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Timeline: Anatomy of a Tea Party Smear by the Democrat-Media Complex
posted at 12:28 pm on April 4, 2010 by directorblue
This article attempts to reconstruct the events of 3/20/2010, in which Congressional Democrats were reportedly harassed by Tea Party activists with racial and sexual slurs during their walks to and from the Capitol building. Reports that black Congressmen had been called the "n-word" and were spat upon spread into mainstream media reports within minutes.
3/20 14:30
At around 2:30pm, members of the House uncharacteristically walked from the Cannon Building to the Capitol in the middle of a massive Tea Party protest. Michelle Bachmann said this journey was unprecedented in her experience. She stated, "In three years I have never seen Nancy Pelosi cross the street, the way that you saw in that picture… They deliberately went through that crowd perhaps to try and incite something."
There were a variety of videotapes of the incident (for example, the walk to the Capitol is covered here and here, the walk from the Capitol here, here and here). Furthermore, as you can see above, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. appears to have videotaped the walk, presumably to catch protesters in the act of hurling racial slurs.
3/20 14:34
Lauren Victoria Burke, a self-described "unbought and unbossed" blogger reporting upon "the 42 members of the Congressional Black Caucus" tweets the first report of the use of the "n-word". @CrewOf42 is Burke's Twitter handle.
Her first tweet reporting the incident came at 2:34pm, just four minutes after — according to Cashill's timeline — the CBC departed the Cannon Building for the Capitol. @CrewOf42 tweeted that Rep. Carson said he'd been called the "N-word", the HuffPo DC bureau chief re-tweeted the news. There was no link and no attribution associated with this message.
Her tweet was posted from the web, which means she posted from either a high-powered smart-phone, a full-blown laptop or a desktop.
3/20 15:42
Lauren Burke posts the following on her blog.
Reps Andre Carson and John Lewis had racial epithets hurled at them while walking from the Cannon Building to the US Capitol to vote about 45 minutes ago. Andre Carson reported to me and several other journalists in the Speaker's Lobby off the House floor that he and Lewis were repeatedly called the N word while on the ir way to vote. About 300 demonstartors were yelling and waving signs outside the Longworth and Cannon House Office Buildings as GOP members made their way from a Caucus meeting in Cannon and Democratic members were leaving a meeting in Longworth.
Put simply, these were flat-out fabrications. If they were "repeatedly" slurred, why don't the tapes capture even one of the epithets? Andrew Breitbart has offered $100,000 to anyone if they can come up with audio proof — and there have been no takers.
3/20 16:36
According to Twitter's time-stamp, the original McClatchy article hits the web.
3/20 16:51
According to a screen-cap of the content management system provided by online editor Mark Seibel, McClatchy reporter William Douglas' original article was entered into the system.
Bill's first version of the story was posted at 5:01 p.m. (Eastern) Here it is in its entirety: "WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said Saturday that some demonstrators gathered outside the Capitol to protest the health care overhaul legislation called him "ni–er." [Ed: Redaction mine]
Lewis, a longtime civil rights activist who is head of the Congressional Black Caucus, said some demonstrators also spat on black members of Congress as they left the Capitol after meeting with President Barack Obama.
The claim could not immediately be confirmed."
3/20 16:56
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein breathlessly punches out a story advancing the allegations of rampant racial smears.
In just minutes, Stein cranks out a 400-word piece including interviews with Rep. James Clyburn and a staffer, has it edited and then posted.
First Posted: 03-20-10 04:56 PM
A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) had been spat on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a 'ni–er.' And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president's speech, shrugged off the incident… But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed…
3-20 17:12
McClatchy updates the article with version 2 of the story, according to Mark Seibel's CMS archive.
WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted the N-word Saturday at Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama in the 1960s, and shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, lawmakers said.
"They were shouting, sort of harassing," Lewis said. "But, it's okay, I've faced this before. It reminded me of the 60s. It was a lot of downright hate and anger and people being downright mean."
Lewis said he was leaving the Cannon office building when protesters shouted "Kill the bill, kill the bill," Lewis said.
"I said 'I'm for the bill, I support the bill, I'm voting for the bill," Lewis said.
A colleague who was accompanying Lewis said people in the crowd responded by saying "Kill the bill, then the N-word."
"It surprised me that people are so mean and we can't engage in a civil dialog and debate," Lewis said.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., said he was a few yards behind Lewis but distinctly heard the N-word shouted out.
"It was a chorus," Cleaver said. "In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff – they're being whipped up.. I decided I wouldn't be angry with any of them."
CNN reported that protestors inside the Capitol also used a slur to refer to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., an openly gay member of Congress.
In short, within 16 minutes, McClatchy's writer(s) added three interviews and a CNN report to the original story, whose allegations appear to be entirely false.
3/20 16:15
HuffPo editor Nico Pitney tweets several messages, one to Sam Stein reporting he "personally witnessed Barney Frank being called a "faggot," protesters then continued with lisp-heavy chants"; the other re-tweeting a Huffington Post message with the original allegations.
The latter message read "RT @huffingtonpost: Congressmen called 'ni**er,' 'faggot,' spat on by Tea Party protesters (with protest pics) http://bit.ly/aWAu0V".
