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Tomdroid is a Tomboy compatible wiki note-taking application for Android-powered phones. Right now it is a Tomboy note viewer but soon it should be considered a full Tomboy client for Android.
· Show the list of all notes in the tomdroid/ directory on the sdcard
· View individual Tomboy notes. All formatting tags should be supported. Notebooks, tags and addins will not be understood.
· You can load a note from a Web URL. In that case, links to other notes won't work.
What's New in This Release:
· added GMail-style two-color pane and selector
· added ability to receive text-shares from other notes
· added ability to send and receive note files
· added auto-backup to SD Card preference
· made First Note translatable
· moved search function to main activity (allowing two-pane landscape view in results)
· added option to show deleted notes in list
· added ability to import plain text
· added file picker to import plain text and note files from within Tomdroid
· added options to turn off hyperlink creation
· fixed bug lp:1039703 Tomdroid crashes when rotating the device during synchronization
· fixed bug lp:1039824 Crash when rotate on Revert All
· fixed bug lp:1039814 Crash on Backup Notes
· fixed bug lp:1039671 Crash when the server URL that includes "illegal characters"
· fixed bug lp:1040333 Crash on Revert
· fixed bug lp:1040338 Crash on Cancel
· fixed bug lp:1040389 Share/Send from chrome or play crash
· fixed bug lp:1040551 Tomdroid two-way sync to SD card messes up titles
· fixed bug lp:1041792 Error is occurred on text decoration in beta Edit
· fixed bug lp:1049026 Error, when note starts with illegal xml character
· fixed bug lp:1053366 Search Results: No "not found" text in empty notes-list
What's New in 0.7.1:
· Actionbar for all versions of Android
· Converted format bar to sliding drawer
· Added progress bar and toast notifications to preferences
· Cosmetic improvements and bug fixes with conflict resolution
· Added cancel button to sync
· Fixed revert all for deleted notes
· Added routine to avoid full sync if server revision is old (only push changed notes)
· Set note content entry type to "sentence caps"
· Usability and cosmetic improvements (lp:1038118, lp:1038352)
· bug fix lp:1038115 (beta) do not scroll list to top after deleting a note
· bug fix lp:1038119 (beta) syncing is not smart :)
· bug fix lp:1038352 tapping on blank area should go to end of line
· bug fix lp:1038769 Typo in the string #41
· bug fix lp:1038968 NullPointerException on SD Card sync with notes causing parse error
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· Add a context menu with the ability to send a note (Edouard Richard)
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Detroit-area man gets 17 years in porch shooting
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:33:59 GMT —
ED WHITE, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) â?? A suburban Detroit man was sentenced Wednesday to at least 17 years in prison for killing an unarmed woman who appeared on his porch before dawn.
Theodore Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder in the Nov. 2 death of Renisha McBride, 19. Before getting his sentence, the Dearborn Heights man apologized to McBride's family, saying he killed a woman who was "too young to leave this world."
"I will carry that guilt and sorrow forever," said Wafer, often pausing to control his emotions.
Wafer was convicted last month after a nine-day trial that centered on whether the 55-year-old had a reasonable and honest belief that his safety was in peril. He testified that he was awakened by pounding on his doors and shot McBride because he feared for his life. But a jury rejected his claim of self-defense.
Prosecutors recommended at least 17 years in prison for Wafer, including two years for unlawful use of a gun. Defense attorney Cheryl Carpenter asked for as few as six years in prison.
Noting Wafer's age, Carpenter said at the hearing Wednesday that anything more than 10 years in prison would be a "life sentence."
No one knows why McBride ended up at Wafer's home about 4:30 a.m., though prosecutors speculated she may have been seeking help. She had crashed her car into a parked car about a half-mile away in Detroit around 1 a.m. An autopsy found she was extremely drunk.
Wafer opened the front door and shot McBride in the face, firing through a screen door. He first suggested to police that it was an accident but later admitted to intentionally pulling the trigger.
The jury convicted Wafer of murder, manslaughter and a gun-related charge on Aug. 7. He will be eligible for parole after serving the minimum sentence.
Wafer is white and McBride was black, and some wondered in the aftermath of the shooting whether race may have been a factor, likening it to the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. But race was hardly mentioned at trial.
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I'm John Reyst, the original creator of d20pfsrd.com, the largest Pathfinder Roleplaying Game SRD (System Reference Document) site.
I've started setting one up for MnM (3E) using the Open Game Content portions of the rules. I want this site to support and promote the Mutants and Masterminds game as d20pfsrd.com does for the Pathfinder game, by getting more people into the system by letting them see the system before they buy.
Anyway, the site can be found at http://www.d20herosrd.com. It's not 100% complete yet but it's coming along nicely. I've gotten permission from Storn Cook (artist of many Champions art pieces) to include some of his art on the site also.
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Due to a bug i haven't anticipated, a whole load of users with non English SSMS couldn't install the latest SSMS Tools Pack 1.7.
The SSMS Tools Pack 220.127.116.11 fixes this as well as 1 other major bug that was reported and 3 smaller ones.
The feature list hasn't changed.
You can simply reinstall 126.96.36.199 over the 22.214.171.124.
If you're still on 1.5 or less then you'll have to manually uninstall it and install 22.214.171.124.
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I'm a developer in various languages. Cobol85 C C++ Java(just a little)
and in my spare time i'm working a lot with linux and BSD. I administer some Co-located servers (FreeBSD) and i'm quite up-to-date regarding security.
I'd like to learn ASSEMBLY so i can understand Exploits and maybe even write one... some day....
If there are any questions, any time feel free to ask
I know this sounds quite malicious but to obtain security you have to fully understand security, for this reason i regulary try to break my own machine.
This indeed is was for me the reason to come here.Originally posted here by er0k
like WC said its always good to just hang around computer irc servers. For another, just get familiar with your box. If you can, set one up that you can just fool around with. Send it virus's, crack it, etc then learn how to fix it. True hacking is really repairing, or making better, not worse. also, check out a UNIX operating system, UNIX is alot more developed for programming and networking etc.
I wanna hack my own SuSe 5.4 box (shouldn't be to hard). Just to learn from it.
Imagine, if i had the knowledge to write my own exploits, i'd be able to secure a box quite well. Hacking and Securing is practically the same. But when introducing myself in the rollcage telling i wanna learn ASSEMBLY next to my C/C++ knowledge i get reaction from people who claim to hate hackers (and see one in me)......
aren't that just lazy admins who hate knowledge and just want a secure system ?


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People don't stop killers; people with guns do… Adopt a true friend; adopt a cat or a dog today
People don't stop killers; people with guns do
To the editor,
Madison Superintendent Jim Hartley's comments about concealed gun carry being allowed at Michigan schools are ignorant. He says he sees parents shoving each other at school sporting events.
