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Hi all, just looking to see if anyone has any information on how to take this g.d. transfer case apart. I got the case to open but I can't get it to split in half, I really don't want to break something getting it apart although it is already broken, but I want to rebuild this thing myself because I am not only cheap but poor as well, so if anyone has information or can scan me a couple of pages from the 2001 silverado 2500HD factory service manual, I would love them forever!! Thanks!
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I miss you too cuz. I told your mom we were gonna be there for your party but I found out we are moving that day -_- I'm hoping we could change the date but I don't know. It's sad it's been a year since I last saw you
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A new marketing gimmick is out to prey on people's ignorance and environmentalism. Don't fall for it.
"Organic water" brand Llanllyr Water turned up at this year's Fancy Food Show in Washington, D.C., where comestible companies from around the globe hyped their elegant wares. And yet, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "organic water" doesn't really exist outside the minds of water company executives trying to make a quick buck. Like salt (NaCl), water contains not a single carbon atom, meaning it's not alive. Not alive means it can't be certified organic; it's that simple. Llanllyr likes to say that its water comes from beneath "organic fields" in Wales. That may be the case, but the fields above the water don't matter a lick when it comes to the water itself, which is just as plain, boring, and uselessly expensive as any other bottled water company's product.
Most people know by now that even ordinary bottled water is a waste of money and resources. Slapping an "organic" label on it doesn't change that, it just makes the customer buying into it look wasteful and ignorant.
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We agree with you and U.S Dept of Ag that products like Llanllyr are a sham however it does not mean that that organic water does not exist.
According to Jennifer Chait, a projessional environmental and health writer, a green living community manager and a deveoted organic advocate,
"There's an exception to the water rule though when it comes to flavored waters containing fruit juice, herbs or other agricultural additives that do qualify for certification.
For example, Ayala's Herbal Water is certified organic, which may seem strange, since it's bottled water.
However, according to Soo Kim, representative of the USDA's National Organic Program, this product does qualify for certification, because:
"Regardless of whether water is the main or primary ingredient, it's only the herb that qualifies for organic certification. Therefore, the product could properly be labeled 'organic' if it met the requirements for organic crops and handling/processing."
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This villa has an idyllic setting, spectacular views and striking interior. You won't want to leave. When you enter the property you will immediately gasp at the spectacular sea view that greets you.
The villa has been designed around the wonderful Indonesian island of Bali. The stylish decorations and a selection of top quality furnishings give the whole villa an elegant, positive feel, you won't stop smiling when staying here. You really do feel like a slice of Bali has been brought to Cyprus.
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Ayia Thekla is named after a 1st century saint and is a beautiful quiet village that is becoming more popular year on year. There is a picturesque beach with a small island about a hundred yards offshore and calm shallow waters for the children to play. The beach is mainly frequented only by locals, which means you can enjoy the space offered, but if you require a busier area, take a few minutes drive to Makronissos Beach. it is a magnificent place for people of all age groups. Whether you are a water sports fan or are simply seeking a nice, quiet place where you and your family can enjoy the sun, Makronissos Beach offers all the conveniences.
There are also many activities that you can enjoy at the beach such as swimming, snorkeling, playing beach ball or very simply having fun. You can grab a ride on a Jet ski, take a trip on the paragliding or go crazy on the banana boat rides. Couple this with the hot Sun and warm water we guarantee that you will have a memorable time.Makronissos Watersports is found on the right hand side of the beach (when facing the sea). Our facilities are here for your convenience. We have all the necessary equipment to bring that smile to your face whether you are looking for that adrenalin rush or just.
Ayia Thekla is now also known for being the home of probably the largest water park in Europe, Waterworld, which is just a mile east of the village. With a clearly defined Greek Mythology theme running through all its slides and pools, Waterworld is hugely popular with both locals and tourists during the summer season. Ayia Thekla boasts a small number of bars and restaurants, the best ones around being, the Axartis restaurant, opposite the water park and Zafiri bar. This bar is located on one of the more scenic places to grab that relaxing pint and a bite to eat. It is just a short walk from the beautiful Ayia Thekla Church and the path outside the pub leads to the beach.
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Earlier this week Animal Planet, a Discovery Communications television company, aired a sequel to last year's television event "Mermaids: The Body Found" which was called "Mermaids: The New Evidence." I'm not a big television fan, so I don't watch much T.V. and as a result I missed (and had never even heard of) the original show. But I did sit and watch this new one, with a re-run of "… The Body Found" show immediately before it. As a skeptic, I was naturally immediately suspicious. And that suspicion turned out to be proven accurate when, after merely two minutes of research found that the entire thing was a hoax.
To say I'm disgusted would be an understatement.
