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Fox Misleads On Consumer Savings From Fuel Economy Standards
Fox News is ignoring the gasoline savings that newly finalized fuel economy standards will provide for consumers in order to hype the cost of new fuel-efficient cars. The standards, which will substantially reduce our dependence on oil, are expected to provide consumers significant savings at the gas pump that will more than offset the sticker price increase.
Fox Ignores Gasoline Savings To Hype Cost Of Fuel Efficient Cars
Fox: Auto Dealers Say Fuel Economy Standards Will "Force Changes That Make Car Prices Soar By $3,000." Fox News did not mention gasoline savings expected from newly finalized fuel economy standards, even as it emphasized the National Automobile Dealers Association's claim that in 2025 the average price of a new car will increase by $3,000. Fox News did not mention the time frame of this increase, and characterized it as a "soar" in prices:
GRETCHEN CARLSON: It may cost you even more now the next time you decide to buy a new car. Auto dealers say new fuel standards just finalized by the Obama administration, will force changes that make car prices soar by $3,000. [Fox News, Fox and Friends, 8/29/12] [National Automobile Dealers Association, accessed 8/29/12 [1]]
But Consumers Will Enjoy Net Savings, According To Several Analyses
Consumer Advocates: Consumers Will Benefit From "Immediate And Substantial" Savings With Five Year Auto Loan. According to an independent analysis by the Consumer Federation of America, the monthly savings at the gas pump would more than offset the increase in monthly payments for a five year auto loan:
Consumer pocketbook savings, enumerated below, for the typical consumer, who purchases a new auto that complies with the 2025 standard, assuming a five year auto loan, will be immediate and substantial (see Exhibit 1).
- Higher fuel economy standards lower the cost of driving from the first month because the reduction in gasoline expenditures is greater than the increase in the monthly payment to cover the cost of fuel saving technology.
- At the end of the auto loan, the consumer will have saved an average of about $800 by purchasing a new car that meets the standard.
- By the tenth year, the vehicle will have generated an average of over $3,000 in savings.
- The resale value of the vehicle is also likely to be much higher. [Consumer Federation of America, January 2012 [2]]
UCS: Consumers Will "Save More Than $8,000 Over The Lifetime Of A New 2025 Vehicle." According to an independent analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists, "When compared to a typical vehicle on the road today, a new car buyer will save more than $8,000 over the lifetime of a new 2025 vehicle even after paying for the more fuel-efficient technology." UCS took into account a 10 percent rebound effect, which the International Energy Agency has found to be reasonable based on a review of the economic literature. [Union of Concerned Scientists, August 2012 [3]] [IEA, August 2005 [4]]
EPA and NHTSA: Consumers' Fuel Savings Eclipse Increase In Sticker Cost Of Car. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the final rule is projected to bring "significant private gains to consumers," mostly due to reduced fuel spending. The report added that these gains "appear to outweigh the costs of the standards, even without counting for externalities," including the health, environmental and energy security costs of oil dependence. From the report:
The National Program [to improve fuel economy] is projected to provide significant savings for consumers due to reduced fuel use. Although the agencies estimate that technologies used to meet the standards will add, on average, about $1,800 to the cost of a new light duty vehicle in MY 2025, consumers who drive their MY 2025 vehicle for its entire lifetime will save, on average, $5,700 to $7,400 (7 and 3 percent discount rates, respectively) in fuel, for a net lifetime savings of $3,400 to $5,000. This estimate assumes gasoline prices of $3.87 per gallon in 2025 with small increases most years throughout the vehicle's lifetime. [NHTSA, 8/28/12 [5]]
NRDC: Industry Groups And Regulators Tend To Overestimate The Costs Of Vehicle Pollution Controls. The chart below, compiled by the Natural Resources Defense Council, shows that regulators have previously overestimated the cost of motor vehicle pollution controls. NRDC said that regulators tend to overestimate costs because "unanticipated technological innovation," sometimes induced by the rules themselves, has "dramatically lowered the actual compliance costs in many instances.
[Natural Resources Defense Council, 2/2/11 [6]; April 2006 [7]]
And Fuel Economy Standards Reduce Our Vulnerability To Price Spikes
Retired Military Officers And Business Leaders: Fuel Economy Standards Are "The Most Important Energy Security Accomplishment In Decades." A report by the Energy Security Leadership Council, a group of retired senior military officers and prominent business leaders, explained that the only way to reduce our vulnerability to supply disruptions and price volatility is to use less oil:
Vehicle fuel-economy standards are the most important energy security accomplishment in decades. They must be supported and continuously improved. In 2010, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized light-duty fuel-economy rules for the period 2012-2016. In 2011, EPA and NHTSA finalized the nation's first-ever medium- and heavy-duty truck rules and proposed an additional rule for light-duty vehicles for the period 2017-2025. Taken together, the rules finalized and being considered by NHTSA and EPA will reduce U.S. demand for gasoline and diesel by 3.7 mbd in 2030 compared to baseline projections. This level of reduction in oil intensity will meaningfully enhance American energy security.
In order to craft an enduring strategy to achieve real and lasting energy security, it is important to understand the nature of the problem. The goal of self-sufficiency in energy supplies misdiagnoses the problem as one characterized largely by import levels. In fact, energy security is almost entirely a function of the importance of oil consumption in the domestic economy--oil dependence--and is not related to the original source of that oil. A nation cannot achieve energy security so long as it is economically beholden to oil, which is priced in a global market. [Energy Security Leadership Council, 2012 [8]]
Christian Science Monitor: "Energy-Security Hawks Favor Vehicles That Can Plug In" And Run On Alternate Fuels. The Christian Science Monitor reported that energy experts criticized presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who opposes fuel economy standards, for not including ways to reduce oil consumption in his energy plan:
[E]ven if Romney's plan were to dramatically increase US oil production, US energy-security experts say it would do little to lower domestic oil prices, which are set by a global oil market controlled by the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries [9] (OPEC).
"Romney makes the same mistake nine previous presidents committed," says Gal Luft, a senior adviser to the United States Energy Security Council, an energy security think tank. "He assumes import reductions will translate into lower oil prices. This paradigm has collapsed. In the past seven years US oil imports dropped from 60 percent of consumption to 42 percent. Yet, over the same period the price of oil doubled and so did the burden of oil imports on the economy. The only thing that can bring down prices is fuel competition and cars that allow it."
Energy-security hawks favor vehicles that can plug in and can run on domestically produced electricity generated from coal, natural gas, wind, and solar power.
"There's some good elements in this plan related to jobs and balance of payments improvements," says R. James Woolsey, former energy adviser to John McCain [10] during his presidential run and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency [11] says. But "they could have curbed OPEC's power simply by requiring vehicles to be able to use more than one fuel."
Others similarly expressed reservations about the plan's claim of energy independence.
"This plan is all about increasing supply and not about reducing demand by eliminating energy waste and by shifting to more abundant fuels," says Reid Detchon, executive director of the Energy Future Coalition [12], a broad-based non-partisan public policy. [Christian Science Monitor, 8/23/12 [13]]
EPA Under Bush Administration: "Fuel Economy Is Directly Related To Energy Security." In a 2004 report on fuel economy trends since 1975, the EPA reported that fuel economy "is directly related to energy security because light-duty vehicles account for approximately 40 percent of all U.S. oil consumption, and much of this oil is imported." [EPA, July 2005 [14]]
Fuel Economy Standards Reduce The U.S. Economy's Vulnerability To Price Spikes. A 2002 report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and environmental groups concluded that "raising CAFE [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] standards is the single biggest step our country can take to curb global warming" and "the most effective way to reduce overall oil dependence." The report further outlined how dependence on oil makes the U.S. economy vulnerable to inevitable oil price spikes, a problem that increased drilling would not ameliorate:
- According to the U.S. Department of Energy, price spikes from 1979 to 1991 cost the U.S. economy about $4 trillion, almost as much as we spent on national defense over the same period. Each price spike in the last three decades was followed by an economic recession.
