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Amar Chitra Katha comics form a part of professor Karline McLain's exploration of visual culture in modern India.
In many households, other comics were seen as a waste of time and discarded, but ACK was preserved carefully
In a bazaar in Mumbai's Santa Cruz, a rather attractive American professor of religion is combing the wares of those familiar footpath book sellers for old issues of Amar Chitra Katha. As strange and curious as this may seem, it is why she is here in India: to study these comics that most of us cherish, but haven't given a second thought to.
And then, suddenly, she makes a discovery: a tattered copy of the Krishna comic book. Karline McLain notices that this version differs from the one in circulation. Here, the miracles are absent: Krishna is not holding aloft that mountain. She wonders if, even before the first print run of this famous title no. 11 from the ACK stable in 1969, there had been another smaller print run that had completely disappeared. But why? Had she stumbled on the true first edition of the Krishna comic book?
At the ACK studio
Teaching at Bucknell University, McLain was already deeply engaged in exploring visual culture in modern India, with an emphasis on representations of popular devotional art in the region. Baazar art: calendars and posters of gods and goddesses that often, to our peril, we dismiss as kitsch. Fascinated by ACK, she packed her bags for Mumbai in 2001, feeling driven to take her research deeper. She spent the year at the ACK studio in Mumbai interviewing its illustrators, writers, subscription members, students, and parents. Her just published book India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes (Indiana University Press) is fun to read and a rewarding work of scholarship on the origins, history and influence of Amar Chitra Katha.
I've always wanted to know more about ACK, which for me, as for so many others, is rooted in childhood nostalgia. I asked Karline what first drew her to these comics and she said the most interesting thing: "The moment that stands out to me is this: I had already studied a number of the ACK issues. But then I was spending some time in Udaipur, Rajasthan studying Hindi literature, this would have been in 1999, and I kept running across the comics in English and in Hindi everywhere I went, and was able to see first hand how kids responded to them. One day I was buying a stack of the comics in Hindi (for more language practice), and there was a boy standing with his mouth open in awe that I was buying so many at once. So I gave him a couple of issues, and he was thrilled — he just sat right down in the dusty lane to read them on the spot."
After a few months at the ACK studio she had become more than familiar with all the ACK comics. And thus when she found the miracle-less Krishna copy she took it to Anant Pai and asked him to explain the mystery of this unorthodox edition.
His background as a chemical engineer, he told her, had made it uncomfortable for him to keep the miracles as part of the mythology. So they did a first print run of the Krishna story without too many spectacular miracles. But he soon changed his mind when he realised it was exactly that aspect of ACK that readers were so charged by, and reprinted the comic with the miracles intact.
Though the origins of ACK are well known, Karline provides so many sparkling insider details we didn't know before. This, and the reprints of the original cover art of ACK's classic titles (Rama, Jataka Tales, Birbal, The Gita, Shakuntala, Pandava Princess, Savitri, Mirabai, Akbar, Tulsidas, Tansen) in the book, makes India's Immortal Comic Books invaluable. Once Pai had convinced H.G. Mirchandani of IBH to publish comics with stories from Indian mythology, he set about looking for illustrators. He found them in Bombay's advertising companies: Yusuf Bangalorewala, Pratap Mulick and Ram Waeerkar.
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What McLain repeatedly heard from ACK readers is that the comic books seemed to almost radiate a spiritual force. In many households, other comics were seen as a waste of time and discarded, but ACK was preserved carefully. Grandmothers covered them with those brown wrappers used to cover school textbooks to keep them clean. Nieces and nephews inherited bound volumes from uncles and aunts. Some even confessed to seeing the images of the gods and goddesses as pictured in the comics when they closed their eyes to worship.
She celebrates the comic for its force and power and for how it can charm and entertain but is careful to interpret its influence also as defining and constructing an upper caste Hindu identity. One young reader she interviewed was furious at the suggestion that the comics could have had a religious agenda, while another made it crystal clear that he felt it was "damm Hindutva propaganda to brainwash children". The villains in many of the comics, when they were not British officers, were Mughal generals.
McLain's interest in the project is to look at these comics as "a unique opportunity for the study of the definition and negotiation of a modern middle class Indian identity… They also draw upon Indian visual and literary culture. In mixing mythology and history they create a national canon of heroes — where Bose and Rama are side by side."
She observes that they go some way in defining an Indian in post-colonial times, and so have a power and significance that other comic books from other cultures don't possess.
Her new interest, Karline told me, is the Vivalok Comics founded by Rukmini Sekhar. 'Her "Godavari Tales" comic book presents a local version of the Ramayana epic as it is retold among village women in the Godavari River valley today. In this version there is no happily-ever-after ending as in the ACK "Valmiki's Ramayana" comic; instead, the women focus on Sita's banishment and question why Rama might do such a thing, thereby drawing out the moral ambiguities of the epic".


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Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday called for state agencies to adopt new data privacy standards, among them replacing Social Security numbers with random identifiers wherever possible.
Doyle issued the directive to Administration Secretary Michael Morgan in response to a Metavante Corp. review of state privacy and data-collection practices. But some observers said the recommendations didn't go far enough.
Doyle, a Democrat, asked the Brown Deer company for the review after two data security breaches this year.
In January, contractor EDS Corp. mailed 260,000 brochures to Medicaid recipients that included their Social Security numbers on the address labels. Later that month, the state Department of Revenue sent forms to 5,000 people who had their Social Security numbers visible in the address window.
"Every day, government has to collect sensitive information about its citizens in order to provide services like issuing a fishing license, calculating a tax refund or confirming eligibility for health care services," Doyle says in a letter to Morgan. "We have a serious responsibility to protect Wisconsin's citizens by ensuring their personal information is secure."
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The state doesn't know yet when the recommendations will be implemented or how much that will cost.
The Republican-led Assembly passed a bill this session to stop using Social Security numbers as identifiers for state programs, but the Democratic Senate didn't take it up.
The Metavante report says the state could build on existing strengths, such as privacy policies and procedures at a majority of state agencies. Metavante also says the state should continue with its project to consolidate computer servers in one secure location to protect private data.
That project has had its share of budget and deadline troubles; the Department of Administration said it wouldn't be finished until June 2010 - four years behind schedule. When first approved, the project was to save $15.6 million over five years, but auditors found last year that the costs had erased those savings.
