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I just had a new pool built and it was just filled yesterday. After looking at Aqua Blue and Blue Granite pebble sheen pools that were built by my pool builder I chose blue granite pebble sheen. When I saw the blue granite pebble sheen pool, the first thing I said was "oh, that is really pretty". Now when I see mine, the first thing I say is "oh that is really ugly and I wonder how much it costs to change it". I realize the water was just filled yesterday and it has no chemicals in it yet. I'm not sure when they are coming to add chemicals.
I've seen pictures on this forum of blue granite pebble sheen before chemicals were added and none of them looked as green as mine. My pool builder said all the colors will look green when they are first filled until the chemicals get added and balanced and it filters for a while. But then he added, the blue granite can throw a green color. I didn't want any green in my pool at all. Also, from a distance (from inside the house) the water looks dark and black and just reflects the stone wall. I don't think that will change with chemicals. Very disappointing. Anyone have any thoughts? How long will it take for the color to get blue? How long do they have to wait to add chemicals? I saw another posting on this site where the pool stayed green even after adding chemicals. Does blue granite pebble sheen look black or very dark from a distance? I keep thinking I should have chosen the aqua blue, but when I saw the aqua blue I kept thinking it looked like someone added blue dye to the pool and it looked like a blue snow cone. |
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Any new plaster can look green for awhile because of the chemicals in your water. Blue Granite is very pretty....just give it a little time to settle down. It could be 30 days of daily brushing before the true color is revealed. |
- Posted by karen4235 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 12:17
Hi JPE5, Our pool is about 90% the same. Raised rock wall, stone coping (mine is travertine coping. from pic its looks like yours is also travertine coping), square pool, and even down to the same BLUE GRANITE p/s and mind WAS JUST FILLED 2 DAYS BEFORE YOURS! The chemicals was added 2 days after my pool was filled up. They should be contacting you any day now to add chemicals. I had originally decided on Aqua Blue when we signed the contract back in May and I changed it only 1 day before they came out to pebble sheen the pool. I had looked at numberous pictures and realize that Aqua Blue gave me the same feeling of blue dyes in the water so changed it just in the nick of time. Anyhow, when water was all filled up it was greenish and after they added the chemicals the water turned bluer. Almost like a smokey blue. I actually like it a lot and glad I didn't go with Agua Blue. |
Hi Karen 4235, Yes, my pool has scabos travertine pavers for the coping. Your's does look very similar and I also have the 3 sheer waterfalls as well. Your water color is very pretty. My pool builder just added chemicals today, but I have not seen the pool yet. But my son said it is still green after the chemicals being added. The pool builder said he has never seen one this green before, but to be patient. Ugh! So hard to spend all of this money and not get what you were expecting. I didn't like the blue aqua but at this point it would be better than what I got. I was expecting the color that is in your picture. My pool finished filling this past Friday morning (11/2) and by Saturday it was green than it was on Friday. So it is greener than the picture I posted. I hope I don't have to wait 30 days for it to turn blue. How long did it take for yours to turn blue? |
The color of the water in your picture and in Karens pics looks the same. Actually yours looks bluer. Hers looks bluer near the trim tile on the steps. Give it some time, all pebble tec products are the same. |
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- Posted by karen4235 (email@example.com) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 13:07
Yay!!! your color looks just like mine. whew it could have been a nightmare if you had to change out the pebble color. My coping is also Scabas. I love the Scabas patio pavers you have. Absolutely love your paver design. So I find that the my copings are very slippery when wet? are yours slippery? what size are they? minds is 12x24. from picture it looks like they are 12x12? Is there a way to make them not so slippery when wet? how long did your whole pool process take? ours took 5 months. I'm not thrilled at all on there soooo speed. where do you live? i am out in Pleasant Hill, CA 94565 by San Francisco. Keep sending more pictures once you have all the landscapes up. I would love to see end result once its all landscaped out. then again is there really and end to it? lol |
- Posted by lbphathead19 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 13:32
Your pool looks great. Im down in Socal, huntington Beach. What is your stacked stone color and style, looks awesome. Are they panels or individual stones? Love the spillways too. |
- Posted by karen4235 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 14:47
hi Ibphathead19, My stones are called Desert Haze. They are natural stone panels that come 6"hx18L. they have locking step edges so you just interlock to make a straight run. they come in straight run and corner pieces that have the nice facings to them. |
I am in NE Phoenix/Scottsale, AZ area. The travertine is 12x12 bullnose around the edge of the pool and the rest is 6x12 tumbled pavers. We haven't been on it too much when it is wet, but it hasn't been slippery. I think being tumbled makes it not slippery. The whole process took about 45 days, maybe just slightly more to build the pool. They started Sept 13th and the pebble sheen was installed on Oct 31st. I was impressed with the speed the pool was built. They moved fast and even worked all day on Saturdays. I actually caused about a week delay because I could not decide on the waterline tile. My builder actually had to go to the tile store and pick up a sample of the tile I chose since he didn't have a sample. You can't see it in the picture, but it has some gold/brown it which causes it to slightly sparkle in the sun. I don't remember the stone color, but it was in the gold tone range. Some of the choices had more grays in it. It is individual linear stones and the top is flagstone. My pool builder said the pool probably had some algae in it which is why it was greener than any start up pool he had seen. And it got greener after the first day of fill. It had been in the mid-90's when the pool got filled, so it was hot to have it without chemicals in it. |
@JPE5 just wondering about your pavers..do you remember what color? Do they get hot in the summer? and how are they holding up? Thanks, they are so pretty it's what I'm considering |
JPE5 - do you remember the name/color of your waterline tile? |
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11th Apr 2009, 08:11 AM | #1 |
I've noticed an interesting thing while I was at school in an IT class. Look at this picture. Especially works on those who don't know UT3. What do you see? Is it a scene from a movie? A video game? Or real life? I'm quite sure not everybody could answer that correctly. The real answer can be found in the URL.
So, anyone noticed that graphics are getting so good that it's hard to tell real life from rendered worlds? What do you think will be next? Will we get to the point we already got with audio: there's basically no place we could advance further? What will we research then? |
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I disagree
Well for one that picture isn't exactly large, so it's easier to be mistaken - which I wasn't, I will add.
