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Hologram Preachers Slated to Appear in Churches
Holographic preachers are stirring another technology-gone-too-far debate among Christians.
While the dust over beaming preachers on a video screen on multi-site campuses has somewhat settled, the new 3D tool is raising more questions and concerns among some believers.
"Since so many of us in the west are convinced that entertaining pew fodder is critical to advancing 'the gospel' and that only a very few have the necessary gifts to preachertain – this will become the 'perfect' solution," Bill Kinnon, author of A Networked Conspiracy, Social Networks, The Church & the Power of Collective Intelligence, wrote in a recent blog post.
What has Kinnon and many other Christians talking is the holographic technology that music artist Madonna famously used at the Grammy Awards in 2006 and that one company wants to promote in churches.
Tony Morgan, pastor of ministries at West Ridge Church near Atlanta, introduced the technology as a possible church tool on his blog this week. He had visited with the company Clark (formerly Clark ProMedia) at their offices in Alpharetta, Ga., where they demonstrated the 3D tool. As he stood on the stage of the company's new theater, an image of another person was projected next to him. From the audience's perspective, it appears as if the other figure was actually present.
The technology itself isn't new to Morgan but it was the first time he saw it in person.
Houston Clark, whose company has been involved in "high-end video venue type production environments," is looking to get holograms in churches. He met with Ainsley Henn of Musion Systems based in the U.K. – the company responsible for the Gorillaz hologram in the Madonna show.
In an interview with ChurchMediaDesign.tv, Clark said the technology creates an "as if you're there experience" and "begins to extend the realism of virtual teaching venues."
"This just gives you a completely limitless palette for creating environments that don't look as if you're viewing them but look as if you're part of them because it's in three dimensions," he added.
Currently, there are some 3,000 multi-sites in the country. Some churches that have adopted the one church in multiple locations approach have turned their other campuses into video venues. In other words, the pastor preaches at one location and is beamed to screens in other locations.
Video venues stirred debate among pastors, some of whom felt it was making a celebrity out of the preacher.
Bob Hyatt, lead pastor of Evergreen Community and a church planter, argued earlier that video venues focus "entirely too much on the preaching gifts of one person."
Now with holograms slated to replace 2D video images of preachers at multi-sites, the technology is reviving the debate.
"Wow!!! Who needs fellowship anymore? Soon I will be able to sit at home in my pj's and have my Pastor in my living room. Who needs a Pastor? We can have one hologram preacher for the whole world and then we wouldn't need to pay for one. What is the church coming to?" one commenter named Schuyler Hedrick wrote in response to Morgan's blog.
Missiologist Ed Stetzer, meanwhile, sees the use of holograms in the church as a "natural evolution" of the technology.
"[P]eople watched their pastor live on a big screen at a megachurch, then they watched their pastor on video from another place, now the video goes from 2D to 3D," he commented to The Christian Post. "It is not a shift of philosophy but of technology. If you are already OK watching via video, this is just a new tool, not a new approach."
Adding his own two cents to the debate he sparked on his own blog, Morgan said he supports churches using technology to reach today's culture.
"Technology is not a sin," he said in an e-mail to The Christian Post. "Technology can be used to sin. Technology can also be redeemed to engage today's culture and present the gospel. As missionaries in today's world, frankly, I think the church needs to embrace technology if we are going to speak the language of today's culture.
"We can run from it. We can yell at it. Or, we can leverage it where it's appropriate to present the gospel and help people take their next steps toward Christ."
Having friends and neighbors who still don't know Christ and his unconditional love, Morgan said he's willing to face criticism for his espousal of new technology.
"If I'm criticized for my passion to present the gospel and help as many people as possible experience a life-changing journey in Christ, I'm willing to face that criticism to live out my conviction," he said.
According to Morgan, pricing on the holographic technology is "coming down quickly to the point that I won't be surprised if we see this technology implemented in churches within the next 12 months."
"Not unlike other forms of video distribution, advancements in technology are making it easier for ministries to consider this form of communication as an option," he noted.


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PokerStars parent company wants to buy US casino
The owner of the world's largest online poker website wants to add a brick-and-mortar casino to its portfolio.
Rational Group US Holdings, the parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, is asking New Jersey casino regulators for permission to buy the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel for an undisclosed amount. If approved, the deal would mark the first purchase of an Atlantic City casino by an Internet gambling company.
The company, based in Isle of Man, promises to invest in the Atlantic City casino to help the struggling seaside gambling resort.
"Rational US is a willing and enthusiastic prospective purchaser, and it intends to improve the financial viability of the property, and therefore the offerings available in Atlantic City," the firm wrote in its application to New Jersey casino regulators. "The purchase will improve the overall economic and competitive conditions of Atlantic City and the state of New Jersey, as the current owner of the company has, for a considerable period of time, been marketing the property for sale."
The company's application to New Jersey regulators was first reported by The Press of Atlantic City. A purchase agreement was reached Dec. 21.
In a joint statement, Michael Frawley, the casino's chief operating officer, and Eric Hollreiser, a spokesman for Rational, confirmed the proposed sale.
"The acquisition of The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel will secure up to 2,000 jobs and maintain the economic benefits the casino brings to New Jersey," their statement read. "During this interim period, the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel will operate as normal under current management, which will be retained following completion of the acquisition."
Rational would buy the casino from Resorts International Holdings, an affiliate of Los Angeles-based hedge fund Colony Capital LLC. Colony has owned the casino since 2005 as it has struggled badly in Atlantic City's cutthroat market, which is suffering from increased competition from casinos in neighboring states.
The Atlantic Club ranks 10th out of Atlantic City's 12 casinos in terms of gambling revenue. It's take from gamblers declined by 11 percent last year, to $127.2 million. It posted a $13.6 million gross operating loss through the first nine months of last year.
The proposed deal will be scrutinized closely. State lawmakers have passed a bill that would authorize Internet gambling, but Republican Gov. Chris Christie hasn't acted on it.
Last year, PokerStars paid $547 million to settle money laundering charges from a U.S. government crackdown on illegal Internet gambling. It admitted no wrongdoing and is allowed to operate in states where online gambling is legal.
Rational is seeking from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement interim casino authorization, which is preliminary approval to move forward with the purchase. It would then need approval from the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to complete the purchase.
On its website, Rational describes PokerStars as the world's largest online poker site, with more than 50 million registered members. Since December 2001, the company says, more than 85 billion hands have been played on its site.
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The Hidden Mural at Mission Dolores By Ben Wood
Behind the wooden altar in the sanctuary at Mission San Francisco de Asîs, is a wall painted in the late eighteenth century by Indian labor. Painted directly onto plaster, in ochre, white, red, yellow, black, and blue/grey, the mural, which is adorned with abstract patterns as well as Christian imagery, is still virtually unknown to the public, despite its rediscovery and subsequent publicity in early 2004.
This mural covers the entirety of the rear wall of the church, behind the historic wooden altar. It measures 22 by 20 feet and includes two statuary niches. It was eclipsed in the year 1796 by an impressive baroque style relief sculpture shipped from San Blas, Mexico called a reredos. This reredos continues to stand as the backdrop to the mission altar and has concealed the wall painting for over 200 years.
The construction of adobe walls for the mission church began in 1788 with the manufacture of 36,000 bricks by native laborers. By 1790 the walls were completed, plastered, and whitewashed. It is most likely between this time and the dedication of the church on August 2, 1791 that the mural was painted.
Thought to be the first wall painting of its kind in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the first of its kind in California, it was painted on the churches focal interior wall. It was not merely decorative, but served a vital devotional function for worshippers.
