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Filed under: asperger's syndrome, autism, disability, Writing | Tags: AS, asd, asperger's, asperger's syndrome, autism, emotions, english language, information processing, language, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, sensory processing
Before NaPoWriMo it would never have occurred to me to try and rhyme either Pythagarean or multidimensional, it's not easy!
I love to see the shape of sound
That resonates and shines around
My house; and, with shapes, fills my head,
From before dawn til time for bed.
Shapes reflecting all words said;
Pythagorus has never known
Some of the structures I've been shown.
In a concert there may be an
Abundance of new and strange forms
Far beyond Pythagorean
Imagination, which transforms
Music merely sensational,
Into something which may be found
To be multidimensional.
It's a different perception
Of any sounds reception
That has music, so often felt,
Be something seen and even smelt.
Filed under: asperger's syndrome, autism, disability, Politics | Tags: AS, asd, asperger's, asperger's syndrome, autism, disability, emotions, neurolinguistic programming, nlp
On Tuesday the month ends. This year I have to admit Autism Awareness month, or Autism Acceptance month, has made little impact on me as my focus has been very much on National Poetry Writing Month. It has been the least stressful April for years, I have argued with no one, despite there being a Measles epidemic over here, I haven't managed to pick a fight with an anti-vaxxer, I am feeling chilled and virtuous. I have even made a positive connection with a cure seeker, I wouldn't have predicted that last April.
The month may be ending, autism isn't and our respective struggles continue, even if the spotlight has been turned from us. If I would want us to take anything forward over the year, it would be respect and tolerance; how can we expect acceptance when we present the world with a model of vicious intolerance and division. One thing autistics come to learn is that other people are very different, in all honesty it sometimes manifests more as "why are normal people so weird/horrible/wrong?", but they are definitely different.
There is an NLP presupposition that, "People do the best they can with the resources they have available" and another that "all actions have a positive intent". If someone espouses a ridiculous point of view, it does not mean they are are bad, it merely means that the data they have is flawed or is it? Before we correct them let's double check our own sources first; are they empirically sound, are they up to date? Autism is a subject that provokes strong emotional reactions from some people, particularly the neurotypical who are less prone to rely on reason. We need to put our emotions aside and treat their opinions logically and respectfully. There may be some beliefs from which no amount of science or reason will sway them, but this is no reason to hold them in contempt, they remain human beings. Far better to find common ground upon which we can build, than insist on wasting energy in pointless struggle. If they are unwilling to put aside differences for the sake of the greater goal then shake their dust off your sandals and pursue more fruitful activities. At the end of the day we have a goal that is too important to allow us to waste time in fruitless argument, better to focus on reaching out with the truth where we can make a difference and hopefully allow that which is unhelpful to wither from neglect.
Filed under: asperger's syndrome, autism, Writing | Tags: AS, asd, asperger's, asperger's syndrome, autism, emotions, information processing, language, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, sensory processing
Sometimes there is a dichotomy
Between what is there for me,
And what you know to be true;
A wall my mind can't break through,
And a truth it cannot see.
Nothing's wrong with my perception,
But a break with my conception.
Thus nothing makes any sense
And all is confused, so hence
Senses find no reception.
Like looking out through a glass
On worlds of another class,
Another reality,
Or an abnormality
Where unreason comes to pass.
Literally losing my mind
And the reason I would find;
Although my eyes can well see,
Mind can't interpret for me
I might just as well be blind.
New deep thoughts form in my brain
Then to express them I strain,
I struggle, but cannot reach
The shapes that make up my speech;
And so I retreat again.
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Today I awoke tired and sore, all my muscles ached, my throat was burning; in short i was displaying all the symptoms I have learned to associate with the onset of, what I call, a CFIDS, event. Yesterday I did not behave entirely sensibly. I came off a night shift and just took a couple of hours nap before heading off to Edinburgh for the afternoon and evening. I had committed to a seminar in the evening, but the afternoon was optional. Neelam had a meeting in the morning so I thought it would be fun to spend the afternoon in Edinburgh, logically not the most sensible of choices, but I was right it was fun. We went to Patisserie Valerie where the food is good, but the cakes and pastries are magnificent. Edinburgh is always a nice place to visit, even if all one does is walk around and look. We walked and we looked, we visited the Peace and Justice Centre.
While we are on the subject there is a weekend of Scrap Trident action in Glasgow this weekend beginning on Saturday with a demonstration in George Square at 10:15 all details from http://www.scraptrident.org
In the evening, increasingly tired we went to my seminar. I was too tired to do it justice. Had I had a proper sleep things might have been very different, but I chose a day out. The point is, as I realised on reflection today, I chose; no one else chose for me, what I got, I chose. The strange thing is, the moment I realised, I chose to feel better and I felt better. Ok, I still felt tired, but I didn't let it spoil my day, I chose to rest as I needed, I chose to have a bath and, above all, I choose to feel good. It is not wrong to feel tired, or to have a headache, it may be inconvenient, but it is not wrong, at worst it is merely what's so and that may not have to be true. Look around, wherever there is cause for pain and sorrow and suffering, some suffer, but some do not. Wherever there is cause for joy and celebration, there are always some who, nonetheless, suffer. What matters is not the circumstances in which we live, but how we live in our circumstances. Although I may have got little out of the seminar last night, I was reminded of my est training and that I, and I alone, am responsible for my experience and I alone can transform it. The strangest part of this is that one's circumstances seem to mirror one's experiences. If I am happy I can quickly find reasons for my happiness; in truth it is not our circumstances that cause our experience, but, rather, the experiences we choose that give us the world in which we live. We will always be able to find reasons for how we feel, but how we feel will determine the reasons we find and so, if we choose to rejoice in and enjoy our world we will find plenty of cause for joy. Rejoice!
