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Of course the other must see television event which concluded over the weekend was the Tour de France. No real surprises with the end result although Schleck losing the race by the same amount of time he lost to Contador in the "chaingate" incident has me wishing both riders finished the three week tour on the same time, it certainly would have caused a stir.
With the tour over many of us in non cycling crazy countries will be lamenting the absence of daily race coverage and articles in the mainstream print media, yes its back to the good old Internet for your secret fix (don't you feel dirty?) of the sport which to most people only exists in the month of July. All the bike shops are now busily taking down the signage advertising their Tour de France sales, as if they were Christmas decorations in February. At least my sleep patterns can return to normal again.
All this talk about reality TV and cycling has me thinking about the time I spent in countries where cycling is a major sport and not looked upon as some sort of novelty news item, with your average person on the street in those countries having a pretty good knowledge of who is who and which race they won. In fact the racers are so popular that they are household names and sometimes end up on TV programmes themselves. I would like to share with you some examples of the quality programing featuring cyclists which can be found on TV in Europe.
Lets start in Italy where you may have seen Claudio Chiappucci on a programme called "L'Isola dei Famosi", which is like an Italian crossover of "Survivor" and the enthralling "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here". Il Diabolo really nailed the physical challenges but sadly couldn't take out the competition of Italian C and D grade celebrities and finished a respectable 3rd.
Here he is drinking from a coconut .
Here he strains to hold up a what looks like a Gilligan's Island style barbell.
Most of you would probably know about Mario Cippolini's appearance on "Balando Con Le Stelle" or "Dancing With The Stars" a few years ago.
If you missed it go here to see a clip of Mario learning to dance. A dance aficionado and cycling friend of mine who saw the show told me that Mario didn't really display the same supplesse on the dance floor as he did on his bike.
1996 was a great year for Italian cheese and I'm not talking about grana padano. Marco Pantani thrilled us with his racing exploits throughout the 90's but injury had him sidelined during 1996 and prevented him from competing in that years edition of the Giro d' Italia, a Giro that was arguably designed for Marco to win. Now back in those days a Giro without Pantani was like a caprese salad without basil but the tifosi wouldnt need to go without because in that year that the late Marco Pantani sang the theme song which preceded the daily coverage of Giro d Italia. Watch the clip below to see part of the legacy this great champion left behind, it will only make you miss him even more.
As far as cycling mad countries go you really cant go past the Belgians for taking the interest they have in their riders that little bit too far. So far in fact that a few of them actually have their own television shows.
After his retirement from a long and illustrious career in cycling Eddy Planckaert couldn't stay out of the public eye and allowed a TV crew to document the daily life of his large and somewhat eccentric family (he had fallen on lean times and needed the money). The show ran for an incredible 12 years and was only recently shelved.
If cyclocross is more your thing then you might like to watch another Belgian hit TV series "Wellens en Wee". The program is basically a documentary which revolves around cross star Bart Wellens, his family and team. Go along for the ride and see for yourself what happens during the cross season in Belgium. You can see some of the funnier moments, team roughhousing and practical jokes here, just follow the prompt to the VT4 website where you can watch full episodes (if your Flemish is up to it). The program is a pretty good insight as to how popular the sport of cyclocross really is in Belgium with plenty of drunken fans partying in the mud as they watch the racing and some occasional goofing around from Bart and his team mates to lighten the mood.
Still on the cyclocross theme and once again in Belgium "Mr Paris Roubaix" Roger De Vlaeminck also entered the world of reality TV with his program "Allez Allez Zimbabwe". The basic premise is that the "Gypsy" turns talent scout and coach for young Zimbabwean cyclists and brings them to Belgium for some hard Flemish lessons in suffering to help prepare them for the world championships, and suffer they do. After all their hard as nails coach used to train up to 400km in one day leading up to Paris Roubaix, an event he won an unequalled four times..
Unfortunately for Roger his young charges seem more interested in the local nightlife and chasing girls instead of training. Never the less the young Africans were very popular with the fans and the program was a hit. See how they perform here.
One of the cultural nuances of Belgium is that even though its a small country you can go for a 20 minute drive and end up in a region or city that speaks a different dialect or indeed a different language. If you watch any of the linked film clips above you may be interested to see that even though everyone is speaking Flemish the programs are still subtitled in you guessed it, Flemish.
Today I want mention a subject most cyclists don't want to hear about. Getting hit by a car, the mere mention of it puts my stomach in a knot but unfortunately its something some of us will have to deal with at some point. I'm not going to go on and on about riding safely and your rights on the road. I'm just going to give you one piece of advice. If you get hit and you go down, even if you're okay, stay down. Don't get up, as soon as you do anybody who saw it will assume you are okay and drive on. When that car fails to give way or turns in front of you it helps to have witnesses to back you up . In my experience people generally wont stop unless they have seen something pretty serious. So stay down for a while, get some names and don't give the driver at fault any chance of getting away with it.
I don't really want to end this post on such a serious subject so here's a mildly amusing Belgian TV ad featuring Roger De Vlaeminck, Eddy Planckaert and Freddy Maertens hamming it up for some advertising dollars.
Ride sensibly everyone.


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Fox & Friends: Fox News' Top Misinformer Of 2011
Research ››› ››› JUSTIN BERRIER, ERIC SCHROECK, CHELSEA RUDMAN, MELODY JOHNSON & REMINGTON SHEPARD
Fox News' Fox & Friends made considerable contributions to the field of conservative of misinformation throughout 2011. The efforts of co-hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade -- as well as their rotating cast of fill-in hosts and Curvy Couch guests -- have made Fox & Friends the top misinformer on Fox News in 2011.
Fox & Friends Hyped Anti-Obama Conspiracy Theories
Environment And Climate Misinformation
National Security And Foreign Policy Misinformation
Fox & Friends Hyped Anti-Obama Conspiracy Theories
Doocy: "He Could End It Simply -- Just Show [The Birth Certificate] To Us." During an interview with Donald Trump on the April 18 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy responded to Trump's claim that President Obama "has not given a birth certificate" by saying, "He could end it simply -- just show it to us, and it'd be over." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/18/11, via Media Matters]
Doocy: Birth Certificate Produced By Obama's Campaign "Is Not The Exact Birth Certificate." After airing Trump's birther claims from an appearance on ABC's The View, Doocy stated during the March 24 edition of Fox & Friends that the Obama "campaign did produce -- before the election -- something called a certificate of live birth, which is not the exact birth certificate, but something that the state says indicates that he was born there." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/24/11, via Media Matters]
Trump Told Unquestioning Fox & Friends Hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder ... Whether Or Not [Obama] Was Born In This Country." On March 28, Fox & Friends hosted Trump, who stated, "I'm starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/28/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about Obama's birth certificate, SEE HERE.
Fox & Friends Found Fact In Ayers' "Joke" About Ghostwriting Obama's Book. During the March 29 broadcast of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts aired a segment in which they showed Bill Ayers making a sarcastic remark regarding the conspiracy theory that he ghostwrote Obama's 1995 book, Dreams from My Father. After airing a clip of Ayers' sarcastic comment, co-host Gretchen Carlson asked, "Was it a joke, or was he being serious?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/29/11, via Media Matters]
Fox & Friends Hosted Jack Cashill To Promote Book, Push Ghostwriter Theory. The co-hosts then used Ayers' remark to launch an interview with WorldNetDaily columnist and noted conspiracy theorist Jack Cashill. During the segment, Cashill pushed his theory that Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was written by Ayers. Carlson not only promoted Cashill's conspiracy-laden book, but also encouraged his theory, speculating, "Let's say Bill Ayers did write that book." Doocy later asked Cashill, "Why aren't the mainstream media touching this with a 10-foot pole?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/29/11, via Media Matters]
Fox Hosted Controversial Pastor To Suggest Obama Is Secretly Muslim. On April 26, Fox & Friends hosted Texas pastor Robert Jeffress to attack Obama over an Easter proclamation. During the segment, Jeffress claimed that there could be "something deep within the president himself that will not allow him to issue these public proclamations about Christianity, when he on Easter will issue a proclamation about Earth Day, or he will recognize Muslim holidays." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/26/11, via Media Matters, via Media Matters]
For more of the debunked attacks on Obama's lack of an Easter proclamation, SEE HERE.