Mission San Francisco de Asís takes its "nickname" of "Dolores" from the nearby stream, Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. The friars honored the Blessed Virgin Mary by depicting her heart pierced by swords.
For about five years before the mural was covered by the ornate wooden reredos, friars, soldiers, and native people saw the mural each day. The mural was a bridge between sacred and profane, the visible and the invisible. It was a device to allow Indians to feel the presence of the divine.
English Captain and geographer George Vancouver made two trips to San Francisco in 1792 and 1793 (he was the first foreign visitor to sail into colonial San Francisco). Vancouver's praising account is one of the few remarks we have from the brief period the mural was displayed. "....the church, which for its magnitude and architecture and internal decorations, did great credit to the constructors of it....the raising and decorating of this edifice appeared to have greatly attracted the attention of the Fathers, and the comforts they might have provided in their humble habitation, seemed to have been totally sacrificed to their accomplishment of this favorite object."
The first known visual record of any decoration at Mission Dolores was an illustration in 1816 by artist Louis Choris. His watercolor painting depicting Indians dancing at Mission San Francisco shows colored geometric patterns on the lower portion of the buildings facade.
The mural is part of an architectural element known in Spanish as a reredos. A reredos is wooden with niches that hold statues or paintings. Part of the mural depicts the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary on either side of the upper third of the mural, with a decorative recessed wall, or statuary niche, in the center, decorated at the top with a shell motif. The upper niche is richly ornamented with scroll motifs and flanked on either side with more scrolling decorative patterns. The interior of the lower niche is less decorative and painted in red. Similar ornamental motifs are found elsewhere in the old mission on the archway above the sanctuary, as well as chevron patterns on the ceiling. We know these are original native pattern as we see the same pattern in the original basketry woven by local native women over 200 years ago. In the mission church behind the huge canvas depicting the last supper are decorative patterns painted on the wall.
Murals of this type often consisted of relatively simple architectural elements and were designed by a single artist. The name of the artist or artists working at Mission Dolores and their history is unknown. The technique used in painting the mural is termed "A Secco" or painting executed on dry plaster and adhered with a binding medium to attach the pigment to the wall. Pigments were typically made with local natural materials, such as colored earth, minerals and plant extracts.
An important question that remains is the nature of collaboration between the friars and natives in the creation of the mural, whether this was a gesture of Christian piety on the part of the natives, or if the murals reflect a native aesthetic or symbolism. The mural's design and composition suggests a largely European influence. Comparing the motifs with scratched graffiti at Mission San Miguel from roughly the same period, it appears that the Mission Dolores wall decoration was executed by neophytes who had been trained to paint religious iconography, while the graffiti at Mission San Miguel was scratched by neophytes who remembered the old ways and either had not yet been taught to draw or paint in the mission style, or chose not paint in that style. Another example that reinforces this theory is a remnant of a large anthropomorphic painting on an exterior wall of an old Adobe Mill at Santa Inez. It is less European in style, while still having a quite formal placement on the exterior wall.
The Investigation
So what really lies behind the altar in the old mission? What does it look like?
As an artist, I sought to photograph this mural and to make these images publicly accessible for the first time since the reredos had covered up the mural in 1796. There was no clear understanding of the nature or condition of the mural when this project began in 2004. I worked with archeologist Eric Blind to devise a method to photograph the top section of the mural, an area covering 22 by 5 feet. These photographs were reassembled and a mosaic of digital photographs completed which has rendered the best representation of this rare artwork to date.
A defining factor in the preservation of the mural over the centuries is the mural's situation in a dark, cramped space behind the historic reredos. The mural is situated on a wall about two feet behind the reredos. It is only partially visible from an oblique angle through a trap door that opens from the attic above. Because of its close proximity to the reredos the only way to see the mural would be by photographing it piece by piece and compositing these images together.
We were not the first to investigate the mural. After the retrofit of 1916 by architect Willis Polk a policemen, Charles Fennell, discovered the mural, "Fennell, watching workmen engaged in buttressing the walls of the building, had his attention attracted by streaks of color flashing from pealing kalsomine on what was once the interior of the old sacristy.....one of the details looked like a horse shoe, and what resembled a hand or a running or gesticulating figure of man could also be discerned."(San Francisco Examiner June 19, 1918, Page 4)
According to the same article."The old sacristy walls were preserved with a sheathing of wood by Father Prendergast away back in 1862" By 1918 the mural had already been covered for over 120 years.
On April 10th 1936, a Historic American Building Survey (HABS) was undertaken by photographer Robert Kerrigan, who recorded black and white photographs of the central niche. From those photographs the central niche appears to be unchanged in condition since that time. The mission church, the mural, and the hatch opening to it are documented in architectural drawings. Detailed drawings of the sanctuary interior show painted ornament on the north and south walls, of which one design clearly resembles the images of hearts found behind the reredos. This design painted in red on natural white plaster is obviously a rooster, with intricately painted feathers and a heart in the center. The rooster is a Christian symbol of the resurrection of Jesus.
During the late 1980s, Dr. Norman Neuerburg, a noted mission historian, crawled behind the altar in the cramped space to draw a sketch of the mural.
Certain areas of the mural have deteriorated over time, particularly a section at the top of the mural that has been severely abraded, possibly when an electrical cable was installed in front of the mural.
The mural was again brought to light while Guire Cleary was Museum Curator in 2000 when a Powder post beetle infestation endangered the historic reredos and other wooden statuary. In 2003 I approached Guire Cleary about carrying out a projection project. The project would take place at a fortuitous moment which coincided with the departure of Cleary, then a Franciscan brother, and the appointment of Andrew Galvan, an Ohlone Indian descendant, as the new curator of the Old Mission Museum. Galvan told me about the mural, and Cleary gave permission to photograph whatever might be there. I enlisted the help of Presidio archaeologist, Eric Blind, and together we went to investigate what was on the back wall. Shortly before Thanksgiving we lowered a camera behind the altar, and took a snapshot of what turned out to be the ornately decorated niche. The project had begun.
In January 2004, we photographed the top 5 by 22 feet. Using Neuerburg's sketch as a guide, we devised a method using a rope and pulley system to remotely control the camera from above that would allow photography without adverse effect to the mural or building fabric. In the cramped space we worked for over two weeks photographing the mural shot by shot one foot at a time. The images were computer manipulated into a single composite of the top third of the wall which reveals a central niche, abstract decoration, and religious symbols.
Soon after their discovery, images of a heart pierced by three daggers and a heart pierced by a sword from the mural, were projected onto the interior of the dome of the Mission Dolores Basilica for all to see. Images of the mural, forgotten for so long, were super-imposed inside the building next door after 200 of years of being hidden from view.
What might the mural have looked like as it was gazed upon for the first time?
Who painted it, and what was the nature of collaboration that led to its creation? These were some of the questions that arose as we sought to piece together colored digital photographs of the mural.
Besides being an engaging piece of art, the mural is an intriguing artifact from a seemingly remote past. An artifact which silently stood witness for five years as a few missionaries on the frontier edge of an extended empire endeavored to convert the numerous native peoples to Catholicism and a Spanish colonial vision of civilization.
So far, our photography has revealed decorative painting, perhaps not atypical of this period, but unique today, because of the mural's fortuitous position there behind the historic reredos which has preserved it for so long.
