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December 21, 2012
If we truly care deeply about the death of young children...
Here is a chart (PDF) from the National Center for Health Statistics, showing the "10 Leading Causes of Death by Age Group, United States – 2010." Young children's lives are clearly most threatened by accidents.
Here's a chart (PDF) showing "10 Leading Causes of Injury Deaths by Age Group Highlighting Unintentional Injury Deaths, United States – 2010." You can see that the greatest threat, by far, is the motor vehicle accident. Second, for 5- to 9-year-olds, is drowning. Third is fire. Homicide by firearm is fourth for this age group.
Go ahead and talk about the problem of murder, but let's remember that one thing we've learned from the Newtown massacre is how much we love and want to protect children. Children are continually dying from crashing cars, drowning, burning, suffocating, and poisoning. There are so many things we could do to be more careful and protective every day. Some of these things are fabulously banal, like keeping your eyes on the road and not walking away from the bathtub. There are no political enemies here to demonize, no legislation to stuff down your stubborn opponent's throat.
We're fixated by violence, and we love remedies for violence that have a frisson of (metaphorical) violence. But if we really care about the death of young children, we could take care.
67 comments:
- Insufficiently Sensitive said...
Nice job, Ms. Althouse, in applying a voice of reason to the debate. On the other side, it appears that they're largely invested in the collective chant of "blood on the hands of NRA", and much more interested in stuffing legislation wherever they can stuff it.
It's not for the children. It's for gratification of an anti-NRA lynch mob. - 12/21/12, 8:20 AM
- rhhardin said...
It's not about love for children but entertainment value.
- Gabriel Hanna said...
It's the difference between perception of risk and assessment of risk.
For a technical writing course I wrote on this topic, and I compared various risks to the cancer risk from smoking one cigarette. So I had a cigarette scale of dangerousness.
One of my examples was peanut butter. Eating 1 jar of peanut butter = smoking one cigarette. (Aflatoxin is the mechanism, if you're interested.) I had a lot of concern from the class in my presentation, should they stop eating peanut butter?
Well, if you smoke a pack a day you might get cancer, it's a lot lower risk than people think (only 20% or so of smokers get lung cancer). You'd have to eat twenty jars of peanut butter every day to get the same risk.
1) Even if you were shipwrecked on a desert island for fifty years with a container vessel full of peanut butter, you'd have difficulty eating this much;
2) if you succeeding in doing so, you'd be suffocated by your own fat long before you got cancer.
- bpm4532 said...
Why focus on reason and fact when you can impose dreams?
I've noticed among my democrat friends that many have a sparkle in their eye at the concept of a perfectly beneficial dictator that can impose order, peace and prosperity. - 12/21/12, 8:28 AM
- jd said...
Every death of an innocent person is sad. But when a large group of people are murdered in a terrible fashion, society rightly seeks to stop such crimes from happening again.
That's why al Qaeda and not heart disease has been public enemy #1 for the last 11 years.
It's insincere and betrays an untenable position expect society not to react strongly to mass murder. The "move along, nothing to see here, stop paying ATTENTION" mentality is really odd, tbh. - 12/21/12, 8:30 AM
- SarcastiCarrie said...
People don't actually care about children's safety. I have young kids. The AAP came out with new car seat guidelines. Children should be rear-facing to age 2 or as long as possible (like they fit in their seat, etc). I fully intend to comply. I am getting pushback. People think that's weird. I'm guessing it's not what they did with their kids so they feel threatened that I think I am a better parent. Anyway, even other people with young children who could keep their kids rear-facing are giving me trouble. Seriously, a 5-point harness and rear-facing is safer for everyone (except the driver but a 5-pt harness is better there too). But it's not convenient. And some kids get car sick. And then the kids can't fasten their own belts, etc. Lies. All lies.
- jimspice said...
The difference is that accidents are just that -- without motive or malice. Who can you blame for incidents. God? It is the intent in these massacres that we find so appalling.
- Bob said...
Sorry Ann but we aren't really that interested in violence to children. The media only gets interested in "gripping stories". Those are usually multiple deaths or grisly deaths. Mother straps young kids in car seats and rolls car into lake. School shootings. Child microwaved or put on stove. If a child dies in a garden variety manner its silence.
This weekend a couple of kids will die as by-standers in a drive-by shooting. Or will be beaten to death by a drunk parent. Result, a one or two line mention on page 12. More young kids will die in a few months in Chicago or Newark or New Orleans than in CT with no acknowledgement by this President or Congress. No calls for action. - 12/21/12, 8:37 AM
- Rick Lockridge said...
Why don't we just fixate on the specific problem of protecting children better while they're in school?
There are two obvious ways to get started: replace all classroom doors with heavy steel "fortress" doors (Alex Lanza skipped the first classroom he encountered simply because the door was locked), and bring the equivalent of an Air Marshall program into schools.
Would-be shooters must be confronted with the certainty of an immediate armed response.
We let the media turn this into a gun-control argument before we finished the school safety argument. Of COURSE that's what they were gonna do. - 12/21/12, 8:39 AM
- SJ said...
Are you saying it's time for some common sense car control?
- Shouting Thomas said...
Of all the explanations for the massacre that have been floated, I still find Heartiste's the most likely.
Older Moms And Divorced Moms Raising Generation Of Psychopaths?
Note how placing blame on a woman simply does not seem to enter the public consciousness.
Ms. Lanza had a child in her mid-30s when the likelihood of birth defects has risen substantially, divorced her wealth husband, lived on $12,000 a month alimony and apparently had no money of her own, and apparently isolated her son from his father.
In other words, she was living out the cult of single motherhood, courtesy of a husband with deep pockets.
We've been so heavily indoctrinated to manufacture empathy for whatever a woman chooses to do that it has become impossible to assign blame to a woman. - 12/21/12, 8:41 AM
- jr565 said...
Remember Piers Morgan hectoring Lary Pratt director of Gun Owners of America about how he had blood on his hands.
Sample arguments from Morgan:
"What a ridiculous argument. You have absolutely no coherent argument whatsoever. You don't give a damn, do you, about the gun murder rate in America. You don't actually care...."
"I know why sales of these weapons have been soaring in the last few days. It's down to idiots like you....
You are a dangerous man espousing dangerous nonsense, and you shame your country."
On one side is a rational argument. On the other side is all emotion, and sputtering rage and denunciation. Which side do you think Piers Morgan is falling on?
He has to realize he lost the debate simply because of how he handled himself, doesn't he?
Tis is the gun debate we're having. It's not a reasoned, lets weigh the options and run cost benefits analysis over the best way to curtail gun violence. It's "the NRA wants to kill kids and if you even offer a rebuttal you will be insulted. Even though nothing(or very little) the anti gun proponents offer will actually work or wold have in this case"
Piers Morgan sounds like a shrill, effeminate woman. If CNN had any shame they would have made him take a week off to practice his professionalism. But right now they're too into their blood libel mode.
I'm wondering if anyone at CNN has bodyguards or security, and if any of them use guns. Piers should go up to them and demand they start using slingshots.or we should hold CNN members accountable for taking such security for granted while they hector everyday people for trying to protect themselves the same way.
- NotquiteunBuckley said...
When a connected Democrat rapes a young teen like just happened here in CO, should she be forced to have that rape baby were she to be impregnated?
If your answer is no, like mine, then in this way we don't want more healthy little kids running around.
I demonize myself for not wanting more healthy little kids running around. - 12/21/12, 8:43 AM
- harrogate said...
"This weekend a couple of kids will die as by-standers in a drive-by shooting. Or will be beaten to death by a drunk parent. Result, a one or two line mention on page 12. More young kids will die in a few months in Chicago or Newark or New Orleans than in CT with no acknowledgement by this President or Congress. No calls for action."
I get (or at least I think I do) your point that calls for more laws, legals action as a result of the CT shooting are misguided. But I am not sure what your point is here, as far as media attention. How could the CT shootings not have gotten the media attention it has gotten? This reminds me more than a little of people during the Iraq War saying they couldnt understand why there is so much attention on dead soldiers, because so many more people die in automobile accidents. - 12/21/12, 8:43 AM
- damikesc said...
Progressives don't really care about what they lecture us about.
It's insincere and betrays an untenable position expect society not to react strongly to mass murder. The "move along, nothing to see here, stop paying ATTENTION" mentality is really odd, tbh.
But nobody is saying that.
What is being said is "Hey, you know, laws passed SOLELY on an emotional basis tend to be really bad laws. Let's actually look at this a bit" - 12/21/12, 8:43 AM
- damikesc said...