- Reducing overall oil dependence would minimize the economic impact of price spikes while continuing to save consumers money when prices are stable. Consumers could invest this money in the economy instead of sending it overseas to buy oil. [Alliance to Save Energy, February 2002 [15]]
Fuel Economy Standards Enjoy Wide Support From Voters, Automakers, Consumers
Washington Post Poll: Fuel Economy Standards Supported By Majority Of Every Group Except Tea Party Members. The Washington Post's Greg Sargent noted that a Washington Post/Kaiser poll found 73 percent responded that they supported regulating emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and other sources when asked, "Do you think the federal government should or should not regulate the release of greenhouse gases from sources like power plants, cars and factories in an effort to reduce global warming?" Sargent wrote:
Independents favor regulation by 73-22; even Republicans favor it, 61-35. This gets even more interesting when you break this down into what the Post calls "political party clusters," a more fine-grained way to look at opinion than the usual party I.D. breakdown offers. (This was possible because of the study's unusually large sample size.)
It turns out that literally every ideological group, even within the GOP, favors this sort of regulation in large numbers, except for one: Tea Partyers. [Washington Post, 8/28/12 [16], emphasis added]
Makers Of Over 90% Of U.S.-Sold Vehicles Support The New Standards. ABC News reported: "The standards are also supported by 13 major automakers, which account for more than 90 percent of all vehicles sold in the United States. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, though, said it had 'mixed emotions' about the new standards." The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers released a statement on the day the standards were finalized in support of a "single, national program because conflicting requirements from several regulatory bodies raise costs," but called for a "midterm review" of the standards. [ABC News, 8/28/12 [17]] [Auto Alliance, 8/28/12 [18]]
Global Automakers And United Autoworkers Also Announced Support For The Standards. In a 2011 statement after the White House announced forthcoming 54.5 mpg fuel standards, the Association of Global Automakers, whose members include Honda, Hyundai, Isuzu, Nissan, Subaru, and Toyota, pledged its support. President and CEO Michael J. Stanton said the Association's member companies "accept[ed] the challenge":
"Our members have always endorsed a comprehensive and harmonized national approach to reducing GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions while improving fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks [...] [t]hese standards will be tough to meet but our members accept the challenge." [Global Automakers, 7/29/11 [19]]
In a 2012 public hearing before the NHTSA and EPA, United Auto Workers International Union (UAW) President Bob King voiced the group's "full and strong support for the proposed rules" and called them "sensible, achievable and needed." [EPA, 1/17/12 [20]]
Poll: 79 Percent Of Americans Support Requiring Automakers To Increase Average Fuel Economy To At Least 55 MPG. Consumer Reports further found that most potential car-buyers supported the standards even given a higher upfront cost:
With the federal government expected to finalize new fuel efficiency standards later this year that would require manufacturer's average fuel economy to reach 54.5 miles-per-gallon by 2025, some 90 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statements "Auto manufacturers should offer a greater variety of cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles in the near future." Almost 80 percent felt the same about the statements "Fuel economy standards should require auto manufacturers to increase the overall fleet average to at least 55 miles per gallon," (79%) and "I am willing to pay extra for a more fuel efficient vehicle if I can recover the additional cost through lower fuel costs" (81%). [Consumer Reports, 5/22/12 [21]]
Automotive News Reported That New Fuel Efficient Cars Are Outselling Less Efficient Models. In June, Automotive News reported that more fuel-efficient cars were "cleaning up against older, less fuel-stingy competition":
The changeover to high-mpg models, in all segments, is the key market driver this year. Dealers say it has been the release valve on pent-up demand as fuel prices soared.
"Fuel efficiency continues to be a top purchaser driver," said Ken Czubay, Ford's U.S. sales boss. [Automotive News, 6/11/12 [22]]
Poll: Fuel Economy Is Consumers' Primary Consideration When Buying A Car. A 2012 Consumer Reports survey found that the leading consideration among American consumers when shopping for a new car was fuel economy, with 'quality' a distant second. [Consumer Reports, 5/22/12 [21]]
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MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Whats the report for spirit lake and priest lake
Spirit was good last weekend, nearly limited out. Was 7'' of ice but lots of slush, had 4-5'' of water on top of the ice. Sonar is recommended as there were fish from 15-50' and it varied from minute to minute.
The Maiden Rock Access at the east end of the lake is where most are fishing. You access it by Nautical Loop Rd on the west side of Hwy 41, there is a parking area up the hill from the ramp maybe 75 yards. I put a small dark blue oval where most people have been fishing, if you have sonar it is extremely helpful. We were fishing in 80 feet of water.
Awesome thank u!! Any perch? Or just koke and trout?
Anyone know what the ice is like at Sportman's?
I cant wait for a response; I am ready to try pike fishing again. I am so tired of watching 1 or two guys being successful catching the Kokanee on Spirit Lake while 29 other guys dont get nothing. You would think that if I spend $7.00 on Fire Corn that I could catch one of them. I also dont feel that folks should post up maps to such a tough fishery.
I cant wait for a response; I am ready to try pike fishing again. I am so tired of watching 1 or two guys being successful catching the Kokanee on Spirit Lake while 29 other guys dont get nothing. You would think that if I spend $7.00 on Fire Corn that I could catch one of them. I also dont feel that folks should post up maps to such a tough fishery.
Im going to bite the bullet and finally fish lower twin for kokanee tomorrow been hearing good things about the size of the kokanee
I wonder what the walking conditions are like there. I went to Mirror on Sunday and there was about 6 inches of snow with a hard 1.5'' crust, I broke through every step and then was into 4'' of slush, for an old busted up guy like me it was a tough go.
I just bought a pair of snowshoes just for those conditions. (Atlas Montane Series Snowshoe) On sale $125.May sound like a lot, but used them today in 10 in snow with a layer of slush underneath. Im 62 and pulled my sled behind and it was amazing. Watched another guy struggle to get out in just boots. Its a workout just getting dressed these days but man, best purchase for those conditions. Stayed on top. period.
I have been fishing Spirit for about 40 years and like CMS says if you get a bunch of people out there fishing in the same spot you can hold the school there and everyone benefits. That is why I posted the maps, and it is not a tough fishery it just takes knowing how to hook the fish. Like CMS says you bounce the rod tip a few times and then start raising the rod up and watching the tip, if it acts like the tip is not coming up as fast then set the hook. I took a guy out to Mirror on Sun and gave him an ultra light rod that I had around, he figured out how to see the bite pretty quickly but would loose them about half way up. I finally figured out that the rod was too slow action so he couldn't set the hook solidly enough. Here is a pic of the rig I use with the hooks that CMS tied up. That ''spoon'' is a Deadly Dick but a Kastmater or Sweedish Pimple wil work as well.
. Not gonna argue with a 40 year vet, but if you're having trouble with these more complex methods, don't be afraid to try keeping it simple. If I'm on a school, I catch em on the initial drop off a small Kastmaster almost every drop. Just letting that spoon free fall to their depth, then stop it and wait. If nothing for 20 or so seconds, slow lift (probably one or two in a day grab it on the lift, so might as well go slow just in case) then free fall, wait 20 or seconds, repeat. Maggot on one or two of the trebles. If the fish are there you'll get em. And with the bite directly at the spoon, rather than on a much less weighty drop hook, the takes are much more obvious. You gotta think, with that drop hook, they have to not just grab the hook, but also move that weightier spoon before you see any reaction in your rod. Just catching em directly with the spoon doesn't have that issue.
