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"Begin!" My stomach twists as this word reverberates. Shutting out distractions, I focus on the paper in front of me and, inexplicably, become one with the #2 pencil I nervously grasp. Today is the U.S. History SAT II exam. U.S.A. Dixon Ticonderoga is emblazoned on the gold body of my trusty Old Yeller #2. Hopefully, this is a good omen for the exam. Dixon, I muse as my pencil heads for the paper. Thoughts of the Mason-Dixon Line invade my consciousness and a string of facts pounds my brain. Ticonderoga, I think, recalling the fort and the famous Green Mountain Boys. Clutching my pencil, I pretend to be a history expert, but the blank page of blisters dares me to prove it. We are compatriots, #2 and I, fighting yet another tough battle in the College Entrance War.
Crouching over the paper, I am ready for battle. Here goes nothing ... or everything ... or something in-between. Andrew Jackson, I decide, and fill in the first blank. The next question is about immigrants. My #2 waits patiently as my brain wanders from its horrid task. My grandparents were immigrants. I always listened to their stories intently. I fill in C.
I go on, prodding my pencil to darken the correct blister. I'm on a roll. There's an A, followed by C and E. Another omen? Wow! Will I really A-C-E this test? Oh, no! I've been distracted into playing an alphabet game. I crush Old Yeller against the paper until I regain focus. The pencil's point begins to dull. Both #2 and I are becoming numb. I shake my hand and look at the sheet. The blackened blisters form a pattern on the answer sheet; it resembles a ... no!
This Saturday morning is for facts, not charming analogies. We continue our skirmish. Suddenly, my pencil stops, awaiting a command, but there is none. A blank blister stares at me. I bite my pencil in frustration. Checking to make sure the numbers line up with the blisters, I watch them form into bubbles which float around me. Thousands of bubbles magically emerge from my #2 pencil-wand. Colorful rainbows appear on their chubby bellies as they glisten in the sun, and then ... pop! Reality intrudes. Hastily, I regroup as #2 blackens another circle. Go! Go! I have lost time. Then, I hear, "Time is up. Stop!"
Old Yeller drops to the desk. Wearily, I pass in the paper with its profusion of black bullet marks. I wonder if they represent triumph or defeat. Only time will tell. Though tired and a bit bruised, I am strangely relieved as I assure my golden friend that we will never give up. His color reminds me of New York City taxicabs. Like those cabs, he fought the traffic jam in my brain and navigated a world of bubbles. SATs, SAT IIs, and APs are strong opponents, but my soldier was brave. Though soft on the inside and a little scarred, #2 still has a few good inches left. I sharpen and store him for the next show of force. We will rest for a while but, all too soon, Old Yeller and I will valiantly battle once more.
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Mend-A Mathematica package for mending time series with missing observations and structural breaks
AbstractThe package implements a method for mending time series with missing observations and structural breaks. The method is described in Ekkehart Schlicht: "Trend Extraction from Time Series with Structural Breaks and Missing Observations", Journal of the Japan Statistical Society Vol. 38 (2008), No. 2, pages 285-292, freely available at http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjss/38/2/285/_pdf.
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Sarah A. Robert
Assistant Professor
Director, Social Studies Education Program
Affiliated Faculty, Global Gender Studies
Learning and Instruction
- Politics and Policies of Education Reform
- Teachers' Work and Teachers' Knowledge
- Gender
- Globalization and Neoliberalism
- Gender and Education
- Education Politics, Policies, and Reform in Comparative/International Perspective
- Social Studies Teaching and Curriculum
- Qualitative Methodologies
Educational Background
Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego
B.A., History and Political Science, University of Rochester, River Campus
NYS Teaching Certification, Secondary Education Social Studies, University of Rochester, Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
My research focuses on understanding how teachers' work and teachers' knowledge are affected by neoliberal education reform. I am specifically concerned with how teachers understand and then do policy in and out of the classroom. I often look at the ways gender is involved in these struggles for educational change and equity. I focus on educational reform in the Americas, particularly in Argentina and the United States. In these contexts I conduct ethnographic and qualitative studies of global reform initiatives from the perspective of local communities.
I was a certified social studies teacher in New York State. I have lived and taught in three nations: Argentina, Costa Rica, and the United States. As a result of my experiences I strive to incorporate global, diverse, and interdisciplinary perspectives into my classes. I teach Master and doctoral-level courses about curriculum and instruction / teaching, gender, and social studies. I also direct the Social Studies Education Program.
Full academic CV available on Web site.
For more information about Global Gender Studies go to the home page.
*Denotes a graduate student co-author or co-presenter.
Edited Books
Robert, S. A. and M. B. Weaver-Hightower (Eds.). (2011). School Food Politics: The Complex Ecology of Hunger and Feeding in Schools around the World. New York: Peter Lang. Global Studies in Education.
- 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) for making an outstanding contribution to scholarship in the Social Foundations of Education field.
For reviews see:
Konrad, A. (2012, December). In Food, Culture, & Society 15(4): 688-691.
Latham, K. (2012, March 2). Teachers College Record.
Journal Articles
Robert, S. A. & McEntarfer, H.K.* (2014, in press). Understanding teachers' gendered work and the policies that sustain it. Anthropology & Education Quarterly45(3).
Robert, S. A. (2013). Incentives, teachers, and gender at work. Education Policy Analysis Archives 21(10).
Robert, S. A. (2012). "You must say goodbye at the school door:" Reflections on the tense and contentious practices of an educational researcher-mother in a neoliberal moment. Workplace: A journal for academic labor 21.
McEntarfer, H. K.,* Skiba, D., Robert, S. A. (2012). Entering into dialogue with the taboo: Reflective writing in a social work human sexuality course. Journal of Writing Research 4(1): 81-105.
Robert, S. A. (2012). (En)gendering responsibility. A critical news analysis of Argentina's education reform, 2001-02. DISCOURSE: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 33(4): 1-14 .
Robert, S. A. (2009). Misturando-se nas universidades brasileiras: Analisando processos de globalização em políticas de ação afirmativa. [Blending into Brazil's universities: A content analysis of Affirmative Action policies]. Currículo sem fronteiras 9(1): 193-213.
Gvirtz, S. & Robert, S.A. (2002). A new source for reconstructing the history of education and the classroom: Argentine primary school multi-task notebooks. History of Education Review 31(1): 69-80.
Mehan, H. B. & Robert, S. A. (2001). Thinking the nation: Representations of nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian textbooks. Narrative Inquiry 11(1): 195–215.
Book Chapters
Robert, S. A. & Martell, A. E.* (forthcoming). Examining change in gender representations: Argentina's history textbooks, 1941-1999. In J. H. Williams, (Ed.), Textbooks, Identity, Nation and State, vol 2. (Re)Building Memory: School Textbooks, Identity, And The Pedagogies And Politics Of Imagining Community. Boston: Sense Publishers.
