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Today is day 9 of 13 of the pre-op clear liquid only diet. I have lost 10.2 lbs. Things have been difficult at times, but most of the discomfort has been psychological. I am not often hungry, and my blood sugar remains stable most of the time. I am drinking about 70g of protein per day, 8oz of juice, lots of clear broth, and water. I am also taking vitamins. I am not a fan of the protein drinks, but I am getting them down. I have followed the diet perfectly so far. Using meditation techniques to get through the psychological difficulties has made all the difference in the world.
Even just losing 10 lbs has made some positive difference. My face seems thinner and it is no longer as uncomfortable to lay on my back. I am excited about the changes to come.
5 more days till surgery!
You got this girl! When I started my liquid diet I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST so horrible. Everyone eating around me I couldn't stand it! But I did manage. 🙌


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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blistering warning to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama said it would be the "height of irresponsibility" for lawmakers to cause another economic crisis just five years after the collapse of the nation's financial system.
"I cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos if it can't get 100 percent of what it wants," Obama said Monday. "That's never happened before."
The president spoke at a White House event pegged to the fifth anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The White House used the anniversary to lay out the president's markers for upcoming fiscal fights with Congress over funding the government and raising the nation's debt limit.
Obama reiterated his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over the debt ceiling. And he called on Congress to "pass a budget without drama."
Some conservative Republicans say they will only extend current spending levels or increase the debt ceiling if Obama delays putting in place his health care law, a condition Obama has flatly rejected. Others say the scheduled spending cuts should stay in place to reduce the deficit.
The president was flanked by Americans the White House says have benefitted from his administration's economic and banking policies. Those policies, he said, have laid a "new foundation" for economic growth, though he acknowledged that the recovery is not being felt by many middle class Americans.
Polling show the public is not convinced that the economy is on the mend. Only one-third say the economic system is more secure now than in 2008, and 52 percent say they disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, according to a Pew Research Center poll.
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Shelton State Community College has named Cara Crosslin as the Buccaneer's newest Athletic Director. The Tuscumbia native, who previously served as the College's Athletic Support Specialist, is a former coach and athletic director at Thompson High School in Alabaster. Crosslin played basketball at the University of Alabama from 1993- 1997.
Toys R Us is closing its Tuscaloosa store in McFarland Plaza (2600 McFarland Blvd E). The Tuscaloosa store is one of 182 "underperforming" stores that the company is closing as part of its financial restructuring plan. Store closings were expected to begin in February.
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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event August 7-8, 2009: Conservative Columnist Reports Tale of Tea Party Activist 'Savagely Beaten' by 'Union Thugs'. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
Six people, including a local reporter, are arrested outside a public forum called by Representative Russ Carnahan (D-MO) at a middle school gymnasium outside of St. Louis. The forum, planned to allow constituents to discuss aging issues with Carnahan, quickly becomes contentious, with an overflow crowd denied entrance to the gymnasium and left to protest and wave signs in the parking lot. Many of the protesters are from a local anti-tax and anti-health care reform "tea party" organization. Local Democratic organizations counter with their supporters. Altercations in Parking Lot - Verbal, and later physical, altercations erupt between reform supporters and opponents. Six people are arrested outside the gym, including St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman, for interference after he refuses to stop taking pictures of the altercations. One of those arrested, reform supporter Brian Matthews, calls the situation outside the gym "a bull rush," and adds, "It all came from behind." After the forum, Matthews and a friend, Javonne Spitz, attempt to photograph a man who appears as if he has been assaulted. The police object, and, as Matthews tells it, several officers "charge" them "from behind." The police push Matthews to the ground and arrest him for interference; Spitz is pepper-sprayed "after she was subdued by the police," Matthews says, causing her to vomit as they are taken into custody. A woman is arrested for assault and destruction of property for pushing a woman who is recording the events on her cell phone, then taking the phone from her and breaking it. A man is arrested for refusing to leave a circle of people surrounding Matthews's pepper-sprayed friend. A police spokesman later says: "You've got to understand—we're at a very volatile situation, we've got 800 people and we've got to maintain order. [The police] did what they had to do." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/7/2009; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/7/2009] Kenneth Gladney - Conservative activist Kenneth Gladney claims to have been attacked by several of those arrested as he attempts to hand out yellow flags with "Don't Tread on Me" printed on them; police later confirm that two men were arrested for assaulting someone attempting to hand out flags and fliers. A reporter interviews Gladney as he awaits treatment at a local emergency room for injuries he says he suffered to his knee, back, shoulder, elbow, and face. Gladney, an African-American, says one of his assailants used a racial slur against him. "It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked," he says. Gladney later affirms that he had been hired by the St. Louis Tea Party organization to hand out flags, and adds, "I was attacked for something I believe in." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/7/2009; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/7/2009] He appears on several conservative TV and radio shows, including those hosted by Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly, where he tells his interviewers that he was punched in the face by three different people and kicked by a fourth. Unfortunately for his claim, he appears in perfect health on the broadcasts, with no indication of swelling or bruising. [Daily Kos, 8/8/2009] Tim Tagaris, the new media director for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), later sends an e-mail and links to photos taken during the altercation which contradict Gladney's tale. According to Tagaris, the photos show an SEIU member getting off the ground holding his shoulder. Gladney is identified as an African-American male in a khaki (or gray) shirt "walking around just fine after the altercation." Tagaris says it is only after he begins appearing on talk shows that he takes to a wheelchair (see August 8, 2009). [Daily Kos, 8/9/2009] Loud Attempts to Protest Health Care Reform - Inside the gym, protesters attempt to turn the discussion from the topic of the elderly to health care, an issue they apparently wish to shout down. "This isn't even close to civil," one audience member says after the forum. "The rudeness was beyond compare." An elderly audience member calls the forum "a complete waste of time." After the meeting, Carnahan says: "Sadly we've seen stories about disrupters around the country, and we have a handful of them here in Missouri. Instead of participating in a civil debate, they have mobilized with special interests in Washington who have lined their pockets by overcharging Americans for a broken health care system." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/7/2009] The next day, Carnahan says: "Sadly, they got out of control on both sides. That's not helpful, and I condemn that activity.… Let's have a spirited debate, a debate worthy of our country." A member of the St. Louis Tea Party who attended another forum, local radio show host Dana Loesch, says: "Last night, it was a whole different scene. That's not what this should be about." Defending her colleagues, she adds: "I can't blame them for being frustrated, but there are ways to handle this without calling these people mobs. This isn't an angry mob." SEIU spokeswoman Ramona Oliver says her union has no intention of confronting angry protesters. "The members didn't come to talk to the angry mob outside, they came to talk to the congresspeople inside," she says. "All our members want is to have a civil discussion. There is no campaign to confront the tea baggers." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/7/2009]
Entity Tags: Javonne Spitz, Brian Matthews, Dana Loesch, Kenneth Gladney, Jake Wagman, Laura Ingraham, Bill O'Reilly, Tim Tagaris, Russ Carnahan, Service Employees International Union, St. Louis Tea Party, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Timeline Tags: US Health Care, Domestic Propaganda, US Domestic Terrorism
