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- Karl Morgan
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Debate: Should we endlessly assist population expansion?
I was intrigued by Magnus Larsson and indeed other TED talkers about helping with the desperate plight of people in Africa, for example the chap assisting with clean water and his 15nm filter.
But being a long view sort of chap, I immediately wonder if the best thing for the dirt poor isn't contraception. This may sound harsh, but I am no eugenics nut, this is not about picking cultures or races.
Also I wish no ill to any living people, they should receive aid, but the biggest taboo in modern science and political strategy seems to be overpopulation.
For anyone not knowing, please look at the world population figures for the past few hundred years, they cannot be overstated.
Simply working on keeping communities alive, finding renewable energies and looking to feed people is treating the symptoms, not the plague. And people, human beings are the plague.
Why is nobody asking questions like, just how many people do we want to support on this planet? Not even - how many can we support?
Now think of a world with 1 billion people. Or less. How's about several hundred million. Those people can live spread across the world according to available resources. We could still improve on our pollutions but decreasing the population seems to me to immediately fix most of the world's problems, and I don't see a down side. Why do those that want children need more than two? And really, why more than one?
Then the other counter to initiatives like Magnus' is, SHOULD we interfere with nature on the scale that he proposes? Do we really think we know the true consequences of something like that? Ask yourself, why is the desert swallowing green belt? Is it because humans interfered?
I have grave concerns that if you feed everyone, and provide their other basic needs through technology, without any cultural revolution, that overpopulation will simply and VERY rapidly throw up the next major problem, and that this may risk life on this planet.
Karen Cole
Oct 27 2012: The difficulty with population controls is that those who are in a position to see the facts and imagine the consequence are all very well fed, have access to the necessary birth control measures etc. If you live on the margin of survival, as Maslow so carefully explained, you care for little else but the next meal or the nearest shelter. To give all of those who live today the surety of a fair chance of survival, is most probably within the ability of human race, but falls rather low on the "wish list" of most of us.. Ergo. Nature will have her way. As a now less than youthful woman who chose 45 years ago for many reasons not to bring any children into this world, only one ( fairly low priority reason) of which was I could see little reason to bring yet more of us into it, I understand both the overwhelming drive to do so and the economics of necessity that drive the population growth. I had a choice, but who amongst us are arrogant enough to believe we have the right to choose for others ?
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Yet if we do not do so the " others " essentially do choose for us. Nature is very clear, eventually she will do away with the excess of every species and any species that cannot or will not adapt to the changing planet will disapear. We are changing the planet and many do die, many humans and many more species. As a child a disaster ( flood volcano etc) killed or displaced 10s of thousands now it kill or displaces 100,000's. (eg. China 800,000 peasants displaced by the building of the 3 Gorges dam)
What we can do is talk and explain, educate, explain the consequence. Change the thinking, change the benefits, change the values, change how we rescue, change how we provide for those unable to provide for themselves, change the expectations. It has to be persuasion . Open up the choices to logic and teach people the consequence for " following " instinct rather than logic. Start with YOUR children, and YOUR culture. Be willing to make your child a misfit!
Oct 27 2012: I have tried, in my mind for some time to try and put this in the least troll like manner possible, but basically my issue with your statement Karen, is that it portrays precisely the "western" attitudes I see as the problems for real change in the third world. Apologies in advance.
It is supreme arrogance and folly to think in terms of "us" "westerners" controlling and assisting the third world like parents of helpless children. Even your term "population controls" is immediately repugnant to all, even me, the advocate here for population decrease.
But you raise another interesting effect of overpopulation, it helps us dehumanise "these people", living in millions or so here and there in filth, breeding and living like animals, and of course, "we" have little sympathy for animals.
The more of us there are, the less important we are, I truly believe that, as we are less unique.
And like Stalin famously pointed out, the figures just numb people, 800,000 people displaced, I cannot connect to that, and how bad could it be if they were all together, right? Besides in my own country I have the distractions of my own 63 million British residence. Not to mention the forced media from the 300+ million folks in the states.
With foreign aid, there are no moral imperatives. We are not obliged to help, but if we choose to, we take on the total responsibility of our actions, intended and otherwise. So if you provide the basic needs of life to people that then multiply to harmful figures, that is on you. Their children's suffering is on you also.
SHOULD we help everyone, SHOULD people live in such places, SHOULD we prop up their societies of suffering and ignorance? I have as much sympathy for Darwinism as the third world if I am truly honest. Maybe that's why we only dabble there. Which is the worst idea.
Finally, I think it is critical to see the truth of breeding in the third world. "Family planning" does not factor into rape. Beyond that, sex is currency and the XboxNov 26 2012: No, we definitely shouldn't.
When I was in highschool (that's more than a half a century ago) we were already talking about the population explosion. We were scared silly by the thought that the world polulation would hit the 3 billion mark before 1960.
On the one hand - looking back on it all now that we have passed the 7 billion mark - the great 3-billion-scare seems silly today.
On the other hand, seeing as we now clearly realize that global resources are finite, there is no way that we can continue to grow in number indefinitely.
- Nine billion - well, maybe ...
- Twenty billion - oof ...
- A hundred billion - you gotta be kidding!
Sooner or later we gotta stop growing.
But whereas increasing population involves doing what people seem to like most of all in this world (making babies), I can't think of any possible way of decreasing it again without doing things that we don't want to do - like starving, warring, dying from disease, etc.
The one optimistic approach is that population growth seems to fall off as people get wealthier and better educated, so that eradicating poverty will staunch the runaway growth we had in the last decades of the 20th century.
But resource-wise can we afford 9 or 10 billion people living comfortably above the poverty line? I certainly don't know.
Dan F
Nov 1 2012: Your narrative and comments fairly nicely captures my outlook about the mess we have gotten ourselves into worldwide because of the unchecked existing and growing population numbers and the unwillingness of most to consider it a problem.
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Actually addressing population numbers as a problem is taboo, at least in the U.S. I think it is taboo here because of a religious sacred claim that we are here to be fruitful and multiply and dominate over the earth. Also the status quo has been that this subject is not up for discussion. On the contrary politicians can usually be found hugging the religious power base. Incidentally, thanks for giving us the biscuit for loons award (your response to Sharon) and your expansion on why we deserve that "honor."
I would be a little more encouraged if the U.S. government would simply cancel the huge tax INCENTIVES for those producing more children, let alone making parents more responsibe and reflective about having children.
The symtoms of overpopulation are not going away, on the contrary they are becoming overwhelming causing more grief than most of us would care to contemplate, or face. These problems will be more undeniable as they show up in our own backyards.
There could be hope from this new incredible information age as the young can explore knowledge via Youtube, etc. More and more students and the populous are turning to online learning which may serve put biology and natural history more into proper focus. Attitudes can change and in turn could become more effectively shared and expressed in our more liberating electronically connected world. One can always hope.
