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Oh Great another 2 weeks!It's a good thing Ryanj didnt ask for our help in creating this website...
Edited by FastWalker on 11/23/2005 13:30:22 MST.
Roger---I hate to say, Ryan asked for input to improve the site.re.Another 2 weeks...--- "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" Nietzsche
Edited by kdesign on 11/23/2005 13:40:17 MST.
12.7.05 sounds good, I've really enjoyed seeing y'all think out loud for the winter set-up. Lots of learning on my part. I still like a previous poster's suggestion that RyJ himself put up a list. Not necessarily now, but maybe sometime close to or soon after the deadline. Maybe he has a totally different take? Or maybe we'll have finalized a similar kit. We might get also some more tidbits about prototypes that way.......-Mark
Thanks for making my point:1. He didn't ask our help in creating this web site… Only to improve it! Big Difference My Friend.2. Using a Quote from an Action Movie "Conan the Barbarian" "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" perhaps that's what's required here More Action….
A joke, Roger, a jokere. Conan---Mileus put a paraphrase of Nietzsche's words into the monosyllabic mouth of der future Governator. It's all pop-speak, now.
Edited by kdesign on 11/23/2005 14:35:00 MST.
The G6 is such a cool little pack. It's actually got a good amount of space. I say we go with that unless RJ says he can't fit all the stuff in there.Bob
OK, Dec 7 is a good goal for the deadline. I assume that the last list published in the thread is the one that is now up for proposal and that is the one we are modifying between now and then?When the list is decided, I will indeed take a look and modify it, but only if it results in weight savings. I won't add to it.It's looking good so far...definitely like...a challenge...!
OK, here are some comments on the current list.01.50 Outdoor Research PowerStretch Balaclava03.00 Nike Spandex Running Short TightsI will probably replace the spandex shorts with smartwool microweight boxers. It's nice to have the warmth in the winter. The primary benefit of the spandex is anti-chafing, which is not going to be problem at these temperatures.We could probably skip the powerstretch bala since we have the down one, and replace it with a beanie cap.More later...
By last list are you referring to BobG's or Ryan Faulkner's ? Bob's has your prototype Belay Jacket and a liquid gas stove ( currently) and is under 6 #. I would say that there has been more interest in modifying that list. Ryan F's has the Bill (tm) wood stove to bring the base weight to under 5 and goes for the Cocoon pullover and the Nunatak balaclava you allude to. Happy T ---I'm off to the high country.
Edited by kdesign on 11/23/2005 20:10:55 MST.
Hi Guys-It seems like we've got people entrenched in several camps with the stove issue:RyanF really wants Fire, and I can understand this as I have a 10 year old son who will hike all day just for the chance to build a campfire that night. :-)Others are either in the Simmerlite, Xtreme, or (still?) in the upright canister camp.What I propose is a stripped Xtreme stove like Bill F and company are building on a related MYOG thread. This should end up being in the 8oz range (or less if Bill really comes up with something fantastic). But, I propose limiting Ryan to a single 300g Powermax Canister (weight 400g full), giving a total stove+can+fuel weight of around 22oz. This should provide enough fuel to boil around 9L from snow, and give him the capability to make heat at 2am in a snowcave if necessary. But, he'll have to use some fuel conservation strategies and hopefully build some cook fires to supplement his fuel. Maybe Ryan F could suggest a SUL firestarting kit....Cheers,-Mike
Edited by MikeMartin on 11/23/2005 22:16:38 MST.
Sigh --I had to look one more time before I skidaddled. Hah!---Mike , I too, have a ten year old-- except he's a techno-weenie. He loves all the different stoves dad might spring on the family at mealtime. Personally, I'm most intrigued by a modified Xtreme as opposed to an upright canister or a white gas stove. I have enough wood craft to do a cookfire in Winter and I know Dr. Ryan does so there will be no revelations for me in that quarter. I think you offer a reasonable compromise ( and I salute you) but let me throw out a few more ideas--I would counter-propose one of the following( and this assumes that a modified Xtreme is practical to get into Ryan's hands):1.) that if Ryan's route should take him into the woods that could be fire time but that he be basically self-contained to handle most of the melting and cooking using the Xtreme.2.) We could estimate on the lean side what Powermax fuel he would need and if he ran out he would have the option to retreat to timberline to do woodfires.This would be the "maybe a fire" option--a softer version of what you are proposing.3.) Or, he would be fully self containedbut could do a cookfire (&/ or a snowmelting fire) for journalistic compare and contrast purposes. Perhaps this would be not on the actual trip, itself. The latter option could include a woodfire stove--perhaps one of Bill's designs.It would be nice if everyone could be happy about the final gearlist and trip parameters.
