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Existence after mortal death...
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So; "I'm not a crazy person. I'm a prophet"? Or "I'm not a crazy person, I'm the next stage in human evolution and have an extra sensory perception"?
Give me your argument in the form of a published paper, and then we can start to talk.
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(27-01-2013 06:23 AM)Hafnof Wrote: So; "I'm not a crazy person. I'm a prophet"? Or "I'm not a crazy person, I'm the next stage in human evolution and have an extra sensory perception"?"I'm not a crazy person, I'm a sane person with a slightly anomalous sensory gating." I pay the price of clumsiness and distraction, but I might help answer the question what reality is our brain hiding from us.
The brain censors more than 99% of the perceived sensoric reality and focuses our perception according to an arbitrary, outdated criteria, that is avoiding the big cats and hunting prey. Then I get born with a brain that fails to do the censorship properly among a few other things, so I get a little impression of what the brain hides in most people to make us all neat and well-functioning. Of course, during the good old times I'd be the first to be caught by a sabertooth tiger. It's not a next stage in evolution, it's a lesson. As long as people's thalamus is censoring our senses properly as the mother evolution commands, it will keep us in ignorance. We could disrupt it with drugs, but drugs are useless, they allow our internal imaginings to contaminate the perception, this is not what we need.
It remains yet to be seen what kind of a lesson. Medical, scientific, cultural, or paradigm-changing? I doubt the latter, the paradigm is quite rigid today.
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I laughed at that.
The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
"Anti-environmentalism is like standing in front of a forest and going 'quick kill them they're coming right for us!'" - Jake Farr-Wharton, The Imaginary Friend Show.
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(27-01-2013 07:42 AM)Free Thought Wrote: I laughed at that.So what? It's a conversation. Nobody has any evidence at the table yet. No point in getting offended when someone's laughing. Nobody will be open-minded here, including myself, until I get some evidence. At most we can talk some possibilities, but that's optional.
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I laughed because you are making as case, but did not seem to specify anything about it, for example, what exactly our brains are supposedly hiding from us.
Also, assuming simply because you are having a conversation, nobodies mind will change or that they are all closed, is simply a silly position. Strictly speaking, there is no difference between a conversation and a discussion (You seemed to force a schism between the two in an earlier post), both are the exchange of ideas though words, possibilities or solid facts, makes no difference. One just seems more casual than the other, so there is no reason why a person should not have an open mind in a conversation, when they might have one everywhere else.
Nor have you seemed to bring evidence supporting your.. position.. so it hardly seems fair to assume that evidence must be provided to you without your doing the same, in order to start being open minded.
Frankly, I think you need some work phrasing things, but don't we all.
The people closely associated with the namesake of female canines are suffering from a nondescript form of lunacy.
"Anti-environmentalism is like standing in front of a forest and going 'quick kill them they're coming right for us!'" - Jake Farr-Wharton, The Imaginary Friend Show.
27-01-2013, 08:58 AM (This post was last modified: 27-01-2013 09:22 AM by Luminon.)
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(27-01-2013 08:19 AM)Free Thought Wrote: I laughed because you are making as case, but did not seem to specify anything about it, for example, what exactly our brains are supposedly hiding from us.Sure, I figure out how to express things better as I go along. It takes time and learning.
What are our brains hiding from us? Almost everything. Ever heard the metaphor of cosmic burka? I think Richard Dawkins uses it to describe how our eyes see only a narrow band of visible light. If it was made into a centimeters wide gap for eyes in a burka, then this burka would stretch whole kilometers up and down, for all the equally large bands of frequencies that we don't see. Medically speaking, sensory gating is a real thing, it allows us to function without sensory overload. Those with afflicted sensory gating (like me) are prone to sensory overload. IIRC, the exact number was 99.96% of data received by the brain do not make it into our consciousness.
But what specifically does the brain hide? Look at my picture. I'd say it's the awareness of the fields, conduits and vortexes that some cultures called subtle bodies, chakras and nadis. Because this is what I feel I have and it matches the Indian and Chinese sources. That's what my senses tell me, it wasn't my idea. So the question is, how much of the input I have is fabricated by some subconscious beliefs and how much is simply a hole in hippocampus.
What do you mean by exchange of ideas?
I'd say conversation is merely a presentation of ideas, no exchange. We have to adjust our expectations. If there's no common ground, like an objective evidence, all we can check is if the other guy makes an error in logic, but we can't check his premises. Philosophy is at the beginning of everything. If neglect the philosophic groundwork, we can go forward in whatever we do, but we'll choose a wrong way and realize the failure only when it's too late.
I'd say people can discuss because they have a common ground. If they have a common ground, they can influence each other's reality. For example, they have objective evidence and they're rational, which means they obey the evidence. So they can trump each other by presenting the evidence. Or they argue something logical, they fully share their premises and so they can refute each other's flaws in interpreting these shared premises.
Which is why discussing afterlife or ESP is rather pointless, these are very subjective experiences, they don't have much shared common ground. We can of course post links to NDE studies and express our disbelief, but these are rather self-evident things.
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(27-01-2013 08:58 AM)Luminon Wrote:(27-01-2013 08:19 AM)Free Thought Wrote: I laughed because you are making as case, but did not seem to specify anything about it, for example, what exactly our brains are supposedly hiding from us.Sure, I figure out how to express things better as I go along. It takes time and learning.
The evidence that you are receiving input that others are not is zero, nil, nada. The evidence that your brain is generating it non-zero; you are already aware that your sensory interpretation system is compromised in other ways.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
27-01-2013, 11:01 AM (This post was last modified: 27-01-2013 11:28 AM by Luminon.)
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(27-01-2013 09:45 AM)Chas Wrote: The evidence that you are receiving input that others are not is zero, nil, nada. The evidence that your brain is generating it non-zero; you are already aware that your sensory interpretation system is compromised in other ways.Strictly speaking, your evidence for both is zero. You simply read things on the net about a guy you never saw. You consider one possibility more likely and you're willing to believe me on what you choose. Fortunately, there is a common ground here, so we can argue. There are two ways that a sensory interpretation system can be compromised.
