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Hepatitis C Laboratory Tests
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Several laboratory (blood) tests are used for hepatitis C (HCV). These include liver function tests, HCV viral load, genotype tests, the IL28B genetic test, and blood clotting tests.
Liver Function Tests
The lab tests called "liver function tests" do not measure how the liver functions. Instead, they measure the levels of enzymes found in the liver, heart, and muscles. Enzymes are proteins related to chemical reactions in living organisms.
High enzyme levels can indicate liver damage caused by medications, heavy alcohol intake, viral hepatitis, toxic fumes or recreational drug use. Liver enzyme test results can be difficult to understand. People with serious liver damage sometimes have normal liver enzyme levels.
Different patterns of these enzymes -- when some are elevated and others are normal -- are part of the information your health care provider uses to monitor liver health.
Liver function tests include:
Viral Load Tests
The viral load test counts how many HCV particles are in your blood. This is similar to the HIV viral load test (see Fact Sheet 125) but there are some important differences:
HCV Genotype Tests
There are more than six different types of HCV, identified by a number. There are also subtypes, which are given a letter. For example, there are genotypes 1a and 1b. They are identified by analyzing a blood sample to determine the genetic code of the virus. The most common type of HCV in North America is genotype 1. Genotypes 2 and 3 are much less common in North America.
The HCV genotypes and subtypes give health care providers important information for choosing treatments. For example, genotypes 2 and 3 are the easiest to treat with interferon.
IL28B Genetic Test
Researchers have recently discovered a link between a patient's genetic code and their response to standard treatment. The genetic code of a large group of patients with HCV genotype 1 was analyzed. Patients with a particular variety of the IL28B gene were more than twice as likely to respond well to the standard HCV treatment of interferon and ribavirin. The IL28B test may become an important tool to guide HCV treatment.
Blood Clotting Tests
Some tests might be used if you are going to have a liver biopsy (see Fact Sheet 672). With a biopsy, there is a risk of bleeding. Blood clotting tests measure how quickly the blood forms clots, which stop bleeding. Abnormal values on these tests may indicate advanced liver disease.
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Thu, 18 March 2010
Tom Coates, Mitch Henry, and Steve Raimey worry about expanding gambling in Iowa and the gambling lobby buying politicians. Bruce Chapman says it's too bad but sometimes "science" goes to the highest bidder. Congresswoman Michelle Bachman is protesting Obamacare. Brad Smith won't let the bed-bugs byte...a professional bug assassin. OH... and a great summary of the current health care negotiations.
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Seegars, a Kershaw native and former Andrew Jackson High School star lineman, will be among Clemson University's largest class of Tigers' Hall of Fame inductees on Saturday when the Tigers battle Georgia Tech at 3:30 p.m.
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Hustle "Old Sparks Come New" When Emma learns that ex-boyfriend Joe Ryan is facing eviction, team members find themselves traveling to Birmingham to take on Camilla Althorp, owner of an unscrupulous law firm. They intend to sell Camilla a castle and a title while Emma discovers renewed feelings for Joe.G
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FRONTLINE investigates the fight over the fate of juveniles serving life in prison for murder, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The film examines the impact of the order to re-evaluate thousands of juvenile murder cases and follows two of the first convicts to be released.
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The judge who ordered reforms to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk strategy has refused to delay them pending appeal.
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin said Tuesday that granting the city's request, which was issued shortly after her August decision, would send the wrong signal.
She said a decrease in the number of stops from their peak in 2011 to today is already due in part to her orders over the past several years.
Scheindlin said delaying the effects of her decision would send the message that reducing the number of stops is somehow dangerous to residents.
She also criticized city officials who have misinterpreted her decision, claiming it ends stop-and-frisk all together. The judge ordered reforms after finding the program discriminates against minorities.
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When you use a sink in the public restroom, after using the toilet, and the other person at the sink only starts to use the hand soap after noticing that you've used it. They've been soap shamed because they are too dirty to use the soap out of habit.
Rudolf was sloshing his hands under the water, merely rinsing them off. Chaz came out of the bathroom and proceeded to soap up his hands and wash them properly. Rudolf was embarrassed for not using soap and immediately starting pumping soap into his hands. Rudolf felt soap shame.
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I should have written this blogpost last Sunday, but was too busy (with idleness, hehe!).
APAC Customer Services, Inc. was my first and last call center. I signed my contract there on 29 October 2004 (¡hahaha! ¡tandáng tandá pá!). I could still remember that cold almost-Halloween night (APAC's HR people were designing the lobby with Halloween decors). I was unemployed then; I just lost a job because of a lingering illness. Worse, me and my wife Yeyette weren't living with our folks anymore. We've been living on our own since we eloped 10 years ago. Thus, I desperately needed that job. That is why when the contract was shown to me, I couldn't keep from smiling. I almost cried while silently uttering words of gratitude to the Lord who I used to bash when I was still an atheist a year before that. Sucked to be me.
The salary offered to me back then was P13,000 with a P2,000 allowance. It was already a very big deal for many first-time call center kids back then. I was assigned to a health account: Medco Health Solutions.
I even had the chance to form a rock band in Medco which we named Snakes of Eden. It joined two battle of the bands within one week; we won both! And I don't know of any other amateur band which made a similar accomplishment!
Through the years, my salary increased. And our way of life progressed. During my almost five-year tenure with APAC, we were able to complete all of our furniture and other necessary appliances. Not to mention more kids, hehe!
In late 2006, I was transferred to another health account: Unicare. I spent only six months in that campaign, but I made more friends there compared to Medco (and my salary increased up to P16,500, hehe!). The account is perhaps the most difficult one in APAC. I think that's why that campaign's management have thought of doing regular fun events too make up for all the stress. Too bad, I have no photos of myself with my Unicare homies. =(
In mid 2007, I transferred to LA Times. It was in LA Times where I found my true family in APAC. In that campaign, I was able to utilize my Spanish. For many, Unicare is the liveliest account in APAC. But for me, the bond that LA Times CSRs developed for each other is priceless and timeless.
It was in LA Times (and sister campaign Boston Herald) where I met my comrade-at-arms Arnold "Arnaldo" Arnáiz, as well as my best homies: Yhanki Peralta "de Salinas", Will "The Tool" Tolosa, Rafael Salinas, JJ Pertierra, Jordan "Erap" Estrada, Errol Baky, Louie Mendoza, Rosey Patricio, Din Velilla, Christine Moral, "The Big Boss" Levi Soledad, Miguel Satuito, Sheila Déximo, Janis "Miley Cyrus" Santiago, Mechel "Pokwá" Egama, Mike Adzuara, "Mommy" Ruth Toribio, Kenjie Lituco, and many others (o hayán, nabiguián co pa cayó ng exposure, ¡hahaha!). Sa LA Times din acó naguíng millonario, ¡hahaha!
Grabeng catuwaan, lasiñgan, inuman, at waláng humpáy na sayá ang dinanas co sa APAC. Parang nasa college lang acó, ¡hehehe! And during times of calamity, APAC people are always ready to help out with its various outreach programs. Not too mention lively events and parties that made work-life balance a breeze and more fun!
But good things don't really last on earth. In the end, I got burned out with the call queues. And last year, my wife got pregnant for the fourth time. Thus, I had to augment the P75,000 salary which APAC was paying me every month as an easy-going Spanish-speaking rep (naaah, I'm just playing folks, hahaha!). Besides, our campaign wasn't doing any good anymore.
When my TL JJ Pertierra invited me to apply elsewhere (where the prospects are much better, I heard) I joined him. I accepted the offer; but JJ stayed with APAC. My last day with APAC was on January 15 this year. I started working for an eProcurement company also in Alabang. APAC couldn't even match the employee perks that I'm getting now from my new company. But up to now, I still miss "home" and its fun environment.
I badly need a fun environment because I easily get downtrodden which is very bad for me…
Several weeks ago, I heard that LA Times was about to close shop in APAC and move to another call center. Last October 5, when we were going back to the Metro from a memorable trip to Taal, Batangas), Arnold and I were reminiscing our LA Times homies, and we're both saddened that the account is about to close early next month. And that our barkada has transferred to other call centers and accounts. We toyed with the idea of a reunion (I also remembered Arnold and Levi's communication in WITH ONE'S PAST about that LA Times reunion). And so the next day, I started sending out invites to our LA Times peeps who are in my Facebook account:
As you may now know, LA Times is about to close shop in APAC on the first week of November (is it on the fourth?). It is going to be the end of a wonderful, productive, and colorful era. So much has happened during its brief but fruitful stint: friendships were formed; gangsters were organized; beautiful relationships flowered; babies conceived; loans transacted here and there; payroll inquiries and other controversies; tears and struggles and victories; and so much more.
