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|2004-10-23, 12:43
|Link #262
green, methuselah, brilliant.
some from me.
source http://www.fcema.org/911/911_humor.htm
and a non-911 joke
|2004-10-23, 13:20
|Link #263
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Austin, TX
Age: 36
Alright I have some stories to share from my high school days.
There was a girl on the cross country team who was incredibly hot, and she would always flirt with me. I don't think she ever really liked me, she just liked teasing me, which was cruel. Anyways, there was a period of a week or so where she de-pantsed me every chance she got at practice. I mean seriously, I must have flashed the team at least 5 times, and I was the freaking captain! So then one day that week I'm in the training room waiting for my turn in the ice bath when she walks in. She sees me sitting across the room, and with a cute smirk she walks up to me. Then her friend called to her from the other side of the room and she turned around and started takling to her. So she's standing with her butt about 10 inches from my face and I thought to myself "This is too perfect. Its payback time!" So I yank her shorts down and she was wearing this bright, sexy neon pink thong and I just about exploded while sitting in my chair. I trembled thinking "She's gonna hit me. She's gonna hit me. She's gonna hit me REALLLY HARD!!" but instead she casually pulled up her shorts, walked towards her friend and finished their talk, then walked back to me and in an angry fit she grasped my leg above the knee and went "Grrrr!!!", then walked away. I was like "That's it? That's my punishment? That turned me on more than anything else!"
My next story happened during a race at the city meet. The race was thru a big public park and about half a mile into the race everyone encountered something odd in the middle of the trail. Someone points out and yells "OH MY GOD! There's a fucking HUGE dildo on the side of the road!!!" Everyone burst out laughing so hard they almost couldn't keep running.
My last story also happened during a race. It was in a rural golf course in southern Arizona. About 600 meters before the finish line, a male runner stoped on the side of the course, pulled down his shorts, and took a crap right there on the track. There was no bush, no big rock, nothing. He literally took a crap for the whole world to see. Then he finished the race. During the awards ceremony my whole team was making fun of him. Some people I swear.
I have plenty of other funny personal stories, mostly from high school. So maybe I'll post some more later if you guys liked those.
|2004-10-23, 13:39
|Link #266
however you may have gotten more than a knee pinch. but it would have been worth it from your description
ps: i loved it. more.
note: wtf? you were on cross country?
razer- more engrish. the other ones are far too stale.
|2004-10-24, 19:54
|Link #267
Lord Chairman God King
A Stick Night of Love By High Lord Kelanar
Enjoy this weird-ass flash.
Last edited by OutPhase; 2004-10-31 at 15:31.
|2004-10-24, 20:01
|Link #268
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The dog gossips too much.
Here's a cute/funny Azumanga/Yotsubato ASCII flash someone showed me earlier today. Some of you may have seen it already, but it's still fun: I wanna be your princess
|2004-10-25, 02:17
|Link #269
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Austin, TX
Age: 36
Anyways here's another story, not about cc though. This happened the summer before last. I was up late at night, and being the typical geek I was/am I was on the computer reading with no lights on. My newly self-assembled PC tower lay on the top of the desk next to me, and I appreciated it for its stylish acrylic window and the pretty LCD fan I had on the inside of the window. Anyways I was doing my thing (probably reading the forums here), when all of a sudden I heard a loud sound coming from my computer, as if something was constantly hitting something else. i had PC monitor software running and all of a sudden it let out this REALLY SCARY alarm, like the kind you'd hear when a facility is about to explode or something. I am freaking out because I just built this computer a couple weeks ago, so I frantically grab the power cord and yank it out of the wall. The noise from the computer stops, and I nervously turn on a light to inspect what is wrong. Then I see a bug who looks like he just got the shit kicked out of him is limping along the bottom inside of my PC case. I think for a minute, and then I realize that this stupid bug was attracted to my LED fan, so he flew into it and the fan tossed him around like a salad (hence the constant hitting noise I heard). The thing is this damn bug is STILL alive after being in a 2500 RPM fan for over 2 seconds, so I'm like holy crap! But I don't want him to start losing his guts all over my motherboard so I grab a tissue, open my case, and snatch him out of there.
It was quite the ordeal for me. Amusing little story though isn't it? haha, my computer had a bug in it! *pun*
|2004-10-31, 14:08
|Link #270
Laidback Luke
Join Date: Mar 2004
Chinese names look alot like english
Here's a .txt file I had hidden on my HD somewhere.
Are you harboring a fugitive? - Hu Yu Hai Ding?
See me A.S.A.P. - Kum Hia Nao
Stupid Man - Dum Gai
Small Horse - Tai Ni Po Ni
Your price is too high!!! - No Bai Dam Ting!!
Did you go to the beach? - Wai Yu So Tan
I bumped into a coffee table - Ai Bang Mai Ni
I think you need a facelift - Chin Tu Fat
It's very dark in here - Wai So Dim?
Has your flight been delayed? - Hao Long Wei Ting?
That was an unauthorized execution - Lin Ching
I thought you were on a diet - Wai Yu Mun Ching?
This is a tow away zone - No Pah King
Do you know lyrics to the Macarena? - Wai Yu Sing Dum Song?
You are not very bright - Yu So Dum
I got this for free - Ai No Pei
I am not guilty - Wai Hang Mi?
Please, stay a while longer - Wai Go Nao?
Meeting was scheduled for next week - Wai You Kum Nao
They have arrived - Hia Dei Kum
Stay out of sight - Lei Lo
He's cleaning his automobile - Wa Shing Ka
He is a fat man - Wun Fat Gai
Anyone got more of these?
|2004-10-31, 18:08
|Link #274
It. Lives. Again.
all around
Love him or hate him, most people can surely agree on at least one thing about President Bush: He's been great for political comedy. Whether butchering the English language, choking on pretzels, smoking out evildoers, or strutting around in a flight suit, Bush has provided a steady supply of comic fodder over the last four years.
Here are the 100 best late-night jokes from Bush's first term, from the 2000 election deadlock to the showdown with Saddam to his current reelection bid.
in honor of the upcoming election.
|2004-11-05, 16:25
|Link #277
Cantonese Dimples
goto this link and check all the different posters on the right.
when i become my own boss, i'll buy a few of these and hang 'em up...
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Matthew Day Jackson
In Search of
September 16 – November 13, 2010
at Peter Blum Chelsea
Matthew Day Jackson is Missing
Art in America Online
October 1, 2010
Attempts to answer this question here rest in an exploration of personal and public mythologies. Two large sculptures, one a steel curio case and the other a re-constructed Skip Nichols race car frame, are joined by five hanging mixed-media works constructed out of domestic materials, and photograph entitled Me, Dead at 36 (2010) that depicts Jackson in a burlap bag, as if his body was being prepared for a military funeral. The works serve as a mirror to the outside world by reinforcing, as Jackson told me during a walk-through, "the way we express ourselves through material objects. The textures and iconography of these materials, the way that we cut our hair, the make-up we wear, all of this stuff that we absorb from the world around us. The parts of our identity that are constantly changing, constantly moving the way that we see ourselves..."
Jackson is an artist without an off button, one who claims to constantly absorb information that he uses for his work. "I very, very firmly believe that the time that you're making art isn't the time that you're an artist," he said. "You're an artist all of the time in-between, when you're experiencing new things, when you're absorbing stuff from around the world. When you record what you've seen, you're just being a stenographer."
This theme that the artist is not present, is only ever absent, runs through all of the works in the show. At the entrance to the exhibition, stacked up on the gallery desk, are true-to-life newsprint copies of the front page of The New York Times dated September 16, 2006. Nestled in between the headlines such as "Military Lawyers Caught in Middle of Tribunals" is a photograph of Matthew Day Jackson's abandoned van, with a caption that describes his disappearance upon his return to New York after a long road trip.
In the main room, Study Collection VI, a monumental, 19-foot-long stainless steel shelf dominates one wall. Broken into unlabeled sections that Jackson told me represented his head, chest, hips, femur, shin and feet, he describes the piece as "a way to make a figural sculpture." The sculpture displayed therein include plaster casts of his likeness described by a forensic artist, a tree root cleanly hacked off to fit the size of the shelf, and a reproduction of a pillar from Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion. Jackson describes these objects, many of which he jokingly says were pulled from his "magical pile of junk," as "things that relate to thought, and maybe to our skull. They are objects that relate to our soul, our hope or our libido, or maybe the way that we stand firmly planted in the ground. They're all sculptures in and off themselves, but without the support of their neighbors, they would be like little tschotskes."
Jackson differentiates himself from a tradition that includes Joseph Beuys and Bruce Nauman, of artists who have successfully cultivated personal mythologies. "[I'm] interested in 'me,'" he explains. "I think to kill myself, or to make myself dead in my artwork is to leave the artist part behind, the artist as human. Because when I make art, I'm not even in the room." Jackson's artwork, rather than being an expression of direct authorship or application of hand, is rather a vehicle for him to express his ideas.
