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The point of Carnival—beyond getting drunk, getting it on, and letting yourself go one last time before Lent ushers in a season of repentance—is to bring everyone together. Sure, some of that coming together involves krewes throwing favors to the begging throngs, like the holdover from feudal times and earlier that Carnival is. But Carnival is primarily a community celebration and a moment when the usual barriers dividing people who ordinarily have nothing to do with one another break down, if only for a little while. Inhibitions and reservations get lowered, with masks and costumes finishing the job alcohol begins. While getting extra points for the difficulty of shooting at least some scenes in the midst of Mardi Gras—I'm just assuming some of those location moments couldn't be faked—"Carnival Time" captures that spirit beautifully and lets the spirit carry over to the episode itself. "Carnival Time" is one of the best episodes the series has produced, in part because it feels so cohesive and so poignant in the way it lets its characters storylines rhyme against one another, mixing giddy moments with heartbreak and making it all feel like part of the same world, and part of a world bigger than the show itself.
Last week, we left Terry walking with the Pigeon Town Steppers, but this week, he's all business, and business means making sure Mardi Gras proceeds safely and in an orderly fashion. Protecting and serving is, of course, what police are always supposed to do, but Mardi Gras, and particularly a Mardi Gras after the violence New Orleans experienced leading up to the celebrations in 2007, gives his job an extra layer of responsibility. Whether it goes well or not doubles as a referendum on the health of the city. It's all about keeping the excesses contained. Terry's polite when he stops the woman who doesn't know the ins and outs of where one can flash the crowd without causing any problems and angry when he busts the kid who brings a gun to the Krewe Of Muses parade. But both responses stem from the same impulse if keeping Mardi Gras on track and trouble-free. Nobody carries more weight this episode than Terry, and nobody feels as relieved as he when it's over. (Not that there was much doubt, but David Morse has proven to be a great addition this season.)
Antoine doesn't get the Mardi Gras he wants, but he may get the Mardi Gras he needs. Forces have conspired all season to bring him reluctantly, and belatedly, into the world of adulthood and responsibility and they continue their job this week. Without losing his gruff skepticism about the enterprise, he's clearly become taken with teaching, at least in the moments when he spots the sort of talent that can keep the city's music alive. He doesn't get the day of hook-ups he so carefully set up, but he does get a day being a father to his kids. We last see him asleep on the couch as a digital clock announces midnight and the beginning of Lent, and the shot feels significant.
Davis, on the other hand, gets exactly the Mardi Gras he wants, even though it means disappointing Annie. It's a day of drunkenness and mischief and one in which he doesn't even worry about his new musical enterprise so much. It works out for him, and it's fortunate for Sofia that he sticks around (more on that in a bit), but all the scenes of Annie attending Cajun Mardi Gras make it seem like he missed something by not leaving the city for the day. Fascinating stuff, right? I'm not sure what Harley and Annie's excursion means to her musical education, but just on an anthropological level, I appreciated all the space "Carnival Time" gave to Cajun ritual, from the costumes to the music to the chicken chasing.
Nelson, meanwhile, gets immersed in a ritual a little closer to his new home, joining the Zulu Social Aid And Pleasure Club, donning the blackface favored by the largest mostly African American krewe in town, participating in the parade, and going home with the prettiest parade-watcher he passes. It's a good day for Nelson and one that brings him ever more tightly into the social network that runs New Orleans, even if he seems to forget any personal motives for the moment. So let's pause to ask a question Nelson doesn't seem to be asking: Where is this going? Are Oliver Thomas and others seducing him into going native for the good of the city? Are they making a proper New Orleanian out of a would-be carpetbagger? And if so, will it take? Nelson delights in the city and the pleasure it has to offer, but he still doesn't seem invested in its well being beyond his own benefit. That tension can't last, even if he's yet to realize that. But waiting for him to see it has started to turn his story into one of the season's most interesting.
Albert's story has taken a less dramatic turn, but that doesn't make it any less satisfying to see him returning to New Orleans to lead his tribe, proudly sporting the beadwork Del crafted for him. I've loved all the time Treme has spent with that subculture, with its own unique rituals and music, this season and last, and the Mardi Gras scenes don't disappoint, letting us see Indian celebration in all its splendor. The parade also gives Del the breakthrough he's been struggling for all season when he hears Indian beats contrasting against jazz licks. It's not the episode's subtlest moment, but it is the revelation his plot has been building toward all year. And, besides, I'd listen to an album like that. Assuming, that is, that Del's not too distracted by his father's active sex life to finish it. Any theories on Albert's new friend? Maybe the documentarian?
Another parent and child pair, Toni and Sofia, have a more complicated day. Toni tries to celebrate Mardi Gras just like the family did before Creighton's suicide, but the harder she pushes, the more Sofia realizes how much has changed, and the harder it gets for her to control her resentment that Toni kept the nature of her father's death from her. They can leave the stereo playing Professor Longhair like they used to, but it just won't be the same. Before the day is over, Sofia's run away, taken advantage of her fake ID, and almost gotten herself into trouble. She saved by Davis, an unlikely white knight in no position to give her a lecture on drinking even if he wanted to but one who won't stand by and watch others take advantage of her. She's resisted her mother's pushing, and in resisting it left her alone to lay some of Creighton's ashes to rest in the river (in an extremely moving scene). Neither of them can talk about what's driving them apart, and the longer they wait, the further apart they drift.
Then there's the temporarily absent: LaDonna shows no signs of getting better or inclination to come home, taking up a drunken, semi-permanent residence in the Baton Rouge house she so long resisted. Janette tries to scrape together a proper Mardi Gras day in New York and at least gets to enjoy some king cake and a meal that renews her appreciation for fine cuisine. And Sonny gets spirited away to do some hard work away from the celebration and its temptations. And, you know what? I think even the Sonny plot worked this week. For the first time I found myself caring whether or not that character got his shit together.
And if that's not the sign of a superior Treme episode, I don't know what that is. Well that and an exciting bunch of music sequences, including appearance from Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, whose biggest hit gives the episode its name. Series creators David Simon and Eric Overmeyer penned, and the direction comes from feature vet Brad Anderson. Hats off to all involved. This was an episode that effortlessly brought together the series' sprawling cast of characters and made their individual stories feel like one big story. The show usually gets that right, but some weeks, it gets it righter than others. I'm more eager than ever to see where the season and the series go from here.
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Let $K$ be a bounded symmetric ($-K=K$) open convex body in $\mathbb R^n$. The critical determinant $d(K)$ of $K$ is the least possible volume $|\operatorname{det}(a_1\dots a_n)|$ of the fundamental parallelepiped of a lattice $\Lambda=\{\sum_{j=1}^n m_j a_j: m_j\in\mathbb Z\}$ such that $K\cap \Lambda=\{0\}$. Clearly, if $K'\subset K$ is another symmetric convex shape, then $d(K')\le d(K)$. The convex symmetric shape $K$ is called irreducible if the inequality is strict for every proper subset $K'$ of $K$.
It is not hard to see that the unit ball $B$ is irreducible in the dimensions 1,2,3. Moreover, if $B'\subset B$ and the radius of the largest ball contained in $B'$ is $1-\delta$, then $d(B')\le d(B)-c\delta$. However, this breaks in dimension $4$. When we cut off two opposite caps of depth $\delta$ from the unit ball in $\mathbb R^4$, we still get $d(B')<d(B)$ but the difference is now merely of order $\delta^2$. This suggests that when the dimension goes up and the number of touching points increases, we may end up in the situation when the ball is no longer irreducible. My question is whether this is really the case or whether the ball stays irreducible all the way up and just gets "less ans less" so in some sense.
The reason I'm asking is that we've just proved with Yoav Kallus that the ball in $\mathbb R^3$ is a local minimizer of the optimal lattice packing density. The corresponding statement is known to be false in $\mathbb R^2$ and I wonder if there is a trivial reason (namely, reducibility) for it to be false in some or, better, all high dimensions.
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Over the last six months (probably more), the man cave has fallen into serious disrepair. Game night has been sporadic at best, and most of the gaming I've done has been at The Dugout rather than at home. Recently, though, my brother and I have started talking about getting game night going again. I knew that it would be pretty tough without a usable man cave, though. Tonight, while taking a "short" break from working on grad school work, I decided to clean it up a bit. Just for kicks, I decided to share some pics. And while I'm at it, I figure it can't hurt to show off one of the coolest presents I've gotten in quite some time.
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[Global: Uganda]
Uganda's Presidential spokesman has castigated Ugandans who have been protesting against Yoweri Museveni's dictatorship as "economic refugees" who don't matter since they are not provided for in Uganda's constitution.
