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Capos have not been arrested because that is not our strategy. It is no longer the intention to build operatives against capos, what we want is to reduce insecurity by attending to the causes....
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
AMLO: "It is not our strategy to arrest capos"
102 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 5:01 PM
Yea, why war when you can now cross all the dope you want with relative ease. Makes all the sense in the world. Fuck the Americans. Let them completely destroy themselves with their lust for drugs. - Sol Prendido
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 1:02 AM
Please get educated and learn how to write properly. Cursing is a sign of not having a proper vernacular to communicate. Do you really think at this point narcos only deal drugs to the U.S? They are involved in every illegal aspect of society besides drugs. Kidnapping, extortion, forced labor, organ transplant sales,fuel theft, illegal timber cutting,ect. This just gives the narcos more incentive to do more of those crimes with immunity. What's up with the hate to America? Don't hate,congratulate on the fact that it's still the best place on earth. It's not perfect but most people still want to live here.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 4:10 AM
Fuck America? Don't you understand that the majority of Americans aren't users and the majority also don't want a wall between the two countries. It's comments like yours that hurt relationships. Comments like yours and our idiot president trump and his retarded followers cause toxic bullshit.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 6:33 AM
Fuck the Mexicans for turning their country into a failed state.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 6:52 AM
Quoted for truth. I remember when alcohol was illegal. No more war on drugs. Only spend real time and resources on theft,murder,extorcion.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:09 AM
Hardcore "build the wall" people are going to love this. They'll use anything to justify the wall.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:48 AM
That is some obtuse thinking... have you not noticed the retail drug trade has spiraled out of control in Mexico.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:49 AM
Ma ni**a!!!1
-in Lonzo from training days voice
Now we cookin !!!! - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 8:05 AM
Hey Sol.....yeah the americans have an appetite for drugs, but it was the stupid and greedy mexicans that turned things into a war. Too many uneducated thugs that got jealous, greedy, over zealous and wanted it all rather than working together with each other and sharing the wealth that came from america. So really it's the messicans destroying themselves!!
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 8:16 AM
@ 3:10 The biggest users in the world are the AMERCIANS. @ 12:02 Daddy's not going for the greatest blogger award here genius. @ 6:48 Yes I have thanks to the AMERCIANS and their abnormal lust for (gasps) DRUGS. @ Yes build it if it makes you feel safer. I've been crossing that border for several decades now. And it wasn't always legally. @ 6:49 Gangster movie!
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 8:55 AM
Mexico would be agreat country if the rest of the countries stopped buying politicians and stealing the wealth
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 10:26 AM
The wall is just a component of border security. Nothing wrong with a wall.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 8:06 PM
Exactly the USA will fall because of Mexicans pushing dope...
What wait nah your an idiot, Americans do drugs because they can afford them.... and Americans destroy other countries... Latin America is just corrupt, it destroys itself...
مقربتين - AnonymousFebruary 1, 2019 at 5:42 AM
6:48; Not a fraction of that in America. If you think Tijuana is representative of what Mexico looks like you should really get out of your trailer park and visit Mexico's awesome cities and countryside.
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 1, 2019 at 3:51 PM
@Sol Prendido
You always have claimed to be actively part of the U.S. armed forces so you took an oath to defend the constitution and the people of the U.S.A.You even once went as far as to wager money in order to "prove" you're part of the military but now you say "fuck the Americans"????
You're a lying dishonorable clown. - AnonymousFebruary 2, 2019 at 11:40 AM
@2:51 The same oath that also says we will defend against enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. Think about that one. We kill our own if need be. Don't ever think of us as being saints because we're not. And if you are a user or pusher of illegal narcotics then you should know what to expect when we come around. Don't put that shoe on if it doesn't pertain to you. The message is just for every user of illegal drugs. - Sol Prendido
Delete - ElGrandeRojoFebruary 2, 2019 at 9:04 PM
All you blowhards missed Sol's point. It is Americas fault. It's our overwhelming lust for drugs that fuels this whole thing. America started this War on Drugs, which triggered and escalated the violence. Sol doesn't have to defend his resume. He stated his opinion as did you. He didn't make a personal dig at anyone. But, you did. And to the commentor about profanity.....You educate yourself, it's proven, that people who use profanity are generally much more intelligent than those who don't. Learn to accept that just because you don't share an opinion, you don't have to resort to personal insults. If anyone comes off as a blowhard, it's you. And at least we will put a name on our comments. Not hide behind Anonymous.
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 3, 2019 at 3:07 PM
@Sol Prendido
Your are struggling to make sense and justify what you wrote. I put the shoe on because I, unlike you, once was a real soldier.
You are a lying dishonorable clown. - AnonymousFebruary 4, 2019 at 8:23 AM
Really look at how Mexico is tearing itself apart. Mexican drugs won't destroy USA but they will destroy Mexico
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 4, 2019 at 9:29 AM
Well, "Real Soldier", what's that like...what's it like to know that longer after you've left this blog my name will still be on your mind? Please be honest on that. I'm sure it applies to the rest of the haters as well. - Sol Prendido
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 5, 2019 at 5:52 PM
Sol, Just for that i am gonna sit back and watch mexico fall hard on their meth, you're gonna be eating those words in ten years when your barrios are meth prositute hellholes!
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 6, 2019 at 8:59 AM
@4:52 Mexico has turned to shit. Go through Tijuana and the meth users are already there. Other major city's as well. The Mexican users are just as guilty. Don't think it's just the Americans. I place blame on all these users who resort to the evil being committed. Without the drugs a normal person doesn't do these things. - Sol Prendido
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 5:03 PM
Here we go again, another corrupt Mexican president...
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 5:10 PM
I hope they at least aren't ignoring the leaders of organized crime groups, but it's true that it shouldn't be the cornerstone of a good security strategy.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 5:11 PM
Any guesses how much of a bribe it took to change the govt strategy???
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 5:40 PM
Wish The Beltran Bros,Arellano Felix,Carrillo Fuentes,all the old school Narcos were around and running things mexico wouldn't be a war zone and everybody would be at peace no killings just drug trafficking.
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 2:26 AM
Both old school Tijuana and Juarez Cartels had a successful complex exportation network. Sinaloa wanted a piece of the border action and wrecked everything.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 6:07 AM
The Arellano's broke every old school Narco rule out there, they targeted women and children in retaliation. We didn't see a lot of the violence, because of technology, internet and smartphones we now do, but atrocities always happened.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 6:11 AM
How many of you guys have read "The Art of War?"
He is going after them, he just made it easier....;).
They will relax and get care less, he just said "capos" as in general for every one.
He is going to get them... Lololol, they started fool. Get your facts right. Plus Beltran is lining up with CDP with negotiations CQ. No pass Nada my friends.
Delete- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 12:58 PM
The Arellanos started the war by killing many of Chapo Guzmans closest compadres and their families for no reason. (They murdered Guero palmas wife and kids) Also the Arellanos and Carillo Fuentes families are also from Sinaloa so when you say "Sinaloa messed everything up" it doesnt really make sense. Read a book about the history of Mexican drug trafficking before making yourself look dumb.
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 1, 2019 at 5:47 AM
1:26-and Sinaloa didn't have exportation until they kicked the shot out of AFO for like a later comment said - breaking every agreement ever made?? Are you 2 or just ignorant to narco history? Chapo and Güero weren't family yet they were given plazas by Padrino b/c Chapo had a brilliant mind for expanding routes and getting more exports to the hubs of origin.
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 2, 2019 at 7:30 AM
Sinaloas are history, michoacanos are teaching them how to be a bad ass capo and not just in their corridos like snitchaloas lol
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 5:51 PM
What a fool....i feel sorry for mexico but at some point the people will have to decide when they've had enough.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 6:00 PM
Long story short Amlo has no plan whatsoever..great job Amlo! This guy really thinks that by doing nothing the narcos will stop killing and drug dealing. Its very sad that a person like Mencho will be able to freely terrorize the country because this guy has no backbone. Mexico needs to follow Colombia's path..create a federal search bloc that can hunt people like Mencho down 24-7..this Amlo is crazy he sees ghosts.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 6:23 PM
I have always believed that arresting capos was the wrong thing to do. You arrest a capo and 20 more want to take his spot therefore makes the fight more violent. Thanks amlo
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 7:27 PM
Chibis do you think this strategy can work? The corruption will still be there and just because the goverment is not at war with the cartels does it mean the cartels will no longer be at war over routes and plazas?
ReplyDeleteRepliesi don't. That possibly could have worked in the 80s not now, we are too deep in. He is on track as for examining the social structure and to provide possibilities and choice for those millions of ninis that have no life options.
Chapo had no real options as a child. I have been in the sierras, my mothers family lived there when I was a child. Schools are nonexistent. either a traveling teacher or a small building where a teacher lives and teaches. ALWAYS being first year teachers who skip out of town after a month or two.
it begins with education being a right, not happenstance.
