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Apr 6, 2012 Nutritional Supplement Study Concludes at Utah State University
A clinical research study on the effects of nutritional supplementation to combat health consequences associated with Cache Valley's poor air quality has concluded at Utah State University. The Cache Valley AIR Study, a partnership between the Center for Human Nutrition Studies at Utah State University and USANA Health Sciences, a Utah-based global nutritional supplement company, began in November 2011 with 66 participants.
Nov 28, 2011 USU studies supplement's ability to protect lungs against inversions (SL Tribune, by Brian Maffly)
Winters in the Cache Valley get ugly when inverted temperature gradients trap particulate pollution near the ground, where it can irritate lung tissue and cause health problems. Now a Utah supplement maker is exploiting the state's notorious inversions to test whether its products reduce inflammation and protect pulmonary function.
Oct 11, 2011 Study looks at whether vitamins can help with breathing during inversions (from KSL.com)
LOGAN — Those who live along the Wasatch Front know how bad the air quality can get. It seems the tell- tale lung irritation and scratchy throats have become an unpleasant winter tradition in recent years.
Oct 6, 2011 Could vitamins help Utahns breathe easy during inversions? (by Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News)
LOGAN — Those who live along the Wasatch Front know how bad the air quality can get. It seems the tell-tale lung irritation and scratchy throats have become an unpleasant winter tradition in recent years.
Oct 5, 2011 Study eyes air quality, diet (from The Herald Journal, by Kevin Opsahl)Read More >
USU teams up with USANA Health Sciences to look at ways to keep people healthy through inversion
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Council Roundup: Comments on light rail code changes
Residents who live near the future East Link light rail line in Bellevue, along with other interested speakers, weighed in Monday on proposed land use code amendments under consideration by the City Council.
Twenty-one people, mostly residents of the Enatai and Surrey Downs neighborhoods, spoke during the public hearing on the amendments, part of a comprehensive new section, or land use code "overlay." The new section would create permitting processes, development standards and design standards for reviewing East Link plans. The changes are intended to fill in gaps in the current land use code, which did not anticipate a light rail line.
Councilmembers voted unanimously to close the public hearing last night but to keep the comment period open until 10 a.m., Feb. 14. That means people can submit written comments and they will be part of the official public hearing record. Comments can be submitted to legal planner Catherine Drews at firstname.lastname@example.com.
After that time, comments are still welcome until such time as the council takes final action on the overlay, which is anticipated before the end of February. The council will meet again on the Feb. 19 to provide direction for any changes to the draft overlay provisions in preparation for adoption of the amendments.
People who live nearby the proposed light rail alignment encouraged the council to ensure the amendments address issues such as: noise impacts; full and partial property acquisitions that will be required by Sound Transit; tree cutting; maintaining city control over the permitting process; and the minimum required distance, or "setback," between the light rail tracks and private property lines.
A handful of people, including one Sound Transit representative, spoke in support of the proposed amendments.
Previously, the council held a public hearing last October. Since then, it has met in eight separate meetings to address different aspects of the proposed land use code amendments and provide guidance for the final content. The council is expected to vote on a final version of the amendments at its Feb. 25 meeting.
Bellevue also has been working with Sound Transit on cost savings options for the $2.8 billion East Link project, which will run from Seattle, through Bellevue, to the Overlake Transit Center in Redmond. Construction is expected to start in 2015 and service is scheduled to begin in 2023.
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Now the wealth of information in YouTube videos—from mischievous cats and impossible stunts to documentaries and commencement speeches—will be available to researchers. The new YouTube-8M dataset includes 8 million YouTube video URLs (representing over 500,000 hours of video) is Google's newest research breakthrough. The labeled dataset "enables researchers and students without access to big data or big machines to do their research at previously unprecedented scale," according to Google's blog. For quality control, they used only public videos with more than 1,000 views and built a vocabulary of entities (for example, from "acoustic guitar" to "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" in the "Guitars" filter in the "Arts and Entertainment" category).
Google's new YouTube-8M dataset includes over 500,000 hours of video
Not fake news: Chobani just sued InfoWars and Alex Jones
The yogurt brand is suing the conspiracy theorist and his website over false information. Chobani alleges InfoWars fabricated stories about its CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, and suggested the company was linked to a sexual assault case involving three refugee children. On April 11, InfoWars released a video accusing Chobani—which employs 400 refugees—of "importing migrant rapists." It also claimed the yogurt-maker covered up the sexual assault case in a left-wing agenda effort.
But according to a report by the Idaho Statesman, police and prosecutors said the conspiracies were mostly false; that "there was no rape, no knife was present, and authorities followed proper protocol." The website also took aim at Ulukaya for being a Turkish citizen:
"Why has this foreign citizen been showered with $800,000 in "Small Business" loans and allowed to use that to lobby his way into Michelle Obama's $15B school lunch program and sit on the NY Federal Reserve Board, even though he's still a Turkish citizen?"
According to the Statesman, the lawsuit alleges Chobani reps repeatedly requested Alex Jones and InfoWars remove the inaccurate coverage, but to no avail. Chobani claims InfoWars violated the Idaho Consumer Protection Act by knowingly misrepresenting facts that were harmful to its business. The company seeks at least $10,000 in damages, attorney fees, and punitive damages.
This isn't the first time Chobani and its CEO have come under attack for their refugee hiring practices. As Fast Company reported last month, Ulukaya's actions have invited death threats from far-right critics. At the same time, it's brought invitations to speak at the World Economic Forum, with industry leaders hailing him as a conscientious global leader.
"You have to lead by example," Ulukaya told Fast Company. "Chobani can inspire a new way of business, a new way of work, a new way of innovation … Chobani is a place where everyone is welcome."
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Andrea Tantaros just sued Fox News for harassment and allegedly hacking her devices
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has reportedly filed a new lawsuit against her former employer and its former CEO, Roger Ailes. The lawsuit alleges that the network harassed her by sending her threats and "creepy messages," on social media, writes the New York Daily News. Moreover, Tantaros claims in the suit that Fox tapped into her personal devices to spy on her.
NEWS: Andrea Tantaros files new federal lawsuit against Fox News & Bill Shine, alleging they hacked into her digital devices /con't— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) April 24, 2017
Ivanka Trump clothing is being quietly relabeled
Business of Fashion has confirmed that Stein Mart, a discount retailer, has been selling identical dresses, some of which are labeled "Ivanka Trump" and others labeled "Adrienne Vittadini." G-III, the company that licenses Ivanka Trump's brand, had a lot of excess inventory on its hands, given that many retailers have dropped the brand.
Label swapping is technically legal, and is often done to protect a brand from being associated with a discount store. But this situation is odd because Adrienne Vittadini is licensed by the Authentic Brands Group, not G-III. In a statement, G-III said that this switch took place without "the knowledge or consent of the Ivanka Trump organization." It also said it would immediately remove "mistakenly labeled merchandise."
