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Below is a list of the most popular customer scuba gear reviews for Boots, Cold Water. Click the product name to view more reviews and details about that product. For longer reviews, click the View Full Review link next to a review to read the whole review.
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Reviewer: JAMES C. on 11/2/2009NOT JUST FOR DIVING BOOTS - I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS TYPE OF BOOT FOR A LONG TIME,I HAVE CHECKED SEVERAL LOCAL DIVE SHOPS WITH NO LUCK OR HELP FROM THE LOCAL GUYS.I TRYED YOUR HELP LINE AND TALKED WITH ONE OF YOUR REPS CLARKE HE WAS VERY HELPFUL WITH MY NEEDS AND CAME UP WITH THE NEOSPORT BY HENDERSON TO FIT MY NEEDS. THIS BOOT IN THE 7MM ZIPPER BOOT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR AND IT WAS AVAILABLE IN SIZE 16.I BOUGHT THESE TO WARE WITH MY WADERS FOR USE WHEN I USE MY PONTOON BOAT AS I NEED TO WARE FINS TO MOVE AROUND SHORT DISTANCES.REGULAR WADING BOOTS ARE TOO HEAVY FOR ALL DAY USE AND ARE NOT COMFORTABLE BUT YOU STILL NEED SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN GO TO A SHORE LINE AND GET OUT AND WALK AROUND IN THESE...View Full Review
Reviewer: Larry Chin on 10/24/2013Comfortable Boot at a Great Price - If you want a flexible boot that is easy to don/duff, has a comfortable mocassin-like fit,this boot is for you, especially at this price. The sole is very flexible, so if you are doing a lot of rock/reef scrambling to get to your dive site, this may not be a good choice. The other possible downside to this boot, is that the top does stretch out a bit with use, and it would be nice if it extended up a little higher on the leg, as water does flush in/out of the boot on occasion. The boots are comfortable enough to work in, (3-4 days a week). Since they are so flexible, I am not sure how long they will last. For rec use, they should be fine. Take my comfort comments with a grain of salt,...View Full Review
Reviewer: Dorothy K. on 3/6/2014Neosport Kayak Boots by Henderson - This is the second time I purchased these boots. THey finally started to leak after the hard bottoms on the boot started to crack and split away from the neoprene and the constant bending in the boot ankle made them no longer leak proof after abusing them for 2 years kayak fishing and surf fishing the winters in Florida. I liked them so much that I bought a second pair. Make sure you order a size larger as they run SUPER small. I wear a womens 7 and ordered a 7 and fit like a womens 6. Return and exchange shipping will cost you so be careful how you order. Customer service will not help in this matter.
Reviewer: Jason G. on 4/5/2014Aqualock review - Simply amazing "locking" system. As much as the choice and fit of a wetsuit is a personal thing, the aqua-lock system delivers. Theres no slippage of gloves, boots or hood giving a snug and not slack feeling of security and comfort. Loads of sizing possibilities meant I was able to choose a wetsuit that fit me personally...oh, and 7mm - VERY warm! I dive at altitude and in glacial waters quite comfortably with Hendersons 7mm suit.
Reviewer: Gary Krauss on 8/5/2014Love these boots! - This is the first time Ive tried a full-sole boot, and I just love em! Great support for the feet on all kinds of terrain, yet you dont notice the stiff sole underwater. I need arch support for my shoes, why not when Im carrying 80 pounds of dive gear? Ill never go back to soft boots again. Wish Id gotten these years ago.
Reviewer: Gregory M. on 7/28/2008Good Boots - These boots are very warm boots. I am a new diver, but have worn boots while abbing. The water temperature was about 52 at 40 feet and I had a bottom time of about 45 minutes. They kept my feet warm the whole time. They are not good for walking on pavement for an extended period of time and the zipper did not stay up well. Even with the zipper problem they kept my feet warm. I would recommend these boots for the good price and temperature control
Reviewer: Rodney Wallace on 10/6/2014Mares 5mm Classic Medium Sole Zipper Dive Boots Review - $34.95 - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews - Good fit. Great value. Keep my feet warm in the sea with temps in the low 50s. A zipper is essential when pulling on wet or damp boots. Boots with no zipper, no matter how "super stretch" dont work.
Reviewer: Douglas Rothbaler on 12/31/2014Aqua Lung. 5mm Super Zip Ergo Dive Boots Review - $45.95 - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews - Was looking for a dive boot to fit the toe box on my scubapro military fins. These fit the bill. Well constructed and with the harder sole, they fit my fins much more securely.
Reviewer: chet n. on 10/24/2014XS Scuba 7mm Pyrostretch Heavy Duty Dive Boots Review - $58.95 - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews - This is the boots I have been looking for, warm, tall enough to let no water in the leg and no zippers! Easy on and easy off! These are the boots you are looking for!
Reviewer: Cynthia U. on 11/13/2014ScubaPro 5mm Delta Medium Sole Zipper Dive Boots. Review - $53.00 - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews - This prodect was great for the price. Keeps my feet warm and durable for rocks and algae. Really satisfied. Thank you scuba.com
Reviewer: Charles E S. on 3/22/2014Warm socks - 5mm neoprene socks are comfortable and warm. The large are a little snug on my size 10 1/2 feet. The gripper sole make it impossible to put on size 12 5mm boots over them, but if you put the sock inside the boot first they can be pulled on. Overall they are very worthwhile for cold water.
Reviewer: Charles H. on 3/13/2014Awesome boots for fossil hunts in the river! - I bought these boots for use while fossil hunting in Florida river beds. They keep my feet warm and keep the sand and debris out. While the soles are flexible, they provided great traction and protection from rocks and gravel on the river bed. These boots were also quite comfortable while canoeing!
Reviewer: Scott S. on 8/18/2014Henderson 5mm Heavy Duty Zipper Dive Boots Review - $64.99 - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews - Good boot. Well made,size runs narrow... Good for rock walking on shore dives... Will recommend them to dive buddy....View Full Review
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Big ups to Kiarna for passing this one along. Short films are a specialized craft of the film industry. People typically make them when they're looking to get into the bigger industry and shoot features. Your short becomes your business card. In the past, those of us living in the boonies never got to see this stuff because they only venues booking short films were festivals in the major cities. The magic of the internet is making it so that you no longer have to ship your short out to dozens of fests in order to get it in front of the industry's equivalent of A&R people. Now you can just post it to Vimeo, which is a garden of amazing short film work in case you haven't bothered to mouse around there. We all get to share the magic and in the process, buzz starts sooner and you get seen by more people. More eyes on your short improves your personal economy. Case in point. Stasis.
Stasis plays out like a The Manchurian Candidate with a screenplay by Phillip K. Dick. Dick had a major hangup on subjective reality and turned the ambiguity bait and switch into his own personal calling card. Director Christian Swegal borrows the calling card to make you question whether or not any of this is actually happening and in the process spins a pretty riveting short story that features Ernie Hudson and Beau Bridges. My only criticism is that the end seems to borrow its closing note from Oldboy.


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After starting college in remedial reading because of weak SAT scores, Dr. Calvin Mackie earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a BS in Mathematics from Morehouse College in 1990, a MS in 1992 and the PhD in 1996 in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Following graduation he joined the faculty at Tulane University, where he researched heat transfer, fluid dynamics, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. In 2002, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Mackie's eleven-year academic career ended in June 2007, when Tulane University disbanded the engineering school in response to financial hardship induced by Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Mackie's inspirational memoir A View from the Roof: Lessons for Life and Business has been adopted as educational course material by numerous secondary and college teachers throughout the country. His newest book Grandma's Hands: Cherished Moments of Faith and Wisdom will publish in 2011, followed by When Oil and Water Mix: Leadership in the Wake of Catastrophe.
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Mr Suuru Avoseh, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, says that the House will soon enact a law that would check the excesses of fast food producers.