Displaying and Preserving the Mural
There are several ways of sharing the mural that can help raise awareness about it, as well as potential funding in order to conserve both the altar and mural. Also an immediate concern is to ensure that the mural doesn't deteriorate further. A disadvantage of the murals "a Sacco" process are that the pigments merely lie on the surface and do not sink into the stucco and are therefore more susceptible to flaking off over time. A priority should be to record more of the mural before it does. Further investigative photography could be carried out to see what remains of the lower 22 ft by 15 ft expanse. So far our work has been an exploratory investigation of the murals top section. Further digital photography would be an immediate and inexpensive alternative to conserving the mural, while funds are raised to carry out an expensive conservation of the mural.
In the immediate present there are numerous ways to make the mural accessible in order to create awareness about it and ultimately fund the conservation of the painted reredos and the fraternal-twin reredos that covers it. Postcards could be sold in the gift shop, images could be presented as a traveling exhibit. A photographic composite of the mural could be printed and displayed at full size in the old mission as a banner. The mural could also be painted anew inside the mission museum. This could be presented both as a painting of the top section of the mural, and below as a more interpretive painting of what exists below.
In the meantime Eric Blind and have I been able to create some digital examples of the mural showing the top section as it may have looked like when it was originally painted. We created a photo mosaic which was displayed inside the mission museum from 2005 until 2008.
Ever since my initial involvement with this project I have felt it my artistic responsibility to share the mural with the public. As one who has a vital role in making the mural once again accessible, I feel responsible to ensure that it remains available so that scholars and the public may learn about it.
In the long term I hope to work with Mission Dolores in order to give the public a glimpse of this very important piece of San Francisco history.
' To learn more about the Mission Dolores Mural visit:
Please also visit Old Mission Dolores Chapel Mission Dolores is located at the corner of 16th and Dolores Streets in San Francisco [2]
For more Information Read: Mission Dolores by Zephryn Englehardt OFM
A Time of Little Choice by Randall Milliken
Ohlone Past and Present by Lowell Bean
California Indian Art by Kurt Baer published The Americas Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jul., 1959), pp. 23-44
Norman Neuerburg, The Decoration of the California Missions, Pages 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 51, 52
Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library
Historic American Building Survey: HABS CA-113 1936


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Your Turn
Do you think the two American Ebola victims should be brought back to the US?
Do you think the two American Ebola victims should be brought back to the US?
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I think a gossip blog is the correct forum for discussing global pandemics....WAAAAAAAy off topic.
Not a good idea. Even though there are probably carriers of the disease already in the states.
Send them to Canada
If they can be cured here isn't it some sort of obligation to bring them here. In any case its better than treating them there.
They owe us for Bieber
Yes. They will get much better treatment here. They only had enough serum for one patient there.
dont know enough about ebola and im sure as hell aint gonna google so i guess i have no answer...
@FSP hahahahh
It's contagious after death so they should only be returned in sealed coffins.
There's no treatment so it's not like they'd get better medical care here.
And I agree with queenanne...way off Topic
But my answer is....send the best medical attention there......and treat as many as possible .
v5 @FSP
NO. That is some scary shit.
Calling Dustin Hoffman!!
Oh no. Definitely not. Just leave them where they are to infect the locals instead.
Ebola isn't an airborne disease and I don't leave near Atlanta so go head.
So we should just abandon our citizens if they go out and try to help the world and end up getting a disease? It's not like Ebola is an airborn disease so people need to chill.
Dexamyl, a bit harsh .
They should be here with their families & receive the best medical care that is available.
Amazing people who helped many.
I know it's highly contagious but will be contained in the US better than anywhere else.
Also Bieber is a pratt.
After just watching World War Z, I may be paranoid. But I feel that bringing them here is very dangerous. Every other country is trying to make sure that the disease doesn't enter their country, and we are willingly bringing it here. The patients were aware of their risks going over, they really shouldn't take the chance of bringing it here.
All this Ebola stuff is freaking me out. I've got a family member out of the country right now and with the wars, planes being shot down, I'll just be glad when she gets back home.
Live rather than leave. I refuse to delete my comment even tho i mispelled.
So you think we should just abandon the doctor who gave the only available serum to his colleague? The serum made from the blood of a child whose life he saved? There's a 90% mortality rate not 100. And we have the technology to prevent contaminated. Have a heart.
No. Occupational hazard and that should be understood by the workers and their families. Too contagious and deadly to bring here.
Yes. Ditto.
This could be an opportunity for the US to study the disease better and maybe find a cure for it. Whatever I bet you'd all feel very differently if it was your family member. Also the reason it spreads so much in Africa is because of the conditions they live in over there. It's a lot different here.
Not until they're cured or cremated.
There is treatment, there is just no cure, Dex. People have survived ebola.
I think it is an awful idea to bring someone with ebola to a continent with no known cases of it.
Fancy, your organs stop functioning and you begin to bleed out. This can be from your nose, your vagina, anus, etc. It is a horrible virus. Even when one is dead, a person can catch it from fluids on the body.
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*contamination I mean, obviously.
Jack, the US has been studying it at the CDC. The doctors who got it were wearing protective gear the entire time. I do feel for the families and the victims. I know I would feel differently if this was a loved one. But, it's not. Sending aid to Africa for the two doctors is fine. It is unsettling knowing that they are coming here.
Serious question and honestly not trying to start drama today but how is this any different than aids? It's treatable but not curable and it's spread through fluids. Should we also get rid of everyone with aids? Or other diseases like it? Where does one draw the line?
Ray ha I was wondering where you leave from.
Definitely not. Too much can go wrong.
@pip thanx
Jeez...so I guess I'm a NO. HO..LEE..COW
And NOT to Canada, Australia or Europe.
Send them to China - Payback for SARs + H1N1
I'm leaning towards no, but iffy.
Could they be sent to arizona?
No they are headed to Emory University in Atlanta for treatment.
Ebola has a 90 percent mortalory rate and can kill quickly. Those with HIV can live for decades with the illness, as long as they follow doctors orders. There are various stages of HIV, and it can take a very long time before one has full blown AIDs, if they don't die of something else before it even reaches that stage.
Ebola hits fast and hard, while HIV is more drawn out, and the quality of life is much better.
I agree with many parts of what Ducky said.
Friends of mine work in the global health arena. The medical care in Africa and the resources available there are poor imitations of what we have here.
Ask yourself: if it were you or a loved one, would you be fine with not being transported home to your family and vastly superior medical care? What does your compassion say?
But it wasn't like that in the beginning. Ppl treated ppl with aids or HIV like y'all are talking about treating these Ebola patients. And I know the cdc has studied this disease before but having actual live people with the disease could help them find better treatment or a cure
Plus there is also the possibility of the current strain of ebola mutating and becoming airborne or becoming resistant to the antibiotics currently being administered to patients. Both scenarios are very real and possible scenarios that could happen at the drop of a hat.. Scientists are finding there is still much to learn about this disease.
I would be very surprised that the US does not have the technology or protocol to transport an infected person.
If the person who contracted ebola was the POTUS you better believe they'd be on their way to the US.
And exactly jack ducky in the early days of AIDS, no one had answers to a lot of questions.
I lived through the early heartless years of the AIDS crisis. A neighbor took in their nephew because his parents wouldn't allow him in their home.
His own parents turned their back on him. It was as shocking to me then as it is now decades later.
What would your compassion say?
Ebola is an interesting epidemic. They aren't how where it starts and how it's contracted but there seems to be a break out every 10-15 years. Inexplicably starts and ends. That's what's made it so frustrating. They've traced it somewhat to two different things..Bushmeat and primates eaten. Still can't explain it.
I highly recommend "The Hot Zone". A true account of the Ebola outbreak in the 80's. Fascinating stuff.
And yes they should use every precaution possible to get these people back. It can be done and they could end up being the start of a vaccine that could save lots of lives.
