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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Phenytoin belongs to the group of medications known as anti-epileptics. Phenytoin is used to manage and prevent certain types of seizures, as well as to prevent and treat seizures that occur during or following neurosurgery. It works on the brain to reduce the number and severity of seizures.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
How should I use this medication?
The recommended dose of phenytoin varies according to individual needs. The recommended starting dose for adults is 100 mg taken 3 times a day. Your doctor will then adjust the dose based on how well it works and is tolerated. The usual adult dose is 300 mg to 400 mg daily taken by mouth in divided doses or a single dose. An increase to 600 mg taken in divided doses may be needed in some cases.
The children's dose is based on age and body weight. The recommended starting dose is 5 mg per kilogram of body weight per day, which is then divided into 3 equal doses.
The level of phenytoin in your blood can be checked through laboratory testing. This test helps your doctor determine the dose of phenytoin that best suits you.
Phenytoin may be taken with or after meals. Do not use capsules that are discoloured.
Many things can affect the dose of a medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important to take this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store all forms of this medication at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
30 mg
Each Coni-Snap white capsule with pink cap, imprinted "Parke-Davis" and "P-D 30" in black ink, contains 30 mg extended phenytoin sodium. Nonmedicinal ingredients: lactose, magnesium stearate, sugar, and talc; capsule shell: D&C Yellow No. 10, FD&C Red No. 3, gelatin, and titanium dioxide
100 mg
Each Coni-Snap white capsule with orange cap, imprinted "Parke-Davis" and "P-D 100" in black ink, contains 100 mg extended phenytoin sodium. Nonmedicinal ingredients: lactose, magnesium stearate, sugar, and talc; capsule shell: FD&C Yellow No. 6, gelatin, and titanium dioxide.
Dilantin Infatabs
Each flavoured, triangle shaped, grooved tablet contains 50 mg phenytoin (free acid form). Nonmedicinal ingredients: alcohol, magnesium stearate, spearmint oil, sugar, and talc.
30 mg/5 mL
Each 5 mL of flavoured, red-coloured suspension contains phenytoin (free acid form) 30 mg. Nonmedicinal ingredients: alcohol, banana oil, citric acid, glycerin, magnesium aluminum silicate, orange oil, polysorbate 40, Red No. 2 FD&C, sodium benzoate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sugar, vanillin, and FD&C Yellow No. 6.
125 mg/5 mL
Each 5 mL of flavoured, orange-coloured suspension contains phenytoin (free acid form) 125 mg. Nonmedicinal ingredients: alcohol, banana oil, citric acid, glycerin, magnesium aluminum silicate, orange oil, polysorbate 40, sodium benzoate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sugar, vanillin, and FD&C Yellow No. 6.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not use phenytoin if you:
- are allergic to phenytoin or any ingredients of the medication
- are allergic to other medications in the class of medications called hydantoins (e.g., fosphenytoin)
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- constipation
- dizziness (mild)
- drowsiness (mild)
Although most of these side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- bone pain or fractures
- bleeding, tender, or enlarged gums
- changes in muscle movements or coordination
- confusion
- difficulty sleeping
- dizziness
- headache
- nausea
- rash
- sensation of spinning
- signs of bleeding (e.g., unusual nosebleeds, bruising, blood in urine, coughing blood, bleeding gums, cuts that don't stop bleeding)
- signs of infection (symptoms may include fever or chills, severe diarrhea, shortness of breath, prolonged dizziness, headache, stiff neck, weight loss, or listlessness)
- signs of liver problems (e.g., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools)
- slurred speech
- symptoms of high blood sugar (e.g., frequent urination, increased thirst, excessive eating, unexplained weight loss, poor wound healing, infections, fruity breath odour)
- unusual eye movement
- vomiting
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- seizures
- suicidal thoughts or behaviour
- symptoms of a serious allergic reaction (such as fever, swollen glands, yellowing of skin or eyes, or flu-like symptoms with skin rash or blistering)
- symptoms of a serious skin reaction (such as skin rash; red skin; blistering of the lips, eyes, or mouth; skin peeling; fever; or joint pain)
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Allergy: Some people who are allergic to carbamazepine or barbiturates also experience allergic reactions to phenytoin. Before you take phenytoin, inform your doctor about any previous adverse reactions you have had to medications, especially other medications for seizures. Contact your doctor at once if you experience signs of an allergic reaction, such as skin rash, itching, difficulty breathing or swelling of the face and throat.
Dental hygiene: Because phenytoin can cause swollen and bleeding gums, it is important to practice good dental hygiene by flossing, brushing, and visiting your dentist regularly. Talk to your doctor to learn more about how to take care of your mouth, gums, and teeth while taking this medication.
Diabetes: Phenytoin may have an effect on the action of medications used to lower blood sugar for people with diabetes. If you have diabetes, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. It may be necessary to monitor your blood sugar more closely when starting or stopping phenytoin treatment.
Drowsiness/reduced alertness: Some people who take phenytoin may become drowsy. Avoid activities that require complete mental alertness, judgment, and physical coordination (such as driving a car or performing hazardous tasks) until you establish how you are affected by phenytoin.
Hypersensitivity syndrome: A severe allergic reaction called hypersensitivity syndrome has occurred for some people with the use of phenytoin. Stop taking the medication and get immediate medical attention if you have symptoms of a severe allergic reaction, including fever, swollen glands, yellowing of the skin or eyes, or flu-like symptoms with skin rash or blistering.
Liver function: Some people have reported liver problems with the use of phenytoin. These cases have been associated with an allergic reaction that includes fever, skin rashes or hives, or swollen lymph glands. The reaction usually occurs within the first 2 months of treatment. If you experience symptoms of liver problems such as fatigue, feeling unwell, loss of appetite, nausea, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools, abdominal pain or swelling, and itchy skin, contact your doctor immediately.
Osteoporosis: Long term use of anti-seizure medications, including phenytoin may affect the strength of your bones, because these medication reduce the amount of vitamin D available for your body to use. If you have or are at risk for developing osteoporosis, discuss with your doctor the need to take additional vitamin D.
Other medications: Many medications interact with phenytoin causing decreased effectiveness or increased side effects. If you are taking phenytoin, consult with your doctor or pharmacist before taking any other medications or drinking alcoholic beverages.
Regular dosing: Remember that when you are taking phenytoin, it is very important to take the medication exactly as prescribed. Inform your doctor of any condition that prevents you from taking the medication as prescribed (e.g., surgery, illness, difficulty swallowing).
Stopping the medication: Do not stop taking phenytoin without consulting your doctor. Stopping the medication suddenly may cause an increase in the number or severity of seizures. If it is necessary to stop taking this medication, talk to your doctor about how to gradually reduce the dose of the medication before completely stopping.
Suicidal thoughts and behaviour: Some people taking anti-seizure medications may have suicidal thoughts or behaviour. If this happens to you or you notice this in a family member who is taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately. You should be closely monitored by your doctor for emotional and behaviour changes while taking this medication.