The spokesman, Tamale Mirundi, also says Uganda self-finances 75% of its budget and even if foreign donors cut off support, the East African country would survive.
Additionally, Mirundi said foreign-based Ugandans had no jurisdiction over Uganda troops stationed in Somalia so were out of line
to criticize those troops for allegedly selling U.S.-provided weapons to Somalia militias, as disclosed in a recent online report.
Protests against the U.K.- and U.S.- backed Museveni dictatorship has been ongoing every Friday before the British House of Commons, as the parliament is known.
Friday August 5, the protest was spearhead by Moses Luzinda under the banner of Uganda United pro-democracy Forum (UUPDF).
"The human rights abuses taking place in Uganda must be investigated and the culprits, should be punished for the abuses," said one protestor, a Uganda-born lawyer, Betty Atiku.
"If the Libyans, Egyptians, Tunisians have been heard by the international community, why not Uganda? How many Ugandans should die before they are allowed to choose their own leader democratically, without the threat, and intimidation by the incumbent that has ruled for over 25 years?" she added.
The protesters argue that the February presidential elections have not been free and fair and therefore should be nullified.
Her voice carrying over a megaphone, Atiku said: "The corruption, intimidation of journalists, opposition leaders, peaceful demonstrators, school children, women and ordinary Ugandans, and above of all the killing of innocent Ugandans, and arrests of so many, who are now languishing in safe houses should be condemned. NRM government should respect human lives of her citizens."
So-called safe houses are commandeered residential homes used as torture chambers by state security agents.
Atiku said donor aid was misappropriated and that even though Uganda received billions of dollars, "Yet, Uganda is rated the poorest in the world. Malaria kills every 45 minutes, HIV related diseases also kills due to lack of medicine."
"We call upon the international community, the commonwealth, European Union, and others to condemn the rigging of the elections, and call upon fresh and fair elections, that can bring about true democratic government. Ugandans need change, not with the guns, fighter bombers, but with ballot papers," Atiku said.
Mirundi dismissed the protests.
"Those people don't know Uganda more than we do. Some left Uganda more than 20 years ago," he said.
"In my opinion, those people are not important because they are not provided for in our constitution," he added. "If they want, let them come back and make a change here. But demonstrations on London streets or anywhere on streets of European cities, they will not affect any change."
He questioned that: "Where are they provided for in our constitution?"
Speaking over the phone, he added: "They should come to Uganda if they want to take part in the decision of national policies---I don't give them a lot of political value."
"How many police stations have they visited to be authoritative that many Ugandans are relinquishing in jails?" Mirundi responded when asked about reports of Ugandans detained without being charged or tried. "In fact they are talking like peasants."
"If there are people incommunicado, let them file a habeas corpus; the court will demand the concerned authority to produce that person in court. Why don't they resort to legal means?"
"Those are economic refugees who went to look for money," he said of the protestors. "I hear villagers saying that this information is correct because it is from the internet; if you post rubbish or facts both will be on the Internet."
He said while Ugandans abroad did indeed remit funds to relatives back home, "I also send money to my mother in Rakai," a reference to his home district in Uganda.
"How many hospitals have they built?" he said, of the protestors. "They don't enjoy any special provision under the Ugandan constitution."
"I respect reformist movements who come and participate in the national elections," Mirundi continued.
"But a small group of Ugandans demonstrating in a city of a European country doesn't mean that all Ugandans agree with them."
"What will they achieve because they are not provided for anywhere in our constitution. They are just expressing their anger; yes, expressing anger is there, but do they have capacity to affect changes?"
"We don't kneel for any country for financial assistance. Uganda is governed from Kampala by directly elected leaders, but not anywhere in any European city"
He noted, "Obama's father comes from Kenya; can he give directive to the Kenyan government?
Additionally, Mirundi also defended Ugandan soldiers in war-torn Somalia. When asked to comment about the media report that Ugandan soldiers had sold weapons to the al-Shabaab insurgents who are said to be linked to al-Qaeda, he said, referring to the demonstrators, "If Uganda's soldiers are trading guns to terrorists are they the investigative agents to investigate it? The soldiers are there as an African Mission."
"Our soldiers are there as AU, not Ugandan soldiers," he added, referring to the African Union. "They ceased to be Ugandan. If they are involved in any bad thing, it should be AU to blame. Let me tell you, I don't believe in rubbish, unless it is investigated."
He wondered how Ugandans abroad would react if the government applied some of the protestors own medicine.
"What if us here in Uganda start demonstrating against them? Because you live abroad that is important?"
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Pro-life Lobby Focuses 2012 Efforts on Defeating Obama
The pro-life lobby is rallying supporters as the presidency heats up to vote their convictions in the November election and unseat Barack Obama.
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) made no pretense of its 2012 priorities. The list released Monday stated its focus is on protecting the unborn from the moment they can feel pain and defeating President Obama.
NRLC President Carol Tobias said in a Monday statement, "It should not be a surprise to anyone that the top priority for National Right to Life's Political Action Committee this year is defeating Barack Obama and electing a pro-life president."
No surprise because many pro-life activists believe the Obama administration is the most pro-abortion administration in American history. Decisions such as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' Thursday pronouncement that the department will not extend religious exemptions for mandatory insurance coverage for contraceptives and sterilization to faith-based organizations have furthered that perception.
As a result, many pro-life groups are working to mobilize their members and supporters in the upcoming months to remove Obama from office.
Last year, Priests for Life's Political Responsibility Center created the "Vote Pro-life" campaign to educate pro-lifers about the electoral process, conduct political action trainings and register members to Vote. The campaign also formed a coalition of at least 39 member organizations including Susan B. Anthony List, Catholic Advocate, American Values and Democrats for Life.
Vote Pro-life has already leapt into action this year. During Monday's March for Life in Washington, D.C., Vote Pro-Life stickers were everywhere, along with stickers and signs supporting Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Additionally, volunteers were out and about registering marchers to vote.
"We must work to change the Senate and reclaim the White House which not only obstructs pro-life legislation but has for the past three years advanced abortion in so many ways, while not even attempting to appear to be working to make abortion 'rare' and offering support to women to choose life," Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), co-chair of the Congressional pro-life caucus, told marchers yesterday.
However, Democrats for Life Executive Director Kristen Day said Obama is being unfairly targeted.
"The Administration has no intention of forcing Catholic institutions to provide insurance coverage for services that are directly in opposition to their moral beliefs," Day asserted in a statement.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, includes a provision mandating all insurance plans include free contraception coverage.
Day charged that the law does allow those employers who oppose birth control or drugs that cause abortions to be exempt from providing contraception coverage.
However, that exception applies to churches. HHS Secretary Sebelius did not extend the exception to religious colleges, private schools and hospitals. Instead, she gave religious institutions a year to comply with the contraception insurance mandate.
"I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services," she announced.
Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council told The Christian Post last week the delay "does nothing to change the anti-religious, anti-conscience, and anti-life contraceptive mandate, rather it only postpones its implementation until after the presidential election."
Additionally, Rep. Smith charged the Obama administration with discontinuing a federal grant with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to assist human trafficking victims over not offering abortion referrals. The administration has also given $100 million to fund abortions and sterilizations in other countries, he said.
Smith and others pro-lifers believe the administration's pro-choice leanings will only grow if Obama is re-elected.
"We don't have the luxury of disunity or nominee disappointment or apathy. No one who values life can sit this one out," Smith said.
"Failure to unite and mobilize sends the abortion industry's enabler-in-chief-Barack Obama-back to the White House. For the sake of the innocent, failure is not an option," he concluded.


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Like every other magazine and newspaper, we have spent the past decade developing a website to complement and enrich the content that appears in the print magazine. Most of that web content has focused on politics and breaking news. The time has come to break out of that necessary but constraining box. To that end, we are launching The Book: An Online Review at The New Republic....At the top of The Book today is a review of Churchill by Paul Johnson.
The first thing to know about The Book is that it is a supplement to our print content–an attempt to apply the new technology to the old and untarnished purposes. While our online book review will certainly be lively, it will not be significantly more relaxed than our magazine itself. We are not slumming here, or surrendering to the carnival of the web. Quite the contrary. We are hoping to offer an example of resistance to it....Here you will find criticism, not blogging; pieces, not posts. Four or five times a week we will publish a new review of a new book.
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Several years ago, I began reading Casanova's memoirs. I managed to scrounge the entire six-volume set in paperback, and now I dip into it, in no particular order, whenever I find myself without something to read. He writes about his affairs, of course, as well as his duels, gambling, legal affairs, illnesses, travelling, and a million other things, and what keeps me reading is that he is a fabulous storyteller.