Fox & Friends' War On Unions
Carlson: "Some Would Say That It's The Unions That Have Crippled The U.S. Economy And Led To The United States' Debt." On the December 2 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson said that "some would say that it's the unions that have crippled the U.S. economy and led to the United States' debt." She then asked guest and Republican strategist Tony Sayegh, "How do you feel about that?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/2/11, via Media Matters]
Fox's Johnson Claimed Democrats Boycotting Anti-Union Bills Are "Morally And Horribly Reprehensible." On the February 24 Fox & Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. reacted to news of Democrats boycotting bills that would strip unions of collective bargaining rights by calling them "morally and horribly reprehensible." From Fox & Friends:
JOHNSON: Under the Constitution, federal and in most states, the speech or debate clause, you can't hold people to account in a criminal way or even an administrative way for what they do or fail to do as elected officials. That being said, this is morally and horribly reprehensible. The world is laughing at the United States, that these Democratic legislators would say, "Oh, we're over here at the hotel, ordering hamburgers, this is so cute, we're not going to come over here." This is incredible, isn't it? [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 2/24/11, via Media Matters]
Doocy Called Infrastructure Spending, Stimulus "A Union Bailout For Teachers And First Responders." On the September 7 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts discussed details of the president's proposed jobs plan ahead of his speech. Responding to part of the proposal, Doocy referred to infrastructure spending as "a union bailout for teachers and first responders." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/7/11, via Media Matters]
Kilmeade: NLRB's Labor Case Against Boeing "Seems Anti-American." On the June 21 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade interviewed Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) about the National Labor Review Board's (NLRB) case against Boeing for deciding to build a plant in the "right to work" state of South Carolina. After a clip was played showing Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) saying that "Boeing is not above the law" and should not receive "preferred treatment," Kilmeade said: "Above the law? If Boeing wants to expand and go to South Carolina for whatever reason, it doesn't -- it seems anti-American to think they can't." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/21/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about NLRB's case against Boeing, SEE HERE.
Kilmeade: WI Pro-Union Protesters Got "Restless And, Dare I Say, Violent." On the March 3 edition of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade introduced a segment on a Republican Wisconsin lawmaker, Sen. Glenn Grothman, being heckled by a chanting crowd of protesters by baselessly claiming the protesters were "getting restless and, dare I say, violent." Doocy claimed, "If you put yourself in [Grothman's] shoes ... it's absolutely scary." Doocy later said, "When you look at that and all the incivility there, you realize that to these people, elections have no consequence, mean nothing." During the segment, the on-screen graphics repeatedly referred to the "angry" protesters as "violent" or "attack[ing]" Grothman.
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/3/11, via Media Matters]
Fox's Carlson Asked If TSA's Collective Bargaining Rights Will "Put Our Security At Risk." On February 7, Carlson stated that the "nation's 50,000 airport screeners will also have collective bargaining rights." She then asked, "But will this put our security at risk?" Carlson then hosted Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) to discuss his proposal to block collective bargaining for TSA workers and asked him, "Why do you believe that allowing collective bargaining with TSA employees threatens our national security?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 2/7/11, via Media Matters]
Economic Misinformation
Fox & Friends Promoted Myth That Lower Taxes Generate Higher Revenue. During the November 22 broadcast of Fox & Friends, Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed lower tax rates lead to more revenue. From the broadcast:
KILMEADE: So, let's talk about the downgrade. I'm only kidding. Let's do this. How about this: The New York Times postulates that maybe this is going to work out good because in 2013, the Bush tax cuts go away, and the 1.2 trillion in cuts, it'll get us on the negative term when it comes to the deficit, and that a lot of people don't really care that much about defense, and they're willing to take these cuts and this increase in taxes.
VARNEY: If you think that the way to tackle our debt problem is to raise taxes and cut the military, OK, I suppose this is a good thing. If you think that that will have a good outcome for our debt and our economy, yeah, OK, The Times has a point. I think the exact opposite. The way to fix the debt problem is not with higher taxes and cutting the military, it's to grow the economy. How do you grow the economy? In my opinion, tax reform. Lower rates, fewer deductions, more revenue to the Treasury. Better economy. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/22/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about taxation and revenue, SEE HERE.
Bolling Promoted Misleading Claim That "43 Percent Of American Households" Do Not "Pay A Dime In Tax." On the August 9 edition of Fox & Friends, guest co-host Eric Bolling, in a discussion with guest and author Rick Ferri, claimed: "I didn't want the money being spent. I didn't want 43 percent of American households not to pay a dime in tax." From the broadcast:
BOLLING: But get this, our next guest says he's taking credit for the downgrade himself. Why? Rick Ferri is a financial advisor and author of the book The Power of Passive Investing. He's with us from San Antonio to explain. OK sir -- your fault? The credit downgrade is your fault?
FERRI: It is my fault, and it is your fault, and it is all the viewers' fault, and it is the voters' fault. We're the one who put these people in power. But besides that, we're the ones who got the benefit from it. We're the ones who spent the $15 trillion. It went to us. It didn't just disappear. It went to us. We spent it, and we did nothing about it. It is our fault that this is occurring.
BOLLING: Hey wait a minute, mister. I didn't spend that money. I had no part in spending it. It's not my fault --
FERRI: Oh, yes, you did.
BOLLING: I didn't want the money being spent. I didn't want 43 percent of American households not to pay a dime in tax. How are you blaming me? [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/9/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about the share of taxes lower-income U.S. households pay, SEE HERE.
Fox & Friends Repeatedly Portrayed President Obama's Economic Policies As "Class Warfare." Fox & Friends repeatedly attacked Obama by claiming he is "inciting class warfare" by supporting higher taxes for the wealthy. Fox & Friends co-hosts and guests further attached the "class warfare" label to Obama's American Jobs Act, Obama's deficit reduction plan, and his re-election efforts. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/19/11, via Media Matters; Fox & Friends, 9/13/11, via Media Matters]
Fox & Friends Promoted The Myth That The Stimulus Failed. Fox & Friends co-hosts and guests have repeatedly claimed that the stimulus plan failed to improve the economy or create jobs; Varney claimed an updated forecast by the Office of Management and Budget "is an admission that the first stimulus program didn't work," and Carlson claimed it has not "work[ed] for the economy." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/4/11, via Media Matters; Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/2/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about the stimulus' effect on the economy and employment, SEE HERE.
Carlson And Doocy Trivialized The Potential Economic Effects Of A Government Shutdown During Credit Limit Debate. On the March 2 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson noted services that might have been affected by a government shutdown and said that "the public needs to be let in on a little secret: We can survive when the government shuts down for a short period of time. We can survive." Later in the broadcast, Doocy suggested that a shutdown could make Americans realize "they don't really need that gigantic a mechanism" of government. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/2/11, via Media Matters]
For more on the possible effects of a government shutdown, SEE HERE.
Health Care Misinformation
Doocy Promoted Claim That Obama Administration Was Issuing Waivers "As Little Favors To Friends Of The Democrats." On the January 27 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy said:
DOOCY: There are a number of provisions of the health care bill obligating employers to cover their employees -- otherwise somebody's going to wind up getting fined. Unless you apply to the government and you get a health care waiver. Well, that's kind of embarrassing.
The Republicans that say this administration's handing out these waivers as little favors to friends of the Democrats and stuff like that. Well, we've just discovered that apparently the number of waivers has skyrocketed in the last month. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/27/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about health care waivers, SEE HERE.
