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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Kyle Busch wins pole for STP 500 at Martinsville
There have been five different winners in as many Sprint Cup races to start the 2014 season.
Kyle Busch made certain Friday the streak remained intact in qualifying as well.
Busch was third fastest in the first round of knockout qualifying at Martinsville Speedway but posted the fastest average speed (99.674 mph) in the final round to claim the pole for Sunday's STP 500.
"This feels good," said Busch, who earned the 14th pole of his career and first at Martinsville. "We unloaded with a fast car and tried to dial it in as good as we could in race trim.
"The changes we made in between the two sessions really made a difference, and I picked up a little bit of speed in the second session. Hurray for me."
Joey Logano actually set a track qualifying record (100.201 mph) in Round 1 of qualifying but ended up third fastest when the final group of 12 cars returned to the track. The previous record (99.595 mph) was set by Hamlin last fall.
Hamlin will start second, Jimmie Johnson fourth and Jeff Gordon fifth. Series points leader Carl Edwards will line up eighth.
Danica Patrick qualified 10th – her second top-10 start of her Cup career.
New version of Air Titan debuts
The next generation of Air Titan, NASCAR's new track-drying technology, is making its debut this weekend at Martinsville.
Air Titan 2.0 is a more compact and more environmentally friendly version of its innovative predecessor, which has been used since last season.
The Air Titan 2.0 more than triples the blade capacity of the original version and can deliver 2.6 times more air volume at a speed of 568 mph.
With the combination of water removal and accelerated evaporation, NASCAR officials said the ultimate goal is to reduce track-drying time by 80 percent.
"The first phase of the Air Titan system has been an overwhelming success," said Gene Stefanyshyn, NASCAR's vice president of innovation and racing development. "We will continue to innovate and develop the technology to further increase its efficiency and sustainability."
New Hampshire hoping to add lights
Jerry Gappens, executive vice president and general manager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway, confirmed Friday his track is seeking to host a night race for one of its two Cup series dates in the 2015 season.
Gappens hinted Thursday on Twitter that such a change was possible. The 1-mile paved oval in Loudon, N.H., currently hosts races in July and September and both are held on Sunday afternoon.
"Night racing requires an agreement from a number of stakeholders, and if we do it, we want to do it right and with community support," Gappens said in a statement provided to the Observer. "A recent survey shows Loudon residents support lights, and it has been the top request from our fans for years.
"The first step is to get approval from NASCAR and NBC. We started dialogue in September, and I am awaiting an answer."
Stewart's scooter going up for auction
The Darrell Gwynn Foundation will auction a scooter donated by three-time Cup series champion Tony Stewart at the Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Gala on April 10.
The scooter was used by Stewart at the track during the 2013 season after he sustained a leg injury in a racing accident. The winning bidder of the scooter also will receive a VIP NASCAR Experience to the Coke Zero 400 on July 3-5.
Stewart also will match the first $50,000 on the winning bid with all proceeds benefiting the Darrell Gwynn Foundation. The foundation supports people with paralysis and helps to prevent spinal cord injuries.
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Source: The Border Mail
Ned Kelly's burial next to his mother on Sunday is expected to be painful for many of his descendants.
Just over 132 years after his death, Kelly will finally have his wish granted to be buried in consecrated ground alongside family in the small town of Greta, in northern Victoria.
This will follow a full requiem Mass for Kelly in Wangaratta tomorrow.
Kelly's grave, like that of his mother, Ellen, won't be marked.
The family is acutely aware of the public interest but yesterday made several pleas for privacy.
"We don't want it to become a circus — it is a private family burial," said Joanne Griffiths, the great-granddaughter of Kelly's sister Grace.
"There's a lot of pain involved, particularly for the elders of the family.
"These are people who have kept quiet for generations."
Kelly's burial became possible after his remains — minus his still missing skull — were positively identified two years ago.
His skeleton was unearthed in 2009 at the old Pentridge Prison site, where it had laid undisturbed since being re-buried there 80 years earlier.
Kelly had been buried at the Old Melbourne Jail after his execution on November 11, 1880.
The identity of his skeleton was confirmed after DNA extracted from the bone was matched to mitochrondrial DNA from the blood of Melbourne art teacher Leigh Olver, a direct descendant.
Damage to the skeleton also matched injuries Kelly suffered during his capture at Glenrowan.
Hundreds of relatives — including at least 200 from three direct lines of Kelly's parents, John "Red" Kelly and Ellen Kelly — are expected to attend the service and burial.
The service will be held at St Patrick's Church and is expected to begin about midday.
"Our wishes are that it is private, it is for family," Ms Griffiths said.
"But of course with churches you don't usually shut doors, certainly not in the heat."
A statement released by the family yesterday drew attention to a letter dictated by Kelly — he couldn't write because of a gunshot wound to his right hand — the day before he was hanged.
In his letter to the governor he asked for his mother to be released from jail before he died, then pleaded to be granted permission "for my friends to have my body that they might bury it in consecrated ground".
Kelly's request was refused.
The family decided to hold the service and burial on separate days in the hope that the latter, at the very least, would be accorded greater privacy.
"Obviously it is a family member we are burying here, someone who was loved," Ms Griffiths said.
"We want to give him the most respectful and dignified mass and burial we possibly can — that's what any person would want for their family member."
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CNN's Wolf blitzes D.C.'s Wizards
The Los Angeles Lakers have Jack Nicholson. The New York Knicks have Spike Lee. And the Washington Wizards have … Wolf Blitzer.
In terms of the NBA's celebrity fans, CNN's Blitzer may not be the biggest name in the stands, but he's one of the most devoted. The 3-22 Wizards — yes, that's three wins and 22 losses, the worst record in the NBA, and they face off against the equally feeble Cleveland Cavaliers (6-23) tonight — are clearly not having the best season, but Blitzer, a long-time season ticket holder, says he's a die-hard D.C. fan no matter the standings.
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"I'm a Washingtonian — I've lived here ever since graduate school. As much as I love my Buffalo teams [where he grew up], I'm a real Washingtonian now," he told POLITICO in an interview. "I've lived here for much of my life now. I'm into the Washington Nationals and the Redskins and the Wizards and the Capitals, so I've succumbed to Potomac fever, what can I say?"
Blitzer said that about 20 years ago he started getting into the NBA "big time," and became a wicked Wizards fan when Michael Jordan made his comeback with the team in 2001. "Around that time, I got my first season ticket , and I've been getting season tickets every year," Blitzer said.
Blitzer goes to many of the games with either his wife or a friend, or gives the tickets to staffers or others when he can't make it to Verizon Center. But even when he's not there in person, Blitzer is up on the jumbo screen reporting "The Wizards Situation" as part of the pre-game show. Blitzer said he's been doing the video segments, each of which is unique to the day's game and matchup, for several years. He credited former "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, who died in 2008, with helping inspire him to take an active role in helping the organization.
"My fellow Buffalonian Tim Russert, who passed away unfortunately, was a good friend, he was a huge sports fan, he was a Wizards season-ticket holder — and I know his son [NBC News correspondent] Luke is a season-ticket holder now — he used to do that kind of stuff and he was always cooperative," Blitzer said. "I love to help all the teams if I can. So they asked me to do it, and I said, sure, I'd be happy to do it."
Blitzer gets a draft script of the "situation" from the Wizards and then does four or five tapings at a time at CNN's D.C. bureau. "They're just 30 seconds each, not very long, and I tweak them a little bit, edit them, make sure I'm comfortable with them. And then we tape it here in the Situation Room and we give the 'Wizards situation tonight from the Situation Room,'" he said. "It's just a fun thing to do, and I enjoy doing it. And I'm very good friends with the GM of the Wizards [Ernie Grunfeld]."


