madoff’s entire family experiences constant harassment and relentless hatred. Sometimes it is hard to pity a family that has remained wealthy, especially under the circumstances, and yet where do we divide wealth from humanity? It would be nice to think they are philanthropic, and yet, Bernie Madoff took down with him many philanthropic organizations.
Empathy. A man just killed himself , leaving behind a young family. It is uncertain at this hour whether or not he was suffering from a depression or something other than just circumstance. Does that matter? There are several people who killed themselves due to their financial collapse as a result of Bernie Madoff’s actions. Mark Madoff’s attorney, Mr. Flumenbaum, said the following: "Mark was an innocent victim of his father's monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo." There is no definitive answer at this juncture as to whether or not Mark Madoff was completely innocent. He and his brother both came forward and unleashed their father’s crimes. Was this to protect themselves in some way? It is said that Mark and his brother worked for a part of the business separate from the Ponzi scheme.
The Bernie Madoff scandal may have happened two years ago, but it is fresh in many of our minds, especially those trying to recover from financial ruin. Many of the rich he affected had to leave their familiar lifestyles and try to make sense of their lives. Obviously, his one of two sons was devastated by what happened and could no longer keep going. As pointed out earlier, he may have been suffering from a deep depression and the anniversary was too much to handle. It has not come out yet whether this was the case.
Today, we mourn the loss of a young man caught in a tangled web of desperation. He should not be blamed as selfish, but as someone who was in great pain and suffering and lost all hope. If he was going to be punished for crimes, it no longer matters. May he rest in peace.
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sights and persons unknown—even without the literal touching of hands or
treading of feet. What expectations and stereotypes are fostered or
created by the media, the arts, and the language arts? What of the
translation of humor among different cultures, different societies? Is
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From:Hery Ramilison Date:March 16 2011 6:51pm
Subject:MySQL Community Server 5.5.10 has been released
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Dear MySQL users,
MySQL 5.5.10 is a new version of the 5.5 production release of the
world's most popular open source database. MySQL 5.5.10 is recommended
for use on production systems.
MySQL 5.5 includes several high-impact enhancements to improve the
performance and scalability of the MySQL Database, taking advantage of
the MySQL Database, delivering ACID transactions, referential integrity
and crash recovery by default.
MySQL 5.5 also provides a number of additional enhancements including:
- Significantly improved performance on Windows, with various Windows
specific features and improvements
- Higher availability, with new semi-synchronous replication and
Replication Heart Beat
- Improved usability, with Improved index and table partitioning,
SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support and enhanced diagnostics, including a new
following resources:
MySQL 5.5 is GA, Interview with Tomas Ulin:
Whitepaper: What's New in MySQL 5.5:
direct your attention to MySQL Enterprise Edition, which includes the
most comprehensive set of MySQL production, backup, monitoring,
modeling, development, and administration tools so businesses can
achieve the highest levels of MySQL performance, security and uptime.
For information on installing MySQL 5.5.10 on new servers, please see
the MySQL installation documentation at
For upgrading from previous MySQL releases, please see the important
upgrade considerations at:
MySQL Database 5.5 is available in source and binary form for a number
of platforms from our download pages at:
another download site.
patches, etc.:
The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since
online at:
D.1.2. Changes in MySQL 5.5.10
Configuration Notes:
* MySQL releases are now built on all platforms using CMake
rather than the GNU autotools, so autotools support has been
removed. For instructions on building MySQL with CMake, see
tools that need to extract the MySQL version number formerly
found in configure.in can use the VERSION file. See Section
2.11.6, "MySQL Configuration and Third-Party Tools."
C API Notes:
* Incompatible Change: The shared library version of the client
library was increased to 18 to reflect ABI changes, and avoid
compatibility problems with the client library in MySQL 5.1.
Note that this is an incompatible change between 5.5.10 and
earlier 5.5 versions, so client programs that use the 5.5
client library should be recompiled against the 5.5.10 client
Functionality added or changed:
* MySQL distributions now include auth_socket, a server-side
authentication plugin that authenticates clients that connect
from the local host through the Unix socket file. The plugin
uses the SO_PEERCRED socket option to obtain information about
the user running the client program (and thus can be built
only on systems that support this option. For a connection to
succeed, the plugin requires a match between the login name of
the connecting client user and the MySQL user name presented
by the client program. For more information, see Section, "The Socket Peer-Credential Authentication Plugin."
(Bug #59017, Bug #11765993)
* The mysql_upgrade, mysqlbinlog, mysqlcheck, mysqlimport,
mysqlshow, and mysqlslap clients now have --default-auth and
--plugin-dir options for specifying which authentication
plugin and plugin directory to use. (Bug #58139)
* Boolean system variables can be enabled at run time by setting
at server startup. Now at startup such variables can be
enabled by setting them to ON or TRUE, or disabled by setting
them to OFF or FALSE. Any other nonnumeric variable is
invalid. (Bug #46393)
See also Bug #51631.
* Previously, for queries that were aborted due to sort problem,
the server wrote the message Sort aborted to the error log.
Now the server writes more information to provide a more
specific message, such as:
[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Out of memory (Needed 24 bytes)
[ERROR] mysqld: Out of sort memory,
consider increasing server sort buffer size
[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Out of sort memory,
consider increasing server sort buffer size
[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Incorrect number of arguments for
FUNCTION test.f1; expected 0, got 1
In addition, if the server was started with --log-warnings=2,
the server write information about the host, user, and query.
(Bug #36022, Bug #11748358)
* mysqldump --xml now displays comments from column definitions.
(Bug #13618)
* MySQL distributions now include mysql_clear_password, a
client-side authentication plugin that sends the password to
the server without hashing or encryption. Although this is
insecure, and thus apprpropriate precautions should be taken
such as using an SSL connection, the plugin is useful in
conjunction with server-side plugins that must have access to
the original password in clear text. For more information, see
Section, "The Clear Text Client-Side Authentication
Bugs fixed:
each AIO
) helper thread could process, from 32 to 256. The new limit
applies to Linux and Unix platforms; the limit on Windows
remains 32. (Bug #59472)
* InnoDB Storage Engine: InnoDB returned values for "rows
examined" in the query plan that were higher than expected.
NULL values were treated in an inconsistent way. The
inaccurate statistics could trigger "false positives" in
combination with the MAX_JOIN_SIZE setting, because the
queries did not really examine as many rows as reported. (Bug
* Replication: When using the statement-based logging format,
affecting transactional tables that did not fail were not
(With statement-based logging, all successful statements
be changed.) (Bug #59338)
possible for the I/O thread to stop after replicating only
part of a transaction which the SQL thread was executing, in
safely---the SQL thread could hang.
Now, STOP SLAVE stops the slave SQL thread first and then
fetch any remaining events in the transaction that the SQL
thread is executing, so that the SQL thread can finish the
transaction if it cannot be rolled back safely. (Bug #58546)
* The server and client did not always properly negotiate
authentication plugin names. (Bug #59453)
value to 0, not 1). (Bug #59432)
* A query of the following form returned an incorrect result,
where the values for col_name in the result set were entirely
replaced with NULL values:
SELECT DISTINCT col_name ... ORDER BY col_name DESC;
(Bug #59308, Bug #11766241)
(Bug #59275)
* SHOW PROFILE could truncate source file names or fail to show
function names. (Bug #59273, Bug #11766214)
* DELETE or UPDATE statements could fail if they used DATE or
* The ESCAPE clause for the LIKE operator allows only
expressions that evaluate to a constant at execution time, but
aggregate functions were not being rejected. (Bug #59149)
* Memory leaks detected by Valgrind, some of which could cause
* The DEFAULT_CHARSET and DEFAULT_COLLATION CMake options did
not work. (Bug #58991)
incorrect result. (Bug #58490, Bug #11765513)
(Bug #58455, Bug #11765482)
* Outer joins with an empty table could produce incorrect
results. (Bug #58422)
could cause a server crash. (Bug #58371)
it went into an infinite loop executing the specified command.