Columnist Mary Katharine Ham of the Weekly Standard reports on a recent altercation at a town hall forum in St. Louis, where tea party activist Kenneth Gladney has charged he was "savagely beaten" by "union thugs" for selling anti-Obama merchandise (see August 6-8, 2009 and August 8, 2009). Ham writes that the Gladney altercation has been twisted "by liberals looking to paint the violence as caused by critics of the administration." According to a conversation with Gladney's lawyer David Brown, who claims to have witnessed the altercation, a member of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) approached Gladney and called him a "n_gger." Then, according to Brown: "Kenneth didn't say anything to the guy. Before Kenneth could even say anything or act in any way shape or form, the SEIU representative punched him in the face. He went to the ground. Subsequently, two other SEIU representatives or members, however you want to say it, jumped on top of him, yelled racial epithets at him… kicked him, punched him." Gladney has claimed being kicked by a woman as well, but Brown says he did not witness that. Gladney subsequently went to the hospital, and will begin making appearances on Fox News and at other tea party events in a wheelchair. "He sustained some injuries to his back, some bruising," Brown says. Ham includes a video of the altercation, which as Media Matters columnist Eric Boehlert writes, "pretty much undercuts the entire tale of run-away union violence." Boehlert writes: "Go watch the YouTube video.… The first thing you notice when the camera starts rolling is a union member already sprawled out on the ground with somebody standing over him. No explanation of how he got there (pushed, shoved, punched?) and Ham couldn't care less. Then yes, Gladney is pulled to the ground by somebody wearing a union shirt. (At the :06 mark.) But instead of Gladney being beaten and punched, as his attorney describes, and instead of union 'thugs' standing over him and threatening him, Gladney bounces right back on his feet in approximately two seconds and the scuffle ends. That was the savage 'beating' the conservative blogosphere can't stop talking about? The only real mystery from the incident is why Tea Party member Gladney, who's seen up-close after the brief encounter walking around and talking to people and who appears to be injury-free, then decided to go to the hospital to treat injuries to his 'knee, back, elbow, shoulder, and face.' All that from a two-second fall to the pavement? Also unclear is why he contacted a newspaper reporter, or why his attorney wrote up lavish accounts and sent them to conservative bloggers, or why Gladney and his attorney appeared on Fox News." [Weekly Standard, 8/7/2009; Media Matters, 8/8/2009] Misdemeanor assault charges will be filed against two union members (see Late November, 2009); both will be found innocent of any wrongdoing (see July 12, 2011). The only person injured in the altercation was one of the union members (see Mid-August, 2009), though Gladney falsely claimed to have suffered severe injuries in the altercation.
Entity Tags: Fox News, David Brown, Eric Boehlert, Mary Katharine Ham, Service Employees International Union, Kenneth Gladney
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda
Kenneth Gladney being wheeled around a protest in Mehlman, Missouri. [Source: Common Cents (.com)]Anti-health care reform protesters hold a rally in Mehlville, Missouri, to protest what they say was the beating of fellow protester Kenneth Gladney by "union thugs" (see August 6-8, 2009). Gladney is prominently featured in the protest, sitting in a wheelchair with his knee bandaged and holding a flag emblazoned with the words, "Don't Tread on Me." Gladney says he was beaten by a number of members of the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU says that Gladney is inflating the confrontation, and that he initiated the fight. Gladney has become a cause celebre among conservative anti-reformists, with talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, among others, telling his story to their listeners. "Limbaugh gave the address" of the SEIU offices, one protester says. "This is just a demonstration of numbers." Gladney's lawyer, David Brown, reads a statement to the crowd of around 200 people, saying on Gladney's behalf: "A few nights ago there was an assault on my liberty, and on yours, too. This should never happen in this country." Brown then tells the crowd that Gladney is unemployed and has no health care insurance, and is accepting donations towards his care. Brown would not elaborate as to what, if any, legal strategies he and his client are planning. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/9/2009] Inflating the Story - Gladney's story has taken on new details as he has retold it to a variety of conservative talk show hosts and to Mary Katharine Ham of the Weekly Standard. In its latest iteration, he was mauled by a number of SEIU "thugs" who drove him to the ground and "brutally" beat him while screaming racial epithets. Three of his assailants, he says, were wearing SEIU shirts. Unfortunately for his story, the video uploaded to YouTube which Ham says proves his story actually shows something quite different. The injured party in the video is clearly identifiable as an SEIU member. Gladney is pulled to the ground by another SEIU member, but no one punches or kicks him; instead, he bounces to his feet and walks off camera. Media Matters reporter Eric Boehlert writes: "The only real mystery from the incident is why Tea Party member Gladney, who's seen up-close after the brief encounter walking around and talking to people and who appears to be injury-free, then decided to go to the hospital to treat injuries to his 'knee, back, elbow, shoulder, and face.' All that from a two-second fall to the pavement? Also unclear is why he contacted a newspaper reporter, or why his attorney wrote up lavish accounts and sent them to conservative bloggers, or why Gladney and his attorney appeared on Fox News." [Media Matters, 8/8/2009; Weekly Standard, 8/8/2009] Lied about Health Insurance - Days later, other elements of Gladney's story will change. Brown will confirm that he can no longer represent Gladney because he was involved in the altercation as a "witness" and therefore cannot be involved in any legal proceedings on Gladney's behalf. Brown will also confirm that Gladney's claim not to have health care insurance is "misinformation." Brown will say, "He's just unemployed [and] has insurance through his wife." Brown has identified himself as a "friend" of Gladney's, but is unsure what kind of job Gladney had before his alleged layoff, and is not sure what Gladney's wife does for a living, either. St. Louis Tea Party organizer Bill Hennessy confirms that Gladney is still soliciting donations to help him pay for his injuries, even though he has insurance: "Well, who doesn't need a donation? If people want to give him a donation because he's injured and unemployed, that's up to them." Brown says Gladney has raised about $1,100 in donations so far. Reporter Daphne Eviatar confirms that Gladney appears uninjured in the video, and only began appearing in a wheelchair after landing interviews on Fox News. Brown says his brother, Andrew Beeny, will represent Gladney, and that neither he nor Beeny have copies of Gladney's medical report. Brown says Gladney intends to sue both the individuals who he claims attacked him and the SEIU, since "unions have a 100-year history of intimidation." [Washington Independent, 8/10/2009]
Entity Tags: Eric Boehlert, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Hennessy, Andrew Beeny, David Brown, Weekly Standard, St. Louis Tea Party, Mary Katharine Ham, Fox News, Service Employees International Union, Daphne Eviatar, Rush Limbaugh, Kenneth Gladney
Timeline Tags: US Health Care, Domestic Propaganda
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) issues a "fact check" press release attempting to debunk what it calls the "falsehoods" surrounding recent allegations that two of its members "savagely beat" tea party activist Kenneth Gladney during a recent town hall in St. Louis (see August 6-8, 2009 and August 8, 2009). According to the SEIU, Gladney was not the victim of any assault; instead, SEIU member Elston McCowan, a disabled minister, was assaulted, presumably by Gladney. The video documenting the incident begins with McCowan already on the ground and clutching his shoulder. McCowan suffered a chipped bone and dislocated shoulder during the assault. Gladney, who later claimed to have suffered injuries to most of his body, is only seen being pushed to the ground by another union member, presumably coming to the defense of McCowan. Allegations that Gladney was beaten and kicked by multiple union members are not supported by the video. Some media reports alleged that Gladney was "rushed to the hospital" after the attack; in reality, Gladney, who was pushed to the ground during the incident, leapt to his feet and began walking around the event talking to others and even conducting live television interviews. He also took part in a live television interview after the town hall. Gladney later took himself to the hospital, where he alleged he suffered injuries to his "knee, back, elbow, shoulder, and face." Two days later, Gladney made television appearances while "confined" to a wheelchair and "under heavy medication," according to his lawyer. Gladney told people at the event and afterwards that he had no health insurance and could not afford to have his "injuries" properly treated; that was a lie refuted by his own lawyer, David Brown, who later admitted Gladney has coverage through his wife. Gladney has repeatedly insisted that he has no ties to the tea party movement and that he was at the town hall selling anti-Obama buttons merely as a part-time job. However, Gladney and Brown are both tea party activists. In February, Brown formed an LLC in Missouri called "The Political Mint" that has publicized its efforts to raise funds for tea party groups. Gladney has also been involved in tea party activities. [Service Employees International Union, 8/2009] Misdemeanor assault charges will be filed against McCowan and another union member; both will be found innocent of any wrongdoing (see July 12, 2011).
