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I come from a large family, and we are all quite close. In fact, we're even close to the extended family — uncles, aunts, cousins. My grandfather and his five siblings made it a point to maintain a healthy relationship, which they passed on to the next generations. So for a long time, I have been pondering making a family tree to chart out our herd.
When I first came across PeoplePlotr, it seemed like a good idea to give it a try. The web app is made by the same guys who developed the easy-to-use timeline-maker Tiki-Toki. I've used that before and have been quite happy with it, so I dove right in.


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Seventh Circuit Again Reverses District Court Judgment In Favor Of Sears In Long-Running Federal Employment Discrimination Case
CHICAGO -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, sitting in Chicago, has reversed a lower court decision which granted a judgment without trial in favor of Sears Roebuck in a case brought against the retailer by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (EEOC & Keane v. Sears Roebuck & Company, 7th Cir. Nos. 04-2222 and 04-2493, 8/10/2005). A previous judgment by the lower court in favor of Sears in the same case had also been reversed by the Court of Appeals in 2000.
The case was originally filed by the EEOC in June 1997. It alleged that Sears discriminated against a lingerie saleswoman in the giant retailer's Calumet City, Illinois, store by refusing to provide her with a reasonable accommodation necessitated by medical conditions which prevented her from walking more than short distances (EEOC v. Sears Roebuck & Co., N.D. Illinois No. 97 C 3971). After Sears' refusal to accommodate her, the employee gave up her job. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois then held that no reasonable jury could find that the saleswoman was disabled and entered judgment in favor of Sears without a trial.
The Court of Appeals overturned that judgment in 2000 (See EEOC & Keane v. Sears Roebuck & Co., 233 F.3d 432 - 7th Cir. 2000), and sent the case back to the District Court. Sears renewed its motion for judgment, and the District Court after the Supreme Court's 2002 decision in the Toyota Motor Manufacturing v. Williams case (534 U.S. 184) again entered judgment without trial and in favor of Sears. EEOC again appealed.
In the new 32 page opinion by Chief Judge Joel M. Flaum, again reversing the judgment and sending the case once more back to the District Court, the Seventh Circuit paved the way for the trial of the case before a jury: "Our task has not been to determine whether Keane was disabled when she worked at Sears, whether Sears was aware of her disability, whether Sears reasonably accommodated Keane's disability, or which party caused the break-down of the interactive process."
Judge Flaum continued: "Rather, we have merely concluded that there is sufficient evidence to allow each of these questions to be presented to a jury. Accordingly, we REVERSE the entry of summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee Sears and REMAND for proceedings consistent with this opinion."
Circuit Judges Michael S. Kanne and Ann C. Williams joined in the Court's unanimous decision. EEOC attorney Gail Coleman and the agency's Appellate Services division were on the brief in the Seventh Circuit, and Ms. Coleman presented the case at oral argument before the Court on May 10, 2005. The Seventh Circuit's opinion is dated August 10, 2005, and is available on the Court's web site.
John Hendrickson, EEOC Regional Attorney in Chicago said, "Our office in Chicago and our appellate staff in Washington have been pressing this case for eight years because, in our judgement, Sears intentionally and illegally discriminated against a disabled employee when it would have been easy to accommodate her. We have always believed this is a case that must be ultimately decided by a jury that the employee deserves her day in court. The Seventh Circuit has made it clear that day now is going to be coming sooner rather than later."
Hendrickson noted that this is the second recent significant set-back here for Sears in EEOC lawsuits brought against it under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and challenging the company's compliance with the ADA requirement that it provide reasonable accommodations to disabled employees. On August 2, 2005, EEOC announced that Judge Wayne R. Anderson of the Northern District of Illinois had denied Sears' motion to dismiss in EEOC v. Sears Roebuck & Co, N.D. Illinois No. 04 C 7282, an ADA lawsuit filed November 10, 2004.
In that 2004 case, EEOC is challenging Sears' practice of inflexibly firing employees under its one-year worker's compensation or medical-disability leave policy, and Judge Anderson wrote, "As for the class allegations, the Complaint alleges that Sears maintained an inflexible worker's compensation one year leave policy which does not provide for reasonable accommodation of employees with disabilities.' We find that the issue of whether defendant's leave policy fails to accommodate its disabled employees is an issue upon which defendants have been given notice and is a claim for which [EEOC is] entitled to discovery."
EEOC is the federal agency charged with the administration, interpretation and enforcement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy or national origin. The EEOC is also responsible for enforcing the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended; the Equal Pay Act of 1963; and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which prohibits discrimination based on disability. More information about the EEOC and the laws it enforces can also be found at www.eeoc.gov.
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What Will The NFL Do With The Jags?
Like most of us, the NFL has settled into the annual lull when other sports take main stage while teams are working out in spurts of time without pads to construct the plan of attach for tomorrow. That's put many on the hunt for stories hidden from the casual audience where business and finance can and will become the social topics for the diehards. In Florida, more than a few are wondering if the league isn't doing the same… working to construct the plan of attach for tomorrow.
For those wise enough to distract attentions with the World Cup, the closing of the NHL and NBA seasons and the drafts that followed, or (heaven forbid) baseball, the topic of the week for NFL junkies most likely slid right by without much notice… Mike Freeman with CBSSports.com put a spotlight on the economic situation in Jacksonville where football has become more of a nuisance than a delight.
"The Jaguars are limiting attendance to its August 6 intra-squad scrimmage to season ticket holders only. It was controversial move and the team hoped fans being disallowed from watching the scrimmage would be the football equivalent of putting up ropes and a bouncer outside of a nightclub. It would create a crowd, a buzz, and fans would then sign up for tickets in droves."
The just of the piece: football isn't working in Jacksonville and the NFL would be wise to move it out. It didn't take the local media long to proclaim foul (including this piece by David Johnson with the Florida Times- Union) but the blogosphere is where the topic reigned supreme. Chris Harry from NFL FanHouse, Mike Florio from ProFootballTalk, Charlie Bernstein with JagNation, Chuck Carroll from Football New Now, and bevy of others jumped in to offer two cents on Freeman's piece.
And most are suggesting the Jags could be an ideal acquisition for the land of sweatshirts, khakis and crokersacs.
The continued fascination of an NFL team in Los Angeles takes the story further down the road of wonderment and speculation… or further down the road of bullshit. It's not so cut and dry, and while I'm no NFL insider and I don't stroke the poles of the privileged to break news, I don't think you have to be a genius to view the situation and figure it out.