(Bug #58221)
* Some string manipulating SQL functions use a shared string
object intended to contain an immutable empty string. This
object was used by the SQL function SUBSTRING_INDEX() to
return an empty string when one argument was of the wrong
datatype. If the string object was then modified by the SQL
* Parsing nested regular expressions could lead to recursion
argument separator to distinguish options loaded from
configure files from those provided on the command line,
whether or not the application needed it. (Bug #57953)
* The mysql client went into an infinite loop if the standard
input was a directory. (Bug #57450)
* Outer joins on a unique key could return incorrect results.
(Bug #57034)
* The expression const1 BETWEEN const2 AND field was optimized
incorrectly and produced incorrect results. (Bug #57030, Bug
* Some RPM installation scripts used a hardcoded value for the
data directory, which could result in a failed installation
for users who have a nonstandard data directory location. The
same was true for other configuration values such as the PID
file name. (Bug #56581, Bug #11763817)
* On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, the server incorrectly checked the
(Bug #55755, Bug #11763089)
* Sorting using ORDER BY AVG(DISTINCT decimal_col) caused a
server crash or incorrect results. (Bug #52123, Bug #11759784)
read contained an incomplete XML comment, MySQL read beyond
of the server. (Bug #44332)
argument is a string, but incorrectly returned a binary
string. Now they return a character string with a collation of
connection_collation. (Bug #31384, Bug #11747221)
On behalf of the MySQL Build Team,
Hery Ramilison
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I see different sources that say the number of transistors will double every 24 months or every 18 months.
Does anyone have a credible source?
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What's your problem? Both sources state that the number of transistors will double approximately every two years. As Moore is a founder of Intel, why not trust Intel the most? Also, if you read the sources of wikipedia, you'll find that Moore himself adjusted his prediction. – Falcon Sep 2 '11 at 16:58
The CEO of a company I once worked for said that More's law was that "Your profits should double every 18 months" and he was DEAD serious. – aceinthehole Sep 2 '11 at 19:34
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The original source ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf .
Note that Moore's law said nothing about performance, it was simply that the optimal number of components on a single IC would increase exponentially with time (from a cost/function point of view).
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Quote from the 1965 paper: "This allows at least 500 components per linear inch or a quarter million per square inch"
The current core i7 is approximately 0.4 sq inches and has 750M transistors so 2billion per square inch!
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+1 for a link to the article. Note that "optimal" was based on the manufacturing cost per component. There are fixed costs for running a wafer through a FAB, so the more components you can fit per wafer (unit area) the less expensive your per-component cost is. If you pack them too tightly, however, you increase the risk of creating defective units, which start driving your per-unit cost back up again. – Jay Elston Sep 2 '11 at 17:24
@Jay and then there are all sorts of extra power laws for; component size vs wafer size, edge losses, kerf losses, stepper time - it's an interesting topic! – Martin Beckett Sep 2 '11 at 17:25
The wikipedia article explains it;
Moore slightly altered the formulation of the law over time, in retrospect bolstering the perceived accuracy of his law.[17] Most notably, in 1975, Moore altered his projection to a doubling every two years.[18] Despite popular misconception, he is adamant that he did not predict a doubling "every 18 months". However, David House, an Intel colleague, had factored in the increasing performance of transistors to conclude that integrated circuits would double in performance every 18 months.[note 1]
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As usual, Ars Technica has an excellent article on the meaning and history of Moore's Law. It cite's Gordon Moore's 1965 paper containing the original prediction(s). Whether the period is 12, 18, or 24 months really doesn't matter all that much in most cases -- the most important element is that component density has continued to grow geometrically for much longer than anyone thought it would. I'd recommend starting with the Ars article and then reading Moore's paper if you're still interested in knowing more.
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actually Moore's Law is not so much of a law as it is a target; each year, the CPU industry uses Moore's Law to calculate the density/cost that they will be aiming for their next fab plant that they will be building. The law is used to determine hiring strategy, R&D expenditure, etc so that the "Law" is fulfilled year by year. – Lie Ryan Sep 2 '11 at 20:45
Check here: sound right to me:
It started at 12 months, then changed to 24 months...
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In a world where sunlight is safety and darkness means certain death, riots have broken out amongst the discontented citizens of the planet. In order to quell these riots and bring hope back to the people, the military has gathered a rag-tag group of specialists and known criminals to search for humanity's last hope… a woman known only as Angel. Leading the rag-tag group across the darkness is Omar, a Bedouin with the ability to navigate the world by reading the sky. But when Trooper Jones gets sick with a viral strain within the first 24 hours of the mission, the ship's doctor decides to dump her into the darkness and move on. In response, Omar, the femme fatale Ana and gang brawler Monclare journey outside the ship on the cusp of darkness to get Jones some much needed help. However, when darkness does descend, Jones commits suicide and the ship leaves the three pilgrims alone in the dark to perish...
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
Both are vector graphics (typically) and both can be imported painlessly into a pdflatex document (so let's say we ignore dvi for this question).
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? What should I use?
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I tried to answer "PDF" but I couldn't figure out how to waste 15 characters to say that. – Jukka Suomela Aug 20 '10 at 16:08
Adobe recommends against using EPS and recommends using PDF instead. adobe.com/print/features/psvspdf (EPS and PS are really the same). – Dr. Zim Aug 20 '10 at 20:31
This question contains a wrong assumption that pdflatex can import EPS painlessly. Why? Because there is a performance drawback when we use pdflatex loading epstopdf to import EPS. pdflatex cannot import EPS by design, loading epstopdf makes pdflatex as if it can import EPS. – xport Jul 20 '11 at 21:11
not sure if it's worth opening a separate, new question for this: anyone can comment on how SVG fits in? Is that only used when there's no better (PDF, EPS) option available, e.g. when exporting from a WYSIWYG-office-application? – nutty about natty May 5 '13 at 9:58
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Use PDF. EPS cannot be imported directly by pdftex but must be converted using something like epstopdf. These conversion procedures will often cause unwanted changes to the graphics, such as lossy JPEG encoding of embedded bitmap images. Pdftex will include PDF files directly without making any changes (except for unifying fonts, and even that can be disabled if needed), so you can have complete control over the final result by generating a PDF which is exactly as you want it (assuming your image editing software gives you control over image encoding lossiness, colour spaces, etc).
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Also, reviewing .eps files could be a bit tricky, especially if you're not the one who have created them (depending on OS and software). While with PDFs you can easily see what's inside. – Martin Tapankov Aug 20 '10 at 16:14
EPS doesn't support transparency and embeds bitmap images without compression. PDF all the way.
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EPS can embed compressed bitmap data in language level 2 and 3. Using sam2p <pts.szit.bme.hu/sam2p/>; you can get compression in language level 1 as well. Sam2p can create transparent eps images too. – Martin Heller Aug 20 '10 at 19:46
Nice link, thanks. – Will Robertson Aug 21 '10 at 1:53
Clearly PDF:
• pdf is an ISO standard, eps is not
• pdf can directly be used via \includegraphics and compiled with pdflatex (see answer by Lev Bishop)
• pdf has more features than eps, i.e. transparency (see answer by Will Robertson)
• even your grandma has a pdf reader on her computer, so if you send her just the images she will be able to look at them
• more software can export to pdf than eps, i.e. Excel can export diagrams as pdf
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One advantage of EPS figures is the ability to use the psfrag package to replace axis labels etc. with properly LaTeXed versions generated with the same fonts etc. as your main document. I used to generate all my plots with matplotlib or MATLAB using this feature. Matplotlib's support for this is broken, but it instead provides a usetex option that allows you to embed LaTeX generated the labels directly in PDF files which I now use exclusively.