Robert, S.A.. (2013, October). School Lunch and Gender. In Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan, eds., Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. New York: Springer Reference.
Robert, S.A., McEntarfer, H.K.,* & Amin, K. (2013). The Tale of the Teacher Educator and Storyteller: Pedagogical Counterstories to Lecturing in a Teacher Education Program. In E. Daniels and B. Porfilio, eds., Dangerous Counterstories in the Corporate Academy: Narrating for understanding, solidarity, resistance, and community in the age of Neoliberalism. Charlotte,NC: Information Age Publishing.
Robert, S.A. & McEntarfer, H.K.* (2013). Gender inequality: Occupational segregation of teachers. In J. Ainsworth and G. J Golson, eds., Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide. New York: Sage.
Robert, S.A. & Swalwell, K. (2013). Fieldtrips. In J. Ainsworth and G. J Golson, eds., Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide. New York: Sage.
Robert, S.A. (2013). Textbooks. In J. Ainsworth and G. J Golson, eds., Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide. New York: Sage.
Robert, S. A. & Kovalskys, I. (2011). Defining the "Problem" with School Food Policy in Argentina. In School Food Politics: The Complex Ecology of Hunger and Feeding in Schools around the World, eds. S. A. Robert and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower. New York: Peter Lang.
Robert, S. A. (2010). Cravin' the Cravens School-University Learning Experiences. In Peter H. Biehl, Ed., Cravens' World, pp 39-42. Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo Art Galleries.
Robert, S. A. (2001). ¿Qué o quién controla los cambios de género en la historia nacional? El caso de los factores de produción. [What or who controls change in gender in the national history? The case of production factors.] In Los libros de texto como objeto de estudio. [Studying Textbooks], eds., M. Rodriguez and P. Dobaño Fernandez. Buenos Aires: Editorial La Colmena.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Robert, S. A. (2000, August 2-5). ¿Quién determina la historia nacional? Representaciones de género en los manuales de historia Argentina, 1941-1999. [Who determines national history? Gender representations in Argentine history textbooks, 1941-1999.] In the Instituto Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género, Voces en conflicto, espacios de disputa [Conflicting voices, disputed spaces]: Proceedings from the VI Jornada de historia de las mujeres y I Congreso Iberoamericano de estudios de las mujeres y de género [CD], Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Invited Book Reviews
Robert, S. A. & Smith, A.* (2009, April). Review of Reforming Teaching Globally, edited by Maria Teresa Tatto. Education Review available at: http://www.edrev.info/reviews/rev790.htm.
Robert, S. A. (2007, October 25). Review of Could it be otherwise? Parents and the inequities of public school choice, by Lois N. Andre Bechely. Teachers' College Record.
Robert, S. A. (2004, July 30). Sindicalismo docente y reforma en América Latina (Teachers' unions and reform in Latin America), edited by Guillermina Tiramonti and Daniel Filmus. Education Review available at: http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev288.htm. (Available in English and Spanish).
Policy or Issue Responses
Robert, S. A. (2011, May 19). "Buffalo's frustrated parents using their clout wisely." Buffalo News, Another Voice/Public Education.
Robert, S. A. (2010). "Does lecturing have a place in the social studies classroom?" Social Science Docket 10(2): 5.
Robert, S. A. (2007, July). "It's time for change: Addressing the work and personal life conflict in the academy. In The Gender and Education Association Newsletter.
Working Papers
Mehan, H. B. & Robert, S. A. (2000). 'Thinking the nation': Representations of nations and the Pacific Rim in Latin American and Asian textbooks. University of California at San Diego, Pacific Rim Program at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Working Paper #19.
Robert, S. A. (1999). Resources for studying the Greater Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. San Diego: International Studies for Teacher Education Project / ISTEP.
Selection of Invited Presentations
Robert, S. A. (2014). Gender, Teaching, and Neoliberalism. Universidad de la Frontera, Chile.
Robert, S. A. (2014). Gender, Teaching, and Educational Reform. University of Wisconsin-Madison. February 7.
Robert, S. A. (2013). Keynote Speaker for Western New York Regional Competition of National History Day.Hosted at Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, March 9.
Robert, S. A. (2011). "Rebuilding Community Food Systems: Opportunities for Multidisciplinary Research." Buffalo Food Policy Summit Research Roundtable, sponsored by the UB Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, School of Architecture and Planning and UB Civic Engagement and Public Policy Research Initiative. (http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/civic/buffalo...)
Robert, S. A. (2009). "International gender expertise: What in the world does this mean?" Two-day workshop sponsored by the Transatlantic Applied Research on Gender Equity Training Project (TARGET)/ EU-funded QUING project (Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies in Europe, 2007-2011). Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Selection of Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
Robert, S.A. (2014, April). Caring about high school teachers' work. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Robert, S.A. (2014, March). Come see how we work! Teachers, policy demands, and misalignments at the street-level. Paper presented at the meeting of the Comparative & International Education Society, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Robert, S.A. (2013, April). "Come see how we get work!" What 21st Century teachers need to know to teach. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, San Francisco, CA.
Robert, S.A. (2013, April). Incentives and teachers' decision-making processes. Lessons from Argentina. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, San Francisco, CA.
Robert, S.A. (2010, May). Teachers at work and policy at work. What is the relationship? Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, Denver, CO.
Robert, S.A. & Kovalskys, I. (2010, May). A Hunger For Education: High School Feeding Programs, Teachers' Work, And Education Politics In Argentina. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, Denver, CO.
Robert, S.A. (2009, March). Public work / private lives: Engendering education policy analysis and teachers' labor arrangements. In S.A. Robert (Chair), Gender as a useful concept for comparative educational policy analysis. Panel conducted at the meeting of the Gender and Education Association, London, England.
Kelly, K. & Robert, S.A. (Co-chairs). (2009, April). Gender Journeys: Mainstreaming policy travels around the world. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Charleston, SC.
Robert, S.A. (2008, March). A hunger for education: High school feeding programs, teachers' labor, and gender politics in Argentina. Paper presented at the meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, New York, NY.
Robert, S.A. (2006, November). Practicing policy or practicing a vocation: Analyzing Argentina's post-educational decentralization policies from teachers' perspectives. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA.
Robert, S.A. (2003, May). Argentine Educational Decentralization: A gender regime for the analysis of the changing state-civil society relationship. Paper presented at the meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, LA.
Robert, S.A. (2000, August). ¿Quién determina la historia nacional? Representaciones de género en los manuales de historia argentina, 1941 – 1999. [Who determines national history? Gender representations in Argentine history textbooks, 1941 – 1999]. Paper presented at the meeting of the Ibero-American Congress for the Study of Women and Gender [Congreso Iberoamericano de Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género]. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Robert, S.A. (2000, March). You've come a long way, baby? Populist definitions of gender roles and the family in Perón's and Menem's history textbooks. Paper presented at the Fourth Conference on the Pacific Rim, University of California, San Diego, CA.
AWARDS / GRANTS (representative selection)
Co-PI, UB Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo (DHIB) Research Work Group Grant "Serious Play and the Cravens Collection" December 1, 2009 - July 31, 2011.
Co-PI, UB Humanities Institute Research Workshops "Time and Memory"; PI; September 1, 2009 – June 15 2010.
Principal Investigator, UB2020 Scholar's Fund "Cravin' the Cravens: A plan to foster K-12 school-university learning experiences using the Cravens Collection Project" April 2009 - December 2010.
**University-wide competitive grant. Only 28% of proposals were awarded funding. For details see: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2009_06_17/2020_scholars_fund
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship "Gender, Education Reform, and Teachers' Work," 2005.
U.S. Department of Education Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program –
Academic Year Award to study Brazilian Portuguese and take further coursework on historical, social, political concerns of Brazil and its South American neighbors in relation to globalization / neoliberalization, 2004.
Tinker-Nave Travel Grant for Pre-Dissertation Fieldwork, "Pilot Study: Teachers and Gender Policy Regimes," 2003.
Wisconsin – Spencer Foundation Doctoral Research Program, 2002-2006.
Ford Foundation Conference Fellow - Prepare and lead textbook analysis workshop for all fellows and conduct textbook research ahead of the Fourth Conference on the Pacific Rim, Building new societies: Women in Asia and Latin America. University of California, San Diego, Latin American Studies Program, 2000.
Spencer Foundation Mentorship Grant with Dr. Hugh B. Mehan to study sociology of education and textbook/curricular analysis, specifically, 1999.
Tinker Foundation Travel Grant for International Fieldwork - "Gender representations in history textbooks," 1999.


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RECOMMENDATION AND GIVEAWAY: The Far West
The first time I put The Far West in the CD player, I immediately looked at my husband and said, "Whiskeytown." The first song on the record, "Bitter, Drunk, and Cold," seems like it could have been recorded during the same session as a B-side like "Kiss & Make Up". Along with the killer slide parts and the traditional country shuffle, the lyrics are great: standard themes, but well-written and blunt in a really attractive "revivalist golden-era" way:
When I first came here, I guess I was in love
I heard wedding bells, I saw the white dove
But one shoe dropped, and the other fell
I broke her heart and it went to hell
This town has made me bitter, drunk, and cold
And really, I'm a sucker for that combination: slide guitar, leisurely country, solid, direct lyrics– but The Far West has that x-factor which makes a disk stand out. The band is a combination of four talented musicians who've played all across the country (and across all genres– drummer Tony Sanborn has played jazz and zydeco as well as Americana). Lyricist and singer Lee Briante brings a classic sound to the vocals– he's got the same ambling quality of a Guy Clark or a John Hiatt, but he's surrounded by, for the most part, much honky-tonk-ier music than that. It's hard for me to listen to this at all and not think of Stranger's Almanac. This is clearly the right combination of musicians and parts.
In songs like, "A Town Called Lonesome," Briante's drawl makes the song feel warmer and sadder, all while maintaining enough of a distance to listen to it without getting too sad. This is a pretty unique trait: a lot of the best country (and yes, I'm looking at Townes Van Zant) can be so dark and so sad that I feel both enveloped in it and changed by it. The Far West has made a CD that comes to you where you are and offers what you need in that place, whether it's a good country song to have on in the background, or something a little more substantive in a time of genuine need. As if the band weren't strong enough, bassist Robert Black is an equally strong writer, and with lyrics like–
I'm like a ghost, I walk these streets, and no one sees me go
And even in a crowd I feel alone
When she looks up at the stars tonight, they're the same ones that I see
But I know she's not thinking of me
– "A Town Called Lonesome" takes what could have been too much metaphor, too much hyperbole and hits at the core of the problem. If it seems like I'm impressed with the lyrics, I am; as much with their economy as anything. Black is able to pack gutpunches into syllables, and that's effective in this kind of alt-country.
The Far West- Bound to Lose by The Far West
These songs are certainly a collection for the lost, rambling, and lonely– most of them examine why or how a relationship failed. Of course, that's common in country music. But that's also what makes songs like "Bound to Lose" stand out. Sped up like a train, it tells the story of leaving the east coast for the west.
Left my home so I could be alone
You know I left my home when I got that urge to roam
I'm bound to lose, bound to lose
See them girls look so pretty and so fine
You know they break my heart
Nearly every single night
Oh, oh, I'm bound to lose, bound to lose
It's an almost lighthearted look at the fear and anxiety behind relocating– something pretty close to my heart. I really love this song, and I think it's mostly because there's a killer (almost metal-y, scales-ish) guitar part behind the end of the song. The slide guitar is phenomenal on the entire disk (and in fact, I've heard that the slide player, Erik Kristiansen, played with Ryan Adams on the ridiculously mysterious "SnowKobra" record), but the guitar is equally entrancing. I've seen this classified as "Wilco-meets-Waylon," and while I see the comparison, I see a little more Uncle Tupelo– this is rougher than Wilco.
But there's this strange, mournful quality over some of these songs, perhaps best evident in "Good Lord Willing." Most of the lyrics are, "Good Lord willing/ And the creek don't rise," with shorter lyrics woven in between– "He's going to cure the sick/ He's going to heal the blind"; "I got fire in my belly/ I got dust in my eyes"; and my favorite, "Come on little baby, we can make it if we try." There's an urgency in this song that can only be chalked up to the ethereal music and howl of the slide guitar. The guitar part in between verses feels very much like an old Western radio show– dark and expansive. This song is one of those weird gems that you instantly know you'll be listening to for a long time. I am pretty hooked on it. Some of the prettiest slide.
Overall, The Far West have put together a phenomenal 15-song effort, and each track feels like a fully realized song. I am really digging this CD, and I have a feeling this is the kind of music that could blow up in the alt-country scene; gritty and dusty, but also extremely polished writing.
BUT. Since this CD did remind me of Whiskeytown, I thought I would go ahead and do my first KDR Cleans House Giveaway!
The night I got this CD, I was actually a little sad– it was the last "Ryan Adams" record I didn't have at the time, and I knew that would be it for a while before he released a new one. But I drove around all night– pitch dark– out in some of the prettiest country in southern Indiana. My favorite song was and is "Jacksonville Skyline", maybe because I think the lyrics
Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight
Seems like you're lucky if it ever changes from red to green
I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And fifty cent picture frames bought at the five and dime
are some of the best Adams has ever written. And that is saying something, friends. But I would venture as far as to say that this record should be counted in his catalogue– yeah, it's with Whiskeytown (and for some reason, people write that off), but it's got the punch of his writing and the best musicianship of any of their disks. So I wasn't shocked to find out that not only did I have a copy, so did my husband… which means we can pass one on to you!
I could talk about this disk forever, but I won't…
TO ENTER TO WIN: Leave a comment here or on the Facebook page telling me about your favorite night-driving CD. Winner will be drawn at random in two weeks (10/27).
I will send these anywhere in the continental United States. There will be more chances to win different CDs soon.
These are used CDs. The CDs work and come with the jacket; cases may reflect use.
5 Responses to "RECOMMENDATION AND GIVEAWAY: The Far West"
Caught The Far West when they played a last minute gig at a local club here in Tucson while they were on their way to SXSW. Loved the show, love the record, have shared it around and played it alot. Your review is spot on!
Lately my favorite night driving CD is Peter Wolf's Sleepless, aptly titled and mostly for the song Holdin on to Nothin but the WheeL with Mich Jagger. What a tune. I am old enough to have been a J Geils Band fan back in the 70s. Didn't check out his solo catalog until the last couple years and have really grown to appreciate his varied talents.
Thanks for reminding us what a great tune Jacksonville Skyline is. Got Ryan's new one today – off to give it a listen now.
And thanks especially for helping spread The Far West word!
I saw The Far West play in Austin with Mike Stinson this year and was blown away by this band I'd never even heard of before, what a pleasant surprise. I think your review encapsulates them nicely and I can't wait to get my own copy of their disc.
It's a toss-up but for night driving I'm partial to Wilco's "A Ghost Is Born" becaust it's so atmospheric or Dale Watson's "Cheatin Heart Attack" which is just so groovin!
Right on the money with your Whiskeytown comparison. Reminds me of the year I spent driving and and listening to "Faithless Street" while my ex and I were realizing things weren't going to work out. Songs of heartbreak and and despair somehow can lift your spirit when everything seems to be crashing down around you. On a brighter note way back when I used to date a woman who lived about an hour or so from home. Driving home in the middle of the night through Central Illinois with Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" blasting just felt right. The lonesome wail of his voice, the siren call of the harmonica, and the simple yet arresting lyrics all combined to make those lonely rides just that much more.


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Amit Klein recently released details on DNS server cache poisoning attacks that affect both BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) and Windows DNS servers. It goes to show that every time you think a problem with a well-known protocol or service has been solved, it may not be.
[ RogerGrimes's column is now a blog! Get the latest IT security news from the Security Adviser blog. ]
DNS has been with us since 1983 – nearly as long as the Internet. And although DNS RFCs have come and gone, DNS is still very similar to its original specifications. Certainly it has grown in feature set and complication, but it still has the same underlying security problems it did when it was invented by Paul Mockapetris. The biggest problem is the lack of default authentication. Several security mechanisms have been created for DNS with varying degrees of success (and failure) to solve the authentication problem, but it is still relatively easy to fake a DNS packet to either a DNS server or an unwitting client.
Klein's last find involved two discoveries, both of which allow important parts of a DNS server packet to be forged with trivial effort. The first implementation error involves the DNS UDP source port. Although it should be randomized to prevent forging, it turns out that the source port never changes the whole time the DNS server is up and running. The second, and more important, problem is the trivial predictability of the transaction ID value. Both errors allow DNS server packet information to be predicted and forged.
An attacker can send a malicious Web page link and induce an end-user to click on the link. The clicked link sends off a DNS client query, which can be forged, sending the end-user to a bogus location. DNS has been found vulnerable in the same way before. In fact, Klein laments, "It is saddening to realize that 10-15 years after the dangers of predictable DSN transaction ID were discovered" that DNS software is still susceptible to transaction ID exploitation.
Klein reported his findings to BIND's caretakers, the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), in late May and to Microsoft in April. Both the ISC and Microsoft have released patches or updated software. Thanks are due to Amit Klein for his research and responsible disclosure.
Overall, Microsoft's DNS implementation has been relatively secure. The last major security update to Windows DNS was in Windows 2000 SP2 and SP4, as well as Windows Server 2003 (nearly five years ago). BIND is the most popular version of DNS server software used on the Internet, and its overall security track record has been a bit more active over the years, as one would expect with more popular software. BIND versions 8.x and 9.x have had at least six different vulnerabilities published.


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CD Projekt RED have updated their website with details surrounding the forthcoming patch update 1.3, which currently has no official release date from the developer, however, they have provided anxious players with the current changelog, which highlights a free DLC addition along with the patch.
New FREE DLC – "A Sackful of Fluff" is a new quest in Chapter 2 of the game. To start the quest, visit the eccentric Elthon, who inhabits a solitary hut near the quarry outside Vergen. The quest will prove most rewarding to those who demonstrate patience.Beyond that, the changelog is actually pretty damn dense in the way of updates, additions, bug fixes etc. For a better look, check out the team's official PDF.
Stay tuned for details on the Patch 1.3's official release as soon as we hear it from CD Projekt RED.
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Silly Canes, You Don't Know What You're Talking About
Posted by William Kristoph
Thanks to Rich at ChantRant for the heads up on this…
As usual a Cane can't get his story right.
Look, on any other day I'm willing to debate the merits of any coach at any school and why they should or should not be there. I defended Mike Martin today, but I will continue to defend his coaching decisions throughout the 2008 post-season. And let's not forget that I don't defend idiot Seminole fans spitting on Canes players at Dick Howser Stadium, but I don't think the overdone celebration was anything for Miami to be pleased about during the regular season either. That was classless too. Anyway, Canes305 is spouting off about a situation without giving everyone the cold, hard facts.
Read the sixth-to-last paragraph from this 2004 USA Today article, where the Walkie-Talkie incident is explained.
You can call Mike Martin classless for not shaking hands with Jim Morris. Walkie-Talkie Gate is the reason that Mike Martin has not shaken Jim Morris's hand in the last 4 seasons. That's why he won't in the future. It has nothing to do with the College World Series, being sore losers or running away from anything.
Listen 305, if you want to attack Martin, there are plenty of better ways to do it. And I've heard plenty about how Seminole fans are treated at Mark Light Stadium, so please don't preach how hospitable Hurricanes fans are. Every fanbase has idiots, and every point has a counter-point, but at least provide the whole story if you're going to argue a point.


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he new school year often finds parents shopping for clothes and supplies, but the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) wants to remind them about immunization requirements before the school year begins.
Individuals falling into any of the following groups are required to receive immunizations: childcare facilities, preschool and pre-kindergarten; kindergarten; entering seventh grade; new students to Tennessee; and higher education. The most common vaccinations required include:
In preparation for the fall semester, the SCHD will offer special hours at public health clinics to accommodate busy schedules and help alleviate long lines during the back-to-school rush.
Public health clinics (listed below) will be open this Saturday, Aug. 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Work has started on the N.C. Fallen Firefighters memorial in Nash Square downtown.
Workers had put construction fencing around the center of the park Monday afternoon.
The memorial, which will include a sculpture of 6-foot bronze firefighters, is expected to be finished by Christmas, Raleigh Fire Capt. Andy Woodall said. It will honor firefighters statewide who died in the line of duty.
It is being built for about $250,000, all of it privately donated, Woodall said. The sculptor is Carl Regutti of Cary.


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Two people were shot late Saturday night while walking to an apartment in Inverness. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office says the shooting was a result of a robbery. Deputies responded to a report of a shooting at approximately 10:50 p.m. in the 6600 block of Whitetail Drive, which is in the Lakes of Inverness apartments.
The victims, a husband and wife, were treated on scene and transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Both are expected to survive.
The suspects have not been identified, but are said to be three males who fled the scene in a silver or gray SUV with items taken from the victims. Two of the suspects had their faces covered.
If you have any information regarding this case, you are urged to contact the Shelby County Sheriff's Office at 669-4181.


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The Dataverse Network at Odum contains one of the oldest and largest catalog of machine-readable data in the U.S. It has an extensive collection of U.S. Census data, including one of the most complete holdings for 1970 Census files. Other major sources of data include the North Carolina State Data Center, which distributes North Carolina census data, and the National Center for Health Statistics. Many studies are public, but some studies are restricted to only UNC affiliates.


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I have come not to praise Perry Fewell, because that would elicit laughter and undermine whatever credibility I might have amongst Giant fans. But I am not going to bury him either which puts me in a minority since the shouts of "Fire Perry Fewell" have become so pervasive they have rendered similar cries for Tom Quinn's departure as merely background noise.
I championed Perry Fewell as a good choice to replace Bill Sheridan even before his name was on the radar of the team's beat reporters, so I feel that I should be the one to make a defense for the man now. Even the Devil has an advocate, so Fewell deserves one as well.
This isn't to say that he has done a great job. He hasn't. But he has had a lot of circumstances turn against him which makes the bad look worse than it is. Barring a collapse in the last three games of the season, he deserves another season. Here's why…
In 2009 under first year defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan, the Giants gave up 26.7 points per game (third-worst in the NFC), the team only had 13 interceptions and 11 fumble recoveries, both towards the bottom of the pack. He was sent packing.
In 2010, Fewell's first year, with largely the same personnel, the turnovers were way up (16 picks, 23 fumble recoveries) and the defense gave up the third least yards in the NFC. And those numbers would have been better if it wasn't for the offense's propensity to turn the ball over and the special teams' inability to help out with field position. Most Giant fans agreed that the defense was a lot better.
He made improvement without major personnel changes, he can do so again – especially with more talent.
We all like to say that using injuries as an excuse is… well, an excuse. To be sure, the other teams won't feel sorry for us. But we have seen how teams will fall off with the subtraction of just one important cog. Here is a projected Depth Chart from Bleacher Report from before the season began. Let's see how that panned out:
· Osi Umenyiora (Starter) – Missed five games, still injured
· Justin Tuck (Starter) – Missed three games, still injured; not impactful remainder of the time
· Marvin Austin (Premier Backup) – Missed Season
· Michael Boley (Starter) – Missed two games
· Jonathan Goff (Starter) – Missed season
· Clint Sintim (Key Reserve) – Missed Season
· Terrell Thomas (Starter) – Missed Season
· Prince Amukamara (Premier Reserve) – Missed nine games
· Bruce Johnson – Waived after Injury
· Kenny Phillips (Starter) – Missed one game, still injured
The replacements in many of these cases were unproven rookies who, despite upside, played poorly enough that the likes of Chase Blackburn – a likeable enough guy whose limitations were well known to all – was able to jump right in and start for us midseason despite being a Free Agent all year.
NFL defenses are as complicated as the offenses they are supposed to contain. Having your personnel be a jigsaw puzzle week-to-week (sometimes play-to-play) with players taking on different responsibilities is a recipe for failure. The worst problems with the defense have been big plays caused by miscommunication. That shouldn't be a huge shock.
Starting with the offseason, the work stoppage shortened training camps and kept rookies at bay for months. While this was problematic for all teams, it would have a greater effect on a team that would go on to suffer major injuries at key positions and then have to fill a lot of those minutes with rookies.
Then the season started: We have played five games out of 13 against the four top offenses in terms of yards per game (Green Bay, New Orleans, New England and the Eagles twice). We also played Dallas, who is 7th in total offense (and have to play them again). That's nearly half our games against the elite offensive teams with the best quarterbacks in the league. Teams with better statistical defenses have not had to deal with this juggernaut. Sometimes you have to take this into account.
Nobody is going to complain that the Giants offense is explosive, though many of us have complained about the team's lack of a running game. But both of those factors have led to the defense being on the field a lot longer than would be ideal. Yes, if they did better on third down, they could help themselves in this regard. But with an offense that has trouble sustaining drives and seems to do best with quick strikes, they keep the defense on the field (the Giants offense TOP is 29:53, good for only 19th in the league).
Additionally, our Special Teams, while not the debacle they have been in recent years, is still not a strength: We are around the league average in kickoff and punt return yardage allowed. Lawrence Tynes only has 6 touchbacks (21st in the league, his TB percentage is 25th) and he is only 23rd in kickoff yards. The other team returns more kicks and gets less starts at the 20 than others. These shortened fields don't help the defense at all.
Overall, the Giants opponents start their drive on average at the 28.25 yard line, which is 18th in the league. Improve that below average number and the defense has their backs to the wall a lot less often. (To compare, the 49ers have the best defensive starting position. You don't think this helps their top-ranked defsne?)
So a lot of the defenses bad numbers comes about from an offense that is frequently all or nothing and special teams which are at best average. Improve the running game and the Special Teams and the defense will have an easier job. Don't and don't be shocked with less than stellar statistics.
As bad as things have been with regard to points, yards, an inability to get off the field on third down, we still manage to be tied for 5th in the conference for takeaways (ahead of hyped defensive teams such as Dallas, Atlanta and Philadelphia) so when we have guys in position to make plays, they are doing it.
While the play of many of our young players thrust into many more NFL minutes at this stage in their careers has not helped the defense, it will probably help them. They are developing, they are learning. We were all impressed with the raw talent our linebackers had. They might not be ready for prime time but next year, with their accelerated learning curve, they should be ready to step up.
Combine that with the fact that we just cannot have those kinds of injuries again (I mean, really, this has to even out eventually, right?) means that if we can have some continuation that Perry Fewell can also up his game and return the Giants Defense to the source of pride that Giants fans have become accustomed to.


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Flooding due to Tropical Storm Andrea appears to have been a bigger issue in Charlotte and surrounding Mecklenburg County on Thursday, than it is so far Friday.
However, WBTV Ashley Batey says to prepare for a very wet Friday. She says some communities can still receive an additional inch of rain as some bands of weather are still expected to move through the Charlotte area.
A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for most of the viewing area until 6 p.m. Friday evening due to the anticipated heavy downpours from Andrea.
"The highest Doppler estimated totals have been in eastern Burke and western Catawba counties, but those totals are still estimates and around an inch," Batey said.
Batey added: "A good bet that many may still see an inch before all moves out, but that wraparound moisture that the models were showing (Thursday) has backed off significantly, thus the much lower estimates."
"Shower activity becomes sporadic after (7am). Showers will still be in the forecast even tonight," Batey said.
Several creeks, including Sugar, McAlpine and Briar Creeks flooded on Thursday.
High waters along the Sugar Creek Greenway in midtown and Dilworth shut down Freedom Park before 6 p.m. Thursday night. As of Friday morning, the park is still closed.
The fast moving waters of the creek nearly reached a bridge over it and completely covered a walkway popular with runners like Brian Garrett, of Charlotte.
"I didn't expect it to be flooding the actual path," he said. "So I'm a little surprised at that -- the amount of rain. I knew we were getting a lot but not this much."
But others like James Watt who lives next to the park, said he used to the high waters.
"Anytime we've had really big rains, it's really narrow so it fills up fast," he said.
The S.C. Emergency Management Division, county emergency managers and state agencies are watching the latest forecasts and planning as necessary.
Severe weather, tornadoes, heavy rains and flooding have already impacted many areas this week.
"The bigger concern will be Friday. During the morning commute, we will see heavy downpours and flooding will be possible throughout the day on Friday," Batey said.
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Southampton's Iain Percy denied third Olympic sailing gold
1:57pm Sunday 5th August 2012 in News By Daily Echo Reporter
SOUTHAMPTON'S Iain Percy was denied a third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the last 100 metres of a dramatic final race at Weymouth.
Swedish yachtsmen Fredrik Loof and Max Salminen denied Percy and crewmate Andrew Simpson gold in the Star class.
The defending Olympic champions sailed exceptionally throughout the week and came into today's medal race with an eight-point lead over Brazil's Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada.
However, it was Sweden, not Brazil, that proved Percy and Simpson's undoing as the Brits slipped from fifth to seventh in the final few metres.
Just minutes after the race finished, Percy said: "It feels cruel, sometimes. It was ridiculous conditions at the end. We feel a little robbed, but that is the way it goes."
Simpson added: "You are never 100% confident. We didn't get it right and can't blame anyone but ourselves. We had a great regatta overall, and we are really frustrated. We tried our hardest, but it wasn't to be."
The British pair came into the medal race with a comfortable lead, knowing fourth place or better would guarantee them gold.
They also needed to finish sixth or higher should third-place Sweden win the medal race, which, unfortunately for Percy and Simpson, they did.
Britain entered the final leg of the race in sixth but slipped away in the last 100 metres to finish seventh, handing Loof and Salminen gold on the Nothe Course.
Percy said: ''We just got it wrong and it is pretty gutting for sure. It is our fault and we will take it on the chin.''
Commenting on the Team GB fans cheering them on, he added: ''Just going past and getting the applause - we are hurting so much, it makes it so much easier that they (the fans) are happy for us.
''It is going to be a highlight of my life and probably the only thing that puts a smile back on my face.''
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Several years ago my mom put together an online recipe catalog of our family recipes, many of which I had never seen or heard of before. This Bombay chicken is a recipe passed down from my great aunt Mary. It is incredibly simple, but the red potatoes dress it up making it perfect for entertaining.
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- 1.5 pounds chicken breast
- 8 medium red potatoes, quartered
- 1 cup dry sherry (or cooking wine)
- 4 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- 4 teaspoons sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 0.25 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place chicken breasts and red potatoes in a baking pan. In a small bowl, mix together sherry, brown sugar, soy sauce, sesame seeds, black pepper, and salt. After the marinade is combined, pour over chicken and red potatoes. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes, turning chicken several times to coat with marinade.
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Place all ingrdients except the red potatoes into gallon freezer bag. Label and freeze. To serve: Thaw in fridge. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and place chicken in a baking pan. Add red potatoes and marinade to baking pan. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes, turning chicken several times to coat.
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What could I substitute for the cooking wine? It isn't something I normally have in my cabinets, and I don't want to buy it for one recipe. Any suggestions?
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Holford's Whole Health Manual is a real joy to read: flicking through it in the library, it provided excellent light relief from the more serious texts I was reading. As well as writing positively about health dowsing, Professor Holford of Teesside University also seems to have had a soft spot for Applied Kinesiology (AK):
While [...]
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I just read something interesting on the web. Someone was telling a petitioner in a Vaccine Court trial that she would have a better chance of winning if her expert witness didn't use a research report by the Geiers.
Was this a blog? Was this a yahoo group? Nope, this was a decision on the Vaccine Court's website. [...]
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Now that the Jenny McCarthy bandwagon appears to be slowing down it is as well to remember that lots of parents are writing intelligent, heart warming and thought provoking accounts of their experience in raising a child with autism. Lacking McCarthy's dubious claims to fame and fortune, not many of them get the chance to publish a book or [...]
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This blog entry first appeared at Respectful Insolence. It is reproduced here with permission.
A bad day for antivaccinationists: Yet another study fails to support an association between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders
By Orac.
I'm almost beginning to feel sorry for the mercury militia.
Think about it. They've been claiming for the past several years that the mercury in [...]
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Now that word has caused a lot of concern in the media thanks to the publishings of a certain Dr Darbre from Reading University.
There have been a lot of column inches devoted to this, and the C&T industry being what it is, there are now products out there that proudly proclaim "Paraben Free"
Now in preparation [...]
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We sit on the bench, the noise of the people moving around us making it difficult for me to even attempt rudimentary explanations of where we are. Pictures should have been thought of, of course, yet this event seemed to arrive so quickly. I do not know any of the signs, I cannot think of [...]
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The Dore programme is an interesting 'cure' for all kinds of things: as Dorothy Bishop puts it, "Dore Achievement Centres are springing up world-wide with a mission to cure cerebellar developmental delay, thought to be the cause of dyslexia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyspraxia and Asperger's syndrome. Remarkable success is claimed for an exercise-based treatment that [...]
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Research Autism – a UK website that takes an evidence based view of autism research – discusses a report recently released by New Philanthropy Capital. The report, entitled A Life Less Ordinary, is one of the most thorough and thoughtful pieces of Philanthropy I have read on the subject of autism.
The take home statistic is [...]
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This article was originally published at the NeuroLogica Blog and is re-published here with permission.
By Steven Novella, MD
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A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Early Thimerosal Exposure and Neuropsychological Outcomes at 7 to 10 Years, does not support a correlation between mercury in vaccines and neurological damage. It adds [...]
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Earlier I mentioned about a bunch of badscience forum-ites putting together their own blogs, now Ben has put together a site, with a little help, aggregating feeds from a whole bunch of forum-ites. This is great and should be a really good source for debunking bad science stories in the media. The list of aggregated blogs is below: A big side order of Why…A canna' change the laws of physicsAction
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Most people have heard of "The Law of Unintended Consequences", the notion that the consequences of your actions may be far different to those you intended. It is possible that one Government policy is encouraging teachers to give unethical levels of assistance to their students.
Most have also heard of school league tables, which rank schools [...]
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Ben Goldacre
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Saturday September 29 2007
One thing that always fascinates me, as I tug on my pipe in this armchair, is how reductionist, how mechanical, how sciencey and medical we like our stories about the body to be. This week a major new study was published on acupuncture. Many newspapers said it showed acupuncture performing [...]
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On Professor David Colquhuon's blog, there was a discussion
about the closing of the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathy Hospital (I use
that last word advisedly). This
Le Canard Noir
struck some bells:
The real menace comes not from medical homeopaths, but from lay
homeopaths, represented by the Society of Homeopaths, who are often
dangerously deluded and a threat to peoples' well being.
This seems remarkably like the view that moderate religious
believers act as enablers for the extremists. They dare not
criticise the extremists, no matter how distasteful they find their
actions, because any criticism they use will necessarily be just as
effective against them.
It's the fact that these moderates still believe in physics
and germ theory—rather than the ability of homeopathy to cure
malaria, for example—which dampens their zealotry. The
"lay" homeopaths who come into it without much in the
way of scientific training are just believers, through and through.
They have all the assurance of the creationists who blithely state
that evolution breaks the second law of thermodynamics.
And the matter then becomes, as it is with religion—is a
comforting belief useful to have around, or is it just too
dangerous for a society to harbour any
"official untruths"?
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A comment to Conspicuous by its absence: any science brought to my attention something quite interesting about Emilio Del Giudice and Giuliano Preparata. They were two of the three authors of the "Water as a Free Electric Dipole Laser paper1 which often gets cited as "del Guidice et. al." (sic.) by quantum homeopaths looking for scientific evidence for the memory of water.2
Now I was assuming that this was a decent if unimportant paper which just showed how water molecules line up in electric fields - Physics Review Letters is one of the highest impact factor physics journals and they have high standards - which has been misunderstood and misappropriated.
But maybe I'm the one who misunderstood, because it turns out that following this publication Del Giudice and Preparata seem to have gone to work with Fleischmann and Pons on Cold Fusion. They turned up in October 1991 (unnamed) in a review in La Repubblica of a book by Axel Kahn called False Prophets, objecting (for some reason) to being described as "fornicating priests". They sued3, lost,4, complained5 about Ref. 4 and got smacked down.6
So thanks to apgaylard.wordpress.com for ruining the one citation I thought was respectable in Milgrom's papers.
- Emilio Del Giudice, Giuliano Preparata, and Giuseppe Vitiello. Phys. Rev. Lett. 61 (9) 1085-1088 (1988)
- L. R. Milgrom. Homeopathy 96 (3) 209-219 (2007)
- Alison Abbott. Nature 363 (6425) 107 (1993)
- Alison Abbott. Nature 380 (6573) 369 (1996)
- Emilio Del Giudice and Giuliano Preparata. Nature 381 (6585) 729 (1996)
- Douglas R. O. Morrison. Nature 382 (6592) 572 (1996)
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Searching PubMed using the terms ""Fisher P"[Author] AND homeopathy" I think I found Peter Fisher's very first publication on a homeopathic remedy. Peter Fisher and others investigated the "effect of homoeopathically diluted lead on urinary lead excretion in the rat, controlled against distilled water and the chelating agent DMPS.". Sadly I can't find [...]
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Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University endorses a blood test that was recently criticised in a House of Lords report that called upon various health professionals to stop endorsing it: so that's OK then.
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A review of Bhat, et al "Housing in Pyramid Counteracts Neuroendocrine and Oxidative Stress Caused by Chronic Restraint in Rats" [1]
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The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.
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So Ben Goldacre links to a homeopathist
gloating over the result of David Colquhoun's legal set-to
with a couple of snake-oil peddlers. (Keep an eye on
Goldacre's Delicious links at
There's some good stuff there.)
The outcome was reasonably good for the forces of reason, but as I
mentioned on the Bad Science blog, there was still a lot of
wishy-washy speak from the official statement. So the woo peddlers
have been capitalising on that, and even casting it as some kind of
So, we now have agreement that abuse is not debate! What a victory!
Professor Colquhoun has taken legal advice to ensure that his blog
'adopts the right tone', because he made
'defamatory' remarks about herbalism.
The official statement from David Colquhoun and UCL said, amongst
"UCL will not allow staff to use its website for the making of personal attacks on individuals".
His enemies have really run with this one.
Amongst other things, they make great play of the
downtrodden and underprivileged
snake oil salesmen, who obviously don't have the money of the
"big pharma":
I wonder how much that legal advice from Queens Counsel cost, and I
would make the point that he was lucky to have access to enough
funds to pay for it. I hope people remember that this is the
privilege of the 10% and not for the many?
No mention of the fact that legal advice was only necessary because
of the attempts to censor scientific criticism through legal means.
But that is by the by.
A lot of the rest of the article is full of silliness about mercury
fillings and fluoride in the water. (Gotta keep control of your
precious bodily fluids kids! The commie is sneaky that way! Deny
them your essence!) That is also not relevant here.
What I really wanted to highlight was the overtones of conspiracy.
There's also a helluva lot of conspiracy. I mean, I'm
talking bagloads here. There are repeated and unexplained
references to an anonymous "they", who are out to
damage children and extort your very last penny from you.
can't explain how paracetamol works so they manufacture vast amounts and sell it, why? Because they know it works and it will make then vast amounts of money (what price proof here?). They know mercury is a poison in large amounts so they fill our children's teeth with it. They know fluoride is dangerous in large amounts, so they manufacture it and use trace amounts to 'benefit'
our health (isn't that a homeopathic principle?) They have
known for years that salt is dangerous in large amounts, so they
add far too much to our food, such that we have to have a TV
campaign to get them to withdraw it. They also know that sugar is
dangerous in large amounts so they add far too much to our food
such that we have a massive obesity problem. They know that sugar
substitute is dangerous, so they sell it all around the world?
And when the author has finished on "them", she brings
in the "orthodoxy" and a bit more of the worldwide
conspiracy is put in its place:
So why does orthodoxy apply 'science' to their chosen
phenomena and chosen substances and to pharmaceuticals and
vehemently exclude alternative medicine? Do you think it has
something to do with the means of production and the profits they
can potentially make? It is not possible for them to make huge
profits out of alternative medicine, so of course it must be
banned! Is this what they call 'science'? Is this what
they call 'Public Health'?
At least "the orthodoxy" is slightly more defined than
"they", but not by much. Strange, though, this
assertion that
"it is not possible for them to make huge profits out of alternative medicine".
This is patently false: there are people out there making
fortunes out of sugar pills and plain water sold in
expensive vials—and you can buy them in every branch of Boots
in the country.
The vehemence of the abuse defaming alternative medicine far too
often takes on the hysterical screeching of the
'I know I am right brigade' who advocate a one size
fits all ideology, and such beliefs are fueled by
'poor science' that uses magicians to defame reputable
scientists who do try and investigate alternative medicine. The
message went out clear as a clarion call all around the World. Do
research into alternative medicine and we will hunt you down and
destroy you!
This is interesting stuff. "Abuse",
"screeching", claims that someone wants to
"hunt you down and destroy you"—these are
exactly the claims used to argue against Richard Dawkins,
Sam Harris et al, when talking about religion. This isn't
argument, this is just stoking paranoia. It's certainly not
in the best interests of anyone to suggest that the person holding
an opposing viewpoint is also rigging the system too.
When writers make the claim that the "arrogant" Richard
Dawkins wants to "round up all the believers" not only
are they grossly misrepresenting his wishes, but they're
feeding a feeling in their audience that they are under attack for
who they are. That they, as people, are being subjected to abuse.
Those same emotive words are used here to distract from the fact
that it's the
complete lack of tangible evidence that is the
point of contention.
… Is it any wonder that the research follows the money? Is
it any wonder that scientific research cannot conduct such studies
without attracting ignorant abuse? Personally, I do not call this
'science'. I call it a witch hunt.
Next stop in the conspiracy theories—follow the money! In one
sense, the author is right. It would be foolish for us to ever
trust anything a pharmaceutical company says in promotion of its
own products. But that's why we demand trails of evidence and
What the author implies, however, is that the alternative medicine
industry (or homeopathy in particular) is not big
business. She wants you to believe that it's all garage
enthusiasts and community-driven amateurs. And maybe there is some
of that. But resting atop the cottage industry of crystal healers
and aura cleansers is a full-blown (and very lucrative) industry of
people making a lot of money from woo. Gillian McKeith (the Fraud
Previously Known as Doctor) gets paid for talking shite.
No-one is in love with the pharmaceutical industry. It needs to buy
its favours with lobbyists. The alternative medicine crowd have
already won the hearts of their followers and don't need to
concentrate on argument at all. It is in their best interest to
obfuscate the facts at all costs. Each study which shows that
homeopathy is no better than placebo, or that real and sham
acupuncture are equivalent, has to be discredited in some way. If
all these woo therapies were shown to be nonsense to the general
public, poor Patrick Holford, GMTV's darling nutritionist,
would be much less of a success. The author is right, follow the
money—but follow it in both directions.
Further conspiracies
More recently, the same Professor Colquhuon was involved in a
Channel 4 slot about
alternative medicines being dropped from the NHS to save money.
And yet again, the conspiracy theories were called upon to
cultivate that sense of attack from outside that helps bind
communities. The homeopaths suggested that:
- There was some cadre of "retired or senior" doctors
who were out to get the woo medicine people (for some unspecified
reason). So that would be a conspiracy, then?
- These same people were defenders of genetically modified foods.
This was (a) irrelevant, (b) not necessarily true and (c)
unsubstantiated anyway. But there's no better way of making a
scientist look evil than to suggest they want to feed your children
- There were undisclosed conflicts of interest on the side of the
scientists. Which is to say, we're to believe they were in
the pay of Big Pharma and were not to be trusted. These claims were
not substantiated either.
At no point in the proceedings did anyone on the homeopathy side
cite evidence that what they were promoting actually worked. But
they cast a lot of aspersions—which are like spells, only
harder to get rid of once you've been caught in one.
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So it's been recommended that the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital have its NHS funding withdrawn, to much rejoicing, even if there are those who say that "giving a harmless placebo to people who cannot be helped by medical drugs - but who demand the ritual of treatment" serves a useful purpose.
That's a good point, but the problem I see with letting patients with minor self-limiting (or non-existent) conditions go to CAM practitioners is that it leads to increased ignorance of the benefits and limits of proper medicine, and hence more people going to doctors for the wrong reasons or with the wrong expectations, more disillusionment with proper medicine, and more support for unproven CAM. I am not a doctor, though, so I defer to the experience of those who are.
And maybe I'm a bit naïve in expecting better general medical understanding amongst people.
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I mentioned in the previous post that the BBC's Complementary Medicine health section had been revised. I still think it's inferior to Channel 4's (which for every therapy has a prominent "what's the evidence?" paragraph that isn't afraid to say when t…
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I don't know, you can't put together a decent conspiracy nowadays without some daft blogger publishing all the details on his public site. All these years of working with Big Pharma, the Illuminati, and the alien lizards - planning for ultra-secret Skeptic's Circle action - and now the Conspiracy Factor blog has put all the [...]
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The NHS in Kent have stopped funding the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital, which leaves four NHS-funded homeopathic hospitals. This is, of course, a good thing: homeopathy is (and let's be fair to it) total bollocks, and while there's nothing particularly wrong with homeopathic hospitals existing*, giving them public funding is quite indefensible. Apparently, the decision [...]
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Thank you Jenny McCarthy. Since I wrote about you my readership has doubled. That is still not enough to offset the harm that will ensue if even a tiny fraction of your TV audience swallow your message that the MMR vaccine caused your son's autism. But here is a chance for you to make amends. Have you heard of the [...]
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As a major news medium, the BBC has a vast influence on the dissemination and perceived validation of information. Like most media outlets, it makes mistakes. How good is it at correcting them? I've had mixed experien…
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This is a highly dangerous neurotoxin that when ingested has the following effect:
"The facial and throat muscles are the first skeletal muscles that become weak and progressively paralyzed, causing diplopia, ptosis, dysphagia and facial paralysis. The paralysis progressively descends to affect muscles of the trunk, including the respiratory and visceral muscles (if death occurs, it is [...]
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There is an early day motion (EDM) before the House of Commons, protesting risks to funding of NHS homeopathic hospitals. As of 27th September 2007 it had collected 197 signatures from Members of Parliament.
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