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Juris Doctor
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(born 1954 as Martin Rothblatt) is an American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. Rothblatt graduated from UCLA with a combined law and MBA degree in 1981, then began work in
Washington, D.C.
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, first in the field of communication satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the
Human Genome Project
Human Genome Project
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. She is currently the founder and CEO of United Therapeutics and in 2007 was the second-most highly compensated executive in the District of Columbia.
Early life
Rothblatt was born in
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, Illinois, but grew up in Southern California, first in San Diego and later in Los Angeles. Her father, Harold David Rothblatt, was a dentist for the Retail Clerks Union, and was the youngest son of the Chicago leatherworkers labor organizer Isadore Rothblatt. Her mother, Rosa Lee Bernstein, was a toastmistress and speech therapist at San Diego State College. Rothblatt's paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States around 1910 from
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. Her maternal grandparents immigrated around the same timeframe from
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. She left college after two years and travelled throughout Europe, Turkey, Iran, Kenya and the Seychelles. It was at the
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tracking station in the Seychelles, during the summer of 1974, that she had her epiphany to unite the world via satellite communications. She then returned to UCLA, graduating
summa cum laude
communication studies
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with a thesis on international
direct broadcast satellite
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As an undergraduate she became a convert to Gerard K. O'Neill's "High Frontier" plan for
space colonization
Space colonization
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after analyzing his 1975
Physics Today
cover story on the concept as a project for Professor Harland Epps'
Topics in Modern Astronomy
seminar. Rothblatt subsequently became an active member of the L-5 Society and its Southern California affiliate, OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Space Industrialization and Settlement). During her four year law-MBA program, also at UCLA, she published five articles on the law of satellite communications and prepared a business plan for the Hughes Space and Communications Group titled
about how satellite
spot beam
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technology could be used to provide communication service to multiple Latin American countries. She also became a regular contributor on legal aspects of space colonization to the OASIS newsletter.
Upon graduation in 1981 Rothblatt was hired by the Washington, D.C., law firm of
Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling
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to represent the television broadcasting industry before the
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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in the areas of direct broadcast satellites and spread spectrum communication. In 1982 she left to study
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at the
University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park
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, but was soon retained by NASA to obtain FCC approval for the IEEE c-band system on its tracking and data relay satellites and by the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Radio Frequencies to safeguard before the FCC radio astronomy quiet bands used for deep space research. Later that year she was also retained by Gerard K. O'Neill to handle business and regulatory matters for his newly invented satellite navigation technology, known as the Geostar System. In 1984 she was retained by Rene Anselmo, founder of Spanish International Network, to implement her PanAmSat MBA thesis as a new company that would compete with the global telecommunications satellite monopoly, Intelsat. In 1986 she discontinued her astronomy studies and consulting work to become the full-time CEO of Geostar Corporation, under William E. Simon as Chairman. She left Geostar in 1990 to create both WorldSpace and Sirius Satellite Radio. She left these companies in 1997 to become the full-time Chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics Corporation.
Rothblatt is responsible for launching several
communications satellite
Communications satellite
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companies, including the first nationwide vehicle location system (Geostar, 1983), the first private international spacecom project (
The former PanAmSat Corporation founded in 1984 by Reynold Anselmo, was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news agencies, internet service providers, government agencies, and...
, 1984), the first global satellite radio network (
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, 1990), and the first non-geostationary satellite-to-car broadcasting system (
Sirius Satellite Radio
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, 1990).
As an attorney-entrepreneur, Rothblatt was also responsible for leading the efforts to obtain worldwide approval, via new international treaties, of satellite orbit/spectrum allocations for space-based navigation services (1987) and for direct-to-person satellite radio transmissions (1992). She also led the
International Bar Association
International Bar Association
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's biopolitical project to develop a draft
Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
for the
United Nations
United Nations
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(whose final version was adopted by the
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on 11 November 1997, and endorsed by the
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations General Assembly
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on 9 December 1998).
In the late 1990s, motivated by her daughter being diagnosed with life-threatening
pulmonary hypertension
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, Rothblatt entered the world of the life sciences by first creating the PPH Cure Foundation and later by founding a medical
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company (United Therapeutics, 1996). At that time she also began studying for a Ph.D. in
medical ethics
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at the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London
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. The degree was granted in June 2001 based upon her dissertation on the conflict between private and public interests in
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. This thesis, defended before England's leading bioethicist John Harris, was later published by Ashgate House under the title
Your Life or Mine
Personal life
In 1982, Martin Rothblatt married Bina Aspen, an
African American
African American
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woman. The two of them have four children (from oldest to second youngest) Eli, Sunee, Gabriel, and Jenesis. In 1994, she underwent
sex reassignment surgery
Sex reassignment surgery
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and changed her name to Martine Aliana Rothblatt. She has since become a vocal advocate of transgenderism.
