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Of Safety and Solvency
March/April 2004
I've been hearing an awful lot of talk lately about how this-or-that local, county or state government is facing drastic reductions in programs and services due to reduced revenue and budget cuts, or desperately seeking new sources of income to fund critically needed new projects and avoid numerous imminent crises. Last October, the Department of Human Resources' AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which helps about 900 Georgians pay for drugs that can cost $2,500 each month per patient, narrowly avoided a $10.3 million laceration to its budget, which is funded by the state and federal governments (Survival News, November/December 2003, pg. 3) -- but its future remains uncertain. The Fulton County Commission is currently considering a $500,000 reduction in the Department of Human Services' $4.4 million grant program, a significant portion of its $24.5 million budget. The proposed reduction would mean cutting four positions in the county's HIV/AIDS program and longer waits for clients accustomed to same-day service for counseling and HIV test results. City of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin is desperately seeking $3.2 billion in funding over the next ten years for court-ordered repairs to the city's crumbling sewer system.
Our elected officials invariably seek to solve their budget problems by either cutting programs and services or by raising taxes. Governor Sonny Perdue fought for and won a 37?-per-pack increase in the state's tobacco tax last year -- although how you can expect to increase revenue by taxing a consumer product you simultaneously condemn as a dangerous health risk seems morally unconscionable and fiscally irresponsible to me. Franklin, astonishingly, wanted to triple city water customers' water bills to pay for Atlanta's sewer system repairs, a move condemned and rejected by the Atlanta City Council.
I am astounded by the lack of imagination our elected officials exhibit in their fiscal problem-solving. When I'm not editing this publication, I spend an enormous amount of time travelling Georgia's highways -- more than 80,000 miles in 2003. During my daily travels throughout Georgia, I see problems that need to be solved. I also see solutions to those problems, solutions that could easily be potential sources of new revenue for the city and state.
Georgia requires all passenger vehicles to pass an annual emissions inspection test prior to issuing owner registration renewals. There are far too many vehicles on Georgia's roads with no brake lights, burnt-out headlamps and taillights, cracked windshields, balding tires and other mechanically unsafe conditions. I propose an annual mechanical safety inspection of all of Georgia's 7.6 million registered vehicles, conducted simultaneously with the emissions inspection for an additional fee of $25. Shazam! We've just raised $190 million annually with virtually no additional administrative expense, boosted the statewide economy by increasing business at automotive repair shops and improved the safety of all of Georgia's roads and highways.
Currently, Georgia drivers are required to renew their driver's licenses once every four years at a cost of only $15 -- only $8 if you're an organ donor. Given the importance of driver's licenses in establishing residency and proving identification, especially in the era of post-9/11 heightened security, this is far too infrequent and inexpensive. If vehicle registrations are renewed annually, why not driver's licenses? I propose an annual mail-in license renewal fee of $25 for Georgia's 5.7 million licensed drivers, the nonforwardable notice for which to be mailed to drivers' home addresses on record, and every fourth year, a mandatory in-person renewal including a vision test for road safety and updated photo for ID purposes, also at a cost of $25. Shazam! We've just raised more than $121 million annually with little additional administrative expense and increased the currency of the state's primary method of personal identification.
Running red lights, especially through high-volume intersections, is both dangerous and rampant. Municipalities who install red light cameras, such as the one at the intersection of Clairemont Avenue and Scott Boulevard in Decatur, reduce traffic accidents by dissuading drivers who might otherwise be tempted to run the light to not do so. I propose installing such cameras at busy intersections throughout the state. The cameras do not photograph the vehicle drivers, but do take clear pictures of the vehicle running the light, including a close-up picture of the license plate. The photographs are later analyzed and reviewed by the local municipality's police department and a summons then mailed to the offender. Let's install 500 of these cameras around the state and set a fine of $100 for each violation. Assuming each camera snaps a shot of 10 violators a day, aggressive enforcement of the red light law could bring in -- Shazam! -- more than $180 million in revenue before expenses for Georgia's cities and counties. There really is no credible argument against using such technology for law enforcement, especially when statewide traffic safety would most assuredly improve.
That's nearly half a billion additional dollars for Georgia per year in three easy steps while increasing both safety and security statewide -- a classic win-win scenario. There's no reason why any of our HIV/AIDS programs -- or education programs, or any critically necessary state-funded program -- should face reduction or elimination with options like these available to our legislators.
This article was provided by AIDS Survival Project. It is a part of the publication Survival News.


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Aids: An Existential Disease?
Would you please say something about AIDS?
"I do not know anything about even the first aids, and you are asking me about the last AIDS! But it seems I will have to say something about it. And in a world where people who know nothing about themselves can talk about God, people who know nothing about the geography of the earth can talk about heaven and hell, it is not inconceivable for me to say something about AIDS, although I am not a physician. But neither is the disease now called AIDS just a disease. It is something more, something beyond the limitation of the medical profession.
"As I see it, it is not a disease in the same category as other diseases; hence the danger of it. Perhaps it will kill at least two-thirds of humanity. It is, basically, the incapability to resist diseases. One slowly, slowly finds oneself vulnerable to all kinds of infections, and one has no inner resistance to fight those infections.
"To me it means humanity is losing the will to live.
"Whenever a person loses the will to live his resistance falls immediately, because the body follows the mind. The body is a very conservative servant of the mind; it serves the mind in a religious way. If the mind loses the will to live it will be reflected in the body by the dropping of resistance against sickness, against death. Of course the physician will never bother about the will to live - that's why I thought it better that I say something.
"It is going to become such an enormous problem all over the world that any insight from any dimension can be of immense help. Just in America, this year, four hundred thousand people are affected by AIDS, and each year the number will double. Next year it will be eight hundred thousand people, and then one million six hundred thousand people; that way it will go on - doubling. Just this year America will need five hundred million dollars to help these people, and still there is not much hope of their surviving.
"Just in the beginning it was thought to be a homosexual disease. From all around the world researchers supported the idea that it was something homosexual - it was found that it happens more in men than in women.
"But just yesterday a report from Africa changes the whole standpoint. Africa is greatly involved in researching about the disease because Africa is the most affected area. It seems blacks are almost twice as vulnerable to the disease as white people. Africa is suffering from a great epidemic of AIDS; hence, they have been researching. It is a question of life and death.
"Their report is very strange. It says that AIDS is not a homosexual disease at all, that it is a heterosexual disease, and it happens if people go on changing partners - mixing with many women, with many men, continually changing partners. This continuous changing is the cause of the disease. Homosexuality has nothing to do with it, according to their research. Now all the researchers in Europe and America are on one side, and the South African report is on the opposite side.
"To me it is very significant. It has nothing to do with either heterosexuality or with homosexuality. It has certainly something to do with sex. And why has it something to do with sex? - because the will to live is rooted in sex. If the will to live disappears, then sex will be the most vulnerable area of life to invite death.
"Remember perfectly well that I am not a medical man, and whatever I am saying is from a totally different point of view. But there is much more possibility of what I am saying being true than what these so-called researchers are saying, because their research is superficial. They think only of cases; they collect data, facts. That is not my way - I am not a fact-collector.
"My work is not of research but of insight. I try to see into every problem as deeply as possible. I simply ignore the superficial, which is the area of the researchers.
"I try to penetrate deeply, and I see clearly that sex is the phenomenon most related to the will to live. If the will to live declines, sex will be vulnerable; then it is not a question of heterosexuality or homosexuality.
"In Europe and in America they started looking into it because it was just a coincidence that the first cases happened in homosexuals; perhaps homosexuals had lost the will to live more than heterosexuals. The whole research was confined to California, and most of the victims were Jews; obviously the researchers found that it is linked to homosexuality. If any heterosexual was also found to have the symptoms then it was naturally assumed that he had got it from some homosexual person.
"California is such a stupid part of the world - and as far as sex is concerned, the most perverted part of the world. You can also say avant-garde, progressive, revolutionary, but these beautiful words won't hide the truth: California has become too perverted. Why does it happen, this perversion? And why has it happened in California particularly? - because California is one of the most cultured, civilized, affluent societies. Naturally, they have everything that you can hope for, everything that you can desire - and that's where the problem of the will to live arises.
"When you are hungry you think of getting work, food; you don't have time to think about life and death. You don't have time to think about what the meaning of existence is. It is impossible: a hungry man cannot think of beauty, of art, music. Take the hungry man, starving, into a museum filled with beautiful pieces of art - do you think he will be able to see any beauty there? His hunger will prevent him. These are luxuries. Only when all his basic needs are fulfilled does man come to face the real problems of life. Poor countries don't know the real problems.
"Hence, when I say that the richest man is the poorest, you can understand what I mean by saying it. The richest man comes to know the unsolvable problems of life, and he is stuck; there is nowhere to go. The poor man has so much to do, so much to achieve, so much to become. Who cares about philosophy, theology, art? They are too big for him; he is interested in very mundane things, very small things. And it is impossible for him to turn his consciousness upon himself and start thinking and brooding about existence, being - just impossible.