Intentional or not, this idea of someone, inextricably linked to Jackson, "having been there" haunts all of the works in the exhibition. In Enola Gay (2010), a work constructed entirely out of domestic materials like Home Depot wainscoting and Ikea flooring, the inside of the B29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is pictured in a state of abandonment. There are no humans in the cockpit, although there is a foreboding sense that someone is meant to sit in the chair and pull back the lever to release the bomb that will wreck havoc on a city full of unsuspecting Japanese people. In August 6, 1945 (2010), charred remains of wood are glued together to form an aerial landscape, which Jackson revealed to me as Hamburg, the first city where the RAF created a firestorm at the end of World War II. In both works, human beings are implicitly involved in the destructive events that each piece represents, but they aren't present to atone or to explain them. Jackson vacates himself from the work, leaving viewers to claim agency.
The video, In Search Of (2010), is a riveting, tongue-in-cheek, faux documentary that expounds upon the theories on mythology, materialism and the changing conception of self proposed in the rest of the exhibition. Differentiated into three parts by the interruption of an Audi commercial, it is compiled from stock footage and images from the Getty database, staged interviews with intellectuals such as David Mindell, a historian and engineer at MIT, and narration by David Tompkins, who approaches his role as host of the series with the hilarious solemnity of an evening newscaster. In the first part, the anthropological forms in cloud shapes found in the "first color footage" of the earth taken from the moon raise questions about mythologies written in the landscape of the earth. In the second part, the mysterious disappearance of Matthew Day Jackson highlights the strange nature of the daily objects that we leave behind as artifacts of our existence. In the third and final part, a new civilization is revealed by artifacts found in an archaeological dig referred to as the "Eidolan Find." All of the situations in the video are fabricated, using the trope of a Discovery Channel program, and are woven together to form a commentary about discovering how we, as individual participants in modern culture, define ourselves by the objects that surround us. STILL FROM IN SEARCH, 2010.
As I concluded the film, Jackson sat down next to me. "It's not really about searching," he told me, over the music of the credits. "It's about reaffirming where we really are. It's not about going someplace to learn about that place, but rather to bring ourselves there." And more than anything, he said, "That is the thread, the way that things are made. That they always come from the same place, to create a clearer picture of myself to who I am."
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7:00 pm
Wild! "Penguin Invasion" When penguins takeover a popular South African beach resort, laughter, fun and conflict are the result. D
8:00 pm
Martin Clunes: Horse Power "The Animal" Clunes seeks to learn how the horse became so important to humans and how our ancestors managed to tame such a large, nervous prey animal. He heads to Dubai and the opening of a new racecourse before going to Mongolia to find the only untamed horse breed. Then the Niaux Cave walls in the Pyrenees Mountains reveal a 14,000-year-old record of the human-horse relationship. Part 1 of 2G
9:00 pm
Equitrekking "Turkey's Coast, Cappadocia & Istanbul" Equitrekking host Darley Newman experiences life on Turkey's beautiful Mediterranean Coast - otherwise known as the Turquoise Rivera - by hiking the chilly waters of Saklikent Gorge and horseback riding through the abandoned Greek city of Kayakoy. Next, it's off to bustling Istanbul, where East meets West, to explore the Blue Mosque, Spice Market, Grand Bazaar, Topkapi Palace and the mighty Bosphorus. Finally, Darley returns to Cappadocia, to step back in time with the locals of these ancient villages. D
9:30 pm
Equitrekking "Great National Parks" This episode takes a closer look at some of the remarkable landscapes, wildlife and adventures in the United States' National Parks. In each park, local guides share stories of the park's history and the natural environment, as host Darley Newman hikes, horseback rides and boats to explore the surroundings. Parks profiled include Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef in Utah, the Great Smokey Mountains in North Carolina, Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, Kenai Fjords in Alaska, Haleakala National Park on Maui, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii's Big Island, Cumberland Island in Georgia and Yellowstone in Wyoming. D
10:00 pm
Nature "Christmas In Yellowstone" The undisturbed beauty of Yellowstone National Park in winter dress is NATURE's holiday gift to viewers. Cameras capture breathtaking landscapes that frame intimate scenes of wildlife making their way through their most challenging season of the year. Filmmaker Shane Moore, who lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, leads the way on this winter exploration that includes meeting Tim Murphy, who has skied into Yellowstone for 26 winters to photograph its wonders.G
11:00 pm
Wild! "Penguin Invasion" When penguins takeover a popular South African beach resort, laughter, fun and conflict are the result. D


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POE::Component::AssaultCube::ServerQuery - Queries a running AssaultCube server for information
use POE qw( Component::AssaultCube::ServerQuery );
sub _start {
$_[HEAP]->{query} = POE::Component::AssaultCube::ServerQuery->new;
$_[HEAP]->{query}->register( $_[SESSION], 'got_ping_data' );
$_[HEAP]->{query}->addserver( '22.214.171.124' );
sub got_ping_data {
my( $server, $response ) = @_[ARG0, ARG1];
if ( defined $response ) {
print "response from(" . $server->ID . "): " $response->desc_nocolor .
" - " . $response->players . " players running\n";
} else {
print "server " . $server->ID . " is not responding\n";
This module queries a running AssaultCube server for information.
This module is a wrapper around the Games::AssaultCube::ServerQuery logic and encapsulates the raw POE details. Furthermore, this module can ping many servers in parallel.
This module gives you full control of throttling, and per-server ping frequency ( how often to ping the server ) plus a nice object front-end!
Normal usage of this component is to create an object, then add your serverlist to the object. Then you would have to register your session to receive responses. During run-time you can add/remove servers from the list, and finally shutdown the object/session.
NOTE: While you can create several ServerQuery objects and use them, it is more optimal to create only one object and put all servers there. ( This theory is unbenchmarked, ha! )
This module does not enforce timeouts per server, it gives you a "raw" feed of pings every $frequency seconds. It is up to the application logic to see if a ping failed or not. This is trivial with the appropriate use of timers :) However, patches welcome if you want the server to have individual timeouts. It will not change the logic in the application event "ac_ping" because it already checks for a defined value.
This module sets an alias to be "long-lived" and creates/destroys the POE::Wheel::UDP object only when necessary.
This module uses Moose, so you can pass either a hash or hashref to the constructor.
The attributes are:
A number in seconds ( can be floating-point )
How long we should wait before sending the next ping. Useful for flood-control!
Default: 0.25
NOTE: You can set it to 0 to disable this feature
The POE session alias we will use
Default: 'ServerQuery-' . $_[SESSION]->ID
Once instantiated, you can do various operations on the object.
Adds a server to be monitored to the list. Arguments are passed on to the POE::Component::AssaultCube::ServerQuery::Server constructor. Returns the server object or undef if it was already in the list. Will die if it encounters errors.
$query->addserver( "18.104.22.168" );
$query->addserver( "18.104.22.168", 12345 );
$query->addserver({ server => "220.127.116.11", port => 12345, frequency => 60 });
Adding a server automatically sends a ping, then waits for $frequency seconds before sending the next one.
Deletes a server from the monitoring list. You can either pass in a POE::Component::AssaultCube::ServerQuery::Server object ref or the arguments will be converted internally into the object. From there we will see if the server is in the list, returns 1 if it is; returns undef otherwise.
Adds a "watcher" session that will receive ping replies. Accepts a session ID/alias/reference, and the event name.
The session defaults to the running POE session, if there is one
The event name defaults to "ac_ping"
Removes a "watcher" session from the list. Accepts a session ID/alias/reference.
Initiates shutdown procedures and destroys the associated session
Removes all servers from the list and ceases pinging servers
POE events
You can post events to this component too. You can get the session id:
$poe_kernel->post( $query->get_session_id, ... );
Initiates shutdown procedures and destroys the associated session
PING data
You receive the ping replies via the session/event you registered. There is no "filtering" capability and you get replies for all servers.
The event handler gets 2 arguments: the server object, and the response. The server object is the POE::Component::AssaultCube::ServerQuery::Server module. The response can either be undef or a Games::AssaultCube::ServerQuery::Response object.
Here's a sample ping handler:
sub got_ping_data {
my( $server, $response ) = @_[ARG0, ARG1];
if ( defined $response ) {
print "response from(" . $server->ID . "): " $response->desc_nocolor .
" - " . $response->players . " players running\n";
} else {
print "server " . $server->ID . " is not responding\n";
Apocalypse <email@example.com>
Props goes to Getty and the BS clan for the support!
This project is sponsored by http://cubestats.net
Copyright 2009 by Apocalypse
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


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LORs should come from professors (for the most part). An additional LOR from someone with whom you have worked closely in a meaningful endeavor (one of your extracurricular/civic activies) may be solicited as well.
