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One great value of long term data archives for polling information is the ability to compare trends over long spans of time and across different question wording. The Roper Center at the University of Connecticut provides one of these archives. Its subscription only iPoll database includes over 500,000 questions that pollsters have asked since 1935. This is a uniquely valuable resource for opinion research.
Public support for the death penalty over time is a good example of the power of this collection. The plot above looks at death penalty support and opposition since 1936 in Gallup polls. Gallup has maintained a constant question wording over that span giving us the best long term look at this issue. Gallup has a summary of these data on a no-subscription required page here. It provides more data than I look at here.
My point today is two-fold. First, just to look at the trends over time. The standard Gallup question plotted above is
Are you in favor of the death penalty for a person convicted of murder?Support for the death penalty declined to a low in 1960-75, with support around 50% and opposition around 40% (with some bouncing around a bit.) Following 1975 there was a long growth in support for the death penalty, with support rising to as high as 80% and opposition falling into the teens.
Since the decline in homicide rates in the 1990s, support has declined by about 10 percentage points since 2000, to around 70%, with opposition rising to the mid-20s.
The public overwhelmingly supports "the death penalty for a person convicted of murder."
But now let's consider what happens when we offer a specific alternative to the death penalty. In the classic Gallup question, there is no explicit alternative to the death penalty, so respondents must imagine for themselves what the alternative might be.
Since 1985, Gallup has also asked an alternative question which includes a specific alternative sentence:
If you could choose between the following two approaches, which do you think is the better penalty for murder--the death penalty or life imprisonment, with absolutely no possibility of parole?This reflects a shift in the policy debate, as no-parole sentences were raised as an alternative to execution.
Presented with this alternative, opinion shifts substantially:
With the "life without parole" option, support for execution falls to just over 50%, while support for life terms rises to the mid 40s. Still a majority in favor of the death penalty, but a substantially more closely divided public than with the classic question.
Two points from this. First, questions define the alternatives respondents are encouraged to consider. The classic question offers one option and leaves it to the respondent to imagine others. The death vs life introduces an explicit alternative, and finds much more support for a penalty short of death. However, we could imagine a question with a third option: life but with a possible parole. Or even specific sentence lengths (10 years? 20? 50?). In part the question reflects the policy debate. But survey questions must also necessarily limit the range of options under consideration. In this, there can be no escape from question wording effects, and no end to argument about whether questions "really" capture all the issues. The fact is every question includes some and excludes other options.
The second point is the political one. If one opposed the death penalty, one might be more likely to find support by arguing forcefully for hard time and no parole rather than arguing against the death penalty in principle.


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Sposato worked in management roles in Google's Fremont office, and remains the only entrepreneur to have sold two companies to the search giant. (Picnik and Phatbits).
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Sposato hasn't ruled out doing his own startup, saying he's tinkering with some very early-stage ideas related to residential energy consumption. "The key thing is that I need the time to be able to think about those things, and leaving Google gives me that time," he said.
Sposato is the last of the three Picnik founders to leave Google, following the departures of Mike Harrington and Darrin Massena who left more than a year ago.
Google's decision to close Picnik mystified and angered many long-time users of the service, with more than 1,800 comments on the blog post announcing the closure. Sposato said that he'll personally miss the Picnik users who had developed a strong bond with the easy-to-use online photo editor.
"The shutdown of Picnik … I'd just say that I have some emotions around it," said Sposato.
Google made the decision in January to focus on fewer products, streamlining its lineup and putting engineering horsepower on higher-value offerings. In the words of Sposato, the company decided to put "more wood behind fewer arrows."
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BERLIN — It's election season in Germany and there's one campaign issue that won't go away: the NSA surveillance scandal.
A month before the Sept. 22 federal elections here, which determine whether Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party will be reelected for a third term, the NSA scandal appears in headline after headline in German newspapers.
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And in what's otherwise considered to be a fairly quiet campaign season, the new information about U.S. surveillance has given parties across the political spectrum ammunition to use against Merkel — and caused her party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union, to hit back.
The issue is unlikely to cost the very popular, two-term chancellor another four years in office: Most observers expect her to win next month. But Germany, whose citizens are suspicious of any hint of government spying, has witnessed perhaps the strongest backlash of any country against news of the NSA surveillance program since details were leaked in June.
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Since then, Merkel has expressed anger over the NSA's actions and discussed the issue with President Barack Obama when he visited Berlin. At the same time, she has urged the German people to learn the full scope of the program. Her government has also set up negotiations with the U.S. to create a " no-spy pact" between the two countries.
