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Endosulfan. Chlorpyrifos. Chlorothalonil. Not words one would associate with the crisp, cold air and water of the Arctic region. But new research shows that these pesticides, among others, are traveling to the Arctic from as far as South East Asia, India and the United States.
That harmful pesticides travel on wind and water currents to cold northern regions of the world has been known for a while now. But in this latest study, researchers managed to measure the compounds in air and water all the way along their path across the globe, from East Asia to the Arctic.
On a four week expedition from the East China Sea northward to the Chukchi Sea in the high Arctic, researchers tracked the pesticides chlorothalonil, chlorpyrifos, dacthal, dicofol, endosulfan and trifluralin. The data collected will help researchers better understand whether the pesticides travel more readily by air or by water, and how they degrade along the way.
Harsh impacts of contamination
We already know that the chemicals that reach the Arctic region are wreaking havoc on the health of both humans and the fragile environment.
For example, endosulfan is one of the few persistent pesticides whose levels have been found to be increasing in marine biota of the Canadian Arctic. Endosulfan appears to accumulate more in the bodies of humans, animals and the environment in Arctic ecosystems than in warmer climates. This pesticide has severe health impacts for humans, with exposure linked to developmental defects and reproductive harm. In 2011, endosulfan was finally slated for a global phase out through the Stockholm Convention, the international treaty on persistent organic pollutants.
Chlorpyrifos, another pesticide studied by the research team, is one of the highest volume agricultural pesticides used in the U.S. Studies have found that prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos can have negative impacts on neurodevelopment, including perceptual reasoning, working memory and poorer intellectual development in children. Chlorpyrifos was banned for home use in the U.S. in 2001, but is still used on farms, exposing not only rural residents to health harms, but also communities thousands of miles away in the Arctic.
Arctic communities speak out
With organizations such as the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, communities in the Arctic have long campaigned against pollution of their environment and bodies by such pesticides used in far away places. As Shawna Larson, a long time Indigenous environmental health activist from the region, explains:
These toxic chemicals trespass our bodies and enter our breast milk – our children and infants are getting them. We are seeing impacts of these through things like respiratory health and breast cancer increases.
The Indigenous communities of the Arctic call upon all of us to stop polluting their environment, their bodies and those of their children with these pesticides. By doing so, we will not only protect ourselves and our families, but also families in the Arctic who are asking us to take a stand.
Pesticides such as Endosulfan break down instantly in an alkaline environment. This is a standard measure of emergency containment. It can be demonstrated simply, and is irrefutable. The canard of Endosulfan traveling long distances in sea water is patently ridiculous. Drift and volatility can and should be managed by the use of appropriate application equipment and in specified ambient conditions. Finally, allegations of inter-continental pesticide drift are based on models rather than approved empirical evidence. Please consider these issues in order to distinguish between the important cause of safe and judicious pesticide use versus silly propaganda.
Thank you, Satyabroto for your comment and your interest in this issue. I do, however, have to disagree with your assertions about endosulfan. Endosulfan's long range transport is a well documented fact, with numerous peer reviewed studies available online and in prestigious journals illustrating high levels of endosulfan in Arctic biota. See, for example, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19939436 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21429639. For more detail on endosulfan levels in the Arctic, you can also review this study from our partners at Alaska Community Action on Toxics: Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Arctic: Report for the Delegates of the 4th Conference of the Parties Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants available at http://www.akaction.org/Just_the_Facts/Publications.html. Also see information on the POPs characteristics of endosulfan posted on the Stockholm Convention's own website at http://chm.pops.int/Implementation/NewPOPs/ThenewPOPs/tabid/672/Default.aspx.
Regarding the use of appropriate protective equipment, you must be aware that real world conditions of use, especially in countries of the Global South are very different than idealized methods of use. Thousands of tragic endosulfan related poisonings have occurred in countries across Africa, Latin America and Asia. PAN and our partners around the world are thrilled that endosulfan has finally been targeted by the global community for a well deserved phased out.
There are established protocols to determine the long range transport of pesticides. These have not been used in the studies you cite. The author of modeling from Zurich has given me written confirmation of the fallacies of his work. The POP Secretary has written to me, asking that these gaps be informed to all POP members. The European pesticide mafia sponsored lie about Endosulfan in sea water can be exposed instantly-just add Endosulfan to sea water: it will dissipate immediately! I am afraid that the pesticide industry laughs up its collective sleeve at the gullibility of well-meaning but ignorant activists.
I admit that pesticide safety is generally ignored in the third world. Please think carefully whether such abuse is limited to Endosulfan alone. Endosulfan bans have opened the floodgates for even more toxic pesticides such as proprietary neonicotinoids, patented by European companies.
I earnestly ask you to shift from vilification of Endosulfan to supporting the safe and judicious use of all pesticides.
Thank you for your courtesy in allowing me to use your esteemed forum to express my views.


text: Well its interesting to see how England bowlers are reverse swinging the old ball in current ashes series and they are getting all the media attention etc, i remember on Pakistan's tour of england 1992, when great Waqar younis and Wasim Akram bowled superbly in that series, they were acused of ball tempering, cheating and all sorts in the media? i wonder what England bowlers are doing now? is that cheating too?

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Google's new Android Auto platform announced at Google I/O developer conference is focusing mainly on the connection between Android-based smartphones and car infotainment systems, and the vehicle industry is showing more signs of incorporating mobile applications and smart features into newer vehicles as nearly 30 vendors are now cooperating with Google in 2014, up from four in previous years.
Some of these vendors also plan to add support for iOS to their systems.
In addition to connection between mobile devices and applications, the Android Auto platform will eventually enter into the smart home industry.
Google has cooperated with Nest to offer solutions that allow drivers to pass the vehicle's information to their houses' Nest branded smart thermostats through apps in their smartphones or tablets and micro-manage the thermostats as needed. With Google pushing Android into car electronics systems, the move is expected to further enrich car electronics systems' applications.
Although most mobile platform developers have just started developing applications for car electronics in 2014, the development of smart car electronics are expected to pick up quickly with support from car vendors, telecommunication service providers, hardware and software developers, Digitimes Research believes.
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I remember playing AE some years ago. I remember that players on beta were pretty well advanced, so I'm now curious: how long did it take for players to get 10 ds's and 100000000*10^n fts and so on? How old is Beta server?
I was on beta server in LKW (later GE) if anyone is interested. (I gave up after my political aspirations got the better of me. If anyone is interested we can spin yarns of the old beta)


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Tell Vic Everything: Stop The ITU Internet Coup
Posted by Laurel L. Russwurm on December 2, 2012
Governments around the world are seeking to assume control of Internet Governance through the International Telegraph Union. Oh, wait, the organization changed its name to International Telecommunication Union (I.T.U.) in attempt to deal with modern telecommunications issues.
An essential problem, however, is that the organization itself continues to function as it did in the 19th century. This is an antiquated hierarchical international association of countries. The ITU does not welcome, nor even listen to the concerns of citizens. It exists to paternalistically impose the policies it makes in secret, behind closed doors, on the world. This would have the effect of turning the Internet as we know it inside out. The Internet is Mine, and yours, and theirs. It doesn't belong to governments, but to all users collectively.
An ITU Coup would strip us of our freedom to use the Internet as we wish, whether for recreation, community or business. We would be forced to follow Orwellian authoritarian edicts that would grant local governments unassailable unilateral power to control what is on the Internet. I might be prevented from selling my books, you from selling your songs, she from sharing recipes, while he might locked out of the Internet entirely. Citizens would have no recourse, our governments would just be following orders.
An organization like this is far less accountable than even our supposedly democratic First Past The Post electoral systems we presently struggle with in Canada, the US and the UK. If this organization assumes authority over the Internet, it would absolve our local governments from any requirement to follow local laws regarding citizens rights. It would make it so easy to grant Security Forces and Secret Police agencies the wherewithal to pracfrom the ITUtice warrantless surveillance and website takedowns, without any pesky requirement to convince Parliament or Congress that these draconian surveillance are needed.
Governments keep trying to make treaties like ACTA and TPP and laws like SOPA/PIPA.
In Canada, we've been protesting and pushing back against a majority FPTP government that wants to dispense with due process and allow unprecedented warrantless access into our digital lives without requiring the barest shred of evidence of wrongdoing. Yet Canada's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews keeps trying. I have no doubt Vic Toews would support an ITU Internet takeover because it would support his agenda.
If ITU takes over, everything from privacy to free speech could be purged from the Internet. If this comes to pass, we won't be able to stop bad laws like SOPA or treaties like TPP or ACTA. Not a very happy thought.
We need to speak out against this now, so 2012 doesn't become the new 1984.
The Internet Defense League has posted a video. You can watch the video below, but if you're uncomfortble giving up so many javascript permissions you can just read the subtitles as a plain text version underneath.