I happen to be reading about his imprisonment in the prisons of Venice, known as The Leads, because of the material used to roof them. He was denounced, more or less anonymously, for having prohibited books in his rooms, books about magic, astrology, and other blasphemous subjects. Somebody was settling a score.
The conditions of his incarceration are awful – the stifling heat, the fleas, the lack of books, paper and pens, poor food, poor light, and the occassional roomate thrown in, some of whose company is worse than solitary confinement. He contrives to dig a hole in the floor through which to escape, but just before the breakout day, he is moved to another cell, a palace compared to the rat hole he is in.
He did get out eventually, and wrote a pamphlet about it that became fantastically popular, burnishing his reputation as an adventurer. Others had escaped, but none had written about it! Casanova was a multi-talented fellow, and rather philosophical. His memoirs are sprinkled with observations on the nature of man and fate – at one particularly dark moment in his story he remarks, "one can get used to anything."
The image above is the Bridge of Sighs, which leads from the interrogation quarters of the Doge's Palace to the state prisons. It's quite famous, and despite its criminal associations, architects have imitated it, or claimed to, quite a bit. This bridge in Oxford is called the Bridge of Signs, but it looks more like the Venetian Rialto.
At least this old bridge in NYC with the same name connects to a prison, known as The Tombs. The other two are simply skybridges, that you see here and there around the city. Shall we imagine that the desparate sighs of imprisoned white-collar workers can be faintly heard?


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We had mentioned a few months ago that after the RC had made the changeover to our new look that the next idea that we would start working on was an RC app. Well, I'm here to tell you that you can now download the app below............(sorry, the Iphone app is still in the works ) Sis has been working her tail off the last month or so and I can't thank her enough........next to our moderators who help make this site run efficiently and actually make it fun, Sis has been the glue that has held this whole thing together for the past 5.5 years.
I am really excited to have this new feature available to our members and it should make visiting the RC much easier when you're out and about.......that, along with our new virtual scoreboard will help everyone to keep tabs on the up-to-the-minute news that our members crave. You can rest assured that as we continue to grow our main focus will remain committed to making the RC enjoyable........as you all well know the easiest way for a business to start backpedaling is to forget the things that got them there......I had made a pledge to everyone back in January of 2006 that the RC would remain a FREE site for 5 years.......I can now reaffirm that pledge by extending it out to the 10 year mark .......I hope that everyone has now become accustomed to the new look and features and we look forward to continue being Ohio's #1 FREE high school sports site.
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Meredith discusses her new memoir with New York Times Journalist Wesley Morris.
Meredith Goldstein, the mastermind behind the Boston Globe advice column Love Letters, is coming to the Strand for the release of her new memoir! In Can't Help Myself, Goldstein takes readers through the origins of the column, its wild online-to-print success, and reveals what was happening in her own life as Love Letters grew. Despite her calm and collected attitude in writing, Goldstein doesn't have it all figured out for herself. She has her own questions about aging parents, office break-ups, dating-in-your-thirties, feminism, porn habits, and Tinder. In Can't Help Myself, we watch as Love Letters becomes Goldstein's anchor, helping her through painful breakups and a family cancer diagnosis, just as she anchors her readers through their own setbacks and tragedies. With humor (the ex she calls "Draco Malfoy," the millennial pals she calls "The Rachels") and the collective empathy of a dedicated online community, Can't Help Myself is an extraordinary and touching portrait of a single woman navigating the difficulties of life and love for both herself and thousands of others.


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Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): The Downeaster "Alexa" by Billy Joel.
This is a very special FFF. It's my third year blogoversary! I can't believe I've been on this little blog for three years. It's kind of incredible. No, it is incredible, and the fact that you've been here for so much of it. Thank you. No really, thank you. So here is my blogoversary present to you. It's actually what I did to celebrate my second blogoversary (heh heh *draws line with toe*). Yes, I am terrible about timing, but I do everything I can to keep my promises. I asked what my followers wanted to see last year and of course they voted on a crazy antic. Somehow it got narrowed down and decided I would do a sidewalk chalk drawing of a book cover. (I felt like a kid again. It was awesome).
I decided on Gayle Forman's best-selling work, IF I STAY, because, 1. it is a well-known and emotionally powerful story and 2. most of the cover is in pastels. Which most sidewalk chalk seems destined to be produced in these days. *shakes fist at sidewalk chalk gods* I will let you know, I've never attempted anything like this before. This is pure diving in blind, right before your eyes. I don't think I'd touched a piece of sidewalk chalk since I was in elementary school. So this was doubly scary. And fun. On top of that, it was WINDY. I mean mega-where-is-Dorothy's-house kind of windy. Shingles were blown off roofs. A tree in my neighborhood was knocked over. But I'd planned it and by golly, I was going to do it. :) In all, it took 11 pieces of chalk (eight of which were blue) and a little over 3 1/2 hours. There are over 2000 photos shot.
The song is by the relatively underground Jenny Dalton, who was gracious and all kinds of wonderful, giving me permission to use it for this video. It is called "Snow Mazes of Norway" and was written for a 24 hour songwriting contest about her brother. It sings about Norway, but the tone and images felt so perfect for this story, considering the snowy day that changed Mia's life forever. And I loved how the repetition of the piano melody felt like falling snow. Plus her voice is just beautiful. So, HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY! And I'm just happy this fell just a week after Where She Went came out. ^_^
ETA: It is my two-year blogoversary. It spans from 2009 to 2011, but doesn't, you know, actually cover all three of those years. *blushes and hides*
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Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): The Downeaster "Alexa" by Billy Joel.
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- Unknown said...
This? Amazing and cool and wonderful and you are all those things, too.
- April 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Ello - Ellen Oh said...
Wow! I'm in complete awe!!! How freaking cool is that? I'll tell you! Too freaking cool!!!! I absolutely loved it!
- April 15, 2011 at 8:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
Wow! This was really creative :)
- April 15, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- Unknown said...
That is so amazing. I'm really impressed. And the idea is just fantastic!
- April 15, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Karis Jacobstein said...
Fabulous! I love the book and I love the idea.
- April 15, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Gayle Forman said...
Oh. My. God. That is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Thank you for doing this. For showing
- April 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Lisa Schroeder said...
Wow!!! That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Happy Blogaversary!!
- April 15, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Stasia said...
Spectacular. Beautiful. Just wow!
- April 15, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Library Gal @Lost in the Library said...
- April 15, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
Beautiful! Happy Blogoversary :)
- April 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM
- Meg said...
So beautiful! Happy three year anniversary!
- April 15, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Unknown said...
Great job and happy blogaversary!
- April 15, 2011 at 8:49 PM
- Audrey (holes In My brain) said...
Oh my gosh, that is so pretty! Wonderful job, and I just adore that song too! thanks for sharing!
- April 15, 2011 at 8:51 PM
- Christina Farley said...
Lovely and haunting. Really took my breath away. Loved the song with it too.
- April 17, 2011 at 5:08 AM


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Pretty simple idea, just say what the last film you watched was and rate it out of 10, then if you like add a short comment - save big reviews of new releases for the discussion threads about them.
Heres my latest:
Unknown - 6/10 - disappointing, i think the disc menu gave too much away.
Sucker Punch - 7/10 visually beautiful and more understandable on second viewing, unfortunately i watched the theatrical version as the discs were not labelled with which version they were - i'll give it another go another time.
Flags of our Fathers - 7/10 I probably would have liked this more if it wasn't cropped to fullscreen for tv
Battle Los Angeles - 10/10 - realistic portrayal of war with an alien twist. Straight forward alien invasion kick some butt movie. Even better a second time around & after you figure out what the aliens are.
Hanna - 6/10. I was just really disappointed with this movie. I was expecting something really exciting and engaging, but everyone who I watched it with, (myself included) complained that it seemed the punches and kicks during the fight scenes were just really slow. The story was pretty good but I wasn't that interested and definitely wasn't attached to any of the characters. The whole movie just didn't work for me at all.
Attack The Block: 8/10. Really enjoyable and straightforward with some amazing cinematography and visuals, great acting, fantastic creature design and a great sense of fun.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: 8/10. I really enjoyed it and yet felt a bit empty afterwards, as if there wasn't enough of a reveal with the mole.
I couldn't get past the utterly cliché script, "we've already had breakfast". the script made that film into a comedy, but the technical side of things was impressive, compositing ect.
The awesome original. I hate how they build up Kurtz so much and make it seem like it'll be some big thing that opens our eyes or that is exciting (that silhouette photo of him is an incredible plot device), then when you get there it's an anticlimactic mix of fat Marlon Brando who talks in monotone jumbled poetry in the dark, patched together shots of Martin Sheen just standing around looking dazed, and a hippy photographer. I think it would've been genuinely better had they gotten someone other than fat-Brando and had Kurtz actually doing something other than sit around.
