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System resurrection
Although it is always possible to resurrect a machine back to life by reinstalling it, it is not always suitable to reinstall from scratch. Sometimes the best approach is to try to repair, or "resurrect," a broken system so that is it fully functional again. This document will show you how to resurrect a broken Funtoo system without reinstalling everything from scratch.
Building binary packages
The best approach for critical system repair is to boot on a SystemRescueCD or other similar LiveCD, and use this as working platform to resurrect your system.
For creating binary packages, you can use any of the following for a source environment:
- Use the most recent Funtoo stage3 for your architecture
- If available, use a recent system backup (tar or cpio archive) or snapshot
On a working Linux system, which can be either your broken system booted with a LiveCD, or any type of Linux system on your network with similar processor, you will want to build a chroot environment using the "source environment" you selected above, and use this as a platform for building binary packages to restore your system. Once these packages are created, they can be copied to your broken system and installed using the steps later in this document.
The binary package creation environment would typically be set up as follows:
root # install -d /mnt/rescue root # tar xpvf backup.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/rescue root # cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/rescue/etc root # mount --bind /proc /mnt/rescue/proc root # mount --bind /sys /mnt/rescue/sys root # mount --bind /dev /mnt/rescue/dev root # mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/rescue/dev/pts root # chroot /mnt/rescue root # source /etc/profile root # env-update
No matter of the way you jump in a functional Funtoo/Gentoo environment, the magic command to create a binary package archive once inside is to use the
quickpkg command.
quickpkg will capture the package in the exact form it is actually deployed on the environment and create an archive of it placed in
In the following example capture everything installed within the "source environment" that is related
sys-devel/gcc (4.4.5 is present on the system) is captured in a single archive named gcc-4.4.5.tbz2 located in
root # quickpkg sys-devel/gcc
If you need to recompile a package instead of archiving an already deployed version (and of course without installing it on your "source environment"), just do:
root # emerge --buildpkgonly sys-devel/gcc
Restoring the binary packages on the broken system
There are a couple of methods that can be used to restore binary packages to a broken system.
Chroot/Emerge Method
This first approach can be used for lightly damaged systems that still have a functional Portage and to which you can still chroot and perform all basic Linux commands. To use this method, you would mount your broken system to /mnt/broken using steps similar to the way we set up /mnt/rescue, above.
Before or after chrooting, copy the binary packages created in the step above in the exact same location on your broken system (e.g. in /usr/portage/packages/sys-devel in the case of sys-devel/gcc).
Once chrooted inside your system, you will be able to merge your packages using emerge as follows:
root # emerge -k sys-devel/gcc
Tbz2 Extract Method
This alternate method for installing binary packages is simpler and does not require the use of the chroot command. To prepare for using this approach, you just need to mount all key filesystems to /mnt/broken as follows -- and bind mounts are not necessary:
root # install -d /mnt/broken root # mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/broken root # mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/broken/usr
Then, use the following commands to extract the .tbz2 archive to your broken filesystem that you mounted at /mnt/broken:
root # tar xjpvf gcc-4.4.5.tbz2 -C /mnt/broken
You will see a note about the trailing garbage at the end of the file being ignored. This is normal -- tar is ignoring the Portage .tbz2 metadata that is tacked on to the end of the file.
At this point, you can set up bind mounts (see /mnt/rescue example earlier in this document for those steps), chroot inside /mnt/broken, and perform a few tests to determine if your issue has been resolved.
Fixing broken portage
Broken portage only
Sometimes sys-apps/portage may fail and the above binpkg mentioned way to resurrect system will not work because of portage being broken itself. To fix portage manually the following steps required:
root # cd /tmp root # wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/portage-2.3.8.tar.bz2 root # tar -xjf portage-2.3.8.tar.bz2 root # rm -fr /usr/lib/portage /usr/lib*/python*/site-packages/{_emerge,portage,repoman} root # /tmp/portage-2.3.8/bin/emerge -atv1 sys-apps/portage
Broken python and portage
A more extreme case, when both python and portage are broken. It's hard to determine if they really both broken, so this method suitable for updating a very old boxes, with dated python and portage versions.
root # cd /tmp root # wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.1/Python-3.6.1.tar.xz root # tar -xJf Python-3.6.1.tar.xz root # cd Python-3.6.1 root # ./configure --enable-shared --with-fpectl --with-system-expat --with-system-ffi root # make root # cd /tmp root # wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/portage-2.3.8.tar.bz2 root # tar xvf portage-2.3.8.tar.bz2 root # rm -fr /usr/lib/portage /usr/lib*/python*/site-packages/{_emerge,portage,repoman} root # LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/tmp/Python-3.6.1" /tmp/Python-3.6.1/python /tmp/portage-2.3.8/bin/emerge -atv1 dev-lang/python sys-apps/portage
File collision warning, if any, can be skipped at this point. A temporary files can be removed from /tmp when completed.
Critical System Packages
Several packages at the heart of your Funtoo system, these mainly are:
|Functional role
|GNU Binutils
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|Binutils are a set a tools (linker, assembler...) used behind the scene by the GNU Compiler Collection to produce executable files.
|GNU Compiler collection (GCC)
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|GCC is a collection of compilers for several languages (FORTRAN, Java, C and C++, plus some libraries like the Standard Template Library or STL). A wide spectrum of software in a Funtoo system is written in C/C++.
|C Library
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|The C library contains an implementation of a wide range of commonly needed functionalities like memory allocation, strings manipulation, I/O operations and so on. It is maybe one of the most critical system components as nearly everything on a Funtoo system depends on this component (including the Python interpreter which executes the vairous Python scripts at the heart of the Funtoo core utilities and package management system).
|Z library
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|This library contain several lossless compression/decompression routines.It is used by many other components on a Funtoo system like the bzip2/bunzip2 commands (app-arch/bzip2) for example (xz archive utilities depends on another standalone set of libraries).
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|The Python interpreter is the heart of Portage as is written in Python (the same is also true for various second line utilities).
Various weird issues
P1: I have a local distfiles mirror and wget complains about not being able to resolve 'localhost'.
S1: libnss (which handles name resolution) is probably damaged or suffers of inconsistencies, in your /etc/make.conf, change 'localhost' in GENTOO_MIRRORS for 127.0.0.1 (IPv4) or ::1 (IPv6)
P2: Same problem as described in P1 but I use another machine on my network or a public mirror on the Internet
S2: See the solution given in S1 but with providing the IP of the machine you are downloading for.


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The impetus for the project came from a long standing desire to outfit Barnard students, who like my friends at Barnard did, struggle to buy professional clothing for interviews and jobs. Professional presentation is key to a good interview. Professional attire, especially suits, however, are expensive and beyond the reach of many college students. To give Barnard students the best chance of success, my friend Cynthia Rosario (BC Class of 2005) and I collaborated with the Career Development Office and collected lightly worn suits for the Suitable Suits Program, which lends suits to students for interviews. Our initial goal was 20 suits, but thanks to the generosity of our friends and families, we collected 35 suits in a week. The collection expanded Barnard's Suitable Suits Program stock, making more suits available to students - and in different styles.
The next step is to create an enduring relationship with a women's clothing company and the Suitable Suits Program. If any alumnae have connections to women's clothing company, please contact me or Purnima Taylor at the Career Development Office.

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Do you remember that dumb "in bed" game? Don't lie. You do. I know it's supposed to be played with fortune cookies and I also know almost everyone only plays in reference to a 90210 episode. Ugh. Brandon.
But I couldn't stop thinking about it in the context of this Taylor Swift article that inexplicably appears in the Wall Street Journal.
Read it here.
So the premise isn't crazy. There's an ongoing, ominous question about music sales, so who better to ask than one of the bestselling artists of her generation? Ask what's going to happen. Ask what her fears for the future are. It's a totally valid perspective for an article.
The problem, though, is that I'm not sure Taylor Swift sees the whole picture. She prefaces everything by saying that she's not a pessimist, that she sees everything through her own perspective and that's where she writes the article. Still fair enough.
Except for one thing. It seems like every sentence in her article is supposed to be followed by the phrase "like my music". Let's try it:
"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for." ….like my music.
"However, some artists will be like finding 'the one'. We will cherish every album they put out until they retire and we will play their music for our children and grandchildren."….like my fans will with my album.
"I believe couples can stay in love for decades if they just continue to surprise each other, so why can't this love affair exist between an artist and their fans?"…like my fans and me?
I mean, look. It's great that Taylor Swift has had such an epic career. I'm thrilled for her. But right now, she can't conceive of what it's like to be a middling artist who is making her/his music, and who sells 10 or 20 thousand copies. She can't conceive of artists for whom that might even be doing well.
But it's implicit in the writing of the article that if they just connected with the fans, like she does – if they wrote music that really shocked and surprised, like she does – if they just had faith that their music was worth something and they shouldn't just give it away – faith like Taylor has – well then everything would work. Not for every artist – she acknowledges that people are buying fewer albums overall – but for the ones who are special enough. Good enough.