Avoseh, who is the Chairman of the House Committee on Health Services, said in Lagos yesterday that most of the foods prepared by various restaurants were "junk foods".
"And these junk foods are harmful to human health", he stressed.
Avoseh said that the House would strive to emulate the National Assembly which, he noted, was planning to ban the importation, distribution and consumptions of energy drinks in the country.
"For instance, the presence of caffeine in energy drinks is injurious to the human body; some people take these foods ignorantly, without considering its side-effects on their body. Most of the foods are junks, which are not good for our consumption," he added.
Avoseh said that "junk foods should not replace our normal meals, as most of them contain too much fat and sugar which are not only unhealthy but are also addictive."
The lawmaker said that many people had been addicted to eating junk foods, adding that such dietary habits often resulted in either obesity or diabetes, while posing serious health threats to the body.
Avoseh reiterated that junk foods did not contain the nutrients which the body needed to stay healthy.
"Fast foods do not have adequate amounts of protein and good carbohydrates which the body needs," he added.
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PAGATIM has partnered with Girls Inc. Of NW Oregon to capture the stories behind the 14 Portland "Purse-o-nalities" and Girls Inc Council Members involved in the 8th Annual Girls Inc. Power of the Purse fundraising gala presented by The Standard. To celebrate the gala, which is on March 8th, we'll be streaming 12 interviews on PAGATIM.fm for "Girls Inc. Radio Weekend" the weekend of February 23rd-24th. We're excited to share the empowering stories behind each innovative Portland mind that has committed to inspire girls to be STRONG, SMART and BOLD.
Girls Council is the girls leadership body of Girls Inc. of NW Oregon. The girls on Girls Council come from communities across the greater Portland area and range in age from 8 – 18. Girls are selected for Girls Council through an application and interview process. Each interview is conducted by one of the 2013 Girls Council.
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Photos: Bartonsville Bridge update
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Chris: "The C-Quel" premiere shows off Mount Snow's park terrain
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Chris: ViTAL Economy Alliance contracted to develop Windham Region
Chris: Snug Life apparel creators talk about how they started
Dom: Grafton wind turbine update
Dom: Chimney fires and how to avoid them
Dom: Hinsdale Police Department updates
Dom: Man gets award from Early Education Services w/pix
Howard: Windham Regional Comm. Trans.
Mike: With state-mandated trash-collection changes coming, Vernon
considering its financial options - it's one of only three towns in
Windham County that offers curbside trash pickup.
Mike: The Vernon Newspaper will cease publication due to the health
problems of Selectboard member Chris Howe, who has been printing the
newsletter for years.
Mike: Valley Cares in Townshend hosting Sunday fund-raiser for $2.8
million expansion, which has been delayed until January.
Bob: Former Bratt/NewBrook Firefighter takes over Portland Maine FD,
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Elliot said my breakup must have been due to the sweater curse, an unexplained phenomenon where anyone who gives their significant other a hand-knit sweater gets dumped. The only way to break the curse, Elliot said, was to destroy the sweater.
Just in time for Shark Week, a barrelful of fishy cinematic horrors!
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The Khoisan languages (also Khoesaan languages) are the indigenous languages of southern and eastern Africa; in southern Africa their speakers are the Khoi and Bushmen (Saan), in east Africa the Sandawe and Hadza. They are famous for their clicks. Many people were exposed to this group of languages through Nǃxau's language in the 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Khoisan is the smallest phylum of African languages in Greenberg's classification. However, the connection is not accepted by the linguists who study Khoisan languages, and the name "Khoisan" is used as a term of convenience without any implication of linguistic validity, much as "Papuan" and "Australian" are. It may be that the Tuu and Juu (or Juu-ǂHoan) families are similar due to a southern African Sprachbund rather than a genealogical relationship, whereas the Khoe (or perhaps Kwadi-Khoe) family is a more recent migrant to the area, and may be related instead to Sandawe in East Africa.
Prior to the Bantu expansion, it is likely that Khoisan languages, or languages like them, were spread throughout southern and eastern Africa. Today they are restricted to the Kalahari Desert, primarily in Namibia and Botswana, and to the Rift Valley in central Tanzania.
Most Khoisan languages are endangered, and several are moribund or extinct. Most have no written record. The only widespread Khoisan language is Nama of Namibia, with a quarter of a million speakers; Sandawe in Tanzania is second in number with about 40,000, some monolingual; and the Juu language cluster of the northern Kalahari is spoken by some 30,000 people.
Khoisan languages are best known for their use of click consonants as phonemes. These are written with letters such as ǃ and ǂ. The Juǀ'hoan language has some 30 click consonants, not counting clusters, among perhaps 90 phonemes, which include strident and pharyngealized vowels and four tones. The ǃXóõ and ǂHõã languages are similarly complex.
Grammatically, the southern Khoisan languages are generally fairly isolating, with word order being more widely used to indicate grammatical relations than is inflection. The languages of Tanzania have large numbers of inflectional suffixes.
See Khoe languages for speculations on the linguistic history of the region.
Hadza appears to be unrelated to any other language; genetically, the Hadza people are unrelated to the Khoisan peoples of Southern Africa, and their closest relatives may be among the Pygmies of Central Africa.
There is some indication that Sandawe may be related to the Khoe-Kwadi family, such as a congruent pronominal system and some good Swadesh-list matches, but not enough to establish regular sound correspondences. The Sandawe are not related to the Hadza, despite their proximity.
A Haiǁom language is listed in most Khoisan references. A century ago the Haiǁom people spoke a Ju dialect, probably close to ǃKung, but they now speak a divergent dialect of Nama. Thus their language is variously said to be extinct or to have 16,000 speakers, to be Ju or to be Khoe. (Their numbers have been included under Nama above.) They are known as the Saa by the Nama, and this is the source of the word San.
Not all languages using clicks as phonemes are considered Khoisan. Most are neighboring Bantu languages in southern Africa: the Nguni languages Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi, Phuthi, and Ndebele; Sotho; Yeyi in Botswana; and Mbukushu, Kwangali, and Gciriku in the Caprivi Strip; but there is also the South Cushitic language Dahalo in Kenya, and an extinct northern Australian ritual language called Damin.
The Bantu languages adopted the use of clicks from neighboring, displaced, or absorbed Khoisan populations, often through intermarriage, while the Dahalo are thought to have retained clicks from an earlier language when they shifted to speaking a Cushitic language; if so, the pre-Dahalo language may have been something like Hadza or Sandawe. Damin is an invented ritual language, and has nothing to do with Khoisan.


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Fatty and Tagging
I'll admit, I've never heard of the term 'blog tagging'. It's akin to an electronic chain letter, a pyramid scheme where nobody makes anything, and a bag of goop called "friendship bread":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Friendship_Bread that gets moldy on your countertop because you're too lazy to make it.
I first saw the most recent scourge of blog tagging on "Fatcyclist":http://www.fatcyclist.com/2008/07/22/ive-been-tagged/, and it actually looked a bit interesting, as it was bike related. I'm not sure if Fatty himself started it, or if it came from somewhere else. But, either way, most of the blogs I read started jumping in on the action, whether they were called out or not.
"Bike Snob NYC":http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/07/rack-and-opinion-future-of-bike-parking.html
and Rob even came out of his blogging slumber to "Answer the Questions":http://www.forty15.com/blog/2008/07/bag-em-and-tag-em.html
So, as I am all about jumping on the bandwagon, and quite honestly, all I've been doing this week is riding my brains out and going to bed early, here goes nothing.
If you could have any one — and only one — bike in the world, what would it be?
Most of the posts I've read go into something about a bike they could take the wheels and swap them out so they could ride road and mountain, change the handlebars, blah blah blah.