(See also: Using psfrag with pdflatex.)
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1. The decision whether choosing PDF or EPS totally depends on what compiler you use.
2. We have some options for compiler, such as pdflatex, xelatex, latex, etc. The decision in choosing a compiler also depends on your real scenario. If you are developing a web based system, for example, a bunch of EPS images generated on the fly should be imported to LaTeX input files directly, they are then compiled with latex. Converting the EPS to PDF, importing the resulting PDF to LaTeX input files, and compiling them using pdflatex will hurt the performance.
It cannot be decided without knowing your real scenario.
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For really big bitmapped images, I've always converted to jpeg at the required quality, then I'd use 'jpeg2ps' which takes just the raw jpeg data and wraps it in a postscript wrapper. It's been a lifesaver for me on arXiv. You can then use 'eps2pdf' to get it the way you want it.
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With pdflatex you can simply use JPEG files directly. They will be always embedded as-is in your final PDF file, there will be no decompression and recompression. – Jukka Suomela Aug 21 '10 at 11:35
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ESPN’s Corso Honored With Reagan Media Award
ESPN college football studio analyst Lee Corso, the popular, mascot-gear wearing king of predictions on the network’s popular College GameDay show, has been named the winner of the United States Sports Academy’s Ronald Reagan Media Award.
Corso joined ESPN in 1987 after 28 years of coaching football at the college and pro levels. After originally calling games, he moved into the studio in 1989 and is a main reason GameDay is one of ESPN’s most popular shows. In 1993, the show began originating from campuses and attracted a cult-like following with college students. Corso’s end-of-show prediction, which includes him donning the headgear of school mascots, has become the signature moment of the show. His catchphrase, “Not so fast my friend,” Corso’s response when countering game picks by the show’s other analysts, is another staple.
Corso coached college football for many years before venturing into broadcasting. He was head coach at Louisville from 1969 to 1972 and compiled a 28-11-3 record, taking the Cardinals to their first ever bowl game. He spent ten years at Indiana starting in 1973, a stint highlighted by the school’s first bowl victory in 75 years, a Holiday Bowl win over Brigham Young in 1979. He also coached at Northern Illinois for a season before taking over as head coach of the Orlando Renegades of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1985.
Corso’s commitment to his profession was confirmed during this college football season. He suffered a minor stroke in May 2009, but his participation in GameDay hasn’t waned.
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Space Station Alpha ON THE AIR
Space Station Alpha is ON THE AIR
November 2, 2000
By Miles Mann WF1F,
The first full time crew for ISS ALPHA has docked and moved in.
One of their first official requests was to give the International space
station a name.
Astronaut Bill Shepeard ask Dan Goldin of NASA for a request on behalf
of the first ISS ALPHA crew.
Dan left him self open during all of the congratulatory speeches and
said what's the request. Bill asked to use the call sign of the Space
station as Alpha. Dan initially said, ok temporally we will use the
call sign Alpha. The ISS ALPHA crew then all grabbed a hand and had a
big three way hand shake. Later Dan said its official, we will call ISS
ALPHA for the rest of your mission. Dan then went on to comment how
when Bill wants something, he sticks with it until he gets it. It seems
that Bill is one of the may who wanted the name Alpha.
When I was in Russian in 1998 training Mir cosmonauts on the new MAREX
amateur radio equipment, everyone in Russia was calling the ISS ALPHA.
When I came back to the states, I called ISS ALPHA in a few of my Mir
news memos. I then quickly received a memo from a NASA engineer stating
that "an official international board has determined that ISS does not
have an official name at this time, a name will be chosen in the future,
bla bla bla".
Congratulations to Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev for
cutting through all the red tape and giving ISS ALPHA a name. Lets hope
her names stays and she flies as long as the successful Russian Mir
I would also like to nominate Bill Shepherd for the first annual Lt.
Montgomery Scott Flight Engineer award. For being able to grasp the
moment and succeed where so many others have tried.
For more information on this mission please check the NASA web pages.
ISS ALPHA visibility:
The NASA web page has a program, which will calculate the potential for
being able to visually see the ISS ALPHA as it passes over your city.
They have a listings for many different cities and countries.
ISS Alpha VHF / UHF radio links:
Alpha is not currently connected to the TDRS NASA satellite network.
The Alpha crew has been using the old MIR VHF and UHF radio links to
communicate with Mission control. This morning driving into work
(Boston area) I was able to monitor the Alpha crew chatting with
Mission control Moscow.
Amateur Radio Equipment delivered:
The 2-meter voice and packet station has already been delivered to the
International space station. It has been estimated that it will require
the ISS ALPHA crew 2 hours to unpack and install the amateur radio
station. The time line for this project is only one hour, so a little
adjustment needs to be done to fit the task into the time line. At the
present time, there is no official public start time for the amateur
radio station from ISS ALPHA.
http://arISS Alpha.gsfc.nasa.gov/sts106photos.html
International Space Station Alpha Amateur Radio Call signs:
The ISS ALPHA is keeping the international flair by hosting several
amateur radio call signs from around the world. So far the ISS ALPHA
has three calls signs from three different countries, Russia, USA and
Germany. Also each of the crewmembers of expedition 1, has their own
personal Amateur Radio call sign.
William Shepherd, Expedition commander, KD5GSL
Yuri Gidzenko, Soyuz commander (unknown)
Sergei Krikalev, flight engineer, U5MIR
Russian Module call sign: RZ3DZR
Other club call signs ISS used: NA1SS and DL0ISS ALPHA
Ground Station Link:
What will you need to Hear the ISS ALPHA Amateur Radio 2-meter Station.
That's a tricky question because there are good orbit pass and poor low
orbit passes. On a good 45 degree orbit pass, since the ISS ALPHA is
only 250 miles high, you will be able to hear the 2-meter signal from
the space station with a very small antenna (0 dBd to minus 12 dBd
(rubber duck)). During a very low orbit passes under 20 degrees you may
need a much larger antenna.
The Amateur Radio station on ISS ALPHA will be transmitting in the
satellite 2-meter band (ITU 144.000 - 146.000 mc). I have listed a
frequency chart below. The ISS ALPHA transmitter power output is
approximately 3 watts, into a vertical antenna rated at minus 3 dBd. I
do not have the coax loss values at this time. This combination of
power and antenna gain will provide an ERP rating of approximately 1.5
watts. The 1.5-watt value is not that bad, I was able to hear the
RS-17/18 satellites from my car antenna (minus 3dBd) and those
satellites were only running 0.5 watts. If you only have a zero dBd
gain antenna and a police scanner you will still be able to hear the ISS
ALPHA on some good orbits.
(note: if your antenna is rated in dB rather than the correct dBd
value, subtract 3 to convert the dB value to the correct dBd rating)
Suggested receiving station:
Casual listening for ISS ALPHA and Mir
2-meter vertical or scanner antenna (0 dBd or better)
Police scanner or amateur radio with the ability to receive in the 144 -
146 mc or MHz range, FM mode. Antenna cable should be a low loss RG-8
style cable less than 100 feet long (RG-213 best choice). You will not
need to mount the antenna very high, just try to get above the roof
ridgeline. And of course you will need to find / buy a satellite
tracking program. I recommend the InstantTrack 1.5. It's a simple easy
to use program, which can be purchased from Amsat.
ISS ALPHA frequencies:
The Amateur Radio frequencies for ISS ALPHA have been posted.
