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Jammie Thomas-Rasset is taking her filesharing case to the US Supreme Court in one last effort to overturn the $222k she's been ordered to pay in damages.
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It's the other US filesharing lawsuit that won't die, alongside that of Joel Tenenbaum.
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset was back in court yesterday for the third time, as a jury is tasked with deciding (again) what damages she should pay after being convicted for illegal filesharing. "It IS Groundhog...
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Zynga CEO has announced that three more executives have left the company. Gamespot reports that – as expected – chief technology officer Cadir Lee, chief operating officer David Ko, and chief people officer Colleen McCreary have left Zynga as part of Don Matrick's restructuring efforts. Zynga has been going under a restructuring process for several months now, with the first major acquisition being Microsoft's Don Mattrick.
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"Each person has contributed to the growth of Zynga and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Cadir Lee for his dedication in the creation of a world class technical organization during his five year tenure, Colleen for her work with our recruitment and people process over the last 4 years, and David Ko for the 3 years that he spent in leading various teams across the organization. We appreciate their contributions to Zynga's first chapter and wish them well in their future endeavors."


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He was born June 8, 1918, in Macon County, N.C., to the late William Thomas Rogers and Marinda McCall Rogers.
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Carl is survived by: his son, Pat Rogers of Dillard; grandchild, Jason Rogers and wife Elizabeth of Mount Vernon, Wash.; six great-grandchildren, Carolyn Rogers, Carl Rogers, Annie Rogers, Oliver Rogers, Benjamin Rogers and Betty Kate Rogers; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Carl was a veteran of World War II, having served with the 724th Railway Operating Battalion in France, Belgium and Germany. He worked for Tallulah Falls Railway as a depot agent for many years until the railway closed down. He remained the REA express agent in Clayton and purchased the property along the railway right of way and became an Allstate Insurance Agent. Along with his wife, they operated the Trailways bus station.
Funeral services were held Friday in the Beck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jack Beaver officiating. Burial followed in Head of Tennessee Baptist Church Cemetery.
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Student Questions: Sugary Behavior, Secondhand Smoke, and Wal-Mart
Answering more questions sent in by students.
by Brian Dunning
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February 24, 2009
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By Brian Dunning, Skeptoid Podcast
Episode 142, February 24, 2009
Today we're giving some more quick answers to questions sent in by students. Any student anywhere is welcome to ask anything about a current popular misconception, a science question that affects our daily lives, or just anything you've heard that doesn't seem to quite make sense. Today's questions are about how sugar affects children's behavior, the real risks of secondhand smoke, the popular hatred of Wal-Mart, omega-3 fatty acid supplementation, and whether radiometric dating is actually useful for determining the age of an object. Let's start with Andrew:
Hi, my name is Andrew and I want to know if certain food additives can affect children's behavior. Do certain food additives cause children to act in a more disruptive fashion, and can removing them from their diets help them behave in a more placid fashion? Thanks.
Certain additives like caffeine and alcohol certainly affect children's behavior in the same way they do adults, in fact to a greater degree because the children have such smaller body mass. But I think you're talking about more common ingredients like sugar or corn syrup. Nearly everyone has always accepted the belief that sugar makes kids hyperactive; in fact it's so deeply ingrained that even some researchers have had trouble accepting their own results. In one study, 35 children reported by their mothers to be "behaviorally sugar sensitive" were separated into two groups. Half were told they were given a sugary drink, half were told it was a sugar-free drink. Then the mothers played with the children and were individually interviewed. Overwhelmingly, mothers who were told their child was given sugar rated their behavior as hyperactive. In fact, all children received the same sugar-free drink. In this case, the perceived affect was confirmation bias by the mothers — where they picked up only on cues that supported their pre-existing conviction.
Another similar study found that 50 children whose mothers "knew" that their children's behavior was worsened by sugar were given a blinded test where the children were given either sugary or a sugar-free drink, and then observed — but this time the mothers didn't know which was which. No differences between the groups could be ascertained over three separate trials. And the lack of an effect extends to classroom performance, too. 16 hyperactive boys were given controlled diets of either sugar drinks or sugar-free drinks at measured intervals throughout two school days and were regularly given behavioral and cognitive tests. Again, there was no difference in performance between the groups.
Biochemically, the claim doesn't make sense for normal healthy children. The amount of sugar in the blood is carefully regulated by insulin. Whether you eat a lot of sugar or none at all should make no difference to your blood sugar level.
So Andrew, the evidence is pretty clear that sugary foods will not affect children's behavior, despite the widespread belief. The observed effect that all mothers can swear to is that they often see their children eating cake and juice at parties or other such gatherings, where the social environment does indeed contribute to mass insanity; and mothers quite naturally mistake correlation for causation.
Hey Brian. This is Adrienne Myers from Stetson University. Is there legitimate research showing that secondhand smoke is harmful?
This is a really interesting question. On the one hand you do have a rock-solid consensus of every major health organization in the world, including the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, the Surgeon General's office, and the National Cancer Institute; that consensus being that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. On the other hand you have an at least equal amount of research disputing this finding; research usually funded by the tobacco industry but also by consumer groups or think tanks like the Cato Institute. In addition, there is growing sentiment in the skeptical community along the lines of "No safe level? Come on..."
Usually when we have the scientists on one side and the interest groups on the other side of a science question, it's pretty easy to guess which side probably has the science right. And the scientists probably do in this case too. The ideal level of secondhand smoke is zero, just as the ideal amount of trans-fats you should eat is zero, and the ideal amount of alcohol to consume is zero. Nearly everyone consumes a non-zero amount of all three, and most people who don't overdo any of them will never encounter any ill effects. There's a big difference between living in a house with a chain smoker and the level of exposure from occasionally walking down the street and passing through someone's cigarette smoke.
