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|Introduction to Phrack 34
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|S. Leonard Spitz
|Telenet/Sprintnet's PC Pursuit Outdial Directory
|Sting Operations
|Sovereign Immunity
|Social Security Numbers & Privacy
|Chris Hibbert
|Users Guide to VAX/VMS Part 1 of 3
|Black Kat
|A Beginners Guide to Novell Netware 386
|The Butler
|Auto-Answer It
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== Phrack Inc. == Volume Three, Issue Thirty-five, File 13 of 13 PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN Phrack World News PWN PWN PWN PWN Issue XXXV / Part Four PWN PWN PWN PWN Compiled by Dispater PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN The Media Monopoly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by Dispater As we all know, more technology means more and more legal questions. It is important not only to understand the economic but social impacts of the recent "Telco-TV" issue. I think technologically the idea of transmitting audio/video signals through phiber optic line is fascinating and a great technological triumph. However, how will society benefit by having an even smaller number of owners controlling the media? There is already a media dynasty due to policies established in Ronald Reagan's presidency. Today almost all of the media is controlled by 18 global corporations. That is down from 23 in 1990 and down from 50 corporations in 1983. The trend is very scary. In the United States there are around 25,000 different media voices. This includes newspapers, book publishers, television stations, radio stations, movie studios, and magazines. However we should not kid ourselves into thinking that there are 25,000 different owners. Is it fair to that 23 companies have so much power over our lives? It is incredibly dangerous to allow this trend to continue. We must stop this trend and "bust up" the media as it was done in the pre-Reagan era. If you are concerned about this issue I strongly urge you to read "The Media Monopoly" by Ben Bagdickian. It is published by Beacon Press and runs around 300 pages in length. _______________________________________________________________________________ Phone Companies Could Transmit TV Under FCC Plan October 25, 1991 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by Edmund L. Andrews (The New York Times) In a surprising and controversial move to promote cable television competition, the Federal Communications Commission proposed today that local telephone companies be allowed to package and transmit television programming. The proposed rules, which were unanimously endorsed and are likely to be adopted within a year, would expose cable companies to the most threatening competition yet. But they could benefit cable television consumers, many of whom have seen their bills double and triple in recent years. The cable industry vowed to fight the proposals and threatened to challenge the rules in court if they are adopted. Telephone companies, eager to enter a lucrative new business, applauded. "Today's action will create competition and offer consumers more choices," said James R. Young, vice-president of regulatory and industry relations at the Bell Atlantic Corporation. "Let's hope it's a beginning to the end of turf wars." In essence, the commission recommended that telephone companies be allowed to offer "video dial tone" over telephone lines that would carry programming produced by outside companies. Consumers could view whatever programs they pleased and would be charged accordingly. Initially, telephone companies would serve primarily as a pipeline, not producing the programs. But the commission said telephone companies should also be allowed to organize and package video services, as long as they make their networks available to all programmers. The commission also opened an inquiry on whether to let telephone companies produce programs. The idea of allowing so-called video dial tone service has long been a favorite of the FCC's chairman, Alfred C. Sikes. Congress, which is weighing regulatory legislation to rein in cable process has shied away from the issue. Today's action makes it more likely that lawmakers will have to reconsider the role of telephone companies in television. Before cable companies would feel much impact from today's FCC proposal, however, most telephone companies would have to spend billions of dollars to install new fiber-optic transmission lines and switching equipment that could carry large volumes of television material. Analysts have estimated that the cost of converting every home in the country to a fiber-optic line would be $100 billion to $200 billion and that it would take at least five years. Most large telephone companies, including all of the regional Bell companies, already plan to replace their copper wires with fiber over the next two decades. The immense business opportunity posed by the $18 billion cable television market is likely to accelerate those plans. High-capacity communications lines that reach every home in America could radically alter the distribution of entertainment and enable people on home computers to tap distant libraries and obtain information in seconds. "Both program providers and consumers would have chances they don't have today, without the bottlenecks provided by cable companies and without the bottlenecks of broadcasting," said Richard Firestone, chief of the FCC's common carrier bureau. The move was immediately attacked by the National Cable Television Association, which threatened to challenge any new rules in court. "Until and unless the telco's monopoly in voice telephone is ended, no level of Government safeguards against cross-subsidies will be effective," said James P. Mahoney, president of the cable association. The most controversial issue, which the FCC raised for discussion without recommendation, is whether telephone companies should be allowed to produce programming, a much bigger business than transmission. Many Bush Administration officials favor such a move, but television broadcasters and producers bitterly oppose it. Officials noted that such a shift would require changes in the Cable Television Act of 1984. "Among the top two or three concerns of ever cable operator has always been head-to-head competition against local telephone companies," said John Mansell, a senior analyst at Paul Kagan Associates, a marketing-research firm that monitors the cable industry. For telephone companies, the move could be a windfall. Steven R. Sieck, vice president of Link Resources Inc., a market-research firm in New York, said, "It's by far the largest market opportunity among the whole collection of information services" for telephone companies. It remains unclear, however, whether the new rules will survive in court. The Cable Television Act of 1984 bars a telephone company from owning a cable television franchise in the same market. The FCC ruled today, however, that the law does not prevent a local telephone company from transmitting programs produced by other companies and that it does not bar long-distance carriers in any way. The Bell companies have lobbied strongly for legislation that would allow them to enter the cable business, and several companies have invested in European cable franchises. In addition, Pacific Telesis Group, which provides local phone service in California, already holds an option to buy a controlling interest in a Chicago cable franchise, which could be [sic] permissible since it is outside the company's telephone area. The commission also handed down a ruling that could give telephone companies an important price advantage in future competition with cable operators and could prompt protests from local governments, ruling that neither a telephone company nor a video programmer needs to pay franchise fees to local governments. Under the cable act, by contrast, local governments can charge cable operators a franchise fee as high as five per cent of revenues. Explaining today's ruling, Mr. Sikes said, "We have segregation laws, and these segregation laws should be ended." He added that some cable companies were already installing optical fibers in their own networks, and that some were exploring the option of using their networks to offer telephone service. The proposals mark the second major change in longstanding restrictions on the telephone companies' ability to move into new services. Less than three weeks ago, a Federal appeals court cleared the way for the regional Bell companies to begin providing information services, like news, stock and sports tables, immediately. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Phiber Optic or Twisted Pair? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by John J. Keller (Wall Street Journal) October 28, 1991 Expanding the nation's telephone network into a vast television broadcast system is going to cost tens of billions of dollars and won't be finished before the end of the decade, say executives at some of the largest phone companies. But the scale of the project isn't stopping the phone giants, such as GTE Corp., Ameritech, Bell Atlantic Corp., and Pacific Telesis Group, from methodically exploring how to implement such a system. The Baby Bells and GTE have spent several million dollars testing new systems that carry cable TV shows into homes via the phone network. The phone companies will spend many million of dollars more before they are satisfied that they have a service that matches the current voice phone system and tops today's entrenched cable TV monopolies. Last week the phone companies were buoyed by a Federal Communications Commission plan to support a new technology called video dial tone, that would put the big phone companies into direct competition with local cable-television monopolies. Phone subscribers could use such a system to dial up and order video programs from an entertainment company through the same wire that connects a typical phone call. More important, allowing the phone companies could generate enough traffic to fund "broadband" upper-capacity information highways that could someday carry TV, medical information, and even FM stereo channels into a home through a single wire, say the executives. However, big hurdles remain. The FCC hasn't decided whether to let the phone companies participate in the programming end of the cable TV business. The phone companies argue that's a financial necessity, because cable TV companies would be reluctant to share the programs they now support and run them over a rival's network. In addition, the 1984 Cable TV Act, which prohibits phone company participation in the cable business, would have to be rewritten. "We're encouraged by the FCC action, but it's not as complete a step as there needs to be made," said Larry J. Sparrow, vice president of regulatory and governmental affairs at GTE Telephone Operations, Irvine, Texas. Adds Kathleen Ahren, Nynex Corp.'s director of federal regulatory policy: "For us to build facilities without anyone to use them would be irresponsible... programming is essential." There are also technical issues such as whether TV service to the home should be provided through a cable-TV-like coaxial cable or advanced fiber- optic line. Either would require pulling out existing "twisted pair" wiring that now binds the phones in homes and most small businesses to the local phone network. Moreover, the phone industry must still hammer out technical standards for melding video transmission, which requires tremendous transmission capacity, with voice traffic, which uses far less. The system that is finally built will require mountains of capital to transform the existing phone network into a high-capacity phone network of systems that pump signals digitally through fiber-optic transmission lines, which are glass wires. "We've seen figures that it would cost about $250 billion nationwide," says James R. Young, vice president of regulatory and industry relations at Bell Atlantic. Adds Ms. Ahern, "I don't think our plans would have us doing this in less than 20 years and if we do you're talking billions of dollars." Pacific Bell, which spends about $1 billion a year on new network equipment, would see that annual tab jump by two to three times in the first several years of constructing a broadband network, says Michael Bloom, customer premise, broadband applications at the San Francisco-based unit of Pacific Telesis Group. But he notices that as equipment purchases grow and the technology is perfected the annual cost should drop down to current levels after about four years. PacBell, like most other phone companies, already has installed fiber- optic "trunking" lines to carry bulk traffic between its switching centers. It has also begun replacing copper facilities in some neighborhoods, running optical fibers to the pedestal at the curb and then connecting to the regular phone home wires. Someday these lines will carry cable TV, but for now regulation restricts the phone company to voice and data transmission, says Mr. Bloom. Someday this will change, says the FCC, which envisions a service where phone customers would turn on their TVs and find a listing of TV shows, movies, news and other programs, supplied by the phone company and other programmers and accessible via remote control. Several phone companies are already testing such services. In Cerritos, Calif., GTE has built an elaborate network of fiber-optic and coaxial cables lines and advanced switching systems to deliver TV services to several thousand customers. One service, called "Main Street," allows a customer with a remote control to shop via TV, check a bank account and even seek information on colleges in the US. Another service, dubbed "Center Screen," lets 3,900 residential customers call for a movie or a TV show by dialling a special number. A third service lets some customers talk to one another through a videophone in the house. "We've found [from the Cerritos tests] that our customers like full-motion video and not still pictures," which is all that's possible over today's regular phone lines, Mr. Sparrow says. That's because regular conversation travels over phone lines at the rate of 64,000 bits a second. By contract, "reasonable quality" video, such as the kind that appears from a VCR tape, requires transmission capacity of at least 1.3 megabits to 1.5 megabits a second. High quality video will take capacity of 45 megabits to 90 megabits a second, he says. A megabit equals 1 million bits. To save money and get as much capacity out of the existing copper-based systems, Bell Communications Research, the Baby Bell's research arm, has developed "video compression" technology which uses existing copper wire to deliver TV to the home. With video compression, a microprocessor squashes video signals so they can be sent through a regular phone line at the rate of 1.5 megabits a second. The little chip, which is in an electronic box attached to the phone line, looks at an incoming video signal, and filters out the parts of the moving image that are redundant. The chip codes and sends the parts of the signal that are different through the phone line to a receiving box, which decodes and reconstructs the image before projecting it onto the TV screen. The cable companies hope to retaliate by providing phone service through their cable networks. They are funding research to develop switching systems that can pass phone calls from one cable subscriber to another and out to customers using the regular phone system. But the blood between the industries isn't all bad. Ameritech's Indiana Bell subsidiary and Cardinal Communications, an Indiana cable TV operator, are testing a fiber distribution system made by Broadband Technologies Inc, of Raleigh, NC. The system is being used to route video and phone signals over backbone fiber-optic lines and finally through coaxial and twisted pair lines attached to homes in Tipton Lake, a Columbus, Ind. residential development. Bell Atlantic is negotiating with Loudon Cablevision, a cable TV company in Loudon County, Va., to test the transmission of TV signals through phone company lines to 5,000-6,000 homes in The Cascades, a local housing development. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Baby Bells as Big Brother November 2, 1991 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From The New York Times Two official decisions in October, one liberating and the other frightening, may shape telecommunications -- and America -- for decades. The liberating decision, by the Federal Communications Commission, proposes to allow the seven regional telephone companies to transmit TV programs. If implemented, that proposal for video-by-phone would free families to tell cable operators, if they misbehave, to get lost. The frightening decision, by a federal appeals court, unblocked the same seven "Baby Bell" companies from owning electronic yellow pages, video shopping and other information services. Unless Congress intervenes, this decision will allow the Baby Bells to exploit their monopolistic stranglehold over residential phone lines and dictate what information reaches nearly every home. The same principle ought to govern in both situations: democracy needs diversity. Technological advances have brought the nation to a regulatory crossroad. A single information pipeline -- perhaps fiber-optic cable, perhaps enhanced coaxial or copper wire -- may soon pour an unimaginable array of phone, video and data communications into homes. Whoever controls the pipeline controls access to American minds. The best protection against Big Brother is to separate control of the pipeline from the information. That could be easily enforced by requiring that pipeline owners, like the Baby Bells, serve only as common carriers and lease pipeline space to information providers on a non-discriminatory basis. Common carrier status is what the FCC proposal would achieve for video services but what the appeals court decision would foreclose for information services. Congress seems unwilling to impose common carrier status. But Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., offers a second-best remedy. As long as the Baby Bells retain monopoly control over local phone service, he would allow each to sell information only outside its own region. His bill also offers stringent safeguards against anti-competitive behavior. Yet the bill's provisions aren't as safe as common carrier status. The Baby Bells have frequently violated regulations; rules alone are unlikely to stop them from subsidizing forays into information services with funds extracted from captive rate-payers. Contrary to their claims, the Baby Bells have no special abilities to provide electronic services. If they could sell video shopping for a profit, so could hundreds of other companies -- not one of which has the power to intimidate ratepayers because not one has privileged access to their homes. Nor, as the Baby Bells claim, do they need to produce their own information services in order to fill capacity on fiber-optic cables they might lay. The strongest argument the Baby Bells offer is technological. Only a single company, they contend, will be able to marry pipeline and information. But there's no proof of this speculation and besides, there are better ways to manage the problem. The Cooper bill provides plausible protection against monopolistic Baby Bells, giving them ample room to compete but limited room to exploit. Newspapers, including The New York Times Co., support the bill for competitive commercial reasons. But there is a much more important reason for the public to favor, and Congress to adopt, the Cooper bill: to protect the free, diverse flow of information on which democracy depends. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Don't Baby the Bells November 10, 1991 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From The New York Times Although the Bell companies are opposed by numerous groups, including the Consumer Federation of America, the cable television industry and existing providers of electronic information services, it is the newspapers that are its biggest opponents. The publishers argue that the telephone companies can compete unfairly by subsidizing their services with money from their regulated telephone businesses and by imposing technical obstacles to competing information suppliers. But one of their biggest fears is simply that the telephone companies could attract a large proportion of the classified advertising, a mainstay for newspapers, by offering cheap and easy-to-use electronic bulletin boards. The newspapers are pushing Congress to adopt a bill introduced by Representative Jim Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee, which would not allow a Bell company to offer information services unless those services are already available to at least 50 percent of the people in the area over an alternative network. As a practical matter, the bill would reinstate the information-service ban for all Bell companies for years, because of the difficulty in building an alternative network that reaches most customers. To defend their position as more than a simple bid to keep out competition, the newspaper association has crafted a blunt advertising campaign around the slogan "Don't Baby the Bells." In one ad, the association warns that the telephone companies could amass as much private information on customers as the Internal Revenue Service. But while many members of Congress are worried about giving new powers to the Bell companies, the Cooper bill has thus far attracted only 24 sponsors, and most experts doubt the bill can muster enough support to pass even the House. Meanwhile, the Bush administration strongly favors lifting the prohibition on information services and would probably move to veto a bill that kept it in place. The upshot is that newspaper publishers are in a difficult position. A stalemate in Congress amounts to a complete victory for the Bell companies, because court decisions have already given them precisely what they want. In Congress, however, aides to leading lawmakers say they are waiting in part to see how much popular and political strength each side can muster. "We want them to show us what they can bring," one staff member said about the publishers. One lobbyist allied with the publishers said opponents of the Bell companies were essentially trying to build up a bargaining position. "You could see this as the beginning of a minuet," he said. "The question is whether they will ever get into the middle of the floor and dance." _______________________________________________________________________________


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How to Use the Images Drawing 1
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The concrete monument shown in this photo was designed, built, and inscribed by evacuees living at Rohwer. It honors the combined 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team. In seven major campaigns in Europe this all-Nisei unit, made up of both volunteers and draftees, suffered nearly 10,000 casualties with some 800 of its members killed or dying of wounds later.
Questions for Photo 7
1. What does the base of the monument shown in this photo emulate? Why might this design have been chosen? Do you think it is appropriate? Why or why not?
2. Why do you think the evacuees thought it was important to build a monument like this? Why do you think they included an American flag on the monument?
3. The 110th/442nd was the most decorated unit of its size in the U.S. Army in World War II, earning one Congressional Medal of Honor, 560 Silver Stars, 4,000 Bronze Stars, and almost 10,000 Purple Hearts. Why do you think Japanese Americans from Rohwer and the other relocation centers fought so bravely for the United States?
4. If you were an evacuee living at Rohwer, would you have volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army? If you were drafted, would you serve?
* The photo on this screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a larger version of Photo 7, but be aware that the file will take as much as 35 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.

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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Still More Rowland B. Wilson
Thanks again to Mike Vosburg for all these terrific Rowland B. Wilson scans we've been enjoying this week!
