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Below is a list of famous Jewish Catholics (or Catholic Jews, or Hebrew Catholics).
"Jewish Catholics" are simply people that are both Catholic and Jewish. Many of these individuals had one Catholic parent and one Jewish parent. (It does not matter whether it was the mother or father that was Catholic or Jewish.) Other individuals on this list had two Jewish parents (or only one), but they converted to Catholicism during their life.
There are exceptions, of course, but for the most part, Jewish Catholics do not practice the religion of Judaism in any meaningful way. Their "Jewishness" is merely an ethnicity, a fact of birth. These individuals may or may not have any meaningful self-identity as Jews. Generally speaking, if Jewish Catholics practice any religion, that religion is Catholicism.
The list of Jewish Catholics may
include people who were fully Catholic, but who converted religiously to Judaism.
Sean Penn
- actor, movie star
(devout Catholic mother; non-observant Jewish father)
Fritz Lang
- famous German film director
(Catholic father; mother was Jewish convert to devout Catholicism; Fritz raised as a devout Catholic)
Roger Corman
- famously successful and prolific independent/low-budget feature filmmaker
(half Jewish; raised Catholic)
Erich von Stroheim
- famous Austrian-born actor-director
(both parents Jewish; convert to Catholicism while young; lifelong active Catholic)
Roman Polanski
- film director
(both parents agnostic Jews; Roman converted to Catholicism at age 10, active until age 15; has some Jewish ethnic identity)
Oliver Stone
- film director
(lapsed Catholic mother; non-observant Jewish father; raised Episcopalian; converted to Buddhism as adult)
Adam Goldberg
- actor;
Saving Private Ryan
, etc.
(lapsed Jewish father, lapsed Catholic mother)
Barry Gifford
- poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter
(Jewish father; Irish Catholic mother; anti-Catholic as an adult)
Fiorello LaGuardia
- progressive, liberal, powerful Republical mayor of New York City (served 1934-1945)
(son of Jewish and Italian immigrants)
Douglas Fairbanks
- actor, silent screen legend
(Jewish father, Catholic mother - both lapsed; Fairbanks was never active in either faith)
Helena Bonham Carter
- actress;
Planet of the Apes
Fight Club
Howards End
(1992); other Merchant Ivory films; etc.
(mother was a Jewish convert to Catholicism)
Robert Novak
- conservative columnist and TV commentator
(Jewish convert to Catholicism)
Harrison Ford
- actor; "Han Solo" in
Star Wars
Indiana Jones, Witness, Air Force One
, etc.
(Jewish mother)
Courtney Love
- grunge rock singer
(one grandparent was Jewish)
Bill Maher
- comedian, commentator, previously hosted TV talk show
Politically Incorrect
(Jewish mother, Catholic father, he is a Vegan)
Marcel Proust
- influential novelist
Billy Joel
- singer, songwriter
(both parents are Jewish; raised Catholic and identified himself as Catholic; now atheist)
John von Neumann
- mathematician and physicist whose work led to development of modern computers
Gabriela Mistral
- Chilean poet, educator, diplomat; first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
J.D. Salinger
- popular, acclaimed novelist for his novel
The Catcher in the Rye
(Jewish/Catholic family background; adopted Hinduism as an adult, also Scientology and Christian Science)
Neve Campbell
- actress
(Jewish ancestry on mother's side; identifies both as Jewish and Catholic)
John Kerry
- Senator from Massachusets; 2004 Democratic nominee for U.S. President
(Catholic. Paternal Jewish grandparents converted to Catholicism)
- French philosopher, prognosticator,
(raised Catholic)
Wesley Clark
- Wesley Kane Clark was the NATO Allied Commander in Europe; unsuccessfully ran to be Democratic nominee for U.S. President
(Jewish father, raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism)
Max Jacob
- French artist
(Jewish-born; converted to Catholicism)
Frida Kahlo
- influential Mexican painter, friend of Leon Trotsky
(Jewish father, Catholic mother)
Diego Rivera
- influential Mexican painter
(he was a "Converso", a descendant of Jews forced into Catholicism; atheist)
Edgardo Mortara
- Jewish Italian seized by Papal authority as a child; became a Catholic priest; famous as catalyst for Jewish-Catholic relations, dialogue
Susan Jacoby
- author,
(father half-Jewish, converted to Catholicism)
Gustav Mahler
- Austro-Hungarian Viennese composer
(converted to Catholicism)
Jean-Marie Lustiger
- Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris
(ethnic Jew, born to a Polish Jewish family living in France; raised Catholic)
Edith Stein
- Catholic nun, Holocaust victim
Uriel Acosta
- Potuguese philosopher
(raised Catholic)
Theodor Adorno
- German philosopher, composer,
(ethnic Jewish father became Protestant; Catholic mother)
Simone Weil
- French philosopher
(converted to Catholicism)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Austrian philosopher
(father's parents became Protestants, mother was Catholic)
Lindsey Vuolo
- Playboy Playmate
(Jewish mother, father converted from Catholicism)
Bernard Nathanson
- former abortionist (doctor who performed abortions) turned pro-life activist; rejected abortion on scientific grounds
(Jewish convert to Catholicism)
Karl Stern
(1906-1975) - neuropsychiatrist and author; author of
Pillar of Fire
, etc.
(Jewish convert to Catholicism)
Israel Zolli
- Chief Rabbi of Rome
(converted to Catholicism)
Jim Croce
- rock musician whose hits include "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
(raised in devout Catholic family; converted to Judaism when he married Ingrid Jacobson)
Amanda Bynes
- teen actress, Nickelodeon TV show host;
All That; The Amanda Show; Big Fat Liar; What a Girl Wants
; etc.
(Catholic father, Jewish mother)
Anne Meara
- actress, comedian; married to actor Jerry Stiller, father of actor Ben Stiller
(Irish Catholic convert to Judaism)
Arlo Guthrie
- folk singer; composer of "Alice's Restaurant"
(Jewish mother; convert to Catholicism)
Dick Morris
- former advisor for Pres. Bill Clinton; political author
Don Adams
- actor best known as the fumbling spy "Maxwell Smart" on the TV series
Get Smart
(Irish Catholic mother, Hungarian Jewish father, raised Catholic)
Dutch Schultz
- prohibition era mobster; real name: Arthur Fleggenheimer
(Jewish convert to Catholicism)
Franz Schreker
- Austrian-German composer
(Jewish father)
Harry Connick Jr.
- singer, actor
(ethnically part Jewish; raised Catholic, practicing Catholic)
Hedy Lamarr
- actress, inventor of the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication
Hermann Broch
- German novelist;
The Death of Virgil
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Austrian German-language poet and dramatist
Jacques Offenbach
- French composer
Jerry Orbach
- actor;
Law and Order
(Jewish father)
Johann Strauss
- composer known as "The Waltz King";
Blue Danube, Acceleration Waltz, Emperor Waltz
, etc
Jorge Sampaio
- president of Portugal
(Catholic, but son of a Sefaradi Jewish mother)
Julianna Margulies
- actress on TV drama
(Jewish father, raised Catholic by mother)
Kevin Kline
- Oscar-winning actor;
Sophie's Choice, A Fish Called Wanda, Dave, French Kiss
, etc.