03/20 17:19
McClatchy's Mark Seibel describes the posting of the third version of the story:
The second version, posted at 5:12 p.m., corrected when the incident had taken place (it was on the way to the Capitol that the n-word incident happened, not on the way back) and was nine graphs long. The last graph cited a CNN report on the Barney Frank incident. That citation was changed to HuffPost in version 4 at 5:19 p.m. after I was alerted by a Nico Pitney tweet.
As Jim Hoft and Kevin Jackson (author of The Big Black Lie) wrote several days ago:
The state-run media is now pushing their anti-tea party propaganda from sources at the anti-military Jew-hating conservative-hating Huffington Post. And, they're reporting this propaganda without a single piece of evidence.
At least one report said that it was "a chorus" of racist hatred. Another report said the Congressional members heard the n-word at least 15 times. Reporters from ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX News, (including Bill O'Reilly), MSNBC, and so on, repeated this horrible story.
Unfortunately, it was a fake. The media had no evidence… Nothing. As the story was a complete fabrication. It was totally made up.
In fact, several videos were later released that proved that there was no "chorus" of racist hatred and no one screamed the n-word. It was all a lie.
Democrats in Congress wanted to provoke a racial incident. That's why their media drones started tweeting word of the incident just seconds after their walk began.
And a state-run media complex — as liberal as the day is long — acted either as ignorant dupes or as active accomplices (take your pick) to market the scam.
From all appearances, this entire incident appears to have been scripted by Democrat representatives to provoke a racially divisive incident. But because the Tea Party movement is freedom-loving, it embraces all races, creeds, religions and colors. Because the freedom tent is the biggest tent of all. And the tyranny tent gets smaller by the day.
Update: Andrew Breitbart writes:
The Democratic Party is trying to signal to the black community and to progressive media types that the way to push back against the Tea Party and Republicans is to use the reliable race card by provoking a racial incident. The ensuing rhetoric about the bill and about the nature of the Tea Party is based upon repeated talking points. Propaganda. Everyone is on message that Republicans and Tea Partiers are racist — a divisive and dangerous argument, so lacking in any shred of evidence save for the fact that the majority in the Tea Party, as in America itself, is white. This is Duke lacrosse politics at its worst.
Those in the movement who are Hispanic or black are given the Clarence Thomas treatment: mocked, ridiculed and marginalized. The Democratic party cannot afford for minority groups to break from the pack, so they show that apostasy is met with high-grade ridicule. Those willing to withstand vile and hateful un-American taunts are some of America's greatest patriots…
…We've called their bluff. And they have tried to back off. They realize that this race warfare can backfire, just as it did with the railroaded Duke lacrosse players, as it did with professor Madonna Constantine and her faked noose incident at Columbia and the Sergeant Crowley boner by Barack Obama who stupidly said the white police officer had behaved "stupidly" in handcuffing Skip Gates.
The first Alinsky president is now using surrogates to split this nation into two hostile parties so he can puppeteer the have-nots against the perceived haves. The non-response to my $100k challenge is a tacit acknowledgement that the Congressional Black Caucus and Barack Obama don't have the stomach for doubling down.
The other part of the strategy that is built into the N-Word Capitol Hill Walk is the strategy to incite. The media is doing their job for them by speaking of an unhinged white Tea Party mob. Absent any evidence other than creatively selected hand-crafted signs from the fringe of the audience that are presented to represent the whole, the media is simply repeating assumptions that Democrats and media elites have against fly-over types. What we have here is hardcore media elitism mixed with politically correct class warfare.
Cross-posted at: Doug Ross @ Journal.
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Parents are getting better about making sure their children receive all the vaccines they need, but some still worry about side effects. A new study may help relieve some of those concerns.
A systematic review of research on vaccine safety, published online July 1 in the journal Pediatrics, updates a 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the safety of vaccines recommended for children aged six years and younger. The study is part of a larger report on the safety of vaccines for adults, adolescents and children requested by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Researchers found that side effects from childhood vaccines are rare. They also noted no ties between the vaccines to autism or childhood leukemia.
The researchers did find that some vaccines did cause a few adverse effects but it was only for a tiny fraction of the population.
There was evidence that the meningococcal vaccine can lead to anaphylaxis -- a severe, whole-body allergic reaction -- in children allergic to ingredients in the vaccine. Other studies found the MMR vaccine was linked to seizures.
The majority of child health care experts agree that the positive effects outweigh the bad.
An editorial accompanying the study calls vaccines "one of the most successful public health achievements of the 20th century."
In countries that promote childhood vaccinations, diseases that formerly killed or injured children have all but been eliminated.
"There were good reasons that these diseases were targeted for vaccine development since they are so life-threatening," said Carrie Byington, M.D., vice-chair for research in the University of Utah's pediatrics department, and the new chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on infectious diseases.
A vaccine for smallpox led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to declare the disease eradicated in 1978. Prior to a vaccination for diphtheria, it was one of the most common causes of illness and death among children. Now it is rarely reported in the United States.
If you have any concerns about the vaccines your child is scheduled to receive, discuss the possible side effects with your pediatrician or family physician.
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Skunk Fact Sheet
Two species of skunks occur in Georgia; the striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) and the Eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius). Skunks are members of the Family Mustelidae. Other Georgia Mustelidae family members include minks, weasels, and otters.
