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Overseas Central Banks Unlikely to Follow Fed Moves
Amid all the talk of Federal Reserve tapering, one thing is pretty clear: central banks worldwide–both in the developed world and in emerging markets–are, above all, determined to support asset prices. At least until inflation bites. Alan Mattich reports on MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
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... all top Federal Reserve tapering one thing is pretty corner ... central banks worldwide open the developed world and in emerging markets ... are bubble ... determined to support asset prices ... least until inflation bites Alan manages here this morning talk about this one ... I learned so much about tapering so much about that that change in direction ... all summer long and it really shook markets everywhere ... should we be that worried ... well you saw how the Fed responded one when it saw how the markets were reacting to tapering ... they you know back in May and end of ... June ... they immediately started back tracking on what they were saying and a ... and then be over ... small fine markets telling dot SAAR ... dot ... life was and so it was an early b terrible with ... with a little bit let's see we coming through ... so um so there ... they've invested a lot and supporting ASA prices ... it didn't say when the Fed has is ... you know they may start to tapering this afternoon they may not built for the small increments we look at the other central banks ... and none of them are making this move right now or that ... well the US is for their long via the curve ... but if you look at some that emerging markets for instance ... you know that they were ... they were determined sport their awesome markets there ... there are economies ... were booming and then suddenly there were hit with currency crises ... and Dom and inflation and so inflation you know when inflation starts roll through ... gospel and central bank start to ... shift their or their priorities and aam and the ... emerging markets ... as central bank started raising interest rates ... it'll happen and been developed ... countries is well you know when the time comes ... the fact that central banks are still this many years after the crisis started ... this journey is in the US in the scale after the recession ended ... the fact that central banks are still providing this level of support this little level of intervention ... does that say something fundamental will what's really going on here ... well it's a worry is that ... you you would ... you know you would hope that posture ... Opta economy started growing again vowed to ... get a interest rates could normalize but ... you know we're still of extreme emergency levels of of stimulus on ... with the taper is just sort of incrementally reducing a little bit of the stimulus ... so tells you I'm in it you know it ... leads to questions about how much the economy can support itself once you know ... once things do start to get up to trend ... bright and bold million disappointed earpiece on on the MoneyBeat blogged ... does it matter what matters if you're in the markets are asset prices and with the central banks are doing are going to keep asset prices high ... whether you never know watch them like Hawks ... cause they taper as they adjust at all ... costs and prices will be ... critical ... at least in saloon cars outside ... in until inflation starts to kick in in them ... and then their priority starred will start to shift but until then the wealth effects are really important for the ... right ... time Alan good stuff as always thanks for coming on this morning ... I think


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Teresa Heinz Kerry says she's made a "miraculous" recovery from seizures in July that her doctors believe are the residual effects of a concussion she suffered in 2009.
Kerry, who is married to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, spoke to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette when she returned to Pittsburgh on Friday for board meetings at the Heinz Endowments, her family's $1.4 billion charitable foundation. The newspaper reported her remarks in Monday's editions.
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Kerry, 75, says the July 7 seizure at her family home on Nantucket wasn't related to her past treatments for breast cancer, but is the result of her brain continuing to repair itself after the concussion. She says doctors told her that new circuits formed by the brain during such healing can become overloaded and cause seizures.
"I guess the way these things get resolved is that (the concussion's injuries) probably get absorbed by the brain, scar tissue, too, and in my case I don't know how long it took to be absorbed," she told the paper. "But there were a lot of signs of impacts over the four years, and probably the last absorption, I think, was about the time I had my seizure. I don't know if I lost all of it in six months, in two years, or all in one week. We don't know."
Kerry says she's having physical therapy three times a week and doing brain "exercises."
Heinz Kerry is the widow of former U.S. Sen. John Heinz and heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. Heinz died in 1991 when a helicopter collided with a plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pa. The senator was among the seven people, including two children, who died in the crash.
Heinz Kerry and John Kerry married in 1995.
She enthusiastically participated in her husband's campaign for president in 2004 and became known for her strong opinions, sometimes attracting as much attention as the candidate.

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Kings Point, NY - Geoff Harty (Chicago, IL) led all scorers with five points on four goals and one assist as the USMMA men's lacrosse team earned a 13-5 non-conference victory Saturday afternoon over Mount Saint Vincent. Chris Whitenack (East Meadow, NY), who entered the game leading the nation in face-off win percentage, was 11-of-16 on the "X" and finished with eight ground balls. Troy Smith (Deer Park, TX) also recorded a hat trick for the Mariners as the home team was also 20-of-21 on clear attempts.
Mount Saint Vincent (5-4) trimmed an early 2-0 USMMA advantage as Connor McBride scored for the Dolphins to make it 2-1. Harty and Ray Waters (Sayville, NY) netted the opening goals for the Mariners while another Harty marker pushed the USMMA cushion to 3-1. Mike McEnany hit the back of the net with a man-up goal with 4:52 to left in the opening quarter to bring the Dolphins to within one at 3-2. However, Smith ended the frame with back-to-back tallies as the Mariners held a 5-2 advantage after the first quarter.
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (5-4) surrendered the first goal of the second quarter at the 10:46 mark but would go on to score seven unanswered tallies. During that stretch, the USMMA defense kept the Dolphins off the board for over 40 minutes, including the entire third quarter. Alex Peyreigne (Weston, CT) anchored the Mariners between the pipes with seven total saves. The Mariners cushion grew to 12-3 as Harty, Smith, Waters, Eric Kennedy (Massapequa, NY), Phil Walker (Falmouth, MA), and Robert Tirrito (Centerport, NY) all beat the Dolphins netminder.
