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China & the US: Corruption, Progress, and Tragedy
China doesn't say it's going to change. It doesn't ask you to believe in it. But it's happening.
I've often written about this country's extreme paradoxes, how I can never seem to decide if it's righting its course or steadily eroding. China is fascinating and frightening. It's grotesque and inspiring.
And now, China is our only hope.
It hurts to say. I feel unpatriotic, a traitor to my upbringing. The good ol' US of A is meant to kick ass and take names, to lead. And yet, as inspired as I was by Barack Obama's historic ascent to the presidency, I'm equally horrified by the impotency of his tenure and the implications of our collective behavior.
For what seems like months, in reality is years upon years, I've witnessed Washington quibble over plans for universal healthcare.
I just don't get it. How is this so difficult?
And what now? You're bringing assault rifles to speeches? Town hall fights? What is this madness?
Burning flags, gay marriage, prayer in the classroom. We spend months and months and months working on this in Congress, and pass nothing. But on big issues, big like Andre-the-Giant-standing-on-a-ladder-on-Mt. Everest-type issues, we revert to mind-numbing partisan hack jobs. We choose paralysis over politics. And worse, we citizens allow it.
Chinese know they cannot openly question their government. But in a country where we can, the best we can muster is crazy gun-totting homophobes carrying Bibles to town hall? Holy Baby Jesus.
As we bicker and point fingers and nod our heads to the lunacy of TV pundits, here's what China is doing.
1. Cracking down on corruption at the highest levels.
October 1st is the 60th anniversary of the PRC. Chairman/President/His Holiness Hu Jintao is expected to announce major achievements in righting some of the massive wrongs of corruption over the last, well, forever in China.
"Every month for the past year, at least one cadre at the level of assistant minister or above has been nabbed for 'economic crimes' and allied felonies," writes Willy Lam in a phenomenal piece on the anti-graft campaign. Long-standing party members and mafia frontmen are feeling the heat.
The crackdown recently nabbed Kang Rixin, head of China's nuclear energy program, one of the most powerful 204 cadres in the country. It's progress, mind you, not an end-all solution. Corruption in China will continue. As Lam writes,
Doubts remain as to whether the Hu administration will go one step further and introduce institutional checks and balances, as well as allow scrutiny from the media and independent anti-graft agencies, to better eradicate the scourge of graft and related malfeasances.
But this much is known: if you want to skim off the top nowadays, you better have the skill set (or be Hu Jinatao's son).
Here's more. For the first time ever, China's 10th meeting of the Standing Committee just passed a resolution declaring a commitment to fight climate change. Just words, yes. But this is the first time that the highest reaches of government have conceded climate change must be addressed. Some call it peanuts, I'll call it progress.
Perhaps the most significant aspect of progress in China is that so much is left to be done and much of it is easily within in reach. Unlike the US, China has the ability to implement policy nationwide practically immediately. In other words, while the US jabs, China is throwing uppercuts. As Thomas Friedman writes,
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power. China's leaders understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.
That, the in-between-the-lines up there, used to belong almost solely to the United States. We called it Balls and Foresight. Now we have malls and foreclosures.
But it's not the economy that worries me. I'm supremely confident Wall Street will find a way to make money off of others. That, to me, is a lock. They have plenty of time to find the next best method, because everyone is distracted by the nonsense that is now healthcare and tomorrow will be something else. Because as much as I want universal healthcare, I feel that half of my Congress is dead set on me not getting it.
So what I do care about is the environment. My ability to eat, drink, and breathe is very important. These three come before the health issues they may cause. And, as I said, progress is attainable here in China.
A new joint report by The Boston Consulting Group and The Natural Resources Defense Council reads,
If by 2015, the end of China's 12th Five-Year Term, 5% of existing buildings and 60% of new buildings were to achieve levels of energy consumption 50% below those of comparable non-green buildings in similar climate zones, the subsequent annual energy savings would be 170 billion kWh electricity, equivalent to turning off all the lights in America for one month. CO2 emissions would be cut by 170 million tonnes.
It's been proven. Beijing's "Agenda 21 Building" applied existing technology and reduced energy consumption by 70%. According to Justin Fung, co-author of the report,
"What is not commonly understood is that building operational use accounts for around 25% of China's total energy consumption… That is more energy than China's cement, iron and steel sectors combined. And if you include energy used for manufacturing and transporting building materials and products, China's buildings consume 30-40% of the country's total energy."
People like to say the United States is The Land Where Anything is Possible. Well, healthcare sure doesn't seem to be. Does the shoe still fit?


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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Hanging Out at the Bloggers of Honor Table
Besides conducting a presentation at 11:30 and attending one at 3:00, I spent the majority of my time on Friday hanging out at the Bloggers of Honor table at the 2010 Atlanta Family History Expos. I had lots of fun talking to other bloggers and visitors to our table, as well as blogging and tweeting.
Posted by Professor Dru at 5:58 AM
Labels: Blogging, Family History Expos, Genealogy Conference
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- Suz said...
Hi Drusilla-I stopped by your table last weekend in Atlanta. It was great to meet you. I am just now getting a moment to check out your blog and it's great! I have a blog www.suziesmusings.blogspot.com which I've had a while and I wrote about the conference recently. But, I was also inspired to start a new blog called www.Thehuntforhenrietta.blogspot.com. I launched it yesterday and hope you'll take a look. Again, great to meet you last weekend and thanks for the inspiration! Suzanne
- November 19, 2010 at 7:39 AM
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|2012-10-06, 18:28
|Link #23183
Senior Member
Crazy foolish idea I had reading this thread and the raw.
Perhaps there could be a way Tsukune overrides that device and takes control of Alucard himself.
Tsukune fights hard against his opponents, and is getting pushed back as well as Moka, and they're getting desperate. Everyone else had been defeated but not killed (yet), and Moka and Tsukune are the only good guys left standing and being surrounded.
Tsukune is in a panic trying to find a way to save everyone and win, when he hears a voice talking to him in his head. This voice could be either Akasha speaking to him, or even an old sentient Alucard, offering him power... Enough power to destroy any opponent, devour them, and take their strength as his own, to conquer all who oppose him.
Spoiler for Not really a spoiler:
You can pretty much guess what happens from here on out...
|2012-10-06, 19:36
|Link #23184
#1 Akashiya Moka Fan
And here I thought Tempest was the master of Crack Ideas...
All I can say is, the thing in the spoiler tag is Do Not Want.
... on another side note, this once again shows the pros and cons of monthly mangas: the story is awesome as all hell, but the wait between....
|2012-10-06, 19:40
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|2012-10-06, 21:19
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Well that sucks, i am not an expert of what the authors life is but for some reason all the manga author/artist always tend to get sick easy. Is it from over work or stress from not meeting deadlines/coming up with ideas. Well lets wish the author recovers so the series can continue.
|2012-10-07, 11:04
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|2012-10-07, 11:07
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On the contrary, I got a GOOD feeling about Issa. That smile at Kokoa's little break-through (and Gyokuro's little WTF face) was very telling in the mood. It only makes sense if Issa was doing all of this all on his own.
Spoiler for Thoughts on Issa:
And wow, I really REALLY wanted to punch Gyokuro. You just don't DO that to your own daughters...! Usually, I'm the one who likes to save all the pretty girls, regardless of their moral standing but Gyokuro just wiped all setiment off with that.
|2012-10-07, 11:08
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Location: USA
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Wish you guys would use spoiler tags before the chapter is scanlated.
As for the new chapter, awesomeness. They really should stand no chance, we've heard for many chapters that vampires are the most powerful and no manner of training can replace experience. That's why Tsukune didn't do so well, he lacks the fighting experience his opponents have.
I really hope Tsukune becomes the trump card in all this. A human with a True Ancestor's blood... that's a big variable.
|2012-10-07, 11:09
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Chapter is out..so, amazing,just amazing, loved Kokoa thoughts about her self, the inferiority complex of her self compared to her sisters, glad to see that Haiji helped her in regain confidence in herself, is irritating to see Kahlua cry and say that she doesn't want to kill her sister..but,even though she doesn't want to do it,continues to listen to anything that her mother tells her to do...i hate it..i mean, what are you?a robot that takes orders?
And then Issa made his appearance..interesting, i wonder if he is really with Gyokuro, or is playing just this role...i can't tell it yet..
However, Tsukune i think you have no choose, but to use your full power, even if this means to lose your control,because for win in the current situation,we need someone more stronger than a normal vampire.
|2012-10-07, 11:10
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Well all we can do is wait until the next chapter to come out and hopefully we get some answers. Hopefully the author gets better. As for Tsukune, he better take off the restraints now like how he handled Kuyou or else a lot of people will die in the battlefield and in the aftermath.
|2012-10-07, 11:30
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|2012-10-07, 11:38
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I would take the rumor about Ikeda being ill, with a little grain of salt.