- sensory integration (receiving input that others are not)
- sensory fabrication (fabricating input that others are not)
Let's take an example of sensory fabrication. When a person takes a hallucinogenic drug, the experiences and hallucinations witnessed vary from trip to trip, from person to person, even from moment to moment. The drug simply breaks down the barrier between creative areas of the brain and receptive areas of the brain. This is a very serious condition, it often severely affects the person's ability to function in daily life, resulting in hallucinations, paranoia, disorientation, hospitalization and institutionalization...
Sensory integration is something fundamentally different. The hippocampus is a highway processing millions of bits per second. Only a few dozen or so of them per second are directed into our conscious perception areas, where they can be, for example, stored in memory. This is important, otherwise we'd end up like some people, who remember exactly every day of their life in detail. However, every single bit on the hippocampus is a piece of reality. It's as close to reality as we can get.
Hippocampus makes sure that we get only as much reality as we can consciously handle. But what if this hippocampus has a few faulty signs or lights? What if one road, the road of touch sense, gets more traffic than in normal people? What if it gets not only more traffic, but a traffic from a lane that in most people is never conscious?
In autism spectrum disorders, which is something you hopefully believe me, the problems with sensory integration are common, they're almost a necessary criterion for diagnosis. There is little tendency fabrication, quite opposite, Aspies are extremely non-fabricating people, extremely concrete, literal, bluntly honest, obsessed with precise, detailed descriptions. To accuse me of making up things is quite absurd.
However, such parents will tell you how their children absolutely can't stand certain special sensory input, because it comes in too strong. Some absolutely hate certain textures of food or clothes, some consider unbearable the feeling of water falling on the scalp, so they avoid showering, etc. There is no rule in this, that disorder of hippocampus is totally individual. For example, I absolutely can't stand materials like velvet. I can't even think of touching it. And the anomalous feeling of esoteric things I have is actually very fine, very subtle, very... velvety. If I am over-sensitive to such a feeling, if I get more sensory signal of this kind, then a real velvet is a torture to me. It's really an interesting coincidence.
So basically, Chas, you can't decide whether one receives input or makes it up. This is classified in the diagnostic statistical manual and be assured, these two don't go together on autism spectrum. They might go together in synaesthesia and perhaps schizophrenia, but these conditions are easily disproven.
Another interesting thing, there really is something with my touch sense integration. When I smoked cannabis, it made this perception much stronger, even painful. At the same time, it changed my normal sensitivity. The whole body became so sensitive, that I felt clothes into detail. To be inside clothes was a feeling like being naked in a bulky space suit. It wasn't unpleasant, but now it makes sense how some autistic children like to throw clothes away and run around in underwear (or without) - the texture of cloth is just too rough for them. Another piece of puzzle for the doctor. That's why I don't smoke pot, it does things to me I don't like and that it doesn't do to other people.
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(27-01-2013 08:58 AM)Luminon Wrote: Sure, I figure out how to express things better as I go along. It takes time and learning.Our brains aren't hiding almost everything from us, I have heard of Dawkins' Cosmic Burka before. If I remember correctly, he used it to describe limiting factors within the human body which affect perceptions, and related it against our "perfect design" for instance, the eye, if memory does indeed serve me correctly. It is not that our brains hide things like higher or lower light frequencies, the brain simply cannot receive them as our eyes are too limited to register them, it is not hiding it at all. However, we can build things which allow us to "see" them as waves, radiation or other things, so we can know they exist.
I am also familiar with the cocktail party effect and it's ilk. Our brain does not filter things out entirely, it just lowers the 'volume' on things which to not require immediate attention. However this does not include things that the human body cannot physically register, such as too high or low pitch noises. But again, we can make things to register them and allow our observation.
I find it amusing that you bring up your apparent awareness of fields, when recently, you seemed to lack an understanding of how electromagnetic fields work. If a thing like chakra existed, we would have been able to detect it by now as they are typically described: Ie an energy. It could be argued that the electrical energy created within the brain could be a chakra, however, we know the electro-chemical energy made in our Thinkin' Sponges is certainly not of a supernatural source, nor is it special, so putting forward that sort of idea, if you were planning on doing so, is pretty pointless. It is more than likely that your mind concocted this supposed awareness of fields, to what purpose, I cannot speculate, however the brain does a habit of creating a bubble for itself to protect it in a similar manner; that which conforms comes in, but detractions stay out.
By the "exchange of ideas", it is very obvious what I mean; whether through discussion or conversation, alternate ideas are presented. Regardless of how determined you are to pigheadedly ignore points brought up by others in the conversation, your brain will still receive the messages and be churning over them, just as it is churning over the body language and vocal tones of the person, looking for signs of anything from them normally.
We can check almost everything in a conversation, at least so long as it is in a format like this: purely text with no response times, in a normal (face to face) conversation, that might not hold so true. However, exactly the same can be said for a discussion: There is no major difference between the two, the words, are interchangeable. We can check the premise of an argument, by simply asking "What is your reason for X", "What lead you to your conclusion", or by examining the argument laid before us, and reversing Modus Ponens: If this if their B, what is their A. (If this is their conclusion/result, what is their premise), granted that is simply guessing all gussyied up, but it is directed somewhat, as opposed to the random nature of a guess normally.
Philosophy can only go so far, as such, I disagree that it is the beginning of everything, which is why I am prone to making the disparaging comment "It's all philoso-bull anyway", in a society and age, where information that the philosophers of ancient Greece would be having wet-dreams about, if only they could have imagined it, is accessible speculating a philosophical "Why" is relatively unimportant. We can be sure of the physical "Why" (Why something happened, I.E, the physical cause which resulted in "it", whatever it may be) with most things now. Philosophy might maintain the air of being involved in all things, but that is simply a human made illusion, similar to 2+2=4 being an assessment of an A Priori truth, rather than evidenced fact. People have attached all kinds of philosophy to all manner of things, which existed long before the words of philosophy ever did.
Again, you are creating a schism between discussion and conversation, the two are more or less interchangeable. If you wish to present an argument, you should present your premise at the beginning, you'd hardly write a report without an introduction, no?