How do you get LOR from professors if you're a non traditional applicant who has been out of college for 10+ years? People don't generally keep in touch with their professors after graduation, so it seems like that doesn't make much sense to have that be a requirment.
Are you sure of this, or is this just an opinion?
I'm asking because if I apply, this is one area that I am totally unsure of. I have no idea of where to get LOR's, certainly not from my job, or at least not my boss.


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If youve read this column regularly over the years that Ive been privileged to write it, you should know Ive repeatedly touted the work done by people who thanklessly put their necks on the line trying to bring music to Durango.
Ive also taken my fair shots at the glass half-empty people in the theres no good music in Durango club. Routing a band to town, negotiating the fee and contract, finding a venue, hiring a competent sound person and properly promoting it are all hurdles concert promoters face, all while those in the club continue to critique their efforts. I, however, choose to laud those efforts.
Durango Acoustic Music formed 23 years ago, originally as The Durango Society of Cultural and Performing Arts. Since then, the all-volunteer bunch has booked about 200 shows, averaging in their heyday and most productive years anywhere from a dozen to 15 shows a year. Recently, volunteer commitments and more venues and promoters than ever has resulted in them scaling back to two or three.
On Sunday, D.A.M. will bring Black Lillies, from Knoxville, Tenn., to the Durango Arts Center. The five-piece band is Cruz Contreras on guitar and vocals, Tom Pryor on guitar and pedal steel, Jamie Cook on percussion, Robert Richards on bass and Trisha Gene Brady on vocals.
The Black Lillies have found fame in a short time. Just after releasing their debut Whiskey Angel in 2009, they scored a set at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee, which was quickly followed by festival gigs in the West, including the Four Corners Folk Festival in Pagosa Springs. Being a touring musician is blue-collar work. Its seldom glamorous or lucrative, unless your idea of glamour and profit is long hours, little pay and regular meals of road food.
Weve been going at it in an old-fashioned way, getting out there and working hard and playing for as many people as we can, Contreras said last week from a recording studio in Nashville. Weve also made the best records we can, and its all worked quickly.
The band is described as Americana, an overused term thats replacing Alternative as a genre description that is more of an umbrella term that a single audio explanation. Once pinned to country rock, Americana can be lumped into any American band. For example, Miles Davis created his sound in America; I guess hes as much Americana as Gram Parsons or Muddy Waters. So a band like the Black Lillies with the Americana label has the right to play rock music with elements of blues, jazz or country, which they do.
The term and what it refers to is evolving, Contreras said. It was easy to associate with alt-country, and thats the kind of music people were digging, but it had no mainstream outlet. Theres always lineage. It doesnt end; one style of music is once removed from another. Really, its the last bastion for real music. Its everything thats not commercial. The term refers to everything thats real, honest music.
. Bryant Liggett is KDUR station manager.


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Elijah Houck and Justin Hardin, the creators of Ethas: Embrace of Destiny, an experienced duo. In 2009, Elijah started development on Alton, IL, a huge mod for Fallout 3, taking players to his hometown in a world over twice the size of Point Lookout. Elijah would continue work on Alton for almost three years, finally releasing the mod on October 27th, 2011. Alton was (and currently still is) the largest mod for Fallout 3, and won File of the Month on Fallout3Nexus for the month of October. It wasn't only Elijah that brought Alton to the masses, however. Justin Hardin was essential to the project, creating amazing trailer and in-game music and sounds, brilliant voiceovers, meshes, textures, and even finally getting the GECK to generate LOD meshes for Alton (which is usually unheard of for such a large world). Before Alton was finished, Elijah and Justin had begun drafting early concepts on what would later become Ethas, a mod even more ambitious than Alton.
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Celtic Larder Launched in September 2010
Celtic Larder is an exciting new company with a passion for great food. Jonathan and Lorna Young have utilised their Scottish backgrounds to select and supply award winning fine food, from the fruits of the sea to the labours of the land.
The launch of the Celtic Larder online shop brings together an exquisite range of complimentary Scottish products from smoked fish, meats, chutneys, cheese, oatcakes, cakes and drinks, all in one store for your convenience.
As a small family run business we invest enthusiasm, experience and knowledge in delivering quality Scottish produce to you. We hope that you will love the final results as much as we do!
We exhibit at many local monthly Fine Foods & Farmers Markets in the High Peak, Staffordshire Moorlands, Cheshire areas and Manchester Fine Foods Markets. For the next Market please see our 'Home' Page to find out what we are up to.


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Adherence, Efficacy and Tolerance of Once-a-day Nevirapine-based Regimen in HIV-1 Infected Patients (POSOVIR)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00466180
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 27, 2007
Last Update Posted : October 28, 2010
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
Taking antiretrovirals once-a-day is considered the simpler way to improve adherence. However, it is not know if this assertion apply to patients taking their medication twice-a-day who change to once-a-day.
We hypothesized that once-daily dosing improves adherence.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Behavioral: Nevirapine from twice-a-day to once-a-day
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|62 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Study Start Date :
|June 2004
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2006
- MEMS adherence by electronic devices [ Time Frame: 28-week period (randomized phase) ]
- Virologic efficacy (RNA HIV<400cp/ml)
- Immunologic efficacy (CD4 count cells)
- Tolerance (hepatic, cutaneous, ANRS safety grade scale)
- Pharmacokinetics (nevirapine dosages)
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy including nevirapine twice-a-day for at least 6 months
- plasma HIV RNA<400 cp/ml during the previous 4 months on 2 occasions
- accept adherence electronic monitoring
- written informed consent signed
Exclusion Criteria:
- asparate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >2.5N if hepatitis virus B or C were negative
- AST or ALT>1.25N if hepatitis virus B or C were positive
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00466180
|Principal Investigator:
|Jean-Jacques Parienti, MD
|University Hospital, Caen
Publications of Results:
Other Publications:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00466180 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 27, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 28, 2010
|Last Verified:
|October 2010
Keywords provided by University Hospital, Caen:
Patient noncompliance
Administration and dosage
Treatment Experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers


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proposal. As a parent of five children in the Gilmer school system, I feel
that this is a necessary action to take to continue the great tradition of
excellence that our community has come to know and expect.
Not only are our children the hope of our future, but they are our
community's treasure of the present. We should want our children to have
facilities that are safe, clean, and conducive to learning. Don't we want
the best for our children? This proposed bond is in the best interest of
our children. It is hard to learn and excel when you are dodging a leaky
roof, when classrooms and science labs are not large enough to accommodate
learning, when restroom facilities are not adequate for the number of
students enrolled, and when the ability to offer dual credit courses to
our students through local community colleges is impeded by facility
Those who do not have children or grandchildren in the school system may
not feel that they have a stake in this proposal, but that could not be
further from the truth. Research shows that successful schools promote
successful communities. Better facilities that enhance the learning of our
children attract those who are seeking excellence for their children.
Attracting these families benefits our businesses, churches, service
organizations, and the reputation that identifies who we are as a
Anytime we can make improvements to our school district, whether through
academics, athletics, extra-curricular activities, or by improving our
facilities, it is our obligation to our children and to the future of our
community to support these improvements wholeheartedly.
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Former Teacher's Aide Sentenced To 30 Months In Federal Prison On Federal Child Sexual Exploitation Conviction
Shanice Adel Lambert Worked in Childress Independent School District
AMARILLO, Texas — A former teacher's aide in the Childress Independent School District (CISD), Shanice Adel Lambert, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 30 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in November 2012 to one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Lambert was remanded into custody at the time of her guilty plea, and her custody was continued following the sentencing hearing.
According documents filed in the case, through her employment in the CISD as a teacher's aide, and through this individual's association with one of her children, Lambert met "John Doe," a 15-year-old student at the school where she worked. In February 2012, Lambert engaged in a relationship with "John Doe" which became sexual in nature. On February 11, 2012, Lambert traveled to Altus, Oklahoma, for the purpose, among others, of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with "John Doe." After arriving in Altus, Lambert rented a motel room and engaged in sexual acts with "John Doe."
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/ For more information about internet safety education, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/ and click on the tab "resources."
The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy, of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lubbock, Texas, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Drake, of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Amarillo, Texas, prosecuted.


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Those Places Thursday
Sometime in the 1940s
Photo in the 19 Mar 2009 Coon Rapids Enterprise, page 4
We are taking a break in our Those Places series of our homes, to share this photo with you that shows the Maytag Store in Coon Rapids, where my Mom, Eileen, worked in 1936-1937. She mentioned the snow and cold in her diary entries (see Fri, Dec 18, as one example). This represents it very well. Who remembers this street! ;-)
Families are Forever! ;-)


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by Tom Utescher
With schools around the Philadelphia area opening squash facilities that incorporate nine or ten courts or more, it's possible to hold boys' and girls' varsity matches simultaneously, and that's what Penn Charter did last Thursday at its four-year-old Kline & Specter racquet complex.
