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Bacteria and viruses can spread. When someone in your household is ill with a contagious disease, extra precautions need to be taken to prevent spreading the illness to other members of the household.
Knowing how bacteria and viruses can spread is the first step in preventing their transmission.
Bacteria are tiny single-celled organisms that can be seen only through a microscope. Bacteria get nutrients from their environment, which in some cases is you or some other living being or animal.
Both good and bad bacteria exist. Examples of good bacteria are those that aid the digestive system by keeping it in working order and preventing harmful bacteria from moving in.
Some bacteria are even used to make medicines and vaccines.
Harmful bacteria contribute to cavities, ear infections, strep throat and many other infections and illnesses.
Viruses are very tiny organisms, even smaller than bacteria. Viruses reproduce and survive only when they are inside a living cell. Although their life spans outside living cells are generally short, some viruses can survive for several days on inanimate objects and materials.
If a living body is infected with a virus, the body's fluids contain the virus. And when these fluids are left on surfaces, such as a doorknob or water faucet, the virus can remain alive on these surfaces for hours or days and be transmitted to another living body.
A host is any organism on or in which bacteria or viruses live for nourishment or protection. A person or animal—cats, dogs, birds, any living thing—can be a host.
When a virus has moved into the body of a person or animal (the host), it multiplies and spreads easily and can make him sick. Viruses cause minor illnesses, such as colds, but they are also responsible for more serious diseases like measles.
Bacteria and viruses (germs) can be spread in many ways. Three main types of transmission occur:
Direct contact
Indirect contact
Direct Contact
Direct contact means, basically, person-to-person contact. This includes shaking hands, high-fives, fist bumps, kissing and hugging.
If someone is host to germs, his body's fluids contain germs. When he sneezes or coughs, droplets of fluid will get on his hands.
If he then directly touches another person, such as shaking his hand, he can transmit the germs to that other person.
Indirect Contact
Indirect contact occurs when someone spreads germs onto an object, another person touches that object, and the germs spread to that person.
Germs can reside on:
Stair rails
Credit cards
Remote controls
Any other commonly touched objects and surfaces
So the host sneezes or coughs and then touches the doorknob, leaving germs on it.
Another person touches the same doorknob and picks up the germs.
If the person then touches his eyes, nose, mouth or ears before washing his hands thoroughly, the germs can enter his body.
Another common form of indirect contact occurs when people share items. Droplets of body fluid are present in anything that comes in contact with a person's mouth.
So indirect contact occurs when people share utensils, water bottles, drinks, food, etc., and germs can be transmitted from one person to the other.
Germs can also travel through the air from one person to another.
For instance, germs are released into the air when a host coughs or sneezes. The tiny droplets from a cough or sneeze can travel and spread germs when they land on surfaces or on another person.
People constantly shed skin and hair. These may also contain germs that can then travel through the air and infect others.
The important thing to know is that a person can be a host without even knowing. For example, a person may have a virus in his body yet have no symptoms of illness. He may, in fact, never get sick. But someone else in contact with him can still pick up the virus and become ill.
How Bacteria and Viruses Spread
Germs are bacteria or viruses that can cause infection or illness.
The germs live in the cells of an individual or animal (host).
The germs leave the host through the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, open wounds, urinary tract, etc.
The germs are transmitted by direct or indirect contact or through the air.
The germs are transmitted by direct or indirect contact or through the air.
The germs infect a new host through the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, open wounds, etc.
New Host
The new host may become sick or not, but he can now transmit the germs to others.
Because germs are easy to transmit from one person to another, it is important to isolate anyone who is ill or may be ill with a contagious disease to protect others—family, friends, associates and the rest of society. Isolation means separating a person so that no germs are passed on to others.
If someone in your household is ill with a contagious disease (or you suspect the person may be contagious based on their symptoms), do the following immediately:
- Keep your entire household at home.
- Do not go to work or to school. Work or study from home.
- Contact your medical doctor for advice. Call ahead before going to a clinic or doctor's office or hospital. It may be advisable to stay home and protect others from being infected, unless the illness is severe.
- Note: If a person has severe symptoms, such as shortness of breath, high fever, etc., seek immediate medical attention.
- Keep the person who is ill isolated from the rest of the household. Ensure elderly people and those susceptible to illness are kept well away from the ill person.
- Do not have the ill person in contact with pets or other animals.
- If an ill individual pets his cat or dog, for instance, he may leave germs on the pet's fur that can be transmitted to others who pet the animal later.
- Have the ill person stay in a separate room until fully recovered and no longer contagious.
- Find out from your medical doctor when it is safe for the person to return to work or interact with others.
- Be careful to thoroughly follow all hygiene and sanitizing recommendations given in this booklet.
Cleaning and Sanitizing
Frequent cleaning and sanitizing are needed when someone in your household is ill with a contagious disease.
Cleaning refers to the removal of dirt and impurities from surfaces. Cleaning alone does not remove all germs.
Sanitizing refers to using chemicals to kill germs on surfaces. Sanitizing doesn't necessarily clean surfaces, but by killing germs on a surface after cleaning, it can further lower the risk of spreading infection.
Products to Use for Sanitizing
When a person in your household is ill and is isolated, increase how often you clean and sanitize, particularly frequently touched surfaces, such as tables, doorknobs, light switches, handles, desks, phones, toilets, faucets and sinks.
- To sanitize a surface, use a standard disinfectant, such as hydrogen peroxide. Use any concentration between 3% (common household grade) and 7.9%.
- Another effective disinfectant is grain alcohol or rubbing alcohol. Use alcohol-based products with at least 70% alcohol. Do not use products with an alcohol content above 90%, as these will evaporate before killing viruses.
- You can also use a bleach-and-water solution of 1⁄12 cup (4 teaspoons) of bleach per 1 quart of cool water (20 ml bleach per 1 liter of cool water). When preparing a bleach solution, always check the bottle's expiration date to ensure the bleach has not expired.
- Note: Never mix bleach with any other cleaning solution or liquid except water.
- Always read and follow the manufacturer's instructions for how to apply the disinfecting product, including the length of time it should be left on a surface.
Isolated Person's Room
If you must be in contact with the ill person, due to the person's age or infirmity:
- Always put on a face mask and disposable gloves before entering the ill person's room.
- Ensure the ill person also puts on a face mask before you enter the room.
- Remove and discard your mask and gloves in a lined trash can as you leave the room.
- Wash your hands thoroughly.
An ill person who is isolated should use a different bathroom than others in the household.
If a separate bathroom is not available:
- Fully sanitize the bathroom after each use, following the guidelines on cleaning and sanitizing given in this booklet.
- Use disposable gloves (and ideally a face mask, if you have one) when cleaning and sanitizing the bathroom.
- When done sanitizing, remove and discard the gloves.
- Wash your hands thoroughly.
Dishes and Utensils
The person in isolation should use disposable dishes and utensils.
If disposable dishes and utensils are not available, wash and sanitize the dishes in a dishwasher that has a final rinse temperature of at least 150° F (65° C).
If no dishwasher is available, fully sanitize the dishes by doing the following:
- Use disposable gloves (and a mask, if you have one) to take used dishes directly to an empty sink. Keep the gloves on.
- Thoroughly wash and rinse dishes, glassware and utensils.
- Remove and discard the gloves. Wash your hands thoroughly. Put on a new pair of gloves.
- Soak the clean dishes for at least two minutes in a solution of 2 teaspoons of bleach per 1 gallon of cool water (10 ml bleach per 4 liters of cool water).
- Drain and air-dry them.
- Remove and discard the gloves.
- Wash your hands thoroughly.
- Dedicate a lined trash can for the ill person's room.
- Use disposable gloves (and a mask, if you have one) when removing garbage bags and handling and disposing of an ill person's trash.
- Place the fully sealed garbage bag in an outdoor waste receptacle.
- Remove and discard the gloves.
- Wash your hands thoroughly.
Always wear disposable gloves (and a mask, if you have one) when handling a contagious person's dirty laundry.
- Keep the ill person's laundry separate from the rest of the household. Provide a disposable bag or a liner that can be washed with the rest of the ill person's laundry.
- Caution: Do not shake the laundry so you don't spread germs through the air!
- Wash clothes per the washing machine instructions, using the hottest possible appropriate setting. The higher the temperature, the more likely you are to kill viruses and bacteria.
- Caution: Do not overfill the washing machine with clothes or linens. Leave enough room for the water to be able to adequately wash away dirt and germs.
- When you are done putting the ill person's laundry in the machine, remove and discard the gloves.
- Wash your hands thoroughly.
- Start the wash cycle. Once the water is running in the washing machine, add ½ to 1 cup (120 to 240 ml) of hydrogen peroxide to the washing machine.
- Caution: Do not pour hydrogen peroxide directly on anything that isn't white, as it will bleach it.
- Dry the laundry completely at the hottest recommended setting.
