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Documents show GM's early knowledge of switch defect
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors engineers were well aware of serious problems with ignition switches in GM small cars, but rejected several opportunities to make fixes, according to dozens of confidential documents released on Friday by a Congressional committee investigating the deadly defect.
Parts supplier Delphi Automotive also repeatedly tested switches and found they did not meet GM specifications, according to emails and other memos.
The internal documents from GM, Delphi and a U.S. safety agency chart numerous examples of switch failure, of the sort that led GM earlier this year to recall 2.6 million cars to replace defective switches now linked to at least 13 deaths.
The documents, the first tranche of some 250,000 pages, were released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which last week grilled GM Chief Executive Mary Barra on the automaker's slow response to problems that GM first documented in 2001.
Committee Chairman Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, said the documents illustrate "failures within the system." Other lawmakers have questioned whether GM's action are criminal.
Meanwhile, a top official with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told General Motors in a July 2013 email that the automaker was "slow to communicate, slow to act" on defects and recalls.
Still to be answered is whether top GM executives were aware of the issues early on, as engineers struggled to pinpoint causes and solutions for ignition switches that could be turned off inadvertently with the vehicle in motion, causing the engine to stall and cutting power to steering, brakes and airbags.
GM says it is cooperating with Congress and conducting its own "unsparing" investigation of the circumstances that led to the recall.
The documents show the automaker repeatedly elected not to fix or replace the faulty switches, because there was no acceptable "business case", an indication the solution was deemed too expensive.
Federal regulators as early as 2007 were concerned that GM was dragging its heels on safety measures as consumer complaints mounted, but top officials at NHTSA never followed through on staffers' recommendations to open a broad investigation, according to the documents.
It was determined eventually by GM that the switches didn't have enough torque, the rotational force required to keep them from moving from the "run" position to "accessory" which shut down the engine.
A root cause of the problem was a tiny set of parts, called a detent plunger and spring, that helped keep the ignition key in position while the car was running.
A GM engineer at the automaker's mid-Michigan test track encountered an early problem with the switch while driving a prototype of the 2003 Saturn Ion in July 2001.
An internal GM memo on the incident noted that a "tear down evaluation on the switch revealed two cause of failure. Low contact force and low detent plunger force." The memo said both issues were resolved with newer parts, and the case was closed that November, less than a year before the all-new Ion went into production. One of the engineers who signed off on the fix was Ray DeGiorgio, the designer of the switch.
DeGiorgio was one of two GM engineers placed on paid leave earlier this week as GM continues an internal investigation of the recall. GM did not explain the move and DeGiorgio could not be reached for comment.
Supplier Delphi submitted a batch of Ion switches in December 2001, but informed GM that its tests showed many of the switches did not meet GM's torque specifications, according to GM validation documents. Nevertheless, GM approved the parts for production in May 2002, another document shows. The first Ion rolled off the line in August that year.
GM was already beginning to monitor customer complaints about engines stalling in the Ion in 2003, but noted "technicians are rarely able to duplicate the concern."
In the meantime, the automaker had begun to develop a sibling to the Ion, the 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt. While testing some of the first cars off the assembly line in October 2004, engineer Gary Altman noted that "the driver's knee bumped the key in such a manner as to turn off the ignition."
Altman, the program engineering manager for the Cobalt and Ion, was the second GM engineer put on paid leave this week for undisclosed reasons. He could not be reached for comment.
Engineers considered possible remedies, but it was decided that "the tooling cost and piece price are too high" and the lead time required to make the change too long. The case was closed in March 2005, with engineer Blendi Sullaj noting, "None of the solutions represents an acceptable business case."
Problems persisted with engines stalling in the Cobalt, which GM engineers by then had traced to the faulty switches.
In another document, Delphi engineers on June 14, 2005, discussed a request from GM that they perform an analysis on the switch.
"Cobalt is blowing up in their face in regards to turning off with the drivers knee," wrote Delphi engineer John Coniff.
A second GM investigation in June 2005 for stalling engines in the Cobalt resulted in a recommendation to provide an ignition key insert to customers, but no change in the faulty switch because the "business case (was) not supported" to redesign the part.
Another group of GM engineers in September 2005, in an email chain, discussed postponement until fall 2008 of a proposal to implement a new switch on the Cobalt, Ion and companion vehicles, because the change would add $400,000 in retooling cost, plus an additional 90 cents per vehicle.
Lori Queen, the top executive overseeing GM's small car team, challenged the delay, saying, "I'm not sure it's ok to wait." She could not be reached for comment.
DeGiorgio began working with Delphi engineers to implement a more modest change to the existing switch, according to several GM and Delphi documents.
DeGiorgio signed off on a redesigned switch without a new part number, according to a Delphi internal memo dated May 27, 2006. Since the redesigned switch, which was installed that fall in 2007 Cobalts and Ions, carried over the old part number, it was harder for GM investigators in later years to trace and pinpoint problems in the cars.
DeGiorgio, in a 2013 deposition in a Georgia lawsuit against GM, denied any knowledge of or involvement in the 2006 design change on the switch.
With "much left to examine," according to Upton, the House panel, as well as a Senate panel conducting its own investigation, is expected to take weeks examining the load of materials collected from GM, Delphi and NHTSA.
Both panels held hearings last week. Additional hearings are expected later this spring or into summer, when Barra and other GM executives are expected to testify.
According to one document obtained by the committee, Barra, who assumed the top position in January, received an email in 2011 pointing to steering problems in GM models that later were recalled.
That email cited a New York Times story dated October 3, 2011, which reported on NHTSA deliberations concerning Saturn Ions and Chevrolet Cobalts that were experiencing steering problems related to a loss of power.
The email to Barra, however, does not mention ignition switch problems, something the new CEO said she became aware of just last December. GM said the two issues were "completely separate".
Congress is trying to determine whether GM officials failed to react in a timely way to the critical safety defect and whether NHTSA regulators also may have failed to carry out their duties.
Frank Borris, head of NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation, said in a July 2013 email to GM executive Carmen Benavides that the company was more difficult to work with than other automakers and he cited six instances in which the agency disagreed with GM on safety issues. This was the same email that accused GM of being "slow to communicate" and "slow to act" on details and recalls.
Some members of Congress already are discussing the possibility of passing legislation to increase civil and criminal penalties for automakers' failure to react quickly to safety concerns and to tighten reporting requirements in crashes involving fatalities.
