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Six tips for choosing the right ereader for you
Choosing an ebook reader used to be easy.
There was virtually no choice. If you wanted a device that would let you download electronic books and carry around your own personal library you could buy a Kindle. And back in 2007 when Amazon introduced its first Kindle, you could only buy it in the United States.
But the e-reader market has grown and today e-readers come in a wide range of prices, functions and features.
And competition in the fast-growing tablet market has also prompted a number of hybrid devices from e-reader makers, expanding the choice for consumers even more.
Most recently Amazon announced that its Kindle Fire, that company's answer to the e-reader/tablet hybrid market, is available for pre-order in Canada with shipping to start June 13.
While predictions vary, with some analysts suggesting e-readers will be edged out by tablets, last December's holiday sales tallied by the Pew Research Centre found that ebook reader ownership jumped to 19 per cent from 10 per cent among adults in the United States.
And today Kobo announced a 98 per cent hike in revenue for the first quarter over the same period last year, while its user base grew by 2.5-million registered users to reach a total of 14.5 million, with 15 per cent from the United States. Kobo customers read 34 per cent more in the first quarter of this year compared to the first quarter of last year.
Libraries are seeing growing demand for ebooks. The Vancouver Public Library hosts workshops on buying an e-reader and how to electronically borrow books, whether it's for an e-reader, tablet or other computing device.
"Every year in the past few years the borrowing of ebooks has more than doubled," said Christina de Castell, director, resources and technology for the library. "We're now lending 600 ebooks a day, which works out to more than 133,000 books in 2012.
"That is about 10 per cent of print borrowing for a similar type of book."
De Castell said the trend at the library is similar to the consumer market, although it has been somewhat slowed because some major publishers including Macmillan, Simon and Schuster and Penguin don't have titles available for libraries in Canada. However, that is expected to change next year.
"The supply has vastly improved," she said of the library's ebook resources. "On popular books, there is maybe a wait with one or two people and a lot of books you can borrow right away. We monitor waiting lists very closely and when it gets to more than six we buy more."
De Castell said people download books to a variety of devices including e-readers and tablet computers such as iPads.
As an avid reader and iPad owner, at first I didn't see the point in buying yet another tablet device, but two factors convinced me that an e-reader was worthwhile. The screen on an e-reader is e-ink, making it more like reading from a printed page than a computer screen. And while it may not be that the bright screen on my iPad keeps me awake if I read before I go to sleep, research suggests the glow from backlit screens could contribute to insomnia. Added to that is size and weight — I don't need the heft and screen size of my iPad for reading a book.
But it wasn't until I interviewed Michael Tamblyn, Kobo's chief content officer, that I realized exactly why the one-device-fits-all scenario wasn't working for me.
"Even though people have a camera in their cellphone, people who really care about photography have a high-end digital SLR," he said. "It is sometimes simplistic to say all of this is going to converge in one device."
But while all this choice is great for consumers, how do you decide which e-reader is the one for you?
There is no one-size-fits-all. The e-reader that your mother-in-law loves may not be best suited to you and you may hate the one everyone in your book club is raving about.
While price shouldn't be the determining factor, as a starting point you have to look at e-readers that fit your budget. If you have no preset spending limit, skip this step. Just don't think that more expensive necessarily means better for your needs. If you already have a tablet computer, the most basic ereader may be all you want. There are a number of e-readers that fit in the sub-$100 category and some options include:
- The six-inch Kindle, e-ink display, Wi-Fi connected at $80
- Kobo mini at $80 and the Kobo touch at $100.
- Sony's Reader at $100
You can read ebooks on everything from your smartphone to your computer, tablet or a dedicated ereader. Here is a collection of ereaders available in Canada that fit in both the dedicated ereader category and in the hybrid category that adds colour, web browsing, cameras and many other functions of iPads and other tablets.
Here are six points to consider in choosing the best e-reader for your needs.
1. Can you try before you buy?
While some shoppers headed south to pick up the Kindle before it was available here and also the Barnes and Noble Nook, unless you are absolutely certain of what you want, it's best to try before you buy. While you can compare all the specs and dimensions without seeing the devices — picking up a demo unit, checking the screen, figuring out if it fits in your (man) purse or pocket — all this is important in helping to make your decision.
2. Form and Function
Compare factors like weight and screen size. Is it a colour screen, touchscreen, e-ink display or LCD? Are the controls intuitive or do you feel like you have to read the manual just to download a book?
Most traditional ebook readers have a six-inch e-ink screen, that is measured diagonally although there are both smaller — like the Kobo mini at five inches — and larger options, such as the seven-inch Kindle Fire. Maybe having something that's ultra light and pocket-sized is more important to you than having a bigger screen and a long list of features. That comes back to deciding what your priorities are for your ereader — is it to double as a tablet for web surfing, email and online entertainment or is it simply your reading device?
3. Screen and Appearance
Some e-readers, like the Kobo Glo and the Amazon Paperwhite have front lit screens so you can read them in all lighting but for many e-ink readers you'll need to use a light, just as you would if you were reading a print version of a book. You can buy little lights that attach to your ereader or covers that come with lights built in. Not all e-readers offer the same flexibility in fonts so if adjusting the size and font style is important to you, check the specs before you buy.
4. Format and Content
Among the specs on any ereader you're considering, you can find a listing of content formats that are supported. With some e-readers, you can download books from virtually anywhere, you're not bound to a single seller. Others are more restricted or you have to use workarounds to access a broader selection of books.
Canadian libraries have ebooks available for download and as someone who has probably paid enough library fines to buy at least one ereader, I think this counts as my favourite technological advance at the local library. With an ebook, you're never late returning a borrowed book — it disappears automatically from your bookshelf.
Kobo and Sony e-readers work with library ebooks in Canada while most Kindle models don't support the open standard (EPUB) format used by libraries. However the Kindle Fire is the exception, you can use it to borrow books from Canadian libraries. Here is a link to the Vancouver Public Library's ebook how-to guide with instructions on downloading ebooks for your ereader, tablet, smartphone or other computing device.
You can also rent books instead of buying them from services like Amazon's Kindle textbook rental.
De Castell points out that if you want to be able to download library books while you're travelling without having to plug into a computer, Sony e-readers are the best option.
5. Connectivity
While early e-readers had to be connected via USB cable to your computer to download books, now most have at least a Wi-Fi connection and some have cellular data as well. Connectivity is important to allow you to download books when you're not near a computer.
6. Battery Life
One of the advantages of traditional e-readers is their long battery life. That's because, compared to colour tablet computers that have more bells and whistles, there isn't the heavy demand on the battery so it can go weeks between charges rather than hours.


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UALR Chancellor Joel E. Anderson has announced the appointment of three interim vice chancellors. The appointments, effective July 1, follow the retirement of vice chancellors who leave the university at the end of June. Nathan Nolen, associate director of project management, will become interim vice chancellor for Information Technology Services, following the retirement of Dr. Jeannie Winston. Searches for the positions will begin in the fall semester, Anderson said.