Johnson Exploited Story Of Canadian Infant On Life Support To Claim His Case "Could Happen Here ... With The Bureaucratic Bumbling Of Obamacare." On the February 23 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy reported on a story about a 1-year-old Canadian infant who was in a permanent coma and at the center of a debate over whether his life should be sustained in order to allow him to die at home. Doocy asked Johnson, "Is government-run health care in Canada taking away parents' rights?" Johnson responded, "Yes, and unfortunately we could have it here." Johnson later also agreed with Doocy's statements that "Canada's got that government-mandated health care" and "that could happen in the United States." Johnson later claimed, "It's a sad but true lesson to what could happen here in this country with the bureaucratic bumbling of Obamacare." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 2/23/11, via Media Matters]
Fox & Friends Exclusively Hosted Health Care Reform Opponents Following FL Court Ruling. Following federal Judge Roger Vinson's ruling that the individual mandate makes health care reform unconstitutional, Fox & Friends hosted an unbroken string of health care opponents to comment on the decision, including former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who "filed the original lawsuit on behalf of 13 states." Fox & Friends hosted numerous other opponents of the health care law, including Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 2/1/11, via Media Matters]
Doocy Promoted Claim That "Billions Of Dollars" Were "Hidden" In The Health Care Bill. On the March 9 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy promoted Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that "billions of dollars" were "hidden" in the health care reform law. From Fox & Friends:
DOOCY: Meanwhile, ever wonder where all your tax money is going? Well, the federal government certainly can't tell us, there's so much. First, there was a report finding massive amounts of government overlap. Then Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann found billions of dollars hidden in the health care bill. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/9/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about Bachmann's claim, SEE HERE.
Education Misinformation
Doocy Claimed Teachers Fighting Budget Cuts Are "Demanding A Bailout." On the June 7 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy reported on teachers fighting against proposed cuts to education in Texas by claiming that "the teachers are demanding a bailout of their own. Of course." Later in the program, Kilmeade claimed the teachers "want lawmakers to bail out the education budget with a rainy day fund." During Kilmeade's segment, the following on-screen text aired:
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/7/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about Texas teachers supposedly asking for a "bailout," SEE HERE.
Juliet Huddy: "Are Teachers Unions Ruining Your Kids' Education?" On the August 25 edition of Fox & Friends, guest host Juliet Huddy teased an upcoming segment by asking, "Are teachers' unions ruining your kids' education? Our next guest says yes." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/25/11, via Media Matters]
Environment And Climate Misinformation
Carlson Complained Animated Character SpongeBob SquarePants "Blamed Man For Global Warming" But "Did Not Tell Kids That That Is A Disputed Fact." On August 3, Fox & Friends aired clips from a SpongeBob video in which the titular character discussed climate change. Carlson later said:
CARLSON: The Department of Education using SpongeBob SquarePants now to teach kids about global warming. The government agency showed kids this cartoon and handed out books that blamed man for global warming, but they did not tell kids that that is actually a disputed fact. Oops.
During the same broadcast, Doocy claimed, "Clearly, Nickelodeon is pushing a global warming agenda."
Fox & Friends also aired the following on-screen text:
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/3/11, via Media Matters]
For more on Fox & Friends attacking SpongeBob for "pushing a global warming agenda," SEE HERE.
Doocy Mocked Gore In Front Of Dancing Polar Bear. During the January 27 broadcast of Fox & Friends, the hosts mocked climate change by having a man in a polar bear costume appear on the sidewalk behind Doocy, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and lei. Laughing, Doocy remarked, "Somewhere, Al Gore's got to be giggling right now." In response, Kilmeade added, "At least there's one polar bear left." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/27/11, via Media Matters]
For more on Fox & Friends using winter weather to attack climate change, SEE HERE.
Doocy Claimed That "Increase[d] Offshore Oil Production" Will Lower Gas Prices. During the April 27 broadcast of Fox & Friends, Doocy said, "How about increasing offshore oil production, and then the prices [of gas] will go down." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/27/11, via Media Matters]
For more on the false claim that more drilling will lead to lower gas prices, SEE HERE.
Kilmeade Questioned Climate Change Because There Is "A Lot Of Corruption Surrounding" The Science. During the August 29 broadcast of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade, while interviewing GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, challenged Huntsman's claim that climate change has an "established body of science." Kilmeade claimed that climate science "has a lot of corruption surrounding it, which has a lot of eyebrows up." [Fox News Channel, Fox & Friends, 8/29/11, via Media Matters]
For more on the contrived "corruption" surrounding climate science, SEE HERE and SEE HERE.
Kilmeade Claimed Incandescent Light Bulbs Are "Like Contraband Now." During the July 11 broadcast of Fox & Friends, Doocy claimed:
DOOCY: Congress passed that kooky law that said incandescent bulbs like this gotta go away. Gotta use those pigtail things that are made in China, that have mercury in them, instead of the bulbs made by American workers.
Kilmeade then claimed that the light bulb efficiency standards referenced by Doocy and scheduled to take effect in 2012 would result in consumers treating incandescent light bulbs "like contraband now." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/11/11, via Media Matters]
For more on the false claims regarding light bulb efficiency standards, SEE HERE.
Immigration Misinformation
Fox & Friends Hosted Hate Group Head To Push "Anchor Baby" Myth. On the March 30 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson introduced an interview with FAIR President Dan Stein by discussing reports of alleged birth tourism in which Carlson said, "Pregnant women from foreign countries [are] paying thousands of dollars to give birth in the U.S." Carlson then stated, "So we wondered, how common is this practice?" Stein claimed it's a "routine occurrence" and blamed "[t]he current -- and we believe wrong -- interpretation of our 14th Amendment" for "defeating the operation of U.S. immigration and entry controls." [Media Matters, 3/30/11]
For more about anti-immigrant hate group FAIR, SEE HERE.
Fox & Friends Distorted Obama's Record On Border Security. Following Obama's comment that Republicans "will never be satisfied" by efforts to secure the border, Fox & Friends' Doocy asked if Obama can "keep us safe without securing the border" while Carlson complained that "days after a massacre on the Mexican border, President Obama made fun ... of the fence." [Media Matters, 5/11/11]
For the truth about Obama's record on border security, SEE HERE.
Fox's Johnson Suggested America "Begin To Discuss" A Second Class Of Citizenship For Children Of Illegal Immigrants. On the January 6 edition of Fox & Friends, Johnson, discussing the 14th Amendment, promoted an effort to make "two classes of citizenship. Meaning that if your parents are illegal in this country, then you would not be conferred the same type of citizenship that others [are]." Johnson further said, "This is something that I think we need to begin to discuss in this country." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/6/11, via Media Matters]
Kilmeade Claimed Alabama Is "Fed Up With Its Illegal Immigration Problem" Because "The Illegals Are Destroying" Their Economy. In a June 10 segment discussing a controversial Alabama immigration law, Kilmeade stated: "[T]his is a state that is fed up with its illegal immigration problem and is desperate to change it. They don't hate people or -- but the illegals are destroying their economy." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/10/11, via Media Matters]
For information on critics' concerns about the Alabama immigration law, SEE HERE.
National Security And Foreign Policy Misinformation
Fox & Friends Claimed That Obama "Would Have Apologized To Japan" For Hiroshima Bombing. During an October 13 discussion of the a WikiLeaks cable regarding a September 2009 visit by Obama to Japan, Doocy claimed that "[w]e would have apologized to Japan" for the bombing of Hiroshima and that "apparently the United States is not waiting for Japan to apologize for us for bombing us at Pearl Harbor or the Bataan death march." At the end of the segment, Doocy acknowledged that the White House said there was never a plan for the president to apologize to Hiroshima. On October 14, Fox & Friends issued a "clarification" to its October 13 segment, with Doocy saying: "We want to be very clear. There was never a plan for President Obama to apologize to Japan." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/13/11, via Media Matters; Fox & Friends, 10/14/11, via Media Matters]
For the truth about Obama's "apology" to Japan, SEE HERE.
Doocy Claimed Obama Was The "First President" To "Suggest" 1967 Israeli Borders. Following Obama's call to create an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 Israeli borders "with mutually agreed swaps," Doocy claimed that Obama was "the first American president to do just that, to suggest that." From Fox & Friends:
DOOCY: Now, here's why a lot of critics of the president say you've got to be kidding us. That essentially, what he's saying is for Israel and Palestine to determine their borders based on what things were like back in 1967 -- that's what the Palestinians have been asking for all along. He is the first American president to do just that, to suggest that. We've got some graphics to show you what it would mean. First of all, this shows you what Israel looks like right now. OK? Well, under the Obama plan, which he is suggesting that they implement, as you could see right there, it would go back to the 1967 days where they would be combined, but the problem is if you combine, and Charles Krauthammer talks a little bit about this in one of his columns today, if you were to combine Gaza with the West Bank and the president talked about it being contiguous, you would probably have to split Israel in two. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/20/11 via Media Matters]
In fact, Obama's comments about pre-1967 borders are in line with President Bush's. For more, SEE HERE.
