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With intensive research and development work in biotechnology and life sciences, the chemicals + pharmaceuticals sector is a major stimulus for growth and development in Dresden. However, the pharma industry was the seed from which these sectors grew. In 1874, Friedrich von Heyden laid the foundations of the modern pharmaceutical industry through the technical synthesis of salicylic acid, and the chemical laboratories established by the industrialist Karl August Lingner in 1911 gave birth to the Sächsisches Serumwerk Dresden and the Institute for Bacteriotherapy. The focus of this dynamic young life sciences und biotechnology cluster is on molecular bioengineering, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and stem cell research. The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, the Max Bergmann Centre of Biomaterials, the DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden and the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden in combination with networks such as biosaxony e. V. provide an extremely effective research framework in these sectors.
Dresden is a synonym for technology + innovation: microelectronics, information and communications technology, nanotechnology and new materials as well as photovoltaics are sectors in which the city on the River Elbe excels. With 1,200 companies and more than 40,000 employees, Dresden is Europe's No.1 location for microelectronics. Businesses based here reflect every step of the microelectronics value added chain: from chip design to wafer production and processing to a broad range of subcontracting, service and application industries. Companies operating in the cluster are organised in networks such as Silicon Saxony e. V., Europe's largest corporate network in the semiconductor and microsystems industry and profit from a well-developed research infrastructure. As well as the facilities of the TU Dresden, many other institutes of the Fraunhofer and Leibniz Societies are working on pioneering solutions for energy saving microelectronics, organic light emitting diodes and so-called roll-to-roll process in photovoltaic cells.
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Not trying to compete against vais one bit, just providing more reading material as we gear up for 2013-14.
So, below are my...
Jesse Delgado - Illinois JR
Nico Megaludis – PSU JR
Nahshon Garrett – Cornell SO
Jarrod Patterson – Oklahoma SR
Anthony Zanetta – Pitt SR
Nathan Kraisser – UNC SO
David Thorn – Minnesota SR
Corey Clark –Iowa FR
Jesse Delgado is my top guy, followed closely by Nico Megaludis and Nahshon Garrett, in a weight class that, I believe, will be stronger overall than last year. Gone are 2 AA's (Sprenkle and Garnett) and a couple more R12 guys, but Patterson, Zanetta and Clark are all coming off redshirt, and the guys that are back should all be one year better. Nahshon, as a freshman, really shone under the bright lights in Des Moines, and we all know Nico can be a grinder against the top competition. Patterson (7th in2011) and Zanetta are veterans that should AA. Kraisser is a youngster coming off an outstanding freshman year, followed by David Thorn. If Thorn has trouble with his weight look for Cox (who I have at #9) to move into the top 8. My darkhorse is Corey Clark. With wins last year over Delgado, Sprenkle, and Patterson, he's a good one that should AA his1st year and do better than my predicted 8th, but will probably lose some head-scratchers along the way in his first season of eligibility. Cox, Parisi, Martinez and Boyle round out the top-12.
Tony Ramos – Iowa SR
Tyler Graff – Wisconsin SR
Ryan Mango – Stanford SR
AJ Schopp – Edinboro JR
Jonathon Morrison – Oklahoma St JR
Chris Dardanes – Minnesota JR
Mason Beckman – Lehigh SO
Jimmy Gulibon– PSU FR
Logan Stieber is moving to 141, and only one other AA (McCormick) has graduated. Sentes (R12) has moved on also, but this weight class is very strong, with 9 of 12 returning, and Grey, Beckman, and Gulibon joining the fray. Tony Ramos and Tyler Graff are VERY close, and appear to be the cream of this weight class. Not everyone thinks so, but I do. Tyler wrestles a defensive style and backs up ALOT, so he's very frustrating to wrestle, but don't mistake for a second his talent. I'll go with Tony on the strength of his win over Tyler at NCAA's. Mango is 3rd coming off a RS year, having already earned a 5th and 6th place NCAA finish in his career. He may challenge for the top spot, he's that good. Schopp, Morrison and Dardanes are very close, so I'm going with their NCAA finish. Moving in front of AA Cody Brewer are Mason Beckman, and Jimmy Gulibon, 2 guys coming off RS that WILL make some noise this year. Don't be surprised if either of them do better than I suggest. My R12 guys are Brewer, Grey, Wolfensberger, and DiCamillo. This class, like 125, looks stronger than last year overall, despite losing Logan Stieber.
Logan Stieber – Ohio St JR
Mitchell Port – Edinboro JR
Undrakhbayer Khishignyam – The Citadel SO
Devin Carter – Va Tech SR
Mike Nevinger – Cornell SR
Evan Henderson – UNC JR
Nick Dardanes – Minnesota JR
Richard Durso– Franklin & Marshall JR
None of last year's AA's are gone, and with Stieber moving up, this will be a brutal weight class. I would love to see Stieber wrestle Maple, but it appears Kendric is moving to 149 at the same time Logan is moving to 141. Port ended 2nd last year, on the strength of a win in the semi's over Hunter Stieber at NCAA's. He's my pick for #2 again. Khishignyam is the real deal and will improve from his freshman season, so he's a solid 3rd, and will challenge Port for 2nd. Insert Devin Carter 4th, a 5th Place NCAA finisher in 2012. Nevinger beat Henderson at NCAA's, so he gets #5, with Henderson #6, followed by Dardanes, and Durso. Durso, from Franklin & Marshall, was a crowd favorite at NCAA's in Des Moines, finishing R12 in his sophomore season. Would love to see the guy AA in 2014!! Wrapping up my R12 are Lazor, Cobb, Tsirtsis, and Thielke. This is a talented group that could all end up as AA's. For the 3rd weight class in a row, it looks to be stronger than last year.
Kendric Maple – Oklahoma SR
Dylan Ness – Minnesota JR
Scott Sakaguchi – Oregon St SR
Drake Houdashelt – Missouri JR
Nick Brascetta –Va Tech JR
Andrew Alton – PSU JR
Destin McCauley – Nebraska FR
Eric Grajales– Michigan SR
The top 3 finishers (Oliver, Chamberlain, Santos) from last year are gone,along with another AA (Lopouchanski) and one from the R12. Still, with Maple rumored to be moving up, this weight class will be strong again. Kendric gets the nod over the ever-dangerous Dylan Ness. Sakaguchi's win over Houdashelt at NCAA's earns him #3. Andrew Alton, after a frustrating 2012-13 should be back to form, and could and should do better than 6th,but I'm placing him there as Brascetta earned AA (8th) in 2013. Destin McCauley will finally hit the mats, but is not an unknown, he's one that I expect will do very well. Rounding out the top-8 is Eric Grajales, looking to AA in his senior season. The next 4 (R12) are Tao, Kindig, Habat, and Paddock.This weight class looks to be about even with last year as far as talent.
Derek St. John – Iowa SR
Alex Dieringer – Oklahoma St SO
James Green – Nebraska JR
Dylan Alton – PSU JR
RJ Pena – Oregon St SR
Zach Neibert – Va Tech SR
Josh Demas – Ohio St JR
Ian Miller – Kent St SO
Four (Welch, Bonin, Moore, Fleming) of the top 8, and 6 of the top 12 are gone, so this weight class opens up a little. DSJ gets the #1 nod, but watch out for Dieringer. He only lost 3-2 TB2 to DSJ in the semi's last year, and should improve in his 2nd season. I really like James Green and DylanAlton, and would not be surprised to see either standing at the top of the podium in 2014. Rounding out my top 8 are Pena, Neibert, Demas, and Miller,with Napoli, Zilverburg, Taffur, and McCulley, as R12. It looks like Pena is at the top of this group, though he lost to Demas in the 1st Round of NCAA's in Des Moines. Solid weight class, but not spectacular, less talent than last year overall.