This is why school employees that are actually at schools shouldn't have guns to thwart shootings? He's talking about parents who are not at the schools.
Aren't these teachers and school employees trusted with these defenseless children's safety? If a respected and responsible teacher, janitor or secretary who was trained in the use of a handgun, wanted to carry concealed to kill an intruding shooter before he/she kills little children, why would these people who supposedly look to protect children be against that?
Twisted murderers will shoot up places they know are unarmed before they attempt this at a place where someone might be carrying an equally efficient weapon. The principal in Connecticut lunged at the shooter. Just imagine if she had had a gun. It would have been over right there.
Crimes are thwarted everyday by people trained to shoot who are carrying concealed. I've heard of three incidents in the past few months in Detroit alone. This whole debate is getting old and worn out. It's like beating a dead horse, but guns are tools and they don't kill by themselves. Cars, knives, hammers, screwdrivers and bare hands can kill people. We can't defend against guns without guns. Period!
If this incident is the last straw and leads to total gun control or outright prohibition, will the police and military in this country give up their guns too?
People who also find Mr. Hartley's comments unreasonable are heading for the gun stores and buying guns as fast as they can. As Suzanna Hupp, who witnessed her parents get murdered by a maniac at Luby's Cafe in Killeen, Texas, said, the Second Amendment is not about hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to protect ourselves from an intrusive government. Ms. Hupp could have had her gun in her purse that day, but there was a law against it at the time. If she had had her gun, innocent people would NOT have died that day.
However if these "educators" can't use simple logic and reason, maybe responsible parents (who don't shove each other at football games) should take their children out of harm's way and get them out of the public schools.
Martha Mahler
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To the editor,
I am writing this letter to urge people to adopt a true friend from the Lenawee Humane Society, one that will be by you when others turn their backs or hurt you. A cat or dog's love is always there. They don't threaten or borrow money from you. A cat will make any bad day into a great day. A cat will be a loyal friend, unlike some humans. They don't use or abuse you.
There is a fee to adopt them, but the money is well worth it! Don't use Christmas as an excuse to adopt a friend. Anytime is a good time to open your wallet, as well as your heart, to them. You will never be sorry because a cat or dog will always be there waiting for you.
I dedicate this letter in memory of a black and white cat who now walks where all good and decent friends go, a paradise called Heaven.
In memory of Miss KC.
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Boston Police Commissioner's son in NH court
Apr. 25, 2013
PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The 22-year-old son of Boston's Police Commissioner has pleaded guilty in a New Hampshire courtroom on a charge of operating under the influence.
Phillip Davis was arrested by New Hampshire State Police Feb. 17 and charged with driving under the influence. Five passengers in his car — all under the age of 21 — were charged with possession of alcohol by a minor.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis has been a prominent figure the Boston Marathon bombings investigation.
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Thanks to everyone who came out last night for our first ever and best ever Gladstone TV Trivia Night. With a back to school focus on Saved By The Bell and Degrassi Jr. High we were beyond impressed by the caliber of audience participation and trivial TV knowledge. A gold star goes out to the grand prize and prestige winners: Hot Sundae who beat out the competition with a stunning A++ score.
It was a fun/funny filled night with special back to school prize snacks, interpretive "Sprain" dancing and hardly any Degrassi-style bullying.
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ASCO Annual Meeting
June 1, 2014
In an analysis of two ongoing studies, researchers found that exemestane (Aromasin) was more effective at preventing hormone-sensitive breast cancer from returning for premenopausal women than tamoxifen (Nolvadex, Soltamox) when each drug was paired with ovarian function suppression. Exemestane, an aromatase inhibitor (AI), and tamoxifen are types of hormonal therapy often given as adjuvant therapies to lower the chance of hormone-sensitive breast cancer coming back after other treatments are finished. Hormone-sensitive breast cancer means that the cancer uses the hormones estrogen and/or progesterone to grow.
Although both tamoxifen and AIs such as exemestane are hormonal therapies, they work differently, which affects who can use them. In order for AIs to work effectively, women need to have the low levels of estrogen that naturally occur after menopause, and this is why tamoxifen has been the standard adjuvant hormonal therapy for premenopausal women. In the studies included in this analysis, researchers suppressed ovarian function with medication, surgery to remove the ovaries, or radiation therapy to the ovaries in order to lower women's estrogen levels to similar levels they would experience after menopause.
This analysis included information from 4,690 women in two different studies who received either exemestane plus ovarian function suppression or tamoxifen plus ovarian function suppression for five years. Researchers found that the combination of exemestane plus ovarian function suppression reduced the risk of the breast cancer coming back by 34% when compared with tamoxifen plus ovarian function suppression. However, women who received either treatment were equally likely to be alive five years after treatment, with about 96% of women who received exemestane plus ovarian function suppression and about 97% of women who received tamoxifen plus ovarian suppression function alive after five years.
What this means for patients
"For years, tamoxifen has been the standard hormonal therapy for preventing breast cancer recurrences in young women with hormone-sensitive disease. These results confirm that exemestane with ovarian function suppression is a valid alternative," said lead study author Olivia Pagani, MD, Clinical Director of the Breast Unit at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland in Bellinzona. "Our findings indicate that exemestane is better than tamoxifen, when given with ovarian function suppression, but longer follow-up will be important to assess survival and any long-term side effects and fertility." These studies are ongoing and, in the United States, tamoxifen is still the recommended adjuvant hormonal therapy for premenopausal women. Though recommendations may change over time, it's important to talk with your doctor about the best options for you now and why they are recommended. You may also want to discuss the side effects of hormonal therapy, which can differ depending on the type of drug used.
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With a flurry of videos we welcome you to the FL Studio Guru blog. We will be sharing with you:
- Tutorial videos that cover the commonly asked questions in Looptalk. We'll try to keep these around 3 minutes.
- Top Tip videos that cover those 'Power user' shortcuts and features that really make FL Studio fly.
- Blogs about the music production, technology, software and anything else we think is cool and relevant to the producing musician.
Today I'd like to alert you to a great video about Audio Myths posted on YouTube by Ethan Winer (below left) of RealTraps (makers of sound control solutions for studios). Ethan & co-presenters cover such issues as placebo effects in audio, loudness vs quality, 'scam' equipment, dithering, expensive vs cheap soundcards and more...oh yes it's about 58 minutes long, so get the popcorn out :)
Of particular interest to many home producers will be the section on Cheap vs Expensive soundcards, that starts at 41m:18s if you want to jump to it. Surely you need to drop $2000 on a 'professional' audio inerface if you want quality audio recordings, right?
