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The fact that I was able to freak out my wife with the Oplink TripleShield is a testament to just how far consumer wireless technologies have come. A complete home security system in a box, TripleShield takes about 15 minutes to set up and I found that it pretty much does what it says it will do. While breaching the system's door and window sensors or setting of the included motion sensor won't trigger a response from law enforcement or even a private security company, it will give users peace of mind, as well as time to dial 911. The system can also be set up to send alerts to pre-programmed contacts in the event a breach occurs. That said, there's more than meets the eye here.
Set Up
The TripleShield system runs off a main hub that attaches to your home wireless router. The hub runs everything through the Oplink Cloud, which the included documents say "constantly communicates with each component of your system, so when you add new components in your home, such as additional Oplink sensors or cameras, they are automatically recognized and configured as soon as you plug them in." The Oplink Cloud will also deliver software updates that keep the system updated.
Set up really was easy. Each sensor includes two small plastic pieces. One part attaches to the door itself, while the other part attaches to the frame. They need to be almost touching to create a magnetic bond and given that the trim on our front door was raised away from the door itself, the connection couldn't be made and thus also couldn't be broken. If I had been installing the system permanently in my house, I could have made it work, but I needed to return the system, so I had to forego securing the front door. The back door of our house is flush with the frame and installing that sensor was easy and set off the alarm when the system was breached after being armed.
Likewise, pairing the cameras with the hub and activating them was easy and they worked perfectly. Everything is controlled via an app, which can be downloaded from the App Store. Streaming views from the cameras, which includes night vision, were immediately available within the app. You can also check the status of door and window sensors or add additional devices from within the app. The sensors are all powered by batteries that are included in the kit, and the cameras, as well as the motion sensor and siren, can be plugged into a wall outlet.
Also included is a 16GB USB thumb drive, which gives users additional storage space for videos.
As I said, everything worked seamlessly once I had it set up. On scale of 1-10 for difficulty, with 10 being the most difficult, I'd give TripleShield a 3. In other words, with a little worry and minimal sweat, my mom and dad could probably get this kind of thing up and running.
Many use cases
Oplink's solution highlights remote viewing as an affordable reality. The entire TripleShield kit currently costs $349 online (with an additional $19.99 per month), and will be available in retail outlets soon for $299. Additional cameras can be added for $129 and sensors for $29.99. The app is free to download on your smartphone. The $19.99 per month service fee gets you functionality like the ability to stream and record live video; record video based on alerts; and share recorded videos via a service called VideoGram with friends, family or authorities.
The use cases for this kind of thing are endless. The most obvious is being made aware when an intruder is in your house. The cameras are enabled with motion-sensing ability and when activated by an intruder the system can send an alert to your smartphone, while also setting off the siren alarm in the house. Again, this won't send the cops to your door, but it would certainly give you adequate time to call and report a break-in, whether you're in or away from the house.
But aside from the usual security use cases, being able to see what's going on around your house might also give parents a way to check in on the babysitter. You might also like to check in on a pet that's home alone. While testing the system, I was travelling in Tokyo and was able to connect to the hotel Wi-Fi and see what was happening back at home.
The door and window sensors also offer a different kind of picture of your home and could be used to alert you at work when the kids arrive home from school. In fact, I felt like there was a value in not being connected to a dedicated security firm, as it lends the user some flexibility as to how they choose to use the system.
The other side of the coin
I mentioned that I was travelling while testing the system and it allowed me to check on what was happening back at the house. While I liked the ability to see my kids having breakfast, my wife wasn't so crazy about the idea of constant home surveillance. She ended up unplugging the cameras. She said even though she knew it was me on the other end, it still gave her the creeps. And there lies the delicate balance between security and privacy in the modern world. While it's cheap and feasible to have 24/7 surveillance of every aspect of lives, do we really want to? Sure, we might be more secure, but I have to admit there are some very real ethical issues that our society needs to discuss when it comes to these kinds of technologies.
As this is a product review, I need to emphasize that TripleShield does exactly what it advertises. As such, it's also worth noting that those interested in purchasing such a system might also have a conversation with their significant other about whether home monitoring is right for them. It would be a bummer to have installed everything and then have someone in the family, or the whole family, decide it just plain creeps them out.
At $349 for the initial TripleShield kit we tested, I can highly recommend this as a good option for home surveillance. It's easy to set up and add more components as you need them. The $19.99 per-month service charge seems a bit steep given comparable pricing on some of the carrier-branded services (i.e. AT&T's Digital Life) which may offer a different level of customer service, as well as deeper integration with your existing home broadband and cellular services. It's at least worth shopping around to ensure that this is the right solution for your needs.
The fact that I was able to freak out my with with the Oplink TripleShield is a testament to just how far consumer wireless technologies have come. A complete home security system in a box,
TripleShield takes about 15 minutes to set up and I found that it pretty much does what it says it will do.


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Mike Wells the beat reporter for many year for the Indy Star about the opening night match-up with Pacers coming to town. They have made it out and are on route to Toronto for the game tomorrow. Something some might have been concerned about with all the bad weather. Thoughts and prayers go out to all those people impacted by hurricane Sandy on the east coast of the U.S.
We chat about Roy Hibbert the short lived Raptor part of the trade with the Pacers that involved J.O and T.J Ford among others. The young and rising star in Paul George that will likely match up with DeMar DeRozan. In addition the future of Danny Granger and his thoughts on this match-up tomorrow night from the Pacers point of view.
Really want to thank Mike who came through for us despite having his flight moved up. We hope to chat with him in the future and have a longer discussion in the future. We are closing in on the home opener and it is exciting. Make no mistake though the Pacers are not coming here expecting to lose. Also Mike in his blog does not have the Raptors making the post-season. He has that in his blog linked above did not get a chance to talk with him about that as he had to catch a flight.
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Yes. Death.
financial death you mean?
Monsanto is probably best known amongst the slashdot crowd for their patent litigation regarding gene patents
As for the weeds that show resistance, they've been known to exist for quite some time. Some weeds naturally react weakly to Round Up, and it's been common practice to include a quart/acre of Pursuit or some other chemical. It's a pain to deal with, but it's not impossible.
'Regarding his 1998 crop, Schmeiser did not put forward any defence of accidental contamination. The evidence showed that the level of Roundup Ready canola in Mr. Schmeiser's 1998 fields was 95-98% (See paragraph 53 of the trial ruling). Evidence was presented indicating that such a level of purity could not occur by accidental means. On the basis of this the court found that Schmeiser had either known "or ought to have known" that he had planted Roundup Ready canola in 1998.'
'The courts at all three levels noted that the case of accidental contamination beyond the farmer's control was not under consideration but rather that Mr. Schmeiser's action of having identified, isolated and saved the Roundup-resistant seed placed the case in a different category.'
The judgment wasn't about accidental contamination. He intentionally identified and planted seeds containing the modification patented by Monsanto.
On the basis of this the court found that Schmeiser had either known "or ought to have known" that he had planted Roundup Ready canola in 1998.'
'The courts at all three levels noted that the case of accidental contamination beyond the farmer's control was not under consideration but rather that Mr. Schmeiser's action of having identified, isolated and saved the Roundup-resistant seed placed the case in a different category.'
The judgment wasn't about accidental contamination. He intentionally identified and planted seeds containing the modification patented by Monsanto.
Doesn't the development of roundup-resistant weeds blow a huge hole that judgment's reasoning? The assumption in the Schmeiser case all along was that if he had canola crop which was resistant to Roundup, then everyone should have known it must have come from seeds containing Monsanto's patented genes. And that Mr. Schmeiser, by saving those seeds, deliberately kept and planted crop which he knew or should have known contained Monsanto's patents.
Weeds developing the resistance naturally proves that plants can develop resistance to Roundup naturally. That means Mr. Schmeiser could not have known that the crop was in violation of Monsanto's patents since it could also have come about naturally.
""Years of heavy use of the broad spectrum herbicide Roundup has led to the rapid growth of superweeds".
Quick..someone mix this "Superweed" with normal weed! They wont be able to make that illegal! We can't be stopped!
Add in the biblical ever-burning bush, and they'll have to make breathing illegal!
"Years of heavy use of the broad spectrum herbicide Roundup has led to the rapid growth of superweeds".
Quick..someone mix this "Superweed" with normal weed! They wont be able to make that illegal! We can't be stopped!
It's already happening. Albeit with coca plants.