It is saddening that it has to end this way. But as they always say, only diamonds are forever. So before LA Times bids goodbye to the "august halls" of APAC, Arnold "The Penis" Arnáiz, "Operations Murderer" Levi Soledad, and yours truly, Pepe "El Guapito Inn" Alas, invite you to our beloved account's swan song this coming Saturday, October 10, 2009! Showtime begins at 7:00 AM onwards! It will serve as our long overdue reunion! We'll have booze, food, orgy, and more booze! This will be held at Fastbytes, Northgate Cyberzone, Alabang, Muntinlupà City. We have many establishments to choose from: Bacólod Chicken Inasál, Samurai, Plato Wraps, etc. Basta, 'pag nagquita-quita tayo, sacá na tayo magdecisión cung saán (malamáng sa guitná tayo ng Fastbytes, ¡hehehe!). Call up your wavemates and spread the news! Time's running out! Calimutan na rin ang mga away at tampuhan. It's all in the past. Ang importante ay ang ating reunión. Sacá na ang sapacan 'pag may lasíng ná. c",)
RSVP. Please let us know who won't be able to come… but PUH-LEAZE DO COME! ¡Umabsent na ang dapat umabsent, LOL! At yung mga may importanteng lacad, cahit isáng horas lang cayó tumambay, OKs na yun. May picture taking din casí tayo, hehe… I believe there'll be more than a hundred of us! Fastbytes won't be able to believe this, hehehe! At yung mga nasa ibáng bansâ (Rosey Patricio, Mirai Virtucio, etc.), mag-online na lang cayó. May WiFi namán sa Fastbytes. Magdalá na ang mga puedeng magdalá ng caní-caniláng mga laptop (I'll bring mine) para macasama niyó namán camí. =) Sama na rin natin ang mga "neighbors" — Boston Herald, ¡hahaha! Patí na rin ang LAT Cubáo.
For inquiries, contact Señor Don Simón De Anda (Arnold): (****)***-****, or Señor Don José Mario Alas y Soriano (Pepe Alas): (****)***-****. Oo, Sun ang SIM namin dahil camí ay mga Sunofab!tch. So spread the good news to every one! Icalat ang mensajeng itó sa inió-inióng mga email accounts, SMS, Facebook, Friendster, Multiply, picha pie, atbp. ¡Matindíng album din itó sa inióng mga Facebook 'pag nagcátaon!
Nawá'y lahát tayo ay macasama dahil sa opinión co ay hindíng-hindí na mauulit ang reunión na tulad nitó. Don't worry: there's no entrance fee. Bro. Berns will even give you money! =) As long as you've been part of LA Times –cahit yung mga nag-AWOL at yung mga isáng lingo lang na tumagál sa LAT– invitado. RAIN OR SHINE, We'll all go to Fastbytes this Saturday morning – onwards!!! Let's make this final LAT event a truly memorable one that we'll all cherish when our hairs turn white – or when some of us start losing our hair (sorry "TL", hehe). Just one more quibble: KKB ang event!
It was a very hasty preparation because I was actually thinking of Arnold who was about to go back to Cebú the following week (but he didn't). He's part of the founding batch of LA Times in APAC back in 2004 when I was still with Medco.
Nevertheless, the reunion was a success!
I was surprised with the turnout! Even soft-spoken TL Anna Alto (Arnold's fantasy, LOL!) was there! And some LA Times people who I no longer know (those from earlier batches) also attended. The reunion happened in Mongolian. It was Jordan and I who chose the place. Punó na cas¡ yung ibáng establecimiento. At sacá bawal na paláng mag-inuman sa labás ng Fastbytes. Ewan co cung bakit.
Grabe, nalasíng talagá acó; walá yata casíng Cerveza Negra, eh. Pati si La Esposa co na hindí namán tagá-APAC nakiloca na rin sa reunión, ¡hahaha!
Thanks to La Esposa mía, I am now a certified social animal. Dati, loner talagá; ngayón loser na lang, ¡hehehe!
This is perhaps LA Times final reunion.
Well, it's time to say "Goodbye, LA Times". You'll always remain right inside my pulpy heart. Take care. I know we'll miss each other's company. The memories will always remain…
To the people of LA Times APAC (both Alabang and Cubáo) — take a bow! Thank y'all!
Special thanks to "Mr. LA Times" Arnold Arnáiz for the touching YouTube videos of our happy selves!
May God bless us all always! =)


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Court rejects autism-vaccine link in test cases
The government's "vaccine court" ruled Friday in three separate test cases that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal does not cause autism, a finding that supports the broad scientific consensus on the matter but that is likely to disappoint parents who are convinced that their child's illness was caused by vaccines.
The court had ruled 13 months ago that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, commonly known as MMR, does not cause the disorder, and the new ruling may finally close the bulk of litigation on the matter. More than 5,000 parents had filed claims with the court, formally known as the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, seeking damages because they believed their children had developed autism as a result of vaccinations.
The cases that three special masters for the court chose to include in the omnibus proceeding were considered among the strongest, so the outlook appears grim for others making the same claim.
Special Master Denise Vowell wrote in one of the decisions that "petitioners propose effects from mercury in (vaccines) that do not resemble mercury's known effects in the brain, either behaviorally or at the cellular level. To prevail, they must show that the exquisitely small amounts of mercury in (vaccines) that reach the brain can produce devastating effects that far larger amounts experienced prenatally or postnatally from other sources do not."
She also dismissed claims that some groups of children are unusually susceptible to the effects of mercury. "The only evidence that these children are unusually sensitive is the fact of their (autism) itself."
The special vaccine court was established in 1986 because vaccine manufacturers were facing many liability suits that threatened their ability to continue manufacturing the valuable medicines. The court holds hearings to determine if a child has, in fact, been damaged by a vaccine. Compensation comes from a special fund based on a surcharge leveled on each dose of vaccine.


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Novell's New Security Alerts Policy
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In light of increased customer interest in Internet-related security and the migration of Novell's products to the Internet Protocol, Novell is taking steps to better inform our customers and partners about security alerts. In today's world, network systems are facing many more attacks than ever before. Customers who use our products (and, for that matter, other vendors' products) have to work harder to secure their systems from attack. This new policy is one way to help customers keep on top of their systems maintenance, and to know what patches should be installed and precautions taken with our products.
The Policy
Generally, Novell will provide information to the public (both customers and non-customers) about real or potential security vulnerabilities in our products along with recommended corrective actions, patches and other guidance, as those corrective actions become available; accordingly, we won't disclose information about theoretical or unsolved (nor unsolvable) problems until a workaround or product ?fix? is available.
There is one exception to this general policy. For any given security vulnerability, Novell reserves the right to provide information in a time and manner that we determine based on the surrounding circumstances.
For example, one circumstance may be when we're aware of a problem but other vendors afflicted with the same problem have not yet had the opportunity to address the issue in their own products. Such circumstances will usually arise in conjunction with our work with CERT (http://www.cert.org) or other multi-vendor forums.
Where to Look for Alerts
Novell will publish security alerts to CERT (http://www.cert.org), Bugtraq (http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1), our own security-focused web site (http://support.novell.com/security-alerts) and other suitable public forums that become well known to our customers and us.
In the past, customers could find information about fixes to security-related problems, but we didn't make it particularly easy for customers to find the information. That is what is changed. Now, customers will be able to go to a single Novell Support site to find security-related fixes for their Novell products.
Some people believe it will pose risks to our customers if we openly publish information about vulnerabilities. However, we believe the risks to customers are the vulnerabilities themselves. Novell intends to notify customers about the fixes they should apply to help protect themselves from those vulnerabilities. It's every customer's responsibility to maintain (and secure) its own systems and to keep its Novell products up-to-date by applying security-related patches. Novell cannot commit to keeping products free of security flaws, but Novell is committed to providing a process to be used when a product is suspected of having security problems.
How to Report Security Issues
If you find suspected vulnerabilities in a Novell product, please report them. The new web site, http://support.novell.com/security-alerts, has a form that can be used to submit information about a suspected problem. In addition, reports can be made to email@example.com via e-mail.
Note: You do not need to have a support contract in order to report a problem.
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[Editor's note: this post originally appeared here at Destination: Austin Family on September 11, 2009]
Another Patriot Day has arrived and again I don't feel I am ready for it. How can you ever be ready to recall the events of September 11, 2001?
In last year's post I went into great detail as to how I spent that day living in San Francisco and seemingly a world away from my family in New York where I had grown up.
The conclusion for last year's post is as true now as it was then:
In those years since, time has passed quickly but not so quickly that I can't pause and take time to remember what was, what could have been and what may be because of those attacks. And as I remember I will do so as I hold my loved ones a bit tighter tonite, cherish the memory more fervently of those no longer with me, and pray not as silently as usual that we all appreciate what we have when we have it, thank those who protect us when we need it, and love those who love us despite the madness of the world around us.Photo: Rescue workers conduct search and rescue attempts, descending deep into the rubble of the World Trade Center. September 14, 2001. Source: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson. Public domain.
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It's hard to believe that this will be the fifth SF Beer Week — and it just keeps getting bigger. With more than 400 events spread over 10 days, this year's festivities offer an average of 40 beer-related things to do every single day — many of them in the East and South bays.
