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Surviving among the cluster bombs of civilization, we have often surmised about our bizarre world as the same, absurd continuum from the beginning of time.
We cannot imagine our preposterous world without its job searches, employment hustles, apartments for rent, bank payment loans, security deposits, credit policies, police forces, prisons, schools, corporations, institutions, hospitals, houses of worship, advertising billboards, street scams, mafia-gang syndicates, criminal sprees, warfare and bombings, propaganda methods, State social control – and all the other criminal vices that plague and pester our everyday lives.
Within the sinister realm of ideologies, our modern world has seen the tumorous growth of outlandish ideological sects that have not only seized the modern State, but have also entered the realms of accepted science and common sense. Some ideological cabals have even taken the reins of social control through subtle hegemonic-state alliances over a short span of time. There are many such strange and nefarious stories from the darkened and hidden annals of human history.
The human mind, or the human brain, has represented one of the most mysterious areas for human research, and at the same time, one of the most desired regions for studying the evil arts of human social control. This explains the nauseating repetition of crap advertising and state-corporate propaganda, or 'the news,' found on most radio programs, television screens, and even when we click on to certain websites on our laptops.
Before there existed corporate media outlets under the direction of the political-economic elites, there were other proven methods in the discernment of mental operations. Those ancient methods considered the images, forms, inclusive of symbols, or languages, which seemed to constantly invade the human brain, meaning the intersecting lines and tapes of ego-centric, fantastic, conscious thoughts.
Some ancient religious ideologies preferred to tame the human brain and life actions through the methods of ethical self-systems, such as Confucianism, Jainism, Torah-Legalistic Judaism, Zoroastrianism, African Traditional Religions, Epicureanism, Daoism, Sikhism and Stoicism. Other religious practices preferred to discipline the mind through the experiences of spiritual transcendence, such as Hinduism, Neo-Platonism, Pythagorean Religion, Neo-Egyptian Religion, Gnosticism, Christian Mysticism, Jewish Kabbala, and African Diaspora Religions. Only one religion was successful in combining both of these methods: Buddhism.
Buddhism denies the existence of the ego-self-soul-spirit bodies, and yet it allows for the Hindu belief in reincarnation-rebirth. It negates the complete idea of a controlling deity over human life, yet it also accepts the influence of malevolent spirits-illusions that infect our minds. Buddhism developed the only comprehensive, ancient method, or practice, in disciplining the human mind.
This mental discipline first emphasizes that we understand a simple truth: our thoughts are mental illusions, which create continual suffering in our lives, since our physical bodies also grow into old age, sickness and death. The second part of the method encourages the middle path of ethical behavior in avoidance of bad karma, or actions, words and thoughts, while engaging our will, or self-discipline, to meditate, or concentrate as much as possible, on our living actuality, such as breathing, walking, lying down, and other common life activities.
The spiritual method requires great self-discipline for the personal conquest of the monkey mind. This is the reason that Siddhartha Gautama, or the Buddha, formed the 'sangha,' or the monk practitioners of Buddhism with their shaved heads, brown, crimson, yellow robes, begging canisters and sandals.
About a thousand years later however, another religious mystic would create an even greater method for mind control, and in another sense, he became the first practitioner of modern psychobabble-psychology – although crap history leaves him out of the psycho history lesson.
His name was Iñigo de Loyola. He was a Spanish knight of the lower Basque nobility. In the early 1520s, after a momentous battle against the French in Pamplona, he severely injured his leg during the combat. While bedridden and under severe pain, he almost died from profuse bleeding. He managed to recover, and later began to read books on the heroic lives of the Saints.
How did the Saints manage to go so many days without eating and yet keep their composure, and how did they maintain their dignity and peace of mind even when under physical punishments, mental torments, or the duress of prison? Loyola ultimately got out of bed, but walked with a limp for the rest of his life. He could no longer live as a knight, so he imitated the heroic walks of the Saints.
He gave up his weapons and fine clothes at a shrine across his route in northern Spain, and then wandered barefoot, limping with a staff, and wore a coarse cloak with relic pieces and crosses, only carrying a dirty leather bag to help him along the way. Through this hard journey, during the 1520's, he began to keep a rough journal.
This journal would later become his famous Spiritual Exercises during the 1530s when he began his university studies to become a priest. By the 1540s, he already had a group of devotees educated in the method of the Exercises. What was inside those exercises that made them so powerful?
The Spiritual Exercises were the first, modern psychotherapy self-help manuals in disciplining the mind. Through his complete change and turnaround, from killing off his old Spanish Knight self, and remaking himself into a Catholic Saint, he attained something that only a human animal could create: the death of the old self into a resurrected new, transformed other – all through simple mind exercises.
A priest who has already inducted himself into the Exercises leads the adept through the four to five-week process. First, the acolyte has to examine his or her life to find the faults, weaknesses or sins, which have kept the person from attaining true spiritual power, or mental freedom and peace.
After confessing and acknowledging one's sins, and next, actively changing his or her habits in transforming the vices into virtues, the devotee later experiences the life of Christ, and especially his Passion on the Cross through understanding the hard process of personal, mind transformation.
The spiritual adviser or priest leads the adherent through controlled breath work, visualizations, vocal, repetitive prayers, and then participation in the Mass. After each session, he or she feels energized and more transformed, while the follower truly feels the power in belonging to the militant body of Christ. The most important part comes at the end of the session, where the votary learns the discernment of spirits.
The discernment of spirits implies understanding the thoughts, ideas, feelings, experiences, images and beliefs that come into his or her mind. Thoughts of doubt, laziness, sensual pleasure, guilt or nervousness represent demonic attacks, and they are let go, while thoughts or images that bring peace, spiritual rapture and joy come from the Holy Spirit. Once the adept successfully finishes the Exercises, he or she transforms into the disciplined believer-warrior. The worshiper has assumed control over his or her own 'spiritual mind.'
The Order of Loyola, or the Company of Jesus, was also an authoritarian, military like Company under the direction of the Jesuit General. This mental practice was for the 'greater glory of God,' or really, the glory of the Catholic Church. Loyola wanted fanatical believers to defend the Church against the dangers of Protestant heresy, or against any non-Catholic belief systems across the globe.
Less than fifty years after the founding of the Company of Jesus, or the Jesuits, they had controlled most of the Catholic Universities in Europe. They also became the confessors to Catholic monarchs, built Catholic Schools across Europe and the American Continent, and had sent missionaries across the Earth in order to convert the heathens, while the Religious Wars had taken off across Europe. This religious order even became one of the wealthiest religious corporations in human history.
Modern Psychology, or Psychobabble, has used the same methods in recent history. 'Social Workers' have manipulated public opinion through the US corporate media, talk TV reality shows, such as 'Dr. Phil' and 'Intervention.' Psychologists have made strategic alliances with the State through the power of illegally imprisoning, 'dangerous' people, while holding full legal powers in giving testimonies in courts of law.
Psychiatrists have gained nefarious profits through their bogus psycho therapy sessions, murderous psycho surgeries and their legal rights in dealing brutal, psychoactive drugs to the unwilling. Psychology has become a respected area of scientific study in universities across the globe.
Since modern psychology's founding, under the German physiologist Wilhelm Wundt during the late nineteenth-century, this ideology has dedicated itself to controlling and manipulating the human mind. Since its inception, it has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths across Europe and North America.
This ideology-pseudo science has mostly annihilated its victims through committing society's weaker populations into asylums, mental hospitals and sanitariums. . The list of victims has included the autistic, the delusional-imaginative, the outspoken-rebellious, the open homosexuals, the excessively weird, the overly sensitive, the mentally deficient, the anorexic, the obsessive-compulsive, or the artistically strange.
Through its spurious research in 'experimental' behaviors, and crimes of staff brutality, neglect, restraints, tortures, psycho surgeries, and forced drugging of lethal pharmaceuticals, this ideological-institution has destroyed millions of lives.
Due to its powers as a respected science of social control, governments, militaries, police forces, corporations, schools and other dictatorial institutions across the societal spectrum, have used psychology as one of their preferred methods in dominance and destruction over others.
A short list of psychobabble's historical crimes should suffice. The ideology and institution of Psychology collaborated with the Nazi Regime's mass murder of mentally deficient people in the 1930s. Due to their sinister success in this psycho-operation, the Nazis went after Jews, Gypsies and other hated social groups during the 1940s.
