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The Ancient Atlatl
A hunting tool predating the bow and arrow, the atlatl makes a resurgence in Missouri
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Like a major league pitcher beginning his windup, Ray Madden digs the toe of his left shoe into the soft earth. He rolls his shoulders, stares down his target, takes a steadying breath and makes his throw at a speed nearing 100 mph.
Only, the 71-year-old Joplin resident isn't throwing a baseball to an opposing batter. Instead, Ray is hurling a 5-foot-long, carbon-fiber dart with a device called an atlatl. Tipped with only a field point, the dart still buries itself 3 inches into the closed-foam backstop.
The atlatl (pronounced AHT-lah-tuhl) is the weapon that transformed early humans from scavengers to big-game hunters. Thought to have first developed in Europe some 20,000 to 25,000 years ago, evidence of the atlatl has been discovered on every continent except Africa.
"The atlatl predates the bow and arrow by thousands of years," says Ron Mertz of Town and Country, president of the Missouri Atlatl Association. "It allowed man to throw a spear-like dart farther and with more force than with arm power alone, and it allowed him to hunt larger prey like the mammoth and the mastodon."
Once the most widely used weapon in the western hemisphere, atlatls also were a formidable weapon of warfare, as 16th-century Spanish conquistadors learned when encountering Aztec warriors who could cast darts with enough force to pierce a coat of mail.
Today, the atlatl is especially popular among primitive weapon enthusiasts who organize competitions around the country for throwing accuracy and distance. A growing number of those enthusiasts, including those in Missouri, also desire the challenge of hunting with an atlatl.
The atlatl's resurgence led the Missouri Conservation Commission to approve the atlatl as a legal method of taking small game, such as squirrels and rabbits, and non-game fish species, including carp and suckers, beginning last year.
At its most basic, the atlatl is a stick, usually about 2 feet long, with a handle on the front end and a hook or spur on the back. A dart, which can range from 4 to 8 feet long, is placed against the hook and held parallel to the atlatl.
With an arm motion similar to throwing a baseball, the dart is launched. By flipping the wrist, additional energy is transferred from the arm to the dart. According to Ron, an atlatl dart can be thrown with the same penetrating power as a 50-pound-draw longbow.
"It's really all in the flip of the wrist," Ray says. "Most people think you have to have big muscles and when they first start throwing, they try to kill it. But it's more in the wrist than the arm."
Depending on their origin and intended use, atlatls and darts can vary greatly in size, shape and weight. Atlatls can range from the simple to the ornate, but Ray says the dart is the more important part of the equation.
"Atlatls don't have to be anything fancy, but the dart is the hard part," he says. "If you have a good dart, you can throw it with almost any atlatl. But you can get your very best atlatl and if the dart isn't made right, it won't fly."
Atlatl technology may be stone-aged, but its effectiveness as a hunting tool still finds a place in the Information Age. Though they hunt from modern aluminum boats with outboard motors, Eskimos hunting seals in Alaska's Yukon River Delta still use atlatls because in the river's fresh water, a seal shot with a rifle will sink.
"They use an atlatl dart tipped with a detachable point and tied to the shaft with a line," Ray explains. "The dart shaft trails behind the seal and lets the hunter track his game."
Ray and Ron have both hunted small game since the new regulation came into effect. On opening day of squirrel season in late May, Ray killed a grey squirrel with a blunt-tipped carbon dart and a homemade atlatl. In October, Ron and other atlatlists organized a rabbit hunt in central Missouri.
"We didn't take any rabbits, but it was a lot of fun," Ron says. "It gave you a real appreciation for how skilled our ancestors had to be to survive."
As the primitive weapon gains more enthusiasts in the Show-Me State, atlatlists including Ray and Ron hope to one day hunt deer and turkey in Missouri with their weapon of choice. The Missouri Atlatl Association has asked the Conservation Department to consider including the weapon as a legal method under existing archery regulations. The group believes the weapon could offer a safe means for hunting deer in urban and suburban areas.
Currently, the only state that permits hunting deer with a hand-thrown spear is Alabama.
"I got my last deer with a rifle nearly 10 years ago," Ron says. "I may not hunt deer again unless I can use an atlatl because it's mostly about the challenge of it, the uniqueness of it, and the link back to our human past."
Visit www.worldatlatl.org to learn more about the atlatl. To join the Missouri Atlatl Association, e-mail Ron Mertz at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 314-628-9376.


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Leaving Your Mark on the Web
May 17, 2012 5:00 AM PT
There are a lot of photographs out there. Photo sharing and album network Flickr alone reckons it hit the 6 billion image upload mark last year. If you consider Picasa, Facebook, and the current darling known as Instagram, we're talking gazillions of images floating around -- all freely downloadable.
Couple this relatively new phenomenon with an entire generation's apparent total lack of comprehension of copyright law, and it may be time to start protecting your work.
If you're spending time honing your craft, you're making an investment. Protect this investment by restricting the use of your images. You can do this with a simple watermark. A watermark lets users sample the "comp" image in their mock-up. You can then release a non-watermarked version when, or more likely if, they hand over some money.
Protect YourselfEven if you're not selling images, one day you might. Your images are an asset. Adding a watermark can be accomplished quickly, while you are making basic image edits like crops and so on. You can find detailed instructions and screen shots at All Things Photography.
If you have images in cyberspace that haven't been watermarked, there are tools to find stolen work too.
Add a Watermark
Open the image in any photo-editing program on your PC. Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are two common programs for this.
Fit the image to the screen. In Photoshop versions, choose "View" and "Fit on Screen."
Click on the Text tool button. It's usually labeled with a "T" icon.