When this project began in 2008, the founding committee agonized over what to call it — Bay Area Beer Week? Members fretted that people outside California might confuse our Bay Area with theirs and think the events were in, say, Chesapeake or Tampa. The name San Francisco was very well known, so the group went with SF Beer Week, but the geographic boundaries have always encompassed more than that city. That first year, events were held in Sacramento, the Bay Area and even Los Angeles, where the Blue Palms Brewhouse hosted an event with all Bay Area taps.
It's worked. By my calculation, more than 100 "beer weeks" are held in diverse communities worldwide, but SF Beer Week is one of the most famous — and despite the San Francisco moniker, there are some amazing events taking place in Richmond, Livermore, San Jose and beyond. Find the full schedule online at www.sfbeerweek.org, but here are a few highlights.
Go East, young man
The first marquee event after Beer Week's opening gala Friday in San Francisco is the Bistro's Double IPA Festival in Hayward. This annual celebration, which starts at 11 a.m. Saturday, showcases the hoppiest creations on planet beer with more than 80 Imperial IPAs. Later that day, you also can taste wine barrel-aged beers at Oakland's Beer Revolution from 2 to 11 p.m. and enjoy a new beer release party at Berkeley's Pyramid Alehouse from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The festivities continue Sunday with the very popular Sour Sunday at Berkeley's Triple Rock. If you love sour beer, you cannot miss this one, which starts at 11 a.m. Pyramid (in Berkeley and Walnut Creek) will host beer bingo from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, while Pleasanton's Main St. Brewery gets in on the fun the next evening with a Fat Tuesday party starting at 5 p.m.
Celebrate Valentine's Day at Triple Rock's Decadence and Chocolate Milk Stout event, New Belgium's Lovefest at Beer Revolution and a Beer-Lover's Valentine party at Pyramid.
After all that beer, you'll probably want some exercise. Join the Tour de Biere East Bay Brewery Bike Crawl on Feb. 16. The ride begins at 9:30 a.m. at Drake's Barrel House in San Leandro and runs all day. Richmond's Craneway Pavilion is hosting its fourth annual chocolate and beer festival that afternoon as well.
When SF Beer Week comes to a close Feb. 17, it will do so with a bang at the Oakland Marriott Convention Center, with a Celebrator Beer News 25th anniversary party that goes from 4 to 8 p.m.
Silicon Valley
Plenty of terrific events will stretch across the South Bay as well, starting at 9 a.m. Sunday with Strong Women Brew Day at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. The brewery staff will be teaching women who want to learn to brew beer everything they need to know to brew at home. The event, which has space for 25, includes breakfast, lunch, a T-shirt and, of course, beer. There's a Sour Sunday tasting at Palo Alto's Rose & Crown that day as well, starting at 11 a.m.
Enjoy a beer dinner with Hermitage Brewing's award-winning brewmaster at Scott's Seafood in Mountain View at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Chat up Stone Brewing's brewmaster the next evening when Harry's Hofbrau in Redwood City will feature 28 taps of Stone Brewing's beer.
Celebrate Valentine's Day at San Jose's Original Gravity Public House, which is hosting an all-day Sour Tap Takeover, and Wine Affairs is hosting a Valentine's Allagash pairing dinner.
Serpents and Stouts, anyone? Head for San Carlos on Feb. 15, when Jungle James Animal Adventures teams up with the Ale Arsenal for an evening of rare dark beers and snakes from 6 p.m. to midnight.
Don't miss the Twisted Tasting at the Top of the Ritt in Santa Cruz on Feb. 16. The Rittenhouse's afternoon tasting runs from 1 to 4 p.m., with a gala featuring 40 unusual beers from 6 to 10 p.m. And any day of the week, you can indulge your sweet tooth at Half Moon Bay Brewing's beer and dessert pairings, which run Saturday through Feb. 17.
One from the North
While there's plenty to do throughout the Bay Area, there is one more event I want to mention, because it's personal to me. My 11-year-old son, Porter, is autistic, and that's the cause being supported by the Black & White Beer Ball, a semiformal beer tasting 8 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building. I'll see you at that one. Get details at www.ales4autism.org.
Jay R. Brooks was one of the founders of SF Beer Week. Contact him at email@example.com. Read more at www.ibabuzz.com/bottomsup.


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Alexander Smith: Bless Your Virus
January 19, 2013
Alexander Smith is a teacher, licensed clinical social worker, coach, writer, speaker, actor, and artist. Living with HIV since 2003, he was diagnosed on St. Patrick's Day, and views that "lucky" day as the moment he began to live. In June of 2011, he was featured on CNN, commemorating 30 years of HIV/AIDS. Coming Out with his status has shifted the isolation, stigma, discrimination, and judgement that has accompanied his journey with the virus. Through this courageous and necessary action, more love, support, friendship, health, and abundance has graced his life. He is the vision behind Bless Your Virus, a movement and conversation aimed to inform and inspire. Its mission is to: Deconstruct shame, stigma and secrets, spread compassion, courage, connection, kindness and kinship and teach others a mindfulness as they learn to bless their fear, disease, and virus. 4.Speak the C Word (cure).
Josh Kruger Shares His Story
January 13, 2013
Josh Kruger, a child of the nineties, grew up in a rural town in Pennsylvania. In 2002, he moved to Philadelphia where he attended the University of Pennsylvania studying political science and anthropology. For five years, he worked in community and LGBT non-profit development, fundraising, and marketing. Diagnosed as HIV positive in his late twenties, he left the non-profit industry and started Emapwerks, his company focusing on writing, editing, and marketing, in 2012.
James Breinig: The Power of Sharing Stories
January 7, 2013
On Sunday December 30th James Breinig shared his story for the first time on POZ I AM Radio. James Breinig lives in southern NJ. James is 29 years old and on November 2, 2010 He thought his life was over. He tested positive for HIV at the Washington West Project in Philadelphia. Not knowing a lot about the disease, He was convinced his life from that point on would be one of pain and suffering. A little over two years later his life has absolutely changed for the better! As time went on he felt that he really wanted to share his story. Not because it is Hollywood material but because it is very similar to a lot of other HIV positive individuals. His hope is that it will touch someone newly diagnosed or someone who has been living with it for years, who may be afraid to tell anyone, and to let them know they're going to be okay.
Ken Warnock: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
January 7, 2013
On Sunday December 16th Ken Warnock shared his story on the POZ I AM Radio Show. Ken Warnock served three years in the Navy prior to being discharged for being gay before "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was even enacted. As a Navy Hospital corpsman, he was involved in the roll out of HIV testing of US military personnel in the mid-80's. After the Navy, Ken used his military training as a Surgical Technologist to gain employment upon his return home to Michigan. As a result of his experience with discrimination, he became an advocate for gay rights and became involved in a number of local organizations. When DADT was being discussed, Ken was a common local media presence.
Jason Villalobos: Greater Than AIDS
January 7, 2013
On Sunday December 9th Jason Villalobos shared his story on the POZ I AM Radio Show. Jason Villalobos is an HIV/AIDS activist and national spokesperson for the Greater Than AIDS Campaign. Diagnosed with AIDS some 8 years ago, he has since dedicated his life to helping eradicate the shame and stigma associated with the disease.
Jason King: AIDS Healthcare Foundation
January 7, 2013
On January 6th at 9pm EST Jason King shared his story and spoke about AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Jason King, a transplant from Los Angeles, California, lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his partner. He started working for AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) in 2010 in the organization's pharmacy division where he discovered his passion for patient advocacy.
Philip and Justin B. Terry-Smith: Positive Parents
December 18, 2012
On Sunday, Dec. 2 at 9 p.m. EST, Philip and Justin B. Terry-Smith shared about the love they have for each other and what it is like to be parents.
Kari Farmer-Coffman: Motherhood and HIV
December 7, 2012
On Sunday, Nov. 25th at 9 p.m., Kari Farmer-Coffman shared her story. Kari lives near Fort Smith, Arkansas. She is the mother of a beautiful daughter. Kari was diagnosed with HIV on Nov. 4, 2010 and two days later was diagnosed with AIDS. She was told to make plans for her daughter and her funeral. Kari was not ready to quit. Two years later, she is still fighting and making a difference in the community. She is now undetectable. She is a full time student, an advocate and activist, and most importantly a better mother! She knows that she has a voice for this cause and she uses it to the best of her abilities.
Kathleen Gerus-Darbison: Stitches Doll Project
November 16, 2012
Last week, Kathleen Gerus-Darbison shared her story and all about the Stitches Doll Project on the POZ I AM Radio show.
Jeff Allen: Positive Champions
November 11, 2012
On Sunday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. EST we spoke with activist Jeff Allen on the POZ I AM Radio Show. Jeff Allen tested positive in 1985. He was a drug addict using heroin and cocaine and was reckless in his behavior. Jeff was homeless and living in his car for more than two months. Jeff lived in Key West with his partner of 12 years where the HIV community was small and compact. When it came to the end of his partner's life, Jeff wanted to leave and go where he was not so well known. After his partner's passing Jeff moved to Deland, Fla. right outside the Daytona Beach area. He was very frail and weak, but needed a purpose in his life. This is when Jeff first started volunteering for HIV/AIDS organizations in 1995.
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One of the few bright spots to another disappointing season goes tonight at Citi Field, where the crowd expects to be slim.