- Sanitize the washing machine per the manufacturer's instructions.
- Before putting another liner in, clean and disinfect the ill person's clothes hamper following the sanitizing recommendations given in this booklet.
By following the guidelines and precautions in this booklet, you can help prevent the spread of illness.
airborne: carried in or moved through the air.
bacteria: very small organisms consisting of one cell that can be seen only through a microscope. Bacteria exist almost everywhere, including in and on the human body. Some are helpful, such as bacteria that aid in digestion. Others can have harmful effects, such as those causing tooth decay or diseases.
bleach: a strong chemical used for cleaning that kills harmful bacteria and germs.
body's fluids: the liquids that come from inside a body, such as saliva, urine, mucus and blood.
contagious: able to be passed from one person to another, especially through physical contact or through the air.
disinfectant: a chemical liquid that kills bacteria and other microscopic organisms.
droplet: a very small drop of liquid produced when someone coughs, sneezes, talks, etc., containing substances from saliva and mucus and possibly carrying infectious agents, such as viruses and bacteria.
grade: of or pertaining to a degree or rating in a scale classified according to quality, rank, worth, intensity, etc.
grain alcohol: a type of alcohol that is made from fermented grain. It is a colorless liquid with a sharp smell that has many uses, including killing bacteria and some viruses.
host: an organism in or on which another organism lives.
hydrogen peroxide: a watery chemical compound used to kill disease-causing microscopic organisms and also as a bleach to lighten or remove the color from something.
inanimate: not having the qualities associated with active, living organisms; not alive.
infection: a disease or medical condition caused by a virus, bacteria, etc.
infirmity: a medical condition that causes a lack of strength or energy.
isolate: completely separate someone with a disease from other people so that the disease will not spread.
isolation: the action or result of completely separating someone with a disease from other people so that the disease will not spread.
measles: a highly contagious disease, usually occurring in childhood, with symptoms including a high temperature and a bright red rash of small spots that spread to cover the body.
precaution: something that is done to protect people from possible illness, harm or trouble.
sanitizing: the act of making something sanitary, clean and free from microscopic organisms that cause disease.
solution: a mixture of two or more substances, such as a solid dissolved in a liquid.
strep throat: an infection of the throat caused by a type of bacteria called streptococcus. Strep throat causes a sore throat, fever and weakness.
susceptible: likely to be influenced or affected by a particular thing.
symptom: a change in the body indicating that someone has an illness.
transmission: the passing of a virus, illness or disease from one person to another person.
transmit: cause a virus, illness or disease to be given to people or be passed from one person to another person.
urinary tract: the system of organs and parts in the body that produce, store and discharge urine.
virus: an infectious source of disease in the body that is too small to be seen through a regular microscope. Viruses can infect human beings with the common cold or more serious diseases.
Download and print these signs for your home and/or essential business.
An effective way to prevent the spread of illness and infection is to practice social distancing.
For the health and safety of all, please refrain from personal contact with others.
Washing your hands is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of germs.
Hand sanitizer is used in addition to hand washing or in a location or situation where soap and water are not immediately available.


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Yes, the Hawks missed several open shots in the fateful first half but they also made themselves easy to guard. Whatever defensive value starting Jason Collins against Andrew Bynum had was overwhelmed by the value the Lakers gained by being able to defend five-on-four in the half-court. Atlanta's primary ball-handlers, Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford, approached a defense overloaded to the strong side with lots of dribbling. The resultant offensive stagnation further encouraged Josh Smith to continue his evolution into a spot-up shooter which in turn magnified (possibly exaggerated) the damage of the turnovers he committed when attempting to make an aggressive play.
Finally, Larry Drew hammered the final nails in the offensive coffin by applying The Horford Treatment to his two best players. Josh Smith sat with two fouls for the final 5:05 of the first half. Al Horford sat with two fouls for the final 3:59 of the first half. Horford left the game with the Hawks down 15 and a lineup of Mike Bibby, Joe Johnson, Mo Evans, Marvin Williams, and Jason Collins on the floor. The Hawks would trail by 21 at the half and never get closer than 18 in the second half. But neither Horford nor Smith fouled out which is the most important thing.
Larry Drew:
"I don't think we went to the rim enough. I just thought we settled, which is starting to be a pattern with us. When you fall into that type of pattern when you are not making shots you're going to struggle. We went 1-for-15 from the three, yet we settled for the three. We have to have more basketball savvy than that."If Larry Drew truly thinks the Hawks are "starting" a pattern of shooting a lot of jump shots, he's clearly playing a longer game than I previously appreciated.
Also, Zaza Pachulia and Jeff Teague's meaningless fourth quarter efforts got the Hawks above their season average Free Throw Rate for the game. Not that either of those options are under consideration for meaningful minutes that might create real change of the cage-rattling kind.
Al Horford:
"I can go down competing, but we are not competing at our highest level it's frustrating."Joe Johnson:
"We didn't play with an edge; we gave them too much respect. We didn't have that fire, that competitive nature that we need. It's frustrating, man. I don't know what to do."It's not Joe Johnson's place to say this, of course, but more good players would be a start. Though I'm a loss as to which player on this roster, Al Horford and Josh Smith excluded, or which contract on Atlanta's books, Jamal Crawford's expiring excluded, any other NBA team would covet.
Michael Cunningham provided a brief post-game update on which way the trade winds blow:
Kirk Hinrich is a possibility and Ramon Sessions remains in play. No to Devin Harris (who is probably headed elsewhere) and Raymond Felton (whom the Nuggets apparently aren't looking to move).Both Hinrich and Sessions would improve the Hawks to some degree but, even if the Hawks acquire one, serious questions need to be asked about why the team could be improved by adding either third guard from two teams with a combined record of 25-86. If the Hawks don't acquire either, the questions should center around why the Hawks lack the assets to acquire a third guard from a wretched, rebuilding team.


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This article was published in the Washington Post on June 29, 2009
WASHINGTON – General Electric, the world's largest industrial company, has quietly become the biggest beneficiary of one of the government's key rescue programs for banks.
At the same time, GE has avoided many of the restrictions facing other financial giants getting help from the government.
The company did not initially qualify for the program, under which the government sought to unfreeze credit markets by guaranteeing debt sold by banking firms. But regulators soon loosened the eligibility requirements, in part because of behind-the-scenes appeals from GE.
As a result, GE has joined major banks collectively saving billions of dollars by raising money for their operations at lower interest rates. Public records show that GE Capital, the company's massive financing arm, has issued nearly a quarter of the $340 billion in debt backed by the program, which is known as the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, or TLGP. The government's actions have been "powerful and helpful" to the company, GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt acknowledged in December.
GE's finance arm is not classified as a bank. Rather, it worked its way into the rescue program by owning two relatively small Utah banking institutions, illustrating how the loopholes in the U.S. regulatory system are manifest in the government's historic intervention in the financial crisis.
The Obama administration now wants to close such loopholes as it works to overhaul the financial system. The plan would reaffirm and strengthen the wall between banking and commerce, forcing companies like GE to essentially choose one or the other.
"We'd like to regulate companies according to what they do, rather than what they call themselves or how they charter themselves," said Andrew Williams, a Treasury spokesman.
GE's ability to live in the best of both worlds – capitalizing on the federal safety net while avoiding more rigorous regulation – existed well before last year's crisis, because of its unusual corporate structure.
Banking companies are regulated by the Federal Reserve and not allowed to engage in commerce, but federal law has allowed a small number of commercial companies to engage in banking under the lighter hand of the Office of Thrift Supervision. GE falls in the latter group because of its ownership of a Utah savings and loan.
Unlike other major lenders participating in the debt guarantee program, including Bank of America, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, GE has never been subject to the Fed's stress tests or its rules for limiting risk. Also unlike firms that have received bailout money in the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, GE is not subject to restrictions such as limits on executive compensation.
The debt guarantee program that GE joined is administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which was reluctant to take on the new mission, according to current and former officials who were not authorized to speak publicly. The FDIC also initially resisted expanding the pool of eligible companies, fearing it would add more risk to the program, the officials said.
Despite those misgivings, there have been no defaults in the loan guarantee program. It has helped buoy confidence in the credit markets and enabled vital financial firms to raise cash even during the darkest days of the economic crisis. In addition, the program has raised more than $8 billion in fees.
"The TGLP program has been a money maker for us," FDIC chairman Sheila Bair has said. "So I think there have been some benefits to the government and the FDIC."
For its part, GE said that it properly applied for and qualified for the program. "We were accepted on the merits of our application," company spokesman Russell Wilkerson said.
The Cash Cow
The current good fortune of General Electric, ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company, has roots in the Great Depression, when it created a consumer finance arm so that cash-starved families could buy its appliances.
What grew from those beginnings is now a powerful engine of profit, accounting for nearly half of its parent's net earnings in the past five years. GE may be better known for light bulbs and home appliances, but GE Capital is one of the world's largest and most diverse financial operations, lending money for commercial real estate, aircraft leasing and credit cards for stores such as Wal-Mart. If GE Capital were classified as a banking company, it would be the nation's seventh largest.
