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""I still don't know whether Adams really and truly believes in the nonsense he promotes. I really don't and still can't tell. For example, did Adams relocate to Ecuador because he really believes in the "natural" lifestyle or did he do it to escape those pesky laws in the U.S. that frown on selling unproven remedies.[sic] I do know, however, that Adams appears to have an utter contempt for his own readers, as evidenced by his repeating outrageous straw men such as the claim that SBM says that susceptibility to disease is totally random and that there's nothing anyone can do about it and bizarre falsehoods like his claim in the Vaccine Zombie video above that vaccines can make your testicles fall off.
|—David Gorski, MD[1]
NaturalNews.com[note 1] and its sister sites are run by Mike Adams (self-labeled "The Health Ranger") which promotes alternative medicine and related conspiracy theories.[2] Even other quacks think it's a quack site.[3] The site particularly specializes in vaccine denialism and the alleged vaccines-autism link,[4] AIDS/HIV denialism,[5] quack cancer treatments,[6] and conspiracy theories about "Big Pharma".[7] If there's an alternative medicine or alternative medical treatment out there, you can guarantee that NaturalNews has one article singing its praises to the sky and one more bashing the stupid "skeptics".
On Wikipedia, NaturalNews is not merely a deprecated source, never to be used for anything ("There is a near-unanimous consensus that the site repeatedly publishes false or fabricated information, including a large number of conspiracy theories."),[8] but actually on the spam blacklist.[9]
In short: If you cite NaturalNews on any matter whatsoever, you are almost certainly wrong.
- 1 Health beliefs
- 2 Other woo
- 3 Creative endeavors
- 4 Other activities
- 5 See also
- 6 External links
- 7 Notes
- 8 References
Health beliefs[edit]
Adams is a flat-out opponent[10] of modern medicine[11] and opposes any long-term medication[12] or doctor visits.[13][14] Adams calls himself a "holistic nutritionist".[15] In short, Adams opposes:
- Food that's not raw[16][17][18]
- Both sugar[19] and sweeteners[20]
- Gluten[21]
- Red meat[22] (yes, he won't eat meat unless it's somehow neither cooked nor red)
- Glutamate[23]
- Pasteurized and homogenized milk (pasteurized being the bacteria-free milk and homogenized being the uniform milk that doesn't clump)[24]
- Fluoride[25]
- White flour[26]
- Genetically modified food[27]
- Washing powder[28]
- Deodorants[29]
- Shampoo[30]
- McDonald's chicken nuggets[31]
A recurring theme is the contrast between the site's exacting criticism of evidence-based medicine and its unquestioning acceptance of the appeal to nature, New Age and alternative medicine.[32] (Adams himself supports both quantum healing[33] and quantum consciousness.[34]) This often involves rejection of the scientific method's application to medicine as "inherently flawed,"[35] repudiating the entire philosophy of modern medicine post-Pasteur.[36] Adams is a firm germ theory denialist.[37][38][39] Adams also conflates evidence-based medicine in general, the failings of Big Pharma, and the US health insurance system: to him, it's all a monolithic entity called "mainstream medicine."[40] The site blames the pharmaceutical industry for all vaguely drug-linked celebrity deaths rather than looking at any surrounding factors.[41][42][43][44]
The response to any alternative medicine claim, however, is blind acceptance, whether the topic at hand is homeopathy,[45] chiropractic,[46] dental woo,[47] aspartame scares,[48] vitamin woo,[49] anti-vaccination panic[4][50][51] or detox diets.[52]
Adams has argued that "detoxing" after vaccination will let you avoid their bad effects:[53]
If you're being forced to take a vaccine against your will (by a totalitarian medical regime like California), are there things you can do to protect yourself from vaccine toxins? [....] The key to surviving this assault on your body is to eliminate these chemicals quickly. In this video filmed at our Consumer Wellness Center Laboratories, I reveal nutritional strategies for accelerating your body's natural detox so that you can safely survive a vaccine assault that's forced upon you by a coercive, fascist medical regime.
Yet surely this would mean that he would be OK with compulsory vaccination, if the government just handed out free detox afterward.
Conspiracy theories[edit]
NaturalNews also features many Big Pharma conspiracy theories,[7][54][55] believing that there is no depth Big Pharma will not sink to, no lie too big for them to tell, in order to poison American citizens and cover up their "junk science."[56] Adams claims that the pharmaceutical industry is creating HIV vaccines with the sole purpose of creating as many HIV positive people as possible to sell anti-retroviral drugs to at a huge profit.[57] Mammographic screening creates cancer, which is then expensively treated for big profit.[58][59][60][61] He considers that chemotherapy warrants criminal prosecution.[62][63][64]
More recent conspiracy theories claim that Bill Gates and Microsoft are in the process of developing weaponized, ethnically-targeted influenza viruses as part of a sinister eugenics plot.[65] No, really. Adams also manages to misinterpret attempts to develop reversible forms of male contraceptives as deliberate attempts to permanently sterilize minorities.[66]
His reaction to Angelina Jolie's preventive double mastectomy due to having the BRCA1 gene mutation was predictable: the quoted 87% probability that she would come down with breast cancer was irrelevant, since diet and lifestyle changes can magically suppress BRCA1 expression. And of course, oncologists are cast as the quacks here, not fine upstanding people like Adams.[67][68]
The site has also claimed that "the UK government is run by criminal pedophiles who rely on Muslim pedo networks to provide a steady supply of nine and ten-year-old little girls and boys". Because that's the only possible reason they'd try and stop Tommy Robinson from promoting hate and disrupting criminal trials.[69]
Other woo[edit]
Adams' love for woo isn't restricted to medicine. Cold fusion and so-called free energy ideas and devices like the Energy Catalyzer are presented on his website with the same enthusiasm as the latest alternative medicine fad.[70][71] He collects news about chemtrails.[72] He is a 9/11 truther,[73] Birther,[74] and pretty much everything else-er. Also a Sandy Hook denialist.[75] He considers Alex Jones, Jeff Rense, and David Icke to be "REAL heroes",[76] and Icke[77] and whale.to[78] to be reliable sources. Curiously, he supports Ron Paul, who is a real medical doctor and not a practitioner of woo (in the field of medicine). This could be because Paul supports "health freedom,"[79] despite Adams simultaneously supporting health care reform and Cuba's health care system.[80]
NaturalNews advances a hard green position, even though the site also promotes global warming denialism.[81] To top it off, Adams promotes conspiracy theories about gun control.[82]
He thinks Scientology is treated unfairly.[83][84] According to Adams, this is due to attempts by anti-religious bigots and (you guessed it) Big Pharma to oppress their belief system in order to protect their profits.
As well as Sandy Hook, Adams has also issued his informed opinion of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shootings, declaring that they were "obviously" staged, or perhaps that the killer, James Holmes, was involved in "experimental" neuroscience that got out of hand.[85] (Or maybe both at once? Who knows with this guy?) Furthermore, he says the 2013 attacks on the Boston Marathon were a false flag operation by "private military contractors."[86]
In 2014, Adams wrote several articles where he tried to prove that the Malaysian airplane disaster in March 2014 was a government cover-up, and that the plane was secretly made into a "stealth weapon", possibly carrying nuclear weapons. He also stated that he believed that the people behind the cover-up could go as far as to "secretly sink some aircraft debris in the Indian Ocean so they can "find it"." Even though he believes the passengers might have survived he states that "world governments are rolling out their 'official' stories, there is no question in my mind that they will do anything to support those official stories, even if it means discarding the lives of all the passengers."[87]
The site also tends to predict that any sizable storm heralds the collapse of the economy and the end of civilization.[88][89]
Also, "conventional physics" is a conspiracy of the same sort as conventional medicine.[90]
Also transphobia, even though the transgender are trying to change the pigeonhole that conventional medicine assigned them at birth.[91]
Additionally, they promote the conspiracy theory that the Coronavirus was created in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.[92]
In 2011, NaturalNews embraced birtherism, asserting that Barack Obama's birth certificate was fake:[93]
… it's so fake that the whole thing has become an IQ test for figuring out how many people can be so easily fooled by a fake… If I turned in a document like this as part of an effort to get a home loan, for example, and I assembled it layer by layer with obvious cutting and pasting of numbers from multiple sources in order to fake my reported income levels, I would be guilty of a felony crime. At the very least, I would be laughed out of the room. "Are you kidding me? This is your best attempt at falsifying an income statement?" they would say. Even a high school kid with a scanner and Photoshop knows how to make a more convincing forgery than this.