Pregnancy: When phenytoin is taken during pregnancy, it may cause harm to the developing baby. This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking phenytoin, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between phenytoin and any of the following:
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2017. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/drug/getdrug/Dilantin


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(Dec. 15, 2011) Physicists in Aalto University, Finland, have shown how a nanomechanical oscillator can be used for detection and amplification of feeble radio waves or microwaves. A measurement using such a tiny device, resembling a miniaturized guitar string, can be performed with the least possible disturbance. The results were recently published in the British journal Nature.
The researchers cooled the nanomechanical oscillator, thousand times thinner than a human hair, down to a low temperature near the absolute zero at -273 centigrade. Under such extreme conditions, even nearly macroscopic sized objects follow the laws of quantum physics which often contradict common sense. In the Low Temperature Laboratory experiments, the nearly billion atoms comprising the nanomechanical resonator were oscillating in pace in their shared quantum state.
The scientists had fabricated the device in contact with a superconducting cavity resonator, which exchanges energy with the nanomechanical resonator. This allowed amplification of their resonant motion. This is very similar to what happens in a guitar, where the string and the echo chamber resonate at the same frequency. Instead of the musician playing the guitar string, the energy source was provided by a microwave laser.
Microwaves get amplified by interaction of quantum oscillations
Researchers from the Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University, have shown how to detect and amplify electromagnetic signals almost noiselessly using a guitar-string like mechanical vibrating wire. In the ideal case the method adds only the minimum amount of noise required by quantum mechanics.
The presently used semiconductor transistor amplifiers are complicated and noisy devices, and operate far away from a fundamental disturbance limit set by quantum physics. The Low Temperature Laboratory scientists showed that by taking advantage of the quantum resonant motion, injected microwave radiation can be amplified with little disturbance. The principle hence allows for detecting much weaker signals than usually.
"Any measurement method or device always adds some disturbance. Ideally, all the noise is due vacuum fluctuations predicted by quantum mechanics. In theory, our principle reaches this fundamental limit. In the experiment, we got very close to this limit," says Dr. Francesco Massel.
"The discovery was actually quite unexpected. We were aiming to cool the nanomechanical resonator down to its quantum ground state. The cooling should manifest as a weakening of a probing signal, which we observed. But when we slightly changed the frequency of the microwave laser, we saw the probing signal to strengthen enormously. We had created a nearly quantum limited microwave amplifier," says Academy Research Fellow Mika Sillanpää who planned the project and made the measurements.
Certain real-life applications will benefit from the better amplifier based on the new Aalto method, but reaching this stage requires more research effort. Most likely, the mechanical microwave amplifier will be first applied in related basic research, which will further expand our knowledge of the borderline between the everyday world and the quantum realm.
According to Academy Research Fellow Tero Heikkilä, the beauty of the amplifier is in its simplicity: it consists of two coupled oscillators. Therefore, the same method can be realized in basically any media. By using a different structure of the cavity, one could detect terahertz radiation which would also be a major application.
The research was carried out in the Low Temperature Laboratory, which belongs to the Aalto University School of Science, and is part of the Centre of Excellence in Low Temperature Quantum Phenomena and Devices of the Finnish Academy. The devices used in the measurements were fabricated by VTT Nanotechnologies and microsystems. The research was funded by the Finnish Academy, European Research Council ERC, and the European Union.
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BURLESON, Omar Truman, a Representative from Texas; born in Anson, Jones County, Tex., March 19, 1906; attended the public schools, Abilene Christian College, and Hardin-Simmons University at Abilene, Tex.; was graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1929; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Gorman, Tex.; county attorney of Jones County, Tex., 1931-1934; judge of Jones County, Tex., 1934-1940; special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940 and 1941; secretary to Congressman Sam Russell of Texas in 1941 and 1942; general counsel for the Housing Authority, District of Columbia, in 1942; served in the United States Navy from December 1942 to April 1946, with service in the South Pacific Theater; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1947, until his resignation December 31, 1978; chairman, Committee on House Administration (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on the Library (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on Printing (Eighty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Abilene, Tex., until his death there on May 14, 1991.
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Dear Mr. Schlafly: I do not understand the edit that you just made to the E=mc2 article. Is your concern the placement of the extended discussion in the lead paragraph rather than a separate section, or did you disagree with the sourced statements about conservative views on the civilian use of nuclear energy to generate electricity? Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 09:37, 5 April 2013 (EDT)
Dear Mr. Schlafly: I do not understand the edit that you just made to the E=mc2 article. Is your concern the placement of the extended discussion in the lead paragraph rather than a separate section, or did you disagree with the sourced statements about conservative views on the civilian use of nuclear energy to generate electricity? Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 09:37, 5 April 2013 (EDT)
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Hi! Thank for for creating this website.
- 1 Financial crisis of 2008
- 2 Lukashenko
- 3 Arinze won't become pope
- 4 CPAC straw poll results
- 5 Bullied and banned by liberal sysop for speaking the truth.
- 6 Username Change
- 7 Questions
- 8 Protocol
- 9 Best Wishes to you & yours
- 10 Template:Personal remark removed
- 11 Andy
- 12 Economics lecture six
- 13 No Nobel Prize was given for relativity
- 14 Grammar error on MPR
- 15 Liberalism
- 16 E=mc2
Financial crisis of 2008
There was just two months work in this article reverted without explanation. The article is 5 years out of date and in need of updating. It is loaded with Prof. Jensen's hope that government Keynsian stimulus's are the solution to the crisis -- which has now been emphatically rejected by both the European Union and the United States through sequestration. Can we get meaningful discussion on any problems, or can the reversion be restored and I can continue, along with my work in Category:Budget terms, Fannie Mae, and other articles related to the crisis. Thank you. OscarO 22:20, 6 March 2013 (EST)
Hello I have seen that only administrators can upload pictures. So can you please uploud a picture of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko? Like this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Lukashenko_2007.jpg --Alex00 12:34, 11 March 2013 (EDT)
- There are limitations on use of that photo, which make it not worth the trouble for the relatively obscure figure.--Andy Schlafly 12:49, 11 March 2013 (EDT)
Arinze won't become pope
I notice to you the post that I have written on the talk page of cardinal Arinze, explaining why he won't become pope at all, I assume that since nobody answered me and you kept uphelding that Arinze will be elected on the main page's head... you didn't read it. --Swordsman 12:52, 13 March 2013 (EDT)
CPAC straw poll results
Mr. Schlafly, your headline for the CPAC straw poll contains the line "...as the older RINOs strike out.", is this meant to imply that you believe that the other candidates under consideration were RINOs? If that's the case, I couldn't help but notice that of the other 22 candidates on the ballot, only 2 appear on our RINO list here at Conservapedia (Chris Christie and Mitch Daniels). Would you like me to add the other names to the list? --DonnyC 19:58, 16 March 2013 (EDT)
- No, the headline doesn't mean that every non-winner is a RINO. It means the RINO faction of the party struck out, including critics of Rand Paul and folks like Mitt Romney.--Andy Schlafly 22:03, 16 March 2013 (EDT)
Bullied and banned by liberal sysop for speaking the truth.