David Taylor – PSU SR
Tyler Caldwell – Oklahoma St SR
Micheal Moreno – Iowa St JR
Nick Sulzer – Virginia JR
Taylor Massa – Michigan SO
Steve Monk – North Dakota St SR
John Staudenmayer – UNC SO
Josh Veltre –Bloomsburg SR
With 4 (Dake, Yates, Polz, Yohn) of the top 8 moving on, and another R12 guy graduating, this weight class is losing some talent in 2013-14. Taylor is far and away the favorite at 165, with Caldwell head-and-shoulders above the rest. It would not surprise me if David bonused every guy he faces this year, which is a tall order, but within the realm of possible. Look for Moreno, Sulzer, Massa, and Monk to slug it out for 3rd through 6th, as I see them as very close. Some datapoints; earlier in last year's season, Monk beat Sulzer, and Sulzer beat Massa. At NCAA's, Massa beat Monk, and Moreno beat Massa badly. Staudenmayer and Veltre round out the top-8. My R12 wrestlers are Wilps, Moore, Toal, and Wilson. This weight class is a tad weaker than last year.
Andrew Howe – Oklahoma SR
Chris Perry – Oklahoma St SR
Matt Brown – PSU JR
Robert Kokesh – Nebraska JR
Logan Storley – Minnesota JR
Mike Evans – Iowa JR
Cody Walters – Ohio SO
TannerWeatherman – Iowa St SO
This will be a brutal weight class...again!! Blanton and Heflin (moving to 197) are the only AA's gone from last year, and Howe is coming back after a RS. Andrew is my pick for #1, but is not the lock that many think. Durability IMO is a question, and the talent at #2 through #6 makes this possibly the strongest weight class in 2013-14. My Perry through Evans picks mirror their 2012-13 finish, but throw them in a jar and pick them out and your order could be as right as mine. Look for Brown, Kokesh, Storley, and Evans to battle during the regular B1G season, the B1G Tournament, and the NCAA's. Given their familiarity, the bouts are going to be low scoring. Walters (8th Place NCAA finish in 2013) and Weatherman are solid, but right now I have them a notch below the top 6. The R12 for me consists of Mougin, Munster, Yates, and Fausey.
Ed Ruth – PSU SR
Kevin Steinhaus – Minnesota SR
Travis Rutt – Oklahoma SR
Ethan Lofthouse – Iowa SR
Jimmy Sheptock – Maryland SR
Ryan Loder – Northern Iowa SR
Jacob Swartz – Boise St SR
MaxThomusseit – Pitt JR
I have Ed and David Taylor as the closest things to locks this year if both stay healthy. This weight class loses 4 AA's (Hamlin, Bosak, Bennett, Larson) and one other R12, so lots of room for guys to move up and AA. Steinhaus is my #2, despite his 2012-13 non-AA finish. I believe he was injured last year,which affected his performance. The next 4 are very close, but I'm going with Rutt (returning from ORS), then the NCAA finish of the next 3, as Lofthouse beat Sheptock, and Sheptock beat Loder. Could end different imo, they're that close. Lofthouse had a heckuva 2013 NCAA Tournament (seeded 12th,finished 5th), and I believe he's ready for a better 2013-14. Swartz and Thomusseit are #7 and #8. My R12 guys are Beard, Dallago, Rodgers, and Rizqallah. This weight class, overall, is down a little talent-wise from last year.
Taylor Meeks – Oregon St JR
Scott Schiller – Minnesota JR
Kyven Gadsen – Iowa St JR
Blake Rosholt – Oklahoma St SR
Morgan McIntosh – PSU SO
Nathan Burak – Iowa SO
Nick Heflin – Ohio St SR
ChristianBoley – Maryland SR
The top 3 (Wright, Kilgore, Wilps) are gone, as well as another AA (Hernandez),and one other R12, so this class opens up for lots of guys to move up. There is no clear cut #1, so I'm going with the guys that AA'd last year - Meeks,Schiller, Gadson, and Rosholt, as my top 4. It gets interesting after that,with McIntosh coming off RS, and Heflin moving up, all the way from 174. It's my opinion that McIntosh will break into the top-4 by the end of the season. Heaven only knows if the 2 weight class move will affect the very-defensive Heflin, so he's a wildcard that I'm saying will low-AA in his senior season. Burak and Boley were both R12 last year and should benefit from the departures at this weight class. My 9th through 12th guys are Gonzales, Perry, Hein, and Borlie. This weight class is much weaker than last year.
Tony Nelson – Minnesota SR
Nick Gwiazdowski – North Carolina St SO
Mike McMullen – Northwestern JR
Bobby Telford – Iowa JR
Jeremy Johnson – Ohio SR
Mike McClure – Michigan St SR
JT Felix – Boise St SR
Conner Medberry – Wisconsin SO
Lots of talent gone from last year, with the #3 through #8 NCAA finishers (Gelagaev, Bradley, Thomusseit, Trice, Delaney, Gibson) having expired eligibility, along with Hanke (R12). Gwiazdowski is back after a RS season, and will give Nelson all he can handle, IMO. I'm going with them as #1 and #2.McMullen, Telford, Johnson, McClure, Felix and Medberry are my next 6, with only McMullen ending as an AA in 2013. Still, Telford certainly would have been except that a knee injury ended his tournament unexpectedly. Not as much talent overall as last year, but still a solid group. Stolfi, Scherer, Chalfont, and Marsden are my R12. This class, like 197, is much weaker than 2012-13.


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Sag Harbor resident and "Today Show" host Matt Lauer is one step closer to building a horse farm on a 40-acre piece of land off Deerfield Road in Water Mill.
At a meeting last Thursday, May 24, the Southampton Town Planning Board officially closed the public hearing regarding the proposed Edge of Woods Horse Farm, near the intersection of Deerfield and Edge of Woods roads. The board voted to leave a 14-day window for written comments before town planner Claire Vail drafts her final report on the application.
The board is not expected to make its final determination on the application until next month at the earliest.
However, while the process seems to be moving forward, residents who had been vocal in their opposition to the building project had their last say.
"My concern is with the use of an [agricultural] reserve — [for which] the town purchased the development rights — for building a project of this size," said Water Mill resident Kim Covell, whose home is adjacent to the proposed horse farm. "This is something we should think long and hard about."
According to the application, Edge of Woods Horse Farm would include two 34,000 square foot outdoor riding rings, a 23,940 square foot indoor riding ring, as well as a 17,455 square foot barn with space for up to 36 horses. The proposed "grooms quarters" and utility building would exist within two structures currently on the property.
Currently, only 6,010 square feet are dedicated to buildings. The proposed horse farm would increase that to about 49,742 square feet.
Southampton Town purchased the development rights to the 30.3-acre property on Deerfield Road, then known as Frankenbach's Deerfield Nursery, for $3.6 million in 2005. That action effectively preserved the land for open space.
However, according to planning board member Jacqi Lofaro, the proposed Edge of Woods Horse Farm does not, in fact, violate the town's rules and regulations when it comes to preservation.
"As odd as it seems, New York State considers horse farms farming," she explained. "Many people don't realize that."
In fact, "equestrian rights" is listed as one of the exemptions when it comes to limiting the development of open spaces. The property owner therefore has "the right to use and erect structures for the purpose of boarding, breeding, raising and training of horses or other equines," according to official Grant of Development Rights signed in 2005.
The exemption does not include "riding academies" or "equine events." But Tim McCulley, a lawyer for the proposed Edge of Woods Horse Farm, insisted the stables would be for private use only, and no classes or camps would be administered from the farm.
"We're not trying to draw people from all over," he told the board. "It can't be a riding academy."
Water Mill resident J. Andreassi, who has lived in the area for about 11 years, said overall, in his opinion the horse farm is a much better use of the land than what it's been used for in the past. As a former commercial space, he explained that it brought a lot of tractor-trailers to the area, including trucks making deliveries early in the morning.
"My wife and I think this application is going to be much better for the future of that particular area," he added. "From our point of view, there will be less traffic."
However, some neighbors also cited concerns with a row of cypress trees proposed for the edge of the property.