(Jewish father)
Marianne Faithfull
- British singer, actress
(Jewish convert to Catholicism at her school's request)
Michael Bennett
- choreographer
(Jewish mother)
Michael Landon
- actor best known as "Pa" on
Little House on the Prairie
TV series; real name: Eugene Maurice Orowitz
(Jewish father, Catholic mother, baptized Catholic)
Paulo Costanzo
- actor; sitcom
; films
Road Trip, 40 Days and 40 Nights
, etc.
(Jewish mother)
Phoebe Cates
- actress;
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
, etc.
(real name: Phoebe Katz)
Pierre Salinger
- white house press secretary, 1961-64
(Jewish father)
Tom Baker
- actor; played the Doctor on BBC series
Doctor Who
from 1974 to 1981
Wolfgang Pauli
- discoverer of the Exclusion Principle and the neutrino
(Jewish father, half-Jewish mother, converted from Judaism to Catholic, but later left Catholic Church)
Yves Montand
- famous French actor/singer
Robert De Niro
- actor
(lapsed Catholic father and an atheist Presbyterian-raised mother; possible Jewish ancestry)
Christopher Columbus
- explorer who led Europians to American continent
(possibly part-Jewish)
Famous Jewish/Catholic Couples:
George Burns
Gracie Allen
: George Burns (a non-observant Jew) and Gracie (a devout Catholic) were regarded as having one of the great marriages of Hollywood history
Alan Alda and Arlene Weiss
: Alda (actor best known as "Hawkeye Pierce" on TV's
), was a devout Catholic when he married Weiss, who was an observant Jew. At the time their first child was born, Alda ceased Catholic Church activity and his wife mostly lapsed from Judaism. They raised their children in "a loosely associated 'free thought' style of religion, the family nevertheless celebrates religious holidays--both Catholic and Jewish"
Fred Zinnemann and Renee Bartlett
: film director Zinnemann was essentially a non-observant Jew. Probably partially because of the influence of being married to a Catholic, he made some profoundly Catholic films, including
The Nun's Story
(1959) and
A Man for All Seasons
(1966). His films
The Seventh Cross
(1944) and
(1977) are considered great Jewish films.
Francois Truffaut and Madeleine Morgenstern
: film critic/director Truffaut was a non-practicing Catholic. His wife was a Hungarian Jew.
Martin Scorsese and Laraine Marie Brennan
: Before studying film at New York University, film director Scorsese had dropped out of Seminary where he had intended to become a Catholic priest. His first wife (Brennan) was Irish-Jewish. They were married on 15 May 1965 in a traditional Catholic ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral soon after Scorsese's graduation from NYU. They had 1 child before they divorced. Scorsese has said his marriage had a lot to do with his rejection of his parents' values and his turning away from formal activity in Catholicism.
Interesting Novel:
A God in Ruins
, by Leon Uris: It's 2008, and the Democratic candidate for the presidency is Jewish--but, as an orphan who was raised Catholic, he doesn't even know it. Is America ready for a Jewish president? We'll find out in this long awaited novel from an author known for his historical sagas usually centering on the Jews or the Irish. This time he gets to deliver both in the same hero.
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7 April 2012
Crikey! This Easter long weekend, Robert will be taking dinner-time matters into his own hands and feeding our American alligators.
Our fearless 8-year-old dynamo has recently begun learning how to feed, and is really excited to show off his new skills.
The smaller 'gators love to chow down on various snacks, including insects, fish, rats and birds. As they grow bigger their prey in the wild also becomes larger, like cows and deer.
Check out Robert's feeding time in the Environmental Park at 3.15pm this Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
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Wild American alligators live only in the USA, in any freshwater system they can find! This includes both natural and man-made freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers, and wetland areas, sometimes even in the middle of housing estates. Very occasionally American alligators can be also spotted in the ocean, however unlike Australia's saltwater crocodile, the alligator does not possess salt glands and must return to fresh water regularly to drink and rid itself of salt.
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Before breaking into a three hour closed session, the board discussed critical issues facing the district, including a severe cash crisis and the resignation of three doctors and other key staff members.
The cash crisis was brought about, in part, by the acquisition of a new Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system approximately one year ago.
The new system, by Cerner, cost $1.4 million and includes a $29,000 per month maintenance fee. Despite the hefty price tag, implementing the EMR system has proven to be a financial nightmare for the district.
Accounts Receivable (AR) have grown to the point of creating a cash crisis. Officials state that AR for the district takes more than 90 days to collect, while AR at Blue Mountain Hospital takes about 30 days to collect.
"We have hired a new collections agency," said Laurie Schafer, interim CEO of the District. "We have found that the queue of invoices is workable and payable, it is just going to take work."
District employees discussed their strategy of getting on top of current billing, in addition to rebilling unpaid invoices from the past year. The district also plans to rebill invoices from the system that was replaced in 2013.
"The goal is to turn this around in 90 days," added Schafer.
While discussing an assessment from Cerner about the billing challenges, board member Steve Simpson said, "The challenges and recommendations are daunting, to say the least. We have been brought to brink of ruin by policies that we shouldn't have allowed to happen."
While discussing ongoing changes, Simpson added that the district needs to "clean house, get a new start and move ahead better than ever."
Despite the current conditions, Simpson added that he is hopeful for the future. Responding to a comment from the public that the district will close, Simpson said, "We are bailing mightily, and we don't think that the ship will sink."
Schafer outlined an aggressive strategy to replace three departing doctors. Five firms are seeking permanent and temporary replacements. The district is receiving proposals from visiting specialists from other areas.
In addition, local doctors outside of the system may also be used. In fact, increased cooperation between the district and other health systems in the area is a key component of any turn-around effort.
Donna Singer, who was instrumental in the creation of Utah Navajo Health Systems (UNHS) and Blue Mountain Hospital (BMH), said she had been instructed by both organizations to attend the meeting. They operate the hospital in Blanding and clinics in Blanding, Montezuma Creek, Monument Valley and Navajo Mountain.
Singer said, "UNHS and BMH are more than willing to work together, in whatever capacity we can, to help provide a countywide health system."
"If we expand our vision," added Singer, "there is no reason we can't have high-quality health care in every area of the county."
Board member Burton Black said, "We have been committed to two Critical Access Hospitals in San Juan County for quite some time and believe that the county has never been better served."
Singer shared the BMH experience with EMR systems, adding, "It is an extremely difficult transition for everyone at the hospital. It is not an overnight transition. You have to be patient, but in the end, it elevates quality of care."
A series of personnel changes have caused havoc in the district, which all came to a head when Dr. Curtis Black, Dr. Paul Reay and Dr. Bryce Peterson all recently announced that they are leaving.
In December, 2013, the board did not renew the contract of CEO Phil Lowe and hired Schafer as an interim CEO. At about the same time, the license of Dr. Kris Hayes was rescinded by the state.
In recent weeks, several additional staff members have resigned or retired, including key members of the billing staff.
The employee turnover has caused morale challenges and generated uncertainty in the communities served by the district.
Isabel Reay, the wife of Dr. Reay, told the board, "You have got to acknowledge that there is a personnel issue at the hospital. Problems have been there for a very long time. Are you going to investigate this properly, or not?"
Referring to the personnel issues, Simpson said, "Three doctors have chosen to leave, for whatever reason. That is there choice, not ours."
The agenda listed the extended closed session to discuss "Personnel Issues/Possible Litigation". Several board members said they are not aware of possible litigation, leading to the assumption that personnel issues are the main topic of the closed session.