"With every day it becomes clear to the United States that this is important for us," she said at a July press conference in Berlin. "Germany is not a nation of surveillance. Germany is a nation of freedom."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama can't get ahead of NSA story)
But Merkel's main opposition, the center-left Social Democratic Party, as well as the Greens and the Left Party, say she isn't pushing back hard enough against the U.S. They've unleashed a barrage of criticism, hoping to use the issue to hurt Merkel's chances in the election: Her party still leads its closest challenger by more than 15 percentage points in most public polling here.
SPD officials, including chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück, have sought to use the issue against Merkel since the program's details first came to light earlier this summer, saying the two-term chancellor isn't doing enough to protect German citizens' privacy. The SPD, along with the Left Party and the Greens, is asking just how much Merkel and her government knew about the NSA program before details were leaked to the public.
"As chancellor, Ms. Merkel swore to prevent harm to the German people," Steinbrück told the tabloid Bild am Sonntag last month, arguing that the programs clearly violated German laws.
( Also on POLITICO: Dismay at latest NSA reveal)
He also implied that Merkel and her office knew about the extent of the spying before the information was leaked.
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It was hot. I was soaked.
I mean, my shins were sweating. And I am not the kind of girl who gets shweddy shins.
Anyway, as I contorted and cursed, this is what went through my rapidly shriveling mind.
|No. Just--no.
|No. Just--no.
Yes, I've had times when I just wasn't as into blogging as I was previously, but it's always come back. So I don't worry about it. Sometimes less is more.
Oh yes!! When I first started I was posting two -four times A DAY!! LOL! Now I've cut back to one blog post once a week and try to cut back on my commenting on weekends. It truly can get all too much!!
OH but your yoga is amazing! Wow and OUCH! But it's good for you!
Take care
Blogging comes easy...it's the following back that I fall short on. Makes me feel bad. Also, I never committed to a blog schedule, because then it would feel like work. LOVE your cartoons.
I've been cutting back, too. And these past two weeks I cut back even more, without even realizing it - too much stuff going on in life to even be able to think about blogging. For me, I would rather read infrequent but good posts than a post every day that says absolutely nothing. So, I figured, why don't I blog that way?
So that's what I'm trying. And I think it's awesome that you're letting go of your guilt and doing what's best for you and for your blog. And I'm kind of in awe over your yoga abilities - I couldn't even do one of those poses.
I am definitely going through a desert experience at the moment in relation to words, or to be more accurate, the lack of them. I called my blog 'Passionatemusings' because writing has been the one aspect of my life which I didn't have to 'work' at. If I was to post anything at the moment it would be forced and lacking an emotional connection. I believe the words deserve much more than that. Be true to yourself I say...writing out of a sense of obligation can compromise the great love we have for this wonderful gift. Best wishes.
I only blog usually once a week because it feels like all I can handle. These next few months I'll be blogging more to spotlight some extra books. But then I'm going back to the once a week. Because with reading others blogs, I've got to have time to write. Don't feel bad about cutting back though maybe pick one or two days a week that you will blog so we know when to look for you.
I too am thinking along the same lines that for some time I should blog just once a week. There are too many things vying for my attention and I hate not being able to visit the blogs that I normally visit.
I'm really not particular that someone stick to a schedule. I'd rather read meaningful posts than something just thrown together for the sake of "I need to post something." (Haven't gotten that vibe from you FYI, but just saying in general...)
Do not feel bad about cutting yourself some slack. You deserve it.
and good on you for keeping up with the yoga!
I've been a blog slacker lately, but then again, this is the time of year when I pretty much slack on anything creative. But, now it's April, and the slacking has to end. I wouldn't worry about it, if I were you. You've got a lot on your plate right now, and whether you blog once a week or three times a week, I'll still stop by when you do post. (Even if I don't always comment.)
IT'S OKAY! (I'm shouting that to you through the blogsophere).
I began with no schedule. Didn't work for me. Then three times weekly. Too much. Now Mon-Th and it's superb. Enough but not too much. And I still cut back when I need to.
Hang in there Dr.
Yes, my blogging schedule has been adjusted several times due to life. For anyone who blogs, the more you do it, the more work it becomes.
You are a wise woman to find what works best for you. I'm downshifting my blog posts because I don't want to bore everyone with posting too often.
Yup. I was blogging 3 times a week, but it made me a little crazy. And sweaty (and there wasn't any yoga involved). Now I am at twice a week, but I don't know if I can keep that up either. Anne R. Allen has a great post on slow blogging. :)
It's a lot to keep up with! I think it's fine to scale back and reassign your time to where it's needed.