And the kicker? The new plants have 4x the potency of non-resistant strains.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/columbia_pr.html [wired.com]
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/New-super-strain-of-coca.2559109.jp [scotsman.com]
Generally, we just don't understand all the externalities involved.
Hopefully, they don't lead to catastrophic circumstances.
The early stages of his Deathworld series. Native life adapts to fight the aggressor.
Your comment post mode is set to 'code'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_welfare_and_ecological_footprint_sustainability.jpg [wikipedia.org]
Yay Cuba?
Yeah, it seems they are doing something right, if they manage to remain sustainable while at the same time having quite decent standard of living.
But this, unfortunatelly, leads to a sad conclusion - societies and nations can act responsibly, in those matters, mostly only when they are forced to...
All that graph means is that Cuba has a relatively low population given it's agricultural production.
If you were to include theoretically possible agricultural production, instead of actual, the US would be a lot better off than cuba :
wolframalpha to the rescue [wolframalpha.com]
In terms of sustainability, using the only metric that really matters (amount of sunlight over land per capita), the US is 3 times more sustainable than Cuba, which is about as sustainable as Europe (ie. Cuba and Europe need to kill at least half their population if they're to survive on their own, while the US could increase it's population by another 50% before problems start occuring).
The additional snag is that 2.1 hectares per person is only a viable number assuming industrial agriculture. Traditional agriculture, or "bio" products, or "sustainable farming" need between 10 times and 100 times that. Assuming 10 times, that means that Europe and Cuba need to kill (or starve) just slightly over 95% of their populations and the US would need to kill (or starve) a little under 85% of the US population.
So "sustainable agriculture" ? That ship has sailed, and is long gone over the horizon. I wonder how "greenies" think about this. Is it acceptable to kill 90% of all humans alive so that the remainder could be slightly healther (live 5 years longer) ? If one is to believe actions, clearly greenies believe this. Of course, in reality, I doubt they've even thought about it.
On the other hand, Japan has survived now for about 60 years with less than 0.1 ha/capita, and is now approaching 0.04 ha/capita. Whatever the catches in that, it's possible.
And there's always the technological option. The best plants are less than 2% efficient in collecting energy. Storing that energy is about 8% efficient (energy in ATP -> energy in starch). Eating those plants directly is less than 0.2% efficient. Eating plants gives human bodies about 2 millionth of the original solar power that went into producing what they ate. If we were to find a way to convert sunlight directly into sugar (or starch, or
In addition, a sunlight -> oil process would only need to be 0.0001% efficient to match current oil output. If you could make that 10%, we could send every human alive today to the moon on holiday for a weekend every month.
But "global hectares per person" isn't just about agriculture...
Virtually everything we make and consume uses some part of this most general "resource". And this measure includes also, say, oil - after all, it's essentially a way of using "global hectares" from the past! (whihc in itself isn't such terrible thing, but will become harder with time).
Yet you wanted to look only at the present land area, which gives US 3x higher result...so what, you consume so much that it's far from enough and you end up far
Is it acceptable to kill 90% of all humans alive so that the remainder could be slightly healther (live 5 years longer) ?
It is unacceptable to kill humans. It is however acceptable to reduce our birth rate to beneath our death rate -- something which has already occurred in industrialized nations. This admittedly has the unfortunate side effect of burdening the young with a disproportionate number of old people to care for, but in the long run I think it's the route to the highest average happiness.
For the alternative -- a steady increase in population -- look what happens in societies where the number of people vastly outstrips the availability of resources and jobs (e.g., India). The result is a kind of hypercompetition that drives many people to emigrate to places with lower population densities and more jobs (e.g. the US, wealthy middle-eastern states, Europe). What happens when there's nowhere to emigrate to?
If we don't reduce our population, your children will be fighting other peoples' children tooth and nail for their entire frantic lives.
It is unacceptable to kill humans. It is however acceptable to reduce our birth rate to beneath our death rate -- something which has already occurred in industrialized nations.
Unfortunately, if you decrease your national birth rate for enough generations or very rapidly (ie over 50 or so years) you will soon see an increasing death rate: the population age levels will either be unsustainable (ie too many older people) or you will be invaded and conquered by a more populous and less concerned nation.
(See: Mexico and the US; much of Arabia and Africa and Eastern Europe.)
I'm sure it doesn't help that the plants that are resistant to roundup will cross-pollinate with the weeds that are supposed to be killed with roundup, thereby making everything resistant. I remember people saying a long time ago that this would happen, and here we are!
I'm sure it doesn't help that the plants that are resistant to roundup will cross-pollinate with the weeds that are supposed to be killed with roundup,
The definition of species is the inability to reproduce outside a given genetic group. Corn doesn't reproduce with ragweed. Nice try though.
I'm sure it doesn't help that the plants that are resistant to roundup will cross-pollinate with the weeds that are supposed to be killed with roundup,
The definition of species is the inability to reproduce outside a given genetic group. Corn doesn't reproduce with ragweed. Nice try though.
Nonsense. Horse, meet donkey. Go, mule, go!
I do wish you hadn't used the example where the end result is the "EOL" for breeding.
Pick the example of Transposons a.k.a. "jumping genes" instead.
Its closer to the actual mechanism anyway.
And that generally holds true. One thing I learned in biology (college) was that plants rarely pay attention to silly human rules. If they did, things such as grafted trees just wouldn't exist (the graft would die).
And that generally holds true. One thing I learned in biology (college) was that plants rarely pay attention to silly human rules. If they did, things such as grafted trees just wouldn't exist (the graft would die).
You know, trees clone themselves by dropping pointy branches in the mud, but I'm pretty damned sure they don't graft themselves. They have a hard time wrapping the tape. I suppose it's not impossible but I'd really have to see an example
You know, trees clone themselves by dropping pointy branches in the mud, but I'm pretty damned sure they don't graft themselves. They have a hard time wrapping the tape.
Actually, there have been numerous reports of trees with interlaced branches ending up with a "graft", in which two branches' bark layers are rubbed off enough for the cambium layers to connect. It's extremely rare, of course, since any good storm that comes along during the initial stages will tear open the graft.
Grafting also works between different plant species, because they don't have immune systems. But it only works between closely-related plants (roughly meaning in the same family) because the vascular systems have to be compatible enough to interoperate. It works a lot better within clumps of a single species.
There's another situation in which grafting is common: Closely-related trees growing together often end up with their root systems inter-connected via grafts. Storms don't tear such underground grafts apart, after all. The process is described in horticulture textbooks, and is known to be important in at least a few species. This provides a path that internal parasites can use to spread among a clump of trees. Some trees in arid areas have been found to pump water from a source to trees farther away via their interconnected root system, allowing the clump to extend somewhat farther from a stream or spring than they could otherwise.
As usual, there's a brief description of the process [wikipedia.org] at wikipedia. Read also the next section on graft hybrids. Also, check out the link to +Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' [wikipedia.org], a chimera that whose tissues consist of a mixture of cells of two different small trees.
That's like saying a frog will eventually mate with a horse and create a breed of amphibious horses.
They are spreading throughout North America, creating headaches for farmers and posing 'the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen,' according to Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts.
Hooray! This isn't really true, though. It's the single largest threat to so-called "green revolution" production agriculture that we have ever seen — and good riddance. Production agriculture simply means the production of food (including animal products) for sale, and hopefully, profit. The only type of agriculture threatened by pesticide-resistant weeds is that which is dependent on pesticides. This development will not affect permaculture and organic farmers, the former of which can produce more food per acre than factory farming. It requires substantially more manpower to grow crops in guilds, which essentially eliminates the opportunity for mechanical cultivation, but at a time when unemployment is at an all-time high, it seems reasonable to use manpower to solve problems. Meanwhile, the contradictorily named "green revolution" methods of using machines and chemicals to grow plants is harmful to soil, and leads to less-nutritious food overall.
There is, of course, the bijou issue-ette that organic farming produces substantially less product per acre, meaning you need a hell of a lot more space to grow the same amount of food. Meanwhile, population (and hence demand for food) is growing.
There is, of course, the bijou issue-ette that organic farming produces substantially less product per acre, meaning you need a hell of a lot more space to grow the same amount of food. Meanwhile, population (and hence demand for food) is growing.
Permaculture, a type of organic farming, can produce more food per acre than factory farming. Further, a great deal of food goes to waste today. What we really need to improve the quality of food and the efficiency of food production is more point-of-use production of food, so that it doesn't have to travel so far. Up to 50% of a typical produce shipment across the country will end up as waste due to spoilage in transit alone. You need either more space or more workers, but we do have more workers. Unemployment is off the hook.