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Spotify may be looking to get into the hardware game
Spotify may want to control its own hardware destiny, at least according to a company job posting. As spotted by Dave Zatz, Spotify is seeking a senior product manager to build "a category defining product akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo, and Snap Spectacles."
From that description, it's unclear what kind of hardware Spotify is looking to build (wearable, home speaker, or something else entirely?). The company declined to comment, and has now removed the relevant job posting from its website. But given that Spotify is competing in streaming music with the companies whose platforms it relies on—namely Apple, Google, and Amazon—it's understandable that it would want some hardware to call its own. JN
Could eye drops cure jet lag?
Jet lag is a waste of perfectly good vacation days, but a cure to all that yawning, stumbling, and sleeping through breakfast may be in the eye of the (very sleepy) beholder. As Popular Science reports, a recent study published in the Journal of Physiology could translate to a cure for jet lag that's as easy as applying eye drops.
Researchers discovered a new group of cells in the retina that send signals about changes in light from the eye to the brain. These cells and a molecule they release (called vasopressin) help regulate the biological clock—or at least that's what it does in rats. If you could reduce the amount of vasopressin traveling from the eye to the brain, that could help your internal clock adjust to the new time zone, theoretically doing away with jet lag. It's something that has already worked in animals and has exciting possibilities for humans. One of the study's authors, Mike Ludwig, a professor of neurophysiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, suggests that tweaking vasopressin output could happen via eye drops—eventually. "That is very futuristic," he said. "We are far from that at the moment." Until then, we'll just use eye drops to do away with dry eyes. Skip the cat nap and read the full article on PopSci. ML
Camp director John Waters is about to become a real-life camp director
John Waters is best known as the director of campy films like Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and Serial Mom. Now he is taking that onscreen camp experience and transforming it into a real world business—specifically, the summer camp business.
Called Camp John Waters, the adults-only camp is set in bucolic Kent, Connecticut, on a campground complete with cabins and a lake, according to Variety. As one would expect, a John Waters summer camp doesn't include traditional summer camp activities like macrame and swim lessons, but instead something called "Bloody Mary Bingo," a costume contest, Burlesque lessons, and in lieu of a campfire singalong, Hairspray karaoke. Waters himself will perform a one-man show and judge the John Waters costume contest. The event is scheduled for September 22-24, with tickets starting at $499.
[Photo: Jeff Vespa/Contributor/Getty Images] ML
Listen to this startup eerily imitate the voices of Trump and Obama with AI
Get ready for the aural version of uncanny valley. A Soundcloud account for a new startup called "Lyrebird" has surfaced with computer-generated tracks that sound like celebrity voices—namely Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. In one recording, a voice mimicking Clinton says Lyrebird uses "deep learning and artificial neural networks." Fake President Trump adds, "They can make us say anything now."
Lyrebird's website says the company is working on a "new generation of speech synthesis technologies for developers." It was developed by researchers in Montreal, and the company says it has plans to make the technology available to everyone. So I guess the future will be easily fabricated audio recordings … Fun!
You can listen to the eerie recordings here. CGW
NASA's Peggy Whitson just set a record by spending 534 days in space
Peggy Whitson just broke a record for a U.S. astronaut. As of 1:27 a.m. EDT on April 24, 2017, she had spent a cumulative 534 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes, and counting floating around the International Space Station, according to NASA. For the effort, she received a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump on Monday and, perhaps more important, the endless admiration of wannabe astronauts around the world.
It is one of those rides that you hope never ends. I am so grateful for all those who helped me on each of my missions! #LifeInSpace pic.twitter.com/msjKSg6WWH— Peggy Whitson (@AstroPeggy) April 23, 2017
Breaking records is nothing new for Whitson, who already holds the title of first female commander of the ISS. She's also the oldest woman to fly to space for NASA, proving that when it comes to space travel (and Aaliyah songs), age ain't nothing but a number.
Whitson's latest record surpassed the U.S. record set by astronaut Jeff Williams, who lasted 534 days, 2 hours and 48 minutes. By the time Whitson's feet touch terra firma, she will have spent more than 650 days in space. While Whitson holds the U.S. record for cumulative space hours, the record for longest consecutive spaceflight is held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent nearly 438 days on the former Russian Mir space station, according to Verge, while Gennady Padalka stayed on the ISS for a combined 878 days in space.
[Photo: NASA] ML
Report: Amazon has a team of people exploring the role of self-driving vehicles
Amazon is considering the role of autonomous vehicles in its quest to build out its delivery network. The company put together the small self-driving team roughly a year ago, according to the Wall Street Journal. It's not building its own cars—at least not yet—but rather exploring how driverless trucks and cars may play a role in getting products to consumers faster and more cheaply. This is no surprise given Amazon's expeditious shipping capabilities. The company is also working on ferrying packages to homes via drone.
Samsung social media just shut down a troll in the best way
Samsung just reminded the internet that if you play with fire, you just might get burned. In a social media promotion, the phone company asked its Twitter followers to post the first photo they took with their Galaxy S8s. However, because this is the internet, and the internet is the worst, it only took a few minutes for someone to chime in with the eye roll-worthy tidbit that their first photo was "a dick pic." The tweet got hundreds of retweets and LOLs, of course, until Samsung's social media folks stepped in to destroy the troll with a single emoji of a microscope. Pure fire.
April 21, 2017
Jimmy Choo is for sale
Jimmy Choo, the luxury shoe company, announced that it is up for sale. JAB Holding, a German consumer goods company, acquired the brand in 2008 for $800 million and took it public in 2014, retaining a 67.6% stake. JAB has recently been investing in American coffee brands and is about to buy Panera, the sandwich chain. These investments hinge on the broader trend of consumers choosing to spend money on experiences rather than luxury goods.
Read more in the New York Times. ES
Here's a video of Larry Page's flying car in action
Google's Larry Page wants to make flying cars, like, a thing. To make that straight-out-of-science fiction idea a reality, he's backing a project called Kitty Hawk, which is led by Sebastian Thrun, who helped get Google into the self-driving car race.
The ultralight flyer took a test flight over a lake near San Francisco, the New York Times reports and the video shows that the future is now(ish). The plane looks like a cross between a drone and a pontoon boat, as it comes outfitted for water landings. While the final product will undoubtedly look a little different, Kitty Hawk hopes to be selling the planes by the end of the year and you can already become a member of the fan club and join the wait list. Price is still TBD, though.
The flyers are already approved to operate in the U.S., but don't expect to see them racing the BART train anytime soon, as they are currently only legal to fly in un-congested areas. The first round of products are designed for hobbyists and recreational use, according to TechCrunch, and strangely you don't need a pilot's license to fly one, so your next lake vacation may involve 10-year olds dropping water balloons from the sky.