One bike for me? Singlespeed (sliding dropouts), Titanium, 100mm Fork. Done and done. I don't even care if you give me a set of road slicks for the wheels. Set me up with some nice grippy 2.25 tires. I'll spin my brains out to get to the trails on it, I'll commute to work on it. Don't sacrifice my love of the dirt for a bike that 'could be ridden on the roads'.
Do you already have that coveted dream bike? If so, is it everything you hoped it would be? If not, are you working toward getting it? If you're not working toward getting it, why not?
My Gunnar is pretty damn close, except it's steel. I have surface rust issues with it because I'm pretty hard on bikes in general, but it fits me well, and is super comfy. Someday I'll get a Ti bike built up very similarly to the gunnar. . .
If you had to choose one — and only one — bike route to do every day for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?
I hate questions like this. What situation would I be in where I would ever have to ride one, and only one bike route? Instead, I will just give you what I consider to be the 'classic' flagstaff bike route, and one of my all-time favorite rides. I could ride this route, either direction (it's a helluva lot harder in reverse) for a good long time. But then again, there are about 1.63 million variations on it as well, so there.
Up schultz, down little elden, up little bear, down onion, up elden lookout road to the towers, down sunset, down upper and lower brookbank, down rocky ridge.
What kind of sick person would force another person to ride one and only one bike ride for the rest of her / his life?
I don't think there is anyone who could force that upon me. Really, try, I dare you.
Do you ride both road and mountain bikes? If both, which do you prefer and why? If only one or the other, why are you so narrowminded?
As is probably evidenced by my response above, I prefer the mountain bike. However, I did get a road bike about a year and a half ago, and as a training tool and a change of pace, it's a lot of fun. I've even thought about doing a race sometime this fall as I'm finally getting comfortable on the road bike in a group and starting to feel pretty fast on it.
Have you ever ridden a recumbent? If so, why? If not, describe the circumstances under which you would ride a recumbent.
I think I rode one around a parking lot once. I suppose if I got old and had some sort of injury or condition where I couldn't really sit comfortably in the 'normal' bike riding position, I would ride a recumbent just to keep riding (I have a friend who has some nerve damage in his hands and rides one because it has essentially zero pressure on your hands). Other than that, I can't really think of why I would.
Have you ever raced a triathlon? If so, have you also ever tried strangling yourself with dental floss?
I used to be a lifeguard, so I know how to swim. I occasionally run when I'm into "self-flagellation":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellation. Now racing in either of those sports seems so foreign to me that I can't really imagine it. Then again, stranger things have happened.
I take the dental floss question as a form of leading the witness, and would like to file an objection with the judge. Although, in case you were wondering, the answer is no.
Suppose you were forced to either give up ice cream or bicycles for the rest of your life. Which would you give up, and why?
Easy, ice cream is out. I eat ice cream approximately twice a month. Considering I usually ride my bike at least twice a day, I think the lifestyle change associated with the options at hand leaves a fairly easy conclusion.
What is a question you think this questionnaire should have asked, but has not? Also, answer it.
How should I know? It isn't my questionnaire. I do know that the dental floss one was just kinda dumb.
You're riding your bike in the wilderness (if you're a roadie, you're on a road, but otherwise the surroundings are quite wilderness-like) and you see a bear. The bear sees you. What do you do?
Considering I've seen a couple bears while riding, my immediate reaction is to stop, assess what age the bears are (cubs, mother) and either back away slowly (if they're not moving) or sit still (if they're walking away).
Now, tag three biking bloggers. List them below.
Well, considering out of the blogs I read, I can pick a few who haven't answered yet. How about
"or Anyone at Drunkcyclist.com":http://www.drunkcyclist.com


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Pino Gelato Cafe supports Food For Thought: An Edible Education Partnership between Roanoke City, Roanoke City Public Schools and Virginia Western Community College to create a healthier and happier community.
MONDAY, APRIL 28 & MONDAY, MAY 5 - ALL DAY --- Mention you are with Virginia Western Community College and Food For Thought
Celebrate the end of the semster and support a Virginia Western program. Dine on gelato, flat bread pizza, sandwiches and salad. A percentage of all proceeds are to support the James Madison Middle School Food For Thought garden learning center. Pino Gelato Cafe, is located at The Shoppes at West Village, 3565 Electric Road, Roanoke, Va. For more information on Food For Thought, http://foodforthoughtva.org/
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Are you preparing to graduate? Do you have someone special you'd like to recognize for their help?
Virginia Western is videotaping Thank You messages to be shown at Commencement on May 9, in the Salem Civic Center. Let your family members, friends, professors or other people know how much you appreciate their support.
What: Commencement Thank You Video Shoot
When: Noon-2 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2014
Where: Campus Commons area
*This will be the last opportunity this year to record a Thank You video.
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To help meet educational expenses, Virginia Western Community College is pleased to participate in Nelnet's tuition payment plan. For a non-refundable fee of $25.00, Nelnet allows monthly, interest-free tuition payments. The earlier students enroll the more payment options they may have. The payment plan for Summer 2014 began on April 11, 2014.
If a payment plan is not established or if tuition is not paid by May 1, 2014 students who registered early for classes will be dropped and will need to repeat the registration process. Financial Aid students are protected from enrollment cancellation up to the amount of their Financial Aid award. Financial Aid students should pay any differences between their total award and the amount due to prevent enrollment cancellation.
Payment plan sign-up instructions and deadlines will be posted on the Student Bulletin, Facebook, Twitter, www.virginiawestern.edu and on the VWtvs located across campus.
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Re: aggressive behaviorPosted by: Leslie Hemsing
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: My beloved jr, Brody, adopted at 8 weeks, has always been the friendliest and most popular dog in the neighborhood with humans and dogs alike. He has several "friends" in the neighborhood, including large and small breeds, puppies and older dogs. Lately, (within the last 2 weeks or so) he has begun snarling, growling, and attempting to bite his friends (male and female alike). He is now two years old (and I should add that he is unaltered; my husband is against neutering after losing a dog this way). My question is whether or not this is normal behavior for a JRT (Brody is our first, and none of the books I have read address this problem)? Is he playing the aggressive male, or should I see the vet? He has not shown any aggression towards humans (still our same loving boy at home), but I would hate to have to stop letting him play when he used to love it so much. Any advice?
No, this is not "normal" behavior for a Jack Russell Terrier. The fact that your terrier is not neutered may be contributing to the behavior but that still doesn't make his aggression any more acceptable.
Since your Brody's behavior is both recent and unusual, it's always a good idea to first rule out a medical condition. If he's healthy, then you need to consider what changed in his/your life within the last several weeks to make him "think" he should attack his friends.
I understand your husband's fear and guilt; losing a beloved pet during what is essentially "elective" surgery is tragic. While there will never be a guarantee that a pet who undergoes surgery will make it through, the advances in veterinary medicine (safer anesthesia, laser technology, etc) have vastly increased the odds. I hope you'll both talk to your vet about having your Brody neutered; it would be a shame if his "hormones" are the reason he's not able/willing to enjoy playing with his dog pals. :-)


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July 27, 2005 1:00 PM PDT
Landlines still trump Web for teen chitchat
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That was one of a number of curious findings from a survey of 1,100 U.S. teens ages 12 to 17 and their parents conducted last year by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The group released a report on the survey on Wednesday.
The study also found that teenage girls ages 15 to 17 are the "power users" of the Web among online teens. Ninety-seven percent--a full 10 percent more than boys their age--have used instant messaging. Fifty-seven percent have sent text messages, compared with 40 percent of boys their age. Just over half have purchased something online, and they are more likely to search the Web for information about schools, health and entertainment than boys are.
While it should come as no surprise that teenage girls use the Web to socialize, the statistics reveal a less expected finding--youth with a more intense interest in the Internet are often more social than those who aren't online.