Even if you did need more space, it would still be true that factory farming is unsustainable. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that fertilizing crops with petroleum has serious negative repercussions. It does take someone who knows something about farming to understand the full negative impact of factory farming, however. When you run machines over soil you create hardpan which causes problems with soil drainage, leading to anaerobic conditions which breed harmful bacteria, also killing off beneficials. When you spray artificial fertilizers and pesticides on it, you kill biological components of the soils including fungal mycelium, beneficial bacteria, and nematodes. Healthy topsoil is over 60% organic matter, and as much as 40% of living soil may be made up of living components. "Green revolution" farming destroys healthy soil, and turns it into a sterile hydroponic growth medium which literally cannot be used to produce food without providing all of the food that the plant needs. Organic foods have also been shown to have higher nutrient content than processed foods; it is believed that this is in part due to the ability of healthy soil to provide nutrients needed by plants. In organic gardening, you feed the soil, not the plant. Of course, another part is that organic gardeners are harvesting by hand and typically delivering product closer to home, and thus they are free to grow varieties other than those which may be easily handled by machine and shipped long distances.
Nature never grows plants in monocultures like this. Even a redwood forest (redwoods are very good at suppressing competing plants) has an understory. In nature, plants tend to grow in groups of the same or similar plants, each plant providing something that its neighbors need. This arrangement is known as a guild in permaculture, and it is indeed one of the primary bases of the concept. The classic example is the "three sisters [wikipedia.org]" of corn, beans, and squash; the corn provides a trellis for the beans, the beans fix nitrogen for the corn and the squash, and the squash provides shade which reduces water loss and suppresses competitors — i.e. weeds. In such an arrangement, yields are increased as compared to growing monocultural rows which invite mass invasions of pests and which require liberal applications of chemicals to operate. However, such plantings cannot be harvested mechanically with the means currently at our disposal, robotics being perhaps on the cusp of being able to do this economically, but not quite actually being there. Or in short, everything is inferior about "green revolution" farming save for profit.
Or in short, everything is inferior about "green revolution" farming save for profit.
Profit drives everything. You may not like it, but that's the world that you live in.
If you realistically want change, you'll either need to start convincing people that they're harming their long term profitability for short term gain (which won't matter to those who intend to leave after the short term peak blows over), or make permaculture more profitable than factory farming in the short term.
Although I don't know about farming specifically, I'd suggest that the latter option is more plausible, based on
Or in short, everything is inferior about "green revolution" farming save for profit.
How about price? When I've priced organic foods vs. non-organic foods, it's often times about twice the price. That may be all well and good for IT people who tend to make good wages, but for most people a 2 times jump in price isn't affordable.
When I've priced organic foods vs. non-organic foods, it's often times about twice the price.
Try googling for the concept of "agricultural subsidy" for a good part of the explanation. One of the reasons that corporate farming is cheap is that you're paying for part of it through your taxes, which in turn get handed to the ag corporations as subsidies.
Of course, sometimes there are good reasons for such subsidies. Agriculture has a lot of risks, and farms without government support tend to go bankrupt afte
If this were true then every farmer would be doing it. There is no economic incentive to use a less efficient method of farming out of spite for the environment.
If this were true then every farmer would be doing it. There is no economic incentive to use a less efficient method of farming out of spite for the environment.If this were true then every farmer would be doing it.
Indeed, most small farmers who have not gone organic (or to some other value-add, such as a prepared product based on their produce) are facing economic ruin. But only large agribusiness is able to make money by hiring large numbers of illegals and having them deported without themselves facing penalties, for example; only large agribusiness is able to amass the large quantities of flat land necessary to profitably machine-cultivate crops in today's market; large agribusiness collects the lion's share of [unnecessary] farm subsidies, which make their mode of operation profitable.
There is no economic incentive to use a less efficient method of farming out of spite for the environment.
What is efficient about throwing away our best compost (human feces) by expensively processing it and dumping it into waterways which are then used as a source of drinking water again downstream, while meanwhile pumping sequestered carbon out of the ground and turning it into pesticides and fertilizer, then using still more of this sequestered carbon to make fuels which are then burned in the process of moving machines around to spray these chemicals on the fields? When you examine the system, our current mode is almost as inefficient as you could imagine.
There is, of course, the bijou issue-ette that organic farming produces substantially less product per acre, meaning you need a hell of a lot more space to grow the same amount of food. Meanwhile, population (and hence demand for food) is growing.
The problem with your statement is:
1. in order to prop up prices, the Government is/has been paying farmers not to plant crops.
2. organic farmers are growing vastly more, on less acreage, than their grandparents did.
3. even if organic farming produces "substantially less product per acre", it commands a premium that more than makes up for the extra work and lower yield
I just find it hard to match your statements with the facts on the ground.
I mean, come on! The Government is paying farmers not to plant.
That's just not true. Heavy chemical farming allows an individual farmer to grow on more acres with x amount labor, using what they call no till, but the yields are not all that impressive compared to good rich organic soil type growing. Now seed varieties make a difference, but square foot to square foot, given the same seeds, good healthy compost rich soil is outstanding. Shoot, I see that even with hay. Our fields, that get chicken litter fertilizer, consistently out perform the neighbors fields across t
This is only a threat to the Agri-business monopolies. The price of production should go up a bit, and allow more small farmers to compete with less capital-intensive methods. In other words, it will level the playing field. Dear God, it sounds like we need to pass a stimulus bill. Isn't Monsanto too big to fail?
but at a time when unemployment is at an all-time high, it seems reasonable to use manpower to solve problems.
Why do you think that Americans want to go back to tilling the soil? We've left it to immigrants, who feel forced by poverty to fruit-pick and such, but even they don't wish such a fate for their children. Sorry, but backbreaking work in the fields is not seen as progress by any developing or developed country. If farming with modern techniques is an evil, it's still preferable to mankind having to do more work for less benefit. Much of my family right now is dealing with unemployment, but there are certain jobs they will not stoop to because it contradicts everything that was promised about life in today's high-tech world getting steadily more leisurely.
Meanwhile, the contradictorily named "green revolution" methods
... leads to less-nutritious food overall.
The scientific community overwhelmingly denies that your precious organic food is any more nutritious. But I'm sure people just looking at the plain-as-day lab results are all puppets of a shadowy corporate conspiracy, eh?
Why do you think that Americans want to go back to tilling the soil?
This is a red herring. The most intelligent way to farm is without tilling. You can use root/tuber crops, and cover crops with deep tap roots, to do all the tilling you need. We plant mustard in our garden every year to overwinter the beds.
We've left it to immigrants, who feel forced by poverty to fruit-pick and such, but even they don't wish such a fate for their children.
The reason citizens don't want to do those jobs is that they don't pay. They don't pay because big agribusiness has succeeded in getting immigration authorities to ignore their malfeasance; it is illegal to hire illegal aliens, but just try to get one of these big compani
The reason citizens don't want to do those jobs is that they don't pay. They don't pay because big agribusiness has succeeded in getting immigration authorities to ignore their malfeasance
People were leaving in droves from American agriculture well before illegal immigration reached major levels. Again, agriculture is simply not work that people want to do. Even if you pay high salaries, the effort required is seen as too great compared to working in, say, the service industry.
Why do you think that Americans want to go back to tilling the soil? We've left it to immigrants, who feel forced by poverty to fruit-pick and such
You answered your own question with the same logic he used in the first place: Forced by poverty.
*ding* Fries are done!
Not all jobs are awesome, but everyone needs one.
Not all jobs are awesome, but everyone needs one.
People need a job that makes them happy. Better to have people receiving public assistance while they wait for a job that meets their interests and qualifications than force people to take anything they can get. Yes, your taxes are a couple of percentage points higher if you're working, but quality of life in your country goes through the roof.
Actually, people cannot be made happy by a job. You are either a happy person or you are not. If you are, your job doesn't matter much. If you are not, no job will fix it. Only you can.
not to say some jobs don't suck, but it is most assuredly not better for anyone other than a selfish individual to have people refuse work that is below their arbitrary designation of what is worthy of their interests and qualifications. the proper method is to work, and look for a different job while working, if you don
"However, if Roundup doesn't kill the weeds, farmers have little incentive to spend the extra money for the special seeds."
Am I the only one that read this as a good thing? Prior to Roundup farmers cross pollinated more resistant plants in order to improve them, this slow and gradual process never generated insane weeds. Monsanto has been known for a lot of shady practices anyway. Anything to discourage farmers from using their products is great.