The psychobabble pseudo science used the surgery-torture of lobotomies on outspoken-rebellious individuals from the 1930s-70s, such as Rosemary Kennedy, the actress Frances Farmer, the musician Josef Hassid, the painter Sigrid Hjerten, and thousands of other homosexuals, artists, non-conformists and other imaginative dreamers that seemed too weird. Most of the victims of lobotomies either died soon after or survived as incapacitated blobs.
In the 1970s, with lobotomies exposed as a form of torture and murder, and yet none of the 'psycho doctors' doing any prison time, psychobabble went on the offensive with its APA organization, the American Psychological Association, the Vatican of Psycho quackery.
Each successive year, this organization's bible, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, seems to grow exponentially. Even a nervous tic could put one on the list of disorders, and often the same psycho babble experts have suffered from the same neuroses. These 'experts' even had 'homosexuality' listed as one of the diseases to cure.
The Psycho mob soon made important ties with the federal, state and municipal governments in the United States, giving quacks full legal rights in stating court testimony and holding the legal rights to commit people involuntarily. Psychology had trumped the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution. All of this didn't stop the tortures however, and so the Psycho punishers began to use the horrific practice of electroshock therapy, or giving voltage shocks to the brains of rebellious mental patients.
They also went on the offensive in the corporate sphere, helping to create the Biotech monolith in legally dealing the deadly, psychoactive drugs, such as Prozac, Lithium and Thorazine, which opened a flood gate of profits for both the Biotech companies and the Psycho practitioners. This practice also opened the floodgates to serial killers and mass shooters, which have become part of the diseased American cultural dynamic.
A few Psycho monsters had earlier collaborated with the US Government of Sociopaths in some very evil behavioral experiments during the 1940s and 50s. There was Project 4.1, which studied radiation effects on Marshall Island natives who had been victims of the US government's use of nuclear testing nearby, and the Tuskegee Study, where US government doctor-thugs and psycho quacks injected syphilis into African-American men in the South in order to study the mental effects of the disease. And there was the most famous of all, Project MK-ULTRA, where the CIA and psycho experts heavily dosed US military personnel, patients in mental hospitals, prisoners and prostitutes, with LSD, in order to find a 'truth serum.' Some of those unsuspecting participants were never the same people again.
During the Satanic sacrifice-Child molestation scare of the 1980s in the United States, Psycho hacks were found in the corporate media defending the discredited use of 'repressed testimonies' in children, something not seen since the European witch trials of the 1640s.
Throughout this same decade of the 1980s, the Psychology Mafia also instituted a terrible scam on rebellious teenagers from white, middle class backgrounds. With the collusion of disreputable Insurance companies, both parents and psychologists could involuntarily commit rebellious adolescents into mental hospitals or special homes that tried to reform the defiant young people. The parents paid the Insurance companies, while the Insurance companies, mental clinics and Psycho gangs reaped the profits.
These same mental centers often recruited local thugs and weirdos to control the kids, while a few of those brutes even got away with legal murder through using restraints and tortures on the kids. This crime syndicate especially flourished in the state of Florida. The evil connivance of Psychobabble, the State and the Insurance Mafia, destroyed thousands of American families due to neurotic parents duped into imprisoning their own children.
Psychologists have collaborated with the US military through its 'Psychological Operations,' while sanctioning the use of torture and murder during its recent genocides in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally, I remember watching many of the Psychology graduate students when I was a doctoral student in history. Unfortunately, the art of history shared the same building complex as that quack 'social science.' Those Psychology doctoral students were often bizarre and anal, and a few of them were actual wing nuts. Were these the experts that were going to help the mentally afflicted? Psychology has even tried to capture of the art of history with its very own version of psychohistory!
Psychology-Psychobabble has been an integral state ideology through its arts of social control. There is nothing scientific about it. The Modern State and all tyrannical institutions, such as schools, cops and the military, adore it, while the Psycho leaders always eye newer and weaker victims to liquidate and murder.
We Anarchists know the truth about this disguised evil covered in the cloak of science and 'normalcy.' We must also fight their leaders as we fight the State, the cops, the rich elites, the powerful and the corporations. Ultimately, we should even refrain from using their terms and vocabulary, such as 'psychopath, neurotic and schizo,' which have become part of our common English vocabulary – and we should try to never see, speak with, or pay for a visit to one of those despicable fakes. Our Anarcho-spirit of liberty would engender a 'mental illness' and a forced imprisonment in one of their dungeons.
The Psychobabble Quack Cult is now the State's and the Elite's most trusted co-conspirator.


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FRISCO Summit County emergency dispatchers say it sometimes takes longer to get help to people who rely on GPS-equipped smartphones because they dont know exactly where they are.
The Summit Daily News reported Sunday that some people who call 911 cant give their precise location even in towns or on major highways.
In a lot of cases, people really dont have any idea where they are, said Bill Pessemier, director of communications for the county.
If we dont have that address, it can cause a delay in time, maybe a minute or two or three, he said.
GPS is not as accurate as many people think, he said. GPS-enabled phones can find a callers location to within about 90 to 110 yards, he said.
Thats good for the backcountry, but in the town, with condos and businesses, its not as helpful, said Lisa Hans, a supervisor with the county communications department.
Hans said its particularly hard to pinpoint the location of someone who calls 911 from Interstate 70 in Summit County. Callers can sometimes say only that theyre west of Denver or tell dispatchers where theyre headed, she said.
Callers might say something such as, Yeah, we just left Denver; were on our way to California, Hans said.
We try to narrow it down. Eastbound or westbound? Did you come through a tunnel? Did you pass any towns? Were going through this process of elimination, and that takes time, she said.
Hans and Pessemier are asking local governments, the lodging industry and ski resorts to cooperate on an education campaign to encourage visitors to be aware of their location in more detail.
Pessemier said he doesnt yet have specifics or cost estimates for the plan but wants to get discussions started.
One idea is to improve address signage in populated areas.
If you walk up and down Main Street in Breckenridge or in Frisco, youd be hard-pressed to find addresses, he said.
Pessemier said the campaign could take at least six months to launch. He hopes to have something in place for summer.

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The finale of America's Got Talent got an injection of star power from the worlds of pop, R&B and hip-hop. Justin Bieber headlined a strong contingent of performers that included G.O.O.D. Music MC Big Sean and R&B veteran Ne-Yo.
Following an introduction by host Nick Cannon, Bieber—wearing a silver jacket and black leather pants—took to the stage with a small army of back-up dancers and a confident Sean for their single "As Long As You Love Me."
It's the latest track from the pop superstar's near platinum album Believe. And judging by the enthusiastic screams from Bieber's mostly female fans in the audience, witnessing the Canadian teen sensation sing, dance, and rap with his Detroit rhyme collaborator was a television win.
Meanwhile, Ne-Yo, dressed all in white, performed his hit "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)." The romantic dance track continues the singer-songwriter's transition from traditional rhythm and blues to more pop-inflected material. The song is from his upcoming Motown album R.E.D., which is due out in stores November 13. Check out the performance here.
Other America's Got Talent performances included pop punk act Green Day and the theatrical crew Blue Man Group.
While one show is wrapping, the singing competition shows are ramping up, with new debuts from X Factor and the Voice. The competition is already heating up on both stages. If you've missed it, check out the show recaps for X Factor here and The Voice by going here.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have demonstrated an electronic "man in the middle" attack that allows remote tampering with the Diebold AccuVote voting system. Argonne's Vulnerability Assessment Team has previously exposed the same sort of vulnerability in Sequoia AVC machines in 2009, and believe the attack could be used against a wide range of voting machines.
The attack requires tampering with voting machine hardware, and allows for votes to be changed as the voter prepares to commit them. But the devices require no actual changes to the hardware—the hardware required to make the attacks can be attached and removed without leaving any evidence that it had ever been there. The electronics in the demonstrated attack are simply jacked in between two components on the Diebold's printed circuit board using existing connectors.
VAT team leader Roger Johnston said in a video posted by Brad Friedman of the voting watchdog site The Brad Blog that the physical security measures taken to protect voting machines in many states are inadequate to protect them from pre-Election Day tampering. "They're often kept a week or two before elections in a school or church basement,"Johnston said. And the modifications can be made without picking locks or breaking seals on the devices.