Doocy Suggested Bin Laden Might Not Have Been Killed Because Photos Of The Body Were Not Released. On the May 2 edition of Fox & Friends, during a "Radio Rumble" segment debating whether the Obama administration should release photos of Osama bin Laden's body, Doocy stated that people who deny that bin Laden was killed won't "believe DNA" because "that's just numbers on a piece of paper." From Fox & Friends:
ELLEN RATNER (radio host): I think the liberals have transparency. I think the DNA evidence is pretty clear. I think, you know, you don't even hear --
CHUCK BOOMS (radio host): What DNA evidence?
RATNER: You do not even hear --
DOOCY: Yeah, but they're not going to believe DNA -- that's just numbers on a piece of paper, Ellen.
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/3/11, via Media Matters]
LGBT Attacks
Bolling Hosted Larry Schweikart To Attack LGBT History Bill. On the July 8 edition of Fox & Friends, guest co-host Eric Bolling hosted Larry Schweikart to attack a California law that would require schools to teach about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans throughout history. During the segment, Schweikart compared the gay community to the "association for polygamists." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/8/11, via Media Matters]
Kilmeade: "Should Public School Teachers Be Ordered To Tell Their Students Why It's OK To Be Gay?" On the April 19 edition of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade teased an upcoming segment about the California bill by saying, "Should public school teachers be ordered to tell their students why it's OK to be gay?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/19/11, via Media Matters]
Doocy Responded To CA Bill By Urging Parents To "Homeschool." On the April 19 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts discussed the California LGBT history bill with Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson. While talking about the provisions of the bill, Doocy said parents should "homeschool" to avoid allowing their children to learn about the contributions of LGBT Americans. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/19/11, via Media Matters]
Fox & Friends Jokes Chaz Bono's Knee Is "The One Part Of [Him] That Hasn't Been Operated On." On the September 27 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts reacted to transgender Dancing With The Stars contestant Chaz Bono's reported knee pain by joking it's "the one part of [him] that hasn't been operated on." From Fox & Friends:
CARLSON: Chaz Bono dropped to last place -- uh oh -- with a score of 17 points.
KILMEADE: Well, it turns out that a knee injury is giving Chaz trouble. With more on that, Steve, can you tell us more?
DOOCY: Uh, no, I can't. Thank you very much for that update.
CARLSON: Let's talk about the Senate instead, why don't we. That might take too long to explain to Steve, Brian, and the rest of the world. Anyway, the Senate has approved--
KILMEADE: The one part of Chaz that hasn't been operated on.
CARLSON: Yeah, OK. Like I said, let's leave it there.
DOOCY: So far. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/27/11, via Equality Matters]
Attacks On Muslims
Fox's Morris Used Fox & Friends Appearance to Promote Anti-Muslim Petition. On the August 31 edition of Fox & Friends, at the end of a discussion about the impact a vice presidential candidate could have on the GOP primary, Fox News contributor Dick Morris claimed that "the group that is pushing for the 9-11 mosque, two blocks from the Trade Center site, is now asking for federal funds." Morris mentioned a petition that would have prevented Park51 from using those funds "to help lower Manhattan recover" and provided a link to the petition on his website, asking viewers to "please click on it and sign up." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/31/11, via Media Matters]
Fox & Friends Promoted Peter King's Anti-Muslim Hearings. Fox & Friends hosts and guests aggressively promoted Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) hearings on "the extent of the radicalization of American Muslims." On March 7, Doocy claimed that "Peter King has a good point. If people are being radicalized in mosques in the United States, why not find out about it?" Later on the March 7 show, Carlson said, "I don't really understand why there would be backlash [to the hearings]." [Media Matters, 3/8/11]
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Four students at St. Charles Preparatory School were named as 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists.
Four students at St. Charles Preparatory School were named as 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists.
They are: Tyler McMaken, son of Joanne and Phillip McMacken of Grove City; Ryan Meder, son Tim and Kristin Meder of Westerville; Sean Prendergast, son of Michael and Tracy Prendergast of Pataskala; and Alexander Ward, son of Thomas Ward and Susan Oakes, both of Columbus.
These students qualified for the National Merit Scholarship program based on their scores on the Pre-Scholastic Aptitude/National Merit Qualifying Test they took last year as juniors. Of the more than 1.5 million students took the test, only 16,000 were named semifinalists. They are now competing with students nationwide for National Merit Scholarships totaling more than $35 million.
McMaken is a member of the St. Charles Jazz Band, In the Know Team, Engineering Team and the National Honor Society. He plays the organ for St. Charles liturgies, the piano at nursing homes and volunteered at COSI presenting science shows and demonstrations for four years. He plans to pursue degrees in physics and mathematics and minor in music. He plans to apply to Northwestern University, MIT and Cornell University.
Meder is an editor for the school's student newspaper, the Carolian, in addition to participating as a member of the Engineering Team and the National Honor Society. He has volunteered at the Westerville Area Resource Ministry, St. Lawrence Haven food pantry and as a tutor at All-Saints Academy. He plans to study chemical or biomedical engineering and is looking to attend either the University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University; Case Western Reserve University or the University of Dayton.
Prendergast is a member of the Engineering Team, plays CYO basketball and is on the school's cross country and track and field teams. He has volunteered at the Muscular Dystrophy summer camp and at the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. He plans to study biology or chemistry and is applying to the United States Air Force Academy, the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Alabama.
Ward is a member of the National Honor Society and a four-year member of the school's hockey team which elected him its 2012-2013 MVP. He has plans to study chemistry in college at an undergraduate level and eventually become an orthopedic surgeon. Ward is applying to Ohio State University, Cornell University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and Boston College.


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January 14, 2009 by: Susan Goldsmith
One of the best reasons to get out of bed at our Washington State Bed and Breakfast is the breakfast! We present a multi-course meal using local and creative ingredients. Bill's egg entrees highlight our local chanterelle, lobster, hedgehog, oyster or porcini mushrooms. We serve over 20 varieties of local, wild mushrooms each year. We use smoked salmon, sturgeon and albacore caught by local fishermen from the Pacific and oysters from local Willapa and Shoalwater Bays. The homefries are seasoned with herbs from our garden.
We have sweet and savory dishes every morning, including pancakes with triple ginger and pumpkin, baked french toast with blueberries and waffles with lemon chiffon.
We start our unique dining experience every morning with fresh fruit entrees. It is a refreshing way to start the meal, as well as your whole day! An example of how you might start breakfast while in Long Beach Washington: a chilled four-berry soup topped with folded cream and chocolate mint from the garden. Wow! This Washington Bed and Breakfast also bakes their own pastries in the morning, using delicious and gourmet ingredients like pecans, macadamia nuts, and local cranberries.
Of course, no breakfast is complete without fresh, smooth and organic coffee. We also have lots of teas and hot cocoa!
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This design document covers a superset of the clojure.xml schema.
All metadata are optional, parsers SHOULD provide them and serializers MAY leverage it: metadata is not required to be kept in sync with their data so it's up to the serializers heuristics to use or ignore them.
A namespace aware XML parser produces a datastructure following these representations, this representation is designed as a superset of the clojure.xml representation:
^{::xml/ns {"" "http://..."
A map with keys: :tag (local name keywordized), :attrs (attribute map), :content (nil, sequence, sequential collection of nodes), :uri (namespace URI as string).
Metadata: under the ::xml/ns key, a map of prefixes (strings) to URIs (strings), under the ::xml/prefix a string of the original prefix.
(where xml is an alias for data.xml)
^{::xml/ns {"" "http://..."
A map entry whose key is either a keyword (no prefix) or a [:kw "uri"] pair; the value is a string.