I do not see how not going after rule of law and arresting the law breakers can work. As for catch the capo, being the policy that never worked either. Sometimes we are left with a worsen situation.
My first thought was of Mencho---imagine how thrilled he is to hear what came from the lips of AMLO?- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 6:47 AM
Make peace take that bribe money put it back into Mexico why not? You cant stop them but you don't have to join them either however you can take crooked money and use it for the country if AMLO wont someone else will take the bribe for themselves.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 10:03 AM
Chivis: my first thought too—Mencho must be thrilled! After years of killing cops and soldiers, not to mention the countless civilians, Mencho gets away totally free. Someone on forum correctly pointed out that ending the capo strategy won't guarantee that violence decreases because competition between groups, or old leaders dying off, will always result in widespread casualties.
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 7:28 PM
That was the quickest surrender in history. This will increase violence, no question. Competing 'capos' have free range to expand territories as they were just granted a form of immunity.
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 12:32 AM
Crimes been at a record high tf you talking about. 2018 was one of the bloodiest . .. 😐 .
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 7:34 PM
The guy became a billionaire on his first week in office
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 7:41 PM
Honestly as much as i disagree with this move let's give it a fucking shot if it works then great if it doesn't then it'll get worst which is what's been happening since 2006.
Too much bloodshed, I've had relatives kidnapped then tortured killed etc. People that had nothing to do with capos, but had a lot in common with the average citizen.RepliesWell----one policy doesn't have to negate the other- he could do both.
Delete- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:46 AM
I have people in Juares, sinaloa, durango, monterrey y matamoros who work honestly and have never had any trouble with anyone, so all this saying "o they were innocent" am starting to believe is b.s. the black sheep of the family is my couisin who started doing weed in juares but was quickly straighten out when he was caught and got beat up with a 2x4 palo when he tried to sell. So cut all this crap.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 8:11 AM
Maybe there is more to this strategy than he is saying?? Focusing on social programs and the economy is a good start. Making education mandatory and essential for future job growth and personal well being is just the beginning. What AMLO is probably not letting on to...is that by publicly saying the government is not going after capo's may have them letting their guard down. Let the capo's settle and relax and then make a mistake and get caught!
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 7:41 PM
That job is for U.S government agencies, the court wants their money. If they were broke they would be left alone lol war on drugs is a joke, if both governments wanted to stop it they would. They would start with the users, dealers, pushers and drug makers. It BS
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:42 AM
Yup if the cartels stop sending drugs to mexico the americans in the cia, fbi , dea will be unemployed and they are a whole bunch of leeches that aint earning minimum wage. Not to say the exodus of american drug addicts into mexico to get a fix. They will be the ones jumping trumps wall.
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 7:49 PM
A controversial approach for anyone (country) not to engage those who kill whether by violence or by distributing poison onto their communities? Moreover, plaguing their political institutions with bribery for criminal purposes?
So its fair to say that Mencho along with other kingpins will roam free untouched to do as they please?
Beginning to think his approach of education is a sham for reward by those criminals?
Education can only be met by enforcing those moral values and responsibilities that one is trying to instill. Thus requiring with the apprehensions and convictions of those who oppose such moral issue.
I see a conflict of interests brewing in the near future between the US and Mexico. An economic downturn for Mexico who relies on business investments and employment for its citizens from the US. Along with immigration issues. Reffernce to: the US president's stance on wall and drug traffickers from Mexico. Only reinforcing those political views among the American people.
Violence has yet to be checked in Mexico. With killings at a record high this time a year ago in many parts of the country. Truly doubt that his presidency has made a U-Turn on violence.
Curious to see how the US respondes?
E42 - AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 7:55 PM
If he really wants to make a difference give the people something to look foward to like better wages education and government programs to help them out and maybe get rid of all the corrupt politicians in other word clean tha fucking house
ReplyDeleteReplies- canadianaJanuary 31, 2019 at 12:23 AM
6:55-I think he might be doing what you say is needed.Time will tell but Rome wasn't built in a day and he's got more than his hands full when he came to federal power.Maybe he is being proactive to prevent crime down the road rather than let it fester like past administrations so maybe he is taking stock of things now.Maybe things do call for a new strategy as the old ways aren't working.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:39 AM
Mind as well tell the mexicans that it snows in L.A ese. Chale holmes u still believe silvester will never catch tweety.
El American Me
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 8:04 PM
Did ur balls drop off amlo? Lol. Once elected is the same old shit. Mexico is fuucckkeedd. Lol. I hate trump but yeah we need to protect our border. Mexico is in deeper shit by the minute. Morals are low if any. In a country were murder torture rape is rampant i dont think we shld have unpretected border anymore. It aint even abot drugs which americans actually pay for. Its about keep the trash out. We have our own. I feel bad for the good ppl across the hard working and the innocent. No fix in sight. I know this wont be posted so fuck u bb too cus u post cartel cheerleaders bullshit. But not the fucking truth
ReplyDeleteRepliesBalls drop off? where you been my twisted friend? amlo has said this for a decade, he only backed off during the the last campaign, not completely.
If your precious comment wasn't posted it is because it either broke the rules, or was one of those 50 percent i could not get to because of my recent surgeries. I am doing my best but am guessing nothing would be good enough for you-frankly I don't care.- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:37 AM
Agree with 7:04 amlo is a crock, he sold out way before elections were done. CJNG will rule mexico till the u.s steps in. All of a sudden trump doesn't sound that bad. Is when u got really bad neighbors that abuse their children, well u call social services. This case good old uncle sam to put them kids in foster care.
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 8:31 AM
7:04 does make a good point. Chivis has an incredible amount of comments to comb through on this site, not to mention her own articles, research and personal happenings....however, there are way too many cartel cheerleaders that comment on this site. Maybe it is easier to allow those comments, rather than reading them and distinguishing their stupidity. Either way, reading the great articles/news on this site and then reading ridiculous comments from people that want to give the criminals applause just shows the sad state that Mexico is in. JMO.
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 1, 2019 at 4:29 AM
Free speech. Regardless of what people say in the comments, I wouldn't want them to be censored. I read the news from this site on my phone. It has this cool feature that let's me use my thumb to scroll down past stupid comments. Simple and effective.
The President of a North American country gives criminals carte blanche to operate violent kidnapping, extortion and narcotics organizations. Wow.
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 9:50 AM
626 I looked in dictionary for "Murica", says small village in Instabul. Welcome to BB, but don't understand what your village has to do with Venezuela?
Mexico- Observer
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2019 at 10:44 PM
El Chapo should have hung on just a tad longer, but he really wanted a movie about himself
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 2:22 AM
You ain't lying. Fuck I bet he faints if he hears this ever
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 12:40 PM
Bet him and Beltran, El Lic and all the jailed narcos in America will probably faint
I believe that attacking the source of a problem does work, finding ways to improve education and labor does help out in the way of life, developing respect towards your community and the laws goes a long way, HOWEVER these results happen in the long term, yes his strategy could work but you won't see the results anytime soon, maybe in 20 years and the problem is happening now, he needs to focus on his administration not the ones coming up, he still needs to pursue criminals with full force, he needs to make sure that criminals face justice. It doesn't take a war to arrest criminals, it only takes a broken law.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 4:42 AM
Chivis can u tells us where does the US grabs it's opioids from? Because to me Thats the number 1 problem US has on drugs
ReplyDeleteRepliesI can say our government has it all wrong. there are two issues here, "legal" prescription opioids, percocet, oxy etc that are legally mfg in the U.S. and dispensed by a license pharmacy. and street opioids.
Gov came down hard after pill mills and corrupt doctors were writing RXs to anyone who would pay their fee. Those are pretty much gone and replaced by a system that has legit people with documented illnesses who live with chronic pain--living without pain medication or with little medication.
I have a friend with MS who just fell down a complete flight of stairs, broke his back, leg and hip. He has been in a wheelchair for 4 years from the MS. So he went on Monday to walmart to get a 30 day supply of 5mg percocet [low strength] 90 tablets. The pharmacy mgr came out demanded to get his medical history and what ailments he had to use "so many pills" we are talking only 3 a day.
In front of everyone waiting for RX he gave his medical info. to a damn pharmacist! they even called his doctor.
and ended up only being approved by the 'pharmacy god' to rec half the RX. and made him buy a canister of narcan for 50 dollars. exp date in 5 mos. he was very upset. narcan for 3 5mg pills a day. that was in southern california
this is why people have turned to the streets to obtain relief, and one of the reasons for the spike in ODs
illegally opioids
these are primarily fentanyl
The illegal product come from organized crime orgs. fent is cheap and the precursor comes from china.