Choose the font from the fonts available. Keep things simple, because anything elaborate will detract from your image. The idea is to sell the image, not the watermark. I have used black Arial set to Bold at 36 points and I type my name. You can include an email address too.
Open the "Layers" window and select the layer you're working on. Look for the "Opacity" slider and reduce the opacity to 10 percent. This will have the effect of making the watermark fade to gray.
Save the File in Low Resolution
Save the file as a 72 dpi comp version by using the "File" and "Save as" option rather than "Save."
The idea is to keep your full resolution original archived, and to upload the layer-flattened, watermarked version to be freely stolen in the hope it creates a sale. A 72 dpi resolution is unusable in print, but looks fine on screen.
Set up an "Action" to automate watermark creation if you are using Photoshop itself, rather than the stripped down Elements version. Actions are in the Windows area in the full version.
Reverse Search
Perform a reverse search for images you own. If you suspect a previously uploaded, non-watermarked image has value, you can perform an image search to see if it's being used around the Web. This is also a great way to see where your sold images are being used -- legitimately and not.
Browse to the Tineye website and upload the image in question. Tineye's algorithms will provide possible matches. Tineye is free for non-commercial purposes, and you can donate too.
Stolen Camera Finder
Stolencamerfinder is a Web-based search engine that looks for the Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) metadata embedded in images.
EXIF metadata is provided by some cameras, and includes the serial number of the camera among other things. I was unable to get results with Stolencamerafinder due to camera type and editing that had wiped the metadata -- but theoretically, under certain circumstances, you should be able to find images across the Web that contain the EXIF data from your camera and, thus, stolen images.
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Update (Nick): A Facebook representative contacted us regarding Steven's issue, we put them in contact, and the problem is resolved.
A reader sends a touching email today, complaining that his Facebook account has been deleted for no reason:
Dear Michael,
I'm a college student at University of Michigan and Facebook has deactivated my account. I've noticed, from reading your blog, you have connections to Facebook's staff. Can you please forward this email to someone or do something… I just can't be a college student without Facebook. I did nothing to have my account deactivated… it just happened late Sunday night. I've emailed them, but they don't care.
I did a quick search for Steven on facebook but search is still down, so I have no idea if this guy's profile is back up or not. And frankly, I don't care all that much, 'cause the last thing I want is for everyone with a Facebook customer service issue to start emailing me.
But that sentence in the middle of the email that says "I just can't be a college student without Facebook" fascinates me. What other brands have this kind of loyalty? Heroin?
Anyway, good luck in your quest to get Facebook to care about you again, Steven. And let me know how it all works out. I sincerely hope that this tragedy does not force you to drop out of college and…shudder…resort to becoming a MySpace user along with the rest of the unwashed masses.
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"Does it seem weird in here? Everything looks like a Mexican soap opera."
And so began last night's first-ever live performance of "30 Rock," with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) addressing head-on the show's live look. If the appearance of the episode evoked memories of "Saturday Night Live," it was no accident, as the show wasn't just live, but was performed in Studio 8H in the real-life 30 Rock, "SNL"'s home turf.
There were concerns that the episode would be little more than a gimmick. Well, of course it was a gimmick, and a very successful one at that. So why bother? Tracy Morgan/Jordan answered that question early on:
"Why does anyone do anything? They're rich or have attention deficit disorder?"
On a show loaded with veterans of live performance, like "SNL" alums Tina Fey (Liz Lemon) and Tracy Morgan, frequent "SNL" host Baldwin, and Broadway regular Jane Krakowski, going live for one night was a safe bet that paid off nicely.
Even with the odds of a real disaster so low, the fact is that going live gave the whole thing a NASCAR-esque "Will they crash into a ball of fire" buzz that made most every punch line hit a little harder.
And the writers of "30 Rock" wisely played into the morbid desire for failure, with jokes throughout the episode that were crafted around the expectation/hope/fear of botched or forgotten lines, performers losing their composure, the looming danger of a wardrobe malfunction and they even found time to take yet another shot at product placement.
Adding to the festivities were some old friends. Jon Hamm reprised his role as Dr. Drew Baird, starring in a faux PSA that was very nearly offensive (and may have actually crossed the line, you'd have to ask a black person or an amputee). Matt Damon was back as Liz's boyfriend Carol – with Bill Heder as his co-pilot. Chris Parnell's Dr. Leo Spaceman was hawking his new album, "an ultra-strength, audio rebone-ulator." And Rachel Dratch remains a tremendous sport about getting totally screwed over by the show at its very beginning.
But the best guest star of the evening had to be Julia Louise-Dreyfus, brought on to portray Liz Lemon in flashbacks.
"When are you better looking in your memory?" Donaghy asked Liz as the camera cut away from JLD's first appearance.
Was it "30 Rock" at its very best? No. But it was still a helluva lot better than 90% of the sitcoms that have polluted the airwaves over the years. Sometimes artists need to make things to make a little more interesting for themselves – if Fey and her cohorts need to go live once every five years, by all means, bring it.
"30 Rock" Live Lives Up to the Hype
"Does it seem weird in here? Everything looks like a Mexican soap opera."


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Naomi Harris, a relatively unknown actress who appeared in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films is being considered for a female in lead in Ron Howard's "Dark Tower" trilogy. Though you may not know the actress, the important thing to take away here is...they're finally casting the "Dark Tower" movies!
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We attended a party and it was so awesome because most of the guests are either musicians or musicians friends. I say it was a fun party because everyone is so game to perform and everyone had a blast. I don't remember having so much fun at a party especially when the kids aren't with us. I think we should do it more often, attend adult events and be crazy adults once in a while.