My reasoning is that, if this rumor is actually true, I think there would be something mentioned about it, in the current chapter / Jump SQ TOC.
But in those sources, there isn't anything confirming that this particular rumor is true.
|2012-10-07, 12:08
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Ikeda: hnn, I don't feel well.... stupid headache... Some asprin and sleep will do me good.
Editor: 0.0 Ikeda needs medical attention!
Orderly: Quick someone call the clinic!
Page: Should we have an ambulance come to pick him up!?
Ikeda: *sweatdrop* ... it's just a headahe...! Oww...
Editor: Ambulance - on the double!
Ikeda: Stop it!!
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A week or so ago I added a few snippets of information to the Wing One-Place Study website and forgot to tell you about them.
- marriages for MALLET and LANGLEY on the Methodist page
- a LANGHAM-BURROWS marriage on the marriage strays page (in a registry office!)
They aren't entirely random of course, they have all come from the Bucks Herald.


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People sleep significantly better and feel more alert during the day if they get at least 150 minutes of exercise a week, a new study concludes.
A nationally representative sample of more than 2,600 men and women, ages 18-85, found that 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity a week, which is the national guideline, provided a 65 percent improvement in sleep quality. People also said they felt less sleepy during the day, compared to those with less physical activity.
The study, out in the December issue of the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity , lends more evidence to mounting research showing the importance of exercise to a number of health factors. Among adults in the United States, about 35 to 40 percent of the population has problems with falling asleep or with daytime sleepiness.
"We were using the physical activity guidelines set forth for cardiovascular health, but it appears that those guidelines might have a spillover effect to other areas of health," said Brad Cardinal, a professor of exercise science at Oregon State University and one of the study's authors.
"Increasingly, the scientific evidence is encouraging as regular physical activity may serve as a non-pharmaceutical alternative to improve sleep."
After controlling for age, BMI (Body Mass Index), health status, smoking status, and depression, the relative risk of often feeling overly sleepy during the day compared to never feeling overly sleepy during the day decreased by 65 percent for participants meeting physical activity guidelines.
Similar results were also found for having leg cramps while sleeping (68 percent less likely) and having difficulty concentrating when tired (45 percent decrease).
Paul Loprinzi, an assistant professor at Bellarmine University is lead author of the study, which was conducted while he was a doctoral student in Cardinal's lab at OSU. He said it is the first study to examine the relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and sleep while utilizing a nationally representative sample of adults of all ages.
'Our findings demonstrate a link between regular physical activity and perceptions of sleepiness during the day, which suggests that participation in physical activity


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Czeslaw Milosz's last collection of poems is a thoroughly typical series of lyric exercises, deepening and enriching the concerns that preoccupied him during his long career as a poet. The 32 poems in Second Space dwell on the mysteries of the human predicament and the movement of history towards final fulfillment. Though never unappreciative of earthly pleasures, Milosz was most profoundly concerned with ultimate matters. To the end, his vision was clear, his insight incisive, his heart pure.
Second Space is divided into five sections. The first is a collection of 28 poems; the second, third and fourth of which are longer lyric sequences with multiple parts; the last a rendering of classical myth. The poetic forms are loose and varied, in Miloszs terms, more spacious (as he speculates in the poem Ars Poetica?), allowing for the lyric meditation so characteristic of this prolific Eastern European poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
The poems in Second Space come from Miloszs ruminations on the human condition as he confronted life in his 10th decade. Age did not diminish the vigor of the spirit, and the poetry testifies to Miloszs longstanding preoccupation with the larger issues of the human predicamentsin, suffering, mystery and beliefand demonstrates his anguished attempts to reconcile the existence of God with the presence of evil in this ripe and fallen world. As he notes in High Terraces, All my life I tried to answer the question, where does evil come from?/ Impossible that people should suffer much, if God is in Heaven/ And nearby.
The first poem in Part I, Second Space, strikes the emotional keynote for the collection as the speaker laments the loss of the kind of fixed belief in other worlds of heaven and hell. Paradise pervades these poems. In Nonadaptation, a 13-line lyric, he declares, I was not made to live anywhere except in Paradise. Sensual delights mingle with spiritual apprehensions as foretastes of the paradoxical return to the past which will be the future. While some poems are nearly prayers, such as the beautiful Hear Me (Hear me, Lord, for I am a sinner, which means I have nothing except prayer), others, like If There Is No God and To Spite Nature, are skeptical, if not agnostic, assertions.
The shorter poems re-present themes and motifs reworked in the longer sequences. Father Severinus, an 11-part interior monologue from the heart of a priest without faith, rings with a poignancy derived from simple honesty. The old man prays daily for the grace of understanding,/ though there is in me only a hope of hope, meditating on the mystery of the Redemption and our human suffering.
Milosz is too honest and knowing to offer a resolution to the problem, yet the central lyric of the sequence, 6. Presence, creates a dynamic equilibrium, opening, Lord, Your presence is so real that it weighs more than any argument, and closing, Lead me where only Your light abides. The dilemma at the heart of Father Severinus is neither new nor original; but Milosz's delineation of its existential impact on a man of faith moves the reader with its urgency and beauty.
Part III, Treatise on Theology, is a meditation offered by another older man who has made a conscious choice to avoid what people call the serenity of faith, declaring that wandering on the outskirts of heresy is about right for me. Scrupulous examination of the world leads him in one direction, and he cannot cease asking why? at every turn. In Section 22, Treat With Understanding, he describes himself thus: One day I believe, another I disbelieve, and honestly captures the essence of the situation.
If Second Space has a weak section it is Part IV, Apprentice. Interwoven with the story of Oscar Milosz is the story of young Czeslaw's early crisis of faith. His examination of his cousins work and formative influences (Goethe and Swedenborg) is simply too dense with contextual detail.
Second Space ends aptly with Orpheus and Eurydice. Milosz follows classical legend up to a point: en route back, Miloszs Orpheus reveals a different dimension:
Under his faith a doubt sprang up
And entwined him like cold bindweed
Unable to weep, he wept at the loss
Of the human hope for the resurrection of the dead.
Because he was, now, like every other mortal.
This Orpheus, his faith assaulted by doubt, is curiously contemporary in his affliction. His lack of faith causes tragedy, or does it? In the last stanza, Orpheus only falls asleep, in a world that both underscores and celebrates that loss:
Sun. And sky. And in the sky white clouds
Only now everything cried to him: Eurydice!
How will Ilive without you, my consoling one!
But there was a fragrant scent of herbs, the low humming of bees,
And he fell asleep with his cheek on the sun-warmed earth.
Joseph Brodskys description of Milosz in 1975 as one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest, seemed a bit hyperbolic then; but Miloszs achievement in the ensuing decades may have proven Brodsky right. Certainly, the landscape of letters has lost one of its most noble and endearing souls.


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UCC College BonspielFriday-Sunday, February 8-10, 2019
Chairs: M.J. Walsh, Roger Rowlett
Registration — release form — hotels — guest food forms
2018 Results
Previous winners
A bonspiel for college students who meet USCA College Curling eligibility rules (see 4th page). Open format (teams may be composed of any mix of men and women). All teams must start the bonspiel with 4 players. College curlers from UCC will be available to fill out partial teams. Three game guarantee (at least 12 teams guaranteed 4 games); 8 end games; 6 events.
Limit 18 teams. Each school guaranteed 1 team, more if space permits. Unless indicated otherwise by the school, multiple teams from the same school will be entered according to date/time entry is received (online, below).
Entry fee: $38 per person. Make checks out to Utica Curling Club. If you need an official UCC invoice to remit payment of entry fees, contact M.J. Walsh at least 3 weeks in advance. If you need a MJW generated invoice, contact me 1 week in advance. Entry fees must be fully paid before your first game. Your college may take 2 weeks or more to issue a check, so plan accordingly!
Lunch, and dinner provided on Saturday; lunch on Sunday after the finals. Breakfast at hotel. Dinner available for purchase on Friday night before the first game (9:30pm)
Live drawboard and team rosters
Watch live and archived games on the UCC Channel on YouTube.
FormsOnline signup form
Registration opens Thursday, Dec 9, 2018 at 10:00am
Deadline: Thursday, Jan 31, 2019, noon
Meet the team form (for online streaming)
USCA requires that all participants be enrolled as full-time students this semester/quarter (bring your college ID), be USCA members, and be registered on blue sombrero. Registration deadline: January 24, 2019.
Release form
Fill out and bring with you. NO participant may enter the ice shed without submitting proper participant release form.
Adult participant release form (18 years or older)
Minor participant release form (less than 18 years old) MUST be signed by parent OR legal guardian.