Sinaloa Cartel were the first to use fent to make knock offs of percocet and other drugs-they look like the real thing, and people are unaware that they are consuming fent. Like the singer Prince. he thought he was taking percocet he was taking fent. this causes record number of ODs
Sinaloa began mixing fent in heroin. the ODs attributed to heroin are usually because dent is mixed with heroin. MUCH cheaper but much deadlier.
it is a case of play Russian roulette when consuming these street drugsPS. opium and opiates are vastly different. although they work on the same receptors of the brain.
and the natural opium is plant based whereas the opiates are lab based or synthetic. opium poppy is used in making heroin.
Since the two effect the brain similarity, they can be used interchangeably by addicts. or used as a cheap filler [fent] for cartels or anyone making black market street drugs.
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 4:50 AM
If he is getting paid off who is doing the payments Sinaloa or Jalisco??
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:45 AM
Why not all cartels it benefits all of them ... and also he said they won't be the priority, not that their going to stop looking for them alltogether ... and another thing epn caught most of the big time capos but the blood shed got even worse,so who's to say this method won't decrease the blood bath we've been seeing since Calderon started the main war for chapo
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:54 AM
Would say all cartels.
This is a joke. Rather a disgrace to all to curtail drug trafficking and drug abuse.
From what AMLO said, I gather there is no need for DEA agents in Mexico anymore. Thus no need from the Americans to provide "ANY" financial support to a country that supports drug kingpins and their activities.
Moreover, thus leaning my opinion towards shutting down the border completely and financially severing ties with Mexico.
Let's see how his policies work when jobs and revenue stop. This impact will definitely cause more chaos and violence for people in Mexico when there is no money to feed themselves.
Fucking idiot! - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 9:29 AM
Your a fucking idiot usa isn't the only country they do business with they have really close ties with Russia and China and many other stable countries... and plus the us depends on mexico for alot of other resources plus they won't only lose Mexico's business but most of Latin America.... alot of the problems in most latin american countries is due in part by the usa involvement and destabilizing alot of those countries to get their resources for free or at a really low cost ... education your self before calling sombody else an idiot ...
Delete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 2:35 PM
Let's see then if those countries can maintain their economic stability. Chinese workers are mostly underpaid? Cheap labor with cheap manufacturing will result in little profits. Russia is not far off. Their citizens are struggling while the elite are constantly prospering like those of Mexico's. Quite sure shareholders won't be happy.
As for other Latin American countries?
Strong vested interests will remain with the US.
Wouldn't put money on that if I were u.
catching the capos and the war against the cartels was not a mexican decision but a USA one. usa played ex presidents calderon and nieto with that stupid plan that backfired. maybe that was thier whole intention to distabalise a country just like how they distabalised many countries in the middle east and now what they are trying to do with Venezuela. its to late now. this might end up backfiring but i hope AMLO plan works i miss those good ol days when i would go with my parents to mexico be in the city for a few days then head of to the rancho in the sierra. i wish my kids could experience that but with the way mexico is now no way in hell ill go to mexico especially with my kids. its sad you cant do that no more not even in all inclusive resorts its safe.
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 9:03 AM
I can see the frustration of a failed policy. Moreover, with the financial burden of taxpayers to continue throwing money at a war that has had no positive effect.
However, moral issues persists. The responsibility of leaders to combat those issues with a rigorous approach. By condemning those and apprehending them.
Drug consumption and addiction has plagued many communities and countries worldwide. Creating a health issue for many and the violence that is attributed to such. Moreover, the financial burden to taxpayers for incarceration and treatment.
Allowing these individuals to continue without reprimand is not a morally fit leader. Rather, a cynical person who thinks with education alone will solve this issue.
My theory is that the crime will be reduced.depending how the big cartels take it. Either they go with the flow or start taking complete advantage of the situation and end up fucking up things worse. Only time will tell but hey let's keep our fingers crossed. I wish nothing but the best for me Mexican neighbors! And of course for us on this side as we too are affected by what happens on out bordering country!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 8:46 AM
Trying to build a concern for not just America but other countries. A threat just like those terrorists!
Mexico best step carefully before military action is taken! Let's see who wins! Not Mexico's good citizens I can assure you.
I see sanctions being brought up by many nations soon. The impact of such will devastate Mexico and its citizens. Along with a strong military presence along the border.
He just added more fuel to a fire that many are conflicting with.
E42 - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 9:51 AM
Obrador is a peace of shit,the only reason people voted for him is because previous presidents were bigger peace's of shit. I'm glad I don't live down there,Mexico is worse than Colombia in the 80's,and its future doesn't look to bright.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 10:01 AM
ALMO is just offering words if wisdom but no action.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 12:39 PM
How dumb is everyone on here?
Every since the war on drugs, things have gotten WORSE, he clearly said it the war on drugs doesnt, and will not work!
It's war that leaves all the dead bodies, you think hes going to let them operate with impunity because he has been bribed? Come on people it takes a special type of stupid to really think this is just him giving up.
It's when capos get careless that they get caught without a shot fired.
And as for Corruption? If capos aren't being persecuted then paying off people starts to become less necessary, of course this will not rid Mexico of corruption but it's a start.Replies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 4:39 PM
And what makes you believe that stopping the war against drugs would stop those killings from turf wars?
Dealers, pushers and independent sellers will constantly be threatened.
Unless AMLO will be assigning areas of distribution to cartels? Rather, a license to operate without reprisals?
Greed is what drives these individuals to commit violence.
Truly doubt that assumption to be true. - AnonymousFebruary 1, 2019 at 1:44 PM
Sir you are far to naive and ignorant to even dignify your nonsense with a response. Just thought I should point out that you're seriously lacking cerebral efficiency. In other words you're as dumb as dirt.
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 12:45 PM
From trying to doing = big difference. Let's see a year from now, what has AMLO really done. All politicians promise, very few deliver.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 2:22 PM
It's funny how people make their own conclusion. AMLO is only changing the strategy. People's mentality is way off if you think he will not arrest people.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 4:42 PM
Mexico is so fucked because everyone is on the take. You cannot trust law enforcement on the local, state, federal level, much less the military.
Too bad, it's such a beautiful country scenically. I would love to visit but you can't trust anyone.
The US should have kept the strategic ports when we conquered Mexico City over a century ago.Replies- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2019 at 7:36 PM
Hope this doesn't end into a Manuel Noriega situation in Panama With American military intervention.
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 1, 2019 at 1:40 PM
Try fixing problems on the us before talking about sticking your nose in something that's bigger than your little bird brain can comprehend
Delete - AnonymousFebruary 1, 2019 at 10:43 PM
"much less the military. "
Easy there, tiger.
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There are two basic models which scientists may use when they study the origin of life. One is that all the basic life forms which may be observed in the world around us and in the fossil record were created supernaturally and instantaneously. The other is that over millions of years, atoms came together by accident to form complex organisms. Much has been written about the validity of these two origins models, but I would like to focus on the practical aspects of these alternate views. Since these two hypotheses are mutually exclusive, only one can be true, and the one that is true will have practical implications.
By way of illustration, at one time in human history, some thought the world to be flat, whereas others thought it to be round. The travel implications of a round earth would obviously mean that by continuing basically in a westerly direction (or any direction), one could eventually return to his starting point. The results of the same kind of travel on a flat earth would have significantly different and negative consequences.
This is what scientists usually find regarding various hypotheses. The ones that are true provide a foundational perspective which will be very valuable in answering the questions identified by science.
Now let us look in a practical way at the two models of the origin of life as possible tools for problem solving in science research. As we examine the concept of evolution from this practical viewpoint, it is very difficult to find a way in which this line of thought has ever helped solving a scientific problem or made a single positive contribution to society. This concept's uselessness in these areas is directly linked to its random nature, as pointed out by biomolecular chemist Dr. Michael Denton.
". . . chance is at the root of the whole edifice of evolution. It is an entirely blind process . . . no end in sight. Pure trial and error as a problem-solving device is useless in every field of human endeavor." [1]
If you wanted to build an addition onto your house that would match the style of your house and meet the needs of your family, how much progress would you make toward your goal by throwing balls of cement or pieces of wood at the side of your home? This activity, however random, would still not be "pure trial and error." You have assumed, intellectually, some of the proper materials to be used and the proper direction to throw them. To come nearer to pure trial and error, you should be blindfolded and spun around before throwing, and have a variety of materials intermixed, such as rocks, onions, and chicken feathers.
This is how the evolutionary model suggests that the first living cell came to be. Evolutionists believe that random materials came together by pure chance and formed a living cell, which is thousands of times more complex than a room addition. It is no wonder that a scenario based on such impossible probabilities would be found useless in dealing with the concerns of the real world of science.
Spontaneous generation is the evolutionary idea that life could arise from nonliving materials, rather than exclusively from an already living and a like kind of parent organism. Many variations of this basic theme and speculative notion were imagined, such as frogs from mud, maggots from meat and moths from wool.