R.A. Dickey (8-5, 2.41) will be starting for the Mets, but he'll go against Cy Young candidate Josh Johnson, who is 7-1 lifetime against the Mets.
Also making it tough for Dickey is the Mets' lackluster offense, which has scored three of fewer runs in 10 of its last 13 games. Once dominant at Citi Field, the Mets have 10 runs to show for in their last seven games here.
With a little support, Dickey could easily have at least 12 wins, which would tie him with Mike Pelfrey for the club lead. Since joining the Mets' rotation, Dickey has made a quality start in 14 of 18 games. In his last eight starts since the All-Star break he's pitched to a 1.99 ERA, but the offense is giving him 1.99 runs a game in that span to leave him with a 2-3 record.
In his last start, Dickey gave up a game-tying homer with one out in the ninth inning at Houston in a game the Mets eventually won in 14 innings.
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"They just wanted to go in a different direction," said Valentine. "They wanted to change things and I certainly understand that."
After winning the Japan Series championship in 2005, but the team finished in fourth place this past season and did not make the playoffs.
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New London sues couple over backyard volleyball
New London — There may not be any more digs, sets or spikes in the backyard of 18 Viets St. as a result of a lawsuit served up by the city earlier this year.
The suit alleges that the homeowners operate an illegal commercial volleyball league from their backyard, in addition to being noncompliant with other sections of the city's zoning regulations.
The suit was filed Jan. 15 in New London Superior Court against Edinson G. Mizhquiri and Judith Fajardo, who have owned the Viets Street property since late 2011, according to property records.
"At this point in time we really only have a 'he said, she said' situation," city Law Director Jeffrey T. Londregan said in his report to the City Council on Monday.
He said he has spoken to a neighbor and one other person, both of whom claim Mizhquiri or Fajardo told them they were running a league from their backyard.
"Both defendants in the case have spoken with me and have denied that they're running a league," Londregan said. "They say that it is only friends who come on the same date and time to play after work and that it is not an organized league, there are no referees, there is no scorekeeper, there isn't standings or anything like that."
Mizhquiri and Fajardo declined to speak with The Day.
The volleyball court was approved by the city's planning, zoning and wetlands division after Mizhquiri applied for a permit to comply with two previous cease-and-desist orders.
The application for an administrative zoning permit, approved by Zoning Enforcement Officer Michelle Johnson, allowed Mizhquiri to install an 8-foot-tall fence and two full cut-off residential lights "for recreational court use." Full cut-off lights are designed to limit the amount of light that seeps into other properties.
But on Nov. 12, Johnson issued another cease-and-desist order after receiving complaints from neighbors and learning that Mizhquiri and Fajardo had installed netting higher than the approved 8 feet and put up more lights than the permit allowed.
Mizhquiri and Fajardo did not make changes to the court or request a hearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals, which ultimately prompted the city's lawsuit.
Londregan said that Mizhquiri and Fajardo have since made changes to the court netting, fencing and lighting to comply with the zoning regulations.
In addition to injunctions forcing Mizhquiri and Fajardo to comply with the zoning regulations and pay the city attorney's fee, the lawsuit also requests that they be fined in accordance with state law. Under the law, Mizhquiri and Fajardo could be fined up to $2,500.
"My hope is that we can enter into a stipulated judgment with the defendants whereby they agree to follow their special use permit and they agree that they do not operate a league," he said.
Mizhquiri and Fajardo are due back in court on July 15.
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2 tbsp. olive oil
3 cups cooked bacon, crumbled
3 cups blue cheese dressing
1, 12-oz. bag baby spinach mix
1/2 cup carrots, shredded
1/2 cup red bell pepper, julienned
1 large tomato, sliced (1/4-in. thick)
1. Preheat grill. Sprinkle steak with seasoning and coat lightly with oil. Grill to desired doneness. Hold warm.
2. In a small bowl, combine bacon with blue cheese dressing; reserve.
3. In a large bowl, combine baby spinach mix with carrots and peppers. Mix in dressing; toss to coat.
4. Slice steak 1/4-in. thick. Portion spinach salad onto 6 plates. Add a few slices of grilled sirloin to each plate; garnish with tomato slices.
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'John of God': Healings by Entities?
Investigative Files
Joe Nickell
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 31.5, September / October 2007
Known as "John of God," a Brazilian faith healer claims spirits take control of his body to enable him to perform surgeries without anesthesia and other healing procedures. The spiritual center he founded, located in the little town of Abadianian Brazil's remote central highlands, has been dubbed "the Lourdes of South America" ("Controversial" 2006), while he himself has been called a charlatan and worse ("Is" 2005).
First alerted by a CNN producer to a John of God healing service in Atlanta, I determined to go undercover to get a close look at what was transpiring. I worked with National Geographic Television and Film on a segment for their Is It Real? series program, "Miracle Cures," which included an analysis of the John of God phenomenon.
John of God
Known in his native Portuguese as João de Deus—"John of God"—João Teixeira de Faria was born in 1942 to poor parents. He grew up unable to stay in school or hold a job. At sixteen, he reportedly discovered his miraculous ability when, in a vision, a woman directed him to a nearby church. There, although he maintains he does not remember what happened, having been entranced, he allegedly performed a miraculous healing.
He thus began a career that impresses the credulous. Claiming to be a medium (one who communicates with spirits of the dead), he insists he is guided by more than thirty entities—although, curiously, João speaks only Portuguese, regardless of which entity is possessing him at a given time. King Solomon was his first entity. Others followed, including Ignatius Loyola, the Spanish noble who founded the Jesuit order in 1540; João's center is named for him: Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola. Oswaldo Cruz, a physician who helped eradicate yellow fever, is another alleged entity, along with other past healers, in a sort of spiritist pantheon ("Controversial" 2006; "Is" 2005).
Spiritism is essentially spiritualism, a belief that one can communicate with spirits, but with the added conviction that spirits repeatedly reincarnate in a progression toward enlightenment. In Brazil, which is steeped in superstition and has a climate of belief in African spirits, spiritism has become a powerful religious movement, overlayed onto Catholicism. It may involve mediumistic searches for past lives and even so-called "psychic surgery" (Bragdon 2002, 14—20; Guiley 2000, 360—362).
Supposedly, psychic surgeons open the body paranormally—without surgical instruments or anesthetic—and heal diseases by manipulating vital organs. Typically, they have involved fraudulent practices including sleight of hand. For instance, "tumors" have proved to be pieces of chicken intestines and blood that of a cow (Nickell 1998, 159—162).
John of God, however—styled "João-in-Entity" when supposedly possessed—has a different style. He performs dubious "surgeries" that are either "visible" or "invisible." The former may involve twisting forceps up a person's nostrils or using a knife to scrape an eyeball or slice open a fleshy abdomen—all without anesthesia. According to a pro-João book, "In over thirty-five years of the Entity's surgery, it has been extremely rare for there to be any infections" (Bragdon 2002, 11).
With "invisible surgery," the entity du jour gives a prayer, after which thousands of "healing entities" busy themselves, allegedly, by operating on an organ, revitalizing a muscle, or otherwise "simultaneously attending to the problems of the people in the room" (Bragdon 2002, 11). Augmenting the sessions are encouragements to meditate, drink water blessed by the entities, and take prescribed herbal remedies.
Figure 2. "John of God" (right)—supposedly possessed by a spirit entity—directs treatments for the afflicted. Seated in the background is the author, ready to undergo an "invisible surgery."
I had already obtained a ticket to the John of God event in Atlanta when I was contacted by National Geographic Television. We then worked together on an investigation that shed new light on the Brazilian's claims.
Shrewdly, João's entities avoided performing "visible surgeries" in Atlanta, where he might have been arrested. I was chosen for an "invisible" procedure as I hobbled by with a cane, wearing the requisite white outfit that, I was told, "helps maintain a higher vibrational frequency" ("John" 2006a; 2006b). I also wore a minor disguise since frequent media appearances have made me more recognizable (see figures 1 and 2).
As I would discover, João is an unlikely miracle worker. A grade-school dropout, he was, reports an admirer, "forced to live as a wanderer, traveling from city to city healing the sick and living from their donations of food" (Pellegrino-Estrich 1995). Because, in Brazil, it is illegal to practice medicine without a license, he has been charged and fined—even jailed briefly. A district attorney who investigated him has reported that João sent her—indirectly, through a relative—death threats. John of God denies that, along with an accusation that he took advantage of one woman who had come to him for healing.
"There is a lot of jealousy. People talk," he says defensively. "What dictates is the conscience toward God." Noting his apparent wealth, some critics say his "healings" are merely a front to make him a rich man ("Is" 2005).
Certainly, his procedures are a sham. The twisting of forceps up a pilgrim's nose is an old circus and carnival sideshow stunt, explained in my book Secrets of the Sideshows (Nickell 2005, 238—241). Looking far more tortuous than it is, the feat depends on the fact that, unknown to many people, there is a sinus cavity that extends horizontally from the nostrils over the roof of the mouth to a surprising distance—enough to accommodate a spike, icepick, or other implement used in the "Human Blockhead" act.
