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DENVER -- More than 70% of children who failed to show a good response with growth hormone in the first year of therapy achieved an average to excellent improvement in the second year of treatment, researchers said here.
After the first year of treatment, 187 of 1,874 children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency had height velocities in the 10th percentile or less. But of those who went on to a second year of treatment, only 55 remained in that lowest percentile group, reported Paul Kaplowitz, MD, PhD, of George Washington University and Children's National Medical Center, in Washington.
There were 114 who improved to the average 10th to 90th percentile and 18 who shifted to the greater than 90th – or excellent – height velocity.
Of 1,155 children diagnosed with idiopathic short stature, 111 had poor response to growth hormone therapy in the first year. After the second year of treatment, 28 remained in the poor response category, 68 improved to the median group, and 15 achieved excellent height velocities, Kaplowitz said at his poster presentation during the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society meeting.
"While much has been written about the factors that predict responsiveness to biosynthetic growth hormone during the first year of therapy, the factors that predict which patients are likely to be either the best or worst responders during the first and second years of therapy have been studied in lesser detail," Kaplowitz reported.
In their retrospective study, which gleaned data from the National Cooperative Growth Study, Kaplowitz and his colleagues said that characteristics that led to best responses in children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency were lower baseline height standard deviation, higher body mass index, taller parents, and lower maximum stimulated growth hormone.
Those characteristics appeared to identify responsive children in both the first and second years of therapy.
Among the idiopathic short stature children, Kaplowitz said that characteristics of response in the first year appeared to be higher body mass index and lower pretreatment height velocity. No characteristics emerged that would predict second year growth, he said.
In the study, the research team searched the database for boys between the ages of 4 and 11 and girls between the ages of 4 and 10 who:
- Were naive to growth hormone therapy at enrollment into NCGS
- Remained prepubertal at the end of the second year to eliminate those who may have obviously started their pubertal growth spurts
- Had height velocities available for both the first and second years of therapy
- Were diagnosed with either idiopathic growth hormone deficiency or idiopathic short stature
After the first year of treatment in 1,874 children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency, the researchers observed that 187 children had height velocities in the 10th percentile or less; 1,499 were in the 10th to 90th percentile, and 188 were in the greater than 90th percentile in height velocity.
When checking outcomes among those in the median group in their second year of therapy, 133 children slipped to the lowest percentile group, 1,271 remained in the 10th to 90th percentile group, and 95 moved to the excellent level.
Of the 188 children diagnosed with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency who were excellent responders and continued to a second year, eight slipped to the lowest percentile group, 98 dropped to the 10th to 90th percentile group, and 82 remained in the excellent level for height velocities.
About 21% of the children in this study group were girls, but Kaplowitz observed that sex did not appear to play a role in response.
Among the 1,155 patients with idiopathic short stature, after the first year of therapy 111 were in the lowest percentile group, 932 were in the median group, and 112 achieved excellent results.
Of the 932 children classified as median responders who went on to a second year of treatment, 84 slipped to the poorer response group, 769 remained in the median group, and 79 improved to the excellent response group.
Of the 112 patients in the excellent response group who continued to a second year of therapy, four slipped to a poor response; 86 slipped to the median response, and 22 continued to show height velocities in the upper 90th percentile.
In this group of patients about 22% were girls, but again sex did not appear to be significantly different in response, Kaplowitz reported.
"Height velocity standard deviation scores in the first year were not a strong predictor of height velocity standard deviation scores in year two," he concluded, "indicating that the use of first-year height velocity alone to make a decision regarding growth hormone continuation is not supported by these data."
Steven Ghanny, MD, of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., told MedPage Today, "These data indicate that just because a child fails to respond immediately to growth hormone therapy that it is possible that a substantial percentage of these children will respond in the second year.
"The challenge is to find a biomarker that can indicate more precisely if it is likely that a response will occur," he said, noting that growth hormone therapy is expensive and that a more precise treatment population might help preserve health resources.
Ghanny said several researchers, including groups at Maimonides, are working to find such markers.
Kaplowitz had no disclosures. Co-authors on the study included employees of Genentech, South San Francisco. Ghanny had no disclosures.
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Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine SocietySource Reference: Kaplowitz P, et al "Characteristics of children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency and idiopathic short stature with best and poorest first and second year growth in response to growth hormone: Data from 25 years of the Genentech National Cooperative Growth Study" LWPES 2011; Abstract 1402.18.


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Allowed to keep 5 players before upcoming draft - all set with 4 of them but can't decide on the 5th - Def keeping Tulowitzki, Stanton, Zimmerman, and Teixeira
Last spot comes down to either Mike Napoli or Carlos Santana...Napoli would cost me a 23rd round pick while Santana would cost me a 28th round pick (30 total rounds). I don't want to let go of Napoli after his monster second half last year and great lineup, but this could be a breakout season for Santana + he would cost me a later pick than Napoli. I feel like I can't really go wrong with either of them, but am curious if anyone feels like one option is significantly better than the other and why.
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Cygnus, the swan, is one of the prominent denizens of the summer sky. It's a large constellation that resembles a giant cross. And its brightest star, Deneb, is the most distant of the bright stars in the night sky, at a distance of about 1500 light-years.
But Cygnus is also home to a much closer star -- one that new research suggests could have habitable planets.
61 Cygni is barely visible to the unaided eye, even though it's a mere 11.4 light-years away. It's actually a binary -- two orange stars locked in orbit around each other.
Like the Sun, these stars generate their energy by converting hydrogen into helium at their centers. The stars are less massive than the Sun, though, so their centers are cooler and the nuclear reactions proceed more slowly. As a result, the stars' surfaces are cooler and dimmer than the Sun.
As such a star ages, it uses up its original hydrogen fuel. Over billions of years, these changes cause the star to expand. Because of that, astronomers can deduce the star's approximate age from its size. New measurements of the diameters of the stars of 61 Cygni find that they're about six billion years old -- a billion-and-a-half years older than the Sun.
No one yet knows whether 61 Cygni has planets. But if it does, its age means those planets have had plenty of time to develop not just life, but intelligent life. So it's possible that life-bearing worlds could exist within just a dozen light-years, orbiting the stars of 61 Cygni.
