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Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was a central figure in the political transformation of the South and one of the longest-serving senators in American history. He died in 2003; he was 100 years old.
Mr. Thurmond first came to national attention in 1948 as the States' Rights candidate after Southerners walked out of the Democratic convention to protest the party's new commitment to civil rights. Mr. Thurmond finished a distant third to President Harry S. Truman that year, but his million votes cracked the once-solid Democratic South and helped set the stage for political realignment.
In 1964, Mr. Thurmond switched parties to back the Republican nominee for president, Senator Barry M. Goldwater. Four years later Mr. Thurmond held the South for Richard M. Nixon's nomination and election, after assuring Southerners that Mr. Nixon, as president, would go easy on civil rights.
Despite the role of civil rights in his political evolution and his record-breaking filibuster of 24 hours and 18 minutes against the civil rights bill of 1957, Mr. Thurmond always insisted he had never been a racist, but was merely opposed to excessive federal authority.
After Mr. Thurmond's death, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, a biracial woman, came forward to say that Mr. Thurmond was her father. Her mother, Carrie Butler, was a maid in the Thurmond family home in South Carolina and was 16 when she gave birth to Ms. Washington-Williams. Mr. Thurmond saw her about once a year and gave her financial support, she has said.
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"They worried because he didn't have any hobbies and they wondered what he would do with himself," said Huff's wife of 54 years, Annette.
But Huff himself says he is as busy as he wants to be now, as the local American Legion Commander.
"Between doing events and funerals, and Boys State, I have a lot to do," he said.
And because of that, he is still connected to his passion; the military.
Huff, who was born in Benjamin in Utah County, lived most of his young life in Castle Gate.
"It was basically cardboard shacks," said Huff as he was seated in an easy chair in the front room of his home.
Huff attended schools in Carbon County until he was 17, and then he joined the United States Navy a year before graduation.
"I loved baseball," he said. "But my grades weren't high enough to be on the baseball team so it seemed natural if I couldn't play ball, I should join the Navy."
This move into the military was not beyond the experience of his family. Before and since he and his six brothers have served a total of 73 years in the military.
That was in 1956, and within a year he found himself attached to a highly classified program that dealt with the affects of various kinds of warfare gases. He spent 10 months on an auxilary ship based at Hunter's Point in San Francisco during which time he saw what the effects of nerve gas, mustard gas and other agents could do to animals such as chimps, monkeys, rats and rabbits.
"We would go out to Eniwetok (part of the Marshall Islands and the site of nuclear testing between 1948 and 1958) to test the materials," said Huff. "It was very scary. We really didn't know what we were dealing with other than through the training we got."
He said the consequeces of the gas on the animals that were used was undescribable.
He also said it was certainly a different time and place than today.
"We used to have to take the results of the tests to a place in Daly City (south of San Francisco) when we returned from one of our 10 day cruises," he explained. "We would drive with all these documents and materials in old World War II Jeeps through San Francisco only armed with .45 caliber pistols and a couple of guys with Thompson sub-machine guns."
He also said as the crew observed how dangerous the gases were, they decided they would figure out a fake test on the population of San Francisco. They used some material that could be detectable in the city and drove through the area releasing it. Non-dangerous and non-lethal as what they used was, they found that on one of their trips to Daly City they could have wiped out two thirds of the population of the pennisula in four hours. Huff said they were all shocked by that.
"In this day of terrorism, that is very scary," he said.
In 1957 the test crew and ships contingent was disbanded. Huff was able to effect a transfer to a much different kind of environment; the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard, where his brother was also serving.
The ship deployed three times while he was on board, from then until 1960. It had a crew of 3500-3800 which included the air crews.
When that ended he was sent for shore duty at Fallon, Nev. a training base for naval aviators. That was a totally different environment.
"In the summer you could fry eggs on the tarmack it was so hot," he said. As for the winters, they were deadly cold.
By this time he had reached the rank of E-4, and was an inventory and stores keeper for the galley at the base. That is where Huff was stationed when the Cuban Missile Crisis came up.
"For about three weeks everything was very scary," he said. "They told me to take immediate inventory of everything we had because it might need to be shipped out. We were all on 24 hour alert and couldn't leave the base to anywhere where we couldn't get back within 30 minutes."
Interservice cooperation soon became the watch word as the entire military geared up for a possible war.
"The Air Force brought B-52's in and they landed on our field," he said. "They were huge planes. I remember one pilot got to close to the edge of the runway and sank that plane in the dirt about eight inches. They had to bring in a crane to get it out."
The Russian's backed down and things went back to normal, but for Huff it was once again a chance for a change. He was sent to Philadelphia, where in the Camden Ship Yard he began working to place stores on a brand new guided missle destroyer that was being built, the Joseph Strauss DD16. The after some trials the ship was qualified and it set sail for the Panama Canal and ultimately to Long Beach, Calif.
Not too long after arriving in Long Beach in July 1963 the ship got orders for Japan. Huff asked for a transfer and found someone who was willing to swap positions with him on the Destroyer Tender USS Isle Royal.
The Isle Royal, a namesake for an island in the Great Lakes, was almost just the opposite from where Huff had come. A World War II era converted troop ship, the tender was old, slow and unstable.
"After I got there we were deployed to the western Pacific," said Huff. "That ship had never been there. It's top speed was 13 knots and on the sea it rolled a lot."
Before they left port Huff, now an E-5, was sent to a nuclear weapons school and became certified as a nuclear weapons storekeeper.
The Isle Royal, as a repair ship, worked on destroyers and other vessels as needed. It had three machine shops, a helicopter deck and a torpedo shop. Huff was one of those that accounted for and ordered all supplies.
It was now 1965 and the buildup for the Vietnam effort was really gathering steam. Huff and his crewmates found themselves in South Vietnam doing repairs on a number of ships. Then they went to Japan and then on to Taiwan. While in Taiwan and huge typhoon approached and the ship was ordered out to sea so as to miss the storm.
"That was at Thanksgiving time," said Huff. "The cooks were cooking turkeys for the dinner but the waves of the on-coming typhoon made it impossible. There was turkey everywhere but on the table."
In 1966 the ship was back in port and Huff was ordered to go to San Diego for a meeting. When he arrived he realized that it was in the office of a Rear Admiral. He was asked in the office.