Don't feel bad. I've had to do the same thing as well. I've always felt guilt when I couldn't get blogging done on schedule (obviously the type A personality coming out) but I just wasn't enjoying it because I was so stressed. I feel much better now I've taken the rules away from myself.
I'll miss the posts. But you're doing the right thing.
BTW, I'm so impressed with the yoga. I can't imagine staying sane in that kind of heat and humidity.
I've gone from blogging twice a week to once a week. I felt a bit guilty about this transition, too, but stressing over blogging (and losing sleep) is not good. Not. Good. Even twisty, sweaty yoga can't make up for that kind of not good. Cheers to smart decisions!
Good for you for sweatin' it out in Bikram. I couldn't do it. I complain when I'm slightly too hot so I think I'd die in those conditions!
As for blogging, it seems a lot of people are going through this lately, including me. Lots of people are cutting back, and for good reason. There's a lot to juggle! I wouldn't worry about cutting back on your blogging schedule.
A brilliant revelation. Yoga is fantastic for that, isn't it?! I have cut back and there are days when I don't post (though I never go a week without posting) because I'm just too busy. I think it's wise to cut back now and then so you can focus on what you need to.
Yoga works wonders. Don't worry, we won't mind if you cut back. It's completely understandable!
yes it definitely is a lot of work and sometimes you just run out of things to say but you keep trying and then you get inspired again.
Yes, you must enjoy blogging!
I hope things align into a happy balance for you with out too much need for Twizzlering. :)
Also, I love your cartoons... you're so funny. :D
Hah! I always love your illustrations. :D
As for the blogging schedule, don't sweat it. (*Grins*) Seriously, we've all been there. Take all the time you need. :)
Haha! Great illustration for the Eagle. I've actually done that pose...a long time ago. The legs are drawn quite accurately. LOL (But I didn't hold the pose in schweddy conditions.)
Nah, don't feel guilty. Even once a week is PLENTY of blogging. I find it difficult to do that, even, sometimes!
Hugs! Blogging because you feel obligated is pure misery, and it's not worth losing sleep over.
Your blog is on my Google Reader, so I'll be keeping an eye out for you when you write for the joy of it.
Lady, I get blog guilt all the time, so I feel you. But sometimes other things in life (like evil colds) come along and really just kick you in the teeth, and blogging has to fall by the way side. Don't feel bad. Like you said, blogging should be fun!
This is eerily timely, Lydia. Today was the day I came to believe the world of bloggers would survive and thrive if I took a blog vacation.
From reading and commenting on them.
From writing and scheduling them.
I had cut my posts back to once a week because I wanted my readers to be able to depend on the content they found. That put another type of pressure on me.
I didn't read posts today, but saw yours and thought, "I haven't visited Lydia lately. It's brain shut-down time. I'll see what Lydia's up to."
My "gone fishing" post goes up next week. When, I come back after my April hiatus, I hope to have a solid blog voice and a solid manuscript and a fresh mind when I return.
KUDOS on your decision.
Oh, of course, Lydia! And as busy are YOU are, I don't know how you've managed to do it all this long. Please do whatever is BEST for YOU! Being stressed about your readers is just not worth it!! We will read whatever you post, whenever you post! Honest! Be good to YOU!
I knew from the get go that a once a week post was all I could handle. Even with that paltry blogging schedule, there are still days where I barely get my post written. Yikeser. I like your philosophy. Why write it if it's forced. No fun there.
Oh, your illustrations just crack me right up! I partake in Bikram torture on rare occasions and can completely relate to the "schweddy shins" of which you speak. Oy.
I can't relate to how much pressure blogging three times per week is, however. I can't even commit to once per week, although I try. The most important thing is that you enjoy doing it. I'm so glad you're cutting yourself some slack, because you bring lots of joy to your readers and we don't want you to stop.
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I think it's awesome that you're reevaluating and doing what works best for you now. I'm terrible at blogging consistently and it always makes me feel guilty -- I've even considered just shutting down my blogs -- but I'm always so proud of myself when I do manage to post something, haha. So yeah, I'll probably just continue to post when the mood strikes. :)
Lydia, we'll still love your blog even if you're around a bit less. There's no point doing it if you don't love it! I did a post slightly related to this today, for the A-Z. E is for Exhaustion!
This is what readers are for. When you post, we'll be here :-)
I recently cut back to two times a week. But before that I'd noticed a decrease in my Google reader - lots of people are blogging less. No worries.