Diebold has a shaky security history. In 2004, Johns Hopkins University computer science professor Avi Rubin and a team of researchers revealed a broad set of cyber vulnerabilities in the AccuVote system. In the past, there have been suggestions that Diebold itself tampered with elections in Georgia in 2002.
But while cyber attacks would require a high level of sophistication, the electronic man-in-the-middle attack demonstrated by Argonne's VAT team requires only basic electronics skills, and about $10.50 worth of hardware. "Anybody with an electronics workbench could put this together," Argonne VAT team member John Warner said in the video.


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After the carnage we endured in the market last year, investors are eager to get their portfolios and their dreams of retirement back on track. Unfortunately, if history is any guide, many of them will go about it exactly the wrong way -- by chasing performance.
While it may seem like an easy fix to identify which stocks or segments of the market have been outperforming lately, and throw your money at them in the hopes that they'll continue their winning ways, this is a surefire way of sandbagging your portfolio.
Chasing one's tail
Let's examine which investments have landed at the top of the charts so far in 2009. According to the Morningstar Principia database, the following five funds are all near the top of the class:
Dreyfus Emerging Asia (DEAAX)
ProFunds Ultra Latin America (UBPIX)
JP Morgan Russia (JRUAX)
ProFunds Ultra Sector Mobile Telecom (WCPIX)
Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bull 3X Shares
*Performance year to date through June 30, 2009.
Wow! Those are some pretty hefty returns. But before you go imagining ways to fit one of these highfliers into your portfolio, take a closer look at each of these funds. You'll find several reasons why they aren't appropriate for most investors.
First of all, the two ProFunds offerings and the Direxion exchange-traded fund are leveraged funds, which offer investors a multiple of the index that the funds are tracking. The ProFunds offer 150% and 200% of their respective indexes, while the Direxion fund offers 300% of the daily return of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index! To me, that sounds more like gambling than investing.
In addition, most of these options are very narrowly focused, investing in just one industry or one emerging economy, like JP Morgan Russia. It's no surprise that funds like these land at the top of the performance charts -- they're also the most likely to land at the bottom of the charts next year.
These risky, narrow funds are highly volatile. In fact, of the four of these funds that were in existence in 2008, each of them lost between 61% and 89% last year alone! Most investors don't have any need for narrowly focused investments like these. Fools should stick to well-diversified, broad-market options instead.
While the Dreyfus fund invests more broadly across emerging markets, it is highly concentrated, with more than 79% of assets in just three sectors, and 55% allocated to two countries. That means concentrated bets, which could sink the fund if they don't pan out. Furthermore, the fund is relatively new, with less than two years of a track record. That's a bit too soon to make a solid judgment call on the managers' long-term skills.
Lastly, as is typically the case with highly specialized funds, each of these top performers is ridiculously expensive. Whereas the average mutual fund sports a 1.3% net expense ratio, these chart-toppers range in price from 1.66% to 2%. The Direxion ETF is slightly cheaper at 0.75%, but that's still much higher than the cost of the average exchange-traded fund! That's more than any investor should be willing to pay for the privilege of owning any fund, no matter how outsized the gains may be in any short-term period.
The cost of folly
While it can be incredibly tempting to chase returns, keeping a steady head as trends come and go is one of the key attributes of successful long-term investors. In fact, a study performed by the Financial Research Corp. (FRC) found that on a rolling return basis from January 1990 through March 2000, the average mutual fund's mean three-year return was 10.92%, while the average fund investor gained only 8.7% over the same period. The study attributes the difference to investors' habit of chasing performance, as measured by rising redemption rates and shorter holding periods.
A better way
So what does this all mean? Well, first of all, if you want to win at the investment game, you've got to move beyond short-term thinking. A longer-term, buy-and-hold focus is essential. You've got to look past the temporary ups and downs of the market and keep the long-run trajectory in mind.
Secondly, if you're shopping for mutual funds, make sure you're not using past performance as your sole criteria for selection. While it is perfectly OK to take longer-term performance into account, I would argue that it's more important to first find a fund with an experienced, long-tenured manager, low expenses, a consistent investment history, and solid performance in both good and bad environments. Once you've done that, see how it stacks up against its competitors' track records.
If exchange-traded funds tickle your fancy, make sure you stick to broad-market, well-diversified options like Spiders
Of course, if you consider yourself a stock jockey, there's no better place to get investment ideas than from some of the brightest names in the business. For example, top manager Chris Davis of Selected American Shares (SLADX) is loading up on information technology picks like Activision Blizzard
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There are worthwhile ways of rebuilding your portfolio, but chasing performance isn't one of them. By choosing the right investments and sticking with them for the long run, you'll be ahead of the pack, instead of chasing others.
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This article was originally published June 18, 2009. It has been updated.
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Winter has been late in coming, this year. Temperatures are only now starting to get to levels near the seasonal norms. While that has meant extra time to split wood and change vehicle tires, it has also meant that bears have been active later in the year than usual.
Early Tuesday morning, Talkeetna resident Ed Craver was awoken by his dog, Kusko, who was apparently having a bad dream. Ed managed to calm Kusko down and get him back to sleep.
"Then, half an hour later, I had just dropped back into sleep and I heard him growling. If you know my dog, he's a ferocious beast."
Kusko weighs less than twenty-five pounds.
"So, he kept growling and I got up and turned the yard light on, and there was a big, blond grizzly sitting on my little porch."
Ed banged on his metal door and tried to make as much noise as he could, but the bear, which Ed estimates at six to seven feet long, only moved a few feet off the porch. That's when Ed decided to retrieve his shotgun. He opened the door and the bear started toward him.
"So, I am obviously a little conflicted about what I should do. I know, if I close the door, that would just simply aggravate him even more, and I would have a bear in my house."
Ed decided to shoot at the ground ahead of the adult grizzly. Between the bright flash of the gunpowder and the boom of the shotgun, the bear decided it was time to go elsewhere. Ed says it is the second time a bear, possibly the same one, has been around his house since the beginning of November.
He says that, in forty years living in Talkeetna, he's never seen a bear this late in the year. Ed is not alone in spotting late-roaming grizzlies. At least two other listeners have contacted KTNA to say they have seen bears roaming near the Talkeetna Spur Road. Ed's concern is that hungry bears roaming later than normal could pose a significant risk to people in town, especially children.
"I just…have shivers when I think about the prospects of a small kid out playing in the yard or something, and then suddenly comes upon a bear, then decides he needs to run away."
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is aware of the impact that the long autumn is having on bears. Todd Rinaldi, a wildlife biologist with Fish and Game, says there have been significant effects on when bears are deciding to hibernate.
"There are a bunch of factors that dictate when bears go into hibernation: weather, the amount of light, snowfall, but one of the biggest factors is their ability to acquire energy and to continue to feed throughout the fall. When those food sources go away or become unavailable, that's their final trigger to go into hibernation."
With fewer fish in the rivers, and the berry crop all but gone for the year, bears are looking more and more to trash cans and other human-created food sources. Todd Rinaldi says that it's still too early for people to relax on bear awareness.
"It's a really important time of year for residents to secure their garbage, secure their dog food, or to make sure that the electric fences are working around their livestock to prevent bears from getting into chickens and things like that. One of the things the Department recommends is to hold off on putting out bird feeders until even later in the month, so that those food sources are not available as well."
Todd Rinaldi says that bears aren't the only wildlife being affected by the late arrival of winter. Moose along the road can be harder to see without a blanket of white to contrast against, wolves have a harder time catching prey, and many small animals that use snow for insulation or camouflage will be at a disadvantage until snow flies. As for the bears, he says as long as they can find food, they'll likely hang around.


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Glenda, our up line Stampin' Up! Demonstrator always gives us a challenge at each monthly meeting. As a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, one of the many perks we get is that we receive the STAMPIN SUCCESS monthly magazine. It is chock full of great tips and ideas to use for our classes or personal use if you are just a hobbyist. In the September issue they had a sketch challenge so Glenda challenged us to make a card using that sketch. Here is the sketch challenge and here is what I came up with…
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LOS ANGELES — Thousands of police officers throughout Southern California and neighboring states hunted Thursday for a disgruntled former Los Angeles officer wanted for going on a deadly shooting rampage that he warned in an online posting would target those on the force who wronged him, authorities said.
Police issued a statewide "officer safety warning" and police were sent to protect people named in the posting that was believed to be written by the fired officer, Christopher Dorner, who has military training. Among those mentioned were members of the Los Angeles Police Department.