Fight for the Future and Access collaborated on this short, informative video about a serious threat to the free and open internet that could have devastating effects for human rights and free expression around the globe.
How the ITU could put the internet behind closed doors.
"The Internet gives us the freedom, to talk with friends, make art, start a business or speak out against our governments, all on an unprecedented scale.
This isn't a coincidence.
The Internet's design came out of open inclusive discussions by a global community of scientists and engineers, So there was no pressure from above to lock it down.
But now a government controlled international body is making a play to become the new place where the Internet's future gets decided. It's called the International Telecommunication Union (or ITU). And in December the worlds governments will meet, to decide whether to expand its mandate to making important decisions about the net.
The ITU could pose a risk to freedom of expression on-line everywhere.
Here's why. First the basics.
Nobody owns the Internet.
It's a collection of independent networks around the world. Anybody can build one.
The common standards on which the Internet was build grew out of open on-line discussions,
not on the priorities of a particular government or company.
But now let's meet the ITU!
First the ITU is old. Really old. Not CDs old, not rotary phone old, telegraph old, as in Morse code. When founded in 1865 it was called the International Telegraph Union. Unlike the Internet the ITU was not build on open discussion among scientists and engineers. Instead only governments have a vote at the ITU. And these votes take place behind closed doors.
If governments succeed in giving the ITU more power to make decisions about the Internet, we get
an old-school, top-down, government centric organisation replacing the open bottom-up governance
that made the Internet so world-changing. And that's just the beginning of our problems.
The ITU is not transparent.
The ITU's draft proposals aren't public, and its "one country – one vote" model gives governments all the power.
They get to make decisions about our Internet, without us even knowing what they're discussing, and then tell us, once the decision is made. What kinds of decisions will be considered at the ITU meeting this December?
Well, here's some actual proposals that have leaked:
- cutting of Internet access for a number of broadly defined reasons;
- violating international human rights norms;
- giving governments more power to monitor Internet traffic and impose regulations on how traffic is sent;
- defining Spam so broadly that they could justify blocking anything from photos of cute cats to human rights campaigns.
- And new rules to charge online content providers to reach users, which could mean less content going to the developing world, and blocking sites that don't pay up.
- But the really scary part: the countries pushing hardest for ITU control are the same countries that aggressively censor the Internet.
In Russia, making a YouTube video against the government can get you two years in jail.
In China you can't even get to most social media websites.
And Iran is trying to build its own national Internet and email network, to keep the entire population under its control.
Now the ITU also does good work:
They help the developing world establish telecommunication networks and expand high speed broadband connections. And existing Internet governance isn't perfect. The US has out-sized influence and authority when it comes to this.
But we need to fix these problems in a way that preserves the openness, pragmatism and bottom-up governance, that made the Internet so great.
This December our governments meet to make their final decisions about the Internet's future.
It's up to us Internet users, in every country of the world, to tell them: to stand for the open Internet.
If everyone who sees this video speaks out and contacts their government, we've got a chance of winning.
Help us share this video and visit this site to speak out and contact your government right now!
Let's use the Internet's global reach to save it!
Tell your leaders to oppose handing over key decisions about the Internet to the ITU."
— "How the ITU could put the internet behind closed doors." English Subtitle Text by Michelle Matthew.
Take action at http://www.whatistheITU.org
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I am reading Scala and I am wondering ...
val capacity : Int
instead of
val Int capacity.
Any reason why this choice was made. If not, it does not seem to me like a good choice to move away from the Java way of declaring it. Would have made the transition from Java to Scala easier (not by much, but little bit)


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How to Train Your Dragon 2 games coming from Little Orbit
How to Train Your Dragon 2 will spawn 3DS, Wii, Wii U, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games during northern summer, courtesy of Little Orbit. See a few screenshots below.
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Need for Speed movie had a $66 million production budget
Here's an interesting little tidbit for those interested in the world of Hollywood video game adaptations: according to the Wall Street Journal, the Need for Speed movie cost $66 million to make. It's the most expensive project Dreamworks has ever produced, despite appearing pretty modest next to the $200 million budget of competing action blockbusters. […]
Need for Speed film to co-star Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots - report
The Need for Speed movie may co-star Captain America's Dominic Cooper, according to a piece on Variety which states the actor is in negotiations for the film.
Need for Speed film to release during 2014 from DreamWorks
DreamWorks has acquired the film rights to EA's Need for Speed and the firm plans to release it during 2014. EA will produce the film with John Gatins and Mark Sourianmad Act of Valor's Scott Waugh will direct it. Production will start next year.
D3Publisher takes over development for THQ on DreamWorks titles
D3Publisher has announced an agreement with DreamWorks Animation which will see the firm taking over development of studio's next three films: Madagascar 3, The Croods, and Rise of the Guardians. Previously, THQ was on board to develop, but announced last week it was leaving the kids' licensed business. The first title to be released, Madagascar […]
Report - Halo movie planned for 2012, Spielberg involved
A Halo movie with the involvement of Steven Spielberg is set for a release in 2012, according to a French press kit for the latest Halo book, Cryptum,
Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg joins Zynga's board of directors
One of Hollywood's most well known movie producers is now joining the game publisher that's pretty successful on its own with mainstream audiences. Zynga announced today that Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Dreamworks Animation, has joined Zynga's board of directors.
DreamWorks negotiating new videogame licensing deal
DreamWorks has began negotiations for a new videogame licensing deal which will last until 2011.The news was revealed during a conference call after the company's Q2 financial metting by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.DreamWork's deal with Activision expires next summer, and it has a contract with THQ to make a single game, which is based on next […]
Dreamworks latest
Need for Speed film to co-star Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots – report
D3Publisher takes over development for THQ on DreamWorks titles
Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg joins Zynga's board of directors


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Greetings, my fellow masters of minions! Warlocks continue the trend of small talent calculator changes followed by intriguing snatches of development clarified by community managers. Set your pets to passive for now as I go over what's changed. In the coming weeks, we can delve into more specific topics and theories.
Spells get streamlined for leveling
A level 1 ability called Demonic Tactics allows the Imp, Voidwalker, and Succubus to act more intelligently. I'm tempted to say it's a name for the guardian-like actions of the newly rolled warlock's pet, only to be replaced later by the pet bar with Control Demon. But traditionally, the pet bar comes at level 10 along with group features like Battlegrounds, while the Succubus isn't introduced until level 20. If, instead, Demonic Tactics is meant as a better artificial intelligence for pets overall, why isn't the other baseline pet, the Felhunter, included?
I'll wait for clarification. After Malefic Grasp was first revealed in the November Class Q&A to be not demonology as we all expected but affliction, I've learned to not assume anything anymore.


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If you're one of those people who watch the Super Bowl "for the commercials," then get ready to be very excited indeed.
A teaser video has popped up online starring Matthew Broderick that has the internet in a tizzy. The 49-year-old appears in what looks to be a hotel room, wearing a bathrobe. He flips open the curtains, looks directly at the camera, and says, "How am I supposed to handle work on a day like today?" Cue a few bars of the iconic song "Oh Yeah" by Yello, which served as a theme song for the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
The mysterious video, posted by chuckachucka2012, is accompanied by a caption which reads:
U.S. & World
"We hate to be such a tease, but on a day like today, we just have to. Stick it out until the Super Bowl, or take a 'day off' on Monday and catch the big reveal."
Is it a new movie? Not likely, although Broderick has certainly been open to the idea. Still, the internet has been running rampant with speculation that it could be an add for a travel site (like Travelocity) or perhaps even Pepsi (noting the similarity in the font used).
Looks like we'll have to wait and see...


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Train More, Worry Less
By Phil Kaplan
February 10, 2006
Phil Kaplan is a club owner, personal fitness trainer and industry consultant. Find additional articles and information about him at www.philkaplan.com.
If every health club owner had to construct his or her own individual "worry lists," retention, cash flow and competition would no doubt make everybody's top 10. Following the path of convention, club owners would also have their lists of solutions.
Retention would be addressed by instructing sales people or new hires to contact expiring members and get them to re-commit. Cash flow would be handled by weekly and daily sales meetings to drive new membership. An aggressive and continuous advertising campaign would help to address the threat of competition.
As conventional approaches to these three issues plow forward with a tired but necessary momentum, the unsung hero sits in wait. Yes, within the four walls of every health club operation lives a being with the potential to move retention, cash flow and fear of competition a few notches down the worry list until these items drop off the list completely.
Who is this unsung hero? The fitness director. Before I share how the fitness director can be moved into a role where profitability is enhanced, let's consider how conventional approaches to fitness services have become mainstays, and then we'll explore different possibilities.