Following a pair of Mount Saint Vincent goals, Ethan Medler (Kingwood, TX) provided the day's final marker as his second goal of the year made it 13-5. The Mariners defense forced the visitors into 20 total turnovers with Gus Sawicki (Louisville, CO) causing a team high three miscues.
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A Look At Epilepsy, Speech Delay, and Autism:
THIS IS ALL HYPOTHETICAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Jenny proclaims herself as the "Autism Mom" who speaks for all other "autism moms" and the "autism community." But, what if her son never really had autism? It's a fair question to ask, as Jenny herself has said in recent interviews: neurologists who see him now for epilepsy say he never had autism. What if, instead, he had a culmination of other disorders, that appeared similar to autism? Suppose a physician gave the "autism" diagnosis without really absorbing this child's medical history? Then what? Can anyone really consider Jenny an "autism mom" or as someone to "represent" anyone in the autism community? She has made quite a bit of money off of autism and out of promoting "recovery" for autistic children. Perhaps that is why she dismisses the neurologists who now tell her that her son was never autistic?
Okay, let's go back and review some medical history (as we know it, by Jenny).
We know that Jenny's son has epilepsy, he had at least 2 very serious seizures (to which I do absolutely sympathize with Jenny, I have seen my daughter turn blue, foam bubbling out of her mouth--those seizures are horrible to witness and scary as hell). Seizures, especially one that causes a child to go into cardiac arrest can cause neurological damage. Perhaps, that damage resulted in some "autistic-like" symptoms? It is very feasible that the epilepsy led to speech delays. Look at this study (that is very similar to the story of Jenny's son):
A 2-year-old boy presented with an early form of benign partial epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BCERS) and a severe speech delay. Family video analysis revealed an early regression of babbling and stagnation since the age of 12 months. Complete recovery occurred with anti-epileptic treatment. The deficit corresponded to a transient speech apraxia attributed to an epileptic disconnection of networks coordinating speech articulation. This observation is, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration that delayed emergence of language can be due to an epileptic dysfunction interfering with prelinguistic skills and therefore mimicking a developmental delay.Bold for emphasis by me, specifically the regression, stagnation, and "recovery" following proper seizure treatment. Interesting when we know that Jenny's son is/was treated for seizures (have not been able to confirm whether he is still on a seizure treatment). Also important to note, not every seizure medication will work for every patient with seizures. It is often trial and error until the correct medication and dose is found. Some patients have to try several drugs before properly controlling, and therefore treating, their epilepsy.
Jenny's son had adverse reactions to at least one seizure medication, so who knows how long it took for the anti-epileptic treatment to begin working (and when his "recovery" began). It's also unclear if her son still takes seizure medication. On CNN, she did say that "seizures, we still worry about" Now any parent with a child who has seizures, especially those as severe as Evan's, understands that their child requires epilepsy medicine (typically for at least 1-4 years following the last seizure, depending on type of seizure(s) and patient's history). So, certainly, her son is still on medication--if she, and the neurologists, still worry about seizures (again, especially with a history of such severe episodes).
I've seen many statements about Evan being misdiagnosed with epilepsy. As if, the autism itself explained the seizures, and erased an epilepsy diagnosis. It is true that a percentage (around 30%) of autistic people have seizures, but seizures are not part of the criteria for autism. My daughter has a seizure disorder and autism, adding "autism" to her medical records did not make her seizures an unnecessary diagnosis. I wonder why it seems Jenny is quick to say that the epilepsy was a mis-diagnosis, but the autism was an accurate one?
Moving on, epilepsy occurring at the same time as speech delay in young children is not that rare. And, it's well accepted that young children with speech delays can present similarly to children with autism. There may be some red flags in those children. Physicians need to be very skilled in diagnosing autism, and also in pediatric epilepsy and speech delays, in order to help differentiate between the them (and understand what a combination of any of those might present as). There is a definite link between some types of epilepsy and developmental delays:
It appears there's more than just a little evidence out there to suggest a child with epilepsy can also have developmental delays (specifically in areas of speech). It's clear that children with developmental delays can sometimes have "autistic-like" symptoms, and can also have sensory integration issues (which can lead to stimming and restrictive or repetitive movements, play, etc.). I would dare to say that there are more than a few children out there who were at one point diagnosed with autism, when in fact, they had epilepsy along with developmental delays.
Certain types of epilepsy can be linked with learning, behavioural and speech and language difficulties. This is increasingly recognised and the risks are greater if epilepsy occurs before 2 years of age. Parkinson found that from a small study of children referred for assessment of their epilepsy, 40% had undiagnosed language impairment of varying degrees of severity.
Epilepsy can cause temporary loss of function in one or more parts of the brain. If these parts are involved with understanding, organisation and communication processing difficulties in using language can result. These difficulties can be severe, causing general delay in language development or a disordered pattern of language abilities.
The following epilepsy syndromes have associated language difficulties. They include:
• Landau Kleffner Syndrome
• ESES or Tassinari's Syndrome - now called CSWS (Continuous Spike Waves of Slow Sleep)
• Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Sometimes the disability can be extremely subtle - such as high level language impairment disorder. They may have pragmatic difficulties and, therefore, will not have a clear understanding of language use. They can appear socially inept and can misread others' intentions. In these cases the child may exhibit bizarre or socially unacceptable behaviours or the child's language may appear to be 'odd' in an inconsistent way. They may have poor turn taking skills, excessive or restricted topic maintenance, and poor skills in greeting, questioning, seeking the attention of others, describing or commenting.