It would be nice if everyone could be happy about the final gearlist and trip parameters.
> But, I propose limiting Ryan to a single 300g Powermax Canister (weight 400g full),Look guys, this is one man and two nights, right?I would reckon he should be able to take a 170 g canister and bring a fair amount of fuel back. I run under 50 g per day for TWO people in the snow. But that assumes a lid on the pot and a close windshield around the stove/pot, and running the stove at a medium to low setting. That still works fast enough, but is twice as efficient on fuel.Cheers
Roger writes:>> Look guys, this is one man and two nights, right?Did we ever nail the trip length down to two nights? I thought three nights were kicked around at one point. Too many posts on this thread to keep track....>> I would reckon he should be able to take a 170 g canister and bring a fair amount of fuel back. I run under 50 g per day for TWO people in the snow.Roger, I saw your impressive fuel consumption figures on your previous post. But, I based my 9L snow-to-boil per 300g canister numbers on Ryan's recent snowmelt test, with a 5% safety margin.Cheers,-Mike
Edited by MikeMartin on 11/26/2005 18:14:48 MST.
Perhaps I should have said--"It would be bloody well nice if everyone could be happy about the final gearlist and trip parameters, or else". Alsborg gets a lump of coal in his Xmas SUL stocking. ;-P>Roger Caffin, interesting about your fantastic fuel efficiency with the Xtreme. Were you able to maintain it while melting quantities of snow? A liter or 2 of water made in a reasonable amount of time?I, too was assuming Ryan's test figures when assuming fuel quantity amounts.Michael-- I believe that the trip was going to be 2 nights and 3 days as per a much earlier R. Jordan pronuncimiento ( but this should be checked out) . One large Powermax cartridge would suffice in the event ( without recourse to fires). Assuming, of course, that the Xtreme stove route is taken.
Finally, please agree on something.I give up on sub 5 and wood stoves so here is my list. any problems? if there are tell me and I will modify THIS list without comentary, I hope this to end up being the final gearlist after your input. I promise not to argue, and just change the list. I just want to see a final decision made.Clothing10.00 RBH Designs Proto VB Jacket05.00 Warmlite VB pants03.00 golite mesh cap worn under..03.00 Nunatak down balaclava08.00 Golite endurance08.50 patgonia MW zip T04.00 Bozeman Mountain Works FeatherLite Vapor Mitts01.10 PossumDown GlovesFootwear02.00 Smartwool Lightweight Wool Liner Socks03.00 RBH Designs Vapor-Thrm Fleece Socks24.00 Montrail Susitna II XCR Trail Running Shoes16.00 Forty Below Custom 2mm Neoprene Overboots35.00 Northern Lites Elites SnowshoesOther Items Worn / Carried 00.30 GG Sunglasses 01.00 Fox 40 Mini Whistle, AirCode Plus lanyard 01.30 Suunto X6 05.40 Stix Pro Carbon Fiber Trekking Poles 00.25 Photon Freedom Micro LED Light (Backup light)on aircore 1 spectra cord130.85 ouncesTotal worn or carried 8.18 poundsShelter/Sleep/Extra Clothing 00.00 Snow Cave 16.00 Arc X Quilt 04.00 Vapor NANO Bivy 03.00 PAC outdoor uberlight micro01.90 Gossamer Gear thinLight 1/8" cut in half and doubled under legs05.30 Gossamer Gear 3/4 length ThinLight 3/805.75 SnowClaw Backcountry Snow Shovel08.50 Cocoon Jacket06.50 Quantum down knickers01.50 Smartwool Lightweight Wool Liner SocksPack03.70 Gossamer Gear G6Cook/Hydration02.45 Trangia 1 L. SaucePan00.20 Foil lid00.40 Backpacking Light Titanium Mini-Spork00.30 Box of wooden matches in Ziploc02.80 Nalgene Wide-Mouth Cantene 3 L08.00 coleman Xtreme stove stripped 03.50 coleman powermax fuel cartrige empty Essentials 02.80 petzel tikkia plus 01.00 Blister & minor would care supplies 00.50 TP: 4"x4" blue shop towel squares - 1 / day 00.50 Alcohol hand gel in small bottle 01.00 Candle 00.27 Bozeman Mountain Works SpinSack LITE Ultralight Stuff Sack (Size S) 79.8 ouncesTotal Packed 4.99 poundswith this list, I am not at all afraid for the safety of Ryan. this weekend, I was up in WV and under a tarp I slept in a 45 degree hoodless bag in 15degree storm dropping almost a foot of snow on me, my clothing was far less warm than Ryans list so in his arc he will be warm. and you may be freaking out about the pad system I gave him, but all I used was 3 torso pads, one under my legs and the other under my torso, they were both 3/8" and I stayed warm all night. so I think Ryans 1/2" combo will keep him comforatable.for more info on my clothing system, look HERE
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Ryan,You got RJ going out there without any pants. The ArcTeryx Gamma MX are pants. There wasn't a softshell jacket on the list ;)Bob
oops.I saw the gama jacket on the arcteryx site and thougt this was what it was.what about using the VB pants?it looses some carried weightwhat are we looking for. the dancing light gear Gram Weenie Silnylon Rain / Vapor Barrier Pants are only 2.5 ozI think the VB and down knickers will be enough warmthfor now I will leave the met 5 and move the VB pants to worn.