Adams took this as the ideal opportunity for a piece of truly biting social commentary about the fakeness of modern American life.
Couples are now artificially fertilized (fake conception!), and when their children are born, they feed them fake milk (infant formula). They grow up on fake sweeteners and fake (artificial) colors. In school, they're taught fake U.S. history so that they have fake ideas of how the world really works. When they're old enough, they get to participate in faked voting schemes where the winners are already determined.
And thanks to the internet, we live in a world of fake friends, fake emotions and fake sex. Football games are played on fake grass, and today's "reality" TV shows are all faked, too. Professional wrestling is fake (but MMA isn't), and most of the news consumed by the masses is entirely fabricated. Even the science behind most of modern medicine is faked, fabricated or twisted around in order to get the results the drug companies want to see.
And oh yeah, the drugs are faked, too, especially the antidepressants which appear to work only because of the placebo effect — which is real, even though it only exists in the mind.
For the most part, we are fake people living in a fake world engaged in fake interactions. So why shouldn't we have a fake President with a fake birth certificate to top it all off?
I don't know what the problem is here with the obviously fake birth certificate. Of course it's a fake. But isn't that what we vote for when we vote for any president? After all, presidential election campaigns are all about making fake promises uttered with fake smiles as part of faked speeches that are actually written by somebody else and read on the teleprompter.[93]
Between 2011 and 2014, Adams decided that having this post up was rather damaging. But, if he just deleted it or at least took a shred of responsibility for it, that would also be embarrassing. Instead, the post was updated with a totally believable explanation of why he was a birther and now isn't:[94]
The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist. He now runs the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, conducting world-class food science research and publishing scientific papers on food contaminants and nutritional analytics.
Through scientific investigation powered by university-level analytical instrumentation, Adams found that, much like the majority of the population, he had been suffering over the past several years from chronic exposure to cumulative toxic elements found in the food supply, including in many organics and "superfoods." His findings — as well as breakthrough discoveries about food toxicology, protective food nutrients and the cognitive influences of food contaminants — are being published at NaturalNews.com.
Notably, Adams found that exposure to toxic elements in foods altered his mindset, outlook on life and degree of happiness in the world. "I now know that much of my outlook on the world was being negatively shaped by toxic elements found not just in everyday foods, but also in some superfoods and dietary supplements," Adams now explains.
That is: the consumption of evil toxin-filled foods — as ascertained by "university-level analytical instrumentation" — caused Adams to become so delirious and susceptible to strange beliefs that he believed that President Obama's birth certificate was fake. Unfortunately, it seems that some toxic metals remain in Adams, since all of the other articles on NaturalNews continue to show the mind-altering symptoms.
Creative endeavors[edit]
One of the more ridiculous features of NaturalNews are Adams' cartoons, which are even less entertaining than Mallard Fillmore or The Far Left Side.[95] These ran until 2011. They are usually followed by paragraph after paragraph of Adams having to explain the cartoon to an audience who otherwise wouldn't find them "funny," let alone care. Thankfully he did't do much of the actual art, that mostly having been handled by Dan Berger of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame, unfortunately.[96]
More ridiculous still is the "Music" section on NaturalNews, where Adams posts hip-hop videos and songs he wrote about the alternative quackery of the day. Most of the so-called "music" is cheap-sounding hip-hop injected with Mike's screeds about how terrible vaccines and antidepressants are.[97] Just like his cartoons, his hiphop postings are also followed by paragraphs of his own self-aggrandizement and boring explanations of his works for those who didn't care to listen to the actual song.
As far as poetry is concerned, Adams' creativity is unbounded.[98][99]
Other activities[edit]
Good Gopher[edit]
GoodGopher is a search engine produced by Mike Adams that blocks out
reality-based information "propaganda". Enter any topic of skeptical (not just alt-med) interest and it will return the very finest crank information available.
Legal threats[edit]
Adams has threatened legal action against one of his many critics, Jon Entine (who, of course, published the threat in full):[100]
As you are now well aware, you are about to be named in a personal lawsuit which will cite the extensive body of your defamation and cyber bullying efforts, all of which have been archived and time stamped for court evidence. You can count on this lawsuit requiring considerable resources of your time and money for the foreseeable future. You are no doubt also aware that I have many friends in law enforcement and that we are simultaneously pursuing an effort to have you arrested and charged with cyber bullying crimes. I honestly cannot say for sure whether such an effort will be successful, but it is one of the areas we are actively pursuing against you. … I do not know if you are are rational person, but if you are, then I invite you to discuss a private settlement agreement with me which would allow us both to focus our efforts elsewhere.
Jon Entine was neither intimidated nor impressed:[101]
If Adams is true to his claim that he's a new man, committed to serving science, he may have no choice but to sue himself for defamation. … Will Adams sue himself for libeling himself? After all, if his goal is to put anti-science purveyors out of business — and those who he claims present "blatantly fictional, distorted or wildly exaggerated" anti-science information—why not go after the person who many scientists and journalists contend is the most egregious perpetrator of "cyber bullying" and "harassment." … Yes, science needs you, Mike. Please, send yourself a libel threat letter. Let's shut that quack down.
Twitter silliness[edit]
In 2010, Adams was nominated in the Shorty Awards, basically a popularity contest for Twitter users. Adams had the most votes in the health category, closely followed by fellow alt-med guru Joseph Mercola. Skeptics decided to vote up Rachel Dunlop, a skeptical doctor from Australia,[102][103] getting her to the top of the health charts.
Adams and Mercola
started pouting went vote-canvassing; hundreds of their supporters turned up, created new accounts, and were promptly disqualified, as only existing accounts were allowed to vote. When Dunlop won, Adams was most upset and responded with a list of what "skeptics" believe:[104][105][106]
Skeptics believe that many six-month-old infants need antidepressant drugs. In fact, they believe that people of all ages can be safely given an unlimited number of drugs all at the same time: Antidepressants, cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, diabetes drugs, anti-anxiety drugs, sleeping drugs and more -- simultaneously!
Skeptics believe that the human body has no ability to defend itself against invading microorganism and that the only things that can save people from viral infections are vaccines.
Email spam[edit]
Adams sells software to evade spam blockers through his company Arial Software.[note 2] Does Adams admit responsibility for spam? No, he prefers to blame those who buy spammed products, rather than the spammers actually sending the stuff.[note 3]
Audio and video[edit]
Adams also owns NaturalNews Radio and NaturalNews TV, the same stuff via streaming and video, in case Mike's flock ever wanted more of his
disinformation wisdom. The star of his 2017 movie "Biosludged" is human excrement. As of March 3, 2018, however, Youtube has taken down his entire Health Ranger channel.[108]
Adams created an alternative to YouTube originally called REAL.video, but later renamed to Brighteon in October 2018 accompanying the opening of his new food and supplement store, BrighteonStore. He created this site in response to "censorship" on YouTube, especially that of his good friend Alex Jones. Jones livestreams moved to this site after his ban. The site mostly has conservative channels. Conspiracy theories thrive on this site as well.
More recently, Adams has been branching out into survivalism and fearmongering about a potential technological or economic collapse of the United States, including founding or partnering with several specialized news sites devoted to those topics, such as Collapse.News(redirect) in August 2015, Bugout.News(redirect) in November 2015, and so on.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Adams being the founder and owner of the online store RangerGear.com,[109] your source for "Quality, affordable prepping and survival gear of the highest possible quality [sic] personally tested by the Health Ranger" since November 2015. Nothing at all.Do You Believe That?