Some children may have episodes of slurred or disfluent speech. These episodes can occur suddenly and be unconnected with stress or other obvious 'trigger' factors. They can be caused by changes in medication and/or as a result of epileptogenic activity i.e. electrical activity in the brain which does not necessarily manifest itself as an obvious epileptic attack.
Lastly, Dr. Fernando Miranda pushes for more EEG's and MRI's to be a part of the autism diagnosis process. He has apparently found children at one time diagnosed with autism to have various epilepsy disorders (and more than likely, not autism). I for one am thankful that my daughter has had an MRI and several EEG's, the information gained can sometimes be invaluable--both to rule out or rule in various conditions.
*Disclaimer: I do not have any personal knowledge of Jenny McCarthy or her son's medical history, other than that made available to the public (via media outlets, et al). These are simply questions I feel worth raising, and ideas worth investigating.


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Al Jefferson lands contract with Charlotte Bobcats
Free agent forward Al Jefferson has agreed to sign with the Charlotte Bobcats on a three-year, $40.5 million deal, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
The deal has a player option in the third season, and the Bobcats will have to use their amnesty clause on forward Tyrus Thomas in order to make the deal work. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal can't be formalized until the free agency moratorium lifts on July 10.
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Jefferson spent his last three seasons with the Utah Jazz, averaging 17.8 points and 9.2 rebounds in the 2012-13 campaign in which the Jazz finished 43-39 and missed the postseason by just two games. Yet while the deal is quite a coup for the agency that landed it, Excel Sports Management, it was a hefty price to pay for a Bobcats team that has gone 28-120 in the last two seasons and had such a dearth of talent down low.
Their top scorer in its frontcourt last season was center and now-free agent Byron Mullens, (10.6 points a game) and the top rebounder was big man Bismack Biyombo (7.3 boards a game), so Jefferson will certainly give Charlotte a big boost in terms of being competitive. The Bobcats needed a veteran presence as well, and the 28-year-old will bring balance in that regard as he joins a young core that includes point guard Kemba Walker and small forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.
But the cost goes beyond Jefferson, as Thomas will still be paid the $18 million combined that was owed to him in the next two seasons while being waived and allowed to sign with another team once, as is widely expected, he clears waivers. The amnesty provision is one-time clause for teams that allows a player's salary to be taken off a team's books for salary-cap purposes only. It can only be used on contracts that were signed before the current collective bargaining agreement was put in place in Dec. 2012.
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Hot Rod To The Rescue
The Combo
As detailed in our Aug. 2013 "HOT ROD to the Rescue," Chris William's 2008 SRT Challenger couldn't keep a drivebelt on its 1,000hp, blown, 426ci, late-model Hemi stroker. After many trials and tribulations, Norm Brandes' Westech Automotive in Silver Lake, Wisconsin, perfected the front-drive system, only to have the power-steering pump go Dixie when it couldn't withstand the newly stable eight-rib serpentine drivebelt's tremendous torque. We fixed that, too. Williams was definitely a happy camper when he left Westech, with everything at last seemingly OK. But several months after the car drove away, it limped back into Westech. The Challenger's independent rear suspension (IRS) was making noise.
The Problem
"After Norm fixed the belt, I was able to put about 2,000 miles on the car," reports a chagrined Williams. Williams, a St. Louis Rams offensive lineman, only knows one way to drive: pedal to the metal. His favorite stunt: 40–80-mph burnouts. Cruising down the interstate, Williams rolls into the throttle and fries the tires. That's when the drivetrain began making noise.
Inspecting the car in-shop, Brandes shifted the NAG1 five-speed automatic overdrive from Forward to Reverse. During the gear transition, at first it sounded like a set of spiders going away. But the problem would turn out to be more complex than that.
The Diagnosis
Williams' car already had a modified rear suspension, the strongest RCV halfshafts and CV joints available, and a tough Quaife limited-slip diff with 35-spline drive axles (stock is 31) in the 3.07:1-geared Mercedes 215mm (8.46-inch) rearend. That's kinda weak compared to the famed muscle-car solid axles of yore, but on the other hand, Williams' abuse was from a 40-mph roll, during which the tires seemingly weren't hooking up. According to traditional bench-racing theory, what kills a rearend is the instant shock-loading when the tires firmly grab. Yeah, but on the other, other hand, we're talking an estimated 1,000 flywheel lb-ft of torque here.
What at first was thought to be noise from bad spider gears in the diff was actually excessive play between the halfshafts' caged bearings inside the CV joint "bells." "We could rotate the stub axles in the centersection 1⁄16 of a turn before the CV joints engaged," explained Brandes. RCV, the CV jointed halfshafts' manufacturer, failure analysis later confirmed the CV joint was operating pretty close to design spec, but that high-speed tire spin was hammering the joint.
"It used to be that a spinning tire was a happy tire. But with tough aerodynamics and lots of downforce, that's not necessarily true anymore."
— Norm Brandes, Westech Automotive
The same pounding was also affecting the rearend housing's internal guts. When inspected, the limited-slip differential, side gears, and ring-and-pinon had internal slop and wear. "Everything in the rearend was loose," explains Brandes. It wouldn't be long before it failed, too.
Remember, engine torque gets multiplied as it passes through the drivetrain. Even assuming the trans was in Fourth (1:1), and discounting any additional torque converter multiplication through the drivetrain, a 3.07:1 ring-and-pinion will multiply the torque by just over three times. So if there's 1,000 lb-ft of torque at the flywheel, that would be 3,000 lb-ft through the shafts out of the rearend!