I mean, what can you say? Can you tell her that it's not like this for most artists? "Well, maybe if their music connected with more people." I mean, she's not wrong, she's just…myopic. A lot of people won't have their music heard if they don't give it away, to a film soundtrack or compilation – it might be their best chance. "I just wish they gave their music its true value."
How do you respond?
I want Taylor swift to be right and she is, on one level. All of the things she says could be true for a certain artist. But they can't possibly be for all of them, which is the problem with the music industry overall. It can't be that way. And while I'm sure the Wall Street Journal is thrilled to know that autographs have fallen out of fashion in place of selfies with an artist, or that a director will cast the actress with more Twitter followers (sad but true), it doesn't say much about album sales. It doesn't show a path for anyone except Taylor Swift, you know?
It's just…it's a long way to fall. I assume that Taylor Swift knows that someday she'll stop selling albums, and that then, if she needs money (celebrities never cease to amaze me this way) she can song-write or create Broadway shows or whatnot. But it's a pretty rarefied position, and writing "I cannot believe how lucky I got, here's what worked for me" would be a lot more honest and valid than assuming that everyone is going to be massively successful if they're lucky enough to follow the Taylor Swift principles.
Attached: Taylor Swift out in NYC.


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Two stars of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" are due back in court.
Teresa and Guiseppe "Joe" Giudice (JOO'-dys) are scheduled to enter a plea before a federal judge Wednesday afternoon. Lawyers say both are expected to plead not guilty to federal fraud charges.
They were charged last month in a 39-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud.
The couple are accused of exaggerating their income when applying for loans, then hiding their improving fortunes in a bankruptcy filing.
They are also accused of submitting fraudulent mortgage and loan applications and fabricating tax returns and W2 forms.
Prosecutors allege Joe Giudice also failed to file federal tax returns from 2004 to 2008.
Source: Associated Press


text: JPEGTRAN(1) JPEGTRAN(1) NAME jpegtran - lossless transformation of JPEG files SYNOPSIS jpegtran [ options ] [ filename ] DESCRIPTION jpegtran performs various useful transformations of JPEG files. It can translate the coded representation from one variant of JPEG to another, for example from baseline JPEG to progressive JPEG or vice versa. It can also perform some rearrangements of the image data, for example turning an image from landscape to portrait format by rotation. jpegtran works by rearranging the compressed data (DCT coefficients), without ever fully decoding the image. Therefore, its transformations are lossless: there is no image degradation at all, which would not be true if you used djpeg followed by cjpeg to accomplish the same conver- sion. But by the same token, jpegtran cannot perform lossy operations such as changing the image quality. jpegtran reads the named JPEG/JFIF file, or the standard input if no file is named, and produces a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output. OPTIONS All switch names may be abbreviated; for example, -optimize may be written -opt or -o. Upper and lower case are equivalent. British spellings are also accepted (e.g., -optimise), though for brevity these are not mentioned below. To specify the coded JPEG representation used in the output file, jpeg- tran accepts a subset of the switches recognized by cjpeg: -optimize Perform optimization of entropy encoding parameters. -progressive Create progressive JPEG file. -restart N Emit a JPEG restart marker every N MCU rows, or every N MCU blocks if "B" is attached to the number. -scans file Use the scan script given in the specified text file. See cjpeg(1) for more details about these switches. If you specify none of these switches, you get a plain baseline-JPEG output file. The quality setting and so forth are determined by the input file. The image can be losslessly transformed by giving one of these switches: -flip horizontal Mirror image horizontally (left-right). -flip vertical Mirror image vertically (top-bottom). -rotate 90 Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise. -rotate 180 Rotate image 180 degrees. -rotate 270 Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw). -transpose Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis). -transverse Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis). The transpose transformation has no restrictions regarding image dimen- sions. The other transformations operate rather oddly if the image dimensions are not a multiple of the iMCU size (usually 8 or 16 pix- els), because they can only transform complete blocks of DCT coeffi- cient data in the desired way. jpegtran's default behavior when transforming an odd-size image is designed to preserve exact reversibility and mathematical consistency of the transformation set. As stated, transpose is able to flip the entire image area. Horizontal mirroring leaves any partial iMCU column at the right edge untouched, but is able to flip all rows of the image. Similarly, vertical mirroring leaves any partial iMCU row at the bottom edge untouched, but is able to flip all columns. The other transforms can be built up as sequences of transpose and flip operations; for con- sistency, their actions on edge pixels are defined to be the same as the end result of the corresponding transpose-and-flip sequence. For practical use, you may prefer to discard any untransformable edge pixels rather than having a strange-looking strip along the right and/or bottom edges of a transformed image. To do this, add the -trim switch: -trim Drop non-transformable edge blocks. Obviously, a transformation with -trim is not reversible, so strictly speaking jpegtran with this switch is not lossless. Also, the expected mathematical equivalences between the transformations no longer hold. For example, -rot 270 -trim trims only the bottom edge, but -rot 90 -trim followed by -rot 180 -trim trims both edges. Another not-strictly-lossless transformation switch is: -grayscale Force grayscale output. This option discards the chrominance channels if the input image is YCbCr (ie, a standard color JPEG), resulting in a grayscale JPEG file. The luminance channel is preserved exactly, so this is a better method of reducing to grayscale than decompression, conversion, and recompres- sion. This switch is particularly handy for fixing a monochrome pic- ture that was mistakenly encoded as a color JPEG. (In such a case, the space savings from getting rid of the near-empty chroma channels won't be large; but the decoding time for a grayscale JPEG is substantially less than that for a color JPEG.) jpegtran also recognizes these switches that control what to do with "extra" markers, such as comment blocks: -copy none Copy no extra markers from source file. This setting suppresses all comments and other excess baggage present in the source file. -copy comments Copy only comment markers. This setting copies comments from the source file, but discards any other inessential data. -copy all Copy all extra markers. This setting preserves miscellaneous markers found in the source file, such as JFIF thumbnails and Photoshop settings. In some files these extra markers can be sizable. The default behavior is -copy comments. (Note: in IJG releases v6 and v6a, jpegtran always did the equivalent of -copy none.) Additional switches recognized by jpegtran are: -maxmemory N Set limit for amount of memory to use in processing large images. Value is in thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes if "M" is attached to the number. For example, -max 4m selects 4000000 bytes. If more space is needed, temporary files will be used. -outfile name Send output image to the named file, not to standard output. -verbose Enable debug printout. More -v's give more output. Also, ver- sion information is printed at startup. -debug Same as -verbose. EXAMPLES This example converts a baseline JPEG file to progressive form: jpegtran -progressive foo.jpg > fooprog.jpg This example rotates an image 90 degrees clockwise, discarding any unrotatable edge pixels: jpegtran -rot 90 -trim foo.jpg > foo90.jpg ENVIRONMENT JPEGMEM If this environment variable is set, its value is the default memory limit. The value is specified as described for the -maxmemory switch. JPEGMEM overrides the default value speci- fied when the program was compiled, and itself is overridden by an explicit -maxmemory. SEE ALSO cjpeg(1), djpeg(1), rdjpgcom(1), wrjpgcom(1) Wallace, Gregory K. "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard", Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34, no. 4), pp. 30-44. AUTHOR Independent JPEG Group BUGS Arithmetic coding is not supported for legal reasons. The transform options can't transform odd-size images perfectly. Use -trim if you don't like the results without it. The entire image is read into memory and then written out again, even in cases where this isn't really necessary. Expect swapping on large images, especially when using the more complex transform options. 3 August 1997 JPEGTRAN(1)


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On Thomas Edison Bulb Anniversary, Lighting Breakthrough
Edison—today's Google-doodle honoree—to be surpassed by his own company?
Timed to mark the 131st anniversary of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison—whose birthday is marked by a Google doodle today—General Electric on October 21 unveiled an illumination breakthrough: a high-efficiency LED bulb that employs jet-engine technology to keep cool.
But while the company founded by Edison was announcing this highly technical development, its rivals were aiming at a lighting achievement by the end of 2010 that would be far more tangible to consumers—a high-efficiency LED bulb, bright enough for reading, that can be screwed into an ordinary home lamp socket.
Both Osram Sylvania and Philips had LED bulbs designed to replace the popular 60-watt incandescent bulb on store shelves at the end of 2010. GE had a 40-watt LED bulb on the market by the end of 2010, with its 60-watt entry to the market available in by the end of 2011.
GE says its thermal management breakthrough is key for removing an obstacle to wider LED use. Because LEDs produce light through the movement of electrons through semiconductor material, they are sensitive to heat. "LEDs are basically chips you can use in your computer, and are temperature-sensitive," says GE engineer Mehmet Arik, who led the cooling technology project. "The cooler you run them, the more efficiency you get." GE said it has adapted airflow technology used in its aviation and energy businesses to achieve a low-cost solution in a small enough package to work in LED lighting.