The video contains excerpts from a workshop given at the 2009 Audio Engineering Society conference. You can learn more about the AES on their website. Enjoy!
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Old Boston Mayor elect Marty Walsh is propelled to victory by New Boston communities of color, plus we're tackling some of the topics you've been talking about at the water cooler and in the blogosphere--Saturday night live pokes fun at its diversity problem but is it funny? And new financial woes for Howard University, one of the nation's most well known Historically Black colleges.
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Cavs' Irving edges Bonner in 3-point contest
February 16. 2013 10:55PM
Concord's Matt Bonner of the San Antonio Spurs made it to the final round of the NBA 3-point contest in Houston Saturday night, but came up short to Cleveland's Kyrie Irving by a score of 23-20.
Irving went first in the final round and was hot throughout, leaving Bonner needing a big effort to earn the win. Bonner got off to a slow start, missing his first two shots but coming on strong later to make it close.
Bonner scored 19 points in the first round to secure his spot in the finals.
In the first round, Bonner started on the left wing and got off to a hot start, hitting his first five shots from that spot.
Prior to the contest, Bonner was featured in an interview with NBA analyst (and former Boston Celtics member) Rick Fox. The interview featured a shot of the Red River Theatre in Concord where a viewing party was taking place.
Fox also presented Bonner with a t-shirt emblazoned with a snake on it, re-dubbing the Red Rocket as the "Red Mamba" as Kobe Bryant called him.
Bonner got into the 3-point contest thanks in large part to a social media campaign led by his brother Luke to "Let Matt Shoot."


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Skip to comments.Klass act, no principles
Posted on 02/20/2012 3:10:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A blast from the past animated the blogosphere earlier this month when a buddy of famed "Fire in the Sky" UFO abductee Travis Walton accused a dead debunker of attempted bribery. Steve Pierce said he -- Pierce -- had been offered $10k to say Walton had hoaxed the whole thing back in 1975...
Klass was a prolific writer who dismissed the Walton controversy as confabulation in his 1983 book UFOs: The Public Deceived... Klass' take on what became known as the Cash-Landrum incident stopped me cold. Because I'd actually done my homework on that one. And that's when I got that first queasy feeling that the American press was routinely quoting a man who had a pathological disregard for truth...
For years, Klass had badgered the victims, and Schuessler, for access to their hospital records. Aware of his proclivities, they refused to comply. "I said, look Phil, why don't you come up with what you think happened, publish it, and after you do that, we'll be happy to supply you with the records," recalls Schuessler from his home in Colorado.
Klass condensed Cash-Landrum into a single page. Rather than posit an alternative scenario, he simply ascribed the whole thing to a hoax founded upon pre-existing medical conditions. Even the Army's own Inspector General investigation specifically cited a lack of evidence for a hoax.
"Klass was a low-life and a bully who used his Aviation Week credentials to hold himself up as an expert," says Schuessler, retired project manager for space shuttle flight operations at Johnson Space Center. "He just made up stories any way he saw fit."
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Debunker Phil Klass' relentless ad hominem attacks on UFO eyewitnesses begs the question: What was he so afraid of?/CREDIT: gpposner.com
Klass was a crude, crass, boor. I was at the MUFON Symposium in Albuquerque,NM in 1992 when he was thrown out for trying to record the proceedings. MUFON was taping the whole proceedings for sale. It was announced and posted there were to be no private recordings. Klass was using a mini-cassette recorder to tape the audio. Despite being warned he persisted in making unauthorized recordings. When he was finally thrown out applause rang out throughout the room. I'm no conspiracy theorist but if there are paid government debunkers then noKlass was certainly one.
Therein lies the problem. When you're a professional debunker, you can't admit to EVEN one event being true, else you lose your credentials.
I saw this happen to James Randi, who has exposed many hoaxes. He doesn't claim to be a skeptic, rather an investigator. The one event that soured me was one in Australia, I believe, where he said he'd expose dowsing as a fraud. Dowsers who claimed they could detect water and another group who said they could dowse precious metals were tested in a field that was planted with both - water on one side and metals on the other.
The test began, and the water dowsers had something like a 70% hit ratio while the metal guys bombed at around 10%. Instead of saying that 70% was pretty good and there MAY be something to water dowsing, Randi combined the two results and said that both failed the test, "averaging only 40% hits."
I knew Klass when I was stationed in DC in the 1960s. I would go to the monthly luncheons of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. There was always some big name speaker from the government or industry. Klass always sat at a table just under the head table, and unlimbered his tape recorder during the speech. He insisted on complete silence at the table, so as not to get extraneous noise on his recording. I recall being shushed by him once.
The link mentioned McDonald, who was a professor of meteorology at some university in Arizona. He had taken a sabbatical, and investigated UFOs. He had become convinced we were getting visitors from other planets. He gave a briefing on his conclusions at the Pentagon. I wangled myself an invitation. As a Major I was sitting in the back row. The 4-stars were all in front. After McDonald gave his briefing, one of the 4-stars asked him, if we're being visited by vehicles from outside, how come they never crash? How come there's never any wreckage? McDonald stood there with the blandest smile I've ever seen on a human face, and said, "Maybe their Zero Defects Program really works." That brought the briefing to an end.
As an aside, the AIAA luncheons would always be attended by at least one person from the Soviet Embassy. I had interesting conversations with several of them. I'm sure they thought I was spying on them, since I was in uniform. It would be interesting to see what reports they submitted on me.
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I don't recall ever having any other notions
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Klass was at best a duplicitous lying oligarchy shill . . . if not out-right evil in intent, practices and methods.
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I don't think he was working for the gubmint, he wasn't too bright, just sneaky.
That's the Randi method! C'mon! :')
Thanks MtBaldy.
"Maybe their Zero Defects Program really works."LOL! Thanks JoeFromSidney.
I didn't think he was too bright either.
However, I hope you don't think that folks who hire for the government are all bright.
Are any of them?
Ping to me to follow up
later in the thread . . . along about p 3 . . . they seem to document it as a hoax.
We shall see.
I can certainly believe the Chinese would love to stick their fingers in NASA's eye.
And, that other countries have been releasing far more info than NASA for years now. That appears to be escalating.
This last summer the town of Llano, TX was out of water due to the drought. As a last ditch effort, they hired a water dowser who found water. The town was saved.
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The total overtime tab reached $529 million in 2012, up $52 million from the previous year. In all, 14.5 million overtime hours were logged by state workers. Two-thirds of the total came from three agencies: the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, the Office of Mental Health and the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
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"Nothing But a Flicker"
06-02-2013, 11:05 PM (This post was last modified: 07-02-2013 08:48 PM by Atothetheist.)