It's not that I was hoping that they'd finally uncovered evidence of mermaids. It's not that I am a True Believer and wanted to be wowed and awed by people finally admitting they exist (which, they don't). My disgust stems from the simple fact that Animal Planet deliberately aired a hoax they created aimed at millions of gullible viewers in a sad and despicable attempt to drive up ratings.
And the truly sad thing is – it worked.
What's even more pathetic is how happy the executives at Animal Planet were at the success of their "documentary"… at how they'd spun up the imaginations of millions of people with false facts and doctored video. The president of Animal Planet herself, Marjorie Kaplan, stated:
"The phenomenon of Mermaids has truly been a watershed – and a watercooler – moment for Animal Planet … These extraordinary television specials have electrified, challenged and entertained television audiences and online fans alike."
Much of my disgust stems from the fact that Animal Planet deliberately cloaked the true nature of the program. The only way to find out the truth was to catch the bits and pieces from the show's description itself – and even then some T.V. companies penned their own descriptions (I checked Comcast, and they were labeling it as a Documentary with nothing to suggest it was fiction). The program itself was specifically designed to appear as realistic as possible… and to that, they succeeded (despite how fake, at least to me, all of the doctored video was). The entire show wasn't meant to be a tongue-in-cheek hour of poking fun at the mermaid myth. It was deliberately designed to fool people into believing it was real.
The truth is that there is no such person as "Dr. Paul Robertson". The guy on the show claiming to be him is an actor named Andre Weideman. Like wise with everyone else… "Dr. Rebecca Davis" is an actress named Helen Johns. "Dr. Rodney Webster" is an actor named Jason Cope. There were no deep sea dives for oil locations on the seabed off the Eastern Greenland coast for the Icelandic government. The entire thing was a carefully crafted lie.
Perhaps I am deluded into believing that at least some T.V. tries to be factual. Tries it's best to be objective and tell it's viewers the truth. Tries to avoid misinformation, duplicity, deceit, and straight up lies. Whatever small glimmer of hope I had for that died when I found the truth behind this despicable display of "docu-fiction." For me it was even worse because Animal Planet is part of the Discovery Channel network. But the real anger behind this is the simple fact that people are gullible. They want to believe. And here is a media outlet that people believe in to tell them the truth about things straight up lying to them. I don't find it amusing that people are misguided by false "evidence" and lies. I don't find it funny that gullible people are manipulated by carefully crafted falsehoods. I find that despicable and below the level of even the most callously unethical slime balls out there.
Which means I'm talking to you, Majorie Kaplan. And your cabinet of cackling reprobate miscreants.


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While it is clear the OP was just being cynical, it highlights the real problem, which is that people are being brand loyal to a company that seems not to really care much about their needs. Proper IMAP support anyone? Loyalty discounts for people who bought in at $499? Delayed OS, a dearth of apps.
It just goes on and on. I was also blinded by the underdog status. But I tell you with outsourcing to india and everything else, RIM is sure happy to throw us under the bus. So the OP makes a valid point that we should probably start heeding. - 11-21-2012, 03:05 PM #27
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When I bought mine two months ago, I had no idea that it ran Android apps nor did I know anything about sideloading. I have an Android phone so I was not expecting the Playbook to run anything android. However, since sideloading was easy and I learned how to do it, I sideloaded a few apps that I use daily and am happy with. However, I would have been happy with the Playbook no matter what. If you took those apps off my playbook today, I would still love this tablet. I bought it after doing tons of research and was happy with what it was able to do right out of the box.
Lovin' the Playbook and hatin' the cynics! - 11-21-2012, 07:22 PM #30I hope this helps.
I guess we all have differing experiences - I guess my main issue is the lack of Kindle support - which is probably a status thing with the PlayBook and it's OS in the tablet market space.
As I run Kindle on my Android tablets and an actual Kindle device, having a reasonably current version of Kindle app for the PlayBook is the only way I'm going to be happy reading ebooks on the PlayBook - and as the only version unoffically available to use, is quite a ways behind the current Android and Kindle device version and functionality, it's of no use to me (whispersync support missing / incomplete).
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Our California Brokerage had a real estate loan close on January 26, 2006. The loan was processed and closed with New York Broker, Aspen Funding LLC and NY Banking attorney. The reason we were able to do an out-of-state loan is because of USAMP (U.S. Association of Mortgage Processors)- www.usamp.org, which is also MBX (Mortgage Broker Exchange. Aspen Funding LLC, by contract with USAMP/MBX, had the right to hold the funds for 10 days. Despite Aspen Funding LLC telling our Broker "he was sending the funds" every time our Broker inquired, Aspen Funding LLC held onto the funds every bit of the ten days - even breached the contract with USAMP/MBX by holding the funds several days extra - and finally sent our funds (after our Broker called USAMP/MBX to intervene) to USAMP/MBX on February 13, 2006.
While we were communicating with USAMP/MBX, they promised to "not hold our funds" and forward them to us the moment they "get them in hand". However.....