In the case of [:kw "uri"] keys, ::xml/prefix SHOULD be present
the uri MUST NOT be nil or the empty string
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{:comment "text"}
Default serialization strategy suggestion
The default serialization strategy is conservative.
When serializing an element: add missing namespaces declarations.
For each name (elements or attributes name):
- If the ::xml/prefix matches the :uri then use it,
- if the uri is mapped to another alias, use it, (Should we rather map the url to the new alias?)
- if the uri is not mapped then map it under the specified alias (if present) or a gensymed alias.
For elements:
emit xmlns and xmlns:* attributes for new mappings (generated by attributes serialization and by new entries under the ::xml/ns key – new when compared to the state maintained by the serializer).
Custom serialization strategies
To please broken consumers, XML serialization has to be tweaked. It may be interesting to have emit or *xml-emitter* or somethieng to be a dynamic var.
Less than half-baked idea:
Defining a full serializer is tiresome so it may be interesting to provide a factory.
All serialization quirks can't be solved by emitters produced by such a factory but if it covers a good chunk it may be worthy.
There must be a better abstraction.
Apr 21, 2013
In case someone would like to see some of the discussion that led to this proposal: https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/label%3Aclojure-dev+xml+namespace/133d1336770e59c5
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A better link is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/clojure-dev/3_jkBrdQKgs/dUwtevWqlwkJ
Is there a clojure xml lib around implementing the proposed schema?
As I'm trying to implement this, I'm having second thoughts about the direction of the mapping: it's important to preverse that one url is mapped to several prefixes but using prefixes as keys makes serialization inconvenient.
So I propose to have a map of uris to sets of prefixes.
A map of urls to stes of prefixes is in the good direction when emitting (and it's the only moment where we care about mapping) while still allowing to check cheaply if a namespace and a uri are mapped together.


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The Letus35 Talon Kit 4 for Canon 1DmkIV (Carbon Fiber) includes the Letus Hawk Viewfinder and the standard Talon Quick Release Baseplate, which consists of the Hawk camera plate, Ratcheting Thumb Screws, and a Ported Baseplate for Rear 15mm Rod Extensions, and a pair of Stainless Steel Telescoping Rods with extended base system. Equipped with a Talon baseplate that facilitates quick attaching and releasing of the Hawk Viewfinder from your camera, the Starter Kit allows you to easily switch between video and still camera modes when using HD movie-capable DSLR cameras.
With 3 lenses in 2 groups to minimize pincushion distortion, the Letus Hawk Viewfinder reproduces flat images with no warping or sharpness loss on the edges of the image frame. For durability, the included lenses are contained in a precision-milled aluminum housing. The 2.75x view factor of the Hawk lets you effortlessly see the complete frame at one glance. Meanwhile the viewfinder offers +1.5 to -2.5 diopter correction with a rotatable eyepiece, for near and far sighted users. Made of carbon fiber, the viewfinder shroud is lightweight, strong, and durable.Anti-fogging coating eliminates the need for wiping the viewfinder as well as assures high color fidelity.
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Thrice The Brinded Cat
Boccob is the god of magic, arcane knowledge, balance, and foresight. He is known as the Uncaring, the Lord of All Magic, and the Archmage of the Deities. All times and places are open to him, and he has visited many alternate realities and planes unknown to the wisest of sages, places even the Elder Evils avoid. His symbol is an eye in a pentagram; usually this is worn as an amulet.
Boccob is usually portrayed as a middle aged man with white hair who wears purple robes decorated with golden runes. He is described as carrying the very first staff of the magi with him at all times. In addition, he knows every spell ever created and can travel to any time and dimension. He is the possessor of the only magical library that contains a copy of every potion, spell, and magic item in existence.
Boccob is served by the mad demigod, Zagyg, whom he sponsored into godhood. He is allied with Delleb. The Archmage of the Deities is opposed to Tharizdun, who he believes is slowly draining magic from the Oerth.
Boccob's realm is known as the Library of Lore. This imposing citadel sits atop a barren bluff in the Outlands. Those who would access the library and its knowledge must climb a single narrow stair guarded by four elder elementals, one of each of the cardinal types.
The walls themselves are proof against teleportation and astral meddling, and those who try find themselves at the base of the great stair. Within the walls of the library, spells that access other planes do not function. The library is a convoluted mazework of passages that cross beneath and occasionally through each other, leaving no mark of their passage but foiling the most diligent of mapmakers. Within this structure are private meditation cells for spellcasters, sealed armories of magic items, and both true and false libraries that contain much of the magical and mundane knowledge of the multiverse. Those granted access to a true library (done with the approval of Boccob himself) can find the answer to any questions as if a commune spell were cast. One hour of research is required for each question answered. The Library of Lore contains a copy of every nonartifact magic item created by mortal hands. They are sealed beneath magical wards and traps, and golems and shield guardians patrol the halls. Souls who worshiped Boccob in life may peer over their patron's shoulders, catching glimpses of the secrets of the multiverse.
Boccob is a greater power, and as such the effects of his realm can be felt far beyond the walls of his library. Within this area he can limit magic of many types at will. In addition, much magic is enhanced in Boccob's realm. Divinations cast within the domain are extended, and all spells within the Library of Lore itself may be cast without verbal utterances. He has the power to further modify the magic trait of his realm.
The souls of Boccob's worshipers appear as they did in life and have abilities typical to Outlandish petitioners. In addition, they have the ability to know the motivations of others and they often use this ability to determine whether a visitor deserves to receive the information desired. Petitioners are usually librarians, scribes, researchers, inventors, or guides.
Boccob's dogma emphasises neutrality above good, evil, law or chaos, and holds magic to be the most important thing that there is.16
Boccob teaches that magic is the most important force in the cosmos, and that balance between Law and Chaos, and between Good and Evil, should be preserved. Magic, according to Boccobite dogma, is an energy source of finite extant, and may eventually wane. Boccob promotes the research and creation of new spells and magical items, under the theory that this increases the amount of magic available to everyone.
His scriptures state:
- Seek balance above good, evil, law or chaos. Fight to push back the encroachment of good just as you would the oppression of evil. Magic is the most important thing on Oerth, and it must be preserved so that the balance can be preserved.
- The Uncaring's Will. Divided into five chapters and twenty-five subchapters, this is the core text of Boccob the Uncaring's faith. It is a collection of sermons and prophecies discussing the origins of the faith, epistles from early members of the religion, commands from Boccob himself, and obscure predictions of the future.
- Words of the Prophets. This is literally a collection of prophecies of all sorts, many of them of doubtful veracity. Acolytes of Boccob study them as much to learn divination's limitations as its successes.
- The Rare Water. Considered a heresy by some Boccobites, The Rare Water claims that each spell cast forever diminishes the amount of magic in the multiverse. Those who trust this book therefore seek to use magic as little as possible. The mainstream church of Boccob teaches that the use of and creation of magic actually replenishes the amount of magic available.
Boccob's followers include wizards, sorcerers and sages. Boccob seems not to care whether he is worshiped or not. Nonetheless, he receives devotion from oracles, sages, and seers, and many wizards and archmages consider him their patron. He is known to every culture.
Boccob's clergy are described as echoing his detached stance on worldly affairs, and instead look towards different pursuits such as magical research and the creation of magical items.
Boccob's clerics are usually neutral, though a small minority are chaotic neutral. Some are lawful neutral, neutral evil, or neutral good. The church does not actively encourage others to study magic, but neither does it discourage them; its primarily concern is balance.
Boccob's temples are described as being fortified structures with vast libraries, and are usually sited in urban locations. Boccob's temples are generally tall, round towers, although the one in Greyhawk City is a pyramid. The evangelistic patriarch Riggby ran a cathedral dedicated to Boccob in Verbobonc. Some temples of Boccob are guarded by pious templars who combine arcane magic with martial training. Services performed by Boccob's temples include the identification of magical items and other divination spells.
Boccob is honored with magical research and experimentation, with the burning of incense, the reading from books of arcane lore. Each creation of a new spell or magic item is celebrated (usually once a year, in the holiday known as Great Discovery). High-level followers of Boccob make pilgrimages to other planes of existence.