Teams & ScheduleFirst draw at 9:30pm on Friday or 8:00am on Saturday, depending on the number of teams. Finals on Sunday morning. Please be prepared to play on Friday night. Sign-in begins at 8:00 pm on Friday. Live streaming of selected games. Watch on the Utica Curling Club YouTube Channel
Host teams
- Colgate University
- Hamilton College
- SUNY Polytechnic Institute
- Syracuse University
Bonspiel HotelMake your reservation before Feb 1st
Hampton Inn and Suites (5 min from club)
201 Woods Park Drive
Clinton, NY 13323
$109, includes breakfast
GuestsGuests are welcome to attend the college spiel and cheer on the teams. If you want to eat meals at the club, please fill in the form below. Reservations/cancellations required by Thursday, January 31, 2019, noon. Curlers have priority at the buffet tables, as they are on a tight schedule. Payment may be made in cash or check made out to the Utica Curling Club. Menus subject to change.
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rc_set_service_option -> rc_service_option_set, rc_get_service_option -> rc_service_option_get
rc_wait_service -> rc_service_wait
Rationalise more functions into rc_service_
librc no longer uses libeinfo. deptree function names are now all under rc_deptree_
Crashed is not a baselayout state as such
rc_service_state now returns the state as a mask, which means that we can do things with just the one call making is more efficient.
enums are now fixed to specific values and are in UPPER CASE.
The rc_depinfo_t and rc_deptype_t structures are not for public consumption.
rc_is_env is now rc_env_bool and just works with boolean values.
Use bools
Revert last patch
We no longer use bool in our public headers, using int instead.
Initial doxygen documentation for rc.h and einfo.h. Plus some header clean ups.
Punt rc_xcalloc as nothing uses it
Don't be an ass - don't free the 2nd list. Instead just empty it.
Clarify strlist_join behaviour
Match the recent api change to rc_strlist_join also. We now free the 2nd list for ease of use.
API change! rc_config_env is renamed to rc_make_env and takes no argument.
API change! rc_ls_dir, rc_get_config and rc_get_list no longer take a starting list as a first argument. Instead, use rc_strlist_join to append or prepend the new list to an existing list.
API change! rc_strlist_add and friends now take char *** instead of char ** and return a pointer to the item added instead of the new list head. This is so we can easily tell if the item was successfully added or not instead of iterating through the list looking for it. list = rc_strlist_add (list, item); becomes rc_strlist_add (&list, item);
`config /etc/fstab' can now be used in depend() functions to show that the deptree should be regenerated if /etc/fstab has changed.
Don't link to rt anymore as it makes dlopen leak - we now use nanosleeps to achieve the same goal (a loop + timeout). No longer put / at the end of directories, instead prefix like so RC_LIBDIR "/foo" to ensure more robust code.
Wups, these definitions need to be in rc.h really
All our binaries are now mulicalls into rc, which makes our on disk size a lot smaller.
Don't use 'this' as a variable name as it confuses c++
Rename variable
init scripts and their extra options can now have descriptions, #184327.
We no longer care about numerical runlevels, #184733.
env-update now respects COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED env.d values, #176198.
Re-work the starting and stopping of services so we always know the pid so we can kill our children without the need for process groups which we cannot use as keyboard will not work in init.
Fix rc-abort to notify the plugins we are aborting
Plugins now run in a forked process for extra resliance.
Style updates
Cuddle up to LKML C style
Move carrier detection back into net.sh. Reserve a new hook numbers
Add new service hooks, remove pmake stuff from our Makefile and fix rc_services_in_state for scheduled.
Fix indentation
We now compile on OpenBSD (no idea if it works or not yet)
Rewrite the core parts in C. We now provide librc so other programs can query runlevels, services and state without using bash. We also provide libeinfo so other programs can easily use our informational functions. As such, we have dropped the requirement of using bash as the init script shell. We now use /bin/sh and have strived to make the scripts as portable as possible. Shells that work are bash and dash. busybox works provided you disable s-s-d. If you have WIPE_TMP set to yes in conf.d/bootmisc you should disable find too. zsh and ksh do not work at this time. Networking support is currently being re-vamped also as it was heavily bash array based. As such, a new config format is available like so config_eth0="18.104.22.168/24 188.8.131.52/16" or like so config_eth0="'22.214.171.124 netmask 255.255.255.0' '126.96.36.199 netmask 255.255.0.0'" We will still support the old bash array format provided that /bin/sh IS a link it bash. ChangeLog for baselayout-1 can be found in our SVN repo.
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Orcs have enslaved the human race. You are one of the fortunate, still free to roam Myrtana. Liberty affords you the option to stay true to the throne of the deposed human king, serve the orcish usurpers, or carve your own mysterious path. Every decision made will have an impact on the fate of humanity and the balance of power. The choice is yours, but the struggle is one for all living in the shadow of the orcs. Whatever you choose, your legacy begins today.
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As it pertains to general desktop use, an ICC profile is a binary file which contains precise data regarding the color attributes of an input, or output device ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_profile Source]). Single, or multiple profiles can be applied across a system and its devices to produce consistent and repeatable results for graphic and document editing and publishing. ICC profiles are typically calibrated with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristimulus_colorimeter (tristimulus) colorimeter], or a spectrophotometer when absolute color accuracy is required.
As it pertains to general desktop use, an ICC profile is a binary file which contains precise data regarding the color attributes of an input, or output device ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_profile Source]). Single, or multiple profiles can be applied across a system and its devices to produce consistent and repeatable results for graphic and document editing and publishing. ICC profiles are typically calibrated with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristimulus_colorimeter (tristimulus) colorimeter], or a spectrophotometer when absolute color accuracy is required.
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As it pertains to general desktop use, an ICC profile is a binary file which contains precise data regarding the color attributes of an input, or output device (Source). Single, or multiple profiles can be applied across a system and its devices to produce consistent and repeatable results for graphic and document editing and publishing. ICC profiles are typically calibrated with a (tristimulus) colorimeter, or a spectrophotometer when absolute color accuracy is required.
- 1 Profile Generation
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Profile Generation
File Transfer
Profile generation on a Windows 7/Vista/XP, or Mac OS X system is one of the easiest and most widely recommended methods to obtain a ICC monitor profile. Since ICC color profiles are written to an open specification, they are compatible across operating systems. Transferring profiles from one OS to another can be used as a workaround for the lack of support for certain spectrophotometers, or colorimeters under Linux: one can simply produce a profile on a different OS and then use it in a Linux workflow (Source). Recommended colorimeters include the X-Rite i1Display 2, the Spyder3 Pro and the open Source Hardware ColorHug. Note that the system on which the profile is generated must host the exact same video card and monitor for which the profile is to be used. Once generation of an ICC profile, or a series of profiles is complete on a Windows 7/Vista/XP system, copy the file(s) from the default path:
Mac OS X generally stores saved ICC profiles in one of two locations:
/Library/ColorSync/Profiles /Users/USER_NAME/Library/ColorSync/Profile
Once the appropriate
.icc/.icm files have been copied, install the device profiles to your desired system. Common installation device profiles directories on Linux include:
/usr/share/color/icc /usr/local/share/color/icc /home/USER_NAME/.color/icc
Gnome Color Manager
On Gnome, an ICC profile can easily by created by using gnome-color-manager. Under Gnome, this is accessible via the Control Center and is pretty straightforward to use. You'll need a colorimeter device to use this feature.
LPROF ICC Profiler
LPROF is an ICC profiler with a graphical user interface listed under lprofAUR in the Arch User Repository (AUR).
Monitor Calibration
Adjust the lighting in the room to what you will be using when working. Even if your screen is coated with an anti-reflective coating, you should avoid light falling directly on it. Let your monitor warm up for at least an hour for the image to get stabilized. If your calibration device has an ambient diffuser, adjust your room brightness to reach the recommended target lux point.
- Set the monitor contrast to maximum, or 100%.
- Next, display a pure black over entire screen by creating a small, black PNG image (all pixels have RGB = 0, 0, 0) and opening it up in a picture viewer that is capable of displaying an image in fullscreen mode without any controls.
- Reduce the vertical size of the monitor screen (not the PNG image displayed by a picture viewer but the whole of what's displayed on the screen) to 60% to 70% of the full height. What is revealed above and below the picture is called a non-scanned area, and since that area is not receiving any voltage, it is the blackest of black your monitor is capable of displaying.
- Locate the brightness control (usually a sun, circle with rays projecting from it's edges) and lower the value until the black image matches the non-scanned area.
Color Temperature
As we said in the introduction, setting color temperature must occur at noon. If you only have fixed factory default color temperature, you do not really need to wait for the sunny day to come. Just set it to 6500K.