Also, if Obama cared about gun control, he wouldn't have used executive privilege to protect Eric Holder who violated numerous gun control laws and gave lots of guns to known-to-be dangerous drug cartels.
Just sayin'. - 12/21/12, 8:44 AM
- harrogate said...
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- harrogate said...
"On one side is a rational argument. On the other side is all emotion, and sputtering rage and denunciation"
Yes, because the world really is black and white like that. And what a happy coincidence for the author of the above quote, that he falls within the "rational argument" side!!
- Firehand said...
We hear about it when it's a politically-correct death or set of deaths, or threat:
Kid gets stabbed or beaten to death in a school bathroom, local news.
Kid brings gun(loaded or not) to school, national news for two or three days.
One, somebody is actually DEAD, but not in the way the media likes to blow up as big as possible, so... - 12/21/12, 8:47 AM
- Shouting Thomas said...
I live in one of the great philosophical centers of the cult of single motherhood... Woodstock... you know, the real one!
Woodstock went absolutely nuts over the domestic violence thing.
With good reason. If you want to create the conditions for domestic violence, and all other sorts of violence, encourage women to dump the fathers of their children, sleep around and have children by various fathers. - 12/21/12, 8:48 AM
- Teri said...
Schools should have security assessments. I also like this program: http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/students_fight_gunmen.html .
I'm most in favor of dealing with this on a state level. It's been interesting to see the debate ignore how strict the gun laws are in CT and how the ACLU blocked a law that would have allowed for involuntary commitment in cases where public safety is at risk. I guess it doesn't fit the narrative. - 12/21/12, 8:50 AM
- jd said...
it makes me sad to see people who would rather protect a dying political position than react appropriately to the slaughter of so many innocent people in a school.
How empty of a feeling that must be. - 12/21/12, 8:51 AM
- Shouting Thomas said...
How empty of a feeling that must be.
That's a classic!
An old fart (make that Old Dawg) like me has heard this one a zillion times.
Here's the logic...
1. A tough social problem exists.
2. Moron is convinced he has the "solution," which, of course, is easy to enact.
3. Moron convinces himself that those who have reservations about the "solution" actually have a perverse desire to perpetuate that problem. - 12/21/12, 8:56 AM
- campy said...
But if we really care about the death of young children, we could take care.
Key word: if. - 12/21/12, 8:59 AM
- Bob Ellison said...
Bob said "Sorry Ann but we aren't really that interested in violence to children."
That's the problem. "Think about the children" is an argument, not a sincere thing.
Piers Morgan's recent weird rant shows how desperate lefties are. We must use this tragedy now, quickly, before the outrage subsides! - 12/21/12, 8:59 AM
- Bruce Hayden said...
One problem with gun deaths is that they mostly ignore the difference between the death being caused by a legal gun used by someone with a legal right to possess it, and everything else - notably all the collateral damage from gang violence - plus, some of the victims there are themselves not so innocent, despite still being classed as children. My expectations, from everything that I have read, is that the vast majority of gun deaths of kids falls into the second category. Yet, we find many on the left right now advocating restrictions on the law abiding based on misuse by the law breakers (who don't obey gun laws in the first place).
- NotquiteunBuckley said...
ST I disagree. There would be many more psychopathic-caused terror events were Kingpimp Alphasodomite correct in his analysis.
Also, think of Norman Bates. Seems to me his generation of single moms raised a generation of psychopaths, per the data regarding violence in America and single motherhood. - 12/21/12, 9:01 AM
- Peter said...
Wow. Looking at all those "unintentional poisonings," it's hard not to wonder how many might have been ... intentional?
- Bob Ellison said...
I used the wrong word. "Argument" should mean something serious. I don't know the word for what lefties are doing about guns lately. Hysteria, perhaps, but that has anti-female stuff in it.
- dreams said...
About three hundred children under the age five drown in swimming pools each year and over 500 children have died from heat exhaustion since back seat car seats were required, because they are more likely to be forgotten. Another unintended consequence of those who thought they were doing good.
- jr565 said...
Harrogate wrote:
Yes, because the world really is black and white like that. And what a happy coincidence for the author of the above quote, that he falls within the "rational argument" side!!
the world isn't black and white like that. But tell that to Piers Morgan why don't you? Tell Soledad Obrien. Tell Mike Bloomberg. Tellthe media at large.
Don't blame me for point out how the lefties are turning into a bunch of hectoring assholes. Tis particular conversation is actually emblematic of the conversation we seem to be having right now. Is every single lefty emgsging in this simplistic rage. Pretty much! But I'll grant you there may be one or two in the world that are arguing reasonably.
If an outside observer though were to view the Piers Moran conversation he would instantly recognize the argument style from both sides as being representative of that side. One side is emotional and irrational and screaming. The other side is largely polite, not engaging in insults, not accusing the other side of wanting to kill kids and actually arguing the merits or demerits of proposed laws and why they are problematic and may not help.
- ricpic said...
Think of all the good people with yellow ribbon stickers on their cars talking on their cell phones while driving. But they're good and caring. The stickers prove it.
- Jay said...
The idea that the people calling for "common sense gun control" are in any manner, shape, or form concerned about dead children is silly and obscene.
- Freeman Hunt said...
This is why we have lots and lots of smoke alarms, several fire extinguishers, a fire ladder, outrageously expensive car seats, a car picked out by crash test ratings, and no pool or pond.
- dreams said...
Liberals love to do things even if they don't do any good for the important thing is that it makes them feel good. The law of unintended consequences is never taken into consideration.
- jr565 said...
Harrogte wrote:
I get (or at least I think I do) your point that calls for more laws, legals action as a result of the CT shooting are misguided. But I am not sure what your point is here, as far as media attention. How could the CT shootings not have gotten the media attention it has gotten? This reminds me more than a little of people during the Iraq War saying they couldnt understand why there is so much attention on dead soldiers, because so many more people die in automobile accidents.
it is a big story, and it would e unreasonable to have no coverage. But to have up to the minute coverage that goes into every detail, much of which is wrong is ghoulish. The media has a tendency to prostittute themselves in the interest of telling the story and trying to turn it into an agenda, rather than simply reporting the news. We thus get the Piers Morgans and Soledad's arguing like jackasses rahter than trying to remain objective. Also, we shold really have rules in place t this point whee we aren't mentioning the names of these shooters.
The amount of media attention only emboldens the next Adam Lanza who sees the coverage and realizes that he can be famous the same way. Tell the story, but leave photos and names out of the story of the killer. - 12/21/12, 9:17 AM
- Jay said...
Don't blame me for point out how the lefties are turning into a bunch of hectoring assholes.
I think they've been hectoring assholes since Al & Tipper were trying to ban, then label albums with "obscene" rock lyrics... - 12/21/12, 9:21 AM
- Freeman Hunt said...
Additionally, when children are murdered, it is most often by their own parents, so if you're not a murderer you've got that one mostly covered.
- SteveBrooklineMA said...
Risk and perception of risk... two very different things. If 600 kids drowned per year in the USA in groups of 20, pools would be banned. But since it happens individually, it is seen as less of a threat.
- edutcher said...
Since we're legally bound to buckle them in the best things you can do for a kid is teach to swim (and other water survival techniques) and teach them to respect fire and know what to do in an emergency.
As for firearms, aside from hit the deck, the best thing to do is execute anybody who shoots a kid, purposely or not (accidents are another matter, of course). - 12/21/12, 9:31 AM
- Rumpletweezer said...
There is no "perfect" security for anything or anyone. There is, however, "optimal" security. Rather than assigning armed guards to the schools, I propose letting those teachers and administrators who so choose to carry concealed. The uncertainty acts as a powerful deterrent.
- Paul said...
I'm 58 years old.
I've seen TONS of car wrecks. I have given first aid in two of them to victims. Seen rollovers, broadsides, rear end, even one crashing into a tree.
And at the same time I've lived with guns since 15. Yet I have never seen a shooting (accident or not.)
It's not guns I fear but cars. Over 50,000 people each year die on highways and way over 100,000 injured, many maimed! And yet the speed limits go up and up!
Oh, and pool drownings of kids. Back yard swimming pools kill far more than all the mass murderers combined per year!
But no, they want 'gun control' as if that will stop anything. - 12/21/12, 9:52 AM
- Colonel Angus said...
Don't blame me for point out how the lefties are turning into a bunch of hectoring assholes.
What do you mean turning into? That ship sailed decades ago. - 12/21/12, 9:53 AM
- carrie said...