Striped Skunk
Commonly referred to as polecats, striped skunk are about the size of domestic house cats, measuring 21-28 inches in total length and weighing from 3-11 pounds. As one of the most recognizable mammals anywhere, striped skunks are known for their black fur and characteristic white stripes on their head and down their back. There is considerable variation in striping patterns including a broad stripe, narrow stripe, pair of stripes, or a short stripe. Coloration can vary as some striped skunks will have very little white while other are almost completely white.
Peak breeding activity for striped skunks occurs during February and March. Males are polygamous (having more than one mate at a time). As with most mustelids, delayed implantation occurs following breeding resulting in a synchrony of births during May and June after a 64-day gestation period. Litter sizes range from 2 - 10 skunks or "kittens" with six being the average size.
Eastern Spotted Skunk
Spotted skunks can also emit a putrid smell; hence the species name "putorius". Also referred to as civet cats, spotted skunks are considerably smaller than striped skunks measuring between 17 and 23 inches in length and weighing between 1 to 3 pounds. The black and white color is consistent with other skunks, however spotted skunks typically have horizontal white stripes on their neck and shoulders, irregular vertical and elongated spots on their sides, and white spots on the top of their head and between their eyes. In terms of color patterns, no two skunks seem to be the same.
Peak breeding activity for spotted skunks also occurs during February and March. Males are polygamous as well. Offspring are born in May, 50-65 days after implantation. Litters range between 1-6 "kittens" with an average litter size of four.
Skunks are perhaps most well known for their defense strategy. When confronted, striped skunks will face the threat, arch and elevate their tail, erect the tail hairs, chatter their teeth, and stomp the ground with their front feet. This warning usually convinces most to retreat, however if the threat remains the skunk will twist around, raise its tail straight up, and squeeze its anal glands spraying a foul secretion up to 15 feet away that may be detected up to a mile away. Spotted skunks will stand on their front feet and discharge their scent directly over their head. Contrary to popular myth, skunks can spray even when being held off the ground by its tail.
Most animals attempt to blend in to their environment for protection. However the unique and very noticeable contrasting coloration of skunks serves as sufficient warning to most would be mammalian predators. Great-horned owls, however, with their poorly developed sense of smell and nocturnal activities are a significant predator of skunks.
Striped Skunk
Striped skunks are the most common skunks both in Georgia and throughout the United States. They are found in a wide variety of habitats including forests, agriculture, and urban areas. Areas dominated by brush that are adjacent to grassy and forested areas (also known as edge habitat) are preferred habitat for this skunk. Although it may occasionally dig its own den, striped skunk will seek out shelter in crevices, abandoned burrows of other animals, hollow logs, or even underneath buildings or homes. During the winter they may den up in groups of several females with a single male.
Striped skunks eat a large amount of insects. Their diet includes a wide variety of beetles and their larvae, grasshoppers, crickets, earthworms, butterfly and moth larvae, spiders, snails, ants, bees and wasps, and crayfish. When insects are not available, their diet may shift to mice, vegetation, or ground nesting bird eggs.
Eastern Spotted Skunk
Spotted skunks are found in the more northern and eastern parts of Georgia as well as much of the Eastern United States. It is less common than striped skunks and occurs at considerably lower densities. Habitats they frequent include farmlands and other early successional areas with an abundance of "edge."
The diet of spotted skunks is more carnivorous than their striped cousins, feeding mainly on small mammals. They also eat grubs and other insects, as well as corn, grapes, and mulberries, and eggs.
Skunks are often considered nuisances, especially when they choose to den underneath homes, dig cone-shaped holes in yards looking for grubs, or simply the smell of their odor of being in the area. Making the area unattractive to skunks is one of the best ways to resolve nuisance issues. Steps to preventing nuisance skunk situations include: installing barriers to prevent skunks from getting underneath your home, not leaving pet food outside, removal of brush piles, and spraying your yard for grubs.
Skunks are a significant carrier of rabies in the United States. This status, as well as their propensity to use urbanized areas, makes them a serious potential source of human exposure to rabies. Other zoonotic diseases and parasites carried by skunks include leptospirosis and an intestinal roundworm--Baylisascaris columnaris. These diseases, in addition to distemper, canine hepatitis, fleas, ticks, lice, and mites can cause problems for pets as well.
Skunks are furbearers meaning they can be harvested for their fur. Historically their musk was used heavily in the perfume industry. Today, hunters and trappers do not typically target skunks but when caught, their fur is sold and used primarily in the trim trade.
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Theology, spirituality and ethics, a basis of the JRS mission
Two years ago at Boston College some leading members of JRS met together with moral and social theologians to see about building a bridge between theology and JRS.
Eventually a theologian simply asked, what can we concretely do? Each of us had read a number of JRS stories and someone simply suggested that maybe we could do short reflections on these stories.
But what would the agenda for these reflections be? It was one thing that we theologians reflect on these brief but very human and poignant stories, but what dimension of these narratives should we reflect upon? What would serve to connect all the stories and their reflections? What would be the glue to make them cohere?