Nathan Nolen came to UALR in 2007 after 10 years with Acxiom Corp. While at Acxiom, Nolen was a team leader and decision support analyst. He has a master's degree in management information systems from UALR and a bachelor's degree in organizational management from Philander Smith College. He also is a certified Project Management Professional and has completed the Educause Institute Leadership Program.
Nolen was hired by UALR to manage the project management office for the central information technology division. In this capacity, he created and now manages the central IT software development team and assisted in the IT governance structure. He leads project oversight in the implementation of department-wide programs involving information technology.
Anderson noted that these appointments were all strongly supported by persons within the three divisions as well as across campus.
For more information about UALR's Masters of Science in Management Information Systems, visit https://ualr.edu/management/home-2/. For information about the Department of Management at UALR, visit https://ualr.edu/management/. For additional information about the other two interim appointments named by UALR's Chancellor, visit https://ualr.edu/www/2013/06/04/interim-appointments-named/.


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Holidays in Silandro/Schlanders & Lasa/Laas
Holidays in Silandro and Lasa in the valley of artists are characterised by the unique microclimate of Val Venosta/Vinschgau valley, producing the famed Val Venosta apricots, Pala pears and apples. 'White gold' adorns the pavement and the village square in the village of marble,Lasa. Take a stroll in Val Venosta's main village,Silandro, with views of the highest church in South Tyrol. Enjoy the peace and quiet of the pedestrian zone, offering perfect conditions for a relaxing city tour on holiday. Follow along the Waalwege irrigation canals on the barren, Mediterranean Sonnenberg mountain in winter or summer. For comfortable summer temperatures, hike the Nörderberg to the many mountain farms.


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Photographer's Note
Continuing on from my post yesterday of the ghost town of Kolmanskop, an old diamond mining town from the early 1900's which has long been abandoned.
This ghost town is so much fun to explore, sometimes though there is so much sand that has accumulated into mini sand dunes in the houses, that you have to climb through the windows to get inside, which was the case here.
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williewhistler (16606) 2014-01-22 2:25
Hello Wanda,
there is something surreal about this interesting shot,I guess it`s just because we don`t expect to see a sand filled room,so sad to think that this was once a home.
Judging by your exposure settings it was quite dull inside, so you did well to compose and capture the details and textures perfectly.
Kind regards Les.
HimalAnda (10671) 2014-01-22 3:16
Hello Wanda,
This is a great place, with a real atmosphere!
The composition is good.
dta (96252) 2014-01-22 3:20
Hello Wanda ,
J'adore les bâtisses abandonnées , même si il y a un côté un peu triste . Cette composition est remarquable notamment avec cette vieille porte entrouverte , les superbes tons , les lignes qui se croisent . Et tout ce sable qui est enté dans la maison .
Excellent !
SnapRJW (31631) 2014-01-22 5:41
Hello Wanda - This is very beautiful. I love the harmonious colour palette and your exposure has brought out all the textural details. A superb composition and a shot I would love to have framed and displayed. Top class. Warm regards Rosemary
abmdsudi (83475) 2014-01-22 8:13
Hi Wanda
Survival in extreme conditions almost buried by the sands so well discovered but full of visual treat. A nice stuff really has a strong emotion and creepyness to it! This is awesome pleasantly exposed, beautiful cool soothing colours, details in shadowing and fantastic texture in that door. It's very interesting and different, a good example of less being more so elegant in it's simplicity. Great shot and tfs
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rigoletto (34279) 2014-01-22 10:00
hi wanda. this would be a good place for marriage rehab: placing a nagging wife at one room and a yelling husband to the other side would be a smart idea: they would never be able to slam the door :) i guess this house is famous, i remember seeing other photos from there (maybe by andré or you again). great place for sure. the depth is awesome as well as the crisp textures of wood and sand, while the colors are attractively natural. in any case, the already interesting subject needs no more enhancement.
sevy (58) 2014-01-22 23:18
Hello Wanda,
I feel I like most this ones, due to the subtle soft colors from the sand and making by reflection a soft lightning. It is participating to the mood shared by the view.
jjcordier (79299) 2014-01-22 23:35
Le sable qui a investi les lieux t'a permis de réaliser une très belle composition où j'apprécie beaucoup l'harmonie des tons d'image.
emka (142274) 2014-01-22 23:59
Hello Wanda,
I saw quite many photos from Kolmanskop and I would be happy to see it but our route in Namibia missed it. very interesting ghost tow n, I am sure it must be great fun to explore it.
Warm regrads malgo
macjake (93793) 2014-01-25 6:57
Hi Wanda
Ah...yes...this famous place in Namibia!
This is for sure on my Travel-List, and the sooner the better.
I just viewed Andre's photo of the ghost town, and now this...both great shots and great stories/experiences.
funny to hear you had to climb through the window to get inside :)
Were there many people here? alot of photographers?
or is it pretty much a dead-zone?
cool shot with the sand so high up and intruding everwhere. well done
adores (46979) 2014-02-16 14:29
Hi Wanda!
A good shot of this impressive place! I like the quality and the focus. You managed light very well. This is a place I'd really like to visit, there are many stories buried there, I'm sure!
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- Date Taken: 2011-05-23
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Hot on the heels of last year's impressive debut, Gone Astray, Michelle Davies is back in Buckinghamshire with her dogged detective Maggie Neville for another gripping police mystery.
Inspired by an interview with missing Ben Needham's mother Kerry in 1991, freelance journalist Davies has created a unique and compelling new crime protagonist… a Family Liaison Officer, a specially trained detective who helps a victim's family in the critical first hours after an incident.
This officer is the ear on the ground, the person who hears the family's theories about what they think happened… and who must judge whether one of them could have committed the crime.
In her new case, Maggie – a woman who harbours family secrets of her own – investigates the brutal assaults of two women and becomes convinced that the truth of both cases is buried in the past.
Two women lie critically injured in the same hospital… both are subjects of police investigations. One is 71-year-old Sadie Cardle, a grandmother who has been assaulted in her own home.
The police suspect she is the fifth victim of a young couple who are targeting vulnerable pensioners but Sadie's serious injuries indicate that there has been an escalation in violence from the two perpetrators.
The second woman is Eleanor Bramwell who has been stabbed by her husband Simon at their home. After stabbing Eleanor, Simon took an overdose but he failed in his attempt to kill himself and is now in a coma at the hospital.
Whilst there are no obvious parallels between the victims, Maggie Neville, who is involved in both cases, begins to question what really happened in the homes of the two women. Is it simply a case of both being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or is something far more sinister at play?
Davies has skilfully moved up from novice author to accomplished crime writer in the space of just two books… a feat achieved principally through superb police procedural detail, brilliant plotting and outstanding characterisation.
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But the star of the show is Maggie… the ups and downs of her complex, personal life providing the perfect foil for a professional career that faces the constant slings and arrows of always being on the fringes of a detective team run by an abrasive police sergeant.