[Photo: Kitty Hawk] ML


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OXFORD – Michael Wayne Thornton of Booneville is free on bond after he pleaded not guilty to a federal indictment.
Thornton, 29, is accused of using the Internet to entice a 15-year-old minor for sex.
The charge came out of Lee County.
Thornton entered his plea Thursday before Magistrate Judge Jenny Virden, who set his unsecured bond at $10,000.
If convicted, he faces from 10 years to life in prison.
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Despite a disappointing loss to the Falcons last Sunday night, at least one Bear had a rewarding week.
Jay Cutler agreed to a 2 year contract extension to remain in Chicago through the 2013 season. With his future secured, Mr. Cutler should be able to concentrate on hitting his receivers with better accuracy than he did in Atlanta a week ago.
At 3-2, the Bears close out a two game road trip in Cincinnati, on short rest, dare I say desperate to grab a W and avoid falling to .500 on the season. Both Chicago and Cincinnati (4-2), will have key voids on defense as Tommie Harris will sit this one out, along with Bengals LB Pisa Tinoisamoa, who will miss the remainder of the season with serious cartilage damage. Recently acquired Gaines Adams will make his Bears debut, and should help compensate for the loss of Harris on Sunday.
The surprisingly competent Bengals, who have a share of the lead in the AFC North with the Steelers, look to bounce back from a lackluster performance against the Texans last week. Matt Schaub, who leads the NFL with 14 TD passes, connected on four aerial scores in Week 6. After watching tape of the Bengals secondary struggle to keep Houston's wideouts out of the endzone all afternoon, Jay Cutler should be licking his chops. With the ink not yet dry on a new extension, Jay Cutler couldn't have asked for a better opportunity to prove to Bears management that they made a wise investment. Cincinnati's defense reeks from a ranking of 28th against the pass in the NFL this season. Jay should be able to light it up this Sunday.
Perhaps as important to the long-term success of the Bears offense this season, is the ability of Matt Forte to regain the confidence that was no doubt shattered following back-to-back critical fumbles on National television last Sunday night.
If the Bears are going to stay close with the Vikings, who face a very difficult road game against the World Champion Steelers this weekend, Chicago will need to do a better job taking care of the football on offense. Against a less-than-stellar rushing defense in the Falcons, the Bears failed to have any success on the ground. Cincinnati's run stopping ability is better than that of the Falcons, so it will take a much stronger effort from the Bears offensive line, if Chicago hopes to avoid back-to-back road losses.
Heading into Week 7, the Bears are looking at a golden opportunity to head home 4-2, with Cleveland and Arizona in Weeks 8 and 9. Before visiting Detroit in Week 9, the Vikings have two tough road opponents in the Steelers and Green Bay respectively. I doubt Lovie will allow his troops to look that far ahead, but if the Bears can take care of business against a likely deceptive 4-2 Bengals team, the second half of the season could be thrilling.
On the heels of an embarrassing series of blown opportunities in front of America last week in Atlanta, a motivated offense led by a deeper pocketed Jay Cutler will get the job done this time.
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A potentially crippling U.S. debt default was averted as Congress passed legislation to end a political showdown that had rattled financial markets, splintered the Republican Party and showcased Washington dysfunction.
By Ian Talley
Even a temporary failure of the U.S. government to pay its bills would have a "catastrophic" impact on the U.S. and global economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.
U.S. officials warn that the government could run out of cash to pay its social security and military obligations by the middle of next month if lawmakers fail to reach a deal to raise the amount of money the country can borrow, called the debt ceiling.
Even if it was temporary, the IMF estimates that such a shock could shave around a half-percentage point off growth around the world at a fragile stage in the global recovery. Europe is only just showing signs of coming out of two years of severe recession while growth in emerging markets is weakening.
In its July review of the U.S. economy, the IMF said the threat of economic disaster would likely rule out a potential debt-ceiling debacle. The fund forecast U.S. growth to accelerate a full percentage point to 2.7% next year, predicting Congress and the White House would reach a deal on near-term deficit reduction and the debt ceiling.
But it also acknowledged the risk of a political stalemate that failed to raise the debt ceiling.
"The economic costs would be potentially catastrophic depending on how long the impasse lasts; spillovers to the rest of the world would be severe," the IMF said then.
IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said Thursday that the world's economic advisor hoped for a "speedy resolution to the ongoing budget discussions and the discussions around the debt ceiling."
In another paper published in August, the fund quantified potential economic impacts from a shock similar to the one in August 2011, when Congress spooked investors by waiting until the eleventh hour to raise the debt ceiling.
"Sharp spikes in U.S. policy uncertainty — of the magnitude observed during the U.S. debt ceiling dispute in August 2011, for example — can temporarily lower investment and output in other regions," the fund said in its Spillover report last month. "U.S. policy-uncertainty shocks temporarily reduce GDP growth in other regions by up to a half percentage point in the year of the shock," it said.
The fund hasn't published any calculations quantifying the impact of a debt-ceiling debacle on the U.S. economy. But it did point to a paper by Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis that estimated the potential economic impact from a sustained political uncertainty shock.
Messrs. Baker, Bloom, and Davis found an increase in U.S. policy uncertainty similar to the rise that occurred between 2006 and 2011 would reduce U.S. output by up to 2.3% over a year, cut private investment by 14% after three quarters and ax 1.5 million to 3 million jobs.
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President Harold T. Shapiro and Vivian Shapiro will host an informal reception to greet President-elect Shirley M. Caldwell Tilghman on the south lawn of the Frist Campus Center on Sunday, May 6, from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.
In a message to members of the Princeton community, Shapiro said, "I have known Shirley as a scientist whose research and scholarship are internationally recognized, as a distinguished teacher on campus, as an advocate for women and minorities as scientists, and as a highly respected national leader in areas of central concern to higher education and the world of scholarship. Most of all, however, I value knowing her as a friend."
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Family: Carcharhinidae, Requiem Sharks view all from this family
Description Moderately stout body, with short, rounded snout and triangular flaps of skin in front of the nares. Large oval eyes with a nictitating membrane (a protective third eyelid). Furrows at the corners of the mouth extending onto both jaws. Tooth rows number 41–55 in the upper jaw and 34–45 in the lower jaw; each tooth slightly oblique, with smooth-edged cusp in center, 1–2 small cusplets on each side. Teeth are arranged into a flat, "pavement"-like surface with overlapping ridges.
Large first dorsal fin is approximately halfway between pectoral and pelvic fins; second is almost as large as the first and much larger than the anal fin. Pectoral fins wide and triangular. Lower lobe of caudal fin is well-developed in adults but less than half the length of the upper lobe, which has strong ventral notch near the tip. Unique coloration, with prominent black "saddles" and large black spots running along the back, on a silvery to bronzy gray background. The underside is plain, whitish. Adult sharks often have more spots and saddles with lighter centers compared to juveniles.
