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Catholic suspected paedophiles allowed to continue teaching, despite complaints
Catholic suspected paedophiles allowed to continue teaching, despite complaints
May 17 2016
Christopher Knaus
From the Link: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/catholic-suspected-paedophiles-allowed-to-continue-teaching-despite-complaints-20160517-goxam5.html
Catholic officials knowingly allowed two suspected paedophiles, including one of NSW's worst, to continue teaching unpunished, eventually putting St Edmund's College students at risk for a decade.
One cover-up involved a Marist Brothers principal in Sydney, who was aware that now-notorious child predator Brother Francis "Romuald" Cable was abusing boys, but failed to report him to police.
Cable instead went to Newcastle, where he molested another 11 children before leaving the order to teach at St Edmund's between 1979 and 1989.
Fairfax Media has also established that the Christian Brothers, who then ran St Edmund's, became aware of a complaint against one of their NSW brothers, but sent him to Canberra regardless, allowing him to allegedly abuse another boy.
The Christian Brothers concede their past handling of such cases was flawed and that "what happened 25 years ago is not what the community or we would accept today".
The Marist Brothers say the Sydney principal never reported Cable's abuse to his superiors, and that the order's leadership did not become aware of any complaint until 1993, when his teaching career was over.
Francis 'Romuald' Cable
Cable hunted boys with an unnerving depravity and audacity before he moved to the ACT, molesting or raping at least 19 students at three Marist schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
Labelled one of NSW's worst Catholic school paedophiles, he twisted religious doctrine and used his authority to manipulate victims, many of whom were troubled or from broken families.
He molested boys in his office, on excursions, behind his desk as fellow students sat nearby, and at the local swimming pool.
"You won't say anything to anyone," he told one boy. "You are not Catholic and have the mark of the devil on you."
The same child was later beaten mid-rape to stop him screaming out in pain.
Afterwards, the boy asked Cable "what have you done to me?", prompting the brother to hit him again, tell him to "remember our little secret", and bless him in Latin.
Cable's crimes were only recently reported publicly. He was sentenced last year to 16 years in jail for abusing 19 students over 15 years. Now 84 and frail, he is likely to die before he is eligible for release.
There is no evidence Cable abused children at St Edmund's.
However, Fairfax Media can reveal that Cable could have been stopped 12 years before he even arrived in the ACT.
A principal at a Marist school in Sydney, St Gabriel's in Pagewood, was told Cable was abusing boys as early as 1967.
One victim told police in 2013 that the principal came to his parents' home, asked him whether he had been touched indecently, and then assured him and his father that Cable had been "spoken to" and would be moved.
The principal failed to report the allegations to the police, and Cable was sent to a school in Newcastle, where he abused a further 11 boys over the next eight years.
Strangely, a detailed, official history of the Marists' Hunter Valley schools, published in 1998, omits any reference to Cable, despite his decade of service there.
But the Marists say the St Gabriel's principal never took the matter to the order's leadership when he learned Cable was abusing children in 1967.
"In saying that, in no way do we contradict the witness statement made in 2013 in relation to events in 1967, and we accept the witness may have told the principal at that time," Marist Brothers Australia said in a statement.
"However no record, statement or summary of that allegation was ever forwarded by the principal to the Marist Brothers."
The Marist Brothers said they first received a complaint about Cable in 1993, well after he had finished teaching but decades before police began investigating him. They had no cause for concern when Cable left the brotherhood and moved to Canberra.
The Marists also said the 1993 complaint could explain why Cable was not mentioned in the history of Hunter Valley schools published five years later.
"It is possible that his name was deliberately omitted to spare victims unnecessary discomfort."
The Christian Brothers, who then ran the ACT college, say they immediately searched their records mid-last year after learning of his prior abuse in NSW, but found no complaints.
"We strongly urge The Canberra Times or any person who may hold any evidence of criminal conduct at the school to refer that to the police for the proper investigation," the brothers said in a statement.
Cable was a lay teacher at the college, swapping his first name Francis for "Rom", an abbreviation of the saintly moniker he took as a Marist brother.
Fairfax tracked down 10 of Cable's St Edmund's colleagues from the 1980s and told them of his history.
Many were shocked, saying they knew nothing of his past abuse nor of any complaint about him while he taught in Canberra. Several said the headmaster at the time would not have hired Cable had he known.
One clearly remembered Cable for his "ridiculous" contempt for the children. "He just had that real sense of hatred that kind of shocked me."
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Roughly 20 of Cable's ex-students from St Edmund's were also found. Some described him as a cruel man, who picked on children and appeared to enjoy corporal punishment, while others said he was an unremarkable teacher who had not caused problems.
"My experience with him was horrible. He was not a nice person," one said.
It is understood ACT police have not received complaints about Cable's time at St Edmund's.
But clergy-abuse survivors have expressed concerns about his decade here.
Bob O'Toole is a co-founder of the Clergy Abused Network. He was abused by another Marist teacher, Brother Leon Mackey, at the same Newcastle school where Cable preyed on children.
Mr O'Toole said Cable's move away from the Marists would be unlikely to have changed his behaviour.
"I'd be extremely surprised. These people don't just get to 1979 and suddenly stop."
The NSW Christian Brother
A second brother was also sent to St Edmund's in disturbing circumstances.
The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was teaching at Christian Brothers schools in NSW before he came to the ACT in 1978.
A child-abuse allegation had been made against him in NSW. Despite being aware of that complaint, the Christian Brothers allowed him to move to St Edmund's to teach until 1983.
"We acknowledge that this appears to have occurred notwithstanding a previous complaint that resulted in the later settlement of a civil claim," the order said in a statement.
He was then accused of abusing a boy at St Edmund's, which also led to a civil claim and settlement.
The brother was then moved out of the ACT, and has since been accused of more child sexual abuse after his time at St Edmund's.
Those allegations are currently before a court interstate, restricting what the Christian Brothers can say about the brother.
But the order did say its past handling of such cases had been flawed and offered its "unreserved apology" to any student who suffered abuse.
"Sadly, it has been the ongoing learning from our own work and that of the royal commission that poor practices in the past have failed to deliver acceptable outcomes," it said.
ACT Policing's child-abuse taskforce, Operation Attest, can be contacted via 131 444.