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Although the more experienced houseplant growers are probably rolling their eyes at this, I get a lot of hits from people searching for ways to make their Spathiphyllum rebloom, so I figure I should probably try to address the question directly. It's slightly more interesting than it appears.
The first thing to realize is that there are a lot of varieties of Spathiphyllum, and some are more inclined to bloom than others.1 That's just the way it is. Larger varieties, like 'Mauna Loa' and 'Sensation,' are particularly unlikely to bloom, compared to the medium-sized and small plants.2
Second, the growers cheat. Most or all of the peace lilies available for retail sale have been forced to bloom, by application of a plant hormone called gibberellic acid.3 Gibberellic acid induces blooming roughly two to four months after it is applied, and is apparently reliable enough that plants can be sold in bloom at any time of year. Plants are extremely sensitive to gibberellic acid, and overapplication can harm the plants or produce weird, misshapen flowers, so it's probably not something you should be messing with. Also, as far as I know it's not easy to find at the retail level,4 so you likely wouldn't be able to use it even if you really wanted to.
Third, although a lot of people don't realize this because forced-bloom plants are available year round, peace lilies are seasonal bloomers, to a degree. The season begins in February or March, and ends around September. Some varieties will bloom sporadically in the off season,5 though it's unlikely and unreliable. So if you're in the wrong time of year for flowers, don't be upset if you don't see flowers.
Finally, we come to the things you actually can do something about.
My own plants will sometimes respond to a change in location by blooming. It doesn't seem to matter whether the new spot is better or worse than the old one: the mere fact of a move appears to be enough to get them excited. I don't know how solid the cause-effect relationship is, and I haven't seen anybody else recommend this, so the reader would do well to be skeptical, but it's something to try, and it won't cost you anything.
One might also try playing with the light levels: although Spathiphyllums will accept very low light, and can be bleached or even damaged by too much light,6 they do well if they're in a somewhat brighter spot than people usually give them. One of my plants, which I had not moved, once spontaneously flowered in mid-winter, because the angle of the sunlight coming in the (south) window finally got low enough to reach the plant on the other side of the room. It was weak light, and we didn't have sun every day, and the sun only lasted for an hour or two when it did happen, but getting that little extra hit of light intermittently seems to have given the plant enough of a push to form a flower. My 'Mauna Loa'/'Sensation' plant's threepeat blooming happened following a move to a location with multiple bright fluorescent lights. From everything I've seen, increasing light is the most reliable way to induce a bloom.
But what if you've got your plant in a bright spot already, and it's doing nothing? Peace lilies do best in a warm (65-90F; 18-32C), humid room: though they may live for a long time and look perfectly healthy and happy in a cooler7 or drier spot, it's not the ideal situation for the plant. Providing a more natural, tropical environment may be enough to convince an undecided plant to go ahead and bloom: try adding a humidifier or pebble trays and raise your thermostat.
I do not recommend changing your watering practices significantly. If you've figured out how to water a peace lily in a way that keeps it happy, you shouldn't mess with that, except insofar as giving your plant more light or warmer temperatures might leave it needing water slightly more often. (If, on the other hand, you haven't figured out how to water a peace lily in a way that keeps it happy, you should check out the PATSP profile for Spathiphyllum spp.)
One sometimes sees the claim on forums like Garden Web's that plants like Spathiphyllum and Hoya carnosa bloom better when potbound (i.e. when the roots have filled most of the volume in the pot). I think this confuses cause and effect. In my opinion (and it is only opinion, at this point: I don't have hard evidence to back it up), it's not that being potbound causes blooming, it's that age causes both blooming and potboundness. A younger plant, in both cases, is unlikely to bloom just because it's younger, not because it has room for its roots to spread out. There's no advantage in the wild to preferring a potbound state, since there aren't pots in the wild, so I don't see how there would be any direct advantage in the home either.
As far as it goes, I've had a plant or two bloom after a repot. I don't necessarily recommend repotting in order to get blooms, because I'm not convinced about the cause-and-effect issue there either, but that has been my experience once or twice. Potboundness, in any case, is unlikely to be the issue: peace lilies are capable of doing just fine in a cramped pot before complaining, and even then, your only observation is likely to be that they need watering a lot more often than they used to.
Your results w/r/t the whole potboundness issue may vary, and if they do, I'd be delighted to hear about them.
No, really. I would!
Fertilizer, like temperature and humidity, is unlikely to be the missing piece on its own, though if you have not fertilized or repotted your plant in a long time, it could be the case that missing nutrients might be holding it back. If you decide to fertilize your plant again after a long time without, DO NOT try to make up for lost time by adding more than the package recommends. That will only burn the roots and kill the plant. Just give the plant what the label says, or possibly slightly less than that. It might also be a good idea to deliberately pick a fertilizer formulation that contains micronutrients, specifically magnesium, as Spathiphyllums do have a higher magnesium requirement than most plants and consequently could run out sooner than other plants would. A good garden center should be able to direct you to an appropriate fertilizer. A bad garden center would -- wait a minute. Why are you shopping at a bad garden center?
Keep in mind that even if you do exactly what the plant wants you to do, flowers do not appear instantaneously, and it might still take a few months from the time you change your conditions to the time the buds start to show. So be patient.
To sum up, then. The best things to do to rebloom a peace lily are:
- Start with a variety that flowers abundantly to begin with,
- Move the plant to a brighter, warmer, more humid location,
- Between February and August,
- While delivering appropriate amounts of fertilizer,
- And apply a tiny amount of gibberellic acid to the leaves if you can find any.