Even if you feel discussing ESP or the afterlife is pointless, it can be done, even without evidence, you can argue logic and reasoning behind a set of statements as usually, people will defend their logic; think of it as an anti-non sequitur, if your opponent starts with a solid premise but has a false conclusion, or countering the false premise if theirs was faulty to begin with, rather than attacking an unassailable position in the first place. You could also argue from a lack of evidence; The less evidence for a belief, the less justified it is, if there is none, it is not justified. That should force your opponent into producing some form of evidence to attack.
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Quote:It's the statistics.Ok, then where are the thousands of people who have the exact same perceptive anomaly that you are claiming? By your own account, that's what would make it real and valid.
Also, there are children who are schizophrenic. I don't know when the time is they diagnose, but people who will later be diagnosed may show the exact same symptoms in childhood as in adulthood. And certainly there are children with hallucinations, so I'm not sure the idea of hallucinations only manifesting in adulthood is valid.
As for the hallucinations changing according to chemicals in the brain, according to what I've read, it's more that sometimes they are "normal" and without hallucinations, and then other times they are "sick(er)" and having hallucinations. I don't know the statistics, but I don't think it's uncommon for the same hallucination to keep happening for a damn long time.
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November 11. 2012 10:28PM
Scene in Manchester: Wed³'s winning windows work for local charities
BY KATIE McQUAID
Special to The New Hampshire Union Leader
WHILE SOME of you are enjoying a day off from work on this Veterans Day Monday, the employees at wed³ are as busy as Santa's elves creating the company's annual holiday window displays.
This is the fourth year wed³ will decorate its 20 Market St. building's windows. Past years' scenes have included wed³ elves, scenes from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "The Polar Express" and a toy soldier. Last year was the first time a public vote was taken for a People's Choice window. The winning theme was the party scene from "Home Alone."
This year wed³ is involving the public more than ever. Online voting for the window theme ended on Thursday, and wed³ employees have split into four teams in a competition to design the best window based on the winning theme, "The Off Season." Teams have until the end of the month to design and install displays that show what happens at the North Pole the other 364 days of the year. The windows will be revealed on Monday, Dec. 3, and the public can vote for their favorite on Facebook until Dec. 21.
Each team also has been assigned one of four local nonprofits to incorporate into its window design. The nonprofits - the Manchester Animal Shelter, David's House at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, Special Olympics New Hampshire and the YMCA's Youth Opportunities Unlimited Program - can win money by getting supporters to vote for their window. Each organization that gets at least 250 votes will get $250, and the nonprofit with the window that gets the most votes will win an additional $500 plus $2,000 worth of creative work from wed³.
Many companies give to nonprofits every year, but I like wed³'s plan to turn its giving into a team-building exercise. Stay tuned to The Scene to hear how the competition unfolds.
Kudos from the club
Congratulations to
John Clayton, Kevin Clougherty
Bill Marvin
for their induction into the Manchester Boys & Girls Club Hall of Fame last week. This is the fourth year the city club has honored individuals who are either alumni or strong supporters who have made a significant impact on the organization and the community.
Clayton is no stranger to readers of the New Hampshire Union Leader. While the longtime writer of the "In the City" column was a member of the Manchester Boys Club, his favorite activities included ping pong, bumper pool and basketball. And it's no surprise he also loved the library. Today he is VP of communications for the New Hampshire Hospital Association, and his contributions to this newspaper are missed. (Believe me. Readers like to remind me often.)
Clougherty grew up in the club gym and was influenced by many of its staff members. After serving as the city's chief financial officer for nearly 20 years, he is now commissioner for the state Department of Revenue. I think he deserves a separate award for all the abuse he's likely taken from elected officials.
Marvin operated the Manchester Manpower office for more than 25 years and is a longtime and generous supporter of the Boys & Girls Club. I've had the pleasure of knowing him since my days in the Manchester Rotary Club. He often sends me nice emails to remind me that my father is a lousy golfer.
Holidays on the run
I've just signed up for two road races to help take off some of the stress of the holidays. The Fisher Cats Thanksgiving Day 5K begins at 9 a.m. at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. That allows time to sleep in a little and still get some exercise before heading over to Gill Stadium for the 10:15 a.m. Turkey Bowl football game between Central and Trinity high schools.
The Santa Shuffle follows on Dec. 1. The first 2,500 people to sign up for this 5K race get a Santa suit to wear during the event. Last year was the first for this race, and it was so fun to see a sea of Santas heading up and down Elm Street moments before the start of the Manchester Christmas Parade. Kids' races start at 2:45 p.m., followed by the regular race at 3:15 and the parade at 4:15.
event of the week
I had always assumed the Theatre Knights was just the drama club for Manchester High School West, but it's actually a young people's theater company open to any student in grades 8 through 12 enrolled in a public or private school in Manchester. I came across the group's website after seeing a posting for their upcoming production of "Blithe Spirit" on
"Blithe Spirit," a comic play about a sķance gone wrong, will be performed at the West auditorium on Wednesday at 3 p.m. and Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. Senior citizens can attend the Wednesday show for free.
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Former Sixers coach Tony DiLeo addressed the media today in his first public comments since withdrawing his name from consideration for the job Monday. DiLeo, who took over for the fired Maurice Cheeks in December, will return to his front office role as assistant general manager and vice president.
"It was a tough decision," DiLeo said. "When you are a head coach in the NBA, it's so demanding, 24 hours a day you're either preparing, watching film, practicing, coaching or thinking about the team and what you can do better. If I decided to be a candidate, I would have to look at it for next 3, 4 years, this is what I wanted to do. That was a situation, that right now in my professional and personal life, I did not want to make that decision. Family has a lot to do with it. When you're a head coach, you're looking at the short term day to day. In management, you're looking more how to build a team, for the long term, to winning a championship. Now to I will cherish returning to that role."
DiLeo said he would consider a return to coaching in the future, but this "was the best decision for me at this time."
DiLeo said the team's blowout loss to Orlando in Game 6 of the playoffs that ended the Sixers' season did not impact his decision to not pursue the job.
"That one game really had no effect," he said. "The overall body of work was there."
After that game, center Theo Ratliff criticized DiLeo, who said "I had no problem with Theo." Forward Andre Igoudala also did not give a glowing vote of confidence to DiLeo or advocate for his return.
"I liked the players, respect the players, had a good relationship with the players," DiLeo said. "That did not weigh into my decision."