Filed under: asperger's syndrome, autism, disability | Tags: AS, asd, asperger's, asperger's syndrome, autism, emotions, information processing, Neelam Bakshi, sensory processing
I may have mentioned before that I really find emotions difficult. I think my difficulties with understanding how actions give consequences may be a part of my difficulty with emotions. When I am presented with other people's they are almost always unexpected, if I knew someone else was likely to be upset by a chain of events, I would be prepared and handle it better. There is an argument that says that when my wife is upset I should be prepared, but I still get surprised.
When my wife's iPhone got soaked, i shrugged it off as a minor inconvenience, which to me it was, it was not my phone. I stupidly failed to realise that Neelam might see the possible loss of everything she had on the phone, as more than a minor inconvenience. Neelam has had that phone for a few years and has been asking me to sync it for most of that time. I have little sense of the passing of time and had no sense of urgency, I fully intended to sync the phone, I just hadn't got around to it. All would have been ok if it hadn't fallen in the water. On reflection I can see why she was less than pleased with me.
Fortunately Neelam's phone problems appear to be resolved, however trying to sort out one problem ate up time she needed for other things. Right in the middle of sorting out bags today, we had a power cut for several hours. My response to other people's upset is to withdraw into myself, to some extent to avoid making things worse, but that meant I was not proactively offering help when she wanted it. Sometimes, actually a lot of the time, I need to be told specifically what I should do. Sometimes I feel that whatever I say or do will be wrong so I do nothing; sometimes nothing is worse than the wrong thing. And so I tread on eggshells wondering what will happen next, an indeterminate apprehension of impending emotional storms restricting my ability to act.
I also have problems with the expression of emotions. A clear explosion of anger is understandable, but what I cannot do is read subtle expressions. I know that something is wrong but I am not sure what or how to respond to it. Somedays I feel that when I was sent to earth, the dispatcher on the mothership forgot to give me the guide book that explained humans. I don't know about other people but I find emotions exhausting. but the most exhausting of all are the emotions of other people. Someone please beam me up, now!
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The other day, as I headed for home, from the Boyd Orr building in Glasgow's West End, I passed the Student Television studios. It occurred to me that, even in my day, there were students who engaged in hobbies like television or debating, because they were appropriate to their career plans. The story is told that Michael Hesseltine planned out his political career up to becoming Prime Minister, 'millionaire 25, cabinet member 35, party leader 45, prime minister 55′, on the back of an envelope while still a student; apart from the last two he made it. He took his chance at the PM, unfortunately for him – if not for the rest of us – he didn't make it. However by any meaningful material measure, he can be described as a success. Sid Savara has debunked the story of research done into goal setting at Harvard Business School. However his article does cite research by Gail Matthews, Ph.D., Dominican University which demonstrates that there is truth to the assertion that writing down one's goals is more likely to have them happen.
It must be nice to know as a youth the course of one's life, I personally, have difficulty looking beyond bedtime, to plan a day in advance is a tribulation. Like many people with Aspergers I tend not to have a grasp of the relationship between actions and their consequences, or rather, I can see the relationship in hindsight, but it tends not to occur to me before acting. Having said all that I have, on occasion, written lists of goals and a surprising number have been accomplished, as I have discovered on reading old notebooks. I have in the past done all sorts of personal development courses, and have been frustrated at my lack of material success, that changed when I received my diagnosis and my comparators changed. In autistic terms I may be called a success as I have employment and a long term relationship. However, insofar as I perceive myself not to have the specific success I want, I am not YET a success. To a great extent my problem has been not knowing what I wanted to be when I grew up, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but at Sixty I have, at least, some things I want to try. At last I actually have a couple of projects on the go, apart from the garden. I am not a failure, I'm a very late developer. As for growing up, it's not in my schedule.
Filed under: asperger's syndrome, autism, disability | Tags: Access Consciousness, Access Consciousness Bars, AS, asd, Asperger diagnosis, asperger's, asperger's syndrome, autism, depression, disability, EFT, emotions, Matrix Re-imprinting, nlp, personal development, personal growth, Reiki, self empowerment, Time Line Therapy
There is a power in being able to define ourselves, as ethnic minority activists know hence the term "self defined as black", however we do not get to choose most of the labels we bear. Sometimes our labels define us as I said in my blog post, Do We Allow Autism to Define Us?. We have two sorts of problematical labels, those of which we are aware and those of which we are not. If we look at the labels of which we are aware, the labels we use of ourselves, and apply them to rigorous analysis we will find that we did not originate most of them, but that they were given to us by others. This applies not only to the negative labels like, stupid, retard, weird, nerd, geek etc., but also to the positive labels, witty, clever, attractive. Unfortunately most of us seem to be more ready to accept of ourselves, the negative labels. These labels are not inherent to us but merely the opinions of others, often not even the opinions of others, but a word used under particular circumstances at a particular time, however the emotion and the context may have given the thought excessive charge.
Perhaps even more deadly are the labels of which we are not aware. These are the thoughts about ourselves that have been installed in our unconscious of which our conscious has no knowledge, some of these will even date back before we had the capacity to even articulate them ourselves. Because we have no awareness of these labels, we cannot identify them in order to remove them. Sometimes some will present to conscious, but many will remain quietly in our unconscious shaping our opinions, beliefs and self image. Much of who we think we are is not based on knowledge, but on installed beliefs, most of which are not even ours.