The best conclusion is that the scientists are right that zero is probably ideal, but that a realistic low level of occasional exposure is probably harmless.
Hi Brian, I'm Jeff from Northeastern University in Boston, and my question is: Why is Wal-Mart singled-out and stigmatized as an evil corporation by the media, when many of their complaints seem to be applicable to other companies and businesses as well?
Wal-Mart truly is a lot bigger than any of the other apparently similar companies you can think of, so any complaint you'd have about any superstore is likely to apply to Wal-Mart to at least the same degree. Wal-Mart is the de facto poster child for anticorporate sentiment. When a Wal-Mart comes to town, small retailers who are unable or unwilling to adapt their businesses can often be put out of business. Although the requirement for businesses to adapt to changing market conditions has always existed independently of Wal-Mart, it can sometimes be a highly visible and dramatic change when a Wal-Mart comes to a small town, and so it always attracts attention. It's much like what happened when railroads first appeared, favoring some and abandoning others; and again when interstate highways did the same thing; and then again when Internet retailers began to appear and forced a paradigm shift across the board.
But that's only the initial objection to Wal-Mart as a company. When a lot of people hate you, a lot of microscopes get pointed at you; and many other criticisms are unearthed that (as you rightly point out, Jeff) do apply equally to many other companies. Some of these include Wal-Mart's resistance to unionization, its foreign product sourcing, low wages and lame benefits packages, and its exploitation of tax breaks commonly called corporate welfare. There's nothing about these criticisms that's unique to Wal-Mart; but since the public perception exists, it's a really easy target for opportunistic critics like documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald, who capitalized on the sentiment with his 2003 film Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.
As the responsible skeptic can probably surmise, scholarly study of Wal-Mart done outside of pop culture is much more balanced. Most of the common criticisms of Wal-Mart are perfectly true, but they're hardly the complete picture. If you're interested in Wal-Mart's real effects on a community beyond what the protest signs reveal, you've got to dig in and read the research. Wikipedia provides a good list of links to a number of thorough studies.
Hi Brian, my name is Sarah and I love your podcast. I have a question about omega-3 fatty acids. Every seems to be in a fever about their health and cosmetic benefits, and I was wondering are they really worth the hype?
In my video Here Be Dragons I show a bunch of pictures of examples of pop pseudoscience, and one of them is a bottle of fish oil tablets, sold as an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. I take heat for that all the time: People are always emailing me and saying "Hey, omega-3 fatty acids are actually good for you!" And that's true, they are. Your body needs them, and it can't synthesize them; you have to get them from the food you eat.
In fact, fish oil and other omega-3 supplements are prescribed by doctors as a treatment for a variety of illnesses. In many cases, there's not yet a conclusive consensus on how well supplementation treats these conditions, but lots of research is ongoing.
However, one fact has been determined with fairly good certainty. If you are healthy, if you do not have a specific condition that fish oil is intended to treat, if you eat anything like a half-decent diet, omega-3 fatty acid supplementation has not been found to have any plausible benefit. This is pretty much true of nearly all supplement products. A normal diet in any industrialized nation provides more than enough of nearly every nutrient your body has a use for. Anyone selling a product on television or in your supermarket's supplement aisle that claims it's a super-duper life prolonger that will make you healthier than healthy is taking you for a ride.
Does it have any value in the face of certain diseases or deficiencies? Quite probably. Does it have any value for a healthy person? No, Sarah, no hype is justified.
Hello Mr. Dunning. Recently I've grown a fancy to disproving creationism and theism. My question to you is of a creationist argument that carbon dating is inaccurate longer than 1000 years. I was immediately skeptical. So the question is, is carbon dating inaccurate, and how could I respond to such an argument?
This is a common objection that Young Earth Creationists raise to the scientifically determined age of the Earth. Radioactive decay rates are a known constant. By measuring the amount of an element in a compound and that of the element into which it naturally decays, a ratio can be established that tells us how long ago that compound was formed. There are more than a dozen commonly used types of radiometric dating, each optimal for a different type of compound, and each with its own error range and its own useful date range. Carbon-14 dating, that you mention, is used for establishing how long ago living matter died. Any scrap of wood or other organic matter stopped metabolizing carbon-14 when it died, and that carbon-14 in its cells has been decaying into carbon-12 ever since. How much is left tells us for a certainty how long ago it died. Carbon-14 dating is good for anything up to about 60,000 years ago.
Naturally, it's essential to know how much carbon-14 was in the environment throughout that period of time. Calibration scales have been established that tell us this. The amount of natural environmental carbon-14 is confirmed from a variety of sources. These include dendochronology, or tree rings; ice cores; ocean sediment cores; coral samples; and speleotherms, or cave formation samples. These combine to give us an extremely detailed, consistent, and precise knowledge of atmospheric carbon-14 levels throughout recent geological history. They account for volcanic events and even the era of atmospheric nuclear tests. These calibration sources are a great place to start your conversation with your friends. You can't deny radiocarbon dating without denying tree rings.
Other radiometric techniques can be used to date rocks and other objects on much longer time scales. While carbon-14 has a relatively short half-life of 5,730 years, the decay of potassium-40 to argon-40 has a half-life of 1.3 billion years, so potassium-argon dating is useful for dating the oldest rocks; but it's only accurate for rocks at least 100,000 years old. In addition to the useful date range, each method has a known error rate. For example, rubidium-strontium dating, with a half-life of 50 billion years, can date rocks as old as moon rocks up to about 3 billion years with an error of 30 to 50 million years, or about 1.5%.
Students, keep those questions coming! Just come to Skeptoid.com and click on "Answering Student Questions" for a simple form and instructions. If these guys did it, you can too. I'll look forward to hearing from you.