Former Marist Brother Francis William Cable, aka Brother Romuald, admits sexual abuse
Former Marist Brother Francis William Cable, aka Brother Romuald, admits sexual abuse
Ex-Marist Brother Romuald, AKA Francis William Cable, jailed 16 years for child sex abuse
Ex-Marist Brother Romuald, AKA Francis William Cable, jailed 16 years for child sex abuse
June 18, 2015, 11 p.m
From the Link: http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3155128/the-mongrels-gone-paedophile-marist-brother-jailed/
FOR more than 15 years Marist Brother Romuald – Francis William Cable – hunted children down and molested them, with what a judge described as ''frankly breathtaking audacity''.
He left children bloodied.
He terrified them.
But in a Sydney court on Thursday his victims, now men in their late 50s and 60s, cheered as Judge Peter Whitford sentenced Cable, 83, to 16 years' jail, and he was led away.
''I was bleeding after he raped me one day and he said to me 'You've got the blood of a jackal in you. Your mother must have been a jackal','' said a victim, who cannot be identified, who was 12 when he was brutally raped on a weekly basis for at least a year from 1965.
''I've never forgotten it. He said I was Satan because I wasn't a Catholic. It takes it out of you, having to tell people what happened to you, but it was worth it. He's gone. The mongrel's gone.''
Cable must serve at least eight years' jail for crimes against 19 former students at Marist Brothers schools at Maitland, Hamilton and Pagewood between 1960 and 1974.
He was found guilty of 13 serious offences against two boys at Maitland and Pagewood after a trial in March.
Cable entered guilty pleas to crimes against 17 other victims several days later.
Judge Whitford said Cable's ''determined predatory conduct'' over 15 years represented ''a systematic and flagrant abuse of his position of trust and authority'' over vulnerable young boys.
The former Marist Brother, who left the order in 1978, smiled on entering the court, and sat unmoved as the judge recounted the shocking detail of his crimes.
Two boys begged him not to rape them in the early 1960s.
The boy who was told he had the blood of a jackal was gagged and ''hit about the head'' when Romuald forced him to commit oral sex during a school beach excursion in the early 1960s.
Nightmares leave the man ''prowling'' his garden with knives, an axe and sometimes a machete, because ''I think the Marist Brothers are out there still''.
Romuald pushed his thumbs into the boy's eye sockets ''to prevent him from biting'' during forced oral sex, the court heard.
''The boy begged him not to do anything,'' Judge Whitford said.
Brother Romuald favoured attacks in the water. Boys were abused at Bar Beach, La Perouse in Sydney, Merewether and Maitland baths and the Myall Lakes, where the Marist Brother put on a keg of beer at father-and-son camps.
He targeted children in families where a parent or relative had died, or fathers were violent or absent, or parents were extremely devout.
Brother Romuald showed ''little concern about being detected and certainly no concern for the welfare, wellbeing and security of the victims'', Judge Whitford said.
''Many of the offences involved cruelty, which included physical violence on occasions, and at times actual harm.
''It is impossible to believe the offender had any motivation beyond his own sexual gratification.''
Judge Whitford acknowledged the lifelong consequences the men experienced because of the abuse.
Cable inflicted ''considerable suffering, pain and humiliation on individual victims, not just at the time of the offending, but in the decades since''.
''All of the victims have demonstrated extraordinary resilience and depth of character in coming forward and giving their accounts of experiences that have had inevitably profound effects on their lives.''
Judge Whitford described Cable's crimes as ''abominable''.
''It's impossible to conceive that the offender had any motivation beyond his own sexual gratification, which he pursued without any consideration for the childhood, innocence, and future of his victims,'' Judge Whitford said. Cable will remain in jail until at least 2023.
JOANNE McCARTHY
TWO men in their 60s sat in a corridor outside a Sydney District courtroom on Thursday and talked about their school days more than 50 years ago.
They exchanged photos of Marist Brothers school at Maitland, and talked about teachers and the friends who had committed suicide.
Then they talked about Brother Romuald.
''He's as evil now as he was 50 years ago,'' said one of the men, 66, who was a timid boy, vulnerable and eager to please when Romuald made him a target.
''As far as I'm concerned, he's Satan. He did anything he liked without any fear of comeback, without any sign of remorse. He just didn't care. This is not an idle comment – he's the most evil person I've ever known.''
The second man, also 66, was a talented child with a gift for drawing.
His parents were very strict Catholics who revered priests and thought they could do no wrong.
Brother Romuald was his teacher in 1962.
''He set us a task one day to draw the 'Hand of God' [depicting a reclining, naked male body],'' the man said.
''I actually did a perfect copy but when he saw it, he called me out, tore it in two and flogged the shit out of me in front of the class.
''He used to do things so that he could flog kids and he took great pleasure out of it.''
Brother Romuald would sit in an office watching boys play cricket.
''You weren't supposed to go beyond the line. When enough boys had gone over the line, he would blow the whistle so that everyone had to freeze. Then he'd come down and cane kids. And he was violent.''
The man who was a timid boy told his wife only two years ago that he had been sexually abused as a child.
''I just put it behind me for all those years, but then there was so much out there about it, it all came flooding back – how vulnerable we were, how young,'' he said.
''It came up on the news that he'd been charged and I said to my wife: 'That's him'.''
He cheered with other victims and their families after Romuald was sentenced to 16 years' jail. But outside the court, he cried and hugged his former classmates.


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Megan Silsby earned a biology degree last month from Virginia Tech, and she considers herself a full-time worker even though she hasn't landed a job in this rough economy.
Megan Silsby, a 2012 graduate of Virginia Tech, is looking for a job. Since her graduation in December she has set up an office in her parent's basement and works business hours there actively looking for employment.
Silsby is part of a class of 2012 that entered school as Wall Street crashedin September 2008, sending their elders flailing for remedies and scapegoats. Some say the class now graduating will have to grow up fast. Especially since college debt has grown to $1 trillion and many must start paying back loans.
Every day at 8 a.m., Silsby, 22, heads to a basement office in her parents' home in Chantilly, Va. All day, she searches the Internet for openings, applies for jobs, follows up with phone calls. She has applied for more than 80 jobs, with no luck so far.
"I've definitely kind of had to sit down sometimes and keep myself from getting discouraged, because honestly I feel if I get that interview …" and her voice trails, youthful optimism diluted by the fallout of the Great Recession.
For the moment, Silsby finds compensation elsewhere, especially in the reconnection with her parents and two younger siblings. Her father has jokingly told her that he hopes she will never move out. She yearns for independence, but the job hunt has been a forced primer of how competitive the world is and a reaffirmation that being close to her family is important to her. Meanwhile, almost $30,000 in college loans wait to be repaid.