GE said it was able to demonstrate the technology at work in a 1,500-lumen prototype—a bulb that stays cool while producing as much light as a 100-watt halogen bulb while using one-third of the energy. GE announced the development at a lighting symposium at the company's research laboratories in upstate New York at an event to highlight the Edison light bulb anniversary. To mark "Lighting Appreciation Day," GE encouraged consumers to post photos or videos of their favorite lighting to the social networking site, Twitter, using the hashtag #weheartlighting.
But it was too early for GE's development to be employed in the first generation of LED home bulbs that the company put on store shelves at the end of 2010, or in the 60-watt bulbs it will market in 2011, the company said.
Replicating the Warmth of Thomas Edison's Invention
It hasn't been easy to design an energy-efficient lighting appliance that consumers embrace as warmly as the gadget that Thomas Edison first fashioned 131 years ago in a Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory with carbonized thread from his wife's sewing kit.
Edison's technology so transformed the candlelit world that his lightbulb has stood for years as the iconic image of a new idea. And it's a shape that 21st-century consumers are reluctant to leave behind, even though Edison's incandescent lightbulb wastes energy by literally giving off more heat than light.
(See related from National Geographic magazine, "Light Pollution: Our Vanishing Night.")
"We think consumers want a lightbulb that looks like a lightbulb," says Stephanie Anderson, director of communications at Osram Sylvania, of Danvers, Massachusetts, part of Germany's Siemens AG. Osram Sylvania already has had an LED bulb designed as a replacement for the 40-watt incandescent in Lowe's stores for several months.
The twisty look of the main energy-saving home bulb now on the market, the compact-fluorescent (CFL), is seen by the lighting industry as one of a series of stumbling blocks that has prevented the product from gaining deep acceptance.
A U.S. government survey in 2009 found that only 11 percent of household sockets have CFLs. Even though CFLs easily save consumers money through lower utility bills, because they use 75 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs and last five years instead of a few months, consumers have numerous issues with the new bulbs: their color, premature burnout, the expense of dimmable CFLs, and the need to take extra care disposing of them because they contain a small amount of mercury.
Lighting experts tout long-lasting, ultra-low-energy light-emitting diodes (LEDs)—first seen as indicator lights on appliances—as the remedy for virtually all of these issues. LEDs are common in thousands of applications, from traffic lights to jumbo television screens to intense flashlights. Years of research have produced ever-brighter and ever-whiter LEDs, with lighting manufacturers now prepared to offer products they say are good enough for the living room lamp.
"Sixty watts is the holy grail of the LED replacement game," says Anderson. "We are absolutely in a race to be the first to deliver America's most popular lightbulb."
Willing to Pay More for Edison-Bulb's Replacement?
Cost will be the biggest remaining hurdle for consumers, with incandescent bulbs going for about 25 cents and household LED bulbs on the market for about $35 or $40 each, says Anderson.
Manufacturers will have to convince consumers that the up-front cost is worth it for a bulb that will last for 20 years and will reduce utility bills. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average U.S. household uses about 40 lightbulbs and spends $200 a year on utility costs for lighting, or 20 percent of their electric bill.
U.S. consumers won't have the choice of cheap incandescent bulbs much longer. As part of energy-saving legislation three years ago, Congress mandated a phaseout of the Edison incandescent lightbulb beginning in 2012. In the same legislation, Congress sought to spur development of more alternatives, including authorizing a $10 million prize to the developer of the first high-quality LED bulb that could replace the 60-watt household incandescent.
But so far, only one company—Philips, the largest lighting company in the world and a division of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands—has entered its product for consideration in the L-Prize competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and numerous utility company partners.
Philips' year-old entry is still being run through rigorous testing to see that it meets brightness and durability standards—with 200 bulbs being tested for 6,000 hours each at temperatures as high as 113º F (45º C). And 1,300 samples are being tested by utilities across the nation in real-world settings; it was important that the company be able to produce a large number of samples, said Kelly Gordon, program manager with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is providing lead technical support to the Department of Energy's solid-state lighting program. "We didn't want something they could put together in the lab without being really close to market," she said. Gordon said the department is expecting more entries, and the contest will continue until a product is found that can meet the test.
Anderson, of Osram Sylvania, while praising the L-Prize competition, said her company was keeping its focus on producing a bulb for the market rather than for a prize.
There are other LEDs entering the home markets aside from the 60-watt replacement bulb. LED manufacturer Cree, in Durham, North Carolina, is selling a replacement for home recessed light fixtures at a price of about $50 a unit at Home Depot stores. The Cree bulb, which is integrated with a fixture the consumer installs, attempts to tap into one of the most common lighting features in U.S. homes, where there are 500 million recessed downlights.
Still, all the research to put a new generation of bulbs in living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and baths is aimed at capturing just a small portion of the lighting industry pie. Commercial lighting dominates the $108 billion world lighting market, with residential lighting just 12.5 percent. But Al Safarikas, director of marketing for Cree, says that it's an inevitable focus for manufacturers.
"While the home market is not the biggest lighting market, it is the way we relate to lighting, the same way we relate to food by eating it," he says. "The home market is a very intimate way to reach the individual."
This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge.
- "Imminent 'Lighting Revolution' Could Save Trillions of Dollars, Researchers Predict"
- "Inventor Turned Up Energy Savings By Dimming The Lights"
- Thomas A. Edison Papers Project
- Why Thomas Edison's Legacy Includes Starless Nights
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Why We Won't Have City Council Ballot Choices This Fall – August 23, 2012
Kevin L. Hoover
Eye Editor
CITY HALL – Only three of six Arcata City Council aspirants will appear on the November ballot, and they already hold office.
Incumbent Councilmembers Shane Brinton, Michael Winkler and Susan Ornelas all qualified for candidacy by supplying nominating petitions bearing the signatures of at least 20 registered Arcata voters by the Aug. 10 deadline.
All three non-incumbents who had filed papers – Jolian Kangas, Valerie Rose-Campbell and Mark Sailors – did not meet the 20-signature threshold, and will not be on the ballot.
The three may still run as write-in candidates, but must meet the same requirements for ballots cast in their name to count. They may again take out papers on Sept. 10, then submit petitions by Oct. 23.
Just 11 of the 27 signatures Kangas supplied were valid. Rose-Campbell had 16 of 30 verified. Sailors scored 15 out of 26.
Devlish details
The challengers' petitions were riddled with disqualifying errors.
Kangas earned the lowest ration of valid-to-invalid signatures at just 40.7 percent. Five of his signatories were registered at different addresses, four weren't registered to vote, three were registered outside Arcata, two gave an invalid address and two signatures didn't match those on file for the voter. One of the signers listed an address on Jacoby Creek Road, well outside Arcata city limits.
Salors managed a 57.6 percent validation rate, but was five short of the required 20 signatures. Three of his signers weren't registered to vote, three were registered outside Arcata, three had non-matching signatures and two gave bad addresses.
At 53.3 percent valid, Rose-Campbell managed just 16 countable signatures. Eight of hers were from people who hadn't registered to vote, four who registered at a different address than the one given and two from non-Arcata voters.
Deputy City Clerk Bridget Dory said election officials "always give the benefit of the doubt" when it comes to signature matches. "It has to be way off for them to say it doesn't match," Dory said.
She said those whose signatures are disqualified for bad addresses are routinely mailed new voter registration forms so they can update their status.
'Fraud' alleged
Sailors didn't it to review the petitions to raise allegations of wrongdoing. He was quoted in the North Coast Journal voicing suspicions of chicanery in the signature verification process.
"This whole thing smells fishy, as fishy as a fish processing plant," he told the Journal's Scottie Lee Meyers. "This is small town politics at play."
On. Aug. 17, Sailors backtracked, saying that he didn't allege any wrongdoing and stating, "But I am asking to see which were ruled invalid and then we will see since most of my signatures were from the same people that signed last time and or folks that I know personally."
But two days later, in a comment on the Eye's website, he doubled down on his orginal charge, alleging fraud by the county's Elections Division in the verification of nomination petitions.
"Every non-incumbent challenger had a minimum of 10 signatures rejected," Sailors wrote. "At this point I am leaning towards ELECTION FRAUD. I want to see the voter registration cards. I personally know everyone that signed my paper and they are all willing to go to election headquarters to fight for their rights. (Having their legal signatures counted)."
Sailors said he was considering running as a write-in candidate for the good of the community. "It might be a more difficult race to win as a write in, but at least then we can get an honest discussion of the issues in some sort of candidate forum or debate," he said.
Rose-Campbell vowed to press on with a write-in candidacy.
"Serious bummer," said Rose-Campbell, whose campaign slogan was going to be, "Arcata should walk the walk."
"This won't be the end of me though," she added. "I still think Arcata has lost its backbone and I still want to be involved in making Arcata a strong and positive presence in California again."
Candidate Jolian Kangas didn't respond to a message sent via Facebook, which he had listed as a contact in a campaign flyer.