At work we were just looking at the stock of a Canadian pharmaceutical company which is developing an Ebola drug
"TKM-Ebola, an anti-Ebola virus RNAi therapeutic, is being developed under a $140 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Medical Countermeasure Systems BioDefense Therapeutics (MCS-BDTX) Joint Product Management Office. Earlier preclinical studies were published in the medical journal The Lancet and demonstrated that when siRNA targeting the Ebola virus and delivered by Tekmira's LNP technology were used to treat previously infected non-human primates, the result was 100 percent protection from an otherwise lethal dose of Zaire Ebola virus (Geisbert et al., The Lancet, Vol 375, May 29, 2010). In March 2014, Tekmira was granted a Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the development of TKM-Ebola."
If they are brought to the USA, none of my fam/friends will visit 'till its al gone.
Two films:
28 Days
Good luck
Lmao... youre funnehh
Countdown to the zombie apocalypse in 5...4....3...2....1....
No way. Just, no.
I thought they were both already here. Yes, they are American citizens, we have medical facilities here that know what to do. Every person that comes into contact with them knows the risk. I'm more afraid of the random sick passenger coming into this country who isn't a medical professional.
If y'all are gonna start living your lives based on shit you've seen in movies then I feel really sorry for y'all.
Yes, one of them was injected with an experimental vaccine and there was a blood transfusion done, this could be very important…
Think back how everyone freaked over HIV…time to use our heads
FUCK NO. Leave where they are and burn the corpses after they die.
We should squeeze the ebola infected and spray down Israel and Palestine w/ the juice, hoping the wind takes it deeper into the Middle East.
If not, just start nuking Africa. Think of all the foreign aid money we would save if it was turned to glass.
He he... kinda of getting a little craving pangs for brains...
Actually ebola should be the least of americas worries on the disease front. Stay out of the water kids. Theres been news reports and signs going up all around florida warning people to stay out of the water. 11 people this year so far have died from a flesh eating bacteria and I think 50 are sick suffering from it.but if its in the oceans that means its also in our seafood. Scary scary stuff...
Damn right, FSP
I laughed out loud in my office!
The unknown possibility of the it mutating and morfing into an airborne version - is exactly why the treatment should be taken TO the infected, rather than play Russian Rulet (The Deer Hunter just for you Eros) and expose another nation.
Omg im going to hell....I laughed so hard at that shit.
If the moral police are perusing comments, I dont agree with the sentiment but that shit there was funny as hell
Could this be an outcome from the gulf oil spill few yrs back?
Ha Ha Ha FSP
Nope. I don't care that they were "making the world a better place". Charity begins at home and I'm sure they could've found some needy people in their own cities to help. They knew the risks, and they have no business coming here to potentially infect 300 million plus people. If that makes me evil, cruel and terrible, so be it. Better than dying in a terrible manner to satisfy some misguided sense of duty, or whatever motivates people like that.
All-if it were me, or a loved one, leave me/them where they are. My compassion is for the uninfected. Bad bad idea. They must hv a vacine they want to try out.
There is a reason the rest of the world hates America.
And if everyone thought like you the world would have ended long ago
Send the experts, CDC and facility to - them. Containment should be the 1st priority.
They've tried shit like that. Obviously hasn't worked
They will be dead and cremated before the plain leaves, and their ashes can rest wherever they wanted in life.
This illness doesn't take more than a week to kill in normal form. And if it's the non several form, there won't happen anything, as in Switzerland in 1994.
Smart! I totally agree, meme. Quarantine the sick. Send the vaccine to them so they can heal. No reason to risk sickening a whole group of people just so they can get home.
@ meme ...I havent researched it yet but evidently its been around for some years...im sure anything is possible at this point. Some woman in sc just died recent from it so I guess its not just restricted to florida.
jack, you don't really need movies, just google black plague, pandemics have and will happen again.
@calif- I'm with you. My daughter is in Europe right now and I'm a little nervous too. She's been there a month and returns tomorrow. I'll feel much better when she's back home in her own bed.
@Eros - it's terribly news not only for those impacted but also for the local economy of the areas, especially in this economic climate. Having vacationed in Florida's gulf coast For many, many yrs, I know how much their communities rely on the tourism. Very sad - for them - and for folks like me who love visiting the gulf area (It's become a second home of sorts).
I'm quite aware of that, kpist
OK first of all, Ebola doesn't have a 90% mortality rate. SOME strains do, but some strains only kill roughly half of those who are infected. That's still pretty awful, but I'd rather get a disease I have a 50% chance of beating than a 90% chance of beating.
The other thing to remember here is that these patients are being transferred to a research hospital that is designed for extreme quarantine situations. The CDC has samples of Ebola, Smallpox, H1N1, Anthrax etc and does testing and experiments with them all the time, yet no one is worried about that? Ebola is not airborne - you need to come in close contact with an infected person's bodily fluids in order to get it - and yes, viruses can mutate, but again, I'd worry more about the samples the CDC has kicking around in their lab more than this.
@Jack Ducky: Yeah, the rest of the world hates America because they are all jealous.
They could have developed oil refining, computers, cars, radio TV, etc. They could have bailed Europe out of 2 world wars and put the Japs in there place. Who did, America.
Our dollar makes the world go round and our military makes it relatively safe. 1 American life is worth 1000 non American. Harry Truman may not have said that w/ his words, but he sure as shit showed the world what the exchange rate was w/ them 2 bombs.
In conclusion, if they bring them infected morons back, I hope they fly Malaysian Airlines.
P.S. @MemeDeemed and Eros: Thanks.
You're delusional if you actually think that our lives are worth more becaue of where we're born/ live.
Hell, NO. They chose their fate.
@ Cara That isnt correct...I would cite sources if I wasnt on a phone. Saying the mortality rate is 90 pct is being generous. Part of the reason is that once the disease is contracted, it kills the host very quickly which is why the chances for the disease turning into a pandemic are very slim. This information is being cited from tom ceiden of the cdc as a resource.
@Jack Ducky: No, It is based in facts and reality. We bombed the living shit out of Iraq and Afghanistan because American lives are worth more than their citizens lives. "Fight em over their, so we don't have to fight em over here."
P.S. Name calling isn't going to help your hopeless argument. The fact that you had to resort to it shows how weak your point is.
You're such a fucking redneck piece of shit to make such idiotic statements. and meme& eros clearly aren't much better. This type of bullshit is EXACTLY why America is the laughingstock of the world. LoL. Fool. Fuck, I seriously can't believe you procreated.
And for all you that wanna jump on ME for checking count, eat shit. I could seriously care the fuck less.
Thanks Count. If I'm to follow the logic of some here, the rest of the world hates us so we have to import one of the world's deadliest and most horrific diseases? And we have to sacrifice ourselves, and endanger the lives of 300+ million people, because to not do so makes you a compassionless monster? Where's the compassion for those 300+ million people, who do matter?
If you want a First World country, perhaps YOU need to work as hard as First World citizens, and their ancestors, worked to achieve it. Nobody would condone people being handed PhD's, so why are we expected to essentially hand them a functioning continent? We have been trying to do just that for how long now, and what good has it done? How many more trillions of dollars do we have to throw at Africa and other places, at our own detriment? This may be cruel, but when does compassion become national suicide? When do we say ENOUGH, and start helping people who might actually have a chance to make life in your country and community better?
Sure, I feel bad for these people and I wish them well. But you simply can't save everyone and charity does begin at home.
No it's not based in fact it's based in Americans thinking their lives are worth more. They're not. We're all humans. Just because you were lucky to be born in a rich country doesn't mean your live is more important.