Entity Tags: Elston McCowan, David Brown, Service Employees International Union, The Political Mint, Kenneth Gladney
Prosecutors in St. Louis file charges against six people in connection with an altercation outside a health care forum in August. Two of them are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), who are alleged to have beaten up a tea party activist, Kenneth Gladney (see August 6-8, 2009 and August 8, 2009). They each face a charge of misdemeanor assault against Gladney. Gladney and right-wing columnists, commentators, and bloggers have alleged that Gladney was "savagely beaten" by "union thugs," who are also accused of using racial slurs against Gladney, an African-American (see August 7-8, 2009). Some have called the assault a "hate crime," and some have accused the "beating" of being ordered by White House officials (see August 7, 2009 and August 10, 2009). The other charges are also misdemeanors. [Media Matters, 11/25/2009] Both SEIU members will be found innocent of any wrongdoing (see July 12, 2011). The only person injured in the altercation was one of the union members (see Mid-August, 2009), though Gladney falsely claimed to have suffered severe injuries in the altercation.
Entity Tags: Service Employees International Union, Obama administration, Kenneth Gladney
Two members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Elston McCowan and Perry Molens, are found not guilty of assaulting tea party activist Kenneth Gladney. Gladney claimed he had been beaten by McCowan, Molens, and perhaps others during a contentious town hall forum in St. Louis two years ago (see August 6-8, 2009); Gladney, who was not injured during the momentary altercation between himself and union representatives at the forum, went on Fox News and other media venues in a wheelchair after the incident, claiming to have been badly beaten and asking for donations (see August 8, 2009). McCowan and Molens were charged with assault and interfering with police. The interference charges were later dropped. If convicted, the two could have faced up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine. The jury deliberated for about 40 minutes before declaring both men innocent. Asked why Gladney lost, Molens, referring to both Gladney and his tea party backers, says, "They lost because they lied, it's as simple as that." Molens says he has received death threats from tea party members since the incident. Gladney has become a regular speaker at area events, where he discusses the "savage beating" he received at the hands of "union thugs." Paul D'Agrosa, the lawyer representing both McCowan and Molens, says his clients were exonerated because the matter was tried in court: "It wasn't tried on the Internet. It wasn't tried on the blogosphere." D'Agrosa is referring to the innumerable videos of the incident, some heavily edited and altered, along with interviews of Gladney and commentaries made by a number of conservative bloggers (see August 7, 2009) as well as a number of national media figures (see August 7-8, 2009 and August 10, 2009), including some from Fox News (see Early November 2009). Keith Gladney, the twin brother of Kenneth Gladney, says of the verdict: "It's atrocious. It's obvious. The legal system here has come to the point where you can beat somebody up and still get off." McCowan and Molens claimed in court that Gladney, who was selling anti-Obama buttons outside the forum, began the altercation by slapping McCowan's hands when the two asked him about the merchandise he was selling. When Gladney slapped McCowan a second time, McCowan pushed him. According to Molens, Gladney then "started punching him in the face. I tried pulling him off." The altercation escalated, with more shoving and punches being thrown; McCowan suffered a fractured shoulder during the altercation, but Gladney was the one claiming to have suffered extensive injuries. Video clips and testimony from onlookers supported McCowan and Molens's version of events. McCowan, a Baptist minister, got chuckles in the courtroom when he testified that he didn't turn the other cheek because it "hadn't gotten hit yet." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7/12/2011; Media Matters, 7/13/2011]
Entity Tags: Keith Gladney, Elston McCowan, Fox News, Service Employees International Union, Perry Molens, Paul D'Agrosa, Kenneth Gladney
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Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded (iPad)
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DescriptionLeisure Suit Larry Reloaded is an enhanced remake of Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1991), which is in turn a remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987) inspired by Softporn Adventure (1981). The game was conceived through crowd-funding and was designed with the help of some of the original creators.
Aside from the graphics overhaul, the gameplay of this 3rd-person point-and-click adventure stays close to the original version. Actions are still done through the icons similar to those of the original interface and there is still an age verification prior to starting the game, with the original cheat code to bypass it present as well. Players guide Larry in his quest to find true love through a number of familiar places. The original music is still present with remixed themes. The original environments have been redrawn with new touches.
There are now many more items to interact with and they are usually there to provide a witty pun. The characters are voiced and there are some new and redesigned puzzles, new songs, and a new ending. In the casino game there is now a mechanic that prevents the player from going broke completely and get stuck. This version introduces Jasmine as a new girl, with some puzzles to reach her, and a new location.
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- "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded" -- Steam title
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- Crowd funding (successful)
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- Game Engine: Unity
- Gameplay feature: Gambling
- Leisure Suit Larry series
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Birthday of Al LoweThe number on the back of the beer coaster, 7-24-46, is the birthday of Al Lowe.
Kickstarter creditsThe game was made possible by a successful crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter. To view the entire Kickstarter credits within the game Larry has to do the following: Go to the 7th floor of the casino and get the coverall. Go outside, find Tim the-guy-in-the-barrel and give him the coverall. He finds in its millions of pockets a key, a $655,182 cash check and a paper attached to the check. The paper is the list of all the 14,081 Kickstarter backers. The cash check amount was the received pledges from the crowdfunding campaign. Important: this doesn´t work if you buy an apple from him or if you search through the coverall before.
NudityThere is a bit of nudity at the end of the game. The bubbles in the jacuzzi are blocking the view on Eve's entire beauty. To change that, all Larry has to do is to use the valve ten times to reduce the bubbles to zero while he is sitting in the jacuzzi next to her. Eve´s response during this is a reference to the box cover picture of On-Line Systems (later Sierra) early game Softporn Adventure. In that picture, Roberta Williams and others are sitting naked in a hot tub, their femaleness barely covered by bubbles. Softporn Adventure was the inspiration for the animated Leisure Suit Larry series.
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North Korea says its rocket and artillery forces are on the 'highest alert' to strike the U.S. and other targets. The WSJ's Alastair Gale talks to Michael Arnold about the seriousness of Pyongyang's threats.
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- 6oz sugar
- 4oz + 1 tbsp butter
- 2 eggs
- 2 large mashed ripe bananas
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 2 Tbsp boiling milk
- 1 tsp baking power
- 8oz flour
- Cream butter & sugar till light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time.
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Hi all, I am new to the Forum so my appoligies if this topic has been covered. I am looking to see if there is a app or program or something for ArcGIS 10 that steamlines adding data to columns. The example is what I would be using it for.