– You are in Florida. Only senior citizens and immigrants live in Florida (that may be a crude stereotype but the US Census shows the number of Florida residents at 65-years of age or older is nearly five percent higher than the US average while the number of foreign-born residents is well over five percent higher than the national average). Senior citizens are too busy supporting their kids who can't get jobs. Immigrants are now battling with those kids for work. Neither have money to waste on football.
– Reports indicate the team covered the cost of nearly 10,000 tickets last season in an effort to avoid television blackouts after nine of the ten home games in 2009 suffered blackout. This from a team that recently took a stance, begging residents to buy tickets from a franchise that already sells tickets at some of the lowest prices in the league.
Worst of all, according to Freeman from CBS, fellow NFL owners couldn't care less.
I have no desire to beat J'ville over the head with this. Simply stated, the NFL give the town a chance by planting XXXIX there and, while the attendance numbers were solid, the overall review of the experience was horrific. John Donovan from Sports Illustrated noted the complex layout of the town and Jacksonville's inability to focus the Super Bowl experience in one spot. Tony Kornheiser made the trip on behalf of the Washington Post and, as usual, had nothing nice to say. Carlton Thomas came in from the Houston Chronicle and, while he tried to paint the picutre of criticism with a kind brush, the sentiment is the same. Bill Simmons, the Worldwide Leader's voice of indignation, wasted no time or word in expressing his grief with the Jacksonville Super Bowl.
You are a town questioned as the face of the "small-town effort" of the NFL and it it is impossible to suggest you shined in the game's brightest spotlight… but you DID give more than a few teams reason to suggest a new stadium would bring similar rewards. More than a few teams have either built new stadiums or renovated existing venues since the Jags managed to pull a Super Bowl to town (Dallas, New York, Chicago, Indianapolis) with others vying for similar attentions.
It was a message sent by Goodell and that message was clear: invest in the league and be rewarded. New York listened and essentially used Jacksonville as the the catalyst for the gamble. "We may be cold but we are not small and we have a new stadium."
For the Commish the goal is rather simple. He's made no attempts to hide it. He's been clear and concise in his desires for the National Football League… and those desires do not necessarily include plans for football in LA.
"I don't think we can guarantee that a team will be there. We are all working very hard to get a team back in the Los Angeles market because we know there are millions of fans there that would love to see NFL football as part of their community… The key issue is the challenges of financing a facility in this environment with the labor agreement that we have. The cost of building that stadium is almost entirely on the ownership and that is a big burden to pay in this type of environment."
His words in discussing international aspirations for the league, a potential source of revenue that Goodell has tabbed (time and again) as the next big step for the league (as he did on CBS's "Face the Nation" before the Super Bowl), aren't nearly as vague.
"You have to invest in these stadiums that we're in today. You need to find new ways of creating revenue, whether it's international or otherwise. And that takes investment. And we need to make sure that the owners have the capital to be able to do that. And then the pie grows, and everyone benefits."
Jacksonville isn't investing. They aren't creating revenue. They are simply trying to catch up (and by all accounts it is not going well). Based on those statements and countless interviews in which Goodell discusses the international market, not to mention the continued support of NFL regular-season games being played in England, is it really THAT difficult to see the Jacksonville Jaguars someday becoming the London Jaguars?
Facts are facts and they are there to read in black and white: Goodell is very interested in international markets, he's not as concerned with football in Los Angeles, and the Jaguars happen to be one team headed down a road that suggests they might be considered for such a move.
To be fair, there is reason to believe fortunes could be reversed. As Alfie Crow with BigCatCountry.com points out, the team has a plan in place to help push their stay in Florida. He also notes the team's management may be incapable of grasping (or accepting) the true source of concern.
"I'm scared the city of Jacksonville is going to be complacent with just hitting the blackout mark, and that's not good enough. As I said, meeting that goal is a huge step, but it's still a baby step in the big picture. Hitting the blackout number this season isn't going to save the franchise, and I fear that's how it will be viewed by a lot of people."
And that's the beginning and end of it all. If you owned the Jaguars… if you were Wayne Weaver… do you really believe "just good enough" is good enough?
(In the interest of levity and going meta, I'd suggest you give a listen to the Kissing Suzy Kolber podcast hosted by Josh "Punte" Zerkle and our own Brandon Moskal as they talk with respiratory-challenged Jon Loesche from SBNation's BigCatCountry.com about the Jags and their future in the Sunshine State… not only is it highly entertaining, but you might learn a thing or two… but let's be honest, it's the humor that brings ya' back for more.)


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I previously wrote that the .NET 2.0 DataTableReader class is really handy, but unfortunately there is no DataViewReader class. Thus, the only way to use the IDataReader interface with a sorted/filtered DataView was to first use the ToRows() method of the view to create a brand new DataTable, and then call CreateDataReader() on that new table. This is not the most efficient process when all you want to do is enumerate a DataView.
So, here's a solution: a simple, efficient, mostly-complete DataViewReader class. Just create a new instance of it passing in the source DataView and off you go. This will...
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I recently helped a friend out who only had access to SQL Server Management Studio Express, and he needed to copy a database locally from his PC to his remote web hosting company. Normally, the process is a simple backup/restore, but his hosting company does not allow restoring databases. Luckily, however, the company does allow direct access to his hosted database via client tools such as SSMS. Unluckily, SSMS Express does not include any tools that allow you to export data to a remote server.
So, here's what we did: First, we scripted out the entire database, including all tables, indexes,...
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In ASP.NET, we often would like to output "grouped" data on our web pages, like this:
Customer Product Sales
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ABC Foundation
Product 1 $200
Product 2 $437
Product 3 $523
The XLZ Company
Product 1 $240
Product 2 $892
Product 3 $395
The easiest way to do this is with nested Repeater controls; one for the outer group (Customers, this case), and within that Repeater's ItemTemplate we'd have another Repeater control for the details (Products).
To use nested repeaters, you would return two separate result sets from SQL:
A "Customers" result set,...
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I had to do some data clean up the other day, and really needed some regular expression replacements to do the job. Since .NET has a great RegularExpressions namespace, and since SQL 2005 allows you to integrate .NET CLR functions in your T-SQL code, I thought I'd go ahead and experiment with creating a RegExReplace() function. read more...
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Time for another exciting edition of the mailbag! This time: making an improvement to the C# Pivot function.