Incumbents nonplussed
At last week's City Council meeting, Councilmember Susan Ornelas said she was "in shock" over the startling turn of events, which left the three incumbent candidates with no opposition on the November ballot. By week's end, she was grasping for an explanation, and credited a mixture of lack of preparation by the challengers and general satisfaction with incumbent officeholders.
"I think it really was just a mix of being unprepared to challenge, and a general 'like' of how things are being managed right now," Ornelas said.
She was ambivalent about further campaigning, at least in all the traditional ways. "Lawn signs, and maybe even information packets, seem like a waste of resources," she said. "But I do appreciate the outreach that comes with campaigning… I am beginning to think this is just a chance to put effort and interest elsewhere."
"I was really surprised," said Vice Mayor Shane Brinton. "I expected a few challengers. After all, this is Arcata. For democracy's sake, I would have preferred to have at least one challenger to bring forward new ideas and stir up debate."
Brinton is ambivalent on going through with a candidate forum, given the lack of ballot choices. "I think it would still be valuable to have some kind of a candidate forum," he said. "Maybe not a 'debate' so much as an opportunity for members of the public to pose questions and get direct responses."
Mayor Michael Winkler also saw a scaling-back of campaign activity. "This gives me a lot more free time," he said. but, having already contacted an estimated 40 percent of Arcata voters with a door-to-door campaign, he was inclined to continue because "it helps me address neighborhood issues and learn about individual problems and concerns."
Winkler thought a candidate forum might be useful, but wasn't exactly on fire to hold one. "It's not a bad idea to talk about things," he said. "That could be worthwhile."
As to the collapse of the opposition, Winkler placed the blame squarely on the would-be challengers. "I can't imagine that anyone has much of a commitment to running if they don't go to the trouble of making sure they have enough signatures and doing it early enough to be able to get more," he said.
He's referring to a tactic used effectively by Councilmember Shane Brinton and former council candidate Geronimo Garcia – turning the nominating petitions in early enough so that if there aren't enough valid signatures, more can be obtained to ensure ballot placement for the candidate.
That wasn't possible for Kangas, Rose-Campbell and Sailors, as they turned in their petitions too late. Kangas and Sailors were still soliciting signatures in the lobby of City Hall mere minutes before the Aug. 10, 5 p.m. deadline for turning in petitions. They got the bad news about their petitions' insufficiency after it was too late to gather more signatures.
Winkler said he would use some of the the energy he would have put into his re-election campaign into promoting Measure I, the proposed tax on excessive electricity use aimed at abating illegal cannabis grow houses. Brinton also said he would make a push to get Measure I passed.


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Global Warming Science: www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming
Temperature Projections – IPCC / Hansen v Non-CO2
[last update: 2012/10/23]
The IPCC provides temperature "projections" as part of their assessment reports. They say they are not "predictions" since they are based on various scenarios involving different amounts of CO2 and other gases in the future.
[Update 2012/10/23: Roger the Tallbloke section added]
[Update 2012/01/09: Nicola Scafetta section added]
This document looks at the IPCC projections as well as others. It contains the following sections (year of projection in parentheses):
The CO2 based models appear to be overestimating the amount of warming.
Theodore Landscheidt predicted in 2003 that the current cooling would continue until 2030 [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mscp/ene/2003/00000014/F0020002/art00010]: "Analysis of the sun's varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCC's speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8°C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected. It is shown that minima in the secular Gleissberg cycle of solar activity, coinciding with periods of cool climate on Earth, are consistently linked to an 83-year cycle in the change of the rotary force driving the sun's oscillatory motion about the centre of mass of the solar system. As the future course of this cycle and its amplitudes can be computed, it can be seen that the Gleissberg minimum around 2030 and another one around 2200 will be of the Maunder minimum type accompanied by severe cooling on Earth. This forecast should prove 'skilful' as other long-range forecasts of climate phenomena, based on cycles in the sun's orbital motion, have turned out correct, as for instance the prediction of the last three El Niños years before the respective event."
The IPCC provides temperature "projections" as part of their assessment reports. These projections are based on various "storyline" scenarios using various amounts of CO2 to drive the global circulation models.
Comparison of IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) 2001 and Assessment Report (AR4) 2007
The following figure shows Figure 9.14 from the TAR. It shows temperature projections to 2100: "results are relative to 1990 and shown for 1990 to 2100. future changes for the six illustrative SRES scenarios using a simple climate model tuned to seven AOGCMs. Also for comparison, following the same method, results are shown for IS92a. The dark blue shading represents the envelope of the full set of thirty-five SRES scenarios using the simple model ensemble mean results. The light blue envelope is based on the GFDL_R15_a and DOE PCM parameter settings. The bars show the range of simple model results in 2100 for the seven AOGCM model tunings."
The following figure shows Figure SPM-5 from the AR4. It shows temperature projections to 2100: "Solid lines are multi-model global averages of surface warming (relative to 1980-99) for the scenarios A2, A1B and B1, shown as continuations of the 20th century simulations. Shading denotes the plus/minus one standard deviation range of individual model annual averages. The orange line is for the experiment where concentrations were held constant at year 2000 values. The gray bars at right indicate the best estimate (solid line within each bar) and the likely range assessed for the six SRES marker scenarios. The assessment of the best estimate and likely ranges in the gray bars includes the AOGCMs in the left part of the figure, as well as results from a hierarchy of independent models and observational constraints."
In a revision of the AR4 Summary for Policymakers (2008) the following figure became the Figure SPM.5. The left-hand side of the figure shows the scenarios in terms of the GHG emissions. The warming and seal level rise estimates for the scenarios are summarized in the following table.
The following figure compares the TAR (left) and AR4 (right) projections from the above figures. The main difference is that they don't display the blue "envelope of the full set of thirty-five SRES scenarios" in the AR4 and the A1F1 scenario is no longer displayed as a plot on the graph.
The following table compares the TAR with the AR4 in terms of temperature plots for various models for a couple of the scenarios.
From the IPCC AR4 (Chapter 8 [http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_Ch08.pdf]):
In 1988 NASA's climate alarmist James Hansen provided temperature predictions based on climate models (results of which he presented to the US congress). He modeled three scenarios: A had an increasing rate of CO2 emissions, B had constant rate of CO2 of CO2 emissions, whereas scenario C had reduced CO2 emissions rate from 1988 levels into the future. (Hansen's 1988 paper can be found at: http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1988/Hansen_etal.html)
The following figure shows Hansen's Figure 3 with satellite temperature data superimposed (from:
http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2008/06/gret-moments-in.html). The Figure 3 caption also provides a brief explanation of the scenarios.
The following figure compares the observed global temperature with James Hansen's climate model predictions used to start the global warming scare in 1988. The observations still most closely match scenario C (which had reduced CO2 emissions rate from 1988 levels into the future "such that the greenhouse gas climate forcing ceases to increase after 2000" – see http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/HansenModel.htm for more info on Hansen's models). Scenario A is the only scenario with an increasing rate of CO2 in the graph below.
Figure from: [http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temperature/T_moreFigs/]
The following figures compare Hansen's 1988 predictions with actual temperature data since then. The left-hand figure compares the NASA GISS global data (as compiled by Hansen), while the right-hand figure compares the satellite-based temperature data as processed by RSS. (Figures from Steve McIntyre [http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3354] ). While actual atmospheric CO2 levels have increased since 1988, the fact that actual temperatures are similar to the reduced CO2 models implies a problem with the models
The next figure shows the greenhouse gas emissions scenarios used in the plots, as well the observed (1988 – 2008) plus future based on scenario B. The observed CO2 emissions is closest to the scenario B input, but the observed temperature is closer to scenario C output – indicating a problem with the models. (Figures from Steve McIntyre [http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3354] ).
The next figure shows a plot of Hansen's predictions along with actual temperature data from various sources – GISS, HadCRU and NOAA (from: http://rankexploits.com/musings/2008/ordinary-eyeball-how-did-hansens-predictions-do/ ).
The following figure compares Hansen's 1988 projections (green) to the 2007 IPCC. Twenty years has produced a reduction in the projections from Hansen's to the IPPC's.
Nicola Scafetta (with ACRIM lab at Duke University) made predictions in 2011 as to the future global (temperatures to the year 2100. January 2012: Nicola Scafetta published "Testing an astronomically based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models" [http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/astronomical_harmonics.pdf]
"At this point it is possible to attempt a full forecast of the climate since 2000 that is made of the four detected decadal and multidecadal cycles plus the corrected anthropogenic warming effect trending. The results are depicted in the figures below. The figure shows a full climate forecast of my proposed empirical model, against the IPCC projections since 2000. It is evident that my proposed model agrees with the data much better than the IPCC projections, as also other tests present in the paper show."
"In conclusion the empirical model proposed in the current paper is surely a simplified model that probably can be improved, but it already appears to greatly outperform all current GCMs adopted by the IPCC, such as the GISS ModelE. All of them fail in reconstructing the decadal and multidecadal cycles observed in the temperature records and have failed to properly forecast the steady global surface temperature observed since 2001."
