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DaddyPaycheck Oct 29, 2007 12:09 PM
in response to jimbom SolvedHi James Macallister-
Can you read commercially burned DVDs?
Can you read CDs?
It is possible for the DVD-reading portion of the drive to independently fail. You can try a lens cleaning kit. The drive can be replaced under warranty or AppleCare. If you have neither, you can also do the job yourself.
Eric/Bookdisplays Dec 7, 2007 9:17 AM
in response to DaddyPaycheckHi there. count me in on the Sony DVD problems. My Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 will not recognize the Adobe Creative Suite 3 DVD for installation. The DVD works fine in other G4 systems.
The DVD drive will recognize data CD's but this Adobe DVD just churns and hums for 30 seconds and then the drive ejects the disk.
DVD Laser Lens Cleaner from Radio Shack will not load either.
This is the drive:
Firmware Revision: AADB
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
After reading the boards, it sounds like the Pioneer DVR-112D 18X DVD Burner (Drive only) is the unit to buy and replace this Sony one.
There appears to be a spacer issue related to the door on the G5 Tower case. Will the spacers from the Sony unit work on the Pioneer unit, or can the Pioneer unit just be installed as is using the existing ribbon cable. I've read the PMG5OpticalDriveDIY.pdf replacement manual, but am confused about SuperDrives vs. the Pioneer DVR-112D.
Can anyone clarify the details of replacement?
Also, will I need new software (Roxio, Toast) to burn CD's and DVD's after replacing the drive?
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I've been using creams, oils and lotions since surviving a fire at the age of 17. Needless to say, my skin has been quite dry ever since. I've tried hundreds of products and become an expert on skin moisturizers. Mink oil works great. But it's expensive. Burt's Bee's carrot nutritive skin lotion is very good. And the price is right. But this stuff is a luxury. As good as soaking in a Japanese onsen. It does have a major drawback. It's hard, and you'll have to go through your kitchen utensil drawer to find a tool to chip away at it, then dump the chips into a small microwavable glass, then heat it up, then let it cool. But if you use it right after stepping out of the shower and right before going to bed at night, the next morning the elaborate cocoa butter ceremony you had to go through to get it on your body will have all been worth it. Your skin will feel like it's 17 again. If I could make a suggestion to Now: Use a more elegant container and stick a wick in this hard-as-wax cocoa butter. Market the stuff as an aroma-therapy-like candle that melts into a rich body oil.
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I loooooove this cocoa butter. It smells heavenly and absorbs in my skin well. It is hard, so I use a plastic spoon to scrape at it, which makes easily meltable shavings. More work than lotion, but less unneeded chemicals as this is all natural. My best friend visited and loved it--she used it with great results on her skin, which is prone to blemishes. I use it on my big ole pregnant belly! My husband is very satisfied with the results--no stretch marks, big shiny belly, plus I smell like a giant cookie for a couple of minutes after (yummy smell does dissipate after a few minutes).
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I don't think he thought he was really Catherine Trammel, just liked the persona and pretending to be that character.
If Manny is NOT real, then it's another fantasy he created or scapegoat. Either he is aware he fabricated him or is delusional and actually believes he is real.
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I think a lot of insight could be gained if we try to find truth in LMs blog posts. I mean, as full of himself as he was, he sure was associating his name with some messed up stuff for it to all be lies. We don't know anything really about his personal life except for what he has posted so it's worth considering. Mixed in with his cries for attention are cries for help, I believe.
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As for "they mostly film the judge (we dont have a jury)", where is that coming from? We absolutely do have jurys, and LRM has chosen trial by jury.
The accused may sit next to his attorney, but in high profile cases (i.e. Pickton, Rafferty, Russ Williams), they are in the prisoner's box for security reasons.
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IA w/ statements LRM is not making all of his childhood history up. As someone who was abused, when I saw him in the news I felt something "relatable" about him (if you understand, not the murderous rage, haha, but the familiar demeanor, sadness, and words of an abused invidual). I am attracted to narcissist loners, too, and had one ex in particular who had the same type of background as LRM (molested, hated mother & sister for not protecting him) and was just messed up under the surface. We were friends for years then dated and this crazy, raging vengeful switch just flipped on. He is still alone, unable to sustain long-term relationships. He does weird things for attention (he actually got sued for some of his internet activities and was pretty remorseless about how he defamed other people). That said, from what I have seen, the things that LRM talks about happening seem to create specific patterns in men I have seen go through the same thing.