I have seriously considered only posting once a week (currently post twice). I think I need to just go ahead and do that, for I stress too much over getting two posts done, all the while not getting other important writing stuff done. All that to say, I understand. Take it easy, okay? :)
I started out as three times a week, which dropped to two, and then I disappeared for several months. I'm doing the A-Z challenge to get reinspired, but it's taking a big toll on my writing time.
Blogging should be fun, not an obligation. I say relax and blog when you will. Your fan base will understand.
I just blog when and where I want. Makes life easier.
And I'm the world's least flexible person, so all those poses scare me.
Blogging is evolutionary by nature, so don't sweat it. I've gone through a million+one blogging experiences. You have to do what works best for you, and sometimes that means NOT blogging.
Oh, Lydia, you are so busy, who can blame you?? And oooh, may I ask a question about this? I'm getting very close to starting another blog all my own (my Critique Sisters each have their own and have for a long time). My mind tells me once a week is the right choice. But when I look at what I'd like to cover, I think three times a week is what it will take. Can two times a week work?? Sheesh. I'm a mass of confusion. :( p.s. congrats on getting through the schweddy shins. You got your enlightenment, too!
How dare you put your own health, happiness, and sanity before your blog readers? Harumph. ;)
I totally, TOTALLY get it. There's been days where it's felt forced, so I didn't blog...there's been days when I just didn't have the time, so I didn't blog.
Go easy on yourself. Give yourself a break. You're human, and there are only so many hours left in a day. You're not a machine.
Breathe. Take it easy. And be gentle with yourself.
It's a good decision. I may need to reassess after April. :) Bikram sounds totally horrendous. I'm trying to understand the draw.
Yoga is definitely stimulating to our muscles, and also our mental activity :)
You already know I totally feel you. It's hard to juggle everything with the same intensity all the time - there are times when you just have to cut back on certain things to make room for other things.
And yoga is great! Good for you. :)
We respect you because you blog for the love of it, even if you aren't blogging three times a week. And we respect you even more because you can make like a pretzel in high heat. lol
Forget about schedules and just blog when you have the time, or something you desperately want to say. That's the way I do it. Can't keep up with a schedule >:)
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1992 was supposed to be a great year for me. I had just graduated from college with my nursing degree. I was ready to take on the world. I had chosen to focus on critical care nursing and found a job at my local hospital in the Intensive Care unit. I was pumped and excited for all the days and events and challenges that would lie ahead. September 9, 1992, changed all that for me. On a routine day, in a routine evening shift, we had an emergency admission. I under my preceptor's care was responsible for getting my patient admitted into the ICU and stabilized. I followed all standard universal precautions; I wore my gloves, I took my time and as I inserted the catheter into my patient's vein to start his intravenous line, I removed the needle. At that second the patient moved his arm and the needle jabbed my left palm leaving a half moon style jagged tear in my palm. It had sliced through my gloves.
The patient had end stage AIDS. He died within 10 days of my needle stick injury and I tested positive for HIV a mere 6 months later after repeat testing and follow up by our hospital's employee health/occupational services team. To say that I will never forget two dates in my life -- Sept 9th 1992 and April 7 1993 (the day I found out I was positive) -- is an understatement.
Lancaster County, PA in 1993 was a sleepy part of the world. Known best as home to the Amish, conservative values and a strong republican mindset. There was no room in that part of the world for homosexuality, drug use and definitely not AIDS. The day I found out I was positive is the day I literally feared for my life. I remember worrying that people would stone me or vandalize my house or my car if they knew I carried the deadly, contagious virus. I remember in a dream-like state thinking that my life was over and that if someone knew why it was over, they would mistreat me and anyone I had contact with so wrongly that I would never be able to rise above such torment.
There was a guy I was seeing and we were in love. The relationship had blossomed quickly and he had casually asked me to marry him and I had just as casually said yes just a few weeks prior. We were planning a long engagement. Now I would have to not only tell him about my seroconversion to HIV positive, but also release him from any obligation to me. I would have to push him away, far far far away so that he didn't get hurt in this big mess I found myself in. He would have to become a very real casualty of this new war I was set to battle.
The days, weeks, months and years that followed my seroconversion are a blur to me now. It's 2013 and AIDS dementia or HAND or encephalitis has robbed me of my memories. It's so hard for me to look back in retrospect and truly tell you all the things that occurred over the last 20 years. I do know that somewhere, with the help of my then college roommate and very best friend, I found the courage to begin to look HIV in the eye and come up with a plan to not hide. I chose to go public with my seroconversion story in the hopes that by doing so I would help someone else along the way, and that my story would not be repeated.