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Former U.S. Marine Kidnapped In Mexico, Family Says
A former Marine from Texas who served for seven years has disappeared in Mexico, his family said, and has been kidnapped by armed men.
Armando Torres, 27, from Hargill, crossed the Los Indios Bridge in Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday night to visit his dad and was supposed to return Wednesday morning.
Torres' uncle, Eduardo Torres, says he's worried and claims he and two other family members from Mexico were kidnapped by armed men.
"A cousin of ours from Mexico contacted his sister, his sister called and told us that he was picked up there in Mexico," Torres' uncle told the local NBC affiliate.
Another family member, Patricia Torres, added, "They say when they got there, they were people with weapons and they picked him up."
A missing person's report was filed with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department.
Former Marine friends of Armando Torres have started a Facebook group called "Get Our Brother Back."
One friend who served with him in Iraq, John Fray, said Torres took to YouTube to voice his frustration with Mexico's gun laws, which make it illegal for Americans to bring certain guns, but not all guns, into Mexico.
"We got a United States Marine here who goes there and is not allowed to be armed or protect himself and is taken by people with guns," Fray said.
Fray blames President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder for Operation Fast & Furious, which helped arm Mexican cartels as part of a botched gun tracking program in which American guns were put into the hands of cartels in the hopes that it would lead to the arrests of cartel kingpins.
"While they attempt to destroy our Second Amendment here, we see what it's doing, we are going to lose a Marine, we can't leave a Marine behind," he said. "I think we should get a bunch of Marines and go in there and find him."
Mexico gun laws are confusing. The laws are characterized as restrictive. U.S. consulate generals and massive signs along the Mexican border advise Americans and crossers that it is illegal to bring guns into Mexico. But there are exceptions if the gun is registered with border authorities of both countries and complies with Mexican law.
The process is confusing, as evidenced by the case of U.S. Marine Jon Hammar who was released from prison just in time for Christmas after spending more than four months in a Mexican prison for bringing a gun across the border for hunting. Hammar had gone through the proper process in the U.S. but Mexican officials said his gun was illegal because it was military grade. An assertion deemed false after media and politicians put pressure on the Mexican government.
Americans are constantly warned by U.S. consulates, particularly in Matamoros, Mexico, to not travel at night because of cartel violence. It is also not recommended for Americans to drive cars with U.S. plates throughout the area at night. Armando Torres did leave to spend the night with his father across the border in that area.
"He's an ex Marine and his mother is sad, he never goes over there and just decided to go over and visit his dad." said Torres's uncle to the NBC affiliate.
"Help us out and pray for us and have him safely," said Patricia Torres.
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Zamora is a city in southeastern Ecuador. it is the capital of Zamora Chinchipe province.
With just 16,000 inhabitants in the whole area it is one of the least populated areas in Ecuador. Zamora is the second most populous city in Zamora-Chinchipe after Yantzaza. It is located in the foothills of the Andes mountains at 970 m above sea level, on the convergence of the Zamora, Bombuscaro and Jamboé rivers. Zamora has experienced a boom in growth in recent years, attributed to the discovery of gold in the surrounding region. Zamora was originally a colonial town founded by the Spanish but was attacked by the Indians and reclaimed by the indigenous Indian groups that include the Shuar and Saraguro Indians whom you'll see from time to time milling around the neighborhood in their distinguishable black shorts.
Get in
The closest major airport is Mariscal Sucre International Airport, located in Quito, 274 miles away. Once landed, visitors can take a bus to Zamora, or take a internal flight to Cuenca or Loja from Quito and then a bus to Zamora.
Get around
There's nothing much to do in Zamora. Your best bet can be go camping in the Podocarpus National Park, ask in advance for the fee entrance. Zamora has got a sightseeing site, well if you like walking you can try the Yamila trekking. Yamila is the name of one of the small hills that surrounds Zamora. This like light backpacking trek is located in the Yaguarzongo neighborhood. At the end of the trek you will be able to see one of the most complete views of Zamora and its surroundings.
if you are one of those people that like to start your day with something special or different try visiting the parque lineal, a nice park next to the Zamora river. you can watch how the light gradually changes and it turns into a new day. After this your next stop perhaps would be the main market, where you will find some stands dedicated to natural beverages, jugos naturales, i recommend to you to try the horchata con savila, a sort of herbal tea made of 5 different medicinal plants mixed with aloe. Definitely one of the healthiest breakfast you can serve ever.
Zamora is home to a large section of the Podocarpus National Park. This park possess one of the highest bio-diversity areas on earth, contributing to the amazing beauty of this place.The area itself is cut up into two main areas, an upper pre-montane section which has sensational walking routes, the tropical cloud forest that is superb for birdwatching and the lower subtropical section, with remoter areas including virgin forest and endemic species of flora and fauna with a cost of around $5.00 to enter either area.
There are a limited number of restaurants in the city of Zamora. That list includes; Las Gemelitas, traditional Ecuadorian cuisine with set meals. In your way to the entrance of the Podocarpus National Park there are a lot of grocery stores, where visitors can purchase snacks and water. And if you're around the downtown area you might want to check out, the Chonta Dorada restaurant or the King Ice Fast food restaurant in front of the main park, which serves traditional dishes, such as ancas de rana, deep fried bullfrog legs or tilapia, sort of a fish pond.
Like any of the twenty something provinces in Ecuador, Zamora has a distinctive and typical drink, its name is chicha, a homemade alcoholic beverage made of manioc or chonta, sort of a nut. Natives of this region, shuar or ashuar like to drink large quantities of this chicha. This traditional drink is offered to all newcomers specially in mingas, when people in the community gathers to work in group. Chicha of chonta or chicha of yuca both of them have a very characteristic flavor. they are completely tasteless. This is because natives don't use any sugar nor other substances to provoke fermentation and they don't use salt to condiment their traditional recipes either.
Budget If you are on a tight budget, try the Hostal Seyma(Calle 24 de Mayo and Amazonas) or the Hostal Zamora (Calle Sevilla de Oro and Pio Jaramillo)where you will find the basics to enjoy a nice rest.
There are plenty of other hotels and hostales in Zamora like the Chonta Dorada, the Gymifa Hotel or the Torres Internacional Hotel ($10 per night).