(Next week: The San Juan Record will take a closer look at health district operations.)


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The Leadership Conference of Women Religious finds new defenders everyday, with America's Jim Martin rallying the troops on Twitter. Religion News Service's David Gibson analyzed the situation on Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.
New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan is getting heat for his response to a request from the director of a shelter for youth, who invited the cardinal to meet with LGBT young people; Dolan's response triggered gay Catholic Joseph Amodeo to resign from New York Catholic Charities junior board. Amodeo explains at Religion Dispatches.
Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky is being pressured to resign from Notre Dame's Board of Fellows by ND faculty because of his comparison of President Obama to Stalin and Hitler. Down in Miami, Archbishop Thomas Wenski suggests that the Obama administration's policies could be seen as reflecting "anti-Catholic sentiment" and compared the bishops' current battle over religious liberty to the civil rights movement. When asked if he feared a backlash from the bishops' political activity, he responded: "That sort of sounds like during the civil rights era telling the black people to keep quiet rather than to press their rights." Careful with those analogies, archbishop.


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AMC's "The Killing," about the grisly murder of young Rosie Larsen, was pronounced dead at the end of a troubled two-season run that included declining ratings amid a revolt by once-supportive critics and fans over what they perceived to be the failed promise to end the first season by revealing the identity of the killer.
But despite its cancellation, "The Killing" did not rest in peace.
The faithful, including some network executives and creator/executive producer Veena Sud, always held out a glimmer of hope that the series, which earned high praise for its moody tension and the performance of leads Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman, might somehow be resurrected.
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Now, almost a year after its "series finale," "The Killing" has risen and will be back for a third season beginning June 2, with Enos, Kinnaman and Sud on board.
The story picks up more than a year after the close of the Larsen investigation. Troubled Seattle homicide detective Sarah Linden (Enos) has quit the force and is trying to put her life back together, while former partner Stephen Holder (Kinnaman) has risen in the ranks and become a respected investigator.
A new mystery brings the pair back together: Holder's search for a runaway girl who has become part of a band of wayward teens living by their wits on the streets of Seattle. The hunt leads to the gruesome discovery of murders apparently connected to a previous case headed up by Linden. When Holder seeks Linden's help, she is reluctantly drawn back into her former life.
"I feel blessed and so lucky," Sud said in a telephone interview. "This season represents an incredible opportunity to continue to tell the story of these great characters. I'm very grateful."
She said she devoted extensive research into the lives of runaway street kids as a backdrop for the show's return so "we can create a tapestry for Linden and Holder to play. We really wanted to highlight the best of Seasons 1 and 2 and continue what worked — the atmospheric storytelling, the investigation, looking at the impact beyond the victims, what are the shock waves that go through the world when someone is murdered."
In mapping out the new season, Sud promoted co-executive producers Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, who had been with the series since the beginning, to executive producers.
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Said Prestwich: "There's much more a sense of urgency and threat than there was the first season. Before, it was the investigation of a murder that had happened. Now it's about killings that are happening."
The producers spent considerable time studying documentaries of homeless teens, and also interviewed young hustlers and panhandlers.
Yorkin said "The Killing" will also explore the world of death row with a story line revolving around a convicted murderer (Peter Sarsgaard) whom Linden had arrested and who is scheduled to be executed in a few weeks.
The relationship between Linden and Holder will, of course, be a central element: "It takes them awhile to build back the trust with each other," said Yorkin.
Still, the series and AMC face uncertainty: Will enough viewers who abandoned the series be enticed by a new mystery to return? The ratings noticeably fell off during the progression of the second season.
AMC President Charlie Collier said that the controversy surrounding "The Killing" put network executives in a tough spot, and that canceling the show was "very difficult."
"Mixed emotions came with that decision," Collier said. "It was made based on different inputs and competing needs. But when it came down to it, we just couldn't shake these characters. We were passionate about the storytelling, passionate about the show and we kept hearing from the core passionate audience. Now we have a new case, with all our MVPs back. With a new case brings new opportunity."
Enos said she was thrilled to step back into Linden's skin: "Once we were back, it felt like no time has passed. Veena has such a strong driving sense of the story, and Joel and I love working together. This is the best crew I've ever worked with — such a warm, generous group of people."
The actress is still puzzled about the show's past struggles and the disenchantment of some of the fans.
"It was so strange," she said. "The first season was such a love affair. Then it became so baffling. The reality is, I was much more proud of my work in Season 2, but we were shadowed by this weird audience reaction, this snark. But ultimately we were brought back because there's this large audience that was so upset that we were gone."
Baffling, perhaps, but AMC and Sud got the message and have made it clear: This season of "The Killing" will deal with one case and have a definite conclusion when the 12 episodes are over.
"What happened was absolutely a learning experience for me as a storyteller, and sometimes experiences are not easy," Sud said. "You have to walk through a storm, and at the end of that storm was Linden and Holder. The worst thing that could have happened has already happened. Now I'm just rejoicing in the true pleasure and joy of being back."


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After seeing the Karl Rove Super PAC produced ad that mocked President Obama as a celebrity, the Obama campaign threw a big counterpunch Friday. And it is drawing some serious wrath.
It released an online-only ad featuring one of the campaign's top surrogates — former President Bill Clinton — touting one of the most powerful accomplishments of Obama's term, the assassination of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
"He took the harder, and the more honorable path," Clinton said in the 1 1/2 minute video ad. "And the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result." The ad ended by questioning what presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney would have done. Check it out here:
And now, Sen. John McCain is ticked. Said the 2008 GOP nominee and Romney surrogate:
"Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. This is the same President who once criticized Hillary Clinton for invoking bin Laden 'to score political points.'
"This is the same President who said, after bin Laden was dead, that we shouldn't 'spike the ball' after the touchdown. And now Barack Obama is not only trying to score political points by invoking Osama bin Laden, he is doing a shameless end-zone dance to help himself get reelected.
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With the build up to the World cup this story has been rather queit but ive just heard a report on radio 5 on it and it's shocking how far reaching it seems to have been.
This BBC report sums it up pretty well
The corruption scandal engulfing Italy has left the country with a real sense of shame.
Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi is alleged to have fixed matches and pretty much controlled the Italian league.
It is claimed he had control of some of the top referees and administrators as well as over 220 players through an agency run by his son Alessandro, and the son of Italian coach Marcello Lippi, Davide.
AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio are also caught up in the scandal as are the national team, who are preparing for the World Cup.
Italy, and the whole of European football, has not seen anything like this before.
I travelled there for three days last week to try and speak to the main players.
After a marathon 22-hour day, we cornered the owner of Palermo, Rino Foschi, in a restaurant at 0100 to gauge his views on what has been going on.
Foschi was having dinner with the directors of Sampdoria and Fiorentina in a restaurant in Milan and I managed to persuade him to have a brief conversation on tape with me.
The scene was like something out of a Godfather film, and I half expected Robert de Niro or Al Pacino to be sitting at the next table.
I also spoke to Giuseppe Gazzoni-Frascara, the former owner of Bologna. The club was relegated in 2005 and Gazzoni-Frascara told me it was as a result of the "Moggi system".
Moggi resigned after Juventus won the Italian championship last month
He claimed that Bologna were not prepared to sign up and ended up being relegated instead of Fiorentina.