Variations of this story are being lived, one by one, by legions of college graduates confronting a tight job market. And one by one, generational attitudes are being formed about work, security and even family, particularly among people younger than 25 who have entered the job market since 2008.
The national unemployment rate rose to 8.2% in May as Silsby was graduating as one of 2.6 million who got bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees in the school year now ending. The non-partisan Economic Policy Institute called their labor market "grim" and said that over the previous year, unemployment among college graduates younger than 25 had averaged 9.4%, with an additional 19.1% in jobs for which they were overqualified.
Beneath this cascade of sobering statistics, a new pragmatism might be forming.
"A lot of us are silly optimistic, sometimes," says Amanda Frattarola, 22, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 2011 and found a job as a health and wellness coordinator in Arlington, Texas. Her job search lasted eight months. She says it does not pay what she or her mother expected, and it is far from the New York City address she dreamed of having. But she likes the work, is supporting herself and has held firmly to "that mentality that everything will work out for me. Some of the hardest days of my life have been in this past year. I also feel like I have learned so much about myself."
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Social scientists say these young adults are a lot like the Americans who came of age in the early 1930s, both in the economic upheaval they confront and in the attitudes toward success, contentment and risk aversion that they are forming.
"The economic situation (of young adults) is completely parallel and analogous to the (Depression-era) GI generation — raised in relative affluence, and then just as they are to start in that affluent world, it all comes crashing down," says Morley Winograd, who has co-authored several books on Millennials, the generation born from 1982 to 2003. "And so they have to find new ways to persevere. They just have assumed that everything that came before them was a mirage — that it was false, built on unsafe foundations."
They were part of the "baby on board" generation, born in '90s affluence and often hyper-protected through adolescence in a security-conscious, post-9/11 world. Now they face an economic reality few saw coming. Some say the growing up will be fast.
"We have prepared the path for the child instead of the child for the path," says Tim Elmore, an author and lecturer who specializes in the development of young adults. "We have paved the way, but now there are unpaved roads out there that are rocky and dirty."
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Polls show Americans in their early 20s are pessimistic about immediate job prospects but say a life at least as good as their parents' is not only possible, but likely.
A Harvard University Institute of Politics survey in March and April found that more than three out of four college students expect to have a somewhat or very difficult time finding a job. And 45% expect student loans to affect their financial circumstances "a lot" after they graduate.
Their pessimism is based on the experience of the 20-somethings just ahead of them. A Rutgers University study this spring of 444 graduates who received bachelor's degrees from 2006 to 2011 found that 51% were working full time. The rest were in graduate school, unemployed, working part time or no longer in the job market.
One in four were living with parents. Those who got jobs beginning in 2008, the height of the Great Recession, earned a starting salary, on average, 10% less than those graduates who entered the job market in 2006 and 2007, according to the Rutgers survey. All this has happened as the total amount of student loan debt in the USA surpassed $900 billion.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says the level of student debt concerns her and acknowledges that the job market "is very competitive" for college graduates. However, she says the recession has reconfirmed the value of having a college degree in a globally competitive job market. And she argues that things are looking up. Citing Labor Department statistics, she says that at the beginning of the recession, there were seven applicants for every job opening. Now, she says, there are 3.4.
Networking is Vital
Some recent graduates say they have landed jobs by starting early, networking, taking multiple internships and breaking through Internet screens with personal connections.
"Many Millennials are missing the main point with their first job," says Jim Davis, who landed a job at a Des Moines marketing firm right out of Drake University last year. "It should be a focus during college to attain experience — job shadows, internships — and build their networks. Part of this falls on universities as well, pushing degrees instead of experience."
There is little doubt that the resilience of recent college graduates is "being tested as they struggle with student debt, a slow job market that offers few toeholds in their chosen careers and nagging fears about a lack of preparation for global labor market competition," says Carl Van Horn, director of Rutgers' Heidrich Center for Workforce Development, which conducted the survey of graduates since 2006.
The reality is that even though they are striving for stability, they won't find it," Van Horn says, citing global competition for jobs. "For the foreseeable future the labor market will remain volatile, and that will be their experience. My gut feeling is that this will mark this group of people for a long period of time in the way they approach things — their concerns about job security, their anxiety — in the same way that the Depression marked people through that period."
The economy has forced young Americans "into a whole different perspective," says Ashley Dell, 27, who has two master's degrees — one in pop culture and the other in business administration — but has been unable to get a foothold in academia, where she'd like to eventually be a college dean.
The Wauseon, Ohio, resident is a manager for a national office supply company that she would not identify. She lives with her mother and says she and her friends are delaying settling-down questions on careers and parenthood. "That is going to impact our generation," Dell says. "We will have children later in life."
In this tough environment, some college-educated applicants are second-guessing their choices of majors, too.
"I am optimistic that I am going to find a job, but if I could go back and do it all over again, I would specialize in a certain degree field" such as agriculture or finance, says Brett Lutmer, who recently received a master's degree in sports administration and leadership from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D.
He applies for an average of one or two jobs a day. "To be honest, I am looking just for a job to get experience," he says.
Some are going back for a second career after failing to launch a first.
Amber Morris, 26, of Shreveport, La., has not been able to find a job in her field since she got a biology degree from Louisiana State University-Shreveport in 2008. She lives at home, is thankful she got her first degree without debt and has cobbled part-time jobs at a state disabilities office and at a casino. In job interview after job interview in her field, employers wanted experience.
"I have a degree, but I can't do anything with it," Morris says.
So she is going back to nursing school in the fall and will work her way through, even if it takes longer. She says she has read too many stories about kids with big loans and no job. Morris has recalibrated her expectations.
"I thought I would be on my own by now, would already have my career," she says.


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Hall of Famer Bob Knight is selling his championship basketball rings and Olympic gold medal for what he considers a very good reason: the education of his grandchildren.
A collection of the former coach's memorabilia will be auctioned by Steiner Sports Memorabilia. It's part of a sale that features the jersey Yankees pitcher Don Larsen wore while pitching a perfect game in the World Series.
''John Havlicek and I were just talking one day about all the stuff we had accumulated over the years,'' Knight said Monday from the Denver airport, referring to his college teammate at Ohio State who went on to a Hall of Fame career with the Boston Celtics. ''As we talked we decided the money could be very useful to put our grandchildren through college.''