And with Maggie's third case already scheduled for next year, this is a series that looks set to run.
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I enjoyed Episode 3 way more than the past two. I'm not sure if it was the new locations or the fact that we don't fight any Prometheans, but it's certainly less tedious to farm than the first two episodes were.
The writing is still awful, even Halsey sounded far more flat than she normally does, but it looks like they're actually planning on bridging the story gap between the two games with SPOPs, which I like.
Maybe they just wanted to set our expectations really low from the get go.
I'm telling you. A left over crazy Cortana will be revealed to be controlling the Prometheans. She'll infect Chief's replacement Cortana, and wage mental warfare on Chief throughout most of Halo 5 and Halo 6 will be the conclusion of that arc.
But, in the end, something will be fixed, and replacement Cortana will hold crazy Cortana's memories, so it'll be like she never went away. Then, she can make a Hardlight BoomBoom Room where she can do other things she "Always wanted to do."
It's the whole B4 / Data angle left unresolved in the ST: TNG universe when... Only with less Dr. X killing pre-crackhead Bane.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 01:37 AM
You can't exactly ask for people's opinions and then be derogatory to what they respond with.
Wow, tell us how you really feel Drew.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 07:19 AM
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:47 PM
You're the one who asked.
Wow, tell us how you really feel Drew.
Spartan Ops, on the whole, is trash. There are a handful of missions that are decent, but nothing standout that makes me say "Yeah, I want to play that again."
Who knows, maybe the final episode will be good! A lot of things could've theoretically happened between the making of the fourth and fifth episodes. Maybe they won't rehash everything again. Maybe they hired competent writers. Maybe they came to the realization that Prometheans are tedious to fight. Maybe they decided to kill off the awful characters and get ones that are actually remotely interesting. See, not all hope is lost!
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For the three that I think enjoy Spartan Ops.
There's definitely some new locations including Vortex multiplayer map. (I was wondering why they didn't use different MP maps for the first five episodes.. I guess they were saving it).
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Like many people, Rick Viancour has been awestruck by the sudden abundance of mushrooms in Hampton Roads.
The sense of wonderment abates, however, when he arrives at work.
|As superintendent of the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club at Colonial Williamsburg, Viancour makes sure the fairways and greens are clear of the bulbous obstructions.
"We're seeing a lot of mushrooms," he said. "They'll just appear overnight."
Cooler temperatures, heavy rain and plenty of decomposed organic matter have created the perfect tonic for mushrooms to sprout in Hampton Roads. They're blossoming everywhere, from golf courses and backyards to flower beds and cemeteries.
"There's more than I can remember in years," said Edward Weiss, a biology professor at Christopher Newport University. "They're very happy folks at the moment, these mushrooms."
There are countless varieties of mushrooms - the fruiting body of fungi - in Virginia. There is a much larger, but less visible, part of fungi called mycelia. These are thread-like structures that secret enzymes enabling the fungi to absorb nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, found in decaying pieces of wood, leaves and other material.
When conditions are right, fungi spring up from the ground as mushrooms sometimes in groupings known as fairy rings or elf circles - terms that come from European folklore, where stories say they are gateways to elfin kingdoms or paths followed by fairies dancing in a circle.
"Rain is certainly one of the factors that drives this," said Lauren Ruane, also a biology professor at Christopher Newport.
According to the National Weather Service, which tracks rainfall in Norfolk, there were 26.3 inches of precipitation from June to August. That period's historical average is 15.1 inches. More than 6.5 inches of rain have fallen in September, well above the 4.1-inch average.
Temperature changes also help mushrooms spread, according to the Virginia Cooperative Extension. Since Sept. 16, the average daily temperature in Norfolk has dropped from around 80 degrees to the low 70s, according to weather-service data.
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If left alone, mushrooms will die and decompose within weeks, Ruane said. In the meantime, they can help plants by drawing nutrients closer to their roots, she said.
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Lawn-care companies offer can spray to kill mushrooms, but the cooperative extension advises against it. Instead, their growth can be stifled by a tiller, pitchfork or other aerating equipment.


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It's a fact that we learn more from our failures and tragedies than we do from our victories.
When something goes right, we usually high-five each other and then sit around the proverbial campfire rehashing our brilliance and everything we did right. What we don't do is learn anything. We're too happy with the way things went.
But when something goes wrong; when we lose, when tragedy strikes, we go into paroxysms of self-analysis as we struggle to learn what went wrong and how we can fix it. This impulse to think tragedy through to ideas for avoiding another tragedy in the future is intelligent and useful. It's the basis for things like painfully reconstructing crashed airliners to try to learn what broke or what happened to bring the bird down. It's the reason for medical review boards. It's why police go over and over an officer's death.
Done this way, the self-analysis that comes after our painful flops and falters is good, productive and wise.
But there is another side. The aftermath of tragedy, the first quick take of emotion, is usually a blur of pain and confusion. Especially with something like the tragedy at Sandy Hook, there is a desire to avoid and blur both the questions and the answers to the omnipresent "Why?" that haunts us. We don't want to face any part of it. So, we are tempted to go out searching for someone or something else to take the load of responsibility for facing up to what it all means. We want a scapegoat.
In truth, there are potential scapegoats aplenty in the aftermath of a mass murder, especially one so incomprehensible as these mass shootings and bombings by anti-social young men. But we have to be careful how we chose these scapegoats. We don't want to pick something that would require us to change. We don't want to point our fingers at ourselves.
No, we are looking for something or someone easy, outside our normal activities and unable to defend themselves. That's the impetus behind the outrage of much of the pundit class against Mike Huckabee's hapless comment. While most people are shocked into silence by these horrors, some people talk uncontrollably. They react to their own internal confusion in the face of tragedy beyond comprehension with cravings for a quick fix of faux outrage. If it hadn't been Mike Huckabee, it would have been someone else. Every time we have a tragedy, the faux outrage crowd latches onto something some person says. They need a quickie scapegoat.
Of course, faux outrage at accidental verbal missteps wears thin after a time. It is about such a nothing and it is so completely devoid of significance that it simply uses up its own oxygen and goes out like a match.
This leaves the rest of us with the question of what slot we can fit these dysfunctional young men with murder in their hearts into. In truth, they are such bizarre little monsters that we find it difficult to identify with them enough to really have a good go at scapegoating them. Where's the "out" for the rest of us in looking at people who are so emotionally ugly that they are flat and one-dimensional to the point of incomprehensibility?
We tend to exalt our mass murderers in this country. Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, the BTK Killer and Ted Bundy get more television coverage than any legitimate celebrity I know of. We hype serial killers into evil gods in our entertainment, making them not only glamorous, but in many ways better — more talented, intelligent and purposeful — than the rest of us.