Medium For better accommodation try the Orillas del Zamora Hotel near the Zamora river or the Wuampushcar Hotel.
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YA in ABQ: Cory Doctorow micro-tour tomorrow
Cory Doctorow is best known as the co-editor of the website Boing Boing and for his work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which seeks to promote and defend digital privacy, online freedoms and common-sense intellectual property law. He is also a successful author and in 2008 his dystopian novel Little Brother was published to wide acclaim. Doctorow will be making two appearances in Albuquerque tomorrow to promote Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother, and you can be sure that his talks will branch out to include the topics of DIY, DRM and the various interests of the EFF. After a brief 3 p.m. stop at Taylor Ranch Library, Doctorow will be doing a book signing/reading/Q&A at the South Broadway Cultural Center. The Taylor Ranch event is free, and the purchase of a copy of Homeland from sponsor Alamosa Books admits two at the SBCC appearance. Technically "young adult" novels, both of these books appeal to teens and adults, and the same will undoubtedly be true of Doctorow's presentations in Albuquerque. South Broadway Cultural Center • Wed Feb 27 • 6 pm • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar


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It's a simple question that I don't think has been discussed on the forum. Do you have a team outside of Michigan that you root for in the Big Ten?
I'd have to go with Penn State. It has the second best stadium in the Big Ten and how could root against someone like Joe Pa? However, there fans can get a little annoying, but I like PSU.


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Favorite FMA Quotes [minor spoilers]
What are your favorite quotes from FMA? I find the writers to be ingenious and what the characters say can sometimes be very deep or just plain cool, so I figured I'd see what everyone's favorite quotes are. I'll start off:
"I am the man who has betrayed the ways of God"
Also, make sure to include who said the quote. You can also add the episode it was in and other optional information if you want.
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: NYC
"I am not an ordinary alchemist" -Ed Elric, end of Episode 21
Also all of Ed's famous responses (outbursts) when he is called short; there were a few of them, really funny, but would be somewhat hard to locate. Also Ed's argument with Winry over milk in episode 23!
|2004-04-01, 01:47
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"we didnt say that much!!"
"who would want to eat white liquid secreted from a cow!?" -ed
|2007-01-04, 08:47
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Wow this post is old but I'm posting my favorite quotes anyway. ^.^
"If I died the world would continue to move along as if nothing had happened."
"Because you're just a small part of it."
"When the small part in this case me, dies, the body remains."
"Water, Carbon, Ammonia, Lime, Phosphorous, Salt, Saltpeter, Sulfur, Magnesium, Fluorine, Iron, and Aluminum right?"
"Right. The body's only a combination of those simple elements. Nothing more. We're destined to be decomposed by bacteria, and become nutrients for plants, then you follow the process further, those plants nourish herbivores."
"And those herbivores nourish carnivores. Even others like us. And even though we lose awareness our lives keep on moving through the system."
"The great flow that maintains the universe, call it the cycle of life, the course of nature each one of us is just a small part of that part. One in the all. Yet without all the individual ones, the all can't exist. This world flows by following grander laws that we can't even imagine. To recognize that flow, to work in it. To decompose, and recreate, that is alchemy."
~Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric~ Episode All is One, One is All from Full Metal Alchemist
The cycle of life only goes one direction, not even alchemy can change that.
~Edward Elric~ Episode All is One, One is All from Full Metal Alchemist
|2007-08-08, 06:52
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You can reach for my hand
"No matter how we close our eyes, there's a whole world out there bigger than ourselves and our dreams.." ~ Ed talking to Roy in a car one afternoon in a long drive..
There's actually a lot of good quotes in this anime
|2007-08-28, 12:46
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"just a matter of time rose. science will find a way. science is the answer to everything. if i were you, i'd drop the scriptures and pick up an alchemy book. we're the closest things to gods there are."
" you're not a god. you're nothing close to it"
"and niether is the sun. it's just a mass of hydrogen. get close to it like cornello claims, and all you'll do is burn up."
i like that ed is an athiest!
|2007-09-10, 01:00
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Ha ha ha ha ha...
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Age: 30
Almost all of these are from episode 13:
Roy Mustang: When I'm Führer, there will be changes! That day...*strikes dramatic pose* all female officers will be required to wear - TINY MINISKIRTS!
Jean Havoc: YOU'RE A MIRACLE, MUSTANG! (hugs Mustang's leg) I'LL FOLLOW YOU FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!
Roy Mustang: Yes! (still posing)
<---- This scene.
Roy Mustang: (snatches puppy from Kain Fuery's arms) Dog, huh? (pause) I LOVE DOGS!
Kain Fuery: Really? You mean it?!
Roy Mustang: OF COURSE! Dogs embody loyalty! They follow their master's commands above all else! Be a jerk to them and they don't complain and they never once beg for a paycheck! Trust me, Fuery, they're the great servants of man! (sings) LOYAL CANINE, HOW WE SALUTE THEE!
Maes Hughes: In the red corner...The Flame Alchemist and hero of the Eastern Rebellion...Colonel Roy Mustang! Give it up!
(crowd boos)
Random Audience Member: You just want a promotion!
Random Audience Member: Give me back my girlfriend!
Al: So what's your strategy?
Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!
Ed: (surrounded by a barrage of explosions) Just wait till I stop running! (runs into the crowd) Sorry!
Roy: I guess I can't torch you all...(loudly) This is hard; he's such a small target!
Ed: (stops in his tracks and bursts out of the crowd) WHO'RE YOU CALLING SMALL!?
Roy: If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate. (snaps again setting off bomb)
(Everyone goes flying)
Ed: YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!
Roy: Okay, maybe I overdid it....
And of course, the classic Armstrong quotes:
Major Armstrong: (to Scar) Don't pray just yet, you're facing the technique that's been passed down the Armstrong line for generations, that's hardly a blessing!
Armstrong: (holding a sketch of Dr. Marcoh) This is the artistic talent that has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!
Armstrong: Edward Elric! (takes off shirt and poses) How dare you speak to your elder with such blatant disrespect! Let ME remedy this fight with my genteel decorum!
Armstrong: (with tear filled eyes, hugs Edward) I've heard your whole story, Edward Elric! Your pure love that made you try and bring back your mother! And the strength of your love that allowed you to throw away your own life to transmute your little brother's soul! (tries to hug Ed again) I AM MOVED!
