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Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, turned up in New Mexico, more than 1,400 miles from home. Saturday was supposed to be her wedding day.
A Georgia bride-to-be who vanished just days before her wedding turned up in New Mexico and fabricated a tale of abduction before admitting Saturday that she had gotten cold feet and ''needed some time alone,'' police said.
Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, was in police custody more than 1,420 miles from her home on what was supposed to be her wedding day.
''It turns out that Miss Wilbanks basically felt the pressure of this large wedding and could not handle it,'' said Randy Belcher, the police chief in Duluth, Ga., the Atlanta suburb where Wilbanks lives with her fiance. He said there would be no criminal charges.
Wilbanks, whose disappearance set off a nationwide hunt, called her fiance, John Mason, from a pay phone late Friday and told him that she had been kidnapped while jogging three days before, authorities said. Her family rejoiced that she was safe, telling reporters that the media coverage apparently got to the kidnappers.
But Wilbanks soon recanted, according to police.
Ray Schultz, chief of police in Albuquerque, said Wilbanks ''had become scared and concerned about her impending marriage and decided she needed some time alone.'' He said she traveled to Las Vegas by bus before going to Albuquerque.
''She's obviously very concerned about the stress that she's been through, the stress that's been placed on her family,'' he said. ''She is very upset.''
The mood outside Wilbanks' home went from jubilant to somber after Wilbanks changed her story. Family members ducked inside and the blinds were drawn, but friends expressed relief that Wilbanks was safe.
''Having cold feet is a joy compared to what the alternative might have been,'' friend Melinda Larson, who had planned to attend the wedding, told CNN.
The wedding was going to be a huge bash. The couple had mailed 600 invitations, and the ceremony was to feature 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen.
Wilbanks' uncle, Mike Satterfield, thanked people who had helped in the search and supported the family.
''Jennifer had some issues the family was not aware of. We're looking forward to loving her and talking to her about these issues,'' he said.
John Mason reacts after getting a call from his bride-to-be Saturday.
Mason and Wilbanks' family planned to fly to Albuquerque later Saturday. Wilbanks, who is a nurse, was tired and thirsty, but was not complaining of any injuries Saturday, officials said. Her hair, which was long in pictures released by her family, was shoulder-length.
Just hours before Wilbanks called her fiance, police in Duluth said they had no solid leads in the case and began dismantling a search center. Relatives offered a $100,000 reward for information and were planning a prayer vigil.
The hunt for Wilbanks had consumed Duluth, a tight-knit town. Her picture and newspaper articles about her disappearance were on telephone poles and shop windows. Police had also seized three computers from the home she shared with Mason.
Mason had become a target of suspicion and agreed to a private polygraph test, which Wilbanks' family said he passed. He had been negotiating with authorities for another test.
''That's been the hardest part for me,'' Mason said after Wilbanks called from Albuquerque. ''It gives you a feeling like you can't walk outside your home.''
Larson, a friend of both Mason and Wilbanks, said she thought the bride-to-be had no idea her disappearance would draw so much attention.
''Sometimes things take on a life of their own, just like weddings,'' she said.
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Rotting corpses contaminating water sources and poor sanitation amid devastating floods in northern India could lead to a serious outbreak of diseases such as cholera and dysentery, aid groups warned on 26 June' 2013.
The floods, triggered by heavy monsoon rains more than 10 days ago, have killed at least 822 people in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand and forced tens of thousands from their homes. Officials say the death toll may cross 1,000 and thousands are still reported missing.
Authorities have so far been focusing on rescuing thousands of pilgrims who visit the region for its sacred Hindu temples and shrines, but aid agencies, struggling to get past roads choked by landslides to local villagers, warned of another disaster unfolding in form of an outbreak of diseases.
Aid workers said they were concerned that a combination of heavy rains and corpses lying out in the open would contaminate streams and rivers.
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"There are also carcasses of livestock in rivers and streams and this has, of course, contaminated so many of their water sources. But people are desperate and are being forced to consume water they wouldn't otherwise."
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors plans to launch a program to compensate crash victims or families affected by an ignition switch problem that is linked to at least 13 deaths in crashes of older GM cars.
The company said it expects the program will start accepting claims Aug. 1, but didn't specify how much money will be involved. Guidelines and other details will be developed in the coming weeks by compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg, GM said.
GM has recalled 2.6 million older small cars to repair the ignition switches. A report issued Thursday said it took GM more than a decade to issue the recall partly because employees improperly viewed the switch defect as a "customer satisfaction" issue instead of a safety problem.
GM announced the hiring of Feinberg in April. He previously handled the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund as well as funds for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and the BP oil spill.
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In February, U.S. Postmaster Patrick R. Donahue proposed ending Saturday delivery of U.S. mail, although package delivery would be exempted.
In February, U.S. Postmaster Patrick R. Donahue proposed ending Saturday delivery of U.S. mail, although package delivery would be exempted.
The U.S. Postal Service is facing a necessary retrenchment brought on by a number of factors, including the Internet, the Great Recession and a change in consumer habits. The Postal Service lost $16 billion in the 2012 fiscal year. Unless the Postal Service adapts to changing times, it will run deeper in the red, threatening its overall existence.
The Postal Service still brings in massive revenue � about $65 billion in 2012, with 160 billion mail pieces processed. The service has 514,000 employees and 213,000 vehicles. Postal union members are correct when they say the Postal Service still has much value to Americans and the economy.
But the Postal Service must balance its large revenues with its expenses. The Postal Service is faced with a choice between a relatively small reduction in service or a major reduction in the overall mission that will cut painfully beyond delivery days.
Saturday delivery was scheduled to end Aug. 5, but Congress delayed the postmaster�s plan until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. The end of Saturday delivery appears to be coming.
Is that a good thing for Postal Service customers? Probably not � but times have changed. People and businesses have many new means of communication and that has cut down on the amount of mail sent through the Postal Service.
The Postal Service was also hit hard by the recession. Now, junk mail is a luxury for many businesses; and targeted digital options also abound for those businesses.
Mail volume is shrinking. Volume was down 5 percent in 2012, according to the New York Times. Even Netflix, a huge postal customer, is changing slowly, delivering more movies through the air and cables to Internet-ready televisions. The Postal Service cannot seem to catch a break.
Postal workers complain about a 2006 law, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, that required the Postal Service to prefund their employees� retirement plans. No other federal agency has such stringent requirements as set down by this law, and the law may need a tweak to help the Postal Service balance its books.