But somehow, these one-off killers who go to our schools, our movies, our workplaces and just start killing don't seem so interesting. Killing little Amish girls, blowing up day care centers and murdering first graders just doesn't seem so much the effort of an evil god as it does the work of plain, unvarnished evil in all its ugliness and banality. More to the point, when someone goes into a movie theater and shoots people, it could have been us they killed.Still, we do need our scapegoats. Otherwise, we might have to take an honest look at our whole suicidal society and acknowledge that we have become a people that raises up sociopaths in abundance. We would have to admit that there's more wrong here than gun laws that are over 200 years old and never produced this mayhem before. We might have to see that our many excesses on numerous levels are so dysfunctional that they've turned our homes and our society into monster factories.
This lends an especially frantic quality to the search for scapegoats. We need someone to blame; someone who isn't us.
Unfortunately for us, these young men often come from backgrounds and situations that we've been taught to admire and seek for ourselves. These aren't ghetto kids. They aren't minorities. They aren't poor, uneducated or stupid. They aren't even physically ugly.
Are we supposed to scapegoat the upper middle class? Are we expected to decry family life in our best neighborhoods, our wealthiest school districts and among our most well-educated and successful citizenry?
This is what we all want to be: Rich, successful, going to the best schools, regarded as brilliant.
No wonder we look at young men who kill and blame the guns they are holding. If we don't, we're going to have to take a look at something that not only comes from the abyss, but that defies all our well-oiled aspirations.
Blame is our game and we need something to hook that blame onto. We need an object, an idea, a reason that will answer the why of these killings without confronting us with ourselves. The problem with this approach is that it is the antithesis of the painstaking reconstruction that happens after an airliner crashes. It has nothing to do with the honesty and learning process of medical and police review boards.
Rather than helping us come to a true understanding of what is wrong so that we can begin the process of fixing it, the blame game and its hurry-up urgency to do something simple, makes sure we will never understand. If we can affix blame on inanimate objects and then rush, rush, rush to do something about them, then we will be able to avoid doing the painful self-analysis of a legitimate search for answers.
Until it happens again.
Which it will.
Because we didn't do anything useful with our blame-game and quick fix.
Here's a for instance. It is a fact that people with red hair are more likely to get skin cancer. So, in the blame-game way of thinking, we would blame the red hair. Ergo, what we should do to avoid skin cancer is to dye our hair black.
That's the kind of thinking we are trying to employ in our dealings with these mass murdering young men. Maybe we should take away assault rifles. That may be one of the things we need to do. But if that's all we do, I can promise you, it won't stop these mass murderers from mass murdering.
Since I will have to vote on at least some of these issues, those are more than words, much more than a political pose to me. How to save lives and preserve freedom, how to convert a culture that finds offense in the idea that it needs conversion; those are the questions. I don't believe that the answers lie entirely in political battles and legislation. Neither do I believe that the people of this nation are ready to hear that.
I'm not so sure that a nation of people who are addicted to pointing fingers at other people and who refuse to give even one inch in any of their personal opinions and shibboleths can deal with these murderers among us. I question whether we have the honesty and the will to save ourselves from ourselves.
I do know that these young men did not spring fully-formed from the forehead of Zeus. They were made over long periods of time, partly by their heredity, partly by their homes, but mostly by our society. We are teaching them to kill.
Until we face that, we will never "do something" that will end this long nightmare of violence.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrat-controlled Senate defeated a bid Wednesday to block the Environmental Protection Agency from setting the first federal standards to reduce toxic air pollution from power plants.
Republicans were behind the effort, but they didn't get enough votes to move ahead. It was the second time in this Congress that Senate Republicans failed to muster a majority to scrap a rule aimed at curbing air pollution from primarily coal-fired power plants.
The measure would have overturned a long-overdue regulation to slash mercury and other toxic emissions from the oldest and most polluting oil- and coal-fired power plants. Since 1990, the EPA has had that power, and in 2000 concluded that such action was necessary.
But it wasn't until late last year that the Obama administration approved new regulations, after a court threw out an attempt by the Bush administration to exempt power plants from such controls. President Barack Obama, in a video released at the time, said his administration had had enough of the decades of delays caused by special interests.
In a veto threat this week, the White House said the GOP attempt, if successful, could have prevented the government from ever controlling toxic power plant pollution.
Power plants are the largest remaining source of manmade mercury in the environment. Mercury is a toxic metal that's known to impair brain development in children, including those exposed in the womb.
Republicans argued unsuccessfully that the benefits of the regulation did not outweigh rising electricity bills, the lost jobs from power plants shutting down, and its nearly $10 billion per year cost. They portrayed the regulation as an effort by the EPA to kill coal, which is responsible for nearly half of U.S. electricity production. But changing economics, such as low natural gas prices and reduced electricity demand, are big factors in older coal-fired power plants shutting down.
"If you vote against this ... you are effectively killing coal in America," said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the sponsor of the bid.
The 46-53 vote was four short of the 50 needed to proceed to a vote on the resolution. Five Republicans voted against moving ahead, but five Democrats sided with Republicans in support of it.


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The Fayette Board of Education approved supplemental positions and substitute employees as preparations continue for the first day of classes Aug. 22.
At the board meeting Monday, class advisors were approved for the next three years: Class of 2013, Suzette Boesger and Sheila Killam; Class of 2014, Sarah Altstaetter and Barb Bruggeman; and Class of 2015, Karen Brown and Sarah Weiland.
Non-paid positions were approved for the Class of 2016, Carol Burkholder and Kami Downing; Class of 2017, Lisa Hintz and Kristina Newman; and Class of 2018, Andrea Jacobs and Rebecca Nelson.
Other supplement positions are: instrumental music, John Keys; vocal music, Kelly Barkhimer; yearbook, Ryan Colegrove; National Honor Society, Suzette Boesger; Quiz Team, Sarah Altstaetter; Language Club, Alysa Short; Science Club, Kristina Newman; local professional development chair, Suzette Boesger; high school student council, Sarah Altstaetter; prom directors, Sarah Altstaetter and Barb Bruggeman; and elementary student council, Carrie Ueberroth.
Barbara Bruggeman and Alysa Short will share the position of district mentor coordinators.
Substitute bus drivers are Rodney Kessler, Dan Seiler, Carolee Hartman, Steve Hartman, Chris Hylander, LaWonda Keefer and Rod Sommers.
Brad Raby was hired as eighth grade girls basketball coach and Paula Stambaugh was approved as a volunteer cross country coach.
Substitute cafeteria workers are Lynnette Smith, Michelle Pilbeam, Diane Reinking, Daun Figgins, Eloise Wyse, Kelly Willeman, Doris Cuff and Wendy Burkholder.
Substitute secretaries are Lynnette Smith, Michelle Pilbeam, Eloise Wyse, Paula Ferguson and Doris Cuff.
Substitute study hall monitors are Lynnette Smith, Michelle Pilbeam, Diane Reinking, Paula Ferguson, Eloise Wyse and Doris Cuff.
Substitute custodial staff is Lynnette Smith, Diane Reinking, Doris Cuff, Wendy Adams and Wendy Burkholder.
AUDIT—The firm of Julian and Grube, Inc., was hired to perform the annual audit for Medicaid revenue for the period of October 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011 at a cost of $1,700.