Social activism
In 2004, Rothblatt launched the "Terasem Movement", a transhumanist school of thought focused on promoting
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, and the prospect of technological immortality via personal cyberconsciousness and geoethical
Molecular nanotechnology
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. Through a charitable foundation, leaders of this school convene publicly accessible symposia, publish explanatory analyses, conduct demonstration projects, issue grants, and encourage public awareness and adherence to Terasem values and goals. The movement maintains a "Terasem Island" on the Internet-based virtual world
Second Life
Second Life
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, which is currently composed of two sims.
Through her blog
Mindfiles, Mindware and Mindclones
, she writes about "the coming age of our own cyberconsciousness and techno-immortality" and started a vlog together with
Ulrike Reinhard
Ulrike Reinhard
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on the same topic.
Media appearances
On December 14, 2006, on
The Howard Stern Show
, Stern mentioned meeting Martine Rothblatt, and started a discussion on the public confusion over her gender, in which he referred to her as "the Martine Luther Queen of radio".
On May 31, 2011 the Radiolab podcast did a story on Bina48, a robot that was commissioned by Martine as a machine-based representation of her wife, Bina Rothblatt, and created by Hanson Robotics.
Critical reception
In a 4 January 2008 blog post entitled
Marketing Transhumanism
, lawyer and bioethicist
Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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ridiculed the feasibility of the Terasam Movement Foundation's claims to offer a free service that can "preserve one's individual consciousness so that it remains viable for possible uploading with consciousness software into a cellular regenerated or bionanotechnological body by future medicine and technology". Smith facetiously questioned whether this offer would be followed by the sale of "longevity products".
In a 16 August 2009 blog post entitled
The "Imagination" of a Robot Cultist
, rhetorician and technocritic
Dale Carrico
Dale Carrico
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harshly criticized Rothblatt's writings for promoting what he argues to be the
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of mind uploading and the
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of the
Californian Ideology
Californian Ideology
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In a 28 February 2010 blog post entitled
More Serious Futurology from Transhumanist Martine Rothblatt
, Carrico criticized Rothblatt's claims about digital technology and "mindclones" as being nothing more than
wishful thinking
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In a 5 June 2010 blog post entitled
Rothblatt's Artificial Imbecillence
, Carrico criticized Rothblatt for caring more about rights of "virtual, uploaded persons" — who he argues are neither real nor possible — more than the rights of actual human persons and some nonhuman persons, such great apes and dolphins.
In a 4 July 2010
New York Times
article entitled
Making Friends with a Robot Named Bina48
, journalist
Amy Harmon
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described as frustrating but occasionally thrilling her conversation with one of "humanity's first cybernetic companions," created by Rothblatt and Hanson Robotics. She concluded it was "not that different from interviewing certain flesh and blood subjects."
, Transformer Films, 2009. The film is a
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set in the near-future that deals with the moral questions confronting society following the creation of the world's first
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The Singularity Is Near
, Exponential Films, 2010. The film, based upon Ray Kurzweil's book
The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near
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, is directed by Anthony Waller and stars
Pauley Perrette
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External links
World Against Racism Museum
, one of the first cybermuseums, which was established by Rothblatt
Terasem Movement website
Lifenaut website
, a film produced by Rothblatt
Legal Rights of Conscious Computers
, a video presentation by Rothblatt at a Immortality Institute Life Extension conference
Human is Not Limited to Flesh …"
, a video interview with Rothblatt, done via SKYPE, January 2009
Once A Man, Always A Genius
, Rothblatt's March 1, 2007 appearance on the Howard Stern show
Business is personal for satellite radio, drug entrepreneur
Mindclones blog
Mindclones vlog
Radiolab podcast on Bina48


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Thirty-two-year-old Bobby Clifford Smith III faces theft and related charges for allegedly exchanging a toilet he didn't buy for gift cards at a Somerset County home improvement store.
State police say Smith, of Windber, entered the store on Aug. 28, grabbed a toilet from a shelf and immediately went to the return line to exchange it for more than $600 in gift cards.
Investigators say surveillance footage from the store captured the entire episode.
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"Homeland," Showtime's taut psychological drama about terrorism, swept the night's drama categories, winning for best drama, outstanding dramatic writing, and for best dramatic actor and actress, Damian Lewis and Claire Danes.
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godallahstar wrote:CubsFan7724 wrote:Mislead by school and media? I love that, since this guy if he lives in the US is a hardcore democrat and everyone knows that schools and media are made up of mostly democrats!wrong.