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As promised in my last post, here is some performance testing to help you determine the performance benefits (if any) of performing your crosstabs at the presentation or code layer, as opposed to forcing SQL Server to do this.
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In my last post, I spoke briefly about how I felt that in general crosstabbing data is something that a presentation layer should do and not the database. Consider the result of a crosstab operation -- the columns returned will vary depending on the data. There is pretty much no further manipulation you can do with that result in T-SQL; in the relational database world, the column names of our database objects should be constants and not continually changing as the data changes. Also, in T-SQL there is no easy way to dynamically pivot data, and even doing it with...
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|2013-03-27, 15:18
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Gen should have wrote one Psycho-Pass episode that would have rivaled K-On! in its happy-go-lucky feel and "good vibes". I know it's wildly out of style for Gen, but it would have served his narrative better, imo.
|2013-03-27, 15:29
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Considering how many people constantly rail against Sibyl, I think Gen succeeded in his viewpoint that Sibyl is a bad idea.
|2013-03-27, 15:45
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From my vantage point - just as it is from others - it is deplorable that children are locked up. That people are locked up based not on what they have done, but rather on a reading that seems arbitrarily decided.
But that is not my point. Based on what we've been shown, I don't see Sibyl as being worse than a lot of authoritarian governments today (I will elaborate on why a bit more below). And returning to the discussion from a few months ago, I still want to emphasise this point: is non-institutionalised discrimination really that much better than institutionalised discrimination? What are the implications of each for society and societal change?
I'm not looking for an answer here (though, as it turns out, I will present my argument), because it is a debate that people will take different positions on. But it needs to be properly considered.
My focus is on the discrimination that has been associated with the readings, to the point that relatives are assumed to be 'infected'. It appears to me that your contention is that the laws/regulations have to be changed for the perception to be changed, i.e. we have very different ideas about how social change works. My argument is that Akane has to change that perception before she can even try to argue for better treatment, because the belief is institutionalised. So far, she has succeeded in Division I: she proved to Kougami, Yayoi and Gino that they shouldn't shoot just because the Dominator tells them too. And she also changed the attitude of inspectors of latent criminals (i.e. the enforcers) within Division 1. The effects of this are shown in how Kougami and Yayoi respond to her.
Not that I'm saying that how social change occurs is either/or, but I honestly believe that some social change has to occur first, before the laws/regulations can have an effect. Isn't this what has happened with e.g. women's and GLBT rights in most Western countries?
If your interpretation of Sibyl differs from mine, then of course you're not going to see things the same way. Honestly speaking, you're not going to convince me to change my interpretation, because it's dependent not on the show, but rather on what I understand of contemporary politics.
If that wasn't what you intended, that's fine, and I apologise if I offended you. But I do want to make clear that that's the impression I got from the way the statement is phrased.
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|2013-03-27, 16:44
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This is why institutional and structural change is so important. That's change that is less depended upon the "luck of the draw" when it comes to the character of the new boss.
From what you wrote there, my impression is that you're basically saying, Jack Nicholson-style, "The people can't handle the truth!"
Well, if that's your position, then you're basically saying that the people of Sibyl Japan should continue to make decisions based on the lies of Sibyl. To which I responded: Emotion based on truth has more legitimacy to it than logic based on lies.
If people find a particular truth to be outrageous and unacceptable, and it stirs a mostly emotional response, then maybe that response has legitimacy, and we shouldn't be so quick to discredit it just because it's mostly emotional.
But putting vote-rigging aside, at least an effectively one-party state is getting its mandate to govern directly from the people. The people are choosing to constantly stick with that one party, for good or for ill.
But the people no longer get to make any choice at all when it comes to Sibyl.
My view is that most civil rights movements had notable leaders that helped spearhead them. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks are famous in this regard, of course. The women's and gay rights movements likewise had notable people that helped pushed then forward.
|2013-03-27, 18:14
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Yes Gen did a good job of saying Sibyl is bad. He did a very poor job of showing how it came to be in the first place? Why it is necessary to keep this bad system in place or how this somehow aligns with the people's wishes? Honestly the whole thing seems completely illogical to me.
What exactly is Gen cautioning us against? If this type of system can just go away when the people are ready then I guess we have no need to worry.
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|2013-03-28, 03:06
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Can anyone answer these two questions for me, please?
For a society to be considered a "harsh dictatorship", wouldn't that require people to actually feel oppressed by said dictatorship?
Second, about "latent criminals are abandoned because someoen decided there is no hope for recovery". How is this different from how criminals are treated now? No one trusts a criminal ever again, no matter how much they have learned from their mistakes. The only difference, is that latent criminals haven't done anything yet.
|2013-03-28, 03:22
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Age: 32
Now consider this: The people themselves put Sibyl into power and they themselves decided their species was not fit to be the master of its own fate. So, having relinquished control over their own lives to a _computer system_, whose judgment they supposedly trust more than that of their own kinsmen, should they even get the privilege of making any choices at all? Didn't they forfeit that right when they subjugated their life and matter to the scrutiny of a _computer system_?
Quite frankly, I consider the good people of Sibyl Japan to be quite lucky that human beings, albeit bodiless psychopaths, are still running the show. I think the implications of letting a computer system handle matters of public stature is the biggest issue I find presented, whereas you think the biggest issue is that the people are being deceived. I get that every system should always have a big red button to stop it for any reason what-so-ever, as a matter of smart system design, but I'm saying this as a person who doesn't value the supposed benefits a machine could offer over an intelligent human collective. A fervent Sibyl supporter may see that red button as a threat to the stability of the system.
I guess what I'm saying is that the perception of regular people in contemporary Sibyl Japan has been consistently left out of this debate or written off as poorly documented. That being said, I think I exhausted all that I wanted to say in this thread. Gentlemen, it's been a pleasure.
|2013-03-28, 17:15
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I think the thing that makes this argument for and against the preservation of the sibyl system more difficult is because on the surface the system is run in very efficient manner, at least on surface. Off course when we go into the details the story is quite different but superficially we can say it is okay and perhaps in certain aspects it is best as the element of risk and uncertainty in life is largely eliminated (as sibyl makes the decisions for society). This feeling of certainty and control is a powerful force in human psychology and it is surprising what people would be willing to sacrifice for this security.