Pooky - did you watch the awesome original or the messy 'redux' version?
I quite like how entirely pointless it all is - it's the final comment on the degrading pointlessness of war, that a rambling madman could be seen as some kind of prophet. All that effort and struggle, for nothing.
I've not watched it for years. I should really do something about that!


text: = Google Summer of Code 2012 = {{{ #!html }}} [[PageOutline]] == Getting in Touch == If you're interested in participating, please email '''itamar at itamarst dot org'''. (If you don't get a timely response, try the mailing list, my spam filter can be aggressive sometimes). If applicable, you may also be interested in http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/WomenOutreach2012 The basic process: 1. You get in touch, start getting familiar with the Twisted development process (see below). 1. We create a project proposal. 1. You apply on the Google Summer of Code web page (https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012) for the Python Software Foundation group, with the project proposal we created. 1. Your project is (hopefully) approved - not all students will be accepted, unfortunately, depending on how many slots Google gives the project and how many applicants there are. == Project Ideas == These are just ideas, we're open to other ideas as well. === IPv6 === [wiki:IPv6]: IPv6 is the new networking standard for the Internet; World IPv6 Day is happening soon (http://www.worldipv6day.org/). We are still missing SSL, UDP, and multicast IPv6 support, not to mention IPv6 DNS lookups. Add IPv6 support for these transports with a full API and test coverage for these additions. Add relevant examples and documentation. Requirements: In addition to Python, a decent understanding of networking and socket APIs. === Debugging UI === Build a user interface (a GUI, or maybe even Web-based). The idea is to have a debugging user interface for running a Twisted process that shows existing listening ports and open connections, and allows you to view bytes flowing over the transports. This would look you look at a running Twisted program and see what was going on inside and what data was flowing through it. (Twisted currently includes a half-broken "gladereactor" that is a gtk-based half-finished implementation of this). You'll learn about Twisted's internals, and get to build an interesting user interface and present information in a useful way. Requirements: In addition to Python, some knowledge of either GUI programming or Web programming. === Sphinx documentation === Finish converting our documentation from a custom format and set of tools that we maintain (Lore) to the Python community standard - RestructuredText (ReST) as used by http://sphinx.pocoo.org/. In particular, resolve all tickets in the [milestone:"Lore to Sphinx"] milestone and then help transition the release process and twistedmatrix.com to Sphinx by participating in a release. You'll learn about releasing software, documentation tools, and maybe some data transformation (from HTML to RestructuredText). Requirements: In addition to knowledge of Python, knowledge of HTML and perhaps ReST would be useful. === Don't break in other locales === Twisted currently has some bugs when used in certain non-English-configuration ("locales"), e.g. French. For example, date formatting might be wrong, or uppercase/lowercase conversion might work unexpectedly. As a first step you'd want to create a custom locale for Linux that was malicious about everything (e.g. lower-casing returns random unexpected bytes, dates are funky, etc.). This would be used to find places where Twisted is making US-centric assumptions, but would actually be a useful project for the Linux community in general. Then, fix resulting bugs in Twisted. Some relevant background material: http://www.moserware.com/2008/02/does-your-code-pass-turkey-test.html Requirements: This is probably easier to do on Linux than on Windows, so some basic familiarity with Linux, and a computer configured to use it, in addition to knowledge of Python. === Automatic Coding Standard Enforcement === Twisted applies certain naming and style standards to all contributed code. These are things like giving all classes and functions docstrings, documenting all parameters and instances attributes, having the correct amount of whitespace between definitions, etc. Currently, a human reviewer needs to check all of these things and point out violations to contributors. The development process would be sped up by a tool which can automatically make these simple, mechanical checks, freeing up human reviewer time to focus on more important aspects of proposed changes. Integration with the issue tracker, to automatically generate this feedback before a ticket is submitted for review, would also be a big win. For background about the Twisted development process, see [wiki:ReviewProcess]. Requirements: Little Twisted-specific knowledge is necessary, but general Python knowledge, perhaps with prior parsing experience (or a willingness to learn about parsing). === Expanded Endpoints Support === Twisted recently added two new related high-level APIs, one for specifying what address servers should listen for connections on, the other for specifying what address a client should connect to. These APIs are known as "endpoints", mostly implemented in [http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.internet.endpoints.html twisted.internet.endpoints]. Only a few of the many kinds of addresses that Twisted supports have had endpoint support added to them so far. Additionally, there are some kinds of connections which it was very awkward to set up before the invention of the endpoints APIs, so there is no convenient way to set them up at all. Some endpoints Twisted does have are for TCP (eg, when using the string syntax to create a TCP server, "tcp:port=80:interface=192.168.1.1"), SSL, and UNIX domain sockets. Some endpoints it doesn't have are for serial ports, standard I/O, child processes, SOCKS proxies, HTTP proxies, and SSH connections. Many more are possible. For this project, add a lot of new endpoint implementations to Twisted. Some endpoint implementations will be simple wrappers around existing APIs. Others will involve some network programming, where there was no convenient existing API to provide the functionality at all. Requirements: General Python knowledge, some networking knowledge would be helpful but that may be acquired over the course of the project. === Other Tasks, Some of which Google may not like, but some of which may be workable === * Finish half-done documentation: Merge existing documentation from elsewhere, e.g. [ticket:5474 Conch in 60 seconds], or half-finished documentation that is in the tracker (there's the start of an IMAP howto, for example.) * For a particular subproject, review and improve existing examples and howtos and add missing documentation. Every example needs a description, e.g. http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/examples/index.html has descriptions but http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/names/examples/index.html doesn't. Every example should document its purpose, how it is run, and what it should do. Examples should use current coding and documentation standards and shouldn't use deprecated code. Documentation should use current coding and documentation standards in code snippets, and should use the preferred APIs. Some subprojects have very little documentation or examples and simply need more. Audit and update relevant man pages. * Coverage: For a particular subproject, go for 100% API documentation and unit test code coverage. * Test suite cleanup: overall test suite cleanup, remove deprecations, fix deprecation warnings, get to the bottom of and fix our various recurring Windows errors, fix Windows compiler warnings, fix non-deterministic tests. * Finish half-written code, documentation, bug fixes, etc.: We have >200 tickets that at some point had code written and received at least one code review, but for various reasons never made it in. This is a great way to learn because you don't have to start from scratch, and there's a variety of tasks (from minor fixes to documentation to new features) most of which have code reviews as a starting point. See http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/report/16 for a list. * PyPy: Have [http://pypy.org PyPy] be a fully supported platform, with all tests passing. == Getting Started with Twisted Development == Here are some of the tools we use: 1. IRC 2. the Trac issue tracker 3. the svn revision control system 4. the diff and patch utilities If you have not used IRC before, please go through this short tutorial on installing and using an IRC client: https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/UMD/Laptop_setup#Goal_.233:_install_an_IRC_client Please familiarize yourself with how Twisted uses Trac by exploring the reports from this link: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/report With sufficient exploration you should be able to answer the following questions (you don't have to tell me the answers, just make sure you know how to find them): 1. What is the oldest open Twisted ticket? 2. How many tickets are currently waiting on review? How do we denote tickets waiting on a review (hint: look at the keyword) 3. Using the custom query page at http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/query, find out how many open tickets we have that have the "documentation" keyword. If you have not used svn before, please go through the svn training mission at: http://openhatch.org/missions/svn If you have not used diff and patch before, please go through the diff and patch training mission at: http://openhatch.org/missions/diffpatch If you have any questions while going through this material, don't hesitate to get in touch. You can email me, and you can also find me as itamar on the Freenode IRC network; jesstess on Freenode can also be of help if I'm not around. Once you've gone through this material, the next steps will be to: 1. Meet up on IRC (stop by the #twisted channel) 2. Check out and explore the Twisted source code 3. Read a few parts of the Twisted core documentation and run some example Twisted scripts 4. Run the Twisted test suite - cd into the checkout folder and run "bin/trial twisted". And then you'll be in great shape to start working on your first Twisted ticket. We'll suggest a first ticket when you get in touch over email; you'd want to fix it in your Twisted svn checkout, run `svn diff`, upload the resulting patch to the ticket and then add the "review" keyword to the ticket. This process is described in detail here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedDevelopment#SubmittingaPatch


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1880 Recorded death rate from diabetes in Denmark is 1.8 per 100,000. (This will go up to 8 per100.00 in 1911 and 19 per 100,000 in 1934).