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These pages are dedicated to the technologies that are used to connect to the Internet. They are organized by
Digital Subscribe Loop
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ASDSL) High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL) Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL) Rate-Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL) Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line 2 (VDSL2), an improved version of VDSL Symmetric High-speed Digital Subscriber Line (G.SHDSL), a standardized replacement for early proprietary SDSL by the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector Powerline Digital Subscriber Line (PDSL),
A Digital Subscriber Line
Hybrid-Fiber Co-Axial (HFC)
Cable infrastructure has been in place for quite some time now. Broadcasting radio frequency channels across coaxial cable provides cable television. This cable then connects directly to a television and allows channels to be received. Providing this service involved wiring communities with coaxial cable. To broadcast the television signal, the spectrum within the cables is divided into channels, with one station per channel broadcast on the cable from a central station. Due to the nature of coaxial cables, signal degradation and (where the signal on the cable begins to something) and interference (outside rf signals interfering with transmission) resulted in usage fewer channels than what was available on the cable.
To reduce the length of the coaxial cable, the cable system began to be re-architected in the late 1990s by incorporating fiber-optic cables running to the neighborhood level. Once it reached the neighborhood, it would then be placed onto the coaxial cable already in place (with repeaters to ensure the signal wouldn't degrade). This architecture, known as the Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial (HFC), shortened the length of the coaxial cable needed to deliver service to the home. This in turn allowed for use of more channels within the coaxial cable. With these extra channels, cable systems could begin to offer advanced services, including Digital Cable, High Definition Television (HDTV), Video on Demand (VOD) and, most importantly data transmission to connect to the Internet.
To connect to the Internet the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS), was developed. The specification calls for a modem at the consumer end and a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) at the cable switching office. The current specification in use allows for transmission of up to 40 Mbps downstream and 30 Mbps upload per channel in use (with more channels dedicated to the downstream then to the upstream. Many households (approx. 500) share the same coaxial cable back to the fiber node. This results in these home sharing the bandwidth, which reduces the amount of bandwidth available to any given house. To ensure that one household does not consume the entire bandwidth, individual cable modems are capped at a maximum speed, which in turn allows a cable company to charge more for faster access. This creates an interesting dilemma. The first adopters found cable Internet to be fast and reliable, but found that their connection gets slower over time because more people in their neighborhood were using the same bandwidth. The specification provided standardization for the cable modem that would allow many manufacturers to make modems, reducing the cost of barrier to entry for cable Internet.


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Here Aaron Swartz and Taryn Simon discuss a collaboration that they undertook for the New Museum last year in which they created a visualization showing the cultural specificity and partiality of google image search.The piece was called Image Atlas.
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Colorado Wind Ensemble, Arvada Choale give their all to "Carmina Burana"
Every new hall is a learning experience and there were plenty of lessons to take in at the performance of "Carmina Burana" at the Parkers Arts, Culture and Events Center Friday night.
For the Colorado Wind Ensemble and the Arvada Chorale, it was about audience. If you are a small, talented arts group who has worked hard to build a base in Arvada, you simply can't pop down to Parker, 34 miles away, and hope that people will show up. Well, you can hope, but the people won't come. Not even friends and family.
"Carmina Burana" is a grand effort and the combined forces of these two musical entities performed it admirably, offering up some truly memorable moments. Matthew J. Roeder, on the podium, kept this 25-song mashup, spanning 70 minutes, with a cast of 90-plus, in the moment all the way through, not an easy task.


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Limited edition botanical print on birch wood cradled panel or art block
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5x5 panels ship in 1-2 days. 16x16 panels ship in 1-2 weeks.
These botanical prints on panel are like bringing nature right into your home. Whether you hang a grouping of two or six on the wall, or one on a shelf, these limited edition artworks will fill your home with delight and optimism.
Each artwork is hand-drawn directly from nature, and reveals the elegant details that make each plant unique by the use of silhouettes. Each botanical print is also unique because they are limited to 100 hand signed, numbered and titled prints.
Priced affordably and with nearly 40 images to choose from, these botanical prints are perfect for gift giving and home decorating. New images are available all the time.
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I do have a Panotour license but I am not finding finding KRPano anywhere. Is it hidden someplace?
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TSA Granting Expedited Security Checks To Entire Lines Of Travelers Undercuts Everything About Its Security Theater
from the the-TSA-wants-YOU-to-not-think-too-hard-about-this dept
The TSA finally appears to be doing something to trim down the runtime of security theater performances. The PreCheck program, which sold travelers' rights back to them for a smallish fee is now being applied randomly to people waiting in line. And not just certain somebodies as the TSA did randomly over the holiday season in an effort to appear slightly less annoying. A whole lot of somebodies, according to this report from The Consumerist.
[A]s I approached the checkpoint to have my ID checked and my boarding pass scanned, a man who appeared to be a TSA supervisor stood and declared that my line and the one next to it are now PreCheck lanes.While the TSA would probably prefer this random largesse to be greeted with relief and gratitude, its normal day-to-day enforcement of petty, illogical policies ensures that this sort of thing is only greeted with suspicion.
The initial reaction from those around me was confusion — mutterings of "Why did they put me in the wrong line? What is PreCheck? Do I have to get in another line?" — but then the supervisor just continued telling us that we didn't need to take off our shoes, remove laptops from their bags, and the other perks of being a PreCheck traveler.
Chris Morran was naturally perplexed by the TSA's implicit admission that its security theater was, in fact, security theater. After all, if whole lines can be declared "not terrorists," then why all the shoeless jumping through hoops the other 99.99% of the time? He reached out to the TSA, which responded with this:
"TSA also utilizes these lanes during certain times for other low-risk passengers who are identified through a real-time threat assessment process," explained a TSA rep who then directed me to this TSA.gov page on what the agency calls "Managed Inclusion."The infamous "threat assessment program" (as performed by barely-trained "Behavioral Detection Officers" [BDOs] and overseen by Passenger Screening Canines), which the GAO referred to as little better than a "coin flip" at detecting terrorists is now being used as the justification for granting dozens of fliers instant PreCheck approval.
Morran has a good reason to be suspicious of this move. Not only does it undercut the TSA's arguments for pretty much everything else that it does, it also contorts itself to give itself a pat on the back for being so damn good at detecting terrorists. This allows the TSA to give its Threat Assessment Program a veneer of legitimacy it hasn't earned. Morran points out that he didn't see a single "screening dog" anywhere and nothing indicating the decision was being made with any sort of "assessment" being involved. It was just business as usual and then, suddenly, everyone swept through the security process with shoes and laptops intact.
While I'm sure the travelers appreciated the expedited process, the real danger here is that the TSA -- which is supposed to be ensuring our airplanes are terrorist-free -- is now arbitrarily deciding to drop 90% of the process on a whim. Even if the infamous BDOs (and their pet friends) are performing some sort of en masse "assessment," that process has been deemed no more likely to net a terrorist than the randomly dragging every other person off for extra screening. Either the TSA needs to drop the many pretenses that "support" its procedures or it needs to stand by the very things it has claimed for years are essential to preventing terrorist activity. What if this had nothing to do with assessment and had everything to do with agents feeling less than motivated? It would look exactly the same and would have the same amount of "threat detection" behind it.
I would like to see the TSA drop the "theater" part and return to actual security, but trying to half-ass it with crowd-pleasing "everyone is pre-approved!" tactics like this is the agency trying to have it both ways -- and it's hugely disingenuous.
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We have a permanent vacancy for a Men's Cutter to join our Costume Department for the 2019 Festival.
This key role is a unique opportunity to bring your considerable Technical, Creative and Leadership skills to our team.
Benefitting from our exceptional state of the art workrooms in our newly commissioned production hub, you will collaborate with international creative teams to continue your career in our world class repertoire environment.