DEVELOPMENT—The board approved Fayette's involvement in a county-wide professional development day Sept. 28.
TUITION—Fayette's tuition rate was set at $3,695, as established by the Ohio Department of Education.


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In 1947, the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) became the coeducational Florida State University (FSU). When men enrolled in Tallahassee for the first time in over 40 years, plans emerged to field a football team as soon as possible.
Until 1950, FSU played its home football games at Centennial Field on South Monroe Street, near the State Capitol Building in Tallahassee. Dubbed the "Bleacher Bowl," Centennial Field hosted baseball and high school football games prior the late 1940s.
In order to prepare Centennial Field for college football, the City of Tallahassee pledged $14,000 to purchase 3,000 portable bleachers. The price of admission during FSU's inaugural season: $2.40 for reserved seating; $1.80 for general admission. Fans could opt to purchase season tickets at a cost of $7.20.
After FSU moved to Doak Campbell, Centennial Field hosted occasional sporting events. The photo above shows action from a softball game between the Governor's staff and the Legislative staff in 1968.
FSU played its first game at Doak Campbell Stadium on October 8, 1950.
The former site of Centennial Field is currently being developed by the City of Tallahassee, and will become part of Cascades Park.


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When I taught Spanish in public school I projected Hispanic and Latino artwork on my pull-down screen and had students journal or make comments for a daily grade. Initially, the still worlds of painted color intimidated my media loving students, and they complained.
"How am I going to use this painting in the real world?"
"This isn't art class."
"Can't you just give us a worksheet?"
"We're going to study it silently for five minutes, then make three comments in Spanish," was my answer.
"It's ugly. It's hard. It's weird," someone called out every year.
My students were not stupid, but they lacked the practice required to see.
I learned to start the unit with Fernando Botero, a contemporary Columbian artist who paints everything rotund, enormous, and downright fat. Even unmotivated and bored students loved to make judgments on the appearances of others, so we'd get the conversation going with one word: gordo.
Rony, an immigrant from Honduras, took my Spanish course because it was an easy A. He scooted in daily, just before the bell, and flashed me a brilliant smile as he shook my hand at the door. He chatted constantly with a pretty girl who sat next to him, and I frequently had to prevent him from "helping" other students on quizzes.
He took one look at Botero's Niños Ricos and rattled off three comments for his grade: "There are three kids and a nanny. They're wearing old-timey clothes. They're fat," he said in Spanish, leaning back and grinning ear to ear.
"He's taking all the easy ones," a girl said, rolling her eyes. "I was going to say those! That's all I know how to say." The rest of my students grumbled in agreement.
I looked back at Rony and raised my eyebrows.
"Ok," he said and took a breath. "Maybe the artist paints these people fat so that you have to think about how everyone would look if they were fat. And then it's like no one is fat, and we all just see each other for the beauty on the inside."
I was the one smiling this time and noted Rony's grade.Down the hall, my friend Kim Alexander taught Rony and one hundred other immigrants English as a Second Other Language—ESOL. Like Botero, Kim is also a painter, and in honor of her students she has a series of paintings entitled "The Young Immigrants."
Like Botero's fat people, most of Kim's students are not truly seen in our country. They don't play football, they rarely make the honor roll, and they're usually too poor to be fashionable. Some of them are in gangs, are teenage parents, or don't wear deodorant. Their whole sub-group grieves the annual statistical analysis compiled by the public school system because when you try to work their problems like equations the answers often fall below standard.
And though Kim is required to test and tally scores for her students, she knows that she can't strip Rony and these other children down to slender, pale, creatures of transparency. Like Botero, Kim understands that people are gargantuan, rotund, and strange, so she accepts their complexities and then translates their beauty using acrylic on canvas.
Yet despite Kim's gifts, the beauty of these students is not instantly apparent even to her. She must practice using her vision on a daily basis. Waiting, sometimes months, until she finds something extraordinary in each child, and files it away in her heart.
Then she uses that small moment to help her love each one.
It is only because this vision is her practice that she can show it to the rest of us through her craft.
Similarly, my students grew to appreciate the paintings we studied; and by the end of the unit their commentaries switched entirely.
"How come we're not doing a painting today?"
"Señora, we studied Picasso in my geography class, and I already knew what cubism was!"
"Did you know there's a mural at the rec center?"
Seeing really was possible.
Last summer, Rony Parada died while trying to save his younger brother from drowning in a lake during a sudden storm. Despite the danger, he dove bravely into the crashing waves and was pulled under. Divers recovered their bodies and journalists told yet another story about young immigrants who didn't make it in the United States.
But before he died, Rony showed truth to each of us in that class. We practiced using our vision together. And for that small moment we could truly see.
He was beautiful.


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The shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been successfully refloated in preparation for towing it away for scrapping.
Authorities expressed satisfaction that the operation to float the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded without a hitch.
The cruise liner struck a reef in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people.
The ship was set upright in September and then crews fastened huge tanks to its flanks, like water wings, to float it.
Italy's environmental minister told reporters that the operation will only be finished when the ship is successfully transported to the port of Genoa for scrapping. Towing is set for later this month.
Concordia's Italian captain is being tried in Tuscany for manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning ship before all were evacuated.


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Blanket Watch
You know how I feel about BumpWatch: it's an insufferably unreliable form of gossip reporting and besides, how can we argue about promoting healthy body types when we accuse women of pregnancy if they migrate healthily from a size 0 to a size 2?
Blanket Watch on the other hand...
Blanket Watch, as non-physical camouflage, now that might be a more accurate gossip indicator. Here's Avril Lavigne in London last night using a blanket to cover her body, and British reporters are suggesting it's because she might be pregnant. The First Canadian Couple of Music...to produce an heir....? Our pride and joy!
Also attached - Avril and her fiancé, and possible baby father, in Paris last week to celebrate her birthday. Paris has never seen such a classy romance.
Oh and by the way, for those of you who care about these things, apparently Brody Jenner isn't taking this very well, that Avril is engaged. I'm told he's not over her. I don't understand the not being over her part, but reacting badly to losing out Chad Kroeger is totally understandable.
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September 18, 1943 - October 3, 2013
Washingtonville, NY
Andrew McCambridge of Washingtonville, NY was born on September 18, 1943 in Blantyre, Scotland to Andrew and Jane (McDonald) McCambridge, two wonderful parents who predeceased him.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Lucille Busi McCambridge; his daughter, Kristina McCambridge Luttrell and her husband, Joe of Pacso, Washington; son, Andrew "Drew" McCambridge and his wife, Laura of New Windsor, NY; his brother, Frank McCambridge of Yonkers, NY and two sisters: Veronica McCambridge Fish of Ardsley, NY and Estelle McCambridge Bousche and her husband, Jeff of New Windsor, NY; five grandchildren: Kayleigh, Kyle, Shelby, Kayla and Kaitlyn and several nieces and nephews and goddaughter, Janine McCambridge. Andrew is also survived by his little dog, Ty, who was his constant companion.