So I can see why people could defend this regime particularly if we consider that a revolution or overthrow of the current paradigm offers the complete opposite of what the status quo does namely uncertainty and chaos. This devolution into chaos is the real issue that Akane is afraid of and I would agree there will be uncertainty and there will be death, confusion and hardship. But this is where faith comes in and people like Akane should have faith that after the chaotic aftermath man will be capable of bringing a new society that is more equitable than one currently on offer. It is this faith and believe that can show a real strength of character and it is this lack of faith, I would even say meekness that is most disappointing. It is made all the worse for the fact that throughout the series she seemed to be building in character yet at the moment of truth she seemed to have failed miserably.
I think it is important to note that nothing in life that is worthwhile can be had without a struggle. I feel this expression can easily apply to this scenario. People cannot expect an easy transition or evolution into a better future and there is likely to be much conflict and struggle for this future. This is more true in cases where a party holds supreme power over the rest of society which appears to be the case here. In an ideal scenario we would all like a smooth transition and it is prudent to exercise all options but we also need to recognise that in some cases there will be no easy option and radical plans will have be considered. Sometimes we need to acknowledge that you can't make an omelette without cracking some eggs. Playing the waiting game can also have its negative as it allows more time for the current power structure to solidify its power and hold over society.
|2013-03-28, 20:53
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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All of us here can look at their society and claim that "Playing the waiting game can also have its negative as it allows more time for the current power structure to solidify its power and hold over society", but how do you know that for certain? If you are basing it on the show, then how do you deal with Saiga's presence and actions (or non-actions, at least until the final credits!) in it?
This is why I keep arguing that societal attitudes have to see some change first, before such a change in policy can be implemented. I am actually looking into policy implementation for my thesis - and what do you think is one of the the most common factors that hinders implementation?
I'm not saying that a system built on a lie is in any way acceptable. In this case, however, the fact that the lie is so integral to society (at present) means that it cannot be completely reformed as easily as you seem to be implying.
Let me stress that I am not arguing for retention of Sibyl in the long run, I just want to emphasise the importance of actually considering everything that needs to be done in order to get rid of that lie AND the danger that Orwell was warning against, and whether it is actually possible at this point in the show.
The logic is built on a huge lie, yes, but I disagree with the idea that the society has reached a point were the whole system needs to be completely destroyed, which is what the methods you and a few others have raised can only lead to.
Furthermore, what I was referring to with the bolded section was that such actions would entail Akane making the decision for them, and I don't believe in revolutions from above. For Akane to become like Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, she needs to have other people who believe in the same things, so her first task is to find or cultivate such people. Which I contend is not as easy as some people seem to think.
Perhaps this is what made the people choose an apparently autonomous system in the first place? And if that is the case, then where do you go from that?
To be honest, I think we will have to just agree to disagree, because we take fundamentally different stances on a lot of points, some of which have to do with how we interpret what was shown to us in the series, and perhaps even with what we think Urobuchi Gen was trying to do with it.
But is he? Given that he has left us with an ending that doesn't answer the question of 'how should one deal with such a system?' or 'how did such a system arise in the first place?', what could he be trying to say? Assuming that he had a purpose in writing this show - and the assumption that every piece of work has a purpose is not something that everyone subscribes to, particularly in the modern and postmodern words of art - then, given what we have been shown, what might it have been?
I guess that what I'm trying to say is that a creator may not be saying what you want them to say. And if that is the case, then how do you, as an individual member of the audience, react to that? Do you stop at criticising them for not doing what you wanted them to do, or do you try and figure out what they were actually trying to say?
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I'm not going to deny that Gen didn't really go into the creation of Sibyl, but at the same time, I am not so sure why this is all that important. In episode 17 Makishima explained the philosophy behind the Sibyl System (As it appears to the people, not the actual truth).
"Management of a fair society by machines... A society that doesn't depend on human egos... People accepted the Sibyl System because that's how it was presented."
So no, we don't get the history detailed to us about the Sibyl System. Gen never tells us who are the original people who created it, and how they convinced society to actually adopt it. He just explained the idea of the system and why it is accepted by the people.
As for why people don't do away with it, what compelling reason do they have? Society is largely safe, and people live really easy lives where they never have to worry about making decisions. Things are all sorted out for them and everybody does what they have the aptitude to do.
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Reckoner's most recent post takes up a related point: what benefit does showing those world-building scenes do for the themes that Gen was actually concerned with? Are we sure that we know what themes he was concerned with?
In other words, how have we come to the conclusion that he was trying to do whatever it is we think he was trying to do with this series?
I don't actually have an answer for this. I'm only trying to raise questions about the process by which we, the audience, try to determine what a writer/creator says with any particular work. As such, I'll leave it here.
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Is it the people's wish to be governed by an impartial machine?
World building not only helps strengthen your themes it also helps with suspension of disbelief. Unfortunately the world building in Psychopass was a complete mess and filled with contradictions. As Triple R said it's a lot of tell don't show.
I am being told the people are safer and yet we are still shown plenty of crime.
I am told people are content with the system and yet there actually were people shown to be upset with their current situation because of their low psycho pass rating.
I never said I needed every single detail on the creation of the series from the year it was made, the names of its creators, and what programming they used but trying to show the thought process behind the creation of this series would certainly help suspend my disbelief that something so illogical as it came about in the first place.
I don't have every detail for Big Brother but I do understand why it came about.
I don't know all the details about the system in minority report but I certainly understand how it gave the illusion of a better crime system.
I am sure Gen was trying to say something but that is the problem I have with the series, I am not sure. In fact I am not even sure if Gen made up his own mind. Instead I feel he was trying to say a whole lot of things but didn't say anything entirely well. At least for me he didn't. And yes I acknowledge its a personal issue. If someone else got something out of the series I didn't, well more power to them.
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Sibyl's "long-game" is a good one. A smart one. So Akane needs to demonstrate a viable long game of her own that can match it. This is if Gen is aiming for an ambiguous ending, anyway.
If Gen is aiming for a 1984-esque ending, then Sibyl winning decisively isn't merely fine, it's necessary. But then, if this is what Gen is aiming for, why does the final scene of this anime have an almost sweet sentimentality to it?
This is what confuses me about the ending. I can't tell if it's an open-ended ending or an 1984 one because I see serious presentation problems either way.
I'm almost tempted to conclude that this ending is saying "Sibyl wins, but maybe that's Ok after all." But that seems like an odd ending given the great lengths Gen went to in order to make Sibyl look bad throughout the entire anime.