See also Scafetta's web page documenting his astronomical model:
Don Easterbrook (geologist at Western Washington University) made predictions in 2001 as to the future global (and northern hemisphere) temperatures to the year 2100.
"In 2001, I put my reputation on the line and published my predictions for entering a global cooling cycle about 2007 (plus or minus 3-5 years), based on past glacial, ice core, and other data. As right now, my prediction seems to be right on target and what we would expect from the past climatic record, but the IPCC prediction is getting farther and farther off the mark. With the apparent solar cooling cycle upon us, we have a ready explanation for global warming and cooling. If the present cooling trend continues, the IPCC reports will have been the biggest farce in the history of science." [http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/research/global/glocool_summary.pdf]
The following figure shows his predictions
The following figure compares Easterbrook's projections with the IPCC AR4.
Syun-Ichi Akasofu (Founding Director and Professor of Physics, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska) states: "There seems to be a roughly linear increase of the temperature of about 0.5°C/100 years (~1°F/100 years) from about 1800, or even much earlier, to the present. This value may be compared with what the IPCC scientists consider the manmade effect of 0.6 - 0.7°C/100 years. This linear warming trend is likely to be a natural change. One possible cause of the linear increase may be that the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age. This trend should be subtracted from the temperature data during the last 100 years in estimating the manmade effect. Thus, there is a possibility that only a fraction of the present warming trend may be attributed to the greenhouse effect resulting from human activities. This conclusion is contrary to the IPCC (2007) Report (p. 10), which states that "most" of the present warming is due to the greenhouse effect. It is urgent that natural changes be correctly identified and removed accurately from the presently on-going changes in order to find the contribution of the greenhouse effect." [http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/highlights/2007/akasofu_3_07/earth_recovering_from_lia_r.pdf]
The following temperature projection contradicts IPCC's assessment of future scenarios (from https://selectra.co.uk/sites/selectra.co.uk/files/pdf/two_natural_components_recent_climate_change%20(1)%20(1).pdf).
Patrick Michaels (former Virginia State Climatologist, UN IPCC reviewer, Professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia) made projections in 2008 as to the future global temperatures to the year 2100 (http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv31n3/v31n3-2.pdf). This linked paper also provides a good overview of urban warming and other biases that influence surface station measurements.
"Contrary to the assertions of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there is a significant nonclimatic warming in global land-surface temperature records. That warming results from previously unaccounted-for influences of non-climatic factors that are largely socioeconomic in origin. The result is that as much as half of the land-surface warming that has been detected in recent decades may be spurious."
"One of the most interesting results of our research concerns the global distribution of the IPCC's surface temperatures after we adjust them for the non-climatic biases. Obviously the biases are different between nations. Very high biases of 0.5°C (0.9°F) per decade appear in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America, and a moderately high bias (of about 0.2°C (0.4°F)) is prevalent over Western Europe. Data from the United States, most of the former Soviet Union, and the southern cone of South America show very little bias at all."
"In the model without the satellite temperature data, almost all — 85 percent — of the explanatory power is from the socioeconomic predictors. Given that the model explains only 34 percent of the total variation of the IPCC temperature trends, this means that non-climatic factors could be responsible for about 29 percent of the difference in warming trends around the world's land masses. That is hardly the inconsequential effect asserted by the IPCC."
The following figure shows his predictions (orange line):
Patrick Michaels has done considerable collaborative work with Ross McKitrick (economist, University of Guelph, Canada [http://ross.mckitrick.googlepages.com/#new]) including the following:
"Quantifying the Influence of Anthropogenic Surface Processes and Inhomogeneities on Gridded Global Climate Data", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, 2007 [http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2007JD008465.shtml] "Local land surface modification and variations in data quality affect temperature trends in surface-measured data. Such effects are considered extraneous for the purpose of measuring climate change, and providers of climate data must develop adjustments to filter them out. If done correctly, temperature trends in climate data should be uncorrelated with socioeconomic variables that determine these extraneous factors. … We conclude that the data contamination likely leads to an overstatement of actual trends over land. Using the regression model to filter the extraneous, nonclimatic effects reduces the estimated 1980–2002 global average temperature trend over land by about half."
Joe the actuary [http://digitaldiatribes.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/deconstructing-the-hadcrut-data/] made some calculations fitting a single sine wave to the HadCRUT temperature anomaly data. The following two figures show (top) the curve fit to the data, and (bottom) the curve extrapolated to 2050. The 2050 projection is lower than the other estimates. Only time will tell.
Based on the HadCRUT global temperature anomaly data, I made the following prediction for the global average temperature over the next 100 years. From the early 2000s anomaly of 0.4, I predict there will be an additional 0.2 degree increase by 2100. See: www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/PredictionFromCycles.htm for more details on this prediction method.
Of course this method is simply based on recurrent 60-year cycles. The underlying increase may be due to CO2 – or there is just as likely a longer cycle which will result in a larger cooling trend at some point.
Comparison with the IPCC
The following figure compares my prediction (in purple) with the IPCC AR4 projections under various scenarios. My prediction matches fairly closely to the "year 2000 constant concentrations" scenario. The warming in my projection could actually be a result of CO2 – but without the positive feedback due to water vapor assumed by the IPCC climate models.
Roger, who runs Tallbloke's Talkshop (http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/) developed a global temperature prediction model.
(See: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-carbon-flame-war-final-comment/) He says "I have put together a simple model which replicates sea surface temperature (which drives global lower troposphere temperature and surface temperatures a few months later). The correlation between my model and the SST is R^2=0.874 from 1876 FOR MONTHLY DATA." The model is shown below with predictions to 2050 (blue) along with the HADsst3 (red).
Comparison with My Graphical Prediction
The following figure compares my projection (from the previous section of this document) with the Tallbloke Projection overlaid on it. Mine has more cooling in the later 20-teens with close agreement in the 2040's.


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In response to:
Quackery from the August 13, 1970 issue
To the Editors:
In the issue of August 13, 1970, Mr. Holt refers to the hyperkinetic impulsive disorder as a "currently fashionable quackery" and he misleads the lay reader by citing only those clinical characteristics observable at school in children suffering from this disorder, thus leaving the impression that the disorder is reducible to that of misbehaving in the classroom. As a physician, I want your readers to know that actually, the hyperkinetic impulse disorder ("a complex and little understood disorder" like headache, muscular dystrophy, cancer and many another illness) is characterized first by great difficulty in controlling motor behavior and, secondarily, by various personality disorders. Often it is the child's mother who seeks medical help for her child because she notices that his overactivity keeps him from sitting through a meal, prevents him from playing ball with other children because he can't stay at his assigned position, etc., and in addition, that he has great difficulty responding to his environment appropriately because of his unusually short attention span and/or too ready distractability. Frequently, such suffering children are very impulsive and unable to delay gratification.
This clinical picture emerges early in life, sometimes even at birth. In the latter case, the mother is faced with the problem of satisfying a newborn infant who spits, sleeps little and cries often; once the baby is out of the crib and able to get about, he fingers and usually destroys objects he can lay hands on, far more than the normally curious baby. This behavior widens as time passes, and extends to territories away from home and, of course, eventually to school. One can easily understand that soon a vicious circle is created: the child's abnormal motor behavior leads to clashes with parents, teachers, and other authorities, which in turn result in further painful emotional and personality complications. Thus, learning problems are common, a consequence both of impaired attention and concentration spans, and as a reaction to a hostile and perplexing environment.
Clinically, amphetamines produce a specific effect in these children, namely, that of reducing motor overactivity. Startling perhaps to the layman is that the same drug administered to a normal child is a stimulant, but in these afflicted children the effect is not to dope them but, contrary to Mr. Holt's assertion, to normalize their motor activity. Mr. Holt seems surprised that this disorder is more prevalent among boys. It is indeed unknown to us why this is so, but he may also be interested in knowing that most neurological illnesses and birth defects are more frequent in males than in females, in the same way that, for example, gall bladder illness is more frequent in females than males.
Mr. Holt thus fails to distinguish between overactivity due to minimal brain dysfunction (hyperkinetic impulse disorder) and that due to environmental causes only. He classes them together, falsely concluding that the real cause of these children's behavior has to do with different degrees of arbitrariness and/or oppression in the school system. He certainly may be right in asserting that oppressive curbing is the main cause of much rebellious and/or nonconformist behavior, but not in the case of the hyperkinetic impulse disorder. A distinction must be made between nonconforming behavior due to unreasonable curbing and/or home difficulties and the hyperkinetic impulse disorder. Psychiatrists are aware of this distinction and although abuses and errors may exist, it is inaccurate to charge psychology with quackery because it treats this specific and identifiable disorder with drugs.
Mr. Holt inquires "whether other countries have also noticed this strange 'disorder'." Clearly yes, since in fact, England, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, India, and several Latin American countries report an incidence of this disorder similar to the rate found in this country.
