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I appreciate the smooth process.
Annette Williams
I was very happy that everyone at Burman Law communicated with me in a way that I could understand regarding the questions I had during the process of my case.
Sidney Beck
Michael & his staff were great. Thank you for always being patient with me when I had so many questions. Great Job!
Robin Dorsey
Michael Burman and his staff were always there when I needed them. They were behind me 100%.
Mona Hollis
Very impressed. Your staff was wonderful.
Mary Kent
My experience was a good one. I have never dealt with attorneys before and didn't know what to expect. Mr. Burman and his office made me feel comfortable and I felt confident I made the right decision consulting them
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Michael & his staff were great. Thank you for always being patient with me when I had so many questions. Great Job!
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Michael Burman and his staff were always there when I needed them. They were behind me 100%.
Mona Hollis
Dear Mike,
Here is what I have to say and should have sent to you and thanked you in writing a long time ago. As we still struggle every day to make sense of why this happened we very much appreciated the help you and your staff extended us at all times throughout the whole process.
Through a tragedy we found Burman Law Office to not just be a Law Office. They were more than that – they were kind, considerate, and very understanding. They helped us make the right decisions for all concerned and guided us throughout a process that we had no idea how to handle. They seemed to understand and respect the fact that we were in so much pain from the loss of our child, and yet they were in a State we ourselves had only driven through a few times in our lives. It has been almost three years since the accident and we are still in contact with them and one of their staff has been such a godsend to us. Her friendship means so much to me and yet she didn't have to even acknowledge us once the legal matters were resolved. Mr Burman's thoroughness and professionalism, as well as each person there that we dealt with, was superb to say the least. And they made us feel this was personal to them as well, and when you grieve from the loss of a child there is nothing that can ever be more personally devastating to anyone. The first time I spoke with Mr Burman, he gave me his personal cell phone number to call anytime. We were so pleased that our daughter's case mattered that much to him – that he was taking it that personal by giving us his number. I am sorry we needed their services, but I am not sorry we chose them to handle everything. I would, without the slightest hesitation, recommend Mike Burman, DeDe, Brandi, and all the staff at Burman Law Office to handle any case you may need them for.
May God Bless you all for your caring and compassion
Jeanne Miller
Mr. Burman and his staff are very professional and attentive to their clients and meet any requests in an efficient manner. Their computer skills are the future of accident law. It has been a pleasure to have them on my team. Thanks for everything!
Tammy Hayes
Mr. Burman has restored our faith in lawyers…..Thank you so much.
Delbert Cobb
The professionalism of this office was well delivered. The well organized office staff were versed in legal matters that pertained to me directly and fast to respond to any and all questions that I had. A very satisfied client.
Lloyd Young
Mr. Burman I would like to thank you for everything that you have done for my family. I am glad I chose you that day for my family. We are still having a hard time. This weekend will be hard on my family since it will be one year since the accident.
Glenn Holmes
To Michael and the team at Burman Law:
We wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all for the exceptional service and treatment you showed us. From dealing with police reports to insurance claims to medical bills, Michael and the whole team exceeded all of our expectations. After being hit head on by an uninsured driver, we thought that our legal options were pretty limited. Fortunately, you showed us possibilities that we didn't know we had and carefully walked us through the process of taking legal action. As a result, we received a fair settlement with a limited amount of aggravation and stress on our part. Having chosen Burman Law out of the local phone book, we didn't really know what kind of service we'd be getting. But the professionalism, knowledge and experience of the team quickly put us at ease and let us know that we'd made the right decision. We honestly hope that we never again have need for a personal injury lawyer, but if we did we wouldn't hesitate to contact the team at Burman Law or recommend that our friends and family do the same.
Best Regards, Steve and Leah Doyle
Stephen & Leah
I am amazed that you were able to reduce almost $250,000.00 worth of medical bills down to a $100 copay. Thank you again!
Leanna Kenner
All staff was very friendly and helpful. Brandi Anderson was a delight to work with during this case. Thomas and I really appreciate her kindness and professionalism.
Tommy & Tricia
Attorney Burman: I am just getting home from a church conference. It is a conference that I was unable to attend last year, because of the pain and headaches I was experiencing from my car accident. Even though there are still days of stiffness and slight pain, I am grateful that I have come this far!
I am just opening my mail and am in receipt of a Final Settlement letter and final check distribution from you.
I just wanted to let you know how MUCH I appreciate your help and the help of your staff in helping me to settle my case!
Most of all- I would like to thank you for listening to my complaints of pain that I shared with you in my e-mails. The pain was something I had never experienced and pray that I will not experience again.
I appreciate you taking time to hear my case and sticking with me until the end. I have shared your professionalism and support with members of my family and close friends. I pray to never be in another accident, but it is a good feeling knowing that there is a local attorney that is willing to hear your case and one who will help you get a fair settlement. I feel you have done that for me!
Please let your staff know how much I appreciate their help.
May God bless you!
Elizabeth Lewis
I had a wonderful experience. Mr. Burman and his staff treated me with the utmost respect. Out of all the attorneys that I've had in the past, I've never had one that kept me as informed as their office did. There was never a time that I was wondering what was taking place in my case. Thank you so very much.
Susan Lara
Michael Burman is a very good lawyer. Thanks to his service I'm at school now and I'm so thankful for him and people who work for him."
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Q: Andrew Goldstein of Claremont asked if it is legal to make a right turn on a red light after stopping at the eastbound 10 Freeway exit ramp at Archibald Avenue in Ontario.
"Whenever I have to go to the airport I don't know what to do," Goldstein said. "This is a very confusing intersection because the turn is more like a merge than a standard right turn. The configuration of the signals and the roadway give the impression that the red lights mean I should wait for a green. Yet I see many cars turning right against the red. There are no signs indicating either 'No Turn on Red' or any other hint that it's ok to turn against the red."
A: In response to our inquiry, Caltrans investigated the area and decided that extra signage would help here. Caltrans District 8 spokeswoman Joy M. Schneider said, "Due to the skewed intersection, motorists on the off-ramp may have difficulty seeing approaching vehicles going southbound on Archibald Avenue. So, motorists should not proceed on a red light. To clarify, a "NO TURN ON RED" sign will be added."
Thanks to our reader, Andrew Goldstein, for pointing out a potential safety issue and thanks also go out to Caltrans for being so responsive in a timely manner and addressing this issue.
Q: Laura Granado's inquiry to On the Road is more of a message for our readers than a question. But it's a safety issue so it's worth a discussion, with helpful comments from a traffic expert, Riverside Police Department Det. Greg Matthews.
Granado noted that Brockton Avenue, Blaine Street and Watkins Drive in Riverside all once were two lanes in each direction. Re-striping these streets to add bike lanes and center left turn pockets has confused many local drivers, she said.
"I have been overtaken by drivers who are using the left turn pocket lane as a passing lane even when I am driving at the posted speed limit. Please remind drivers of the lane markings for passing. The left turn pocket lanes have the solid yellow line to the right of the dashed line."
A: We also thank Granado for bringing this up. This scenario is addressed in the California Driver Handbook in the section about lane control and passing lanes (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/traffic_lanes) as well as in section 21460.5(c) of the California Vehicle Code, which states, in part, "A vehicle shall not be driven in a designated two-way left-turn lane except when preparing for or making a left turn from or into a highway or when preparing for or making a U-turn when otherwise permitted by law, and shall not be driven in that lane for more than 200 feet while preparing for and making the turn or while preparing to merge into the adjacent lanes of travel."
Det. Matthews noted that a center left turn lane is located in the middle of a two-way street and is marked on both sides by two yellow painted lines. The inner line is broken and the outer line is solid. A center passing lane is addressed in CVC Section 21460(c), which covers when a driver may, or may not, drive to the left of double parallel solid yellow lines: (c) If the double parallel lines, one of which is broken, are in place, a person driving a vehicle shall not drive to the left of the lines, except as follows: (1) If the driver is on the side of the roadway in which the broken line is in place, the driver may cross over the double lines or drive to the left of the double lines when overtaking or passing other vehicles.
Matthews said center passing lanes are fairly rare and are almost always used in remote locations that generally have little traffic. There are no center passing lane configurations in Riverside, he said.
"A much more common configuration, also covered by VC Section 21460(c), is the striping of a passing lane when the roadway only supports two lanes. The vehicle with the broken line may cross over to pass when safe, the vehicle with the solid line cannot," he said. In other words, if the broken line is on your side, you may pass when safe.
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Finally, drivers who experience car trouble or a breakdown on a freeway in San Bernardino County during rush hour will continue to get help if they need it.
The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) Board of Directors recently decided to continue its annual agreement between the SBCTA and Caltrans to run their Freeway Service Patrol program, which began in 2006. This program employs tow trucks to patrol some of the freeways in San Bernardino County during rush hour to help drivers with disabled vehicles, keeping people safer and reducing traffic jams caused by disabled vehicles left on the road for longer than necessary.
Funding for the $1.5 million agreement comes from Caltrans, SBCTA and the Department of Motor Vehicles. This fiscal year, two new areas were added to this program: the 60 from the Los Angeles County line to Milliken Avenue in Ontario, and I 15 at Sierra Avenue to Oak Hill Road along the Cajon Pass.
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A dog is a man's best friend. But are some dogs better suited for the manly men that walk this world? And what exactly is a manly man? Is it the man who tightens lug nuts with his bare hands? Is it the man who chews on barbed wire rather than a blade of grass or toothpick? Read More


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The Austin Film Society's exploration of Wim Wenders' films continues with this screening of "Tokyo-Ga." It's a diary-like account of Wenders' travels to Tokyo to discover more about treasured Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu, but while it does place explicit focus on Ozu's filmmaking, with interviews of his cinematographer and one of his favorite actors, "Tokyo-Ga" also shows off scenes of contemporary Tokyo.
Wenders is a German filmmaker whose movies have received top international awards.
Details: 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday. $7-$10. The Marchesa Hall and Theatre, 6226 Middle Fiskville Road. austinfilm.org.