Place your monitor so that you can see outside the window and your screen at the same time. For this step, you also need to create a white square image (RGB = 255, 255, 255), roughly 10 by 10 centimeters (4 by 3 inches). Using the same Gwenview technique as with brightness/contrast, display the white square on a pure black background.
- First, prepare your eyes by staring at the outside world for a while. Let them adjust to the daylight viewing condition for a few minutes.
- Glance at the monitor, and the white square for a few second (it has to be short, because eyes will readjust quickly).
- If the square seems yellowish, you need higher color temperature, or if it has a blueish cast, the temperature needs to be lowered.
- Keep glancing, looking out the window, and adjusting the white temperature, until the square looks pure white
Take your time with the steps described above. It is essential to get it right.
Monitor Profiling
Start lprof. You will be presented by a fairly large window with multiple tabs on the right.
- Click on the Monitor Profiler tab. Then click on the large Enter monitor values >> button.
- White point should be set to 6500K (daylight).
- Primaries should be set to either SMPTE RP145-1994, or EBU Tech.3213-E or P22, or whatever appropriate values for your monitor. If you come across correct values for your monitor, enter those by selecting User Defined from the drop-down. If in doubt, you may use P22 for all monitors with Trinitron CRTs (in this case, Trinitron is not related to Sony Trinitron mointors and TVs), and SMPTE RP145-1994 for other CRTs.
- Click the Set Gamma and Black Point button.
- You will now see a full-screen view of two charts with some controls at the bottom.
- Uncheck the Link channels check-box and adjust individual Red, Green, and Blue gamma by either moving the slider left or right, or by entering and changing values in the three boxes to the left. The goal is to make the chart on the left (the smaller square one) flat. When you are satisfied with how it looks, check the Link channels check-box and adjust the gamma again.
- When you are done, click OK. Click OK again.
When you are finished entering monitor values, you might want to enter some information about the monitor. This is not mandatory, but it is always nice to know what profile is for what.
- Click Profile identification button.
- Fill in the data.
- Click OK to finish.
After you are all done, click on the '...' button next to Output Profile File box. Enter the name of your profile: somemonitor.icc. Click Create Profile button, and you are done.
Argyll CMS
The Argyll Color Management System is a complete suite of command-line profile creation and loading tools listed under argyllcmsAUR in the Arch User Repository (AUR).
- Review the official Argyll CMS documentation for details on how to profile selected devices.
See color profiles for IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad notebook monitor profile (generic) support.
Loading ICC Profiles
ICC profiles are loaded either by the session daemon or by a dedicated ICC loader. Both Gnome and KDE have daemons capable of loading ICC profiles from colord. If you use colord in combination with either gnome-settings-daemon or colord-kdeAUR, the profile will be loaded automagically. If you're not using neither Gnome nor KDE, you may install an independent daemon, xiccd, which does the same but does not depend on your desktop environment. Do not start two ICC-capable daemons (e.g. gnome-settiongs-daemon and xiccd) at the same time.
If you're not using any ICC-capable session daemon, make sure you use only one ICC loader - either xcalib, dispwin, dispcalGUI-apply-profiles or others, otherwise you easily end up with uncontrolled environment. (The most recently run loader set the calibration, and the earlier loaded calibration is overwritten.)
Before using a particular ICC loader, you should understand that some tools set only the calibration curves (e.g. xcalib), other tools set only the display profile to X.org _ICC_PROFILE atom (e.g. xicc) and other tools do both tasks at once (e.g. dispwin, dispcalGUI-apply-profiles).
- xcalib is a lightweight monitor calibration loader which can load an ICC monitor profile to be shared across desktop applications. xcalibAUR is part of the Arch User Repository (AUR).
Xinitrc Example
Load profile
P221W-sRGB.icc in
/usr/share/color/icc on display host:0 when X server starts
#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/xcalib -d :0 /usr/share/color/icc/P221W-sRGB.icc
<StartupCommand> Example
Load profile
P221W-Native.icc in
/usr/local/share/color/icc on display host:0 when JWM starts
<StartupCommand>xcalib -d :0 /usr/local/share/color/icc/P221W-Native.icc
Xinitrc Example
Load profile
906w-6500K.icc in
/home/arch/.color/icc on display 0 when X server starts
#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/dispwin -d0 /home/arch/.color/icc/906w-6500K.icc
<StartupCommand> Example
Load Argyll calibration file
906w-7000K.cal in
/usr/local/share/color/icc on display 1 when JWM starts
<StartupCommand>dispwin -d1 /usr/local/share/color/icc/906w-7000K.cal
Additional Resources
- Using LPROF to Profile Monitors - Additional details on how to profile monitors
- Linux Color Management - Wikipedia
- Argyll Color Management System - Official Site
- LPROF Main Help Window - Details on profiling printers and scanners


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Khaled Hosseini on His New Novel
Novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns," sat with the WSJ's Barbara Chai to discuss his new book, "And The Mountains Echoed," and answer some reader questions.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... I'm Barbara Chai with the law Street Journal and today we had the pleasure of speaking with Kyle and Husseini ... the author of The kite runner a thousand splendid Suns and is near a spot ... on the map and then think so much for joining us I landed my pleasure ... to see the flea you focus on family again but specifically sibling release DryShips ... what ... about that bond between brother and sister that inspired you to create add to my Patty ... while and that somehow posed an interesting because I'm on the all the stuff I saw four siblings myself ... it's a relationship that is the ... sole right ... with dramatic potential ... because the inherent conflict and there's love ... there's envy and jealousy and kind of compound and the conciliation and all the great themes of life are ... there in that relationship ... so aam ... hadn't set out to write a book about siblings I wrote the story of a bet on me that ... the siblings at the heart of the novel but he just kind of halfway through us of the day was shaping up to be a book about ... that particularly ... relationship ... NGC narrative structure of the nobly architecture that is different from your previous novels you had ... interwoven stories that tiny ripple out from ... this brother sister relationship Key talk about that that that does very well but I mean that in the novel is not straightforward narrative the way the first two books were ... there is a its shape like the country doesn't want which is that this love story between a boy and his little sister ... who are separated from each other in a very young age a runner come out clean ... I'm and that the story just the book just spreads out as it progresses it starts to tighten the lives of great you ... are the number of other characters ... or are affected by connecting to this central event early on in the novel so it's kind of like spread south ... and ... the book is of the neck of Mosaic a collection of mosaics that together form one big picture long ... I'm so many readers have written didn't ask some question how can one ... ask compared with your previous two books which both climbed to the top of the international bestseller lists what was the biggest challenge for you in rating and now ... I ... think what the biggest challenge of writing this book ... was really the movie just spoke about was the structure of the book ... and that there wasn't wanted to tighten its that that could just follow throughout the whole book but it was Vatican having a different character come out with each chapter ... and finding good connecting fiber between all these different story lines ... so that they would all make sense of a cohesive ... narrative and ... and and it was ... and it did the trick was to ... intimate but it happened before and subsequent chapters and about each out that the bill on the previous one so that ... he did this with his beak sweeping broad picture yet ... now obviously it's a good problem to have they'd ... be number one on the bestseller lists ... the thing you have to forget or put away ad from your mind when your rating ... while I think if you think about the marketing commercial side of writing while you're actually working on a book that you do ... you really have to be able to shower off on that background noise ... and for me it comes pretty naturally because once I start to write my book ... icon of descent into this other mental bonk or Wembley secluded ... and I'm I'm sold entangled in trying to figure out this puzzle ... to come discover the mystery of this story were common plots my character ... that I just become absorbed in doubt them in their essence of this becomes backgrounds ... the idea first but the kite runner has been adapted into film and a thousand splendid Suns is also slated to be made into a film with the status of that there is a tale of the screenplay that's been written by Steve Z and who one Oscar for Schindler's list Amazon are a number of billion screenplays ... bites the thus far to all the elements haven't come together in reading financing director us on so forth so it's kind of out there on the back burner ... and that this this nothing NNN happening within right now although ... there are few leaves that to that might have become something of a more solid online ... and that a reader asked ... How do you handle writer's block ... while I ate ... it this is the sound of the facetious but I actually Cano welcome it ... because I e I when it happens ... I don't think the Brier of ideas that what ... people within the squad writer's block is huge as Bhatia you don't know what to do next ... it's really that have reached an impasse and something about the way my approach to this story ... isn't really working so I seen as an opportunity to take a step by them or take a more panoramic view of what I've done so far to God why is it that this isn't working suddenly ... I am to try to start thinking about outside the box me try a different angle ... and it's often after the so-called Baidu's blocks ... that said we had an insight about something ... and the course of the book has changed ... in a way that I can see coming at all in ... this is another interesting reader question how much you feel you've improved over the years and each book and what is it that help to improve ... why that's of further to my readers to decide but that improve or not I do know that change some walk out one of the battle for worse is not for me to decide ... aam but I do feel ... that and that that in the mountain echoes is a bit more ambitious book MMP Houston ... both in the sense that has a more ... complex structure ... larger cast of characters ... into we team Khona plotlines movements in time back and forth in sideways ... the move but also because I think I thing morally it's a more ambiguous book ... is that there's there's there's more gray in this book rather than the kind of archetypal black and white ... notions of good and evil France's existing in the kite runner ... I in this book I think the character speak from and they're they're they're behaviors ... take root in places that are you a bit more who wants them a bit more mysterious little bit more complicated ... and so hopefully ... that does make them more interesting as well ... thank you so much for speaking Lynas Kyle and I was


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Priyanka Chopra: JJ Spotlight of the Week (Behind the Scenes Pics!)