This was predictable for anyone who believes in evolution. We've known since the early '70s that bacteria can pass genes back and forth. We've known for a while that plants can pass genes on to animals (http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/02/2215251/Aphids-Color-Comes-From-a-Fungus-Gene?from=rss [slashdot.org]). A combination of natural selection and gene transfer makes this not only expected, but inevitable.
This was predictable for anyone who believes in evolution.
Maybe if people were less concerned with getting people to believe and more with getting people to understand...
Of course it's predictable. And Monsanto either got lucky or figured out the probabilities before hand given that their "Round-up ready" crops are getting ready to fall out of patent protection sometime in the next few years. Just as they're ready to lose their monopoly, their crop becomes useless.
If it wasn't luck that's "planned obsolescence" at its finest. I actually will not be surprised if Monsanto has a new crop that is immune to a new herbicide ready to go sometime shortly after their patent expir
Can they sue mother nature, she obliviously infringes some Monsanto patents with her round up ready weed?
Not really a blow to creation science. Don't get me wrong - I think evolution has more than enough science behind it to accept it as fact. But I also think it's good to try to really understand all sides of an argument. Just casually flipping through a creationism book will show that creationists don't have any problems with natural selection - which is what this is. It's the idea of evolution - one species turning into an entirely different species - that gets their panties in a bunch. Just using natural s
No, changing the prevalence of a genetic trait in a population through natural selection is evolution. It's not, however, speciation -- which, as you correctly point out, is what creationists really have a problem with.
Examples like this show natural selection in practice.
They simply moved the goal post: So you have overwhelming evidence of evolution at the molecular level, they're forced to admit that it's happening, reluctantly, but their new goal is that they want overwhelming evidence of new organs. Prove THAT, Johnny Science!
We're seeing the same thing starting around here in subtle ways. Our neighbour uses various things to cull the 'weeds' (grass damnit!) on his farm plot, however every season the tough stuff comes back faster (thorns, prickles, even Parthenium now is coming back) and he's spraying more frequently to try compensate. What's more annoying is that we're trying to run an organic system here and his washoff and overspray tends to drift into our property, causing our natural grasses to die back a fair distance into our property as well as tainting the orchard crop closest to the boundary.
All that's happened with agriculture is that we've traded the future for short term gains. Time to put away the toxic stuff and start living with less than perfect harvests, at least it's better than -no- harvest (also, stop trying to grow stuff where it really doesn't belong damnit!)
traded the future for short term gains.
Isn't that the way that most publicly traded companies are run these days as well?
...it's called "evolution".
It's only natural that the weeds that have been surviving all the herbicide just come up stronger and stronger after each generation, to the point were the herbicide doesn't kill them anymore.
It's the way that living things behave: the stronger (or better adapted) survive, and the obstacles are slowly but steadily surpassed.
This is specially noticeable on living beings with a very low generation time (like bugs, plants, some small animals, etc), as the adaptations and mutations crop up relatively fast.
It's the way biology works, although some people like to have a "meddling god" to explain this all...
First, release a product, intended for wide or universal application, with little or no thought to how the larger ecosystem will subvert it. Next, release an infinite number of patches, fixes, and new products to try to put the genie back in the bottle while millions of users continue to shell out money to you and curse your very existence on the planet.
He mentioned that certain common weeds would "die-back" to the ground - so they looked dead, but they would spring up later with several stalks, much thicker in the base each time. He and several others would then go back to monsanto, who said it was impossible - until shown the weeds. Monstanto would pay to spray again, and then brought out again to redo the spraying. Roundup, hopefully, will become a
The funny thing is that a local guy I know has an organic farm, with very few problems due to his use of
We'll just send in Chinese Needle Snakes which will exterminate the weeds.
Karma's a bitch, hey Monsanto?
When I was in Business School, about 5 years ago, I wrote about South America and its addiction to Round-Up Ready crops. Monsanto was trying to get money out of them because they refused to pay for the seeds. Instead the farmers were keeping seeds from year to year. Eventually, Monsanto came to an agreement with the governments to collect licensing fees for their seeds.
Since Round-Up was working so well and they were keeping the seeds around from year to year and sharing with their neighbors. At the time
Monsanto, which once argued that resistance would not become a major problem, now cautions against exaggerating its impact. "It's a serious issue, but it's manageable,"
In the 50's, my mom was a nurse, and the most powerful weapon the hospital had at the time were the penicillins. It was a miracle, and it saved hundreds of people in the hospital she worked in.
But mom saw the danger. She warned the doctors, "Don't overuse them, the bugs will get used to it." She used to pester the doctors about it non-stop, but she was a woman and a nurse. What did she know? She also warned them that using too much would wipe out all the good bugs and make things worse for the patient.
Sure enough, one patient got overdosed and their gut flora were wiped out. After trying to figure out what to do with a patient that was dying of starvation and dehydration from the lack of good gut bugs, they gave them "shit soup" through a nasal tube. The doctors were "amazed" at their recovery. Duh?!
Mom watched the doctors start prescribing antibiotics for everything. By the time she left in the late sixties, she was already seeing antibiotic resistant staph that plowed through penicillin like it was candy.
Dad was a landscaper, and he saw the same thing with weed killers, fertilizers and bug spray. Sure, it killed the weeds one year, but they always came back, stronger than before. It used to be you could wipe out all the Japanese beetles in the cherry tree with half an ounce of Malathion in two gallons of water, and the stench wasn't so bad. Now you have to use two, sometimes three ounces, since only a half ounce made the bugs stoned, but little else. And lemme tell you, Southampton mosquitoes are among some of the most heavily sprayed, since the rich people don't like getting bitten.
Now they're impossible to kill.
We've known about this for at least 75 years or more, we've just chosen to ignore it because it's easier and more profitable to think in the short term, and hope the bill never comes.
Well guess what. The bill is on the table, and now we gotta cough up.
There are quite a few comment being posted by people who clearly aren't farmers and don't have a real clue as to where their food comes from. In fact several folks express a deep ignorance, which I could excuse, but then they go on to make claims and call for action. As a medium-scale farmer myself, I feel like I know enough about the issues to reply accurately. In no particular order, I state a few points.
1. Farmers are price takers. In other words, if you want to change agriculture, you have to do it on the demand side of the equation. If you think that raising costs for farmers will change behavior, you are wrong; that will merely drive farmers out of business. Instead maybe try to figure out why the price of food in the supermarket seems to have no relation to the commodity prices farmers are paid. Near as I can tell, the amount of wheat in a loaf of bread is pennies. Yet a loaf of bread is running at $3 in some places. If the current food prices trickled down to farmers, they could more easily absorb the increased cost of certain herbicide regulations, etc.
2. Unless you want to condemn billions of people to death, world food production has to double over the next 15 years, according to most forecasters. The only way I can see to do this is by trying to develop more environmentally sustainable methods of high-intensity farming that reduce our reliance on herbicides. As well I agree with Louise Fresco who thinks that agriculture can and should be done on rooftops and balconies in cities everywhere. Or maybe even city parks. Get city folks more involved with the food production process.
3. Permaculture and other similar ideas are good ones, but they don't scale very well in our economy, and forcing it through regulation won't work either (see #1). Currently just a few percent of the world's population now provide food for the rest and this number is dropping because of tremendous economic pressures placed on farmers. In other words farm life is a lot more strenuous that city life, and commodity prices have been pushed (by you, the city folk) to historic lows. Only the largest operators now remain. If you are willing to pay between even more for your food, perhaps more small permaculture farms would pop up.
4. Contributing to #2, European and American subsidies are having a tremendous negative impact on food production around the world. These subsidies keep the prices artificially low, effectively eliminating all but subsistence agriculture in Africa, and promoting the use of herbicides on a mass scale across the developed world. At the same time the subsides are promoting the practices that bring about the problems mentioned in the article. Indeed write your congressmen or EU parliamentarian on this one and demand that subsidies be removed.
5. Computer vision and herbicides only really work well in the practice of fallowing. It's easy to spot something green amongst a fallow field that's all brown, and spray it. And even there the cost of such a system is quite prohibitive still, so it hasn't reached the actual market yet. Computer vision in the fruit industry has little bearing on the issues of roundup resistant weeds in the article. The main food crops are cereals, legumes, and oilseeds. In these cases, weed control by vision is a lot harder as at the early stages it is hard even for a human to discern between a weed and a crop plant. It's not at all like an orchard. Crops are seeded in narrow rows, but the rows themselves are not little lines; we try to spread the seed out get get better germination and better growth. Thus weed and crop plants can be anywhere in 6-inch wide strips, the average distance between each strip's center is between 6 and 10", typically (we're not talking about row crops here).