Unlike the banking giants, GE Capital is part of an industrial company. That allows GE to offer attractive financing to those who buy its products.
At the height of last fall's financial crisis, GE's cash cow became a potential liability. As credit markets froze, analysts feared that GE Capital was vulnerable to losing access to cheap funding – largely commercial paper, or short-term corporate IOUs sold to large investors.
Company officials projected confidence. "While GE Capital is not immune from the current environment," Immelt said in October, "we continued to outperform our financial-services peers." Behind the scenes, they urgently sought a helping hand for GE Capital. One key hope was a rescue plan taking shape at the FDIC.
The program emerged during a hectic weekend last October as regulators scrambled to announce a series of rescue efforts before the markets opened.
They found a legal basis for the program in a 1991 law: If a faltering bank posed "systemic risk," then the FDIC, the Fed, the Treasury secretary and the president could agree to give the FDIC more authority to rescue a failing institution. The financial regulators applied the statute broadly, so it would cover the more than 8,000 banks in the FDIC system.
The FDIC hurried to approve the program Oct. 13.
"This was crisis management on steroids," said a person familiar with the process. "A lot was made up on the fly."
The author of the systemic-risk provision, Richard Carnell, now a law professor at Fordham University, says it was intended to apply to a single institution, and that in their rush to find legal footing for unprecedented new programs, regulators "turned the statute on its head."
The FDIC launched the program Tuesday, Oct. 14, the same day Treasury officials announced large capital infusions into nine of the country's banking giants under TARP. That day, the FDIC also expanded its deposit guarantees to a broader range of accounts.
Within days, the FDIC held conference calls with bankers to explain the program. Agency officials explained that not all companies that owned banks were eligible. "The idea is not to extend this guarantee to commercial firms," David Barr, an FDIC spokesman, said during one of the calls.
A Broader Program
GE was watching closely. Though GE Capital owned an FDIC-insured savings and loan and an industrial loan company, they accounted for only 3 percent of GE's assets. Company officials concluded that GE couldn't meet the program's eligibility requirements.
So the company requested that the program "be broadened," GE's Wilkerson said. GE's main argument was fairness: The FDIC was trying to encourage lending, and GE Capital was one of the country's largest business lenders.
GE deployed a team of executives and outside attorneys, including Rodgin Cohen, a banking expert with the New York firm Sullivan & Cromwell.
"GE was among the parties that discussed this with the FDIC," along with the Treasury and Fed, according to FDIC spokesman Andrew Gray. He said the details about eligibility "had not been specifically addressed" in the beginning.
Citigroup, the troubled banking giant, also was pressing for an expansion of the FDIC program. Though Citigroup was included in the debt guarantee program, its main finance arm, Citigroup Funding, appeared ineligible. Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn wrote to the FDIC's Bair on Oct. 21, arguing that debt issued by Citigroup Funding should be covered "as if it were issued directly by Citigroup, Inc."
Two days later, the FDIC announced a new category of eligible applicants – "affiliates" of an FDIC-insured institution. Bair explained that "there may be circumstances where the program should be extended" to keep credit markets flowing. That meant "certain otherwise ineligible holding companies or affiliates that issue debt" could apply, she said.
GE Capital now was eligible.
Raising Billions
GE Capital won approval to enter the FDIC program in mid-November with support from its regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision. The company used the government guarantee to raise about $35 billion by the end of 2008. By the end of the first quarter of 2009, the total reached $74 billion, helping to cover the company's 2009 funding needs and about $8 billion of its projected needs for 2010.
Despite government support, GE lost its Triple-A rating for the first time in decades this year and was forced to sharply cut its dividend. But the outlook could have been much worse.
The debt guarantee program has "been of critical importance" to the fiscal health of GE Capital, said Scott Sprinzen, who evaluates GE's finance arm for the Standard & Poor's credit-rating company. He said the FDIC program enabled GE to "avoid an exorbitant price" for its debt late last year.
GE has not disclosed how much the company has saved because of TLGP backing.
Like other companies in the program, GE pays the FDIC fees to use the guarantees – a little more than $1 billion so far. But as Bair explained to bankers last fall, the fees, while "healthy," are "far below certainly what the cost of credit protection is now in the market."
Not every finance company has had that peace of mind. One of GE's competitors in business lending markets, CIT Group, a smaller company, has had a harder time raising cash. It has been unable to persuade the FDIC to allow it into the debt-guarantee program, at least in part because of its lower credit ratings. A recent Standard & Poor's analysis cited CIT's "inability to access TLGP" as a factor in the company's declining financial condition.
Two weeks ago, the Obama administration said it would seek to eliminate the Office of Thrift Supervision and force companies like GE to focus on commerce or banking, but not both. That could require the industrial giant to spin off GE Capital.
Last week, Immelt said GE had no intention of doing that. "GE is and will remain committed to GE Capital, and we like our strategy," he said in a memo to staff.
In its proposal to overhaul financial regulation, the Treasury Department pointed out that some firms operating under the existing rules, including collapsed companies such as American International Group, "generally were able to evade effective consolidated supervision and the long-standing policy of separating banking from commerce."
GE's Wilkerson said the company generally supports regulatory reform but thinks that it should be permitted to retain its structure. "Bank reform has historically included grandfathering provisions upon which investors have relied, and there is no reason this settled principle should not be followed here," he said. He said the company "didn't have any choice" but to have OTS as its regulator.
The company also objects to the Treasury's proposal to force firms to separate banking and commerce because that issue "had nothing to do with the financial crisis," Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson said GE has remained profitable and avoided some of the exotic financial products that contributed to losses at other institutions. He also said that GE performed an internal stress test this year and found that its capital position was "quite strong by comparison to the banks."


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By: Cliff Kincaid
Accuracy in Media
When Professor Paul Kengor was on Sean Hannity's radio show and later on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News program, the hosts went out of their way to make sure that the author of the new book, The Communist, about Barack Obama's mentor, was not saying that Obama himself was a communist. It was almost as if Kengor had been warned not to get too personal with his revelations. He was allowed to talk about Frank Marshall Davis being a communist who loved Joseph Stalin, but when the subject turned to Obama, who was under Davis's influence for eight years, it was clear that this was another and more sensitive matter. This was getting dangerously close to taboo territory.
Why do self-styled conservative media personalities feel it necessary to protect the President?
With more than four years of research into Davis, and more revelations coming, the burden of proof is on Barack Obama to prove that his communist connections, which continued from his growing-up years in Hawaii to college to Chicago, were the result of innocence or naïveté. That will be hard for him to do, since he concealed the identity of Davis in his memoir, Dreams from My Father, calling him just "Frank" and depicting him as a poet and writer. He knew that Frank Marshall Davis was an associate and mentor and that he had to protect his communist identity from public scrutiny.
A better treatment of the matter came on Mark Levin's radio show, where the hard-hitting conservative host permitted Kengor to discuss how Davis influenced Obama, including his policies and statements as President. "This is very, very important," Levin noted, as he extended his interview with Kengor to an additional segment. Levin called the book "compelling" and "outstanding."
Despite the limitations of the interviews, at least Hannity and O'Reilly gave Kengor a few minutes of air time. The liberal media won't have anything to do with Kengor's book. Kengor notes, "I've had not a single inquiry from the mainstream media. Nothing from The New York Times and Washington Post, the latter of which did a scandalous expose of Mitt Romney's alleged bullying during his high-school years. Well, what about Obama's high-school years? Obama was influenced by a man so radical that he was listed on the Security Index."
Why are the liberal media so fundamentally dishonest? In an otherwise excellent column about the double standard of the left, Victor Davis Hanson writes about Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid making a "McCarthyesque" charge about Mitt Romney not paying taxes. He meant by this that Reid had no evidence.
However, the use of the term "McCarthyesque" by someone like Hanson is why Hannity and O'Reilly wanted Kengor to avoid any hint that Obama personally could be a Marxist. Figures on the right do not want to be accused of McCarthyism and even accuse people on the left of using McCarthyism. As a result, they protect Obama from needed scrutiny and help create the double standard they complain about. This is the trap we are in, as many of us try desperately to get out the facts about a President who was not vetted by the media in 2008 and continues to escape major media scrutiny for his Marxist past.
In this context, M. Stanton Evans has written a Human Events column, "When Conservatives Parrot Liberal Lies about Joe McCarthy," about how various conservative media personalities and politicians, including former Tennessee Republican Senator Fred Thompson, writers at Breitbart.com, National Review's Rich Lowry and columnists/TV commentators Charles Krauthammer and George Will, have all used the term "McCarthyism" to refer to the antics of Harry Reid and others on the left. Evans writes that these conservatives "know nothing at all about McCarthy except what the liberals deign to tell them."