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Yoko Ono will be lighting the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Viðey island in Iceland tomorrow Thursday August 7th - hoping that the violence in Isreal and Palestine will stop.
Yoko Ono wrote:
Dear Friends
As all of us are devastated by the loss of so many lives of innocent children in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, I will be lighting IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Thursday 7th August, hoping that such violence will stop immediately.
With deep sadness and love, yoko
Yoko Ono Lennon
About the Imagine Peace Tower:
It is lit from around 1 hour after sunset until midnight each night except on John & Yoko's birthdays and on New Year's Eve, when it remains lit until sunrise. On 9 Oct and 20-27 March it lights at 8pm.
Relative times: Reykjavik & London & Liverpool: 8pm-12pm | NY: 4pm-8pm | LA: 1pm-5pm | Tokyo: 5am-9am
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Spending New Year Day in the animal emergency room is something of a tradition in my family. It doesn't happen every year, but it has happened enough for me to not be surprised about it.
This particular instance came from my Himalayan cat Daniel who became unable to pass any urine at all. He turned very lethargic, wouldn't eat, and gave every indication of severe distress. A quick poll of my Facebook friends resulted in variations of, "Get him to emergency care pronto before his pee bag rips and he dies."
Stuck between the death of my daughter's favorite animal, and one I'm quite fond of myself, what else was there to do?
So off we went to the kind people at the North Houston Veterinary Specialist. Turns out that Daniel had a complete blockage and required almost a week of hospitalization while they inserted a catheter and tried to clear out a bladder full of bad things.
I knew this wasn't going to be cheap, and that worried me. Believe it or not, talking about Doctor Who on an art blog does not exactly leave you rolling in big denominations. We didn't have pet insurance because the idea that such a thing be treated like human health insurance is still woefully rare in the United States (It's primarily treated like property insurance, which explains a lot about us, actually). When the numbers were crunched the estimate was more than a month's rent.
How the hell was I going to pay for this?
That's when someone mentioned PetChance.org.
In 2012 a Boston man named Peter Alberti was listening to a talk-radio show that featured a veterinarian fielding caller questions. A large number involved people trying to find cheaper ways to treat pets with expensive medical issues. Often the only affordable answer was euthanasia.
The experience prompted Alberti to start the crowdsourcing site PetChace.org to specifically set up a way for people to ask for donations for costly care. It's an amazing website. PetChance confirms with the vet that you actually do have a pet seeking treatment, and donations are funneled straight to the caregiver to avoid fraud. The person who starts the campaign never even touches it. The timing is quite flexible, too, with none of the deadlines that limit things like GoFundMe and the like.
On the advice of a friend I set up a campaign for Daniel set at the middle of his projected cost. I managed to raise the funds in just two days... a fact that leaves me spellbound and very, very humbled. It also had a curious side effect of teaching me a bit about the idea of socialized medicine.
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The first was watching a cross-section of donors. Some people gave as little as $10 (The minimum). One person gave as high as $200. Basically what a person could afford is what he or she contributed.
The second, and more important, was a feeling I have heard about from my friends in countries like Canada and England but never, ever experienced here in America. With Daniel's care continuing for several days after the money was raised we were in constant contact with the hospital. We visited him every day with our daughter, and had lengthy conversations with the doctors about his care and his future.
For the first time in my life those questions had almost nothing to do with money.
Back when the Affordable Care Act was first being debated, and in many forums continuing through to this day, the opposition line was often, "The government will come between you and your doctor."
The only thing that has ever come between me and my doctor has been money.
Any conversation about care starts and ends with that. If a test can be gambled away with reasonable odds to save a hundred dollars, I gamble it away. If a return visit can be seen as a luxury should my wife or daughter or myself seem to be over whatever caused the initial visit, the visit doesn't happen. The cost of drugs to treat conditions always begins with, "How much will I have to divert from food and bills to use this thing, and how bad will it be if I don't?"
It's utterly ridiculous, and other countries don't put up with that crap any more. I know that Norway and Britain aren't perfect, but for just a minute, thanks to the incredible generosity of a circle of friends, I knew what it was like to seek care for someone I loved because they were sick. Not because it was a luxury I could afford.
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Over the weekend we thought that Daniel had re-obstructed. It turned out to be just a bladder infection, but it still happened on a Saturday night when his regular vet was closed so back we went to NHVS. I was loathe to ask for any more money for people in times so tough as the ones we still find ourselves in, so the there I was again. Can this test be skipped? If he responds well to the medication can I not come back Monday? How much are the antibiotics?
To me the question is, can we be motivated as a country to start seeing each other's suffering as a prerogative to ensuring their care? Because I've got to tell you that for one shining week of my life it was so empowering to discuss health regardless of money.
It's certainly made me want to give more in order to give others that feeling in the future to the best of my means. Is it possible to extend what happened to me and my grumpy-faced Himalayan to the human peoples of America? I hope that it is.
Jef has a new story, a tale of headless strippers and The Rolling Stones, available now in Broken Mirrors, Fractured Minds. You can also connect with him on Facebook.