1 Among the varieties I'm aware of: 'Lynise,' 'Sweet Chico,' 'Sweet Pablo,' 'White Flag,' 'Sensation,' 'Mauna Loa,' 'Domino,' 'Tasson,' 'Mauna Loa Supreme,' 'Deneve,' 'Ceres,' 'Figaro,' 'Viscount,' 'Starlight,' etc. A longer list, with descriptions for a few of the plants, can be found here, and a still-longer list without descriptions is here. If you don't know your plant's variety name, you may be able to rule out a few of these, but there's so much overlap and the differences between varieties are so subtle that you're unlikely to be able to definitively identify any particular plant by variety. Twyford International, a plant breeder/grower in Florida, says on their website that they produce ten Spathiphyllum varieties ('Avalon,' 'Claudia,' 'Double Take,' 'Emerald Beauty,' 'Florida Beauty,' 'Lynise,' 'Petite,' 'Sophia,' 'Starlight,' and 'Valentino,'), but then use the same paragraph of description for each one. See for yourself: go to this page and select "Spathiphyllum" from the first drop-down menu. My hope is that they're just being lazy, not that they can't tell the difference between varieties, but with peace lilies it could go either way. Oglesby is a little more helpful, providing a little bit of information about each of their nine Spathiphyllum varieties ('Milkyway,' 'Patrice,' 'Power Petite,' 'Prima,' 'Sensation,' 'Supreme,' 'Sweet Chico,' 'Sweet Dario,' 'Sweet Pablo'), and get downright gushy about 'Sensation,' though that still doesn't necessarily cover whatever variety you've got at home. My advice about Spathiphyllum cultivars: don't bother trying to figure out what you've got. You won't be able to, and the process will just make you angry. Even if you could figure out for sure what variety you have, figuring out whether it's a good bloomer or not is an additional layer of complexity, and information on that is even harder to come by. So just accept that you have a peace lily and don't know what variety it is. Trust me.
2 Though it's not impossible. I've had one since 2003 that has maybe flowered six times in the last six years. Trouble is, three of those happened one right after another during the fall and winter of 2008-09: most of the time, there's nothing. And for what it's worth, I find the big cultivars of Spathiphyllum a lot more easygoing than the smaller ones: less prone to turn black, slower to wilt when dry, etc. This is also the case with Dieffenbachia spp., that the larger varieties do better for me than the smaller ones. Your results may vary.
3 Flowering doesn't appear to be the usual response, in the plant kingdom, to gibberellic acid; it's main industrial application appears to be inducing seed germination and/or rapid growth. It just happens to trigger flowers in Spathiphyllum.
4 Though it's out there if you want to Google for it. I don't encourage this, frankly, because I don't especially like Spathiphyllum flowers in the first place, and the gibberellic acid formulations I found seemed really unreasonably overpriced, so the whole thing seems like a lot more trouble than it's worth, to me. But hey, if you care about the flowers that much, you know how to Google, don't you? (If I remember correctly, it involves putting your lips together and blowing. Though it's possible I have Googling confused with something else.)
5 (As, for example, did my big 'Mauna Loa' or 'Sensation' or whatever it is.)
6 Most peace lily cultivars should have dark green, glossy leaves. The exceptions are variegated types like 'Domino,' chartreuse ones like 'Golden Glow,' and there are a few gray-silver ones around too but I don't know any cultivar names for them. If your plant was dark green and turns lighter green, or yellowy-green, this is a sign of either too much light or a nutrient deficiency. Both are fairly easy to correct.
7 Something people don't know about spaths: they're surprisingly cold-tolerant. Where most tropical indoor plants will start to slow down or suffer damage at around 60F (16C), and a couple begin to have problems at the completely unreasonable temperature of 70F (21C), Spathiphyllums can go down to 40F (4C) and be fine.


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Mother's anguished plea becomes Internet sensation
- Liza Long writes in her blog that her son is mentally ill, and "he terrifies me"
- The post is getting a lot of support as it raises awareness of mental-health issues
- Another blogger said Long was trying to "capitalize on the Newtown tragedy"
An online confession from the overwhelmed mother of a mentally troubled teenager — titled "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother" — has become an instant Internet sensation, spurring discussion about the needs of families of mentally ill patients.
But the blog post, which spread virally to hundreds of thousands of readers, also has sparked stinging criticism of its author, Liza Long, for exposing her 13-year-old son's private struggles.
"I live with a son who is mentally ill," Long wrote Friday, the day of the shootings, although she did not use his real name. "I love my son. But he terrifies me."
In her essay, Long presumes that Lanza, who shot his mother at home and then 26 people at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school Friday, suffered from a mental disorder. Police have not yet released any details about Lanza's physical or mental health.
Long is part of a growing chorus of voices seeking to strengthen the country's mental-health care system, which many describe as broken.
Listing the names of the perpetrators of mass murders at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech and a Tucson gathering with Rep. Gabby Giffords, Long writes, "I am Dylan Klebold's and Eric Harris's mother … I am Jared Loughner's mother … These boys — and their mothers — need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it's easy to talk about guns. But it's time to talk about mental health."
The families of mentally ill patients face heavy burdens — and can be the most vulnerable to harm, says Liza Gold, a forensic psychiatrist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington. That's partly because a mentally ill person has more contact with family than anyone else.
Most people with mental illness are not violent, Gold notes. Mentally ill people are far more likely to harm themselves or be injured by others who prey on them.
When a psychotic person does become violent, "the most likely one to be killed is his mother," Gold says. "She's the only one who never walked away."