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What a decisive line. Great design and draftsmanship. RW has always been a source of delight. Thanks, Leif, and Mike, for these.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:16 PM
Gorgeous compositions...thank you for posting, very breathtaking line work!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:37 PM
GASP! I have seen that bear advertisement before in an old National Geographic magazine. There's another great one Wilson did for New England Life that involves a fisherman and a swordfish. Oh, I am so happy to see more of his work! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Besides the nice Playboy stuff,I used to enjoy seeing his ads for New England Life Insurance,with some unwary, doomed victim of deadly disaster calmly discussing his life insurance choice.ReplyDelete
I always wondered about Wilson's ability to do gags for Playboy that WEREN'T about sex. Did he have some inside track?ReplyDelete
Also his use of fact in fantasy.
That's a Bristol F 2 B, by the way. Beatifully caricatured.
* I'm posting this on Bill Peckmann's behalf ~ LeifReplyDelete
Bill Peckmann replies:
Hi Leif,
I wish I was a little more computer literate so I would be able to send in comments to your site. (I just can't get past URL etc. stuff.) I never get thru.
With that, I did want to answer Scott Caple's two questions. About Rowland having an inside track to Playboy- Not anymore than anybody else did, Rowland did quality work (as always) and in those heady, hey days, Hefner printed quality work. Row kinda veered away from sex gags because the other aspects of life gave him a wider range to see the funny side of the street.
Yup, that's a WW I Bristol F2B aeroplane! RBW was an avid WW I model airplane builder, man, you should have seen the color schemes he painted on those "kites"!
On rereading RBW's Cartoonist Profiles interview I came across him saying "After graduating (University of Texas) I went to Graduate School at Columbia University in NYC working on a masters in fine art". To me this is one of the big keys to Row's career. He never did a piece of art that he didn't commit to like he was painting for the Pope and now so much of his craft is timeless and holds up so well.
Maybe this will be the age of RBW and a book will come out!
Thanks for your ear,


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fsck stands for "file system check" and it is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file systems. Normally, the fsck program will try to handle filesystems on different physical disk drives in parallel to reduce the total amount of time needed to check all of the filesystems (see:
man fsck).
The Arch Linux boot process conveniently takes care of the fsck procedure for you and will check all relevant partitions on your drive(s) automatically on every boot. Hence, there is usually no need to resort to the command-line unless necessary.
The filesystem can be checked by creating a
forcefsck file on the partition you wish to check later. For example, for the root partition it would be:
# touch /forcefsck
When you're ready, reboot and fsck will do the rest. And don't worry, this file will be removed automatically when the process is finished.
Alternatively, you can also force fsck at boot time by passing, as a kernel parameter:
# fsck.mode=force
This will check every filesystem you have on the machine.
Tips and tricks
Cancelling the process
To cancel a running fsck check during boot time, create the following file:
[options] allow_cancellation = true
Now you should be able to cancel it with Template:Keypress.
Attempt to repair damaged blocks
To automatically repair damaged portions, run:
# fsck -a
Repair damaged blocks interactively
To repair damaged portions, run :
# fsck -r <drive>
Changing the check frequency
By default, fsck checks a filesystem every 30 boots (counted individually for each partition). To change the frequency of checking, run:
# tune2fs -c 20 /dev/sda1
In this example,
20 is the number of boots between two checks.
Note that
1 would make it scan at every boot, while
0 would stop scanning altogether.
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1 | grep -i 'mount count'
fstab options
fstab is a system configuration file and is used to tell the Linux kernel which partitions (file systems) to mount and where on the file system tree.
A typical
/etc/fstab entry may look like this:
/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults 0 1 /dev/sda2 /other ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda3 /win ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
The 6th column (in bold) is the fsck option.
- 0 = Do not check.
- 1 = First file system (partition) to check;
/(root partition) should be set to 1.
- 2 = All other filesystems to be checked.
Can't run fsck on a separate /usr partition
- Make sure you have the required hooks in
/etc/mkinitcpio.confand that you remembered to re-generate your initramfs image after editing this file.
- Make sure that the bootloader has
roon the "APPEND" line in
/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg(for Syslinux). GRUB doesn't need one; it is added automatically when you generate a .cfg. For an explanation as to why you need "ro", see this post.
- Check your fstab! Only the root partition needs "1" at the end, everything else should have either "2" or "0". Carefully inspect it for other typos, as well.
ext2fs : no external journal
There are times (due to power failure) in which an ext(3/4) file system can corrupt beyond normal repair. Normally, there will be a prompt from fsck indicating that it cannot find an external journal. In this case, run the following commands:
# umount <directory>; ## unmount the partition based on its directory # tune2fs -j /dev/<partition>; ## write a new journal to the partition # fsck -p /dev/<partition>; ## run an fsck to repair the partition


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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Emotional in Haiti
Monday in Haiti
Today has been a difficult day. Physically and emotionally exhaustive. Another day like today will take the wind out of me. It's right about now I'm wondering what I'm doing here. We can't fix this place. I feel so helpless. Everything we do, it's just a bandaid. This climb, oh god it was treacherous and dangerous, a ceaseless uphill climb over powdery dirt and loose rock that slides like walking on marbles. Not an inch of level ground to rest for 3 hours, and the pressing need to get there. No rest at the top, and then on my feet for hours holding the head of people flinching and quietly crying, but never screaming while their rotting teeth are pulled out, their mouths so infected the anesthetic doesn't work. Not even a real dental chair, just a rickety wooden thing. Every one of them I held and comforted and rubbed their shoulders, but it's just a bandaid. I'm really sad today. There just aren't words for what I've seen. We've done all we could. And it's not enough.
Now, take a look at today's:
Wednesday in Haiti:
Took the bus on a 3 hour journey to Gonaive (?), a very poor village way in the sticks. We were greeted by the most gracious people. They built a brand new outhouse just for us. The cement was still wet when we got there. As always, all the village people were dressed in their Sunday best, staring at us as the spectacle we Americans are. But they always greet us with smiles, if at first with a little hesitation. But if you say bonjou, they will always say it back. If you hold out your hand, they will always take it. But unlike the other clinics, we had no issues with crowding or people trying to cut in line (if you saw the massive lines that form, you'd understand why they might try to get ahead)--today alone, we treated 500 people. And nearly every patient we had in the dental chairs thanked us before they left.