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by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
The firestorm commenced by the revelation of the execution of a search warrant on the personal email server of my Fox News colleague James Rosen continues to rage, and the conflagration engulfing the First Amendment continues to burn; and it is the Department of Justice itself that is fanning the flames.
As we know from recent headlines, in the spring of 2010, the DOJ submitted an affidavit to a federal judge in Washington, D.C., in which an FBI agent swore under oath that Rosen was involved in a criminal conspiracy to release classified materials, and in the course of that conspiracy, he aided and abetted a State Department vendor in actually releasing them. The precise behavior that the FBI and the DOJ claimed was criminal was Rosen's use of "flattery" and his appeals to the "vanity" of Stephen Wen-Ho Kim, the vendor who had a security clearance. The affidavit persuaded the judge to issue a search warrant for Rosen's personal email accounts that the feds had sought.
The government's theory of the case was that the wording of Rosen's questions to Kim facilitated Kim's release of classified materials, and Rosen therefore bore some of the criminal liability for Kim's answers to Rosen's questions. Kim has since been indicted for the release of classified information (presumably to Rosen), a charge that he vigorously denies. Rosen has not been charged, and the DOJ has said it does not intend to do so.


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The Xperia P is powered by a dual-core 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and will be available in silver, red, and black. An 8.1-megapixel camera makes an appearance on the back along with the smooth aluminum chassis of this device.
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Accidental agents of change
In places where conditions are ripe for political change, actually unseating tyrannical regimes requires a spark to light the tinder of revolution. But where does that spark come from?
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The upcoming World Development Report argues that there is no one push factor. Rather, it shows how a wide range of domestic and international stresses—including economic inequality, political oppression and corruption—can eventually bring a country to its knees if its institutions are unable to mediate tensions and overcome stresses.
But, absent an institutional set-up capable of heading off the pressures before they boil over, when does enough become too much?
Many people are wary and their natural reticence may win out.
I was reading last weekend that most people in the UK pay parking fines—even when they are given erroneously—rather than go through the hassle of complaining.
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Joy is a feeling of exuberant happiness experienced at a particular time. It is referenced frequently in the Old and New Testaments, most notably in Luke 2:10-11:
- "When an angel appeared to shepherds in the Galilean countryside to announce the birth of a Savior, he said, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which shall be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."
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May 07, 2013
LinkedIn recently turned 10 years old. And the Mountain View, Calif.-based social network has much to celebrate.
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn now has 225 million users worldwide, and its share price has nearly doubled since the firm's 2011 IPO. Meanwhile, other highly anticipated social media IPOs have fared rather poorly. Facebook's shares have fallen 40 percent since going public last year, and Zynga's shares have fallen nearly 70 percent since going public at the end of 2011.
Perhaps most important, LinkedIn has transformed itself from a simple professional networking site into the world's most powerful online recruiting tool, which nearly every major U.S. corporation uses and which has more or less spelled the death of the online job board.
Last year, perennial job board leader Monster Worldwide announced that it was looking for a buyer. That followed on the heels of Monster's poor attempt to get into the social recruiting game. In 2011, Monster unveiled BeKnown, a Facebook app that was supposed to compete with LinkedIn and other social media recruiting tools, but instead, by most accounts, has been a complete failure.
Today, LinkedIn, which earns 57 percent of its revenues from its recruiting tools, doesn't seem to be receiving much competition in the recruiting space from Facebook or Twitter, either. In fact, recent research shows that Twitter and Facebook are losing, not gaining ground.
Bullhorn Reach, a social-recruiting software and service provider, recently surveyed more than 160,000 companies that use at least one social media site to recruit new employees. And what Bullhorn found is that 97 percent of these firms use LinkedIn to source new hires, compared to just 27 percent that use Twitter and 22 percent that use Facebook. The research also found that 64 percent of the firms surveyed solely use LinkedIn, while 2 percent only use Facebook and 1 percent only use Twitter (see more data on recruiters' social media use in the graphic below).
According to Bullhorn, LinkedIn generates considerable more job views than Facebook or Twitter, dominating the social recruiting space due to its age, reputation, and user base with respect to jobseekers and recruiters. As for Facebook and Twitter, Bullhorn has this to say (from the summary of its study's findings):
Twitter, while still ahead of Facebook in terms of adoption, isn't yielding impressive dividends. While in last year's report we speculated that Twitter would gain ground from LinkedIn in 2012, that prediction has proven inaccurate. If anything, Twitter lost ground in the past year as a social recruiting resource. [Meanwhile] the real barrier to successful recruiting on Facebook may be an unwillingness to try it and acknowledge that it works differently than other networks. Only 22% of North American recruiters used Facebook in 2012, despite it having one billion active users.
As for what the next 10 years might look like for LinkedIn, the firm's CEO Jeff Weiner was recently interviewed by Wharton Magazine. Weiner, a Wharton grad, had this to say about LinkedIn's long-term strategy:
We actually believe that longer term we're in a position where we can map the global economy. The points on that map would be all of the economic opportunities in the world, full-time and temporary, all of the skills required to obtain those opportunities and all of the companies offering those opportunities. Lastly, we want to overlay on top of that all of the professionally relevant knowledge that is possessed by those individuals. And then we want to allow capital—intellectual capital, working capital and human capital—to flow on that graph to where it can best be leveraged. In doing so, we believe we can take much of the friction out of those traditional flows and help lift the global economy.
In other words, Weiner wants to have Facebook's user base (over a billion) and be the go-to source worldwide when it comes time for a company to hire someone, make a business decision, and/or raise money.
Which, of course, is an incredibly lofty goal. But then again, who predicted that LinkedIn would be where it is today after a just a decade in existence?
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Sen. Jim DeMint's surprise decision to leave the Senate has all eyes focused on Gov. Nikki Haley.
Not only will the first-term governor appoint DeMint's successor, she'll set off dominoes that will reshape the next two years in Palmetto State politics, culminating with two U.S. Senate elections and her own potential reelection bid.
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The driving question is whether Haley selects a caretaker for the seat who would agree not to run for the full six-year term in 2014 — or taps an ally that would help cement her legacy. A spokesman for the governor declined to speculate on a timeline for the decision, but DeMint's resignation will take effect before the next Congress convenes on Jan. 3, leaving a little more than three weeks for a decision.
"Sen. DeMint has tossed an IED into South Carolina politics," said South Carolina GOP consultant Richard Quinn.
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Rep. Tim Scott is seen as the leading contender for the appointment among GOP consultants and officials, largely because of the historical significance. A rock-ribbed conservative 47-year-old African-American from Charleston, Scott would provide diversity and geographic balance. He would also become the first black GOP senator since Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, who was defeated in 1978.
"The obvious choice is Tim Scott," asserted South Carolina Republican strategist Wesley Donehue.
Added another conservative GOP lobbyist, "Scott is head and shoulders above any other possible appointee."
At least one South Carolina political insider believes DeMint has already made it clear he wants Scott to succeed him, and his allies are framing the stakes in no uncertain terms.
"If she doesn't pick him, she isn't only saying no to Tim — one of the most popular Republicans in the state — she is saying no to Jim, the most popular Republican in the state," a DeMint loyalist told POLITICO.
But a spokesman for the departing senator denied he is lobbying for a particular successor.
"Senator DeMint has no favorites as our state has a deep bench of conservatives. This is Governor Haley's decision alone and he trusts her to make a great choice," said Wesley Denton.
The only potential hiccup for Scott could be if he prefers to run for governor and views even a brief stint in the Senate as a drawback. His spokesman did not respond to an inquiry about whether the congressman would accept an appointment if offered.
Other potential candidates include Reps. Jeff Duncan and Mick Mulvaney, Attorney General Alan Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins and state Sen. Tom Davis, who had been contemplating a challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2014.