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I share here a few opinions or reflections following some research that I've recently done on the intriguing topic of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), and why I believe inedia is particularly difficult nowadays and why one should not be discouraged when feeling bad and giving up in short water fasts.
You know what is about, the bubble people hypersensitized to chemicals in the tiniest amounts, becoming sick instantly.
In my country prevalence has gone quickly from 1% to 4% of the population, and is expected to keep going. Imagine what is gonna be in society if you have 10 % of people disabled, isolated at home and wearing breathing masks.
More typically, people cracking up are hairdressers, pest control workers, farmers working with pesticides, cleaners, simply people who worked in an office after some pest control treatment, people living close to certain industries, in a general sense women (I suspect because of smaller bodies and heavy use of cosmetic, hair bleaching, etc), etc, but we are reaching a situation where everyone is a candidate. It is a very serious destructive illness. If social support fails, these people are in for horrible suffering and death.
Listening to sufferers of MCS is interesting for a faster. I heard a patient said: suddenly my tongue became black! What a surprise, isnt it? Black, and not even in ketosis, that is a poor body trying to expel the poisons.
They very often suffer chronic fatigue syndrome. Well, that is the typical weakness we feel in some days of fasting, I use to think of it like prana withdrawing from you to devote itself entirely to detox work. But they call it "fatigue", and yes, it is chronic because their poisoning is chronic. No wonder, because the idiotic doctors dont recomend them fasting, only protection from chemicals and some relief therapies, but no cure, as always!
They themselves consider a so called "toxic load theory"; another patient explained saying, it is like a deposit you have inside; you can put in there poisons for some time, but if it fills up completely, the body will say, not a single little particle more, and make a fuss to protect (what you have left of) life.
All this tells me something. I dont know whether you "believe" (what a word) in chemtrails or not, but at least everybody will agree that the load of poisons in the enviroment after all the has been done in the 20th century has to be brutal, and so is in -literally- every body, every human body.
I am aware of Steve Torrence theory from the thread below that probably you cannot die in a determined go for full detox, I believe it can be true in "normal"humans, but man, isnt it hard these days! I doubt anybody over 40 can go fully in a first attempt, maybe it is indeed possible he or she dies of the toxicity crisis, because we are not normal anymore.
I was surprised in a humble 9th day of a water fast to some very bad taste in my tongue, like some medicine or poison, it was like chemical, never tasted before, maybe some dubious food I took previous month (animal liver). I was fed up of it and broke fast, only to feel very discouraged after that. You know one reason we eat is to keep poisons in the deep recesses of the body so that they dont bother us. Inedia looked so far away... I always had clear in my head that, until the toxic load is got rid of, no way of thinking of inedia, you can study it as a hobby, but that is all. Providentially, a book on MCS from the paper rubbish bin came to my hands. Seemed like a message to me.
Be patient! Dont be discouraged. Just because it is difficult in these days when people are purposefully and systematically poisoned doesnt mean is imposible, and it is particularly useful and meaningful. Let's shave a little bit of the heap of poisons in every modest attempt, until one day we go for the whole lot. Then inedia appears in the horizon.
That was all. Enjoy your poisons. I mean, have a good day.
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We always put up the tree around my birthday, so this weekend was it. We had this tree out back in a raised bed garden (NOT a great idea) and we were told it needed to come out. So we decided to leave it till now and use it as our Christmas tree!
Rich helped the girls cut it down (we will dig out the stump in the spring), and he and I brought it into the house. It's a lovely blue spruce. Lovely in looks, but SOOOO prickly! Next year we will have to pick a softer needle...
So we got it in, got it set up, got the lights on, and the girls started decorating- and the tree came DOWN!!! Rich and I were downstairs sorting through some decorations- we ran upstairs and rescued the girls- then I put a sturdy cup hook into the bookcase behind the tree while Rich held on, and we secured the tree so (hopefully) it won't fall again. Though Molly (the cat) seems to think it the tree was put up for her personal playing pleasure- so maybe it can't be secure enough... lol
Here is how the tree looked outside, untrimmed. And here it is, all decorated, ready for Christmas. Oh, and here is our Art tree- a ficus I somehow killed soon after I brought it home from the store. I have seen similar things sold as art and so we decided it can stay...
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Week of Music
Well, Chloe had her band concert and Heidi was in the Denver Parade of Lights; it was a busy week of music! Gotta love the holidays!
The marching bands were judged on music, lighting (yep, lighting!), and overall performance, and Columbine won first place in lighting and came in third in overall. Way to go, Columbine! You ROCK!
I have some video clips of Chloe but as it always takes some time to upload them, I will do that later. Chloe performed in the Intermediate Band (6th grade) and the Jazz Band, as well as a part of a quartet. There were five or six elementary schools combined for this concert and the bands were HUGE. The Jazz Band is optional, once a week at the middle school and there are only about 15 kids I guess. They played "Wipeout" and it was GREAT! lol
For now, here are some photos of the girls! The photo of Chloe wearing the Fedora is the Jazz Band and the Santa hat is the grade sixes.
Heidi is in the last photo, and she is second from the right, holding her flute.
Next week is the Monster Band concert at the high school- more than 80 kids in one band... next semester, Heidi will play in the Wind Symphony- a band she had to audition for and she practiced day and night! The band is mostly seniors and she was pretty excited to make it!
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I meet someone on a forum who said that as far as he new no Australian builder has ever manufactured a 16 foot all aluminium hull cat and therefore he suspects that this is a one of a kind cat built by some talented individual most probably in his backyard. (fascinating right)
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The embarrassing tweet. The drunken party photos. The DUI arrest. The messy divorce or business scandal.
When it comes to the Internet, there are no secrets. If people are searching for you, what they find isn't necessarily what you want them to see.
"Google is increasingly becoming your first impression ... but it's getting increasingly harder to take control of that impression," said Patrick Ambron, co-founder of BrandYourself.com, part of the growing "online reputation management" industry.
Whether it's a new college graduate looking for a first job, a single jumping into the online dating world or a business owner stung by negative publicity, almost everyone has some online history they'd like to bury.
And that's the problem. On the Web, it's virtually impossible to erase anything entirely.
That has helped spur growth in the "reputation management" industry.
According to media consultant BIA/Kelsey, small- and medium-sized businesses spent about $1.6 billion in 2012 managing their online reputations in various ways. That figure is expected to reach more than $2.9 billion in 2017.