Prayers to Boccob utilize florid and elaborate language, signifying great erudition, labored formality, and a robust vocabulary.
Boccob's Holy days are:
- Celestial Conjunctions. As many clerics of Boccob are astrologers, profound conjunctions of the stars, moons, and Wanderers are observed by the church with the uttering of prophecies and other various complex ceremonies.
- Great Discovery. Celebrated early in the year, this holiday honors the magical discoveries made in the previous year. Every five years, the holiday is expanded to include testing for magical talent and expeditions to rediscover lost lore.
- The Last Rite of the Prophet. When a powerful cleric or other devotee of Boccob dies, a somber eulogy is held (as was done for Riggby recently). In addition, some of the magical power is drawn from the corpse to empower a magic item.
Artifacts and associated magic items
- The Rod of Reversal looks like a length of unbending steel chain. It reflects spells cast on its wielder.
- Boccob's Blessed Book is a thousand-page tome that allows spells to be inscribed into it without the usual costs.
- The Tome of Ancient Lore was allegedly written by Boccob himself and stolen from his Library of Lore. It is said to contain every spell that will ever be conceived, but the index is deliberately difficult to use.
- Darvax's Staff was owned by an Oeridian wizard at the Great Kingdom's height. Darvax disappeared on his 40th birthday on an expedition to other planes of existence, but his staff – carved from the thighbone of a black dragon and topped with an adamantine symbol of Boccob – is occasionally seen in the Flanaess to this day.
- The Razor Bands of the Archmage is a steel orb that rotates around its owner's head like an ioun stone. It can be ordered to attack like the Iron Bands of Bilarro.
- The Sphere of Time Scrying is a blue-hued crystal ball that seems to have been made using the wizardry of the ancient Suloise. It can be used to divine the past.
Boccob and the Demon Prince:
According to this myth, Boccob once outwitted and bound a mighty demon prince for a thousand years (the identity of this prince varies from tale to tale, but most believe that it was Fraz-Urb'luu and that Zagyg used this to impress Boccob to ascend to divinity), using the enslaved demon to counter the plans of a celestial paragon. This myth teaches the importance of the Balance, and how planning and knowledge can be used to overcome a more powerful foe.
The Wizard and the Spellfountain
Once upon a time, a wizard came across a fount of powerful oerth-magic. He used it greedily, however, sharing it with no one, and eventually its reservoir ran "dry." The moral of the story is that sources of magical power last longer if more people use it, each distinct spell pattern adding to the reservoir of energy. Magic must be used and shared, not hoarded.
The Lost Spell and the End of Magic
Not so much a myth as a prediction, this story foretells the end of all magic on Oerth. In the myth, a great spell exists that can prevent this calamity, but it is not found in time due to the laziness and shortsightedness of wizards. The story-prophecy is retold often to encourage scholars of magic to keep up with their research.


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text: Thanks to your reply. The reason I use such old source code for SAA7130/4 is I cannot find any newer SAA7130/4 driver for LINUX kernel 2.4. After I checked the changelog from the CVS server of linuxtv.org, I found that SAA7130/4 driver is first ported to LINUX kernel 2.6, and I cannot found any clue the driver will backport to LINUX kernel 2.4 .... But I have tired my driver, since the TS is captured when application request, the performance is quite bad, so I consider to reference to LINUX kernel 2.6, to create a kernel thread to do such capture, but I found that it is difficult for me ... Anyway, thanks for your help Best regards, Lo Chun Chung -----Original Message----- From: Hartmut Hackmann [mailto:hartmut.hackmann at t-online.de] Sent: Friday, 18 August, 2006 5:42 AM To: Chun Chung Lo Cc: linux-dvb at linuxtv.org Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Question about Frontend performance (TDA10046 + TD1316) Hi Chun Chung Lo wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply. > > As the STB is operating under linux kernel 2.4 (powerpc), so my driver > is composed by several versions of DVB-T codes: > > For SAA7130/4 driver, I used the source codes from > http://www.linuxtv.org/download/kfir/mpex.tar.gz > From a quick glance, this code looks very old. You should be more lucky when you search the linuxtv.org download archive for the last version that compiles with kernel 2.4. Does anybody know by heart which one this is? > For the driver of TDA10046 + TD1316, I used the codes from linux > kernel 220.127.116.11. > This is ok. > I know the SAA7130/4 driver is old, but the main problem is I do not > know how to back port the video-buf-dvb.c (SAA7130/4 DMA buffer > handling functions)from linux kernel 2.6 to linux kernel 2.4 (mainly > due to the "kthread_run()", "kthread_create()" stuff) as I am a newbie > on driver porting. > Indeed, this might be difficult. But if you stick to the old version, you really should compare the code with the recent version. You need to port several bug fixes, especially the ts buffer handling bug and most probably the fixes in the I2c driver. > As the TS capture of the SAA7130/4 driver is not done by kernel > thread, it consumes lots of resources and the performance is not so > good during I capture TS. > > Are there any suggestion to me? > > Thanks for your kindly help. > > Best regards, > Lo Chun Chung > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hartmut Hackmann [mailto:hartmut.hackmann at t-online.de] > Sent: Thursday, 17 August, 2006 5:50 AM > To: Chun Chung Lo > Cc: linux-dvb at linuxtv.org > Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Question about Frontend performance (TDA10046 > + > TD1316) > > > Hi, > > Chun Chung Lo wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I am now working on a DVB-T STB projects. SAA7130HL + TDA10046A + >>TD1316 is used. >> >>Previously I have made some tests on our STB. The TDA10046 + TD1316 >>status are monitored during all the tests performed, by using the >>'tzap' utilities (bundled in linuxtv-dvb-app-1.1.1) >> >>Different degrees of corrupted TS is captured (a TS-to-PES software is > > >>used to runtime convert the catpured TS to a normal mpeg2 movie). >> >>There are different fields can be monitored by using 'tzap', such as >>Signal Strength, SNR, BER, UNC, etc ... And I would like to know the >>following things: >> >>1. All tests has a zero UNC, but a little BER is recorded (about 120 >>out of 128K). Will this is the main reason of the corrupted TS? >> > > I can't tell right now how these values are scaled. UNC stands for > uncorrected blocks while BER stands for the raw bit error rate. > > >>2. When BER > 0, is this means there exists some corrupted TS packets? > > >>If no, what does BER > 0 means (under this circumstance)? >> > > It depends on the DVB configuration, but to my experience in Germany, > you are fine as long as BER is less than ~4500 (and UNC is 0) > > >>3. When UNC or BER (or both) > 0, will this means the discontinuity of > > >>the TS stream? > > > yes. > >>4. Or the corruption of the captured TS is due to insufficient >>processing speed of the driver? (DMA? Buffers processing?) >> > > There was a bug in the transport stream capture (saa7134-ts.c) i fixed > 11 months ago. If your driver is older, you need to update it. > Processor load is low if you just capture the stream. But a problem > might be that IDE DMA is not working properly on your system. This > might cause high latencies in the kernel and thus data loss. > > >>5. Will the TS stream BW (or other settings) affect the capture >>performance? (I do not know but I have tried Test A and B several >>times and the result are quite coherent, as stated above). >> > > If you use wrong parameters for the channel decoder, it will not lock > in most cases. But what about the code for the TD1316? Where does this > come from? do you have a TD3116A or do you use some seperate IF > amplifier? > > >>Please help and thank you for your attention. >> >>Best regards, >>Lo Chun Chung >> > > Hope this helps > > Hartmut > > This message (including any attachments) is for the named > addressee(s)'s use only. It may contain sensitive, confidential, > private proprietary or legally privileged information intended for a > specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are > not the intended recipient, please immediately delete it and all > copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and > notify the sender. 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Right-Wing Media Side With Pro-Romney Forces In Wash. Post's Internal Bain Capital Dispute
Right-wing media are touting a Washington Post Fact Checker article alleging that the Obama campaign "failed to make its case" in a new ad claiming that Romney "shipped jobs" overseas. But a different Post article pointing to data from the Securities and Exchange Commission has affirmed that Bain Capital, with Romney as head, "owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas."