On the Steubenville rape case page, I, BenCG, correctly pointed out that the rape case was stalled by local Democrat officials, only to have justice brought by the Republicans at the state level. Apparently I offended the liberal sensibilities of liberal evolutionist and atheist User:Brenden. I can understand dealing with liberal bias and ignorance on Wikipedia. But to have to deal with it on Conservapedia at the behest of liberal sysops is disgusting. Brenden refuses to accept the facts surrounding the Steubenville rape case and, like an atheist, refuses to accept credit given to Republican AG Mike DeWine for his good, Godly work in bringing the perpetrators to justice. BenCG2 14:16, 18 March 2013 (EDT)
- BenCG, your edits to the Steubenville rape case were in no way in good faith. I trust anyone with some sense can tell that the entire point of the article was not to complain about politics, but rather to explain the disgusting crime that took place. BenCG, instead of lying and manipulating people, why don't you go do something productive?brenden 00:07, 23 March 2013 (EDT)
Username Change
Hi Andy, would you be able to change my username to DickV so as I conform with the first name, last initial policy ? Cheers. 09:22, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
- That's unnecessary at this point - the policy is for users who have not made substantive edits.--Andy Schlafly 09:28, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
Andy, the users who have not made substantive edits are the ones that get burned by the rule! You probably know that Mr. V, along with another of others, are occasionally beaten up for the appearance (emphasis on appearance) of hypocrisy in blocking people over the naming rule while not himself complying with it. He was simply lucky that no one was zealous in applying the rule when he was new. He is making a good-faith effort to fix this appearance of hypocrisy. Please let him do so. SamHB 22:47, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
- I must admit I always assumed Vergne was the surname. Still if someone wants to change their name it can do no harm can it? --DamianJohn 22:51, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
- So will you change my username please ? Dvergne 23:17, 22 March 2013 (EDT)
Hi Mr. Schlafly,
I am a relatively new user here at Conservapedia, but since I am very familiar with how MediaWiki works, I was able to "adapt" to here easily. I have a few questions about Conservapedia which probably only you could answer.
- Are there any plans for the MediaWiki version of this wiki to be updated? The version currently is 1.16.0, but the latest version of MediaWiki is 1.20.3!
- Is Conservapedia:Image upload requests still being monitored? If not, I would appreciate it if you or another user with the upload tag could take a look at my upload request.
- Finally, is there a page protection policy here? After searching through the help pages and guidelines, I couldn't find one. I think we need one since I noticed that Evolutionary biology careers is fully protected with no reason given, and there has been an outcry on the talk page.
Thanks, DashP 14:27, 20 March 2013 (EDT)
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
Regarding this edit, may I suggest that you discuss any such reorganization of the article on the talk page first (as did I) before you make it. Also, some people may view marking the edit as "minor" may be misleading. Many thanks, Wschact 15:00, 24 March 2013 (EDT)
Best Wishes to you & yours
May many blessings be yours on this day of remembrance. :-) Taj 02:36, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
- Happy Easter from me too --Alex00 08:11, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
- Happy Easter, Mr. Schlafly! GregG 09:12, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
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Dear Mr. Schlafly,
Can you please edit the template to move the
[[Category:Templates]] category inside the
noinclude element? This way, pages using the template are not categorized as Templates, which is what is happening now. Thanks, GregG 22:16, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
- Good suggestion, improved accordingly.--Andy Schlafly 23:05, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
Would you be able to unprotect the april fools day article and talk page ? For some reason User:Conservative decided to protect them both. On a more positive note, I hope your and your family had a happy and reflective Easter. Dvergne 11:45, 1 April 2013 (EDT)
- Done per request.--Andy Schlafly 11:52, 1 April 2013 (EDT)
- Thankyou for doing that. Added a few more examples. I am currently writing / improving the Thorium article and adding information about thorium reactors. I have a few diagmrams which show the energy and mass loss throughout the process. If I want to get them uploaded here where should I go and what should I do. Cheers Dvergne 12:07, 3 April 2013 (EDT)
Economics lecture six
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
Can you please have a look at Talk:Economics Lecture Six#NBA example? Thanks. GregG 19:33, 1 April 2013 (EDT)
No Nobel Prize was given for relativity
Andrew Schlafly, you have repeatedly stated that no Nobel Prize was given for relativity, Nobel Prizes have been awarded for applying relativity to electromagnetism, etc. So what's your spin (pun intended) on Paul Dirac's award in 1933? --AugustO 09:55, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
- Are you talking about Dirac's shared prize with Erwin Schrödinger for quantum mechanics? Quantum mechanics disproves the theory of relativity.--Andy Schlafly 11:27, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
- "Quantum mechanics disproves the theory of relativity." And how precisely is that? As an engineer -both by education and profession- I've never heard such. Please proceed to elaborate on your assertion. --DonnyC 13:56, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
- Quantum mechanics disproves relativity in several ways, such as the action at a distance that occurs in quantum mechanics despite the theory of relativity insisting that is impossible.--Andy Schlafly 20:39, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
Andrew Schlafly, when you know near to nothing about a subject but nevertheless insist on making general claims like quantum mechanics disproves the theory of relativity, your readers have difficulties to discern whether those are intentional follies (belated April Fool's Day pranks) or unintentional ones (examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect). Heck, I even added links to the article on Paul Dirac which could have helped you!
Yes, Paul Dirac got his prize for his contributions to quantum mechanics - but for reconciling Special Relativity and Quantum Theory!
"The importance of Dirac's work lies essentially in his famous wave equation, which introduced special relativity into Schrödinger's equation. Taking into account the fact that, mathematically speaking, relativity theory and quantum theory are not only distinct from each other, but also oppose each other, Dirac's work could be considered a fruitful reconciliation between the two theories."
As an engineer you are not expected to be well versed on this subject, but if you want to contribute without looking like a know-nothing, you should make yourself familiar with the facts. Keyword: Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
--11:29, 3 April 2013 (EDT)
Grammar error on MPR
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
(This is cross-posted from User:Conservative/mail)
On MPR, we have the sentence "Obama Is [sic] spending $100 million dollars [sic] to try to undue [sic] God's confusion of language among other things." Not only is "Is" incorrectly capitalized, there is also a redundant use of the dollar sign and the word "dollars", and "undue" is not a verb. I have no idea what is meant by this prominent sentence.
