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Friday, February 27, 2009
Childhood trauma has life-long effect on genes and the brain
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Childhood trauma has life-long effect on genes and the brain 2/22/09 - McGill Newsroom - Study confirms effects of early environment in brains of suicide victims - McGill University and Douglas Institute scientists have discovered that childhood trauma can actually alter your DNA and shape the way your genes work. This confirms in humans earlier findings in rats, that maternal care plays a significant role in influencing the genes that control our stress response. Using a sample of 36 brains; 12 suicide victims who were abused; 12 suicide victims who were not abused and 12 controls, the researchers discovered different epigenetic markings in the brains of the abused group. These markings influence the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function, a stress-response which increases the risk of suicide. This research builds upon findings published last May that showed how child abuse can leave epigenetic marks on DNA.....The all-McGill study is set to be published in the February 22, issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience."We know from clinical experience that a difficult childhood can have an impact on the course of a person's life", said Dr. Turecki. "Now we are starting to understand the biological implications of such psychological abuse," added Dr. Szyf. "The function of our DNA is not as fixed as previously believed, said Dr. Meaney. "The interaction between the environment and the DNA plays a crucial role in determining our resistance to stress thus the risk for suicide. Epigenetic marks are the product of this interaction."
Dale Akiki Case
Dale Akiki Case
describes crimes
Ex-School Volunteer Acquitted of Child Abuse Charges Verdict: After deliberating for just seven hours, jury finds Dale Akiki not guilty on all 35 counts. Trial was longest in San Diego's history. Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif. - Michael Granberry - Nov 20, 1993
A Superior Court jury concluded a 7 1/2-month trial Friday by acquitting a former nursery school volunteer of 35 counts of child abuse and kidnaping that had kept him jailed without bail for 2 1/2 years….
Nearly 170 witnesses testified during Akiki's trial-the longest in San Diego history-which ended after only seven hours of jury deliberation….
Several on the (jury) panel sided with Akiki's attorneys, public defenders Kathleen Coyne and Susan Clemens, who tried to show that Akiki's alleged victims-nine boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 5-had been systematically brainwashed by parents and therapists.
But Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery, the lead prosecutor, disputed such claims.
"The whole idea of contamination and suggestibility just does not account for the major behavior changes that occurred (in the children) while they were in Dale Akiki's (nursery school) class," she said, referring to such incidents as bed-wetting and nightmares.
Witnesses accused Akiki of sexually molesting and terrorizing children at Faith Chapel charismatic church in Spring Valley by hanging them upside-down from a chandelier, dunking them in toilets and making them drink the blood of animals in ritualistic ceremonies.
Molestation Hearing Continues Next Week - Los Angeles Times - February 8, 1992 - San Diego County Edition
….Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery has called some of the parents to testify about behavioral changes they observed in the children. "There were drastic changes observed," Avery said. Defense attorney Kate Coyne, however, maintains that Akiki has been falsely accused by parents who did not like his physical appearance.
Judge Rejects Bail for Suspect In Molestations at Preschool - Los Angeles Times - May 25, 1991 Amy Wallace; Times Staff Writer
….But Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery, the prosecutor, said that, in addition to the grand jury testimony of seven children who attended the Faith Chapel in Casa de Oro, her case will rely on behavioral symptoms observed by parents months before any allegations of abuse were raised.
One mother said her daughter was so terrified of having her head near water that it was impossible to wash her hair, Avery said. Grand jury testimony later revealed that at least one child had had her head dunked in a toilet, she said.
Testimony was also heard that a child became hysterical when he was taken to a hospital to get stitches, apparently because he had a flashback of "the defendant holding him down and hurting him," Avery said. The indictment filed against Akiki said he inflicted injuries on children with a needle.
Avery maintained that some of the children remain so traumatized by Akiki's treatment that they have attempted suicide–one by running in front of a car, another with a knife.
Other Suspects Added to Child Sex Abuse Probe - Los Angeles Times - May 15, 1991 - Amy Wallace; Times Staff Writer
As many as three former child care workers at Faith Chapel in Spring Valley are suspected of molesting and abusing preschoolers over a 15-month period ending in August, 1989, a San Diego County prosecutor said Tuesday.
Speaking after the arraignment of Dale Anthony Akiki, a former church volunteer who was indicted last week on 50 felony counts of child molestation and related charges, Deputy Dist. Atty. Mary Avery said two other former child care workers are being investigated….
According to the 13-page indictment, which a grand jury returned after hearing live televised testimony from seven of the children, Akiki abused them sexually and physically, at times using a bottle top, a toy, a glass, a stick and a needle.
Church Volunteer Indicted in Molestations - Los Angeles Times - May 14, 1991 - Amy Wallace; Alan Abrahamson; Times Staff Writers
….Soon, Avery said, a couple of parents noticed that their children were exhibiting similar "unusual" and "regressive" behavior. The children had not yet said they were abused, Avery said, but the parents observed a pattern.
"In thinking it over, they realized the one thing the children had in common was they went to the same church," she said.
The church asked a licensed social worker to assess whether there was reasonable suspicion of abuse and, after talking to a few families, he reported the case to the authorities.
Avery began investigating in February, 1990. Since then, she said, the district attorney's office has kept Akiki under periodic surveillance, "to make sure he was not working with children during the week or involved with child care in any way."
Avery said her case is strengthened by the fact that it relies on the children's behavior as well as their testimony. "It will focus on behavior that was observed prior to the initial disclosure" of the alleged abuse, she said. "So there cannot be a contamination issue regarding behavior that occurred prior to anyone ever mentioning this to the children."
Unlike other child molestation cases that rely largely on the testimony of the victims, the Akiki case is "one which can be cleanly and coherently presented to a jury for their determination," said Steve Casey, a spokesman for the district attorney's office.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Guilty Plea Entered in Ponchatoula Sexual-abuse Case - Prison Time Could Be Avoided with Plea
By David J. Mitchell Advocate Florida parishes bureau 2/17/09 Amite - The estranged wife of a former church pastor convicted in a child sexual-abuse scandal at a now-defunct Ponchatoula church pleaded guilty late this morning to obstruction of justice under an agreement with prosecutors. Under the terms of her "best interests of justice" plea, Robbin Lamonica, 49, of Hammond, could avoid any prison time in connection with charges from the case, attorneys on both sides said. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss three counts of aggravated rape and four counts of aggravated oral sexual battery in exchange for the guilty plea entered today before Judge Zorraine M. "Zoey" Waguespack at the Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse in Amite....Prosecution and defense attorneys also said Lamonica has agreed to testify at future trials in the Hosanna case, which has raised lurid child sex charges amid allegations of satanic rituals at the church. Seven members of Hosanna Church have been indicted or convicted in connection with the alleged child sex ring. Juries have convicted former Hosanna pastor Louis D. Lamonica, Robbin Lamonica's estranged husband, and Austin "Trey" Bernard III on allegations of child rape. Lamonica is serving four concurrent life sentences and Bernard three consecutive life sentences....The defendant does not admit to a specific act but admits that prosecutors have enough evidence to get a conviction on the charge in question. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/39743437.html
institutional abuse, MPD/DID, child pornography
The Fallen Feather- Indian Industrial Residential Schools - Canadian Confederation - Documentary 2007 - Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada were forcibly removed and placed into Indian Industrial Residential Schools. Their unique culture was stripped away to be replaced with a foreign European identity. Their family ties were cut, parents were forbidden to visit their children, and the children were prevented from returning home....Tens of thousands of cases of sexual and physical abuses. The Government has assumed partial responsibility for this historical wrong and has agreed to pay out Billions in damages. They agree that the assimilation of First Nations children within these Industrial Schools was a terrible mistake.
Editorial: Cornelia B. Wilbur, M.D. Richard P. Kluft, M.D - Dissociation Nl. V, No. 2, June 1992 - ...While in Nebraska she had begun the treatment of a young teacher who hoped to take graduate training at Columbia. When this young woman, known as "Sybil," relocated and resumed her treatment, Connie rapidly discovered the presence of multiple personalities. Connie's efforts to present and publish her findings, and the rebuffs that she encountered and endured, are an embarrassing commentary on the mental health professions' capacity to dissociate dissociative disorders. Suffice it to say, after years of rejection of her efforts to communicate what she had learned, she began to discuss a lay publication with a journalist whose integrity and honesty she had admired, Flora Rheta Schreiber. This project became a reality only after " Sybil ' s " integration. Eleven years after the publication of Sybil (1973), Connie's first psychiatric paper on MPD, "Treatment of Multiple Personality" was published in Psychiatric Annals. Others followed, but the majority of her writings and presentations remain unpublished and unavailable.