We are trapped within an image created by beliefs, but we do not have to remain there, there are ways of handling the beliefs with which we have been programmed. Where the beliefs can be identified we may use a number of NLP belief change techniques, but the unconscious beliefs can also be challenged at levels of various depth. Time Line Therapy (TM) can be used to identify and discharge past traumas and the beliefs and limiting decisions they have given us. Emotional Freedom Technique and Matrix Re-imprinting which was developed from it are also powerful ways of accessing installed beliefs while bypassing the conscious mind. I am not sure how the Access Consciousness Bars work, however my experience of them is that they seem to short circuit the internal wiring of the mind, they also seem to be related to meridien work. What I do know is that when my bars are being run I relax so deeply I fall asleep, but Reiki does that too. I suspect that their effectiveness will not be empirically proven for some time, I do hope an experiment is designed that can properly evaluate them, but for now, I suspect, our knowledge is too limited. I also find that the Access Consciousness Clearing Statement is a very powerful tool for shifting beliefs, even when I am not fully aware of what they are or from where they came. Of course, the classic way of accessing the unconscious is through hypnosis, which can also be used for reprogramming beliefs.
Language is key to our programming, the world exists as we describe it. Language is also the primary medium of change in most of the technologies to which I have referred. I think it was Wayne Dyer who said that the two most pernicious statements in our language are, "I can't do it" and "I'm not well". The first operates on a level of Belief the other on the even deeper level of Identity so today I am not even saying, "I have flu", but rather, I have symptoms which some may consider symptomatic of influenza" thus putting everything on the level of action and the easiest place to make changes is in our actions, it also puts distance between me and the sensations removing any emotional charge that might impede my freedom to act.
I have already talked about how my first foray into Stand Up Comedy has transformed my life and it is a change operating on the identity level. What I did by standing on stage and making people laugh was to change who I had been being. I also negated the stereotypes and labels which had been applied to me by myself and others. I effectively rebooted my entire belief system and allowed myself to be who I say I am, and I can be whoever I choose, this could be interesting.


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GoodReader for iPad adds PDF annotation support
Good.iWare has released a major update to GoodReader for iPad, its popular iPad document reader and file management app, adding full PDF annotation support and several other enhancements. GoodReader for iPad allows users to download and view and store various file formats including PDF, text, Microsoft Office, iWork and audio and video and includes advanced features for working with PDf files. Version 3.0 adds full PDF annotation support, including notes, highlights, markups and drawings in PDF documents. Annotations created and edited in GoodReader are saved into the PDF file so they can be accessed on other platforms such as a desktop computer, and PDF annotations created and properly stored by other applications can be viewed and edited in GoodReader. Users can create and edit comments and tag them with different icons, highlight text in a PDF document and add freehand drawings, lines, arrows, strikeouts, text insertion/replacement marks, and more. GoodReader also allows support for viewing, limited editing and removing several other types of annotations such as text boxes, rubber stamps, and file attachments. Files can also now be extracted from PDF file attachments and viewed or saved within GoodReader. Other new features in GoodReader for iPad 3.0 include the ability to select text directly on a page and hide PDF watermarks as well as stability improvements when loading certain types of PDF files. Users can also now choose a minimum zoom ratio for PDF pages, extract files of any size from a PDF portfolio and duplicate files for creating annotations without modifying the original. GoodReader for iPad is available from the App Store for an introductory price of $1.
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Posted by DP on October 1, 2010 at 11:49 AM (CDT)
It will be 80 when 4.2 arrives ;)
Posted by sb on October 1, 2010 at 7:36 PM (CDT)
Hi there,
I am creating an ipad application to annotate pdf and pptx documents.
Can you please give a sample code of iOS to perform annotations.
Or can you explain a approach to create such app.
Posted by Raju Thakur on March 23, 2012 at 2:50 AM (CDT)
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One Person is Killed in a Binghamton Motorcycle Crash
A Construction Worker is Killed on the Job in Tompkins County
A construction worker in the Finger Lakes area is dead after a mobile home collapsed on him May 15.
Tompkins County Sheriff's officials say the worker was on a crew setting up a foundation for the home on Trefoil Drive in the Town of Newfield when the home collapsed on him at around 3:30 p
Owego's Mayor Pleads Guilty to Driving While Ability Impaired
Owego's Mayor will be paying a $300 fine and won't be able to drive for three months after pleading guilty to driving while ability impaired.
Kevin Millar was stopped by police in Waverly in February for not having a front license plate and subsequently charged with driving with ability impaired by alcohol/drugs
Update: Hancock Teen is Killed in Wayne County, Pa. Hit and Run
Pennsylvania State Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal hit and run collision just south of Hancock, New York in Buckingham Township, Wayne County May 16.
Authorities say 19 year old Zachary Possemato of Hancock was hit and killed by a two-tone white extended cab pickup truck at 8:34 p
Bradford County Bank Robbery Suspects Are Arrested in Minutes
Pennsylvania State Police say a Bradford County teen and a Virginia man are accused of robbing the Citizens and Northern Bank in East Smithfield at around 1 yesterday afternoon.
Police say 18 year old Chaz Talada of Columbia Crossroads is accused of brandishing a handgun and demanding money from a teller while 23 year old Zachary Etka of Richmond, Va
Two Women are Arrested Again For Drug Dealing
The Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force says they confiscated 356 packets of heroin in a search of a Grand Avenue, Johnson City apartment.