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Despite these myriad problems, people and businesses still need postal delivery. It is unlikely the age of the Internet will end the need for physical delivery of mail. And there can always be new business potential for the U.S. Postal Service. Prescription-drug delivery through the mail is one service that is likely to grow.
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I can always remember how long we've lived in our rambling, cozy house because we moved in just before my second son was born—more than 22 years now. The house has four floors, three of which are configured so that four boys and their friends and our dogs and their friends could run in circles and chase each other up and down stairs endlessly—a great boon during long, housebound Minnesota winters.
But now I am divorcing and have only one son, a junior in high school, still at home. I love this house and want to stay until he graduates—and beyond, if I can find a way to justify it by putting the space to work in new ways. But it is a big house, and it consumes a lot of energy.
I have been immersed in matters green for a very long time—starting with becoming a vegetarian at age 3. In some file, I have a copy of a 20-year-old energy audit, which led to a spate of caulking and a long-gone insulation blanket around my hot water heater. And I bought a Prius right after 9/11.
Despite my history, the truth is I don't know how to begin to significantly reduce my energy footprint—and if I'm confused, despite all these years of thinking green, I'm certainly not the only one. We all would like to be responsible citizens, but there is an overwhelming amount of information along with a dearth of clear direction.
Retrofitting is the term used generally used for energy conservation, but, when the word FutureFit came to me, I trademarked it and have been thinking about all the ways that we need to futurefit ourselves and our habits and attitudes as much as our houses. (see my "Heartland" column in the July/August issue of Utne Reader)
When I talked to Natural Home's editor-in-chief Robyn Griggs Lawrence about my exploration, she encouraged me to share my process of futurefitting my house, so this blog is the first step.
First, a few eco-confessions. I have a fair number of compact florescent bulbs, but the truth is that I don't like the light they give off—and neither, it turns out, do a lot of other well-intentioned environmentalists when they are honest. So what exactly are the differences between CFLs, and which are the best options for which kinds of fixtures? And I know that we are supposed to install power strips to cut down on passive load, but where exactly do I need them? I got one of my kids to adjust our thermostats, but I'm not too smooth even with the TV remote control, so I'm not sure that they are really very effectively programmed. I'm planning to assemble a class of friends and neighbors (who have confessed their guilt at not having been as proactive as they'd like to be, either), and we'll get an expert to walk through my house room by room and show us just what the basic changes are and how to make them.
I've found an initiative that is aggregating groups of residences in my area for a pilot project to reduce the costs for energy improvements by bundling the houses for bids and using an innovative financing structure. I've gotten an energy audit with fancy infrared photos showing heat loss, but now I have to figure out where I'll get the biggest bang per buck of investment: Better windows? More insulation? New furnace? I'm meeting with one guy in my neighborhood who is a geothermal expert and another who is launching a company that will lease solar panels to homeowners, install them and interface with the power company. I've even heard about someone who is training realtors on the selling points for houses that are energy efficient. And lots more…
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SNOOP DOGG has left fans baffled after taking on the character of a bespectacled white guy for a series of Instagram.com videos.
The rapper donned whiteface make-up, nerdy glasses and a wig to promote a non-existent dating site for men, called WhiteGuysConnect.com.
As Todd, the Drop It Like It's Hot hitmaker boasts he likes to "paintball, crochet and do a little spoken word in my free time", and adds, "My bros (sic) want me to tell you about this new website, WhiteGuysConnect, where white guys look for fly single females to have a good time. Give us a call."
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I'll have one more post on our trip...but these are from our destination...Virginia see family there. We made the long journey because of the loss of Dennis' Mom in February and of his Uncle Billy in April. The picture at the top and bottom right is of his Aunt June. She and Billy always traveled and did a lot together. They didn't have kids, so they could be on the go a lot. We hadn't seen her since Billy had his stroke.
Emma loved seeing her Aunt Denise...although, she had a meltdown when Dennis' brother brought the foster kids they have right now (hoping to adopt), and didn't want to share her Aunt Denise...so that is why she has the pouty face ;)
Dennis' Mom had about 8 brothers and sisters (I lose count)! So there were about 50 or so family members that came through Aunt June's house for Thanksgiving. Pretty overwhelming...but Emma did great.
The photo on the top left are the sisters; cousins playing on the hill next to the house (the kids loved that hill); middle right photos are of the family that we stayed with, Dennis' Aunt and Uncle. Sweetest family. We really enjoyed staying with them to get away from the over stimulation ;) Bottom left is Dennis and Denise, his sister. And last photo on the bottom right is Dale (Dennis's brother), Denise, and their Aunt Bonnie.
Emma really took to everyone...mostly. There were times she wouldn't go to them, typical 3 year old stuff. Then there are a couple of Uncles that can joke around and Emma doesn't like that kind of stuff and would cry...I'm right there with her...I'm not crazy about stuff like that either.
She really took to a second cousin on the top left. Pulled her around the yard. Top right is Dennis, Emma and Aunt Shirley. Aunt Shirley gave Emma the Christmas dress. Then the rest of the photos are from one of his Aunt's and Uncle's farm. They have miniature horses, so many I couldn't count them all. Beautiful property.
And I have to sneak this in because this is my very first time getting published in a scrapbooking magazine. I showed Emma, she recognized herself, but she wasn't too crazy over it. I thought I could get a picture of her holding the magazines, but no go...so here's a picture of my layout in one magazine...
And a mini album in another magazine. I was shocked to see that my mini album was the first one for this article in the magazine! It is so strange to see my work in here. I'm resisting buying a copy because they are pricey. I should get two copies of each though very soon...so holding out until then! I may have to frame these ;)
More pages from my mini album in there...
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and the mini album is in this magazine...
Very exciting! I had more picked up by Scrapbook Trends. And then while we were on our trip, I got another layout picked up by Scrapbooks, Etc. I knew it was difficult to get into this magazine, so I was shocked! Then even more shocking news...I got another layout picked up by...Creating Keepsakes! Yes, me! I'm shocked and excited to say the least.
I have to say I never understood why anyone wanted to get published, but once I started this past June submitting, and then getting picked up, and now seeing my work in magazines...I understand. It's a good feeling.