© 2009 Skeptoid Media
References & Further Reading
Bowman, Sheridan. Radiocarbon Dating, Interpreting the past. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.
Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor's Tale, A pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 519-523.
Hooper, L., Thompson, R., Harrison, R., Summerbell, C., Ness, A., Moore, H., Worthington, H., Durrington, P., Higgins, J., Capps, N., Riemersma, R., Ebrahim, S., Davey Smith, G. "Risks and benefits of omega 3 fats for mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review." BMJ. 1 Apr. 2006, Volume 332, Number 7544: 752-760.
Hoover, D.W., Milich, R. "Effects of sugar ingestion expectancies on mother-child interactions." Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 1 Aug. 1994, Volume 22, Number 4: 501-515.
Kirklin, Paul. "The Ultimate pro-WalMart Article." Ludwig von Mises Institute. Mises, 28 Jun. 2006. Web. 30 Dec. 2009. <http://mises.org/story/2219>
NCI. "Secondhand Smoke: Questions and Answers." National Cancer Institute. National Cancer Institute, 1 Aug. 2007. Web. 30 Dec. 2009. <http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS>
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Dunning, B. "Student Questions: Sugary Behavior, Secondhand Smoke, and Wal-Mart." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 24 Feb 2009. Web. 10 Oct 2015. <http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4142>
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guys... if you have to resort to wiki to deal with biochemistry and physiology you are on a losing path.
Please, its a bit of an insult to the general reader.. Its sort of like saying, I know about biochem, look at this wiki answer..
That is just terrible.
Here is a suggestion as to how to carry out the sugar test. The false presumption seems to be that all children metabolise sugar in the same manner. So why not test that first with a test such as the glucose tolerance test.
Then test those children that show a less than desireable curve - especially reactive hypogylcaemia - in isolation from those with normal tests. This would be to stop behaviour that is a reaction to the behaviour of the other sample.
In my experience with some children sugar plays a major role in making bad situations worse. This may be about sweetness addiction - I don't know
Here in Australia we have a large number of breads made by one company under a very wide variety of brand names (including generics) and types, that include continental styles . I try to avoid them because they make me feel ill. The only link I know of is the flour and ingredient source. I pick them out every time
Public health drives (as you suggested) are a common thing and visits to a GP are extremely helpful.
But examine this position you take on bread. You've mentioned this a number of times now.
1)how can you be sure it's the flour? A product as simple as bread still has many variables.
2)have you been to see a specialist on the matter? You may indeed be crook you may want to do something about it.
After all, a verifiably tested and proven manufacturing error that you have presented for by authorities can prevent other people becoming as crook as you on your outlet's bread.
An annual check up is free for we bronzed gods (read old codgers). The follow up visit after the biochem is critical.
An article by Brian on older men and health matters may be a good start to get us corporeal deniers to that check up.
"Hello this is Brian Dunning.. today we take a look at eternal youth". Many men have a problem with leaving their teenage ..."
I'll answer you this one Henk, but for obvious reasons I cannot name the brands. I do know of tests carried out by industrial chemists on the breads concerned. They in fact did find that the firm was frequently exceeding maximum additive levels. I gained this information because my questions were so much on the button. All the breads i had major trouble with had the same corporate source. At the time i did not know that
I did find however it was better for me to avoid the usual additives altogether. If I have difficulty with bread from an independent bakers I look to see which brand of flour they are using - Often it is the same answer. Is it the flour? - it could be they are following millers instructions for use of their flour and buying additives from the same source - but I have found that sometimes their flour used domestically has the same effect.
Yes i have seen specialists on the matter. The advice for dealing with the worst problems was to use highly refined white flour for a time to restrict naturally occurring items or avoid bread altogether. It isn't gluten by the way - I use it in my own bread to raise the "apparent protein level" - about one teaspoon to 600 gms
I still get problems with other shelf breads but they are rarer and lesser.
As to getting the authorities to enforce their own legislation - mate this is Australia - they don't do that. Read about the loss of the rule of law here. Lawyers and judges are worried about it
So it was not any clinical research that "proved" this. You have no way to distinguish which of the many factors it was. You can no less prove it was the flour, or the additives, or anything else.
That is not "answering" Henk at all really...
I actually glutenise ahead.
Yes, you can buy flours with additives. I buy my flours in 12 or 25 kilo bags. Straight strong or meal.
I really dont get your point. If your specialist said all that i would be surprised it wasnt a psychiatrist.
Industrial chemist? I would have had food chemists do the job. They are at lidcombe and are very approachable
Nearly 2 years on and we find that food and cooking hobbyists have a bit of a problem with the perception by people too slack to do the really simple stuff are actually suspicious of them.
Brian caught the change from the Old hypochondria to the new hypochondria on its cusp.
Furthermore, Brian also caught a supplement fad that has been worth many billions world wide and frankly stated;
" has not been found to have any plausible benefit."..
Says a lot for marketing of tank thought and one hell of a lot more for verifiability.
As to creationism? Its a lot more verifiable than alt medicine, more people believe in it..
Thats how its suppose to work? Right?
Love your show---going through old episodes, and noticed a small faux pas... Carbon-14 decays to Nitrogen(via beta decay), not Carbon-12... Carbon-14 is created by cosmic ray bombardment of nitrogen in the atmosphere, and eventually becomes nitrogen again after decay... You can therefore think of Carbon-14 as rented nitrogen... :)
Not that I disagree in any way with the conclusion established by a plethora of studies that sugar consumption does not affect children's behavior. However, upon listening to this episode a second time just now, I noticed something that I wanted to point out.