I set out to speak to Moggi himself, which none of the Italian media has managed to do - and I got very close.
Through various intermediaries he finally agreed for me to fly and meet him in Turin but it got vetoed by his lawyer, which was very frustrating.
However, we did manage to get the country's new sports minister, Giovanna Melandri, who said Italian football fans have suffered a great wound but insisted that things could be sorted out.
And I will be discussing the issue with Fifa president Sepp Blatter, world football's most senior figure, to get his take on the scandal.
My feeling as I left Italy was that the whole of their national game is in danger of imploding. How they are going to clean up a mess which is so interwoven?
Juve's title celebrations may be shortlived
This was highlighted at a press conference where Italian League president and AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani was speaking.
Some Italians believe he should have known what was going on and at the press conference a mob of about 50 fans gathered outside chanting and letting off smoke bombs. It was all pretty scary.
Juventus fans are in a particularly terrible position. They could see their club relegated to Serie B or even go out of business if the Agnelli family decides to stop funding the club.
There is real urgency here because all the national federations have to give Uefa the official lists of clubs who are competing in the Champions League and the Uefa Cup by 27 July.
Italian football will have to come up with some pretty strong answers and satisfy Uefa that they are in the process of cleaning up the game.
They have not got long to do this and there is the possibility that the biggest brands in world football like Juventus and AC Milan may not feature in Europe next season.


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The Alt-Raid (Rant) Quiz
For the following quiz, assume the following scenario: you are looking to raid ICC10 on your alt. Multiple Choice; partial credit allowed for some questions. 20 points per question.
1. If you were to form your own alt raid, how would you do it?
- a) Post to your guild/realm forums a few days in advance, selecting players first from your guild and extended friends' list, then carefully screening puggers to fill in necessary roles/buffs *if* you don't feel comfortable "carrying" them.
- b) Impromptu raid formation, selecting players first from your guild and extended friends' list, then carefully screening puggers to fill in necessary roles/buffs *if* you don't feel comfortable "carrying" them.
- c) Impromptu raid formation, selecting players first from your guild and friends list, then posting in LFG/trade chat to pick up any pugger who happens to say they might fill that role.
- d) Impromptu raid formation, if your guildies notice it going over trade chat, then they might come, too.
- e) Trade chat, and advertise gearscore limits.
- f) e, but with spamming! Also, don't invite (or inspect and then kick) anyone that might take the loot you want.
2. If you were looking to just join an alt raid, how would you do it?
- a) Join in a pre-planned guild alt night.
- b) Gather some guildies with alts that might like to go, and see if any would like to lead one.
- c) Gather some guildies with alts that might like to go, and merge your raid with one being advertised in LFG-chat.
- d) Watch trade chat and the LFG chat to find someone advertising their raid group with slots open for the role you are interested in.
- e) Join the LFD tool, then give up after seeing no one else is using it and posting something along the lines of "[class] LFG [raidinstance], pst" in LFG and trade chat channels. Eventually, someone will post a "LFM" that you'll respond to and ask for an invite for, because they never saw your "LFG" post.
- f) Spam trade chat every 5-10 seconds with an annoying macro that is sure to win you a trip to the server's ignore lists.
3. You discover another player in the raid plays the same class Main as you do. Do you:
- a) Say nothing. If they know you're an alt, they might try to guilt-trip you into passing on loot.
- b) Grin and point out your shared class, and then move on. Perhaps now the others in the raid will better respect your opinions regarding strats for that role, if they know your main.
- c) Discuss Cataclysm changes for your shared class during trash pulls.
- d) Try to impress the other player with your main's gearscore.
- e) Try to impress the other player with your "knowledge" of the class, most of which is completely inaccurate.
- f) Both d and e, finishing by either going emo or saying the other player "fails."
4. You aren't familiar with the strategy for a boss, from your alt's role. Do you:
- a) Ask for details/suggestions on how to handle the fight in your alt's role before engaging the boss.
- b) Mentally review what you've seen others do during the fight in that role, asking for specific advice on a mechanic you remember but want clearer details on.
- c) Keep quiet and hope for the best; be extra watchful for mid-combat instructions.
- d) Shrug and dive in; you know you'll pick it up in a few wipes.
- e) Feign knowledge and tell everyone else what to do, as far as you remember, hoping your apparent "knowledge" won't lead them to question you when you fail to dps the right target (or similar role-fail).
- f) Feign knowledge and tell everyone else what to do incorrectly, arguing against any corrections the other players make.
5. This is an end-expansion content instance. Do you:
- a) Research your alt's class and spend time gearing the character and learning how to play it, including proper rotations, spell use, mechanics, stat caps, gems/enchants, and macros?
- b) Do your best to gem/enchant every piece of your gear, even if it isn't "BiS," and spend some time learning how to play it, though your badges may go to your main's saronite purchases and you know you're not as good as a main?
- c) Get dragged along by friends (or strangers desperate to fill a raid slot) even though you feel under-geared and inexperienced?
- d) Put on higher iLevel gear to hope to slip under the radar, even though it is not as good as the set-bonuses of your lower gear or just plain not as good as other equipment you have... such as resilience gear or subpar trinkets for your class.
- e) You're a "Casual" with a capital C. Your gear is haphazard, little to none of it is enchanted or gemmed, and you aren't even aware of certain spells that your class has and is expected to use in a raid environment... like cleanses.
- f) You're a "Casual" with a capital K... special. In addition to e, you're broke, and spend half the raid begging for gold for repairs and/or reagent purchases. You also jump on every equippable piece of gear that drops, moping to the raid about how much you want the item and how sad you are when it goes to someone else.
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Saturday, 14 January 2012
If Bacteria Won't Eat It...
by Linda from The Witches Kitchen
I read an article this week with the headline "Cosmetic Chemical Hinders Brain Development in Tadpoles". The study, by the very credible Brown University, found that a chemical called methylisothiazolinone, commonly used in shampoo, cosmetics, skin care products, cleaning products, even baby wipes, caused defects in the neurological development of tadpoles, even at very low concentrations. The Good Guide has a list of products that contain methylisothiazolinone, and you will be surprised how familiar they are.
It's been known for ages that methylisothiazolinone is nasty in high concentrations, and for that reason you're not allowed to have more than 100 ppm in cosmetics. It's also been known for over a decade that it causes damage to rat brain cells in tissue culture. But this study found (in their lovely scientific language) that it caused "deficits both in behavior and in basic brain development" in tadpoles, even in concentrations 0.015 of that allowed in cosmetics, and over just 10 days of exposure.
And though I know it's a fair distance between making tadpoles intellectually disabled or damaging rat brain cells when they're not even in a rat, and being dangerous to humans, I'd prefer not to test just how big a distance.
I looked down the Good Guide list. There's a lot of products there. I don't use hair dye but I do use shampoo occasionally. Mostly I find that just rinsing my hair in plain warm water works well - it doesn't need soap of any kind. Aloe vera is so easy to grow and a great hair conditioner. I don't use cosmetics but I do use sunscreen, not daily - I've always been a bit suspicious about it - but at the beach or the swimming pool. I've sometimes wondered if I use it too little. I have lots of sun damage to my skin. But I think I'll go for the slip and slap and skip the slop.
Macadamia, Olive Leaf, Aloe and Avocado Face Mask doesn't have or need any methylisothiazolinone.
