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Identity Theft FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
The CyberScout Knowledge Center helps consumers understand and detect the many forms of identity theft and fraud by providing answers to your common questions. However, if you think you may be a victim of identity theft or have any identity-related concerns, get in touch with a fraud specialist at the CyberScout Resolution Center through your provider. Our services are available through many leading insurance carriers, financial institutions, and benefits providers.
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What is identity theft?
Identity theft is the misuse of another person's identifying information. In true identity theft, an identity thief uses another person's Social Security number and other identifying information to fraudulently open new accounts for financial gain. Victims may be unaware of the fraud for an extended period of time, which can allow the criminal to continue the ruse for months or even years. The criminal can use the victim's identity to work, receive medical care and commit other types of fraud. Account-takeover and credit-related fraud are common problems associated with identity theft.
Some examples of the many ways criminals use stolen identity information are to:
- Obtain credit fraudulently from banks and retailers
- Steal money from the victim's existing accounts
- Apply for loans
- Establish accounts with utility companies
- Rent an apartment
- Obtain a job
- Receive medical care
- Achieve other financial gain using the victim's name
What is account takeover?
Account takeover occurs when an identity thief acquires a person's existing credit or bank account information and either withdraws money or makes purchases. Victims usually learn of account takeover when they check their account statements online or receive their monthly credit card or bank account statements.
What can I do to protect my identity?
To reduce your chance of becoming a victim, check out our Consumer Tips. Find out how to protect your Social Security card, mail, checks, passwords, online activities, and much more.
What can I do to protect my computer and data?
There are three main threats to the data on your computer: malicious software, network intrusion by hackers, and physical theft.
To protect your computer against viruses, spyware, worms, and Trojan Horse programs (which let hackers control your computer), you must use antivirus, anti-spyware and anti-malware software—and keep those applications up-to-date. To keep intruders out, connect to the Internet through a properly configured firewall, keep administrative names and passwords updated, set wireless networks to "no broadcast" and be sure to power down your computer when not in use. Never open an email spam or other emails from unknown sources and avoid using public computers for online banking, email account access, or other sensitive exchanges of information, as keystroke loggers, web "cookies," or cached pages may be capturing your data.
Limit access to your computer to those you truly trust, and use restrictive permission levels to protect sensitive files. Whenever possible, encrypt files containing sensitive information, including backup files. And don't forget to protect your computer against physical theft—"password protection" sounds daunting but is actually easy for a tech-savvy criminal to defeat.
Finally, beware of "phishing" and "pharming" scams, which use fake corporate email, redirected web addresses, and "cloned" corporate web pages to plant viruses and con users into providing sensitive information. Never provide identity or account information in response to an email or if you have doubts about a website's authenticity. To learn more, check out our Consumer Tips.
What methods do identity thieves employ?
Theft of wallets and purses was once the most common way to obtain identity documents and account information. Today, identity thieves attack virtually every area of an individual's life, wherever personal information is stored or sent. An identity thief needs only a few strategic bits of your personal information to commit identity theft and fraud. The more accounts the criminals are able to open, the more "evidence" they have that your identity belongs to them. Some of the most common methods include:
- Dumpster diving in trash bins for credit card statements, loan applications, and other documents containing names, addresses, account information, and SSNs
- Stealing mail from unlocked mailboxes to get preapproved credit offers, credit cards, utility bills, bank and credit card statements, investment reports, insurance statements, benefits documents, and tax information
- Impersonating a loan officer, employer, or landlord to obtain access to credit files
- Taking advantage of "insider" access to names, addresses, birth dates, and SSNs in personnel or customer files
- Shoulder surfing when people are using laptops in public places or watching ATM transactions and public phones to capture PINs
- "Skimming" of credit and debit card information at point-of-sale by copying the card or using a small electronic "skimmer" device
- Tapping online sources of personal data, such as public records, fee-based information sites, and personal networking sites
- Hacking into an organization's database to steal sensitive information
- Purchasing fraudulent identities on the Internet or through a secondary market
What is debt tagging?
Debt Tagging is a term used to describe when collectors target the wrong person for a debt and append that debt to their credit files.
After years of trying to collect on a debt, collection agencies are often left with old outdated contact information. If you have a common name or one that is similar to who they are looking, your risk is higher and you could be tagged with another person's debts.
If you are contacted and do not believe the debt is yours, ask for proof of the debt. Debt collection agencies are required under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to provide debtors with proof of the debt they are attempting to collect.
Next, check to see if you are covered with Identity Theft Protection by your homeowners, auto or other insurance policies. Also check with your bank, credit union or financial services or employee benefits. If you are covered, call their claims/customer service departments.
What is child identity theft?
Child identity theft is true identity theft in which the victim is a minor child. Because a child (or parent acting on behalf of the child) is unlikely to request credit reports or to try to obtain credit, the theft can go undetected for a long time. In fact, the theft may not be detected until the child becomes an adult and applies for credit. If no credit report exists in your child's name, that is a good indication that your child has not been a victim. However, if you receive collection calls, statements and/or pre-approved credit offers in your child's name, your child may be a victim of identity theft.
What is medical identity theft?
Medical identity theft is the misuse of a person's identity to obtain health care goods and services. It is a growing crime as the trend towards electronic medical records gains momentum. Often the first time a victim gets wind of medical identity theft is when he or she receives a statement from an insurance company for services rendered. To help detect this type of theft, read all Explanation of Benefits statements you receive from your insurance company and contact the provider immediately if you see descriptions of services unrelated to your own health care. Also, watch for any unpaid medical claims on your credit report.
What is synthetic identity theft?
In synthetic identity theft, instead of stealing an actual person's identity, a thief creates a fictional identity by taking pieces of information from a number of people. The thief usually starts with one victim's Social Security number and then composes a fictional identity associated with that number. Synthetic identity theft is often harder to detect than true identity theft, because accounts and other credit that is falsely obtained typically do not show up on the credit report of the victim whose Social Security number has been stolen. Since the thieves have created fictional identities instead of stealing real consumers' identities, it is most often banks that are the real victims of this type of theft because they are stuck with the bills. Beware of so-called credit repair companies that use synthetic identity theft to "erase" your credit file and create a synthetic (or fictional) identity for you. While this tactic appears to solve your credit problem, it is illegal and could create new ones down the road.
What is a data breach?
A data breach is a situation in which information is either lost by or stolen from an organization or individual. Financial information, medical records, customer information, and student data are all examples of information that has been accessed as a result of data breaches. The incidents can occur under a number of different scenarios. Hacked databases and stolen laptops, PDAs, USB flash drives containing sensitive information account for many breaches. More than 75% of states now legally require organizations to contact affected individuals when a data breach occurs. To stay abreast of recent data breaches, click here.
What are credit and fraud monitoring?
Credit monitoring involves monitoring your credit history for suspicious activity. The three credit bureaus offer credit monitoring for a modest fee, providing services such as allowing you to check your credit files every day for any fraudulent usage of your identity. To find out more about this service, see links for the three credit bureaus on our Resources section.
Fraud monitoring allows you to monitor public record databases for suspicious activity. Public record databases can show if someone has broken the law using your identity.
Beware of companies that guarantee they can prevent identity theft. While you can mitigate your risk of becoming a victim and the damage after a compromise, no one can give you a 100% guarantee that you can escape. Even if you do everything right, you might still be on the wrong database at the wrong moment. Never forget, the bad guys are getting better and better at what they do and are often far ahead of the good guys.
What is a fraud alert?
