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Fifteen million units is my personal benchmark for annual U.S. auto sales. The year 2012 could come close to, or even exceed, that number. The prospering U.S. automotive industry is driving the plastics processing industry hard on multiple fronts: quantity, quality, and innovation.
Any way you look at it, the U.S. auto industry is in a growth period. Automotive sales figures are a moving target, so to speak. Sales are commonly expressed in terms of seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR). Projected automotive sales in the U.S. for the calendar year 2012 range from 14-15+ million vehicles (combining cars and light trucks), the highest in 3-5 years, depending on the specific base of comparison. GM says
14-14.5 million, Autodata Corp. says 15.1 million, and other sources are within that range.
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The overall figures are expressed in terms of sales, finessing the matter of where the vehicle was manufactured, and the origin of the components. "Made-in-the-U.S." vehicles are chock full of components manufactured elsewhere. Also, U.S.-based companies set up manufacturing lines in other countries. Cars built in the U.S. are sold in the U.S., of course, but so are cars built in Germany, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere. Detailed statistics are also kept in terms of specific manufacturer, monthly sales, and so on (New York Times, 5/2/12, p.B3), but our focus here is really on plastics, not detailed automotive statistics.
Quantity needs for plastics component suppliers to the automotive industry are associated not only with the total number of cars built, but also with the model-year structure of the industry, which dictates delivery times. Once a design is settled on and production dates set, auto-assembly plants will not wait for a given plastics component. If one processor can't or won't deliver it, another will.
Let's look at some quantities to get an idea of the orders of magnitude we are dealing with here. Taking 330 pounds per car as the average plastics content per vehicle (an ICIS estimate), for every hundred thousand (100,000) vehicles added to annual sales, that means an increase of (330) x (100,000) = 33 million more pounds of plastics to be conveyed. And that's just the amount of change, not the overall quantity.
Quality demands are formidable, exceeded perhaps only by the medical sector. Quality is critical from making the car to buying and using it. Assembly lines are very intolerant of a need to slow or stop in order to deal with a defective component. At the other end of the business, consumers are not very forgiving of cars that require a lot of service, and Web sites make service records of given makes and years of cars more readily available than ever, to the chagrin of a manufacturer whose flaws get well publicized.
Innovation needs are related to function, appearance, and cost. Auto manufacturers are trying to reduce overall vehicle weight, which means increasing the use of plastics, including glass-fiber-reinforced and aramid-fiber components, thermoplastic elastomers, and the commodity plastics, engineering plastics, and blends.
Exhibitors at the NPE 2012 event held in April in in Orlando touted a wide variety of innovations for the automotive sector. One relatively easy breakout of automotive categories is this: interior, exterior and under-the-hood components. An SPI/NPE table that names more specific automotive targets for innovation, without naming exhibitor names, is at www.npe.org/Markets/content.cfm?ItemNumber=4443&navItemNumber=4289
Novatec, the sponsor of this Knowledge Center, supplies conveying and drying equipment for plastics processors, including those in the automotive sector, and continuously improves its technology in both drying and conveying. Particularly notable is the recent introduction of the Moisture Master™ equipment for continuously measuring and controlling moisture levels online. Drying systems are needed for some automotive materials, especially the nylons (polyamides), the blends of polycarbonate and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (PC/ABS) and other hygroscopic materials. Novatec has recently entered the downstream extrusion equipment market as well.
For most of the 30+ years that I have been observing the plastics processing business, automotive has been the segment of the business in which the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence." Processors who were not in the automotive sector wanted to be, for the volumes and the money. Processors who were serving the automotive market had reservations, as quality demands are unforgiving and payment arrangements are frequently difficult. It's not a business for the faint of heart. However, the opportunity remains, especially in today's growing automotive market.
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In her work with Israeli military veterans and victims of trauma, Sigal Haimov asks a lot of sensitive questions.
But over a lengthy career as a mental health professional, she's found that it's one of the easiest questions to ask that's trickiest for Americans to answer genuinely: "How are you doing?"
"You" — that is, Americans — "ask each other 'How are you doing?' whenever you see someone you don't even know," said Haimov, director of the telephone-based help line at NATAL, an Israeli trauma center.
On the other hand, "When [Israelis] ask you how you're doing, we expect you to answer — and not just say, 'Fine, thank you.'"
There's a lot to be learned from the Israeli response — one of many reasons the Wounded Warrior Project reached out to Haimov and her organization a year and a half ago, to establish a telephone help line for American veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal thoughts. The Wounded Warrior Project's mission is to "honor and empower" veterans, and it does so through its 19 different programs, including physical therapy, peer mentoring and job skills and placement assistance — and now, over the phone with a help line.
Haimov is a major force in setting up the service — named WWP Talk — based on her experience setting up and running NATAL's own help line for the past 16 years. Instead of serving solely as a crisis intervention line, where caller-to-counselor relationships usually end when the phone is hung up, the NATAL method focuses instead on strengthening that initial relationship, and providing assistance beyond suicide prevention. Over the past year, she has traveled back and forth from Israel to Jacksonville, Fla., helping to train the WWP Talk's first few cohorts of volunteers.
"We don't do anything at the Wounded Warrior Project that we can't be the best at," says Dave Ward, who oversees WWP Talk as well as other mental health services at the organization. "NATAL are the experts, specifically with this help line model."
And experts such as Haimov and the staff at NATAL are helping to address a very real problem in the United States. A Department of Veterans Affairs study released last year estimated that approximately 22% of all suicides in the United States from 1999-2010 were committed by veterans. Veterans make up just 10% of the United States population, and their rate of suicide is increasing at double the pace of civilian suicides. The majority of the suicides were committed by male veterans older than 50, but an update from the VA released last month noted an increase in suicides among men between 18 and 24, and female veterans of all ages.
What's more, those statistics don't account for all cases of suicide, since not all states report data to the VA. It's not always possible to reach out to a victim's family for confirmation of veteran status (for example, if the victim was homeless). And some cases are difficult to rule definitively as suicides (for example, if the veteran was found behind the wheel at the time of death).
The NATAL model is unusual because of what it provides to veterans after the initial call — namely, repeated counseling sessions with the same volunteer. Speaking with one counselor continuously helps veterans avoid retelling traumatic memories to a succession of different voices on the other end of the line. Counselors also direct callers to other organizations which help them set up appointments with psychotherapists, or secure government services they had been previously unable (or unwilling) to use. By using the NATAL model, WWP Talk is differentiating itself from other United States veteran hotlines, namely the VA's Veterans Crisis Line, which focuses mainly on suicide prevention.
"I found it to be very necessary in Israel," Haimov said. "Warriors, when they come back home, they struggle with so much — they have neither the energy nor the patience nor the capability to get what they deserve from governmental institutions."
Haimov said she hears similar battlefield experiences from Israelis and Americans — "trauma is trauma," she said — but that it is in actually dealing with the trauma that the two groups begin to diverge.
There are two key factors that affect the different ways in which Americans and Israelis deal with trauma — the nature of military service and the national culture. With some exceptions, military service is mandatory for all Israelis over 18, and almost every family is familiar with the demands of war. In America, on the other hand, military service is voluntary and most families have no experience with it. Importantly, the traumatic effects of multiple deployments for American soldiers are minimized for Israeli veterans. Haimov explained that in Israel, deployments are shorter and soldiers are able to return home to their families each month — after all, they are stationed within the borders of their home country, where a cross-country trip means traversing a territory the size of New Jersey.
But a more subtle challenge has to do with the cultural differences between Americans and Israelis themselves — like the way they answer the "how are you doing?" question.
Americans are overall more polite and reserved, Haimov said, and therefore not used to talking about their feelings with others — particularly strangers on the other end of the phone line. That may mean it takes longer for a veteran to open up about his or her problems, but it also means that the training for American volunteers is even more emotionally involved than that for Haimov's Israeli staff. The American volunteers must resist the impulse to offer easy platitudes, and instead address their own mixed emotions that arise when speaking to veterans each week.
"We want them to stay with the pain, hear the sadness, hear the helplessness — deal with those difficult emotions," Haimov said.
A.W., a volunteer at WWP Talk in Jacksonville who requested to be identified by her initials only because of the confidential and personal nature of her work, found herself in just such a situation.