They're American citizens. We should take care of our own. Emory is eminently qualified to take care of them (I used to work across the street at the pediatric hospital) and it's LITERALLY one block down from the CDC. Those above talking about the flesh-eating disease - they're right, I'm a lot more worried about that. And you want to worry about disease - worry about what's being brought across our southern border by the poor people of Mexico, Guatemala, etc. There are several forms of TB floating around in that group and I'm hearing rumoros about Hansen's disease (leprosy) among some people. The two Americans being brought to Emory are the LEAST I'm worried about.
Whose descendants are now american descendants. Ducks your point is moot. The point astra is trying to make I think is that all americans built this country- from various ethnic and racial backgrounds. This country is a product of all our united efforts.
Of course! America was single handedly built by slaves and immigrants, those dastardly Europeans just sat on their laurels and cackled evilly and cracked that whip! If that's the case, then why didn't the returned slaves that were repatriated to Liberia, turn Liberia into a thriving paradise with all their know-how and skills? If they built this country, why didn't they do it again there?
My life is more important TO ME than the lives of some people halfway around the world. Why should I care about Africa to the extent of endangering my life, and the lives of 300+ million fellow citizens? When we get a case of Hantavirus here, or Valley Fever, do we demand that Africa, Asia, or Europe take some of the victims?
I'm sorry, but self-preservation and good sense is not some horrible character flaw, despite what you think. If you have a death wish and think that America can atone for it's sins by endangering, or killing, millions, then that's your issue. Don't you dare tell others that we are morally bankrupt and terrible for not wanting to flagellate ourselves and literally die for someone else's sins. Last time I checked, my name isn't Jesus.
Some of these comments...just heartless and soulless. Sometimes I hate my fellow humans. :(
The Europeans came here. Slaughtered the rightful owners of the land and then enslaved people to build the country they wanted. So that's what you recommend other countries do?
This should not be up to us to decide. They are Americans and it's their inalienable right to return to this country, where they will get the best care - unless they go to a VA hospital where they'll be told to wait for maybe a few months to a few years. Also, two Americans with ebola are no match to a family of Kardashians, who harbor a host of deadly pathogens still unknown to science.
Where did I say that? You are saying that Europeans brought nothing to this country other than misery. They contributed NOTHING else, that every non-European is responsible for all the good, and the Euros are responsible for all the bad. You apparently think that because of events from 200 years ago, that all Americans should be required to atone for sins that were committed before any of us were born. Do I have this right? That's your justification for allowing Ebola into this country, because Europeans who founded America are terrible, so two wrongs make a right and the only way you'll be satisfied is if they die horribly?
race baiting? seriously? u two lesbians need to CHILL IT!
No my justification for allowing them into this country is they're American citizens who deserve to be treated by the best medicine possible because it is treatable just not curable and even if they die they deserve to die as painlessly as possible in their home country.
Jack, AIDS research was in its infancy when it began spreading throughout America. There has been plenty of research on ebola, and there is still a 90 percent mortality rate. There is no comparison. I do see what you are trying to say, but I just do not agree. I feel bringing the treatment to those infected would have been the best choice.
I am NOT a lesbian! Nothing wrong with it but I am not one! And I didn't start it, just pointed out how insane it is to think that simply because of your skin color, ancestry, and country's history, that you are somehow obligated to welcome a deadly disease into your country and put millions of people at risk. Many who are not white, may be recent immigrants from war-torn nations, etc. It's not like Ebola is going to only kill the Europeans who had bad ancestors, it doesn't discriminate. That's all I'm saying!
My first reaction was to panic thinking of the book "Hot Zone." But these are two brave selfless workers and we can't abandon them. They need and deserve to be brought home so they can at least receive the best care possible and have a chance. They'll be catefully quarantined.
But you're right FSN, this is another one of those fights that cannot be won. So I'll stop! Who knows, maybe she'll get her way and every evil American will die horribly. Then she can have a party, maybe dance on a few graves. Sounds like the morally superior thing to do.
OK I'm really done now, phew!
Fuck off. I'm plenty chill and is calling me a lesbian suppose to be an insult? How old are you?
Thank you Caraface for injecting some rationality into this discussion.
And in terms of mortality rates there is another possible factor to consider and that is that the Americans infected probably have better immune systems than the Africans who die of Ebola - I may be wrong but it's a possibility.
And to add to what Caraface outlined, Ebola virus is already sitting in multiple labs in North America because that's the only way to do research to cure it which is in all our best interests.
And to freak y'all out some more
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Dec. 3, 2013
@Count, I'm not one to name call, but you're an idiot. Every life is of equal worth.
Also a little spelling lesson,
There - a place
Their- belonging to someone or something
They're - they are
You're welcome(you are)
Lol... astra I dont think that comment made by screen was directed to you, hon.
Of course I would think the military has some kind of plane especially set up to quarantine, since apparently they are funding research into a cure for Ebola. They probably have underground bunkers as well. I mean these Americans are not going to be flown back in commercial airliners.
If all the evil people died, the remaining population would be pretty small. Everyone, every culture has blood on their hands.
Ad to thst these people - the dr and the volunteer made the decision to put themselves in a disease infested hotzone. We all are given decisions in life and it sucks when it doesn't pan out the way one wants. How many potential lives are worth 2? 5, 50, 100.... those are the numbers you could potentially face by bringing disease ridden people here.
Add to that all the many ambiguities regarding how the disease was contracted. A number of doctors have died from this. People who took every precaution to avoid contracting the disease. Its not clear if they are telling us everything about how this disease is being contracted and also these researchers continue to learn new things every day about how this disease functions. Common sense would make a n every day person say perhaps bringing a virus her that kills instantly and makes some bleed from every orifice isnt a god day.
That last part I agree with
Good idea not god day lol
Good idea not god day lol
For example the native tribes of North America did not all get along. Some of the tribes were more warrior like, others were more passive. Then as now people are fighting for resources.
For example the Iroquois were and would say they still are a warrior tribe. Long story if you live around here. The Iroquois helped the British defeat the French.
I saw some native people fighting online over an article about land claims and treaties, because a descendant of another tribe said your people stole OUR land, where's our compensation.
not u ...
@just ducky
lesbian is a correct label for u and Rosie, amirite?
u2 are argumentative...
No my name is a correct label for me
so is argumentative
Hate to tell you, Ebola (and there are several strains) is already in the US. CDC, NIH, and others have been working with it for three decades. It and the Marburg virii. Hemorragic fevers are vile, but there is no reason that two US tax-paying citizens cannot come home.
Pity us if we don't know how to contain such things.
And we already do.
Hence - of the 30 outbreaks in the last 30 years, they have all been contained to a massively localized series of villages and areas within 8 countries, all sub-Saharan and within central Africa.
What the fuck does being lesbian have to do w it?? My god, are u fucking 13?? and so long as we are labeling, fancyscreenname you are a fucking idiot. Hey, if the label fits....
Btw, the mortality rate in the outbreaks since the 70s, ranges from 0 to 100% in each defined incident. In fact, in the 2008 outbreak in Kasai Province (Congo), there was a 47% mortality rate.
u2 are the only hostile one's in this thread. name calling and race baiting. in bad taste but par for the course with u two.
u just called someone a fucking redneck. u are a foul mouthed wench. u and that other one need to go fuck yourselves
OR each other.
and a paper on the disease's manifest history
and a paper on the disease's manifest history
@jackDucky: if you think the entire country was founded on slaves, you have never opened a history book. Beaver, cod and timber were more important than plantations in building this country. And you contradict yourself by mentioning immigrants. Those are people who did have choices and they chose to be Americans, because it is the best place to be.
I await the next couple sentences of fail out of you.