Priyanka Chopra gets all dolled up by our glam squad in this exclusive photo from the latest edition of the Just Jared Spotlight of the Week series shot at the Pet Head house in Los Angeles.
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Oracle Corp. said sales of new software licenses, a closely watched metric, were flat in its latest quarter, while its profit for the period fell 4.2% on higher expenses.
The results missed Wall Street expectations, sending shares down more than 6% after hours, and come as the software company faces online competition and changes in technology-buying habits.
"New licenses was a major culprit for the shortfall and will be a focal point of investors digesting results," FBR Capital Markets & Co. analyst Daniel Ives said.
The software company's databases are widely used in companies for key tasks like storing sales data, paying invoices and calculating how much cereal and cheese to stock at grocery stores. But the company is under pressure to more quickly make its software more compatible with emerging technology trends, such as exploiting external computing services rather than running on a customers's own server systems.
Oracle said its profit for the fiscal fourth quarter ended May 31 was $3.65 billion, down from $3.81 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Per-share earnings were unchanged at 80 cents.
Excluding certain expenses, earnings in the latest period were 92 cents a share, hurt by two cents a share by exchange rate changes in Venezuela. Analysts had expected earnings of 95 cents a share on that basis, according to the average of estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters. The company, meanwhile, in March had forecast adjusted earnings of 92 cents to 99 cents a share.
Revenue rose 3.4% to $11.32 billion. On average, analysts expected revenue to increase about 5% from a year ago, to $11.48 billion, the mid-point of the company's March outlook of 3% to 7% revenue growth.
New software license sales were flat at $3.77 billion.
Total operating expenses climbed 7.8% to $6.41 billion.
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I know of something that will kill all ulcers88 messages in this subject.
|My grandfather was a doctor, an old school doctor. When I was young he had these wooden sticks almost like matches, and the very tip of them was coated in something, Im pretty sure it was called SILVER NITRATE. Anyways, I still get ulcers today because I dont have any silver nitrate, but when I was young he would touch the tip of the stick to my ulcers and the pain was excruciating, but the next day they were gone. Anyways this is an honest account to my recollection someone should look into this b/c I hate ulcers and I have 4 of them right now.
|will 20 October 06
|It wouldnt surprise me, I am sure they would get rid of ulcers, but I just cant imagine it is safe!
I work in pharmacy, and to my knowledge Silver Nitrate sticks are still available in different strengths, but they are used for the purpose of treating warts and veruccae. They burn the wart off... I can not believe it is safe to do this in the mouth..
|Sarah 20 October 06
|My OB actually used these to cauterize my cervix after post surgery bleeding sent me to the er. It didnt hurt at all surprisingly but I dont think Id have the guts to stick them on my ulcers. Im a weany. If it cant be swallowed in pill form Ill just suffer thank you! LOL
|Kay 20 October 06
|I would think burning a canker sore would result in a much worse canker sore, any thoughts?
|Nikhil 21 October 06
|Nikhil - I know damaging an ulcer causes a bigger ulcer so I bet for some it would make it much worse. All those that talk about scrubbing the heck out of them with their toothbrushes are nuts. That would give me the canker sore for the guiness book if I did that.
|Kay 21 October 06
here is some information that most of us already are aware of but incase other or not.I was reading this and just as thought post the web page.
any way,the strange thing occured,I had some chocolate syrup on my icecream and I broke out in cancer sores on my lips.Maybe it is an allergy afterall.I go the the infetious disease doctor this monday
|Gail 22 October 06
|When I was young, I had mouth ulcers and my dentist would use a silver nitrate stick. It always worked and when I left for college, he gave me some of the sticks to use. They always worked for me.
|Nell 23 October 06
|I have tried everything - still to no avail and they are now getting me down. As I have a chest infection I am taking antibiotics which are probably making them worse. I have got 3 on my tongue. Pharmasist suggested that I might have collitis!! Made me feel awful. Sorry but have struggled with them nearly all my life, now taking zinc - who knows, try anything just to get rid.
|emma 23 October 06
|the reason this works is because ulcers are dead tissue in the mouth. if you scrape an ulcer (painful as hell) it will go away. use an over the counter treatment that forms a seal over the ulcer. when the seal sloughs off, so will the dead tissue
abby, registered dental hygienist
|abby lasseigne 5 November 06
|My doctor precribed me Silver Nitrate sticks and a spray numbing solution. Yes, it hurts like heck, even after the numbing solution is sprayed. And if you dont get the ulcer thoroughly it will worsen. The silver nitrate cauterizes the ulcer and allows it to heal more rapidly. This is more effective on smaller ulcers. I still have some of the sticks, but I much prefer the doctor to perform this as I get them in the back of my throat and it is hard to reach and stay focused through the pain.
|Joel 16 November 06
|My father worked for a local textile mill and he brought home some silver nitrate sticks. He had used them on his ulcers. I used them on mine and it helped by cauterizing the lesion. Sometimes I would get them so bad I couldnt eat or sleep. Now that he is retired I hadnt thought about looking in a pharmacy for them.
One thing I have used that has really helped is Kenalog with benzocaine. It is a paste that one of our local pharmacies mixes up.
|Joy Rivers 17 November 06
|A product called Rincinol by G.U.M is truly effective in healing painful mouth ulcers. You have to swish 10 ml of this solution for 60 seconds and it forms a thin invisible film to protect your ulcer from food, drinks, etc. Results are usually achieved within a day or so. I highly recommend this product. It can be purchased at any pharmacy. If they dont have it ask them to order it, thats what I did!
|Tanisha 17 November 06
|is chewing tabaco also one of the reasons.well.may be not they say rub it hard and they will dissolve.any takers?
|bubbs 17 November 06
|I have just started using wooden match sticks. Just holding them on the ulcer for a minute a couple of times a day. AND IT WORKS!!! I love it. Probably will give me cancer, but oh well. Deal with that later.
|Mark 26 October 09
|I've used silver nitrate sticks my entire life on my mouth ulcers and they work like a charm. It will hurt like hell for about 5-10 seconds but after that you are pain free.
|Leland 3 June 10
|I work at an OBGYN clinic and I used it a few times on little sores I've gotten in my mouth. They burn when you first use them but feel much better in the long run. Goes away alot faster than letting it go on it's own. I would recommend it.
|Jackie 14 August 10
|VEGEEEMIITTTTTEEEE helps :D seriously! Stings like hell though
|Alexis Texas 15 August 10
|I had a doctor use the sticks on my mouth ulcers but he uses a spray humming agent before apply the nitrate stick. It works great and safe.
|Mouth ulcer sufferer. 12 October 10
|Instead of using silver nitrate sticks, you can use common salt to kill your ulcers. It burns like hell but it will go after few tries!!! It's cheap and the best!!!
|SleepyBird 10 November 10
|LIZ 11 November 10
|Debactirol, something a dentist used on my sores, worked the first time. But the second and third? Nope.
|patsy 14 November 10
|I just left the hospital and the doctor used a silver nitrate stick on my canker sore inside my bottom lip and YES it hurt like hell for about 10 seconds, and then right after i swished ice water in my mouth and spit it out. Did that a couple of times, then rubbed lanocane on it with a q-tip and i'm still putting lanocane on it because it still hurts....so will update tomorrow about what has happened after a nights sleep
|SUNNY=] 20 January 11
|Gentian violet is what my mom used to heal ulcers inside the mouth. After drying the area she would hold a q-tip with the medicine on it to the spot for a little while and usually after doing this once or twice the ulcer was gone.
|Old remedy 2 February 11
|My mother is a Pharmacist and gave me the silver nitrate sticks. They are completely safe.
|genevieve 8 March 11
|I just went to an ear nose and throat dr about ulcers yesterday and this is the exact treatment he gave me and they are gone today. He numbed my mouth first with HURRICANE spray and it helped with the sting from the silver nitrate. Best of luck to all I know the pain is awful!!!