The first of the several studies Brian mentions, were it the only study ever conducted on sugar's affect on children (which it's not, fortunately), would not be sufficient to conclude that the sugar-causing-hyperactivity-in-children phenomenom is not a real thing.
I say this because the study studied only children not given sugar, demonstrating only the confirmation bias present in the parents. It is possible for a real phenomenom to produce additional confirmation bias on top. To rephrase, the simple existence of confirmation bias stemming from a certain stimuli does not mean there is not a smaller-but-still-real effect that may have created the tendency for confirmation bias in persons aware of the effect.
For example, imagine a study where two groups of people were either told they were receiving placebo aspirin or real aspirin. In fact, both groups are given placebo aspirin. You may well find that the group that was told they received real aspirin would report a stronger analgesic effect, demonstrating confirmation bias resulting from taking aspirin. This wouldn't prove that aspirin doesn't work.
Anyhoo, I posted this mainly as a tool to sharpen my critical thinking skills. Any thoughts?
P.S. Just to clarify, my comment above is not an attempt to side with the sugary-foods-cause-my-kid-to-be-hyper people. It's more an attempt to critically evaluate methodological flaws with studies regardless whether it's findings agree or disagree with what scientific research has previously established..
I don't think that sugar-consumption makes kids hyperactive, however I feel that the first of the studies Brian mentioned has methodological flaws that we as skeptics should have identified. I know we would have identified it's flaws were the conclusion counter to the prevailing consensus.
It's important we apply the same level of skepticism and critical evaluation to studies that reinforce our arguments and to studies that contradict our arguments. Better that we find these flaws first before our opponents do.
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|Basics of Belize
The Central American country of Belize is located in the Western Caribbean, just a two hour flight from the US. Belize shares it's borders with Mexico to the north, Guatemala to the south and west, and 174 miles of coastline with the Caribbean Sea to the east. Belize land mass encompasses over 22,800 square kilometers/8,803 square with approximately 266 square miles of islands.
Belize, formerly referred to as British Honduras while a member of the British commonwealth, was granted its independence on September 21, 1981. Today Belize is a melting pot of cultures. Within her borders there are several ethnic groups that speak a variety of languages. With a population of over 320,000 people, during your visit to Belize you will find that Belizeans are comprised of many ethnicities: from Creole to Mennonite to Lebanese to Chinese to Garifuna to Belize Maya to Mestizo to Taiwanese to East Indians to expats from Canada, the United States, Italy, Holland, Great Britain and other points from around the globe.
The official currency is the Belize dollar, it has a fixed exchange rate to the US dollar. One US dollar is equivalent to two Belize dollars. Most restaurants, gift shops and tour operators will accept U.S. currency, traveller checks, or major credit cards. Please note that when using your credit cards in Belize, most businesses will add a 5% service charge to your bill. Be sure to ask when making purchases whether the price quoted is in US or Belize dollars.
The weather in Belize is subtropical. The annual mean temperature is 30 degrees Celcius/80 degrees Fahrenheit. Annual rainfall ranges from 50 inches per year in the far northern Orange Walk District to as much as 165 inches in the far southern Toledo District. The rainy season usually runs from mid June through late August, with the dry season primarily from January until late May. During the rainy season it generally rains during the night, though at any time of the year an occasional refreshing rain can pop up at a moments notice.
Although English is the official language of Belize, while visiting you are likely to hear Creole, Spanish, as well Yucatec, Ketchi and Mopan dialects of the Belize Maya. You are also likely to encounter the Germanic based language spoken by the Mennonite as well as the Garifuna language of the coastal populations, the Garinagu.
My husband and I stayed there for a week, we are frequent travelers but the courtesy and their desire to make you confortable and happy it goes above and beyond many places we have stayed at. It was my husband's birthday and I asked them to prepare a surprise dinner for him, well I did not expect anything close to what they prepared, a candle light dinner by the ocean with great food and baked a caked specially for him. I dont want to mention anyone specific because I don't want to miss any of the great employees they have from the front desk to the maintenance crew. Thank you to all of you for being the great people you are.


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I recently installed Windows 8 x64 Pro in my new PC, installed Firefox 18.0.2 (stable). Installed QuakeLiveNP_520.msi and after that QuakeLive files download was supposed to start, but it never did. After a while i got bored and did a refresh of the web page. Turns out i allways get stucked at this screen:
It could have something to do that i have been playing with the properties of the C:\Users\Myuser\AppData\ Properties? i've been trying to move that folder to D:\ location without success, After modifying some data, ModernUI apps wouldn't work, so i put it back the way it was working properly. Now it's not hidden and it's on read-only mode. I know that in windows all the data stored from QL is downloaded there, so that might be it, i was able to play once on this computer. Still, it could be something else, since everything else works, but i need to test every option.
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First moan of the Moaning Valley. Attis, get off your butt, stop moaning, and do something positive like the folks at ACTION.
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Good move for the city and the diocese. Thank you, Bishop Murry.
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Someone needs to forward this article to Mitt Romney. Anyone got his email?
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Yes, that "after the Mall" situation is worth pondering a lot. Especially, when it's a criminal or a terrorist who's been successful in using the gun show to buy weapons without a background check.
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Good point, vindytalk.
Tomorrow, at the gun show at the Westland Mall, Columbus, there'll be 500 tables available for vendors. YAK, When was the last time you ran into a garage sale that held that much firepower?
Let's get the back ground check hard wired to the gun shows.
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Why make it easier?
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How many attendees will be skirting the background check to buy guns to rob area homes and businesses with these guns? The law must be changed to require background checks every time a weapon is purchased! Gun shows make it possible for criminals to buy guns without background checks.
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Ducks must be fiercer than I thought if hunters need assault rifles to take them down. Andy Borowitz
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Don't like the animation for Green Lantern: The Animated Series, so I wouldn't like it for a new Trek series either. Something closer to the earlier Star Wars: Clone Wars show would be preferred.