"Nothing But a Flicker"
Nothing But a Flicker
My Thoughts on the Afterlife
By AtothetheistDeath is a hard concept for some to swallow. The simple thought of non-existence, of complete and utter annihilation of yourself is a very discomforting and an incomprehensible idea. I know that most of my fellow atheists profess no belief in an afterlife, but I can't, nor will I ever speak on the behalf of the community or atheists in general, which is why I labeled this MY thoughts on the Afterlife. Personally, my thoughts on the afterlife is that there is no (credible) evidence that such a thing exists and therefore can not ASSUME it does. It is of my opinion that the afterlife is a concept that has helped fuel and retain the religious's iron grasp when it was in the lead. In a sense, it still performs that function, but to a lesser extent today. One can simply look at the atrocities committed in the name of such a deity and wonder what might have caused the person to commit such acts of violence. Surely no normal human being can commit such gratuitous violence and be ok with it.
This is the case with many known incidents. In the crusades, the Catholic Church offered people remissions from sin if they fought in the bloody and disgusting battles against their Muslim enemies. One might simply say that it was only for the remission of sin that the soldiers fought, but they would be wrong. For Remission of Sin, or Sin to even matter, there needed to be an afterlife, and a horrible, nightmare inducing one at that. It would have to be so terrible that you never wanted to go there. Because committing sins allows you to go to this horrible, and very unjustified afterlife of Hell, remission from it was a good way to recruit potential soldiers to fight on their Deity's side. Now, the afterlife was not the only factor which caused soldiers to fight, but one would have to be insane to argue that it was NOT one at all. In fact, it seems like the religious, especially the Catholic Church, uses/used the concept of Hell or similar places to extort tithes and lives and other such, valuable possessions. If I wasn't such an optimist, I would almost advocate a definite position that this is why the Catholic Church and other such establishments keep the concept of hell alive. Its goal is to cause fear and obedience from the sheep to the masters.
Certainly, the promise of a place after earth is a pleasing one, but where did it come from? What brought about this concept? Well, the most likely cause is the fear of the death/unknown. It is a known truth that humans fear death. It is the one thing that we probably won't ever shake. Certainly this had a major effect on the concepts formation, but what if there was another POSSIBLE way that the concept could have come into being? I was doing some intense thinking and I think I have stumbled upon a idea that such a concept could have arisen out of lack of knowledge about sleep, dreams and death itself. When you fall asleep, to an observer it looks eerily similar to death. We know now that while you are asleep, the dreams you experience are nothing but figments of the mind, but imagine what the primitive humans thought about this. They probably had the idea that you went somewhere else while the body remained. Of course, if you are asleep, you can wake up and then, if you are lucky( or unlucky) relay your dreams to other people. This might have given rise to the idea that you go somewhere else when you "die"(sleep) and that the real death is no different. This idea might actually be a valid reason why the afterlife was such a popular belief. To the primitives, dreams could have been mistakenly interpreted as evidence for a place beyond.
There are emotional reasons as to why an afterlife is pleasing and why, because it is pleasing, it is popular. People don't want to be separated from their loved ones, they want to be with their families for as long as they possible can. Because of the dreams, and the dreams possibly having a loved one,or another person in it, it might have been a viable way of keeping the family together. Not only was it pleasing, and it had evidence, but some of the dreams were also really nice. But, what about the nightmares? Why did some of the "afterlifes" seem horrible? Why would their deities send them to such a place? Was it because they did something wrong? If so, what? Of course we know that dreams are not an afterlife, and that nightmares are because of the worries that you are experiencing, but they didn't know that. It could be that they thought there was a reason, or that it was something they did to deserve being sent to such a place.
If I were describe life, it would be that it is nothing but a brief flicker of a flame. Just a spark in the scale of the universe, but even that little flicker contains energy. Why would you want to waste that energy thinking of a place beyond the flicker? Why use the energy to imagine an eternal flame? The belief in an afterlife devalues life. It makes it seem as if life is only the precursor, when it is the main event. Because of a belief in an afterlife, you might spend your life striving to go to a place that you have no evidence exists. You could be doing something else with your life. Something more worthwhile. Plus, if we use Christianity as a basis for a guide, we would have to condemn other people, and believe that certain actions are abominations. We have to discriminate against people whose actions do not hurt us. We have to believe in silly propositions of which there is no evidence in order to get into a place that has no evidence for its existence either. Life is life. Live life like there is no afterlife, it will make your experience on earth way more precious and way more meaningful than just a stepping stone to eternal pleasure/torment.
This is a revised and edited version of an essay on my thoughts of an afterlife I have to give for theology class. Since I am an atheist, my report will be different from the rest, and I thought I would edit and post it on the forums.
Tell me what you think. I really appreciate any feedback I can get. I am confident that my essay will get a passing grade, much to the dismay of the readers faith.
Credit goes to UndercoverAtheist.
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RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
(06-02-2013 11:05 PM)Atothetheist Wrote:Hey...well written! I particularly like the last paragraph. I wrote something similar. I'll see if I can find it...
07-02-2013, 02:20 AM (This post was last modified: 10-02-2013 03:49 PM by Mark Fulton.)
RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
Some people don't care that there's no evidence for god; they're so lazy they just decide to believe because they want something to dream about. A heavenly afterlife appears comforting. It means there's something to look forward to, an improvement on the injustices, work, worries and ordinariness of life. Faith is like a lottery ticket; it buys you the belief that things will get better because you've struggled damned hard and deserve a lucky break. Yet there's no evidence anyone ever wins heaven.
Some people think that to hope for heaven is harmless, but I think the promise of paradise can rob people of the pleasure of living in the present. There's a better way to feel good that doesn't need belief in half-baked mumbo-jumbo. Who remembers what it was like to be a young child? Picture yourself running around a playground. We didn't waste time worrying about God, the afterlife or why we are here. We were too busy exploring every nook and cranny of our world. We were unhindered by our experiences, expressed ourselves openly, and weren't afraid of being judged. We accepted life with wide-open arms, didn't deny our emotions, and weren't cynical or opinionated. We were authentic, lived in the present, and were thoroughly happy.
I contend people should embrace the here and now. When we do that, the present has more meaning: the taste of food, a glass of good wine, a friend's smile, a string quartet or a Miles Davis ballad can be enjoyed for what they are and because they're temporary. To experience the pleasure of the present, and stop worrying about consequences, can be like coming out of a trance. It's about being receptive to the full gamut of the human experience, and that helps us feel more alive.