Adams created a webshite to push negative (and false) stories about David Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.[110]
Temporary removal from Google[edit]
From around the 23rd of February 2017 naturalnews.com no longer appeared in Google search results.[111] This is likely due to a sneaky redirect (for instance, the link in the mobile version in search results does not direct to the same address as the link in the desktop version). Predictably, Mike Adams flipped the table, shrieked, pulled his hair and accused Google as a bully, a pusher of hate speech, censor-happy, insane, hucksters for Big Pharma, killers (because they censor
quackery cancer cures), a danger to humanity, and whatever else one can imagine and expect from someone like Mike Adams.[112] It is strange Mike Adams reacted this way; earlier, he had, after all, created his own goddamn search engine because he distrusted "mainstream" search engines. Sadly, naturalnews.com is now listed again in Google search results.[113]
Some user comments underneath their articles speak rather unfavorably of us. However, their blog article on "Making Healthier Decisions" was kind enough to reference our list of cognitive biases.[114]
Their article crying about censorship describes us as a "vaccine propagandist" website.[115]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- The website itself
- Mike Adams' echo chambers
- Mike Adams' empire of misinformation — McGill University.
- GoodGopher, the
cranktruthseeker's search engine.
- Orac has been documenting his insanity for years. A more specific page detailing his material on Adams can be found here.
- "Natural News: A Truly Deadly Brand of Pseudoscience", Neurobonkers, Big Think
- Mike Adams: "Earth is being terraformed for colonization by exobiologicals".
- Mike Adams: Natural News, "everyone's favorite über-quack #1 anti-science website" — Genetic Literacy Project.
- Anatomy of a Disinformation Empire: Investigating NaturalNews
- ↑ NaturalNews was formerly Newstarget, which is now a separate site.
- ↑ "For years, programmers have worked tirelessly to find ways to block spam e-mails. Some systems block based upon keywords, while others search for sentence patterns in e-mails that are typical of spam messages. Mike Adams and Arial Software have been working to find ways around this spam detection. Our research indicates that Arial Software is solely a spamware company, meaning that its software is designed primarily to aid spammers."[107]
- ↑ "Yet this web site portrays that spam is a consistently profitable business, because some people actually purchase products that are advertised in spam e-mails. Mike wrote that it is this small population of people who truly bear responsibility for spam's continued existence. Mike Adams' anti-spam site appears to be created for the sole purpose of shifting blame from the responsible spammers onto the victims. The blame for spam should rightfully lie upon the spammers themselves, as well as those who promote and create specialized software for bypassing anti-spam security systems; companies such as Mike's own Arial Software."[107]
- ↑ Mike Adams on Dr. Mehmet Oz's colon polyps: "Spontaneous" disease?
- ↑ Himalayan Bath Salts Will Not Save Your Life
- ↑ Special Report: The Legend of Mike Adams and the Reality (Thomas Corriher and Sarah Cain, The Health Wyze Report, 06 Feb 2013)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Vaccine denial and woo: [1] and rebuttal [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
- ↑ AIDS/HIV denialism: [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
- ↑ Quack cancer treatments: [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Big Pharma hysteria:[33] [34] [35] [36] [37][38]
- ↑ Reliable sources/Perennial sources: Natural News Wikipedia.
- ↑ MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist: Difference between revisions Wikipedia.
- ↑ List of "Modern medicine news, articles and information"
- ↑ Video of Mike Adams claiming adults lived longer a century ago.
- ↑ Q & A: Are there any situations in which pharmaceuticals and medications are okay to use?
- ↑ Why doctors are more dangerous than guns - new Health Ranger investigation
- ↑ Obama turns doctors into gun control snitches running health care spy network
- ↑ Media & Press Information
- ↑ Rawpalooza - Discover the benefits of a raw food lifestyle
- ↑ Health Basics - What exactly is a raw food diet?
- ↑ Raw Food Diet: Enjoy Nutrition as Nature Designed
- ↑ Comparing Sweeteners?
- ↑ Artificial sweeteners and flavor enhancers are dangerous
- ↑ You have a choice: Sex or bread?
- ↑ List of red meat news, articles and information
- ↑ Health Ranger interviews neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock on MSG and brain-damaging excitotoxins
- ↑ The Facts About Pasteurization and Homogenization of Dairy Products
- ↑ Sodium fluoride exposed in new Health Ranger video; cities are poisoning their citizens with pesticide chemicals from China
- ↑ White flour promotes nutritional deficiencies and chronic disease
- ↑ Comprehensive research database offers global picture of harm caused by GMOs
- ↑ Your Laundry Detergent may be Hazardous to Your Health
- ↑ 12 Year Old Boy Killed by Deodorant Spray
- ↑ Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage
- ↑ McDonald's Chicken McNuggets found to contain mysterious fibers, hair-like structures; Natural News Forensic Food Lab posts research photos, video(redirect)
- ↑ Part I: Evidence-Based Medicine is Not Exclusive of Alternative Medicine (Opinion)
- ↑ Quantum healing: [39] [40] [41]
- ↑ Quantum woo: [42]
- ↑ 'Blinded by Science' explores the power of vibrational energy and water in healing and wellness
- ↑ Shattering the false philosophy and junk science of conventional medicine
- ↑ The Germ Theory Hoax on the next NaturalNews Talk Hour
- ↑ Is Modern Medicine Founded on Error?
- ↑ Germ theory delusions collapse as new science reveals healthy people carry 10,000 different germ strains at all times
- ↑ If mainstream medicine really works, why are Americans so unhealthy? (Mike Adams, NaturalNews, 12 April 2010); point-by-point skeptical response.
- ↑ Whitney Houston yet another victim of pharmaceutical drug industry (UPDATE 2)
- ↑ Bernie Mac Another Casualty of Conventional Medicine?
- ↑ Timeline of celebrities killed by Big Pharma: Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Farrah Fawcett, Elvis and more
- ↑ Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett the Latest Celebrity Victims of Big Pharma
- ↑ Homeopathy dramatically more effective at preventing and treating whooping cough than allopathic medicine
- ↑ What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history
- ↑ Dentistry scams exposed: Mercury fillings and unnecessary dental surgery
- ↑ Health Ranger releases new infographic listing the top ten worst sources of aspartame
- ↑ Here's how you are being profoundly manipulated by political parlor tricks and media sleight of hand
- ↑ Thousands of Americans died from H1N1 even after receiving vaccine shots
- ↑ Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disease than unvaccinated children
- ↑ Six Easy Ways Detox in Our Toxic World
- ↑ Mike Adams explains how to "naturally detox" from mandatory vaccines. It backfires. by Orac (March 14, 2016) Respectful Insolence.
- ↑ Big Pharma Mind Control!
- ↑ AMA conspiracy against chiropractic
- ↑ Merck Committed Scientific Fraud in Delays, Distortions of Vytorin Drug Trial (opinion)
- ↑ HIV vaccines cause 50 percent false positive rate in HIV tests
- ↑ Mammograms cause breast cancer (and other cancer facts you probably never knew)
- ↑ Breast Cancer Rates Soar after Mammograms and Some Cancers may Heal Naturally
- ↑ Early Mammograms May Trigger Genetic Breast Cancer
- ↑ Women Remain Uninformed about the Hazards of Mammograms
- ↑ The Quackery of Chemotherapy, Gunpoint Medicine and the Disturbing Fate of 13-Year-Old Daniel Hauser, Mike Adams, Natural News May 20, 2009, retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ↑ Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your Cancer?
- ↑ The latest scummy tactic of altie med – blaming medicine for celebrity deaths by Mark Hoofnagle (August 22, 2008) Denialism Blog.
- ↑ Microsoft buys eugenics technology from Merck, becomes drug development partner with top global vaccine manufacturer
- ↑ Bill Gates funds technology to destroy your sperm
- ↑ How Angelina Jolie was duped by cancer doctors into self mutilation for breast cancer she never had, naturalnews.net
- ↑ The quack view of preventing breast cancer versus reality and Angelina Jolie, Respectful Insolence, scienceblogs.com
- ↑ Was a Far-Right Activist Jailed for Breaching a Court Order Designed to 'Protect Muslim Pedophiles'?, Snopes.com, 29 May 2018
- ↑ E-Cat Cold fusion device independently validated producing 800% more energy than input, Neev M. Arnell, Natural News May 19, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ↑ Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn't Have To), Mike Adams, Natural News April 24,2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ↑ They have a whole category for chemtrails, in fact
- ↑ Jumping rope and 9/11 truth - how the sheeple have been trained to avoid unpopular truth about WTC 7
- ↑ Obama birth certificate is just as authentic as the money supply, the food supply and Obamacare
- ↑ Sandy Hook fundraising relief page created 3 days before shooting, Google search results confirm
- ↑ This post puts much of his insanity on display in one place.