DiLeo said that he did not want to pursue the job, simply because the opportunities to be a head coach in the NBA are so rare.
"It is a great opportunity and I enjoyed it," he said. "I had to do it for the right reasons. To look at because there are only 30 jobs and look as an opportunity, that would not be the right reasons for me. The right (thing) for me is to go back up to management and try to help this team win."
DiLeo said he thought he would have "input in that process" to select a new coach, although it would be team president Ed Stefanski's decision.
He said the experience as a coach will help him as he returns to management and said he had "a lot of ideas to help the team."
"It was a great experience, being able to coach these players," he said. "For me, being in management, I have a better idea of being eye to eye with the players in game situations. That will be better for me to evaluate the team, better for me to evaluate each player. Something from a management position sitting upstairs you just don't get."
DiLeo said he expected the Sixers to remain an up-tempo team and continue to play at a fast pace.
"We were one of the best fastbreak teams in the league, one of the most exciting teams in the league," he said.
"Even though the coach was not that exciting," he added, deadpan.


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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will make final decisions on the proposals.
All meetings begin at 7 p.m.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Smarting after a bruising loss in state elections, Venezuela's opposition will now be forced to reassess its strategy and rebuild quickly to prepare for presidential elections that many expect could be called to replace ailing President Hugo Chavez.
Chavez's bleak outlook after his fourth cancer-related surgery in Cuba last week appears to have galvanized his supporters, making Vice President Nicolas Maduro a tough candidate to beat in new elections, which under the constitution would be called within 30 days if the president dies, is incapacitated or steps down.
"It is a 30-day period that is going to be infused with all of the heightened emotion around Chavez's departure," said Cynthia Arnson, an analyst at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. "The sympathy vote and the fervor of the Chavista base to come out and vote for the continuation of the revolution will be very high."
Maduro would also get a boost from a socialist party that swept 20 of 23 state elections in Sunday's gubernatorial elections. One of the three anti-Chavez candidates who held off the onslaught was Henrique Capriles, who lost to Chavez in October's presidential vote but is now widely considered the opposition's best hope against Maduro.
Capriles played down that possibility when asked if he would run for president again.
"It isn't the time to be making those calculations," Capriles told reporters Sunday night. "There will be time."
He added that it was Chavez's government that raised the possible scenario of new elections, and he questioned the idea of a hand-picked successor inheriting power.
"Leaders aren't decreed. They're built," said Capriles, who seemed in campaign mode wearing a baseball cap and track suit emblazoned with the yellow, blue and red of the Venezuelan flag.
On a national level, Chavez's allies won 4.7 million votes in the state elections, much less than the 8.1 million who voted for Chavez in October but still more than 970,000 votes ahead of the opposition.
The 53 percent voter turnout on Sunday was considerably lower than the more than 80 percent who cast ballots in October's presidential vote, and the high abstention affected both camps.
The vote was the first in Chavez's nearly 14-year-old presidency in which he has been unable to actively campaign. He hasn't spoken publicly since Tuesday's cancer surgery, and he remained out of sight while recovering in Cuba, accompanied by his four children and son-in-law.
Sunday's strong showing will likely give the president's confidants a freer hand to deepen his socialist policies, including a drive to fortify grass-roots citizen councils that are directly funded by the central government.
Arnson said she expects that Chavez's blessing of Maduro, amid an outpouring of emotion over the president's departure, would be a powerful ingredient for an election campaign.
The 50-year-old Maduro, a burly former bus driver, has shown unflagging loyalty and become a leading spokesman for the leftist leader while serving as foreign minister during the past six years. Chavez appointed Maduro vice president after winning re-election in October.
Maduro stood in for Chavez on Monday presiding over an annual ceremony marking the anniversary of independence hero Simon Bolivar's death. Troops stood at attention outside the National Pantheon while an orchestra and choir performed, led by star conductor Gustavo Dudamel. State television showed images of Bolivar's flag-draped coffin.
Afterward, Maduro called the elections an important victory but also noted that one government candidate, in Bolivar state, nearly lost due to a vote split by a second pro-Chavez contender. He said there had been similar problems in a few states.
"What would have happened if they had lost in those states?" Maduro told reporters. "We should reflect, and in those states where there were parallel candidacies we need to have a process of reunification. ... We're going to reunify all the patriotic, revolutionary forces."
"For the love of the nation, for the love of Chavez, we're going to unite our forces for the battles to come," Maduro said, without elaborating.
The government has spent heavily on social programs and new public housing projects around the country, with the spending boosting Chavez's image ahead of his re-election win in October. In the coming months, however, the government is expected to face new constraints on spending with the country's currency having slipped on the black market and its debt growing.
"With all its economic difficulties, the government will be hard-pressed to create new programs in the coming months. But it doesn't really need to," Arnson said. "Chavez's incapacity or death will trigger a tremendous outpouring of emotion, some of which is directly rooted in the social benefits that people have already received."
She and other analysts predict that Maduro would face challenges in trying to maintain unity within Chavez's party, and that he would constantly need to negotiate with different factions.
"The support for Chavez's party was broad yesterday. But this doesn't tell us how deep it is," said Adam Isacson, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America think tank. "Should Chavez depart the scene, no other leader has the same charisma and ability to keep the pro-Chavez coalition together for very long. His successor (Maduro) will have to deal with popular anger at crime, shortages, a likely devaluation, neglected infrastructure, and other looming problems."
The opposition faces its own tough questions after losing five of its governorships, including the country's most populous state, Zulia, an important oil production center.
Chavez is due to be sworn in for another term on Jan. 10. But if his condition forces him to step down before then, the president of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, would take over temporarily until elections are held.
Opposition coalition leader Ramon Guillermo Aveledo said in an interview on the Venezuelan TV channel Globovision that the defeats were "a very strong blow" and will prompt political soul-searching.
The opposition continues to be stymied by "the lack of a clear programmatic alternative to Chavez," said Miguel Tinker Salas, a Latin American studies professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He pointed out that Capriles tried to campaign against Chavez in the presidential vote by espousing more moderate policies akin to those of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, including preserving Chavez era social programs for the poor, and he still lost.
"In this election, except for their dislike of Chavez, most candidates did not offer an alternative," he said.