Wash. Post: Romney-Managed Bain Capital Owned Companies That Outsourced U.S. Jobs Overseas
Wash. Post: Bain Capital "Owned Companies That Were Pioneers In The Practice Of Shipping Work From The United States To Overseas Call Centers And Factories." From a June 21 Washington Post article:
During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bain's foray into outsourcing began in 1993 when the private equity firm took a stake in Corporate Software Inc., or CSI, after helping to finance a $93 million buyout of the firm. CSI, which catered to technology companies like Microsoft, provided a range of services including outsourcing of customer support. Initially, CSI employed U.S. workers to provide these services but by the mid-1990s was setting up call centers outside the country.
Two years after Bain invested in the firm, CSI merged with another enterprise to form a new company called Stream International Inc. Stream immediately became active in the growing field of overseas calls centers. Bain was initially a minority shareholder in Stream and was active in running the company, providing "general executive and management services," according to SEC filings.
By 1997, Stream was running three tech-support call centers in Europe and was part of a call center joint venture in Japan, an SEC filing shows. "The Company believes that the trend toward outsourcing technical support occurring in the U.S. is also occurring in international markets," the SEC filing said.
In addition to taking an interest in companies that specialized in outsourcing services, Bain also invested in firms that moved or expanded their own operations outside of the United States. [The Washington Post, 6/21/12 [1]]
Previous Wash. Post "Fact Check" Called Similar Obama Campaign Claim "Untrue"
Obama Campaign Ad: At Bain Capital, Romney "Shipped Jobs To China And Mexico." Anew ad from the Obama campaign accused Romney of outsourcing jobs overseas during his time at Bain Capital. From the Obama For America ad:
VOICEOVER: Running for governor, Mitt Romney campaigned as a job creator. ... But as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to China and Mexico. As governor, he did the same thing: outsourcing state jobs to India. [YouTube, 6/20/12 [2]]
Wash. Post'sGlennKessler: "The Obama Campaign Fails To Make Its Case." The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler wrote a blog on June 21 that gave the Obama campaign ad "Four Pinocchios," writing:
The Obama campaign fails to make its case. On just about every level, this ad is misleading, unfair and untrue, from the use of "corporate raider" to its examples of alleged outsourcing. Simply repeating the same debunked claims won't make them any more correct. [The Washington Post, The Fact Checker, 6/21/12 [3]]
Right-Wing Media Hyped Wash. Post Article Criticizing Obama Ad
Fox Nation: "WaPo's Fact Checker Slaps Obama Ad With 4 Pinocchios." In a June 21 post linking to Kessler's article, Fox Nation posted a video of the Obama campaign ad and titled the post: "WaPo's fact Checker slaps Obama Ad with 4 Pinocchios." [Fox Nation, 6/21/12 [4]]
HotAir: "Four Pinocchios To Team Obama For 'Corporate Raider' Slur." From a June 21 post on Ed Morrissey's blog, HotAir:
One would think that Team Obama would have learned a lesson from its previous attempt to demonize private equity, which flopped so badly that even its own surrogates defended Mitt Romney's "sterling business career." Instead, the Obama campaign shifted its attack slightly and called Romney a "corporate raider." Apparently, everything Barack Obama and his team know about the investment community they learned from Wall Street, and every private-equity executive is simply Gordon Gekko in better attire. Glenn Kessler rips the charge in his latest fact-check at the Washington Post [HotAir, 6/21/12 [5]]
TheBlaze: "Four Pinocchios: Washington Post Savages Team Obama's Latest Anti-Romney Ad." From a June 21 post on TheBlaze:
Because the previous attacks on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's business record have been, you know, so successful, team Obama has decided to combine all of their anti-Romney/business talking points into one 30-second ad:
The only problem with this commercial is that it's pretty much false. Even the Washington Post (the Washington Post!) gave it a big, fat "F" for being misleading and dishonest. [TheBlaze, 6/21/12 [6]]
Newsmax: "Washington Post: 4 Pinocchios for Obama's Newest Anti-Romney Ad." From a June 21 post by Newsmax:
A new anti-Romney ad put out by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is being slammed for being "misleading, unfair, and untrue." The Washington Post's fact checker awarded it four Pinocchios, designating the ads claims as "whoppers."
The new ad claims that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was a "corporate raider" who sent jobs overseas to China and Mexico when at Bain Capital and sent state jobs to India when he served as governor of Massachusetts.
The Post noted that the claims of outsourcing by Bain and Romney when he was governor are "overblown." [Newsmax, 6/21/12 [7]]
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text: On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Gus Correa wrote: > I am talking about telescoping rails, metal on metal, > no ball-bearing mechanism, > which I think match Bob Drzyzgula description. Truly no ball-bearings? Usually even cheap drawer rails for use in the kitchen have either rollers or bearings. There is sometimes only a single ball bearing in a small cage at the torque/stress point where one rail is pressed against another, but straight metal-on-metal -- well, there is your problem. If they aren't lubed to the point where there is a relatively thick glide-layer of grease, they'll rub. If you overload them, they'll just scrape off the grease. > Visual inspection of the rails didn't show any signs of > them being warped or twisted. > With no load, they work properly. > The rails support a heavy 5U RAID file server. > When loaded, sliding is not smooth. > The telescoping stages don't always move symmetrically, > or as expected (e.g. the inner stage may come > out after the middle stage, etc). Sure. Metal on metal rails with no bearings are going to have to bear all the torque on the corners of the rails. Every time you slide in or out, you gouge the corner -- all the force is exerted by a tiny fraction of the supporting area (unless spread out by grease). The force exerted at the torque points is probably many times the weight of the server -- each -- when the rails are fully extended. Good rails will spread that out on several rollers or a line of bearings, which will also ROLL instead of SCRAPE. So IMO, you're best solution is to buy better rails, at least for your heavy servers. For your nodes it probably doesn't matter. As I said, you pull them in or out maybe once or twice in their lifetime. Who cares if they're sticky, as long as they don't wedge. rgb > > I saw similar problems before, > mostly with telescoping rails on bulky multi-U > RAID servers and heavy rackmount UPSs. > Mind you, I didn't assemble all of those rails. > And to date, I have never used any lubricant on them. > But in the case at hand, I can see no alternative to > a proper lubricant. > > Less often, even the higher quality ball-bearing rails that > support 2U nodes may get a bit hard to move. > However, this may be less of a rail problem than > caused by small asymmetries on the rack mounting holes, I suppose, > as the bottom and top of a node chassis drag along the neighbor > chassis. > > The particular rack I am using is old, > salvaged not from the armed forces, > but from our oceanographic equipment of our old decommissioned ship. > Although the rack is in good shape, it may have larger asymmetries > on the mounting holes than modern racks do. > > Anyway, it's been a lovely and instructive debate, I must say. > Please, advise! > > Many thanks, > Gus Correa > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gustavo Correa > Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University > Palisades, NY, 10964-8000 - USA > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Bob Drzyzgula wrote: >> One thing that Gus didn't explain to us was what sort of >> rails he's talking about. If they are ball-bearing slides, >> or even the kind with small wheels, it is actually kind of >> surprising that they would need any lubrication at all. Is >> it possible that these are just metal-on-metal telescoping >> slides without any sort of sophisticated bearing system? I >> know those can get pretty sticky. In any event I'll >> join those who say a light application of some sort of >> non-volatile grease would be best. Among other issues, >> any oil or aerosol is too likely to get into the general >> environment and on other surfaces in the vicinity of the >> rack, and will likely will not do well after long periods >> of disuse at the modertately warm temperatures and high >> airflow of a machine rack. >> >> I will also especially join those who argue against >> WD-40. To the extent that it acts as a lubricant, this is >> almost a side effect. I think that it used to be that they >> wouldn't even call it a lubricant -- the word certainly >> didn't used to be listed on the can -- but I see from >> their website that they do now use the word "lubricates", >> in number 4 (out of 5) on the list of things that it can >> be used for. The downsides -- especially its volatility >> -- pretty well outweigh its advantages for something >> like this. >> >> --Bob >> >> On 05/02/09 11:49 -0500, Gus Correa wrote: >>> Dear Beowulfers >>> >>> A mundane question: >>> >>> What is the right lubricant for computer rack sliding rails? >>> Silicone, paraffin, graphite, WD-40, machine oil, grease, other? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Gus Correa >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Gustavo Correa >>> Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University >>> Palisades, NY, 10964-8000 - USA >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. 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HIV in the Classroom: Teaching in Response to the Terror of HIV's Early Years
Kimberley Hagen, Ed.D., Shares Stories From a Long Career in HIV Education
February 26, 2013
Before Dr. Kimberley Hagen co-founded the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University in Atlanta -- back when there barely was any HIV research, or HIV education, or anything but fear and ignorance surrounding HIV and those affected by it -- she was a frontline community educator during the darkest days of the epidemic. Now she's an assistant professor of behavioral science and health education at the Rollins School of Public Health -- and she teaches a massive open online course called "AIDS" with more than 10,000 students enrolled. How did her long career begin? She was looking for a poster for her kitchen.