CubsFan7724 wrote:Mislead by school and media? I love that, since this guy if he lives in the US is a hardcore democrat and everyone knows that schools and media are made up of mostly democrats!
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by Precise » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:17 pm
CubsFan7724 wrote:How am I wrong? Nearly every teacher in public schools are democrats, because they like them more. Also, most of the media, with the exception of Fox News, is democrat. ABC, NBC, and CBS are all very democrat. Oh, god, you obviously dont hate America enough to live here and take advantage of my tax dollars. You realize that in other countries you could not say bad things of the country in public like this, for fear of your life? You are taking advantage of a United States right right now.
by godallahstar » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:30 pm
Precise wrote:i love the place i live, but not always the people in charge. is that a bad thing? teachers are a small part of education policy (legisaltors, administrators, lobbyist, etc.). many of the most prestigious and influential universities in this country are notoriously conservative.
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wkelly91 wrote:Personally, I don't think there was anything overtly political in Grims "Old Timers" story. If you want to see overtly political talk come to the political forum.I enjoyed your story
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CubsFan7724 wrote:I also have no love for GWB, but I dont like Kerry much either. Dont take me as a Bush backer. Just at least where I live, the majority of educators are all democratic. The very highup, higher paid people like college deans and such are usually conservative. Just answer my question God, do you like living in America?
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Athletic with good quickness...Strong player who holds his ground at the point and gets a push...Solid run stuffer in the middle...Has a wide base...Plays with good leverage...Has a good closing burst and is a solid tackler...Experienced and has been fairly productive...Good character and team leader with excellent intangibles...Still has a bit of potential...Has strong professional bloodlines. Weaknesses: Has only average size...Is not very fast...Has short arms and does not use his hands well...Struggles to shed blocks...Lacks great range...Needs to develop additional pass rush moves...Has had injuries to his knee, elbow and shoulder which raises some minor durability questions...Needs to be more consistent. Notes: Is the brother of San Francisco 49'er and former first-round pick Kwame Harris...Interesting prospect who is probably a little overrated due to his name and the school he played for...Still has some upside and could develop but is not nearly the pro prospect it looked like he could have been earlier in his career. http://www.nfldraftcountdown.com/sco...ienharris.html |
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This seems like a strange pick when Kyle Williams was available at the same spot, hope that the FO know what they are doing!
Orien Harris DT Miami Strengths Orien has good size for his position. He looks like he has natural athleticism and does a decent job taking up space so that the LB?s can come in and make plays. At times, he has been dominant and controlling; with his long arms, he could be a player that has the upside you look for when scouting a run stuffing D-lineman. Needs to Improve Orien has to get a lot stronger and learn better techniques if he wants to be more consistent and play at the next level. He did not improve this year at all. In fact, if anything, he went backwards in his play. You have to question his work ethic and heart. Bottom Line I?m struggling with this profile because it seems that most of the big line players in this program are all having the same problem. They show up when they want to. They play like they have injuries all season long. Then they go to the combine and show excellent athletic talent. Eric Winston and Orien Harris both have the athletic talent to play at the next level, but I just don?t think they have the heart. Winston says it?s because of a knee injury that he didn?t feel good until halfway through the season except -- he didn't even show anything at all in his last game and as far as the Senior Bowl was concerned, he was pitiful. Harris just decided that he didn?t need to show for the season at all and as far as I could tell during the Senior Bowl, he must have been up in the stands selling hot dogs because down on the field, he was dogging it. Both of these guys must think that a good showing in the combine is all that is needed to be a 1st round pick. Maybe they're right! For me personally, I think both are wasting their talent. Anyone that believes the garbage that Winston was spilling at the combine about his injury deserves to be taken. Anyone that drafts this kid in the first day of this draft because of his size and projected talent deserves to be taken also. I don?t know what to say other than both these players have the talent, but not the heart. |
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I trust the FO. They drafted 17 of our 22 Super Bowl starters.
Re: Orien Harris.. Welcome to the Steelers
Highlight video http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/prospects?rank_type=13
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"was a frustrating player to grade because"
ive seen that on at least one other steelers draft pick this year, hahah, funny, seems like we are drafting guys that didnt live up to their potential in college... lots of "projects", but maybe thats what we are good at... i really haven't been paying attention to the projects currently on the team, if there are any, i dont know of them |
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Re: Orien Harris.. Welcome to the Steelers
Well, Mel Kiper just said........oh nevermind, I'll just go ask my dog what he thinks.
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"Every draft needs dogs too" |
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:toofunny: :rofl:
Dog would give just as good an answer anyways, be more fun to listen too, and hell u know the dog has better hair!!! |
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Part 1 of a hilarious episode with Danny Lobell!