I wish we would be fixated on child abuse and child neglect. Something like 1,800 children die from child abuse/neglect each year, but countless other suffer from child abuse/neglect and studies show that kids that were the victim of child abuse/neglect tend to treat their children the same way that they were treated by their parents. It seems to me that stopping kids under age 18 from engaging in sex would be the number one priority, encouraging people to be married before they have children would be number 2, and then targeting alcohol/substance abuse would be number 3 on the list of priorities. But none of that will happen. Those in power will continue to target sugary drinks and fast food and encourage everyone to have as much sex as possible with as many people as possible. I would also place the blame on the husbands in divorces who take the easy way out when they have troubled kids--they leave it to the wife to raise the troubled kid on her own and then, from afar, criticize everything the wife does and then wash their hands of it (in many cases because their new wife/girlfriend does not want to be bothered/understand/burdened with any child, much less a troubled child, from a prior marriage. As an estate planner, I am always amazed as the number of men who let their second wives talk them into cutting their children from a prior marriage out of their estate plans, or at least minimizing their shares as well as breaking off contact with their kids from a prior marriage. The evil step mother is not a myth.
- Colonel Angus said...
I still appreciate the delicious irony of the abortion on demand crowd's sudden outpouring of concern for the children.
- Rustling Leaves said...
My greatest fear is peanuts. My daughter has a peanut allergy (the real blood test verified anaphylaxic kind, not an intolerance). Places such as ice cream parlors, bakeries, picnics, and church are deadly dangerous for her. People who don't take us seriously and give her food could kill her. We have been in situations in which kind hearted strangers have tried to give her food. A nice old man gave my son a bite of his ice cream one day. If it had been my daughter it could have killed her. It is absolutely frightening. Who thinks of cookies as poison? They are if my daughter eats them.
- Ann Althouse said...
"Wow. Looking at all those "unintentional poisonings," it's hard not to wonder how many might have been ... intentional?"
I think that's the label under which they put drug overdoses. - 12/21/12, 10:40 AM
- Ann Althouse said...
Another thing to fear is just plain falling. Look at this chart on hospital visits. The #1 problem, across all but one age group, is falling.
Those who are worrying about guns in the home should worry more about stairs. - 12/21/12, 10:44 AM
- hga said...
Peter and Ann: out of the current ~ 600 fatal gun accidents a year (down 25% in total as bith the population and number of guns has increased by 50%) some fraction of them are anything but accidents. In my home town of Joplin, MO two years ago a 14 year old was killed when one of her "friends" there for a slumber party picked up a gun that had accidentally been left out, pointed it at her head and pulled the trigger.
Ruled a "tragic accident"; don't believe "the weapon discharged", it takes a lot of force to do that on a revolver's trigger.
There was also a hunting accident which sounded awfully improbable to me, but there was only one witness left, so....
All these statistics need to be taken with a large grain of salt. - 12/21/12, 11:08 AM
- William said...
Some crimes achieve a new dimension in human malignity. The Manson murders. Jonestown. The atrocities on 9/11. Now this. You like to think that human evil exists within human dimensions and is in some way comprehensible. But a crime like this is just too monstruous for ordinary outrage....It doesn't help that the perpetrator is too wispy to absorb the rage that he generates. The other crimes had villains worthy of their crimes.... All of the solutions that the left has proposed seem to me to be ineffectual, but the NRA is substantial and solid enough to hate.....There's a connection between gun ownership and this crime. There's a connection between Muslim fervency and the crimes of 9/ll. I would ask the left to extend to the NRA the same tolerance they extend toward the Muslim.
- mikee said...
William, I came here to propose that teaching kids to swim starting at age 5 or 6 at the latest would save a lotta lives.
Having said that I strongly second your motion that the left and in particular elected officials should be treating the NRA, the country's oldest civil rights organization, with at least the respect due to the religion followed by our worst enemies. - 12/21/12, 11:48 AM
- Gahrie said...
I still appreciate the delicious irony of the abortion on demand crowd's sudden outpouring of concern for the children.
Exactly. They are willing to sacrifice millions of unborn children a year to protect a right that does not appear in the Constitution, but are willing to destroy a Constitutional Right because a couple of dozen children are killed.....
- Gahrie said...
Over 50,000 people each year die on highways and way over 100,000 injured, many maimed! And yet the speed limits go up and up!
It is not the high speeds that are the problem. Out here on the freeways of California millions of people drive 80+ miles an hour inches off of each other's bumper safely. In Germany they drive well over 100 mph on the autobahn perfectly safely.
There are two big problems with driving today.
The first is the differential in speeds. If all the cars on the road are going the same speed, everything is fine. It is the cars that are driving significantly ( I'm talking 20 or 30 miles an hour) slower that are the problem. (Which is why there is a minimum, and no maximum , speed limit on the autobahns) Some do it out of thrift ("I save gas when I drive 55"), many are illegals trying to escape the notice of the police (which is funny, because they stand out so well because they drive so slow) and other s who are too scared to drive any faster.
The second problem on the freeways today are those who are afraid to drive, but do it anyway. You can't predict what they will do when something unexpected happens, they tend to drive slow in the left hand lanes and have no idea how to efficently merge or change lanes.
You want a suggestion on a quick and easy fix that will improve the lives on millions of Americans every day? Convince slow drivers to move to the right! - 12/21/12, 12:40 PM
- SJ said...
It's not guns I fear but cars. Over 50,000 people each year die on highways and way over 100,000 injured, many maimed! And yet the speed limits go up and up!
I don't think your numbers are a little outdated.
But I'm the kind of guy who took one weekend to compare "Accidental Death; Automotive related" in the the WISQARS database to "Homicide, Firearm."
During the 1980s, deaths in automobile traffic routinely ran in the 45000-to-50000 per year range.
However, that declined into ~40000/year during the '90s and most of the '00s. In 2008 or so, it declined dramatically again.
The last year for which data is available had ~30000 deaths in automobiles.
During that time, the total number of cars and drivers in the U.S. has increased by many millions.
During most of the years between 1995 and 2009, homicides by firearm stayed in the range of ~13000 per year. - 12/21/12, 12:56 PM
- Ann Althouse said...
"During most of the years between 1995 and 2009, homicides by firearm stayed in the range of ~13000 per year."
Can you break that down so we can see which of those are innocent victims and which are criminals killing each other? I would assume that murders by firearm include more criminal on criminal murders than other sorts of murders. Am I wrong about that? It seems to me that children are more likely to be murdered by family members in the home in a child abuse situation that is less likely to involve guns. - 12/21/12, 1:10 PM
- Alex said...
The only reason the left cares about kids dying is when it's useful to a political agenda. Drowning kids in a backyard pool doesn't help any agenda.
- Alex said...
Ann - as soon as you go for the demographic breakdown come the shouts of RACISM, because we know what the stats are.
- n.n said...
Colonel Angus:
Don't harsh their mellow! Recreational sex is a human rights priority.
It is dissociation of risk which causes corruption. It is dreams of instant gratification (including sex) which motivates its progress.
Men and women just want to have fun. This is a progressive condition which leads to the civilization paradox. It is why history is recycled. - 12/21/12, 1:52 PM
- n.n said...
In 2009, murder committed with a firearm (or representative) was under 9,200. While the total murders was under 14,000.
FBI: Murder by State, Types of Weapons, 2009 - 12/21/12, 2:02 PM
- Alex said...
It's true that a mass shooting causes us to recoil in a way that drownings, car accidents do not. It's the sheer horror of the incident that matters.
- Lem said...
rh is right.
- creeley23 said...
Ann: Well said.
- SteveR said...
The real danger: Automatic transmissions
- SJ said...
Can you break that down so we can see which of those are innocent victims and which are criminals killing each other? I would assume that murders by firearm include more criminal on criminal murders than other sorts of murders. Am I wrong about that? It seems to me that children are more likely to be murdered by family members in the home in a child abuse situation that is less likely to involve guns.
It's kind of hard to answer that using the data at hand.
The WISQARS is, more or less, a compendium of coronor's reports and physician statements.
It contains cause/means of death, and whether the death was accidental, intentional, or suicidal. (However, the intentional portion of "Firearms" contains "Police Action"...)
It doesn't contain much about the relationship of the killer to the killed, nor the status.
I've occasionally looked into the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. However, those don't classify victim by previous-criminal-behavior. They do classify victim and offender by Race, Sex, Age and Relationship.
However, those records typically contain ~4000 murders for which the the age/sex/race of the person who committed murder are unknown.