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Marilyn: I'm 14 years old, and I think the people I go to school with are idiots. I mean that they are stupid, immature, and disgusting. Next year I will be at high school, and I don't see how I can stand it. One of my teachers told me that I will be always be around those kind of people, so I have to get used to them. I don't get it. Why don't they try to improve? I sit at home too much and surf the Internet. What should I do?
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My guess is that you're mature for your age. Fourteen-year-old boys can behave abominably, all right! And the girls often have a fine time treating other girls badly. But this is because they're all young. Most of those awful antics will go away with time. In the meantime, you must not spend too much time alone. If you do, you won't become as sophisticated or socially adept as they will, and they'll become more mature than you, instead of the other way around. That will make it harder for you, both personally and professionally.
So please, please, get out of the house more. Join clubs for young people with interests similar to yours, if possible. Do you have any older brothers or sisters? If so, ask if you can join them for activities occasionally. Try to find neighbors whom you like, and invite them to do things with you, such as going to a movie.
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My procedure:
- weigh test load (a bucket of fresh kitty litter) with my Ultimate hanging scale = 14.63 kg
- go into test mode
- for each gear tested:
- shift into gear of interest: 36/12-13-14-15-17-19-21-23-26 on my wheel, 36/13-14-15-17-19-21-23-25-28 on C's wheel.
- record torque
- load pedal with mass
- find orientation which maximizes torque reading
- record torque
- remove mass
- record torque
- subtract avg of unloaded torque readings from loaded torque reading
I plot theoretical torque delivered to the hub on the x-axis, with the y-axis showing the measured value, for each hub.
It looks good for C's wheel, but as before, my wheel is off. Curiously, each hub reported a slightly larger number than trend when in the largest cog. I'm not sure if there's any significance there....
Anyway, a similar test was reported on the Wattage list by Doug. I plotted his data. His procedure differed, and his test mass was weighed with a Tomita body weight scale, which is much less accurate than the Ultimate hanging scale. Still, the comparison between wheels is telling, and the weight load is the same in each case.
Black seems fine within the accuracy of his scale. Blue on the other hand seems substantially lower. Of course, I can't vouch for his procedure. It may be his results are a measurement artifact. But certainly these results should have you questioning whether your Powertap hub is reporting accurately.
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I would like to understand how I can endow an n-fold (complete) Segal Space with a symmetric monoidal structure. My question is basically the same as in this post: What is a symmetric monoidal $(\infty,n)$-category? but I'm still not sure how to formulate this in terms of complete Segal spaces. If I just try to copy the definition from Lurie's book "Higher Algebra" I guess I get something like this:
Let $X:\Delta^{op}\rightarrow Top$ be a complete Segal space ( or $(\infty,1)$-category) then a symmetric monoidal structure on $X$ is a morphism $F: X^{\otimes}\rightarrow N(Fin_{*})$ between two Segal spaces with $X^{\otimes}_{<1>}:=F^{-1}(<1>)=X$ (so $F$ is a natural transformation $F$= { $F_n: X_n^{\otimes} \rightarrow N(Fin_{*})_n $} and I guess $F^{-1}(<1>)$ = { $F_n^{-1}(<1>) $ }$_{n\geq 0}$ ) with the following two properties:
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2)For all $n\geq 0$ the morphisms $ p^i:< n > \rightarrow <1>;p^i(i)=1;p^i(j\neq i)=* $ induce an equivalence of Segal spaces: $X_{< n >}^{\otimes} \rightarrow X_{<1>}^{\otimes}\times...\times X^{\otimes}_{<1>}$.
$Fin_*$ is the category of pointed sets $< n >$ = { * ,1,...,n } and functions with $ f(*) = * $ as morphisms and $N(Fin_{*}):\Delta^{op} \rightarrow Set$ is the nerve of $Fin_{*}$
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Boy Scout Files Reveal Repeat Child Abuse by Sexual Predators
Aug.5 2012
LA Times-For nearly a century, the Boy Scouts of America has relied on a confidential blacklist known as the "perversion files" as a crucial line of defense against sexual predators.
Scouting officials say they've used the files to prevent hundreds of men who had been expelled for alleged sexual abuse from returning to the ranks. They've fought hard in court to keep the records from public view, saying confidentiality was needed to protect victims, witnesses and anyone falsely accused.
"It is a fact that Scouts are safer because the barrier created by these files is real," Scouts Chief Executive Robert Mazzuca said in video posted on the organization's website in June.
That barrier, however, has been breached repeatedly.
A Los Angeles Times review of more than 1,200 files dating from 1970 to 1991 found more than 125 cases across the country in which men allegedly continued to molest Scouts after the organization was first presented with detailed allegations of abusive behavior.
Predators slipped back into the program by falsifying personal information or skirting the registration process. Others were able to jump from troop to troop around the country thanks to clerical errors, computer glitches or the Scouts' failure to check the blacklist.
In some cases, officials failed to document reports of abuse in the first place, letting offenders stay in the organization until new allegations surfaced. In others, officials documented abuse but merely suspended the accused leader or allowed him to continue working with boys while on "probation."
In at least 50 cases, the Boy Scouts expelled suspected abusers, only to discover later that they had reentered the program and were accused of molesting again.
One scoutmaster was expelled in 1970 for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Indiana. Even after being convicted of the crime, he went on to join two troops in Illinois between 1971 and 1988. He later admitted to molesting more than 100 boys, was convicted of the sexual assault of a Scout in 1989 and was sentenced to 100 years in prison, according to his file and court records.
In 1991, a Scout leader convicted of abusing a boy in Minnesota returned to his old troop — right after getting out of jail.
"Basically, there were no controls," said Bill Dworin, a retired Los Angeles police expert on child sexual abuse who reviewed hundreds of the files as a witness for an Oregon man abused by his troop leader in the 1980s. In 2010, the plaintiff, Kerry Lewis, won a nearly $20-million jury verdict against the Scouts.
In response to the Times' findings, the Scouts issued a statement that said in part:
"The Boy Scouts of America believes even a single instance of abuse is unacceptable, and we regret there have been times when the BSA's best efforts to protect children were insufficient. For that we are very sorry and extend our deepest sympathies to victims.... We are committed to the ongoing enhancement of our program, in line with evolving best practices for protecting youth."
The Scouts have maintained "ineligible volunteer" files in one form or another since at least 1919 to keep track of men who failed to meet Scouting's moral standards. Files that involved allegations of child sexual abuse were dubbed "perversion files." A master list of those banned from Scouting has been computerized since 1975 and is used to vet applicants for volunteer and paid positions.
