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Is Google abusing its dominant position to proselytize its services?
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like Intel?
By 85 on 8/11/2011 8:07:47 AM , Rating: 2
So they allegedly did the same thing that Intel got busted for a few years ago? I'm really not a fan of business like this.
RE: like Intel?
By kleinma on 8/11/2011 9:20:12 AM , Rating: 2
You have to wonder how innocent a company can possibly be when they set aside half a billion dollars to cover potential costs. Sure smells a bit like guilt to me...
RE: like Intel?
By someguy123 on 8/11/2011 4:22:42 PM , Rating: 2
To be fair, lawyers are bloodsuckers and cost unbelievable amounts of money. Even if you're innocent you'll still need to pay for litigation, which is why most companies settle as quickly as possible on smaller claims to avoid paying out the nose for lawyers.
RE: like Intel?
By 2ManyOptions on 8/11/2011 9:30:47 AM , Rating: 3
Completely agree that any organization involved in unfair practice should be penalized. But I can't stop wondering when companies like Apple get patents on pretty much something which 'looks like a tablet'. Maybe it should fall under unfair patent or something.
RE: like Intel?
By ltcommanderdata on 8/11/2011 9:52:40 AM , Rating: 2
Are you saying that if the Patent Office grants Apple or other companies an "unfair patent", the recipient should be the one penalized? Rather than the Patent Office needing to review it's practices?
RE: like Intel?
By 2ManyOptions on 8/11/2011 11:13:36 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah, patent system/office is c ertainlythe one that needs scrutiny. Also, tells a thing or two about the company applying for patent. More than innovation patents seem to be filed for covering what is obvious that WILL be violated by any competitor in the course of bringing a similar product out.
I am not terming Apple products to be non-innovative, some of it's patents seem to be so.
RE: like Intel?
By michael2k on 8/11/2011 9:59:14 AM , Rating: 2
Patents can be reviewed and overturned. There's a process in place. Apple is, thus far, in the clear for enforcing the patents and IP it's been granted.
RE: like Intel?
a) open source
b) has no license agreement
c) free
d) modern
e) compatible with virtually all hardware
RE: like Intel?
Replace all my 'not' with 'now'
Something happened with my spell check there...
RE: like Intel?
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RE: like Intel?
Did you miss this in the article?
"smartphone service providers"
For example, Google more or less crushed Skyhook:
RE: like Intel?
By superPC on 8/11/2011 9:52:27 AM , Rating: 2
this only proves that old adage: power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely. intel has tasted it, MS has tasted it, now it's google's turn and next facebook. one has to wonder though how can apple manages to stay away from this kind of scrutiny? i guess image really is everything nowadays (apple image as the perpetual underdog).
RE: like Intel?
By xype on 8/12/2011 2:53:25 AM , Rating: 2
Apple is making its own hardware and software. They can hardly force themselves to only sell Apple computers running Apple software, since they are doing so by design. Apple also isn’t forcing manufacturers to only manufacture their hardware or phone carriers to only carry iPhones. At best, they buy options for manfacturing capacities by giving the manufacturers huge piles of money in advances.
On the other hand, Apple is very agressive with their IP and is going to play the Patent System for all its worth. But that’s not really illegal, is it?
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Cold Comfort Farm
Sam Shepard's Buried Child unearths scary secrets at KDT; bad bedside manners in Medicine, Man
Buried Child doesn't end when the lights come up. Shepard won't make it that easy. And live theater this good, especially in a space as intimate at KDT's, puts us close enough to the living, breathing bodies on the stage that the experience feels almost too real. This play leaves a legacy like few others. It haunts the thoughts and nicks a few new little scars on the soul. I'm sure they'll heal. But till then, I'm sleeping with the lights on.
What they're doing at Kitchen Dog Theater is art. What they're doing at Theatre Three right now is Medicine, Man. Written by Jeffrey Stanley, it's a two-act something or other about a beer-chugging Southern good ol' boy whose mama lies in a coma because a doctor prescribed a new cancer drug that shut down her kidneys.
Calvin Barker (Scott Latham) is twitchier about missing the NASCAR Pepsi 400 on TV than he is about seeing to his mother's dire medical condition. Until, at her bedside, he meets Dr. Morrison (Kerry Cole), a pretty lady who flirts with him so he'll consent to letting her put Mom on dialysis so she, the doc, can write a journal article about the whole mess.
continues through April 30 at Kitchen Dog Theater. Call 214-953-1055.
Enter Calvin's bossy twin sister, Tracy (Diane Worman), who insists their mother had a living will that precluded any last-ditch life-saving. There's also a mysterious character named "Swimmer" (R Bruce Elliott), an American Indian shape-shifter who walks through walls and occasionally talks in a voice that sounds exactly like Joe Sears as Aunt Pearl in Greater Tuna.
In script form, this reads like a situation comedy with one or two funny lines per page. On its feet, however, this play needs a surgical scene-ectomy. Long sections leave Calvin alone onstage talking on the phone. At one point he calls his mother's minister (Dan Nolen Jr.) and asks that he come to the hospital. Then, get this, Calvin hangs up and strums a guitar for what seems like hours until the preacher arrives. On film or TV this could be accomplished with a quick cut. In live theater, we're left figuring out how far the preacher lives from the theater and why he doesn't get here already.
A glance around the audience after intermission found many of Theatre Three's elderly stalwarts with their heads drooped to their chests. I think I even nodded out for a wink or two. They should post a warning for this Medicine: May cause drowsiness.
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Country cannot be run by 'remote control': Narendra Modi attacks Sonia Gandhi
Saturday, 19 April 2014 - 4:44pm IST | Place: Kakoijan | Agency: PTI
Narendra Modi today fired a fresh salvo at Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, saying the country cannot be run by "remote control" and the mother-son duo will have to pay a "price" for running the UPA government from behind the scene."If you want to save the country, you have to first save yourself from the mother-son duo," he told a poll rally at Kakoijan in Assam's Baongaigaon district.
"The country cannot be run by remote control by the mother-son duo," he said. Modi said the electorate in 232 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats, where voting has already been completed, has voted against the UPA government.
"It is now the responsibility of the voters to ensure that BJP wins 300 seats so that a strong and stable government can be formed at the Centre," he said. The BJP prime Ministerial candidate appealed to youths to think "very carefully" before voting. "If you take a wrong decision regarding your vote, you may lose the next five years which will affect the future course of your life. Give me a chance and I will change your life. "The Congress has failed to give employment to youths as promised in their manifestos in the past. It has broken its promise to you and now it is your turn to break ties with it.
First you have to save yourself from those who have ruined you and then help in saving the country," he added.
Taking potshots at Sonia and Rahul over the claims made in a book by the Prime Minister's former aide, he said, "It is clear (in the book) who was the actual PM. What Manmohan Singh says does not matter. Both mother and son have to pay a price for this," he said. "The book 'The Accidental Prime Minister' by Sanjaya Baru has brought to fore what we (BJP) have been saying for so long - that mother and son were the primary decision makers and Manmohan Singh was just a facade," he said.
Modi also took a jibe at the Prime Minister. "Today, I came across a very entertaining piece of news. The PMO has said that the Prime Minister had delivered over 1100 speeches during the ten years of his rule. This is just to prove that he is not 'Maun (silent) Mohan Singh'.
The statement was made by the prime minister's Communications Adviser Pankaj Pachauri yesterday to counter the damaging claims made by Baru, the former media adviser to Singh.
Modi said it would have been more appropriate if the PMO had issued a statement on what the Prime Minister had done for the poor and the common man.
"Have the PMO's office ever announced what they have done for the Koch Rajbongshis or the tribals and adivasis of Assam? No they have not because they do not give you any importance or are concerned about you. They only remember you when elections come. Now it is your turn to forget them," he told the gathering. Accusing Sonia and Rahul of spreading lies about Gujarat, Modi said rubbished claims by them that small-scale industries are closing down in his state.. "The Congress has been cheating you. When they need your votes, the mother and the son comes to the fore but stay behind the curtains when running the government," he said.
Charging the Congress with indulging in 'vote-bank politics', he said it was due to it that Bangladeshis are given importance in Assam while Hindu Bengalis, who had to flee that country following atrocities are 'neglected'. "Why are Hindu Bengalis from Bangladesh not given the right to be Indians? Why are they still D(doubtful) voters in the country and are forced to stay in camps. Is this not injustice?"
Referring to BJP's stand on the issue, Modi said, "We do not hide our policies. We do not believe in vote-bank politics where our own are tortured and foreigners are welcomed with open arms. They (Hindu Bengali immigrants) must be given their due respect so that they can be proud Indians."
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Review: could Flexeril cause Agitation?
Summary: Agitation is found among people who take Flexeril, especially for people who are female, 40-49 old, have been taking the drug for < 1 month, also take medication Oxycontin, and have Pain.
We study 14,470 people who have side effects while taking Flexeril from FDA and social media. Among them, 258 have Agitation. Find out below who they are, when they have Agitation and more.
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Flexeril has active ingredients of cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride. It is often used in muscle spasms. (latest outcomes from 16,452 Flexeril users)
Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement) has been reported by people with depression, quit smoking, pain, stress and anxiety, high blood pressure. (latest reports from 54,724 Agitation patients)
On Jan, 4, 2015: 14,466 people reported to have side effects when taking Flexeril. Among them, 257 people (1.78%) have Agitation.
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1. Pain (72 people, 28.02%)
2. Depression (50 people, 19.46%)
3. Anxiety (32 people, 12.45%)
4. Smoking cessation therapy (31 people, 12.06%)
5. Back pain (20 people, 7.78%)
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1. Oxycontin (78 people, 30.35%)
2. Xanax (74 people, 28.79%)
3. Percocet (55 people, 21.40%)
4. Ativan (54 people, 21.01%)
5. Neurontin (52 people, 20.23%)
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Over the last 3yrs I have noticed and my family even commented on my changed personality - from a care free to someone that is easily aggitated and angry...even when I know things like young children being noisey etc shouldn't make me snap, they do... I know its wrong, but can't help myself... and then hate myself for being so "short" or intolerant of petty things.
My weight increased by 30kg with 4 months... more than 40% increase in weight.
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Have researched quite extensively to see the likely hood of all these medical problem I have now being associated with the medications I take for my primary condition ( epilepsy ).. And given the frequency of seizure off medication is every few years, seeking advice from or to hear from anyone with similar conditions about how they addressed them and if they remained on the medications.
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Why I like old school Resident Evil
I've been playing a lot of the older Resident Evil games the past few months in preparation for a 75 hour marathon. While playing the Resident Evil outbreak games it hit me... I was having fun. Sure I died 3 times before completing one of the scenarios but I enjoyed each death, each trial, and each puzzle. Too often during Resident Evil 5 I felt it was a slog to the end. The action did not wow me and where was the challenge? Before people cry wolf yes I was playing on the highest difficulty yet at that point the enemies just took more hits to kill.
For me it boils down to what makes a Resident Evil game. Does putting the name "Resident Evil" on a title make it a RE? If the name of Resident Evil 5 was something like Zombies take over the world, or Sand infection would people have cared about it? To me a RE game has to have limited supplies and an evil corporation trying to create BOW's for profit. Zombies have to be a part of the game.... traditional ones not fast zombies, or zombies that shoot guns, but real honest to god zombies. Sure I'm jaded because I grew up with the classics, but why change the format? It seems like they changed it just to change it with no real basis other then profit. I guess the path to more video game sales is to abandon the format that got you there.
Why do we buy games?
I recently bought two games both very different in design and scope. Both have history and are part of a franchise that are revered by its fan base. One is Resident Evil 6 which is cross platform and has gotten poor to mediocre reviews, but sold remarkable well. The other is Xcom: Enemy Unknown, again a cross platform game that has gotten great reviews but sold poor to mediocre. I know RE 6 is more mainstream and its franchise has been consistent with no long gaps between games, while Xcom is more of a niche market with its emphasis on strategy. It has also been years since we've gotten a game from this franchise.
Yet what drives gamers to buy one of these games over another? For me I bought both because I've been a long time fan of both franchises. I had fun with both games, granted I enjoyed Xcom much more the Resident Evil 6 but I saw RE 6's value and could enjoy it for what it was. Would I buy the game again after I had a chance with it? honestly no it is a rental game or something that I would pick up so I could play online with friends. With this knowledge I just wonder why we as gamers continue to spend money frivolously on things that, if the reviews are any indication, are not very good. I can say that after my purchase of RE6 I will not buy another Resident Evil game.
If I want any change to occur within this franchise I must show Capcom (or any business) that I will not continue to support products that I find sub-par. The only way to make business see this is by reducing their profit margin. I think we as consumers are so impulsive that we buy things before truly understanding what we are buying. If we held off for just one month we might be able to effect real change in an industry that we all love so much.
Taking over the galaxy!
The Benefit Evil team wants to bring you a riveting story of betrayal and conquest of grand armada's that fight among the stars. Who wants to see civilizations rise and fall? well you can on September 22nd at 1pm as the Benefit Evil team plays the board game Twilight Imperium. Its a epic 6 player game where each of us picks an alien race and fights for control of the galaxy. We hope that you join us on Twitch TV as we play out this space opera. Share a few laughs, some suspense, and just a good time.
A New Contest from Benefit Evil
We at Benefit Evil just got in a new shipment of water bottles in. We want to share our new wealth with everyone so we decided to give away 3 of them. If you check out our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Benefit-Evil/146541672056107) we posted a photo of some Benefit Evil brand stickers. To be eligible to win one of our awesome water bottles just snap a photo of our sticker on something cool or in a cool situation and post it back on our facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Benefit-Evil/146541672056107). In October we will vote on what we think are the top 3 photos and send out some prizes. If you or anyone you know is good at photography or would just like a sticker please message us your contact information and we will send them your way. Good luck to everyone and happy photo hunting.
Kids have it too easy (old cranky gamer)
It might just be me, but gamers today have it way to easy. With save functions, check points every room, and a retry function when and if you die. With web-sites like gamefaqs and google if you ever get stuck your just a key stroke away from finding the answer.