And more Ed-reactions to short comments:
Ed: WHO THE HELL IS THE ULTRA-SIZED FLEA SHRIMP?
Al: Brother he'll die if you do anymore to him!
(Ed looks sleepy, then looks at Al.)
Ed: Anyway, who are these guys?
Al: (to himself) So it was only a subconscious reaction from hearing shrimp?
Pinako: Is it just me, or since the last time I saw you, Ed... have you gotten a lot smaller?
Ed: Who're you calling "small," you half-pint hag?!
Pinako: What did you call me, you little runt?!
Ed: You heard me, guppy geezer!!
Pinako: Chibichump!!
Ed: Micromini granny!!
Edward: I'M NOT LITTLE! DON'T CALL ME MIDGET! OR SHORTY! OR SHRIMP!
People of Liore: (fleeing from an attacking Edward) We didn't say any of that!
And finally, my fav quote of all time.
Spoiler for FMA series epilogue:
|2007-09-12, 13:04
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Friday 05 October
Eastern deciduous forest
The great eastern deciduous forest of North America was once an unbroken swathe of imposing trees that stretched from northern New England to central Florida, and west to the Mississippi River (1). Although it has been subject to intensive human use throughout the years, the eastern deciduous forest is still a diverse and beautiful habitat, supporting an abundance of wildlife (2).
The eastern deciduous forest forms part of one of the major biomes on earth, the temperate deciduous forests (3), which can be found in eastern North America, Europe...


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A cousin-in-law on Facebook (I know, I know) put up something that a friend of hers said about the tragedy happening because everyone does not put wonderful, loving 'god' first in their lives, blah, blah, blah. I, of course, couldn't keep my mouth shut and said it had nothing to do with religion, moral people are moral people, and this guy was obviously insane. Then the cousin-in-law said she believes 'god' has something to do with EVERYTHING.
WHAT THE FUCK do you say to that? REALLY? Her 'god' had something to do with that? And WHY would you worship something that had the power, but didn't do anything to save those babies?????
I know, we talk about this all the time. I really just want to be a hermit. I hate dumb people, and there are WAY too many of them.
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LOL Loren I was looking for a dang reason to post that video, I even posted it kind of 'in yer face' over on FB, made my weekend!
Thank you for posting Dark Matter's video. I'd missed that one somehow, though I have used the same arguments (with little effect). It always draws the "God works in mysterious ways" response, though if God is so mysterious how can they claim to "know him" is beyond my ken.
Most of my own family is either atheistic, with the exception of certain cousins, who keep their religious views as personal beliefs, and my sister, whose incessant argument about "my" morals caused me to link her to the video from the Thinking Atheist "Nothing more to talk about," which I am sure she will not watch. (By the way, how do you put the YouTube video right in your post?)
Where was god when there was church shootings like the one in Atlanta a month ago? Why are they worried about security when they had god there all the time?
When i heard about the tragedy, sadly, i started bracing myself for the injection of prayer. I'm amazed that it doesn't occur to anyone to ask "what are we praying for?" To me, it seems xtians are taking this opportunity to gain ground. God can't change this; that's been proven. Why are they praying? Another dagger was turning on the morning shows, and i think NBC said Joel Osteen was going to give insight on the tragedy. A prosperity preacher! What can he possibly contribute to this, except for getting more followers to line his pockets? The question is what can god do now that humans can't? Humans can comfort, and take safety measures, etc. So, it's fairly obvious that God is useless. But, we are so evil to not bow down and pray during this time. Sorry if i seemed worked up. I didn't know this tragedy would make me feel like i can't contribute my views to this situation. I don't think i want to discuss this in public, because when god comes up (it will), i will want to blow my top. I'd be really tempted to debate them. Would that be out of line? I think the frustration is that i feel powerless, and have to take a backseat to the religious perspective, everywhere.
I don't think it would be out of line to "debate" them. And, the arguments and positions are all on our side. What would be out of line is to "yell" at them and blow your top. Even as difficult as restraining yourself may be. I know. I often find myself stupidly yelling at the TV when I hear this nonsense promulgated as fact. But, for many of these people (con artists like Osteen excepted), this is all they know. It's been pumped up their backside since childhood, condoned and promoted by society, their peers, and in their daily life. For them, it's "normal," while to us, it's abnormal. Yelling and blowing your cork will just confirm, to them, how mean spirited, un-empathetic, and immoral atheists are.
Look on the bright side. Getting worked up and blowing your top is what A|N is for. We all do it - myself included - and it's a great way to vent among like minded individuals.
People on my FB page are posting this type of nonsense. A couple have even applauded the ignorant ranting from Huckabee. So far I have managed to ignore them and shake my head. Their thinking is just so warped and frankly stupid. Praying would have prevented the shootings? Really? To me it just seems ridiculous.
These are the same people who are just looking for any excuse to get prayer into public schools. They are also the same people that rail against Obama and say he needs to follow the Constitution. Oh the irony!
Perhaps, Miss B. Lover, you ought engage them, challenge their assumptions directly, if they have the audacity to post to your Facebook page these sorts of things. You might counter with:
There is more prayer in a church than any other place, one might suspect. Why does a church, God's house, need fire and theft insurance?
Why did Jesus mention you should pray in secret, if he really meant you should have government-written and led prayer in schools (and prayer in school is not banned, anyway, in private).
Would they like to have Hindu prayers? The Rosary? A Mormon prayer? Which prayers would they say? When the government has to step in to decide such things, instead of being secular and disinterested, then freedom of religion will really be no more.
wow Mel. the evolutionary curve can be steep.
Who was it that said the least you could do for someone is to pray for them? Tonight on CNN they showed about a dozen golden retrievers they called comfort dogs that had been brought to Newtown. I am sure those dogs will do more to comfort people than all of the prayers put together.
yes, and the dogs don't believe in god.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for CBS Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer, and I think that respect is both warranted and reflected in the following op-ed piece on the tragedy in Newtown and what should be done about it:
By now the pros and cons of the gun issue are well known, but here is the question that must be asked: Is what happened Friday the new normal? Of course, there are legitimate reasons - for both pleasure and protection - to own guns. But if the slaughter of innocent children is not bad enough to make us rethink what we can do to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, what is bad enough? To what depths of horror must we sink before we say this cannot be tolerated? Are we willing to settle for a culture in which kindergarten children are no longer safe in the classroom, and a visit to the mall or a movie is a life-threatening experience?