Worldwide downlink for voice and packet: 145.800
Worldwide packet uplink: 145.990
Region 1 voice uplink: 145.200
Region 2 & 3 voice uplink: 144.490
You will need to dig out the manual for your radio and program in the
following frequency combinations. Note that some of the older FM mobile
and Walkie-talkie HT style radios over 15 years old may have some
difficulty in saving these combinations into memory. The channels
listed below will help you compensate for the speed of the space
station, called Doppler. If the smallest channel step your radio
supports is 5k, then only program in channels 2, 5 and 8. If your radio
supports the smaller 2.5k channel step, then program in all channels
listed. After you have determined your smallest channel step supported
by your radio, then program in the channels. You can either use the
procedures for storing ODD-Splits or you can reprogram your repeater off
set for each of the channels and then save the new combination in a new
memory location. This channel procedure has been successfully used on
the Mir Amateur Radio program for years and is the choice of usage for
school schedules (you do not want to fiddle with VFO's during a
10-minute pass). I also recommend you program in all channels, no mater
what part of the world you live in. The World Map ISS ALPHA location
display used by the ISS ALPHA crew is not located next to the Amateur
Radio station.
Voice operations Region 2 & 3 (North and South America and Pacific)
Chan Receive Transmit Offset (Meg)
1 145.802.5 144.488.5 -1.314
2 145.800.0 144.490.0 -1.310
3 145.798.5 144.492.5 -1.306
Packet operations Regions 1, 2 & 3 (Europe, North and South America and
Chan Receive Transmit
4 145.802.5 145.988.5 +0.186
5 145.800.0 145.990.0 +0.190
6 145.798.5 145.992.5 +0.194
Voice operations Region 1 (Europe)
Chan Receive Transmit Offset (Meg)
7 145.802.5 145.198.5 -0.604
8 145.800.0 145.200.0 -0.600
9 145.798.5 145.202.5 -0.596
Usage Example:
Lets assume ISS ALPHA is approaching for a good 10 minute over head
pass, running Packet. When ISS ALPHA comes over the horizon the Doppler
frequency error will initially be 3.5k plus 145.990 = 145.993.5. This
means the frequency ISS ALPHA will appear to be transmitting on is
145.993.5. Set your radio to channel #4 for the first 3 minutes of the
pass. Then for the next 3 minutes use channel #5 and for the last three
minutes use channel #6. Follow the same procedure for Voice
operations. Since we are using the Mode FM, we do not have to have our
Transmit and receive frequency exactly on frequency. We can be off
frequency 1-2khz and still get reliable Voice and Data. The MAREX-NA
team has been using this procedure for 10 years with excellent results.
QSL card:
A QSL card is a post card, which you can request to confirm you made a
two-way or heard the crew on the Amateur Radio band. The QSL procedure
for ISS ALPHA is under development, please check the AIRSS web pages for
the latest updates and QSL procedures for ISS ALPHA.
http://arISS Alpha.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Middle East
Syria crisis: Damascus blast 'kills 16 soldiers'
At least 16 Syrian soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing and fighting that followed in a Damascus suburb, activists say.
The blast triggered clashes at a checkpoint near the mainly-Christian area of Jaramana, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
State media blamed "terrorists" for the explosion but did not give details.
Earlier, the US urged the Syrian government to allow aid to reach starving civilians in Damascus.
Washington said the army's months-long siege left many people in rebel-held areas in desperate need of food, water and medicine.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, said the suicide car bombing by the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front triggered heavy fighting at a key checkpoint between Jaramana and the rebel-held town of Mleha.
It said rebels fired rockets into Jaramana during the fighting and Syrian fighter jets retaliated by striking nearby opposition-held areas.
The report could not be confirmed.
Religious minorities
The BBC's Jim Muir in neighbouring Lebanon says the use of suicide bombers to open an offensive is a tactic that has been used increasingly by the rebels in recent months.
Rebels control much of the countryside around Damascus but Jaramana - a Christian and Druze area mostly loyal to President Bashar al-Assad - is still held by the government.
In August a car bomb in the suburb killed 18 people.
Syria's embattled President Assad has drawn support from Syria's ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians and members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam.
The rebel movement is dominated by Sunni Muslims, who are a majority in Syria.
In another development, British surgeon David Nott, who volunteered in a hospital in northern Syria for five weeks, has told the BBC he had treated pregnant women deliberately targeted by snipers.
"There was definitely a game going on between the snipers," he said.
"One day we would receive patients who had purely groin wounds, another day purely chest wounds or purely abdominal wounds. Then another day full-term pregnant ladies were coming in having been shot."
He added: "They were definitely targeted in the uterus. The majority of the babies didn't make it."
Mr Nott said he wanted the UK government to help open up a humanitarian corridor in Syria to allow aid and aid workers to enter the country safely.
In a statement on Friday, US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called on the Syrian government "to immediately approve relief convoys".
She warned that "those who are responsible for atrocities in the Damascus suburbs and across Syria must be identified and held accountable".
At least three of Damascus's suburbs - Yarmouk, Eastern Ghouta and Moudamiyah - have been besieged by government forces for several months.
The situation has become so desperate that earlier this week Muslim clerics issued a religious ruling allowing people to eat cats, dogs and donkeys just to survive.
Those animals are usually considered unfit for human consumption in Islam.
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Making Binds - Guide for Call of Duty 2
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-- Call of Duty 2 --
Walkthrough made by: Gam3 Fr3ak
Illustration by: Gam3 Fr3ak
Carentan, France
0800 hours
Table of Contents
1. About me
2. Cod History
3. Walkthrough
4. NO CREDITS!! MOSTLY becasue it was only done by me
1. ABOUT ME
Name: ?
Birth: ?
Age: 14
Screen Name: FHNsoccerboy06
I started playing Call of Duty ever since I saw the first comercial on tv. When it
came out I hurried to the store to buy it and I played it right away. I liked this
FPS because of the team play in Single Player mode. It also had some good AI. A
cool thing was that you got to be part of some historic battles. You also played
along side British, American, and Russian soldiers who were their covering your
back. I can't wait untill CoD 3 comes out in summer of 2007.
CoD History
When the first CoD came out, it astonished the whole world with it's graphics and
gameplay. It had three sides to choose from like American, British, and Russain. It
had historic battles that took place durring the heart of WW2 and during the end of
it. After or before missions it showed footage of real soldiers and some of the
famouse people back then. This game won the award of BEST GAME OF 2003.
It wasn't over yet. The expansion pack came out in 2004 with a whole new thing.
Their were more weopons like the Gewehr 43 for the Germans, the 30 cal. for the
Americans, and more. The game had some new features with it like being able to
sprint to cover to cover and being able to cook grenades to flush out soldiers.
Mutiplayer turned out great with all new maps and game types like Foy as a map and
Base Assault as a game type. Along with multiplayer, came the battle rank system,
where you get more tools if you get more kill pionts.It had new weopons for
Multiplayer too like smoke grendades, satchel charges, binoculrs, and having the
POWER to call in artillary. This is the only CoD game so far to have vehicals in
Online play.
Call of Duty Finest Hour..2004. I like, but right now I'm talking about PC games.
Call of Duty 2: Big Red 1...2005. I like, but right now I'm talking about PC games.
Out now is Call of Duty 2, it came out in 2005. It was an awsome game with way
better graphics. Some of the guns left, but some old ones still stayed. They were
restarted and made way more different than in CoD that came out in 2003. All new
levels for both Single Player and Multiplayer. Finally CoD brings us at least one
level that has you being part of D-Day like Piont Du Hoc. Some features taken out
were sprint and cooking grenades. Vehicals were also taken out which was a real
Making Binds is pretty easy. Binds are phrases or sentences that are saved into
you computer and show up on CoD with just the press of a button.
Binds are more fun when they are in color. So if you do not know how to make
sentences in color for CoD games then read my other walkthrough thats on Call of
Duty 2.
So now we can begin. If you know what the console button is, then great. If you
don't then while playing CoD, to enter into the console area, press the ~ button
above TAB. Now it's open, type this exactly.