Certainly, JRS had to set the agenda. Eventually it was proposed that we enter into the Strategic Framework 2012-2015 and use as our foundation the seven JRS values: compassion, hope, dignity, solidarity, hospitality, justice, and participation.
In turn, we selected, from among the many stories, seven that matched the JRS values. Then we gave to each of the seven theologians a specific value with its correlated story and asked for brief but hopefully very human and illuminating reflection.
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The Quest for Smoke Detection Perfection
An effort to reduce nuisance alarms and better detect smoldering fires has led to the development of a new type of algorithm-assisted alarm. Learn how the device differs from standard photoelectric and ionization devices and how it might advance life-safety measures.
Ion vs. Photoelectric: A Historical View
Smoke detection arrived in the United States in 1951 when Cerberus GmbH of Switzerland signed a contract with the manufacturer CO-Two for distribution of the Cerberus ionization smoke detector. Following is a partial historical account of fire detection development in the U.S. since then, including some key bulleted dates.
1958 — A fire at Our Lady of the Angels, a Catholic elementary school in Chicago, claimed the lives of 92 children and three teachers. The tragedy inspired a massive call for better and more sensitive fire detection.
1967 — The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) published a guide for residential fire detection, which recommended a heat detector in every room wired to a control panel. No mention of smoke detectors was made in the document.
1969 — BRK Electronics of Aurora, Ill., received a UL Listing for a battery-operated smoke detector (SS69H) utilizing a resistance-grid sensor and heat detectors. The device, which could be mounted on a wall or ceiling, was actually listed as a "control panel."
1970 — Statitrol Corp. developed and sold a battery-operated ionization smoke detector. This was followed by AC-operated photoelectric smoke detectors from Pyrotector and Electro Signal Labs (ESL).
1974 — NFPA 74 ("Standard on the Installation, Maintenance and Use of Household Fire Warning Equipment") was issued, opening the market for residential smoke detection with single-station detectors that no longer had to be wired to a control panel.
The ability to sell UL-Listed, single-station smoke detectors led to a flood of brands entering the market, including GE, Gillette, Norelco and First Alert. All of these products were ionization-type detectors. The percentage of homes outfitted with smoke detectors rocketed from a miniscule number in 1970 to greater than 50% by 1980.
The manufacturers of photoelectric type detectors were hungry to get a share of the market. Their approach: show that photo detectors are better at detecting smoldering fires. They did this by staging demonstrations where cotton was placed on a light bulb and allowed to smolder. Hence began the controversy between the two device types.
At the urging of many stakeholders in the 1970s, UL decided to combine the commercial test standards that governed ionization and photoelectric technologies. The objective was to combine UL 168 (Commercial Photoelectric Smoke Detectors) and UL 167 (Commercial Ionization Smoke Detectors) into one standard that would cover single and multiple-station detectors.
The toughest task was to include large-scale fire tests that both types of sensors could respond to within prescribed time limits. UL 168 had never had full-scale fire test requirements. The new standard was to be UL 217, Single and Multiple-station Smoke Alarms.
In 1974, UL ran fire tests to determine the ability of each type of detector to pass. Six test scenarios were attempted with different materials: shredded paper, polystyrene, gasoline, wood, cotton and polyurethane. Both types of sensors responded well enough to the polystyrene, gasoline and polyurethane fires; however, there were detection issues with the other three materials.
The conclusion, as reported by UL, was unambiguous: " … neither detector does well in all types of fires." This only added more proverbial fuel to the growing dispute between the technologies. Thus, the tests were significantly modified so that each type of technology could pass the shredded paper and wood brand tests. Doing so allowed one standard to be released with the understanding that "neither detector does well in all types of fires," according to a UL report.
Throughout the 1970s manufacturers of each technology battled for market share. White papers were published and skewed demonstrations performed. Lawsuits amounting to millions of dollars were pursued when smoke detectors did not "alarm fast enough." And most significantly, confusion reigned among the fire protection community as well as with end users.
The 1980s witnessed the release of a detector that had both an ionization sensor and a photoelectric sensor in one unit. It attempted to solve the controversy except that its high price point hampered the device's market share potential. Comparatively, by the late 1980s the basic ionization models had fallen below $10.
In the 1990s the requirements for a detector in each bedroom was added to UL 217, as well as the requirement that all hardwired detectors had to have battery backup. Still no one had developed an inexpensive detector that quickly detects both smoldering and flaming fires.
Among the objectives of a smoke characterization study conducted by UL in 2007 were to develop recommendations to UL 217 and allow for the development of new smoke-sensing technologies. As a result of UL's project, the following was identified for future consideration: "Requiring the use of combination ionization and photoelectric alarms for residential use in order to maximize responsiveness to a broad range of fires."
The reason for this recommendation was that "Some of the evaluated flaming and non-flaming test scenarios triggered one but not both photo and ion alarms within the alarm response time criteria specified in UL 217."
Hence, the controversy perpetuates today.