A fraud alert is a warning that you can place on your credit report by contacting the three major credit bureaus. It signals to potential creditors that you may be, or are at risk of being, a victim of identity theft. A fraud alert can take one of three forms—an initial alert, an extended alert and a military fraud alert:
Initial Fraud Alert — An initial alert lasts for at least 90 days. It is a precaution that can be taken in situations where you think you are at heightened risk for identity theft or that someone is currently stealing your identity, e.g., if your purse has been stolen. Placing an initial alert on your credit report requires potential creditors to use "reasonable policies and procedures" to confirm the legitimacy of your identity when it is used for credit applications. These "reasonable policies and procedures" may not always adequately protect you, however, so be sure to monitor your credit report carefully even if you've placed an initial fraud alert.
Extended Fraud Alert — An extended alert remains on your credit report for seven years. You are eligible to place this type of alert on your account if you have been the victim of identity theft and provide the credit bureaus with an identity theft report such as the one found on the FTC website.
Active Duty Military Fraud Alert — An active duty alert helps protect military personnel from identity theft. If you are a member of the military and away from your usual duty station, you may place an "active duty alert" on your credit report to help minimize the risk of identity theft while you are deployed. If you place an active duty alert, businesses must verify your identity before issuing credit in your name, which makes it harder for identity thieves to use your information to apply for credit. Active duty alerts on your report last for one year unless you request that the alert be removed sooner. If your deployment lasts longer, you may place another alert on your report.
What is a security freeze? Is it right for me?
A security freeze (or credit freeze) gives consumers the option to "freeze" or lock access to their credit file against anyone trying to open up a new account or to get new credit in their name. When a security freeze is in place at all three major credit bureaus, an identity thief cannot open a new account because the potential creditor will not be able to check the credit file (this is only the case if the creditor checks the credit file before extending credit). When the consumer is applying for credit, he or she can lift the freeze temporarily using a PIN so legitimate applications for credit or services can be processed. Currently 47 states and the District of Columbia have joined the legislative surge against identity theft, enacting laws that empower consumers to freeze their files.
A security freeze shouldn't be enacted without careful consideration. Before ordering a security freeze, first make sure no legitimate parties are going to require timely access to your credit (these could include cell phone companies, utility providers, or landlords, to name a few examples). Additionally, if any change is made to your personal information during a security freeze, e.g., if your address changes, the companies that would normally report this to the credit bureaus will not be able to do this—you are responsible for contacting the credit bureau and conveying any changes to your personal information. So, if you are in immediate need of credit, e.g., you are about to apply for a mortgage or need to apply for a car loan, first determine whether you will be able to handle delays resulting from the security freeze. For additional information on security freezes, visit the Consumers Union's Guide to Security Freeze Protection.
How can I monitor my own credit?
You can monitor your credit by checking your credit report from all three agencies at least twice a year. Under FACTA, every consumer has the right to get a copy of his or her credit report free from each of the credit reporting agencies. Instead of getting a report from all three credit reporting agencies at once, get one from each bureau every four months (providing you with a different snapshot three times per year). To obtain your three free reports annually, do not contact the reporting agencies as you normally would. Instead, go to this website, which was set up specifically to allow consumers to receive free credit reports: www.annualcreditreport.com.
You can also monitor fraud in your medical files, on your Social Security statement, insurance claims, or in public records. To find out how to get these reports, see the links on our Resources section.
Are there laws against identity theft?
Yes. In 1998 Congress passed the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act (918 U.S.C.1028), which makes it a federal felony to use another person's identification with the intent to commit unlawful activity. Federal agencies such as the Secret Service, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigate suspected violations of this law; the Department of Justice handles prosecutions. Visit the FTC's website to find out more about federal and state laws governing identity theft, consumer credit and privacy and information.


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Hey, Christians;
I have a single, simple question for you. It may at first seem frivolous, but I assure you that I am dead serious and consider its implications profound and its answers revelatory of the Christian mindset.
If I believed in a compassionate, all-powerful God who answers prayers, I would pray every day for Him to eradicate all human disease.
My question is predicated on the a priori assumption that you do not do this.
My only question for you is: WHY NOT?
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Just to recap a point from an earlier post:
I am an agnostic because I have no Knowledge as to whether or not a specific god exists.
I am an Atheist because I my lack belief in any god.
I am an Agnostic Atheist because I do not believe in any gods because I have no knowledge or evidence for their existence. No faith is required to hold this position.
Quick thought: If we say – as most believers do – that their god has a plan for them and that everything that happens to us is part of this plan. Whether we understand Gods mind is not important as He alone knows the reason why things happen. Therefore why pray? Surely prayer is asking your god to change his plans? Should Theists not desist from constantly imploring him to change his mind?
Hello Dale
As a former member of your ranks I retain a certain affection for your persistant inquiry. That is something that is lost among the majority of believers. Anyway as to our imperfect world I think it can be justified in two ways. The first is absolute total freedom. The world we live in permits us to fend for ourselves, disease can be eradicated without explicit divine intervention. Smallpox, once the scourge of europe and the americas, now exists only in laboratories. Many other diseases have been eradicated any many will soon follow suit. As horrid as a world is with malignant microbes is, I feel hope in the fact that we, really only 450 years or so practicing science, have gone to great lengths in combatting them. The human race is thus free to stand on its own. I think that the idea of mankind living perpetually in a sort of garden of eden may seem appealing, but upon further consideration it really is not. Man, fallen as the Christian knows, is not suited to live in such an environment. A once read a study on a tribe in africa, the efe that subsides entirely off the land, they do not have agriculture, or science, or written language,their extent of technology is a bow and arrow, they also have few predators and disease is not as much of a problem there as it is in the rift valley. They are unable to discover the great truths of our universe or reap the benefits of modern technology because they were never forced to survive in spite of their environment. In a way disease led us to discover microbes and from that discovery microbiology was born. I think a proper prayer for a christian to utter in this regard is thus, Lord, please facilitate new discoveries and help us to improve our lives upon the wondrous planet you have given us. Unfortunately, many people see prayer as a celestial ATM. This is most likely do to the trash culture that we have.
The second part of the answer is the afterlife. Obviously I am aware that almost everyone on this site will see it has simply "the great fiction" But the persistence of similar NDE's at least sow a seed of doubt. Also the difficulty in explaining the origin of Christianity without the resurrection seems to suggest that there could be a life after death. Nietzsche in his work, the antichrist, postulated that St.Paul was the architect of Christianity as a whole, and he invented the resurrection and promised the afterlife to gullible low class citizens of the empire. Apart from the latter part of the statement being untrue, Christianity was embraced by the educated greeks after much effort by St.Paul, Nietzsche fails to adress the obvious, why would St. Paul bother? He knew that death would come and gained little materially, especially considering that he was a roman citizen and therefore a member of the privileged elite in Jerusalem. So if there is an afterlife then the imperfect nature of our world is totally justified. The only thing that matters in this life is our charitable works towards our less privileged brothers and sisters and our reaction to the many trail, tribulations, and injustices that torment our existence. The Christian can hope in a final justice. The trilemma of Epicurus(and Hume) is justified in the next life, not this one.
Hello Manuel,
I think it is pretty strange to jump to a conclusion of an "afterlife" based on similarity of NDE's. What tends to be a common denominator IN NDE's is the patients all having hallucination, which is NOT possible if one is actually BRAIN DEAD.
Just wanted to point that out.