Can you please fix this? Thanks, GregG 08:21, 3 April 2013 (EDT)
- Excellent suggestions, Greg. Corrected now.--Andy Schlafly 08:57, 3 April 2013 (EDT)
Hello can you please expand the Template:Liberalism with Corruption and animal rights? --Alex00 10:43, 3 April 2013 (EDT)
Dear Mr. Schlafly: I do not understand the edit that you just made to the E=mc2 article. Is your concern the placement of the extended discussion in the lead paragraph rather than a separate section, or did you disagree with the sourced statements about conservative views on the civilian use of nuclear energy to generate electricity? Thanks, Wschact 09:37, 5 April 2013 (EDT)
- The clearer, more informative introduction is preferred. Also, E=mc2 is not related to nuclear energy.--Andy Schlafly 10:11, 5 April 2013 (EDT)


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The victory improves Liberty's overall record to 5-3 on the season, including a 2-0 mark at home. The Lady Flames have now won six straight matches at Liberty Field Hockey Field, dating back to last season. The defeat drops Saint Louis to 1-8 overall.
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Atlantic Video Changes Leadership [Washington Business Journal]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Shodan: Another Step Towards Intrusion as a Service
Basically a programmer named John Matherly scanned a huge swath of the Internet for certain TCP ports (80, 21, 23 at least) and published the results in a database with a nice Web front-end. This means you can put your mind in Google hacking mode, find vulnerable platforms, maybe add in some default passwords (or not), and take over someone's system. We're several steps along the Intrusion as a Service (IaaS) path already!
Incidentally, this idea is not new. I know at least one company that sold a service like this in 2004. The difference is that Shodan is free and open to the public.
Shodan is a dream for those wanting to spend Thanksgiving looking for vulnerable boxes, and a nightmare for their owners. I would not be surprised if shodan.surtri.com disappears in the next few days after receiving a call or two from TLAs or LEAs or .mil's. I predict a mad scramble by intruders during the next 24-48 hours as they use Shodan to locate, own, and secure boxes before others do.
Matt Franz asked good questions about this site in his post Where's the Controversy about Shodan? Personally I think Shodan will disappear. Many will argue that publishing information about systems is not a problem. We hear similar arguments from people defending sites that publish torrents. Personally I don't have a problem with Shodan or torrent sites. From a personal responsibility issue it would have been nice to delay notification of Shodan until after Thanksgiving.
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If a box is to be owned it will be owned whether it is Thanks Giving or Cyber Monday. Monitors can neither sleep nor relax. Keep your eyes on the ball, is I suppose the message.
IAAS...I like it! Stormcloud Computing! Cloudjacking!
- CG said...
I agree that it will probably disappear because someone is going to get pissed and call their lawyer that the vulnerable box they run got indexed and someone will probably break into it (or they'll finally do some IR and see its been broken into many times)
what was the final result of google dorks? this is essentially the same thing. easily indexable information was indexed and is now searchable.
again we take the responsibility of securing devices and systems away from responsible party (the admins and owners) and blame the bad guys with the "think of the children" argument.
why dont we start blaming the jackasses for allowing theirselves to be hacked and not the bad guys who do it. can you really blame the guy that steals the "whatever" out of the unlocked car? really?
This easily carries over into the cyber war arena. lets stop pointing our fingers at the guys breaking in and instead point our fingers at the organization who allowed it to happen.
- Richard Bejtlich said...
Chris, you just went totally off the reservation with that one. Blaming the victim is not the right approach. I hope all your doors and windows are locked, that your glass is not breakable, that your locks are bump-key resistant, etc. That is not an argument you can realistically win.
- CG said...
i really hate the break into the house analogy but having breakable glass is not the same as leaving my window open and going on vacation. If someone worked hard to break into a site thats not the admin's fault, having an open root shell exposed to the internet I think that is.
I'm curious as to what would be the right approach if blaming the victim SOMETIMES is not. There isnt alot you can do against the 0day rock through your window or a really determined attacker. But, pretty much anyone can be held accountable for negligence in almost every other field yet unless its holding PCI or medical information somehow people are off the hook in the security world.
You think blaming the attacker is the right approach? With the rise of all this electronic crime we still think the average "user" to our system is going to do the honest and right thing? I think not.
you've done alot of IR, you honestly still get mad at the bad guys for breaking in when some places make it SO EASY?
- Innismir said...
Chris: It doesn't matter if the admin was a moron or not (for the record, the people who run these servers definitely are) however, it doesn't change the fact that the attacker still broke in.
It's the same way that if I came across your house with a window open and you being on vacation, I still would not go in. Nor would most people.
Your train of thought is akin to suggesting sexual assault victims had it coming if they were dressed in a provocative manner.
- Richard Bejtlich said...
Hi Chris,
I *always* direct anger at intruders. If I discover they compromised an asset that offered an easy way in, I am usually upset with the asset owner too. However, I wouldn't have to get involved if the bad guy didn't exist.
The security world is "unique" in that we're the only ones who think redressing vulnerabilities should be the priority, whereas the whole world thinks otherwise, e.g., Threat Deterrence, Mitigation, and Elimination.
- Joe Garcia said...
Ben: I think what Chris is trying to say is that, it is very easy to blame the attacker when the victim failed to carry out due diligence to protect themselves.
Yes, a person with common sense & proper values wouldn't go through an open window to someone else's home. In the real world though, there are bad people that will & do. Solution.... Don't leave your windows open when you are not home or on vacation. Shame on you if you do. Oh, and bad guys don't take holidays either.
Unfortunately we live in a victimized society, where the victim has been allowed to have no responsibility whatsoever and this has become part of most people's mentalities. The "it wasn't me. It was the other guy" train of though is weak and people need to get away from it.
Using the home break in train of though... as a home owner I make sure to have good windows, good door locks, an alarm and thorny bushes by my windows. I even make sure to tell the neighbors that I trust that I will be away, so they'll keep an eye on the place. I will go so far as to have my mail held at the P.O. Now if someone gets in, congrats to them, but I still did all that I could to help deter & prevent a burglary.
When it comes to systems, shouldn't the same approach be taken? Do all that can be done to prevent & deter.
- Richard Bejtlich said...
I can't believe what I am reading. "It is very easy to blame the attacker when the victim failed to carry out due diligence to protect themselves." So if one day, you're standing next to me at a Metro station, and I bump you onto the track just as the train arrives, who is going to say "Joe didn't carry out due diligence to protect himself!"
- CG said...
i dont condone people breaking into sites. I don't want anyone to think I do. I also dont think that anyone ASKS to be attacked because they placed a host on the net or failed to secure something. However I do think the attackee SOMETIMES has a piece of the responsibility to share.
you failed to address my point of responsibility on the admin's part. which is my whole point. Does the admin have a responsibility for failing to patch? If you put a system on the internet do you have a responsibility to patch and if you fail to do that is it or is it not your fault?
if you leave your house with the door open and someone walks in and steals stuff is your insurance going to cover it? doubtful, you are at fault. That DOESNT make the thief a "good guy" and he's certainly not providing you or anyone a public service by stealing your crap but its still partly your fault, you left the door open.
back to shodan, i dont care that my site was indexed, i took reasonable precautions to protect it by turning off server version banners and i patch my stuff. if i get owned because i forgot to patch something that's my fault and not because it was scanned and indexed without my permission. I'm gonna be pissed that someone did that and probably most publicly did that but i share responsibility for letting that happen.