"There was a warrior whose story touched me so much that after the call, I really had to take some time," A.W. recalled. "I was very sad and cried and couldn't figure out why." She made a long-distance call to Haimov, in Israel at the time, to discuss her feelings about the interaction.
"My friends had always told me I was a good listener and had a lot of empathy," A.W. said. She is also the mother of a soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan and the wife of a veteran, and has a father who was a prisoner of war in World War II, and a grandfather who served in World War I.
"As a mother, I couldn't help my son with his transition back to the civilian world other than being a mother, but I just feel like I'm sort of the help I couldn't give my son," A.W. said. "I just feel like I'm giving back something."
"It's almost like being in a confessional," A.W. explained, comparing the phone call experience to the Catholic ritual. "You're just letting the thoughts flow without wondering if I'm saying this right, or if this is what the other person wants to hear."
Along with the tough situations, there are successes. Haimov spoke of soldiers who had already quit drinking in the short time that WWP Talk has been accepting calls (about 10 months), and of one veteran in particular who felt confident enough to leave his house for the first time in six years thanks to WWP Talk's counseling. And A.W. spoke of a veteran she'd been working with for five months, who had resisted talking to her about his combat experience, or taking her suggestions for outside help, and who is now enrolled in one-on-one therapy sessions with a mental health professional.
"That's huge for these guys — to be able to come from that place of sort of wallowing in it, and realizing, wait a minute, there's nothing I can really do about what happened, but there is a lot I can do about what happens in the future."
Haimov and others from NATAL will begin training another cohort of volunteers for WWP Talk in February, and given the results so far, both parties are optimistic about the future. WWP's Dave Ward said another year will give the program time to mature in Jacksonville, but there is talk of possible future programs to address western time zones, probably based out of Colorado, once the program strengthens its base of volunteers and serves increasing numbers of veterans. He estimated that "well over 100,000" wounded veterans will seek WWP's help in the next two or three years.
"We're looking to impact as many warriors' lives as possible," Ward said. "We couldn't have had anybody better to help us put this program in place than [NATAL]."
"For me, it is so important that the American society recognizes the needs of those soldiers, and the price they are paying for being deployed for such a long time," Haimov said. "I'm hoping we can help them as much as we can help our own warriors."
Jared T. Miller is a freelance journalist based in New York City. He has written for Time, the New York Daily News and GlobalPost, among other publications.
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For many years I held a seminar called Purchasing & Quoting of Plastic Parts aimed at OEM purchasing and molding personnel. Attendance has waned during the recession, but the need for knowledge is still there, especially where conformal-cooled molds are concerned.
I have seen many purchase orders over the years worded only "Build a 4-cavity mold to produce ABC," and nothing else. So it continues with conformal-cooled molds: "Build a 4 cavity conformal cooled mold to produce ABC". People who purchase conformal-cooled molds need to understand the technology so that they know how to specify a conformal-mold in a P.O.
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So what questions should OEMS or injection molders be asking their moldmaker? My list:
1. Who is designing the mold?
2. What analyses will be done? (You're paying for these; put it in the P.O.)
3. How much experience do they have with each of the software packages?
4. Who is building the conformal inserts and what are they responsible for?
5. Who has the responsibility for the whole mold?
You have to have an understanding of the technology in order to write a good P.O., whether you are an OEM or a molder.
About the Author
Robert A. Beard is president of Robert A. Beard & Associates, Inc. which was formed in 1984. He has more than 40 years of experience in plastics. He presents seminars nationally and internationally entitled: Purchasing & Quoting of Plastic Parts, and Virtual Workshop On Trouble Shooting The Injection Molding Process. He has been elected to the prestigious grade of Fellow and is a Honored Service Member in the Society of Plastics Engineers, and has served as the Chairman of the Fellows Selection Committee. Contact: (262) 658-1778; email: email@example.com; website: plastic-solvers.com


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Velma's Pumpkin Torte
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 20 min. + chilling
Makes12-15 servings
- 1-1/2 cups crushed graham crackers
- 1/3 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 can (15 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- Additional whipped topping
- Combine crust ingredients; press into a 13x9-in. baking pan. In a bowl, combine the eggs, sugar and cream cheese. Beat until smooth. Spread over crust. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until top appears set. Cool on a wire rack.
- Meanwhile, combine the pumpkin, egg yolks, milk, sugar, salt and cinnamon in a saucepan. Cook and stir until mixture is thickened; remove from the heat.
- Dissolve gelatin in water; add to saucepan. Fold in whipped topping. Spread over cooled torte; chill. Garnish with whipped topping. Torte keeps well for several days in the refrigerator.
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This is one of the best pumpkin desserts I've ever made. My whole family loves it and I always get asked for the recipe.
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I believe the cake part of the instructions is missing, guess I'll search for it elsewhere. Hope they can get this "corrected".
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This recipe must be delicious if prepared properly. I think 2 or 3 steps are left out of the instructions on this one. Could someone please make corrections? Is there a Quality Control Committee that reviews these?
Oct 28, 2012
I am looking for something different for this holiday season. I thought the picture of this torte looked good but on reading the recipe I find it to be rather vague. I am not sure what to do with the gelatin and whipped cream. Is the gelatin mixed into the whipped cream or the pumpkin mixture? It just says "add to sauce pan".
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Delicious and different pumpkin dessert. I haven't made it for ages but it is SOOOO yummy and feeds a crowd - cuz the slices are thick!
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This is one of my favorite desserts to make in the fall, or anytime.
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Experience a Friday Fish Fry Done Right at Steve's Lounge
The Friday fish fry is a staple of the Great Lakes region. For those unfamiliar with the practice, it originated as necessity for Catholic communities, because they had to avoid red meat on Fridays during Lent, but it has basically became an excuse to drink beer, eat fried fish, and mingle on a weekly basis. While it is fact that no state takes the Friday fish fry more seriously than Wisconsin, there are some options around the city.
The North Side has many wonderful options for fish and chips, but there's only a couple places offering a weekly fish fry and they're mostly using cod. What's the difference between a fish fry and fish and chips? A few things. While it's not standard, a fish fry will often use local Great Lakes fish, which can be anything from whitefish to lake trout to smelts (more times than not you have a choice). Again, while it's not standard, a fish fry will also come with potato pancakes as a starch, not fries. Though lots of spots will give you the option.
To experience a traditional fish fry in Chicago you need to head to Hegewisch, an isolated neighborhood tucked away in the southeast corner of the city. There you'll find Steve's Lounge, which opened just after the end of prohibition. I've always considered it one of Chicago's most beautiful and well preserved bars. (As far as I'm concerned, there's a few in this neighborhood that should earn landmark status from the city.)
As you enter you'll notice the bar with it's classic wooden curved countertop, a collection of figurines in a display case attached to the upper back wall, and an old school cash register in the middle. Aside from the flat-screen TVs, the next newest thing in there might be a Miller Genuine Draft poster featuring a girl in a bikini with a haircut that could only of come from the 80s. The employees are all neighbors of the customers and the Cubs will be on the TVs if they're playing.
There's also a banquet hall attached to the bar, and in the 1950s that's where some Polish women would prepare meals for events. After realizing how good the dishes were, Steve started offering some of their specialties as regular menu items. All of their sausage is still made according to the recipes Steve learned from the ladies who would cook for the neighborhood. The bar doesn't have a regular menu anymore, but food is available on Fridays. Folks will stop in for orders of sausage by the pound, while others dine in for fried chicken, sausage sandwiches, and, of course, the fish fry.
Along with the usual assortment of fish, Steve's also serves flounder, northern pike, orange roughy, cod, and on this day, bluegill. Since bluegills aren't as regularly available as the others, I decided to try it on my most recent visit.
First out comes the bread basket and with it a relish tray featuring cottage cheese, coleslaw, and sliced beets. Hey, I told you not much has changed. I try not to fill up on the freebies since the fry itself is so filling.
Shortly after I was delivered a fine looking plate of fried bluegill fillets, with three potato pancakes on the side. The local bluegills are a very mild fish, and they only need a light dusting and a quick fry. The only thing that could of made this visit perfect would have been a Cubs opening day win, but Steve's has been around long enough to know there's always tomorrow, or next year.
The only other essential element for a great Friday fish fry is cheap draft beer and good conversation, and Steve's has Old Style on tap for $1.50 and a super friendly staff that pours it.