I don't use many industrial cleaning products. I use my home-made soap, and liquid soap made from it for bathing and hand washing, and cleaning vinegar for floors. Lemon juice and rind for shower and sinks and anything metal. Metho and newspaper for windows. Our toilet is a composting one.
But there's a big list there of products to avoid, and I really am much too busy to read labels that much. I don't want to be that diligent. It really is much easier to just apply my blanket rule: if it doesn't go off, if even bacteria and funghi won't eat it, be suspicious, be very suspicious.
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The Beverages That Beguile Us, Through A Whole New Lens
What happens when you give an artist who is also a former bartender access to a camera mounted with a microscope? He takes pictures of drinks, of course.
That's exactly what Phoenix-based artist William "Bill" LeGoullon did in a series called Fingerprints of Drinkable Culture.
He set out to capture the relationship between science and the top five most-consumed beverages: beer, wine, cola, tea, and coffee.
But it didn't go as planned. At first, he tried to photograph the liquids while they were wet.
"It was difficult because of the way the camera and microscope work, you can't really focus on more than one little thing," he tells The Salt. "So I got frustrated and took it outside to let it dry. When it came back, it was a whole 'nother thing."
When the beverages dried on the slide, the imprints were more detailed and more beautiful than the liquids, he says. So they became the fingerprints series.
In honor of Memorial Day celebrations everywhere, enjoy these ultra close-ups from LeGoullon's collection. We guarantee you'll never look at beer, wine and cola the same way again.


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Thursday, January 28, 2010
These Palestinians aren't happy about Israel settlement freeze
Ilene R. Prusher Staff writer
Jalazon Refugee Camp, West Bank
Theoretically, the 10-month freeze on building Israeli settlements in the West Bank was supposed to benefit the Palestinian cause.
West Bank settlements become havens of Israeli surburbanites Israeli settlements: Where, when, and why they're built But at the run-down cafes that make up a town square of sorts here in the Jalazon Refugee Camp, there's a different story.
It's just before noon, and the area is full of young men with nowhere to go.
Normally, about half of Jalazon's able-bodied men are employed in construction in nearby Jewish settlements. But since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from President Barack Obama, announced the settlement building freeze in October, much of the work has disappeared.
In the long-term, the freeze is meant to help the stagnant Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he wouldn't agree to a resumption in peace talks without a building moratorium. But in the short-term, thousands of Palestinians who work in construction across the West Bank are feeling the pinch. They're annoyed that no one seems to be paying attention to the impact on their lives of what they see as a pointless exercise.
"Work in the settlements has decreased dramatically in the last few months – it's nothing like it was before. But our lives haven't changed for the better and the leaders aren't any closer to peace, so what's the point?" says Walid Mustafa, a sort of self-appointed spokesman of the unemployed and father of seven who says he's lucky to find work one day a month. "The settlement freeze is temporary anyway. The Israeli government is made up of settlers, and they will build again soon enough."
Mr. Mustafa estimates that about 80 percent of camp residents who work in construction are now unemployed, while those still working are taking jobs for 50 shekels a day ($13) rather than the 150 shekels ($40) they used to make.
"The settlement freeze has only brought more poverty," complains Abdel Aziz Othman.
"There's no work anywhere," agrees Issa Muhammed Mahmoud, a young man who spends most days sitting here, chatting and drinking tea for lack of something else to do. "I used to be able to go into Israel to work on sites there, but now they don't give permits for that, and they're bringing laborers from China to do it."
Palestinian: I'm not judged for working in settlements
The fact that so many Palestinians work on building sites in the occupied West Bank is a sensitive matter, though most construction workers here will talk freely about it.
On the one hand, settlements are roundly considered by Palestinians to be an impediment to the establishment of a Palestinian state, and clearly stand in the way of Palestinian territorial contiguity in the West Bank. The 120 settlements that Israel has built in the West Bank since 1967 are considered illegal under international law, and Israel never annexed the territory.
But on the other hand, most Palestinians consider working in settlements to be a form of realpolitik applied to home economics. Palestinians who are skilled in masonry, construction, and other relevant trades have built the vast majority of homes in Israel's controversial settlements to meet their daily needs.
"While the politicians dawdle away the months, we have families to feed," says Fawzi Aqraba, a Palestinian from the Nablus area interviewed while finishing off a home in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Netafim. "Everyone at home in my village knows what I do, and I don't think anyone judges it. We have to survive."
New 'Dignity Fund' for Palestinians
Mr. Abbas rejected Netanyahu's offer of a 10-month settlement freeze late last year, maintaining his position that the stop-work order should mean all building comes to a halt, and that it must include East Jerusalem. Netanyahu exempted approximately 3,000 buildings – projects already begun – from the freeze, and he has rejected calls to limit Israeli building anywhere in Jerusalem. George Mitchell, the US Middle East peace envoy, was here last week in the hopes of forging a breakthrough, but none was apparent.
Palestinian officials hold that the Israeli offer is too limited in scope. "Washington, along with the international community, is pressuring the Palestinians without obliging Israel to stop settlement construction," Nabil Shaath, a member of the Central Committee of Abbas's Fatah party, said Tuesday in a statement e-mailed to reporters.
Ziad Toame, director general at the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy, says the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognizes that many Palestinian workers depend on jobs in the settlements. Mr. Toame's ministry is in charge of enforcing a new PA campaign to get Palestinians to stop buying goods made in settlements. As part of the campaign, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad set up a $2 million "Dignity Fund" to compensate Palestinian merchants for their losses.
"We hope that the Dignity Fund will be expanded, if we get more donors, and then we might be able to compensate construction workers as well," Toame says. "Or start training programs so they can do something else."
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The fall day is cloudless, calm and temperate. I've just finished a great meal on the patio of a popular café not far from the Plaza. An espresso is en route, and now, there's only one thing left to do to complete the perfection of my dining experience: scratch a decades-old nicotine itch.
I take a familiar puff, a deep inhale, and there's a warm collision at the back of my throat. I exhale: a dense but quickly dissipating cloud. It gets better as I repeat the ritual and pair it with the just-delivered caffeine concentrate.
But suddenly I'm aware that this whole thing might not be as satisfying for my waiter and the restaurant's other patrons as it is for me. No one says a word. The looks I'm catching, though, as I billow out another nebula, range from disgust to curiosity.
That's not smoke coming out of my mouth; it's water-vapor. Nothing's on fire. There's been no combustion. Still, confusion reigns. So I find a quiet patch of shaded grass beyond the confines of the patio to enjoy what's left of the afternoon–and my electronic cigarette.
The diners and staff at the restaurant are far from alone in their befuddlement, curiosity and inherent distrust about "e-cigarettes." They have been around a decade but are only recently becoming ubiquitous in urban society. Studies and surveys show that millions of people are using e-cigarettes, and the number is steadily climbing. Financial analysts predict that, by year's end, e-cigarettes will comprise an industry that has doubled in size since 2012 to become worth more than a billion dollars. Some even say the rise of the e-cig has contributed to a slight decline in cigarette sales.
The market's explosive growth, its lack of regulation, an increase in use among children, pressing medical questions about health effects and the products' association with one of America's true social pariahs has placed e-cigarettes at the center of a vigorous national public health debate. That debate has found footholds at the state and local levels, too.