The arrangement worked out well for visiting Episcopal Academy, which won 15 of the 18 official matches on the agenda, prevailing 6-3 in the girls' competition and sweeping the boys' match, 9-0.
It was the season opener for the Episcopal boys, while Charter already had a 7-2 win over Shipley under its belt. The Quakers' girls' team had also beaten Shipley (6-3), while the EA Churchwomen arrived on School House Lane last Thursday with an 0-1 mark, having suffered a 4-5 setback against Baldwin School.
Penn Charter's senior co-captains, number two Tara Harrington and number three Amanda Roberts, provided two of the three PC victories overall. Harrington took down visitor Sydney Francis, 11-2, 11-8, 11-1, while another EA junior, Meredith Nelson, fell to Roberts, 11-7, 11-3, 11-5. Each member of the talented tandem is almost certainly headed for an Ivy League university, but last week neither was quite ready to announce her decision.
The other "W" against EA for the host school came in the girls' number four bout, where freshman Izzy Hirshberg overcame Episcopal eighth-grader Julia Thompson, 11-6, 11-4, 6-11, 11-5.
The only five-game match of the afternoon involved the number one players on the female side, PC sophomore Margaux Losty and EA junior Grace Van Arkel. Losty went up 2-1 (11-7, 13-11, 11-5), but Van Arkel rallied to take the next two rounds (11-7, 11-6) and lock up the victory.
This was the last match on the court, and the Churchwomen had already clinched the team triumph by winning at positions five through nine, all in straight games. Playing in those spots for Penn Charter were sophomore Danielle Reisley, junior Ryan Shaffer, sophomore Leigh Steinberg, junior Emma Ebert, and senior Suzy Bonn, and their EA opponents were (in the same descending order) eighth-grader Madison Soukup, junior Taryn Gallagher, eighth-grader Colby Gallagher, senior Alex Leto, and freshman Callie Avellino.
The Penn Charter boys' squad is more experienced than last year's youthful franchise, but Episcopal looks to be one of the top teams in the country this winter. Only one Quakers player, junior number five Scott Marcus, was able to win a game during the match, falling 1-3 to Patrick McCarthy, a senior for the Churchmen.
Former Under-17 national champion Devin McLaughlin defeated Charter number one Randy Beck in a bout between juniors, and two seniors squared off in the second spot, with Tyler Odell of EA taking the measure of PC's Alex Reisley. Luke Angelakis of the Quakers succumbed to fellow junior Jamie Ruggerio at number three, and one rung below another 11th-grader, Episcopal's Kevin Flannery, defeated senior Luke Schweitzer of the host school.
In matches six through nine the winners for the visitors were freshman Clark Doyle, seniors Billy Kacergis and John Heil, and freshman Will Ruggerio, while coming out on the short end for PC were sophomore Quinn Crofton, freshman Aiden Porges, sophomore Noah Hollin, and freshman Owen Davis.


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Vlingo's voice-to-text (and vice-versa) service goes a few steps beyond Google's stock service, and it's one that we've been enjoying for some time now. For the uninitiated, Vlingo allows you to dictate just about anything you want, and it will actually read your incoming e-mails and voicemails, too.
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Skip to comments.In Support the 1993 Law Stating that Homosexuals are not Eligible to Serve in the Military
Posted on 10/15/2010 3:34:05 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Thank you for the opportunity to testify before this committee today on an issue that is important to the strength, readiness, and culture of our military. The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) is an independent 501(c)(3) public policy organization that specializes in military/social issues. I have submitted a statement for the record, and will address four issues in the time allotted to me today:
1. The legislative history of the law, which is different from Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
2. The Consequences of repealing that law
3. Unpersuasive arguments being made for repeal of the law
4. Recommendations for common sense ways to deal with this issue
When President Bill Clinton attempted to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military in 1993, it was one of the most contentious efforts of his administration, sparking months of intense debate. Following twelve legislative hearings and field trips, Congress passed a law codifying and confirming the pre-Clinton policy.
That statute, technically named Section 654, Title 10, P.L. 103-160, is frequently mislabeled Dont Ask, Dont Tell. A more accurate name would have been the Military Personnel Eligibility Act of 1993. The statute, which has been upheld by the courts as constitutional several times, clearly states that homosexuals are not eligible for military service.
In 1993 members of Congress gave serious consideration to a proposal known as Dont Ask, Dont Tell, which was announced by President Clinton on July 19, 1993. The concept suggested that homosexuals could serve in the military as long as they didnt say they were homosexual.
Congress wisely rejected the convoluted Dont Ask, Dont Tell concept and did not write it into law. Members recognized an inherent inconsistency that would render that policy unworkable and indefensible in court: If homosexuality is not a disqualifying characteristic, how can the armed forces justify dismissal of a person who merely reveals the presence of such a characteristic?
Instead of approving such a legally-questionable concept, Congress chose to codify Defense Department regulations that were in place long before Bill Clinton took office. The resulting law, identified as Section 654, Title 10, continued the long-standing Defense Department policy stating that homosexuals are not eligible for military service.
Following extensive debate in both Houses, the legislation passed with overwhelming, vetoproof bipartisan majority votes, and it has been upheld as constitutional several times.
In writing this law, members wisely chose statutory language almost identical to the 1981 Defense Department Directives regarding homosexual conduct, stating that homosexuality is incompatible with military service. Those regulations had already been challenged and upheld as constitutional by the federal courts.
The 1993 statute was designed to encourage good order and discipline, not the dishonesty inherent in Dont Ask, Dont Tell. Congress rejected that concept, and chose instead to codify findings and statements that were understandable, enforceable, consistent with the unique requirements of the military, and devoid of First Amendment conundrums.
The only compromise involved allowed the Clinton administration to continue its interim policy of not asking the question regarding homosexuality that used to appear on routine induction forms.
This politically expedient concession on a matter of process was ill-advised, but it did not nullify the language of the law. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to restore the question about homosexuality at any time, without additional legislation.
It is significant to note that the vague phrase sexual orientation, stated twice in Bill Clintons original Dont Ask, Dont Tell proposal, was not incorporated anywhere in the law that Congress actually passed. Members of Congress recognized that the phrase would be difficult to define or enforce.
Instead, the law is firmly based on conduct, evidenced by actions or statements. The law applies at all times, on base or off base. It is not necessary to be caught to define oneself as a person who engages in homosexual acts. Absent unusual circumstances, a person who says that he is homosexual is presumed to engage in the conduct that defines what homosexuality is.
Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN), then-Chairman of the HASC Personnel Subcommittee, wrote this in a December 16, 1999, memorandum to his colleagues: Although some would assert that section 654 of Title 10, US Code . . . embodied the compromise now referred to as Dont Ask, Dont Tell, there is no evidence to suggest that the Congress believed the new law to be anything other than a continuation of a firm prohibition against military service for homosexuals that had been the historical policy.
If the law had been given a name of its own, instead of constantly being mislabeled with the catch-phrase Dont Ask, Dont Tell, it might have been called the Military Personnel Eligibility Act The difference between the law and the Clinton enforcement policy explains why factions on both sides of the issue are critical of Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
Even though Congress rejected the concept in 1993, with good reason, the Clinton Administration imposed it on the military anyway in the form of enforcement regulations that were announced in December 1993. Those expendable regulations, unfortunately, remain in effect today.
To understand why Dont Ask, Dont Tell is bad policy, consider the same concept being applied the civilian world. It would be tantamount to a state law forbidding bartenders to check ID before they serve liquor to younger customers. Such a law would force the proprietor of a bar to assume the risk that if an under-age customer drives and has a fatal collision on the way home, the proprietor of the bar will be held liable. That risk is reduced by the posting and enforcement of signs stating We Check ID. In the same way, it makes no sense for the Department of Defense to forbid routine questions on induction forms that help to determine eligibility for military service. Such a policy (Dont Ask, Dont Tell) forces the armed forces to assume the risk that persons who engage in homosexual conduct will be inducted or retained in the military.
We keep hearing about personnel losses that have occurred military personnel have announced that they are homosexual, and are honorably discharged. As the graph appended to my testimony indicates, in comparison to discharges for other reasons, such as pregnancy or violations of weight standards, these numbers are quite small. They could be reduced to nearzero if the Defense Department stopped issuing misleading information about the eligibility of homosexuals to serve in uniform. The routine inquiry about homosexuality can and should be reinstated now; no additional legislation is required. My purpose today is to focus attention on some of the consequences that would result from repeal of this law, Section 654, Title 10.
1. Repeal of the Law and Forced Cohabitation
If Congress repeals the 1993 statute stating that homosexuals are not eligible to serve in uniform, and the military is ordered to accommodate professed (not discreet) homosexuals, the culture of the military will be radically changed. Recruiters will be directed to accept and even seek out professed homosexuals for induction in all branches of the military.