"I think there is this real myth of teenagers becoming socially isolated" online, said Amanda Lenhart, researcher and co-author of the report. "We have some findings that suggest that teen Internet users are more connected. They spend more time face-to-face than non-Internet users. They seem to have more friends and spend more time with them. The Internet is not necessarily taking people away from their social lives."
But why do teenagers, even those with mobile phones, gravitate to landline phones? Lenhart's best guess is that teens are trying to conserve mobile phone minutes. "They're actually being quite savvy," Lenhart said. "Landline service is generally paid for by parents."
Some teenagers also report a few downsides to online life, where information is so free-flowing. One in five reported friends had forwarded private e-mail or instant messages to others, Lenhart said. Another recent survey of children in Britain showed that classroom bullies consider the Web another weapon in their arsenal, with one in five children reporting they've been harassed by their peers via mobile phone or computer.
Yet such problems do not appear to be slowing teenagers' appetite for the Internet. Eighty-seven percent of American teenagers--about 21 million of them--are online, according to the Pew survey. That's up 24 percent from four years ago. Half of those who use the Web do so every day, the survey indicated.
Slightly more than half of online teens live in homes with high-speed Internet service, the report said. Over the past four years, significantly more teens go online to play games, get news and shop. Eighty-four percent report owning a personal computer, cell phone or BlackBerry, with personal computers among the most widespread.
Seventy-five percent of online teens use instant-messaging programs, while one-third have sent a text message via mobile phone. Most access the Internet at home, with school and friends' and relatives' houses close behind.
Just wait until these teenagers enter the work force, Lenhart said. Questions of work-life balance may only intensify.
"Teens will bring these things into the workplace more than they already are," she said. "Teens have the expectation of always being online and constantly connected. What does that mean for the future? What's reasonable? What does a vacation mean if you're attached to your BlackBerry all the time?"
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My dogs and I wont butter you.Good to know.
The extremely occasional blog of Colleen Lindsay, professional nerd, cat herder, publishing optimist, and sartorial tragedy.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Adventures in Craigslist housing ads. Part Five: More dogs and butter.
10 comments:
- S. E. Ward said...
Is it wrong that I read that as, "My dogs and I are wont to butter you?"
- April 4, 2008 at 6:50 PM
- orogeny said...
Ah! That makes sense.
And is all kinds of funny and terrifying.
- April 5, 2008 at 3:47 AM
- Travis Erwin said...
But they might still toast you.
- April 5, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Adaora A. said...
It all comes togeher madam, it all comes together.
- April 5, 2008 at 9:52 AM
- Georgiana said...
Wait, last time this person only had one dog.
"Have one dog, no butter people."
There is some sort of pod dog/butter people thing going on here that I don't quite understand.
My advice is to continue to stay far, far away.
- April 5, 2008 at 4:08 PM
- Andrew Carmichael said...
That's a good point, georgina. Did this person recently get a new dog? How can they be sure about this dog's buttering preferences?
- April 5, 2008 at 4:26 PM
- Larry said...
Look on the bright side: the person can spell (somewhat) phonetically. At my new teaching job, I was giving a spelling test this past Tuesday to assess the reading level of a new resident (I teach emotionally disturbed teens). One of the words was "couldn't." This one male student wrote something down, erased it, tried again, erased it and gave up.
Later, when I'm scoring the test, I looked to see what he had tried to spell. I see the letters c-u-n-t.
Best part is, that guy almost certainly wasn't trying to spell that!
So, more "butter" please? :P
- April 5, 2008 at 10:12 PM
- cyn said...
that's good, because buttering costs extra.
- April 5, 2008 at 11:40 PM
- Andrew Carmichael said...
Does butter = bother?
I didn't understand that until larry's comment, so Thank You Larry!
- April 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM
- Adaora A. said...
Please to butter my bread, but don't butter me.
- April 7, 2008 at 9:55 AM


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A barometer is a device used to measure pressure. Gauge pressure is the difference between a pressure and atmospheric pressure. Gauge pressure can be negative while total pressure cannot.
Let's talk about barometers. A barometer is a device that's used to measure the pressure. Now the simplest type of barometer which is the type that we're going to talk about just consists of a column of mercury which is trapped in a little tube of glass and inverted in a pool of mercury. So we've got a nice uniform fluid here and so that means that the pressure got to be the same at each height so that's all fine. The atmosphere is pushing down here and there's nothing pushing up there because there's no air inside of this glass tube. So that means that this height of the mercury directly measures the atmospheric pressure, so we'll have p atmosphere equals density of mercury acceleration due to gravity times height. So this is kind of a nice way of visualizing pressure if the height goes higher then that means that the pressure was bigger, if the height went lower then that means that the pressure went lower there're just directly proportional to one another.
A lot of times people will actually measure pressures just directly in terms of how many millimeters of mercury can be supported in this type of a barometer. Alright now another important idea that's associated with this, is the idea of gauge pressure. Gauge pressure is defined as the difference between the pressure that, whatever it is something is exerting and the pressure that the atmosphere is exerting. So difference between the pressure and the atmospheric pressure, but this is very, very important for things like tyres. So when somebody says your tyre pressure needs to be blurred usually what? 32 PSI or 30 PSI pounds per square inch what they really mean is that the pressure inside the tyre needs to be 32 PSI greater than the pressure outside the tyre. What they're saying is that the tyre needs to support that pressure. So the pressure inside is actually 32 plus atmospheric pressure which is about 14.7.
Okay so that's one situation in which gauge pressure is useful but it's not the only one. It's very, very easy to measure gauge pressure all we need to do is have a little black bar on the mercury column that indicates where atmospheric pressure would be and then we seal up the bottom of it which I'm not showing in this diagram and then we just kind of put whatever we want in there that we want to measure the pressure of. If the height of mercury goes up, then the pressure that we're trying to measure is greater than atmospheric pressure. The gauge pressure will just be density of the fluid which is usually mercury although sometimes people use water times acceleration due to gravity times this difference in height which I can measure very, very accurately. And that's one of the reasons why people like to use gauge pressure.
Of course if the pressure that we're trying to measure is less than the atmospheric pressure this height will be on the other side because the mercury column will go down. And that will mean that the gauge pressure will be negative and you often see that in vacuum pumps. Where you'll look at the pressure reading and it'll say negative in kilopascals so negative 80 kilopascals it doesn't mean that the pressure is negative because the pressure can't be negative what it means is that the pressure is less than atmospheric pressure. So a lot of times it's really gauge pressure that you want okay and the gauge pressure that they're asking for. Now sometimes people will ask you for the total pressure. Total is basically shorthand for saying you need to add 1 at the end, okay 1 atmosphere, because they want to know the total pressure compared to vacuum, compared to 0 pressure what is the pressure. So let's go ahead and do a problem along these lines determine the total pressure 50 meters below the surface of the ocean. Okay well this is real simple. I'll say well jeez the pressure will be equal to density of ocean water times acceleration due to gravity times height.
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Pakistan: Darkness Renewed
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Daily killings of innocent citizens speak out loud that political darkness is renewed and that Pakistan needs a Navigational Change. Terrorists are terrorizing the nation. Perhaps, it is reasonable to assume that there is no responsible political governance in Pakistan. Ironically, the same security forces and their elite administrators are paid by the Foreign Master and they generate daily statistic of hundreds of killings by drone attacks and 'extremism.' They are well paid in cash dollars to do the job – the role and functions of traitors who deserve to be questioned and be held accountable in a court of law.