Wilbur, C. B. (1984) . Treatment of multiple personality. Psychiatric Annals,14, 27-31.
Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder By Bennett G. Braun Published by American Psychiatric Pub, 1985 ISBN 0880480963, 9780880480963 206 pages google books
Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality By Richard P. Kluft, American Psychiatric Association Meeting Published by American Psychiatric Pub, 1985 ISBN 0880480823, 9780880480826 258 pages google books http://books.google.com/books?id=AplwBTXWr44C
Child pornography: images of the abuse of children By Susan J. Creighton (November 2003)....An earlier police operation in 1998, Operation Cathedral, against a paedophile ring known as the Wonderland (after Alice in Wonderland) Club had seized 750,000 child pornography images. Over 1200 different children were identified among these images, only 18 of whom had been discovered, three in the U.K. (Downey, 2002). It should be stressed that these are the cases that come to light and have been recorded and not the true incidence. The COPINE project at the University of Cork has been conducting research on the volume and characteristics of child pornography on the Internet. During a six-week period in 2002 they came across 140,000 child abuse images, of which 35,000 were completely new. Twenty previously unseen children were identified among these 35,000 images (Taylor 2004)....The use of child pornography for barter and straight commercial dealing has increased with the advent of the Internet. Taylor and Quayle (2003) have documented how the desire for new pictures can lead some consumers to abuse their own, or neighbouring children, in order to supply fresh images for barter or sale. The commercial sale of child pornography on the Internet has been increasing. The recent Operation Ore in the U.K. grew out of Operation Avalanche in the US. This operation acquired the credit card details of Internet subscribers to child pornography websites run by a Texan company, Landslide Productions run by Tomas and Janice Reedy. At the time of their arrest in 1999 they were making $1.4 million a month from Internet subscribers to Landslide. With this demand for child pornography commercial suppliers are bound to exploit the market.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder - Google books
The book "Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder" looks at the role of crime in the lives of people that suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder. It is a collection of essays written by several international researchers. It explores the legal, moral, ethical and clinical questions that psychotherapists and other professionals face while working with those suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. Authors that have contributed to the book come from the fields of psychotherapy, counselling, psychology, medicine, law, police, psychoanalysis and social work. Chapters include discussions on ritual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, mind control, extreme abuse, survivor accounts and criminal convictions.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Interview With the Author of Hell Minus One
Other resources on Hell Minus One:
Hell Minus One - signed verified confessions of satanic ritual abuse - Anne's parents confessed their atrocities - both in writing and verbally.
book's web page - http://www.hellminusone.com/
Woman revisits the 'Hell' of ritual abuse By Ben Winslow Deseret News 12/10/08
An Interview With the Author of Hell Minus One
My Story of Deliverance From Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom
Q. What is Hell Minus One about?
Anne: Ultimately, Hell Minus One is a book about hope and empowerment. It is a memoir – a segment of my life. As the subtitle of my book states, it is "My Story of Deliverance from Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom."
Hell Minus One also reveals that there are people who engage in satanic ritual abuse. SRA is not a myth, as some claim it to be.
Starting at age three, my parents intermittently used me as a sacrificial object in satanic rituals until I ran away from home at 17.
Hell Minus One tells the story about my abuse, and the steps I took to break free, heal and eventually forgive my tormentors.
It is a story of choices I made, and the miracles and crucial help I received, which empowered me to triumph over a tragic past. It is also about the commitment I made to live a new life of love and purpose.
Q. Why did you write Hell Minus One?
Anne: As I healed, I began to understand that my life and my sanity hadn't been spared for my sake alone. I felt a calling to bring empowerment and hope to others. My husband, Bruce, was also convinced of that calling, and consistently encouraged me to write a book. He felt that my experiences could make a contribution to the world. At first I resisted, because I wasn't ready to commit to what I suspected would be an intense and painful effort.
Yet, as I healed, the desire to inspire courage in others grew. Based on my experience, I wanted other victims of abuse to have hope, and to be empowered, to overcome what appear to be insurmountable obstacles; that whatever we face, we can overcome – and be even better. Doors will open and help will come when we are giving our all for good.
Also, I have unique corroborative evidence to SRA. Memories I allowed to come forth, alone and in private, I wrote in explicit allegation letters.
Those letters were responded to with handwritten confessions from the perpetrators, who were my own mother and stepfather. Also, my half-siblings sent letters to authorities that validated my abuse allegations as true.
Two detectives from the Attorney General's Office subsequently obtained from the perpetrators verbal confessions admitting to their handwritten confessions.
Q. Who should read Hell Minus One?
Anne: My book is a story intended to bring hope to the abused that they have the ability to be healed; hope to those in bondage that they have options (take courage, seek them out). It is also a plea to those in a position to help—such as law enforcement officials, mental health professionals, clergy and even friends—to be open-minded about allegations entrusted to them.
This book is also for those who would love to read a true story about goodness and light overcoming evil and darkness.
Q. What is the most important message or messages in your book?
Anne: Our adversity is not our identity. What we do, or what has been done to us, is not who we are. No matter what has been inflicted upon us – or what mistakes we may have made – we can overcome and be true to our authentic, real self. Goodness and light always overcome evil and darkness. Our God-given ability to define our own life is never lost – never!
This book is for those who need encouragement – or who are in a professional or personal position to support and encourage others.
The subtitle of my book is: "My Story of Deliverance from Satanic Ritual Abuse and My Journey to Freedom." I often say "deliverance" rather than "escape" because I could not have made it out by myself. I received assistance from a Higher Power. I do not believe that anyone can get out of something this thoroughly enslaving entirely on their own.
This book is more than about overcoming satanic abuse. My message also applies to individuals, organizations and corporations about overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles. We all have Goliaths to face and overcome. This process of facing and overcoming is never easy and requires commitment and hard, hard work. But the work and the result are life-changing. The only way out is through.
Q. How long did it take you to write the book?
Anne: Let's see – how old am I? It took me a lifetime! Forty-seven years to first live it, and then relive it and deal with it; six years to write it; and finally, eighteen months to edit and publish the final manuscript released in December 2008.
Q. What kind of research did you do?
Anne: What kinds of research? I didn't research it. First I lived it, and then I remembered it.
Memories to come forward – which they did in crystal clarity – one by one, day after day, week after week, month after month. They formed a shocking and malignant picture of which I had been totally unaware.
I wrote explicit allegation letters and ultimately received handwritten confessions from my parents – my own mother and stepfather. Those written confessions were validated by verbal confessions to Utah Attorney General Detectives who investigated the allegations.
Q. What was the most difficult thing or challenge for you in writing Hell Minus One?
Anne: Finding determination and courage to stay with it for over seven years; writing and re-writing manuscripts that recounted horrifying and painful details, yet balancing the dark elements of my story with the more important shafts of light that diminished the darkness.
Those shafts of light included my faith and spiritual experiences, along with circumstances and priceless people who intersected my life.
Q. In the book's early chapters, the amount of detail you recall as a three year old is significant. How did you remember all that? Was it always there, or did it come to you as you wrote?
Anne: Most of it I had recalled as I went through therapy. Additional details emerged as I endeavored to get my story into written form over the years.
As my editor and I worked together to finalize the manuscript, at times he asked me if I knew more. In that case, I would employ the same skill I had gained from my counselor. In order to maintain authenticity and accuracy, I gave myself quiet uninterrupted time and simply let the supporting details emerge.
Q. Were your siblings victims like you, or were they Satanists like your parents?
Anne: My half-siblings wrote corroborating letters to church authorities verifying my allegations as true. I respect their privacy, and cannot speak for them.
They were not victims "like me," because I was separated out from the rest of the family – considered the "bastard child" to be used as a sacrificial object.
Q. How did you get them to write corroborative allegation letters against your parents?
Anne: In the early stages of my therapy, when I still had contact with them, I called all three and asked if they would each write to church authorities corroborating my allegations. All three did.
Q. Your parents' confession letters are published extensively in your book. You used ellipses extensively in several paragraphs. What did you leave out and why?
Anne: left out parts that were too demented and violent to be published.
This book is less an expose and more a message of hope and encouragement, deliverance and healing.
My intention of including the confession letters in this book was to give the reader enough information to know how bad it was. But I didn't want it to be so abrasive and offensive that the reader would put the book down.
There are references made to my half-siblings, and for the sake of their privacy, I also excluded that information with ellipses.
Q. Where are your parents' confession letters now?
Anne: The originals are in a security vault.
Q. Are they available for public scrutiny? If not, why?
Anne: No. They are not available for public scrutiny. They were made available to the Utah Attorney General's Office during its investigation.