Since Aspen Funding LLC sent them our funds, USAMP/MBX has been difficult with us and REFUSES to wire the funds to us. Despite our efforts, they now refuse to communicate with us and are not responding back to any of our emails/voicemails. They are wrongfully holding our money. They terminated our Broker's contract with them, which disables him from being able to log on to their website - all because Randall Smith claims we were "harassing" him by "repeated" emails and calls. This is not true. When they told us they were wiring over our money, we let things rest. But after a WEEK went by, we started inquiring again. That IS normal, right? Would that be considered harassment? Besides, we would not have had to even EMAIL him, OR call, if he would have JUST SENT US OUR MONEY AS PROMISED AND AGREED. I have a COMPLETE email trail of everything stated here. We were being told they were wiring the money consistently, only to never receive it, and instead receive excuses that they were "having problems with the bank", that an employee received instructions to wire out in the "wrong name", etc. They even sent us an email from some "Banking Manager" on 2/17/06 (the day before the President's Weekend Holiday). Here are several "PROOF" emails (and we have much more), as follows:
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:00 PM
To: Tammy Martin
Subject: ?
Michael Weeks
----- Original Message -----
From: Tammy Martin
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 7:29 AM
Subject: RE: ?
I am sorry, but we sent a wire on Wed. and the wire was never put into her account. The bank is having a problem. We are going to the bank today to find out what the problem is. I just wanted to remind you that we just received the funds this week. I am working hard to make sure that you will receive it by today.
Tammy Martin
Headquarters: 11200 Westheimer # 900, Houston, TX 77042
DC Office: 1725 I Street Suite 300, Washington DC 20006
Phone: 800-313-0817
Fax: 281-829-0468
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:42 AM
To: Tammy Martin
Subject: Re: ?
Who is "her account" and what exactly is going on, it doesn't take more than 2 hours to wire funds, I do it all the time.
This has really turned into a bad experience and based on some of the correspondence I have read between USAMP and other brokers, I first gave the benefit of the dought to USAMP, but that may have been a mistake. Was it?
Michael Weeks
In a message dated 2/17/2006 9:14:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, writes:
----- Original Message -----
From: Tammy Martin
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: ?
I am sorry, we sent a wire to another member's account and we are having a problem with the bank.Please try to be patient, I have only had the funds since Tuesday and I am working hard to make sure you receive the funds today.
Tammy Martin
Headquarters: 11200 Westheimer # 900, Houston, TX 77042
DC Office: 1725 I Street Suite 300, Washington DC 20006
Phone: 800-313-0817
Fax: 281-829-0468
In a message dated 2/17/2006 10:38:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, firstname.lastname@example.com writes:
Loan closer is terminated. The agreement is with Mr.Weeks not you. The account is terminated for harassing me and making threats. I balance my schedules with 4 companies and 4 assistants and my agreement state wires are pushed through on Friday, not Tuesday,not Wednesday or Thursday. Tammy was under the impression that I was at the bank for you guys when in-fact I was not. However I am leaving for the bank shortly and Loan Closer will receive your wire as agreed.
Your email will be blocked from USAMP.org as I do not care to get repeated multiple emails from you.
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:04 PM
To: Rosa Hawkes;
Subject: RE: Wire
I'm sorry the instructions given to my office were to wire funds to the wrong name. It is too late to get this wire re-sent today. This matter will not be cleared until our next business day.
Hector Torres
Assistant Vice President
Banking Center Manager
See what I mean? To date, Randall Smith, USAMP/MBX will not respond to us and is holding our money!!!!!
Our Broker told me that while he WAS still able to log-on to USAMP's website, he found complaints from other Brokers of whom USAMP had done the same thing to. I checked the Better Business Bureau, but there is no USAMP (even in its full name extension) registered or searchable. The Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending has a report of all of this, and reported back to me this morning that there are OTHER complaints filed on Randall Smith as follows:
"There are several complaints against Randy Smith, one remains open and assigned to investigator Justin Accola."
We think they are just flat out stealing our money. It is ours, we do not have it, and they are holding it. These are the FACTS.
We are in California, so they probably think we'll just forget about it. However, why would we? That loan, that client, that money - all belongs to US. No matter what the excuse, they are in the wrong for NOT WIRING IT TO US AS AGREED.
If ANYONE ELSE has been a victim, or is currently a victim of this wrongful and illegal action, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE come forward and speak!!! This man/this company has NO RIGHT to do this to anyone! This is what Randall Smith wrote in one of his emails on 2/20/2006 12:45:44 PM Pacific Standard Time:
"For the record I am no chief and certainly not a big shot. I close my own loans, manage what I can and delegate the rest. I work with many Texas legislators and currently on the ballot for Texas House of Representatives. Early voting starts next week and I have been busy. I maintain and run a tight shop but when someone threatens my integrity they have crossed the line."