Re-examining the "profit center." The evolution of personal training within the health club environment has led us to accept the offerings of free orientations, complimentary assessments and an introductory number of sessions included within the price of membership. As a result, all eyes have remained on membership dollars as the measure of financial success. We've learned to call personal training a "profit center," but factor in the cost of servicing members who have a sense of entitlement after receiving free personal training sessions and that profit center is crippled from the onset. Suppose, for example, a club were to pay trainers $9 per hour. Three free sessions might be perceived as free to the member, but it immediately costs the club $27 plus payroll-related costs.
The intention is obvious. By giving away these free sessions, we hope to satisfy and retain members. But instead of making member satisfaction the goal, suppose we were to actually charge members for the time they spend with trainers, and in so doing we commit to delivering more value than members expect. With a strong personal training program, with a system that allows for qualified and competent trainers to prosper and grow, and with an ongoing commitment to deliver results, members will be more than satisfied.
Thrilled members remain active members. The perceived need to stick a phone in someone's hand in order to reach out to those about to drop off the membership list is reduced. In fact, the number of members willing to abandon membership is significantly reduced, thus retention begins a greased slide down the list of items contributing to worry.
Building the bridge. Let's go a step further. Suppose we worked to create a concrete bridge between the point of sale and the personal training department, a bridge with a toll booth at the entry. Instead of being ushered into a free orientation, members are encouraged to pay $20 for an instructional group session where they learn to achieve their desired results.
I know at this point the oh-no-members-don't-want-to-pay-for-anything-until-they-have-a-chance-to-try-it voice pops up in most club owners' minds. Before dismissing the possibility of charging for an introductory session, try to keep that little voice quiet for the moment. In order to maintain the risk-free element of the session, suppose it were offered with a money back guarantee. Assuming the trainers are taught to exceed expectations, cash flow is enhanced as the financial payroll drain is suddenly plugged up with $20 bills, which the club is happy to share with the trainer(s).
Retention under a new light. Suppose members committed to personal training not with a 10-pack or a discounted 20-session special but rather with ongoing recurring sessions where dollars were collected every time a session took place. Then, the personal training dollars would flow in, and the clubs would only have to motivate each member/client to show up for the next session. Revenues would increase, and members would bond with trainers, take ownership of the idea that the personal training connection is an absolute must and widespread results would manifest. Your personal training profit center is generating lots of money, and your members not only would show up, but they also would continue to contribute to your bottom line. At that point the big, evil monster competitor could open right across the street and your members would keep showing up and spending.
Now let's put suppositions aside. This approach is real, and in fact, it's the way to become bullet proof in the 21st century. There are two keys. The first is to create and implement a system that allows for this new paradigm to become business as usual. The second is to recruit, train and optimize the talents of the unsung hero. The fitness director need no longer be perceived as a customer service position but rather as a revenue machine, one with greater profit power than anyone else in the organization as the revenues generated through training lead not only to momentary dollars but also to retention, cash flow maximization and exponential growth.
Fitness directors should be recognized for their potential, but more importantly, they should be cultivated as true managers. Their in-house education must include mastery not only of exercise but of influence, leadership and revenue generation. Is this a stretch? Of course, but a desire for growth requires that we stretch, challenge convention and, in this case, tap into an unrecognized resource so we, as owners, kiss those conventional worries goodbye.


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I really love "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles. Yeah, yeah, yeah; it's a pop song but I like it anyway. And Sara's super easy on the eyes. Can I get an 'Amen' from all the fellas? Love Song .
I really love "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles. Yeah, yeah, yeah; it's a pop song but I like it anyway.
First cocktails, now pop music?
Just finished up another iPod playlist, with an emphasis on guitar rock. Contained herein are some of the rockinest riffs ever ripped.
Someone's been playing a whole lotta Guitar Hero.
Nothing in particular at the moment, but I like all kinds of music ecsept for most country, and heavy metal and absolutely no rapping. Mostly thouhg, I like Irish music, but even then I can't stand the button accordian that many Irish artists have adopted. If any are you interested, you can check youtube and listen to the Cheiftains and the Clancy Bros.
and the steel drums are a nice touch.
At this very moment: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyS9U7jG_6s
^ Pretty bad attempt at updating what was a mediocre song to begin with.
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
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Hello, I hope that your stomachs are full of great chicken sandwiches and brain full of satisfaction of supporting a good Christian company. What could be better than filling your bellies and giving a dollar to a great company, right?
I have a couple of thoughts for you to ponder as you ride the wave of your food coma endorphin rush.
- Thank you for making such a big deal out of Chik-Fil-A's support for the "biblical definition of marriage." This is a topic that needs a lot of attention, and you helped bring that attention on.
- I enjoyed that pic you posted onto Facebook from your iPhone of you and your friends giving a thumbs up to a back of chicken sandwiches. I also saw a couple of Ford pickups in the background there. And your toddler looks so cute in those Huggies! You do know that Apple, Ford, and Kimberly-Clark, makers of these fine products, donate money to support marriage equality, don't you? Uh oh, it looks like you inadvertently split your money vote.
- You probably got bristled at some point by some hippy or flaming gay rights supporter claiming that Chik-Fil-A supported the "Kill the Gays" bill in Uganda. You know, of course, that the Chik-Fil-A family did not nor would they ever do such a thing. You can just put it out of your mind, because, what's a couple of degrees of separation from picking up the stone yourself?
- I'm so glad that someone in Dan Cathy's position has spoken up for the "traditional definition of marriage." I get tripped up, however, because I don't know which definition he is using. Our modern marriage has only been around a couple of hundred years, with it becoming the dominant (and legally recognized as the only) form in the last hundred and fifty or so.
So I'm glad you picked up that chicken sandwich. In that tiny act of capitalistic slactivism, you have helped force some of this self-examination of one of our society's most sacred institutions into the spotlight.
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Breakfast Briefings Presents Sebastian Junger
Author, journalist and documentarian Sebastian Junger talks about his award-winning film, "Restrepo," and his latest documentary, "Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington." He spoke with WSJ's Wendy Bounds in the latest interview in the Breakfast Briefings series. Photo: Jeff Bush.
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... the ... I ... I the prior art here in Midtown Manhattan and Wendy downs Joinus lipid Wall Street Journal Summer Breakfast Briefings we're so pleased to have our final guest the series today ... Sebastian younger is one of the top more journalists in the country his offer also authored ... several books including a perfect the perfect storm as well as more ... an Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker well Sebastian well ... I took a forty and the nitty gritty here ... true or false Sebastian ... you once wore a climber ... and with an Arbor is a landscaping company with chainsaws and then decided that was so dangerous that you decide what about other people doing things yourself ... yes I was I was a clever for three companies have a good idea for years I really enjoyed Edward ... sixty seventy eighty in the air with a chainsaw no ... big trees down and in pieces ... the idea but leg ... of with a chainsaw for my left leg and that got me thinking about ... five dangers work and how ... it's a lot of dangerous dogs ... that America depends on them ... the people who do those jobs legal can acknowledge ... and I want to write about dangerous work and I was so it ... goes why wrote the proposal ... I knew gone on to that about multiple fields of both is ... and isn't journalism as well as Widgetbox and filmmaking ... at both the cold war ended two recent documentaries for strep oh and which way is the Front Line from Here ... their toll this unique vantage point of of of male camaraderie ... I'm and I'm interested in when what from a story standpoint what attracts you about that and ... and why do you feel you know going over there that that that that particular storyline ... can link itself so perfectly what you're doing ... well when the Gestapo with late ... Kolitch another region where O global war of the platoon ... about twenty metre hilltop in Afghanistan in the remote combat outpost there was ... no internet no TV no phone and a lot of back and ... what are the things that were there was a lot of ... while fighting and I saw lot of bravery one thing that interested me was ... I studied anthropology in college right so survival of the fittest and all that if you if you're for it twenty years old this year ... very courageous if you're self sacrificing in combat you probably will not pass on your jeans ... and ... by have until the kids you might get killed earlier than it should so ... how is it ... how does it work in terms of evolution ... Mr is where ... I Why discourage exist legacy of protecting Your Dome ... protecting your mate ... but what what evolutionary pressure is there to protect ... the sacrifice itself for ... the same sex here ... doesn't make sense in Darwinian terms that one and understanding basically the way it works is ... they ... give ... everyone in a small group into in a hostile environment is prepared to die for everyone else ... that everyone in the group is safer ... here's us in your ensure that that that the whole is greater than the parts that are not just twenty people ... your ... if twenty people were committed to each other like that have the effect of forty people or something like ... there is actually an evolutionary advantage ... although individuals dying ... in our evolutionary origins ... you'll probably related everywhere else in the group so you might die but you're the DNA is passed on to his nephews would ever in that in terms of evolution is held to resume seems to work ... so the new land scam I send Hetherington who is the subject matter of her ... documentary which way is the Front Line from here ... I didn't see a hand dyed activity of reading was killed by mortar rounds of forty years old the Dow's eleven ... stingy link and become a part of that mentality I mean did you ... to think in a real part of a group think ... as a journalist not immediately the city's bonds take a while ... um you have to ... have ... real ... on this for for the people of that ... what does the platoon said you know the guys that the two stray updated other but we all buy for him to ... that ... that form of wanting takes a while but after several trips to the nice for the year off and on that this too ... after several trips ... the way it works is ... you basically if you see someone in danger ... you can protect yourself and let them die or you can try to help them and risk dying and with the decision is basically could I'd live with myself ... might not help them let them ... be them to their faith ... and live with myself ... um you see the answer is no acute care about the present ... and that's how it works and Tim and I I think after that to three trips ... um ... I think we certainly were in in that bought my bike aptly winner is my life that helps them or really any one of the