I did not say that one should jump to a conclusion, I merely said that it was something to consider, furthermore the NDE's that have been entered into the many studies published all must be in patients who had absolutely no brain function, they were in effect brain dead. This may arise from the fact that we do not yet fully understand consciousness. A study recently published suggests that consciousness may be a product of quantum mechanics,therefore it could be assumed that some residual consciousness remains after all brain activity ceases, but that was repudiated by fellow scientists, albiet not totally. So the question remains. Some MD on nbc said that his experience with NDE's led him to believe a couple of years ago.
We now have the technology and scientific knowledge to begin exploring the ultimate question," says Dr Sam Parnia, leader of the research team at London's Hammersmith Hospital. "To be honest, I started off as a sceptic but having weighed up all the evidence I now think that there is something going on.
Several scientific studies have suggested that the mind – or 'soul' - lives on after the body has died and the brain ceased to function. One study published in the prestigious Lancet medical journal found that one in ten cardiac arrest survivors experienced emotions, visions or lucid thoughts while they were clinically dead. In medical terms they were "flatliners" or unconscious with no signs of brain activity, pulse or breathing.
About one in four people who have a near-death experience also have a much more profound – and sometimes disturbing – experience such as watching doctors try and resuscitate their bodies. These 'out-of-body experiences' often include seeing a bright light, traveling down a tunnel, seeing their dead body from above, and meeting deceased relatives.
Dr Parnia has previously studied near-death experiences. Two years ago his work was published in the prestigious medical journal Resuscitation. Dr Parnia's team rigorously interviewed 63 cardiac arrest patients and discovered that seven had memories of their brief period of 'death', although only four passed the Grayson scale, the strict medical criteria for assessing near-death experiences. These four recounted feelings of peace and joy, they lost awareness of their own bodies, time speeded up, they saw a bright light and entered another world, encountered a mystical being and faced a "point of no return".
According to modern medicine all of these patients were effectively dead. Their brains had shut down and no thoughts or feelings were possible. There was certainly no possibility of the complex brain activity required for dreaming or hallucinating.
Dr Parnia's initial trial was especially rigorous - he wanted to confound his critics before they could muster their arguments. To rule out the possibility that near-death experiences resulted from hallucinations after the brain had collapsed through lack of oxygen, he rigorously monitored the concentrations of the vital gas in the patients' blood. Crucially, none of those who underwent the experiences had low levels of oxygen.
He was also able to rule out claims that unusual combinations of drugs were to blame because the resuscitation procedure was the same in every case, regardless of whether they had a near-death experience or not.
"Arch sceptics will always attack our work," says Dr Parnia. "I'm content with that. That's how science progresses. What is clear is that something profound is happening. The mind – the thing that is 'you' – your 'soul' if you will - carries on after conventional science says it should have drifted into nothingness."
Dr Parnia says that every near-death experience is subtly different but that they all share eight or nine key features, whatever the nationality, culture or religion of the patient. These include intense feelings of calmness, traveling down a long dark tunnel, being drawn into an intense loving light, seeing your dead body from above, and meeting long-deceased relatives or friends. A few experience a brief form of 'hell' where they are drawn, petrified, into a dark swirling well of bitterness, hatred and fear.
Look it up, even if the tissue is viable, if there are no electrical pulses or synapsis, then there can be no consciousness.
As for the Quantum Mechanics theory here is a good article if you have any interest.
Well you might be aware that Cardiac Arrest patient's EEG usually flatlines around 10-20 seconds after cardiac arrest. No electrical pulses means flat EEG, so in that 10-20 second space a patient may still have brain function without a pulse, so they would be "clinically" dead and still retain brain function, that I will concede, but the EEG flatlines within seconds. This is proven by the fact that they do not even retain a gag reflex which is among the most basic of brain functions. Also the patients pupils are fixed and dilated.If there is no brain activity you cannot retain or create any memories. Once a person's brainwaves have ceased, indicating that all mental activity has stopped - perceiving, thinking, and remembering - how do we explain their accurate perception of events going on around their 'deceased' body (both sight and sound), and their accurate reporting of events taking place even at significant distances from their clinically-dead body? The dying brain theory has been very much debunked by cold hard medical facts. The reason Penrose would throw his weight behind such a phony quantum based theory is because this is a genuine mystery. If the debate was so simple then millions would't be spent on so much research. I personally am an undergraduate planning on going into the medical field and one of my professors, an agnostic by the way, has had access to some of the files of the massive forthcoming University of Florida study on NDE's and he says that from what they have discovered so far there is no correlation between religious belief and experience of NDE's. Of course the study isn't published yet so I cannot give you a link, sorry.
"Our most striking finding was that Near-Death Experiences do not have a physical or medical root. After all, 100 per cent of the patients suffered a shortage of oxygen, 100 per cent were given morphine-like medications, 100 per cent were victims of severe stress, so those are plainly not the reasons why 18 per cent had Near-Death Experiences and 82 per cent didn't. If they had been triggered by any one of those things, everyone would have had Near-Death Experiences." (Van Lommel 1995)
Plus Tracey, Dr. Parnia is still a skeptic and he is really trying hard to find a medical explanationhttp://www.skeptiko.com/sam-parnia-claims-near-death-experience-probably-an-illusion/
I think if you read the entire piece you will realize that that the title is a bit optimistic, anyway he also makes a slight mistake, he said that aristotle and plato and different views on the soul, they did not really, the greek philosopher and pseudoscientist Epicurus was the one who said that the soul was a product of bodily functions and it died along with the body. CPR in a way does restart the brain. The brain cannot function without a steady stream of oxygenated blood, the CPR provides that blood and restores brain function when there previously was none.
NDE is a bit of a misnomer, if their EEG is flat and they have no pulse, the're dead.
The DMT theory is being thrown around, as it the CO2 theory, but neither of them are really being taken that seriously. I am not saying that there is no possible way a natural process can account for these NDE's but as of today there is none.
Check out Dr. Kenneth RIng's study with people who are born blind having NDE where they can see.
Also read up on John Eccles, a nobel prize winning neurophysiologist and devout theist, catholic by the way.
Strict Materialism and Religious Fundamentalism are two sides of the same coin guys, at least keep an open mind.
Hi John Baptiste,
I have read the original paper as reported in the Lancet and it seems that Dr Parnia is doing nothing short of quote-mining....to serve their own purpose...
Seriously, ANYONE who says...." I started out as a sceptic"...is much like the beginnings of near EVERY Penthouse Forum story...starting with ..." I never believed these stories were true until.... MY experience...."
Again, cardiac arrest is NOT BRAINDEAD. CPR does NOT jumpstart the brain again, but the HEART.
As well as Dr Parnia stated, there are "key" features in those who've had NDE (THE NEAR is "key" here...they AIN'T DEAD).... is that over 72% of those claiming to have had NDE either have religious affiliation OR have heard of what an "NDE is "like" prior to having one themselves.
As such, all this really "proves" is the unconscious mind has the capacity to bring forth stored information. It related ZERO to any afterlife scenario. If the "findings showed that EVERYONE having been through the trauma and associated clinical death and subsequent CPR... then there WOULD be conclusive evidence. In the Study though he originally cited FROM the Lancet, there were 344 cardiac patients involved and of those.. only 62 actually had this "nde" experience...whether in assumed" core form or more superficial.Less than 20% had NDE.. as I said shows more about information they have stored, due to religious beliefs and indoctrination.
So...yeah.. cheers to you too.