.... then after that press a letter or number that you do not use durring
gameplay. I will use 9 for an example.
/bind 9 say
.... be sure that you type in say. Then type in anything you want, but be fancy and
make it in color. For an example....
While typing this down if the letter or numbers don't show up right away..don't
get worried, just pretend you can see them. Then press enter. For this bind to show
up, press 9. I press 9 because thats what I used to save my phrase in. If you press
9 then the message should apper. If not then you probably pressed escape or you
pressed console insted of enter. To make a new bind type in the same thing, but
insted of 9 press something else. To replace a bind with another just simply type
in the same thing that you typed in for the previous bind, but with a different
message. To remove a bind then type in ( again I will pretend I have HEADSHOT saved
in the button 9) /bind 9 not type anything after that and press enter.
Now that phrase is deleted.
Note: Binds only work for the game that you typed it in with while playing. So if
you were playing will not be transfered to CoD: UO.
Thank you very much for taking your time and reading this.
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MAIL::AUDIT This is the 1.7 release of Mail::Audit, which includes both "popread" and "proc2ma". WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? Now Mail::Audit supports a plug-in system; additional modules can provide methods for often-used recipes. For instance, Mail::Audit::KillDups checks for and surpresses duplicate messages. Oh, and a couple of fixes. OVERVIEW This is what Mail::Audit is all about: NAME Mail::Audit - Library for creating easy mail filters SYNOPSIS use Mail::Audit; my $mail = Mail::Audit->new; $mail->pipe("listgate p5p") if ($mail->from =~ /perl5-porters/); $mail->accept("perl) if ($mail->from =~ /perl/); $mail->reject("We do not accept spam") if looks_like_spam($mail); $mail->ignore if $mail->subject =~ /boring/i; ... DESCRIPTION procmail is nasty. It has a tortuous and complicated recipe format, and I don't like it. I wanted something flexible whereby I could filter my mail using Perl tests. `Mail::Audit' was inspired by Tom Christiansen's audit_mail and deliverlib programs. It allows a piece of email to be logged, examined, accepted into a mailbox, filtered, resent elsewhere, rejected, and so on. It's designed to allow you to easily create filter programs to stick in a .forward file or similar. POPREAD Why should you use popread? POP3 mailboxes can collect lots of messages, which you then download, all at once. And every time your local delivery agent tries to deliver each message through your .forward or .qmail, it has to fork off a new copy of Perl, which has to load up Mail::Audit and its dependent modules, and so on. When you're downloading 100 messages, this can drive your load average through the roof. popread takes care of POP access, filtering and local delivery all in one process, which is much faster and more efficient. Oh, and it deletes duplicate mail from the POP3 server, so you're not downloading the same message over and over again (Think a message to a mailing list, Cc'd to you) saving you bandwidth too. You don't have to use popread, but if you do, it requires the Mail::POP3Client module from CPAN. Remember to add your filter code to it, and set up your POP3 accounts, before attempting to run the program. PROC2MA This is a very early version of a program which automatically converts your legacy procmail rc files into Mail::Audit filters. Don't expect it to work flawlessly on complex rcs. If you want to use it, you need the Parse::RecDescent module from CPAN. BUG FIXES AND SUGGESTIONS I heartily welcome bug fixes, suggestions and patches to Mail::Audit. Please mail them to me at Also, please feel free to mail me if you'd like to informed about future versions of Mail::Audit, or if you have any problems with the module. Simon | <urn:uuid:42b70dfc-41d8-4328-9788-6d2cd0edab07> | http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/SIMON/Mail-Audit-1.10.readme | en | 0.853018 | 0.074531 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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About Epilepsy
What is Epilepsy?
Epilepsy is not a disease. Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain. The brain controls all of our functions by sending electrical signals through our nerves to control our body’s operation. When there is a misfire of a large amount of electrical energy that is suddenly and unusually discharged into the brain, it is known as a seizure.When a person has two or more seizures with unknown causes, they are said to have epilepsy. Because seizures are a symptom of epilepsy, the condition is also often referred to as a seizure disorder.
A seizure is temporary, ending when the electrical signals stop misfiring. During a seizure, depending on what part and how much of the brain is affected, a seizure can alter a person’s awareness, movements and feelings. When the seizure is over, brain function returns to normal. Seizures can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. A person can’t control their behavior during a seizure; often a person doesn’t know they are having one. Recovery time varies following a seizure-some people recovery quickly and others have lingering headaches, muscle aches and fatigue after a seizure.
There are two large groups of seizures-partial seizures affect only part of the brain, and generalized seizures affect the whole brain. What happens during a seizure depends on what part of the brain is being affected by the bursts of electrical energy. More information on types of seizures.
Anyone at any age can develop epilepsy. Epilepsy affects people of all ages, races and ethnic backgrounds. The condition can develop at any time of life, however, it is most likely to begin in early childhood or old age. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders in children. More than 2% of the today’s population is affected by epilepsy–this adds up to more than 3 million Americans living with epilepsy. Epilepsy is the 3rd most common neurological disorder, only behind Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. It is equal in prevalence to Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease combined.
It is important to remember that epilepsy is not contagious and it does not cause mental illness. It is what you have, not what you are. Most people with epilepsy have normal intelligence and some have superior intelligence. Epilepsy is a medical disorder that only affects the person during the few moments when they are having a seizure. People who have epilepsy are just like everybody else–some short, some tall; some shy, some outgoing; some athletic, some not so good at sports; and so on. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. Epilepsy is only one part of a person’s life, it should not stand in the way of achievement or success or living life like everyone else!
In more than 7 out of every 10 cases of epilepsy, no exact cause can be found. Some of the known causes include: head injuries, high fever, brain tumors, genetic factors, poisoning, congenital defects or a serious illness that affects the brain (ex: meningitis). Seizures in older people may also be caused by: heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, circulatory problems, diseases affecting the brain, brain tumors or scarring from brain surgery.
How is epilepsy treated?
The treatment options for epilepsy include: Daily medication to prevent seizures called Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), surgery, ketogenic diet and vagus nerve stimulation.
AEDs treat 70% of cases of epilepsy successfully, but a complication of these AEDs is the common occurrences of side effects. The most common side effects include drowsiness, irritability, nausea, rash and clumsiness. The optimal goal of treatment is to stop seizures with a minimal amount of side effects and today, newer and more effective medications are becoming available in the fight to control epilepsy.
Surgery may be considered after the failure of AEDs. The surgery involves removing a small portion of the brain where seizures typically begin. Surgery is used only in cases in which either the seizures or the amount of medication to control them would disable the patient. Surgical procedures include focal resection, temporal lobectomy, frontal topectomy, lesionectomy, hemispherectomy and corpus callosotomy. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee of success with surgery–seizure free rates vary postsurgically. Much testing must be done before surgery is performed (EEG monitoring, CAT scanning, MRI, PET scan and neuropsychological testing.)
The Ketogenic Diet is high in fat and low in carbohydrates with restricted calories. The diet produces a chemical change in the body called ketosis, which makes your body burn fat for energy instead of glucose–this condition prevents or reduces seizures in some children. The strict diet must be monitored by a physician and a dietitian, and compliance may be a problem. All food must be weighed for every meal and the diet must be followed exactly or it does not work. There are also side effects with this diet including kidney stones, weight loss and blood abnormalities.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation is where a battery, about the size of a silver dollar, is implanted in the upper-left chest (like a pacemaker) and then connected to the vagus nerve in the neck. The battery sends regular small bursts of electrical energy to the brain. These bursts are intended to prevent seizures or to stop them if they start. During a seizure, a magnet can be passed over the battery to give extra stimulation to try to shorten the seizure. Side effects may include hoarseness, coughing and shortness of breath (these occur during stimulation only). This treatment is approved for adults and children over 12 with partial seizures who are resistant to AEDs.