Working with the Senior Cutter you will contribute to and support the management of an effective team of tailors. Your extensive technical experience and your commitment to the development of others will be instrumental in maintaining our high production standards.
In this role you will realise designs, draft patterns, cut period and modern garments and also fit, alter and refurbish existing costumes for revivals.
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Has Notorious American Fugitive Psychologist Ken Wilcox Reinvented Himself as a Wealthy Aristocrat named Drew Carrington Who Will Soon Join the House of Lords as "8th Baron Carrington"?
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Former NYPD Blue star Jimmy Smits is rolling into the upcoming fifth season of FX's hit outlaw drama Sons of Anarchy, for a full a season-long arc.
Smits will ditch his token clean-cut look to play Neron 'Nero' Padilla, a gang member who ends up becoming a mentor and not-so-good influence on the young newly implanted SAMCRO president Jackson 'Jax' Teller (Charlie Hunnam).
Playing the bad boy has seemed to be Smits taste as of late - coming off another villainous run on the third season of Showtime's psychological thriller Dexter, as the villainous ADA Miguel Prado. The role of Nero also breaks Smits from his usual penchant of playing the polished lawman. Smits is most recognized for portraying a cop or lawyer, in both NYPD Blue and LA Law, as well as recently Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza on the short lived NBC drama, Outlaw.
Since the announcement of not only a fifth but a sixth and seventh season, there hasn't been much info in the way of what's going to happen next for Sons of Anarchy — but in other interesting, and somewhat strange, season 5 casting news, series creator Kurt Sutter has confirmed that former real-life Hells Angel Chuck Zito (HBO's Oz) will be appearing on the show.
While former outlaws turning actors is hardly anything new, the shock of Zito's appearance on the show comes from the fact that in 2010 Zito filed a $5 million dollar lawsuit against FX, alleging that the cable network stole his idea. In 2006 Zito had a development meeting with FX, in which he pitched the idea of an outlaw motorcycle group titled Nomads (later The Wild Angels). After losing his case in 2011, Zito claims "We buried the hatchet." Zito goes on to say, "He said some derogatory things about me on his website, but that's in the past now. We get along real well and we're going to become good friends"
Zito's character is simply described as "a nomad who comes to Charming", beyond that not much is known about Zito's role, episode number, or if his character's appearance is merely coincidental to that of newly-implanted cast member Jimmy Smits, or if the two are somehow going to be linked in the show.
The fifth season of Sons of Anarchy will premiere this September on FX.
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Packed Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Intestinal Blood Flow in Preterm Neonates
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The purpose of the study is to determine whether packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfusion affects intestinal blood flow of premature infants during feedings and if so, whether return of normal intestinal blood flow pattern occurs within 48 hours of blood transfusion.
Abnormal intestinal responses to the feedings (insufficient postprandial blood flow increase in order to digest given feeding volume or overall decrease of intestinal blood flow) may predispose infants to feeding intolerance and to serious intestinal disease called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a relatively common heart condition found in young preterm infants that can lead to decreased blood flow in different organs, including intestines. Thus, the determination of the presence or absence of PDA is an important part of the study, since it can be a relevant confounding variable.
In this study, the investigators will assess intestinal blood flow by using sonogram to measure velocity through the superior mesenteric artery (SMA), the artery supplying most of the intestine, both pre- and 45 minutes post feeding. The investigators will also use echocardiogram to determine the presence or absence of PDA. Each set of measurements will be done immediately before and after the transfusion, and again 24 and 48 hours after the transfusion.
Specific Hypothesis: The investigators hypothesize that infants will have attenuated postprandial blood flow velocities in immediate posttransfusion state when compared to the pretransfusion values. The investigators further hypothesize that normal, pretransfusion postprandial blood flow velocities will be achieved 48 hrs after the blood transfusion.
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Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the death of intestinal tissue. It most often affects premature or sick babies. NEC occurs when the lining of the intestinal wall dies and the tissue falls off. NEC is a known complication of prematurity with high morbidity and mortality. About 7 to 13% of all very low birth weight infants admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) develop NEC, with mortality ranging from 10 to 44% (1,2,3).
NEC is considered a multifactorial disorder converging on a common final clinical presentation associated with several etiologic mechanisms, including ischemia (eg reperfusion), infection (eg, gut colonization), mechanical injury (eg, viscosity, embolic), iatrogenic factors (eg catheters, excessive enteral feeding), and immunological barrier dysfunction (1,13,4,5) To date, there is no single, unifying consensus on causation (6).
Newly, the association between NEC and Packed Red Blood Cell (PRBC)transfusion has been a subject of recent debate. Several retrospective studies report increased incidence of NEC 22 hrs (7) or 48-72 hrs after PRBC transfusion (8) and increased odds of NEC development within 48 hrs posttransfusion (9). Singh, measuring the strength of association between the NEC and PRBC transfusion describes the association as strong < 24hrs, less strong < 48 hrs and absent at 96 hrs (10). Importantly, the majority of the infants in these studies were stable premature neonates on full enteral feeds, who decompensated and developed NEC after being transfused.
Based on poor or no evidence, many NICUs are implementing policy not to feed premature infants during the blood transfusion (11). A small recent prospective trial (8) reported decreased incidence of NEC (from 5.3 to 1.3%) when feeds are withheld during the transfusion. Similarly, the limited investigation of the superior mesenteric artery (blood vessel that supplies the greatest volume of blood to the intestinal tract) blood flow velocities (SMA BFV) revealed that the expected post-prandial increase in SMA BFV disappeared following the PRBC, placing the fed neonates receiving blood transfusion at higher risk for NEC (12).
This initial study had several major limitations, such as enrolling larger and more mature preterm neonates at lesser risk for PRBC transfusion related NEC, excluding infants with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), common clinical condition in preterm neonates, losing 11 out of 22 patients for follow up studies (hence "normalization" of post-prandial blood flow velocities and finding potentially safe time point for feeds reintroduction could not be suggested by the study results) and using relatively less commonly transfused PRBC volumes over longer period of time.
In this study, the investigators intend to further their understanding of the hemodynamic consequences of PRBC transfusion in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates by evaluating pre-and post-prandial SMA BFV in neonates who are not fed during the transfusion at different time points and correlate those with relevant clinical outcome measures. The investigators anticipate that the results from this study will be used by clinicians to help guide them in making decisions regarding the safety of administering PRBC transfusion in VLBW neonates.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|25 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Packed Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Intestinal Blood Flow in Preterm Infants
|Study Start Date :
|December 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|August 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2014
|blood transfusion group
Procedure: ultrasound
sonographic evaluation of intestinal blood flow
- Assessing intestinal blood flow by comparing superior mesenteric artery velocities in preterm neonates before and after packed red blood cell transfusion using sonogram. [ Time Frame: Measurements are obtained both before and 45 minutes after feeding prior to transfusion; again before and after feeding after transfusion and again at 24 and 48 hours after the transfusion. ]Prospective investigation of pre- and post-prandial (45 minutes after feeding completion) SMA BVF in preterm neonates before and after blood transfusion. The pretransfusion SMA BFV measurements (pre- and post-prandial) are done during the last feeding before the transfusion; the postransfusion SMA BFV (pre- and post-prandial) measurements are done during the first feeding immediately following the blood transfusion and again during the feedings 24 and 48 hrs after the transfusion (Total of 8 SMA BFV assessments).
- To determine whether packed red blood cell transfusion affects patent ductus arteriosus status of the subjects using Echocardiogram to determine the presence or absence of PDA. [ Time Frame: Each set of measurements will be done immediately before and after the transfusion, and again 24 and 48 hours after the transfusion. ]Before each SMA BFV measurement prior to feeding, the investigators will determine the presence or absence of PDA, since the presence of PDA can affect SMA BFV (total of 4 PDA studies for each enrolled subject).