What I found in my going public was a huge, monstrous sense of inequality. I was accepted, welcomed, loved and lifted up in circles all around the US and even internationally. Yet my brothers and sisters who too were HIV positive through unprotected sex or illicit drug use were shamed, laughed at, ridiculed, discriminated against and overlooked time and time again and the whole cycle of stigma and shame took a very big hit on my own psyche.
It never mattered to me how one became HIV positive. Through my support groups and volunteer work, I had met people years younger than me and several years my elder who I counted on as friends and confidants who were dying before my eyes of the same virus that I had and yet their lives, their experiences, their stories were not only never told but their lives weren't even remotely valued. Over time, this imbalance made me sick. It was the kind of heartsickness you can't get over. It filled my soul with darkness.
Through the years, I was able to find true love in that young man I mentioned earlier. He chose to stay by my side and did not run away. This May we celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary and he is still HIV negative. We were fortunate to be able to adopt two children, both whom have their own special needs stories to share; and we have one biological son. All of our children are HIV negative. 13 years ago however is when I decided that I couldn't take any more of the discrimination, fear and hatred towards my peers who were HIV positive.
My oldest son was then about 4 years old and he came home from his play group singing a song about Barney the purple dinosaur. "I love you, you love me, Barney gave me HIV". My husband got into a fist fight with an extended family member because he was telling AIDS jokes at a party. My husband broke two ribs and busted up his face pretty good ... I knew then that I had to get out of the AIDS speaking circuit. I had to distance myself and I had to hide. It was for my own sanity and what I perceived as the sanity and safety of my children. It seemed that the ignorance, fear and stigma of HIV would never go away and I worried that even though I was lifted up and celebrated in health care worker circles it would never translate into our real lives and that the outcries of hate and discrimination would simply haunt me till the day I died. I truly feared that the stigma could be directed at my husband, my children and all those others that I cared about. It was enough to send me into hiding and silence.
We moved to LA in 2005. My children and my husband and I began our lives anew. We rarely spoke about HIV in our home. I rarely accessed medical care except when I really needed it. I didn't join any support groups. I didn't follow any blogs. I cancelled my subscription to all AIDS advocacy magazines. I ignored requests to speak and educate. I shut that part of the world off. I accepted my diagnosis of neurocognitive decline and did nothing about it. I accepted my disability payments and simply lived my life. My children for the first few years had absolutely no interaction with anything or anyone related to HIV. Then a few years in, I volunteered for a red carpet event. It was a music related event for an afterschool program and through my volunteer work, I stumbled upon a PWA. The flood gates for me came sprawling open. I wondered what this new landscape of AIDS services and organizations looked like in LA. I wondered if I could safely come out as positive and if things were different here.
Through this PWA and his connections within the entertainment industry, an industry that two of my three children had begun to be involved in on a moderate level, I met a few other PWAS. I began to ask questions and see what the temperature was like for advocacy vs. discrimination. This was around 2008. I was told very clearly -- if you want your kids to work in this town, don't come out. Keep it to yourself. There's still a lot of stigma out there. Volunteer if you must, but don't disclose.
Wow! Now this is LA ... the land of fairytales and make believe. I think I was truly shocked and it took me awhile to process this. The bottom line was that if I disclosed my status, my kids would be discriminated against in an industry that had lost so many to this disease and yet the message was to hide and basically encourage shame and self loathing and fear?
Well, we did just that. My kids as they got older participated in the AIDS WALK for almost 4 years running and for a couple years they had a good team of young Hollywood assembled BUT we never said why, we never said who, we never said in memory of ... we just walked and walked and walked and hoped by the experience alone we somehow made a difference.
As I remember those AIDS WALK days now, it still saddens me that I couldn't let my kids then be comfortable enough to share and be open and be receptive to a community that could have lifted them up. Instead I opted for fear and perpetuating the stigma. I allowed the shame to be forefront in our lives. I was still hiding but this time I was hiding publicly and I was allowing the stigma to win.
Late 2012 was a really rough time for all five of us in my family and the AIDS dementia with psych complications got worse for me. According to my records, I have a mood disorder secondary to HIV/AIDS and pretty much exist in a mixed state of anxiety, mania or depression and my cognitive decline has increased since my diagnosis in 2005. HIV dementia primarily affects my areas of learning, memory, visuospatial/visuoconstructional ability as well as abstract & novel reasoning. My psychomotor speed and motor dexterity are also affected.