Neighbor Peter Barylskie noted that some homeowners would be affected by the new row of foliage, in that they would lose sun earlier in the day, therefore shortening their days "by two or three hours."
Harriet Wittenberg agreed with Barylskie.
"I don't see any problem with this project, except that it might block our view," she said.
McCulley said the landscaping plans are still "in the works."
"We can accommodate the neighbors," he added. "If the people want to see the horse farm, then we're going to try to accommodate them as best as possible."


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If the cure for mortality is found within your lifetime, would you go for it and become immortal?
On the one hand, we're not made for eternal youth. And one could argue that knowing life is short (or just limited) is what makes it worth living. And perhaps death is a major spiritual part of life, whether you believe in a soul or in a metaphorical one.
On the other hand, how is aging yet not another disease? Dying at age 80 is no more a "natural" death than being eaten alive by a bear or killed by malaria. In fact, "old age" is probably the most unnatural cause of death, statistically. So all that's probably just a cultural habit : diseases are evil but aging is good. Another point is that, well, things have changed. Perhaps our new environment makes it suitable for immortal youths.
And of course, becoming immortal only means that you die when YOU chose to die.
So would you go for the injection or not, and how do you rationalize your decision?
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Nov 18 2013: God, no! I'm only 57 and already dusting with the t-shirt! Bored out of my gourd. I used to tell an elderly friend of mine when I was in my thirties how exciting it must have been to start life cooking on a wood stove and end it microwaving her dinner, from driving the horses into town to deliver the milk to driving across the state in a car. The changes she had seen, I then thought, were so dramatic. Well, I came home from the hospital in a car (no car seat, just a lap) and will go to hospice in a car (with seat belts.) I watched Ding Dong School while drinking my Bosco's and now I watch Reatime and drink bottled water. I played with my Suzy Homemaker kitchen and now I clean my Jenn-Aire kitchen. I watched the Vietnam war over dinner as a school kid and watch the Afghanistan thing (did we declare war? We never did in Vietnam but we call it one. Oh, well.) over dinner tonight. The more things change (don't have to wait a few days to see my letter to in the paper - here it is online!) the more they stay the same. Bored, I tell you! And you want to give me immortality? Are you nuts?! Plus, the world is already so stinking crowded that the animals are disappearing, either into barns or zoos, and they had to build an app to show you where the sky is dark enough to view the stars. Nope. I'll take my three score and ten (70 for those of you bad at math) and that'll do me just fine.
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Oh, basic BAD assumption - dying from old age is part of the design thus VERY natural. Telomeres and various enzymes that cease to be produced generate aging. In all things. Even the Sequoya has an expiration date (though due to outgrowing its root ball.) Yes, they may have just killed a 567 year old clam but that doesn't mean the clam wouldn't have eventually stopped growing and begun dying. Whether the FSM wrote the rules or they generated on their own, it is one of the basic rules. All forces have a balancing counterforce. Expansion and contracture, order and chaos. Life and Death.
Nov 18 2013: Life and Death. Dig it!Nov 20 2013: It is ironic that what you write is not new either :-). Has been said thousands of years ago, like, for example, here
and, probably even before that. (Sigh)Oct 28 2013: No I would not. I would want nature to choose when I die (suddenly, and as painlessly as possible).
If I was able to prolong my life, it would mean that billions of others would also have that ability. My prolonged life would not only be burdensome for generations after me for a myriad of reasons, but would also be a massive strain on natural resources if populations also were allowed to increase. The very notion of immortality is powerfully disrespectful to young people and the generations that follow. It is effectively saying: "My life is more important than my children's" - which in my case, is simply not true.
The notion of a cure for mortality seems to me to be as a result of our poor relationship with the prospect of death. Our intelligence means that we have the capacity for the intense, almost unbearable mourning of the loss of loved ones. But if love and wisdom exists in life, death is merely the disappearance of physical presence - a physical representation of powerful memories. - and memories of that love and wisdom is the thing that becomes immortal.
Having a good relationship with death's inevitability doesn't have to be a religious construct, but more a respect for the beauty and essentiality of the cycle of life - which means that for life to be possible, there must also be death.
Oct 28 2013: I have my doubts too, but I think it is also too early to say.
If we would be able to sustain only our brains, I have heard it wouldn't have to cost more resources than a light bulbs on energy. Ofcourse you would want our freedom in (digital) life, to maintain (most of) our (5) senses and be able to do as you like.
On the cycle of life, I have had the thought that if time is a dimension that lasts forever, even it is through another big bang from another universe, it seems truly statiscally inevitable in my thought, that this very universe will be once more in an unimagineable distant 'future'.
Oct 28 2013: Hi Vincent,
"If we would be able to sustain only our brains"... I'm wondering if you think it would be more important to sustain your own memory of you in your own brain, or better for the memories of you to be sustained in the minds of others? Which one would better inform your personal sense of morality?
Oct 31 2013: Great and fun question :)
I would think both :P
It would be nice for yourself if you could live on with your own memories, as a kind of agent, searching and constructing in the digital life.
But my memories in someone elses mind would create another person.
Though I hate the word morality, because I am not a philosopher ;)
More on this here:
Vincent B
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I would love ''Einstein's'' to live forever. Even if it was only for statements like:
"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe."
:)Oct 28 2013: That's a good point. I think the ability for self sacrifice comes from this kind of evolutionnary drive : life has no importance. Only genes matter.
That's what people mean, I suppose, when they say they've had a "good life" and can die peace-minded. It means their purpose has been accomplished, either biologically or symbolically (humans have non-humans offspring sometimes). And the idea that the body is just a temporary vehicle is not exclusive to religious spirituality, but a fact about life, its origins and purpose.Nov 2 2013: No, i will not take it......
Unless if it has limits, i mean if i can grantee that i'm going to live for a certain amount , which is equel to the time i need to accomplish everything i want in life, and that i absolotly gave everything i can in life, then yes i'll take that one....
Nov 2 2013: I think the power to end our own life is, and always will be, in our own hands. It would be up to you to determine when you would wish die. We are not used to thinking of this in terms of a form of suicide, and there is some negativity associated with that for some people. Assisted suicide or euthanasia is another form. However you view it though, that power I believe is always in all our hands, and should be. It is an awesome responsibility.
Charles Bins
Oct 26 2013: The cure was discovered 2,000 years ago and given to the world as a "free gift." The spiritual injection is 100% natural and rejuvenating, and awlays poignant. All you have to do is roll up your sleeve and believe.
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Oct 26 2013: What's the big deal with the eating-the-fruit-of-knowledge punishment if we're still immortal, in a sense?
Mike Colera
Oct 25 2013: I have come upon this stage and said my lines, I have nothing more to offer.
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Youth have ignored the dangers that I have warned,
I have learned that each generation must make their own mistakes.
I have watched mankind bow to the new deity of technology,
something that I had thought was a great tool and not a focus of worship.
I have watched the soul of mankind, his ability to be a critical thinker, usurped
from current generations and reduced us to herds of bleating sheep, ever so anxious
to follow uncaring shepherds to the slaughter house of total dominance.
Immortality offers no solace.
Oct 25 2013: But wouldn't longer lived humans with more life experience make wiser decisions?
Besides, the current trend is that each successive generation is actually getting smarter, not dumber. IQ tests need to keep getting progressively more difficult to maintain the 100 average score. Widespread education is probably the reason for this, as opposed to any technological shift.
Oct 25 2013: You would think so, but what I have found is the older and wiser one may become, the less attention is paid to their musings.
As far as IQ goes.... you got snookered by the IQ adjustment office, it isn't politically correct to tell todays youth that they are falling behind.
Consider a recent finding by a British University that their finding show that the average IQ.in the 1850s is 14% higher then today. If you look at history and the great minds of Greece, Rome and the middle ages as well as those in Arabia, India and China... those numbers far exceed anything today when adjusted for population numbers... Someone once said, human intelligence is a finite quantity, more people, less for each. As I look around and see some many of the young busy face booking or tweeting their moming coffee choices, I can believe that. .