platoon I think they will also so but it takes a little while ago at first it is the new kid in ... the new kid in school we don't know where to sit at once well known but very much feels like a ... house not ... today run conducted only contact into those now ... that I've got a double and in U S personnel ... five and eighty ... one shares ... and that's that sees him ... did you and Tim feel ... more vulnerable in some ways an hour I was biting attack the camera guys about this and they were liking of the Housing Sebastian to how they protect themselves when they're not they're not carrying guns during the same dangerous situations ... don't you have all this equipment to cure ... caring what point you decide ... my life their life the story like how you prioritize all that when you are hit by fire ... we basically this euro this is small unit tactics in their maneuvering but see robots widen your safety ... even with the soldiers doesn't necessarily depend on what you're doing with your gut ... it's a little bit like a football game ... I mean ... that doesn't suck or didn't see movement in your SE save your success depends on what the entire team is doing ... and so you can be part of that system as a cameraman ... the bigger cuts should be done right ... you're part of a ... very effective tactical system and in so you're in it ... if you're good if you're thinking about what's happening in the obese here ... if you thinking about your job ... you will be scared ... and that's true if you're a soldier or camera ... in the one time I really was paralyzed ... um ... we got hit very subtly my camera was like right there ... I couldn't get to it because I can see the bullets it in the grab it remain the camera ... and because I had nothing to do I was terrified ... and TM actually ... OS ... should throw him self in his gear was over there too he can throw salt over this across this gap ... I'm paralyzed by the ruins of across the steppe ... threw me my camera ... put his camera around his neck to start showing ammo to the soldiers they were pinned down to an older animal was there ... and see ... what's I have my camera my can of fun ... thing to have this or that would search for the sort of find calm in the middle of the chaos of purpose and all the candy that you need a purpose you need a job and you have a job when you're in danger here for live coverage of the coolest ... debut one after ... after his death is your privacy ... very close to the work of a strep but together ... did you think ... maybe now ... I ain't Sebastian's to dial back ... the Novi work in these war zones because of that Amanda tenure thinking about it before his dad ... today I was most of the other side and Libya ... and the I the last last minute decision I couldn't go for personal reasons to win on his own he was killed ... he bled out from Ohio who moved from a mortar ... and I felt incredibly guilty and is ... one of the ... bike to work to that but I ... um ... almost immediately within an hour or so I decided after twenty years I'm not in a cover warning more ... I was a public data decision but it's been almost been two years now and and I've never regretted you've never read it ... do you think they knew and Cam ... and Eason and Eaton formed a bond with when you were ... caught ... out ... our filming for strep bow and and the andthe other films ... do you think you all that had the same on ... that here if you just met ... in bars here in New York with which it has a relationship with them in France ... I would of been we would get me to but I certainly wouldn't writes some of the guys in the book to um still friends with with absolutely there's a Pursell connection which is very very strong ... um ... but that ... that sense of brotherhood is different from friends to ... as bright yellows one of them said ... summarize each other but with all the greed of the ... Brotherhood doesn't depend on how you feel ... and it ... arises in situations where one's life is at risk ... and everyone needs an absolute commitment from everyone else in order to survive ... survive emotionally and survive physically ... in ... in civilian life or the pleasures of civilian life is that doesn't require Brotherhood ... I mean it's also one of its deficit by that ... well let's review no we're not all the likened the situation ... so we can ... choose the people were with ... based on how we feel about ... are in a situation like that you don't have rejoice in you absolutely need them and that's where this ... very powerful sense of motherhood ... comes in ... do you think you could write ... a book ... or make a failed ... with the female attack in as many thought we'd done so much about ... the Brotherhood ... would have without even interest you ... well where the captain of urban stormwater the boat captains was a woman right um ... there are women who fit into a male world basically by ... I'm ... thinking and ... acting exactly like mad ... and if they really not a female presence of the mill world they really have ... figured out how to ... um ... wanting to wade menu in combat on a fishing boat whatever it is ... likewise for civilians in the back of ... in Europe ... but if you ever civilian mentality in combat or more ... you have to think like soldiers ... um ... that's why the whole we know ... gays in the military isn't all about is completely move like if you're bringing your civilian identity ... into a combat outpost ... be at Harvard that ... day ... woman whatever it is to bring the civilian identity into a combat outpost ... the wall wart you have to be ... so ... anyone who functions in that environment has figured out how to act like ... it ... basically a male combat this ... um ... so all those all those smaller identities are our ... civilian identities rather are sort of hero ... extended never read any fiction ... I loove it ... but not anything it's published ... Iris restorer actually know about I was in the summer warns early on a Vodafone store and I went to a very very frightening ... um ... I wrote a short story based on that that ... basically took bad and made it more fun ... and more frightening ... you mention the perfect storm and then ago and I know he wrote that book ... he said in your parents' summer house ... of it was not insulated is that is that right ... and you'll only the use of turned eighteen on when you are right he had nowhere to live in it ... there were delayed by one to write this book ... I have a new money I was doing tree worth ... a try workable as possible so like to live there it's a summer house and it botanist ... and I live there in it and I mean ... it was tobacco we had ... like factories have when are you know like in the nineties that ... um it was very very cold it snowed and ... he was so cold in the house that I would track snow in the kitchen or were to stay there for weeks like it does ... it was ... I just dressed in a lot of clothes ... Edna ... the deal was that ... if I was actually waiting ... I can turn the baseboard heater on ... I wore myself but otherwise says the house was an insulated that was brought up is a good environmentalist like ... I'd I'd just wouldn't eat the whole one insulated house ... with a sporty Tianjin bothered me too but so ... is there something about the non comparable ... get you thinking enhances the creative process ... I know actually ... I think getting hit says some understanding about life ... but which may be used for the creative process I guess it should be ... um but know when you're actually right in ... you should become ... like you just don't want to be distracted you know what the CBO and ... you don't want to have your teeth chattering autos was the hint that he wouldn't write exactly ... so that your friend Sebastian ... oh ... I do and come to that came to this ... my father and citizens ... no I ... think this is this is the this is not just as you haven't bought like you just you know wanna get your email they knew I was talking a moment ago about ... trying to find room in this world with his constant stream of information ... to create and think of ideas and a concert the concert is due the people are able to do that anymore ... he added that the mind is that the mysterious and very powerful thing you need to leave it to Rome ... to find its own course you know and I and what some of the best ideas that had as a writer ... I've just come from the spacing out ... you know just ... sitting around ... thinking and what lay worrying ... about the syrup current generation of technology and for interactivity ... is that people believe Rome that this thing ... the only room in the lives they don't they're waiting for someone of Reinhart conduct is sitting in a chair ... you know like idly thinking in that's a very powerful process of mysterious and powerful process ... and I'm ... you know like I don't have a ... phone ... the I phone for Number reasons but one of them is they just don't want ... the electronic version of my life constantly nipping at my heels was a lot like ... um ... it's not I personally I don't I find it on a good thing I don't know I don't actually have a job like that where I'd ... I worked myself to read books ... I don't need to be on call and will keep asking all the time I just in some people do but ... blog if you can get away with it ... there are ... so good ... to about the smartphone and seriously ... one of the books in euro before we even had the smartphone generation that people might not know sauce on the other with your other works was above call it death ... in Belmont on the streets around and questions about a handyman who worked in your home and later ... confessed ... to being the Boston strangle or what what me you want to ... go back and tell that story Sebastian Bach I drove with his story a Grove of Boston ends ... um was six months old my parents hired a contractor ... where the workers through that one of the word is the guiding Talpa salvo and eight ... built in addition to the Rebbe did a very small house they build a one room addition ... and this is during the Boston strengths aunts ... but you're too later my mother ... my mother had a very very scary incident with out the beginning of this job the ... up early one morning before they actually started the job ... al crept into the basement our basement ... I called up to my mother my mother with me ... she didn't know he was the bosses try to go this is the owl the guy was going to be working on the house ... is like a the morning my father just left it obviously waited to ... see that ... my dad was gone ... the way the basement and they call them my lot Mrs younger than you can down here ... the washing machines broke ... ING's died ... does this for a woman's intuition but the washing machines not all I'm already excited to its maybe actually obvious ... the washing machines not on ... Al's not supposed to be down there is not his problem what's going to see open the door to look down ... the steps and said that ... yet a look in his eyes that she'd never seen before just completely ... um ... just cut rates ... and she shut the door and said I'm busy Alan to walk the door to our left ... and um ... she also asked the boss ... to ... fire out like that in one get someone fired is for ... which she thought was the look in its IPO she was trying to soothe wrestling with this right ... four years later ... it turned out that he confessed to being a Boston strength ... my book is about Ember the murder that happened down the street while now was working for us alone in our household actually ... and a woman named Bessie Goldberg was raped and strangled ... classic Boston straddling but they ... charged and and aam ... convicted of black guy from Mississippi name was Smith ... before al confessed everything ... moist with ... a knee when he died in prison saying he didn't feel that way and ... so the book is about the possibility that actually ... now the salvo build a single word I couldn't prove it ... I didn't really ... need to ... prove it I just wanted ... it's interesting matter of law right like how do you know ... again from good determination about facts ... um ... basically the books about reasonable doubt and how we decide that we know things ... when you immerse yourself ... in a story like like that or ... any of the stores are situations that you can dine in your work when ... when you have such an appetite for risk and you describe this one says ... of the beautiful woman that both you and Tim were in love with brightening ... risk is something that's ... if you are attracted to ... how does that affect your other relationships added effect insulation stepped ... up with with his ... wife the rpm the opposite direction married it ... known they were not yet go when girlfriend and how does that affect your personal relationships when people not everybody has that same baseline Sebastian ... no that's true ... and I think is new ... but I mean ... I think