During this exacerbation of my illness, my youngest son learned about HIV in school. He was in the 7th grade. The lesson on AIDS was taught as a paragraph in his textbook in health class bunched in with info on other STDs. There was no guest lecturer. There was no classroom wide discussion. There was absolutely no mention of encephalitis or AIDS dementia as opportunistic infections or problems for people with HIV. After class as he was reeling from the lack of information he had just witnessed. He was confused and scared and even angry. He chose to tell a friend that his mom had AIDS. That decision was a brave one especially for a boy in a large public middle school. The friend hugged him and promised to keep his secret.
My son was hurt. He didn't want it to be a secret. He wanted it to be a known fact, like her mom's breast cancer. He didn't understand the difference. He told us the story that night at dinner. The tears he shed that night were from his gut and reminded me of all the tears I had shed in the past 20 years -- not even for myself but for all those who stories would never be known, whose lives would be lost in silence, whose infections could have been prevented with an open dialogue and education.
So as we talk about stigma today in June 2013, it seems to be a hot button issue thanks primarily to movie mogul, Tyler Perry. In his film, Temptation, stigma and prejudice appears to be promoted, encouraged, facilitated and the misinformation is hitting a whole new generation of young people. These young people need to know the truth and need to confidently end the silence and win this war!
I ask all of you to remember that all the negativity and discrimination in the world does is dig the holes a little deeper and make it harder for us to climb to the top and reach the success. It pushes people further and further away. Stigma against HIV and PWAs is very real and very alive and it scares people into not being tested. It facilitates people's reluctance to get care for themselves and their partners and their families. It says to society that people with HIV are nothing to value; that people with HIV are expendable and they should be punished for their stupidity, for their lack of knowledge or for their lack of restraint and self control. It perpetuates misinformation and a lack of understanding and widespread education in not only prevention but in disease understanding and care.
The stigma that exists today may be presented a little differently then that in Lancaster County, PA in 1992 or even Los Angeles, CA in 2005. Maybe it even appears to be less sinister and somewhat acceptable by society as a whole. Yet make no mistakes about it, everywhere I go I find that it still exists and I know that it still stings. It shouldn't matter how one gets HIV. What matters is that they need care, comfort, access, support, education and basic needs such as housing and food and treatment for any comorbidities. They need human kindness, prayers and support. Looking back to last year, it's all my 13 year old wanted from his classmates and teachers after that paragraph was taught in his school. He was fortunate though to have a mom and a dad who could walk him through the experience and educate him and hold him tight and make it all seem so much better and chase the bad guys away for just one more day …
That's what we really need to do to stigma. Chase the bad guys away who are facilitating it and dig down deep and make it disappear. Forever.
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If you're one of the growing number of people no longer finding their home cinema/gaming obsessions satisfied by a TV, you've got a rather exciting three months ahead. For the run up to Christmas is set to herald the release of an unprecedented rush of projectors, with just about every projector brand of note – Sony, JVC, BenQ, Optoma, Panasonic, InFocus and Epson – unleashing key new home cinema machines.
First out of the traps, though, is Epson. And following the resounding success of its flagship TW5800 model, reviewed back in June, it's getting its big guns out right away, in the shape of new flagship model, the £3,899 EH-TW5500.
The first thing that has to be said about the TW5500, inevitably, is that its £3,899 price tag is pretty formidable. But as we're about to discover, as well as shipping with a five-year projector and lamp warranty (including Saturday service), the TW5500 has more than enough going on under its bonnet to make such a price seem fair.
Regular readers might be a bit surprised about this, given that the 'TW5500' model number reads lower than the TW5800 figure used on Epson's previous flagship model. After all, lower model numbers usually imply some kind of inferiority versus higher-numbered models. But trust us: the TW5500 really is a major leap forward over the already seriously impressive TW5800.
The improvements start right away with the TW5500 eschewing the high gloss finish of the TW5800 in favour of a new matt black body that doesn't reflect light and so is much less likely to distract in a darkened room – especially if the projector is sited in front of your viewing position.
The TW5500's connections are in line with what we'd expect of a premium projector these days. Which is to say you get highlights of two x.v.Colour-compatible HDMIs, a component video input, and an RGB PC input.
Considering how sophisticated the TW5500 will turn out to be, it's remarkably easy to set up. An excellent 2.1 optical zoom joins forces with extensive vertical and horizontal image shifting to make getting an image perfectly positioned on your screen a mere minute's work. There are two wind down legs under the projector's front edge, too, though with so much optical image shifting available, it's hard to imagine that you'll need to use them.