Only a select few in Scouting have access to the files, which are kept in 15 locked cabinets at Scout headquarters in Irving, Texas. But over the years, hundreds of the files have been admitted as evidence, usually under seal, in lawsuits by former Scouts alleging a pattern of abuse in the organization.
Many of the files will soon be made public as a result of an Oregon Supreme Court decision. The court, in response to a petition by the Oregonian, the Associated Press, the New York Times and other media organizations, ordered the release of 1,247 files from 1965 to 1984 that had been admitted as evidence, under seal, in the 2010 lawsuit.
In anticipation of the release, attorneys for the Boy Scouts conducted an informal review of 829 of the files, saying they sought to put the contents in perspective. The Scouts said the review found 175 instances in which the files prevented men who'd been banned for alleged abuse from reentering the program.
The Times analyzed an overlapping, though broader and more recent, set of files, which were submitted in a California court case in 1992. Their contents vary but often include biographical information on the accused, witness statements, police reports, parent complaints, news clippings, and correspondence between local Boy Scout officials and national headquarters.
The accounts that emerge are often incomplete. But the Scouts ultimately deemed the allegations sufficiently credible to expel the suspected abusers.
Many files contain searing descriptions of molestation from young victims.
"I was crying, and I reached around and hit Max in the face, and said I was going to quit the troop and tell my daddy," a 10-year-old Scout wrote in 1972, describing his alleged rape by a Georgia troop leader, Samuel Max Dubois Jr. "Then we heard the others coming back, and Max said put your pants back on."
Dubois was not tried in that case but was expelled from the Scouts. He was later convicted of child sexual abuse in North Carolina and spent 14 years in prison, state records show.
Today, the Boy Scouts of America says it continues to use the confidential files as part of its efforts to prevent child abuse. In recent decades, it has added other protective measures. In 1988, for instance, Scouting did away with probation; its policy now is to expel anyone suspected in "good faith" of abuse. In 2008, criminal background checks were required on all volunteers, and in 2010 the organization required all suspected abuse to be reported to law enforcement.
The extent to which these measures have succeeded is impossible to gauge: The Scouts continue to fight in court against the release of more recent files.
The case of a Southern California troop leader named Stephen Field illustrates how porous the Scouts' protections were in the 1970s and '80s.
Scouting officials first investigated Field in 1971, when a Santa Monica Scout said the leader had sexually abused him.
A troop committee including parents and a psychiatrist concluded unanimously that the boy's story was true and discovered that Field had a history of inappropriate behavior — including making Scouts run around naked after games of strip poker, according to the file.
But no one called police. Instead, a regional Scout leader followed what was then standard procedure: He filled out a biographical form on Field and assembled the evidence for national headquarters, which opened a confidential file and deleted Field's name from the membership rolls.
From that point forward, any time Field tried to register as a Scouting volunteer, his name was supposed to be checked against a national list of those in the confidential files. Scouting officials assured the regional Scout leader that Field would never participate in Scouting again.
But he did. He was involved with several Southern California troops over the next 17 years, according to his file.
Contacted recently by The Times, Field explained that after he failed a lie detector test required by the Santa Monica troop committee, he was encouraged to transfer to another troop in the city, where he served as scoutmaster for four years.
"They said it had all been cleared up with the Scouts," Field said.
In Valencia, he joined his brother-in-law's troop but left after a parent intercepted a love letter he had written to a Scout, the file shows. At one point, the file says, Field was caught watching pornography with naked Scouts in his Jacuzzi.
No one appears to have reported either incident to national headquarters at the time.
Headquarters didn't learn that Field had reentered the Scouts until 1988, when a Scouting official in Fillmore reported that "Steve Field," chairman of the local troop committee, had been arrested for masturbating with a boy. It took a few days for officials to confirm he was the same Stephen D. Field who had been expelled in 1971.
Sheriff's investigators found pictures of nude boys dating back 10 to 15 years in Field's possession and asked the Boy Scouts for their file on Field.
The national office complied, with one request: "We hope you will use this information with discretion since we have tried to maintain our files so that they cannot be subpoenaed in any legal action," wrote Paul Ernst, administrator of the confidential files from the 1970s into the 1990s.
Ultimately, Field was convicted of abusing two 13-year-old-boys in Fillmore and sentenced to 12 years in prison, his file indicates.
In the interview, Field, 67, who now works in a law office in the Central Valley, denied most of the allegations, except those of which he was convicted.
Told he had been on the Scouts' blacklist since 1971, he expressed surprise at how long he had been able to remain in Scouting.
"It's like a no-fly list," he said. "If your name is on the no-fly list, you shouldn't be able to get on a plane."
Field said he had no further contact with Scouts after his conviction.
Other convicted molesters were able to return to the ranks.
In 1973, Scoutmaster Alan C. Dunlap was arrested in Fresno on suspicion of using his position to abuse several children.
"He was arrested for the worst kind of sex deviation," the grandmother of some victims wrote in a letter to prosecutors contained in Dunlap's file. "It was through his Scout work that his contacts and friendships had been made."
The Scouts had opened a file on Dunlap after he pleaded guilty to four counts of molestation and was committed to a California psychiatric hospital.
Thirteen years later, in 1986, Dunlap had successfully registered as a Scout volunteer in Bryan, Texas, according to his file. There was no indication that anyone checked the blacklist before registering him.
According to court records, he soon began abusing boys, including a 9-year-old Cub Scout whom he later pleaded guilty to molesting. Dunlap was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The national office received a request to include Dunlap in the confidential file — then realized he was already there.
"Convicted again — child molestation," an official noted.
In some instances, the Boy Scouts of America chose to give alleged molesters a second chance.
In a 1992 deposition, Ernst, then keeper of the national file, testified that alleged abusers were given probation — which required periodic updates on the person's behavior — only if evidence of molestation was "extremely weak."
An individual's confidential file was generally destroyed after probation was completed. But the files sometimes survived when the men went on to abuse again. Several of those cases suggest the initial evidence of abuse was strong.
In September 1978, Scouting officials in North Carolina investigated the alleged abuse of a Scout by Mark F. Bumgarner, a 21-year-old assistant scoutmaster.
One night after most Scouts had retired to their tents at Camp Schiele, the boy stayed up talking with Bumgarner, who reached into the boy's pants and fondled him, according to a statement from the boy's father that is in Bumgarner's file. The boy objected repeatedly, but Bumgarner persisted, telling him "the cartilage in [his] penis was similar to his nose and that he could break it," the father wrote.