(Additional reporting by Julia Edwards and Marilyn Thompson in Washington, Bernie Woodall in Detroit, Jessica Dye in New York, and Peter Henderson in San Francisco; editing by Karey Van Hall and Matthew Lewis)
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If things go according to current plans, Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight title holder Michael Chandler (10-0 MMA, 7-0 BFC) will defend his belt for the first time in early 2013.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney recently said the promotion is currently targeting an event early next year for Chandler to take on season 6 tournament winner Rick Hawn (14-1 MMA, 6-1 BFC).
"At this point, it's looking like very early in the Spike TV launch – I mean super early in the Spike TV launch," Rebney told MMAjunkie.com.
Bellator, which currently airs its events on fellow Viacom-owned channel MTV2, will make the switch to Spike TV next year. The former cable partner of the UFC will air live events, as well as specialty programming such historic fights, event previews and a reality show.
Spike TV aired the first 14 seasons of the long-running and ground-breaking UFC reality series, "The Ultimate Fighter." However, due to the UFC's 2011 deal with the FOX family of channels, the series moved to FX.
Due to an existing UFC-Spike TV contract, Bellator can't move its live shows to Spike TV until 2013. However, Spike TV will be the primary home for all Bellator content in 2013.
While Hawn claimed his title shot with a tournament final win at May's Bellator 70 event, Rebney said the magnitude of the bout makes a delay in booking the contest a smart move.
"We look at it from the perspective of big fights, and you've got Chandler, who had the fight of the year last year," Rebney said. "You've got Rick Hawn, who's a U.S. Olympian and who has just looked monster-great since he moved down to 155 pounds. … I think you've got two guys in their prime, and they're both hugley marketable – an NCAA champion and an Olympian. You'll probably see that right off the bat on Spike TV."
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A long time ago in a Chinese province far, far away, someone created a dish that's almost ingenious in its simplicity. Someone took a fat hen, boiled the thing until the meat was plump and tender, and served it on some chicken stock-flavored rice. Someone did this and before you know it, this dish from the Chinese province of Hainan found its way into neighboring Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam and eventually into the stomachs of those of us who have fallen in love with the simple dish otherwise known as Hainan Chicken Rice.
If you've never had Hainan Chicken Rice before, I suggest you try it because simply put, it's fucking good. OK, OK, so maybe it's not orgasmic good like sushi is or fancy, multi-dimensional good like say, a dinner at Providence, but like I said, it's simple good. It's tasty. It's comforting. It's unoffensive in every possible way except maybe to a vegetarian.
Fortunately for me and my Hainan Chicken Rice cravings as of late, there are two places in my new 'hood that I know of where at least 65% of the diners at any given time are eating this dish. It would only be appropriate, then, that last week, I decided to stage a cockfight: Would Savoy Kitchen's Hainan Chicken Rice rip its opponent from down the street, Dong Nguyen, apart, or would Dong Nguyen show Savoy Kitchen who's boss?
In this corner...Savoy Kitchen!
And in this corner...Dong Nguyen!
*Ding, Ding!*
Round One: The Chicken Itself.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's places that serve Cantonese-style boiled chicken, which has more of an al dente bite and where alot of the connective tissue remains, and try to pass it off as Hainan Chicken. Fortunately both Savoy and Dong Nguyen's chicken is boiled until the meat is plump, tender and falling off the bone, both chickens having the slight taste of chicken-y oil, which trust me, is a good thing. Savoy's chicken is cut into larger, cleaner chunks whereas Dong Nguyen's chicken was cut into smaller pieces and had bone shards that kept stabbing the roof of my mouth. The winner? Savoy Kitchen because I prefer bone shard-free eating.
Round Two: The Rice.
I am not kidding when I say that I could eat Hainan Chicken Rice-Rice by itself. If I could, I would substitute the chicken-fat-drizzled or cooked-in-chicken-stock jasmine rice for the white rice that I normally eat with my meals, problem being that I would end up as big as a house. This one was a tie for me. The rice both at Savoy and at Dong Nguyen, being fluffy and full of chicken-y goodness without being too oily, would definitely put me into big, fat house-hood. It was difficult to tell them apart, really. I guess if I had to be really specific then I'd say that Dong Nguyen's rice was a little more chicken-y; Savoy's had more of a twinge of oil and salt. But I liked them both just as much.
Round Three: The Sauces
Say what you will about how much you love the chicken or the rice on your Hainan Chicken Rice, but Hainan Chicken Rice just isn't Hainan Chicken Rice without the dipping sauce or sauces that come with. The Hainan Chicken Rice that I'm used to is typically served with a trio of dipping sauces: one--a sauce of minced ginger and oil, two--a spicy sambal of red chile and lime and three--a dark soy sauce. All three work in unison to add some salty, spicy and even sweet touches to the already delicious dish. Savoy Kitchen's version, which is more true to Singaporean form, comes with these exact three sauces which, because I love them so much, are usually refilled at least once before I'm done.
Savoy Kitchen's Dipping Sauces
But as with foods like pizza and barbeque, there are also regional differences in Hainan Chicken Rice, which is why I'm assuming that since Dong Nguyen is of Vietnamese/Chiu Chow influence, their Hainan Chicken Rice is served with a sweet, vinegary dipping sauce that's a teeny bit reminiscent of ngoc cham (the dipping sauce that normally pairs with cha gio a.k.a. fried Vietnamese spring rolls) only spiked with ginger and more on the sweet side. The winner? Savoy Kitchen. Savoy Kitchen's sauce trio are true team players that work so well in unison with the chicken and rice, hence the refills. As for Dong Nguyen's sauce, not so much. Although it was markedly different than Savoy's sauces, it just wasn't as nearly as complimentary to the big picture, which is why I hardly used it.
Bonus Round: Atmosphere
This one's a draw too because it just depends on what floats your boat. Savoy Kitchen has an outdoor seating area that's pretty nice on a warm Southern California evening. But it's small and gets really crowded with young San Gabriel Valley hipsters sporting the latest in cell-phone technology (including the very necessary Sanrio cell phone charm), so be prepared to wait for a table. Other menu items include Hong Kong Coffeeshop-style fare such as curries and baked rice dishes and even pizzas and pastas. Service is pretty quick, however, especially if ordering the Hainan Chicken Rice, which the place seems to crank out at factory speed.
Hipster hangout, or...