31 year old Angela Tippett of Syracuse is charged with felony counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a controlled substance as well as using drug paraphernalia and marijuana possession
A Bainbridge Man is Charged With Child Porn Possession
Much of New York and Pennsylvania Brace for Flood Potential
Shrimp Corn Fritter Recipe
Kathy Whyte/ WNBF NewsKathy Whyte/ WNBF NewsShrimp Corn Fritters (Prep. time about an hour. Less, if you don't have to peel the shrimp )
½ lb. raw shrimp
½ jalapeno pepper, finely diced
2 slices of white bread, crusts cut off and cut into small cubes
1Tb. mayonnaise
4 oz. whole kernel


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The most widely circulated papers in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington covered the debate over same-sex marriage in their state extensively in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Though all four publications endorsed marriage equality, their news coverage largely ignored the extremism of anti-equality groups and often devolved into "he said-she said" journalism that failed to correct anti-gay misinformation.
Over the past two weeks, The Oklahoman has published a series of articles promoting expanded domestic oil and gas drilling, claiming that increased U.S. production would limit the price volatility of gasoline and lower prices for consumers, even though experts agree that expanding American oil production would not mean lower gas prices and would still leave us "vulnerable to any shocks to the system."
From The Oklahoman (emphasis added):
[Rayola Dougher, senior economist at the American Petroleum Institute] said it is nearly impossible to predict what will happen to the price of oil if domestic production in the United States continues to rise, but an increasing supply of oil likely would apply downward pressure to prices and benefit American consumers.
Lower oil prices could translate into reduced gasoline prices.
As TIME magazine pointed out in April, even if we could produce all the oil to meet our currently large demand, it wouldn't actually lower or stabilize oil and gasoline prices. From TIME:
While unconventional sources promise to keep the supply of oil flowing, it won't flow as easily as it did for most of the 20th century. The new supplies are for the most part more expensive than traditional oil from places like the Middle East, sometimes significantly so. They are often dirtier, with higher risks of accidents. The decline of major conventional oil fields and the rise in demand mean the spare production capacity that once cushioned prices could be gone, ushering in an era of volatile market swings.
[C]ontrary to what the drill-here, drill-now crowd says, oil companies could punch holes in every state and barely make a dent in gasoline prices. Even a more energy independent U.S. can't control prices, not with a thirsty China competing on the globalized oil market. "Energy security is fine, but it doesn't have that much meaning in a globalized economy," says Guy Caruso, a former head of the EIA. "More production adds fungibility to the world market, but we're still vulnerable to shocks in other countries." The oil the U.S. uses may be American, but that doesn't mean it will be cheap.
Guy Caruso, the U.S. Energy Information Administration Chief for six years under former President George W. Bush, has stated that "energy independence" through increased oil production is a "political slogan" and that the U.S. would still be "vulnerable to any shocks in the system."
These facts didn't stop The Oklahoman from pushing energy independence in its article on lower prices and less volatility. Instead they cited an economist from the American Petroleum Institute who said that energy independence would lower gasoline prices and an economist from Oklahoma City University who claimed that developing our own product would "help us smooth out that [price] volatility." The Oklahoman did not disclose that Agee is also an oil executive.
The Oklahoman regularly touts energy industry sources, something they did over 43 percent of the time in part one of their series, while leaving out the consensus of more neutral experts across the political spectrum that increasing domestic drilling would not lower gas prices. This is unsurprising, given that oil and gas magnate Philip Anschutz owns the newspaper.
Despite the prevalence of green energy in Pennsylvania, a Media Matters study found that both the Philadelphia Inquirer and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette generally ignore clean energy in their reporting and neither paper has ever mentioned the overwhelming public support for green energy.
According to the Media Matters study, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette collectively wrote 62 articles on energy and the environment from July 1, 2012 through August 15, 2012. In that time period, neither paper reported on public support of green technology, and both papers failed to discuss green energy in all but 9 articles. These papers did, however, cover stories about natural gas, coal, and oil frequently -- rarely mentioning green energy as an alternative source of energy.
Although nearly impossible to discern from the pages of the Inquirer or the Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania is actually one of the top green energy producing states in the country. As of 2010, Pennsylvania made the Solar Energy Industries Association's top 10 list for cumulative installed solar capacity. In addition, both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have been designated Solar America Cities by the Department of Energy. Through the solar energy initiative championed by former Governor Ed Rendell, consumers could expect to see savings of $10 billion by 2017.
Pennsylvania also ranks 16th nationally in total wind capacity installed, according to the American Wind Energy Association, with 751 megawatts (MW) currently online and another 3,391 MW in queue. Last year, PECO Energy Co. announced it was dropping the extra fee for purchasing renewable power -- which mostly comes from wind energy -- and would be keeping prices the same for customers or potentially even lowering their bill.
Green energy is also very popular among Pennsylvania residents. According to an October 2010 poll by Susquehanna Polling and Research, 85 percent of Pennsylvania voters surveyed thought it was important to support continued expansion of wind energy farms. In addition, a majority of voters would still support clean energy technology even if it cost $2 extra per month. Another poll conducted in April 2012 by the Small Business Majority found that 73 percent of Pennsylvania small business owners surveyed thought that government investment in clean energy has an important role in boosting our national economy. Pennsylvania's largest newspaper, however, have entirely failed to report this dynamic.
For more information on our analysis of clean energy coverage in state media click HERE
Over the weekend, The Oklahoman introduced the first installment of a two-part series on "energy independence" that overwhelmingly focused on the oil and gas industry while failing to note its harmful effects on both the environment and public health. The reliance on oil industry sources is unsurprising given that the paper is owned by billionaire oil and gas tycoon Philip Anschutz.
Two days after the widespread publication of Mitt Romney's controversial declaration that 47 percent of Americans are "dependent on government," the largest newspaper in Nevada, a swing state in the 2012 election the 2012, has thus far failed to cover the story. Additionally, on September 18, the "Swing States Project" at the Columbia Journalism Review noted that another important swing state publication -- New Hampshire's Union Leader -- had also failed to cover the Romney comments.