They were also made available to the publisher and editor of the book during the writing of the final manuscript; but, because of the often overtly graphic nature of the contents, and issues of libel and invasion of privacy in naming names, they are not available to the public.
Q. Your parents began to subject you to satanic ritual abuse when you were three years old and continued until you left home at 17. You began to experience episodes of rage in your mid-30s. By the late 1990s, you had finished your therapy and were on your way to recovery. That was over a decade ago, and now you're in your mid-50s. You say it took you seven years to write Hell Minus One. Why didn't you write your book sooner? Was it a matter of getting emotionally ready before revealing this memoir?
Anne: It wasn't until 2001 that I felt I had enough closure and time to write a meaningful book that would help others. Writing Hell Minus One took much longer than I could have ever anticipated, but I was not willing to finalize the manuscript until it was authentic in every detail, and also well written. It took eighteen months to write and edit the final manuscript.
Q. Your parents did horrible and vicious things to you. After each episode, you wouldn't remember a thing, or connect your dark, painful feelings inside to your parents. What is the medical or psychological definition of this occurrence, and how does it come about? How and why does the brain work this way? To cancel things out?
Anne: Professional definitions that I have heard used are inconclusive. I tend to stay with my own experience rather than attempt to use labels that can be contradictory and misunderstood.
In my case, my psyche prevented me from knowing about my abuse until I was mature enough to take action. Until then, the threats of my perpetrators of being able to tell what I was thinking, even if they were not around, and that I would be destroyed if I remembered anything, kept all of the memories of their abuse in bound psychological silence.
Q. What exactly is Satanic Ritual Abuse?
Anne: To me, SRA is a criminally inhumane and depraved form of devil-worship. The felony crimes include brutal torture and molestation of innocent victims – physically, sexually, mentally and spiritually.
Q. What is its origin? Its history?
Anne: First of all, I'm not an expert on satanic ritual abuse, nor do I want to be. Sometimes while I was being abused, I heard my parents and their cohorts speak of going back into medieval times, and therefore, anything that was done that night didn't apply to that present time.
However, what they said is not the origin of SRA. There are several resources on the Internet that describe in detail the term and origin of satanic ritual abuse. Unfortunately, what is found there mostly proclaims SRA to be false—to be an urban myth, born during the 1980s and discredited by the late 1990s, largely because of unsubstantiated victim claims. Yet, what happened to me—and my parents' confession letters—directly challenges those proclamations. In fact, my parents' confession letters, their confessions to law enforcement, and their excommunication from their church, provides new evidence that researchers and skeptics of SRA haven't had before. Without such evidence, I can understand why SRA hasn't received stronger belief and support in the past. One of my hopes is that Hell Minus One will encourage critics—from law enforcement, to mental health professionals and even the media—to reconsider the satanic ritual abuse question.
Q. Why do cultists engage in this behavior? What do they get out of it?
Anne: From my point of view, it was justification to gratify sexualized addiction to violence and perversion. Also, I witnessed them employing the most deranged of behaviors – determined to call down the powers of darkness and evil – believing that it would give them an advantage of power over other people, and extraordinary means to obtain money.
Q. The SRA you experienced occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. If you Google Satanic Ritual Abuse, hundreds of SRA sites are listed, some that offer help, some that go into disturbing detail on how to perform SRA today on family members, friends, etc. How would you compare the SRA you experienced to what is being done today?
Anne: After scanning the Internet about SRA practices for only a few hours more than a year ago, I decided that I would never again subject myself to the mind-rotting material I saw and read.
What I did understand is that the purpose and intent of SRA doesn't seem to have changed, although the implementation techniques have developed dramatically, becoming more bizarre, brutal and inhumane.
Q. To readers who are victims of SRA, what would you recommend that they do?
Anne: Most importantly, I would want them to know that they have options. I would urge them to have courage and seek out help in any way that they can – to get away and stay away from evil bondage. If your family is sick and toxic – entrenched in evil and criminal activity – don't go back to them. You can't save them, but you can save yourself.
I would want them to realize that they have the God-given right to their own lives and identity, and that they have inner signals to guide them as to where to turn.
Q. To readers who worship Satan, or practice SRA, what would you recommend that they do?
Anne: To those who practice Satanism, they have the right to do whatever that want – but not when it is a crime.
Having witnessed the soul-sickening practice of Satanism, I would advise them to get out, whatever the price, before it's too late.
Q. What purpose or design do you hope or intend Hell Minus One will accomplish?
Anne: My hope and prayer is that Hell Minus One will be a beacon of light out of darkness – a message of hope and courage – that we can all overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The epigraph in my book reminds us: we have all been endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights to our lives, liberty and happiness.
Q. In your book, you explain why you and your husband chose not to seek criminal and civil charges against your parents. Now that several years have passed since that decision, do you regret it? Yes or no, why do you feel that way?
Anne: No, I don't regret it. To this day, I don't feel that at the time, with society's mind-set about SRA and false-memory syndrome, it would have resulted in a fair trial. Instead of my parents being the focus, it would have been me and whether or not I was telling the truth—even though my parents had already written confession letters, confessed to detectives from the Utah Attorney General's Office, and were excommunicated from their church. Something deep inside warned me that it would have resulted in a media explosion that would have torn my little family and me apart.
ritualistic satanic abuse news report
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article describes crimes
The Remarkable Transformation Of One Child - CBS Evening News: After Being Subjected To Unspeakable Abuse, Mia Was Nearly Lost 2/17/09 by John Blackstone (CBS)...."The level of terror, when the pediatrician saw her, the neurologist saw her, everyone said: 'what in the world happened to this child?'" Behrens said. According to Thom Snyder, the deputy district attorney of Kings County, Calif., the abuse Mia suffered was ritualistic -- "Satanic in some way," he said. Snyder knows well what happened to Mia when she was less than a year old. "She was an infant, but she was grievously sexually abused in ways that I think for the average individual . would be incomprehensible," he said. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 3,300,000 reports of child abuse are made every year in the United States. And more than 80 percent of abused children carry lasting scars as an adult suffering from depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, according to the National Clearinghouse of Child Abuse and Neglect. Mia's abuse was discovered after her father killed her baby sister. Mia had been abused since she was born. "She drew biting monsters. She drew naked women lying in pools of blood - the most ghastly pictures you can imagine a three-and-a-half year old drawing," said Dr. Lenore Terr, a child psychiatrist....After years of treatment for wounds both mental and physical, there's a different Mia. She's a smiling, confident young woman. She told CBS News: "They thought I would never be able to socialize. They thought I would never be able to talk with people. I would be, like, in an animal state, like, growling, biting, scratching, hitting, screaming and stuff." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/17/eveningnews/main4808278.shtml
Friday, February 13, 2009
Extreme Abuse Survey research
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys - Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November). Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL.
10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma
1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.
2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons who report histories of RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).
3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.
4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.
5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in government-sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).
6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized "known" crime.
7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.
8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems.
HAND-OUT for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April). Child Sexual Abuse and Beyond: Findings From a Series of International Extreme Abuse Surveys. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference: Sacramento, CA. Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April).
Selected Responses from the EAS
My memories of abuse include incest. 1122 70%
I had memories of incest before I sought therapy/counseling. 985 64%
I was ritually abused in a satanic cult.* 986 55%
I had memories of ritual abuse before I sought therapy/counseling. 977 48%
Secret government-sponsored mind control experiments were
performed on me as a child. 1000 26%
I have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID or MPD). 1007 65%
I am a therapist/counselor/clergy for RA/MC survivors. 965 10%
*Of the 257 EAS respondents who reported that secret mind control experiments were used on them as children, 69% (177) reported having been abused in a satanic cult. Of the 543 respondents who reported that they had been abused in a satanic cult, 33% (179) reported having been used in secret mind control experiments as children.
MEDIA PACKET - Torture-based, Government-sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children - Documentation that torture-based, government-sponsored mind control (GMC) experimentation was conducted on children during the Cold War. Data from two international surveys that give voice, visibility, and validation to survivors of these crimes against humanity….SURVEYS - EAS: Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors (An International Online Survey for Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse) January 1 - March 30, 2007 with 1471 respondents from 31 named countries. P-EAS: Professional - Extreme Abuse Survey (An International Online Survey for Therapists, Counselors, Clergy, and Other Persons Who Have Worked Professionally with at Least One Adult Survivor of Extreme Abuse) April 1 - June 30 2007 with 451 respondents from 20 named countries. Contact: Wanda Karriker, PhD email@example.com http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSpon
Rutz, C. Becker, T., Overkamp, B. & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring Commonalities Reported by Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse: Preliminary Empirical Findings. In Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations, J.R. Noblitt & P. S. Perskin (Eds), pp. 31- 84. Brandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers.