|Sarah 9 March 11
|hello everyone...as for the silver nitrate?..its the best for all canker sores..i caught two canker sores last week. one on the upper lip and one on my uvula. yes very painful..i couldnt eat anything but yogurt due to the pain.Today my doc applied silver nitrate and now they are both almost gne...yes on my uvula i applied the silver nitrate and yes it hurt but only for 20 seconds i promise.It was well worth it..
|jc0509 2 August 11
|I purchased the silver nitrate sticks online (amazon.com) and I just tried it on one of my 3 mouth ulcers. HOLY CRAP! Brought tears to my eyes and burned like hell! I got scared I had done something wrong so I got back online to research more. I was wondering, for those that have done this at home, how did you apply the silver nitrate? I just dabbed it on the entire surface. I am going to wait to see how this one feels tomorrow before I start to believe it's actually helping, much less put it on my other ulcers. I've had them all my life, and this was just another shot at relief, I hope it works, I'm desperate!
|Erin 4 August 11
|A couple years ago I had a particularly bad string of canker sores. For some reason the anaesthetic I used to use no longer worked for me. In desperation I bought a tube of 100 silver nitrate sticks off amazon and ordered the quickest shipping available. I received a clear container with an opaque black bagful of sticks inside. I dipped the tip in a bit of water, and touched it to the largest sore. Later that day I had completely forgotten all about the sores until I saw the tube in my bathroom. They stop hurting that quickly believe it or not.
Honestly, there isn't an expletive to describe the pain this causes, but imagine if all of the days-long constant pain of an untreated sore were compressed into about 10 seconds.
Two tips:
1. It will blacken skin, so don't close your mouth before rinsing thoroughly or unless you want black-colored lip splotches.
2. Silver nitrate slowly decomposes into elemental silver in the presence of light, so you should store these in a lightproof container to maintain their potency. Hence the black-bag packaging they were shipped in.
|random sufferer 13 October 11
|okay I have a new one for you. Went to the doctor again today because of a partial vulvectomy that will not heal. Used the nitrate sticks down there!!
|Patty Knight 27 October 11
|Actually, I've had the silver nitrate sticks done to a few of my ulcers. It's great because the next day all the pain in your mouth is gone. It kills the ulcer, it turns grey/black and falls off like a scab. Really gross and when the stick is applied to the ulcer, its the worst pain, but its only a few seconds and your done.
|Megan 5 January 12
|Megan are the sticks really that good? I have had them for years now but i just put up with the pain until they go away but were due to go for a family meal Monday night for a birthday and i cant stand the thought of struggling to eat and being miserable with the pain! Do you get them from your local chemist???
|Ben Macdougall 6 January 12
|The pain from the silver nitrate is WORSE (if you can even comprehend that!) than the canker sore pain. BUT THEY WORK! The localized pain lasts for maybe 15 seconds (I actually cannot control the tears & crying when I do this). And the pain shoots down into my chest which lasts for maybe 10 minutes but is maybe 10% of what the pain in my mouth was. And the POOF! GONE! So the silver nitrate pain is worth it.
|Mary in MARYland 17 January 12
|SHAILA 26 January 12
|I can not find a pharmacy that carries Debacterol. My dentist said I would have to pay for shipping which costs $70! Anyways, I bought silver nitrate sticks on Amazon and I'm hoping they will work. I wish canker cores were a phase in your life but sadly I know I will have them until I die. Damn cankers!!!!
|Osker 16 March 12
I've been roaming around this forum looking for all possible cures for my horrendous mouth ulcers. I'm willing to burn the bloody things off. Where can I purchase the silver nitrate sticks ? I've tried googling. I'm in melbourne, australia.
|Fed up 29 March 12
|oral prednisone works like a charm (25-50 mg daily for 2-3 days). you will need a prescription for it. if the area is fairly dry, say the outer aspect of your lip, use hydrocortisone cream or other corticosteroid cream. this will not work if the ulcer is in a very wet area
|ken 12 June 12
|I have suffered from mouth ulcers since I was a child and only recently
Discovered that tooth paste can cause them!!! Since finding this out about nine months
Ago I have not had ONE ulcer ! It's the sodium laurel sulphate
In toothpaste that can be a cause, I found a toothpaste in Aldi
That does not contain this horrible ingredient and I am
Happy to post PAIN FREE
|Laura MC 10 July 12
|Fellow sufferers prevent ulcers asap after a mouth wound occurs. How? Rinse mouth asap with wine, brandy or similar drink or salt solution and rub wound with tongue at the same time. Dont delay-once an ulcer forms its too late. Mouth hygiene also good.
|Godfrey Braganza, 16 July 12
|I have discovered a home made remedy for mouth ulcers! It is soo simple! Honey with a few drops of tea tree oil applied directly to the ulcer. Stings a little for about a minute then u feel the pain ease and forget the ulcer is there at all! I have suffered since childhood with ulcers and have tried every thing,creams,mouthwashes,tablets. This home made natural remedy does work! Try it now! :-) :-)
|Selena (free from ulcer pain at last) 17 July 12
|I have mouth ulcer after mouth ulcer. Tried everthing and nothing really seems to work. There used to be a Paste called Acytel or something like that, which worked....then it was taken off the shelf and could no longer get it. Then i found a cotten bud that contained a liquid that would completley destroy the ulcer in one massive blast. It left the ulcer and surrounding area looking horrible but it was gone..the pain, the ulcer. The skin would heal afterwards as if it was the end of the ulcer. However, that was then taken off the shelves in the shops. Does anyone no what it was called or if they know of anything else? Feels like the Pharmacetecal companies are taking everything that works off the line!!!! SO ANNOYING!
|Scott 18 July 12
|I get canker sores constantly throughout my mouth and my throat. A year or two ago, an ENT doctor used the silver nitrate sticks to get rid of one. I remember it went away within a day or two, but don't remember much else. I just received my order of 100 off of Amazon. I used it on two of my canker sores, but I'm curious as to how long I should wait before I can eat something. Anyone know?
|Corinne 20 July 12
|I got this awful ulcer on the back side of my tongue, although at the time I didn't know where it was. I usually eat cottage cheese and they go away much more quickly than if I used any Oral Medication or mouth wash. It started to hurt my throat and my ears. Yesterday morning it woke me up because it hurt so bad. I went to the dentist found it and he put dentist nitrate on it. It stunk a little, but the pain went from a 9 to a 4 out of a 1 out of 10 scale. When I got home my throat and ears still hurt a little. The next day my throat still hurt a little and depending how I moved my tongue it hurt. I heard it would go away quickly and it would scab, but when would it? (Side note: I use to get ulcer's every month and I'm assuming it's because of my menstrual cycles.)
|Meghanu 28 July 12
|Hi. I have 5 very large painful mouth ulcers at present, i believe mine are caused as an allergic reaction. 10 yrs ago i took the crap Zyban as an aid to help stop me smoking and it nearly killed me. Took almost 5 years before i felt i was even part of this world again. One very small symptom (i say small b/c at the time compared with all the other stuff it caused it was minor) i had at the time was up to 27 ulcers in my mouth at once, all over my tongue,inside cheeks, gums just everywhere, life was all a blurr then. As i began to get well, which i still am on that same path, the ulcers eventually spaced themselves out until i had them very infrequently. I hadn't had any or maybe an odd one in the last 2 years then a dentist has started messing with a tooth with an old mercury filling, and only half removed it and filled it with a horrid porous filling on the nhs. I am severely allergic to metals and the old mercury filling is a metal. I have visited my doc and dentist several times, now almost begging to help me but both say in England they have been advised that mercury is not a risk in our country as it is classed in others. My point no one is interested in is that i am allergic to metal. Please has anyone any suggestions or advice or willing to pull the trigger as its almost got to that point. My tooth was messed with last November 2011. Thank you.
|Ann 1 August 12
|include coenzyme B complex vitamins daily to your diet - I went from getting 2 or 3 a month to getting 1 or 2 every 3 months.
|camille seaman 27 September 12
|I have a huge ulcer at the back of my tongue. It's been affecting my sleep and it hurts to talk and eat (it's right next to my molars). I went to my doctor today and he used Silver Nitrate to burn it and it hurt SO BAD for about a minute. Dull pain for about 10 after that. My doctor says it should be healed by either today or tomorrow. Fingers crossed!!!
|julia 14 November 12
|I used a silver nitrate stick and have big gray splotch on lip - applied it too wide! Looks like my attempt to heal it so it was unnoticeable as on bottom interior lip backfired! How long til gray splotch is go e - looks heinous!
|Susy 16 November 12
|many years ago when I first married I had always had swollen tonsils. My husbands doctor took a long cotton tip and put it in the genetain violet and swabbed my throat. For over forty years I had no more pain..I am just beginning to have some pain and horseness after 40 plus years..I want to do this myself..Wonder will it still help..any comments??