Dimensions Up to 6'6" (2 m).
Related Species Grey and brown smoothhounds.
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Ocean or bay shallows.
Range California, Northwest.
Discussion Pose almost no danger to humans. Species is caught by commercial fisheries and by recreational anglers and spearfishers. Is prized by the aquarium trade for its attractive appearance and hardiness; may live for over 20 years in captivity.


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Which do you see as the bigger issue for sportsman?
Issues such as from Kevin's thread about "U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (D- CA) toppled Representative John Dingell (D- MI) as Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee." which raises concerns about 2nd amendment / increased gun control.
Or do you see it from standpoint of loss / damage to our wild places? Such as this article: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/georg...gislation.html
I apologize, I first saw it in Newsweek but couldn't find the article back when I had time to post here.


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I agree with you on censorship as a general principle. Absolutely. I have about as extreme a position on censorship as you can have. I just think it's easy for someone to come along and say that obscenity is immoral just as murder is immoral. That's why I think it's so important to keep religion out of public life as much as possible. It protects people from religion based appeals of this kind. Challenges made on behalf of the standards of decency and decorum of any religion should be immediately denied on that basis, imo.
This is a subject Ive thought about for awhile now and all Ive done is mess around in this thread. Time to vent a bit. This is all my personal opinion so Im not going to bother looking up studies and articles Ive come across.
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Much about this bill and what is represents bothers me. While I have no doubt many on here feel that way about other bills(and I have no doubt some feel that way concerning any bill), the goals, practical expectations, and reasons for the bill to exist at all bother me.
Anytime anything happens at all people attempt to deflect the blame onto other parties. Its lead to some fairly hideous resolutions yet we continue to do it. In this case, entertainment takes the fall. Society has forever been a convenient scapegoat for those who, in my opinion, cannot take responsibility for their actions and inactions. Is it easier deal with the child you just caught having sex and talk to them about the incident or is it easier to blame MTV for their rap videos and write a letter to a Congressmen you didnt vote for because you forgot about the election?
History has shown this scapegoat tendency to be false repeatedly over the ages. As I mentioned earlier, The Catcher in the Rye has been blamed for assassination attempts and The Beggars Opera was blamed for an increase of crime in England. There are countless other examples. Regardless of how illogical is it to blame a book for an individuals decision to commit crime, the book in question is the one that gets banned. Later, in America at least, we inevitably unban it only to later ban something similar, thus continuing the cycle. At what point do we stop repeating history? At what point do we stop making the same mistakes over again?
Practically, this bill is absurd. Disturbed Shifty hit the nail on the head. The vast majority of the research on entertainment leading to violence has shown that family and friends influence behavior far more than outside sources. A child who has engaged and encouraging parents functions better then a child with negligent parents. A child who is emotionally stable is able to put things into perspective in ways a child who is unstable cannot. If a childs parents beat them, then they are much more likely to develop long term issues that could lead to aggression. If a childs parents neglect them or ignore bad behavior, they are more likely to indulge in negative tendencies.
Logically this restriction doesnt make any sense either. Because our glorious politicians have seen fit to link the two vastly different subjects, Ill do the same. Everyone agrees that there are gun owners who are responsible human beings and have no intention of committing any crimes whatsoever. I dont think its an exaggeration to say most gun owners are responsible. And for that reason we cannot ban weapons because it would harm legal owners who have done nothing wrong. To put forward a ban, or even restriction, on video games suggests that people cant play them responsible. It suggests that a majority of responsible gamers should be punished because of a minority of irresponsible gamers. Im sure everyone here sees the utter hypocrisy of such a stance, not to mention to idiocy of it.
That point leads directly to, what has been for me at least, the biggest elephant in the room:if we cannot use video games responsible how in the hell can we be trusted to use firearms responsible?
Games have evolved. I recall a decade ago I was of the opinion that games were not art. They had done little to earn that description. Granted, even 10 or 15 years ago various companies made interesting visual depictions, but the games didnt evoke any sort of emotional response other than that of competitiveness. They didnt require deep thought or introspection, they hardly spoke to our philosophical ponderings. Largely, plot was used only as a justification for lining up crowds of enemies to slaughter.
Times have changed. While there is no shortage of titles that can be described as I previously stated, more and more games are having to develop engaging stories, if only to compete with their competition. Even heavy hitters such as the Halo series, hardly known for its story writing, adapted to the new demand. As a teenager I was forced to volunteer(the irony of that statement isnt lost upon me) at a Alzheimers clinic. Recently while playing Halo 4, I was startled by how utterly familiar one of the characters slide towards insanity sounded. Difficulty completing sentences, violent outbursts, inconsolable depression, floods of apologizes, inability to understand where they were .it was remarkably moving and, as I found my time working with the Alzheimers victims terrifying, briefly alarming. I could go on with other examples, such as how exceptional Max Payne 2s noir love story was or how fascinating it was to watch Assassins Creed 3s uncompromising character in a complex time period, but the point remains that games have in fact evolved into a form of art. Despite being a year of AAA titles, games with little to no combat like Journey or The Walking Dead won recognition and acclaim in the various game of the year awards.
How is this different then the attack against the second amendment? While cases and legislation rise up from time to time, and they almost always include the previous arguments concerning the faults and indecencies of our current society, we largely have a consensus on the first amendment and the reasoning is fairly obvious and sound. Almost everything is allowed, no child porn. We have yet to reach such a consensus concerning the second amendment. What exactly does the language allow and not allow? What were the founders intent? Is it still valid because muskets are obsolete and technology has advances in ways they couldnt have foreseen? What constitutes self-defense? Etc, etc, etc.
You can ask 10 different people those 4 questions and, as the Trayvon Martin case has shown us, get 24 different answers. The fact of the matter is, most people already agree there are bans on the second amendment. And they wouldnt agree to lift those bans if they thought about it. You have the right to protect yourself, but you do not have the right to use explosives. You can defend your property, but you cannot use surface to air weaponry. You can defend your family, but you cannot unleash biological agents. Those who want to ban assault rifles and other dangerous weaponry simply want to move the bar slightly more to the left. You can still defend yourself, your property, your family, and we can all continue to live up to the second amendment. Hardly the knife through lady liberties pet bald eagle that many make it out to be.
Only the Alex Jones types, what I personally consider the fringe, see the situation differently. They dont simply want the ability to defend themselves from criminals. They see the situation as a full blown arms race against inevitably government takeover. They see themselves as the last vanguard of liberty. And not only are those of us who arent with them against them, we must also have a seething hatred of freedom. The logic behind this type of personality amuses me for many reasons, but 2 come to the top. 1) I imagine they would endeavor to save children when fighting against the government. So: in order to be prepared to protect innocent children in the future, they must keep their weapons at the ready while allowing innocent children to die in the present. 2) They see themselves in an arms race against a nuclear superpower. Good luck with that.