Post that picture at full resolution and it becomes even more obvious. That looks far from "real" to me. It looks like a game. (Also, I know Shangrila, so my first thought was "oh, Shangrila") Further, make someone watch the game being played at full res. and unless you have no clue about video games, there's absolutely no way it'd fool you into thinking it was real/a movie or whatever. Ergo there is still tons of work to be done in the visual department, when it comes to games. Games are moving towards visual realism, but we're still miles away. There is still so much more to be done in the way of real-time graphics that I'm pretty sure I'll be gone by the time anything comes out that will really make it hard to tell if it's a game or the real thing. I haven't played a game to date which is even teetering on "is this real - or is this a game?!" Every generation that brings new graphic prowess, is usually heralded as virtually indistinguishable from realism... until the next gen surfaces and you laugh at yourself for thinking that it was even close. When I first saw Crysis I was like amazing. Looking at it now... yeah it's still very nice, but not that impressive any more. In a couple of years, it too will just look dated and anybody who reckoned that it looked super life-like will probably find it amusing they did when compared Crysis 2017. Read real old gaming articles, where you'll find people back then were praising the graphics for looking "amazingly close to the real thing" when to us now, they look nothing like the real thing. I remember seeing games way-back-when thinking "man that's SO realistic"... Of course I am talking real-time here as there are architectural renders I've seen that are immensely hard to differentiate from a photo/film. But I've not played any game that even comes close to me not being able to distinguish it from a film. On the other hand my father visited me once, and I had my PC running with some game on it and he asked me what film it was. Last edited by dub; 11th Apr 2009 at 08:42 AM. |
11th Apr 2009, 05:25 PM | #4 |
Lol, if anyone thinks that could be a photo, they need to get out more - it looks and feels very computer generated. But it could indeed be a render / still from a film.
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Though I'll go a bit further and say that anyone who thinks that that is a photo is either close to blind or has some type of problem distinguishing reality. :/ |
11th Apr 2009, 05:51 PM | #6 |
Reality is only dependent on how far away you are from the image.
As computer graphics are getting more sophisticated, we're able to get closer and closer to an image and still look like it's "real" ((if stylized)).
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11th Apr 2009, 05:57 PM | #7 |
Wait until 2010 and you will get this (nice) picture 10 times better in realtime. Cya NVIDIA and cya ATI... |
12th Apr 2009, 02:27 AM | #8 |
See, I have a theory that all reality is is just a massively complex computer game run in a different reality. Eventually, the computer game strives to develop its own absolutely realistic games, who will in turn strive to make their OWN absolutely realistic game. It explains why the universe is tailored to be EXTREMELY precise so that everything can exist and not explode in a mass of charged particles.
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It would be, if not excessive bloom...
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The racing game GRID for PC has amazing visuals if you have a card that can run the game on High/Ultra settings. These screenshots lost some quality from hosting on photobucket, but their still pretty good. Ignore the crowd in the last photo, normally they react to whatever the car is doing but for some reason their not in the photo.
12th Apr 2009, 06:48 PM | #12 |
Static images from games always look nicer than in the actua game itself.
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That may be true for most games, but believe it or not, this particular racing game looks better full screen and in motion. You cant really see the true reflections, particles, smoke animations, and textures without it being in motion in game.
12th Apr 2009, 07:15 PM | #14 |
Yeah... racing sims are about the easiest games to make look pretty. GT4 on the PS2 looks awesome in spite of it being a PS2 game...
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I hate to bring up another engine, but there are certain areas in Crysis that really look photo realistic. I guess it's not total blasphemy considering Mischa the Sled Dog works for them.
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Crysis Warhead looks pretty good, especially in the areas near the water. The game runs great to, Crytek optimized it good.
13th Apr 2009, 04:27 AM | #17 |
The racing game also has too much bloom, but pretty nice anyway. Especially the first picture.
13th Apr 2009, 05:00 AM | #18 |
HUH. I. WHAT. SINCE WHEN!?! I thought Myscha quit working on video games? Someone should go over there and blackmail Myscha to come back to Epic and help create Unreal 3 should it ever be conceived in the future XD. Or not. Whatever. But still, I think Crysis just got 100 times more awesome for me just because one of the original Unreal devs are now on the Crysis developing team. Too bad my computer can't even play games like Doom 3 thanks to the half-death of my 6200 (R.I.P).
Oh yeah, and the reason Racing games look so good is because the game doesn't have that much to render. It only has to focus on the race track itself, and the cars themselves, ultimately allowing the devs to pump up the graphics with only little background objects. With increasing graphical power, however, FPS games are quickly reaching the threshold of Racing game graphics. Too bad the same thing is happening to the racing games as well. We're more likely to have photorealistic racing games before we finally have photorealistic FPS games. EDIT: Ok, we already have photorealistic racing games (except the cars look like toys...), we just need photorealistic FPS games. No, scratch that, we don't NEED photorealistic, we WANT photorealistic. Wait, why are we striving for photorealistic games anyway? Whatever happened to fun? Are we trying to do that because we can't do those things in real life (when do you think you'll ever fight an alien wielding a triple barrel rocket launcher with a plasma gun with a beam that fries your enemies and helps your friends?) and they want to make us feel that we are? Last edited by KillerSkaarj; 13th Apr 2009 at 05:17 AM. |
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Actually it would be good for games when developers can nolonger push the visuals any further, as systems become more powerfull it would leave them lots of free system resources that can be used to make better physics, use more and better AI, larger worlds with less loading and so on.
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We bought the Kraus apron sink awhile ago. Yesterday I was told we need to install the sink then they will come out to measure for the granite counter. Now I read about a positive reveal or a flush/zero reveal and I am confused. I don't know which we should do. Can anyone please give me advise on this. If you have any other advise to help us on installing the sink please let me know. Thank you. |
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- Posted by SaltLife631 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 30, 13 at 14:28
Some of the pros and cons of each will vary depending upon circumstances. For instance you will not have to worry about an exposed sink edge chipping with stainless steel but you may still worry about a countertop edge chipping so on and so forth. Below is a description of each I hope this helps feel free to let me know if you have any other questions. Good luck!!! Negative Reveal- This is when the countertop overhangs the sink edges slightly on the sides as well as the back. Functionality wise you can simply brush things off the countertop into the sink very easily with this type of reveal. This reveal also allows you to hide the caulk/silicone seam between the sink and the countertop. Lastly this reveal allows the installer to make a handmade sink that might not be totally square appear to be square. However depending on the size of the reveal you may lose a small amount of sink space. Zero/Flush- This is when the edge of the sink lines up with the edge of the countertop all the way around. This can be difficult edge for fabricators because it does not allow any real margin for error. It can be done if the customer already has the sink as you do. When dealing with handmade sinks this presents a problem. The dimensions of a machine made sink should be more uniform. Positive Reveal- This is when a portion of the sink edges can be seen on both sides as well as the back. Some people feel this is easier to clean because any gunk can clearly be seen and you don't have to clean under the edge like with a negative reveal. Also you get the full size of your sink as useable space and a cutting board or similar rack can sit on the sink edges. However the caulk/silicone seam is in plain sight, it isn't as easy to just sweep things from the counter into the sink and if a sinks dimensions are not square this reveal will highlight than more than a negative reveal. Personally we wanted a positive reveal to show off the edges of the farmhouse sink we loved so much. After seeing them in use we did not like looking at the caulk/silicone seam (the caulk/silicone can get dirty in which case it will still function but you may want to cut it out and redo it) between the countertop and sink as well as the inability to easily wipe the countertop off into the sink. In addition even though we got a pretty square Rohl sink it is still handmade and we wanted the sink cutout to be perfectly square. For those reasons we went with a negative reveal and have been happy with our choice. We have found that if installed and sealed properly a negative reveal is very easy to clean, ours will pass inspection even if you bend down and look! There is no right or wrong. All you can do is look at pictures and listen to others opinions but you have to choose the one that is best for you. One more thing to point out is that I have seen chipped countertops around both positive and negative reveals as well as chipped sink edges around positive reveals. In my personal experience neither of these have been an issue. Here are some helpful links: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0718564612899.html |
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I have a Kraus 33" apron front sink. I personally have always liked the look of the sides being shown off (for SS farmhouse sinks) -- so I went with the look that I like which is a 3/4 inch positive reveal (I would have even gone more). My fabricator did mention that they are doing mostly flush, but I went with what always caught my eye in pictures (in terms of the look). I have no idea yet about function though, and whether I will regret this choice! |
We went with a flush counter install. The sink is level with the counter. |
We have a 33 Kraus, too. We did a small positive reveal, which I had to really push for with the granite guy. I think it's easier for them to do negative. But I liked the idea of seeing the outline of the sink - that was part of the charm of the farm sink for me. I still live it, but if you're the type to stress if you see the silicone line, it might not be for you. |
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I have an idea for a modification for an existing product. I think this idea would make the product more useful and more marketable. Several companies produce this kind of product.