In recent years there has been no serious effort to address this problem. No piece of gun legislation was seriously considered during this session of Congress. It is the subject no one wants to talk about for fear of offending the powerful gun lobby. Perhaps it is time to remember what Ed Murrow told us, that 'we are not descended from fearful people.' Our forefathers had the courage to tell the most powerful country of their day, 'You have gone too far, we can tolerate this no more,' and upon their courage America was built. Have we - their descendants - become so afraid of the possible political consequences that we are unwilling to explore ways to make a safer world for our children?
I can't believe we have. I think we are better than that.
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Man Charged With Sending Threats to Obama, Senator
The man charged with mailing threatening letters to President Obama and a U.S. senator that could contain poison is a professional Elvis impersonator with long-standing complaints about being persecuted by a local hospital. Devlin Barrett reports.
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Here are some of today's genealogy stories that may be of interest to you:
The March/April issue of Shades of the Departed is ready for you. Check it out.
Noted professional genealogist Michael Hait is hosting two free webinars this week: "What is a 'Reasonably Exhaustive' Search?" and "African-American Genealogy: Tearing Down Brick Walls." More information on both at the Adventures in Genealogy Education blog here.
Also from Adventures in Genealogy Education is this list of annual genealogy writing competitions.
The Dallas Genealogical Society has a call for nominations for officers.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) now provides access to Massachusetts Jewish cemetery records. More information and the press release can be found here.
That's all for now. Go forth and be awesome.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Often one person is willing to speak up when everybody else may be wondering the same thing at a gathering but is afraid to ask. In today's Gospel Thomas is the one who voices the doubts and fears with which others are also struggling. The Fourth Evangelist frequently uses one character as a representative figure. For example, Nicodemus represents all those whose learning stands in the way of their being able to come to the light and believe in Jesus (3:1-21). The man born blind (9:1-41) symbolizes all those who gradually come to full faith in Jesus. Thomas (as also in 11:16 and 14:5) stands for everyone who is a follower of Jesus yet harbors doubts.
In the first scene in today's Gospel, the disciples are together, locked in their fear, when Jesus stands in their midst. His double declaration, "Peace be with you," recalls his promise of peace that casts out fear (14:27). Jesus then shows the disciples his hands and side, the unerasable evidence of the brutality inflicted on him. Oddly enough, instead of increasing their terror, this gesture causes them to rejoice. The explanation is found in the Last Supper scene, where Jesus spoke to his disciples about his impending death, likening his pain and theirs to the labor pangs of a woman giving birth, whose agony turns to joy after the new life is brought forth. Jesus had assured them that when they would see him again, their hearts would rejoice with a joy no one could take from them (16:20-22).
Jesus then sends the disciples to continue the mission for which the Father sent him. In John's Gospel there is no calling or sending of the Twelve; the mission is entrusted to all disciples empowered with the Spirit. As Jesus breathes on them, the new life brought forth through his death and resurrection vivifies them. The image is reminiscent of the creation of the first human being, into whose nostrils the Creator breathes the breath of life (Gn 2:7). It also calls to mind Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones, over which he prophesies, "I will cause breath to enter you and you shall live" (Ez 37:5).
Just as God restored hope to the disheartened Babylonian exiles, so the risen Christ breathes peace and joy into the fearful disciples. Already at the moment of death, Jesus had "handed over the Spirit" (Jn 19:30). These are not two separate bestowals of the Spirit but two moments of the one "hour." In the Fourth Gospel, the "hour" of the passion, death, resurrection, ascension, glorification and bestowal of the Spirit is all one movement, not separated in time as in Luke-Acts.
The power that the disciples receive with this infusion of the Spirit is the ability to heal and forgive. When Jesus shows his wounds, we see that forgiveness does not erase them, nor does it dismiss them as unimportant, yet telling the truth about them is essential for forgiveness and healing.
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In the second scene, Thomas stands for all those who were not present in the initial experience with the resurrected Christ. Just as Mary Magdalene did, so the disciples declare, "We have seen the Lord" (20:17, 25). But belief on the basis of another's word is not sufficient (see 4:42); one must have firsthand experience of Christ in order to participate in the mission. Jesus once again stands in their midst, bringing peace. He directs Thomas to probe the meaning of his wounds so that he, too, can become an agent of forgiveness and healing. When Thomas makes his acclamation of faith, Jesus affirms that there are two ways of blessedness: believing by having seen, and believing without having seen. The crucial thing is to believe, so as to have life.


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ATK lays off 150 employees, majority in Utah
03/30/2013 9:21amAerospace firm ATK announced it is reducing its workforce in Utah, Mississippi and Ohio by 150 employees.
Three-way land deal finalized after 30 years of negotiation
03/30/2013 9:29amA three-way land exchange in the works for nearly 30 years has been finally stamped "done," and Utah's wildlife, schoolchildren and motorists stand to benefit.
2 Salt Lake County food pantries closed due to lack of funds
03/30/2013 10:14amTwo food pantries in Salt Lake County have been closed in recent weeks with one closure being blamed on the federal sequestration.
Pinwheels used in Taylorsville to raise awareness of child abuse
03/30/2013 11:17amA Pinwheel Garden will be created on the south side of Taylorsville City Hall in honor of Child Abuse Prevention month on Saturday, April 6.
Woman accidentally drives car into Orem Subway
03/30/2013 12:04pmPolice officers responded to an accident involving a car driving into an Orem Subway restaurant Friday night.
Bill would grant immigrants licenses
03/30/2013 1:56pmIllegal immigrants would be eligible to get Colorado driver's licenses under a bill Democrats plan to introduce Monday.
2 teens accused of sparking fire; officials look for more info
03/30/2013 5:44pmOfficials are looking for two juveniles accused of starting a fire in an alleyway Friday night.