Companies like BrandYourself, ReputationChanger.com, Reputation.com and others help individuals, companies, celebrities, even foreign governments, put their best foot forward online.
The key: Pushing the "good stuff" about you to the top of a Google search, while suppressing the negative.
"Almost 94 percent of Google searches don't go beyond the first page. You can push things down to the third or fourth page ... that's the closest you can come to erasing things from the Internet," said Michael Zammuto, president of ReputationChanger.com, a Philadelphia-based firm whose clients include Hollywood celebrities, Fortune 500 companies and foreign governments.
"It can be very difficult to get things taken down. So instead, you have to focus on telling your story better."
Here's how:
--Populate yourself. It's like a positive PR campaign where you want to get yourself on as many online platforms and links as you can: A personal website, LinkedIn and other social media profiles, a YouTube video with your name in the headline. Post some articles, a lecture, a link to something about or by you in writing.
"The intent is to make those things in the eyes of the search engine more authoritative. Then Google will naturally rank those things higher," Zammuto said.
--Don't engage. For businesses, Zammuto said it's natural to want to wage war against negative posts, especially those on customer review sites like Yelp.com. Restaurants and service-oriented businesses are especially vulnerable to nasty comments by anonymous bloggers.
Hard as it sounds, ignore them, said Zammuto.
"Stop going on there and defending it. If you get into a debate with an anonymous person with a chip on their shoulder, it's not worth it. It will make (the debate) rank higher in searches for your company's name."
Yelp.com, which recently held a "town hall" meeting with small-business owners in Sacramento, says businesses can manage their online reputations by responding to customer reviews, both good and bad.
Take a deep breath and respond carefully to negative comments, but always thank those who post a complimentary review, said Morgan Remmers, Yelp's manager of local business outreach in San Francisco.
--Do it yourself. While reputation management firms may charge fees from a few thousand to a few million a year for high-level corporate and government accounts, there also are sites that cater to everyday people.
BrandYourself.com, started in New York by two young entrepreneurs in 2012, offers free and paid services.
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Can An Oracle Database Background Process Impact A Foreground Process And Its Database Time?
Have you ever heard someone say, "Background processes do not impact foreground processes because they run in the background and in parallel with foreground processes." I've heard this hundreds of times!
While doing some performance research I came across a great example of how an Oracle Database background process can directly and significantly impact a foreground process.
The above quote represents a masterfully constructed lie; it contains both a lie and a truth. The mix of a truth and a lie make understanding the reality of the situation difficult. In this post, I'll explain the truth, delve into the lie and relate it all to foreground process database time.
By the way, I am in no way saying there is something wrong with or incorrect about DB Time. I want to ensure this is clear from the very beginning of this post.
Just so there is no confusion, an Oracle foreground process is sometimes also called a server process or a shadow process. These can terms can be used interchangeably in this post.
The Truth
Clearly background and foreground processes operate in parallel. I don't think any DBA would deny this. As I frequently say, serialization is death and parallelism is life! A simple "ps" command will visually show both Oracle background and foreground processes at work. But this in no way implies they do not impact each other's activity and performance.
In fact, we hope they do impact each other! Can you imagine what performance would be with the background processes NOT running in parallel?! What a performance nightmare that would be. But this where the "no impact" lie lives.
The Lie
Most senior DBAs can point to a specific situation where Oracle cache buffer chain latch contention affected multiple foreground sessions. In this situation, foreground sessions were franticly trying to acquire a popular cache buffer chain latch. But this is a foreground session versus foreground session situation. While this is example is important, this post is about when a background process impacts a foreground process.
Have you every committed a transaction and it hangs while the foreground process is waiting on "log file switch (checkpoint incomplete)" or even worse "log file switch (archiving needed)" event? All the foreground process knows is that its statement can't finish because a required log switch has not occurred because a checkpoint is incomplete. What the server process does not know is the checkpoint (CKPT), the database writer (DBWR) and the log writer (LGWR) background processes are involved. There is a good chance the database writer is frantically writing dirty buffers to the database (dbf) files so the LGWR can safely overwrite the associated redo in the next online redo log.
For example, if a server process issued a commit during the checkpoint, it will wait until the checkpoint is complete and the log writer has switched and can write into the next redo log. So, while the log writer background processes is probably waiting on "log file parallel write" and the database writer is burning CPU and waiting on "db file parallel write", the foreground processes are effectively hung.
This is a classic example of how a background process can impact the performance of a foreground process.
A Demonstration Of The Lie
Here's a quick demonstration of the above situation. On an existing database in my lab, I created two 4MB redo logs and dropped all the other redo logs. I started a DML intensive workload. According to the alert.log file, the redo logs where switching every couple of seconds! Take a look at this:
$ tail -f /home/oracle/base/diag/rdbms/prod30/prod30/trace/alert*log
Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 2365
Checkpoint not complete
Current log# 4 seq# 2364 mem# 0: /home/oradata/prod30/redoA1.log
Mon Dec 29 11:02:09 2014
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 2365 (LGWR switch)
Current log# 5 seq# 2365 mem# 0: /home/oradata/prod30/redoA2.log
Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 2366
Checkpoint not complete
Current log# 5 seq# 2365 mem# 0: /home/oradata/prod30/redoA2.log
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 2366 (LGWR switch)
Current log# 4 seq# 2366 mem# 0: /home/oradata/prod30/redoA1.log
Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 2367
Checkpoint not complete
Current log# 4 seq# 2366 mem# 0: /home/oradata/prod30/redoA1.log
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 2367 (LGWR switch)
Current log# 5 seq# 2367 mem# 0: /home/oradata/prod30/redoA2.log
Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 2368
Checkpoint not complete
Current log# 5 seq# 2367 mem# 0: /home/oradata/prod30/redoA2.log
Mon Dec 29 11:02:20 2014
Obviously not what you want to see on a production Oracle system! (But my guess many of you have.)
Using my OSM realtime session sampler tool (rss.sql - related blog posting and VIDEO HERE) I sampled the log writer every half a second. (There is only one log writer background process because this is an Oracle 11g database, not an Oracle Database 12c system.) If the log writer session showed up in v$session as an active session, it would be picked up by rss.sql. Both "ON CPU" and "WAIT" states are collected. Here is a sample of the output.