Edited by ryanf on 11/27/2005 17:33:12 MST.
Ok, I found it on page 1 of this thread...Kevin writes:>>> How many days out?Ryan J replies:>> Let's plan for 3. Short enough to represent the typical weekend getaway but more than an overnight so you have to think a little harder about keeping your gear dry etc.Subsequent posts have assumed this meant 2 nights rather than 3. I'll buy it. Kevin also mentioned on a previous post that the moisture accumulation risk is minimal for a two night trip. I agree. (Without a moisture accumulation hazard, I *would* suggest we ditch the Gamma MX and VB pants for a lighter ID eVent pants over midweight C-thru or merino combo, but I don't want to prolong the agony.)Ryan F -- take a look back at Ryan J's post on 11/23/2005 19:24:41 MST. He suggests ditching the balaclava and shorts for a beanie and some wool boxers.I renew my vote for the stripped Xtreme stove setup. It's lighter than a Simmerlite, doesn't flare up when started, and Ryan J. himself said "I'm in!" on the related MYOG thread.Cheers,-Mike
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I live in Enfield, North London so with 10 miles of there would be best!
Fed up eating the miles alone with only a work CC midweek for company!
Think you mean you are not able to do Sundays?
As for the question, it's a bit of a catch-22, but you might have more luck once you're in a club. We have regular emails going round saying "can't do Sunday, anyone fancy Saturday?" etc.
We're up north though, so no good for you.
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This short was made for the 2012 Scandinavian Videomarathon contest, where you are to make a film withing 48 hours. You get a theme on a Friday at 12:00am, and the finished film has to be delivered at 12:00am on a Sunday. It's really stressful, but you learn a lot! This years theme was punishment. I did also participate in 2009 with this film (the theme was scapegoat): https://vimeo.com/6907127
I shot the film with a Canon 5D mark ii, using my Canon 24-70mm f2.8L indoors and my Canon 24-105mm f4.0 outdoors. I also used my WalKam steadycam and some really cheap bulbs (Check them out here: youtube.com/watch?v=OfSuGT6DvBg)
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A sipping cream, you say? What might be the strangest spirit description we've heard in a while is taking all of Nashville by storm: the Tennessee Sipping Cream.
The 40-proof, cream-based liqueur, from the artisan distillery SPEAKeasy Spirits, still captures all of that Tennessee whiskey flavor you're looking for. The passion project of liquor industry veterans Jeff and Jenny Pennington, Whisper Creek is made with charcoal-mellowed, single-batch Tennessee whiskey — making it the one and only cream-based liqueur that can truly call itself a Tennessee sipping cream.
Where typical cream liqueurs are generally vodka- or rum-based, the Penningtons wanted to create a spirit that harnessed the unique flavor of Tennessee whiskey. So they enlisted friend and chef Deb Paquette (of local haunch Etch) to help them develop the perfect flavor profile: on the nose, creamy caramel, vanilla and butterscotch with notes of burnt molasses, red apple, fig and pecan on the palate. But the recipe is really quite simple: Collier and McKeel whiskey, fresh dairy cream, and a handful of all-natural, secret ingredients. "Instead of coming up with something trendy, we set out to create a new classic that¹s distinctly Tennessee," said co-founder Jeff Pennington in a release.
The founders recommend Whisper Creek in cocktails with similar flavors: cinnamon whiskey, butterscotch liqueur, even chai all serve as complements to the sweet cream. And of course, Jack Daniel's. Looking for it in Nashville? Check out Red Door Saloon, Oak Bar, Hermitage,1808 at the Hutton Hotel and Lockeland Table for some sweet cocktails.
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Swine flu scare as disease hits KZNComment on this story
The Health Department has played down fears of a new outbreak of the Novel Influenza A (H1N1) virus – commonly known as swine flu – despite at leat 100 cases of it across KwaZulu-Natal.
One woman is thought to have died as a result of the virus after spending several days in isolated care at a Durban hospital.