Man killed in officer-involved shooting on I-15 identified
03/30/2013 6:11pmA man was shot and killed Friday night after driving recklessly at high speeds and crashing on I-15 in Box Elder County, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
Man pretending to be customer robs dry cleaner
03/30/2013 6:51pmPolice say a man acted like he was picking up some clothes from a dry-cleaning business but then wound up robbing the place after he ordered the employee to open the cash register.
12-year-old who saved mother given birthday party at fire station
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03/30/2013 9:27pmTwo people were transported to the hospital in serious condition after a rollover Saturday afternoon.
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03/30/2013 10:09pmSearch crews took to the sky late Saturday afternoon and to the Lindon harbor area of Utah Lake to try to find an avid fisherman whose boat was discovered abandoned in some reeds.
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03/30/2013 10:40pmOne week ahead of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' general conference, 21,000 young women filled the LDS Conference Center for a meeting directed to them.
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03/30/2013 10:47pmAn officer on a traffic stop was dragged a short distance by a fleeing vehicle, sparking an all-out police pursuit that ended in a crash and a foot chase through a field.
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|2003-11-10, 05:43
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Believe you?? Why not i can believe you....
Your right too raikage... Kakashi doesnt master them but does it very well for "that" time being where he has to use sharingarin. But Sasuke he is using it different... he is adapting to it and converting the tecniques to his own likings... like the lion combo...
Oh yea... Sasuke probally could do the first Locus if he had the chance to see it... so far in the anime, sasuke never saw Lee use Locus... Close but he didnt see it... thats why he saw the opening of the locus but didnt see the full version so he just convert wut ever he saw and called the Lion Combo!
Oops did i mention??? If Sasuke did had the chance seen Lee useing the Gate of Lifes and the Gate's he probally couldnt of copied it since its all mombo jumbo not doing with techniques or jutsu... but he would probally got to copy Locus if he see's it and if he does see's and use it... it would be his doom! Showing and explainin how Lee will get hurt permenatly when he uses it.... and when use it too far as everyone saw! Lee is broken... so thats probally one of the reason Sasuke NEVER sawed the Gate's or Locus... he would try to steal it and practice it... leading himself to his own doom!
So conclude there is a reason for everything.. thats moral... and why Sasuke never seen the FULL version of Locus
Itichi is strong isnt he?
|2003-11-10, 05:59
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Weeeellll, not quite. Sharingan doesn't make you stronger or faster, it just gives you a keen eye for detail and the ability to perfectly remember the techniques that you see. If, for example you are I had the Sharingan, we could look at Lotus once and then know how to exactly perform the move. But we still lack the physical ability to execute it, despite knowing how.
|2003-11-10, 12:29
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The mange Sharingan is the true power of the bloodline of the Uchiha.
It's a special genjutsu that only an other true sharingan's master (so not Kakashi who isn't an Uchiha nor Sasuke who doesn't masterize the sharingan) can challenge.
It's a genjutsu which cause a breakdown into the mind of the opponent by 'projecting' him into a virtual world where Itachi is the absolute master, all of space, all of time, everything is under his control.
He can torture you during days in your mind but in a split second in the reality if you look into his eyes.
edit : well all this thread is about spoiler
|2003-11-10, 12:37
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|2003-11-10, 13:27
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Sharingan looks more interesting by far, you can copy moves with a turn of the eye. Add combination moves like "A Thousand Birds" or even Taijutsu, Sharingan looks to have more flexibility and potential.
Even Rock Lee is envious of Sasuke's bloodline.
|2003-11-10, 16:29
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sasuke could of probably copied rock lee opening the gates because kakashi did, and when kakashi was climbing the mountain with 1 hand tied behind his back , he opened a gate i beleive.
but i do have a question, now u can tell how good the person is with the shirangan from the dots in the eyes, 3 is best, 2 is ok, 1 is not so good from what i can understand ( and have read). Now my question is are they born like that , and can't change it , or do they gain the dots from using the shirangan and mastering it? Kakashi and itachi's eyes have 3 dots, sasuke eyes have 2, for example
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|2003-11-10, 18:19
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yea, i thought that Sasuke only had 1 dot in one of his eyes when he faught Haku but i didn't wanna get ripped if i was wrong , hahah, i think it was his left eye. thanks hunter
but i dont think kakashi could open the gates or he woudn't have pulled out his sharingan when he found out lee could . He wanted to copy lee opening the gates , but maybe he did know how to open the 1st gate if that is what yur trying to say, but he deffinatly couldn't open up to 5 gates cuz he wanted to copy rock lee doing it
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Hehe... just made this. In the folder you can see my own rendering of Byakaringan. It's not very good, though...
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China Targets Qualcomm With Antitrust Probe
Nov 26, 2013 9:54 AM PT
Perhaps to celebrate the anniversary of last year's U.S.-China telecoms showdown, Beijing has launched an antitrust probe into U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm.
The announcement comes on the heels of comments from Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs in which he told The Wall Street Journal that the company was "definitely seeing increased pressure" in China because of the United States' history of handcuffing Chinese tech companies and because of ongoing NSA revelations.
Last October, Congress said that Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE shouldn't be allowed to work on U.S. communications networks because of security concerns. A few weeks after that, China announced that Cisco wouldn't be working on its networks, and followed that up with state media reports lambasting Cisco's lax security. That wave of media attacks took place one year ago this week.
To be fair, the investigation into Qualcomm deals with anti-monopoly law, not security. That said, perhaps the Beijing-Washington-telecoms triangle of suspicion is becoming an early-winter tradition.
China is gearing up for next month's launch of commercial 4G mobile services. Some analysts reportedly think the antitrust investigation is a way for China to boost the position of domestic players.
Qualcomm published a brief, we-will-cooperate-fully-etc. release announcing the investigation.
[Source: BBC]
Thai Man Dies While Holding Charging iPhone
A 28-year-old man in Thailand died holding his iPhone while the device was charging, rekindling concerns that iPhones are dangerous -- and perhaps fatal -- if used while being charged.
The man had a burn on the left side of his chest, and his left hand was burned to the point of being stuck to the device.
Over the summer, there were reports that iPhone electrocutions had caused hospitalization and even death in China. To remedy the problem, Apple announced that it would exchange third-party chargers, which had been identified as a potential culprit for the injuries, for Apple-brand chargers.
Photos suggest that the late Thai man was not using a standard-issue charger.