But it had been ten years since a clinic like ours had seen their village. They were so grateful to have us there. You could just see the pastor beaming to see us. But they were also some of the most desperate people we've seen.
Just in dental, we had two faint, one vomit, and one seizure. Poor Kate got splattered with blood twice. You should know all of this happened when the head was in my hands (that's my job--holding heads and comforting patients). Oddly enough, they had all been in Dr. Lee's chair, although I think this was merely coincidence as he's brilliant (as is Dr. Jeff). We were beginning to get used to the fainting and severe reactions, which we think stems not only from fear (think of the kind of pain they must have endured having their teeth pulled by the local pastor over the last ten years), but also from the lack of food in their bellies. One woman started to lean--and I wrapped my arms around her to hold her in place and said, "We lost another one." But then she buckled and started seizing in my arms, and the whole chair tipped forward. It was all I could do not to crash on my face. Lee and Kate and Kris all dived and kept us from face planting, but the poor woman was out. We moved her to the ground and propped her feet up. Dr. Mark checked her out, and she was conscious responding to his commands in Kreyol. Eventually her family came and got her, and she walked out with a mouth full of numbness and no teeth pulled, poor woman. The faintings and vomiting were men. But oddly enough, it was our best clinic yet, full of joy and hope and singing from us changing the lyrics to well known songs ("This is the tooth Dr. Lee will take. Let us rejoice and be glad in it." Dr. Jeff insisted Lee's head would blow up being surrounded by us women, who cheer and dance when the tooth comes out. One elderly patient, smiling like the sun had risen just for him, asked Kris to stay in Haiti. It was great fun.
In medical, they saw a case of malaria and a woman severely dehydrated. They did the best they could to hydrate her intravenously without tubing. Not an easy feat. Nor was the abused child left behind with an infection--a sad enough case Nurse Carolyn had to walk out of the room. They also saw a boy in a wheelchair--only 17 years old, paralyzed from falling out of a tree. I know it was hard on them. Haiti is full of stories like this. It is at times overwhelming. And then you see a woman who has spent the better part of 30 years using a rope latched around her useless foot as a crutch to walk. Now this is inspiring (as is the medical team itself which works hard. I hear constant laughter from them in the face of difficult times). The same with the pharmacy team, which works so efficiently, they somehow keep lines from forming. They also keep the other two teams functioning, providing us with all the meds we need, not to mention snacks, lunch, and toilet paper. It's more complicated than that though, as they have to keep all the meds sorted and organized, mixed, bagged, dispensed etc.--out of suitcases. We're also really grateful for our Haitian interpreters, who are not only great at translation, but also kind--to us and to the patients. They're as much a part of our team as the Americans here.
Honestly, it's been quite an experience with a remarkable group of people. I will be sad to see them go on Friday. But we still have one more clinic. One last chance to bring a little sunshine to a few people. We can't fix all the problems in Haiti. But we can fix the pain and suffering of a few. And that's enough.
(I can't really upload pictures right now, but I promise I'll get some up after I get back and give a more thorough account all that's happened. I'm hoping to get to talk to some of the others in medical and pharmacy to get a better perspective on what they've faced. But I know they must have dealt with the same sorts of hardships we have. This sort of mission is not for the feint of heart.)
P.S. If you're a family member or friend of someone on the team, I'll be sure to pass on any comments you leave to your family/friend. Nancy, Dr. Lee was quite touched when I stopped him right before a clinic to tell him his sister said hello and that he was in your thoughts. His first question, "Do you know Nancy???" Ha.
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Love you <3<3 I think what you are doing is amazing. I've told you that. I will continue to tell you that. YOU make a difference. A real one that those children and adults will remember. I don't think I could do what you're doing. It really takes someone brave and unafraid to endure this and you have proven, as you always do, that you are a beautiful person inside and out. God bless you and your team and the people of Haiti.ReplyDelete
<3<3 Sending many hugs across the way.
Carolina - you have transcended angel status for me. This the most wonderful thing I have read all day. I am just in awe of what you have done.ReplyDelete
God Bless you Girl.
I'm also in awe of you, Carol. I am in tears reading this update, and I am so amazed at what you are doing over there. Thank you.ReplyDelete
You are truly having a life-changing experience, and changing the lives of others. What a wonderful thing. When you were tired and down, you talked about all of the work you're doing being just a band-aid. But the purpose of a band-aid is to allow the wound to heal by keeping it safe from harmful elements. Just think of those people, who have not had a clinic for ten years, and might not have one for another ten. The little that you think you did will be huge in their eyes for years to come. And that is an amazing thing.ReplyDelete
My God, Carolina. I have a lot of respect for you. I simply couldn't do it - but maybe that's what everyone thinks before they do. Keep well.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your amazing journey. Having been in China to adopt my daughter and in India, I can imagine some of what you're seeing. It's hard to complain about the hardships in our lives after reading what these people must endure. Have a safe journey back.ReplyDelete
Oh Carolina. Big big hugs from me. I am totally humbled by your experiences and am just in awe at everyone involved and all the wonderful Haitians who have to live with such unfair circumstances.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the updates, take care please
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Tell Kate her family loves her and misses her, and most of all, is proud of her. Blessings to all of you there. Skarvans.ReplyDelete
Wow.Wow.Wow. You amaze me. Your wonderful team amazes me. Thank God for people like you and your team!!!ReplyDelete
I have an ache in my heart after reading this. You are a blessing for doing this Carol.ReplyDelete
- David ButtramJanuary 26, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Thanks for the update. Blessings and Prayers to the whole team. Tell Jackie Hi and we are praying for her and all of you. Safe Travels home.ReplyDelete
Many prayers for all of you and for the Haitian people. Be safe and continue spreading God's love to all you come in contact with. Special "Hey" to Dr. Jeff.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your posts Carol. I have followed them with great interest. My daughter and son-in-law (Jessica and Jeremiah) are with you and it has been comforting to hear of your mission. I have prayed for the team's safety and work this whole week. Tell Jess and Jeremiah hello for me if you get the chance. I look forward to seeing your future posts and pictures. EmilyReplyDelete
<3 <3 <3ReplyDelete
Prayers and thoughts to all of you and the Haitian people.