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Todd, don't question yourself! Every time you think, "am I making you laugh?" keep it inside. Know that I am laughing. This is why you're the number 1 podcast per the Podcast association. That said, I have to go. *sirens* My ride is here.
Laughed and laughed and played back about 3 times! Thanks guys!
Todd you are very empathic. I might suggest googling "empath" though I imagine you may know this abut yourself already. Each time you have guests who are confident with themselves and non-judgmental it always makes for the greatest shows. I think "Ah now there's the real Todd Glass, shining bright." Great work with good cop-good cop. Keep those guests positive. I liked in a past show when you let James Adomian know how negative he always takes his bits. When you use cannabis, as I do as well, I have found it beneficial to look into the idea of energetic empathy. All the best. Love Bob
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Washington, Sept. 17 (ANI): The British politicians are divided over Conservative-led government's pilot project proposal of implementing a 'tourist deposit' rule, in which residents from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka would need to pay extra to visit the UK.
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Hey folks, With Dominion having been out for awhile, and people now getting pretty used to it, we've had a chance to see how it's played out with thousands and thousands of players. We're happy with a lot of aspects with Dominion, but we think we can do some pretty major work to make significant improvements as well. Our diagnosis currently is that there are three major hinderences that make Dominion less fun or interesting than it could be. First off; * Players don't get enough "moments of glory", and don't easily see how their success can effect the game. Progression and personal success are hallmarks of MOBA in general. In our effort to make a balanced experience strategically, we really lowered the ability for that one in twenty matches players get to experience "running away with the game" and feel like they achieved epic status. We feel this is creating some disconnect between the high highs classic can provide, and the more constant but metered pace of Dominion. We will be focusing systems that allow more (gold, specifically) power differential between players. Next up; * Comeback mechanics remove interesting team-level decision-making. Our internal testing created some situations we felt this was mandatory. In practice, we think either an extremely toned-down version of this system or a removal of these systems needs to take place. This means games will be more representative of a team's skill, but you'll also experience more blow-out games. Our assertion is, generally, you can't achieve a decisive victory if you can't have extreme losses either, and that's needed to make a more memorable and deep experience. Finally; * A few champions are way too good on Dominion This is actually the most surface-level thing, and is fixed when we adjust with the other aforementioned systems. To summarize, this is caused by the certainty of progression, where hyper-scaling champions can reach a late game, farmed state with certainty. Addressing that will address most of the specific egregious champion issues. Dominion is something we think is really fun, and are proud to have put out, and that's all the more reason for us to ensure it receives continued support and major changes where needed. We feel OK being very disruptive to Dominion in the pre-season phase, and will likely be more conservative when Ranked is turned on. This is our (developers and players!) best opportunity to improve Dominion on some fundamental levels, and we're not going to miss it. - Morello
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Ahhh, can't wait to see what you designers have in store for us, ^.^ Hope it's not too disruptive so as to change the whole feel of Dominion, though, lol
Lupus Callidus
Awesome, keep up the good work Riot.
First and foremost, thank you for addressing the concerns of the players. While I never found the hyperscaling to be too much of an issue, it is one that I experienced and understand the frustrations behind. Personally, the comeback mechanics almost ruin Dominion for me and my friends. It seems that the vast majority of the time that we are leading by 200+ points it ends up being an extremely close game and often we seem to lose. Vice versa when we are losing by over 200+, we seem to win quite a large number of these when we probably shouldn't. Fix these issues, and I am golden.
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Is this the "big project" that is "Consuming most of the team's time" you talked about, Morello? Either way, very excited to hear about these changes. While I never had a huge/major problem with issue #1, issue #2 and #3 were incredibly frustrating, at times. Glad to hear you're working on this.
One of the biggest problems with Dominion, in my opinion, is not addressed: lack of objectives. In SR you have multiple important objectives in the jungle (buffs, small camps, dragon, baron), and farming is a viable alternative objective because it is much more effective than in Dominion. Dominion removed those alternative objectives without adding enough to compensate. All you have is points, and realistically all you have is top, because the other two are so close to the enemy base and the respawn time is so short that going after them is a bad idea. This means that players have less possible decisions to make, and it leads to stale "Take Three and Defend" gameplay at high level.
I have personally felt that the comeback mechanics were a bit too powerful, glad to see a scaling back of them cause it was needed big time the gold adjustment should work to make comebacks seem less inevitable as well
I fap to these changes
Konpaku Youmu
Yay dominion!
Interesting, can't wait to see how things play out.