"I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty," said the manifesto. It also asserted: "Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared. That's what this is about, my name. A man is nothing without his name."
Dorner has available multiple weapons including an assault rifle, said police Chief Charlie Beck, who urged Dorner to surrender. "Nobody else needs to die," he said.
More than 40 protection details were assigned to possible targets of Dorner. Police spokesman Cmdr. Andrew Smith said he couldn't remember a larger manhunt by the department.
The hunt spread from California to Nevada, Arizona and Mexico, said a U.S. Marshals Service official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to publicly comment.
A report of a burned pickup truck near the Big Bear ski area came under investigation. TV news helicopters showed a rifle-equipped team being delivered to the area in the San Bernardino Mountains. San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Zach Beckum said the pickup fire was being investigated but there has been no sighting of Dorner. Beckum said local school officials decided to lock down the schools.
The search for Dorner, who was fired from the LAPD in 2008 for making false statements, began after he was linked to a weekend killing in which one of the victims was the daughter of a former police captain who had represented him during the disciplinary hearing. Authorities believe Dorner opened fire early Thursday on police in cities east of Los Angeles, killing an officer and wounding another.
Beck detailed Dorner's alleged crimes in an unusual press conference in an underground room at police headquarters, where extra security was deployed. The chief said there had been a "night of extreme tragedy in the Los Angeles area" and that all measures were being implemented to ensure officer safety.
Police said Dorner, 33, implicated himself in the couple's killings with the multi-page "manifesto."
A Facebook post believed written by Dorner said he knew he would be vilified by the LAPD and the news media, but that "unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name."
Los Angeles police believe the manifesto posted to Facebook was written by Dorner because there are details in it only he would know.
As police searched for him, the packed Los Angeles area was on edge. The nearly 10,000-member LAPD dispatched many of its officers to protect potential targets. The department also pulled officers from motorcycle duty, fearing they would make for easy targets.
In San Diego, where Dorner allegedly tied up an elderly man and unsuccessfully tried to steal his boat Wednesday night, Naval Base Point Loma was locked down Thursday after a Navy worker reported seeing someone who resembled Dorner.
Navy Cmdr. Brad Fagan said officials don't believe he was on base Thursday but had checked into a base hotel on Tuesday and left the next day without checking out. Numerous agencies guarded the base.
Fagan said Dorner was honorably discharged and that his last day in the Navy was last Friday.
Nevada authorities also looked for Dorner because he owns a house nine miles from the Las Vegas Strip, according to authorities and court records.
Authorities said the U.S. Navy reservist may be driving a dark colored 2005 Nissan Titan pickup truck.
Christopher Dorner: Mountain Manhunt For Ex-Cop Accused Cop Killer was originally published on newsone.com


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Do you want to start an online business but you have limited funds? Or do you have the funds to start an online business but you want to limit your financial risk? Regardless of your situation, there are various ways in which you can make money online. In his book entitled How to Start an Online Business with Less than $200 author Omar Johnson shows you the best ways to make money on the internet.
Each opportunity revealed requires very little capital (less than $200) or no capital at all. Topics covered include the secrets of making money on Ebay, creating a kindle book publishing empire, making money as an affiliate, making money as an online consultant and much much more. This book is for all aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start an online business or veteran entrepreneurs looking to expand and grow their current business.
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- 26-11-13
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Would you try another book from Omar Johnson and/or Omar Johnson?
No, I was looking more for a book that would give details about starting a business such tax issues to watch out for, and the different type of business structures and their legal obligations such as filing and registering with the states, SEC. Something I could listen to at work as research.
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It's a giant advertisement for all of Omar's products and services he sells online.
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What disappointed you about How to Start an Online Business with Less than $200?
I can appreciate Omar's entrepreneurial spirit, but I cannot recommend this book. There's really nothing new. Much of the information is available in greater detail with a quick Internet search.
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Helpful information, not only to make money online
I really liked the info I received and actually took several notes which is unlike me, but I do have to say the pace of the narration is very slow, which in some parts are good, but overall I set narration speed to 1.5 and then it was a great listen.
I think there is very valuable info for someone interesting in trying to make some money online but I liked that I learned several ways to save money marketing my company, developing my website, etc even if I don't try to make money online.
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Five species of sea turtles inhabit both the Gulf & East Coast regions of Florida: loggerhead, green, hawksbill, leatherback, and Kemp's Ridley. Loggerhead turtles, which are classified as threatened, are the predominant species on our beaches. Excluding the Big Bend area of Florida, all Florida beaches support nesting activities from April through September.
You can help to protect Sea Turtles!
Never approach sea turtles coming ashore or disturb nesting sea turtles or hatchlings. Biologists estimate that only about one out of every 2,500 hatchings survives to the age of sexual maturity.
Beachfront property owners should turn off exterior lights in areas where nesting takes place. Bright artificial lights discourage nesting sea turtles from coming ashore and disorient hatchlings, preventing them from reaching the sea.
See Sea Turtle Monitoring (the SNBS and INBS Programs) on the Fish & Wildlife Research Institute website.
Sea turtle nest locations were analyzed using a geographic information system (GIS) in order to calculate the total number of nests on each beach.
There are limitations to the use of the SNBS database imposed by the data collection methodology employed. These limitations are discussed in full in the aforementioned publication. General caveats include the following information:
- Changes in survey boundaries
- Not all sea turtle nesting beaches in Florida are monitored
- Variability of survey effort
- Loggerhead turtles are the principal focus of these monitoring programs, therefore other species are underrepresented
- Determination of nesting success is difficult
Population monitoring is the goal of a complementary FDEP program, the Index Nesting Beach Survey Program.


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CRESTVIEW � Triangle Park, situated at the south end of Main Street where it meets State Road 85, will be renamed for the local garden club that voluntarily assumed responsibility for beautifying the public park.
CRESTVIEW � Triangle Park, situated at the south end of Main Street where it meets State Road 85, will be renamed for the local garden club that voluntarily assumed responsibility for beautifying the public park.
Speaking before the Crestview City Council at its Monday evening meeting, Thea Duhaime of the Dogwood Garden Club invited council members and the public to the formal dedication of newly named Dogwood Park on April 25.
Councilman Tim Grandberry suggested because the park is situated in a prime location to serve as an entrance to Crestview's historic heart like the Niceville intersection of S.R. 85 and State Road 20, landscaping could help define the area.
"Make it more colorful," Grandberry encouraged. "Let them know where you're at."
Councilwoman Robyn Helt praised the club's work and suggested the Community Redevelopment Agency could help fund more improvements to the park, which is frequently used by workers in the area for eating their lunch and customers waiting to have their vehicles repaired at nearby garages.
"I appreciate the club's efforts to keep it beautified," Helt said. "The city could do a little more to help you, to bolster the partnership with the club."
"Anything else we can do, we're open to suggestions or requests," Duhaime said.
In other matters, the council:
�Received a request from City Clerk Betsy Roy to start considering budget planning for 2013-14. She suggested using nights when the council isn't meeting for planning sessions. Council President Ben Iannucci III asked the council to be "open to weekend planning sessions" as well.
�Received a report from Mayor David Cadle concerning a visit from a resident suggesting the city council pass a resolution to the Florida Department of Health to allow for a trauma center to be designated in Okaloosa County.
"As you know, the closest trauma centers are in Pensacola and Panama City," Cadle said. "We need a trauma center in Okaloosa County."
�Received a report from Public Works Director Wayne Steele stating he and Community Police officer Sam Kimmons continue to work on plans for a skate park in Twin Hills Park. They are meeting with Crestview High School students to obtain input from potential skate park users so they can finalize a report for the CRA meeting planned for March 25.
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The PAXgene Blood RNA MDx Kit is for fully automated, high-throughput purification of cellular RNA on the BioRobot MDx or BioRobot Universal System. (The PAXgene 96 Blood RNA Kit provides the same 96-well technology in a manual format.) Used with PAXgene Blood RNA Tubes (available from BD, cat. no. 762165) for sample collection and stabilization, the system provides a complete preanalytical solution for collection and stabilization through to purification of high-quality RNA to support high-throughput projects, such as clinical research studies.