That's a tough nut to crack, but wait, it gets worse: If the NAG1 five-speed automatic was in its 3.59:1 First gear, there's a potential 10,000-plus lb-ft to deal with (1,000 × 3.59 × 3.07). And this still doesn't include additional stress from the oscillating-pendulum effect induced by the rapid wheel-hop on the halfshafts and CV joints. Gulp!
Brandes fought back with a two-pronged resolution: a stronger IRS on the one hand; rear suspension adjustments on the other. The suspension adjustments were needed because the existing RCV-made 35-spline halfshafts and heavy-duty CV joints were already the stoutest available parts that had any chance of fitting the car.
The Fix: IRS Upgrade
Dealing with the basic rearend first, there are several choices in aftermarket IRS upgrades. Conversions are available to install a Ford 8.8-inch, a Ford 9-inch, or a Dana 60 9¾-inch centersection. Brandes chose Dynatrac's Pro60-IRS Dana 60-based conversion. The Dana has the strongest ring-and-pinion, it fits easier within the Challenger's existing envelope (the Ford 9-inch, Brandes says, requires redoing the whole rearend frame-cradle), and "it keeps the heritage," as many old-school Mopar muscle cars and even some Jeeps and Dodge trucks today utilize the beefy Dana.
The Pro60 includes Dana 3.54:1 gears, a rugged Eaton Detroit Truetrac limited-slip diff, RCV 35-spline halfshafts and CV joints, and wheel bearings. Dynatrac optionally offers just about any traction aid, including a spool, Detroit Locker, or ARB Air-Locker, but Brandes considers the torque-biasing, helical-gear Truetrac "the best diff for this application because it's strong yet not unduly harsh."
You can normally buy the rearend housing fully assembled through Dynatrac—along with the necessary external halfshafts, hubs, CV joints, and brackets. The parts were donated for the Rescue in this instance, so Brandes got the diff directly from Eaton (PN 915A387 for 35-spline axles and 4.10:1-and-numerically-lower gear ratios, $649.97 if purchased separately through Summit Racing). Meanwhile, RCV reworked and rebuilt the Challenger's existing halfshafts and CV joints. Everything else—including the bare Dana 60 centersection along with other unassembled internal parts such as the ring-and-pinion, bearings, and stub axleshafts—came from Dynatrac.
Getting the center-housing assembly to fit the existing cradle required some clearancing mods, as shown in the photos. Accommodating the longer and wider Pro60-IRS housing also mandates a shorter main driveshaft and shorter halfshafts.
The Fix: Rear Suspension
Stiffening up the rear suspension is one possible solution to fighting high-speed oscillation, but the SRT8 already comes stock with urethane bushings and heavy-duty springs. Brandes ultimately decided that the most expedient fix was to increase the tire contact patch on the heavily lowered car. A stock SRT8 Challenger already sits 1-inch lower than other stock Challengers, but as-received,Williams' car had been lowered another 2 inches beyond even a factory SRT8. The extreme lowering caused the IRS to have negative camber—the tire tops leaned in toward each other, canting the tires at an angle and reducing their contact patch. Brandes realigned the IRS to yield as close to zero camber as possible within the constraints of the car's super-low ride height (see chart). The shocks were also adjusted to a firmer setting.
The Fix: ECU Tune-up
The new rear-gear ratio required recalibrating the ECU and electronic speedometer. The car's original tune also caused some minor driveability problems. Killing two birds with one stone, Brandes recalibrated the entire computer from scratch using a DiabloSport inTune handheld tuner licensed to the car.
Originally designed for big trucks, the robust Dana 60 is much stronger than the factory rearend. With the rest of the IRS beefed to the extent possible within the confines of the basic suspension design and clearance envelope, the alignment improved, and the shocks properly adjusted, the IRS is currently still kicking several months down the road. Keep your fingers crossed—Williams still hasn't hit the NOS button.
Lessons Learned
The entire driveline must be able to handle the stresses placed upon it. Just because the tires seem to be spinning—not planting—doesn't mean a marginal rearend design will live, especially on a vehicle with double the factory horsepower.
Rear Alignment
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|Thrust Angle
All values in degrees.
Parts and Prices
Includes major parts and machining required to fix the problem. Does not include labor, shipping, miscellaneous small shop parts, or sales taxes. Priced 07/28/13 and subject to change.
|Part Description
|Part No.
|ECU Programmer, inTune hand-held device
|Don's Auto Parts
|Driveshaft, shorten and install conventional 1350-series U-joint
|Rearend Conversion, Pro60-IRS¹
|Exhaust System, dual 3″ cat-back stainless steel, Ultra Flo mufflers, '08–'13 Dodge Challenger SRT8²
|Mr. Norm's
|Calibration File, baseline for supercharger kit, use with DiabloSport hand-held tuner
|HalfShafts, shorten existing RCV parts to fit Dynatrac Pro60³
|HalfShafts, rebuild CV joints
NOTES: ¹Although Westech built up the assembly from individual components, the price shown is for a typical complete center-section assembly, including the nodular-iron housing, gray powder-coated finned-aluminum differential cover, 35-spline Truetrac Dana 60 limited-slip differential, 3.54:1 ring-and-pinion (up to 7.17:1 available), billet 1350-series U-joint yoke, 35-spline/1.5in-od CV-style outer stub-axle shafts, and miscellaneous bearings and retainers. A fully-complete kit from Dynatrac including halfshafts and wheel bearings costs $6,286.00. ²Not all parts of this kit were used (see text). ³Correct-length RCV halfshafts can also be ordered directly from Dynatrac.
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When the Packers picked Eddie Lacy at the bottom of round two, I thought they should have waited for UCLA running back Johnathan Franklin.
Ultimately, they did.