A well-placed source at the Netcare hospital in Durban, who asked not to be named, said that the woman had tested positive for the H1N1 virus while undergoing treatment for another ailment.
"She contracted the H1N1 strain and sadly she died while she was being treated for it. Her death has been attributed to her underlying pathology but not swine flu, despite testing positive for the virus," the source said. The woman had cancer.
Netcare spokeswoman Mary Ann Nabbie said that there had been two suspected cases but only one patient had tested positive.
"The one and only patient with confirmed H1N1 unfortunately passed away," she said. "This patient was, however, severely compromised because of another, pre-existing condition. We follow standard, national and international protocols in this regard."
Swine flu is an airborne disease that is spread in the same way as seasonal flu, through coughing and sneezing, and has no connection to the consumption of pork products.
According to the flu surveillance report compiled by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, data generated from one clinic in Pietermaritzburg suggests that there have been more than 100 infections at that clinic alone.
The report, which monitors different strains of flu at several strategic clinics across the country, has recorded 133 cases of H1N1 this year.
The report indicates a spike in reported cases in the past month.
One doctor, who asked not to be named, said he knew of H1N1 cases from as long ago as six weeks.
"There are indeed a large number of patients being treated for regular influenza," he said. "Those who don't respond to the standard treatment and still have symptoms such as dehydration and pneumonia will then be tested for H1N1.
"We have to assume that these patients have the virus and put them on treatment immediately. Patients who test positive are sent to hospital immediately for treatment."
He said that the treatment lasted for five days and patients were put in isolation because the virus was contagious.
The head of the KZN Health Department, Sam Mkhwanazi, said that there had been no outbreak of H1N1 in the province, but confirmed that it had been deemed a prominent strain.
"To date the prominent influenza strain in South Africa for the 2013 season is A(H1N1) pdm09, which is also known as swine flu," he said.
"It first appeared in 2009 and in subsequent years has become one of the influenza strains that circulate every year during the flu season. Its management is the same as that for seasonal flu – that is, bed rest, increased fluid intake and symptomatic treatment."
Mkhwanazi added that trivalent vaccines provided protection against H1N1. He emphasised that there was no need for alarm.
"People will always panic and get over-excited. Everything is under control," he said.
The swine flu pandemic that swept across the world in 2009 killed more than 2 000 people.
In South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases has recorded more than 5 000 cases, with more than 40 deaths attributed to the strain. -Sunday Tribune
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America has a creed and this creed is embodied in our Declaration of Independence. Such is the frequency, and the certainty, with which this is said that few people think to question it. And of those who do think to question it, far fewer dare to do so, for to question it is to expose oneself to the charge that one is a heretic, an anti-American.
The America that was forged into an independent nation at the time of the composition of the Declaration had no creed. And it could not have had one. More so than most others in our history, the founding generation was consumed by the fear of tyranny. Its members knew all too well that there was nothing so poisonous to political liberty than that of a creed — any creed.
Creeds are the stuff of religious and philosophical communities. They contain statements of belief that all members of the community are expected to affirm. The Nicene Creed that Roman Catholics the world over affirm on a regular basis is a classic illustration of a creed. Individual Catholics consider themselves distinct parts of one body, a single community with a single vision of the good life. Irrespective of where one lives, anyone can belong to the Catholic, or "universal," Church — as long as one accepts its Creed.
The pioneers who settled America were motivated first and foremost by their desire to advance their liberties. Where liberty of the sort with which the colonists were familiar prevails, so too does individuality, the freedom to think and act in ways that may deviate from those of the majority.
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|'Dads Offense Comes Alive in 11-4 Win
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The Hickory Crawdads awoke from their slumber and exploded for a season high in runs and hits as they clobbered Greensboro 11-4 Friday night at L.P. Frans Stadium. The Crawdads (10-11) snapped a three-game losing streak with the win.
The Crawdads exploded with four multi-run innings to come away with their most lopsided victory of the season. All nine 'Dads starters reached base; Evan Van Hoosier, Ronald Guzman, and Kellin Deglan all had three hits apiece.
The Crawdads offense wasted no time in establishing a lead, with the 'Dads scoring three runs on one hit and three walks in the first inning. Deglan came through with the big hit in the frame, with a two-out, two-run bases loaded single to right field.
The Hickory lead swelled to 5-0 in the second inning, when Nick Vickerson crushed his first home run of the season over the left field wall with a man aboard.
The Grasshoppers (11-10) cut into Hickory's lead by scoring twice in the third and once in the fifth making it 5-3. The Crawdads put the game away with four runs on four hits and two more walks in the sixth to put the contest out of reach. Nick Urbanus had a three-run double to backbone the attack.