I know several of you have discussed schizophrenia, and I was thinking his traits relate more closely to schizoid--flat affect and speech, asociality, intimacy issues, as well as creation of a fantasy world, which seems to be the case here. To me, this guy tried so hard to create a sense of self and reality that he created one where he was so dissociated that he thought of himself as the star in his own movie. I think that dissociation could also explain some of the lack of realization of the impact of his actions, as well as the fact that some folks do not seem to agree he is a psychopath. I can't diagnose either, of course, but food for thought.
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I think at some point, he thought he was Catherine Tramell. His eyebrows, his hairstyle and colour. His smoking. Also, in the movie, Catherine Tramell uses the fact that she wrote about killing with an icepick as an alibi. Now LM (as Catherine Tramell) may think he could use his obsession with the movie as his alibi since the killer uses an icepick and blogged about it beforehand. If that makes any sense.
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They may want to see what the state has in terms of DNA of course they will have DNA but the lawyer for sure will want to see if anyone else's DNA is part of that crime scene. Not just in real terms of course but in terms of fashioning a defense. The web aspect is a quagmire for both sides but especially the prosecution. What is real and what isn't?
If I am right and LM may have privileged knowledge of one or more of the elite in one or more of several countries, through back channels his lawyer will try to use that to get LM a more favourable verdict or sentence. The government may think that they are caving if they allow an insanity plea but if LM has a good lawyer he will try to better than that, a life in some godawful mental hospital.
Also in terms of mental health not sure if there has been a discussion of perversion as a separate area of psychiatry (coprophilia etc).
Perversions often exist with other mental health issues but often are treated as a separate field.
I think the interpretation of the perversions will differ depending on what approach - turning to psychoanalysis rather than simple psychiatry definitions from the (Melanie) Kleinian groups would link the development of various perversions to VERY early human experience, the first year of life.
Some perversions like coprophilia are treated as "sicker" by most psychiatrists than say voyeurism, but even the latter can hopelessly damage a person's life due to the social opprobrium and likelihood of criminal charges.
They're distributed throughout society and hidden so again, LM may have clients whose past with him involves horribly damaging material - obviously just a picture with him would be damaging let alone a coprophilia soiree. I think it is likely rather than unlikely that this is the real situation hence his very special treatment. Plus the possibility that he has worked as an informant: I base this on the Fusilliers pub incident and discussed my thoughts on a previous thread.
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As part of our outreach work, FAIR spokespersons discuss and debate media issues on national TV and radio programs, and on local shows across the U.S. Below are a few highlights from recent coverage of FAIR's work.
Zogby-O'Leary Poll:
ConWebBlog, (10/27/09)We've previously detailed how WorldNetDaily author Brad O'Leary uses slanted polling by Zogby to peddle his right-wing attacks on President Obama. Well, O'Leary has outdone himself. As Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting noted, the latest Zogby-O'Leary poll includes the following question:
Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for more African-Americans and gays to fill those positions. Do you agree or disagree that this presents a threat to free speech?
New Orleans Eclipsed by Balloon Boy:
Louisiana Politics and Government, (10/16/09)
"We were bumped by 'balloon boy,' " Cao spokeswoman Princella Smith said. "We weren't happy."
Rush Limbaugh:
Chicago Daily Herald, (10/16/09)"He's been on the radar for a long time," says Jim Naureckas, who grew up in Libertyville and is a co-author of the 1995 book, "The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error."Paying attention to Limbaugh, the media and race is part of Naureckas' duty in his job as editor of Extra!, a media criticism journal produced by the national watchdog group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting at www.fair.org)."The white resentment of the civil rights movement has been major fuel for the conservative movement going on for half a century now," Naureckas says. But the heat that forced Limbaugh out of a group planning to buy an NFL team wasn't a conservative/liberal statement."Politics are one thing, and insulting an ethnic group is another thing," Naureckas says. During his long and successful career, Limbaugh once told a black caller to "take that bone out of your nose," asserted that "all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson," and referred to President Barack Obama as "the little black man-child.""When you use language like that, it's not about Barack Obama, or about Democratic and Republican policies," Naureckas notes.
Psychology Today, (10/15/09)As for Limbaugh's veracity or "truth in advertising, of which some of you cast broad accusations of lies and calumnies," please go to http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1861.