Beginning of a 20 year period where elite American students of Wundt in Germany return and become heads of psychology departments at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and all major universities and colleges. Wundt trains James Cattell, who returns to the US and trains over 300 in the Wundtian system which, with help from the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, eventually assume control of psychological testing in the United States for all the soldiers of the First World War.
Salt water taffy & French dressing introduced
Smallpox vaccinations start in the United States.
Sweden consumption of refined sugar 12 pounds per person annually. (This will go up to 120 lb per person annually in 1929).
The League of American Wheelmean is founded and begins producing maps and handbooks of the eastern U.S. in 1880
1881 President Garfield assassinated
Inauguration of President James Garfield 1881
1882 Koch isolates the TB Bacillus. TB death rate 370 per 100,000.
1884 In England, more that 1700 children vaccinated for smallpox die of syphillis.
William Walter Baxter born during September 1885
1885 General vaccination program against rabies begins in the United States.
First Inauguration of President Grover Cleveland 1885
Milk shakes & Dr Pepper & evaporated milk introduced
Coca Cola introduced
1887 - 1889 Italo-Abyssinian War
1887 New York doctor Ephraim Cutter publishes a book on cancer and the diet.
Malted milk & Georgia pecans introduced
1888 Bacteriological Institute opens in Paris for experimentation with animals and production of vaccines and sera. Other institutes open around the world modeled after the Paris Institute.
Inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison 1889
Most of Britain's food production becomes industrialized.
Pizza introduced
1890 Emil vin Behring announces discovery of anti-toxins.
Andrew Carnegie writes a series of eleven essays called "The Gospel of Wealth", a treatise which essentially stated that free enterprise and capitalism no longer existed in the United States, because he and Rockefeller owned everything, including the government, and that competition was impossible unless they allowed it. Eventually, says Carnegie, the young children will become aware of this and form clandestine organizations to fight against it. Carnegie proposes that men of wealth form a synthetic free enterprise system based on cradle-to-grave schooling. The people who advanced through schooling would be given licenses to lead profitable lives. All licenses are tied to forms of schooling. This way, the entire economy can be controlled and people have a motivation for them to learn what you want them to learn. It also places the minds of all children in the hands of a few social engineers.
Fig Newtons & Knox Gelatine introduced
1892 Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, Germany. Threat of importation into the US forced the establishment of the New York City Health Department division of Pathology, Bateriology and Disinfection.
America takes the lead in world wide sugar consumption, surpassing the British. Sugar consumption would double again by 1920.
1893 German Dr.Julius Hensel states that processed flour is devoid of nutrients.
1893 Johns Hopkins Medical School established. Headquarters of German Allopathic Medicine.
First American automobiles produced in 1893
Fudge & Cracker Jacks introduced
Second Inauguration of President Grover Cleveland 1893
1894 - 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
Hershey bars & Sen-Sen introduced
1895 - 1896 First Italo-Abyssinian War
1895 Diptheria vaccination program begins. Over the period lasting until 1907, 63,249 cases of diptheria were treated with anti-toxin. Over 8,900 died, giving a fatality rate of 14%. Over the same period, 11,716 cases were not treated with anti-toxin, of which 703 died, giving a fatality rate of 6%.
Peanut butter & Salisbury steak introduced
Chop suey & oatmeal cookies introduced
1897 AMA formally incorporated, paying $3 fee to State of Illinois.
Chloride of lime first used to sterilize drinking water.
First Inauguration of President William McKinley 1897
Jell-O & 1000 Island dressing & cotton candy & Melba toast & tangelos introduced
1898 Marie Curie discovers radium.
1898 Spanish-American War
J.R. Ewald, professor of physicology at Strassbourg University in Germany experiments using brain electrode implants.
Pepsi & Texas sweet onions & jelly beans & candy corn introduced
1899 - 1902 Boer War in South Africa
AMA began to achieve goal of replacing existing medical system with allopathy (system that treats diseases with drugs).
Cancer causes 4% of deaths in the United States. Deaths from measles were 13 per 100,000.
U.S. has 8,000 registered automobiles by 1900
1901 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research founded.
Peanut butter & jelly introduced
Second Inauguration of President William McKinley 1901
American Automobile Association (AAA) is founded in 1902 and begins issuing maps to its members
Karo syrup introduced
Nabisco's Animal Crackers introduced
Canned tuna introduced
Pope St. Pius X
1904 Eugenics (the study of the hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding) established as a course at University College in London.
Banana splits & Ovaltine introduced
Rand McNally becomes one of the first commercial map publishers to produce road maps in 1904 - some were picture maps showing identifiable landmarks along the roadways
His father, George W. Baxter, died during 1905
1905 Food and Drug Act passed in the United States.
1905 Russo-Japanese War
Inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt 1905
New York pizza introduced
1906 First Pure Food and Drug law in the United States passed.
Investigations into the content of Coca-Cola are halted by the US Secretary of Agriculture.
Kellogg's Corn Flakes introduced
1907 Bureau of Chemistry empowered by Congress to police quality of US food.
Model T Ford rolls off the production line and first concrete highway built in 1908
1909 Rockefeller Sanitary Commission established. Beginning of Rockefeller Foundation.
Inauguration of President William H. Taft 1909
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) introduced
Almost one million cars are registered in U.S. by 1910
Dr.James Douglas founds the National Radium Institute for treatments.
First TB Sanitarium opened. TB death rate 180 per100,000.
Japan acquires a source of cheap and abundant sugar on Formosa. Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) rises dramatically in Japan.
Mother Theresa born
1911 General vaccination programs against typhoid begin in the United States.
Britain passes the "Official Secrets Act" which prevents future discussion of anything the government deems secret.
Crisco & Junket introduced
1912 - 1913 Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire
1912 First International Congress of Eugenics at the University of London. The president of the Congress is Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. One of the first English vice presidents is Winston Churchill. American vice- presidents included Charles Elliot, president emeritus of Harvard, and Alexander Graham Bell. Also attending was Starr Jordon, president of Stanford University.
1912 First whooping cough (Pertussis) vaccine created by two French bacteriologists, Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou, who wanted to use it in Tunisia. After they grew Pertussis bacteria in large pots, they killed it with heat, mixed it with formaldehyde (used to embalm bodies) and injected it into children.
Lincoln Highway Association dedicated to mark an automobile route across the U.S. in 1912
Oreos & maraschino cherries introduced
1913 John D. Rockefeller founds Rockefeller Institute with $100 million grant.
First Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson 1913
The American Cancer Society is formed.
1914 - 1918 World War I, initially in Europe, then worldwide
1915 A doctor in Mississippi alters the diet of 12 prison inmates and is successful in producing pellagra (a vitamin deficiency disease), using reverse logic in an "attempt to find a cure for the disease".
1915 Tetanus epidemics in trenches of World War I.
1918 Great influenza epidemic
In 1915 Rand McNally produces stencils for local organizations to use to mark name or symbol associated with a particular route along its path
J.P. Morgan organizes control of US newspaper businesses.
Two million cars registered in U.S. by 1915
The first evidence of brown mottling of teeth is reported in the United States.
1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution
1917 AMA hostile toward compulsory health insurance.
1917 Freud writes "Introduction to Psychoanalysis".
Constituents try and force Harrison Drug Control Act on Coca-Cola and are defeated.
Fifteen states in the US have eugenics laws on the books which authorize sterilization of criminals, epileptics, the retarded and insane.
Moon pies introduced
Outbreaks of encephalitis in China and Europe.
Post WW1 supplies of chlorine designated to be added to water supplies.
Second Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson 1917
1918 - 1919 Great Poland Uprising, Provinz Posen against Germany
1918 - 1919 Poland and Lwow against Westukrainian Republic
1918 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War, Estonia against Soviet Russia and the Germans.
1918 - 1922 Russian Civil War, fought between "the reds" (Communists) and "the whites" (tsarists) directly after the Bolshevist Revolution. US, France and Great Britain also intervened to "kill communism in the crib."
1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Germany intervened on the side of the Whites.
1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia
Fortune cookies introduced
The Espionage Act of 1918
The Surgeon General of the United States issues a report that states that tuberculosis is the leading cause for discharge of men from the Armed Forces.
1919 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets
1919 First Silesian Uprising
1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
Billy Graham born
Death rate from encephalitis accelerates. Between 1919 and 1928, over 500,000 deaths and 1,000,000 cases of neurological impairment were attributed to this disease, which affects males more than females. Recent research indicates that this epidemic was a late manifestation of the post World War I influenza outbreaks, and that both were due to the appearance of a swine flu virus.
Hostess cup cakes introduced
1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
By 1920 Gulf Oil gives away 16 million maps of eastern U.S. per year
Eskimo Pie & Good Humor & Yoo-hoo introduced
Nobel Prize winner (1931) Dr. Otto Warburg begins conducting experiments with human cells and pathogenesis of cancer.