Later in his letter he accuses psychiatrists of assuming that "he [the child] is so incurably bad that only a powerful pill can make him good." This is not our assumption at all. Amphetamines only modify their motor overactivity, in this specific instance.
Counseling and psychotherapy to promote necessary changes in parents, school staff, and the child himself are essential because of the emotional complications that occur in the hyperkinetic child interacting with his environment as I mentioned before.
I greatly admire Mr. Holt's criticisms of our school system and agree with him, but I think his accusation of quackery in the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of hyperkinetic children is absolutely unfounded.
Carlos Carrillo, M.D.
Research Department
Hillside Hospital
Glen Oaks, NY
John Holt replies:
Thank you for inviting me to respond to Dr. Carrillo's letter. In one respect he is quite right: anxious parents are often just as ready as schools to have children "diagnosed" as "hyperactive," "brain-injured," etc., and treated with strong drugs. Indeed, I have made clear elsewhere that the destruction of mind and character that takes place in so many schools is often well begun even before the child gets to first grade.
Of my other questions or points, Dr. Carrillo has answered one, misstated one, and largely evaded the most important one of all. It is interesting (though by no means convincing) to hear that a few other countries report a rate of "this disorder" similar to ours, though so few children in India and Latin America ever see doctors that their statistics cannot be worth much.
Though I see my words could be taken that way, I did not mean to say or imply that psychiatrists would think or say that a child was so bad that only a powerful pill could make him good, but only that this is what the child himself would take their words and acts to mean, just as children in slow sections in school, however labeled, say that they are in the "dumb" section or the "stupid" section. And I ask, now as then, what must the effect be on a child of feeling that he is this bad.
To my question about why should a brain injury incurred at birth be found widely but uniquely in boys, Dr. Carrillo admits he has no answer. He says that other similar defects are also found mostly in boys. Immaterial: my question applies equally to these. He then says that gall bladder illnesses are more common in females than males. Immaterial and irrelevant; no one claims that gall bladder illnesses are caused by birth defects.
His failure to answer my question is not a light matter. The concept of "hyperkinesis" or "brain injury" is a hypothesis, an inference, as Einstein put it, a "construct," and it is the first duty of those making such a hypothesis to provide some answer to such critical questions. Without such an answer, the hypothesis must fail.
The bulk of Dr. Carrillo's letter I must call an argumentum ad authoritatem—the expert defending his ideas by saying that he is, after all, an expert. "As a physician, I want your readers to know…." How do we know "hyperactivity" exists? Because he says that it does. What I know is that doctors, like other experts, have been and are often wrong, and that we have a right to examine critically what they say. When we do so here, we see, first, that Dr. Carrillo does not distinguish between what he and someone else observes, and secondly, that he does not distinguish between what he observes and what he infers. To this I would add that the inference itself, that a certain collection of symptoms is "caused" by some physical aberration in the child's brain, is extraordinarily weak and shaky.
Please read carefully the first paragraph of his letter. What is the life behind the words? What is actually happening? A mother brings a child to a doctor and says, "Doctor, my child is doing this or that, he won't sit still at meals, he fights with the other children, he doesn't pay any attention to me when I talk, etc., etc." Does the doctor himself observe any of this behavior? He does not. Does he have any reason to believe or way of finding out that the mother is a reliable observer, that what she reports actually does happen? He does not. Does he have any way of knowing the history of the child and the mother, whether there is anything in her way of dealing with the child that might cause the child's behavior? He does not. Does he hear the child's side of the story? He does not. Does he fulfill his minimum responsibility as a physician by giving the child a thorough enough physical examination to be reasonably sure that there is not some other somatic cause for the child's behavior—bad hearing or sight, other body malfunctions, muscular or nervous injury, tension, or pain, hypoglycemia, protein or vitamin deficiency, allergies, glandular disturbances? In the cases I have heard of, he does not. Does he test in any way the hypothesis that it might be something other than brain damage in the child that is causing the mother to describe him as she does. For the most part, he does not.
Later he says that the amphetamines reduce "motor overactivity" (italics mine), that they "normalize their motor activity." More hidden inferences. When, where, how, and by whom was it established what is "normal" activity? How in fact do we measure activity? Is there an instrument like a thermometer or sphygmomanometer (blood pressure) with which we can measure it? There is not. In practice, the test and measure is this: that activity is "abnormal" that bothers or worries or irritates or angers some adult in charge of the child.
As for the fact that amphetamines affect differently "normal" children and "hyperactive" ones, there may be a simpler, and therefore better, explanation. The drug may be both a stimulant and a tranquilizer, making the relatively relaxed or fearless child more energetic and the tense and frightened child less nervous. An even more common and widely used drug, alcohol, though perhaps working in different ways, has much the same effect. It "picks us up" and "settles us down." We do not need to conjure up mysterious ailments to explain it. And by the way, has anyone thought of giving "hyperactive" children a tranquilizer, or even a little sip of alcohol, to see how that affects their "overactivity"; and if not, why not?
I regret that there is not space here to examine, to use Laing's phrase, the politics of hyperactivity—in whose interest is it to diagnose and treat children this way? Who gains, and what? Meanwhile, I hope that what I have said will cause some readers, at least, to doubt that the issue is as simple as the experts would have us believe, or the remedy a pill.
This Issue
October 22, 1970


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Evelyn seems to be getting back to her regular life as an Almost Basketball Wives star.
I am sure many bottles will be thrown when the season starts again and don't be surprised if there is an appearance or seven by Chad Johnson.
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Wizards stun Heat for 2nd win despite LeBron James' triple-double
WASHINGTON -- His feet soaking in a tub of ice, his eyes scanning a box score, LeBron James chuckled a bit at the notion that his Miami Heat might learn something from a surprising setback against the Washington Wizards.
"Nah, man, there's no lesson. This ain't a lesson for us. We just lost," James explained. "We've seen and been through everything, so we don't need a loss to be like, 'Oh, let's catch ourselves.' It happens."
Not too many people figured this outcome would happen, though, a message Wizards coach Randy Wittman delivered to his players before their worst-in-the-NBA team went out and beat the Heat 105-101 on Tuesday night behind Jordan Crawford's 22 points -- and despite James' triple-double of 26 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists.
Perhaps inspired by the courtside presence of Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III, who exchanged a handshake with Cowboys fan James after the final buzzer, the Wizards doubled their victory total this season. The Wizards improved to 2-13, earning their second win in the past three games after starting a franchise-worst 0-12.
"I'm so happy for those guys," said Wittman, who called this perhaps the most satisfying victory of his coaching career.
He said he told his team beforehand: "The only people that think you have a chance tonight are the people here in this room. ... We need to have a statement game."
And, Wittman continued, "I said, 'I've seen it a number of times, guys.' ... (People say), 'They ain't got a chance to win this game.' And that's what people were saying. We all listen. Could hear it on the street and all that. These guys, it bothers them."
The reigning NBA champion Heat's six-game winning streak ended, and they fell to 12-4.
"You move on," said Dwyane Wade, who scored 24 for Miami. "You learn from it, but you don't become a good team by holding onto certain losses -- or certain wins."
The Wizards don't defeat many teams, but they defeat the Heat: This made it three consecutive regular-season victories for Washington over Miami, including two last season in April.
"It's a big momentum win for us, obviously. We've been struggling to put together four quarters," Washington point guard Shaun Livingston said.
The Heat were the ones rushing shots on occasion and they made only 8-of-28 attempts on 3-pointers. The Wizards, surprisingly, were the ones being patient, making the extra pass, finding the teammate with an open look -- and finishing with 31 assists on 38 baskets.
With a crowd of 17,761 -- not, incidentally, a sellout -- standing and screaming down the stretch, relishing that rare chance to witness a compelling game, Kevin Seraphin contributed 16 points and 10 rebounds for the hosts, Crawford made three free throws in the final 11 seconds and James missed a potentially tying 3-pointer with 3.9 to go.
After trailing by as many as 12, Miami tied the game at 88 on Bosh's reverse layup with 6 minutes, 50 seconds left. But Crawford's 15-footer put Washington ahead 99-95 with a little more than 2½ minutes remaining.
With 18 seconds left, James wasted a chance to give the Heat the lead, clanking a 3-point attempt. Crawford's free throw then made it 102-99, and he slapped his palms together vociferously. James made a shot in the lane to pull within 102-101, and Crawford added two free throws for a 104-101 edge with 6.9 seconds on the clock.
James then missed his last shot, another 3. Nene got the rebound, and tacked on a free throw.
Unlike the James-Wade-Bosh Heat, the Wizards are mostly a collection of castoffs and high draft picks who never lived up to their billing -- or have yet to, anyway. Their best player, 2010 No. 1 overall pick John Wall, has yet to participate in a practice, let alone play, this season because of a left knee cap injury.
Before the game, Wittman said he can't give an idea of when Wall will be available.
Afterward, Wittman was in a far better mood.