"He said 'I have been looking at your record and you are exactly what we need for a job'" Huff said. "The Destroyer Edson needed a stores manager in the worst way and they asked me to do it. They asked, but how do you say no to a Rear Admiral."
When Huff reported for duty he found the ship going through a supply overhaul. The chief who had been assigned to head up the team doing the overhaul had suddenly died of a heart attack and the second in command had then died in a car wreck. He along with some others completed the overhaul.
All this was for a buildup to head to Vietnam again. Early in 1967 it sailed for Vietnam action with Huff on board.
On May 28 it was along the coast of Vietnam when a bank of Viet Cong artillery opened up on the ship. Three ships in the group were hit with the Edson getting get hit by the very first shell. The shell hit the mast of the ship.
Huff had just finished dinner and was just below the mast when it struck.
"I was walking and heard someone call my name and I turned and that is when the shell hit," he said. "It was strange because whoever it was used my middle name. No one that I knew of on the ship knew it."
The explosion rained shrapnel down on Huff, scattering down his back, and into his extemities. A half dozen men were wounded, some of them seriously.
Some of the scrapnel remains in his body. In fact sometime later he was having dinner with his brother in the Philipines and a beebee sized piece of metal popped out of his hand.
"Theres a mememto for you," he said to his brother handing him the piece of metal.
Huff noted that the enemy had shot at the Edson 83 times and the only shell that hit was the first one. Altogether 10 men were injured in the blast.
In March of 1968 Huff got orders to go to Hawaii. The assignment was to run the supply side for the Seventh Fleet's communication headquarters. But the communications center was also a cross-service operation. His bosses included an Army Major and full Colonel as wll asa full Navy Captain.
"I had an $8 million budget," said Huff. "It was a large operation."
During his time there he put together a new inventory control program that saved valuable hours.
He said the highlight of his time there and one of the highlights of his career was waching the filming of the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" while he was there.
In the end though, the stress of the job and other factors led him to a bad bout with ulcers. For some time the ailment made things touch and go. While convalesing he got orders to go back to Vietnam. He was appauled. After talking to some officials, it was realized that he was not in shape to go back overseas, so once he was better they put him on the USS Long Beach. The missle cruiser was a one of a kind; the only one built in its class.
The ship had 18 store keepers. with two of them ranked two above Huff's E-7 ranking. But again death seemed to rain around Huff. The E-9 had a heart attack and couldn't serve anymore, the E-8 left to go to another ship and the other E-7 was killed in a car wreck when he went home for leave in Virginia. That left Huff running the show as lead Petty Officer.
"I can't exactly put my finger on it, but I didn't like that ship," he said. "There was something about it..."
In 1973 he was transfered to the Destroyer Turner Joy (DD 951). The ship had been involved in the Tonkin Gulf Incident that really set off the war for the United States, and at the end of the war she was there too.
"I was on her when she was one of the last ships to fire in anger off the Vietnam coast," said Huff.
In 1975 he was up for shore duty again, this time headed to San Antonio, Texas. He was to work with supplies and setting up events for recruiters. He found himself on the road continually between San Antonio, Dallas, Brownsville and Corpus Christi. He put 27,000 miles on his car in five months. He was never home. He asked to to back to sea, but the Navy said no. In September of 1975 he put in his retirement papers.
For 20 years he had served his county in the Navy and now he was a civilian. For a few months he worked in Salt Lake at the Boyd Martin Company and then later went to work at Hill Air Force Base processing parts. It was at that time that the F-16 Fighter program was just getting started and he was promised a promotion as the program grew. But the program changed and he decided to get out of working at Hill.
"I hated the politics," he said. "I didn't want anything to do with them."
In 1979, he and Annette moved back to Carbon County. He worked with Emery Mining for two years, for Mining Machine Parts Company for five years and for Baker Mine Service where a reduction in force took him out of his job in 1989.
Not yet quite ready to retire from working he also worked in Winnemucca, Nev. for the gold mine corporation there. After a short time he found that wasn't working so the pair hit the road. They had a fifth wheel and no home to worry about so they traveled.
Not being able to stay away from Carbon County they settled in a home near Old Wellington Road a few years ago, the same place they reside today.
Huff's varied military experience has aided him greatly. But because of the many years he spent in the Navy, it is still his passion. His office is lined with memorabilia about his time in the service and the "yearbooks" from the ships he served on are still prominently displayed.
"I've been around death and have faced death three different times and sometimes I wonder why I am still here," he said as he stood on his front porch in the late summer evening sun. "I guess there was a reason."
Just then the flag that flies in front of his house unfurled with a breeze, and he stood there looking toward the west. Somehow, like the name he heard that caused him to turn and that probably saved him from death or certain disfigurment on the Edson in 1967, that breeze came out of nowhere for this seasoned sailor who served with distinction in the United States Navy.


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One of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists, Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the tracks – Arna (the sensitive, freckled observer) and the cousins with whom she lives; pig-tailed Marlys (gifted, exuberant, snarky, and spastic); and the older Maybonne (concerned with social justice, music, makeup, hairdos and boys) and Freddie (gay, sweet, bullied, fascinated with bugs and monsters); but she often ventures far afield from this, such as in her strips featuring a Beat Poet poodle named Fred Milton.
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I know, I know… I should spend the weekend relaxing. But every place I visit offers me a variety of natural phenomena I wasn't aware of and, as an engineer and a multiphysics enthusiast, I can't help but sit in the sun jotting down a list of the physics involved – possible coupling mechanisms, boundary conditions, materials, and so on (we talked about stereotypes attached to engineer on our Facebook page in May).
I was at Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea (MA, USA) on Saturday: here the sand literally "sings" or squeaks beneath your feet. I thought a bit about it, made some tests by jumping up and down on the sand and then made an educated guess: it must be the friction between the grains and the sudden release of trapped gas, an Acoustics-Structure Interaction problem.
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Stripped of its romantic undertones, it's alleged that kissing – at its physiological core – allows us a primal assessment of a prospective mate, utilising taste to unconsciously assess our biological compatibility with another individual. (Should the taste prove unsavoury, reconsideration is advised.)
Executed well, a kiss rewards with titillating doses of serotonin, adrenaline and dopamine. These rapture-inducing chemicals should complement the kiss's invigorating, unforgettable, and utterly delectable flavour for an all-embracing experience in sensory felicity.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You, you only, exist.