Now that Im at the end of it, this post was longer then I intended(founder-style). In the end, all of what I wrote is irrelevant. The Supreme Court has already ruled on a video game restriction and found it unconstitutional. With a firm 7-2 previous ruling, I feel confident they wont reverse course anytime soon. Suck it congress and a special middle finger to Obama for reopening this door.
I don't think Semi-Automatic weapon ownership is as fringe as you might think Spesh. Apparently about 20% of Americans owns some form of semi-automatic weapon (about the same percentage of Americans who smoke pot, give or take). I also don't think there's as much the consensus you believe there to be on this issue as well; the latest CNN poll shows 62% of Americans currently favor a ban on semi-automatic weapons (probably comparable to the percentage of people who support the drug-war), & 38% disapprove. There's a large enough consensus on rgp's, there's a large enough consensus on explosives, but it's perfectly apparent there's no such consensus on Semi-Auto's.
The problem I have is that people automatically associate a ban on something to be an end-all solution to the problem, when I don't believe that to be the case. I guarantee that 20% of 300 million people is a large enough market to justify the rise of illegal gun-cartels. To say that demand will disappear just because guns aren't consumable is to say there wouldn't be/isn't a steady demand for cars or dish-washers. Demand is demand.
I had an easier time in highschool buying a number of illegal drugs than I did buying alcohol from a licensed establishment. Know why there's no black-market for alcohol? Because it's legal; there's no financial incentive. As you know the CT shooter was denied when he attempted to buy guns; what if the purchasing of semi-auto's on the black-market becomes comparable to how hard it is to find pot or cocaine (not hard at all)? These people won't be checking id's & running mental health screenings.
I don't own a semi-automatic rifle, nor do I believe Obama is going to 'take over' (though I will say the man you answer to today may not be the man you have to answer to 20 years from now), so I don't have any vested emotional interest in seeing these things not banned. We both want to limit availability of these guns to mentally imbalanced people, we just have different opinions on how to go about it.
Awesome retort Rob....just awesome
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
We agree to disagree on the ban leading to a thriving black market. No doubt there will always be some supply and demand towards illegal substances. But guns, outside of ammunition, by and large do not have the repeat spending quality that drugs do. Once you have one you have it. As well, i would hope all law abiding citizens that hope to acquire protection would just go buy one of the non-banned weapons. Not to mention guns lack the addictive(for some, not all drugs) qualities that make selling drugs such a profit.
Again, as you indicated, we already have bans in place and most people agree with them. There isnt a thriving black market for explosive devices, despite the fact that they are infinitly easier to make than weapons. Flame throwers are another easy to make and (largely) illegal weapon, but i havent heard anything about rampant usage. By all accounts, if we make some weapons illegal and keep some "common sense" weapons(i personally define as appropriate for hunting, sport, and protection) legal then its much more likely that people will gravitate towards the legal weapons.
It might not prevent mass shootings, but the ones that do occur wont have casualties into the 70's like Aurora. Australia banned assault rifles at roughly the same time we did. Their law was much tougher and they made an effort to buy back the weapons from their citizens. So far, mass shootings have virtually disappeared there and i havent heard anything about a increase of black market activity, though its not something ive looked into.
And yes, there is alot we both agree on concerning background checks and mental health issues. Ive found my views to be relatively mild compared to some on here, almost "in the middle" when debates have occured. I think ive only suggested it and not outright stated it, so: all the gun ban proposals that have been listed so far are crap. They will not do anything. Obama has declared he wants a reinstatement of the Clinton era gun ban. It didnt work. The provisions in it were absolutely laughable. 18 guns were banned under that. 18. Oh, and you could still sell them. Hilarious. I want a tougher law that actually addresses the problem, not a face saving measure from Obama. If the choice is between getting a bad bill or getting no bill, i'd vote for no bill, in this case at least.
At the end of the day though, i still stand behind my view on the issue i posted about in my thesis paper above: restricting video games sales is damned silly for a plethora of reasons.


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More than 380 students from 34 schools and 11 school districts will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 19, in the Osterhout Concert Theater of the Anderson Center at Binghamton University for the 27th annual Poetry and the Children Day.
The program, which brings students together for a day of poetry readings, was established as a memorial to Robert Pawlikowski. A published poet, creative writing instructor and campus administrative assistant, Pawlikowski drowned in 1975 while on vacation with his family.
The event is a tribute to the efforts that Pawlikowski made during his lifetime in nurturing the expressive and intellectual powers of his students as well as those of his own children.
This year's guest poet will be Jane Alberdeston Coralin, whose work has been published in literary magazines and poetry anthologies throughout the United States and Canada. She has performed her work at arts events and mentored writers' workshops at schools throughout the East coast, and is the author of Waters of My Thirst and The AfroTaina Dreams. She is currently working on a poetry manuscript, Songs of a Daughter's Make Believe.
Alberdeston Coralin will begin her doctoral studies in English at BU this fall.
After the opening presentation, students will present their poems in the Lecture Hall. Partially underwritten by the Oakdale Mall and Susan Clark-Johnson, an anthology is prepared by the Office of the Dean of Harpur College and distributed to teachers and local libraries. Clark-Johnson is a 1967 Binghamton University graduate and former publisher of the Binghamton Evening Press, the predecessor to the Binghamton Press & Sun- Bulletin.


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While I keep a LiveJournal diary, I don't want to fill it with geek content since it doesn't mostly have geek readers. So I thought I'd move that sort of thing to here.
I've been trying to find a way to back up my system onto multiple CD-Rs. Several people have basically told me that every solution out there is woefully inadequate, no-one has suggested anything good, and my searches haven't found anything good. I got quite interested in DAR for a while, but in practice its multi-archive handling is too far from the Good Thing to be worth the bother.
I've been thinking about what the Right Thing should look like. One thing it should be able to do is write each "slice" to a pipe rather than a file. This is more general than calling a hook after a slice is complete; you catch the "beginning-of-slice" as well as "end-of-slice" events, you can do arbitrary processing on the content, and you get to stop and start the archive writing process with simple flow control.
Reading the "afio" manual page, many of the options could be removed if this were possible. I sent some mail about this to the DAR maintainer; here's my discussion about how this feature could help you do backups if you've only the disk space to store a little over one slice at a time
Isn't using flow control much simpler? It would be very easy to write another general tool that takes a filename on the command line, and writes stdin to that file, and when a write fails because the disk is full, it waits a little while and tries again. dar (or dar_xform) would write to this process. If the disk filled up, dar would simply block during a write to the pipe, because pipes are flow controlled.
While dar is blocked, another process might be busy taking a completed slice file and writing it to CD, deleting it once it's written and verified.
Once the old slice has been deleted, space will appear, and the writing of the new slice will start to work again. dar won't even notice that there was a pause, and no signals-related complexity is needed.