"That was a complete game for us, start to finish," Wittman said. "I'll be able to sleep tonight."
Game notes
Heat G Mario Chalmers sat out the fourth quarter with a jammed finger. ... Wizards F Trevor Ariza left in the third quarter with a strained left calf and was limping in the locker room afterward. He was fitted with a walking boot. ... As Washington's Emeka Okafor stepped to the foul line a little less than 4 minutes into the game, the arena rumbled with some of the loudest, most enthusiastic cheers of the evening. For Okafor? Hardly. No, the buzz was because fans realized that Griffin was in the house, making his way to a front-row seat. Afterward, James was asked whether RG3's vow to transform the basketball star into a Redskins fan could succeed. "No. But I'm a fan of his, though. He's an unbelievable talent. I like to watch him play," James said. ... Wittman went with his fifth different starting lineup. ... The Heat were without Shane Battier (right knee) and Norris Cole (strained groin).
Regular Season Series
WSH leads 1-0
Game Information
- Referees:
- Marc Davis
- Pat Fraher
- Brent Barnaky
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Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination—the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as primitive superstitions. In this book, Peter Struck reveals instead that such phenomena provoked an entirely different accounting from the ancient philosophers. These philosophers produced subtle studies into what was an odd but observable fact—that humans could sometimes have uncanny insights—and their work signifies an early chapter in the cognitive history of intuition.Visit Peter T. Struck's homepage.
Examining the writings of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Neoplatonists, Struck demonstrates that they all observed how, setting aside the charlatans and swindlers, some people had premonitions defying the typical bounds of rationality. Given the wide differences among these ancient thinkers, Struck notes that they converged on seeing this surplus insight as an artifact of human nature, projections produced under specific conditions by our physiology. For the philosophers, such unexplained insights invited a speculative search for an alternative and more naturalistic system of cognition.
Recovering a lost piece of an ancient tradition, Divination and Human Nature illustrates how philosophers of the classical era interpreted the phenomena of divination as a practice closer to intuition and instinct than magic.
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Crumbling Guantanamo Buildings Pose Risks to Troops, Detainees
General also warns base lacks capacity to provide detainees certain types of emergency medical care.
General John F. Kelly's testimony before the Senate didn't just focus on drug trafficking. The head of the U.S. Southern Command talked about Guantanamo Bay too. Per usual, he praised the military personnel there, downplayed the hunger strike undertaken by inmates, and avowed that they are treated humanely.
But he also pointed out that he would be unable to provide them with adequate medical care in certain emergencies. "Although Naval Station Guantanamo and detainee hospitals are capable of providing adequate care for most detainee conditions, we lack certain specialty medical capabilities necessary to treat potentially complex emergencies and various chronic diseases," he stated. "In the event a detainee is in need of emergency medical treatment that exceeds on-island capacity, I cannot evacuate him to the United States, as I would a service member."
General Kelly also declared that certain buildings at Gitmo pose a safety risk to U.S. troops and detainees:
The expeditionary infrastructure put in place was intended to betemporary, and numerous facilities are showing signs of deterioration... Most urgently, some facilities are critical to ensuring the safety and welfare of our troops stationed at Joint Task Force Guantanamo and for the continued humane treatment and health of the detainees. For example, the mess hall— a temporary structure built in the 1990s to support mass migration operations— is at significant risk of structural failure and is corroding after eleven years of continuous use, with holes in the roof and structural support beams.
This facility must provide food services to all detainees and over 2,000 assigned personnel on a daily basis. As another example, the High Value Detention Facility is increasingly unsustainable due to drainage and foundation issues.
Already, these revelations have been met with indifference. No surprise there. The Bush-era propaganda insisting that everyone at Gitmo is "the worst of the worst" continues to do its work on the perceptions of Americans and their elected representatives. For many, the notion that the prison may include innocents suffering through a hell of indefinite duration is never so much as grappled with and dismissed. Americans like to think that they believe in innocence until guilt is proven, and that it's better to let ten guilty men free than to lock up one innocent.
Gitmo is a powerful illustration that we don't believe those things at all.
General Kelly's warning about medical emergencies is additionally problematic. The current plan is still to hold these men into their dotage. Their medical issues will get more complex with every year that they age. Yet if a medical emergency threatens their lives, they won't be flown to the U.S. for treatment, even if it would save them from death. Why? We haven't just convinced ourselves, sans evidence, that the people at Gitmo are all moral monsters guilty of terrorism, we also think of them as if they're Magneto, ready to bust free of any constraint if permitted off the island.
In his own, understated way, a military general is telling Congress that he needs more resources to safely incarcerate these prisoners and to see to their medical needs.
But no one is listening.
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A fish taco, a cold beer and a spot on the powder-soft sand gazing out at the deep-blue Pacific. If that sounds like your idea of paradise (yep, ours too), then Punta Mita is your kind of vacation. Only an hour's drive from its more famous neighbor, Puerto Vallarta, this one-time small fishing village is perched on a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific, while back inland the Sierra Madre Mountains rise majestically from the dusty landscape. Punta Mita has been building a following among discerning A-listers, who come for the luxurious homes, the 200 miles of beaches along the Riviera Nayarit, for the jungles and mountains, to load up with the colourful arts and crafts of the Huichol Indians and to bask in the sun; it's on the same latitude as Hawaii and blessed with 85 degrees in the summer, 75 in the winter. So pack your surfboard and sun lotion, and follow their lead.
A sea safari
You might also want to pack your snorkel, and perhaps a pair of binoculars. A few miles off the Punta Mita peninsula lies the Islas Marietas National Park. The low, volcanic islands, recognized as a Unesco Biosphere Reserve, are uninhabited by humans but the wealth of wildlife, both on their 5 square miles and in the waters around, means they're often referred to as Mexico's Galapagos Islands. In the early 1900s, the islands were used as a gunnery and bombing range by the Mexican government, but when oceanographer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau came across them in the 1960s, he began a campaign to have their unique and pristine ecosystem protected – a campaign that ultimately led to the creation of the Marieta Islands National park in 2005, eight years after his death.
Surf 'n' turf
If laid-back surfer vibes are more your thing, then head up the coast from Punta Mita to Sayulita, a bohemian town that's home to ride-em-high waves, funky boutiques and plenty of places to find that ultimate fish taco. The town's plaza is surrounded by cobblestone streets lined with brightly colored murals and buildings, many showing or selling the crafts of the Huichol people, a tribe indigenous to Mexico that's known for creating bright yarn paintings and beadwork. Pick up great gifts to take home: beaded bracelets and belts, jewelry made of intricately twisted wire, old Spanish movie posters, incense and harem pants. Taquerias abound, as well as churros trucks selling hot, cinnamon-topped deep-fried dough; you'll find paletas (traditional Mexican popsicles) in a rainbow of flavors, plus a Sayulita favorite, the chocolate-covered frozen bananas at Choco Banana. There are fresh juices and agua frescas, Mexican beers, and the local cocktail, Michelada – Pacifico beer, Clamato juice, lime juice and hot sauce. So, that paradise you were looking for? You've found it.
Monkey magic
Not far from Sayulita you'll find another, slightly more active way to spend the day. Monkey Mountain, or Cerro de Mono, is the highest point in the area and one of the most distinctive features of the surrounding landscape. The Huichol Indians of the past considered the mountain to be sacred and went there to make offers to their gods – their clay figurines (the monos that give the mountain its somewhat misleading name, since this is also the Spanish word for monkey) dot the slopes, along with mystical petroglyphs. Hiking up, shaded by trees heavy with limes, you're likely to spot deer, small wild pigs, and armadillos, and upon reaching the summit your reward is an awesome panoramic view of Banderas Bay far below.
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Why the US Fears Arab Democracy
Anybody believing that Washington's "orderly transition" led by Vice President Omar Suleiman (aka Sheikh al-Torture, according to protesters and human-rights activists) could satisfy Egyptian popular will believes Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin could have gotten away with a facelift.
The young, urban masses in Egypt fighting for bread, freedom, democracy, Internet, jobs and a decent future - as well as their counterparts across the Arab world, two-thirds of the overall population - see right through it.
Real "change we can believe in" (the Egyptian version) means not only getting rid of the dictator of 30 years but of his torturer-in-chief, who happens to be so far a key interlocutor of Washington, Tel Aviv and European capitals, and a key exponent of a regime rotten to the core, dependent on pitiless exploitation of its own citizens, and receiver of US aid to pursue agendas virtually no one would vote for in the Arab world.
"Orderly transition" may also be regarded as a ghastly euphemism for sitting on the fence - way distinct from an explicit call for democracy. The White House has morphed into a succession of white pretzels trying to salvage the concept. But the fact is that as much as Pharaoh Mubarak is a slave to US foreign policy, US President Barack Obama is boxed in by geopolitical imperatives and enormous corporate interests he cannot even dream of upsetting.