Can we AFFORD to have someone like this go on FREELY ripping off unsuspecting Brokers who just want to close out-of-state loans with ease!!!! We have indeed been ripped off! What do we do now - just let him/them get away with this?
This is the EXACT role Randall Smith played in this case:
About the Mortgage Broker Exchange (MBX):
The Mortgage Broker Exchange is a division of the U.S. Association of Mortgage Processors that gives a private network of seasoned exclusive mortgage brokers and bankers the ability to capitalize on loan revenue in all 50 states. Adhering to RESPA compliance laws by only assisting in the processing of the loans and working with the state licensed brokers while being compensated for working on the files as a processing assistant and being paid through USAMP.
The Mortgage Broker Exchange (MBX) provides innovative marketing solutions, partnerships and multi-state networking which ensures that our member roster includes the leaders and top producers of processors and brokers in the industry while still providing the most affordable service. USAMP's and MBX's efficiency and contacts allow you to do what you do best: close loans.
Only 4 exclusive brokers* may be approved per state. Each member must be licensed in home state. Only one state per member and members must hold active license and have a minimum of 10 approved wholesale lenders to choose from. * exception FL and CA will allow up to 6 members *stand by members
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Annual membership fee for USAMP (MBX) is only $395 for the first member of each state and $795 per year to those who sign up afterwards. MBX offers an exceptional return on your investment.
Compliance and Management:
Senior Processor must be a CMP (Certified Mortgage Processor) In-state broker must send certified checks to USAMP. note- MBX members are credited up to 5 CMP processors.
Any member reported who engages in loan officer activity in a state where not licensed will have membership terminated. Any member who initiates discussion with other member to bypass USAMP reconciliation process will be terminated.
The Process:
1.Out of state Brokers contacts In state broker with loan scenario
2.Members discuss loan. In state Broker contacts borrower and informs that he/she is the loan officer/originator and Out-of state broker will be assisting with the processing.
3.In state broker will discuss rate and term with borrowers.
4.A CMP Processor is chosen by the In-State Broker. Out- of state broker will assist in the processing.
5.After File funds In- state broker sends copy of certified HUD and Fee sheet to USAMP with 100% of fees minus the $695 admin fee.
6.USAMP's independent accounting firm deducts and pays processing fee and $220 USAMP reconciliation fee.
7.Checks are mailed from USAMP to Out- of state broker/member and CMP Processor from USAMP for processing services
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I know of a few people ripped off by Randy and MBX....
AUTHOR: Rip - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 03, 2006
-A watchdog
#2 Consumer Comment
I know of a few people ripped off by Randy and MBX....
AUTHOR: Rip - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 03, 2006
-A watchdog
#3 Consumer Comment
I know of a few people ripped off by Randy and MBX....
AUTHOR: Rip - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 03, 2006
-A watchdog
#4 Consumer Comment
I know of a few people ripped off by Randy and MBX....
AUTHOR: Rip - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 03, 2006
-A watchdog
#5 UPDATE EX-employee responds
Also filed a report of my own under US AMP
AUTHOR: John - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, March 09, 2006
I also had problems in receiving payment from this company US AMP and/or MBX and my contract was terminated as well. I did not receive cooperation either way.
Without too much detail, there is another Broker I referred to the US AMP service and this Broker, too, had payment problems. I am not sure this Broker will speak up.
However, I just wanted to show support the best way I knew how by letting the Broker and his office who also reported here know they were not alone.
#6 Author of original report
AUTHOR: Deana - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, March 09, 2006
This information is not "Slander" or "Fabrication" in any form of fashion. It is TRUTH. We possess RIGHT NOW, a COPY of the Domestic Wire Transfer that Aspen Funding LLC sent to USAMP/MBX for $18,475 on February 13, 2006, clearly listing USAMP as the Beneficiary - all which includes the Banker's name and ID who processed such, Account Numbers, Reference Numbers, Address, Banking Information and the like - and WE can provide such to ANY attorney at a moment's notice.
Additionally, on such confirmation clearly states: "For the Closing of Narain". Again, Sybil Narain is OUR client, and can PROVE it. The Broker has IN WRITING an Agreement for this entire transaction through USAMP/MBX. We possess IN WRITING proof directly from Randy and his office employees that they received our monies and were going to SEND us our monies. Simply refer to a few of the email correspondences already posted HERE! We possess RIGHT NOW, the CLOSING STATEMENT and supporting documents of this entire file (including the amount above due the Broker) CLEARLY stating that that money BELONGS to US.