Is there a way to prevent epilepsy?
One day, research may be able to find ways to identify people who are at risk for developing epilepsy and to prevent it before it begins, but for now, the only way of preventing epilepsy is by reducing the risks of things that may damage the brain. This includes vaccines against certain diseases, wearing protective head gear when applicable and using seat belts and child safety seats in | <urn:uuid:18a73538-80ab-4dc5-8e7c-9a3dfad94b85> | http://www.epilepsy-ohio.org/about-epilepsy/ | en | 0.93066 | 0.153393 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Two lonely misfits embark on a bizarre journey of romance and revenge after bonding at a "come as your favorite animal" costume party in Academy Award nominee Taika Waititi's quirky romantic comedy. Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) is a clerk at the local electronics store. Lily (Loren Horsley) is a shy cashier who earns her keep at the local Meaty Boy. After getting fired from her job, an emboldened Lily determines to put on her favorite shark costume, shed her inhibitions, and attend Jarrod's annual "come as your favorite" animal bash. In the following days, a tentative romance begins to develop between Lily and Jarrod, and when Jarrod announces plans to travel back to his hometown and seek revenge on an old nemesis, Lily decides to follow along for the ride. As Jarrod begins to set his diabolical plan into motion, Lily finds herself stranded in an unfamiliar new town and surrounded by a disorienting collection of eccentrics. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Black & White Risotto with Duck Sausage
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Main Ingredient: Grains
Serves: 8
Arborio risotto is mixed with wild rice, sauteed duck sausage and dried cherries for a delightful, gamey blend of flavors and pleasing textures.
1⁄2 lb. duck sausage, sliced
1 onion, chopped
2 tbsp. oil
2 cups arborio rice
5 cups chicken stock
1 cup wild rice, cooked
Blue cheese, crumbled, as needed
Sage, chopped, as needed
Dried cherries, rehydrated, as needed
1. In a skillet over medium-high heat, sauté sausage until cooked through. Drain drippings and reserve.
2. In a saucepan over medium heat, sauté onion in oil until translucent. Add arborio rice and sauté until lightly toasted.
3. Add 1⁄2 cup chicken stock and stir. When liquid is absorbed, repeat with remaining chicken stock in 1⁄2-cup increments, stirring constantly.
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4.22.2 NRP Case Building (10-01-2008)
1. The NRP approach maximizes use of data available to the IRS and, to the extent possible, minimizes intrusiveness and taxpayer burden.
2. Case building is the process of adding information to the case file, from both IRS and non-IRS sources, prior to classification. Use of this information during the classification process will identify or eliminate potential issues prior to contacting the taxpayer.
3. Examiners should supplement the case building material included in the file as necessary.
4. For the Individual Form 1040 Study, case building will be conducted at the Cincinnati Campus.
5. NRP training Module C (Case Building Tools and Classification Overview) provides more detailed information on items contained in this IRM. (10-01-2008)
Case Building Tools
1. The following subsections describe the case building items that will be included in the Individual NRP case files. These items will be used as investigative tools to facilitate improved analysis and enhanced decision making by NRP classifiers and examiners. (10-01-2008)
NRP Case Building Inventory Sheet
1. The NRP Case Building Inventory Sheet is stapled to the inside left of the case folder. It contains a list of all case building information included in the case file. The NRP Case Building Inventory Sheet provides a quick overview of the case building tools provided in the case file. (10-01-2008)
Examination Return Charge-Out (Form 5546)
1. Form 5546 is attached to the top of the original return or return facsimile. It verifies that the return has been established on AIMS and will show the NRP Source Code, Project Code, and Tracking Code. It provides an audit history, information for any Power of Attorney, and a myriad of codes (AIMS, BOD, etc.) giving information about the selected tax return.
2. Form 5546 provides the classifier and the examiner an audit history. It lets the classifier and examiner know the results of the last two returns the Service either classified or examined. Care should be taken in using this information to draw conclusions. The classifier and examiner need to look at the current overall picture of the taxpayer based on the case building and other known data. (10-01-2008)
Original Tax Return
1. The original NRP Individual key case tax return will be included in the case file. This includes either an original paper filed return or a return facsimile if e-filed. An imaged copy of the NRP key case return will be included in the NRP RGS Case File Documents. (10-01-2008)
Midwest Automated Compliance System (MACS)
1. MACS is a security-certified, menu driven database that contains a combination of all transcribed lines from returns and selected entity information for IMF and part of the BMF. MACS does not include all the line items of the return. It is limited to what is transcribed for RTVUE. MACS generates three years of tax return data in a side-by-side tax return format so returns are easy to compare, thus enabling the examiner to readily see changes from year to year. Additionally, the MACS print includes several helpful and informative specially calculated fields.
2. Variances and trends (in income, deductions, other information, etc.) can be detected through correlation of MACS with other case building data. MACS data could indicate unusually low Schedule C or F gross profit year after year or consistent losses with low net profit and no other apparent sources of income to support expenditures. The three-year comparative MACS analysis would reflect any other significant changes from year to year. (10-01-2008)
Currency and Banking Retrieval System (CBRS)
1. CBRS reports large individual financial transactions and cash transactions in excess of $10,000. Cash transactions include deposits, withdrawals, check cashing, wire transfers, sales and redemption of money orders, travelers’ checks or stored value, casino activity, payments for certain services, and information on foreign bank accounts. In addition, CBRS contains reports of cash and/or other monetary instruments in excess of $10,000 used as payment for certain goods.
2. For NRP, the following extracts will be secured for all NRP sample select entities by primary and secondary Social Security Number (SSN) and by any Schedule C or F Employer Identification Number (EIN):
1. Form 4789, Currency Transaction Report (CTR), for cash transactions in excess of $10,000 filed by financial institutions and non-bank financial institutions (by the entity that has received cash from an individual or given cash to an individual in excess of $10,000).
2. Form 8300, Report of Cash Payments over $10,000, filed by businesses when cash and/or monetary instruments of $10,000 or more are received for goods or services.
3. Form 8362, Currency Transaction Report by Casinos (CTRC), or Nevada Form 8852 (CTRC-N), filed by casinos for cash transactions (cash in or cash out) in excess of $10,000.
4. Form 4790, Report of International Transportation of Currency or Monetary Instruments (CMIR), filed by anyone carrying cash or monetary instruments in excess of $10,000 into or out of the country. (04-25-2008)
1. ChoicePoint information is provided on the primary and secondary SSN and is a general combination report with data from multiple sources. ChoicePoint is used in NRP case building versus Accurint because it can be generated and printed in a batch mode and Accurint is only available on a one-by-one lookup basis.
2. Various consumer reporting agencies are scanned and the information is utilized to search public records. The ChoicePoint print included in the file will show that the information search was performed even if no data was found. A single report of search results (including both the primary and secondary SSN’s, if applicable) is generated and may include:
1. Taxpayer name.
2. Possible "Also Known As" (or AKA's) for the taxpayer.
3. Addresses associated with the taxpayer. This section includes current and prior addresses and possible phone numbers.
4. Real property ownership and deed transfers.
5. Vehicles registered at the taxpayer’s addresses. Vehicles (including possible leased vehicles) appear regardless of the name on the vehicle registration.
6. Watercraft ownership including state registrations and boating accidents.
7. Aircraft registrations.
8. Professional licenses.
9. Business affiliations. (10-01-2008)
Information Data Retrieval System (IDRS) Command Codes
1. IDRS provides filing and payment history by using specific command codes. The following are IDRS command codes used for NRP.
1. INOLE - Displays filing requirements such as current name and address.
2. DDBKD - Displays the person who may be entitled to claim the child indicated on the return, who actually claimed the child, the number of returns on which the child was claimed, and if the child filed a return and claimed their own exemption.