|[atricia firstname.lastname@example.com 16 November 12
|Any hospital/ENT doc/vet will have silver nitrate sticks. my parents work at the hospital and thats how i get mine
|Laura 15 April 13
|Glad to read this page.., that im not alone in this world cause I'm also suffering from mouth ulcer, i noticed it came every month and after my fertile time, or in ovulation time. I guess its from my hormone system. Researcher should take this case, i think. I am now having one, big at the edge of my lip. I'm now trying to take co enzym Q10 like Maren said on august 2012.. Hope it works for me too..
|Mavika Tarika Nusrat 26 April 13
|anybody has any idea how to buy silver nitrate sticks in india
|argentumNitricum 20 May 13
|I have 11 ulcers in my mouth after an operation to get 4 teeth taken out I've tried everything to get rid of them I am even using that moushwash that everyone says works a treat anyone know what else I could use I wake up in agony with them?:/
|katie 7 June 13
|Katie, after an operation Gengigel would be a good thing to use to speed the healing process, for the ulcers themselves best nuke them with some Oralmedic or Frador.
|Dom Walton 7 June 13
|Reading these threads has been very interesting. I too suffer from mouth ulcers and have since childhood. They usually appear just before my menstrual cycle. I also suffer from Crohn's-Colitis. I have been in remission for some time and the ulcers only appear every few months now. After the last bout, I got the silver nitrate sticks as that is what a doctor used to apply when I was younger. I just applied one to the ulcer, which is on the roof of my mouth behind my canine tooth. Hoping for the best and hoping my Crohn's is still in remission! Thanks to all of you for posting. I had forgotten about the intense pain after the application of silver nitrate so I Googled it and stumbled upon this forum. Glad I did!
|Teri 29 June 13
|I have a rare auto-immune disease and one of the symptoms I get when I get my flare ups is a nasty mouth ulcer.Last month I tried all kind of home remedy and none of them work... that includes gurgling with warm salt water, crashing an aspirin and applying it. Name it, I tried it... needless to say my mouth ulcers lasted a month:( so I decided to go back to my old treatment which is brush my teeth with biotene toothpaste, clean my mouth with biotene mouthwash then apply the triamcinolone dental paste and the very next day it started to heal and stop hurting. It works every time. The biotene is a bit pricey but its the only toothpaste and mouth wash I can use that does not burn, in fact I notice while I brush my teeth I dont feel any pain whatsoever and I get them on the tongue! Never again I'll try any other treatment.
|Amanda 21 July 13
|I have learned that I get canker sores as an allergic reaction to a certain type of wood when put in my mouth. This is the wood used for wooden forks, spoons, tongue depressors, skewers, Qtips and tooth picks. If I do not use or let dentists or doctors to put any of this wood in my mouth, I never get a sore. If this wood does get in my mouth, I can get 50 to 100 sores over the following week.
Anyone else are this connection?
|Marc 23 August 13
|Google copper sulfate cure ulcers. I don't know any other product that works better then copper sulfate. I did apply very small amount on ulcer, and it cured very fast. I had them for 20 years. (Cooper sulfate got blue color, rock or powder) Got my Cooper Sulfate from E-bay.
|Mike. 20 September 13
|Warning copper sulfate may leave dark spots on your teeth.
|Mike. 28 October 13
|I've tried everything. It seems like a few of the things like dental paste worked the first time, but not anymore. I only use toothpaste w/out SLS. I'm careful to keep my mouth clean. My doctors says canker sores are herpies in the mouth??? My dentist this week use silver nitrate on a large inflamed canker sore on the end of my tongue. It seemed to help, although my tongue after 3 days is still inflamed and sensitive. It is better, but wonder why it still is sensitive. I know chocolate, and fruit can bring it on. It sure seems like a virus. Wish I knew.
|Ebarry 2 March 14
|I am a perennial victim of mouth sores. Sadly, it runs in the family. Just recently I have a big sore at the back of my tongue and tried a lot of medications with no comfort. Then I went to see my doctor (EENT) and she used silver nitrate. She sprayed my tongue first with anesthesia before swabbing the solution. the pain is bearable and the sore was gone in a day! Note - don't swallow the silver nitrate as it will burn your throat and hurts like hell, unless of course you swallowed the anesthesia first! :)
|LG 26 March 14
|I had reason, two years ago, to contact The Mouth Ulcer Shop and was pleased to find that I was able to obtain Frador, which up to then had been difficult to obtain. Dom helped me on that occasion so, this year, when I needed a further supply, I ordered more through this site and received the bottles back by return. Frador is an excellent ulcer medicine applied by the supplied swab sticks and works for me but the box holding the small bottles is difficult to open without the contents falling out. The bottles should be stored with the cap upright as the medicine can clog the cap if the bottle is laid flat.
|Peter Yerburgh 27 March 14
|I have been fighting mouth ulcers for months, they get to the point where I can hardly eat. I ended up at an oral pathologist about a month ago and he told me to use the silver nitrate sticks. I'm afraid to use them cause I am already in so much pain :[
|alicia 30 July 14
|Ive been getting these things since I was 20, I am 36 now. Louis,South Africa. Its an awful thing to have and makes me grumpy for a week because of the pain. I will try getting some silver Nitrate as I have one now on my lower lip where I bit myself. I always get one after any form of physical injury inside the mouth and it will gradually get worse before it spontaneously gets better, about a week plus. When i go to sleep it will burn throughout the night. I have learned that placing a little piece of toilet paper, fold it about 4 or 5 times, or similar between the sore and the gums takes away the pain while I sleep. Odd. Or I put a piece of Panado headache tablet between the lip and the gum when i go to sleep and that actually helps a lot and even speeds up healing, its bitter as hell though. Tried another tablet once and it burned the skin of my lip, so be careful. But most important, I stopped using toothpaste containing SLS and that reduced the occurrence by about 90% ! So stay away from that rubbish. Lastly, i tried killing the ulcer with the toothbrush a couple of times and that didnt work, just came back with a vengeance, salt also didn't help as far as could determine. --- good luck to everyone and if you find something that helps please post it -----
|Louis 14 September 14
|I also have had mouth ulcers since I was a child. At 65 I have them more often than not. Please let me know where I might order the silver nitrate sticks. Amazon is out of stock.
|Donna Christensen 20 November 14
|Tea tree oil or malaleuca oil which tasts horrible seems to help. I brush with it and put some on cotton then apply to the sore I have added Spirulina tablets to balance my acidic system. Wine seems to cause flare ups. Using lemon in drinking water and vinegar as ingested in however you choose Also aids in balancing my system but still get them. I just found all these remarks today. I had no idea there were so many of us. I have had ti cancel many apps and social functions due to not feeling well and the pain they cause.
|Donna Christensen 21 November 14
|I've just ordered silver nitrate sticks at a website called mountainside-medical.com. I hope it works, I have one on the tip of my tongue and it's driving me crazy!!
|Maria 24 November 14
|I had a fairly large ulcer on my bottom lip (Inside) - Had it for about a week. Driving me absolutely insane with pain. I decided to get a Silver Nitrate Pencil (Avoca) to cauterise my ulcer. The day i did it, i noticed an instant relief. However, there was still some discomfort. I would say theres an additional day of discomfort but nothing like having the ulcer. Deffo recommend using silver nitrate.
|Happycustomer. 12 December 14
|Just to add to my post of 14 sept 14, i have also now started using l-lysine which I got from the pharmacy in South Africa, and I have not had a sore for 5 months. So, to summarise what works for me. No SLS toothpaste, occasional l-lysine tablets, brushing with oraldine mouthwash instead of toothpaste. Seems simple now but took me 15 years to fugure that out
|Louis. 14 February 15
|Sorry, correction, listerine mouthwash
|Louis 14 February 15
|I've had canker sores off and on for 20yrs and found a perfect remedy for "me" about 5yrs ago by using white tipped matches. This will burn like hell but much better than the long lasting pain of a canker that could last for weeks. However, right now I have 12 canker sores that have popped up within 3 days and have now all moved into one large sore that's excruciating with pain, very deep and has given me a swollen lip!! My method with matches hasn't worked at all my surprise. I've tried rinses, baking soda paste, oil's...name it, tried it. All but these Silver Nitrate Sticks I keep reading about. Does anyone know if this is the method Dr's at an Urgent Care wld.use as I really hate to spend $100 on a visit to walk out w nothing but a steroid treatment. If I buy them on my own, what do you do to prevent the gray staining on your lips/inner mouth??? I'm nervous about them for that reason only. The pain described is nothing compared to the pain I'm in! Thanks to all for any help!!
|Kimberly 29 March 15
|Eat sugarless oatmeal, there is something that cures mouth sores.