At my instigation, National Geographic filmed a performance of such an act at the Washington, D.C., showbar Palace of Wonders, operated by carny impresario (and friend) James Taylor. Our blockhead was "Swami Yomahmi," a.k.a. Stephon Walker, whom I introduced with my best carny-sideshow spiel. Walker even cranked a rotating drill bit into his nose. He also used a blunt knife to scrape the white part of his eyeball and acknowledged that such stunts look more risky than they are.
A surgeon who commented on John of God's incisions stated that they were superficial (little more than skin deep, apparently) and would not be expected either to bleed very much or even to cause much initial pain. The same is true of scraping the white of the eye or inserting something into the nasal cavity ("Controversial" 2006). Physicians affiliated with the Skeptical Inquirer voiced similar opinions. The brief nasal procedure occasionally leaves someone's nose bleeding, but his or her body's own healing mechanisms will no doubt repair the minor injury. The bottom line regarding the procedures is that they are pseudosurgeries that have no objective medical benefit other than the well-known placebo effect.
Furthermore, the "holy water" that "João-in-Entity" blesses and that supposedly helps effect cures is ordinary water. I provided a specially labeled bottle I had purchased in Atlanta, and National Geographic had it tested at a major D.C.-area facility, the Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission. It was found to have no unusual properties and to be entirely unremarkable ("Miracle" 2006).1
As to João-in-Entity's herbal remedies, actually only a single herb is prescribed, but those seeking aid are told that the entities are able to use it to help cure a wide variety of ailments ("Miracle Cures" 2006). The herb is one of the many varieties of passionflower, a mystical plant associated with Jesus' crucifixion, and it has been used since ancient times as a "sedative, nervine and antispasmodic." Herbalists say it soothes the nervous system and produces restful sleep that brightens one's outlook (Lucas 1972, 128—129). Small wonder it would be the drug of choice for a "healing" center to distribute widely.
Many people offer testimonials as to the beneficial effects they have supposedly received at the hands of John of God. In fact, however, the successes attributed to the entities may be nothing more than what occurs at other alleged miracle sites, like Lourdes, where the vast majority of supplicants remain uncured. Since such "healings" are typically held to be miraculous because they are "medically inexplicable," claimants are engaging in the logical fallacy of "arguing from ignorance"—that is, drawing a conclusion from a lack of knowledge. Touted healings may actually be attributable to such factors as misdiagnosis, spontaneous remission, psychosomatic conditions, prior medical treatment, the body's own healing power, and other effects (Nickell 1998, 133—137).
Consider, for example, the case of Matthew Ireland, a pilgrim from Guilford, Vermont, whose doctor told him he had a type of brain tumor that was fast-growing and inoperable. After two years of radiation treatments and chemotherapy, Ireland made three visits to John of God. Subsequent MRI testing did show that the tumor mass had shrunk by fifty percent, but it was not gone as the entity had claimed. Ireland's former oncologist attributes the partial success to the aggressive radiation treatment and concedes it is possible that the specific type of tumor may have been misdiagnosed ("Miracle" 2006; "Is" 2005).
Often, at healing services like those of John of God in Brazil, pilgrims' emotions may trigger the release of endorphins, brain-produced substances that reduce sensitivity to pain. They may thus believe and act as if they have been miraculously healed—even throwing away their crutches—whereas later investigation reveals their situation to be as bad, or worse, than before (Nickell 1998, 136). However, I did note that, at the Atlanta John of God event, those who came with walkers, crutches, and wheelchairs left with them. Sadly, the entities had not taken away their afflictions, only their money.
I am grateful to my wife, Diana Harris, not only for her forbearance but also her direct assistance in this project. I am also grateful to Isham Randolph and others from National Geographic Television and Film for their professional work, as well as to Timothy Binga, the director of CFI Libraries, and Lauren Becker, then CFI's assistant director of communications, for research assistance.
- At the event I attended in Atlanta on April 4, 2006, at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel, a staffer told me the water could be replenished by refilling the bottle when the level gets low, using ordinary tap water—the original water energizing the newly added.
- Bragdon, Emma. 2002. Spiritual Alliances: Discovering the Roots of Health at the Casa de Dom Inácio. Woodstock, Vermont: Lightening Up Press.
- Controversial faith-healer schedules Atlanta visit. 2006. Available at wsbtv.com/print/7257434/detail.html; accessed April 4, 2006.
- Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. 2000. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, 2nd ed. New York: Checkmark Books.
- Is "John of God" a healer or charlatan? 2005. ABC News, February 8. (Available at religionnewsblog.com/print.php?p=10253; accessed April 4, 2006. (The ABC Primetime Live broadcast on which this article is based aired February 10, 2005.)
- John of God in Atlanta. 2006a. Available at johnofgodinatlanta.com; accessed March 15.
- 2006b. Personal communication from email@example.com. March 8.
- Lucas, Richard. 1972. The Magic of Herbs in Daily Living. West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Publishing Co.
- Miracle Cures. 2006. Is It Real? TV series, National Geographic Channel. October 9. Nickell, Joe. 1998. Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
- 2005. Secrets of the Sideshows. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky.
- Pellegrino-Estrich, Robert. 1995. John of God. Available at johnofgod.com/article.htm; accessed February 21, 2006.


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by Jody Kessler
Springside Chestnut Hill opened play at the school's brand new football field Saturday, Sept. 15 but did not manage to christen the new turf with a win
The Cahillites of Roman Catholic – proving to be the Catholic League power house they are supposed to be – topped the home team 42-7 in the non-league tilt on what otherwise was a perfect, sunny afternoon.
The game was part of a tough non-league schedule for SCH, which has done very well in its own InterAc league, earning a piece of the legaue championship in 2009 (it tied with Haverford School and Malvern Prep).
"The start of the year we have a very tough non-league schedule, to prepare for the Inter-Ac league and try towin it every year," said coach Rick Knox before kickoff. "Our depth is a little down this year but I really like the way this group of kids is working, our toughness. we're excited about this game today, one of the best teams in the city on our new field."
Roman won the coin toss and elected to receive. Talented running back Dmetri Kelly started the drive for Romanwith a nine-yard run. He would have two more nine yard runs on the drive, part of a day in which he rushed for 94 and also caught passes good for 55 yards.
The Cahillites took a chance on a fourth down play and converted when Malik Jones ran for 20 yards. He would rush for 144 for the day. Patrick McCourt punched it in for a touchdown from six yards.
SCH did a good job answering the drive.
First Bobby Keyes returned the kickoff for 29 yards to set SCH up with good field position. Then the senior rushed for six yards and, after an incompletion, he ran for a first down.
Quarterback Michael Hayes then scrambled for 15 yards. An option play to Cole Hoffman produced a first down, and then Hoffman caught a ball for another. Finally sophomore Paul Dooley reeled in a 19 yard touchdown pass from Hayes to knot the score at 7.
Kelly answered for Roman Catholoic, rushing for 52 yards, including a 28-yard touchdown run. SCH couldn't answer.
Roman then scored again, this drive highlighted by a jumping 28-yard catch by Notre Dame-bound wideout Will Fuller. Fuller made catches totaling 65 yards on the day, displaying great hands and speed.
SCH had to punt again on their next drive before Roman scored again, making it 28-7 at the half. Roman quarterback Michael Keir was on his way to throwing for 239 yards leading the high powered offense.
The second half was not very exciting. SCH held Roman to only two more touchdowns, an improvement over the first half, but the team failed to score. The loss drops the Blue Devils to a disappointing 0-3.
"I thought the effort was there but the technique and execution wasn't," said SCH's Keyes. "We have to tackle through the legs."
When asked what they could do to improve he said Keyes promised to do more work.
"Come in on Tuesday, really pay attention on film," he said.
"We weren't mentally prepared for the game," SCH quarterback Hayes said. "We have to be consistent, get prepared. It should have been a closer game."
The Blue Devils face Imhotep Charter School at home next week. Imhotep is currently 3-0 and most is coming off a crushing defeat of Roxborough High School, 54 -0.


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April 26, 2008
Final Stats | Pictures from Justin Littrell Night
The Lipscomb Bisons fell 4-2 against ETSU Saturday evening at Marsh Stadium.
The Bisons, one of top offensive teams in the conference, struggled against first-time ETSU starter RHP Ben Andrews.
"We pitched well enough to win," said Lipscomb Coach Jeff Forehand, "but, when you get six hits as a team that is as offensive minded as we are and leave the bases loaded a couple times, that's not a winning formula."
Brandon McClurg struck out 12 batters, but the Bisons only recorded six hits and left four runners in scoring position.
ETSU struck first in the top of the first inning. After a one-out single, an error by second baseman Ben Williams put runners on first and second. Three consecutive weak-hit singles by the Buccaneers allowed one unearned run to score before McClurg finished the inning with two strikeouts.
With one out in the 4th inning, junior center fielder Allen Bolden broke up a no-hitter on a double to left-center field. Junior catcher Caleb Joseph drove Bolden home with a single to right field to put the first run on the board for the Bisons.