Oct 25 2013: I do believe that, whether or not the IQ adjustment office is tricking us, humans get smarter from generation to generation.
If you look back in history, only the great minds are remembered, which were few compared to the uneducated masses.
Today, everything becomes a bit more average, but the average is higher than in the past.Oct 26 2013: The thing is with great minds, they're statistical anomalies, and its hard to say just how clever they were. Back then, the sum of human knowledge was, shall we say, less impressive. Conceivably, someone who would just be a run of the mill scientist, engineer or doctor today could have had the intelligence to push the boundaries back then.
Great discoveries nowadays aren't made by individuals anymore, they're mostly done by large teams of specialists, because no one person is capable of such work anymore. The people haven't gotten dumber, the subject matter just got more complicated.
You also need to remember that your average Joe used to be a lot dumber than he is today. Today, I'd say the average in first world is a blue collar worker with 12 years of grade school and maybe a first degree.
Up until recently, historically speaking, your average used to be a per-industrial subsistence farmer who couldn't even read and write, and probably never ventured further than 20 kilometers from his house in his entire life; even if he had the potential for intelligence, his lack of education squandered it.
The average is most definitely going up, even if only because it used to be abysmal.Oct 26 2013: Harald & Nadav
Come on guys, are we tooting our horns here?
Only the greatest minds were recorded in history, true but, also remember that there were very few of those cavemen in the calculation,
And... Think of the Great Pyramids, the cathedrals of the middle ages... no super computers, no theodolites, no spell check... today's engineers would be had pressed to build... And Jules Verne correctly estimated our current technological advances and if we are so smart today, why are we all acting so stupid....
PS: I recently took an 8th grade graduation test from the early 1900s... I failed miserably
and I am pretty bright.... supposedly. We are being snookered by those feel gooders
who don't want us to have low self esteem.
Oct 26 2013: Again, not smart, smarter by way of comparison. Big difference. Try taking that 8th grade final exam after studying the material for a year like an 8th grader is supposed to; you'll probably pass it with flying colors.
To be perfectly honest, individual intelligence is less important than you'd think in getting projects off the ground.
Individuals are getting progressively smarter, but what makes the really big difference is the improvement not in individual intelligence, but rather systems of communication, the stockpiling of knowledge, cooperation, and infrastructure.
Today's great engineering projects and scientific research don't require large teams instead of lone geniuses like in the past because people have turned stupid. Instead, the challenges faced have grown to a point a single individual, no matter how smart, simply wouldn't be able to handle it on his own.
This has of course de-emphasized the role of the lone genius, which may promote a false feeling they have grown rarer. They just keep a lower profile as part of a large team, is all.Nov 16 2013: I would not receive this injection under any circumstance. Though many believe death is a disease, process or inevitability for me earthly immortality would be a punishment. I was born therefor I should die. A great gift of life is to look back and see how I have grown, choices I've made and those I've helped along the way. Life, though hard, is very rewarding & humbling. A commercial that sticks out is the Werthers commercial of a grand-pop giving a piece of candy to his grandson. For me the candy is the knowledge, beliefs, thoughts, stories and traditions being passed down to the grandson. Why would I want to live forever and miss the opportunity to pass my own family traditions down unto my children? Immortality, regardless how it's regulated, would be a punishment and regretful.Nov 11 2013: I thought I already was immortal. In the purest sense, if matter is neither created nor destroyed, am I not piece and parcel of the world before me? Have I not been formed from the dust of kings and knaves long dead? In the vein of linage I carry the genetics of my parents and parents, parents, parent a my children carry on me. Perhaps the least enduring is the notion of my psych, me thoughts, my character but he question really is; does more time make me more memorable, more influential, more important? If I do not treat today as valuable; what would eternal life add??
Nov 12 2013: I honestly though you where citing a poem because it might as well be one. And I agree, what is immortality? What is immortal and what worth will it be. Immortality only lessens value.
Taniya Singh
Nov 11 2013: I agree with Hans. I agree with most people's reasons but I would have to say that I would go for the injection.
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Nothing would please me more than to see how our world is going to look like in the future. I am so thrilled to have been born in the digital age that I can't even imagine life without it. As a student studying electrical engineering, I'm fascinated buy how this technology is going to change in a 100, 1000 years from now. I would love to be alive to see that.
Of course the biggest downfall would be to see your friends and family go but personally, I can adjust. I have many friends of all ages and I can control my emotions and create deep, meaningful relationships with many people.
I don't think I could ever get bored because I too (as Hans said) am passionate about many things and the only thing stopping from me fulfilling all of them is time. I live in the moment and to the fullest, and as a very independent individual, I can say that taking that injecting will definitely be worth it for me.Nov 8 2013: nope. death is life
Nov 9 2013: good point
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Nov 9 2013: goodOct 29 2013: What a wonderful problem to consider. Would I want to become immortal... to be in my physical prime with no worries of degradation or illness? Of course! Imagine all that I could learn and do in that time! I could navigate the entire globe, and would be fit to endure long intergalactic journeys. I could become a master of all scientific disciplines, of countless instruments and musical styles, and a multidimensional artist. I could explore, experience, and learn enough that I would undoubtedly be a wise man by today's standards-- with the ability to see a much larger picture of the universe. I would love to have the time to transcend human greatness.
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But my choice is not so simple. I.. I.. I.. Selfishness is abundant. Are we all offered eternity? Is it given, or bought? What of my friends and family? What of the 7 billion strangers in this world? Could our planet handle the strain? Of course not. Overpopulation is an enormous concern even now, with roundabout 50 year lives. Inequity in resources and education allows some to ponder immortality while others struggle to secure basic necessities for themselves and their loved ones. Who has the time to observe the patterns of our unsustainable birthrate? This is clear, if we became immortal, we would have to drastically reduce our creation of offspring.
Does that act defile nature and taint our souls, or would we no longer view children as necessary numbers... but rather as incredibly rare and cherished members of society? Is it better to uncontrollably pump out generation after generation of creatures who die with insufficient time to understand their environment and purpose-- who pass on fragments of their incomplete information to the malleable youth... or would it be better to have a smaller, more intelligent family of lifeforms?
This proposition is a chance for a type of evolution that we may not be prepared to handle, but one I argue is necessary for the advancement of quality of life and universal importance.
Yohanes Tan
Oct 29 2013: I think immortality is as scary as death itself.
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Knowing I have all the time in my life will hurt someone mentally. What would inspire people to do stuff? Productivity will decrease by thousands percent, and people will have no reason to live their life to the fullest.
I will not take the cure, and I think I will be against it. Not that I don't respect the advancement of science, but knowing "Death" exists is what triggers the advancement of science, IMO.
Oct 29 2013: I fail to see how life ending has any more meaning to it than life not ending (unless your religious). Do you genuinely act only because you know you will die?
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Steve Parks
Oct 26 2013: Seems like the question assumes some rules that . . . . change the question -- such as, "and of course, becoming immortal only means that you die when YOU chose to die."
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Really?? THAT'S what immortality means? I didn't think so. I'd prefer to answer the simple, "would you like to be Superman" type of question -- and really never die, even if you step in front of a train immediately after swallowing ten vials of some secret substance.
And my answer would be, 'no' -- mainly because I'm already past the point when living forever (here on earth) would be really fun. Getting up every day for eternity with these aches and pains, thinking seriously about taking a nap in the early afternoon, and all the accompanying conditions of 'maturity . . . . I think not. Now, if you'd asked that question 40 years ago . . . .
Personally, I'm preferring to look to the eternal life where we don't have to worry about all these aches and pains, and glad that it's coming.
Dian Mend
Oct 26 2013: 10 yeas ago, I uttered, "i will be content to live til 50 as long as I know I've made my full contribution to this world. But lately, I thought it would be great to live forever, if only for the sole purpose of helping others. Not for any selfish reason.