I am a CS major and follow computer vision developments. We're just not there yet. So there's nothing to write Congress about yet. Hopefully that will change in the future.
6. Tillage is the number one reason we now have the overall weed proble
Hm. I only buy food from farmers I trust, and I avoid GM foods like the plague. I'll happily pay more for organic and grass-fed. The farmers I know who use sensible tactics are very well-educated and scientifically aware people; there's a lot of very new knowledge available. I actually attended a lecture just on the subject of soil and the various micro-organisms living in it and the complimentary/interdependent roles played by such. One of the speakers presented state of the art biological science in
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LEON — The conclusion to the 2014 Coaches vs. Cancer event between Central Decatur and Interstate 35 here Saturday was a perfect way to cap off the event.
The two boys teams — friendly rivals — battled to a thrilling overtime finish that saw the host Cardinals come out on top, 62-59.
The Cardinals held a five-point lead in the closing minutes of the game, but Interstate 35 sophomore Daniel Kennedy sank a 3-pointer and senior Jamal White got a layup to tie the game at 53-53 with 1:38 to go.
The two teams went scoreless over the final 1:38 of regulation, sending the game to overtime.
In the extra period, Taylor O'Dea rebounded his own miss and put it back to give the Roadrunners a lead at 57-56 — the first lead for Interstate 35 since it was 21-18 in the second quarter.
But Peyton Pedersen spun through the lane and hit a jumper to answer, and Noah Simon made 1-of-2 free throws to make it a 59-57 Central Decatur lead.
Zach Goering made 1-of-2 at the other end to cut it to one point, but that was the closest Interstate 35 could get, as the Cardinals hung on for the win.
"That was wild down the stretch, that five-point lead we gave away and then a chance in both overtime and regulation to seal it with free throws," Central Decatur head coach Zach Clark said. "It seemed like we missed one free throw at the line every time. We still found a way to win a basketball game."
It marked the second time this season the Cardinals have beaten the Roadrunners. After scoring a 61-51 win in Truro in December, Clark knew his team would have to be ready to play on Saturday.
"They're so well-coached and they're great kids," Clark said about I-35. "We knew they weren't just going to come in here and lay down. We knew it was going to be a dogfight all the way through like the last one."
After Jaylan White fouled out with 3:11 left in regulation, Interstate 35 head coach Nate Rankin said he was impressed with his young players fighting back to force overtime.
"Losing Jaylan, we're in a tough spot," he said. "Feels like we've been fighting all year. If we just continue to fight, there's only one way it can go. Something's going to go our way eventually. Just keep working hard, and I think we're going to be nasty at the end of the year. Some of those young guys are getting some close games and some experience."
Dalton Rhum led Central Decatur with 20 points to go with eight rebounds. Noah Simon recorded a double-double with 15 points and a team-high 11 rebounds. Pedersen also reached double figures with 12 points.
O'Dea and Jamal White each scored 13 points to lead Interstate 35, while Jaylan White added 12 points with nine assists. Goering finished with a team-high 11 rebounds.
Central Decatur improved to 7-4 for the season, while Interstate 35 dropped to 5-7.
But, bigger than the game was the fact it was part of the Coaches vs. Cancer event, which Rankin said gave the game a playoff-like atmosphere.
"It was a great environment," he said. "We try to tell the kids it's about more than just basketball. No more evident than a game like tonight."
For Rankin, who lost his sister to non-Hodgkins lymphoma two years ago, the Coaches vs. Cancer game is a special event.
"Zach and I had already talked about doing something before my sister got sick," Rankin said. "But once she got sick, I didn't think there was any other way. So many people suffer in our district and in Leon.
"It's something we can come together about," he continued. "Come together as a community and show it's not just about athletics, it's about being good humans and trying to cure the disease of cancer. Things are more important than basketball."


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DERBY - The Derby Selectmen accepted "with regret" the resignation of long-time Town Planner Cynthia Adams Monday evening and paved the way for the possibility of someone from Derby Line Village serving on the board. The selectmen said they would begin advertising for the position.Adams has a conflict with the Monday evening time slot, when the Planning Commission meets. She had asked the board to consider changing the day of the meetings, but said that if another planner couldn't make it on a different night, she would step down. Chairman Joe Profera and Planner Richard Del Favero said that Monday is the only night that works for their schedule. The Derby Planning Commission is in the midst of on-going hearings with Bill Simendinger, who wants to tear down two commercial building on Main Street in the Village of Derby Line. Simendinger has said that he wants to build a gas station and mini-mart at the location. Currently Derby Planners are considering a demolition permit from Simendinger. Simendinger was sent away from the last demolition permit hearing to gather more information for the board regarding his plans.The Planning Commission has already approved Simendinger's site plan, which infuriated many Derby Line residents. Some residents have said that the village isn't well represented on Derby's boards."Derby Line would like a bigger say in what goes on in the town," Village Trustee Keith Beadle said in an interview. He also said that he wants village residents to be more aware of town business.At the annual village meeting in the winter, voters agreed to do a study on the feasibility of creating a village board for planning and zoning, as well as completely seceding from the town altogether. Village trustees have expressed their opposition to Simendinger's plans from the beginning.


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KENNETT SQUARE – For years, the old Kennett Café on State Street in the borough's historic district was the scene of frequent police activity. But when developer Jack McFadden bought the building, he promised an upscale restaurant that would be an asset to the borough.
That was more than five years ago, and the building is still vacant.
McFadden has since invested $500,000 into renovations, money he received from a low-interest loan from the state. Still, McFadden said he has no opening date set, though he estimated the work is about 80 percent complete.
McFadden said the reason for the delay is that he wants to see how the state's plan to privatize the state liquor store system goes. The state House recently approved House Bill 790 that would put into motion a plan to phase out the state-owned wine and spirits stores, including a provision that requires all state stores to close when the total number statewide becomes less than 100.
The legislation would give existing beer distributors the first chance to purchase 1,200 licenses that will be available to sell wine and liquor. Beer distributors would also be able to offer different packaging options to customers, including six-packs, 12-packs and growlers. After a year, the public would have a chance to purchase the licenses.
But McFadden said there is language in a proposed Senate bill that would give those with a restaurant license, which McFadden has, the ability to sell wine by the bottle or by the case in addition to by the glass. McFadden has changed his plan because of this latest proposed development.
"My whole plan for the property has changed now," McFadden said, "because instead of making the entire place a restaurant, I will make part a wine bar, and part a Tapas Restaurant to serve the citizens of Kennett Square."
His previous plan had the second floor for use as a meeting room. Now, he is planning to install a boutique wine store.
"This building was the blight of the town when I bought it," said McFadden, who estimated he has about $1,4 million invested in the building and property so far. "This was a nuisance bar. It had all kinds of people of ill repute living on the second and third floor. This is my eighth historic property I've taken and made into successful restaurants. I'm no amateur at this."
The improvements so far are limited to the exterior of the building and the entire rear of the building that had to be rebuilt, and to an elaborate enclosed tower fire escape at the rear of the building, something McFadden feels is excessive.
"That fire tower alone cost me $180,000," McFadden said. "It's something that is put on 10-story buildings, not on a little building in Kennett Square like this."
McFadden said he regrets improving the exterior first.
"In hindsight, I made a mistake," he said. "I should have put all the money into the inside instead of the outside. But I did it to make the town happy so they had something nice to look at instead of some falling down crumbling building."
Borough officials have been monitoring McFadden's action closely since he acquired the building, and are frustrated that it sits empty today.
"What we have is a good building that has nothing in it right now," said Brant Kucera, borough manager. "Whether or not I can force him to open a business, that is not under my control. He used those funds for their intended purpose, and he does have to pay the loan back. If he refuses to pay the loan back, then we are going to have issues, obviously."
McFadden has acquired the needed extensions and hasn't begun repayment of the loan yet. But he said he plans to, and he's doing everything by the book, and all money is accounted for.
"The borough has no skin in the game as far as monetary," Kucera said. "We would like to see something open there, but the borough is only concerned that he (McFadden) is spending the money correctly and will pay back the loan according to the terms we negotiated with him."
McFadden said it won't be long until Kennett Square residents will be enjoying his new restaurant.
"The delays were no fault of my own," he said. "We're finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. This new liquor (privatization proposal) is a godsend to me. But it probably won't happen for a year."