The bottom line is...now Randy has gotten an attorney to try to sue US for over $200,000, when WE are the ones who STILL have not yet received our monies from OUR loan that we were under CONTRACT for with USAMP/MBX that CLOSED January 26, 2006. It is now March. This company is illegally holding over $18,000 of ours and REFUSES to respond back to us, and we can no longer inquire about our monies he is holding, because he had his attorney send us a Cease and Dissist letter. Point Blank.....WE HAVE BEEN RIPPED OFF. ANY court of law, or any attorney worth their salt should ask in the FIRST place.....why didn't you send them their money? Instead, in Randall Smith's attorney letter, it is stated that we have an "alledged" claim, and we need to send "proof" of such claim. NOW, he's trying to act like he never owed us ANYTHING. We are sorry, but you CANNOT lie your way out of WRITTEN PROOF.
We are not hostile or volatile and we are certainly not fabricating. We just never received our monies owed to us from a contracted loan on OUR CLIENT - monies sent to a Bank Account belonging to USAMP/Randall Smith. We hold PROOF and EVIDENCE of all of this! Since February 13, 2006, Randall Smith has been illegally holding over $18,000 of our monies, versus the few HUNDRED he was supposed to deduct before sending it to us. First, Randall terminated the Broker's Agreement to prevent website access. During our last communications with them, his own employee told us she had been pulled off of the case, and Randall is the only person we could talk to. Then, Randall stopped THAT with a Cease and Dissist. We find out that there are OTHER complaints, as well, legally filed against him with the Department of Banking. WE DON'T HAVE OUR MONEY BECAUSE RANDALL REFUSES TO SEND IT. What is the other side of the coin?
Randall Smith can hire all the attorneys in the world....but the underlying question is....WHERE'S OUR MONEY, and HOW COME YOU NEVER SENT IT? Have the attorney fight THAT one.
The answer is STEALING. And stealing is a crime punishable by the law. THOSE are the REAL damages, here. These are NOT threats - never have been. THESE are FACTS.
FACTS will stand up in court, in the public eye or ANYWHERE....not false claims of "slander" and "fabrication".
For now....Randall Smith has "gotten away" with our money. But we have faith, and we KNOW that what is done in the darkness shall soon come to light. Sooner or later...we will be blessed to receive what has RIGHTFULLY been stolen from us. Randall can obviously fool HUMANS, but he CANNOT and NEVER WILL fool God.
#7 UPDATE Employee
Fabrication, Hostile and Volatile
AUTHOR: Randy - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, March 08, 2006
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Frances Kissling on the Limits of Common Ground: A Sneak Preview
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
Frances Kissling, Charles Camosy of Fordham University, Jennifer Miller of Bioethics International, and Peter Singer of Princeton University at the Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words conference at Princeton University in October 2010. (photo: Ricardo Barros)
The audio above is an excerpt from our upcoming show with Frances Kissling, "Listening Beyond Life and Choice," which we're almost finished producing for a January 20th release. In the excerpt above, Kissling, a longtime voice in the public conversation about abortion and former president of Catholics for Choice, says she doesn't believe there's much promise in finding common ground with people whose views and ideology we fundamentally oppose: "the pressure of coming to agreement works against really understanding each other."
Cracking open our deepest divisions requires a willingness to be courageous and alsoto be vulnerable:
"…when people who disagree with each other come together with a goal of gaining a better understanding of why the other believes what they do, good things come of that. … I have changed my views on some aspects of abortion over the last ten years based upon having a deeper understanding of the values and concerns of people who disagree with me. And I have an interest in trying to find a way that I can honor some of their values without giving up mine."
As Pocket God Enters Social Gaming on Facebook, What Will It Reveal about Our Moral Character?
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Screenshot courtesy of Mashable
The popular iPhone gaming app Pocket God, which has sold more than two million units, is making its way to Facebook. What character will this take in a social gaming atmosphere, I can only imagine. But I'm sure my newsfeed pipe will feel the constriction of arterial plaque.
If you're unfamiliar with the game, Ben Parr of Mashable gives a good summary:
"The game focuses on giving the user god-like powers over islanders known as Pygmies. Since they obey the user's every whim, players can be benevolent and give the Pygmies food and fire or be vengeful and summon thunderstorms, hurricanes and T-Rexes."
I'll admit that I've played this game once for a very short time. I'll be curious to see how the player's social circle of friends on Facebook join in, rebuke, or challenge that said friend when they see him or her be particularly vindictive or "immoral" within the confines of the game. It could be an interesting avenue for conversation about how the player exercises power. Any thoughts from more experienced social gamers?
Warren Buffett Without God Too
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Picking up on Shubha's post about the current marketing campaigns being put out by atheist and humanist organizations, our Tumblr friend Jiorjia over at The Ianez Compendium forwarded this ad featuring Warren Buffett and the comment, "I'm good without God. Are you?"
The point and power of the ad — that you don't have to be a religious believer to be a good, moral, ethical humanitarian — is an argument that comes up a lot in my reading. I just wish this wasn't the starting point for all parties involved.