Where is the satisfaction in the journey? Where is the pride in knowing that you finished something that was challenging? Gamers today will quit at the slightest hint of difficulty. Declaring a game "sucky" or "horrible" because they can't finish it in a day. I ask you how can you truly enjoy something if you are only taking a day to complete it? I mean it took the developers months sometimes years to make it and you honor that with a day's worth of enjoyment? I will not turn this into a blog of "in my day we had to do this..." but just know things where hard! check out any youtube video of any classic Nintendo game if you doubt me.
So what if something is difficult? take your time with it, calm down try it again. sure there are games that crank the difficulty way up for no reason (yes Ninja Gaiden I'm looking at you). But most games can be won with a little perseverance.
Alright I'm done rambling now get off my lawn you meddling kids!
Old cranky gamer
Is it just me or do the gamers today have it a little too good. In today's world you can't walk down a street without seeing something video game related. It seems everyone has heard of "Call of Duty" or "Modern "Warfare" and even your parents are gaming these days which leads me to my point. When I was growing up gaming was something you kept a secret. Sure Nintendo was a house hold word but really when people uttered the word Nintendo they meant Mario. When I walked down the halls of middle school I used to live in fear that it would get out that I owned and played video games. I hate to use terms such as "jock" and "nerd" but there was a real division of class when I was younger and if you played video games you where a "nerd" and it was the "jocks" mission to make your life miserable in any way they could. I think you have to admit it has been a complete and total shift from the early 80's. Don't get me wrong I'm glad that video games have been more widely accepted. Anything that gives human beings more common ground is always a good thing. I just wonder if the trail blazers where ever honored for their sacrifice or if anyone even cares.
Games in real life
Yes that's right there are games that we can play in real life. Back in the day we called them board games and would usually consist of a family crowding around a 4x4 board and roll some 6 sided dice. This past weekend the Benefit Evil team had a 18 hour board game marathon and we did exactly that. Its been a long time since I've had so much fun with some pieces of plastic and wood. We played for me what embodied my child hood in the classic game Hero Quest. If you have never played the game it takes 4 adventures and puts them on 14 separate quests to defeat the evil overlord Zargon. In this instance Zargon actually won. If Hero Quest is something you like look for us in December as we broad cast our (mis) adventures.
We also threw in some more modern games like Galaxy trucker and Battlestar Galactica. The former had us construct space ships and then race them, while the latter had us accuse each other of being a Cylon. It was all good fun. it has been quite a while since I've played this many board game and it has rekindled a love I thought I had lost. I will always love video games the have been a part of my life for 25+ years but before there where video games there where board games. There is just something magical about getting together with your friends and having real social interaction.
Games games and games
Our event is fast approaching, in 4 days we are undertaking something rarly attempted. 24 hours of board gaming on July 21-22nd. We have Power Grid, , Bang, Star Wars Monopoly, Formula De, Hero Quest, Risk, Battlestar Galactica, Shadows over Camelot, Game of Thrones, Galaxy Trucker & many more. It has been proven to be a bit of a logistical nightmare as we are still waiting on parts for the streaming component. Having a massive charity event that I've been rebuilding from the ground up has been a bit more challenging then I thought.
But it is all worth it as many sleepless nights as I've had, and with the budding ulcer that I am sure is developing I wouldn't change anything in the world. This is the fun part and I would like to invite everyone who listens to my rambling to join us.
The Zombies are coming!
Since the last post the zombies had regrouped and attacked our base causing no end to our misery. Around mid day we finally drove them off, surveying the surrounding chaos I realized that we needed a way to boost morale. So in two months starting July 21st Benefit Evil will be hosting a 24 hour board game marathon. To help raise the team's morale join us in all of our craziness!
This is what we do!
Join the Benefit Evil team as we support children’s hospitals with a 75 hour Resident Evil marathon. Starting on Thursday at 6:00pm we will try to get through as many Resident Evil games as we possibly can. Along the way we will be giving away prizes for the highest donations, raffling off T-shirts, auctioning off cool swag, and all though out entertaining you with our antics. If enough money is donated you, the viewing public, get to choose from a variety of “punishments” to challenge the team. So come join us for some fun times and a good cause!
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We already knew that lots of torture and murders and war crimes happened during that crazy time in Iraq and elsewhere, right?
I guess we just swept it all up under the rug. The past is in the past, right?
I guess not:
A grim picture of the US and Britain’s legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes.
The new logs detail how:
It should be pointed out that the paper that had the balls to call what happened to detainees “torture” is the Guardian in the UK. The NY Times? You guessed it: “detainee abuse“.
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Tomorrow- Apple reports Q1 results
Apple Beta of 10.10.2
Apple have released the fifth version of the 10.10.2 beta to developers, with a focus on WiFi and Mail.
We have held off giving our full recommendation to Yosemite until now due to the WiFi bug, but hopefully this next update will mean that 10.10 becomes a more stable OS.
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Six Colors on a Stylus
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Bid to Buy BBC3
Seems like a completely odd proposal, with no prospect of success in its current form. "BBC3" cannot be sold off. They could sell off some of the shows and possibly some of the infrastructure, but by its nature, the brand "BBC" cannot be sold to a company outside the main BBC? Right?
The end of the Road for MacUser Magazine
At one time I subscribed to both Macworld UK and MacUser, but like man I cancelled my subscription a number of years ago.
Just seems odd to buy a printed magazine when everything is online. But still sad to see its demise, even if for sentimental reasons:
MacUser statement
Google Move into Domains
Interesting move by Google- to offer domain registration so you can use Google as your one stop shop for all things web. I can see a lot of small companies loving this, especially if Google focus on simplifying the process, and focusing in education so people don't need web experts to get up and running.
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EU Antitrust Body Clears $3B Apple-Beats Deal
Mon, 07/28/2014 - 8:07am
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's antitrust authority has cleared Apple's $3 billion deal to buy Beats Electronics, which makes headphones and offers music streaming services.
The move to buy Beats, founded by rapper Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, was widely seen as a bid to counter the increasing threat posed by music streaming services like Pandora and Spotify to Apple Inc.'s iTunes store.
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Bay Area sportscaster Barry Tompkins sits in a restaurant on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, in Fairfax, Calif. He began his career in San Francisco in 1965 and has worked for HBO and Fox Sports Net. He is known for his work as a boxing commentator, but has covered football and other sports. He lives nearby in Ross. (IJ photo/Frankie Frost Frankie Frost
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I REMEMBER AS a child reading science fiction novels and cowering under my Davy Crockett comforter, fully expecting to look out the window and find some sort of alien with a zapper ready to take me off to live on the planet Zircon. First there was one alien spacecraft, then two, then a closet full of them — all loaded with green Zirconians.
I was never taken aboard any of those alien spacecraft. My mother must have convinced the Zirconians that I was allergic to whatever it was that they ate. But, in my heart, I always knew they'd come again.
I think they have.
This time the Zirconians have cleverly hid themselves, not inside an alien spacecraft, but rather inside a four-story barge, seemingly constructed of shipping containers and suddenly moored at Treasure Island. No one seems to know where it came from. It just magically appeared. And, as you can imagine, it set the local TV news stations atwitter getting to the bottom of this story. What is this thing? Who's in there? What is its purpose? Where will it go? They should have called me. I knew it was the Zirconian aliens of my childhood.
As it turns out, the Zirconians have seemingly changed their names over the course of time since I was growing up. They are apparently now called the Googles, and rumor has it that the Googles are doing something secret inside their barge at Treasure Island.
Googles, it seems, have been mysterious sorts since they began proliferating in a Menlo Park garage in 1998. So, as you might expect, when asked by the news media to comment on the magical appearance of a four-story barge at Treasure Island supposedly containing a gaggle of Googles (I believe that's what a group of them is properly called), the company public relations gurus (Google Gurus) offered up a simple, "We cannot comment. However, feel free to Google it."
And, just when it appeared that the mysterious four-story barge at Treasure Island would be just a research drone (very much like the one out my window when I was a child), another one showed up on a wharf in Portland, Maine (like the one in my childhood closet). Clearly, Google had borrowed a page from the Zirconian Handbook of Public Panic.
Now, the Googles are bicoastal. Soon they'll be cropping up in Topeka, Kan.; Santa Fe, N.M.; and Butte, Mont. — as soon as there are oceans in those places. Suddenly, the information highway has taken to the sea.
Now the local TV news stations have a real mystery on their hands. Not one, but two giant barges have appeared on either side of the country. The suspicion is that the Googles are planning a floating data center for which those clever invaders have a patent. I don't know what this means, but it has something to do with wave power and seawater — which my grandmother used to tell me is excellent for hemorrhoids. Or, perhaps even a floating store for its Google Glass product, which will be cast upon us mere humans next year.
My sense is that these modern-day aliens are a lot savvier than the ones of my childhood. When my parents moved, the Zirconians stayed behind. I expect the new tenants were pretty surprised to find an entire species of smallish green people in the bedroom closet. Come to think of it, I never did see those people again.
These Googles however, seem to be much smarter and much more stealthy than their imaginary counterparts. This is an evolving story. Who they are, what they're doing and why they're anchored in the bay living on a four-story barge? My staff is on the case.
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Yarn Bombing in Istanbul
Found an interesting article in today's newspaper; it deals with the local take on yarn bombing as well as local attitudes toward men knitting. Translation below the article.
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Miracle of Miracles - 2 FOs!
I haven't been doing lots of knitting just lately; the weather has grown beautiful, there's a lot of work, a garden screaming for my attention, and I'm also forcing myself to get out there and date. Which has been mostly nice. :)
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Just for a larf. :)
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What's with the shout box?
Every time I try to enter anything I get a "validation error." Earlier I'd log out and back when that happened but now that doesn't work either. Any clues?
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It Just Goes to Show.....
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Silly Knits
It does look cozy though, don't it?
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"Lite Brite" Scarf
What to do with that Kureyon that didn't stripe nicely? Make a Lite Brite scarf!
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A little catching up
I have a habit of starting new projects when I stll have others on the needles. Then later (just like letting a room get messy and doing a massive cleanup) I feel the need to finish things. The first on the list was the socks I started this spring and sort of forgot about. Since I had yarn leftover from my sweater fiasco, I decided to make the toes from it.
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Extra explanatory notes for language geeks.
1) Turkish is one of those languages that not lots of foreigners really try to learn. Result: Turks don't often get to see their language mangled in big, official places (a la "Ingrish") like we do. Yet the general perception is that "English is easy," and if you have gotten your Level 3 whatever, you now know English.
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For the moment, progress on implementing high-speed rail along the Peninsula has slowed, at least publicly. Previous heated controversy has abated.
For dedicated HSR opponents here, there is a temptation to breathe a sigh of relief. But don't be deceived. Planning proceeds apace.
For those interested in the overall project, intended to be a statewide effort, rail devotee Robert Cruikshank produces and hosts an excellent and lively blog devoted to the controversial subject.
Without doubt, the forum is a discussion vehicle overwhelmingly in favor of completing the ambitious system as proposed. Cruikshank is the primary author of posted topics.
But respondents are free to question, clarify, criticize and debate within the boundaries of good taste and decorum.
Recently, an in-depth look at how the quick train should cross the formidable Tehachapi Mountains south of Bakersfield (via the Tejon Pass or another route to the east proceeding through Palmdale, which is preferred) has generated hundreds of responses.
Blogger Clem Tillier, in particular, has come up with his own analysis of the vital mountain passage options which he posted last month.
It's all available at Check it out.
Grotesque chat
A week ago, the relentless juvenile banter on KNBR-Radio hit a new low.
During a Thursday afternoon discussion just before 2 p.m. regarding the abilities of certain members of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, the mindless chatterers somehow wound up focusing on (and mocking), of all revered figures, Jesus Christ.
Regarding his possible hoops skills, one of them blurted that Christ would have found a basketball to be difficult to handle "with holes in his hands," a tasteless reference to the crucifixion.
It was an incredibly insensitive statement even for folks without much of a discernible religious bent.
There were laughs all around. So much for any sort of minimal awareness or adult perspective.
Oh, well, just another grotesque day at the sophomoric office.
Worrisome stairs
Walking next to the seawall along Beach Boulevard in Pacifica is always bracing, no matter the time of year.
However, north of the fishing pier there isn't really much actual beach at all. In spite of this notable lack of available sand, there is a cement staircase leading down to the waterline.
But those interested in using the stairs might want to think twice when they notice this warning sign nearby: "People swimming or wading have drowned here."
Other than that, it's perfectly safe to venture onto the beach.
Rusting sheaths
Speaking of the 40-year-old pier, metal sheaths intended to protect the L-shaped structure at the critical point where it meets the shore continue to rust away.
It appears to be only a matter of time when, finally, those slabs will be essentially gone and the vital foundation will be fully exposed to the pounding Pacific.
But the city again finds itself in a financial bind. Good luck finding the money to repair the pier.
Jack Daniels
During a party in Foster City last weekend, an 87-year-old woman was asked if she would like a Coke. "No thanks," she replied. "I'd like a shot of Jack Daniels but I've been told I can't have it." The Rolling Stones were right: You can't always get what you want. Even as you approach the age of 90.
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Published On: Fri, Dec 27th, 2013
Want to contest 2014 Lok Sabha polls for AAP? Fill this form
Nagpur News: Riding high on its success in the recent Delhi assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party is gearing up for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. In what possibly could be a game-changer, the party is directly inviting interested individuals to apply to be an AAP candidate in the elections.
The 12-page form is fairly exhaustive in seeking details about potential candidates and their immediate family members.
Among other things such as sources of income, criminal record, educational details, affiliation to other political parties and organisations, it also asks applicants whether they have read the Swaraj book and also seeks their opinion on it.
Each form also needs to include a list of 100 proposing voters from the constituency the applicant wishes to contest from along with an affidavit on a Rs 10 stamp paper affirming that he/she on being elected would, among other things, not use a read beacon car, not take any unnecessary security and also not “take any big bungalow.”