Nov 1 2012: Fanks Dan F.
Hope my jibes at your country are not DEEPLY offensive, they were not intended to be (seem worse now I read them without the smile on my face).
Dan F
Nov 1 2012: Offensive to some, but your insightful sense of humor is spot on IMO.Oct 29 2012: In my country See Samuelson the employers have traditionally lowered wages by importing cheaper workers e.g. more people. In my state there is always someone who has too many horses for the horsefeed available Then there are terrible pictures of starving horses. People who like horses try to see that this person goes to jail - not an unreasonable idea. I think that there is traditionally a greater love of dogs and horses than people. Maybe we need to extend the idea expressed here to people and those who ruin our lives. People have been punished for other crimes against humanity in the past. What an idea!
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Oct 29 2012: But we didn't starve Africa George, they persist, having children even though they starve themselves.
Maybe western people did in the past, and maybe our culture and tech have changed native folks lives so that now they cannot look after themselves, but they are not domesticated animals.
They are people, and as such, they hold some self determinism and responsibility.
I now see that with stability and a baseline of wealth and education, the reliance on offspring to survive, essentially birthing a workforce, is diminished and populations are capped, but it's still way too high as far as I am concerned given the amount of space we use, for urban area, for farming, for water usage, for grazing, and for mining (of all things from hardwoods to coal).
How much space we as a species take up on this planet is annoying to me as how little space we are given in our average homes. Perhaps an answer for both is more communal living, just a thought.Oct 29 2012: Karl...my grandfather's name was Karl!
I must apologize for my poor vocabulary. Even after prove reading and changes it still only makes sense to the author...now that's just poor translation. Funny referring to proofing as a cult.
Yes, you are right in your observation if there is no other factors to bare then a slow growing population concern would be spelled out that way...however, calculate if the calamity was forced fed as in sliding into an ice age, for survival forcing the mass's to the centre and there are guns at the borders and starving people with guns walking towards them...that is not a calculation into concern for population growth it is the result of to much now...and if climate changes there will be war. Kinda neat how it all works out, just like it was thought out!
Yes thus far, intelligent explanations when dealing with a eternity/patients it knows nothing of. All stories end in chaos which supposedly no one wants, but there it is, so I doubt any of the foretold calamities were a decision of man itself.
Correlate? Oil refuses to change to new energy formations...what is your base for argument? The guys in control stand against what they see as competition, medicine against natural, oil/coal against environmental, doctors/nurses against actual health prevention...and they stay this way as all systems are based on supporting the other just as you cannot send the men into battle if the church says no, hand shakes...is that maybe enough for ya ;)
Albert God bless his sole, not all quoted quotes are identical nor incorrect, in both cases the end result is insanity so for that reason he is correct. However, idiocy brings on insanity. As, I do not think we are insane as a group I do however feel strongly about the idiocy part. So my statement based on his statement is all relative to time...go figure!
Still didn't ask...and I ran out of space...Oct 28 2012: Dear Karl in reply.
I am sorry if I offend you with "Population controls." An awful phrase, I apologise for it's use.
The fact is the choices we make as rich individuals affect the lives and well being of other living things including humans. What we buy decides who prospers and who does not. Who eats and who does not. They're here.
2. Human activity results in the premature extinction of thousands of species every year, many of which have been living on this oasis of life millions of years before the ape family, of which we are one, appeared. Every one of us has a responsibility for that, without them we die.
3. My personal view is that we do have an obligation to help those less fortunate than ourselves, whatever their colour creed belief or status, both home and abroad. The pitiful 0.7 % of GDP that the UK currently spend on foreign aid has to be "sold" as in our interest, and defended as "necessary for our future growth".
4. I concede the current thinking, "teach the needy to fish, rather than provide a daily fish" is a better approach than past efforts, but it does not necessarily make for a solution, and may make it worse.
5. Rape murder, slavery, child abuse, cruelty, hate, prejudice and destruction abound across the world wherever mankind sets his foot, it is not the prerogative of the uneducated or poor.
6 Greed and power are the motivators for these, along with survival madness and belief. The worst atrocities in history and today continue to be justified in the name of good, god or necessity. You are as likely to find a rapist in your street, town or board room, as in squalor or poverty. It is a weapon of power.
6. Capitalism is the source of our wealth and power and the exponential growth of our numbers.
The difficulty is deciding which choices deliver the lesser ill, however well intentioned our act.
All the above lead to my interest in your debate. I have no solution but believe the human race must evolve and become a better species, or die out.
Oct 29 2012: Two points.
1. I forget the name of the speaker, or talk, but just saw one vid on TED from a lady saying that India and I think the surrounding places, have an appalling and absurdly high occurrence of rape. Rape comes with lack of policing and the disrespect of women. I see no reason why SS Africa would be any different.
2. Having also just seeing Hans Rosling's TED talk on Religions and babies, I am far less concerned about population. Though, as you comment about natural destruction, and I did too, if we saw a sharp down turn in human population then I suspect many species would do much better on our planet. I will go check Rosling's data tho.Oct 28 2012: This is how bad it is here in the states.....
Don't wait for us to address the issue at all. The planet will shrug us off eventually.
Oct 28 2012: Wowser, thanks Sharon.
Yeah, your country takes the biscuit for loons. That's what happens when the craziest religious fruits from all of Europe re-settle and inbreed in the new land. I think the vastness of your wilderness also encourages those inclined to go rather wrong in the headspace.
But plenty of my favourite intellectual material and "stuff" comes from the same country, like CentOS, Bill Hicks, and TED!
PS. "contracepting" is not a word, the OED has spoken!
Check out that cultists youtube page, these people should not be allowed to influence children prior to deprogramming;
What I don't understand is why these people are trying to promote population increase, because they are not just trying to sell their own people, which obviously aims to increase the subscriptions, which is the game the catholics play, but why encourage everyone to breed in ever increasing numbers? What is the fundamentalist christian angle here?
For the longest time, I abhorred Christianity and Islam for their most toxic obnoxious subversive illogical lies and dogma. But Joseph Campbell (another American!) told of how it all can be viewed purely as metaphor, and then as such, it is a new age retelling of older spiritualism, not a simple rip off and bastardization of Buddhism and Ancient Egyptian mythology.
I am more sympathetic to the moderate Jews, they are less certain, and seem more open to the metaphorical interpretations. They seem highly pragmatic, for a religion, and open to dialogue. Though the orthodox Jews, I lump them with the other Abrahamic cults - it's plain child abuse.Oct 28 2012: I am for any decrease! As time has proven, mother nature controls all growths...since we can not ourselves it will be done for us...as for-tolled.
Man reasons by way of elimination/separation...the Earth survives on unquestioned acceptance of all...so no, thinking that the poison of greed is just on one side of the wall would only be sold by the guy who wants to build the wall...unless his desires are pure, even if greed will take it away after it is up...so no long term benefit.