Prohibition in the US brings narcotics trafficking and large scale organized crime into the US.
1921 BCG tuberculosis vaccine developed.
1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
Ghandi begins agitating against the British opium imports into India. He would be eventually assassinated.
Inauguration of President Warren G. Harding 1921
Wonder Bread, Wheaties & zucchini introduced
A study by Samuel Torrey Orton connects emotional disturbance with neurological problems. This insight was lost after World War II when psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis became popular, breaking the connection.
Aluminum production (along with production of toxic by-product sodium fluoride) increases. Aluminum cookware is mass introduced in the US, beginning the gradual accumulation of aluminum in the brains of Americans. Additional aluminum is injected into society in "antacids".
By 1922,more than 100 radiologists died from X-ray induced cancer.
Coca-Cola plant built in Ashtabula, Ohio. The drink contains coal tar derivatives, flavoring, and massive amounts of sugar.
Gummi Bears & Clark Bars & Girl Scout Cookies introduced
1923 Canadian physician Frederick Banting receives Nobel Prize for discovery of a way to extract the hormone insulin, which permitted control of blood sugar in those with diabetes.
Earl of Inchscape publishes his report which insists that British opium trade must be maintained to protect the revenue of the British Empire, much to the protest of the League of Nations.
Popsicles introduced
1924 Dr. Seale Harris of the University of Alabama discovers that sugar can cause hyperinsulinism and recommends people cut sugar consumption. The medical establishment comes down on Harris and his work is suppressed. Harris would be awarded a medal by the AMA 25 years later, as pharmaceuticals to control low blood sugar are developed and put into production.
1924 Heroin, originally created by I.G. Farben, is outlawed as a prescription drug in the United States.
Frozen foods & pineapple upside-down cake introduced
"Monkey Trial" of John T. Scopes in Tennessee after he teaches evolution in his classroom
1925 General vaccine programs against tuberculosis began in the United States.
Danish researcher Thorvald Madsen tries a modified Pertussis vaccine during an epidemic in the Faroc Islands. It did not prevent Pertussis.
I.G. Farben, German chemical industry conglomerate, is reorganized by the Warburgs as a merger between Badische Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Welierter-Meer, and Griesheim Elektron.
Inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge 1925
General Medical Society for Psychotherapy created in Germany, an international organization.
Ice cream sandwich introduced
1927 Austrian psychiatrist Menfred Sakel develops insulin shock (insulin coma treatment, ICT). Patients are overdosed with insulin, which induces a coma. By 1937, all neuropsychiatric hospitals in Germany would use ICT.
1927 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes the US Supreme Court decision in the case Buck v. Bell. In the case, a psychiatric inmate, Carrie Buck, was chosen for sterilization after having a child because she was deemed "feeble-minded". Justice Holmes wrote, "It is better if society can prevent our being swamped with incompetance".
By 1927 U.S. highway routes become uniformly marked and mapped
Kool-Aid & Pez introduced
Smallpox in England dwindles almost to the vanishing point.
1928 Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928 Third International Congress of Eugenics. At the conference, a Dr. Robie calls for the sterilization of 14 million Americans with low IQ scores.
Development of of the EEG machine and the discovery brain waves.
Edward L.Bernays, nephew to Sigmund Freud, writes the book Propaganda, in which he explains the structure of the mechanism which controls the public mind, and how it is manipulated by those who wish to create public acceptance for a particular idea or commodity. Says Bernays, "those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, largely by men we have never heard of."
Gerber's baby food & Heath bars introduced
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil interlocks his empire with I.G. Farben in Germany.
Dr. Wiley's Bureau of Chemisty is dismantled and replaced by the Food Drug and Insecticide Administration, precursor of the FDA. Lists of "dubious compounds in food" were declared "Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)".
I.G. Farben concluded limited cartel agreements with Dupont Chemical in US.
Inauguration of President Herbert Hoover 1929
Po'Boy & hot Italian sandwiches introduced
1930 Max Theiler develops a yellow fever vaccine.
Twinkies & Jiffy biscuit mix & dry soup mix introduced
William Wirt, who pioneered Carnegie's German Wundt school system in Gary, Indiana and tried it in New York, is committed to an insane asylum in Washington, D.C where he died in 1932. Wirt was committed because he began to make public speeches saying that he had been part of a world wide conspiracy to bring about a controlled state in the hands of certain people.
1931 Fluoride in drinking water is found to be the cause of brown teeth - now known as dental fluorosis.
1931 I.G. Farben and Alcoa Aluminum sign Alig Agreement pooling patents.
Bisquick & Vidalia onions & tacos in LA & refrigerator biscuits introduced
H.Trendley Dean of the U.S. Public Health Service initiates studies on fluorides under the jurisdiction of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Mellon is founder of Alcoa aluminum, who is one of the main suppliers of sodium fluoride as a by-product of aluminum manufacture. He publishes a study showing that, at 1ppm, fluoride results in the reduction of tooth decay.
Roosevelt endorses polio "immune serum", precursor to vaccines in 1950's.
1932 The US Public Health Service initiates a study in Tuskegee, Alabama where black men are given syphilis. Four hundred men were unwittingly given the disease. No medical care was offered. The study ended when it was discovered in 1972, after 40 years. The office supervising this study was the predecessor of the Center for Disease Control.
Fritos introduced
Third International Congress of Eugenics held in New York. Dr. Theodore Russell Robie of the Essex County Mental Hygiene Clinic in New Jersey presents "Selective Sterilzation for Race Culture", in which he called for the sterilzation of at least 14 million Americans who had received low IQ scores since World War I.
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1933 I.G. Farben gives Nazis 4.5 million RM.
1933 Outbreak of encephalitis in St. Louis, Missouri.
Color printing used in road maps by 1933
Danish researcher Thorvald Madsen discovers the Pertussis vaccine's ability to kill infants without warning (SID). He reports that two babies vaccinated immediately after birth died in a few minutes.
First Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933
Vaccination programs against Yellow Fever begin in the United States.
World Fair in Chicago has amoebic dysentary outbreak.
1934 - 1936 Northern Expedition by Kuomintang
1934 Drs. Chaffee and Light publish manuscript entitled "A Method for Remote Control of Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System".
1934 IG. Farbenindustrie completely under Nazi control.
Ritz crackers & Hawaiian Punch & Rutgers tomatoes introduced
1935 - 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
1935 Lobotomy introduced in the United States. In the next 30 years, over 100,000 people would have their brain mutilated in American institutions. At the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. Orlando J. Andy would apply lobotomy to six-year-old children.
Sloppy joes introduced
1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War
I.G. Farben produces Zyklon B gas for extermination camps.
Pertussis vaccine introduced in the United States.
1937 - 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
1937 AMA "approves" drug sulfanilamide with diethylene glycol. Kills more than 100 people.
1937 Another outbreak of encephalitis in St. Louis, Missouri.
SPAM & Krispy Kreme introduced
Second Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1937
The Neutrality Acts of 1937 & 1939
1938 Germany invades Austria.
1938 Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, now a subsidiary of I.G. Farben, begins manufacture of LSD / Lysergic acid.
Canned soda introduced
Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act certifies 19 dyes for use in foods.
German chemist Schrader discovers Sarin, 10 times more lethal than Tabun, which is later dumped into planetary water supplies to placate the population.
Reich Air Ministry is shipped 500 tons of tetra-ethyl lead gas additive from Standard Oil of New Jersey (EthylStandard) in the United States, through I.G. Farben, with payment secured through Brown Brothers Harriman on Sept 21, 1938.
The idea of "booster shots" arose as a "solution" to poor antibody response in infants and newborns. These become customary in the 1940's.
Ugo Cerletti becomes the first to use electroconvulsive treatment in fascist Italy. The first victim was a 39 year old engineer who was found wandering on trains without a ticket. Present at this event was Lothar Kalinowsky, who would become a member of the American Psychiatric Association and an avid promoter of electroshock in the United States.
Waffles introduced
1939 - 1941 World War II
1939 Germany invades western Poland. Russia invades eastern Poland. Both Germany and Russia commit atrocities and mass murder.
1939 Health Practitioners Law (Heilpraktikergesetz) is put into practice in Germany. Allowed psychotherapists to advance their professional claims within the field of health and medicine during the Third Reich. The law ended the 'freedom to cure' that had existed in Germany since 1870. The 'freedom to cure' which had given personal and professional access to all aspects of healing, current and future, instead of the narrowly defined parameters which exist today. In future, the government would supervise all training of medical personnel, including officially approved health practitioners.
