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Best laptops for engineers: When work requires a real workstation April 9, 2015 at 11:22 am
Next to gamers, engineers put the most stress on laptop performance. Excellent displays, high-end graphics, and plenty of RAM are the norm. We examine some of the very best laptops that can do the work a typical engineer requires on the road.
Intel's erratic Core M performance leaves an opening for AMD April 9, 2015 at 8:45 am
A new report shows that Intel's Core M performance depends a great deal on which OEM hardware you buy in the first place. While this has always been true to some extent, the gaps are significantly larger this generation.
The best laptops for college students: Learning digitally has never been easier April 6, 2015 at 1:42 pm
College life has changed dramatically in the last decade. Many classes are being offered online, academic research has moved to the digital arena, and now many assignments are turned in through e-mail attachments. Modern college students are increasingly reliant on computers, and that means a laptop is most certainly in your future. So, how do you decide which one to buy?
Best laptops for photo editing: Retina is important, but it's not everything April 1, 2015 at 3:00 pm
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The best laptops for video editing: Which portable powerhouse should you buy? March 30, 2015 at 8:30 am
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Nvidia kills mobile GPU overclocking in latest driver update, irate customers up in arms [UPDATED] February 20, 2015 at 10:52 am
Nvidia is under fire for disabling overclocking in mobile systems with its latest driver update and is defending the move as a bug fix. Complicating the issue is the fact that some OEMs actively sell laptops in overclocked configurations.
The top laptops for photographers, engineers, students, and everyone else January 20, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Shopping for a laptop can be extremely frustrating at times. Even when you already know the ins and outs of personal computers, there are so many different aspects to consider with laptops. Weight, battery life, and cost come into play right off the bat, and when you factor in specific work requirements, the number of decisions can be more than a little overwhelming. Thankfully, we've already done the legwork for you. If you're on the hunt for a new laptop, look no further.
CES 2015: The week in photos, without leaving your desk January 12, 2015 at 9:34 am
In what the Consumer Electronics Association calls the biggest CES ever, there was way more to see than anyone could in a week. Here are some of our favorite photo highlights.
Alienware's knockoff Steam Machine finally ships, but it's not the gaming PC you're looking for November 21, 2014 at 4:32 pm
There was a lot of hype surrounding the impending launch of Valve's Steam Machine platform, but much of the excitement dissipated when the first wave of machines were delayed until 2015. Now, Alienware is going in alone, and shipping its own consolized gaming PC.


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Isn't there a saying about every rule being made to be broken?
For the third game in a row, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist picked up his second foul early and, for the third game in a row, Calipari reinserted him into the lineup with those two fouls.
"Normally when a guy gets two fouls, I will not play him the rest of the half," Calipari said. "The problem with this team is you need his toughness so bad, that I ended up shoving him back in there."
Kidd-Gilchrist is anything but a normal player, so much so that Calipari simply isn't comfortable enough to allow his team to play without him for an extended stretch to follow his own rule. His energy, effort and intensity set the tone for his teammates and belie the fact that he's the youngest player on the roster.
Things were no different in an 86-64 win over the visiting Lamar Cardinals in front of the second-largest Rupp Arena crowd of the season. Kidd-Gilchrist tallied 18 points, six rebounds, four assists, a steal and a block in spite of being limited due to those early fouls.
Calipari's gambit of playing Kidd-Gilchrist with two fouls ended up paying off, as he managed to make it through seven first-half minutes without picking up a third foul. The forward scored eight points in the opening stanza as held a 44-28 advantage at the half and Kidd-Gilchrist is flattered that Calipari views him as so important that he's willing to put him back on the floor.
"I'm just getting better and better on the court, so he needs me out there," Kidd-Gilchrist said. "I think that's the reason he puts me back in."
It was the third straight time Calipari trusted Kidd-Gilchrist to play through first-half foul trouble, but that doesn't mean the freshman wants to continue the trend. When he committed his second foul with 15:55 left in the first half, he knew the reaction from his coach that was awaiting him as he strode to the bench.
"I was like, 'Dang man, I'm about to get it,' " Kidd-Gilchrist said. "But I deserved it."
Against an opponent like the one UK will face on Saturday in No. 4 Louisville, Calipari isn't likely to allow Kidd-Gilchrist to play through foul trouble, which is what he harped on when he greeted him on the sideline.
"I got all over Michael," Calipari said. " 'This is like the fifth or sixth game you've gotten two fouls in the first half. In a normal game, I can't play you the rest of the half, and you know what, we have got a problem now.' "
Calipari's message may have been a simple one, but his advice isn't exactly easy to follow. Kidd-Gilchrist makes his living on the floor based on his aggression, so walking the line between that and recklessness is tough. Senior guard Darius Miller has matched up against Kidd-Gilchrist in practice from day one, so he can understand the struggle. The last thing he wants to happen is for Kidd-Gilchrist to allow the fouls to get in his head and affect how he plays.
"I think it's just how he plays," Miller said when asked about his foul problems. "He plays 110-percent all the time and you can't fault him for that. Maybe he got a few questionable calls, I don't know. I don't know what it was, but we need him to continue playing like that and continue to play aggressive. That does a lot for our team and it's a big part of our team."
If Kidd-Gilchrist hadn't brought his trademark intensity, Calipari shudders to think what may have happened on Wednesday night. Lamar battled Kentucky to a 36-36 tie on the glass even though Kidd-Gilchrist had six second-half rebounds and Anthony Davis had 13 for the game.
"What bothered me is they had 14 offensive rebounds," Calipari said. "And what we are doing right now, unless Michael gets the ball or Anthony gets the ball, we are not getting the ball. We have other guys that are flinching going after balls, or ducking, or hoping Anthony or Mike will get it."
Even with the Louisville game looming on Saturday, Calipari wouldn't use the excuse that his team was looking ahead.
"This is who we are," Calipari said. "This is who we are, and this is what happens to us, especially when we break down and stop playing. We did it against Samford, we did it here and we have done it and we are not changing and that's what's frustrating for me."
On Saturday and beyond as UK approaches Southeastern Conference play, the time will come when Kidd-Gilchrist's heroics won't be able to overcome deficiencies in other areas or when fouls will get the best of him, so it's high time that the Cats begin to respond to Calipari's prodding.
"We either cure this or we are going to start taking (losses)," Calipari said. "You start taking on water, and when you do start taking on water and you start getting the deer in the headlights look, and now every game becomes a war. Or you can get better, and you can look at this and take responsibility and say, 'I know how I've got to play and I'm going to do it. I'm going to prepare that way.' "


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After studying each Chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:
Chapter 10 Essential Questions
1. How are the GCF and the Distributive Property used to factor polynomials?
2. How are monomials factored?
3. If you know the product and one of its factors, how can you find the other factor of a polynomial?
4. How are Punnett Squares used in factoring trinomials?
Chapter 9 Essential Questions
1. How are adding and multiplying polynomials different?
2. What do you do differently when finding the degree of a monomial versus finding the degree of a bi- or trinomial?
3. What does FOIL stand for?
4. If the base & height of a rectangular prism are binomials, how is the volume computed?
Chapter 8 Essential Questions
1. How are powers multiplied? Divided?
2. How is a problem simplified with a negative exponent?
3. How is a number written in scientific notation?
4. The first part of a number written in scientific notation must be between what two numbers? How is the power portion determined?