"California is, unfortunately, one of the most fortunate parts of the world, in every way: it has the most beautiful people, beautiful land, and it has come to the highest peak of luxury. And there, the question arises. You have done everything; now what else is there to do? That's the point where perversion begins.
"You have known many women and you have come to understand that it is all the same. Once you put the light off, every woman is just the same. When the light is off, if the woman goes into the other room and your wife comes in - and you are not aware - you may even make love to your wife, giving her beautiful dialogues, not knowing that she is your wife. What are you doing? If anyone comes to know about it, that you speak these beautiful dialogues - learned from Hollywood movies - to your own wife, they certainly will think that you have gone crazy. These are meant for other people's wives, not for your wife. But in the darkness there is no difference.
"Once a man knows many women, a woman knows many men, one thing becomes certain - that it is the same, a repetition. The differences are superficial, and as far as the sexual contact is concerned, they make no difference. A little longer nose, or a little blonder hair, a whiter face or a little suntanned - what difference does it make when you come to make love to a woman? Yes, before making love to a woman all these things make a difference. And it continues to make a difference in countries where monogamy is still the rule.
"For example, in a country like India, the disease AIDS is not going to happen while India remains monogamous, it is impossible - for the simple reason that people know only their wife, only their husband, their whole life. And they always remain curious about what the neighbor's wife would feel like. It always remains a tremendous curiosity, but there is no possibility for perversion.
"Perversion requires the basic condition that you are fed up with changing women, you want something new. Then men start trying men - that seems to be different; women start trying women - that feels a little different. But for how long? Soon that too is the same. Again, the question arises.
"This is the point where you try all kinds of things, and slowly, slowly one thing becomes settled: that it is all useless. Curiosity disappears. Then, what is the point of living for tomorrow? It was curiosity: tomorrow something new may happen. Now you know that the new never happens. Everything is old under the sky. The new is just a hope, it never happens. You try all kinds of designs in furniture, houses, architecture, clothes - and everything fails finally. When everything fails and there is no hope for tomorrow, then the will to live cannot go on with the same fervor, force, persistence. It starts dragging. Life seems to lose juice. You are alive because what else to do? You start thinking of committing suicide.
"Sigmund Freud is reported to have said, "I have never come across a single man who has not thought, at least once in his life, of committing suicide." But Sigmund Freud is now too old, out of date. He was talking about psychologically sick people; those were the people with whom he was coming in contact.
"My own experience is that the poor man never thinks of committing suicide. I have come across thousands of poor people; they never think of committing suicide. They want to live, because they have not lived yet; how can they think of suicide?
"Life has so many things to give, and they see that everybody is enjoying all kinds of things and they have not lived yet. There is a great urge, force, to live. Much has to be done, much has to be achieved. There is the whole sky of ambition open, and they have not even begun to scratch the ground. No beggar ever thinks of committing suicide. Logically it should be just the other way: every beggar should think of committing suicide, but no beggar ever thinks of it - even a beggar who has no eyes, is blind, is paralyzed, crippled....
"In poor countries nobody thinks of suicide, in poor countries the question of meaning has not been raised. It is a Western question. What is the meaning of life? In the East nobody asks that. The West has come to a saturation point where everything you could live for you have already lived. Now what? If you are courageous enough, you commit suicide - or murder....
"Once this disease, AIDS, spreads - and it is spreading, it is already epidemic, in America too. The politicians are keeping quiet, the priests are keeping quiet, because the problem is too big, and nobody seems to have any suggestion as to how to solve it, so it is better to keep silent. But how long can you keep silent?
"The problem is spreading, and once it spreads and becomes wider, you will be surprised: the profession that will be the topmost in this business of AIDS will be the priests, the nuns, the monks. They will be on the topmost, the most affected by it, because they have been practicing perverted sex longer than anybody else. California is just new. Those monks and nuns have been living in "California" for centuries.
"As it appears to me, the disease is spiritual.
"Man has come to a point where he finds the way ends. Going back is meaningless because all that he has seen, lived, shows him there was nothing in it; it has all proved meaningless. Going back has no meaning; going ahead there is no road: facing him is the abyss. In this situation if he loses the desire, the will to live, it is not unexpected.
"It has been experimentally proved that if a child is not brought up by loving people - the mother, the father, the other small children in the family - if the child is not brought up by loving people, you can give him every nourishment but somehow his body goes on shrinking. You are giving everything necessary - medical needs are fulfilled, much care is being taken - but the child goes on shrinking. Is it a disease? Yes, to the medical mind everything is a disease; something must be wrong. They will go on researching the facts, why it is happening. But it is not a disease.
"The child's will to live has not even arisen. It needs loving warmth, joyful faces, dancing children, the warmth of the mother's body - a certain milieu which makes him feel that life has tremendous treasures to be explored, that there is so much joy, dance, play; that life is not just a desert, that there are immense possibilities. He should be able to see those possibilities in the eyes around him, in the bodies around him. Only then will the will to live spring up - it is almost like a spring. Otherwise, he will shrink and die - not with any physical disease, he will simply shrink and die.
"I have been to orphanages.... One of my friends, Rekhchand Parekh, in Chanda Maharashtra, used to run an orphanage - nearabout one hundred to one hundred and ten orphans were there. And orphans would come, two days old, three days old; people would just leave them in front of the orphanage. He wanted me to come to see the orphanage. I said, "Sometime later on I will see it, because I know whatever is there will make me unnecessarily sad." But he insisted, so one time I went, and what I saw.... They were taking every care, he was pouring his money on those children, but they were all ready to die just any moment. Doctors were there, nurses were there, medical facilities were there, food was there, everything was there. He had given his own beautiful bungalow - he had moved to a smaller bungalow - a beautiful garden and everything was there; but the will to live was not there.
"I told him, "These children will go on dying slowly."
"He said, "You are telling me? I have been running this orphanage for twelve years; hundreds have died. We have tried every possible way to keep them alive, but nothing seems to work. They go on shrinking and one day simply they are no longer there." If there was a disease the doctor could help, but there was no disease; simply, the child had no desire to live. When I said this to him it became clear to him. He immediately, that very day, gave the orphanage to the government, and he said, "I have been trying to help these children for twelve years; now I know it is not possible. What they need I cannot give, so it is better that the government takes it over." He said to me, "I had come to this point many times, but I am not an articulate man so I could not figure out what it was. But in a vague way I was feeling that something was missing and that goes on killing them."
"AIDS is the same phenomenon at the other end. The orphan child shrinks and dies because his will to live never sprouts, never springs up, never becomes a flowing current. AIDS is at the other end: You suddenly feel you are an existential orphan. This existential feeling of being an orphan causes your will to live to disappear.
"And when the will to live disappears, sex will be the first thing to be affected because your life starts with sex; it is a by-product of sex.
"So while you are living, throbbing, hoping, ambitious, and the tomorrow remains the utopia - so that you can forget all the yesterdays which were meaningless, you can forget today which is also meaningless...but tomorrow when the sun rises and everything will be different.... All the religions have been giving you that hope.
"Those religions have failed. Although you go on keeping the label - Christian, Jew, Hindu - it is only a label. Inside, you have lost hope, the hope has disappeared. Religions could not help; they were pseudo. Politicians could not help. They were never intending to help; it was just a strategy to exploit you. But how long can this false utopia - political or religious - help you? Sooner or later, one day man will become mature; and that's what is happening. Man is becoming mature, aware that he has been cheated by the priests, by the parents, by the politicians, by the pedagogues. He has been simply cheated by everybody, and they have been feeding him on false hopes. The day he matures and realizes this, the desire to live falls apart. And the first thing wounded by it will be your sexuality. To me that is AIDS.
"When your sexuality starts shrinking you are really hoping that something will happen and you will go into eternal silence, into eternal disappearance. Your resistance is not there. AIDS has no other symptoms except that your resistance goes on dropping. At the most you can live two years if you are fortunate and don't get accidentally infected. Each infection will be incurable, and each infection will be weakening you more and more. Two years is the longest the AIDS patient can live; and he may disappear sometime before that. And no treatment is going to help, because no treatment can bring back your will to live.
"What I am doing here is multidimensional. You are not fully aware of what I am trying to do; perhaps you may become aware only when I am gone. I am trying to give you not a hope in the future - because that has failed - I am trying to give you a hope herenow. Why bother about tomorrow? - because tomorrow has not helped. For centuries the tomorrow has been keeping you somehow dragging, and it has failed you so many times that now you cannot go on clinging to it. That would be sheer stupidity. Those who are clinging to it still are only proving that they are retarded in their minds.
"I am trying to make this very moment a fulfillment, a contentment so deep that there is no need for the will to live. The will to live is needed because you are not alive. The will keeps picking you up: you go on slipping down, the will keeps picking you up. I am not trying to give you a new will to live, I am simply trying to teach you to live without any will, to live joyously. It is the tomorrow that goes on poisoning you. Forget yesterdays, forget tomorrows. This is our day - let us celebrate it and live it. And just by living it you will be strong enough so that without the will to live you will be able to resist all kinds of diseases, all suicidal attitudes.