There is a difference between a flat EEG and the irreversible necrosis of the neurons, And yes you are right about cold water drowning, the low temperatures prevent the cells from dying, it is the same principle that applies to cryogenics. And in this state there is no brain activity, none, their EEG's are flat but the neurons can be coaxed back to life with a flow of oxygenated blood. The skin tone is not related to brain functions, any brain stem activity would be given away by a gag reflex, or pupil contraction as a response to light. The reviving of the patient follows the same principle in both the cold water drowning and cardiac arrest patient, it's just that the cold water patients can be revived far later, when normal cardiac arrest patients brain would be damaged beyond repair.
Hey Jean-Baptiste,
I'm impressed. This is the first I've heard anyone mention the work of Roger Penrose. I find it odd however, that you would not put much stock in it. I think it is the last best hope for a medical explanation of human consciousness that might be independent of the scientific method.
Penrose's work is not well understood by the lay public. But basically, there is a fundamental difference between what Penrose is talking about and the "usual" Quantum Mechanical behaviors observed in nature. Penrose is talking about what is called "Objective State Vector Reduction" which is an extraordinarily rare occurrence in the universe. It is the only process in nature that is truly non-deterministic and non-algorithmic. This means that it is inaccessible to the scientific method. This is precisely the kind of candidate one needs to speak of the "supernatural"; by definition.
If I were an apologist I would have latched onto this a long time ago but I've yet to see anyone pick it up. Despite how rare it is, it happens literally thousands or millions of times per second in layer 5 of the cerebral cortex of the human brain in what are called large pyramidal or "Betz" cells. This should be a red flag for further research. But no one seems to quite understand the significance of this.
As for being brain dead, I don't think that data will tell you anything. The Quantum Coherence that occurs in the water within microtubules "reduces" to a classical state whether the brain is alive or dead. Shifts in the density and location of water inside the microtubule as a result causes the microtubule to change shape. Changes in the shape of the microtubules cause changes in the growth of the cytoskeleton, which in turn shapes the direction of axonal and dendritic growth. This also occurs even after brain death.
This is significant because the probability of a neuron firing depends partly on something called spatial and temporal summation; the location at which dendrites synapse with neighboring neurons and the spatial distribution of those synapses on those neurons. This is ultiamately influenced by objective state vector reduction, which is a process inaccessible to the scientific method (one cannot predict the outcome of that system with a given, initial set of conditions). There is your "god".
- kk
btw, I think Penrose is also right in saying that "artifical intelligence" and other such schemes at mimicking human intelligence will fail because human consciousness is a fudamentally different animal. The human brain is not a computer and any computer that can "think" will be something of a kind and type we would not today call a computer. Penrose made this argument quite well also. The mystery of human consciousness is an extremely challenging one and not one that's going to be solved by software engineers.
This is significant because the probability of a neuron firing depends partly on something called spatial and temporal summation; the location at which dendrites synapse with neighboring neurons and the spatial distribution of those synapses on those neurons.
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This is significant because the probability of a neuron firing depends partly on something called spatial and temporal summation; the relative time at which dendrites synapse (and fire) with neighboring neurons and the spatial distribution of those synapses on those neurons.
Oh, and, no offense to software engineers. Its no issue of brains, its an issue of specialty.
Hey Jean-Baptiste,
We now have the technology and scientific knowledge to begin exploring the ultimate question," says Dr Sam Parnia,
I admire his confidence in science.
But I seriously doubt it.
If anything we are awash in hubris. We are a LONG, LONG way from understanding human consciousness, imo. I think we'll have viable fusion reactors before we have a complete understanding of human consciousness. In fact, I'd argue that the question of human consciousness is going to vex the scientific method and community more thoroughly and ruthlessly than anything we've ever encountered, in my little heterodox, wicked little opinion. ;-)
- kk
Finally, whew! that link you provided is awful. The author doesn't understand anything he's talking about, despite his great effort. What Roger Penrose was saying was what the eternal optimist of a scientist would say when faced with what he discovered:
Well, gee, the scientific method flat out fails completely to explain human consciousness, we already know that, its the only thing we know cannot be explained by the scientific method, so, maybe, quantum mechanics is just wrong and we'll figure it all out later.
Wrong. What objective state vector reduction tells us is that the laws of nature itself bar any investigation into this. Sorry, but its a fact. I'm a deconverter, why do you think I avoid this topic? ;-)
- kk

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Microsoft 's share of the online search market has declined for the first time in several months. The news, confirmed by Nielsen/NetRatings will be a blow to the software giant. Microsoft has made no secret of its desire to grow share in online search and will see this latest news as a blow.
Nielsen's April results revealed that Microsoft's share had slipped to nine per cent, with Google taking 55 per cent. Microsoft's share declined around one per cent during April. Yahoo's share is around the 22 per cent mark, and this week has seen yet more continued speculation that Microsoft might seek to expand its online empire by buying Yahoo.
Microsoft is also trying to grow share of the online advertising market, shown by its purchase of Aquantive last week. Google's online ad domination took a shot in the arm when it bought DoubleClick for $3.1 million (£1.5 billion) last month.


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Difficulty level : easy, multiplier is 3
In sumoku puzzles, tiles must be arranged in a crossword-style pattern such that each row and column adds up to a multiple of the key number.
You can use you real sumoku game to solve this puzzle or just click and drag the tiles.
Assemble this 10-tile Sumoku. Each row and column need to add up to a multiple of 3.
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When you search online, you will find that there are just so many home business opportunity to choose from. And when you are making a decision as to which one to embark on, keep in mind that it is crucial to be meticulous since you will invest your money and time into it.
A lot of people who also tried their luck in home-based business end up with nothing due to their carelessness and lack of efforts to do a little research. In many instances, people lose their money by turning a blind eye on opportunities that really work. They made the wrong decision of setting up a business with no strong background when it comes to its capacity to earn. Perhaps, they had chosen that business because it looks good at first.
So, what do must look for in a home business opportunity? As with any other questions with regards to online businesses, different people who are involved in this line of business give different answers and comments. For selecting the right business that you can operate at home, entrepreneurs have their own advice to impart and for other experts, here's what they commonly say:
– Go for a reputable or well-known company.
– Choose a company that has been around for some time.
– Pick the home business opportunity with a good support program.
– Read reviews and see what other people think is the best opportunity out there.
On the other hand, in general, there are many factors to consider so that you will end up with the best business opportunity and written below are some of them:
1. Carry out a little background check concerning the company that has created or introduced the opportunity. Find out how long that that they have been in operation. Established businesses may be the better choice over the new ones.
The reason for this is that the odds that new businesses will fail are quite high so it is a risky decision to join a newly set up company than the one that already has a long record of success.
2. Search online for the company that you are eyeing. Find some feedbacks or anything that will give you an idea about what other people think or saying about them. If the business enterprise is good, you will see a lot of search results after you Google it in the internet. On the other hand, verify if the comments given are genuine. Visit the business bureau site to be sure.
3. Absorb all the information that you will learn about the business. Consider all the angles and aspects of the company and then make your decision accordingly. You have to learn as much so that you will be aware of what exactly you are getting into.
An important note to remember is not to sign up at once. Gather as much information before you even think of joining the company.
4. Before you begin working for the home business opportunity of your choice, make sure that you are equipped with a good plan on how you will go about it. Having a goal will also help you reach success since it will push you to tackle the right direction.
Finally, make sure that you will choose a business opportunity where all upfront costs are clearly stated. There should be no hidden cost of any sorts. Otherwise, look for another opportunity.