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Around 40 million people living in the United States alone suffer from hearing loss. Unfortunately, that number seems to just be increasing as the years go by. Excessive noise alone causes about 30 percent of all hearing loss. Exposure to loud noises for just 15 minutes a day can cause significant, permanent damage to your hearing over time. Many cases of hearing loss caused by prolonged exposure to loud noises are preventable. So why do so many people suffer from this type of hearing loss? One of the problems is that many people don't even know how damaging noise can be to their ears in the long run. Other problems contribute as well, like lack of routine hearing loss screening tests and people having insufficient knowledge about what they can do to lessen or avoid noise-induced hearing loss altogether.
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Ringing in the Ears
Very recently, the condition of constant ringing in the ears has become a widespread topic of discussion. For many years, people who suffered with ringing in their ears had no idea that such a condition—also known as tinnitus—even existed. Up to a third of all Americans are affected by tinnitus at some point in their lives. Anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of Americans are so affected by tinnitus that they seek medical attention. Staggeringly, around two million Americans have such severe tinnitus that they are unable to function day-to-day.
Over half of all hearing loss sufferers also suffer from tinnitus of some severity. Most commonly, people who have noise-induced hearing loss are those that also report having tinnitus. It's extremely important to protect your ears from any kind of harm, and constant loud noise over long periods of time is no exception. The prevalence of life-affecting tinnitus in the noise-induced hearing loss demographic is enough to demonstrate the need for caution. Luckily, though, the recent widespread dialogue on tinnitus, its causes, and its remedies has led to a huge increase in knowledge on the malady.
Tinnitus itself isn't a disease, but rather a condition that can be caused by a range of different things. Ear infections, allergies, wax buildup, neurological damage, a number of different diseases, and, of course, hearing loss can all lead to cases of tinnitus. Because of this, there's no cure-all that can completely eliminate the ringing.
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A Hearing Aid That Cuts Out All the Clatter
New York Times
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: October 23, 2011
After he lost much of his hearing last year at age 57, the composer Richard Einhorn despaired of ever really enjoying a concert or musical again. Even using special headsets supplied by the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway theaters, he found himself frustrated by the sound quality, static and interference
Then, in June, he went to the Kennedy Center in Washington, where his "Voices of Light" oratorio had once been performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, for a performance of the musical "Wicked."
There were no special headphones. This time, the words and music were transmitted to a wireless receiver in Mr. Einhorn's hearing aid using a technology that is just starting to make its way into public places in America: a hearing loop.
"There I was at 'Wicked' weeping uncontrollably — and I don't even like musicals," he said. "For the first time since I lost most of my hearing, live music was perfectly clear, perfectly clean and incredibly rich."
His reaction is a common one. The technology, which has been widely adopted in Northern Europe, has the potential to transform the lives of tens of millions of Americans, according to national advocacy groups. As loops are installed in stores, banks, museums, subway stations and other public spaces, people who have felt excluded are suddenly back in the conversation.
A hearing loop, typically installed on the floor around the periphery of a room, is a thin strand of copper wire radiating electromagnetic signals that can be picked up by a tiny receiver already built into most hearing aids and cochlear implants. When the receiver is turned on, the hearing aid receives only the sounds coming directly from a microphone, not the background cacophony.
"It's the equivalent of a wheelchair ramp for people who used to be socially isolated because of their hearing loss," said David G. Myers, a professor of psychology at Hope College in Holland, Mich., who is hard of hearing. "I used to detest my hearing aids, but now that they serve this second purpose, I love the way they've enriched my life."
After his first encounter with a hearing loop at an abbey in Scotland, where he was shocked to suddenly be able to understand every word of a service, Dr. Myers installed a loop in his own home and successfully campaigned to have loops installed at hundreds of places in Michigan, including the Grand Rapids airport and the basketball arena at Michigan State University.
"One of the beauties of this simple technology is that it serves me everywhere from my office to my home TV room to nearly all the worship places and public auditoriums of my community," Dr. Myers said.
The Midwest has been in the vanguard, but New York is starting to catch up. Loops have been installed at the ticket windows of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, at the Apple store in SoHo and at exhibits and information kiosks at Ellis Island, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.
Even in that infamous black hole of acoustics — the New York subway system — loops are being placed in about 500 fare booths, in what will be the largest installation in the United States.
"This isn't just about disability rights — it's about good customer service," said Janice Schacter Lintz, the head of the Hearing Access Program, a group in New York promoting the loops.
"The baby boomers turn 65 this year," Ms. Schacter Lintz said, noting that more than 30 percent of people over 65 have hearing loss. "That's a big group of customers who won't go to museums or theaters or restaurants where they can't hear. Put in a loop, and they can hear clearly without any of the bother or embarrassment of wearing a special headset."