"Just being fully alive is such a power that not only can you live, you can make others aflame, afire.
"This has been a well-known fact. When there are great epidemics have you not wondered why the doctors and nurses and others don't get infected? They are human beings just like you, and they are overworked, more vulnerable to infection because they are continually tired. When there is an epidemic you cannot insist on a five-hour day or six-hour day, and a five-day week. An epidemic is an epidemic; it does not bother about your holidays and your overtime. You have to work - people work sixteen hours, eighteen hours, every day, for months. Still, the doctors, the nurses, the Red Cross people, they don't get infected.
"What is the problem? Why are others getting infected? These are similar kinds of people. If just having a Red Cross on your shirt...then put the Red Cross on everybody's shirt; on every house the Red Cross. If the Red Cross is preventing infection it would be so easy - but that is not the thing.
"No, these people are so much involved in helping others, they don't have any tomorrow. This moment is so involving, they don't have any yesterday. They don't have any time to think or even worry, "I may get infected." Their involvement.... When millions of people are dying, can you think of yourself, and your life, and your death? Your whole energy is moving to help people, to do whatever you can do. You have forgotten yourself, and because you have forgotten yourself you cannot be infected. The person who could have been infected is absent: he is so involved in doing something, he is so lost in some work.
"It does not matter whether you are painting or sculpting, or you are serving a dying human being - it does not matter what you are doing, what matters is: Are you totally involved in the herenow? If you are involved in the herenow you are completely out of the area where infection is possible. When you are so much involved, your life becomes such a torrential force. And you will see: even a lazy doctor, in a time of epidemic, when hundreds of people are dying, suddenly forgets his laziness. And old doctor suddenly forgets his age....
"Only meditation can release your energy herenow. And then there is no need for any hope, for any utopia, for any paradise anywhere. Each moment is a paradise unto itself. But as far as my qualifications are concerned, I am not qualified to say anything about AIDS. I have never even taken the course on first-aid. So please forgive my entering into something which is not my business. But I go on doing that, and I am going to continue to do that."
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Seborrheic dermatitis
Seborrheic dermatitis is a common, inflammatory skin condition that causes flaky, white to yellowish scales to form on oily areas such as the scalp, face or inside the ear. It can occur with or without reddened skin.
Cradle cap is the term used when seborrheic dermatitis affects the scalp of infants.
Causes of Seborrheic dermatitis
The exact cause of seborrheic dermatitis is unknown. Doctors think it may be due to a combination hormone levels, weakened immune system, lack of certain nutrients, or nervous system problems. Irritation from a yeast called Malassezia may also lead to this condition. Seborrheic dermatitis appears to run in families.
Risk factors include:
- Stress or fatigue
- Weather extremes
- Oily skin, or skin problems such as acne
- Infrequent shampoos or skin cleaning
- Using lotions that contain alcohol
- Obesity
- Neurologic conditions, including Parkinson's disease, head injury or stroke
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Seborrheic dermatitis Symptoms
Seborrheic dermatitis can occur on different body areas. Usually, it forms where the skin is oily or greasy. Common areas include the scalp, eyebrows, eyelids, creases of the nose, lips, behind the ears, in the outer ear, and middle of the chest.
In general, symptoms of seborrheic dermatitis include:
- Skin lesions
- Plaques over large area
- Greasy, oily areas of skin
- Skin scales -- white and flaking, or yellowish, oily, and sticky dandruff
- Itching -- may become more itchy if infected
- Mild redness
- Hair loss
Tests and Exams
Diagnosis is based on appearance and location of the skin lesions. Further tests, such as skin biopsy, are rarely needed.
Treatment of Seborrheic dermatitis
Flaking and dryness can be treated with over-the-counter dandruff or medicated shampoos. You can buy these at the drugstore without a prescription. Look for a product that says on the label it treats seborrheic dermatitis. Such products contain ingredients such as salicylic acid, coal tar, zinc, resorcin, ketoconazole, or selenium sulfide. Use the shampoo according to label instructions.
For severe cases, your healthcare provider will likely prescribe a shampoo or lotion containing a stronger dose of selenium sulfide, ketoconazole, or corticosteroid. A cream that contains an immunomodulator may be prescribed. This medicine suppresses the immune system to treat inflammation.
It is thought that sunlight improves seborrheic dermatitis. In some persons the condition gets better in the summer, especially after outdoor activities.
Prognosis (Outlook)
Seborrheic dermatitis is a chronic (life-long) condition that comes and goes and can be controlled with treatment.
Severity of seborrheic dermatitis can be lessened by controlling risk factors and paying careful attention to skin care.
Potential Complications
- Psychological distress, low self-esteem, embarrassment
- Secondary bacterial or fungal infections
When to Contact a Health Professional
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if seborrheic dermatitis symptoms do not respond to self-care or over-the-counter treatments.
Also call if patches of seborrheic dermatitis drain fluid or pus, form crusts, or become very red or painful.
Prevention of Seborrheic dermatitis
The severity of seborrheic dermatitis can be lessened by controlling the risk factors and by paying careful attention to skin care.
Habif TP. Clinical Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Mosby; 2009:chap 8.
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F1 has lost some of its challenge - Hulkenberg
Nico Hulkenberg thinks 16-year-old Max Verstappen's 2015 contract with Toro Rosso proves driving F1 cars may no longer be as challenging as in previous years.
Verstappen will make his debut when he is 17 next season, shattering the record for youngest F1 driver of 19 years, 125 days set by Jaime Alguersuari in 2009. Some have said this could be proof today's cars are less demanding on drivers than in years gone by, something Hulkenberg admits could be a fair assessment.
"Definitely," when it was put to him today's cars were less physically challenging than ten years ago.
When asked to compare his own debut experiences in 2010, when he was 22, to Kimi Raikkonen's in 2001 when the Finn needed special training to get used to the demands of the cars, Hulkenberg said: "I never had that time, when I came in there was no more refuelling so I have not had that time. But just comparing to 2010, even then it was more physical, more demanding, and overall a little bit more challenging.
"For me I'm in my skin and I can see now I'm more experienced and that's why things get a bit more easy for me. I just wonder, rookies coming in straight on top of team-mates have been around for a long time or world champions, it makes you think are they are outstanding or what happened?"
Despite that, Hulkenberg sees no reason to suggest Verstappen will not be a success just because of his age.
"For me there is no hard rule. Every career, every driver is different and some are ready earlier, some are ready later. Personally I came into F1 a bit later with a bit more experience but every case is different. I don't have an issue with him coming in at that age. If he crashes into me three times next season, then I might have an issue with it - I don't know.
"I don't know how things would have developed had I gone straight to F1 [aged 18 in 2006]. After A1 I did do a GP2 test that was quite good but then people decided I wasn't good enough and needed to build up that experience and that the time wasn't right.
"It's hard to say [how long learning process takes]. For me, back then, it was maybe a year or half a year. But if you look at Kvyat's example now, what can you tell him? He's done pretty solid, pretty good. He's delivered, he's got the points and got the job in his car."


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When it comes to college athletics, change often goes hand in hand with pain — as in growing pains. But the Southern Oregon University women's soccer team plans to buck that trend when it embarks on a season full of change beginning Saturday at U.S. Cellular Community Park.
The Raiders have a new defensive philosophy, a new home field and, for the first time since 2005, will open a season with a coach not named Jon Clement. And if that's not enough change, the Raiders lost six starters to graduation, four of whom had started for at least three years.
But head coach and Ashland High alum Jenni Rosenberg, who took over for Clement halfway through the 2013 season, remains optimistic after what she says was a very productive fall camp.
"Our potential is the sky," said Rosenberg, who graduated from AHS in 1999 and spent four and a half seasons as an assistant coach at Cal State Stanislaus. "We're really excited to get into games and start playing and see where we stand against other programs. I think this is the best I've seen this group of girls play. They're really focused and they're working hard."
Rosenberg appears to have plenty to work with. The Raiders return 19 players from the team that finished 10-6-3 last season, 12 of which started at least one game. The only returner to garner all-league recognition is sophomore goalkeeper Kylie Moltzen, a Cascade Collegiate Conference honorable mention in 2013, but there's talent everywhere.
Up front, SOU will feature a three-headed monster in juniors Kendra Madaras-Kelly and Megan McArthur and senior Serena DeChristofaro. All three forwards have been filling the net in scrimmages and all three have an attack-dog mentality. And that, says Rosenberg, is something SOU hasn't had.
"They're very aggressive," Rosenberg said, "and they really want to go at the back line. They really want to score some goals and you can tell. It's a palpable difference from last year."
McArthur credited Rosenberg with bringing the team together and believes big things are in store for the Raiders in 2014.
"It's been great," said McArthur, who played in 18 of 19 games last season, notching three goals and an assist. "I think it was really good for our team. We started out in spring just kind of warming up to (Rosenberg) and now we're full force for the fall. I think our chemistry's been great and she's been nothing but the best for us."