After "considerable discussion," the national office decided that Bumgarner, an Eagle Scout and the son of the pastor whose church sponsored the troop, deserved another chance.
Months later, he was arrested for sexually abusing two Scouts during a camp-out. He pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse, prompting the national office to expel him and open a file.
Six years later, Bumgarner was back, serving as an assistant district commissioner with the Scouts in Fairfax, Va. National headquarters learned about his return to Scouting only in April 1988, when Bumgarner was sentenced to six years in prison for the sexual battery of two boys.
Probation also was given to Floyd David Slusher, a 19-year-old staffer at a Boy Scout camp in Germany, who was caught abusing a Scout in 1972 and sent home to the United States.
"Even after he was caught, they had to physically withstrain him of attempting to visit the Scout he was molesting," a Scouts official wrote to headquarters.
A file was opened, but Slusher was allowed to continue working with Scouts. He went on to molest at least eight boys in a Boulder, Colo., troop, threatening to kill them if they told, according to a Boulder County Sheriff's Department report in his file.
"Almost every Boy Scout in Troop 75 and Troop 73 has been approached sexually by Slusher on one time or another," a detective wrote, adding that the victims were "too numerous" to interview.
After pleading guilty in 1977 to one count of sexually assaulting a child, Slusher was sentenced to prison, according to Colorado corrections records, and later released. In 1990, he was convicted of another child-abuse crime and is now serving a 25-year sentence, state records show.
The Boy Scouts abolished probation and suspensions in 1988, around the same time a notorious case in San Mateo was coming to light.
Richard Stenger, the head of a unit of the Sea Scouts — part of the Boy Scouts — was charged in 1971 with tying up and fondling three boys. Police found bondage equipment and books on pedophilia in his house.
He was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and a judge sentenced him to four years' probation, his file shows. The Scouts decided to suspend him during that period. But when the court-ordered probation ended, a local Scout executive and several parents successfully requested that the national office lift the suspension.
"I feel quite confident that no further problems will arise," wrote the local Scout executive, whose name is blacked out in the heavily redacted file.
Fourteen years later, in 1989, a parent notified the Boy Scouts that the 320-pound Stenger had padlocked her 11-year-old Scout in a harness and watched him dangle for 15 minutes during a boating trip, according to Stenger's file. Scouts notified police, who recovered from Stenger's home dozens of restraints and hundreds of images of children in bondage, including one of a blindfolded 6-year-old tied to a bed.
Two dozen former and current Scouts came forward to say they had been abused by Stenger as long ago as 1958.
"This isn't in the handbook," one told police.
Clockwise from top left are Alan Dunlap, Floyd Slusher, Mark Bumgarner and Stephen Field.
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lol. this is news?
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they all have the pervert look about them.
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Obviously, all perverts and peados have beards and/or mustaches. Three of them guys could be the same man!!
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Dodgy stuff
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pedophiles in the boy scouts? I'm so shocked...not.
Regardless, it's still sickening.
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this is actually depressing I was in the boy scouts and I was never molested. Was I not pretty enough?
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I'm not shocked in the least.


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Posted 27 January 2010 - 08:22 PM
Mile End, on Hoyt St. right south of Atlantic, is not only NBC, but Montreal-style. No pastrami and corned beef. Rather, smoked meat. (I remember the first time I went to the legendary Schwartz's in Montreal, as a young boy. I ordered a pastrami and corned beef combo. "You can't have a pastrami and corned beef combo," the waiter said. "Why?" I demanded. "Because they're the same thing," he answered. It took me a few years to understand that he wasn't blindingly ignorant.)
Smoked meat, as you all know doubt know, is brisket cured and smoked, as for pastrami, but spiced more lightly -- but more peppery. Here, I thought the smoked meat was peppery to a fault: Schwartz's smoked meat isn't so overwhelmingly peppery. But since, in true NBC fashion, everything here is made in-house, I'll bet that different batches vary. Also, they might not understand smoked meat yet; it might take them a few months to understand it.
That niggling complaint aside, I loved it. I didn't even bother to ask for my smoked meat fatty, but it was juicier than 12 Lucies. The "artisinal" approach pays off in spades: this was clearly a higher-quality product than Katz's -- although IT DOESN'T TASTE BETTER. The house-made mustard is a nose-clearing delight.
In keeping with the New Abstemiousness here at MF, I also salute Mile End for serving a reasonable-sized sandwich for $8, instead of following the usual New York deli practice of serving sandwiches that are much too big to eat for $12 or $16. I was fearing either walking out sickeningly overstuffed, or having to schlepp a half-sandwich along with me on the walk home. But no, not at all. Hell, if I weren't still recovering from an overwhelmingly fatty dinner the night before, I could have had a side of poutine.
Another enticing menu item (which I haven't yet tried) is the "Wilensky", which the menu describes as (house-made) beef salami pressed into an onion roll (10 cents extra for no mustard). Smoked turkey I'm sure I can take or leave.
Another difference from Schwartz's is that Schwartz's isn't blasting "I'm Waiting for the Man" when you walk in. And, of course, Schwartz's doesn't have the following notation at the botton of their menu:
"all meat, fish & vegetables are house pickled, cured, and smoked using local, pastured, line-caught & sustainable ingredients whenever possible."
Unlike most Brooklyn places, I think Mile End is actually worth a trip across the river for those who live in a less fashionable borough. Be aware though: although they stay open till 10 (on weeknights; 11 on weekends), they've been running out of smoked meat by 8 or 8:30 (so far in the two days they've been open).
I would say I can't wait to go back here, but the truth is, I'm more afraid that I'm going to eat here so much that I'll get sick of it. It'll be nice along the way, though.
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If you put that in for me, I appreciate it.
"But this is blatant ultracrepidarianism on my part." - Taion
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
"once the penis came out, there was discussions as to why we didn't order the testicles" - Daniel describing a meal in China
Posted 27 January 2010 - 08:26 PM
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But Sneak was talking about the Brooklyn bridge.
If you're going to be our neighbor soon then you've got to learn this stuff.
"But this is blatant ultracrepidarianism on my part." - Taion
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
"once the penis came out, there was discussions as to why we didn't order the testicles" - Daniel describing a meal in China
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man, i need a headache
Posted 27 January 2010 - 08:44 PM
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll definitely try it sooner rather than later.