For instance, George Will had said that Reid was imitating Senator Joseph McCarthy, who said he had a list of communists. "But he didn't have a list," Will said. In fact, Evans notes, McCarthy did have a list of security cases and problems in the government. Will simply doesn't have the facts and doesn't seem to care whether he has them or not.
Evans was the recipient of the 2009 Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media lifetime achievement Award for Investigative Journalism, for his groundbreaking research into the media's vilification of Senator Joe McCarthy. His book, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies, is a masterpiece.
Evans points out that "McCarthy was repeatedly proved right, about the larger picture of subversion, and about a host of individual cases." Yet, McCarthyism, a term coined by the Communist Party to demonize anti-communists, has been adopted not only by liberals but by conservatives as something that explains the use of unsubstantiated charges. This is how the liberals control the public debate. Conservatives let them control the debate by adopting the terminology of the liberals.
I recently recorded an interview, which is part of a new film called "The Unvetted," in which I explain how the facts about Davis have been suppressed for over four years. The new Kengor book should change this, but it is getting the silent treatment from the liberal media as well. Kengor says, "My book reached number one in non-fiction at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com. It made the top 10 on The New York Times bestseller list. And still, the press is completely ignoring Frank Marshall Davis. That ignoring will continue, as that same press wildly digs into the past of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan."
What explains this cover-up by the liberal and many in the conservative media? One answer is the fear of being labeled "McCarthyite." The charge is apparently more damaging than being labeled a Marxist member of an international communist network.
While the media remain mostly silent, filmmaker Joel Gilbert keeps investigating the Davis matter, and has the resources to distribute his work, in the form of a film Dreams from My Real Father, and regular updates on his website. Tens of thousands of copies of the film are now in circulation and the Drudge Report has accepted paid advertising for it. This marks a change from 2008, when Drudge rejected my advertising on Obama's communist connection as "too controversial."
WorldNetDaily has covered Gilbert's revelations, the latest being that he has unearthed letters from Frank Marshall Davis in which he refers to his pornographic "novel" Sex Rebel: Black as completely autobiographical and non-fiction. One of the letters says that he is having sex with an underage girl at the age of 76. "Currently my No. 1 woman here is a gorgeous and sexy girl with a face quite like Brooke Shields who became 17 two weeks ago," he says. He goes on, "…I have had my eye on her since I first saw her at 13."
That this communist pervert helped raise Obama and guided his thinking for eight years of his young life is not an issue for our media. It will never be an issue as long as conservatives join the liberals in throwing around the term McCarthyism for no legitimate reason.
Obama isn't the only one benefiting from this double-standard. It is because of the false charge of McCarthyism that conservatives find it so difficult to get concerned about State Department official Huma Abedin to be taken seriously by top Republican officials and candidates. Senator John McCain and House Speaker John Boehner both said questions about Abedin's connections to the Muslim Brotherhood are not appropriate and even dangerous. Romney said his campaign didn't want to talk about it.
The courageous columnist Diana West has pointed out that the Washington Examiner, supposedly a conservative paper in the Washington, D.C. area, has suppressed columns and news stories about the Abedin controversy.
Abedin is not on the presidential ballot this year, and Obama is. However, her fate depends on his.
It is literally the scandal of the century, proving that we have a President who could not survive a basic background check for a low-level federal job. He certainly couldn't qualify for a security clearance in his own administration. Is it any wonder that this administration leaks state secrets to benefit Obama and fails to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange?
Regardless of whether others in the liberal or conservative media take the matter of Obama's personal character and ideology seriously, the researchers who have pursued the Frank Marshall Davis story are being vindicated. The proof of their charges can already be seen in the policies and personnel of the Obama Administration. The damage to America and its standing in the world becomes more apparent by the day.
Those who kept their heads in the sand will be judged accordingly. What did they do or say when America's constitutional republic was being destroyed from within? Did they put the interests of the Republican Party above conservative principles and honest journalism? Or were they too obsessed with McCarthyism to notice what was going on?
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism and can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Author: Winston Craig, MPH, PhD, RD.
What would life be like without onions? The onion has been used as an ingredient in various dishes for thousands of years by many cultures around the world. World onion production is steadily increasing so that onion is now the second most important horticultural crop after tomatoes.
There are many different varieties of onion, red, yellow, white, and green, each with their own unique flavor, from very strong to mildly sweet. Onions can be eaten raw, cooked, fried, dried or roasted. They are commonly used to flavor dips, salads, soups, spreads, stir-fry and other dishes.
Onions (Allium cepa) belong to the lily family, the same family as garlic, leeks, chives, scallions and shallots.There are over 600 species of Allium, distributed all over Europe, North America, Northern Africa and Asia. The plants can be used as ornamentals, vegetables, spices, or as medicine. There are over 120 different documented uses of the Alliums.
Onion and other Allium vegetables are characterized by their rich content of thiosulfinates, sulfides, sulfoxides, and other odoriferous sulfur compounds. The cysteine sulfoxides are primarily responsible for the onion flavor and produce the eye-irritating compounds that induce lacrimation. The thiosulfinates exhibit antimicrobial properties. Onion is effective against many bacteria including Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella, and E. coli. Onion is not as potent as garlic since the sulfur compounds in onion are only about one-quarter the level found in garlic.
The Value of Onions
Onions have a variety of medicinal effects. Early American settlers used wild onions to treat colds, coughs, and asthma, and to repel insects. In Chinese medicine, onions have been used to treat angina, coughs, bacterial infections, and breathing problems.
The World Health Organization (WHO) supports the use of onions for the treatment of poor appetite and to prevent atherosclerosis. In addition, onion extracts are recognized by WHO for providing relief in the treatment of coughs and colds, asthma and bronchitis. Onions are known to decrease bronchial spasms. An onion extract was found to decrease allergy-induced bronchial constriction in asthma patients.
Onions are a very rich source of fructo-oligosaccharides. These oligomers stimulate the growth of healthy bifidobacteria and suppress the growth of potentially harmful bacteria in the colon. In addition, they can reduce the risk of tumors developing in the colon.
Cardiovascular Help
Onions contain a number of sulfides similar to those found in garlic which may lower blood lipids and blood pressure. In India, communities that never consumed onions or garlic had blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels substantially higher, and blood clotting times shorter, than the communities that ate liberal amounts of garlic and onions. Onions are a rich source of flavonoids, substances known to provide protection against cardiovascular disease. Onions are also natural anticlotting agents since they possess substances with fibrinolytic activity and can suppress platelet-clumping. The anticlotting effect of onions closely correlates with their sulfur content.
Cancer Prevention
Onion extracts, rich in a variety of sulfides, provide some protection against tumor growth. In central Georgia where Vidalia onions are grown, mortality rates from stomach cancer are about one-half the average level for the United States. Studies in Greece have shown a high consumption of onions, garlic and other allium herbs to be protective against stomach cancer.
Chinese with the highest intake of onions, garlic, and other Allium vegetables have a risk of stomach cancer 40 percent less than those with the lowest intake. Elderly Dutch men and women with the highest onion consumption (at least one-half onion/day) had one-half the level of stomach cancer compared with those consuming no onions at all.
Western Yellow, New York Bold, and Northern Red onions have the richest concentration of flavonoids and phenolics, providing them with the greatest antioxidant and anti-proliferative activity of 10 onions tested. The mild-tasting Western White and Vidalia onions had the lowest antioxidant content and lowest anti-proliferative activity. The consumer trend to increasingly purchase the less pungent, milder onion varieties may not be the best, since the onions with a stronger flavor and higher astringency appear to have superior health-promoting properties.
Use and Safety
Onions have a universal appeal. They are safely consumed by most people. However, consuming large quantities of onions can lead to stomach distress and gastrointestinal irritation that may result in nausea and diarrhea. There are no known interactions with drugs except that they can potentiate the action of anticoagulants.
Onions, and other Allium species, are highly valued herbs possessing culinary and medicinal value. Some of their beneficial properties are seen after long-term usage. Onion may be a useful herb for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, especially since they diminish the risk of blood clots. Onion also protects against stomach and other cancers, as well as protecting against certain infections. Onion can improve lung function, especially in asthmatics. The more pungent varieties of onion appear to possess the greatest concentration of health-promoting phytochemicals.


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Ending the year 2012 with a "BOOM"! haha
Here's AX2 "Boom!" Series Collection #2 1/6th scale Rei (clone prototype) 12-inch action figure as he is meant to be seen and displayed - with his cool looking jacket and lugging his big a$$ gun which also stores his two swords. Having already reviewed the packaging and contents (posted in my toy blog HERE), plus showing pictures of Rei without his jacket and armed with his two swords (pictures HERE), now's the time to see him as a complete figure :)
This is how I will be displaying this AX2 "Boom!" Series Collection #2 1/6th scale Rei (clone prototype) 12-inch action figure but not before showing how he looks without his jacket, as seen in the earlier posts. Rei comes with jacket, white T-shirt with sewn on black sleeves for layered look, pants, chain wallet, gloves, shoes, a big a$$ gun and two swords. A pair of extra gloved hands and additional pair of shoes (exclusively for the first 100 pre-orders) are also included. Scroll down to see all the pictures of a complete REI figure :)


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MPLS Traffic Engineering: Tunnel Setup
Traffic engineering can greatly improve performance in MPLS networks. Find out how specific traffic paths are defined and calculated using routing attributes and protocols.