1939 Psychiatrists in Brandenburg Germany begin operation of gas chambers to kill mental patients.
Dr.Emanuel Josephson reveals AMA coverup of Vitamin E benefits.
Dr.Weston Price, a research dentist, publishes "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration- A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects", which argued that refined foods and sugar causes physical degeneration and disease as opposed to natural unrefined foods.
Nazi holocaust murders Jews and other minorities
1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England
American intake of petroleum-based food colorings/additives increases ten-fold.
Soviet concentration camps maintained by fluoride administration to inmates to decrease resistance to authority and induce physical deteriorization.
1941 - 1945 World War II
1941 AMA "approves" I.G. Farben subsidiary "sulfathiazole", a short acting oral and topical antimicrobial sulfa drug.
Among the American corporations supporting Germany were Sterling Drug (Bayer).
M & Ms & Cheerios introduced
Roosevelt's Infamy Speech Dec. 8, 1941
The Atlantic Charter Aug. 14, 1941
The Declaration of War on Germany Dec. 11, 1941
The Declaration of War on Japan Dec. 8, 1941
Third Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941
Corn dogs introduced
Epidemic of typhus in Egypt and North Africa 1942 into 1943.
Germany becomes world's largest producer of aluminum
I.G. Farben known to be operating using slave labor from Nazi camps.
1943 American vaccine researcher Pearl Kendrick reports that adding a metallic salt seemed to heighten the capacity of the Pertussis vaccine to produce anti-bodies. Pearl Kendrick is the researcher that urged that Pertussis vaccine be combined with Diptheria vaccine. Later the Tetanus vaccine was added, producing the DPT Vaccine.
1943 General vaccine program against influenza begins in the US.
1943 Infantile paralysis epidemic kills 1200 and cripples more in US.
1943 Researchers from the US Public Health Service examine the health of residents of Bartlett, Texas to see if the 8ppm fluoride in the drinking water was affecting their health. It was checked again in 1953. They find that the death rate in Bartlett was three times higher than a neighboring town which contained 0.4 ppm fluoride.
Chicago-style pizza introduced
Child psychologist LeoKanner observes a new illness appearing in US children. The problem became known as "autism".
Dr. John Tinterta rediscovers the vital importance of the endocrine system, and connects sugar use to production of hyper-adrenocortic episodes in humans intolerent to sugar. This is where adrenal hormones are suppressed, producing inability to think clearly, allergies, inability to handle alcohol, depression, apprehension, craving for sweets and low blood pressure.
Penicillin "successfully used in the treatment of chronic diseases".
The Journal of the American Medical Association on September 18, 1943, states, "fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain enzymes. The exact mechanism of such actions are obscure. The sources of fluorine intoxication are drinking water containing 1ppm or more of fluorine, fluorine compounds used as insecticidal sprays for fruits and vegetables (cryolite and barium fluoro- silicate) and the mining and conversion of phosphate rock to superphosphate, which is used as a fertilizer. That process alone releases approximately 25,000 tons of pure fluorine into the atmosphere annually."
1944 The American Cancer Society (ACS) is reorganized, chiefly under the wing of Albert Lasker (an advertising tycoon) and Elmer Bobst (president of two drug companies, Hoffman LaRoche and Warner Lambert). Mary Lasker in New York was the driving force of the ACS for decades. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, which is based on the Lasker advertising fortune, provides the impetus to dominate cancer research.
Asperger in Vienna describes the first cases of adult "autism" to appear.
1945 - 1949 Chinese Civil War
Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, former member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, sentenced to life in prison at Nuremberg for his role at Buchenwald.
Due to the severity of the war crimes committed by IG Farben during World War II, after the war it was split into several smaller companies which then recombined themselves into Agfa, BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst - with several convicted war criminals running those companies.
Fourth Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945
Japan surrenders twice, followed by US bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and a third and final unconditional surrender September 2, 1945.
Postwar nitrate supplies designated to be added to food chain as fertilizer.
The German Surrender Documents of World War II May 8, 1945
The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II Sept. 12, 1945
1946 - 1954 First Indochina War
1947 - 1949 First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
Betty Crocker's cake mix introduced
The Truman Doctrine Mar. 12, 1947
1948 - 1949 First Arab-Israeli War
1948 Gandhi is assassinated
Frozen french fries & ready-to-spread frostings introduced
The North Atlantic Treaty Apr. 4, 1949
1949 Mao Tse Tung declares the Communist People's Republic of China
Inauguration of President Harry S. Truman 1949
Instant pudding & seedless watermelon introduced
1950 - 1953 Korean War (UN-led coalition Vs. North Korea)
Frozen pizza & American Tex-Mex introduced
Start of Chinese Communist attack on Buddhism
1952 Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England
AAA distributes 40 million state, regional, and city maps to its members in 1952
Diet soda & Duncan Hines cake mixes introduced
Formation of World Fellowship of Buddhists
First Inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953
TV Dinners introduced
Ranch dressing & Broasted chicken introduced
1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
Interstate Highway Act of 1956 funds a new era of highway construction
Second Inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1957
Tang & Pam introduced
Rice-A-Roni & instant ramen noodles introduced
Brown rice in USA introduced
Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy 1961
1962 - 1963 Sino-Indian War
Instant mashed potatoes introduced
1963 Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of South Vietnam, is assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream Speech Aug. 28, 1963
President Kennedy is assassinated
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War between US-led coalition including government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam
Buffalo Wings & Pop Tarts & fast food chicken sandwiches introduced
1965 Second Kashmir War (Second Indo-Pakistani War)
Gatorade & Slurpees introduced
Inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson 1965
State Department White Paper on Vietnam Feb. 27, 1965
1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
High fructose corn syrup introduced
Treaty on the Non
1969 Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.
1969 Ho Chi Minh dies in Hanoi
First Inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon 1969
1971 Bangladesh War of Independence (Third Indo-Pakistani War)
More than 250 million road maps printed for just the oil companies to distribute in 1972
1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
Arab oil embargo of 1973 tightens profits for oil companies and free road maps become less available
Second Inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon 1973
The War Powers Resolution Nov. 7, 1973
1974 - 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
AAA distributes 180 million maps in 1974
Self-service gas stations begin appearing in 1974 and by 1984 replace most full service tations and eliminates free road maps
1975 - 1991 Lebanese Civil War
1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister
Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter 1977
Pope John Paul
1979 - 1989 Soviet-Afghan War
1980 - 1988 Iran-Iraq War
First Inauguration of President Ronald Reagan 1981
Yukon gold potatoes introduced
1982 Falklands War between United Kingdom and Argentina


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Attention iPhone users: Jailbreaking your phone not a crime.
The good news came Monday morning as federal regulators decided that the common practice of hacking the phone's software falls inside the limits of the law.
For those who might not be so advanced in the iPhone jargon -- to jailbreak one means adjusting its operating system, unlocking it so the phone can run on any network or use apps not authorized by Apple.
That means underground app store Cydia will likely be seeing a jump in numbers over the next several weeks.
While it may come as good news to iPhone loyalists, the decision could hurt Apple in the long run. The company has been on top, partly, because when the iPhone first hit the market in 2007, Apple declared it was illegal to jailbreak one. But, as Wired points out, nobody has ever been arrested for jailbreaking an iPhone.
The jailbreak decision is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorized uses.
In addition to jailbreaking, other exemptions announced Monday would:
- allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.
- allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws.
- allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.
- allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.
The Library of Congress, which oversees the Copyright Office, reviews and authorizes exemptions every three years to ensure that the law does not prevent certain non-infringing use of copyright-protected material.


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The world has gone mad, or at least the Scottish Natural Heritage has. What a deceptive name for an organisation that grants licenses to kill a native species! Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has issued a licence giving the go-ahead for the 'culling' of hundreds of RAVENS - a scheme driven by game keeping and farming interests - over a large area of Perthshire.
Raptors really are hugely impressive predators. Their incredible vision, effortless aerial acrobatics and ruthless hunting instinct make them the undisputed masters of the skies. They share some common traits like powerful talons to hold and kill prey, a hooked bill to tear flesh from their victims' bones, and those incredibly graceful flying skills, thanks to powerful wings and aerodynamic tail, and the ability to use thermals, the wind, the lay of the land and stealth to survive. Raptors are now present throughout much of the UK, but remarkably scarce around the upland moors - often referred to as grouse moors.
Driven grouse shooting is pretty much unique to the United Kingdom. Red grouse are often imported from European 'farms' before being transported to the UK by sea and road and put out onto upland moors - known as grouse moors - where they are left alone whilst the local wildlife and potential predators are "taken care of" by the gamekeepers before the Grouse are shot for pleasure!