Becker, T., Karriker, W., Overkamp, B. Rutz, C. (2008). The Extreme Abuse Survey: preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder. In A. Sachs & G. Galton (Eds.), Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder, pp. 32-49. London: Karnac.
Karriker, Wanda (November, 2007). "Helpful healing methods: As rated by approximately 900 respondents to the "International Survey for Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse (EAS)." http://www.endritualabuse.org/Karriker%2
Karriker, W. (2008, September). Torture-based mind control as a global phenomenon: Preliminary data from the 2007 series of Extreme Abuse Surveys. In Torture-based mind control: Empirical research, programmer methods, effects and treatment. Workshop conducted at the 13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, San Diego, CA. http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-st
From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008).
Exploring commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary empirical findings.
In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (pp. 49-50).
Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Of 987 persons who self-selected the category of abuse that best describes their experiences, 19% chose ritual abuse; 7%, mind control; 52%, ritual abuse and mind control; 22%, other extreme abuse. Listed below are the five most frequently reported "yes" responses for the memories, possible aftereffects, and personal experiences sections.
· Receiving physical abuse from perpetrators
· Sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators
· Other abuse(s)
· Being threatened with death if I ever talked about the abuse
· Witnessing physical abuse by perpetrators on other victims
Possible Aftereffects
· Sleep problems
· Painful body memories
· Posttraumatic stress disorder
· Unusual fears
· Beliefs indoctrinated by perpetrator(s)
Personal Experiences
· I have a spiritual belief system.
· I was subjected to RA/MC at ages 3 through 6.
· I was subjected to RA/MC at ages 7 through 13.
· I have been diagnosed with DID (dissociative identity disorder/ formerly multiple personality disorder).
· I had memories of incest before I sought therapy/counseling.
The five most frequently reported healing methods that were checked either "much help" or "great help" are
· Individual Psychotherapy/Counseling
· Supportive Friends
· Creative Writing
· Personal Prayer/Meditation
· Journaling
Relevant to the controversies over the reality of ritual abuse, government-sponsored mind control experimentation, the credibility of repressed memories, and claims that therapists implant false abuse memories in their clients, our data show that 64% of 985 respondents reported memories of incest and 48% of 977 respondents reported memories of ritual abuse before they sought therapy. Sixty-nine percent of 257 respondents who reported secret mind control experiments used on them as children also reported having been abused in a satanic cult.
Becker, T., Karriker, W., Overkamp, B., & Rutz, C. (2008).
The Extreme Abuse Surveys: Preliminary findings regarding dissociative identity disorder.
In A. Sachs & G. Galton (Eds.),
Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder (p. 41).
If perpetrated in ritualistic settings, a sample of ten identical items from both the EAS (Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors) and P-EAS (for professionals) and ten similar items from the C-EAS (for child caregivers) could be classified as ideologically motivated crimes.
Listed below are the total number who answered the question (N) and the percent of "yes" responses to each statement by each group. (EAS - survivor reported the memory; P-EAS - professional had worked with at least one survivor who reported the memory; C-EAS - caregiver had heard at least one child report the memory)
1093 88% 216 97% 90 82% Receiving physical abuse from perpetrators.
1090 82% 217 95% 91 77% Sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators.
1077 73% 221 88% 88 70% Forced drugging.
1057 56% 218 77% 96 43% Witnessing murder by perpetrators.
1059 55% 218 78% 92 59% Forced to participate in animal mutilations/killings.
1059 55% 220 82% 83 53% Pornography (child).
1040 48% 220 70% 90 42% Forced participation in murder by perpetrators.
1045 48% 218 77% 79 25% Prostitution (child).
1041 40% 220 71% 82 33% Forced impregnation.
1021 26% 217 55% 82 18% Survivor's own child murdered by his/her perpetrators.
From: Becker, T. (2008).Re-searching for new perspectives: Ritual abuse/ritual violence as ideologically motivated crime.In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.),Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (pp. 245-246).
Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Although controversies over the existence of ritual abuse have centered on reports of abuse from satanic cults, results of two studies show that ritual abuse is also practiced in other groups founded on religious or ideological doctrines. In 1997, German journalist Ulla Froeling and German psychotherapist Michaela Huber (Becker, 1999) compiled data from a questionnaire returned by 126 therapists and counselors from 61 locations in Germany. The backgrounds of 354 cases in treatment were examined to determine the classification of groups in which survivors had been ritually abused. More than half of the victims reported abuse in more than one category. My co-researchers and I asked similar questions on the Extreme Abuse Survey for Adults (EAS) offered in German and English See Table 1 for a comparison of preliminary results of both studies.
Table 1.
Comparisons of German-language and English-language Reports of Ritually Abusive Groups
(Percent of total respondents for each question who answered "Yes")
Groups SRA1 Gnostic2 Child Religious Fascist Uncertain porn sects3 groups4 ideology
Germany (1999) 58% (354) 52% (354) 26% (354) 12% (354) 03% (354)
EAS (German)5 29% (151) 07% (149) 40% (151) 29% (156) 15% (156) 35% (160)
EAS (English)6 60% (835) 15% (826) 50% (826) 41% (837) 23% (832) 50% (834)
EAS (Total) 55% (986) 14% (969) 48% (977) 39% (993) 22% (998) 47% (994)
1,2 Category for German study is "Destructive Cults." Most cases are from a satanic background but there are some from Gnostic-occult groups.
3 So-called Christian groups who are abusive through exorcism and cleaning rituals.
4 Described as a group that considers itself superior in race, creed, or origin, e.g., Neo-Nazi, White Supremacist and KKK.
5,6 From unpublished raw data
Three additional questions on the EAS asked about abuse in ideologically motivated groups: (1) Ritual abuse in a witchcraft cult was reported by 23% of 971 respondents, (2) ritual abuse in voodooism was reported by 7% of 966 respondents, and (3) 26% of 1000 respondents answered "yes" to the question: "Secret government-sponsored mind control experiments were performed on me as a child."
From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary empirical findings. In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (p. 43). Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
note: These attacks occurred during the first EAS survey
On the evening of January 2, 2007, the server faced an intense amount of port scans at the high and low ports and also attempts to access non-existing server pages by checking a variety of filenames. For a few days afterwards, the nameserver was addressed with several requests (ping, nslockup and trace) carried out on a large scale. This used an enormous amount of bandwidth, rendering the server at stake due to this loss. In the first weeks, our provider's own web projects had an unusually high amount of traffic suggesting that unknown people wanted to learn more about those working on the survey.Fortunately, the attacks gradually diminished and after three weeks almost ended. In early March, there was another attempt to hack the server by someone trying to connect to the Microsoft Frontpage serverports which are part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server. Since we did not use these ports, this attack failed. Parallel to these incidents, third parties made several attempts to obtain the private data of some surveyors and technicians.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
ritual abuse newsletter and conference
the issue has information on Underwager, McHugh, parental alienation syndrome, institutionalized abuse, pedophile rings, child pornography, ritual abuse and mk-ultra
New information is now available on the The Twelfth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference August 14 - 16, 2009 in Connecticut
Updated speaker information is available at:
conference press release - please post and forward
"A conference to help survivors of severe child abuse (ritual abuse) and torture will be held on August 14 - 16, 2009, between 8 - 5 PM Saturday and Sunday at the DoubleTree Hotel near Bradley International Airport, 16 Ella Grasso Turnpike, Windsor Locks, CT 06096 (between Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA). This conference will help educate survivors of this abuse and their helpers. Pre-registration is preferred. For information write S.M.A.R.T., P. O Box 1295, Easthampton, MA 01027-1295 E-mail:
email@example.com , conference information is at: http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
Extreme Abuse Survey attacks
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages of documentation http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/
From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary empirical findings. In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the twenty-first century (p. 43). Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Webmaster's note: These attacks occurred during the first EAS survey
On the evening of January 2, 2007, the server faced an intense amount of port scans at the high and low ports and also attempts to access non-existing server pages by checking a variety of filenames. For a few days afterwards, the nameserver was addressed with several requests (ping, nslockup and trace) carried out on a large scale. This used an enormous amount of bandwidth, rendering the server at stake due to this loss. In the first weeks, our provider's own web projects had an unusually high amount of traffic suggesting that unknown people wanted to learn more about those working on the survey.