This means that heterosexuals will be required to live in forced cohabitation with professed (not discreet) homosexuals, on all military bases and ships at sea, on a 24/7 basis. Such a policy would impose new, unneeded burdens of sexual tension on men and women serving in high-pressure working conditions, far from home, that are unlike any occupation in the civilian world.
The real-world issue here is not superficial. Nor is it a Hollywood fantasy portrayed for laughs in a television sitcom. We are talking about human sexuality and the normal, human desire for personal privacy and modesty in sexual matters.
Repealing the 1993 law would be tantamount to forcing female soldiers to cohabit with men in intimate quarters, on all military bases and ships at sea, on a 24/7 basis. Stated in gender-neutral terms, forced cohabitation in military conditionswhich offer little or no privacy--would force persons to live with persons who might be sexually attracted to them. Inappropriate passive/aggressive actions conveying a homosexual message or approach, short of physical touching and assault, will be permitted in all military communities, to include Army and Marine infantry battalions, Special Operations Forces. Navy SEALS, and cramped submarines that patrol the seas for months at a time. The ensuing sexual tension will hurt discipline and morale, but commanders will not have the power to improve the situation. Individuals whose beliefs and feelings about sexuality are violated by the new policy will have no recourse. The only option will be to avoid or leave the service.
We keep hearing that in the brave new Will & Grace world, none of this matters. And yet, it was only a year ago when the nation reacted with universal disapproval of Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) and 39 others who were arrested for inappropriate behavior in a public but transient place at the Minneapolis airport over a period of three months.
Columnist Michael Medved asked a fair question: If preventing public sex in airport mens rooms is important enough to justify the deployment of undercover cops, isnt it similarly important to deter the sexualization of private facilities in the military?
2. Implications of the Civil Rights Argument
Activists who demand repeal of the 1993 law invoke the honored standard of civil rights. Their cause, however, bears little resemblance to our militarys proud history of racial integration.
If this is deemed a civil rights issue, the argument should be taken to its logical conclusion. If the military is ordered to accommodate homosexuals, it will follow the civil rights model in counter-productive attempts to make the new paradigm work.
The principle of zero tolerance in matters of civil rights is well established. The military does not do things half-way. Nor does it tolerate members who do not support civil rights and equal opportunity in the military.
This means that any military man or woman who expresses concerns about professed homosexuals in the military will be assumed intolerant, and suspected of harassment, homophobia, bullying, bigotry, or worse.
Since our military does not tolerate sexual harassment or bigotry, disciplinary penalties and career-ending denials of promotions would be the logical consequence of treating homosexuals in the military as a civil rights issue.
This mandate would be particularly divisive among men and women whose religious convictions are thrown into direct conflict with official military policy. As a result, thousands of valuable troops could feel compelled to avoid or leave military service.
Those who demand repeal of the law have conceded that thousands of military people would avoid or leave the military, but they maintain that the cost in terms of lost personnel would be worth it for the sake of sexual diversity. For the sake of the majority our men and women in uniform, I strongly disagree.
If there is a conflict between equal opportunity and the needs of the militarymilitary necessity must come first.
3. Affirmative Action and Retroactive Consequences of a Civil Rights Standard
If the civil rights model is followed in all matters involving homosexuals, it is likely that bureaucrats and judges will implement a wide array of disruptive policies that will take the principle to its logical conclusion.
Campbell University Professor of Law William A. Woodruff, an expert on the issue of homosexuals in the military, expressed concern that the full burden of the civil rights standard could be imposed by the federal courts, based on legal and administrative precedents.
That could mean recruiting quotas for gay personnel, the offer of enlistment to those previously denied, retroactive promotions, and financial settlements for persons claiming past discrimination.
Congress needs to answer an obvious question: How will all of these costs benefit discipline, morale, and readiness in the volunteer force?
4. Enforcement of Laws and Regulations Re Sexual Misconduct
Activists demanding repeal of the law dismiss concerns about sexual misconduct by claiming that existing regulations against heterosexual misconduct can and should be equally applied to misconduct involving professed homosexuals. This is an unrealistic argument, which betrays an elitist attitude and false assumptions about military culture and law.
It is theoretically possible that incidents of sexual assault by homosexuals in our military would be punished in an even-handed way, but in actual practice this would be small comfort to persons experiencing forced cohabitation in all military communities, including Marine infantry, small surface ships and submarines.
When a female soldier reports an incident of sexual harassment or abuse, she enjoys the presumption of truthfulness. But under the new civil rights standard, if a male soldier reports an incident of homosexual harassment or abuse, he will face the suspicion, if not the presumption, of unacceptable attitudes toward fellow soldiers who are gay.
Heterosexuals whose values are violated will hesitate to file complaints, lest they be suspected and probably accused of attitudes that violate the new zero tolerance policy, favoring homosexuals in the military. In messy, emotionally-charged disputes such as this, commanders themselves will be accused of homophobic attitudes if they take the side of the heterosexual person over the homosexual one. Who is bullying whom? In close quarters, it wouldnt matterthe effect on unit cohesion would be the same.
I encourage you to read the letter from Cynthia Yost, a former Army a medical corpsman, who suffered a physical assault by a group of lesbians. Yost wrote that she did not report the assault because she did not want to be accused of racism, which would have derailed her military career.
Yost predicted that if professed homosexuals serve in the military, An assault like the one I endured would be "de-criminalized," on the grounds that the victim is a homophobe if they won't just "relax and enjoy" being sexually assaulted.
Ms. Yost made an additional point. After the sexual assault, one of the lesbians began taking surreptitious photos of her and other female soldiers in the showers─running off and laughing when the victims turned to look. In these days of digital cameras and camera phones with Internet access, such photos could be sent anywhere and everywhere in the world in seconds.
I ask the members of this panel--How would you like to be treated like this, with nowhere else to go, and no way to do something about it, without ruining your career?
In Britain, which homosexual activists point to as an example to be followed by the American military, the gay activist group Stonewall praised the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for addressing the problem of homophobic bullying. This is an interesting comment since activists claim that the British experience has been completely positive.
The London Telegraph also reported that a British Army officer was severely disciplined just for stating a negative opinion about gays and lesbians in the British military. Is this what we want in our military? Accusations and penalties could become common if gays in the military are given full civil rights status. I ask again, How would all this turmoil improve readiness, morale, and discipline?
5. Inadequate Reports and Risks of Physical Abuse
If this social experiment goes forward, you will not be able to evaluate the results. A Navy Times editorial noted that unlike civilian judicial system, military courts do not offer a publicly accessible docket of pending court martial cases.
The Navy Times further reported that incidents of male sexual assault often are underreported and may be more prevalent in the military than in other parts of society. Studies suggest that sexual assault among military men is most prevalent among junior enlisted ranks.
We also know that current discharges of persons who engage in homosexual conduct frequently are not reported as such. If an offender is court-martialed and punished for a more serious offense involving same-sex assault, or for disobedience of orders forbidding sexual activity by HIV-positive individuals, discharge records are more likely to show the more serious offense, but not homosexual conduct.
Two recent cases of homosexual conduct and abuse, which have received little public notice, demonstrate how this works:
Navy Lt. Commander John Thomas Lee
Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Lee, a 42 year-old Catholic priest, is a Navy chaplain who tested positive for HIV in 2005. The Washington Post reported on December 7, 2007, that Lt. Cmdr.
Lee pleaded guilty to several serious charges: consensual and forcible sodomy with several men, including a Naval Academy midshipman, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, and a Marine corporal.
Lees misconduct involved indecent acts, aggravated assault for not informing at least one victim of his contagious HIV status, and conduct unbecoming an officer that was all the more reprehensible because of the betrayal of trust associated with Lees status as a priest and chaplain.
According to court testimony and factual stipulations signed by Lee and Navy prosecutors, Lee plied the male midshipman with dinner and drinks, followed by gay sex acts and unwanted touching. Lee also misused government computers to solicit sex partners, saving and sending more than 375 pornographic images of himself and other men.
An alarming article in Newsweek stated that according to a recent report, up to 60 military chaplains have been convicted or at least are strongly suspected of committing sexual abuse over the past four decades, sometimes against the children of military personnel.
The experience of the Roman Catholic Church is a cautionary tale. For many years, the church did not ask questions about homosexuality among seminarians and priests. With few exceptions, lay people did not suspect that anything was amiss, but a huge and costly nationwide scandal developed over time. Anything comparable to that could undermine public support for the volunteer force.
Pfc. Johnny Lamar Dalton
In another disturbing case reported last year, Pfc. Johnny Lamar Dalton, 25, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon the HIV virus. The soldier reportedly failed to tell an 18 year-old teenager about his HIV-positive status before they had unprotected, consensual sex. The unnamed young man previously had been HIV-negative.