Consider, for example, the observation that black men driving cars are much more likely to get pulled over by cops than white men driving cars are. This discrimination isn't institutionalized. I very much doubt there's any cop training manual that encourages it. However, it does happen and people are generally aware of it, and so you can argue against it. People will know what you're talking about.
The relative challenge with non-institutionalized discrimination is that it calls for a keen eye on the lookout for patterns, and a certain degree of vigilance. But the relative benefit with non-institutionalized discrimination is that it better allows for slow, gradual, piecemeal correction - You can start locally, and build up. In my above example, you can work at a pace of one police department at a time, slowly building up minor victories through slowly changing hearts and minds until the wider society changes.
But let's say you actually had a law stating "All black drivers must go through regular police check points. White drivers are excused from such check points". To end discrimination against black drivers, the law itself must be removed. The policy must be changed. Slow, gradual, piecemeal correction is much harder here as long as the law is on the books, because the law weakens your argument when you argue for less discrimination against black drivers.
"Well, lady, I'm only following the law!" Police Officer A says when he's told how he shouldn't discriminate against black drivers.
Police Officer A doesn't have that defense if his department's discrimination against black drivers is non-institutionalized in nature.
1) A practical one, that causes myself to have some doubts about this prison. That's completely separate from our discussion, though, so I won't get into it here.
2) The general sentiments that criminals are to be punished for their crimes.
Ah, but what crime is a latent criminal guilty of? In many cases, a latent criminal may not be guilty of a crime at all.
When a criminal is perceived to "get off easy", the people who typically lead the charge against him or her are the criminal's victims. Several cases of this can lead people to feel "We have to get tougher on crime."
I don't think this will be as true of latent criminals, though, because many of them have no actual victims to whip up the general public in the first place. Long story short, I doubt the people of Sibyl Japan feel as much antagonism for their latent criminals as what people in the real world feel for actual criminals.
And what that means is I doubt you'd have many people complaining about latent criminals getting more human treatment than what they do currently. Heck, we don't even know if the populace of Sibyl Japan is even fully aware of what happens to their latent criminals.
So ultimately, I see some weaknesses in your interpretation.
You can't vote Sibyl out of power. You can vote democratic governments out of power.
George W. Bush was a widely criticized American President who a lot of people had serious issues with. Due to term limits, he's no longer in power. Now, is Barack Obama perfect? No, certainly not. In some cases, his policies are actually very similar to Bush's. But there are also some key differences. This is what democracy allows for.
But let's say George W. Bush was like Sybil - In control for life. No term limits. No voting out of office. No chance for a Barack Obama to follow him.
This is a major difference that I'm not sure you appreciate enough.
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First, the Lina and her band not being dead/in jail is one thing I will clarify - I meant 'they would have been dead/in jail merely because of the music they were playing'. What happened to them after episode 12 is not actually relevant to the point I was trying to make.
But I am not going to address all of your reply, because I think a lot of it is based on a misunderstanding of my position, as encapsulated in what you've written here.
To put it another way, my position is that Akane (and whoever else she will need on board to make it happen) will need to do far more than you, and others who advocate taking down the system ASAP, appear to admit, before they can try to remove the brains from power.
In other words, I am saying that the details are important. Whether they do it peacefully or not.
This is related to what I think Gen may have actually been trying to do with this series, which is what my reply to Kirarakim was about. That an authoritarian system such as Sibyl - whether it's reached by allowing a select small group of people decide policy, or by entrusting it to something that is apparently autonomous - is evil and should be avoided is nothing new. Writers have been warning about the dangers of such a system for well over a hundred years now. Perhaps it was one of the themes that Gen was focused on. But I don't think it was the only one.
For the past week, I've been wondering if another of those themes is associated with what has happened in many developing countries in the world since post-colonial norms started taking hold. Countries like Papua New Guinea, where people were suddenly given their sovereignty back, but without a working system for their society. Someone I know went to PNG recently, and came back with a rather bleak report of what it's like there. Too many people who were involved in 'rebuilding' their society were in it for their own benefit. As a result, the power vacuum left when Australia pulled out has actually hindered the Papua New Guineans from constructing a society that is fair, liberal and democratic.
To bring it back to this series, I wonder if a second theme in Psycho-Pass may be about how we, the audience, react to such systems. About how our gut reaction is to argue for toppling the system...often without seriously considering what will need to be done in the power vacuum that remains.
And I am going to have to leave this discussion here myself, as I have said all that I wanted to say.
Whilst it was frustrating at times, it was also fun, and definitely quite stimulating, so thanks for the discussion, everyone.
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Anyways I don't mean to imply there was nothing worthwhile about Psychopass but it just didn't come together well for me.
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Ok, Kacrice, I thank you for the points and clarifications you brought up in your final post. I at least have a better idea of where you're coming from now.
I thank you, cyth, Reckoner, Kirarakim, and everybody else for a good discussion and debate. It certainly was thought-provoking.
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Oh, Jeez. Frank Shamrock is Getting His Own Reality Show About His Crusade to Get MMA Legalized in New York
("…and there is nothing naked about a rear-naked choke.")
Having Frank Shamrock represent MMA in trying to convince the New York State Senate to legalize MMA is like having George W. Bush represent the human race in trying to convince aliens that the human race is an intelligent species.
Leave it to the most self-aggrandizing fighter in the sport, though, to jump in where his help isn't needed. The former fighter, who dubbed himself "The Legend," is working on a new reality show called "Ungloved," that follows him as he lobbies for MMA legalization in the hold-out state. While filming in New York during the legalization rally and Strikeforce fan event on Tuesday, Shamrock visited the state legislature to try to convince them to legalize the sport.
Not surprisingly, the cocky Strikeforce commentator who created an anti-bullying organization in response to how he felt when UFC president Dana White publicly criticized him, went into the meetings with lawmakers unprepared, telling reporters that he did no homework or research about the stances of those in opposition like Assemblyman Bob Reilly.Read More DIGG THIS


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An international crime ring that hacked into a ticket website and used customers' details to stage a million dollar fraud has been dismantled in a transatlantic crackdown involving British police.
More than 1,600 StubHub users were victims of the "sophisticated" scheme in which they had personal information stolen and their credit cards were used fraudulently to buy tickets, which were then sold on.
Some of the tickets were for gigs by Elton John, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z, sports events including New York Yankees baseball games and the US Open, and Broadway shows such as The Book of Mormon.
The hackers' profits were then filtered away through a global network of accomplices in the US, UK, Russia, and Canada.
Today's operation involved City of London Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the New York District Attorney's (DA) office, with the British force making three arrests.