- ↑ David Icke on AIDS
- ↑ Five times in this article alone.
- ↑ Ron Paul articles
- ↑ Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see
- ↑ Global warming denialism:[43] [44] [45] [46]
- ↑ Gun control hysteria: [47] [48]
- ↑ 'Crazed Swordsman Attacks Scientology Guard Who Fires Back in Self Defense', Mike Adams, Natural News November 24, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ↑ 'Baseless Accusations against John Travolta Demonstrate Cruelty, Intolerance of Pill Pushers and Religion Bashers', Mike Adams, Natural News January 5, 2011, retrieved 2011-05-21.
- ↑ Colorado Batman shooting shows obvious signs of being staged
- ↑ Total media blackout now under way on most likely suspects in Boston marathon bombing
- ↑ Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 now clearly a government cover-up: All evidence contradicts official story
- ↑ Extreme winter weather gives Northeast a taste of economic collapse
- ↑ As hurricane Irene heads for New York City, are you prepared? Choice quote: "There is hope in understanding that a great economic collapse is coming."
- ↑ 22 minutes of video woo; PZ Myers takes you through it.
- ↑ [49]
- ↑ https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-02-16-chinese-scientists-conclude-coronavirus-originated-lab-wuhan.html
- ↑ 93.0 93.1 Obama birth certificate is just as authentic as the money supply, the food supply and Obamacare, Natural News, 28 April 2011 (as archived by archive.org on 30 April 2011)
- ↑ [50] Article updated with new message from the Health Ranger], NaturalNews
- ↑ An example of this insult to good cartooning.
- ↑ Cartoons(redirect)
- ↑ Listen if your ears dare.
- ↑ In a downward direction. To imprison us all (Mike Adams, NaturalNews, 25 January 2012)
- ↑ nexusnow.info forum: To Imprison Us all - a poem, by The Health Ranger - Mike Adams
- ↑ Mike Adams, the Alt Medicine Purveyor Who Calls himself the 'Health Ranger,' Threatens to Sue Forbes and Writer
- ↑ NaturalNews' Mike Adams threatens Forbes, GLP for 'libeling' his 'quack' health empire
- ↑ Orac post
- ↑ Asshole Skeptic post
- ↑ His screed about the shorty awards
- ↑ Pharyngula's post about the incident
- ↑ Mike Adams thinks he knows what skeptics believe
- ↑ 107.0 107.1 Arial Software, Spam and Telemarketing Healthwyze.
- ↑ YouTube deletes entire Health Ranger video channel; deletes over 1700 videos in latest politically motivated censorship purge (UPDATED) (March 3, 2018). NaturalNews. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Natural News introduces Ranger Gear, our new line of preparedness and survival products."(redirect)
- ↑ Sarah Jones, Who's Afraid of David Hogg? The New Republic, 6 April 2018.
- ↑ naturalnews.com has been removed from all Google search results! (23 Feb 2017) reddit.
- ↑ Gorski, D. (February 27, 2017). Google delists Mike Adams' Natural News website. Was it because of fake news?. Science-based Medicine. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
- ↑ Gorski, D. (February 28, 2017) Twitter. Retrieved February 28, 2017
- ↑ Making Healthier Decisions - NaturalNewsBlogs.com.
- ↑ With outrageous censoring of Natural News, Google now becomes the internet's #1 BULLY and pusher of hate speech… #SaveNaturalNews!!!!!!1!1!!111.
- Cover story articles
- Alternative medicine
- Conspiracy theorists
- Food woo
- Ableism
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- Cholesterol and statin denialists
- Crank magnetism
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For one year, the artist Todd Gray wore the clothes of his friend and mentor the late Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the Doors. An act that went beyond artistic homage or memorial impulse. Manzarek's widow, Dorothy, gave Gray the clothes and permission to perform the year long action.
Gray will read letters he wrote to Dorothy recounting his experience and its affect on him.
Following the reading Gray will show photographs he made as a teenager chronicling the Los Angeles rock scene in a discussion with Joseph Mosconi.
Saturday, October 15th
Doors at 7:30pm
Reading at 8pm sharp
Poetic Research Bureau
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Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of National City Corporation, now a part of PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Mr. Daberko earned a bachelor's degree from Denison University and a M.B.A. degree from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He joined National City Bank in 1968. Mr. Daberko was elected Deputy Chairman of National City Corporation and President of National City Bank in Cleveland in 1987. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of National City Corporation from 1993 until 1995. From 1995 until his retirement in 2007, Mr. Daberko served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National City Corporation. Mr. Daberko is also a director of Marathon Petroleum Corporation and MPLX GP LLC, and was formerly a director of Williams Partners L.P.
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Euro hits 4-month highSeptember 11, 2012: 1:34 PM ET
The euro continues to rally against the U.S. dollar, as investors welcome positive developments in Europe and anticipate more easing by the Federal Reserve.
After falling to a multi-year low of $1.20 in July, the euro rose to $1.2842 on Tuesday -- its highest level since May 11.
Europe's single currency has been supported recently by hopes for bold action by the European Central Bank, which announced last week that it would make unlimited purchases of sovereign debt for governments that agree to strict conditions.
The euro is also benefiting from expectations that the German Constitutional Court will not stand in the way of Europe's new bailout fund. The court is set to rule Wednesday on a preliminary injunction that would prevent Germany from ratifying the European Stability Mechanism.
Related: Europe may have missed its chance
Analysts said the gains were largely being driven by short covering, when traders are forced to buy euros as they unwind bets they made on the currency declining.
As of last week, short interest in the euro fell to a net position of $16.1 billion, down from a record high of $33 billion last June, according to data from the Commodities Futures Trade Commission.
"It's short covering and broad-based optimism that we will get additional euro-positive news later in the week," said Kathy Lien, a currency strategist at BK Asset Management in New York.
In addition to the news out of Europe, traders said the euro was benefiting from the weakening U.S. dollar.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has signaled that the central bank is prepared to launch a third round of asset purchases, a policy known as quantitative easing, or QE3, if the U.S. economy continues to show signs of slowing.
Related: Will the Fed announce QE3?
Many investors had been expecting Bernanke to announce QE3 at this week's policy meeting, but the optimism has begun to wane.
While more monetary stimulus could help support stock prices, investors worry that it would undermine the dollar in the currency market.
"Investors are starting to activate QE3 positions, which is creating some pessimism for the dollar," said Lien.


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Initiatives by public and private sector organizations related to youth sports concussions, some of which were announced Thursday by President Barack Obama:
• The NCAA and the Defense Department are launching a $30 million effort to produce research on concussion risks, treatment and management.
• The National Football League is committing $25 million over the next three years on promoting youth sports safety, including support for new pilot programs to put more athletic trainers in schools.
• The National Institutes of Health will undertake a new research effort on the chronic effects of repetitive concussions, work supported by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health through an initial investment of $16 million from the NFL. The funding, together with grants announced at the end of last year, fulfills a $30 million commitment the league made to the institutes in 2012.
• With a $10 million investment from New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, UCLA will launch the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program to target sports concussion prevention, outreach, research and treatment for athletes of all ages, especially youth. The money will also support planning for a national system to determine the incidence of youth sports concussions.
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology will invest $5 million over five years as part of the Materials Genome Initiative to accelerate development of advanced materials that can provide better protection against concussions for athletes, service members and others.
• Pop Warner Little Scholars will participate in a research project modeled on a system that tracks concussions and concussion trends in high school sports.
• Safe Kids Worldwide, in partnership with Johnson & Johnson, will host more than 200 sports safety clinics for parents, coaches and young athletes across the country, including education on concussions. The Brain Injury Association of America, in collaboration with SAP, will build an online application to help students, parents and educators better understand when to return to class after a concussion.
• USA Cheer will unveil a new Head Injury Protocol to more than 300,000 cheerleaders and their coaches this summer to teach them how to prevent, identify and seek treatment for suspected head injuries. Updated cheerleading guidelines designed to reduce head injuries also will be released.
• U.S. Soccer will employ a chief medical officer to work with the medical community and experts in the field of concussion management and prevention.