May 8, 2014
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) was created to improve packet performance in the core of the networks and is widely used for that purpose. It has also been adapted for other use cases, and one of the most important is traffic engineering.
If you already have MPLS deployed in your network -- perhaps for a VPN -- MPLS traffic engineering can be very beneficial. Here we'll discuss the additional steps that must be taken, the design criteria, and other design-centric questions that must be answered to do so.
In MPLS traffic engineering, all configurations are done on a specific network node called the headend or ingress node. Here is where all tunnels and constraints are created. Tunnel destination address is also specified at the headend. For example, if an MPLS traffic engineering tunnel will be set up between R2 and R6 in Figure 1, all the definitions are done at R2. The tunnel destinations are called tailend or egress node.
MPLS traffic engineering tunnels are unidirectional tunnels and not congruent. This means that if one tunnel is created to carry traffic between R2 and R6, the return tunnel from R6 to R2 is not created automatically. Reverse tunnels must also be created, but this time R6 is used as the headend and R2 as the tailend. The tailend has no configuration.
Figure 1:Figure 1
Four steps are required for MPLS traffic engineering to take place:
Link-state protocols carry link attributes in their link-state advertisements (LSAs) or link-state packets (LSPs).
Based on the constraints defined, the traffic path is calculated with the help of Constrained Shortest Path First (CSPF).
The path is signaled by Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP).
Traffic is then sent to the MPLS traffic engineering tunnel.
Let's take a look these steps in detail:
1. By default, link-state protocols send only connected interface addresses and metric information to their neighbors. Based on this information, the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm creates a tree and builds the topology of the network. MPLS traffic engineering allows us to add some constraints. In Figure 1 above, let's assume the R2-R5 link is 5 Mbit/s; R5-R6 is 10 Mbit/s; and all the interfaces between the bottom routers are 6 Mbit/s.
If we want to set up a 6-Mbit/s tunnel, SPF will not even take the R2-R5-R6 path into consideration, because the link from R2 to R5 does not satisfy the minimum requirement.
In addition, we could assign an administrative attribute, also called a "color," to the link. For example, the R2-R5-R6 interfaces could be designated blue, and the R2-R3-R4-R6 route could be assigned red. At the headend, the constraint can then specify whether to use a path that contains a red or blue color.
The color/affinity information, as well as how much bandwidth must be available, reserved, and unreserved for the tunnel are carried within the link-state packet. In order to carry this information, some extensions have been added to the link-state protocols. Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) carries this information in the Opaque LSA (or Type 10 LSA), and Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) uses TLV 22 and 135 for traffic engineering information.
2. As we stated earlier, SPF is used to calculate the path for destinations. For traffic engineering, a slightly modified version of SPF is used, called constrained SPF (CSPF). With the extensions to link state protocols that Opaque LSAs and TLVs provide, a traffic engineering database is created that is only accessible by CSPF.
CSPF can understand that the link from R2 to R5 is 5 Mbit/s and does not satisfy the 6 Mbit/s tunnel constraint. So it will not take that path into consideration in its calculation.
3. If there is an appropriate path, the path is signaled by RSVP. Previously used to provide Integrated Services QoS, RSVP incorporated new messages, including path and reservation messages, to enable MPLS traffic engineering. Label information is carried within the reservation messages.
4. Once a path is signaled, traffic is put into the tunnel. This can be accomplished via many methods including static routing, policy-based routing, class-of-service-based tunnel selection (CBTS), policy-based tunnel selection (PBTS), autoroute, and forwarding adjacency. I'll discuss these methods in detail in a future post.
And in the next part of this series, I explain how to use MPLS traffic engineering path selection for bandwidth optimization.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Retrospective: Lords of Creation
When I say "interesting," I don't mean that sarcastically. Lords of Creation really is an interesting game and I kind of regret now that I never played it when I had the opportunity to do so at the time of its release in 1984. Avalon Hill made a strong effort to secure a space for their RPG products. Lords of Creation, along with Powers & Perils, RuneQuest (produced under license from Chaosium), and James Bond 007 (acquired when AH bought Victory Games), were all readily available in toy stores, which is where a friend of mine first saw it. Also available were three boxed adventures that, for my money, are even more interesting than the game itself, if only because they show just what a Lords of Creation campaign would be like, something the rules themselves don't do as well as I'd wish.
In concept, Lords of Creation assumes that all PCs, though beginning as relatively ordinary people, have the potential to become a "lord of creation" -- an advanced being with the ability to warp time and space according to his whims. Indeed, the highest level a PC can attain gives him the ability to construct entire worlds, thereby providing an interesting segue for a player to himself become a referee, using the worlds his character creates as the basis for new adventures and campaigns. As I said, characters begin without any special powers, attaining them only through the expenditure of experience points. XP was granted "at the GM's discretion" for a variety of in-game actions, but the most prominent action was the defeating of foes, all of whom had explicit XP awards associated with them. Because, as in D&D, the amount of XP to reach high levels is often astronomical, players are always on the lookout for more sources of it, often leading (in my limited experience anyway) to characters scouring the universe for any and every foe to feed their insatiable XP hunger.
That's a shame, because, in concept, Lords of Creation is a delightfully trippy multi-genre RPG, combining fantasy and science fiction with glorious abandon. It's a game where a murder at a game convention might uncover time traveling aliens in league with the Norse gods who are battling a Voodoo cult led by a mutant dinosaur high priest. Literally, anything can happen and the game provides a perfectly viable rationale for it all in the form of the lords of creation, not all of whom use their powers for the same purposes. Thus, there can be magic, super-science, occult powers, gods, demons, fictional characters brought to life -- you name it. It's a bit silly, if you think too hard about it, but why would you want to do so? But this isn't Encounter Critical; it's not an affectionate in-joke about the hobby or geekdom or anything like that. No, this is a game where Detective Chimp would feel right at home and caters to gamers who understand that, just because you, the player, don't take seriously the notion that Easter Island is a scrapyard for Atlantean robot heads, there's not a good adventure for your character based around that idea.
I'm pretty sure that Lords of Creation was a terrible flop for Avalon Hill. I never met anyone who played it for very long and my own limited experiences suggest that, in 1984, gaming was already too self-serious and narrow in its genre conventions to embrace a game like this wholeheartedly. Goodness knows I was and I looked very skeptically at this game, despite repeated attempts by a friend that we start playing it. Nowadays, I think something like this would get a better hearing. We've seen enough "multi-genre" games not to find the concept so bizarre and I think gamers, while still often self-serious, are much more willing to give wacky ideas like this a try than they were in 1984. Or at least so it seems to me.
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When I read Jeff R's descriptions of Encounter Critical I always thought it sounded like LoC was the "serious" version of that game. I think it was about 5 years ahead of its time - if it had come out after Shadowrun, Torg, and Rifts it might have found more traction.
I bought it back when it was new, along with all 3 adventures and never could get a real sustained campaign going. The intermittent campaign I did run involved the PC's getting involved in a war between the flintlock-wielding Saurians fighting off the HG's from the Book of Foes.
The published adventures are very cool too, one reason being that they came in a box with a lot of supplementary material including a pad of character sheets (really cool in the days before having decent printers at home), a referee's screen, and a complete vehicle combat & chase subsystem - Avalon Hill didn't skimp on the extras.
The storylines in each one are either genius or insanity depending on your tastes. That first one blew my players minds so much that most of them wouldn't play it again for years. Omegakron was my favorite but I like PA games anyway so I was an easy sell. There was a 4th and a 5th adventure mentioned in the game materials but I never saw anything more about them.
It was a really cool game and made me take note of Tom Moldvay as a guy to watch in the future. It's too bad the game didn't do better.I completely missed this the first time around. Only learned about it a few years back (probably from Jeff's blog) and had to hunt down a copy.
The similarity to Tom's Basic Set really struck me. I get an impression similar to Jeff's...that this game may have grown out of Tom's own D&D campaign. I can certainly see this as taking the place of Frank's Immortals Set in an alternate history of D&D.
(Appropriate that talking about Lords of Creation should inspired talk of alternate histories, eh?)
Each time I pick it up, I toy with the idea of using it sort of as a modern/sci-fi version of B/X and downplaying (or ignoring) the dimension-hopping.Nowadays, I think something like this would get a better hearing.