And all of this happens outside dar itself. In accord with the UNIX philosophy, a whole lot of tools that do one thing well come together to perform a more complex task in a very configurable way. All of this is only possible with the "pipes" approach.


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Join the Group to Preserve the Historic Grant Road Open Space!
Original post made by Daniel Mart, Cuesta Park, on Mar 21, 2009
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E-mail city council; attend the meetings; call the city clerk; make your voice heard!
The fight to keep most or all of the historic century-old 15-acre open space on Grant Road in Mountain View, California from becoming housing! The proposal to develop the area had passed council back in 2007, but as history has shown, a go-ahead from the city does not necessarily mean that a project will go on as originally planned.
From an online report in 2007:
"On June 5, Council directed staff to proceed with the annexation of the Grant Road property under the existing residential R1-8 pre-zoning. The vote was 6-1 with Ronit Bryant voting no. She favored further study of alternatives through a precise plan. This vote pretty much eliminates the possibility of a keeping a farm at this site, and unfortunately this MV landmark will be replaced entirely with new houses and streets. We wish Council could have at least allowed Planning Staff to evaluate our proposal."
Did you know that the Santa Clara Valley — California in general — has the richest/best soil in America?
Any local open space is always worth preserving, especially now, when more and more is unfortunately vanishing.
If you care about the well-being of this planet, the environment and our future, then we strongly urge you to become involved!
Yes, this is about preserving a valuable asset to our community. But, in a way, it is also about more than that. It is about making people aware of the environment, sustainability, and how and why it needs to be protected for future generations, and for the good of ourselves as a society and as a planet.
In that case, we do not just need support from the community of Mountain View; rather, we need support from surrounding communities; from other cities, and perhaps other states. People need to realize that the environment -- our environment -- is so very precious, and so vital to our existence and where we come from, and with every parcel of farmland/open space destroyed, we are killing ourselves and our future faster and faster. With every new farm paved over, we are cutting ourselves off further and further; not only from history, but also from our food sources. As a result, we become even more dependent on long distance, energy-wasting imported food from other parts of the globe.
When you go outside and stand in an open meadow or field, with the sun shining down and the wind in your face, ask yourself this: "are material things really that much greater than the experience I am having right now?" Are these precious acres of land not living historical reminders of who we are, what once was, and what can be again?
In late-2008, on the way home from a basketball game, I passed by the historic field; the entire space a bright green and yellow, underneath a beautiful stormy sky, with a slight hint of mist and showers. The scene was so incredibly gorgeous; yellow was as far as the eye could see. We have this precious and historic slice of Americana and untouched wild nature in Mountain View; why destroy it? Why ruin this unique wilderness? In fact, ever since 2007, when the space ceased to become a working farm, a number of families have ridden their bikes through the area; others have pulled their cars up alongside of it, just to get out and observe this precious gem with wonderment and awe.
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a resident of Monta Loma
on Mar 21, 2009 at 2:10 pm
If you use the power of zoning to deny the owners' plan for the land, how are you not effectively stealing the land from them? What about working with one of the existing conservation organizations to offer to buy a conservation easement on part of the land?
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
This cause is basically for the council to do something better, such as preserve at least part of it if not most if not all, which they have the power to do. To use the excuse that we should leave it alone since others own the space is to say that we are perfectly alright if private owners of every open space -- or even owners of much larger parcels, such as park serices -- suddenly decide overnight to just develop everything.
This is an etremely, extremely naive mindset to have.
a resident of Waverly Park
on Mar 21, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Daniel, I agree with you, but we went through this back in 2007, just before the owners asked the Schmitz family to stop farming the plot. There was a plan presented to the City Council that preserved about 5 acres of the farm. The group involved was knowledgeable, organized, and was headed by someone very experienced in working open-space preservation. The Council voted it down after hearing from many dozens of citizens on both sides of the issue. Not a snowball's chance, as they say. The pro-farm people made all the arguments you make and more, and very convincingly, but to no avail.
Google "Mountain View Farmlands Grant Road Farm" and you can find lots of newspaper articles about it.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 21, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
I know ... but, history has shown that things can change, even after any city council already votes ... I am not giving up, and only wish that the farmland campaign would've continued even after the vote in '07. People should not ever give up.
Look through history invollving activism issues, and you'll see what I mean. The campaign to preserve the open space should have done more extreme things; nothing that'd exceed common sense, of course, but still a lot mor pro-active.
People in this country need to learn to be pro-active.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Mar 21, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Its the owners land to do what ever they want to do.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 21, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
Re-read my reply above
a resident of Monta Loma
on Mar 21, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Is this really all about saving the environment? There is plenty of open space in our area (not subject to the level of property taxes that the owners of this parcel are paying) and a working farm is not nearly as environmentally friendly as you might think.
Isn't it really about how nice it would be to have an open space in the neighborhood, with maybe a storybook farm. There's nothing wrong with wanting that, but don't fool yourself that you're doing something to save the environment. And if what you really want is the nice experience of open space in your neighborhood how badly do you want it if you're not willing to compensate the owners.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 21, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
The environment is not the foremost issue here; the foremost issue is that at least part of the space "can" be reserved as open space, if not all. For if we reach the point of vulnerabilty, where owners can buy any space and do with it what they please, then what does that say about us? I keep on hearing the "compensate the owners" topic; well, you didn't respond to the main point in my last post; a point that clearly is more important than how much money is paid out.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Mar 21, 2009 at 11:02 pm
They didn't buy the space having in mind doing anything they pleased with it. They are two old ladies and the farm has been in their family for a long time, longer than any of us have been around. They pay heavy property taxes on the land.
Yes, it's a shame to lose this open land, but why are people in our society so ethically bankrupt that they don't even realize it when they are stealing? Want to keep it as open land -- great! -- make sure to compensate the owners. If you aren't willing to do that, you don't really care as much about preserving this open space as you say you do.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 21, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
Why should their age matter? We're not saying that they're mean or anything; it's all about making people aware that there are alternatives to pave over a 15 acre open space, as in designating at least part of it as natural wilderness ... that's why it was so baffling that some people were against an organic farm; their dumb traffic excuse wasn't even stated in the EIR; it was covered, but I couldn't find anything to back up their traffic claims.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 21, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
Basically, the space is just an eyesore to them, and they want it gone.
a resident of another community
on Mar 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Daniel, as soon as you offer up your own home to be bulldozed (at your expense) and dedicated as open space, I'll join your cause.
As an alternative, you can do what has happened with much of our local open space-- BUY it.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 22, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
You're ignoring my main points here.
a resident of another community
on Mar 22, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Your main points appear to be touting an imagined 'history' on a pseudo farm and taking away the assets of others. What am I missing?