An Army spokesman confirmed that Daltons records will only show his criminal violations, not the lesser offense of homosexual conduct. This case demonstrates why figures on discharges involving homosexual conduct may not be reported accurately. To the extent that there is a problem, repealing the law will make it worse.
6. Risks of HIV-Positive Non-Deployable Personnel Issues of health and deployability must be considered.
Congress has recognized that all soldiers serving in a combat environment are potential blood donors for each other. Therefore, persons found to be HIV-positive are not deployable, but once they are in uniform they must be retained for as long as they are physically able.
An examination of military HIV non-deployability cases shows that since the passage of the 1993 law, the incidence of HIV service-wide has trended downward. Reasons are not clear, but if the law is repealed , allowing significant numbers of men-having-sex-with-men (MSM) to join the military, the HIV positive non-depoyability numbers likely would trend upward.
At a time when multiple deployments are putting so much stress on the military, Congress should not implement any change in policy that could increase the number of nondeployable personnel.
7: Social Issues and Training to Enforce Acceptance of Homosexuality
If the 1993 law is repealed, the armed forces will be pressured to follow the example of Britain in creating some sort of legal/social status for same-sex couples, and providing quarters for same-sex couples in family housing.
In a short amount of time civilian institutions, such as marriage bureaus, schools, and possibly churches will be pressured to follow the militarys lead. If the Marine Corps recognize same-sex couples, why should the schools and churches not do the same?
We can also expect that if the militarys civil rights tradition is followed, programs of sensitivity training would be sufficient to resolve any problems. Our military is being pressured to follow the example of the United Kingdom, which capitulated to a European Court ordering inclusion of homosexuals in the military. The British military, which has been working with gay activists for years, is now working with the transendered community to recognize their right to serve. This is where the civil rights model, if imposed on the military, logically leads.
British military personnel have been permitted to march in Gay Pride parades, and samesex couples are permitted to live in family housing. These options surely contribute to the advertised level of satisfaction among homosexuals who serve, but an April 2007 report of the British Parliament indicated that the armed forces remain short of servicemen and women.
C. Unconvincing Arguments for Repeal
1. Surveys & Polls
Absent credible arguments, advocates of repeal have fallen back on polls that ask the wrong questions, or spin the answers to achieve the effect desired by the sponsor of the poll. One of the most highly publicized polls was done by Zogby International in December 2006.
Most news reports did not mention that the survey had been commissioned and paid for by the Michael Palm Center, a gay activist group. The poll indicated that 73% of the respondents said they were comfortable interacting with gay people. This is an innocuous question; had I been asked, I would have said Yes too.
A more important question that was not even mentioned in Zogbys news release announcing the polls results: Do you agree or disagree with allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military? On that question, 26% of those surveyed Agreed, but 37% Disagreed. The Zogby poll also found that 32% of respondents were Neutral and only 5% were Not sure.
If this poll were considered representative of military personnel, the 26% of respondents who wanted the law repealed were far fewer than the combined 69% of people who were opposed to or neutral on repeal. This minority opinion was hardly a mandate for radical change. The poll was nevertheless trumpeted as if it were. Polling organizations recognize that respondents who believe a policy is already in place are more likely to favor that policy, while those who know otherwise are less likely. For this reason, widely-believed but inaccurate claims, such as the idea that homosexuals are eligible to serve in the military, probably are skewing polls of civilians on this question.
People in the military, however, are more likely to understand what the law is. In the 2006 poll announced by the Military Times newspapers, in response to the question Do you think openly homosexual people should be allowed to serve in the military? Percentages, ranging from 57% to 59% in opposition have been reported by the Military Times survey three years in a row.
A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, released on July 19, 2008, was typical of civilian polls on this issue.
The poll included two questions on the subject of homosexuals in the military, but it did not frame the real issue: Should the military require, as a matter of policy, forced cohabitation between heterosexuals and homosexuals in all military units, including the infantry, Special Operations Forces, and submarines?
Instead, the questions used confusing double negatives, and suggested that the main issue was being undisclosed or disclosed as a homosexual in the military. Survey questions also used the permissive word allowed, instead of required.
This was a poll of mostly civilians who know little about the military and its culture, including the need for discipline. This is tantamount to asking Americans what they think about issues currently being debated by the Canadian Parliament.
2. The National Security Argument: Too Many Discharges of Homosexuals
Turning to the so-called national security argument for gays in the military -- Please consider the graph attached to my testimony, which demonstrates how small the numbers of discharges have been in comparison to personnel losses for other reasons, such as pregnancy or violations of weight standards.
The cost of personnel losses related to the homosexual conduct law, whatever it is, could be reduced to near-zero if all potential recruits were fully and accurately notified that the 1993 law means that homosexuals are not eligible to serve. It is bad policy to enforce a regulatory policy such as Dont Ask, Dont Tell, which misinforms potential recruits about the conditions of eligibility and encourages people to be less than honest about their homosexualityonly to be subject to discharged later.
3. Contradiction: Too Few Discharges Due to the War
Many of the same people who claim that the military is discharging too many homosexual personnel simultaneously claim, to the contrary, that dismissals have declined because gays are needed to fight in the war. A Congressional Research Service Report to Congress discussed this argument, and confirmed that administrative discharges for homosexual conduct are not affected by wartime stop-loss procedures.
Anecdotes about homosexuals being allowed to remain in the military usually do not hold up. Still, there is a need for accurate information on what the law actually says. Officials who choose to disregard this law should be held accountable in the same way that they would be for other failures to comply with duly enacted law.
4. Linguists and the Defense Language Institute
The Dont Ask, Dont Tell policy/regulations have caused widespread confusion and costly errors, such as the admittance of twelve homosexual language trainees to the Armys Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California. Two of the students were found in bed together, and the others voluntarily admitted their homosexuality.
All were honorably discharged. Gay activist groups decried the dismissals as a loss for national security. The true loss occurred, however, when twelve students who were not eligible to serve occupied the spaces of other language trainees who could be participating in the current war. Military specialty schools such as the DLI should not be misusing scarce resources to train linguists who are not eligible to serve in the military. There are other ways that the Department of Defense should encourage and pursue more constructive options to solve the problem.
For example, Congress can work with the Department of State to expand the number of visas available for pro-American Iraqi and Afghan immigrants who are willing to serve as interpreters. The Department of State also should lend support to refugees from Iraq whose lives are being threatened because they provided help to American troops.
5. Alleged Shortages in Critical Specialties
In July 1994, the Palm Center claimed the military was discharging valuable personnel in important military specialties, including 49 nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare specialists.
A closer look at the same data, obtained from the DMDC, reveals several disparities. For example, according to the official who provided the same DMDC data to the Center for Military Readiness, the category of persons in the nuclear power field does not necessarily mean that all the people in question were nuclear power engineers. More details are in my testimony for the record. Again, the number of personnel losses could be reduced to near zero if the law were accurately explained and enforced by the Department of Defense.
6. The Urban Institute 65,000 Homosexuals in the Military?
In September 2004, the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan social policy and research organization, issued a report that was prepared in consultation with the activist Palm Center and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The report estimated that approximately 65,000 gay personnel are now serving in the U.S. military.
Activists constantly cite this report when advocating repeal of the 1993 homosexual conduct law. The document, however, reveals questionable methodology, based on presumptions about the percentage of homosexuals in the general population and about the sexuality of persons interviewed by the census. Citing mathematical computations and other reports, the study speculated that household-mates of the same sex are homosexual.
Adding different sets of speculative figures regarding different military communities, the document leaped to the conclusion that there are2.8% or 65,000 gay or lesbian military personnel. This number is frequently trumpeted by gay activists and like-minded journalists.
One guess-timate on top of another, however, does not a solid fact make. The census does not ask questions about sexual orientation or behavior, and all estimates are based on sheer speculation, dressed up with a public relations spin.
7. Harassment of Homosexuals and Heterosexuals
Contrary to exaggerated claims by activist groups, more than 80% of homosexual service members discharged since the law was enacted left the service not because of witch hunts rooting them out but because of voluntary statements admitting homosexuality. According to a 1998 DoD Task Force report, there were only four cases of anti-homosexual harassment reported since 1994. Two of those cases involved anonymous letters that could not be traced.
In 1999, homosexual activists crafted a polemic campaign that focused on the brutal murder of Army Pfc. Barry Winchell, an alleged homosexual, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in July of that year. The savage killing of Pfc. Barry Winchell has been cited as evidence that more must be done to end hate crimes and harassment of homosexuals.
The confessed killer, Pvt. Calvin Glover, assaulted Winchell in the barracks with a baseball bat on July 4, 1999, several hours after Winchell had beaten him in a drunken brawl.
Evidence of Glovers hostile attitude toward Winchell, who was involved with a transgender male nightclub entertainer who appeared to be a woman, was a factor in his trial and sentencing to life in prison.