Indeed, your description of it as "a game where a murder at a game convention might uncover time traveling aliens in league with the Norse gods who are battling a Voodoo cult led by a mutant dinosaur high priest" makes it sound like Feng Shui, a game setting I loved despite its rules.We have this but never played it either. It is a game one never hears anything about so it was a nice to surprise to see it crop up here.
The similarities to the World of Tiers books cannot be accidental and that is a setting that offers a lot of potential. I believe there is a French based RPG based on it though that is not a lot of use to me, still all one needs is a good versatile rule set and away you go.I bought this game enthusiastically as a teenager when it was first released. I thought that my high school friends and I would love playing in a genre-blending, multi-dimensional universe. Instead we found it too wide open for us, leading to 'silly' combinations. We played it twice. I even bought "The Yeti Sanction," but never played it.
As a college kid in the late 1980s, I sold most of my large RPG collection to a used game store (in those pre-ebay days). This was the only game that the store wouldn't buy at any price.
Personally, I thought that the James Bond RPG, which my friends and I played extensively, was the high water mark of Avalon Hill's shirt-lived foray into RPGs.Way back when I was an itty bitty boy, I used to pore over the one issue of "Dragon" my dad ever bought (in 1984, I believe). There was a quarter-page ad for this game that made it sound so incredible, that I tried to make my own version. Based on that ad.
I didn't get very far.
Anyway, I bought it off eBay a few years ago. It wasn't as amazing as the game in my youthful imagination was, but it still sounds pretty cool. I'd play it, had I a group, the time aaaaaand so on.IIRC the Heroic Worlds book by Lawrence Schick had an essay by Tom Moldvay about the genesis of Lords of Creation. I do remember he talked about stretching the D&D rules and some of his inspiration in the game creation.
The Powers system of Lords of Creation always fascinated me. There were 60 powers divided into twelve groups called Categories with five powers in each. Some groupings made sense, others not so much. Each group was rated as Magical, Psychic, or Futuristic. There was a power called Cyborg.
And every being in the multiverse used these 12 powers.
Other things I loved was the quirkiness of the monster entries in The Book of Foes. I may have to write an essay about that sometime.
In an alternate world I would have loved to seen Lords of Creation thrive and expand to more powers, monsters, and settings. But alas, it was not to be.Your recollection about Heroic Worlds is correct. (My copy happened to be within easy reach.) I've never had quite the right group of gamers to sustain something as freeform as LoC, but I've always loved the idea. Being an OD&D player, the rules always seemed sufficient by comparison. I kept this when I culled my collection most fiercely; time to carry it around for a while, perhaps, and see if anything interesting gels.
ReplyDeleteWe played this for a few sessions (my first attempt at cross-gender roleplaying, something that I generally no longer do for various reasons), but ended up spending more time with Traveller. I loved the game, though, and it is where my very first (and so far, only memorable) incident of maximum fortuitous dice roll happened, when I needed a 20 to stop a car with a throwing knife, and managed to roll that.
ReplyDeleteThe big problem with Avalon Hill's role-playing division is that they had really appalling production values.* Runequest fans still hold ceremony burnings at RQ Cons of some of the supplements that they put out. Lords of Creation and Powers & Perils, not to mention Runequest, before they got a competent line-editor in. The big problem of course, was the financial collapse of the parent company, which meant that a lot of the support never materialised. Very few games survive the collapse of their publisher, especially when they haven't had time to establish a fan base.
[* Then again you could say that about almost all of the Avalon Hill games, especially the rules. I find it very telling that James Bond, produced by the SPI alumni at Victory Games, who knew the importance of good and clear layout, was much more successful than any of these games, although all were given a fairly even-handed market penetration by Avalon Hill.]- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2011 at 3:09 AM
This is certainly how I imagined D&D's endgame ca. 1987. I could never understand why you could kill gods but not become one, and at the time I didn't have the creative tools to make up my own ultra-high-level supplements. Sounds like this would've filled in my gaps. As it was, CoC reached out its tentacles and took me away from fantasy for a decade or 2.
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Given that the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon presupposed a huge amount of alien world portals all over everywhere, and given that it presupposed that normal kids could become fairly high level pretty quickly, I don't think the idea that D&D's endgame could have been like this is all that farfetched.
Granted, I'm now using a side-story cartoon (and the associated merchandise, characters, picture books, CYOA, and coloring books) as an argument. :) I remember looking at the LoC products in my local FLGS when they firat came out ... but those were the days of unlimited time and semi-limited money. I ended up buying AH Runequest and the entire product line foe "Powers and Perils" (some ideas from P&P seem to have influenced the 4E cosmology).
I didn't get anything for LoC; I think at the time it either struck me as being aimed at a younger audience or that it was just plain weird. LOL, it sounds so much more interesting now.I got this game at a toy store in '84 and hung onto it for a while, since I had no players at the time. When I finally had a group, we played it. We played it a lot, and it was one of our primary games (along with AD&D, Marvel Superheroes and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay). I never used the published adventures (though I have them, of course), but rather made my own setting.
Like Marcus and his group, we eventually outgrew it, but the setting and characters we made way back then are still alive and well today, though I use Savage Worlds for the setting these days.
Those battered rulebooks are still on my desk right now, and I owe a huge debt to the late Mr. Moldvay for creating that game.Late to the party (and only here due to a post in 2020) but I'm going to buck the trend and admit to not only having played this game with about 7-8 friends for most of high school, but having enjoyed it considerably. It was what OSR proudly calls "gonzo" these days, years before that term and that play style was a recognized thing. Wasn't just us, either. I didn't meet them till over a decade later (well post-college) but the FLGS was owned by a guy whose experience with the game was nearly identical, and his regulars included yet another group who'd been LoC junkies back when it was new-ish. Might have been a flop overall but it had quite alot of fans and players locally for some arcane reason.


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Careers in Culture
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A career in music and sound recording is a rewarding one with many opportunities and challenges. Using quizzes and interactive tools, this site will lead you to discover:
- Whether a career in music and sound recording is right for you
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If you have an interest in music and a creative mind, a career in music and sound recording could be for you.
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If you are into music and you can't stop dreaming about making your life in the music and sound recording industry, then a world of opportunity awaits you. People around the globe continue to turn to music as a primary entertainment source. As new music recording and broadcasting technologies emerge, so do simple and inexpensive methods of distribution and marketing. Combining your musical interests with other competencies, such as skills in computer science or business, means you have a wealth of career options. Of course, the old values of hard work and determination are just as relevant as ever.
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Evan Paul is the host of Taste of Country Nights, a syndicated radio show heard on more than 100 country radio stations nationwide. Producer Amber co-hosts the show with him every night from 7PM to midnight. Together they play the best new country music and interview today's top stars, like Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, Maren Morris + more!
Jake Owen recently brought his 2-month-old daughter onstage with him, and the pictures and videos are beyond adorable. Being a new father myself, seeing country dads bring their newborns out to show the public just warms my heart.
I remember when Jason Aldean brought Memphis onstage recently, I told my wife I wish I was a country star too, just to bring our 5-month-old, Libby, up on stage with me to play her Fisher Price drum set. With that being said, I think the coolest country dad, by far, is Brantley Gilbert.
Who would you say is the absolute coolest country dad around?
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Burning (Calories) Man: A Country Music Playlist for the Gym
Here's a mid-year pick-me-up for all of you that spend time in the gym even after your New Years resolutions wear off. Just because it's burning up outside doesn't mean you can't get your burn on too, and we've got the soundtrack for your workout right here.
From Carrie Underwood to Blanco Brown and everybody in between, country music sets the beat for your daily grind.
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The woo is out there UFOlogy |
Aliens did it... |
...and ran away |
""The gods watch over us and guide our destinies, many human cultures teach; other entities, more malevolent, are responsible for the existence of evil. Both classes of beings, whether considered natural or supernatural, real or imaginary, serve human needs. Even if they're wholly fanciful, people feel better believing in them. So in an age when traditional religions have been under withering fire from science, is it not natural to wrap up the old gods and demons in scientific raiment and call them aliens?
—Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World |
"Extraterrestrial" ("ET") describes any object or being beyond the planet Earth; "an extraterrestrial" almost invariably refers to other life forms, also known as EBEs (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities).
Because of the sheer scale of the cosmos, the possibility that we are the only form of life in the entire universe is remote; therefore some form of life is likely to exist elsewhere on other planets, natural satellites, planetary-mass objects and brown dwarfs.[1]
Fairly primitive life, such as bacteria, has been hypothesized by scientists such as Carl Sagan to even exist elsewhere in our own solar system, although no reliable evidence for this has been found. More advanced life is likely to have formed outside the solar system and many people — kooks and rational thinkers alike — are convinced that it's out there just waiting to be found.