is you get older ... you invest more more and delays in the voices of the year and romantic and otherwise ... and less and less in what is ... essentially a very selfless and endeavor which is in building your own ... taste rest in knowing but ... it doesn't happen overnight year which is gradually goes like this need to go to your thirties and forties I found ... the things that were meaningful and thirty are really alike ... and thirty with meaningful is ... what was meaningful to me was one of the things taking risks ... yup if he's just not ... you know it feels low but like this to the game I don't need to play more than what ... feels much more meaningful is like real connection to people I care about I know that sounds kind of ... five cheesy but it's true is the absolute truth you know and and but ... you know you ... you achieve I achieve that regret ... and I'm glad I didn't even any faster than a half ... not that I think that's a big effect on when something that ... people no matter what age you can identify with ... the know as as we as we grow up and then grow older ... our adult I let everybody s questions in just a moment but one thing I'm curious about his ... objectivity of the ... detainees The Journal says something you never think about all the time but when you're you're embedded in Yuma come this close to the people ... you're telling your story ... if it's nonfiction your partner might how you balance those two ... well objectivity is something you just right for but ... understanding this the possible work human re-establish human license ... that sickly the situation really depend on other people ... um ... I mean if you're ... it's not just in in the day I mean if you're doing a ... story about the police department fire department of construction through whatever like ... your ... you establish relationships and of all the sudden see those people ... so like ... the way you have to do is try to be objective ... but mostly you have to be sure of August with yourself ... and the level War ... I the eye of a whole paragraph was said love of with these guys for year about objective forget about I really like these guys I'm not objective but ... you DBRS about the fact about object ... that I was trying to capture their experiences soldiers soldiers are objective either about each other ... they're very subjective and I said to my readers under that were to enter a subjective world ... were not evaluating the war ... we try to understand the experience of these men ... and ... as long as you're clear about what you're doing ... you couldn't ... you can be subjected to just up and put up a side you readers saying of subjective now ... so ... understand everything I say in those terms rather than an objective and you just have to be clearly read ... it that I think that's true I think that's that's a very poignant did that in the book and he basically set up Friday ... night that said ... I had a million more questions for him but I wanna open up to you guys who wants to be the brave soul to raise their hand personally bring them like a ... every Gap ... brace off ... the ... the ... to set what is the week I get the CD that my croissant a gap ... on the fourth storm ... surge recently read that ... um ... we really liked the idea that it's ... it's also one of the um ... what effect that ... you know they're actively helped ... lead the ... the ... just recently over the last boss is rather bake them a Merry sold and ... bought her the DNA found in her was erased reading the DNA ... found in her was linked to ... the de Silva family ... um there was ... has always been a big controversy in Boston about it the Salvos confessions were legitimate ... a lot of people feel that um ... Delta's the conspiracy theorists that he'd actually didn't kill anybody ... DNA is now shown absolutely that he killed Mary soul that I tend to think that it be ... killed one woman ... and claims who kills ... a dozen others he ... does a pretty good chance that ... right here in the back of ... my ... time Mr. younger fantastic top ... end of a I'd really love or step over them of the documentary ... I understand you've been a combat zone several times ... how do you ... condition your set since it's not just a matter of just going to want to go there repeatedly ... condition yourself ... to go into that Sarah situ in ... situation every time is are we use they fit or ... mentally prep yourself but so that that's her thing it up ... I aam ... the first four I was in was in nineteen eighty three in Bosnia ... and I've been going back periodic Lee every war as a particular dangers ... and things are particularly scary about it ... um ... humans are really adaptable ... Bedok physically have a pretty good shape like ... like I didn't have to worry about that too much but mentally ... where I found was that I was always much more apprehensive and nervous before ... hands ... then serve anticipatory dread basically beforehand of what I'd actually got there ... and I know that as nervous as I can ... be before going to a place like that ... when I get there it completely changes in your mind and ... he was a really adaptable within I guarantee you ... anyone sitting here right now ... I can put you in a war zone a few days or week you would adjust to that he be scared sometimes ... other tied to the surprise that you were still ... and that life ... in a war was starting to feel that normally happen very very quickly and it would happen to all of you and that's why we've survived a species ... because we're so incredibly about ... you said that ... two years ago he decided ... the ... top of tens of all styles of us ... via web service from low forty s about sassy ... very un usual you believe the ... modest war correspondents a walk the talk was are addicted to war ... I'd you know I think addicted ... this is the wrong term I think they formed their identity ... around the idea of being a risk taker ... and then they have to reinforce that identity we all have to reinforce our identities and whatever we do ... that to reinforce that identity ... by ... going back towards regulate their adding We Albers Paul Underwood Rehling than to rest different levels of risk and that's just human ... I told it's an addiction I think is an identity issue hadn't ... I don't even think that's necessarily a bad day ... for me personally I just realize that other things in life start to feel more meaningful ... to to my identity and that part of my identity wants you know it just it just kept its like if you're an athlete you know some when your thirties ... the forties you started up or stop and edifying as Napoli ... and maybe something else it's inevitable you how you and that is what happen to me is that were of one fifty one right so ... that I tell you gotta realize like at some point ... you know you need to look for the dignified exit ... that way ... it's ... I get back ... on ... okay um ... those interested in finding and it's been kind of training information rules ... that you provided by the staff ... going into those ... places in the war zone ... that that helps you understand what you're getting yourself into ... so that you can feel comfortable and that they wouldn't feel comfortable with you knowing that you were not get hurt ... well ... I ... know I'll ... I'll what's the work of anything ... so ... I do a lot more about war than the seven Vanity fair to obviously ... um ... it's a great magazine but that one of the things I was not Guinea get from them was tells all about how to ... work towards on ... the military serve amazing but once they did what's ... president was decided that journalists to be imbedded with front line units ... the military every all ... you give them an indicted and instruction the order they like ok will do it and they don't really think about ... don't over analyze it too much ahead ... like ok we'll take journalists and ... they just ... the late start accepting journalist you're not trained your garden for money you basically have to learn on the fly ... that said ... if a commander of the ground feels that a journalist is with his unit is a danger to him self order was issued and ... the other is if he's really out of shape and can keep up on a patrol or ... or is frankly just terrified of the gunfire ... the commander can say ... um ... you were saying on the bench and are coming out of control anymore and it really is not ... that is not of ... curtailing any wins ... freedom of press that really is just the sensible decision ... about the realities of war ... but ... it's amazingly open right leg ... a twenty year often armed with a platoon ... Tim and I shot a ... very disturbed that I was very disturbing footage the military knew we were American casualties ... civilian casualties from American bombings ... everything and no one ever ... ever ever was even talk to us about ... your you sure you want to hear that but about what's the title that's not every journalists experience but I ... work seven myself I have to say I was very very proud of ... on one seventy third Airborne and this country that they can allow that kind of access to the presence of trust ... trust the access to be used on sleep ... and not in an intensely distorting way ... so much time today thinking of you saved two years ago I stopped going to war ... I just wonder what your what you're obsessed with are interested in now and second part ... are you working on a book and what the subject matter ... I ... felt it yet ... of war the war I mean this is why soldiers have trouble going back for more ... it's ... just about the most intense ... you would experience you can buy ... when I realize what I gave up going to war was that I would have to give up ... all in the idea being interested in something that's as intense as that it just doesn't exist right ... but that's ok like it ... might be deceptive recalibrate ... your level of expectation and ... um so what is ... really been ... a lot of them really miss war it's not that their psychotic killers ... who missed killing ... they miss the intensity in the sense of me and the Brotherhood ... and the sense of purpose they miss all those things as I do I get to ... um I'll sum it likes what it's you know what you do about it right ... um ... you just ... but war is also very easy to write about because it's so dramatic ... Cairns ... I realize like I risked just repeating was ... that is the repeating myself ... I continue to report a war zone when actually wrote about ... wider topics back home ... slightly quieter topics he was actually a greater challenge was chosen to write her ... nose can actually develop financing rates of what I'm doing right now ... I made to college in a weird topic ... try to describe it briefly but ... um I was interested in this ... difficulty of coming back from war for both me and the summer the best that I knew ... but victory guys ... um ... to to combat vets who are never going back toward guys didn't do very well ... and I've taught the journalist who was with my friend Jim ... of who to side with when he died ... I mean literally holdings ... um ... was not going back toward enemy of the Durham ivory SA ID ... what do was walk through were doing a ... we walked several hundred miles low railroad lines along the eastern seaboard ... um ... we were short a high speed bumps ... we bought ... get that every Southerner bridges and in abandoned buildings in in the words and the top routing every carried all our gear we didn't have sense ... very low profile we move very fast doubling dog ... heads of ... its goal of the last patrol ... and aam ... kids were basically writing a book in making a film about this very weird journey to America ... along the railroad lines where you really mean everybody like roads go around things drove I go straight to get those fleets in swamps ... St the suburbs ... every half exists or to below the ... radar ... is it's all legal and ... we did over the course of the year ... your trip in each season ... um at our last leg unfortunately though some are Legos last week ... and we're walking in daughter and ten ... degree heat index was sixty Brownback's ... along realize them with the the ay ... ay was ... I mean ... very hard ... write our what was it ever Magatte a stroke like he was he was ... pretty tough week ... thank you for sure and I know it's hard sometimes talk about something here in the middle of night that he got a ready audience of people willing to ... read the book and watch the film when that comes out and ... for strep but was out on DVD and which way the front lines of your eyes on HBO on demand in use it on DVD this fall this fall beyond the DTI of course all of your butts out what a great conversation thank you so much ... I cried ... the ... entire the entire conversation will be available on WS J dot com later in the day as well as all of our Bryant Park ... Breakfast series thank so much for being with us ...