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The Public Editor; The Juror, the Paper and a Dubious Need to Know
By DANIEL OKRENT
Published: April 11, 2004
YOU know something strange has happened in journalism when, in a front-page article in The Times, a 79-year-old woman feels compelled to tell the world that every Christmas she tips the doormen in her apartment building. It's especially strange when the article's writer notes that this generosity runs ''contrary to previous reports'' -- reports that first appeared in The Times itself.
No, I'm not going to start another rant about rowback, the technique that enables a newspaper to correct itself without ever acknowledging it might have erred. But The Times's wall-to-wall (and partly rowed back) coverage of the implosion of the Tyco trial provides an opportunity to see the newspaper doing the right thing, then doing the wrong thing, and finally provoking (for me, anyway) a reconsideration of a quarter-century of journalistic practice.
The adventure began on Friday, March 26, after Juror No.4 in this long, arduous and finally wasted trial either did or did not flash an ''O.K.'' sign toward the defense table. (Times reporters who witnessed it believed she did.) As reporters and editors worked on the story that afternoon and evening, disagreement broke out over whether to name the juror. One faction held that she had inserted herself into the news with her own behavior; the other, including reporter Jonathan D. Glater (a former lawyer), felt, as he said later, that ''the news was the sign -- not who she was.''
Until the proceedings were over, Glater and others argued, her name should not be published. Business editor Lawrence Ingrassia, who was personally directing the trial coverage, conferred with managing editor Jill Abramson, and the juror's name was withheld. Readers of the next day's paper learned only some neutral details about the anonymous protagonist: she was a former schoolteacher who had graduated from law school in her late 50's and practiced briefly in a large firm. The best arguments of the two major New York-based dailies that published the juror's name have not remotely convinced me that their action provided the slightest benefit to a single reader, anywhere on the planet.
Except, perhaps, a concierge with an ungreased palm. This man entered the permanent archive of The New York Times on Monday, March 29, in a few shocking sentences at the end of an article headlined ''Criminal Intent Seems the Focus of Juror's Doubt.'' The juror, readers learned, ''lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and on Friday people at her apartment building described her as standoffish. A concierge said she rarely spoke to the staff members except to give orders and, unlike other tenants, had never given a Christmas bonus to him or, as far as he knew, to the doormen.'' Another sentence read, ''A former family friend said that Juror No.4 was very intelligent but that once she made up her mind, she would not relinquish her opinion.''
Now the reader had really learned something -- several things, in fact. First, that this woman, whose name had just been published in two very large newspapers, was remote, cheap and stubborn. (Ingrassia does say that he regrets having published the Christmas bonus comment.) Second, that The Times is willing to publish negative comments, made by unidentified individuals, about someone who does not have the opportunity to reply. And third, that the paper conveniently knows how to retain its piety. Yes, The Times didn't disclose the juror's identity until the trial was concluded, but once it was revealed elsewhere, her name hung over the paper's reporting like the Cheshire Cat's smile. The Times doesn't live in a vacuum, but in this instance it pretended it did.
Wrote reader J. Allison Crockett of Brooklyn, ''I now envision millions of New Yorkers rushing down to their lobbies to over-tip the building staff so that in the future, should they be jurors, The Times won't be able to slander their character.''
The strange conclusion of this ill-starred trial eventually led me to a place distant from the conventional wisdom of the news business. Where I now differ from nearly all the reporters and editors with whom I've discussed the subject (including Glater) is in my newfound belief that even after a trial has ended, an individual juror's role in deliberations -- arguments presented, behavior exhibited, votes taken -- should remain private if the juror wishes to keep it private.
Most of those I spoke with were astonished to learn I was taking this position, so contrary is it to widely accepted practice. (Remember: nothing excites reporters more than a closed door.) Several were also surprised to learn that reporting on jury deliberations is in fact a fairly new phenomenon, and hardly one of the foundations of robust journalism. In 1978, a federal appellate court confirmed the right of reporters to interview jurors after a trial's conclusion. But it wasn't until 1982, when Steven Brill of The American Lawyer interviewed and wrote about the jurors in a major libel case, that this style of reporting began to approach common practice. It was in time rendered conventional by the trials of William Kennedy Smith, Leona Helmsley and O.J. Simpson, among others -- people whose visibility was high enough, and their alleged crimes juicy enough, to give every juror coming out of such a trial a personal posse of reporters.


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Hendra, a 54-year-old survivor of ovarian cancer, will brave the dark, icy San Francisco Bay for a 10-mile relay swim Sept. 30 to raise money for children's cancer facilities. And while she expects the swim will be pretty tough, ever since her diagnosis, her definition of "tough" isn't quite what it used to be.
Tough is having toxic chemicals pumped through your veins. Tough is when your long brown hair falls completely out.
The gifted athlete had virtually perfect health up until an unrelated emergency hysterectomy one year ago. At that time, doctors located a tumor on her ovary. During chemotherapy, she would show up to the treatment center, sporting her Boston Marathon jacket, focused as a starting player.
"I used to address my chemo like it was an athletic event," she remembers.
It wasn't until she got through her first few sessions that she learned, at least for her, getting pumped up wasn't nearly as beneficial as learning to relax.
After that, when therapy time rolled around, she would picture herself submerged in ocean water in order to soothe her nerves. Hendra, a licensed social worker who counsels developmentally disabled and emotionally distressed kids, would think about the gentle squawk of seagulls and the feeling of water rolling over her back. And it was calming.
"I closed my eyes and thought of swimming," Hendra says.