When it turns out there's no god and no afterlife, it won't matter, because we'll be dead! We were "dead" for billions of years before we were born, and it didn't bother any of us in the slightest.
Life is all about the journey, the here and now, not an imaginary destination, which is why we don't need gods, beliefs, and creeds; we should let them go!
In the modern world, "people" should replace "God." "God" is the human race. Love of "God" should be the mutual love of everyone in our global society.
There's nothing supernatural after death. Heaven is here and now, and is what we create on earth through love. Hell is hatred of our fellow man.
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RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
A flicker yes. But what we become aware of, during the flicker, is astoundingly amazing.
Insufferable know-it-all. It is objectively immoral to kill innocent babies. Please stick to the guilty babies.
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RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
(07-02-2013 02:20 AM)Mark Fulton Wrote: ...
I am reminded of the lilies of the field...
RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
Well written and I completely agree. That's an interesting line of thought about dreams. It can be difficult to appreciate how simple life was so many years ago and how little was known, but you did a great job of attempting to place yourself in their shoes with that (even though they might not have been wearing shoes back then. )
Mark Fulton,
I liked yours as well. Great point about what it was like as a child before "God" was any factor.
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RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
Credit goes to UndercoverAtheist.
RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
Thanks for the interesting read. I particularly liked the third paragraph in which you pondered the question of the origin of the concept of an afterlife. Dreams, especially lucid ones, must have seemed even stranger to our ancestors than they do to us now.
07-02-2013, 04:52 PM (This post was last modified: 07-02-2013 04:55 PM by DLJ.)
RE: "Nothing But a Flicker"
(07-02-2013 12:46 PM)Atothetheist Wrote:(07-02-2013 04:24 AM)DLJ Wrote: tl;dr
But of course, I lied. I did read.
I should point out that the marker of your paper may quibble about the title vs. the subtitle in that they are not connected:
Using pleasing alliteration you point out "If I were describe life, it would be that it is nothing but a brief flicker of a flame."
So if 'life' is the 'flicker' what is your metaphor for 'afterlife'?
Just sayin'
"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,"
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A militia member indicted in what the FBI once characterized as a terror plot to blow up a west-central Minnesota police station pleaded guilty Friday to weapons charges.
Buford Braden Rogers, 25, of Montevideo, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of possessing a firearm illegally and one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device, namely "two black powder and nail devices," which he admitted he made himself.
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The Cozy Dog will host a reception for him when he returns, but no one knows when that will be.
The National Historical Route 66 Federation meets in a different location each year to introduce fans of the Mother Road to a different community along the old 2,400-mile route. The next Steinbeck Award ceremony will be held in September 2005 in San Bernadino, Calif.
Illinois Times contributor Tom Teague won his Steinbeck Award in 1998. Other Illinois winners are Jeff Meyer (2003) and John and Lenore Weiss (2002).


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In the current issue of UsWeekly magazine, Bethenny Frankel, former star of Real Housewives of New York City, discusses her former castmates.
This is the same issue in which Bethenny announced she was quitting the show. When asked about her current status with former BFF Jill Zarin, Bethenny had some interesting things to say. "I was sympathetic at the reunion, but Jason said, 'It's all for the cameras,'" she says before adding, "I never heard from her after that."
When it comes to Kelly Bensimon, Bethenny says her interaction with Kelly was toxic. "She said mean things. She called me a ho bag. I don't want Bryn to hear stuff like that." And when it comes to Kelly coming back on the show next season, Bethenny had some nicer words for the unpredictable housewife. "I hope coming back is a healthy choice for her," said Bethenny. "It's stressful."
It seems Bethenny's husband, Jason Hoppy, also played a role in her decision to leave the Housewives. "My husband was embarrassed by it," she said. "Jason's a different person when he's on camera for Housewives than he is for Bethenny's Getting Married? He just didn't want to do it anymore."
In other NYC Housewives news, in a new interview with PEOPLE magazine, Kelly Bensimon solely discusses her hair, telling the mag that everyone is obsessed with it.
"Everyone is obsessed with my hair," Kelly told PEOPLE. "They always want to touch it." Kelly credits her hair colorist, Bradley Irion, for giving her the amazing must-be-touched hair.
"When I met Bradley, he said, your hair has to be natural. So he literally colored my base and let my natural hair color come through. People are constantly coming up to me and touching my hair. That's what Bradley gave me. . . this touchable, gorgeous hair that's real," she said adding that Bradney "even cuts my dog's hair."
While the article itself was unintentionally humorous, the only two comments left on the article page are likely much more funny. "I think it always, always looks dirty and stringy," posted Anniieee. "Her hair makes her face so long. It's also so dated. She looks like she belongs in the 80′s. Is this all this woman cares about?" posted boston02127.
UPDATE – This gets even better. Here's what Rob Shuter from Popeater posted on twitter: "Off to bed! But laughing so loud that @kikilet told people everyone was obsesssed with her hair! Her PR people pitched that story! We passed."


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33 U.S. Code § 502 - Alteration, removal, or repair of bridge or accessory obstructions to navigation
Whenever the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall have good reason to believe that any railroad or other bridge over any of the navigable waterways of the United States is an unreasonable obstruction to the free navigation of such waters on account of insufficient height, width of span, or otherwise, or where there is difficulty in passing the draw opening or the draw span of such bridge by rafts, steamboats, or other water craft, it shall be the duty of the said Secretary, first giving the parties reasonable opportunity to be heard, to give notice to the persons or corporations owning or controlling such bridge so to alter the same as to render navigation through or under it reasonably free, easy, and unobstructed; and in giving such notice he shall specify the changes that are required to be made, and shall prescribe in each case a reasonable time in which to make them. If at the end of such time the alteration has not been made, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall forthwith notify the United States attorney for the district in which such bridge is situated, to the end that the criminal proceedings hereinafter in this section mentioned may be taken. If the persons, corporation, or association owning or controlling any railroad or other bridge shall, after receiving notice to that effect, as hereinbefore required, from the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating and within the time prescribed by him willfully fail or refuse to remove the same or to comply with the lawful order of the Secretary of the Army in the premises, such persons, corporation, or association shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, and every month such persons, corporation, or association shall remain in default in respect to the removal or alteration of such bridge shall be deemed a new offense, and subject the persons, corporation, or association so offending to the penalties above prescribed.
No owner or operator of any bridge, drawbridge, or causeway shall endanger, unreasonably obstruct, or make hazardous the free navigation of any navigable water of the United States by reason of the failure to keep the bridge, drawbridge, or causeway and any accessory works in proper repair.