Is there anyway to protect this idea? I would like to start contacting manufacturers. I don't want them to be able to use the idea without me. Is there anything I can do? I don't want to have to totally recreate the wheel. I would love to work with someone. Paul I know this is somewhat vague. I hope you understand. |
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- Posted by Eddie_GA_7A (My Page) on Wed, Jul 9, 03 at 13:56
Yes, I do understand as I have ideas sometimes also. I would think if you could contact the company you might explain that you have something for them but first they need to sign a contract stating that IF they use your idea you will be compensated. Don't let the cat out of the bag until it becomes beneficial to you. Good luck dealing with those wonderfully ethical people in corporate America. |
I'm not certain of this, but it seems to me that it's possible to apply for a patent for an idea before it goes into production. The other possibility would be to write down your idea, stick it in a sealed envelope and mail it to yourself and another trusted individual, via registered mail. That way, if there were ever any doubt as to whose idea it was, you'd have dated proof. Just a thought. And good luck! |
Write the idea down in detail and include any necessary drawings. Sign all pages, date them, get them notarized, seal them in an envelope, and put it in a safe place, such as a safety deposit box. Then start contacting prospects. As you visit with them, keep detailed records of each and every meeting -- whom you met with, when, where, and what was disclosed or discussed. |
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Everyone, Thank you. This is one of those ideas that you wonder why no one has attempted it yet. I had another idea a few years ago about a small soaker hose ring to water in newly planted trees. I didn't do anything, but someone did. It now sells for 8 or 9 dollars at local garden centers. Oh well, maybe they started on it before I thought of it. I will write about the idea and have it notarized. I have also considered the patent route. I may try to accomplish all the above. Who knows I may even need to contact several of you to help if this is as popular as I think it might be. Paul |
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We Are Poets and We Know Its!
My Mom and I may live far apart, but we stay in touch. Even when there is nothing much going on, we have an ongoing poetry game going on. That may not seem like much fun to you, but my mother's mother was an award-winning poet and so is MY mom. I'm not all that concern about the award thing, but it makes Mom smile when I write, so I keep plugging away.
This week we wrote about
"The Aging Humorist"
I may not be as droll or young
As in my earlier days
But I'm still known to click my tongue
With a jocular quip or phrase
While humor finds its place in time
To each his own will chuckle
A Vaudeville act well past its prime
Made audiences buckle
My aging peers in their midyears
Will titter, I suppose
But the times I'll hold most dear, my dear?
When they snort liquid through their nose.
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Pap-Nap Sleep Study Offered for Patients at NARMC
By: Elizabeth MontePosted: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison is offering a Pap-Nap sleep study for people who suffer with sleep apnea.
The Pap-Nap is a daytime, abbreviated cardio-respiratory sleep study to acclimate patients with sleep disordered breathing to positive airway pressure.
The Pap-Nap procedure takes approximately 2-4 hours and the optimal time is a 1:00 p.m. start time. During this time the patient will have the opportunity to use a variety of masks and be properly instructed how to best maximize their comfort level.
Only certain sensors are used for the pap study a full hook-up is not used and sleep is not scored nor is the patient titrated. The following monitors are applied; snore monitor, effort belts, EKG, pulse oximetry, also, video monitoring is used.
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Woman Who Dumped Baby in Lake Pontchartrain Facing Murder Charges
POSTED: Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 1:22pm
UPDATED: Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 10:57pm
20-year-old Ciara Monique Craig told police she didn't want a baby. And she didn't want to upset her family.
"There's no way to explain this, there's no way to justify this," said Chief Steve Caraway.
Police say the young mother told them she had no other choice but to get rid of the newborn. Witnesses say she actually gave birth to the little girl at an apartment complex in river ridge.
Some time after, Craig allegedly drove to the lake shore, got out of her car and threw the contents of a garbage bag into the lake. Elliott Lew was at lake Pontchartrain at the time. He says what he discovered in the water was very disturbing.
"I happened to be walking by and I saw that there was a gentleman carrying a pole and I approached him. He asked me if I thought it might be a body in the water, and I looked at it from a distance and I saw two legs moving," said Lew.
Police say the baby girl was still alive when she was thrown into the water. The newborn's body was recovered at the Kenner boat launch just after 2 pm on Tuesday.
"This was a full term female, baby, absolutely gorgeous. The umbilical cord was still somewhat attached, and, one of our police officers actually pulled her out of the water," said Caraway.
Craig turned herself into police Tuesday night at the urging of her family. Police say she'll be charged with first degree murder based on her statement that the baby's heart was still beating when she tossed the infant into the lake.


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What's the one song that brings back the most memories for you? - 93.7 B-93
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What's the one song that brings back the most memories for you?(Type: photo | Published: 2013-08-01T14:50:01+0000)
[courtney lea gahan] - The House That Built Me (reminds me of my house i grew up in for the first 14 yrs of my life)
[dustin oles] - Holes in the floor of heaven
[chuck wohlford] - Love don't run - Steve Holy
[jenn white] - The freshman by the verve pipe
[jackie armstrong] - i would have to say either the dance or reckless
[joan berryhill] - Springsteen by Eric Church!!
[iris robinson] - Cross my heart George straight
[brian randall] - Don't take the girl
[ronda stick] - I Swear...John Michael Montgomery
[angie gebhart karker] - that is so true then all we do is sit and cry all day.