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Teens have a lot of questions about drugs, which is why NIDA holds an annual Drug Facts Chat Day to explain the science behind drug abuse. At the last Chat Day, "casa grande" from Casa Grande Union High School in Arizona asked: What are opioids?
Opioids, also known as "opiates," are a class of drugs with powerful pain-relieving properties. So, some are prescribed by doctors like Percocet, Vicodin, and codeine for people who need them. But then there are also street drugs like heroin that are also opioids—so yeah, Vicodin and heroin are in the same class of drugs!
When prescribed by a doctor, opioids can be used in a responsible way to reduce pain, treat diarrhea, or control coughing. Inside our bodies, opioids link to receptors in the brain, spinal cord, and gut, much like pieces in a puzzle. When they do, they can block the experience of pain. For example, morphine is sometimes given to people before or after surgery.
However, opioids can also affect parts of the brain that control feelings of pleasure, producing a sense of euphoria that makes people want to take them again and again even when they're not in pain. When people keep taking them like that, opioids can actually change the way the brain works, causing strong cravings that are of part of having an addiction.
NIDA scientists have put together a lot of information on opiates – learn more at Mind Matters: The Body's Response to Opioides, Research Report Series - Prescription Drugs: Abuse and Addiction, NIDA InfoFacts: Heroin.
i have chonic pain and my doctor used to give me perocets but now she gives me oxycontins, which is worse in my opinion. i think im getting dependent on it and im scared that i might get addicted.
@sk8ter - You should talk to your doctor about it, really. Especially if you're concerned about getting addicted. Percocet and Oxycontin both contain oxycodone, which is an opioid pain medication with various brand names.
opiates are bad news. trust me. at the age of 12 i started smoking marijuana, then a couple years later i got into doing opiates. it started with doing some percs or vikes once in awhile to shooting heroin. its crazy how things change so fast.
i'm currently in a placement facility and getting the help i need. i've been here for 6mos. at first i couldnt stand the idea of being 'locked up.' but now i realized that it saved my life. i just got my GED and i'm going to college to become a medical administrative assistant.
please, take my advise.. STAY AWAY!!!
i started taking heroin at the age of 20. I started by snoking it in a roll up then a year later i was chasing the dragon etc smoking it on the foil. I was addicted to it within a month an carried on smoking 4 years later. I was tired of being ill an shoplifting to obtain my habit. If it wasn't for my mum giving me an opportunity to get out of london i wouldv'e carried on. I went to ireland to get clean,the first 12 days i had methadone then i went cold turkey. it has been nearly 2 months an i haven't gone back to my old ways. I will never depend on a drug ever again. Heroin is the devil's drug an shouldn't be toyed with stay away.
Things are really starting to get out of hand with children being addicted to prescription pain pill opiates such as Percocet, Vicodin, and codeine. Something really needs to be done about this situation really fast, or else our kids are doomed, and so is our future because the kids are the future of this world. Drug abuse education really needs to start at home with parents educating there kids on such matter, instead of letting them turn to the streets. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
I should probably see a doctor now.
I was prescribed oxycontins until I discovered natural medicine.
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To much is no good. So don't take so much thing that you cant handle.
WEtv HAS A NEW SERIES THAT AIMS TO HELP PARENTS AND THEIR TEENS IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY ADDICTION...
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i had an experience with a somewhat addiction in the past. i was in a car accident and the ER doctor gave me a prescrption for Hyrdocoden for my arm to help with thw pain.I was started to get depended on the medicine and i had to stop taking it
is there any more info on this? i'm doing a health project on it
@mermer I think we've offered quite a few places where you can find information. There are also a few other posts on Sara Bellum to refer to here: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/tag/opioid-narcotics/ You might also check NIDA's main Web site at http://drugabuse.gov. Good luck with your health project!
what are slang words for this substance
@motarola Some of the slang words for opioids and the prescription drugs that fall into this category include: painkiller, percocet, percodan, opiate, Oxy (for Oxycontin), hydrocodone, or oxycodone. For other slang words for this class of drugs, check the White House Office of Drug Control Policy's "street terms" Web page: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=56
Just don't start and you won't have to stop.
To koolkid_101 i think that it is a good answer
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dont do drugs
i started taking heroin at the age of 20. I started by snoking it in a roll up then a year later i was chasing the dragon etc smoking it on the foil. I was addicted to it within a month an carried on smoking 4 years later. I was tired of being ill an shoplifting to obtain my habit. If it wasn't for my mum giving me an opportunity to get out of london i wouldv'e carried on. I went to ireland to get clean,the first 12 days i had methadone then i went cold turkey. it has been nearly 2 months an i haven't gone back to my old ways. I will never depend on a drug ever again. Heroin is the devil's drug an shouldn't be toyed with stay away.
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i think that people on drugs tend to want to killl them selfs more than normaly drugs are horrible i dont do drugs
Hi Isabella - People use and abuse drugs for several reasons: it makes them feel good, it helps them escape physical and emotional pain, or it helps them perform better. However, drugs are can be very damaging to your health. They can harm your brain and cause you to become addicted. Explore this website for more information about the negative effects of drug use.


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Would anyone be interested in some CD`s. I collected these while in the UK. I live in the US now so would prefer to mail US only.
Worst me posting pics of the singles, EP`s and odd things i`ve got?
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FAYETTEVILLE — When Arkansas forward Jacorey Williams thought back to last season's games against Missouri, one word came to mind.
FAYETTEVILLE — When Arkansas forward Jacorey Williams thought back to last season's games against Missouri, one word came to mind.
He used it again and again in describing the budding rivalry.
"It was just physical," Williams said. "From start to finish it was physical. There were people getting picked up off the floor. Thrown on the floor. Fouling. You've got (former Missouri center Alex) Oriakhi hitting everybody with elbows. So it was just like … I just remember it being physical and very competitive."
Williams doesn't see any reason the intensity will change when the two programs from bordering states meet once again in Bud Walton Arena at 6 p.m. Arkansas (13-6, 2-4 in Southeastern Conference) and Missouri (15-4, 3-3) are expecting another emotional night as they add another chapter to their history.
"It's going to be very competitive," Williams said. "Everybody is going to play with a chip on their shoulder and that's how the game is going to be. Whoever brings the most energy (tonight), that's who is going to come out with a W."