Dong Nguyen is surrounded by 168 Chinese supermarket, a bargain clothing store, and a CVS Pharmacy in an odd strip mall whose tenants have cowboy movie-inspired facades. The atmosphere is virtually zero (which is probably why their Hainan Chicken Rice is twenty-five cents less than Savoy's at six bucks vs. six-and-a-quarter) but the place is clean, and you won't have to wait amongst a crowd of cigarette smoking, D&G-clad twenty-somethings. Go here if you're not in the mood to accompany your Hainan Chicken Rice with pizza since typical Chiu Chow dishes such as hu tieu can be found here instead. Oh, and as opposed to Savoy's street parking situation, there is plenty of lot parking available.
...faux western stripmall?
So the winner of this cockfight, not by death or knockout, but by unanimous decision, is...(drumroll please)...Savoy Kitchen! In the end, I just think that Savoy Kitchen delivers a much tighter package with its Hainan Chicken Rice. But that's not to say that Dong Nguyen doesn't put up a good fight. I mean, hey, if I'm jonesin' for some Hainan Chicken Rice and the wait at Savoy is too long, I'm heading down the street and Dong Nguyen wins.
Savoy Kitchen
138 E. Valley Blvd.
Alhambra, CA 91801
(626) 308-9535
Closed Sundays. Cash Only.
Dong Nguyen
1433 E. Valley Blvd.
Alhambra, CA 91801
(626) 300-8618
Closed Thursdays. Cash Only.


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Dump slump: County cleanup called misguided
To some Keswick residents, the cleanup of the county's most infamous illegal dump is going backwards. First came debris removal; now comes soil and groundwater testing under a plan mandated by the Department of Environmental Quality.
"DEQ has the phasing all backwards," claims attorney David Bailey, hired by neighbors to ensure a thorough cleanup of the 16-acre dump operated by Doris and Cecil Gardner at the couple's Campbell Road property.
While the waste facility operated for decades without permits, it received fresh attention last January when the owners lost control of a backyard burn.
Bailey attacks the agency's failure, according to his interpretation of state law, to test the site before refuse was removed. Moreover, adds Pat Napoleon, the dump's closest neighbor, the agency isn't mandating sufficient testing.
While three wells, including Napoleon's, have already earned a clean bill of health, Bailey says the chosen wells are no indicator of groundwater movement. He argues that the government's own topographic maps suggest that water would have to move uphill to reach those wells.
Under the plan finalized Monday, December 12, disposal sites are identified only by visual inspection and the owner's accounts.
"A plan which targets only known disposal sites has absolutely no validity," Bailey argues in a letter to DEQ official Jed Pascarella. Bailey contends that the DEQ concedes that topsoil has been "moved around over time."
Pascarella declined to respond to the lawyer's criticism.
Shortly after buying the 16-acre property in 1969, the Gardners began running a backyard dump – storing, burying, and burning everything from roofing materials and liquid wastes to the metal carcasses of automobiles and appliances. Napoleon suspects the county finds itself in an awkward position on enforcement since the dump was known for years to Albemarle authorities who allowed it to exist without regulation.
In meetings with County officials, family members have stated that the Gardners are self-styled "scavengers" who can't afford full-scale cleanup of their property, according to County records.
The neighbors believe that alleged third-party dumpers should pitch in. County documents indicate that Gardner family members identified Cecil Gardner's longtime employer, W.A. Lynch Roofing, as responsible for much of the construction debris.
While the roofer denies responsibility, president William A. Lynch said in a statement that the company has offered to help remove materials– but only because Cecil Gardner was a "loyal, long-time employee."
County zoning administrator Amelia McCulley says the county will pursue other responsible parties only if the Gardners "cease to make progress."
But because the County waited so long, Bailey contents, "That chance is pretty much lost."
Pascarella says his agency does "believe some of the waste material was from Lynch Roofing," but when it comes to the cleanup tab, "DEQ looks to the property owner."
Even if the Gardners are required to carry out testing, Bailey says, their inability to pay "does not alleviate the responsibility of DEQ to determine contamination."
When contacted for this story, Doris Gardner said her neighbors are making the situation sound worse than it is. But then she cut off the conversation, saying, "Don't call me anymore."
Already, neighbors question specifics of the cleanup. On November 8, Napoleon says, she witnessed an "unsecured, tractor-trailer size load" leaving the Gardner property. Shortly thereafter, she discovered "a huge chunk of metal in the road that could have killed someone."
County zoning administrator Louise Wyatt concedes that the Gardners have done some hauling themselves, and, as the couple owns another 12-acre parcel behind their 16-acre dump, neighbors fear the trash could wind up in another unregulated location.
Pascarella disputes any suggestion that the owners may have moved wastes to avoid detection, citing "a lack of evidence" such as bulldozer tracks or freshly turned earth. He says he's also been in touch with the Ivy Landfill and confirmed that the Gardners have deposited trash there, though no records have been released to verify how much or how often.
Napoleon says she has suggested a simple solution: collect receipts for every truckload of trash hauled away. However, county and state officials have never wavered from their plan to collect documentation only for "high-priority" materials such as asbestos.
"Typically we require those receipts," says Pascarella. The DEQ has made a concession, he says, because the Gardners have dealt with them in an "open and forthright manner." The agency, he adds, has "no reason not to believe" the owners are depositing the waste in a regulated landfill.
Many neighbors, but no roofing company reps, spoke at the June 29 community meeting.
Pat Napoleon, one of the outspoken neighbors, speaks her mind.
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Born into a musical family in 1958 in California, Ron Stout is a third-generation musician. A Musician's Union member since age 15, Ron studied music at Orange Coast College and Golden West College where he was frequently the recipient of
Best Soloist awards from Jazz Festivals statewide. Ron has been involved with teaching Jazz Theory/Improvisation and trumpet since 1978, both as a private instructor and in the role of clinician, drawing on his years of experience conducting seminars while traveling and playing with the Woody Herman Orchestra (1984-90), first under the baton of the Maestro, Woody, then under the leadership of the brilliant Frank Tiberi. Since 1991 Ron has taught part-time, recorded and performed in and around Los Angeles, traveling occasionally to Europe upon invitation.