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Davis suggested Mulvaney — who like Scott, is also entering his second term — as an appointee who would appease the base.
"What I would hope she does is appoint someone who stands for the individual liberty positions that Jim DeMint championed," said Davis in an interview. "I think the person that really stands for those things is someone like Mick Mulvaney. He has the intellect and tenacity to advance those causes. Mick Mulvaney and I have identical positions on everything."


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I'm a fan and user of the Sparrow mail app for Mac. So I was too geeked to learn that the popular Mac app finally made its way to iTunes for the iPhone. So I quickly downloaded the app, and after a couple of days, I can say this will be my go-to way for managing my email inbox.
More ControlEven after setting up the native app to pull in my Gmail/Google Apps email using Microsoft Exchange, I still don't have control over my priority inbox and labels - Features that are available if I were using Google interface. Sparrow now gives me those management features. Additionally, navigating through threaded email messages is as easy as swiping up/down in the message area. Similarly, quickly managing individual messages and jumping between messages, inbox/folder options, and accounts is as easy as swiping from left to right. The latter function is not as smooth as I would like, but after messing with it for a while, I learned the mechanics. If you choose not to mess with the swipes, the old-school method of tapping the navigation tabs is still intact.
Sparrow also gives me quick setup of my email aliases. In other words, I have one main email account, but several email addresses tied to that account. So if I get email via those aliases, I can reply from those aliases versus defaulting to the main email account address. Another little personalization trick that I favor in Sparrow is the ability to control email signatures per accounts. For every account, I can set up its own signature, versus only having one signature option with the native app.
DrawbacksI mentioned using Microsoft Exchange to set up my accounts via the native app. Sparrow doesn't tap into Microsoft Exchange. I am assuming that's the reason why my email hits the native app first before ever appearing on Sparrow.
*Doubles checks delivery options*
I don't even see any delivery options with Sparrow (manual, check every 5, 10, 30 minutes, etc.). So whether it is Microsoft Exchange or the default Sparrow options that I can't access, email hits my native client noticeably faster than Sparrow. Also, it would've been awesome if Sparrow offered push notification support, but I'm assuming either Apple's gatekeepers shut that option down (emphasis on the word assuming), or Sparrow has that feature in the works (more plausible, but less exciting).
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LEBANON, Maine – Firefighters say it took more than two hours to free a skydiver who landed in a tree in Maine.
They say the 28-year-old man from Somerville, Mass., jumped from an airplane from 13,000 feet. After free-falling for 1 1/2 miles, he opened his parachute. When he looked down, he saw a big cloud.
Eli Bolotin at Skydive New England said the man correctly steered around the cloud and chose to land in some trees Thursday afternoon rather than some smaller fields. Bolotin said it's safer.
The skydiver was stuck 50 to 60 feet above ground in Lebanon. Firefighters from nearby Milton and Rochester in New Hampshire provided a ladder and high-angle rescue equipment. They had to cut some branches and climb the tree to get him.
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Hello all. I'm a college grad and a former missionary who once was quite convinced God was real and was helping me. After I got back, as I thought about what I really believed and what I'd experienced, I saw that, while God could be there, I had never seen anything happen differently from what would happen if there was no God. Since then, I spent a lot of time keeping to myself, and not really researching the issue because I was afraid what I would find.
It's been a slow process of reading more atheist blogs, coming to terms with what I really believe, and now posting on a forum for the first time. I want so badly to talk to someone in real life, but everyone I know would try to help me back into the faith. I don't really have many friends and I'm very shy so it's hard to meet people.
I have all these reasons that I say I turned away from my faith -- I've never seen evidence of a god, the bible is illogical and inconsistent, religious people don't seem more moral or more happy than anyone else, prayer doesn't work, what about creationism and biblical anti-gay teaching? But I'm not necessarily happy at getting free, or angry at what I used to believe. I feel like other atheists I've read about who called their deconversion "like getting a painful divorce."I still don't know what I believe. I'm half afraid that if I come out to my real-life friends, all these good reasons will sound dumb when I say them out loud. Most of them really believe in miracles, you know. I'm just looking for some support. I'm in the middle of Iowa about two hours away from the nearest good atheist group, from what I can tell. I want to know that what I'm going through is normal and expected, or hear how others have made it through this same kind of issue.
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We all agree women have the right to choose, that hurting others should be avoided, that evolution is true and that there is no adequate amount of evidence for the supernatural.
Those would be the things I do share with other atheists, even the "Humanist" ones.
@kOrsan - 'It's no surprise when we end up with similar answers and stances on things'.
Oh yeah good answer, and maybe thats why I think theres a pattern or system to it.
@Cara - Our atheism should be a non-issue.
I Know, and your friend has been able to achieve that. Why the heck cant we? - me included ...
@Mike @Milos. Do you guys remember Madalyn Murray O'Hair?
@kOrsan I absolutely agree with all you say. I hope you didn't take what I wrote to mean *I* thought the NAM was juvenile.
However, I have been a little disenchanted lately because of "movements" like A+, and all the infighting. That whole debacle has been the biggest turn-off, and extremely discouraging. For a while, I'd put so much faith in the Skeptic community, thinking they were more capable of critical thought and objectivity. I suppose the lesson is we shouldn't have faith, period, because disappointment is inevitable when dealing with humans. Regardless of how religious or irreligious people are, they can still be guilty of group-think; they can still be too passionately invested in a cause to look at an issue objectively.
Atheism is not a system, and that's what confounds efforts to have a unified mission. Sure, we can agree on some things (like the fact evolution exists, and maybe that religion is harmful), but it becomes difficult to agree on how best to promote teaching evolution or help religion to phase out.
I personally like the method of being kind, productive citizens that undermine misconceptions about those who don't believe there's a god... rather than trying to make sure road-side memorials are taken down, or suing over things like "In God We Trust" being printed on our money. I think Christianity is part of our heritage, in the same way Greek mythology is part of Greece's heritage. It would be a tragedy to deface all religious structures in Greece to prove a point. All the alters and temples there are gorgeous works of art! And, like it or not, Greeks used to worship Zeus (etc), and we shouldn't try to wipe all evidence of that fact off the earth. We can appreciate it without believing it's true.
Anyway... I've run into a lot of atheists that totally disagree with me. Lots. I feel like ya win more flies with honey, but maybe it's not really an effective way to gain human rights. *shrugs*
@ Angela,
My foray into western atheism came in the mid to late 90's, as I lived in Serbia before that. I do remember her, but I never really went out of my way to learn much about her until recently. I was very young when she was heading American Atheist, and not on this continent. :)
Like I said, where I am from, religion was not a big deal. The whole christian right issue we face here was completely alien to me in 1996 when I came to Canada.
I have been atheist my entire life, but until I came here I never really had a reason to argue for my atheism, or to really defend it. In school we were taught evolution in science class, and religion in history, right alongside Zeus and Odin.
I am not as old as Mike, hell he has been atheist 20 years longer than I have been alive! But I can give you a view from two different points. One from someone who has been atheist their entire life (I did entertain the idea of religion when I was younger), and another from someone from a different country and culture living in the west.
What the "New Atheist" movement did for me was point me in the direction of people like Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, and Madalyn Murray O'Hair. They were unknowns to me, and they gave me the opportunity to study up on the effects of religion on the western world and gave me some new arguments that I did not consider.
I did spend a good amount of time studying ancient history; it is one of my favorite topics, and studying mythology is what always pushed those "doubts" out of my mind.