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Seattle's Sherlock doesn't sport a trench coat and tipped hat. Jeff Duchin spent his early career as a disease detective at CDC, and now he hones his investigative skills as the public health officer for Seattle and King County. When he's not on the case, he's on the trail. Jeff has been an active member, volunteer, and ride leader with the Cascade Bicycle Club for nearly 20 years.
Walk it out
Imagine walking six kilometers (nearly four miles) for water that may or may not be safe and clean. That's a reality for many people around the globe. So on May 19, World Vision invites you to walk or run a 6K so others don't have to. Each registration provides clean water for one person.
Killer leaders
Barbara Bush, cofounder of Global Health Corps (GHC) and WGHA's longtime girl crush, passed the GHC CEO torch to Daniela Terminel. Dani's leadership mantra is inspired by The Killers lyrics "I don't shine if you don't shine."
Since its founding, GHC has recruited and trained 1,000+ global health leaders who have gone on to join WGHA members like PATH and Partners In Health.
On the move
Dr. Jerry Radich with Fred Hutch has been a key partner with The Max Foundationas part of the Spot on CML Program, bringing blood cancer screening to people in remote places. Now you can spot him on The Max Foundation board.
Duncan Griffin was promoted to managing principal of HDR's Seattle architecture studio. He's focused on buildings that create more energy than they consume and improve the health and productivity of occupants. Cool, right? In other cool news, HDR placed sixth on the ENR 2018 Top 500 Design Firms list.
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Since our first batch of Manny's Pale Ale in 2002, Georgetown Brewing's philosophy has been: work hard, make good beer, and make people happy. Please join us in our tasting room in the Georgetown neighborhood for samples of our full-time and limited edition beers, cans, growlers and kegs-to-go, tours, merchandise, and gift cards. All ages welcome. For more information on beers, events, or what's on tap, visit www.georgetownbeer.com.
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WGHA's first member mixer, ADJUevent, was a big success. Thanks to you handsome people who joined us. Nothing fuels us more than celebrating our members and seeing you make new connections.
Missed the party but still want to be friends? Check out our events calendar for more ways to engage.
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The Seattle Business Magazine takes on the gender gap in its May edition. Our favorite piece: the power of mentors. Willa Marth of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, Andrea Voytko of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and WGHA's Dena Morris all share how they benefited from mentors along the way.
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Snakebite envenoming is still one of the world's most deadly neglected tropical diseases—killing more people in one month than the entire Ebola crisis did in two years. Join the conversation at PATH on May 8. And with this news, you can probably put overcoming ophidiophobia on the back burner …
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California Bank and Trust Online Banking Login services are offered to the existing customers of the bank. If you have an account at the California Bank and Trust you can access it via a mobile app or web version. The banking company issues a broad array of services that include- business banking solutions, personal banking, commercial real estate and wealth management.
However, new customers of the California Bank and Trust can enroll for online banking following a hassle free process. There are lots of added features to online banking which you make you feel a marvel. One can pay California Bank and Trust Bills online, review account statment, sign up for additional services, keep a track of your expenses and much more. In this post we have provided a detailed guideline to the California Bank Internet Banking Login, California Bank Online Bill Payments and California Bank Locations.
How to Log into California Bank and Trust
Step 1– Clients who desire to sign into their account are required to open the home screen (calbanktrust.com) of the bank. Look for the "Login to Online Banking" button towards the top left of the webpage.
Step 2– Click on the button and a menu will appear on the screen with login options, select your account type to go further with the login.
Step 3– Now the login section will open with spaces below to provide your user id and password. Just provide your login particulars and finally press 'Login' to gain access to the e-banking services.
California Bank and Trust Credit Card Login
Step 1– If you are a credit card holder at the California Bank and Trust then you must navigate to the credit cards page for signing in.
Step 2– At the top right there will be the 'Login' button. Click on it and enter the credentials. Once you are on the account managment console you will be able to access all the account managment features.
Forgot Password
Sometimes the users are unable to recall their account login password and so are denied the access to their online accounts. If you have lost your password follow the guidelines below and set a new one.
Step 1– Proceed with the login by selecting your account type on the homepage. At the bottom of the login widget, there is a link that reads as "Reset Password".
Step 2– Click on the link and you will be navigated to a new web page. Provide your login id in the white box below and then press 'Continue' to receive a new password.
How to Enroll
Step 1– New members of the California Bank and Trust who wish to approach their account online must register for the e-banking services. Go further with the login by selecting your account type from the login section on the homepage. In the basement of the widget, there is a link reading as "Sign Up".
Step 2– Next you will be taken to the online banking enrollment screen. To begin, select the online service you want to enroll in and then click on ´Continue'.
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The more I look at these stories about the Turner case the more upset I get. I went back with all of the records that I have gotten as well as the records that I was given.I get so nervous when I think about this case coming to an end… The 2 surviving horses & … Continue reading
UPDATE: WE HAVE LEARNED THAT ONE OF THE "HEALTHY" HORSES HAS DIED – CAT THE 15 YR OLD MARE,AT THE HANDS OF THE CARE OF HER RESCUERS, HOOVED ANIMAL CARE, NO REASON HAS BEEN GIVEN & MS TURNER WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SEE HER OR HAVE A VET CHECK HER. AT THIS POINT ALL SHE … Continue reading
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text: Vast and able, Michael Bastian continues in his ode for perfection in a wide variety of formats with his spring 2010 collection. Inspired by the way Latin men blend machismo and emotion, Bastian gives way to an aesthetic that has always been there but only now being proclaimed. With notable pieces that include beach-bum cutoffs with boxer shorts showing out underneath and a braid-trimmed jacket in natural canvas(this showcases the variety), Bastian exudes masculinity that remains accessible. Glimpses of nostalgia are there while formalwear, beachwear, and much more reign prevalent. The collection is all over the place, to say the least, but joins together in the contrast that is formal and casual. Michael Bastian is open for business.


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Hang on to your sequins and strappy sandals: The 13th season of Dancing With the Stars is unleashing a cast that would make the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus green with envy. Among them: a Kardashian, an L.A. Laker, George Clooney's sexy Italian ex, and the first transgender contestant, Chaz (formerly Chastity) Bono.
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"I want people to know that we're just normal people like everybody else," says Bono, who will dance with a woman. "It's nothing to be afraid of or think is strange."
Joining Bono on the dance floor are actor David Arquette; L.A. Laker Ron Artest, who is trying to change his name to Metta World Peace; Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, newly split from Clooney; The Hills' Kristin Cavallari; former district attorney-turned talk show host Nancy Grace; Keeping Up with the Kardashians brother Rob Kardashian; former talk show host Ricki Lake; All My Children actor and Iraq war veteran J.R. Martinez; singer Chynna Phillips; Queer Eye's Carson Kressley; and World Cup and Olympic gold medal soccer player Hope Solo.
Bono, who took some dance classes as a kid, says he signed on for the show because "I thought that it would be fun and a great physical challenge. Since transitioning, I'm very comfortable in my body and enjoy doing physical activities."
Grace is also up for the challenge. She says she feels like "Cinderella going to the ball, even though I know people are going to mock me and make fun of me. I don't know how to dance, and I don't know what I'm gonna wear. I may end up in rags in a pumpkin. But I know that I have been invited and I am going."
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There are 15 people right now at your local gun shop. Step in and ask them if you should concealed carry with a revolver or a semi-auto and you'll get 15 different opinions.
Well here's another opinion for you: To end the revolver vs. semi-auto debate, you need to consider your concealed carry needs, your shooting style, and a few other factors those 15 guys at your local range aren't even thinking about.
Sure, there are already 1,000 opinions out there on forums, blogs, and in magazines…
Isn't it time to analyze your style, needs, and goals and come up with your own opinion? Keep reading to learn more…
Let's Talk Reliability and Concealed Carry
If you've been reading about revolvers already you've heard quite a bit about "second strike capability."
So, if you're firing a revolver and you have a misfire, you can just pull the trigger again.
Revolvers allow you to make this second strike. Your trigger pull advances the next cartridge.
Die-hard proponents of revolvers for concealed carry will tell you "semi-automatics don't have second strike capability." You know what? It's true. A few semi-automatics allow you to pull the trigger again to re-strike the same cartridge…but that's not even the same, is it?
But here's the thing…
You're going to have to look hard to find a pistol you're willing to actually buy for concealed carry that you can't rely on.
Think about it! Out of all the brands you've been looking at…
Revolvers, semi-autos, Smith & Wesson, Glock, Taurus, Colt, the list goes on…
There are few pistols from major manufacturers available today that you can call "unreliable."
On top of that, when loaded with the ammo you'll use in a life-or-death situation (that's right, the premium stuff, not low-quality home-reloaded from the hobbyist down the street with second-rate powder), you're very unlikely to experience failure.
When you pull the trigger, it's likely your premium self-defense ammo will fire in any modern pistol. "Second strike capable" or not, reliability in this regard is a wash.
Now what's out of the way, let's talk about what's really important…
Think Recoil, Not Reliability
So you pick a revolver because of reliability…
Now you have something else to face: Recoil.
When you fire a revolver, the hammer drops, the bullet leaves the barrel and nothing else moves. All of the force from the bullet you just fired needs to go somewhere. And it heads right back into your hands.
Heavy revolvers help reduce this recoil. Most of the revolvers you'll concealed carry don't (simply because they are smaller and lighter).
Semi-autos are built to dissipate the force of a bulleting being fired.
Some of the force from every bullet leaving the chamber is used to move the slide back. Pressure bleeds off and moves the barrel. The motion of the gun itself and the design of semi-automatics draw away the force and pressure of firing your pistol.
What does this mean?
Pick a caliber and a pistol weight and a semi-auto will feel like it recoils less.
When seconds matter and help is minutes away, you'll want less recoil to keep your rounds on target.
Capacity is Another Consideration
This one is short…
You can fit more rounds in most semi-automatics.
Higher capacity without reloading (and faster reloading time) is paramount to nearly everything else in life or death situations.
You'll be trained to carry concealed, you'll be prepared to fire (hopefully), and even then, in most "must shoot situations" not all of your rounds will make it to target.
Studies show that most of the time simply having a weapon, firing a single round, and hitting your target just once will protect you and your family. Armed assiliants are rarely prepared for bystanders who are carrying concealed.
But at the end of the day would you rather be prepared to reload quickly? Armed with a magazine of 10 rounds you can reload in under 2 seconds? Or do you want to fire 5 or 6 and end up stuck reloading a revolver?
But What About Complexity?
Revolvers are easier to fire.
They are simple, with no-frills operation.
Put rounds in, close the cylinder, pull the trigger. Rinse and repeat.
Semi-automatic pistols have more steps. Insert mag, rack the slide, safety, shoot…
Revolver fans love simplicity. There's less to go wrong and (importantly for some) fewer steps to "learn."
But if you're carrying concealed, you're going to be training anyway, right?
How Do You Choose?
Here's the bottom line…
Semi-Automatics give you more rounds, less recoil, and improved reloading time. Do you need to worry about duds and second strike capability? Maybe.
Are revolvers easier to operate? You bet.
At the end of the day you need to choose the concealed carry pistol YOU feel most comfortable with. That's how we can all end the revolver vs. semi-auto debate.