The EU CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) has long been a contentious issue with farmers, landowners and the public and not without good reason. When you take a look at a satellite map of the UK compared to our European neighbours there is undoubtedly something very different about the UK.
In Europe, the lowlands are clearly used for agriculture and food production whilst the uplands are wooded. In the UK, the lowlands, whilst used for agriculture are relatively bare and the uplands are barren. Apart from areas of plantation forest, the UK has no trees in the uplands above around 200 metres.
Gamekeepers on Grouse moors use a large array of devices to capture native wildlife - considered as predators to grouse. Farmed grouse that are reared to be shot for human pleasure! Some of these traps are legal in the UK, others have very specific references for their use. All are 'deadly killing devices' that inflict a long and painful death on animal wild or domestic animal they catch.
The season for red grouse shooting starts today. Tens of thousands of red grouse will be shot over the next two months covering the Moors of Britain in rivers of blood. The shooting estates claim that grouse shooting is a traditional field sport but that isn't true. The claim is similar to that made by the Countryside Alliance to defend fox hunting, but grouse shooting has a terrible impact on the environment and other wildlife to the cost of every taxpayer and 70% of the nation's homes.
The Estate owners and shooting associations are quick to make huge claims of how the work they do benefits the moorland and the environment. What they don't mention is that they are paid huge subsidies by the Government (that's our money) to maintain bio-diverse habitats and ecosystems, rich in flora and fauna, but this is not what they are doing.
The season for red grouse shooting starts today. Tens of thousands of red grouse will be shot over the next two months covering the Moors of Britain in rivers of blood.
The shooting estates claim that grouse shooting is a traditional field sport but that isn't true. The claim is similar to that made by the Countryside Alliance to defend fox hunting, but grouse shooting has a terrible impact on the environment and other wildlife to the cost of every taxpayer and 70% of the nation's homes.
In the North of England and Scotland, the shooting of game birds and mammals is widespread. Habitat and 'predator management' are undertaken to increase game abundance and hunting bags and thus profits.
The Grouse moor managers and Gamekeepers claim major conservation benefits as a result of traditional and 'sympathetic' moorland management. They say if the control of generalist predators by gamekeepers ceased, lapwing and golden plover numbers would drop by 81% and curlew by 47% within 10 years.
Game Shooting in the UK or Shame Shooting. Every year around 35 million non native, factory farmed pheasants and partridges are imported into the UK. They are sold to the 300 game shooting estates, an industry that is reported to be worth £1.6 billion to the economy. "One for the pot" is a myth. Many more birds are released each year than the demand for "game" from consumers with around half of the birds never getting within sight of a gun. Far from the claim that they will live a natural wildlife, whilst breeding to support the native population next year; the truth is they die from predation, exposure, starvation and traffic collision. Many of the birds that are shot are simply "tossed" into mass graves after the shoot.


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One reason that many of us are not at a healthy weight is because,
somewhere along the line, we stopped listening to our body signals that
naturally tell us when we're hungry and when we're full.
signals are still there, but we're out of practice when it comes to paying
attention to them.
Learning to recognize those signals again can
help you get to a healthy weight and stay there.
Hunger signals tell us when
to eat, what to eat, and when to stop. There are three types of hunger
Satiety is:
Satiety is the body signal that tell us when we
have had enough to eat.
Satiety is a very important signal. Many of us
have learned to ignore this signal, because we eat too fast or eat without
Satiety is the body signal that tells us when
we have had enough to eat.
Continue to Why?
Babies follow their hunger signals naturally. When their bodies tell them
they're hungry, they let us know by crying or fussing. And they stop eating
when they're full enough to be satisfied.
As we grow up, lots
of distractions lead us away from this natural way of eating:
All these distractions can cause you to ignore your body's
signals. You stop paying attention to how hungry you are or how full you are.
Over time, you lose the skill of listening to and obeying your body's
Learning to get back in touch with your hunger signals
can be one of your best tools for getting to a healthy weight and staying
there. Your hunger and fullness signals are still there. You just have to learn
how to listen to them again.
Watching TV while you eat is good, because it takes
your mind off of your food.
While you're eating, it's better to concentrate
on your food without a distraction like watching TV. That way you can more
easily pay attention to your body signals and know when it's time to stop
Continue to How?
find out what signals you are following. Keep a
food journal for 2 weeks, or longer if you need to.
Write down not only when and what you eat but also what you were doing and
feeling before you started eating. Using the hunger scale below, write down
where you were on the scale before you ate and where you were
When you look back at your food journal, you may see
some eating patterns. For example, you may find that you almost always eat
dinner in front of the TV. You may find that you always eat an evening snack,
even when you're not hungry. You may find that you often snack when you "feel"
like you want to eat (because of boredom, stress, or some other emotion), but
you're not truly hungry.
A hunger scale can help you learn how to tell the
difference between true, physical hunger and hunger that's really just in your
head. Psychological hunger is a desire to eat that is caused by emotions,
like stress, boredom, sadness, or happiness.
When you feel hungry
even though you recently ate, check to see if what you're feeling is really a
craving brought on by something psychological.
When you start
feeling like you want something to eat, rate your hunger on a scale of 1 to 10,
with 1 being starving and 10 being so full you feel sick. A rating of 5 or 6
means you're comfortable—neither too hungry nor too full.
To eat naturally, the way a baby does, eat when your hunger
is at 3 or 4. Don't wait until your hunger gets down to 1 or 2. Getting too
hungry can lead to overeating. When you sit down to a scheduled meal, stop and
think how hungry you are. If you feel less hungry than usual, make a conscious
effort to eat less food than usual. Stop eating when you reach 5 or 6 on the
For your body to be truly satisfied, your meals
need to be balanced. This means that each meal should contain:
Your meals should contain tastes that you like and want.
This also helps you feel satisfied.
Try to stop eating before you get too full. Too
full is uncomfortable. It means you ate too much.
Get in touch
with what "satisfied," or "pleasantly full," feels like for you.
Lots of people think that healthy eating means never having dessert or
french fries or any of the things they love to eat. That's wrong.
Your appetite, which can include a desire for sweets or other
less-than-healthy treats, is a strong body signal. And part of keeping your
body at that "satisfied" level on the hunger scale is eating tastes that you
like and want.
If we try to have an eating plan that cuts out all
treats, we probably won't stay with that plan. In fact, we're more likely to go
"off the wagon" and eat too much of those foods.
But it's
important to recognize when it's your appetite talking instead of your true
hunger. Knowing which body signal is talking can help you control what you are
If you're eating healthy and listening to your body
signals, a piece of birthday cake or an occasional order of french fries can
fit into your healthy eating plan. When the holidays come around, it's okay to
eat the traditional foods you love. Just keep listening to your body signals
and eat only enough to reach that "satisfied" level.
If you want to eat naturally and healthfully, let
yourself get a little hungry between meals.
Mild hunger is a good thing. It means that
you're not overeating. But don't let yourself get too
hungry, or you'll be more likely to eat too fast and too much when you have
your next meal.
If you want to eat healthy, you must give up all
high-fat, sugary foods, including desserts and french fries.
Your appetite, which can include a desire for
sweets or other less-than-healthy treats, is a strong body signal that leads
you to food that you like and want. And eating those kinds of foods can help
you stay longer at that "satisfied" level on the hunger scale. Just be sure to
keep listening to your body's signals for hunger and fullness, and eat
Continue to Where?
Now that you have read
this information, you're ready to start listening to your body's hunger
If you have questions about this information, print it out and take it
with you when you visit your doctor. You may want to mark areas or make notes
in the margins where you have questions.
If your goal is to get to
a healthy weight, your doctor can refer you to a
dietitian, an expert who can help people learn to eat
If you would like more information on healthy eating, the
following organizations can provide information:
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics sets standards for all types of prescribed diets. The
organization produces a variety of consumer information, including videos. This group will help you find a registered dietitian in your area who
provides nutrition counseling.
The USDA food guide website provides many
options to help people make healthy food choices and to be active every day.
Enter your age, gender, and activity level to get a food plan specific to your
needs. You can also print out worksheets for tracking your progress and goals.
On this website, you'll find answers to many of your questions about healthy
This Web site has information on nutrition, healthy
eating, exercise, and food safety. You can use an e-mail form to ask a
food-related question.
Return to topic:
Other Works ConsultedKatz DL, Friedman RSC (2008). Hunger, appetite, taste, and satiety.
In Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2nd ed., pp. 377–390.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Whitney E, Rolfes SR (2011). Energy balance and body composition. In Understanding Nutrition, 12th ed., pp. 240–260. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Last Revised:
October 21, 2011
Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:
Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine & Rhonda O'Brien, MS, RD, CDE - Certified Diabetes Educator
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