We pass away, till at last,
our passing is so immense
that you arise: beautiful moment,
in all your suddenness,
arising in love, or enchanted
in the contraction of work.
To you I belong, however time may
wear me away. From you to you
I go commanded. In between
the garland is hanging in chance; but if you
take it up and up and up: look:
all becomes festival!
US – to make out
AUS – to pash
JP – チュッ 'Chu'
UK – to snog
FR – galocher
GER – knutschen
HK – 鍚 'Sek'


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St. Petersburg, Florida -- St. Petersburg detectives have charged a man in connection with the murders of two men found in a house fire on Oct. 1.
Investigators working the case say they linked escaped convict Michael Norris to the weapon used in the double murder of Bruce Johnson and Arthur Regula.
Police say Norris, a prisoner of the Florida Department of Corrections since Feb. 10, 2004 for multiple felonies, was working in a work release program when he never returned from his duties on the morning of Sept. 30.
A few hours after leaving the Largo Residential Re-Entry Center, St. Pete investigators say witnesses identified Norris as the man they saw leaving the Driftwood Motel after a semi-automatic handgun was stolen from a room there.
Soon after, police say Norris committed the burglary at the home in the 2600 block of 4th Avenue North, shot and killed the two men and set the home on fire after he stole items from inside, along with their truck.
SEE ALSO:Missing truck found following house fire homicide
On Oct. 2, detectives found Norris and arrested him in connection with his escape, armed burglary at the hotel, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
After they found evidence linking him to the scene of the double murder, they asked him about it and say he did cooperate but did not admit to the crime. He was held without bond until detectives could solidify their case against him.
The gun taken from the hotel was recovered and is undergoing tests at this time to verify if it is the same one used in the double murder.
Today, Oct. 4, investigators felt they had enough evidence to charge him with the double murder. However, they donot know why he targeted that house in the Kenwood neighborhood or why the men were killed in the burglary. It is also not known if the men knew each other.
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To My Enemy,STOP! What are you doing with your life?
What have you done till now?Are you going to spend your days either wondering hopelessly, or roaming through your endless negative thoughts of self-destruction?
WAIT! Do you realize that you are going down?! You wake up every day purposeless, you go to bed late at night and start blaming yourself for having wasted a lot of time crying over the past, thinking about the future, reciting non-stop, "What If?!".
LOOK! Do you see your pale, sick, vexed, strained face in the mirror? Do you like it? Are you willing to turn into a Zombie, paving your road to perdition to your restless end?
BEWARE! Your expiry date is almost over, your time will soon be up, and you will realize that all your life was but a video tape being played in front of your eyes.
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What have you been doing with it? Have you achieved your goals? Are you satisfied with your decisions?
LISTEN! Do not hide your ears, stand up to yourself, and stand up to your enemy.
Sloth will get you nowhere. It will just keep draining you till you are out of energy.
Gluttony will overcome you, consume your body, and arrest your senses.
Greed will manipulate your morality, and turns you into an over-concerned wealth striver.
Wrath will manifest your feelings and turns you into a roguish avenger, keeping people away from you, and putting off the light of life in your soul.
Envy will transform satisfaction into Greed, and Pride will ignite the desire of self-love and narcissism in your heart, and changes you into a devil worshipper.So finally, are you done torturing yourself?
Your Grave
Remember: Every second you waste will be your evil witness in your grave… no second chances will be granted.


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By RICHARD SHAWSports editor
Before the big invitational track meet that Carbon High held on Saturday, March 20, the coaching staff and team had a run with the new timing and computer system. On March 15, the school competed against the other five teams in Region 8.
During that startup meet Carbon's Beau Morley, a 9th grader, placed 6th in the 1600 meter run and Amie Stewart ran a great set of hurdles placing 4th in the 100 meter hurdles and 2nd in the 300 meter hurdles. Amie Stewart also won the ladies long jump event.
But where there is an Amie there also seems to be an Allie. Allie Stewart, Amie's sister, ran close to Amie to place 5th in the 100 meter hurdles and 6th in the long jump.
The girls 4x100 relay team composed of both Stewarts, Britney Banning,and Danielle Martino ran away from the field to claim 1st place.
Martino also won the high jump and was 2nd in the 100 meter dash. Banning placed 5th in the girls high jump and first in the girls 100 meter dash. Mikaleen Loveless placed 5th in the girls long jump and 5th in the 800 meter run. In the throwing events Marsha Jensen placed 5th in the shotput and 4th in the discus. The javelin was led by Danielle Olson with a 3rd place finish followed by Emilie Dunn in 5th and Candra Nelson in 6th place.
The boys placed first in javelin with Chris Henrie taking the top honor and Randy Jones took fourth place.
In the boys discus throw Mark Jensen placed 4th, followed by Ryan Leonard in 5th and Stetson Kunz in 6th place. Stetson also placed 2nd in the boys shotput, while Mark Jensen placed 5th.
In the jumping events Bryce Dinkleman showed promise placing 3rd over all.
Leo Yu led the boys in the 100 meter sprint with an 8th place finish.
The 200 meter run brought Jacob Perez 3rd place, followed by Brandon Hackwell in 5th place.
In the 3200 meter run Paul Goodrich placed 1st followed by Ted Prettyman in 2nd, and Kent Olson in 3rd place.
Tyler Munns placed 5th in the 800 meter run. Jason Child led Carbon High jumpers by placing 4th with Kunz in 5th place.
Then came the Saturday meet. There were 869 athletes competing from 24 teams There were schools from all five high school classifications.
Carbon High was led by Amie Stewart who qualified for state in her first qualifying meet by placing 3rd in the long jump with a leap of 16 ft. even. Amie Stewart also placed 7th in the 100 meter hurdles and 8th in the 300 meter hurdles.
Banning placed 5th in the long jump with Allie Stewart finishing 7th in the girls 100 meter hurdles.
Maquette Potts had a good day competing as she placed 3rd in the girls high jump.
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My Pathfinder drove magically through two feet of snow! I did, however, encounter areas where there was only 1 foot or thereabouts. Was there a difference? Only slightly....
Music? Or Sound?