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If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its Unix core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Unix and Mac OS X are kissing cousins, but there are enough pitfalls and minefields in going from one to another that even a Unix guru can stumble, and most guides to Mac OS X are written for Mac aficionados. For a Unix developer, approaching Tiger from the Mac side is a bit like learning Russian by reading the Russian side of a Russian-English dictionary. Fortunately, O'Reilly has been the Unix authority for over 25 years, and in Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, that depth of understanding shows.This is the book for Mac command-line fans. Completely revised and updated to cover Mac OS X Tiger, this new edition helps you quickly and painlessly get acclimated with Tiger's familiar-yet foreign-Unix environment. Topics include:
Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, programmer, co-author of all editions of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, and co-author with Dave Taylor on the Jaguar and Panther editions of Learning Unix for Mac OS X. He's also a volunteer system administrator and all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work. These forums include galleries, performance space, and publications. Brian sees to it that technology, especially free software, supports that mission.
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Attachment Records
Series documents liens placed on real property by the county to satisfy debts. Attachments are ordered by the circuit court and authorize the sheriff to seize or transfer property to satisfy debts such as loans, mortgages, or tax liens. The sheriff will hold the property in trust until the debt is paid or the property is sold. Information includes defendant name, statement of attachment, property description, statement of return when attachment is satisfied, return of execution, dates attachment is issued and returned, court order, and sheriff's signature. Attachment records have been inventoried through 1920.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Mogilny, Apr 17, 2011.
I would love to get a guard like Vazquez in DET to play off the bench. I won't hold my breath.
Yea, don't do that. It could prove fatal, especially if you're really good at it.
Yep, that really hurt them. And I think Vasquez both got them back into the game and really hurt them in the subsequent overtimes. He couldn't run the offense and kept dribbling into the teeth of the defense again and again. He's a circus shot maker though.
Bynum suspended for 5 games for that flagrant on Barea. Lakers C Bynum suspended 5 games for Barea foul - NBA - Yahoo! Sports That's one vicious elbow.
If he had injured Barea enough that he had to miss the rest of the playoffs, I am sure that suspension would have been at least 10 games.
The Lakers are going to have a hard time closing this series out without Bynum for the next five games.
Hard to get ready for a game with empty lockers....
Westbrook doing his best supercollider impression to start the game off... Go Memphis! Memphis is what Detroit should be right now. Tough blue collar defensive minded... I want them to win it all.
Good effort by the Grizzlies, but the speed and shooting of Westbrook and Durant, along with the x factor play of harden and the defense of Perkins and Ibaka was to much for Zach's gang. Maybe Rudy Gay would have made a difference..???.. Anyway they gone fishing with Elvis....
This was a great series. The Grizz are for real, and finally there is some glimpse of success for that miserable franchise. The fans must be ecstatic.
I'm hoping for success for the Mavericks.......
Just think.....they survived losing the likes of Kevin Love, Pau Gasol, AI and Darko the last three years and still came within a game of getting into the WCF....
Dirk dropped 48 on the Thunder, including a playoff record 24 straight free throws. He was a perfect 24/24 from the line. The guy was unstoppable. If he keeps on playing like that there's no stopping Dallas. Almost every OKC player took a turn guarding, or rather failing to guard, Nowitzki. It was a brilliant performance. OKC is still dangerous as they scored a lot of points and Durant had 40. Still, go Dirk! So, I can choose a reeeeeeally nice avatar for CloudWalker.
48 points on 15 shot attempts??? That could be the most efficient scoring game of all time. Seems as though nobody has ever scored more points with 15 or fewer FGA. Dirk has peaked.
I know! This was by far the best I've seen him play in a long time. He kept on posting up and Dallas fed him the ball almost every posession. He was nothing short of brilliant.
Dirk averaged over 3 points per attempt without scoring a single 3 and he did it by shooting contested one-legged turnaround fadeaways instead of dunks and layups.
Seems to be the most efficient 40-point playoff game in NBA history.
He'll need a holiday named for him soon at this rate...
OKC evened the series at 1-1 last night. Dallas was off to a great start and up by 11, when Durant did this: Thunder vs. Mavericks | Western Conference Finals | 2011 NBA Playoffs | NBA.com Watch his head in the closeup. It is level with the hoop. That was dunking over 7' Haywood. After that OKC came alive and took the game. They did a good job defensively on Dirk, though he still played a very good game. The drama came in the second half where Westbrook did a few stupid things in the 3rd and coach smacked him and sat him down to send Eric Maynor in. Then in the 4th Scott Brooks proved that he had balls and Westbrook sat out the entire 4th period. The reserves were more than Dallas can handle though, especially Harden. Dallas can score certainly, but they have been unable to defend OKC. They need someone else to step up besides Nowitzki or they'll be coming home facing a 1-3 climb.
I always thought someone should do a dunk like that in the dunk contest... i.e. posterize the assistant.
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I lost over 30 lbs in high school, and have kept it off (with minor fluctations) ever since (it's been over 10 years now). I think the most important thing to remember is that if you want to look different, you really do have to incorporate different behavior. If you go on a "diet" to lose weight and then just immediately return to old habits, the weight will all come back. The changes I made were big, and many people would say, "I can't live like that." Well, sorry to say, but you have to decide which is more important to you: Looking and feeling good or eating without any guidelines whatsoever. Yeah, I don't keep junk in my house anymore and rarely ever bake, but I still indulge infrequently--and, more importantly, I look so much better than I did when I ate with abandon. To quote a favorite healthy lifestyle mantra that has helped me stick to it all these years, "Nothing tastes as good as confidence feels." I'll take fitting into the clothes that flatter my body best over any food on the planet.