Long's essay, originally published on her blog, the Anarchist Soccer Mom, has also been published on Gawker.com, The Blue Review and The Huffington Post, where more than 10,000 readers left comments.
"The blog is traveling all over the Internet, not just in the mental-health community, but to such a broader audience that it's become a key part of the national dialogue following from the tragedy," says Bob Carolla, spokesman for the National Alliance for Mental Illness. "It speaks to the experience of many families, expressing both their deepest fears and frustration over not being able to get the help they need."
But not everyone is a fan.
In a sign of how fast things move on the Internet, backlash against Long came within two days. Another blogger, writer Sarah Kendzior, attacked Long, suggesting that she was trying to "capitalize on the Newtown tragedy." Kendzior notes that Long's earlier blog posts were filled with "vindictive and cruel posts about her children." She also took Long to task for violating her 13-year-old's privacy.
In written comments, readers have been divided over which mother to support. Some support Long, noting that she uses sarcasm and exaggeration in her writing for comic relief.
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There is clear evidence of the great goodness of Christ in that He does not wait for entreaties from the sick but anticipates their request with His own loving kindness. See how He runs to the one who is lying down and how compassionate He is to one who was sick with no one to comfort him.
But the inquiry as to whether he would like to be relieved from his infirmity was not that of one asking out of ignorance what was obvious, but of one stirring up an increased desire and diligent entreaty. The question as to whether he wanted to obtain what he longed for is huge. It has the kind of force and expression that conveys that Jesus has the power to give and is now ready to do so, only waiting for the request of the one who will receive this grace.
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The first I really like as he lays out a map of believability when it comes to government reports, I excerpt it below the link… please take the time to follow the links, though, and understand all of Chris's points:
This is a terrific way of thinking about the data and I agree completely with Chris's categories. I would add, however, the big one – INFLATION DATA – which definitely belongs in the Unreliable Data Category! Also, all data pertaining to derivatives is in a category I would classify as UNKNOWABLE because of the total opacity.
GDP Report is Just Plain Wrong
As I tell people in my seminars, I divide my data (or facts) into three buckets: good, murky, and unreliable.
Into the good bucket I put all sources of data fitting the following important criteria: The data itself is not statistically massaged before release, it is not 'sampled' but rather tallied up in its entirety, and it squares up nicely with other good sources of data.
Good Data• Sales tax data
• Income tax data
• Truck tonnage moved
• Port shipping container traffic
• Air transport
• UPS, FedEx, and other major shippers' volume
• Corporate Revenues (just added to list)
Into a bucket of lesser importance goes the murky data. This data is based on sampling, usually conducted by self-interested parties (National Association of Realtors data for example), or is seasonally or statistically adjusted, and/or does not square up with other, better data.
Murky Data• NAR home sales data
• Continuing claims
• Retail sales data
• Trade deficit reports
• Corporate Income (just added to list)
Into the final bucket goes the utterly unreliable 'data,' so bad that I need to use quotes around it. This 'data' is modeled or otherwise manufactured out of thin air with no accountability, does not square up (at all) with good sources of data, has massive errors in methodology that have never been explained, consists of survey data for reasons covered in an earlier Martenson Report (Survey Says...), is self-referential (e.g. LEI or 'leading indicator' data), and/or has been proven repeatedly in the past to be consistently biased for political or self-serving gain.
Unreliable Data• New home sales data
• Employment data (due to the Birth-Death model)
• All survey data
• Leading indicator data
• GDP (just added to list)
Chris's second article is also excellent. Below is a link and his summary, it's also a great read if detailed information on the GDP report interests you, and I hope it does. The manipulation and lies reside there:
Believe the GDP report at your peril
So here again I will ask, how is it possible for business revenues to be down by some 15% while PCE is down by 2%? As I stated before the answer lies in the extrapolated and guesstimated portions of the GDP report where a consistent and non-random positive bias lurks, unnoticed and unquestioned, in dozens of nooks and crannies.
Because of this, basing large scale, long-term investment decisions off of the GDP report is done at your peril.
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Once again, here's my slightly more dramatic overall summary of government statistics (except for tax collections, note that none of the GOOD DATA above comes from the government!):
The BEA, the BLS, in fact ALL government reports are suspect. All reporting of government statistics should be scrapped. The Fed should be abolished, The central banks and bankers should be removed – as in gone, a new money system should be put in place, there should be a Constitutional Amendment dictating the SEPARATION OF CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MONEY FROM STATE, and finally, there should be a new government agency responsible for collecting and reporting economic statistics and that agency should have a mandate to develop data collection methods that cannot be changed over time and there should also be a mandate to release RAW DATA with every report, there should be absolute transparency in that all the calculations and all collection methods should be easily viewable by anyone. Oh, and NO ONE, not even the President should have access to the information before the public!


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O2 has admitted it's been having faults on its data network once more, leaving thousands of customers without internet access on their phones.
We spoke to O2, who declined to comment on the reasons for the outage, but did confirm it wasn't a problem with capacity on its networks.
UPDATE: O2 has been in contact again, giving a little more insight into why the problem occurred (although it probably won't mean much to most people):
"We are aware of an issue currently impacting data access for some of our customers. We have identified a fault with the allocation of IP addresses and are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. We apologise to any affected customers."
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Anecdotal evidence currently suggested that the problem is contained within London, and given the density of data-loving customers, this would obviously inconvenience a large portion of customers.
However, O2 has also (somewhat mysteriously) told us that this problem is "not geographical" - so we have very little idea what's causing this problem.
O2 data outages over the past year have been well publicised, mostly due to the large portion of iPhone users on its networks, although this data failure isn't just contained to that one phone model.