Explain to me how a site that has been plowed over a million times during its days as a hobby farm is a "natural wilderness"
I know a guy that rents bulldozers.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 22, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
You're reaching for air and you know it; I'm not even gonna respond to this ... take an intro to environmental studies course.
a resident of another community
on Mar 22, 2009 at 10:09 pm
If you had a real argument, you'd respond. Take a class in property rights, economics, and history (the latter so you'll know what 'history' actually is!)
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 22, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
I have taken classes, and often times, in cases such as this, common sense take precedance over any written law. Of course, you disagree, so I'll leave it at that; LMK that this mindset is an extremely dangerous one to have.
a resident of another community
on Mar 22, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I continue to await a coherent factual arguement from you.
How do you justify the seizure of private property with no significance except sentiment for the fiberglass pumpkin? When can we seize yours?
How is a small former pumpkin store on a busy street "historic"?
How is a former parking lot/pumpkin store a natural wilderness?
WHOSE "common sense" shall usurp the law? If you wont defend or even clearly outline your position, I'm dubious that yours should be the benchmark
I look forward to your continued silence on these questions
a resident of Monta Loma
on Mar 22, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Check out these wonderful organizations that work to conserve land in the Bay Area by purchasing parcels and easements:
* Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) - Web Link
* Sempervirens Fund - Web Link
* Silicon Valley Land Conservancy - Web Link
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 23, 2009 at 5:54 am
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
The space is roughly a century old ... you never responded to my analogy about park services, open space trusts, etc suddenly deciding to develop all their land tomorrow.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Mar 23, 2009 at 6:42 am
<i>you never responded to my analogy about park services, open space trusts, etc suddenly deciding to develop all their land tomorrow.</i>
Because it wasn't worth refuting. All of the open space trusts will not suddenly decide to develop all their land tomorrow. First of all, because the people running those organizations are self-selected conservations who just wouldn't do that. Second, because they'd get major lawsuits from their past contributors and members.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Mar 23, 2009 at 6:43 am
By the way, are you arguing against participating in open space trusts?
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 23, 2009 at 6:49 am
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
I wasn't asking if they would; I was asking what if they did. After all, it is their property. I mean, what is the extent here? If they didn't have donors, it'd be totally alright to just develop everything? If this is a fine lining, then it's an extremely unfortunate and ultimately dangerous one.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 23, 2009 at 6:53 am
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
No, and this is not even implying that I don't participate in trusts.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Mar 23, 2009 at 9:28 am
Yes, exactly. It's the conservation trusts' property, which is exactly why it is in safe hands and will be conserved. Contrast that with the Bureau of Land Management.
a resident of another community
on Mar 23, 2009 at 1:19 pm
"The space is roughly a century old"-- that makes no sense.
"... you never responded to my analogy about park services, open space trusts, etc suddenly deciding to develop all their land tomorrow."-- the PURPOSE of an open space trust is to, um, preserve open space. Most have in their charter a limited set of circumstances under which they could repurpose a given piece of property. If they raised money under the pretense of preserving open space, they have a contractual obligation to do so, under the terms of their charter. If they buy a development easement, they must follow the terms of the title restriction.
But what any of this has to do with privately owned land is beyond me.
a resident of Martens-Carmelita
on Mar 24, 2009 at 10:25 am
Robin is a registered user.
1. google "tax benefits farmland donation California 2009" and you will find tons of information about the SIGNIFICANT financial benefits available to farmland owners.
2. the MV City Council voted against allowing the Community Development Department to even LOOK AT the proposal from the Mountain View Farmlands Group. apparently the City Council members individually felt they had the expertise to make that decision without any input from their own planning staff.
3. never give up? after spending thousands of hours and hundreds of personal dollars to lobby council members who several times said it sounded like a great idea only to vote "no, we don't want to consider it"....think about it.
4. The Voice might want to consider doing an article on the numerous other unused/vacant/neglected properties in Mountain View owned by the Mardesich sisters (who moved away from Mountain View many years ago), such as the site of the old Foster Freeze on El Camino (can you say "eyesore"?) and the empty lot on Bush Street.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 24, 2009 at 10:31 am
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
Sounds as if they were just as naive and developer-friendly as San Jose's old city council.
Things can change; we will never give up; the status quo must be altered.
a resident of Whisman Station
on Mar 25, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I would like to say that everyone here seems to care about the right, but diametrically opposed things. Private property rights and open space. I loved the pumpkin farm and will miss it greatly. I would ask each of us on here to think "if i inherited that land tomorrow, what would I REALLY do with it." I think the answer is maximize your return, i.e. sell it for the most money possible. Sure a nice little easement would help .05% but we all need to accept the "farm" is gone. And finally think about a farm in the real world - we would be debating the runoff of the chemicals required to really farm in this day and age. Let the owners develop the land with some local input and hope for some nice homes.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 25, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
If I inherited the land, I would keep it as open space; have a long-term, positive mindset, as opposed to short-term, monetary gain; thinking of what will contribute to positive ripple effects that in turn will contribute to the betterment of society.
Farming has also improved over the years ... organic farming with no harmful chemicals; in addition, growing things organically produces so much more fooc than traditional methods.
a resident of another community
on Mar 25, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Wow. You'd donate $10 Million dollars for the greater good.
Given that, the bulldozer to your house for parkland is a drop in the bucket. Do you want my buddy the equipment rental guy's phone number now.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 25, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 25, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Mind your own money and let these people do what ever they want to do with there land.
a resident of Martens-Carmelita
on Mar 25, 2009 at 10:31 pm
You want organic produce go to Whole Foods.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 25, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
Rather than answering specifics and addressing things, you and others use cop-outs (so, when I'm 60, I'll automatically become incopotent?) and fallacy-laden responses. I am not a naive human mean, nor do I have a negative bone in my body. What I am, and who I am, is somebody who can see what will benefit society in the long-term, past some man-made laws; somebody who sees the ongoing loss of romance in this country, and who knows that society might as well be dead without it; and finally, somebody who realizes, and has realized for many, many years now, the dangerous ability of the almighty dollar, and the hold that it can have on people.
There is much to be said for buying one album at a local record store, as opposed to two or three at Costco; the same analogy can be used for indie bookstores and restaurants. And while the same analogy cannot be used for any open space, the same "mindset" can.
And that to me is beautiful; it is what any community, big or small, should be about. It is romance; it is America; and it the hope for a better tomorrow.
a resident of another community
on Mar 26, 2009 at 10:47 am
Such substance to your arguement...
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Mar 26, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Holy Cow! eric and I actually agree on something.
a resident of Whisman Station
on Mar 26, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Daniel, I expect you to give up all your worldly possessions in the next 24 hours or admit you are a liar. You own a car, that is not good for the environment, and your house, tear it down and build a small park for your neighbors. You would NOT donate the land and what the heck does positive mindset for the long term even mean. Unless you are the author of "3 Cups of Tea." you do not have a leg to stand on.