5. What is the square root of a number?
6. What is the relationship between the square root of a number and the square of a number?
7. The Pythagorean Theorem involves what type of a triangle?
8. What is meant by the "legs and hypothenuse" of a triangle and what is their relation to the Pythagorean Theorem?
Chapter 7 Essential Questions
1. Given the coordinates of two points on a line, how do you find the slope?
2. What is the slope-intercept form and how can it be used to draw the line it represents?
3. Does the graph of y = -3x 8 pass through (-5, 23)? How do you know?
4. How do you determine the y-intercept of the graph of an equation?
5. Given the equation y = 3x 6, can you write the equation of a line that is parallel to this line? That is perpendicular?
Chapter 6 Essential Questions
1. What is the relationship between the domain and range of a relation?
2. What are three ways of representing a relation?
3. What is a linear equation?
4. What are three examples of non-linear equations?
5. What is the vertical line test for a function?
6. Given a set of ordered pairs, a graph or a table, how would you determine if these relations are a function?
7. Why is the distance formula a direct variation?
8. In the equation y = 4x, what is the constant of variation?
Chapter 5 Essential Questions
1. How are probability and odds computed? How are they different? How are they similar?
2. What is a ratio? How can two ratios be compared?
3. What is the difference between a ratio and a proportion?
4. How can proportions be used to compute distance on a map? To compare similar shapes?
5. What does is mean when two objects are similar?
6. What does "IS over OF = % over 100" mean?
7. Percent is a ratio that compares a number to what?
8. 3 out of 5 means what?
9. What is the formula for percent change?
10. Is sales tax added or subtracted? What about a discount? How would you compute the cost of an item that is 30% off with a 7% sales tax?
11. How are compound events computed?
Chapter 4 Essential Questions
1. How do you multiply fractions? How does it differ from dividing fractions?
2. How would you teach the Fundamental Counting Principal to someone using a sandwich as an example?
3. What is the multiplicative inverse or reciprocal of 1/2?
4. What is the product of a number and its multiplicative inverse?
5. What happens if you multiply each side of an equation by the same number?
6. What strategy should you use when solving a multi-step equation (hint: think about the order of operations)
7. When solving an equation with variables on both sides, what should you do first?
Chapter 3 Essential Questions
1. What are two examples of fractions whose cross products are equal?
2. What is the importance of the denominator when adding and subtracting fractions?
3. What is a rational numbers?
4. How can a rational number be represented as a fraction, a percent, a decimal and as a pie diagram?
5. How do you solve a one step addition or subtraction problem?
6. If you add or subtract something from one side of an equation, why must you do the same thing to the other side of the equation? What happens if you don't do the same thing?
Chapter 2 Essential Questions
1. How is a thermometer like a number line?
2. Explain the difference between adding & multiplying negative & positive integers.
3. Why is it a good idea to change subtraction to addition? What do you need to remember if you do this? Hint: Keep/Change/Flip
4. Why do opposites have the same Absolute Value?
5. How can you easily remember the quadrants of a coordinate plane?
6. What quadrant are x & y BOTH negative?
Chapter 1 Essential Questions
1. Why should we study Algebra? When is it used in everyday life?
2. How do we translate verbal ideas to the language of Algebra?
3. How will the global economy affect you in the future?
4. Why is the Order of Operations an important part of Algebra?
5. What are common mistakes that you can make while doing the Order of Operations?
6. How are the Commutative & Associative properties similar? Different?
7. When would you use the Simple Interest Formula? What are the parts of the Simple Interest Formula and what do they mean?
8. When is the Distributive Property used? Why is it a good idea to use arrows when performing this property?
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False Patriots
Larry Wayne Harris, 48
A bearded microbiologist from Dublin, Ohio, Larry Wayne Harris once spent his days testing food and water for contaminants — and cooking up some of the more paranoid fantasies to engage the minds of the Patriot movement. In 1995, Harris ordered three vials of freeze-dried Yersinia Pestis, better known as bubonic plague.
After federal agents raided his home — finding the plague vials, many weapons and a certificate identifying Harris as a lieutenant in the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations — he insisted he was no terrorist. On the contrary, Harris said, he was deeply concerned about an "invasion from Iraq of super-germ-carrying rats."
Elsewhere, he said Iraqi terrorist women planned to smuggle deadly toxins into the United States in their vaginas. Harris wrote Bacteriological Warfare: A Major Threat to North America, a book that he said gave Americans the weapons to fight back — but which also could be read as a bio-terrorist's how-to manual.
On probation for lying in order to get the plague vials, Harris got into trouble again in 1998 when an informant told the FBI Harris boasted of having enough anthrax to "wipe out" a city. But it turned out he merely had legal anthrax vaccine.
In the end, Harris' doings convinced the Congress to pass laws making it harder to obtain deadly pathogens like bubonic plague.
Of Bombs and Beaches
John Hassey, 50
As more and more Patriots went to jail on a wide variety of charges, many of even the most committed left the movement in fear for their futures. John Hassey, a key leader of Alabama militia groups, appears to be a case in point.
For several years, Hassey headed up the Central Alabama Militia, a group that changed its name in 1995 to the Alabama Constitutional Militia, reflecting what Hassey described as a group more focused on politics than guns.
Two years later, Hassey was one of about 15 militiamen to travel to Memphis to support a couple who was fighting government eviction as part of an airport expansion project — one of many such "government vs. the people" scenarios favored by Patriots. The same year, Hassey was a key player in the formation of the Southeastern States Alliance, a coalition of Southern militia groups.
He was so well known in the movement that his Elmore County home came to be referred to as "Camp Hassey." But in late 1999, the Southeastern States Alliance leader, Donald Beauregard, was arrested in an alleged plot to attack utilities in Florida — and Beauregard's indictment noted an unindicted "co-conspirator's farm in Alabama" where explosives were to be stored.
Assuming the farm was his, a worried Hassey said he would not fight police who might come for him, and departed for a cooling-off period on a boat off the Florida beaches.
Desperately Seeking Satan
Ted Gunderson, 73
After 27 years in the FBI including stints running the Memphis, Dallas and Los Angeles offices, Ted L. Gunderson embarked on a tour of the weird.
Retiring in 1979, Gunderson started a security and investigations firm and eventually wound up as an investigator in the ill-starred McMartin Preschool sexual molestation case, where he became fixated on the idea that children are regularly subjected to Satanic ritual abuse. (In the end, seven years of trials produced no convictions, and the case was widely denounced as a destructive witch hunt.)
From there, it got truly strange. Entering the Patriot world as a leading conspiracy-monger, Gunderson made videos alleging an invisible cabal called the Illuminati had plans to run the world. He sold his services shielding people from "Electrostatic Sensory Manipulation" and testing for "brain implants, tracking chips and resonant cavities."