The restaurant, Kucera said, will be unique to Kennett Square.
"You will be able to buy bottles of wine retail like at stores in Delaware now, but you can open it and enjoy it at the restaurant," McFadden said. "A lot of places in town are BYOBs. Here we have a place where people can buy a bottle of wine and enjoy it at a nice restaurant."
McFadden plans to sell 40 different wines by the glass.
"This is going to happen," McFadden said. "This will be an anchor of the downtown. I love Kennett Square and I love that building. Quite frankly, I think it's the nicest building in town and I want to make it into something really, really nice."
At the moment, when the construction begins again, the first floor with the wine bar and Tapas Restaurant with outdoor dining are priorities.
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Rafael Benitez's hopes of winning over Chelsea supporters face a stern test when his new side take on champions Manchester City at Stamford Bridge today.
Chelsea fans have not universally welcomed the Spaniard's appointment as Roberto Di Matteo's interim successor after the frequent spats that accompanied clashes between Benitez's Liverpool and Jose Mourinho's Chelsea.
The Spaniard's response has been to confidently declare he will gain acceptance through success on the pitch and there is no doubt victory over the reigning Premier League champions would be a step in the right direction.
Benitez has been appointed until the end of the season but has talked of impressing the Chelsea hierarchy sufficiently to convince them to shelve any plans of pursuing former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, who has also been linked with a move to City.
The new manager has also received first-hand experience of dealing with the kind of off-field issues that have become a feature of life at Stamford Bridge in recent years.
The announcement by the Football Association that referee Mark Clattenburg had been cleared of racially abusing Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel threatened to overshadow the new manager's first media briefing on Friday.
Mikel is now facing a charge relating to his behavior after the 3-2 home defeat by Manchester United, but is available for the visit of City.
Benitez must tighten up a defense that has looked shaky without John Terry —missing again with a knee injury — and, perhaps more dauntingly, attempt to coax striker Fernando Torres back into the form he showed when they worked together at Liverpool.
The manager insists, though, that only minor tweaks are needed to a side that lost 3-0 at Juventus this week — a result that triggered Di Matteo's departure and seriously undermined their hopes of progressing in the Champions League.
Describing his first meeting with his players, Benitez said: "We didn't talk about the Champions League or the next game but about little things I saw and we could improve a bit, and things they were doing well, which Roberto Di Matteo was doing."
"It's a good squad, a good team. If I'm here, it's because I think we can win with them. If we can improve by training hard, we will," he said.
The events at Chelsea this week have helped deflect some of the attention away from City's failure to reach the Champions League knockout rounds for the second successive season.
Manager Roberto Mancini knows his expensively assembled side must respond to their European demise with a positive result at Stamford Bridge to appease fans restless at the club's lack of progress against the continent's best teams.
Mancini is clearly frustrated at City's abrupt Champions League exit and was annoyed by the comments of Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, who had claimed City's struggles were "not normal" for a big team.
The City manager spent part of his pre-match press conference on Friday discussing Mourinho.
"Mourinho is not my chairman, he is not my owner," Mancini said. "What Mourinho said is for me not interesting."
"Mourinho wants to talk about everything, but for me it is not important," he said.
Mancini also praised City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak for his patience, in a week that saw Di Matteo fired six months after masterminding Chelsea's Champions League triumph.
"I don't know [Chelsea owner Roman] Abramovich, I don't know that situation," the Italian said.
"All I can say is that I am happy to work with my owners and my chairman. They are good men, they understand the situation. They know it is impossible to win every game," he said.
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When Edward loses all memories of Bella, the two of them must work to regain their relationship, his memories, and figure out the mystery of how it all happened.
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I opened my eyes, stretching slowly. Then I sat up and smiled in welcome to the rocking chair in the corner. My mouth dropped open when I saw my dresser, my old dresser, where Renee's rocking chair should be. I quickly turned, looking from side to side, taking in my surroundings. This was not my room. Well, it was, but it was my old one. The one in Phoenix. I jumped up, and ran to the window.
The sky outside was perfectly cloudy, and it was a perfect 75 degrees outside.
Why was I in Phoenix? How did I get to Phoenix? Where on Earth was Edward? So many questions swirled nauseatingly in my head. I decided to just go and call Edward. He would know.
I got dressed, wearing a tan sweater and jeans. It was hot and uncomfortable, but I just began searching for my cell phone; I would be out of here and with Edward in Forks soon enough.
I dialed the number quickly, getting anxious. I wanted to get out of here, and back to Charlie, to Edward, to Alice. To my room. It rang five times, and the wait was excruciating, before a small click came from the phone.
"Hello," came a soft, musical voice that I knew by heart. I smiled, though I knew he couldn't see me.
"Hey, it's me. I-"
"I'm sorry. Who are you?" His voice was confused. What? How could he not recognize my voice? Maybe the connection was just bad…
"It's me, Bella." My voice was warm, happy.
"Who?" Still confused, and slightly…worried? There was an edge to it that I didn't understand. Why was he fooling with me like this? I just wanted to go home, to Forks, and... why was he being so…unfunny?
"Ha ha. Very funny, Edward. Come on, stop trying to be funny. I'm here in Phoenix and-"
"I've never been to Phoenix in my life." His voice was surprised now. "And, I'm sorry, but…I don't know who you are."
"Come on, Edward." My voice was getting snippy; I was mad. Why is he keeping up this charade? "It's not funny anymore. I'm serious. Quit fooling around." By the end, my voice was raised, to show him I was done playing his game.
"Um…I'm sorry, but…what was your name again? Your full name? Maybe that would help me…remember…" I could hear the distress in his voice.
I heard slight mumbling on his end. I recognized Alice's voice. Oh, maybe she was in on it, too. Thought it would be a funny joke… Well, boy was she wrong!
"Fine. I'll play along. My name is Isabella Swan."
"I have never heard that name in my entire life."
What the hell was his problem?!? Now I was pissed!
"What, in all your hundred and ten years, you've never heard of me? Is that right?" I snapped.
"I…" his voice was frightened now. What need would he have to be frightened. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh come on, Edward. This is seriously not funny anymore. What – do all vampires take this long to get that their jokes are not appreciated?"
"You think I'm a vampire?" His voice was skeptical, but had a dark edge to it. I knew it long enough to realize that.
I sighed. Fine. If it would get him to stop, I'd play along…
"I know that you are a vampire, Edward Anthony Mason Cullen. I'm pretty sure that humans can't break trees with no effort, or run through the forest at like … super speed, or read minds." I said with an implying tone, expecting him to laugh and give in.
No such luck.
"What? How do you know these things, when I haven't even met you before?" He hissed. His voice was dark, and low. I struggled to hear it. It was also full of panic.
I stood there, just holding the phone, frozen in shock. This couldn't be happening. He is just fooling with me.
But he would have stopped by now, wouldn't he have? Could he really have…
"Do you really…" My voice was panicked, a whisper. "not remember me?" My voice cracked.
"No." His voice was flat. Dismissive. "But…I would like to meet you…to find out… how on Earth you know these things about me."
"Fine." I spat. " Ask Alice where we'll meet. She should know." He gasped, almost mutedly. "No, scratch that. Before you do, see Jasper. You seriously need to calm down, (-again, that muted gasp-) and, like freaking REMEMBER ME!!"
I threw the phone against my closet door. The battery fell out and skidded across the floor. I ran to my bed, and screamed into my pillow. Within five seconds, my screams turned to gasps as tears flew down my face in a river, traveling past my cheeks and forming small, wet shapes on my pillow.
How could he forget me? I loved him. He loved me. He proposed to me! We had gone through so much together, and now, he goes off and forgets! And I still don't know why I am in Phoenix!!
What the hell happened to me? To my life?
Wait. Maybe this is just a bad dream… I slapped my cheek. Really hard.
"Ouch!" A very thin line of blood flew softly and slowly down my cheek.
OK. Definitely not dreaming. I touched my hand to my cheek again, tenderly, wiping the blood away. I pulled my hand back and brought it to my face. I stared at the drop of blood on my finger, lost in thought.
Edward. Could he really forget me? How could he forget me? After everything we've been through, even if he didn't have his vamporial memory, even if his memory was only human, how could he FORGET me?
I love him. I would do anything for him. We've proven our love for each other again and again, and one day, his memory is just…wiped away? How can that be? He proposed to me a little over a month ago, and now, such a short time later, he forgets about me completely!? I felt fresh tears flowing down my face, and my knees were suddenly so weak. I fell to the floor, my face connecting with the cool wood of my bedroom's bottom.