When the first of two groups of BAAS members arrived, I played three complex selections that challenge a system far more than does the standard choice of female singer with small combo: the beginning of the first movement of Mahler's Symphony 2, from Iván Fischer's recording with the Budapest Festival Orchestra (SACD/CD, Channel Classics 23506; "R2D4," February 2007); mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's entire recording of Handel's "As with Rosy Steps the Morn Advancing," from her Handel Arias, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Harry Bicket (SACD/CD, Avie 30; "R2D4, February 2005; November 2004); and a few tracks from the Charles Lloyd Quartet's Mirror (CD, ECM 2176; December 2010). We listened to all three selections consecutively, then switched cables.
To my ears, the differences between how the cables interacted with the music and equipment were clear. Beyond the sound's being exceedingly airy and open with the expensive cable, with more refined highs, tighter bass, and exceptional transparency, it let me hear music more organically, in ways that touched me deeper. But when several BAAS members said they either couldn't hear a difference, or preferred the lower-priced cable, I realized that they were having a major problem in perceiving unfamiliar, complex music that contained multiple ideas, piquant harmonies, and emotional shifts.
So I prefaced the second listening session with some tips: "When I play orchestral music such as Mahler's, one thing I listen for is the balance between instruments. You may hear a lot of powerful low energy from timpani, bass drum, cellos, and basses, but is that energy in correct musical proportion to the midrange and treble instruments? Can you clearly discern the pitches of the lowest sounds? When you listen to Hunt Lieberson accompanied by period instruments, are the instruments in balance with each other, and are they in correct proportion to the sound of the singer's voice? Are the timbres of the instruments true? Are you hearing all the overtones and subtle dynamic shifts you might hope to hear?
"Beyond all those specifics, when you take a deep breath and let the music flow over you, does what you hear make musical sense or does it seem unbalanced? Does the music move you, conveying the emotion you sense the composer intended to communicate? How does it make you feel?"
Nice try. After we'd listened to the Handel and had been pummeled by out-of-control mush masquerading as two period-instrument cellos and a double bassindistinct sounds that overwhelmed both the 11 violins behind Hunt Lieberson and the sound of her voicetwo audiophiles claimed that the lower-priced cable transmitted more, hence "better," bass. After the Mahler, I was dismayed to find some people preferring the lower-priced cable's brasher, less-refined presentation of the horns and strings, and an overall more limited palette of colors for this music. While there's no reason some cable can't bring the Norse god to his silver-clad knees, this claimant of that throne was clearly a pretender.
I couldn't figure out why so many people were missing obvious giveaways of inferior sound. Certainly the expensive cable's I-could-buy-a-house-for-this cost has made it a sitting target and stirred up resentment. If I had $100 for every cable distributor who has claimed that their cable can trounce the false god and make the world a better place for audiophiles and their recalcitrant spouses, I'd be in Europe right now, listening to Handel in the halls for which his music was intended, and hopping from one jazz club to another. But was the resentment so great that it had led people to plug their ears?
No, something more than cable envy was going on. Instead of blaming the listeners, I began to wonder if we who review equipment have unintentionally helped create a community of audiophiles who lack the ability to listen deeply. Might it be the case that, because we often spend the bulk of a review discussing certain musical elements to the exclusion of others, we give short shrift to how the totality of the musical experience affects us, and have thus led our readers astray?
True, we reviewers sometimes speak of a bass line, a singer's voice, or the much-vaunted "presence region" as if they were somehow separate and distinct from the rest of the music we hear. Pointing out specific musical elements and how a component re-creates them can be quite useful. But if we fail to make the musical connectionsto put the pieces togetherare we misinforming listeners who are not always able to embrace the entire gestalt of the musical experience?
To test my theory, I began to scan reviews, both in print and online. While I was delighted to encounter reviews that spoke of music as an organic wholecheck out Stephen Mejias's monthly column, "The Entry Level," for many examplesI also found numerous examples like the following, paraphrased from an actual review: "The music I picked included one piece to test the sound of acoustic and electric guitars, a very different one to test the ability to handle delicate sounds while still maintaining bass authority and slam . . . and three other selections to evaluate bass performance."
There's nothing wrong with the latter approach. Most reviewers have, or ought to have, favorite recordings that they use to evaluate such attributes. But when all we talk about is the sound of specific sonic elements, rather than how the entire musical experience makes us feel, I fear that we ultimately lead readers astray. We contribute to the schooling, not the education, of a generation of audiophiles who focus on individual fragments of the sonic experience instead of receiving music as an organic whole. Or, as the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham once described his countrymen, "The English may not like musicbut they absolutely love the noise it makes."
The wonder of the audiophile experience is the ability of a sound system to communicate the entire musical gestalt: the sum total of a work's ideas, emotions, and spiritual truths as expressed by and embodied in tone, rhythm, pitch, and artistic inspiration. As reviewers, that's what we must strive to convey each time we critique a cable, a black box, a loudspeaker, or the like. Unless we discuss how what we hear moves us in ways that transcend the sum total of its parts, we do our readers a disservice, and fail to give the music we love its full due.
What this comes down to is that peasents had the nerve to disagree with Mr. Serinus's opinon. How dare they not hear what he thinks they should hear. After all he is a practiced listener and he has golden ears and these riff raff disagree and when he explains what they should hear they still don't hear it. My goodness, perhaps Jason should send them to block for their stupidity.
What this comes down to is that peasents had the nerve to disagree with Mr. Serinus's opinon. How dare they not hear what he thinks they should hear.
Everyone appears to be forgetting about the role of mentoring in critical listening to audio. Jon Iverson wrote about this in June 2002 - see www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/588/index.html - and it is the case that until someone shows you what to listen for, you can be unaware of it. I wrote about this aspect of hearing and perception in my 2011 Richard Heyser Memorial Lecture that I presented to the Audio Engineering Society:
"I was auditioning an early orchestral CD with the late Raymond Cooke, founder of KEF. I remarked that the CD sounded pretty good to me—no surface noise or tracing distortion, the speed stability, the clarity of the low frequencies—when Raymond metaphorically shook me by the shoulders: "Can't you hear that quality of high frequencies? It sounds like grains of rice being dropped onto a taut paper sheet." And up to that point, no, I had not noticed anything amiss with the high frequencies."
So was I a "peasant" until the moment of shared listening with Raymond? Or was it simply that it took a more experienced listener to open my ears?