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I've been doing art. All kinds of changes going on and the art still keeps going. So the other day I finally find the first two issues of Phaugy Dox and look through them and I still like them.
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I'm thinking maybe I need to do a zine about menopause...tried to find out if there were others who make zines who are going through this madness....I don't even know if it matters.
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It's been a busy few months since I was here last. I finished the second vol. of Phaugey Dox and they have since become part of a larger book.
A grand zine. I'm working on two at the moment. They have offered obsticals of how to put them together which I have solved by wrapping the folded edges to make the binding..
Evolution at work. I'm working on some papers which could be turned into individual zines at some point, but who's to say.
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Lakeland — It's time for Fire Prevention Week, and from October 6 - 12, 2013 the Lakeland Fire Department (LFD) is joining forces with the non-profit National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to remind local residents to 'Prevent Kitchen Fires.' During this year's fire safety campaign, firefighters and safety advocates will be spreading the word about the dangers of kitchen fires--most of which result from unattended cooking—and teaching local residents how to prevent kitchen fires from starting in the first place.
The week will culminate with the LFD hosting its 8th annual Open House event scheduled for October 12, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The entire community is invited to this FREE event where the department will feature live demonstrations, tours, refreshments, fire safety education for all ages, and much more.
Cooking is the leading cause of home fires. Two of every five home fires begin in the kitchen—more than any other place in the home. Cooking fires are also the leading cause of fire-related injuries in the home. "Often when we're called to a fire that started in the kitchen, the residents tell us that they only left the kitchen for a few minutes," said Janel Vasallo, Public Education and Information Officer for the LFD. "Sadly, that's all it takes for a dangerous fire to start. We hope that Fire Prevention Week and our Open House event will help us reach citizens in our community to prevent this from ever happening to them."
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Why yes. Thank you.
I will never understand the 'selfish' argument. Surely it's better to recognise that you aren't interested in having children than bring one into the world you're likely to resent or couldn't care for. That would be more selfish in my view.
The other argument thrown at those of us who don't want children is that we should think of all the people in the world who want them but can't have them. Obviously that is tragic and I feel for anyone who is unable to have children and wants them, but how would me having a child make that better?
Oh, and my other favourite (I'm on a roll here) is "But what if everyone felt the way you do?". Well, clearly they don't, so that is just irrelevant.
Reminds me of a doctor who told me, in relation to a 'female problem', that it would likely fix itself when I had children. My reply was "What's this 'when' business?". In fairness, he did correct himself. I've also since heard from many women that what he told me was a load of rubbish anyway.
He's only four months old. I did get lucky with a super happy, happy baby who hardly ever cries. It's just sooo overwhelming.
It is, Lanie. It gets easier when they get a bit older, hang in there.
I discovered at a young age that I had a talent for killing house plants. No way was I going to have a kid.
Lanie, I'm not a parent so my opinion maybe doesn't mean much but what I've observed is that the first couple of years is completely overwhelming. Especially for the first child it changes your life dramatically and as much as people say they're prepared, they never are. It seems to me that the parents that admit that it's hard and isn't always super awesome make the best parents though. I don't know you personally but of all my numerous new parent friends the ones that are honest about how hard things are seem to have the best grasp on parenthood, IMO. They're the ones that are least likely to lose their identities to their children and are most likely to take care of their own needs which directly benefits the child(ren). Hang in there.
Yes it is. I felt that every hour alone with baby took about 10 hours to elapse. Now he's happily watching calliou and I am having some mental space. Hang in there!
Hmm, yes, but people increasingly DO feel that way and there are implications, some of them rather dire, for society as we know it.
Which doesn't mean that people should have kids they don't want, just that I don't think the question is irrelevant philosophically .
Adding a second child when the first is six months old would exhaust anyone, and when you add financial challenges and being far from family to the mix Really lucky for the little guy that you took him in, but tough nonetheless. Is there a mom-group you could join to meet up with other moms for some social time for you at no cost?
I pretty routinely kill off plants, but it hasn't seemed to affect the mom instinct. And despite my kid being nearly done with college, I still have napkins, tissues and band-aids with me most of the time.
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Lanie - your baby is adorable, and healthy and you are a great mom. Don't let others tell you differently.
Well, as a kid, I played with dolls all the time, and loved it. I want to have kids, badly, but it's more of one of those "in the future, sometime" kind of things. I don't think most people who know me would describe me as particularly motherly; and I can't change a diaper or know shit about raising a child. All I know is that I really want to have a child at some point in my life, and would be very upset if I couldn't have one.
Now, that's just me, and I don't care what other people want or think
One of my close high school friends is very sure she does not want to have a child. She's married, and her husband feels the same way. However, she can't find a doctor who will tie her tubes because she will "change her mind".
But on the other side, what if everyone felt the way the Duggars did? It seems to me that this POV is also gaining in popularity among a certain segment of society. Luckily they balance each other out.
Which is why I don't understand the "not having kids is selfish" line of thought. I actually think HAVING kids is selfish particularly with our environment straining to contain the population we do have. I know I didn't have kids for any noble reason either. I had them because I wanted to. And I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. Or with not having them either.