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by Mike Manjos on June 1st, 2010As time passes, Father's Day is the time of year that has evolved and become most poignant to me. Both as a father, and as a son, it has taken on different sentiments over the years.
Patek Philippe's tag line is "You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after it for the next generation." Although marketing campaigns seldom resonate with me, this one does, because it demonstrates a respect for the past and fascination for the future, which is at the core of what it means to own a Patek.
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Lorde Talks 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Soundtrack & Weird Al Parodyby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
After performing at this year's Lollapalooza, Lorde took some time to speak with Billboard about her upcoming role as curator for 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1' soundtrack, as well as her thoughts on Weird Al's parody of 'Royals.'
On Thursday, it was revealed that singer-songwriter would help curate the upcoming soundtrack for 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1,' which hits theaters this November. Lorde will also be doing the lead single for the film.
"I was just saying that I literally watched the second film in a movie theater in New Zealand like a year ago," she said. "And now I get to curate the soundtrack. It's crazy."
Lorde revealed that the opportunity came to her from her publisher. "I had this idea that it would be really cool and I think I know what is the right sound for the project. So they were really into it and it just started happening."
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U.S. won't drop conspiracy charge against 9/11 plot suspects
THE US has refused to drop conspiracy charges against five accused plotters of the September 11 attacks.
The decision announced by the Pentagon means the alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other captives could be tried on a charge might not be considered a war crime when the attacks occurred in 2001.
The defendants also face murder and other charges that could lead to their execution if they are convicted in the tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.
The chief prosecutor, Brigadier General Mark Martins, asked the Pentagon appointee, Retired Admiral Bruce MacDonald, to dismiss the conspiracy count last week. The prosecutor said doing so would remove uncertainty that could taint or delay the case.
But MacDonald said on Friday that "dismissal at this time would be premature" because an appellate decision on the validity of the conspiracy charge was still pending in a Washington court.
Defense lawyers have argued for years that conspiracy was not recognized as a war crime in 2001, when al Qaeda operatives slammed hijacked passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
The defendants are being tried under a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 2006 and revised in 2009, which designated conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism as war crimes.
In October, a U.S. appeals court in Washington struck down the material support conviction of deceased al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's driver, former Guantanamo prisoner Salim Hamdan, on grounds that the charge could not be applied retroactively to events that occurred in 2001 and earlier.
A pending appeal on behalf of another Guantanamo convict, al Qaeda videographer Ali Hamza al Bahlul, was expected to bring a similar ruling on the conspiracy charge.
But the Obama administration said last week that it would fight in court to uphold Bahlul's conspiracy conviction and MacDonald said it would be premature to drop the conspiracy charge in the 9/11 case before the appeals court ruled.
Part of MacDonald's role as "convening authority" for the Guantanamo tribunal is to decide what charges are referred for trial.
Martins, the chief prosecutor, declined to comment on Friday. A Pentagon spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Todd Breasseale, said the disagreement between MacDonald and the prosecutor was "an example of the legal rigor" and debate that is encouraged within the system.
James Connell, a defense lawyer for Mohammed's nephew, defendant Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali, said it showed that MacDonald lacked the neutrality his role requires and demonstrated the unfairness of the tribunal established to try foreign captives outside the regular U.S. courts.
"They have a stake in this outcome and they've decided that they want these charges to go forward even though the chief prosecutor thinks they're not legally viable," Connell said.
Defense lawyers also have asked the judge presiding over the trial at Guantanamo to drop the conspiracy charge and prosecutors did not object. That request was pending.
In addition to the conspiracy charge, the defendants face seven other charges, including terrorism, hijacking aircraft and murdering 2,976 people.
Mohammed and his nephew Ali are Pakistani citizens. The other defendants are Yemeni citizens Walid bin Attash and Ramzi Binalshibh, and Saudi prisoner Mustafa al Hawsawi.
They were captured in 2002 and 2003 and held in secret CIA prisons before being sent to a detention camp at Guantanamo in 2006.


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The music for 16 dances of varying difficulty complete with caller.
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This album contains a fair representation of the most popular folk music of England. Songs and music passed down the generations by our forefathers and cherised by them.
This recording is a fair cross section of their material and hopefully, if you are in the market for a bit of sunshine, this will provide it.
We've always intended to make a music album but somehow never got round to it until now - so yer 'tis - I hope you enjoy it !
Thomas Hardy, world famous for his novels such as 'Tess' and 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' came from a very musical family.