Van Hoosier was 3-4 with four RBI, two runs scored, a double and a walk. Guzman went 3-5 with a double and a RBI; Deglan ended the night 3-4 with two RBI and a run scored.
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Increasing activity at Philippine volcano
Manila (AFP) April 16, 2011
More quakes and gas emissions have been detected from a volcano on an island close to the Philippine capital, possibly indicating an eruption is looming, the government said on Saturday.
Twenty volcanic quakes were detected at Taal Volcano in the 24 hours to Saturday 8:00am (0000 GMT) compared to 15 quakes in the same period on Friday, indicating that magma is still rising to the surface, the volcanology institute said.
Additionally, the water in the crater of Taal is heating up while the volcano's emissions of carbon dioxide have risen from 1,875 tonnes per day in February to 4,670 tonnes by the end of March.
"If this trend continues, we may have to raise alert level again," said Paul Alanis of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
People were warned not to approach Taal's crater or parts of its slopes where gas could still vent out.
Phivolcs on April 9 raised the second of a five-step alert around Taal Volcano, a popular tourist attraction 65 kilometres (40 miles) south of Manila, after detecting signs that magma was rising to the top of the volcano.
However Alanis said this does not mean an eruption is imminent and that the volcano might yet stabilise.
Despite government pleas for people to leave the 2,500-hectare (6,178-acre) crater island, only 163 of the estimated 7,000 people living there have evacuated, the civil defence agency said in a statement.
Taal is one of the most unstable of the country's active volcanoes with 33 recorded eruptions, the last one in 1977.
The lake surrounding the crater prevented deaths in 1977 and during other eruptions, as the body of water protected outlying areas from the lava.
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Updated in_mad Winamp MAD MP3 input plugin
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Hi, i've just finished updating the Winamp MAD input plugin 0.14.1b with,
* libmad 0.15.1b
* libid3tag 0.15.1b
* zlib 1.23
* Gaussian dither and noise shaping routines from SSRC 1.30
* Working ID3v2 editor
* APEv2 editor
* LAME gapless playback support
* Non-LAME tagged gap skip/removal feature
* ReplayGain support
* Winamp 5 advanced formatting support
* Shoutcast streaming title support
I'd like some other people to try it, and possible fix any remaining bugs etc. that I've probably missed.
I've included source code, it was compiled in Dev-C++ using the MinGW tools. Thanks for any and all feedback in advance.
*** The LATEST bugfixed DLL can be download from http://www.zen23652.zen.co.uk/in_mad.zip ***
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In the mediamonkey-forum someone posted a gapless mad-version: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10051
Maybe this feature can be ported?
This plugin actually REMOVES silence, and does not benefit from the LAME tags actually containing the missing samples:
This version examines the beginning and the end of each track for silence, and can remove up to approximately 78ms of silence from each end (3 frames). The unwanted silence is typically 50ms or less. If more than 78ms of silence is found - as is the case with normal albums - then the track will not be altered in any way. Therefore, only continuous live or mix type albums are altered.
I'd really like to have gapless playback, and maybe it can be ported from the in_mpg123 plugin?
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P
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The Language of Disability
|I'm hoping to organise a third Blogging Against Disablism Day this May 1st. Shortly before the first BADD, I wrote a Brief Guide to the Language of Disability which was very brief indeed. I thought it was about time I made a more comprehensive effort, although this is just me explaining the different terms as I understand them and may not be all that comprehensive. Where I express my opinion (which I'm going to), I don't pretend to speak for anyone else.
Whilst I frequently harp on about language and its importance, I am always alarmed when discussions come to a standstill over a simple word or phrase. This is why each Blogging Against Disablism Day I have asked for a Language Amnesty; discussions of language are welcome, but we need to bear in mind that we're all coming from different places (quite literally).
Whether language is correct or incorrect depends entirely on what the speaker means to say. So the language of disability hinges on what people understand disability to be. The main controversy being
Disabled Person vs. Person with Disabilities
The preferred term generally hinges to on (a) geography, (b) identity politics and (c) a person's particular medical condition or impairment. And, unsurprisingly, a person's identity politics is likely to be influenced by both geography and their particular medical condition or impairment.
In the United States and Canada, person with disabilities or person with a disability is generally preferred. There, disability has been traditionally understood as something that is wrong with an individual; a medical condition, an illness, an injury, a sensory or intellectual impairment. For this reason, there are groups of people who wish to divorce themselves from the label. Some Americans with autism or deafness, for example, argue that their condition is not a disability, because they do not perceive it as any kind of problem.