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This fairway has a sole weight you can flip to customise your flight, which is handy when going between firm summer and soft winter fairways.
Between its changeable sole weight and adjustable hosel, this Black Cat fairway is very easy to adapt to your game, which is uncommon at such a good price point.
Features and benefits:
- Sole weight can be flipped to prioritise forgiveness or low spin
- Having High Weight (HW) nearer face reduces spin for lower flight
- Having Low Weight (LW) nearer face increases forgiveness
- Cup-face design generates faster ball speeds and reduces spin
- Effective Energy Transfer technology delivers bigger sweetspot
- Hosel adjustability from 13-17° helps you perfect your gapping
The Black Cat offers incredible performance and needs to be tried out for yourself. Come down to the shop to give it a go.


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The Disneyland attraction is making a video game appearance in The Haunted Mansion. In the famous house of wall-to-wall creeps and hot-and-cold running chills, you play Zeke, a boy burdened with the unenviable task of putting 999 evil spirits to rest while trying to keep himself from becoming number 1000. Inspired by the both the movie and the ride, Haunted Mansion's environments feature unique puzzles, secret passageways, and plenty of areas for you to run, jump, fight, and climb your way through the mansion. There's no turning back now.


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Oreilly Firefox Hacks|eBook|CHM|Published by O'Reilly| Pub Date : March 2005|ISBN : 0-596-00928-3|Pages : 398 |size:3 mb|
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Firefox Hacks is ideal for power users who want to take full advantage of Firefox from Mozilla, the next-generation web browser that is rapidly subverting Internet Explorer's once-dominant audience. It's also the first book that specifically dedicates itself to this technology.
Firefox is winning such widespread approval for a number of reasons, including the fact that it lets users browse faster and more efficiently. Perhaps its most appealing strength, though, is its increased security something that is covered in great detail in Firefox Hacks.
Clearly the web browser of the future, Firefox includes most of the features that browser users are familiar with, along with several new features, such as a bookmarks toolbar and tabbed pages that allow users to quickly switch among several web sites.
Firefox Hacks offers all the valuable tips and tools you need to maximize the effectiveness of this hot web application. It's all covered, including how to customize its deployment, appearance, features, and functionality. You'll even learn how to install, use, and alter extensions and plug-ins. Aimed at clever people who may or may not be capable of basic programming tasks, this convenient resource describes 100 techniques for 100 strategies that effectively exploit Firefox.
Or, put another way, readers of every stripe will find all the user-friendly tips, tools, and tricks they need to make a productive switch to Firefox. With Firefox Hacks, a superior and safer browsing experience is truly only pages away.
The latest in O'Reilly's celebrated Hacks series, Firefox Hacks smartly complements other web-application titles such as Google Hacks and PayPal Hacks.
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Trade Groups Urges FCC To Reject Costly, Burdensome Challenge Process Sought By Price Cap Carriers
PITTSBURGH, January 28, 2013 – In response to the Federal Communications Commission's recent notice, the American Cable Association filed additional broadband map data concerning locations in rural markets served by ACA Members. These data rebut assertions by some price cap telecommunications carriers that these locations were actually unserved and thus eligible for Connect America Fund Phase I support earmarked for these incumbent carriers.
"ACA submitted on behalf of its Members evidence about inaccuracies in both the FCC's National Broadband Map (NBM) and within the areas recently challenged by price cap carriers. Submissions of ACA members regarding these inaccuracies were provided with specifically identified areas and certifications. The FCC should accept these as sufficient to correct the NBM and to dismiss challenges," ACA President and CEO Matthew M. Polka said.
For example, ACA Member Cable One identified 338 census blocks that a price cap carrier had listed as unserved when in fact Cable One is providing service. Similar data were submitted by several other ACA Members — including Armstrong Utilities, Inc., Massillon Cable TV, and Nittany Media, Inc. – showing that in some cases they are providing cable broadband speeds up to 20 Mbps downstream and 1.5 Mbps upstream, contrary to assertions by CenturyLink that these locations were unserved.
ACA's data were filed in January 24 FCC comments and provided the agency with the most accurate and timely information about the areas on the NBM that should be deemed served, not only to ensure that scarce USF resources are used efficiently, but also to improve the chances that competitive providers that do not receive universal support do not face competition from federally supported providers.
ACA's comments also urged the FCC to adopt a dispute resolution process that is equitable and avoids placing unnecessary regulatory burdens on independent cable companies offering broadband when questions arise about whether a census block receives broadband service meeting the FCC's technical definition. ACA said FCC rules should presume the NBM is accurate, with the burden falling on the challenger to the map to identify locations that are incorrectly labeled and provide evidence for that assertion. If the FCC determines the challenger's evidence is sufficiently probative, the public would have an opportunity to rebut the evidence.
"ACA's process is more equitable because a provider whose service area on the NBM is being challenged would not be required to respond unless the FCC first determined that the party challenging the designation submitted sufficient evidence. This is especially important for smaller competitive providers that have limited resources to participate in proceedings," Polka said.
ACA strongly opposes any change to the FCC's current rule on the ability of supported carriers to provide broadband service in census blocks partially served by competitive providers. Competitive providers are constantly expanding their networks, including deploying broadband service to unserved locations. This dynamic has accelerated as wireless companies increase their "cell sites" and require them to be served by fiber, a point emphasized by ACA Member Mediacom Communications Corp., which informed the FCC that these fiber builds enable it to serve, without any government support, locations in low-density areas proximate to wireless towers with much higher speed broadband service.
ACA stressed that the FCC should encourage this activity, including by withholding the provision of support to locations in areas where competitive providers offer service or even adjacent to these service territories. If the FCC provides such support, ACA said that the agency will create strong disincentives to private sector expansion and waste scarce USF resources.
ACA urged the FCC to reject a proposal by CenturyLink and USTelecom designed to increase significantly the number of locations eligible to be served using Phase I incremental support. ACA said these proposals would permit price cap carriers to use USF support to build in areas where a competitive provider may offer service to most locations and could readily expand service. ACA said the proposal would also create greater uncertainty and require the adoption of additional measures to ensure accountability, including verification that funds were spent properly.
Lastly, ACA said it stands ready to work with USTelecom and others to craft appropriate standards to address the lack of clarity about latency and capacity performance metrics, which are part of the public interest obligations adopted in the Connect America Fund Order and therefore a part of the determination of whether an area is served or unserved.
About the American Cable Association
Based in Pittsburgh, the American Cable Association is a trade organization representing nearly 850 smaller and medium-sized, independent cable companies who provide broadband services for more than 7.4 million cable subscribers primarily located in rural and smaller suburban markets across America. Through active participation in the regulatory and legislative process in Washington, D.C., ACA's members work together to advance the interests of their customers and ensure the future competitiveness and viability of their business. For more information, visit https://acaconnects.org/


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Publisher: Ishi Press
Author: Sam Sloan
Year of Publication: 2009 (2nd)
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Go is the easiest game in the world to learn, but the hardest game in the world to master. This book is intended for beginners but it provides the basic strategies used by the most advanced, top level professional players. Get through this book from beginning to end, and you will be on your way to Meijin.
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Bakebook Chronicles - Continued
Actually, I posted this elsewhere, but am not sure how many have seen it, so I'm reposting under its own heading.
It's been a good while since I last chronicled our adventures and misadventures in the world of publishing, and a lot has happened in the interim.
Many of you know that our publisher wasn't entirely happy with our original title -- The New York Bakers Jewish Bakery Book -- and so after putting out several suggestions for informal feedback, we finally settled on Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking. Looking back at it, Norm and I both agree (as does the publisher) that this title is much more indicative of the contents of the book and leaves a lot more room for Norm's stories and reminiscences of how it was back in the day.
It's also amazing how content inflation works: originally, our contract called for a 70,000 word book, which translates into about 250 pages. In September, when the manuscript was due, it came to about 90,000 words, but the publisher didn't make an issue of it. With additions -- more Norm stories and a whole section on Passover baking -- and revisions, we suddenly found that we had 100,000 words -- about 350 pages -- and the publisher freaked.