It's very obvious the log writer is doing some writing. But we can't tell from the above output if the process is impacting other sessions. It would have also been very interesting to sample the database writer also, but I didn't do that. To determine if the background processes are impacting other sessions, I needed to find a foreground session that was doing some commits. I noticed that session 133, a foreground process was busy doing some DML and committing as it processed its work. Just as with the log writer background process, I sampled this foreground process once every 0.5 second. Here's a sample of the output.
Wow. The foreground process is waiting a lot for the current checkpoint to be completed! So... this means the foreground process is being effectively halted until the background processes involved with the checkpoint have finished their work.
This is a great example of how Oracle background processes can impact the performance of an Oracle foreground process.
But let's be clear. Without the background processes, performance would be even worse. Why? Because all that work done in parallel and in the background would have to be done by each foreground process AND all that work would have to be closely controlled and coordinated. And that, would be a performance nightmare!
DB Time Impact On The Foreground Process
Just for the fun of it, I wrote a script to investigate DB Time, CPU consumption, non-idle wait time and the wait time for the "log file switch wait (checkpoint incomplete)" wait event for the foreground process mentioned above (session 133). The script simply gathers some session details, sleeps for 120 seconds, again gathers some session details, calculates the differences and displays the results. You can download the script HERE. Below is the output for the foreground process, session 133.
SQL> @ckpttest.sql 133
Table dropped.
Table created.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
----------- ----------- --------------- -----------------
2.362 117.71 119.973692 112.42
1 row selected.
Here is a quick description of the output columns.
CPU_S_DELTA is the CPU seconds consumed by session 133, which is the time model statistic DB CPU.
NIW_S_DELTA is the non-idle wait time for session 133, in seconds.
DB_TIME_S_DELTA is the DB Time statistic for session 133, which is the time model statistic DB Time.
CHECK_IMPL_WAIT_S is the wait time only for event "log file switch (checkpoint incomplete)" for session 133, in seconds.
Does the time fit together as we expect? The "log file switch..." wait time is part of the non-idle wait time. The DB Time total is very close to the CPU time plus the non-idle wait time. Everything seems to add up nicely.
To summarize: Oracle background processes directly impacted the database time for a foreground process.
In Conclusion...
First, for sure Oracle foreground and background processes impact each other...by design for increased performance. Sometimes on real production Oracle Database systems things get messy and work that we hoped would be done in parallel must become momentarily serialized. The log file switch example above, is an example of this.
Second, the next time someone tells you that an Oracle background process does not impact the performance of a foreground process, ask them if they have experienced a "log file switch checkpoint incomplete" situation. Pause until they say, "Yes." Then just look at them and don't say a word. After a few seconds you may see a "oh... I get it." look on their face. But if not, simply point them to this post.
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Candidate Ron Paul understands inflation as the creation of money out of thin air. While this view depicts a disturbing state of affairs and has a distinguished history, it is not in the least popular. For one thing, it tends to incriminate the money creators.
If inflation is defined as price increases, by coincidence the guilt falls on those who raise prices.
So it is no surprise that inflation is widely defined as an increase in the level of prices. How is this 'price level' measured?
The Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics ( BLS ) produces a statistic called the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ) that's supposed to give us a handle on prices and therefore inflation.
BLS defines the CPI as 'changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.' The BLS goes on to tell us that 'The CPI is the most widely used measure of inflation and is sometimes viewed as an indicator of the effectiveness of government economic policy.'
If we explore the BLS website to find the latest CPI statistic, we find this press release for September, 2007:
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers ( CPI -U) increased 0.3 percent in September before seasonal adjustment . . . The September level of 208.490 (1982-84=100) was 2.8 percent higher than in September 2006.
It would therefore cost us $102.80 in September, 2007 to buy the same goods we bought for $100 in September, 2006. Should we be worried? Using the BLS inflation calculator and plugging in the first base year, 1982, we find it would cost us $216.05 now to buy what $100 would back then. Is this what we've come to accept as sound monetary policy?
According to historical data of the CPI from 1982 - 2006, the average annual increase was 3.1%, with a high of 5.8% (1982) and a low of 1.5% (2002). These are not alarming figures to most people, yet they were enough to eliminate over half the dollar's buying power.
The CPI is a tool used by government to grade its own performance. While it includes many ordinary consumption items such as coffee, gasoline, and haircuts, the CPI doesn't include investments such as stocks, bonds, or real estate, which the BLS says 'relate to savings and not to day-to-day consumption expenses.'
However, dollars are being paid day-to-day for those assets, and some part of that money comes from bank credit expansion, not individual savings. Whether those assets qualify as consumption expenses or not, by excluding them from the basket, the CPI understates the inflation rate. As Thorsten Polleit explains:
Rising asset prices that are not compensated for by declining prices of goods and services would simply imply inflation, an erosion of the purchasing power of money. In fact, asset price inflation is by no means less destructive for the value of money than "traditional" consumer price inflation.
In truth, 'Every person experiences his own 'inflation rate,'' Murray Rothbard observed, 'depending on what he customarily buys.' And many people customarily buy assets.
A Stable Price Level
Back in the 1920s, influential economists and politicians rhapsodized about the beauty of a stable price level and how it should be the goal of central bank policy. If prices should threaten to fall, the Fed should simply print more money. Given the tendency of prices to fall in a free market, this translates into job security for the printers at the Fed. Creating money, to repeat, is not inflation, according to stable price theorists; only price increases are.
If we examine price indexes of the 1920s, we find that prices didn't fluctuate much either way. For example, the Index of Wholesale Prices rose only slightly, going from 93.4 in June 1921 to 104.3 in November 1925, then falling to 95.2 by June 1929. Consumer price indexes followed a similar pattern of slight rise followed by a slight decline.
But these indexes exclude significant items. Can we get a better picture of price movements for that period?
As Rothbard notes in America's Great Depression (p. 170), the Snyder Index of the General Price Level, which includes all types of prices (real estate, stocks, rents, and wage rates, as well as wholesale prices) rose considerably during the period, from 158 in 1922 (1913 = 100) to 179 in 1929, a rise of 13 percent. Stability was therefore achieved only in consumer and wholesale prices, but these were and still are the fields considered especially important by most economic writers [emphasis added].