The basic technology, called an induction loop, has been around for decades as a means of relaying signals from a telephone to a tiny receiver called a telecoil, or t-coil, that can be attached to a hearing aid. As telecoils became standard parts of hearing aids in Britain and Scandinavia, they were also used to receive signals from loops connected to microphones in halls, stores, taxicabs and a host of other places.
People in the United States have been slower to adopt the technology because telecoils were traditionally sold as an optional accessory, at an extra cost of about $50, instead of being included automatically with a hearing aid. But today telecoils are built into two-thirds of the hearing aids on the market as well as in all cochlear implants, so there is a growing number of people able to benefit from loops.
Hearing loop systems are more complicated to install than the assistive-hearing systems commonly used in theaters and churches, which beam infrared or FM signals to special headsets or neck loops that must be borrowed from the hall. Installing a loop in an auditorium typically costs $10 to $25 per seat, an initial investment that discourages some facility managers. But advocates for the loops argue that the cost per user is lower over the long run.
"The joke among my friends is that the loop system sounds too good to be true, but it is," said Christine Klessig, a retired lawyer living near Stevens Point in central Wisconsin. "Before they installed a loop at the public library, I had to sit in the front row at lectures and try to lip-read because I missed so many words. Now I sit wherever I want and hear everything."
The Hearing Loss Association of America, the largest group representing people with hearing problems, has joined with the American Academy of Audiology in a campaign to make loops more common in the United States. The technology is a cost-efficient way to provide benefits that even the most expensive hearing aids cannot deliver, said Patricia Kricos, an audiologist at the University of Florida and a past president of the American Academy of Audiology.
"Audiologists have always had a lot of faith in new high-tech hearing aids and cochlear implants, which are wonderful, but we're coming to realize that these work primarily in relatively quiet places without a lot of reverberation and noise," Dr. Kricos said. "In many settings, like a train station, they can't give you the crystal-clear clarity that you can get from a hearing loop."
In the pre-loop days at Dr. Myers's church in Michigan, the assistive-hearing headsets were rarely used by more than a single person at any service. Other worshipers were dissuaded by the inconvenience and embarrassment, he said. Shortly after the loop was installed, 10 people told him they were using it, and the number has been growing as more people get hearing aids that work with the system.
"If we build it, they will come," Dr. Myers said. "I see no reason why what's happened here in West Michigan can't happen across America."


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I recently had a very enjoyable three-hour conversation with Joe Rogan on his podcast, where the topics ranged from jihad to probability theory to psychedelics. But I subsequently received a fair amount of abuse online for a few things I said about Islam and our adventures in the war on terror. For instance, I appear to have left many viewers with the impression that I believe we invaded Afghanistan for the purpose of rescuing its women from the Taliban. However, the points I was actually making were rather different...
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Drugs And The Meaning Of Life
Does the altering of consciousness, through means chemical or otherwise, lie at the very heart of existence? Author and neuroscientist Sam Harris, usually known for ripping religion to shreds, delves into the meaning and value of drugs in an essay via SamHarris.org:
… Read the restEverything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment — and even in our dreams — we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition toward states of consciousness that we value.
Drugs are another means toward this end. Some are illegal; some are stigmatized; some are dangerous — though, perversely, these sets only partially intersect. There are drugs of extraordinary power and utility, like psilocybin (the active compound in "magic mushrooms") and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), which pose no apparent risk of addiction and are physically well-tolerated, and yet one can still be sent to prison for their use—while drugs like tobacco and alcohol, which have ruined countless lives, are enjoyed ad libitum in almost every society on earth.
The Case Against Atheism From S. E. Cupp
S. E. Cupp takes on Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and the group she terms "neoatheists" in an opinion piece in the Daily News. But who the hell is S. E. Cupp and why should we care?
… Read the restBack in college, while I was busy pretending that a blottoed discussion of Nietzsche over $1 beers made me an intellectual giant, my fiftysomething father, who'd worked so hard to send me there, was quietly being saved. Having long eschewed any ties to his Southern Baptist upbringing, he suddenly found himself born again and on a quest to know God better.
As a longtime atheist, I was a little surprised. But eventually I came to be relieved by this development. While my friends' fathers were buying flashy sports cars and exchanging their wives for models, my own father was turning inward and asking: Is there more to life than this?
I was also proud of him for becoming a student again.


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Through investing in the leading companies listed on Mothers, the market for growth companies, the ETF will provide investors with a new option for investing in growth companies.
Mr. Hiromasa Mizushima, President and CEO of Simplex AM, said "We are very honored to be able to list on TSE the first ETF tracking an index comprised of major Mothers-listed stocks. We hope that this ETF will contribute to the invigoration of the Mothers market, vitalization of Japanese venture companies, and, moreover, revitalization of the Japanese economy. We will strive to be sensitive to investor needs and create forward-looking products in order to contribute to the growth of the ETF market".