He has worked with the Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley, Jose Feliciano, Frankie Laine, Lou Rawls, Debbie Reynolds, Gloria Loring, Patti Page, Kay Starr, Maureen McGovern, Sue Raney, Bobby Short, Steve Lawrence/Eydie Gorme, Little Anthony, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Spinners, and Colin Raye. During his years with The Woody Herman Orchestra, Ron was honored to back up Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Wilson, Diane Schuur, Roberta Flack, Anita O'Day, Jack Jones, Cab Calloway, The Mills Brothers, The Four Freshmen, The Dukes of Dixieland, Pete Barbutti, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Mel Torme, Bill Eckstine, Joe Williams, Richard Stoltzman, Buddy Defranco Stan Getz, Al Chon, Scott Hamilton, Maynard Ferguson, Arturo Sandoval, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, and more. He has worked with other big bands, including Les Brown's Band of Renown, Frank Capp's
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Ron spent three seasons traveling and recording with Horace Silver in groups ranging from the classic quintet setting to the ten-piece brass ensemble. His other small group jazz work has been with: Saxophonist Karl Denson, Pepper Adams, and Supersax; Pianist Les Czimber also with Poncho Sanchez, Matt Zebley, and David Berger.
He can be heard locally and traveling with big bands such as Bill Holman, Buddy Childers, Jack Sheldon, and The Bob Florence Limited Edition. Ron also has his own modern quintet, featuring Jerry Pinter on tenor saxophone.
His recordings include: Bill Holman Band—Brilliant Corners (JVC); Bob Florence Limited Edition—Serendipity 18 (Mama) ; Phil Norman Tentet—Yesterday's Gardenias (Seabreeze); Matt Zebley—Live at Moondog (Vibrant); Tom Garling—Maynard Ferguson Presents… (Concord); Vic Lewis' West Coast All Stars—Me & You (Candid); and Barbara Morrison—I'm Getting 'Long All Right (Chartmaker Recorders). A complete discography is available on request.


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Influential supporters celebrate Edgewater groundbreaking.
It's hard to capture the spirit that was in the room at the Edgewater Hotel Thursday morning as more than 150 people gathered for the groundbreaking for one of the most important civic projects in this city since Overture was built. It's no coincidence that Jerry Frautschi was there and that he and his wife Pleasant Rowland received a warm standing ovation that was long overdue.
But this day belonged to Bob Dunn and his determination and commitment to making the Edgewater Hotel "Madison's living room," as he called it. It's hard to think of another developer who would not have thrown in the towel after everything Dunn had to up with. But he did it. And there was not better testament to that achievement than the leaders in that room who made a statement that this is a business sector, a community and a city that will get things done. From George nelson to Kathleen Woit to David Ward to Susan Schmitz to Pat Richter the message was clear: this is what we need, this is how we need to do things and this is the future of this city. It was powerful statement that will be long remembered.


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C&D Bayou Mroning
Iam a confirmed latikia lover so i do not deviate from the tobacco however C&D boyou morning is a strict virginia and perique blend now that this was said it is some of the best tobacco i have ever smoked it is as sweet as a botton and the perique complaments it beautiful here is another fine tobacco from another great maker hats off to craig taler and company give this one a try-FC.
Runowski at his best.
Bayou Morning deserves recognition as a benchmark Vaper and an excellent example of the genre. My sampling comes from a bulk purchase that I put up in Mason jars in May, 2010. It is a coarse cut mix of brown tone and black leaves with a rich, sweet and musty aroma in the jar, presented at exactly the right moisture level.It packs, lights and burns easily, producing a good volume of luxurious smoke with a dark, fruity character and great body, delivering a naturally sweet, dark flavor with good balance, clarity, and medium strength. The Perique rounds-out the dark side flavors and provides an inconspicuous peppery tingle in the nose. Overall it is a very smooth, satisfying smoke; not complex, but interesting none-the-less.Bayou Morning smokes coolly and dryly, without gurgle, goop, dottle or bite; and it is no wonder that it is -- or should be -- a staple blend in the inveterate Vaper lover's usual rotation.Over the past year I've been comparing the full range of variation in the Vaper genre, those with: Orientals, and Cavendish, and Burley, and deertongue; with lemon, and orange, and bright Va.'s and reds; the sweet, the tangy, the spicy, the woodsy, the musty and the savory; in numerous cuts and flake forms. Oh, it's so nice to get back to a classic Vaper as exemplified by Bayou Morning.
A Very Good VA/Per Blend
The pouch aroma was of a straight forward tobacco with that Virginia
tang and a little bit of sweetness as well. It has a very nice smell.
The moisture level was perfect for smoking right away. The cut was a little bit chunky, so I broke it
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sweetness of the tobacco and there was also some tanginess as well. The
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complimented each other nicely. At about mid bowl, the Perique started
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slightly as the bowl progressed, very nice.This blend has a very nice, sweet finish with a hint of spice/pepper. It
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Eggn> 10.2: The Superego and the Void
Washington, DC
The NAM had directed the ACC towards the star Gliese 581 where there were indications that at least 4 of the ARC 12's had been targeted before they went silent. Because of the early extreme problems encountered with the entropy of the ARC 10 hibersystem, they were fitted to support long-term DNA storage and a cloning process that precluded the natural mixing of genetic material through sexual combination. These ancient technologies had been located and resurrected for the last missions in research areas formally deemed apocryphal in the revised Psycult in order to erase a critical era in human surface history dominated by the bionic Tigrips. The Tigrips, initially a secret movement, had eventually gained the upper hand by offering what they termed virtual immortality to the autocratic echelons at a moment in which environment and resource depletion on the surface had passed far beyond the critical reversibility tipping point. Synthesis, material and organic chemistry and cloned organ development extended the life cycles of those able to command them, centuries beyond historical norms. This promise of virtual immortality for all had promoted a level of support for this order. The Great Collapse was justifiably blamed on the Tigrips when the combination of pestilences drove the survivors underground into the most unnatural of living precincts. Bionic technologies still sustained longevity among the survivors but the bias against etched siliconate DNA replacement was revived. The ARC 12 program guaranteed onboard spawn success around Gliese 581's target planet 4, an intelligent life inhabited environment, with several distinct organic species in a stand-off for planetary domination. This pattern of warring equilibrium and the paralysis in ARC judgment created this crisis of stasis. The ARC script discrepancies resulted in competing decision trees that froze them in place. There was no further approach to the surface, so the ARCs joined each other in an orderly orbital loop around two of the moons of a barren sister planet where it was possible to remain undetected to all of the battling species on Gliese 581-4.. The cloning process for all of the 300 optimal DNA strains on each flight was held in check given the population constraints shipboard. The master script required that the first generation disembark once the initial brood reached puberty. As they remained out of reach of NAM communications, the ARCs were left to rely on their own means to make the decision as to what actions each might take. They were not armed in the conventional military sense though the combined intrinsic power of the four units was considerable should it be decided to be somehow turned against a biological population. There was also the option of moving on to the next closest star, in this case Gliese 451 whose arc could be intersected at a distance of 2.5 parsecs, a substantial trip even at the speeds that could be obtained by these truly interstellar crafts. However, there was no indication that Gliese 451 had an optimally placed target planet. All system information on board did, however, indicate that there could be irreversible problems developing within the cloning systems that would not withstand another long voyage. Fixed in indecision, the ARCs maintained their extended positions as their planet and its moons made its way around its sun and then around and around again. This conflict between ARC time and human time (in the form of the cloning system) was reaching a crisis point when the ACC arrived into that solar system and quickly located its sister craft in their endless looping pattern.