Essentially, e-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a solution of vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol and artificial flavoring, converting the mixture into vapor the user inhales. The act has birthed a new verb into the parlance: vaping. The overwhelming majority of vapers, me included, buy e-cig juice that's infused with the highly addictive drug nicotine at a level chosen by the purchaser.
A 2010 federal court decision gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate the e-cigarette industry and to treat the devices the same as other tobacco products. That means the FDA, which will arrive at its fourth self-imposed deadline to issue proposed rules at the end of this month, could levy heavy taxes on the industry, ban sales to youths and restrict the celebrity-driven commercials pitching Big Tobacco's versions of e-cigarettes. Those ads have been published online and are airing on television, a venue that has been off limits to the likes of Reynolds American and Lorillard, Inc. since 1971.
The marketing strategy concerns critics of e-cigarettes, who say it has taken decades of education and a near-advertising blackout to get the cool out of smoking. Another concern is the wide array of e-cigarette juice flavors such as chocolate, Gummy Bear, black-cherry pomegranate, and Starburst. Some, including a Santa Fe public health expert who works for the local school district, say those flavors are an appeal from manufacturers to kids. Small business owners and consumer groups counter that adults want a product that tastes better than an ashtray, favoring flavors like grape Jolly Rancher and Jamaican Rum.
The FDA is under increasing pressure from anti-smoking groups, medical associations and—as of last month, a group of 40 state attorneys general that includes Gary King of New Mexico—to step in and regulate e-cigarettes. The World Health Organization has come out hard in favor of strict regulations on e-cigarettes, citing a lack of consistency in the products and unknown health risks. Last week, the European Parliament rejected a proposed set of regulations from health officials that would have treated e-cigarettes as medical devices and could potentially have hamstrung the industry with exorbitant certification costs reserved for drugs. However, the governing body did adopt a ban on legal sales to anyone under 18 and restrictions on e-cigarette advertising.
So far, at least 25 states prohibit sales to youths. Three others–New Jersey, Utah and North Dakota–have indoor-use bans on e-cigarettes. So do a number of cities, including Boston, Seattle and Indianapolis.
At least 15 Santa Fe Public Schools students have been caught with an e-cigarette on campus during the first six weeks of the academic year.
New Mexico has neither. The cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque haven't touched the issue. In fact, no e-cigarette-related law has ever been proposed in either city or in the Legislature. The closest New Mexico lawmakers have come to taking up the conversation was when state Rep. Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, specifically exempted e-cigarettes from a bill to increase taxes on tobacco products earlier this year. The exemption came after Stewart received calls and emails from vapers and e-cigarette store owners, and with no objection from a representative of the American Cancer Society. The bill failed in committee.
Shelley Mann-Lev, drug prevention coordinator for Santa Fe Public Schools, says at least 15 students ranging from seventh graders to high school seniors have been caught either bringing an e-cigarette to school or using one on campus during the first six weeks of the academic year.
"We have seen a very alarming increase among our schoolchildren," Mann-Lev says, adding that she could only recall one or two e-cigarette seizures on SFPS campuses during the entire last school year. "There has been, from my experience, an explosion of use in Santa Fe, and we are very, very concerned … From a public health perspective, I would hope everybody would be concerned about children having access to e-cigarettes and the potential for addicting a new generation to nicotine."
The school board, she says, has not yet formally adopted a policy that would ban the possession, use, distribution or sale of e-cigarettes on SFPS campuses. However, the district already treats them like contraband.
National consumer and merchant groups, along with several Santa Fe e-cigarette shop owners, recognize that regulation of the industry is inevitable. There's no such thing as a party that never ends. They agree that a youth sales ban is appropriate and that quality standards ought to be set for the juice and for the devices themselves. But the groups and business owners are asking for modest, if any, taxes–not the prohibitive tariffs slapped on cigarettes as a way to punish Big Tobacco for its past lies and other misdeeds. They point to thousands of people who have traded smoking for vaping to a resoundingly positive effect and a growing body of scientific evidence that suggests their products are far less harmful than cigarettes.
Gregory Conley is a New Jersey-based attorney who, in his spare time, works as legislative director for Consumer Advocates for Smokefree Alternatives Association (CASAA).
"In their quest to punish Big Tobacco, states, cities and the FDA could squash these emerging small businesses that have no interest in people smoking," Conley tells SFR in a telephone interview. "Sixty to 80 percent of the U.S. market for e-cigarettes is not controlled by Big Tobacco. These are ethical people who, as part of their business plan, want to get people off cigarettes. The primary role of e-cigarettes in society is to reduce disease and death and to give consumers choices. If you get pleasure or satisfaction from using nicotine, you should know that there's another option besides quit or die."
A sampling of restaurants, bars and other businesses in Santa Fe reveals a mixed bag of reactions to vaping. E-cigs are off-limits at The Cowgirl; likewise at Café Pasqual's. The Santa Fe Bar and Grill and Del Charro Saloon allow vapers to puff at will. Harry's Roadhouse considers vaping on a case-by-case basis. E-cigarette use is prohibited inside and within 25 feet of any Starbucks, although that's a national policy, and one that doesn't appear to be strictly enforced here. The city itself has no law on the books that singles out e-cigarettes, and no plans to implement one, according to a city spokeswoman.
But the City Attorney's Office believes that Santa Fe's indoor smoking ban already prohibits the use of e-cigarettes inside city limits.
Like much of America, Santa Fe appears unsure about what to make of e-cigarettes. And that includes more than just the group of people who were tossing quizzical looks at me after I finished that recent meal.
I was born and raised in Kentucky. So it's hardly a newsflash that I started indulging in my home state's No. 1 (legal) cash crop at the age of about 10. For most of the next 30 years, I smoked cigarettes – a lot of cigarettes. There were two cold-turkey kicks, one of which resulted in about a year of abstinence when I was in my mid-20s, and countless unsuccessful attempts at quitting with gum, lozenges, patches, Willy Wonka-style-dream-inducing pills and sundry combinations thereof that no doctor ever would've advised.
A growing number of my friends have picked up e-cigarettes in recent years, with varying degrees of success in terms of sustained smoking cessation. I was dismissive and judgmental for a long time. But in the back of my mind, I knew trouble and mortality were lurking. Pushing 40, I was having trouble breathing. My energy level was low. My morning cough was no longer seasonal. And I struggled to see a way out, thinking myself too old a dog for any new tricks.
But on an illogical whim in early June, I dropped a little more than a hundred bucks for a fancy e-cig and decided to give it a try. I haven't smoked since, and I can breathe, taste, smell. My suspicion is that this has worked where so much else failed because e-cigarettes simulate so closely the experience of smoking. The tactile and oral fixations are sated. The act of puffing, inhaling, then exhaling a big, thick cloud is alarmingly realistic. Even the nicotine-junkie ritual now has a substitute: instead of tearing the plastic and foil off my pack of smokes, I refill the tank on my e-cigarette when the juice runs out.
I interviewed 14 local vapers for this story. Overwhelmingly, their experience mirrors mine. They point to e-cigarettes' success in getting them off the old paper-and-tobacco death sentences where things like nicotine gum and patches failed. They ranged in age from 25 to 53. All but one had heavy smoking habits that have now vanished for periods of months or longer in a wispy cloud of flavored vapor.