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The Arbitrator Selection Process and New Ethical Standards
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DECEMBER 2005 - Disputes are an inevitable reality of day-to-day business practice that corporations, individuals, and government agencies face. Unfortunately, such disputes often lead to wasted time and money during the course of a lengthy litigation. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques, such as mediation and arbitration, have been utilized by the accounting profession for decades, and such methods of resolution continue to gain in popularity. ADR encompasses a range of flexible, economical, private, fast, and impartial processes for handling disputes that accounting professionals face, such as disagreements over fees, performance, partnership dissolutions, and breaches of contract, as well as disputes over sales or purchases, employment, construction, and real estate.
By its nature, the arbitration process allows parties to avoid the delay, expense, and formalities associated with litigation. Arbitration is a forum in which the parties can control the process. They can control the range of issues to be decided, the scope of relief to be awarded, the qualifications of the neutrals, and many of the procedural aspects of the process. Arbitration is generally a less formal proceeding than litigation, and discovery is limited, as compared to the protracted discovery in litigation that tends to be time-consuming, costly, and often unnecessary. Arbitration is also private and confidential. Another advantage of ADR processes, particularly mediation, is their ability to preserve business relationships.
Options in Arbitrator Selection
One of the primary advantages of arbitration often cited by parties is the ability to choose a decision maker with expertise that mirrors the nature of the dispute. In arbitration, parties can mutually agree upon who will serve as their arbitrator. Because arbitrator selection is pivotal to the quality and outcome of the proceeding, careful consideration should be given to how the arbitrator will be selected, how many are needed, and their specific qualifications.
Arbitrators are recognized for their standing and expertise in their fields, their integrity, and their dispute-resolution skills. By using an experienced arbitrator, the parties can avoid extraneous matters and get to the heart of the issue much sooner, saving both time and money, because there is no need to educate the arbitrator about the field of the dispute.
First, the parties must determine how many arbitrators will be appointed to hear the dispute. A single arbitrator is frequently chosen for small and mid-size cases, while for larger, more complex matters, parties may prefer a panel of three arbitrators. A “less is more” attitude may be advantageous when choosing the number of arbitrators to serve. For example, three arbitrators may lead to a loss of efficiency and economy of the process, depending on the nature of the case. It is often difficult for parties and their counsel to agree on mutually convenient dates, and scheduling may become difficult with three arbitrators.
Furthermore, the use of CPAs, lawyers, and judges with substantial experience in a given field or industry, or the combination of three individuals with diverse backgrounds, may alter how a hearing is conducted and affect how a dispute is considered and analyzed. In larger and more complex cases, three experienced arbitrators with diverse backgrounds may enhance the breadth of the decision-making process.
Once the parties are prepared to select the arbitrators, they should attempt to mutually agree on the appropriate individual for their case. In a highly contentious case, however, this is not always possible. When parties cannot agree, they may opt for the strike and rank method, outlined in R-11 of the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) Commercial Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures (available at www.adr.org). This method begins with the parties providing the case manager with the qualifications they are seeking in an arbitrator. For example, they might desire commercial litigators with experience in accounting disputes, or CPAs that handle business valuations. The case manager then develops a list that meets the parties’ expectations. If the parties cannot agree, they must choose who they want to eliminate, and rank those remaining in order of preference. The AAA then tallies the results and appoints the arbitrator ranked highest by the parties. If the parties do not return the lists, the AAA will deem all arbitrators to be acceptable and invite an arbitrator from that list to serve. The parties may also request that the AAA administratively appoint the arbitrator.
Another selection process is the party-appointed method. This system allows each party to pick its own arbitrator, and those two generally select a third individual, who generally serves as the chairperson. Historically, the benefit of this selection process was having someone on the panel to act as each party’s own advocate during the arbitration by trying to sway the third arbitrator. The party-appointed arbitrator is generally paid by the party that selects them, and the opposing party has no input into the selection process.
This method is often disfavored for a number of reasons. For example, why would one need an arbitrator to act as an advocate when the parties are represented by counsel? What is the proper conduct of each party-appointed arbitrator with the chair? Doesn’t this method put the neutral in an awkward position? How much convincing should they be allowed to do? Do the party-appointed arbitrators cancel each other out, leaving the ultimate decision with the chair?
One might argue that the purpose of a party selecting its own arbitrator is to have an advocate who understands the party’s particular field and offers insight to a chairperson who might not have experience in that area. It is also argued, however, that neutrality should never be sacrificed for this gain. Furthermore, because arbitrators are available from most industries, the need for such practice is lessened, and often an expert can serve this role through direct testimony.
Arbitrator Ethics: Newly Revised Standards
The AAA adopted a newly revised code of ethics for arbitrators in commercial disputes in March 2004 that addresses the subject of party-appointed arbitrators. It is important that parties are aware of these guidelines, particularly in preparing for and executing the arbitrator-selection process.
For more than 25 years, the AAA/ American Bar Association (ABA) Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes served as the definitive source of ethical guidance for arbitrators and others involved in the dispute-resolution field. The code has practical application to arbitrators serving on cases administered by the AAA, because AAA arbitrators sign an oath stating they will abide by the code.
As noted in the 2004 revised code’s preamble, the use of arbitration forms a significant part of the system of justice on which society relies for a fair determination of legal rights. Arbitrators, therefore, undertake serious responsibilities to the public as well as to the disputing parties; those responsibilities include important ethical obligations. Few cases of unethical behavior by commercial arbitrators have arisen, but the code sets forth standards of ethical conduct for the guidance of arbitrators and parties in commercial disputes in the hope of contributing to the maintenance of high standards and continued confidence in the process of arbitration.
The provisions of the revised code are subject to any contrary principles that may be found in governing law or applicable arbitration rules, and also defer an agreement of parties to an arbitration to proceed under different rules or standards.
Two of the most substantive changes in the code related to party-appointed arbitrators are the following:
• Presumption of neutrality. A presumption of neutrality is applied to all arbitrators, including party-appointed arbitrators. This reverses the presumption of nonneutrality for party-appointed arbitrators that was in the 1977 code. The concept of neutrality encompasses both independence and impartiality. When the parties use nonneutral arbitrators, the revised code delineates ethical obligations that nonneutral arbitrators are expected to maintain.
• Duties of party-appointed arbitrators. Party-appointed arbitrators are obligated, under the revised code, to ascertain and disclose whether they will be acting as neutral or nonneutral arbitrators as early in the arbitration as possible. In the event of doubt or uncertainty, party-appointed arbitrators will serve in a neutral capacity until such doubt or uncertainty is resolved.
Other changes to the code include the following:
• Duty to disclose interests and relationships. The revised code subjects all arbitrators, whether serving as neutral arbitrators or nonneutral arbitrators, to the same obligation to disclose interests or relationships likely to affect impartiality or to create an appearance of partiality.
• Communications with the parties and other arbitrators. Limits on permissible communications between arbitrators and parties are clarified. The revised code established new guidelines regarding communications between party-appointed arbitrators and the chair of the tribunal in tripartite arbitrations.
• Arbitrator suitability. In addition to imposing impartiality and independence standards that form the basis of the presumption of neutrality, arbitrators are obligated to determine their competence and availability to serve in the case.
Greater Confidence
The flexibility of the arbitrator-selection process, coupled with important ethical standards for arbitrators, should instill confidence in the arbitration process. By utilizing the method that best meets their needs, parties to a business dispute can effectively choose an arbitrator who will hear their case in a fair, efficient, and unbiased manner, with the highest standards of independence and neutrality.
Elizabeth Shampnoi, JD, is the district vice president of the New York region for the American Arbitration Association. She routinely works with corporations, law firms, and professional organizations on matters related to alternative dispute resolution. She is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.
©2009 The New York State Society of CPAs. Legal Notices
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Calling them ''merchants of death'' who had executed a ''good citizen,'' a Queens judge yesterday gave maximum sentences to three men convicted of killing a 61-year-old crime witness.
In a case that underscored the fears of retribution many crime witnesses harbor, Justice John J. Leahy of State Supreme Court described the witness, Mildred Greene, ''as a good citizen who responded to a grand jury subpoena.''
Last October, Ms. Greene testified before a Queens grand jury about a gun battle she had witnessed the month before outside the office of the South Jamaica, Queens, car service where she worked as a dispatcher. She was shot to death in the office three days later.
''Mildred Greene may have been killed in an effort to silence her,'' Justice Leahy said as the three handcuffed defendants stood before him in a Jamaica courthouse, ''but she lives on as testimony to the courage of ordinary people, ordinary citizens, who have said, 'We're not going to take it anymore.' '' 'Cries Out for the Death Penalty'
Saying he regretted that New York State law did not permit capital punishment - ''this case cries out for the death penalty,'' he said - Justice Leahy imposed the longest prison terms allowed on the defendants, who earlier had insisted they were not guilty, had not had a fair trial and had been ''railroaded.''
One of the defendants, Derrick Kornegay, 22, was convicted of second-degree murder and burglary, and received 30 years to life in prison. The burglary charge resulted from the fact that the killers entered the building were Ms. Greene worked. She was shot in the head and face with a shotgun and a handgun as she worked alone there early on the morning of last Oct. 4, 1987.
The judge also ordered that the sentence run consecutively with a 25-year-to-life term that Mr. Kornegay is already serving for the 1986 murder of a candy store owner who would not permit him to keep narcotics the store. Mr. Kornegay will not be eligible for parole until he serves at least 50 years.
The judge sentenced Tracy Middleton, 19, to 32 1/2 years to life for the murder and burglary counts and Paul King, 18, to 25 years to life for murder. Mr. King was acquitted of the burglary charge. New Policy on Handling Threats
The three men, standing next to their lawyers as nine court officers stood just behind them, stared at Justice Leahy as he pronounced the sentences. As they were led out of the courtroom, Mr. Middleton turned toward the spectator section and appeared to mouth some words toward a relative in the gallery. The defense lawyers said the convictions would be appealed.
The slaying of Ms. Greene prompted the Queens District Attorney to post guards in grand jury areas and the New York City Police Department to order new, detailed procedures to handle threats against witnesses.
Earlier, the assistant district attorney who had prosecuted the case, James Quinn, had described the three men, all Queens residents, as ''South Jamaica drug dealers who helped turn'' the neighborhood into a ''shooting gallery.''
He contrasted them with Ms. Greene, a ''hard-working woman'' with a daughter and grandchildren who, after having heeded the subpoena and ''told the grand jury what she saw'' of the gun battle outside the car service, ''didn't get a plaque'' for good citizenship, but instead ''had the top of her head blown off by a shotgun.''
The authorities said the gun battle last September was touched off by a fare dispute between a driver for the service and Mr. Kornegay. Mr. Kornegay faces another trial on attempted-murder charges stemming from the shootout, in which four people were wounded. Defendants to Appeal
Mr. Quinn had told the jury in the trial involving Ms. Greene's murder that Mr. Kornegay had ordered her ''execution'' after learning she had testified before the grand jury about the shootout.
The prosecution presented evidence to show that the shooting had been done by Mr. Middleton and a fourth man, Wadell Winston, 27, who was to have been tried separately but who pleaded guilty to murder in the case on July 6, a week after the other three were convicted at their trial. He faces 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 1.
Mr. King was portrayed by the prosecution as having joined the other three men in planning the murder. It was his idea, Mr. Quinn told the judge yesterday, that Ms. Greene be shot first with the shotgun and then, ''to make sure she was dead, shot again with a 9-millimeter handgun.''
Mr. King's lawyer, George Sheinberg, held that his client's conviction had been ''based on tenuous evidence that he was present at a conference at which a murder was planned.''
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The Knitting Factory is a room just about wide enough to swing a guitar overhead, with a window behind the stage overlooking a blank stretch of East Houston Street in lower Manhattan. The narrow, lozenge-shaped tables are comfortable unless you have knees, and the art on the walls isn't the envy of Leo Castelli or Mary Boone. But the beer list is up to date, there's a choice of herbal teas, admission prices are reasonable and usually there's a different program every night of the week - sometimes two or three different programs a night.
Since February 1987, the 100-seat Knitting Factory has filled its stage with music that straggles outside commercial categories. The club presents some straightforward jazz (usually by performers rarely booked in New York's full-time jazz clubs) and some college-circuit rock. Even better, it has refocused a scene that has been on the run from rising real-estate values for most of a decade - the music that gets tagged ''downtown'' because its geography once seemed easier to define than its style. Noisy, often improvisational and informed (but not confined) by rock, jazz, funk, minimalism, free improvisation and world music, downtown is by now more a state of mind than a zip code. It's a post-modern, hybridized blowout whose practitioners might hail from Tokyo or Berlin as easily as from the Lower East Side.
The Knitting Factory books one-time-only collaborations along with full-fledged bands, works in progress as well as completed projects; its calendar is set well in advance, but the lineup itself retains an improvisatory feeling. And somehow, music that used to be played for audiences outnumbered by the musicians on stage now draws enough paying customers to pack the place. In the last year, the club bought a digital tape deck and began recording performances, sending them out to about 75 forward-looking radio stations around the country. (In New York WKCR, 89.9 FM, occasionally broadcasts the programs.) An album wasn't far behind, and it arrives this week; the surprise is that it's on a major label, which plans to release a series of compilations and single-performer releases from the club. ''Live at the Knitting Factory'' (A&M 5242; all three formats) brings together eight assorted performances to introduce the club's diversity, from kinetic progressive rock to playful performance art to abstract improvisation. Compared to a typical eight sets at the Knitting Factory, the album is probably on the conservative side; as major-label albums go, it's pretty far out on a limb.
Rock with global references opens each side of the LP and cassette. Curlew's ''St. Croix'' is a genial, sunny instrumental that leans more toward Zimbabwe than the Virgin Islands; ''Ironcide'' by Scanners (Elliott Sharp on guitar, Percy Jones on electric bass, David Linton on drums) could almost be a rock-radio theme song; it chugs along on a popping bass riff, then swerves with guitar and bass slides. Miracle Room, a band from Austin, Tex., makes clangor downright catchy in ''Open Heart,'' with echoing guitar overtones and a metallic, ticking beat that might almost be U2 at large in a junkyard. And the New York band Bosho comes close to merging Japanese-style singing with a slow-rolling backup that has a countryish undertone.