It's decided. If he has forgotten, then I shall consider it my duty to remember me, to put everything back the way it is supposed to be. I will make him remember me. Or die trying.
I stepped out of my truck, and started to slip in the mud. I grabbed at the car mirror, and missed. I scrunched up my face for impact, when an icy hand grabbed my wrist, yanking me up in an uncaring manner. I looked up into Edward's eyes. They were cold, distant, and full of an extreme raging conflict. That hurt. It reminded me of when…he left. Except now, if I asked him if he wanted me, he would say no. And mean it this time…
"Thanks." My tone was depressed, and I saw that his expression grew slightly frustrated. There was a slight pout to it.
"You will find that you can't read my mind, Edward." I said his name with unintentional affection and he stared at me incredulously. Whether from saying his name like that or simply being unable to read my mind, I didn't know.
"Why?" His tone was innocent, caught off guard. He was honestly curious as to the answer. If only I had it…
"I have no idea. But don't worry. It's not just you. Aro and Jane can't affect me either. Still for unknown reasons." I sounded like a textbook, with hard facts.
His mouth twitched, but he recomposed himself, merely raising one perfect eyebrow.
"You know of the Volturi?" Oh, his wonderful, perfect, musical voice. How could he really have forgotten me?
"Yeah." My voice was offhand, as if I didn't care. "The two of us only nearly got…you know massacred. No big."
His mask fell. He simply stared at me incredulously. "We?" His voice was implying.
"Well, to tell the truth, it was sort of…completely your fault. You went to go kill yourself. You asked the Volturi to kill you, they said 'no', you tried to force them to kill you by walking into the sun. But Alice foresaw it, and like tried to get me to save you. We flew around the world to Italy, and I tried to get you to move out of the sun. Then Marcus tried to get me to come with you down to that…awful…chamber…anyways… you didn't want me to come, but people were staring so you tried to keep me safe, and so you brought me with you. Then you talked to Aro, and dear God is he perky, and then he saw that his ability didn't work on me, so he tried Jane's. But then you got in my way, and …that was…awful to watch…I tried to help you, but Alice held me back. Then Jane tried it on me, and nothing happened. So then Aro laughed, and he said I was your la tua cantante … you know 'your singer?' And then he asked Alice, and you … and me…to join them … and we declined. And then they made you promise…well…actually you didn't but Alice showed them it happening…anyways … they wanted to make sure that you would turn me… and when we got back, you…proposed to me…" The end was a mere mumble, and he stared at me, disbelieving.
That hurt. Deep. I told him everything that happened last summer, and he still didn't remember. He just looked at me, his face full of doubt.
"Well," He cleared his throat, uncomfortable. "I'm sorry Isabella-"
"Bella," I corrected, a reflex.
"Bella." He amended, "but…I really don't remember you."
No. No. No! NO! He had to remember, he had to! He couldn't just forget me! I was standing right here, I told him of half of our relationship, and he just blows me off!
I sank to the ground, to my knees, into the mud. He stared at me, anxious.
"Bella?" His voice, it reminded me of when I heard the voices, of when I was drowning, before Jacob… wait.
"Jacob." His eyes, usually flashing darkly at this point, remained unchanging. Dang. But maybe, maybe, I could get Jacob to help me get Edward's memory back. But first, I needed to find out how much he forgot; It can't be just me … he didn't remember Jacob…
"Hey, Edward," I tried to make my voice uncaring. "Where are we?"
"Um… I don't know. Alice just told me to come to this rainy place…in Washington of all places…why did you want to meet here?"
"This… is Forks, Washington. You met me here. There is a meadow, not too far from here. It is where you told me you loved me for the first time." My eyes grew very soft, but hardened again at his surprised expression.
"We were…in love?"
"Yes." I took another step towards him, slowly. He noticed. My heart tore in two when he stepped back slightly.
"We were, Edward. You proposed, and… I love you…and you loved me…and I will do everything in my ability to get your memory back. And after that, we can work out how you lost your memory in the first place."
He smiled timidly at me. It was still beautiful, but not even close to as wonderful as his crooked smile. He reached out his hand, and I took it. He pulled me up with no effort, and after I was up, I did not let go. I tried to pull myself closer to him, but he pulled away, stiffening. I looked up and his eyes were black as coal.
"Oh… why didn't you hunt before you came here? That's…not… really…good." His eyes were full of restraint, as much as I had seen on that first day. I backed away very slowly. I didn't want to run; I didn't want to be afraid. And I wasn't afraid… much…
"Edward?" I said it slowly, cautiously. His eyes flickered to me and away. I tried to be very still, to not stir the air with my scent.
He closed his eyes, and was very still. I tried to breathe as little as was necessary. I knew that I should be horrified. I knew that my life could end at any moment, and I wouldn't even see it coming. I should be frozen in fear.
But I wasn't. I was frozen. But with concern. I knew how my scent tormented him that first time, and now he had to go through it again. I felt only for him. Just like always, my emotions were the same. If only his were…
He breathed out suddenly, quickly, and smiled at me. I let out my breath, smiling back. "I am so sorry. Could you forgive me?"
"Of course. It's not the first time, anyways. Not for me. The question is if you could forgive me."
"Why do you need to be sorry?"
"I'm your singer."
He laughed, and smiled. It still wasn't my smile, my crooked smile. I would forever wait for it.
I took his hand again. He didn't pull away.
"I have something to show you."
He let me lead him now. I pulled him towards his meadow, into the forest I would never forget, the forest where my angel declared himself for the first time.
"I will help you remember Edward. I promise, no, I swear, I will. I will find out what happened, and then we will be together forever."
And he smiled.
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Although they could not be conscripted, when World War II was declared, thousands of Indigenous Canadian men and women enlisted and fought alongside their non-Indigenous countrymen. Ironically, they fought for freedom for others while being denied equality in their own country.
As a reward for fighting, the Canadian Soldier Veteran's Settlement Act allowed returning soldiers to buy land at a cheap price. However, many of the Indigenous soldiers were never offered nor told about the land entitlement. Some returned home to find the government had seized parts of their own reserve land to compensate non-Indigenous war veterans. Whole First Nations communities still mourn the loss of the thousands of acres of prime land they were forced to surrender.
With narrator Gordon Tootoosis providing an historical overview, Indigenous veterans poignantly share their unforgettable war memories and their healing process. We join them as they travel back to Europe to perform a sacred circle for friends left behind, but not forgotten, in foreign grave sites.
Director: Loretta Todd
Writing: Loretta Todd
Producer: Carol Geddes
Producer: Michael Doxtater
Producer: Jerry Krepakevich
Producer: Graydon McCrea
Photography: Jim Jeffrey
Photography: Ali Kazimi
Photography: Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
Photography: Kirk Tougas
Sound: Chris Aikenhead
Sound: Brian Avery
Sound: Lindsay Bucknell
Sound: William Butler
Sound: Garrell Clark
Sound: Leon Johnson
Sound: Michael McGee
Sound: Hans Oomes
Sound: Don Paches
Editing: Shirley Claydon
Editing: Gerald K. Wilson
Sound: Marc Benoit
Sound: Marc Benoit
Voice and Narration: Gordon Tootoosis
Music: Wesley Lowe
Music: Russell Wallace
Forgotten Warriors
1997, Todd, Loretta
85 min 15 s
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$58 Million Merck Settlement To Change Deceptive TV Drug Advertisements
SAN DIEGO--California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced a "groundbreaking settlement" with Merck & Co. which requires the pharmaceutical manufacturer to obtain Federal Drug Administration approval before running any television drug advertisements for new pain medications.
"Merck's aggressive television advertising convinced hundreds of thousands of consumers to seek Vioxx prescriptions before the drug's risk were fully understood," Attorney General Brown said. "Today's groundbreaking settlement prevents Merck from releasing new television drug advertisements without obtaining federal approval."
Today's settlement resolves 30 state lawsuits challenging Merck's marketing practices for Vioxx, a non-sterodial anti-inflammatory drug used to treat symptoms of arthritis as well as chronic and acute pain.
In 1999 Merck launched an aggressive promotional campaign directed at both consumers and health care professionals in which the company allegedly misrepresented the cardiovascular dangers of Vioxx. In 2004, Merck admitted that Vioxx caused serious cardiovascular adverse events and withdrew the drug from the market.
California alleged that one of the problems with the Vioxx marketing campaign was that the direct to consumer advertising began when the drug was first released and before doctors had an opportunity to gain experience with the drug and its potential side effects. Under today's settlement, Merck may not launch a television advertising campaign for a newly approved pain drug if the Federal Drug Administration recommends delaying such television advertising.