Healthcare Debate:
New York Times, (10/11/09)The Times has focused its coverage on proposals that editors and reporters judge to be politically feasible, which means that tort reform, popular with conservatives, and single-payer health coverage, popular with liberals, have received relatively scant attention. Anger boiled over recently, when an article on Medicare-for-all, a version of single-payer, explained all the reasons it was dead, and arguments against it, without going into arguments for it. Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, a liberal media watchdog, urged followers to object, and I received roughly 1,000 messages.
New York Times on Chavez:
Daily Times (Pakistan), (10/8/09)In a staggering display of amorality, his illegally-appointed successor was immediately recognised by the US, but after a couple of days, Chavez, the democratically-elected president, was reinstated by popular demand.
Lou Dobbs:
Capital Times, (10/7/09)Dobbs is a darling of FAIR, Federation for American Immigration Reform, but another FAIR — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting — has been reporting on Dobbs' alarmist schtick take for years.
Corporate Media:
Atlantic Free Press, (10/5/09)FAIR's Peter Hart writes about how the global economic crisis has impacted corporate newsrooms and the media overall as "owners who gambled on debt-financed expansions" have been hammered by shrinking advertising and subscriber revenues, with no light at the end of the tunnel in sight.
Think Tank Press:
The American Prospect: Tapped, (9/29/09)Earlier this month, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting released their list of the 25 most-cited Think Tanks in media last year. Predictably, the Brookings Institution took top billing with more than 2,000 mentions – at least double the amount of anyone else on the list. American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation rounded out the top three. Though citations were down for the fourth consecutive year, left-leaning institutions increased their share to 21 percent, up from 17 percent during 2007. In comparison, centrist groups held steady at 48 percent, while right-leaning groups saw a 5 percent decline to 31 percent
Congressional Quarterly Weekly, (9/20/09)For Washington think tanks, being quoted in the press translates to prestige and influence, and for the past 13 years, the liberal-leaning media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, or FAIR, has been tracking those citations. It found that last year, for the first time, there was a significant increase in citations for liberal policy centers and a decrease for conservatives. Centrist think tanks maintained their plurality.
Media Biases:
Digital Journal, (9/6/09)Trevor Coleman [of the Detroit Free Press] takes strong opposition against some members of the media who tend to pick out African American figures in the news for racially-biased reporting…Coleman uses the group Fairness & Accuracy In Reportingto buttress his arguments. The group A group by the name of Media Tenor conducted a study for FAIR , studying ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news programs. Results of the study made last year showed that 92 percent of all U.S. sources interviewed on matters of race and politics were white, 85 percent were male and, where party affiliation was identifiable, 75 percent were Republican. Media Tenor found specifically one third of the US public is portrayed negatively, and these are immigrants, blacks and other minorities.
Islamophobe at ALA Conference:
Iran Times International, (8/21/09)The group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), an independent national media watch group, called [Robert]Spencer one of "America's leading Islamophobes" who "spread[s] fear, bigotry, and misinformation."
GE's stifling of MSNBC host Olbermann:
New York Times, (8/7/09):The advocacy group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting asked its supporters on Friday to contact GE, urging it to renounce the agreement with Fox.
Jeff Cohen, the founder of the group, said the deal between the two networks' parent companies was a reason to be wary of corporate-owned TV news.
"It should remind news consumers of who calls the tune and pays the bills–and that TV reporters and even loud-mouthed commentators have corporate bosses whose interests are often not about unbridled journalism," Mr. Cohen said.
Healthcare Debate:
L.A. Times (7/29/09):Wendell Potter, a former CIGNA healthcare spokesman-turned-consumer advocate, told Lieberman that reporters routinely fail to assess the huge "costs to society and the economy if reform is not enacted."
That would go a long way toward putting the current debate in Congress in perspective. But it would still leave a gaping hole in much of the media coverage — caused by the failure to investigate practices around the rest of the world, particularly European-style, single-payer programs.
The liberal media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and a group of progressive activists delivered a petition Tuesday to ABC News in New York … to demand broader reporting, including an assessment of government-managed health systems.
- Democracy Now! (7/29/09):
FAIR Communications Director Isabel Macdonald said the exclusion of single payer extends across the major corporate networks.
Isabel Macdonald: "Fifty-nine percent of Americans and 59 percent of physicians support a Medicare for All-type program, or single payer. ABC has not had a single advocate of that system on air this year. So we're delivering a petition to both ABC and we're also sending a message to the other TV networks, demanding that they cover single-payer healthcare and stop silencing single-payer advocates."