The jazzier pieces loosen up considerably. ''Decomposer by a Neck'' by the seven-piece Jazz Passengers starts with a seesawing, free-bop melody over a walking bass, drifts away from it for solos, and edges into a seesawing coda; the band follows tangents as if they were interstates. And the trio of Nels Cline on guitar, Mark Dresser on bass and Mark Feldman on violin move from a zigzagging theme into three-way byplay that's as sensitive to timbres as it is to melody. The album's most abstract piece is a duo by Hans Reichel on guitar and Tom Cora on cello; it's a shared drone, a tug of war and a search for textures between bowing and picking.
To close the sampler, the performance artist Alva Rogers's ''Pizza Party'' is a vamp with a silly, singsong chant about dancing, pleasure and, yes, pizza. The crowd's giggles and the band's responses capture a giddy moment, but remind listeners that the best way to enjoy a club show is to be there.
''Live at the Knitting Factory'' is representative but by no means exhaustive. Many downtown musicians are quietly prolific, continually trying new combinations and recording as often on foreign labels as on domestic ones. Among other worthwhile downtown releases, Elliott Sharp (who appears frequently at the club) has at least two current albums: ''Monster Curve'' (SST CD 208), a CD-only compilation of pieces for the ever-changing ensemble he calls Carbon, and ''LooppooL'' (Ear-Rational 1003, a German import; LP and CD), a solo album.
Mr. Sharp likes brute-force sounds, and he builds his pieces in carefully proportioned chunks of noise. ''Monster Curve'' is a raucous, crunching, world-hopping tribal stomp. Most of the pieces use two- or three-note motifs, repeated and thickened and punched out in timbres from clanging guitar harmonics to hooting saxophones, underlined by a pushy beat. The pieces allude to styles from Central African pygmy polyphony to the squall of Tibetan trumpets, but what comes through is a pure New York howl, with enough muscle to roll back a subway.
''LooppooL'' uses electronics and Mr. Sharp's many instruments - guitars, saxophones, clarinets - along with electronic samples of those instruments. Often, the pieces sound like slightly overevolved industrial dance music, with a shifty big beat under yowls, chatters and even blues licks from guitar and reeds.
At the other extreme - one of thoughtful serenity - is ''Todos Santos'' (Sound Aspects SAS 019; LP only), an album of compositions by Robin Holcomb performed by Knitting Factory regulars: the keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, the cornetist Butch Morris and the drummer Robert Previte, as a trio, and the saxophonist Doug Wieselman and the guitarist Bill Frisell as a duet. Ms. Holcomb's music is pared down and wide open, using just a few specified melody notes and chords with room for improvisation; she recalls Erik Satie's spareness as well as the open fifths and all-American echoes of Aaron Copland. The musicians on ''Todos Santos'' echo her restraint; Mr. Frisell is a master of the floating guitar note, and Mr. Morris knows how to make a bent, muted note speak volumes.
''The Road to Zamora'' lurches along with a keyboard line that could be a jaunty pop-song hook, and lets the trio plink and swagger a little. But most of the pieces are pensive and elegiac, though far from new-age torpor. The players listen carefully, ready to respond to one another or simply let the spaces sink in - and at places like the Knitting Factory and wherever else downtown exists, they can count on audiences with equally open ears.
Photo of Elliott Sharp (Catherine Ursillo)
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FRANKFURT— EUROPEANS and Americans have clashed over issues as old as how to end the bloodshed in the Middle East and as new as whether to pursue nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the molecular level.
So it is little surprise that they would disagree over the future of hydrogen, that most basic and ubiquitous of elements, which advocates believe will someday replace oil as the world's main energy source.
The surprise is that the United States and the European Union recently joined forces to develop hydrogen as an energy alternative that could fuel cars, buses, trucks and, down the road, virtually everything else.
''There's a genuine good-faith effort, and desire, to find common ground on how to power the future,'' said Spencer Abraham, the secretary of energy, who helped broker the trans-Atlantic agreement.
But have the United States and Europe -- stubbornly divided on the Kyoto Protocol, genetically-modified food and other issues having to do with the environment -- really found a common cause?
Don't bet on it, say critics of the agreement, both here and in the United States. A statement issued by President Bush and Romano Prodi, the president of the European Commission, in Washington last month was vague. The two pledged to ''collaborate on accelerating the development of the hydrogen economy as part of our broadening cooperation on energy.''
Such bland promises of teamwork, these critics say, paper over profound differences about what a hydrogen future will look like. Despite the Bush administration's commitment of $1.7 billion over five years for hydrogen research, many energy specialists say its goals are less ambitious and more commercially minded than Europe's. And American environmentalists say Mr. Bush has seized on hydrogen, a technology whose gains are far off, to avoid taking measures that would rein in fossil fuels now. As a result, the critics say, Europe risks having its own vision compromised.
''It's a potential hijacking,'' said Jeremy Rifkin, an adviser to Mr. Prodi and the author of ''The Hydrogen Economy,'' (Tarcher, 2003) which extols the potential of hydrogen. ''Europe is leading in the development of a hydrogen road map for the world. This is Bush's attempt to take the lead back from Europe. It's his answer to Kyoto.''
Actually, the debate over hydrogen is more complicated than that, with sometimes contradictory political and economic interests on each side. Still, Europe and the United States approach hydrogen from fundamentally different perspectives.
Europe, a signatory to the Kyoto treaty, must sharply reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. To do that, it has set a goal of obtaining 22 percent of its electricity, and 12 percent of all its energy, from renewable sources by 2010. Hydrogen is critical to this goal, since it offers an efficient way of storing energy captured from renewable sources, like windmills or solar panels.
The United States has rejected setting benchmarks for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. But it is interested in hydrogen as a way to to wean itself off imported oil. That is why it is less focused than Europe is on renewable energy, and more interested in extracting hydrogen from coal or through the use of nuclear power.
To skeptics in Europe, the American policy looks like a backdoor way to bolster two old energy industries. ''We don't trust the U.S. government,'' said Stephan Singer, the head of climate policy at the World Wildlife Fund in Brussels.
In the Bush administration's energy bill, which is scheduled to be debated in the Senate this week, the coal and nuclear-power industries stand to gain far more money in subsidies than would be earmarked for research on renewable energy. Europe's spending on renewable energy dwarfs that of the United States.
But this picture of a fuel-addicted Uncle Sam, so popular in Europe, misses some nuances. The American auto industry certainly seems serious about developing hydrogen-powered cars. And America is leading Europe in the development of fuel cells, which convert hydrogen into electricity.
Nor is Europe immune from those with an essentially commercial (as opposed to environmental) interest in developing the use of hydrogen. France and Spain have deeply rooted nuclear industries, influential at the European Commission. Europe has also lagged in giving incentives for the development of fuel cells.
European officials reject the accusation that they are ceding the initiative in hydrogen development to the United States. The Americans and Europeans differ only on approach, not substance, they say. Indeed, they note that Brussels has already persuaded Washington to include the commitment to renewable energy in the statement issued by Mr. Bush and Mr. Prodi.
''We can fight about Kyoto another time,'' said Alessandro Ovi, a senior advisor to Mr. Prodi. ''There shouldn't be competition on how to get to the hydrogen age.''
Mr. Abraham also denies that Americans will dictate the agenda. ''We're going to work together where it makes sense to work together,'' he said. ''Nothing in what we've agreed to requires collaboration in every area of the hydrogen economy.''
The good news, perhaps, is that arcane discussions about how best to extract hydrogen or what standards to impose on it tend to cause less rancor than, say, the Middle East. ''We're the problem solvers,'' Mr. Abraham said. ''We're not fighting. That's for the foreign ministries.''
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Retirement resource:A column by David Boike
Make a plan for no Social Security
July 14, 2010 - Social Security is a long-standing American program, but recently it has begun to show signs of strain; it was recently announced that 2010 is the first year Social Security will run at a deficit because it will pay out nearly $30 billion more than it takes in through taxes.
Anyone currently receiving Social Security benefits and those retirement savers who hope to receive some benefits in the future should have a contingency plan in place to compensate for a potential drop in benefits in order to protect their retirement future.
If you are near retirement or in retirement, the impact on your Social Security benefits will most likely be small, but you do need to remember it isn't intended to be your number one source of retirement income, it is meant as a supplement to what you've saved on your own.
Your efforts should be put towards protecting your wealth with strategies such as reducing your risks, creating an income plan and planning for the unexpected.
If you have between 5 and 27 years until retirement, your Social Security benefits may be impacted, but you can still take advantage of catch-up contributions on your retirement savings plans (if you're 50 years or older), compounding interest in accounts where you can do so, and laddering investments to maximize your savings strategy.
Laddering, for example, works well with an income plan because the process of laddering helps you plan for a steady income stream for retirement. "Laddering" long-term, medium-term and short-term investments so they mature at different times can help you have a good income stream in retirement as well as decrease your income taxes, if done correctly.
Putting money in tax deferred accounts can reduce your annual liabilities as you do not need to pay taxes on money not yet needed for living expenses. Your risks are spread out by using these different investments as well, which can help you further protect your assets.
Retirement is a one-time deal, and with Social Security being an unreliable source of income, don't count on it, but rather take it as an added bonus if you do benefit from it in the future. You don't get a do-over when it comes to retirement, so be sure save enough before you get there and work hard to maximize and protect your retirement savings.
David Boike owns Retirement Resources tax, mortgage, and financial consulting practice in Clarkston with his sons, D.J. Boike and Jake Boike. Call 877-732-5751.
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"Oye Como Va" is a song written by Latin jazz and mambo musician Tito Puente in 1963 and popularized by Santana's rendition of the song in 1970 on their album "Abraxas", helping to catapult Santana into stardom with the song reaching #13 on the Billboard Top 100.
A win there would catapult both to thoroughbred racing's highest honor: the Triple Crown.
Alex Luna signed his first professional contract with production center Catapult music in 2007.
All exposed sides of the helepolis were rigidly defended; iron plates protected the wooden structure from possible inflammation, and additional defences, such as great stretches of hide plastered on the interior, were placed to withstand the power of ballista and catapult assault. The inside of the machine was divided into nine separate stories, each accessible through a long flight of stairs that wound from the ground floor to the very top.
Although the catapult has been used since ancient times, it was proven to be one of the most effective mechanisms during warfare.
As glam rock became less popular Catapult's fortunes took a downturn and they split up in 1979.
As on her sister ship "Europa", "Bremen" had a catapult on the upper deck between the two funnels with a small seaplane, which facilitated faster mail service.
Barrett used to work in Cardiff's only electronic record shop, Catapult. A short time after he began to make music, he was given a DJ residency at Cardiff's drum and bass night, named Silent Running.
Catapult were a Dutch glam rock band active between 1973 and 1979.
Disposal. In 1951, "Unicorn" was considered for modernization to make her capable of operating modern, heavier jet aircraft. This would have required fitting of a steam catapult, reinforcing her flight deck to handle heavier aircraft and moving and enlarging her forward lift to make room for the new catapult and larger aircraft. A new crane would also have been necessary to handle the heavier aircraft as well.
Episodes tend to follow one or more insect characters through a specific situation and have involved storylines such as multi-insect races reminiscent of the pod race sequence in Star Wars:The Phantom Menace, a spider becoming trapped on a helium balloon, and a grasshopper maliciously launching other unsuspecting insects from a catapult made from a blade of grass.
Even when this was accomplished, and the military engines of Dionysius (among which the formidable catapult on this occasion made its appearance for the first time) were brought up to the walls, the Motyans continued a desperate resistance; and after the walls and towers were carried by the overwhelming forces of the enemy, still maintained the defence from street to street and from house to house.
For although she does not avoid or shun the society and conversation of the shepherds, and treats them courteously and kindly, should any one of them come to declare his intention to her, though it be one as proper and holy as that of matrimony, she flings him from her like a catapult.
He was chosen for Queensland against New South Wales Colts in 1930 and took 6 wickets, but the Brisbane Courier's correspondent "Long On" was moved to describe his whipped catapult action as "almost a throw".
It was while there that Kimble had his finest moment as he scored the winning goal for Posh in a 1–0 Football League Cup win over Liverpool in December 1991 to catapult him into the national sports headlines.
Kaminey is a smart and balsy film that brings Hollywood to Bollywood which catapult the viewer into the dark, violent world of crime and criminals, leaving you no time to blink or breathe easy ... Tarantino, take a bow.
Later he volunteered for 804 Naval Air Squadron, which for a time supplied pilots for fighter catapult ships and CAM ships.
Lu, arguing that doing so was disrespectful, suggested having the aid force march through a valley, despite Hun's protestations that doing so would expose the aid force to catapult attacks by Qin forces.
Mayor Todd MacWadd: He is the friendly and naive mayor of Fair City who issues the order to summon Zeroman when needed via a catapult on top of City Hall which launches the "Great Flaming Holes!"
On 25 March, "Volunteer" rescued the pilot of a Hawker Hurricane fighter from a Catapult Aircraft Merchantman (CAM ship) after the American merchant ship "Carlton" mistakenly had shot him down.
She was also fitted with a catapult capable of launching a aircraft to a speed of . The ship had two hangars, each high.
The "Catapult" 7", a collaboration with Robbie Muir, was released on Xpressway in 1989, reissued by the Chicago-based Ajax label in 1991.
The cruiser was used as an escort in Australian waters until June 1941, when the ship's seaplane and catapult were removed, Crace transferred his flag back to "Canberra", and "Hobart" was sent to the Mediterranean to relieve sister ship . On 13 July, "Hobart" was in Port Tewfik when the area was bombed.