Associated Press writers Vivian Sequera in Caracas and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.


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Kids starting on a CARVE99 [2003] with kids rig
I'll try to teach windsurfing to my 11 y.o. daughter on a Carve99 with a 2.7 kids' rig.
Do you think it's ok? or should I put her on my Hybrid Formula board since it will be more stable?
|23rd May 2007, 11:46 PM
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no, its not okay.
kids can be challenged by difficult conditions, more likely though they will be put off. Make it easy for them to progress and they will.
|24th May 2007, 01:41 PM
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RE: Kids starting on a CARVE99 [2003] with kids rig
Agreed, best to learn the baics on the hybrid; jibing, regular turning, beachstart. So she get the hang of the positioning on a board and then you proceed to the C99 for the more difficult stuff.
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|24th May 2007, 08:56 PM
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Hi Roberto,
Your big Starboard Hybrid Formula will not be a good teaching board for a different set of reasons from the Carve 99.
And, while I'm sure you don't want to hear this, you are probably not a fully qualified kids windsurfing instructor.
If your 11 year old has expressed an interest in learning to windsurf (i.e. this is her idea) then the best way to get her started is at a kids camp put on by your local windsurfing association or club.
They should have the right types of boards/rigs and an instructional program that recognizes the special needs of kid sailors.
If learning to windsurf is not your daughter's idea, you will significantly decrease the probability for success if you teach her yourself, or teach her on gear that isn't going to work well for her.
And, you may only get one chance to have her learn and like the sport enough to stick with it.
Your 2.7 m2 kids rig will probably be as much a disaster on the Hybrid Formula as it will on the Carve 99.
The CE of a 2.7 m2 kids rig is practically at the mast, not well behind it like a 7.5 m2-12.5 m2 race sail which the Hybrid formula is designed for.
So, if you decide to do this anyway, make sure you put the mast foot absolutely as far back on the board as possible.
At first, it would be very good to find a big Start board and you go out with her, kneeling on the front of the board.
That's how I work with small kids and it's great. Safe, fun, and there's very little risk.
Take the board out yourself first (whether a Start, the Hybrid Formula, or something else) and you determine whether or not you have the board set up correctly so your daughter can sail across the wind and slightly upwind. If you can't get back to the same place you launched, how can she?
If you could find an older smaller "transition" board, with a center fin or centerboard that would be the cheapest way to get her a board that's going to work well.
Also, try the tether or tow board system I've been using.
Tie a small 3mm or 1/4" line with an 18" piece of 3/8 bungee cord spliced/tied in the middle between the mast foot on the tow board and the nose of the students board. The line needs to be about 5-6 m (15-18 feet) long.
Tell the student that their "job" is to keep slack in the rope.
The instructor, on the tow board, should have a similar sized rig to the students. The object here is not to "tow" the student, but to simply give the instructor some control over the students direction.
Anyway, good luck.
Remember to make this fun and don't push too hard. You may only get one chance at having her enjoy windsurfing, so try to do everything you can to make it a very positive experience.
Hope this helps,
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|25th May 2007, 01:39 AM
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If you don't have experience teaching in general and teaching kid in paticular I would advise you NOT to use your OWN kid as a guinea pig!
Teaching involves insight, anticipation and tons of experience teaching. Experts quite often are shit teacher, unless they are also experts at teaching too...
|25th May 2007, 02:44 AM
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Hi Crazychemical,
I apologize for stating what I have found to be the truth, 100's of times over the last 10 years.
As Duracell suggests, just because you are a surfer (windsurfer), and learned from your father, does not mean that you and your father did it the "easiest" way.
Kids camps focus on the kids having maximum fun, and less on learning to windsurf.
Kids have a farily short attention span, and they tire quickly when doing things (using muscles) that they've never done before.
So, kids camps are all about ensuring the kids have lots of fun, with kids their own age, while learning to windsurf.
They do things like "pile ups" (how many kids does it take to sink a Start board), let the kids just float around on a big board with no sail or mast foot and play "who's on the board" and who can get them off it.
It's fun and playfulness that will "hook" your child.
Also, teaching your own kids, or wife (significant other) something completely new is normally not a good idea because the problems that come up in the teaching/learning, get transferred somehow into the relationships.
I've heard this....." how can you love me, if when you were trying to teach me to windsurf, all you did was yell at me that I was doing it wrong". I guess you can see where this goes
But, it sounds like you are going to do it anyway.
So, kneel on the front of the hybrid formula and let your daughter do the sailing.
At first you can help her with uphauling, getting the board into alignment, stepping behind the mast foot, balancing the rig and sailing off across the wind.
Then you can help here through her first tacks and jibes.
You can put your hand on the bottom of the mast and help her at first, making sure she has good footwork and follows all the steps.
Then you slowly begin to let her take more and more of the load.
If anything happens, you can let her sit on the front of the board and you can sail back to shore or at least give her a "breather" while she recovers her stength and desire to windsurf.
Will you look ridiculous sailing a 2.7 m2 rig.... of course you will, but that's going to be your commitment to teaching your daughter safely, and giving her a fun learning experience.
I teach at least 100 kids per year, and have a very high success rate.
Many of them come back next year to sail with me, but won't sail with mom or dad because they get yelled at.
Do mom and dad teach them the "easy way to windsurf" techniques?
So, I can take them out on a board or use the tow system and the kid can sail around nicely, then they are off the tether and sailing completely on their own, in 10 or 15 minutes from the first time they step onto a board.
But next year they come back and have all these "bad habits" that don't make windsurfing easy. They picked up the bad habits from their parents and other well meaning sailors who haven't thought about what's the easiest way to learn to windsurf.
The techniques we use in the "A Taste of Windsurfing" are quite different from what you see most schools and most adults doing.
We've refined a number of different "technique sets"over the years to what really works for the most students (both adults and kids).
Wish I could come over to Italy and share these techniques with you.
Hope this helps,
|25th May 2007, 11:03 AM
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Hi Roger,
Since most of us can't come to see you at camps, any possibility you can make the "easy way to windsurf" available to the general public, aka parents/teacher wannabe?
YouTube video or the sort.
|25th May 2007, 11:14 AM
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Hi Drzone,
Hmmmmm... Youtube video.....?