Religion is corruption? But you guys have the belt and that is a scary group, not to mention Mormons! What a bunch they were/are. In a world of 50/50 ratio with male to female these guys hide their desires by trying to convince rational minds the truth is to have multiple wives...so what happens to the other 40% of males to do? That's all prehistoric crap where the alpha male took everything including the best of the best.
And maybe pigs will fly...the only changes possible in this and any day and age is if it leaves man in power which he is already, most change removes that...so...
First we have to agree what we are before anything can happen and to use the ones we have well there is an old saying...idiocy is the attempt to do the same thing over and over expecting a different response...
If you want that answer, you will have to ask...
Oct 28 2012: You clearly still think I am an American. Else you need to revise your geographic understanding of Mormonism. Please see my response to TED Lover below.
Does "the belt" refer to the bible belt of America?
Your writing is hard to follow, very poor use of English in malformed spasms of disjointed phrases. Are you familiar with the theory of proof-reading? It's not a cult.
As I just wrote below, I have grave concerns if nothing stops our overpopulation, as quality of life would be gravely affected for humans, and most of the natural species of the planet would be destroyed as urban sprawl swallows up the land and we finish off the rainforest.
As for your foretelling of nature controlling all growths, human history is thus far the clear exception. Perhaps nature will cull us, thin the herd, but with our ingenuity, this would require something nasty and I'd rather not push it to that point.
Your bit about changes removes power from men, does not correlate with my understanding of anything at all, if that is the summation of the opinion, then I simply disagree. But it sounds like half a thought, so maybe there's more.
Your last sentence is pure gibberish. As is the paragraph before it, save the incorrect quote of Albert Einstein when he defined Insanity (not idiocy) as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The bit about the Earth surviving on acceptance, suggests to me you are attempting a failed metaphor perhaps. The Earth is in fact a planet. Planets survive as long as they maintain orbit and from a technical standpoint, are large enough to be categorized as a planet. Planets cannot offer acceptance.Oct 27 2012: I am so impressed with your reasoning, it is solid, as yes if one was to ever seriously look at the third world situation finding a solution would be easy and I agree with everything you stated, I had to find out how you actually feel...the one thing missing in all the videos is the male population in all the videos of starving woman and children, these woman are rapped and abandoned to a world of slow death and despair, it is the most sickening we could imagine...but all chaos is male generated and conformed...you want a serious answer to your serious question every male should poke themselves in the chest...we are the poison we reason to deal with the results of our own ignorance of self...so do you truly want to find the answer...man in the mirror...unless you get greed to accept that, settle in for the ride...1% is such a symbolic rule...tell them they need to stop and you will notice a domino effect but as long as we argue them, this you will never see...
Also the rapping is continued on the bases of religion and its desire for mass which is power control and manipulation...they will not let you stop the flow of new power and influence and they calculate an acceptance of the pain and offer band aids for the wounds...and the people flock to them as if they care...welcome to hypocrisy...are you aware of its actual depth? A word to explain would be saturation!
We argue and are challenged by the results of our own existence...there is only one answer to the concerns of man and that is the illumination of the problem...who should remain is not a question we will answer...the earth (that which gives forth in abundance and is everything and everywhere) is going to take care of that for us...
Oct 27 2012: So are you for population decrease?
What do you think about Magnus' great wall of Africa?
I was surprised to see in your profile you are from Canada, your views sound VERY American (USA). Is religion such a corrupting influence in Canada too?
Good news to you sir, the rest of the world is not infected by such corrosive religious zealotry. Many places are religious, but they are the good side of it, they know it's place as spiritualism, rather than a political ideology. And for places like where I am, religion is fading from style. Although it's still embedded in our official institutions, I take solace in Britain's long cautionary approach, trying to avoid negative radicalism. We'll get there, and maybe those lawyers will take those wigs off some day.
Gail .
Oct 27 2012: We should certainly be talking about this, and some are, but the fundamentalist evangelical members of the Abrahamic religions are still a strong political force in our country. These anti-intellectuals don't know the hardships that they lobby for.
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Some are talking about this, and believe that the world can support 5 billion people, which means that we need to decrease the number of children born. As it stands now, by 2030, all but the wealthiest few will be in dire straights. The economy is collapsing. More and more are driven into poverty. Global warming - whatever the cause - is real, and arable lands are dwindling. Hurricanes/typhoos and tornadoes are increasing in intensity. Glaciers are melting and the sea level is rising. Aquifers are being polluted by big businesses, whether by mega corporate farms or oil companies that use fracking to get natural gas. Topsoil is being eroded at a huge clip because of poor farming practices by mega farms. Hunger will be very real very soon. By 2030, 28% of the world's population will be starving, and that starvation will not be limited to Africa and parts of Asia. It will be as real in the US and UK as it is in Africa.
During the great depression, food rotted in the fields because there was no money to buy fuel to transport it, and because there were no buyers for the food.
We can do better, but for as long as politicians can distract us from dire threats against all of humanity - caused largely by the economic model that we desperately cling to - it looks like we are choosing to jump off the cliff rather than face solvable problems responsibly. We also need to find a way to silence the fundamentalist religions that think that they will be raptured before the consequences of THEIR actions hit the sinners.
Oct 27 2012: Ooo, you have touched on two things that make me wildly unpopular, Abrahamic cults and American politics.
Let me just say, I agree, these cultists are of huge concern to me too. Those "religions" anger me beyond expressing nicely here to you lovely people.
I am not of your country though TED Lover (praise Xenu!). I was fortunate enough to be born in Europe (phew) in the UK in particular (lucky lucky bar-steward). And here the religion is less common, though still a major influence in politics for those really looking, it is much less fire-and-brimstone crazy town. We are British after all! Pip pip.
So good look with all your craziness America. We (the rest of the world) are far from immune from your turmoils and corruptions, but if there's one thing we all know about America, it's that no-one outside the country is going to change anything there in any meaningful way (not without a nuclear winter).
On the topic of starving and future predictions, that really is only part of my concern. Again this focus leads to a simple continuation of the same problem. "Oh no! We are starving!", science and tech breaks through with another save and we all go on breeding like rabbits.
The real concern is that at some point there is no countryside. And that our numbers permit something catastrophic; superplague, total environmental destruction or GM finally makes us all infertile.
Besides that, there's a real quality of life question. Seeing pictures of Manila, Mumbai, even New York and Tokyo; it skeeves me out. There are not enough anti-depressants in the world for me to live like that.
Why would you birth the next 20 BILLION children into a world with 20 billion people crowding it? Put in your own figure, how many would make you reconsider having children?
If there is no answer here, then you have the crooks of the problem. We are not as in control as we think. Having kids is primal and emotional.