The destroyer escort screened "Sitkoh Bay" as the escort carrier headed back to the Admiralty Islands for repairs to her catapult. On 22 September, she and left Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, escorting to a fueling area in the Palau Islands; but, on 29 September, "Wesson" received orders to return to Manus.
The others were the steam catapult and the angled flight deck.
The tests showed that the Mustang could be flown off the carrier deck without the aid of a catapult, using a flap setting of 20° down and 5° of up elevator.
The word 'catapult' comes from the Latin 'catapulta', which in turn comes from the Greek καταπέλτης ("katapeltēs"), itself from ("kata"), "downwards" + πάλλω ("pallō"), "to toss, to hurl".
This makes the device work more like a catapult, where the cylinder propelling the human stops at the mouth of the cannon.
When Markazi took Sports Illustrated swimsuit models Damaris Lewis and Kate Upton to the Los Angeles Clippers-Oklahoma City Thunder game on April 2, 2011, he helped catapult Upton’s popularity when he recorded her doing The Dougie and posted it on his Twitter.
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A really nice top...I only have 1 issue and that is on the back of this top there is written in large outlined letters 'FENCHURCH' running vertical going up the middle of the back and on to the hood (there is also the same fenchurch arches on the back) I'm not really into big lettering so was a tad dissapointed but im still giving this 4 stars as it is still really good value for the price and seems good quality. Cant comment on the size unfortunately as its for my partner for xmas so obviously he hasnt tried it on! Hope this helps!
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Richard Tomlinson
This life that god gave us to live is gift we shouldn't take, but give.
With this time we got to live on earth we should take a moment to think, why did we get the chance of birth?
Was it to spend all our time in shame, or are we born to live in fame?
Is this life some sort of game, where scores reset and trying your best is how to win?
So many questions there are to ask, but were all of them for us to know?
If this life is some sort of game, you're my target, you're my aim.
If all my wishes don't come true, atleast i tried and so shall you.
If we in the end were never ment to be, you're my friend, and i guess that is good enough for me.
I want you to know that, whatever mood, whatever weather, my arms will never fold together.
I always want you to know that i'll be there for you in the end, as a lover or as a friend.
Submitted: Friday, September 27, 2013
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small people
we are the small people
we take the size of the dusts
and termites
down to the minute cells
the virus
and the neurons...
we have the capacity to hurt
without your knowing
so be cautious
try using the microscopes before
you say you are taking control
we are the small people
we know you but you do not know us
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If Sony made an "Elite" version of the Vita, would you pay the extra money?
What I mean by "Elite" is, it would be the same style as the 2000 model but with the oled screen instead of LCD, but what would really make it worth more money
is if Sony can make the screen and rear touchpad gorilla glass and the silver/grey band that wraps around the edge of the Vita aluminum, while the remaining material (the plastic that's between the grey edge and the back touch screen) would be either aluminum as well or a really high quality matte plastic.
IMO, not having to worry about the screen scratching EVER! would be amazing! I hate having to use screen protectors when it should have been made with gorilla glass from the start.
Sony could really go all out and make it a "unibody" shell like the Macbook pros are made, making it extremely durable, but that idea is just a fun thought, the adding of gorilla glass screen and an aluminum body I am serious about. Obviously they would have to be made to order due to the small customer base that would want it, but they will only make money since they would be made to order.
I know this is 99.99% impossible that Sony would make this, but man, you got to admit it would be so amazing to have an all aluminum and gorilla glass Vita!
The Vita is such a nice piece of tech as is, but trading out all the plastic and the cheap scratchable glass(if it even is glass?) for aluminum and scratch proof glass while keeping the OLED screen would be absolutely amazing IMO. I would pay up to $499.99 for a Vita of that quality without question. While there at it, they might as well throw in that L2 and R2 that they forgot to put in the first place, and if they cant make the analog sticks click in because there to small or something, then just add a small button to press instead and place them where the speaker holes are now.
If the Vita had triggers and L3 and R3 it would be the greatest handheld device ever. The nvidia Shield and the WiiU controller are far more functional and comfortable than the Vita.
It still boggles my mind that Sony didn't add triggers or at least just digital buttons to the Vita. They gave us another analog stick that was definitely the most important thing to add if you had to add only one, but why not add triggers? especially since the Vita had PS4 remote play built into the design from the very beginning, so why give us a gimped alternative (the rear touchpad) when just putting them in in the first place would have worked just fine. How much more money would it cost per Vita if they added 2 triggers and 2 clickable analog sticks?
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Search, vote, explore... submit your own IDEAS to make St. Louis a better place.
Commission an artist to paint the Cortex Silo in the Central West End
by David Hoffman 01.13.15
A few decades ago buildings downtown, including the Sheraton near the Scott Trade Center, were painted to add to their attraction with murals that made them look like much grander buildings than the original architecture. Why not do the same with the silo in the Cortex area on Sarah in the Central West End? Could St. Louis commission and fund an artist to do so and turn this eyesore into a landmark?
34 votes
B-T-M-B Lanes
by JDSTLMO 11.25.14
Dedicated bus---taxi---motorcycle---bicycle lanes (BTMB) are typically applied on major routes with frequent stops or where traffic congestion may be significant. BTMB lanes reduce delays for all motorists due to traffic congestion and frequent stops and slow moving vehicles.
8 votes
WiFi on MetroBus by 2017
by JDSTLMO 11.25.14
Attract new riders and retain current riders. Provide the final reason needed for people to ride the bus. Studies have shown amenities such as wireless internet have increased ridership. Turning a commute into productive time will maintain high ridership. For a bus, the router is usually ruggedized and adapted to run off the vehicle's power system.
5 votes
Forest Park BridgeArt
by Lauram 11.25.14
A Semi-temporary art exhibit in Forest Park using the beautiful, unique foot bridges as a base to celebrate Saint Louis' unique mixture of art appreciation and people
2 votes
You Brew
by Raab4STL 11.25.14
I would love to see the Butler Brothers Building converted to a home brew haven. Craft brewing has increased in popularity vastly over the past decade. Not everyone has the space at home or the resources to afford the equipment needed to start brewing. My idea is to convert the Butler Brothers Building into a techshop of sorts for beginners, novice, and aficionados of brewing. The facility could house classrooms and workshops, have a grain and supply store, a taproom, possibly even a small bottling line.. Situated between 18th and 17th (loading dock southbound only), north of Olive st and south of Locust st. Being that Olive is a main artery for the city, running from Grand Center to downtown, and with a proposed trolley line running along this road it would make it very accessible to those in many neighborhoods other than just Downtown.
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911 Phones/Beacons
by JDSTLMO 11.01.14
The importance of providing security beyond the buildings, along the sidewalks is extremely important. Emergency telephone systems are being used on sidewalks and bike trails, parking garages and parking lots. An emergency telephone solution can help provide visitors and customers, and employees with an immediate contact to police should the need arise. They also can be integrated with CCTV systems.
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West County Train
by JDSTLMO 10.27.14
It’s time for a MetroLink line in West County. There is value in low-cost and efficient rapid transit for everyone. Run the line from Southwest in Chesterfield to Northeast in Hazelwood.
11 votes
Express Road
by JDSTLMO 10.27.14
Embrace Express Lanes (a.k.a. High Occupancy Vehicle or HOV Lanes) in St Louis. These lanes are one or two lanes along the median of the highway that are restricted to vehicles carrying 2 or more people, taxi cabs, buses, and emergency vehicles (We have one set along I-70 going into downtown). This type of lane allows for quicker traffic flow for those vehicles that are not needing the exits between two places. They also encourage carpooling and the use of mass transit.
10 votes
Free WiFi at Metro Stations
by JDSTLMO 10.27.14
Free WiFi in 3 Years at MetroLink Stations. Metro could easily establish Free WiFi HotSpots at their Link Stations. More than likely they could receive corporate sponsorship from tech companies such as Apple and Microsoft as well as from electronics retailers or phone carriers. WiFi at the stations will help rider (tourist and daily commuters) to plan out routes and their days, find out more information and access many more items that could include finding more ways to spend money in St Louis. In any case, everyone wants WiFi everywhere because it cuts down on the amount of Data an individual uses. Also, WiFi in the underground stations will allow riders to continue to use their mobile devices when they lose cellular signal. This can be done in 3 stages over three years, focusing on the major hubs the first year and the next most used hubs the second year, finishing the system the third year.
10 votes
MetroLink WiFi
by JDSTLMO 10.27.14
Free WiFi on MetroLink Trains is possible. Even London does it on the Underground.
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Decorate Kiener Garages
by Cigam 09.17.14
With the upcoming improvements to the Arch grounds and Kiener plaza why not make other structures near by beautiful? These garages are the most seen in our city. People come from all over to the arch grounds and keener plaza. With this idea adding distinguishing qualities to the Kiener Parking garages will add to the improvements that are set in place downtown. the current state of the garages are...plain to put it lightly. both garages are plain concrete that is just asking for a paint job or a photo to be plastered on them. the ideas are endless simple as adding different colored lights at the base of the garage to light it up at night to adding photos from the History museum archives and covering the garage in the pictures.
11 votes
Mysteries on the Move
by jwilson0505 09.17.14
Imagine you are trapped in a room. You have 5 minutes to get out and the clock is ticking. The door out is shut, locked, and only you can find the key. If you succeed you can hold it over you friends the rest of the night. Not everyone makes it out... Mysteries on the Move is a live-action puzzle game within a shipping container. This mysterious mobile entertainment venue will pop up at your favorite festivals and events throughout the year. The puzzles will change from survival, escape, and horror puzzles to intrigue and murder mystery.
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Old Courthouse in need of Old Lighting
by Cigam 09.17.14
The Old Courthouse is lacking lighting that complements the historic landmark. Currently around the Old Courthouse there are 9 basic ugly plain street lights that do not complement the Old Courthouse.
3 votes
LoveOUTLoud Arrives!
by LoveOUTLoud 07.29.14
LoveOUTLoud's vision is to promote positive character education in youth and young adults. This will be done via television show. This show will cover the real life issues they may face on a day to day basis. It will also go over events around the city to get the youth more involved in their community. This approach will be a fun way to guide youth in the right direction by starting that cycle of lost communication. You never know who's life you might change or who's question you might answer or even who's life you might save.
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Columbia Bottom Marina
by JDSTLMO 06.26.14
Build the Columbia Bottom Marina in St Louis on the Mississippi River. A marina near downtown would allow for greater recreation and industry on the river. The Chain of Rocks natural dam creates a calmer body of water on the northwest side of Chouteau Island that is also larger than many parts of the river.
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New 270 Bridge
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Build a new I-270 bridge over the Mississippi River between Riverview and Chouteau Island.
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Engineers discover neural rhythms drive physical movement
Mon, 06/04/2012 - 11:00am
Andrew Myers, Stanford University
The neurons that control movement are not a predictable bunch. Scientists working to decode how such neurons convey information to muscles have been stymied when trying to establish a one-to-one relationship between a neuron’s behavior and external factors such as muscle activity or movement velocity.
In their paper, electrical engineering associate professor Krishna Shenoy and postdoctoral researchers Mark Churchland, now a professor at Columbia University, and John Cunningham of Cambridge University, now a professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, have shown that the brain activity controlling arm movement does not encode external spatial information—such as direction, distance, and speed—but is instead rhythmic in nature.
Understanding the brain
Neuroscientists have long known that the neurons responsible for vision encode specific, external-world information—the parameters of sight. It had been theorized and widely suggested that motor cortex neurons function similarly, conveying specifics of movement such as direction, distance, and speed, in the same way the visual cortex records color, intensity, and form.
"Visual neurons encode things in the world. They are a map, a representation," said Churchland, who is first author of the paper. "It's not a leap to imagine that neurons in the motor cortex should behave like neurons in the visual cortex, relating in a faithful way to external parameters, but things aren’t so concrete for movement."
"Many experiments have sought such lawfulness and yet none have found it. Our findings indicate an alternative principle is at play," said co-first author Cunningham.
"Our main finding is that the motor cortex is a flexible pattern generator, and sends rhythmic signals down the spinal cord," said Churchland.
Engine of movement
To employ an automotive analogy, the motor cortex is not the steering wheel, odometer or speedometer representing real-world information. It is more like an engine, comprised of parts whose activities appear complicated in isolation, but which cooperate in a lawful way as a whole to generate motion.
"If you saw a piston or a spark plug by itself, would you be able to explain how it makes a car move?" asked Cunningham rhetorically. "Motor-cortex neurons are like that, too, understandable only in the context of the whole."
The electrical signal that drives a given movement is therefore an amalgam—a summation—of the rhythms of all the motor neurons firing at a given moment.
"Under this new way of looking at things, the inscrutable becomes predictable," said Churchland. "Each neuron behaves like a player in a band. When the rhythms of all the players are summed over the whole band, a cascade of fluid and accurate motion results."
Dr. Daofen Chen, Program Director, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, said Shenoy and team are working at the cutting edge of the field. "In trying to find the basic response properties of the motor cortex, Shenoy and his colleagues are searching for the holy grail of neuroscience," said Dr. Chen. "They consistently tackle important but tough questions in thought-provoking ways and in ambitious proposals. NIH is proud to support this kind of pioneering and transformative research."
Precedents in nature
"Many of the most-baffling aspects of motor-cortex neurons seem natural and straightforward in light of this model," said Cunnigham.
Reaching for the grail
To test their hypothesis, the engineers studied the brain activity of monkeys reaching to touch a target. According to the researchers, experiments show this 'underlying rhythm' strategy works very well to explain both brain and muscle activity. In their reaching studies, the pattern of shoulder-muscle behavior could always be described by the sum of two underlying rhythms.
"Say you're throwing a ball. Beneath it all is a pattern. Maybe your shoulder muscle contracts, relaxes slightly, contracts again, and then relaxes completely, all in short order," explained Churchland.
"This surprised us a bit. In decidedly arrhythmic movements, there were these unmistakable patterns," said Churchland.
"The motor cortex is an engine of movement that obeys lawful dynamics," said Shenoy.