Flash forward to today and she doesn't have to close her eyes any longer. She and five other Danville area swimmers are training for Swim Across America, a relay that takes her team of 10 from Pier 9 to AT&T Park in order to raise money for children's cancer facilities at UCSF.
The swimmers will each jump from a boat and take turns swimming for 20 minutes until the final stretch, where they will all plunge into the water and finish the last yards together. The team is hoping to raise $10,000 for the event.
While she was recovering, Hendra told herself that if she made it, the fundraiser would be one of the ways she would "give back." The swim gave her something to look forward to, back when everything seemed to be going wrong.
"I figured they would yank out my uterus and three weeks later I would be back on board," she says. "But they found tumors and I thought, 'Crap - I'm gonna die.' I was totally and utterly shocked. Then it was absolute and utter despair."
As if that wasn't enough for one person to endure, her husband Gregory was diagnosed with appendix cancer just months later.
Now, Gregory will undergo his last chemo treatment six days before she takes "the plunge." As things begin to start looking brighter for the couple, Hendra says ultimately the experience has been "an energizer." A hard day of work doesn't seem so bad these days and she's constantly aware of how lucky she is to be able-bodied.
"I feel like my mission on this planet is not done yet," she says. "This was tough enough on me - and I am tough. For a kid to have to experience this is hard to conceive."
Swim Across America, which has raised $18 million for cancer nationally, began in Nantucket 21 years ago and has since grown into a major fundraiser in Boston, Chicago, New York and San Francisco.
It is dedicated to raising money and awareness for cancer research, prevention and treatment. The swims take place in the Boston Harbor, Lake Michigan, the Hudson River and the San Francisco Bay. Last Year was San Francisco's first event and 50 swimmers raised more than $100,000.
"To see San Francisco from sea level - it's gorgeous," says Hendra, who also has done an Alcatraz swim. "You need good strong swimming skills and, frankly, courage."
Aside from the chilly temperature, the toughest part of swimming in the Bay, she explains, is the unpredictable ocean currents.
If you are luckily enough to catch the wind at your back, as in life, it's a smooth journey. But when the current flows against you - and it will inevitably - it can be like trying to "swim against a wall," she says.
For Hendra, the Bay swim is a lot like overcoming cancer.
"You set small goals, you celebrate victories and when you get past the finish line - you kiss the ground," she says.
To pledge money to Hendra's team, visit www.active.com/donate/sanfran07/chendra or reach her 831-0918. Other Danville, Alamo and Blackhawk participants are Kim Bruce, Rebecca Sol, Lisa Werner, John Jeha and Maury Blackman.
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That was the class I had in mind for this particular shenanigan.
I'm guessing it isn't a rapid trigger that is easy to toggle on and off.
So ......no "humiliating" other players or NPCs after you kill them?
(if you get what I'm getting at, ho-hum)
Depends on what you had in mind
Plenty of ways to grief PVE players. Just flag yourself for PVP and wait till some unsuspecting PVE'er (me) throw you a random buff and watch me RAGE as I hightail it to the nearest Cantina to unflag myself
Learned my lesson quick. NO BUFFS for green characters
Guess it must be an mmo thing I'll have to see for myself to find out...
No. Sorta like just closing doors when other players open them to keep them from accessing the room--like in L4D. (actually that was a pretty useful tactic to exploit that gameplay mechanic sometimes). I guess I'll have to see on my own what kind of random jackass stunts I can try to pull off.
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The Program's primary mission historically has been research of clinical relevance to the onset, diagnosis, treatment, and clinical course of substance use disorders. Long-term etiologic studies have examined these issues longitudinally. Neuroimaging, genetics projects on basic mechanisms, pharmacotherapy trials, clinical and health services outcome studies, and clinical trials of behavioral interventions for early identification and treatment are also conducted throughout the Section. Work involves close collaborations with a number of departments within the University and with other academic and research institutes.
An additional mission of the Program, is the contribution of new knowledge about the causes, consequences, and treatment of substance abuse. Parallel to this activity, Section faculty also have responsibility for the Department's educational and training needs for substance abuse teaching at the medical student, resident, and specialty training level, and also provide research training for the development of the next generation of research scientists. To carry out these activities, the Program has several training programs.
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DGA: Another big night for Affleck's 'Argo'?
FILE – This undated publicity film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Bryan Cranston, left, as Jack O'Donnell and Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in "Argo," a rescue thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. A best-picture win at the upcoming Oscars could be viewed as righting a wrong after Affleck inexplicably missed out on a best-director nomination. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Claire Folger, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood's strange awards season continues with another ceremony that could firm up a big Oscar win for Ben Affleck's "Argo."
The Directors Guild of America hands out prizes Saturday night in Los Angeles in what typically is a final blessing for the film that goes on to win best-picture and director at the Academy Awards.
Affleck can go only one-for-two at the Oscars, though. He's up for the film honor at the guild awards, and "Argo" is looking like the best-picture favorite at the Oscars on Feb. 24. But the director's branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooked him and several other key filmmakers for an Oscar directing slot.
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I would rather someone be wrapped in the Constitution burning the flag than wrapped in the flag burning the Constitution. In other words, as Patrick Henry famously said, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Monday, October 17, 2005
Dobson Told: Miers Would Overturn Roe v. Wade
This from John Fund at the Wall Street Journal:
Monday, October 17, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
Two days after President Bush announced Harriet Miers's Supreme Court nomination, James Dobson of Focus on the Family raised some eyebrows by declaring on his radio program: "When you know some of the things that I know--that I probably shouldn't know--you will understand why I have said, with fear and trepidation, that I believe Harriet Miers will be a good justice."