The programs will meet as SEC foes for the third time after splitting the season series a year ago. It also signals the third time Arkansas coach Mike Anderson will face his former school after leading the program for five seasons.
Anderson said the emotions won't be quite the same a year later because the Tigers don't have any of his former players — who he referred to as "sons" last season — on their roster under coach Frank Haith. But Anderson acknowledged his Missouri ties, the history between the Razorbacks and Tigers dating back to Nolan Richardson's time with the Razorbacks, and the fact both teams are now bordering states in the same conference should keep the intensity intact.
"I think as we continue to be in the same league, it will continue to build," Anderson said. "Where it's at right now, I think it's trending that way. Especially, the split (last year). We had a game here we won, they won one last year. There's the storyline I was there. Hopefully, that's kind of faded and we can move on and play basketball."
Neither side was ready to proclaim Arkansas-Missouri has blossomed into a full-fledged rivalry, but there's no doubt last year's games planted plenty of seeds.
It began with Arkansas' 73-71 win in Fayetteville, which was Anderson's first game against his former team. The border battle was physical throughout, producing a memorable moment when 5-foot-10 Arkansas guard Kikko Haydar latched onto a ball being held by the muscular 6-9 Oriakhi. Haydar went for a ride to the home crowd's delight, tying up the big man while being lifted off the ground.
Missouri nearly won the game, though, holding a four-point lead with 34 seconds left. St. Louis native and former Arkansas guard BJ Young rescued the Hogs with seven points — including back-to-back 3-point plays — to help the Razorbacks complete a comeback and keep its perfect home record in SEC play intact.
Haith was upset after the loss, starting his postgame press conference by telling reporters not to ask him about the officiating. But he and the Tigers got their revenge, when Missouri rolled to a 30-point win on Senior Night in Anderson's return to Columbia. The Tigers led by 26 at halftime and continued to cruise.
That game also will be remembered more for a moment between the two coaches.
An emotional Haith had to be restrained in the first half, stepping toward Anderson after a stop in play. Anderson returned Haith's action by smiling at his replacement.
The two coaches spent more time than usual talking to each other after the game ended, then described it as a misunderstanding. That didn't change this week. Both said they consider each other friends in the profession despite the kerfuffle.
"Mike and I, Marcheita (Anderson) and my wife, we're really good friends," Haith said. "We spend a lot of time with each other. So there's no issue there."
Said Anderson: "That's water under the bridge. … We've moved on from that."
Of course, each coach would love to one-up the other once again tonight.
Anderson called tonight's game "big" for the Razorbacks, who are trying to battle out of their 1-4 hole. Arkansas took the first step in the right direction by beating Auburn, but the challenge will be much greater against Missouri.
The good news is that Arkansas is playing at home, where it is 12-1 this season.
"We've got to get wins," Arkansas forward Coty Clarke said. "That's the main thing on our minds. Not get caught up in them and coach Anderson and all that. We're trying to win. … I'm sure he's going to tell us the same thing. Just play. Don't worry about what they have to say about last year. Me and Missouri. None of that."
Missouri, meanwhile, will try to gain steam as well with its guard-oriented lineup. Jabari Brown (19.5 points a game) and Jordan Clarkson (18.8 points) rank first and third, respectively, in the SEC in scoring. Earnest Ross (14 points) is tied for 13th.
All three are transfers who are making an impact for Haith at Missouri.
"It's definitely a luxury having three guys that can put the ball in the basket," Haith said. "We've just got to get our post players to do a little bit more. Once that happens, and we get a little bit more out of bench, we can have a pretty good team. But there's no question it's a luxury having three guys that can have a big night."
Arkansas is 6-0 against Missouri in Bud Walton Arena, dating back to its first season in the building in 1993-94. The Tigers haven't won on the road against the Razorbacks since 1991-92, when they grabbed an 87-76 win in Barnhill Arena.
The Razorbacks believe they'll have to battle to keep the streak intact tonight.
But Anderson believes his team is ready for another intense game.
"It's Missouri vs. Arkansas," Anderson said. "It's an SEC game. We got off to a slow start, so we want to keep the momentum going the right direction. We feel like we are playing good basketball and want to continue that."


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The NYT paywall arrives
The NYT paywall has arrived: it's going up in Canada today, and then worldwide on March 28. The most comprehensive source for the gritty details is this FAQ, which does things like explain the difference between an item and a pageview. (A slideshow or a multi-page article is one "item," no matter how many slides it contains.)
The NYT has decided not to make the paywall very cheap and porous in the first instance as people get used to it. $15 for four weeks might be cheap compared to the cost of a print subscription, but $195 per year is still enough money to give readers pause and to drive them elsewhere. And similarly, 20 articles per month is lower than I would have expected at launch.
Rather than take full advantage of their ability to change the numbers over time, the NYT seems to have decided they're going to launch at the kind of levels they want to see over the long term. Which is a bit weird. Instead, the NYT has sent out an email to its "loyal readers" that they'll get "a special offer to save on our new digital subscriptions" come March 28. This seems upside-down to me: it's the loyal readers who are most likely to pay premium rates for digital subscriptions, while everybody else is going to need a special offer to chivvy them along.
This paywall is anything but simple, with dozens of different variables for consumers to try to understand. Start with the price: the website is free, so long as you read fewer than 20 items per month, and so are the apps, so long as you confine yourself to the "Top News" section. You can also read articles for free by going in through a side door. Following links from Twitter or Facebook or Reuters.com should never be a problem, unless and until you try to navigate away from the item that was linked to.
Beyond that, $15 per four-week period gives you access to the website and also its smartphone app, while $20 gives you access to the website also its iPad app. But if you want to read the NYT on both your smartphone and your iPad, you'll need to buy both digital subscriptions separately, and pay an eye-popping $35 every four weeks. That's $455 a year.
The message being sent here is weird: that access to the website is worth nothing. Mathematically, if A+B=$15, A+C=$20, and A+B+C=$35, then A=$0.
Meanwhile, at least where I live in New York, a print subscription which gets you the newspaper only on Sundays costs $19.60 every four weeks — and it comes with free access to the web and tablet versions of the newspaper. Which creates the slightly odd proposition that if you want to use the NYT's iPad app, you're marginally better off subscribing to the print newspaper on Sundays and throwing it away unread than you are just subscribing to the app on its own.
The pricing structure is also a strong disincentive to use the iPad app at all, of course. If you're already paying $15 every four weeks to have full access to the website, why on earth would you pay extra just to be able to read the paper on its own dedicated app rather than in Safari? I, for one, prefer the experience of reading nytimes.com on the web on my iPad, rather than reading an iPad app which has no search, no links, no archives, no social recommendations, etc etc. If the NYT wanted to kill any incentive to read and develop its iPad app, it's going about it the right way.
What does all this mean for the New York Times Company? I can't see how it's good. The paywall is certainly being set high enough that a lot of regular readers will not subscribe. These are readers who would normally link to the NYT from their blogs, who would tweet NYT articles, who would post those articles on Facebook, and so on. As a result, not only will traffic from these readers decline, but so will all their referral traffic, too. The NYT makes more than $300 million a year in digital ad revenue, so even a modest decline in pageviews, relative to what the site could have generated sans paywall, can mean many millions of dollars foregone. On top of that, the paywall itself cost somewhere over $40 million to develop.
Against all that, how much revenue will the paywall bring in? A very large number of the paper's most loyal readers are already print subscribers, and get access to the website at no extra cost. So the new revenues from the paywall will only come from people who read the website a lot but who don't subscribe in print.
How many of those people are there? Emily Bell reckons that the number of people who'll even hit the paywall in the first place is only about 5% of the NYT's 33 million or so unique visitors. That's 1.6 million people — compare the 1.3 million people who already subscribe to the paper on Sundays. The former is not a perfect superset of the latter, of course, but there's a big overlap; let's say that realistically the NYT is going after a universe of no more than 800,000 people that it's going to ask to subscribe. And let's be generous and say that 15% of them do so, paying an average of $200 per year apiece. That's extra revenues of $24 million per year.
$24 million is a minuscule amount for the New York Times company as a whole; it's dwarfed not only by total revenues but even by those total digital advertising revenues of more than $300 million a year. This is what counts as a major strategic move within the NYT?
As Ken Doctor notes, the Times Select fiasco, which was unceremoniously killed in 2007 to no one's regret, was bringing in a good $10 million per year. This new paywall is much more elaborate and expensive, and it's being introduced into a website which is currently something of a cash cow as regards ad revenues.
So by my back-of-the-envelope math, the paywall won't even cover its own development costs for a good two years, and beyond that will never generate enough money to really make a difference to NYTCo revenues. Maybe that might change if the NYT breaks its promise to offer full website access for free to all print subscribers. But that decision would be fraught in all manner of other ways.