"The idea of spontaneous generation was no doubt first suggested by universally inaccurate observations of how certain lower types of life appeared in such environments as soil, water, and especially in decaying organic substances."[2] This notion was held as fact until people like Spallanzani, Redi, and finally Pasteur, proved once and for all that all life arises from pre-existing life.[3] These scientists were able to debunk the myth of spontaneous generation by good experimental design and accurate observation. It was Louis Pasteur who finally annihilated this long-held concept, as he demonstrated that even micro-organisms could not be spontaneously generated:
". . . the resultant recognition that micro-organisms, like all the more visible forms of life, are reproduced only by their own kind, made possible the establishment of bacteriology as a precise science, and its revolutionary application in immunology and in the treatment of infectious disease." [4]
Through Pasteur's efforts in these fields, he did more for medical science and the health of the world than anyone before or since. Although he was a notably insightful scientist, any others others would have had as much opportunity of doing what he did if they had started out with the Biblical presupposition that things reproduce only "after their kind" (Genesis 1:11,21,24,25). It is very difficult to stop a pathogenic "bug" from spreading, if you think it could spontaneously pop up in your body. But if one reasons, as the creation model suggests, that for every disease organism there is a parent and a grandparent, and so on, then disease pathways can be sought, traced, and blocked. This may all seem very simple and logical now, but for hundreds of years, much of the scientific community would not give up on the idea of spontaneous generation and, in effect, tragically delayed the onset of modern medical science.
Another area of study and research in which the creation perspective would have sped up the advance of science is embryology. If we start with the basic idea that an intelligent Designer created with plan and purpose, then we are motivated to look for these purposes in the things that we see, even in the embryonic stages of life. We do not stop our investigation when we see something that resembles the structure of another organism, and immediately conclude that it is just a throwback to a presumed evolutionary ancestor.
This was done, for a time, by evolutionists, when the yolk sac and so-called gill slits of the human embryo were thought to be recapitulations of bird and fish ancestors. More investigation has shown that the yolk sac actually reproduces the essential first blood cells for the new individual--an activity that is functionally quite different from the bird egg yolk. The gill slits, which were neither gills or slits, have been more appropriately renamed pharyngeal pouches, which in humans develop into eustachian tubes, the thymus, and parathyroid glands. As scientists gave up on the recapitulation idea, it freed them to explore every area of embryonic development and to look for specific plan, purpose, and inter-dependence. Many specific distinctions have been discovered since then.
Making similar false assumptions from the evolutionary viewpoint, while looking at fully developed organisms, led evolutionists to the whole concept of vestigial organs. This view proposed that certain organs in man, as well as in various animals, are useless vestiges of structures that were useful in a former evolutionary stage. There were certainly some negative results from this kind of thinking. How many of us in past decades had our tonsils surgically removed the first time we had a sore throat? Such an operation was a reasonable thing to do, if the tonsils were just a leftover, useless organ from our evolutionary past. How much more cautious we have become about removing the tonsils, now that we know they play a role in protecting the body from disease. Had we taken a creationist perspective at first, maybe we would have realized that any organ designed into the human system had a plan and purpose, and we would not have been so quick to remove the tonsils without very significant cause. Following evolutionary thinking caused us, at one time, to have a list of over 180 vestigial organs in the human body, which included such things as the thyroid gland, the thymus, and the muscles of the ear, as well as many other organs that have useful and often essential functions.
The science classroom is another area where we continue to see the uselessness of the evolutionary model. There is no area in the study of biology where this concept is necessary or the least bit helpful. One can learn all we know about the aforementioned fields of bacteriology, immunology, and embryology, as well as cytology, botany, physiology, genetics, and any others, without a mention of evolution.
Take the area of genetics, for example. All the well-established laws of inheritance, as well as all the careful observations of science, are perfectly compatible with the creation hypothesis. Kinds of organisms have always been observed to produce like kinds, without exception. Any unexpected genetic changes in the inheritance pattern of an organism, which cannot be explained by normal laws of inheritance, are always negative or harmful, never beneficial to the organism. Evolution demands millions of these beneficial changes which have never been observed. Even the natural selection theory (survival of the fittest), which is much heralded by evolutionists, fits the creation model better. Natural selection works to eliminate weaker organisms which have accumulated too many of the negative changes, thus preventing significant change in the identity of the kind of organism. So the more we learn about inheritance, the more we see that all the observations and laws of genetics are working to keep a frog a frog and a chicken a chicken, and not to turn a frog or a chicken into some other organism, as evolution claims. It is no wonder that Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist of the British Museum, spoke of evolutionary ideas as "anti-knowledge."[5]
Evolution, at best, may have been thought of as a benign assumption in the scientific world, but in recent years we have come to realize that frequently the basic presuppositions of evolutionary thinking have actually been a malignancy retarding true scientific discovery and preventing biological research from efficiently meeting the needs of mankind in many areas. Creation with plan and purpose, on the other hand, provides an excellent basis for solving problems in the real world of scientific research. So it seems that only of the best things scientists could do for their research and for the needy world would be to develop a foundational attitude like that of the great 17th-century physical astronomer, John Kepler, who said that he was merely "thinking God's thoughts after Him."
[1] Denton, Michael, "Puzzle of the Ancient Wing," Man Alive Series, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. MCMLXXXI.
[2] Vartanian, Aram, Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY., vol. IV, 1973, p. 307.
[3] Easton, Thomas A. and Rischer, Carl E., Bioscope, Charles E. Merrill Pub., 1984, pp. 13,14.
[4] Vartanian, Aram, op cit., p. 311.
[5] Patterson, C., as quoted by Sunderland, L. and G. Parker, "Evolution? Prominent Scientist Reconsiders." Impact No. 108, Institute for Creation Research, 1982.
*Dr. Lindsey is a member of ICR's graduate faculty in Science Education.


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Well, you don't see this every day. Unless you come back every day and watch this video again. But let's not get caught up in particulars. Let's just watch Jimmy Fallon's very successful mashup of Brian Williams clips that makes him rap the lyrics to 'Nuthin' But a G Thang' by Dr. Dre. If he sounds this good when he's not even trying, how good do you think Brian Williams would be if he actually grabbed the mic?
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MPAA chief Chris Dodd promised theater owners on Tuesday that he is still committed to rooting out content theft, despite seeing two major pieces of anti-piracy legislation crash and burn in spectacular fashion.
In a speech at CinemaCon, the theatrical exhibition trade show taking place this week in Las Vegas, Dodd made no direct mention of SOPA and PIPA, the two content-protection bills that wilted in congress after kicking off fierce blowback from Silicon Valley.
The Motion Picture Association of America and Dodd emerged badly bruised after protests to the legislation spread like wildfire across Facebook, Wikipedia and Twitter, with opponents — including the White House — claiming the bills threatened free speech and could stifle innovation.
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Those bills are in limbo, but Dodd said that the battle to protect intellectual property does not need to play out as an epic struggle between the entertainment industry and the technology sector.
"We are a nation of ideas with an economy of creators and producers," Dodd said. "But this will not continue if creators and makers cannot protect the ownership of their creations and production – whether a movie or a smartphone app."
Dodd said that both Hollywood and Silicon Valley have an interest in maintaining strong copyright and patent protections in order to ensure that their businesses keep running. To that end, he said, that they must find common ground.
"If protecting intellectual property results in an uninformed brawl between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, both sides will suffer — but more importantly, so will millions of Americans who rely on these intellectual property industries for their jobs, and on the consumers whose lives have been enriched by their efforts," Dodd said.
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Though Dodd did not unveil any concrete steps he was taking to urge the government to crack down on piracy, he said he was heartened that in discussions with members of the technology sector there is an understanding that content theft is damaging.
Beyond that, the former U.S. Senator and Hollywood lobbyist said that many of the technology world's brightest lights share the same creative spark that is on display in the movie business.
"Some of the world's most brilliant technologists work in the audio/visual industry, devising new ways to bring artists' imaginations to life," Dodd said. "And, conversely, some of the world's foremost creative geniuses work in the tech industry, designing and building products that are as beautiful as they are useful — remember Steve Jobs."


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Italy was recently reminded that the entire spine of the country is one long fault line, subject to major earthquakes at any time. But it was still surprising that the area north of Bologna was hit so hard. The last major quake in the area occurred in the 14th century.
The earthquake that struck northern Italy in the early hours of Sunday morning killed seven people and injured scores of others (mostly those on the night shift) and left scenes of heart-breaking devastation of historic buildings. Even a week later, aftershocks were disrupting the cleanup efforts.
But one of the greatest economic effects is the damage that will affect production and export of some of the area's most internationally famous cheeses – Parmigiano Reggiano and its rival, Grana Padano.
Approximately 300,000 wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano and 100,000 of Grana Padano, each weighing about 40 kg (88 pounds), were damaged when they fell off shelves in warehouses where they were undergoing the two to five year-long seasoning process.