A manhole (Point feature) has 4 possible inverts - north, south, east, west and lines connecting to the manhole that could be in those 4 directions. In the point feature I have those 4 columns (N, S, E, W) and data in those columns. In the line I have 2 columns InvFrom & InvTo representing the inverts but they have no data. I want to be able (with the program) click the line and point (manhole) and have the option of which column to fill instead of manually typing it in.
Does anyone know of a program that would work in ArcGIS 10 that does this. Or maybe there is something existing or different procedure you could suggest.
If I understand correctly you just want your attribute options to be displayed as a drop down menu. This is possible to do within ArcGIS but you need to work with a geodatabase to achieve this.
Whithin a geodatabase you can set up your Domains, which in a nutshell is a list of all the possible values that a field can have. So once you create your domain, you assign it to the necessary attribute. So for your example, you create a Domain with North, South, East, West and then assign it to the InvFrom and InvTo fields. Once you start editing in ArcGIS10, and you display a selected features attributes, you are able to choose from a drop down menu the options you have stated.
Look up the help menu in ArcGIS and look up Domains in case you have more questions, or post back here if you need more assistance.
I think you're going about this the wrong way (aka looking good now, but causing you major grief down the road - database normalization). If you think of a manhole in terms of street intersection, you should have a field for Inv_Dir (just like in a street table, Str_Dir). An alternative would be to use something along the lines of a Dir_Ref field (Directional Reference). This will allow you to have a one-to-one relationship with your InvFrom and InvTo fields. Additionally, this will also allow you to use directions like "SW", "NE", "SE", "NW", etc.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your reply. I will definetly look into these options.


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Vikings Play Saturday Night at Green Bay
The Minnesota Vikings improbable late season run will continue this Saturday night at Lambeau Field in Green Bay in the first round of the NFL Play-offs. The Vikings and Packers split their season series with the Packers winning at home 23-14 (the last Vikings loss) while the Vikings made the play-offs with a win Sunday at the Metrodome. Kickoff is set for 7pm on NBC.
Saturday afternoon at 3:30, the Cincinnati Bengals travel to Texas to face the Houston Texans. Houston lost their #1 seed in the AFC when they lost to Indianapolis and both Denver and New England won. NBC has the telecast.
On Sunday, Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts (didn't the Colts only win two games last year with Peyton Manning out? Wow is Luck good!) will go to Baltimore to face the Ravens. CBS has the broadcast.
And the last game of the weekend has the surging Seattle Seahawks traveling to Washington to face RGIII and the Redskins at 3:30. That should be a VERY entertaining wrap-up to the first weekend of the NFL Play-offs!
New England, Denver, Atlanta and San Francisco all have first round byes and await the winners of next weekends games.


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Alleged murderer covered face during brief court proceeding.
Jeffrey McGee was arraigned in his hospital room in Methuen Friday, on a charge of first-degree murder for allegedly killing his estranged wife, Christine.
McGee was placed under arrest after an autopsy on Wednesday showed the 31-year-old had died from a puncture wound to her neck, said Corey Welford spokesman for the Middlesex district attorney.
Chelmsford Police discovered the body of Christine at Jeffrey's Glen Avenue apartment at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20.
Judge Steven Ostrach barred reporters from the arraignment, allowing only one still photographer, at the request from defense attorney Tom Ford, Welford said.
With a sheet or blanket covering his head and bandages on his arms, McGee, 36, was silent through the proceeding, according to Boston Herald photographer Faith Ninivaggi.
McGee, who pleaded not guilty on Friday, is due in Lowell District Court on Dec. 18, for a probably cause hearing, Welford said.
On the morning of Nov. 20, McGee crashed his red Toyota Corolla into a dump truck in Methuen.
Jeffrey and Christine's son, who was in the car at the time, has been steadily improving, said Welford.
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about the projectpeopleBarry Vercoe
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Professor of Music and Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and a founding member of the MIT Media Lab. He was born and educated in New Zealand, attended Auckland Teachers College, then earned a doctorate in Music Composition at the University of Michigan in USA. In 1968 at Princeton University he did pioneering work in the field of Digital Audio Processing, and then taught at Yale University before joining the MIT faculty in 1971.
During the '70's and early 80's he pioneered the composition of works combining computers and live instruments. On a Guggenheim Fellowship in Paris in 1983 he developed a Synthetic Performer -- a computer that could listen to other performers and play its own part in musical sync, even learning from rehearsals. In 1992 he won the Computer World / Smithsonian Award in Media Arts and Entertainment, in 2004 gained the SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2006 the World Academy of Science Distinguished Achievement Award.
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When Youtube was acquired by Google, we expected it to be integrated as a core part of Google.
In the sense, your YouTube login id should be your Gmail id.
And as expected, YouTube updated it's system which let you login to YouTube account with your Gmail account. It means now you can use your Google mail (Gmail) Login id and password to login to Youtube.
- Also see: How to Generate Google App Specific Password for 2-Step Verification
- 3 Ways to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
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That time Youtube login page had a small login option for Sign in with your Gmail account . here is the screenshot of the previous login page.
Youtube login page got a whole new look and now you can directly log into using youtube or Gmail account.
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Note: You need to enter your full gmail address as username to login.
Overall, I use many Google products like BlogSpot, Gmail, Chat, Picasa and Youtube has always been my favorite video portal. Now, using same Gmail login as Youtube login id will help a regular user like me to reduce down the number of username and passwords.
Also once you have linked your Gmail account with Youtube account, you do not need to login to your Youtube account if you are logged into your Google account. Though, if you are paranoid about the security of your Gmail account, you should read our Gmail security guidelines and if you are a Youtube video uploader, you might like to check out the ultimate guide on:
I always appreciated Gmail integration with lots of online services because it is helping us to login to many places with one username and password like openID.
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Penguins looking to close out Senators in Game 5
Pittsburgh leads playoff series 3-1
Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson isn't quite ready for the traditional season-ending handshake.
Yet he knows if the Senators can't find a way to slow down slow down the Pittsburgh Penguins, it's coming soon.
The Penguins grabbed a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals with a 7-3 rout on Wednesday night, leading Alfredsson to offer Ottawa "probably" can't win three straight.
Alfredsson insists he wasn't surrendering, just acknowledging his team's increasingly slender odds heading into Game 5 on Friday in Pittsburgh.
"It sounds like I had given up (from what I hear)," Alfredsson said. "If you ask anyone, and they look at our series, I don't think there's too many people that would pick us right now and that's what I meant."
The Penguins moved within a game of a berth in the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2009 by erupting for four goals in the third period, overwhelming the Senators in a brilliant display of firepower.
All those goals, however, count for just one victory. It takes four wins to move on, not three. Pittsburgh ran into a similar situation two years ago when it took a 3-1 lead in the first round against Tampa Bay only to lose in seven games, including a 1-0 defeat at home in Game 7.
The defeat dropped Pittsburgh to 0-6 at home in potential series-clinching wins under coach Dan Bylsma, a number the Penguins believe is an anomaly.
"The fourth win in a series is always the hardest to get," forward Matt Cooke said. "They become most desperate and emotionally attached to games."
Perhaps, but the Senators appeared drained after the Penguins erupted for four goals in the third period. Coach Paul MacLean's postgame session with the media lasted all of 13 seconds, which is about as long as it seems the Senators have led in regulation during the series.