In the midfield, sophomore Presley Lambert and senior Jacquie Galvez will look to push the ball upfield, while junior Allyson Ward will take on more of a defensive role. Also roaming the middle of the field will be sophomore Lisa Elledge, who scored four goals off the bench last season, and freshman Kelsey Randall.
Rosenberg expects big things out of Lambert and Galvez.
"(Lambert) is a very athletic kid with a great first touch who wants to go to the goal, which is cool to get out of the midfield," Rosenberg said. "And (Galvez) is a playmaker. She sees the game a little bit better than some."
Defensively, the Raiders will be employing a funneling technique this season aimed at quick takeaways. Anchoring the back line will be seniors Elise De Jesse and Paige Kilpatrick. Junior Avery Dutton will also see plenty of playing time, as will fellow centerback Megan Smith, a sophomore.
In goal, Moltzen is the returning starter, but senior Devon Walker is back after sitting out 2013 and gives the Raiders a second capable keeper. Moltzen had 73 saves and eight shutouts last season, but Rosenberg isn't ready to name a starter.
"I think in the preseason we'll split time (between Moltzen and Walker) and then we'll see what ends up happening," Rosenberg said.
The Raiders ranked second in the conference in goals allowed last season (0.86 per game), but Kilpatrick believes they could be even better this time around.
"Basically, when we're defending we have high energy," she said. "So we're attacking the ball with multiple people, really hunting in packs to win the ball back as soon as possible.
"It's looking incredible. Everybody's really taking to their responsibilities. They really understand. Since we've worked on it since spring all of our returners are really strong with it and the new girls have picked it up really well."
The Raiders host four nonleague games in nine days at U.S. Cellular — Saturday's game against Marymount California, followed by tilts against The Masters College on Monday, Hope International on Aug. 29 and Menlo College on Aug. 31. After that the Raiders hit the road for games against California State-San Marcos, Biola and Concordia, Calif.
Southern Oregon's league opener is Sept. 25 against Evergreen State, at home, followed by a game against Northwest two days later. Whether or not Raider Stadium, which is being outfitted with a new synthetic playing surface, will be ready for that first league game is yet to be determined, but when it is ready the Raiders will finally say goodbye to the grass field they've called home since the program kicked off in 2000.
And they can't wait.
"We're so excited," McArthur said. "Hopefully, it'll get more fans out to our games, more attention to our team. And I think it'll be better for our play to play on turf — no bouncy balls, no sprained ankles."
The Raiders were picked fourth in the CCC preseason coaches' poll after placing fourth with a 5-3-1 record last season. Before watching their season come to an end in the league semis against eventual national champion Concordia, the Raiders earned their first postseason win since 2008.
Concordia, which has won 13 CCC titles in the last 14 years, is the clear favorite, while Northwest and Corban were ranked second and third, respectively. The Raiders say they respect Concordia and what it's been able to do, but they don't fear the Cavaliers.
"I think we definitely have a shot, if we stay focused, at winning conference," Kilpatrick said. "And I feel like this year is our year to really be successful further on in the conference (playoffs). We just have to stay focused and stay diligent and keep working hard in practice."
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It was a classic sit-down strike, but for the first time the strikers were all women working in a variety store, not men in a factory. Within hours the eyes of the nation would be riveted on these young women and their strike. They had, after all, taken on one of the biggest corporate and consumer icons of the century, with two thousand stores in five countries – it was like striking Wal-Mart, the Gap and McDonald's all at the same time.
—Dana Frank, "Three Strikes"
UC Santa Cruz labor historian Dana Frank shed some light on a well-known strike by Woolworth "counter girls" and bolstered faculty solidarity in the process during her appearance at CCA's second annual spring conference book club in San Diego.
Frank's history of the counter girls strike in Depression-era Detroit is featured in "Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century," along with works by Robin Kelly on a movie theater musicians strike in the '30s and the late Howard Zinn's report on the Ludlow coal mine massacre in 1914.
Through her historical research and her personal experiences on the picket line during the 2003 strike at Yale University by thousands of janitors, secretaries and graduate teaching assistants, Frank learned some important lessons – that we must not be meek about standing up for ourselves or in passing along union culture.
"There is a rich picket-line culture with food and music and songs," she said, noting many younger people who have not been exposed to labor issues are unsure of what to do when they protest. "We must make something fun happen on the picket line every day. We don't have enough cultures of resistance."
Frank pointed out that the Woolworth counter girls managed to add some fun to their week-long sit-in. They organized themselves into working committees, sang on the stairs, took up knitting and crocheting using store supplies, set up a "Love Booth" where they could make out with their boyfriends, all the while remaining serious about their quest for a living wage.
As labor activists and educators, CCA members can play an important part in passing along the lessons and values of picket-line culture to younger faculty and students. At a time when unions have lost power in the private sector, it's become even more important that public sector unions remain viable, she said.
"It's important that public employees have a stake in the private sector," Frank said, "It isn't just about ourselves. It's about everybody."
In a session following the speech, CCA participants applied the concepts presented by Dana Frank to the faculty union and came up with many ways to strengthen contact with members, including a commitment to do a better job with public relations in promoting CCA's importance.
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Gwladys Nocera waited out the rain before carding a 2-under 70 on Sunday to capture to a 4-stroke victory at the Allianz Ladies Slovak Open.
Nocera finished four rounds at Golf Resort Tale at 9-under-par 279 to earn her 11th career victory on the Ladies European Tour, but her first since 2008.
"I'm very, very happy and pretty emotional," said Nocera. "It's been a while since I lifted a trophy. It was hard again today. I don't feel like I'm hitting the ball like I should and I don't feel that I'm hitting the ball well enough, but I tried to stay patient and draw on my experience."
Lee-Anne Pace (72) finished in second at 5-under, while Whitney Hillier (70) captured third at minus-4.
Nocera entered the final round holding a 2-stroke lead over Pace, but tripped to a bogey at the first to drop her advantage to just a stroke after Pace traded a birdie at the first with a bogey at the second.
Pace later grabbed a share of the lead with a 10-foot birdie putt at the sixth before hitting her tee shot at the par-3 seventh into the water en route to a double bogey.
Nocera countered a birdie at the eighth with a bogey at the ninth to remain two clear of Pace, and the margin remained there as Pace and Nocera birdied the 10th and 11th, respectively.
Nocera pulled ahead by four with a 2-shot swing at the 14th as Nocera birdied the hole while Pace tripped to a bogey.
The course was cleared after that hole due to a thunderstorm and when the duo returned 45 minutes later, Pace birdied the 15th to cut her deficit to three.
She could not pull any closer, however, as she parred her final three holes and Nocera closed with a birdie at the last to close out the victory.


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DBPR Announces Second Annual Customer Assistance Days at the Florida Capitol
Contact: DBPR Communications Office, 850.922.8981
~ State licensing agency will be available to answer questions, help customers apply for licenses during Legislative Session ~
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Secretary Ken Lawson of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation today announced the Department is hosting its second annual CustomerAssist program that will feature a help desk at the Florida Capitol for nine days during the 2013 Legislative Session. Department staff representing specific businesses and professions will be available to customers at the Florida Capitol over the course of four weeks. The staff will be able to offer direct assistance to individuals who are applying for a business or professional license from the Department.
"The process of applying for and receiving a license should be easy and efficient for those who are qualified," said Secretary Ken Lawson. "This is a great way for the Department to provide direct access to our customers so we may assist in getting them back to work."
The initiative was developed to provide customers who may need assistance with license applications with a direct and personal point of access to the Department, which licenses more than one million businesses and professionals in Florida. Staff for specific businesses and professions will be available on specific days, and the Department encourages customers, license holders and applicants to visit the CustomerAssist table at the Florida Capitol to receive specialized assistance.
The following businesses and professions will be represented from 9am to 12pm and from 1pm to 4pm on the Plaza level of the Florida Capitol on the following dates:
-March 5: Regulation
-March 6: Construction
-March 7: Cosmetology
-April 17: Hotels and Restaurants
-April 18: Real Estate
-April 24: Condominiums and Cooperatives/Regulation
-April 25: Construction
-May 1: Cosmetology
-May 2: Hotels and Restaurants/Construction
The Central Intake Unit, which processes applications for the Department's licenses, will also be available on March 6 and 7, April 18, April 25 and May 1 to answer questions about license application processes. Direct internet access to the Department will also be available so customers can check the status of their license applications online, file complaints and access additional department information.
The CustomerAssist program is just one of the many initiatives the Department has implemented so it may increase efficiency for its customers. In the recent months, DBPR has adopted the 2009 Food Code, held a Financial Crimes Conference for Real Estate professionals and completed the ApplyNow! project which streamlined the applications for 19 professions that the Department regulates making it easier for qualified professionals to obtain licensure.
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation's mission is to license efficiently and regulate fairly. The Department licenses and regulates more than one million businesses and professionals ranging from hotels and restaurants, real estate agents and certified public accountants to veterinarians, contractors and cosmetologists. For more information, please visit www.MyFloridaLicense.com.