Those who have seen the dawn to dusk process that creates the raw form of the long-seasoned cheeses can appreciate the heartache caused by the destruction of the aging wheels of Parmesan and Grana. This video gives a good review of the process from cow to table.
Estimates conclude that ten percent of the production of Parmigiano Reggiano and two percent of Grana Padano was affected by the quake.
At a retail price of up to 25 euros a kg ($15.00 a pound) in Italy and (much) more abroad, Parmigiano Reggiano is one of Italy's most expensive cheeses. The area produces 3.3 million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano a year.
The 6.0 earthquake caused the heavy wheels to collapse seven-meter (23 feet)-high shelves. They piled like dominos or a set of overturned bookshelves.
"We've lost two years of work," said Lorenza Caretti, whose family runs the Sant' Angelo cheese cooperative in the town of San Giovanni in Persiceto. (Reuters)
"We may be able to sell some of it for use in melted cheese products, but that has only 20 percent of the value of the real thing." She said 22,000 wheels of hard cheese fell over in their warehouse during the quake. "We still can't see the floor in many places," she said. "We will be lucky if we can somehow save half of it."
Production of milk used for cheese making in the area was also affected because many cows died in the collapse of stables or were left traumatized by the quake and its aftershocks, affecting the output and quality of milk.
Production of the Emilia-Romagna region's famed Prosciutto di Parma (seasoned Parma ham) was not seriously affected by the quake, an official of the Prosciutto di Parma consortium said. While some pig farmers in the quake area saw their herds killed or injured, most of the pigs come from other parts of northern Italy and only the production process itself takes place in the Parma area, which was not hit.


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Researchers have succeeded in turning ordinary cardiac muscle cells into specialized ones that deliver a steady heartbeat using a gene therapy procedure they predict could become an alternative to implanted electronic pacemakers.
A study published on Wednesday involved pigs with a condition called heart block that makes their hearts beat too slowly. By injecting a human gene into a tiny region of the heart's pumping chambers roughly the size of a peppercorn, the researchers reprogrammed heart muscle cells into a type of cell that emits electrical impulses to drive the beating heart.
In doing so, cardiologists at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles created "biological pacemaker" cells that restored a normal heart rate in the pigs. The procedure achieved the same result as implanting an electronic pacemaker that sends electrical pulses to the heart if it beats too slowly or skips a beat.
"This development heralds a new era of gene therapy where genes are used not only to correct a deficiency disorder but actually to convert one type of cell into another to treat disease," Dr. Eduardo Marbán, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and leader of the research team, told reporters.
The researchers noted that pig hearts are very similar to human hearts. Dr. Eugenio Cingolani, director of the institute's Cardiogenetics-Familial Arrhythmia Clinic, said "if all goes well" in further animal studies examining the procedure's long-term effectiveness and safety, "we hope to be able to begin trials in humans within three years."
The researchers envision using the procedure initially to help people with heart rhythm disorders who cannot use a pacemaker because of device-related complications like an infection or in fetuses in the womb with congenital heart block.
Such fetuses cannot have a pacemaker implanted and risk severe heart failure often resulting in stillbirth. The researchers hope to develop an injection-based treatment to deliver the gene therapy to these developing babies.
They said down the road the procedure might be used in a broader patient population as a realistic alternative to the pacemaker. Marbán said about 2 percent of pacemakers lead to an infection requiring treatment. In the United States alone, about 300,000 people get pacemakers annually.
"Rather than having to undergo implantation with a metallic device that needs to be replaced regularly and can fail or become infected, patients may someday be able to undergo a single gene injection and be cured of the slow heart rhythm forever," Cingolani said.
Using a minimally invasive catheter procedure, the researchers injected pigs that had complete heart block with a gene called TBX18 that is responsible for a protein that makes the heart keep the right rhythm. On the second day after the gene was injected, the pigs developed a faster, more normal heartbeat that lasted for the rest of the 14-day experiment.
The researchers used a common type of virus called an adenovirus to introduce the gene into the pigs but expressed confidence the virus poses minimal risk.
The research appears in the journal Science Translational Medicine.


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A Lesson on Competition in Aged Care Services
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More competition in the delivery of human services, as recommended by the Harper Inquiry, is likely to increase the variety of services available, reduce the price of services and may encourage innovation. However, when it comes to aged care sector, competition may not necessarily result in better care, due to market failures.
More competition in the delivery of human services, as recommended by the Harper Inquiry, is likely to increase the variety of services available, reduce the price of services and may encourage innovation. However, when it comes to aged care sector, competition may not necessarily result in better care, due to market failures.
The Harper Inquiry, which was tasked with 'kick starting' the process of balancing competition, argued that human services should also be subject to competition. However simply restructuring the sector to create competition will not necessarily deliver efficiency or the type of service that the community requires.
Competition will only deliver these outcomes if the market is working well – when consumers and those who supply aged care are actively engaged in the market. However, consumers might not be able to find the right aged care provider if their choices are limited by lack of information, a high cost of switching between suppliers or if the alternative service providers to choose from are no better.
Economists would likely describe residential aged care as "an experience good," meaning that the exact nature of the service is not known until after purchase, and often not for some time after that.
Lacking knowledge about the quality of service, consumers make choices using indicators that may not be good proxies for quality – such as the physical appearance of the residential facility, the friendliness of the management staff, and location (relative to their former home, family and friends). If, however, residents or their families subsequently discover that service quality is unacceptable, it's likely that they won't shop around for a better supplier. There are several reasons for this.
Residents may lack knowledge about the quality of services provided by alternative suppliers and even if that information is available, they may lack the cognitive ability to assess it. For frail, elderly residents, the upheaval of switching may be too great both physically and mentally.
It may require considerable help from family and friends. Residents may lack the financial resources to make a switch as often that means that their financial position will be reassessed under changed (more stringent) conditions. Furthermore, many aged care residents wish to maintain contact with relatives and friends not just for social interactions but also for help in making decisions.
In addition, service providers have often been chosen at least in part because of location advantages, which may be lost with the move to an alternative supplier. This is particularly important in rural areas..
Statistics on switching are not readily available, are somewhat dated (2009) and are difficult to interpret. In 2009-10 it appears that only 2% of all departures from a given residential aged care facility were to relocate to another facility.
Whether 2% is low is hard to judge. In addition, even if it is, it could mean that residents in general are happy with the quality of care.
The Harper Inquiry report shows that even if competition delivers efficiency gains, it may not deliver services of the desired type or quality and it may result in some groups in society being disadvantaged. The report cautioned that:
"Governments should retain a stewardship function, separating the interests of policy (including funding), regulation and service delivery," whilst also recognising the need for "ensuring minimum standards of quality and access in human services."
Removing barriers that would have prevented new suppliers entering the market is a classic way to increase competition and in aged care, this may be helpful. However, this alone would not guarantee quality of care.
If consumers, lacking evidence on quality of care, place too high a weight on fees and the physical appearance of facilities in making their initial choice then the new entrants could compete by providing a grand appearance to attract consumers and forcing down the quality of service to cut their costs. The system could end up with an unbalanced package of price and quality.
Labour costs are a major component of costs in residential aged care. Competition that focuses excessively on reducing the costs of running these services may lead to the employment of part time and poorly trained labour.
Senate inquiries and government reports into aged care have raised concerns that low pay means many employees work double shifts or several jobs and so they may lack commitment to ensuring high quality care. Inadequate resources may result in a lack of supervision and insufficient coordination of staff leading to residents lacking continuity of care.
If competition is ineffective in ensuring quality of care, indeed if it may have the opposite effect, are there ways to ensure that residential aged care services of appropriate quality are supplied?
There are already some regulations intended to address these issues but based on the submission to the current Senate Inquiry, it would seem either that they not enforced, are easily side-stepped or are simply inadequate.
If competition to deliver services to Australia's ageing population becomes more intense, increased regulation that is carefully targeted will be necessary to ensure quality of service. This will need to be supported by effective monitoring to ensure compliance and could be supported by an industry code of conduct with specific, easily-assessable and mandatory targets related to service quality.
More competition may not be the answer to reforming the aged care system is republished with permission from The Conversation


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Friday, April 09, 2010
Home Entertainment
I keep forgetting to mention here that the Black Light DVD is available for sale now at CreateSpace and Amazon. It's not Blu-ray, and I doubt it will be your new home theater demo. But it's got heart, dammit, and that has to count for something these days ($20, hopefully). I've included some stills below, along with the trailer for those of you who missed it the first time.
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Monthly review: November 2010
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We're halfway through November already. I need to write a yearly review. My work anniversary syncs well with our yearly performance review cycle. I've got pictures to organize and memories to write. And then there's the holiday season coming up. We're working on being more social.