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Straight from Atlanta, B.o.B hit NYC and shut down Manhattan's Highline Ballroom last night as part of Myspace's Secret Shows. If you weren't in attendance you were definitely missing out. B.o.B performed to a packed venue in Manhattan's lower west side. Evidenced by the shouts from the crowd, people were in attendance that originated from all over NYC, Atlanta, and even other areas outside of NYC. In typical B.o.B fashion he took the stage and delivered an energy packed set to an eager and anxious crowd of Ray Fanz. He went through a plethora of tracks sure to keep any B.o.B fan satisfied. He even took it back to his debut album performing "Don't Let Me Fall," "Bet I" with fellow rapper and friend Playboy Tre, and fan/crowd favorite "Nothin On You." He then told the crowd to look up towards the ceiling and pretend they were outdoors and could see the stars in the night sky, which led into other fan favorite "Airplanes". He even gave a shout out to his original B.o.B fans that were around for his mixtape days, back when he dropped Cloud 9, Epic, and No Genre.
However, B.o.B. never alienated his new fans because he made sure to perform many songs from his new album, Strange Clouds of course. One of the first songs he performed from his album was "Out Of My Mind" where he got some help on stage from his two amazing backup dancers. He even did some moves of his own when he was on stage with his dancers, especially during the performance of "Ray Bands." He also performed his heavy hitting track "Play for Keeps." Bobby Ray made sure to slow it down as he sat at his piano as the true artist he is for "Where are You (B.o.B vs. Bobby Ray)." What other rapper do you know that raps, sings, plays piano and guitar? During the set he reversed the roles and played fan for a little bit by taking a couple of pictures with the crowd. Once B.o.B exited the stage he returned to screams from the crowd for an encore, where he dutifully took the stage to perform "So Good" before taking his tank top off and tossing it into the crowd for one lucky fan. He gracefully bowed before the crowd before exiting the stage and classily thanking all of his Bobby Ray supporters for coming out.


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By Lance Cpl. Ashley Lawson, II Marine Expeditionary Force
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- An open field where injured dummies lie was suddenly crowded as the recorded sound of a bomb reached the eardrums of corpsmen on a patrol nearby during a training exercise. With quick, sharp looks and a feeling of urgency, they each rushed to a wounded "Marine" to save their brothers' lives.
Corpsmen with 2nd Medical Battalion participated in a Tactical Combat Casualty Care training exercise February 6-10, 2017, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
The TCCC is designed to give corpsmen the basic skills to work under pressure in a combat setting, ensure productive communication and save their patients' lives.
The students conducted a patrol, experienced notional enemy contact and rushed to dummies where they then dragged them out of the line of fire gave appropriate care and transported them to an aircraft.
"When taking care of injuries, they need to stop massive hemorrhaging in 3 minutes and relocate their patient out of the line of fire and to an aircraft in 6 to7 minutes," said Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Showalter, an instructor for Combat Trauma Management with 2nd Medical Battalion.
With Marines and sailors constantly leaving the base for training exercises and deployments, the corpsmen are required to keep their fellow service members safe and pass on their knowledge.
"It's important to apply medicine in a tactical setting and save lives as effectively as possible," stated Petty Officer 1st Class Emmanuel Pineda, an independent duty corpsman with Combat Logistics Regiment 25. "Those individuals will eventually end up in a clinical setting under the care of other corpsmen and it makes the cycle so much more effective."
This training allows the corpsmen to be brought out of their comfort zone and discover more efficient ways of saving lives.
Once the training ended, the instructors went over ways to make the process more effective and how to take the new knowledge back to their units and share it.
The TCCC is one of many tools used to keep corpsmen up to date in their job field, as well as bolster combat readiness for possible deployments.


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In 1946, the West Texas A&M University Foundation began as a dream to help students realize their fullest potential through the soliciting, receiving, investing and disbursing of private gifts. With an initial gift of $2,500 in 1951, the WTAMU Foundation has amassed assets of more than $50 million to date.
An independent 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, the WT Foundation's mission is to provide deserving students with scholarship assistance and vital support for the talented faculty, staff and programs of West Texas A&M University.
Nestled in the growing Panhandle community of Canyon, Texas, WT shares a rich history of determination and generosity. A pledge of 40 acres of land and just over $100,000 in cash helped pave the way for the present day West Texas A&M University. From these humble beginnings as West Texas State Normal College, WT has since grown into a nationally recognized university with nearly 8,000 students enrolled, 45 master's degree programs and one doctoral program.
Throughout its 100-year history, one thing has remained the same. WT has continued to provide a unique educational experience that has touched the lives of thousands of students by forging friendships, instilling ethics and values and building skills for success while effectively changing the physical, economic and cultural landscape of the Texas Panhandle region.
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Day three: How'd you get your hair like that?
All day I searched for stand-out facial hair, a slick sock bun, or even a shiny, perfect bald head – but I kept coming up empty-handed. Could I be reaching hair block, already? No. Never.
Glossy ringlets to the rescue. Glossy man-ringlets.
On day three, I ran into Denver Post Nuggets reporter Benjamin Hochman. I couldn't pass up the chance to film one of the best curly mops Denver has flopping around.
Hochman describes his bouncy curls as quite versatile. He can style and tousle them in many, out-dated but perhaps timeless ways. Talking to Hochman about his hair took me back to simpler days; the ones where the hardest decision I had to make was which one of the five Bar Mitzvah parties should I RSVP "yes" to for the following Saturday.
Thanks Ben, for that step back in time. And, thank you for reminding us all, about the great wisdom of the mullet: business in the front, and party in the back.
Follow my series here and on Twitter with @notajappycamper and #denverhair.
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ISTANBUL - Riot police used teargas in Istanbul and Ankara on Sunday to try to prevent anti-government demonstrators from regrouping ahead of a rally by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party.
Bulldozers removed barricades and municipal workers swept the streets around Istanbul's Taksim Square, sealed off by police after thousands took to the streets overnight following a raid by riot police firing teargas and water cannon to evict demonstrators from the adjoining Gezi Park.
The umbrella protest group behind the Gezi Park campaign, Taksim Solidarity, called for demonstrators to gather peacefully again in the square but Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu made clear they would not be allowed to do so.
'Any call for (people to gather in) Taksim will not contribute to peace and security,' he told reporters, as riot police fired teargas in several locations to disperse groups of demonstrators.
'After the current environment becomes stable, they can continue exercising their democratic rights. Under current circumstances we will not allow any gathering.'
Tens of thousands of ruling AK Party supporters were expected to gather several kilometers away on the other side of Istanbul for Erdogan's second rally of the weekend. He told flag-waving crowds in Ankara on Saturday that he would crush his opponents in elections next year.
Erdogan has said the AK Party rallies in Ankara and Istanbul are meant to kick off campaigning for local elections next year and are not related to the protests, but they are widely seen as a show of strength in response to the demonstrations.
The blunt-talking prime minister has long been Turkey's most popular politician, overseeing a decade of unprecedented prosperity, and his AK Party has won an increasing share of the vote in three successive election victories, but his critics complain of increasing authoritarianism.
While the protests pose no immediate threat to his government, they have tarnished Turkey's image as a haven of stability in a turbulent Middle East.
MANIPULATION Panicked protesters fled into an upscale hotel at the back of Gezi Park during Saturday night's raid, several vomiting, as clouds of teargas and blasts from percussion bombs - designed to create confusion rather than injure - engulfed the park.
'We tried to flee and the police pursued us. It was like war,' Claudia Roth, co-chair of Germany's Greens party, who had gone to Gezi Park to show her support, told Reuters.
Erdogan had warned hours earlier that the security forces would clear the area around the park - where protesters had been camped out for more than two weeks - in time for his rally.