• The National Federation of State High School Associations, which writes playing rules for high school-level sports, will host a concussion summit this year focused on best practices to minimize injury risks in high school athletes. The National High School Athletic Coaches Association will provide education sessions on concussions at its summer convention.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will promote use of a new app to help parents learn how to recognize concussion symptoms and what to do if they think their child has a concussion.
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A bright spot in Vancouver Whitecaps FC's 2-0 loss to FC Dallas Wednesday night at BC Place was the professional debut of 19-year-old striker Caleb Clarke.
Clarke, who worked his way through the 'Caps Residency program before signing as a Homegrown player in April, entered the match in the 81st minute and did not look out of place in his first Major League Soccer appearance.
"It was amazing," Clarke told reporters Thursday after training. "I was really anxious to get in and when [Martin Rennie] called me, I was really happy - especially in front of the home fans. It was a great feeling."
At 6-foot-1, 165 Ibs, Clarke has a frame built for MLS, and built for matches like the one between Vancouver and Dallas that saw 41 fouls and nine bookings handed out.
Although he has been a member of the Whitecaps FC program since 2009, Clarke admitted there were a few jitters when his name was called late in Wednesday's match.
"As soon as [Rennie] called my name, then I started to get a little nervous," said Clarke, who received a nice ovation from family, friends, and fans after stepping foot onto the pitch for the first time. "But as soon as I started playing, it felt natural."
It looked natural, too. And that should come as no surprise.
With 24 goals in 27 matches, the Richmond, BC, native led Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-18 Residency to a second-place finish in the United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) this past season.
It was their first season competing in the USSDA, the top youth Academy system in the United States.
And it is almost fitting that Clarke made his MLS debut against FC Dallas, whose Academy squad defeated Clarke and the U-18 'Caps 3-2 in last month's USSDA championship final.
One member of that FC Dallas Academy squad was striker Jonathan Top, who scored his first MLS goal Wednesday against the 'Caps.
That speaks to the quality of players coming through the USSDA, Clarke said.
"And hopefully there are more to come."


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text: In this episode Shahriar demonstrates one of the simplest magnetic levitation circuits. First, the basic concept of magnetic levitation is examined. Two different methods of detecting the location of the levitating object is presented and the Hall effect sensor method is chosen. A semi-digital overall system is implemented where a PWM control IC is employed to control the magnetic field strength. The block diagram and functionality of this IC is presented. Finally, the schematic of a dual-Hall effect sensor solution is presented. The circuit is built and tested in both open-loop and close-loop configuration. Magnetic levitation is demonstrated with the capability of adjusting the levitation location. The schematic of circuit can be downloaded here and the electromagnet can be purchased from here.


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Thinklogical to Showcase its Secure, Fiber-Based Switching Systems for C4ISR at Special Operations Summit in Tampa
Company to Provide Demonstrations of How its High Bandwidth Solutions Deliver Security and High Performance for a Broad Range of Multi-Domain Applications
Milford, Conn. – December 3, 2012: Thinklogical, the leading provider of fiber optic video routing and KVM extension systems, announced that it will be showcasing its secure, fiber-based switching systems for C4ISR (Communications, Command, Control, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) as a VIP sponsor at the Special Operations Summit in Tampa this week.
The military, intelligence and homeland security sectors of the U.S. Federal Government consistently rely on Thinklogical's powerful fiber optic based audio, video and peripheral routing systems, which enable multi-domain isolation and control of key computing resources and their associated networks. Last month, the company announced the launch of its Federal Advisory Board, appointing founding members the Honorable Arthur L. Money and Peter Marino — both of whom bring an unparalleled degree of knowledge and experience to the company as it deepens its relationships within the Federal market.
As a VIP sponsor at the Special Operations Summit, Thinklogical staff will be on hand on December 4th and 5th to demonstrate how its routing and KVM extension systems provide multi-domain isolation, continuous operation and resiliency for C4ISR missions. These systems, which have the highest bandwidth in the industry and are accredited to The Common Criteria EAL4 and TEMPEST, are currently deployed in hundreds of multi-domain applications worldwide and are able to help intelligence professionals separate the threat from the target.
Thinklogical's technologies are present in the most sensitive, large scale government installations where there is no room for compromise," commented Joe Pajer, President & CEO, Thinklogical. "All our products are made in the U.S.A. and are perfectly suited for C4ISR missions requiring robust security, performance and ease of integration."
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Milk comes from breasts, right? So let's make a milk jug with nipples! Or hey, we taste salt with the tip of our tongues, so let's make that salt shaker shaped like a tongue! We can't be sure, but we imagine that this could have been the thinking behind Christine Chin's collection, titled "Sentient Kitchen." Of course, she's an artist so she might take issue with our unsophisticated assessment of her creative process, and she might be right. What do we know? We'll tell you this though, her "Breast Bottles" with nipples, or her "Perceptive Sugar Jar" with an eye on it, or even her "Good Listener Teacups" with ears on them are all conversation pieces. That's for sure. And in that sense fall on the more successful side of the art palette. So to do Christine justice, here is her statement, in her own (better) words:
Sentient Kitchen examines the convergence between technology and biology. As the machines that assist our lives become smarter and more architecturally complex, they borrow increasingly from the biological realm. Sentient Kitchen takes inspiration from some of nature's most ingenious engineering.
Of course, this being art, it's not specifically for sale. Nor do we know if it's on display anywhere. But you can get a bunch more pictures after the jump. Just know that a couple may be NSFW (nipples).
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If I had the extra $ right now, I would drop some off here, in exchange for those beautiful bread boards.
I also think the blue painted area around the desk warrants mention, such a great color and way to designate space.
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Dentistry is a specialty in medicine, which is practiced by a dentist. Dentists find out what's wrong, fix, and help prevent problems with teeth. A dentist has other people that help him with their job. Dental hygienists help people keep their teeth clean. A dental assistant helps the dentist when they are treating a patient. Dental surgeons will perform surgery to fix large or dangerous problems with people's teeth. There are also dentists called orthodontists, who can move people's teeth using braces. Dental surgeons and orthodontists are called specialists.[1]
Dental specialties[change | change source]
- Dental public health - The study of dental epidemiology and social health.
- Endodontics - The study, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the dental pulp.
- Oral pathology - The study, diagnosis, and sometimes the treatment of oral and maxillofacial related diseases.
- Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology - The study and radiologic interpretation of oral and maxillofacial diseases.
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - Tooth extractions, dental implants, and facial surgery.
- Orthodontics - The straightening of teeth.
- Periodontics - Dentists which specialize in the treatment of periodontal (gum) disease
- Pediatric dentistry - Dentistry for children...
- Prosthodontics - Dentures, bridges and the restoration of implants. Some prosthodontists train more in "oral and maxillofacial prosthodontics", to learn how to replace missing facial parts, such as ears, eyes, noses, etc.[2]
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Tribute to Horand von Grafrath
Horand Von Grafrath - SZ 1
Lets take an opportunity to pay our wholehearted tribute to Horand - Horand von Grafrath (formerly Hektor Linksrhein), "The Foundation Dog" of the GSD breed. An important phase in the evolution of the German Shepherd Dog breed starts from Horand (DOB January 1st, 1895), SZ1.
There's no better way we can pay our tribute to Horand von Grafrath than by mentioning here what Captain von Stephanitz, the originator of the breed said about this awesome dog.
Here's what he said about Horand:
"Horand embodied for the enthusiasts of that time the fulfillment of their fondest dreams. He was big for that period, between 24" and 24 1/2", even for the present day a good medium size, with powerful frame, beautiful lines, and a nobly formed head. Clean and sinewy in build, the entire dog was one live wire.
His character was on a par with his exterior qualities; marvelous in his obedient fidelity to his master, and above all else, the straightforward nature of a gentleman with a boundless zest for living. Although untrained in puppy hood, nevertheless obedient to the slightest nod when at this master's side; but when left to himself, the maddest rascal, the wildest ruffian and incorrigible provoker of strife.
Never idle, always on the go; well disposed to harmless people, but no cringer, mad about children and always in love. What could not have been the accomplishments of such a dog if we, at that time, had only had military or police service training? His faults were the failings of his upbringing, never of his stock. He suffered from a superfluity of unemployed energy, for he was in Heaven when someone was occupied with him and was then the most tractable of dog."