Andrew was past president and coach of the Dunwoodie Youth Association of Yonkers, NY for soccer and baseball. Andrew played soccer for the United States Military Olympic Team across Europe, the Middle East and the Mediterranean with the US Army. Andrews love for soccer started as a child in Scotland supporting the Glasgow Celtic Soccer Team. He also loved the NY Jets and the NY Mets.
Andrew will be well missed and never forgotten. His wife Lucille said, "Andy you are and always will be my eternal love, and I can't wait till we meet again".
Visitation will be held Sunday, October 6th, from 1 to 5 p.m. at David T. Ferguson Funeral Home, Washingtonville, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Monday, October 7th,, 10am at St. Mary's Church in Washingtonville, NY. Burial will immediately follow at 11 a.m. in Orange County Veterans Cemetery in Goshen, NY.
Arrangements are under the care of Thomas A. Murray of David T. Ferguson Funeral Home, 20 North St, Washingtonville, NY 10992, 845-496-9106; for more info, directions, or to leave condolences or a fond memory for the family, please visit www.davidtfergusonfh.com


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Prince William will honour Dame Helen Mirren with the Fellowship award at the BAFTA Awards 2014 on February 16 at London's Royal Opera House.
Prince William will present Dame Helen Mirren with the Fellowship award at the BAFTA Awards 2014.
The Duke of Cambridge - who is President of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - will honour the 68-year-old actress at the annual ceremony which will be held on February 16 at London's Royal Opera House.
Amanda Berry OBE, chief executive of BAFTA, is ''delighted'' to have the 31-year-old royal - whose grandfather, Prince Philip, was the organisation's first president in 1959 - attend the awards ceremony.
She said in a statement: ''We are delighted to welcome our President back to the EE British Academy Film Awards. The Duke loves film and he is incredibly supportive of the work BAFTA does.''
Berry was thrilled with the prince's backing for the BAFTA 'Give Something Back' campaign which calls on the organisation's members to share the knowledge and expertise of the industry with new and emerging talent.
She added: ''Over the last year, The Duke has attended the launch of our 'Give Something Back' campaign and also given his name to three BAFTA scholarships, helping us deliver our shared ambition of giving talented young people a chance to succeed, regardless of their background.''
Meanwhile, Mirren previously admitted she thought her work was too ''raunchy'' to receive a BAFTA Fellowship and was ''stunned'' to be following in the footsteps of the likes of Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Dame Judi Dench, Charlie Chaplin and Steven Spielberg in receiving the accolade.
She said: ''Much of the time my artistic choices are raunchy.''
Discussing her 1989 film 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover' - which featured cannibalism and violence - she added: ''In many ways it was right up my alley - and the quality in me that makes me relish that kind of thing was the reason I thought I would never, ever be the person to win this Fellowship.''
Ahead of their upcoming tour, and prior to the release of their long awaited album, Smoke Fairies played a great warm-up gig at Elsewhere in Margate.
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happy birthay chaz
ChZ, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPOSEN to me. I get good vibes when I hear that alot of us are waiting. Good luck to you and all and hope that 2011 is going to be a good year.
keeping on
You posted one of the few relevant posts in the thread What keeps you alive after breaking your neck? I just wanted to tell you that and wish you blessings to come, and I assent with you on getting your hands back and for all of us being restored in ways which will complete us and make us whole.
I am wondering how you copy and paste on your Mac that is the only thing I am concerned with really because I cant move my hands at all thanks bill
Thank you for the comment on my book!
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When you are Vertically Challenged – Hope for a Shopping Cart
I am Vertically Challenged. Years of Hope did not make me taller than 5 ft 2 inches. At least, I tell myself I was once 5 ft 2, but every visit to the Doctors office suggests either my memory is faulty, or I am shrinking.
In the photo below is our Vertically Challenged toy shopping cart at the cabin. I parked it between the two golf carts. I could imagine the little cart saying, "Wow, when I grow up, I hope I am as big as them!"
It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.
– Argus Hamilton –
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This is great! Love how you came with the idea of this photo….
So cute. I was always the "tall" sister and longed to be shorter like my sisters. My wise mother always told me to stand up straight and that some day I'd be glad. Now I am because I think it helps hide some of my extra pounds. However – my recent doctor visits and measurements indicate shrinkage too….such is the circle of life.
You made me smile. At 5′-5″….lately I've been thinking I'm shrinking!
Hi Marcie – Apparently we reach our peak height by age 40 and can lose up to 2 inches in height between ages 50 and 80. A similar loss in weight doesn't seem to occur….


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Interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Aired June 26, 2010 - 07:30 ET
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN HOST: Good morning and welcome. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. We're doing something a little different this morning on SGMD. We're taking a closer look at a man who has fascinated me ever since I was a medical student. When I was learning how to be a doctor, America was getting its first look at this -- it's the invention of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. It's an invention to assist people who want to commit suicide. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: With regard to the things that most people know Jack Kevorkian for, do you have any regrets about any of that? Dr. JACK KEVORKIAN, SUICIDE MACHINE INVENTOR: No, no. It's your purpose, physician. How can you regret helping a suffering patient? (END VIDEO CLIP) (MUSIC) GUPTA: Between 1990 and 1998, Dr. Jack Kevorkian helped at least 138 people kill themselves -- to avoid suffering, he says. There was one trial and one acquittal. But after giving a lethal injection himself and taping it, he was sent to prison for murder. He served a little more than eight years. And all that's told in a new documentary with the simple name, "Kevorkian." I wanted to talk about his impact on the world of medicine. So I asked him to meet me at the University of Michigan where we both learned how to be doctors. And I was the class of 1993. He, the class of 1952. One of the first things he told me was: I'm not sentimental. And then, we found his old class picture. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KEVORKIAN: There I am. There I is. He's dead. He's dead. He's dead. A good friend of mine. GUPTA: Is it nostalgic for you? KEVORKIAN: Well, invokes memories, yes. GUPTA: As your life has gone ever wonder what the folks on this picture ever thought of what you're doing, what you did? KEVORKIAN: Oh, yes. When I first did it, the first case, first of all, they thought I stigmatized the class. And one of the classmates said that I should be -- I should be put in prison for life. GUPTA: Do you think over the last 10 years, 20 years, hospice care has improved, pain management has improved? KEVORKIAN: Yes, after we started working, it really improved. GUPTA: Do you think it was in part because ... KEVORKIAN: Well, why do you think created the pain clinics all over? GUPTA: But was that the right -- I mean, that seems like a good outcome, right? I mean, treat people's pain ... KEVORKIAN: That's if you -- yes, that's if you want to keep living and some people don't. GUPTA: So, anybody who doesn't want to continue living should have that option? KEVORKIAN: If he's suffering. GUPTA: Did you ever tell anybody no? KEVORKIAN: Oh, four out of five. GUPTA: And what was your rationale for saying no? KEVORKIAN: After consulting with them. They needed more treatment. We had to have their mental capacity evaluated. We had the patient get their medical records, luckily there was a law passed where they had the right to do that. We get their records and go through everything in detail, see what they've done so far, see what the doctors and the specialists say -- is there more to be done or is this terminal. GUPTA: So they had to be terminal? KEVORKIAN: No. GUPTA: They could -- I mean, there's been some studies, as you know, and I wondered what you thought of them, but in one of the studies out of Colorado, they said of 75 patients that they looked at of yours, five of them had no evidence of disease. KEVORKIAN: The original diagnoses though were by other doctors. GUPTA: Did that bother when you read? That it could be possible that five people had no evidence of disease? KEVORKIAN: No, there was -- well, how about a quadriplegic? He's not terminal. Would you want to be quadriplegic? GUPTA: I don't think anybody would want to, but I'm not sure I'd want to die. KEVORKIAN: OK. I would. There's a difference. I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't -- that to me is not life. Like who is this physicist ... GUPTA: Steven Hawking? That's a good example. KEVORKIAN: No, he's -- he's very admired for what he's doing. I don't admire him for that. I admire him for what he did and his brain when he thinks, when he comes up with his thinking. But I don't admire him because he wants to keep living. GUPTA: Do you think he should have died? KEVORKIAN: No, I shouldn't -- not should have died. He chooses to live. That's fine. But if he chose to die, I would agree with it. Autonomy is the key. GUPTA: But people don't always know what they want, Dr. Kevorkian. KEVORKIAN: Oh, they know what they want. They know what they want. There's feelings, your instincts tell you that. You know what you want. GUPTA: We've all made bad decisions in times of suffering and desperation. KEVORKIAN: Sure. But that doesn't mean you don't know what you want. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: When we come back, we will have much more of Dr. Kevorkian on why he hates the assisted suicide laws that now exist in three states. Stay with us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "KEVORKIAN" COURTESY HBO) KEVORKIAN: Most people know (ph), because I can be absolutely free without fear. I may take consequences and may take some pain once in a while, but I'm free. Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it. (END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: And we are back with SGMD. This morning, we're taking a closer look at Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the man who launched a national debate about assisted suicide. There's a new film about his life and I wanted to learn what makes him tick. I also wanted to know, was he always so fascinated by death. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: When you started medical school here, this is part of the reason we decided to come to Ann Harbor, when you started here, did you have some of these thoughts then that you have now? KEVORKIAN: No. I didn't really want to go to college after I graduate from the high school. And the first thing I wanted to be in life when I was a kid -- and I was good at it -- was announcing baseball games, you know? GUPTA: Is that right? KEVORKIAN: That's what I wanted to be, a baseball announcer. And then when I got out of high school, I got good grades in high school, honor student and all that. But no direction, no mission, you know? And so, I -- my dad said, well, look, he said, try it for -- try it for just a semester and see how you like it or not. So that's why I went to college. GUPTA: But what did you tell people? They must have asked you at some point why you want to go to medical school. KEVORKIAN: Sure. I switched to -- I had one semester of engineering, and I didn't like it. And so, I decided what can I do? Well, medicine looked promising. It has honor, glory, the so-called noble profession, you know, so-called. GUPTA: You say so-called noble profession. KEVORKIAN: Yes, it's not noble. GUPTA: When you're a medical student or during your training, did you ever keep someone alive, someone who was going to die? KEVORKIAN: Well, we just followed orders. You had no choice. I saw cases that I -- that never should have been kept alive, never -- as an intern especially. So I sensed that euthanasia was necessary. And so, I didn't do anything about it because I knew it was illegal and I knew it'd be criticized. You would be called a quitter. Well, you know, nothing positive about it. But I knew it was not necessary. You see this terrible example of a human being, all misshaped, miscolored, suffering, you know, can't -- helpless. I remember, especially, in a state hospital seeing a child with hydrocephalus and I had never saw one before. The whole body was about this long. You know how long the body was without the head? The head was this long, like a balloon full of water lying flat. The head was kind of, you know, lying flat like it's ready to bust. Then I realized that there are some cases that should not be kept alive. But I never said it publicly. GUPTA: You setting up this device. KEVORKIAN: Yes. GUPTA: The patient has been evaluated. But ultimately, they're going to make this decision. Does the doctor have to be present when this happens? KEVORKIAN: No, he has to do it. That's like saying, well, we can't have your heart transplant without a doctor present. GUPTA: Do you think it's the same thing? KEVORKIAN: Not be present, do it. That's what's wrong with these laws we have now. Oregon, Montana, and Washington, that's not euthanasia. The doctor can't do it. The patient has got to take the pill himself. Now, if he can't move, he can't have it. If he can't swallow, he can't have it. GUPTA: What's happening in Oregon right now ... KEVORKIAN: ... is wrong. GUPTA: Do you think it's wrong? KEVORKIAN: Of course it's wrong. That's not medical service. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: When we come back, there's something else that Dr. Kevorkian told me that really came as a shock. Don't go away. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: Since getting out of prison, Dr. Jack Kevorkian says he still gets calls and letters from people asking for help to commit suicide. These days, he says no, but it makes him upset. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KEVORKIAN: I personally know three people, two personally, the other through contact, correspondence -- highly intelligent men, retired, former executive CEOs, not sick, not in pain, not depressed, who tell me all point blank, I'm going to end it. There's just nothing left to live for. All my friends are gone. My family is gone. Nothing left to live for. GUPTA: You're saying anybody who wants to end their life, and these two people ... KEVORKIAN: No. GUPTA: ... that you're talking about, though, they're perfectly healthy? KEVORKIAN: I'm not saying that. GUPTA: What exactly are you -- what should happen? KEVORKIAN: You take that teenager who wants to end his life because he's immature. But you've got a guy who is retired, he's -- former CEO, intelligent, healthy, good looking, everything good about him, nothing left to do in life, nothing left, no mission. GUPTA: That they know of. KEVORKIAN: No purpose. No purpose. GUPTA: That they know of. KEVORKIAN: Look, well, who else would know but he, the person? GUPTA: For many people, life is a gift. KEVORKIAN: It's a gift? Who gave it to you? GUPTA: Is life a gift? KEVORKIAN: Who gives it to you? Who gives you life? Your parents. Right. You weren't asked to be -- you know, Schopenhauer said it nicely, "What crime has this child committed that it should be born?" GUPTA: That's a profound -- that's a deeply pessimistic thing to hear. KEVORKIAN: But it's very sensible. My mother went through the Armenian holocaust, genocide. She'd often say when she would sit at this table, you know, what kind of life is this? You know, life is wonderful if you've got a good life, if you're healthy and painless and all that. Ask somebody in Darfur or in Iraq or somewhere, ask somebody if