The government says the demonstrators are being manipulated by illegal groups seeking to sow instability.
'There are illegal groups there. Which country would turn a blind eye if a public space is occupied by a marginal group,' EU Minister Egemen Bagis said on Turkey's Kanal 24 television, citing Istanbul's governor as saying some of the protesters were believed to have been carrying guns.
'What did the prime minister say, he said people with good intentions should withdraw, we will deal with terrorists. By not withdrawing from there they created an impression that they are shielding terrorists,' Bagis said.
The Gezi Park protesters, who oppose government plans to build a replica Ottoman-era barracks there, had defied repeated calls to leave but had started to reduce their presence in the park after meetings with Erdogan and the local authorities.
A similar police crackdown on peaceful campaigners in Gezi Park two weeks ago provoked an unprecedented wave of protest against Erdogan, drawing in secularists, nationalists, professionals, trade unionists and students.
The unrest, in which police fired teargas and water cannon at stone-throwing protesters night after night, left four people dead and about 5,000 injured, according to the Turkish Medical Association.
NATIONAL STRIKE Riot police in Ankara fired teargas on Sunday to try to disperse hundreds of demonstrators blocking streets in the central Kizilay district, after first warning them through megaphones, a Reuters witness said.
Protesters took to the streets in several neighborhoods across Istanbul overnight, ripping up metal fences, paving stones and advertising hoardings to build barricades and lighting bonfires of trash in the streets.
Some chanted 'Tayyip, resign.' A public-sector union confederation, KESK, which has about 240,000 members, said it would call a national strike for Monday, while a second union grouping said it was holding an emergency meeting to decide whether to join the action.
'The police brutality aims to clear the streets of Istanbul to make way for Erdogan's meeting,' said Oguz Kaan Salici, Istanbul president of the main opposition People's Republican Party. 'Yet it will backfire. People feel betrayed.'
Erdogan told protesters on Thursday that he would put the plans for Gezi Park on hold until a court rules on them. It was a softer stance after two weeks in which he called protesters 'riff-raff' and said the plans would go ahead regardless.


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"Maybe I am different?"
Maybe I am different. Maybe I can take a cigarette and not get hooked? Maybe the cigarette will make me so sick I will never want to take a cigarette again? Maybe I was never addicted anyway? Maybe I will just smoke for a little while and quit again when things are better? Maybe, maybe, maybe . . .?
Do you ever find that you are asking yourself these questions? If so, and the suspense of the answer is just killing you, I thought I would suggest two ways of finally putting these unresolved questions to rest.
First, take a cigarette. This is a really effective way of realizing the potential for relapse by reinforcement of the nicotine addiction. And the cost for this valuable lesson is simply returning to the deadly, expensive, and socially unacceptable habit and addiction to cigarettes.
You can then either smoke until it cripples and kills you, or "just" quit again. Remember the last time? Smoke or quit, fun choice isn't it?
Of course there is another way of answering those perplexing questions of "maybe." Find a smoker who once quit smoking for a substantial period of time, say one year or longer, and then relapsed. Ask him how he liked not smoking. Ask him how he now likes smoking. Then ask the most important question, how did he return to smoking?
Let me venture a guess as to the answers to these three questions. "Not smoking was great. I hardly thought of cigarettes any more. I felt healthier, happier, even calmer. Cigarettes smelled repulsive. The thought of smoking at my old level was disgusting."
To the second question, how do you now like smoking, the response will typically be, "I hate it, I smoke as much or even more than I did before. I feel more nervous, don't have as much energy, and generally feel like a fool when smoking in public. I sure wish I could quit again."
The answer to the third and most important question of how did he return to smoking is almost always the same, "I took a cigarette."
It may have happened under stress, at a party, or at home alone with nothing special going on. Whatever the cause, the end result was the same -- addiction to nicotine. Prior to taking the cigarette, he probably asked himself the same questions of "maybe." He found his answer.
Your answer is the same. Learn from others' mistakes and not your own. Your smoking friend is stuck in the grips of a powerful and deadly addiction. Maybe he will get the chance and strength again to quit smoking, maybe he will smoke until it kills him.
You have successfully broken free of the nicotine addiction. While your smoking may have been a potential threat to your life in the past, now your risks are dropping down to that of a person who never smoked.
As long as you stay off of cigarettes, you never will have to worry about the physical, psychological, social and economical risks of smoking again as long as you follow one simple practice...NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
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Mozilla has finally taken the wraps off of Firefox OS, debuting the operating system in a YouTube video.
Last week saw a leak of Firefox OS Marketplace which gave a us a glimpse into just what to expect from the mobile operating system, but this new video, which has popped up on the Firefox channel, offers up much more in the way of detail.
The demo of the OS is on a unnamed ZTE phone and we get to see what dialling a person looks like, how games will feature on the system and also how the browser and camera will work.
The video has already garnered a number of comments on YouTube, with a few people picking up on the operating system's apparent lag. Given that this is a very early dev build Firefox OS, we don't think there should be a worry about a little bit of stutter.
Mozilla has built Firefox OS on HTML5, which it hopes will bring a lighter OS to the market with faster browsing capabilities and this early look certainly shows this off.
Firefox OS won't be available until 2013, with Brazil the first place to get a phone powered by the operating system.
Both ZTE and Alcatel have confirmed that they will be creating handsets with Firefox OS inside.


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Student shoots himself in Ohio classroom, police say
CINCINNATI An honors student at an all-male Catholic high school tried to commit suicide in his first-period classroom Monday, police said, critically wounding himself with a gunshot and sending other students scrambling for cover.
La Salle High School west of Cincinnati was locked down until after police arrived and determined there was no threat to other students or staff. A University of Cincinnati Medical Center spokeswoman reported the student's condition as critical Monday afternoon, about six hours after the shooting.
Green Township Police Chief Bart West described the weapon as a semi-automatic handgun. He said police were investigating how the student obtained the gun and how he brought it into the school.
West said there were 22 other students in the classroom, and the episode was over "in a matter of seconds" with no other students injured or apparently threatened. Several students called 911 dispatchers.
"There's a guy with a gun," said a student who called on his cellphone from inside a nearby locked room. "We just need police here ...."
"We're huddled in a corner," another student said in a call.
There was conflicting information on precisely what time the shooting took place, but school officials said it was during the first class period of the day.
Hospital spokeswoman Diana Maria Lara released a statement from the boy's parents thanking people for their thoughts and prayers while asking for privacy "so that we can do what we need to for our son and family." They praised the hospital medical staff's "heroic efforts."
The school's priest rode with the young man to the hospital, CBS affiliate WKRC reports.
West said the student apparently was trying to kill himself, but he had no information on why. School officials described him as an honors student and didn't know of any threats to school or any other students. The Hamilton County sheriff's office said it would search the building with dogs as a precaution against explosives, but said they had no indication there were any other weapons.
Students, some in tears, gathered in the school gym after the shooting. The school's website said all students were safe, and were being released to parents "due to an attempted suicide involving one student." Grief counselors from the Roman Catholic archdiocese joined the school's counselors in meeting with students and staff, and Monday evening school activities were canceled.
School officials said classes would resume Tuesday, with the school day beginning in a prayer service.
"We just ask that you pray for him and his family," said Greg Tankersley, La Salle's director of community development. "It's a tragic situation for this young man."
He said the youth was "fighting for his life."
A priest went to the hospital where the student was taken. Tankersley said the boy's parents asked that his name not be released, and said he wouldn't release other information about the student other than to say he had a strong academic and community service record.