One question that many readers have asked, and that none of the authors under review really answers, is: What is to be done? I don't pretend to have answers for the humanitarians. But surely at least we who work in journalism can do a public service by treating humanitarianism the same way we treat other powerful public interests that shape our world. Too often the press represents humanitarians with unquestioning admiration. Why not seek to keep them honest? Why should our coverage of them look so much like their own self-representation in fund-raising appeals? Why should we (as many photojournalists and print reporters do) work for humanitarian agencies between journalism jobs, helping them with their official reports and institutional appeals, in a way that we would never consider doing for corporations, political parties, or government agencies? Why should we not regard them as interested parties in the public realms in which they operate, as giant bureaucracies, as public trusts, with long records of getting it wrong with catastrophic consequences, as well as getting it right?
— Philip Gourevitch responds to criticism of his New Yorker article examining "the moral hazards of humanitarian aid."
He mentions This American Life's excellent show on relief aid in Haiti. I would also point you to listen to Krista's interview with Binyavanga Wainaina for a deeper look at the ethics of aid in Kenya.
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
[h/t publicradiointernational]
Repeated Responses to Stem Cell Show Guest Is "Life-Changing"
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
photo courtesy of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association
Oftentimes we hear from guests after a show has been released. But, it's always by way of a direct email to one of our producers or to Krista herself. So, imagine my surprise this past Saturday when I saw this awfully gracious submission to our show on stem cells from the centering voice of that conversation, Dr. Doris Taylor herself:
"Being on your show has significantly impacted what I do and how I do it.
It forced me to think about my truths in a different way, and connected me with people who otherwise I would not have known — who in some way seem touched by our work. That is a humbling experience when it happens once or twice, but, when it happens over and over, it is life changing…
I remain grateful for your willingness to share yourself and make it possible for people like me to do likewise. Thank you Krista."
I also used my reply to her as an opportunity to follow up with a question several listeners have wondered about: the recent news of the first human embryonic stem cell line created at the University of Michigan. Her response:
"I fully believe getting enough cells will be the rate-limiting step to building organs. Think about it, the human heart has hundreds of billions of cells in it. Having to grow those in the lab is daunting. But as they say, if it were easy, someone else would have done it."
On Stem Cells and Untold Stories: When Nature's Tools Provide the Answers
by Krista Tippett, host
I've wondered for years how we could contribute some perspective to the moral consternation that stem cell research stirred in recent years. As with so many other real and important questions raised by medical advances, I have been unconvinced by the blunt either/or choice that culture-war debates seemed to present: defining stem cell research as either a slippery slope to killing babies or a straight path to curing a host of dreadful diseases. Efforts to humanize the issue with real-life examples — seeming to present a stark choice between condemning Michael J. Fox to death by Parkinson's, for example, or finding an immediate way to save him — can misrepresent both the promise of this science and the moral concerns it raises.
Hearing Doris Taylor speak, then, was a revelation. I knew I had found our way in to this topic. When it comes to stem cells — as to everything else in life, it turns out — the truth is complicated. And much of the story of stem cells — the big picture that arguments have obscured — falls outside the realm of the most passionately contested issues.
From Doris Taylor I come to understand, for the first time, that the existence and function of stem cells is one of those discoveries, not unlike DNA, that will fundamentally change the way we think about the human body. I learn that there are billions of stem cells throughout my 49-year-old body, and as I write they are repairing my organs and tissues as they have done all of my life — albeit less vigorously at 49 than at 9 because of the passage of time and the stresses that life has imposed, and that I have imposed on my body.
The newness and rapidly emerging nature of our knowledge about stem cells has contributed to incomplete premises and an understandable measure of fear. Doris Taylor has spent time in conversation with people in churches these past years as well. She has come away with a conviction that, if the medical community and journalists had used different vocabulary to discuss stem cells at the outset, some of the most heated debates might have been avoided.
She has often encountered the false impression that the stem cell lines used for research came from aborted fetuses. In fact, as she says, "fetal cells" are too old for the work she does. And the "embryonic cells" she uses have all come from eggs fertilized by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF) that would otherwise be destroyed. This insight, of course, does not address moral quandaries over embryos and IVF technology.
But much of the research Doris Taylor and others are doing might one day circumvent all of these issues. If she could build me a heart by way of the process she and her colleagues are refining in the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair, she would use my heart stem cells to do so.
From my visit to Doris Taylor's lab, you can see elaborate architectural glass bulbs with tubes feeding suspended rodent hearts — one lifeless with old cells; another one stage farther, a pale "scaffold" ready for stem cells to be injected; and finally a regenerated heart pink, pumping, alive and beating on its own. Also, hear the story of the man with a heart disease that told Taylor she is "building hope."
Seeing the untold story of stem cells beyond the lightning rod, moral issues clears my vision to see unexpected spiritual implications of this work. The genius of Doris Taylor's work is in its simplicity — in realizing that there was no need to "build" a heart from scratch. Instead, she works with a dead heart, extracted from a cadaver — nature's cardiac "scaffolding," as she thinks of it. She washes the lifeless heart, cleans it, and injects the decellularized scaffold with cells that know how to colonize it — and begin to beat and live again.