Nice, I never thought of that.
I just may do something like what you are suggesting later this summer.
Most of the technique we use is already available on the US Sailing training site.
Also, US Windsurfing sells the "Beth Powell Simulator Drills" CD for a nominal fee.
This simulator sequence, slightly modified, is pretty much what we use.
Only real differences are we teach "a faster turn" tacking (driving the nose of the board up through the eye of the wind with sail power), and
stepping over the mast vice stepping around the mast.
Getting behind the mast foot, balancing the rig, rotate the shoulders (from the hips) to power up the rig, it all pretty much identical to the CD.
Hope this helps,
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In many powder/bulk handling environments, areas such as offices, labs, and electrical and server rooms need to be protected from dirty outdoor air conditions, from dust or fumes generated by an adjacent production process, or even from excess humidity that might seep in through walls or other openings. Dust infiltration in such spaces can create unpleasant working conditions while causing problems with critical equipment, especially electronics.
Pressurization is a well-known ventilation technique in which a positive or negative atmospheric pressure is applied to prevent dust infiltration. Positive pressure (known as "inflating the building") keeps particulate or gaseous contaminants out of a room, creating an air barrier between the outside and the inside. When you enter a positively pressurized environment from outside, you will feel the "whoosh" of air escaping due to the higher pressure of the air inside the room. Positive pressure can keep contaminated outside air from entering an office, server room, or other space.
Conversely, in a pharmaceutical facility where potent compounds are used, negative pressure may be applied – sometimes in conjunction with containment systems – to prevent the dust generated in a manufacturing process from cross-contaminating other areas of the plant.
To maintain air quality during either positive or negative pressurization, proper air filtration is a must. High efficiency ASHRAE-grade HVAC filters or HEPA filters are the most common solution, but cartridge-type industrial dust collectors can offer an effective and sometimes overlooked alternative – especially in situations where dust loads are very heavy. Following are the key questions to ask when considering this strategy:
1. What applications are appropriate for pressurizing with dust collectors?
The most common industries include cement and lime production, metal and coal mining, pharmaceutical processing, and grain processing. But the technique can really be used wherever high volumes of dust are generated. Areas that are most commonly protected through pressurization include control rooms, server rooms, manufacturing clean rooms, compressor rooms, offices, quality control labs, substations, and electrical equipment and motor control center (MCC) rooms.
2. How do I decide if pressurizing is right for my facility?
Begin by considering the type of dust, conditions inside and outside the space, and what (or whom) you are trying to protect. If workers in an office area are subjected to unacceptable levels of dust or fumes, you will need to clean up the air to protect occupants against health hazards, and ensure compliance with OSHA regulations for exposure.
If you are protecting electronic equipment costing $100,000 from damage, it will be worth investing in a $20,000 pressurizing system to protect that equipment. However, if a space is not occupied by workers and equipment is not of high value, pressurization may not be worth the expense.
3. What is the impact of climate?
The local climate might also impact your decision on whether to pressurize. In the tropics, if you inject large amounts of warm, moisture-laden air from outside to pressurize a building, the additional air conditioning load could be cost-prohibitive. However, in colder climates or during winter season, you can take advantage of the "free cooling" and use your pressurizing system for conditioning, saving substantially on air conditioning costs required to keep servers and electrical equipment from overheating.
Return on investment should typically be less than two years for pressurization to be cost-effective, and field experience shows that the payback is often much faster. As noted before, sometimes pressurization is necessary to guarantee a certain air quality in a space. The technology is best applied to new construction, expansion or renovation projects. Retrofitting of existing facilities can be more costly and complex depending on the set-up and location of the room to be pressurized.
4. Is dust collection or HVAC filtration the best choice?
Pressurization with dust collectors is intended for very heavy dust loading applications where HVAC filters will not have an acceptable life. In extremely dusty conditions, high-efficiency HVAC filters can become rapidly overloaded and may require change-out every few months or even every few weeks in some instances.
By comparison, cartridge dust collector filters are designed specifically to handle high dust loads in industrial environments. Dust collector filters are automatically pulse-cleaned with very brief bursts of compressed air that blow dirt off the filter surfaces and down into a collection device. When used in a pressurization system, high-efficiency cartridge filters can last for years between change-outs.
A cost analysis will allow you to compare HVAC vs. dust collection filters. What is the projected first cost of the equipment/hardware and the filter elements? What is the anticipated cost of electrical energy required to operate the system? What is the life expectancy of the filters under the dust loading conditions? Based on change-out frequency, you can work with your filtration supplier to develop an annual cost estimate that takes into account not only the price of the filters but such factors as labor cost to change the filters, equipment downtime, inventory, disposal, etc.
If you are in a highly regulated industry such as pharmaceutical or food manufacturing, there may also be restrictions as to what types of filters or what level of filtration will comply with industry standards.
5. What type of dust collector should I use?
If your analysis points toward dust collection as the most cost-effective approach, a cartridge-style dust collector will be the system of choice. Cartridge collectors offer much higher filtering efficiencies than conventional baghouses, a necessity when protecting workers or sensitive equipment from fine dust contamination. Cartridge collectors also operate at lower pressure drop, for more energy-efficient performance. The dust collector will be located outdoors, so make sure it is equipped with weather-resistant components and controls.
If you are pressurizing to protect a space from gaseous contaminants, a wet scrubber system may be needed. However, if dust is mixed with the gases, you will still need the cartridge dust collector for particulate filtration installed upstream of the wet scrubber.
6. What are the guidelines for filter selection?
A very high-efficiency filter (MERV 15 or 16) is recommended for pressurizing applications. Cartridge filters using nano fiber or other high-efficiency filtration media are well suited to this use. Don't rely solely on MERV values or filter efficiency percentages to predict performance. Although these measures are useful for comparing different filters, it is more important to ascertain that emissions will be at or below required thresholds. Ask the filter manufacturer for a written guarantee of emissions performance stated as grains per cubic foot.
As noted, cartridge filters will only need infrequent change-out in pressurizing applications, but it is good practice to replace filters every two to three years. An older filter may develop a hole or leak after time and will no longer deliver the guaranteed efficiency.