But even a 13 percent increase in prices seems mild compared to the growth in the money supply, which went (p. 94) from $44.7 billion to $71.8 billion during the eight-year boom, an expansion of 60.6 percent. Since total gold reserves only increased from $2.6 billion to $3.0 billion, or 15.4 percent, the bulk of the monetary increase was not, as some contend, due simply to an increase in gold deposits. And since currency outside banks actually declined slightly during the 1920s, we are left with one conclusion: we have bank credit expansion to thank for the 63.4 percent rise in the supply of uncovered or counterfeit dollars.
Consistent with Austrian trade cycle theory, much of this credit found its way into the market for titles to capital ' stocks and real estate ' where prices soared. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), for instance, rose from 63.9 in 1921 to 381.17 by late 1929, an increase of nearly 500 percent.
When the Crash came, President Hoover intervened aggressively, keeping the market from correcting itself and causing undue suffering. If the market had been left alone, it would have liquidated the unsound investments in relatively short order, as it had done in the past.
Rothbard [p. 210]:
[Treasury Secretary Andrew] Mellon wanted to 'liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate,' and so 'purge the rottenness' from the economy, lower the high cost of living, and spur hard work and efficient enterprise. Mellon cited the efficient working of this process in the depression of the 1870s. While phrased somewhat luridly, this was the sound and proper course for the administration to follow. But Mellon's advice was overruled by Hoover . . .
And by the time Hoover left office, the DJIA had plummeted to 41.22, with one in four workers out of a job.
Tearing Down the Money Machine
There are people who understand inflation and its calamities, who see the banking system as the sole source of inflation, who know that big government is impossible without a money machine stealing wealth surreptitiously from dollar holders. But as far as I know, only one person is attempting to eradicate the institutional foundations of inflation and begin the process of establishing a system of honest money and banking.
That person, of course, is Ron Paul, who has written two books on gold and its inseparable partnership with individual liberty: The Case for Gold, which he co-authored with Lewis Lehrman, and Gold, Peace, and Prosperity.
While both books are great, the latter can be read and understood in one sitting. And it's written in a lively style that pulls no punches. Here are some of the points Paul makes in Gold, Peace, and Prosperity:
1. The Federal Reserve System is an engine of inflation by design. Bankers wanted a money machine, and they worked tirelessly until they got one. At the time of the Fed's creation, gold was still money, but the Fed required only a small fraction of gold backing for notes and deposits.
The central bank never set out to protect the integrity of our money. In fact, the Fed set out to destroy it by institutionalizing inflation. The gold coin standard was doomed and today's inflation made inevitable the day the Federal Reserve was created. (p. 47)
2. Inflation is indispensable for state growth and meddling. The 1913 Federal Reserve Act made it possible to finance our catastrophic entrance into WW I. (pp. 24-25)
3. The Great Depression began as a consequence of the inflationary 1920s. The depression was prolonged and deepened by massive government intervention on the part of both Republican and Democratic administrations. (p. 25)
4. The claim that unions and businesses cause inflation by raising wages and prices is a myth:
"[U]nions, like businesses, can only persuade government to inflate if the inflation mechanism is in place. A redeemable currency would make this impossible." (p. 35)
5. Inflation is taxation by deceit. Government deceives the people as to the tax burden, and who is bearing it. The working and middle classes are gradually impoverished, while the poor are ground further down. Wealth is transferred to the rich, from the hardworking and thrifty to the conniving and foxy. (p. 41)
6. Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, author of the most popular economics textbook, said "The Federal Reserve System was formed . . . in the face of strong banker opposition." In fact, the Fed was instituted at the behest of the American Bankers Association and the nation's biggest bankers, such as J. P. Morgan and Paul Warburg, to protect their industry against bank failures and to provide a more "elastic" currency. That is, to promote inflation that benefits bankers and big corporations. (p. 26)
7. A 'modern' gold standard ' one that's separated from government ' would bring about needed monetary reform.
"There is no law of economics stating that only gold can be used as money in a free society. But gold has served as the principal medium of exchange throughout history because its value does not depend on a government fulfilling its promises . . ." (p. 20)
Paul's book includes many relevant quotes to clarify his position and make the reading more interesting. Among those he cites are Jefferson , Jackson, Webster, Sennholz, Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, and especially the Keynes of 1919:
"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." (p. 51)
If you can believe anything about Ron Paul, you can believe his economic philosophy. Inspired by Austrian economics and especially free market money, he entered politics in the 1970s to help bring about a major overhaul of government. His congressional record supports his stated convictions. In a sense, Ron Paul is a Trojan horse in government, working for it while trying to free us from its grip.
Those wishing a quick overview of his monetary views and an antidote to the 'price increase' definition of inflation should enjoy Gold, Peace, and Prosperity. With a foreword by Hazlitt and a preface by Rothbard, it comes highly recommended.


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Mike Larson at MoneyandMarkets has something interesting to say about the FHLB system, as if we didn't have enough to worry about! His remarks make clear what's happening in short order:
Federal Home Loan Banks following Fannie,
Freddie, private banks over a cliff?
Unless you follow the banking industry closely, you probably haven't heard of the Federal Home Loan Banks. But the FHLBs are vitally important as a source of funding for U.S. banks both large and small. There are 12 of them spread around the country — in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Des Moines, Indianapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, and Topeka.
FHLBs sell debt into the capital markets to raise money, using their AAA ratings to borrow cheaply. They use that money to make advances to banks that are members of the system and take collateral in exchange — often mortgages or mortgage-backed securities.
The banks use the money they get from the FHLB, along with cash raised elsewhere from their own debt sales and depositors, to make loans. The banks are required to own stock in the FHLBs, and that stock helps capitalize the regional FHLBs.
So what's the problem?
The FHLBs own billions and billions of dollars worth of mortgage backed securities. Those securities have plunged in value. So just like their banking customers, FHLBs are facing potentially huge write-downs on their portfolios. They may also be losing money on derivatives they employ.
And that's what is stressing the system.
The Seattle FHLB just warned that it may miss one of its capital targets. It may be barred from paying dividends on the stock member banks hold in it, potentially impacting those institutions counting on the money.
The San Francisco FHLB also said earlier this month that it was facing impairment charges, and that it wouldn't pay a fourth-quarter dividend as a result.
Moody's recently warned that eight out of the 12 FHLBs could ultimately face capital problems thanks to losses on their $76 billion of mortgage securities not backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Now here's where it gets really interesting: While many investors have never heard of the FHLBs, they collectively have roughly $1.25 trillion — with a "T" — in debt outstanding. That makes them the biggest borrowers in the U.S.— behind the federal government!