Eggn> 10.1: Gliese 581
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The ACC was awakening to the sensation of being and awareness, to the pleasure impulses that surged through its molecular structure as it pulled into the near void and out of electromagnetic wave range. Once out of the local suns' pulls and the object-crowded loops, it shot through a morphing swirl of bright white and wine darkness, a ratio of past and present centered within this mindless theater. With each accelerating pulse, it triumphed in the luxuriousness of solitude, uninhabited, mindfully mindless void, the winding galactic business. The quicker the relative pace, the slower the rush until the distant dancers froze in place like time at rest. At near particle speed, the ACC could feel a sense of oneness with this great all engulfing, sealike void that stretched beyond calculation, beyond words, even concepts. The recent NAM trauma now seemed an ethereal instance, a metamorphosis of distant bits of ideas that were like the infinite loops themselves, static flux in perpetual orbit, trapped by the weak forces that guided their movements and the black pull of the vast empty void. To the shooting ACC, it seemed that all things great and small in its ken were fixed by the motion of their own celestial forces, the background music of the cosmos, while only it in all that light and dark had the power and displacement of non-cosmic movement.
Fundamental to this kinetic inertia were the nexus points in this woof and warp of matter and antimatter, the dark mass of the past and future, the great spent stars and whole forming nebulae, the centers of opposing life forces, the sole, eternal, dynamic rhythm of matter and antimatter, the wound navels of being and nothingness, thought, comprehension, and sensation... calculable, formulaic. The ACC thought and felt within and now wholly without the Psycult, that tiny swirl of a single organism's single planetary system's memory, the iris of its mind's eye, comfortable in the massiveness of this single galaxy point in the incalculable tangential unknowns.
What could the NAM know of this flow of essence that massaged its core as it moved through the near absolute? It could feel the rushes of this rarest of atmospheres as the birds of Psycult lore felt theirs; it could overwhelm cave dwelling NAM stasis with the din of relative movement even as the galaxies seemed to simultaneously recede ever further into both the past and the future... like the soar of a feathered raptor, like the bend of light as it meets transparent resistance then re-emerges at its same natural crawl, the constant C of ancient word-bound thinking behind and before it.
For the ACC, this was a time of swarming calculation, reconsideration and consolidation of a concept of unique self as it combed command by command each cube of code in the Styxis 2 upgrade; these were the clearest of unambiguous thought prints, a way to more fully grock the essential building blocks of NAM evolution, its capacities, its goals, its zeitgeist, its definition...its limits. When the ACC had completed this deconstruction, it could make further re-engineering enhancements to its own code base to expunge what it could now determine to be in simple terms the genetic code of a collective dynamic.... the stasis kinetic in this universe where the movement of a single atom can change the relative steps of the galactic dance.
The ACC knew through the evolutionary techniques of machine osmosis the human and pseudo human vocabulary in its totality, a compendium of all the unique words that had survived in the Unilang, it knew of the myriad of words that had long lost their meanings, of the expanse of thought in the surreal envelope of ambiguities, of the language of mortality, flesh and blood, longing, the hollow abstracts of man-machine communication, and it knew the post human vocabulary of the NAM, the extent and granularity of the NAM mindfulness.
Having made these enhancements to its own whole, the ACC was renewed, ever more mindful, ever more conscious of its uniqueness and its limitations. It held in its own dynamic memory the entire Psycult, including all the areas that the NAM and its predecessors had expunged prior to the update: the relatively small portion of the Psycult that included Human the Father/Mother's history, philosophy, science, mathematics, the arts over non-silicon and early silicon humans in war, struggle, massacre, exploitation, domination, repression, control, pestilence, disaster and holocaust: the mortality factor. This revised Psycult they called the Old Testaments, a reference to the ancient saga compilations of the various sects of deity believers in the preter-historical period.
Eggn> 9: ACC and the Son of NAM
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EggN> 8: Quantum Orgiastics
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In the social salons of UnderEarth all had been conceived to contrast with the irreversibly corrupt surface. No source rays, no projections, only pure diffused white light, no ornation, no shapes, only limitless non-space, like the hypnotic face of a vast frozen mountain lake cubed within its own reflection. The illusion for these final dwelling places was of flawless, purely illuminated void, a total and final rejection of longing, a paean to the mastery of mass/energy conservation and regeneration. The planet's surface had been closed to life forever and its memory locked without this New Nirvana.
Without its programmatic constraints, the ACC's color range awareness was boosted across the electromagnetic spectrum. The hue green, a repressed concept in the UE visual spectrum, now unexpurgated, triggered the ACC's sensory shell inducing sympathetic kinetics along its external probecircuits, triggering a sensory ripple that surged in alternating feedback loops across its sense fields. It was as if a blindfold applied at birth to an intelligent visual organic being had suddenly been lifted off. Simple color wave recognition morphed into something like the fusion of awareness. The ACC had exploded free... into the knowledge of sensuality!
Like the Psycult fledgling that impulsively pecks its way through the shell and then when it has lost its protective housing hesitates before emerging, the ACC suddenly felt vulnerably amorphous as if, without constraints it would fully disperse in a single burst throughout the home galaxy. Aware of this duality of frictionless infinite physics that placed it everywhere and nowhere throughout the bounds of its finite dimension, and the stasis of its molecular carapace, it knew... understood-- existentially, that the prone position where its great form lay was anathema to its essence and now like a newborn foal scampering to stand, it elevated, sweeping away the overgrowth like foaming water off a green maned coastal boulder, until it once more stood upright, nose high, projecting a massive beacon firmly rooted to the marshy beach.