A crash course on 'stability'
To cut to the chase; it's all about oil and Israel. That's the essence of Washington's foreign policy for the past six decades as far as the Middle East, Arabs and the Muslim world at large are concerned. This has implied coddling an array of dictators and assorted autocracies, and sprinkling their countries with military bases. A crucial example - the story on how the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) brought down democracy in Iran in 1953. Geostrategically, the code word for this state of things is "stability".
Egypt plays out a very special strategic role. This is how Obama himself spelled out the strategic value of Hosni Mubarak and his regime when he went to Cairo in June 2009 to deliver his freedom message to the Arab world; "He has been a stalwart ally in many respects to the United States. He has sustained peace with Israel which is a very difficult thing to do in that region."
So as one of the pillars of the "cold peace" with Israel, Egypt is a paradigm. It's a bipartisan phenomenon, in US terms; Republicans and Democrats see it the same way. There's the Suez Canal, through which flows 1.8 million barrels of crude a day. But "partner with Israel" in the 1979 Camp David accords is what explains all the billions of dollars showered on the Egyptian military and the three decades of unconditional support to the corrupt Mubarak military dictatorship (and make no mistake, the US implication in that vast shop of horrors is all documented in the vaults of the regime). On a parallel track, "stability" also translates as a lousy quality of life for virtually the totality of Egyptians; democratic rights of local populations are always secondary to geostrategic considerations.
The dominant geostrategic status quo in the Middle East, that is the Washington/Tel Aviv axis, has hypnotized Western public opinion to accept the myth that Arab democracy = Islamic fundamentalism, disregarding how all attempts of popular rebellion in the Arab world over the past decades have been squashed. The Israeli government goes beyond this equation; for Tel Aviv it's Islamic fundamentalism = terrorism, ergo, Arab democracy = terrorism. Under this framework, Mubarakism is an essential ally more than ever.
It's me or chaos
Yet the fact that former president Anwar Sadat made a deal with Israel in 1979 in exchange of precious gifts from the US - a system perpetuated under Mubarak - does not mean that Egypt and Israel engage in French-kissing.
Take for example Egyptian state TV insistently spreading the blatant lie of Israeli spies in the streets of Cairo disguised as Western journalists; that led to concerted, terrifying attacks not only on foreign journalists but on Egyptians working with them. And, believe it or not, Mubarakism had the gall to include the Israeli Mossad, along with the US, plus Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas as co-participants in a huge conspiracy to overthrow it.
This happens while in fact it was the Jihad Amn-Ad-Dawlah ("The Security of the State Apparatus") - the most sinister of the state security agencies, a counter-terrorism unit with extremely close ties with the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mossad - that unleashed its goon squads over the protesters and foreign media alike, funded by the billionaire cronies of Mubarak's son Gamal (who has not fled to London after all).
To add to the perversity, Mubarak then says he's "fed up" and wants to quit but can't because otherwise there will be chaos - the chaos the regime's own goons provoked; meanwhile his number two, Suleiman, blames the Muslim Brotherhood for the "riots".
As much as the revolution threatens the political survival of an entire ruling class in Egypt - including the current military junta of Suleiman, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, Defense Minister Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi and Lieutenant General Sami Annan, chief of staff of the army - the new young actors, because they are an expression of local communities, are not manipulated by foreign powers. These are new, more autonomous, more unpredictable, more self-respecting actors. Another factor to scare the US "stability" myth.
What's most extraordinary is that as these new actors emerging in the Maghreb, Mashrek and Middle East directly collide with the Israeli obsession in keeping the extremely unbalanced status quo (which includes the genocide in slow motion of Palestine), they provoke a major strategic clash between US interests and Israel.
The Obama administration had understood that the absolutely crucial issue to be solved was the Palestinian tragedy. Now the administration is absolutely helpless to deal with an Israel under the acute paranoia of being encircled by "hostile" forces; Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, an ever more assertive mildly Islamist Turkey, a "nuclear" Iran, an Egypt dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood ...
Truth will set you free - maybe
"But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed, confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice, government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people, the freedom to live as you choose. These are not just American ideas. They are human rights. And that is why we will support them everywhere."
This was Obama in Cairo in 2009. Is America really supporting these rights now that Egyptians are willing to die for them?
As much as Obama went to Cairo to "sell" the case for democracy (and one may say he's succeeded), one may bet that the Washington establishment will do all it can to try to "damage control" really democratic elections in Egypt. The financial markets and Machiavellian politicians (and we're not even considering rabid rightwingers) are almost praying for the Brotherhood to become an alternative reality so they can finally legitimate the concept of an Egyptian military dictatorship forever.
It escapes them that the real actors in Egypt, the urban, middle class masses - the people peacefully protesting in Tahrir square - know very well that fundamentalist Islam is not the solution.
The two top mass organizations in Egypt are the Brotherhood and the Christian Coptic church - both persecuted by the Mubarak regime. But it's new movements that will be crucial in the future, such as the young labor activists of April 6, associations of white and blue collar workers, as well as the New Wafd Party, a revival of the party that dominated Egypt from the 1920s to the 1950s, when the country had real parliamentary elections and real prime ministers.
The Brotherhood hardly would get more than 30% of the votes in a free and fair election (and they are firm believers in parliamentary democracy). They are not hegemonic, and definitely not the face of the new Egypt. In fact there's a strong possibility they would evolve to become similar to the AKP (Justice and Development Party) in Turkey. Moreover, according to a recent Pew poll, 59% of Egyptians want parliamentary democracy, and 60% are against religious extremism.
Egypt essentially makes money out of tourism, tolls in the Suez Canal, manufacture and agricultural exports, and aid (mostly military) such as the annual $1.5 billion from the US. It badly needs to import grain (the reason behind increasing food prices, one of the key reasons for the protests). All of this spells out a dependency on the outside world. The Egyptian souq (the bazaar), with a large Coptic Christian community, totally depends on foreign tourists.
It's fair to imagine a really representative, democratic government in Egypt would inevitably open the Gaza border and de facto liberate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. And that those Palestinians, fully supported by their neighbors in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria in the fight for their legitimate rights, would turn the "stability" of the region upside down.
So it boils down to the same old song. For bipartisan Washington, there are "good" democracies (those that keep serving US strategic interests) and "bad" democracies which vote "wrong" (such as in Gaza, or in a future Egypt, against US interests).
This is the dirty secret of the "orderly transition" in Egypt - which implies Washington only meekly condemning the bloody Mubarakism wave of repression of protesters and international media. That's considered OK - as long as the military dictatorship remains in place and the glacial status quo is maintained. Moreover, sacrosanct Israel came out swinging praising Mubarak; this also means Tel Aviv will do everything to "veto" Mohamed ElBaradei as an opposition leader.
You're talking to me?
Washington after all bought Egypt and its army. Suleiman works for Washington, not Cairo. That's another meaning of "stability".
Washington never really cared about Egypt's martial law, the crushing of labor demands, the human rights abuses, not to mention the high unemployment among the young, and college graduates barely surviving under a mega-corrupted system. Over the years, "stability" literally killed a Nile of labor activists, young idealists, human rights workers and progressive democrats.
In a sane world - and if Obama had the will - the White House would back people power unconditionally. One can imagine, in terms of improving the US's image, what a roaring success that would be.
For starters, it would instantly erase the perception in the Arab street that Mubarak's Frankenstein response - totally ignoring Obama - shows how the dictator believes he can get away with it. One more instance of US irrelevance in the Middle East - the tail wagging the dog.
Shameless self-aggrandizing Mubarak must have thought; if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can publicly humiliate Obama, why not me?
The Arab street is very much aware how the Mubarak system was bribed to send natural gas to Israel at ridiculous prices; how it enforces the blockade against civilians in Gaza; and how, bribed by the US, it acts as Israel's bouncer. Netanyahu stealing Palestinian land or starving Gaza to death, and Mubarak using billions in US military aid to crush people power - this is all seen by the Arab street as supported by Washington. And then clueless US rightwingers carp on "why do they hate us".
Obama saying to Mubarak "now" means "now" - and meaning not only himself but the whole gang in uniform - would alienate the hyper-powerful Zio-con lobby. Not such a bad deal, considering that after all the oil is in Arab lands, which double as the crux of Middle East politics. But that won't happen. "Orderly transition"? Beware of what you wish for.


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Sun, 12 June 2011 at 11:45 pm
Nick Jonas & Delta Goodrem: Holding Hands!
Nick Jonas and his new girlfriend Delta Goodrem hold hands as they head to Henry's Hat for lunch on Sunday (June 12) in Studio City, Calif.
The 18-year-old Jonas Brothers singer just recently returned from a two-week trip to Bali with his 26-year-old girlfriend where they attended a songwriting camp, according to People.
Nick took a quick trip to New York City last week to launch the Quaker Chewy Superstar Search and also made an appearance on The View.
10+ pictures inside of Nick Jonas and Delta Goodrem holding hands… http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/06/12/nick-jonas-delta-goodrem-holding-hands/