More accurately, Ottawa held a pair of one-goal leads in Game 4. Both times the Penguins responded during what Bylsma called his team's best road game of the playoffs.
Now he'd like to see something similar at Consol Energy Center. Despite a pair of shutouts in the first round against the Islanders and relatively easy - by playoff standards - wins against the Senators in Games 1 and 2 last week - Bylsma believes Pittsburgh can reach another gear at home. The Penguins might need it, if they want to avoid heading back to Canada on Sunday.
"They'll be coming in with that mentality to stretch this series back to Ottawa," Bylsma said. "I think we have to be focused on playing our best home game of the playoffs."
If the Penguins can somehow bring the swarming attack that swamped the Senators in Game 4, that shouldn't be a problem. Pittsburgh tilted the ice for the better part of three periods, dumping the puck deep into Ottawa's end then using its speed and aggressive forecheck to smother Ottawa to within a game of its season.
Pittsburgh forward James Neal broke out of a mini-slump with two goals and an assist. Jarome Iginla scored twice. Sidney Crosby added one and defenseman Kris Letang collected four assists. It was the kind of high-octane play that can be hard to come by in the postseason. Yet the Penguins have largely avoided the button-downed approach prevalent this time of year.
The NHL's highest scoring team of the regular season is also the highest scoring team of the playoffs, averaging nearly a full goal a game better than the other seven teams remaining in the field.
Pittsburgh has already chased Ottawa goaltender Craig Anderson twice in four games. He'll almost certainly be back out there on Friday night yet understands the margin for error is all but gone.
"As you've seen in this series, when we don't play well for five, six minutes in a row the puck ends up in our net a few times," Anderson said. "It's really a focus thing and we have to focus on playing well and playing well every shift."
Something the Penguins have struggled with as well. The difference, though, has been Pittsburgh's ability to exploit Ottawa's mistakes. For all of Anderson's talent, his teammates know he can only do so much if there isn't much help in front of him.
"To expect him to make save after save from point-blank range is unrealistic," Ottawa forward Jason Spezza said. "We have to do a better job of keeping them to the outside and taking some of the heat off him that way."
The pressure will only rise on Friday night with the Penguins on the brink of getting halfway to the franchise's fourth Stanley Cup.


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New 'A Team' on West Main
Mark Gresge, chef/owner of l'©toile on West Main, tells us that they now have a new sous chef who's baking his own bread for the restaurant and revamping the dessert list.
"Now we have two ââ?¬Ë?A Team' members," says Gresge, referring to head chef Brian Wilkinson and new hire Brendan Cowley, a CIA grad who comes to us by way of Michigan.
"At lunches our catfish Po Boy is on one of his betards"–- a small roll–- says Gresge, "and for dinner we are using his bread for our guests when they arrive. Desserts are another specialty of his; his lemon curd is tremendous."
In other l'©toile news, Gresge says they are now getting their chickens from Timber Creek Organics, a small Joel Salatin-inspired farm near Foxfield.
"They are fed with organic feed, which makes all the difference," says Gresge. "It's in our tarragon chicken salad."
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L'etoile would probably not have lasted as long if situated in a larger city, I have had too many badly cooked duck, ill reduced sauces, poorly made amuse bouche, bad desserts.
Of course anyone not accustomed to fine dining will be duped.
Mas is what it is, not pretending, just simple Tapas fair.
I would love for Mas to serve Donkey sausage, the one I had in Corsica were extremely good.
Yes "fare"....Sorry, I am not a college educated and foreigner on top of that.
To everyone its own;
but I will confirm that the cooking at l'etoile is poorly executed; so I might be pretentious (or it is the kitchen that tried to achieve something that is over their heads??) but this my opinion and nothing is stoping you to patronize them.
You would save money by doing their shrimps & grits at home (no need to be CIA graduate for that) and it seems to be the dish of c-ville (10 other places have it on their menu).
A small roll is called in French "Batard" not "betards".
L'etoile needs a lot of help, the execution in the kitchen is terrible, may be the new guy can help them fixing it.
They anyway needs more than organic fed chickens and lemon curd to become a real white table cloth restaurant, right now it is all smoke.
I have still to find a better "tarte au citron" than the one of Raymond Blanc, so I will go, just to find out if he can make dessert.
Congratulations to L'etoile on a wonderful addition to their staff. I am in agreement that it is a great place to enjoy French cuisine, and I have never been less than elated by the quality of the food which is served. Not to mention a great selection of classic southern cocktails.
L'etoile is doing some of the best food in Charlottesville right now. Go eat some bacon wrapped dates at Mas, donkey.
We like L'etoile very much and we are quite accustomed to 'fine dining' in many larger cities. We've never been disappointed in a meal there, the service is always lovely and the food is delicious. The shrimp and grits are particularly good. Kevin, I'm so sorry if your bouche wasn't amused, but you do sound a bit pretentious with your "simple Tapas fair" attitute. (BTW, it's 'fare').


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Inaugural poet in S.A. for readings
Back in January, Richard Blanco's poem at President Barack Obama's inauguration captivated throngs on the Washington Mall and television viewers worldwide.
"One Today" had the same impact Wednesday, among a half-dozen works the poet read to about 30 people in a St. Mary's University classroom.
They responded with laughs, applause and quiet murmurs of approval. "My mother and I cried watching on TV," a young woman told him of the inaugural poem.
Blanco, who was in San Antonio for Our Lady of the Lake University's Literary Festival, described the Washington event as emotion-filled, akin to "a citizenship oath," explaining, "There was a part of me that was not American."
The poet, who is gay, married and lives in Maine, described himself as "made in Cuba, assembled in Spain and imported to the United States," all in the first 45 days of his life. He grew up in Miami and is an engineer.
When the president shook his hand and whispered something in his ear like, "You look great," Blanco said it might as well have been, "Here's your country."
The White House assignment (he had to submit three poems) led Blanco on a creative, soul-searching journey.
"There's that pressure to say Spanish was the first European language spoken in the United States. Take that," he said, but he resisted writing a political poem.
Blanco opted to punctuate "One Today" with Spanish pronunciations of words such as "Sierras" and "Colorado."
The poem mentioned his parents, but his mother was a frequent figure in his other readings here. "I should give her royalties," he said.
Though openly gay for some time, Blanco didn't come out in his poetry until his second book. He received big laughs for a poem about his "homophobic grandmother," who assigned gayness to Play-Doh, Fruit Loops, drinking from a straw and taking bubble baths.
G.I. Joe figures were suspect because, she said, they were ultimately dolls.
"In a weird way, she pushed me into being a writer. She made me into an introvert and an observer, which is what writers do," Blanco said.
A new book will be out in May that will contain his inaugural poems, their Spanish translations and a "mini-memoir."
Since January, he has been approached by composers about writing lyrics but said his dream collaboration would be with singer-songwriter James Taylor, whom he met at the inauguration.
Blanco has been in a daze since the event, but the upside has been becoming "an ambassador of poetry."
"It still feels like something somebody else did," he said.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Ontario Health Minister to attend event promoting Nursing Excellence
TORONTO, March 27, 2006 – The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) will soon announce 12 innovative three-year partnerships with provincial health-care organizations. These organizations were chosen to implement and evaluate RNAO's nursing best practice guidelines (BPGs).
RNAO's BPGs are clinical and educational resources (available online and in print) that provide nurses and other health-care providers with specific strategies to offer the best possible level of patient care.