(The only unselfish choice when it comes to kids is adopting one that no one else wants IMO.)
When it comes to kids, I think it's important to do what you want and not have them if you don't want them and to have them if you do because it serves no one to have kids if you don't want them or not have them if you do.
When asked if I have kids, I say "No. We rent." I've never met a parent who wouldn't happily part with theirs for a few hours, or even an overnight. So, we borrow children whenever we want to do something that might appeal to them.
Most people did what the Duggars do for most of history. It's likely that a lot of her children would have died early and/or she would have died in childbirth at some point and not had any more. So IMO, the number of children they have is more due to medical advances and better nutrition than them making a particular choice (even though it seems unnatural because of how society has changed).
IMO whether it's selfish depends on one's individual reasons. I will totally admit that my primary reason for not wanting kids is selfish - I don't want to take care of a person who's going to be totally dependent on me. It's too much work. Others decide not to have kids because as you said, they don't want to burden the environment or maybe they want to be in Drs without borders or something and don't think it'd be fair to drag the kid with them. My great-aunt desperately wanted children, but she became a nun and ran an orphanage instead, so she liked to say she could have had a couple of her own children, but instead she got to raise hundreds of children. That's unselfish.
And lots of people have children for very selfish reasons, so yeah, you can't judge it based on broad strokes.
It *is* overwhelming. It DOES get better. Of course there are phases. My lovely daughter had the terrible twos. and threes. and fours. . . and at 11 she still has her tantrum-y days (and likely will through adolescence!). But it DOES get better.
I try to keep in mind that families with multiple children can have their kids turn out as many ways as they have kids. I and my sisters are all different, but we're all functional members of society, so I feel like my parents succeeded. Then there are other families where a couple of kids will be stable and successful, another will be a traveling bohemian, another will be an addict and a wreck. Kids were all parented the same but turned out different.
It does get better but sometimes a kid and a parent have personalities that just don't mesh and that can be very hard.
Her husband ought to get the snip instead - it's a much less invasive surgery.
Well, no, they don't, because there are far, far more people not having children or having only one or two children than there are Duggars. The birth rate in US is, in spite of being the highest in the developed world, below replacement level.
Every nation on earth has a declining birth rate, including countries like India where the birth rate is still high. And the birth rate will continue to decline everywhere.
The environment can sustain the population just fine. It's our lifestyles that strain the environment.
Those of us who live in developed societies are about to get whacked with a major societal problem because of declining birth rates--high numbers of aged dependents and insufficient numbers of people in the work force to adequately support them. Right now, one of out of every five people in the world is over 60. By 2050, the ratio will be one in three, with most of those older people living in developed countries. By just 2035, the ratio of taxpayers to retirees in the US will be 2.5 to 1. By 2030, taxpayers in the US will have to pay 31.9% in taxes to support retirees at current rates, which isn't too bad really--in Japan, the rate will be 53.2% and in Italy, which has a very low birth rate, it will be 71.5%.
It's going to suck for the older people for a while but I think everything works better with less people on the earth.
And, no, we won't die out. These things go in cycles. At some point people will have more children because it's advantageous to do so. Also, at some point it all levels out. People have less and less children for a while but eventually it gets to a point where people are comfortable and they stop having less and less and just have the same.
Kind of like the divorce rate leveled out at 41% when people were predicting that by the year XXXX everyone will have been divorced at least once.
I think this is only partly true. It's expensive to have a child and I think there are a lot of people out there who think they cannot afford a child.
However, I also think that the declining birthrate is connected to women being able to say no these days while they didn't really have a choice a century ago. Women were expected to have children once they were married. I don't think the question of whether someone wanted to have a child or not never came up. But women's rights have changed, and children aren't needed to take care of their parents at old age anymore. So, now if you don't want a child, you can not have a child.
It's going to suck for EVERYONE, not just old people.
There are arguments that the world would be better off with less people, but again, population isn't the issue. If we all lived like New Yorkers, the world's population could fit in in Texas with a little overlap on other states. We have more food than we need and sufficient water for everyone. The issue isn't lack so much as distribution.
There are also arguments that the more people there are, the more human ingenuity we have to mine. And there's evidence for that, too.
Why would we?
Highly unlikely, actually, unless something throws society back into the Dark Ages. Declining and low birth rates are most closely correlated with education. The world hasn't had widespread education until recent times, and reliable birth control hasn't been around, either.
If there is a cycle of some kind, it is not yet apparent. There is, however, a very clear and predictable pattern of declining birth rates since the 1700s. And given that that birth rates can be controlled and access to natural resources is limited, I don't see any particular reason why people would suddenly start having children again. We need workers, but there is no particular need for children except as longterm future investment, which requires individuals to decide that the sacrifice for the greater good is worthwhile. I don't think it's likely. France, which recognized this all a long time ago, has the most overt pro-natal policies in the world, and their birth rate, while the highest in Europe, is lower than ours and still declining.
I'm not familiar with that prediction. The only prediction I know of was that over the course of a lifetime, 50% of all marriages in the US would end in divorce. And as nearly as most demographers can tell, given that the lifetime isn't over yet, that's going to be true. The current divorce rate is based on annual percentages, which has never been 50%, but the annual percentage doesn't have a lot to do with the lifetime percentage.