Lipscomb had a chance to go ahead in the 5th with runners on the corners with one out, but the Bisons were unable to capitalize on the opportunity after third baseman Branden Cadavid popped up to the pitcher and Ben Williams lined out to right field.
ETSU second baseman Ben Allen was hit by McClurg to lead off the 7th. Center fielder Jacob Fabry followed with a double to right field. Left fielder Troy Mendez drove Allen and Fabry home with a single up the middle.
Sophomore RHP Matt Bowling relieved McClurg to start the 8th. Bowling tossed only one-third of an inning giving up one run on two hits and a walk before senior RHP Chris Burnett replace him. On Burnett's first pitch, Jacob Fabry grounded into a double play to end the inning.
The Bisons gave ETSU a scare in the bottom of the 8th. Ryan Wilkins reached on an error by the shortstop to leadoff. A walk issued to Ben Williams put runners on first and second with one out. Allen Bolden singled Wilkins home to make the game 4-2. ETSU pitcher Ben Andrews issued a carefully crafted walk to Caleb Joseph to load the bases. LHP Matt McGahey was brought in to face lefty Blake Bratcher who grounded out to end the inning.
McClurg received the loss for the Bisons falling to 5-3. In seven innings of work, McClurg gave up three runs, two earned, on six hits and one walk while striking out twelve. McClurg's ERA dropped to 2.70.
Coach Jeff Forehand was proud of the way McClurg pitched, but was a little disappointed that the offense was not able to help him toward a win.
Ben Andrews picked up the win for ETSU improving to 3-3. He gave up two runs, one earned, on five hits and two walks. Matt McGahey notched his first save of the year.
Allen Bolden and Ryan Wilkins were the only Bisons with multiple hits with two apiece.
Lipscomb falls to 22-20 overall and 16-10 in Atlantic Sun. ETSU improves to 13-30 overall, 9-17 in the A-Sun.
The Bisons and Bucs face off Sunday at noon in the series-deciding finale. Senior LHP Mike Dunn (3-3, 4.98) will take the mound Sunday for the Bisons. RHP Brandon Langston (2-7, 5.83) will start for ETSU.


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The Sustainability Generation: The Politics of Change and Why Personal Accountability is Essential NOW!
The role of the individual facing global challenges surrounding sustainability is the subject of a new book, The Sustainability Generation: The Politics of Change and Why Personal Accountability is Essential NOW!, written by Mark Coleman.
Coleman, manager of technical development for RIT's Venture Creations' Clean Energy Incubator and senior program manager at the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies, writes about how sustainability has been largely defined and led by the influences of government and businesses through policies and products. He believes the voices and actions of citizens are often missing in the debate.
"The book, at its core, is about empowering and enlightening everyday citizens and consumers to define what sustainability means to them, in the current context of the life they are living, and to take actions that help them lead a life with sense of purpose, passion, resolve and balance," Coleman says. "It's not just about buying more 'green products,' it is about 'you, me and we' questioning our state of consumption and livelihood to determine if we even need to consume those products in the first place."
The Sustainability Generation is targeted toward Generation X, Generation Y and baby boomers.
"All generations have to understand each other's needs and context and collaborate on common sense solutions. People have the power to design, influence and take action on a better world. Defining 'better' and what actions we take requires a level of consciousness and critical thinking for all individuals and our collective generation."
The book also includes an interview with RIT President Bill Destler.


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Hurray, spring is here! Why does winter have to be so long, anyway? Not that I don't love pea coats and boots and UGGs, but come on, you've got to love warmer weather, a balmy breeze and the beginnings of a suntan.
Plus, the commencement of a season means a whole new list of what you've got to have this spring to be in style.
• For both men and women, colorful jeans are in. That means patterned or solid-colored ones. Don't forget that this trend still requires taste.
This spring, we're rocking colorful jeans with class, not with punk. Keep in mind that your jeans must fit well and that the colors in the pattern should be such that you can pair the jeans with items you already have in your closet.
I am not a big fan of the washed-out leopard print jeans, which end up looking worn and like someone spilled a cup of skim milk over them and never cleaned it off.
• Patterned tops. On the spring 2012 runways, we are faced with absolutely mind-boggling prints. Don't be afraid to rock this trend and if you are print-shy, pair a colorfully designed shirt with a dark blazer and neutral pants.
• As if not emphasized enough already, this spring it's about color, color, and … more color! Don't hesitate to mix hues in a flattering ensemble, or buy a piece that uses color blocking in it. Vibrant colors and pastel colors are a hit this season.
• The trend I'm most psyched about is a return to '20s fashion. That means sequined cocktail dresses, metallics, fringes and don't forget the fabulous feathers. Just add little bits of these key elements to an outfit. You don't have to go all out.
• Don't forget the radical shades. Pick up a pair of sunglasses that has a whimsical shape or color to it.
•Be sporty chic. Keep your eyes peeled for pieces that have sporty vibes to them. That doesn't mean full-out sportswear, sweats and tennis shoes. That means sophisticated pieces that are made of athletic fabrics, have a zipper that looks sporty, consists of vibrant colors and have patterns or elements composed of shapes that are often prevalent in sport-oriented clothing.
• The tribal trend is great for all of us New Mexicans, because we have a fusion of crazy patterns with Native American traditional designs and colors. Loose, flowy dresses are often belted to create shape. Shoes consist of leather sandals, flat or heeled, which are often accented with excessive, yet stylish, amounts of beads and leather tassels.
This season's best trends are so varied that anyone should be able to find an aspect that they like the best and are most comfortable wearing. Winter always seems a bit drab and colorless to me.
Now that the grass is growing and flowers are sprouting, wearing the new fad may just put a little spring in your step.
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"You were born in pain," a voiceover announces over the black screen that opens writer-director-star Allen Baron's 1961 film Blast Of Silence. "You were born with hate and anger built in," it continues as it becomes clear that this ugly telling of the film's protagonist's birth accompanies a point-of-view shot of a train emerging from a tunnel. "Took a slap on the backside to blast out the scream and then you knew you were alive." That won't be the last time Blast Of Silence draws symbolic power from images shot on the fly, or finds violence embedded in everyday life.
In a role intended for Peter Falk, Baron plays Cleveland hitman Frankie Bono, an orphan who's learned to make a profitable, miserable living as a contract killer. Traveling to New York during the Christmas season, he's charged with taking out a mid-level mobster. Stalking his prey as he goes about his daily routine, Bono gets distracted by an unexpected encounter with a childhood friend whose sister sees him as a lonely man, not the barely human shell he's become.
Working with a miniscule budget, Baron creates charged compositions out of found locations and makes a virtue out of the film's cheapness. The soot and litter almost seem summoned by his character's mental state. Established admirer Martin Scorsese could easily have had it in mind when he made Taxi Driver; Blast Of Silence shares that film's tortured philosophizing. Working under a pseudonym, blacklisted screenwriter Waldo Salt provides the beautifully purple second-person narration that puts viewers in the position of the film's protagonist as he makes his way through a city where death waits at the first sign of weakness. Or tenderness.
Baron's background was in painting, illustration, and the occasional acting job, not filmmaking, but his directorial debut reveals him as a natural behind the camera. As Herk Harvey's brilliant one-off Carnival Of Souls did with horror, Blast Of Silence brings in all the notes of the noir genre, but makes them move to its own rhythm. Using the film as a ticket to Hollywood, Baron might have missed the cheap freedom in his subsequent career directing episodes of The Brady Bunch and Charlie's Angels.
Key features: A 60-minute making-of, with extensive Baron interviews from 1990 and 2006, and a neat partial adaptation by noir-inspired comic-book artist Sean Phillips.


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No good records exist documenting the culinary origins of laulau, but the consensus is that it pre-dates Western contact. Early laulau contained pork and local fish rubbed with salt, wrapped in young taro leaves called lu`au. When the whaling industry arrived in force, they brought salted butterfish with them and it quickly became the "traditional" fish to use in laulau. The meat, fish and lu`au bundles were carefully wrapped in ti leaves then baked in an imu. Contemporary laulau remains essentially unchanged. If you order a Hawaiian plate lunch place, the laulau still contains pork, butterfish and lu`au. Common variations on the theme use chicken in place of pork, omit the butterfish, or add onions and other vegetables. For convenience, most laulau today are steamed on the stovetop rather than in an imu.
The recipe below makes 12 laulau. You can make far fewer of course, but once you setup an assembly line, the difference between making four and twelve is negligible. Leftover laulau (ha! as if...) can be frozen in their entirety and reheated on another day. Finally, laulau is a fantastic communal cooking event. Invite a friend or two over to help assemble!
Recipe courtesy of moana.net. Original recipe posted here.
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"Quien prefiere lo vivo a lo pintado es el hombre que piensa, canta o sueña." "The one who prefers what is alive over what is made up is the person who writes, sings or dreams."— Antonio Machado
Once or twice a year I have a beer with my old Greenpeace colleague Patrick Moore, although we no longer agree on environmental issues. Twenty-five years ago, Moore became a corporate consultant and now claims – in his self-published Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout – that environmentalists are "extremists". He portrays himself as "sensible" and Greenpeace as "increasingly senseless".