@Kit, thanks for the info.
Yes Jack, American lives are worth more. 5 Arabs out of Guantanamo for 1 American soldier. Innovation of drone strikes to keep from risking American lives in planes. You can be in denial if you want, but Americans are top of the food chain. Holding yer breath and stompin yer foot aint changing that.
Rosie: yer a worthless pig, so you dont even rate as human and dont enter into the valuation. The warts on a crack whore's cunt have more value than you.
Laughing stock of the world? Yer developmentally disabled, aint ya? As America goes, the world goes. From consumption of goods to tourism our economy is the heartbeat of the world.
@susanb: f that. They put themselves in harms way, their on their own. I feel the same way about the moron who put his family on a boat with intentions to sail around the world and failed 2 weeks in out in the middle of the ocean. America is yer country, not yer nanny.
Skippy: yer wrong. Every life is not worth the same. Yer in a sinking boat with a junkie and a nun. Neither can swim and you can only save one. who do you save?
Case closed.
P.S. grammar copping, really? Are you 12?
@fancy: the correct terms to use when describing Rosie are "pig" and "human garbage".
Don't feel like doing research, but I thought Ebola was too deadly to be a successful plague/outbreak/apocalypse? It doesn't hang around long enough and keep people alive long enough for it to jump through the population at a rate to be worried about? Again, I don't feel like doing research so don't flip a bitch switch if that is totally wrong.
They knew the risks going into it. If they were my loved ones I would want them here. If I were them I would understand that I made a choice to expose myself and consequences come with my actions. These two can't possibly be the first Americans in the history of ever to contract Ebola while overseas, why is their situation such a big deal now? Have we always just quietly let them die in Africa or quietly flown them into a CDC somewhere and none of us were any the wiser? Maybe Ebola is already ravaging the country and these two men are about to become scapegoats for the epidemic. It's easier for the people in charge to blame the two who knowingly exposed themselves and knowingly exposed the rest of us. Who knows, I'm off on a tangent now but it's just sketch to me that all of a sudden two Americans who contracted a deadly disease overseas are being made into this massive news story. Again, I'm not doing research so for all I know they could be the only Americans in 20 years to come down with any sort of somewhat threatening illness/disease while out of the country.
It's a dick move to tell them they can't come back, it's a dick move for them to knowingly and willingly expose themselves and then want to bring it back here (yeah yeah it's already in labs in CDC's all over the nation, assume the rest of the public doesn't realize that), I honestly think it's kind of a dick move to single these two out when who knows how many Americans contract and die from diseases while overseas and no one but their families care. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what the fuck any of us think. There is an agenda here and we are all just along for the ride.
No, I don't see the point in risking millions of lives to bring 2 American aid workers back. They knew the risks when they went to Africa. I am sure they would not want their loved ones exposed to this terrible disease either. If they were my family members I would feel the same way, I wouldn't want the rest of my family potentially exposed.
Also, is it really fair to expect the hospital workers, morticians, and custodians to take the risk of being exposed to this? They are probably only bringing them back to experiment on them to find a vaccine or test something on them.
As for everyone hating America/Americans, if they hate us so much they can stop accepting our foreign aid and money. If you hate being American so much go try living in another country and see how much happier you are and how much better you won't be treated.
Yes. They are American citizens. If it's really out of control it will get here, or probably already is here. They deserve to be treated with respect and given the best treatment. If we can't contain them, we should all be much more worried about ds other than Ebola.
@fsn, I wasn't hostile nor did I call anyone names. You on the other hand have done both but whatever.
@count, I'm not going to argue with you anymore. Not because I can't because I could easily go on with this for days but mostly because I like you and also because we're both dead set in our beliefs and we'd just go back and fourth for however long and there's no point because what's gonna happen is gonna happen.
I would just like to end by saying if we treated everyone who's ever had a disease the way y'all are suggesting we treat these people then we wouldn't have a cure for anything and we'd all have died long ago.
And as for the person who said if I hate America then I should move believe me as soon as I can save enough money I plan to.
Anyway I hope most of you have a great weekend. Some of you I don't really care if you have a great weekend or not.
If we could move on to something much more important:
Selena Gomez appears to be in full advertising mode, showing off some buttcheek bottoms, in short shorts, and a nice thigh bruise. SFW
To put it in pro wrestling terms, she is doing a slow turn, dropping hints here and there, building up anticipation for the day she goes Full Whore in public. By the time it happens we'll all be on the edge of our seats and she'll get a nice sized chunk of change for a "leaked" sex tape or full frontal in a movie.
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"New world countries" (i.e. USA, Canada, Australia/New Zealand) were all discovered, settled and developed by immigrants. All have histories where the discoverers conquered/abused/killed the native peoples of those lands. And though since those days, many generations have been born in these newly founded countries, no ones genealogy is "American" or "Canadian" or "Australian". Everyone's roots came from somewhere else.
"Also, two Americans with ebola are no match to a family of Kardashians, who harbor a host of deadly pathogens still unknown to science."
Well Said!
But we must add Ho Lohan in the ww level 69 threat of all sorts of unknown deadly infectious diseases.!
"Everyone, every culture has blood on their hands."
It's unfortunate that after thousands of years, humans haven't evolved all that much from their base construct of reacting to their fight-or-flight / conquer or be conquered instinct.
For all of our spurts of advancement and incredible genius, it seems we always retreat back to that "base" ego-self, rather than move forward - away from the "I" and towards the "we". Imagine what we could accomplish if the "we" took priority on this planet?
(we keep taking the red pill. Well, I'd like to take the blue pill now please!) <-- that one's for you @Eros - The Matrix
Meme Deemed is a grade a moron.
28 days later and Contagion are relatable to this how exactly?????
Maybe you should join your friends out of the country permanently. Ignoramuses like yourself aren't worthy to live in first world society.
Ebola has been in the US. There was an infected shipment of monkeys in Reston, VA. Richard Preston's book The Hot Zone was about Ebola Reston.
As a healthcare professional, I wouldn't have allowed them back in the states. Maybe CDC wants to test out their isolation centers.
Slim Peachy: Your lack of human genes is showing. Nice try at imitating a humanoid on this planet. Bugger back off where you truly belong.
She has The Madams of HWood as her guiding light to whore famedom - Lohan, Hilton, Kartrashians
They'd be more than happy to draw her a map should she forget how to fuck or fuck up her life.
I've read "The Hot Zone." Absolutely terrifying. Ebola t will melt your organs, give you high temperature, make you bloated, separate skin from muscles, make your testicles change color and peel, give you red eyes and you will literally bleed out through every orifice & pore. Everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) who reads it...they all give similar reviews: Spine-chillingly horrific.