The men aged 27, 39 and 46 were held on suspicion of money laundering after dawn raids in London and Suffolk. Canadian police arrested another alleged money launderer in Toronto, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said six people had been charged in the US.
Stephen Head, commander, National Co-ordinator for Economic Crime at City of London Police, said "a lot more" than one million US dollars could have been lost if the thieves had not been stopped.
"What we've got are really sophisticated cyber hackers, hacking into quite a well protected system in StubHub, getting into people's accounts, buying tickets, selling tickets, realising that money.
"And then the international dimension of course is the fact that they're trying to launder that money through London.
"The cooperation we've seen today is a model for future cooperation. These criminals operate without boundaries, we've got to be operating on that international dimension as well. It's the only way to be effective against these modern criminals."
According to its website, StubHub, an eBay company, is "a safe, convenient place" for fans "to get tickets to the games, concerts, and theatre shows they want to see, and an easy way to sell their tickets when they can't go".
The San Francisco-based firm said that the thieves did not break through its security - instead they got account-holders' login and password information from data breaches at other websites and retailers, or from key-loggers or other malware on the customers' computers, spokesman Glenn Lehrman said.
The company detected the unauthorised transactions last year, contacted authorities and gave the affected customers refunds and help to change their passwords, he added.
After investigating the receipts and transaction records of more than 1,600 hacked accounts, American analysts were able to trace the exchanges to internet protocol addresses, PayPal accounts, bank accounts, and other financial accounts used and controlled by the gang.
Commander Head said a lot of people expecting to go to events would never have got the tickets to go.
"This is international criminals targeting a very sophisticated company operating on the internet. They've been successful in one sense that they have hacked in - the good news is we've recognised it, working with our American counterparts, we've actually managed to arrest these people today," he said.
British police are building a "very strong relationship" with the DA's office in New York, Commander Head said.
"It's important for us to protect the integrity of London as a financial market and to work with New York in order to protect what are the two largest financial markets in the world. You would expect to see that cooperation.
"We know that international criminals who are targeting London are also targeting New York for exactly the same reasons," he said.
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Later this year, Disney will be releasing a calendar for 2012 featuring Muppet movie parodies. One would think that, with the countless films being released every year, there would be tons and tons up for lampooning by the Muppets. Well, think again, apparently, because Disney feels the need to release a calendar of the same, lame 1990's movie parodies. This includes parodies of completely forgotten movies such as Patton ("Ratton"), Lawrence of Arabia ("Lawrence of Amphibia"), and Rebel Without a Cause ("Rodent Without a Cause"). This is incredibly lazy on Disney's part... they didn't even include the recent Muppet*Vision 3D parody posters ("BEAK-E," "Wild Frogs," "High School Mayhem")!
Disney could have easily given us something better than this, for so many reasons... especially considering that the fine folks over at Empire Online have over thirty hip, new parody posters for movies that people actually know about. Check them all out on their site and check out some of our favorites here below!
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Why Your Best Ideas Come in the Shower
WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger and Grey New York president and chief creative officer Tor Myhren look at what context, time-of-day and mood have to do with generating bright ideas. Photo: Getty Images.
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It's hard not to love a story about the blood-sucking undead. Bram Stoker's immortal story has been made and remade into so many different forms it would be impossible to list them all. A campy theatrical version called The Passion of Dracula transports the story to the English countryside in 1911 where several young girls have died under mysterious circumstances. Could the new neighbor, a long-in-the-tooth fellow named Count Dracula, possibly be responsible? No, of course not. Don't be silly. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Sundays at 2 p.m. $18 general, $15 seniors, $13 students. Runs through Oct. 31. 242-4750.
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"All art is ultimately social," Lorraine Hansberry once said. She put that belief to the test during every stage of her tragically brief literary life. The 1959 stage version of her famous play, A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier, was the first by a Black woman to ever be produced on Broadway. The 1961 movie version—also starring Poitier, in one of his most iconic roles—cemented this complex but accessible play's well-deserved position in the pantheon of American theater. James Baldwin praised A Raisin in the Sun, which tells the story of a Black family struggling for survival on the South Side of Chicago, for putting "the truth of Black people's lives" on stage for the first time.
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for their basketsMonday, March 17, 2008
First of all, I want to thank you for all the nice words on my sewing skills! You sure know how to make a girl feel good, and I like how you let me know not to be so hard on myself. Imperfections can be part of the handmade charm. I know I need to work on that.
I wanted to make something for my kids easter baskets and originally thought I might knit these. However, I thought they may require too much time. Precious time that should be spent working on Ruby.
Kim also made some of these cute little birds and mentioned they took an hour each. Perfect.
The pattern is here, designed by curlypurly.
I used scraps of cotton yarn with the same gauge. They are easy, quick and fun. And, guess what? You still have time to make some before easter!
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oh my gosh those are cute. I wonder if I have time....ReplyDelete
So cute! I love the way they look in the nest! I know! In a nest of Mini Cadbury eggs!ReplyDelete
I'm addicted to these things. Although, like you, I felt my time would be better spent this past weekend making something else. But you can be sure I'll be making more of them before the weekend!
Oh wow Leslie, cuteness overload--love those tiny pals! Thanks for reminding me about the Easter basket situation, I have to get on that...ReplyDelete
if only i could knit right now....ReplyDelete
super cute, leslie!
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Awwww! Those chickies are just SO cute!! I will have to knit a few . . seeing as how that's been my mom's nickname for me ever since I've been a little girl. :)ReplyDelete
Those tweeties are sweeties!ReplyDelete
Oh sooo cute! What a great idea too. Let's see, I have 3 nephews and 1 niece, think I can do it? Would be prefect out of my Touché scraps… well, I could always at least get one done for the niece ; )ReplyDelete
thanks for the links and your birdies are so cute!
Ohmigosh, I love the little birdies! How adorable! *sigh* And now of course, it has to be added to the list. :)ReplyDelete
These are just so cute. I just don't think I have any time left. Maybe next year?ReplyDelete
Those are so cute!! What a wonderful idea!ReplyDelete
I have the perfect blue yarn but I'm picturing a little blue bird of a different dimension... Hmmm, we'll see.