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The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) is among the largest departments of epidemiology in Europe with special focus on increasing our knowledge of the aetiology of different diseases. Our department consists of researchers, doctoral students, biostatisticians, data collectors and database administrators as well as administrative personnel, in total some 250 staff. The department is situated at campus Solna. Further information can be found at ki.se/meb
A 6-month postdoctoral research position (with possibility for extension) is available within the epidemiology group at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) at Karolinska Institutet (https://ki.se/meb), Stockholm.
The research project aims to advance our understanding of health impact and genetic basis of severe stress reactions following exposure to trauma. Lead by Prof Valdimarsdóttir, the international research group "The Population Stress Lab" includes 3 associate professors, 4 postdocs and 6 PhD students along with research nurses, biostatisticians and administrators. This multidisciplinary research group is partly based at MEB, KI, and partly at the Center of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland with strong national and international collaborations with other groups with overlapping research program in Sweden, Europe, as well as in the US. The work of this group has led to many scientific publications in high impact factor journals, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, and Lancet Oncology.
The aim of the research project is
To facilitate the access of some local data, the successful applicant's time will be divided between MEB, KI, Sweden and Center of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Iceland.
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Our eyes and heart should be on the Most High divine Creator.
Onze ogen, hart en ziel horen op de Allerhoogste Goddelijke Schepper gericht te zijn.
2 Kings 3:18
'But this is only a simple thing for the LORD, for He will make you victorious… '
- We should never limit the Lord to what we think He can do.
- What may seem impossible to us can be a simple and easy thing for the Lord to do.
- His desire is that we would walk in victory and not in defeat.
- Look at you problems and see them for the Lord's perspective.
Prayer: Lord, You are great and You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you, so I will trust You with my challenges and difficulties and I will believe that they are easy things for You to solve. Amen.
2 Konings 3:18
'Ja, dit is nog te gering in die oë van die HERE : Hy sal ook die Moabiete in julle hande gee.'
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My magical realism novel Skeleton from the Closet is now available on Kindle!
The trade paperback edition will be coming soon.
Bohemian and feminist Kezia moves into the charming Craftsman house her uncle left her…in Kansas, where she moves and finds herself surrounded by conservatives, including toxic relatives. Aunt Edith seemed so kind and loving when she was a kid, but now she's scathingly contemptuous toward Kezia, who begins redecorating and meets a walking and talking Skeleton, more than willing to tell her dark family secrets.


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Sierra Club Canada Foundation is looking forward to the release of a report on fracking, due out this week. The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) was commissioned by Environment Canada to determine what role – if any – the federal government has in regulating the industry.
"We know that fracking involves injecting a secret cocktail of chemicals into the ground and that industry's own data shows their wells leak," said Gretchen Fitzgerald, Director of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of Sierra Club. "We hope the CCA closely examined all available evidence while preparing this important report."
The Sierra Club feels the federal government needs to step up and protect Canadians from the well-documented impacts of fracking. Ohio state geologists recently determined that fracking is linked to earthquakes in the state. Information on the impacts of air quality around fracked wells is also alarming, with unsafe levels of carcinogens and other toxic chemicals in the surrounding area.
"Fracking is literally an earth shattering technology that contaminates our water and our air," says Sierra Club's National Program Director John Bennett. "Methyl chloride, a toxic cleaning solvent, was found in 78% of air samples collected around fracked wells in Colorado."
The contribution of shale gas to climate change emissions – including flaring and leaks from wells and pipelines - can be 20-200% higher than with coal.
"Sierra Club hopes the CCA report will force the federal government to regulate these new dangerous emissions or else we have no hope of ever meeting our international greenhouse gas targets," said Mr. Bennett.
John Bennett, National Program Director
Sierra Club Canada Foundation
412-1 Nicholas Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B7
Tel: 613-291-6888
John on Twitter / Bennett Blog
MEDIA RELEASE, May 1, 2014: Canada not ready for shale gas
The National Pollutant Release Inventory Oil and Gas Sector (Environment Canada Review)
France cements fracking ban (UK Guardian)
Water: Shale Gas: How Often Do Fracked Wells Leak? (The Tyee)
Health: New legitimacy to concerns about fracking and health (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Earthquakes: Ohio finds link between fracking and sudden burst of earthquakes (L.A. Times)
Climate: The future of fracking could be determined this week (iPolitics)


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Climate Bible Gets 21 'F's on Report Card April 16, 2010Posted by honestclimate in Discussions.
Tags: climate change, global warming, ipcc
Climate Bible Gets 21 'F's on Report Card
Via Nofrakkingconsensus.com
April 14, 2010
21 of 44 chapters in the United Nations' Nobel-winning climate bible earned an F on a report card we are releasing today. Forty citizen auditors from 12 countries examined 18,531 sources cited in the report – finding 5,587 to be not peer-reviewed.
Contrary to statements by the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the celebrated 2007 report does not rely solely on research published in reputable scientific journals. It also cites press releases, newspaper and magazine clippings, working papers, student theses, discussion papers, and literature published by green advocacy groups. Such material is often called "grey literature."
We've been told this report is the gold standard. We've been told it's 100 percent peer-reviewed science. But thousands of sources cited by this report have not come within a mile of a scientific journal.
Read the rest here
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The other thing, of course is the spelling of pooh-pooh. If you poo-poo something, then literally it is scheiß, and if you pu-pu it, well, at least there's a lot of variety in cuisine, and it's largely bite-sized. But in the pooh-pooh spelling, are we setting up a Winnie-Winnie situation? Very small minds want to know. Which is why I'm glad I don't want to know.
Well, okay. Famously, lots of Bach's music is transcriptions of his other music. For you see, he was a cult within a cult within a cult, having never broken through to the fourth level. Beethoven orchestrated one of his piano sonata movements in order for it to serve as incidental music (thanks, Dalit). And how many of us would know Pictures at an Exhibition without Ravel? Hey, we had a whole pile of supermarket classical CDs in the house (bound together on metal rods and secured by flywheel screws) and, though we never listened to it in the house (Judy Collins and Bobby Vinton singing in Polish were on auto-repeat), I do remember seeing that there was a composer in the pile whose name was Moussorgsky-Ravel. A hyphenated name from the old country. And incidentally, I added a syllable in my mind: Mussogorsky, possibly a relative of Piatogorsky, who, at the time, I hadn't heard of. And the last two syllables? Pronounced exactly like the last two syllables of unravel. As in, at the time, Saint-Säëñs was the Un-Ravel.
In the fifteen minutes spent on copyright issues in grad school, you learn that arrangements are derivative works. If composer B arranges composer A's work for different forces, then composer A owns the copyright on composer B's arrangement. Composer B can fret and fume about non-payment for all his or her work, but since the underlying music belongs to Composer A, so do all the arrangements of it. To wit, when I was an undergrad, a colleague-in-undergradness wrote Bernstein's publisher to ask if there were a saxophone version of the clarinet sonata. The publisher wrote back saying no, but they'd give him $100 (or something like that) if he would arrange it. Which is a lot more than if he had taken the initiative to make the arrangement and then just sent it to the publisher. In which case, the publisher would have been within their rights to send him a MWA ha ha It's All Ours Now letter.
I first arranged something of mine way back in high school. I had written a pretty, auf-Persichetti piano piece that I would play whether or not anyone was within earshot. A clarinetist and a saxophonist from our church, thinking it cute that I was a composer now, asked if I'd write something for them to play together. Rather than revealing the truth that they both sucked as players, eew, I arranged the auf piece, and made sure I was never within earshot when they played it.
Then somehow through conservatory training, and the prevailing gestalt, I joined that cult within a cult within a cult within a cult. It was a lot of work to do that, since I had to learn four different secret handshakes. My handshakes brought all the boys to the yard, and that was just weird. That violin and piano piece I wrote for Ken Sugita? WOW, was it all about the violin and about the piano. It was serious, and full of thought. Thought oozed from every pore of it, and even though the "ugh" was silent, it was something experienced by all who looked at it. For it was one of those pulseless, highly syncopated things using lots of ink that, in 1979, were supposed to get awards.
Yes, ink. Not toner.
And then I got into Tanglewood.
On my, uh, seventh try. Each try was a different year, by the way. I didn't send in seven applications all in the same year. Because that would be silly. And expensive.
Good things come to them what waits.
|Russell Hershow, Theodore Antoniou, T'wood premiere
|Davy takes bow after premiere. 1982.
So of course the instrumental writing was full of overwriteyness, but it got played, and played very nicely. The soloist was but 18 at the time, and now he plays in the Chicago Symphony. And there were two or three nice things in my arrangement, including a breathing place where a D# seemed to resolve to E in an A-majorish atonal context.
But only eight minutes of music for those big forces? Was I crazy? (One word answer: ask again later. Yes, that's three words because I'm a heavy tipper). So I made up a story. This is the finale of a concerto. Yeah, that's the ticket. The finale of a concerto. They bought it!
And, oh, by the way. When I got back to graduate school after Tanglewood, I wrote two more movements to go in front of it, which became known as the first and second movements. And by the time I did go to the Composers Conference the next year, there were two movements for them to play. With Rolf Schulte as the soloist! For a while that recording was my big (literally) hit, and it was on cassette. Good things come to those whose big hits are on cassette.
Years later, CF Peters took the violin and piano piece for publication, it got engraved, and sold almost, oh, 37 copies. It's a big score. Since I signed over copyright, that meant they also owned the concerto — because it is a derivative work! At the time, when I was seeking resumé lines, it was cool, because two new published works turns out to be twice as many as one new published work. With STEM in place now, that ratio is under review.
And the issue of arranging? Assigning arrangements of piano pieces for various instrumental forces is the way I (and billions of others) teach orchestration. One fine February vacation when I only had a few blank working days to spare, I decided to orchestrate my Zipper Tango piano étude, possibly in the future to be a demo piece for Orchestration of How I Did It, See?. Which was immediately and unexpectedly weird, because I was hearing saxophone for the opening tune, and saxophone is an "extra" in the orchestra (they don't get tenure). Thus were gears shifted for me (in my head), and I arranged it for band instead. Even though the only band music I'd written to this point (other than in high school) was stuff with ten clarinets going apeshit all the time.
And then, dammit, that opening tune kept going higher and outside of the saxophone range. So I got to demonstrate, for myself, that handoff thing that I always talked about in Orchestration. Sax hands off the tune to clarinets, rolls right, and the clarinets gain 4 yards. The play is now under review. Then, metric modulation, oh baby. Because bands do metric modulations all the time, right? Or at least soon they would. Because, you know.
I sent it to Michael Colburn at The President's Own for his feedback. He said a 3-1/2 minute band piece doesn't have legs (and it would be weird if it literally did, and if it did, how many would there be?). If it's part of a set that's 10-15 minutes, well, then he said the band, and other bands, might give it a go. No, he didn't suddenly become British.
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And the band premiered it/them at the Midwest Clinic that year. They sprung for a schmancy hotel room for me and Beff, and I got to introduce it, standing there as if I wore a suit regularly. At the event, I met Donald Hunsberger (woo hoo!) who went out of his way (he had to step around an oboist) to praise Ten of a Kind, and we were off.
Incidentally, I didn't hear a runthrough before the premiere because the Marine Band's plane was co-opted by a General who was certain he needed it more. Thus were they a day late to the festivities, arriving just in time for the sound check.
Years later, Michael recorded the piece for a whole CD of piano pieces arranged for band, and today the band posted the recordings on Yout' Oob. How good are they? When he sent me the second edits for commentary, my comment was We fall off the edge of the earth. He probably thought I was talking in code, and he was polite enough not to send a return e-mail containing only the text "????".
Here they are in all their glory: the band arrangement of each étude, followed by the original piano piece. So there. Thanks to the vagaries of Yout' Oob, it's possible to listen to both the arrangement and the original simultaneously, if being so inclined to do so is something you are right now.
Zipper Tango, tango-étude on grace notes. Originally written for Amy Briggs's tango project.
Bop It, bop étude. Geoff Burleson asked for it after I'd written a stride étude.
Strident, stride piano étude. Amy Briggs asked for it. (In the arrangement, I cop to harmon mute abuse and especially to vibraslap abuse)
Moody's Blues (suggested by Rick Moody), rock and roll étude, Jerry Lee Lewis style, on repeated chords.
And they all rolled over, and one fell out. I use it in Orchestration as an example of arranging piano music for band. Winnie-Winnie.