Representatives from these "spotlight" organizations – staff nurses, advanced practice nurses, chief nursing officers and CEOs – will meet in Toronto for an opening celebration and professional retreat on Thursday, March 30. Ontario Health and Long-Term Care Minister, George Smitherman, will also attend the event at noon that day.
These dynamic three-year partnerships are funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC), with matching funds provided by the spotlight organizations. Best practice guidelines not only provide nurses with current, comprehensive strategies based on the latest evidence in specific clinical areas, but also give patients and the public an understanding of the quality of care they should expect to receive.
To date, RNAO's Nursing Best Guidelines Program, led by RNAO and funded by MOHLTC, has completed 29 guidelines focusing on elder care, home health care, mental health care, emergency care and primary health care as well as an implementation tool kit to help nurses and organizations use the guidelines. And development of new guidelines is still in progress.
- Minister of Health and Long-Term Care George Smitherman
- RNAO executive director Doris Grinspun, RN, MSN, PhD (cand.)
- NBPG program director Tazim Virani, RN, MscN, PhD (cand.)
- Key representatives from the 12 new spotlight organizations
- Opening Spotlight Organization launch and professional retreat
- 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Thursday, March 30, 2006
- Health Minister George Smitherman will bring greetings at 12:30 p.m.
- Westin Prince Hotel, Ballroom, 900 York Mills Road Toronto, Ontario M3B 3H2
The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses wherever they practise in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has lobbied for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses' contribution to shaping the health-care system, and influenced decisions that affect nurses and the public they serve.
To learn more about RNAO's Nursing Best Guidelines Program or to view this resource, please visit: https://rnao.ca/bpg.-30-


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Ok, so it's a bit of an exaggeration to say the robots in the video above are full-fledged baton twirlers. But folks at the ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have managed to program a pair of quad-rotor drones to toss a stick to one another, with a flip in the middle. If that's not baton twirling for bots, I don't know what is.
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the two. As part of his Master thesis Dario Brescianini, student at ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, has developed algorithms that allow quadrocopters to juggle an inverted pendulum.
First, a state estimator was used to accurately predict the pendulum's motion while in flight. Second, a fast trajectory generator was needed to quickly move the catching quadrocopter to the estimated catching position. Third, a learning algorithm was implemented to correct for deviations from the theoretical models for two key events. […]
The result is automated flying drones performing the kind of aerobatics that can only foreshadow a fiery death for mankind at the grips of a superior robotic race. It's a worn-out cliché, sure, but you'll understand if you watch the video.
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For various reasons, I didn't update Seattle to Berlin. Now that Windows 10 is running on my machine and Berlin Update 1 is out, I want to update but I have some questions.
1) Should I uninstall Seattle before installing Berlin?
2) Can I install Berlin Update 1 or do I have to install Berlin and then the update?
2A) If I do have to install Berlin before the update, should I uninstall it before installing the update?


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Rising Career with America's Largest Bank Began with UAlbany Guidance and Connections
Jeffrey Castillo '06 took advantage of personal attention from School of Business faculty and staff to chart path to JPMorgan Chase vice presidency.
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"You go to college as a freshman with only a vague idea of what you want to do with the rest of your life, but UAlbany has a great faculty and staff, ready to guide you" said Castillo, a JPMorgan Chase vice president in charge of its Mid-Atlantic HealthCare Practice. "The people at UAlbany really take the time to sit down with you and map out what you need to achieve your goals. Later, they connect you with people in your chosen field, so that your path comes into being."
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I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die and didn't give a damn.
-Michael Crichton: Environmentalism as Religion
This last weekend I was visiting my family and I noticed a National Geographic magazine lying on the coffee table. The cover story was, Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer. The image on the cover was a microscopic view of a mosquito. I grabbed this screen shot from the National Geographic website:
Here, also, is a link to their story about Malaria.
I picked up the magazine and made a remark about how I had read that the ban of DDT was based on faulty science and that coincidentally most of the problem wouldn't exist if the chemical hadn't been banned. I was greeted with fairly standard comments that were something like, "I don't think that's true," or "No, DDT actually did thin the egg shells of a bunch of birds according to that one study."
Suddenly I was caught in one of those moments where you feel really stupid, like you just blabbed something that you might be totally wrong about. And in reality, the thing I had thought I read had been quite a long time ago, so maybe I was way off… I certainly couldn't remember any solid facts on which to ground my crazy claim.
The conversation had ended but I couldn't shake the idea that I had indeed read a couple times about the DDT ban being based on junk science. Naturally – the only cure for my curiosity was to hop on the internet and see what I could find.
Repeating Non-Facts
First, National Geographic's article mentions the ban on DDT.
"Though nontoxic to humans, DDT harmed peregrine falcons, sea lions, and salmon. In 1962 Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, documenting this abuse and painting so damning a picture that the chemical was eventually outlawed by most of the world for agricultural use. Exceptions were made for malaria control, but DDT became nearly impossible to procure. "The ban on DDT," says Gwadz of the National Institutes of Health, "may have killed 20 million children."
[National Geographic, July 2007]
I should note here that Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, is seen, by most sources, to have heralded the birth of the environmental movement in the US as well as the ban of DDT. Unfortunately, from what I can find, it appears that Carson's conclusions are not be based on sound science.
Apparently, even the opening page of her book appears to be somewhat misleading. This is what the late J. Gordon Edwards, Ph.D. had to say about it in his paper titled, DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud:
On the first page of the book widely credited with launching the
environmental movement as well as bringing about the ban on
DDT, Rachel Carson wrote: "Dedicated to Dr. Albert Schweitzer,
who said, "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall. He will
end by destroying the earth." She surely knew that he was
referring to atomic warfare, but she implied that he meant there
were deadly hazards from chemicals such as DDT. Because I had
already found a great many untruths in her book, I obtained a copy
of Dr. Schweitzer's autobiography, to see whether he even
mentioned DDT. He wrote: "How much labor and waste of time
these wicked insects do cause, but a ray of hope, in the use of DDT,
is now held out to us."
[DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud, J. Gordon Edwards, Ph.D.]
The real scary bit appears when you dig deeper into the science and reasoning behind the US's ban of the chemical. The following are some excerpts from a breakdown of 109 studies gathered by Dr. Edwards who testified at the 1971-1972 EPA hearings on DDT with research and some editing/formatting done by Steven J. Milloy, publisher of junkscience.com. I have even trimmed some of the items down further for brevity. I also chopped out the references which are extensive and you can find them on this JunkScience.com page. I strongly encourage you to click this link and read the whole list with references so that you don't just think I nabbed this off of some crazy unreliable source. I am not presenting items here in the same numerical order as you will find them on the complete listing. I have also emboldened some key phrases you should consider. Once again, each of these items is the conclusion of a study:
I. Historical Background
Discovered by accident, DDT became one of the greatest public health tools of the 20th century.
Overuse harmed its efficacy — and made it politically unpopular.
- It is believed that [malaria] afflicts between 300 and 500 million every year, causing up to 2.7 million deaths, mainly among children under five years.
- "To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT… In little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been inevitable."
- Some mosquitoes became "resistant" to DDT. "There is persuasive evidence that antimalarial operations did not produce mosquito resistance to DDT. That crime, and in a very real sense it was a crime, can be laid to the intemperate and inappropriate use of DDT by farmers, especially cotton growers. They used the insecticide at levels that would accelerate, if not actually induce, the selection of a resistant population of mosquitoes."