What color is the sky in your world Daniel?
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 29, 2009 at 11:13 am
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
If you can't understand, I don't wanna waste my time explaining it.
a resident of Whisman Station
on Mar 30, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Oh, we understand you all too well, Daniel, all too well.
And that's why we'll fight you to the end to stop you and your "romanticist" friends from employing emotional subjective arguments to confiscate private property.
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Mar 30, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Daniel Mart is a registered user.
<sigh> I never said to definitely confiscate the whole property; they sold it, and they have a right, but ... I'm not gonna reiterate my points over and over again. If you aren't willing to understand/accept them, then be quiet. Or just move to another city.
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5.6: Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis
"I shall consider this paper an essay in geopoetry..."
"...In order not to travel any further into the realm of fantasy than is absolutely necessary I shall hold as closely as possibly to a uniformitarian approach…" - Harry Hammond Hess, "History of Ocean Basins," 1962
It all came together in the early 1960s. A number of scientists put the evidence together and concluded that mantle convection drove a process they called seafloor spreading. New seafloor was continually being created at mid-ocean ridges. Old seafloor was being destroyed at deep-sea trenches. This was the mechanism that drove continental drift.
An Essay in Geopoetry
Harry Hess was a geology professor and a naval officer who commanded an attack transport ship during WWII. Like other ships, Hess's ship had echo sounders that mapped the seafloor. Hess discovered hundreds of flat-topped mountains in the Pacific that he gave the name guyot. He puzzled at what could have formed mountains that appeared to be eroded at the top but were more than a mile beneath the sea surface. Hess also noticed trenches that were as much as 7 miles deep.
Meanwhile, other scientists like Bruce Heezen discovered the underwater mountain range they called the Great Global Rift. Although the rift was mostly in the deep sea, it occasionally came close to land. These scientists thought the rift was a set of breaks in Earth's crust. The final piece that was needed was the work of Vine and Matthews, who had discovered the bands of alternating magnetic polarity in the seafloor symmetrically about the rift.
Seafloor Spreading
The features of the seafloor and the patterns of magnetic polarity symmetrically about the mid-ocean ridges were the pieces that Hess needed. He resurrected Wegener's continental drift hypothesis and also the mantle convection idea of Holmes.
Hess wrote that hot magma rose up into the rift valley at the mid-ocean ridges. The lava oozed up and forced the existing seafloor away from the rift in opposite directions. Since magnetite crystals point in the direction of the magnetic north pole as the lava cools, the different stripes of magnetic polarity revealed the different ages of the seafloor. The seafloor at the ridge is from the Brunhes normal; beyond that is basalt from the Matuyama reverse; and beyond that from the Gauss normal. Hess called this idea seafloor spreading.
Magma at the mid-ocean ridge creates new seafloor.
These animations show the creation of magnetic stripes of normal and reversed polarity at a mid-ocean ridge: http://www.nature.nps.gov/GEOLOGY/usgsnps/animate/A49.gif and http://www.nature.nps.gov/GEOLOGY/usgsnps/animate/A55.gif.
Since new oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges, either Earth is getting bigger (which it is not) or oceanic crust must be destroyed somewhere. Since the oldest oceanic crust was found at the edges of the trenches, Hess hypothesized that the seafloor subducts into Earth's interior at the trenches to be recycled in the mantle.
- As oceanic crust forms and spreads, moving away from the ridge crest, it pushes the continent away from the ridge axis.
- If the oceanic crust reaches a deep sea trench, it sinks into the trench and is lost into the mantle.
- The oldest crust is coldest and lies deepest in the ocean because it is less buoyant than the hot new crust.
Hess could also use seafloor spreading to explain the flat topped guyots. He suggested that they were once active volcanoes that were exposed to erosion above sea level. As the seafloor they sat on moved away from the ridge, the crust on which they sat become less buoyant and the guyots moved deeper beneath sea level.
The Mechanism for Continental Drift
Seafloor spreading is the mechanism for Wegener's drifting continents. Convection currents within the mantle take the continents on a conveyor-belt ride of oceanic crust that, over millions of years, takes them around the planet's surface. The spreading plate takes along any continent that rides on it.
Seafloor spreading is the topic of this Discovery Education video: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1595570/5390151.
The history of the seafloor spreading hypothesis and the evidence that was collected to develop it are the subject of this video (3a): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CsTTmvX6mc&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-2 (8:05).
- Seafloor spreading wedded together the mantle convection idea of Holmes, the continental drift idea of Wegener, new bathymetric and magnetic data from the seafloor, and made a coherent single idea.
- Harry Hess called his idea "an essay in geopoetry," possibly because so many ideas fit together so well, or more likely because at the time he didn't have all the seafloor data he needed for evidence.
- Seafloor spreading is the mechanism for the drifting continents.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. Where does seafloor spreading occur?
2. What is the average elevation of the ocean ridges?
3. What are the characteristics of the seafloor near these ridges?
4. Explain why a ridge exists.
5. How fast is the spreading occurring?
1. How does the pattern of magnetic stripes give evidence for seafloor spreading?
2. How does the topography of the seafloor give evidence for seafloor spreading?
3. How does seafloor spreading fit into the idea that continents move about on Earth's surface?
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Description SPRING MALE Has blackish back and wings, except for broad, white wing panel. Rump is yellow and dark tail has white marginal band towards middle. Blackish nape links to mask above which is white supercilium and blue-gray crown. Underparts are mostly bright yellow with black chest band and streaks from chest band to flanks; undertail coverts are white. SPRING FEMALE Similar, but black elements of body plumage are gray or much duller black. FALL ADULT Recalls spring female, but lacks white supercilium; has two white wing bars. IMMATURE Less colorful than fall adult, unstreaked below.
Dimensions Length: 5" (13 cm)
Habitat Fairly common summer visitor (mainly Jun-Aug) to northern mixed coniferous forests. Winters in Central America.
Observation Tips Easy to see.
Range Alaska, California, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Rocky Mountains, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Plains, New England, Southeast, Southwest, Great Lakes, Northwest
Voice Song is a whistled swee-swee-swee-sweep; call is a thin tzic.
Discussion Colorful wood-warbler with diagnostic tail underside: white with broad, dark tip. Often feeds at low levels. Sexes are dissimilar.


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JOPLIN, MO. (Oct. 9, 12:50 p.m. ET) — Tamko Building Products Inc. has added a key East Coast building products distributor for its Evergain Envision bonded plastic composite decking and coextruded Marquee line of railing systems.
York, Pa.-based distributor Wolf — formerly Wolf Distributing Co. — announced Oct. 3 that those two Tamko product lines would be immediately available — with deliveries of one week or less guaranteed — in Wolf's distribution network that covers 19 eastern states. Wolf — founded in 1843 as a single lumber store — serves over 3,000 independent dealers.
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