Because disability is something that belongs entirely to the individual, it is correct to use this "people first" language. In this context, the difference between person with disabilities and disabled person is a bit like the difference between vase with a break and broken vase. It is also far more appropriate, for example, to describe someone as a person with depression than a depressive person. Since depression (or any other condition) might be the disability in this context, person with a disability makes total sense.
In the United Kingdom, disabled person is more often preferred. Whilst not everyone understands or agrees with the politics, the reason this term has been advocated is because of a way of understanding disability called The Social Model of Disability. This asserts that there is a difference between those limitations we experience because of medical conditions, injuries and impairments and those limitations we experience because of the artificial social and physical barriers we experience in society. Only this latter group of limitations may be called disability; it is, after all, the only thing that we all have in common and the only thing we have any hope of changing.
Many people agree that the limitations that disabled people face arise from these two different sources, but this use of language remains somewhat radical, even thirty years after its conception. What people tend to hear is "It's all society's fault and if there were only a few more ramps about, we wouldn't have any problems."
There will always be some people who have difficulty doing some things, and some of us will always have unpleasant physical, cogntive and emotional symptoms to contend with however society might improve. However, people who take this position simply don't call those problems disability. And because disability is something people experience as opposed to something that belongs to them, "disabled person" is preferred. It is a political status, very much like queer or black. And as with those terms, a small minority of people prefer to use a capital D.
It should be noted that not all British disabled people know of, let alone understand or subscribe to the Social Model, and of course most disability activists and academics in the rest of the English speaking world are well acquainted with these ideas at this point. Many people use both terms at different times. But that's your basic difference between the two terms, as I understand it.
Other Terms for Disabled People
Often attempts are made to take the sting out of the concept of disability. Dis- is, after all, a negative prefix and disabled is often used in other contexts, such as computing and electronics, to indicate that something is completely non-functioning. What's more, because of our negative cultural attitudes towards disability and disabled people, some people just don't want to fall under that label. Some people argue that if society sees disabled people as useless and dependent, then the solution is to use another term. We should "see the ability, not the disability". Others even argue that "disability is a state of mind".
Personally, I don't see a problem with the negative term; whilst it is by no means the worst thing that can happen to a person, disability is a disadvantage. However, several attempts have been made to find a neutral or even a more positive way of describing our situation. Most of these are euphemistic, with the rather odd exception of handicapped.
Handicapped / People with Handicaps
Handicapped has a very bad name in the UK, and seems to be losing popularity elsewhere. Part of this is due to the myth that handicapped comes from begging, "cap-in-hand", from a time where the only conspicuous disabled people had to beg for a living.
This isn't true. "Handicap" is a common word in horse-racing, golf and other sports and originates from a medieval gambling game "hand-in-cap" which involved drawing lots. There is a full explanation in the 1911 Encycopedia Brittanica, composed before handicap was first used in the context of disability.
Some people who take objection to words beginning with D, see handicapped as a positive label. In sports, a handicap is a disadvantage imposed on a superior competitor in order to make it a fairer game or race. So if we are handicapped, well maybe we're just brilliant and this is the universe's way of leveling things up for everyone else. A fanciful but undoubtedly positive notion.
Unfortunately, experience has put me off this term. Because it fell out of favour long ago, sensitive people don't tend to use it, regardless of whether they understand the objections against it or the etymological arguments. I'm afraid its usage has been accompanied by ignorance and prejudice often enough that I cringe every time I read or hear it. Which is a shame.
Modern Euphemisms for Disability
There are a number of euphemisms used when talking about disability, especially - though not exclusively - where disabled children are involved. This is understandable; if the world sees disabled as broken, useless, then children with this label are in danger of growing up with some pretty negative ideas about themselves. Many parents and educators try to protect them from this with more innocuous language.
I have great sympathy with this, but I'm doubtful about its effectiveness. When someone is determined not to say what they really mean, they don't always notice what they're really saying. So to speak.
Some disabled people's abilities are in no way inferior to those of their non-disabled counterparts, but merely different. The wonderful Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical demonstrates rather brilliantly.
Unfortunately, so long as different is perceived as an issue, it is a disadvantage. Imagine if someone described people who weren't white as differently-coloured or people who weren't men as differently-gendered. This is by no means neutral language.
And that's only if we give the phrase the benefit of the doubt. If we take it literally, everybody is differently-abled and the phrase means nothing at all.
Physically Challenged, Intellectually Challenged etc.
The language of challenges has often been used to replace language which was felt to condemn. For example, replacing delinquency with challenging behaviour, or poverty with economic challenges. Yes, I know it is a common tool of the fork-tongued, but it's not always complete nonsense.