The petition's 11,000 signatories include filmmaker Michael Moore, former MSNBC host Phil Donahue, Doctor Quentin Young and actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.
Right-Wing Blogger Error:
The latest example occurred last week when Forbes.com headlined a story "Obama's Doctor Knocks ObamaCare," which was quickly picked up the Drudge Report and, in turn, many conservative bloggers, to show that not even the president's own doctor supports his "socialized" health care plans.Popular right-wing blogger Mark Hemingway on National Review Online posted three paragraphs from the Forbes report and, according to FAIR, followed with a triumphant, one word "Ouch."But, FAIR noted, it might have helped if Hemingway and the others had actually read the Forbes report.For Dr. David Scheiner of Chicago wasn't criticizing Obama's plans for being socialistic, but was criticizing them for not going far enough…When this was pointed out to Hemingway, he posted an update."I didn't intend to present this as one-sided. I quickly cut and pasted the first three grafs. Suffice to say, you should keep in mind the Hyde Park doc is criticizing ObamaCare from the left. Either way, that people close to the president feel free to express these kinds of opinions doesn't seem to bode well for health care reform politically," he wrote.Strange, as FAIR noted: "Beyond Hemingway's odd suggestion that it's a bad thing for a president to know people who openly disagree with him, it seems somewhat unlikely that he, as an NRO blogger, would have approvingly quoted a single-payer advocate's criticism of the president — that is, if he knew the critic was a single-payer supporter."
The Capital Times, (7/6/09)The national organization called Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) keeps giving right-wing commentators fits.
Iraq War Coverage:
Goodman cites a study by the national media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, or FAIR, which tracked the four major nightly newscasts in the two weeks surrounding then-U.S. opposed to war. This is no longer a mainstream media. This is an extreme beating the drums for war."Secretary of State's Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations [on] February 5th, 2003, advocating war with Iraq."There were 393 interviews done around war [during that time], but only three were done with antiwar leaders," says Goodman. "That's three of almost 400 at a time when half the population was opposed to war. This is no longer a mainstream media. This is an extreme beating the drums for war."
Voice of America News, (6/15/09)Goodman says the mainstream media often simply reinforce – rather than challenge – the status quo, and that can have serious consequences.
Sotomayor nomination:
- San Francisco Bay Guardian (6/2/09):
It's always helpful to read how FAIR analyzes how the mainstream media cover a major story.
Immigration Debate:
- Uprising Radio (6/1/09)
KFFA interviews Aura Bogado, the author of the report "Arpaio vs. Immigrants:
Those most affected left out of debate" that was published in the June issue of FAIR's magazine Extra! (Click here for MP3 file)
- Uprising Radio (5/11/09):
FAIR's Julie Hollar interviewed on KPFA (Click here for MP3 file).
- Richard Prince's Journal-isms (5/9/09):
Although the war in Congo is officially over, an estimated 45,000 people are dying each month from conflict-related causes, primarily hunger and disease, "nearly the same shocking rate as during the war itself," Julie Hollar wrote for Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Why is it not getting the media attention of the Darfur genocide?
Economic Coverage:
- Stamford Advocate 3/18/09
- Colorado Daily 3/18/09
- Miami Herald 3/16/09:
A report in FAIR's magazine Extra! on the news media's disproportionate attention to the "deserving" newly poor, and the media's ongoing neglect of the millions of Americans who were poor before the current economic crisis, inspires a nationally syndicated column, "The News Media Meet the Poor."
- FOX Business Channel 3/4/09:
Jim Naureckas, the editor-in-chief of FAIR's magazine Extra!, debates Fox Business host Neil Cavuto.
FAIR Study: Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare
- Bloomberg 3/11/09:
Obama has said he would keep an open mind on health-care solutions. Yet when asked on March 5 about why he was against single-payer medicine, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs replied: "The president doesn't believe that's the best way to achieve the goal of cutting costs and increasing access."
The mainstream media have similarly been sheepish about touching the subject.
Most media outlets covering last week's summit didn't even mention the idea of a single-payer proposal, according to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a New York-based group.
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer 3/11/09:
A study released by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a watchdog group, found that in the week before Obama's health care summit, of the hundreds of stories that appeared in newspapers and on the networks, "only five included the views of advocates of single-payer – none of which appeared on television." Most columns that mentioned single-payer were written by opponents.