Someone once asked Ernest Hemingway to name toe most important quality of great writing, and he answered, "a willingness to murder your children." And so I murdered about 28,000 of my kids and got the book down to around 72,500 words -- which probably isn't a bad thing, since the discipline of self-editing made me think about what was really essential -- the must-includes versus the nice to includes. So basically, most of the background info in ingredients, techniques and equipment went bye-bye, along with redundant recipes and those that people can find elsewhere.
I expect that a lot of the cut material will end up on the NYB website at some point. Norm suggested that we try to sell it as Volume 2 -- The Lost Chapters. We'll see ....
Also, it looks at this point like the pub date will be more like July than the March-April timeframe Camino Books was thinking about before ... understandable, given the complexities of editing, design, marketing, etc etc.
And speaking of marketing, one of the things we're also learning is that being an author is different from being a writer. Writers write and get paid for it; authors become public personas and have to go out and do signings, shows, media, etc etc. More than that, if you're an unknown at a small publishing house, you have to pay for it yourself. Fortunately, we found this terrific publicist who not only has done a bunch of cookbook work, but whose father owned a Jewish bakery in West LA in the 50s and 60s. So not only did we get a great professional; we also got a member of the family, so to speak ... and we even got a great photo of her dad rolling bagels that's gonna appear in the book.
So that's what's been going on ... except for one more great thing.
We had to re-shoot a bunch of the photos, including rainbow slices and French cookies, and Norm was having some health issues (all resolved now), so it was up to me to do the baking. Unfortunately, I couldn't find glace cherries, needed for the French cookies, in quantities less than 30#, so I went to a local bakery and asked if I could buy some. The woman at the counter went in the back and came back out, telling me there was no problem with that. The baker himself followed, with 1/2 a pound of the cherries and told me "no charge."
I thanked him, introduced myself and told him what I was doing and we talked shop for a bit, then his wife came out. "Ooooh, rainbow slices, I love them. He made me a tray for my birthday!" Jerry, the baker, smiled. "A lot of work," he said. So cherries in hand, I went home and baked. You can see the results here: http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/21485/some-recent-baking-and-book-update.
After the cookies were finished and photographed, I took a plate over to the bakery and got huge smiles and thank you's from both Jerry and his wife -- talk about positive reinforcement: I floated on air for days!
So okay, that's where we stand coming into Valentine's Day weekend. Stay tuned!
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Jared Leto's performance in Dallas Buyers Club annoyed me from the first moment his character, Rayon, a transgender woman, appeared on screen. She peeked around a curtain in the hospital like a stalking cat, looking to snatch a glimpse of the half-naked man in the bed next to her. Her action sent a message that carried throughout film: This character was weird, and as the movie's protagonist Ron Woodroof (played by Matthew McConaughey) would explicitly tell us, she couldn't be trusted.
But what annoyed me even more was how heavy-handed and stereotypical Leto's performance was—from Rayon's makeup to her behavior. Leto, a cisgender (a person who identifies as the gender they were born with) man, threw on some blush, a hair net and pink nail polish, raised the octave of his voice, put a lilt into his walk and voila! He had become a trans woman. Add in some self-hatred, a drug addiction and an illicit way of making cash, and Hollywood's cliché of a trans person was complete.
Filmmakers and actors like Leto seem to confuse being transgender with being a drag queen. And they can't conceive of them as being part of the mainstream. From Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club to a hooker in Dirty Sexy Money to a convict in Orange Is the New Black, depictions in contemporary film and television marginalize trans people by showing them as existing on the fringes of society.
On Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will likely give Leto a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Rayon. But for me, he'll be lauded for playing a modern-day Al Jolson, a lazy caricature of a minority—this time in a kind of "pinkface." And if the last couple of months are any indication, he'll ignore the disgust the trans community has aimed at his portrayal and fail to acknowledge any of the brave souls who came before Rayon. At times on the awards circuit, it's even seemed as though he's treated Rayon as the butt of a joke. For instance, when he accepted the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, Leto spent most of his speech cracking wise about his "tiny little Brazilian bubble butt" and reducing his transformation for the role to getting the hair on his body waxed.
I recognize that Rayon is a fictional composite of various trans people. But I don't recognize Rayon in any of the trans people I know. The trans people I know don't feel the need to make passes at every straight man around them. They don't dress like prostitutes. They don't drown their sorrows in drugs. And they don't have other people fight their battles for them.
Christina Kahrl is a baseball editor for ESPN, a deeply respected professional in a high-profile line of work. Chris Mosier is a star triathlete who once kicked women's butts in races and now dominates the men. Janet Mock and Kye Allums have taken on the burden to educate the public about trans issues. Pauline Park is a PhD who is pushing for—and earning—trans equality in New York City. To a person, they are respectable, hard-working and loyal. In other words, their lives aren't any different than the lives of cis people.
Which raises the question: Would a trans actor have handled the role of Rayon and the subsequent press better than Leto? I believe so. Trans actor Calpernia Addams was brought in as a consultant to help him with the role. Which raises another question that many trans people have asked recently: Why wasn't Addams simply given the part? And if not her, why not another trans actor?
That said, Addams doesn't necessarily agree with the trans critics—or me. "Do we need a molecular nano-biologist from Zaire to portray a molecular nano-biologist from Zaire?" she asked me over the phone. "Did I have to be dirt poor as a child to play a character who was dirt poor as a child? I'm all for equality and equal access to roles, but I feel there's this weird political correctness that crosses the line at times, and it can shut down art and potentially positive portrayals of our community."
Leto has argued roughly the same thing. "Because I'm a man, I don't deserve to play that part?" he asked when being heckled at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. "So you would hold a role against someone who happened to be gay or lesbian—they can't play a straight part?"
Yet there is a bias in the Hollywood system that favors cis actors for trans roles. Such a "transformation"—from a straight man to trans woman (or vice versa)—is what wins awards. In fact, prestige films like Dallas Buyers Club bank on such accolades as part of their business model. A trans actor giving a raw, honest portrayal of a trans character would be dismissed, or politely received, sans awards, a la the reception for Laverne Cox's turn as a trans inmate in Orange Is the New Black. But a cis actor who undergoes a "transformation" like Leto did—where he famously stayed in character on set—no matter how stereotypical the character depicted? "Oscar-worthy performance," claims the Los Angeles Times. "Terrific," raves the Observer. An "Awards-worthy showcase," says the Toronto Star.
This wouldn't be so problematic if there were a greater balance of portrayals of trans people in popular culture. Some gay men still get upset when they see stereotypically gay performances by straight men. It bothered me 15 years ago, but not as much now because Hollywood has offered so many more gay characters to watch. Eric Stonestreet portrays a gay clown on Modern Family, but Glee features a reformed bully and gay football player. Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno is beyond over-the-top, but the complex life of a closeted male professor in A Single Man is both heartbreaking and exquisite.
For some reason, however, trans characters remain cheap caricatures. Case in point: Almost all trans characters on TV and in the movies are of the same ilk, pulled largely from the underbelly of society. Cox is in the middle of a prison sentence in Orange Is The New Black. Felicity Huffman's character in TransAmerica follows a trail of self-hatred. Even trans actor Candis Cayne's character from Dirty Sexy Money makes a living by having sex for cash.
My hope is that Hollywood will evolve, and Rayon will no longer be the norm. At the very least, it's time to stop taking cues for trans characters from the drag queens of RuPaul's Drag Race. The ex-model's reality series might make for good lip-syncing, but it also makes for offensive filmmaking. The kind of filmmaking that should never be honored with an Oscar.
Cyd Zeigler is the co-founder of SB Nation's Outsports.com, and of the LGBT Sports Coalition. Follow him on Twitter @CydZeigler.
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The exhibition focuses on large-scale landscape paintings whose topographies are derived from graph data. Zawada collected and compared a variety of data series that extrapolate information over time, such as "Marijuana usage among year 12 students vs. CD and Vinyl record sales between 1975 and 2000" or "Value of land per square meter in Second Life vs. Value of land per square foot in Dubai between 2007 and 2009." The data is then manipulated through a 3D fractal program and the resulting environment becomes a virtual abstraction that mimics a mountainous landscape. Painted on canvas, the landscapes are a response to the "virtual" reality of digital experiences that are highlighted by the intrinsic flatness and surreal color palate.
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Basilisks are reptilian predators native to a wide range of climates and environments. Each variety of basilisk has a deadly gaze attack: though the exact effects vary from one species to the next, few people would want to meet a basilisk eye-to-eye. Basilisks are sometimes given an undeserved reputation for being evil or cruel creatures; in truth, they are no more malicious than other predatory beasts like bears or snakes.