A story published yesterday by the Columbia Journalism Review pointed out that the New Hampshire Union Leader -- New Hampshire's largest newspaper by circulation according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations -- had failed to cover Mitt Romney's comments that 47 percent of Americans will support Obama "no matter what" and that they are "dependent upon government."
While the Union Leader still has not published a news story on the topic, it did publish an editorial defending Romney's comments explaining that it was obviously a "statement of campaign strategy, not policy." From the editorial:
Naturally, the media portray this as Romney not caring about half the country. Absurd. It was a statement of campaign strategy, not policy, and every single national political reporter knows that.
In contrast to the Union Leader's limited attention to the issue, the Review-Journal -- Nevada's largest newspaper by circulation -- has not published anything on the subject at all, according to a Media Matters search of Nexis records and the Review-Journal website. In fact, despite not mentioning the comments once in its news or opinion sections, the Review-Journal has published two unrelated stories on Mitt Romney since Monday -- including a story discussing a private fundraiser Romney was planning on having in Las Vegas this Friday.
While 41 swing state newspapers made the Romney comments a front page story, the Review-Journal has mentioned it only once in an online-only blog post by opinion columnist and former publisher, Sherman Frederick, who, unsurprisingly, defended Romney for his "admirable truth-telling." Unfortunately, it seems that similar to the Union Leader, over 200,000 print subscribers of the Review-Journal can't count on their hometown paper to report a story with national implications if it doesn't look good for its preferred candidate.
As fact-checkers and media figures continue to slam the Fox News-turned-GOP convention slogan "We Built It," more business owners have come out of the woodwork to claim that they built their own businesses -- seemingly without the help of government. The Toledo Blade's convention coverage followed suit by dedicating several paragraphs to the latest small business owner to claim he "built it," despite evidence to the contrary.
Small business owner Steve Cohen -- a Republican Party adviser on small business issues since 2011 and the president of Screen Machines Industries in Etna, Ohio -- was given a speaking spot at the convention to discuss his business and how he "did build [his] company."
From the Toledo Blade:
Other speakers included Steve Cohen, president of Screen Machine Industries, a family-owned manufacturer of construction and mining equipment in Etna, Ohio, who listed problems he said can be helped or hurt by government, such as patent theft, tariffs, and unfair trade practices, regulations, and taxes.
"In addition, our international competitors do not have to face the upcoming costs associated with funding a multibillion-dollar health-care plan, overreaching emission standards, and the unnecessary war on coal. These factors create a tremendous disadvantage in the global market place, he said.
"And yes, we did build this company," Mr. Cohen said, using the line used by almost every speaker at the podium in the convention.
The problem with the Blade's presentation of Cohen's comments is that Cohen didn't, in fact, "build it" on his own. Cohen's company has received more than $2 million in federal contracts, including $220,000 in funds from Obama's stimulus program.
Given the continued distortion of Obama's comments for political advantage and the prominence of business owners who have supposedly "built it" on their own -- when in fact they have received millions in government funds -- one would expect the Blade to provide honest context for the public comments of political partisans.
This week, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review attacked information sessions set up by non-profit organizations to help undocumented youth navigate President Obama's deferred action plan while avoiding scammers. The Tribune-Review, relying almost entirely on a single article from The Hill, tried to minimize the importance of these sessions by framing the issue as partisan, strictly because some Democrats are participating. However, these sessions are a helpful and necessary tool for undocumented youth and their families to ensure that those eligible are taking advantage of the deferred action properly and avoiding scammers -- all at no cost to taxpayers.
From the Tribune-Review:
"Outreach" programs are being organized to help illegals "navigate applications," understand fees and avoid rip-offs, The Hill newspaper reports. This, after Mr. Obama sidestepped Congress and ordered that "qualified" illegals brought into the U.S. as children could remain here -- temporarily.
But if these are, in fact, talented, achievement-oriented people, then they shouldn't need the Democratic Party's "help" filling out immigration forms.
And how much is this "reach-out" going to reach into taxpayers' pockets?
Despite the Tribune-Review's assertion that the outreach programs are unnecessary because qualified undocumented youth "are, in fact, talented achievement-oriented people," these programs are an essential tool for immigrant communities to receive proper information about their rights under deferred action. Instead of providing information about the sessions, the editorial mocks those eligible, some of whom are potentially still in their early teens.
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Forest fire history, aspen and goat willow in a Fennoscandian old-growth landscape: are current population structures a legacy of historical fires?
Article first published online: 17 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01426.x
© 2012 International Association for Vegetation Science
Journal of Vegetation Science
Volume 23, Issue 6, pages 1159–1169, December 2012
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How to Cite
Lankia, H., Wallenius, T., Várkonyi, G., Kouki, J., Snäll, T. (2012), Forest fire history, aspen and goat willow in a Fennoscandian old-growth landscape: are current population structures a legacy of historical fires?. Journal of Vegetation Science, 23: 1159–1169. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01426.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 7 NOV 2012
- Article first published online: 17 MAY 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 3 APR 2012
- Manuscript Received: 1 FEB 2011
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- Aspen regeneration;
- Boreal forests;
- Disturbance dynamics;
- Fire history reconstruction;
- Populus tremula ;
- Salix caprea
Is the current aspen or goat willow populations in boreal old-growth forest a legacy of the historical fires?
A middle-boreal, old-growth forest landscape with a large proportion of wetlands in eastern Finland.
Forest fire history of a 2100-ha area was reconstructed using fire scars, forest age estimates and the presence or absence of charred stumps and charcoal particles in the soil in 63 systematically located plots. Age and size structures of aspen and goat willow were studied in a subsample of 12 plots.