I saw an article (possibly on Insty) this week which claimed that in one urban enclave, more than 70% of murder victims had criminal histories. But it's kind of unclear.
Were they one-time offenders, or regular offenders? Petty or grand?
I can't think, off-hand, of any good resource on that question. - 12/21/12, 3:21 PM
- Al&Bea said...
I suggest you read Charles Krauthammer's column today on Newtown. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/12/20/krauthammer-the-roots-of-mass-murder/
- LoafingOaf said...
Pretty amusing that Instapundit's review of the NRA press conference was: "I DIDN'T SEE THE PRESS CONFERENCE, but reader Theo X. Rojo writes: 'I'm very proud of my membership in the NRA as a 'Life Member.' I thought Mr. LaPierre hit it out of the park today.'"
Thus InstaPundit can tell his readers that the NRA hit it out of park without actually knowing what was said. You didn't have to take out time to watch the press conference because you can read the speech on the NRA's web site (it was just a speech - no questions from the press). You're telling me InstaPundit didn't skim it?
Well, the NRA blames movies, video games, and music, calling the entertainment industry pornographers for filthy trash like the movie American Psycho. Wait, American Psycho is a pretty interesting satire not a work of violent pornography with no redeeming value. And last I checked, America's pop cultural outputs spread across the entire globe, so why doesn't it have the same effects on other countries?
The NRA's idea is to have armed guards in every school. Wait, we didn't need to have armed guards in schools when I was a kid. But America suddenly needs poorly trained security guards and teachers packing pistols around children learning their ABCs? Becaese it's more important that people who have a fetish for playing with military style weapons to be able to indulge themselves? Instapundit could've played with military style weapons had he ever actually joined the military, but he declined.
The NRA says if we protect our money in banks with armed guards, why not our kids in school? My bank branch doesn't have an armed guard. What they do is let potential bank robbers know that banks will hand out money if you give the teller a note, thus reducing the number of bank robbers who are armed. Then the FBI hunts them down. The banks DO NOT want shoot outs in their branches.
The NRA says we don't put enough criminals in prison. But wait, America puts more people in prison than any other country.
I believe the best way to reduce gun violence is ending the War on Drugs. But the Second Amendment does allow for restrictions on guns (who can have them and what sort of weapons they can have). The NRA has an extremist interpretation of the Second Amendment and they oppose virtually any and all laws that can make it more difficult for mental cases to have easy access to military style weaponry.
The world did not end today like some predicted. Except it may have ended for the NRA. At least in terms of their ability to buy and threaten our legislators to the extent they did in the past.
- Bruce Hayden said...
Oaf - yes, theoretically, limitations can be placed on the 2nd Amdt., but it is going to be hard for the level of scrutiny to be too much lower for this Constitutionally enumerated right than for the unenumerated right of privacy, and, hence, sex, contraceptives, and abortions.
The problem though, is what restrictions would be reasonable? Banning AR type scary looking guns? Not likely - they constitute maybe half the rifles sold, and are the closest thing to the type of weapons that our military utilize, without crossing the automatic fire boundary. (Remember the Miller decision? Limited the 2nd Amdt. essentially to weapons that our military utilizes because of the militia clause).
One of the things that makes the AR platform so attractive to so many millions of America as their first choice of a rifle is its modularity. Everything except for the receiver (the part with the serial number) can be swapped out by a large number of gun owners, taking minutes to switch barrel length, calibers, etc. And a working receiver was manufactured using ink jet type manufacturing technology, and then successfully tested a couple of months ago.
Larger magazines? Apparently fairly easy to convert a smaller capacity magazine to a larger capacity one in many garages - just add an extension and a different spring. Besides, tens of millions, if not more, "large" capacity magazines out there in private hands.
A ban on semiautomatic handguns is also Constitutionally suspect and unlikely to work for similar reasons. Revolvers today are either Saturday night specials or specialty weapons.
The genie is really out of the bottle for most of the gun control measures that I have seen debated over the last week or so. They are unlikely to pass Constitutional muster and even if they did, are unlikely to be effective.
Which really leaves some sort of cosmetic legislation, banning guns with features that really don't provide much functionality to most American gunowners, like bayonet mounts, flash suppressors, silencers, etc., which might pass Constitutional muster, but would not affect very many guns or gun owners. - 12/21/12, 6:00 PM


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This program demonstrates a re-entrant algorithm implemented in C++/MFC. The algorithm is deterministic, and so is effectively useless for large numbers (RSA Challenge), but does demonstrate re-entrant techniques.
The RSA Challenge (see their web page) involves factoring a large number, which is the product of two large prime numbers. There is a cash award, so I started looking at the problem. I came up with this algorithm, which effectively gets the possible values for the solution numbers (or one of them, which is enough) based on the input number (the challenge). The program/algorithm works fine, and is very fast for numbers up to 20 digits (base ten) but is not suitable for fast factoring of larger numbers. The time of computation goes up by a factor of ten for each additional digit, so the RSA Challenge is safe from this algorithm.
The algorithm is deterministic, which means it searches every possible combination of numbers for the factors (well, not all - there are constraints). For a number A as the product of two primes greater than 11, B and C, the expansion in terms of the individual digits of B and C is like:
order n n = 5 n = 4 n = 3 n = 2 n = 1 n = 0 a(5) a(4) a(3) a(2) a(1) a(0) nCarry(4) nCarry(3) nCarry(2) nCarry(1) nCarry (0) no nCarry b(5)*c(0) b(4)*c(0) b(3)*c(0) b(2)*c(0) b(1)*c(0) b(0)*c(0) b(4)*c(1) b(3)*c(1) b(2)*c(1) b(1)*c(1) b(0)*c(1) --------- b(3)*c(2) b(2)*c(2) b(1)*c(2) b(0)*c(2) ---------- sum (0) b(2)*c(3) b(1)*c(3) b(0)*c(3) --------- sum (1) b(1)*c(4) b(0)*c(4) --------- sum (2) sum(0) mod 10 b(0)*c(5) --------- sum (3) = a(0) --------- sum (4) sum(1) mod 10 sum (5) = a(1) sum(2) mod 10 = a(2) sum(3) mod 10 = a(3) sum(4) mod 10 = a(4) sum(5) mod 10 = a(5)
Starting at the lowest digit, only the lowest digit of the factors contribute. So, if the lowest digit of A is 1, then the only possibilities for the lowest digits of B and C are: 9,9; 7,3; 3,7; and 1,1 with carries of 8, 2, 2 and 0, respectively. Only 4 possible combinations. This is good. However, for the higher order digits of A, the number of combinations is 10 each. Better than trying all 100 combinations (0-9 for B and C, separately), but still a lot of possibilities when the order of A is large...
For the first order digit of A, a(1), the previous possible values of b(0) and c(0) contribute, and the combinations of b(1) and c(1) are determined, for one set of the four from order zero. For a(2), the combinations of the values of b(2) and c(2) are determined, for one set of the values of the first order, for one of the values of the zero order, and so on...
When there are no possible combinations, the algorithm is to back up to the last order, move to the next in the list of combinations for that order, and proceed again.
Assume the order of C is less than the order of B. When the order of calculation is higher than the order of C, then only five possible values are found for b(n), the c(n) being zero.
When the order of the calculation is above the order of both B and C, then there are no possible values to manipulate. The calculation can only go above the order of B if the lower numbers have a product very close to A. When the order of calculation reaches the order of A, the carry is tested (it must be zero) as well as the digit.
There is one detail of prime numbers above 10 that makes the algorithm 60% faster: all primes greater than 11 have a zero-order digit of 1, 3, 7 or 9. Only four possible values instead of ten. For a number A of order 100, B of order 75, and C of order 25, there are still 4*10E24 possible combinations up to the order of C. This is why I say that the RSA Challenge numbers are safe from this algorithm. The number of returns on the stack for this algorithm is also the number of digits of A (order plus 1).
The problem with re-entrant programs are the inherent difficulty of interrupting the execution. This program uses a class-scope variable to test for interruption, but the execution is so intensive that the menu item Stop Execution does not respond. A solution to this would be to have a worker thread doing the calculation and the main thread interacting with the GUI (not done here, that would be more appropriate for a sample for Threads).
A brief description of re-entrant programming is nearly impossible, and this code is probably useless except as a guide and example. Comments in the code are sufficient for understanding the principle. The algorithm is also described in comments.