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
You're missing the point here. Two points, actually. (1) Many readers, including myself, found the original post to be extremely insulting. He basically said anyone who doesn't hear what he hears when it comes to cables is an unsophisticated, musically illiterate Neanderthal. (2) Despite your claims to the contrary, the Stereophile staff has not even come close to proving that they can hear the difference between cables in a properly constructed test. As I said in my earlier post, if cables make such a huge difference, you should be able to pick one system out of 20 or 30 where the only difference is a single cable--and do it immediately and consistently. Until you rise to that challenge, I stand by my opinion: hugely expensive cables are a scam.
You're missing the point here.
I don't think so. It is inarguable that even though we all start out with the same hearing apparatus, people differ in their listening skills, as they do in every other skill. It is also inarguable that those skills can be improved by learning and mentoring. The anecdote I quoted was to illustrate that with the help of others, I am a better skilled, more perceptive listener than my younger self. And there is the fact that practicing something over a long period of time increases your skill at it - the "10,000 hours" theory.
(1) Many readers, including myself, found the original post to be extremely insulting. He basically said anyone who doesn't hear what he hears when it comes to cables is an unsophisticated, musically illiterate Neanderthal.
He didn't say that, nor would he. And no insult was intended.
(2) Despite your claims to the contrary, the Stereophile staff has not even come close to proving that they can hear the difference between cables in a properly constructed test.
In another comment today, I mentioned that Michael Fremer and I did just that. You are welcome to disagree with the results of that test, of course, but you can't pretend it didn't occur.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
A link to said test conditions and results?
A link to said test conditions and results?
The test was designed and run by Lee Gomes in 2008, then of the Wall Street Journal, now of Forbes magazine. Lee doesn't give any detail of the test but he described the results at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120044692027492991.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_to:
"Using two identical CD players, I tested a $2,000, eight-foot pair of Sigma Retro Gold cables from Monster Cable, which are as thick as your thumb, against 14-gauge, hardware-store speaker cable. Many audiophiles say they are equally good. I couldn't hear a difference and was a wee bit suspicious that anyone else could. But of the 39 people who took this test, 61% said they preferred the expensive cable.
"That may not be much of a margin for two products with such drastically different prices, but I was struck by how the best-informed people at the show -- like John Atkinson and Michael Fremer of Stereophile Magazine -- easily picked the expensive cable."
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
This piece is interesting, although the tests, like the one you cite, are not as rigorous as would be needed to be scientifically conclusive:
Again, there's no science here.
This piece is interesting, although the tests, like the one you cite, are not as rigorous as would be needed to be scientifically conclusive:
I am familiar with this decades-old article. "Not as rigorous" is the least of it. And Tom Nousaine and you both appear to have forgotten that in formal statistical analysis, null results as in these Canadian Sound & Vision tests cannot be taken as indicating that there was not a physicsl difference between the objects being tested. The correct formal conclusion was that if there were a real difference, it could not be detected under the specific conditions of the test. By contrast, a single verifiable positive result of a test does indeed suggest that a real difference exists.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
I do not claim to be an expert at these sorts of tests, so I cannot comment upon your remarks. Perhaps I can hunt up my old statistics professor and ask him. In the mean time, why not have an outside entity that is an expert set one up and subject you and the rest of the gang to it? Merely leveling criticism at one that I readily acknowledged was not rigorous proves nothing.
Or, better yet, make such tests an integral part of every single review published in Stereophile from now on. If the vast sonic differences you proclaim with any given piece of gear actually exist -- be it cables, DACs, amps, whatever -- it should be a piece of cake for you guys to prove it scientifically. Every time.
Please understand, sir, that I like your publication, although I think you guys take yourselves way too seriously. But please also understand that when you're talking about spending hundreds of dollars on any piece of audio gear, for 99% of us hicks out here in Hooterville this gets serious, because we're going to have to scrimp and save to make the purchase. We need to be damn sure our audio $ are spent wisely, maximizing bang for the buck. I would wager that for the vast majority of us, finding a better pair of loudspeakers would make a bigger difference than spending the same $ on some piece of wire that one has to be "mentored" in order to discern any difference with Monoprice cables -- even assuming this is possible.
You took Statistics, yet show no understanding of statistical significance in a testing situation...?
If you test the reviewers, then who will test the tester? Consumer Reports?
I often find the logic in the comments made by those who go on and on about how Stereophile should do blind testing to be rather interesting. The factual content of those comments is also quite scanty.... As are yours.
I take that back...There is no logic to your posts.
"and it is the case that until someone shows you what to listen for, you can be unaware of it."
Again, all this must have one reference, and that reference is the live performance. There is no such thing as "exceedingly airy", exceeding what? Airy? It is either airy or it is not. Gear can introduce pleasant, remarkable, mind boggling but ultimately false hyperdetails that would go well beyond what the real performance would sound like.
Thus in order to claim one cable is "truer" to the real world, the real world has to be heard first before making comparisons.
Finally an anecdote about who hears what: a certain Chinese pianist released a Rachmaninov recording with an Italian renowned maestro on the most prestigious label of classical music a couple years ago. It was trumpeted as a "live" recording. Many audiophile reviewers touted the great sound engineer's prowess... Except that my critical listening revealed interesting sound variations during the 2 pieces supposedly recorded during one single live concert: one mat sound versus one warmer, more haloed sound. And since applauses at the end of one piece had the latest sound character, one truly wondered how the same concert could sound differently...
Charting the switches revealed numerous changes, back and forth. In many classical violin recordings, it is customary to record the candenzas without orchestra musicians so no parasite noise, cracking chair etc... could interrupt the flow of the single sounding instrument. Usually the sound acoustical decay and reverb difference between a single occupant in the hall and a filled up place betrays the trick if one pays attention. Coming back to our pianist and maestro, the videos on the label website showed the usual rehearsals taking place before the concert. It is easy to figure that the mat sound was therefore linked to the more controlled environment of rehearsals. In consequence, the chart showed this "live" recording ended up being a 50/50 mix...
I have yet to read a recanted review by the audiophile crowd... try it yourself it's a fun game between friends, and you can hear the difference even with a 12 gauge copper!
re: "all this must have one reference, and that reference is the live performance"
This brings up another interesting aspect in all of this. Most recordings we listen to are not live, and even if they are, they have been heavily tweaked as the recording is finalized, as you point out. There are really very few "pure" live recordings out there. I certainly don't listen to many of them. It gets even stickier when we try to figure out what is "accurate" when it comes to a studio recording. The only thing that could even begin to be construed as "accurate" in most recordings we listen to would be what the engineer heard on his studio monitors when the recording was finalized.