Man's inhumanity to Man
'Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And Man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn
(Robert Burns. Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge, 1785)
Politics has become a bloody business to maintain power and be affluent. Daily killings of innocent citizens are no news to the Pakistani politics. Within a month, twice innocent citizens were targeted in Quetta – bloodbath that bears religious insanity and troubling signs of continued disintegration of the Muslim nation. Those responsible for these cold blooded massacres of the civilians have no relationship to Islam. It is insanity at work. All citizens of Pakistan must have security and protection. Ironically, the civilian administration and the Generals cannot provide security to the beleaguered nation. But they are active in military engagements sponsored by the Foreign Master (USA) to kill the people labeled as "extremists" and "terrorists.". Why the citizens cannot get security from their own Generals and security forces? Why is it that no killers are found or brought to justice? If there is an effective civilian government, why can't they arrest the perpetrators of sadistic gangesterism? Most likely, the investigation will lead to few political monsters running the administration. Global community sees Pakistan drowning fast in its own search for survival. If the security forces cannot protect the citizens, what else are they good for? Master has free hand to use the same blueprint of operations as is the case in Iraq and Afghanistan - invest in sectarianism and help the people to become helpless and start killing each other and they will be dismantled on their own without firing a single bullet from outside.
More than a decade ago, the strategic plan was worked out in concert with General Musharaf to keep him in power. Under the guise of bogus War on Terror led by the US and its allies in Afghanistan and Iraq and continuing its spill-over into Pakistan. Politics means self-interests and self grooming. Pakistan enjoys a junk history of so called leaders over half of a century – time and opportunities for change and reformation stolen by the few Generals and their accomplice politicians. What the Pakistani nation wants and deserves is never part of their thinking and agenda. These thugs turned monsters rulers follow their own ambitions to enforce lawlessness, killings and destructions of the social , economic and political infrastructures. After half of a century of the military rule, martial laws, broken dreams of democracy and freedom, dismantled public institutions and continued disconnected governance by thugs and crime riddled people like Zardari and his gangsters, how should the world view the Pakistani nation – its moral norms, political culture and integrity? What tragic picture comes out of the daily massacres of innocent civilians and corrupt social and political imagery of the Muslim nation?
Andrew Gavin Marshall ("Imperial Eye on Pakistan- Pakistan in Pieces, Part 1, Global Research: 5/30/2011) offers a candid context to the prevalent problem:
"America has, in recent years, altered its strategy in Pakistan in the direction of destabilization. In short, Pakistan is an American target. The reason: Pakistan's growing military and strategic ties to China, America's primary global strategic rival. In the 'Great Game' for global hegemony, any country that impedes America's world primacy – even one as historically significant to America as Pakistan – may be sacrificed upon the altar of war………. Pakistan will very likely continue to be destabilized and ultimately collapse. What is not mentioned in these assessments, however, is the role of the military and intelligence communities in making this a reality; a veritable self-fulfilling prophecy."
The US led war has transformed its egoistic urge into a monstrous situation of unwarranted deaths and killings of the civilian population under the bogus guise of terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan. American policy makers follow a double-edged strategy: they classify "Pakistan as the most dangerous state breeding terrorism" (Foreign Policy, 01.2011), and continue to accelerate terrorism of war on the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan to create more terrorism as substance for the policy rationale. At the end of the 2010, the US failed strategies and military losses in Afghanistan look for face-lifting measures. The New York Times reported (12/21/2010) that senior American military commanders – meaning Gen. David Petraeus (at the time) and his colleagues at ISAF – are pushing for raids into Pakistan aimed at capturing Taliban commanders and bringing them back to Afghanistan for interrogation. The intensification of drone attacks inside Pakistan has devastated the civilian lives in the border region. The corrupt Pakistani regime under Zardari has allowed the US forces to invade and kill its own people. One of the major aims of the US policy (as pointed out by the NY Times), is to "disrupt the whole enterprise in Pakistan, including the civilian government". Political opponents of the existing government would be "screaming for blood", and the military would feel that it had to act against the government. The global news media and the New York Time (05/19/2007) made it known that "Pakistani Generals are paid to do the job." These assignments included killings of their own people and destruction of the institutions and infrastructure to seek insane justification that US friends are doing the job in return for cash payments.
American friendship is more dangerous than its publicly defined animosity. According to the NY Times (12/21/2010), the policy being pursued by the Obama administration, tends to insulate it from such warnings of potentially disastrous consequences of an aggressive U.S. military role in Pakistan. The administration increased the number of CIA drone strikes in northwest Pakistan over that of the Bush administration – a policy requiring that it discount the political fallout of the drone campaign in Pakistan. The CIA has also set up "fusion centres" with the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, aimed at making the Pakistani military more dependent on U.S. intelligence and less likely to be responsive to public opposition to U.S. military activities in Pakistan.
Andrew Gavin Marshall "Imperial Eye on Pakistan- Pakistan in Pieces, Part 1 (Global Research: 5/30/2011) states that "in December of 2000, the CIA released a report of global trends to the year 2015, which stated that by 2015, "Pakistan will be more fractious, isolated, and dependent on international financial assistance."[1] Further, it was predicted, Pakistan:
Will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive politics, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction. Nascent democratic reforms will produce little change in the face of opposition from an entrenched political elite and radical Islamic parties."
Andrew Gavin Marshall puts the emerging realities in context:
"The war in Afghanistan is inherently related to the situation in Pakistan……… In September of 2008, the editor of Indian Defence Review wrote an article explaining that a stable Pakistan is not in India's interests: "With Pakistan on the brink of collapse due to massive internal as well as international contradictions, it is matter of time before it ceases to exist." He explained that Pakistan's collapse would bring "multiple benefits" to India, including preventing China from gaining a major port in the Indian Ocean, which is in the mutual interest of the United States. The author explained that this would be a "severe jolt" to China's expansionist aims, and further, "India's access to Central Asian energy routes will open up."
For ages, the Pakistani Generals and their corrupt by-products – Bhuttos, Sharifs, Chaudris and Zardaris have gone unchecked and they all deserve to see the MIRROR. Who does not know the double standard pitched in by Zardari and the General Kiyani on the Raymond Davis case and his final freedom against the killing of two Pakistani young men at Lahore? In August, the US media reported that Raymond Davis was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted attacks to open fire and kill civilians in Colorado and Washington. The issue of his killing of two Pakistani civilians was referred to in the US court. Raymond Davis claimed that he acted in self defense as he was operating in a "War Zone." The US prosecutor questioned his assertion and clarified that "Lahore" (Pakistan) "is not located in a war zone" but that the war was going on in neighboring Afghanistan. Raymond Davis again contended and justified that "Lahore" is located in a "War Zone." One wonders, since when the US Government and its spying agents are actively engaged in fighting in a war zone – Lahore – that the world has no knowledge about it. Should the people of Pakistan not question the treacherous rulers (Zardari and General Kiyani) and demand an answer if in fact Lahore is located in a "war zone" about which the Pakistani masses have no idea except their sadistic rulers who helped Raymond Davis to escape the normal course of legal justice in Pakistan. The US policy is clear from the beginning – the war in Afghanistan is meant to go beyond the obvious and to inside Pakistan and to dismantle the Pakistani nuclear weapons. Musharaf and his military colleagues were well paid to undertake treachery and treason to the Pakistani nation. Zardari is no exception, just an extension of the same setup.
Andrew Gavin Marshall points out that David Kilcullen advisor to "President Obama warned in April of 2009, that Pakistan could collapse within months, and that, "We have to face the fact that if Pakistan collapses it will dwarf anything we have seen so far in whatever we're calling the war on terror now." The adviser explained that this would be unlike the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, which each had a population of over 30 million, whereas "Pakistan has [187] million people and 100 nuclear weapons, an army which is bigger than the American army, and the headquarters of al-Qaeda sitting in two-thirds of the country which the Government does not control."