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The automated PAXgene Blood RNA procedure provides high-quality RNA with high intra-donor repeatability (see figure "High-quality RNA from different donors"). Since yields are highly donor-dependent, individual yields may vary. An integrated DNase treatment ensures that genomic DNA contamination is minimized, typically to <0.1% (see figure "Very low levels of genomic DNA"). The fully automated PAXgene Blood RNA procedure provides RNA yields comparable to the manual PAXgene 96 Blood RNA procedure (typically ≥80%). Typical yields of RNA isolated from 2.5 ml healthy, human, whole blood (4.6 x 106 – 1.1 x 107 leukocytes/ml) are ≥3 µg for >95% of the samples processed. Purified RNA is ready to use in downstream applications, such as quantitative, real-time RT-PCR, with no RT-PCR inhibition detected (see figure "No RT-PCR inhibition detected"). Intersystem variation is minimal and well within the error range of typical real-time RT-PCR assays (see figure "High intersystem reproducibility").
The robust and standardized procedure is designed to minimize the risk of sample-to-sample cross-contamination. Total RNA was purified from 48 blood samples collected in PAXgene Blood RNA Tubes and 48 water samples. The samples were arranged in a checkerboard pattern on a 96-well block. After purification using the PAXgene Blood RNA MDx Kit on the BioRobot MDx workstation, all samples were analyzed by quantitative, real-time PCR using primers and probes specific for 18s rRNA for 40 PCR cycles. Threshold cycle values (CT) for the blood samples ranged from 27.3 to 32.7 while no RNA was detected in the water samples after 40 cycles.
Blood samples (2.5 ml) are collected directly into PAXgene Blood RNA Tubes, and RNA is isolated using the PAXgene Blood RNA MDx Kit. PAXgene Blood RNA Tubes contain a proprietary blend of reagents that bring about immediate stabilization of RNA. Blood samples can be stored in the PAXgene Blood RNA Tubes for up to 5 days at room temperature. RNA is then isolated by an automated procedure using silica membrane technology supplied in the PAXgene Blood RNA MDx Kit. The resulting RNA accurately represents the expression profile in vivo and is suitable for use in a range of downstream applications.
The simple purification procedure begins with a centrifugation step to pellet the contents of each PAXgene Blood RNA Tube. Proteinase K and an optimized incubation buffer are added to digest proteins. The tubes are then transferred to the BioRobot MDx or BioRobot Universal System. After setup of buffers and plasticware, guided by the QIAsoft Operating System, the BioRobot workstation carries out the fully automated RNA purification procedure (see flowchart "Automated PAXgene RNA purification procedure"). Following purification, a final heat treatment of the eluate enhances performance in downstream applications. Total processing time is 3–4 hours, with a maximum of 25–30 minutes of hands-on time. Protocols are available for batches of 48 or 96 samples per run.
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May 21, 2009 — After years of delay, the FDA is poised to finalize long-awaited sunscreen label changes designed to give consumers a better idea of the sun protection they're getting.
For the first time, sunscreen manufacturers will be required to provide information on the amount of ultraviolet A (UVA) screening provided by their products. UVA rays do not cause sunburns, but they do contribute to skin cancer and sun-related skin aging.
The new regulation will also prohibit manufacturers from claiming sun protection factors (SPF) of more than 50+, so those very high SPF sunscreens that now line drugstore and grocery-store shelves may go away.
In an interview with WebMD, Rita Chappelle of the FDA confirmed that the agency hopes to finalize the label rules before the end of the year and that SPF claims will be capped at 50+.
But sunscreen companies will have a year to 18 months after the new rules are enacted to make the label changes or provide scientific evidence justifying a higher SPF rating.
Chappelle also confirmed that the terms "sunblock," "waterproof," "sweat-proof," and "all-day protection" will no longer be allowed on sunscreen labels under the new regulations.
"No product can completely block out the rays from the sun and no product is completely waterproof," Chappelle says. "And labels will have to advise consumers to limit their time in the sun, wear protective clothing, and reapply sunscreen at a minimum of every two hours, especially after swimming or perspiring."
Label Changes a Decade in the Making
It has been a decade since the FDA first proposed a standardized UVA rating system, but there was widespread disagreement about how to best evaluate the level of UVA protection that sunscreens provide.
"It took some time for the science to catch up," Chappelle says.
Under the new regulations, sunscreens will be subjected to lab and human skin tests using a standardized sun simulator.
Almost two years ago, the FDA unveiled a proposed four-star rating system, with one star representing low UVA protection and four stars representing the highest UVA protection available in an over-the-counter product.
The stars would appear near the SPF rating on sunscreen labels.
Chappelle would not say if the proposed star system will be adopted in the finalized plan.
She says the agency received more than 3,000 comments about the proposed label changes and an "unprecedented" amount of scientific data from companies challenging those changes.
"Typically when we put out a proposed rule we get five or 10 submissions of scientific data," she says. "We received over 100 on this and they all had to be analyzed."
Sunscreen Companies Respond
Representatives of sunscreen manufacturers Neutrogena, Banana Boat, Hawaiian Tropic, and Coppertone all told WebMD they will comply with the FDA label changes.
But they also left the door open for challenging the SPF 50+ cap.
"The FDA has asked for data supporting high SPF products," Coppertone spokeswoman Jennifer Samolewicz notes in a written statement. "Many manufacturers, including Coppertone, have submitted new data for review and are awaiting the FDA's response."
A spokeswoman for Energizer Personal Care, which makes Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic sunscreens, tells WebMD that the company will assess its options after seeing the final FDA label requirements.
Farah Ahmed, who is general council for the cosmetics industry group Personal Care Products Council, tells WebMD that although the group doesn't object to capping SPF levels at 50+, it strongly disagrees with a proposal to prohibit sunscreens from claiming that they protect against skin cancer and premature skin aging.
"We are not saying that sunscreens alone prevent skin cancer and wrinkles," she says. "What we are saying is that when used as an overall sun-safe regimen, sunscreens reduce the risk of certain types of skin cancer and photo damage."
Sonya Lunder, who is a senior analyst for the environmental advocacy organization Environmental Working Group, says the FDA rule changes are long overdue and urgently needed.
"It's kind of a Wild West environment out there now," she tells WebMD "Companies can make all kinds of claims, and they are making them. Claims like 'all-day protection' and 'complete-protection' are proof that manufacturers are not following the (now voluntary) FDA guidelines."


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Did you know that Nelson Mandela was, at first, very quiet about AIDS? Yes, Nelson Mandela. The same man who spent 27 years in prison for essentially fighting for justice for the oppressed. But he turned things around as great leaders are known to do. He became a well-known advocate for AIDS causes. Today, as we mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela, the uber advocate, this Examiner reflects on three major ways he waged an international war against AIDS.
Denouncing Stigma
Nelson Mandela's last surviving son, Makgatho Lewanika Mandela, died in January 2005 due to complications from AIDS. He left behind four sons of his own. But instead of concealing the cause of death, Nelson Mandela bravely made the announcement about it at a press conference. "I announce that my son has died of AIDS," the 86-year-old Nobel Peace laureate told a news conference, urging a redoubled fight against the disease. "Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like tuberculosis, like cancer, is always to come out and to say somebody has died because of HIV/AIDS. And people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary,".
Started Not One but Three Organizations That Fought Against AIDS
Nelson Mandela withdrew from the public spotlight in 2004 to concentrate on humanitarian efforts. And concentrate he did. He worked on three different charities that would benefit people with HIV through fundraising and providing access to antiretroviral treatments.
The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund assisted children and their families who have been affected by HIV.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation funds HIV research and public antiretroviral programs.
46664 (pronounced four double six-six four; Mandela's former prison number) -- a philanthropic organization that raised money through private donations, concerts, and product endorsements.
Combatted Ignorance With Education
During his presidency, Nelson Mandela didn't immediately address AIDS crisis in South Africa. Doctors and advocates pleaded with the government to provide help but to no avail. Eventually, a National AIDS Plan was developed. In the plan, the minister of health would deal with treatment and prevention strategies. This plan took Mandela out of the picture on AIDS.
Mandela appointed a man named Thabo Mbeki as his deputy president. One of Mbeki's duties was to oversee the government's response to the AIDS pandemic, which had already been ravaging many of the countries in the continent killing as many as 1,000 people a day. Unfortunately, Mbeki was an AIDS denialist who didn't believe that HIV caused AIDS. When Mandela left office, Mbeki succeeded him. Mbeki continued to deny the connection between HIV and AIDS and refused to provide treatment even to rape victims and pregnant women.