During the past 400 yr, forest fires have been seven times more numerous in the study area than could be expected based on modern lightning fire statistics. The ages of mature aspens (average 177 and maximum 213 yr) and mature goat willows (average 111 and maximum 173 yr) were higher than earlier reported, strikingly so in goat willow. Aspen age structure clearly reflected the past fires. Most aspens originated from the beginning of the 19th century, during a period of frequent forest fires. The regeneration of aspen leading to mature trees has been very low since the cessation of forest fires in the late 19th century. In turn, goat willow has also regenerated in spite of the absence of fires.
The majority of the mature aspen trees were recruited at the time of the last fires, and there was a notable lack of middle-aged trees. This relationship to fires was not valid for goat willow. The main reason for the lack of young aspen cohorts in aspen populations in Fennoscandian old-growth stands is most likely the lack of forest fires. Small-scale gap dynamics cannot offset the lack of large-scale disturbances, such as forest fires, for the regeneration of aspen, possibly because of the prevailing herbivory and competitive effects. Hence, the population decline of aspen is likely to continue and to threaten a wealth of species specialized on aspen in boreal forests.


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On Nov. 27, 1942, during World War II, the Vichy French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of German troops.
On this date:
In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station officially opened.
In 1937, the musical revue "Pins and Needles," produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, opened in New York.
In 1939, the play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.
In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant.
In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.
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Ten years ago: U.N. specialists began a new round of weapons inspections in Iraq. President George W. Bush appointed former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to lead an investigation into why the government had failed to foil the September 11 attacks. (The following month, Kissinger stepped down, citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his business clients.) President Bush gave the go-ahead to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks.
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Team co-captains, Brittany Faas and Tasha Rotramel, were gracious in accepting our invitation and working with us for the photo shoot.
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I love blueberry teas. Although I suspect I have rather high standards. This one isn't a favorite. It has a slight "possibly" blueberry flavor. It actually reminds me a bit of black current flavoring. The aftertaste is perfumy. The base is smooth, not bitter or astringent.
I brewed this as a standard tea and then chilled in a pitcher overnight in the refrigerator.
Flavors: Black Currant, Blueberry, Perfume
Wow! This is amazing!
I was very hesitant about this month's Verdant Blends Box because I had read that the blends were going to be whiskey inspired, and I am not a huge fan of whiskey or nearly any other alcoholic drink. With this reservation, I opened the box and read the descriptions of this month's blends when the box arrived today. I was intrigued with the descriptions and decided to make a cup of this blend first. And, I love it! This is my favorite blend so far from this subscription.
The aftertaste is really fantastic. It is so rich and creamy and long lasting. All the flavors blend together so well that I have no idea how to describe the taste of this tea.
Flavors: Cacao, Caramel, Creamy, Sarsaparilla, Vanilla
This tea has a pleasingly light, crisp taste of citrus. It's fantastic as an iced tea. It is not at all bitter or astringent and the flavors are very light. It's like catching a whiff of orange and a hint of cream. The aftertaste is short, crisp, and mainly the black tea with a touch of creaminess. It's delicious and very refreshing, but it may be that I might prefer slightly more leaf or a longer steep time. I brewed this hot and chilled it overnight.
Flavors: Citrus, Creamy
This tea tastes just like French Vanilla should. It is creamy vanilla and reminds me of French Vanilla ice cream. I brewed this last night and when I tried it hot, it was too strong, too astringent. I put the rest in a pitcher to chill overnight in the refrigerator. When I tried it this morning, I decided it still needed to be diluted some. Now it's perfect. It is smooth, creamy, with a strong vanilla taste, and minor astringency. I just had to get the parameters correct for it to shine.
Flavors: Creamy, Vanilla
This has a pretty strong pear flavor. I find that Teavana teas usually have interesting names, but taste nothing like their monikers. This actually resembles pear though the taste is slightly artificial. It is intensely fruity with a slight green oolong aftertaste. Though the tea is pretty sweet without any added sweetener there is also a slight tartness. It makes a good iced tea, which is how I'm enjoying it now.
This is a nice fruity white tea. And, 52Teas does fruity white teas really well. When I opened the bag I smelled banana. Wonderful banana. I love banana flavored teas. I have to admit that I'm not really sure what passion fruit smells or tastes like. Once brewed, the banana aroma gives way to a more general fruity aroma and taste. The banana is still there, but much more subdued. My first tasting of this tea was hot. Now I am enjoying it iced. It is good either way though I think the maltiness of the white tea and the individual flavors come through better when drinking it hot. I also love the aftertaste. It is slightly malty, slightly fruity, and sweet. The second steeping tastes more like a plain white tea, the flavorings are much less prominent.
Strawberry ice!! This is what comes to mind when I drink this tea. This tea has the best strawberry flavor, sweet and natural. The crisp, light, bright flavor also evokes the sensation of being served with shaved ice. (This is not to be confused with amusement park slushies that have that icky artificial flavor and aftertaste.) The component I'm missing for it to be a milkshake experience is the cream (or is that more a texture than a flavor?). Doesn't matter. I really like this tea.
As is typical for me, I brewed this using hot water and then cooled it overnight in the refrigerator and have been enjoying chilled.
This tea is fantastic! I enjoy it hot and haven't tried it iced. This is unusual for me, but when I have small amounts of a tea, I'm less likely to make up a whole iced tea pitcher. And, when something is so good the first way you try it, it's hard to try it any other way.