Pakistani politics is synonymous to corruption. There are no functional public institutions to offer rational and impartial analysis of the real world problems. None of the political establishments or independent politicians have the credibility to move the masses from a crippled present into a politically sustainable future. Conscientious and thinking people of Pakistan must strive to workout freedom from exploitation and death squads operated by these so called democrats. A dire sense of reality would ask for change and reformation of the cancerous political governance. Pakistan desperately needs a new government of non-partisan people to disengage its status-quo of collaborative warmongering and to determine a new policy to end the collaboration with the US War and demand immediate withdrawals of the US-British troops from neighboring Afghanistan and to stop drone attacks and incursions into the Pakistani tribal belts of Waziristan and Baluchistan province. The war engagement is killing the people of Pakistan and undermining its future as a stable nation. This is a clear conspiracy to dismantle the Muslim nation from within.
Once again, out of the daily civilian bloodbaths and public insecurity, there are talks of new political elections. Another political election is not remedy of the present and continuing political killings and sickness. If the present is a reference point, the future will truly be engulfed with wickedness of darkness. There appears to be no light or hope for change and to undo the corrupt system of politics. To imagine ANEW Pakistan under sustainable system of governance and honest and 21st century intelligent leadership - the thinking hub of the new and educated generation must have opportunities to imagine, plan and actively participate in a defining role for the social, economic, educational and political reconstruction of the nation and to facilitate a promising future. So far, the young generations have been deprived by the influential feudal lords dominating the political landscape. The bogus set-up of the National Assembly and Senate and federal governance is disconnected joint of Pakistani politics. They reflect a burden on people's conscience and morality. There is no honorable role for Bhuttos, Zardaris, military Generals and Sharifs to be part of Pakistan's future. They are all dead entries with no relevance to the prevalent realities of the Muslim nation. Are there no intelligent and honest people left in politics to think of Pakistan and its future? Pakistan NEEDS ANEW Beginning- a new system of governance under new and intelligent proactive leadership having confidence of the people and a foreign policy to detach itself from the US warmongering and show publicly a shifting metaphor of freedom from the foreign dictates. Pakistani nation must look for change and new and politically responsible leadership and the answer rests with the vision and honest commitment of the new educated generation to serve the people of Pakistan and safeguard its future from further bloodshed and disintegration.
Another masterpiece Dr Mahboob A Khawaja Sahib. we think that it you, the vast majority of Pakistani and Muslims who can turn the tide.
we all know that crusader £$€ have bought rotting top layer so it is us who can take these shameless sleazy slimy bastard to courts. How?
Pakistan has a blasphemy law what can be more blasphemous than the daily slaughter of innocent.
We are prepared to file a case against these butchers of Ummah. So they will send their thugs to threaten, slaughter create inferno etc. We will get our top thinkers (no this is not the uk shit chat um house or USrahelli katz crap) we have the cream della cream
Okay lets go to that hideous ugly mass murderer of Muslim -obomba droning
Shamsi was rented to those disgusting Arab prostitute for hunting purposes not to give to their pimps for zionist mafia crusader imperialism to slaughter Muslims! Lets get these rotten crusader harem of petrostate
Sue the US harlots of the petrostate and no we do not want their $10,000 for the 1000s killed
sue the bastards and RUIN THEM
Okay lets take the junkies (Libya + Syria type) car bombers. Pakistan has the know how technology to have the data base of the chemical(explosives) used and which country provides these. We already know them
UK/EU – Denmark/Italy/France/Germany/Holland/………..
We have Pakistani scientist who have studied in Japan/EU/US
so we know how to deal with them. Kick them OUT and go for what the love £$€
Oh least we forget:
Just blow their drones – you know WE have the capabilities.
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Countering Hoodbhoy: Not Anti-Nukes But Anti-Pakistan
How a book by a Pakistani physicist and Indian authors forgot to mention these facts about the world's fastest growing nuclear capability, in India.
Special Report | 15 Feb. 2013
In November last year a group of seven writers, including a Nobel laureate, and a Pakistani professor of physics, brought out an anti-nuclear weapons' book Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out , which turned out to be primarily Pakistan-bashing rather than a holistic critique of Pakistan and India's nuclear capability.
One-third of the book –6 out of 17 chapters– is a compilation of papers published earlier.
OK they want to play sect politics lets give the thugs what they want. You know it as well as I do that the vast majority of Muslims ARE UNITED AND THEY HAVE NO DIVISIONS
Lets show these scums what these MUSLIM do to the crusader child killers of our UMMAH – remember that ugly barbaric evil Albright a price WE THINK ……….
Beware; USA & Allies Stoking Shia-Sunni Divide
by K. Gajendra Singh
\India has a large Shia population of about 25 million in a total Muslim population of 130 million, making it perhaps the 2nd largest Shia community in the world after Iran. After the US attacks in Najaf in 2004, Muslims of Lucknow (India), a big Shia centre, had declared that Americans were not welcome there. \
Absolutely and brilliant piece by our Dr Mahboob A Khawaja Sahib.
we had a friend whose family member were in the police force. Many times were told of stories of the arrest of say "top goon aka mafioso/terrorist/thug. this friend said that their relative told them of these 40+ thugs crying when they were arrested
why? are they afraid of the prison? considering the insane savagery/barbarity/terrorism these crusader whores carried out what did they fear?
the feared LOSING THE LOOT! this is so true
Just look at the bshit savage barbarians each time any country asks them to hand over the vast resources they have looted – the goddamned bastards start WHINING
hit them where it hurts
so Switzerland has been corrupted by US/UK not to open the case.
No case NO problem – WE WANT OUR MONIES
India thinks it is ready to take us on with their COOLIE WHORISNESS.
Let the Iran Pakistan gas pipeline sort out the "crusader chamchas".
Look the stupid fools have coolie call centers – meaning they have the IT knowledge yet the fools fell for the sonia mafia gangs corruption agustawestland FINNEMECCANICA scam.
And yep where were the fraudsters hiding the LOOT? You guessed it. In the paradiso of crooks, criminal, serial mass murderers and criminal against humanity – UK
A Parasites' Paradise
(Or the Best Criminal Sanctuary Money Can Buy)
By James Petras
October 11, 2012 "Information Clearing House" – Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or a bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and drive millions to drink, drugs and destitution they find a suitable secure sanctuary in London.
hence the fat slimy sleazy toad of their majesty was in India to ask the coolies not to cancel the contract with FINNEMECCANICA
Sahib we know all these so why are npt taking action? Are we not as guilty as those busharaf, zardari ………… etc.
it is our duty to take action otherwise we are equally to blame.
you have the government you deserve – as the saying goes. take the FUNDS – legally if that is being blocked than ILLEGALLY
there is no more time to waste.We not agree with this article because it is plain stupidity to accuse the cursed house of saud for whom we have contempt and disgust. the stupid harem of petro state do what their pimps tell and the vast fund for TERRORIST comes from that rotting zionist mafia hell hole USrahell/EU and of course "open wallet bandar" provides some funding
US-Saudi Funded Terrorists Sowing Chaos in Pakistan
Baluchistan, Pakistan – long target of Western geopolitical interests, terror wave coincides with Gwadar Port handover to China.
By Tony Cartalucci
February 18, 2013 "Information Clearing House"
*"provide better facilities to reporters who cover the proceedings of the Balochistan Assembly." We must assume BFID meant reporters "trained" at NED-BFID workshops. –
(WE KNOW THE SYRIAN /LIBYAN goons. they were given communication equipment and were housed in the "journalist quarters")
we informed you when you wrote about Libya/Syria
* "Perhaps the most absurd operations being run to undermine Pakistan through the "Free Baluchistan" movement are the US and London-based organizations. The "Baloch Society of North America" almost appears to be a parody at first, but nonetheless serves as a useful aggregate and bellwether regarding US meddling in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. The group's founder, Dr. Wahid. Baloch, openly admits he has met with US politicians in regards to Baluchistan independence. This includes Neo-Con warmonger, PNAC signatory, corporate-lobbyist, and National Endowment for Democracy director Zalmay Khalilzad.
Dr. Wahid Baloch considers Baluchistan province "occupied" by both the Iranian and Pakistani governments – he and his movement's humanitarian hand-wringing gives Washington the perfect pretext to create an armed conflagration against either Iran or Pakistan, or both, as planned in detail by various US policy think-tanks."