Nelson Mandela witnessed how antiretroviral drugs helped a child get better from an HIV-related infection. He was sold. After deepening his commitment to HIV through charity work, Nelson Mandela called on the government to make antiretroviral treatment more widely available in South Africa. He took his fight to the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain. In 2005, after a long battle with denialists and Mbeki supporters, Nelson Mandela proudly welcomed the government rollout of antiretroviral therapy programs in South Africa.
Rest in peace Madiba. You have served your fellow man well. Rest with the understanding that your work was not in vain. You have trained and mentored many, many future leaders to follow in your footsteps and make some footprints of their own. We will always remember and honor your legacy. And the fight for justice, equality and good health for all will go on.
Read Candace's blog, D.C. HIV/AIDS Examiner.


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I am think of webgl and if it's the right for my project.
Can I build objects using 3Dmax and show it in the browser?
Can I load 2 and more objects in my same scene, adjusting each single object and setting the possition? In order to build something like a puzzle?
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With the weekend coming up let's take a look back at the mashups that were added to the ProgrammableWeb mashup directory over the last couple of weeks. Today we'll cover four mashups that include story narration with Instagram photo backdrops, a tool to follow the migration of monarch butterflies, a text-to-speech karaoke service, and visual representation of road related deaths across the world. Read below for more details on each.
StoryWheel – This mashup is an app that allows users to narrate a story while using their Instagram photos for a visual representation. APIs used include: Instagram. More at our StoryWheel profile.
Monarch Butterfly Migration Explorer – Monarch Butterfly Migration Explorer utilizes the photo sharing capabilities of Flickr to count sightings of butterflies then display the results on a map. Furthermore, this mashup uses Google Maps to display the results. APIs used include: Flickr and Google Maps. More at our Monarch Butterfly Migration Explorer profile.
Cyborg Karaoke party – This mashup uses various karaoke tracks from Rdio, a music subscription service, with a text-to-speech library that converts lyrics from LyricFind into digital speech. In a nutshell, a robotic karaoke app. APIs used include: LyricFind and Rdio. More at our Cyborg Karaoke party profile.
Road Kill Map – Road Kill Map is a visual representation of the 1.24 million deaths that occur on roadways annually across the world. It leverages Google Maps to aggressively show the deathes highlighted in blue while standing out in a yellow background. APIs used: Google Maps. More at our Road Kill Map profile.


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Getting out the door in time is the hardest part for me. Leaving five to ten minutes late is the difference between an uneventful ride, and a dicey time riding in the early stages of downtown rush hour.
Making sure that my bike is in proper working order is also really important. Leaving early enough won't do me any good if I have to spend five to ten minutes on the side of the road messing with my bike.
If I can get on the road at the usual time, and get to work and back without any mechanical problems, my day is just two nice bike rides separated by 9 hours in the office.
Prepare in advance
To get on the road as quickly as possible, I do as much preparation as I possibly can the night before. Having a checklist and preparing in advance not only saves you a bit of time in the morning, but it keeps you from forgetting important items such as your pants, work keys, or access card in the rush and half-asleep haze of the morning. You may choose to do this shortly after you arrive home, or you may wish to wait until it's time to wind down the night.
Obviously, depending on what your commute involves, each person's preparations will be a little bit different. I personally choose to take my clothes, work gear, and lunch in my panniers. The steps themselves aren't as important as getting into the habit of preparing in advance for your daily commute. That said, here's my nightly routine:
- Empty the panniers
- Put dirty clothes in the laundry
- Make sure all tools and supplies are accounted for
- Gather fresh work clothes
- Gather non-perishable food items for lunch
- Pack all that stuff in the right pannier.
- Put the NiteRider battery on the charger
- Check Blinkie. If needed: remove, disassemble, and charge batteries.
- Check tires. If they're really low, find the leak and fix it. I usually just replace the tube.
- Check brakes. If needed, tighten them with the adjustment wheel.
- Fill water bottles and place in fridge.
Preventive maintenance
Since this is my primary mode of transportation, I believe in keeping everything in top shape. Little problems can often be found and fixed by doing a thorough check of the bike. This way, you catch little problems before they cause major delays or annoyances in your commute. For bicycle maintenance, there are very few online resources as precious as Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Repair Articles and Park Tool's Repair Help page. Once you find a problem, you may need some special tools to fix it. If you purchased your bike at a local bike shop, it may be something that they can repair while you wait. Regardless if you decide to tackle the repairs yourself or not, finding a problem before it causes you problems is always a good thing.
Every other weekend (or every weekend if I had to ride in inclement weather), I flip my bike over onto its saddle and handlebars and do all of this:
- Squeeze-check all the spokes. Grab parallel spokes and squeeze them together. Excessively loose or broken spokes should be checked by a mechanic.
- Check wheels for trueness. Spin the wheel and watch the wheel between the brake pads or chainstays. If there's a wobble, your wheel is bent out of true. I usually leave wheel truing to the experts with special tools, but you can true a slightly bent wheel yourself with only a spoke wrench.
- Check the tire casing for cuts or slices, and road debris that could work its way into the tubes. Remove anything you find, or replace the tire if it's permanently damaged.
- Clean and reset the brakes. Dial the adjustment knobs back in and re-tighten the cable.
- Lube the cables
- Check the headset, pivots, bottom bracket, wheel bearings, and levers for smooth, silent operation. Lube if needed.
- Scrub grime off of the hubs, spokes, rim and tires
- Wash, rinse, dry and wax the frame (with rags and buckets, not a hose or sprayer nozzle!)
- Put the wheels back on, flip the bike right-side-up again, and fully clean, lube, check and micro-adjust the chain, cogs and derailleurs.


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A desktop is a changing record of visual decisions. It speaks to the aesthetics of a particular work-flow and personal space. A desktop exhibits a diagram of your organizational habits and a screenshot of it captures a brief moment of its functional evolution. The image of your desktop becomes an intimate self-portrait and the impulse to decode an unfamiliar desktop is unavoidable.
Xerox Star 8010 Workstation - Image via plyojump.com
In January, Adam Cruces wrapped up his Desktop Views project. Cruces collected 51 images of artists' desktops including a number of artists he worked with in his earlier project STATE.
Cruces frames Desktop Views with a quote from Alexei Shulgin's legendary Desktop Is project, created 15 years earlier in 1997, at the dawn of "net.art." The quote, taken from the about page of Shulgin's project, uses the title Desktop Is as an iterative I Ching-style manifesto about the desktop. Its final lines claim in paradox, "desktop is a question, desktop is the answer." Cruces's description of Desktop Views is more straightforward and less poetic. To him the desktop is "the (virtual) space that serves as the foundation of the working environment." Cruces and Shulgin, however, channel the same curiosity. The two projects are echoes that present voyeuristic peeks into artists' personal virtual working spaces on public websites.
The Desktop Is site is a deteriorated time capsule. Its nostalgic Apple OS desktop interface links to two folders; one, leads to site information, and the second, to a list of submitted desktop images. Link rot has broken nearly half of the links in Shulgin's list of submissions and the ones that work are a mix of cryptic handles, like Murph the surf, in contrast to full names - some followed by an email address.
In converse, Cruces's new iteration, Desktop Views is standardized. It presents a grid of images (a sort of meta desktop) that can be sorted alphabetically by first name or chronologically in the order they were collected and released on the site. Artists' full names label each desktop thumbnail in the grid. Cruces hosts all the images he has collected, so perhaps this archive of desktop images will remain intact for more complete future reflections. Within the order, the desktop images range from stark defaults to extreme clutter.
Sara Ludy's desktop, for example, is minimal with a blurred blue smudge of pixels centered on a black background. On the right side, vased.mov is immediately above vased.gif which might reveal a recently created animated gif. Daniel Keller's desktop image presents a more complex space. His numerous file icons stand in an equally spaced array – small and unreadable. They vanish into an endless crowded background of solar panels stacked edge-to-edge.
Martin Murphy's desktop, for example, has a strange background image: a hand wrapped in latex touches a warped smiling face in a pool of purple color. The face stares out of the screen. Icons, floating on the right, are grid-free and vaguely organized. Three external drive mounts show a potential need for more space while a folder announces a "project with Evan" in its name. Perhaps this counts as evidence of collaboration. Amidst bluetooth connections, a dropbox account, and a desirable suite of creative software applications in the dock below, Murphy is present. He listens to Spotify and captured his desktop image with OS X's Grab application.