His account of Greenpeace history is generally accurate, if occasionally self-serving. Moore claims he left Greenpeace in the 1980s over a campaign to "ban chlorine" worldwide, but Greenpeace never conducted such a campaign. Greenpeace battled specific organochlorine emissions - particularly dioxins - from specific industries, such as Canadian pulp mills whose effluents caused the closure of shellfish beaches. Old colleagues recall that Moore left Greenpeace over a power struggle with then Executive Director David McTaggart. Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter recalled that Moore "burned off old buddies" and was "deposed".
Moore may be entitled to his subjective view of history, but he goes beyond opinion by misrepresenting events and selectively interpreting data to support his corporate patrons. For example, he calls environmentalists "murderers" because DDT was "discontinued for use in malaria control by the World Health Organization and USAID." However, WHO and USAID representatives told George Monbiot at the UK Guardian that they never stopped using DDT for malaria control. Moore appears to have invented this.
Moore is smart, and he uses rhetorical tricks as old as Cicero. He insists, for example, "There is no alarm about climate change," because "the climate is always changing." This sort of semantic device plays well in college debating clubs and corporate luncheons but has no role in science. In this case, Moore stumbles on the common fallacy of "misplaced concreteness", presuming a word means the same thing in different contexts. The "change" of an unseasonably warm day or cold winter is not equivalent to a global climate trend. Moore should know this.
He states "global temperature stopped rising 12 to 15 years ago" but this interpretation of the data confuses a routine fluctuation with an irrefutable trend. Earth's temperature fluctuates due to, for example, larger snowfalls that increase reflectivity, but when we examine a running average of temperature (as with commodity prices to gauge a trend) we see that since 1850, global average temperature has risen from about 13.7°C to 14.6°C, with a particularly high spike in 1999. When the temperature naturally fluctuates down from a spike, the heating does not "stop". The heating of Earth continues, and the greatest force driving that rise is accumulated human-waste gases in the atmosphere, constantly heating Earth with a force of about three watts per square metre. By comparison, the solar force has fluctuated during the last 25 years by about one-thirtieth the force of human greenhouse gases.
Moore tends to cherry pick data that he likes and ignore data that might call his conclusions into question. He promotes nuclear power as a source of clean, low-carbon energy, but ignores data that reveals the carbon cost of nuclear energy. For example, Mark Jacobson at Stanford University compared the lifetime CO2 emissions of energy sources and found nuclear to be the highest non-hydrocarbon option. Jacobson found that nuclear electricity – due to construction, mining, and so forth – emits between six and 60-times more carbon than wind and concentrated solar. Nuclear energy is a carbon hog.
Moore declares that nuclear energy can be produced "at a lower cost", but he's wrong on this count as well. Nuclear power has required massive public subsidies, and budgets have spiraled out of control. In Canada, for example, the Darlington nuclear project, promised for $6 billion, is now expected to cost $28 billion. Furthermore, these construction costs don't account for future decommissioning, accidents, or waste storage, a dangerous problem that has not been solved.
Walt Patterson, a physicist who advised Greenpeace on nuclear issues in the 1970s, now works at London's Chatham House. Today, Patterson calls nuclear power "the slowest, most expensive, narrowest, most inflexible and riskiest" energy option. Patterson is a nuclear physicist.
In contrast, Moore is a corporate public relations consultant. During the last 25 years, Moore has sold his Greenpeace affiliation to some of the most powerful and predatory companies on the planet. For example, he promoted Asia Pulp and Paper, the notorious Indonesian logging company linked to dictator General Suharto, denounced by Human Rights Watch and 35 Indonesian organizations for human rights abuses, and boycotted by retailers such as Office Depot, Volkswagen, and Hugo Boss for social crimes and ecological destruction.
One of Moore's favorite rhetorical tricks is the "straw man" attack, an argument against an imaginary opponent. In defending industrial logging, Moore attacks "environmental groups" who believe there is "something fundamentally wrong with cutting trees" and who want to want to "stop using wood". But there are no environmental groups that advocate these ideas. Moore invents this imaginary target, the straw man, and then attacks it. For decades, environmentalists have advocated selective logging and supported community-scale initiatives that harvest wood for energy and building, preserve forest and allow sustained multiple use by human and wilderness communities.
Finally, Moore blames forest destruction on the poor. He claims that "unsustainable forest use … [has] nothing to do with the forest industry, and everything to do with poverty." He fails to mention logging giants such as his client Asia Pulp and Paper. He ignores the devastation perpetrated by companies such as Monsanto and Cargill, who destroy millions of acres of forests, and displace self-sufficient indigenous people, not to grow food for the poor, but to grow cash crops for the rich. Moore claims, "Poverty is the worst environmental problem," but he avoids the data that shows one-sixth of humanity – the wealthy – using five-sixths of the world's resources and exporting the environmental impact by plundering poor nations. However, blaming ecological destruction on the poor helps him rationalize the excesses of his clients.
Moore has served as a corporate public relations consultant far longer than he ever worked for Greenpeace, and he has never worked as a scientist. Scientists do primary research, confirm facts, reveal conflicting data, cite sources, and respectfully discuss dissenting views. I work with scientists around the world assessing environmental issues, and the best scientists appear humbled by their knowledge, not condescending, display respect for other scientists, and avoid rhetorical tricks that distort the data.
Moore calls his book a 'Confession', but confesses only that his former concerns about nuclear radiation must have been wrong since he's now been hired to take the opposite position. Western literary historians credit Augustine of Hippo with the first such 'Confession' sixteen centuries ago. Augustine rejected his past as he won the Roman oligarchy's patronage. In his role as speechwriter, he borrowed Cicero's oratorical devices to help justify the atrocities – war, genocide and torture – of his patrons. He twisted meaning of 'peace' to suggest that the inquisition created a 'greater Peace'. He explained, "There are many true things that are not useful for the vulgar crowd to know, and certain things, which although they are false it is expedient for the people to believe otherwise." The Bishops rewarded Augustine well for his cleverness and loyalty.
Moore's sculpted opinions appear humorous and sporadically plausible over a beer or two, but in print they become subject to history's scrutiny. Humanity faces a serious dilemma regarding the scale of our consumption, human impoverishment and ecological overshoot. Growing deserts, shrinking forests, drained aquifers, depleted soils, disappearing species, acidic seas, lopped-off mountain tops, a billion hungry people and a planet heating up like a flambé speak more convincingly than rhetorical tricks promoting business as usual.
You can respond to "Deep Green" columns at my Ecolog, where I post portions of this column and dialogue with readers.
Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
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Thanks Rex! This is great to have up on our site. It's amazing what he gets away with. Glad to see someone calling him on it.
8 April, 2011 at 19:24
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In the interests of fostering debate, Patrick Moore did address Rex Wyler's points in the Vancouver Sun. You can read his responses here:
In the interests of fostering debate, Patrick Moore did address Rex Wyler's points in the Vancouver Sun. You can read his responses here:
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In search of science leading to the restoration of balance and sustainability......
Where are the experts? A deafening silence has vanqu...
In search of science leading to the restoration of balance and sustainability......
Where are the experts? A deafening silence has vanquished science when it really matters. We are witnessing crimes against science and humanity, I suppose.
Would professionals with appropriate expertise please examine the extant science regarding human population dynamics and human overpopulation of Earth? How can this knowledge be used to move the human community from the dangerous and patently unsustainable 'trajectory' it is on now to sustainable lifestyles and right-sized corporate enterprises?
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Sir John Sulston, Chair
People and the Planet Working Group
UK Royal Society
March 31, 2011
Dear Sir John Sulston:
Your recent comments regarding the review of research on the human population and its impact on the planet we inhabit by a high level panel of experts give rise to hope for the future of children everywhere. Thanks for all you, the Planet and the People Working Group and the UK Royal Society are doing to protect biodiversity from massive extirpation, the environment from irreversible degradation and the Earth from wanton dissipation of its finite resources by the human species. I am especially appreciative for two quotes from you,
…… "we've got to make sure that population is recognized… as a multiplier of many others. We've got to make sure that population really does peak out when we hope it will."
……."what we want to do is to see the issue of population in the open, dispassionately discussed…. and then we'll see where it goes."
Inasmuch as you and an esteemed group of professionals with appropriate expertise are examining scientific evidence regarding the unbridled increase of absolute global human population numbers, please note there is research that has been summarily dismissed by many too many of our colleagues regarding human population dynamics and human overpopulation which I would like to bring to your attention. For the past ten years I have been unsuccessfully attempting to draw attention to certain evidence that to date remains both unchallenged and ignored by virtually every top-rank professional. They appear unable to refute the evidence and simultaneously unwilling to believe it. Their unexpected conspiracy of silence has served to conceal certain research by David Pimentel and Russell Hopfenberg. How else can it be that so many established professionals with adequate expertise act as if they are willfully blind, hysterically deaf and electively mute in the face of scientific evidence of human population dynamics and human overpopulation? The conscious denial of what could somehow be real about the growth of the human population in our time is not doing anything that can be construed as somehow right and good for future human wellbeing and environmental health, I suppose. It appears as if we could be witnesses to the most colossal failure of intellectual honesty, moral courage and nerve in human history.