Democracy Now 3/11/09, 3/6/09:Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found the views of advocates of single payer have only been aired five times in the hundreds of major newspaper, broadcasts and cable stories about healthcare reform over the past week. No single-payer advocate has appeared on a major TV broadcast or cable network to talk about the policy during that period.
- Bloomberg 3/11/09:
- Baltimore Chronicle 3/6/09
Rush Limbaugh
- Chicago Tribune 3/10/09
- Miami Herald 3/8/09
- Sacramento Bee 3/6/09
- Seattle Times 3/6/09:
According to the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, he once advised a black caller to his radio show: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."
The Economy:
JIM NAURECKAS, FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING: Well, I think there is a common mistake in the media to look at Wall Street as a kind of opinion poll. And it's not. These are business people who are looking at stocks, and trying to figure out how much they're worth, which means how much other people will pay for them.CAVUTO: But usually it's always about confidence, right? If they're confident in the environment they're in, they tend to buy and when they're not, they tend not to, right?NAURECKAS: The confidence — to run the economy on sort of optimism or pessimism, I think, is probably what we've been doing for the past decade or so.CAVUTO: Wouldn't you want win Wall Street over?NAURECKAS: I think that Wall Street is looking more at what those businesses are doing and what they're likely to be doing in the near term, in terms of profits than they are…I think there is a level of anxiety that you see among TV hosts about what the stock market is doing. And you do see a real disconnect between the poll numbers that Obama is getting on handling of the economy, and the attitudes that you see on from some of the talking heads.
Your World with Cavuto, (3/4/09)Here to connect the dots is Jim Naureckas of Fair, a national media watch organization. Trickling in, more — more connecting the dots, saying this guy's prescription isn't winning over Wall Street guys. Not a lot. What do you think?
Think Tank Press:
Politico.com, (2/3/09)Fueled by tax-deductible donations and an explosion in philanthropic assets, think tanks have dramatically grown in size and influence during the past 100 years. According to the Government Research Service, U.S. think tanks increased in number from eight in 1910 to 98 in 1960 and 1,106 in 2006. According to Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, the top 25 think tanks were cited 14,790 times during 2007 in major media
"The coverage is what you would expect," said Peter Hart, activism director at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). "There is a lot of pressure from pro-Israeli groups on media outlets."
Inter Press Service, (1/31/09)Given the United States' long history of supporting Israel, the slanted media attention does not surprise many close followers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has expressed concern about the coverage of the military offensive in US media outlets, which it said present the conflict as "Palestinians are attacking, Israel is retaliating."The "straightforward recitation of events is rarely heard in much of the rest of the media coverage of the violence in Gaza… since Israel began its full-scale assault," FAIR said.
- Jordan Times, (1/14/09)
Despite campaigning by the Foreign Press Association and an Israeli supreme court ruling allowing 12 journalists to enter the besieged strip, journalists are still barred from entering Gaza by the Israeli defence ministry, according to the association and Reporters Without Borders (RWB).
"That November 4 raid, in very real sense, hardly exists in the mainstream media's collective memory," said Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) activism director Peter Hart, noting that Israel may have been aware that the election would drown out coverage of its raid."It does not take much effort to go back and find it," he said, "but reporting contextual information that would undermine Israel's rationale for these attacks is not exactly the kind of thing the US corporate media do very often. The fact that there are only a handful of exceptions is telling – the dominant narrative in the press is unsurprisingly one that supports the Israeli position."
The Daily Star, (1/9/09)Consumed by coverage of the November 4 th presidential election, US mainstream media ignored a key Israeli military attack on a Hamas target that many observers argue marked the effective end of the cease-fire between the two sides and set the stage for the current round of bloodletting…
The Washington Report on Middle-East Affairs, (Jan/Feb 2009)Because of such flawed and biased reporting, Weir said, few Americans understand the Israel-Palestine conflict or their own government's role in it. The former reporter and newspaper editor noted that her organization's findings regarding biased media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict are supported by a similar 2001 study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)'s Seth Ackerman entitled "The Illusion of Balance."