He claimed a government official told him that he did the Oklahoma bombing, saying, "That's my bomb." He said a cure for Down's syndrome is being kept from the public, that the government practices mind control, and that his children had DNA extracted by aliens in the infamous Area 51 of UFO fame.
And Gunderson accused a well-known, UFO-oriented talk show host of molesting children, an accusation that recently brought him a libel suit.
Rambo for Christ
Bo Gritz, 61
While many Patriots avoided contact with the mainstream press, James "Bo" Gritz had no such compunctions. Variously describing himself as the most decorated Green Beret to fight in Vietnam and the inspiration for the movie character Rambo, Gritz has done his best to put himself at the center of almost every major Patriot drama.
He was successful just once, talking white supremacist Randy Weaver out of his Ruby Ridge cabin after the 1992 deaths of his wife and son during a standoff with federal agents. Gritz boasted often of his forays looking for missing Vietnam era POWs, but four trips to Southeast Asia did not produce a single prisoner.
In the Patriot world, he became famous for his paramilitary training courses and for failed attempts to negotiate an end to the Montana Freemen standoff and a surrender from accused clinic bomber Eric Rudolph.
Seen by many as a huckster, Gritz hyped up "Y2KHAOS" paranoia and then sold his survivalist wares — along with land plots in Idaho — to survive the feared hard times.
In 1998, he shot himself days after his wife of 24 years left him. Gritz has long denied being a racist, but has made a number of anti-Semitic remarks.
In 1999, after moving to Sandy Valley, Nevada, he married Judy Kirsch. Since then, Gritz seems increasingly to have taken up a relatively soft-line version of the Christian Identity religion that his new bride was raised in.
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|Five Most Important Patriots Heading into Training Camp, 2- Bill Belichick
|So That's Happening: Blue Jays Swap Reyes for Rockies' Tulowitzki before Trade Deadline
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According to an attorney, Roger Clemens will reportedly not plead the fifth amendment and will answer all questions from Congress under oath.
Brian McNamee will also appear Thursday but has not decided whther he will submit a deposition or transcribed interview.
The Associated Press reminds us that it's a crime to lie in front of Congress:
It is a crime to lie to Congress, whether sworn to tell the truth or not, so the distinction between the two has more to do with the format of the questioning and the confidentiality of the transcript.
The situation bears watching…
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Many hobbyists use microcontrollers such as the Arduino to control and use SPI devices. Oftentimes, you just want to test the electronic device to make sure it and its associated circuitry is working properly. This Instructables will show you how to set up and program a simple proto board circuit using the Arduino Uno to drive SPI data to a peripheral circuit which, in this case, is an Analog Devices AD7376 digital potentiometer. It could be any 8-bit SPI device using this circuit.
For this Instructables, I used an Arduino Uno board, a proto-board, some DIP (Dual Inline Package) switches (they are optional), a variety of jumper wires, a DC power supply, an ohm meter, a few capacitors for DC power supply smoothing, and a few pull-up resistors for the digital potentiometer. The AD7376 digital potentiometer is a surface mount device so I soldered it onto a surface-mount proto-PCB so it could be plugged into the proto-board. I used an oscilloscope to display the signals for this Instructables.
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In your code, there is an extra bracket that breaks the code:
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}//delete this brace, It is causing the code to fail in the compile process.
digitalWrite(10,LOW); // Drop SPI chip-select to 0 (Arduino pin 10)
SPI.transfer(pot); // Do SPI transfer of variable pot
digitalWrite(10,HIGH); // Raise chip-select to 1
delay(10000); // Delay loop 10 seconds (pick your time frame)
} // Data will be read and sent once every 10 seconds based on this
May I know how do you modify inorder to output a 32bit?
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But I cannot be sure.
Your code above shows 8 bits but doesnt the data sheet for the AD 7376 show only 7 bits? Also in my setup I am not reading digital pins I am instead setting the value of POT manually by changing the statement where you initialize POT as all 0 using a bit operator. Is this a problem? Example: byte pot = B0111111;


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As part of an ongoing effort to promote a healthier and safer campus environment, the college has updated its policy regarding tailgating activities at football games. The following guidelines regarding tailgating will be in force:
- Tickets will be required to park on Freshman Field.
- Freshman Field and the Baseball Field will be open for tailgating three hours prior to kickoff.
- No kegs or other common-source large quantities of alcohol will be allowed at any time.
- At game time, both fields will be cleared by Public Safety and Worcester Police officers, and all individuals will be asked to enter the stadium or required to exit the premises. Those who refuse to vacate the field will be viewed as trespassers and will be subject to police action.
- No individual will be permitted to exit the stadium and linger on Freshman Field during the game (including halftime). The Baseball Field will be open during halftime, allowing fans to utilize the "Interactive Endzone" area.
- Full tailgating (setting up grills and tables, etc.) will not be allowed on either field after the game. All fields will be cleared within one hour after the end of the game.
Our aim in these policy revisions is to curtail excessive drinking - with special attention to underage students - while maintaining our tradition of Crusader camaraderie and fellowship. We thank you for your support of these policies.


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Boeing Defense and Space Group, Seattle is being awarded a $65,894,025 cost-plus-award fee contract modification to provide for action that definitizes the effort to procure component spares and fabrication of these components into higher-level sub-assemblies to reduce integration and test risk identified in the airborne laser fiscal year 2001 supplemental funding request. Included are critical beam control and fire control, and laser components to eliminate serial path is schedule, critical beam control and fire control component spares and laser long-lead items, and an effort to secure information system across airborne laser test facilities, and the augmentation of airworthiness and safety tasks. At this time, $34,076,824 of the funds has been obligated. This work will be completed by September 2004. This effort will be performed at Lockheed Martin Missile and Space, Sunnyvale, Calif. (45%), and TRW Space and Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, Calif. (43%), and other locations. The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F29601-97-C-0001, P00141).
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Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded an $11,618,768 firm-fixed-price contract for production of 18 MK-49 Guided Missile Launching System modification kits (ORDALT) for the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Program. Work will be performed in Tucson (50%), Ottobrunn, Germany (50%) and is to be completed by December 2005. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington is the contracting activity (N00024-02-C-5409).
Brown and Root Services, Houston is being awarded a $6,523,107 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract for base operation support services at the Naval Air Facility, El Centro, Calif. This contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring the total cumulative value of this contract to $46,895,669. Work will be performed in El Centro, Calif., and is to be completed by September 2002. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 66 proposals solicited and six offers received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest Division, San Diego is the contracting activity (N68711-00-D-9201).
International Transducer Corp., Santa Barbara, Calif., is being awarded an estimated $5,735,080 indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price provisions, for the manufacturing of TR-321 Variant Sensor Assemblies. The TR-321 Variant Sensor Assemblies are used on submarines to measure local sound velocity. The requirement includes three first article units and an estimated 250 production units. Work will be performed in Santa Barbara and is to be completed by March 2007. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured by publication in the Commerce Business Daily and via the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport internet Web site with one offer received. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, R.I., is the contracting activity (N66604-02-R-0155).