We're awaiting further information on the root of this problem (we're hoping it's something fun like mice chewing through wires) but don't worry - we're assured it's not going to be a Christmas wrecker.
UPDATE 2 [29 December 2009]: O2 has today apologised again, this time in an article in the Financial Times. Despite O2 previously denying to TechRadar that the problem was due to network capacity, Ronan Dunne, head of O2, now says that the issues with the London network were caused by an "explosion" in demand for data from bandwidth-hungry smartphones.
To address the problem, Dunne said that O2 is working on its infrastructure to improve the management of voice and data traffic on its network; that it would be installing an additional 200 base stations in London; and that it is talking with handset manufacturers including Apple and RIM in an effort to better understand the demands that smartphones place on a network.
"Where we haven't met our own high standards then there's no question, we apologise to customers for that fact," Dunne told the FT. He described the problems as a "short-term blip."


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President Barack Obama says his budget blueprint unveiled Monday would result in $2 trillion of reduced deficits over the next 10 years.
Obama's budget plan expects savings of about $1 trillion to come from domestic spending reductions and ending certain tax breaks. But in addition, his budget anticipates another $1 trillion in savings in the projected cost of overseas military operations over the next 10 years.
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform he created last year came up with a plan that it said would achieve almost twice the amount of deficit reduction in Obama's 10-year proposal.
Why would Obama's proposal, if enacted, fall short of the one offered in December by the commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson? What could they do that Obama and his budget planners couldn't?
First, a word of caution: both Obama's plan and the one produced by the Bowles-Simpson commission are proposals, not laws — and both made certain assumptions about the future performance of the American economy. Both of them incorporate a lot of guesswork about the future.
And it would take an enormous effort by Congress to transform either plan into enforceable law.
But that said, there are some crucial differences between the Obama plan and the fiscal commission plan.
Bigger cuts from fiscal commission
The commission plan calls for significantly bigger cuts in future spending than Obama does.
By 2020, the commission would bring spending down to 21.8 percent of gross domestic product while Obama would reduce it to 23 percent of the gross domestic product.
Back in the 1950s, spending averaged only 18 percent of GDP. Currently spending is nearly 25 percent of GDP, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
Each percentage-point difference of spending as a share of GDP amounts to about $150 billion, given the current size of the American economy.
The commission plan would entail much bigger spending cuts each year — more than $150 billion bigger — than Obama is proposing.
Focus on discretionary spending
Much of the focus in the administration's rollout of Obama's 10-year blueprint has been on discretionary spending, the items Congress decides on every year: how much money agencies such as the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency get to spend in the next year.
Under Obama's plan, discretionary spending over the 10-year budget forecasting period would be 24 percent higher than under the fiscal commission plan.
Under Obama's 10-year plan, defense and security spending, which is a subset of discretionary spending, would be nearly 30 percent higher than under the commission plan. Neither the Obama plan nor the commission plan details exactly which weapons systems would be cancelled. But the commission plan would require that overseas military operations be budgeted for. Under the commission plan, the Senate would need a three-fifths vote to exceed the budgeted level for overseas operations.
Discretionary spending excludes Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, which together account for more than 40 percent of all federal outlays.
Even if Congress sat on its hands and nothing in current law were changed, discretionary spending would keep falling as percentage of the total budget and as a percentage of GDP.
That's because entitlement spending — Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid — is growing inexorably due to demographics, the increasing cost of medical care, and built-in increases in the Social Security benefits formula.
As entitlement spending increases as a share of total outlays, discretionary spending must, by definition, decrease as a share of the total. So to some extent, the focus on the discretionary side is a choice to not examine the bigger problem.
Bigger tax increases from fiscal commission
The commission plan would raise more revenue over the next 10 years than Obama's plan would.
The commission proposes to eliminate many of the tax credits, deductions, and other preferences that benefit particular groups of taxpayers or special interests.
It would keep mostly intact the two biggest preferences: the mortgage interest deduction and the tax-free status of most employer-provided health insurance. The commission would pare back the mortgage interest deduction by allow it only for mortgages of less than $500,000.
The commission claims that a cleaner, simpler tax code, with fewer tax breaks and lower rates, should result in $785 billion in new revenues from 2012 to 2020.
Although the commission's proposals on Social Security would have most of their impact after the end of the 10-year forecasting window, it did call for one tax increase that Obama hasn't included in his plan: increasing Social Security taxes on high-earning workers.
By 2020, the commission's recommendation would result in earned income of up to about $190,000 to be subject to Social Security taxes, compared to $168,000 under current law. That tax increase would raise $138 billion in new revenue from 2012 to 2020.
The commission also wants to raise the gasoline tax $114 billion over 10 years.
Unlike Obama, the commission also called for requiring people on Medicare to pay more for the medical care they get.
People on Medicare are consuming too much health care, the commission said. "Because cost-sharing for most medical services is low, the benefit structure encourages over-utilization of health care," the commission report said.
The commission proposed to increase cost sharing by establishing an annual Medicare deductible of $550, along with 20 percent uniform coinsurance on health spending above the deductible. If enacted, this proposal would raise $110 billion from 2012 to 2020.
So what did the Bowles-Simpson commission do in their proposal that Obama didn't?
They proposed fiscal medicine that is very bitter and perhaps politically toxic: spending cuts, tax hikes, and cost shifting to Medicare beneficiaries. All of the ideas were serious — and all would cause most taxpayers acute pain they could not shrug off.


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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to stop whistleblowers before they can leak any data by enticing them with fake documents and information that will reveal their identities.