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 3 Months (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Preterm neonates (≤1500 grams of birth weight) of singleton and multiple births who are admitted to the NICU at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital and who are tolerating ≥ 20 ml/kg/day of feeding volume run over 30 minutes or less; both males and females of all ethnic groups.
Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) neonates will be studied since morbidities such as transfusion related acute gastrointestinal injury and/or necrotizing enterocolitis, PDA and feeding intolerance most frequently occur in this group.
Because the need to ensure parental comprehension prior to consent documentation, parents who, in the judgement of the attending physician and/or research team members, do not have an adequate command of the English language will not be invited to participate in the study.
Inclusion Criteria:
- birth weight ≤ 1500 gm
- singleton and multiple gestation
- small and appropriate birth weight for gestational age
- tolerance of ≥ 20 ml/kg/day of feeding volumes over 30 minutes or less
- at least 14 days of age and ≤ 35 6/7 weeks corrected gestational age at time of transfusion.
- Expected age range of 0-3 months is based on expected age of extremely low birth weight infants at limit (35 6/7 weeks) of corrected gestational age.
Only those infants who receive transfusion at < or equal to 35 weeks will undergo the PDA/SMA and BFV procedures and have data included in analysis.
Exclusion Criteria:
- major congenital or chromosomal anomalies
- presence of congenital heart disease (minus patent ductus arteriosus
- presence of shock
- presence of vasopressor use
- presence of severe lung disease
- concurrent treatment with antibiotics for sepsis
- history of NEC Bell stage 2 or greater
- Infants experiencing changes in vital signs or oxygen level drop needing intervention (such as oxygen increase or stimulation) will have studies discontinued and will be excluded from further analysis.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01628133
|United States, Missouri
|Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital / Saint Louis University
|St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63104
|Study Director:
|Thomas Havranek, MD
|Saint Louis University, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Aaron Pitzele, MD
|Saint Louis University, Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Aaron Pitzele, MD, Associte Professor of Pediatrics, St. Louis University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01628133 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|June 26, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 20, 2014
|Last Verified:
|June 2014
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Packed Red Blood Cell


text: OK so I bought myself a little project. Im in the process of selling my other two debas, and so I needed something I could use in the mean time when Im deciding what Im going to get in their place. The original plan was to hit Shigefusa but its kind of expensive for a knife that supposed to chip and cut bones and generally have hard life. This one is "Special made by Yukimitsu" - I thank Kevin [CuttySharp] for encoding this one for me. I couldnt find any info about the maker, only something about the original guy lived something like 1000 years ago. So of we go this is the blade when it came And so I took it to my grinder, cleaned the choil and spine, rounded it a bit, and ground new bevel roughly. The shinogi for now is not the straightest line on earth but Im going to fix that by hand with my diamond. On the from side and back side, because they are concave, i only grind by hand with a 40 grit sanding paper on a piece of wood. My goal there is to remove all those wheel marks and have nice paralell scratch pattern. And so from this point on theres no more machine involved into the process. The whole grinding and polishing is done by hand and carefully. Now the back side is little in mess, but I wouldnt expect anything else really. It takes time but its possible to make it look prettier with patient sanding. The front is finished and I will not polish it further, at the end of the day its working knife not a showpiece. The sharpness of the steel doesnt get any far from any other carbon. Lucky me. to be continued


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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
ATHENS, Ga. – Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace got off to a good start in the passing game.
Ultimately, Wallace's top receiving weapons were shut down by Georgia, making things difficult for an Ole Miss offense that already was having trouble running the ball.
Donte Moncrief, the Rebels' leading receiver before the game with 38 catches, was held without a catch, while Vince Sanders had only two – one ending in a fumble.
"I don't think they did anything different to him. A lot of Donte's catches are on screens in our tempo game," Wallace said. "We never really got in it ..."
Moncrief had a streak of 14 games with at least one catch snapped. It was the second time in his career to be held without a catch.
Sanders and Ja-Mes Logan each had 22 catches going into the game. Sanders had two catches for 17 yards, while Logan added two for 20.
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said he felt Wallace took a step back in his decision-making.
"I think so. I'll have to watch the film. I don't want to judge him incorrectly," Freeze said.
There were times Freeze thought Wallace should have pulled the ball down and run.
One of those plays came late in the second quarter after a Georgia turnover when Wallace tried to get the ball to Jamal Mosley who had gotten behind the Bulldogs secondary.
The ball was well underthrown and picked off.
"I just under-threw it," Wallace said. "If I had been able to set my feet … Jamal had a 5- yard cushion on him. I thought I made good decisions but just didn't put enough on that ball."
Wallace has thrown 13 touchdowns and 11 interceptions this season. He has thrown at least one interception in six of nine games this season.
57 – Ole Miss ran 57 plays to Georgia's 73. The Rebels average 71.6 plays per game.
Georgia opened the third quarter with a six-play, 79-yard drive capped by Aaron Murray's 42-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Mitchell. That gave the Bulldogs a 21-10 lead.
QUOTABLE"I don't think it's that we were not ready to play. Ole Miss just did an excellent job of executing. As time went on the game settled down, and the defense tightened the screws pretty quick." – Georgia coach Mark Richt
The Rebels will be home against Vanderbilt, which won 40-0 at Kentucky on Saturday.
Both teams will be playing for a sixth overall win to make them bowl-eligible.
For the first time this season, Ole Miss lost a game after scoring first. … Georgia's first thirdquarter touchdown was the first third-quarter touchdown scored against Ole Miss since Texas on Sept. 15. … The Rebels reached
the red zone just twice, scoring each time. … Safety Cody Prewitt led the Rebels with 11 tackles, and linebacker Denzel Nkemdiche added eight. … The Rebels' five sacks came from four different players with C.J. Johnson getting 1.5.


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Thursday, February 25, 2010
This bento picture is one of my OWN lunches from last weekend when we were out of the house enjoying a dash of sunny weather in an otherwise frigid and lingering winter.
In a Laptop Lunches box - I have sandwich rolls sans wrap (peppered turkey, havarti cheese, lots of baby spinach and mustard...YUM!) SunChips, pistachios, carrots and celery with my favorite ranch (Trader Joe's low fat parmesan ranch) for dipping.
To be honest, I really don't like celery. I think it tastes like dirt.
The way raw veggies roll in this house drives me batty - the rundown (take notes, there may be a quiz at the end):
* My husband: likes celery, doesn't care for carrots, can tolerate cucumbers in severe moderation, sometimes eats broccoli.
* Me: I love carrots, tolerate small amounts of celery, really dislike cucumbers. No broccoli, no way, no how.
* 8 year old son: loves carrots, can tolerate some cucumbers, doesn't care for celery, sorta likes broccoli.
* 6 year old son: ... uh, no.
* 2 year old daughter: LOVES cucumbers, barely tolerates carrots, suspicious of celery. Sometimes eats broccoli... but cooked broccoli is one of her favorite foods and she scowls when it's given to her in raw format. LOL
* baby: yet to be seen!
Friday, are you here yet?
9 comments:
- The Planet Pink said... [Reply to comment]
Ah, this makes my 2 day old leftover pizza that I'm currently consuming look highly unappetizing. LOL
- February 25, 2010 at 1:39 PM
- Mariah said... [Reply to comment]
lol! ^_^ I *love* carrots (not cooked though) *hate* celery, dont care for cucumber and love broccoli ^_^ J is about the same and T likes cucumber & strongly dislikes carrots, then matches me on the rest :D he and J also *love peas which I dont really like much.. . I try...
oh! and you're right about celery tasting like dirt, yuck!