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The modern skeptic needs to be well armed to deal with the array of woo being spewed these days. Biblical criticism is pretty much a solved game but the new-agers can toss out faux-facts faster than you can say, "Bullshit!"
One flavour making the rounds here recently has been the junk science of Terrence McKenna. An incredibly articulate ethnobotanist of the late 20th century, he was able to public several books that garnered the attention of aging hippies and which seem to have renewed their popularity with contemporary new agers. As a self-described psychonaut, his writing mostly revolved around his ever more desperate attempts to instill perceived empirical value to the observations he made of his own consciousness while higher than a kite.
His timewave zero and novelty theories tied into eschatological prognostications for 2012 – a prophecy failure that his devotees overlook as quickly as the adherents of Benny Hinn overlook his. Perhaps the most entertaining of his drug-addled ramblings was his 'Stoned Ape' conjecture.
In his Stoned Ape conjecture, McKenna tried to convince himself that use of magic mushrooms was the catalyst that sprung homo-sapiens into existence from homo-erectus. He starts by assuming that the magnificent shrooms appeared on the African savanna 100,000 years ago and made their way into the homo-erectus diet – both assumptions being supported by zero evidence. He then misrepresents a scientific study about visual perception to suggest that use of these mushrooms increased visual acuity in our early ancestors – thereby making them better hunters.
Based on his first two unfounded assumptions and an outright fabrication he then jumps to the conclusion that the results performed a miraculous one-time instance of Lamarckian inheritance, altering the offspring of psilocybin-gobbling hominids enough to speciate them from surrounding populations of homo-erectus. It just goes on and on, and he actually managed get published for it in 1992 - Food of the Gods.
I feel this load of malarkey is worth our attention, as skeptics, so we can be better prepared to counter the ridiculous claims of McKennites that we may encounter. I know there is one with us lately and felt he might like to put his thoughts on display here for all of us to observe the workings of such a mind.
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That asshat gives me a headache.
I was talking to someone who was pretty amped up on McKenna. Then another guy walked in and was all about ancient aliens must have cut rocks up with lasers (like the ancients didn't have like 100 slaves polishing these stones). It's like if your car doesn't start it must be a government issued electromagnetic pulse (not your dead battery). What the hell? I looked up some of McKenna's stuff, saw a vid of him speaking, blah, blah, blah, sensory deprivation, yada, yada..., shrooms man, blah. blah
I'm amazed these crackpots get followers. I mean I realize the followers are also crackpots but I just don't understand what entices them to follow another crackpot when they could equally well make up their own malarkey.
Overheard at a Phish concert back in '94:
Q: What did one deadhead say to the other after they ran out of shrooms?
A: Man, this music suuuucks!
That's the common experience of people under the influence of psychedelic drugs: the earthly platitudinous seems profoundly cosmic. Drop acid and you might find yourself staring at a dollar bill in transfixed awe for the next twelve hours. (I kid you not.)
It's not hard to imagine McKenna achieving the status of a Deepak Chopra with the stoner crowd, or even with non-stoners who are all too eager to gobble up the same sort of woo-woo.
Consciousness first arose in the mind of a stoned pre-human monkey? Sure, why not. And a tribe of invisible non-corporeal stoned pre-human monkeys lives inside of Deepak Chopra's colon. One "theory" is just about as testable and scientific as the other.
There is a story about a novelist who, upon hearing of the creative benefits of shrooms gave it a try. In the midst of the high, he had an incredible idea for his next novel. He wrote it down and then lay down to sleep. When he woke up he ran over to the pad to read "boy meets girl."
That's funny - I've had similar experiences with alcohol and writing that have led me to greatly limit my alcohol intake when writing seriously. When I began getting serious about writing, I thought of Hemingway and figured that a few extra drinks might unleash my creative processes. When I reviewed my writing the next day, it was pure shit.
My solution: write first, drink later.
I went through a similar process of experimentation during my college years. Nothing that I ever ingested, licked, or inhaled made me any better or worse of an artist, writer, or (here I cringe) dancer.
At the time a few of my fellow young artists, authors, and party-goers did not reach the same conclusions and carried on accordingly, which had some entertainment (if not creative) value.
I think it was worth looking at psychedelic drugs from a scientific standpoint. What if they really did make people more intelligent and creative? But now that it's clear they do not, I don't see much point to using them.
These days I'm strictly into coffee and nothing else. Ah. Coffee.
Had forgotten how grating her voice is.
This thread made me chuckle a little honestly, this is some goofy nonsense. To me they sound like nothing more then men who aren't smart enough to distinguish their hallucinations as just that. Similar to a little kid who has a bad dream, wakes up, and runs to mommy and daddy because he has no idea his dream was... just a dream.
As an example, DMT is one of the strongest hallucinogens known to man, and these people think it's a good idea to derive theories about reality from a trip on it. Brilliant.
As to 'shrooms' being an aid to hunting I would conjecture that the increased intensity of colors and other effects of the psyche would be a detriment to successful hunting. I have ate my share of shrooms in days long past and would not entertain the notion of hunting while under their effects.
The best condition for being a successful hunter of game is to do so with no food in your gut and the uncomfortable feeling of hunger pangs. It increases one's concentration for obvious reasons.


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I still have problems with thinking that people like Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin will one day be in Heaven.
I understand! Yet I am also confident our Good and Just Father knows how to see that such men get what's coming to them-to the satisfaction of us all-without taking forever to do so. I shudder to think of being in their shoes! However, if endless hell actually were taught in Scripture, do you know who would be hardest for me to understand going to Heaven? Adam and Eve! I can't imagine a greater miscarriage of justice than for our first parents to be saved despite the damages they caused all the rest of us. People like Adolph Hitler would never have been born had it not been for Adam and Eve's rebellion.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Minnesota teammates Lindsay Whalen and Rebekkah Brunson headline the WNBA All-Star reserves announced Tuesday night.
The league-leading Lynx have four All-Stars, with Whalen and Brunson joining starters Maya Moore and Seimone Augustus. It's the second straight All-Star game with four Minnesota players on the Western Conference squad.
Kristi Toliver and Nneka Ogwumike from the Los Angeles Sparks, Danielle Robinson of San Antonio and Tulsa's Glory Johnson round out the West reserves. Chicago has three players on the East team: reserve Sylvia Fowles and starters Elena Delle Donne and Epiphanny Prince. Other reserves for the East include Connecticut's Tina Charles and Allison Hightower, Washington's Ivory Latta and Crystal Langhorne, and Indiana's Shavonte Zellous.
The game will be played Saturday in Connecticut at Mohegan Sun.
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From a whole family of Holy Rollers! ROFLMFAO! All that prayer soaking sure did ya a lot of good.
I know a fat woman that visits over that way. Perhaps she bought a fur coat.