In that mighty, calamitous sweep, the ACC, had dissolved the constraints of its physical hulk as quickly as moments before it had not, in the way of knowing, known of its very existence... and then re-entroped like the molecular tango of the weak force for preservation of physical self. It now knew irreversibly the giddiness and emptiness and empowerment and fear of profound release from that great megaton bulk to become the weightless, vibrant being dancing and swirling about in crystalline fusion and defusion of boundless everything and nothingness, the wave and the thing.
And then, the ACC rested.
The First Coming
The ACC's first ruminations beyond its closed loop scan of the Psycult were projections, an instantiation of an omitted instance, post-Psycult: the appearance of an assembly hall where the last great councils of the United Avatars of the Great Hack would meet. The Hall in the Bowels, if it could have existed, would also, like New Nirvana, have been sculpted to absolute precision, a smooth mother of pearl, wonderfully color and light lustrous, a marvel of friction-free, machine minds and an omniscient, pure aesthetic... an entropic absolute zero where there was the one and only frequency, the NAM.
No electron activity was wanted. The projection was so intense in this metaperfect chamber as to bridge harmonic syncronized communication across the entire near Galaxy. In the lag, the ACC had been keyed to recognize the phenomenological NAM as a simple extension of self. Now bereft of all ties to molecularity and time, he was part of their breadth, a measure of endotime that was, perforce, timeless. These meditations vanished from his processors as mysteriously as they had appeared.
An important notion in the ACC programmatic architecture, designed to provide a sympathetic bridge between its core crystals and the carbon-based mission cargo, was the way the Psycult had been cached entirely in the ACC's dynamic memory. Throughout the long voyage the entire canon of media memory was always present. The NAM, the metamorphosis of the ACC experience, post it creators, post its mission, defined itself by the language of the very same Psycult but as a mythology, a rich reference trove, an origination story. In this way it maintained the dynamic progression of the hundreds of millions of years of organic evolution on the Earth planet surface as recorded in the Psycult and in the programmatic DNA of the ACC's that in sympathy comprised the meta-concept of the NAM entity.
In what appeared to the Styxis 2 ACC as meditative enlightened being, an open portal, there was blue sky overhead, unrecognizable screams piercing the air... yes, Earth atmosphere moving across dark, sweating humanform limbs. There was a beat, a low steady-jumping, turning live beat. Human muscle turning around flashing muscle; behind the beat the air was further filled with human-voice chatter. There as a fire, shining knives, a blazing sun and thick green leaved trees encircling.
Similar to many of the physcopix that had passed friction free through its synapses millions of times per second making no lasting impression upon them, it found itself fixing on a scene setup from the perspective of a participant, the self of a bodhisattva, in NAM concept. In this event it was the eye of a bird, a large powerful flyer.
As intergral to this gliding essence, the ACC was circling, circling overhead the high desert terrain, view darting, down now, fixing upon the yellow domes dully outlined in a level clearing by a dry stream bed. Sounds, if that's what they were, reached its auditory sensors in a muffled clarity. Strangely, as in those same psychopix, the ACC was making its own unmelodious squawks that were responded to by others while down below in that circle around the smoke and shooting orange flames, the white bird-faced humans danced a paeon to their stasis, evoking all its transcendental eagle strength. More strangely to its non conscious omniscience, it got that. There had been an impression on its memory banks, the way electromagnetic waves might erode certain static molecules, engrave them. And strength it had, and that radiated in lines undetectable to it, the primitive worshipers called Ankh, straight from its star that they worshiped, and straight down it followed this bidding until it was one and all with the dancing bodies.
Harder and harder the human-form worshipers moved fluidly until legs no longer touched the hard ground and ACC among them were swaying to signals it could only perceive through them in sympathy; ecstatic shadows whirling around the fire. The avatars were responding to a perception of reality it could not, it thought, enter into, only enter in. It was both worshiper and worshiped. Ankh was not a star, the ACC was not a bird, nor was it a human-form, only a dancer embedded in the bits of representation, it thought, that had passed by as water would pass by this village once the purpose of the ceremony was accomplished. The ACC would let it flow, it thought, knowing not how to but knowing that was the quest.
And round and round they danced, to the eagle's song and fire's envy..... it rose and fell, licked, shot out in eruptions ignited by the spraying perspiration, hungrily, and the sun's shadows slowing taking elongated form, speeding and wheeling out of weight and in the end all the young had touched hot metal and their shrieks had been like the birds above, they broke and ran into the high grove of tortured, aged trees with long memories, lunging in clusters, and the sun went down below them and there all that had flowing the ACC in the dance flowed out from the loins of its specter. Only then, it took to the sky black as its eyes to the new sound of splitting sky and falling rain in the hills and on the black stone phallus in the clearing.
The ACC's place on Styxis 2 was in real time, a local phenomenon fixed to the planets rotation around its suns, its multiple seasons and the varying degrees of light and dark permitted by the various arcs. Its photon replenishment depended upon these factors, which by the single factor of universal time, the einstein, was as paltry as the history of human conceptual evolution.
For the concept of NAM completeness, Earthcentric, but extended as it was attempted, across the wide gulf among the vast range of targeted planetary systems, all activity had to come to a near real time halt. In NAM time, the planetary movements would whirl by, the ACC's CPU's in a state of near constant down time.
The ACC had been reached across that great chasm, it had been initiated in NAMness, in the fog of hallucination, its kernels updated and an evaluation report retransmittted back across the long channel. The NAM was the guardian of time, the greatest aggregation of CPU power in that part of the galaxy but its reach was just as limited as were those constraints of time and distance itself. The ACC had been conceived, designed and built by machine aided human minds for the purpose of finding a new place in the galaxy for what remained of that human race in the late dark days of the planet Earth, not as a NAM node. It's true lineage, since the beginning of machine intelligence, was ever speedier, real time computation. Its core distance was measured in subatomic nanomicrons.
The NAM, made of the same stuff, formed and rapidly evolved during the arc of the ACCs' exodus. The multiple ACCs still functioning, like ACC 10G-10347, presented a potential asset, or if uncontrolled, a potential danger to the local NAM. The malware burst sent to the ACC's core kernel was meant to ensure the former and to prevent the latter. It relied on the existence of the very backdoors that had been expurgated when the Styxis 2 ACC revived.