3. DDBOL - Displays the possible erroneous claim of a person receiving public assistance.
4. RTVUE - Displays return items from Form 1040 (as filed, and as changed during processing).
5. IRPTR - Displays IRP (income) information: W-2s, K-1s, 1099s, etc.
6. IMFOLI - Displays filing history and module balances (if any).
7. IMFOLT - Displays a list of posted transactions to a specific period.
8. IMFOLE - Displays information to determine if Earned Income Credit was disallowed in a prior year. This command code is only included for returns designated as an "EIC Case."
9. BMFOL - Displays the EIN filing history, module balances (if any), and provides a Form 941 reconciliation report.
10. PMFOL - Displays Payer Master File information such as whether the entity filed W-2s and 1099s.
2. NRP training Module C (Case Building Tools and Classification Overview) contains a more detailed description, benefits and how to leverage each of the aforementioned IDRS command codes. (10-01-2008)
Other Case Information
1. There are two other documents that may be present in a fully case built Individual NRP file. Their inclusion in the file is dependent on whether the tax return is claiming the Earned Income Credit or whether it was filed with a Schedule D and/or E.
2. The EIC Stuffer is included in a case file if the return is designated as an EIC case. The stuffer alerts the examiner that there is additional training that must be completed to audit the EIC returns and that there are special and specific RGS NRP requirements for this type of return.
3. The Transcript of Summary Data for Schedules D and E is included in the case if the return contains either of these two schedules. The information on this document is used:
1. In the calculation of the Per Return amounts used in the NRP RGS case data for Schedule D Line 3F (Short Term Gain/Loss) and Line 10F (Long Term Gain/Loss) and/or
2. If the return contains a Schedule E with multiple rental properties. This document displays the calculated Per Return amounts used in the NRP RGS case data for the summary of all Schedule E Rental Real Estate income and expense line items. (10-01-2008)
Beyond Case Building
1. Upon completion of the case building process, NRP returns will be classified by highly skilled, well-trained classifiers who will determine if the return should be considered accurate as filed or if more data collection is necessary to make a determination about the accuracy of the return. If more data collection is necessary, the classifier will make a determination about the best way to obtain the data. If in the judgment of the classifier (taking into full consideration the sufficiency of the data and the complexity of the return under consideration) a decision can be made to accept the return as filed, no further examination techniques will be necessary. If the return cannot be accepted as filed, it will be identified for examination through either Correspondence or face-to-face (Tax Compliance Officer or Revenue Agent) techniques.
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Engineers Report More U.S. Dams Deteriorating
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As part of a monthlong series on America's infrastructure, Weekend Edition takes a closer look at the nation's dams. Nearly 80,000 dams across the country help control floods, provide hydroelectric power and regulate the water supply. But the number of dams considered unsafe has jumped 33 percent in the past decade, according to a report card by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Guest Host Audie Cornish speaks with ASCE Deputy Executive Director Larry Roth.
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
This month on our program we're examining the state of America's infrastructure, and today we take a closer look at the nation's dams. Nearly 80,000 dams across the country help control floods, provide hydroelectric power and regulate our water supply. While the majority of them are in pretty good condition, the number of dams considered unsafe has jumped 33 percent in the last decade, and over the years the U.S. has had a fair number of dramatic moments with its dams.
Unidentified Woman #1: On Monday, state inspectors made their annual check of the Seven Devils Dam and found water seeping through the structure.
Unidentified Man #1: The man just said that the dam burst up the head of Buffalo Creek and wiped it out.
Unidentified Woman #2: You didn't hear water per se but the water was clear up to the windowsill so...
Unidentified Woman #3: By the time that me and my husband and my children got onto the hill, we looked back over the mountain; there was no houses. Everything was gone.
Unidentified Man #2: And the dam, as it collapsed, began to lift and carry and tumble these enormous pieces of concrete, some weighing tons.
Unidentified Man #3: You know, I mean, I was scared inside. But, you know, we were worried about the house but I worry more about the lives of the people. You know, you can always rebuild your house.
Unidentified Man #4: That fact is that these dams kill people.
CORNISH: The American Society of Civil Engineers issues a report card on aspects of the nation's infrastructure, and they say the U.S. gets a D for how it takes care of its dams.
Larry Roth is the deputy executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Larry, thank you for coming in to speak with us.
Mr. LARRY ROTH (Deputy Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers): Thank you, Audie.
CORNISH: Now, your organization's last report card - and from what I saw, it was from 2005 - said that 3,500 dams across the U.S. were unsafe. Now, how many of them have actually failed or collapsed in some way?
Mr. ROTH: In the last several years, there's actually been about 70 or so dam incidents, including 29 dam failures.
CORNISH: Can you tell us specific instances that you remember?
Mr. ROTH: The most recent dam failure was the dam in Hawaii that failed and I believe killed seven people but also caused extensive environmental damage.
CORNISH: And is that an instance where there is a crack or seepage or - what can go wrong?
Mr. ROTH: Well, we have to remember that most of our dams were constructed at least 50 years ago and, like all our infrastructure, dams deteriorate. And we're not helping the problem because we're often deferring maintenance.
CORNISH: Now, how can you tell when a dam is unsafe?
Mr. ROTH: Usually the most critical problem for dams is an inadequate spillway, which is an emergency relief so that as water in the reservoir rises, it doesn't rise to the point where it overtops the dam. But the spillway has to be big enough; it has to be big enough to pass the water safely in order to protect the dam structure.
CORNISH: So, when the spillway isn't big enough, that's when you get damage to the dam itself?
Mr. ROTH: That's right. The water overflows and erodes the dam and causes, in this case, a catastrophic failure. Dams also need to be regularly inspected, though. Smaller dams are subject to having problems from burrowing animals, for example. And so dams should be regularly inspected visually and there's also a simple instrumentation that can be used to check dams that maybe have some problems that ought to be looked at very carefully.
CORNISH: So, that brings us to oversight and maintenance. And, you know, you usually think of maybe the Army Corps of Engineers dealing with dams but it turns out that 95 percent of dams that are out there in the country are actually controlled by states and local government. So, where does that leave their oversight and maintenance?
Mr. ROTH: Well, that's a very serious problem. It's not just state and local governments, but dams are owned by private individuals. They're owned by quasi-governmental organizations like irrigation districts. And for some dams we don't even know who the owners are. They've been essentially abandoned, they're orphan structures. And so there's not even an entity that is providing the inspection and the maintenance.
CORNISH: You mention that there were incidents of dam failure over the last few years but we do not often hear about it in the news, and I'm wondering if you think that makes people kind of complacent about the topic.
Mr. ROTH: Well, I think with all of our infrastructure we only talk about it, discuss it and worry about it in the aftermath of a failure. And we can point to a number of recent failures. The tragic I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis last summer and then two and a half years ago, the Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc with the levees in New Orleans.
And of course, as those infrastructure failures fill the headlines for the next several weeks, the nation's attention is focused on it. But as soon as those headlines go away, our infrastructure becomes, again, out of sight and out of mind.
CORNISH: Now, there's another report from the American Society of Civil Engineers scheduled for 2009. Can you give us a sense of if the situation's gotten any better or is getting any better?
Mr. ROTH: Unfortunately, I'd have to say no. There's been an opportunity for Congress to provide additional funding to help address the issues of deferred maintenance in our infrastructure, but even when we passed the highway bill in 2005, it was $90 billion short of what was really needed.
CORNISH: Larry Roth is the deputy executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Larry, thank you for speaking with us.
Mr. ROTH: Thank you.
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Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is pictured. | Getty
His immigration reform push had all the capital, connections to merit success. immigration push hits wall
Now, as hope for an overhaul fades, the group must reconcile Silicon Valley’s highflying ambition with the sobering lessons of Washington.