[lew showers] - Amazing Grace or Taps
[kim johnson schillim] - Rascal Flatts- Fast Cars And Freedom with Ryan Schillim
[dustin love] - Sweet Child of Mine :)
[scott hayes] - That's My Job by Conway Twitty. Reminds me everytime of my grandfather and all that he taught me. R.I.P. Grandpa.
[joey springer] - I go back- Kenny Chesney
[emma george] - It Goes Like This - Thomas Rhett
[anne maus] - Keeper of the stars
[christy flickinger] - You had me at hello
[jenny hawley] - Love Hurts by Nazareth and Right here waiting by Richard Marks
[annette kessler] - Remember when Alan Jackson and big green tractor Jason aldean and many more
[kathy roelofs] - I have three that bring back a lot of memories. Good morning beautiful, My wish, and Keeper of the stars.
[gregory nixon] - I like dreaming. By Kenny Nolan
[kennetha claiborne] - I'll be missing you- Puff Daddy
[jennifer leclaire-ostrander] - "Don't Take the Girl" Tim McGraw. The reason I started listening to country.
[ken herman] - All I Want Is You. Derek Herman
[pam dolnik] - Your love amazes me! John Berry
[pj scott] - Magic Carpet Ride
[nicole volchoff] - Ace of base...I saw the sign
[crystal richard] - Check yes or no - George Strait. I was 9 and thought I was in love!
[steven morales] - When the sun goes down
[mike dine] - "We Rode in Trucks" by Luke Bryan
[leela j green] - Redneck yacht club , most of Rascal Flatts songs, don't blink, house that built me. Ok let's just say every county song!
[cheryl strautz] - My Little Girl.
When the song came out, Dad said someday we'd dance to it at my wedding. He died before we had a chance. So we played it at his funeral
[tom cook] - "The Dance" Garth brooks
[patricia yowaish-westerman] - Just Breathe...with Willie Nelson and his son Lukas...really makes you think about what is important...reminds me of a time when my youngest and I would drive the back roads in my convertible singing our hearts out...<3
[bill mayer] - I remember you. Skid Row.
[dana cooley] - Black Eyes, Blue Tears! Shania Twain. Some memories I wish I didn't remember
[wildan citizen] - mkmmmmmm...........!
[stephanie hageman] - Don't blink by Kenny Chesney!
[kaleb smith] - Highway Don't Care
[billnnelly hutchins] - I go back Kenny chesney
[jody simons-bisanz] - "Hold On To Me" by John Michael Montgomery
[jayson street] - I like it, I love it - Tim McGraw
[lori bitner] - Absolutely! Love the time traveling I do with music. :)
[becky wright] - I Go Back by Kenny Chesney
[jessica wever] - Carrying Your Love With Me
[julie ojeda] - more than a memory
[denise arney] - The Money Tree, and the same time is from Pam Tilis
[nate morehouse] - anything from John Michael Montgomery
[brittani nikole] - if ii didn't have you - thompson square /:93.7 B-93: What's the one song that brings back the most memories for you? - 50th Comments
[crystal mikulka] - Where We Left Off-Hunter Hayes
[taylor bushard] - Seventeen - Tim McGraw. Nothing really beats being 17 and reckless
[courtney jo preston] - I go back, itty bitty, in a hurry and dont know why, joyride, material girl and mountain music
[russell pencin] - I've got a ticket to ride - Beatles...
[tom stradinger] - Candy Kisses, George Morgan
[marlin koetje] - Unanswered prayers- Garth Brooks
[jannette johnson tyler] - Anything from the 80s!! I misss the 80s :)
[christopher speed] - Temporary home. Story of my life


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Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?
At a time when courts hog headlines, this was a conspicuous slip. About two months ago, the Uttarakhand High Court admitted a public interest petition on making gross environmental productivity a co-indicator of the state of the economy along with the standard gross domestic product (GDP). The media did not take note and there was not much discussion on its significance.
The court has asked the state government to reply to the petition by Dehradun-based non-profit, Himalayan Environmental Industries and Conservation Organisation (HESCO). Going by what government officials say, the state government has agreed to incorporate environmental factors while measuring GDP. This is probably the first public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the concept of GDP as an indicator of economy in the Indian context. GDP does not include the massive informal economy eked from local ecology.
The petition argues that local ecology sustains the maximum number of people in the state while the GDP-based growth model caters to a small percentage of the population. So, it is not a robust indicator of the true state of the economy. "GDP reflects livelihood of only 15 per cent people. The rest 85 per cent depend on local ecology for survival. The economy of the majority, thus, is not reflected by GDP," says Anil Joshi who heads HESCO. Joshi says that GDP will never be environmentfriendly and has sought judicial intervention to strike a balance between the environment and GDP-based growth.
The litigation is a landmark in many ways. First, the case pertains to the current economic policy of the government. Usually, judiciary is hesitant to interfere in this domain. Bringing in environmental arguments to counter the policy in the judiciary opens many windows. Interestingly, the court has asked the state government to reply to the petition by citing the directive principles of state policy of the Constitution that mandate states to protect and improve the environment.
Second, the petition argues that Uttarakhand was granted separate statehood because of its unique ecology and the economy it has created. So, a special state cannot have the standard GDP measure alone. Otherwise, it will perpetuate a faulty measure of economy. States like Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand that were created on the same ground can use this argument for seeking a different measure of economy.
Third, India is currently working on measuring its environmental economy in preparation for a green GDP by 2015. If Uttarakhand has to measure the gross environmental productivity, it will be a prototype for the country to emulate.
In a way, the court while deciding this case is going to deal with the age-old debate on the relationship between GDP and the environment. GDP eats away at the environment and greatly benefits from environmental degradation. For example, in Uttarakhand many water supply schemes have become redundant due to drying of hill streams. It is bad for the environment but may lead to high GDP as repairing the schemes or creating new schemes will involve more expenditure. However, if we measure the environmental cost of the drying up of the streams and deduct it from the state's GDP, the growth rate will fall drastically.
There are studies that show that after adjusting the environmental cost of growth, India's nine per cent GDP growth rate will fall to three per cent.
Going by the above example, it is clear that GDP does not consider the local economy based on forests and streams. Deforestation leads to drying of streams. People lose incomes from forests as well as agriculture. Add to it the burden of not getting clean drinking water. As village after village faces this ecological poverty, the state's GDP continues to grow. This perhaps explains the chronic poverty in all ecologically rich areas of the country. Two decades of economic liberalisation that made GDP growth rate the new pulse of the country have not had a positive impact on the poor as was expected. Rather, the poor in the country remain poor or are becoming poorer despite the high GDP growth rate. This is where the significance of the PIL filed by HESCO in the Uttarakhand High Court lies. It can bring the natural capital of the country into the mainstream economic discourse. This is the only way that the poor people's economy can be recognised and improved.