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The particular behavior of astronomical clustering on multiple scales suggests that the concepts of fractal geometry may apply. The modern motivation for fractal geometry may best be summed up by this quote of Benoit Mandelbrot: ``Mountains are not cones, clouds are not spheres, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line''. Fractals are, in simplest terms, objects which are (approximately) self-similar on all scales.
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The Scottish Government has set up a panel of 12 people from across Scotland with expertise to bring to the shaping of the commemoration of the centenary of the start of World War 1 in 2014.
Called 'The Scottish Commemorations Panel' the 12 are a blend of professionals from the military and veterans communities, community leaders, clergy, media, historians and education specialists.
They are:
- Brigadier David Allfrey MBE
- The Duke of Buccleuch
- Maggie Cunningham
- Reverend Ron Ferguson
- Lieutenant General Sir Alistair Irwin KCB CBE
- Group Captain Bob Kemp, CBE QVRM AE DL
- Magnus Linklater CBE
- Dr Bill Maxwell, FRSA
- Professor Louise Richardson
- Trevor Royle FRSE
- Commodore Charles Stevenson
- Professor Sir Hew Strachan
The Chair of the panel is former Army Chaplain, Norman Drummond and its remit is to recommend a preferred approach for Scotland's commemorations of the forthcoming centenary – and to oversee the delivery of the programme.
The current Tri-Service Heads in Scotland, Rear Admiral Chris Hockley, Major General Nick Eeles and Air Commodore Gerry Mayhew, will provide additional advisory support to the Panel.
The Panel's first meeting will take place in Edinburgh in the coming week, on Thursday 14th March, to lay down the foundation of its thinking and programme development.
The tightrope to be walked
It is to be hoped, given that the centenary of World War 1 falls in the year of the independence referendum, that this is not presented as Scotland's war, overly bedecked in tartan for narrow political ends.
This was almost everyone's war and while we were a part of it, we must respect the enormity of the entire event, celebrating and grieving for the bonding of that common cause and the waste of it.
War on this scale engages and requires the national solidarity that gets a country through it, one way or the other, in victory or defeat. The magnitude of the carnage of that war was so huge that it is beyond real grasp.
The truth of that war is also, as anything human must be, complex and various.
The initial rush to enlist in the British forces was not motivated solely by patriotism but also by immediate need. Surging inflation in the early years of the 20th century had brought widespread hardship, seeing Scots and others driven to enlist for the certainty of regular food and wages.
Ten Scottish regiments were involved, contributing together 22, or 14%, of the 157 battalions of the British Expeditionary force. Of the estimated 908,351 deaths amongst the British Empire force – this was a war in which the empire and not just Britain, was involved – around 100,000, or 11% were from the Scots battalions. Britain itself is thought to have seen around 745,000 of its forces killed, so Scots deaths in service made up 13.4% of that total internal loss, with 11% of the population of the day.
Stories of comradeship in the dreadful, sodden and rat infested trenches and of the Christmas truce with its impromptu football game between the enemy forces ram home the humanity that somehow transcends the worst that we can do to each other.
The big story the numbers tell
Beyond such stories, destruction on such a vast scale is, oddly, approachable best through that apparently most soulless of things – statistics. Numbers have a real place in the effort to represent and embrace the unimaginable.
It is not just the dead that are the losses of war, it is the missing, the injured and the irreparable that make up something closer to the full volume of the casualties.
Russia enlisted 12,ooo,ooo men. 76% of these – 9,150,000 men – were casualties.
The 2011 Scottish census shows that the the total number of men and women between the ages of 20 and 49 totals 2,177,000. This is 23.79% of the casualties suffered by Russia alone and almost exclusively of its enlisted menfolk – so four times the volume of our most physically effective working age population of both genders today were lost to one gender of one of our allies in the first World War.
- France took casualties of 73.3% of the 8,410,000 it enlisted.
- British Empire casualties were 35.8% of the 8,904,467 enlisted.
- Romania had a 71.4% casualty rate in the 750,000 strong force it assembled.
- Serbia took a 46.8% casualty rate amongst its 707,343 force.
- Germany saw 64.9% casualties amongst the 11,000,000 it raised.
- Austro-Hungary took a horrific 90% casualty rate in its 7,800,000 strong force.
- Turkey had 34.2% casualties amongst its 2,850,000 men.
Britain and its Allies lost over half of their combined forces – 52.3% – as casualties. Germany and its Allies lost 67.4% of their combined forces as casualties.
In total, on both sides, over 65 million went to war – beyond the emptying of the entire UK today; with over 8.5 million killed; 21.2 million wounded; and 7.75 million missing. This total number of casualties was 37.47 million – or 57.5% of all involved.
The smallest forces sent were those of Portugal at 100,000 and Montenegro at 50,000. The current 'strategic revision' of the British Army today will fall between these two at 80,000.
'The war to end all wars'
This is a war unlike any other before or since, not only in the scale of the losses on both sides but, in the British home forces, in the nature and cost of Lord Kitchener's recruiting strategy.
His call for volunteer forces recruited from localities saw the formation of what were called 'Pals' battalions – men of all ages enlisting together from an area where they and their families were embedded, to fighting – and largely to die – together.
In the almost 1,000 battalions raised in the first two years of this war, over 66% of them were locally raised 'Pals' units.
The most famous of these are:
- on the British Mainland, the Accrington Pals – the 11th [Service] Battalion [Accrington] East Lancashire Regiment.
- in Ireland, the Ulster Volunteer Force forming the 36th [Ulster] Division and supplying 13 more battalions to three existing regiments.
- in Scotland, the 16th (2nd Edinburgh) (Service) Battalion of the Lothian Regiment Royal Scots, included the entire first and reserve team players of Heart of Midlothian Football Club, along with several of its boardroom and staff members and a substantial number of its supporters.
The 'Pals' units illustrated the solidarity of community – and the unimaginable emotional, social and economic impacts on those communities when few of their menfolk returned.
Half of the Accrington Pals battalion had been recruited from Accrington and District, with most of the remainder raised in its neighbouring towns of Burnley, Chorley and Blackburn.
On 24th June, the run up to the opening of the Battle of the Somme under a week later, the Accrington Pals were engaged in the battle for Serre which saw 584 casualties taken from their total of 720 within 20 minutes – 81%. As the news filtered through to Accrington, church bells tolled incessantly.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the 36th [Ulster] Division at Ancre was the only Division to achieve its first day targets. Of the 9 Victoria Crosses awarded, 4 were to the 36th [Ulster] Division. But on that first day they took 5,104 casualties, 2,069 of them killed.
British casualties on the first day of the Somme are given as between 58,00 and 60,000, of which 33% were killed. To this day, this remains a record loss for a single day of battle.
The strength of the 'Pals' recruitment concept carried the dreadfully disproportionate losses suffered by the towns and villages from which these units had been raised. Lessons were learned from this and when Conscription as introduced in 1916, no further local units were sought or formed.
This was called 'the war to end all wars'. It should have been but of course it wasn't.
The philosopher, George Santayana, famously said: ' Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
We must therefore hope that the commemorations which emerge from this panel are based on the understanding that the core purpose should be to renew the memory of just how numbing was the scale of human destruction this particular war created, in an attempt to prevent war as a means of settling disputes.
The members of The Scottish Commemorations Panel
Norman Drummond, who Chairs the Panel, says: 'Scotland's Commemorative Programme must provide opportunities for people of all ages to learn about the war in meaningful ways and so to enable them to explore the resonance of World War I and its aftermath to contemporary life here in Scotland and beyond. This view is shared by the Panel.'
Brief notes on the individual backgrounds they bring to this task are:
- Brigadier David Allfrey MBE - is Producer and Chief Executive of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and Events and Festivals Champion for the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA).