In a recent paper for the DoD's technological research arm, contractors note that they have constructed "a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation … and then tracking access and attempted misuse of it."
"We call this 'disinformation technology.'" the paper continues.
Wired Blog Dangeroom notes that this so called 'Fog Computing' project was initiated in 2010 as part of a wider operation to counter "insider threats". The project was spurred by the rise of Wikileaks.
Further leaks concerning Obama's notorious drone "kill list", and the NSA origins of the stuxnet virus have propelled the operation.
The idea behind the 'disinformation technology' is to bury important information within reams of fake and worthless data that has been bugged to alert the powers that be whenever anyone attempts to view it.
Such methods also include enticing potential insider operators with dummy online bank accounts or server passwords.
In a separate paper, Salvatore Stolfo, the Columbia University computer science professor who worked on the programme, notes that another fog computing method is to set up fake Facebook and Twitter accounts and flood people's social network feeds with disinformation.
"Think of advanced privacy settings [in sites like Facebook] where I choose to include my real data to my closest friends [but] everybody else gets access to a different profile with information that is bogus. And I would be alerted when bad guys try to get that info about me," Stolfo tells Danger Room. "This is a way to create fog so that now you no longer know the truth abut a person through this artificial avatars or artificial profiles."
Secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists, Steven Aftergood, believes that the fog computing method is intrinsically flawed.
"If only researchers devoted as much ingenuity to combating spurious secrecy and needless classification. Shrinking the universe of secret information would be a better way to simplify the task of securing the remainder," Aftergood noted in an email to Danger Room.
"The Darpa approach seems to be based on an assumption that whatever is classified is properly classified and that leaks may occur randomly throughout the system. But neither of those assumptions is likely to be true." Aftergood added.
As we have previously reported, the Pentagon has for some years been developing a $30 Billion super secret "National Cyber Range" in order to prepare for all out cyber warfare by using it to conduct mock online battles with realistic info-warriors.
DARPA, previously responsible for the development of electronic surveillance programs such as Total Information Awareness and MATRIX, LifeLog and the Brain Machine Interfaces enterprise, has been ordered by Congress to create what is essentially a new internet as a cyberspace battleground.
The NCR will not only allow for defense from electronic attack, but will also allow offensive strikes against "adversaries online". It is rumored to be the keystone of a so called "Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative", created via a secret presidential order in 2008.
The project is so secret that it has been referred to as an electronic "Manhattan Project".
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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Alberto's maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph (65 kph) early Monday with some weakening expected during the next two days.
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Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is officially back to doing what he does best: leading Apple.
This is according to Apple spokesman Steve Dowling, who emailed over a statement just now: "Steve is back to work. He's currently at Apple a few days a week and working from home the remaining days. We are very glad to have him back."
Jobs is recovering after undergoing liver transplant surgery in Memphis, Tenn. He's been gone since mid-January when he told employees that his hormonal imbalance health issue was "more complex" than first thought, requiring him to take off almost six months.
Jobs was treated successfully for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004. But concerns about his health surfaced last year after he appeared gaunt at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Doctors and Apple officials have not said if Jobs' recent liver surgery was related to his battle with pancreatic cancer though medical observers have said it's common for pancreatic cancer to move to the liver.
Jobs is keeping his promise of returning by "the end of June," something Apple representatives repeated anytime someone asked.
With Jobs officially back on duty, this should cheer investors who will be glad to see he is back at the helm, though on a part-time basis. The question is whether he is on the way back to being a full-time CEO or is this is the start of a slow easing-out process?


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3.1.1 Boundless Basins: What are the successes and failures of hydro-solidarity? Reviewing the success stories and shortcomings of local, national and transboundary cooperation can help to reason more broadly and identify applicable contexts. That knowledge and experience can then be shared with others, especially in developing countries that have little room for error, in order to implement the approach with the greatest chance for success. Contact: Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO): email@example.com and email@example.com
3.1.2 How can stakeholder be involved in basin management and Transboundary water cooperation? Experience shows that creating a sense of ownership among stakeholders is a key to the success of a project on the ground. However, determining the appropriate ways for developing wide and effective stakeholder participation in particular situations is still a challenge, especially in transboundary contexts and situation of scarcity.Contact: UNESCO: firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com INBO: firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com
3.1.3 How can cooperation over transboundary surface and groundwater resources be achieved in a sustainable manner? There are more than 263 transboundary river basins around the world and hundreds of transboundary aquifers on which over 3 billion people depend. Since many countries' development depends on transboundary water resources, countless tools have been developed to improve institutional cooperation. Very few, though, are actually sustainable and equitable.Contact: UNESCO: email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com INBO: email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com
3.1.4 Which are the operational tools that allow achieving transboundary cooperation and sound basin management? It's ridiculous to try to dig a hole with a saw or pound a nail with a sponge. Appropriate tools are needed to get the job done right. Likewise, effective operational tools are needed to support transboundary cooperation and sound basin management as a whole. Some tools have already proven to be efficient in certain contexts, but what is the bigger picture?Contact: UNESCO: email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com INBO: email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com
3.1.5 Wrap-up and Synthesis: How can we bridge the divide between various users whose lives depends on common water resources? And how should we just do it! Contact: UNESCO, INBO