Frost-Eye Basilisk[edit | edit source]
This variety of basilisk is found primarily in regions that are cold year-round, particularly favoring those with heavy snow and ice. Males have pure white scales along their back and tail, with the slightest hint of blue along their stomach. Females possess white scales only during the winter months: they shed these in favor of brilliant blue scales during the summer in order to help them attract potential mates. Both genders are equally aggressive and will attack almost anything that crosses their paths. Frost-eyes are typically solitary creatures except during the mating season, but these basilisks have been known to gather in small cooperative packs, particularly when food is scarce: this behavior allows them to hunt much larger game that they could not otherwise take down, opening up additional sources of sustenance.
Frost-Eye BasiliskLevel 11 Artillery
Large natural beast (reptile)XP 600
|Initiative +10
|Senses Perception +11
|HP 93; Bloodied 46
|AC 23; Fortitude 24, Reflex 24, Will 21
|Resist 15 cold
|Speed 6 (ice walk), climb 4
|Bite (standard; at-will)
|+18 vs. AC; 1d8 + 10 damage.
|Shatterfrost (standard; at-will) ♦ Cold
|Ranged 10; +16 vs. Fortitude; 2d6 + 10 cold damage (4d6 + 15 cold damage if the target is frozen), and the target is no longer frozen.
|Freezing Gaze (standard; recharge ) ♦ Cold, Gaze
|Area burst 3 within 10; +14 vs. Reflex; 3d8 + 10 cold damage, and the target is frozen (save ends). A frozen creature is restrained and has vulnerability 5 cold.
|Alignment Unaligned
|Languages —
|Skills Stealth +12
|Str 13 (+6)
|Dex 20 (+10)
|Wis 13 (+6)
|Con 21 (+10)
|Int 2 (+1)
|Cha 8 (+4)
Frost-Eye Basilisk Tactics[edit | edit source]
A frost-eye basilisk initiates combat by using freezing gaze, attempting to hit as many foes as possible. It then targets frozen enemies with shatterfrost one at a time until all of them have broken free; it then repeats this strategy once its gaze is available again. Frost-eyes prefer to strike from hiding, particularly among icy mountains or other steep natural structures where they can climb out of reach of most predators and use their ranged abilities without fear of retaliation.
Frost-Eye Basilisk Lore[edit | edit source]
A character knows the following information with a successful skill check.
- Nature DC 20: Although frost-eyes are one of the weaker species of true basilisks, they are still deadly predators that are known to inhabit some of the coldest regions of the world. Their white scales allow them to blend flawlessly with the snowy regions that make up their favored environments; a frost-eye will bury itself partially in the snow and lie in wait until potential prey approaches, then quickly overwhelm the hapless victim with its icy glare. Most inhabitants of the regions where frost-eyes live know not to leave their homes when visibility is low due to inclement weather, for the chance of accidentally stumbling across a basilisk in such conditions is exceptionally high. These basilisks are sometimes hunted as a valuable resource: their blood is a natural insulator that can help protect against the cold when smeared on one's skin, their scales are strong enough to be turned into armor, and their meat, while it tastes something like burnt leather, is high in nutrients.
- Religion DC 20: Some northern tribes of barbarians and shamans revere the frost-eye basilisk as a great hunting spirit. To these people, the frost-eye represents the penultimate tundra hunter: a creature that is both powerful and cunning, patient and fearless. So esteemed is the basilisk that it is standard tradition in some cultures to offer a portion of every meal as a ritual sacrifice to the spirit of these basilisks, in the hope that the creature will bestow a portion of its ferocity upon the tribe's warriors.
- Nature DC 25: There are legends of an immense white basilisk the size of a dragon, which is said to sleep beneath the mountains of the world's northernmost reaches. According to these legends this basilisk has existed since before the war between the primordials and the gods, and it is from this single creature that all other basilisks were eventually spawned. The truth of these tales is highly debated, as no evidence of such a creature has ever been found. Nonetheless, adventurer and scholar alike sometimes set off in search of this creature, but all have returned home empty-handed. Skeptics are quick to point out that if the "great white basilisk" ever really did exist, it is likely that it was actually a dragon of some sort, or that its size was greatly exaggerated by those who reported their encounter with it.
Cinder-Eye Basilisk[edit | edit source]
Cinder-eyes favor warm climates, but can be found in nearly any region of the world. Their bodies are covered with very fine scales that are typically dark orange or brownish-red. Like most basilisks, their backs are covered in short, rigid spines; these serve primarily to help regulate the creature's body temperature rather than to ward off predators. Males are slightly larger than females (the difference is small enough to go unnoticed by casual observers) but there is otherwise little difference between the two genders. A more powerful variety of cinder-eyes, known as fireguts, are actually elemental creatures. They are largely identical to their more mundane cousins, but typically possess brighter colorations.
Cinder-Eye BasiliskLevel 13 Brute
Large natural beast (reptile)XP 800
|Initiative +7
|Senses Perception +13
|HP 163; Bloodied 81
|AC 25; Fortitude 28, Reflex 22, Will 23
|Resist 15 fire
|Speed 6
|Bite (standard; at-will)
|+18 vs. AC; 3d6 + 18 damage.
|Burning Gaze (standard; at-will) ♦ Fire, Gaze
|Close blast 3; +14 vs. Reflex; 1d10 + 18 fire damage, and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).
|Ragefire Blood (immediate reaction, when hit by an attack while the basilisk is bloodied; at-will) ♦ Fire
|Close burst 2; each creature in the burst takes 10 fire damage, and the cinder-eye basilisk takes an extra 5 damage from the triggering attack. A cinder-eye basilisk cannot choose to forgo the use of this ability.
|Alignment Unaligned
|Languages —
|Str 26 (+14)
|Dex 12 (+7)
|Wis 14 (+8)
|Con 23 (+12)
|Int 2 (+2)
|Cha 8 (+5)
Cinder-Eye FiregutLevel 15 Artillery
Large elemental beast (mount, reptile)XP 1,200
|Initiative +15
|Senses Perception +14
|Fire's Glow aura 5; the aura provides dim light within its affected area.
|HP 120; Bloodied 60
|AC 27; Fortitude 29, Reflex 30, Will 24
|Resist 30 fire
|Speed 6
|Fiery Bite (standard; at-will) ♦ Fire
|+22 vs. AC; 1d10 + 12 fire damage.
|Viscous Flamespit (standard; recharge ) ♦ Fire
|Ranged 10; +20 vs. Fortitude; 4d8 + 12 fire damage, and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends). First Failed Save: Ongoing 10 fire damage (save ends). Second Failed Save: Ongoing 15 fire damage. Aftereffect: Ongoing 5 fire damage.
|Burning Gaze (standard; at-will) ♦ Fire, Gaze
|Close blast 3; +18 vs. Reflex; 1d10 + 18 fire damage, and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).
|Fire-eater (while mounted by a friendly rider of 15th level or higher) ♦ Mount
|The firegut's rider gains resist fire 10 (if the rider already has resist fire, increase it by 5 instead). In addition, the rider can coat his weapons or ammunition in the firegut's flaming spit as a free action, causing all damage dealt by that weapon or ammunition to be fire damage until the end of the rider's next turn.
|Alignment Unaligned
|Languages —
|Str 18 (+11)
|Dex 27 (+15)
|Wis 14 (+9)
|Con 24 (+14)
|Int 2 (+3)
|Cha 8 (+6)
Cinder-Eye Basilisk Tactics[edit | edit source]
A cinder-eye basilisk is not a brilliant tactician; it simply wades into the thick of combat, using burning gaze if there are multiple enemies in range or simply biting the nearest target if there are not. Once it is bloodied and begins using ragefire blood, it attempts to stay adjacent to as many foes as possible. A cinder-eye basilisk may attempt to flee when it is first reduced to one-quarter of its health (40 hit points), but if its enemy pursues then it fights to the death.
Fireguts fight with a bit more finesse, but are equally simple-minded in their approach. They attempt to stay a few squares away from their quarry, loosing viscous flamespit whenever it is available to strike at foes who continually move out of range of its other abilities. It moves in closer to use burning gaze repeatedly until it can spit again, then retreats back to maximum range. Riders typically keep their firegut mounts out of the fray as often as possible, relying on their own ranged attacks to augment the basilisk's flamespit.