II. Advocacy against DDT
DDT was demagogued out of use.
- Rachel Carson sounded the initial alarm against DDT, but represented the science of DDT erroneously in her 1962 book Silent Spring. Carson wrote "Dr. DeWitt's now classic experiments [on quail and pheasants] have now established the fact that exposure to DDT, even when doing no observable harm to the birds, may seriously affect reproduction. Quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding season survived and even produced normal numbers of fertile eggs. But few of the eggs hatched." DeWitt's 1956 article (in Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry) actually yielded a very different conclusion. Quail were fed 200 parts per million of DDT in all of their food throughout the breeding season. DeWitt reports that 80% of their eggs hatched, compared with the "control"" birds which hatched 83.9% of their eggs. Carson also omitted mention of DeWitt's report that "control" pheasants hatched only 57 percent of their eggs, while those that were fed high levels of DDT in all of their food for an entire year hatched more than 80% of their eggs.
- The environmental movement used DDT as a means to increase their power. Charles Wurster, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, commented, "If the environmentalists win on DDT, they will achieve a level of authority they have never had before.. In a sense, much more is at stake than DDT."
- William Ruckelshaus, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who made the ultimate decision to ban DDT in 1972, was a member of the Environmental Defense Fund. Ruckelshaus solicited donations for EDF on his personal stationery that read "EDF's scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF had won."
- But as an assistant attorney general, William Ruckelshaus stated on August 31, 1970 in a U.S. Court of Appeals that "DDT has an amazing an exemplary record of safe use, does not cause a toxic response in man or other animals, and is not harmful. Carcinogenic claims regarding DDT are unproven speculation." But in a May 2, 1971 address to the Audubon Society, Ruckelshaus stated, "As a member of the Society, myself, I was highly suspicious of this compound, to put it mildly. But I was compelled by the facts to temper my emotions … because the best scientific evidence available did not warrant such a precipitate action. However, we in the EPA have streamlined our administrative procedures so we can now suspend registration of DDT and the other persistent pesticides at any time during the period of review." Ruckelshaus later explained his ambivalence by stating that as assistant attorney general he was an advocate for the government, but as head of the EPA he was "a maker of policy.
- Environmental activists planned to defame scientists who defended DDT. In an uncontradicted deposition in a federal lawsuit, Victor Yannacone, a founder of the Environmental Defense Fund, testified that he attended a meeting in which Roland Clement of the Audubon Society and officials of the Environmental Defense Fund decided that University of California-Berkeley professor and DDT-supporter Thomas H. Jukes was to be muzzled by attacking his credibility.
III. EPA hearings
DDT was banned by an EPA administrator who ignored the decision of his own administrative law judge.
- Extensive hearings on DDT before an EPA administrative law judge occurred during 1971-1972. The EPA hearing examiner, Judge Edmund Sweeney, concluded that "DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man… DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man… The use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife."
- Overruling the EPA hearing examiner, EPA administrator Ruckelshaus banned DDT in 1972. Ruckelshaus never attended a single hour of the seven months of EPA hearings on DDT. Ruckelshaus' aides reported he did not even read the transcript of the EPA hearings on DDT.
V. Cancer
DDT was alleged to be a liver carcinogen in the book Silent Spring and a breast carcinogen in the book Our Stolen Future.
- Feeding primates more than 33,000 times the average daily human exposure to DDT (as estimated in 1969 and 1972) was "inconclusive with respect to a carcinogenic effect of DDT in nonhuman primates."
- "Even after 20 years of follow-up, exposure to relatively high concentrations of DDE or PCBs showed no evidence of contributing to an increased risk of breast cancer."
- To prospectively evaluate relationships of organochlorine pesticides and PCBs with breast cancer, a case-control study nested in a cohort using the Columbia, Missouri Breast Cancer Serum Bank. Results of this study do not support a role for organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in breast cancer etiology.
- A pooled analysis examined whether exposure to DDT was associated with the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among male farmers. No strong consistent evidence was found for an association between exposure to DDT and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- "… weakly estrogenic organochlorine compounds such as PCBs, DDT, and DDE are not a cause of breast cancer."
- None of 35 workers heavily exposed to DDT (600 times the average U.S. exposure for 9 to 19 years) developed cancer.
- Men who voluntarily ingested 35 mgs of DDT daily for nearly two years were carefully examined for years and "developed no adverse effects."
- DDT was found to reduce tumors in animals.
VI. Egg-shell thinning
DDT was alleged to have thinned bird egg shells
- Many experiments on caged-birds demonstrate that DDT and its metabolites (DDD and DDE) do not cause serious egg shell thinning, even at levels many hundreds of times greater than wild birds would ever accumulate.
- Laboratory egg shell thinning required massive doses of DDE far in excess of anything expected in nature, and massive laboratory doses produce much less thinning than is seen in many of the thin-shelled eggs collected in the wild.
- Years of carefully controlled feeding experiments involving levels of DDT as high as present in most wild birds resulted in no tremors, mortality, thinning of egg shells nor reproductive interference.
- Egg shells of red-tailed hawks were reported to be six percent thicker during years of heavy DDT usage than just before DDT use began. Golden eagle egg shells were 5 percent thicker than those produced before DDT use.
To the extent egg shell thinning occurred, many other substances and conditions could have been responsible.
- Oil has been associated with egg shell thinning.
- Lead has been associated with egg shell thinning.
- Mercury has been associated with egg shell thinning.
- Stress from noise, fear or excitement and disease are associated with egg shell thinning.
- Older birds produce thinner shells.
- Normal egg shells become 5 percent thinner as developing embryos withdraw calcium for bone development.
- Larger birds tend to produce thicker-shelled eggs.
- Dehydration is associated with thinner egg shells
- Temperature extremes are associated with thinner egg shells.
- Decreased illumination is associated with thinner egg shells.
- Human and predator intrusion is associated with thinner egg shells.
- Simple restraint interferes with the transport of calcium throughout the body of birds, preventing adequate calcium from reaching the shell gland and forming good shells.
- Uncovering eggs after parent birds are removed or frightened off exposes eggs to potentially fatal chilling, especially in northern or high altitude locations.
- Phosphorus deficiency is associated with thinner shells.
- Calcium deficiency is associated with thinner shells.
- Egg shell deficiencies were attributed to DDT and DDE by U.S. Fish and Wildlife researchers even though the birds had been placed on low-calcium diets.
- Cutting illumination from 16 hours daily to 8 hours daily at the same time as DDT feeding began had no significant adverse effect on shell quality. Shell quality was only adversely impacted after large amounts of DDE were injected into birds.
- DDT was blamed for egg shell thinning even though a known egg shell thinner (dieldrin) was also added to the diet.
- No significant correlation between DDE and egg shell thinning in Canadian terns even though the eggs contained as much as 100 parts per million of DDE.