Among other things, an Army Inspector General investigation noted poor morale and a tolerance of underage drinking and anti-gay language by the senior sergeant in the battalion. The report also noted the reluctance of battalion commanders to ask questions about matters involving alleged homosexuality.
Military discipline requires constant awareness of what is happening in military units, throughout the chain of command. A policy such as Dont Ask, Dont Tell that discourages the asking of legitimate questions interferes with sound leadership. In this tragic case, a failure to ask questions apparently was a factor in the creation of a volatile situation that exploded with violence. Perpetrators of this crime have been rightly punished, but there is no need for additional legislation to stop harassment or murderous assaultsof anyonein the barracks.
Air Force Captain Devery L. Taylor was convicted and sentenced to twenty-eight to fifty years in prison for raping four men, allegedly with date-rape drugs. According to a report in Air Force Times, an investigator interrogating Taylor, now a convicted serial rapist, said that he would not ask any questions about the mans sexual practices because such questions are not allowed. This statement demonstrated how misunderstandings about the 1993 homosexual conduct law help to create volatile conditions that undermine good order and discipline. Such misconduct should not be considered off limits to questioning just because it happens to occur between persons of the same sex.
8. Foreign Militaries
The Palm Center and other activist groups frequently point to the experiences of other countries, such as Great Britain, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and Israel, which have no restrictions on professed homosexuals in their militaries.
The United Kingdom was ordered by the European Court of Human Rights to open its ranks to homosexuals in September 1999. There was some controversy in the Parliament, but instead of appealing or challenging the ruling, ultimately the nation compliedsomething the United States would be unlikely to do. Contrary to the notion that all has gone well, European newspapers have reported recruiting and disciplinary problems in the British military.
Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands have cultures quite different from the United States. The late Prof. Charles Moskos has noted that nations without official restrictions on gays in the military are also very restrictive in actual practice. Germany, for example, imposed many restrictions on open homosexual behavior and imposed career penalties such as denial of promotions and access to classified information. Israels situation differs from the United States because all able-bodied citizens, including women, are compelled to serve in the military. Israeli soldiers usually do not reveal their homosexuality and are barred from elite combat positions if they do.
The CSSMM frequently claims that no problems have been experienced in all of the countries listed above and is critical of those who support the ban, demanding that opponents provide empirical evidence to support their case. The irony is that the CSSMM and other activist groups base most of their arguments on anecdotal information and opinion, largely gathered from like-minded sources.
The issue of homosexuals in the military is a major political question that should not be decided by international courts, federal courts in the United States, or by politicians who are misinformed about the nature of the 1993 law and the rationale behind it.
9. Religious Bias
Finally, advocates of gays in the military have vilified retired Marine Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who expressed his personal views regarding gays in the military and personal morality during an interview on March 11, 2007. A wave of name16 calling and demands for an apology ensued, but Gen. Pace had no reason to apologize for a law duly enacted by Congress.
The 1993 statute reflects the views of people who see the issue in moral terms, but it uses secular language emphasizing military discipline. Duly enacted lawsincluding prohibitions against lying, stealing, and murdershould not be repealed just because they coincide with religious principles and moral codes such as the Ten Commandments.
D. Recommendations and Conclusion
1. Enforce the 1993 Homosexual Conduct Law
Activists who want to repeal the law banning homosexuals from the military are determined to impose their agenda on the military. For the sake of civilian institutions as well as the military, they should not be allowed to succeed.
The President of the United States is obligated by the U.S. Constitution to enforce all laws, but he is not required to retain administrative regulations written or retained by predecessors, including the policy known by the catch phrase Dont Ask, Dont Tell. Whether intended or not, inconsistencies between Clintons policy and the 1993 homosexual conduct law create an advantage for activists who want to repeal both.
The Department of Defense should not apologize or be intimidated by civil rights analogies and pejorative accusations. As retired Gen. Colin Powell wrote in a classic letter addressing the subject to then-Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) in 1993, Skin color is a benign, non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the most profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a convenient but invalid argument.
In recent years, advocates of gays in the military have been promoting the idea that sexual modesty does not matter, since modern military facilities provide more privacy than older ones, and younger people seem to think that is not a big deal. This is an elitist argument, which is contradicted in numerous ways that usually escape notice.
A midwestern family-oriented recreation center, for example, has separate locker rooms for men and women, next to the community pool. Inside the entrance of the womens locker room is a sign clearly stating that boys of any age are not permitted. A similar sign, regarding girls, is posted in the mens locker room. The signs are there not as an affront to young boys (or girls). They are there because the community respects the desire for sexual modesty in conditions of forced intimacy. This is the case even though people who use the recreation center do not live and sleep there for months at a time. Servicemen and women in the military deserve the same consideration, and much more.
As columnist Thomas Sowell wrote, Military morale is an intangible, but it is one of those intangibles without which the tangibles do not work. Military people depend on policymakers to remember basic realities and to guard their best interests. Considerations such as this strengthen vertical cohesionthe indispensable bond of trust between military leaders and the troops they lead.
To ensure that the intent of Congress is carried out with regard to homosexuals in the military, the Secretary of Defense should:
Improve understanding and enforcement of the law by eliminating the Clinton
Administrations enforcement regulations, known as Dont Ask, Dont Tell, which are inconsistent with the 1993 law that Congress actually passed, and (better yet) restore the question about homosexuality that used to be on induction forms prior to January 1993.
Oppose any legislative attempt to repeal the 1993 homosexual conduct law in Congress.
Ensure that the 1993 statute is vigorously defended every time it is challenged in the federal courts.
Prepare and distribute accurate instructional materials for potential recruits, recruiters, and all military personnel that include the text and legislative history of the 1993 law.
Remind the media that everyone can serve their country in some way, but not everyone is eligible to be in the military.
2. The Only Military We Have
When it comes to national defense, there are no options from which to choose. Todays volunteer force is the only military we have. In a communication with CMR, Professor of Law William A. Woodruff wrote, The American military does not fight an armed enemy sworn to destroy our way of life by showing how enlightened and progressive our popular culture is.
The armed forces exist to project combat power as an arm of foreign policy and to protect our vital national interests. Anything, whether it is height, weight, IQ, character, physical fitness, medical condition, or any other condition that detracts from unit cohesion and combat effectiveness disqualifies an otherwise patriotic American from serving in the military. The military is not popular culture. It is very different and must remain so to defend the freedoms that advance our popular culture.
Woodruff added, Those who favor personnel policies grounded in notions of fairness to the individual must be required to demonstrate beyond any doubt that military discipline, unit cohesion, and combat effectiveness will not be diminished one iota by adoption of their preferred policy. Otherwise, it elevates the individual over the mission and that is the antithesis of military service.
Our national security depends on the men and women of the military. For our own sake as well as theirs, the co-ed military must be constructed on foundations that are sound. We have to get this right; it is the only military we have. Ours is the strongest military in the world, and we have an obligation to keep it that way.
Should have included congress in this .
To steal a technique from the commie 'RATS, this is going to put all of our military people in danger. Anyone captured by the muzzie terrorists will be accused of being a homosexual and will probably be hanged.
Anyone captured now is accused of being an infidel servant of the Great Satan illegally invading the Caliphate and their heads are sawn off by rusty knives soooooo getting hanged as an alleged homosexual is definitely a step up.
In high- and medium-intensity wars, a lot of the blood for wounded personnel in forward units would come from their fellow soldiers. This may even be the case in Iraq and Afghanistan today...I'm just assuming with largely unmolested supply trains, much of the blood needed by our wounded comes from stateside, and has gone through the necessary screening to ensure it's untainted by HIV.
But I digress. I've talked with Vietnam veterans who told me that when the casualties came rolling in more than a few at a time, and blood supplies on hand came up short, soldiers and Marines themselves rolled up their sleeves and gave blood to save their buddies. When we find ourselves in another high-intensity conflict in the future, there won't be time to test each and every pint for HIV, and the likelihood of passing on infected blood from a forward-deployed homo would be great. So not only would our troops have been wounded by the enemy, they would have sustained further wounds, possible fatal wounds, from the HIV-infected blood of forward deployed homos.
Quick digression: anyone who wants to argue that HIV is also spread by heterosexual sex and/or intravenous drug usage, check the CDC statistics. AIDS always has been, and continues to be, an overwhelmingly male homosexual disease. /digression
OTOH, if homo troops were classified non-deployable, and left behind when the unit got orders to move, what would that do to unit effectiveness? Key positions would be unfilled. The unit couldn't fight the way it trained, because a member or members of the team would be stateside, given the risk they posed to the vital blood supply.
Then again, there's Limbaugh's indisputable reasoning on women in combat, which applies equally well to homos in the military, in combat units or otherwise. It goes like this:
1)Do we have the strongest military in the world, as it is today? Arguably yes.