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|By the wayside (Own work) [CC BY 1.0
We are broken.
We are broken
at the very least.
We are broken
and destroyed
at the extreme worst.
We have long hidden
the chasms, the schisms
are pulling open
no longer holding
the resentment
the anger
the hostility
the hostility
the hate
the deep divide
as tamped down
all encompassing
bubbles and oozes
to the surface
threatening to tear
the democratic fabric
we wear
so unaware.
We watch in dismay
as freedom of speech
becomes a civil war
rather than a civil responsibility
a civil right.
Our tongues and pens
are swords
cutting into
our Pluribus
our fictitious Unum.
|Sapna Chand [Attribution], via Wikimedia Commons
How do we talk to each other?
How do we walk back from the abyss to a place safe enough to have a conversation-- to a space of critical and constructive, yet compassionate and kind discourse?
And what conversations need to be had to close the distances between us?
How do we tell our stories and be heard?
How do we hear the stories others tell us?
How do we integrate facts accurately and significantly into our discourse?
How we humanize data and statistics so that we understand the human stories represented by each number, each percentage, each bar graph and pie chart?
How do we respectfully lift the invisible--that which we don't see, choose not to see, out of the context in which it remains hidden?
How do we train ourselves to see?
How do we foster talking with rather than talking to, at, past, and around each other's Truths.
How do we talk to each other?
Some of my past blog posts may be helpful as we individually and collectively figure out how to talk to each other and how to teach our children and our students.... and ourselves to also listen.
Included in most of the posts are books and other resources that may be useful for current and necessary conversations.
We Are All Alike, We Are All Different
Remaking Our World
Open Season on Black Men
Ferguson and Other Nightmares
Social Justice
Against Forgetting: Poetry of Witness
The Poetry of Resilience
I, Too, Am America
Who Are We in America?
Black Lives Matter..., Too: Let's Talk
An American Lyric: Claudia Rankine
The Rights of Children
The Danger of a Single Story
You Do Not Define Me: Telling Our Own Stories
Today's Deeper Writing PossibilitiesIdentify a person with a different perspective, opinion, or experience than your own.
Have an extended conversation with that person-- listening to understand her point of view and how she arrived at her thinking and understandings. Share your own point of view-- identifying, if possible, places where your thinking converges,
Write a reflection or poem about your conversation, clearly explaining both points of view, and points of agreement.
Include any questions that remain about your partner's position and your own.Also identify any surprising points or lessons learned.
If possible, share your writing with the person with whom you had the original conversation
Encourage them to write their perceptions and memories of the same conversation and share with you.


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New America Foundation Scales Up Open Technology Efforts
BY Miranda Neubauer | Thursday, April 26 2012
The New America Foundation today announced the launch of the Open Technology Institute, billed as a center for impartial research, open discourse, innovative fieldwork, and new tech development related to the issues of Internet freedom and open technology. It's a scaling-up of the foundation's Open Technology Initiative, which did more or less the same thing.
Sascha Meinrath, who worked on similar projects — most famously so-called "circumvention technology" projects like the State Department-backed "Internet in a suitcase" — while also working on that initiative, will head up the new institute as a vice president at New America.
In an email, Meinrath explained that the "Initiative" had grown from an initial staff of around 3 to well over 40 people working on over 20 different projects.
"OTI believes that everyone has the right to receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers," Meinrath said in a statement. "In the 21st Century, this universal human right must extend to the Internet and include access to open technologies and platforms."
The New America Foundation, where Google executive Eric Schmidt chairs the board of directors, is a nonpartisan public policy institute that explores domestic, economic and fiscal issues as well as issues related to international affairs, national security, technology and innovation. The institute's Open Technology Initiative, founded in 2009, conducted research on alternatives to spectrum auctions for frequency allocation and assignment that was used by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and White House staff to draft new federal policy. The initiative also coordinated the MeasurementLab.net project to advance network research and provide the public with useful information about their broadband connections, and worked with the White House and Senators' offices to include investment in telecommunications infrastructure in the 2010 omnibus transportation bill.
Meinrath has led the "Internet in a suitcase" project, a State Department-funded effort to allow wireless communication that could circumvent national censorship. He coordinates the Open Source Wireless Coalition and is the co-founder and president of the CUWiN Foundation, a leading open-source wireless project.
"The Internet is the world's public square, where we must continue to defend liberty and access," Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation, said in a statement. "As we've seen in the Arab Spring, we have compelling reasons to understand and advance the essential role the Internet plays in politics and society throughout the world."
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During her 8th month, Amoriyah started saying "dada"! Of course, Brandon was thrilled. We don't really think she connected that word yet to him, but it was still fun to hear!
Shortly after that, she started waving bye-bye. As with most things, when she first accomplishes something or figures something out, she does it a lot or all the time and then just stops. She definitely did that with waving. In fact, she just very recently started it again, at 14 months.
She also was officially "army' crawling toward the end of April. It was so funny to watch her scoot herself across the room. Welcome baby-proofing. :D
My mom and I took her to Target On April 21st to have her 9-month/Easter pictures taken. They are so cute!
Also, in early April, Brandon was offered a job at Wyndham Worldwide in Springfield, Missouri. After months of praying and seeking advice, we had decided that moving to this city was the best move for our family, as God has been calling us to church plant. So, we made the big move from Texas to Missouri. His first day was on April 11th, but Amoriyah and I weren't able to join him in our new rental home (pictures coming someday) for a couple of weeks so that we could finish up things in Texas. We were ready to see him after those 2 weeks!
Her eating and sleeping patterns didn't really change during these 2 months. Also, because of the move, I wasn't able to take her into the doctor for her 9 month appointment so I'm not really sure what her weight and height were this month.