The decision of the Uttarakhand High Court on GDP and Environmental Costs will be very interesting.
The System of National Accounts (SNA) measures only monetised activities to arrive at a GDP figure. Even in the most industrialised countries, just 50% of human activity is monetised. As the article shows, the percentage of monetised activity in some of the States of India is very low. In some poor countries monetised activity may not excede 5-10%.
A second issue is that much (probably most) of the monetised activity measured under the SNA and brought into the GDP is not productive. It does not contribute to the quality of life of the people. At the same time, most of NON-MONETISED human activities are productive, otherwise people would not bother with them.
So, as the article suggests the GDP covers a very small amount (maybe just a couple of percent) of productive work in India.
But the GDP story does not finish there, either. The SNA method of calculation itself contains fundamental flaws which have been catastrophic for the world'e economy.
Here are five points :
a) The "saving" recorded as a residual in the National income and outlay account is a myth.
b) The current account surplus or deficit must be reflected on both sides of the National income and outlay account.
c) The SNA has persisted in using depreciation (consumption of fixed capital) instead of principal repayments in the National income and outlay account.
d) By convention, the SNA counts increases in inventory (stocks of consumption goods) in the GDP whereas they usually represent a market failure and a loss to the economy.
e) The "balance on external goods and services" in the gross domestic product and expenditure account of the SNA must be deducted from the gross operating surplus when calculating National disposable income (NDI).
Full information on this is available in "The Savings Myth" and other papers at website www.integrateddevelopment.org


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CLINICAL COMMENTARYTreatment of Chronic HyponatremiaPhuong-Chi T. Pham, M.D., Phuong-Mai T. Pham, M.D., Jeffrey Miller, M.D., Hai V. Pham, M.D., Son V. Pham, M.D., Phuong-Anh T. Pham, M.D., Phuong-Thu T. Pham, M.D.Introduction Most physicians now recognize that the rate and magnitude of correction of sodium concentration in patients with chronic hyponatremia must be carefully monitored within the first 24-48 hours.1-5 Nevertheless, osmotic demyelinolysis secondary to overly rapid corrections of chronic hyponatremia continues to be observed. At the other end of the spectrum, attempts at the correction of hyponatremia in some cases may actually result in no improvement or further lowering of the existing sodium concentra-tion.6,7 Recently, we reported cases where attempts at the correction of hyponatremia resulted in unexpected changes in sodium concentration.6,8 Our analysis revealed that these unexpected changes were preventable if the physicians were aware that factors other than normal saline infusion could have contributed to the correction of hyponatremia. Hyponatremia and the Brain In response to a fall in plasma osmolality, the brain undergoes rapid solute loss to prevent passive intracellular water movement and brain edema. Sodium and chloride loss from the interstitial fluid into the cerebral spinal fluid occurs within minutes followed by a slower loss of intracellular potassium and organic solutes.2,9,10 Reaccumulation of solutes to the brain during correction of chronic hyponatremia, however, occurs more slowly. Whereas intracellular sodium and potassium can be rapidly restored, regeneration of organic solutes or \"idiogenic osmoles\" may require 5 to 7 days.11 The slow reaccumulation of brain solutes during correction of hyponatremia therefore, renders the brain more susceptible to cellular dehydration and neurological complications with rapid correction. The osmotic demyelination syndrome, previously referred to as central pontine myelinolysis, is a neurological complication that has been shown to be associated with an overly rapid correction of hypona-tremia.12-17 Histologic characteristics of osmotic demyelination syndrome include symmetric, midline demyelinating lesions in the pons and/or extrapontine areas, loss of oligodendrocytes, reactive glial cell infiltration, and relative preservation of axonal fibers.12 The actual incidence of osmotic demyelination syndrome, central pontine myelinolysis and/or extrapontine myelinolysis associated with overly rapid correction of chronic hyponatremia cannot be easily determined because not all cases are properly diagnosed or reported. Nonetheless, neurological sequelae have been reported to occur in 5%-50% of cases when correction rates were greater than 10 mmol/L/24 hours.1,18,19 Clinical manifestations of osmotic demyelination syndrome range from headache to alteration in affect/behavior, poor motor coordination, dysarthria, dysphagia, lethargy, obtundation, coma, and death. Certain patients may be more prone to suffer from neurological sequelae from hyponatremia and/or its rapid correction. They include alcoholics, malnourished individuals, menstruating females, and those who have concurrent hypokalemia or hypoxic brain injury.12,20-26 These patients may have suppressed Na+-K+-ATPase activity required for efficient volume regulation during acute osmotic changes. Although osmotic demyelination syndrome may be fatal, partial and even complete recoveries have been reported.3 Treatment of Chronic Hyponatremia In hypovolemic patients, saline infusion is undoubtedly necessary. In mild hyponatremic cases where water retention occurs secondary to the syndrome of inappropriate ADH release (SIADH), fluid restriction alone is often adequate. Ongoing clinical trials have also been designed to evaluate the use of vasopressin antagonists (ADH antagonists) in various hyponatremic conditions including congestive heart failure, liver cirrhosis, and SIADH. Preliminary data are encouraging for moderate to relatively mild hyponatremic patients.27 Currently however, ADH antagonists are not clinically available and saline infusion is still warranted in the treatment of moderate to severe symptomatic hyponatremic cases. In general, the rate of correction of chronic hyponatremia is recommended to be 1/2 mEq/L/hour not to exceed 10 mEq/L/day.1-5 In treating hyponatremia, sodium concentration can be easily predicted as total body salt divided by total body volume (TBV). Total body volume is approximated as (0.60 x body weight in kg).8 Predicted sodium concentration can be estimated as [formula 1]. It is crucial that all sources of sodium and potassium administered/loss and net total body volume be taken into account during the treatment of hyponatremia. In most cases where urinary salt loss and fluid balance are not problematic, the predicted corrected sodium concentration can be simplified as [formula 2]. Treatment of severe chronic hyponatremia remains a challenge for physicians. Whereas slow correction predisposes patients to neurological complications associated with cerebral edema, overly rapid correction may result in equally dire sequelae of osmotic demyelinolysis. Unexpected Problems in the Correction of Hyponatremia Both overly rapid correction and unexpected lowering of sodium level may be encountered in the treatment of hyponatremia. Overly rapid correction of hyponatremia may occur due to excessive salt (sodium and potassium) administration and/or excessive water diuresis.(Table 1) On the contrary, a fall in sodium level may occur during the treatment of hyponatremia when salt loss is in excess of water excretion as seen with SIADH. Excessive Sodium Administration We speculate that excessive sodium administration is generally not due to miscalculations, but rather, unawareness of the amount of sodium already given to patients. Lack of communication between physicians may contribute to this problem. For example, if a patient presenting with severe hyponatremia has already received a large amount of normal saline in the emergency department prior to admission and the admitting physician on the wards uses the initial admitting sodium concentration to determine the amount of sodium to be administered to the patient, then he/she can be surprised with a faster rate of Table 1: Causes of Over Correction of Hyponatremia