Martin Murphy's desktop from Adam Cruces's Desktop Views
Some visual clues reveal location or language, like Jon Rafman's Canadian flag in his menu bar. His background image shows two men climbing a floating knot of infinite stairs up and down, down and up. A handgun icon labelled "TODO" floats point-blank at one man's head. Other desktops are more mysterious. Rafael Rozendal's blank grey background leaves everything to the imagination – his tiny system activity monitor, maxed out in red and green, is the only leading detail.
While Cruces's project feels curatorial, Shulgin's is more ethnographic...


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I bought a 2012 RR last year, and love it. It's red and white and I put a bunch of carbon fibre on it.
Has anyone considered how to make an RR into an HP4? I just put carbon fibre wheels on my bike, but the dealer wants $11K to trade up to a new HP4. Ridiculous, especially considering the new bike does not look that cool. Should not be a big deal. Any ideas???


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One of the things I've realized recently, whether it be through comments on this site or comments in daily interactions, is that when people find out you're anti-cry-it-out they usually have the following to say about either why they did it or why it can be good: "My baby just gets overtired and needs to cry to get all that extra energy out before she sleeps." Sound familiar? Have you heard that or uttered it yourself? Before you scoff or roll your eyes, here's the thing—it's kind of true. Many babies, when overtired, will cry because it's a natural way for them to release their frustration. And when they do this they typically don't respond to things like nursing as a means to comfort. As adults we do a similar thing, typically getting frustrated or upset when overtired and we need to get that out of our systems before we can sleep properly. But somewhere along the line people started believing that if you don't let your child CIO you must somehow be stimulating them when they cry to get them to stop. And that is simply not true. The one thing these people don't consider is that needing to cry does not equal needing to cry-it-out.
Let me start by using my daughter as an example… My daughter is known for keeping herself up whenever possible. If we're over at her best friend's house, she will be awake forever out of fear of missing something, even if he falls asleep. On those days, when we get home, I know she needs to sleep and I know that frustrated cry that comes from her as she fights it. What do I do? Let me first say that I don't let her stay up and I don't stimulate her to get her to stop crying. I get her to bed (we bedshare), offer the boob (rejected), tell her it's time for sleep and let her flail on the bed in her frustration. And the most amazing thing happens—though frustrated and clearly needing sleep, every 30 seconds or so, she flails back to me for a cuddle (and sometimes nurse). During that time, I hold her, stroke her hair, or offer whatever comfort she allows until she either starts crying again to get more out of her system or comes for the final milk and cuddles to fall asleep. The whole process? It's never taken longer than 8 minutes (yes, I timed it). I've spent WAAYYY more time trying to get to her to sleep when she wasn't tired than trying to get her to sleep when overtired (and I typically fail in the former situations). There are no hours of screaming at the door while I felt my heart break and no looks of, 'How could you do this to me?' Just some honest hard work on her behalf to get that energy out while simultaneously getting love and affection from me.
I don't know why parents who use CIO and advocates of the method seem to think that those of us who don't use it either never let our kids cry at all or constantly stimulate them or distract them in order to keep them from crying. Although people's experiences will inevitably differ from my own, I know from talking to other non-CIO parents that they do similar things. So while we do let our kids cry, we don't allow our kids to cry without responding to them. It's a rather critical distinction. As I've talked about elsewhere, crying is a very natural thing for infants to do as it's their primary way of communication, but the reasons they stop crying can be very diverse and have very different effects (see Educating the Experts – Lesson One for more information). I don't think any parent expects their child to never cry as that is how we learn from them what they need; without crying, figuring out your child would be that much harder. But CIO isn't about learning from your child or getting them to release their frustration—it's about ignoring their needs. There are a select few times when CIO for a period is necessary, such as when mom suffers from post-partum depression and can't handle an infant's cries and is at-risk of harming her infant. Anytime a parent is at risk of physically harming their child because of his or her cries, putting them down and walking away is always the better scenario (although best would be to pass the baby off to someone else to hold, but that's not always possible). But these are rare situations that are certainly not the norm (though sadly becoming more so as we treat new mothers with indifference and a lack of support, but that's a topic for another day). Most of the time CIO comes down to a parent telling a child that they are not there to comfort them in order to teach a schedule or lesson, usually resulting in the child becoming even more distressed. My 8 minutes of crying with my daughter is a fraction of what most CIO parents go through with theirs because their lack of comfort seems to increase the crying response, especially when a baby is in that over-tired state.
At this point, many parents will say something along the lines of, "But my child cried for an hour after getting shots/getting a stomach flu/having cramps! How is CIO any different?" And this is a very important question to ask. After all, doesn't it seem funny that those of us against CIO typically ignore the issue of other bouts of prolonged crying? Well, I'm not going to ignore it so here comes your answer… there's a huge freaking difference. Let me elaborate.
Outside of sleep, when our children cry, it tends to be out of pain and we respond in kind. Whether it be cramping (also sometimes known as colic), shots, or other ailments, when our babies are screaming during the day, we attribute it to a physical malady and do what we can to alleviate the pain, or at worst, simply provide comfort. It turns out that this comfort is exactly what makes the difference between these bouts of crying and CIO methods used typically at night.
In a thorough and enlightening review of the neurological evidence surrounding crying in infancy, Megan Gunnar of the University of Minnesota discusses the research on what happens when infants are distressed (for her review, see
But for those parents with infants who have allergies, reflux, bad reactions to shots, and any other physical ailment that causes pain and therefore crying, there is good news. It turns out that the activation of the HPA-axis doesn't happen when an infant is being comforted by a responsive caregiver. This is why I said that bouts of crying in pain and CIO are so distinct—when our child is in physical pain, we are much more likely to provide comfort, thus eliminating the stress effect, even when our child continues to cry. Gunnar's work and that of others she cites have shown this to be the case and it explains why a child with a difficult physical condition can grow and thrive despite many periods of pain and discomfort that lead to prolonged bouts of crying, as long as someone they trust is there to provide comfort. So when you sit with your child who is in pain (physical OR psychological), you are actually serving as a buffer against a stressful reaction, even if your child continues to cry. In fact, the cry is assumed to be more of a signalling cry than one that mirrors the internal state of distress for securely attached infants so long as the caregiver is trusted and responds to the child's cry. So the release of cortisol to the brain that has been found to accompany prolonged crying refers to infants who are not being comforted at the time (the condition in which the research was initially done). It may be due to the effects of oxytocin[4], which is released during close contact, or some other mechanism, but regardless, we know that the effects of crying can be deleterious or rather benign, depending on how we, as caregivers, respond.
All this is to say that not only do us non-CIO parents have children that cry, but because of our responsiveness their crying is going to be distinctly different than those children who are left alone while distressed with no one to offer comfort. We don't stimulate our children, in fact, we understand their physiological reactions to being tired quite well, thank you very much. We just choose to respond to their distress with touch and affection, and in turn, they don't have to respond with stress.
[1] Gunnar, M. R. (2006). Social regulation of stress in early childhood. In K. McCartney & D. Phillips (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development (pp. 106-125). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic%E2%80%93pituitary%E2%80%93adrenal_axis (Accessed October 10, 2011)
[3] Anders TF, Sachar EJ, Kream J, Roffwarg HP, & Hellman L. Behavior state and plasma cortisol response in the human newborn. Pediatrics 1970; 46: 532-537.
[4] Uvnas-Moberg K. The Oxytocin Factor: Tapping the Hormone of Calm, Love, and Healing (2003). Da Capo Press: Cambridge, MA.


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Let me preface this review by saying "Finally, something that Consumer Reports and I can agree on!" In case you missed it – they recently rated the KeyFit and KeyFit 30 as the two best overall infant carseats among the models they tested. Now, if you follow this blog, you'll understand how unusual it is for me to completely agree with Consumer Reports on anything related to child restraints. However, the KeyFit is a well-thought-out, well-designed and well-constructed infant carseat and CR was right to load heaps of praise upon it.