- mubix said...
Way off point, but I hate that house analogy, it doesn't scale. The Internet is a vastly different place than your local neighborhood. Just making up numbers here but lets think of it this way:
You have 1000 people going through your neighborhood via bike, car or walking on a daily basis, and a 1 in a million chance someone is going to at least jiggle your doors to see if they can get in.
On the Internet you have something like 8 million people constantly in your 'neighborhood'. Remove the risk of being 'caught' physically and that chance of someone jiggling your doors greatly increases. That, and as an organization you have more than just two doors (some you may not even remember/know about). Now instead of a 1 in a million, you have 1 in a 1,000 chance of someone _attempting_ a break in.
Your expected level of safety in your neighborhood no longer fits that analogy structure. It's more like leaving your door unlocked in downtown DC or LA, with your iPhone laying out. Your friends and family would just call you an idiot and not offer condolences at all.
- Joe said...
You can't protect yourself against everything. You're going to miss something. That doesn't make you negligent. Attacking someone is criminal. The attacker is the problem.
Sites like this are nice. Everyone should be checking to what the internet knows about them.
- Prefect said...
Arguments above suggest it is wrong to point out the difference where one victim has taken extreme, reasonably irresponsible risk, and another who has exercised reasonable due care but was still owned through sophisticated attack.
While in both cases we can condemn the attacker and empathize with the victim but the degree of each will be different for attack one versus attack two.
For example, assume two people are killed. One was inside their home in a good neighborhood at 4pm. The other was out drinking all night, and on the street in a bad neighborhood at 3am. Which story will shock people more or get more attention? Will people in the second case rightfully say "Its terrible, but what was he doing in that neighborhood at that time?".
With companies it is magnified, because unlike personal risk, they have also taken risks on behalf of customers, employees, and other stakeholders with the promise that they would exercise due care with the information those parties provide them to do business.
The fact is that hackers hack, get over it!
- Steve said...
Isn't Shodan just like Google street view? It's indexing information that is out there for anyone that cares to look, from a point in time (the time of the scan, the time of the photo). So, in this one lonely instance, the computer-security-as-home-security metaphor actually kind of works! Woo! Who said nothing gets done the week of Thanksgiving?
So, would a delay in the release of Shodan made a difference to the IIS 4 admins, or the Cisco HTTP and telnet admins that have been revealed by Shodan search? Probably not....those people don't follow security news. So, why should John go out of his way to keep that (public) information private? In aggregrate, this is a useful snapshot for security research and it's not anyone's responsibility to take publicly available information and keep it private, just because it's been made easier to access.
- Joe Garcia said...
Richard: Using your train platform analogy, I wouldn't be close enough to the edge for you to just bump me over it. Why? Because I know that getting hit by a train will kill me or (in the least) serious maim me. If I was close enough to the edge & you pushed me you'd still be wrong & should be arrested, but I should never have been there in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, I don't agree w/ anyone breaking into anyone else's site. My point was that people have to use some common sense when it comes to protecting their systems. Like Prefect stated above, "because unlike personal risk, they have also taken risks on behalf of customers, employees, and other stakeholders with the promise that they would exercise due care with the information those parties provide them to do business." It is not just their info, but the information of others that was entrusted to them. I also agree with Chris, people have to begin shouldering some of the responsibility of allowing a weak defense.
- Black said...
I believe that you can not protect an asset by letting open the information that can act as an ingredient for a well timed attack.
An application like this might sound illegal, but as it has been pointed by many, it can not be termed as illegal. People (ala govt's) might get to block it.
You must start by protecting information you withheld rather than blaming a developer for his efforts!
Bruce Schneier brought up a good point a long time ago on liability.
"Clearly, this isn't all or nothing. There are many parties involved in a typical software attack. There's the company that sold the software with the vulnerability in the first place. There's the person who wrote the attack tool. There's the attacker himself, who used the tool to break into a network. There's the owner of the network, who was entrusted with defending that network. One hundred percent of the liability shouldn't fall on the shoulders of the software vendor, just as 100% shouldn't fall on the attacker or the network owner. But today, 100% of the cost falls directly on the network owner, and that just has to stop."
--Bruce Schneier
I don't see how shodan is any worse than nmap.
- Richard Bejtlich said...
Nmap isn't a database of whole Internet. Shodan is.
- Unknown said...
Why not use the vulnerability data in the Shodan or a similar database to notify all the network/system owners. Advise them of the vulnerabilities and provide information to help them mitigate and remediate. This could help improve the overall security for the internet in-general.
- Richard Bejtlich said...
Chrisk, nice idea, but who has the resources to do that?
Rich, thanks for posting about it, and thanks in advance for posting about other things that we may have not seen due to inattention to the right channels or following the right people.
And,thanks for the great blog and your good works in general!


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Dinarello, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, is considered one of the founding fathers of cytokines, having purified and cloned interleukin-1. Cytokines are a category of signaling molecules that are secreted by specific cells of the immune system and figure in inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
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Web services next battlefront for hackers
Web services security is being targeted by hackers. Fortunately, sophisticated new tools and compliance with standards should mitigate these threats.
Web services security and compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards are top-of-mind customer concerns that the latest version of Watchfire's AppScan Web application vulnerability assessment software aims to address. Announced today, version 6.5 of AppScan and AppScan Developer Edition (DE) offers expanded security auditing coverage with integrated Web services scanning, as well as new compliance reports for PCI and the ISO 17799 and 27001 standards. The scanning tool also includes new advanced testing features designed to help auditors and penetration testers.
"We see Web services as the next battlefront after the easy applications are locked down," said Michael Weider, CTO of Watchfire Corp., in Waltham, Mass.
Now that organizations are moving from proof of concept to larger-scale deployment of Web services, "there has been an increase in questions and attention we've been getting from customers with respect to Web services security, " Weider said. "We will see increasing cases of security issues and Web services."
With all the protections organizations have put into place around the network, it's getting harder to compromise the network, Weider said, so hackers are now looking to the Web sites themselves and the Web applications. Once Web applications are shored up, he said, "hackers will shift toward the next frontier—Web services vulnerability."
And compliance with the WS-Security standard will not be enough, Weider said. "It's a starting point. It just means the Web service does what it's supposed to do, but innovative attacks can compromise Web services into doing what they're not supposed to do, and [hackers are] thinking of use cases that nobody would've thought of. This won't be solved by complying with the [WS-Security] standard."
"Since Web services involve machine-to-machine communications, it is very important to make sure that the operations associated with the Web services are correct," said Charles Kolodgy, a research director for the security products service at International Data Corp. (IDC) in Framingham, Mass. "Even if you build to WS-Security you will need to validate that it has been done correctly."
AppScan 6.5 delivers a Web Services Explorer that lets users examine the different methods incorporated in the Web service, manipulate input data and examine feedback from the service. AppScan analyzes the WSDL file and simulates application-to-application interactions. It provides a range of SOAP tests as well as supports JavaScript Execution and Parsing and Flash parsing.