correction. When a theoretical 70 kg patient receives 2L of normal saline in the emergency department, his/her sodium concentration is expected to increase by approximately 7.3 mmol/L without further intervention. Excessive Potassium Administration Excessive salt administration also includes large potassium supplement. Potassium infusion into a patient with hyponatremia may increase sodium concentration by several mechanisms.28-30 First, potassium infusion into a hyponatremic patient may induce an extracellular sodium shift in exchange for intracellular movement of potassium. Second, an extracellular shift of protons (H+) may occur in exchange for cellular uptake of potassium. While the extracellular proton is taken up by the extracellular buffer system and does not raise the extracellular osmolality, the cellular uptake of potassium creates an increased intracellular osmolality and promotes cellular uptake of free water. The fall in extracellular free water in turn increases the serum sodium concentration. Third, chloride may follow cellular potassium uptake and results in an increased intracellular osmo- lality with associated cellular uptake of free water. Again, the fall in extracellular free water can increase the serum sodium concentration. Finally, it has also been suggested that volume expansion induced by potassium chloride administration may inhibit ADH, thereby promoting excess free water excretion to result in an increased serum sodium concentration.31 The latter mechanism is particularly applicable to volume-depleted patients. Whatever the mechanism whereby potassium chloride administration results in a rise in serum sodium, the amount of potassium administered should be assumed to be equivalent to sodium in the correction of hyponatremia. Failure to recognize the effect of potassium administration on serum sodium concentration may potentially lead to adverse neurological outcomes. Of note, it has been reported that hyponatremic patients with concomitant hypokalemia have been suggested to have an increased risk of developing osmotic demyelination syndrome with treatment. In a literature review involving patients with osmotic demyelination syndrome following correction of hyponatremia, Lohr reported that 66 out of 74 patients had concomitant hypokalemia.25 This phenomenon may have occurred due to the unrecognized effect of simultaneous administration of potassium on extracellular sodium concentration and overly rapid correction of the existing hyponatremia. In a teaching case, we previously demonstrated that the corrected sodium concentration may be more accurately determined if all sodium and potassium administered and loss are accounted for in the treatment of hyponatremia.8 As potassium infusion may increase serum sodium concentration, it is important to recognize that concurrent hyponatremia and hypokalemia is not uncommon especially in the setting of diuretic use. Although the exact incidence of concurrent hyponatremia and hypokalemia is not known, it has been reported that diuretic use is responsible for approximately 50% of chronic hyponatremic cases and that potassium deficiency is a common finding with diuretic use.1,32-35 In a study evaluating skeletal potassium concentration in 25 patients on diuretics (11 thiazides and 14 loop diuretics), Dorup et al reported that 14 out of 25 patients had potassium concentration below control range despite potassium supplements in all but one patient.35 In a clinical review involving 22 patients with diuretic induced hyponatremia, Sterns et al reported concurrent hypokalemia with level less than 3.3 mmol/L in all but one patient.34 A small analysis of our own hospitalized patients revealed that approximately 20% of hyponatremic patients also have concurrent hypokalemia. Despite the common occurrence of combined hyponatremia and hypokalemia and the potentially frequent need for simultaneous administration of sodium and potassium, physicians may not be aware that administration of potassium to a hyponatremic patient may increase the serum sodium. Excessive Water Diuresis Excessive water diuresis has been reported to occur during correction of hyponatremia to result in an overly rapid correction of hyponatremia and even cause hypernatremia.6,8,36 In most settings, water diuresis probably occurs via acute suppression of ADH. In acute severe hyponatremia, the rapid hypotonic volume expansion may induce ADH inhibition with resultant large urinary free water excretion. In the acute setting of severe hyponatremia, an ADH deficient state may also occur when severe cerebral edema induces pituitary infarction.36 In the chronic setting, water diuresis may occur with water restriction alone in patients with either primary polydipsia or volume depletion following achievement of euvolemia. The appropriate inhibition of ADH due to hyponatremia in the former and volume expansion in the latter may result in excess water to be rapidly excreted.30 Water diuresis presumably due to ADH suppression has also been described in patients with adrenal insufficiency/panhypopituitarism following administration of glucocorticoids.6,37 Other conditions where water diuresis may be problematic due to presumed suppression of ADH include withdrawal of thiazide diuretics during treatment of hyponatremia and recovery from acute respiratory failure.2 As water diuresis is a potential complicating factor in the treatment of hyponatremia, we estimate that 1-2 L of water diuresis may increase the serum sodium concentration in a 70 kg patient by 2.9-6.0 mmol/L. Generally, a urine output greater than 40 ml/kg/day and a urine to serum osmolality ratio less than 0.7 should alert the physician of a water diuresis. When water diuresis occurs, the rate of saline infusion as well as the tonicity of saline fluid used must be re-evaluated [formula 1]. In cases with a high degree of water diuresis, hypotonic fluid infusion may be required to prevent overly rapid correction of hyponatremia and/or development of hypernatremia. Care must also be taken while correcting hyponatremia in patients with severe burns or gastrointestinal fluid loss due to their excessive hypotonic fluid loss. Fall in Serum Sodium Concentration during Treatment of Hyponatremia--SIADH Another major problem encountered in the treatment of hyponatremia does not involve over correction of hyponatremia, but rather, worsening of the existing hyponatremia. Actual lowering of sodium concentration or resistant hyponatremia despite treatment may be observed when a subset of patients with SIADH receives normal saline infusion.6 The syndrome of inappropriate release of antidiuretic hormone has been reported to be responsible for 8%-33% of chronic hyponatremic cases.1,16,34 SIADH is characterized by an inappropriately high urine osmolality in the presence of hyponatremia in euvolemic patients. Consider an SIADH patient who is inappropriately set to concentrate the urine to 600 mosm/kg. Infusion of 1 L of normal saline (approximately 300 mosm/kg) into this patient may result in a urinary excretion of 500 ml of 600 mosm/kg and retention of 500 ml of free water. Similarly, infusion of 1 L of half normal saline (approximately 150 mosm/kg) may result in a urinary excretion of 250 ml of 600 mosm/kg and retention of 750 ml of free water. Failure to recognize this free water retention can precipitate profound worsening of hyponatremia. It should therefore be cautioned that any saline fluid administered to SIADH patients should have a higher osmolality than that of urine to avoid worsening of the existing hyponatremia. In summary, we have presented potential complicating factors in the treatment of hyponatremia. (Table 2) With our analysis and discussion, we hope that hyponatremia treatment-related neurological complications will be minimized. Table 2: Tips in the Management of Hyponatremia


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Thu 30 Jun 2011
June Scavenger Hunt
Posted by Harriet under Bere Island, Cattapilla Dreaming, Family, Flowers, The Garden
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It's June 30th. Yes, I know, it can't be possible! But there it is and it's time once again for the Scavenger Hunt. And once again it's been a challenge and sometimes thought provoking. Here's my, rather hurried, contribution.