3.2.1 Ensuring Adequate Water Resources Development and Management (Quantity and Quality) for Sustainable Development: In 2017, the UN estimates that close to 70% of the global population will have problems accessing freshwater. In 2025, approximately 40% of the world's population will be living in water-scarce eco-regions. How do we effectively manage the multi-purpose nature of water, ensuring the sufficient quantity and quality of water is available to meet human and environmental needs? Is there a sound framework for determining infrastructure needs?Contact: Japan Water Agency, DSI, Turkey
3.2.2 A Step Ahead: Improving Water Management by Anticipating Change? Meeting Human and Environmental Needs through Integrated Water Resources Management? In the coming decades, management approaches will need to take into account projections for increased demand in water, food, energy, and housing, among other things. In addition, Governmental agencies will need to work transversally across many departments to develop harmonized policies for infrastructure development. How can water managers adapt to these transformative changes that challenge their assumptions and approaches?Contact: Global Environment Facility, Global Water Partnership, National Water Commission of Mexico (CONAGUA)
3.2.3 Behind a Wall or Beneath the Soil: How to meet our storage needs. While the total storage of reservoirs amounts to approximately 30% of the world's available water resources, this security does not come without costs and impacts. How can a more holistic approach be adopted to the question of storage, one that includes underground and floodplain storage, and their potential impacts on people, livelihoods and ecosystems? Varying solutions are currently being explored according to circumstances.Contact: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research & International Commission on Large Dams
3.2.4 Greening Infrastructure: How can engineering protect ecosystems and ensure livelihoods? Innovative engineering and water management techniques are being employed to restore environmental flows on a permanent basis. At the same time, the economic benefits for which these river systems were initially developed are retained. However, can these approaches really restore rivers and get all sides to find a common solution?Contact: The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tetra Tech
3.2.5 Wrap-up and Synthesis: Contact: ICOLD, TNC
3.3.1 Ecosystems for Water, Water for People, Ecosystems for People. Although water-related ecosystems, such as forests, soils and wetlands, are the natural infrastructures for water management providing numerous services such as flood control and local water storage, they are often not sufficiently valued and in addition, threatened by numerous pressures such as climate change. A better integration of different sectoral policies and the use of tools such as economic instruments may help to safeguard vital ecosystems for water. When changing the paradigm from "water for nature" to "nature for water", which policies and tools can ensure the sustainable use and protection of ecosystems? Contact: Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, UNECE
3.3.2 Spreading the wealth: How to share the benefits of nature? The intrinsic value of water may be impossible to calculate, but economic gains can be made from the way it is managed. How much should be invested in measures that could increase availability or maintain resilience of ecosystems? What is it worth to us?Contact: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), UNEP, Deltas (Dutch Provinces and Egypt)3.3.3 Acting Locally, Thinking Globally: What actions help preserve ecosystems? On virtually every street corner, conversations about the weather abound. Indeed, society as a whole is alarmed by too much or too little rainfall, from farmers who need irrigation to produce crops, to downstream water users who are concerned about quantity and quality of what comes through the tap. But what social and institutional changes are required to make sure that everyone's best interests are served?Contact: Ramsar Convention3.3.4 Wrap-up Topic 3.3 - Putting nature first: How to install change to ensure water and environmental security? As the wrap-up session for Topic 3.3, this session will bring together the conclusions and recommendations that come out of the previous Topic 3.3 sessions to address the central question: How can the preservation of natural ecosystems become a principal objective of land and water management? Contact: Netherlands Ministry LNVAlterra / Wageningen UR
3.4.1 A Hidden Resource: Sustainably Managing Groundwater for the Future: The revolution in groundwater access and use has led to critical over-exploitation and pollution in many parts of the world. With some exceptions, most management responses fail to deliver results, as technical know-how, incentives and political decisions do not sufficiently influence the behaviour of the many stakeholders that have (uncontrolled) access. How should non renewable groundwater sources be managed? be done to bridge the divide on managing diverse groundwater interests for development with existing information and technical capcity? The panel will be divided into two sections discussing implications of groundwater management and governance on policy and a discussion on the implementation of groundwater resource management. Contact: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), American Water Resources Association (AWRA), Oregon State University - Institute for Water and Watersheds
3.4.2 Strategic Framework for Effective and Sustainable Water Resources Management and Protection: In some countries, economic and social development is highly dependent on effective management of its combined water resources. Associating a range of management approaches related to different sources poses, however, serious challenges. Is managing surface, ground and rain waters in an integrated way a distant dream or a cost-effective way to face rising demand and shortages? The session will seek to define the elements of sustainable and cooperative management of all water resources with a focus on increasing technical, legal and institutional capacities to enforce IWRM. Contact: 9 Eylül University, American Water Resources Association (AWRA), Texas A&M University, AgriLife Research
3.4.3 Contemporary issues, public awareness and stakeholder participation for sustainable water resource management. What are the elements for successful sustainable water management? Given the difference in available financial resources and political access of developed and developing countries, this session will assess requirements of a workable, effective and sustainable solution that can answer the concerns and questions regarding the extent of different stakeholder's participation for water management in varying economic contexts. The key question will be to identify how efficient, effective and target oriented use of allocated resources can be obtained for sustainable water resource development that considers the needs of both rich and poor, of industry and society, and of economic growth and water preservation.Contact: International Network on Participatory Irrigation Management (INPIM ), International Commission of Large Dams (ICOLD )
3.4.4 Wrap-up and Synthesis:The need for better management and protection of surface, ground, soil and rain water: Concrete conclusions and recommendations forwarded during the preceding sessions will be presented for further evaluation and debate. The session seeks to identify common issues in pushing the agenda for managing and developing water storage infrastructures that considers multiple use, value and types of water on the road to water sustainability and security.Contact: Department of State Hydraulic Works (DSI), American Water Resources Association (AWRA), TNCSpecial Focus On: Water management beyond 2020 for a changing world: Contact: Middle East Technical University, International Water Resources Association
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