However, our impairments are not challenges. A challenge is necessarily something which may be overcome, whereas the status of our bodies and brains is pretty much immovable. These terms also nod to the triumph over adversity narrative which is as problematic a stereotype as anything that disabled ever threw up.
Special, Handicapable etc.
These terms go beyond an attempt at neutrality and try to make disability something positive. I've never actually heard a real person use the word handicapable out loud, but it is used. Special, meanwhile, is widely used, particularly in education. Special Educational Needs can encompass a massive range of impairments, from severe intellectual impairments to mobility impairments.
Seahorse wrote an excellent piece about special and the way that teachers and non-disabled children can react to this label. Also on the BBC Ouch Blog, Nicola has also written about the way teachers reacted to her, destroying her confidence with the best of intentions.
The word itself doesn't cause this patronising, sometimes exoticising attitude towards disabled people, but it undoubtedly backs it up. I'm afraid I have little good to say about this word and similar variations on the sentiment, but then I guess that being regarded as special and being regarded as equal are mutually exclusive.
Reclaimed Terms
Informally, many disabled people refer to themselves and one another using terms which have historically been used to insult, oppress and patronise them. The main two examples are gimp which gives me images of black patent leather and chains but is very popular in the US and crip from cripple. Other examples include freak, mutant and more impairment-specific terms like nutter and spaz.
Many disabled people, having had a period of coming to terms with their disabled identity, have a phase of using these words a lot, reveling in both the act of subversion and the sense of group-identity they provide. However, others are genuinely upset by them, especially those with raw memories of these words being used in malice. I tend to the view that as with all humour (because this is largely about humour and fairly dark humour at that), there's a time and a place.
Incidentally, I also wrote a guide to what we call them others (those who are not disabled) some time ago on the Ouch Blog, although I fear the debate was concluded when JackP suggested disability-challenged.
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It's worth noting, on the business end of things, that we seem to be in a boom period for biotech/small pharma IPOs. I don't think anyone saw that coming, but these things take on momentum of their own. Hardly anyone went public for a few years once the financial crisis hit in 2007/2008. Then last year there were eleven new public companies, the most in quite a while. This year, though, there have been 29 (according to this piece in FierceBiotech), with eight of them since just the end of June.
That's pretty lively. And while some of this can be explained as a holdover from companies that would have gone public earlier, under less trying conditions, you'd have to think that we're getting near the bottom of the sack by now. Whatever gets pulled up at this point has a greater likelihood of having all kinds of stuff stuck to it, and it might not be in good enough condition for your portfolio to consume it. Soon we'll probably be in the part of the cycle where good companies, who would have happily launched themselves into the market a few months before, get whipsawed by a closing IPO window. If you think of a large flock of birds wheeling around in the sky, unable to quite decide which tree to land on, or whether to land at all, you'll have a pretty good mental picture of the market.
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1. Anonymous on August 20, 2013 7:14 AM writes...
The randomness of it all is amazing, and based on that elusive concept called "confidence". Everyone is making bets based on what they think the market will do, which comprises lots more people making bets based on what the market will do, when nobody really knows anything, so everybody is chasing noise. It's a big self-referential system, where investors have forgotten about what really counts: actual value delivered to customers.
2. Overthetop on August 20, 2013 8:29 AM writes...
I wonder if this is simply the product of laid-off scientists being industrious and creating their own paths? I have several former colleagues that formed their own small biotechs after they were laid off. Somehow they managed to raise interest in their ventures and get funding. Just a thought.
3. annonie on August 20, 2013 9:15 AM writes...
While some associated with a given biotech are legitimately interested & committed to progressing a concept in trying to make a new type of therapeutic or treatment, most of the small organizations will have accepted funding from angel investors and/or VC leaches. The universal primary motivation & driver of the financial backers is TO MAKE MONEY ON THEIR INVESTMENT.
While many may welcome a medical miracle, most early investor's driver focusses on how to get a substantial return on investment short-term. The classical way to do this is through a much hyped IPO that has a post-issue market demand. During the recession, there was less money being offered by angel and VC groups, as well as less public interest in buying into highly speculative new issues. This has created a backlog within the surviving private biotechs wanting to go public, corresponding to an increasing number of investors with excess cash to possibly be used for risky new, sexy looking assets. Christoph Westphal must be the prototypic master at making money from Powerpoint bluster.
4. mad on August 20, 2013 10:29 AM writes...
@ #2 yes that is exactly it
Major loss of pharma R&D jobs so people are going biotech and hoping to sell to pharma
In a few years pharma will say "why dont we do the reseach ourselves so we can avoid all this snake oil"
5. biotechtoreador on August 20, 2013 10:51 AM writes...
Boom, bust, lather, rinse, repeat....