Great pattern! Thanks!!! :)ReplyDelete
OMG I love how their weee wings are up in the air...so adorable i just want to squeeze them!ReplyDelete
Too Cute! My kids would just love those!!!ReplyDelete
ohhhhhhhhhh those reminded me of my grandmother.. she use to make us cute stuff like that when we were little... GOSH!!! I cherished those.. and miss her deeply!! I can't knit or crochet... but I love the beauty of it all!!ReplyDelete


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Hanifa Safi, a provincial head of women's affairs, was assassinated on Friday in Afghanistan. Safi was driving with her husband and daughter when a car bomb exploded, killing Safi and leaving her husband in a coma. Safi was the department head for women's affairs in the Laghman province, and was a prominent advocate for women's rights in Afghanistan. No group has taken responsibility, but a government official attributed the attack to "enemies of the people." As the Los Angeles Times reports, the phrase "enemies of the people" is often used to describe the Taliban or other insurgent groups.
The assassination occurred in the midst of a rise in violence against women in Afghanistan. Last week a woman was executed publicly because of an accusation of adultery. The murder was carried out by a known member of the Taliban and captured on video. Afghan schoolgirls have also been the targets of violence; three attacks since April have threatened the lives and education of Afghan girls. The Taliban is thought to be the perpetrator of these attacks as well.
The rise in violence has sparked concerns from Afghan women and advocacy groups. Afghan women have been regaining basic rights since the Taliban lost power in 2006, but fear that these rights will be lost as the threat of violence and the Taliban rises
Safi is the second provincial head of women's affairs to be assassinated. In 2006, Safia Amajan, the provincial director of Afghanistan's Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar, was killed by gunmen outside of her home. There is speculation that she was killed in retaliation for her outspoken support of women's rights and her work opening schools for women in Afghanistan. Amajan had unsuccessfully requested bodyguards and secure transportation from the Afghan government; at the time of the attack, she was getting into a taxi to go to work.
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Some scans of the artwork from the bonus book are beginning to appear and also the other 4-koma with Frenda and Kuroko has shown up.
Spoiler for Artwork:
Spoiler for 4-koma:
Also the novel with the loli Kihara, also supposedly has some
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I found the chapter and a translated version of it, but I don't know if is a good translation because I find weird that previously in the chapter 31 Touma doesn't recognizes Mikoto(for obvious reasons) and then in the 32 in accord to translations Touma calls her biri biri instead Misaka at the scene, not a reliable(at 90%) translation because it says is an anon work with many other anons on 4ch....
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The chapter out
and it seems that Misaka going to wreck out the A.C. ( or kill the Aleister ) before she learn about the Tree Diagram and then, she planning to hax it....but too bad, someone destroyed it before her..Haha
and Kuroko, you are so pretty for a 13 year old girls.
It would be awesome if this unstable Mikoto meet Kakine.
Misaka: I want kill Aleister ! Help me, No.2 !
Kakine: ....
Misaka : ....
Kaknie sips his starbuck coffee
Misaka : I guess "NO" ?
*Kakine put his coffee cup down on the table and stand up and open his arm*
Kakine : WELCOME TO SCHOOL !
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Oh god... if you look carefully at the 4koma on the left, Frenda's lower body is at a different place from her upper body.
It's highly likely that the translator who did ch32 just assumed that Touma always used Biribiri for Mikoto.
Anyway, glad to see Misuzu looking as attractive as ever, and acting more motherly and less of a tease than she was in the novels.
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well the 4-koma has a point. Mugino did have the looks and the body but too bad that's gone now.
Maybe Mikoto is just pertaining to the head of the research of the level 6? In the manga she did encounter telestina so she can think of it as Kihara. But maybe the old guy if that one is still alive.
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So Mikoto gets to go down one more path and have it brutally shut off to her before finally coming to her horrific decision about how to end the program. The whole arc really dragged Mikoto through the mud and stretched her out. It's about time for her to finally break and become so desperate she decides on a suicidal course of action.
It's a very un-Mikoto like action, but the entire point of this arc has been to break her character to the point where she takes an action that her 'former' self would have considered unacceptable.
On a side note, With Kakine taken out in the novels, that makes Mikoto the #2 on the science side? That's pretty neat, although I think the Magic/Science thing is heavily biased in the former's favor as far as powerful individuals go, so she's likely less powerful than every single saint or something.
Course given how hax Accelerator is it may be more 'balanced' between the sides than one would think. Broken crazy esper is broken.
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It doesn't look like Mikoto knows Aleister, just that the general government running Academy City is supporting the experiment.
It'll be pretty easy to set her up for failure. While she does want to stop the experiment, she'll come across someone to appeal to her sentiments that if she does destroy the government, she'll destroy Academy City's infrastructure and her home along with the homes of many innocent kids. Either that, or she could attempt to find and destroy the Tree Diagram supercomputer and find out that she can't.
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A radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) test uses a radioactive tracer and a special probe to measure how much tracer the thyroid gland absorbs from the blood. The test can show how much tracer is absorbed by the thyroid gland and if it is evenly spread in the gland. This helps your doctor know if the thyroid gland is working properly. The radioactive tracer commonly used in this test is iodine.
A radioactive iodine uptake test is done to find problems with how the thyroid gland works, such as hyperthyroidism. An RAIU test may be done at the same time as a thyroid scan.
A radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) test is done to:
Tell your doctor if you:
Before an RAIU test, blood tests may be done to measure the amount of thyroid hormones (TSH, T3, and T4) in your blood.
To prepare for an RAIU test:
Your doctor may ask you to eat a low-iodine diet.
For an RAIU, you will swallow a dose of radioactive iodine. Iodine can be taken as a capsule or a fluid 4 to 24 hours before the test. Iodine has little or no taste.
Just before the test, you will remove your dentures (if you wear them) and all jewellery or metal objects from around your neck and upper body.
Before a radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) test, you need to sign a consent form that says you understand the risks of the test and agree to have it done. Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form (What is a PDF document?).
A radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) test is done in the nuclear medicine section of a hospital's radiology department by a person trained in nuclear medicine (nuclear medicine technologist).
For this test, you will lie on your back with your head tipped backward and your neck extended. It is important to lie still during this test. A special machine is placed over your thyroid gland to measure the amount of tracer absorbed by the thyroid gland 4 to 6 hours after you took the iodine. This is not an X-ray machine—it is a scanner that detects the radiation given off by the tracer. The test takes about 10 minutes. Another scan is done again in 24 hours.
After an RAIU test, you can do your regular activities. But you will be asked to take special precautions when you urinate. This is because your body gets rid of the radioactive tracer through your urine. This takes about 24 hours. It is important to flush the toilet and wash your hands thoroughly after each time you urinate.