Fortunately, the attacks gradually diminished and after three weeks almost ended. In early March, there was another attempt to hack the server by someone trying to connect to the Microsoft Frontpage serverports which are part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server. Since we did not use these ports, this attack failed. Parallel to these incidents, third parties made several attempts to obtain the private data of some surveyors and technicians.
Friday, February 6, 2009
19 out of 20 cases of child sexual abuse go undetected
Wasaga Beach man charged in child porn raids by Trina Berlo 2/5/09 OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino announced at a press conference in Toronto earlier today a total of 93 charges had been laid against 31 people after police executed 33 search warrants in raids across the province yesterday. Charges include sexual assault, sexual interference, making child pornography, making child pornography available, distributing child pornography and possession of child pornography....Since the strategy was implemented in August 2006 at the request of the provincial government, police have laid 1,983 charges against 634 people as a result of 4,782 investigations. The Child Sexual Exploitation Section of the OPP investigated another 996 cases, resulting in 392 charges being laid against 144 people....Those charged are all men and many are relatives or neighbours of victims, said police. Police say collections of child pornography in circulation on the Internet include hundreds of thousands of images and hundreds of child rape videos. The victims are increasingly younger and the images are more violent as the appetite for live video of child sexual abuse on the Internet grows, say police. Often mistaken as victimless, most child pornography offences in Ontario involve the actual sexual exploitation, rape and sexual torture of children, including infants, on-camera, said police....Studies suggest 19 out of 20 cases of child sexual abuse go undetected. Only one in 10 adults report sexual assault and the sexual assault of children is reported less often. Possessors of child pornography have a very high propensity to be hands-on abusers, and studies in the United States indicate that anywhere from 30-80 per cent of collectors of child sexual abuse images are hands-on abusers. Studies indicate abusers have anywhere from 13-30 child victims each. http://www.simcoe.com/article/128263
Thursday, February 5, 2009
SURVIVORSHIP TRAUMA WORKSHOP: An Exploration of Recovery Techniques 2
Sunday February 28th
from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street, Oakland, CA.
led by Kel and Mary Ciofolo? $35 – $60?Scholarships and work exchange available
( There is a possibility that Mary Ciofolo won't be able to come due to family circumstances. If so Dvora Gordon, the Board chair of Survivorship will take her place to lead the workshop)
This workshop will be a follow up to the workshop from Jan 25th. It is NOT necessary to have been at the workshop in January to participate in this workshop.
Survivorship is proud to present a second workshop about psychological trauma and its aftermath. We cordially invite you to join us for a day of survivor solidarity and sharing, as we explore creative coping strategies and recovery techniques.
The workshop will be facilitated by Kel, a survivor of extreme abuse. She has experience facilitating workshops for Marin Abused Women's Services, Marin Services for Women, the Survivors' Healing Center in Santa Cruz, and for Survivorship. She also presents for San Francisco Women Against Rape, and BAWAR, and is a graduate of MAWS' domestic violence counselor training program.
Mary Ciofalo MFT has been a therapist in San Francisco for over twenty-five years, working with dissociation and multiples a good deal of that time. she is also an artist, focusing on painting and tile mosaics, and has written two books.
"The perpetrator of an atrocity steals many things from the victim:innocence, power, meaning, hope and faith among them. But the giant disconnect the victim experiences is perhaps the most tragic loss of all.
Because no one can heal in isolation." - Kel, from "Survivor Solidarity"
Together we can break through these barriers and begin to heal. Come join us!
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If you are paying by check or money order, copy, print out, and complete the form below and mail it, with your remittance, to:
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland CA 94612
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Masons, Blue House case, ritual abuse, battered woman received asylum
American Family Receives Asylum in Europe - A battered woman ...fled the United States with her children to protect them from abuse. They were granted Asylum in the Netherlands. We told our Mom that our father was still hurting us and she believed us. We would show our mother the bruises when we returned from our fathers and we would beg her not to send us again. She pleaded with the court to protect us but they refused. When my father appeared at our home to pick us up I would cry so hard that I would throw up. Many times my mother would also cry and sometimes she couldn't bear to make us go with him, but then my father would call the police. The policemen would enter our home and search for us. My brother and I would hide in the closets or under our beds. It was terrifying. The police would pull us out from underneath our beds and hand us over to this man who was beating us as we were kicking, screaming and begging for help. My father filed for a custody reversal based on Parental Alienation Syndrome and used the police reports as evidence that our mother was interfering in his relationship with his children. Even though the judge found that our father was abusive, in the very same order he issued a reversal of custody, citing that our mother was too traumatized from the abuse to care for us. I was 7 years old when a court officer arrived with my father and pried my fingers loose from my mothers dress. I was fighting with everything I had. http://www.americanchildrenunderground.blogspot.com/
webpage describes graphic crimes - Chapters from THE EGYPTIAN MASONIC - SATANIC - CONNECTION - By David L. Carrico and Donna M. Carrico FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST MINISTRIES P. O. Box 4174, Evansville, IN 47724-4174 (812) 477-6338 E-mail: email@example.com includes : CHAPTER 6 - EGYPTIAN SATANISM - CHAPTER 7 - SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE (The author of Chapter 7 is Rick Doninger) - DRAWINGS BY SURVIVORS OF SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE - CHAPTER 9 - FREEMASONRY AND SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE "Our suspicions were first aroused that there could be a connection between Freemasonry and SRA during our involvement in the "Blue House SRA case in Evansville, Indiana. The children in Evansville alleged that they were taken from school and subjected to Satanic abuse in a blue house. According to Rick Doninger, the leading children's advocate for the `blue house children', all of the `blue house children' claimed that they were abused by Masonic perpetrators. Mr. Doninger also informed us that the police who investigated the `blue house case' also were Freemasons. No arrests resulted from the investigation." http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/books/chapters-from-the-egyptian-masonic-satanic-connection/
articles describes crimes
Rick Doninger - Blue House Case - Rick talked about the famous "Blue House" case in Vanderburg County (Evansville), Indiana in 1990, where several children were taken out of school and allegedly (the allegedly is mine) ritually abused. Even though there was a great deal of evidence, the case never even made it to a grand jury. The attorney that attempted to bring the case to trial was fighting a lot of political power. He once told his son that he had been threatened. About 10 years ago, Rick's wife had been in "Sexual Child Abuse Rescue" (in Evansville). He mentioned that "justice was not something seen very often" and the "offenders were in a revolving door system." They were starting to see multiple victim cases. They eye witnessed through binoculars and heard children's accounts of what may have been sadistic pornography....Rick helped a lot of children at that tine. "Satanic ritual abuse was going on all over the country." "At that time, 1,000 families were on the run from this judicial system." He mentioned that nothing legal was being done in the justice system. He alleges that, most of the people involved in the ritual abuse cases were Masons.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The extreme abuse survey - Child Sexual Abuse findings
describes crimes
HAND-OUT for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April). Child Sexual Abuse and Beyond: Findings From a Series of International Extreme Abuse Surveys. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference: Sacramento, CA. Karriker, Wanda. (2008, April).
Selected Responses from the EAS
My memories of abuse include incest. 1122 70%
I had memories of incest before I sought therapy/counseling. 985 64%
I was ritually abused in a satanic cult.* 986 55%
I had memories of ritual abuse before I sought therapy/counseling. 977 48%
Secret government-sponsored mind control experiments were
performed on me as a child. 1000 26%
I have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID or MPD). 1007 65%
I am a therapist/counselor/clergy for RA/MC survivors. 965 10%
*Of the 257 EAS respondents who reported that secret mind control experiments were used on them as children, 69% (177) reported having been abused in a satanic cult. Of the 543 respondents who reported that they had been abused in a satanic cult, 33% (179) reported having been used in secret mind control experiments as children.


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A Day In My Life - Yoko Ono and Fluxus
On March 11th, 1990, Vytautas Landsbergis headed the Parliamentary session during which the restoration of Lithuanian independence from the Soviet Union was declared. I lived in Germany at that time but I had visited Lithuania several times before. On that same day I hosted a friend from Lithuania, Violeta from the town of Alytus whom I had met a year before when I visited Lithuania. Later Violeta moved to London, and in March 1997 I went to London to meet her again. On the 7th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuanian independence I was walking through London, enjoying the first warm spring sunshine, and - as always - my only plan was to have no plan. Later that day I ended up in an exhibition "Yoko Ono and Fluxus". In this exhibition I saw some old posters from Fluxus happenings from the 1960s, and on these posters I found three Lithuanian names: Vytautas Landsbergis, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas. I had found what I was looking for - the unexpected!