I, too, went through the phase you are in, where you are not sure what you believe but you seriously doubt what you once believed. One thing that always got to me and pushed me off the fence into the "I definitely don't believe in God" camp was the thought that, if the Christian tradition didn't exist and I had never been raised with that worldview, would I even have an inkling that a God might exist? No, probably not. So why hold onto any of it? If there's no independent evidence pointing me in that direction, the only reason I might still believe in a vague notion of a creator God or benevolent father is because it's a vestige of my old belief system, and I've already discarded that belief system as false.
There's another point you might arrive at later, the one where you become unafraid to think of yourself as an atheist (even if you're still hesitant to tell other people). That point, for me, came after reading Sam Harris' The End of Faith. I'm a sucker for philosophy and he's got a philosophy background. That book not only fully convinced me belief was silly, but made me kinda mad about it. Much like you, I didn't feel any anger or ill will regarding my old faith at all (and still don't, for the most part), but this book opened my eyes wider.
I'm surprised how much "reaction" I'm feeling in myself right now. Like force of habit or tradition (or longing for when belief was simpler) is fighting back against me saying out loud (here on the internet, not to people I know) that I'm possibly atheist.
I did order a couple books, I'll have to remember that one. My local public library is really low on atheist resources, although you can easily find books that argue against atheism.
I've been battling with my faith for years. I was exposed to several belief systems/religions to really accept any of them. I felt as though I was in limbo for the better part of my younger years. I am slowly getting back to me and actually thinking about what I truly believe. My brother is a hardcore born again Christian and I wrote him a six page letter letting him know what I thought about the bible and his Jesus. It was the most difficult thing that I've done in my life, but it was liberating. That letter solidified what I had been feeling deep down inside for so many years. I am free.
How did your brother react?
I want to know that too.
My mom said that he was going to reply. I can't wait.
Me too
When I first started losing my faith it felt like Yahweh/Jesus was dying. It was rather frightening. In point of fact, I imagined Yahweh behind me, to the right, waaaaay up, like a big grandpa in a chair cheering me on and he seemed as real to me as any grandpa that cheers you on when you play and stuff. Realizing he wasn't there really was like dealing with a death in the family. I believe that loss of faith requires conscious mourning for healing to occur.


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Mrs. Obama: Seek Out Those With Different Beliefs
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama urged Eastern Kentucky University graduates on Saturday night to reach out to people with different political beliefs, saying the country would benefit from the conversations.
"If you're a Democrat, spend some time talking to a Republican," Mrs. Obama told about 600 education, business and technology graduates at the third and final commencement ceremony of the day. "And if you're a Republican, have a chat with a Democrat. Maybe you'll find some common ground, maybe you won't."
The first lady suggested that they visit senior centers to benefit from the experiences of people with plenty of "life experience under their belts." She also pointed them to religious congregations different than their own, saying they might hear something in a sermon "that stays with you." And she predicted they would learn something if they reached out "with an open mind and an open heart."
"And goodness knows, we need more of that," she said. "Because we know what happens when we only talk to people who think like we do. We just get stuck in our ways."
The first lady received thunderous applause from several thousand people attending the ceremony in a state that voted overwhelmingly against her husband, President Barack Obama, in his two successful runs for the White House.
She exhorted the graduates to apply the same resilience and work ethic they showed in school to their lives beyond campus to cope with life's ups-and-downs.
"How are you going to respond when you don't get that job you had your heart set on?" she said.
To the soon-to-be teachers in the crowd, she urged fortitude when their students don't respond to their lessons — and urged the same fortitude for the business students when their bosses pile work on them.
Those are the times that will "force you to claw and scratch and fight" to endure, she said.
The White House said the first lady was drawn to EKU as part of her initiative to support veterans and military families. EKU has gained national recognition for its efforts to help veterans advance their education, including its Veterans Success Center, which provides one-stop-assistance for advising, counseling and job placement services.
A campus group took potshots at Obama administration policies ahead of Mrs. Obama's visit, handing out fliers bemoaning the challenging job prospects for the new graduates.
"Good luck landing your first job," said the flier from the EKU chapter of Young Americans for Liberty. "Only 47 percent of you will be able to find a job in your preferred field, so I hope you're still on good terms with your parents."


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A Chicago boxer hoping to go pro faced one of the Boston Marathon suspects in the ring in 2009 and beat him to go on to the Golden Gloves finals.
Lamar Fenner's record was 24-0 when he fought Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a national Golden Gloves tournament in Salt Lake City, Utah. Fenner bested him after getting up from an eight-count, but then lost to a boxer from Michigan in the finals. Fenner went on to join Team USA and died last December from natural causes at the age of 29.
Tsarnaev reportedly aspired to compete for the United States in the Olympics and planned to compete in this year's Golden Gloves finals. He was killed during a police chase in the Boston area overnight, and Friday night Boston police said his brother was taken into custody following a massive, day-long manhunt.
In 2009, Tsarnaev was representing Team New England when he entered the ring against Fenner.
Al Silva, the coach in Fenner's corner, remembers Tsarnaev as a strong but unimaginative fighter, while Fenner had an unconventional style and was able to land enough blows to win the bout.
"What happened in that fight was that [Fenner] was really awkward and it took the other fighter [Tsarnaev] almost the whole fight to figure him out," said Silva, 71. "[Tsarnaev] wasn't the type of boxer who had a surprise."
By contrast, Fenner would cross his feet, lean one way and then jab from the other side, a style he developed while wrestling in college.
"[Tsarnaev] couldn't hit Fenner. Fenner would move awkwardly and [Tsarnaev] never expected a punch from that angle," said Silva, who has been coaching fighters for 52 years. "The other kid was sort of one, two, one, two. I remember if he would have connected with a good solid punch he would have knocked Fenner out because he was strong but he was slow."
Silva remembers that when all five judges gave the bout to Fenner, Tsarnaev who appeared upset, seemed to swat toward the referee and quickly got out of the ring.
"He was a little upset when they announced the winner," Silva said. "He just put his hand down like he was pushing somebody away and left."
Fenner had been nervous before the bout. "He would call me everyday and he would tell me who he was fighting," said Mike Joyce, a longtime boxing trainer and manager in Chicago. "He said the guy was Eastern European fighting out of Boston or Lowell."
Fenner told him Tsarnaev "was a typical Olympics stand-up fighter, so I told him to get inside of him," Joyce said. "He did what I told him to do, get inside every one of these guys."
But the decision wasn't without some controversy.
As the Lowell Sun out of Massachusetts reported at the time, "After flooring Fenner with a huge punch that required an eight count, it seemed that Tsarnaev was in control of the whole fight. Yet somehow the judges saw it differently and awarded Fenner the decision, a decision that drew boos from the crowd." Tsarnaev was involved in a boxing club out of Lowell, Mass.
Fenner had boxed while attending Leo Catholic High School, where he won in the junior nationals in 2001. He told the Chicagoist that he hoped to win the Golden Gloves finals, then drop some weight and go professional.
Fenner said he was nervous facing Tsarnaev. "The first fight was the hardest because I was nervous and I didn't really know what was going on," he said. "But really, when I get in the ring, I look at the other person, put my gloves on, see what he's got and then show him what I got."
Joyce, who got to know Fenner when he trained him at Leo, was a pallbearer at his funeral. He said Fenner was to begin a job as a truck driver when he was found dead in his South Side apartment.
Fenner was the son of a Chicago firefighter and a retired banker. A brother said today's news opened old wounds and the family would have no comment.
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Long-missing Colo. Marine buried with full honors
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado family's years of waiting ended Tuesday when they finally buried a fallen Marine who had been missing since a helicopter crash during the rescue of an American ship crew seized by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge in 1975.
Pfc. James Jacques (HAW'-kas) was laid to rest with full military honors at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver on what would have been his 56th birthday.
About 50 Vietnam War veterans holding American flags lined a street in the sprawling hilltop cemetery. Doves were released after three volleys were fired into the air.