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wayne uejio
Oct 26 2013: Some will want to live on to see what happens next. For myself, I have lived a full life and seen two children grow and turn out well. So similar to George VI put in his will, "let no one shed a tear, I have lived a full life. I am tired and am curious what comes next."
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Oct 26 2013: Ha, but he believed in immortality after death...
Oct 26 2013: not sure if he did but if there is one i will be very surprised - 8>))
Gord G
Oct 25 2013: My top ten reasons why I think negligible senescence would be a problem…
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- Life insurance premiums would be exorbitant.
- A lifetime guarantee would bankrupt a company
- The old boys network would be impenetrable
- Family gatherings would require a stadium.
- Life savings wouldn't last
- Childhood would be too short
- Spousal homicide would probably be legal after three hundred years of marriage
- Too many birthdays to remember
- Grandma would be followed by an exponent.
- Childbirth would be redundant
Oct 26 2013: Makes total sense to me. The only point I disagree with is the point of life savings. If you live longer, you'd have to work more years....sorry.....which means that you make more money over time and hence (hopefully) save more money.
Did you really believe that being immortal they let you retire at age 60 ?
Gord G
Oct 26 2013: I may make more money but... all the jobs would have been filled hundreds of years ago so there would be generations of unemployed family members living under my roof.
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Oct 26 2013: In any case and for many reasons, immortality would be impractical (although it's nice to fantasize about it). If nothing less our tiny planet would be overcrowded in no time, which would make our lives pretty miserable I suppose.
So for the time being, I'm probably fine with a life span of let's ay 150 years.Oct 26 2013: But let's fantasize a little more and imagine immortals are less pressured to get everything done before they hit 35. And perhaps we can imagine an eternal couple eternally delaying the having-kids question, cautiously keeping in mind that as soon as they screw it up, their eternal life changes dramatically and irreversibly. If you can wait a century before you have kids, then why not?
Then, sure, have kids and die a few decades after.
Oct 26 2013: You probably end up with the same pressure anyway because if you live longer, expectations as to what you should accomplish will also increase.
As to having kids, there might be a chance that after 100 years waiting you don't want anymore kids.
But the main problem I see with immortality is the logistics part. Where do you put all those people ? How do you feed them ? Our resources are limited.Oct 27 2013: For starters, the death care industry represents 12 billion dollars a year in the US alone... But old people cost us a hell of a lot more than that. Enough to build underwater cities... on half of Jupiter's moons.
No, you have a point. And you raise new questions.
But if technology has no answer, and if immortality is inevitable (and it is), how do you propose to regulate demography?
There are no rules in free countries about birth control. Would you have this changed?
Harald Jezek
Oct 25 2013: In some way we are already immortal anyway.
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If you think about, the whole universe is made of the same stuff, regardless of what we will eventually figure out this stuff is.
What changes constantly is the configuration of that stuff and those configurations are probably based on our perceptions. I always imagine things (including us) like whirls in a river. You can distinguish them, but they are not actually separated from the water in the river.
Since we know that the total amount of energy can neither increase nor decrease we can safely assume that everything that happens in the universe are only the ever changing whirls in the river.
But back to the practical side: Immortal sounds probably too long to me, but being alive as long as I'm well would be a good thing I guess.
Oct 25 2013: I agree Harald....in some way we are already immortal. It depends on how we want to identify our "self"!
"What changes constantly is the configuration of the stuff", and I believe that to be energy, which, as you say, does not increase or decrease....it changes form. I like your analogy with the ever changing whirls in the river:>)
If we identify ourselves totally with the body, then everything is all over when the body dies:>)
Oct 25 2013: Yes, after we die everything will be over. It's like those whirls in the water I mentioned. They come and go, but the water is always there.
This is the poetic version, but for all practical purpose, once we are dead it's like pulling the plug. Everything will be gone. That's why I think, prolonging our life, always will be of interest to people, surprisingly even to those that believe in an afterlife or reincarnation of some sort.
Oct 25 2013: I don't totally agree then.....what you write now, seems a little different from your previous comment.
My perception, is that "if we identify ourselves totally with the body, then everything is all over when the body dies"
I equated the "whirls in the water" you were speaking of, to the energy which flows through the body, and I believe that changes form....like you said....neither increasing or decreasing.....simply changing form.
I have no desire to prolong my life past what is "normal".....whatever normal is!!! :>)Oct 25 2013: Yes we're an interesting animal. Other animals' genes are immortal, but none of their personnal experience (other than reproductive success) survives them. We, on the other hand, tell stories.
That aside, it's hard to let go of eternal youth of the body when your drive is mad curiosity. And the world is becoming exponencially more interesting, making any moment in the future a worse moment to part!
Or perhaps our children need us to exit the stage, for the sake of character distribution. Then I gladly lie down in my casket... but if a century from now some great grandchild were so kind as to wake me up for 24 hours, no more, and show me around... or just slip into my tomb the day's newspaper and a flashlight...
Knowing that would put a smile on my dead face the way little else would.
Oct 25 2013: Yes indeed Gerald, we are very interesting animals:>)
I don't personally find it difficult to let go of youth. In fact I am enjoying the aging process, just as I have enjoyed all other stages of the life adventure. I am still VERY curious about what is happening here....and....now:>)Oct 25 2013: No Colleen, I didn't talk about it from a spiritual point of view but pure physics. What I meant is that the whole universe is energy and everything there is, are just different configurations (the whirls) of said energy (the river of water). These configurations are ever changing. Some fast and some take billions of years, but at the end, the most basic ingredient is the same for everything.
Btw, what do you consider a normal life span ? Life expectancy is constantly increasing (numbers vary from country to country but the trend is the same).
By 1850, life expectancy was around 40 years. Today we are at over 80 and counting.
Oct 25 2013: That is how I was speaking of it as well Harald...physics. I agree that the whole universe is energy and everything is different configurations of said energy, which is ever changing.
I consider the "normal life span" for me is whatever age I die:>)Oct 27 2013: what about the thought that we come back in another life to complete the things we didn't finish the life before . I F WE never finish this life now how can we come back in another life / body and finish our journey .
it seems that we would be in constant flux
Oct 27 2013: Hi Jeff,
Right now, as I know life, I know that death is part of that cycle. No matter what one's beliefs are, it is a fact that we live, and then we die. I do not perceive death as a disease, therefor I have no burning desire to "cure" it. I am content with the aging process, just as I have been content with all the other stages of the life adventure.
I like being "here"......"now"......as I am....in the moment. When the death stage comes for me, I will embrace it with all the consciousness and love that I can muster at that moment, and I will still be exploring the life adventure until I take my last breath:>)
I believe that a desire and search for immortality is often based on a fear of aging, death, the dying process, and the question regarding what comes next. I am content with here and now:>)
Jon Miner
Nov 24 2013: One point of wisdom I find helpful in making decisions such as this is a simple question... What would happen if everybody did it?
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The answer is clear. Over population would result in chaos and suffering beyond imagination.
Nov 24 2013: This is addressed by the 2045 initiative (www.2045.com). Furthermore we do not necessarily know the technologies that will become available to us and whether "everyone" will or can choose to do it.Nov 24 2013: I would absolutely opt for immortality and I actually want to build on that and say that I am hoping that the goal of achieving immortality is reached within my lifetime!
While everyone has an opinion on religion, my personal opinion is that once we die that's it, and that's sad really. Think about all the knowledge we've built, the relationships we've formed, the hard work we've done, the memories inside of us; all for it to get erased?