While writing the program, I decided to allow for alternate-base number systems such as base 2, base 16, or base 12 (for old IBM people...). I use MAPLE to convert to an alternate base (like base 47, or base 60), and input the numbers through a file. However, the sample code does not implement this. If you want to, it can be set by changing the define COMPBASE in StdAfx.h. There are a couple of other interesting things in the sample code, like disabling the ENTER key (it closes down a Dialog), and using *.SetFocus() for the input edit box. I did feel free to mix bool and BOOL types, mix straight C-code and C++/MFC, and name the variables for what they do.
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Posted on 10/08/2006 10:56:58 AM PDT by oldleft
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric who has challenged Iran's system of clerical rule was arrested on Sunday after his supporters clashed with police outside his house in the Iranian capital, Iranian news agencies reported.
Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi was detained with several supporters, Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted the deputy governor of Tehran, Abdollah Rowshan, as saying.
The Iranian authorities are wary of any challenge, particularly from top clerics, to the system of clerical rule that was established after the 1979 Islamic revolution by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.co.uk ...
Good. His arrest ensures worldwide coverage whereas last night's events might easily have been buried. ;-)
No.....Not good...
He did not have enough time to stir the pot enough to get coverage. They will squash this like a bug.
Critical cleric arrested in Iran - reports (Boroujerdi arrested)ping!
Thank you. This is big news.
Looks like they're armed and ready for a fight, too. I hope none of them got hurt during the arrest, and if they did I hope they gave as good as they got.
"All the people, including Boroujerdi, who caused this issue, were arrested," Mr Rowshan, who is in charge of security and political affairs, was quoted by ISNA as saying.
Thanks for the news, TexKat.
I can't help but wonder what, if anything, will happen next. Perhaps this will be the spark that starts the fire. Prayers for the Regime Change and those brave ones involved.
Iran: At least 40 followers of Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi arrested
Article dated 10/3, posted to FR by nuconvert on 10/7.
Thanks for the ping! I added "Breaking News" to the topics... but I do not know if it will be allowed to remain. This is a crucial event, IMHO.
Prayers up!
May God be with these brave people. Amen.
Thank you for adding this to breaking news.
That's probably the 40 arrested in #7.
"The Iranian authorities are wary of any challenge, particularly from top clerics, to the system of clerical rule that was established after the 1979 Islamic revolution by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini."
Okay, lunatics, be afraid. Be VERY afraid!
Just like the "other woman" who won the man, always being afraid he'll stray.
The people have risen up before, why can't they do it again.
Good for them, I hope they get their country back.
Praying for God's will...may he use this to His glory!
If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.
We should have our own people over ther to help make it happen.
New thread.......Critical cleric arrested in Iran - reports (Boroujerdi arrested)
Amen to that!
I wonder. Is he by any chance a Sufi?
I hope we do.
The millionaire mullahs don't want to give up their money and terrorism funding machine.
You read my mind. I'm also hoping this will be the spark which lights the flame of freedom for Iran.
To catch up... with video:
29 September 2006
IRAN : Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi and at least 40 people, aged 23 - 60
Arbitrary arrest/fear for safety/possible prisoners of conscience
29 September 2006
At least 41 followers of Shia cleric Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi were reportedly arrested in the courtyard of his house in Tehran during the morning of 28 September. They are thought to have been taken to Section 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran, which is run by the Ministry of Intelligence. One was reportedly later released. There are fears that the Ayatollah may be at risk of imminent arrest.
On 30 June 2006 the Ayatollah conducted a large religious ceremony at the Shahid Keshvari stadium in Tehran. On 30 July, the security forces reportedly arrested several of his family and followers at their homes. The security forces also reportedly tried to arrest the Ayatollah himself, but were prevented from doing so by his followers.
Those arrested were taken to Section 209 of Evin Prison where they were held for about three weeks. Some may have been tortured, including Nader Khodadad, who is said to have suffered a heart attack possibly as a result and was transferred to the Taleqani hospital in Tehran. One of those detained told Amnesty International, "I was arrested at home by armed men who broke down my door. I was taken to Section 209, where I was held in solitary confinement for 22 days. I was not even allowed to telephone my family to let them know where I was. I was threatened although I was not physically harmed. I was not even allowed to have any reading glasses, so I could not read. I was accused of being a spy for European countries. I was eventually released after being taken to the Special Court for the Clergy. I did not have a lawyer, it was just a judge, the Etelaat (Ministry of Intelligence) and me. They summoned someone to come for me, and after paying a large bail sum, I was released".
On 3 August, the security forces reportedly tried to arrest the Ayatollah but were again repelled by his followers. They reportedly took up positions outside the house, where they have remained since. On 7 September, representatives of the Special Court for the Clergy visited the Ayatollah in his house and told him to appear before the Prosecutor for the Special Court for the Clergy, which he refused to do. Between 18 and 21 September, the Ayatollah sent appeals to Council of Europe Secretary General Javier Solana (which can be read in Persian at http://www.irancpi.net/pdf/kazemeiniBroujerdi-naderzahedi.pdf), the Pope and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. In his letter to Javier Solana, the Ayatollah described his history of persecution and the recent events and said he feared he would be killed if he went to the Special Court for the Clergy as instructed. Around the same time, another of his followers, Ms Nourbaksh, was reportedly arrested and taken to an unknown place of detention, possibly Section 209 of Evin Prison.
Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi reportedly advocates the separation of religion from the political basis of the state. Since 1994 he says he has been summoned repeatedly before the Special Court for the Clergy and has been detained in Towhid and Evin Prisons. He has reportedly developed heart and kidney problems as a result of torture. His father was a prominent cleric who refused to accept the principle of velayat-e faqih (rule of the [Islamic] jurisconsult, or of those who know Islamic law), on which the Islamic Republic of Iran is based. He died in 2002 and his grave in the Masjed-e Nour mosque in Tehran has reportedly been desecrated and the mosque taken over by the state.
The Special Court for the Clergy, which operates outside the framework of the judiciary, was established in 1987 by Ayatollah Khomeini to try members of the Shia religious establishment in Iran. Its procedures fall short of international standards for fair trial : among other things, defendants can only be represented by clergymen nominated by the court, who are not required to be legally qualified, and defendants may not have a full right of appeal. The court can hand down sentences including flogging and the death penalty.
22 February 2006
IRAN : At least 173 members of the Nematollahi Sufi community
Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture
22 February 2006
At least 173 members of the Nematollahi Sufi Muslim community are detained incommunicado, reportedly at Fajr prison in the city of Qom, where it is feared that they are being tortured, possibly in order to extract confessions.
The Nematollahi Sufi are Shia Muslims. Those detained were among 1,200 Nematollahi Sufis arrested on 13 February, when an apparently peaceful demonstration against an order by the security forces to evacuate the communitys place of worship- known as a Hosseiniye- by 11 February was violently suppressed by security forces and members of the Hojatieh and Fatemiyon groups (organized pro-government groups).
According to reports, those detained are being interrogated at Fajr prison in Qom, and are allegedly being tortured in order to force them to sign pre-prepared false confessions claiming that the protest held by the Sufi group had political motivations and links to anti-government groups. It is alleged that they will read these false confessions on national television. Families of those detained have reportedly been unable to obtain official information about their whereabouts, legal status or health, and they have not had access to lawyers. Lawyer Bahman Nazari, himself a Sufi Muslim, had reportedly travelled from the city of Tabriz in northwest Iran to Qom in order to try and represent the detainees. He was arrested as soon as he approached officials and presented his practice licence.
The protest began on 9 February, with some members of the Nematollahi Sufi community inside their place of worship, and others stationed outside. The number of protesters swelled as hundreds of Nematollahi Sufis, including many women and children, travelled from other parts of the country to attend. Security forces, including anti-riot police, took up positions around the Hosseiniye. At around 3pm on 13 February they set a deadline for the Sufis to evacuate it. Members of the Fatemiyon and Hojatieh groups also reportedly surrounded the place of worship, shouting slogans such as "Death to Sufis" and "Sufi-ism is a British plot", and distributed leaflets alleging that Sufis are enemies of Islam. In response, some of the Sufis held up photographs of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of Irans Islamic Republic, and photographs of relatives who were killed fighting for their country in the Iran-Iraq war, to show that they were not opposing the government and to emphasise that they are an integral part of Iranian society.