Source: Stanford University
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Oh yeah, turning that stupid automatic recording feature also turns off the manual option. It's stupid. Glad you figured it out.
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Low water crossing
The low water crossing was developed from the traditional ford. A ford permits vehicular traffic to cross a waterway with wet wheels. The term "low water crossing" implies that the crossing is usually dry, while "ford" implies that the crossing is usually wet.
A simple low-water crossing can be constructed with culverts. Culverts (often concrete pipes) are used to carry the water in a stream keeping the crossing surface dry for most of the year. High flows, i.e. spring runoff or flash floods, flow over the top of the crossing, as the culverts are not large enough to carry these flood-type runoff events.
The concept behind low water crossings is that they are convenient and safe to use in normal conditions. Once the water level rises to the point where it crosses the bridge surface the bridge is generally unsafe to use, and in developed countries this will usually indicated by warning signs. An additional hazard is that the bridge surface may become completely obscured by the water, making it relatively easy to 'fall off' the bridge surface into the deeper and more hazardous water on either side. As a consequence the line of the bridge is often marked with poles or other structures to indicate it's course to unwary travellers and emergency users even when submerged.
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Women, Stop Submitting to Men
Unpacking a controversial scripture.
How have you seen culture misinterpret this verse? What do you think it means for women, both single and married?
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Leah Farmer
Leah Farmer replied to James's comment
So based on your comment "how then are we to decide" comment can I ask you some questions?
Do the women in your life cover their heads for prayer? Do they cut their hair? Do they ever wear earrings or braid their hair?
Also do you pray the Lord's Prayer as Jesus taught his disciples to pray? Have you sold all your possessions and shared them with the church?
I only ask because I find that your argument is one often used that has very little true weight when played out literally through the New Testament. It's interesting which parts we want to call cultural and which we want to call binding based on our own culture, history, traditions, and judgement.
Scot McKnight explores this in detail in The Blue Parakeet. Very interesting...and convicting read.
Becka Fultz
Becka Fultz commented…
Strong words that I wished I'd seen a few years ago. That happens more often than you'd think in churches...men move into a leadership role over Co-Ed ministry and use it to scan for potential dates rather than growing as a leader and creating disciples. I almost left a church after being sought after that way. Sadly, even with reports of those things occurring churches do not always take action or remove the "leader" from their position of superiority.
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Apostles also fulfilled the role of "overseer" on many occasions in the Scripture. Paul certainly did, and he was not one of the original 12, nor considered a "pastor." He was an Ephesians 4 apostle, which according to that passage, continue to this day. I think Jeremiah understands the overriding context of the article, but also makes some good points about not confining church leaders MERELY to pastors. According to the Lord, there are a few other offices of authority within the body of Christ.
Duck357874 commented…
Why should this even be an argument! I didn't see once a reference to the next verse.. that men are sposed to live their wife with all they are! In a way that is submission ad well! To lay down everything they are for the woman they love.. that sounds like submission to me. Can't women and men stop this argument and just agree to submit to one another and love each other as they would the lord Jesus Christ! Arguing about these stupid irrelevent subjects is exactly what the enemy wants to destract us from what is really important.. and that is spreading His good news!
Anonymous commented…
where I live teachers, preachers and prophets are all expected to watch over the souls of the people.
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and not being a pastor doesn't keep them from being a leader
Jennifer commented…
Thanks for this! Brilliantly said.
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Training-induced compensation versus magnification of individual differences in memory performance.
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ABSTRACT Do individuals with higher levels of task-relevant cognitive resources gain more from training, or do they gain less? For episodic memory, empirical evidence is mixed. Here, we revisit this issue by applying structural equation models for capturing individual differences in change to data from 108 participants aged 9-12, 20-25, and 65-78 years. Participants learned and practiced an imagery-based mnemonic to encode and retrieve words by location cues. Initial mnemonic instructions reduced between-person differences in memory performance, whereas further practice after instruction magnified between-person differences. We conclude that strategy instruction compensates for inefficient processing among the initially less able. In contrast, continued practice magnifies ability-based between-person differences by uncovering individual differences in memory plasticity.
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ABSTRACT: Alzheimer's disease (AD), as a neurodegenerative process caused by widespread senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, is faced with an increasingly higher incidence as the global aging develops. Cognitive reserve (CR) hypothesis is proposed to elucidate the disjunction between cognitive performance and the pathological level of AD, positing that some life span experiences will lend protection from AD pathological insults. We provide an overview on recent studies involved in validation of the hypothesis as well as the association between AD and CR proxies, such as educational attainment and quality, occupational activity, leisure activity, general intelligence, and enriched environment. We further discuss some potential mechanisms by which CR proxy acts against AD pathological insults including neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, and locus coeruleus-noradrenergic (LC/NA) system. Finally, we review the applications of CR theory for AD prevention and therapy, particularly through physical activity and cognitive training strategy. We believe that a better knowledge of the relationship between AD and CR, accompanied by a successful transition of research accomplishments into practice, will impart much relief to individuals suffering from AD.
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ABSTRACT: Executive functions (EFs) include a number of higher-level cognitive control abilities, such as cognitive flexibility, inhibition, and working memory, which are instrumental in supporting action control and the flexible adaptation changing environments. These control functions are supported by the prefrontal cortex and therefore develop rapidly across childhood and mature well into late adolescence. Given that executive control is a strong predictor for various life outcomes, such as academic achievement, socioeconomic status, and physical health, numerous training interventions have been designed to improve executive functioning across the lifespan, many of them targeting children and adolescents. Despite the increasing popularity of these trainings, their results are neither robust nor consistent, and the transferability of training-induced performance improvements to untrained tasks seems to be limited. In this review, we provide a selective overview of the developmental literature on process-based cognitive interventions by discussing (1) the concept and the development of EFs and their neural underpinnings, (2) the effects of different types of executive control training in normally developing children and adolescents, (3) individual differences in training-related performance gains as well as (4) the potential of cognitive training interventions for the application in clinical and educational contexts. Based on recent findings, we consider how transfer of process-based executive control trainings may be supported and how interventions may be tailored to the needs of specific age groups or populations.
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ABSTRACT: Objectives. Recent work suggests that a genetic variation associated with increased dopamine metabolism in the prefrontal cortex (catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met; COMT) amplifies age-related changes in working memory performance. Research on younger adults indicates that the influence of dopamine-related genetic polymorphisms on working memory performance increases when testing the cognitive limits through training. To date, this has not been studied in older adults. Method. Here we investigate the effect of COMT genotype on plasticity in working memory in a sample of 14 younger (aged 24-30 years) and 25 older (aged 60-75 years) healthy adults. Participants underwent adaptive training in the n-back working memory task over 12 sessions under increasing difficulty conditions. Results. Both younger and older adults exhibited sizeable behavioral plasticity through training (P < .001), which was larger in younger as compared to older adults (P < .001). Age-related differences were qualified by an interaction with COMT genotype (P < .001), and this interaction was due to decreased behavioral plasticity in older adults carrying the Val/Val genotype, while there was no effect of genotype in younger adults. Discussion. Our findings indicate that age-related changes in plasticity in working memory are critically affected by genetic variation in prefrontal dopamine metabolism.
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• 1. America In The Beginning
Who were the first Americans?
This land bridge is known as __beringia________.
Animals like mammoths crossed the bridge or migrtaed___________ to the America's.
This caused ocean levels to _____drop___
and expose ______land____.
In the Bering straight a __________land bridge_____ appeared connecting
___siberia ___america_________& _______________
30,000 years ago During a period of low temperatures called an ___ice age_______
The world was covered in __glaciers_______
or sheets of ice.
How and why did they come here?
• 2. America In The Beginning
What happened when they came to America?
The ice age ended ________warming____ up glaciers causing water levels to _______rise___ covering up the _______land__ _bridge_______.
Some animals died off like _____mammals_______.
Living in many different parts of the Americas the Natives needed to adjust or __adapt_______ to every thing in the new surrounds that made up each of their own ________envirment_____
in order to survive__________.
How did they meet their new needs?
Hunter's in Asia who moved from place to place to find food or ___nomads__________ followed the mammoths and spread out or __________migrate_ to the America's
• 3. How did Native Americans adjust to the new environments?
America In The Beginning
Different groups in different environments developed their own beliefs and ways of life or _culture______________. Groups in the same environments adapted similar life styles, and language creating _cultural______ regoin_________.
Many Native American have these things in common.
1. Nature has a spirit________.
2. No one can own _land_________.
4. Only use what is _needed_________.
5. _trade_________ was important to most societies
Living in many different parts of the Americas the Natives used the different natural _resources__________ in their own different environments for food, clothing, and shelter.
What did they have in common?
• 4. 8 Cultural
Great Basin
Great Plains
South East
North West Coast
Eastern Woodlands
South West
• 5. 8 Cultural Regions
• 6.
• 7. North West Coast
long cold winters
cool summers
heavy rainfall
Natural Resources:
thick forests of fir,
spruce, and cedar
rugged mountains
deer, moose, bear, elk,
beaver, mountain goats
Used cedar canoes to hunt
Fenced in salmon laying eggs
used cedar to make rope, mats and baskets
shell needles
used wedges, sledge hammers,
drills, and knifes to carve wooden masks
Cedar water proof clothing like capes with
decorative shell buttons
Shelter: lived near the coast
Cedar Long Houses with cedar bark roofs
• 8. California
rainy winters
hot dry summers
Natural Resources:
acorns, oak trees
grass, and plants
redwood trees
deer, rabbits, ducks,
roots berries, pine nuts
Used Bows& arrows, snares, and nets, used cooking stones to heat acorn meal
tools from antlers
Clothing:grass/leather aprons and skirts
Shelter: Cone shaped made of redwood bark, pole, and reeds woven into mats
• 9. Great Basin
little rain
hot during the day
cold at night
Natural Resources:
mostly dessert
low areas surrounded by
mountains at the edges
with valleys that had
seasonal lakes and streams
plants that need little water like
grasses, sagebrush, pinon trees,
at the outer edges pine trees, and willow
small animals rabbits, lizards,
grasshoppers, snakes
sometimes ducks , duck eggs during certain seasons
seeds,berries pine nuts, roots, cattail
Tools: water baskets sealed with tree sap
Floating duck decoys, nets, sharp sticks, flat baskets for catching seeds
Clothing: rabbit robes in winter
Shelter: Nomadic temporary cone shelters of willow, brush and reeds
• 10. Plateau
long cold winters
comfortable summers
Natural Resources:
mountains with
dense forests in areas
flatter in the center with
drier grass lands
driftwood, mud, dirt,
grass and sage brush
fish, antelope, deer, seeds
onions, carrots, camas roots, salmon
Tools: woven baskets, willow digging sticks, wooden fishing platforms, nets, and spears for salmon
Clothing: antelope and deer hides leggings, dresses and skirts, woven hats, seed and shell designs
Shelter: near rivers, partly under ground out of driftwood, mud, sap, and reeds
• 11. Great Plains
cold winters
hot summers
Natural Resources:
mountains surrounding edges
treeless grasslands in the center
east more water and softer soil
west drier dense grass
Buffalo and smaller animals
Tools: bow made of buffalo tendon, arrows, V shaped stone trap, fire, bone knives, shields,
Clothing: Buffalo robes and hides
Shelter: Houses called tipis
• 12. South West
high temperatures
little rain
Natural Resources:
mountains, canyons
desserts, flat top mesas
rivers, little water
clay, brightly colored plants, cotton
corn, beans, squash, peppers, rabbits
Large thick walled houses made of bricks of adobe(sun baked clay). Up to 4 stories and had hundreds of rooms.
Clothes were made of cotton that they grew. Using plants and minerals, they dyed the fabric
Lived near naturally flooded areas. Men dug irrigation ditches, and also built dams to hold summer rain.
Women spend most the day grinding corn kernels into cornmeal. They used clay pots to cook stews
• 13. Eastern Woodlands
snowy winters , rain
Natural Resources:
rivers, ocean/coast
lots of lakes and streams
Forests, plants,
maple trees, elm,
deer, bears, beavers, birds, fish
corn, sunflowers, tobacco, vegetables,
nuts, berries
Long House: Sturdy, log-framed houses covered with elm bark, about 20 feet wide and over 100 feet long. Several related families live in sections of the house.
Skirts, capes, and moccasins were made out of deer skins.
Women ground corn with wooden sticks .
Men often paddled on the rivers and streams in log and bark canoes . They trapped beavers, hunted deer, bear, caught birds, and speared fish.
For farming land, men burnt small sections of trees and underbrush. Women did the hoeing and planting. They planted many different types of corn, beans and squash. Made maple syrup and wooden storage canisters.
• 14. South East
long warm humid summers
mild winters
Natural Resources:
rivers, ocean/coast
Fertile coastal plains
Trees, clay, shells,
corn, beans, squash, pumpkins,
sunflowers, sweet potatoes
squirrels, rabbits, turkeys,
deer, alligators, turtles,
wild rice, persimmons
Houses were made from strips of young trees woven into a rectangular frame, then plastered with clay. These houses had pointed roofs made of leaves.
Towns included many mounds, first mounds were burial sights, but others were larger, and used as platforms for temples. It took many months, even years, to build these mounds, because they moved the dirt 1 basket full at a time.
Simple clothing was made of deer skin. Jewelry made of stones, shells, feathers, pearls, bones, and clay.
Women used hoes made of stone, shell or animal shoulder blades. Men hunted using small blow guns, and bows and arrows.
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After moving to a small city in southern Italy, 13-year-old Maria finds that her free-spirited attitude is at odds with the strict regime of the local Catholic community. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher and starring Salvatore Cantalupo and Anita Caprioli, Corpo Celeste first appeared at last year's Cannes film festival, where it featured in the Director's Fortnight strand
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King’s progressive credentials are impressive, but his popularity with members will be tested as he goes up against the Big Three in tough contract talks.
Rethinking their split four years ago, unions are exploring reunification.