At the bottom of round four, the Packers added Franklin, a versatile, three-down back who can run, catch passes, and block. One of the fastest running backs at the Combine, he's a perfect fit for the West Coast offense.
So with Franklin and Lacy (wasn't there a cop show by that name?), the Packers have a couple of new toys for an offense that typically passes to set up the pass. Though there could be an issue with getting everyone enough reps and touches to keep them happy, the Packers have addressed a chronic need in a big way.
And don't be surprised if it's Franklin, not Lacy, who emerges as the better NFL player.


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Stephen VanDyke's Hammer of Truth article, "How News Travels on the Internet" is a great visual look at how news may travel around the Internet. While this was published early in 2004, and there are plenty of new sources for news today, the point of how news travels on the Internet still holds.
His visual chart shows the source of news, initiated by traditional media resources, and its spread around the Internet. The spreaders of news includes:
Dark Matter: According to VanDyke, the Dark Matter of the Internet represents resources which use the Internet but do not generate a web page such as email, chats, IRC, newsgroups, and forums. I would have classified this group as the "word of mouth" team which is still, even today with so much technology involved in our communications methods, the most important and powerful group around. Ah, the power of gossip.
MetaNews: VanDyke called this "collaborative blogging" but I think that title should be applied to "social bookmarking", which he covers as "blog indexing" below. In this group, he references blog sites which display "news" from traditional and untraditional resources as news. I would call these sites a form of e-zine, an online magazine that uses the news from other sources as their content, including reviews and commentary on the news, such as Wired and Blog Herald. Readers discover news from these resources instead of only traditional news sources.
Greater Blogosphere: The Greater Blogosphere is very similar, in my opinion, to MetaNews, which VanDyke admits, too. These are high traffic blogs that showcases news from other resources. Again, this group takes news and adds to it, gathering it together in a single resource for a specific type of news. For example, Engadget, which blogs about the latest, hottest technology based upon press releases and tech news, and Slashdot, reporting and reviewing the news and newsworthy sites.
Lesser Blogosphere: I felt a little uncomfortable with his description, as VanDyke describes this group as "we're all lowly citizens waiting for our 15 minutes". Okay, so he classifies the Lesser Blogosphere as the rest of us who blog about the news we find, without the joy of high traffic and a huge audience base. Still, who knows at which moment a lower blogger will suddenly attract 15 minutes of fame and become another Slashdot? After getting his visual graphic of how news spreads on the Internet tagged by tons of blogs, he got his 15 minutes of fame. Did he hang onto it enough to rise up into the Greater Blogosphere? You'll have to ask him. 😉 Still, we lower class bloggers do a good job spreading the news, so I guess we are our own kind of group.
Blog Indexing: "Collaborative blogging" or Blog Indexing has become what is known as social bookmarking or tagging over the past year. This is the next step in word-of-mouth promotion and closely related to his first category, Dark Matter. Not only do blogs give mention to the news source, social tagging and bookmarking services like Del.icio.us and Digg give others a chance to judge the news in a form of popularity contest. Other blog indexing services judge a blog and blog post by traffic. The more traffic, the more popular. All are still popularity contests where bloggers compete to come up with original top 10 list ideas to move up the chart, and others push and shove over the sale table over which is the best post that others should know about. The interactive contribution Internet readers can make, sharing opinions, likes, and dislikes with others over blog posts, is one of the hottest tickets on the Internet today.
Traditional "Big" Online Media: I found this category interesting. VanDyke calls this the "echo chambers" of traveling news. A story is released by the traditional media, then picked up and spread around by the blogosphere, and when the topic becomes hot on the web, it reappears back on the traditional news through online channels. Thus, the echo effect. One recent example was the story of Jeremy Hermanns and his blogged incident of his flight on Alaska Airlines and the repercussions of blogging about the event. The news was released of the incident, a non-event event, but because Hermanns blogged about it, with photos, and the comments went out of control, it is news again.
VanDyke's post was so popular, he wrote about his observations and lessons learned from being a "source" of news.
I would have probably designed the chart to be more representative of the ripple effect of water. Drop a little pebble in a pool of water and it will make ripples that are first huge and then shrinks down, unless there is a current or wind which gets behind the ripple to turn it into a wave. A little difficult to graphically capture, but that's what I visualize when I think of the news spreading across the Internet. I had such a hard time helping others visualize how the web even works, I wrote Can You Visualize the Web?, showcasing many methods how how people have tried to graphically display what the Internet would look like if we could see it.
So which group are you in? When it comes to finding stories for your blog, are you a generator of news, trawler of news, or a bottom feeder of other second and third hand news resources, or a popularity contest promoter? I think those are better descriptions, don't you? 😉
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Is it biblical for our OPC church to elect a member, a godly man, to the ordained office of deacon when his believing wife in good standing in our church is a member of another church (Lutheran)? They both have attended our OPC church for decades but she won't join because of family ties to her former church. "Does he have his house in order?" This is my question.
Thank you for your question, although I must say that it sounds as if you are describing a real-life situation in a particular church. Because of that, I am going to tread cautiously: it is not our intent or desire to intermeddle in matters in congregations about which we may not have all the facts and which are being addressed by the local session.
Let me just say this, then, about the question from 1 Timothy 3:1-13, which requires all office-bearers to have their households in order. While it is, to be sure, an anomaly that an office-bearer would have a Christian wife who is not a member of the particular church in which he serves, I could conceive of a scenario in which a session might deem such a man fit for office and the congregation might elect him. I suppose that I am saying that I do not think that the scenario that you describe would necessarily militate against a man serving as an elder or deacon or that he would be patently unqualified solely on the basis of the situation with his wife. I grant that it sounds unusual but I would also guess that if he is ordained, or if his ordination is contemplated, the session and congregation must have good reasons for such an action.