HEPA after-filters, sometimes known as secondary or safety monitoring filters, may be added to the ductwork downstream of the collector as a safeguard in critical applications. In the unlikely event of an air leak through the dust collector filters, the after-filters will provide backup protection. In certain cases, HEPA filters will be required to comply with industry-specific regulations. If control of outside odors is desired, carbon after-filters are another option to prevent outside odors from entering the pressurized space.
7. What control devices are required?
A variable frequency drive (VFD) and pressure sensor are essential for pressurized applications. The VFD drive provides precise electrical control of dust collector fan speed and is highly efficient in maintaining the desired airflow through the collector. It should always be used in tandem with a pressure sensor in the space to monitor and control air pressure.
8. How do I calculate dust collector airflow?
If the space to be pressurized is not heated or cooled, dust collector airflow should be calculated based on ventilation needs for indoor air quality + air leakage through cracks and openings (i.e., using standard formulas for infiltration). False ceilings, raised floors, and other construction details may also impact the calculations. For suggested velocities across openings and their corresponding pressures, refer to table 7-1 of the ACGIH "Industrial Ventilation: A Manual of Recommended Practice".
If the space to be pressurized requires heating or cooling, dust collector airflow should average between 10–20 percent of the HVAC unit airflow at a given capacity. This approach assumes the HVAC system has been properly sized to account for infiltration and will ensure you do not overwork the HVAC system by injecting too much humidity. Heavy-duty air handling components are recommended to withstand the dirty conditions.
General ventilation guidelines for industrial applications recommend a difference of 5 percent between the supply and exhaust airflow. In most cases, a good rule of thumb is to set a pressure differential of 0.04 +/- 2 in. wg. For more details refer to section 7.5 of the ACGIH industrial ventilation manual. Uncontrolled pressure could have negative effects, creating high velocity conditions that result in slamming doors and back drafts. As noted, this can be prevented by using a pressure sensor inside the room and a VFD on the fan of the pressurizing unit to control and monitor pressure.
Pablo Rocasermeno is Camfil APC's regional manager for Latin America. He is a mechanical engineer with expertise in ventilation and dust collection systems. Camfil APC is a leading manufacturer of dust collection equipment and part of Camfil, the largest air filter manufacturer in the world. Rocasermeno can be reached at 800-479-6801, 870-933-8048, or [email protected] For more information on Camfil APC, visit www.camfilapc.com.
For related articles, equipment reviews, and news, visit our Dust Collection & Air Pollution Control Equipment ZoneCamfil Air Pollution Control


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Winder officials are considering a proposal to allow bow hunting on 368 undeveloped acres the city owns between Highway 53 and Miles Patrick Road. Artie Doughty, a senior maintenance supervisor at Fort Yargo State Park, pitched the idea at the city council's work session Monday night. The council took no action on his proposal and will not take any action until after residents of surrounding neighborhoods are contacted and a public hearing is held, according to Mayor David Maynard.
For the full story, see the Oct. 3 issue of the Barrow Journal.
Winder takes no action on bow hunting on city property
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Coldplay to Launch Phone Concert Series
Billboard reports Coldplay to launch Samsung AT&T SummerKrush Concert series in Los Angeles  Aug. 3, with select songs set to air on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Artists for the eight remaining shows of the concert series yet to be announced.
By Mitchell Peters, Los Angeles
Billboard Magazine
Coldplay will perform in Los Angeles later this summer to help launch the fourth annual Samsung AT&T Summer Krush, a free concert series designed to showcase the capabilities of the newly released Samsung Infuse 4G, available exclusively through AT&T.
The British rock act will launch the nine-city series with a concert on Aug. 3 at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on the campus of UCLA. Select songs from Coldplay's performance will air that same evening on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
Beginning next week, a limited number of free tickets to the Coldplay show will be available through registration at samsungsummerkrush2011.com, a Summer Krush spokesperson tells Billboard.biz. Tickets will also be available to purchase, priced from $45 to $150, on July 15 through ticketmaster.com and Ticketmaster outlets. Net proceeds from the Los Angeles concert will benefit the Grammy Foundation's Grammy in the Schools music education program (grammyintheschools.com).
Coldplay is expected to release its fifth studio album this fall. The new set's lead single "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" has so far peaked at No. 14 on the Hot 100 and at No. 5 on Rock Songs. The band's last release, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" (2008), debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 2.8 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The group is currently slated to play numerous global music festivals between July and October, which include London's iTunes Festival (July 22), Chicago's Lollapalooza (Aug. 5) and the recently announced iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas (Sept. 23).
Through mid-September, Summer Krush will visit mostly 2,500-capacity venues in Dallas, Nashville, New York, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago and Orlando. The artists for those markets will be announced in the coming weeks, a spokesperson says.
Along with hour-long live music performances, each event will feature interactive activities and the chance to win prizes, including the Samsung Infuse 4G and a Summer Krush-branded guitar. A limited number of free tickets for the concerts will be available through radio promotions and online registration at samsungsummerkrush2011.com.
Since Launching in 2007, Summer Krush has featured performances in select U.S. cities from such artists as Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, Kelly Clarkson, Good Charlotte, Gavin Rossdale, Nas, Ludacris, Big & Rich, the All-American Rejects, Nelly, Smashing Pumpkins, Dierks Bentley and T-Pain.
Samsung regional marketing manager Stacey Portnoy recently told Billboard that Summer Krush has helped boost phone sales in markets that the series visits.
"From a sales perspective, we can track by city," she said, declining to reveal the cost of producing Summer Krush. "We have a strict [return on investment] process that we have to go through to get this program approved every year. So we do have to provide some sort of quantitative data."


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The Cleveland Browns named Dave Atkins senior offensive assistant coach Saturday, Jan. 27.
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Tony Grossi, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, reports the Cleveland Browns will fire assistant coach Dave Atkins, according to a team source.
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The Cleveland Browns have hired Dave Atkins as their new running backs coach, reports ClevelandBrowns.com. Atkins spent the previous five seasons with the New Orleans Saints (2000-04) in the same role.
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ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reports one reason the New Orleans Saints parted ways with RBs coach Dave Atkins is because they feel he did not do enough to keep RB Deuce McAllister in shape. Head coach Jim Haslett has been less than happy about McAllister's extra weight the past two years.