Posted 27 January 2010 - 08:45 PM
Grade and texture of the meat. Moistness. Tenderness.
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my life loves it, I think it's a good addition to the neighborhood. burgers are very good, as are the oysters. turkey leg sandwich is the highlight for me. good to better cocktails, although I'm far from an expert on the topic. pricey for the neighborhood.
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TUCSON, Ariz.— Three local alarm companies are protesting ordinance revisions that would require them to provide their customer lists to city police, calling it an invasion of their clients' privacy.
The owners of Tucson Alarm, Young Alarm and Advanced ProTechtion have taken Assistant Police Chief John Leavitt to task for his proposal, which the City Council is scheduled to consider later this month. The revisions would also require every alarm holder to pay a $20 annual registration fee and provide city police with their name, address and phone number.
Roger Score, the owner of Tucson Alarm, said he is concerned that police will press alarm companies for information beyond customer lists, including pass codes and keypad codes.
"I have customers who expect me to keep their names confidential," Score told Security Systems News. "I am following my constitutional right to protect my clients' information."
Maria Malice, president of the Arizona Alarm Association (AzAA), said the group has been working with Tucson police on revising the city's 2004 alarm ordinance and that the changes are "standard stuff."
"They're not trying to do anything that any other city doesn't do," she said. "If you pull (the ordinance) from Phoenix, it says the exact same thing. If you pull Scottsdale, it says the exact same thing. … They're not asking for pass codes, they're not asking for keypad codes, they're not asking for a payment history."
Malice said the alarm registration would help Tucson police offset some of the costs they incur when responding to false alarms, and give them information that might help reduce those dispatches.
"They don't really know how many alarm systems they have out there right now in their city, because they don't have a permit system," she said. "They don't know how many there are, so they don't really know what the true false alarm rate is. They don't know if it's one per user or 10 per user."
Leavitt said the police are only looking for basic information that will help officers respond to alarms safely and efficiently.
"(Score) is trying to make it look like this is some big info grab for intel, and it's not," he said. "We need to know the name, address and phone number for safety reasons for the officers who are responding. … We need to be able to contact people inside in case there's a problem."
The city would also use the lists provided by the alarm companies to bill all customers for the $20 registration fee, Leavitt said.
"The alternative would be to require each one of the alarm companies to bill their own customers for $20 to remit to the city," he said. "(The companies) don't want to do that, so we worked with them and we said give us your lists and we'll send the bill ourselves. That was at the request of the alarm companies."
Leavitt said false-alarm fines would be assessed differently under the revised ordinance. The fine for the first offense, which he said is currently $300, would be waived. The fine for a second offense would be $100, but it would be waived if the customer completed an alarm user awareness class. Fines for subsequent false alarms would be $100, rising to $200 with the eighth violation. The changes would also shift the processing of false-alarm fines to the city instead of having them handled by the courts.
"Our goal is not to collect money on violations," he said. "Our goal is to get registration and compliance."
Score disagreed and questioned Tucson's approach for reducing false alarms, saying it would be more effective to put the onus on alarm companies instead of customers.
"The city doesn't want to eliminate the problem, it wants to escalate it (for revenue)," he said. "All it will be for is to invade people's privacy. (The revised ordinance) is a direct attack on people just trying to keep a burglar out of their house."
Score said he will continue to fight the ordinance changes and the city's requirement that alarm companies be licensed, which he said violates state law. He said he had never complied with the licensing provision of the 2004 alarm ordinance, but did so in January because the city had started to enforce it.
"I'm licensed by the ROC (state Registrar of Contractors)," he said. "The city can't require a license of me."
Leavitt said Tucson Alarm, Young Alarm and Advanced ProTechtion were the only three alarm companies in the city that hadn't been licensed as of 2011.
"They've all complied now," he said.
Ignoance is Bliss. Alarm User Permits
Apparently the owners of these Alarms Companies are not active in their Alarm Association. The Local AHJ just wants to recover cost of responding to their False Alarms.


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Early detection saves lives. That's why November 1, 2013 was such an important day for the women of Pennsylvania. As a perfect conclusion to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Governor Tom Corbett signed the PBCC's Breast Density Notification Act into law, requiring mammography facilities to notify women and their physicians of their breast density.
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Bulldogs Outgain Big Green 269-55 on the Ground
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – On a day where the Yale defense limited the 2010 Ivy League co-MVP -- Dartmouth tailback Nick Schwieger -- to 39 yards on 16 carries, the Bulldogs' rushing attack stole the show behind its two tailbacks, senior Alex Thomas and junior Mordecai Cargill. That duo combined for 213 yards and a pair of touchdowns, helping the Bulldogs to a 30-0 win at the Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field, that puts Yale at 2-0 the Ivy League.
This was Yale's second shutout of the Big Green in the last seven years, and extended the Bulldogs' winning streak against Dartmouth to nine games.
"We came into the game knowing it was going to be a battle in the trenches," said senior defensive tackle Jake Stoller. "No doubt about it, our goal was to get after the run. We're really happy with the goose egg."
The Bulldogs got a big play less than two minutes in, when Thomas turned a simple counter play into a 74-yard touchdown run, bursting through the line and taking it down the left sideline for the score. Junior placekicker Philippe Panico's extra point made it 7-0 Yale at 13:48.
"I actually had the wrong footwork on that play [after taking the handoff]," Thomas said. "There was one tackle I had to break, and after that it was just running away from guys."
Yale's next drive ended with a fake field goal that was brought down seven yards shy of a first down. But the Bulldog defense came up with two straight tackles for loss -- one by junior defensive end Allen Davis and junior cornerback Kurt Stottlemyer, the other by junior linebacker Will McHale -- and the Big Green offense went three-and-out.
Two plays into the next Yale drive the Bulldogs got another big run. This one was a 40-yarder by Cargill, who spun off one tackle and broke through another before sprinting into the end zone. The extra point was blocked but Yale still led, 13-0.
The quick start was exactly what Yale (3-1, 2-0 Ivy League) was looking for after suffering its first loss of the season last Saturday at No. 13 Lehigh.
"We felt like [the loss] was an aberration, an anomaly, and our guys knew that," said Tom Williams, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football. "The best response we got [after the game] was in the locker room -- no-one was panicking."