Mr. Dobson quelled the controversy by saying that Karl Rove, the White House's deputy chief of staff, had not given him assurances about how a Justice Miers would vote. "I would have loved to have known how Harriet Miers views Roe v. Wade," Mr. Dobson said last week. "But even if Karl had known the answer to that--and I'm certain that he didn't because the president himself said he didn't know--Karl would not have told me that. That's the most incendiary information that's out there, and it was never part of our discussion."
It might, however, have been part of another discussion. On Oct. 3, the day the Miers nomination was announced, Mr. Dobson and other religious conservatives held a conference call to discuss the nomination. One of the people on the call took extensive notes, which I have obtained. According to the notes, two of Ms. Miers's close friends--both sitting judges--said during the call that she would vote to overturn Roe.
What followed, according to the notes, was a free-wheeling discussion about many topics, including same-sex marriage. Justice Hecht said he had never discussed that issue with Ms. Miers.
Then an unidentified voice asked the two men, "Based on your personal knowledge of her, if she had the opportunity, do you believe she would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?"
"Absolutely," said Judge Kinkeade."
"I agree with that," said Justice Hecht. "I concur."
Shortly thereafter, according to the notes, Mr. Dobson apologized and said he had to leave the discussion: "That's all I need to know and I will get off and make some calls." (When asked about his comments in the notes I have, Mr. Dobson confirmed some of them and said it was "very possible" he made the others. He said he did not specifically recall the comments of the two judges on Roe v. Wade.)
The benign interpretation of the comments is that the two judges were speaking on behalf of themselves, not Ms. Miers or the White House, and they were therefore offering a prediction, not an assurance, about how she would come down on Roe v. Wade. But the people I interviewed who were on the call took the comments as an assurance, and at least one based his support for Ms. Miers on them.
GOI: I am not sure to the credibility of John Fund (the author of this article at the WSJ). Although I do know he is a conservative columnist (far from being a liberal) for what that is worth. We also do not not know his source but it does raise HUGE "red flags" of concern for me.
Also, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) of New York met with Miers today and asked Miers about the WSJ article. According to CNN's, "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer Schumer asked her if she had told two of her close friends that she would vote against Roe. She then replied no, she hadn't said that to these two. However, when asked by Schumer if she told Rove that she would vote to overturn Roe she said that she would not discuss the details of that conversation.
Very suspicious if you ask me.
My head is spinning on the Miers nomination because the Bush administration and it's supporters have been all over the map.
I guess we will see.
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4 comments:
- Chris said...
I would like to see Dobson's security clearance for such classified info.
If the information is as readily available to someone like Dobson, then Bush should have no troubles making it public. And Miers should have no trouble answering the abortion question when presented to her during her hearings.
- james said...
Her hearings should be interesting to watch that is for sure.
- Jessica said...
Wait wait wait, I thought we weren't supposed to ask judges for information regarding how they would rule on a particular issue? Oh, I guess that only applies to Dems, my bad. I guess everyone who pays into the Bush campaign get's a special security clearance badge for information not open to others such as this opinion on Roe v. Wade and the name of a CIA agent.
The WH has pushed this information, they will now be accountable in answering and standing behind what they said.
- james said...
Yeah, it does seem that way. "Pay to play" so to speak. This just gives more creedence to the idea that certain conservative Republicans get special information on nominees.
Our government under Bush appears to me to be a religious plutocracy and/or theology.


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I will not be working as we have a two young sons I look after who are both british.
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First you told me your Schengen visa is expired but you hold a UK entry visa.
Now you just said that you have a "multi visa stamp" - please could you confirm which country this covers?
I look forward to your response.
I have a six month visa for the UK only which expires in December. However, we would like to return to Spain but do not know how to do this as a Schegen visa is only for short term and we want long term stay in Spain.
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- Shigeru Katagiri, B.H. Juang and C.H. Lee, "Pattern recognition using a family of design algorithms based upon Generalized Probabilistic Descent method", Intelligent Signal Processing, Haykin and Kosko (ed.), IEEE Press, 2001.
- Juang, B-H. Sondhi, M. and Rabiner, L.R.,"Digital speech processing,", The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Robert Meyers (ed.), Academic Press, 2000.
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- Juang, B-H., "Speech and Speaker Recognition", The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 2000.
- Li Q., Juang, B-H., Zhou Q. and Lee, C.H., "Automatic verbal information verification for user authentication", IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Proc., vol.8, no.5, pp.585-596, September 2000.
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In its simplest sense, final accounts/accounting should be understood as the accounting activity that is carried on generally towards the end of a period called accounting period.
Basic Purpose of Accounting
The basic purpose of accounting is derivation of information. The double entry system of accounting enables an organisation to derive the information that it needs in relation to accounting elements called account heads or ledger accounts. This double entry system of accounting, enables the collection of all the information relating to an element (account) at a single place.
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The organisation's informational need defines the elements in the accounting system of the organisation. The more the information needed by the organisation the more the elements (accounting heads) that are to be maintained by the organisations'.
Journal (Recording) » Ledger (Posting) : Regular Tasks
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Recording the accounting transactions into the journal and posting them into the ledger form the core tasks carried on regularly in relation to the accounting process. However these are not the only tasks that exist in relation to an accounting system/process.
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Whenever a transaction takes place in an organisation, more so, in the case of transactions relevant to accounting, a proof is created in the form of either a voucher or a receipt or an invoice or any other document that gives the details relating to the transaction.
Strictly speaking, this task is not a part of the accounting process. It is only a task which would enable the accomplishment of the accounting process or tasks.
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» Recording
The first accounting task is "Preparing the Journal based on the proof of the transaction". This is called Recording the transaction.
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The second accounting task is "Preparing the Ledger based on the information in the Journal". This is called Posting the Journal Entry into the Ledger.