Weider said Web services face a lot of the same vulnerabilities as Web applications, such as SQL injection, but up to this point Web services scanning has been "underfocused on." Hovever, he added, "with the growth of more people interacting with Web services applications and trading partners, it's most risky where you put the Web service out on the Internet and allow people to freely use it."
At the same time that Web services are gaining momentum, the credit card industry has been increasing its focus on application security with the PCI standard. "PCI has had a huge impact on the security industry. It's a recognition that application security is one of biggest security issues facing anyone collecting credit card information online," Weider said. "It's definitely having a big impact on the vendor community in terms of growing attention to security issues and automated tools to help with vulnerabilities."
Consequently, organizations have been looking for help from vendors like Watchfire, particularly with Section 6 of the requirements which deals with developing and maintaining secure systems and applications, Weider said.
Auditors and penetration testers also need more advanced automated tools for their jobs, Weider said, so AppScan 6.5 also includes a Token Analyzer that provides various tests for Web application session tokens to determine how secure the application is against session theft. And the AppScan's new Authentication Tester is a brute force testing utility that detects weak username-password combinations that could be used to gain access to a Web application.
Application vulnerability assessment tools like AppScan are part of a broader security vulnerability management (SVM) software market that is projected to grow from $1.37 billion in 2005 to $3.10 billion in 2009, according to IDC. Within this market, the application vulnerability assessment subcategory represented $61.4 million in 2005 and is projected to reach $145.3 million by 2009, with a compound annual growth rate of 25%. Currently, Watchfire holds a 26.7% percent worldwide market share in application vulnerability assessment software, according to IDC.
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I figured, why not dip into my freezer stash? What's the point of doing all the baking and not reaping the benefit? So I did.
The only potential downside I see is that the corn muffin based entrees are a little low on the protein (the quiches are fine). However, F&B fell in love with this white cheddar & roasted red pepper spread that we bought at Kroger the other day, so a good blob of that on some mini bagel up the protein. It's a Philadelphia cracker spread and so yummy. We bought that and a parmesan and herb one!
They had matching lunches--a chicken & veggie stuffed muffin, a quarter of a mini bagel with a white cheddar & red pepper cream cheese, a ton of canteloupe/honeydew/grapes, and a little mini muffin cup with Valentine M&Ms. :o)
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That looks delicious. And funReplyDelete
I have really got to make a freezer stash of Quiches & muffins. Thank you for the inspiration & recipies :)ReplyDelete
Are those mini silicone muffin hearts? Are those boxes really big? I've been searching for mini-silicone cups but haven't found them anywhere :SReplyDelete
Hmmm... I might just have to head to Kroger tonight!ReplyDelete
I found the muffin hearts at Target. Mine are regular size, not mini though. I think $10 for 12? It was in the Valentine section.
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My adventures as Founder, Director & Educator at Fundaciones Limited
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Cultural Economy and the Global South
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Oasis Camel Dairy Open Farm, Mariachi Music and Folkloric Dance
Events March 1-March 4, 2020
Various Authors noon, Feb. 23
Video posted May 7, 2015
Hidden palm oasis and hot-springs camping 4 hours southeast.
It's midafternoon, and the hot sun beats down on a remote desert road laying before me. I'm deep in the Mexican desert, thinking of shinrin-yoku. Shinrin-yoku is the Japanese practice of "forest bathing" to enhance ...
Traditional batik printmaking in a Dar es Salaam shop.
Tour of Manzanar, former Japanese internment camp located in Lone Pine, California.
Tour of the Skateboard Museum in Simi Valley, California.
San Francisco's Outside Lands Festival 2011: strange costumes, impromptu acts.
The wrestling spectacle that is Tijuana's lucha libre.
The 50-mile Rosarito to Ensenada bike ride.
The Strip in Vegas: street performers and more.
Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain in Niland, California.
The Strip in Vegas: street performers and more.
Discovering Delft's Old World charm on a day trip from Amsterdam.
Road trip on I-5? Skip the drive-thrus — stop in Avenal, near Bakersfield.
Exploring Berlin's street art, Museum Island and more.
Just a typical night on Nola's Frenchmen Street.
Slideshow: Wyoming's Grand Tetons and Yellowstone.
Balcony view of a festival in Madrid's Plaza de Santa Ana.
Shopping on the island of Xiamen - China's "up-and-coming Hong Kong."
River surfer on the Eisbach.
Israeli Opera Fest had to break for the regional Muslim call to prayer on the PA system.
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Why haven't I made a lesson on the Pacman ghosts before? I have no idea but I do now. This tutorial will show you "how to draw a Pacman ghost", step by step. For those of you that all ready know, Pac-Man is one of the oldest video games that millions of people have played at least once in their lifetime around the world. There is a total of four ghosts and they all have names. The one you will draw today is actually called Pinky. His counterparts are Blinky, Inky, and Clyde. Blinky is the red ghost, Inky is the blue ghost, and Clyde is the orange colored ghost. At one point they made a cartoon series based on Pac-Man. I don't know how that went, but I'm sure it did well for a little while. Anyways, as you can imagine this lesson is super easy, which means you will be done in a flash. I had a lot of fun drawing a Pacman ghost because it brought me back to the past when I was a kid. Enjoy people and be sure to leave a comment or rating. Peace!
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Might And Delight
Shelter 2 pre-orders open, launch trailer debuts early
Shelter 2 is a game in which you are a mother lynx and must protect a den of kittens. Yes, it's delightful.
Might And Delight headlines
Shelter 2 release date pushed back to March
Shelter 2 will put you in charge of a den of lynx cubs in just a few more weeks.
Become a lynx in new Shelter 2 trailer
Shelter 2 casts players in the role of a lynx, which makes for quite a different experience to the badger of the first game.
Shelter 2 announced: coming to Steam, GOG & other platforms this autumn - trailer
Shelter 2 has been confirmed by developer Might and Delight, and while the first game saw you playing as a badger protecting its young, the sequel places you as a mother lynx in an open world setting.
Shelter developer diary features Might and Delight discussing the game, badgers
Might and Delight have released a developer diary for Shelter, the lovely looking game starring a badger family. In the video below, creative director Johannes Wadin and lead designer Andreas Wangler discuss the PC and Mac title. Like Pid before it, the score for Shelter will be provided by Retro Family. It's in late summer […]
Shelter looks to be coming along quite nicely if new screens and trailer are any indication
Might and Delight has announced its new project, Shelter, has been given a set of new screenshots and new gameplay footage. You can have a look at both below. The game is still under development, but the assets should give you an idea of how the game is coming along. Shelter, which stars a badger […]
Pid patched to add easy mode
Beautiful indie platformer Pid has been updated with the option to turn the difficulty down. The game's website claims the new easy mode isn't just a little more forgiving – it boasts redesigned levels as well as shorter and simpler boss encounters. Normal difficulty has also been tweaked to remove certain difficulty spikes, and you […]
Pid launches on Steam and XBL October 31, releases on PSN later this year
Planet in Distress, the indie platformer from Might and Delight will be released at the end of the month on Steam, and XBL, the developer has announced. It will run you 800 MS Points/$9.99 on October 31, and is slated for release on PSN later this year. Thanks, Gematsu.