You may well find my answer frustrating, having hoped for a more straightforward "it's wrong!" But, as I noted, I can conceive of situations where what you describe may not disqualify a man from office, and I so I am inclined to believe that those situations may be present here, prompting those involved to desire his service in spite of this unusual situation.
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Tuna is the lifeline for many Pacific island communities - a source of income, jobs and food. That's why, as a Pacific islander and someone who has been working on oceans conservation for over a decade, I am still very angry at the inaction of the people who are meant to be "managing" our oceans. I have always believed those fisheries managers are more interested in keeping the fishers and their boats in the water than the fish and we at Greenpeace are working around the world trying to change that. Let me tell you how we try to defend our oceans here in the waters of the Pacific.
Greenpeace has conducted five ship expeditions in the Pacific for the oceans campaign in recent years, four of which I have led. During each one, we expose what is really happening at sea and take action if necessary. What we find out in the ocean is usually much different to what the fishing industry would have you and the politicians believe.
During our most recent 2011 Defending our Pacific tour, the Esperanza encountered 63 fishing vessels in total, including an illegal and unmarked (unflagged) purse seine vessel fishing with six support ships in what appeared to be a group operation out in Pacific Commons area 1. We were there while a ban on all purse seine fishing activities in this area was in place. It is important that the people who put these bans in place - the ones meeting in Guam at the WCPFC next week - know that violations are more common than exception, and therefore we need more protections for the Pacific, not fewer..
We also monitored some of the more than 3,000 longline fishing ships allowed to fish in this region. We documented eight longliners in Pacific Commons area 3 over five days and several in Pacific Commons area 2 over three days. Most were licensed to and/or owned by Taiwan, Korea, China or Japan. Many of them are technically allowed to fish only in international waters, meaning they pay no fishing license fees to the Pacific governments to fish in the region, yet they fish the region's tuna away.
The reality is that we were only at sea for three months and those are big oceans out there. But we saw a lot of fishing ships doing things they shouldn't be doing in places they aren't meant to be in the first place. We are fishing as if the fish will last forever but it's clear that they won't. We need better management otherwise we'll lose the Pacific tuna, the fishing jobs, and the food and income they provide for so many.
So I am here in Taiwan today, the region's largest fishing power when it comes to the number of fishing vessels in the Pacific, to share my experiences from various ship expeditions and to publicly launch the results of our 2011 ship tour investigations and documentations. Taiwan is critical to the future of the Pacific Ocean, so I'm helping the team here push for the Taiwanese government to save our oceans for all of us, not just the narrow fishing industry interests.
If we want tuna and fishing for the future, we need full closure of the Pacific Commons to all fishing; the ban on the use of Fish Aggregating Devices in purse seine fisheries and 50 percent reduction in bigeye tuna catches at the Pacific Tuna Commission meeting in Guam beginning on Monday. Sign a petition here for the decision makers of Taiwan, South Korea, USA and Philippines to support our region's sustainable future.
Lagi Toribau is the Greenpeace Australia-Pacific oceans team leader based in Fiji.
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ITs time that we are going to manage our resources in a sustainable and responsible manner.
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Proper regulation of fishing in all seas is essential now. Governments should be pressured into meeting their obligations to increase the size and num...
Proper regulation of fishing in all seas is essential now. Governments should be pressured into meeting their obligations to increase the size and number of marine reserves. Indiscriminate fishing methods must be banned. The practice of taking developing nations' pelagic fish for foodstock for developed nations' aquaculture industries must be regulated. China must get on top of its over-reporting of catches.
We are consuming marine wildlife with no understanding of species' ability to recover. As with whales, catastrophic shifts in the states of marine populations mean they will never be able to recover. This is as great an emergency as climate change - please support Greenpeace in any way you can to preserve our planet for future generations and for the other beings we share it with.
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Nous saluons votre engagement green peace parsque se qui se passe au sénégal est un phénomene inacceptable nous devons nous engager a porter ce combat haut la main afin que le respect de la protections des espéces soit respecté par tous les navires etrangers et méme nationaux
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My father is a long time international tuna fisherman. He respects the ocean and all the creatures within. He uses barbless hooks and lures only and s...
My father is a long time international tuna fisherman. He respects the ocean and all the creatures within. He uses barbless hooks and lures only and spends upto 6 months out in the pacific ocean fishing. He does not have any by-catch or other species catch and all fish that are caught are either kept or if too small, thrown back alive to live another day. We all eat fish and want to know it is caught in the most managable way possible. It saddens me when he tells me stories of the comtempt of other fishing companies and countries that have little to no regard for their own future or the health of the very creature which supports them. I have been previleged to travel and fish out on the ocean for 1 year and am always amazed at how rich and beautiful the ocean is. I am proud of my father's respect for life in the ocean and how chooses to fish.
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A set of pictures featuring a full black version of the ROG Rampage IV Extreme has showed up at Asus ROG site. Based on the same design layout as the original ROG Rampage IV Extreme the new one will never reach e-tail/retail shelves as this one is made for some special project.
In case you missed it, the Asus ROG Rampage IV Extreme Black is based on Intel X79 Express chipset, supports Intel socket LGA2011 processors, up to 64GB of quad-channel DDR3 memory in eight DIMM slots, as well as 4-way SLI/Crossfire and comes fully packed with all the standard Asus ROG features.
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The thumb. A very useful part of the anatomy, especially when you decide to head out into the world, hitchhike and use other modes of transportation. For Jo Magpie, it (both actually) have served her well in her travels – always heading east. She's once again on the move. Yup, east.