So by Sir Max's words we can at ease understand what are the desirable qualities that a well bred German Shepherd should actually have. Horand von Grafrath was a name that had been given to the dog by Captain Stephanitz. There is an interesting history behind the Horand's life story. While attending a dog show in 1899 the captain came across a Thuringian type sheep dog of medium stature, whose name was Hecktor Linkshrein. It was Hecktor's typical shepherding qualities, his nature and anatomical structure that grabed captain's attention, and he fell in love with him at the first sight. He purchased him at the spot and later he changed his name to Horand Von Grafrath registered him with his new name the vereins newly found stud book. Horand was the first shepherd dog to find the first place in the new stud book of the verein. "Verein" here is Verein für deutsche Schäferhunde (shortly known as SV – the "Club For German Shepherd Dogs").
Hektor von Schwaben - SZ 13, born on January 5, 1898. Hektor von Schwaben was born from the combination of Horand von Grafrath - SZ 1 (born - 1895) X Mores Plieningen HGH - SZ 159 (born - 1894)
Hektor von Schwaben later produced some head reeling offspring such as:
Heinz von Starkenburg - SchH3, Kkl 1, born from the combination of Hektor von Schwaben X Lucie von Starkenburg - SZ 131 (born - 1896). Heinz achieved some lasting fame through his progeny - the 1906-7 Sieger Roland v Starkenburg - SCHH3, Kkl 1 (born 1903), the first really outstanding dog of the breed. Humphrey (1926) believed Roland owed little to Heinz and more to Hektor v Schwaben.
Two specimens that were wisely used to standardzing the German Shepherd breed were Beowulf and Pilot
These three studs - Heinz, Beowulf and Pilot had been used in the breeding program later, and thus their progeny contributed immensely to the development of German shepherd Dog breed.
Captain Stephanitz heavily inbred on his very favorite Horand as well as his brother Luchs with an aim to strengthen the bloodline. Horand's most celebrated son, Hektor von Schwaben, the second German Sieger, was mated with his half-sister as well as through daughters of his own sons, Beowulf, Heinz, and Pilot III.
Heavy inbreeding was the base of the development of the breed. But eventually is concentrated undesirable recessive originating from the mixing of the original strains. Von Stephanitz hence decided introduce unrelated blood of herding origin through Audifax von Grafrath and Adalo von Grafrath into his program.


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In my last post I discussed the wonderful Danish restaurant Noma, which is out there on the cutting edge of international place-based food.
I will long savor that experience, but my excursion into the world of high-end cuisine was a rare treat. Of course, I didn't have to go to Copenhagen for action on the place-based food front. There is a lot going on right here near my home in Washington, D.C. Read more >


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Mega Man Star Force 2: Zerker x Ninja
Mega Man Star Force returns, delivering another iconic, action-driven Mega Man portable RPG adventure, featuring a totally upgraded, cutting-edge interface utilizing the latest online communication and device customization techniques. Developed by the team behind the popular Mega Man Battle Network series, Geo Stelar and crew return to battle a whole host of new enemies including the mysterious Rogue who threatens the peace of the virtual Wave World by unleashing hordes of rampaging viruses. It's up to Geo and his virus-busting buddy, Omega-Xis, to thwart this latest threat. Mega Man Star Force 2 blends a unique formula of RPG exploration elements with fast-paced action, as players travel and battle between coexisting worlds, the physical world and the virtual Wave World, to unravel the mystery around this new troublemaker. Players will encounter enemies in the virtual Wave World and battle them on three-by-five battle grids with their Battle Card deck. Mega Man Star Force 2 also adds an upgraded Transer system.
- Two co-existing worlds - explore the real world in human form and transform into Mega Man to maneuver through the virtual "Wave World".
- Each game version offers a unique powered-up transformation of Mega Man based on the respective elemental powers and can unleash spectacular special attacks.
- Each character has their own customizable Personal Page in the game where Battle Cards and information can be viewed and traded with friends to compare progress.
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Can you explain the rulings of madd al laazim, still a bit confused with that?
Can you explain the rulings of madd al laazim,still abit confused with that, and also is there an easy way of remembering how long one should elongate for each rule? The original madd rule is quite simple as its 2 harakaats long so are the followers of madd at tabi'i, but madd al fari'i gets difficult as some you have to elongate six counts and some are only 4 - 5 how can one remember this?
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
If a medd letter is following by a hamzah, then for Hafs 'an 'Aasim by the way of Ash-Shaatibiyyah, we read the medd with four or five vowel counts. This can be within a word, or between two words.
If the medd letter is followed by a original sukoon (meaning the sukoon is present whether we are stopping or continuing, included in this is the shaddah) in the same word we lengthen the medd six vowel counts, and this is the medd laazim.
If the medd letter is followed by one letter, and that last letter has a vowel, but we are stopping on the word, we change the vowel on the last letter to a sukoon and stop with 2, 4 or 6 vowel counts.


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Firm Rounds is one of the most unique multidisciplinary conferences hosted by the Department of Pediatrics, taking place Tuesday mornings from 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. in the eleventh-floor conference center at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Each week, faculty from each of the pediatric disciplines discuss and debate a single recent case from the clinics or wards. Trainees are able to sit back and learn from the experts as they generate a differential, present cutting-edge evidence-based data, and work through the medical decision making process. Transcriptions of FIRM are published monthly in the journal Pediatric Annals.
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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Detail a differential diagnosis for a patient's chief complaint.
Develop a diagnostic strategy for discrimination of the differential diagnosis
Discuss therapeutic options for the given disease process.
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Speaker disclosures will be made available in writing and orally at each Grand Rounds session. The Course Director, Dr. Jennifer Trainor, has nothing to disclose. FSM's CME Leadership and Staff have nothing to disclose: Clara J. Schroedl, MD, Medical Director of CME, Sheryl Corey, Manager of CME, Jennifer Banys, Senior Program Administrator, Allison McCollum, Senior Program Coordinator, and Rhea Alexis Banks, Administrative Assistant 2.


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Reach a Chaplain any time by calling toll-free 1-800-708-1998, or email [email protected].
The lifeblood of our nation's economy flows on America's system of navigable waterways. Valuable commodities and merchandise essential to our modern way of life float up and down rivers, along coastlines and across oceans, bridging the gaps between distant places and cultures.
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The men and women of America's maritime industry work in a world constantly in motion. Weather and plans vary by the minute. Though swift waters roll just a few feet below slippery decks, slow hours pass on night watches far from home.
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The rural town of Cheviot is worth more than just a petrol stop when driving through. It's a town brimming with rural hospitality and an easy few hours of entertainment.
Despite only having a population of around 15-hundred residents in the greater Cheviot area, the town outdoes itself with its range of stylish shops along the main street (State Highway 1), delicious eateries and a growing art scene.
Steeped in history, the town used to be part of a massive farm called Cheviot Hills, which was once one of Canterbury's largest properties. The land was divided into farms, and the township created, when its owner William "Ready Money" Robinson died in 1889.
Tasty Local Food
Locally sourced food is the ultimate in fresh – with the nearby Hurunui and Waiau rivers brimming with sea-run salmon and trout, and delicious whitebait. Surrounded by farms, many of the town's eateries feature fresh lamb, beef and venison. It's not just the restaurants either – excellent cafes and takeaway shops are also making the most of local products.
For those wanting a real treat, duck into the Mt Beautiful Tasting Room. The premium wine brand opened the tasting room last year, and it's where you can try their North Canterbury wines along with platters of local food.
On a sunny day, pack a picnic and head to Cheviot Hill Domain - a picturesque spot all year round. In spring, (September to November), there's a sea of yellow daffodil flowers spread below the trees there.
Nearby Attractions
Take a drive out to the holiday settlement of Gore Bay, which has one of the safest surfing and swimming beaches in New Zealand. A popular spot in the Hurunui there are plenty of accommodation options with family-friendly campgrounds, baches for hire and bed and breakfasts. There are even farm stays that will give you a real taste of Kiwi life.
While there, don't miss one of nature's highlights - the Cathedral Cliffs. Admire the way that nature has eroded the clay until it represents carefully sculpted gothic columns, with the sparkling ocean in the background.