November was great. We got back into the swing of work. I've been up to my ears in Drupal, and lovin' it. We've also been tweaking our household routines, and have taken to cooking all of our dinners during the weekend. With lunch portions in the freezer and dinner portions in the fridge, we hardly have to do any cooking during the week – freeing up time to help with homework or take on personal projects. We're going to keep up with that experiment in December, and then see if we can expand it to two weeks of dinners (some in the freezer) once we free up more freezer space.
It was fun working on my annual review together with my manager, and the notes that I kept helped me flesh things out in detail. He encouraged me to apply for the next level of professional qualifications, too, so I'm going to spend some time working on that.
I took lots of sketchnotes during a virtual conference I attended, and people liked the sketchnotes. =) It was fun drawing them!
I bought an Android phone and learned how to program for it, so I'm looking forward to all sorts of geeking around. I downloaded a few tracking apps, too, and have been experimenting with logging the time I spend on activities.
Social: Progress on this front! We sent out our first batch of Christmas cards as a married couple, yay. I've also been better at organizing or attending get-togethers with friends. =) I still haven't sorted out the rest of the wedding pictures. I'm thinking of just burning a copy and mailing the disc home to my parents. <laugh>
Oh, and we watched Wicked again! =)
What will December look like? Lots of good work, more productivity experiments, maybe some Android hacking, a few social get-togethers, and onwards to another great year.
- Weekly review: Week ending November 7, 2010
- Weekly review: Week ending November 14, 2010
- Weekly review: Week ending November 19, 2010
- Weekly review: Week ending November 26, 2010
- Monthly review: October 2010
Writing and blogging:
- How much time does it take to blog?
- Where do you find topics to write about? How to have tons of topics
- Saving team members from RSI
- How to use Drush to download and install Drupal modules
- Drupal, SimpleTest, and the node access API
- Getting more drawing into my life
- Reinvention: virtual storytelling summit Nov 11 – 22, 2010
- Sketches: Wicked
- Sketchnotes: Why I do them, how I do them, and how you can get started
- Smiling
- Conversations: Stian Håklev
- I just got an Android phone
- Android: Tracking sleep with Sleep Bot
- Learning Android development by hacking MobileOrg
Other stuff:
- Book: Choose to be happily married: How everyday decisions can lead to lasting love
- Thoughts on speaking
- My reading round-up
- The story of the shoes at our wedding; also, wedding pictures
- Watched Wicked again; thinking about experiences
- What I'm focusing on
- Emacs: Recording ledger entries with org-capture-templates
- Reclaiming


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There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and her soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice.
Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor.
Rachel must also take a stand in the war that's raging in the city's underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpin -- and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation.
And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due.
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It's Marches Madness! Throughout this month, we're posting some of our favorite marches — from the concert hall, opera stage and parade ground. Got one we should hear? Played any yourself? Let us know in the comments section.
There's an unfortunate tendency among art music composers and musicians to regard the human form (including their own) as little more than a handy vehicle for brains.
Meredith Monk is having none of that; she's an artist completely at home in the body.
Now 70 years old, Monk is a choreographer, director and filmmaker as well as composer and singer, and a pioneer in stretching the palette of the human voice — an understanding that comes from a deep knowledge of movement, of tension and release. Monk's vocabulary has influenced generations of musicians not just in classical music, but in a circle that extends to singers like Kate Bush and Björk.
Monk's "Urban March (Light)," recorded for ECM, is part of mercy, a multimedia stage work that Monk made as a collaboration with installation artist Ann Hamilton. Taken on its own, it's a six-minute pure distillation of joy in a swirl of color, light and motion with burbling clarinet, piano and percussion stitching together a foundation for buoyant voices. Her march is one that you feel reverberating from head to toe.
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AES San Francisco 2010
Platinum Mastering
Friday, November 5, 2:00 pm — 4:00 pm (Room 134)
Platinum Mastering
Bob Ludwig
Michael Fremer
Doug Sax
Mastering legend Bob Ludwig will moderate a panel that explores vinyl mastering and disc cutting. Besides Bob, the other panelists will be renowned engineer and disc-cutting expert Doug Sax and vinyl guru Michael Fremer, producer of the DVD 21st Century Vinyl: Michael Fremer's Practical Guide to Turntable Set-Up. Panelists will discuss how they approach vinyl mastering, disc cutting, and turntable setup. Ludwig will show archival videos of how lacquers are made as well as a clip of him cutting the vinyl master to the hit Genesis album "Invisible Touch."


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Most ancient cultures saw pictures in the stars of the night sky. The earliest known efforts to catalogue the stars date to cuneiform texts and artifacts dating back roughly 6000 years. These remnants, found in the valley of the Euphrates River, suggest that the ancients observing the heavens saw the lion, the bull, and the scorpion in the stars. The constellations as we know them today are undoubtedly very different from those first few--our night sky is a compendium of images from a number of different societies, both ancient and modern. By far, though, we owe the greatest debt to the mythology of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
The earliest references to the mythological significance of the Greek constellations may be found in the works of Homer, which probably date to the 7th century B.C. In the Iliad, for instance, Homer describes the creation of Achilleus's shield by the craftsman god Hephaistos:
On it he made the earth, and sky, and sea, the weariless sun and the moon waxing full, and all the constellations that crown the heavens, Pleiades and Hyades, the mighty Orion and the Bear, which men also call by the name of Wain: she wheels round in the same place and watches for Orion, and is the only one not to bathe in Ocean (Iliad XVIII 486-490).At the time of Homer, however, most of the constellations were not associated with any particular myth, hero, or god. They were instead known simply as the objects or animals which they represented--the Lyre, for instance, or the Ram. By the 5th century B.C., however, most of the constellations had come to be associated with myths, and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes completed the mythologization of the stars. "At this stage, the fusion between astronomy and mythology is so complete that no further distinction is made between them"--the stars were no longer merely identified with certain gods or heroes, but actually were perceived as divine (Seznec, 37-40).
Despite the many mentions of the stars in Greek and early Roman texts, by far the most thorough star catalogue from ancient times belongs to the Roman Ptolemy of Alexandria, who grouped 1022 stars into 48 constellations during the 2nd century A.D. Although Ptolemy's Almagest does not include the constellations which may only be seen from the southern hemisphere, it forms the basis for the modern list of 88 constellations officially designated by the International Astronomical Union (Pasachoff, 134-135). The influence of both the Greek and Roman cultures may be plainly seen; the myths behind the constellations date back to ancient Greece, but we use their Latin names.
The Major Constellations:
Andromeda | Aquarius | Aries | Cancer | Capricornus | Cassiopeia | Cepheus | Cetus | Corona Borealis | Cygnus | Draco | Eridanus | Gemini | Hercules | Hydra | Leo | Libra | Lyra | Orion | Perseus | Pisces | Sagittarius | Scorpius | Taurus | Ursa Major | Ursa Minor | VirgoMythology, of course, influenced the naming of many objects in the night sky, not just the constellations. The planets all bear names from Roman mythology which reflect their characteristics: Mercury, named for the speedy messenger god, revolves fastest around the sun; Venus, named for the goddess of love and beauty, shines most brightly; Mars, named for the god of war, appears blood-red; Jupiter, named for the single most important god, is the largest planet in our solar system. Even the names of the Galilean moons of Jupiter (the four largest, which may be seen with even a small telescope) are drawn from mythology. Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto were all desired--and taken by force--by Jupiter. It is ironic that the mythological characters mythological women the king of the gods so ardently pursued now revolve around him.


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NEWARK – A recently completed land-use study of the Showell Elementary School property revealed the site could handle a major expansion, renovation or even replacement estimated between $25 million and $27 million depending on the option chosen, but there are serious issues to resolve including sewer, before any project can be undertaken.
Worcester County Board of Education members this week got an overview of a land-use study conducted by the Becker Morgan Group of the Showell Elementary site. The study was commissioned to determine if the property could adequately support an addition to the existing school or a replacement school, which would accommodate current and future enrollment growth.
The good news is the study determined the site could support an expansion of around 32,000 square feet to reach a total of about 85,000 square feet or a replacement school could be constructed on the site to get to the projected 85,000 square feet or beyond. The existing facility is just over 52,000 square feet, but will soon be maxed out given future growth projections. Currently, nine portable classrooms account for about 25 percent of the school's classroom space.
The bad news is the site needs a major overhaul to its existing sewer disposal system regardless of what option is chosen or even if no option is chosen at this time. The school property currently utilizes a single drain field to dispose of treated effluent, but an expanded school or new school would likely need two drain fields of the same size.
"The current system is 30-plus years old and is nearing the end of its useful life," Becker Morgan's Robert Simkins told school board members this week. "A basic drain field lasts about 30 years, so you can see you're on borrowed time."
Simkins said expanding the drain field system would have to take up space on the site needed for other amenities in the expanded or replaced school. The building envelope is fairly tight already, according to the conceptual plans for an expanded school or replacement school, making expanding the drain field system difficult. Because of that and other reasons, Simkins urged school board members to consider hooking up the site to a public system sooner rather than later.