6. MDACC Grad on August 20, 2013 10:56 AM writes...
The thing everyone should be watching is if these funds re-invest in biotech with their returns or chase something else (social media, etc.)
7. Anonymous BMS Researcher on August 21, 2013 7:06 AM writes...
There actually is an optimization algorithm known as "particle swarm" loosely based on the flocking behavior of birds, in which a number of "agents" follow both the gradient in the objective function and each other to seek a maximum or minimum within the allowed region of parameter space.
8. Anonymous on August 21, 2013 7:14 AM writes...
@7: I've seen similar algorithms applied to model the migration of lemmings over a cliff.
9. Suleman on August 22, 2013 5:15 AM writes...
The herd instinct is strong amongst financial people, and ends up being the basis of trends.
10. srp on August 22, 2013 9:57 PM writes...
There's an old and not too widely known paper by Haltiwanger and Waldman on whether rational or irrational people have the greatest impact on an economic equilibrium. Their conclusion is that when the system is dominated by "congestion effects" where you want to do the opposite of everyone else (e.g. take the road with less traffic) then rational people dominate the outcome--a few rationals sprinkled among the herd will determine what happens. But when the system is dominated by "synergistic effects" where you want to do the same thing as other people (e.g. buy the same stock everybody else thinks is good), then the beliefs of irrational or uninformed people can determine the outcome--everyone follows the people who seize on one choice or another for no good reason.
11. Anonymous on August 23, 2013 4:04 AM writes...
@10: Very interesting, and hardly surprising. Essentially, stupid people follow, while bright people lead. Guess which category dominates the human race...
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I am not in the 1% (yet). But due to my diligence with miles and understanding of the upgrade process, I fly in upper class more often than not. So, I am actually not sure what to make of this article by AP's Scott Mayerowitz. While highlighting some of the awesome features available for upper class passengers on long international flights, those willing to dish out the cash or the miles, he actually uses the article to bash them. Is the fact that someone can afford to pay for the luxurious seats and benefits of upper class travel or has earned the status and miles to get upgraded, a bad thing? Why should it be used to call it out as one of the 'excesses' of the 1%-ers? Yes, I think benefits in upper class seats are getting better and the comforts in coach are getting worse, but still… The price differences between coach and upper class are getting more and more too. If I shell out $15,000 or 150,000 miles for a first class seat, it better be worth it. Check-in, lounge, seats, meals, the whole package.
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Well I for one agree. I do not think the top 1% of anything should get extra privileges. Take Scott for instance, why should only get he to write articles for the AP. I think they should open that up to all of us. Everyone should be even regardless of education, work, etc. First class should be a lottery as it should be to be President for a week and heck CEO of Microsoft. I'm so sure the world will run better this way where everyone gets everything for free and no one had to work for anything. What do you guys think? Maybe Scott should just jump off a bridge because he's too stupid to be spending anymore time on MY planet.
The sad thing is, I know a few people who actually think like the first few sentences of Paul's comment. I was actually a bit disheartening to see some of the comments on that "article". Some saying take out first and replace it with economy (because that will make the rest of economy so luxurious). I really got a laugh out of the "Bunch of elitist snobs and I am not talking about the passengers!" comment, if it is referring to the "we hate the 1%ers" crowd commenting.
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Actually I think the top 1% are riding in private jets and avoiding TSA by landing at smaller private airports….if he really wants to bash the top 1% he should revisit the idea of private jets pitching in to fund the FAA in a more proportionate manner…….
Finally only the poor rich are riding with the frequent flyer studs in FC on these commercial flights……….
He doesn't seem to grasp that premium passenger fares can keep the coach fares DOWN which in turn "permits" more people to fly. Populist demagoguery.
Typical AP slant. Just think that if the AP feels like this about something simple like First class airline tickets what else do they feel is "unfair". Maybe we should just make everyone even. So those that work hard at this hobby of miles and points shouldn't reap any benefits they should share them with others that don't work so hard. Maybe you shouldn't be able to redeem those 150,000 miles for a nice seat. Maybe we should take them from you and give some of your miles or points to others that are disadvantaged or don't work hard on getting miles. Let's call it a tax or maybe "mile redistribution". In fact why should you be able to take a trip in comfort while others suffer. Don't you feel guilty?
How is this bashing? The article says that premium travelers get perks not available to others, which is true, and this hurts your feelings? I'm always amazed how thinly-skinned some people are.
The article never used words like "unfair" so if after reading the article that's the impression you are left with then I think you as a reader are the one who has issues. I can afford to sometimes fly first and when I do I do not feel defensive about it or feel the need to lash out at an article that accurately describes the industry.


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