Vytautas Landbergis (born 1932) According to a well-meant contribution to the German Wikipedia, 'Professor Landsbergis is known all round the world not only for his political activities but also for his being one of the world´s greatest Fluxus artists.' From the 1960s to 80s Landsbergis spread Fluxus' ideas and works throughout Lithuania, where he was the first and - for most of the period – the only person to do so.
George Maciunas (1931-1978), a Lithuanian-born American artist, was a founding member of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht and Nam June Paik. He is most famous for organising and performing early happenings and for assembling a series of highly influential artists' multiples
Jonas Mekas (born 1922) is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.
Thanks for peaking my interest in something new. I am off to find out MORE about fluxus artists. Voted up.
YOu just made my day. I have been wondering how I will finally get to express myself through different media... I just realized I have a very good video camera home that I only use to film my kids and special events in our lovely home. I definitely will find a way to decorate a spot and start that little piece I have dreamed about acting for along time: women's rights, civil rights, love of life and relationships. This idea has been in the back of my mind since I wrote my first musical at 23. It is high time I take classes and go for it. Thank you so much. I will dare and rise. Love and peace to you and all.

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When I see people using their iPads or other tablets as a camera in public I'm so embarrassed for them. In fact, tablet manufacturers should stop including cameras on these devices to avoid this type of public humiliation.
I can understand that these cameras may be needed in a pinch when a phone or digital camera has a dead battery or isn't working, but even then it's best to use the tablet camera at home to document a birthday or whopper fish, not at a concert, game or other public event. It's not only embarrassing but irritating to sit behind someone holding a tablet above their head blocking the view of all behind them with a 9″x7″ camera.
I witnessed one of the most embarrassing examples of using an iPad camera last weekend at the Chalk Festival in Venice. A man in his 20s, carried a step ladder around the festival and took photos from an elevated position like the serious photographers with expensive equipment. Did he really think his tablet pictures required that type of set up?
Do yourself and everyone else a favor and please…don't use a tablet phone (at least not in public).


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Let the figures speak
The graphs tell all. If women of science exist, they are still far from having the same visibility as their male colleagues.
Scissors and leaky pipelines
The global situation of gender mix in the training and careers hierarchy is described by a simplified scissors diagram. Off the starting blocks, girls do well. In 2003 they made up more than half the university population. 59% of European female students EU-25 (1) – all disciplines together – went on to complete their basic courses (bachelor, masters, etc.) as against 41% of male students (see graph 1). But the scissors cross once one reaches the doctoral preparation stage and the other levels that open the way to academic and research careers (see graph 2). Decreasing numbers of women illustrate the 'leaks' that occur as one moves further up the academic hierarchy. At the top level (grade A) in universities and research institutions, women have just one representative (15 %) against six male colleagues (85%).
Considering this, in 2003, the European academic world had just 15 % of women professors. Women were best represented at this level in Romania (29%) and Latvia (26.5%) and were least present, at around 9 %, in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Belgium. The percentage of 'Grade A's' (2004 – EU-25) also varies according to area of specialisation, with feminisation strongest in human sciences (23.9%), social sciences (16.6%) and medicine (15.6%). Looking at female participation in the 'hard' sciences and engineering, we find that the scissors phenomenon has not even taken place. At no level does the proportion of female graduates or students exceed half the number of boys. The number of women giving up intensifies as we move up the career ladder, and at the top grade of management posts, we find one woman for nine men.
Female employment, a driver of human resources
According to the latest OECD report, employment of human resources in science and technology (HRST) "continues in all countries to progress much faster than overall employment, at an average rate of 2.5% a year in the USA, and 3.3% in the EU-15 (2). This acceleration is due mainly to the increase in female employment and the expansion of the services sector." The Eurostat figures confirm this dynamic: the number of female higher education graduates in the workforce as a whole in 2004 is, in a majority of countries, equivalent or moderately lower than the number of men. Between 1999 and 2004, the proportion of women HRST graduates grew, in fact, faster (4%) than the male portion (2.2%).
Again according to Eurostat, 'qualified female knowledge workers' are to be found principally in the high knowledge intensity services – which welcome the majority of higher S&T graduates, 77 % of women and 56% of men. On the other hand, in the high tech sectors with a more specifically industrial vocation, which at European level employ over 8.7 million scientists and engineers in 2004, only 29% of 'graduate' jobs are held by women. At this level, their presence tends to stagnate, while the proportion of men is growing by 2% a year.
Women PhD numbers rising
In 2003, 43% of the 88 000 doctorates acquired in European universities were awarded to women – an increasingly large number, and quite impressive compared with the figure of just 25% in Japan. Since 1999, the growth in female doctorates (7%) has been well above that of the men, estimated at 2%. The countries posting the highest proportions of women reaching PhD level are, in particular, those of Central and Eastern Europe, with their strong traditions of scientific gender mix.
In terms of specialisations, life sciences come well in front, and engineering trails the pack (see graph 3). The weakness of this latter figure is not, however, comparable everywhere: 33% of Hungarian women PhDs, and almost 25% of Finnish and French ones, are to be found in the 'engineering' segment, as against just 7% in Germany.
Where are the women researchers?
Around 30% of all active researchers in Europe are women. They account for more than a third of the grey matter resources of universities and other higher education institutions and of the research carried out in countless public laboratories. On the other hand, they are still largely 'left on the shelf' by private labs, where one finds only one woman for five men (see graph 4). Differences from one country to the next can, as is often the case, be quite large.
Questions of competitiveness?
Another question relates to success quotas in finding research funding. Here too, gender differences are clearly visible, for reasons that have intrigued various experts. A questionnaire on this problem area was concocted by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for its Gender and Science report published in Nature in 2007. One established cause is that women, owing to domestic and family duties outside their research life, need to limit more the time they devote to their work. Furthermore, the authors of the EMBO study cite the fact that women's 'lesser' success in competition for project financing could also be evidence of a cultural prejudice that impregnates, consciously or unconsciously, the scientific world, putting women slightly on the margin of professional support systems and networks.
In order to rebalance this aspect the Commission is planning to increase, as much as possible, the number of women involved in operating the Framework Programme for Research. And to achieve this it is boosting its Science in Society programme with concrete actions for monitoring, research management and networks dedicated to women in science.
Didier Buysse
- UE-25: Member States of the Union before the accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
- UE-15: Member States of the Union before the 2004 enlargement.


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& move along singing tralala til the death of the sun? Kidding right?
Ibon is a little more nuanced than that methinks. Who is doing the Convicting? WHO? NWO? No the aren't, it's not about capital C conviction, it's about re-emergent nature. If humanity survives the downfall of the modern era, whenever that happens, there's still going to be nastiness, pretending otherwise is a fantasy. Sorry for popping your bubble.
(There won't be a NWO, because such a thing requires organisation on a scale that hasn't been reached even with abundant, virtually free energy. There will be a return to form for us & the rest of nature. Which means not One Convicted World, but a return to enclaves, some of which will be of the Ayahuasca enlightenment style, some of the cannibalistic, somewhat less enlightenment variety. Prophesy was made a crime a very long time ago for very sound reasons, it's risky. So i shut up now).


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Nick Cave's right-hand man issues his fourth solo album, a typically moody amalgamation of originals and covers, with particular focus on songs from fellow Australians.
Mick Harvey is one of the many musicians few have heard of but most have heard. The Australian multi-instrumentalist has been Nick Cave's right-hand man for decades-- in the Boys Next Door, the Birthday Party, and the Bad Seeds-- and was also a member of Crime & the City Solution in addition to scoring numerous films. This is his fourth solo album, and it follows right in the path of his previous three-- darkly tinged versions of other people's songs and a few originals, all engineered for closing time. His first two solo albums, 1995's Intoxicated Man and 1997's Pink Elephants, were English-language tributes to Serge Gainsbourg, and his last, 2005's One Man's Treasure, drew from the catalogs of Lee Hazlewood, Scott Walker, and other outsiders.
On Two of Diamonds, Harvey sandwiches three originals around a largely well selected batch of other people's tunes, primarily fellow Australians, including the Triffids, the Saints, the Loved Ones, and his own Crime & the City Solution. As an interpreter, Harvey is also an unabashed stylist, and he brings everything he touches into his slow tempo, low-light world, making it his own. His voice is good for it, not overtly powerful, but still deep and commanding; he sometimes sounds like he's singing to himself, but with this music, that approach actually works.