Dartmouth was looking to get good field position after stopping the Yale offense at the Bulldogs' 10-yard line early in the second quarter. But freshman punter Kyle Cazzetta boomed a 53-yarder, and freshman defensive back Nick LaTesta tackled Big Green return man Shawn Abuhoff for a two-yard loss.
The Yale defense then forced another three-and-out, but on the first play of the next drive disaster nearly struck for the Elis. Senior quarterback Patrick Witt's pass was intercepted -- but then fumbled right back to the Bulldogs on the return. Sophomore center John Oppenheimer fell on the ball at the Yale 47.
Yale was unable to get past the Dartmouth 41 on that drive, but after a Bulldog punt Stoller came up with a big play on first down. He sacked Big Green quarterback Andy Gay, and when Gay lost the football in the process Stoller nearly recovered it in the end zone. As it was, Dartmouth recovered at its own one-yard line and eventually punted from its three.
The Yale offense started its final drive of the first half at the Dartmouth 25 with 1:17 to play, eventually settling for a 39-yard field goal by Panico that made it 16-0 heading into halftime.
The Bulldogs held a 266-51 edge in total offense at that point. But with Yale placing a heavy emphasis on winning the third quarter in particular this season, that advantage was not enough to satisfy the Blue.
"We talked about starting fast and finishing faster," Williams said. "We wanted to make it a violent track meet."
The second half started out as well as Yale could have asked for. After the defense forced another three-and-out, senior wide receiver Gio Christodoulou gathered in the punt at the Yale 47 and went untouched into the end zone to expand the Bulldog lead to 23-0. It was Christodoulou's third career punt return for a touchdown, and by the end of the day he was all alone atop Yale's career punt return average list, surpassing Todd Tomich '01's record of 788.
Dartmouth was without receiver Tim McManus, who was tied for the team lead in receptions entering the day. Looking for a spark in its passing game the Big Green made a change at quarterback in the third quarter, bringing in Conner Kempe (who had started the first three games of the season) in relief of Gay (3-for-11, 14 yards). On the second Big Green drive Dartmouth tried a fake punt on fourth-and-five from the Yale 47, but just as the ball carrier got far enough for the first down a fumble once again proved costly. Senior cornerback Drew Baldwin pounced on this one to end the drive.
A partially blocked punt by the Bulldogs gave Dartmouth a golden chance to get on the scoreboard, starting the Big Green off at the Yale 20. But on fourth-and-two from the Yale 12, senior linebacker Wes Moyer got a piece of Kempe's pass and it fell incomplete. The Bulldogs then put the game well out of reach with a 44-yard touchdown pass from Witt to junior wide receiver Chris Smith on the first play of the fourth quarter. Witt finished the day 21 of 29 for 203 yards and one TD.
Schwieger, who passed Al Rosier as Dartmouth's all-time leading rusher during the course of the game, had been averaging 133.3 yards per game (sixth in the nation) but finished at 39 against the Bulldogs. Thomas finished the day with 130 yards and one touchdown on 12 carries, while Cargill had 83 yards and one touchdown on 12 carries.
"Our offensive line is a great unit," Thomas said. "It's the best line we've had since I've been here, and they keep getting better. They make holes for Mo [Cargill] and I and they just make our job easier."
With Harvard's 41-31 win at Cornell Saturday, the Bulldogs and the Crimson are the only 2-0 teams in the league. Yale has now won 10 of its last 14 games dating back to the start of the season, and has won its last five at the Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field.
"As good as we were today, we felt we left some meat on the bone," Williams said. "We're chasing perfection."
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Jermichael Finley's roster deadline day has come and gone. He's still a member of the Green Bay Packers.
Finley announced Monday on Twitter that he's "ecstatic to be back" with the Packers. He never was gone in the first place, but there was an open question regarding if the Packers would keep the tight end at his current $8.25 million salary or if they would ask for a pay cut before he received a big roster bonus. Multiple reports said the Packers were wary of paying up.
NFL.com's Albert Breer and Ian Rapoport both reported Monday that Finley will not require a pay cut and will not have to restructure his contract. Had the Packers re-signed wide receiver Greg Jennings, it's possible they would have felt differently about allowing Finley to stay at his current salary. Instead, Jennings landed with the NFC North rival Minnesota Vikings.
The Packers have plenty of salary-cap space and didn't want to lose a big potential playmaker like Finley, especially with so much upheaval at wide receiver. Finley probably will need that long-awaited career year in order to be back in Green Bay for 2014, but he'll have his chance to make another title run with Aaron Rodgers.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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I'm compelled on (a regular basis) to run reality checks on my perceptions of things. Today that involved tuning my truck radio to the AM dial, and listening to Rush Limbaugh. I know people that listen to Rush. It is because I know these people (some of whom I consider friends and human beings I'd want on my side in a bar fight) that I have a desire to understand what they are finding in Rush. I listened long enough to get the idea that Obama's true agenda is to ruin in four years the America that we and our forefathers took two hundred years to build. Rush said that we can't look at what's going on now in the "normal" way that we've always evaluated politics. This is something different, something unprecedented. Rush's opening comment was a rhetorical question: "Let me get this straight: we can't identify the illegal aliens in this country, but we can require everyone to buy health insurance?" (adding the tag that "If you don't, Reid and Pelosi will track you down and throw you in jail" — a fiction as there is no criminal penalty for non-compliance with the Health Care Reform Act). Every Limbaugh sentence was seasoned with dramatic pauses, heavy sighs, and every vocal cue that Rush was wearing himself out trying to point out this web of conspiracies to true Americans and thereby single-handedly save this great nation.
It got me thinking. In an odd moment of understanding, I realized that the "conservatives" (as represented by Rush and the TEA Party members) are actually the more utopian of the two idealogical camps we describe with the popular duality of "liberal" versus "conservative". The conservatives are deeply convinced that — left to their own devices — the rich and the powerful will act in the best interest of "the common good". The real problem is government, and too much of it.
I've come to think that if "liberals" are guilty of overestimating the rationality and moral potential of our species, the "conservatives" are equally guilty of underestimating our potential for selfish behavior and general mayhem. Liberalism sees governance as a means of protecting as many of us as possible from the rapacious behavior of the (inevitable) dangerous few. In a sense this is a blend of optimism with pragmatism. The TEA Party view seems to be a mix of disparate elements in search of a synthesis: they want to abolish government and yet abhor anarchy; they call any government involvement in healthcare "socialist", yet find no inner conflict in utilizing veterans TRICARE, or Social Security and Medicare.