In the aftermath of last year's fatal shootings of three students in Chardon High School in northeast Ohio and December's Sandy Hook Elementary shooting rampage in Connecticut, most schools have taken steps to increase security. In Ohio, that's included taking shooting prevention and response training courses offered by the state attorney general and updating safety procedures with police.
"We always have concerns about school security," West said, but he added that La Salle "did an excellent job" in responding Monday. He said township police had met recently with school officials to review their safety plan.
"We're going to go back and look at everything," Tankersley replied when asked at a news conference about a gun getting into the school. But he added that Monday's top priority was the condition of the wounded student and the well-being of the others.


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NASHVILLE - Tennessee Republicans blazed through $1.75 million in just 27 days during October as the state party and GOP caucuses bombarded embattled Democratic state legislative candidates with direct mail and television and radio ads leading up to Tuesday's election.
In contrast, the Tennessee Democratic Party and the House and Senate Democratic caucuses spent just $617,000 -- giving the majority GOP an almost 3-to-1 spending advantage in early voting and the final stretch of the 2012 campaign.
The last report before Tuesday's election, which covers Oct. 1-27, shows the state GOP spent $1.23 million. The Senate Republican Caucus, excluding money it sent to the party, spent $356,000 while their House GOP counterparts shelled out $162,000 minus money they sent to the main party.
Tennessee Democrats spent $500,000 on legislative contests. Senate Democrats spent about $39,000 and sent about $218,000 to the state party. House Democrats spent nearly $80,000 and sent almost $100,000 to the party.
The good news for two Hamilton County Democrats running for the House and one running for the Senate is the state GOP and House and Senate Republican Caucuses are leaving them alone.
But here's the downside: that's because Republicans think 10th Senate District nominee Todd Gardenhire and incumbent Reps. Vince Dean, R-East Ridge, and Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, are relatively safe and can handle the races on their own.
And Democrats aren't sending money their way either.
"We do feel good about that race," state Republican Party Executive Director Adam Nickas said of Gardenhire's contest with Democrat Andraé McGary in Senate District 10.
Nickas said he's comfortable as well with Dean's contest with Democratic challenger Sandy Smith and Floyd's race with Frank Eaton.
The Tennessee Democratic Party and Democrats' House and Senate caucuses have spent nothing on any of the Hamilton County races.
Democratic Party spokesman Brandon Puttbrese said, "There are candidates in Hamilton County who've reached out to us," saying the party has helped them with technical advice on operations and building fundraising networks.
"I think Frank Eaton's a good candidate, and I think he's gotten some local support," Puttbrese said.
Puttbrese said the state party is focused on the "ground game" and making contact with hundreds of thousands of voters.
Republicans are intent on building "super majorities" in the House and Senate and in the final days are pouring huge sums toward making that happen. GOP heavyweights with leadership political action committees are jumping in, too.
Republican Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey used his RAAMPAC to send $125,000 to the state GOP and still spent $197,000 on his own to help boost the current Republican majority from 20 to 26 or even 27. Democrats currently have 13 seats.
By comparison, Senate Democratic Leader Jim Kyle's leadership PAC spent just $5,800 and had $14,600 left on hand.
In House District 43, the state party's Tennessee Legislative Campaign Committee $36,176 in radio, television and direct mail attacks on Rep. Charles Curtiss, D-Sparta, who faces Republican challenger Robert Dunham of Sparta. The district includes Grundy County.
Republicans think they can knock off Curtiss while even some Democrats are nervous. House Republicans now have a 64-34 advantage over Democrats (there's one independent). Republican Speaker Beth Harwell hopes to pick up as many as 10 new seats.
Statewide, Republicans have sent out dozens of direct mail pieces supporting their candidates and attacking Democrats.
In Nashville, the Senate Republican Caucus spent $160,000 attacking Democratic Senate candidate Phillip North, who faces Republican Steve Dickerson in an open Senate seat that had been a Democratic district.
Hamilton County contests have been relatively quiet compared to slugfests in other areas of the state.
In his last pre-election filing, Republican Gardenhire, a Chattanooga financial consultant, reported raising $34,305, spending $36,229 and still had $49,554. McGary had not filed Wednesday. The reports were due Tuesday.
Republican Floyd reported raising $3,200 and spending nothing at all in October in the GOP-leaning district. He had $17,801 on cash on hand. Eaton, his opponent, reported raising $2,180 and spending $3,148. Most went for printing and postage on a mailer. His balance was $1,867.73.
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What is it about the New Year, or 2011, that reproduction is suddenly becoming the focus of such media scrutiny? Could it have anything to do with the coming into power of a militantly anti-choice Speaker?
Cultural sniffer Ross Douthat has also noticed this trend and decided to add his two cents in a recent Times column. Mostly it's a yawn-fest whose point of view can be most quickly summed up by the fact that he refuses to call embryos and fetuses anything except the "unborn." But he's really doing his best to do a nuanced analysis of recent all the media representations of abortion ever and the adoption vs. surrogacy debate. I'll hold back from line edits, but I thought I'd helpfully provide Douthat with some feedback on larger ideas that I think could use reworking.
1. The American entertainment industry has never been comfortable with the act of abortion.
Ross, the recent, sanitized, and mainstream American entertainment industry is not comfortable with abortion. But watch a Paul Mazursky film from the late '70s, say the really wonderful An Unmarried Woman, and you'll find the 15-year-old daughter casually talking to her mother about helping to pay for a classmate's abortion while they set the dinner table together. Note that this is the only mention of abortion in the entire movie. There's no hand-wringing, abortion just happens to be embedded in the everyday.
2. MTV being MTV, the special's attitude was resolutely pro-choice. But it was a heartbreaking spectacle, whatever your perspective.
Is any media representation in the era of reality TV going to be anything but a "heartbreaking spectacle"? On the Real Housewives of New York being late for opening night at the Met is a "heartbreaking spectacle." What network is going to air a woman self-assuredly and quietly going in for an abortion? In this case, and since you yourself say the American media is uncomfortable with abortion, should you really use a reality show as your only case study to show "how abortion can simultaneously seem like a moral wrong and the only possible solution"?
3. Last month there was Vanessa Grigoriadis's provocative New York Magazine story "Waking Up From the Pill"…
Hang on, just a quick word choice suggestion even though I know I said I wouldn't line edit, but "provocative" doesn't seem to quite capture Grigoradis's story. Let me know what you think of one of the following instead: sensationalistic, outlandish, insupportable.
4. In every era, there's been a tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility. But this gap used to be bridged by adoption far more frequently than it is today. Prior to 1973, 20 percent of births to white, unmarried women (and 9 percent of unwed births over all) led to an adoption. Today, just 1 percent of babies born to unwed mothers are adopted, and would-be adoptive parents face a waiting list that has lengthened beyond reason…Since 1973, countless lives that might have been welcomed into families like Thernstrom's - which looked into adoption, and gave it up as hopeless - have been cut short in utero instead.
Though you don't cross all your t's, I get your underlying contention that it's a tragedy that all these young, poor, unmarried girls now have the option to terminate their pregnancies rather than gestate for 9 months so that a wealthier, older, better-positioned, married woman can take their baby off their hands, and that now these wealthier women are forced to actually pay those women who now have a legal choice to act as surrogates or supply eggs for their (re)productive labor. I don't have any real suggestions on this one, I just thought you could make that more clear.
5. This is the paradox of America's unborn. No life is so desperately sought after, so hungrily desired, so carefully nurtured. And yet no life is so legally unprotected, and so frequently destroyed.