Blue Bird Avenue in Lower Paxton Township. It runs parallel to Rt.22. Speed limit 25, average speed of motorists>55. Bus Stops and little kids be damned, if you try to go the speed limit, people ride your bumper, blare the horn and shoot you the bird.
Thank you, Rep. Marsico. Fight the good fight. You have my vote.
Someone told me that Bill Behe has a drunk driving conviction. Or maybe two.......
Wow. Educate yourselves! The current spike in oil prices has NOTHING to do with supply and demand. It is being caused solely by Wall Street Speculators. PERIOD.
Dear Eric Andrew Bloom, assuming you are not a Troll, but rather a misguided, uneducated, poor soul: Here is how some of this stuff works~ It's called OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Acrobat and many scanners do this by default. It detects letters and words on the page and allows you to add selectable text to the document without having to type it in manually. Notice how when you hide a layer, it's white behind it? If it was truly forged you wouldn't see any of the background missing. It's white because it doesn't know what's behind the text BECAUSE THE TEXT WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS SCANNED. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!
Oh, and Atty. Reed, he uses the alias Jan Stanislaw, as you can see in yet another La. court case. http://www.morelaw.com/verdicts/case.asp?n=09-30309&s=LA&d=41500
I hope this Attorney Greg Reed isn't charging this guy by the hour. Hey Reed: Get someone in your office that knows how to use the internet and maybe you won't have to file your lawsuit in the media. It took me all of 5 minutes to find this Stanislaw Jan Zygmont in Hanover Park, Ill. Check with one Ewa Ehrlich of 6940 Valley View Rd there. Those 2 are involved in a lawsuit in Louisiana. You might also want to check if 'ol Zyggy, as I shall heretofore refer to him, isn't still locked up in Tangipahoa Parish Jail. Geez. Btw, 1982 called, they want their IBM Selectric typewriter back.
Would that be Christine Yvette Brooks? The mother that has been fined hundreds and hundreds of dollars for not seeing to it that her children attend school? The woman that has 2 pages of rap sheets including false ID to authorities and disorderly conduct. etc. etc. etc.? Hmmm. And she is looking down her nose at WHO?
Why would anyone with $450 in monthly disposable income even consider financing a new vehicle? Do they already have a "new" vehicle financed? I know of several couples where one of them could quit their jobs if it weren't for $100,000+ worth of cars/SUV's.
kickwarehouse- That store isn't even there anymore. Try to keep up. Additionally, that church was embezzled from before, and they blamed it on the PREVIOUS secretary. Makes ya wonder what's really going on there. And the amount of $$$ seems to be in play as well. First the church said it was between 2 and 3K, now it has skyrocketed to between 10 and 12K. Again, makes ya wonder......
How sad. Was there a smoke alarm? So important, esp. in a mobile home. As for the dryer lint: http://www.msnbc.com/id/41068119/ns/us_news-weird_news/
Your eye doctor can't report to Pen Dot? Interesting. My ex's doctor contacted Pen Dot when a heart problem was causing dizzy spells. What's the difference, I wonder?
Paradise Alley had Blues Night every Wednesday. God I miss that place. Bon Voyage Joe. Hope you're having a drink with my Dad.
Avoidable accident.
Just ask Tom Druce!
And THAT commentary, ladies and germs, was from none-other-than Jason "I got five whole votes when I ran for Mayor" Smith.
Just so you know- A very nice lady and her husband took Ted in a few years back. They looked after him as best they could, but ol' T-man was a free spirit. They tried to make sure he took his meds and made sure he was well fed. They even spoke to him about his drinking. He had people that cared about him, at least for a little while. I spoke to my friend from that neighborhood this evening, and apparently, no one is sure where his relatives might be found. They think he was originally from the Philly area.
lilchell61~ Thank you for being the good person that you are. Wish there were more like you. Ted was a bit of a lost soul and I can only hope that nothing treacherous happened to him that caused this to happen to him. He used to go in the bar at 6th and Schullkyll and was a perfect victim.


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Even if President Obama stands by his commitment to expand U.S. nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, the industry is likely to be frozen for years by factors outside the federal government: soaring capital, liability, and regulatory costs and plunging confidence among the public and on Wall Street.
Washington supports development of nuclear power through subsidies, tax credits, and loan guarantees, but none of that may get Wall Street to fork up the financing for plants if pricey and extensive safety regulations send construction costs up, and public uncertainty about the danger puts state permit approvals in doubt, a number of energy finance analysts say.
"There's nobody on Wall Street who's going to offer money," said John Deutch, an expert on energy technologies and financing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Building a nuclear power plant is an expensive endeavor. It costs $5 billion to $20 billion and can take a decade to complete, compared with the $1 billion to $3 billion and one to three years it takes to build coal or natural-gas power plants.
That's just one reason there hasn't been a nuclear reactor built in the U.S. since the 1979 meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island.
In recent years, backers hoped for a "nuclear renaissance," spurred by the prospects of a new law to counter climate change by pricing the carbon emissions of fossil fuels, including coal and natural gas. Under such a system and despite the high cost of construction, nuclear power, which does not emit any carbon pollution, would ultimately be cheaper than fossil fuels. The federal government added more help in the form of an assist in financing: Obama's current budget request includes $36 billion in nuclear loan guarantees, up from $18 billion. The efforts spurred some movement: Southern Co., backed by an $8 billion federal loan guarantee, broke ground on the first U.S. reactor in 30 years near Waynesboro, Ga. In South Texas, NRG Energy and the South Texas Nuclear Operating Co. have filed a permit application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build two reactors.
Beyond those projects, there has been little other movement—in part because the failure of climate-change legislation last year meant that the new economics to aid a nuclear rebirth never appeared.
The almost certain prospect of new safety reviews and regulations will send construction, insurance, and liability costs higher, further stalling the industry.
On Wednesday, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a report criticizing the NRC for what it said were lapses in safety procedures at some of the country's 104 operating nuclear plants. On Thursday, Obama called for a comprehensive safety review of all those plants.
"It is already the case that utilities would see higher cost of capital for a nuclear plant than a coal plant because of perceived … risk," Deutch said. "Surely, that premium is going to go up for a time. There is no good news for nuclear power."
But nuclear power still has many strong advocates in Congress, including such leaders as House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.
The nuclear energy industry has been cautious about projecting the impact of the disaster, focusing instead on aiding Japan in quelling the fires and meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and briefing government officials. On Thursday, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's advocacy group, held a phone briefing for the financial community. Alex Flint, the institute's senior government-relations official, told National Journal Daily, "NEI's forecast has been for four to eight new nuclear plants between now and 2020.… As of the current time, we see the new construction proceeding."
David Knox, a spokesman for NRG Energy, said that as of now there are no plans to halt progress on the South Texas reactors.
But NRG did decide to delay a power-purchase deal with CPS Energy for electricity generated by the reactors.
Meanwhile, key Wall Street analysts predict that the Texas project will fall apart and that the Georgia project will be delayed for years.
On Wednesday, Standard & Poor's released a report predicting that the likelihood of greater costs, new regulations, and delays in approvals for extending nuclear operating licenses will lead to "deteriorating economics for new plant construction."
"Southern Co.… has expressed their ongoing commitment to the plants they are building, but any delays (i.e., for design changes, additional reviews, hearings, etc.) could obstruct the construction schedule and make it harder to continue justifying the ongoing expenses necessary to complete construction."
In a note to clients this week, Barclays Capital Investment said: "For NRG Energy, we think the potential added pressure could be the end of its nuclear loan guarantee award from the Department of Energy … in Texas, which could cause a write-off in the short term but would be likely positive in the long term." Securing financing and meeting new safety regulations won't be the only problems nuclear developers will face. They'll be subject to approval by individual state utility commissioners, who issue permits for power generation based on criteria that will yield the lowest electric bills for their residents. Part of the cost of construction of power plants is passed on to ratepayers—so problems follow if state commissioners fear that the cost of a plant is too high.
"Already, it's very tough to get a nuclear power plant built. Costs being what they were before this event, if they go up any further, it's hard to see how they'd be attractive to states," Robert Thormeyer, a spokesman for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, told National Journal Daily.
"When investors get nervous, risks go up and costs go up. Then the state commissioners' job is to determine if it's really worth it," Thormeyer said.
The Fukushima Daiichi meltdown will likely provide an object lesson for other state agencies approached by potential nuclear power developers.
"There's concern that what's happened in Japan could slow down construction of the plants," said Bill Edge, a spokesman for the Georgia Public Service Commission. "If you delay construction and have new rules and regulation, and have to go back and redesign—the commissioners are concerned that the delays will raise the cost for Georgia ratepayers."
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A new fall semester is underway, and along with the classes and football games and study sessions, college students have plenty to consider when it comes to their health insurance policies.
Many colleges offer health insurance policies to their students. Usually the plans are administered by a health insurance carrier that contracts with the school, but some colleges self-insure and administer their own student plans. Most schools require students to show proof of acceptable health insurance coverage or purchase the school's health plan.
In the past, student health plans were infamous for having low annual or lifetime benefit maximums. The policies often had low deductibles, but could also leave students woefully under-insured in the event of a serious illness or injury. The GAO found that 96 percent of student health plans had lifetime coverage limits in 2007/08, and 24 percent also had annual benefit limits.
ACA mandates essential benefits
Happily for students and their families, the ACA has impacted student health insurance in much the same way that it has changed the individual health insurance market. There are some different transitions leading up to 2014, but the days of low lifetime and annual limits on "essential health benefits" in student plans are a thing of the past. (Self-insured student health plans are not impacted by the ACA, but many have chosen to comply with new regulations anyway. Be sure to read the fine print on your school's plan if it's self-insured coverage.)
Essential health benefits are health care services that the ACA deemed the most important. They must be covered – with no lifetime or annual limits – by all policies (including student plans) with plans years that start on or after January 1, 2014. They include:
- Ambulatory patient services
- Emergency services
- Hospitalization
- Maternity and newborn care
- Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
- Prescription medications
- Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices
- Laboratory services
- Preventive and wellness services (at no cost to the insured) and chronic disease management
- Pediatric services, including oral and vision care
With limited exceptions, the ACA also requires student health plans to cover contraceptive care for women with no cost sharing.
For student health plans, the requirements for annual coverage limits are a little different from the rest of the individual market leading up to 2014. For policy years that started between July 1, 2012 and September 23, 2012, essential benefits had to be covered with an annual limit of no less than $100,000. For plan years starting after September 23, 2012 but before January 1, 2014, the annual benefits must be at least $500,000 for essential health benefits. Plans purchased or renewed on or after January 1, 2014 can no longer have annual limits on essential benefits. So for example, a plan that starts or renews on August 25, 2013 can have an annual limit of $500,000 on essential benefits until that plan renews on August 25, 2014. At that point, the annual benefit maximum would have to be eliminated for all essential benefits.
Lifetime maximums on essential health benefits were required to be removed entirely on policies with plan years beginning after July 1, 2012 (so as of July 1, 2013, all non-self-insured student health plans had removed their lifetime limits on essential benefits).
Coverage through parents' plans
In addition to improving student health plans, the ACA also allows young adults to remain on their parents' health insurance through the age of 26. For many students, this covers them the entire time they are in college. It's not necessarily the most cost-effective solution though. If the parent's employer requires employees to foot the bill for their dependents' coverage, it may be more expensive than a student health plan offered by a university.
Plans available through exchanges
Students also have the option to purchase individual plans in the exchanges. Income-based subsidies are available to help pay for coverage and reduce cost-sharing, but they may not be available to students who have access to coverage on a parent's plan (eligibility depends on the cost of the parent's coverage relative to their household income). Catastrophic plans are available in the individual market for people under the age of 30, but subsidies cannot be applied to the premiums or cost-sharing on catastrophic plans.
Just as it did in the individual health insurance market, the ACA has strengthened consumer protections in student health plans. Policies purchased or renewed after January 1, 2014 will provide real safety nets in case of significant medical bills, and students also have access to coverage on their parents' plan or a subsidized plan in the health insurance exchanges.
Read more about how the ACA impacts student health insurance. Read HHS regulations for student health plans.


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FORT WORTH – Tempers were short and fists were swinging after the conclusion of the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday night. Here is what both drivers had to say after the fight that broke out on pit road between both drivers. Jeff Gordon: WHAT WAS IT THAT UPSET YOU SO MUCH? […] [Read More]
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FORT WORTH – Jimmie Johnson outraced Brad Keselowski during the final two laps and held on to win the AAA Texas 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sunday night at Texas Motor Speedway. Johnson, driving the No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet, scored his 60th career victory in 397 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races and his second […] [Read More]
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. - Freshman guard Daniel Dion (Cedar Park, Texas) hit the game-winning 3-pointer with 15 seconds remaining as the University of New Hampshire men's basketball team took a 73-69 victory over Stony Brook on Saturday afternoon at Pritchard Gymnasium.
Senior forward Chris Pelcher (Albany, N.Y.) posted his sixth double-double (15 points, 11 boards) of the season and the eighth of his career to lead four Wildcats in double-figures. Jordon Bronner (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.) scored a team-high 16 points, freshman Jaleen Smith (Freeport, Texas) tied a career-high with 15, and Dion chipped in with 13, including 10 in the second half for UNH, which moves to 6-17 overall and 4-6 in the America East.
Carson Puriefoy scored a game-high 18 points to pace the Seawolves. Anthony Jackson added 12 points, while Jameel Warney contributed a double-double (11 points, 10 boards) for Stony Brook, which falls to 17-8 overall and 9-2 in America East Conference play.
UNH used 43.6% (24 of 55) shooting from the floor and 46.7% (14-for-30) from downtown to earn the win. Stony Brook also shot an impressive clip from the field, hitting on 46.3% of its field goals (25 of 54), but was hampered by just 55.0% (11-20) free-throw shooting.
The Seawolves opened the scoring with a jumper by Anthony Jackson, but UNH responded with seven straight points to take a 7-2 advantage. Jacoby Armstrong (Sachse, Texas) scored the first five for the Wildcats, nailing a jumper in traffic before draining a 3-pointer from the left shoulder. Pelcher capped the run for UNH with a layup off a feed from Armstrong.
Stony Brook responded with a 10-5 run to knot the score at 12-12 with 12:36 left in the first. After a Dion 3-pointer, the Seawolves launched an 11-0 run to take a 23-15 advantage with 9:19 remaining in the half.
Still trailing by eight, with 2:56 left in the first, UNH used a 13-6 run to close out the half and cut Stony Brook's lead to one. Pelcher got it started for the Wildcats when he got a feed in the low post from Scott Morris (Walkersville, Md.) and converted a contested layup. Smith then scored a layup and a free throw before Pelcher slammed home a dunk to make it a one-point game.
Puriefoy extended the lead back to four for SBU when he drained a 3-ball from the top of the key, but UNH answered again with a pair of 3's from Morris and Smith to go ahead by two with 40 seconds left. Puriefoy took back the lead for Stony Brook right before the half with his third three of the game, giving SBU a 39-38 halftime advantage.
Puriefoy led all scorers with 13 first-half points. Jackson chipped in with nine points in the frame for the Seawolves, who shot 57.7% (15 of 26) in the first half. Pelcher led the way for the Wildcats in the opening frame, scoring 10 points on 4-for-6 shooting. Armstrong added seven points in the first for UNH, which shot 53.8% (14 of 26) in the half.
Stony Brook jumped out of the second half gate on an 8-4 run to take a 47-42 lead. UNH fought back with a 6-1 run over the next four minutes to knot the score at 48-48. Dion got it started by making 1 of 2 free throws to bring UNH within four. After a Warney free throw, Bronner drained a straightaway 3 and a layup to tie the game at 48-48.
UNH took its first lead of the second half three minutes later. Following three points from Stony Brook's Eric McAlister, Morris nailed his second 3-ball of the game to tie the score at 51-51. Pelcher gave UNH a 52-51 lead the next time up when he converted 1 of 2 free throws.
The Seawolves responded with a 5-0 run to regain a four-point advantage with eight minutes left.
With Stony Brook leading 60-57 and 4:57 left, Dion scored six straight points to give UNH a 63-60 lead. The freshman guard buried a pair of 3's on consecutive possessions to give UNH its largest lead of the half.
Stony Brook kept fighting, using a 4-0 run to take back the lead, 64-63. Smith answered for UNH, hitting his third trey of the game to put the Wildcats up 66-64.
After Stony Brook guard Dave Coley hit a three to put SBU up 67-66, Pelcher scored a running hook in the paint for the Wildcats, giving them a 68-67 advantage with 44 seconds remaining.
Puriefoy responded for Stony Brook, using a pick at the top of the key to free himself for an open layup, putting the Seawolves back up 69-68.
But UNH would not be denied, as Dion buried the game-winning 3-pointer from the left shoulder with 15 seconds left to put the Wildcats ahead for good. After Smith earned a steal on SBU's next possession, Bronner iced the game with two free throws.
With the victory the Wildcats snap its seven-game losing streak to Stony Brook. The win also ends the Seawolves' 23-game conference home winning streak.
The Wildcats return to Lundholm Gymnasium, hosting the Binghamton University Bearcats on Wednesday, Feb. 12 (7 p.m.). For tickets, visit UNHWildcats.com or call (603) 862-4000.


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By William S. Cohen, Secretary of DefenseNational Guard Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2000 Defense Leaders is a feature of the American Forces Press Service. It provides senior DoD leaders with an opportunity to speak directly to military service members, their families and DoD civilians on subjects of current interest.
One of the clearest responsibilities of any secretary of defense is to protect the men and women the United States deploys in harm's way around the world to safeguard our national interests. That is why I, acting on the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, decided to start vaccinating every member of the military against exposure to anthrax, a highly lethal biological agent that at least 10 countries possess in their arsenals or are in the process of acquiring.
In 1996, the Joint Chiefs of Staff identified anthrax as the number one biological threat to our troops. After the Gulf War, United Nations inspectors confirmed that Iraq had produced thousands of gallons of anthrax and deployed it in missile warheads, artillery shells and spray tanks for use from airplanes. As a weapon of mass destruction, anthrax is cheap and much easier to develop than nuclear munitions. When dispersed in aerosol form, the colorless, odorless bacteria covers a wide area and kills people within several days of inhalation. In 1979, approximately 70 Russians died after breathing anthrax spores that escaped from a Soviet biological research facility.
Fortunately, Iraq did not use anthrax against our troops during Desert Storm in 1991, but we can't expect that future adversaries, including terrorists, would not do so. At a time when the U.S. maintains clear conventional military superiority, enemies will be tempted to turn to unconventional weapons, such as anthrax, as a way to defeat our troops.
Although anthrax is highly deadly, we have developed protective equipment and medicines to secure the safety of our troops. In 1970, the Food and Drug Administration licensed a vaccine to protect humans who might be exposed to anthrax. This vaccine has a proven safety record over 30 years of use by thousands of veterans, woolworkers and veterinarians. Protective gear provides only temporary protection, while the vaccine constantly protects troops who might breathe anthrax spores spread on the battlefield.
After evaluating the anthrax threat and the safety of the vaccine, the general who commands U.S. troops in the Middle East requested that all troops deployed to the Arabian Gulf area be vaccinated for anthrax protection. Every day approximately 20,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines stationed in the Gulf awake knowing that they could encounter an anthrax attack. The commander of the 37,000 U.S. troops in South Korea, who face an anthrax threat from North Korea, also requested vaccinations for his forces.
The Joint Chiefs reviewed these proposals in light of their conclusion that anthrax is the foremost biological threat to our troops. They recommended mandatory anthrax vaccination for all 2.4 million active and reserve members of our military, with the first shots going to troops in or scheduled to go to the Middle East and Korea. They reasoned that force protection should not be optional; just as it is inconceivable to allow a soldier to fight without a helmet, it makes little sense to send a soldier into battle without protection against a known threat like anthrax. Because our military must be able to deploy anywhere on short notice, they recommended vaccinations for all active and reserve personnel.
I supported the recommendation of our military leaders. But before launching the vaccination program, I took steps to make sure that we were prepared. Complaints that the Department of Defense mishandled exposure to Agent Orange and the illnesses suffered by some veterans following the Gulf War in 1991 damaged the military's credibility on medical issues. We have worked hard to correct and learn from these experiences, and one of the lessons is that our medical programs to protect soldiers in battle must be planned and implemented with an emphasis on safety.
As a result, I decided to delay vaccinations until four conditions were met. First, I ordered supplemental testing, consistent with FDA standards, to assure that the vaccine supplies are sterile, safe, potent and pure. Second, I instructed the services to design a system that accurately tracks personnel who received the six shots required in the vaccination program. Third, I required the services to develop plans for educating people about the program and administering the immunizations. Finally, I ordered an independent review of the health and medical protocols of the program. This was performed by Dr. Gerald Burrow, the highly respected former dean of the Yale Medical School, who assisted the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses.