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ECC tennis team blanks Clearfield 9-0
The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader tennis team remained undefeated on the young season with a 9-0 victory over the Clearfield Bison squad Thursday afternoon at the Benzinger and Memorial Park courts."The weather was nearly perfect for our first home match of the season. Clearfield has a very nice squad. Today they played short-handed, but they played good tennis and it was a nice match to watch," said ECCHS coach Pete Meier.At first singles, ECC's Laira Reuscher defeated Yesh Patel 6-0, 6-0.At second singles, Maria Gismondi of Elk Catholic defeated Lauren Whitmer 6-1, 6-0 at second singles.At third singles, Elk's Kristin Dippold defeated Rayanna Kavelak 6-0, 6-0.Sophie Herzing of the Lady Crusaders beat Abbi Welker 6-0, 6-0 at fourth singles.At fifth singles, Abby Wittman of Elk Catholic defeated Emily Ramsey 6-0, 6-0.At first doubles, ECC's Marla Scacchitti and Rachel Stauffer defeated Yesh Patel and Rayanna Kavelak 8-3.Elk's second doubles team of Elizabeth Nicklas and Linnea Stager defeated Lauren Whitmer and Emily Ramsey 8-1.The Elk Catholic third doubles team of Maura Keyes and Natalie Reichard and the fourth doubles team of Danielle Healy and Megan McKenna both won by forfeit."All of our singles players did well today. We are improving with each match, we're gaining confidence and we're having fun. Linnea Stager played her first match of the season, teaming up with Liz Nicklas to win at second doubles," said Meier. The match of the day saw Rachel Stauffer and Marla Scacchitti play great tennis in winning at first doubles. Rachel and Marla play well together and it was an enjoyable match to watch. "This was our fourth match and I am very proud of how well we've played and improved since the beginning of the season. I know I say this a lot, but we have a very nice team. We play good tennis, we have a lot of fun and it's a pleasure coaching them."Elk Catholic, now 4-0 on the season, will travel to Brockway Tuesday for a 3:30 p.m. match.


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
2005 Football Season...or The Twilight Zone?
Just read online today at cfbnews.com that Saturday's game with Northwestern will be the first time since 1959 that the Wildcats will be the higher ranked team going into the Michigan game. Coming on the heels of the MSU game in which they were favored for the first time since 1967, I'm starting to think maybe we've crossed over into some alternate reality this season. What's next? Is "F*ck Michigan!" no longer going to be the most popular chant in Columbus (ok, let's not get carried away).
Saturday's game really does present some problems. The (no longer mild) 'Cats have one of those pesky spread offenses and a QB who refuses to stay in one spot so we can tackle him. Unfortunately, this does not bode well for a Michigan defense which, after practicing with John Navarre all those years, apparently is still under the impression that such tomfoolery was banned and thus refuses to tackle any quarterback outside a 3 foot radius of the pocket. Of course this also assumes our defense could actually reach the quarterback before he either a) completes a 14 yard pass on 3rd and 12 (which is cheating to begin with because as every Michigan fan knows, on 3rd and 14, a team is only allowed to throw a 5 yard out pass) or b) the opponent's offensive line chants "Red Rover, Red Rover send your linebacker on over!"
However, what gives me hope is that Northwestern has some misconceptions of its own, apparently believing that because their offense is so good, they are no longer required to play defense. The NW "defense" is ranked dead last in college football giving up an impressive 504 yards per game with a we're-not-even-really-trying 316 of that through the air. That being the case, Chad Henne should be able to pass for 900 total yards Saturday (300 to Jason Avant, 550 in lateral sideline passes and 50 to either Manningham or Breaston -- but only late in the 4th quarter when the game gets tight and never to both as using all our offensive weapons in the same game, for the entire game, is prohibited in the Michigan playbook).
Which means Saturday's showdown will unfold something like this: because NW being higher ranked is as insulting to Michigan as being told there's a one plate limit at a wedding buffet is to Jim Brandstatter, Michigan will come out firing on all cylinders and quickly race to an insurmountable 7-0 lead with 10 minutes left in the first quarter, after which they will go into a shell to protect the lead and run out the clock.
Then, when that doesn't work and we surprisingly find ourselves down 28-7 in the third quarter (after injuries to our first through sixth string tailbacks, our starting left tackle, any remaining DBs on scholarship and the kid who carries Lloyd's headset), Michigan will mount a furious comeback and, by the grace of God (as well as a few well-timed instant replay reviews), will be ahead 35-31 with three and a half minutes left in the game and possession of the ball at the NW 35. That's when Lloyd, having learned from his mistakes the last two weeks, will take destiny by the throat and try to ice the game right then and there.
So after three consecutive QB sneaks, he will confidently direct his punting unit onto the field in order to pin NW deep and turn the ball over to his stout defense, figuring NOBODY marches down the field for a game winning fourth quarter drive against a Jim Herrrrrrmannnnn coached defense more than 68 times in a row. Nobody.
But, this is 2005. So...
After Michigan's punt is blocked and recovered by the punter-nobody-can-name-this-year in the Wolverine endzone for a 65 yard safety, Michigan is faced with a dilemma: With just under a minute left on the clock and only up by 2, the coaching staff now finally sees the light, realizing that kicking the ball away will almost certainly lead to another heartbreaking defeat.
Thus, Michigan surprises NW with an onside kick and recovers the ball at its own 30. But faced with 4th and 10 with :08 seconds left on the clock, instead of kicking the ball away with so much time left for an opponent's offense to work with against the Michigan D, the Wolverines opt to have the punter run around to kill off the remaining eight seconds before falling in the endzone for another safety in order to get the game into the slam dunk that is overtime.
Once there, knowing resistance is futile, Northwestern head football coach Randy Walker will instruct his once high-flying offense to do it's best "Michigan with three minutes and the lead at our 25 impression" by calling three straight off-tackle running plays before kicking the go-ahead field goal. With the trap now set, Michigan will win the game on Jason Avant's TD pass on 3rd and goal as Chad Henne tries to throw the ball away.
Motor City Bowl my ass!
Note: Funeral services will be held for Bo Schembechler next Thursday. In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to the Make a Defense Foundation.
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Is it just me, or do I detect a faint note of sarcasm?
- October 26, 2005 5:41 PM
- DanDierdorf said...
Dude, Even the Michigan Insider on the radio thinks NW will beat Michigan on Sat. You don't really think that the Michigan defense will attemtpt to show up, do you?
- October 27, 2005 8:40 PM
- Yost said...
Oh, they'll show up. They may not stop anything, especially in the 4th quarter if the game is close. But they'll show up.
- October 28, 2005 3:58 AM
- LAGuy said...
What's depressing is even if, by some miracle, we beat Northwestern, and OSU (plus that other team) it's still hihgly unlikely we'll take the Big Ten. I know, I know, one game at a time.
- October 28, 2005 5:51 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
I must have missed the memo where Northwestern became a combination of USC, Texas and the Indianapolis Colts. We need a miracle to beat the Wildcats? I don't think so. We haven't needed a miracle to win a game yet, and we won't need one on Saturday. What we will need is to play turnover-free football. If we do that we'll score plenty.
Am I guaranteeing victory for the maize and blue? Hardly. Not this season. Not with this team. Undoubtedly it will be a close game, maybe even another overtime. But there will be no miracles needed. Just some solid, smart play which we've actually showed signs of doing the past couple of weeks.
- October 28, 2005 3:52 PM
- IC said...
I agree with you for the most part, Benny, though I think that tomorrow night's Michigan-Northwestern game will not necessarily be a close game. And that bodes well for us.
Consider the following:
* We've been sharper on the road: Though this is more of a neutral site game (as about half the crowd will be cheering for Michigan) we seem to focus better when playing away from Ann Arbor. Maybe our guys get headaches from the infernal racket of all those jangling keys.
* We're the healthiest we've been since the NIU game: Jake Long is back and ready to revive his uncanny impression of a road grader. Hart should start and has three guys behind him who can provide some relief and change of pace. We won't have the equipment guy who broke his leg last week, but I bet Lloyd has a solid backup ready there too. We can keep their dangerous offense off the field by running it down their throats and if they want to take that away, let them try to cover Avant, Breaston, Manningham, and company one-on-one with their tenth-ranked-in-the-conference pass defense.
* We're catching NW at the perfect time: Like State after they beat ND and annihilated Illinois, and Penn St. after they won their biggest game (over tOSU) since the days when Joe Paterno wasn't a raging schmuck (circa 1994), the Wildcats are flying high and are set up perfectly for a fall. Also, the fact that this is a "Big Game" helps us. We play nationally televised games every other week. They play them once every other year.
Look, Northwestern is certainly a good team. They abused the Wisconsin D that stymied us and they have been solid since getting walloped by Arizona State. But if anybody expects us to roll over against them the way Heartless Sparty did, well, to quote Judas Priest, "You've Got Another Thing Coming."
Michigan 41 Northwestern 27.
- October 28, 2005 11:10 PM
- Yost said...
First of all, I have great respect for anybody who quotes Judas Priest in their post.
I hope your prediction is right, Ian. Really do. I don't feel as confident so I hope you and the Priest can help us pull this one out.