Based on the anecdotes and "research" of ufologists and abductees since 1947, one thing is absolutely clear — that, while we can let our imaginations get the best of us, the truth is our imaginations are not even that good at actually being original.[2]
Intelligent extraterrestrial life[edit]
The narrower and arguably more common definition of "extraterrestrial" is "an intelligent life form that is of extraterrestrial origin" — an alien, in other words. Normally they are thought of as aliens who visit this planet, for whatever reason that aliens might want to visit this planet. This is a pretty cool idea because, assuming communication is even possible with such beings, it would afford the opportunity to compare observations about the nature of reality. This is also cool because, along with spaceships and laser guns, the encounter with aliens is every nerd's dream. As such it is the subject to a lot of crackpot thinking and conspiracy theories. These beliefs range from aliens communicating telepathically with people — similar to mediums talking to the dead — to deliberate coverups by world governments[3] and reverse engineering of alien technology. Despite the prevalence of such beliefs, and the fantastic and attractive narratives that they produce, they are most likely complete and utter bullshit. No convincing evidence has ever been found in favor of the existence of such beings, let alone the idea that they may be on Earth right now.
Claims that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin and claims of alien abduction have not been substantiated and most examples of both phenomena can be easily and simply explained without invoking little green men with anal probes.[note 1] Firsthand accounts of interactions with ET's tend to be anecdotal and often unreliable with little or no physical evidence presented. As a result, investigation of alien encounters by science is difficult. Since ET's seem reluctant to do their abductions near anyone appropriately equipped to document them, we have no hard evidence or reason to believe that they are on Earth interacting with us on a near daily basis.
Or maybe they just don't live nearby? Or maybe they just don't like us enough to talk to us face to face face to tentacle? Extraterrestrials, it seems, are still confined to the world of science fiction and wildly entertaining conjecture by exobiologists.
Drake Equation[edit]
The Drake Equation is an attempt to quantify the likelihood of alien civilizations being capable of communicating with humans on Earth. Named after radio astronomer Frank Drake, it contains a number of variables such as number of stars in a galaxy, number of planets suitable for life, etc. An interactive version can be found here.
One of the main issues with the Drake Equation is the estimated life span of any advanced civilization, i.e., once it becomes advanced enough to communicate, how long before it blows itself up? While any value for this is necessarily speculative (we're dealing with a sample size of zero, since our only example is our own society, which we can't know how long will last), Drake's original estimate for this value is 10,000 years, while a more modern approach by Michael Shermer set it to only 420 years.[4] This means that any signal received from space (given the enormous distances between stars) could well be from an already long-dead civilization. However, the flaw here is that our own communications have diminished significantly from that seen in the 1960s thanks to cable and satellite communications.
The usual suspects[edit]
What we know so far[edit]
The aliens that have supposedly come to Earth have been described as appearing in many different forms. This indicates either that planet Earth is improbably interesting to several varieties of aliens — or that the reports themselves are the result of hyperactive human imaginations.[note 2]
At the same time, the spectrum of described alien appearances — differing enough from each other to qualify as separate species — is populated by examples of aliens that are all generally anthropomorphic (and even outright humanoid) enough to be quite similar not just to us, but to each other. With minor variance, we're talking: the same body outline, amount of arms, legs, mouths (save for the Xenomorph), eyes, ears and so on. This implies that they might all share an evolutionary timeline — and for that to be true, they'd basically all have to originate from the same planet.[note 3]
Consider it — all those species of aliens look attuned for kind of the same gravities and temperatures, and approximate the appearances of each other much closer than we approximate the appearance of lots of animals here on Earth.[note 4] Note also that we approximate the appearance of the aliens — and vice versa — in just the same way.[note 5]
So, did they all come here from the same planet on separate missions, unaware of each other...? Are they perhaps part of some epic space opera galactic war, and we're thrown smack-dab in the middle of it, as if taken right out of TVTropes? Actually, since they're so humanoid, and so attuned to earthly conditions — never mind often described as having the ability (and desire) to have sex with humans (!)[note 6] — it is actually far more likely that they originate from Earth. A result of that, however, is that it's more likely still that they originate from the imaginations of creatures from Earth.[note 7]
Interestingly, all species of aliens are consistently described as being about the size they'd have to be in order to be able to interact with us in a way that we humans find meaningful — never disappearingly small,[note 8] never the size of Godzillas (though the square–cube law tells us the latter would be highly unlikely). Why, it's almost as if they were imagined by us in the only way that enables them be cast in exciting and interactive roles by the human imagination.
In fact, there is often a good correlation between the culture describing the aliens and what said culture claims the aliens look like. The "Grey" species is undoubtedly the most commonly imagined and the most commonly depicted in fiction, from Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the Asgard from Stargate. Essentially not different from the elves or orcs of fantasy, in that they're basically humans with caricatured features — and what's more, the features are supposed to represent their qualities. The noble and eloquent elves — humans that all look like models. The proud and mighty orcs — humans that all look like Kali Muscle.[note 9]
The childlike Greys with their big eyes and big heads (presumably containing big brains), yet slender and weak limbs, come off as observant, intelligent and technological. They're clearly tool users, since we don't imagine them surviving in the wild without tools. Since we imagine the wilds on their planet to be like the wilds on Earth. Since we imagine that their home planet has about the same amount of gravity, the same temperature range and similar gas distribution to Earth. Since we imagine that the evolution of life looks about the same everywhere. Since we imagine that all life is carbon-based to begin with. And who ever said you can't travel faster than light, anyways?!
The dreadful Xenomorphs,[note 10] on the other hand, don't look like tool users. They don't look technological. I mean, ask yourself. How would they fit into a cockpit and operate pedals and stuff? And besides, they don't use tools in the movies. They don't wear armor, they're born armored. They don't wield weapons, they are a weapon. Like the predators we've evolved to fear — snakes and tigers and the like — the Xenomorphs rely on their senses. Yeah — they're born fully decked killing machines. And from eggs, too — eew.[note 11] They don't look social. They look like lone hunters who predate upon soft-bellied, social animals like us. Yeah. And that definitely means they can't have tool use.[note 12] Besides, they don't have the temper for it. Because we know it takes social, vaguely ape-like vertebrates to ever have tool use. Right?
Now, you might object — the Xenomorphs are fictional! Boy, do we have news for you...[note 13]
Similarly, the "flying saucer" shape only became prevalent after UFOs were reported as being "saucer-like", which people misinterpreted as being a description of shape, rather than how they moved through the sky. Some early close encounters reported dart-shaped or cigar-shaped rather than saucer-shaped UFOs, before the saucer meme became predominant.[note 14]
The alien zoo[edit]
Either way, "respected"[note 15] scholars have identified several different species of alien. They include:
PkunkBlue avian: These blue bird-people are supposedly very nice and spiritually positive aliens. Dreamed up by Coorey Goode and David Wilcock, New Agers find them aesthetically appealing.- Designers: Also known as the Elohim (singular Elohah), they look exactly like a small version of a Japanese person because, according to Raelians, they made us in their image. They also gave messages to different populations through religious figures like the Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, and Moses.
- Greys: These are the most famous popular aliens. They are short and have really big heads, no hair, grey skin, either very small or no mouth and nose, and really big eyes. They are the most commonly reported aliens in North America. They seem to have an agenda, but the grey agenda should not be confused with the gay agenda (although both seem to involve anal probing).
- Nordics: These look like a Nazi's wet dream, although taller and not so into Hitler. For some reason, they like to abduct Europeans more than Americans.
- Pleiadians: They really care about us and are into multi-dimensional physics.
- Reptilians: Also known as the Gorn,[5] they look like sentient dinosaurs. Like the Greys, they too have an agenda, theirs involving the shadow conquest of Earth. David Icke and his followers believe that the British royal family, the Bush family, and nearly every other major politician is actually a reptilian in disguise. Seems reasonable enough.
- Rods: As the name suggests, they are flying cylindrical eddies that appear in camera shots or videos. While ufologists disagree about their nature, origin and sentience; photographers disregard them as nothing more than the trail insects (such as moths) leave behind while flying.[6]
- Thetans: Originally alien citizens of various species who lived 75 billion[note 16] years ago, until they were thrown into volcanoes on Tegeeack (known as "Earth" to sane people) which then had hydrogen bombs detonated inside of them by the Galactic Overlord
XemuXenu. Thus the restless, wandering alien souls, known as Thetans, were created, in the billions, right here on Earth. Ever since, these parasitic alien spirits have spent most of their time attaching themselves to us, and if only we'd read Dianetics, we'd be able to relieve our selves both of these invaders and of large quantities of cash in one fell swoop. Visit your local Church of Scientology center today to learn more, and get the opportunity to sign over your house to the Church - and if you're verygulliblededicated, you can sign a contract to work for the Sea Org for a billion years!