I don't have answers, just questions of blindly feeding the breeders.Oct 27 2012: i don't know what TED talkers you are referring to, but here are two:
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htmlOct 27 2012: If I don't help you, you will die.
If I save you, you will have many children, and they will then suffer, and again without my help, they will die.
Is it not more responsible and humane to just allow you to die?
I feel far more responsible for my actions, than my inactions. I did not create the suffering and death in the third world. If I do nothing about it, I feel much better than if I intervened and made it worse.
Being accountable for my actions, I would only intervene in such matters after first fully understanding the situation and, as best I could, understanding the consequences of my attempts to assist. Given my insights into long term (multi-generational) and holistic outcomes, I am MUCH more comfortable with my inaction, versus the likely harms I see from aiding what is clearly a broken system.
You are responsible for the lives you save, and the lives you allow to be created by your "assistance".
In particular I feel we need to FIRST or simultaneously address the issue of rampant third world population explosion. Cure the viral nature of mankind BEFORE you feed and nurture the virus, or else risk breaching a tipping point.
I do appreciate that making settlements from sand and bacteria is immensely cool, but I question not only meddling in population matters, and thus the mere deference of the problem or transference of this problem into another later, but also I question the sheer scale of your solution - a wall across all of africa. I harbour doubts in foreseeing the long term effects.
There's a paradox here; people are hurt by the notion of population control as if the children we don't create are somehow destroyed, even though they never existed. And these same people hold any person over and above any other species or concern. Yet under the logic, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, we should save those many extra from suffering by not having them and instead just giving the few children we do have the best lives possible.Oct 27 2012: First off, we are all human so linked together any blood is our blood, one man one voice as it goes.
Any solution dealing with elimination is void, natural things accepted. Why keep some alive, kill the ones that pollute the least, go figure...so why not just let us die, take away our filters and environmental protection along with all health issues...why keep you and me alive...why keep anyone alive...your right we mass produce, we are gluttonous pigs...if the issue of consumption is the issue then simply cut back on 70 % of the food we eat and waste...no more food concern...but wait we are self righteous arrogant vain beasts to even think to question why some...by others...just think if they were not hear then we could have even MORE...every one of the one percent just fell in love with you!
Do not get me wrong...I feel ya, but as you are aware nature along with man both have their own way of corrections and you just touched on a very close issue...good on you...if anyone is offended on this site they should not be here...this is where the gown ups talk...about reality...limitless issues and the pursuit of its perfection...
Karl Morgan
Oct 27 2012: I only pointed to the third world because they are infact (by far) the greatest cause of population growth, and there is a lag between increasing life expectancy, and a reduction in brithrates.
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In particular, I was picking on central africa because I was responding to the Magnus Larsson video, in which he wants to build a permanent wall across the entire width of africa. My concerns for population growth lead me to question the wisdom of his approach due to the long term effects, namely the people you have saved are still poor, bored, ignorant and rapey, so while they have some food, water and shelter, they will just breed until either they run out again, or hit some other problem.
However, my concern is with global overpopulation, not just the third world.
"your right we mass produce, we are gluttonous pigs", I never said anything of the sort. I think again this reflects upon the individualist folly of the western world, and my attempt here is to turn the attention the other way, irrelevant of how good or bad each person is to the environment, if there were FAR fewer of us, then we would greatly improve conditions for all life on the planet.
I really don't understand the resistance to reducing the global population.
A few particular points for you Asls; I expressly said I favour the health of all those already created, life is precious. Reducing the number of children you have, or dare I say it out loud, even considering NOT having any children, is nothing to do with destruction, you are going to die anyway and I would have nothing to do with hastening that.
Life is not more precious the more of us there are, if anything the opposite is true. So why not reduce population by 70% ?
Something that I can laugh at, as I am not a parent; people that want to save the planet for their children, when in having children they have already done the worst possible thing they could do to the planet. So do them the next best thing, have no more.
W. Ying
Oct 27 2012: I think:
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"The VALID happiness is the short-time feeling of things being a-step-better for keeping one's own DNA alive. "
Not for SILLY "invalid happiness" of reproduction.
Be happy validly!
Oct 27 2012: If you have a good life, and you feel you can provide the same for a child, plus you really want to keep your own DNA alive (or around half of it at least), then sure, have ONE child.
Maybe if you have a legacy to offer, you are successful, a genius and have a great family history health wise, then maybe have two kids.
If you are starving, your daily aspirations are hoping to find water and a hut, surrounded by disease, then having any children is abhorrently ignorant or worse if they have ANY insight into the consequences of reproduction. I doubt such people do though. I would suspect the male population are rather bored, horny and unrestrained. I am trying not to condemn the people, for truly, how can I appreciate their situation.
I do condemn western guilt and naivety for simply rushing in to patch up the obvious symptoms of a complex issue. Particularly when you consider that our attempts will likely lead to even more abused, exploited children of a baby boom that we foster through only partial assistance. At least that is my major concern.Oct 27 2012: Birth rates are plummeting in Africa and especially the Middle East now that contraception (partly due to efforts like you describe) and women's rights are starting to take off there. Young girls living there today won't have 10 kids.
Karl Morgan
Oct 27 2012: I would like to see your evidence John.
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According to stats I have seen, population growth is still accelerating (not just increasing) in central africa:
Also world wide, 7 BILLION and counting.
In my father's lifetime the population HAS DOUBLED globally. Being just 3.5 billion around 1967.
As of 2012 data, this trend continues.
6.5% of all people ever alive on the planet, are alive right now:
Here's more, but this info is backed everywhere I care to look;
The figures from central africa are an AVERAGE of OVER 3 kids per woman, with many areas OVER 5.5 kids per woman;
Load the above interactive map, go to the "Births and Deaths" tab over the map, then choose the radio button over the map for "Total Fertility Rate".
So on average, no not 10 kids per woman, but according to all the data I found, your assertion that "Birth rates are plummeting" is dead wrong, even in more developed parts of africa, but especially in the area in which Magnus and myself are talking about - central africa.
Oct 29 2012: You should not focus on what the birthrates are today, you should compare them to what they were 10, 20, 30 or 40 years ago. You will see that the birthrate has fallen even for places like Bangladesh.
Your first graph seems to show nice exponential growth, except it doesn't: its gradient decreases, or in English, the population of 2010 divided by the population of 2000 is smaller than the same ratio for 2000 and 1990 which in turn is smaller than the ratio for 1990 and 1980 and that's happening even though people are living longer. See, if you start out with 100 million people who each get 1.5 kids after 30 years, who eacht get 1.4 kids after another 30 years you'll see the population go from 100 million to 150 million and then from 150 million to 210 million. The graph would look terrifying because 210-150 > 150-100, but the birth rate definitely has gone down and if the trend persists population growth will cease.