One of his best selections here is the Triffids' "Everything Is Fixed", which he and his band turn into a burning, bluesy electro-acoustic number, with standup bass and acoustic slide guitar balanced against crunching electric guitar and organ. His take on Bill Withers' "I Don't Want You on My Mind" replaces the original's funky blues edge with droning menace, and James Johnston adds an excellent slide guitar solo in the middle. Perhaps the album's best cover, though, is the sharp, brooding version of Aussie rock pioneers the Loved Ones' "Sad Dark Eyes". He leans right into the song's triple meter, and while his vocal isn't as intense as the original's on the chorus, he makes up for it by layering on Yardbirdsy harmonies and building it up dramatically.
His three originals stand up next to the other material. "Slow-Motion-Movie-Star" is the best of the three, proceeding methodically along a static chord progression as guitars swell and drop, cutting like saws through the song's solid underlying texture. If there's a problem on the album, it's that outside of the numerous highlights, it does tend to blur a bit. Harvey relies heavily on his formidable skills as an arranger to differentiate tracks from each other-- this serves his ascendant, shuffling version of Manu Chao's "Out of Time Man" perfectly, but on tracks with built-in melodies that aren't quite as distinctive the result is more atmospheric than memorable. Two of Diamonds ultimately works best as a mood piece.


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text: Hey all, I have a few questions about the first time process of flashing a custom ROM for the sole purpose of overclocking. (I am not rooted yet... overclocking is the one purpose that I can see to wanting to root.) 1) Will Overclocking the unit decrease it's lifespan? At stock settings, I definitely feel a little heat after a lot of heavy use. Will the heat be warm enough overclocked in order to worry about lifespan? 2) Battery Life. I have been known to use the unit to it's limits (in my view) for extended periods of time. Will that kind of use in an overclocked situation lead to frustratingly low battery life? 3) What is the update process like when the developer updates his/her ROM? Is it a complete reflash, or a bit easier on the update side? 4) Finally, will you be reflashing to stock to get 3.2, 4.0, etc? Or will you stick with your current ROM and wait for updates there? Do you see any reason at all to reflash to stock at any time during the lifespan of the unit (assuming no warranty needs)? Thanks! This is more of just a poll, just want to start a discussion with these points so I can make a more informed decision about custom ROMming with the sole purpose of overclock.


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The Bind -- or Berkeley Internet Name Domain -- free Linux and Unix name server program provides information about domain names hosted on the system. If you don't host domains and your system doesn't need to provide IP address records about systems, you can safely uninstall Bind to free system resources. Uninstall bind with a single command on Linux computers with Yellowdog Updater Modified -- or YUM -- software.
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I often wonder what exactly is my best… could I have worked a little harder? Could I have put in an extra 5% of effort? Did I have it? As we get older, it becomes easier to gauge what your best really is – you know when you have let yourself down and you have a peace when you really did try your hardest.
I challenge you today to think about one thing that you can strive a little more for today. And DO IT!!
What will you put a little extra 5% into today?


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Fool's Gold
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EmptyThe last time Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson did the rom-com thing was in 2003's middling "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
They are reunited in an adventure comedy by the name of "Fool's Gold," though it could have been called "How to Lose an Audience in 10 Minutes."
A soggy, listless affair, this would-be fun-in-the-sun sunken-treasure frivolity starts taking on water from the get-go, thanks to drawn-out exposition and languid pacing.
Director Andy Tennant has demonstrated a Midas touch with such movies as "Hitch" and "Sweet Home Alabama," though without a Will Smith or Reese Witherspoon to ride out those rough patches, "Fool's Gold" likely will mine a lot less lucre, especially given a market that's currently awash in date-night fare.
McConaughey's Ben "Finn" Finnegan is a career booty hunter whose burning obsession concerns the legendary Queen's Dowry, a shipload of priceless Spanish treasure believed to have sunk in Caribbean waters in the early 1700s.
His latest ill-fated expedition has landed him in deep water with ruthless rapper-gangster Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart), with whom he already is in escalating debt.
While Finn is being forced to walk the plank off Bigg Bunny's boat, his ex is about to mark the spot on their divorce papers.
Even though the Queen's Dowry was what initially brought them together, for the past eight years Kate Hudson's Tess has watched their marriage continually place second to Finn's undersea pursuits.
Determined to get her life back on track, she's been working as a steward aboard the Precious Gem, a huge yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland).
But when Finn finds a shard of a plate that puts the treasure in the immediate vicinity, all is forgiven, and the pair resume the joint hunt with Nigel's support, along with his alarmingly dimwitted daughter (an amusing Alexis Dziena).
Although it's easy to see the appeal of this sort of vehicle -- think a sexier "National Treasure" -- the end product, with a script credited to Tennant along with the team of John Claflin & Daniel Zelman, has all the buoyancy and shimmer of a shipwreck.
And it's not just all that water slowing everything down.
There's also endless speculating about the coordinates of the Queen's Dowry that gets so involved that Nigel's daughter isn't the only one whose eyes become permanently glazed over.
Not surprisingly, that escapist, tropical location (with Queensland, Australia, standing in for the Caribbean because of hurricane season) affords ample opportunity for topless scenes.
But enough about McConaughey.
Hudson, meanwhile, opts to keep her shirt on, and though she and her co-star have an easy chemistry, her stiffly written character harnesses her in a constricted performance that cheats the audience out of her usual comedic gifts.
Production values, from Don Burgess' sun-drenched cinematography to George Fenton's calypso-infused score, do their bit to set the breezy tone, but where's Jimmy Buffett when you really need him?
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. presents a DeLine Pictures/Bernie Goldmann production
Director: Andy Tennant
Screenwriters: John Claflin & Daniel Zelman, Andy Tennant
Story: John Claflin & Daniel Zelman
Producers: Donald DeLine, Bernie Goldmann, John Klane
Executive producers: Wink Mordaunt, James R. Dyer
Director of photography: Don Burgess
Production designer: Charles Wood
Music: George Fenton
Co-producer: Stephen Jones
Costume designer: Ngila Dickson
Editors: Troy Takaki, Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Finn: Matthew McConaughey
Tess: Kate Hudson
Nigel Honeycutt: Donald Sutherland
Gemma Honeycutt: Alexis Dziena
Alfonz: Ewen Bremner
Moe Fitch: Ray Winstone
Bigg Bunny: Kevin Hart
Cordell: Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Running time -- 113 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13


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Recent satellite imagery suggests that North Korea has greatly expanded its uranium enrichment capabilities. The nation just promised to launch more long-range rockets "soon." And, reportedly, labs in Pyongyang are hard at work developing nuclear-armed missiles capable of striking the U.S. mainland.
With the North Korean threat apparently mounting, it's essential for the United States to continue investing in missile defense.
Missile shield technologies first gained attention in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan proposed a bold endeavor called the Strategic Defense Initiative. At the time, critics famously dismissed the prospect of intercepting incoming missiles as a "Star Wars" fantasy.
Although the technology didn't exist, Reagan's concept was sound, therefore it quickly spawned a wave of development projects.
During the first Gulf War, the United States unveiled one of these technologies with the Patriot missile system. With Patriot batteries in Israel and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. military was able to eliminate 70 percent of the scud missiles fired by Saddam Hussein.


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MADISON, Wis. — The chanting of "four more years!" echoed through the streets before dawn, the cold air carrying the sound across downtown blocks. It was a cry for morale, for warmth, for the TV crews already doing stand-ups — for the last time for this president.
That is how it started, the final day of what President Obama always says is his final campaign, at a Monday morning rally aimed at firing up fans before voting starts. It was due to end in the dark some 18 hours later, at a quieter tarmac back in his hometown of Chicago.
In between was the steady output of a campaign barreling toward election day — miles to travel, voters to reach, interviews, more attacks, more music, famous faces and pleas. For this campaign, which always felt like a "not-quite-as-good-as-the-original" movie sequel, it felt like an end.
"I just said to the president, it's like the end of a long-running series and all the characters are coming back," said David Axelrod, the president's longtime advisor, as Obama took the stage at the rally in Madison.


text: Uz.ytkownik Andre Hedrick napisa?:> Alan, we talked about this and the driver/hardware has a flaw.> If you count the total number of single IO operations to check> status/error et al., it is out right fugly. Preprocessing will kill us> like today.You mean the preprocessing in the devices firmware program of course?Just to confirm I did get it right...-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to firstname.lastname@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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How to Make Rojak Sauce
Rojak is a vegetable and fruit salad commonly served in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. The vegetables and fruits in rojak are tossed with a thick, brown sauce. Rojak sauce has the consistency of melted caramel and a complex, sweet, salty and spicy flavor. You can find the ingredients to make rojak sauce at your local Asian market or natural foods grocer. You will need approximately 25 minutes to make rojak sauce, plus an additional 30 minutes for it to cool. This recipe makes 1/2 cup of rojak sauce.