Safe journey home to all of you.
Love you,
It is so inspiring that you guys are doing this. Keep it up and thank you for sharing your stories!ReplyDelete
So amazing, Carol. What an amazing and inspiring thing you are part of.ReplyDelete
It breaks my heart that this kind of suffering goes on in the world, and even more so that you're seeing it. And yet, you and the team are doing whatever you can to make a difference in these peoples' lives. You are an inspiration.ReplyDelete
May you return home safely, and continue to help people.
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Wow, what a difference everyone is making in the lives of these people. Thanks for sharing the updates.ReplyDelete
Oh Carol. There are no words.ReplyDelete
Carolina, it DOES sound like you are making a difference. The presence of your team mattered to those you helped.ReplyDelete
I'm with Matthew.ReplyDelete
No words.
Just love.
- Daphne MitchellJanuary 26, 2012 at 4:43 PM
Please tell Lee and Jeff that the Mitchell women all wish we were there working with you. It is such an amazing week to touch those lives...ReplyDelete
This is so amazing. You are so amazing. I couldn't stop reading.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing. And thank you for helping. The best I've done is donate money. You're there doing it.ReplyDelete
You and your team exemplify the absolute best of what it means to be human.ReplyDelete
Thank you.
*hugs* *silence* *more hugs*ReplyDelete
That is all.
Hugs and HUGS!!!ReplyDelete
Your soul and those of your companions are worth their weight in gold.ReplyDelete
Such kindness and warmth.
I have an ache in my heart after reading this. You are a blessing for doing this Carol.ReplyDelete


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TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. touts the new Auris hatchback, with its angular "keen look" styling, as a sign of the company's renewed attention to design and driving dynamics.
The Corolla offshoot looks edgier and handles better, thanks partly to a lower center of gravity, a stiffer body, more responsive steering and a double-wishbone rear suspension.
Internet chatter already pegs the Europe-Japan nameplate as a possible successor to the Matrix in the United States.
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Meyer took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and outdueled Scottsdale starter Kyle Crick for a 1-0 victory at Scottsdale Stadium. The win was Glendale's fifth shutout of the fall, one shy of the AFL record.
Meyer (No. 31) was one of four pitchers ranked on MLB.com's Top 100 prospects list who started Friday in the AFL. He and Crick (No. 42) were joined by Salt River right-hander Aaron Sanchez (No. 20) and Surprise left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez (No. 84). Sanchez threw five no-hit innings earlier in the day, though he also allowed an unearned run.
Meyer made sure the best performance was saved for last. The Twins' No. 3 prospect struck out seven and walked one batter in 5 2/3 innings, the longest start by any pitcher in the AFL this year. Meyer didn't give up a hit until Addison Maruszak doubled with one out in the sixth inning.
Friday was the longest Meyer has taken a no-hitter into a game in the Minor Leagues or in college. It was even sweeter to do it in the AFL against some of the top prospects in the Minor Leagues, he said.
"They're the best lineups that I've ever faced," Meyer said. "My defense played good behind me and my catcher, Chris O'Brien, he called a good game. When you have that stuff going for you, it makes it easier and more fun and enjoyable."
One of Meyer's goals in the AFL is to make up for the innings he missed when a shoulder injury sidelined him for two months this summer. So he was especially happy to be efficient enough to reach the sixth inning.
"They told me my pitch count would be high tonight," he said. "For me to be able to go out there and throw that many was good."
Meyer threw 76 pitches Friday.
But even once Meyer left the game with two outs in the sixth, things didn't improve much for Scottsdale. The Scorpions managed two more hits, but couldn't break through for a run against Desert Dogs relievers A.J. Achter, Chris Bassitt and Nick Wittgren.
Despite the scant offensive support, Scottsdale's pitching staff kept the game close. Making his first start since Oct. 22, Crick allowed one hit and no walks in three scoreless innings. The Giants' top prospect struck out five batters and now has 19 strikeouts in 12 2/3 innings this fall.
Glendale broke through for the game's lone run in the seventh inning against right-hander Jeurys Familia. Corey Seager led off the inning with a single and eventually came around to score on a two-out hit from Brent Keys.
With Meyer putting zero after zero on the scoreboard, the Desert Dogs didn't need any more offense. They had seven hits, including two from Meyer's fellow Twins prospect, Max Kepler.
Meyer said he was a little wild at the start of the game, but eventually settled into the game and had all three of his pitches working against the Scorpions.
"My fastball was really good for me today," Meyer said. "I was kind of effectively wild early on, but then I was able to settle down. My changeup was good for me and my curveball was good, too. When I have all three going, it makes it easy."
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(The sign Benjamin is holding in the above picture is inspired by google/gmail's chat interface that Dawn and I sometimes used to stay connected with one another during the deployment. If she were signed in, there would be a green dot next to her name. The two green dots represent our connection. As brilliant as her idea was, I was too sleep deprived and exhausted from the previous week's travel to get it right away.)
I have included a few pictures here of our reunion ceremony. We marched onto the field with stripped down uniforms (all ammunition and other combat equipment had previously been removed), rendered a salute to the national flag as the national anthem was played, sang the "Dog-Face Soldier" (3rd Infantry Division song), and the Army Song--then we were released to our families. That's when we really felt like singing. I confess, being home seems surreal; I keep waiting to wake from this sweet dream. Please continue to keep our Soldiers in your thoughts and prayers as we reintegrate with our families and society in general. Please continue to remember the families of our brothers killed-in-action: Matthew Zeimer, Kelly Youngblood, Forrest Waterbury, Adrian Lewis, Daniel Cagle, and Steve Butcher. Thank you for your tremendous support during this last deployment.


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An Israeli ministerial committee on Sunday approved the list of the first 26 jailed Palestinian terrorists to be released as part of renewed US-driven peace talks.