- October 29, 2005 4:13 AM


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Bruno Farbo, 74
Bruno Farbo, 74, of Punxsutawney, passed away Monday, March 17, 2014, at his home surrounded by his family.
Mr. Farbo was born Jan. 10, 1940, in Walston, a son of the late John and Katherine (Trapizone) Farbo.
He is survived by his wife, Karyn Kay (Limerick) Farbo, of Punxsutawney.
They were married May 4, 1968.
Mr. Farbo was a member of the Army Reserves from 1958-1965.
In his early years, he worked for the former Pramco Manufacturing and Johnston Furniture.
He was a 25-year employee of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, where he was a highway sign man and held many other positions.
He was an avid deer hunter and loved nothing more than being in the woods, scouting and hunting with his son.
Bruno also loved his vehicles and took pride in the appearance of his cars and trucks, keeping them spotless, in tip-top shape and shined to perfection.
He loved traveling, shopping and dining out and, most of all, any kind of outing with his son.
He enjoyed caring for his five cats, including Mangie, his special favorite.
In addition to his wife, Karyn, he is survived by his son, Christopher Michael Farbo and wife Holly of Punxsutawney; one sister, Mary Jane Chesnoka and husband Eddie of Rossiter; several nieces and nephews; and a special niece, Christine Lillis of Punxsutawney.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, James, Archie and John Farbo, Jr., and three sisters, Rachel Miller, Josephine Seliga and Eileen Farbo.
Friends will be received from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at the McCabe Funeral Home in Punxsutawney.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at Ss. Cosmas & Damian Roman Catholic Church with Msgr. Joseph Riccardo as celebrant.
Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery.
Online condolences may be made at mccabefuneralhomes.com.


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I'm slightly amused the Yahoo icon on this story has a transparent background.
I'm slightly amused the Yahoo icon on this story has a transparent background.
For all the good this transparency does to restore our confidence. The Snowden leaks/NSA documents clearly show that the NSA directly taps into the backend systems without any need to reque4st anything from these companies - Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc. The only time these companies receive extra requests like the ones being reported above is when the NSA want's to do more proactive monitoring or targeted individuals that requires hooking into the front end (monitoring search as you type etc). PR departm
I'm slightly amused the Yahoo icon on this story has a transparent background.
Yeah, the icon design finally got out of alpha.
It's the old logo. The new one won't be quite so transparent.
We should be pissed about this. It reveals our fears about government overreach. They should not be digging into our private affairs regardless of where the data is stored. It is a human right to free from persecution over thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and intentions. Until a crime has been committed there should be no investigation and no violation of my space.
Looking at the numbers, it is fair to assume that these requests could all relate to crimes. 12 400 requests in 0.5 years translates to about 8 requests per year per 100 000 population. (The homicide rate in the US is about 5 per year per 100 000 population, and that's not the only crime that might warrant acessing a suspect's email.)
Also, is there any particular reason to believe that they are telling the truth? Or that the person who put the report together would even KNOW the truth?
That said, yes, this feels like some kind of PR play. Just what kind I'm not sure.
I'm old enough to remember the days when we didn't have email, there were still crimes committed and the perpetrators were still found and aprehended. If they could manage to fight crime 40 years ago without tapping into email accounts, I'm sure they can manage it today.
Sure, 8 requests per year per 100,000 out of a population of 310 million. Of course, this only actually works if the entire population uses Yahoo!
> Until a crime has been committed there should be no investigation and no violation of my space.
You've hit the nail on the head. In the US, we used to have a principle: "innocent until proven guilty."
The problem is, the more that the citizenry of the US come to believe in an all-powerful nanny state (forgive me for using the pejorative term, I haven't finished my coffee and can't think of a milder one), the more likely they are to scream, "why didn't the government *PREVENT* this from happening"
(Corollary: the people also yell, "why didn't the government *FIX* this faster when it DID happen," but that's arguably off-topic.)
The sad truth is that no politician, Dem or Repub, wants to be seen as having done nothing to prevent another 9/11. They know that their opponents will make hay about it. So, we get to live in a surveillance state.
don't slam yahoo here, they are telling the truth as much as the spooks will allow -- and besides, where would yahoo get the cash to fund a long, expensive, landmark court battle against the infinite funds of the three letters and the government?
I'm sorry, but this doesn't feel like Yahoo telling as much truth as they are allowed. This feels like some kind of game. I'm just not sure WHAT kind of game. It could be that they want the government off their backs, it could be that they want to suppor the Republicans, it could be something else...and something else has a wide range of options.
But it doesn't feel like straight reporting.
Too bad the people with the resources to fight it are so cowardly and greedy.
Too bad the people with the resources to fight it are so cowardly and greedy.
Yeah, and not only are they cowardly and greedy, the voters expect individual companies to risk jailtime fighting for the rights of the voters on their behalf so that they can continue living in a stupor.
Although large companies could and should pick up the fight, not only for morality but also because snooping for a third party is supposedly not their core business (...), the real power is with the sheeple that allow these laws in the first place.
So pardon me but I don't feel in the slightest sorry for Americans on the receiving end of this abuse.
With secret orders approved by secret courts under secret laws that Yahoo cannot disclose anything about, these reported numbers mean nothing.
How was it again, what they said?
If you are not doing anything wrong, you don't have to hide it and don't have to worry?
It's a nice case of "look who's talking".
Well if they weren't allowed to specify it as a number between 0 and 1000 I think it's safe to assume that it's over 1000.
Yahoo has joined the ranks of large online businesses. .
Yahoo aren't big? They just spent a $billion on Tumblr. I can think of several large companies near me, but the nearest $billion+ company headquarters is 1500 miles from me. I know that Yahoo isn't the size of Google, but by whose measure are they not large? Should that have read "OTHER large online businesses?"
It's just metadata.
In fact tell us who requested data and which users data was requested. It's just metadata. As long as we don't know what the actual user data is then there can't be any harm in it. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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What a troll.
2 minutes looking at their site shows:
1) Voddler has about 2500 movie titles, most of which aren't even new releases - lots of crappy direct to video. Vudu/Walmart and Netflix have 5-10x that, and Vudu has new releases.
2) They are not even remotely like Spotify, they charge per title VOD for their movies, somewhere around US $3-4 per 24 hour rental. Same as everyone else.
3) They aren't watchable on any TV or BD players like other services, which are available on almost every consumer device a
Streaming is useless when ISPs keep adding more caps.
Many ISPs are also cable-television providers and they're doing their best to smother this baby while it's still in the crib.
Bandwidth caps should be taken away during those times when usage is low, similar to cell phone plans with free unlimited nights and weekends. Then you could schedule your movie downloads for the wee hours and watch them the next day.
They should invent something like... prestreaming. So like say I want to watch Harry Potter tonight. But I know he internet will be like busy. So I tell my TV to prestream it this morning so that when I go back to watch it tonight. It's like already there.
You could load it with down pipe. I think I just discovered my first patent!
Excellent! I think they should add another layer. Say like when I know what I want to watch 2-14 Buisiness days (M-F) from now, I could tell them and they'd send it to me on some type of disc and I could watch it whenever I got it and send it back when I was done.
probably because the MPAA said NO... even if the file is held in memory, there's a chance someone could save it permanently (for archival purposes, of course)
Bandwidth caps should be taken away during those times when usage is low, similar to cell phone plans with free unlimited nights and weekends. Then you could schedule your movie downloads for the wee hours and watch them the next day.
That is just too fucking awesome: people want to time-shift streaming to make it cheaper, more efficient, and less painfully laggy. Don't get me wrong: it is a good idea. I sincerely like it. Who wants to stream when the network is at its busiest?
Then, next, all you need to do is have multiple recipients for each stream (no problem getting people to synchronous their receipt, since they're time-shifting anyway; this is a job for a computer!), so that you can reap the advantages of broadcast or multicast. For a popular TV show with n viewers, this would lead an an up-to-n-fold increase in efficiency on some segments of the network. For large values of n that is truly a no-brainer.
And then you will have invented something new and patent worthy. Call it "cable television combined with DVR." It would be awesome tech, similar to what people will be using in the year 2000.
It would be awesome tech, similar to what people will be using in the year 2000.
Conan, is that you?
"we don't want to lose that customer as they shift to digital.."
For many years the movie selection at Wal-Mart has been all DVDs though I think they might have Blu-Rays too, now. I can't even remember when I last saw VHS tapes or anything like that. If Wal-Mart wants to follow customers "shifting to digital," the year 2000 is about the right time to announce it.
So.. two predictions: 1) In the year 2000 we'll have digital movies and high-performance efficient analog delivery systems. 2) 11 years later we
We had those here in Portugal, before we moved to unlimited. We had 20GB/month to use (for a 512Kbps package), but then between 1am and 9am it was "happy hours," where it didn't count.