( Also on POLITICO: Denial of immigrants' licenses halted)
“In Silicon Valley, if you don’t like the taxi industry, you start Uber, you go around it,” said President Joe Green, who helped establish the group alongside Zuckerberg, his former Harvard roommate. “With politics you have to work through it, and doing that can be very challenging.” began with a lofty, if amorphous, goal: to ensure the success of America. But it also made initial high-profile stumbles with its ad strategy and, while trying to engage the tech community, ended up alienating some in it.
The group has stood out in other ways since it launched in April 2013, not least of all its ability to raise money and draw big names. surpassed its $50 million fundraising goal Zuckerberg set and has almost $25 million still squirreled away, according to those familiar with the group’s finances. Much of the money went to media buys, for which it far outranked other pro-reform groups. has reached into more than 100 Republican districts, from a $150,000 ad buy in North Carolina that defended the conservative credentials of Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers to a six-figure TV campaign in targeted markets.
( PHOTOS: Mark Zuckerberg with pols) spent about $5 million on TV and radio ads in the lead-up to last year’s Senate vote, which resulted in the passage of an immigration overhaul. Along with its affiliates, Americans for a Conservative Direction and the Council for American Job Growth, the group has continued to run six-figure ads either praising conservative backers or touting the imperative for reform.
Contributors to the group include tech superstars like Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Its D.C. agents also read like a list of power players. Executive Director Todd Schulte served as former chief of staff at Priorities USA, a super PAC that supported President Barack Obama. Its campaign manager, Rob Jesmer, worked as the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Consultants worked for numerous presidents and both sides of the aisle.
“ is the most prominent, most active biggest spending group in recent years to come out in favor of immigration reform,” said Elizabeth Wilner of Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group. But its spending, she noted, remains “paltry” compared with organizations tied to the money-churning causes of health care and energy.
Wilner likened the effort to a grass-roots group launched by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that intended to unite voters around gun control. It didn’t.
( Also on POLITICO: Pol: Migrant centers 'preplanned')
“You can look at really influential people in business thinking they can put names and money behind something and believe it will pass,” she said, “but they’re basically running into the brick wall of Washington and polarization.”’ registered lobbying efforts total $780,000, a reflection of not only its political nonprofit status but its focus on popular appeal over policy details.
Its immigration priorities extended beyond many other tech groups, which pushed most strongly for changes that would benefit high-skilled foreign workers. highlighted the need for comprehensive reform through local initiatives, individual stories of immigrants and polls that stressed Americans’ desire for change. Green calls it a “dual partisan” effort.
“Instead of a business lobby, it organized itself as a political operation,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice and a veteran of immigration reform efforts. “It focused on both the right and left, put a lot of money into advertising and essentially took that advantage away from anti-immigrant groups.”
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Dungeon Siege 3 - Preview @ OXM UK
by Dhruin, 2011-05-13 00:59:35
There's a short Dungeon Siege 3 preview at OXM UK based on the X360 version. It doesn't offer anything new but here's a closing snip:
Reassuringly, too, the cutscenes are much better now. There's lip-syncing for starters, which stops the game accidentally feeling like a low budget '80s kids' cartoon. The dialogue is all typical fantasy fayre, but that's fine - it's competently written and performed, and Obsidian hasn't completely stifled its humorous side - some of the loading screen text is pleasingly sarcastic.
It'll be interesting to see how the story pans out, and whether your character progression and the difficulty of the game keeps up the pace throughout. From what we've seen so far, we're optimistic.
In other news, Zohaib points out some screens at Neocrisis.
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Dungeon Siege 3
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Hack & Slash
Platform: PC
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Every single day in the lockout has been the "most critical day of negotiations." Every stage of this lockout has been the most "critical 24-36 hours" of this lockout.
Until tomorrow, of course.
Well, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, is the most critical day and 24-36 hours of the fun that is the third NHL lockout in 18 years and second in eight. Until tomorrow.
The goal, of course, is to get tomorrow because today is so critical.
Things honestly are very close to going off the rails.
As I reported Wednesday night/Thursday morning, things didn't go nearly as well as it did Tuesday when league No. 2 and union 2 Bill Daly and Steve Fehr stood jointly in front of an NHLPA backdrop for the first time in this process and held a brief press scrum. The visual said it all: things were rosy. The words said it all, with Fehr calling it the "best day" in the process.
That's because owners and players talked generally without storming off in a huff.
Then came Wednesday when things were put down on paper and the real heavy lifting of making a deal begun.
There were some tense exchanges, some near blowups, and not just from the Jeremy Jacobs of the world. The Boston owner has become everybody's favorite target for blame, but the moderates got fed up and wanted to end things as well when the players weren't receptive enough to the league throwing more money on "Make Whole."
The owners angrily left the meeting. But the two sides decided to try to patch things up and keep working at it, which created some "positivity" among sources on both sides.
Then, things ended tensely again.
The reality is as close as the sides appear because they did have some agreements yesterday, those bargaining feel everything hangs by a thread.
First of all, the $89 million extra thrown at "Make Whole" is based solely on a 10-year CBA because the league wants to end the cycle of lockouts. The union has always balked at that because Donald Fehr has convinced the players that they don't want to lock themselves into a long-term deal after making so many concessions.
The league also wants to end the long-term, back-diving contracts, so they want five-year max deals (seven to re-sign one's own free agent) and 5% max variance in salaries. This obviously wouldn't affect the vast majority of NHLers, but to the union, this restricts players' rights bigtime.
Now, the PA is insistent that Donald Fehr comes back in the room. That means Gary Bettman comes back in the room. And when that happens, things usually go toxic fast.
So we again are on murky ground, my fellow hockey fans.
My gut: this still gets done eventually. But as has been the trend of this whole process, it won't happen easy.
Both sides need to decide what issues are worth risking a full season for. Anyway, there's got to come a point where the 700 players deserve the right to vote for a proposal, one would think.
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Webroot Window Washer 6.5 review
Keeps your PC whiter than white
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Our Verdict
Does a good job of erasing your tracks, and more still, but it does require a lot of system resources
• Highly effective
Washing analogy works well
• Resource-hungry
If you share your laptop with others, or are simply cautious and don't want to run the risk of anyone seeing the websites you've visited or the applications you've used recently, then Window Washer 6.5 (£30 inc. VAT) is just the tool.
Removing traces of your presence is nothing new, as even Internet Explorer and Firefox now have similar options. But Window Washer works by clearing out the cache and temporary files and then overwrites the space used by them on the hard drive, so even file recovery software can't locate the files.
This latest version of the software is fully Windows Vista-compliant and offers support for an increased number of third-party applications. Which takes support up to nearly 400. This support comes into play when you load the application, as it will ask whether you want all traces of recently used programs to be wiped.
The interface is simple and clean and, in keeping with the name, the controls use a washing analogy to perform the tasks. So you don't simply clean up your hard drive, it's washed. To add a little more strength to this, you can choose to add 'bleach', which means your hard drive will be written over multiple times, so the files Window Washer has deleted are thoroughly untraceable.
Perhaps the real benefit of this program is that it can also be used to reclaim hard drive space. On our first pass, without bleach, the system freed up over 450MB of files, which is quite astonishing and shows how versatile the program is. If you've recently defragged your hard drive, you should also see an even better improvement.
It's not all-good news, as the more you want to hide the traces of your activity, the more labour-intensive the application becomes to run. But if you share a laptop with others and don't want them finding out what you've been up to, this really is a tool you need to invest in. | <urn:uuid:10c10117-f83e-4a1b-95af-10dbe34bbda1> | http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/utilities/other-software/webroot-window-washer-6-5-38455/review | en | 0.948789 | 0.058599 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |