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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Imus vs. Sharpton
Don Imus has taken on a lot of flak for a few poorly chosen words against the Rutgers' female basketball team. He called them, "Nappy-headed hos." While gathering other people's opinions on this, I happened to be watching "The View", listening to what Rosie O'Donnell had to say about it. She said that there are certain things that the black community can say to one another, however in the same respect, white people are not permitted to say the same thing. For instance, a black person can call one another the 'n' word, without repercussions. White people cannot. It makes sense. Now, what happens here is, the word "ho" went right after the nappy-hair comment. That was definitely uncalled for.
My opinion is based up this. People in the media, such as Don Imus and Howard Stern are 'shock jocks'. They're looking for a reaction. They borderline the rules with the FCC to see just how far they can go. They're expected to say this crap. Why are people so upset over what these guys have to say? They've said so much worse in the past, so why bring it up now?
Of course Al Sharpton and his gang all rally against this guy. Again, on the view, Joy Behar raised an interesting question to Sharpton.
"What about those rappers who put down women calling them 'hos' and degrading them with vulgarity?"
Sharpton never mentions any of this at all. Does he agree that saying this on the radio and through songs that our children listen to is okay? Al Sharpton is one hypocritical man who needs to stop putting his nose in things he 'picks and chooses' to be right or wrong. He needs to stop protesting against everything the white man says and stand up to everything that's offensive, instead of just picking on white people's words and actions. He doesn't care if another black person belittles his own, but he lashes out at the slightest attempt of what the white man will say or do.
Was Imus wrong? Sure. He should have never said it to begin with, however, there are far worse things he has said, yet he was never picked on because of it. There are far more worse things that other people have said, yet there are no repercussions. Imus has been on the radio for forty years- and these four words (those nappy headed-hos) are going to get him suspended for two weeks. A lot of people feel he should be fired because of this.
Al Sharpton wants him fired. Imus has repeatedly said that he was sorry. Sharpton shows no sign of mercy. He chooses to not forgive, however, this man Sharpton calls himself a follower of Christ?
How ironic.
39 comments:
- Grace said...
I couldn't agree more. I think it's ridiculous that he could get fired over this. Like I just commented at another blog: there's a radio station in my city, the announcers are sooo rude... to celebrities, to callers, and even to each other. How come when they do it everybody laughs and gets entertained, but when someone like Imus says something it's a huge controversy?! I don't really get it...
It is a ratings bonanza for MSNBC.
I'd be surprised if Imus gets fired and if he does, it will be because advertisers will pull out. If new ones don't jump in, he'll pop up on Sirius or XM right next to Howard Stern and he will make millions spewing his sensational vernacular. He is a shock jock and it must be a major insult to legitimate journalists that he is categorized with them.
As for the Rutgers players, they deserve a face to face apology for the racist and sexist insults thrown at them. It must have felt horrible and embarassing to be on the receiving end of such a mean-spirited and public statement.
Al Sharpton is stepping in where he sees fit, creating more of a circus, but do the girls of Rutgers want him to? I always thought Sharpton was a good guy, he's done a lot of good stuff, but he really does pick the most sensational, public battles doesn't he?
We've all said things we wish we hadn't. We are all guilty of judging people based on appearance. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Good thought provoking post Deb!
- Jon said...
Imus is an idiot, and so is Sharpton. Howard Stern is no longer on regular radio, he is now on Sirius Satellite. That makes him a genius because the FCC can't touch him anymore. Is that a good thing? Yes, for those of us that like his humor. No, I don't like everything they have to say.
Imus' comment was I guess meant to be funny, but the context it was said in sure didn't seem that way, even if it was a comedy bit (it didn't seem that way to me). I think he is now too old. His senility is going to cause his premature retirement.
Of course Howard Stern's been making fun of both Imus and Sharpton today.
- texasshiva said...
I would agree with you except for this: last week was not the first time Imus has said something so offensive. It's not even the most offensive thing to come from his show. How about destroying Jewish tombstones? Killing gays? Setting homeless people on fire? Sure, he's generally careful not to say these things himself. But it's his show. His guests. His guests "characters."
It's not just about 4 words. It's about a pattern,
- Sue said...
Deb, I completely agree -- It is in effect a reverse racism when a black person can say it and the minute a white person says it -- it becomes offensive. I wonder....if Al had said it if anyone would have been clamoring for HIS firing.....probably not............However, I do feel the suspension is warranted. He was way off base for saying it although he says crap like this about EVERYONE and perhaps it is time for everyone to check themselves before putting words together. (speaking for myself -- I NEVER check myself but then again -- I have gotten into alot of trouble for it :))
What HAS Al Sharpton accomplished?
In all the cases he has protested and fought about, what has been the end result? A lot of taxpayer money going to crowd control and legal fees.
Deb, you are right, if he is a civil rights activist, why isn't he fighting for the part about ho's? That is a sexist comment and women should be outraged about that as much as anything.
Why is he only focusing on the black?
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- ~Deb said...
What bothers me is, Imus has apologized over and over again publicly, however this 'so called Christian hypocrite', Sharpton has not shown any mercy. He will not forgive. Think about this though, these women from Rutgers are intelligent, accomplished and beautiful women who have such an incredible future ahead of them.
Why do they even care what a shock jock, like Imus thinks of them?
Are they that insecure with themselves? They were publicly insulted by someone who insults everybody. When you are in the "light" and famous, you're going to possibly get insulted. Develop a thick skin and deal with it. The women of Rutgers are better than that! Laugh at it. It has no affect on them. Let it go.
Imus apologized. Forgive…and just forget about it, because it will not harm their reputation. What will better their reputation is their forgiveness.
What will better Sharpton's image is his forgiveness, since he's such a religious man. But he's nothing but a hypocrite who wants to be in the limelight with every sensational black-related scandal.
Imus is all about the shock value, which is why he has controversial guests and topics. We just need to take it all with a grain of salt ...or just tune out!
Sharpton is the biggest racist in this Country and needs to shut up.
1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred — but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair. 1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" — code for Jews — with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death. 1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno. If Sharpton were a white skinhead, he would be a political leper, spurned everywhere but the fringe. But far from being spurned, he is shown much deference. Democrats embrace him. Politicians court him. And journalists report on his comings and goings while politely sidestepping his career as a hatemongering racial hustler.
- kathi said...
I agree completely, and I agree with Joy, too. Though in music, they're referring to no one person or group of people in particular, but people in general. What Imus said would have grieved me greatly had I had a daughter on that team and I do believe I may have gone after justice on my own, whether it be a personal apology to my daughter or a monetary suit. I believe he owes the team something, but to the general population as a whole, no. Al Sharpton is choosing to make the situation worse for his own recognition and not for those that were offended.
love ya deb!
- Baby Grandpa said...
It's racist because obviously since basketball is a majority black sport, he mean it it to be racist. Now, baseball - that's a majority white sport. If that comment were made by a black commentator to a white sports team, that would be totally acceptable.
If Mr. Sharpton actually listened to Don Imus every monring, he'd know Imus' show is controversial.
Sharpton never complained when Elliott (DC101) wished Juan Pablo Montoya would die. Is that because Montoya is hispanic, not black?
Eff Al Sharpton. I have NO respect for him whatsoever. All he's ever done is damage racial relations so the black race will be dominant in the United States.
- Casually Me said...
Mistakes were made. However, I really wish folks would stop apologizing. You said it, you meant it...move on. Poor choice of words, agreed. Nothing that is going to change the shape of the world though. Move on. Nice post Deb.
- Natalia said...
I find the whole thing ridiculous. He was wrong. He was trying to be funny and failed. But this has been blown out of proportion. Whatever happened to our right to believe and say what we wish without fear of the thought police. It's not like he incited violence. His words were no more offensive than any rap song out there. And what about all the black comedians whose whole thing is to make fun of white people? That's somehow OK. I don't get it. These people need to find something better to do.
- molly said...
It's been known for years that Imus is a racist, and never once have progressives criticized Democrats for going on his show. I guess it's now better late than never.
Meanwhile progressives still suck up to both Al Sharpton after the "Tawany Brawley" incident, and to Jesse Jackson years after he called New York "Himey Town". Both just exploit race relations for personal gain, being expert shakedown artsts.
- etain_lavena said...
This happens everywhere all the time....horrid in a way. Cause I say what is good for Peter is Good for Paul. Not that I say all Christians are a like, but I have never come across one that forgives, I have been shunned uppon for being diffrent mean time I was "one" of them just diffrent. So sad!