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This robust pizza is packed with chorizo sausage, potato and mozzarella cheese piled high on a thick anchor of dough with a generous amount of sauce and baked in a cast-iron skillet. If you don't have a cast-iron skillet you can use a cake pan, although the flavor and crispiness that well-seasoned cast-iron imparts on the crust can't be beat.
I heart any and all kinds of pizza! And the proof is in the fact that I eat lots of it, especially the thin, foldable style that NY is notoriously known for. Once in a while I hunger for something different. Something non-traditional. Something exactly opposite the NY-style I favor. This fits the bill with an exceptionally thick, sturdy crust and heavy toppings. I was extremely satisfied with how this turned out; aside from the fact that I overcooked it by about 5 minutes…I already have plans for a repeat, next time with hot Italian sausage and peppers.
The amount of pizza you can make with this dough recipe depends on how thick the crust is and the size of your pan(s). I made a 10-inch and a 6-inch. The dough requires two long rises so you want to start 3 to 4 hours ahead of time. But don't be put off by the time involved, it's effortless, and you can use your Kitchen Aid or Bread Machine to do the work. There are also instructions for making the dough in advance and refrigerating it on the King Arthur Flour website.
I really liked working with this dough, it was easy to stretch out and had good flavor and texture. I've eaten pizza with crust that tasted as well as looked like cardboard. Nothing can ruin a pizza faster than an unsavoury crust…and this is anything but that.
Chorizo and Potato Pan Pizza
(dough recipe adapted from King Arthur Flour)
2 teaspoons Active Dry Yeast or Instant Yeast
Pinch of Sugar
7/8 to 1 1/8 cups lukewarm water*
2 tablespoons Olive Oil
3 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
3-4 Fresh Chorizo Sausage links, thinly sliced length-wise into rounds
2 medium Potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
Canola Oil
1 teaspoon Oregano
Sea Salt and Fresh Black Pepper
1/2 Yellow Onion, thinly sliced
4 cloves Garlic, minced
Also Need:
1 jar of Pizza Sauce or Marinara Sauce (like Barila)
12 ounces of Mozzarella Cheese, shredded (more or less according to your preference)
1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
Basil, fresh, chopped, for garnish
Parmesan Cheese, for serving
Red Pepper Flakes, for serving
1. Dissolve yeast with a pinch of sugar in 2 tablespoons of the lukewarm water. Allow the mixture to sit at room temperature for 15 minutes until the mixture has bubbled and expanded.
2. Combine the yeast mixture with the remainder of the ingredients. Mix and knead everything together—by hand, mixer or bread machine set on the dough cycle—till you've made a soft, smooth dough. If you're kneading in a stand mixer, it should take 4 to 5 minutes at second speed, and the dough should barely clean the sides of the bowl, perhaps sticking a bit at the bottom. Don't over-knead the dough; it should hold together, but can still look fairly rough on the surface.
4. Put the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover and allow it to rise until it's real puffy about 90 minutes. I put mine in the oven with the light on or with a pan of hot water.
5. Decide what size, shape, and thickness of pizza you want to make. This recipe will make one of the following choices:
-One 1" thick 12" pizza and one personal size (These are the sizes I made.)
You can also make:
-Two 1/2″-thick 14″ round pizzas
– Two 3/4″-thick 12″ round pizzas
-One 3/4″ to 1″-thick 13″ x 18″ rectangular
-One 1 1/2″-thick 9″ x 13″ rectangular pizza
-One 1″-thick 14″ round pizza
7. To make a 10-inch and 6-inch visually divide the dough into thirds and then cut it into two: one piece being 2/3 and the other 1/3. Divide it in half for two equal size pizzas or leave whole for one big one.
8. For round pizzas shape the dough into a rough circle. For rectangular shape the dough into a rough oval. Don't pat it flat; just stretch it briefly into shape. Allow the dough to rest, covered with an overturned bowl or lightly greased plastic wrap for 15 minutes.
9. Use vegetable oil pan spray to lightly grease the pan(s) of your choice. Drizzle olive oil into the bottom of the pan(s). Sprinkle lightly with cornmeal.
10. Press the dough over the bottom of the pan(s) stretching it towards the edges. If the dough shrink backs let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Be sure to cover the dough so it doesn't dry out.
11. Pat the dough closer to the corners of the pan, repeat the rest and dough-stretch one more time, if necessary.
12. Cover the dough and allow it to rise until it's noticeably puffy, about 90 minutes. About 45 minutes into this rise start preparing the toppings. And towards the end of the rise preheat oven to 450°F.
13. To make the the topping: in a large, lightly greased skillet over medium-low heat cook the chorizo slices turning often until cooked through. Remove and set aside. In the chorizo grease cook the potatoes with the onion and oregano, season with salt and pepper. Add canola oil if needed, there should be a thin, even layer of grease over bottom. Cook potatoes until soft in middle and browned on all sides. Add sausage back to pan and remove from heat. Toss well.
13. Bake the pizza on the lower oven rack till it looks and feels set on top, and is just beginning to brown around the edge of the crust, but is still pale on top. This will take about 8 minutes for thinner crust pizza; about 10 to 12 minutes for medium thickness; and 12 to 14 minutes for thick-crust pizza. If you're baking two pizzas, reverse them in the oven (top to bottom, bottom to top) midway through the baking period.
14. Remove pizza(s) from the oven. Carefully, so as not to get burnt place a generous amount of sauce evenly over top, sprinkle with Italian Seasoning, follow it with as much cheese as you want, followed by the Chorizo and Potato mixture spread evenly over top. Return to the oven, and bake on the upper oven rack for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, until the crust is nicely browned, both top and bottom, and the cheese is melted. Check it midway through, and move it to the bottom rack if the top is browning too much, or the bottom not enough.
15. Remove the pizza from the oven and let sit for 10 minutes before serving. For easiest serving cut with a pair of kitchen scissors. Garnish with basil. Serve with Parmesan and red pepper flakes.
*Use the lesser amount in summer (or in a humid environment), the greater amount in winter (or in a dry climate), and somewhere in between the rest of the year, or if your house is climate controlled.
**Easier to slice if semi-frozen.
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