There is also the problem that, if components can only be judged as "accurate" in terms of how well they reproduce a pure live recording (still a very subjective judgement), they may sound less than stellar with the other 99.9% of music we actually listen to.
Maybe it's just me, but somehow in all of the obsessing about minute sonic differences between mega-expensive cables and multi-thousand dollar amps, it seems that we've lost sight of what this hobby is really all about -- enjoying the music. I think I had more fun back in the day with my ESS Heil AMT-1A speakers and NAD receiver than anything I've heard since. It was gear a working man could afford and actually enjoy, without worrying about whether his cables gave him as much "air" as the Ruy Lopez Golden Twists™ that cost $500/ft.
Many jazz studio recordings bring for instance a closely miked piano over a voice. There is no way in real life anyone will hear the voice from his seat and put his head inside the piano. Thus the ability to hear or not the piano microdetails is a false problem. In fact there is little need for imaging etc... to reproduce those made up recordings!
As far as live recordings are concerned, to me the Mercury Living Presence approach was the closest to feeling like one person in the best seat of the concert hall. Multimiking may be pleasant, technically advanced etc... but ultimately is also a made up product. A previous commenter pointed out how some orchestral instruments are often artificially enhanced by mixing engineers.
I'd argue that "high fidelity" means firstly fidelity to reality. A system able to reproduce the reality of a properly positioned group, dynamic, tonal color etc... will likely come out a winner when playing a Bjork purely created sound landscape.
In any case, I always smile when these people advise spending $1000s in speaker cables to simply feed the same ordinary Vifa, ScanSpeak 8" drivers just because some manufacturer packaged them in gorgeous veneered boxes, especially when they'll claim amazing basses... Notwithstanding the fact that if the internal cabling of the speaker is not made up of the Asian Forest TM $50,000/m cable, the final result will always depend on the lesser component...
In fact the dichotomy between professional sound and the high end is troubling, as if the self anointed appear uninterested in the upstream aspect of the product that will feed their niche industry and their endless esoteric pursuit. Between a $12k DeVore soap box and a retooled pair of Hosoken JBL 4343, the choice is in fact very simple for anyone who experienced pro sound.
re: "if the internal cabling of the speaker is not made up of the Asian Forest TM $50,000/m cable, the final result will always depend on the lesser component"
I was thinking the same thing! All of this esoteric cable is, first of all, terminated using the same spade lugs or bananna plugs as my Monoprice cables. So whatever "magic" they possess is ultimately routed not only through these everyday connectors, which should utterly negate their magical properties, but there is the additional issue of, as you point out, the speaker's internal cabling. I have a pair of nice Dynaudio speakers that sound great, but I'm sure if I were to crack them open the connection from the speaker connector terminal to the drivers is basic copper wire sheathed in plastic.
It could provide some credibility and perspective. I know that most reviewers don't believe that db tests can uncover all differences but they would certainly help readers understand how big differences really are. If reviewers love a component but can't tell it from another component in a blind test the differences must be subtle. Nobody has to admit that there is no difference, just that it isn't obvious enough to be heard in a dbt. There certainly ought to be differences that can be discerned by a dbt. A class A speaker should sound enough different from a class C speaker that the differences can be consistently heard in a dbt. If tests were done a couple of times a year on various components, over time the data could help people make good decisions about what types of components make the biggest differences and therefore deserve the most attention.
Re: Double blind testing
I doubt Stereophile would ever do this, since they rely on advertising revenue. If such tests revealed little or no difference bewteen mega $ cables or amps and actual affordable gear, there goes the whole shebang. What would the maker of that fabulous $1000/ft Capablanca Emerald™ speaker cable do when it was revealed that no one could actually discern its wonderfulness compared to this week's special at Radio Shack? Oh, the humanity!
I doubt Stereophile would ever do [double blind testing], since they rely on advertising revenue. If such tests revealed little or no difference between mega $ cables or amps and actual affordable gear, there goes the whole shebang.
And now we get the inevitable insult to our integrity when someone's statements are not accepted as fact. No, advertising does not rule what we do and write at this magazine. And, of course, your implication that double-blind tests inherently prove a negative suggests that for you, that there be no differences "between mega $ cables or amps and actual affordable gear" is a matter of faith, not fact.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Get over yourself, dude. Seriously. No one is attacking your integrity. But we are not sheep that are willing to be herded into spending hundreds or thousands of $ based solely upon your utterances from on high. If we ask for scientific verification of, particularly, your claims regarding pieces of wire that can run into the thousands of dollars when you're talking the 10, 20 or more feet needed for most home systems, you should rise to the challenge instead of ranting. If you do not wish to conduct such tests, it is simple enough to say so and be done with it. The rest of us will make our own judgements, thank you very much.
I doubt Stereophile would ever do [double blind testing], since they rely on advertising revenue. If such tests revealed little or no difference between mega $ cables or amps and actual affordable gear, there goes the whole shebang.
And now we get the inevitable insult to our integrity when someone's statements are not accepted as fact. No, advertising does not rule what we do and write at this magazine.
Get over yourself, dude. Seriously. No one is attacking your integrity.
Forgive me for taking what you wrote (requoted above) literally. If you don't believe that advertising influences what Stereophile does, then why did you write the words above?
If you do not wish to conduct such tests, it is simple enough to say so and be done with it.
I have repeatedly written, both in the magazine and on this website, why I believe quick-switched double-blind testing as typically practiced is very poor at identifying small but real differences. This is not, as you state above, due to my yielding to pressure from advertisers but to my experience at having been involved in a large number of such tests over the past 35 years, as listener, organizer, or as proctor.
The rest of us will make our own judgements, thank you very much.
That has always been what we recommend. The staff at this magazine may be experienced and careful listeners but we have always emphasized that our readers test our opinions by listening for themselves. However, this is with the proviso, given Jason's thesis in this essay, that people acknowledge that what will be true for their tastes and expectations might not be true for others. Robert Deutsch wrote about this dichotomy in "Sharpeners and Levelers," his May 2011 "As We See It."
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
I have repeatedly written, both in the magazine and on this website, why I believe quick-switched double-blind testing as typically practiced is very poor at identifying small but real differences.