The KeyFit and KeyFit 30 are infant carseats from Chicco (pronounced KEEK-koh). The original KeyFit model (aka the KeyFit 22) is generally only sold with the Chicco Cortina stroller as a "travel system" while the KeyFit 30 model is usually sold separately but can be paired with any compatible Chicco stroller (see table below) to create a travel system, if desired. The Chicco KeyFit Caddy is a great option if you want a snap-n-go type product that has many of the same great qualities found in a full-featured stroller.
|Chicco strollers compatible with the KeyFit infant carseat
|Cortina; Cortina SE; Cortina MAGIC
|Liteway Plus
|KeyFit Caddy (stroller frame)
|Cortina Together (double stroller)
The original KeyFit is rated for babies from 4 to 22 pounds and 30" or less in height. The KeyFit 30 model is rated for babies from 4-30 lbs and 30" or less in height. Both seats are the same size and shape – the only differences are the maximum weight limit, cover options and a small price differential. With either model, you should discontinue usage once the child reaches either the weight limit OR the 30" height limit OR if the top of the child's head is less than 1" from the top of the restraint. Current models of both the KeyFit and KeyFit 30 utilize the same base. These bases have a sticker on the side indicating that they can be used with either the 22 lb or 30 lb models.
The KeyFit 30 model used in this review is the "Romantic" pattern. It's not a soft fabric like a cotton or plush microfiber but it does seem like it would be fairly resistant to frequent spit-up. This particular model comes with a seasonal boot cover, which is easy to snap on and off. It also comes with a newborn insert, a head support insert and harness strap covers. The KeyFit 30 retails for around $189.
The newborn insert that comes with both the KeyFit and KeyFit 30 models is used for babies who weigh between 4-11 lbs. The insert provides additional support, as well as a secure harness fit for smaller infants. It should be removed once the baby weighs more than 11 lbs. It's worth mentioning that the head support cushion can still be used, if desired, even when the newborn [body] support cushion has been removed. The head support pillow may be used until the child needs to use the top harness slots. The velcro attachments that secure the head support to the shell of the seat must be threaded through the unused harness slots above the ones currently being used for the child. Therefore, once the child needs to use the top slots for the harness – there's no safe place to attach that head pillow anymore.
Harness slot heights with newborn insert (approximate): 7", 9", 11"
Harness slot heights without newborn insert: 8", 10", 12"
The combination of the bottom harness slots and the newborn insert help the KeyFit and KeyFit 30 models to fit newborns of all sizes and even small premature babies very well. On the opposite end of the spectrum – the KF30 model can accommodate many babies up until their 1st birthday, or even beyond that – although obviously there are no guarantees. My youngest son (now 5 years old) would have exceeded the 30" height limit by 9 months old but he was way above average in both weight and height as a baby.
"Key" Features of both KeyFit models:
- 5-point harness with nice straps that aren't prone to twisting
- Energy absorbing EPS foam
- Small, unobtrusive chest clip
- Standard metal buckle (nothing funky or difficult to use)
- Premium "push on" lower LATCH connectors
- Unique, single strap, one-pull LATCH strap adjuster
- Built-in lockoff for lap/shoulder seatbelt installations
- Smooth-bottom base won't damage vehicle leather or upholstery
- FAA-approved for airplane use
- Can be installed without the base
- 6 year "lifespan" from date of manufacture
The KeyFit and KeyFit 30 models have all the important bases covered when it comes to features. In addition to everything mentioned above, these seats also have the following comfort & convenience features:
- Handle can be left up while in the vehicle
- Well-padded, machine washable covers (cold water, delicate cycle, mild detergent – hang to dry)
- Easy to attach and detach carrier from base and from compatible Chicco strollers
- Super-smooth harness adjuster makes it easy to tighten and loosen harness straps
- Easy to rethread harness straps to different height positions
- Extended canopy visor
- Cold weather boot (on certain models)
Installation Comments:
The KeyFit instruction manual is clear and well-written with plenty of good diagrams. The manual is English on one side & Spanish on the other. As long as you read and follow the instruction manual carefully – the KeyFit and KeyFit 30 models are generally VERY easy to install properly regardless of whether you are using your vehicle's lower LATCH anchors or the seatbelt. FYI – use only one method of attachment. Do not install the carseat with both LATCH & seatbelt. Use of lower LATCH anchors in the center seating position with non-standard spacing between the bars (more or less than 280 mm) is prohibited.
The base has a spring-loaded "foot" that adjusts to several different heights in order to achieve an appropriate recline angle in wide variety of vehicle seating positions. Adjust the foot on the base until the bubble in the level is positioned somewhere between the black lines with the base installed tightly.
If using the vehicle's lap/shoulder seatbelt, thread the shoulder belt portion of the belt through one of the lock-offs on the base. It's optional, but if the vehicle's lap/shoulder seatbelt has a switchable retractor, you may switch the seatbelt into locked mode after sliding the shoulder belt through the lock-off.
If using a lap-only seatbelt to install – do NOT use the built-in lockoff device.
If installing the carrier directly (without the base), use the red line on the sticker label to guide you in achieving an appropriate recline angle. Use a tightly rolled towel, if necessary, to help achieve or maintain the appropriate recline angle. Make sure seatbelt is locked (see vehicle owners manual for details).
The handle can be in any locked position when the seat is in the vehicle. If it's more convenient to just leave it up, then leave it up. If you'd rather put it down – that's fine too.
Chicco prohibits the use of most additional add-on products not made specifically by them for this carseat. Items such as Bundle-Me type covers, additional head-support cushions, toys that hang from the handle, Mighty-Tite seatbelt tighteners, etc., are all currently prohibited.
KeyFit Disadvantages:
These aren't necessarily problems, but I list them here to inform potential consumers of specific KeyFit issues.
- It's made in China. Then again, almost all other infant carseats are too. Realistically, if it were manufactured in the USA or in Europe it would probably cost a lot more than it does. Despite its geographic origin, the quality of the construction and components are high grade. Nothing about the KeyFit seems cheap, flimsy or lacking.
- Carrier weighs 9.6 lbs with the infant insert and head support (according to my digital bathroom scale). Some might consider this on the heavy side but it's comparable to other well-made, popular infant carseats. Truthfully, all infant carseats are heavy to lug around when you have a 15+ lb baby inside it. Spare your back, arms and thighs by using a stroller or invest in a good sling/baby carrier and leave the carseat in the vehicle.
- The canopy is not as big as some other carseat models but the extended visor on the KeyFit 30 model does help.
- Removing the cover can be a little cumbersome. The main issue in the removal process is getting the fabric out from under the plastic adjuster cover. What worked best for me was to pull the bottom portion of the cover loose and then start at the top of the adjuster cover and work the fabric free from that point down. When putting the cover back on – start by sliding the openings in the cover over the seatbelt guides on the shell (where you would thread the seatbelt if you were installing without the base), first. Then work the fabric back under the plastic adjuster – again starting at the top and working your way down. It takes a little bit of work but isn't too complicated. The rest of the removal/replacement process is simple if you follow the instructions in the manual.
Finally, an important disclaimer: If this is your first carseat, it may spoil you and make other future carseats seem difficult and annoying to use by comparison. Consider yourself warned! 😉


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CENTENNIAL, Colo., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- "Lawrence of Arabia" will be re-released in U.S. theaters to mark the Oscar-winning epic's 50th anniversary, Fathom Events and Sony Pictures Entertainment said.
Directed by David Lean and starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Shariff, Claude Rains, Anthony Quinn and Alec Guinness, the digitally restored movie will be back on the big screen in select theaters Oct. 4.
The special anniversary screening will feature a pre-recorded introduction by Sharif, as well as newsreel footage showing the film's New York premiere and King Hussein visiting the set in Aqaba where he met Lean, O'Toole and producer Sam Spiegel as they were making the movie.
In the film, O'Toole plays T.E. Lawrence, a young, idealistic British officer in World War I assigned to the camp of Guinness' Prince Feisal, an Arab tribal chieftain and leader in a revolt against the Turks. Lawrence ultimately leads 50 of Feisal's men in a three-week crossing of the Nefud Desert to attack the strategic Turkish-held port of Aqaba. Following his successful raids against Turkish troops and trains, Lawrence's leadership and courage gain him nearly god-like status among the Arabs, a synopsis said.
"'Lawrence of Arabia' deserves a spectacular golden anniversary celebration on the silver screen," Shelly Maxwell, executive vice president of Fathom Events, said in a statement Thursday. "This epic film starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif is one of the greatest films in the history of cinema with special footage that fans won't want to miss."
The "Lawrence of Arabia" limited-edition, four-disc collector's gift set will be released Nov. 13 on Blu-ray.