Home and Away
Naomi, David and their two sons are 'on a slow roam around the world'. Though both successful, David didn't want his children to view him as the dad who was always working. So, with the business and house sold, possessions relocated – the four set off to explore. Their style of travel allows them to [...]
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In 2008, the Annison family moved from the UK to New Zealand and bought a boat. In 2010, they upgraded to a camper van to explore the country. Though the cats stay home to help the elder son with the yard work and house, the remainder of the family (including the dogs) traverse the open [...]
Sam's Playground
As with most 'wanderers', Sam Kynman-Cole has traversed certain parts of the world. From Asia to Europe, the US, Canada and a few others, he's been playing Squash. No. Really. He likes playing Squash. He also likes driving across country and doing road trips. No matter where he goes, it definitely is his 'playground'!
Indie (the dingo-looking dog) invited Jenny Hoobler and Ryan Kilpatrick to South Africa when Jenny won a Fullbright Award to conduct research at the University of Pretoria. Hey, who can refuse a dingo-looking dog named Indie?! Certainly, not me! Check out their explorations of life in the Rainbow Nation.
The Absurd Traveler's Guide
Kristine Arndt lives the 'Beat Generation' life style (think Jack Kerouac and Albert Camus) and is loving every minute of it. From singing for the President of Kazakhstan to herding cattle in Guyana, she has not let adventure pass her by in any way.
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Turning 40, it seemed the right time for Julie and Jason to rent out the house, break from their jobs, buy a motor home and obtain Charlie's pet passport. What was to be a one year tour of Europe has them thinking they may remain on the road awhile longer. Charlie (their terrier) seems all [...]
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During recent years, some interesting trends have developed in regard to the operation of insurance companies in the general economic environment. Foremost, at least from the standpoint of the volume of publicity, is the formation of holding company complexes by insurance interests to diversify their permitted scope of activities through noninsurance affiliates. Another trend is the acquisition or formation of insurers by noninsurance corporations.
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Haha! I'm not a fan of the show either so this is even more funny! What exactly did it took for Shinji to cheer up?
And then he masturbates on one of them. [email protected]#%WTFSRSLY!!
I feel that a lot of people don't understand Evangelion. For a portion of my life, when I was about Shinji's age lived with depression, and it's because of this that the show makes a lot of sense to me. Not the things that happen but the way Shinji acts, the way he treats other characters.
I'm with Erin on this one.
Here, I think I'll let one of the Voice actors put it best
You ran out of Plot Points didn't ya, you bastards!?!
Everyone in the world to get turned into Primordial Ooze...I wish I was joking
Thanks God!! You overzealous son of a bitch! That'll teach us to tell some insipid little Twat to MAN THE FUCK UP
May I suggest to the writer Neon Genesis Evangelion: Redeath Redux? It's much better than the series.
Hold the fuck up! He did what next to the redhead? Just...what?
What's the fucking symbolism in that? Okay, I haven't seen the series but I can understand not being happy that your deadbeat dad is forcing you into a lot of unnecessary bullshit situations, but now the kid just seems like a little shit! You don't do that next to someone in the hospital!
Fuck this, I'm going back to G Gundamn and Gurren Lagann. At least the protagonisst in those series grow a pair and actually enjoy having a mech despite the bullshit they deal with.
Damn, I wish that Gendo guy was my Dad. No wonder I never got into that show.
Oh man, that was fucking hilarious!
Loved Eva, loved the #1 DAD mug.
Thankfully, my knowledge of all things Japanese is restricted to Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Rashomon. And I haven't even seen Yojimbo and Rashomon.
Great comic. I actually liked Evangelion, too, but I can understand why many people wouldn't share my views on it (and toward the end the series starts to fall apart, also because of a lack of money, since it didn't get enough success in Japan, they got a cut to their budget).
I still fail to see why he was even chosen for the mech, yes I haven't seen the series but everyone says I shouldn't.
"I am also going to constantly shun and ignore you, send you out to risk your life in battle with monsters of unfathomable power, force you to almost kill your best friend and generally treat you like an expendable resource".
But with that said, yeah Shinji is kind of a whiner. I mean I can see where he's coming from to a point but even then there are still plenty of times when I just want to yell "Oh for God's sake grow up! Even 14 year olds aren't this whiny." It's no wonder that almost every piece of media featuring Evangelion since the original series has tried it's best to fix Shinji's major character issues and (at least in my opinion) usually pulls it off well enough.
They only killed the currently active Shinji's mom/Lillith hybrid clone what, three or four times over the course of the series? At least until they purged the entire assembly line.
I still think on the "Ikari is a dick" side you cannot underestimate the value of both the robot Shinji pilots and the submissive chick being partially Shinji's mom.
Anime is NOT a genre, an article written on this very site!
This comic is Winning(TM).
I've watched the entire series and, yes, this is still hilarious.
Personally, I love Shinji's perfectly-drawn running-away spaghetti arms.
Well neither is "Romantic Bullshit that stupid ass teenagers are so enthralled by with shitty ass plot and horrific characters that actually insults its readers", yet I still consider it a genre that Twilight and Hunger Games are lumped into.
I call it what I wish.
That was pretty funny. Evangelion really wasn`t my kind of anime, tho it was okay. I guess i didn`t really understand it well enough. Silly old me...
"Also, I cloned your mother as an emotionless 16-year-old girl whom I rape on a regular basis."
Hey son, I want you (an untrained civilian teenager) to enter into combat with creatures beyond human comprehension with the power to level cities. Oh, and you're going to have to breath liquid oxygen. Don't worry, it only FEELS like you're drowning!