Sadly for those who believe in these fantasy people, there is no actual reliable evidence for any of them, as their existence is based solely on people's personal testimony, which is frankly useless. There was a very close call when footage of an autopsy was "leaked" in the 1990s, but this was revealed to be a hoax far too soon for it to be any fun.[7]
Wow! signal[edit]
The Wow! signal was a radio signal which was received by the Big Ear Radio Telescope on August 15th, 1977. It consisted of 72 seconds of unusually organized signals. There are many speculations on the origin of the signal, with one of them being that the signal is of alien origin. Despite the very odd organization of the signals, this is not definitive proof of alien life; it is a stretch to jump to that sort of conclusion as there is no evidence pointing to the signal being sent by an alien race. It has been argued that a better explanation for this signal is just some deep space oddity that we have not discovered yet.[8] A common misconception is that The Wow! signal is some sort of message that contains information, the reality is that it was just a narrowband radio signal, nothing more. To put it simply: many things in space generate radio waves that we capture on a daily basis, it's just that the pattern and intensity of this signal was quite odd. The data itself is unfortunately quite insubstantial to draw any real conclusion[note 17] but that still hasn't stopped people believing wholeheartedly that ET has phoned earth.
A common myth is that "6EQUJ5" is a code broadcast by aliens. However, the characters simply refer to the intensity of the signal in base 36. It recorded 6 signals, with the intensities of 6, 14, 26, 30, 19, and 5 in short succession.
In 2017, the Buzzkill Squad a team of researchers with the Center of Planetary Science determined that the sound likely came from a cloaked Klingon spacecraft the 266/P Christensen comet, which was unknown in 1977 but occasionally emits unusual frequencies due to an attached hydrogen cloud.[9] However this has since been discredited, the reason being that comets do not emit that strongly at the frequencies detected, and the comet proposed to be the origin of the signal was nowhere within the vicinity of the detection radius of either horn of the Big Ear telescope in 1977. [10] This does not mean however that this is an alien signal, just that we don't know where it came from as of now.
Contact with Earth[edit]
Some of the aliens' favorite hobbies while on our planet include:
- Building the Giza pyramids
- Making crop circles
- Abducting Texans for bizarre sexual experiments
- Using their "flying saucers" to buzz unsuspecting drivers, often in, again, Texas
- Taking our jobs and sponging off our welfare systems
- Hollowing out the Earth to build their secret bases
- Eating the dinosaurs
- Mutilating cattle
- Anal Probing
In November 2011, the United States White House officially stated that the US (and as far as they knew, every other country) has never had contact with alien life. Of course, they also said they do not know who shot Kennedy; it's apparent who's lying, isn't it?
In a nutshell[edit]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Real Grey Alien Pictures and Videos – All about the greys
- AlienResistance.Org – Another fine example
- Message from the Designers – This website claims that extraterrestrials somehow designed us and gave us messages via religious leaders
- ↑ The rest can probably be explained away the same way with a little more effort, though who knows what the universe may bring us? This is a world where bicycles with 40 seats are a thing, maybe one of the cases is the real deal.
- ↑ We apologize to our future alien overlords who may be reading this at a later date.
- ↑ Meanwhile good science fiction writers have much more imagination in that regard.
- ↑ Just to pick one example — Greys and Xenomorphs share way more features than humans and ocean sunfish do, or humans and crystal butterflies do, or humans and blue angels do. C'mon guys.
- ↑ David Icke has a solution to this problem, however — turns out, we're all actually aliens! Or, descended from aliens. Or related to aliens. Or something.
- ↑ I mean think about it:this is our closest living relative. Would you be lining up to tap that? And an extraterrestrial wouldn't be related to us at all.
- ↑ So still — technically — from Earth. What??
- ↑ In which case their ships run the risk of being eaten by a small dog
- ↑ $10 worth of latex makeup completes the comparison. Imagine applying it a little differently and maybe changing the color to green — you'd have most fantasy orcs in a heartbeat.
- ↑ Or, for the case, the Zerg/Tyranids if you're a StarCraft/Warhammer 40k player respectively
- ↑ Bursting from people's stomachs, by extension. So fresh you can taste the crunch!
- ↑ Well, we gotta have some way of beating them! They can be born terminators — but damnit, they can't be intellectuals as well! That would ruin the drama of the story, just like if Batman killed the Joker! ...Wait, did I just make a huge point regarding aliens in general?
- ↑ See the "UFO to flying saucer" segment of our article on UFOs.
- ↑ We use that term very loosely — it really just means "Respected by other cranks ufologists".
- ↑ Imagine, they lived 5½ times as long ago as the universe itself has existed!
- ↑ Even Jerry R. Ehman, the man who discovered the signal, said that he will not "[draw] vast conclusions from half-vast data."
- ↑ Atmospheric Habitable Zones in Y Dwarf Atmospheres
- ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/506846/were-probably-imagining-aliens-wrong/
- ↑ 'No evidence' for extraterrestrials, says White House Or is that part of a cover-up?
- ↑ Michael Shermer - Why hasn't ET called?
- ↑ https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gorn
- ↑ Rod (optics). Wikipedia.
- ↑ Skeptical Enquirer - "Alien Autopsy" Hoax
- ↑ Skeptoid Episode #342: Was the Wow! Signal Alien?
- ↑ Wow! mystery signal from space finally explained Phys.org
- ↑ WoW comet rebuttal - North American Astrophysical Observatory


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Addison Rae Seemingly Confirms Debut Single 'Obsessed' Was Inspired by Ex-Boyfriend Bryce Hall
A conversation with Bryce Hall seems to have served as songwriting inspiration for Addison Rae.
On Monday (March 22), Rae seemingly revealed on The Zane Lowe Show that her ex-boyfriend, and fellow TikTok star, inspired the lyrical content of her debut single "Obsessed."
"So, the night recording this... I mean the process, there's a little story behind the entire song. So. I was driving right before the studio, I had dropped off my ex boyfriend—my boyfriend at the time—and I dropped him off at his house," Rae shared. "And then before that happened he looked at me and was like, 'I'm obsessed with you.' And I was like, 'Me too.' And I didn't really mean that. It was kind of an accident. I mean, I didn't really mean that. I kind of meant, I'm obsessed with you, too. But he was like, 'Oh, are you obsessed with yourself?' And I was like, 'You know what? I should be.' And then I was like, 'But I'm obsessed with you too, whatever.'"
"So, I ended up getting to the studio and I was running a little bit behind, and I walk in and they had already started working on this track," she continued. "They were really building it out, it was just a few chords. And then we already had a concept that we had previously talked about, we had been writing that entire week and we started writing it over the track. I walked in and they were like, 'Yeah, we're working on this concept, this track, whatever.' So we start writing and then probably an hour into it I'm like, 'Let me tell you guys about this story. I just told my boyfriend that I was obsessed with myself, but I didn't mean to.' And they were like, 'Wait, you should be obsessed with yourself.' And I'm like, 'You know what? You're so right.'"
"And so we crafted this concept almost on an accident, but then turned it into something that means so much more," Rae continued. "There's two ways people can look at this. They can look at it like, oh, she's obsessed with herself. Which is funny because social media nowadays kind of makes that image look like that's how it is," Rae stated, "You only really post yourself on your own social media and that's been such a big thing for now. But also just loving yourself and realizing that to feel loved by someone else you really have to love yourself."
The famous TikTok couple are rumored to have called it quits after Hall was accused of cheating on Rae while in Las Vegas filming a vlog a few weeks ago. Hall has denied the rumors.
On Sunday (March 21), he even posted a TikTok dancing to Rae's new song. "Y'all hatin but it's a bop," he captioned the video.
Fans noticed on Monday night that the He's All That actor was no longer following Hall on social media.
While there has been no official confirmation on whether or not #Braddison is still together, Rae's new interview seems to have put the nail in the coffin. If so, at least she got a song out of it.
Watch the video for Addison Rae's "Obsessed," below:


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The official handover of the £60 million contract with Lagan Construction Aviation at Guernsey Airport took place on Friday 27th September 2013. With some minor completion activities and re-instatement works now to complete, the project is likely to be completed some 7 months ahead of schedule.
The works commenced on site in January 2012 and included the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the existing airfield infrastructure including the runway pavement, aprons and taxiways while maintaining full airfield operations throughout. In addition the airfield ground lighting systems were replaced together with new navigation aids being installed. Site works were carried out 24 hours per day 6 days per week on a shift basis.
"The entire team have been working together to overcome significant challenges such as weather and ground conditions to deliver a high quality project". Everyone at Lagan Construction is extremely proud of what has been achieved on this challenging project."Steve Turner, Director of International Operations
Around 230,000 tonnes of aggregate were imported to the Island for the project, via a purpose built dock that included a large storage area for the materials. Around 1,200 tonnes of aggregate per day were then hauled from the storage area to the site using specially modified bulk movement equipment. This operation was a major concern for the Island administration and due to careful planning and community engagement the operation was not only successful but assisted the team's integration within the community.
Asphalt and Concrete production plants were established on site to manufacture140, 000 tonnes of Marshall Asphalt and 70,000 tonnes of pavement quality concrete to the stringent airfield specification demanded by the Airport.


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