Planet in Distress is a platformer "with strong influences in precision-based retro games"
Planet in Distress is a new PSN title in the works at Might and Delight, and it's a platformer "with strong influences in precision-based retro games," with adventure aspects. It's a bit hard to describe, so we'll let the trailer below do it for us. There's some screenshots as well. Planet in Distress has been […]
Pid release secured through D3 Publisher
D3 Publisher has stepped in to help out with the Xbox Live Arcade launch of indie platformer Pid. Celebrate this news with a trailer through the break.
GRIN veterans introduce Pid, due 2012
This gorgeous trailer debuts Pid, a new platform adventure from a team with some serious industry history.
Former GRIN staffers form Might and Delight studios
Former members of the Bionic Commando Rearmed team announced this week that a new studio called Might and Delight has been created by the ex-GRIN staffers.
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Shelter 2 announced: coming to Steam, GOG & other platforms this autumn – trailer
Shelter developer diary features Might and Delight discussing the game, badgers
Shelter looks to be coming along quite nicely if new screens and trailer are any indication
Pid launches on Steam and XBL October 31, releases on PSN later this year
Planet in Distress is a platformer "with strong influences in precision-based retro games"


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about the result.
Divorce need not be
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Positive people
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negative people
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text: Beren Eoath 48 Posted February 24, 2013 For me such thing as the lack of dice, no reprints, the big winter sale-out and no annoucements mean that FFG is planing a 3.5 or 4e of WFRP. And I really don't get it why people are getting so nervous about it? Fans of WFRP 2e were unhappy when FFG announced 3e, now fans of the 3e are nervouse becouse there is a chance, not officialy confirmed, that FFG would release 3.5e or 4e of WFRP. It always like that. People should be happy that the game is evolves and You are still getting more options in it and every edition is trying to be better then previous. The truth is that every WFRP was different and You can choose which one is the best for You. And with so much prevoius materials You can create an endless adventure. No WFRP had to much luck in publishing for a long time. 1st edition was reprinted 3 times, 2nd edition was published only for 4 years and in 2008 they got only one expansion and in 2009 only two (one was Career Compendium) and the game ended. From 2009 we are getting 3e and in those couple of years we got amny expansions. Now the game is not selling and what's more the game is loosing against other fantasy RPGs. The licence costs FFG a lot so for me the next step would be to make the game sale. Many fans of the old editions turned away from 3e becouse of too much cards and mechanical ideas that they did not liked. Now i think FFG whats to repair those mistakes. I believe that FFG is still working on WFRP but not on 3e. They give us PODs becouse those are the way to give players some materials that would in other way would never see daylight. I think that FFG whant to do something that like a new edition that would give players a chance to customise the game they what. One of the thing they should change is to make the cards as optional componets not a must use. The other would be to change the mechanic so that You can play only with books. The game could be still published in boxes with all the stuff in it but the players would have the chance to leave in the box all the stuff they don't whant ot need. I don't know what FFG will do, what they are planing or what they are working on now but I still think that there is a lot of material published so far that let players have fun for many years. Cheers and happy gaming Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Study Group on The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
Study Group on The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
Led by Lamas Depa and Lhadrun, we will explore in depth The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva; a classic text in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism that remains vividly applicable to life in the 21st-century West. It was written by Gyalse Ngulchu Togme Zangpo, a humble 14th-century monk, as a reminder to himself of his aspirations for traveling the path of a bodhisattva and using everything that happened to him as a basis for awakening. How can a 14th-century Tibetan text be relevant to the very different lives we lead now? Because we still face the same basic human situations Togme Zangpo did in his day, and have the same emotional reactions that keep us cycling in samsara. Thus, Togme Zangpo's advice remains as relevant today as when it was first composed.
We will be using two main books - Traveling the Path of Compassion by Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje and The Heart of Compassion by Dilgo Khyentse - as well as a supplementary book - Reflections on Silver River by Ken McLeod.
All three books are available in the KTC bookstore. They are recommended but not required for participation. Newcomers are welcome any Tuesday. There are no prerequisites and no attendance requirement. The study group meets in the Maitreya Center, downstairs dining room.
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The AMSOIL Great American Circle Track Tour
Final Report-A Summation Of What We Learned
This installment marks the last entry into the monthly journal of the 2010 AMSOIL Great American Circle Track Tour. It has been one remarkable year for me personally and for our magazine. What we had hoped would be the result of our efforts has paid off multiple times.
When we first talked about doing this U.S. Tour, we hoped that we could, first of all, observe and report on the condition of stock car racing in this country. If we could do that successfully, then, maybe, we might have enough significant information to begin to draw conclusions such as where we've been, where we are now, and where we need to go to grow this sport.
Every good business person will tell you that you need to be ahead of the curve as to trends and the direction each type of business needs to steer toward. And let's face it, above all of the excitement and competition, racing is a serious business.
The tracks we race at are businesses, the parts we buy come from businesses, and indeed this very magazine is a business-and all of the parts and pieces of racing related to business must not only survive, but prosper. And to do that we need a plan. CT won't necessarily develop that plan, but we hope to provide enough information gained from this Tour for others to use to develop their own business plans.
The following are some interesting observations we made on the 2010 portion of a Tour that will eventually encompass the entire country.
Class Structure
One of the first things we came across was the combining of classes that were already similar in rules. When you have Late Model and Limited Late Model classes that are losing numbers, you can combine those classes, and then numbers will be equal or exceed previous sizes for either class.
It's fairly easy to do, just equalize the multiple classes with different engine combinations by using weight penalties for the cars with higher horsepower engines, or if you're a positive thinker, weight breaks for the less powered cars. This happened in the F.A.S.T. series here in Florida and it's a method used at numerous tracks we visited including Old Dominion Speedway on asphalt and Crossville Speedway on dirt.
We witnessed a Crate Late Model beat out two high-dollar Super Late Model cars at Crossville and a driver at Old Dominion who races with an open trailer and running what was previously a Limited Late Model win the track championship. This stuff works.
We saw more "compact" foreign-which really aren't foreign-made anymore, only foreign-owned companies-cars used for the stock divisions on both dirt and asphalt. Some teams switched from asphalt to dirt with the same cars.
IMCA-style Modified racing is still strong across the South with a race at The Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway attracting more than 200 Modifieds for a special show there held twice a year. And Bowman Gray Stadium hosted a Northeast-style Modified class that filled the stands with more than 17,000 screaming fans.