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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature spoken-word poet Minton Sparks with guitarist John Jackson on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Sparks blends music, story-telling and poetry, to the delight of audiences nationwide. Her CDs include "This Dress," "Middlin Sisters," and her most recent release, "Sin Sick," which legendary folk singer John Prine calls "just what the doctor ordered." In 2006, Sparks's unique brand of poetry and music was featured nationally on NPR's "All Things Considered" and internationally on the BBC's "Bob Harris Show," along with the syndicated "WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour." Sparks lives in Nashville, Tenn., with her husband and two children.
Sparks will be accompanied at Hope College by virtuoso guitarist John Jackson, who recently finished a stint on Broadway with the Twyla Tharp musical production of "Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin'."
There will be a Q&A with Sparks on Wednesday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in the DeWitt Center Herrick Room of the DeWitt Center.
The Hope College Jazz Ensemble will precede the reading at the Knickerbocker with a 6:30 p.m. performance.
Additional information may be obtained online by visiting www.hope.edu/vws.
The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Investors also piled into Treasurys, driving down the yield on the benchmark 10-year note sharply to 2.804%, its lowest close since last November. Yields, which fall as prices rise, cratered as investors searched for a safe haven ahead of the Aug. 2 debt-ceiling deadline.
All three major credit-rating firms have warned they could lower the top-notch rating of U.S. debt if the borrowing limit isn't raised.
So let me see if I've got this straight. We've got to slash spending immediately because (1) if we don't, the debt ceiling can't be raised, and if the debt ceiling isn't raised, then the US will default on its Treasury bonds, and (2) if we don't cut spending then the rating agencies will downgrade Treasury bonds, thus instantly making them worth less. And because of all this, investors "piling into Treasurys", because they perceive them as a "safe haven".


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Republicans propose 2 sales tax holidays
Hoildays proposed in August and November
MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers are proposing a pair of sales tax holidays in Wisconsin in August and November.
Rep. Chad Weininger of Green Bay and Sen. Rick Gudex of Fond du Lac circulated a bill this week seeking co-sponsors of the measure that would waive sales taxes two weekends of the year.
The August sales tax holiday would apply to certain school-related items including clothing up to $75, a computer up to $2,000, school computer supplies up to $250, school instructional materials and various other school supplies.
The November sales tax exemption would apply to Energy Star products.
The sales tax rate in Wisconsin is 5 percent.


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DETROIT – It used to be that when you graduated from college, you were expected to move out on your own. These days, experts say families need to carefully consider the pros and cons of moving home or moving out.
The financial equation has changed for many young adults. They leave college with a huge student loan debt hanging over their heads.
"I'm already home with mom and dad with how expensive college is. It really forced me to stay home rather than go somewhere else," said Shelby Township resident Jake Jarbou.
Where to live? What's the cost?
Deciding where to live is one of the biggest questions facing graduated. Many parents realize today's young adults are facing some tougher challenges.
"The economy's a little more difficult, there's a lot of people applying for the same positions. So, yeah, it's definitely harder in my opinion," said Dean Amburn, of Commerce Township.
Experts say it's important now more than ever for graduates to crunch the numbers to see if moving out on their own is realistic.
"Doing your research and knowing what things cost, and what your priorities should be, that's going to put you ahead of everyone else," said Scott Gamm of HelpSaveMyDollars.com.
Of course, finding a job is step one. Then, graduates need to start crunching the numbers on income, rent, student loan payments, auto expenses, food, and insurance.
If at all possible, young adults may want to set a goal for paying off their student loans. Is there a way to pay off the loans in 10 years? 15 years? Getting that debt paid off might need to be priority No. 1, that way grads can know how much money is left over for living expenses.
"I think the first two, three years of my life I'm going to have to live pretty impoverished," Jarbou said.
Flying back to the family nest
If the numbers don't add up, it may be better for the graduate to fly back to the family nest. Many parents are willing to give their adult children the support they need to get a better start in life.
"He'll be welcomed back home if he needs to get a little launching pad for it," said Amburn, who is the father of two teenage boys.
However, expert caution parents from giving their kids a free pass when they move back into the home. If you give them too many perks without requiring some participation, you could be getting into dangerous territory.
Jeff Sadowski of Birmingham, a father of three, agrees. "If they came home, I would have a contract with them, and that contract would be duties and responsibilities, and probably rent and some step towards emancipation."
How to move home without driving each other crazy
If moving home is the best way to go, there are several steps families should take to make that transition go more smoothly. Ruth to the Rescue checked with Tom Hakim of Hakim Financial, who offered many of these guidelines.
1) Start talking about the student moving home well before graduation. Consider the pros and cons together.
2) Work out some house rules that show mutual respect for each side. Curfews for young adults might not work, but the graduate needs to be respectful of others in the home.
3) The graduate should contribute to the household, by sharing expenses or working around the house.
4) Are there other relatives who might have room? Some grandparents need the company and help around the house. Working out a mutual beneficial agreement could help both sides.
5) Some experts suggest young adults should function like they're still living on their own, doing their own laundry, cleaning, and cooking. Don't expect your parents to revert to childhood patterns.
6) It might also be a good idea to do some redecorating. If you're room hasn't changed since high school graduation, maybe you start the transition to adulthood by turning your space into a place an adult would live.
7) Finally, set goals or milestones that will move the graduate toward a move out date. It could be a time limit, or when their student loans are paid off, or when they have a higher paying job. Agree on some benchmarks that will give both sides some hope that the arrangement will not last forever.


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Earlier this month, cops in Tokyo's Shibuya stopped a person dressed as an anime female (see above). The mask is called an "animegao" (アニメ顔) or "anime face".
According to Japanese publication Tokyo Sports, the police stopped the cosplayer, asking, "Why are you wearing that mask?" The anime faced cosplayer replied, "That, I cannot say." The police, however, had the cosplayer write down his or her name and address.
The perplexing scene was supposedly happened upon by a Tokyo Sports writer, who noted just how odd—and freaky—the whole thing was.
渋谷に現れた謎の"アニメ顔"少女 [Tokyo Sports]
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Apple's 2012 iMac models began shipping on Friday, and some have landed in the hands of experts who have put the all-in-one desktop computer to the test. Here's a round-up of what the critics had to say about the brand new iMac.
"It is incredibly slim… a few years ago, this could have been mistaken for a standalone flat-panel display. But the new iMac is a powerful all-in-one that should meet the needs of all but the most demanding of users," writes Fortune's JP Mangalindan.
Fortune's review notes that the lack of an optical drive may mean that the new iMac isn't an ideal solution for some, but for those who download or stream music and video, it's a "non-issue".
Mangalindan claims to have put the new iMac through its paces, running multiple applications at ones and spending hours playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on it, with not an issue to speak of. He notes that the fan did fire up, but stayed quiet.
Fortune's review explains that the non-Retina display on the new iMac won't bother those who aren't used to a Retina MacBook Pro, and that the new screen with up to 75 per cent less glare seems to have made a big improvement.
Mangalindan's only gripe was the iMac's speakers, which are "nowhere near horrible," but lacking in bass. A separate pair of speakers is mandatory for audiophiles, he says.
"It is the biggest iMac product redesign in years and a largely successful one, provided some users don't mind shelling out a little extra for the optical drive or overlooking this generation's omission of Retina Display," Mangalindan concludes.
David Pierce at The Verge wrote: "This year's iMac appears to have undergone the computer version of elective cosmetic surgery – it doesn't look different, just better."
While he notes that "Apple's claim of it being 5mm thin is a bit misleading," due to the iMac's bulging back, Pierce said that it is "incredibly sleek" and "good looking".
Pierce says that he misses the optical drive in the iMac, and doesn't think it makes as much sense to remove it as it did on laptops. He also dislikes the repositioning of the SD card slot, which is now on the back of the iMac, alongside the headphone jack, four USB 3.0 ports, Thunderbolt port, and a Gigabit Ethernet port.
Pierce agrees with Mangalindan in that the iMac's speakers are poor. "I always loved the iMac's speakers… but in the newer, slimmer model, they're actually a step backward….Mid and highs sound great, and the down-firing speakers are loud enough to fill a room, but there is absolutely zero bass response," he explains.