Sen. Ted Kanavas (R-Brookfield) said the report's recommendations were obvious ones that were common practice in the private sector. "They're so common-sense, the recommendations, it shows you how backward the state is in managing personal information," he said.
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The Department of Revenue must use Social Security numbers in some instances because of federal laws that require their use for identifying taxpayers. But it's also the only agency that has a privacy office and officer, put in place after 115,000 tax booklets with Social Security numbers on the mailing labels were sent to taxpayers in late 2006.
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Edwards passes Ambrose on last lap to win Montreal
MONTREAL Marcos Ambrose shrugged as Carl Edwards was doing his signature back flip. Another lost opportunity at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
"I just made a mistake at the end there and lost the race," Ambrose said Sunday after dominating the Nationwide race, only to finish second. "I feel pretty devastated."
The despair was real on a day that started in sunshine and turned to gloom. Ambrose led 60 laps over the 14-turn, 2.7-mile street circuit – including 31 in a row when rain moved in for the second year in a row.
But after overcoming restart after restart in the crash-filled event, Ambrose slipped up at the wrong time. Edwards passed him on the final turn for his first career road win and the first Nationwide road triumph for Roush Fenway Racing.
"I can't believe I won the race," Edwards said. "I just figured he'd take off and run away with it. I guess that goes to show you you never give up."
Edwards won a two-lap sprint to the finish on a track that was both wet and dry in spots from a light rain. On the 76th and final lap, he closed fast on Ambrose entering turn 10, a right-handed hairpin, and that gave Edwards renewed hope.
"I drove a little bit deeper than him and I caught him, and that surprised me," Edwards said. "I didn't think I'd catch him in that corner, but I had the benefit of watching his car. He was kind of out there flying. Once I got to him, we came off turn 10, he was spinning the tires, and I thought I might have him."
Seconds later, Ambrose slid sideways after hitting the rumble strips in turn 14. Edwards slipped past and outraced him down the final straightaway.
"That was an amazing gift," Edwards said. "Marcos just made that one mistake that gave me a chance to get by. The difference was the tires and the way the track was changing. As soon as it gets dry, there's so much more grip, and there were places out there I saw that had a little more grip. Maybe I could just see better through my windshield."
Ambrose survived three other restarts in the final 12 laps of the race, which was plagued by 11 cautions. The race went two extra laps and lasted 3 hours, 49 minutes, 19 seconds, the longest in Nationwide Series history. The Gateway 300 in 1997 lasted 3:48.25.
Ambrose was out to right what went wrong in the previous two Nationwide races at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. In 2007 he led 37 laps and was challenging for the win before he was spun out by Robby Gordon and finished seventh.
Last year in the rain, Ambrose led 27 laps but was caught speeding on pit road late in the race and Ron Fellows won the rain-shortened event, the first points race in NASCAR history to be run on rain tires.
Ambrose and Edwards were supposed to drive together in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race here on Saturday, but Edwards wrecked the car on the warmup lap and both had to watch the race.


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More caesarian deliveries are carried out in private hospitals than public hospitals in the city, data of last three years provided by BMC show. Last year, caesarian delivery rate in private hospitals was 37.81%, while in civic hospitals it was 19.77 %.
Dr Rajshri Katke, medical superintendent, Cama and Albless Hospital, state-run maternity hospital at Fort, said: "A caesarian delivery should be undertaken only if there is a proven need for it. Here we encourage normal delivery unless there is some complications that will harm the mother or the child, or if the mother already has had C-section."
According to the health department data, the number of deliveries in civic-run hospitals and private hospitals are almost the same. However, the percentage of C-section remains higher in private hospitals.
Dr Niranjan Chavan, professor, gynaecology department, LTMG Sion hospital, one of the three tertiary care hospitals run by BMC, said: "In private hospitals, doctor-patient ratio is 1:1, and there is better care. Any complication is picked up fast. It has also been observed that doctors in private hospitals are very careful with their patients and don't want to take any risk."
Giving an example, Dr Chavan said in the case of a mild meconium-stained liquor, a fetal distress, a doctor in a public hospital would still take a chance, while in a private hospital, the doctor would opt for C-section.
"People going to private hospitals are very sensitive to pain, and the threshold of tolerance is less, and doctors don't want to take any chance," said Dr Chavan.
Agreeing with Dr Chavan, Dr Kiran Coelho, gynaecologist at Lilavati Hospital-Bandra, said: "Perinatal morbidity rate—affecting life of mother and child during pregnancy and/or the infant during first four weeks of life—is the valuation of obsetric cases which is always better in the private sector. Doctors in private sector are very careful and don't ignore even a small complication. There are many factors, like late marriages, increased infertility rate, etc that have contributed to the rise in C-section in private hospitals."
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"MOST people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so."
Philosopher Bertrand Russell coined this maxim back in 1925, as a witty aside in a passage about how difficult it is to understand relativity. It has since become a standard lament about people's ignorance and incuriosity.
These are certainly worth lamenting. But to equate them with lack of thought is to misunderstand what thought really is. The kind of "thinking" Russell had in mind is actually a very narrow class of thought: systematic, logical and goal-directed.
This is a useful and powerful tool – and we rightly praise people who are good at it, admiringly calling them "thinkers". But to define thought this narrowly ignores the true richness of our mental lives (see "Thoughts: The inside story").
Think about thoughts – in itself a mind-boggling feat – and you quickly realise that they come in many varieties, from idle reverie to determined problem-solving. As far as we know, these are experiences only humans enjoy. In fact, "thought" may be the best answer to the perennial question: "What makes us human?".
That is a thought. But try to articulate where it comes from, and you may find yourself stymied. Thinking comes so naturally to us that we rarely stop to consider how ineffable and ill-understood it is. Nor is it any easier to pin down how we solve problems, or come up with ideas.
We've developed plenty of techniques that help us do those things, of course, from logic to brainstorming to philosophy. And there are technologies to help us gather individual thoughts into collective knowledge, from writing to social networking.
The combination of thinking techniques and information technologies has helped us make great strides. It is hard to envisage how our technological and intellectual achievements would exist without it.
Now science is slowly revealing the totality of thought. Will this help us harness the other kinds of thought any better than we do now? Perhaps it will at least increase our respect for them, and for those who think differently to us. And perhaps it will give the lie, once and for all, to Russell's jaded maxim.
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William James on being afraid of poverty.
"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition."
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I hear a wall of angry noise from the Republican peanut gallery about the 47,000,000 people who don't pay income tax.
So What?
Most of these people are not loafers who enjoy poverty as the Republican would suggest.
These are people who are elderly, disabled, students and the poor who can't earn enough money in our system to owe income tax.
I know single mothers who have three children, work two low paying jobs to try and make ends meet. People like this don't pay income tax simply because they don't earn enough to live on.
So why do you hate them?
Elderly widows, living on a minimum Social Security check barely have enough to eat.
Do you republicans want to take away their food?
My explanation is that republicans pick up on a slogan such as this from Limbaugh, Beck or Fox and began chanting it like a pack of animals baying at the full moon.
Why do you think that they have such disdain for those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder?


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In the Adirondacks we have thousands of miles of trails which will need to be cleared of more than the normal number of deadfalls. We hikers should also note where there are heavy stands of magnificent ashes, which now add to the beauty of the forest and indicate rich soil that often supports certain well-loved flowers and mushrooms. Trail builders should be pro-active and avoid areas with many ashes. Hundreds of miles of new "connector" snowmobile trails are now going to be built and while snowshoers and skiers can get around downed trees, snowmobiles cannot.
Clues an ash tree has been attacked by EAB are dead branches at the top of the tree; short leafy shoots coming from the trunk; and "D shaped" exit holes made when the larva matures and leaves the tree looking for a mate. Woodlot owners may want to harvest their ash while they are healthy, but the market will soon be saturated. The one good thing about the loss of this well-loved tree is that tree removal businesses will have a field day!
The other new invasive alien is pretty spectacular - the Asian Long-horned Beetle. It is black and white spotted with huge striped antennae, and about an inch long. It leaves oval to round pits in the bark chewed out by the female, where she lays one egg. The larvae then dig into the tree to feed, leaving oozing spots especially visible on maples, unfortunately a favorite genus. Piles of coarse sawdust can accumulate in branch axils. Round holes, up to a half inch in diameter, are where the adult beetle exits. This insect is still being fought off by scientists in New York, but it is in surrounding states.
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30 Issues: Job Creation and Congress
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It's Jobs Week on the Brian Lehrer Show's election series "30 issues in 30 Days." See the full 30 Issues schedule and archive here.
David Leonhardt, Washington D.C Bureau Chief for the New York Times and author of the e-book Here's the Deal (Byliner Inc. 2013), talks about how the two candidates in the NJ Senate race, Cory Booker and Steve Lonegan, would approach job creation - and what it says about both parties' approach to jobs on the federal level.
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"Mr. Bad" from NYC, calling others a troll.
You don't see the irony in that.
Go whine to CAIR.
Denial. It ain't just a river in Egypt. Now start listing every USA sponsored coup/military intervention/terrorist/war crime/criminal regime the US of A has propped up with $ and political cover since Bretton Woods... Not enough space on this entire page.
Cost of calling out an autistic JIDF troll about 1/20 of a billable hour.
Hoisting him with his own petard. Priceless.
Ms. Bad of NYC,
Yes, I am Islamofascist-phobic due to:
- 9/11
- 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103
- 1993 truck bombing of the WTC
- 2005 bombing of London buses and underground
- Boston Marathon bombing
- Sneaker bomber Richard Reid
- Underwear bomber
- Necessary checkpoints at airports to screen passengers and baggage
- Kenyan mall massacre
- Mumbai India massacre
- Fatwa on celebrated writer Salman Rushdie
- Fatwa on Danish cartoonists
- Threats against South Park TV show
- Murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh
- Beheading of captives like journalist Daniel Pearl and others
- 100,000+ dead in Syria - 1,000 dead from poison gas
- 1988 poison gassing of Kurds of Halabja Iraq by Sadaam Hussein
- 1998 bombing of two US embassies in Africa...
BTW Mr. Bad, have you read the news? The US nabbed your pal Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai - accused mastermind of the Al Qaeda 1998 bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa, which killed 224 people.
Why do you treat Mr. Leonhardt so respectfully when he speaks so cavalierly about the facts? In what possible way are we trending toward overextending government outlays in our society, save for a perspective that views taxes as exclusively bad and government policy as a tool for extending the wealth of the wealthy? How are current policies a movement towards Socialism, save in the nightmares of the far right?
Aside from his overgeneralization about the failure of socialist economies, without the slightest nod toward the modified capitalist socialisms of several very successful European economies, he made a special point at one, later juncture about the burden of taxation on American corporations. What about the burden shouldered by American free enterprise in the provision of health insurance to its workers. No European corporations are taxed in this fashion. (This is probably also true for their Asian counterparts.) Every overseas U.S. competitor starts out without the overhead of healthcare.
If we had a national health insurance plan -- i.e., SINGLE PAYER -- American business could compete on a more level playing field.
Where is Mr. Leonhardt on this? When is a tithe (i.e., health insurance) not a tax?
Your greatest failing, Brian, is your graciousness to your colleagues in journalism, especially from the big players like the NY Times. You gave him a free ride here.
@ Martin Chuzzlewit from Manhattan
You made the same dumb joke in this thread, only it was my mother not my grandmother:
Your wit is so fresh and cutting, is JIDF recruiting from the Catskills circuit now?
Take my wife please... what a charlatan you are and for who's benefit? Everyone knows you're a fraud. Just hang it up old man, time has left you a musty brain. Better call your nephew and ask him what the hip new put down is, amiright?
@Mr. Bad-
Aren't YOU having fun with the computer that grandma got you for your birthday!!!
Which dictatorships?
The overthrow of the democratically elected presidents of: Guatemala, Iran, Chile, Congo to name a few, and the support of the murderous dictators installed in their place with the support of the US:
The Shah, Pinochet and Mobutu.
Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and the CIA had an active hand in all those atrocities, while the regimes you name got nothing of the sort from the left. Nothing but your accusations of insufficient criticism.
Your mention of Iran is particularly hilarious, as the CIA itself admitted to overthrowing Mosadegh and installing the Shah, which led directly to the present regime.
@ sophia
Edward from Blah blah... is a virulent Islamaphobic Zionista for whom a Taliban is hiding behind every woodpile. He used to try and camouflage it but alas subtlety is not his forte. He is not writing back to you but instead answers to the voices in his head. Do not feed the troll.
Edward from Washington Heights AKA pretentious Hudson Heights:
You seem somewhat behind the times, my friend.
WBAI is almost totally "Out of Business", I think they let go of most of their paid staff and are making do with BBC wannabees, Amy Goodman, and Gary Null.
I wonder what the failure of the "listener-sponsored" business model in the "BAI" context says about the anodyne WNYC? Does anyone know where to find a link to "NYC's" budget-expense-donations documentation?
> When will your American Right denounce their ACTIVE support for dictators all over the world over their disgust with their mass-murder, torture, kidnapping, disappearing, etc.
Which dictatorships?
The Kim family dictatorship?
The Assad family dictatorship?
The 54 year Castro family dictatorship (Fidel to Raul)?
The KGB Putin dictatorship?
The Islamic Regime of Iran theocratic dictatorships?
The Hamas dictatorship?
The Hezbullah dictatorship?
These dictatorships have the backing of your pals on the Left.
Oh. So your idea of "support", is having an actual news program which contains criticisms, as opposed to the Fox "News" idea of continual propaganda of bogeyman.
When will your American Right denounce their ACTIVE support for dictators all over the world over their disgust with their mass-murder, torture, kidnapping, disappearing, etc.
Which host/show/special event on WBAI opposes Hamass, Hezbullah, Islamic Republic of Iran?, Muslim Brotherhood?
Which WBAI program focuses on the Human Rights violations of the Muslim Brotherhood?
WBAI has offered 9/11 conspiracy videos as "premiums" to encourage people to donate to the station.
WBAI presents itself as "progressive" but is in fact and action reactionary.
When will your American Left leave their comrades over their support of Islamism as you claim the American Left left the comrades over their disgust with Stalins pact with Hitler?
Ask them yourself. Of the groups I'm familiar with: MoveOn, Chomsky and WBAI, they don't.
Unless you're conflating not bombing with supporting.
sophia said:
> Why would the progressive left support groups which deny women their rights, and conflate religion and state?
Ask Moveon.org, ISM, ANSWER, SWP (Socialist Workers Party), Noam Chomsky, WBAI.
Why would the progressive left support groups which deny women their rights, and conflate religion and state?
It's the right which shares those beliefs, not the left.
It was also the right which helped create groups like Al Qaeda by funding religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan in the 70's and overthrowing democracy in Iraq in the 50's.
Mr. Bad from NYC said:
"our country of 450 million souls. Waiting with baited breath...."
450 million?
Wow! Socialist statistics.
>> "Like the left recognizes the threat of Islamism?"
> Like the left has realized for a long time, the threat of fundamentalism.
Show us where the left, the "progressive" left, opposes fundamentalism like the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamass, Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbullah, Al Qada, Taliban.
@ geTaylor
You wrote:
"Check you oxygen flow - I never said you were a Stalinist.
You are, however, undoubtedly a collectivist -
as are the Nazis and the Socialists."
As are those who believe in a Democratic Republic where the majority exerts political control over the government through a series of elections and the rights of individuals and minorities are respected with reference to a code of founding principles collectively enacted that "constitutes" the primary law from which the power to enact all other laws is derived.
So I guess I'm a collectivist. I suppose you are a Monarchist then, Anarchist, Corporate funded libertarian? Is it divinely inspired, the survival of the fittest where the strong rule the weak... etc. What is the name for your "individualist" political vision for the rule of our country of 450 million souls. Waiting with baited breath....
"Like the left recognizes the threat of Islamism?"
Like the left has realized for a long time, the threat of fundamentalism.
"Where did those who "left the party go?"
Some of them continued to work on political issues like anti-racism, some probably withdrew into private life.
"What about the Soviet communists did they leave the party too?"
If you mean the people living in Russia, that was hardly an option, as is not the case with socialists in modern day countries with socialist elements. So what's your point?
sophia said:
> I'm not sure why you're repeating my points as though you were arguing against them.
> The American right wanted to leave the Nazis to go on their merry way, while the American left recognized it's threat.
Like the Left recognizes the threat of Islamism?
I'm not sure why you're repeating my points as though you were arguing against them.
The American right wanted to leave the Nazis to go on their merry way, while the American left recognized it's threat.
sophia said:
> 1)That was the point at which many American Communists who believed in Internationalism, unlike Stalin, left the party; unlike the American Right, which retained affection for Germany until Pearl Harbor.
Stal;in retained his affection for Germany until Germany invaded Russia.
Where did those who "left the party" go? What about the Soviet Communists? Did they "leave the party" too?
My bad -
I forgot to post the link http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/
This might be more appropriate for the "government by data management" thread from last Friday, but the collectivist thought exposed has relevance for the instant discussion.
"Obamacare's Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are"
"A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare's federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. . . "Healthcare.gov was initially going to include an option to browse before registering," report Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal. "But that tool was delayed, people familiar with the situation said." Why was it delayed? "An HHS spokeswoman said the agency wanted to ensure that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies." (Emphasis added.) . . ."
(A case of having to sign up for your plan before you find out what's in it)
The War which the right did it's best to stay out of, and the Germany it either sympathized with or wanted to stay neutral of until it got too embarrassing.
The FAKE "anti-war", isolationists wanted the US to stay out of the War, to benefit National Socialist Germany.
To set the record straight, the US declared War on Imperial Japan on December 7/8 in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Four days later, December 11, National Socialist Germany declared War on the US - first. The US reciprocated by declaring War on National Socialist Germany.
If National Socialist Germany did not declare war on the US, the US would have stayed out of the War longer - which would have given National Socialist Germany time to dig in and tighten its grip.
No honor among dictators certainly.
It was the pact itself which was considered a betrayal by people who had supported Communist Russia prior to the pact.
Again, Soviet Communism is not modern socialism, no matter how much easier that would make it for you.
The Great Betrayal?
Soviet Socialist Stalin was OK with his pact with his National Socialist comrades until Hitler sneakily broke the pact and invaded Russia.
Stalin was OK with Hitler until Hitler invaded Russia in 1941.
BOTH invaded Poland.
No honor among socialist thieves?
Although I covered this in my previous post:
1)That was the point at which many American Communists who believed in Internationalism, unlike Stalin, left the party; unlike the American Right, which retained affection for Germany until Pearl Harbor.
That would also be the war that the Socialists signed a treaty with the Nazis to enable both of their early depredations against Poland?
Mr. Bad from NYC
@ geTaylor
"Oh yes I'm a secret Stalinist. . ."
Check you oxygen flow - I never said you were a Stalinist.
You are, however, undoubtedly a collectivist -
as are the Nazis and the Socialists.
"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny.
Free men pull in all kinds of directions."
"how would I distinguish it from Socialism"
Maybe by the fact that the wealthy and corporations were fairly likely to side with Nazism, while being completely opposed to Communism?
"Oh, your right Germany lost the Second World War."
The War which the right did it's best to stay out of, and the Germany it either sympathized with or wanted to stay neutral of until it got too embarrassing.
@ geTaylor
Oh yes I'm a secret Stalinist. Once again you cut me to the core... I defer to your inimitable wit, as always.
1) The point of Nazism was the Nationalism: Race; which was what distinguished it form the point of Internationalist Socialism: The Worker in any country.
2)Corporations love China, that's how Communist it hasn't been for, oh, a couple of generations. No safety net, no regulations. More a feudal system which is what corporations love and are working toward in this country with the help of the ignorant Tea-Party crowd.
The Nordic countries are hardly closed, and the if we can't find common grounds on basic needs because of race, maybe that we should work on combating the racism, instead of using it as an excuse.
3)The non-aggression pact with Germany, was considered to be a great betrayal, and the reason most American Communists left the Party.
4) Communism does not equal modern socialism, as should be obvious to any but the willfully ignorant.
Mr. Bad from NYC:
Walter Duranty, a New York Times reporter from that era would definitely back you up.
Nazism rejected Marxism outright (the foundation or socialism) and instead substituted a dictatorship (political organization) under-girded by the NAZI racial/political ideology based on the Volk (people/state) struggle against their traditional political enemies. It has nothing to do with socialism as you or anyone else defines it.
@ Edward
All your labels are irrelevant and demonstrate a painful ignorance of history. NAZI Germany became a dictatorship under Adolph Hitler shortly after he came to power as chancellor in 1933. (Enabling Act). Nazi Germany was NOT a socialist county, "Socialist" had a different meaning in Europe and still does. The massive public works projects and economic reforms Hitler introduced were much more akin to the FDR era New Deal/social welfare programs than the communist USSR command economy.
"Nazism, or National Socialism in full (German: Nationalsozialismus), is the ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party and state . . . "
How would I distinguish it from the socialism practiced by its contemporary -
the Soviet Union under Stalin?
Oh your right, Germany lost the Second World War.
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> 1) National Socialism is Extreme Right, as was universally acknowledged up until Lucianne Goldberg's idiot son decided to create new mythology for the right.
Nazi Germany called itself National SOCIALIST Germany back in the 1930's - NOT 2013.
> 2) The way the right proclaims any failing country "socialist" while leaving out the most socialist and successful countries of the Nordic region is further proof of it's willful ignorance.
How Multi-Cultural is the "Nordic" region, or China for that matter? Socialism may work in a closed society with common values.
For all the proponents of the glories of Socialism, don't sweep the 1939 National Socialist and Soviet Socialist AKA Hitler/Stalin non-aggression pact under the rug - and their invasion of Poland.
1) National Socialism is Extreme Right, as was universally acknowledged up until Lucianne Goldberg's idiot son decided to create new mythology for the right.
2) The way the right proclaims any failing country "socialist" while leaving out the most socialist and successful countries of the Nordic region is further proof of it's willful ignorance.
The greatest example of the evils of socialism is
national socialist germany.
The concept of wise government authority progressively jump-starting, guiding, restraining, and growing economic enterprise to the efficient benefit of all citizens is well proven in the cybernetic revolution of the past 30 years. Wasn't it government policies that created and grew Apple Computer and the Internet's World Wide Web? Haven't government rules and regulations delivered the "first in history" National Healthcare Insurance Exchanges?
Isn't the NSA even now developing the databases that will be required for the socially safe networks of the future?
Socialism IS a failure. Look at Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Venezuela, the imminent collapse of the EU.
@ MorganPaar
"Socialist". You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. All those countries have market based economies, if a market sets prices (as opposed to command economy where govt. does) it is not a socialist economy by definition.
If the Minimum Wage was raised to $20 per hour, Inflation would skyrocket.
The market would be able to bear higher prices across the board.
Ugh. So many interesting callers just got brushed aside in the sake of time... How can a guest be allowed to get away with such a myopic statement..."socialism failed." Both systems have to be unpacked...
On second thought what we have isn't capitalism anyway. it's is a feudalism.
Socialism has failed? That will be big news to China, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium and many other Socialist economies.
Bring jobs BACK to the US.
Incentivize companies to bring jobs BACK to the US with Tax breaks. End offshoring of jobs.
The US should end all importation of oil from OPEC and go 100% with domestic oil production. That will result in job creation, end the outflow of dollars for overpriced OPEC oil.
Simple economic plan:
1.) Cut military spending drastically.
2.) Introduce mandatory paid youth service (1 yr), offer alternate job service programs for those who don't want to serve in the military.
3.) Introduce single payer health insurance, raise limit on payroll taxes to ensure SSI is safe for next 100 years.
4.) Heavily tax the finance industry. I repeat heavily tax all financial transactions outside of individual retirement accounts.
5.) Incentive employer training/hiring through tax incentives. Don't hire the trainees? No tax break.
6. Raise Federal minimum wage to $10.00/hr.
Stand back and watch economy hit 5% GDP growth + annually.
Socialism has been great for Scandinavia. It works in Germany auch
If the minimum wage were raised to $20, there wouldn't be a job left in the US to go to.
Imagine if we raised minimum wage so high (maybe $20/hour) what savings we'd enjoy? We'd no longer have to subsidize so many lives in so many ways. No food stamps, no subsidized housing, on and on. And what pride we'd all have that we could take care of ourselves and not depend on government and charity. What a world!
Can anyone explain why the computers at the Census Bureau
are not able to return EXISTING webpages that contain information that people are looking for...
but are still able to say :
"Due to the lapse in government funding, census.gov sites, services, and all online survey collection requests will be unavailable until further notice.
Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at
Websites affected by this shutdown are all census.gov hosted websites, including:
American Factfinder
Public API
FTP Servers
Online Surveys
Federal Statistical Organization websites: FCSM, FedStats and MapStats
The computers ARE up to provide this notice but PREVENTED from returning existing information.
I wish obstructionist Obama and Reid and Pelosi went on notice that they are on furlough too. The country would start to recover.
Unfortunately, Leonhardt toes the Pete Peterson / corporate-crat line of the NYT.
He neglects to mention his own & the NYT's acceptance & promotion of the GOP line as the only conversation worth having.
Another guest fails to allow consideration of outside-DC real life arguments.
The Rs are not any more sincerely interested in "the size of govt", than the Rs on the Supreme Court are in state sovereignty or Originalism.
Those phrases are simply covers for shoveling the money to where they want it to go: the wealthy and their corporations.
How do we get companies to change? By prohibiting their bad behavior.
There are numerous examples whereby the IRS has allowed companies to move their property overseas (like patents, profits, and other treasure) without adequately compensating the US taxpayers.
You then end up with insane examples -- Apple running ads saying "Designed by Apple in California" -- when Apple has actually moved their patents into a post office box in Ireland, where they design nothing, but which ends up making the money from the royalties on those designs and patents.
The US can stop this leeching of capital if they simply give the IRS more teeth. Many of these transfers of profits to overseas divisions are approved by the IRS. And when the Republicans manufacture fake IRS scandals on behalf of their corporate overlords, these faux scandals should not be covered by the media, or should be covered for what they are -- a robbery of the American people.
If the GOP really were sincere about the size of government.....then why didn't they fight GW Bush when he exploded the size of government with Medicare D and the huge new bureaucracy of Homeland Security Department?
Then again, maybe the GOP just hates Obama.
Pretty much says it all:
"The GOP's Backdoor Impeachment Scheme--
Republicans have lost at the ballot box and the Supreme Court, so they've decided to nullify President Obama another way: keep his government from working, period."
What a dope. The Stimulus plan was a.) too small and b.) a targeted union handout. Public sector unions (whatever the very irresponsible and unforgivable mismanagement of their pension funds)are a huge drag on growth owing to the unending tax obligations levied on state and local taxpayers.
The QE Obama has overseen has done nothing but line the pockets of bankers and increase hot money flows. Both parties have disastrously mismanaged the countries finances and so-called conservatives have come close to outspending old school democrats so there is no one who can possibly claim to be fiscally responsible.
Education is a dead end. Education does not create jobs, education does not increase employ-ability, entrepreneurial projects or level the playing field. It's a historical fact that only the educable (i.e. the middle class) actually benefit by education. The middle class is being destroyed in this country and education will not reboot it absent GENUINE middle class job growth which is tied entirely to misplaced government priorities.
We can never get fully invested into the jobs crisis or creation, because these fools in congress, keep focusing on The Affordable Health Care Act.
Stop sending money to the 1% via "investment" scams in highly touted high tech (e.g., Solyndra Solar Power); it's time to provide sustenance, industry, and wealth to the 99%:
"Cockroach farms multiplying in China" (like cockroaches)
Leonhardt presumes that our govt. "needs to shrink", because of promises made, implying that the problem is social insurance, rather than that taxes need to be raised, or that the part of govt that needs to shrink is the only part where our spending is out of scale with the rest of the world: the military.
I guess this is what passes for objectivity for a DC reporter.
Is it true in red red state Utah the federal government is the largest employer?
Which other states are on large doses of state socialism?
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Some groundbreaking research has just come to surface regarding the eating of fat and how it affects your body clock, I do know myself that not getting enough sleep can have an effect on your appetite and how much food you eat overall.
The Research
The findings down this study found that if a high fat diet is consumed it can interfere with your normal eating and sleeping habits also, the study was conducted at Northwestern University .
One of the researchers was quoted as saying that it can be a "matter of days before the effect starts to happen " said lead researcher Joe Bass.
The study was done on two sets of lab rats which were kept in total darkness throughout the test phase of the study, this was to ensure that the rats internal clock didn't know what time it was, so they would be unsure as when to eat.
The first set of rats was kept on a normal healthy diet while the second set was given a high fat diet in order to see what actual differences there would be.
What tends to happen is the body's internal clock which is called the circadian clock, this tends to regulate when we eat sleep and become awake, other studies have shown that when this pattern is disrupted through lack of sleep etc this can in itself cause obesity and diabetes as well.
What they found from the study was that the mice that were eating the high fat diet, start to eat at the wrong times and the rest also at inappropriate times this started to happen over a period of two weeks.
One of the researchers was quoted as saying that, if you give a predominantly high-fat diet to a mouse they will tend to eat more food overtime.
This to me does explain quite a few things actually this about how eating fat can tend to make you feel more hungry, also as well as this fat is known to have addictive qualities.
Which affect the neurotransmitters in your brain similar to how drugs work so this does explain how easily it is to become addicted to a high fat diet very easily.
However though you do need some fat in your diet otherwise this can lead to depression but it all needs to be in moderation. This is a very interesting concept indeed about fat something that I have never come across before.
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Black Line on my NEW Pikachu 3DS XL :( UPDATE!
PeteZaHutx posted...
90sRetroGaming posted...PeteZaHutx posted...Excess-Fat posted...Neo1661 posted...
I feel kind of sorry for him. A person who believes that people should be okay with a new product that is sent to them no matter what condition it's in must get ripped off a lot.
I am not an early adopter. If your system is as awesome as you say it is, it will still be in stores when the games I want are out.
Called Nintendo repair and said I have 15 days (this Friday) to return the defective item back to Walmart, so they chose UPS Blue shipping (2 day overnight) instead of the usual UPS Ground 4-10 business days) and gave me a tracking number.
I input it on the website and notice it's going to Ohio instead of my actual state and the weight is 8 pounds, when the device, at most, is at or under 2 pounds! Makes no sense. I was hoping to get it back by Wednesday, per the tracking information, but now I don't know.
Can it get any worse than this?
Game Grabs, Trailers, and Pickups!
Gave me the wrong tracking number (obviously), so waiting on the correct one. Here's hoping it was shipped today or yesterday to arrive on time. :\
Game Grabs, Trailers, and Pickups!
Excess-Fat posted...
What I don't understand is why people feel the need to be compensated for every little thing, when you spend money on a product it's not always going to be "like new", after a while the products bound to suffer from a little natural ware n' tare.
Excess fat to the brain indeed.
Steam: Spacerik | PSN: Spacemooncow | Wii U: the-fiend | 3DS: 4296 - 2991 - 9745 | Battle.net: RoboWalrus
alphame4 posted...
Why, thanks for the compliment ^ ^.
Currently Playing: Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, MegaMan ZX, Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded.
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Sent me the correct tracking number this time. Ups red, overnight, so I should receive it tomorrow sometime. Also getting the one I bought on Amazon too
Game Grabs, Trailers, and Pickups!
The number of people that care about your black line is less than the number of black lines your screen has.
sirtonne posted...
This topic is so stupid I had to slap my wife.
_Candice_ posted...
Excess-Fat posted...What I don't understand is why people feel the need to be compensated for every little thing, when you spend money on a product it's not always going to be "like new", after a while the products bound to suffer from a little natural ware n' tare.
You know it's odd. In his own topic he started blindly attacking people and labeling them as the "defense force" if they were on Nintendo's side just for saying Pokemon graphics were decent. In here, it's the opposite. It's like I entered the twilight zone. I'm now expecting Endgame to show up and tell us how he got a Vanillite tattoo on his chest.
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Within the Agency, CAAs are conducted in the Design for the Environment partnership program. DfE applies this methodology to EPA priority chemicals, characterizing hazard based on a full range of human health and environmental information, including primary data sources and expert predictive models. Examples of CAAs completed by DfE include studies on flame retardants in furniture and printed circuit boards. DFE is currently performing CAAs for bisphenol A alternatives in thermal paper, the flame retardant chemical decabromodiphenylether, hexabromocyclododecane in expandable and extruded polystyrene foam for insulation, and nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants.[41, 144, 149-151]
The outcome of a CAA provides industry and other stakeholders with information they need to choose safer chemicals and minimize the potential for unintended impacts, such as those that result from switching to a poorly understood (and potentially more hazardous) substitute. CAAs do not themselves specify a favored alternative. For some substitution challenges, the outcome of a CAA can provide a full basis for chemical selection. In other cases, CAAs are used in policymaking in conjunction with other economic and environmental assessments.
Where can I find more about Chemical Alternatives Assessment?
- EPA's Design for the Environment Program website provides further information on CAA, including completed and ongoing analyses.
- DfE staff, in collaboration with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and industry, published a feature article in Environmental Science and Technology on DfE's approach to CAA .
- The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production's "Alternatives Assessment Framework (PDF)" (24 pp, 381K) describes the Center's approach to CAA.
- Clean Production Action's GreenScreen™ for Safer Chemicals is a free, fully transparent and publicly accessible tool for identifying substances that are inherently less hazardous for humans and the environment.
- The BizNGO Working Group for Safer Chemicals and Sustainable Materials is developing a Chemical Alternatives Assessment Protocol as a primer for businesses and other practitioners of CAAs.
- Washington State Department of Ecology is developing guidance on alternatives assessments for businesses. For more information, please visit their website.
- Washington State Department of Ecology's Alternatives Assessment for decabromodiphenylether in Televisions and Computers and Residential Upholstered Furniture is available online.
Illustrative Example of an Approach using Chemical Alternative Assessment
- EPA Design for the Environment
Source: EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention [257]
Suite of sustainability tools: chemical alternative assessment; green chemistry; collaborative problem-solving; life-cycle assessment; risk assessment
EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) Partnership Program helps consumers, businesses, and institutional buyers identify products that perform well and are cost-effective, but are safer for human health and the environment. [257] This program promotes sustainability by working with small businesses and consumers to identify risks involved with chemicals used in products or manufacturing processes. Chemical Alternatives Assessment is a key analytic tool for the implementation of DfE. It is a tool for evaluating chemicals of potential concern by comparing alternative chemicals within the same functional-use group across a consistent and comprehensive set of hazard endpoints. Other analytic tools that are instrumental for the conduct of this program include risk assessment and life-cycle assessment. Through the DfE, EPA collaborates with industry, environmental groups and universities to decrease health and environmental risk by encouraging green design and reformulation of a wide range of products while maintaining their effectiveness. As more consumers seek sustainable products that are designed to have minimal impact on the environment and their health, an environmental "seal of approval" could help consumers select products that match their values.[258]
DfE offers that "seal of approval" by awarding use of the logo on products that meet environmental design criteria. The logo assures consumers that the DfE scientific review team has screened each ingredient for potential human health and environmental effects and that—based on currently available information, EPA predictive models, and expert judgment—the product contains only those ingredients that pose the least concern among chemicals in their class. Products are also expected to meet effectiveness criteria, i.e., glass cleaners must meet criteria for effective glass cleaning. To obtain the DfE recognition, ingredients in the formulation must be publically disclosed (with the exception of specific allowances for trade secret ingredients). EPA also offers the DfE label to partnering companies that design or reformulate high-performance and cost-effective products using the safest ingredients.[258]
The screening process (PDF) (43 pp, 726K) for the DfE logo is detailed and comprehensive. DfE scrutinizes ingredients, starting with known toxicity information and performing an inherent property analysis when toxicity information is not available. With inherent property analysis, scientists estimate toxicity for a chemical ingredient without toxicity information using available toxicity information for a chemical with similar structure. Strong structural similarities to a chemical with high environmental or health toxicity would be a flag for concern.
DfE sets specific standards for chemicals of known toxicity. For example, DfE will not recognize products that contain any pollutants on the Hazardous Air Pollutants list. Furthermore, DfE will not recognize products that contain chemicals on the EPA Toxics Release Inventory chemical list unless they meet stringent DfE criteria.
This program fosters sustainability in a cost-effective way that benefits companies, consumers, and environmental and public health. Through such partnerships and education, EPA is helping businesses and consumers select safer chemicals and technologies, thereby reducing the number of potentially hazardous chemicals in use.


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I'm happy to discuss the Nantucket Island 33, being the proud owner of one since July 08'. We found the boat in Annapolis MD, and subsquesntly made numerous trips to repair and refurbish a boat that's well worth the effort/expence!
We eventually got launched in May of this year, and cruised the boat back home to NS Canada via the intercostal waterway and Gulf of Maine. This is a short trip compared to it's previous travels, as it has been from England through French canals to Paris and the Med, to the Greek Islands eventually doing a transatlantic crossing to the Carribean, up the eastern seaboard and inland to Lake Ontario. As if this wern't enough, it was then trucked to a lake in Texas, found it's way to the Gulf Coast, and around to the Chesapeak where we found it.
Mentioning it's history will pehaps give you an idea of how good a cruising design this 33" boat is. While not extremely close-winded,it sails very well off the wind with an easy, sea-kindly motion.
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With the anticipated release of the Razer Mako loudspeakers, we have a look at Razer's Barracuda AC-1 audio card, and compare it to two other common audio solutions. The Barracuda AC-1 boasts an impressive feature set, and its audio chipset has an excellent reputation for sound quality. Will it be a fitting partner for the new Mako speakers?
In any sound card purchase you make, the final judge will be your ears. I'll confess – the Razer Barracuda AC-1 is a product ('reviewable') I've been sitting on for quite a while – several weeks, at least. During that time, I've had an opportunity to hit it with everything from a Ben Folds DVD-Audio to full-on hardcore rock, and even some gaming. No matter what I threw at the Barracuda AC-1, it performed admirably in every case.
Ben Folds Songs for Silverman DVD-Audio
This album exemplifies Ben Folds' lush-yet-percussive piano style, merging it with rhythm elements and warm vocals. The Barracuda AC-1 remained free of hash throughout the loudest crescendos, and delivered the most subtle detail of the cello on "Gracieâ€. In addition, bass was tight and well-defined, but without the boomy ringing effect that some mistakenly identify as "slamâ€. This is an engaging recording, and the Barracuda AC-1 doesn't disappoint.
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Listening to the powerful, fast-moving second track "Starsâ€, and the slower track "Happy Is A Yuppie Wordâ€, I noticed a clearer and better-defined edge on the lead singer's voice, though overall the presentation didn't strike me as particularly transparent. Perhaps that's because rock music in general is heavily compressed anyway. Ben Folds' Songs for Silverman was more transparent and open than this recording, even in DVD-Audio format.
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To test this card's abilities in a gaming scenario, I threw in Just Cause for a few minutes of shootin-em-up. I decided this would be a good time to test the card's Dolby Headphone DSP, to see if it lent new depth to the game's positional audio. The Barracuda AC-1 handled the game well, locating the origin of gunshots and explosions accurately, while delivering plenty of low-end power to add authority and definitude to the sound of exploding vehicles.
These are only three examples of the various ways I've had a chance to put the Barracuda AC-1's performance to the test. I also had the opportunity to test the AC-1 with the matching HP-1 headphones, and found that the combination provided a convincing surround sound experience though I wasn't particularly impressed with the HP-1's cupped midrange. What did impress me about the AC-1/HP-1 duo was the big, bad bass that the HP-1s were able to achieve. Even my fairly inefficient Sony in-ears could be driven to uncomfortable levels, thanks to this card's massive +/-5V output capability. I was thoroughly pleased with the overall sonic experience of the Razer Barracuda AC-1 audio card.


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Mundus and Airstar CamCopter Aerial Photography Releases New Details on UAV Division Including Arnold Schwarzenegger's Action Footage and George Lucas's Light Magic
Following its plan to maximize the commercial technological potential of its patented state of the art VTOL UAV Drone technology, The Company has formed the Aerial Photography division to serve lucrative commercial markets including:
- Movie Industry
- Eye Witness News coverage
- Commercials
- Music Videos
- Residential Real Estate
- Industrial Real Estate
- Commercial Real Estate
- Resorts
- Weddings
- Websites
- Infomercials for City Planners and Investors
- Special Events
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Mundus and AirStar builds the world's most high tech, hi performance UAV drones for civilian and government uses and educates and trains operators to become flight control experts who are confident and able to maintain, operate and execute specific tasks and demonstrate remote controlled
performance ranging from simple aerial photography to extreme RC aerial acrobatics which are the foundations necessary to be able to contract their services to specific areas of business anywhere in the world.
Mundus and Airstar have a series of new and exciting events they look to unveil to the market.
About Airstar: Airstar International, Inc. (AirStar) began in 1988 with the design and manufacturing of cutting edge remote controlled UAV helicopters for the US Navy, US Army and Northrop Grumman. AirStar's amazing aerial photography achieved world notoriety in Hollywood's Movie industry with Schwarzenegger and
AirStar has been an innovator and world leader in Unmanned Air Vehicles and Remote Controlled Vertical Take Off and Landing technology for over 20 years in the design, engineering, development, production and sales of cutting edge remote controlled (RC) unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for international government and civilian surveillance services, US military, fire and rescue departments as well as aerial photography and laboratory / product data testing.
About Mundus Group:
Mundus is a growing diversified holding company comprised of subsidiaries within complimentary industry segments. From State of the Art, RC Remote Controlled Unmanned UAV Air Vehicles for aerial camera movie production and environmental testing to advanced VTOL aerospace technology for civilian and military uses, Mundus Group, Inc. is developing broad product and service offerings to provide economic protection and growth opportunities for investors. At its core the Mundus Group is an aerospace Technologies Consortium providing patented UAV VTOL technology fusing Computer assisted auto flight and composite technologies.
Air Drone, is a new company dedicated to the cutting edge of VTOL UAVs. Air Drone's parent company, the Mundus Group announced the strategic partnership with Airstar co-developer will be co-building the next generation of UAV s under the Mundus Group's new divisions, Air Drone Inc and as a dedicated aerial surveillance system and service provider for military and government agencies.
Pictured at http://www.airdroneinc.com/surveillance.htm show AirStar RAI co developed, built and flight tested UAV. This UAV was Air Drone's first prototype and was completed while engaged in a 3 year CRADA, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the US NAVY at Point Mugu Naval Air base,
As a Parent Holding company, Mundus Group functions from the perspective of a design-engineering firm. This is the nucleolus that directs what acquisitions are made and creates strategic alliances, develops proprietary technology and patents that bring the expertise and create the real value for the Mundus Group. The Company expects to retain the strong management teams in each business unit, capitalizing on their local knowledge of competitors and operating climate, along with their loyal customer relationships.
This press release contains statements, which may constitute 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important factors currently known to management that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-statements include fluctuation of operating results, the ability to compete successfully and the ability to complete before-mentioned transactions. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results.
Mundus Group, Inc. Josef Obermeier, President Phone: 1-805-416-5030 email@example.com www.mundusgroupinc.com
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