You Wont Hear This On PBS
So, you can probably see where this is going. And I'm hardly even half way through the list either! It goes on to talk about how DDT was also blamed for the decline in Bald Eagles – which also has a huge list of negating factors against it – "Bald eagles were reportedly threatened with extinction in 1921 — 25 years before widespread use of DDT," or "After 15 years of heavy and widespread usage of DDT, Audubon Society ornithologists counted 25 percent more eagles per observer in 1960 than during the pre-DDT 1941 bird census." The list of discrepancies goes on and on.But here is what really gets me. Remember what the recent article in National Geographic said?"Though nontoxic to humans, DDT harmed peregrine falcons, sea lions, and salmon."If you continue to reading the article on junk science you will see that and entire section is dedicated to peregrine falcons. Once again – I just list a few (be sure to read the whole thing on junk science):
- The decline in the U.S. peregrine falcon population occurred long before the DDT years.
- During the 1960's, peregrines in northern Canada were "reproducing normally," even though they contained 30 times more DDT, DDD, and DDE than the midwestern peregrines that were allegedly extirpated by those chemicals.
- The decline in British peregrine falcons ended by 1966, though DDT was as abundant as ever. The Federal Advisory Committee on Pesticides concluded "There is no close correlation between the declines in populations of predatory birds, particularly the peregrine falcon and the sparrow hawk, and the use of DDT."
- Peregrine falcon and sparrow hawk egg shells thinned in Britain prior to the use of DDT.
"…Men, who above all things – desire power."
As you can see – there seems to be a number of studies refuting the claims that the use of DDT led to the decline of bird populations. A closer look at the claim about DDT's effect on marine life also shows discrepancies. This is another excerpt from A Case Study in Scientific Fraud, by J. Gordon Edwards ( I have included the full article as a PDF so that you can download it and read it on the right in the box.net file area):
DDT was claimed to have dire effects on marine life. Charles
Wurster claimed that marine algae died in his tank of seawater
because it contained 500 ppb DDT. Paul Ehrlich seemed to
approve of Wurster's hoax, for he wrote an article based on it, which
many schoolchildren were required to read. The following year
Ehrlich published that same article in England, in a Sphere Book
titled ,The Year's Best Science Fiction, a more appropriate outlet.
Because DDT is only soluble in water at 1.2 ppb, Ehrlich was
asked how he could have such high concentrations of DDT in his
seawater. He explained that he had added enough alcohol to the
tanks to obtain the desired concentrations of DDT in the water. Of
course, the seas do not contain much alcohol, so what happened in
his tanks bore no resemblance to what would happen in unaltered
seawater. Not surprisingly, two other scientists had earlier reported
that DDT in their tanks of seawater caused no harm to the same
species of algae that Wurster used.
It has often been said that DDT persists for decades in the ocean.
Researchers at EPA�s Gulf Breeze Laboratory in Louisiana added
DDT to seawater in huge submerged containers. They reported that
92 percent of the DDT its metabolites, DDD and DDE,
disappeared from the seawater in just 38 days.
So it seems that I wasn't just crazy. There has been some serious criticism of the ban and the science surrounding it. I wish that this was all there was to it – but unfortunately, the important part is yet to come. Edwards concludes his article with this statement:
The ban on DDT, founded on erroneous or fraudulent reports
and imposed by one powerful bureaucrat, has caused millions of
deaths, while sapping the strength and productivity of countless
human beings in underdeveloped countries. It is time for an honest
appraisal and for immediate deployment of the best currently
available means to control insect-borne diseases. This means DDT.
"The DDT-malaria issue is a stark illustration of the conflict between the developed and developing world," wrote Lorraine Mooney in the September 9 Wall Street Journal. "For the sake of a possible environmental threat to birds of prey in the 'civilized' world, millions of people in developing countries are dying. This must stop."
May 6th, 2006 Steven Millroy, editor of Junkscience.com wrote this (an excerpt):
The U.S. Government has finally begun to reverse policy on the insecticide DDT. Let's hope that this policy shift represents the beginning of the end of what can only be called a crime against humanity: the decades-old withholding of the world's most effective anti-malarial weapon from billions of adults and children at risk of dying from the disease.
There never was any scientific evidence that DDT posed a risk to humans or wildlife. An EPA administrative law judge said as much after seven months and 9,000 pages of testimony about DDT in 1972. DDT wasn't responsible for the decline in bald eagle populations, didn't cause bird egg shell-thinning and didn't cause cancer in humans, the judge determined.
DDT was nonethless banned in the U.S. when then-EPA administrator William Ruckleshaus reversed without explanation the decision of the judge who actually heard all the DDT testimony – Ruckleshaus heard none of it and never read any of the transcript. As it was later revealed, Ruckleshaus was a member of the Audubon Society and raised money for the Environmental Defense Fund – the two activist groups that led the charge for the DDT ban.
Even John Tierney of the New York Times recently chimed in:
"Ms. Carson used dubious statistics and anecdotes (like the improbable story of a woman who instantly developed cancer after spraying her basement with DDT) to warn of a cancer epidemic that never came to pass. She rightly noted threats to some birds, like eagles and other raptors, but she wildly imagined a mass 'biocide.' She warned that one of the most common American birds, the robin, was 'on the verge of extinction' — an especially odd claim given the large numbers of robins recorded in Audubon bird counts before her book….The human costs have been horrific in the poor countries where malaria returned after DDT spraying was abandoned. Malariologists have made a little headway recently in restoring this weapon against the disease, but they've had to fight against Ms. Carson's disciples who still divide the world into good and bad chemicals, with DDT in their fearsome 'dirty dozen.'"
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Now, I don't blame anyone for doubting. This appears to be a classic case of what Michael Yon calls: The Green Gator Phenomena:
"So what color are they (alligators)?
Through the years I have actually asked hundreds of people about this. Some of those who've actually seen gators up close have asserted that gators are brown.
I have posed the loaded question several times while standing close to alligators and people. I will ask, "What color is it?" They will look, and generally say something like, "Green." And then pause, "Oh, dark, dark green. Very dark green." This is psychologically profound, because it shows that people are using an implanted false memory instead of their own eyes. No wonder the gators cannot escape their press.
And for those who sensed the loaded question, gators are not brown any more than they are green.
Gators are black."
The environmental movement is very good at this. Often – a theory is talked about as if it were fact and agendas end up pushing aside reality. Michael Crichton has written a great article expanding on this idea. While I disagree with some of his ideas about religion, I think his main thesis is right on the money:
"Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths."
Anyway – I hope that this collection of articles and studies helps you to think critically about this issue. The point of this post is not to bash people who care about the environment. I happen to care very much about it and think that we should do our best to protect it in any way that we can. All I am pointing out here is that the Environmental Movement itself, seems to have suspect motives. In this case, I think they were more concerned with prove that they had power to effectively pressure America, the global hyperpower, into making a decision – thus legitimizing their movement.
It appears to me that inexcusably, many many people–monstly children, have died from malaria because of the decision by the "civilized countries," under pressure from environmentalists, to ban DDT. It also seems clear that this decision was not made in the light of good scientific study.
The only good news is that it appears the US is starting to reconsider this decision. Tragically, in the mean time – according to an estimate by the late the late Dr. J. Gordon Edwards, 190 people per minute are either dying or suffering directly or indirectly from the USA ban of DDT and other pesticides. Since the ban in 1972, an estimated: 95,580,897 people have died from malaria. This is an atrocity an should not be tolerated!
So I didn't just make this up – though I wish that I had. Please read and double check my references. As I have said many times: Don't just take my word for it!
I will leave you with this quote:
"The environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity. The pain and suffering it is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer be tolerated. Eco-Imperialism is the first book I've seen that tells the truth and lays it on the line. It's a must-read for anyone who cares about people, progress and our planet."
– Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder
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