Doris Taylor echoes one of my favorite themes: beauty is essential to life itself — beauty as a core moral value — as she describes the architectural perfection of nature that she honors and works with. In an exhilarating "field trip" to her lab, I was able to hold the translucent heart of a pig in my hand and see its exquisite intricacy — at once delicate and muscular — for myself.
Approaching the mechanics of life at this level inevitably raises questions about life's mystery. Doris Taylor says she is passionate about "regenerating heart on a lot of different levels." And as she considers how new knowledge about stem cells might one day change the way we think about health across the life span — facing aging, for example, or cancer — she is studying how spiritual technologies like prayer and meditation might support that. She describes a very simple test she did on the Buddhist spiritual teacher Matthieu Ricard. She measured a vast increase in stem cells in his blood after just 15 minutes of meditation.
All of this said, the fascinating science of stem cell research still comes with a world of real and complex moral uncertainties. We hope this conversation with Doris Taylor might broaden existing conversations and inform fresh thinking on the moral and ethical questions her science touches. Let us hear your thoughts — either as they're sparked by this conversation or through your own experiences and knowledge.
The Pleasurable Choice Is the Ethical Choice
by Krista Tippett, host
I like to say that I'm not an an optimist, but I am a person of hope. That is to say, I cultivate the virtue of hope in myself. Hope takes account of the enormity and darkness of challenges and problems, and yet it meets darkness with light, and points to resilience and goodness where they can be found.
(photo: Jen Kim/Flickr)
In this spirit I am drawn to Barbara Kingsolver's hope and resolve that, however grim the man-made crises of our time, we are gradually getting some things "more right." And, Kingsolver advises, we must treat hope itself as a renewable resource, something we put on with our shoes every morning.
But she also says, reframing an equation many of us are internalizing, that it is not the job of the next generation to right the grand, looming environmental crises of the present. The work has to start here and now with our daily routines. Barbara Kingsolver has made one kind of beginning with her family's "food life."
Her story begins with a sense of urgency, however, in Tucson, where she had spent half her life, and her children the whole of theirs. As she became more aware of the larger issues she explores in her book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life — including the elaborate environmental cost of the global food chain — she came to perceive this great American city as a kind of space station, utterly dependent on the outside world for its most basic needs. And after three consecutive years of drought, she felt she was staring global warming in the face. "Like rats leaping off the burning ship," her family moved to a farm in Appalachia to land that could feed them.
There is an irony in the fact that Barbara Kingsolver's move to a simpler, sustainable life required a certain level of social and economic privilege, just as the ostensibly back-to-basics idea of organic food remains beyond the range of choice and budget of many. For me, the adventure related in her book — of giving her family's life over to planning, planting, weeding, cooking, freezing, storing, and harvesting both plants and animals — appears immediately impracticable in light of another "drought" in American life and in my own, a drought of time.
Kingsolver helps put this into perspective by reminding me that the cheap and easy habits we take for granted — lettuce for salad all year round, strawberries in January — began as luxuries for the very rich. What her family did for a year, living off what they could grow and raise on the land around them, is the way most human beings have lived forever and many in the world still do.
The real irony is that the way most Americans eat is elite in the extreme. This is hard to grasp, as the crops behind some of the cheapest, easiest staples of American life — including that ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup — are underwritten by government funding. The real costs of much of our food do not turn up itemized in our grocery bills, but hidden in our taxes. And then there are, of course, the environmental costs, harder still to see and calculate and that we confer as a debt to our children. Some people give up meat, Barbara Kingsolver says; she has given up bananas, no longer willing to live with the fossil fuel footprint that is necessary to bring them all the way to her in Virginia.
But this conversation, which you can hear in the audio link at the top of the page, is not really about what we have to give up. The U.S. culture has fallen into "the language of sin," Kingsolver says, when it comes to discussing changed eating habits. We steel ourselves to replace what is bad for us with what is good for us; we grit our teeth and enter the realm of sacrifice and penance. What surprised Kingsolver most in her year of local eating was how pleasant it was for her whole family, really, once they had retrained what felt like habit. They became focused in the most practical, daily way not on what they did not have, but on what they had — what was in season, what the garden was yielding plenty of today. It became, she says, a long exercise in gratitude.
I'm very aware that the details of my life — including the northern climate of the place I inhabit — limit my ability to follow Barbara Kingsolver's experiment in totally local eating. But since this conversation I have begun to frequent the farmer's market for the first time in my life. I planted a vegetable garden last summer and made pesto from basil I grew. I tossed my own home-grown lettuce, and watched tiny green tomatoes bud with the rapture of an expectant mother. I'm living some new questions about food life now, to paraphrase Rilke; as Barbara Kingsolver might say, I'm getting it a bit more right. And I'm delighting in the truth of my favorite line in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: "Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure."