Whoever violates any provision of this section, or any order issued under this section, shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for a violation occurring in 2004; $10,000 for a violation occurring in 2005; $15,000 for a violation occurring in 2006; $20,000 for a violation occurring in 2007; and $25,000 for a violation occurring in 2008 and any year thereafter. Each day a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense. No penalty may be assessed under this subsection until the person charged is given notice and an opportunity for a hearing on the charge. The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may assess and collect any civil penalty incurred under this subsection and, in his discretion, may remit, mitigate, or compromise any penalty until the matter is referred to the Attorney General. If a person against whom a civil penalty is assessed under this subsection fails to pay that penalty, an action may be commenced in the district court of the United States for any district in which the violation occurs for such penalty.
Section is from act Mar. 3, 1899, popularly known as the "Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899".
The words "or from the existing circuit courts," which followed "district courts" in the proviso were superseded by the abolition of the circuit courts and the transfer of their jurisdiction to the district courts, by act Mar. 3, 1911.
This section superseded act Aug. 11, 1888, ch. 860, §§ 9, 10, 25 Stat. 424, as amended by act Sept. 19, 1890, ch. 907, §§ 4, 5, 26 Stat. 453, which required the Secretary of War to provide against obstructions to navigation by bridges, and prescribed a punishment on the owner's default in making the required alterations.
The Secretary of War was authorized to make the required changes in bridges obstructing navigation on the owner's failure to do so, and the Attorney General was required to institute proceedings against the owner for the recovery of the cost of such changes, by act July 5, 1884, ch. 229, § 8, 23 Stat. 148.
2016—Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 114–120 substituted "Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating" for "Secretary of Transportation" wherever appearing.
2004—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–293 substituted "$5,000 for a violation occurring in 2004; $10,000 for a violation occurring in 2005; $15,000 for a violation occurring in 2006; $20,000 for a violation occurring in 2007; and $25,000 for a violation occurring in 2008 and any year thereafter" for "$1,000".
1982—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–322 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted "Secretary of Transportation" for "Secretary of War" wherever appearing, and struck out "recommended by the Chief of Engineers" after "specify the charges".
Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 97–322 added subsecs. (b) and (c).
1948—Act June 25, 1948, § 39, repealed proviso at end relating to appeals. See sections 1252 and 1253 of title 28.
Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, substituted "United States attorney" for "district attorney of the United States". See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and Historical and Revision Notes thereunder.
Amendment by act June 25, 1948 effective Sept. 1, 1948, see section 38 of act June 25, 1948, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 1 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
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We heard from a lot of you — and we mean a lot of you — about our recent report on the Stanford School of Medicine analysis of several studies on the health effects of organic foods.
The upshot of the Stanford review, as we reported, was that the scientists found very little evidence of health benefits. As we explained, the limitation of the review is that many of the studies included were narrowly targeted and that they didn't last longer than a couple of years. Basically, more studies are needed to determine whether there are measurable health benefits from eating organically grown food.
But many of you wrote in to us and to Morning Edition to let us know you weren't happy with the study or our coverage of it. What about environmental benefits? you asked. How could pesticide residues on conventionally grown food not be bad for us? What about genetically modified food? And, aren't you just shilling for the big food companies?
Listen to the radio piece this morning as correspondent Allison Aubrey addresses some of those questions, and our brain & behavior science correspondent, Shankar Vendantam, provides some possible explanations for why people react so strongly when it comes to questions raised about organic food. Hint: There are a variety of motivations for buying organic, many of which have to do with personal values and perceptions, rather than scientific reasons, Vendantam explains.
Rest assured, this isn't the last word on organics, either from us or from science.
Let's follow up, now, on a story that prompted a powerful reaction from many listeners - to this program. We reported on a Stanford University study on the healthful effects of organic food, or the lack of them. The study found little evidence so far, to suggest that there is a health benefit to buying and eating organic food.
Many listeners were disappointed by the findings of the study, and our reporting on it. For example, Jason Todd of Bogalusa, Louisiana, argued that we were, quote, "using the results to criticize the idea of organic foods." People had so many questions, that we're going to try to answer some more of them, starting with NPR's Allison Aubrey, who's in our studios. Welcome back to the program.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Hi, Steve. Happy to be here.
INSKEEP: And let's remember, first, that the study did not say there's no benefit. It said that so far, researchers have been unable to identify a benefit, a health benefit. It's a little different, right?
AUBREY: That's exactly right. I think that - you know, the question that lots of people want answered is this: If I spend the money on organic; if I buy and eat organic now, am I somehow reducing the risk of - say, developing a disease, or a cancer, 10 or 20 years down the line? And unfortunately, this question can't be answered now because the study - or studies - that would be needed to determine this, have, simply, never been done.
INSKEEP: And the Stanford University survey of studies also wasn't looking at environmental effects of pesticides in foods, or so forth. It was health effects of eating organic - which prompted questions like this one, from Eugene Marner(ph) of Franklin, New York. Quote, "Do the fiction writers who put this piece of corporate propaganda together even understand what is meant by health? What is NPR up to now, shilling for Monsanto?" That's the question, so let me ask: Who funded this Stanford University study?
AUBREY: Well, this analysis was done by researchers at Stanford University, as you just said. And the study was completely funded internally by the university; no outside funding. One of the researchers that I interviewed, she's also a practicing doctor. She sees patients. And she says, she hears so often the question from patients - you know, is eating organic better? - that she decided to take a look at the evidence.
INSKEEP: OK. So whatever criticism you may have of the study, it would not be about the funding. It appears to be funded just by the university. But there is another question here about the actual findings of this study, saying they can't find evidence of health benefits to eating organic food. James Johnson of Windsor, California, writes: I honestly can't believe that a scientist in this day and age would make the claim that pesticides building up in the human body does not matter.
And it certainly does seem intuitive; that it's better not to be ingesting pesticides than to be ingesting pesticides, Allison.
AUBREY: Well, I think this goes back to the answer I started with; that if this is the question that people want answered, science has not answered it yet. We can make lots of assumptions, but if you look at the body of evidence that these researchers were reviewing, they're mostly short-term, narrow studies.
For instance, they're looking at - if pregnant women and their children eat organic, are they going to be less inclined to have allergic conditions; say, eczema? And when they look at that body of evidence, they don't see any big signs of big benefits. But as the researchers told me - that some of the findings are what they call hypothesis-generating; meaning, they look at the data, and they see a subgroup of people for whom maybe there's an influence between these two things. So...
INSKEEP: Meaning that maybe in some cases, there is some possibility of an organic benefit. But in studies lasting several years, they have yet to uncover it for sure.
AUBREY: That's exactly right.
INSKEEP: And at the same time, is part of this that, at least according to the government - according to the EPA - even food that is non-organic does not have massive amounts of pesticide that would be associated with it.