Something with your town's name on it. This is the townland on Bere Island where we live.
An Elephant. A present from a very dear friend for my last enormously big birthday!
A Wheel Trim. Brendan Murphy's tractor.
Architectural Detail. First floor balcony at Eccles Hotel, Glengarriff.
Cheese. Irish cheeses are fantastic. If it's kept well, this is one of the best.
Night. Midsummer night and the white specks are raindrops!
Tree Branches. Cordyline australis, the New Zealand Cabbage Palm, grows well here. But last winter's cold has harmed a lot of them. This may recover but it may not …
Cutlery. My mixed collection of what's left of my grandparents' wedding present and charity shop finds. I have a thing about bone handled knives!
A Childhood Memory. More memories of my grandparents. Granny sent me a postcard every week when I was little. These cards, over fifty years old now, can still evoke Granny's voice and presence.
A Farm Animal. A day out at the seaside!
Something Beginning with Z…. Zantedeschia, Arum lily.
The View Right Outside Your Door. Words not nessessary!
Thank you Kathy at postcards from the p.p.
I hope you enjoy this challenge as much as I do!
Have a look at everyone elses here.
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What an amazing night picture, the colour of the sky is beautiful.
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What a stunning view from your front door! The picture that has most resonance for me, though, is that of the cutlery – it took me back 50 years to my childhood home. I've always liked bone handled knives too but they are seldom seen now.
The deep blue sky is magical.
The view from your front door takes my breath away. A million miles from my own and just lovely. Cx
How excited you must have been to receive something through the post each week! Lovely memories.
Great view and your 'Z' is very inventive.
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Lovely photos. The cattle on the beach one is fantastic.
Hi Love your photos especially the Night and your view is a total wow.
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What an amazing view – really lovely pics
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P.S. – forgot to say – what a lovely childhood memory that is, a postcard every week from Granny.
A gorgeous view! The night photo is lovely and 'Z' – genius – great thinking there!
Wonderful view! And what a treasure those postcards are. I've enjoyed visiting your blog; this project has taken to so many blogs I'd never had found otherwise!
I love your night photo best!
If you ever tire of that elephant, I know of the PERFECT home for him! Oh my…he's just tooooooo adorable! I love his size! And the view outside your door…love that perspective…just gorgeous! And those postcards from your childhood…they make me think of my childhood too! There is something very magical about them. One doesn't see that quality of illustration or postcard anymore! Fun pics! x&o, Annette
Hi there, that's a great set of photographs. I love your view, of course, and your childhood memories. What a lovely thing to do!


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'Highly-paid' mystery shopper assignments where you're sent cashier's checks upfront can end up costing you a lot of money.
If someone rings you up to tell you that your bank card has been compromised, it may be because they want to get their own hands on it.
Yet another innovative tech support scam, using Netflix phishing to get remote access to the victim's system.
It's not just fake tech support: call centre cold-callers are operating various kinds of insurance scams, too.
A roundup of scam information, including a tax scams article, email with a link to malware, a phish, and the worlds laziest 419.
Missed a phone call? The Better Business Bureau says answering international telephone fraud calls looking like US calls might cost you more than you think.
419s are a well-known scam type, but some scams are more obvious than others. And sometimes it's the seller who's cheated not the buyer.
Is there really anything new to be said about tech support scams? Unfortunately, the FTC tells us there is. Not only because people are still falling prey to this type of fraud, but because the scammers are still finding new approaches to harvesting their victims' credit card details. Some quite interesting, sophisticated technical tricks are
There are plenty of scams effective enough to rate a warning or three, in the hope of alerting potential victims to the kind of gambit they use. And so, even though much of ESET's business is focused on the bits and bytes of malicious software, I've spent a lot of time writing on WeLiveSecurity and
A phishing scam targeting Tesco bank customers puts on a festive party hat and pretends to offer something for nothing. Is this a topical trend?
Death of a Sales Force: Whatever Happened to Anti-Virus? is a paper written by Larry Bridwell and myself for the 16th AVAR conference in Chennai, which was kindly presented by ESET's Chief Research Officer Juraj Malcho, as neither Larry nor myself were able to attend the conference in the end. The paper is also available
(All four blog articles in this series, of which this article is the last, are available as a single paper here: The_Thoughtful_Phisher_Revisited.) From the sort of 'visit this link and update or we'll cancel your account' message that we saw in the previous blog in this series (The Less Thoughtful Phisher), it's a short step
Less innovative than the scam mails described in my previous articles (Phish to phry and The Thoughtful Phisher II), there are those phish messages that suggest a problem with your account that they need you to log in to fix. (Of course, you aren't really logging in to a legitimate site.) Mostly their appeal is
In the previous Thoughtful Phisher blog, we looked at some visual clues that should tip you off that a email from a 'bank' is not to be trusted. Just as interesting here, though, is the variety of social engineering gambits used by this wave of phish campaigns. It's worth taking a closer look at some
[A much shorter version of this article appeared in the October 2013 Threat Radar Report as 'The Thoughtful Phisher'. As these particular scam/spam campaigns don't seem to be diminishing, however – indeed, some of the phishing techniques seem to be getting more sophisticated – I thought perhaps it was worth updating and expanding for a
It so happens that I live over 5,000 miles from the ESET North America office in San Diego, and so tend not to have water cooler conversations with the people located there. Of course, researchers working for and with ESET around the world maintain contact through the wonders of electronic messaging, but there are lots
[Update 30th October 2013: with regard to the ping gambit discussed below, please note that protection.com now responds to ICMP echo requests – in other words, if you now run the command "ping protection.com" you should now see a screen something like this: Note that this is perfectly normal behaviour for a site that responds
As both Macs and Mac malware increase in prevalence, the importance of testing the software intended to supplement the internal security of OS X increases too. But testing security products on Mac is tricky, due to Apple's own countermeasures. Can it be made easier?
After taking quite a long break from comment moderation on the WeLiveSecurity blog, I've recently started receiving comment notifications and have therefore been able to moderate some of the comments that have I've seen, and I thought it was worth passing on some thoughts about the moderation process as I see it. I should make
A new paper aims to profile the victims most likely to fall for a phishing attack. But what is less clear is how you develop a profile while avoiding the pitfalls of stereotyping.