"Has Venter Made Us Gods?"
Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Andrew Brown's provocative post in the The Guardian's "Comment is free" section starts out with a bold and absolute declaration:
"Craig Venter's production of an entirely artificial bacterium marks another triumph of the only major scientific programme driven from the beginning by explicit atheism."
Explicit atheism? Perhaps scientific understanding or unadulterated entrepreneurship might be substituted here.
But methinks that first sentence is intended to capture the eye and engage the reader in a discussion because the rest of his article is one fine piece of writing. He probes the depths of elemental questions needing to be asked about the possession of primary knowledge and the very essence of our imaginations:
"The worry is whether our imaginations will prove up to the task. The trouble with gods, as the Greek philosophers observed, is that they were not any morally better than humans, just more powerful."
Now that we have the information to create these life forms, what are we gonna do with it?
My decision today is not based on a finding that you violated Georgia law, or on a conclusion that differs from that of the local prosecutor. That said, you are held to a higher standard as an NFL player, and there is nothing about your conduct in Milledgeville that can remotely be described as admirable, responsible, or consistent with either the values of the league or the expectations of our fans.
—NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, in his letter to Ben Roethlisberger, quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Goodell handed "Big Ben" a six-game suspension in his most recent action against a player violating the National Football League's personal conduct policy. Goodell called it "early-intervention."
Is he raising the ethical bar for professional athletes?
A Senator's "Conscience Picture"
Trent Gilliss, online editor
NYT's Lens blog posted a fun entry about Senator Patrick Leahy's personal photography as he operates from a unique vantage point within the hallowed halls and meeting rooms of Washington D.C. As interesting as the many photos of presidents and legislators are, it's this "conscience picture" — a portrait he took of an El Salvadoran man in a refugee camp in 1987 — that I find most intriguing, most grounding.
"I set that over my desk," Senator Leahy said, "and every time I think I'm getting a little carried away with myself, I look at that and hear him say: 'O.K. You've talked to all these very important people all around the world; people who have power and money and everything. What are you doing for people like me?'"
(photo: Patrick Leahy)
(h/t to Shelley, my lovely wife)


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A nor'easter is predicted to potentially hit the East Coast on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
With coastal communities in New York and New Jersey still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, the last thing the area needs is another storm. But that's exactly what it might get.
A nor'easter is predicted to potentially hit the East Coast Wednesday (Nov. 7), and beach erosion experts are concerned about further damage to shorelines devastated by Sandy.
As Sandy came ashore, its record surge and pounding waves tore apart or eroded hundreds of miles of dunes and protective sea walls along the East Coast. Hundreds of homes and buildings, which also provided some protection, were destroyed.
The lack of protective dunes and damage to sea walls could lead to lowland flooding near the coast, depending on the wind direction and storm surge from the new storm, even one that isn't expected to approach Sandy's strength.
"The beaches and sand dunes are the first line of defense for coastal communities against storm surge and waves. They're going to take the first brunt of the storms," said Hilary Stockdon, a research oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va. (Infograpic: Timeline of Sandy's Week of Destruction)
Many of the sandy beaches along the Atlantic Coast have become increasingly vulnerable to significant impacts due to erosion during past storms, including Hurricanes Ida (2009) and Irene (2011), as well as large storms in 2005 and 2007, according to the USGS.
Stockdon said Sandy caused extensive erosion to beaches and dunes. The USGS and other agencies are now running aerial and ground surveys to assess the damage.
"There are dunes that have been eroded away completely, so now their protection is gone," Stockdon told OurAmazingPlanet. "That will make these communities more vulnerable to future storms that may not be as strong."
Quick repair and restoration of the coast could be essential to minimizing damage from future storms, whether the one currently brewing or any others that could develop later in the winter. In New York, the Department of Environmental Conservation is issuing emergency permits for storm-related repairs in coastal areas and wetlands.
Farther north, front-end loaders are already pushing sand back onto the beach, said Greg Berman, a coastal geologist with the Woods Hole Institute Sea Grant program in Falmouth, Mass.
During powerful storms like Sandy, surging waves throw sand up and over the beach, where it remains stuck. The beach can't restore itself without access to sand. However, this is also a natural process; beaches aren't stationary, and their location migrates with time, Berman told OurAmazingPlanet. "When you push it back onto the beach, you're circumventing that migration, and it gets harder and harder to do over time," he said.
Sandy's late October arrival also increased coastal vulnerability by removing sand that had been naturally stored offshore for summer beach replenishment, Berman said. During the winter, sand is stored in sandbars and comes back in the summer. "After Sandy, instead of going into a nor'easter system at our best, we're going into it at a weakened condition," Berman said.