Could you point us to those writings. I have done a great number of quick-switch ABX tests to tell the difference between:
- Sample rates
- Sample rate converters
- Bit depth
- Audio encodings - both in different codecs head to head, and between bitrates of the same lossy material
And come up with positive results in those double-blind tests, even when being told that there should be no audible difference at all, so I find it curious that you find it to be bad.
Even for a troll, you are useless. Goodbye.
Because I asked you about false positives?
Tell me, Arve, do you have roguish eyes?


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Into the Wolvesmouth. Scenes from Within.Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to experience one of Craig Thornton's amazing dinners. Unfortunately, I was there as a bystander, holding a camera and no utensils. There is nothing more punishing than watching people take bites of food and exchange reactions. But this was also a rewarding experience thanks to Team Wolvesmouth: Craig Thornton, Julian Fang, Caleb Chen and the rest of the WM team, as I was able to show up early and see them prep. I had to leave about halfway through the 9-course meal and I reeked beautifully of dishes such as seared ribeye cap and sea bass. In the 2 hours I was there, here is what I saw.
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The daytime talk show world is abuzz with two new entries: "Kris" and "The Real." Both shows filmed last week and toofab was lucky enough to catch the very first tapings of both!
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That show actually taped Friday; the one toofab attended -- with guest host Mike Catherwood -- taped Thursday.
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On Friday, toofab visited "The Real" -- a roundtable show similar to "The Talk" but hosted by a slightly younger and a little crazier panel. Hosts Tamera Mowry-Housley, Tamar Braxton, Adrienne Bailon, Jeannie Mai, and Loni Love entertained the audience with their great chemistry and unfiltered talk. Watching these ladies is like a day out with your girlfriends!
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(NEWS CENTER) Maine lawmakers avert a state government shutdown as the House and Senate vote to override Gov. Paul LePage's veto of the state budget.
The vote in the House Wednesday was 114-34, surpassing the two-thirds support needed to override the veto. The Senate voted 26-9 to override.
LePage vetoed the budget on Monday in large part because it included temporary tax increases. The governor said after the override vote that the move will hurt Maine's efforts to improve the business climate. He called it "a sad day."
State government would shut have down if a budget was not in place by July 1. During the last government shutdown of 1991, state employees didn't get paychecks, courthouses closed and construction halted on the state's roads.
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The Carbon High Girl's soccer team is having a rough season.They dropped yet another game to Union 11-0 last Thursday.
After beating Grantsville 1-0 in their first game, it has been down hill and they know it. But a 4-0 loss to ALA on Tuesday is actually a step in the right direction.
Key injuries and loss of their most experienced players to graduation last year have put the squad in a place they didn't want to be. But the great news is that the team is banding together to look at ways to be much better next season.
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LISBON Plans to bring international students to Lisbon Central School have been put on hold for a year as the district attempts to generate interest in the program.
We have everything in place to accept international students, Superintendent Erin E. Woods said. It really is dependent on international student interest.
The program was proposed last year as a way to give international students a taste of the north country while helping the districts bottom line.
Students would be charged $10,000 in tuition with $5,000 in room and board on top of that.
We were hopeful that wed get at least a couple, but it didnt turn out that way, Ms. Woods said. A lot of students are interested in more city schools, more urban areas.
Lisbon Board of Education President Blake P. Gendebien said the district expects to start small but would be interested in accepting anywhere from two to five students in the first year of the programs operation.
At this point the district is looking for seniors in high school for the program, and students would be housed with community members who volunteer their homes.
Were waiting for students to show an interest and at that point in time we would open up the parent committee again to search for some host families, Mr. Gendebien said.
Because no international students have been identified so far, Mr. Gendebien said, the district now hopes to begin in the fall of 2014.
The district is working with Quest International, a nonprofit group that places international students, to attract interest. Students also can apply directly with the district.
However, while the district has yet to get the program off the ground, Ms. Woods said it has given one family from China a tour of its facilities earlier this month.
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MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, of all dangerous sports, has always seemed to me the silliest. Auto racing, almost equally dangerous, is inane enough; still, anyone who drives a car can at least understand the thrill of hugely amplified power in human hands. But the tree climbing and rock climbing that many of us know have no connection with true mountain climbing, those ascents and descents of vertical icy faces with axes and crampons and the linkage of ropes. The very word "sport" seems fraudulent.


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Let's see. The Eagles beat the Giants 38-31 today after trailing 31-10 in the third quarter. DeSean Jackson did his Muhammad Ali impersonation, begging the Giants' punter to keep the ball in-bounds with 14 seconds left, and then he ran 65 yards for the winning touchdown. He is the greatest (kick returner).
Jackson is a very modern player with enormous talent. Nobody makes more big plays in the open field than this guy. He was a bit of a troubled student-athlete in college at California and fell to the second round, where the Eagles took a chance on him.
The Eagles are known to take chances on shaky individuals. You may have heard about the Michael Vick signing by now. Vick ran for 130 yards, most of them in the fourth quarter as the Iggles came back from 21 points down.
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No. 25, Johnny Smith, Immokalee. The former Indians standout running back coached at Barron Collier back in 2009. Greg Kahn/Staff
No. 24. Aaron Henry, Immokalee High School Henry won 2006 Naples Daily News Defensive Football Player of the Year in leading the Indians to an undefeated season. David Albers/Staff
No. 23, Brian Shimer, RB, Naples. Photo of Shimer at Moorehead State and courtesy of Moorehead State.