In their concert 'The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy', The Yetties take their jogs, reels, polkas and waltzes from the Hardy family collection and intersperse them with readings and poems by Thomas about the village musicians.
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Based on your feedback, we've improved how sites can build advanced touch experiences using gesture events in IE10 on the Windows8 Release Preview. Earlier we wrote about first stepsWeb developers should take to make sure their sites are touch-friendly and how to build new experiences that work well across input devices, includingmulti-touch, using hardware agnostic pointer events.This post covers IE10's gesture events. An example of gesture events is the Browser Surface Test Drive demo shown below.
Users can drag, pinch, and rotate photos using the Browser Surface demo
Let's take a look at how this works in code.
Creating a Gesture Object
The first step in handling gestures in your site is to instantiate a gesture object.
var myGesture = new MSGesture();
Next, give the gesture a target element. This is the element to which the browser will fire gesture events. It's also the element that determines the coordinatespace for the events.
elm = document.getElementById("someElement");
myGesture.target = elm;
elm.addEventListener("MSGestureChange", handleGesture);
Finally, tell the gesture object which pointers to process in its gesture recognition.
elm.addEventListener("MSPointerDown", function (evt) {
// adds the current mouse, pen, or touch contact for gesture recognition
Note: don't forget you need to use
–ms-touch-actionto configure the element to not perform default touchactions like panning and zooming, and instead provide pointer events for the input.
Handling Gesture Events
Once a gesture object has a valid target and at least one pointer added to it, it will begin to fire gesture events. The gesture events come in 2 flavors: staticgestures (like tap or hold) and dynamic gestures (like pinch, rotate, or swipe).
The most basic gesture recognition is a Tap. When a tap is detected, the
MSGestureTap event is fired at the target element of the gesture object. Differentfrom the click event, the tap gesture only fires when a user touches (or presses a mouse button, or touches a pen) down and up without moving. This is often usefulif you want to differentiate between a user tapping on an element versus dragging the element.
Press and Hold
A press and hold gesture happens when a user touches down with one finger, holds for a moment, and lifts without moving. During a press & hold interaction,the
MSGestureHold event fires more than once for the various states of the gesture:
element.addEventListener("MSGestureHold", handleHold);
function handleHold(evt) {
if (evt.detail & evt.MSGESTURE_FLAG_BEGIN) {
// Begin signals the start of a gesture. For the Hold gesture, this means the user has been holding long enough in place that the gesture will become a complete press & hold if the finger is lifted.
if (evt.detail & evt.MSGESTURE_FLAG_END) {
// End signals the end of the gesture.
if (evt.detail & evt.MSGESTURE_FLAG_CANCEL) {
// Cancel signals the user started the gesture but cancelled it. For hold, this occurs when the user drags away before lifting. This flag is sent together with the End flag, signaling the gesture recognition is complete.
Dynamic Gestures (pinch, rotate, swipe, and drag)
Dynamic gestures, like pinch or rotate, are reported in the form of transforms similar to CSS 2D Transforms. Three events are fired for dynamic gestures:
MSGestureChange (fires repeatedly as the gesture continues), and
MSGestureEnd. Each event contains information about scale (pinch), rotation, translation, and velocity.
Because dynamic gestures report transforms, it's easy to use
MSGesture with CSS 2D Transforms to manipulate an element like a photo or puzzle piece. For example, youcan enable scaling, rotating, and dragging of element as follows:
targetElement.addEventListener("MSGestureChange", manipulateElement);
function manipulateElement(e) {
// Uncomment the following code if you want to disable the built-in inertia provided by dynamic gesture recognition
// if (e.detail == e.MSGESTURE_FLAG_INERTIA)
// return;
var m = new MSCSSMatrix(e.target.style.transform); //Get the latest CSS transform on the element
e.target.style.transform = m
.translate(e.offsetX, e.offsetY) // Move the transform origin under the center of the gesture
.rotate(e.rotation * 180 / Math.PI) // Apply Rotation
.scale(e.scale) // Apply Scale
.translate(e.translationX, e.translationY) // Apply Translation
.translate(-e.offsetX, -e.offsetY); // Move the transform origin back
Dynamic gestures like scale and rotate are supported with mouse by rotating the mouse wheel with the CTRL or SHIFT modifier keys, respectively.
IE10's gesture events enable you to build touch experiences not currently possible in any other browser. See MSDN for in-depth documentation of
MSGesture objects and
MSGesture events.
Take your sites beyond pan, zoom, and tap using gesture events.
—Jacob Rossi, Program Manager, Internet Explorer