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Pour the water into the saucepan and place it over high heat. Bring the water to a boil and reduce the heat to low.
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Add the dark brown sugar to the saucepan and stir with a whisk until it dissolves.
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Add the oyster sauce, shrimp paste and tamarind paste to the saucepan and continue whisking for two minutes.
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Stir the Scotch bonnet pepper into the contents of the saucepan and simmer the mixture for 10 minutes.
Step 5
Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow the sauce to cool for 30 minutes or to room temperature before tossing with rojak.


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The NIGMS Vision for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training
Key Themes and Specific Actions
Theme I: Research Training is a Responsibility Shared by NIH, Academic Institutions, Faculty and Trainees
Theme II: Research Training Focuses on Student Development, Not Simply Selection of Talent
Theme III: Breadth and Flexibility Enable Research Training to Keep Pace with the Opportunities and Demands of Contemporary Science and Provide the Foundation for a Variety of Scientific Career Paths
Theme IV: Diversity is an Indispensable Component of Research Training Excellence, and it Must be Advanced Across the Entire
Research Enterprise
Investing in the Future: National Institute of General Medical Sciences Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training 2011
Key Themes and Specific Actions
Theme III: Breadth and Flexibility Enable Research Training to Keep Pace with the Opportunities and Demands of Contemporary Science and Provide the Foundation for a Variety of Scientific Career Paths
The NIGMS mandate is to support the training of the biomedical and behavioral researchers of tomorrow. But one clear and overarching theme that has emerged throughout the development of this plan is the need to change the perception of what constitutes a successful training outcome. The idea that success is limited to academic research careers must be modified and broadened to include those careers in industry, government, education, communications, law and other sectors that require sophisticated research skills. Because these nonacademic career opportunities exist and are attractive to many trainees, NIGMS believes that research training must be both broad and flexible. NIGMS also recognizes the value of training experiences that foster an ability to work effectively in a range of research settings. Creating a vibrant learning culture for diverse students and work styles is an effort that rewards all participants.
Actions related to this theme address the understanding that students and postdoctoral scholars benefit from exposure to diverse people and s ituations throughout training to promote professional success.
Action: Promote inclusion of a variety of perspectives, backgrounds and approaches among faculty and trainees. Solving problems of importance in biomedical and behavioral science requires bringing together people with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, scientific expertise, working styles and perspectives. NIGMS believes that research institutions should teach the skills that foster interactions that will prepare trainees to cross disciplinary boundaries and promote maximal collaboration.
Action: Encourage exposure to multiple career path options for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. NIGMS endorses the value of institutional programs and activities that highlight a variety of careers. The Institute encourages faculty and institutional staff to explore the availability of short- and long-term exposures to a range of scientific careers so that trainees can fully appreciate the breadth of opportunities available to those trained for research.
Action: Increase collaboration with societies, professional associations and other organizations to build awareness of the breadth of scientific career options and opportunities. NIGMS encourages collaborations and partnerships with industry, professional organizations and community organizations that sponsor formal and informal learning about the array of career opportunities in biomedical and behavioral science. Many existing, high-quality resources on science careers include publications, Web sites, speaker's bureaus, fellowships and teachertraining programs.
Mentoring: Ancient Art, Current Necessity
The relevance and importance of mentoring date back to ancient times. In his epic poem The Odyssey, the Greek poet Homer described Mentor as a "wise and trusted counselor" charged by Ithaca's King Odysseus to care for his belongings when he left to fight the Trojan War.
The value of good mentorship has stood the test of time, and indeed, mentoring spans virtually all endeavors and professions. It has been a mainstay of research training since the first experimentalists took apprentices under their wing. But today, the best research training goes well beyond this traditional apprenticeship model. Modern science is increasingly a team endeavor that weaves together ideas and approaches from multiple disciplines. It is not uncommon, and it is often encouraged, for trainees to seek multiple mentors who can provide guidance on various aspects of career development.
Nevertheless, not everyone is born a gifted teacher. Effective mentoring may not come naturally to all scientists who operate a laboratory staffed with personnel at various levels of experience and ability. Many professional organizations and scientific societies have published mentoring guides that highlight evidence-based practices, and most scientific conferences host sessions devoted to the value and art of excellent mentorship.
An effective mentor serves many roles: faculty advisor, career counselor, skills consultant and role model. The relationship is a blend of personal and professional, but the underlying core elements include trust, respect, understanding and empathy.


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(FOX19) - While you were sleeping, the Internet never stopped. And it's amazing what the Internet comes up with.
Check out what people are tweeting, sharing and talking about.
"House of Cards" Season 2 now available to binge watch on Netflix
The highly anticipated "House of Cards" Season 2 was released Friday on Netflix. According to Facebook fans, it's even more binge-worthy than season one. Members of Congress and staffers woke up early to watch some of the new season before the government opens at 10 a.m.
But keep your comments to yourself please. President Obama would like to join millions of other Netflix subscribers in watching season 2 spoiler-free.
"@BarackObama: Tomorrow: @HouseofCards. No spoilers, please," he tweeted.
Kentucky newspaper writes love letter to old subscribers
It's common knowledge that print newspapers are suffering in the digital age. The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader has been sending a very sad love letter to former subscribers asking, "what happened to us?"
"We used to be inseparable," the paper wrote. "What do you say we start getting together again? I can drop by on Sundays and we can spend some quality time together."
This is either a great marketing scheme for Valentine's Day or just the saddest thing ever.
Valentine's Day on Facebook: Romantic or Singles Awareness Day
Ah, Valentine's Day. Was there ever a better time to be scrolling through your newsfeed? Facebook posts you'll probably see today include the "Flowers Sent to Work" picture, the status update of romantic dinner plans, and even the "We're Engaged" shot.
But it's also Singles Awareness Day for some. The "99 problems but a guy/girl ain't one" type of thing.
Regardless of your relationship status, be sure to eat chocolate.
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floppies are much a thing of the past but they are still an often overlooked entry point
this is most important in a networked corporate situation...and the specifics apply to nt/wk/xp systems. linux users can extrapolate and win9x people...well..you're so insecure...why bother
note: your screw ups are your own...don't blame me...especially if your messing with AD...hehe
first...the why:
1] http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=231977
2] "i just brought in some pictures from home...i didn't know i had a virus..i'm really sorry it sent out that confidential memo..really"
3] http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
"This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your NT system, by modifying the crypted password in the registrys SAM file.
You do not need to know the old password to set a new one. "
3] unsecured access point is a baaad thing...you could lose trade secrets, passwords...anynumber of things
second....the how:
You have a variety of options.
1] The most secure is to simply remove the drive altogether. I have a stack of 3.5 drives in my parts closet. No one on my network needs floppy access so i make sure they can't.
2] have floppies in locking cases on servers
Middleware - the BIOS
1] set the boot sequence to c: only. this will NOT prevent someone from accessing the drive once the system has started but if you have strong password security it will help prevent exploits as in #3 above. Note it's important to password protect your BIOS to make it hard for someone to boot to the BIOS setup and change the settings back to a: C: etc...of course unless you have a locked case, someone can open the case and disconnect the battery to erase the BIOS...
2] aside: while you are in the BIOS, disabling the floppy seek on boot setting will speed up your boot sequence. it will NOT provide any additonal security.
Software - OS level
1] Disable floppy drive in Device Manager (requires admin rights)
2] you can also "share" the drive and set permissions to admins only
these 2 work ok if you have a few systems but requires you to visit each station. for larger networks and/or lazy admins...
3] set a group policy via Active Directory
- active directory users and computers
- right click on your domain
- select properties/group policy/edit
- user configuration/windows explorer
- hide these specified drives in My Computer a: enabled
- prevent access to drives from my computer a: enabled
- apply
- next gp refresh the drives will be inaccessible
except for actually removing the drives, there are likely ways around all of these hints, however they will substanitally increase the amount of time it takes to compromise your systems...and sometimes that's enough.


text: Northern Grease follows a group of snowboarders/surfers as they travel in a vegetable oil fueled bus throughout British Columbia and Alberta. The gang, on a mission to understand Canadian resource extraction projects, visit industrial towns, interview the people involved with and affected by resource extraction, and learn about some of the problems presented by practices like fracking and building transmission lines. They find a complex and disturbing landscape, against which environmental stewardship is threatened by misinformation and biased marketing. Along the way, the boys spend time with the people who, using alternative and renewable energy sources, lead lifestyles that present solutions. All in all, Northern Grease tells a story of awareness, criticism, and forward thinking, against a backdrop of our country's beautiful wilderness and fascinating people.