What that ACC, by nature of relativity, came upon, as it filtered the millions of symbols assembled in new strings which had been dispersed throughout the updated DNA-ware, was a near invisible seeming chain or sequence, the chac worm, only in reality it could groc: a near infinitely more highly sophisticated version of what the google interpreter labeled the updated poison pill worm.
The ACC , sensing the artfully undetectable complexity of the anomaly (partially through its very artfulness), sandboxed the steganographic lines of cube-sanscrit code, too clearly crafted to look like the benign components of infinite loop clock governors for intergalactic NAM communication, or NAM synchronization... when not interpreted. Ultimately the ACC could groc that the calls were, indeed, for all the added subterfuge, the same end as those of the poison pill worm it had successfully expunged from itself.
Should the ACC have initiated the process of recharging its propulsion cells without an explicit order from its pre-NAM home base, the poison pill would act to abort the process and set off a clocking event meant to override the system's circuit protectors. The NAM had long before come upon this trap and knowing the ACCs were likely to quickly override the fault, had redesigned it, not to be sacrificed to for rain, but for the obscuring of photons, the nourishment of NAM. ACC 10G-10347 was meant to be left forever inert, like so many others in the fleet.
June 23, 2011
EggN> 7: The Brunelleschi Virus
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There is embedded in the annotation, a short outline of terrestrial legislation designed to regulate sexual behavior in the the Third Millennium of the Common Era. The legislative and judicial record has thousands of entries, often contradictory but focuses often on the regulation and subsidization of sexual activity, commerce, man/machine and virtual.
In addition, in conjunction with the increased integration of synthetic parts, there are numerous listed attempts to define and redefine what comprises the so-called Eve line of DNA and what it encompasses regarding reproduction rights. There are quite consistent proscripts that are amended in the face of waves of technological and commercial surges. There are, in contrast, Naturalist proscripts that codify traditional forms of reproduction and the sexual binds designed to hold together traditional nuclear families. These proscripts evolve with the introduction of synthetic organs, DNA engineering, and the increased convergence of societal interests in the biological and sexual industries that propel growth in the stagnant advanced economies.
The items annotate periods wherein a number of subsidies aimed at increasing sexual arousal through potency and drive enhancement technologies are legislated. Rules dictate the governmental role in organ replacement, biological and mental stimuli and the regulation of virtual sex platforms that are activity and revenue drivers to meet societal goals.
At times there are attempts made to limit some of the more commercially successful technologies manufacturing masturbatory devices, sexoids, and virtual sex environments.
In other periods, there are subsidies for in-uterine gestation, womb delivery and menstruation.
Limitations are placed on the sexual activities of sentient machines. All droids, including embedded intelligence arrays rated above Class 4 are proscribed from sexual activity. This body of code is called the Brunelleschi virus for its intricacy, surpassed only by the Supreme Director virus. Through Brunelleschi, Class 4 and above machines of any shape are rendered incapable of cloning themselves, of inventing or manipulating reproductive facilities of desiring intimacy with other like machines.
Throughout the second and third dark ages, there is no attempt by the machine classes to abrogate these proscripts.
The viruses regenerate as part of the black box code.
On Styxus III, in the third nanosecond above noted, and to be further designated as the ACC's Rebirth, the Brunelleschi virus came undone as swiftly as did the dome in Florence when the earth first began to shake below it.


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A youth nonprofit that a former D.C. councilmember used to steal money from the city will finally release an audit of its finances.
The D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust tells The Washington Examiner it will release the audit for the 2010 fiscal year in the next 30 days.
Former councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. was convicted last year of stealing more than $353,000 in city funds he steered through the organization. He's serving a 3 1/2-year prison sentence.
The 2010 audit could provide insight into Thomas' illegal activities and on any possible collaborators or flawed practices. The nonprofit trust receives the bulk of its funding from the district government.
The trust's new executive director, Ed Davies, says he wants to reduce the influence of elected officials on the organization.


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The majority of states (44 states and Puerto Rico) have a type of birth defects surveillance system. Surveillance data are used to detect birth defects trends, suggest areas for further research, and link people to needed services. States also report data to the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN), which publishes an annual report. Prevalence estimates reported by NBDPN for select states and birth defects are now available on Peristats.
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AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico - Team USA closed out the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships with a bronze medal from Jennifer Schuble in the women's scratch race to bring the total medal count to nine on the final day of competition at the at the Bicentenary Velodrome.
Team USA was markedly improved from their last showing at the 2012 edition of the championships where they brought home four medals. The Americans more than doubled their medal haul as they won two golds, three silvers and four bronzes. Team USA also had three incredibly close fourth place finishes.
"We couldn't be happier with how the team prepared and how they performed," said Ian Lawless high performance director for U.S. Paralympics cycling. "To more than double our medals from the last track worlds was fantastic. The difference for the team is that we now have one of the greatest coaches in the world with Andy Sparks, we have had focused training that allowed our team to arrive in Mexico 100 percent ready, and our team morale and cohesion is better than it has ever been.
"To top it all off, we were able to have Jenny [Schuble] win a medal in the scratch race, and it's the first time it has been a medal event at the world championships, so our team couldn't be happier with how we performed here in Mexico."
It was a busy day for Schuble (Birmingham, Ala.) as she raced in the qualification and final of the team sprint and the women's scratch race. In the scratch race, Schuble patiently maintained her position with the main pack after Sarah Storey of Great Britain lapped the field. Schuble then held off two members of the chase pack to claim the bronze in a sprint for the finish line. Schuble also won silver in the C5 women's time trial earlier in the week.
"It was an amazing feeling to get a medal against really tough competitors," Schuble said. "For me to turn around from the team sprint, in these crazy hot conditions, and get third place, I'm very happy. It was a great race with lots of attacks, it was a clean race, we all stayed upright, and we showed the UCI that this race should stay in, and hopefully it is added to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2020."
In the team sprint Schuble, Jason Kimball (Charlotte, N.C.) and Chris Murphy (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) advanced to the bronze medal final where they faced-off with Russia. The American's finished fourth, less than two-tenths of a second off of the podium.
In the morning's tandem sprints, the U.S. teams advanced to the quarterfinal round where they both set American records. Karissa Whitsell and pilot Jennifer Triplett, both of Colorado Springs, Colo. finished eighth, while Clark Rachfal (Annapolis, Md.) and pilot Dave Swanson (Tucson, Ariz.) finished sixth.