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Israeli leaders insist they had no choice but to acquiesce to this demand. But the families of those killed by the men being released said past prisoners releases for the sake of peace had proved that such gestures only make Israel appear weak in the eyes of its enemies, and therefore increase the likelihood of future attacks.
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Mortja Hasin Ganim Samir, jailed for the abduction, torture and murder of fellow Arabs Samir Alsilawi, Khaled Malka, Nasser Aqila, Ali al Zaabot.
Ramahi Salah Abdallah Faraj, jailed for the early morning ambush and murder of another orchard owner, 84-year-old Avraham Kinstler, who was hacked to pieces with an axe.
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Bristol City assistant manager Tony Docherty has denied manager Derek McInnes is under pressure following a seventh successive npower Championship defeat.
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An old tradition is the inspiration for a new custom that is helping researchers at New Mexico State University study the state's No.1 cash crop.
"Starting in the 1950s, Las Crucens used to present the first bale of cotton and the first bale of hay at a ceremony downtown to show the agricultural community what was coming out of the fields in Dona Ana County. We thought we could wrap that up into "Give a Bale for Billy" and actually do the first cut for the first bale of hay out of the Dona Ana County fields to promote hay and alfalfa, and research," said Terra V. Winter, development director with NMSU's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
The college recently celebrated its first "Give a Bale for Billy" after it reached a milestone of raising $250,000 towards the Billy and Lois Melton Professorship.
The Billy and Lois Melton Endowed Professorship was established at NMSU to provide critical funding for faculty researchers who are actively engaged in plant breeding, genetics, and alfalfa studies. Billy A. Melton realized the need for drought-tolerance research when he joined the faculty at NMSU in 1958. He is credited with developing the first alfalfa variety that thrived under New Mexico's scant rainfall. His genetic material has been incorporated into seed company breeding lines throughout the United States.
Lois Melton said she was inspired to create the professorship after attending a meeting of the New Mexico Hay Association with Richard Pratt, department head of Plant and Environmental Sciences.
"Many people, including me, do not realize how important hay is to the economic picture in New Mexico. It is the No. 1 cash crop in New Mexico, which many people do not realize," she said. "Water is in such limited supply. Without water, we have nothing. We realized how important alfalfa is to the human food chain and we decided that something needed to be done."
Ian Ray, a professor in plant and environmental sciences, is doing just that by continuing Billy Melton's research through the development of drought-tolerant alfalfa.
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"With the limitations of surface water availability for irrigation and underground aquifers, alfalfa acreage in New Mexico is declining, simply because there is not enough water," he said. "Hay prices have skyrocketed nationwide because other crops previously used for animal feed—corn is one example—are now being diverted for ethanol production and things like that. So, alfalfa is becoming even more important."
Ray said they have developed a variety currently being commercialized. That cultivar is New Mexico Melton. The seed production is being increased in California. He estimates it should be commercially available in 2014.
Ray and one of Melton's former graduate students, Cliff Courier, are donating their proceeds as developers of the crop back to the professorship.
"When I retire, I would like to see the professorship at a level to help sustain and develop whoever is going to take my place so they can continue working on understanding how plants respond to drought and how we can develop crops that remain productive, essentially during drought stress," he said.
"It's wonderful because the funding we get will help this essential project," Lois Melton said.
Ray said Lois Melton has been the driving force behind this professorship.
"Bill Melton was an awesome alfalfa geneticist and breeder," he said. "He trained a tremendous number of individuals who were very successful in the private industry. Not just New Mexico agriculture but U.S. agriculture has really benefited from his oversight."
Winter said that with "Give a Bale for Billy," the college is asking people to donate to the endowment whatever is the current cost for hay in New Mexico on that given day—$18 for a small bale, $150 for a large bale, or $300 for a one-ton bale.
The endowment started in 2006. Reaching the quarter-million dollar mark has supporters thinking big for its growth in the future.
"Hopefully, we'll reach $1 million," Lois Melton said. "You might as well reach big!"
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One of President Obama's talking points on the campaign trail has been the revival of General Motors and Chrysler, which would almost certainly have gone into liquidation had his administration not kept them afloat through a government-led bankruptcy and restructuring in 2009. But a commercial that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been airing in Ohio (and online) tries to cast Obama's actions in a considerably more negative light.
That's not surprising in and of itself. What's surprising is that the criticism sounds so anti-free-market, so anti-... Mitt Romney.
In the ad, titled "Who will do more?," the narrator notes the support Romney has received from former Chrysler chief Lee Iacocca and the conservative Detroit News. Then, against a backdrop of cars being crushed into scrap metal, the narrator says, "Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy."
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Yes he did. Of course, that's also what Romney called for in a New York Times op-ed in 2008, when the Big Three were pleading with Congress for a federal bailout. "A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs," he wrote, arguing that the federal government's help should be limited to investments in basic research, "guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing" and assurances that buyers' warranties would be honored.


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Good imaging software can make a big difference when it comes to a dental practice's profitability. Since most dentists need to see a certain number of patients per day to cover costs, it's important for their workflow to be as efficient as possible. Unfortunately, clunky or outdated imaging software is often a barrier to achieving peak productivity, because it requires you to spend more time figuring out the system's kinks than analyzing your patient's images.
Whether you're looking to replace an existing dental imaging solution, or you're seeking software for a new practice, we're here to help you make a smart purchase decision to keep operations running smoothly. The tips in this article are helpful for all practice sizes and specialties, including:
We'll give you a brief definition of dental imaging before explaining the software deployment options available to you, common technical features to compare systems by and screenshots to illustrate functionalities.
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What Is Digital Dental Imaging?
Dental Imaging Software Explained
Common Functionality of Dental Imaging Solutions
Dental Imaging Software Deployment Options
An oral examination is not enough for care providers to get a true sense of a patient's dental health. Dentists must be able to see if there are any worrisome conditions that are obstructed from their view, such as hidden tooth decay, impacted/extra teeth, bone loss from gum disease and/or the growth of any abscesses, cysts or tumors.