In this amusing, illuminating conversation, Hagen recounts teaching against the terror of the times; facing stigma with humor in the most unusual places; and how she witnessed the ways HIV/AIDS changed the entire profession of infectious disease medicine.
Read about how Hagen teaches HIV nowadays in part two of this conversation.
Read other articles in this spotlight series.
In teaching HIV/AIDS, have you ever experienced any instances of political incorrect, racist, sexist, heterosexist and/or homophobic language? If so, how did you address it?
Oh, yes. To remind you, I started doing this at the beginning of the epidemic. When I first started working as a medical educator, every single room I walked into was full of frightened people. In some people, the fright would turn to anger. It's just how some people deal with their fright, is to get angry.
For example, I was conducting a continuing education program for a group of physicians in a small Georgia town that will remain forever unnamed. It was a dinner meeting, and I was to talk to them about the need to take sex histories from their patients on a routine basis to try and determine if they were at risk for HIV. One of the physicians stopped me in the middle of a sentence and said to me, "Let me get this straight: You want me to talk to my women who are in my OB/GYN practice, the married ladies who come see me, and you want me to ask them about their husbands' sex lives?" And I said, "Yes sir, I do." And he threw his dinner at me. Threw it right at me! Yep, hit a nerve! [laughs] That was a one-off situation because I didn't have a chance to come in and do any preliminary work around HIV. This particular group had been told by their local whatever that they had to start being more aware of HIV patient care. They had to do sex histories, referrals for testing, use infection control. This is how old I am: When I started, nobody was doing infection control, and it was a new idea.
One of my favorite things to do when I would have a training is to start with what I call the "Dirty Words" game. I'd put pieces of paper all around the room and I would put the anatomically correct words for various body parts and sex acts on them and I'd give people markers and say, "Run around the room and put down every euphemism you possibly can." And that would be a good way for people to go from being nervous, scared or not wanting to be there to laughing about it and relaxing and starting to normalize the conversation. It was extremely effective, but sometimes people would bring up racist or sexist or insert-every-"-phobic"-here terms. But, that would be an opportunity where we could talk it through.
Once, when doing that, I was right in the middle when suddenly a camera crew walked in, and the mayor of the little town I was visiting came in. They set up a podium, and she started talking into the camera about what an excellent opportunity this is, that they had brought people from Emory University down to their hospital to talk about HIV/AIDS education because the hospital is committed to providing the most highly compassionate care that they can. The cameras are pointing right at her. Right behind her is the big white piece of paper with the word "PENIS" written on it, and every euphemism in the planet written down below it. [laughs] Right behind her! And, as she's talking, the top two pieces of tape start to come loose and the piece of paper starts to peel away from the wall. And people start laughing, and that begins to get her attention, so she turns around to see what's going on, and without missing a beat, she goes, "Don't you just hate it when that happens?" [laughs]
Yes, I had a lot of that. I would walk into classrooms and I would give out index cards and I'd say, "I don't want you to write your name on it. I want you to write down any questions you've got around HIV." Because then, I could answer those questions without asking people to "out" themselves by raising their hands. And a lot of times, the questions wouldn't be questions; they'd be sort of rants. "This is God's judgment on" insert whoever you don't like here. People who are promiscuous! People who are gay! People who are drug users! People who are sex workers! And, they'd say, "I think they should just pack them all up and ship them off to an island!" And I'd say, "Really? What island? Rhode Island?" [laughs] It would have to be a pretty big island!
"The fear was there, but everything was a teaching moment; all of it was a teaching moment."
The fear was there, but everything was a teaching moment; all of it was a teaching moment.
I was with my coworkers at a restaurant and the owner of the restaurant came up to our table and asked us to leave. And we were like, "What? We're not having a food fight." And he said, "Look around, you've managed to chase off all of my other customers!" And we were just talking shop around HIV. And everybody at all the other tables had gotten up and left, just in case they could catch it from our conversation.
We turned that into a teachable moment. We asked the guy if we could have members of our supportive services group bring over educational materials, flyers. What could we do to help? Yeah, we're going to keep coming here. You're right next to where we work! He turned out to be an advocate and friend.
There were things like that all the time. I used to have a problem at parties; the hostesses would hate me. If I was eating my food from the refreshments table, and someone would ask what I did for a living, after I told them, nobody would touch the food at the refreshments table. A lot of times, we dealt with it by trying to diffuse it and deal with it with humor.
The course description for your online class is wonderful; it talks a lot about the divide between people who grew up before the dawn of the AIDS epidemic and those that have grown up since. It got me thinking about how you were teaching in the '80s as a medical educator and now you're teaching university courses in 2013. How have students' reactions to HIV/AIDS changed from when you were teaching in 1986 to now?
When I started as a medical educator here at Emory University, we all thought that we were going to be getting requests to give lectures about infection control and about how you provide patient care, what the new drugs were, etc. But the requests we got from the infectious disease doctors and the internal medicine doctors were all about how they should deal with their grief. How they dealt with how hard it was to provide this care. And it occurred to me that we were at a pivotal moment in medicine, here.
"One of the reasons people who became infectious disease doctors went into medicine was that they really loved to ride in on the white horse, apply their brain cells, figure out what the problem was, judiciously pour antibiotics all over it, and then ride happily off into the sunset with the patients they'd cured."
Doctors self-select. The personality of the person who becomes a pediatrician and the personality of the person who becomes a neurosurgeon: not the same people. They self-select into the area that they want to go into. One of the reasons people who became infectious disease doctors went into medicine was that they really loved to ride in on the white horse, apply their brain cells, figure out what the problem was, judiciously pour antibiotics all over it, and then ride happily off into the sunset with the patients they'd cured. It was the golden era of antibiotics. If you were smart, you liked puzzles, and you had a little bit of a hero complex in you, that was the field you went into -- infectious disease and internal medicine -- because you could cure all your patients.
And then HIV came along. And it didn't matter what you did, no matter what, because in those early days we did not have the drugs we have now, the tests we have now. All we had were people who showed up late-stage, highly symptomatic, and we could do nothing for them. No matter what you did, your patients died. And so, they would turn to me, and other educators like myself, to help them figure out how they were going to deal with this. I gave so many classes about how you process grief.
Now, jump forward to 2012, 2013, and I go and talk to infectious disease and internal medicine doctors -- those are guys who grew up knowing that this is what the deal was. They went to medical school after HIV/AIDS became a routine part of the medical horizon. They're different people than the students that I had in the early years. Their questions are different, their issues are different.
It's the same with the undergraduates. When I first started doing community education, the most common question that I got was, "Can you get this from a mosquito bite?" No one asks that question anymore. Enough years have passed that, if you could get it from a mosquito bite, somebody would've. [laughs] But, the students that I see now, all of them -- except perhaps for non-traditional students -- there aren't any students in the undergraduate schools who were born before HIV. For them, this is just part of the background. They're interested in it almost as a historical artifact, or finding out about this because they have friends who might be infected, or that they're possibly at risk. The divide is very apparent to me, in that the information that people ask me about has changed, and the degree to which people just think this is normal.
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