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The Elie Wiesel Tribute dinner was held to honor leaders who have made a difference in their communities and for humanity. Elie Wiesel himself is a fellow Nobel Laureate and a Holocaust survivor who had seen the brutality of mankind during the Holocaust, yet his faith stayed intact. This year, the United States Holocaust museum bestowed Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with the honor of the Elie Wiesel award for her struggle towards democracy in non-violent means as she continues to fight- unshaken.
Elie Wiesel: "She's an extraordinary human being with ideals and ideas. And all of these ideals and ideas are all there- not only for her own sake but for her country. And beyond that, to all of the people- men and women – anywhere and everywhere in the world- where ever people suffer. She is part of my consciousness – of my moral obligations. She should know that she's not alone."
Like Elie Wiesel, Ms. Gerda Weissman Klein is a Holocaust survivor, and she has experienced atrocities unimaginable. As she recalls the cruelty of mankind during the time of the Nazis, she also remembers the strength and resilience of the Jewish people which gave her as well as others freedom inevitably.
Ms. Gerda Weissman Klein: " You, Madame, so far away in Burma, must know that you have inspired all those who look to the moon and who look to you who has been the guiding stars to so many who have lived in peril and in slavery. I too, have been deprived of freedom for 6 years in Nazi, Germany. Emptiness can be so heavy. How cries of pain can be so silent, yet you Madame are in every heart, every thought- of those present here tonight and all those who have worked for freedom and to the millions who are still yearning for freedom."
Despite the despair that the memory of the Holocaust brings, ultimately, the night echoed the theme of courage and hope. Actress, Natalie Portman bestowed the Elie Viesel award to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by reading a speech of hers from her book," Freedom from Fear".
Natalie Portman: " Here is what she said: It is not power that corrupts, but fear. It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it…"
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had words of her own for the tribute dinner. She spoke via a pre-recorded video.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi: "There are certain things we must not forget, because we would not like these to be repeated in the future. And I thank and honor all of you who are trying to make known to the world- what should not happen again. And individuals can make all the difference- individuals who survive in spite of the greatest cruelty – in spite of the greatest trials and to teach other people that it's possible to survive. And to you all who have not only survived but helped others to survive – by speaking of your experiences- and by teaching them how to be brave and how NOT to lose your integrity in the face of the greatest difficulty. I would like to say, " Thank you. I honor you. I respect you. And I hope that I too will be able to be like you."
With on going talks between the United States and Burma, White House Chief of Staff, Jack Lew spoke of the Lady of Burma.
Jack Lew: " Many times Daw Suu could've decided that she had done enough that it was someone else's turn to sacrifice. But she refused to give up. Instead she continued to inspire the entire world with her faith in nonviolent action and her belief that freedom would ultimately prove greater than tyranny."
The dinner was a successful charity event, which honored the lives that were lost during the Holocaust and commemorated the past while at the same time reassuring that such a tragedy never happens again. As the United States and the Western world is reaching out to engage in Burma's new transition to democracy, all eyes are on the Lady of Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with her extensive belief in the nation's reform towards freedom.
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Burmese Version:
Producers: Thet Su Naing/ Kaye Lin
Assistant Producer: Lwin Nyein Chan Kyaw
Reporters: Thet Su Naing / Kaye Lin
Videography: Lwin Nyein Chan Kyaw / Kaye Lin


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Watch the booktrailer on YouTube
After the critical acclaim of his previous essays, Lluís Calvo presents a work based on the first meridian. Crossing the French capital city, it drew a cartographic axis that crossed through Europe from North to South and continued through the African continent; that is why it was generally known as the Paris meridian. However, it was the Greenwich meridian which was eventually adopted as the universal reference.
Building on this historical tidbit, Lluís Calvo becomes an explaining machine, as he develops a remarkable effort of geographical irony at the expense of the straight line. A line that passes through the very foundations of our culture: from the French Revolution to Occitan monks, from the fleeing of Republican fighters to the legend of the Comte Arnau, from the Roca Village shopping centre to the art of Pierre Soulages, Joan Ponç and Jean-Luc Godard. And also from Titus Livius to Tiqqun, from Maragall to Baudelaire. And, of course, Paris. The roguish and resistant Paris of the republic of artists and criminals that was Montmartre, of the spiritual dissidence —and, at the same time, the flagship of progress and modernity.
We have hosted a launch party at the Calders bookstore in Barcelona, with the author, Lluís Calvo, the philosopher Arnau Puig and the poets Míriam Cano and Francesc Gelonch.
«Virtue, extreme righteousness, entails living in terror.» (Arnau Puig)


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Positive Relationship with Caregiver, for Foster Youthis an indicator of
This brief scale is an adaptation of a scale developed by Child Trends for the Templeton Foundation, as part of the Flourishing Children Project. It includes six items that measure teenagers' relationships with their primary caregivers (whether this is a foster parent, biological parent/family member, or someone affiliated with their group home care provider). You may calculate a total score by associating the following numeric values with the answer options: None of the time=0; A little of the time=1; Some of the time=2; Most of the time=3; All of the time=4. The maximum score for this scale equals 24. Total scores allow for quick overviews of how individuals are doing, as well as easy comparisons in aggregate between pre- and post tests. This scale has been tested with a nationally representative sample of teenagers aged 12-17. It has been found to have excellent reliability (alpha=.92) and concurrent validity (associated with better grades and a lower likelihood of smoking, fighting, and depressive symptoms). This indicator has been identified by PerformWell as a suitable indicator for measuring Parent/Caregiver-child Relationship Quality in children. For more information see: http://www.performwell.org/index.php/find-surveyassessments/positive-relationship-with-caregiver-for-foster-youth. Self-reported questionnaire
This measure was developed by Child Trends for the Flourishing Children Project, funded by the Templeton Foundation, and was slightly adapted to be more applicable to foster youth. For more information on positive indicators, search the Child Trends web page at www.childtrends.org.


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"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
Jun 15, 2011
Guess Who Is Reading Over the Beak of the Crow
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eh... it's probably my little brother, tracking his big brother's activity.
- June 15, 2011 at 2:38 PM
- JM said...
Oh dear.. What'd ya do?
- June 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- BDR said...
You decide whether this would be good or bad news, but I've four or five regulars at justice, one of whom is a buddy who has mentioned he likes what you write. Interesting choice - being monitored as a subversive or read by someone who thinks you're smart.
The one time I mentioned the Maryland senator I call Babs by her real name I got two weeks worth of scrutiny by four people at senate.gov. Weird in a weirdly satisfying way, actually.
- June 15, 2011 at 3:28 PM
- Hamish Mack said...
We have someone from there look at Riddled too.
Page views is page views in my book.
- June 15, 2011 at 3:33 PM
- Randal Graves said...
You both simply share a passion for justice.
- June 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM
- Weldon said...
I used to get readers from DoJ and other .gov and .mil domains all the time back when I had traffic--even cia.gov on a fair number of occasions. I just took it to be slackers and the idly curious unless they were senate and house addresses, in which case I took it to be staffers obsessively cruising the intertubes looking for the boss's name. If it's somebody inimical the address will probably be something more like imabouttokickyourdoorin.gov.
- June 15, 2011 at 4:22 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Good to know, folks. Thank you.
Another interesting visitor was the State of Minnesota. I never got them as a hit or referral until I posted about Michele Bachmann.
It's fascinating and a little creepy. That there are people, perhaps, whose job it is to track mentions of their bosses on the intertubewebz. I know the state of NH has an inhouse "clipping service." I wonder if Minnesota has the same.
- June 15, 2011 at 4:52 PM
- Jack Crow said...
I made my first entry in the FBI's files sometime back in the earlyish 1980s, after I was questioned for an affiliation with a Palestinian.
My "affiliation" was that I watched his kids for him, for extra money, when he was a way on trips to the Middle East. He paid very well.
He was an arms dealer. For one of the biggies based in Colorado or Florida, IIRC.
My second interview came after I made some "intemperate" remarks about the first pretzel Bush, when he came to the region with the future Governator, sometime after Gulf War One. I was handing out communist literature and my comrade in arms was the son of a retired Admiral.
We were too stupid to figure out that daddy might have taken his worry and put it into material action.
I'm used to the self-image of loser has been subversive. Don't know what I'm supposed to with appreciation.
- June 15, 2011 at 5:03 PM
- Coldtype said...
There is actually software out there let alerts whenever your name pops up on the internet. I suspect that may have played a factor.
- June 15, 2011 at 5:46 PM
- ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...
I have a friend from H.S. who is high at the FBI...
- June 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- Big Bad Bald Bastard said...
These days, I'm just as worried about Google as I am about the Government.
Do no evil, my ass!
- June 15, 2011 at 7:16 PM
- David K Wayne said...
Note to self:
Sign out of Google before looking at porn...
- June 16, 2011 at 5:03 AM
- Jack Crow said...
That's funny.
- June 16, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- David K Wayne said...
If they've got an FBI profile of me, I must look like a drunken Cthulu wearing a backwards baseball cap, a Karl Marx beard, with pants permanently round my ankles.
I'd definitely buy that portrait - be handy for keeping burglars away...
- June 16, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Susan of Texas said...
I had a Koch pr flack show up once. I told her to repent.
- June 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Jim H. said...
I suspect that if 'Agent Mike' were tracking you, he'd use a dummy IP.
I stopped tracking my readership long ago. I don't care. I write what I write. Like it or don't. Read it or don't. Troll the comments; I don't care.
I'm not Juan Cole.
- June 16, 2011 at 3:22 PM