"We never lost hope that he would come home, and that day has come," said Delouise Guerra, Jacques' older sister. "Now we all have closure."
Jacques, then 18 years old, was on a helicopter that crashed during the rescue of the cargo ship S.S. Mayaguez (my-ah-GWEZ) crew in May 1975. Of the 26 people aboard the helicopter, 13 were rescued and the other 13 were declared missing, including Jacques.
Jacques was among hundreds of Marines and airmen sent to storm Koh Tang Island, about 60 miles off the coast of Cambodia, to rescue the Mayaguez crew. The helicopter carrying Jacques crashed into the surf off Koh Tang Island amid unexpectedly heavy fire from Cambodian fighters.
All 39 crew Mayaguez members were released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed.
Jacques' identification dog tags were found in 1992, but his remains weren't positively identified until this year, said Air Force Maj. Carie Parker of the Defense Prisoner of War and Missing Personnel Office.
A Cambodian had turned over the remains to a U.S.-Cambodian search team in 2007. Newly available DNA technology allowed researchers to confirm the identity this year.
Guerra got the news in a letter from the Marines that arrived at her Denver home on Aug. 14. Her son Bob was with her.
"I started crying because I knew it was about my brother," she said. "We were crying, we jumped, we hollered."
Guerra, now 71, was 15 when Jacques was born.
"He was a very loving, very caring — well, he was my baby brother," she said. "He was just a really good person."
Jacques grew up in La Junta, a small town about 140 miles southeast of Denver. He joined the Marines in October 1974, shortly after his 18th birthday. His family was apprehensive but didn't try to dissuade him, Guerra said.
"It was something he wanted to do," Guerra said. "He wanted to go and serve his country and do his best."
Jacques died just seven months after enlisting.
Twelve of the 13 missing servicemen are now confirmed to have died, Parker said. She said she could not discuss the 13th because an investigation is ongoing.
The Mayaguez operation is considered the last U.S. military engagement in Southeast Asia after the long and bloody war in Vietnam. The last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam in 1973, and the South Vietnamese capital fell to North Vietnam on April 30, 1975, just two weeks before the Mayaguez engagement.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Whoo-boy, that was weird... Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Whoo-boy, that was weird..." AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2000 1:47 pm I had a nightmare. It's a bit fragmented, but... I was going home with two guys, I don't know who they were. As we entered, one of them remarked that he'd heard rumours that there was an underground (illegal) supermarket that took up the whole 3rd floor in the building I live in. We got on the lift, and suddenly I and the guy that hadn't said anything found ourselves in the elevator shaft, behind the elevator, on the fifth floor. The second guy got off the elevator, and I don't know where he went after that. That was a problem, because I remembered that to get out of the elevator shaft, someone needs to make the lift go down, and then we could get on top of the lift and crawl through the door. (For some reason I've been in that elevator shaft a lot in my dreams recently.) Before I could start to think of a solution to the problem, I found myself at home, suddenly. I was mildly intrigued, seeing as I had no idea how I'd gotten there, but I forgot about it soon. At that point, an old, fragile woman entered the dream. I met her on several occasions, probably in several places. She looked nice enough, a sophisticated, smiling old woman.I think she wanted me to do somethign for her, I don't remember much of that phase. The next clear part is that I'd gotten rid of the woman (I think I remember being relieved about it, so 'getting rid of her' is the right phrase), and was at home, when the doorbell rang. There was a pleasant-looking man in his 50's or 60's at the door with the old woman. The man was a bit gruffy in a fashionable way that somehow spoke of wealthiness, and for some reason he struck me as a chauffeur. He said he'd found the woman at the door downstairs, and that she'd had a heatstroke. She'd requested to be brought to my home. I let her in, and the man left. The next thing I knew, the woman was wearing a huge red robe, sort of like the clothes people in high places in the Church wore in the middle ages. It was an elaborately cut, airy flowing robe that filled the space around her, seeming to live a life all it's own. She also had a red elongated headpiece that had a cross on the front, shaped kind of like a bishop's hat. The dress made her seem stronger and menacing, somehow not quite human. She wanted me to take her home, and she asked me if I was able to spell her address. I thought 'piece of cake', and asked what her address was. She started speaking in some language they speak in India (I was certain it was an Indian language. I don't know why, I didn't understand a thing...) and I noticed I had no hope of spelling what she was saying. I could hardly discern the sounds she was making, it was complete gibberish to me. My mother appeared, and the woman left or dissappeared. I was getting pretty shook up, but I was glad the old woman wasn't there anymore. Then I noticed my cell phone had received a message. It was from a teacher at my school, she was upset about somethinh and complained about 'reckless and irresponsible behaviour' or something. I couldn't really read the message, since my phone started acting up. Words began to appear and dissappear on the screen, one by one. The message they formed was a question: "Is your human companion ready to join the brotherhood?" It was the woman again, and I think by 'human companion' she meant my mother. I panicked and started screaming. I'd realized she was not going to leave me alone, and that she was up to no good. Soon after that I woke up, feeling strangely frightened, and I considered not going to sleep again in case the dream would come back. I didn't want to see what would happen next. After about half an hour I'd calmed down and fell asleep again. It was a different dream, and involved me and some others being chased by some folks, but it wasn't a nightmare, nor was it particularly interesting, so I'll leave that be. I just hope the nightmare isn't one of those recurring dreams. There was something about it... It was too real, and it had the constant feeling of a hidden evil surroinding everything... So, anyone else got any odd ones? I Once had one that didn't end when I woke up , but that's a different story... ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top Lemur-XmemberMember #Joined: 25 Oct 1999Posts: 252Location: Anchorage AK USA Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2000 1:54 pm When I was young....reeeeeal young...4 I think......I dreamt that I was a Fraggle and a Gorg (those big mongoloids) ate me! Scared the living Piss out of me! -- Lemur-X Back to top MongoosememberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 363Location: North Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2000 2:14 pm I dreampt that I pittled in my bed last night. Oh wait, that wasn't a dream .. I can't control my bladder. Back to top JessmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 524Location: united states Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2000 2:53 pm Oh God, I want to analize that dream.... let me get my book out If I knew you better and knew what was going on in your life, I could analize it more accurately but I will still give it a go... I think you feel inferior to somebody or something. I'm trying to figure out what the elevator shaft symbolizes. The old woman and your mother is very odd. Does religion scare you? Are you struggling with morals, beliefs or someone somewhat of an authority figure? A fragile old woman has something to do with growing or changing I think. You have been thinking about getting old perhaps? It's all very creepy to me, especially the part about the old woman speaking in a different language in that outfit. Do you think she was human? Anyway, I'm having a hard time analizing this not knowing anything about you or what's going on etc. :/ Back to top JessmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 524Location: united states Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2000 2:59 pm I forgot to mention my dream. Oh, by the way, I have disturbing, long, realistic dreams like that all the time too. But I dreamt that I discovered I was Donald Trump's daughter and was staying in his house. I felt less than his other children. But I remember he gave me a big wad of money, and I carried it in my pocket and did not spend it. I didn't really want him to think I wanted his money. This relates to when I met my real father I think.... I met him when I was 18. I got kicked out of the place I was staying in not long after I met him and was forced to ask if I could stay with him. It was very awquard. The first day I was there, he took me aside and handed me $500. I don't remember what I did with it... I think my boyfriend spent it on computer shit. Which made me angry........ Back to top imdakingmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 321Location: USA Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2000 10:29 pm WEEEE I love dreams Anyways... hehe, here is the wierdest one I have ever had... And I don't do drugs. Where I used to live, there was a forest where bad ppl would look at pr0n magazines and drink and the like, and anyways, I dreamt, that Midgits, or Munchkins lived in that forest and my mom and dad had gotten kidnapped by them! So being the couragous dude I was me and my brother hopped in the car and drove to the woods and were driving through them, don't know how this is possible.... but anyways, we were, and then the car brokedown and all the munchkins were all around and then we picked up sticks and started hitting them, well these were super midgits, so they were strong, and then I hit mine with my stick, right on his head, and the stick broke! So he grins and me and we start fighting..... and I win, but then my brother is gone, most likely kidnapped by the midgits and I start running through the forest... And that is all I can remember.... Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 4:51 am OK... Jess: The only mildly disturbing thing that has happened recently is that I had an unhappy near-relationship with a girl.. :P We were supposed to meet up, go to a café or whatnot, but she decided to disregard my calls and has done a very thorough job of avoiding me since. Nothing big, and I got over it quite easily. I don't think that has anything to do with this. As for inferiority, I don't think so, at least I don't think I think I'm inferior... :P And aging hasn't been on my mind at all, really... The old woman was a prime example of how looks can deceive. She wasn't exactly human, not in that robe anyhow. She didn't really have to do anything but exist to be menacing. I don't know if my dreams can be analyzed that much. It's like how I get the ideas for my pictures: out of thin air. An image simply appears in my head, that especially happens a lot when I'm trying to sleep. It's a long shot, but maybe the woman was the source... Her question about whether 'my human companion was ready to join the brotherhood' seemed to imply that I was already a member... Religion doesn't frighten me, it is simply not a part of my life. I sometimes find the church and people who preach their religion oppressive, but not frightening. ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top DrBofmemberMember #Joined: 14 Dec 1999Posts: 187Location: nottingham (england) Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 6:11 am my freind has a recurring dream where she is trying to sleep when people wonder into her room and wonder about some one she knows (not always the same person) will guid them around and point at things and say things like "and this is her wardrobe and this is her carpet and this is her lavalamp" ect ect she is compleatly helpless groggy rubbing her eyes and with a ridiculous case of bed hair (she has very curly hair and it's mad at the best of times) she is only anoyed that they have woken her and she cannot get them to go away (though she never leaves her bed) she calls it the Guided tour dream can anyone figure out what thats all about?!?! Phill 'More Waap than a Super Geneticly Modifyed Waap!' Tew Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 6:30 am Maybe she feels some people are too curious about her? ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top Count ZeromemberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 1999Posts: 586Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 7:21 am I could go all freudian on your asses, but I'd rather not. Dreams, dreams... The only one that comes to mind is a dream (nightmare actually) I had thrice (does that count as recurring?) several years ago... It was really simple and short: I find myself in a high place, unable to hang on and I fall. Woke me up everytime and scared the shit out of me. Fun fact: I suffer from a mild case of acrophobia, but can't say wether it has been around before or only after the dream... For a while I thought I'd gotten it totally under control, but was proven wrong when we went filming on a roof ( don't ask ). The dream came back really vividly, but I didn't have the dream again... Enough ranting. Oh, btw. I personally don't believe in Freud's theories about dreams... ------------------ COUNT ZERO INTERRUPT- On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero. Back to top JessmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 524Location: united states Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 8:54 am Freud is a weird mother fucker. That's all I've got to say about him.... I got one of his books out of curiosity. Because I heard so much about his work. But he's got no idea what he's talking about! Back to top AffectedmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1854Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 9:57 am Freud.. Didn't he also say men and women can never be 'just friends', that there is always a sexual undertone? Then again, his experience with women was a bit limited, wasn't it... ------------------ Affected http://affected.cjb.net Back to top MongoosememberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 363Location: North Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2000 10:33 am Freud also has a bunch of theories relating to sons wanting to bone their mothers. I minored in Pyschology a few years ago.. I know all the theories. I'm just bored of it all now. Back to top Count ZeromemberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 1999Posts: 586Location: Helsinki, Finland Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2000 1:12 am Something tells me that it Freud himself who had issues with his mother and women in general... And I think it's safe to say he over-emphasized the meaning/significance of sex in everyday life. Oh, and everything he couldn't prove, he covered by saying "you've repressed it". ------------------ COUNT ZERO INTERRUPT- On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero. Back to top DrBofmemberMember #Joined: 14 Dec 1999Posts: 187Location: nottingham (england) Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 3:33 am hes was jacked up on heroin 24/7 Back to top JessmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 524Location: united states Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 11:04 am yeah.. hahaha. I think the drug of choice then was opium too. Poe took opium, didn't he? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Random Musings All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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6 teens arrested for allegedly posing as Southern California police officers
TEMECULA, Calif. – Authorities say they arrested six teens accused of posing as Southern California police officers and ordering people out of their cars by using megaphones and high-powered flashlights to obscure their real identity.
The teens ordered the victims to lie face down on the pavement and then drove away.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says 18-year-old Mason Gonzalez of Temecula has been arrested as well as three girls and two boys. Authorities said they first received reports of the alleged pranks on Dec. 23.
There were no attempts to harm or rob any of the victims during the incidents.
There was no phone listing for Gonzalez and he couldn't immediately be reached.
Temecula is about 50 miles from San Diego.


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I have seen NOTHING to indicate to me that he's a mean person.
We've all seen comments about Jim being diva-ish, too.
Does that put him in league with Tommy?
We know the world is made up of allsorts...
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Batman Forever
Discuss older Jim Carrey movies.
I have seen NOTHING to indicate to me that he's a mean person.
We've all seen comments about Jim being diva-ish, too.
Does that put him in league with Tommy?
We know the world is made up of allsorts...
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
check it out...............
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/weekend_n ... r=20060318
There are plenty of successful actors and directors who still treat people with the respect they deserve.........there's NO EXCUSE for being a shit...........and at press conferences, when you are trying to publicise your movie..........well he deserves to be panned..........
I wasn't aware of Tommy's reputation behind the camera... I still respect his work as an actor. But, I agree with Fluflly and people should treat other people with respect no matter what...
I haven't seen Batman Forever, so I cannot convey any opinion about the movie or the performances... Jim's career was ascending when he filmed Batman... and, according to a news report he said that Tommy scared the hell out of him... maybe today, with all his experience he would deal differently with Tommy's attitude, maybe he wouldn't deal at all...
I read that one. Sounds like his ire is mostly directed at paparazzi.
But I'm sure they just LOVE to write great positive things about him after he turns over a table.
The fact is, this is the only article available that mentions his mood.
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
ok here is my stand on this issue:
1) In Val's defense, i think he was a heck of a lot better as Batman then Clooney.
2) they way Tommy acts behind the scenes doesn't surprise me....why do u think he plays mostly hard-a**es in his movies?
3) Give the guy some credit.....he is one heck of an actor/ director and earn the respect he gets.
4) Jim probably didn'y take much offense to Tom and him hitting Tome with the cane is his way at getting back at him in a jokingly kind of way.
5) the reason Tom was cast was b/c his son/daughter wanted him to do it. And i thpught he was pretty good in his role.....it was something different than from what we usually see from him.
I am part of an elite group of people......THE MEN OF JCO.
(Standing member since July 18th, 2005)
Here is another article about him... it mentions Jim as well.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jh ... mmain.html
Judging from the face and the expressions, I find him more than intimidating. The type that if you see them in a grocery store, you quickly turn away to avoid eye contact.
Is he married? I think I love him.
However, Barry Pepper disputes the persistent rumours of strife on set. "There was no drunkenness or orneriness," he says.
"But Tommy has a sort of archetypical Southern badass quality to him and that's just the way he is. You're not going to teach old dogs new tricks. So you kind of have to go with his flow."