AUBREY: Well, what the researchers found here is that for the vast majority of conventionally grown food, the foods are well within the thresholds that are set by federal standards. So, you know, whether you want to call that super-low, I mean, that's sort of a judgment. But they're well within the standards that have been worked out.
INSKEEP: We actually got a response, also, from a listener who said we were being too nice to organic food. This is Will Zander(ph) of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The following comment should have been attributed to Wayne Parrott, a listener in Athens, Ga.] who writes: You guys need to stop propagating the myth that organic is pesticide-free. Far from it - he writes. Organic relies primarily on natural pesticides, as opposed to synthetic pesticides. But at the end of the day, a pesticide is still a pesticide.
Is that true, Allison?
AUBREY: Well, I think this listener makes a really interesting point. Organic farmers also need to control pests, right? You can't have pests, and funguses, ruining your crop. There are a whole list of natural products, including some naturally derived pesticides they can use. And they're still chemicals, but the distinction here is that they're naturally derived, as opposed to synthetic.
INSKEEP: Which brings us to another issue: the definition of organic. There are a lot of terms that get thrown around. It's easy to confuse them. Eating locally is something different than eating organic. Dealing with genetically modified organisms is something a little different than organic, although there's some overlap. Let's just remember what the definition of organic food is.
AUBREY: Well, this is complicated, but let me give you the basics. The USDA actually has a uniform set of standards that organic farmers have to follow. And in essence, it means that for organic produce - fruits and vegetables - farmers are producing these foods without the use of most conventional synthetic pesticides, or fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients. And for organic meat, poultry, eggs and dairy, these products come from animals that are generally, not given antibiotics or growth hormones.
INSKEEP: So it's pretty complicated, which makes it hard for people to make decisions - which is why we're going to bring another voice into the program. NPR's Shankar Vendantam monitors social science research, and he's going to give us a look into our brains on this complicated topic.
Hi, Shankar.
SHANKAR VENDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, Steve.
INSKEEP: So how do people manage a complicated decision like this?
VENDANTAM: Well, I think there are a couple of different crosscurrents going on here, Steve. So I looked at some work done by Renee Hughner. She's a researcher at Arizona State University. And she finds, in some ways, there's a mismatch in why people eat organic foods.
So if you ask people, they say that the two main reasons they eat organic food are because it's nutritious, and because it's good for the environment. But she also finds there are a whole bunch of emotional values that are tied up with eating organic food. So people who eat organic food tend to value altruism. They tend to value benevolence. They tend to value spirituality. And organic food has gotten wrapped up in all of these values that don't necessarily have to do with the very specific things that science studies.
INSKEEP: Which is exactly what we heard from Jason Todd of Louisiana, the man we mentioned earlier - because he goes on to write: Buying organic is a way for consumers to exercise our right to know what we are putting into our bodies, and the bodies of our loved ones. It's about choice, not health - which is, essentially, saying he doesn't care whether the studies find it's more healthy or not. That's not the bottom line for him.
VENDANTAM: Yeah, I think that's right. I mean, many consumers are having to choose right now between a whole bunch of different issues that are very hard for individuals to look at. So, I mean, it used to be that when you looked at food, food was either healthy or it was not healthy - you know, fried food or salads.
Now, people are being asked to make ecological decisions, environmental decisions, ethical decisions, economic decisions. And sometimes, these decisions play against one another. So the thing that makes the most ecological sense, might not make the most economic sense. You know, it used to be that when you bought organic, you were just supporting the small, local farmer. Organic now has become a giant business.
And so there are these tensions between what we want organic to be at a psychological level, and what it actually does at a practical level. And the science is very good at telling us at the practical level what's going on. But sometimes, that could feel like the science is attacking our values.
INSKEEP: NPR's Shankar Vendantam and Allison Aubrey, thanks to you both.
AUBREY: Thanks, Steve.
VENDANTAM: Thanks, Steve.
INSKEEP: We're glad you've heard this discussion on this local public radio station. And you can continue the discussion with us throughout the day. We're on social media. We're on Facebook. You can also find us on Twitter. Among other places on Twitter, we are @MORNINGEDITION and @NPRInskeep. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Some "Bad" John Waynes On DVD --- Part 2
Jet Pilot's long been a handy receptacle for critical derision --- the butt of a hundred old movie jokes, forever tied to the whipping post along with The Conqueror. It's pure reflex that cites these two as John Wayne's all-time worst. For years, they were impossible to see. During Howard Hughes' lifetime, he kept them out of circulation. A few prints of Jet Pilot traveled among collectors, but it would be well into the eighties before either would see daylight on TV or video. Having it available on DVD may not rehabilitate its tarnished reputation, but at least we can enjoy what is at times a visually stunning show, featuring one of the most breathtaking glamour turns this tired old viewer has ever seen. Jet Pilot was meant to be the next Hell's Angels. Howard Hughes wanted to go the old picture one better by staging bigger and better dogfights with jets instead of bi-planes. He started in 1949, and obsessed over it for the next eight years. By the time Universal released Jet Pilot in September 1957, it was an old movie, with older airplanes. Even the biggest campaign in U-I's history couldn't save this one from critical drubbing and disastrous word-of-mouth. In the end, Hughes took back the negative and spent most of the next two decades watching it by himself on a tabletop projector. It ended up being the most expensive home movie ever made.
Robert Mitchum was originally set for the lead in Jet Pilot. Wayne stepped in after signing a multi-picture deal with Hughes. They were buddies off-screen. Howard wanted to be Duke, and Wayne couldn't help being impressed with a man so powerful he could seemingly make clocks stop at will. Shooting began on Halloween 1949 under the direction of cast-off tyro director Josef Von Sternberg, whose comeback was breathlessly reported by lifelong acolyte Herman G. Weinberg in The New York Times. My films were protests against other films at the time, said the master craftsman after eight years in cinematic Siberia, and worship-the-ground-he-walked-on Weinberg was tactful enough to omit satchels full of anecdotes detailing Jo's on-set tyranny and abuses --- but even this Captain Bligh with a megaphone was no match for Hughes' controlling ways. Sternberg (shown here with Janet Leigh and on the crane directing a dance sequence) wasn't involved with the flying shots in any case. Multiple second units shot those on a total of fourteen different air bases from Alaska to Florida. Sixteen initial months were given over to the aerial stuff, and there's reason to believe Hughes continued gathering jet footage beyond even that. MGM head Dore Schary had loaned Janet Leigh to co-star, but he never dreamed this project would drag so far into the next decade. He would later recall Hughes' request for Janet's further services --- seems Howard wanted retakes on Jet Pilot --- three years after principal photography had ended. I have had my bellyfull, said Hughes to Schary shortly before the show was finally released, and indeed this would be his final project before the cameras.