"You're not going to be able to discharge into the creeks," he said. "It will need to be a drain field and that will compete for space with other elements."
Assistant Superintendent for Administration Ed Barber agreed the time was right to consider connecting the school property to a public system regardless of which if any option for expansion or replacement is chosen further down the road.
"Our maintenance people have had to make repairs already," he said. "They're concerned it's going to fail at any time. I think we need to hook up to the public system as soon as possible."
Hooking into a county-owned public system could prove difficult in the short term. The Showell property is included in a first-to-be-served area identified by the county if and when public service becomes available in the area, but there is no timetable for doing that. Sewer service could come from a Greater Ocean Pines service area or eventually from capacity drawn from the old Perdue property in Showell, but there is no firm plan in place.
"I think we need to request the county take a closer look at this," said school board member Bob Hulburd. "We need to ask the commissioners to let us know where we stand."
Assuming the sewer issues can be resolved, expanding the existing school or replacing it entirely is in the works, although it will likely be several years. The land-use study completed by Becker Morgan this fall is an important first step, but a thorough feasibility study will be the next step in the process. School board members voted on Tuesday to request funding for the feasibility study in the fiscal year 2009 budget.
"This is just the first step in a long-term process," said Hulburd. "Even if we got the feasibility study started next year, it would be several years before any project could be undertaken. The kids in Showell now would be out of Showell before this is done."
Nonetheless, the land-use study conducted by Becker Morgan included conceptual plans for both an expansion and a replacement, with varying projected costs depending on the options chosen. Option I is an expansion/renovation with an estimated cost of $27.7 million, while Option II calls for a replacement to the tune of an estimated $25.8 million. It is important to note the estimates are very conceptual. They are based on projected 2011 cost estimates for school construction, however.
One of the drawbacks for expanding the existing school is that the project would have to be done in several phases, causing student relocations, noise and other disruptions. Given the close cost estimates, school board members appeared to favor replacing the school, which would allow the existing school to be utilized during construction, similar to the situation with the recently replaced Ocean City Elementary. Incidentally, with either option, the new Showell Elementary would be roughly the same size as the new OCES.


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I got to share the stage with the other half last week at Harvard Innovation Lab, when Jeffrey Beir & I took turns presenting dueling views on building your startup. Myself from the product perspective, Jeffrey from the investor's viewpoint.
While we had clearly different opinions, one thing we both agreed on was that if you're going to do a startup, you'd best be agile about it.
Agile Principles
I kicked things off with the key principles that we see helping us to be smarter about how we build our businesses:
Iterate. In agile we talk about working incrementally (a little at a time) and iteratively (being okay with taking a couple of passes to get it right). There's this notion of Wicked Problems – the idea that a problem is so complex, you can only fully define it by solving it.
We get this in software – where we often have to actually write the code before we know the right way to code it. Starting a company is like that too. We start with an idea of what we want to do, but it's almost impossible to know the right way to execute until we actually… well, start executing.
Learn. And so we place a really high value on learning. The best way to learn? Just get something out there! Even if it's totally wrong, we can still learn a lot from that. The next time we put something out there it will be a little less wrong… and so we keep going and honing in on the right way to operate.
Defer Decisions Until the Last Responsible Moment. Sure, it feels comfortable to feel like we've worked out all the answers up front and so know where we're going. But that's a false sense of security when we're learning so much every day. I think agile is about being OK with being a little uncomfortable. And recognizing that next month we'll know so much more than we did today, so if we don't have to decide on something until then, defer it.
Deliver Fast. Instead, use your time and energy today delivering. Agile says "deliver fast". If we know there's a high probability we're going to get some things wrong, then it makes sense to get something out there quickly so we can get that feedback and learn from it.
Eliminate Waste. How do we operate at the speed of a startup? We can work longer hours, add more people, push ourselves to work faster faster faster… OR, we can just stop doing all the crap that doesn't matter today. I vote for the latter.
Agile Mindset Framework
Next, we laid out a framework for thinking about how we build our businesses and we each gave our two cents…. which, as it turned out, didn't end up being all that far apart. Should I be maybe just a little bit afraid?
Vision. You want to start with your Big, Inspiring vision for how you're going to change the world. The very best visions aren't built around some current technology or trend but rather around a timeless vision of what they want to do for their customers. Twitter's vision, for example, has nothing to do with tweets or apps: "To be the pulse of the planet."
Focus. Then, you need to step back and figure out how to focus that down to something you can execute on. You actually need to go small, before you go big. Minimum Viable Product, Minimum Viable (Customer) Segment, hell – Minimum Viable Company. Your goal should be to dominate a very small market where you can go deep, really understand the problem and how to reach it's customers. Work with these early adopters to learn what's going to work and what isn't. And then, once you've been able to nail that small market, NOW you can build upon that success to Go Big.
Risks. You want to make sure you identify your biggest risks and address those early on. These are typically around competitors, customers, suppliers, IP, technology & employees. Are any of them potential company killers? If so, what are you doing to mitigate them?
Value. You want to always have in mind what your most important metric is today, and make sure everything you're doing is moving it in the right direction. What's most important for your company to prove today? That you're building something people want? That they're willing to pay for it? That you can drive them to your site? Dave McClure's Pirate Metrics are a great set of metrics for capturing these.
Sequence. This means working on things in the right order to prove your value at every stage. In most cases, step #1 is proving "Can I make money from this?" Make sure you have that worked out before you go head's down and build it!
Flexibility. Finally, ensure that you're remaining flexible through out and really pulling in those agile principles like starting small and testing early so you can learn along the way and evolve your startup into the Next Big Thing.
Here's the full slide deck:


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- Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Palace in the Bible, in the singular and plural, is the rendering of several words of diverse meaning. (1 Chronicles 29:1; Ezra 4:14; Amos 4:3) etc. It often designates the royal residence, and usually suggests a fortress or battlemented house. The word occasionally included the whole city as in (Esther 9:12) and again, as in (1 Kings 16:18) it is restricted to a part of the royal apartments. It is applied, as in (1 Chronicles 29:1) to the temple in Jerusalem. The site of the palace of Solomon was almost certainly in the city itself on the brow opposite to the temple, and overlooking it and the whole city of David. It is impossible, of course, to be at all certain what was either the form or the exact disposition of such a palace; but, as we have the dimensions of the three principal buildings given in the book of Kings and confirmed by Josephus, we may, by taking these as a scale, ascertain pretty nearly that the building covered somewhere about 150,000 or 160,000 square feet. Whether it was a square of 400 feet each way, or an oblong of about 550 feet by 300, must always be more or less a matter of conjecture. The principal building situated within the palace was, as in all eastern palaces, the great hall of state and audience, called "the house of the forest of Lebanon," apparently from the four rows of cedar pillars by which it was supported. It was 100 cubits (175 feet) long, 50 (88 feet) wide, and 30 (52 feet) high. Next in importance was the hall or "porch of judgment," a quadrangular building supported by columns, as we learn front Josephus, which apparently stood on the other side of the great court, opposite the house of the forest of Lebanon. The third edifice is merely called a "porch of pillars." Its dimensions were 50 by 30 cubits. Its use cannot be considered as doubtful, as it was an indispensable adjunct to an eastern palace. It was the ordinary place of business of the palace, and the reception-room when the king received ordinary visitors, and sat, except on great state occasions, to transact the business of the kingdom. Behind this, we are told, was the inner court, adorned with gardens and fountains, and surrounded by cloisters for shade; and there were other courts for the residence of the attendants and guards, and for the women of the harem. Apart from this palace, but attached, as Josephus tells us, to the hall of judgment, was the palace of Pharaoh's daughter-too proud and important a personage to be grouped with the ladies of the harem, and requiring a residence of her own. The recent discoveries at Nineveh have enabled us to understand many of the architectural details of this palace, which before they were made were nearly wholly inexplicable. Solomon constructed an ascent from his own house to the temple, "the house of Jehovah," (1 Kings 10:5) which was a subterranean passage 250 feet long by 42 feet wide, of which the remains may still be traced.
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As new needs crop up on campus, Auxiliary Services finds solutions for mobile transactions, mountains of junk mail, even green construction.
THE SEQUOIA: Retail Systems Wireless CampusCard Reader allows transactions on the go.
Can auxiliary services be mission-critical? You bet they can. With tuition on the rise, Auxiliary Services departments at a variety of colleges and universities are proving that they can innovate and still save their parent institutions cash. First in auxiliary services innovation: With advancements in technology, a handful of institutions are moving campus purchasing programs into the wireless space. Second: With the proliferation of junk mail, learning centers are finding new ways to eliminate paper waste and improve efficiency across the board. Finally: As environmental conservation becomes a bigger concern, schools are embracing buildings that don't harm the Earth, and many of the services involved in those efforts make use of "green" approaches and innovative technologies. Put simply, auxiliary services aren't so auxiliary anymore.