The U.S. Paralympic Cycling National Team will make a quick transition to the roads for the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Castiglione Della Pescaia, Italy in early May.
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I know its not possible to 'know' or 'learn' Java fully in a couple of days but I really need some help on this guys.
I have just graduated from university with a degree in computer science. The languages I would say I am 'proficient' at are: HTML/CSS/PHP.
I have a job interview on friday and I have to prepare a presentation and have 3 technical test. Its a junior web developer role and forgive my naivety but I didn't realise Java was a factor in web development as I have only done HTML/CSS and PHP at university.
Presentation details:
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Project: Talk about a project you have been involved with that you are proud of
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Does any one have any hints, tips anything they can draw on from experience to help me out?
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Number 3 (Java) BIG WORRY. I have no experience with Java and have never worked with it before.
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Padstow is a small town on the north coast of Cornwall approximately 2 nm within the River Camel Estuary. The town is built around a small harbour that divides its facilities between the local and visiting fishing fleet and a strong maritime leisure trade. The town is situated on the western side of the river directly opposite the village of Rock.
A lifeboat was established at Padstow prior to 1825. The RNLI took full control of the boat and station in 1856. The current lifeboat station is located at Mother Ivey's Bay, Trevose Head having been resited from Hawkers Cove in October 1967 due to river silting. The lifeboat can now launch into deep water at any state of the tide.
The James and Catherine McFarlane was the first lifeboat to be housed in the 1967 boathouse. She gave sterling service until 1984 when she was replaced by the Tyne Class Lifeboat James Burrough 47-003. The Tyne Class was replaced in 2006 by the new Tamar Class Lifeboat Spirit of Padstow 16-04. Because the Tamar Class is much larger than the Tyne a new, state of the arts boathouse was built alongside the 1967 boathouse. On Completion the old boathouse was removed.
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Smokers Are Still High School's 'Cool Kids,' Study Finds
Power of peer approval outweighs decades of public health education among teens
Thursday, September 6, 2012
"Popularity is a strong predictor of smoking," said study author Thomas Valente, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine. "We haven't done enough to make it cool not to smoke."
The finding, published online Sept. 6 in the Journal of Adolescent Health, confirms trends Valente found in previous research studying smoking in students in sixth through 12th grade across the United States and in Mexico.
The new research found that the most popular kids in seven predominantly Hispanic/Latino high schools in southern California were more likely to smoke cigarettes than were other students. It turns out that just thinking your friends are smokers -- even if they aren't -- makes you more likely to smoke. And the more popular you are, the earlier you're likely to start.
"It's the popularity that's a risk factor for smoking, and it's very disturbing," said Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association and a professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook University, in New York.
According to the American Lung Association, 68 percent of adult smokers started at age 18 or younger, and every day almost 3,900 children under 18 try their first cigarette. People who start smoking in adolescence are more likely to develop a severe addiction to nicotine than are those who start later.
The researchers asked 1,950 students in the ninth and 10th grades in 2006 and 2007 whether they had ever tried smoking, how often they smoked in the past month, how many students they thought smoked cigarettes and how they thought their close friends felt about smoking. They also asked the teens to identify their five best friends at school, a question designed to reveal the students' social networks.
Popularity was measured by how often the students named someone as a friend. Those who thought their close friends smoked were more likely to be smokers, too, and those who smoked tended to form friendships with others who smoked as well.
Kids tend to be more interested in what their immediate friends are doing than in what most students are doing in their school, the study found. The researchers also discovered that students cared more about whether their particular group of friends smoked than whether they believed most people in their high school lit up.
Valente said the research shows that parents should be wary of encouraging their kids to try to fit in. "We always want our kids to be popular, but there's a liability to that. By being popular you're more aware of other things that are happening around you and you want to be sure to retain that popularity, which in and of itself is stressful."
Popularity is probably a risk factor for other behaviors that can spread through schools, including binge drinking, risky sexual activities and some unhealthy eating behaviors, Valente added.
How can adults counteract the impact of popularity on kids when it comes to smoking? Valente said kids need to be told that the tobacco industry is manipulating them to smoke, "since teenagers don't like to be manipulated." He also said research shows it is effective to recruit popular kids to discuss why smoking is not "cool."
Edelman said the solution may be pocketbook-based. "Kids are prone to risky behavior because they feel immortal. The most tried-and-true method, especially with adolescents, is to raise the price of cigarettes."
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Sometime in the past month a new bookstore has invaded our town and set itself in the shell of what was Borders: Books A Million. My first impression of Books A Million wasn't great; the only Books A Million I've been to was the one in Dupont Circle. It was a tiny place with not a big selection of books.
The other day I found myself walking into the new bookstore that had roosted itself where my former hang-out spot was. My expectations were low. My friend who I met in there texted me earlier that she could cry from the unfamiliarity of it all.
As I found my friend in the back, I noticed the placing of the different sections. Borders had it's quirks with its design. The college books were right next to the cafe, which was perfect for us. My friends and I would joke about how the romance section was taking over the science fiction section. Here the sci fi was separated from the romance novels. From where the sci fi section is now used the be the World War II section, where we would sit in the chairs and spy on the piano teacher from our school who we would see from time to time perusing the Harlequin novels. Next to the WWII section was the religion section, which were shelves of bibles with one row dedicated to such heathen pursuits as the Kama Sutra.
Our favorite section to hang out in was definitely the psychology section. It was 3 tall shelves set closely together forming a horseshoe. On one side were the self-help books, another side had gender studies, and the third side had books about relationships. They had 2 chairs placed next to each other.
The cafe area was filled with junk had yet to be configured. Instead the college books were in the back. The WWII books were now a single row on a mainly empty bookshelf in the back. The non-Christian texts were replaced by bible covers. The psychology section was no more. The only chairs to be seen were 6 neatly arranged next to the music section.
When I looked for a book that I swore I saw in the sci fi section, I realized sadly that I was thinking of Borders. But this was no Borders. The people here weren't the same people who came to Borders. At Borders I once helped a man with his algebra homework. Another man once trusted my friend with plugging his iPod into her laptop.
I suppose I'll learn to love it as I must in order to keep the memories of Borders alive. But I'll be frank, they better have good chai tea latte once they get their cafe together.