Cinder-Eye Basilisk Lore[edit | edit source]
A character knows the following information with a successful skill check.
- Nature DC 20: Cinder-eyes are a species of basilisk originally native to the Elemental Chaos, though they were brought into the world at some unknown time and have lost much of their connection to their home plane. Their gaze can ignite most flammable materials, including living creatures, and even their blood is hot enough to cause severe burns. Those specimens adapted to living in the world have an unusual and crippling mutation: when badly wounded, the basilisk's veins begin spraying blood out of the creature's body with surprising force. While this is effective at warding off predators (few creatures enjoy being doused in searing blood), the basilisk has no means to control it, and may very well die from blood loss as a result. This mutation is thought to be a result of the basilisk's body adapting to the material world without having fully shed its elemental nature.
- Because they cannot fully control their fiery abilities, cinder-eyes can be a major hazard to heavily wooded areas and have been known to inadvertently start massive forest fires capable of destroying many miles of natural habitat. Those who make their homes within the wild places of the world (most notably eladrin and elves) as well as those who view themselves as guardians of nature (such as druids) will often either slay or attempt to relocate any cinder-eyes they encounter to other areas where the basilisk is less likely to cause problems.
- Arcana DC 25: Fireguts are a more powerful variety of cinder-eyes that either remained within the Elemental Chaos or, in rare cases, managed to retain their elemental nature even after countless generations of breeding in the natural world. As such, they can be thought of as the purebreds of the species. Because they fully retain their elemental nature, fireguts have greater control over their abilities: they do not suffer the mutation of their lesser kin and instead possess the ability to lob a ball of flaming saliva from their mouth that adheres to the unfortunate victim as it burns into its body. Fireguts are prized as mounts by azer and other elemental races; they are surprisingly easy to train, and as long as they are treated well and regularly fed they become fiercely protective of their handlers (presumably because the firegut recognizes the handler as the source of its food, a commodity that is otherwise scarce within the Elemental Chaos).
Encounter Groups[edit | edit source]
Left to their own machinations basilisks are typically solitary creatures unless they are currently with a mate or looking after newborn offspring, but sentient races sometimes raise basilisks as guardians or mounts, in which case they might be encountered as part of a large group consisting of several different types of creatures.
Level 11 Encounter (XP 3,200) — Adopted "Wyrmlings"
- 1 adult blizzard dragon (level 12 elite controller, Monster Manual 3 pg. 66)
- 3 frost-eye basilisks (level 11 artillery)
Level 15 Encounter (XP 6,000) — Azer Outriders
- 1 azer beastlord (level 17 soldier, Monster Manual pg. 23)
- 2 azer foot soldiers (level 14 soldier, Monster Manual pg. 22)
- 2 cinder-eye fireguts (level 15 artillery)
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I liked the assumptions of Thunderfoot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPs73RBAFGM)
He states that
Of course, Thunderfoot is extremely intelligent and I have watched several of his videos. It is very inspiring. However, I am not so happy with the assumptions, because it is from the human point of view, like learning and making predictive models.
I am just thinking about my assumptions about the universe: Does it make sense.
1. The universe Exist
2. The universe has physical (and chemical) laws. It does not matter whether we know or we do not know teh laws yet.
3. Evolution of life (biology) is adaptation within the constraints of the universal laws (physics and chemistry).
After several discussions, I am updating the assumptions: Does it make sense, now.
1. The universe Exist
2. The universe has physical (and chemical) interactions. [ PEOPLE can study the interactions and build laws of the interactions. People can develop tools and methods to predict the interactions]
3. Evolution of life (biology) is adaptation within the constraints of the universal laws (physics and chemistry).
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I think your assumptions are not far from the assumptions made by Thunderfoot.
1. The universe Exist
This statement assumes this universe is known by everyone which I think could be true.
2. The universe has physical (and chemical) laws. It does not matter whether we know or we do not know the laws yet.
I this is similar to thunderfoot except you have narrowed down the laws.
3. Evolution of life (biology) is adaptation within the constraints of the universal laws (physics and chemistry).
You have chosen one of the models
I have decided to put these laws, because then the way we gather information is different.
In Thunderfoot assumptions, it is relative to the human being trying to build predictive models.
We do not necessary need to make models that fit mathematically and agree with our way of understanding. I am trying to look at these laws where non-human, example animals are trying to adapt within the laws. They adapt to some laws of physics and chemistry. For example, Birds do not build model similar to us. They somehow managed to understand and adapt to gravity in order to fly, but we have to invent machines in later stages. They also adapt to magnetic field to guide them. A spider has understood the laws of mechanics better than us and can make silk. we are just learning what they have developed. I was just reading that a mole can have stereoscopic smell. In some sense not all animals master all the laws, but they master some of the laws better than others. Plants have adapted to harvest photons. Think of a tiny beetle guided by the Milky way to move in a straight line, that's something. Now when we think about dark matter and dark energy, we do not know it. It does not mean that some animals or plants do not know it. They may have adapted to use these energy, may be even higgs boson etc, without even making a predictive model
So I do not believe my assumptions are same, because all living things are trying to adapt in a different way within the laws of nature without even building any mathematical or predictive model similar to us. we cannot be 'superior' in the evolution ladder just because we have a bigger brain or we make machines. Bacteria seem to live everywhere; they might even live more than us. We are at its mercy sometime. Some tree and animals live for much longer than us. Humanity may not survive, but trees and animals who have adapted to the laws of nature might. So I guess we have to study them but also learn from them. Learn what they know and how they know it.
I think first I agree with the assumptions Thunderfoot is making.
I am trying to look at these laws where non-human, example animals are trying to adapt within the laws.
You can't do this unless you were able to be this animals. In essence you can all look at these in human terms and project them to other animals.
I don't hold a view that we are superior to other animals, in fact I think ants, as Mark Twain wrote in What is Man could be more superior. From the point of view of bacteria, I agree with you. I also agree that we need to learn what they know and how they know it.
Since we can't get into the brains of other animals, I mean even knowing ours is still a difficult affair, we can't tell whether they make models of their realities but we do as human beings. And the models we make have to be predictive and have a truth value or they wouldn't be useful to us in our attempts to understand the world around us. I could be wrong but this is what I think.
The problem we are trying to solve/understand is beyond human. we are taking about the universe.
Let say, as Neil degrasse Tyson has pointed out, if the difference between human and chimp is 1% and we do not care what they think. Evolution may have produced 'animals' capable of being better than people. May be only 1% better, will they care what we think.
I am not trying to understand human brain, just making general assumptions for a bigger problem. If I just want to think about people, I do not even need to go to the universe, I will be happy about the solar system, or even the galaxy. The milky way galaxy is so large thet we might not even know it. Does it mean forget about it, it is too complex.
Predictive models are models that work on earth. When we consider the universe, our form of predictive model may not be very accurate. We will never be able to make a predictive model of a black hole. yes theoretical model, but not really very accurate predictive model. Also when we start to go at smaller sizes, the predictive methods are based on statistics, i.e probaility. not certainty.
Thunderfoot assumptions is ok, if we say our world. then I may as well simplify it further.
1. The milky way (or solar system) exist
2. We (people) can learn something from it
3. We can build predictive model of it
Is it right to think this way ? can this predictive model tell us what will happen in 200 years? In my assumptions (#3), we (inluding animal and trees) will adapt. The predictive model can be added in my second assumption. we can make predictive model of the physical laws (interactions).
I think prediction is an important bit...
In a bigger sense and for people, yes. But I am trying to look/understand in a larger sense. If everything was predictable then there would be no religion.
I would say that the 2nd assumptions about the laws (or interactions) about the physical and chemical would have decent predictability. but at quantum sizes, it may not be. We can use statistics to describe predictability, but there are no absolute predictions. When we consider multi-verse, or big bang, the prediction is as good as we build the mathematics. Also the predictability is at a given time frame. We can look at the world and say that this is happening. We expect the laws of nature to be true (2nd assumption). That what we are trying to do is to learn the laws of nature or interactions. When we cannot predict, we use statistics to give a percentage of chance.