- The Duke of Buccleuch – Captain General, The Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, Royal Company of Archers and Hon Colonel, 52nd Lowland 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland and formerly President of the National Trust for Scotland.
- Maggie Cunningham – Chairman of BBC Alba and a Director of Sabhal Mor Ostaig. Former Deputy Controller of BBC Scotland, Head of Radio Scotland and Secretary to the Broadcasting Council for Scotland.
- Reverend Ron Ferguson – a former Leader of the Iona Community and Minister of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Ron is a columnist, author and playwright and lives in Orkney.
- Lieutenant General Sir Alistair Irwin KCB CBE – his long career in the Army culminated in his appointment as Adjutant General, the Army Board member responsible for all personnel matters. Since leaving the Army he has been closely involved with veterans affairs in Scotland. Most relevant in the context of the Great War commemorations he is President both of the Royal British Legion Scotland and Poppy Scotland. He has been a Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission since 2005 and is currently its Vice Chairman.
- Group Captain Bob Kemp, CBE, QVRM, AE, D – a former Royal Air Force aviator, the Inspector of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and an Industrialist, currently Director Scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
- Magnus Linklater CBE – who has held a number of senior editorships on newspapers in London and Scotland, including the Evening Standard, Sunday Times, Observer and London Daily News. He has been Editor of The Scotsman, and columnist and Scotland Editor of The Times. A former Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, he is the author of several books on current affairs and Scottish history.
- Dr Bill Maxwell, FRSA – appointed as Chief Executive of Education Scotland in May 2011. Education Scotland has been established as a new style of integrated improvement agency, supporting quality and improvement in Scottish Education. Bill previously held the post of Senior Chief Inspector of Education in Scotland and, prior to that, Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales.
- Professor Louise Richardson – was appointed Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of St Andrews after a 20 year career at Harvard University. A political scientist by training, she has written and taught extensively on the subject of political violence.
- Trevor Royle FRSE – author of more than 30 books on the subject of war and empire including "Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War (2006)". Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
- Commodore Charles Stevenson CBE – served in the Royal Navy in Destroyers and Aircraft Carriers. A former Director of Naval Surveying, Oceanography and Meteorology at the Ministry of Defence he completed his service as the Naval Regional Commander, Scotland and Northern Ireland. He now runs his own Company as well as being an Ambassador for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
- Professor Sir Hew Strachan – Chichele Professor of the History of War, Oxford University; Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner; Trustee of the Imperial War Museum; member of the UK National First World War Committee.


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16th Congress of the South African Association for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Allied Professions
Kramer Building, Middle Campus, UCT
11 September 2007 to 14 September 2007
Counselling behaviour change using motivational interviewing
Presenter: Prof Bob Mash
Division of Family Medicine, Stellenbosch University
Member of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)
1 day
Maximum of 20 people
Motivational interviewing
Motivational interviewing is a directive, but client-centred approach to behaviour change counselling that was developed and tested in the specialist addiction field and has now been extrapolated to different settings and other behavioural issues. In adolescence it is relevant to interventions that target health risk behaviours such as alcohol use, drugs, sexual practices and physical risk taking.
To train psychologists, psychiatrists or other health workers in basic skills or improve their existing skills in motivational interviewing as a form of health behaviour change counselling. Motivational interviewing is of relevance to any counselling that deals with lifestyle issues such as smoking, drugs, alcohol, safe sex, adherence to medication or dietary choices.
To engage the spirit of motivational interviewing as a way of being with patients or clients and to be able to utilize specific principles and skills in consultations or counselling sessions involving behaviour change.
Course format/structure
The course will integrate theory with modelling of skills and will focus on the practical use of MI by participants. This may involve the use of simulation, role-play, group work, audio and video tape.
Target group
The course is directed at psychologists, psychiatrists or other health care workers who counsel clients or consult patients and must help people make decisions about behaviour change.
Prof Mash manages postgraduate training in family medicine at Stellenbosch University and has a wide range of research interests that include diabetic eye disease, asthma care, family medicine training and education, motivational interviewing and the district health system. Clinically, he works in the Khayelitsha sub-district of Cape Town. In 2005 he became a member of MINT and in 2006 organised an international training of practitioners and trainers in motivational interviewing at Stellenbosch.
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Alexander is best known for being one half of BAFTA winning comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. He has also turned his hand to straight acting and has starred in Love Life, Life Begins, Mutual Friends and Hunderby. Alexander has hosted Pointless since it began in 2009 and also Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask, Epic Win and Have I Got News For You. He is also a member of Alexander Armstrong and his Band.
Tracy Edwards MBE
Tracy shot to fame in 1990 when she skippered the first all-female crew to sail around the world when Maiden raced in the Whitbread Round the World Race. She became the first woman in its 32 year history to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Award, was awarded an MBE and Sportswoman of the Year. After 22 years at the top of her sport Tracy retired in 2005. In 2014 she founded Maiden Rescue which will rescue and return the yacht Maiden home to the UK for her 25th anniversary in 2015. Tracy has been a patron of Just a Drop since 2009.
Marie Helvin
Former model, Marie, was impressed by Just a Drop's army of volunteers who willingly give their time and expertise in order to change so many people's lives. She agreed to become the patron of our 'Friend for Life' campaign which was launched on World Water Day in 2011.
Captain Jim Masters MBE
Jim spent his youth swimming, building rafts and narrowly escaping drowning on several occasions. He joined the army in 1943 at the tender age of 14 and scaled up the ranks to become Captain. He served for 32 years as a Sapper, which is where he learnt about all matters relating to water. At one stage he served with John Blashford-Snell and with his combat engineer experience, found himself stretched to the limit in keeping him from blowing himself up with his homemade explosive devices. Together they founded the Scientific Exploration Society and embarked on several escapades along the Blue Nile. Returning from a stint in the Congo, Jim became involved in running various youth ventures, including Operation Drake, Raleigh and the Fairbridge, earning him an MBE for his 'services to youth'.
Martin Roberts
Martin is a respected property, travel and lifestyle TV presenter and journalist. For the past seven years he has written and presented the hit BBC property auction show 'Homes under the Hammer'.
Stephen Sackur
Stephen is a BBC journalist and presenter of the current affairs programme HARDtalk, which interviews newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Stephen ran the London Marathon in aid of Just a Drop in 2010 and is planning to do it again for us in 2014!
Alastair Stewart
Alastair presents a ITV London's flagship news and features programme 'London Tonight'. In the voluntary sector, Alastair is Vice President of both Action for Children and Home Start, and Patron of the Lord Mayor Treloars College for disabled students, amongst others.
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Jack Coronna
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Alfred Pisani
Alfred has been the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Corinthia Group since its inception in 1962. "I am delighted to be a corporate patron for Just a Drop. The charity provides the world with an essential ingredient for life - clean water."
Richard Tobias
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I promised last week I'd be back today with our Master Bath master vision. Since we're basically back to bare bones, now is as good of time as any to finalize what we're thinking.
1) New Vanity — Probably goes with out saying, but our old one is cut up into 20 pieces and super moldy. I'm loving more open vanities to help make the room feel bigger. I went, where else, but to good ol' pinterest and am loving this look:
2) Since we're remodeling the bathroom, we're going to take the opportunity to get rid of the nasty bulky Jacuzzi and replace it with a slimmer profile, more modern tub. Like this:
3) We're going to do ceramic tile for the bathroom, I'm loving the wood look ceramic…not sure if it'll fit in the budget, but this is the vision :-)
4) More lights — we only have a 4 light octopus light bar and it is not enough light. Since we're starting from the studs, Steve is going to wire an extra light box at the top of the mirror. We're also going to frame out our existing mirror. I'm thinking something like this:
So that's a little bit of what we're thinking, I'm excited to get past the frustrating part and get to the progress part…stay tuned! I can't wait.


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