"I was a 30-year smoker, I've been vaping a month, and now I'm not smoking," says Ken Woodard, 47. Sporting a bandana, a black leather jacket and a graying goatee, Woodard reclines on a couch inside The Vapor Store in Santa Fe on a recent weekday afternoon, takes a long puff off his e-cigarette and continues: "My lungs are clearer, and I feel good … I don't know what the plan is (in terms of eventually getting off the e-cigarette.) It may be something I want to enjoy for a while. It's way healthier than smoking, I know that."
Does he? Do I? I know I feel better. So does Woodard. So do a lot of other people. But beyond the anecdotal benefits of halting the inhalation of thousands of chemicals that have been proven time and again to kill people, what might vaping be doing to me, Woodard and the others? Are we going to grow mushrooms on our lungs in 20 years?
The short answer is no one knows because e-cigarettes haven't been around long enough for an effective study of the long-term health effects.
"Is something going to come up in 50 years?" says Lee Pack, a longtime Santa Fe businessman who owns The Vapor Store, which has three locations in town and another in Denver. "We won't know till 50 years."
There is some science, though. Much of it is encouraging for vapers. Some of it isn't. Nearly all of it says more research is needed.
One study, conducted at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York and partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, found that e-cigarette vapor contained "potentially carcinogenic and toxic compounds" when a machine engaged the device for about 30 seconds–far beyond the capacity of a human lung.
"The levels of the toxicants were 9-450 times lower than in cigarette smoke," according to the study's abstract. "Our findings are consistent with the idea that substituting tobacco cigarettes with e-cigarettes may substantially reduce exposure to selected tobacco-specific toxicants. E-cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy among smokers unwilling to quit warrants further study."
"E-cigarettes are probably better than cigarettes–the kind you burn–but it's still a drug."
Another study, conducted at Drexel University in Pennsylvania and paid for by CASAA, the consumer group, found that second-hand exposure to e-cigarette vapor does not warrant concern.
Matthew Campen is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy in Albuquerque. A student and a resident in his department conducted a study on mice last year using a subcutaneous pump to administer nicotine to the animals.
"We have been interested in nicotine as the active ingredient in e-cigarettes," Campen tells SFR. "Our concern is that people are going to see this as a safe alternative to smoking and continue to use nicotine … As shown in our short study, nicotine alone puts the heart and the blood vessels at risk. However, using a cautionary principle approach, e-cigarettes are probably better than cigarettes – the kind you burn–but it's still a drug."
Campen says that, anecdotally, he didn't think there would be any risk of cardiovascular disease from second-hand vapor. But he wondered aloud whether people exposed to the vapor could be at risk for nicotine addiction.
Overall, Campen likens e-cigarettes to harm reduction, a public-health approach that includes things like methadone and needle exchanges for heroin addicts and condoms for teens determined to have sex.
"Common sense needs to be employed," he says. "If you're going to use this to stop smoking, it's more like getting on methadone. It's not a nutrient. And if physicians are going to recommend this and embrace it as a way to stop (smoking) they need to appreciate that there needs to be a plan in place to get off the e-cigarettes, because the risks associated with nicotine continue."
Harm reduction is a phrase heard over and over from Santa Fe's e-cigarette shop owners. Three of them tell SFR that's exactly why they're in the business.
"This is my greatest public work," says Pack. A serious man of 45 with a penetrating blue-eyed stare, and who has clearly done his homework on e-cigarettes, Pack speaks mostly in business and scientific terms. His tone shifts, though, when he talks about some of his customers. "It's good business, too, and I didn't necessarily set out to have it be this way. But the Christmas cards we get, the people who come in here … with tears in their eyes after realizing: 'I hadn't gone a day without a cigarette in 30 years. I just did it yesterday.' They feel better. They look better. Some of these people have been smoking for six or seven decades. That's turned out to be sort of a good-feeling thing: to say that my business has gotten thousands of people off cigarettes."
That's not enough for some officials.
Here at home, Attorney General King signed a letter on Sept. 24 with 39 other state attorneys general asking the FDA to make good on its now two-year-old promise to issue proposed regulations on e-cigarettes. The regulations, the letter says, should "address the advertising, ingredients, and sale to minors of electronic cigarettes."
I was smoking about a pack of American Spirit cigarettes a day, at a cost of about $8 a pop. (A pack of Marlboros costs, on average in New Mexico, about $7.)
My e-cigarette—the actual device—cost me $112. It's considered a medium- to high-end rig. The nicotine-infused juice I vape costs $12 for a 15 mL bottle, which usually lasts me about 10 days.
|So, after a significant expense up front, I am saving a crapload (scientific term) of money by vaping instead of smoking.
In a news release, King cited a concern for children getting hooked on nicotine through e-cigarettes, which he wrote "may still contain carcinogens," despite claims from manufacturers to the contrary.
In a subsequent interview, King says the statement about carcinogens was based on his background in and knowledge of organic chemistry–not on any scientific data he had reviewed. He reiterated his desire for a ban on youth sales but conceded that e-cigarettes may wind up being "another tool in the fight against smoking." The AG says he will explore ways to support a study of the devices in New Mexico.
Mann-Lev of Santa Fe Public Schools says there could be a place for e-cigarettes in a harm reduction approach. She picks up on the methadone analogy mentioned by UNM's Dr. Campen.
"If this was just for harm reduction for people who couldn't quit other ways, there may be a place for e-cigs in our tool kit," she says. "But we certainly wouldn't give methadone to children."
Two of the three shop owners who spoke to SFR have "18 and older" signs in their business. All three say they don't sell to kids.
Regardless, kids are getting e-cigarettes, and King's concerns about more children using them have some strong grounding in reality. In early September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the results of an annual survey that showed the number of kids in grades 6 through 12 who had tried e-cigarettes more than doubled from 3.3 percent of those surveyed in 2011 to 6.8 percent in 2012. The number of kids who had used e-cigarettes at least once in the 30 days before they were surveyed also jumped, from 1.1 percent in 2011 to 2.1 percent in 2012. The CDC data show that among kids who had ever tried e-cigarettes, 9.3 percent had never smoked a cigarette. In all, the CDC estimates that 1.78 million kids have at least experimented with e-cigarettes.
"This is a serious concern because the overall impact of e-cigarette use on public health remains uncertain," CDC analysts wrote. "In youths, concerns include the potential negative impact of nicotine on adolescent brain development, as well as the risk for nicotine addiction and initiation of the use of conventional cigarettes or other tobacco products."
The city of Santa Fe banned indoor cigarette smoking in 1999. And the City Attorney's Office appears to believe that the Santa Fe Smoke Free Ordinance already covers e-cigarettes, according to a Sept. 30 email provided to SFR by city spokeswoman Jodi McGinnis Porter.
"I checked with (assistant city attorney) Alfred Walker and he is confident that our smoking ban covers the electronic/vapor cigarettes and such are prohibited in public places," city legislative liaison Melissa D. Byers wrote in the email.
Byers included the city's definition of smoking in the email. It prohibits any "lighted tobacco products," however, and does not appear to include what actually takes place when a vaper takes a hit off an e-cigarette.
Like Pack, Leland Titus, owner of the newly opened Vapor Werks on Airport Road in Santa Fe, sells high-end e-cigarettes and mixes all his liquids in-house. Titus carries the same fancy model I'm using–it looks like the handle of a light saber–and a whole host of others, some even fancier, some more akin to starter models. They range in price from about $40 to about $140. Tanks that hold the liquid also come in degrees of ostentatiousness.