The third assumption is for the living. And in this case predictability is less important, in some sense for unpredictability is 'better' because it can create variation. When we shine high energy particle to create mutation, we might know there will be mutation, but we cannot know for sure what mutation we will get.
Why is the font color for my previous comment, in black? I cannot change it now to white! sorry.
2. The universe has physical (and chemical) laws. It does not matter whether we know or we do not know teh laws yet.
I would argue the universe does not have laws. It has interactions. Laws are things people use to describe the interactions which behave in a predictable way(predicted by the law in question).
Well yes. I would agree on it that the second one we can call it interactions or laws. I would also agree that for the second law we can somehow build a model, which may have predictive value in most cases we are faced in this world. It is relatively easier to build models what is happening here.
On the otherhand, I think that our predictive model of the universe will not be very accurate, given that we are extrapolating in larger space and time domain. we have existed for short time and we can only draw a staight or curve line to extend it. It is bound to have errors. Also we cannot obverse beyind some time (or space) domain so we may not be able to build accurate predictive model.
Let assume, we are happy with the string theory version. It has predictive value. But does it make the real universe. It predict multiverse, etc. Even though it is true (or false) we will never know it. Also at extremes, our understanding of predictive models, falls apart. We cannot make a predictive model inside of black holes. We can make theoretical model, but that does not make it true. Theoretical models have many assumptions, I prefer experimental models. Theoretical models are equally important.
I've decided that I have two options - one is to trust that my experiences are 'authentic' and the universe is 'real' - the other is that I am in some way being deceived by this 'reality'.
I really have no way of knowing if I am being deceived. Every way that I can think of to cross check and verify my experiences indicates that it all adds up. If I am being deceived then all I can do is play along which means behaving as though I can trust these experiences as authentic.
If this really is all authentic, then it's amazing and I love it. :D
The first assumption: Universe exists or is ''real'.
About authenticity, this is included in the 3rd assumption. The living things are adapting in a sense in their own version of 'reality' or 'authenticity'. What is real to me, is not same for you or a blind person. What is real for me based on my senses, is not real or a bacteria or a dog or a bat. Recently I just read that a mole smells in stereo. They are nearly blind. Their reality is different. They are also living and enjoying their version of reality. Let assume, in the future, we can just add a chip and we can see in infrared or ultraviolet. Our 'reality' will be different, because our brain will adapt to process this data, without even changing the first 2 assumptions.
Love and pain is just a part of our adaption. It is relative.
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UPDATED: Announcing an on-line symposium on Arizona v. United States
Next month the state of Arizona is expected to file a cert. petition seeking review of the Ninth Circuit's decision, which upheld a district court's order enjoining the state from enforcing several sections of S.B. 1070, the state's immigration law enforcement legislation. The Court will consider the petition later in the fall. In anticipation of the filing of the petition, this week SCOTUSblog will be featuring commentary on such topics as the likelihood that the Court will grant certiorari, how last Term's decision in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting may affect the case, and whether S.B. 1070 is likely to survive the Court's scrutiny if cert. is granted.
Our contributors include:
Roderick Hills, New York University
Carissa Hessick, Arizona State University
Kevin Johnson, University California, Davis
Larry Joseph, Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund
Hope Lewis, Northeastern University
Richard Samp, Washington Legal Foundation
Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute
Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Spiro, Temple University
Margret Stock, University of Alaska, Anchorage & Lane Powell PC
Carol Swain, Vanderbilt University
Update 7/14/2011: Lauren Gilbert, St. Thomas University School of Law, will also be participating.
Next week, we hope to have responses to the first week's post from our contributors. As they are published, all of these pieces will be available on the homepage, as well as in our archives by navigating to "Special Features" and clicking on "Arizona v. United States ," which will lead you to all the posts.
This is the first of several on-line symposia that we have planned for the summer. Other topics will include the Affordable Care Act, the battle over the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, and the impact of recent class action and arbitration decisions at the Court.
Recommended Citation: Kali Borkoski, UPDATED: Announcing an on-line symposium on Arizona v. United States, SCOTUSblog (Jul. 11, 2011, 9:11 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/07/announcing-an-on-line-symposium-on-arizona-v-united-states/


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In our lives, often the most insidious and nefarious acts have veiled themselves through pleasant speech and professionalized knowledge.
It was an unbearable summer. But the summer never ended. The date was even hazy. Was it the 1670s, or 80s, or was it just another sinister date during that horrid and unjust seventeenth-century, the 1600s? The area, or land mass was even worse. The general environment represented northern South America, called the Brasil, as was the name of infamy during those brutal days.
The wetness, the humid hells of salted mists, the mosquitos, the larvae; green mush, thick undergrowth of respiratory ill forest, bird chirping mania, bizarre monster fishes, jungle vines that camouflaged themselves as snakes, while the infernal, humongous snakes did vice versa; man-eating plants, African, overworked fetid corpses eaten alive in the turbid watery streams – and here the Dutch planted their colonial vomit representing the grand West Indian Empire.
The Dutch, or the Netherlands' West Indian Empire had previously invaded the area in the 1630s. The European madmen attacked and murdered even more natives that had lived on the coast, and then constructed the slave-owning, mass-murdering, extermination plantations that held thousands of kidnapped Africans, called the Suriname colony.
The Dutch wanted to outdo the other evil African slave empires: the Portuguese in Brazil, the English in Jamaica, the Spanish in northern Colombia, called Nueva Granada, and the French, in Saint Domingue, now called Haiti. The Dutch would share their prize with the Portuguese in African genocide memoria. During the 1700s, the English and the French Empires would contribute their own arts in the holy mass murder of Africans. Sugar was the white gold back then, and the Europeans needed any available victims to do the homicidal plantation labor. Kidnapped Africans would obviously do.
Historical irony of ironies, some of the Dutch colonial descendants, which had also settled in the southern Cape of Africa during the same seventeenth-century, would later concoct the Apartheid regime of the 1940s. These old 'Boers,' mixed with hardcore French 'Huguenot' Evangelical Protestants, spoke a dialect of Nederlands called 'Afrikaner.' And they called themselves, the 'white tribe' of Africa.
While the Dutch worked their African slaves into the watery, pestilent graves throughout the sugar cane death camps, many Africans had literally fled for their lives. They became the 'maroons,' or the escaped free people who lived in the jungle, and they even formed their own communities of resistance. Suriname had the most African corpses through overwork, and the worst recurring outbreaks of dangerous, terrorist maroon communities respiring in the jungle bush. The Dutch colonialists tried to exterminate the maroons militarily, and when that didn't work, they made military alliances with the maroon leaders in recognizing their freedom. In turn, the maroon 'leaders' had to deliver any escaped Africans back to the Europeans.
This was the trap. The Europeans wanted the maroons captured and murdered too. They were dangerous examples of the human quest for freedom and dignity, so the maroon communities had no other choices, but resistance. The Dutch needed a special military force to ultimately subdue the demon looking terrorists inside the thick and putrid jungle. In the late 1600s, they had found the perfect terminator. One man of hateful destiny rose to the occasion.
The man of the hour was an African, but there was something different in the breed. He possessed a pretty large build, and he wore a permanent lip and cheek scowl on his nasty face. His head even had the shape of a club used to pummel enemies into comas. He also dressed himself in the impeccable style of colonial Europeans in the bush: leather brown boots, military infantry breeches, blouse shirt, vest, and doubloon jacket. He was proficient in the both the short sabre and in the breach burning musket. He spoke decent Nederlands. This colonial buffoon-monstrosity seized the day.
He gathered together a band of African slaves and freemen, 'Creole' mulattos, (mixed raced of Europeans and Africans), mestizo, (mixed race of Euro and Indian), trackers, various 'racialized' misfits and some low eating fruit on the 'white' or Dutch social totem. The gang entered the haunted labyrinth of forest and hunted down the maroon menace. They worked with great success. They would live in the jungle for months at a time, and many of his paid assassins died their own horrible deaths out there in the humid monstrosities. The rainforest offered no relief for anyone.
This group of state-colonial terrorists murdered whole African maroon families, and they even captured some escaped slaves and poor natives that happened to find their way into the bloodshed. Slave owners were happy to recoup their investments and the maroon hunters could sell the native slaves for some extra capital. This slave hunting leader also dealt cruel and heinous blows to the maroon holdouts. He used every torture imaginable, including the cutting off human skin from muscle tissue and bone, called flaying in those days.