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Frazier also had one of Cincinnatis four run-scoring doubles as the Reds (68-52) earned their fourth consecutive win to move a season-high 16 games over .500. They improved to 13-3 against the Cubs this year, including a 9-1 mark at Wrigley Field. The defending NL Central champions have won seven of eight since an embarrassing 15-2 home loss to St. Louis on Aug. 4. They trailed division-leading Pittsburgh by 3 1/2 games at the start of the day, with the Pirates scheduled to face the second-place Cardinals on Wednesday night. "Sometimes a team has to hit rock bottom before you can start rolling," manager Dusty Baker said. The Cubs wasted a solid start by Chris Rusin (2-2) in their fourth straight loss. The left-hander allowed two runs and three hits while throwing just 76 pitches over six innings. "I was able to keep the ball on the ground for the most part and when the balls were hit in the air, besides Fraziers, the wind knocked it down," Rusin said. With Chicago struggling to score against Arroyo, manager Dale Sveum had Starlin Castro hit for Rusin with two out and none on in the sixth. Castro flied out to left, and Zack Cozart hit an RBI double off Carlos Villanueva in the seventh to give Cincinnati a 3-0 lead. David DeJesus rolled a leadoff single into centre field in the fourth for Chicagos first hit, but was promptly erased when Darnell McDonald bounced into a double play. McDonald singled off the glove of second baseman Brandon Phillips in the seventh and was stranded when Arroyo retired the next two batters. Alfredo Simon worked a perfect eighth and Jonathan Broxton finished the two-hitter for Cincinnatis 13th shutout of the season. "To get shut out and get nothing going at all today, its frustrating," Sveum said. "Its frustrating for the guys in the clubhouse, too. Theyre plugging away the best they can." Arroyo improved to 13-9 with a 2.92 ERA in 30 career games against the Cubs, including wins in each of his last four starts. He has been quite good at Chicagos cozy neighbourhood ballpark, with an 8-3 record and a 2.83 ERA in 15 appearances. "Ive been comfortable in this ballpark for a long time for some reason, definitely the last probably seven years," he said. "Its just a lineup that a lot of times Im comfortable against." Frazier helped the Reds get off to a fast start when he drove Rusins third pitch over the wall in left and onto Waveland Avenue. It was Fraziers first homer since July 1 against San Francisco and No. 11 on the year. "Start the game off with a little bang, thats always a good look for me to get going for the day," he said. Frazier and Joey Votto had consecutive RBI doubles in the eighth to cap the scoring. NOTES: Chicago has been shut out 10 times this season. It managed just six hits in a 2-0 loss in the series opener on Monday. ... 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A rare serious moment with Bryan Webster.
The clouds nicely framed the historic (and possibly injurious) Cyclone roller coaster!
This guy cooperated. It was harder than I thought to convince him / her to land, stay put, light up, and fumble around one-handed to get a pseud-macro shot with my 50mm lens that refused to focus.
This is a composite of 10 photos of a tree that I love. I have many more to process from today, but I couldn't resist putting this one online.
An impressive cloud bank rolls in over the sierras.
This is a SIerra Nevada sunset composed of several pictures.
My father in-law labored in the field to bring this pumpkin to the family. Nobody ended up buying it, but the drama was there.
Yeah she's cute, but she's almost figured out how to use that for dark purposes. Beware.
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Autumn events to help farmers and crofters optimise winter nutrition and grazing availability
In response to concerns that this year's weather conditions will result in Scottish farmers and crofters facing feed and fodder shortages this winter, Scottish Government has opened this autumn's Beef Efficiency Scheme events for all farmers and crofters to attend.
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CooCoo for Cocoa Crêpe (Cake)
Crêpe. Chocolate. Crêpe. Chocolate. Crêpe. Chocolate.
Twenty layers of gobsmacking scrumptiousness, one piled after the other after the other, a cavalcade of creamy chocolate ebullience.
The recipe is easy. Take one traditional crêpe recipe and add ¼ cup cocoa and increase the agave nectar to ¼ cup. Using a small non-stick butter smeared skillet, I use a 6", drop 1/8 cup of batter and swirl until the pan is coated and cook for just a minute or two. Flip if you must and allow the other side to warm through. Pile your crêpes with parchment in between each. This makes about 20. Oh la la!
Take one cup ganache and fold in 1 cup of whipped heavy cream. Spread a heaping tablespoon on each crêpe and spread it evenly. Add the next crêpe and follow with another heaping tablespoon.
Keep piling the Crêpes and lovely chocolate cream until you have run out of all your lovely ingredients. Chill for a few hours to set and then grab yourself a serrated knife and saw through to heaven.
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Adaptive will integrate its Moab cloud management suite with an unspecified open source cloud platform--potentially OpenStack, CloudStack, or another alternative--to create the cloud OS.
Adaptive's Moab Cloud Suite provides service provisioning, service catalogs, and policy management in cloud environments. The company holds patents in areas such as multi-tier applications, time-based policy enforcement, and hybrid and multi-tenant clouds.
In a written announcement on the partnership, Robert Ames, senior VP of In-Q-Tel's information and communication technologies practice, cited Adaptive's experience in cloud management software and its development capabilities in deciding to work with the company. The company's customers include the National Security Agency, national laboratories, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. military.
[ The feds are embracing new technologies to prepare for the digital age. Read DARPA Seeks 'Plan X' Cyber Warfare Tools. ]
U.S. director of national intelligence James Clapper said at an industry conference last year that the Intelligence Community (comprised of 17 federal agencies and departments) would be moving to the cloud model as a way of meeting budget reductions. Given the security requirements of intelligence agencies, private clouds may be the preferred way of doing that.
CIA CTO Gus Hunt, speaking at InformationWeek's GovCloud conference last year, said cloud computing, because if its virtual, dynamic nature, could potentially be more secure than traditional IT approaches. "I've created a world in which my workloads are constantly fresh and clean, and I have created a shell game by turning myself into a polymorphic attack service," he said. (InformationWeek Government's GovCloud 2012 conference will be held Oct. 17 in Washington, D.C)
The non-profit Intelligence and National Security Alliance earlier this year released a white paper that identified issues around cloud adoption, including security and the suitability of various cloud environments (public, private, or hybrid). At the same time, the INSA concluded that agencies stand to benefit from an increased ability to share and analyze large quantities of data.
Adaptive Computing, previously known as Cluster Resources, has a background in managing high-performance computing clusters, which it is applying to the supervision of x86 servers in private clouds. The company's Moab technology employs a multi-dimensional "intelligence engine" to the management and allocation of IT resources.


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The Finest Masonic Jewelry from Our Own Studio.
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Here is our largest jewel to date, it's 4" tall and almost two ounces of silver. It is designed to be a jewel for very special occasions, a fancy lodge meeting, for re-enactments or for a collection. We wanted to make something really sizable.
We call it the Renaissance Jewel to evoke the art and spirit of the earliest Freemasonry beginning during the Renaissance Era. The Jewel will be serial numbered and delivered in a presentation box. In addition to silver, we also offer our gold alloys such as 14k and 18k yellow, white and rose.
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In a move that will further bolster Facebook's green data center credentials, the social networking giant plans to build an enormous new 120MW data center in Luleå, Sweden, just 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The company will make the official announcement Thursday, according to the Telegraph.
The allure of the locale is three-fold: First, it's a prime location for taking advantage of free cooling -- that is, using outside air to chill machines instead of running costly CRAC (computer room air conditioner) units 24/7. Second, dams on the Luleå river generate an abundance of renewable electricity -- enough so that half is exported -- so Facebook needn't worry about an energy shortfall any time soon. Third, Sweden has a dense fiber-optic network, which means data can flow reliably and easily through Finland and on into Eastern Europe and Russia.
For the past few years now, organizations have struggled with strategies to cut costs and energy consumption within their data centers. Free cooling has proven a paricularly desirable technique as the cost of generating artificially chilled air can be quite considerable. Facebook employs free cooling at its data center in Prineville, Ore., for example, though the AC sometimes needs to be turned on during the summer. That contributes to the facility's remarkably low PUE (Power Utilization Effectiveness); Facebook claims the figure is 1.07.
This new Luleå facility -- the first Facebook data center to be built outside the United States -- could be cooled freely throughout the year: The average temperature in the region is around 35.6 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Telegraph, and the temperature has not exceeded 86 degrees for more than 24 hours for the past 50 years. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) recommends operating data centers at a temperature range of 64.4 to 80.6 degrees.