The one thing I really appreciate about FSU is there are so many open minded people on here who when it comes to topics like this really accept that people are either one way or the other and don't stereotype.
A friend of mine really has to stereotype people and put them in pigeon holes all the time. He assumes that everyone has a desire to have children, that is natural for women to want them, but then puts those opinions on you. I have said for years that I have no desire to have children and he has always said "Ah but one day ...." I think that I am now 46 and haven't gone out seeking a partner to procreate with has finally convinced him that maybe I am right and he has accepted that the desire is not there.
Wanting to be a mother is not natural for everyone.
I believe the plan is for both of them to do it. My friend has turned into one of those very intense childfree people.
For now.
Global climate change is going to affect ability to grow food. Less food + more population = a bad situation.
Yes, I think global climate change is a big issue.
There are people who wring their hands and say that we're going to die out if more people don't start having more kids. I don't agree with that and I gather you don't either.
I am thinking that at some point the population will be small enough that it becomes more economical to have more kids. If there is more land available, real estate will get cheaper, for example, so you can now afford and extra kid that you couldn't before. There are definitely people having less kids than they'd really like due to economic issues now. Not everyone is having exactly as many kids as they want so there is room for the number of births to go up or down depending on what happens.
You need to read more People Magazine!
Seriously, I get so sick of reading "if things continue as they are now, at X point we'll be in big trouble!" in popular news outlets. As scientists know, there is this thing called "regression towards the mean" and also things NEVER continue as they are now forever.
Generally, there is a pressure that starts a trend in response to the pressure. And the change eventually relieves the pressure and now there is no pressure and the trend levels off at it's natural level whatever that may be.
Except the current rate has held steady for quite some time. So why would it ever go above 41% if more people aren't divorcing at higher rates? Which they don't seem to be.
Don't we all know women who married (usually later) a man who was not "the" one, just Mr. Right Now, because they just wanted to be married and have kids (like their friends have)? It amazes me that women will settle for a lifetime commitment with a guy they aren't really deeply in love with, yet also I feel that some women are encouraged to do just that.....you know, the don't put off having/adopting kids too long comments?
But the population rate is declining.
If that were broadly true, the rich would have more kids and the poor fewer.
Thank you, no.
So stop reading them.
I'm taking a class in global populations myself. I like to think it's at least a tiny bit more accurate.
Because the two numbers are not related. The first is calculated by looking at the number of marriages that occur within a year and dividing that by the number of divorces that occur within the same year. The second looks at the number of people who got married in, say, 1972, and how many of them divorce before they die.
Those are the headlines. You have to read the headlines to know if you want to read the article.
That's interesting.
The last article on the subject I read said that only 25% of first marriages end in divorce though.
I think I'm falling into the don't want to have kids camps. Most of the time I cringe at the amount of time, attention and care I would have to give a child. I love my "me time" and got a cat because she provides some companionship but doesn't require too much care.
One of the reasons I quit working at a school was because I just didn't like working with children. I don't feel comfortable around babies. I have a friend who had a baby a little less than a year ago and I never feel comfortable enough to hold or play with the baby. I mean the baby is cute but I don't feel a mothering urge around her or other babies. I find children cute from a distance most of the time but when I really think about the care required, it scares me.
There are times when I think I want to have a traditional nuclear family but then I read online about women who don't get this overwhelming joy or happiness from being mothers and I fear I'll be part of that camp. I just don't want to have a child and then be unhappy and resent the child. I feel like that's not fair.
The main problem is that men in my religious group still expect women to have children because it increases the "ummah" (Muslim community) and all that jazz. I'm sure I want a spouse eventually but I'm not sure about the children.
This from someone who nurtured her dolls and even tried to breastfeed one after seeing her sister do it.


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Recently, I was granted the pleasure of accompanying a group of the world's best jibbers on a filming mission to arguably the most prolific city for street riding on the globe: Helsinki, Finland. Before this trip, I hadn't spent all too much time with these guys, but now that it's all said and done and I'm packing up and making my way back to the States, I can honestly say that they are one of the funniest, most productive, and innately talented crews that I've ever had the pleasure of working with. The riders on board were Laurent-Nicolas Paquin, Louis-Felix Paradis, Alex Cantin, Will Lavigne, Phil Jacques, and Frank April. Nic Sauve left before I arrived due to a minor injury, but he's already on the mend and almost back at it while Ben Bilocq is in Whistler filming in the backcountry. Also on the trip were SNOWBOARDER Magazine Online Video Producer John Cavan, "Déjà Vu" filmers Harry Hagan and Tanner Pendleton, SNOWBOARDER Magazine Senior Photographer and principal photographer for the film Oli Gagnon, and the brains behind the whole production Hayden Rensch and Greg Desjardins. The ultimate objective of "Déjà Vu" is to film a movie that will have as much of an impact on snowboarding as the release that put all of these guys on the map, Sugar Shack's "Bandwagon," and from what I witnessed firsthand, it's no doubtedly going to deliver on that goal. These eight French Canadian phenoms re-wrote the books on modern-day urban riding and "Déjà Vu," which comes out this fall, will blow your mind. Here's a behind-the-scenes account of our trip to Helsinki. Enjoy.
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