You may find it uncomfortable to lie still with your head tipped backward.
There is always a slight chance of damage to cells or tissue from radiation, including the low levels of radiation used for this test. But the chance of damage from the radiation is usually very low compared with the benefits of the test.
This test is not done for pregnant women because of the chance of exposing the baby (fetus) to radiation. This test is also not recommended for breast-feeding women or young children.
A radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) test uses a radioactive tracer and a special probe to measure how much tracer the thyroid gland absorbs from the blood. The radioactive tracer used in this test is iodine. An RAIU test is done to check for thyroid gland problems, such as hyperthyroidism.
The amount of radioactive tracer in the thyroid gland is normal. An RAIU test measures the amount of tracer taken up by the thyroid gland at certain times after the tracer is given. The measured amount of radioactive tracer in the thyroid gland at each one of these times is at normal levels.
The test shows either more or less uptake of tracer than normal in the thyroid gland. The uptake may be even or uneven. If hyperthyroidism is present, abnormal test results may mean certain conditions are present.
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
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When Joseph Bacigalupi got his 2005 Subaru WRX he had no intention of modifying it. While he convinced himself that the wagon would be good to get him and his wife through the snow and take his dog around town, he had no idea what was in store for this five-door hatch. A member of the esteemed Team Hybrid car club, he couldn't help but give into his tuner soul after his wife first bought a set of GramLight 57 rims for the car. He says they looked awful. Lucky for us, this opened the modification floodgates – he started by lowering the car, then turned it into one hell of a finished product.
Off the bat, the most noticeable part of it is the unique body style - the entire car is wrapped in a Voltex Racing body kit. Everything from the front bumper and side skirts, to the rear diffuser and front splitter has been covered in the Japanese racing armor.
The hood was actually a Christmas present to Bacigalupi from his wife after she vetoed his request to get a Seibon carbon fiber hood. Instead, she ordered a painted Voltex hood with a carbon fiber scoop-delete, giving it just the right amount to match the body.
Underneath the hood it's easy to see this is no ordinary 2.0L Subaru EJ20T engine. Bacigalupi managed to squeeze out 290 whp after swapping the stock turbo with a Tomei ARMS M7760 turbocharger and Power Enterprise 800cc injectors.
A "stealth" version of a Perrin intercooler has been installed, and a Trust full-titanium exhaust and exhaust tip amplifies the engine's throaty howl.
Putting the added muscle to the ground are 18-inch Diamond Black painted Volk TE37sl rims, wrapped in Bridgestone RE0760 tires. Stopping power is accommodated by a set of Brembo STi calipers - four-piston in the front, and two-piston in the rear.
A Cusco swaybar, Whiteline endlinks, and Beatrush strut bars keep the suspension tight but comfortable, while Stance GR + Pro coilovers and camber adjustments give it a menacing and aggressive stance.
A tedious three-stage Matador Red Mica paint job complements the Subaru's almost weapon-like look and feel, and the interior takes the WRX to the next level, matching the exterior color scheme with black suede and red highlights. A Sabelt four-point harness keeps the driver in place at all times, while the steering wheel is a special Vertex 20th anniversary model with mounted to a Works Bell Rapfix II quick release hub.
The OEM seats have been replaced with Recaro Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX bucket seats with suede inserts.
Going to the back of the car, a custom amp rack and subwoofer enclosure features a Focal Solid1 sub amp and a Solid 4 high frequency amp, and a JL Audio 10-inch W6 sub. Focal speakers are used throughout the car and an Alpine INA W900 head unit acts as the master control.
They say great things happen when you least suspect, and when it comes to Bacigalupi's WRX that's exactly the case. What started off as nothing more than a daily driver, this Subaru has seen multiple podium finishes since he began showing it in 2010.
With that said, he still uses the car for one of its original intentions. While he's never driven it in the snow, Bacigalupi still takes it out with his dog for the occasional drive. So while this WRX is one awesome tuner, it's also probably the world's most pimped out dog kennel!
Vehicle: 2005 Subaru WRX Wagon
Owner: Joseph Bacigalupi
Location: Pacifica, California
Club Affiliation: Team Hybrid
Engine: 2.0L Subaru EJ20T
Tomei ARMS M7760 turbo
Perrin stealth intercooler
Perrin (intercooler piping that has a hydro-dipped carbon look then sprayed green over the top, air filter, big MAF intake)
Walbro 255 fuel pump
Power Enterprise 800cc injectors
NGK Iridium spark plugs
Mishsimoto (WRX aluminum radiator, WRX aluminum fan shroud, WRX aluminum upper radiator hose, WRX silicone radiator hose kit, oil filter sandwich plate, two-inch heat defense tape, aluminum coolant tank)
Trust (Ti-R PE full titanium exhaust, exhaust tip)
GT Spec header
Helix (flex up-pipe, catted down pipe, high flow cat)
Stance (GR + Pro coilovers, front and rear camber plates)
Cusco (adjustable rear sway bar, rear diffuser bar)
Whiteline (wagon-specific front sway bar, front and rear endlinks, roll center adjustment kit)
Beatrush front and rear strut bars
Ingalls front and rear camber bolts
Volk TE37sl wheels in Diamond Black – 18 x 9.5 +22 (f), 18 x 9.5 +22 (r)
Bridgestone RE0760 tires – 245/35/zr18 (f), 245/35/zr18 (r)
Brembo (STi four-piston front brake calipers, STi two-piston rear brake calipers)
FastWRX.com rear Brembo conversion kit
Hawk HP Plus brake pads
DBA (4000 series one-piece slotted and drilled STi front rotor, 4000 series one-piece slotted and drilled conversion rotor)
Goodrich braided lines
Endless brake fluid
Voltex Racing (full body kit, front bumper, custom fit carbon fiber rear diffuser, side skirts, GT hood with carbon fiber scoop delete, front under tray)
Hydro-dipped carbon fiber grille
OEM Subaru STi front fenders
Custom widened rear fenders
JDM STi wagon roof rail delete
Three-stage Matador Red Mica paint job
JDM Subaru rain guards
Windows tinted 35% all around
Body work done by Image Auto Body
Black suede upholstering with red stitching
Vertex 20th anniversary 330mm deep core steering wheel with red stitching and lettering
Recaro (SPG, mount/slider, slide mounts, Evo IX seat)
Sabelt driver seat harness
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HKS harness
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