I personally wouldn't want to continue to age and become weak in body and mind, but to be immortal, that process could not just continue. Furthermore the research that is being done by life extensionists is pointing toward technologies to keep us young forever or even evolve us into a much more powerful being. For example, do you think overpopulation is a problem? Do you worry that we will run out of experiences on earth? Do you worry that people around you will die while you remain alive? Then you should definitely refer to the website www.2045.com and it's related site www.gf2045.com. Their vision is that you essentially become a hologram like being made up of trillions of organic nano-robots. You have the power to create your own image and an infinitely expanding mind to create any experience you want. They have already successfully reached milestone 1 in the avatar project of the 2045 initiative and there are 3 more to go. They plan to have the technology in place by 2045. While my thoughts on here are brief and don't answer so many questions one could put to my idea, I encourage you to visit these websites, do some research (especially into the videos of some of the speakers at their conference) and tell me that this isn't an exciting opportunity for the next step in human evolution!Nov 21 2013: I would choose immortal without a single doubt and use my life for the others. There are way too many people who need help.
bob lowman
Nov 19 2013: Being that the planet only has so long before it goes pop i can't imagine the immortal ones would like floating around in space for eternity with no sound or company. Why not make the most of the time we are all given and try to help others around you, crazy i know but hey i'm a dreamer.Nov 16 2013: I would prefer to choose the time style of death myself. Assuming ailments are gone, desired memories preserved and the problems of over-population and resources solved, change still cannot be stopped, nor would stopping change be anything but death. While a prolonged continuity of self might be an advantage, what I was in the long past would be long gone.
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Ben Marx
Nov 16 2013: Although the possibility of immortality is tempting at first glance, it nevertheless is not something I would choose to embrace. The sheer reality that natural life inevitably dies is enough rationale for me not to somehow make myself immortal, as the very notion that we aren't inherently born immortal tells me that we as individuals were not 'designed' (however you may interpret that), to live forever. Granted, not everyone dies in the same way, but it is still important to recognize that irrespective of how we expire, our bodies will, one way or another, stop functioning. Some may die from old age, and others from cancer, but the fact remains that in both cases, our heart will naturally stop beating. Regardless of what you may consider your religious and/or scientific beliefs to be, our bodies are clearly intended to survive for a certain period of time, and although the process of death may be slowed utilizing today's standards of technology, our bodies are intrinsically intended to cease functioning after a certain period of time. For that matter, even if we could somehow discover immortality, is eternal life desirable? Eventually, the population would grow out of control, and if we don't have the natural resources to sustain ourselves, even the prospect of living forever won't be enough of an incentive to convince us to live comfortably in an overpopulated world.
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Dan Ryan
Nov 15 2013: An interesting thought, but I don't see mortality being cured.
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Our goal is not to live forever, at least not in my beliefs.
I hope and pray for a much better world when I leave here.
Nov 15 2013: We're supposed to die because of the snake's misguidance, I know, I know. But haven't we paid the debt already? Look at all the good done by people who don't even expect to be rewarded in an afterlife, look how morally superior we are to our abrahamic ancestry.
What do you believe is our goal?
Nov 15 2013: never in history rulers said: you were ruled long enough. i will rule no longer.
Nov 16 2013: Cincinnatus and George Washington are noteworthy exceptions. Though I suspect they did it because of how cool it made them look.Nov 20 2013: Re: "What do you believe is our goal?"
Our goal is what we believe our goal is, I believe.Nov 20 2013: You made an interesting post. Religion does not make anyone morally superior, I know, I know. But neither does rejection thereof.
Re: "We're supposed to die because of the snake's misguidance, I know, I know. But haven't we paid the debt already?"
If you read the story, the misguidance started with questioning that we have an obligation (debt) - exactly what you do in your second sentence. By the way, according to the Christian doctrine, we did not pay any debt. It was paid for us. A minor detail.
Re: "Look at all the good done by people who don't even expect to be rewarded in an afterlife, look how morally superior we are to our abrahamic ancestry."
"The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector." - Luke 18. Self-righteousness. Also warned against.
I don't mean to preach, but I find Christianity fascinating because it is self-refuting. Speaking against it is speaking against self.
Thom Spanos
Nov 14 2013: I understand that some people may disagree, but I believe that immortality is essentially what life is striving for through the process of natural selection, we simply happen to be quite bad at it. Whenever an organism mutates around an obstacle that would normally weaken/kill one of its species, it has simply trumped death that normally might have occurred. Continuing with this, the further generations of the organism will continue to be better and better at 'living.'
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Unfortunately, we are constrained by the natural limitations of this process (i.e. the determination of natural selection is only made at the moment of passing on one's genes to the next generation). However, I don't believe that should change our natural inclination to work to overcome the causes of death. We have reached a point of self-determination via our ability to think critically and problem-solve whereby we can work beyond those natural limitations. It is up to us to make that effort, however, and we need the willpower to do so.
I personally would be glad to achieve immortality because I think that it would increase the rate of scientific discovery. Great thinkers would be able to pursue their passions without their work being left for others who have to spend so much time catching up. To the individual who stated that Hitler would still be around, I can only say: especially in a society with immortality, any death would be an atrocity. If only we could strive for such a view regardless.
Scott Bell
Nov 14 2013: Entertain just the wee smallest dose of doubt in your belief that you are a body....that you are a mind. In fact, doubt all beliefs. And then investigate them thoroughly. How is it that we are so very very certain of Who we are? Simply looking at the fact that 'you' are a mass of trillions of tiny robots (cells) working more or less together alongside a numerically large number of bacterial cells upon which you are entirely dependent should case a shadow of doubt on this belief of mortality.
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If you are a wave, clearly you are mortal.
If you are the ocean, clearly you are immortal.
Based on the current 'state' of the Earth, it should be clear which is the prevailing belief.
We once believed the Earth to be flat.
We once believed the Earth to be the center of the Universe.
I dig your broad thinking. Great day!Nov 14 2013: I used to think there was something wrong with wanting to live forever, as if it was form of selfishness. But I really see that sort of thinking now as a form of political correctness, and/or misplaced humility.
Also, being biologically immortal does not mean you stop learning, changing or growing as a person. So unless you are actually bored of life and its possibilities I see no "applicable to all" reason that makes a case for immortality being something we should as a rule shy away from.
Being immortal does not mean "indestructible" or some other form of "impossible to kill necessarily. So, to those who still enjoy the experience of consciousness, living will still be a precious experience to be considered sacred and precious. Being immortal may devalue each others time in some way, but not their lives as a whole. As far as we know "life" is still a singular experience.
Life is precious, and not something to be surrendered lightly or apathetically. Before you were born there was an eternity of time without you, and after you die there will be eternity without you. No matter how long you live in between, its the merest tiny window, a butterflies wing flap of time. Such a small window bound by eternity on both sides will always be precious.
So, with regards to myself, I would definitely want to be immortal.
But how would this affect society? Well, having a demographic of immortals will definitely change and affect society in profound ways, and it would have to change to adapt to immortal citizens. Remember, immortality is not specifically invulnerability or immunity to disease. Unless coupled with equivalent advances in basic healthcare and anti aging, immortality would indeed be a curse. But if it did, you could retain your usefulness and ability to learn.
Also, it would certainly drive the need for us to colonise space. And once that happened, the scope of experience, learning and development within the life experience would expand again.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cris Clausing" <email@example.com>
To: "'Ya'll'" <email@example.com>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: [vox-tech] Off Subject and (Probably) Remedial Question
> I, as a minion of the Evil (Microsoft) Empire, have built a couple of
Access databases which use (DOS) files FTP'd from a Unix system.
> When I import those files to Access they LOOK fine in the database tables,
with one line of data per row in the table. HOWEVER, when I run an Access /
SQL 'COUNT' of records, the function returns a number much less than the
number of rows in the table. When I cut-and-paste the table data to an
Excel spreadsheet, I end up with multiple lines/rows of data in a single
> I've looked at the files in a BINARY (HEX) editor and see, what appear to
me to be, valid CARRIAGE RETURN LINE FEED ( 0D 0A ) values where they
should be ?.and NO extra (non-printing) characters or code.
> I assume the FTP'd Unix files contain characters which I can't see using
my DOS / Windows application TEXT or BINARY (HEX) editors (?).
> My Questions:
> 1) a) Is mine a valid assumption?
> b) Can / will a file generated and used / viewed in the above described
manner contain characters / control characters?