Mr. Atsushi Saito, President & CEO of TSE, commented "TSE cordially welcomes the listing of TSE Mothers Core ETF. To date, TSE has been making efforts to invigorate the Mothers market, and we have laid out index calculation and ETF creation based on the Mothers market as one of the challenges in this fiscal year. In the latter half of this year, the Mothers market has been central to the upward trend in the IPO market. Under these circumstances, we are delighted to welcome TSE Mothers Core ETF to our market. By investing in the leading Mothers-listed stocks, this ETF will offer new opportunities for exposure to the Mothers market, and we hope that it will contribute to increased investor convenience and enhanced market functions. Going forward, TSE will continue to diversify our ETF lineup."
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Welcome to the Vintage Automobile Museum of NJ !
I hope you have had a chance to visit The Vintage Automobile Museum of New Jersey to see the current
display: "Auto Racing History in New Jersey". Our thanks to all who loaned us their antique racing cars for
this display, including the Garden State Vintage Stock Car Club.
Ann Stabile, President. 732-255-4879
Our Museum welcomes group tours. Recently, a pack of 16 Cub Scouts, their leaders, parents, and a few
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We have a new location: 1800 Bay Ave. Building #13 Point Pleasant, NJ. Our Museum building is attached to the NJ Museum of Boating. (AKA: Johnson Brothers Boat Works.)Ribbon cutting ceremony:
A lthough there are museums and attractions throughout the state that contain antique cars, there is not one true public antique automobile museum in all of New Jersey. All museums are a necessity, for they play a vital role in the nation's educational system. They add a more tangible dimension to what can be learned from sitting in a classroom, or from watching TV. Our goals are to not only bring antique cars to a central viewing place, but to also preserve history, share that history, and take pride in a history that truly encouraged and shaped growth in New Jersey and this country. P lans for the museum include programs to enrich the lives of students of all grade levels. The automobile is an extraordinarily rich object, embracing science, mathematics, history, foreign languages, aesthetics, and civil and social issues. Students, scouts, community groups, and special audiences will benefit from our programs. Hands on exhibits will be developed for all age groups.
F or the adult population we will have lecture series, such as the history of the automobile, car collecting, racing, and the impact of the automobile in New Jersey, the country, and our society. We will also sponsor workshops that will provide fundamental knowledge about the parts of a car, how it works, and basic maintenance techniques.
The Vintage Automobile Museum of New Jersey was granted 501 ©3 status in 2002 as a non profit organization and will be run as an educational and community minded entity. We are not simply planning to build an old car parking lot. Our goal is to put together a total program preserving our automotive heritage and its impact in New Jersey, the country, and on our society.
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Janelle Monae's 'The Electric Lady' Strives to Match Her Sci-Fi Ambitions and Pop Smarts
- SPIN Rating:7 of 10
Label: Bad Boy
Janelle Monáe's ongoing multi-album Metropolis project is a post-millennial homage to Fritz Lang's roaring twenties dystopia, and a framework for the fervently precocious futurist-R&B ideas of the Wondaland Arts Society, a production hive mind she built with fellow ATLiens Chuck Lightning, Nate "Rocket" Wonder, and Roman GianArthur. Its fictional heroine, the plucky and rebellious android Cindi Mayweather (#57821), is an apt alter-ego for Monáe, whose interviews frequently ascend into Universalist pronouncements, whose hair is permanently swept up into a '50s pompadour, and whose overall bearing seems to involve warmly embracing and tacitly distancing herself from her audience all at once. At this point, she doesn't need any conceits to convince us that she's a strange, wonderful bird. But she's sticking with the conceits anyway.
And so, even when her second Bad Boy full-length, The Electric Lady, occasionally stiffens and wobbles under the burden of equaling its masterful 2010 predecessor, The ArchAndroid, our ears and eyes remain affixed to this brilliantly realized persona. One narrative emerging from the latest avalanche of press is that she's actively hunting for a Big Pop Hit now, resulting in talk of "working the album" until the masses finally get it. (Apparently, performing at presidential inauguration parties and Nobel Prize concerts doesn't cut it.) Sadly, though, she's just too lovably eccentric to distill her futurist fables into bite-size, Bruno Mars-ian crossover smashes.