In the late afternoon of January 7, fourteen union leaders gathered around a big oval table in the top-floor conference room of the United Food and Commercial Workers' (UFCW) Washington headquarters to talk about how to unify the fragmented American labor movement. The four-hour discussion with a catered light dinner was chaired by labor-friendly former Representative David Bonior and was attended by leaders of the AFL-CIO, the breakaway federation Change to Win (CTW) and the independent National Education Association (NEA).
That evening's discussion led to more talks, and participants cautiously hope they can unite to better take advantage of the political openings for revival of the labor movement. Assembling all unions into one "house of labor" may not come quickly, if at all, but by early April the Bonior group had decided to keep working--as the National Labor Coordinating Committee--perhaps to make significant steps toward unity at the September AFL-CIO convention.
The 2005 split in the AFL-CIO grew in part out of frustrations in dark times: George W. Bush and a Republican Congress had been re-elected, and union membership was shrinking, slipping to 12.5 percent of wage workers and provoking fears that unions would sink to a point of no return. Unions fought over how the AFL-CIO should operate, whether unions needed to be merged and reorganized by industry, and whether the AFL-CIO spent too much time and money on politics (and other tasks) and not enough on organizing.
Now opportunities for progress are pushing those unions back together. Organized labor played a major role in November's Democratic victories. Unions have even expanded membership slightly in the past two years. The time is ripe for broad legislative gains, from universal health insurance to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would make it easier for workers to form unions (though that bill faces obstacles in the Senate).
"We've just come off elections, and we've seen our collective work elect Barack Obama and a Congress more in line with the needs and aspirations of working people," says American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, part of the Bonior group. "That unity produced something, but it needs to improve every day between elections. A unified labor movement will better serve working families than when we're separated. When we fight together, we're stronger."
Unions create central organizations with hopes of realizing power through solidarity at all levels, from local communities to the global economy. But unity is not always a quick fix for labor's challenges.
Even after the 1955 merger of the AFL and the CIO unified most of labor, unions left and rejoined the federation, split over political endorsements, battled over organizing turf, ignored federation decisions they didn't like and often failed to practice elementary labor solidarity effectively (for example, when President Reagan broke the air traffic controllers' strike). But the loose federation did pull unions together on many tasks and provided a voice--though an increasingly stale, conservative and remote one--for American workers.
In 1995, following Republican Congressional victories, passage of NAFTA and Clinton's failed healthcare reform, John Sweeney won the first contested election in a century to lead the federation. He promised a new voice and more organizing, smarter political work, broader coalitions, more progressive policies--with militancy, when needed, to back them up and a reinvigorated federation from top to bottom (the often-ignored central labor councils).
But Sweeney had trouble getting every union to march to the same tune, and despite huge improvements in the federation's coordination of political work, victory was elusive, especially in the first six Bush years. Several union leaders complained that the federation was an oversize bureaucracy run more by staff and officers than by the unions that make up the federation.
The 2005 revolt that produced Change to Win was led by the Service Employees, Sweeney's old union, with major support from the Teamsters, Laborers, UNITE HERE (a merger of garment and hotel unions) and UFCW. With little engagement of members or secondary leaders, it was a rebellion of union presidents, many of whose demands had been promoted in weaker form by Sweeney. But the rebels argued that the AFL-CIO was too focused on politics and not focused enough on organizing.
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Up above the world so high, a 40,000-mile diamond in the sky
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Ryan Lochte will be a very busy man this fall.
The Gold Medal-winning swimmer may actually look for love as The Bachelor on ABC, while he's booked for an appearance as himself on 90210.
And now E! News confirms that Lochte is also headed to 30 Rock. Take that, Michael Phelps! JEAH!
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Bobby Shmurda's uncle Debo Wilson blasts the industry's lack of support for his nephew while he's behind bars.
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Dr. Gareth Francis demonstrates how anyone can fire up a miniature rocket at home with an empty film canister and some simple household staples which, when mixed, create a chemical reaction in the form of carbon dioxide, which is what will be used to power the miniature rocket. Dr. Francis explains how to create the chemical reaction you desire with either vinegar and baking soda, or with fizzy tablets and water.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make rocket fuel, to make your own little rockets at home. So, you can fire them up into the air and this is a very safe process. There's nothing that can fire you up in the air, there's nothing dangerous involved but it does give a good explosive effect so that you can get your rocket to fly up into the air.
I've made a rocket already, quite simply with a film canister, a fifty-five millimeter film canister and I've put just some bits of tape on it. You can put wings on it, you can put a nose cone on it. The important thing to remember is not to put any cello tape or anything inside or around the lip of the rocket so that you can get the lid on quite carefully, quite easily, so you can get the lid off.
So, if you get the cello tape in it, it won't work very well. So, the rocket fuel is going to be made from bicarbonates of soda and vinegar. Now, if you put these two things together, you get a chemical reaction.
It gives off carbon dioxide gas and carbon dioxide gas is the gas that you get in lemonade, that's what I'm thinking about, and stuff that makes things sparkly, but there's a lot of volume in the gas so that it quite quickly fills up a volume like this, so that it explodes. And the more of that gas that builds up, then the higher the pressure inside and then that forces the lid off of the bottom and launches the rocket in the air. Instead of bicarbonate of soda and vinegar, you could use fizzy tablets, it works just as well.
But, you only need about a quarter of a tablet and some water to make that work. So, I've got my rocket. I'm going to first put a fuel in, which is vinegar, it's easier to add the vinegar first, now, bicarbonate of soda. .
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Obama isn’t a socialist, he’s worse: A fascist
It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a ”socialist.” He certainly is an enemy of the free market, and wants politicians and bureaucrats to make the fundamental decisions about the economy. But that does not mean that he wants government ownership of the means of production, which has long been a standard definition of socialism.
Political ploy
Back in the 1920s, however, when fascism was a new political development, it was widely — and correctly — regarded as being on the political left. Jonah Goldberg’s great book ”Liberal Fascism” cites overwhelming evidence of the fascists’ consistent pursuit of the goals of the left, and of the left’s embrace of the fascists as one of their own during the 1920s.
The left’s vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, “We the People...”
‘Living constitution’
That is why the left has for more than a century been trying to get the Constitution’s limitations on government loosened or evaded by judges’ new interpretations, based on notions of “a living Constitution” that will take decisions out of the hands of ”We the People,” and transfer those decisions to our betters.
1Photoman(1025 comments)posted 2 years, 7 months ago
OMG!!! In The Vindicator????
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2VINDYAK(1799 comments)posted 2 years, 7 months ago
He has really let us down. He promised so many changes during his election campaign, such as reducing our debt, working with Congress and lowering unemployment, but we are seeing just the opposite.
Most disturbing to me is, he appears to be arogant in his belief that his way is the best way and no other option is open for discussion. This attitude is a real threat to democracy as we know it.
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3Silence_Dogood(1399 comments)posted 2 years, 7 months ago
"At least he acknowledges that the Nazis were righties not lefties"
All along I thought it was the National SOCIALIST Party. When were the history books re-written.
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4gwscience1(7 comments)posted 2 years, 7 months ago
Will the Vindicator explain why it even printed this inflammatory and inaccurate piece? The 20th century paradigm that worked as we became dominant in the world economy was a mix of government and private sector functions. Government plays an umpire role. That's where Obama is - in the middle of the political spectrum functioning during his lifetime. With people shrugging and mouthing "BS" when these guys screamed "socialist!" they need to trot out "fascist" - a word with much freight in modern American history - for the "think with our brain stems" crowd. Anti-war demonstrators called Nixon a fascist (I guess he did sign the Environmental Protection Act of 1970 and similar legislation and tried price controls). How about the Vindy try to keep the debate at the level of facts?
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Supported by nothing but assumptions, faulty computer models, and outright falsifications of what is actually happening on our planet, President Obama, his Environmental Protection Agency, and their allies have issued more economy-crushing rules that they say will prevent dangerous manmade climate change .
Under the latest EPA regulatory onslaught (645 pages of new rules, released June 2), by 2030, states must slash carbon dioxide emissions by 30% below 2005 levels.
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The new rules supposedly give states “flexibility” in deciding how to meet the mandates. However, many will have little choice but to impose costly cap-tax-and-trade regimes like the ones Congress has wisely and repeatedly refused to enact. Others will be forced to close perfectly good, highly reliable coal-fueled power plants that currently provide affordable electricity for millions of families, factories, hospitals, schools, and businesses. The adverse impacts will be enormous.
The rules will further hobble a US economy that actually shrank by 1% during the first quarter of 2014, following a pathetic 1.9% total annual growth in 2013. They are on top of $1.9 trillion per year (one-eighth of our total economy) that businesses and families already pay to comply with federal rules.
A U.S. Chamber of Commerce study calculates that the new regulations will cost our economy another $51 billion annually; result in 224,000 more lost jobs every year; and cost every American household $3,400 per year in higher prices for energy, food, and other necessities. Poor, middle class, and minority families – and those already dependent on unemployment and welfare – will be impacted worst. Those in a dozen states that depend on coal to generate 30-95% of their electricity will be hit especially hard.
Millions of Americans will endure a lower quality of life and be unable to heat or cool their homes properly, pay their rent or mortgage, or save for college and retirement. They will suffer from greater stress; worse sleep deprivation; higher incidences of depression and alcohol, drug, spousal, and child abuse; and more heart attacks and strokes. As Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) points out, “A lot of people on the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum are going to die.” The EPA ignores all of this.
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It also ignores the fact that, based to the agency’s own data, shutting down every coal-fired power plant in the USA would reduce the alleged increase in global temperatures by a mere 0.05 degrees F by 2100!
President Obama nevertheless says the costly regulations are needed to reduce “carbon pollution” that he claims is making “extreme weather events” like Superstorm Sandy “more common and more devastating.” The rules will also prevent up to 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks in their first year alone, while also curbing sea level rise, forest fires, and other supposed impacts from “climate disruption,” according to ridiculous talking points provided by EPA boss Gina McCarthy.
As part of a nationwide White House campaign to promote and justify the regulations, the American Lung Association echoed the health claims. The Natural Resources Defense Council said the rules will “drive innovation and investment” in green technology, creating “hundreds of thousands” of new jobs.
Bear in mind that the ALA received over $20 million from the EPA between 2001 and 2010. NRDC spends nearly $100 million per year (2012 IRS data) advancing its radical agenda. Both are part of a $13.4-billion-per-year U.S. Big Green industry that includes the Sierra Club and Sierra Club Foundation ($145 million per year), National Audubon Society ($96 million), Environmental Defense Fund ($112 million annually), Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace Fund ($46 million), and numerous other special interest groups dedicated to slashing fossil fuel use and reducing our living standards. All are tax-exempt.
As to the claims themselves, they are as credible as the endlessly repeated assertions that we will all be able to keep our doctor and insurance policies, Benghazi was a spontaneous protest, and there is not a scintilla of corruption in the IRS denials of tax-exempt status to conservative groups.
The very term “carbon pollution” is deliberately disingenuous. The rules do not target carbon (aka soot). They target carbon dioxide. This is the gas that all humans and animals exhale. It makes life on Earth possible. It makes crops and other plants grow faster and better. As thousands of scientists emphasize, at just 0.04% of our atmosphere, CO2 plays only a minor role in climate change – especially compared to water vapor and the incredibly powerful solar, cosmic, oceanic, and other natural forces that have caused warm periods, ice ages and little ice ages, and controlled climate and weather for countless millennia.
The terrible disasters that the President and other climate alarmists attribute to fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gases are creatures of computer models that have gotten virtually no predictions correct. That should hardly be surprising. The models are based on faulty assumptions of every size and description–and are fed a steady diet of junk science and distorted data. We shouldn’t trust them any more than we would trust con artists who claim their computers can predict stock markets or Super Bowl and World Series winners – even one year in advance, much less 50 or 100 years.
The models should absolutely not be trusted as the basis for regulations that will cripple our economy.
Contrary to model predictions and White House assertions, average global temperatures have not risen in almost 18 years. It’s now been over eight years since a category 3-5 hurricane hit the United States – the longest such period in over a century. Tornadoes are at a multi-decade low. Droughts are no more intense or frequent than since 1900. There were fewer than half as many forest fires last year as during the 1960s and 1970s. Sea levels rose just eight inches over the last 130 years and are currently rising at barely seven inches per century. There’s still ice on Lake Superior – in June! Runaway global warming, indeed.
This is not dangerous. It’s not because of humans. It does not justify what the White House is doing.
Asthma has been increasing for years – while air pollution has been decreasing. The two are not related. In fact, as EPA data attest, between 1970 and 2010, real air pollution from coal-fired power plants has plummeted dramatically – and will continue to do so because of existing rules and technologies.
For once, the President is not “leading from behind” on foreign policy. However, there is no truth to his claim that other countries will follow our lead on closing coal-fired power plants and slashing carbon dioxide emissions. China, India, and dozens of other developing countries are rapidly building coal-fueled generators, so that billions of people will finally enjoy the blessings of electricity and be lifted out of poverty. Even European countries are burning more coal to generate electricity because they finally realize they cannot keep subsidizing wind and solar, while killing their energy-intensive industries.
Then what is really going on here? Why is President Obama imposing some of the most pointless and destructive regulations in American history? He is keeping his campaign promises to his far-left and hard-green ideological supporters, who detest hydrocarbons and want to use climate change to justify their socio-economic-environmental agenda.
Mr. Obama promised that electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket,” and that he would “bankrupt” the coal industry and “fundamentally transform” America. His top science advisor, John Holdren, has long advocated a “massive campaign” to “de-develop the United States,” divert energy and other resources from what he calls “frivolous and wasteful” uses that support modern living standards, and enforce a “much more equitable distribution of wealth.” The President and his Executive Branch bureaucrats are committed to controlling more and more of our lives, livelihoods, and liberties.
They believe no one can stop them; and they will never be held accountable for ignoring our laws, for their corruption, or even for any job losses, deaths, or other destruction they may leave in their wake.
Every American who still believes in honest science, accountable Constitutional government, and the right of people everywhere to affordable energy and modern living standards must tell these radical ideologues that this power grab will not be tolerated.