Wait, I'm confused. For something you want to find so concrete ("unborn life," not "a mass of cells"), I'm surprised that you're abstracting here so much. Which life? Whose life? Is this the unborn life of someone who desires a child, or the unborn life of someone who doesn't? I think differentiating between the two might help resolve this paradox.
This post originally appeared at Ph.D. Octopus. Republished with permission.
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Pam Grier seeks to have Academy-Award winning actress Halle Berry play her in her bio-pic! According to TheUrbanDaily, Pam's best-selling autobiography "Foxy: My Life In Three Acts," has been has been optioned by Imprint Entertainment.
Pam Grier ruled the 70's during the blaxploitation era. Michael Becker of Imprint Entertainment says: "'Foxy' succeeds at a stark impression of Grier's courage and inner strength without the use of rose-colored glasses. Imprint Entertainment looks forward to bringing this triumphant story to life."
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On a night when the Oscars celebrated a bygone era in film by giving "The Artist" the big prize, Billy Crystal delivered an old-fashioned solid performance that was almost enough to silence residual chatter about last year's Anne Hathaway-James Franco hosting fiasco.
Crystal poked as much fun at himself as at the movies in a funny, if familiar, opening montage that inserted him into films ranging from "The Help" to "The Descendants" to "Hugo," aided by cameos from George Clooney, Tom Cruise and Justin Bieber ("I'm here to get you the 18-to-24 demographic," Bieber told him in a "Midnight in Paris" sendup).
The line – along with a "Moneyball" spoof placing Crystal around a table with ancient gag writers – unspooled a string of jokes acknowledging Oscar's age problem, which was compounded by last year's lame youth-movement attempt. Still, the success of any Oscar broadcast hinges more on the movies than on the host – and the Academy did itself no favors by snubbing "Harry Potter," the most successful film series in movie history, one final time.
The Academy's initial threat to prevent Sacha Baron Cohen from showing up as his new General Aladeen character showed equal cluelessness. His outrageous red carpet stunt, dumping the supposed ashes of Kim Jong Il on Ryan Seacrest, proved the night's most daring and Internet-friendly comic moment – and could end up more talked about than the show. The Academy bosses might want to consider courting the "Borat" star as next year's host.
Crystal, in his ninth stint at the helm of Hollywood's biggest night and his first since 2004, served as the TV equivalent of comfort food at a time when the Academy's challenge is to come up with a more ambitious recipe to grab younger viewers. That's not a knock at Crystal, who fired off some good quips ("Just call me 'War Horse'"), warbled a reasonably entertaining medley celebrating the nine Best Picture nominees and got deserved laughs with the revival of his "What's Everybody Thinking?" bit that gently mocked the stars in the crowd.
But the show, with its first-movie-experiences theme, largely was rooted in the past. Cirque du Soleil's acrobatics amid a backdrop of clips from the likes of "North By Northwest," "Gone With the Wind" and "From Here to Eternity" likely played better in person than on the small screen. The filmed "Wizard of Oz" focus-group skit, reuniting Christopher Guest's regular mockumentary cast members, proved a highlight, even if it marked another segment linked to ancient movie history.
The overnight ratings will show how the 84th Annual Academy Awards did with the folks who buy movie tickets. A longer period of time will be needed to tell how Crystal's performance stacks up in the collective pop cultural consciousness against his past triumphs. But it's worth noting his most memorable Academy Awards moments – entering on the Titanic, being rolled in as Hannibal Lecter and showing up as Gollum in a "Return of the King" clip – all were tied to high-quality blockbusters that achieved Oscar glory.
Crystal did an able job in a year in which runaway box office smashes failed to make the Best Picture nominees list. He made it look like he was having fun – striking a happy medium between Hathaway's out-of-control perkiness and Franco's somnambulism – and acquitting himself as a pro in what could be his last outing on the world stage.
Give Billy Crystal his due for waging a comeback worthy of some laughs and applause, if not an Oscar.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, milt-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ARM Deliver Optimized SoC Solution based on ARM Cortex-A Series Processors
Companies achieve milestones for SoC based on ARM Cortex-A9 processor: 28nm SoC operating at 2.5GHz and tape out of 20nm qualification vehicle
Milpitas, Calif. and Cambridge, U.K. – December 14, 2011 – GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ARM today revealed the latest advances in their longstanding collaboration to deliver optimized system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for ARM® Cortex™-A series processor designs using ARM Artisan® advanced physical IP and GLOBALFOUNDRIES' leading-edge process technologies. The companies announced the industry's first test chip based on a dual-core Cortex-A9 processor operating at frequencies of more than 2.5GHz. In addition, a 20nm tape out using GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Technology Qualification Vehicle (TQV) was also announced for SoCs based on Cortex-A9 processors.
The two companies worked closely together to develop a TQV strategy that allows GLOBALFOUNDRIES to optimize its advanced process technology for customer designs based on Cortex-A series processors. The solution is more than a standard test chip. Each TQV is designed to emulate a full specification SoC and aims to improve performance, lower power consumption and facilitate a faster path to market for foundry customers.
"Today's announcement is a clear demonstration that the TQV strategy developed with ARM is paying dividends in our 32/28nm HKMG technology by delivering impressive performance and energy-efficiency," said Mojy Chian, senior vice president of design enablement, GLOBALFOUNDRIES. "We continue to work closely with ARM to leverage our TQV strategy as an integral part of 20nm process technology development. This enables our customers to rapidly ramp up their next-generation designs based on ARM Cortex-A series processors to high-volume production."
"These milestones are proof that the strategic collaboration involving Cortex-A series processors implemented using Artisan advanced physical IP and GLOBALFOUNDRIES 28nm process technology is able to deliver leading high-performance, energy-efficient solutions," said Simon Segars, executive vice president and general manager, physical IP division, ARM. "Furthermore, it serves as a foundation for next-generation mobile and high-end consumer devices using 20nm process technology."
The 2.5GHz performance results are based on multiple wafers running in GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany, on the company's 28nm high performance technology. An additional performance increase is expected on GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 28nm High Performance Plus (HPP) platform, which is the solution of choice for wired networking applications, with extremely low active power and an operating point of 0.85V.
The 20nm TQV is based on GLOBALFOUNDRIES' next-generation 20nm platform, which is designed to improve performance by up to 35% and nearly halve power consumption when compared to 28nm technologies. The goal of the 20nm TQV is the same as the 28nm TQV: to develop process technology that is optimized for Cortex-A series processors. The early collaboration between GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ARM will help chip designers address the increasing design and manufacturing complexities of 20nm technology, while reducing time to volume production.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES' SoC design platforms are all based on the company's production-proven 32/28nm HKMG technology and are fully enabled with ARM standard cell libraries, memory compilers and IP from a variety of third party providers.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the world's first full-service semiconductor foundry with a truly global manufacturing and technology footprint. Launched in March 2009 through a partnership between AMD [NYSE: AMD] and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), GLOBALFOUNDRIES provides a unique combination of advanced technology, manufacturing excellence and global operations. With the integration of Chartered Semiconductor in January 2010, GLOBALFOUNDRIES significantly expanded its capacity and ability to provide best-in-class foundry services from mainstream to the leading edge. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is headquartered in Silicon Valley with manufacturing operations in Singapore, Germany, and a new leading-edge fab under construction in Saratoga County, New York. These sites are supported by a global network of R&D, design enablement, and customer support in Singapore, China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
For more information on GLOBALFOUNDRIES, visit http://www.globalfoundries.com
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