- February 25, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Yum your lunch looks delicious! I went to take today's bento picture just to have my camera die from lack of battery power. I think it needs to be Friday too lol
I think celery is nasty and I have no idea how anyone tolerates it :P
- February 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Susan B. said... [Reply to comment]
ha ha. I like celery a lot, only it has to be only the inner light colored stalks - I don't care for the super green celery. cooked or raw is fine with me. hubs will not eat celery except maybe once a year if it is slathered in peanut butter.
carrots - love 'em raw, can't stand them cooked. hubs likes them raw, loves them cooked.
broccoli - cooked is good, raw is ok. this is for both me & hubs.
I also love cucumbers & mushrooms. He HATES cucumber and is only starting to tolerate a few cooked mushrooms once in a while.
oh, and another one: I like tomatoes. He will rarely eat one - only once in a blue moon on a restaurant salad. if I put them on salad at home he picks around them. :(
and we don't even have kids!
- February 25, 2010 at 5:13 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
We are not tomato eaters - unless it's in salsa! :P
Mmmmm, salsa.
- February 25, 2010 at 11:40 PM
- Nicole and Robert said... [Reply to comment]
I recently found your blog, booked marked it and check it everyday. I've not gotten all of the supplies and started with the kiddie bentos. I really think it is fun and my 2.5 year old loves it. Haven't gotten organized to take a pic yet but will soon. Thanks for the fun!
- February 26, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
It's totally my pleasure, Nicole! :) Thank you for visiting and leaving a comment...they really encourage me to keep the blog going! :)
- February 26, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Shannon said... [Reply to comment]
Yum, those turkey wraps look really good. I love peppered turkey. Where did you buy your Laptop Lunch? I saw them at Whole Foods but couldn't figure out the price so I skipped it. I think it might be nice to get one for P for school next year.
- February 26, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
I got this Laptop Lunch at their website - it was a long time ago! I got it when E. was just starting Kindergarten! Back then we didn't have a Whole Foods here, just Wild Oats (which has since turned to WF).
- February 26, 2010 at 11:03 PM


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My parents came to town last night. It is Spring Break so they are visiting for a few days. Mom never comes empty handed. This time she brought Char some new clothes, which she tried on all at once, some new toys for the boys and a new cookbook for me.In addition, she brought some treasures from the basement: an old Star Trek storybook for Emmett, (It was my brother's I hope he doesn't mind if we hang on to it for a while)and my diary, from 1986.
Now, we have established already that I am a big Little House Fan. This proves it. The first entry was made on my birthday, so I think that must have been when my parents gave it to me. (Mom? Is that right?) This diary had lots of empty space for me to fill in my thoughts as well as recipes from the Little House books, quotes and little bits of trivia from Laura's time. I loved it.
I apologize for the pictures. Our scanner is in the basement and not hooked up to the house network yet. If you want to read my scribbles just click on a picture to make it full-size.
Things to do in January: New Year's Day, New Glasses Came In, Space Shuttle blew up. So matter of fact. I am sure I didn't know the significance of the last one, but it is in there for posterity. I do remember watching the Challenger launch on TV .
These next two entries chronicle the tumultuous nature of pre-adolescent female friendships. (Ryan is my brother)
"....I had a nice day, no one beat me up. Not even Sharla....."
"......Today Ryan threw me in the mud, but Sharla took my side....."
This last entry is very important. It documents the birth of a knitter. I still have the pattern book the little sweater came from. This entry doesn't talk about the little purse I made first. It turns out a dolly purse has all of the basic elements of knitting in it. After that purse I was on to doll clothes.


text: Most dreams only make complete sense up until ten seconds after you drift back to consciousness, but the really good ones (and really bad ones) will haunt your psyche forever. Atelier Eugene's board, "Dreams To Dream About" understands this sentiment and presents the photo equivalents of those very dreams. Strange, familiar, creepy, and magical, this board is chock-full of other-worldly moments that you don't need to be in your pjs to enjoy (although, it certainly can't hurt).


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"If you've read much about serial killers, they go through what they call different phases. In the trolling stage, basically, you're looking for a victim at that time. You can be trolling for months or years, but once you lock in on a certain person, you become a stalker. There might be several of them, but you really hone in on one person. They basically become the ... victim. Or, at least that's what you want it to be."How can a person who would do such things tell all of the details without showing any sense of pain or sorrow or regret? This man is beyond evil, not even feeling sorry for his own miserable condition or showing any sign of an inner anger that pushed him over the edge. To watch him was to feel thoroughly confounded. How can that be a human being -- even the most evil human being? How can anyone be like that?
June 27, 2005
"If you've read much about serial killers..."
40 comments:
- JLP said...
I grew up in Wichita during his "reign." He sure had everyone in town worried. It's amazing and scary that he made it as long as he did without getting caught.
- knoxgirl said...
I saw some of this... at one point he actually used the term "putting them down" --like you would an animal--in reference to killing a family. Freak.
- JLP said...
Raider worked for the city and actually was responsible for stray animals. That's probably where he got the term.
But you're right, he is a FREAK!
- Goesh said...
He is not beyond reach. He was most likely abused as a child. Some old fashioned nurturing, lots of hugs and a good therapist will go a long ways towards his reclamation. If nothing else, it will develop in him a sense of appreciation for the millions of tax dollars to be spent on his appeals. American Justice is such a wonderful thing.
- Richard Lawrence Cohen said...
It's because of people like him that I am not opposed to the death penalty. (I believe that, as in Israeli penal practice, it should be reserved only for the most appalling crimes.) We are all mortal; the universe does not go out of its way to prolong our existences; and I fail to see how this man's life is sacred to the point where it deserves prolongation. I think there are some people who by their actions forfeit their right to continue to exist. They forfeit their membership in humanity.
I've read that this man has a wife and family. That provides food for thought.
- Ann Althouse said...
Richard: He can't get the death penalty. Kansas didn't reinstate the death penalty until 1994 and his crimes precede that. He'll just be put in prison for the rest of his life. Nothing more can be done to him and he knows it. Maybe that was why he was so calm. Maybe he got a bang out of describing those details, knowing there was pretty much nothing anyone could do about it, except take care of him in a little room and not let him go outside.
- Ann Althouse said...
Goesh: There won't be any appeals. He pleaded guilty. And he saved the state the cost of trying him. Turned himself in, too, didn't he? There now, do you like him better?
- Pogo said...
Ann, Re:"How can a person who would do such things tell all of the details without showing any sense of pain or sorrow or regret? This man is beyond evil...How can that be a human being...? "
There is a simple and awful answer. Mr. Rader clearly does not have a conscience.
He is unable to experience shame or guilt. He does not know what those words mean, and cannot understand what the 95% of humans who do are yapping about. He is thus unable to connect with others at all, unable to love or care about anyone than himself. Without a conscience, of course, anything is possible. Like any large predator then, he merely does what he can get a way with, a cold calculus of primal satisfaction. (Not predator as metaphor, but literally).
And if he is indeed without a conscience, then he does not meet what you heartbreakingly point out is a minimum criterion for being human. While we must be careful of labelling people as "the other" simply to justify our desire to do them harm, we need to recognize that some people are simply not human, at least not in the way the vast majority of us take for granted.
- JLP said...
Actually, he didn't turn himself in. He started contacting the local media and he sent someone a floppy disc that he created at his church. They traced it back to his church and that's how they found him. He was already on the Police's radar screen.
- Kathleen B. said...
I agree with both Prof. Althouse and Mr. Cohen - I just cannot understand such evil. I couldn't even finish reading the article. And this case is exactly why I am not opposed to the death penalty either. It is truly sad that he cannot be executed. Although maybe if there was that possibility he would not have confessed.
- Daddy Warbucks said...
For a minute, I thought you were talking about the President, the approximately 25,000 dead Iraqi civilians and the 1900 dead U.S. service men and women.
The I realized you are just creeped out about some psycho in Kansas. . .
- vnjagvet said...
There should be some way to study such an individual in a way to benefit humankind.