|Mike. 7 October 15
|I'm a life long sufferer of mouth ulcers, have usually relied on zinc to help the healing process but have had half a dozen for the last couple of weeks that wouldn't heal. Last night, for no other reason other than I like the stuff, had 2 pints of Guiness and within 24 hours all are virtually gone - can still feel a tingle here and there but not the pain that makes your eyes water whenever you try to eat or brush your teeth etc. Came here today to see if others had mentioned it - for sure give it a try. I know it may just be I've had these ones that long that they finally healed but unlikely they all went at the same time; will be trying a pint or 2 in future for sure.
|RIBinOz 3 January 16
|A doctor once prescribed a mouthwash called nystatin oral suspension... You can use it three times a day...Doctor told me to swish around mouth and spit out...This medicine works really well...Hope this helps someone.
|Sara 12 April 16
|The silver nitrate sticks are a sure cure. It hurts like hell for about 3 seconds and then its all over. Nothing compared to the on going pain of a ulcer running its coarse.
|DeWayne 2016 20 April 16
|Okay so I'm 15 and get canker sores and they kill like hell. I read online to take warm salt water and swish it around in your mouth. I did it and it killed insanley. Then I read to put a dab of salt exactly on the spot. This killed too. But 10 minutes later, my canker sore is numb. It's all the way in the back of my mouth next to my tooth and so I can barely reach it with my tongue, but the salt did help. It still stings a little, but I'm desprete to get rid of this canker sore. It hurts so bad
|Liv 22 May 16
|The one thing I've noticed that you have to be VERY careful about when using silver nitrate sticks is this: You may think you're only touching the affected area, but if you look a few minutes after you've applied the stuff, you'll see that there is a larger area of white (the silver nitrate residue) than just the spot you thought you were touching with the stick! You have to be sure you merely touch the spot quite quickly, and not hold it there, erroneously thinking that the longer you hold it there, the more "thorough" the treatment will be. I learned quickly.
|Rob Neufeld 18 August 16
|I've used silver nitrate sticks a couple times and they leave my cankers BURNIBG for a good hour afterwards. Am I doing something wrong? I will get about 20-50 ulcers at a time and sometimes they are so bad my lips will swell. SOS I CANT TAKE THE PAIN ANYMORE
|Katie 1 October 16
|My contribution is this...PURE HONEY HAS NATURAL HEALING QUALITIES. I use it on bug bites & cat scratches, the ocassional zit, sore throats, more.
I have ulcers, or sores from my new dentures. They're right above where my canine teeth (used to be)... My dentist said she'd treat the sores this week, and that it will be painful (THANKS). I have been using honey to ease the pain of these ulcers by putting honey on a Q-tip & applying to the sores. Also, I apply it to the inside of the new dentures to ease them on without quite so much pain. As long as I annoy these sores with the denture, the sores aren't going to heal...Thank you all for sharing!
Now I have enough info to make my own decision. I appreciate all of your input, and have chosen that I have the option of hurricane spray & silver nitrate if I so desire. Best Wishes!!
|Liz 1 November 16
|I've had canker sores before, just one or two onmy cheek or tongue. But this time was different. It started with one canker on the inside of my bottom lip. I though nothing of it until another one apeared next to it. Then four more, then three on my too lip, and not my whole mouth and throat are covered in the little red bumps. I havent eaten in two days! My doctor had no idea what was wrong so he prescribed some anti herpes antibiotics and miracle mouthwash. Salt water and the mouthwash help the front of my mouth, but it's impossible to treat the sores in my throat. Im afraid of getting dehydrated but i cant swallow more than 3 gulps of water before the stinging stops me.i wish i knew what to do!
|Megan.C 15 December 16
|I am 17 YO and i suffer from ulcers very frequently.So doctor suggested me a gel Orasep and what it works like a pro but it pains like hell too for a while..........
|Rishi 18 December 16
|Crushed cloves in paste. Apply to area. Will number and kill.
|Trish Covich 30 December 16
|use salt it helps alot I did but it hurts like hell, and wait for a couple days to heal and saltarize all up.
|Man I Hate Ulcers 11 February 17
|Try chlorhexidine mouthwash or gel. It really helps a lot in easing the pain and after several applications, the sore heals as well.
|Plabita 24 April 17
|I'm 16 and I have a canker sore on the thing that connects your lower lip to your gums , it hurts like hell but mostly when I wake up. For me personally salt water doesn't burn or help it that much but I have only been doing salt rinses for 2 days . I'm thinking about putting it directly on the sore but scared of the pain. Any home remedy suggestions ?
|Unknown 8 June 17
|I have been suffering from mouth ulcers since 2007. This winter has been hell for me. I have tried everything and nothing works. I am so miserable and u don't know what to do. Ulcers have been so painful . No relief for 6 months straight now ... HELP!!!
|Andrea 8 July 17
|I've been effectively treated by medical professionals with silver nitrate for these sores when I was a teenager and later in life, but I've found a preventative method to stop them from coming back. I noticed that when I started gargling with an antiseptic mouth wash (e.g., old fashioned Listerine or generic versions) after brushing and flossing, I didn't get the canker sores anymore. It took time to perfect the method of gargling. I would get sores where the mouth wash didn't hit, so now I make sure that less accessible areas get the antiseptic mouth wash. I don't get them anymore since I started doing this about 25 years ago. I now believe that reducing bacteria in the mouth with the use of an antiseptic mouth wash will prevent recurrence of these terrible sores. If you decide to try it, I hope this method works for you! It's also good for the health of your gums and dental hygiene.
|Ben S. 27 December 17
|hi what happens after you use tew silver nitrate on a canker sore and then the seal falls off a few hours later? is it dangerous to swallow? what if it happens while im sleeping?
|faw 15 February 18
|Brandy. Gargle with brandy and make sure the effected area is exposed to the brandy. It will burn but heal within 2 days max.
|Hortence 7 July 18
|Have mouth ulcers inside bottom of my jaw, cheek and lower lip after radiation.....what suggestions
|ann anderson... 23 September 18
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Pro-gay: There is nothing wrong with homosexuality.
Anti-gay: AIDS!
Pro-gay: AIDS is also caused by dirty needles and heterosexual sex.
Anti-gay: Gay people are more promiscuous, so they make AIDS a bigger problem.
Pro-gay: AIDS is spread mostly by straight people.
Anti-gay: Gay sex is inherently more risky than heterosexual sex.
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I'm tired of seeing the same debate a thousand times. What can be done to change the dialogue?
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it wasn't so long ago that homosexuals and pedophiles were lumped together.
Don't leave out the animals! bestiality was also in the melting pot, as I understand it.
Well, if you can't find an 8 year old for a date on Saturday night, there's always a goat.
...and some where in this world there is a little goat crying out for help...
Ah, the famous tree goats of Namibia.
And while this is just anecdotal, he did make clear that there is a very active underbelly of promiscuity in the gay community
I had a female friend in college and she was very pro gay and active in the community and she told me the same thing. I believe that is because since men are more geared towards engaging in sexual relationships in the teen years and 20s because of hormones than women, it is easier to find another man who is genetically wired the same than a woman. Like the saying goes "its easier for a woman to get laid than a guy". Why? Because men naturally want more sex and are willing to sleep with just about any girl.. In the gay community I guess it just becomes easier.
If you truly want to argue from a Pro Gay point of you then you have to argue it the correctly which would be Civil Rights. You have to come from an angle which shows that being is gay is perfectly normal as it is another expression of human evolution and way of life. And limiting freedom of self expression is against one's rights as it limits one right to be themselves.
since men are more geared towards engaging in sexual relationships in the teen years and 20s because of hormones than women,
You look young. Are you sure you've spent much time around teen girls? I think some of the females here may be rolling their eyes. Teen girls are just as horny as guys, maybe hornier. By contrast, guys have that performance anxiety to overcome. They talk a good game, but frequently are more afraid of sex than their female counterparts.
Actually most lesbian girls look for relationships rather than one-night-stands. I think he has a point, there.
I think some of the females here may be rolling their eyes. Teen girls are just as horny as guys, maybe hornier
Yes there are but teen girls don't just always jump into random one nighters. I'm 24, so its been about 8 years since I was 16. If things are still relatively how it was 8 years ago, then I believe most teen girls usually engage in sex because of peer pressure surrounding them. Barring the few who were just a sleeping mattress for just about any guy.


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Leavenworth, Immaculata both capture victories while Pleasant Ridge and Lansing each lose.
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Bell finished the contest with 22 points while Parker had eight and Ellie Wolk added six.
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MLB Expected to Ban A-Rod Until 2015
What kind of message does MLB's expected suspension of N.Y. Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez send to other players? Brian Costa explains on the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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