No. 22, Carlos Hyde, RB, Naples. Hyde (34) tries to escape from St. Augustine defenders during the fourth quarter as Naples defeated the Yellow Jackets 17-10 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. Greg Kahn/Staff
No. 21, Cleveland Winn, RB, Naples In 1968, Cleveland Winn broke school records in football at Naples High School. Even though he lived in Fort Myers, Winn came to Naples because Fort Myers schools weren't integrated at the time and Naples schools were. Now, Winn, 62, works at Salvation Army in Fort Myers as a security guard as well as helping in other areas like nightly devotion and dinner service to the homeless.Scott McIntyre/Staff
No. 20, Jake O'Connell, TE, Gulf Coast High School Kansas City Chiefs tight end Jake O'Connell on the bench in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Indianapolis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman)
No. 19, Dallas Crawford, South Fort Myers Greg Kahn/Staff
No. 18 Randy Hand, Estero The former Wildcat went on to star at University of Florida. Photo c Copyright Glenn Danforth/Imagine Media All Rights Reserved firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.imaginemedia.org
No. 17, Brad Lundstrom, Lely High School
No. 16, Terry Dean Barron Collier. The 41-year-old Dean throws a football back to his son Tyler in the backyard of Dean's home in Naples. Dean is a former Barron Collier High School quarterback as well as a University of Florida quarterback.Scott McIntyre/Staff
No. 15, Buddy Schultheis, Naples High Photo courtesy of the University of Florida
No. 14 Steve Octavien, Lely Sept. 4, 2009; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Dallas Cowboys linebacker Steve Octavien (53) leaps into the end zone for a touchdown off an interception on a Minnesota Vikings pass in the third quarter at the Metrodome. Mandatory credit: Bruce Kluckhohn US PRESSWIRE
No. 13, Bart Weiss, Naples The 1982 Naples High grad went on to star at the Air Force Academy. Photo Courtesy of The Air Force Academy
No. 12, Duane Coleman, Naples High Naples running back Duane Coleman during Friday night's game at Naples High School. Naples won, 54-21. Romain Blanquart/Staff
No. 11, Matt Prater, Estero Prater now kicks for the Denver Broncos. Here he celebrates after kicking a 56-yard field goal during the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008 in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
No. 10, Spencer Adkins, Naples High School As a senior Spencer Adkins was the 2004 Naples Daily News Broxson Trophy award winner as the top high school football player of the year(player of the year). David Ahntholz/Staff
No. 9, Clifton Robinson, Barron Collier Two-time all-state first teamer who is No. 16 on Florida's all-time career rushing list. William DeShazer/Staff
No. 8, Herchell Troutman, Barron Collier Troutman, 38, of Naples, is a former Barron-Collier running back who was ranked 11th in the state in rushing his senior year. Troutman went on to play at the University of Colorado. William DeShazer/Staff
No. 7, Fred McCrary, Naples High McCrary ran for over 1,200 yards as a senior, then played at Mississippi State before moving on to the NFL where he played for the Saints, Chargers, Falcons, Patriots and Seahawks. He won a Super Bowl ring with the Patriots even though he was on injured reserve. David Albers/ Staff
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PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Enter most any
smoke shop or head shop in Maine and you are likely to find it. And it
is carried by many gas stations, too. It, is a designer drug made to
mimic the effects of marijuana, sold as potpourri in colorful packaging
that is stamped with a warning that it is not for human consumption, but
users and kids all know that if you smoke it, it will get you high,
sometimes with very serious side effects.
"Everyone knows what it is being used for," admits Maine's top drug
cop, Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Director, Roy McKinney. "We are
hearing more and more about it, and really it is being marketed and
pushed as a legal high."
In July of 2012, the US Government passed a law outlawing synthetic
cannabinoids, better known on the street as Spice, K2, fake weed or
potpourri, but before the ink was dry on the legislation, manufacturers
altered the chemical composition ever so slightly to keep the product on
the shelves.
Currently, there is little McKinney or other law enforcement officers
can do to keep these drugs out of stores and off the streets because
they are legal.
"This is a real challenge," explained McKinney. "It is a real
challenge for public safety, law enforcement. It is a real challenge
for treatment folks and prevention folks because we have - these
so-called research chemicals and that is what they are - that are being
marketed by those that are out for the almighty dollar."
Police aren't the only ones struggling to deal with users.
"We are seeing an influx of these consumer products that are spiked
with these designer drugs," said Dr. Tamas Peredy, the medical director
of the Northern New England Poison Center and an emergency room
physician at Maine Medical Center.
"The problem is, in the emergency department, when they come in, they
are out of control," said Dr. Peredy. "All that I am seeing is a guy
coming in, being held down by police officers or EMS workers, and I have
got to get the situation under control."
Peredy says it is difficult for doctors to tell the difference
between users of synthetic cannabinoids and bath salts, another
synthetic compound that has caused widespread problems in Maine.
"They are so agitated that they require a lot of resources,
particularly up front," said Dr. Peredy. "They require many security
guards, they require the critical care area, they require nursing
support because you have to give them sedating drugs and they may stay
that way for days."
Users may experience hallucinations, extreme anxiety and paranoia
from the drug, and open themselves up to a host of medical complications
including rapid heart rates, vomiting, seizures and in rare cases
death. Last week the national Centers for Disease Control issued a
report that found some users experienced kidney damage.
Doctor Peredy says the long-term effects of use are unknown, as are
the chemical compounds used in many of these drugs. "It is likely that
the long-term abuse of stimulants eventually causes certain types of
brain damage," said Dr. Peredy.
"They vomited, they had a seizure, I've had some clients tell me they
actually became disorientated where they might have been a block from
their house and they couldn't identify how to get home," explained
Jennifer Zorn, a substance abuse counselor with Day One who works with
teens and young adults.
"It is just very scary, very scary," she said. "Anything that they
are putting in their bodies, the brain is developing around that. So if
we are using substances that are often illegal, or not, it is going to
affect their development. And by the time that they are 25, they are
not going to be able to function at the same level as those of us that
may not have been using when they were younger."
"We don't know what's in it, we don't know how it is affecting our
body, we don't know the long-term effects, and again it is hard to tell
young people this," she added. "It seems like it's fun."
"We are definitely seeing a large spike in its use," said Senior Lead
Officer, Dan Knight with the Portland Police Department. "We have a
lot of the younger kids, it is illegal for them to buy alcohol, buying
drugs is expensive and illegal, but they are using this spice right now
which is legal to use."
The packaging often contains bright colors and familiar cartoon
characters on them, making them even more attractive for kids to buy and
try, said Knight.
"It is easy to get, and here are some kids thinking like, 'well, I'm
18, I can't buy alcohol, buying drugs are illegal, but I can go here and
buy this, it gets me messed up and I'm not breaking the law'," said
He says officers are frustrated that stores in the city are selling
it to kids, even telling potential users about its effects and potency,
and there is nothing they can do about it.
McKinney hopes the state legislature will take a look at making it
illegal by crafting legislation similar to what helped get bath salts
off of store shelves.
"Every state is confronted with this challenge, as is the Congress," he said.
Tim Goff, WCSH