David Rothbard is president of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to both people and the environment. Craig Rucker is CFACT’s executive director.
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NC lawmakers not high on legalizing marijuana for tax money
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- When most people think of pot, there is a negative connotation. But in Colorado, it's proving to be a cash crop.
The state was the first to legalize the drug and started selling it in January. In one month marijuana brought more than $2 million in tax revenue.
So could it help cash-strapped north carolina? Area politicians do not think it has bright future along Tobacco Road, or at least its recreational use.
"It is going to take a real change of heart of the North Carolina people," Sen. Thom Goolsby (R-9th District) said. "We tend to be overall... we don't even have liquor by the drink in every county in North Carolina. We don't even have Sunday hunting."
Marijuana is taxed at nearly 13 percent in Colorado. From just the first month of sales alone, almost $200,000 will go back to schools around the state.
But some here do not think the added cash is enough to justify possibly greater societal affects.
"If you have a lot of people that are using marijuana that didn't used to, how could that be positive?" Rep. Rick Catlin (R-20th District) said.
Other state lawmakers are exploring the use of medicinal marijuana. Rep. Pat McElraft (R-13th District) is filing a bill to legalize an oil extracted from the cannabis plant that she says would help kids who suffer seizures.
Although Rep. Ted Davis (r-19th District) says he does not support the legalization of pot, he said he is open to hearing about medical use.
"If it was for that purpose that would be the only purpose it would be used for and not for commercial use or personal pleasure," Davis said.
So for now, it does not look like people in North Carolina will be using pot legally any time soon.
Rep. Frank Iler (R-17th District) also said he was not for legalizing marijuana.
Rep. Susi Hamilton (D-18th District) said she has co-sponsored the medical marijuana bill every year she has been in the House of Representatives.
I think this state has a bunch of idiots running bc people are going to continue doing pot wether its legal or not so y not make it easier on everyone and just legalize pot.
Let's get with the times NC
Mike P
Honestly I'm tired of thinking marijuana dont need to be legalized and its morally wrong..I'm your "pothead" and im weighing in..WE are normal everyday folks who choose to smoke something natural and helpful ALL because what everyone wants to believe. Its better then taking pills..watching childeren overdose on a pill thats in YOUR shelves.. rollin one lighting one is no less then your typical cigarettes. .but unlike cigarettes youdont want another joint til bed time..MOST cigarette smokers chain smoke..MY depression meds gave me the innability to care for a persons feelings..lack of emotions.THERE IS A STUDY PROVING THIS HAPPENS..NEXT STEPS FOR PEOPLE WAS MURDER. Watched it on the news days ago..JUST because u dont smoke it its not the devil.. its nothing like killing people but you are with your judgement and VIG PHARMA talk.BUT because of non-supporters VETERANS GO TO JAIL.. INNOCENT FOLKS WHO PARTAKE is thrown to illegality type living..cant get a decent job BECAUSE they have to smoke to control pain... bipolarity..insomnia....WHOS THE MONSTERS US OR YALL..WHO TRYIN TO KEEP THE PEACE..Just like tobacco. .alcohol perscription drugs there are responsible n irresponsible partakers..JUST KEEP IT OUT THE REACH OF KIDS N smoke responsibly.
It's looks like the majority
It's looks like the majority that are against it are Republicans.. Time to can all of these old boys... Time to grow up NC.. It's about time we make some PROGRESS and stop being so damned CONservative.
legalizing marijuana
Legalizing marijuana will never ever happen in this state. This state (NC) is part of the bible belt and is ranked # 7 of the most ignorant states in the USA. WHy? Because our people still believe in gods. Of all the people in this country, 14% still believe in gods. Most people go to college and upon being educated, come to terms and figure this all out on there own. There is no such thing as gods. The dinosaurs did exist, and we evolved with all the other animals on this planet, from the same common ancestors. Not in NC though. We still believe in magic. Its this ignorance that will continue to hurt this state and keep us in the stone age. Not the stoned age. I asked a 47 year old woman from Jacksonville why she did not support legalization. She responded " its not good for you and it will hurt you" I promptly asked her "How is it bad for you?" She could not answer me. Why? Because she was not educated on the matter and from what I gather... Not educated at all. Here is a fun fact: Marijuana has not been proven to have any deadly or harmful effects on our anatomy what so ever. Alcohol has been proven to cause liver damage and all sorts of problems with our anatomy. It will impair you to the point where you can not drive or operate machinery safely. Cigarettes will KILL you! Yet these are both not only legal but taxed. Marijuana has none of these ill effects. Yet its illegal. Unfortunately NC will never ever legalize this substance purely out of ignorance and blatant disregard for common sense. NC still believes in magic and until it catches up with the rest of the world, will continue to put there faith in magic and will more then likely become the #1 instead of # 7 most ignorant states. : (
Ok lawmakers, why cant we
Ok lawmakers, why cant we enjoy what GOD has put on this earth for good? To me, there is no logic behind making herb illegal. You can't ban GODs creation. Jesus is on his way back SOON so please lawmakers, legalize marijuana so people can enjoy their life while they can instead of them being paranoid 2 hit uh blunt! I hope NC Lawmakers change their thoughts and be a blessing to others!
N.C. and Cannabis
I couldn't agree more.
I couldn't agree more. People who continue to say weed is just no good because it has no positive benefits are ignorant. Sugar, tobacco, alcohol and a number of other things have no benefits and nobody seems to care. Politicians are pussies, too scared to do something for the people that might jeopardise their 250k a yr salary and full pension. Makes me sick to live in a country where these people can control everything and the population just sits back and takes it.
N.C. and Cannabis
From my understanding, Rep. Alexander is currently working on a bill/amendment to legalize cannabis at both the medical and recreational levels in NC and is hoping for it to be completed in time for this year's May session in the NCGA. NOW is the time to educate everyone on the wonderful healing qualities of cannabis. Please visit for the most up to date info on medical cannabis in North Carolina.
Lets be honest
Lets be honest here. There is far too much money for the state and Law Enforcement Agencies to loose to allow people the right to use a plant with a safer track record than aspirin. It is an illogical fallacy to think that legalization would cause an influx of anything besides people clearing out the snack isle at the local grocer. I advocate for decriminalization because it should have never been a criminal action to posses a plant in the first place and the poor souls who have been locked up and fined should be set free and have their fines returned. If prohibition is and was always about safety, then why on earth haven't all pain pills been reclassified as schedule 1 as it is apparent they are clearly more of a threat in NC than most of the illicit street drugs.
Isn't it just possible that
Isn't it just possible that this is the attitude you get when you have a MUCH more motivated base on the right? Every elected official in your state feels empowered by their behave the way that they do. If you continue to allow hate to be the motivation for voters, republicans win every time. Don't ask me to elaborate on that hate comment. If I need to explain it, you probably won't get it and if I don't then you know what I do.
Revenue or Liberty?
The intent behind legalizing Cannabis is NOT to harvest tax revenue. It is the restoration of "Liberty and Justice" and the establishment of legal supply displacing the tax-funded imposition of black market profits to criminals.
I was walking in the woods
I was walking in the woods the other day and found a group of high school kids smoking weed. Obviously they don't care to wait for legalization. I don't care to wait anymore either, im about to smoke a bowl after this comment.
I will use my young health military age body to fight this satanic law called prohibition. WAR! I smoke weed, get over it, it not like heroin like old people say
Hey Rick:
A. Google: "Medical Marijuana Laws"+"Traffic Fatalities" and DO the MATH.
I pretty sure that people
I pretty sure that people didn't want to take pills/HEROIN either...duhh!!!!
NC, Always Determined to be Last
Why exactly do we go out of our way to remain willfully ignorant in North Carolina? Perhaps we should educate, inform, eradicate rampant misinformation regarding cannabis. But what will we actually do? Just continue to cram our jails (and build MORE) with non-violent weed smokers, veterans and the chronically ill desperately seeking some kind of relief, and maintain bloated law enforcement budgets to do so. The devil weedpot is going to turn our children homogay moslim hippies!!
which one is safer?
Time to play "Which substance is safer?"
- Prescription drugs KILL over 265,000 in the US annually
- Alcohol KILLS over 40,000 in the US annually + 16,000 traffic death
- Tobacco KILLS over 390,000 in the US annually
- Cannabis KILLS 0, none, nada, not a single overdose death in all medical history
So, which substance is safer?
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Thank you WWAY for finally
Thank you WWAY for finally touching this issue. The last time medical marijuana was brought up in NC, there was so much public support it was immediately struck down. So much for the will of the people. These old Republican codgers will die before they see the devil's weed legalized.
It should stay illegal
It should stay illegal because it does nothing positive for your body. Only medical marijuana should be put up through prescriptions. Only doctors should be able to tell people who can do it
.... because only doctors and Big Government can tell me what I can and can not to my body. Baaaaahhhh Sheep.
marijuana makes jobs / Sen Goolsby wont sure with you
Ok beside making it easier on your land taxes, school taxes and even state taxes and fed ,, Sen Goolsby, knows that if this law was passed it would also bring jobs too ,, from making paper. fuel for your car,home and it could save lives,, so why not pass the law ,, that's because. the medicine company will not let them pass it ,, this is what he and other don't want you to know ;marijuana can give more money and jobs to the people of north carolina,, like paper products and body-care product,and then for the farmers who can grow it , they can sale it to make livestock bedding and feed, and the textiles company that can come back to north carolina ,so we have a guy in office who has a radio show and lost one before for taking peoples money on wall-st or stock,, and yet we are to believe him,,, look there in office for us to get us a better life right!!! then why are they not looking out for us ,, he said in his words we cant drink in every county in nc, ok i will say this then if we believe in god , and we our one nation under god ,, then God made grass and man made booze,,who do you trust ? sen Goolsby,and the other who are putting money in there pockets and not yours ,,I had over 6,000 people who sing a paper in wilmington to get this law on the floor, and there were over 100,000 people in nc who sign that same paper all over the state, and the republicans wouldn't even look at it and turn it down to this year,, i say bring it up and let the voter vote on it in 2014,, or if not still live off of food stamps welfare, and keep losing jobs in nc not bring them here,, i'm done trying to get this message out,, i'm going to move to one state who has it passed and make the money i should be making and live good ,,
Goolsby can try to lie to
Goolsby can try to lie to people and say that it would take a big change in thinking for the North Carolinian people in order to make the general public believe that but it is a lie! It will take a big change in our elected officials allowing it to make it onto the ballot. They are scared to put it on the ballot because it would be very close to passing. Let the people truly speak their voice for or against and put it on the ballot!!!
Marijuana Revolution 2014
Average spent per inmate a year = $31,286 (profit and police over people)
Average spent per student a year = $10,605 (dumber and more
in debt, each one of us is liable for around $40,000 of rising American debt)
love and freedom forever
Instead of The United States wasting Billions upon Billions more of our tax dollars fighting a never ending "War on Marijuana", lets generate Billions of dollars, and improve the deficit instead. It's a no brainer.
Marijuana is much safer, and healthier to consume than alcohol. Yet do we lock people up for choosing to drink?
Let's end this hypocrisy now!
The government should never attempt to legislate morality by creating victim-less "crimes" because it simply does not work and costs the taxpayers a fortune.
Legalize Nationwide! Support Each and Every Marijuana Legalization Initiative!
Leagalizing M
Last I heard DUI,DWI,death by vehicle etc will get you locked up for drinking. Colorado is at this time attempting on how to deal with "stoned" operators of vehicles, and even snow boarders and skiers! How darn stupid can you be to legalize it? Of course we want to get rid of sugar, salt, butter, bacon, burgers etc. but alcohol? Are you crazy! How hypocritical we are!
Give it up.
Legalizing Marijuana will not create an influx of impaired drivers our roads. It will not create an influx of professionals (doctors, pilots, bus drivers, etc..) stoned on the job either. This is a prohibitionist propaganda scare tactic.
Truth: Responsible drivers don't drive while intoxicated on any substance period! Irresponsible drivers are already on our roads, and they will drive while intoxicated regardless of their drug of choice's legality. Therefore Legalizing Marijuana will have little to zero impact on the amount of stoned drivers on our roads.
The same thing applies to people being high on the job. Responsible people do not go to work intoxicated, period. Regardless of their drug of choice's legality.
Colorado has not seen any
Colorado has not seen any increases of 'stoned drivers' AND has seen a drop in fatal accidents. Snowboarders and skiers have ALWAYS been stoned and evidently are not causing any mayhem now that marijuana is legal. How darn stupid can you be to think that marijuana prohibition accomplishes anything useful?
"When most people think of
If you visit Colorado....
...and you smoke pot...technically due to N.C. laws, you have committed a crime. Your employer can drug test you for THC...and if can be terminated. tell them it's your "Religious Belief"...and N.C. being in the Bible Belt won't touch that one!
Wrong, they have to offer
Wrong, they have to offer you treatment. Even in a right to work state.
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Jason Alexander mocks Mitt Romney after George Costanza debate reference
jason-alexander-mitt-romney-getty.jpgIf you're a politician running for office, perhaps the last person you want to equate yourself to is the famed "Seinfeld" lovable loser character George Costanza. But that's just what Mitt Romney did during Wednesday's (Feb. 22) debate, although he probably wishes he hadn't.
In his opening remarks at the Arizona debate Romney says, "I want to restore America's promise, and I'm going to do that." Before he could continue, the crowd began applauding, so he quipped, "As George Costanza would say, 'when they're applauding, stop.'"
Jason Alexander, who played Costanza on the long-running TV series, used this as an opportunity to poke at Romney for his penchant for changing positions on issues. Alexander tweets, "Thrilled Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate."
This is not the first time Romney has quoted, albeit not quite accurately, Costanza. He did it during the Dec. 7, 2011 debate as well as in a town hall meeting in South Carolina.
As a point of reference, the actual quote is actually from Jerry who is speaking to George about how to end a conversation. Seinfeld says, "When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off."
Close enough for government work.
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