Hey son, here's a sexy older woman who's SUPPOSED to be kind of like a legal guardian, but she's sexually attractive! Have fun sorting that one out with your crazy hormones!
Oh, and here's a mentally traumatized German red head that hates you and is hitting on an older man. She saw her mom hang herself when she was like 5 or something! Oh, and I think she hates you, did I say that already? Good luck with those damaged goods!
Oh, and here's this kind of anemic looking cute chick that never expresses any emotion whatsoever! She's totally blank, can't feel anything, and is colder than Vanilla Ice on a glacier! Good luck getting warmth out of this!
EDIT: I suppose it's best to say this before my rant. I laughed heartily at this one, without context Shinji is hilariously whiny.
Original Post: Shinji is a ludicrously flawed character. Self-centred, nihilistic and whimpy... he is not meant to be a hero.
He's also only 14, has incredibly poor social skills (possibly due to not having parents for most of his life) cripplingly low self-confidence, is bunked up with an Egotistical Narcissist (Auska) and a stoic human doll (Rei, who also turns out to be a [mass produced] clone of his long dead mother and more loved by his father then himself), is forced to pilot a living machine that translates physical damage to real pain on the part of the pilot and randomly transforms in a terrifying monster that, in turn, drives him crazy.
He refuses to kill a close friend (who mid series is revealed to be a new pilot) who's EVA had become infected by a new type of Angel and his father, the soulless bastard, switches Shinjis EVA to a dummy plug (kind of like an auto-pilot) and forces him to watch as his own EVA rips the other EVA into pieces and proceeds to crush the pilots capsule with his friend inside.
Towards the end, he is forced to kill another friend, one who he really felt a connection to, as it turned out he was an angel. This causes him to snap. The betrayal and simultaneous loss just pushes him over the edge and this is what leads up to his fucked up comma wanking scene (the implied sexual frustration, the end of days fast approaching, the complete distortion of what life is worth... yeah he's a little fucked up). No one mentions, though, that Auska ended up in a comma due to starving herself in a bout of insanity (mostly self-inflicted due to aforementioned narcissism)... Shinji outlasts Auska to the breaking point despite having a far worse lot in life and far more pressure to perform.
In the original series rebooted finale (I don't know if this is revised in the later films), shinji actually initiates the apocalypse and ends the world, though I'm kind of confused at how he got to that point (haven't watched it in a while). He didn't initially intend to do it, but after some trippy montages the world ends and shinji seems happier.
This is not meant to be a typical mecha series.
What's funny is that taking all that occurs throughout the series into account, shinji is ultimately the least fucked up and jaded person there. His Dad is a complete nutjob wrapped in megalomania and sprinkled with dogmatism, Auska is an appendage short of fucking herself, Rei (in the begining of the series) is the 2nd of what amounts to a line of emotionless clones and is also somehow significant to the end of the world (forgot her role in it), Misato attempts at "helping" shinji do more damage then they do good (she at one point offers herself physically to him to save the world... at which point shinji ends it).
I can keep going but I start running short of names to associate with the descriptions... even small part characters like his friends in school are fucking mad. They treat these apocalyptic monsters like something from an anime (I know, meta ain't it).
I don't know about others, but I actually found his character more believable then virtually any other mecha series protagonist ever made.
Does this sane metric take into account Gendo's odd ability to stick his hand through Rei's boob and tickle her babymaker?
Running away, the Bolin way. (short post indeed)
Hah... I didn't catch that. Hilarious.
Okay you know admittedly I had never thought of it that way before and I'll admit this did make me laugh. Being a fan of the show I had always thought of it as being a realistic look at how being thrown into that particular situation would look like. As for the downsides to your point just so they are noted, "The giant mech causes you physical pain in sometimes large quantities when it is damaged, it will also potentially drive you mentally insane while piloting it in certain situations if you are not careful, the first attractive woman is too old for you and has no sort of sexual attraction toward you, the second girl is suffering though her own set of emotional issues that could potentially be more pain to go through than it's worth to get with her in either a dating or sexual situation, the second girl is also exceptionally violent and condescending which is bound to get on your nerves, and the third girl while once again being attractive is almost disturbingly submissive, a clone of your mother, and it's unknown as to weather or not she is sexually interested in you or if the emotional interest in you is purely paternal." That all being said you still could be said to having a valid point. On a side note knowing that you messing up could "literally" end the world is a lot of pressure for a fourteen year old boy. Just noting that.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Anime is not a "genre".
You had me at giant robot, but I'll take a few hot chicks with it, thanks!
I wish my dad gave me giant robots and women. D:
Yup, that sums up NGE quite nicely actually.
EDIT: Okay guys, it's just making fun of the anime's outer most details. NGE is so goddamn straight faced with its jacked up story telling that anyone can lampoon it. Relax, it's just a matter of friendly mocking for the sake of comedic value!
you forgot "oh son, did I forgot to mansion, that giant robot just so happens to be (fragment of) your mom?"
From what I got (and having seen just the first page of the thread I know its been said already) then...
Shinji was left as orphan - his father never picking him again after his mother died. That's like, about as dick move as it gets
second, then daddy only really wants to use sonny boy by having him risk his life repeatedly - and doesn't ever really express any gratitude or respect for the kid for doing so
and the whole 'your mother was made into a giant mecha - and we also probably cloned her to pilot other giant mecha' deal just... no
I seconded that notion.
Only thing Shinji Ikari needs is Noah Bright (from MS Gundam) to "Bright Bitch slap" the emo out of him. Alternatively Kamina from Gurren Lagann with his Motivational fist would work as well.
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