Of course, P2P clients with scheduling to connect/disconnect at designed times where very popular.
at designed times
Oi, eu falo Portugese fluente (mais, de Brasil, nao de ai). I wanted to constructively say that the correct word is "designated". And also, that the root appears to be the same in both cases: "design"; it is something planned by a human, whether designing something (creating, drawing, etc); or designating something (classifying, demarcating, stating a time at which it will happen, etc).
Oh, thanks.
>We have never come even close to hitting the Comcast limit of 250 GB / mo.
That's because what you're streaming isn't HDTV.
HDTV streaming will wipe that out by the 15'th of the month.
1080i HDTV (30 full frames/sec) is 25Mb/second, roughly.
BluRay (60 frames/second 1080p) is 40, roughly.
So let's just use 1080i for now and ignore BluRay.
25Mb/sec is roughly 2.5MB/sec. This is roughly 9GB/hr. 9 guzinta 250 27.7 times, or 27hours 40 minutes of video.
You can wipe that out in a week normal viewing. As it stan
You don't seem to understand...
ISPs that are also cable companies (comcast, cox, twc, etc) will guarantee that streaming is "shit tier" third-class/steerage class video and the only way you can get actual HDTV (why else did you buy a flat panel tv?) is to buy into one of the cable "bundles." HDTV streaming will simply run into a cap by the end of the week and you'll be SOL for the rest of the month.
Because of this, the cable companies will retain their monopoly over HD content. This is by design. It is
So walmart will team with Google and become an ISP. Then offer tiered network access where if you stream from them, it doesn't apply to your monthly cap.
So walmart will team with Google and become an ISP. Then offer tiered network access where if you stream from them, it doesn't apply to your monthly cap.
You do realize that being an ISP requires access to the last mile? I don't think even the combination of Google / Walmart / Apple, the Vatican and Santa Claus can wire the entire planet. Or even the US.
Or were you thinking of dialup?
Voddler is missing so many classics it's not even funny. From what I can tell, its collection is basically popular trash with a couple of exceptions. It doesn't even have The Godfather.
Canada always gets left out of (or ripped off by) these buffet style streaming services (be it music, movies, or whatever) because no one wants to go through the hassle of negotiating licensing fees for such a small market.
And until that stops happening, just keep riding the bit torrent wave.
Canada always gets left out of (or ripped off by) these buffet style streaming services (be it music, movies, or whatever) because no one wants to go through the hassle of negotiating licensing fees for such a small market.
I thought you guys were already the clear by paying a small tax on your CD-R disks?
Canada always gets left out of (or ripped off by) these buffet style streaming services (be it music, movies, or whatever) because no one wants to go through the hassle of negotiating licensing fees for such a small market.
I thought you guys were already the clear by paying a small tax on your CD-R disks?
That's only for music, not video/movies/TV shows.
Netflix in the States is also $7.99, but in Contintentals. In Loonies, that's $7.54.
So it's 1.06x the US price, not 0.5x.
As I understand it, Walmart is unlikely to have a better selection. The reason Netflix's selection is so poor is that American companies have been pretty much giving away multi-year exclusive digital rights to the Canadian networks. So Netflix's and (eventually?) Walmart's broadcast competitors get to decide whether they can show the movies and television shows that they control. Can you guess what their decision is?
While that's a fair prediction, they might easily support Linux simply by choosing Flash over, say, Silverlight, or by using HTML5 video -- that'd get them iDevices without having to pay Apple a 30% cut. They certainly wouldn't do so out of a desire to support Linux, but there are other reasons to prefer these.
So, if you actually know what's going on, do you have technical details? Do they use Flash, Silverlight, HTML5, ActiveX? Did they completely roll their own?
That still doesn't answer the question, though. Do you know what they're actually using?
It's Flash-based, so it does support Linux if you install the latest Flash plugin.
It's Flash-based, so it does support Linux if you install the latest Flash plugin.
Streaming a paid Walmart service onto a Linux box seems like the ultimate moral betrayal.
ON the other hand, Wal-Mart (at least walmart.com) has a shitload of Linux.
Only on
[oh, and I challenge you to name a networked TV or BD player sold in the last year or two that isn't based on Linux, and most likely streaming Netflix, Amazon, and Walmart (Vudu)...]
They are the same price as Apple is. At least my $99.00 appleTV will play all the videos on my iTunes. Granted they are partnering with Roku, but they need to be cheaper to compete.
You can play the iTunes videos on your AppleTV. And Netflix & Vudu can be played on just about any networked TV or Blu Ray player sold in the last couple years, and a bunch of game consoles and set-top boxes...
But Wal*Mart censors their DVD's and CD's. (BLEEP!)
Today Wal-Mart has added streaming video to their website. What better time to compete with Netflix, now that they have raised their prices?
Netflix actually lowered the price customers pay to get the most comparable service to the Wal-Mart offering (streaming-only), as well as for disc-only service; the only people who saw price increases were those people who want both streaming and DVD delivery, which
No, they raised the price. Used to be you got discs for $8 and streaming was free. Then the two of them were $11, meaning streaming went up to $3. Now to get the same thing it costs you $16. They raised the price on streaming. If you were only streaming while you had the ability to get discs, too, then you were choosing to pay $11 for a streaming-only account. That's not what its price was, it was just what you decided to pay for it. Since their streaming has a limited selection and degraded quality
No, they raised the price. Used to be you got discs for $8 and streaming was free. Then the two of them were $11, meaning streaming went up to $3. Now to get the same thing it costs you $16. They raised the price on streaming.
No, streaming is still $8 (because there never was a way to get "just the streaming" without the DVDs). You just don't get the DVDs as of August if you change your plan to streaming-only.
Since their streaming has a limited selection and degraded quality (no 1080p, bad throughput issue
The quality of recent streams has improved substantially.
That's good to know it doesn't suck everywhere. I dropped streaming because of late, we never use it. Selection spotty and inconsistent, video utter crap on a 42" HTDV with horrid compression artifacts and unsynched audio. This on either a 3M down /
Which is most folks because the streaming library is a joke. Right now the discs only option is comparably priced to Blockbuster if you get the Bluray upgrade to Netflix. Plus Blockbuster includes PS3, Wii and Xbox360 game rentals in that price.
Folks that were streaming only had an option for that already.
I've spent the last two days flat on my back with some kind of horrible food poisoning. Lacking a DVD player in the bedroom, I trolled Netflix streaming looking for something good. Not only was I sick, I was bored, too!
You can sometimes find art house / foreign titles of quality, but quite often its really schlocky B movies in the 2-3 star range. The "best" selection is often StarzPlay, but even then its a lot of older titles in heavy rotation on the various Starz & Encore cable channels.
I've gotten
Do they sell only the censored versions? That'd be lame, but not out of character.
I don't buy stuff from Wal-mart, except in emergencies. Nor will I buy this from them. But if it forces Netflix to retract some of their egregious price-hike, then more power to Wal-mart.
Only is somewhat subjective, they made Nirvana relabel "Rape Me" to "Waif Me" for the CD release they carried and they refuse to carry and discs which have a content warning label on them. So, groups don't have to do it, but they're pretty much the biggest retailer of music these days so refusing to issue an acceptably edited disc is throwing a huge portion of the potential market away.
Lol, I had a friend back in the day who was too stupid to realize that Walmart sold edited CD's. Until we broke it too him, he honestly believed that NWA and Ice Cube albums all came from the studio with those bleeps. It earned him the nickname "Cheesy E" at school.
The streaming movies aren't censored. It's all just re-branding the existing Vudu service on Walmart's site, anyway.
Vudu did remove their adult content after Walmart bought them, but it hasn't affected any other movies - in fact, they have a lot of "unrated" cuts of R movies, as well. (Vudu does, I mean - I haven't tried Walmart's version).
Absolutely. We wouldn't want "dangerous" words heard by our perfect little children who never do any wrong and whom we need to shield and protect from everything even slightly uncomfortable or otherwise known as the "real world". You know, the one where everybody behaves, follows the letter of the law and never does anything wrong.
Seriously, I don't shop at Walmart, because I just don't believe in their business practices, their presumed moral authority over what I as a consumer can buy and the way they tre
Walmart had a habit (still do?) of editing songs on CDs it thought weren't family appropriate material. Are they doing the same with movies? Are Walmart movies like the airline version where cursing is badly overdubbed and the nude scenes are cut?
The MAFIAA standard plan to releasing content on the internet while maintaining control of the distribution chain:
The MAFIAA learned their mistake from iTunes, where they waited until it was too late to try to stop Apple. And while they eventually got variable pricing, they still had to give Apple more control than they're comfortable with - it still makes them rage to this day. They aren't going to make the same mistake with films and TV shows: no single competitor will be allowed to get big enough to dictate contract terms. It will be the studios who make a profit and the studios who anyone has to go through to publish content; the role of the distributors is to distribute content as cheap as possible for the studios.
And thus we're on Step 3. WalMart is the competitor the studios are setting up to combat Netflix. When Netflix is sufficiently bled, WalMart will then have their contract prices increased just as Netflix had.
Small problem with that plan is that for #4, Walmart would have to cave... if there is one thing that Walmart has shown to be outrageously good at, it is controlling their suppliers' pricing.