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It's tick season, and if you're going to spend time outdoors, you need to know where ticks lurk, how to avoid them and what to do if you find one of the nasty critters trying to bite into your skin.
Most ticks are just unpleasant, but they can carry bacteria, viruses and parasites that make you sick. Lyme disease, carried by the tiny black-legged (or deer) tick, is one people worry about. In a recent year, about 235 children under age 19 in Wisconsin contracted Lyme disease. And there are other risks you should be aware of.
Ticks love places that are moist and humid. Woods, shrubs, underbrush, leaf litter and tall grasses are favorite hiding places. If you're going into the woods, stick to the center of the trail.
If your yard has a wooded area, make a tick barrier of wood-chips or gravel between the woods and the lawn.
When you're going into tick country, wear protective clothes that cover your skin.
If you're going into the woods or doing yard work in deep vegetation, consider using an insect repellent.
Clothes, socks and shoes can be treated with products containing permethrin before wearing. You spray or soak your clothing and let it dry before wearing. It lasts through several washing's. Some clothes are manufactured with permethrin in the fabric.
Your skin can be protected with DEET (N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide) insect repellents. Make sure the product is at least 20% DEET, and use it according to directions. DEET is considered safe in children over two months of age if applied carefully.
Make these precautions a habit whenever you or your kids come inside:
Don't panic if you find a tick attached to your body. Grasp it as close to the skin as possible with a tweezers and pull straight out. Don't use heat or a match to try to make it back out, or petroleum jelly to suffocate it: those tricks don't work.
The CDC Tick Removal page has more about how to do it right.
If you're worried about Lyme disease, use this chart to see if it's a deer tick, the only one that carries Lyme disease.
After you've gotten rid of the tick, keep watching your whole body for a rash. If you get one in the next 3-30 days and it's warm but not itchy or looks like a bull's eye, you should talk to your doctor. It might be Lyme disease.
Also watch for flu-like symptoms: fever, chills, fatigue, aches or swollen lymph nodes. If those develop or you feel sick in the days and even weeks after the bite, see a doctor.
More about ticks and Lyme disease.


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Training beginning
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POLL: How should I begin MMA training?
MMA classes
Judo classes
Wrestling classes
BBJ classes
Other (only if you think it could be better than any of the above)
So summers getting close and Im finally planning to begin working up to amatuer mma. I dont know if its obvious or not but should I go train at a specific style school or just begin altogether at an MMA gym? My choices around here are wrestling, BJJ, Judo, and MMA.
So can anyone give me suggestions to whats my best option.
Usually MMA gyms have scheduled weekly programs where they teach one discipline per session, then when they think you're ready they invite you to start MMA itself. Check how the one you're planning to attend works.
Remember this all kind of depends on your own experience with the other disciplines and your own natural skills. If you have 3 years of wrestling (H.S. or whatever) then you should take some Judo/BJJ to even yourself out a bit. If you are inclined to stand up and throw hands all the time then maybe you should take some Kickboxing classes to learn the rest of the stiking game you know?? Regardless I wish you good luck on your new path!!!
Yeah it seems like we've seen this same kind of post time and again on this forum. Mind you, I'm not flaming the post, just saying.
From what I can recall the jury is still out on what's the best. Really I don't even feel like there should be a jury on the matter. For my money, I go with what I enjoy. Of course there's certain styles that are more friendly to certain body types, but I really don't feel that you should limit yourself to one or another based on anything other than what is available in the area. Even if by the "book" your body type isn't friendly to the style, that makes for an interesting chance to improvise and bring something new to the game.
Plus, there's guys like Doug Marshall who are short and stocky but have made a career out of being a great striker.
To make a long winded post much shorter- Basically just go with what seems the most fun and build off of that. You're not likely to stay committed unless you're having a good time with it. Just get out there and start kicking ass.
I'm a wrestler and I see it as the best base but really if you missed it in highschool I would say BJJ is a very solid foundation. Judo is not a very good single style and Judo is all gis so I would stay away until you have something solid.
Boxing is a good option I would say, not because it is a good transition style but you can build goos reflexes and head movement.
Muay Thai is good depending on where you're located, very few cage fighters are trully skilled in the standup range and when someone skilled grabs that plum a lot of times there is no answer. I've seen good striking in ring fighters but that might have been a coincidence due to the Brazilians primarily competing in Pride.
Wrestling is good but you should just find someone who is a good wrestler and get in the cage with them and learn from there.
as a fighter i would say go to an mma gym and train your wrestling and jiu jitsu first. then learn the striking muay thai, boxing. wrestling is the strongest base in mma because it allows you to dictate where the fight goes, makes for good plan b type fights
The thread that is stickied in this forum, particularly the posts by Omega and Svartom, is one of the best I've seen on the subject. I know you're looking for an easy answer like "take BJJ and then take Muay Thai", but there are things more important than style. The biggest obstacle any new fighter has to overcome is sticking with their training so you have to find a school where you will do that which means the style, instructor, class schedule, gym location, availability, attitude and quality of sparring partners, etc. all have to be taken into consideration. It's tough to give advice over the internet without visiting the schools that are in your area--something you should definitely be doing.
yea I cannot add much to the previous post. Best thing to do is find a school you feel comfortable... as for the style.. I'd suggest an MMA school just cause you'll have access to both stand up and ground skills... that does not mean do not look else where for other styles you never know what you will find that will help your skills or you will enjoy. or set you apart from other fighters. remember MMA is not just Muay Thai and BJJ.
The way i see it,
Some Of The Best Fighters Are Wrestlers
, Hand skill is easier than most think to develop. sprawling and wrestling correctly take a lot of practice and time. nevermind getting into Jits and Subs. though i belive that wrestling (even the basics) are of the upmost importance to a be a good fighter. not knowing how to sprawl in mma is like not knowing how to kick in TKD... (IMHO)
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I just figured I'd drop my Zedge account link here -- not to advertise the site, of course, but to share some of my work (photos and graphics) that I've been up to of late. For any of you android/ios, etc users -- it might be of some use.
Thanks for peeking and I hope something is of use to ya!
(Anyone here use Zedge, as well?)
With love,
Yes, I use Zedge... for Samsung Galaxy 8+
lovely selection of interesting and diverse walls you have there.... got my eye on a few... will keep checking back...thanks for the link..
I use Zedge as well. Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
I agree with Syd, nice work there. I'll be snagging a few. Thanks!
Nice work. Been using it for a long time now on my s9+
I've downloaded a lot of these from your DeviantArt site for my iPhone. Nice work.
Beautiful work, Nikita! I didn't realize anyone still used walls on their phones. I have a trak phone, so that doesn't count as a real phone! lol!
Yeah, I use Zedge as well, for ringtones, walls and icons, etc. Will look into your site and grab a few walls when I'm on my phone next. You have some really nice walls there, especially the one with the gears, which'll go great with my Steampunk themes.
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Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute? first coined the term Informational Interviewing. Wikipedia defines it as "a meeting in which a job seeker asks for advice rather than employment. The job seeker uses the interview to gather information on the field, find employment leads and expand their professional network. This differs from a job interview because the job seeker asks the questions. There may or may not be employment opportunities available."
This is a great approach for college students in the early stage of exploring careers. It is low pressure for both parties. The student has to demonstrate interest, ask good questions, be a receptive listener, and exhibit a professional, respectful demeanor. An in-depth background is not required to simply explore a career alternative. The professional is not "on the spot" to identify a job opening for the student. He simply has to offer insights about his career path, biographical perspective, and answer the student's questions about the field.
How do you identify professionals to interview? Unless you grew up under a rock, you know adults in careers that hold interest for you. Your parents, extended family, historical friends from high school, church/synagogue/mosque or camp, college roommates, fraternity brothers or sorority sisters, professors, coaches, doctors: and people they know. Remember 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
Whether they are young professionals or high-powered veterans, they're likely to agree, since you are not asking for a job. Ask about rewards and frustrations, career path, and lifestyle. Remember, people love to share their bio and give advice, so let them! You'd be surprised how many people out there are really nice, and find it rewarding to give helpful perspective to a young person. Consider asking to "shadow" an individual for a day and find out what "life in the trenches" is really like.
QuintCareers.com offers a comprehensive tutorial on informational interviewing that is well worth your time. A NY Times blog post by Marci Alboher called "Mastering the Informational Interview" also gives some great tips.
It is never too early to explore careers this way. You will not only gain knowledge of career paths within your major field, but you will gain confidence, polish one-to-one interviewing skills, expand your professional network, and make an impression that could potentially translate into a job later on.
I have been surprised at how many college students are unaware of this approach to career exploration and job search. But it is the perfect first step! On campus, you are primarily exposed to academic professionals, rather than adults who are using a background similar to yours in a business, medical or government setting. Expand your circle of advisors beyond professors to all kinds of practitioners in your field. You may discover an application of your training that you never knew existed!
File away everything you learn! Some career paths may not make sense right out of college, but may work for you later on. A new area you discover may inspire you to focus on getting an internship or job in that specialty immediately. Or you may hear cautionary tales about a career path you were previously excited about–such an interview may be disillusioning, but may prevent career disaster.
Relevant reading:You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career by Katharine Brooks, The Career Chronicles: An Insider's Guide to What Careers Are Really Like–The Good, the Bad & the Ugly from Over 750 Professionals by Michael Gregory, How'd You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs and How To Get Them by Alexandra Leavit.
Related posts: Liberal Arts and the Real World, Your College's Career Center, So You Didn't Get That Summer Internship… What To Do?, Why Should a College Student Be on LinkedIn?.