The Palestine Chronical, (1/28/09)In November/December 2006, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's (FAIR) Steve Rendall explained that "Hugo Chavez never had a chance with the US press." It's been a constant since his December 1998 election, and hasn't let up to this day, with language all too familiar: a "would-be-dictator; an autocratic demagogue; a modern caudillo; a divisive and demagogic leader; a communist…
FAIR's new blogWhether bloggers know it or not, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting is the grandfather of most of the progressive bloggosphere. FAIR, which was founded in 1986, was the first place to do progressive media criticism in a sustained, systematic way. Their influence has been enormous—so much so that it's often hard to see, like a movie that changed movies afterwards so much that when you finally see the original, you can't tell what the big deal was.
So it's great that FAIR now has a blug of its own. I urge you to visit early and often.
—A Tiny Revolution (10/25/08)
On media ignoring third-party and independent candidatesFAIR raises another argument that deserves even greater consideration — that elections should be about ideas, and Barr and Nader would have injected some. The intellectual exhaustion of Barack Obama and John McCain was painfully obvious during their three televised debates. McCain is against waste in the Defense Department! (As if Obama favors it.) Obama wants to kill Osama bin Laden! (As if McCain doesn't.) They're both against Wall Street greed! (But Main Street, where all those homebuyers thought they could get houses for no money down and low monthly payments, is Virtue itself.)
Whether or not you believe in the abrupt and unilateral withdrawal of American troops from Iraq (as both Barr and Nader do), or the abolition of the Federal Reserve (as Barr does) or allowing the public to write laws through national referendums (as Nader does), these are ideas that would sharpen the focus of the campaign. As Obama and McCain argued about who supposedly squawked about Freddie and Fannie first, or who could offer more subsidies to failing banks, wouldn't it have been nice to hear from two candidates who were against spending a single nickle on the bailout?
"By ignoring independent and third party candidates," the FAIR study concludes, "the corporate media are also helping keep a range of policy options about key issues that are not espoused by either major party candidate off the table — including single payer healthcare, a full withdrawal from Iraq, ending the war in Afghanistan and ending the death penalty."
—Miami Herald (10/21/08)
Election coverageThe always-thorough folks at FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) have compiled the "Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign '08," a handy (if alarming) roundup of eleven misleading, factually bankrupt themes that have dominated election coverage.
Not only do journalists organize the election story around the question—not terribly helpful to voters—of who's up and who's down, they largely base their evaluation of the race on shallow image-based narratives that the media construct themselves: Barack Obama is an "elitist" who might not "get the way we live" (Extra!, 8/08), while John McCain is a straight-talking "maverick" (Extra!, 6/08).
The FAIR report goes well beyond deconstructing the "maverick" and "elitist" labels (Troubling Tropes #1 and 2), using extensively sourced analysis to rebut the claim that the so-called liberal media has "smeared" vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin (#3) and contesting the media's treatment of John McCain as a "national security pro" (#4).
—Utne Reader (10/24/08)
Islamophobia in the mediaFairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a non-profit national media watch group launched in 1986, recently started documenting 'public writings and appearances of Islamophobic activists and pundits who intentionally and regularly spread fear, bigotry and misinformation in the media' on a newly commissioned website smearcasting.com.
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer (10/26/08)————————————————
Watch/Listen to Democracy Now! segment on FAIR's report "Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation" (10/17/08)————————————————…our report is not just a matter of talking about how the media sometimes miss the ball on this. It's also talking about how the media often abet this Islamophobia.
We have, for instance, in the last couple of years, Bruce Bawer's book, While Europe Slept was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, two members of the board protested that nomination of an explicitly Islamophobic, bigoted book smearing an entire religious group.
In the last couple of years, Mark Steyn had an explicitly Islamophobic book on The New York Times bestseller list and Robert Spencer had two. So we have this rising tide of Islamophobia, and very little being done to confront it on the part of journalists.
–FAIR senior analyst Steve Rendall, NPR's On The Media (10/10/08)————————————————Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting released a report documenting the 12 Islamophobes in US media. The all-star list includes (unsurprisingly): Bill O'Reilly, David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, and Sean Hannity.
—Washington City Paper, (10/13/08)
On The Washington Post's poll that found Americans split on McCain and Obama's Iraq positions due to a poll question that misrepresented McCain's Iraq stance as a position on "withdrawal:"
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, the liberal media watchdogs, argue that the question did not correctly describe McCain's position. And if you look at Iraq polling generally you'll see that a large majority of the public wants most if not all of our troops out very soon indeed.