I would be leery of trying this tactic if I were the studios. At least with WalMart. WalMart has enough leverage in the retail business to destroy anyone who messes with them. WalMart could simply threaten to no longer carry the studios DVDs if they don't play ball and the studio would have to buckle, unless they wanted to lose 30-40% of their DVD sales.
And... this is a good thing? Walmart simply has gotten too big and has far too much power in the consumer market. In fact, Walmart's squeezing of suppliers just means better profit margins for Walmart, not better prices for consumers. Why does nobody get this?
I certainly didn't say that. I hate Wally World as much as the next guy, but just because you think the 800 lb. gorilla in the room is a dickhead is no reason to pretend he isn't there and then step on his toes!
I bought a Samsung TV recently too. Our first HDTV. (One of our non-HDTVs died and needed to be replaced.) I tried out the USB port last night using a spare USB thumb drive with some photos, MP3s and MPEG video files. It worked beautifully. That feature alone would make me more likely to buy a Samsung TV in the future when our non-HD, CRT television in the living room fails.
But will it play the HTC3.4 video codec? What about the the MP3.4 audio with embedded cued lyrics?
Neither of those exist yet, but the odds are good them or something similar to them will be invented in the 10+ years that you'll probably own your Samsung TV.
If you bought the best TV you could find and it happened to have this extra feature - great! You made a wise choice. But other people should be cautious about trying to mix computer functions into their television. By the best television you can find,
Walmart already sensors the media you buy, so why not?
I would think that Redbox would be more in competition with Wal-Mart's in-store DVD sales than with their online streaming service.
I doubt it. The reason being that in order to use those machines you'd have to visit those stores. At any rate, I doubt this detracts from their rentals anymore than the Redbox option detracts from their DVD sales in store.
It would be nice to see Wal-Mart push their weight around and lower streaming licensing costs. Netflix is reportedly going from around $180 million in licensing fees to $1.98 billion in licensing fees in 2012. If Wal-Mart could shatter the greedy content producers then not only Wal-Mart, but also other streaming providers like Netflix could possibly expand their streaming libraries and not have to hike subscrption plans in the process.
Walmart is only going to ensure fatter profits for themselves, what makes you think it will benefit consumers or competitors?
All these other companies seem to be missing why Netflix is doing as well as it is - it's business model is essentially an all you can eat buffet. Whereas Blockbuster and now Walmart are offering what's essentially a McDonald's value meal by comparison. What makes Netflix so likeable is being able to be an absolute glutton of video entertainment for as much as your bandwith holds out.
I'm not a movie snob, I'm a movie slob.
I like Netflix, but I watch movies on my computer and they don't offer streaming for Linux users. I seriously don't like Walmart to the point where I don't want to give them my business if I have an alternative.
Would anyone care to suggest a streaming movie alternative ( Linux friendly ) to Netflix that is comparable in selection and price?
Is there such a beast?
Would anyone care to suggest a streaming movie alternative ( Linux friendly ) to Netflix that is comparable in selection and price?
Is there such a beast?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
I've looked, and there just isn't. And that's even ignoring your Linux compatibility requirement.
Personally, I get most of my TV via OTA broadcast and Tivo. I've already got a reminder to myself to cancel Netflix streaming in early Sept before the rate increase. The netflix streaming is the best in the industry by far, but haven't you noticed that it is still extremely limited in selection? I hardly ever use it.
I'm also goi
I'm sure that lots of people won't care, and if Walmart can make the system simple enough for Walmart shoppers, it can succeed. However, Walmart is the company that forces artists to make CDs with the radio versions of their songs - because Walmart doesn't want us to hear the word "fuck" in something they sell.
Are they going to bleep the movies I'm not streaming from them too?
Thank goodness, finally there is an online rental that is not 24hours only. With real lief my wife and I never get to finish a movie in one night anymore, 48 hours is in the right direction. But only some of the movies are priced this way on vudu. None of the films have captions/subtitles on vudu either, that's a real bonus for us. We watch the movies pretty quietly that we do to not wake the kids. Netflix is starting to have subtitles on more of it's streaming content, it's been great!
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Dough boys at it again. I guess he thinks if he keeps saying it he might be right sooner or later.
Apparently, Warren Sapp isn't finished talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers' defense.
Back in 2011, the NFL Network analyst made enemies galore in the Steel City when he slammed Pittsburgh's aging D after a Week 1 drubbing at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens.
"They're old and slow," Sapp told "The Dan Patrick Show," saying he saw "old, ornery veterans get whooped" up and down the field.
Asked Wednesday on NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" if he'd still call the Steelers' defense "old and slow," Sapp didn't hesitate.
"Old and slow? Yes, I would," Sapp said. "Because seven of the 11 starters are 28 years or older, and that's around the time, in this league, they go to questioning, you know, 'Where's his legs? Should we look for the backup?'
"And Brett Keisel, bless his soul, No. 99 in your program, No. 1 in your heart, he turns 35 the first month of the year. And three of the four secondary guys there are 32 years old or older."
Yes, the Steelers are flooded with blue hairs, but we doubt they're listening. That "old and slow" Pittsburgh defense started out ugly in 2011 but finished as the NFL's top unit. For an encore, the Steelers went out and did it again last season.
The constant here is 75-year-old defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau, who has been coaching since Richard Nixon roamed the White House and probably doesn't watch much NFL Network. LeBeau just coaches. Old players, slow players and some of the league's best.


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DPS: Driver drunk in crash killing 'Texas' actors
Updated 8:40 pm, Wednesday, September 4, 2013
AMARILLO - Authorities say the driver was drunk when a car crashed last month in the Texas Panhandle, killing five cast and crew members of the musical drama "Texas."
Senior Trooper Chris Ray, of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said on Wednesday that the toxicology report on Clinton Scott Diaz showed that he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.165 percent. The maximum blood-alcohol level allowed drivers by law is 0.08 percent.
Ray said the analysis also detected traces of marijuana intoxicants in the 20-year-old driver's blood.
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Immigration officials raided a meat plant in Postville, Iowa this Monday. The New York Times called it the "biggest workplace immigration raid this year." Over 300 workers were arrested under suspicion that they were working under false documents.
Considering how a raid in 2006 was handled in a different town in Iowa, it's very likely that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested people who are innocent of any criminal wrongdoing. It is likely that many families will end up struggling, not only emotionally over the loss of relatives and loved ones, but economically as well.
Raids like these are dangerous for many reasons, one of which can be serious social repercussions. These kinds of raids continue to stigmatize Latinos and other minorities; it makes them all out to be criminals in the eyes of many US citizens and perpetuates anti-immigration myths.
Criminalizing immigrants is definitely not the solution to the immigration reform problem. The National Latina Institute believes that the particular needs of immigrant women must be taken into account. To read more about this, check out the guiding principles of the National Coalition for Immigrant Women's Rights.
For those in New York City, go here to get info about an upcoming May 1st Coalition event on immigration taking place May 31st.
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Music Conference open to UH System Community
It's played through the speakers at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, listened to through iPods, performed in the Moores School of Music, and it makes the commute to and from campus more enjoyable.
Music, its impact on society and its role in defining cultural identities will be the focus of "Music Across Boundaries," the UH Scholarship and Community Conference.
Presented by the UH Faculty Senate, this day of presentations and performances will take place Sept. 26 in the Hilton University of Houston Hotel's Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom.
"Music means different things to different people," said Joe Kotarba, UH Faculty Senate president and professor of sociology. "This conference addresses music on several levels, including its relevance in different cultures, its role as an entertainment commodity and the actual science behind it."
Kotarba, who conducts research on popular music, co-organized this event and is one of the presenters. He will present findings from his recent study, "Mapping the Varieties of Latino Music in Houston," in which he and students observed Houston's Latino communities to learn how music relates to their different cultures.
Other members of the UH faculty also participating in this conference include Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, professor of English; Howard Pollack, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music; Joseph Evans, professor of voice; and Monica McHenry, associate professor of speech communication.
McHenry and Evans will offer insight on the most natural of musical instruments, the voice, during their presentation "The Science of the Singing Voice."
"Many people think singers open their mouths and angelic forces take over," McHenry said. "We will talk about breathing, using the voice, articulating and other applications that most people do not think of when it comes to singing."
Other presenters will include popular music scholars Phillip Vannini, associate professor of communication at Royal Roads University in Canada, and Theodore Gracyk, professor of philosophy at Minnesota State University-Morehead, who will discuss the issue of authenticity in popular music.
Additional guests include local jazz group the Free Radicals, critic Rick Mitchell, author Roger Wood, blues artist Sonny Boy Terry Jerome and composer Brad Sayles.
To register or to view a complete list of panels and presenters, visit the "Music Across Boundaries" Web site at http://www.coe.uh.edu/scc/.
Every other year, the Faculty Senate hosts the Scholarship and Community Conference, which focuses on issues relevant to the entire university community.
"This will be a great day of music and conversation," Kotarba said. "It literally has something for everyone, so I encourage the community to attend what promises to be a wonderful experience."