That's where imaging technology comes in. It allows professionals to get more clear and comprehensive pictures of teeth, tissue, nerves and bone inside the mouth. These images can then be studied, stored and compared over time to track improvements or identify worsening conditions.
An X-ray image viewed on DentiMax software
Dental imaging is necessary because it gives dentists a better chance of detecting problem areas early for more accurate diagnoses. It also allows them to better educate patients because they can share the images, point to specific areas of concern and show why it's important to adhere to treatment recommendations.
In the past, dentists' offices had film-based radiography equipment that required a darkroom to process images. With the dawn of digital dental imaging tools (and their accompanying software systems), many providers have realized the old method is a time-consuming and ineffective way to use practice resources.
Practices that employ digital imaging don't need a darkroom at all. They can use sensors, pans or intraoral cameras instead. There's no need for chemical processing, as the images from these devices are immediately generated and accessible via computer.
Here are some of the advantages of digital imaging as described by a study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA):
It appears a great deal of practices are already hoping to capitalize on these benefits. In a Software Advice report of dental software buyer trends, we discovered the greatest amount of dental professionals (18 percent) specifically cite imaging device and/or digital sensor integration as their top-requested software functionality.
This is especially significant because 30 percent of our respondents are not using any kind of software at all to operate their practice. This means that imaging technology is the main purchase driver for many first-time dental software buyers.
Dental imaging software can be sold either in conjunction with digital sensor equipment or as a stand-alone system that integrates with your existing hardware. In either of these cases, here are some of the most common capabilities among dental imaging systems:
|Drawing/annotation tools
|Gives users the ability to highlight, annotate or colorize the image to draw attention to a specific area and write notes about it.
|Image adjustments
|Brightness and contrast can be adjusted to sharpen the image. Magnification tools are also available to zoom in.
|Cephalometric tracing
|Superimpose two or more tracings to assess growth or any other changes.
|Treatment simulation
|Allows providers to show patients what the outcomes of possible treatment plans would look like by superimposing multiple surgical treatment simulations. These visualizations can then be saved to the patient's chart.
|Measuring tools
|Measures distance between any points on the image in all directions: vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
|Image quality meters
|Indicates whether an image is overexposed, underexposed or just right.
Adjusting the image controls in Umbie DentalCare software
As we mentioned in the previous section of this buyer's guide, dental practice owners can purchase imaging software independently or as part of a package deal with the sensor equipment included.
Some sensor brands that include proprietary imaging software don't integrate with third-party applications. This can lead to problems down the road.
For example, if one of your sensors starts malfunctioning or becomes outdated, you may want to replace it with a different brand of sensor because you find it more affordable or easier to use. But here's the problem: the new company's equipment may not be compatible with your existing imaging software, so you're stuck going back to the original vendor to replace your sensor.
This is why it's beneficial to buy imaging software that supports hardware from many different manufacturers and allows you to store all the images in one location. You'll have more freedom to buy the equipment you want without worrying about integration issues.
Another deployment decision you'll need to make is whether you want to buy best-of-breed imaging software or a dental software suite that has imaging functionalities, as well as other applications, such as practice management and billing.
Dental imaging in a Curve Dental software suite
Even though suites are typically more expensive due to the extra capabilities, many practices find it's worth the extra expense. An integrated solution allows dentists and their staff to combine all of a patient's clinical and administrative records in one place, seamlessly switching from their X-rays to their billing information with a few clicks on the same system.
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Marilyn Cornwell 11/18/2012 4:35:08 AMGreat action image! #1499007
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These high school boys alway showed a great and caring spirit throughout the season. They ended their season being 9-3 losing their second playoff game Friday night knocking them out of the playoffs. It was fun watching them throughout the season. They still have alot to be proud of. F/4.5, ISO 3200, 1/200s. Taken at night.
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Hayden, Harry, girls, and glasses
Hayden Panettiere is now dating Lindsay Lohan's ex boyfriend Harry Morton. She went for a run today with some dude – all the paps keep saying it's Harry. I forget what Harry looks like and don't care enough to spend too much time on Google. But I do remember being creeped out by his face because at the time, with Lilo, he was wearing his hair longer and a stubble on his face and it reminded me of the real Chris McCandless of Into the Wild, all gaunt and lonely-eyed up in Alaska…
Anyway, this boy, to me, doesn't look like Harry. But if they say it is so we're going with it is…
For someone who says she hates the paps and the intrusion of the press, Hayden certainly seems rather happy to have been photographed all fit and cute with a boy by her side just after a workout. Last week Hayden was pictured with Harry on the beach, also extremely happy – click here for the photos - with her glasses on.
You know what that means.
When a girl is ready to wear her glasses in front of a boy?
Totally f-cking.
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses. – Dorothy Parker
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The explanation given was this: "If 1 is in the solution, then the third turn tells us that (3, 6, 5) cannot be in the solution. The only 3 numbers left are (2, 4, 7) and looking over the first two turns, they would be compatible. So the four numbers (1, 2, 4, 7) could be in the solution together."
The third turn showed that (3 1 6 5) had just one correct digit, not in the right location.
As two players pointed out to me, the third turn shows that (2 4 7) have to be in the solution, regardless of the status of 1. We need four digits, the third turn tells us that at most one of (1 3 6 5) are in the solution, so we need all of the other three digits (2 4 7).
Thus, 2, 4 and 7 must be in the solution - but that fact has nothing to do with whether or not 1 is in the solution.
In other words, even if 1 is not in the solution, 2, 4 and 7 must still be in the solution.
So what's a poor quiz administrator to do about this? I was at first tempted to do what I usually do: give everyone credit for a correct answer to this choice, and change the text to get rid of this "problem."
But then I thought: wait a minute, the whole point of this puzzler is to test our facility with logical thinking. Clearly, I have demonstrated that I am not as good at this sort of thing as I thought (and by the way, 62% of all players selected this choice as correct).
So it seems to me that what I should do is (a) change this choice to be incorrect; (b) recalculate the scores of all players; (c) change the difficulty level of this quiz to Advanced.
What do you think, dear players?