If you thought it was expensive to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (The Treasury has pledged to inject up to $200 billion in capital into the two of them), just you wait. Should the FHLBs need a bailout, there's no telling how much it will cost!
In other words, we're looking into the maw of yet another gigantic black hole!


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Hello Minty users. I have a Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 100 and have been trying to get the thing to work. The video component seems to work, but the audio component does not. So after going through many tutorials and doing some experimentation I have finally figured out how to reasonably make the sound component of the DVC 100 work.
First off, here's my set-up. I have an HP computer with an i7 quad-core, 3.4 Gig processor. It has a GeForce GT 530 graphics card (or at least what I can tell from the read out on my Details in the Settings panel). This has inputs in the front and the rear for a 3.5 mm microphone jack. Also I have 8 Gigs of RAM and a terabyte hard drive. I am currently using Linux Mint Maya with a 3.2.0-29-generic kernel.
1. What I first did was plug in the Dazzle DVC 100 and saw that it was recognized by my computer. It uses the em28xx kernel module.
2. I looked in my alsamixer settings and saw the settings for my microphone jacks.
I set the inputs for the microphone sources to be front and rear. I also looked at the settings for the DVC100 and saw that it uses Line.
3. Just to be extra sure that nothing was messed up in the system Sound settings, I looked at that and made some changes.
I noticed how the Connector was "Line in" and how I had to boost the input level because it was recording at such a low level. Btw, when you're trying to record you'll know that the sound is being recorded from the Line-in of the DVC 100 if you see the Input Level moving.
4. After hooking up all of my component cables (and making sure I connected red to red, yellow to yellow, and white to white), I proceeded to test out if it captured. Here was the tricky part. I used the command
to capture the stream and see if it worked. I had to first use the command
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mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:width=720:norm=NTSC:audiorate=48000:immediatemode=0:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.2,0:device=/dev/video0:input=0 -vf pp=lb tv://
to get a listing of my available audio recording devices. Here's the results that I had:
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arecord -l
I knew that I had to use card 2, because that was the DVC 100. So I set the "adevice" setting in the above command to "adevice=hw.2,0". With this key option I was able to view and hear the stream from what I had hooked up.**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: DVC100 [DVC100], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
5. I was able to also capture video with ffmpeg by using the command
In this instance, though, the video had no sound. The problem was that a setting in v4l2 muted audio. So to correct that I used the command:
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ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:2 -f video4linux2 -video_size 768x576 -i /dev/video0 -framerate 60 -c:v mpeg2video -flags +ilme+ildct /tmp/tmp.mpg
With this correction I was able to record the video as well as the audio.
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v4l2-ctl --set-standard=ntsc --set-input=0 --set-ctrl=mute=0
This method seems to work, but be careful of a couple of pitfalls I had to maneuver. When you use the above mplayer command make sure to close the window that pops up either by pressing the "x" in the window or pressing escape. If you press ctrl-c you'll stop the application, but at the same time you'll tie up the audio channel that the DVC 100 is using. Also, when trying to capture the stream with VLC the video will be distorted:
All I did in VLC was go with the default settings for Capture Device (/dev/video0 for Video and hw:2,0 for Audio) and set NTSC for the Video Standard. This was the result.
What's more interesting was that Tvtime could stream it a nearly 60 FPS. What I did was set the Deinterlacer settings under Video Processing to "Television: fullscreen resolution". The picture's still not the best, but it looks pretty spiffy.
I still can't seem to capture audio with guvcview. TBH it doesn't seem to capture video either.
When using other applications like mtvcgui it doesn't capture the audio at all, no matter what I do to the audio.
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Addiction and the Holidays
Ah, the holidays: Candy canes, cozy slippers, festive lights, family peace, marital joy, and grateful children.
Or not.
The holidays are stressful. There are the challenges of too much family, not enough family, not enough money, continual exposure to food and alcohol, and perhaps worst of all, the gap between our actual life and our fantasy life. As if gazing into the perfect happy scene within a snowglobe, we might fall into a trance of how our life should be.
We might feel torn apart by nostalgia and grief over the good times and good people of the past, and wracked with guilt and inadequacy for failing to create a more wonderful life for ourselves. We might feel scared about our dissatisfaction and hypnotized by the promise of fulfillment just beyond the hard glass.
Addictive and codependent behaviors thrive during this season of fantasy.
We use our drugs and habits to escape the pain, while imagining how we will miraculously make changes, always tomorrow, or next week, or next year. We frantically try to keep our idea of the all-good holiday alive through our codependent behaviors, imagining that we have the power to make sure that everyone else is happy and no one gets upset, while suppressing our own feelings of anger and disappointment.
So what should we do about our addictive or codependent behaviors during the holidays? Should we just give up and wait until January 1? Or is there hope for progress now?
One option involves using the holiday season to take an honest and compassionate look at our current behaviors. Instead of using up all of our mental energy imagining how our life used to be better, or how our life should be different, or how we need to change, we can turn our minds and eyes toward simply observing present reality.
We can watch our relationships with alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, prescription and non-prescription drugs, gambling, pornography, video games, television or Internet videos, social media, food, exercise, work, and shopping. We can ask ourselves: How much are we using? How much of our time does it consume? How much money are we spending on our habits? How long have we been using? Is it increasing, decreasing, or remaining constant?
We can watch our relationships with our loved ones. We can ask ourselves: How much of our energy is being devoted to worrying about or trying to control other people's addictive behaviors? How much are we being controlled by fear of others' reactions to our boundaries or limits?
Then we can ask ourselves: why are we doing this? What purpose does it serve? What immediate rewards do we attain? In what ways are our behaviors fulfilling our needs? Are there feelings of shame, anger, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, or depression tangled up in our habits? How do these feelings lead to our behaviors? How do these feelings result from our behaviors?
How are our habits affecting our physical health? How are our behaviors affecting our relationships with others? How are our drugs, habits, or relationship patterns affecting our work life? What are the short- and long-term benefits and costs?
As we watch and explore our behaviors in an open and neutral manner, we set the stage for our growth toward increased health. We emerge into the New Year with information about ourselves that we need in order to develop a plan of action, if we so choose, toward change. And by being more honest with ourselves and more present in the life we currently are living, we have broken the paralyzing spell of fantasy: We have begun moving toward a better life.
Grossman, D. (2018). Addiction and the Holidays. Psych Central. Retrieved on December 4, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/addiction-and-the-holidays/
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