Misunderstandings like this are why people in leadership positions really need to learn more math.
Oct 29 2012: After seeing Hans Rosling's TED talk on Religions and babies, I am rather less concerned about population strangulation.
At least some, for then I have today seen Jonathan Foley on TED, with the Other Inconvenient Truth, that even if we cap at 9 billion, we have serious agricultural and thus environmental problems.
I get the point of "who the hell are we to slam others for destroying nature", and there's not a natural square metre left in Britain (people think moorland is natural, they are wrong), however that damage is done. I do feel we should depopulate the west too, and try to restore something natural, get some forests back etc.
But it's in the third world where inefficiencies meets ignorance meets population growth meets true natural environment.
I think it's also important to differentiate between the ACCELERATION of population growth SLOWING and actual population DECLINE. Birthrates are only part of it, it's the totals that concern me.
If every person needs 125kWh per day, as I half remember from another TED talk, and we at 7billion use crop land equivalent of all of South America, plus another area the total size of Africa for grazing our animals, then please ask yourself - how many people should there be on this planet?
I cannot get an answer to this one simple question - even from religious nuts that espouse massive breeding INCREASES, and that is WHY? (Besides a "god" telling you to multiply and be fruitful) Why do we not want less people, why am I alone thinking that the world would MUCH better with 1billion vs 7 billion.
Seriously, please someone tell me - why is more better? Because is doesn't mean you know more people, does it equal more creativity and ingenuity? Is that proven or even investigated? Or is it simply that many people want a house full of children? Does that sort of thinking come from Individualist thinking, and Individualist parenting?Oct 29 2012: "I think it's also important to differentiate between the ACCELERATION of population growth SLOWING and actual population DECLINE."
Italy, Germany and Japan once started out with only a slightly slower population growth but then the trend continued and now immigration and increases in lifespan are the only things keeping those countries from population decline. Who is to say the same won't happen for Africa? It is important to realize what a tremendous accomplishment it is that birth rates are actually declining now, after centuries of growth. The fact that we will level out this century is something that was by no means a certain prospect 50 years ago.
"Seriously, please someone tell me - why is more better? Because is doesn't mean you know more people, does it equal more creativity and ingenuity? Is that proven or even investigated? Or is it simply that many people want a house full of children? Does that sort of thinking come from Individualist thinking, and Individualist parenting?"
A higher population does mean having more geniuses and larger niche markets, but yeah, the environmental impact outweighs those advantages, in this we agree.
Oct 29 2012: Thanks John.


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Teletovis finished with 18 points and Andray Blatche scored 23 with nine rebounds for the Nets, who rallied back from a 10-point deficit with under four minutes left to move to 3-0 in the preseason.
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Step inside Whistles' airy, bright office and you're instantly hit by a wall of…calm. Yes, the company is in the midst of launching its first U.S. franchise with Bloomingdale's, and a brand-new menswear collection will debut in the autumn, but the men and women of Whistles go about their business as if they haven't a care (or a deadline) in the world. And, they're doing all this in pool sliders, city shorts, and tailored tees, no less.
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11/2/2013 | MSHA Athletic Center (Johnson City, TN) | Attendance: 3208
Friday, November 01, 2013
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 2, 2013) -- The ETSU men's basketball team will highlight Saturday's Homecoming festivities as the Buccaneers play their final exhibition game of the preseason against Mars Hill.
Tip inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center is set for 4 p.m., and the game will follow the ETSU women's exhibition contest against Shepherd College, which is set for a 1:30 p.m. tip.
The Bucs are coming off an offensively dominant performance in a 118-83 victory over Milligan College Tuesday night, but the team is ready to improve on the defensive end as they prepare for their regular season opener next Friday evening at Charlotte.
Fans are also encouraged to bring their children to games this year to take advantage of the special Sweet Frogs $5 kid's ticket to all men's basketball games. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2013-14 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball link.
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General Information: The ETSU men's basketball program was glad to see the 2012-13 campaign come to an end, following a season which saw the team face multiple obstacles and challenges -- such as a brutal schedule that featured the likes of North Carolina, Arizona, Ole Miss, Virginia Tech, Georgia and Hawaii ... Other issues for the team included senior post Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) missing the season with ankle injury that he suffered in the preseason, senior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) being academically ineligible for the first two months of the year, and two other senior guards who were expected to be major contributors were dismissed from the team in early November for violations of team rules … This left head coach Murry Bartow and his coaching staff with a young, inexperienced group of underclassmen, several true freshmen, one redshirt freshman and a pair of junior college transfers … Those obstacles proved to be tough to overcome, as the Buccaneers posted a 10-22 record and finished 8-10 in Atlantic Sun Conference play … It was the toughest campaign in Bartow's 10 seasons at ETSU, a tenure that has produced many championships, postseason tournament appearances and 20-win campaigns … In all, Bartow's teams have earned three NCAA Tournament invitations (2004, 2009 and 2010), one NIT appearance (2007), and one CIT berth (2011), and the Bucs have eclipsed 20 wins five times. … This year, the Bucs will once again take to the floor with a young squad made up of several new faces … In fact, despite the return of the 6-fooot-9 Poderis, the Bucs have just five players back this season who played significant minutes a year ago … The leading scorer in that group is Atlantic Sun Conference All-Freshman Team selection Lester Wilson (Knoxville, Tenn.) … This 6-foot-4, 200-pound redshirt sophomore wing averaged 13 points and five rebounds a game last season … Meanwhile, junior guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa) became an offensive threat, developing one of the A-Sun's best 3-point shooting strokes and finishing with an average of 8.9 points per game … Along with Wilson and Rembert, senior forwards Hunter Harris (Nashville) and Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.), as well as sophomore point guard Petey McClain (Mobile, Ala.) will round out the list of returning players … A year ago, Harris averaged 8.1 points and 5.4 rebounds a game, while McClain led the team with 3.2 assists per contest … Bartow's staff has added two true freshmen and three transfers to the mix this year … This group includes freshmen A.J. Merriweather (Jackson), Devin Harris (Tampa) and Isaac Banks (New Orleans), as well as junior college transfers Jalen Riley (Racine, Wis.) and Darius Forrest (Jackson, Miss.) … In addition, Ron Giplaye (Lowell, Mass.), a 6-foot-6, 230-pound forward, joins the active roster after spending the last year in Johnson City following his transfer from Big East Conference member Providence. … Bartow's schedule this year is loaded with home games against solid mid-major opponents such as Winthrop (Nov. 19), Samford (Nov. 21), Valparaiso (Nov. 26), Marshall (Nov. 30) and Austin Peay (Dec. 21) … In addition, the team will also open the season at Charlotte (Nov. 8), and play at Georgia Tech (Dec. 7) and at Western Kentucky (Nov. 16) before beginning conference play.