I am absolutely amazed that the pecan taste is so realistic. It's very natural, right down to the slight astringency like effect that pecan skins can have for me. And, I'm not put off the way nut-flavored teas often do to me. The maple flavoring is also fantastic and why I bought the tea in the first place. I love maple flavoring. The aftertaste has a lovely long-lasting maple sweetness to it. The tea base is on the sour end of the tea spectrum, a bit astringent with a touch of woody flavor, and not sweet. Any sensation of sweetness is all due to the maple flavoring I think. It certainly isn't like any oolong I've had before. I honestly wasn't sure what I thought of it at first, but it has really grown on me. It matches the flavorings perfectly.


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The Office of Common Ground is currently accepting nominations for the Ally of the Year Award, an honor that will be presented to one faculty or staff member and one student who have had a positive impact on the LGBTQ community at University of Richmond.
"We are looking for dedicated allies who have really done the work to build community, promote equity and justice, and work in solidarity with the LGBTQ community on campus," said Ted Lewis, associate director of Common Ground for LGBTQ Campus Life.
Members of the LGBTQ community and allies of the community are eligible for the award, said junior Wesley Meredith, a co-facilitator of Student Alliance for Sexual Diversity.
Meredith said an ally could be someone who was not necessarily in the LGBTQ community, but a person who has made an established commitment to advocating for that community on campus.
"LGBTQ people in general remain a kind of vulnerable population," Glyn Hughes, director of Common Ground, said. "Being out and being visible comes with certain risks. So to have allies that recognize that and that are working with people who are vulnerable is really important to this sort of long term addressing of this vulnerability."
The Allies of the Year will be honored at the university's second Lavender Graduation Ceremony on April 17 in the Jepson Alumni Center, Lewis said.
"Lavender Graduation is a time for us to honor LGBTQ and ally seniors for all their hard work on campus and in the community," Lewis said.
Lewis said some students in the LGBTQ community were "out" at school, but were unable to be "out" at home, and could not share some of their achievements in this community with their families.
"We wanted to provide a space where we could fully recognize and celebrate all their great work," Lewis said. "We wanted to show them that their campus family cared for them and was there to honor their accomplishments."
Lavender Graduation, a ceremony that is also held at other universities around the country, was first held at Richmond last year as part of the inaugural year for LGBTQ Campus Life, Lewis said.
Meredith said the ceremony was called Lavender Graduation because the color lavender was a symbol of the LGBTQ community, and had been associated with early LGBTQ advocacy groups.
The ceremony features keynote addresses from a student and an alumnus and a procession of participating seniors from all five schools, Lewis said.
Meredith said in light of the recent controversial comments made by board of trustees member Paul Queally, Lavender Graduation was a much-needed time for healing among the LGBTQ community and its allies.
"It's a place where they can be affirmed in the work that they have done and not be so discouraged having someone who sits on the board of trustees who says these homophobic and misogynistic and trans-misogynistic comments," Meredith said. "Specifically with the Ally of the Year Award, it shows that their work is appreciated and that it's necessary, and that there are still a lot of folks on campus who value it very much."
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Blake Shelton Kicks Off Oklahoma Tornado Benefit With 'God Gave Me You'
Blake Shelton opened up his 'Healing in the Heartland' benefit for Oklahoma with a stirring rendition of his hit single 'God Gave Me You' on Wednesday night (May 29).
Blake Shelton opened up his 'Healing in the Heartland' benefit for Oklahoma with a stirring rendition of his hit single 'God Gave Me You' on Wednesday night (May 29).
Blake Shelton's 'Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert' began as a live telecast and web stream Wednesday night on NBC. It was highlighted by moving performances from Shelton, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Usher and more. All donations benefited the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund.
No good deed goes unpunished, apparently. Blake Shelton staged his 'Healing in the Heartland' benefit show for the victims of the tornado that struck Moore, Okla. on May 20 in record time. Naturally, took just minutes for the show to sell out... and even less time for some wrongdoers to miss the purpose of the charity event completely.
We'd like to say that Blake Shelton brought a healthy dose of country to the stage during the Memorial Day (May 27) episode of 'The Voice' but that wouldn't be entirely accurate, since the remainder of his Season 4 team is comprised entirely of country acts! But Shelton did show 'em all how it's done, opening the show with his latest hit 'Boys 'Round Here.'
Country star Blake Shelton is rushing to the rescue of his fellow Oklahoma natives by organizing and performing at the upcoming Healing in the Heartland benefit concert, which is set to air live on Wednesday night (May 29). And now even more stars have been added to the already impressive lineup.
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Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert brought their much-decorated ballad 'Over You,' which they penned together about the death of Shelton's brother, to 'The Voice' on Tuesday, performing the intimate and deeply personal song with a different purpose.
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Hemberger came to Houston in 1989, and was the anchor of Live at Five for nine years.
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Cooperation between Pennsylvania legislators and county judges, and not more court orders, offers the best opportunity for eventually creating a "unified judicial system," the state Supreme Court said.
In a ruling Wednesday, the court turned down the latest effort, led by Allegheny County, to force the state to provide full funding for all court services and employees. County courts are at present paid for with a combination of state and locally raised dollars.
County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said he was disappointed with the court's decision, but the county had not been counting on additional money from the state Legislature to help cover judicial costs in 2013. "They lose in court, but they still don't pay," he said.
The dispute dates to 1985. Allegheny County commissioners, citing the state constitution, had sought a judicial order directing the state, and not individual counties, to provide operating funds for all levels of the courts.
A divided state Supreme Court upheld the county's position in 1987, but the justices delayed enforcement "to afford the General Assembly an opportunity to enact appropriate funding legislation," according to the latest opinion. Several other court cases followed, and in 1996, a majority of the high court ordered that "the General Assembly enact a funding scheme for the court system on or before January 1, 1998."
Running parallel with the litigation, however, was improving governmental cooperation, the court said. Integration of computer operations and salaries for court administrators into the state budget represented progress in creating a unified system, according to the justices.
Also, timing was not good for shifting all court costs to the state, the justices found, because all branches of government were facing financial problems "as a result of a continuing economic crisis and concomitantly diminished revenues."
"In this context, we believe that the better course is for the further enhancements of the unified judicial system to be a product of inter-branch cooperation," the court said. "We are optimistic that recent progress on budgetary questions will continue."electionspa - state
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A researcher at MIT is promising to pay $100,000 to the individual or group of individuals who can prove that the creation of a functional and scalable quantum computer is impossible.
The award was prompted by an article describing the views of a quantum computing skeptic and a proponent. As part of the discussion Scott Aaaronson was challenged to support his opinion with real money, which he now did.
Aaronson himself believes that scalable quantum computers will be possible one day and he does not think that he will ever be forced to pay out the reward. To critics, who said that his challenge is similar to being asked to prove that there is no Bigfoot, he replied that there may be future discoveries in physics that could provide evidence against the quantum computer model, which would be enough for someone being entitled to collect the prize.
Aaronson said that he does not expect this evidence to ever surface, but he "would welcome [it] as the scientific thrill of [his] life." If he had to pay, he would consider it as an "honor" to do so: "For I'd then (presumably) simply be adding a little to the well-deserved Nobel Prize coffers of one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of physics."
In an update, Aaronson now challenged skeptics to put up a prize for "a demonstration that scalable quantum computing is possible." He added that he is "certainly not offering such a prize."
I offer $1,000,000 USD to anyone or any group of people that can scientifically prove
the apocalypse is coming 12/20/2012, to be paid out Jan 1st 2013.
You guys do realize he is doing this so people will TRY to prove him wrong and ADVANCE the science behind it right? Hes trolling you guys & you fell for it! LOL!
Don't...er...quantum computer prototypes already exist?
Don't...er...quantum computer prototypes already exist?
13jacobdrj , February 9, 2012 7:17 PMThe Vulcan Science Directorate has deemed time travel impossible, and we all know how THAT ended...
-6wiyosaya , February 9, 2012 7:19 PMSorry, but this is a bunch of crap, IMHO. I'll liken proving quantum computing impossible to proving psychic phenomena is true - both are something that cannot be done within the bounds of current scientific capabilities. So, this award is crap. They are only offering it to 1, make a name for themselves, and 2, because they know it is impossible and therefore their money is safe.
11irh_1974 , February 9, 2012 7:21 PMAhhhh, the old "You Can't Prove A Negative" arguement, I can see this decending into theology at any moment, people chunnering on about Russells Teapot or the Flying Spagetti Monster.
5shiftmx112 , February 9, 2012 7:29 PMThis sounds like a geekier version of a typical end of the night bar conversation.
I offer $1,000,000 USD to anyone or any group of people that can scientifically prove
the apocalypse is coming 12/20/2012, to be paid out Jan 1st 2013.
You guys do realize he is doing this so people will TRY to prove him wrong and ADVANCE the science behind it right? Hes trolling you guys & you fell for it! LOL!
11lashabane , February 9, 2012 8:04 PMirh_1974Ahhhh, the old "You Can't Prove A Negative" arguement, I can see this decending into theology at any moment, people chunnering on about Russells Teapot or the Flying Spagetti Monster.
Don't you be talking bad about my beloved Flying Spaghetti Monster.
5lamorpa , February 9, 2012 8:05 PMIs the Scott Aaaronson referred to in the first paragraph the same person as the Scott Aaronson referred to in the rest of the article? Maybe it's some sort of rating? Scott Aaa Ronson vs. Scott Aa Ronson? Is there a Scott Aronson or Scott Ronson of a lower rating?
6canadian87 , February 9, 2012 8:31 PMAll those who believe in Psychic Telepathy, raise my hand.
6Squall321 , February 9, 2012 8:56 PMWhere's Sheldon Cooper, when we need him
3jellico , February 9, 2012 8:58 PMThis is a sucker's bet. It is fundamental logic that you CANNOT prove a negative. Something is only impossible until it is not.
3Anonymous , February 9, 2012 8:59 PMIf I can Prove Quantum Computers is Impossible. $100,000 is not enough for me to pay for my debt for the equipment I purchase for the experiment,
0compton , February 9, 2012 9:03 PMSnooze....
2jay2tall , February 9, 2012 9:19 PMI bet you people will learn more out of trying to disprove this than they realize. I hope someday it is feasible. Who knows then.
4alidan , February 9, 2012 9:30 PMoh_noAn MIT "researcher" ?Wow, you can't prove a negative.What an idiot.
i can prove that 1+1 does not equal 3
im assuming that the same principals are at work... you also have to imagine that if you wanted to get a government grant for quantum computer research would be a hell of allot easier to get if you could also say that the greatest minds in the world are working to disprove the possibilities, so far they have come up with nothing.
3Anonymous , February 9, 2012 10:08 PMI'm not sure why so many people think you can't prove a negative. Spend ten minutes googling and you'll realise that's not correct. You are referring to unfalsifiable claims (which is where the flying spagetti monster comes in), which by definition cannot be disproven, but that does not mean every claim is unfalsifiable.
Google 'the halting problem' if you want a computing example of a proof of impossibility.
2stingstang , February 9, 2012 10:42 PMEasy for a quantum professor. Simply state why what we know consider a "Quantum Computer" doesn't have anything to do with quantum physics. Wish I could understand it just a little better.... I know that much, though.
0tgoyer , February 9, 2012 10:59 PMYou can't prove impossible. You can only prove improbable.