Great post..:)
- tkkerouac said...
I did a post on the book called "The Secret", and one of the photographs I posted of a black woman, I wrote underneath, I'm sorry Lisa, but thats some nappy hair".
I took some flack from readers who saw this, and others were amused.
But its true, we can poke fun at ourselves, our own faults and be amused when other races poke fun at us. But when a white person pokes fun a black person, be it even in a humourous way, it becomes an issue. I don't really get that.
Calling a women in public a HO, I take issue with.
- Monica said...
What if he had refered to a team of mid-western chicks as "blonde bimbos"
Would the reaction have been the same?
At least "ho's" get paid for sex---smarter than the bimbos who do it for free...and I saw those girls--none of them had nappy hair, they all looked recently permed, styled and well cared for.
- Charm School Reject said...
Al Sharpton and "reverand" Jesse Jackson are two of the most hypocritical, slanderous, self serving men in the entire world.
They will jump on any slight grevience and turn it into the political debate of the century.
Do I think this Imus guy was rude? Yes. But do I think that Sharpton is turning this into a bigger deal than it needs to be? Heck yes.
Deb, you, my dear, are a genius.
They should be more worried about Black on Black violence and the image that is portrayed through their "cultural" music (rap) and then start worrying about other people. Its like the old saying of "If you don't love you, why should I?"
- Sometimes Saintly Nick said...
I came to the same conclusion as Rosie O'Donnell several years ago. Yeah, Ismus violated the rules of political correctness, but the uproar seems to be too great for the sin.
- TrappedInColorado said...
Well spoken, Deb. I could not have said it better myself. Ofcourse, I can not say anything you say better myself. :)
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- ~Deb said...
Don Imus' sponsors are a bunch of wimps. They want to back out because they're scared of being a supporter of a racist, when in fact, the real racist here is Al Sharpton. Imus commented on the team's hair and made the poor decision of calling them hos. Fine. But, didn't the sponsors already have a clue of what Imus was all about to begin with? For the love of God---he's been on the air for 40 years! These sponsors are merely followers who back out at the slightest scandal. Cowards in my opinion.
What about that Dave Chapelle guy? He makes fun of white people all the time on his stand up comedy routine, yet no one stands at 'our' side – we have no 'white' Al Sharpton figure to defend us when we're insulted.
Anyway, thanks for all your input!
- J R Estelle said...
Sharpton never opens his mouth until it's taken as "white against black", then he's a lot of flamboyance and hot air. Let's look at this, shall we.
Tawana Brawley -
Sharpton, Maddox and Mason were later successfully sued for statements made in connection with the case, and ordered to pay $345,000 in damages. All three falsely accused the case prosecutor, Steven Pagones, as being among those who abducted and raped Brawley.[6]The jury found Sharpton liable for making seven defamatory statements about Pagones, Maddox for two and Mason for one. [7]
And...The Crown Heights Riot
Al Sharpton became the de-facto representative for the Cato family. During the funeral he referred to "diamond merchants" considered a code word for Hasidic Jews [11] [12], for shedding "the blood of innocent babies" leading marchers shouting "No Justice No Peace". Sharpton did not start the riots but his rhetoric was seen as inflammatory and unhelpful in easing the tension between the black and Jewish communities. A visiting rabbinical student from Australia by the name of Yankel Rosenbaum, 29 years old, was killed during the rioting by a mob shouting "Kill the Jew". [13]
LoanMax Spokesman
In November 2005, Sharpton appeared in advertisements for LoanMax, an automobile title loan company. Sharpton was criticized for appearing in the ads, as LoanMax has been accused of predatory lending charging fees, and for marketing them to primarily poor, urban and African American audiences. The ads featuring Sharpton were run in predominantly African American markets.[14]
And yet, Sharpton wants IMUS to resign?
- Crassius Maximus said...
I can't figure out why people bitch about African Americans calling each other the n word, and saying "they do it to each other so why can't we use the word?" It's like they feel like they are getting cheated out of saying the word. Why is there this desire to say the word anyway? If ONE African American is offended by me saying the word, that's good enough for me, as I have no great desire to use it any way.
- Seven said...
Being of mixed race I occupy a unique seat on this type of cultural issue.
You have landed on an important point. It's easy to call people idiots, but the real truth is that Sharpton, Imus, Jesse Jackson and other destroyers of our culture are quite smart. The problem at play is money. Sharpton and Jackson earn a living by extortion throuh promoting and enhancing racism. Imus and Stern earn a living by oral sensationalism directed at our baser instinct. The fault lies with those of our culture (we the people) that support them by listening to their show or accepting either Sharpton or Jackson as a legitimate black leader.
I don't have a 'nappy' head, but my sister does. She can't help it.
To be a 'ho' is a life choice. I see Imus, Stern, Sharpton and Jackson have made a free will choice to be our cultures largest "HO'S"
- ~Deb said...
It's true though, in the black community, they have the right to say the 'n' word, which a white person would be seen as a racist saying such a thing. I doubt that when someone brings that issue up, it's not out of feeling 'cheated', it's the question of, why are blacks calling one another the very name that they hate?
We make fun of Donald Trump's hair, we kid around about people who are bald, etc. Once the word 'nappy' comes into play, it's a whole racist scandal. I think the real issue here is the word "ho" that I personally was offended by, but if you listened to the 'way' he was saying it- it was meant to be funny. But, it wasn't. He shouldn't have said it at all. It was a poor choice of words, however, a thick skin needs to be applied on the basketball team. They know they're brilliant, beautiful and talented---so why bother with a shock jock over this? Blow it off. It's not worth it!
And yes, I think the whole concept of money plays a huge role with Sharpton. He's like an ambulance chaser, except running after black people who were offended, or feel that they were a victim of racism. He doesn't usually investigate all that much before diving into these scandals.
He's a weasel.
Yeah, lets kill off that "freedom of speech" nonsense..
...and while we are at it...how about all those "Hymie Town" comments..let get rid of that guy
...and the Twany Brawly comments and court cases to ruin lives...lets kill off that talk ,too
..how about those anti woemen lyrics in the rap songs...and the cop killer lyrics..let s kill that off too..
.and no more comedy routines by George Lopez and how "the Mexicans already won their country back" and dumbs ass whites need to, shut up, move away and forget it...thats gotta go too...
how about those "cracker " jokes? Make all those guys resign...
...white nigger comments by govt offcials.? Regsign....
and don't get me started on the Jews...(dig up Rodney Dangerfield and fire him too..)
If this is an example of progressive policy..
...well, "let go get them and kill them all.."...round them up and build a camp, I say...
to save the country, of course, from all that talk, since we all take progressives so seriously....and all their, er, hype, er, facts, er, whatever, dude...
This is part of the "Fairtness Doctorine", right?
- GW Mush said...
we could all get together at Hooter's restaurant and discuss this matter further?
To complicate matters, I have reason to believe that Don Imus is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, and that Imus & Donald Trump get their eybrows trimmed by the same barber:)
- Jon said...
I think the fact that some comedians joke about other races is fine as long as they joke about their own. Dave Chapelle messes with blacks as much as he messes with any other race, so I would leave him out of it.
- Catch said...
any black can use the n word...but do not let a white person do it! That would be one of us "honkys"!
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- The Rev. Dr. Kate said...
I heard a discussion about this matter among black journalists the night before last. They are upset with both Sharpton and Imus - and all three of them made the point that while we believe in "free" speech the right to degrading speech, whether of ourselves or others, is not one any of us should want or exercise. They took the black community to task for the way in which it treats its own women. I think this incident reveals a deeper problem about racism and sexism- and that the black community has internalized its oppression in its language (the "n" word, calling its women "ho's", etc.) is an indication of how isidious the problem is.
I am appalled by shock jocks of alls tripes and don't listen to talk radio because I cannot stand people of any race, class, gender or political party abusing one another for enterainment value. We have the right to speak about our different opinions and argue for or against our positions on the issue, but I take very seriously the vow I made at my baptism, confirmation and ordination to "respect the dignity of every human being." I believe that means I must look for the humanity in others- even if I disagree with them - and that I do not have the right to use my freedom of speech to degrade them. In the end, I fall back on what my mother and grandmother taught me, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!"
- ~Deb said...
Imus makes fun of his own as well- making jokes about 'white trash' or whatever he goes on and on about- so I won't leave Dave Chapelle out of it. He's just as bad- if not worse. Now, you have nothing but black girls protesting for Imus to lose his job. I hope that the 'intelligent & beautiful' basketball team is satisfied with someone who's expected to tell bad jokes about people. It's been his job for forty years.
Unfortunately, words spew out regardless if they're nice or not for comedic purposes. Someone's going to find it offensive. Someone's going to just blow it off. It's up to you whether or not you want to take it to heart, or just let it go. We can't get so stirred up every time we hear an offensive term. But, with a sincere apology, we 'should' forgive.
"The peacock has spread its wings correctly!" ~Al Sharpton
- alex said...
The sea sparkled languidly, and http://www.blogger.com the brilliant blue hung cloudlessly over...
- Bossy♥'s YOU said...
I think what Imus said was a bit stupid, but I do not see it as a racially motivated statement, and frankly I think everyone has taken it a bit too far. As u say, he is a shock jock...he has said worse statments in his 40 years of radio, this was tame.
I think people lile Al SHarpton are looking for ways to get their names out there and to make mountiains out of molehills.
I personally did not find what he said offense, stupid, yes...but there are white girls on this team, so its not like he was singling the black people out..
I went to school with a girl, I use to call her nappy on a dialy basis...(she was white, we all were at our school) she was ugly and had the nappiest hair..so me and all my friends started calling her nappy.
anyway, now that MSNBC has fired Imus, it has gone way too far..Imus needs to move his show to statllite radio like Howard did. Before we know it, Mr Shaprton is going to take away our freedom of speech. If u dont like what they are saying, trun the damn radio off..
there I am done:)
- [eric] said...
Ugh, I am so tired of this story, but I have to comment.
I am going to quote Sean Hannity here, (yeah, that one) and say, "Let the free market decide." Instead of outright banning him off the airwaves, let the advertisers and the people decide what to do with him (and it looks like the already have).
- N. said...
First off, I must say, I love your blog! And I totally agree with Agitated Brother. Why do people put up with his (and Jesse Jackson's) nonsense? It's offensive to me, as a white man, to implicitly suggest that as a "civil rights leader", that he speaks for "the black community". That's like suggesting David Duke speaks for all white people. It's asinine. Sharpton and Jackson do more than anyone else in this country to damage race relations. It's disgusting.
- Bossy♥'s YOU said...
I see he has been fired..its such a shame..
I want to know where Al Sharpton was when a black stripper accused three white boys of rapeing her...Why does he not see injustice in that?
I say Mr Sharpton may be a bit of a racist.
He is no man of God if u ask me.


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How Old Were You When You First Got a Cell Phone?
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
by BenSchuarmer (922752) on Monday January 07, 2013 @10:32AM (#42504437)cell phones weren't publicly available when I was 21
Re:I'm old (Score:5, Funny)by bobdehnhardt (18286) on Monday January 07, 2013 @12:24PM (#42505831)
Back in 1992, I had an alphanumeric beeper that could receive 160-character text messages.
160 characters. 1992.
Come on, Twitter!
Re:I'm old (Score:5, Informative)by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07, 2013 @12:28PM (#42505893)
Fun Fact: A tweet is actually 160 characters, but the first 20 are automatically reserved for an internally-used user ID.
I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter was created by someone that worked with TAP [wikipedia.org]. I always wondered if there was a connection, or if the idea for Twitter existed back from bi-directional paging.
I too had an alphapager. I kind of miss it, from the reduced leash perspective compared to the modern cell phone. I'm stuck carrying two phones because work gives me a phone rather than subsidizing my own phone, and I could use their phone as mine but they want to charge way too much for the privilege, like $0.15
That should also give you the privilege to switch it off and be out of reach when you're not at work/outside office hours. You could even leave it at your work site when you leave for the day. (If you do have a "site", that is; I don't know what kind of work you do. Since you have a work cell phone you may be in the field, I guess.)
I am in the field. I'm also paid hourly, and if I take work calls off-hours I get to adjust my timecard for it.
What I've done with the work phone is had the phone guys set my desk phone to forward to my cell phone instead of to voicemail after four rings. I'd simply have that forward to my personal phone instead of the work phone if they'd give me the stipend, and I'd give out the work desk number exclusively. That would mean that at my desk I'd take the call on the desk phone, but when out and about
With the added bonus they can claim your phone anytime to check your records. well done.
Using technology adapted from the pagers of twenty years ago dodges specious patent claims of today.
Originally one of the best ways to update your twitter status was via SMS. It was awesome back when data plans were for millionaires,
That's not true:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJW7EF5aVk [youtube.com]
Funny, all this poll does is tell the average age of the Slashdot user base. A better question would be what year did you get your first cell phone.
I'm with you. I'm 42. The first cell phone I used was when I was probably 24 and it was one of those huge old Motorola bricks. The first one I actually owned was probably 1999 or so (I was 29).
Maybe a more relevant answer would be my son. We got him his first cell phone when he was ~12 and more or less just so we could coordinate rides to and from various events. He's a weird kid, though. He has to be the only teenager (he's almost 14 now) who pretty much NEVER uses his cell phone. He's very techno
Well, it is possible, since cell phone networks were first set up in 1978, and my wife still has her (deceased) mom's 1979 cell phone - it requires a cigarette lighter plug (no battery) and is meant to be used in a car. The thing is enormous and heavy and I'm not sure why she keeps it other than sentimental value, as I'm sure it is useless now, but is kind of a cool conversation piece. That said, I was also in my late 20s before I got one, but my brother has had one since he was 20 (his college internship b
Carried around a Motorola brick ca 1994 when I was doing news radio. Fucker was heavy, too.
Got my first modern mobile (a Samsung clamshell) in 2005. I was 40-something then. Ah, to be young again...
I'm 23, some/most my friends got their phones when they where 12-ish, and as far as I could tell they mainly used them to harass/bully each other and play pranks. When I got my phone (around 14 I think) I hardly used it either, and to this date it is still more of a communication device as opposed to a social device to me.
What I am trying to say is that it hardly makes your son weird that he doesn't use his phone much, it probably mainly means that he isn't a bully himself, and if he is bullied, it's on fac
Good point.
I was thinking about it, and part of it may be that the way teenagers are communicating is evolving past phones and text messages. As I said he IS technologically literate so he would probably be on the cutting edge of any such trends, whether I realize it or not. I will say he Skypes a lot. Mainly with a couple friends he plays Minecraft with, but I looked over his friends list the other day in Skype and it's pretty big. He doesn't have a video camera for his computer (and thankfully hasn't
Hrm. Maybe a better question to ask is "In what year did you first get a cell phone?" I still remember my father's car phone, and his bag phone.
Re:I'm old (Score:5, Insightful)by ZigiSamblak (745960) on Monday January 07, 2013 @11:28AM (#42505103)Same here, or at least they were huge and expensive 14 years ago.
A more sensible question would be in what year you got your first mobile. Early 90s, late 90s, 2000-2003, 2003-2005, 2005-2007, 2007+ or something similar would make the poll actually useful, and I guess that goes against Slashdot rules.
14 years ago was 1999, I will mark that up to old age I feel the same way. However in 97-98 I had a nokia but here is a listing of the ones available:
http://www.mobilephonehistory.co.uk/nokia/nokia.php [mobilephonehistory.co.uk]
Re:I'm old (Score:5, Interesting)
I didn't have a cell phone until I was in my 30s. It was a combination of them not being available when I was a kid, and not wanting to have one of the damn things. I hate talking on the phone (and a can-you-hear-me-now cell phone even more so), so I had Zero incentive to carry one around with me. The only reason I relented and bought one (a prepaid dumbphone) was because I was on unemployment, and needed a way to call in for my weekly check-in appointment without being stuck at home or finding a payphone. Of course today (I'm... no longer in my 30s) my phone and I are almost inseparable, but that's only because my phone is now a computer with my calendar, notes, mail, web access, etc. You could remove the Phone app from it, and I'd be just as happy with it. Probably more.
But most were pretty big, including the briefcase models. To get anywhere near a standard phone size cost a few thousand dollars. And they were all analog.
Never saw a briefcase model, but I do remember the old DynaTACs that I think were about $4000 (probably 10k it today's dollars). My mom had the successor to that (miniTAC iirc), which was one of the first non-car cell phones I personally saw, but that was more like 1990.
My dad had one of the big briefcase models in the early 80s. He worked for the phone company as a field engineer, and had it in case of emergencies far out on remote sites. He had strict instructions never to use it because the calls were stupid-expensive even to the phone company.
Naw, we're just not that young... (Score:5, Interesting)
Phones were still Gordon Gecko-only bricks for the well-to-do while I was finishing high school. Maybe a better question would've been, "What would've been the right age for you to get a cellphone?"
- * What's the best tool to wind back up chewed-up cassette tapes?
- * How long do you boil your hot dogs on the stove?
- * How many stamps have you licked in one sitting?
- * Which joystick was the best?
- pencils
- til they split
- before we could afford a postage meter? Several hundred - with a sponge.
- I think I bought an actual Commodore joystick for my C64......
This is a dumb survey on
I'm right there with you. As a dude born during the US Johnson administration, the phones just didn't exist for a long time and when the did arrive, they were very expensive. I got my first cell phone shortly after the birth of my first child. $35/mon for 30 min/mon.
You *are* old. Well, older than I am.
I turned 21 in 1987, four years after the first commercially available cell phone.
I didn't get one until after I was married in 1998, so older than 33.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC [wikipedia.org]
I avoided getting a cell till 2004 when I needed one for entering the job market after leaving the military. Now it sits my car, powered off, for emergency use only.
Same here! My first boss was an early adopter, though! He loved to walk into the bathroom and take a leak while talking on the phone. And for some reason the wireless landline sets that had become common just before cellphones really took off wouldn't cut it.
Semantics? (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07, 2013 @10:32AM (#42504441)
Are we talking about when we first legally obtained a cellphone?
I was 22 in 1992. You had the Nokia 1011 [grignani.org] then. Far too expensive for a mere student. I got my first mobile in 1998; an Alcatel that could run on three normal batteries. [blogspot.com]
Early '90s, I got myself something like that at Radio Shack
http://nokiamuseum.info/nokia-cityman/ [nokiamuseum.info]
Mid 90's so between 35 and 40.
I'm 25.
by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07, 2013 @11:34AM (#42505199)
How do you get reception in the basement?
How do you get reception in the basement?
Irrelevant. Go upstairs to order Dominos, and it isn't like there are incoming calls to worry about.
Get a haircut and get a real job. Seriously, Bob has his shit together.
by RatherBeAnonymous (1812866) on Monday January 07, 2013 @11:29AM (#42505131)
I held out until 35, when my wife was pregnant with our first child.
You bought a phone for your kid before it was even born? There's no negative option in the poll!
I held out until 35, when my wife was pregnant with our first child.
A baby monitor would've been much more useful - infants have a lot of trouble dialing.
Re:About 3 years ago (Score:5, Funny)by RatherBeAnonymous (1812866) on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @02:40PM (#42521911)
I wanted to provide my daughter something expensive and vulnerable to bodily fluids for use as a teething toy.
At about 6 months old she got a hold of my ~$600 Nexus One and was sucking/chewing on the bottom end where the USB connector and trackball are. It still works fine, but the trackball has been constantly lit in various colors ever since.
Age Census in Disguise (Score:5, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07, 2013 @11:30AM (#42505157)
This poll is more useless than most because cell phones haven't been available to the public long enough. In order to make any sense out of the results of this poll, age data would need to be provided in order to categorize responses based on technological practicality. All the results for this poll tell me is what I already knew: the majority of people on this site are older than the internet.
"the majority of people on this site are older than the internet."
Um... no. I'm older than the internet, but that's only because I was born in the 1960s.
To be fair, I worked at a car stereo store that installed cellphones (and this was in the AMPS days when handhelds were the size of a brick and bag-phones were the norm for folks that needed better range)
was working as a cab driver at the time. It was the kind with the main body of the phone in a bag, and an antenna your ran from the bag out the window to the roof...
They've been available longer than you think (Score:5, Interesting)by anyaristow (1448609) on Monday January 07, 2013 @02:01PM (#42507091)
I was watching the 1976 movie Car Wash not too long ago and it wasn't until after the scene where the woman was talking on a car phone that it dawned on my what I'd seen. So I looked it up and found [checking again] the first handheld cell phone was demonstrated in 1973 and first commercially available in 1983. The first mobile calls from cars were made in 1946, and the networks they built in the following years were in use into the 80's.
Banacek had one in his car, which always seemed uber cool and apropos for that suave dude.. In any case that show ran '72-'74.
It was when the phones were not tethered to a vehicle battery and large antenna that sealed the mobile deal. Still i was about 32 (1990) when i got my first cell phone and only becasue i moved form a small town to a large metropolis and you pretty much had to have one there.
Re:They've been available longer than you think (Score:4, Interesting)
Although cellphones were available in 1980s, they were big and expensive but much easier to get than a IMTS (take a look at http://www.wb6nvh.com/Carphone.htm [wb6nvh.com]). Pre cellular car phones used dedicated frequencies (meaning very few subscribers) and only the top stinking rich can get these. But then if you had a cellphone in 1980s (or early 1990s) you were The Man.
I have a 1970s IMTS control head I got at a flea market 10 years ago (Bell System Property, Not For Sale), it's big and scary (god only knows what the trunk unit was like), it has a Model 500 handset, rotary dial, and a real bell (ding, ding, ding). I don't know when or ever I will have time to make it operational with a cellphone module interfaced with a pulse counter and other circuitry to interface and use it like a carphone. However, no room to put it in today's cars that have big divider down the center. But it would be uber cool just like Banacek and Cannon.
I got my first cellphone when I was a somewhat less old geezer of 42. I don't think they even HAD cellphones when I was 22.
Modded to handle 5 ESN/MIN pairs from the keypad without needing the CTEK dongle.
I also had a whole slew of Motorola G1-G3 brick and flip phones at that point, but the Oki was the prized possession by far.
Due to the variety of ages on Slashdot, of course 22+ is going to be the primary answer. If they asked "in what year did you first get a cell phone?" that would be a more interesting result set. For me it was late 2004, junior year in college. Not quite the last of all my friends to get one, but just almost. The only other guy who didn't still lived at home, so... yeah.
How old was your child when they got their first cell phone?
my mother insisted I carry a pay-go phone in case of emergencies, because I had a ratty old car and commuted daily.
After a couple years of this, my then-fiancee added me to her cell plan (over my initial protests) and I've had one since.
Well, in the mid-90s
Battery technology has advanced really fast - an
... But I do borrow one. I rarely use the phone due to my disabilities and rarely go outside.
So I scan the poll for my answer and find it in the bucket that starts at 22, which is nowhere near my real age. 22 considered old???
I must be pretty old. Hell, I was a good bit older than 22 when
That's more interesting to me. I got my first cell in '99 iirc. It was a digital only Nokia (Nokia 5190 [wikipedia.org]) that you could get an ugly thick back for to do analog as well. Fido network (out of Vancouver). It was only good in major city centers due to the lack of proliferation of digital at the time. That was back before everyone started levying "network access fees".
I kind of miss that phone. Simple. Dead reliable. Extremely good battery life (I charged it on Sundays).
My second favorite phone was my Motor
I got one of those great Bag Phones, the things which could talk to a cell tower a couple counties away. I relized right away I could not drive and dial at the same time, so gave that up in the first days I had it. It was a hoot being on a ramp off the highway, making restaurant reservations for Pizzapapalis Taverna in Greektown, Detroit. "Where are you calling from?" "Off ramp along I-75 near Birch Run." "Wow! You've got one of those new car phones?!?" Yeah, it was a trip. Now everyone has one. Even
At what age you do you let your kids have or give your kids a cell phone?
For me, it was last year at age 12 or 13 (can't remember if before or after his birthday).
He almost never uses it as a phone though.
He does text occasionally.
Now you've got me thinking.
I date back to pagers, back when cel phones were crazy rich guy stuff.... then...
- Rented a bag phone -the old shoebox sized ones - for a road trip working in the US.
- Rented a Gordon Gecko phone for another job - found out how long the battery lasted. Not long enough.
- My first real phone was an Audiovox about half the size of a brick - seemed really small at the time.
- Then something I've totally forgotten half the size of that.
- Hmmm - one Motorola flip phone, one Sony/Ericsson that
My first phone was the Nokia 7110 [wikipedia.org]. Got it in 1999, so I would have been 16 or 17. I was a bit of a latecomer - most of my school friends had phones a year or two earlier. SMS was really starting to take off as the method of communication back then.
I know the 7110 wasn't actually the exact model used in the Matrix (it was actually the similarly-designed 8110 which is a bit older), but it came out around the time the movie did so a lot of people thought it was 'the Matrix phone'...
These days I'm on an iPhone
I know that I'm not an early adopter in the truest sense of the word, as they were technically around before I was born. However, I did have one before most average people. My buddy and I worked at Best Buy, so we got good deals on them. I had an Ericsson CH668 (or something close to that) on Omnipoint (before they became Voicestream and T-Mobile) in the late '90s.
I started out with the cheap (I thought it was free, but maybe it was just really cheap) Mt. Dew numeric pager promo. My friends and I all go
...23 or 24 I think. Got a Motorola SC3160 with Airtouch.
I was always an early tech adopter in the 90's, but the rise of the cellphone has given me pause. I understand the benefits of communication in emergency situations but have seen this excuse devolve quickly into cyberspace zombie behavior in public and then private situations. The TV was the first 'hypnotically' attractive communication device but the so called smartphone is orders of magnitude more addictive. Instantaneous access to your person by anyone at any time might not be the greatest of innovations
Agreed. At first, I did not get one because of the risk of the radiation being dangerous to my health, but I am seeing what you are seeing and am getting even more convinced that I did the right thing.
I have a simple cell phone, which I had got as a gift. I have it only for medical reasons, in case I need to get in touch with a doctor, or my doctor needs to get in touch with me, but most of the time, I keep it switched off. The hospital practically forced me to get one, and a relative had a spare.
Let's see. 22 or older and I've had a personal cell phone for at least 16 years and no land line for 14 years. Oh, and my first cell phone was the Sony CM-Z100 with service from GTE. They gave me a basketball for signing up. That phone was awesome. Everyone else was lugging around those big flip phones on belt holsters and I had this little thing smaller than a pack of smokes that slipped in a pocket. And it went 24 hours on a charge with the stock battery (which was LiPo if I remember right). Most p
I think this poll underestimates the average age of the Slashdot reader...
In 1997. I bought a used GSM phone, think it was an Alcatel HC 400, and a pre-paid SIM for it. It was OK but there were some issues with it, such as the battery not having a perfect fit so the phone would occasionally switch off when having it in the pocket. I fairly quickly went on to other phones.
The most annoying phone I've had was a Philips Diga, circa 1998. There were many usability issues including that it was way too easy to accidentally call the emergency number.
The phone longest in use I've had was

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In response to: The Mystery of Consiousness
It strikes me that consciousness, however you choose to define it, is an emergent property of the organization of our brains.
We can see other emergent properties around us all the time. Your computer, its function, an emergent property of combining certain semiconductors together into basic AND, OR, and XOR gates, linked together in ways that allow us to generate symbols, then manipulate those symbols. The ultimate result allows me to write this comment and for you to read it.
Who, when looking at the raw materials of silicon and semiconducting doping agents would visualize an internet of billions of connected machines interfaced to human beings? It is a miracle when viewed from the perspective of relative ignorance. A miracle we all take for granted. There are no holy wars about the miracle of internet creation.
And, compared to a single human, the entire internet is simplistic in design. The internet and computers generally are understandable and known even down to the quantum effects level. Chip designers and fiber optics engineers take quantum and relativistic effects into account in the design process. Little is left to mystery and the unknown.
When it comes to humans, we have no such deep knowledge. Slowly it is being gained but it will take additional decades before we have fully unraveled the mysteries of life and the functioning of the brain. Once that is done, I believe it will be clear that consciousness is an emergent property of a complex brain.
Life itself is starting to be shown as an emergent property, something I discuss in my article "The Meaning Of Life" on WisdomWebsite.com. While final conclusions have not yet been reached, there is growing evidence to suggest that life itself is an emergent property of matter. From interstellar formation of amino acids to the self-organization and self-replicating crystals that they produce, it is a very short leap to RNA and life, something which is being worked on in the laboratory right now.
While we are learning every day about the functioning of the mind, of synapses, neurotransmitters, ion transfers, and neural networks, we are far from understanding these systems at the same level that we understand computers. Until we do, seeing consciousness as mysterious and inexplicable will remain the state of affairs. We are where Arthur C. Clarke imagined when he said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Our minds remain magical to us and will remain so until we understand how the trick is performed.
There is little reason to rely upon some mysterious force or analogize it in terms of the origins of the universe about which we have limited and almost entirely inferential knowledge. The brain is tangible, testable, and examinable. The origins of the universe are not. Comparing the two is valuable in only the vaguest of terms, a case of electrons and oranges. The common element being mystery.
To explain mysteries is the fundamental function of religion. To demystify is the fundamental function of science.
If you choose to accept the mysterious as unknowable then you choose the path of religion and must rely upon some sort of faith. Faith in an inscrutable god, faith in the unknowable, or even faith in ignorance.
To choose the other option, not knowing, is unsettling but the best path for the curious mind. (Something I talk about in an upcoming article "Do Things Happen For A Reason" scheduled for Oct. 25th - sorry for the excessive site promotion but I think it's spot on topic or I wouldn't mention it).
A hundred years from now, I am sure that this debate will seem silly as our knowledge will have advanced sufficiently to answer our questions. There is little reason to suspect that anything other than an emergent property of matter and energy organized the way a brain is organized will be the explanation and, if history is any guide, much reason to suspect that whatever mystical, unknowable explanation that we give today will be found incorrect and naive.
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Walter S. Gilliam is the Director of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology at the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine. He is on the board of directors for the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA); a fellow at Zero to Three and the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), and served as a senior advisor to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Dr. Gilliam is co-recipient of the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Education for the coauthored book A Vision for Universal Preschool Education.
Dr. Gilliam's research involves early childhood education and intervention policy analysis (specifically how policies translate into effective services), ways to improve the quality of prekindergarten and child care services, the impact of early childhood education programs on children's school readiness, and effective methods for reducing classroom behavior problems and reducing the incidence of preschool expulsion. His scholarly writing addresses early childhood care and education programs, school readiness, and developmental assessment of young children. Dr. Gilliam has led national analyses of state-funded prekindergarten policies and mandates, how prekindergarten programs are being implemented across the range of policy contexts, and the effectiveness of these programs at improving school readiness and educational achievement, as well as experimental and quasi-experimental studies on methods to improve early education quality.
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Education & Training
- M.Sc.
- University of Kentucky (1993)
- Ph.D.
- University of Kentucky (1996)
- Internship in Clinical Psychology
- Yale University School of Medicine, Child Study Center (1995 - 1996)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology
- Yale University School of Medicine, Child Study Center (1996 - 1997)
- Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Yale University School of Medicine, Child Study Center (1997 - 1999)
Honors & Recognition
- Grawemeyer Award in Education
Grawemeyer Committee, University of Louisville (2008)
- First for Kids Award, Priscilla Canny Research Award
Connecticut Voices for Children (2008)
Professional Service
- Reviewer, National Research Council, National Academies (2008 - 2008)
- Editorial Board(07/01/2011)
- Connecticut Early Childhood Education Cabinet, Connecticut Governor's State Advisory Council (SAC) (07/01/2011)
- Board of Directors (and Public Policy Committe), National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) (07/01/2010)
- Senior Advisor, National Association for the Education of Young Children (07/01/2007 - 12/31/2009)
- Connecticut Association for Human Services (07/01/2003)
- Consultant, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (03/01/2007 - 03/01/2007)
- Editorial Board(01/01/2009)
- Connecticut Early Childhood Research and Policy Council (01/01/2007 - 12/31/2009)
- Editorial Board(01/01/2006)
- Consulting Editor(01/01/2006)
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Physical Therapists
Mara Wernick Robinson
Mara Wernick Robinson, P.T., M.S., N.C.S.
"The role of physical therapy at the Facial Nerve Center is to educate patients about the anatomy of the facial muscles, and to guide them on an individualized exercise program aimed at optimizing function and appearance, and minimizing associated pain. We offer an evidence-based approach, including neuromuscular re-education, soft tissue massage, and biofeedback, with the goal of improving quality of life. It's exciting to be part of a team that cares so much about each individuals' specific needs. I enjoy helping patients regain their facial expressions because expressing yourself is such an integral part of who we are. The beauty of working as a physical therapist at the Facial Nerve Center is that we are a team, constantly working together to provide optimal outcomes and patient satisfaction."
Jennifer Baiungo
Jennifer Baiungo
"The ability to communicate through the use of various facial expressions is something that most people take for granted. Here at the Facial Nerve Center, we provide patients with facial paralysis a setting in which to work toward regaining their facial movement. We utilize a team approach at the Center to ensure a comprehensive assessment of, and an individualized treatment plan for each patient. Physical therapy plays an integral role in educating patients about the function of facial musculature and methods in which to improve comfort and control of this musculature. Our treatments focus on extensive patient education, soft tissue mobilization, neuromuscular reeducation exercise and use of biofeedback with the overall goal of improved quality of life. Working with patients who have facial paralysis is both professionally challenging and rewarding. It is an honor to be part of a team that is constantly striving to master and advance the rehabilitation and medical and surgical management of this patient population."


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Set to premier at Sundance Film Festival on January 25 in Park City, UT, the independent movie jOBS will be released to the public in April, says an announcement from Open Road Films and Five Star Feature Films. It stars Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, which you can see in the photo above.
While it comes with a unique title (lowercase 'j', capital 'OBS'), the film will be the first of its kind since Jobs passed away in October 2011.
According to MovieWeb:
jOBS plunges into the depths of his character, creating an intense dialogue-driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs' life. The filmmakers were granted unprecedented access during shooting to the historic garage in Palo Alto, that served as the birthplace to Apple Inc.
You can find out more about the movie, here.
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I know that boiling does little to break down chemical contaminants or heavy metals. But I'm unsure if it kills all microbial life. Are there any waterborne illness-causing viruses/bacteria/protozoa/cysts that can survive boiling? And if so, how serious is the illness they cause?
Boiling kills everything -- giardia, cryptosporidium, other bacteria, and viruses. 185F (140.6C) for a few minutes will do it, and boiling for one minute will do it. (Boiling is lots of big bubbles, not just a few small bubbles on the side of the pot.)
Some people recommend longer boiling times at higher altitudes because water boils at cooler temperatures there.
(Source: Wilderness Medical Society, The Backpacker's Field Manual by Curtis)
This article (*) gives a good summary of the efficiency of boiling as a method for making water safe for consumption. In particular, Table 2 provides a summary of the temperature and time required to kill various micro-organisms.
Sterilisation of water (killing all living containments) is not necessary to make water safe to drink. For example, boiling may not be effective against bacterial spores such as Clostridium which can survive at 100°C (212°F), however, as Clostridium is not a waterborne enteric (intestinal) pathogen, ingestion will not cause infection.
All waterborne enteric pathogens are quickly killed above 60°C (140°F), therefore, although boiling is not necessary to make the water safe to drink, the time taken to heat the water to boiling is usually sufficient to reduce pathogens to safe levels. Allowing the boiled water to cool slowly will also extend the exposure of waterborne enteric pathogens to lethal temperatures.
Boiling also gives a simple visual indicator that a high enough temperature has been reached when a thermometer is not available.
(*) Backer, H. Water Disinfection for International and Wilderness Traveler. Clinical Infectious Diseases. (2002) 34 (3): 355-364. Available from: http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/3/355.full
Botulinum toxin is particularly tough, as is Bacillus cereus. B. cereus is more likely found while camping. For a good reference see: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/poison.html But your goal is not so much to kill everything as reduce the level to the point where it does no harm. The dust you breathe, the things you touch, and (yick!) the people you are with all bring various pathogens... as does your tap water and (often especially) bottled water. Do your best, and your body takes care of the rest.
Some types of spores can survive boiling. But they're either not disease-causing or they're not in any condition to make you sick as far as I know.


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Michigan Man Indicted for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support
Assistant United States Attorney
US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Monroe, Michigan, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Legal Child Support.
Stephen J. Peterson, age 34, was indicted by a federal grand jury on October 4, 2011, for failing to pay over $12,000 in past due child support. He appeared before US Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on August 1, 2012, and pled not guilty to the indictment. The maximum penalty upon conviction is two years of imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and child support restitution amount owing at the time of sentencing. The charge is merely an accusation, and Peterson is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
The investigation is being conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. Assistant US Attorney Thomas J. Wright is prosecuting the case. Peterson was released on bond pending trial. A trial date has not yet been set.


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Cape Cod National Seashore - Massachusetts
The great Outer Beach described by Thoreau in the 1800s is protected within the national seashore.
Photo credit to National Park Service
Full Bio
Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the IT industry, gadgets, finance, accounting, and tech-life for more than 25 years. Most recently, he has been a regular contributor to BreakingModern.com, aNewDomain.net, and TechRepublic.
The pics of the national parks are awesome. I have never visited this park but now I would like to visit here soon. All the pics are looking very real and attractive. I really appreciate the photography skills. Thanks for presenting these. :)
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You know for a bunch of supposedly intelligent people, criticizing the work that the people on this site do is very small minded. If you cant say something appreciative, don't waste your time posting degrading remarks. To Mark and the rest of you that take the time to present the articles...furgetabout them.
I have seen some "old" pics of places, and when photoshopped they usually get re-sampled, and if needed a border can be done, and the result is usually good. The pics at smithsonian.org and defenders of wildlife are great, however I don't know if they are public domain. I am partial to pics from Tasmania, either North-West, East-Coast, or south-West, and they seem to be public domain. National Geographic has loads of great pics, and whilst obscure, I like the Sciam pics from the Magazine MIND.
yosemite national park is one of the shining gems of the national park service and only three hours from San Joaquin Valley. The best way to discover Yosemite is to actually go and see its beauty unfold for yourself.
Badlands National Park is very beautiful and located about one hour south of Rapid City, South Dakota, on the old homeland of the Sioux . The Badlands is a unique national park that features both high northern prairie wildlife and the outstanding geological features.
Truly awesome, the Yosemite national park is!Nice pictures!:-) http://www.wildlifeworld360.com/yosemite-national-park.html
Brilliant shot!!! the valley looking gorgeous. http://www.wildlifeworld360.com/yosemite-national-park.html
some nice pickins....
NASA's APOD site offers great images which work well as desktop backgrounds without getting in the way. For what it's worth, they work fine beyond the Windows operating system, too.
I know NYC wants to take credit for EVERYTHING, but come on. Consider 2 facts and an observation: 1. Look at a map - you can spit to Liberty Island from NJ - it's MUCH closer to NJ than NYC 2. All utilities to Liberty Island come from NJ 3. If you had a statue to greet the world, would you have it facing to you or out to the rest of the world?
All pictures were beautiful, but lousy reproduction. Wallpapers must be razor sharp or it interferes with desktop viewing. I'm sure NPS has better reproductions and should have known better. Ed C. Ex USDI scientist and photographer.
... of beautiful images usable for desktop backgrounds is http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/ Besides landscapes they also have many other interesting subject matter such as animals, insects, people and buildings. They also come in a variety of sizes if you go to the "wallpaper" tab a the top of the page.
this is the link above, and in FF it is EMPTY: http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/index.html
Of course I went looking for the photo of ANP where I live and was profoundly disappointed. I can walk from my office to places with prettier views. Oh well !
Dissapointing .......
Why not put up a link where can download ALL of them??
After reading the comments I dont think Ill bother with any of them.
I live near another more beautiful national park. Lassen Volcanic National Park. The least visited national park.
the link to: NPS Digital Image Index. does not seem to work.
What is your current desktop wallpaper? What desktop wallpaper themes to you have? To get the best result, left-click the smaller image to get the largest resolution image. In Windows, you then right-click that large image and click the "Set as desktop background" menu item.
Hubble has some cool space pics for wallpaper! http://hubblesite.org/gallery/ (P.S. rude ungrateful nerds please don't attack me like you did Mark - I'm just posting the link! Take it or leave it. And no, neither your 6-year-old nor your granny could probably do better than the Hubble space telescope. Thankfully there are no strange people in the pictures for you to also complain about. (although you can't rule out Martians))
While I don't want to overly criticize what I feel was genuine effort, the Acadia picture left much to be desired. I lived in Maine from 89 to 93 in and around Bar Harbor and Seal Harbor on Mt. Desert Island. There are thousands of better pictures out there.
Pretty much every major park has a Facebook page where amateur photogs put their photos. You'll have to wade through a lot of dross but the occasional gem shines through. And every once in a while, it's a Hope Diamond level gem!
We must have crashed that photo index page with the increased traffic. I don't think it will be permanent.
Here is the latest link to the NPS photos, if you still want them after being scared off by the naysayers. http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/imagebase.html
These are historical, scanned images of old prints. Boo freakin' hoo.
It seems the index site I linked in the description is no longer active. Perhaps it could not handle the increased traffic. That's first for me. With luck the link will work in the future. The main link to the National Park Service is still working: http://www.nps.gov/index.htm
Maybe this topic was a joke after all?
There's a legal term in the entertainment industry for things that are not very good, downright bad, not worth copying, not worthy of inclusion or something you don't even want to meet with the creator about. The term is "That's so PD." It means: that's so public domain. Those photos are so PD. Not only was the quality disappointingly low but WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE IN THE FOREGROUND OF SOME PHOTOS? Unless I know and love them, I don't want people in my desktop/wallpaper photos. They distract. I wasn't expecting Ansel Adams -quality work, but something a little north of what my six year-old can take with her 6mp digital camera with all settings on AUTO.
The foremost symbol of Freedom is The Liberty Bell. It is in Independence National Historical Park, in a beautiful, dignified setting near Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Not to be a photo snob but these are pretty low quality pictures. They look like vacation slides from the 1970s. Most of them even have slide borders and dust on the pictures. I guess they could be downloaded for nostalgia reasons. My run of the mill 12 megapixel digital camera has ruined me.
A picture from the shore of Lake Richie in Isle Royale NP.
Thanks for the cool link, there are some great photos suitable for wallpaper use! I sometimes cannot believe how much criticism is posted in reply to some of the articles here. I realize the photos offered here were not up to todays standards but it is offered for entertainment purposes and if you do not like it just do not use it. I would hope that educated IT professionals would realize this and not be so ready to jump all over someone for offering a service for free. I look foward to the TechRepublic articles daily and appriciate the effort put into them. Thanks for the great work!!
and old. They are decent photos and worth looking at. But, they were presented as wallpaper. As wallpaper, they are not up to the task. Some people have large monitors where these pictures would look grainy and blurry. We have come to expect very sharp and vivid hi-def photos as wallpaper. I think that is where most of the criticism is directed. Another commenter complained about the posters being critical. Nothing wrong with being critical when it is called for. How else can the author know how his article is being received. I think he would appreciate less than flattering reviews. No need to be nasty though (in most cases).
the Yosemite web site has removed all of the photo gallery photos. Only videos are available
I am sorry, but I have to agree with SamFrench. I don't mind much about the people in the background if I can't see them much. But the quality of the picture makes them (picture) far eligible for my desktop.
[i]Not to be a photo snob...[/i] I don't think your fully automatic no thought involved just point and shoot to get high-quality images but lousy pictures 12 Megapixel digital camera ruined you.
Take a look at the title - public domain - free to use anywhere. Some are obviously older - that is why they are public domain. If you have better photos from National Parks and want to share them free of restrictions, I will happily publish them.
I downloaded the first two photos and the quality was so bad I wouldnt download any more. My granny took better photos.
Agreed. They look decent in small sizes, but they are not good enough quality to use for a wallpaper. I am shocked that TechRepublic would post something like this with such poor quality. This is not news.
Thank you for the support - I, and the entire TechRepublic staff, appreciate it.
I just meant that I was spoiled by what cameras (mine admittedly on auto) can do today. I'm definitely not a photographer.
"I don't think your fully automatic no thought involved just point and shoot to get high-quality images but lousy pictures 12 Megapixel digital camera ruined you."
Just did a great trip to Grand Canyon and south Utah NPs and would be happy to upload some of the images. Where can I send them?
I heartily agree. Those of you with supposed mad photographic skills, please respond to this with your high resolution photos of national parks. I'd download and use them.
At the bottom of some of the galleries is a link to more images. Many of them seemed to be better quality than the scanned slides.
I too am puzzled at the sub-optimal quality of the images from National Park Services. I would compare wallpaper available from Nat Geographic , before downloading. The NPS wallpaper might have a slight advantage in that your desktop icons show more clear. Leila Simone, admin asst to Adam Okhai president TLC
These photos are an insult to the integrity of your National Park Service photographers. 30 years ago I visited the USA from New Zealand specifically to photograph some of your National Parks. Although I was an amateur my images are far better than any of these and I carefully preserved them. Surely the NPS has better images. Barry Doig


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Mondrean (Austria). Battaglia (France). Orlando (Germany). Ragrepublic (Germany). Stierblut (Germany). Sky (Holland). Harvey Nichols (Hong Kong). Lofty (Italy). Hankyu Hanshin (Japan). Isetan (Japan). Johnbull (Japan). Journal Standard (Japan). Villa Rouge (Japan). Society Club (Monaco). SVMOSCOW (Russia). Cugini (Saudi Arabia). Fidelio AG (Men) (Switzerland). Fidelio AG (Women) (Switzerland). Donna Ida (UK). Harrods (UK). Liberty (UK).
We're having a ridiculous sample sale next week. T-shirts, dresses, bags, scarves for girls, boys and kids. So come along and sort the whole family out for threads at mad crazy prices.
224 Shoreditch High St, 2 Plough Yard, London EC2A 3LP
26/11 - 12-7pm
27/11 - 12-7pm
28/11 - 12-9pm
29/11 - 1-6pm
2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the Simeon Farrar brand, so to kick off the celebrations we're heading out to Japan for a couple of weeks of partying with our good friends at Johnbull.
We'll be doing events at the Johnbull stores in Harajuku (May 17th) Okayama (18th) and Osaka (20th), followed by a party at Bar Bonobo in Tokyo on May 21st. See the Johnbull website for full details.
Simeon also has an exhibition of his artwork and clothing at the Isetan department store in Tokyo from May 12th to 27th and will be at the store on May 24th and 25th. Check their website for details.
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for more updates on the celebrations. #SimeonFarrar10
Here's a nice little film of our AW14 shoot, directed by Elliot from The Field Office.
In August of this year we drove from Tokyo to Tohoku with the staff of John Bull to do a fundraising event in the town of Minamisanriku, the town worst affected by 2011's Tsunami. Richard Lonsdale from The Field Office documented this screen printing day. See his fantastic film above.
Thanks to The Industry for the fantastic interview last night between Simeon and Donna Ida at The Conde Nast College.
Cosmopolitan have joined in with the Kitten love and put our patriotic pussycat in their pick of the jubilee.
To celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics we are offering this super exclusive 'Great Britain Kitten' T-Shirt and Vest. With a pierced ear and Punk Rock knuckles who could resist. They are only available though our site so get yours while stocks last.
Here's a short film with our section of the recent runway show in Tokyo for the Wear Europe event.
While we were in Tokyo recently, Simeon put on a live art event at RDV O Globe in Shibuya - painting a new mural in the store.
We've just finished our live art event in the beautiful Villa Rouge boutique in Nagoya. As a thank you to our most loyal stockist, we made a pop-up art exhibition in a custom made Japanese rainbow shed.
Bethan from Melanie Rickey's Fashion Editor At Large blog has written a fantastic piece on our brand and the Of Rainbows And Halos show.
Our Bear t-shirt is in the Top 100 on Glamourmagazine.co.uk today.
Get in the mood for summer with the wonderful beachtomato.com. They have a nice Young British Designers piece including an profile on Simeon.
Mr. Richard Lonsdale's only gone and done it again. Another fantastic film from our Japan trip. This one features the fundraising event we did at the Heartland bar in Roppongi Tokyo. There was a massive turnout and we sold all the beautiful Kate Mouse vests donated by Enza Costa. Hope you like it.
Our favorite film maker Richard Lonsdale has made another fantastic film for us. It captures the live screen printing event we did at Johnbull in Tokyo in April. This was also filmed by the Shop Channel and was featured in the show we did last weekend. Hope you like it.
Thanks to all your incredible generosity we raised a massive £5728.67 for the Japanese Relief Fund. We sent out over 250 Kate Mouse T-Shirts in our first appeal and then sold a whole load of beautiful vests at our Heartland event in Tokyo last month. Big thanks to Enza Costa for donating those and Donna Ida for all their help.
Kate Mouse for Japan Red Cross is live on Net-A-Porter today. 50% of all proceeds go to the charity.
Elleuk.com has our Royal Wedding tote bag in its 'Best Buys Of The Week' today. Get yours at Liberty before the big day.
We had a fantastic event at Johnbull Daikanyama yesterday. Thanks to everyone who helped out and came down. We printed 110 t-shirts with a limited edition print live outside the store. Some proceeds from the sales of these will go to the Japan relief fund.
UPDATE: Thanks for all your kind donations! This project is now finished.
Want a free Kate Mouse t-shirt? Donate at least £20 to Save The Children by the end of March and we will send an exclusive Kate Mouse t-shirt to you, anywhere in the UK.
What do you need to do?
- Click here to visit the Save The Children website.
- Make your donation of £20 or more.
- Forward your email reciept to email@example.com, along with your address and t-shirt size and we'll pop one in the post. Easy.
You get a free t-shirt while making a donation to help Japan. We get to help Japan - a country with many friends.
Many thanks to Enza Costa for their kind donation of t-shirts.
Our Kate Mouse prints are in production and should be arriving in stores like Liberty, Press, Donna Ida, Young British Designers, Mimic, John Bull and Harvey Nichols Hong Kong soon.
Can't wait that long? We're running a competition to win one of 10 unique Kate Mouse t-shirts in time for Christmas.
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CLOSING DATE: 13th DECEMBER
Film maker Richard Lonsdale has made a short film about the painting we did at John Bull store in Harajuku last March.
The new SS11 Menswear shoot is up on the site now.
Pineapple Dance Studio's Louie Spence rocks the new Simeon Farrar collection with Kylie at the Sex & The City Premiere last night.
In celebration of Golden Week in Japan this week we're giving away some very limited edition prints from the Look-A-Likes series. Participating stores are American Rag Cie and Johnbull, both in Tokyo. So get down there and pick up your free, signed print.
Pineapple Dance Studio's Louis Spence sports vintage Simeon Farrar on Jonathan Ross.
The Spring/Summer 2010 edition of At Liberty Magazine is out now featuring our silk chiffon scarf exclusive to Liberty. Pick up a copy in store now.
Three Simeon Farrar outfits from the Wear Europe runway show.
Music is 'I Knew' by the amazing Lightning Dust.
Sunday's in store event at John Bull in Harajuku will be a live art event, with Simeon Farrar painting a mural on the store's upstairs balcony.
The painting will start late afternoon - and there are signed, numbered screen prints available as giveaways.
We're on day 3 in Tokyo now and have visited American Rag Cie, Isetan and Journal Standard to see the new collection in store.
The Wear Europe show kicks off tomorrow at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Roppongi, with a runway show on Friday.
We'll be in Tokyo from the 14-30th March for the Weareurope show at The Grand Hyatt Hotel Roppongi. The show takes place on the 17th & 18th of March and we'll be doing in-store events at Journal Standard, Harajuku on the 20th and 21st, and also Johnbull on the 21st. There will be exclusive t-shirts on offer at Journal Standard and an art installation and free giveaways at Johnbull.
If you're in the neighborhood pop in and see us.
Simeon Farrar will be exhibiting his 2007 Spring/Summer collection at London Fashion Week, from September 18-22 at London's Natural History Museum.
Simeon has recently completed a commission for the new Lane Crawford store in Hong Kong. Using memories of smell as the inspiration, the piece used collected bottles, hand made wax replicas and window painting to create an installation for the opening event.
Here's a small video from the Wapping Project exhibition Jerwood: Fashion Film and Fiction, featuring Simeon's work. All clothes from the exhibition are one-off commissioned pieces by London's most exciting young fashion designers and will be auctioned at 7pm, 15 November 2005.
Champagne reception hosted by Katherine Hamnett. Auction conducted by Richard Lloyd, Asociate Director, Christies.
Tickets £50 (inc VAT) directly from The Wapping Project. Telephone: 020 7680 2096
Check out the Michael Jackson look-a-like competition, plus some new additions to the sketchbook and a new collection of paintings in the gallery.
More new work coming shortly.
Simeon is one of four artists exhibiting in 'The New Urbanites' at Catto Contemporary:
Catto Contemporary
75a Leonard St.
London EC2A 4QS
Tel +44 (0) 20 7729 0555
Tel +44 (0) 20 7613 0201
The exhibition runs from the 23rd May - 24th June
Monday - Friday 10 - 6 pm
Private View Thursday 23rd May 6 - 9pm
Simeon is one of two artists featured in the second part of 'Cornucopia' at:
Mafuji Gallery
28 Shacklewell Road
London E8 2EZ
Tel/Fax 020-8567 8222
Website: www.mafujigallery.org.uk
The exhibition runs from the 9th - 25th May
Thursday - Saturday 1 - 5 pm
Private View Saturday 11th May 6 - 9pm
The 'Ex-pectator' show will open with a private view on January 17th at:
East 73rd
73 Curtain Rd.
tel: +44(0)20 7729 1590
fax: +44(0)20 7739 5836
Underground: Liverpool St./Old St. (Exit 4)
Open 18th January - 16 February
Tuesday - Saturday 11.00-6.00
'The Street Poets' solo show opens this Thursday (15th Nov.) at:
Gallery Q2
2 Queenstown Road
Private views are on:
Thursday 15th November 6.30-9pm
Thursday 29th November 6.30-9pm
The exhibition continues until Thursday 13th December
Opening hours are:
Tues-Fri: 2pm-7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
Sun: 1pm-3pm
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Lake Wequaquet Estate with Dock & Beach
Imagine, waking up at 56 Lakeview Drive. Heading to the kitchen to make coffee, you click on the gas fireplace taking in the sun rise over the shimmering water. Inspired by a passing kayaker, you think "Why not?" and grab your coffee on the way to your 64' dock. Drifting and sipping in the early morning sunshine, you realize how great the house looks from the water with its newly shingled sidewalls and roof. Even the new trim seems to glow. Finishing your coffee, you make your way up the fieldstone framed bluestone staircase. Checking messages in your private office before everyone rises, you click off the gas fireplace as the sun continues to rise over the lake warming the house. So quiet. Guests arrive today and will stay in the first floor bedroom suite. Perhaps they'll try out the regulation beach volleyball court before gathering in the living room to unwind before dinner in the water view dining room. A perfect way to end a perfect day on the Lake. It is a Cape Cod lifestyle.


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Sukru H. Emre MD
Professor of Surgery (Transplant) and of Pediatrics
Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical Group
Office of Student ResearchCancer Center, Yale: Gastrointestinal Cancer ProgramTransplantation Center, Yale-New HavenPediatrics: Pediatric Gastroenterology & Hepatology: Joint Interdepartmental Program | Surgery: Transplantation & Immunology (Liver/Kidney/Pancreas)
Research Interests
Living donor liver transplantation; Quality of life after transplant; Recurrent diseases after transplantation; Acute rejection; Autoimmune hepatitis; Organ allocation and organ donation; Chronic allograft dysfunction; Early graft function/dysfunction; Infectious complications of immunosuppression; Complications of transplantation and immunosuppression; Expanded donors; High-risk recipient; Immunosuppressive agents; Ischemia-reperfusion injury; Malignancy: donor, transplant candidates, and transplant recipients; Post-Tansplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD); Hepatocellular carcinoma and transplantation; Surgical techniques and complications; Viral hepatitis more...
- M.D., University of Istanbul, Turkey, 1977
Selected Publications
- Schilsky ML, Honiden S, Arnott L, Emre S. ICU management of acute liver failure. Clin Chest Med. 2009 Mar;30(1):71-87, viii. Review.
- Vaudry W, Ettenger R, Jara P, Varela-Fascinetto G, Bouw MR, Ives J, Walker R; Valcyte WV16726 Study Group. Collaborators: Walker R, Birk P, Vaudry W, Niaudet P, Hetzer R, Ojeda S, Varela-Fascinetto G, Jara P, Melgosa-Hijosa M, Manzanares J, Simon J, Emre S, Ettenger R, Hmeil P, Pescovitz M, Sherbotie J, Thomas S. Valganciclovir dosing according to body surface area and renal function in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2009 Mar;9(3):636-43.
- Madan RP, Campbell AL, Shust GF, Kahn AR, Wistinghausen B, Posada R, Kerkar N, Shneider BL, Emre S, Herold BC. A hybrid strategy for the prevention of cytomegalovirus-related complications in pediatric liver transplantation recipients.Transplantation. 2009 May 15;87(9):1318-24.


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The best way to get an accurate cost for your move is to have an in-home move estimate conducted. Complete the online request form, and you will quickly be contacted to set up a convenient time for a free, in-home appointment. At the appointed time, an Arpin representative will come to your home, perform an inventory of the goods you plan to move, and provide a no-obligation price quote for your New Mexico move. The in-home estimate is the best way to learn about our services, experience our professional staff, and fully appreciate the value and cost benefits of moving with Arpin.
Fill out the Free Moving Quote form on this page and an Arpin representative will contact you quickly to schedule your in-home New Mexico move estimate.
"This is the second time I have used your line. Each time you have done a wonderful job. The agent in Miami has been prompt, fair and a pleasure to deal with.
Both times the driver and crew have been wonderful as well. They have been courteous, timely and willing to go the extra mile."
Robert R
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