> c) Is there a DOS/Windows system application that will allow me to view
such characters?
> d) Can I copy the files (from my DOS/Windows system) to my (HOME) Linux
system and use something (I'm a Linux Newbie) to view them? IF so, which
> 2) a) Has anyone else run into a similar problem?
> b) Was it an issue with the Unix FTP program / interface ?
> c) How did you resolve it?
> 3) Am I asking the wrong group? Could anyone suggest a reference /
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> My Undying Gratitude !!!
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Republicans vs. Democracy in North Carolina
It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the voting bill currently hurtling through the North Carolina legislature. What the Republican-dominated body calls a "Voter Protection" bill has a laundry list of provisions, almost all of which make voting harder for the general population and disproportionately hard for voters of color, young voters, or low-income people. "The types of provisions are not unheard of," says Denise Lieberman, senior council for the voting rights advocacy group the Advancement Project. "What's unheard of is doing all them all at once." Lieberman calls the measure "the most broad-sweeping assault on voting rights in the country." She's not exaggerating.
Simply put, the law would turn the state with the South's most progressive voting laws, and the region's highest turnout in the last two presidential elections, into a state with perhaps the most restrictive voting laws in the nation. In doing so, it could also provide a national model for erecting obstacles to voting.
House Bill 589 arrived in the state senate three months ago as a simple voter ID bill. It was only this week, at the last minute before the legislature moves toward adjournment, that Republican senators transformed the measure into something far more drastic. HB 589 has metastasized into an "omnibus bill" of a dizzying scope. In addition to limiting the types of ID voters would be allowed to use at the polls, the bill also ends same-day registration—in which you can register and vote in one visit—and cuts the state's 17-day early voting period by one full week. It prohibits paid voter registration drives (which tend to register more poor and nonwhite voters) and eliminates provisional voting if someone comes to the wrong precinct to cast a ballot. The list of restrictive measures goes on and on. North Carolina is one of the few states that encourages high-schoolers to pre-register, so they can begin participating as soon as they turn 18—not anymore, under this bill. Any registered voter would be able to challenge the eligibility of another at the polls. Perhaps most alarmingly, polling stations would no longer stay open to accommodate long lines on election nights. Those still in line when the closing time came might not be able to vote.
"Voter suppression" may be an overused term on the left, but in this case, it's hard to imagine what else to call a bill with so many provisions designed to create barriers to the ballot box. There's no secret why the senate waited to act on the original house bill. As in several other Southern states, GOP lawmakers wanted to see how the Supreme Court would rule on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which required that states and counties with histories of voter discrimination would have to get permission from the Justice Department before changing election law. In North Carolina, 40 counties fell under this "preclearance" requirement. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the method for deciding which states and counties were required was unfair, and suddenly, North Carolina no longer had to seek pre-approval to make voting more difficult for particular groups of citizens.
Republican lawmakers, who have spent the last six months converting the first GOP supermajorities in North Carolina history into extreme and controversial far right legislation on a wide range of issues, are now seeing just how far they can take things when it comes to voting. All eyes are on the state—and among voting-rights advocates like Lieberman, there's tremendous concern that the legislature's approach will inspire copycats in other states.
But given North Carolina's voting history, the measure is particularly sad. "It's not like they're doing these measures in the context of a state that has decades of high turnout," says Bob Hall, the director of Democracy North Carolina, a voter education and participation group. "We don't have a deep tradition of voter participation. We just started it. We just got it going and they're trying to undercut it."
Like most Southern states, North Carolina traditionally suffered from dismal voter turnout, ranking among the bottom 15 states in election after election. A coalition of civic groups, lead by the state NAACP president, the Reverend William Barber, worked for years to get the legislature to address the problem. In 2000, early voting was first instituted, and in 2007, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers passed a set of measures that increased the early-voting period to 17 days and offered citizens the option of registering and voting on the same day. There were also long-term investments, like pre-registering 16- and 17-year olds. State Representative Danny McComas, one of the Republicans who supported the bill, proclaimed, "It's a sacred right that we have to vote."
The changes bore fruit almost immediately. In 2008, with help from the historic nature of Barack Obama's candidacy and his campaign's aggressive mobilization effort, North Carolina leapt into the top 15 states for voter turnout. Just how much early voting and liberalized registration can be credited for the increase isn't certain, but what is clear is that Obama organizers made extra days at the polls an essential part of their strategy to mobilize voters. For the first time since 1976, the state went Democratic in a presidential contest. Although Obama narrowly lost the state in 2012, turnout continued to be impressive, including an 80-percent participation rate among black voters, the second highest in the country.
Republicans clearly want to reverse North Carolina's trend toward higher participation. But while their bill would be the most restrictive in the country, that doesn't mean their success in stopping people from voting is assured. The idea, of course, is that the new rules would disadvantage Democrats at the polls, because they disproportionately impact groups that lean Democratic: minorities, women, young people, and low-income voters. According to the state's own research, black North Carolinians are more likely to lack IDs than their white counterparts; they're also likelier to take advantage of early voting.
Without a significant organizing force on the left, these measures could be devastating. But North Carolina has the South's heartiest progressive movement—the one that pushed its enlightened voting laws in the first place, and the one that's organized Moral Mondays protests at the state capitol since April, with thousands protesting and hundreds volunteering to be arrested in civil disobedience. As Rick Hasen, University of California-Irvine law professor and author of The Voting Wars, wrote on Wednesday at the Daily Beast, we've already seen versions of this dynamic play out in other states—and almost always, there's been a backlash that has largely foiled the GOP's intentions. Republicans in several states passed voting restrictions prior to 2012, but voters of color turned out as strongly as they had in 2008. Progressive organizers in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania used the attempts to cut down early voting and implement voter ID laws as part of their organizing effort. Those voters targeted by these tactics got fired up rather than intimidated. Meanwhile, the courts also responded in a big way. When civil rights groups brought suits against the state laws, courts knocked down a number of new voting restrictions. In Ohio, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals forced the state to keep its early voting days; in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, state courts prevented voter ID laws from going into effect last November.
The North Carolina bill is especially challenging for voting rights activists, however, because it's so multi-faceted. Individually, each of the provisions might only have a marginal impact on turnout, but put them together and advocates like Lieberman fear a "massive chilling effect" on voting.
Much of the bill will surely be challenged in court, but there are a lot of provisions to challenge. Similarly, the state's well-organized progressives will use these elections tactics as a rallying cry. But the coalition will have to allocate resources between fighting in court and educating voters on the tons of new changes to voting in the state. Each prospective voter may need to know different things: how to get a proper ID, what days they can go to the polls, what to do when someone challenges their vote.
Barber, the leader of the coalition, is confident that between the courtroom and voter outrage, the laws will fail. "The more you try to take people's liberties, the more people stand up," he says.
It will help progressives that with such a sweeping bill, they won't be the only North Carolinians who are outraged by it. Republicans will likely alienate many more than just the Democratic voters they're targeting, because the things they're repealing, like early voting days or same-day registration, make elections run better—and conservatives don't like chaotic elections any better than anyone else.
In fact, many of the "liberal" election measures Republicans want to roll back—in North Carolina and elsewhere—began as bipartisan efforts. Republican attempts to roll back early voting are particularly ironic. It was actually lawmakers in conservative Texas who, in 1985, proposed that voters be allowed to cast ballots before Election Day. The initiative wasn't controversial, let alone partisan; when it passed by overwhelming margins, newspapers barely considered the bill news. The idea was to make voting easier and, some hoped, increase turnout among those with inflexible work and child-care schedules who have trouble making it to the polls on Election Day.
Since Texas launched its program, 32 states, mostly in the South, Midwest, and West, have adopted similar measures, almost always with bipartisan support. Some states offer nearly a month of early voting, while others offer only a week. The practice has boosted turnout in some states by 2 percent to 4 percent, and it's proved extremely popular with people who were already voting. Election officials have found that it also offers another benefit: Giving citizens more time to make their way to a polling place not only allows more flexibility, it decreases Election Day chaos.