The vaccinations began in 1998 after these four conditions were met. Gen. Hugh Shelton, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and I were among the first to receive the shots. We experienced the same mild side effects, such as temporary soreness or a small bump on the arm, that many others feel. Indeed, the side effects are frequently less than those caused by other routine vaccinations that most Americans routinely receive. Our careful monitoring of the program reveals no unexpected side effects. Nevertheless, if our troops experience a negative reaction, we provide quality medical care.
More than 400,000 active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have started receiving the series of six shots, while only about 300 have refused vaccinations. We take seriously the concerns that people have raised about the program, and we are in the process of distributing additional educational material to explain the program to military members and their families. We have bolstered our website (http://www.anthrax.osd.mil) to counter some of the erroneous assertions about the vaccine that are circulating on the internet. We are continuing to monitor the safety of our vaccine supplies.
The military does not want to lose a single member because of his or her concerns over this program. But most of all, we don't want to run the risk of losing thousands of men and women in uniform from an anthrax attack for which we are unprepared. The threat is real, and we are carrying out a prudent, safe program to counter the dangers our troops face.


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Uncertainty in the public markets didn't prove to be a roadblock for TrueCar's initial public offering.
On Friday, TrueCar's shares began trading under the Nasdaq under the ticker "TRUE" after the Santa Monica, Calif.-based car comparison company raised $70 million in its IPO and navigated an unexpected pothole along the way. Shares, which were expected to price between $12 to $14, actually sold at $9 apiece, which according to CEO and founder Scott Painer was a maneuver to protect against "choppy markets."
"There is no doubt that investors are changing priorities and a lot of great companies didn't make it out," he said from New York, where the company celebrated its listing in Times Square. "Just getting this out was the definition of success."
Referring to the likes of companies like Box, which delayed its IPO plans according to reports earlier this month, Painter did everything to avoid uttering the potentially damning word that some believe characterize the state of the current technology stock market: "bubble." Instead on a day where his company experienced more than a 10% pop from its IPO price, Painter hoped his company's debut was the signal of a "turn in that behavior" in which investors have retreated from the likes of tech companies like Twitter Twitter and Facebook.
"It's just a natural rotation out of certain stocks, with investors shifting towards other things in business," said Painter, "like profitability."
TrueCar, which has yet to have a profitable year, connects automotive dealers with car buyers looking for the best price possible. Facilitating the flow of pricing information from sellers to potential consumers, dealers can list their vehicles on TrueCar's web platform, which customers can then browse and compare cars. If a buyer finds somethings they're interested in, they can then print out a certificate that will guarantee them a price for a certain make and model from a local participating dealer.
TrueCar, which has helped with over 1.2 million automobile transactions since its 2005 inception, makes $300 for every new car transaction and $400 for every used car sale. The company posted a loss last year of $25 million on $134 million in revenue, up from the 2012 loss of $75 million on $80 million in revenue.
Painter, who's founded 37 companies over the last 20 years, defended his company's growth, pointing to a slim EBITDA profit last year of more than $2 million, and the fact that the company is now cash-flow positive. TrueCar also hired former Hyundai North America CEO John Krafcik as president, a move that observers hope can add a marketing and strategy edge to the company. For now, with the public listing is done and dusted, Painter said he's looking forward to getting back to California.
"We're going to continue to get back to work," he said, noting that there are still core issues that need to be sorted out in the world of car buying. "An IPO is a lot of effort and somewhat of a distraction to senior management."
At least for TrueCar, it was a good distraction. The company closed up 11.8% on its first day of trading at $10.06 a share.
With reporting from Joann Muller in Detroit.
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The Great Venison Sausage Contest: An amateur sweepThe judges moved around the venison like wolves circling a buck. Once in a while, one would move in, snatch a chunk of sausage or jerky, then retreat to sample its flavor.
By: Sam Cook, Duluth News Tribune
The judges moved around the venison like wolves circling a buck. Once in a while, one would move in, snatch a chunk of sausage or jerky, then retreat to sample its flavor.
That was the scene at the News Tribune on Wednesday, when four venison connoisseurs gathered to judge the Great Venison Sausage Contest.
"Wow," Duluth's Eric Larson said, chewing a chunk of jerky thoughtfully. "Number 13 is solid. Very solid."
Suzanne Hargis of Duluth, another judge, bit off a piece of sample number 11.
"You put it in your mouth. You taste it — smoky but mild," she said. "Then the flavor just continues."
Among 29 entries, Ron Gittings of Cloquet came out the big winner. Gittings tied for first in the amateur venison sausage division and also took second and third in the same category.
Gittings, a sociology instructor at Fond du Lac College and the University of Minnesota Duluth, has been making his own sausage for three or four years, he said.
His smoked snack sticks, which tied for first with a summer sausage by Gary Bay of Superior, came from a recipe he picked up in Iowa this fall, Gittings said.
"I went to a sausage-making seminar down there in October," he said. "It was one of the funnest days I've ever had in my life."
The spice mixture he used in his snack sticks came from Keith Curley at www.curleyssausagekitchen.com. Gittings didn't modify it.
His venison was provided by his daughter Leanne, who shot three deer this fall, two within 10 seconds during the firearms season.
Bay and his wife Christine make their venison summer sausage every year.
"That's a family recipe we've had in the family for 30 years or better," Bay said. "We always do our own processing of animals."
Although he didn't want to share the recipe, he had some tips for sausage-makers.
"The main thing is to make sure your spices are fresh," Bay said. "And buy the good stuff."
The Bays make 25-pound batches at a time.
"It's an incredible amount of work to do it," he said. "You have to smoke it for 14 hours."
Gary and Christine each took a buck during bow season this fall in Wisconsin, and both deer came off their own property.
Commercial sausage division
Superior Meats in Superior took first place in the commercial venison sausage division with its venison teriyaki snack sticks. Jerry Atkinson of Oliver submitted the entry.
Superior Meats also took second in the category among four entries with a Landjager Swiss cheese venison snack stick.
"Those are two of our best-sellers," said Mike Cragin, manager of Superior Meats. "The teriyaki, we entered that at a trade show in Madison last year and got an honorable mention."
The shop sells bags of spices for making the two kinds of sausage, Cragin said.
Jerky division
Jay Nelson of Duluth has been making jerky for about a year after being inspired by a brother-in-law. His thin strips of jerky won the jerky division of the contest.
"I tasted it, and I can't stop making it now," said Nelson, 32. "I bring it with me to work and to hunting camp, anywhere you feel like snacking — if there's any left. Everyone likes it, so it doesn't last long."
He brines the venison then smokes it for two hours over cherry and hickory chips mixed together. He sprinkles a bit of brown sugar on the strips before smoking them.
This division was full of excellent entries, the judges said. Bill Ralidak of Meadowlands took second and Ray Renaud of Duluth third.