As for the display, Pierce writes that "if you get close to the screen, you can definitely see individual pixels, but at normal using-a-computer distances, they look crisp and sharp."
"Indeed the glare problems that beset so many displays are much less present here, though there's still some reflection and glare," he says. "The improved manufacturing also makes whatever's on the screen feel closer to you, almost like things are jumping out of the panel."
Pierce also notes that the iMac didn't show any sign of struggling when running multiple apps and games, and that the optional Fusion Drive, which will set you back an additional £200, "works just as it should, especially if you're coming from a hard drive-based machine," and feels "blisteringly fast."
Overall, Pierce's 2012 iMac review concludes: "The display is really the only unequivocated improvement in the new model, and it's a big one. The sleeker, slimmer design is great, but it causes a couple of problems and forces a few unfortunate compromises. Yes, it's faster, but only enough to keep up with the Joneses - equal performance can definitely be had elsewhere."
"There's no question this is the best iMac yet, but of course it is; Apple doesn't have a habit of making its good products worse. If you weren't in the market for a new all-in-one desktop, the iMac's not suddenly so much more appealing that you absolutely have to have one now, but if you're looking for a desktop PC there's still no better option."
TechCrunch's Darrell Etherington says that the new iMac's thinner design is impressive, but that all of that trimming has led to some omissions such as the built-in optical drive and, in the 21.5in model, user-accessible RAM. Despite this, Etherington says "this revamped iMac hardware is a huge improvement over previous generations in just about every way that matters."
Ethertington noted a "considerable" difference in the display's reflectiveness, and says that the screen feels "much improved in all tasks," especially photo editing.
Etherington's benchmark scores showed that the 2012 iMac has solid improvements over its predecessors, and his non-Fusion review unit "truly impressed in terms of executing every day tasks."
Interestingly, when it came to the speakers, Etherington disagreed with the previous two reviewers on the sound quality, describing the new iMac's built-in speakers as "better" than predecessors.
Engadget reviewer Dana Wollman found the new iMac's skinnier design 'eye-catching' but sees it as just a bonus, noting that the only time you'll ever notice it is when you're looking at your computer edge-on, which is something we don't do particularly often.
Wollman says that the iMac's wow factors are the display, sound and an impressive performance that means little waiting. She describes Apple's attempt to reduce glare on the display as a "success" and highlights the improvement in colour.
She agrees with Etherington in that the iMac's speakers are improved, and goes as far as saying "you probably don't need an external pair of speakers; as is, we felt we were rediscovering favourite songs, in that we were able to make out details that would have gotten drowned out on a lesser system."
"The newest iMac is a great product, and despite Apple's reputation for making pricey things, it's actually a great value, too…As for FusionDrive, it's exceedingly rare to find a consumer system that uses an HDD for storage and an SSD for system stuff. That's a clear step up from typical hybrid drives, which use a much smaller amount of flash memory, mainly for caching and improving start-up times. And while Apple doesn't always win on specs, it makes a tempting offer here: you get beefier graphics than on competing systems, which should help creative professionals, amateur photographers and casual gamers alike," Wollman concludes, highlighting the lack of an optical drive as the only real drawback for some consumers.
CNET's Rich Brown gives the new iMac an 'excellent' rating, writing "Apple sticks to the fundamentals with the new iMac, relying on design, strong features, and overall polish to maintain its leadership among high-end all-in-ones."
Brown says that the 27in iMac is an easy recommendation for those who need or want a fast computer with a large, "gloriously crisp" display. "The new design simply looks fantastic," he says.
When it comes to Apple's new antireflective display, Brown writes that the benefits are "immediately apparent if you set the iMac up next to other large-screen monitors."
"On the whole, the 27in iMac seems fairly priced," Brown said. "The lack of an optical drive is inconsequential given how easy it is to add an external DVD burner. I also don't miss FireWire 800 on the iMac. Both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt are faster. I only wish Apple provided a dedicated HDMI input."
As for performance, Brown said: "This is the fastest iMac yet, and one of, if not the, fastest all-in-ones available."
Brown gave credit to the iMac's new, second microphone for its ability to improve sound quality of a FaceTime call.
In conclusion, Brown wrote: "You might be alarmed by the fact that the design is the most interesting thing about the new iMac. A thin bezel is nice to look at, but it doesn't improve processing speed, workflow, or overall utility. Fortunately for Apple, it evolved that design from a computer with a strong technical foundation. It is the updates to that foundation, and a few points of polish along the way, that keep this iMac on elite footing. I'll suggest you line up behind the Blu-ray fans to those of you hoping Apple will someday add touch-screen input to the iMac. Instead, this is a computer for serious, performance-driven users, particularly those who need a high-resolution display, and fast graphics and disk performance."
Overall, the majority of reviewers seem to agree that the lack of an optical drive in the new iMac models isn't a major issue. In a recent Macworld poll, 55 per cent of our readers said that they could live with out the CD/DVD drive on their Mac.
The reviewers also agreed that the display and performance of the iMac is much improved, and that the thinner design is one of the most impressive new features of the computer.
What they don't seem to agree on, however, is the quality of the speakers, with the reviewers completely torn over whether they are amazing or appalling.
We'll soon be bringing you our very own review of Apple's new iMac models, with our expert opinion on its pros and cons and our advice about whether or not you should buy one.
In the meantime, you can find out more about the new iMacs by following the links below:
It's easy to upgrade RAM on new 27in iMac 2012
Upgrading RAM on new 21.5in iMac 2012 practically impossible
Mysterious 'Assembled in USA' label spotted on new iMac 2012 models
Apple selling 21in skinny iMac, taking 27in pre-orders for delivery this month
It will give your Mac a boost, but is Apple's Fusion Drive a rip off?


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AbstractThis syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor.
Welcome to Economics 101. This is the introductory course in microeconomics, which studies the behavior of individuals, firms, and governments in response to different incentives. The Rhodes College Catalog describes the introductory economics sequence as follows: A survey of economic analysis and institutions combining economic theory with a discussion of applications to the U.S. economic system for majors and non-majors. First semester (microeconomics): Study of the behavior of consumers and firms in competitive and noncompetitive markets, and the consequences of this behavior for resource allocation and income distribution. Consideration of government's role in competitive and noncompetitive markets.2 Economic analysis provides us with a way of thinking about the world that examines how people respond to incentives. Mastering the "economic way of thinking" will open up a whole new world of ideas, approaches, and perspectives. In this course, you will learn how to apply the economic way of thinking to a variety of issues. This course has several key topics: incentives, basic models of consumer and producer behavior (as well as their applications), the workings of "supply and demand," the causes and consequences of government intervention, the social role of profit and loss, and the consequences of each for human well-being. The Rhodes Vision states that "Rhodes College aspires to graduate students with a life-long passion for learning, a compassion for others, and the ability to translate academic study and personal concern into effective leadership and action in their communities and the world." Understanding economics is integral to the Rhodes Vision in that economics equips you with a unique critical perspective. While economic analysis as such does not produce value judgments, careful economic reasoning can inform "effective leadership and action" in that what you learn in this course will help you carefully evaluate and act on policy proposals, whether it be in the boardroom or at the ballot box. This syllabus provides a tentative guide to the course. The assignments and course outline are subject to change.


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Polycom's Videoconferencing Business Unfazed by Ambitious Startups, CEO Says
If indeed the ambitious videoconferencing startups of the world, like Vidyo and Blue Jeans Network, were supposed to have messed up the business plans of established players in that world by now, you certainly couldn't have proved it by looking at the earnings results just put up by Polycom.
Sales in Q4 at $353 million, while down 9 percent year on year, were in line with analysts expectations, while profits at 17 cents beat expectations by two cents.
I talked briefly with CEO Andrew Miller, who said a recent deal with AT&T will help its competitive stance against rival Cisco Systems in the videoconferencing space. "The AT&T deal really put the industry on notice," Miller said.
Additional existing deals with IBM and Microsoft, via its Lync service, remain in place, and contributed to the 5 percent rate of sequential growth in the quarter. Polycom has also been battling a perception that its videoconference business has been under attack by startups. The company launched a significant upgrade to its videoconferencing technology in October. "Last year was all about people talking about Vidyo and Blue Jeans," Miller says. "We think we have the most compelling product, heading into 2013."


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