Actually, living 25 more years with people studying him like an insect or other loathsome creature might be fitting punishment indeed.
What is scary is his ordinariness. A church leader, a government employee, orderly, tidy, ostensibly mousey in word and temperament. Robert Louis Stevenson could have had this guy in mind when writing Dr. J and Mr. H.
- Ann Althouse said...
But, Pogo, HOW does it happen that a person has nothing where a conscience should be? HOW is it possible?
- SteveR said...
Some people like to find reasons why people do horrible things, as if to assure themselves that "we" can figure it out and prevent it and while excusing bad behaviour.
Well sometimes we can't understand, we can't prevent and we can't excuse. Evil exists.
- Ann Althouse said...
Daddy Warbucks: What minute was that? When I wrote "Dennis Rader" that must have sent you right down the wrong mental path.
Stever: I can contemplate evil. As I say in the post, this is something beyond evil. I can comprehend extreme perversity and anger and insanity, but not this rational-seeming coldness -- a person alive enough to be motivated to undertake difficult activities but devoid of any emotion. Why would a machine bother to do anything?
- Pastor_Jeff said...
Christian missionaries have come across cultures where deceit and betrayal were virtues. When the natives heard gospel stories, they thought Judas was the hero.
I think it's possible to quiet the conscience over and over to the point that a person no longer is capable of feeling shame, regret, remorse, pride, pity, etc. It happens more often than we think, but usually on a smaller scale. Don't you think that we are more shameless as a culture than we were 30-50 years ago?
- Ann Althouse said...
Pastor Jeff: Not to that extreme degree.
- Pogo said...
I suspect that the conscience, rather than being a mere social construct, has an actual neurological locus. While this can be affected by the presence or absence of nurturing (i.e. you can train someone to be evil), it must be present to create the conditions we think of when we speak of societal rules as understood 'by the ordinary man'.
People like malignant boyfriends, mean Machiavellian office workers, serial killers, or Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot share to varying degrees the capacity to inflict harm without the possibility of regret or shame. (They think the conscience simply does not exist, that they are merely doing what you would if you had the guts.)
Much like our abilities to sing, do math, build a company, or start a government have neurologic precursors for language, spatial construction, and socialization, our conscience must be derived from our brain activity. C.S. Lewis pointed out that we seem to have within us the innate sense --not taught-- that there are behaviors that are just and unjust.
What if, like intellegence, or artisitic ability, this conscience exists within a range of 'conscience' capacity. Much like some are born with no ability to see color, or to smell, or to grasp art or law, perhaps it is true that some people have very little conscience, and some are simply born without any conscience at all.
If you've ever seen the cold stare of the human predator, you may begin to suspect this is true.
- Pastor_Jeff said...
I didn't mean to say that society has become shameless to that degree, merely that consience is affected by our choices - as eivdenced by the choice of many people not to be ashamed of things we once rejected.
But I also think Pogo is onto something. Conscience seems to be a combination of choice, environment, and innate predisposition. Perhaps BTK was the "perfect storm" of all these factors.
- Slocum said...
I fail to see how this man's life is sacred to the point where it deserves prolongation. I think there are some people who by their actions forfeit their right to continue to exist. They forfeit their membership in humanity.
I oppose the death penalty in such cases not because his life is sacred but because the whole process of carrying it out gives him more of the prominence and power over public imagination that he has sought (but should be denied) and some even minor claim to victimhood. It puts him at the center of a final, high-profile 'death pageant'.
Now that he has plead guilty, I would rather see him disappear down the memory hole as quickly and quietly as possible: no appeals, no interviews, no books--nothing.
- Dave said...
If ever there were a bastard who should be executed, this is the one.
It is unconscionable that he will live.
Alas, such is the world liberals have wrought.
As to how it is possible for a murderer to be so dispassionate: well, there are a lot of cold, callous bastards out there. He is one of them.
I hope someone Dahmers him in jail.
- Pogo said...
A quick example: Dogs display reactions that look very much like shame. Primates do, too. Cats do not seem to do this at all, nor do many other animals.
Perhaps dogs have the precursors for shame (displayed as submissive behavior) in an attempt at social cohesion. However, lacking self-awareness, they may not actually feel shame or guilt. The beta version of shame, if you will.
In the movie Blade Runner, an interrogation is conducted using a machine that measures iris contractions through carefully worded questions and statements (a proxy for the empathetic response), in order to determine if a suspect is human or android.
The really interesting question is: what if we were similarly able to isolate people who lack a conscience? The social and legal implications would be enormous.
- Richard Lawrence Cohen said...
Slocum: I agree with you in terms of the realities and politics of the death penalty. I was thinking more in terms of what I thought should be done with him in the abstract.
Daddy Warbucks: Responses like yours are the reason why people like me can no longer identify with or sympathize with the left, and why the left's role in this country will keep decreasing into the foreseeable future.
- Kathleen B. said...
such is the world liberals have wrought.
I *beg* to differ. If racists had not continually improperly applied and enforced the death penalty, we would not be where we are today. They were hardly liberals.
- Finn Kristiansen said...
It would seem to me that Radar is not some anomaly of humanity, unique in his incomprehensible calm and unspeakable lack of humanity.
One need only look at history (Hitler swings into mind, or even the deposed Saddam and his now dead luna-sons) to find men, whether powerful or ordinary, who are fully capable of killing with their left hand, and embracing the grandkids, wife or lover with the right. Radar is simply a Hitler without a nation, and with a more personal obsession.
One thinks of this nation's history, where men could burn a town to the ground, or hang a few people, while dressed in white (or not), and return home in time to sit by the fire with the wife. Some of those very same men are our beloved grandfathers and great-grandfathers.
People like Radar are probably all around, and ply their trade at various levels of intensity, dishing out evil to feed some pursuit or false god (lust, power, revenge, racism, hatred)they have long since become servants to.
It's a hard life, a hard life...a very hard life.
- Pogo said...
That all humans have the capacity for evil is undeniable, but I believe you miss the point. People like Rader appear to lack the capacity for attachment to others. They are usually characterized as cold, even by family memebers (e.g. Svetlana, Stalin's daughter so described him). While they are adept enough to mimic such behaviors ("embracing the wife"), it is without actual emotion. That is "they know the words, but not the music".
The 'inhuman' aspect in Rader's telling of the story is evident in his dispassionate remarks, as if he were reading directions to assemble a water heater, rather than how he killed someone.
Few people, thank God, are capable of that.
- henny said...
"One thinks of this nation's history..."
Finn's comment is quite odd to me, and speaks of the obsessiveness many Americans have now, in insulting America and our history wherever they can make the connection.
- knoxgirl said...
I read something by John Douglas, one of the men who pioneered the profiling of serial killers and interviewed hundreds of them in his time at the FBI. I remember him saying that almost every one had been abused either psychologically, physically, or sexually as a child, and that their motive was, without exception, the utter domination and control of their victims.
I think it's very possible that these people are also genetically predisposed to be conscious-less because there are plenty of abused children who don't later "take it out" on others in this perverse way. But it seems to me serial killers are typically systematically tortured and from a very young age experience a sick, twisted version of what human relationships are about.
- Serenity Now said...
Ann Althouse: But, Pogo, HOW does it happen that a person has nothing where a conscience should be? HOW is it possible?
How is it possible that some people are blind or deaf?
Imo, cases like Rader's should make us realize that having a conscience is as remarkable as having the power of sight or hearing. We tend to take these biological abilities for granted because we have trouble imagining what life would be like without them.
Ann Althouse: I can comprehend extreme perversity and anger and insanity, but not this rational-seeming coldness -- a person alive enough to be motivated to undertake difficult activities but devoid of any emotion. Why would a machine bother to do anything?
Sociopaths aren't machines devoid of emotion. They just don't feel any moral connection to other people.