There is in me a pull toward finding connections with my fellow citizens. I look for a common reference point — something we agree on. Once established, both parties know their starting point and can get their bearings. But each time I try to approach the inner workings of my upset conservative fellow-citizens I run into obstacles I cannot readily surmount. Although I am able to enter into many of the feelings of those who fear domination by an aggressive government (I am an American, after all — it's in our character to be wary), I am blocked by a boulder-field of odd and irrational beliefs that inhibit my progress toward meaningful, rational connection.
I think it's safe to say that a high percentage of the TEA Party folks are "god fearing", and being such, are already exhibiting an increased capacity to believe in things for which there is no more evidence than another's word on the matter. How can I find common ground with someone who really believes, deep in their heart, that our sitting President is not an American citizen (despite proof to the contrary), or that he is bent on destroying our economy instead of trying to fix it? The imagined conspiracies fly so fast and so thick that it is, literally, dizzying.
There must be a certain thing about our minds that is draws us to notions of vast conspiracies. As a friend pointed out to me, such beliefs engender a feeling of powerlessness (as in the forces arrayed against one are far too great to be overcome, so there is no point in actually trying to engage "it"). I keep thinking of the "Baloney Detection Kit" video from Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine, where one of the ten testing points is the question: "Does this fit in with what I know about how the world works?" From time to time I get a letter from the left hinting at vast conspiracies on the right, and a little sensor in my head jumps to life and says "wait a minute — this sounds pretty conspiratorial to me". My response, in such cases, is to not take it seriously unless (and until) I get corroborating evidence (and the evidence had better be good for such a large claim). I've learned to ferret out the 5 or 10 percent that is truth and disregard the soaring, rickety edifice of conspiracy that is inevitably built upon an original thin sliver of truth. I'm calling people on this sort of stuff all the time. It's maddening, because I'm just one voice giving one friend shit for some piece of internet crap that they forwarded to their entire e-mailing list without taking two minutes to see if it was bogus or not.
Once again, I think we overestimate our abilities as humans. The more I try to keep up with science and politics and world events, the more feeble my brain seems. Rush Limbaugh seems to think we are all super humans being held in check by Liberal-Secular-Humanist-Socialist force fields. Every mis-step (or perceived mis-step) or lack of immediate overwhelming result from any administration initiative is held up like the severed head of a martyr by some demagogue or another.
One thing about holding a naturalistic, Darwinian view of life is that I take humans being for what we actually are: not what the Bible tells me we are, or the mystics say we are capable of. My brand of magical thinking is to carry the rosy hope that I have the potential power to bring insights to people in a way that will make them leave aside some of their irrationality and thereby be of more practical help in the heavy lifting of managing the global and local societies we live in. Embedded in that hope is a belief that humans are capable of becoming ever more rational the more educated they become. Clearly, there is evidence to the contrary. Recent survey's show that a high percentage of the TEA Party membership is college educated. Which makes it all the more baffling that they believe in so much crazy stuff.
But perhaps I'm unfair to pick on one self-selecting group of politically-motivated people, except insofar as they are perfectly representative of any other group of humans that are drawn together by a particular orthodoxy of irrational ideas. This seems to be a perfectly common pattern in our species: otherwise rational people who function smoothly in their work and family lives retain for themselves one corner of their thinking for a completely loony idea: the CIA killed Kennedy; the Twin Towers was an inside job; Pterosaurs still live in a remote lake area in Africa; Noah's Ark rests on a mountain side in Turkey; President Obama is a Kenyan agent bent on destroying the Constitution.
It is this propensity of the human mind that has me running my reality checks — as a sort of a self-diagnostic — looking for mental "spam" or the virus of a bad idea. Of course the power of a CRAZY IDEA is that it can never be completely disproved (and of course Science is not in the business of obliterating ideas, only showing where the weight of evidence points us — which is enough for a reasonable person). The CRAZY IDEA demands that it be not just shown to be unlikely, but proven to be completely impossible. This is where the CRAZY IDEA'S brilliance and durability lies. This is why so many people can still deny the evidence for Evolution and Natural Selection with questions that Darwin answered fully over 150 years ago.
This phenomenon of belief is wonderfully skewered by Bertrand Russell's famous Celestial Teapot analogy:
"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."
Of course Russell here is famously going after the idea of God, but leave off that final sentence about ancient texts and you could be talking about the 10 to 20 requests a week to the Hawaii Health Department for President Obama's (previously verified to the satisfaction of all reasonable people) birth certificate. Of course, I could be wrong. Obama could be a Venusian cyborg, perfectly designed to appeal to our human need for a political savior. Now that would be a CRAZY IDEA. But somewhere, sometime, I could just about guarantee you, there is a human brain that would (or does) believe it. How would you or I talk to such a person?
I have no idea. I don't speak Venusian.
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From Narita International Airport: 85 min by Narita Express to Shibuya Station, 5 min by Subway from Shibuya Station to Omotesando Station. 85 min by Airport Limousine bus to Shibuya Excel Hotel Tokyu, 5 min by Subway from Shibuya Station to Omotesando Station. From Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport): 16 min by Keikyu Line to Shinagawa Station, 20 min by Train from Shinagawa Station to Omotesando Station. 50 min by Airport Limousine bus to Shibuya Station, 5 min by Subway from Shibuya Station to Omotesando Station.
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We already covered the Honda MSX125 monkey bike when it debuted at the start of this year, and at the time we knew that the tiny street-terror would be a world market machine. Confirming our hopes at the time of its launch, Honda Motor Corp. has announced that it intends to bring the MSX125 to the United States, renaming it the Honda Grom.
The 2013 Honda Grom will come with just under 10hp, and features a four-speed gearbox that is mated to a 125cc single-cylinder motor, which comes from the common-parts bin of the Japanese company's popular Honda Wave 125i scooter. Fuel-injected, 225 lbs at the curb when topped-off with its 1.45 gallons of fuel, and priced at $2,999 MSRP, we think Honda hit its mark with an affordable, bulletproof, and fun grocery-getter.
Track day enthusiasts, we have found your perfect pit bike; new riders, we have the ideal machine for you to cut your teeth on, while still being "cool" in the eyes of your more experienced riding friends; and for those who are vertically challenged, your 29.7 inch inseam machine is ready. More photos after the jump, but note America will only be getting the red & black models.