The settlement, which also requires Merck to pay $58 million in restitution to states, is the largest monetary settlement that a group of states have obtained in a pharmaceutical advertising case. California will receive $5.3 million of the settlement funds to pay attorneys' fees, future enforcement and consumer education.
The settlement places other restrictions on Merck's future conduct including:
• Prohibiting the use of deceptive scientific data when marketing new drugs to doctors
• Prohibiting Merck from "ghost writing" articles and studies for publication
• Requiring disclosure of conflicts of interest when Merck promotional speakers make presentations at supposedly independent Continuing Medical Education programs
• Requiring Merck to submit clinical trial results of FDA-approved Merck products to the National Library of Medicine
Merck's principle place of business is One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Merck advertised, sold, promoted and distributed the prescription drug rofecoxib, marketed under the name Vioxx, in California and nationwide.
Other states which participated in today's settlement include: Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin..
Please contact the attorney general's press office for a copy of the complaint and settlement


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EyeCity.Com, Inc. Shareholder Update of Strategic Planning For Additional Oil and Gas Well Acquisitions.
By: PR Newswire
Nov. 15, 2012 05:26 PM
LAKE MARY, Fla., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EyeCity.com, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ICTY) Bradley Wilson, CEO of ICTY, is pleased to provide the following update to shareholders.
EyeCity.com, Inc. ("ICTY" and/or "Company") focus has been on the implementation of a Four Phase Program to enhance the company's value and generate revenue.
The completion of filings for the Company to be at the OTC Current tier and acquisition of the Cobb, Texas wells marked major milestones for ICTY. Cobb, Texas is located within Haskell County Texas, a significant crude oil producer in the United States. Oil production in Haskell County has grown from over 22,000 barrels per year in 1938 to over one million barrels per year in 1978, with aggregated production well over 100 million barrels. The US oil and gas exploration and production industry has combined annual revenue of about $290 billion.
The Company previously announced the acquisition of 3 wells, with an option for 6 additional wells; ICTY acquired 100% of the WI ("Working Interest") and 75% of the NRI ("Net Royalty Interest") in these wells. The planned stimulation program for these wells will be primarily "water flood injection into the formation". Therefore, production for these first 3 wells can be projected at approximately 10 BBL/day with a potential of 18 BBL/day. Based upon an average of 360 production days per year and an $85 Net Crude Sales Price per Barrel this equates to $306,000 (75% NRI $229,500) to $550,000 (75% NRI $413,000).
ICTY is evaluating an additional 20 wells in Cobb, Texas for acquisition. Each individual well to be considered for a possible purchase and investment will be evaluated on their individual merit as to its feasibility to produce positive cash flow and increase shareholder value.
As part of our Phase Three growth, the Company has targeted acquisitions in Cobb, Texas and Alberta Canada that would represent potentially over 100 BBL/per day of additional crude oil production.
The Company will continue to report details of acquisitions as well as additions to our executive team and board over the course of the next several weeks as well as updates on mining initiatives. The decision by Company management to expand into the Oil and Gas Sector has already produced tremendous results to continuously build upon.
"The importance of becoming an OTC current filer and completing the first acquisition will become evident to shareholders as we continue to build upon this positive momentum. I am committed to consistent shareholder updates as we continue to execute on our business plan which includes emerging as a fully reporting SEC filer, expanding revenue, increasing shareholder value and long term growth potential. Success to any business is its foundation and the wells in Texas and Alberta provide us a foundation of bedrock to build upon" CEO Wilson stated.
About Eyecity.com Inc.
Eyecity.com, Inc. is currently transitioning its business model towards a focus on natural resources. The primary focus in this sector is targeted towards oil and gas and the exploration and mining.
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Once I've implemented a function tree (which represent a quantitative model) using table functions, with data tables as input parameters, I can simulate the whole tree by varying some input values. I use such simulations for scenario analysis and optimizations.
A colleague advised me to use stored procedures instead of table functions for a better performance and scalability.
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David Carr writes about media and culture for the New York Times' Media Decoder blog. He was a main character in the 2011 documentary "Page One" about the Times. His memoir The Night of the Gun was published in 2008.
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CH Aspendel's Pale Rider JH
Three hundred miles east of Dallas is Big Spring TX. The hometown club gave us two shows this weekend. The first on Saturday saw Charles Trotter choose the German Wirehaired Pointer, CH Aspendel's Pale Rider JH, out of a final that included the Basset Hound, CH Kelmic's Anjo Pepper of Bugle Bay, the Samoyed, CH Glacier's Bright Wizard, the White Bull Terrier, CH Action Bogart Play It Again, the Pomeranian, CH Pufpride Somewhere In Time, the French Bulldog, CH Justus I'm Your Man, and the Rough Collie, CH Windcrest Swept Away. It was the second this year for Leilly and handler Karen Newman. Sunday Jane Forsyth saw Lilly, the same Bull Terrier & Frenchie, the Norwegian Elkhound, CH Jaru's Who's Your Daddy, the Doberman Pinscher, CH Horizon's Upper Echelon, the Blueridge's Katmandu At Kngz, and the Briard, CH Celbratia VintageEightyFour. She chose the Doberman, Fallon. Fallon was bred by Barbara Adams & Rick & Linda George who co-own Fallon with Hillary Zimmerman. Congratulations to them all.
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The NRL's head of football Todd Greenberg has defended the competition's under-fire regulations that allowed James Tedesco to back out of a $1.9 million deal with Canberra only a week after the Raiders announced his acquisition for the next three years.
The 21-year-old fullback decided to remain with Wests Tigers just before the expiration of the NRL's official cooling-off period for players who have agreed to join other clubs for next season and beyond.
It led to calls for the scrapping of the so-called "round 13 rule", which dictates that contracts are not registered with the NRL until the halfway point of the season, thus allowing players to change their minds.
However, Greenberg said on Thursday it was the most workable model available, and far better than the previous system, which prohibited rival clubs from speaking to off-contract players until after June 30.
"The concept is simply that it gives the incumbent club every opportunity to retain their players. That was the catalyst for this at the start of it and that's why it remains there," Greenberg said.
The former Canterbury chief executive said when the transfer period was set after June 30 – players, agents and clubs simply began negotiations beforehand discreetly.
"On 1st July, all of a sudden you'd have these players announcing they were signing with clubs. There is not much use putting rules in place if you can't enforce them," Greenberg said. "It wasn't ideal for the game because what happens is there is no doubt that, behind the scenes, people are having conversations but they're trying to have them away from the public eye and it's just not workable. The June 30 rule was just impossible to police."
Tedesco's change of heart was the second time in two seasons that Ricky Stuart has had a high-profile signing perform an about-face. Josh Papalii broke a three-year agreement with Parramatta last year, when Stuart was running the Eels, to stay in Canberra. In a statement, the Raiders coach said the club would press on in the market after also failing to lure Melbourne's Kevin Proctor and Penrith winger Josh Mansour, and having Anthony Milford decide to join Brisbane.
"Despite the recent disappointments of losing players whom we had identified to fulfil these roles, I want to assure – in particular, our members and fans, stakeholders and the Canberra community – that we will continue to push forward with an aggressive recruitment program that's aimed at bringing deserved success to a great football club," Stuart said. "These disappointments have only added to our resolve to achieve our goals."
Other club chief executives were also supportive of the present system.
"To be honest, up until this last few days, I haven't put a lot of thought into that rule but I am a believer that there needs to be some form of cooling off period when players decide to leave a club," said Tigers chief Grant Mayer, whose club were the big winners in the Tedesco episode.
"It doesn't happen a lot but, when it does, there is a pretty fierce reaction and I think we have got to somehow work out how we manage that going forward.
"I am the benefactor of that rule so I would never bag it. I know some players have come out and been critical of it but all we are doing is utilising the rule that is there and, for us, it has worked in our favour."
Cowboys chief Peter Jourdain said there was no perfect system but giving players time to contemplate switching clubs made sense.
"This is just a view from a distance but it sounds like Tedesco has decided to take less to stay at a club he came through with, and to stay with all the players he came through with, and I think that is good," Jourdain said.
"We were able to keep our big three last year for less money than they could have got if they had gone somewhere else as well.
"You talk about transfer windows at the end of the season and that sort of stuff, but it just becomes bullshit because the negotiations happen anyway and people will just get around it, so If it is out in the public it is not hidden."