- ploopusgirl said...
henny: I suppose you'd rather we ignore our ugly history? If we acknowledge it, we may have to make ourselves accountable for many problems present today. This then becomes a problem because we can no longer simply blame those different from us.
What finn says is correct. There have been thousands, if not millions, of people throughout the course of time, and in our very own country, that have-without heart and without morals-viciously murdured and slaughtered other human beings. Seems relevant to me..
- amba said...
Ann: Oh, he has emotion all right. He has lust for gratification and for power, and he has pride. These serial killers just don't have any feeling of the reality of other people. Their emotions are all warped and bent back around themselves.
He probably thought of his wife and kids and all the rest as necessary "cover."
The act of imagining the reality of another person (Paul Ricoeur: "The other is also a self") is the prerequisite for having empathy or compassion. The only way I can imagine such evil is to take my own most selfish moments and multiply them exponentially. But I can't get past the imagining of the pain of the other person -- it just rises up in my face, involuntarily. I can be mad enough at someone to imagine killing them, but I know I could never do it. Short of a situation of self-defense against a stranger (or the desire to see some thing like Rader, if not executed, then "Dahmered,") no rage would be strong enough to stop me from imagining it from their point of view.
What horrified me most, seeing Rader on TV, was hearing him talk about how he conversed with his victims and basically let them hope that if they let him tie them up and do his thing, they'd survive. One woman sat and had a cigarette and then said, "Let's get it over with." That broke my heart. Imagine that terror and hope. And then he strangled her.
- Barry said...
Previous commentors wrote such things as:
It is truly sad that he cannot be executed.
It is unconscionable that he will live.
Is it really that important that this man be killed? As slocum said, wouldn't involving this killer in his own ritual of execution be a continuation and extension of his desired "death pageant"? What harm is there in letting him die the belittling death of life in prison?
Or is our own culture dependant on the killing of killers? Is that necessary for our cultural welfare?
- Pogo said...
Barry, re: "Is it really that important that this man be killed?"
Given the possibility that in 20 years some court might decide to release him when he's old and frail, yes, maybe it is that important.
As for death fitting in with his plans, well, good. At least we can both agree he should be dead.
(Actually, I don't buy that nonsense; if it were true, he'd have done so long before this. He simply wants to maintain an illusion of control. If he is sentenced to die, he'll demand it. If he is sentenced to life, he'll make demands of that as well. Best ignore his worthless speech. Nothing good can come from paying attention to his musings, warnings, insights, or speeches.)
- ronin1516 said...
Unlike some of the previous comments , I dont believe in the "hug-a-thug" approach when dealing with vicious peopl ewho have hurt or killed other human beings. The unwillingness of some to punish the very evilk amongst us, puzzles me. How can one, with a clean conscience, say that someone like Rader ought noty to be punished, as severly as the laws of the land allow?
And while we are at it, what about defense attorneys, who make a living at trying to ensure that folks like Dennis Rader go free to kill again? Zealous defense of a defendant so that he/she gets a fair trial? I think not, I feel a lot of folks who do defense work, and make all manner of excuses to try to get the raders of this world off are essentially o better than the killers and thne thugs they represent.
- bos0x said...
ronin1516, I love the way I can feel your passion through all of your typos. Tell me, if you simply despise Dennis Rader oh so much, why would you be willing to throw out all kinds of constitutional freedoms so that he can die a nice, clean, sterile death? He'll have years to come to terms with it, I'm sure, and while his death might be so meaningful to you and everyone else who is so morally outraged about laws and defense attorneys and things, I doubt that it would be symbolic the people that he terrorized and strangled. But ok, let's just get rid of all of the defense attorneys (cuz they r evlk just like killers LOL) so the criminal stars of sensationalist news stories can all be executed as quickly as possible. Of course, the mistakenly accused will be fucked, especially all of the regular people who aren't committing horrific violent crimes - but that's okay! Since that wouldn't be newsworthy, you'd never know and you could live your life in an even more blissful ignorance because Dennis Rader would be off the street. I mean, really off the street, not the weak, liberal kind of having-a-pleasant-time-in-prison "off the street."
Oh... but you only want the most sever punishment the law of the land allows for Rader...which, apparently in Kansas is...not death.. so.. why are you whining again? ...
- Pogo said...
I used to be adamantly opposed to the death penalty. However, I have met enough victims of rape and child abuse to suspect that there are some crimes so heinous as to cause one to re-examine such a blanket premise.
The risk that some future politician or judge might throw out or commute a life sentence for a proven serial killer (e.g. DNA, video, etc.) is not a small one. I have increasing misgivings about letting these folks live given the slightest possibility they will ever be released.
And it has indeed happened, has it not? "Life" is a long sentence, but death is permanent.
- bos0x said...
ronin1516 fantasizes about a world without defense attorneys and thinks that Florida law is the absolute pinnacle of moral depravity because it prevents a serial killer from being executed. Pogo, do you think that people accused of horrific crimes should have their right to a fair trial depend on whether or not news coverage of the crimes can horrify and disgust viewers?
Rape and child abuse are tragic, but it seems like excessive violence to actually execute offenders. It's not eye-for-an-eye anymore, so what's the point? You just can't have people killed because your sense of sympathy has become enormous and bloated - it's not justice then, it's masturbation. Horrific things happen to people without a concrete human cause - disease, natural disasters - so do you propose rewarding that grief with some good, old-fashioned execution as well? It makes everyone feel so much better!
- Pogo said...
re:"do you think that people accused of horrific crimes should have their right to a fair trial depend on whether or not news coverage of the crimes can horrify and disgust viewers?"
While negative publicity is certainly a concern, there is little evidence this often precludes a fair trial. And that's what defense attorneys must address, I think.
Moreover, the use of shame and disgust heaped upon the (in this case) self-admitted serial killer is likely a useful and necessary social phenomenon.
re: "Horrific things happen to people without a concrete human cause - disease, natural disasters - so do you propose rewarding that grief with some good, old-fashioned execution as well?"
bosox, I find it unlikely that victims or families of vicitims of rape, pedophilia, or serial killings would equate their experiences to natural disasters. I suspect few non-victims would think so, either.
- amba said...
I agree with you that serial killers should be destroyed because they are unfixable, incurable, irredeemable. They are so addicted to their sexual pleasure in killing, and feel so entitled to it, that they will escape from prison if they can (like Bundy) and will kill again if they are ever released. They are too dangerous to take the risk of letting them exist. They are the one case in which I am SURE I favor the death penalty, not even as punishment -- paying with your life doesn't bring back the lives you destroyed -- but as a public safety measure, the way you'd (yes) "put down" a rogue or rabid animal.
- Pogo said...
I agree about the 'public safety' needs here. One of the primary duties of any government is the protection of people from aggression and deception by others. If a serial killer is not dealt with swiftly and permanently, there is an accurate perception that lawlessness prevails.
The effect on any society is easy to guess. I prefer Rader's execution to such dystopias.


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A parser-based game about interspecies telepathic communication, Beyond Division immediately creates a positive impression by its implementation. For instance, commands like "follow hare" are understood. During the entire game, the implementation just feels solid.
The writing attempts to rise above the level of the mundane, but sometimes comes off as forced or awkward. A sentence like "Tall trees with tops full of the remnants of unobtainable varmints are scattered all around." does not give us a clear impression of what is going on. "As you wait in the midst of the blizzard, your sense beyond the blizzard improves somewhat." is abracadabra to me. And I'm not sure the verb 'to emanate' is well chosen in "Pure power is emanating all around the cavern from a glowing circle on the west cave wall." But this is nothing that a good round of editing couldn't fix. The general tone is fine and the prose suffices to keep the reader interested.