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When all of the elements combine correctly, a good record store is almost like a church, or a cluttered think tank, or a pop-culture library. You know you're in a good one if the clerk knows more than you ever possibly could (or would want to), and maybe you're just a little bit too intimidated to ask him questions at first. You also know you're in a good one when you find yourself still flipping aimlessly through the racks two hours after you found what you came in for. Denver is lucky to have more than a handful of excellent indie stores; Twist & Shout, Cheapo Discs and Wax Trax are a few of the bigger ones. Yet, increasingly, these kinds of stores are forced to roll over and make room for megastores such as Borders Books & Music, where a person can get a book, a CD and a biscotti and be out the door before the clerk can say "May I help you?"
For the most part, the Twist & Shouts of the world can co-exist comfortably and compete with places like Borders, since their customer bases are usually about as opposite as hip-hop and Muzak. For instance, some people find comfort in the homogeneity of chain stores; they like the idea that whether they're browsing the aisles at a Borders in Englewood or England, the inventory is likely to be pretty much the same. Others, though, find that notion kinda icky. Especially when megastores start sticking their fingers into an already crowded pie.
Last week, Borders Books & Music announced that it has begun an aggressive campaign to market and sell releases from local artists in all four of its area stores. In a program spearheaded by Sally Boccella, the community-relations coordinator at the Littleton store, the chain plans to begin stocking more than ninety releases from about fifty local artists and to allocate a generous portion of floor space -- as well as ten listening stations -- to their sounds. Boccella says the new program will also include weekly in-store appearances, which begin this weekend with performances from acts including Opie Gone Bad, Matthew Moon, Yo, Flaco!, Zeut, Apostle and Ciria, among others.
"In the past, when Borders would have people play in the store, it was like acoustic or real quiet stuff," Boccella says. "Last November I had the Fabulous Boogienauts play my store, and it was a huge success. I thought, 'Why can't we do this all the time and help the local music scene out?'"
Boccella, who has a background in band management and worked briefly in the marketing department at Clear Channel, says the new program was inspired by her own interest in local music and Borders' commitment to the communities in which it is located. And although local releases aren't exactly known for their tendency to fly right off of shelves -- Best Buy abandoned a similar program, called the Colorado Homegrown series, after about six months of what were reportedly meager sales in the mid-'90s -- Boccella says the Borders brass was enthusiastic about the idea.
"Borders is misrepresented sometimes," she says. "A huge part of the company is its community involvement. So while it's a big chain store [Borders currently has more than 300 locations worldwide; three more Denver-area stores are slated to open in the next year], there's still a grassroots thing happening."
Boccella's pitch to the corporate powers might have been made more attractive by her burgeoning relationship with Carl Fischer, president of the Music Patrons Association of the Rockies, a nonprofit organization that changed its name from the Rocky Mountain Music Association last summer. MPAR will be primarily responsible for keeping track of inventory and distributing titles to Borders -- sparing local artists (and store bookkeepers) the hassle of working on a consignment basis. Fischer says the program is a major coup for the local scene.
"Our goal is to make Denver, together with Boulder, the music capital of the Rocky Mountain music empire," Fischer says with all of the enthusiasm of a political candidate. And Fischer and Boccella's plans for the Borders/MPAR partnership stretch far beyond the Borders racks: In late June, Fischer will launch MPAR radio (mpar.org), an Internet site that will initially stream local tunes at all hours of the day. Eventually, they hope to get a local music show on TV -- they're currently talking with UPN and WB2 -- that will be jointly hosted by Nina Storey, Ciria and KTCL jock Nerf. If it sees the light of air, the program will feature interview segments and footage from Borders in-store appearances as well as a Borders Top Ten segment pimping the highest-selling local titles. (Boccella says that at first the plan was to have a squad of dancing women, à la the Fly Girls, provide a visual for sound bites of local releases; Fischer says that plan has been quashed because it was "maybe a little corny." Too bad -- the idea of hard-bodied ladies with bare midriffs dancing around to Matthew Moon is too deliciously ridiculous.) The Internet site appears to be ready to go, but the TV show -- which will operate as a piece of paid-for broadcasting that some might say sounds like a big ol' Borders commercial -- has hit a snag: Fischer has been unable to secure financial backing, while blocks of paid time are selling out quickly. (Currently, the only times available on WB2 are after 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, a time when the target audience is probably out seeing local music or sleeping; a UPN marketing person, meanwhile, reports that the weekend slots are booked solid.)


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WASHINGTON - America's top military officer has ordered a review of training materials for US troops that espouse the view that the United States is at war with Islam, The New York Times reported Thursday, April 26.
Our concern is there are some unprofessional things being taught to students in professional military educational curriculum, Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters.
The review, which was first reported by Wired.com, was ordered after a complaint from a soldier who had recently completed an elective course entitled "Perspectives on Islam and Islamite Radicalism" at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia
NY Police in Third Jihad' on MuslimsUrination Video Sparks Muslim Fury
"A student who finished the course last month brought this to his attention, that some materials in that course were inflammatory," Kirby said.
One of the training materials, presented in a power point slide for military students, states that The United States is at war with Islam and we ought to ought to just recognize that we are war with Islam.
Following the complaint, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ordered military schools to review their training courses for soldiers.
"This review will ensure our professional education programs exhibit the cultural sensitivity, respect for religion and intellectual balance that we should expect in our academic institutions," Dempsey said in the letter, an excerpt from which were read to Reuters.
The 30-day inquiry will try to determine how the material got into the course, and how many US military officers received training using that material.
The course has been taught since 2004, but its curriculum was revised in the middle of 2011.
The Pentagon spokesman estimated that "hundreds" of mid-level officers have taken the course, primarily commanders and lieutenant colonels from all four branches of service.
"What we don't know is when this inflammatory language was inserted in the course," Kirby said
The Pentagon denied that the US was at war with Islam.
That's not at all what we believe to be the case, Kirby said.
We're at war with terrorism, specifically Al-Qaeda, who has a warped view of the Islamic faith. That's just one example.
The new revelation is a new blow to the administration of President Barack Obama as he seeks to mend U.S. ties with the Muslim world and shore up his campaign in Afghanistan.
These assertions are not in keeping with our principles or ideas, the Pentagon spokesman said.
We believe the right thing to do was to suspend the course due to some of the things that were presented in the course.
This is not the first scandal that engulfed the US military since the 9/11.
Last March, copies of the Noble Qur'an were burnt out by US soldiers at a military base in Afghanistan, sparking violent protests that left more than 30 people dead.
US soldiers were also photographed abusing dead bodies of Taliban fighters, sparking fury in Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, the New York police used a video screening accusing Muslims of launching a holy war on the West as a training material for its officers.
The film, The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America, says "the true agenda of much of Muslim leadership here in America" is to "infiltrate and dominate America."It claims that there were three jihads: One at the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him), a second in the Middle Ages and a third that is underway covertly in the West today.
Reproduced with permission from OnIslam.net