Another trend that we saw more than once was the inclusion of scale-sized race car classes such as Legends cars, Bandoleros, Mini-Cup, and Allison Legacy cars racing on 3/8- to 1/2-mile tracks, dirt and asphalt. In past years, these classes were not considered feature worthy, but not anymore.
The tracks need more back gate and allowing the scale-sized cars to run does increase the back gate, but at the expense of a good show some wondered? Not at all. In fact, some of the best racing we've seen this year happened at Old Dominion in a Mini-Cup race where on the final lap the leader's engine stumbled, there was a mad dash for the lead among several cars and the previous leader ended up rolling down the front straight.
The driver emerged unhurt and smiling and waving to the crowd, which was giving him a standing ovation and cheering. It was the best race of the evening. So, who can argue when fans thoroughly enjoy the show? Not me.
Racetrack Promotion
One of the things we observed was the management of each track and how well the owners and/or promoters organized the events. What were the fans' and race teams' satisfaction levels and did the venue appear to be successful? Because we were traveling in the Southeast on the first leg of our tour, we were able to hit several "first race of the season" events.
We were amazed at the large crowd that came out for the first race at Southside Speedway in Richmond, Virginia. The stands were almost filled. We asked the owners, who happened to be sisters, what they did to attract such a large group and they couldn't come up with anything special they had done.
We did observe that the announcer was a local DJ who did a magnificent job of promotion and kept the crowd entertained throughout the event. He announced our attendance more than 25 times-excessive or not, it was appreciated. Later on, we thought that maybe during the DJ's regular radio show, because he was being paid for the racetrack event as a side job, he promoted the races for free on the air and that may have contributed to the high attendance.
We saw where some tracks were kept nicely with the landscaping, track facilities, and overall look and feel, and some where, frankly, run down. You each know who you are, no need to name names here.
One very important factor was the attention to the younger fans and their entertainment. Lanier was our first out-of-state stop and the race coincided with Easter. This track did as good a job as we've seen with entertaining the kids. It had a special "school" bus that drove the kids around the track and all over the outside of the track.
It was equipped with flashing emergency lights and a siren and ahhooga horn. The kids had a blast. And it was a way to keep them occupied while the track workers hid Easter eggs near the grandstands in preparation for a huge Easter egg hunt later on that evening.
There was also a small Quarter Midget track located on the property at Lanier and that same Saturday the younger racers were having their own races. When a track takes care of the kids, the parents want to come back often. Where else can you go and be entertained and have the kids ask to go back?
This scenario reminds me of the post WWII era when drive-in movies were popular. Mom and Dad could go take in a movie and the kids had playgrounds to go to and be entertained. It worked for all and those tracks that care about the entire family are definitely more successful from our observations.
Large Events
Our overall goal for the Tour was to visit the average racetracks across the region, but we also attended a few larger shows such as the World 100 at Eldora Speedway, the Topless 100 at Batesville Speedway, the USAR Pro Cup event at Hickory Motor Speedway, the USAC Sprint Cars at Salem Speedway, and the U.S. National Dirt Track Championships at The Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway.
The best-run show by far was the Eldora event, but then this race has been around for some 40 years now. You'd think they would get it right, right? And they did. The whole track is being modernized and made more fan friendly than ever with the help of the new owners, Tony Stewart and company.
We were provided with a prime location for our motorhome and the crowd was fantastic and controlled. Speaking of controlled, almost every major event we attended had law enforcement present to provide security if needed and 95 percent of the smaller weekly events had the same.
One large event, and we spoke of this in our monthly review this past year, didn't and there was trouble. We want to stress that at any public event with a large attendance, there needs to be security that has law enforcement capability.
Bowman Gray was a weekly event that was in itself a large event due to the huge number of attendees. It had a sufficient number of law enforcement personnel on hand and everything went smooth as glass. The promoter at Bowman Gray did an excellent job of keeping the events on schedule throughout the night and that allowed the crowd to get home at a decent hour. That is important to parents who need to get the kids to bed at a decent hour.
Technical Observations
As the Tour went along, I couldn't help but notice some of the more technical aspects of the racing we were witnessing. After all, I am the Tech Editor for the magazine. The evolution of the setups for dirt and asphalt continues and gets interesting.
First off, at Lanier, I saw a BBSS setup car take off like a rocket ship and put a half-lap on the field in 20 laps. It was a 100-lap race and by lap 50 or so, a car that started around fifth had move into second and then overtook this early leader to go on to win.
I'm an astute observer of setups and I can tell you that the car that won was running a more conventional setup. It rolled, it rode higher, and it was very consistent-never slipping once in the entire race, whereas several other cars lost their handling balance at some point.
We saw a young racer, who told me he reads CT religiously and races on a limited budget, win at Old Dominion in much the same fashion, coming on later in the race. This driver, running his Limited Late Model against full Late Model cars, also won the track championship.
On dirt, most of the top cars in each Super Late Model event ran with all four tires on the ground. There was less sideways attitude with the cars of the front runners and at Crossville as we stated, a Crate Late Model beat two full-on built-motor cars with a straight ahead driving style and a smooth, error free run.
Later on we would witness a man named Billy Moyer drive in much the same fashion to a $5,000 win at Paducah International Raceway. You can call it saving tires, or making fewer mistakes, or whatever, but running with less of your tail hanging out is good for the win column.
Most of your top drivers in the touring Dirt Late Models have adopted this style of driving. What confused me was seeing some strange shock setups on these cars. The experimenters were largely lost. There is some success with tie-down right front shocks, but the successful teams limit the extent of the rebound rate. Too much of a "good thing" ends up being a bad thing.
The double spring setups have made their way back into this arena and have their place as long as the transition is timed correctly. This is where you run down the straight and enter the corner on a softer combination of two stacked springs at the right front and sometimes the left rear.
Then as the suspension compresses up front, the shock hits a stop where the upper and softer spring is removed from the situation and the car is now running on the lower and stiffer spring as it moves through the middle of the turn. Then as the car exits, it's back to the double spring on the right front and onto the stiffer spring at the left rear as that corner compresses.
The bars on a four-bar car must be set so that the left rear will compress on exit or the double spring setup on that corner won't work. But all in all, I think experimentation is good as long as the team doesn't get too far away from reality. It's what makes racing so interesting.
Looking back on this whole experience leaves me with a feeling that we are indeed on to something with this whole tour thing. It started out as a somewhat hefty goal to be able to cover so many races and so much territory in this first year, but we did it. We hope you learned something as we learned. There is much more to do for the second year of the AMSOIL Great American Circle Track Tour as we visit the Northeast.
That's a very rich racing region unlike any other in this country. The traditions and history are felt across the land. Think of how many racers from that part of the country have become part of the huge NASCAR nation as drivers, crew chiefs, mechanics, and so on.
I can't wait to study the ways of our northern friends who as track owners, promoters, race teams, and loyal fans may well show us a thing or two about short track racing. We hope you follow along. We're in the process of putting together a plan of attack and a list of racetracks we'll be visiting. If you have any suggestions or comments, please forward them to me or to Editor Rob.