Peer-reviewed professional publications, letters to the editor, slideshow presentations et cetera can be found at the following link, http://www.panearth.org/
Thank you for attending to this request for careful, skillful and rigorous scrutiny of research from two outstanding scientists. Please know I am holding onto a ray of hope that the research of Hopfenberg and Pimentel is fundamentally flawed; that human population dynamics is different from, not essentially similar to, the population dynamics of other species; and that human population numbers are not primarily a function of an available supply of food necessary for human existence. That would be the best news.
Sometime soon, I trust, many scientists will speak up with regard to apparently unforeseen and unfortunately unwelcome science of human population dynamics and human overpopulation the way people in huge numbers in the Mid-East are calling out for democracy now.
Respectfully yours,
Steve Salmony
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
Established 2001
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Hi Y'all,
stevenearlsalmony says: "Where are the experts? A deafening silence has vanquished science when it really matters. We ar...
Hi Y'all,
stevenearlsalmony says: "Where are the experts? A deafening silence has vanquished science when it really matters. We are witnessing crimes against science and humanity, I suppose."
Yes, stevenearlsalmony, science is under attack. People want certainty. People want plans of action today regardless of consequences of those actions 2 or 200 years from now. In contrast to these wants, the sciences of ecology and biology incorporate continuums that are complex.
While a consensus demands certainty, some are quite willing portray knowledge and to make promises. This forms a two party relationship. The truer scientists become the third parties and excluded.
It seems that for some reason our Patrick Moore does not reply here at this quasi-open forum. I'll briefly address your subject of review:
I add to the agreement of: "population is recognized… as a multiplier", yet the dichotomy of -
"Please know I am holding onto a ray of hope that the research of Hopfenberg and Pimentel is fundamentally flawed; that human population dynamics is different from, not essentially similar to, the population dynamics of other species; and that human population numbers are not primarily a function of an available supply of food necessary for human existence. That would be the best news. "
as you present it is unclear to me, so I'm not sure if it is a false dichotomy or a true one. I suspect it false, as there are influential factors specific to human population In Addition to factors that affect other species, but that do not replace them. It is not an either (this set) or (that set) scenario.
perhaps I should ask- Why would that be the best new for you?
Peace, Joy, Light,
11 April, 2011 at 12:44
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Hi all!
1. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Transcript+heavy+weight+bout+between+founders+ : Page not found... (repeatedly)
2. The ...
Hi all!
1. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Transcript+heavy+weight+bout+between+founders+ : Page not found... (repeatedly)
2. The climate change situation is too serious for two old Greenpeace colleagues to lose time fighting; on the contrary, in a case of an enviromentalist versus a corporate public relations consultant supporting fossil fuel producers WITH-NO-EVIDENCE (Cherry picking data is a more severe crime) is a completely different issue. Cases like these need a different confrontation.
Follows an overall proposal on skeptics' confrontation by METIS Global Awareness Network NGO Accredited Observer to the UNFCCC, Global Climate Change Crisis & Sustainability Panorama www.frogboiled.org Public Awareness Platform
Skeptics do represent a picturesque situation no more. They represent a t-h-r-e-a-t. Civil society and, more specifically, climate movement has to develop a new strategy against the phenomenon as a whole. Public administration, governments, and international entities have to be persuaded to deal with it in the most formal way. Contemporary climate change skepticism with no scientific documentation has many common points with 'spreading false news during war'. Relevant actions to influence population morale are characterized "high treason". 'Crimes against Science & Humanity' is another relevant area since such an activity is against the planet and Humanity living on it. There must be a campaign to the highest level and legal steps have to be taken to pass an international law against it. In case one can prove two entities or individuals having previous communication and agreement of relevant actions (publications, declarations, etc) 'conspiracy' is another legal domain; Last but not least, violation and/or undermining of constitutional environmental rights is the overall legal umbrella.
For METIS Global Awareness Network NGO Accredited Observer to the UNFCCC • UNFCCC Climate Change Information Network (CC:iNet) member Education, Training, Public participation, International Cooperation • Global Climate Change Crisis & Sustainability Panorama www.frogboiled.org Public Awareness Platform • Plastira Lake Environmental Awareness Center - Programs approved by the Ministry • Eurocharity member • GCCA (Global Campaign for Climate Action) member • World Environmental Education Network member
With respect,
Andreas Andreopoulos, Μ.Ed., H.U.C., Climate Communication Expert, Metis Founding President
Storyteller of the Future, STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM International Coordinating Council ex-member • Tourist & Development Guide: Plastira Lake, Agrafa & Lakes Network • 6, Kalivia-Filakti rd, Kalivia Pezoulas, 43100, Karditsa Prefecture, Thessaly, Greece • Tel +3024410-92525, 99011, mobile +306977-967491, skype: paramythas • e-mail:
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Just a detail, but St Augustine's Confessions are more focused on his struggles with faith and his sexual promiscuity than about selling out to those ...
Just a detail, but St Augustine's Confessions are more focused on his struggles with faith and his sexual promiscuity than about selling out to those in power.
It's true that he enlisted the power of the state to deal with the (violent) Donatist heretics, but most of us will seek such protection if threatened. We call the police. But Augustine's preferred approach to opponents was persuasion.
Doubtless Greepeace would welcome strong state intervention (properly enforced environmental laws) to prevent heretical opponents of science-based environmental orthodoxy (like Patrick Moore and his corporate cronies) from wreaking ecological destruction. I certainly would.
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Many thanks for your attempt to dismantle Pat Moore's (or "Fat Cat Moore" as we use to call in the old Greenpeace days, ...
Hi Rex
Many thanks for your attempt to dismantle Pat Moore's (or "Fat Cat Moore" as we use to call in the old Greenpeace days, because of his hunger for money and power) many lies. Like you, it is very new to me that he left Greenpeace because of the organisation's supposedly chlorine campaign. What I remember from then, is that Pat Moore left Greenpeace for two reasons: 1) The International Greenpeace Council didn't want to continue to finance his seal camapign in New Foundland, which had become a very "Pat Moore self-promoting campaign"; 2) The Wise Use movement could offer him much more money than Greenpeace was able or willing to.
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Patrick Moore Shame on you, you sold your soul.
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Just heard the guy speak and decided to look him up. He strikes me as nothing more of an opportunist. An advocate and radical when it benefitted him, ...
Just heard the guy speak and decided to look him up. He strikes me as nothing more of an opportunist. An advocate and radical when it benefitted him, and a nuclear supported when paid to be so. Not surprised the Nuclear industry pays him to dispense his views.
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The Greeny revulsion, cries of heresy, and attempt to minimalize Moore's involvement with Greenpeace looks exactly like when religious groups cast...
The Greeny revulsion, cries of heresy, and attempt to minimalize Moore's involvement with Greenpeace looks exactly like when religious groups cast out someone who questions what the true believers are into. Anyone who dares to speak against the establishment is labeled a traitor. How ironic you've become what you were fighting. Moore makes reasonable points and makes realistic recommendations for the future. All the IPCC offers is more fudge factors to make the predictions match the observations.
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Can you imagine a field of study where you'd have to do more ignoring of contraindicated results than a Christian Science study of faith / prayer healing? The very concept boggles the mind! Doubtless they congratulate themselves about dispatching a minor headache or a cut on their arm or something equally insignificant.
Now ... if they wanted to really IMPRESS me, they could heal Oscar Pistorius!
It is crazy making! I talked with a guy last night who assured me that: aliens are among us, the Luminoty is quite active, interdemensional travel is happening all the time, and that the government has had technology to deactivate the forces of gravity and provide perpetual sources of energy since 1910. I started to bring up issues with fringe science, but the guy was such a passionate conspiracy theorist, I decided just to bow out and get a beer.
Tell him for me if he can catch an alien (and positively identify it as such), he'll have a believer. UNTIL such time...!
Sounds like you met my cousin... a guy who used to exhibit what passed for intelligence prior to moving out to the country all by himself and deciding to go 'off the grid', now we all have to resist the urge to make aluminum foil hats for him... I find we leave a lot of family gatherings early when he shows up, at least he saves me calories!
LOL!!! Conspiracy theory must be emotionally appealing to a lot of people.
You do know, of course, that GOD HATES AMPUTEES!!!
Love that one!
I went to the full Wikipedia article and saved for future reading. Sounds fascinating. Thanks for posting!
I swear, I think this may be THE fundamental error in human reasoning. Even good science starts with a hypothesis. This almost guarantees some level of confirmation bias. Maybe an additional step to the scientific method should be that the developer of the hypothesis must pass the ball to an impartial third party.
But other people already DO check the hypothesis. That is what peer-review is for and then other scientist check it out.
True that... also replicated results from multiple sources balances the scales. Unfortunately, every new study that comes out and is immediately publicized in the media feels like a nugget of gold, even though statistically the results of one study mean very little.
Yeah, I hate the way the media jumps on a study like that.
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