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Reticulocytes, Blood
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Reticulocytes are immature erythrocytes (RBC) that have been released into the peripheral blood from the bone marrow after extrusion of their nucleus. The reticulocyte contains residual polyribosomes used in the formation of hemoglobin in the developing erythrocyte.
The reticulocyte count is a measure of the number of RBCs delivered by the bone marrow. It is elevated with active erythropoiesis such as regeneration, and is decreased in hypoplastic or deficiency conditions such as vitamin B12 deficiency.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Assessing erythropoietic bone marrow activity in anemia and other hematologic conditions
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Reticulocyte counts must be carefully correlated with other clinical and laboratory findings.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Clotted specimens yield unreliable results and are unacceptable for analysis.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
% Reticulocytes: 0.77-2.36%
Absolute reticulocytes: 38.1-112.6 x 10(9)/L
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
Clinical Hematology: Principles, procedures, correlations. Second edition. Edited by CA Lotspeich-Steininger, EA Stiene-Martin, JA Koepke. Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven, 1998, pp 114-117


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A skin graft surgery is the removal and transplantation of healthy skin from one area of the body to another area. It is done to replace the skin in an area where the skin has been severely damaged. The source sites most commonly used for skin grafts are the inner thigh, buttocks, below the collarbone, in front of and behind the ear, and the upper arm.
The use of your own skin as the source area is called an autograft. If there is not enough skin on the body to provide graft coverage, skin may be harvested from outside sources. These alternate sources are only meant for temporary use until your own skin grows back. Three common options are:
- Allograft—skin taken from another human source, such as a cadaver
- Xenograft—skin taken from an animal source
- Synthetic tissue
Reasons for Procedure
Skin grafts are done to:
Promote healing of:
- Large burns
- Large wounds
- Venous ulcers
- Pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores
- Diabetic ulcers
- Reconstruct skin removed during surgery, such as following breast cancer surgery or for a serious skin infection
A successful skin graft will result in transplanted skin adhering and growing into the recipient area. Cosmetic results may vary, based on factors such as the type of skin graft used and the recipient site.
Possible Complications
If you are planning to have a skin graft, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
- Bleeding
- Graft failure
- Infection at either the donor or recipient site
- Poor healing
- Increased or decreased sensation at the recipient site
- Hair may not grow on recipient site
- Graft tissue contracts, interfering with limb movement
- Scarring
- A collection of blood outside of a vessel, known as a hematoma
- Differences in skin coloration
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
- Age—newborns, infants, or adults aged 60 years and older
- Smoking
- Diabetes
- Poor overall health
- Use of certain medications
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
The wound will be cleaned with an antiseptic.
Depending on the surgery, you may receive:
- Local anesthesia—the immediate area is numbed
- Regional anesthesia—a large area of your body will be numbed, but you will be awake
- General anesthesia —you will be asleep
Description of Procedure
The wound will be measured. A pattern of the wound will be traced and outlined over the donor site. The donor tissue will be removed with a scalpel or special harvesting machine.
There are three main types of skin graft techniques:
- Split-thickness graft—This is the removal of the top layer of skin and part of the middle layer. This type of graft allows the source site to heal more quickly. The graft is more fragile. There may be color differences. This type of graft may be meshed. This technique places multiple controlled holes in the graft. It will give it a mesh appearance. The mesh allows fluid to leak out from the underlying tissue bed. The meshed skin will be able to spread out over a much larger area of injury.
- Full-thickness graft—This is the removal and transfer of an entire area of skin. Although this type of graft requires stitches to heal the source site, the final outcome is usually better. Full-thickness grafts are usually recommended for areas where cosmetic appearance is important, such as the face. Full-thickness grafts can only be placed on areas of the body that have significant blood vessels. Its use is somewhat limited.
- Composite grafts—This is a combination of skin and fat, skin and cartilage, or the middle layer of skin and fat. It is used in areas that require three-dimensionality, such as the nose.
The graft will be placed on the damaged site. It will be fastened with stitches or staples.
A pressure bandage will be applied over the area. A wound vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) may be placed for the first 3-5 days. This device has suction and is used to control drainage. Initially, the graft will survive on oxygen and nutrients from the underlying tissue. Within 36 hours, new blood vessels begin to grow. New cells will grow from the graft to cover the damaged area with new skin.
How Long Will It Take?
This varies, depending on the size of the graft and extent and severity of the injury.
How Much Will It Hurt?
Harvesting skin grafts can be painful. Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
Average Hospital Stay
This varies depending on the reason for the graft, the size of the graft, as well as other care that is needed. For example, recovery from a burn or accident may take longer.
Postoperative Care
Be sure to follow your doctor's instructions, which may include:
- Keep the recipient site clean and dry.
- Avoid all trauma to the recipient site.
- Do not expose the recipient site to prolonged sunlight.
- Inspect the site for healing and good circulation, as shown by healthy pink coloration.
- Follow instructions given for bandaging the grafted area. This will provide the area with appropriate support during the healing process. It will also help to prevent contractures that cause intense tightening even after healing is complete.
Call Your Doctor
It is important for you to monitor your recovery after you leave the hospital. Alert your doctor to any problems right away. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or discharge from the wounds
- Headache, muscle aches, lightheadedness, or general ill feeling
- Cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, or severe nausea or vomiting
- New or worsening symptoms
If you think you have an emergency, call for medical help right away.
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Recent MFA alum Cheryl Buchanan ('15) compiled and edited the book Writers Without, a collection featuring the writing of clients at Boston's St. Francis House day shelter.
Poet Janaka Stucky (BFA '00) reads at the 50th anniversary of the international poetry reincarnation.
Emerson College is the highest ranked local school in College Magazine's "Top Ten Best Schools for English Majors" list.
BFA Alum Sara Novic's first novel Girl at War receives rave reviews in the New York Times Book Review.
Congratulations to our Graduate Award Winners: Brionne Thompson (Best Thesis), Stephen Shane (WLP Thesis Award), Mary Nolan (Outstanding Publishing Project and Bookbuilders), Mireidys Garcia (Bookbuilders) Madison Bakalar (Fiction), Caitlin McGill (Nonfiction and President's Award), and Cheryl Buchanan (Poetry).
Asako Serizawa (MFA '01) is the recipient of a fiction writing fellowship at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
Senior Lecturer Mary Kovaleski is the recipient of the inaugural Emerson College Alumni Award for Teaching Innovation, presented by the Alumni Association to a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in innovation by engaging students in active learning in and out of the classroom.
Poet Christina Pugh (MFA '00) was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Sarah Chaves (BFA '11) was awarded a Fulbright 2015-2016 Grant. Chaves will spend one year, fully-funded, in Portugal working on her memoir.
Roxane Gay visited campus on March 19 for a question-and-answer session with students followed by a reading of some of her essays. Both events are part of the Writing, Literature & Publishing Reading Series.