[Source: Daily News via Tech In Asia]
Dutch Paper Reveals NSA 'Sleeper Cells'
The NSA had an army of so-called "sleeper cells" that targeted some 50,000 networks worldwide by the middle of 2012, according to Edward Snowden leaks reported by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
The sleeper cells weren't human operations, but rather malware-infected computers that were controlled from afar. The malware could reportedly sit dormant on a computer for months before slurping up data.
In other Snowden-leaked news, South Korea and Singapore are in cahoots with the U.S. and Australia as part of a joint effort to tap undersea telecommunications links across Asia.
Secret Snowden documents contain a map showing that the U.S. and its "Five Eyes" intelligence posse -- the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada -- monitored high-speed fiber-optic cables at 20 locations worldwide.
[Sources: NRC via The Register and The Age]
BlackBerry Shakes Up Management
Canadian smartphone maker Blackberry has shaken up its management team.
It's probably not worth doing a roll call of all the changes, but the bottom line seems to be that the interim chief executive, John Chen, is maneuvering to drop the "interim" from his title.
BlackBerry recently laid off about 40 percent of its global workforce, so feel free to make "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" references.
[Source: The Associated Press]
Yahoo Makes Katie Couric Global News Anchor
Yahoo has hired ABC News' Katie Couric to be "the face of Yahoo News," according to a Tumblr post from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
Couric will reportedly continue hosting ABC's daytime talk show Katie and moonlight at Yahoo.
Her title at Yahoo will be global news anchor, according to AllThingsD.
[Sources: Yahoo and AllThingsD via CNN]


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Quote: "By the sword and the cross."
Like military leaders before him, Charlemagne (742 - 814) was a ruthless warrior bent on expanding his vast domains. Yet by all accounts he was a religious man who promoted and funded monasteries. The oldest son of Pippin III and grandson of Charles Martel, Charlemagne grew up in a military family that controlled a large portion of what is today Switzerland and France. His mother, Bertha, a daughter of royalty, brought prestige and lands to the marriage.
Little is known of his childhood but, according to his earliest biographer, his physical presence as an adult was unmistakable: "He was six feet four inches tall, and built to scale. He had beautiful white hair, animated eyes, a powerful nose . . . always stately and dignified." Disciplined in eating and drinking, his mealtime entertainment was not the usual fare of court jesters. Rather, an aide read aloud the best literature of the day. He was conversant in other languages, believing that "to have another language is to possess a second soul."
On his father's death in 668, when Charles is in his mid-twenties, he and his brother Carolman become co-heirs to the vast kingdom. When Carolman dies three years later, Charles becomes sole king of the Franks. His mother arranges a marriage with Desiderata, daughter of the king of the Lombards, for obvious political gain, but the marriage is annulled the following year. Charles then marries thirteen-year-old Hildegard, a duke's daughter. She bears him nine children, several of whom grow up to be their father's land-grabbing warriors. With Desiderata out of the way, Charles conquers the Lombards in northern Italy. From there he pushes the borders of his kingdom into what is today Spain, Hungary, and Germany. Ruthless as a commander, he reportedly executes more than four thousand Saxon prisoners in a single day.
Though Charles holds back invading Muslims, expansion is his forte, often through relatively peaceful means with little dismantling of local culture. Indeed, surrendering to his forces has positive effects. With a unified administration, local wars diminish, and commerce, farming, and education are vastly improved.
The turning point in Charlemagne's reign comes in 800. A year earlier Pope Leo III had appealed for protection. Having risen up through the ranks from the lower classes, Leo is scorned by Roman aristocrats and fears for his life. Charles uses the opportunity to boost his own standing. He comes to Saint Peter's Basilica on Christmas Day 800 to pray, and there the pope crowns him Holy Roman Emperor. Labeled "Charlemagne's Pope," Leo reigns until he dies in 816. Yet he stands his ground against the emperor on some matters, particularly when Charlemagne, motivated by expansionist aims, seeks to change the Nicene Creed by adding the filioque ("and the son"), a move considered heretical by the Eastern Church.
With wars yet to wage, Charlemagne reforms the realms already under his rule. Inaugurating the "Carolingian Renaissance," he courts scholars and encourages education across the empire. His court at Aachen becomes an impressive cultural and educational center. He creates a university town, drawing talent from all social levels and fostering a wide range of academic disciplines. Music, art, architecture, roads, bridges, and thermal baths add to the city's prestige.
But to the end of his life, Charlemagne the warrior is sending troops into battle, sometimes leading the charge himself. In 811, as he marches his men north to attack King Godefrid and his Norse army, he learns that the king has been murdered. The seventy-year-old Charlemagne turns back. It would be his last campaign. He dies in 814 with his son, Louis the Pious, succeeding him. His long reign of forty-seven years can be summed up in his own terms: "By the sword and the cross." Most of his subjects had known no other ruler. A monk penned lines that spoke for many:
From the lands where the sun rises to western shores, People are crying and wailing . . . stung with mourning and great worry . . . the young and old, glorious nobles, all lament the loss of their Caesar. . . . The world laments the death of Charles.
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There were a lot of illegal fireworks before, during and after July 4. And there were a good many bon fires as well, which are also illegal.
But there weren't any arrests. And, more important, there weren't any reported injuries, according to Warwick's Police and Fire chiefs.
Fireworks and bon fires have become an accepted form of Independence Day celebration, although a number of residents don't care for cherry bombs being tossed in their yards or aerial displays over their homes. They call to protest but, while the Police Department logs their complaint and follows up, Chief Col. Stephen McCartney says there's really not much they can do unless the display is still in progress.
Further, he said yesterday, what is legal and what isn't has become blurred by last year's passage of a law allowing certain fireworks, but not rockets, cherry bombs and firecrackers.
"There's so much," he said, "it's become all the more murky now with the law."
McCartney described the night of July 3 as "overwhelming," with an estimated 5,000 people turning out for the city fireworks display at Oakland Beach. The department's third shift was held over to cope with the situation, which included neighborhood parties that had gotten out of hand, underage drinking and the logistics of getting so many people in and out of Oakland Beach.
"It creates chaos for us," he said.
Chasing down residents who might be setting off illegal fireworks, unless it is a situation "that becomes too provocative," is too much for the department.