The security forces then moved in at around 4pm, supported by the Hojatieh and Fatemiyon groups. They attacked the protesters outside the Hosseiniye and stormed the building, using tear gas and explosives. They allegedly beat many protesters, and, according to some reports, set light to the centre. The next day the Hosseiniye and neighbouring houses were demolished using bulldozers. Around 1,200 protesters were arrested and taken away on buses to unknown locations. Some, including people with serious injuries, were reported to have been transported to a sports stadium for interrogation. The detainees were interrogated, and many were allegedly tortured or ill-treated. Most of the Nematollahi Sufis have now been released, but 173 are still being held. Those released are said to have been required to sign papers as a condition of their release agreeing that that they will not attend any Sufi gatherings in Qom and that they will present themselves to the Intelligence Office in their home towns. Some have reportedly been required to sign documents renouncing Sufism.
Arrest warrants have reportedly been issued for the principal Sufi preacher of Qom, Seyed Ahmadi Shariati, and the four lawyers who had previously been acting on behalf of the group- Amir Eslami, Omid Behrouzi, Gholamreza Harsimi and Farshid Yadollahi.
Brother dear, do you know someone who can translate this?
Thanks for that link ... and videos.
Is he by any chance a Sufi?
no. he'd be yrs ago if he were.
I don't pray only for people who share my vision of religion. I pray for believer and non-believers alike.
letter from Ayatollah Borojerdi to the Pope where he describes the tortuous conditions under the mullacracy and asks for support!
Let's try that again....He would have been dead yrs ago if he was
Check with freeper FARS, he may able to help.
Lord, please deliver him supernaturally or via mass uprisings!
Do you know what sparked the rebellion by this cleric and those who agree with him?
According to the original report from an Iranian radio station, this cleric was calling on Iranians to rise up and throw off the government that is oppressing them with religious edicts. He stated that the state and the religion must be two seperate entities, not ONE like it is now.
I have no problem with someone praying that the people of Iran might have a chance at something better than the hellhole they live in now, with the Ayatollahs arresting, maiming, imprisoning, torturing and killing them for any deviation from their religious edicts, which cover EVERYTHING, since state and religion are ONE AND THE SAME.
You can't be that narrow. People pray for everyone and prayer is what's needed... no matter your religion. If you have a problem with that... please expand.
If anyone looks at the situation within and out of Iran... and doesn't see the need or relevance, that's real sad.
Maybe this will help some. I pray that we don't have to nuke Iran because the people will be the ones to suffer, while the big shots should care less.
Thanks Tex!
That's the link I pinged jveritas to up the thread for translation (if he knows anyone). BRB, I have to hit the Iranian bloggers that are still free.
Can you please translate this for us?
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text: You Can Buy Breast Milk Icecream in London For $22 a BowlKat Hannaford2/24/11 8:40amFiled to: Ice Creambreast milk ice creamIceCreamBreast milk icecreamBreast MilkMilkIcecreamistsLondonUkEnglandGrossBreastsBoobs71EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink We've seen cheese made from breast milk, but icecream? That's a little too close to home for me. If the thought of mother's milk appeals to you, you can hotfoot it to the Icecreamists parlor in London's Covent Garden, which is selling the Baby Gaga bowl of icecream for £14 ($22). Each donor is being paid £15 ($24) for every ten ounces of milk extracted using breast pumps—which a mother friend of mine told me would take an hour to pump. That milk would be better off being donated to children in hospitals than feeding screaming Londoners desperate for a quick twitpic to brag about, but the Icecreamists has at least chosen to blend the breast milk with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest. Advertisement Advertisement Living up to its name, the icecream is served by a Lady Gaga-lookalike wielding a liquid nitrogen-filled syringe for added thrills to the chills. [Icecreamists via Daily Mail]Reply71 repliesLeave a reply


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I Can't Quit You Baby (Royal Albert Hall 1970)
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The ultimate blues-rock performance !!
Watching this song over and over again on the dvd, it is just simple: fantastic playing of a rock and roll/ blues or bluesrock-song(or whatever you would name it). This performance shows how it should be done properly.


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I thought this looked like a great idea - and it would be if the leg was long enough to reach the floor in my newly installed kitchen. Unfortunately it was unpacked and the packing material thrown away before I realised the problem so cannot return. I now have a 'normal' storage box which I could have purchased cheaper elsewhere.
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Thanks for placing your review. We're sorry the roll out bin isn't suitable to use in your new kitchen. We'll be in touch shortly to put things right. We do advise the drop down leg extends from 11cm to 16cm and the measurements are 23 x 44 x 13cm H. (9" x 17¼" x 5").


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Synopsis: Uncovering hidden order
At low temperature the uranium compound exhibits a transition to a mysterious phase. The origin of this phase has not yet been uncovered, even after 25 years of intensive investigations, and it has therefore become known as the "hidden order."
In a paper appearing in Physical Review B, Peter Oppeneer and colleagues from Uppsala University in Sweden, and collaborators at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Leiden University in the Netherlands, report state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations, including dynamical mean-field theory, that offer fresh insight into the nature of the electrons that are responsible for the hidden order. Through extensive comparison of measured and calculated properties, the study reveals that at low temperatures the uranium electrons are primarily itinerant rather than localized. The calculations provide a detailed picture of where in reciprocal space the defining electrons are positioned, i.e., the Fermi surface. Thus a Fermi surface of , in conjunction with a certain type of symmetry breaking based on antiferromagnetic fluctuations, has now been predicted that brings the unraveling of the hidden-order mystery closer. The researchers propose that spin fluctuations are the unexpected source of the hidden order. These fluctuations are predicted to couple strongly to a Fermi surface instability, which then drives the phase transition. Further experiments to test this interpretation are expected. –Anthony Begley


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We are pleased to announce the release of SmartAssembly 6.6. You can get it now from http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/smartassembly/ and existing customers will be offered the download via the Check for Updates mechanism during the next few days.
This version includes Method Parent Obfuscation (a new type of obfuscation), a new Control Flow Obfuscation level for desktop applications with full trust, and numerous bug fixes.
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By Mark Cranfield
A softening of the safe-haven Singapore dollar against some other Asian currencies may be a signal that investors are optimistic about the prospects for Asia's equity markets in early 2013.
The city-state's currency has established itself as the first among equals whenever there is an external threat to the region, and the eruptions in the European debt crisis over the past three years have all triggered moves into the Singapore dollar.
On the flip side, since 2008 periods of weakness in the Singapore dollar versus the rest of Asia have been a good lead indicator of bull markets for regional stocks when outside threats recede.
The latest such phase, which began in September, is gaining traction as the Philippine peso, Thai baht, South Korean won, Malaysian ringgit, New Taiwan dollar and Chinese yuan have all made gains versus the Singapore dollar. So far it has lost between 6% against the won and 1% against the Malaysian ringgit, with average losses of 2.5% against the other four currencies.
Among the six corresponding stock markets, four are higher than they were in September, with Seoul and Taipei virtually unchanged in the same period.
In the past five years, one of the most extended stretches of losses for the Singapore dollar occurred between mid-2009 and mid-2010. During that time the biggest gainer was the won, which rose 30% against the Singapore currency, while the Philippine peso, Thai baht and New Taiwan dollar averaged gains of 5%.
It's far too early to start comparing 2013 with 2009, when some Asian exchanges more than doubled in value. Yet there might be a few fund managers who are hoping the Singapore dollar stays on a downtrend through the year to give equities a bullish lead.


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I avoided two previous Las Vegas runs of "The Laramie Project," a docu-drama about Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder in Laramie, Wyo., because I didn't want to face the painful emotions I knew the subject would stir.
The play is based on interviews with the people of Laramie and "found texts" gathered by Moises Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project after the murder of the young gay man.
This powerful production directed by David Ament for Off-Strip Productions at the Onyx Theatre is emotionally devastating but not without hope.
Kaufman gently introduces us to the people of Laramie in a series of vignettes that reminded me of the opening number of "The Music Man" — "There's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to greet you" — or, better, Truman Capote's prologue to "In Cold Blood."
Laramie's not a half-bad place to live — if not for a gay man having been beaten and left to die there. The attitudes of the out-of-staters seem a little snooty compared with the down-to-earth townsfolk. But slowly the homespun conversations begin to reveal Laramie's deep class divisions and vein of religiously bred homophobia.
Ament uses these interviews to masterfully build the suspense of a murder mystery — the haunting question of the town's collective responsibility for the murderous act of two of its sons. One character accuses, "Come on, let's show the world that Laramie is not this kind of a town. But it is this kind of a town. If it wasn't, then why did this happen here?"
Ament doesn't permit us a black-and-white morality.
When the doctor who fights to save Matthew's life realizes that he also treated Aaron McKinney, one of Matthew's murderers, on the same night, he observes that they're both "just kids." The doctor, movingly played by John Ivanoff, wonders if God looks at us with the same compassion that he feels for both boys.