Titus talks about the upfront cost of a nice model e-cigarette being a hurdle on the front end. But the juice is relatively inexpensive–a $15 bottle lasts me about 10 days–so vaping is, in the long run, a damn sight cheaper than smoking, he says.
His advertising is limited to newspaper ads, Facebook, a few YouTube videos and a Cat in the Hat-clad dude he employs to dance around in front of his store holding a sign. He also doesn't sell the disposable e-cigarette models now being produced by all three of the world's largest tobacco companies–the Mark Ten from Altria (makers of Marlboro,) the Vuse from Reynolds American (which makes Camels) and Lorillard's (Newport) Blu e-cigarette.
Big Tobacco, on the other hand, is advertising plenty in the age of no regulations.
"Finally with Blu, I took back my freedom," Jenny McCarthy says in a television ad, then throws a sultry smile at the camera from her seat in 'da club. The Blu e-cigarette, like its other Big Tobacco brethren, looks like a cigarette and even lights up on the tip when the user takes a puff.
Conley, of the consumer group CASAA, says there's a distinction in user-friendliness and motivation between Big Tobacco's e-cigarette interests and the mom-and-pop operations like Vapor Werks and The Vapor Store. The high-end products can be varied for nicotine strength and intensity of vapor; Vuse e-cigarettes, et. al. can't. Small vapor shop owners couldn't care less whether people smoke cigarettes; Big Tobacco has a glaring CDC fact staring it in the face: More than 45 million Americans smoke cigarettes, and about half of smokers try to quit each year.
Representatives from Lorillard and Reynolds American did not respond to requests for comment for this story. A spokesman from Altria says that company just last week sent a letter to the FDA in support of a ban on e-cigarette sales to youths. The spokesman, David Sylvia, says Altria is only selling the Mark Ten e-cigarette in one state, Indiana, so far. Altria advertises in magazines and online, Sylvia says, and he declined to say whether the company plans to expand into television advertising.
It wasn't Jenny McCarthy who convinced 48-year-old Raul Martinez of Chimayo to switch to vaping after two decades. It was the fact that Martinez, a cyclist, was struggling on his bike.
"Smoking was defeating the purpose of everything I was doing," said Martinez, a bald, genial city of Santa Fe employee. He was stocking up on juice at 31 Vapors, a cozy little shop run by a husband and wife, whose niece designed the collage of vintage Mickey Mouse images that hangs on the wall. Martinez takes another vape and continues, telling me about his personal best last month in a 55-mile road race in Acoma.
"Quitting smoking eight months ago was one of the hardest things I ever did," he said. "But I beat a guy in that race in Acoma who I've never beaten before. And I beat him on a hill. I never thought I'd be able to quit smoking, but I did. And I beat that guy on a hill."


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Coconut sticky rice made with coconut milk and brown sugar is the oatmeal of Asia – simple, satisfying and sweet. Coconut sticky rice is not, however, what I planned to make.
You know those people who tell you that to be successful you should give everything 110% effort? Regardless of my math-related pet peeve that 110% effort is impossible, I hold that success can and often does come with 100% fun and only 50% effort. I call it the Full Fun Partial Effort Rule (FFPER). One of the most popular posts on this blog is my raw cookie dough recipe. I made the cookie dough recipe because cookie dough is FUN and I didn't need that extra 50% effort required for baking. This coconut sticky rice is another example of the power of FFPER.
I set out to make biko cupcakes. Biko is a Filipino dessert consisting of coconut sticky rice topped with coconut cream and brown sugar, then baked and cut into squares. While I did end up with biko cupcakes, I couldn't help but stop halfway through the process and eat a big bowl of the pre-baked coconut sticky rice – throwing in some almonds and raisins for added fun (I could have added different things, but that would have required a store trip – extra effort). The biko cupcakes were definitely worth waiting for, but if you can't wait, the not-so-showy coconut sticky rice is a treat in its own right that I'd be proud to serve for breakfast, snack time, or dessert.
Coconut Sticky Rice Recipe
This coconut sticky rice recipe comes from using just the first part of the biko recipe from Ivory Hut. I've reprinted that recipe with my notes below.
Coconut Sticky Rice with Almonds and Raisins
- 3 cans 14 oz each coconut milk
- 4 cups sweet rice otherwise known as sticky rice or glutinous rice
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups or more to taste sliced almonds
- 2 cups or more to taste raisins
- Pour coconut milk and one cup of water into a large pot on medium heat.
- Bring to a simmer.
- Add the rice and stir until rice is fully cooked (approximately 15 minutes). It should be similar in texture to a sticky risotto. If the rice starts to get sticky but isn't cooked yet (you'll have to taste it - cooking is such a rough job), then add a little bit more water and continue to stir and test until cooked. The stirring is a good arm workout (just like when you make polenta) - especially as the water evaporates and the rice becomes heavier.
- Stir in brown sugar and remove from heat.
- Stir in almonds and raisins.
- Serve warm.


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So I'm off to uni soon, but the uni are really behind on sorting out accommodation, so I thought I'd write a little piece of code, as practise, to work out how much money from George Gideon Osbourne I will have left, depending on which of the uni's available halls I end up with.
I'm very new to Java and programming in general, so I'm worried this is some mega-amateur mistake.
import java.util.Scanner; class aberAccomm { public static void main(String[] args) { int fromGideon = 6008; int cost = 0; String[] halls = {"Pentre Jane Morgan", "Cwrt Mawr", "Trefloyne", "Rosser", "Pantycelyn", "Penbryn", "Brynderw", "Seafront Residences", "Clarendon", "Alexandra Hall"}; System.out.println("Which accommodation will you be staying in?"); Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); String hallsChoice = input.nextLine(); if (hallsChoice == halls[0]){ cost = 3317; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[1]){ cost = 3317; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[2]){ cost = 3317; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[3]){ cost = 3812; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[4]){ cost = 3428; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[5]){ cost = 4048; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[6]){ cost = 2911; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[7]){ cost = 3317; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[8]){ cost = 3812; } else if (hallsChoice == halls[9]){ cost = 3317; } else{ System.err.println("So you didn't get in anywhere? Damn... Look on the bright side: you won't be in a bunk room!"); } fromGideon -= cost; System.out.println("You will have £" + fromGideon + " left to live on. Good luck!"); } }
I tried the code, inputting 'Penbryn' (index [5]) and I got in the console:
Which accommodation will you be staying in? Penbryn You will have £6008 left to live on. Good luck! So you didn't get in anywhere? Damn... Look on the bright side: you won't be in a bunk room!
I'm confused as it seems to have bypassed all of the if statement and gone straight to the final else, thus printing the error message. Any thoughts? Is the problem staring me straight in the face? Any help would be brilliant, thank you.
Another thing that's bugging me is how cumbersome the if, else if, else if, else if... is. I wanted to use a switch statement, but I couldn't get it to work with Strings. I did a bit of searching and I read that apparently it's only recently been implemented and that even now it's implemented, it's largely frowned upon because it's not very memory efficient: Switch Statement with Strings in Java - Stack Overflow
Is there a neater way to do this? Or are massive else ifs like this common?
And I can imagine someone might point out that I'd probably be better off using multiple methods for this, but, you know...I haven't read that far yet so I'm pretty clueless, xD.
Thanks again.


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