Notably, server vendors are taking note of the growing trend toward using outside air to cool datacenters. Earlier this year, Dell began to warranty servers running in temperatures as high as 133 degrees.
The abundance of renewable energy is another boon for Facebook, as it earns the company eco-points by reducing its overall carbon footprint. Other data center operators, too, have turned to alternative energy to cut operation costs and to improve cut emissions. Google, for example, has a huge solar installation, while Fujitsu installed a hydrogen fuel cell at its Sunnyvale, Calif., campus.
This story, "Free cooling lures Facebook to the Arctic's edge," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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This delightful book is Adrian Bell's account of the year in which he left behind his leisured life in Chelsea to live and work on a Suffolk farm as a kind of apprentice-farmer. Penguin issued it as a paperback in 1940, and despite the paper rationing of the war years, my copy, printed early enough to still carry those traditional orange stripes, is from the 6th reprinting, which must be some measure of just how popular his rural reminiscences proved to be. He wrote three books during the 1930s telling of his early farming life, and they were all issued by Penguin in wartime editions (the others being #264 The Cherry Tree and #278 Silver Ley). I have read that the WW2 servicemen treasured these books, both as a reminder of what they were fighting to protect, and as an inspiration in planning their own post-war pastoral lives.
It was 1920, and Adrian Bell was only 19, when he left London on a recently purchased second hand motor bike to make his way to Suffolk, in order to commence his tuition in agriculture. He presents himself as a sensitive youth, one given to composing blank verse poems, and reluctant to be exposed to the mockery of street urchins for his fashionable attire. His father discourages his literary ambitions, and forced to make a decision about his future, he opts for farming as an alternative to spending his working hours in an office. When he looks back it is with the recognition that he had no comprehension of what it was that he was choosing. For him, rural life was a symbol of escape; his thoughts were of tranquil fields, docile animals, and pleasant vistas.
And the initial problem - on both sides - is one of assumptions. He assumes that his uneducated rural acquaintances must be ignorant; they perceive his gentlemanly ways and nice clothes and assume he lacks a physical robustness. Over the course of the year they develop a mutual respect, but most of the learning is on his part, in that he is soon aware that scholarly achievement is an inadequate measure of intelligence, and while many of the country folk are unable to read or write, they have a deep and almost uncanny understanding of the things that concern them - such as foxes, and horses, and weather; he is the one surprised again and again by how comparatively little he knows.
And as he tackles the various farming tasks, he realises that he was not alone in misjudging the skills and knowledge that underpin the rural life. He notes that the words the poets use in their descriptions of rural occupations betray them as mere observers; they too are unaware of the complex and taxing nature of tasks which the well-practised and capable appear to do with such ease.
During his apprenticeship year he moves between his two disparate worlds, London society and the Suffolk farm. There are fleeting moments when he questions his choice and longs for the simpler life of the London drawing room: when he is called from his warm bed early each morning, or when long days are spent in physically demanding occupations, always with an awareness of his relative inadequacy compared with those raised in a farming environment.
He notices that his London friends treat him as something of a novelty, a local rustic they can display to their friends. And he also notices something of a deeper significance: that Londoners have an obsession with how things look, and people are judged according to the things they own, or the placement of their furniture. He comes to learn that appearance can be an unreliable indicator of quality, and that country men have completely different sets of criteria for judging the worth of almost everything - animals, houses, businesses. And even though he recognises the limitations of appearance, he never quite overcomes his own tendency to focus on the aesthetic, rather than on the practical.
But none of this really explains the special quality of this book, which I think is mostly due to the personality of the man who wrote it. It is a positive book, describing a way of life which I assume no longer exists, for an audience who, like himself, will have been influenced by the poets. He seeks to convey the depth of detail in any rural scene which he knows they will all missing, and he does it with self-deprecation, enthusiasm, and a deep respect for the man who instructed him. And it meant that he was far more convincing that George Orwell (Coming Up for Air) on the merits of the rural life.
By the same author:
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Welcome to the Dock Marina Restaurant and Gallery, a restored historic fishing premises. The fish trade began on this site at the turn of the 18th century.Read More
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Trinity is located in Trinity Bay on Newfoundland's East Coast. We are 3 hours by air from New York and Toronto, and 5 hours from London, England.Read More
Town of Trinity
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Music downloads greener than buying CDs
iTunes = three billion miles saved
Downloading digital music is better for the environment than buying physical CDs from a retail store or online etailer, according to a trio of researchers.
Their study (PDF), entitled The Energy and Climate Change Impacts of Different Music Delivery Methods and sponsored by Microsoft and Intel, details an exhaustive investigation into six different digital-music distribution and purchasing scenarios, ranging from traditional retail CD sales to digital downloads played on a computer or digital-media device.
The Reg highly recommends downloading and perusing the 30-page paper - it's perfect light reading for your late-summer beach holiday.
To determine the carbon footprint and energy required for each scenario, the researchers took into account such factors as CD production and materials, packaging, air and surface shipping, data-center energy requirements, car trips to retail stores, the energy used in web shopping and music playing, and more.
Each assumption was assigned a data range, and the resulting uncertainties were subjected to probabilistic analysis using a Monte Carlo simulation.
As is true with any responsible scientific analysis, caveats abound in the paper, but the bottom line is clear. "Given our assumptions," it concludes, "our results indicate the superiority of downloadable online music, which even in the worst-case scenario produces on average 65 per cent lower CO2 emissions than the best-case e-tail delivery method. Significantly higher savings (nearly a factor of five) can be seen if the customer forgoes CD-R burning in favor of fully digital use, thereby eliminating the energy it took to produce the CD and its packaging."
The worst-case retail scenario - a customer driving to a retail store and buying a CD - produces an average of 3,200 grams of CO2 per album. The best-case digital-download scenario - a customer downloading a CD's worth of tunes and not burning them to a CD-R - produces an average of 400 grams of CO2.
Such data, of course, might beg the question: "So what?", so we pulled out our calculators, punched in a few numbers, and tallied up the CO2 emissions saved by Apple's iTunes Music Store.
In January of this year, Apple senior vice president for marketing Phil Schiller announced that six billion songs had been downloaded from the iTunes Store since it opened in 2003. Assuming 12 songs per album, that'd be the equivalent of 500 million CDs.
Five-hundred million physical CDs bought in retail stores would thus produce 1,600,000 metric tons of CO2. The same number of purely digital albums would produce one-eighth of that amount, namely 200,000 metric tons.
According to calculations developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the average US passenger vehicle - a mix of cars and light trucks - produces about 5.5 metric tons of CO2 per year of driving, which the EPA deems to average 12,000 miles.
By January of this year, therefore, the iTunes Music Store had reduced CO2 emissions equivalent to those produced by over three billion miles of driving, That's an impressive figure - until you learn that the EPA also estimates that Americans drive a total of over 2.4 trillion miles per year.
Still, every little bit helps when it comes to delaying Thermageddon. ®


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Word got out about the canvas wrap I did in my road. A neighbour 17 doors down asked me to do a photoshoot with her cat in order to make a wrap. I charged her £80 for the wrap and £40 for the photoshoot...When the wrap is finished, and I get paid for it, I will donate the £40 for the photoshoot to the fund.
Here is the photo I took that will be on the wrap.


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Fishing Derby
Allows guilds to run pool-fishing contests which will help in obtaining the "That's A Lot of Bait" achievement and the recipe that goes with it.
Keeps score in a competition to see who can catch the most things from fishing pools while the contest is running. Anything caught from any pool (including things like pools of fire or wreckage) will cause both the achievement counter and the player's score to increase.
See the README file included in the addon's folder for details.
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