To wit, the premise here — as delineated in liner notes penned by Max Stellings, "Vice Chancellor of the Palace of the Dogs Arts Asylum" — is that these songs document Mayweather's life in Metropolis before she challenged the Great Divide (an authoritarian, NSA-like secret society) by taking on a human lover and escaping to Earth, a scenario first unveiled in Monáe's dazzling 2007 EP, Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase). "After careful thought, I have decided to release this work — Suite IV and V of her Metropolis saga — in accordance with the Inspiration Information Act," writes Stellings, nodding toward Shuggie Otis' early-'70s psych-blues gem.
Additional notes pile on additional layers: "Givin' Em What They Love," a scratchy funk-rock duet with Prince, is "inspired by HiddenColors1&2 and the burning big house in Django Unchained." The Solange-featuring title track is "inspired by Janelle Monáe's Electric Lady series of paintings (see the Palace of Dogs Archives) and Jimi's smile." The Esperanza Spalding team-up "Dorothy Dandridge Eyes" is "inspired by the jeep sequence in Carmen Jones (1954)."
As for her cohorts, producer GianArthur introduces each new suite by indulging his inner Quincy Jones, unleashing an elaborate orchestral fanfare that amounts to a dramatic lifting of the curtain; furthermore, a trio of interludes featuring Jocko Henderson-flavored radio-jack DJ Crash Crash (as played by Lightning) evokes a series of half-hour radio serials broadcast from WDRD (as in, "WDroid"). A delightful nod to ongoing Internet fantasies about Monáe's sexuality arrives on "Our Favorite Fugitive," when a phone-in caller claims, "Robot love is queer!" Crash Crash responds, "What I want to know is, how would you know it's queer if you haven't tried it?"
Monáe doesn't disappoint her fans. Anyone who dreams she's a black Morrissey weaving an Afro-Futurist allegory on cracking open the closet will treasure the girlish playfulness of "Givin' Em What They Love" ("She followed me back to the lobby / Yeah she was looking at me for some undercover love") and "Dance Apocalyptic" ("Smoking in the girls' room / Kissing friends"). For those straining for a glimpse of confession, she offers "Can't Live Without Your Love," which both reveals "Cindi's truest autobiographical feelings about her dangerous love affair with Anthony Greendown" and was apparently inspired by the end of a romance in Monáe 's life. (Or Mayweather's life. It's confusing.)
Yes, she's a mischievous trickster, but a sweet-hearted one, too, modeled on Christian piety, George Clinton, and Charlie Chaplin's cinematic Tramp. (On The Chase, she sang "Smile," a standard from the Great American Songbook based on musical themes from Chaplin's Modern Times.) She delivers her love prophecies with bravado — shakin' and dap-dippin' with on-the-one rhythm — and a mezzo-soprano voice that delivers both declamatory funk epiphanies (on "Q.U.E.E.N.") and soaring operatic effects (on "Sally Ride," which elevates the late female astronaut to iconic Major Tom status with a swelling Funkadelic flourish). She even spits hard rhymes like the second coming of Lauryn Hill on "Q.U.E.E.N.": "They keep us underground, working hard for the greedy / But when it's time to pay, they turn around and call us needy."
The Wondaland Arts Society match all this dervish energy with funk-pop whirligigs. Sonically, The Electric Lady isn't as expansive as The ArchAndroid, which referenced Elephant 6 twee-pop (via an Of Montreal cameo), Brazilian bossa nova, the Mellotron hallucinations of the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever," and the vocoder-filtered erotica of Air. Of course, there's nothing wrong with the band limiting their style quotes to '70s and '80s soul this time out: The bass rhythm of "Dorothy Dandridge Eyes" is a dead ringer for Michael Jackson's "I Can't Help It," the guitar lines of "It's Code" ring like Ernie Isley's solo on the Isley Brothers' "Voyage to Atlantis," and "Ghetto Woman" could be an outtake from Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Still, the arrangements simply aren't as sharp as before, even as the ensemble uses ingenious tricks, like shifting rhythm mid-number on "Q.U.E.E.N." and girding each song with string melodies that circle back to those suite overtures.
Meanwhile, Monáe's lyrics often turn purplish. "I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?" she sings awkwardly on "Primetime," a slow jam with Miguel that doesn't quite achieve sensual frisson. "We were unbreakable / We were like rock & roll," she muses over the pop-rock gospel of, yes, "We Were Rock & Roll," failing to sell us on the hook.
Still, it is possible to love The Electric Lady, even if deep listening may be required to seal the deal. She certainly works hard for our devotion. By album closer "What an Experience," she's nearly breathless: "We party every night / And then we just walk off in the rain," she sings amid '80s-inspired synth-funk, which abruptly shifts into a lilting pop-reggae fusion. It could be an admission that this android is weathering an all-too-human sophomore slump, but cannily, she instead uses the moment to draw us closer: "Put your hand over my heart."