For the time being, though, I just can't see how this move makes any kind of financial sense for the NYT. The upside is limited; the downside is that it ceases to be the paper of record for the world. Who would take that bet?
Update: Turning upside-down the conventional wisdom that consumers will only pay for financial information and porn, the NYT has decided that Dealbook will remain completely free, outside the paywall, at least for the time being. Which I guess explains why the Business and Dealbook sections are so clearly separated from each other online.


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I had scanned hundreds of photos that evening, most of them with no identification, and most so small it was hard to see much without scanning. My eyes were tired. My back was aching. I had two piles for the completed photos - the Unknown pile and the Known pile, depending on what, if anything, was written on them. The Unknown pile was heaping, and I feared most of the little photos in the old trunk would end up there. My grandmother had moved to another town, and did not want these mystery photos, nor did she want to go through them. My father, knowing my affinity for family history, grabbed the beat up rusted old trunk from her pile of things to go to the trash.I'm so glad I did not give up on all those tiny photos. There were a few other gems hidden amongst the unknown photos as well, but none like the headstone photo.
I scanned the little photo of a headstone, and as the scan came up on the screen, I had the photo halfway to the Unknown pile. I did a quick look at the name, and was ready to move on when something stopped me.
I scanned the little photo of a headstone, and as the scan came up on the screen, I had the photo halfway to the Unknown pile. I did a quick look at the name, and was ready to move on when something stopped me.
I was pretty sure I would not know most of the people in those photos. My grandmother, Lisa, was technically my step-grandmother, and these photos were hers. She married my grandfather, a widower in the United States, when she was 50 years old and had come here from Norway at that time. Much of her life had been in Norway with her own friends and family, and I didn't know any of them. After hours of scanning, this little epiphany was enough to make me want to quit wasting my time and go to bed.
And then I scanned the headstone photo.
Lisa had grown up on the Klungseth farm next to my grandfather's family's farm at Hundhammer. As a child she played with my grandfather and his siblings. And she had known my great-grandparents. Their names, she had told me, were Andreas and Anne Larsen.
I nearly fell off my chair when I saw that the headstone photo was that of my great grandparents. I knew so little about them, and here they were, right in front of me.
From that point on, I learned more about them rather quickly. Andreas was a farmer, and the area where they lived was exceptional for fishing, so he built a boarding house to rent beds to fishermen, and did a brisk business. Anne took care of the house and the animals. Lisa told me she was an incredible storyteller, and would entertain the children with her tales.
Then, an uncle produced a photo of them, and cousins in Norway that I had met had photos to share as well.
|Andreas and Anne Larsen
|Andreas and Anne, with my grandfather Adolph, who was the baby of the family. Photo courtesy of Ivar Wiik.
|Their farm at Hundhammer. Photo courtesy of Tove Fagerhøi.
|Steine Kirke, their church and cemetery, is just minutes from their farm. Photo courtesy of Iren S. Flasnes.


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Mikey and Nicky is an interesting minimalist character study of two low-rent hoods on a particularly fateful Manhattan night. The making of the film became much bigger news than the final product as director Elaine May ran up huge production bills and kept shooting for a record time while working out finer points of mobster psychology with her two stars, Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. The amazing thing is that the film is neither bad or misconceived. It plays very well for a movie that should have been shot in five weeks with a skeleton crew.
The seventies' run of director-fueled American art films was already coming to a close when Elaine May spent a ton of Paramount's money making Mikey and Nicky; Jaws had pointed the way to the future: Audience-friendly event movies about upbeat adventure and technical showmanship. Elaine May's gritty gangster saga is more like Odd Man Out or The Friends of Eddie Coyle in its depiction of a pair of grubby losers involved in sordid goings-on. It all takes place in one night as sort of a wise guy's American Graffiti. The protagonists are their own worst enemies. Nicky is not only paranoid, he's spitefully contemptous of everyone around. Mikey receives friendly treatment only to the extent that he goes along with Nicky's every foolish wish. For his part, Mikey reveals his own distrust and resentment of his best friend, who hasn't shared his good times with Resnick or recommended MIkey for any good jobs.
Nicky is the least trustworthy of the two, but Mikey and Nicky makes no such distinctions, as Mikey is only marginally less eager to take advantage of people. What they really are is infantile; Nicky especially seems to think that being a hood allows him to be selfish at all times, including claiming the right to doublecross his dangerous bosses in the mob. They're exactly what you'd expect in the lower ranks of organized crime.
The film is completely character-driven and its best aspect is the acting. Falk is convincing as a nervous pal trying to get his buddy to do the smart thing, and Cassavetes' frantic punk jumps to new levels of paranoid aggression every time he gets stressed out. Steering away from the high-falutin' allegory of Odd Man Out, Elaine May's story lets the two stagger through the mean streets but never suggests that they represent anything beyond their own self-made tragedy.
A frequent remark about Mikey and Nicky is that it looks like a Cassavetes picture. If it weren't for the lack of a loose camera or scenes built solely from free-form improvisation, there would be no difference. May succeeds with the intense character interaction and definitely tries to impart the feeling that anything can happen, but it's all within a tightly constructed story arc.
Whether it works or not depends on one's enjoyment of two hours spent with some very unstable and sometimes unpleasant characters. They do some pretty repellent things, especially their visit with one of Nicky's girlfriends, Nellie (Carol Grace). Nellie is Nicky's favorite "quickie" - overaged and not too bright, she quickly succumbs to his sweet-talk on her living room floor. As is his nature, Nicky has no sense of limits; when he's done he sends Mikey in with the advice to "just tell her you love her." It's very ugly and completely credible.
The movie really doesn't have a sense of humor beyond the sick laughter of its heroes, but Ned Beatty does inject a certain amusement into his role of the put-upon hard-luck hit man who can't seem to connect with his target. He has to worry about his car being towed because he's too cheap to hire a wheel man. William Hickey (The Boston Strangler) and Sanford Meisner are quietly menacing as the gang bosses, and M. Emmet Walsh has a nice bit as a bus driver pummeled by our two 'boys' just for fun. Rose Arrick and Joyce Van Patten are also credible as the wives; Arrick figures in the only daylight scene, a starkly unpleasant betrayal. At the end, we are left with a gripping portrait of two very misspent lives.
Again, if this were a low-budget film Hollywood might have embraced it as an independent-styled thriller willing to tell a story. In the extras, the producer says that May exposed over a million feet of 35mm negative to put her 105 minutes of drama on the screen. At that shooting ratio, a blind drunk ought to be able to come up with as much entertainment.
Home Vision Entertainment's DVD of Mikey and Nicky presents a great-looking transfer of a feature that either slipped away or was encouraged to elope from Paramount's control. The enhanced transfer plays great on a large screen without any detail loss in the mostly dark nighttime photography.
There are some good liner notes by Jonathan Rosenbaum and two interview docus, both with producer Michael Hausman. On the first he tells the production story, which includes a lot of guessing because he was completely shut out of May's day-long discussions with her actors and had zero control over her refusal to follow a shooting schedule, or even consider one. The second docu joins Hausman with cinematographer Victor J. Kemper. In the beginning, Cassavetes was doing some of the shooting himself, which resulted in dailies where dozens of film rolls screened with no image on them at all!
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
Mikey and Nicky rates:


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Big Kenny
from Culpepper, VA
November 1, 1963 (age 56)
Although born and raised in rural Virginia, Kenny Alphin made his name (literally) after moving to Nashville, where he rechristened himself Big Kenny and found platinum success as one half of the country duo Big Rich. Known for their rowdy humor and willingness to embrace multiple genres, Big Rich scored their first string of hits with 2004's Horse of a Different Color. Big Kenny and John Rich had established their Nashville credentials long before the album's release, though, with both musicians releasing solo records in 1999 and, two years later, co-founding a weekly songwriters' roundtable called the MuzikMafia. Moreover, they'd already cut their teeth in full-fledged bands (Kenny fronted the short-lived luvjOi, while Rich logged several years as the bassist of Lonestar). Such experience allowed Big Rich to establish an audience quickly, and Horse of a Different Color sold more than three million copies as a result. In addition to co-writing much of his own band's material, Big Kenny penned songs for other artists, including the title track for Gretchen Wilson's Here for the Party and the chart-topping single Last Dollar (Fly Away) for Tim McGraw. He also continued releasing material with Big Rich and maintained a concurrent solo career, with The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy marking his second solo album in 2009. ~ Andrew Leahey, Rovi
Top Tracks
Big Kenny - Long After I'm Gone
Wake Up - BIG KENNY
Big & Rich discuss their religious beliefs
Big Kenny on Las Vegas victims: These people are our family
Big Kenny - Under The Sun
Long After I'm Gone by Big Kenny
"Less Than Whole" Music Video