We are horrified when at McKinney's trial, juror after juror voices a quick willingness to put McKinney to death. Ivanoff, who like all the actors in the production plays multiple roles, also gives voice to Dennis Shepard, Matthew's father, pleading at McKinney's trial for his life. As portrayed by Ivanoff, Mr. Shepard's mercy seems strained by McKinney's obvious lack of remorse.
By casting his talented ensemble in morally opposite roles, Ament brilliantly illustrates Solzhenitsyn's observation that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart.
Lysander Abadia plays both a homophobic farmer, who sees a moral equivalency between Matthew's homosexuality and his murderers' homicide, and the crime's chief investigating officer who earnestly voices the town's cry for justice. (Equally outstanding is Natalie Senecal who plays a first responder who is exposed to HIV as she works frantically to save Matthew's life.)
Mikey Phillips is both Matthew's lesbian best friend and McKinney's tweeker pal. Lee Meyers plays both a lesbian college professor and a patrol officer's wife who chillingly complains that Shepard's murder has overshadowed a cop's recent traffic death. Cody Smock is both the conflicted young Christian man who finds the mortally wounded Matthew and Aaron McKinney, his murderer. Greg Baine is a cast standout as the comically vain bartender and as the sinister Baptist minister whose hate speech may have planted a murderous seed in one of Matthew's attackers.
Ament sustains the duality when he pairs Jessica Hird with Lee Meyers as two boozy social workers and with Natalie Senecal as the courageous first responder's tough but big-hearted mom. The incredible cast moves seamlessly from character to character.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Tight end Joseph Fauria said UCLA was high on the mountain top after beating Cal and Arizona State the past two weeks. The problem with being at the top of such places, it snows a lot.
Fittingly, the Bruins arrived at Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium greeted by temperatures in the low 30s. And they were buried, not just by a heavy snowfall.
UCLA managed just two field goals, losing 31-6 to a streaking Utah team on Saturday. It was the Bruins' fourth loss of the season by at least 25 points.
"We weren't as ready as we thought we were," Coach Rick Neuheisel said. "We have to grow up and be able to play in these environments. We have to find a way to stay alive."
Utah's running game and rush defense beat up the Bruins, who were ultimately killed off by two second-half turnovers and a plethora of penalties.
The Utes gained 224 rushing yards, averaging 5.5 yards a carry and becoming the fifth team this season to top 200 yards rushing against the Bruins. UCLA came into Saturday ranked No. 86 nationally against the run.
"We always think going in we have a good plan and have things fit," said defensive coordinator Joe Tresey. "It's been an extreme disappointment."
Utah tailback John White rushed for 167 yards and scored three times, including twice in the third quarter to extend the Utes' lead to 21-3. They took a 7-3 lead in the second quarter after White ran on seven consecutive plays, capping the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run.
"They brought a bunch of new stuff we hadn't really seen, that we hadn't schemed up," linebacker Sean Westgate said. "Things that aren't hard to scheme up but it takes some communication. We weren't successful at that.
"When we take punches, we take them in bulk. That's what happened today. They kept firing."
And the Pistol wasn't. Quarterback Kevin Prince was befuddled as Utah tactfully defended the option read and forced him to give up the ball. The Bruins averaged just 3.5 yards a carry. Prince was held to 10 yards on 12 carries, this after rushing for 224 combined the past two weeks.
"Their ends weren't allowing me to get outside and run the ball," Prince said. "It was frustrating. They played it very well."
The low point for Prince came in the fourth quarter when he was picked off for the second time by Conroy Black, who returned it 67 yards for a touchdown to make it 28-6.
Prince finished 12 of 24 for 146 yards and two interceptions.
"They took away our run game so our play-action was worthless," Prince said. "We just go into a situation like we did against Arizona where we're passing the ball every down and they're dropping seven or eight guys. It's tough to find spots on the field."
The Bruins often got in their own way as well, stalling on offense in large part because of multiple false start penalties. They had 76 penalty yards in the first half alone and finished with 12 infractions for a loss of 91 yards.
"We never had any rhythm," offensive coordinator Mike Johnson said. "You do those kinds of things and you can never get into a flow. You can never get in front of the count."
UCLA finished with 295 yards of total offense, going 4 for 15 third down and 0 for 2 on fourth down.
"Being in second-and-long, third-and long, heck, first-and-long, it's not easy," Fauria said. "We can't put ourselves in those kinds of situations. It doesn't work well with us."
UCLA (5-5, 4-3 Pac-12) came into Saturday tied for first in the South Division and one victory away from earning bowl eligibility. Utah (6-4, 3-4) earned bowl eligibility Saturday.
The Bruins fell to 1-4 on the road and 1-4 in games following a victory. Next Saturday they host Colorado, which earned its first conference victory Saturday by beating Arizona, 48-29. This past week was the first in which the Bruins had ever been in first place during Neuheisel's four-year tenure.
"We were super high up on the mountain top," Fauria said. "We have to learn how to stay there and be mature enough to hold that No. 1 spot."
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Dear Fellow Rocket Propulsion Enthusiasts:
Hi I'm in the process of doing a simple prototype of a gas pressurized liquid propellant engine. I'm trying to do the prototype using off the shelf parts as much as possible to keep costs down. One component I'm having trouble finding off the shelf is a tank for pressurizing fuel or oxidizer with two valves: one at the top and one at the bottom. Most tanks, such as a propane tank for bbq'ing or a kerosene tank used for a camp stove have a single valve at one end that can be used for either pressurizing or releasing gas. This would be similar to a blowdown tank configuration where the pressurizing gas is stored inside the tank. That configuration doesn't work so well because as the fuel is expelled the pressure decreases. So I'm wondering if you could recommend any places to get a small'ish tank that has 2 valves: 1 at the top for inputting a pressurizing gas and another at the bottom for releasing the fuel or oxidizer towards the thrust chamber? Many Thanks! Graham |
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Try asking on the arocket mailing list. You're more likely to get an answer.
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thanks Fatron. I'll give that a shot as well.
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I suggest using a common propane tank and drilling a hole in the bottom and welding in a suitable bung. I highly recommend hydro testing to three times operationg pressure testing with pressurized water instead of a gas) before pressurizing with a gas.
If you really trust your welding you can add a section to a common grill size tank and hold more fuel/oxydizer. These tanks are made of mild steel but annealing the weld is always a good idea. REMEMBER THE FIRST RULE OF ROCKETRY: NEVER, EVER TEST A ROCKET INSIDE A BUILDING. SECOND RULE: NEVER BE CLOSER THAN THE RANGE OF THE SHRAPNEL CREATED BY THE INEVITABLE EXPLOSION. See rule #1 |
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World-Class Buck Denied By: Jacob Edson, D&DH managing editor | April 5, 2012 schmidt-king-buck-2 ◄ Back Next ► Picture 2 of 7 Ron Boucher, left, is a highly respected B&C measurer from Vermont, has been following the plight of the King Buck since he saw it at the Iowa Deer Classic in 2010. (photo by Daniel E. Schmidt) 'Biggest Buck Ever' Killed Won't Be Reviewed. Read The Story HERE
rllarson May 25, 2012 at 12:03 pm I say we boycott B&C and anyone affiliated with them until they get some integrity and panel score it. but they will probably stack the deck against it anyways.
Silver49 April 6, 2012 at 1:48 pm B&C scorer Ron Boucher did the right and ethical thing on the King Buck. He should not be "castigated" or otherwise ostracized for reasonably following accepted standards and ethics. While the B&C administration has declined to accept Bouchard's score and well as his reasons for how and why he justified his actions, this appears only to bring disrepute to the B&C and much credit to Mr. Bouchard. He should be running the B&C so a reasonably fair shake can be expected by all. Is it possible that intransigent bureaucrats are running the B&C, and it's handling, or should I say apparent bungling, of the King Buck seems to go contrary to its mission statement.


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U.K. Seeks to Tighten Client-Money Rules After Lehman, MF
Lindsay FortadoThe U.K. markets regulator is seeking to strengthen rules for protecting ring-fenced client accounts after the collapses of Lehman Brothers International Europe and MF Global Holdings Ltd. exposed failings in the current framework.
The Financial Conduct Authority said it is seeking input from the industry on whether to make changes to current rules to allow client money to be returned faster if a firm is bankrupt. Client-asset rules apply to about 1,500 banks, brokerages and other companies in the U.K. which hold more than 100 billion pounds ($151 billion) of client money, the regulator said in a statement today.