"Every dollar a school can save in terms of auxiliary services means one less dollar in raised tuition," says Bob Hassmiller, executive director of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services, an industry organization based in Charlottesville, VA. "Meeting the demands to give better service and charge more reasonable rates for those services is what continues to put [auxiliary services] in the forefront."
Facilitating Mobility
Nobody understands these sentiments better than officials at Duke University (NC), where officials sought to enable students to use the DukeCard to complete transactions via the Blackboard Transaction System at off-site locations such as athletic events. For years, Duke's campus card officials accomplished this feat by stretching wires from the nearest Ethernet port or by handling transactions with paper receipts and reconciling them later. Finally, in 2003, the team had had enough of this setup, and set out to explore opportunities to utilize the school's pervasive wireless network to its advantage.
The quest for new technology began when DukeCard programmers developed a browser-based application that worked on a number of mobile devices around campus. The team presented the concept at the annual Blackboard User's Conference in Baltimore, where it was received with interest. Because the DukeCard office wasn't in a position to develop the product, Blackboard partner Sequoia Retail Systems stepped in and integrated the browser with the Sequoia Wireless Campus Card Reader. Matthew Drummond, director of the DukeCard office, says this device changed the school's entire approach virtually overnight.
"As the success of the wireless transaction has grown, more and more demand has been put on us to provide these services anytime, anywhere around campus," he says. Noting that the latest card readers are no larger than a standard personal digital assistant (PDA), he adds, "This technology enables us to do just that."
Today, the devices, nearly 20 in all, enable DukeCard officials to access user activity and account privileges, process debit and credit transactions, make deposits, give refunds, and check balances— all in real time over the wireless network. The devices also can store offline transactions, validate them against a snapshot of the cardholder database, and post them when it reconnects to the network. Drummond says that since the system was rolled out in late 2004, the devices have cataloged more than 52,000 transactions totaling more than $350,000. Last year, on a single Saturday with a number of events, the DukeCard office ran 12 different devices in six different locations at the same time.
Drummond adds that his team also uses the tools in more than 20,500 validation transactions where proof of enrollment is required. Case in point: the annual iPod distribution. Every year, the school doles out iPods to all incoming freshmen. By using the wireless campus card readers to scan student IDs, the DukeCard office is able to ensure they are giving devices only to eligible students. This distribution procedure also has been used for events where attendees had to meet specific requirements such as yearbook distribution, First Year picnic, and Senior Night. According to Drummond, the technology has made organizing these outings easy.
"Previously, we accomplished this kind of distribution with paper lists from the registrar, and it was really time-consuming to comb through all the names to find the correct person," says Drummond. "Now, we just bring the card readers, and that's it."
AT DUKE, wireless card scanners have cataloged more than 52,000 transactions since late 2004.
Just about the only challenge Duke has had with the devices is simply keeping track of them. Over the course of the 2005-2006 school year, the DukeCard Office used the mobile readers at more than 350 events, making scheduling and handoffs tricky. Earlier this year, the team wrote a custom web application to create a comprehensive snapshot of the distribution schedule. The application presents data in an overview like the triage board in a hospital emergency room, laying out which departments have the readers and which are next in line. So far, as a result of this application, Drummond says the school hasn't lost a device. Considering they cost $2,500 apiece, that's a good thing.
Duke plans to expand the mobile card reader project to include special cell phones with readers built in. The phones will process transactions on the DukeCard system just like card readers do, only they will do it over the Nextel cellular network that covers the campus.
According to Drummond, a local food-service delivery company tested this technology in a pilot program earlier this year, and was able to process credit card payments instantaneously as the food was exchanged. Down the road, the program also will enable the university to quickly settle outstanding bills with local vendors and virtually eliminate fraud. "With this technology, we can help everybody—not just ourselves," he says. "I'm excited to see where it g'es next."
Eliminating Junk Mail
Environmentally conscious schools are turning to auxiliary services to eliminate one of the biggest sources of pollution and waste: junk mail. Every day, campus mailrooms are inundated with the same barrage of catalogs, magazines, newspapers, and collateral that plague consumers. And according to statistics from the US Postal Service, more than 66 percent of these pieces have incomplete or incorrect addresses, leaving universities to determine what to do next. At many schools, particularly the big ones, this predicament can become a herculean undertaking.
Yet, the problem of poor addressing isn't just about waste; it eats up manhours as well. First, mailroom workers must determine if the intended recipients still attend the school. If the recipients are in fact still enrolled, the workers must take the time to look up the right addresses and correct the labels. Granted, misaddressed mail for off-campus students is handled by the local post office, which can reduce the burden significantly. Still, according to Aldona Robbins, CFO at Intra-Mail Network, which specializes in helping schools with this problem, the chore of redirecting and delivering this mail on campus can tax mailrooms to the point of inefficiency.
"There are schools that literally spend days each week dealing with this," says Robbins, who notes that such schools as the University of Houston (TX), Georgetown University (DC), and Washington University (MO) have turned to her firm for help with their junk-mail problems.
The solution focuses on ensuring addresses are accurate before they ever hit the campus mailroom. Senders transfer their address data to Intra-Mail, which uses proprietary software to match address lists to unique campus routing schemes, reducing undeliverable campus addressing and expediting delivery through campus mail centers. The company also converts massive unsorted commercial mail into presorted bundles. Within each bundle, IntraMail numerically sequences the mail according to a mail center's delivery route. By the time on-campus mail carriers get the mail, it is accurate, sorted, and ready for them to deliver—without headaches.
GREEN SYSTEMS INNOVATION (clockwise, left to right): At Carnegie Mellon, technology protects rare books; at Penn State, lighting is conventionai and au naturel; at University of Vermont, ventilation systems go green.
Surprisingly, this service is free to participating schools. It is the senders— pharmaceutical companies, magazine publishers, retail/wholesale catalog companies and the like—that foot the bill; they are more than willing to pay to ensure that greater levels of their product information reach their intended audiences. Intra-Mail President Michael Sanders says his firm actually pays colleges a minimum of two cents for each piece of mail it successfully delivers. The economics behind the equation are simple: The more schools Intra-Mail can claim as customers, the more money the company can charge senders for the process of making sure their mailed pieces go where they want them to go.
For the sender clients, and for higher ed administrators, the benefits are indisputable: "Would you rather have 1,000 pieces come in, 40 percent of which are for people who are no longer there," asks Sanders, "or would you rather have 600 pieces come in, almost all of them addressed perfectly? For colleges that have grappled with this problem for years, I'd say the answer is pretty clear."
Going Green
For Kermit the Frog, it's not easy being green. But across academia, colleges and universities are finding it easier— and more advantageous—than ever before. In the world of higher education as elsewhere, "green" refers to the adoption of responsible environmental practices. While this may not seem like a traditional component of auxiliary services, many officials say it's part of an overarching drive toward sustainability— something which every Auxiliary Services department should strive for. In fact, many "green" practices now fall under the auspices of campus Auxiliary Services departments, and many require the intelligent use of technology. What's more, these efforts don't just facilitate conservation; they can save campus dollars as well, lowering operational outlay by saving energy costs, for instance.
Green programs are wide-ranging and include efforts such as more effective recycling, better management of energy consumption, and the implementation of construction certified by the US Green Building Council, the body that has established worldwide standards (known as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, Green Building Rating System) for this kind of thing. In the state of Pennsylvania, for instance, Pittsburgh-based WTW Architects has helped a number of colleges and universities launch projects that fall into the green category. Hank Colker, a principal with the firm, says these efforts are a "combination of common sense and high technology," and notes that a sampling of their clients and projects includes:
Clean Up Your Act—and Monitor It
Outside of Pennsylvania, the University of Vermont also has turned to WTW to build a new, LEED-certified structure, the Dudley H. Davis Student Center, which will utilize local brick and slate products and incorporate a "green" roof over the loading dock. It will also boast "smart" lighting systems that shut off when a room is unoccupied, and natural (not conventional air-condition/heat) ventilation systems to save energy in heating and cooling. Other planned design features are intended to extend environmental conservation even further— there will be ample bike storage, and every floor will have a full bathroom with shower for cyclists who need to freshen up, in the hopes that more students will ride their bicycles to campus and leave their cars at home.
University officials aren't being bashful about these advancements: The school plans to construct the lobby around a giant computer that will display statistics on the building's energy consumption. The monitor will convey how much water the new student center is using, as well as how many carcinogens and other pollutants it is pumping into the atmosphere. Patty Eldred, director of auxiliary services for the school's Administrative and Facility Services department, says this computer will be a great tool for learning, and adds that perhaps the biggest benefit of this construction is the school's ability to integrate sustainability into the curriculum as a whole.
"We've always been a state that has taken a look at the impact we create on the environment," she says. "This is a good way to organize the way you live your life, and we're not only practicing it, but we'll teach it, too."
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