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The UK is moving in the right direction on fracking.
That's according to a report by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) which looked into the risks of shale gas exploration in the country.
It supports the new legislation restricting hydraulic fracturing to below 1,200 metres in areas of public drinking water and protected areas for wildlife.
It also welcomes the new requirement for geological risk assessment to be carried out by an expert to protect groundwater prior to any drilling activity, it added.
However CIWEM considers there are still "significant risks" related to the management of flowback and produced water.
It added contamination of soil, surface and groundwater from spills of returned waters is a considerable hazard and could result from any negligence associated with storage, transportation and operations.
It suggests operators will have to use the best available techniques to ensure returned waters are appropriately contained, managed and treated prior to eventual disposal.
Regulators must ensure that this is being carried out and appropriately monitored, the report stated.
It also considers the political, economic and social limitations to the viability of a successful shale gas industry in the UK due to low oil prices and public opposition to shale gas projects.
It states innovation in technologies and the development of a supply chain for wastewater treatment are required to bring costs down.
CIWEM Chief Executive Terry Fuller said: "We have been pleased to observe that the UK is moving in the right direction with regulators and stakeholders working together to establish baseline studies, guidance and best practice to protect the water environment… However, this does not preclude the need for continual scrutiny and diligence by all parties as the industry gets underway."


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Our Team
The Clear5G team comprises a combination of European and Taiwanese successful, innovative, and well known major corporations, SMEs, as well as research and academic institutions. The partners have proven know-how in architecture, resource management, protocol enhancements, standardization, prototyping, and demonstration. Proof of concepts will be tested on the 5GIC testbed in Europe, while the final system demonstration, showing the tight integration and cooperation of manufacturing and the Clear5G enhanced network, will be implemented on the III testbed in Taiwan. Clear5G brings together a strong and diverse set of European and Taiwanese partners, including partners from the FoF sector; the complementarity of team, skills and expertise will bring added value to 5G research on both sides and will deepen international cooperation, serving as a showcase of 5G empowering vertical industries. The partners will contribute to relevant standardisation in both the communication and the manufacturing domains.
Meet the Consortium
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National Taiwan University is a prestigious national co-educational research university located in Taiwan. Situated in the capital city of Taipei, NTU consists of 11 colleges, 54 departments, 107 graduate institutes and four research centers.


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Here are a few posts I've enjoyed lately -
Never forget that you are awesome! (Sarah Neuburger via Design Is Mine)
Beautiful pictures like these really make me want to try to make a home succulent garden (via Rachele at Nearsighted Owl)
Luckily, Kyla Roma posted on how to make a container succulent garden, so I can make my dreams of keeping plants alive* come true (via Kyla Roma).
I've modified vintage dresses before, but I really want to try something like this (Addi Enne via Low Budget Diva)
From the "why didn't I think of this before? archives: Embroidery Hoop Laundry Bag (cornflower blue via Craftzine)
Body Image and General Fattery:
"How many fatties does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Uhm, actually, as a rule fat people don't screw in lightbulbs because they're too busy smashing normative standards of beauty, being fancy as fuck, looking totally badass, making out with each other, eating delicious snacks, walking around on the streets, taking off their tops, making children cry, shaking their bellies at people, mooning people and uhm yeah, so fat people don't ever actually screw in lightbulbs, you'll never see that." (via Majestic Legay of Glitter Politic via Rotundlr)
Sal over at Already Pretty says it so well: Happiness is the point. Style is just a way.
One of my favorite blogs, honestly, on how she 'bucks the mainstream' (via Dances With Fat)
Fat Dialogue in Love (Mitten Paws via Weesha's World)
*in my defense, I've been able to keep a dog alive, which is more rewarding than plants anyways.


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I recently ran a question by a brilliant philosopher:
I have two related metaphysical questions for you. These are temporal variations on Hilbert's Hotel.
My question involves a hypothetical time-sharing/space-sharing arrangement. Would it be metaphysically possible for God to double (triple, quadruple, &c.) the human race without doubling the space it occupies.
Here's what I have in mind. To simplify the scenario, suppose the human race begins with a single breeding pair. Eventually, there are billions of people simultaneously living on planet earth. Let's call it human race A.
Suppose God moves that forward one second. Human race A now occupies the next second, thereby vacating the previous second. Having freed up the first moment in the temporal series, fills the prior, "empty" second with human race B. He duplicates the process he used for human race A (starting with a different breeding pair). Human race A is always one second ahead of human race B. Both groups occupy the same space a second apart. Human race B is always a second behind human race A.
Assuming that's feasible, the same principle could be tripled, quadrupled, &c, in terms of split seconds or milliseconds, depending on how far you think time is divisible.
Question, do you think there are theories of time and personal identity under which that scenario is metaphysically coherent?
Related question: traditionally, the saints and the damned are separated by space (after the general resurrection). But, apropos the above, could they be separated by time?
Could both occupy planet earth (in the future), but be grouped such that one set is always a second behind the other?
He wrote back and said "This seems quite coherent and unproblematic to me."
In subsequent discussions with a friend, added the following clarifications:
It's arguable that an actual concrete temporal infinite is possible. What's impossible is an incremental realization of an actual concrete temporal infinite. But if the timeline is instantiated as a given totality, then that's metaphysically feasible.
i) Hilbert's Hotel is disanalogous insofar as it was meant to illustrate the counterintuitive implications of an actual infinite.
However, I'm trading on different aspects of the thought-experiment:
ii) How to add people without adding space.
iii) The parallel between a spatial shift and a temporal shift.
In Hilbert's Hotel, even if all the rooms are full, yet because the hotel is infinite, you can always add new guests. A guest checks out of Room 1 and checks into Room 2. That frees up Room 1 for the new guest. And the guest in Room 2 switches to Room 3, and so on down the line. A domino effect.
If we conceive of a temporal series like a series of room (temporal units/increments/intervals), then can you have a similar shift? You advance the whole "row" of moments by a second. The moments were occupied by people. Now you've moved them one over, which vacates the preceding moment, which can now be occupied by a different set of people.
By way of background, I was thinking about this on a recent walk. It was stimulated by the logistics of life in the world to come. Suppose you accept Warfield's view that between universal infant salvation and the postmillennial triumph of the Gospel, most of the human race will be saved. But would there be room for all of them on planet earth? So I was toying with a space-sharing arrangement.
Of course, Warfield's view represents a limiting case. Who knows what percentage of the human race will be saved. But it's interesting to explore various permutations.
For background: