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Comedian Myq Kaplan has traveled the country spreading his uniquely intelligent sense of humor to all who will listen, which is certainly a lot of people. His points of view on both life and society along with spot on delivery have not only caught the eye of fans in comedy clubs across the states but also television shows such as CONAN, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,and the now defunct Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Since his appearance on the 2010 season of Last Comic Standing, his career has skyrocketed. He has appeared on podcasts such as Marc Maron's WTF, Jimmy Pardo's Never Not Funny, Professor Blastoff, Keith and the Girl, and various others.
The Smoking Jacket: You've got a Master's degree in linguistics? How did you get from that to comedy?
Myq Kaplan: Well, I actually started pursuing comedy right around the time I was starting in grad school. I got out of college with my undergrad in 2000 and started pursuing a music career. I went to the Comedy Studio—which was the first comedy club in Boston that I ever performed at—but mostly pursuing music, so my senior year of college they let me perform a few songs. Then over the next couple of years I would go every once in a while and bring some friends. I wasn't pursuing comedy at all.
I started grad school in 2000 also and part of my reason was because I liked linguistics and thought I'll study it more and give myself a chance to quote on quote 'be discovered' as a musician. I didn't want to get a job. I was working at a coffee shop and as a Resident Assistant at grad school. I had free housing, a flexible job and started doing a paid linguistics internship that had flexible hours.
In 2002 is when I started trying to be a comedian. But basically, the desire to do linguistics and comedy are sort of concurrent. It was, "Here's the things that are going on in my head, the things I'm thinking and the things I care about and find interesting." That's just the way I operated—that's the source of my interest in linguistics and my interest in comedy.
TSJ: So were you always interested in it?
MK: No. I liked jokes but hadn't really known much about stand up before I started getting into it. I had never really been to a comedy club. I knew famous people did it, like Seinfeld and Paul Reiser, Denis Leary, Norm MacDonald and people on SNL but I had no sense of how one became those people. Most of them were TV stars so I figured they could do comedy. As opposed to a lot of people who started in stand up and then used that as a way to gain exposure, fans and opportunities to do those TV shows. I didn't know there were just aspiring comedians. I didn't know there were less known comedians because, of course, they were less known. I didn't know of the local Boston comedy scene until I started becoming a part of it.
Myq Kaplan on Craig Ferguson
TSJ: So starting out in Boston and performing all over the country, is there a difference in the audiences?
MK: I think there are different audiences everywhere, but there are different audiences on the local level as well. If you look at a city like New York there's Williamsburg audiences, there's tourist audiences in Times Square, there's friendly hipster audiences and there's ugly hipster audiences. There's also locals. Same thing in Boston. There's the Comedy Studio that's across from Harvard and they would attract a lot of college kid audiences. They try to put on a certain type of comedy show that say a bachelorette party wouldn't be suited for. Not that any comedian loves to entertain bachelorette parties.
TSJ: I've heard those can be horrible.
MK: They can be. There could be good ones, but I feel it's mostly the fact that they aren't like, "Let's go see a comedian we like tonight." They're like, "This is your night. Lets go do a thing out in public and it happens to be at a comedy club." Sometimes they're like, "Our friend is the center of attention," when, in fact, that is not the way a comedy show operates. To answer your question, it depends on the venue your at. I love going to a club in Minneapolis called Acme. It's one of the best clubs in the country.
TSJ: There's been a couple of comedians that have said that. What is it about that club?
MK: It's a few things. I think after a certain point the owner knows what he's doing. He's a great businessman. Obviously he wants to make money but he's doing it by staying on the cutting edge. He'll bring in new and young comedians who are funny that people might not have heard of, and then he'll bring in your Maria Bamfords and Andy Kindlers and Doug Bensons. There's a certain class of comedians that he has access too because he attracts good audiences. There's a few things, too, that he does great. For example, there's no drink minimum. There's a restaurant but you have to eat before hand so there's no clanking. The show is respected. There are drinks that are priced very well. Everybody is just treated very well. There's a few clubs like that. The Comedy Cellar here in New York is great.
TSJ: I've still never been there, but I've been dying to go.
MK: Oh, you should. They have signs saying it's a 'three drink maximum.' They're really out to respect the show. I think if you have a party of more than four they split you up. I think they'll put four of you on one side and four on the other.
TSJ: It's a tiny club, right?
MK: Yeah, it seats over 100 but I'm not sure how many. But in the same way that they've built a reputation for going to watch comedy they have the reputation of the greatest comedians in the city and the world stopping in. I've been there when Seinfeld or Chris Rock or Louis CK will stop in. Dave Attell, Colin Quinn and Aziz Ansari too, when he's in town.
Myq Kaplan on Letterman
TSJ: The Cellar is famous for that.
MK: Oh, yeah. Any comedian of that caliber can go to any club in the city on pretty much whatever basis they want. That's the cool thing about being in New York in general. It can happen anytime. But The Cellar has a certain prestige to it. People go there knowing it could happen.
TSJ: So when you started, what was the reaction of your family and friends?
MK: My mom was always very supportive. My dad was always very practical. You know, how are you going to live? Where are you going to live? What is your backup plan? That sort of thing. I told them I had it under control. I'd sell coffee for as long as I needed to. That was legitimately my plan. My parents have always been great in saying 'You can do anything!' Then when I grew up I realized I can't do anything but I can do the thing that I want to do and hopefully am good at and work towards it. But they are so supportive now. My dad has a mailing list saying 'Hey, my son's doing this now.' My friends in college thought I wasn't any funnier then them and that's sort of true. For the first few years I wasn't the best, as is everyone. But a few years later I remember one of those friends came to a show and said, 'Hey, you're funny now!' But I did have a segment of very supportive friends as well.
TSJ: Your act is very on point and tight. Is there any improv involved in it?
MK: There's definitely a lot of improv in the construction and development of new jokes. I don't just go on stage with a blank mind. Though, Paul F. Tompkins, to see him live, sometimes the first 10 to 20 or more minutes of his act, he'll just free form like he does on his podcast. He's amazing at it. When I'm in front of audiences that I'm comfortable with, if I can find something that just happened recently or in the show I do aim to be in the moment. I will do that as much as I can. It rarely makes it to the 20-minute level but then also throughout the set, if the audience is with you new ideas sort of flow from old ones. When I started I was like, "I have 5 minutes, 20 things on the list and with the ones that work I'll tell tomorrow and the ones that didn't, well, the end!" But now, even if something that doesn't work you can be funny still. As you advance in comedy you get a little more confident in your instincts to be like well even if one audience didn't laugh at that maybe I need to say it different, maybe I said too much, maybe I said not enough.
TSJ: The ability to be funny like that in the moment is amazing.
MK: Thank you! Did you hear that? I'm amazing! There's different ways that people are funny. Some people are into writing things in advance only. There's a guy who criticized my methods of writing. He thought it was disrespectful to audiences to bring them something that was untested. We had a lengthy back and forth. He's done stand up but says he's more of a comedy writer now so he's definitely focused more on the writerly side of things. But on the other end there are people like Louis CK or Bill Burr, I think, say they almost exclusively talk things out. The thing shapes itself on stage. For me, both are important. I think I probably go onstage with more of an idea of what I'm going to say than Louis does coming out with a new idea. But I also am happy to access that part of me that is free to be myself.
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TSJ: I remember someone, maybe Marc Maron, saying you think about jokes as a math problem.
MK: He did, which is not unfair. But I don't think that tells the entire story of every joke. I think my mind does work in a mathematical way more than a lot of other people. Certainly there are many people whose minds work mathematically as well. But I do like math. One of my first comedians I got into was Mitch Hedberg. I feel he was mathematical in a lot of his ways. Any comedian that does one-liners, there's a certain degree of precision that is potentially needed to go from beginning to end.
TSJ: So from going to writing jokes on the pad to just being in the moment, were you bored from the original process or did you just have a new confidence?
MK: I definitely was never bored. It was seeing people like Micah Sherman—he was always in the moment—and Rory Scovel. He [Rory] is a guy that loves improvising. He's amazing at it. Like Paul F. Tompkins, Rory can just riff. He told me that two of his most favorite shows he's done are almost improvising for an hour. And, for me, it was almost like, "Oh you can do that!"
TSJ: It's a very interesting thing. There are no boundaries.
MK: Right. It doesn't have to end where you think or thought it needs to. So I started going back through my older material. The more you do comedy the better you get at it and you see how you can do an old joke better. Something that was a one-liner seven years ago is now a three minute bit. There are some comedians that I love that can really wring out the maximum percentage of humor from a topic. Gary Gulman is really masterful at it. I recently saw him open with something that I saw him do a few months ago, which was just a few minutes, but now it's like twenty minutes. It's built on one initial core and just expands.
TSJ: So as you move on in comedy do you just notice more things that can be seen as funny?
MK: I guess I don't know the answer to that. I know Emo Phillips once said, and I'll paraphrase it, that as he gained more experience he became more accurate at determining the things he thought were the funniest. I think that's what it was. And to me, I've always written a lot. For the most part things start small and get gradually bigger for me. Stylistically, that's changed for me because I didn't really do that in the beginning so much. I was like 'here's an idea. Is it good or not?' So my willingness and realization that I could do more than just a series of connected one-liners and that I could do something that was longer form has certainly shifted.
TSJ: What was your experience on Last Comic Standing?
MK: I was happy I was on a season where it was all about stand up with respected comedians as judges. I feel real fortunate that I got to be involved. I had auditioned a few times before I actually got on, which was in 2010.
TSJ: Do you think the show helped your career?
MK: Oh absolutely. It's has been the biggest help of anything that has helped. Most of your rise in status and success in comedy comes gradually. It used to be you try to work towards the Tonight Show with Carson but now there's so many more opportunities, but no one now is the king maker that Carson was. The Tonight Show [with Conan O'Brien] was the first national broadcast I did.
TSJ: So because there's no one king maker anymore was doing Conan's Tonight Show still exciting?
MK: Oh my god, it was amazing! The fact that it was Conan was super. I love Conan and was thrilled that he was doing the Tonight Show. Then in retrospect, finding out two months later that he wasn't doing the Tonight Show, finding out that I got in at this amazing time, I was thrilled. I just got to do Letterman last year and that was something I'd been hoping for and working towards for probably the longest.
TSJ: Is it more daunting performing in front of all of those people rather than a comedy club in front of an audience, also knowing so many millions of people will be watching?
MK: There's sort of a disconnect for me with the fact that millions of people are going to be seeing it. I still don't know what that means. I don't know what millions of people are. As humans, I think you can only truly know 150 people. Then once it's more they're just people, just a group. Even when I perform, for the most part, I'm talking to 'the audience,' or 'the group.' So there's not a ton of difference for me. It was certainly a higher stakes experience, of course. Ultimately, I know that I can only control what I can control. I can only control my output, not how things are perceived.
TSJ: To be able to get over that hump where you basically don't care if the crowd doesn't take it the way you want them to and just think 'well the crowd just wasn't on tonight,' is a pretty unique thing.
MK: My philosophy in life is there's nothing to fear but death and pain.
TSJ: That's really how you feel?
MK: Oh yeah. Emotional pain can be obviously problematic. I don't mean to minimize that. Losing a person is death; it doesn't have to be your death and pain. But embarrassment? I do my best to be myself and then hope that people like me but beyond that I can't make somebody feel something. If you're confident in what you're doing then that's that. Comedy is subjective. All art is subjective. No comedian is universal. Taste is an interesting thing. I always knew that comedy was hard. I always knew that I would go onstage in the beginning, do five minutes and if three jokes worked I'd be like, "Great! Three jokes worked!"
TSJ: That is great attitude to have. Is there anybody you love working today?
MK: I would say loads of people, obviously any of my heroes. I've gotten to open for Louis [CK] a number of times. Every time I get that call it's the same kind of thrill. The fact that I know him is a thrill, so that he has entrusted me to open and thinks I'm funny enough to not ruin his show is amazing. Working with [Mike] Birbiglia too, or Patton Oswalt and Todd Barry, that's always incredible. I also opened for Steven Wright once; that was exciting. I also love doing shows with my friends too. I love doing shows with anyone that I love hanging out with.
TSJ: Are you happy with where you are in comedy?
MK: Stand up is what I love doing the most. If other things come up then great—writing, acting, podcasting—but I love stand up. One of the best parts is just hanging out with the like-minded people I know.
TSJ: There's a very unique community there.
MK: Yeah, for me, it's a uniting factor where you all share the same thing. I think that laughing is very closely related to a concept that I have of enlightenment.
TSJ: You seem to have a good outlook on life.
MK: Oh yeah, I'm really good at being a person.
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Published in The Athens Observer, p. 1A (November 19, 1987).
Author: Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law.
If John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated in 1963 while driving through the streets of Dallas, and were still living, he would be 70 years old this year. This fact is fairly well known. What is less known is that another man who died a tragic early death, many years earlier, also would have turned 70 this year--last Sunday, Oct. 25, in fact. But unlike JFK, who was 46 when gunned down, this may was only 28 at death. And unlike JFK, this man took 13--some would say 26--others with him to death. This man was Charles Carroll Taylor, born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1917. Charles Taylor was the veteran pilot in charge of Flight 19, which in one of the strangest incidents in naval aviation flew to its doom over the Atlantic Ocean in 1945.
For a long time the true story of Flight 19 was shrouded in mystery or beclouded by sensationalistic writing. There has been talk of the Bermuda Triangle, of space ships, of aliens from outer space. But in recent years new, bright light has been thrown on the matter, and the facts now seem clear and far less mysterious. Flight 19 was the subject of part of a "Nova" episode several years ago, and Larry Kusche has written two books on the disaster--most notably, The Disappearance of Flight 19, published in 1980. What we now know is that Charles Taylor is the principal reason why Flight 19 never returned.
Summary of Events of Flight 19
Flight 19 consisted of five naval planes and 14 naval and marine corps aviators (five pilots, the rest radiomen or gunners) manning them. The planes were Avengers--large, single-engined torpedo bombers used in World War II. Four of the planes were piloted by student pilots; the fifth was piloted by Navy Lt. Charles Taylor, who was the experienced officer in charge of the training flight.
The five planes took off from Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1945, with enough fuel to say aloft for around six hours. The students, under the supervision of Taylor, were to fly a triangular course which would take them away from the Florida peninsula and out over the Atlantic Ocean to the Bahamas and then back to Ft. Lauderdale. The course was around 300 miles long.
Before 4 p.m. distress calls were coming from Flight 19. The flight was somewhere near the Bahamas over the Atlantic Ocean, but instead of flying west, as would have been sensible and proper, the six planes followed a course which led them north and east and hence further and further away from land into the deepest ocean. The last radio transmissions from the doomed planes came shortly after 7 p.m.
Nothing more was heard from the planes, which then had about an hour's fuel left. At that time the flight was probably over the Atlanta Ocean, several hundred miles off Daytona Beach, and apparently still heading either north or east. Neither the planes, their crews, nor any wreckage was ever located, despite vast search and rescue operations. The five planes undoubtedly were forced to ditch in the ocean far from the Florida peninsula. Where the planes went down there was no moon; it was the proverbial dark and stormy night; the winds were high and seas were turbulent; and all was blackness. It is not surprising that, as Kusche relates, the death certificates of the 14 men listed them as dying on Dec. 5, 1945--probably, it may be supposed, when the planes impacted with the ocean, due to injury; or shortly afterward, probably due to drowning.
Thirteen more men died that evening of Dec. 5, 1945--the crew of a military rescue plane that exploded over the ocean shortly after taking off to try and locate Flight 19.
Official as well as unofficial investigations (including Kusche's) concluded that, while there were other contributing factors, the principal cause for the loss of Flight 19 was error by Charles Taylor. In the late 1940's Taylor's persistent relatives obtained a decision from the highest levels of the Navy Department exculpating Taylor and blaming the tragic loss of Flight 19 on unknown causes, complicated by bad weather.
Who was Charles Taylor?
Born in Corpus Christi on Oct. 25, 1917, Charles Taylor excelled at nothing but mediocrity, in the public schools, at college, or in the military. According to author Kusche, Taylor's father ran away and left him as a small child to be raised by his protective mother and a female relative. Although he has defenders, Taylor on the whole appears to have been a lackluster pilot with a somewhat irresponsible attitude. Kusche presents believable evidence, in fact, that Taylor left on Flight 19 without taking a watch and without taking a basic navigational instrument (the plotting board.)
But the most interesting fact about Taylor's undistinguished career is that twice in WWII he was forced to ditch his airplane in the ocean because he had gotten lost, but luckily he was in each case able to ditch safely, enter a raft, and survive until rescued. Taylor ditched safely in the water a third time in WWII, but this time it was not his fault. This, then, was the man, with a proven record of getting lost and being forced to crash-land in the water, in command of Flight 19.
Charles Taylor's Blunders
Mistakes in judgment by Charles Taylor led to its tragic fate. The mistakes are amazing, but they do explain what happened, unlikely as it was. The mistakes include: (1) getting lost in the first place, after taking over from a student pilot; (2) mistakenly thinking he knew where he was when he didn't, and broadcasting that he didn't need help; (3) mistakenly thinking he was in the Florida Keys when he couldn't possibly be, and even after ground radio told him of his error; (4) causing the flight to proceed on a generally northerly and easterly direction, and causing the flight to sometimes changes directions 180 degrees back and forth; and (5) refusing, despite repeated requests, to change Flight 19's radio frequency to the more audible emergency channel.
Incredibly, published transcripts show that as late as 6 p.m. Taylor was instructing him men to flight east! Those transcripts also indicate that at least two of the student pilots wanted to fly west, but followed orders to the contrary issued by Taylor. There is, then, no longer a need to envelop the loss of Flight 19 in mystery or the occult. Fatal errors by Charles Taylor, compounded by errors committed by the rescuers (which will not be recounted here), were what caused the disappearance of Flight 19.
Flight 19 and Close Encounters
There is a charming scene in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, occurring toward the end of the photoplay. We are given indisputable evidence of the goodness of the aliens when they hand over the 14 men of Flight 19--who presumably never died but instead were captured and held by the aliens. It is as though the men are back from the dead. Presumably, one of them is Lt. Charles Taylor, alive as you or me.
Unfortunately, however, the hapless members of Flight
19 will never come back. These 14 young men, including Lt. Charles
Taylor, died in the Atlantic Ocean, almost certainly on that Wednesday,
Dec. 5, 1945, probably around 8 p.m--at the time of or shortly after
ditching in the cold, dark, violent sea--as a direct result of monumental
but nonetheless human errors committed by Charles Taylor, who lived only
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WILMINGTON, DE – Can this year's Hillcats team become the first Lynchburg team to win the Carolina League Mills Cup since 2009?
The Hillcats begin a best of three playoff series against the Wilmington Blue Rocks Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. and will be attempting to do what the Pirates affiliate did three years ago.
The winner will face the winner of the other playoff series between Winston-Salem and Myrtle Beach.
Hillcats Playoff Series Starting Pitchers
Game 1 – Gus Schlosser (13-7, 3.38 ERA) at Wilmington
Game 2 – Dismather Delgado (7-7, 3.92 ERA) at Lynchburg
Game 3 (if necessary)– Aaron Northcraft (10-11, 3.98 ERA) at Lynchburg
Ryan Weber or Michael Lee would pitch game one of the championship series.
Lynchburg Hillcats (72-68, Northern Division first-half champions) vs.
Wilmington Blue Rocks (66-74, Northern Division second-half champions)
Wilmington won the season series, 11-9
Winston-Salem Dash (87-51, Southern Division champions, both halves) vs.
Myrtle Beach Pelicans (74-65, Southern Division runner-up, second half)
Winston-Salem won the season series, 11-9
The Hillcats have been away from City Stadium since last Wednesday September 28th. They traveled from Lynchburg to Winston-Salem for a four-game series and then from there they bussed to Myrtle Beach for a three-game set with the Pelicans. From there the longest part of the road trip began north through South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and finally into Delaware. The total mileage on that week-long road trip - 897 miles and 17-plus hours on a bus. That's the equivalent of going from Lynchburg to Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
After being eliminated from winning the second half division title on Thursday August 30th, Lynchburg finished the road trip with three wins and four losses. Manager Luis Salazar said, "we should have went 5-2 but we blew a couple games." Salazar even said, "We should have won the second half but things that bounced our way in the first half did not in the second half." Lynchburg finished the second half with a 33-37 mark after winning the division with a 39-31 record in the first half.
The Hillcats will have 2011 Hillcat and Carolina League batting champion Andrelton Simmons in the lineup Thursday. He will play for the Class-A Rome Braves in their playoff game Wednesday night. He's in the midst of a major league rehab stint after injuring his wrist earlier this season with the Atlanta Braves. Simmons went 1-for-3 with an infield hit before being pulled after five innings by plan in a game Monday with the Double-A Mississippi Braves.
Salazar said Simmons will lead off and most likely play shortstop. The Braves minor league farm director will inform Salazar about what they plan to do with Simmons following his game with Rome. If he plays shortstop, Nick Ahmed, a Carolina League all-star and the Hillcats best defensive infielder, will move to either third base or second base, meaning Edward Salcedo or Tommy La Stella would be the designated hitter. "The playoffs are all about defense and pitching," Salazar explained, so Ahmed will be in the field one way or another.
When asked if bringing a major leaguer in for a playoff game is a good thing or a bad thing, Salazar said, "It's a good thing. Andrelton is looking forward to coming back to Lynchburg."
---In 49 games with Mississippi, former Hillcat Evan Gattis is hit .258 with 9 and 37 RBIs. He was injured for part of the season after being called up from Lynchburg. Gattis batted .385 with 9 home runs with the Hillcats in just 21 games to start the season.
---According to Winston-Salem 's manager Tommy Thompson, only eight of the 26 players who opened the year with Winston-Salem are still with the team. In an interview with MLB.com's Jeff Seidel, Thompson said, "We've moved more guys this year and had more transactions than I can ever remember in 30 years," Thompson said. "This was [my most] fun year ever, the most challenging year."
---Salazar said the Winston-Salem Dash should be considered the favorites. They have 87 wins and the best record in all of minor league baseball. Salazar said, "They can beat you in so many ways but we were the only team to give them a fight all year and they know that." Salazar also thinks the Dash could have some trouble getting by Myrtle Beach.
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For a couple of years Justin Morneau was the engine in the sports car, a powerhouse 444 that worked with a rock solid transmission in his good friend Joe Mauer. We stood , we cheered we looked to the future with great anticipation to see how many MVPs this guy would win. Now 2 short years later the MN Twins fan base is wondering what Justin Morneau will show-up or if he will at all. History is not on his side, the concussions, the injuries they have all clearly taken their toll. Only his youth (also fleeting )is on his side. The interesting thing is in paradox to every other story out there about the Twins- no one is saying to much. Sure there are sportswriters who talk about the need for Morneau to be great again for the Twins to be successful- but take for instance Jim Souhan's column on Sunday - He tore Mauer to shreds- but there were few if any words concerning Morneau in the paper except that he was the #1 need of the Twins for a great 2012.
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I had a vested interest in the last post season 1-0 game, which happened to be game 7 of the 1991 World Series. You remember, the one where Jack Morris and the Minnesota Twins beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in 10 innings. I grew up a Twins fan, and lived and died on every pitch in that series.
I gravitated towards the Cardinals in 2004, when I moved to St. Louis, and I'm just ecstatic that I had a vested, emotional interest in the first 1-0 post season gem since Black Jack Morris' gem back in 1991, when I was a younger man in a place far way from home. I've lived and died on every pitch since mid-August, and this has been the most thrilling post season since 1991 for me...even better than 2006 in some respects.
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Cluster sampling
Cluster sampling is a technique in which the sampling of respondents or subjects occurs within clusters or groups. For example, selecting students by sampling schools and the students that attend that school.
Any violation of a statute or regulation or any act that the government has determined is injurious to the public, including felonies and misdemeanors. Such violation may or may not involve violence, and it may affect individuals or property.
A specific criminal act or offense involving one or more victims and one or more offenders.
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A survey sampling technique in which there is more than one wave of sampling. That is, one sample of units is drawn, and then another sample is drawn within that sample. For example, at the first stage, a number of Census blocks may be sampled out of all the Census blocks in the United States. At the second stage, households are sampled within the previously sampled Census blocks.
The percentage of the population directly affected by crime in a given period. This rate is based upon specific information elicited directly from the respondent regarding crimes committed against his or her person, against his or her property, or against an individual bearing a unique relationship to him or her. It is not based upon perceptions and beliefs about, or reactions to, criminal acts.
An education institution consisting of one or more of grades K through 12.
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A survey sampling technique in which the target population is divided into mutually exclusive groups or strata based on some variable or variables (e.g., metropolitan area) and sampling of units occurs separately within each stratum.
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A survey sampling technique in which sampled units do not have the same probability of selection into the sample. For example, the investigator may oversample minority students in order to increase the sample sizes of minority students. Minority students would then be more likely than other students to be sampled.
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School-Associated Violent Deaths Surveillance Study
An act involving a killing of one person by another resulting from interpersonal violence.
School-associated violent death
A homicide or suicide in which the fatal injury occurred on the campus of a functioning elementary or secondary school in the United States, while the victim was on the way to or from regular sessions at such a school, or while the victim was attending or traveling to or from an official school-sponsored event. Victims included nonstudents as well as students and staff members.
An act of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.
National Crime Victimization Survey
Aggravated assault
Attack or attempted attack with a weapon, regardless of whether or not an injury occurs, and attack without a weapon when serious injury results.
At school (students)
Inside the school building, on school property (school parking area, play area, school bus, etc.), or on the way to or from school.
At school (teachers)
Inside the school building, on school property (school parking area, play area, school bus, etc.), at worksite, or while working. For thefts, "while working" was not considered, since thefts of teachers' property kept at school can occur when teachers are not present.
Forced sexual intercourse including both psychological coercion, as well as physical force. Forced sexual intercourse means vaginal, anal, or oral penetration by the offender(s). Includes attempts and verbal threats of rape. This category also includes incidents where the penetration is from a foreign object such as a bottle.
Completed or attempted theft, directly from a person, of property or cash by force or threat of force, with or without a weapon, and with or without injury.
A place not located inside the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). This category includes a variety of localities, ranging from sparsely populated rural areas to cities with populations of less than 50,000.
Serious violent crime
Rape, sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault.
Sexual assault
A wide range of victimizations, separate from rape or attempted rape. These crimes include attacks or attempted attacks generally involving unwanted sexual contact between the victim and offender. Sexual assault may or may not involve force and includes such things as grabbing or fondling. Sexual assault also includes verbal threats.
Simple assault
Attack without a weapon resulting either in no injury, minor injury, or an undetermined injury requiring less than 2 days of hospitalization. Also includes attempted assault without a weapon.
A county or counties containing a central city, plus any contiguous counties that are linked socially and economically to the central city. On the data tables, suburban areas are categorized as those portions of metropolitan areas situated "outside central cities."
Completed or attempted theft of property or cash without personal contact.
The largest city (or grouping of cities) in an MSA.
A crime as it affects one individual person or household. For personal crimes, the number of victimizations is equal to the number of victims involved. The number of victimizations may be greater than the number of incidents because more than one person may be victimized during an incident.
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A measure of the occurrence of victimizations among a specifi c population group.
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Rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, or simple assault.
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Rape, sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault.
Total victimization
Combination of violent victimization and theft. If a student reported an incident of either type, he or she is counted as having experienced any victimization. If the student reported having experienced both, he or she is counted once under "total victimization."
Violent crime
Rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, or simple assault.
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Examples of illegal drugs were marijuana, cocaine, inhalants, steroids, or prescription drugs without a doctor's permission, heroin, and methamphetamines.
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is located inside a MSA and inside the "central city."
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A large central city (a central city of a Metropolitan Statistical Area [MSA] with population greater than or equal to 400,000, or a population density greater than or equal to 6,000 per square mile) or a mid-size central city (a central city of an MSA, but not designated as a large central city).
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A school in which the lowest grade is less than or equal to grade 6 and the highest grade is less than or equal to grade 8.
Elementary school teachers
An elementary school teacher is one who, when asked for the grades taught, checked: (1) only "ungraded" and was designated as an elementary teacher on the list of teachers provided by the school; (2) 6th grade or lower, and no grade higher than 6th; (3) 6th grade or lower and 7th grade or higher, and reported a primary assignment of prekindergarten, kindergarten, or general elementary; (4) 7th and 8th grades only, and reported a primary assignment of prekindergarten, kindergarten, or general elementary; (5) 6th grade or lower and 7th grade or higher, and reported a primary assignment of special education and was designated as an elementary teacher on the list of teachers provided by the school; or (6) 7th and 8th grades only, and reported a primary assignment of special education and was designated as an elementary teacher on the list of teachers provided by the school. A teacher at school that has grade 6 or lower, or one that is "ungraded" with no grade higher than the 8th.
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Rural area (a place with a population of less than 2,500 and defined as rural by the U.S. Bureau of the Census) or a small town (a place not within an Metropolitan Statistical Area, with a population of less than 25,000, but greater than or equal to 2,500, and defined as nonurban by the U.S. Bureau of the Census).
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Secondary school teachers
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Urban fringe of a large or mid-size city (a place within an Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) of a mid-size central city and defi ned as urban by the U.S. Bureau of the Census) or a large town (a place not within an MSA, but with a population greater or equal to 25,000 and defi ned as urban by the U.S. Bureau of the Census).
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Schools that include all combinations of grades, including K–12 schools, other than primary, middle, and secondary schools (see defi nitions for these school levels later in this section).
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A group that espouses radical beliefs and practices, which may include a religious component, that are widely seen as threatening the basic values and cultural norms of society at large.
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Any weapon that is designed to (or may readily be converted to) expel a projectile by the action of an explosive. This includes guns, bombs, grenades, mines, rockets, missiles, pipe bombs, or similar devices designed to explode and capable of causing bodily harm or property damage.
An ongoing loosely organized association of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, that has a common name, signs, symbols, or colors, whose members engage, either individually or collectively, in violent or other forms of illegal behavior.
A deliberate and inexcusable defiance of or refusal to obey a school rule, authority, or a reasonable order. It includes but is not limited to direct defiance of school authority, failure to attend assigned detention or on-campus supervision, failure to respond to a call slip, and physical or verbal intimidation/abuse.
To frighten, compel, or deter by actual or implied threats. It includes bullying and sexual harassment.
Middle school
A school in which the lowest grade is not lower than grade 4 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 9. Physical attack or fight An actual and intentional touching or striking of another person against his or her will, or the intentional causing of bodily harm to an individual.
Primary school
A school in which the lowest grade is not higher than grade 3 and the highest grade is not higher than grade 8.
Forced sexual intercourse (vaginal, anal, or oral penetration). Includes penetration from a foreign object.
The taking or attempting to take anything of value that is owned by another person or organization, under confrontational circumstances by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear. A key difference between robbery and theft/ larceny is that a threat or battery is involved in robbery.
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Linking Decision and Time Utilities
AbstractThis paper presents the functional relationship between two areas of interest in contemporary behavioral economics: one concerning choices under conditions of risk, the other concerning choices in time. The paper first presents the general formula of the relationship between decision utility, the survival function, and the discounting function, where decision utility is an alternative to Cumulative Prospect Theory in describing choices under risk (Kontek, 2010). The stretched exponential function appears to be a simple functional form of the resulting discounting function. Solutions obtained using more complex forms of decision utility and survival functions are also considered. These likewise lead to the stretched exponential discounting function. The paper shows that the relationship may also have other forms, including the hyperbolic functions typically used to describe the intertemporal experimental results. This solution has however several descriptive disadvantages, which restricts its common use in the description of lottery and intertemporal choices, and in financial asset valuations.
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FLORA — Brady Noonkester died June 9, 2012, two weeks after his high school graduation, from a prescription drug overdose. But his name lives on in Brady's Hope, an organization launched in September.
The organization was started by Brady's parents, Dustin and Jennifer Noonkester, with three goals in mind. The couple aimed to raise $500 to bring a speaker to Carroll Jr.-Sr. High School, $500 to donate to the local DARE program and another $500 to give to the local canine unit.
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The Noonkesters believe it's important to provide information about drug abuse to others.
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The Brady's Hope website was created to share information about Brady, the organization and information on drugs and available help. Dustin Noonkester said one advantage of the website is that people with questions can find resources and help in the privacy of their home.
The website also shows the common drugs, drugs of choice and some names drugs are now called, Jennifer Noonkester said.
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Parents have to know what the right questions are, Jennifer Noonkester said.
Dustin Noonkester agreed, saying on average parents don't know how bad it is, but police officers and emergency medical personnel often know what's going on.
Dustin Noonkester also commented on the importance of locking up prescription medicines.


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Although I largely disagree with shinyblurry, I will concede that if we were not a civilized society, people with either physical or mental disabilities would be at a much greater risk of death. MOST new genetic mutations are deleterious, that is to say, they cause harm to their respective owners. And while I fully understand that Darwin didn't coin the phrase, it doesn't change the idea that some people are vexed by their genes in one way or another.
However, I DO agree that writing said people off as "genetic baggage," as he put it, is callus and unkind. We could just as easily say that "love" is simply a chemical reaction in the brain, and can be written off as such. But it's the value we place on those feelings, the choices we make to assign it meaning, much like the choices we make to care for one another, that give our own lives meaning and purpose.
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you don't know what i do for a living, so i'll skip the part where i yell at you passionately kids with downs/people with disabilities/kids with syndromes.
furthermore, survival of the fittest was not a phrase coined by darwin. and did not originally apply to the evolution of organisms. applying it to people with genetic disorders further offends me.
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Although I largely disagree with shinyblurry, I will concede that if we were not a civilized society, people with either physical or mental disabilities would be at a much greater risk of death. MOST new genetic mutations are deleterious, that is to say, they cause harm to their respective owners. And while I fully understand that Darwin didn't coin the phrase, it doesn't change the idea that some people are vexed by their genes in one way or another.
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ack! you're a master of disguise. the one that made me laugh had a baby alligator in it, though this one is excellent as well. good at striking fear into hearts
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hehe. which one? i've changed it 3 times!
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your avatar made me giggle
He can wait, he made you wait 2000 years!
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shit! it's this saturday?? i was planning on being raptured.
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Well, I'll have to disagree with you here. God isn't a myth. At the very least, God is an idea, and a philosophical conception. Let me ask you this, since you're science minded..Is the postulate of a creation really that irrational? Why is it so unlikely that it was? You may not agree with a particular account of creation, but just the basic question of how the Universe got here..why does creation seem unlikely to you?
I mean, for a species that hasn't even left its backyard, don't you think its a bit premature to rule that out? That in itself is bad science..as well as the fact that there is absolutely no evidence to support that view. Only a lack of evidence is pointed to, but as William Lane Craig says, an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Yes, religion has been misused. Evil people can abuse anything, especially Gods authority. Personally, I don't agree with anything the catholic church has done. If they are Christians, it's only by the skin of their teeth. There have also been evil atheists, like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot..and others who slaughtered tens of millions of their own people. It's human nature that is the problem here.
I know you don't believe in a spiritual reality, so you just don't get this video at all. It's not about the mans insight, he is describing an experience. This video is kind of chopped up..if you really want to evaluate it, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9f2n0xPZ3k ..it's an interview which is much more indepth and makes some things clear which are not apparent.
For instance, when he goes to hell..he experiences being there for an eternity..not just a few minutes like it seems in the video..he describes being there for a vast amount of time, being self-aware the entire time and vividly recounting the thoughts that he had. He also goes into supreme detail of the experience he had with Jesus in going over his entire life, and secrets God revealed to him..not only that but he spends perhaps months with Jesus learning from Him and the angels in a question and answer session.
When he finally gets back, it turns out he was only unconscious for a moment..so all that time that had passed only equaled a moments time here. Plenty about this experience is unique, and intriguing. I would humbly submit that it is your lack of curiousity about the subject, mixed with the judgements you already have, that prevent you from seeing that.
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there is a bias, all communities have a common ground. i just don't think the bias is against people of faith as much as it is a bias in favor of empirical evidence and against perpetuating bad science and myths. all myths, not just ones of a religious nature. and all bad science, not just creationism. i generally don't upvote atheist videos either. because they're often loaded with self righteousness and bad arguments. i do however, upvote good science and i do upvote thoughtful insight. i just didn't find this mans insight particularly insightful or original. people often have religious experiences when facing death, i have absolutely nothing against that. and i can understand the need to believe in an afterlife. i think spirituality is deeply personal and deeply powerful and deeply beautiful and fascinating. i think religion, however, is a massive power game and i think power breeds massive corruption... see the history of the catholic church and the influence of the christian right on todays political landscape.
No problem. I can see how it might have been interperted as demeaning, in which case I would have deserved it. Regarding the bias, I know this is a community made up of mostly atheists. If you were posting on a Christian site, I'm sure you would see the bias there too. It's human nature I suppose. I don't upvote atheist videos so I guess I am a hypocrite. I'll just shut up about it..I think it's attracting more downvotes.
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Oh, alright then. I retract my "you're a douchebag" comments.
I forgot about my avatar.
good day to you.
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Say what? I was just commenting on your avatar..trying to defuse the tension. I didn't mean it that way and I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't even know if you were female.
Wasn't worried, nor did I take it personally .... it is just my nature to say -- hey, I didn't say that, you misunderstood. Just like to keep the record straight, is all.
I'll eventually learn to just let misunderstandings be, it seems to provoke more confusion than trying to straighten things out.
PSAs. There is a whole 'nother topic....
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hey lady,
i didn't take your comment personally if that's what you were worried about.
i always feel like most of the PSA campaigns i see are going about it all wrong.
for instance, i would like to see an anti-drug PSA that's more about human rights and the gross exploitation of the third world thats inherent in the production of hard drugs. I did a ton of drugs as a very young kid, and knowing the kind of kid i was, i would never ever have shoved coke up my nose if i knew how it was made, who made it, how it gets here and how many people died over it on its way to my blood stream. i think that kind of thing would be even more relevant now that the cartel war in mexico is all over the news. the typical 1990 "drugs are bad, mkay?" commercials that were on when i was kid seem completely impotent.
sure, maybe PSA's don't hurt. but i think a very serious cost/benefit analysis should be made.... is this making enough bang for the buck?? is there another, more productive, method of outreach we could use these funds for?? maybe keep the PSA because it undoubtedly gets the message out to the greatest amount of people, but maybe the PSA could be about signs of poorly managed stress and the importance of coping skills and where to get the tools to deal with out of control feelings. or some shit. i don't know. just my 2 cents.
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Um, my comment was about the 30% who grow up to be abusers. It wasn't directed to the 70% who didn't.
And you're right, there are other things to do.
The PSA is just a tactic. One tactic.
It certainly doesn't hurt, and it might help.
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The idea that the abused grow into abusers is kind of.... meh.... Only about 30% of people who were abused as children grow up to abuse their own kids. Because 70% of us grow up to see ourselves in the eyes of every frightened child ever.
Abuse is about anger and it's about power. It's the inability to cope with stress or feelings of powerlessness. It's rampant in areas of high poverty, but certainly isn't non-existant in the homes of the wealthy.
Sure, I like the IDEA of PSA's.. but generally find them targeting the wrong side of the issue. This PSA targets the symptom, but not the root. If the root cause of domestic violence is power and an inability to cope with stress productively, then why can't we have a campaign to teach positive coping skills and educate little people and big people and even bigger people how to productively manage stress and take control of their own lives? ..... oh, right.. because that might actually EMPOWER people instead of just scare and depress them.