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
A friend of mine worked on a film with Tommy Lee Jones & Benicio DelToro called "the Hunted" a few years back. Apparently they took a break in filming so that Benecio could attend the Academy Awards that year as he was nominated for "Traffic" and Tommy didn't like the fact Benecio was nominated and constantly razzed him during filming about what a crap actor he was. So Benecio goes to the Academy and wins Best Supporting Actor, then returns to filming a few days afterwards and Tommy does not let up. They are preparing to film a fight scene, Benecio says something to him and the next thing you know Tommy goes haywire. He breaks Benecio's arm and they had to stop filming for a couple of weeks so Benecio's arm can mend.
Another friend of mine builds high end custom furniture and Tommy Lee is one of his biggest clients. He flies him out to the ranch in Texas where Tommy lives and has him stay with him. Tommy Lee cooks and entertains him and his wife as if they were his best friends. They say he has a flash temper, but he's a man's man and they've never said anything to offend him or see that first hand, but they've seen others push his buttons and feel his wrath.
I've been told by both Mr Jones is extremely competitive and has an anger problem. He can be as sweet as sugar or the biggest bully. I think he just needs a hug.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, he's been married to his wife Cindy since 1997.
All of the good ones are taken
lol...........ok....some people love him....some people like him...........and some don't ...........then some don't know what to think..........lol......so we should call a TRUCE before we all start to argue............lol..........
Jim looks great in the catsuits though............yum yum........
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(Reuters) - A new clinical trial funded by the U.S. government exposes premature infants suffering from anemia to risks without fully informing their parents, advocacy group Public Citizen said on Thursday.
The group, in a letter, asked U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to stop recruiting for the trial, which aims to determine the best way to treat anemia in premature infants. It also calls on HHS to notify parents of babies already enrolled in the trial of the potential risks.
The Transfusion of Prematures trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health, randomly assigns half of the infants in the study to receive transfusions at a high hemoglobin level and half at a low hemoglobin level. Hemoglobin are the red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body.
Public Citizen said the best available evidence suggests a restrictive transfusion strategy is more likely to cause neurologic injury or other harm to extremely premature infants, and the trial exposes more than 900 infants to the inferior treatment.
But consent forms given to parents do not tell them about prior research on which method may be better, or properly describe the risk of death or disability, the group said.
Officials at NIH said they are reviewing the letter.
HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Investigators at trial locations including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Los Angeles and Stanford University also were not immediately available for comment.
Earlier this year, Public Citizen called for an investigation into an NIH-funded study from 2005 to 2009 that was designed to test the effectiveness of different oxygen levels in the treatment of very premature infants. Public Citizen said that study exposed infants to an increased risk of blindness, brain injury and death, without properly disclosing the information to parents.
"This continued pattern of egregious informed consent deficiencies in NIH-funded trials involving the most vulnerable of human beings is deeply troubling," said Dr. Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group. "These ethical lapses may represent the tip of the iceberg."
Public Citizen has called for an independent investigation of the U.S. system for review and oversight of government-funded research and a suspension of any other similar studies.
(Removes the word "Southern" from name of university in paragraph 7)
Reporting By Deena Beasley; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Bill Trott


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WeatherBug has announced the WeatherBug API Excellence Contest. The contest will run through July 11th and offers up to five contest winners an 8 GB Apple iPod Touch. The "up to" part of how many winners depends on how many different languages developers use: there will be one winner per programming category like PHP, Java, Ruby, Python or any other. Apps can be web based, mobile or desktop applications running on Windows, OS X or Linux.
The WeatherBug API offers free access to live data from more than 8,000 WeatherBug tracking stations. Using the API, you can develop applications showing live weather conditions, daily forecasts, United States camera images and severe weather alerts, and international weather information.
The API is available in two formats: standard XML and pipe-delimited format. Both API versions offer a rich set of calls, letting you retrieve highly detailed information on weather stations, live weather, alerts, forecasts, and other data.
Currently, our WeatherBug API page lists seven mashups that have been created using the API. These might give you some ideas for developing your own mashup for the contest. For example, Weather Bonk is a rich mashup that provides live weather and forecasts obtained using the WeatherBug API and much more on a Google Map (it actually uses over 10 APIs, more details here). WeatherBonk was a Mashup Camp winner, and was acquired last year by the Weather Channel.


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Germany Enforces Law to Ban 'Animal Brothels'
Germany is home to some pretty awesome things, like tons of awesome beer and lots of hot German babes. We're also huge fans of naked grocery shopping, so the country ranks pretty high up on our list of favorites. But recently, we found out the land of bratwurst and wienerschnitzel is also home to one massive WTF -- erotic zoos. No, Germany. No.
Basically, these are places where people can abuse animals and, in some twisted cases, have sex with them. Some German farms have been found to "rent out animals for sexual exploitation" and train them to do the deed with humans. We also have no idea how the hell they train animals to get down and dirty with people. Nor do we want to know.
The recent rise in these erotic zoos have forced German officials to enforce bestiality laws that prohibit things like 'animal brothels' and the human-goat-humping training program, but we think the slightly bigger issue is what is driving these maniacs to want cow or goat nookie. There are enough German babes to go around, guys.


text: Some comments: 1. read the document: http://supercluster.org/documentation/maui/sgeintegration.html 2. you need a password to get the latest versions of Maui scheduler, which is in Alpha/Beta state. You can get it from help at supercluster.org. If you encounter any setup problems, you should subscribe to Maui Users: http://supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers -Ron --- hanzl at noel.feld.cvut.cz wrote: > SGE too is integrated with MAUI. I did not try it > myself but I guess the integration is far enough to be > usable (those of you wo did try - please > comment on this). > > Regards > > Vaclav __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com


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In a previous post, I wrote about Sauce Labs, and detailed how their Selenium-in-the-cloud service ("OnDemand") helped Web QA--particularly yours truly--quickly make sense out of a perceived performance regression, with really nice video support. It turns out that we keep having reasons to look to them for additional capacity and capabilities. And, thanks to a great working business relationship, they're helping us meet those needs.
The problem: as stated in our Q2 goals, our team has to "Plan for and support a high-quality launch of http://persona.org". The goal goes on, stating that we'll support desktop on a variety of browsers, as well as mobile.
Our list of supported, in-house browser and operating-system environments is here: Mac, Windows 7, and Windows Vista. Until recently, we didn't have in-house Opera or Chrome support, so calling out to Sauce for those browsers has been really beneficial. (When we launch a new site, we definitely cover all major browsers, manually, but due to our Grid infrastructure, the need to run frequent tests, and the maintenance cost, we try to keep it to the essentials; other teams have different, more-stringent browser requirements, so it was necessary to add in both Chrome and Opera to our automation.)
The solution: It's often been said that companies should "focus on their core competencies" (I'll admit there are counter-points aplenty), and it's a view that I happen to subscribe to, especially given the demands on our team. To that end, instead of planning for, provisioning, and then maintaining the morass of browser environments on a plethora of operating systems, we increased our scope and frequency-of-use with Sauce Labs, covering what we reasonably could, in-house, at present, while immediately spinning up test coverage, and making our developers and supported Identity/Services QA team very, very happy.
The here and now: as of this moment, we've been able to bring up 42 test jobs against myfavoritebeer.org (dev/beta) and 123done.org (dev/beta), covering the most-critical paths of login and logout; we're closing in on new-user registration and changing passwords, too.
The future: as our testing needs increase, so, likely, will our usage of Sauce, and it'll be as easy as cloning a job in Jenkins and changing a single parameter, thanks to the built-in flexibility that Dave Hunt's pytest-mozwebqa plugin provides.
So, thanks again, Sauce; just another example of helping the Selenium [1] and Open Source communities, and, in particular, Mozilla!
[1] Sauce Labs powers the critical Selenium-core, continuous-integration tests for the project: http://sci.illicitonion.com:8080/