"Under the current regime, accuracy is effectively prioritized, leading to a regime that takes months, and in some cases years, to return client money," the regulator said in a consultation paper.
The agency stepped up enforcement of client-money rules after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008. The New York-based bank's former U.K. unit failed to segregate billions of dollars of client funds from its own accounts, leaving creditors with competing claims that resulted in years of litigation. The issue resurfaced in the administration of MF Global's U.K. unit.
The regulator has said that it will overhaul rules on the treatment of margin assets posted by failed companies for their derivatives trades. It also proposed that investment companies could divide up clients' money into ring-fenced sub-pools, so not all clients would face the same losses in the event of insolvency.
The regulator, in its previous incarnation as the Financial Services Authority, began an investigation into whether firms were properly segregating client money from their own. It fined units of BlackRock Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Barclays Plc for failing to properly protect the accounts. No clients suffered losses in any of those instances.


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Blog Update
January 15, 2013We always want to make sure you have convenient access to the latest news and updates about Solaris. Over the years, many avenues have opened for us to keep you informed; Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn allow us to communicate with you easily and instantly. Solaris started this blog in order to offer another way to reach you. However, as 2013 gets underway, we've reached the decision that the Solaris blog isn't accomplishing that goal as well as others. As such, the Solaris blog will no longer be updated. Thank you for your readership in the past and continue to follow our latest events on our other pages:
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Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Blog UpdateHappy Holidays!
December 24, 2012It's hard to believe that 2012 is coming to an end. It seems like just yesterday we were ringing in the New Year! We want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support throughout this past year. You are what makes our seasons bright!
The Solaris team once again went shopping for children this year in lieu of a company party. Here are some pictures of everyone celebrating at our local Target:
After, Stephanie and Max delivered the presents to the Hmong American Friendship Association.
A safe and happy holiday season to everyone! Looking forward to 2013!
– The Solaris Team
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Happy Holidays!The 2012 NLN Conference
September 17, 2012We had a great time down in Dallas at the 2012 NLN Conference. For everyone who had a chance to stop by our booth, thanks for coming out and it was great seeing you! If you didn't get the chance to get over to the Solaris booth, or if you couldn't make it to the conference, here are some pictures of the team and the booth, courtesy Ignacio Alvarez. Thanks!
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Solaris and the 2012 Inc. 5000
August 24, 2012The Inc. 500 and 5000, lists of the fastest growing companies in America, is released every year and this year, Solaris is honored to announce our inclusion in the Inc. 5000!
This is a really exciting time for us and we wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone. The Solaris team would not be where we are today without you and your support. We're looking forward to the rest of 2012 and beyond.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Solaris and the 2012 Inc. 5000The MLD UK Conference
May 15, 2012Medasun, our international distributor in the UK, attended the MLD UK Conference this past weekend and shared with us a picture at the event. Thanks for the photo! We're glad to hear you had a wonderful time.
MLD UK is 'an association of Manual Lymphatic Drainage practitioners, from different professional backgrounds, that exists to promote the development of MLD within the United Kingdom.' The MLD UK conference was held on May 12th and 13th at the Lane End Conference Centre in Land End, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
Medasun Ltd. is 'the distributor for post surgical garments in the UK. The company has over 30 years combined experience in International Healthcare markets.'
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The MLD UK ConferenceTribute School Project
May 11, 2012Recently, a 13 year old Tribute user from South Africa reached out to us for help with her school project. She and a classmate wanted to present on her lower extremity lymphedema and the positive effect her Tribute had on her swelling. We provided her with literature as well as a sample arm that they used in their presentation. Just this week, she sent us her report, some pictures, and a video of their project, along with great news: They earned the highest mark in their exposition! Congratulations on all your hard work!
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Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk 2012
May 7, 2012Solaris had a great presence at the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on May 5th, this past Saturday. Thank you to everyone who braved the cold to come out and walk the three miles around downtown Milwaukee and to those who donated! We're already looking forward to next year.
Want to see more pictures? Check out the album on our Facebook page.
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May 3, 2012Last post, we talked about the effects stress can have on the body and how a solid emotional and social support base can help curb those effects. One of the greatest things about the lymphedema community is how well this is understood. There is no shortage of compassionate people out there who are willing to help in any way they can.
Earlier this month, we found out about Kayden, a 2 1/2 year old boy who was diagnosed with congenital lymphedema that affects the entire left side of his body. His family has been advised to seek treatment for Kayden at the Foeldi clinic in Germany. Professor Ethel Foeldi, who saw Kayden in Colorado, is graciously assisting with the cost of treatment. In order to help further, Guenter Klose, Executive Director of Klose Training and Consulting, has started a fund in Kayden's name to help pay for garments and other necessary medical supplies not covered by insurance that Kayden's family will need as he gets older.
We were extremely moved by the outpouring of support for Kayden from the community and have pledged to provide him with whatever garments he'll need from us in the future. If you'd like to learn how to make a donation, please see Klose Training's webpage.
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A little support goes a long way
April 20, 2012Are you stressed? Are there moments when you're more stressed than others? Do you feel more often than not stressed out beyond belief?
The American Psychological Association recently reported that 33% of Americans felt they were experiencing extreme amounts of stress. Half of those reported feeling that way at least 15 days a month. That number may not seem like a lot, but, upon looking at the list of side effects stress can cause, suddenly it becomes apparent that stress is a growing health concern. Stress can aggravate almost any organ, any bodily function, and any illness. The good news is there are multiple ways that we can work to destress and calm ourselves down.
Lately, we've been getting a lot of requests for support group listings on our Facebook page. Support groups are a great way to get the social and emotional support that many people struggling with an illness like lymphedema need. We all know how good it feels to connect with someone else. It helps to share stories and have stories shared with you. As time goes on, more and more research is found to support the belief that a strong source of social and emotional support can help improve our quality of life and help us live longer. According to the American Institute of Stress, being stressed can cause your blood pressure to spike, but receiving emotional support can reduce its rise. It can also boost the immune system by helping combat irregularities caused by stress.
This kind of interaction doesn't just have to come from a support group, though many find it helps to be in the company of others who know what they're going through. People can get a healthy dose of social and emotional support from pets, religious affiliation and beliefs, and supporting a cause that they believe in.
If you're feeling stressed and looking for a support group in your area, here are a couple of resources to help you locate one:
National Lymphedema Network – You can search their support group database by zip code or state. They also have an international listing.
LymphNotes.com – This listing is categorized by state. You can also get your support group listed for free.
Lymphedema People – Support groups are grouped by state.
There are also a lot of online resources and forums that you can join which can connect you to people with lymphedema around the world. Here are a few:
Treatment Diaries – Posts are grouped by diagnosis and you can connect with people with multiple different conditions.
Daily Strength – Members can post anonymously in a forum-type environment.
MDJunction – Online support group.
Hippity hop!
April 6, 2012It seems like just a day or so ago we were talking about Christmas and New Year's Resolutions. Now its time to put the winter coats and boots back in the closet. Spring is in the air! You've survived those silly April Fool's Day pranks and are no doubt looking forward to filling up up on Reese's peanut butter eggs (my favorite) and jelly beans.
That's all well and good, but do you know why our baskets of delights are delivered by a bunny on Easter morning?
Allow me to correct myself firstly and fore mostly: The Easter bunny is actually not a bunny at all. It's actually a hare.
Hares were a widely used church motif in medieval times because it was believed at that time that they could reproduce without losing their virginity. A lot of Roman historians and scientists believed that hares were hermaphrodites, meaning they had both male and female reproductive organs, and this belief carried on for quite some time, leading to their association with the Virgin Mary. They were also used in a circular motif appearing in various religious sites in Western Europe and a few places in the Middle East and Asia, like the one below, called Dreihasenfenster, or 'Window of Three Hares' in Paderborn Cathedral in Paderborn, Germany.
This motif represents the Trinity in Christianity, but there are a number of those mystical associations it symbolizes, including fertility and the lunar cycle.
Hares, and their rabbit brethren, have long been associated with spring and the birth of new life. Like birds, they are known to have large litters early in the season. This ancient association with the Vernal Equinox is why our Easter celebrations include a bunny that delivers eggs on Sunday morning.
Nobody knows why we started decorating eggs. Some traditions include dying the hard boiled egg red or green, symbolizing the blood of Jesus Christ or the blooming of new plant life. We do know that Catholics were not allowed to eat eggs during Lent, which explains their popularity during the holiday. Other sects of Christianity who didn't want to participate in fasting still wanted to eat decorated eggs and so the tradition continued.
Have a safe and Happy Easter weekend!
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