MFA '98 Roseanne Montillo's article about 14-year old serial killer Jesse Pomeroy appeared on CBS News Crimsider. Montillo's latest book The Wilderness of Ruin explores the hunt for the child killer during Boston's Gilded Age and the Great Fire of 1872.
MFA '99 Olen Steinhauer's new book, All the Old Knives was recently reviewed by The New York Times.
Professor Jessica Treadway is featured in the Boston Globe for her new novel "Lacy Eye." In the Q&A with the Globe, Treadway discusses her writing habits, including writing drafts in longhand.
A group of nine young, emerging artists from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín recently presented their artwork at Emerson College Los Angeles and are visiting Emerson College in Boston this month.
Creative Writing MFA Stephen Shane (2015) and his colleague David Knight created a short documentary on Boston busing called Desegregated, Yet Unequal, and it was recently named an Editors' Pick by The Atlantic.
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Professor Steve Yarbrough has been elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and, in addition, will receive the 2015 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction this spring from the same organization.
WLP alum and writer Thomas Page McBee's memoir Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man was named on Publisher's Weekly's "Best Books of 2014."
Ladette Randolph's new memoir Leaving the Pink House was featured on Oprah.com as a suggested memoir. Randolph teaches in WLP and is Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares literary magazine.
Greg Nichols (MFA '11) released his first book, Striking Gridiron, A Town's Pride and a Team's Shot at Glory During the Biggest Strike in American History. The book was named a Junior Library Guild Fall 2014 Selection.
Lecturer Tamera Marko's writing collective with Emerson maintenance workers from Latin America and undergraduates presented a bilingual presentation: "Proyecto Carrito II: When the Student Receives an 'A' and the Worker Gets Fired: Driving our Own Narrative" at the Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Recent MA in Publishing & Writing alumni collaborated to launch a new literary genre journal called Strangelet. Alumni include Executive Editor Casey Brown (MA '13), Managing Editor Leah Thompson (MA '12), Production Editor Franco Alvarado (MA '13), and Creative Director Chandra Asar (MA '12).
WLP Professor Megan Marshall and the emersonWRITES program participate in the launch and unveiling of Boston as the country's first Literary Cultural District.
Michelle Bailat-Jones (MFA '05) won the inaugral Christopher Doheny award for her novel Fog Island Mountains. The award recognizes a book-lenth work exploring the experience of serious illness and includes a $10,000 prize and publication and promotion of the book.


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And maybe you are just being "mind controlled" by your welder
It is a very addicting thing you know....maybe you're just having flashbacks from your recent welding experience and really need to get back at it to get your fill
What are you welding on and what machine have you been using??
My advice: WELD MORE....you'll adjust and try a regular hood while yer at it.
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Thread: Optrel Satellite Welding mask
Miller Dynasty 700...OH YEA BABY!!
Miller Dynasty 280 with AC independent expansion card
Miller Dynasty 200 DX "Blue Lightning"
Miller Bobcat 225 NT (what I began my present Biz with!)
Miller 30-A Spoolgun
Miller WC-115-A
Miller Spectrum 300
Miller 225 Thunderbolt (my first machine bought new 1980)
Miller Digital Elite Titanium 9400
This product provides protection even if it fails to go dark- worst you are going to get is sore eyes- Welders Flash- No permanent damage. All UV rays are blocked by the Clear state of the Screen- I don't know of a helmet that does not provide this protection- Clear Safety glasses provide this UV- Protection.
Just the fact of welding- ya know going from Light to dark-dark to light could be causing simple eye fatigue.
He would have to weld with another Hood to determine if this is the case.
New Hood- same problem= fatigue
New Hood-No eye twitch- then the Optrel could be the culprit.
Have you tried putting the hood under a light for a spell to see if the Solar cell can be recharged?
(I have the same hood)
02-27-2008, 09:31 AM #13Junior Member
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I have tried leaving the hood in the sun per directions from someone at the AWS board.
I called corporate on Monday. I left a voice mail. My call was returned an hour lated. I was told that the person would check with the decision maker and get RIGHT back to me.
After waiting two days, I called again today. I made sure I got to speak to the decision maker. He informed me that my problem should be from a dead battery that Optrel does not want to service. He told me he had a demo unit from a corporate account that he would ship to me free of charge. He said for liability reasons he could never admit that the malfunctioning hood was responsible for my eye problems...wink wink.
Obviously waiting to get the correct person at the corporate office was the necessary step. I usually blow my stack and go nuts with these problems.
I made sure to explain to this guy that I bought the hood from a local distributor. I paid $400 plus for the hood. I had no interest in buying another cartridge for $200 plus. I also told him if I was forced to pay for anything, I would make sure to never buy another Optrel product.
Lets hope the cartridge gets here in working order and that I will be welding again in a few days.
Thanks for the help and for the sarcasm.
It is appreciated.
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i would never use a helmet that is only powered by solar cells. does the optrel have batteries, or is it strictly solar? my helmet is a jackson nexgen and has both batteries and solar-- wouldn't have it any other way.
I love my nextgen, I have used the Jackson Journeyman- POS. and the Speedylens niether have 4 sensors like the Nextgen. Nextgen= no flash, period.Tim Beeker,
T-N-J Industries
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Miller Synchrowave 350LX with tigrunner
Esab 450i with wire feeder
HH135 mig
Thermal Dynamics cutmaster 51 plasma cutter
Miller aircrafter 330 - sold
Marathon 315mm coldsaw
vertical and horizontal band saws
table saw
Dewalt cut off saw
Sand blast cabinet
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Harris torch
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new chinese mask
This one is not solor powered!
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Optrel welding hoods
I have used Optrel Welding hoods for at least ten years and never had any problems with them. I'm not talking about one hood either, I'd say more like about five of them, which I still have. I worked for GM and they were very generous in the safety area. All of mine were solar powered only, as I thought all of Optrel hood were. No batteries to go dead.
I have the Speedglass 9000x with 2 sensors, when using TIG, I get flashed a lot. Tried the Miller Elite and the Nexgen with 4 sensors, worked beautifully...
almost cried....I'm not late...
I'm just on Hawaiian Time
I bought my nexgen for $60.00 from a kid who thought he wanted to be a welder, almost didn't buy it. Glad I did.Tim Beeker,
T-N-J Industries
(my side bussiness)
Miller Synchrowave 350LX with tigrunner
Esab 450i with wire feeder
HH135 mig
Thermal Dynamics cutmaster 51 plasma cutter
Miller aircrafter 330 - sold
Marathon 315mm coldsaw
vertical and horizontal band saws
table saw
Dewalt cut off saw
Sand blast cabinet
lots of hand grinders
Harris torch
beer fridge
I contacted Optrel about a problem that I was having out of warranty and they sent me a new cartridge. They sent it next day air and told me to send my old one back when the new one was up and running...no questions or money! I was very happy with this level of service and would recomend their products to others as well. Jeff


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Patrick Swayze died nearly three years ago, but his star still burns bright. On what would have been his 60th birthday, we remember the heartthrob with the hungry eyes who still makes us swoon. Written by Joyce Gemperlein and originally published on Obit-Mag.com.