Until the 2008 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans across the country were equally inclined to vote in person ahead of Election Day. The Obama campaign's aggressive promotion of early voting changed that; in 2008 and 2012, it was used disproportionately by African Americans. That has triggered Republican suspicions and turned a reform endorsed by both conservatives and liberals into an object of GOP ire.
Cutting early voting certainly won't do what Republican lawmakers claim: prevent voter fraud (which is practically nonexistent in the first place). The most experienced elections staff usually man the stations during early voting—providing, if anything, more security. Most election officials like having more days. The extended time cuts down on lines and confusion, with fewer people having to cast provisional ballots because of registration problems.
If the bill goes into effect for the 2014 mid-terms, conservatives and liberals alike will find themselves waiting in longer lines, with more administrative debacles. People are bound to get upset about it. In North Carolina, 57 percent of all voters cast ballots early in 2012. Polling shows only 23 percent of state residents support shortening the voting period.
Lawsuits are inevitable at both the state and federal level. While nothing is certain until the bill passes, civil rights lawyers will likely bring different types of cases—arguing the bill violates the ban on voting discrimination in the Voting Rights Act, arguing it violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection, and arguing it violates North Carolina's state constitution, which guarantees that "all elections be free" and that "Every person born in the United States and every person who has been naturalized, 18 years of age, and possessing the qualifications set out in this Article, shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people of the State, except as herein otherwise provided."
Hasen says the state will find it particularly difficult to defend policies like the one to close polling places down even as people wait in line. "That would be a strong signal to courts that this is a provision designed to make it harder to vote," he says.
Even if the North Carolina law (or parts of it) can withstand lawsuits, public outcry has forced Republicans to back down in other states when they've suppressed votes and made the process messier. Just ask Florida. Republican lawmakers in 2012 were determined to make voting more difficult and passed a slew of measures, including a decrease in early-voting days. The November election was a mess of long lines and addled officials. Obama still won, but Republican legislators and Governor Rick Scott—who staunchly supported the decrease and refused to extend early-voting hours in the face of extraordinary lines—had to face public outrage over their ill-conceived changes. When they reconvened in January, lawmakers immediately started restoring the reforms they'd taken away. Early-voting days are mostly back in place in Florida, and new, more convenient polling places will be opened. Not exactly the outcome Republicans had in mind.
Thu, 2013-07-25 13:37
"Each prospective voter may need to know different things: how to get a proper ID, what days they can go to the polls, what to do when someone challenges their vote." Anyone, please, leave the hyperbole out, and answer the straightforward question of whether an individual that will not complete the simple tasks listed above will take the time to have a clue about what they are voting for?
(BTW, I think it was Stossel that had a column a few years ago putting forth the notion that it is our civic duty NOT to vote when we don't bother to learn about the candidates and issues we are voting on. It was an interesting counter to the notion that it is our "duty to vote" we have heard since forever)
Sun, 2013-07-28 08:26
As it turns out, whether an individual "will take the time to have a clue" (... and in whose judgment - YOURS???) is utterly irrelevant. That's not the constitutional criterion.
And to express a notion of civic duty as pertains certain classes of people is much different than passing laws that shred their constitutional rights as citizens.
Thu, 2013-07-25 14:31
Thank you, Attorney General Holder, for taking Texas to court today. He says they will continue to look at all states and voting rights. Shameful that the Supreme Court gave the nod to these extremists. They are shutting down many different Constitutional rights. Taken as a package in all the red states, it is revolutionary against American values and ethics. Where is the national media? Oops. They are either corporate or red radical and support the domination of Republicans. They are the GOP/NRA/ALEC/Southern cartel that is very successful in destroying what we thought was a democratic nation. Their sheeple point to Obama as if he can counter the Supreme Court, unlimited billionaire money thanks to the court and the corruption of the political system.
Fri, 2013-07-26 07:18
Fri, 2013-07-26 10:49
I see absolutely no relationship to European democracies. In Switzerland, voting is compulsory, on weekends, and possible via internet. Every person living in the country (both Swiss nationals and foreigners) must register with their municipality within two weeks of moving there, so there is no need to even register to vote. That is the opposite of anything going on in NC.
Sun, 2013-07-28 04:23
Those dastardly Republicans are not bringing their laws UP to international standards, and the European democracies are not an infallible model. The Common Market is particularly unrepresentative. When they can vote, the turnout is fairly good. As Chief Justice John Roberts has observed, our vote is the basis of all other freedoms. Anything that discourages voting or prevents a person from voting -- especially if a legitimate voter can be turned away at the polls -- should be deeply offensive to any patriot. You are entirely correct to be shocked that a major party could be so unAmerican and hostile to everything our country stands for.
Fri, 2013-07-26 08:15
Fri, 2013-07-26 08:49
Three-quarters of Americans want voter ID laws. The Supreme Court has already ruled that requiring identification is perfectly lawful. Continuing to rant that ID, which anyone who conducts business in America - including with the government - is already required to carry, is an attack on democracy, just makes you sound foolish.
Sun, 2013-07-28 04:29
A national ID or internal passports are widely regarded as tools for government control. This is why your Social Security number is "not to be used for identification." Of course this is just one way Republicans have tried to attack such Democratic social enterprises and you are entirely correct: It does make them look foolish.
Fri, 2013-07-26 13:12
All the tricks to fix the vote that go well beyond a simple ID (that was never simple for any but Republicans) were used in all the red states, taken to court in all the red states and reversed mostly right before the 2012 election. Now the DOJ will review all states with new voting laws which is much better than the usual southern states who immediately put in place Jim Crow after the Republican gang of 5 on the Supreme Court gave their approval. Had we not fought for Civil Rights in the 1960's we would not have had 50 years of democracy. Fixing the vote is not democratic and violates the Constitution.
Fri, 2013-07-26 13:24
If you cannot manage to get an ID, register before the election, and know when the election actually takes place - then you are not showing the requisite competence to vote.
If you are a true American then you would want to have honest and fair elections - where only those eligible vote - and they only vote once. The Democrat party has a long sordid history of vote fraud. It seems that longstanding tradition is alive and well. Creating chaos creates opportunities to cheat.
Sorry guys, there is no Constitutional right to commit vote fraud.
Fri, 2013-07-26 15:13
Sun, 2013-07-28 08:21
If you are a true American then you would want unobstructed access to the ballot box for EVERY eligible voter - because that's what the Consitution says - and mechanisms such as North Carolina's which HAVE BEEN SHOWN to impede this would horrify you.
See, I can do it too.
Fri, 2013-07-26 15:01
Lawrence Turner
Sat, 2013-07-27 22:04
Do I vote liberal for minority freedom, or conservative to maintain the status quo? I have voted as a democrat since I was 18 years old, I am now 63. Any ideal that promote the legitimacy of gay rights cannot be tolerated . l know that the suppression of the voting rights are not because of conservatives genuine in their belief in "God and country", but are there any other political parties out there that believe in the sanctity of mankind being create male and female?
If equality mean to go against nature itself,and to teach our future to ignore, what use to be self-evident: male and female, then I rather be a slave but free in my soul, than free and my soul confronted with this Obamanation that is being imposed upon this generation.
If the conservatives can conserve the greatest gift that God gave to mankind, "being created in his own image, then I will not mind living on the other side of the fence. After all, the only one who has the right to vote is God; He has no respect of persons, as long as the persons obey his laws. I vote for the benevolent dictator. Down with capitalist democracy!
Fri, 2013-08-02 21:43
There are VERY angry voters in North Carolina over ALL of this nonsense...I'm one of 'em.
Art Pope & his "Koch-Brothers Cossacks", not to mention "Governor Yuppie", will find out just how angry many of us are on Election Day.
In case any of you are wondering, I'm a registered Independent voter.
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1) How are photos "grouped" into one slideshow? Are they just based on the folder/directory they're in? Or does the rel="example1" bit of code serve to group them?
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