"This is like trying to plug up the leaks in a dike with 5,000 leaks," he said.
With the law allowing some, and not others, it makes it difficult for police.
"It's contraband," McCartney said of aerial fireworks.
However, he added, in order to seize the fireworks, he would need to know where they were and what they are and also have a search warrant.
On the other hand, bon fires along the shore have become such a tradition that the Fire Department knows exactly where to look.
Chief Edmund Armstrong said his crews started making checks on the piles of debris collected for the fires about a week before the 4th, to ensure that they weren't too close to residents and could be easily accessed. One of the larger fires was at the end of Rock Avenue in Conimicut, where a mountain of building debris the size of a house went up in flames. Warwick is not alone in the tradition of July 4 bonfires. They lit up the shore up and down the bay.
On July 1 through the 3, Armstrong had trucks drive through neighborhoods to identify vacant houses and to make visual checks on bon fires.
Obviously, not all aerial firework displays are illegal. Permits were issued for the Oakland Beach display on July 3 and the Warwick Country Club display the following night, Armstrong said.
Fireworks and bonfires should absolutely be allowed during the 3rd and 4th but not any other day. The police can do more on the other 363 days of the year. Kudos to the fire department for allowing safe bonfires on beaches, a practice called for by none other than John Adams.
One of my favorite parts of living in Warwick is the fireworks. I grew up in another town in RI that would arrest you for lighting off a sparkler on the 4th down at the beach. The fact that there were no injuries shows that most people exhibit safety and caution while lighting them off. Small bonfires should be allowed in my opinion as long as care is taken. There's much more important things to attend to on the 4th than fireworks or bonfires. I'm sure parties getting out of hand are a much bigger issue than fireworks or bonfires. Kudos to the way the police handle the 4th of July allowing some independence and fun while keeping the public safe.
they should have never allowed fireworks to be legal


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text: School bus catches fire in Mt. Airy Posted on May 1, 2012, updated on May 1, 2012 by Sue Ann Rybak A fire broke out on a school bus on Monday afternoon on the 7100 block of Germantown Ave. around 3:30 p.m., according to officials at the Philadelphia Fire Department. Eight students, all disabled, were from John F. McClosky and F.S. Edmunds elementary schools. Two students were transported to the hospital for evaluation. No one was injured due to the fire. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. (Photo by Walter Fox.)


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Network Solutions Confused About The DMCA
from the that's-not-how-it-works dept
Yet, in a blog post sent over by Achura, Network Solutions tries to provide a "layperson's guide" to the DMCA. The only problem is that they get it wrong.
First, Network Solutions seems to think that the DMCA provides for a "notice-and-notice" system of dealing with takedowns, whereby it needs to first notify the user and wait for them to respond. Unfortunately, the DMCA does not follow such a procedure. It would be much better if it did. However, the DMCA is a "notice-and-takedown" setup, whereby the service provider who receives the notice needs to first take down the content, if it wishes to retain its safe harbor protections. It can choose not to take the content down (though, that rarely happens), but it risks losing the safe harbor protections. As the law itself clearly states:
upon notification of claimed infringement as described in paragraph (3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.So NetSol is wrong to claim that they first need to notify the user and wait for the response.
Second, NetSol is then wrong in how it responds to a counternotice from the user. It claims:
If the customer challenges the Notice by submitting a Counter Notification that complies with the DMCA, the Host is required to disable access to the allegedly infringing site for a period of "not less than 10 business days, nor [sic] more than 14 business days" (the "Challenge Time Period").Again, this appears to be incorrect. If it had been following the DMCA, it should have already taken the content down to retain safe harbors. It makes no sense to say once the counternotice is sent then you take down the content. Instead, the no less than 10 days/no more than 14 days refers to how much time the service provider is supposed to wait before putting the content back that it already took down. Of course, given that NetSol was confused about the notice-and-takedown process, you could see why it felt the need to take the content down after the counternotice -- because that's the point that it realizes it was legally supposed to take the content down earlier.


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I send you e-mail about XO laptop, I forgot to give you my e-mail, so here it is email@example.com ok bye and thank you.
- my flickr account
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- OLPC Community Support Forum
- Olin university chapter
- OLPC Art community
- Olin repair center
- Wiki cleanup
- Cheat codes
- Site map (this is a draft page)
For my own devious purposes. Like organization.
- user:nlee/SoCon application
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- user:nlee/Task tracker requirements - You are welcome (and encouraged) to contribute here.
- user:nlee/Image gallery - for keeping track of things I've uploaded
- user:nlee/Notes - braindump space
Current Projects
Currently pushing my efforts into the growth of the Olin university chapter. We have a software contribution group, a hardware development independent study class, a repair center, and are looking into getting involved with a local pilot. More details can be found at the chapter main page.
Past projects
I worked in the Chicago area grassroots office with Mel, Tank, and Chris. We worked on kickstarting pilots, helping out repair centers, experimenting with educational models, and running events.
- Moderation of community:Art
- Continued organization of OLPC communities
- Creation of some sort of volunteer welcoming protocol
- Refurbishment of Participate and OLPC:Welcome
- General maintenance of the wiki
- Member of the OLPC Support Gang
Personal projects
- Learning more programming
- Creation of art
- Stock photography whenever helpful (can has: nice camera, can't has: professional experience)
OLPC volunteer since summer 2007.
Half-Chinese, Spanish-speaking Southern Californian mixup. Engineering student (at Olin College). Nonhacker working hard to correct this grievous oversight. Programmer-in-progress. Learner - feel free to teach me anything you can think of. If I don't know how to do something, I'll learn (translation: if you do know how, be prepared to answer questions).
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text: The World War I First Battle of the Marne featured the first use of radio intercepts and automotive transport of troops in wartime. After French commander in chief Joseph Joffre ordered an offensive in September 1914, General Michel-Joseph Maunoury's French Sixth Army opened a gap between Germany's First and Second Armies. Maunoury exploited the gap with help from the French Fifth Army and British Expeditionary Force, while Ferdinand Foch's Ninth Army thwarted the advances of the German Second and Third Armies. By Sept. 10, the Germans embarked on a retreat that ended north of the Aisne River, beginning a phase of the war that would be marked by trench warfare.


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