Actor Patrick Swayze played a tough cop hurting inside, a kind and vivacious drag queen, a surfer dude, an agent-runner, a ghost on a mission, a lovable small-time crook, a New Age television guru, a drifter and the crew-cut commander of a Vietnamese refugee camp – among other characters.
But, above all, every female who was ever 14 years old is familiar with the, shall we say, interesting stirrings that visit as she watches Swayze in his role as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing.
Recently I witnessed my daughter, who has begun noticing boys and putting two and two together, studying the actor's piercing gaze and rhythmic gyrations in the 1987 hit movie.
I could see it dawning, however subliminally, on this young teenager that, as playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote, "Dance is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music."
Patrick Swayze, 1992 (Terry O'Neill/Getty Images)
It also was obvious that she was wondering – hoping, maybe – if this is what life has in store for her and if it will include a Swayze/Castle character who provokes her to yearn and grow. Would she be escorted into womanhood in such a joyful, electric and enviable way?
As the credits rolled, she asked me what I knew about Swayze.
I said I found it easy to confuse him with the character of Castle because both seemed to be tender, talented and on the same wavelength as women.
Swayze grew up in the studio of his mother, the well-known choreographer and dancer Patsy Swayze. (He first saw his future wife, Lisa Niemi, there.) Amazingly, he was talented at gymnastics, football, diving, track, ice skating, ballet and acting. He was offered both athletic and dance scholarships. He trained with the Joffrey Ballet.
At his death at age 56, Swayze had worked steadily as an actor all of his adult life, but his three dozen movies weren't among the greatest. He was nominated for, but never won, a major award.
No matter, I told her, he worked hard at what he loved.
The final scene of Dirty Dancing was filmed when Swayze was in great pain (from rehearsing and performing), but he carried on because, as he said in an interview for the 20th anniversary of the movie, he believed that his work was a privilege and a duty.
And then, even as he was undergoing chemotherapy and other treatments, Swayze filmed two seasons of the rough-and-tumble television drama, The Beast. The FBI agent he plays is angry, as was Swayze after his January 2008 diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.
As he fought his illness, he excoriated tabloid media outlets for their deathwatch on him. This contact with them was rare; he had not been gossip fodder often during his career and marriage of three decades.
Patrick Swayze, 1990 (Nancy R. Schiff/Archive Photos)
Like Castle, Swayze talked freely about his emotions and seemed to use them to power his dancing.
Like me, my daughter thrilled to the corny scene in which Castle declares famously and angrily that "nobody puts Baby in the corner!" and then explodes into dance.
As the credits rolled, she and I agreed that Swayze as Castle was virile as all get out, with the face of a neighborhood tough and the torso of a beefcake model.
It was difficult for me to realize that my own baby totally got the sweaty, shirtless thing, and I wondered how soon she'll also grasp the implications of the phallic pottery scene in Swayze's 1990 movie, Ghost.
Watching Swayze in Dirty Dancing, we knew, was something we could together do over and over again.
So we hit the "rewind" button.
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Five U.S. soldiers have been killed recently in Afghanistan, the result of what might have been friendly fire from an American airplane. The deaths, if confirmed, would constitute the worst case of friendly fire in the war so far.
Five American soldiers were killed yesterday in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says the deaths were likely the result of friendly fire from a U.S. warplane. If confirmed, that would make it the worst case of friendly fire involving coalition forces in the Afghan war. NPR's Tom Bowman reports.
TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: The American soldiers were on patrol with Afghan forces on Monday in the dangerous Arghandab district, not far from the southern city of Kandahar. It was a security sweep to get ready for Afghanistan's presidential runoff election. A local police official said just as they completed their mission, they were ambushed by the Taliban. The American troops called in an airstrike which apparently struck them by accident. Here's Pentagon spokesman, Rear Admiral John Kirby.
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Title: you've got mail - part 1
Date: April 21, 2006
Summary: Steve unleashes the computer ghosts.
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Spam Phantoms
Onomatopoeias used: "CLIK!", "RRRRR!", "OOZE...", "GROPE!", "REACH!", "CLAW!"
Number of panels: 6
Panel 1
Steve's using a computer and CLICK!s.
Steve: "Oh boy! Someone sent me an email!"
Steve: "And it has an attachment too - this must be my lucky day! I'll just open it up..."
Panel 2
The computer shakes menacingly with a RRRRR!
Panel 3
Steve: "Hmm... looks like I've got a computer virus..."
The computer starts OOZEing from the back.
Panel 4
Ghosts start coming out of the screen.
Steve: "Oh no! The virus opened a portal into the phantom realm!"
Ghost 1: "Wooooooah..."
Ghost 2: "V111AAAGRAA..."
Steve: "Beaver is going to be so cross!"
Panel 5
Beaver comes along.
Beaver: "Hey Steve, can I use the computer for a bit?"
Steve: "Uh, no, I'm using it to, um... write my Harry Potter/Star Wars cross-over fanfiction..."
The ghosts GROPE!, CLAW! and REACH! on Steve.
Ghost: "Freee usss..."
Panel 6
Beaver: "Oh! You write that too? You must let me read it!"
Beaver: "I just knew I couldn't be the only one to see Harry's potential as a Jedi!"
[To be cont'd]
Fun Facts
- James Turner's comments from the site news:
"I can't believe no one saw this before:
Slitherin = Sith
Gryffindor = Jedis
Hufflepuff = Ewoks
Raven Claw = uh, Han Solo or something."
- In the comments section, James referred to the ghosts as Spam Phantoms.
- When recieving a computer virus, Spam Phantoms will come out of your screen.
- Steve doesn't have much knowledge about the danger about opening attachements in emails... :P
- One of the phantoms is saying "viagra".
- More from the comments:
Brent: Dude, Ravenclaw is the Rebel Alliance
eruditebaboon: Of course! And Dumbledore is just Yoda with better sentence construction.
Strokend: ...Yeah, I guess that's true! But then, who's Hagrid? Edit: Whoa, somebody wrote 'Beaver' in the caption instead of 'Steve'!
- Harry Potter is a very successfull book series by J. K. Rowling.
- Star Wars is a classic sci-fi movie series by George Lucas.
- "V1AGRA" is a common way spammers use to disguise the word "viagra" in spam mail, in order to make them through the spam blockers.
- There is green slime oozing from the computer in panel 3, forming into a puddle as seen in panel 6, this may be snot, referring to the fact that the common cold is also a virus.
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