» Preparing a Trial Balance
Preparing a trial balance is one other task that we come across in accounting. A trial balance is a statement of ledger account balances as at a particular instance. It can be prepared at any instance as and when needed. It is a statement and not a ledger account.
• Purpose!!
A Trial Balance is prepared to check the mathematical/arithmetic accuracy of accounting. This is the main and most important purpose of preparation of the Trial Balance and nothing else.
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• Trial Balance » Not a part of the actual Accounting Process!!
True, the trial balance enables the organisation to ensure the mathematical/arithmetic accuracy of accounting. However, preparation of a Trial Balance is not a necessity, unlike the Journal and the Ledger.
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The organisation periodically would be interested in knowing the amount of profit that it has made over the period.
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Even in accounting, in trying to ascertain the position of a business entity, this is what we think of. The position of a business is indicated by the value of its assets and liabilities.
The organisation at times would be interested in knowing its position as at a particular point of time.
» Position at an instance
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As MF Global careened toward bankruptcy in October, the brokerage firm used customer funds to bankroll its business, apparently assuming that the money would be put back by the end of each day, a trustee overseeing the firm's liquidation reported Monday.
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Elephant Is My Hot Hot Sex. ~ Claire Flannery
New Music for Old People.
Claire gives Waylon some new music recommendations for his outdated taste.
"Totally danced in my apartment alone to this last night."
Sitting here in the office, Waylon keeps talking about how he needs new music. Our conversation:
Me: "Waylon, what have you been listening to lately?"
Waylon: "I listened to I Ran by Flock of Seagulls like 150 times," and "just once, I swear, Everybody Dance Now by C + C Music Factory, which takes me back to high school in VT. Oh and I love The Killers and Franz Ferdinand, but they're old news; and Philip Glass and lots of boring [translation: lyric-less] stuff for when I'm editing." And here's where our staff all disapproved, "And I gotta say I love Jack Johnson."
…for nostalgia? maybe. listening pleasure? c'mon Waylon, seriously?
In addition to those ancient tunes he's spent at least 15 minutes doing nothing but checking CSS music videos on YouTube, while Lindsey and I try to tell him about more recent music that he might enjoy given his inclination for electro pop dance music. Not that I don't enjoy CSS, but their "Music is My Hot, Hot Sex" was hip, like, three years ago:
As Waylon said himself, "I have good taste, I'm just ign't, help me!"
It's about time to get with it.
I hope it's as obvious to the reader as it is to me that poor old Way is way behind on the music scene, with the exception of his interest in Glass Candy [Portland] and Little Boots [UK], both electro-pop, beatbox inspired bands. He deserves to be updated with some more music, via yours truly, self-proclaimed elephant journal resident elitist music advisor. So Waylon (and old colleagues of W), when you read this, check out the videos and download or buy (let's support these musicians!) my music suggestions, because they're totally worth it.
Along the electro-pop spectrum is Passion Pit. Based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, this five member band emerged from east-coast schools and blew up on the scene this past year or so.I appreciate their sound, but frankly it's been overplayed waaay too many times for me to actually sit through their Chunk of Change album anymore. Here's a video of my favorite song of theirs, "Sleepyhead":
Hercules & Love Affair– I just came across this great new disco house band based out of New York. I got the album last week and have been listening to it frequently. Lets get groovey to this track "Blind", with fast percussion and stacatto horn sections.
Lyyke Li—The Swedish music scene is on point right now. (Fever Ray anyone?) Lyyke Li is getting much deserved hype—even Waylon listens to her—her voice is quirky and enticing. I dig this chick music and love the lighting and editing of this video:
Change of pace from electro-pop to indie to surfer rock. I present to you, King Khan and The Shrines. Totally danced in my apartment alone to this last night. If you like this, be sure to check out King Khan and BBQ Show. King Khan doesn't make music videos, they're too raw for that industry. Video quality not that great. fyi:
Memory Tapes based out of New Jersey, more dancey electronic. Their album Seek Magic is pretty dynamic. I love his voice.
A turn to more mellow acoustic sound out of North Carolina, The Bowerbirds. Here's a visually stunning video for my favorite tune of theirs, "In Our Talons". The band's harmony is rich and reminiscent of klezmer music. Lovvve it:
The Xx is a four member band from the UK. All under the age of 22, this group has melodic tunes, soft drum machine beats that remind me of Broken Social Scene. The mix of the girl's voice and guy's voice creates a beautiful juxtaposition.
I listen to this song late at night alone in my apartment. Cinematic Orchestra can be categorized as experimental/ambient and heavy on the jazz and soul:
And for good fun, let's listen to one of my favorite kinds of music. TECHNO! An electronic staple for me based out of Germany, Booka Shade. This duo is electro house at its finest with elements of deep minimal to get anyone shaking (or, maybe just me). This is my favorite song by them,"In White Rooms" off their Movements album, circa 2006:
Those are but a few of the music that I have been digging on lately, and hopefully Waylon (and some of you) will take some cues.
I would also recommend, if this isn't enough:
Animal Collective, AU, Boards of Canada, Bon Iver, Black Jazz Consortium, Pantha du Prince, DJ Sprinkles, Talk Demonic, Trentemoller, Real Estate & Lusine.
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7 Responses to "Elephant Is My Hot Hot Sex. ~ Claire Flannery"
Crazy! I am from Milwaukee. Ha. I think music is my new elephant journal topic. I get pretty excited to write about it and I plan to get more broad with it all.
great article, nice blog claire!
way, get into some broken bells… it's a collab between danger mouse (1/2 of gnarls barkley) and james mercer (the shins). http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/broken-bells/id3…
Great post. We have similar tastes, Claire!;-) Way-I think you saw this, but if not, check out my recommendations…best albums of last year. http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/02/top-ten-al…
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