Some time later, the Dutch colonial authorities decided to honor the African murderer and torturer of escaped slave terrorists. In the bug infested, mud hole streets, and rotten wood-hut colonial capital of Suriname, the governor with all the local slave owners, sugar planters and military men presented, stood at informal attention. The Dutch governor presented the honored killer with a metallic necklace, (with a royally engraved seal), of phony silver and gold. He thereby pronounced 'honorary white status' on the African slave hunter. This African had truly rose in the ranks and his once ugly facial scowl had transformed into a peculiar mix of power, freedom and hatred. He only wanted to return to the tropical maze and do some more 'hunting.'
About three hundred years later, an Afro-diaspora, (African from the Americas), intellectual, Aimé Césaire, wrote that the real reason the Euro-American elites hated Adolf Hitler with such fury was due to the fact that Hitler preferred to murder fellow Europeans, rather than the 'others.' The others represented Native nations and the kidnapped Africans worked to death in the American death camp plantations.
For hundreds of years, the Europeans murdered millions of Natives and African with full legal impunity. As far as I know, there are still no holocaust museums commemorating all of those millions of deaths. Some of those mass murderers even have public holidays named after them, like Columbus, and others have towns, installations, cities, regions, parks, and statues in their honor, while their faces have stamps on dirty bank notes, such as Cortes, Carson, Pizarro, Jackson, Valdivia, Custer, Coronado, Leon, Mendoza, Cartier and Raleigh.
Predating Fascism there was European Colonialism. Fascism would have never birthed its hate and murder on the European continent without the rancid history of European invasions, social controls and legal crimes all associated with the colonial enterprise.
The Crusades and the Inquisition had previously entered the realm of European history before colonialism, but colonialism took all of those evil foundations, war and intolerance, and they transformed those actions into some horrid thing that was terrifyingly odious.
The colonial project, first instituted in the Americas, used two sinister and distinctive methods of social control. First, the colonial invaders did not just invade, murder and plunder. They stayed and 'settled' in the lands. They had exterminated the cultures that had previously lived in those parts of the world. The European colonial powers then populated the scorched lands of liquidation with colonists, or settlers, to live in the native places. At first, the colonial elites treated the lower class European settlers as slaves and as inferiors. But they couldn't get away with the same crimes as in the European mainland. They had to change the game plan.
In order to increase the slave labor load, they transported kidnapped African slaves into the coerced work pool. The Africans looked different, they did not speak the colonial language, and they came from radically different cultures from another continent across the Atlantic. The wealthy planters always had fears of a united revolution representing Euro-slaves working together with the African slaves. The Euro-elites wanted to avoid this, so they transformed the African into the permanent chattel slave and the internal social enemy of the colonial system. The English elites used this exact method in the Virginia plantation colony during the 1660s-1670s, around the same time of Bacon's small-farmer Rebellion. Unfortunately, the rulers' devious plans worked.
The colonial elites had given the lower class European settlers a new cultural identity: whiteness, or white skin privileges. So, the European looking types, whether a wealthy slave planter living in a palace, or a drunken scoundrel with no shoes, home or horse, entered the same social grouping: the whites – versus the internal enemy of the colony – the blacks. Identity defines both what a person is, and what a person is not. This was the second sinister method: the false science of racialism, which still works marvelously – to this very day.
Before the colonial project with its racialism ideology, Europeans had two concepts of race: domestic animal husbandry or breeding, such as races of pigs, cows, dogs and horses, and race in relation to religious heterodoxy and body fluids.
The Spanish Empire had developed this strange concept of race connected to religion. The Spanish royal throne had to cleanse 'their nation' of the large populations of Jewish and Moorish, or Muslim, races in the late fifteenth-century, the 1490s. The Spanish elites linked race mixing and religious contact with human fluids, such as spit, flem, mucus, blood, sweat, tears, sexual and fecal excretions, and breast-feeding milk. Those cretinous elites had thought that any physical contact with another religious person's bodily fluids signified permanent contamination, or damnation. On the mainland, they made the Jews and Muslims live in separate urban quarters, called 'ghettos' in Italian.
When the Spanish settled in the Americas, they used the same methods in their newer colonial cities. There were quarters for Spanish whites, and other quarters for indigenous natives ruled by indigenous elites with noble status, and there were also quarters for 'racial castes,' or 'castas,' which included the lowly, Latinized Africans. Each racial quarter had its own fountains, plazas, local governments, economic guilds, religious brotherhoods and churches. Yet with all this separation, most urban quarters in the Americas had a diverse array of 'racial characteristics.' New racial mixing terminologies entered the colonial lexicon, such as 'mulatos, moriscos, zambos, mestizos, castizos, coyotes and lobos.'
From this cruel division of humanity into religious-racial-skin phenotypes, came the maggot science of racial caste and racial oppression. All of the colonial powers, the English, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch, copied the Hispano concoction from such vile institutionalized injustice.
Without the work of the colonial-settler masters, the modern concept of race would not have existed. The blueprints for Fascism did not emerge from the desk of the Italian dicator Mussolini during the 1920s. The original drafts and plans of Fascism had built their durable foundations on the lying corpses of millions of natives and Africans. All of this genocide began in the colonized 'Americas,' and it has lasted from the 1490s to our present day.
Murdering the racial other is still accepted across the globe. White skin privilege still has its peculiar rewards. The same murderous elites continue to rule unimpeded in their crimes.
Until all those in resistance acknowledge this evil legacy from such a horrifying history, the political-economic elites of Europe and the former European colonies will continue to steal, rape and murder without any hesitation. The list includes North America, the Zio-Nazi Crusader State, or officially called the State of Israel, Latin America, and most of the nations of Africa, Asia and Oceania. Practically every nation of the Earth has suffered from the scars, hate and killing, all done in the name of European colonialism.
Modern colonialism has exterminated cultures and created ingenious methods of control through bogus racial hierarchies; while it has renamed lands and degraded local languages, and still continues to destroy natural ecosystems and recreate phony borders between nations. According to the neo-colonial slave masters in the Amerikan Empire and Europe, Fascism died out in the 1940s. Once again again they stand with the father of lies. Fascism has only transcended from its original colonial American setting.
The continents that first witnessed the Great American Genocide now host its most powerful, bastard fortunate son, the neo-colonial empire of sociopaths located in Washington D.C.


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Officials ask inventors whether 'rapid prototyping' over a two-year schedule could work for border security and other innovations.
Federal officials are contemplating a shift to a faster, two-year schedule for fielding security innovations at border checkpoints and other domestic locations that support homeland security.
The traditional government procurement cycle can prolong system testing, alone, for half a decade. Officials describe "rapid prototyping" as a relatively novel process for small-scale manufacturing in the defense sector. With shorter production periods, the Homeland Security Department could supply its partner state and local agencies with the latest tools, they said.
This building approach, for example, could facilitate faster installation of border surveillance sensors to stop illicit crossings, DHS officials suggested. In cities, rapid prototyping could enable public health authorities to immediately diagnose symptoms of biological attacks and monitor their spread. Cybersecurity protections could be upgraded faster, to keep pace with evolving threats.
This week, the research and development arm of DHS, the Science and Technology Directorate, began asking vendors and research laboratories about the practicality of the concept for domestic defense purposes. DHS officials want to know whether they and the private sector are on the same page as far as what rapid prototyping means and how it will – or will not – work at DHS.
The directorate "is driving to a 24 month innovation cycle from project inception through operational testing for its shorter term project[s] in order to rapidly develop and field technical prototypes" that support homeland security operations, a Jan. 23 questionnaire states.
The survey asks inventors for advice on the types of contract details the "government should provide in order to receive sound white papers and technical and pricing proposals." It also lets the developers explain their business interests in working with DHS, but discourages them from submitting proprietary creations yet.
Responses are due on Feb. 22.
The Pentagon's research and development branch, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has arguably succeeded in conducting similar quick turnarounds. DARPA's Cyber Fast Track program lets ethical hackers churn out low-cost security fixes in about a year.
"The Cyber Fast Track program has been a massive change in the way DARPA does business," Dave Aitel, a computer scientist at the Pentagon's National Security Agency during the 1990s and now CEO of cybersecurity firm Immunity Inc., told Nextgov in November 2012.