he wants to be -- if his -- if life is beautiful. GUPTA: So much of what happens in our lives we don't know -- we don't know what's around the next corner, we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. KEVORKIAN: That's right. GUPTA: So, for these two guys, again that you talk about, your friends who say they want to end it ... KEVORKIAN: Yes. GUPTA: ... do you tell them? KEVORKIAN: But they've done everything in life. GUPTA: They don't know what's tomorrow. KEVORKIAN: There's no mission for their ... GUPTA: Maybe they'll meet the love of their life tomorrow. KEVORKIAN: Well, they have already met the love of their life. Their wife is dead. Everybody's life is different and that's why it's hard to judge. I am for absolute autonomy, got that? There's nobody that's got more autonomy in mind than I have. That's what's wrong with this world in this life. GUPTA: If you'd -- if you had some completely treatable disease yourself, that if you treated it, you would be fine. If you didn't treat it, you would die. What would you do? KEVORKIAN: It depends on circumstances. When you're young, you know you're going to live forever and the world is wonderful and rosy. It's been propagandized to death. Everywhere you -- every institution, public institution has to do that to survive, has to be what's called optimistic. Well, I can train myself to be sort of pessimistic. GUPTA: If you're pessimistic and you are in the type of business that you are in for a period of time, do you worry that somehow you might be imposing your world view on someone else who's desperate, who may be suffering, who may be in pain? KEVORKIAN: No, I would never do that. GUPTA: Is there some virtue in simply being alive? KEVORKIAN: No. I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: When we come back, what's next for Jack Kevorkian? What he says is his new mission in life. Stay with us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KEVORKIAN: After six years, you say whoa. This is it. I'm never going to get out. And at that time, you say, why go on? Then I was ill, weak and I thought my liver was going. And it was pretty hopeless. And then I saw this little book on constitutional amendments. That's all it was about. I said, well, I don't know anything about those, you know? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Squeeze. KEVORKIAN: I was flipping through it and I get through all the amendments. And I got to the ninth. Suddenly, a big bulb went on over my head. And I says, wow, I says, I didn't commit any crime. (END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: What you're looking at is a clip there from a new documentary called "Kevorkian." It's about the man who led the movement for assisted suicide. And here's more of our conversation. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: What keeps you going? KEVORKIAN: Mission. GUPTA: What is the mission? KEVORKIAN: Well, I got three of them. One, come out in the book in about a month and a half. A little book is coming out. We've kept it quiet. It ain't going to make me popular. GUPTA: What is it? KEVORKIAN: Well, that's -- that's one mission. One mission is to warn you about the disappearance of the species Homo sapiens because we're committing suicide. (CROSSTALK) GUPTA: Why are doomed? KEVORKIAN: Huh? GUPTA: Why are doomed? KEVORKIAN: Well, I can't tell you now. (INAUDIBLE) read it. GUPTA: What's the second mission? KEVORKIAN: Number one, we've discussed. Number two, euthanasia. GUPTA: Number one is going to make you really unpopular and we're all going to be doomed. KEVORKIAN: The third one -- the third one ... GUPTA: Number two is euthanasia. What's number three? KEVORKIAN: Number three, our rights -- our human rights. We're born with them. Natural rights. Have you heard of the Ninth Amendment in the Constitution? GUPTA: Sure. KEVORKIAN: I wrote this in prison. GUPTA: Wrote this in prison? KEVORKIAN: Yes. Ninth Amendment. Look at the back page. GUPTA: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. KEVORKIAN: What's that say? Ninth Amendment says any right listed in this Constitution doesn't mean that you can deny -- get that word "deny" -- or disparage -- you know what that means -- others retained by the people. The law doesn't create a right. You're born with it. All the law does is stop you from using one, right? GUPTA: Do you think they were wrong to send you to prison? Based on the laws of the land? KEVORKIAN: They were wrong not according to their law -- they were OK according to their laws. But their laws were unconstitutional. Ninth Amendment. Whether euthanizing is -- oh, I never told you the medical term for that. It's Greek. Patholysis (ph). GUPTA: For euthanasia? KEVORKIAN: Yes. You know what it means, pathos ... GUPTA: Disease. KEVORKIAN: Or suffering. GUPTA: And lysis (ph), get rid of. KEVORKIAN: Get rid of it. Totally. GUPTA: The ultimate way to get rid of disease or suffering is to? KEVORKIAN: Of getting rid of suffering, real suffering, the ultimate way of getting rid of it is dying. That's the only way. You know, there's some pain you can't control with medicine. You know that? You know that. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: When we come back, Dr. Kevorkian tells me new the one thing he does regret. Stay with us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: And we are back with SGMD. I've been talking with Dr. Jack Kevorkian. And one thing you might not know about him, he's a painter of fine arts. And before we finished the interview, I asked him about his dark, dark vision. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: This is really, really morbid stuff. KEVORKIAN: No, it's honest. It's fact. GUPTA: What? KEVORKIAN: It's fact. It's just unpleasant fact. See, this is the point -- people don't look at unpleasant aspects of life because they've been trained to look at the pleasant stuff. This is war. GUPTA: This one ... KEVORKIAN: This one is most popular among young people. GUPTA: I saw that on the cover as well. (INAUDIBLE) That's how humans feel about dying, at least about their own deaths. KEVORKIAN: Most people think about dying. GUPTA: Is this what they envision? Is that what you're seeing yourself? KEVORKIAN: Most people think of dying that way. Yes, sinking into the oblivion. GUPTA: And all these other facing looking up at them. KEVORKIAN: And sparing nothing, wearing your fingers to the bones to try to avoid it. GUPTA: He wants to live. KEVORKIAN: Huh? GUPTA: He wants to live. KEVORKIAN: He's a weakling. GUPTA: You know, the last thing I really want to sort of ask you about, and how much of Jack Kevorkian has become sort of the caricature of Jack Kevorkian? How much of this is just because people expect you to behave a certain way? KEVORKIAN: No. GUPTA: Act a certain way? KEVORKIAN: No, I'm acting freely now. I feel good acting this way. I'm not lying. GUPTA: Is this the genuine? KEVORKIAN: I'm not lying to myself like most people. And I thought -- I know my defects and my deficiencies. I know what life is like. GUPTA: Any regrets about anything? KEVORKIAN: No. GUPTA: None? KEVORKIAN: No. The only regrets I have is I could have treated my parents better and my sisters better, you know, it's personal relationships. But anything else I've done -- anything I've done publicly, especially since graduation, is all my doing. I take full blame. GUPTA: Pleasure to meet you. It's an honor. KEVORKIAN: Thank you. GUPTA: I've always wanted to meet you. KEVORKIAN: Oh, come on. GUPTA: Seriously. I've wanted to meet you for a long time. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: I can tell you, this was a day that made me think very hard about things, about what it means to be a doctor and what it means to help people. I hope it gives you something to think about as well. Unfortunately, that does it for this edition of SGMD. If you want to see more of Jack Kevorkian, you can watch "Kevorkian," the documentary, the biography. It premiers on our sister network, HBO, June 28th. You can also watch more of this interview with Dr. Kevorkian at CNNHealth.com. And if you missed any part of today's show, be sure to check out my podcast at CNN.com/podcasting. Thanks for watching. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. More news on CNN starts right now.