2)Would we continue to have the strongest military if we excluded all homosexuals from serving? Absolutely yes.
3) Would we continue to have the strongest military if we had only homosexuals serving? Absolutely not.
4) Then it logically stands to reason that for every homosexual who's serving instead of a heterosexual, we weaken the military that much. If there are 10,000 homos in uniform rather than 10,000 heterosexuals, the military is 10,000 troops weaker than it would otherwise be.
This is in addition to everything Elaine Donnelly said. I am pi**ed to no end about what they're doing to the US Army in which I served for 11 years, and to which I gave both my shoulders and one knee.
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You know, I really wish people on all sides of the debate and especially on the conservative side would stop referring to DADT as a ban on gays serving in the military. The policy explicitly PERMITS gays to serve provided they keep quiet about being gay. The policy replaces the old policy which actually WAS an outright ban.
I favor the outright ban - DoD Directive 1332.14. It is ironic, and serves as a good example of how the left is able to successfully manipulate the debate, because conservatives are put in a position of defending a policy that we were against...Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a compromise that permitted homosexuals into the military.
Served with a guy who was gay.
He didn't seem to comprehend that "Hands off" meant "Hands off".
He learned the hard way.
He got his face beat in a couple times.
Yes, striking down the law would open the military up to a flood of abusive behavior perpetrated by homosexuals.
And I DARE any of the pro-homo trolls to try and say otherwise.
But...but...but my point was, the 'RATS kept complaining that the "torture" at Gitmo and burning the Korans was putting our troops in danger...The manner in which they were executed was not my point.
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What the law means is that the question of "Are you a homosexual" is not going to be asked.
Homosexuality is still banned, hence the discharges for those who are caught.
Basically the situation is "We're not going to ask, and you shut the heck up about it."
And if the homosexual happens to contract HIV and later assaults his fellow soldiers, he will pretty much be given a pass.
A better law would be onwe that banned Islamics from serving in the US military...
No homosexual has murdered several of his fellow servicemen in a massacre...
Saw a brochure for the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder program at a VA Medical Center. In the section on Military Sexual Trauma, i.e., if you need an explanation, rape of a military member by another military member, 50% of those enrolled in the MST PTSD program are MALE.
There are three likely outcomes of permitting gays to openly serve. (1) Aggressive and unapologetic enforcement of UCMJ Articles 120 (Rape and Sexual Assault), 125 (Sodomy), 134-2 (Adultery) and 134-3 (Assault Indecent), 134-29 (Indecent acts with another) with ultimate dismissal due to pattern of misconduct; (2) a quantifiable increase in 134-4 (Assault), -21 (Firearm Discharging), -23 (Fraternization), -25 (Negligent Homicide); or, (3) a quantifiable reduction in enlistments and reenlistments such that it affects overall readiness.
The ramifications of this are so self-evident, there can only be one logical reason to persue it. And that reason is to intentionally destroy the unit cohesion of the US military and, ultimately, destroy the US Armed Forces.
So, the queers want the DADT "rule" to be defeated then the original law takes its place.
The judge was a Clinton dufus and we really now have a law in effect that outright bans Queers in the military.
How long before the LSM finally gets that message.
The illegal activity that Zero persists in executing as he did with the AZ law in which it was not read correctly by another Clinton dufus judge who had NO legal authority to pass any judgment and a milk-toast governor who would not fight a communist usurper of the COTUS in the matter (she could have ignored the ruling and provoked a needed fight with Zero and DOJ.
Now we are gaining in clarity. Recall that Obama is a communist and a Muslim and an enemy of the COTUS and his task is destroy the USA prior to the NWO assault.
I think that covers it well enough.
rape of a military member by another military member, 50% of those enrolled in the MST PTSD program are MALE.
How do you know that ???
rape of a military member by another military member, 50% of those enrolled in the MST PTSD program are MALE.
Enrolled is not actual incidents..
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text: WOODSTOCK — Athletes from Special Olympics Addison County competed in the winter games at Suicide Six in Woodstock on Saturday and Sunday, March 9 and 10. On Friday evening the Woodstock Rotary hosted the opening ceremonies that were attended by Gov. Peter Shumlin. The torch to open the games was carried in by members of the Woodstock Police Department. Opening ceremonies were capped off by a fireworks display high above the village green on Mt. Tom.


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The regular 22 TCM cartridge is listed at being 1.265 inches for its max COAL. I think that the factory ammo is using 1.247 for the COAL though.
With the 22TCM 9R cartridges, I got a minimum OAL of 1.1415 inches and a maximum OAL of 1.1470 inches. Most were around 1.1450 inches though.
With the 22TCM regular cartridges, I got a OAL from 1.2515 to 1.2520 inches.
Pics showing the OAL for the 22TCM 9R factory rounds that I have:
now then here are pics for the regular 22 TCM cartridge OAL
This cartridge is my white whale! Not only does every different bullet and boo lit require a significant load ladder, but each design is a new adventure in loading technique.
So far I've worked up original TCM factory, some pulled 22 mag, and some NOE 37 HITEK & PC/GC boolitz. The pulled 22mag looked promising but is cost prohibitive as I couldn't find an open source for bulk purchases. The NOE 37's were ok with either coating but only in loads b/w 8.5-9ish of H110. The few I prepared below 8.5 just would not cycle right.
Then there is this 9r projectile. Strange looking bugger that wants to squish / deform with too much pressure during seating. Unusually deep seating depth but a shape that makes sense for the application.
I keep hoping one of the swaging guys will come out with a hornet like solid copper pill that will revive the interest in this cartridge. I'm definitely concerned that this one will die if the current mfg doesn't release the cartridge for SAMMI specs so other manufacturers can take a swing at it.
Now then a lot of guys are having pretty good success with powder coating their lead bullets. So maybe that is the way to go. One can get a lead bullet mold and bullet sizer and have at it then too.
Oh yeah, one could buy copper rods and use a lathe to machine bullets. It is a bit painstaking to do, but doable though.
There are some companies making solid copper bullets in .224 caliber too. This one referenced makes 32 grain and 40 grain bullets besides others as well. ref https://cuttingedgebullets.com/shop/cut ... caliber=35


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- Premier League
Carragher wants to bow out with derby win
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher insists he has no regrets about retiring - and has vowed to earn one more Merseyside derby victory before he quits.
Carragher will face Everton for the 30th and final time in his 16-year first-team career when they visit Anfield on Sunday.
The 35-year-old, who announced in February that he would retire at the end of the season, ended any possibility of being persuaded to change his mind when he confirmed on Tuesday that he would join Sky Sports as a full-time pundit in August.
Manager Brendan Rodgers had considered asking Carragher, the club's vice-captain, to postpone his retirement for a year.
Carragher, a boyhood Everton fan who joined the Anfield youth set-up when he was nine, told the Liverpool Echo: "It's nice that people are saying: 'You're playing well, you should carry on.' But the more I hear that, the more I think I've made the right decision to go now.
"As an Everton fan and Liverpool player, I've seen too many people get slaughtered when supporters think they've gone on too long. I don't want that.
"I'd been thinking for a while: 'How do you get out? How do you finish with Liverpool?' And a quote I'd read years ago from a foreign player stuck with me: 'Leave the football before football leaves you.'
"I've always had that in the back of my mind - especially as I've been at Liverpool all of my life and I never want to let the club or supporters down.
"New players will come in this summer and at my age I could be back on the bench next season.
"There might even be games where I don't make the bench. Imagine walking around Anfield in a suit on a matchday when you're fit to play?
"Of course there will be things I miss, like the great feeling of camaraderie in the dressing room after a good result. But on the flip side, I won't miss the bit where you've lost the game and you're devastated."
Carragher insists that, despite his childhood support for Everton, Liverpool will remain his team after he retires.
He said: "When I come out of the intensity of Liverpool, I might say I'd like to see Everton win a cup we've been knocked out of, which wouldn't be the case now. But there's no way I'll go back to wanting Everton to beat Liverpool.
"My brothers may go back to supporting Everton, but my dad won't, I won't and my son will always been a Liverpudlian."
And Carragher, whose first derby ended in a 1-1 draw at Anfield in February 1998, wants a better result than that on Sunday.
He added: "If I could only win one game every year, it would be the derby, without a shadow of a doubt.
"I totally get the Man United/Liverpool thing but for me playing Everton is bigger. If you get beat by United, the fans are 40 minutes down the road, but you can't get away from Evertonians.
"Also Everton love beating Liverpool more than we do beating them. Knowing how much they want to win makes you even more determined. It was like that when I was a kid. I just wanted to beat Liverpool.
"I love the derby and I could play them every week. The nerves, the thinking about it weeks before, the build-up in the city, the feeling if you win: it's just great.
"Being my last derby, this game is huge to me. I hope I enjoy it, but I know the only way I will is if we win it."