Anybody else would have wanted this one wrapped up A.S.A.P. --- seeing as how the jet fad wasn't going to last forever --- but Hughes dawdled while Chain Lightning, Breaking The Sound Barrier, and other supersonics took to the skies. Despite his occasional updating of the flight footage (which, of course, no one had seen), similar projects flew away with Jet Pilot's potential audience. Press releases and gossip continued to appear as the fifties wore on, but Hughes wouldn't let it go. Sternberg had long since been booted off the project --- Wayne oft expressed a desire to "kill the sonofabitch." --- pinch-hit directors Nicholas Ray and Jules Furthman (who'd also been associate producer and writer) were brought aboard for the seemingly endless retakes. When Universal finally took custody (Hughes having sold RKO in the meantime), they wisely opted for saturation release with a whopping 400 prints opening day-and-date (the better to get patron's money before a stench got out). Commenting on years of press coverage now in the morgues, Jet Pilot's pressbook openly inquired of showmen, How much of this penetration has been retained --- How much of it has faded with time? Harrison's Reports said Universal was spending unprecedented dollars on a new campaign. I wonder how much of this Hughes footed. Critics were merciless, as expected, commenting on how "youthful" the two stars looked in a now ancient vehicle (must have made Janet feel good reading those reviews). Others observed that the planes were "obsolete and out of date" (as if they'd know the difference between a B-45 and a dill pickle). What may have wounded Hughes most were harsh comparisons between Jet Pilot and Paramount's recent Strategic Air Command, which had the benefit of up-to-the-minute air technology and Vistavision in the bargain. Panoramic projection had become a must since bygone days when Jet Pilot was in production, but U-I solved that by going with ersatz wide prints that played havoc with Sternberg's elegant compositions. Later 16mm prints and videos were full-frame as intended, but Universal's new DVD goes back to 1.85. Too bad. They could have at least offered it both ways.
Sixties and thereafter critics speak of Jet Pilot in terms of "cold war hysteria." "Piquant Howard Hughes sex farce" is how I prefer to think of it. I'm betting he got together with Howard Hawks on some of the gags and situations in this show. More than once, I was reminded of The Thing (which RKO would have been shooting at the same time). Janet Leigh's renegade Russian flyer might just as easily have touched down at Captain Hendrys airbase, leaving that titular super-carrot to bedevil John Wayne and Paul Fix. Imagine Kenneth Tobey engaged in saucy repartee with Janet! As it is, there's a scene in both pictures where guys enter a room from the frigid outside, being admonished by those within to "Close the door!" He may have been the biggest yank-off in town, but Jo Von Sternberg knew a thing or three about photography and direction. Everything he did for Dietrich in the thirties is surpassed here --- only this time it's in color. Howard and Jo are a great team in Jet Pilot, whatever you may have heard to the contrary. For every blandishment he got about Jane Russell, this is where Hughes really delivered on the sex. Every close-up of Janet Leigh is drop-dead incredible. Never mind cold war hysterics. Buy it just to look at her. Jet Pilot is too stupid and raunchy for most critical sensibilities. The dialogue's reminiscent of those Playboy Party Jokes we used to read on the back of the centerfolds, and all the more unsettling to hear John Wayne delivering it. He's a lot like Clark Gable taming Hedy Lamarr in Comrade X, only smuttier and more direct. You'd expect him to eventually chuck the love stuff and get on with mopping up commies, but the sex pursuit remains front and center throughout. Hughes just didn't find anything else remotely as interesting, and neither did I --- which brings us to those celebrated airborne scenes. Those are the real drag. None of these jets ever get in a fight. They just fly aimlessly about to no good purpose. I never understood what they were supposed to be doing up there, other than looking for fluffy clouds to serve as an arresting backdrop. I kept waiting for them to land so maybe Janet Leigh would take another shower. Have I sold you on this picture yet? Don't imagine for a moment that it's "good." Nothing of the kind, but if you're looking for a warm-up to that big Ford/Wayne box set coming next week, you could do a lot worse than this.


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For the week ending Sept. 17, cotton bolls opening had occurred on 80 percent of the acreage in Arizona, six percentage points higher than last year but eight percentage points lower than the five-year average. One week earlier bolls open stood at 75 percent.
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), cotton harvesting was completed on 10 percent of the acreage compared to 4 percent last year and the five-year average of 6 percent. Completed harvesting reported on Sept. 11 was at 7 percent.
Cotton condition was rated 43 percent fair, 42 percent good, 10 percent excellent and 5 percent good.
The alfalfa harvest was active on over three-quarters of the state's acreage. NASS reported alfalfa conditions as 49 percent good, 34 percent fair, 12 percent excellent and 5 percent poor.
Arizona range and pasture conditions remained mostly very poor to fair - 29 percent reported fair, 22 percent poor, 31 percent very poor, 15 percent good and 3 percent excellent.
Temperatures were mostly below normal, ranging from 7 degrees below normal at Paloma to 3 degrees above normal at Grand Canyon. The highest temperature of the week was 105 degrees at Roll and Parker. The lowest reading was 25 degrees at the Grand Canyon.
In precipitation, Douglas received the most at 1.25 inches. St. Johns had the least rainfall at .01 inches.


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I got into a debate with a professor of mine today and we can't seem to agree on a solution...
We were discussing the cataloging of evidence from compromised hosts, and we came to the subject of sending that data to a remote computer with netcat. I brought up the point that by sending the data across a network from an untrusted machine, you are employing a possibly compromised OSI stack and therefore the integrity of your evidence and its accountability in court as well.
His argument to this was that if the OSI stack had been compromised on a machine, it would not work at all. I do not agree. I would think that if a host was compromised, it would certainly be possible to modify the stack subtly enough to alter simple text data being sent across such as that acquired during an initial investigation.
Has there ever been a successful compromise, or even a proof of concept, proving that it would be possible to replace the OSI stack on a compromised host with one that could alter data being sent out?


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Comedy Central Orders Ten Episodes of Broad City
Produced by Amy Poehler.
The Amy Poehler–produced Broad City has gotten a ten-episode order from Comedy Central. Adapted from their web series, it stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer as two New Yorkers trying not to get beat down by the city. The show was originally in development at FX. Always one to stockpile, Comedy Central is slating the show for sometime in 2014. Poehler commented: "I'm excited to work with Comedy Central and introduce Abbi and Ilana to America. And all the other countries. And also Mars. We've got big plans." Hopefully, those plans include becoming our best friend for ever and always.