Other reviewers have pointed to the weird frame story -- apparently about some guy trying to teach you Latin while commenting on his mother's taste in music and his artistic progress -- as something which doesn't show its value yet. I agree. It is highly unclear what the author is envisioning here, and he should make sure that he actually has a coherent vision.
Perhaps more problematically is the lack of direction. While it may not be absolutely necessary, establishing some kind of goal for the player is often important to get parser fiction going. But Beyond Division never really manages to do that. The wolf in the first sequence is merely doing 'stuff' until an 'event' can happen to it; while the various protagonists in later sequences may have an abstract goal to defeat the Tide, but no very clear short-term or medium-term plans about how to do that. The entire sequence could be made more compelling by fixing this.
That said, Beyond Division seems like the beginning of a good game, and I'm interested in seeing the full version. Of all the Introcomp 2015 entries, this is the one I liked most.
Deprivation, by Michael Coorlim
Deprivation: A Story of Obsession and Transferance starts off with a spelling error in the subtitle. Not a good sign. It turns out that most of the prose is better edited, although the writing could be tightened and made more detailed and interesting. For instance, describing a graveyard like this: "At night, it looks far more dark and foreboding, lit only by sporadically spaced lights that illuminate only the paths immediately around them, leaving the gravestones as dark shapes lurking in darkness." betrays a certain imaginative laziness. The sequence "lit / lights / illuminate" isn't very engaging; but the double use of "only" and the triple use of "dark" is even worse.
The game itself gives the player a clear goal -- fall asleep -- but absolutely no clue about how to achieve that goal. You are in your apartment, and apparently, the author just wants you to do stuff. The effect of doing stuff is that the protagonist starts agonising about how his girlfriend left him, sometimes in grotesque ways -- as when he gets under the shower fully clothed and, for some reason that was completely opaque to me, smears his own face with a piece of cake that he has earlier decided he doesn't deserve to eat.
So it seems that the author's aim with the piece is to indulge in flowery descriptions of self-indulgent grief. The soundtrack should be an emo teen band. Given that this was entirely unappealing to me, I quit after the shower incident.
If the author's aim is something else, my advise is to change the game to make it clear to the player that this is the case.
Walker's Rift, by Hope Chow
I have no idea what this game is trying to accomplish, and once again I quit early. So apparently the protagonist is a magical monster hunter of some kind, but it remains entirely unclear what kind of monsters or what kind of hunting we're thinking of. Instead, we are treated to the protagonist's boring office life, and then to an investigation where every lead you follow leads to nothing.
To anybody who wanted to run a mystery/investigation type roleplaying game, I would give the following advice: make sure that any lead followed by the players leads either to a new lead, to some information that allows them to draw conclusions or at least formulate hypotheses, or to a scene that is somehow so engaging that the lack of leads and information isn't a problem. That advice probably also holds for IF. But what Walker's Rift does is that it forces you to follow lead after lead -- sending you to the library, to four different people who have come down sick, and so on -- without ever giving you anything in return. "Yeah," they'll say to you, "I have strange dreams." "About what?" "I don't want to talk about it." And that's it. I quit in boredom.
There's probably an interesting story and game waiting to happen here, but the author should tighten up the plot. Drop us into the action! Make sure that our actions lead to progress! Check out any of the official Choice of Games games to see how this is done: they start delivering immediately, and that's why we keep clicking and reading. Walker's Rift can use something of that.
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Based on the question: how much do I want to play the completed game?
- Beyond Division: 7
- Deprivation: 4
- Lair of the Gorgonanth: 5
- Meld: 6
- Voltage Cafe: 3
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Yankees lose Mark Teixeira until at least mid-May
TAMPA -- The New York Yankees, already reeling from off-season attrition and spring-training injuries, were dealt another significant blow Wednesday when they learned first baseman Mark Teixeira suffered a strained tendon in his right wrist, sidelining the heart of their lineup well into May.
Teixeira will miss eight to 10 weeks after the injury suffered while hitting balls off a tee during a Tuesday workout for the USA's World Baseball Classic squad. His season debut will come around the same time as center fielder Curtis Granderson, who suffered a broken right forearm when he was struck by a pitch in his first spring training at-bat.
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FANTASY:Loss of Teixeira further depletes AL power sources
Even before Teixeira and Granderson's mishaps, the Yankees were faced with replacing 112 home runs from their 2012 lineup thanks to the loss of third baseman Alex Rodriguez to hip surgery and the departure of several free agents, most notably outfielder/first baseman Nick Swisher and infielder Eric Chavez.
Rodriguez may return in July. Shortstop Derek Jeter hopes to return by opening day from a fractured ankle. But the more troubling notion is that Granderson - who hit a team-high 45 home runs last year - and Teixeira both could see their power production diminish due to the nature of their lower-arm injuries.
It was only appropriate, then, that general manager Brian Cashman addressed the news media from a wheelchair Wednesday, two days after he suffered a fractured ankle in a skydiving accident.
"This ain't good," Cashman said, noting that Teixeira's injury may force the club to seek help beyond its current roster. "It's not the time of year to make (major) moves, unless people are trying to cut garbage."
So a team that will start the year with an American League-high $208 million payroll will have to make do with ill-fitting parts at several positions. Barring modest reinforcements via trade or waiver claims, bit players such as Juan Rivera, Eduardo Nunez and Matt Diaz will be expected to fill far more prominent roles at first base and the outfield, as Cashman expects Kevin Youkilis will remain at third base.
The bigger issue: Generating offense on a team that hit an AL-best 245 home runs in 2012, yet will be without most of the players who hit them.
"I know we lost a lot of power in the offseason. We knew that going in," starting pitcher Andy Pettitte told USA TODAY Sports. "Now, you talk about losing Teixeira and Granderson at the start of the season, it changes things even more. Bottom line is, I still feel like we're going to figure out ways to score runs, and that's going to be on our offense and (manager Joe) Girardi to figure out how to do that, and be creative."
Girardi acknowledged that the Yankees' bench is weaker than the 2012 group. But he also noted the litany of pitchers that team lost, yet still managed to win the AL East title.
"It's a big loss," Girardi said. "It's not what you want. But it's what you've got to deal with. It's life. Winning is never easy. You find out what your team is made of."
Wednesday morning, Granderson exuded his usual eternal optimism bubbling despite the soft cast that extended down his forearm to his fingers.
But his mood briefly dimmed when he learned the nature of Teixeira's injury, having only seen on a television graphic that the first baseman would miss a couple of weeks.
"A wrist? Ooh," Granderson said with a grimace, several hours before results of Teixeira's exam were released. "Damn. Hopefully he'll be back sooner rather than later."
But when both Teixeira and Granderson return, the nature of their injuries figure to hamper them for some period - particularly their power production.
"In our sport, unlike any other, from the elbow down, if anything's bothering you, you can't play," Granderson said. "Sore knee, sore back, shoulder, I could probably muscle everything out here. But from here down - you can't touch the ball, can't throw it, can't swing it, that's what changes things out.
"I've got to swing, and how is that going to be since it is the pull hand? The good thing is, it's not any of the wrist bones, so nothing has to rotate. Once that locks in, it should be good."
Teixeira is not as fortunate.
"I think wrist injuries can be tricky," Girardi said. "There will be some concern in the beginning so we've got to make sure he's completely healed before we send him out there."
That figures to be closer to June 1 than May 1.
As for Jeter? His 2012 ended in grim fashion when he suffered a fractured ankle in Game 1 of the AL Championship Series. Yet, he's been about the only source of good news in this camp, as he only has to run the bases at full speed to be cleared for game action. That may happen this weekend, and Jeter remains confident he'll be ready on opening day.
He's well aware the greater question involves who will join him - and how effective they will be.
"The good teams find ways to get it done," Jeter said. "That's what you have to do.
"In terms of Teix? I hope he's not out long."
Alas, Jeter's hopes were not realized.


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