—Washington Post.com, (7/18/08)
Election CoverageListen to Extra! editor Jim Naureckas discuss media coverage of John McCain's claims that Obama is "playing the race card" on KPFK's Uprising show.
—KPFK, (8/7/08)————————————————FAIR Communications Director Isabel Macdonald discusses the future of print journalism and the best and worst of the week on GritTV's weekly Media Roundtable.
—GritTV, (8/5/08)————————————————During the Democratic primary season, Sen. Hillary Clinton was accused of using racial code when she said that Obama's support among "hardworking Americans, white Americans," was weakening. The inference, critics said, is that only white Americans work hard.
The media played a role in promoting that concept, said Steve Rendall, senior analyst at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a liberal media watchdog group. The biggest coded message, he said, was when pundits turned "working-class voters," into "white working-class voters."
…"We hear code words all the time in talk radio. It's a constant drumbeat," said Rendall, who also co-hosts FAIR's national radio show, "CounterSpin." "Code word bigotry is a secret code, a secret handshake between the listening audience and the host.
"Either conscious or unconscious, there is sometimes a mispronunciation of [Obama's] name or dwelling on his middle name [Hussein], suggesting that he is some covert Muslim. It is not overt racism but it is xenophobic."
—Chicago Tribune (6/30/08)
Conservative columnist George WillWill has also acknowledged reviewing possible questions with George W. Bush before the then-Texas governor and presidential candidate appeared on "This Week" in 2000. A Will column recently included allegations, repeated by Vice President Dick Cheney, that China was drilling for oil off the coast of Florida. Cheney and Will have since acknowledged the information was wrong.
"You do have to have some standards for your pundits," says Peter Hart, an analyst for Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a media watchdog organization that has often criticized Will. "Our beefs with him over the years haven't been about his ideology, but about accuracy."
—Associated Press (6/29/08)
FAIR's workThe work of media reformers starts with challenging big media when it misinforms the American people. FAIR does that.
—John Nichols, writing in Madison Capital Times (6/19/08)
US government-funded foreign mediaBelow the radar, another journalism scandal is brewing: the U.S. government is secretly funding foreign news outlets and journalists…
Isabel MacDonald, communications director at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a New York-based media watchdog nonprofit, is also critical. "This is a system that, despite its professed adherence to norms of objectivity, has often worked against real democracy," she says, "by stifling dissent and helping the U.S. government spread misinformation serviceable to U.S. foreign policy goals."
Campaign coverageFAIR's Peter Hart interviewed on Air America's Lionel Show.
Pentagon PunditsFAIR's Peter Hart discusses the significance of the media's reliance on military analysts who were being fed talking points by the Pentagon.
—Democracy Now (4/22/08)
Race & Gender In the Elections Coverage"Race and gender are part of the race every day. Hillary Clinton can't stop being a woman, and Barack Obama can't stop being black. The media traffic in these kinds of stereotypes."
–FAIR Activism Director Peter Hart, in New Jersey Star Leger (4/20/08)
Coverage of Affirmative ActionAccording to a Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting study, not only does mainstream media consistently describe affirmative- action policies as preferential and discriminatory, it rarely mentions women as beneficiaries of the policies or discusses the exclusionary barriers affirmative action is designed to dismantle.
—Ms.Magazine (Winter 2008)
Media Coverage of IraqIsabel Macdonald, communications director of the liberal media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), also noted The Washington Post's Winter Soldier coverage to substantiate her view of The Post's pro-war journalism. "Across the national media we have seen a near black-out of that event," she said. "The Washington Post covered it as a local event. Interestingly, this story was reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a top global news story this week, but it has not been treated even as national news by The Washington Post. "I would say The Washington Post is substantially more pro-war than the American public," Macdonald said.
—CNSNews.com (3/20/08)
"Over the past few months, the Iraq War has been all but eclipsed from the news agenda.
…To hear many in the mainstream media tell it, the Iraq War is simply of diminishing importance to American voters. But a glance back to the end of '07, when journalists identified a shift in the electorate's interest, suggests that journalists and pundits are really the ones who would rather not talk about Iraq as we head into an election year.
—Op Ed by FAIR Activism Director Peter Hart, KC Community News, (3/5/08)
FAIR communications director Isabel Macdonald debates the National Journal's Neil Munro on the media, the Iraq War and the US presidential elections.
—Al Jazeera's Inside Iraq (2/8/08)
On Propaganda Against IranPeter Hart interviewed on KPFK's The Lawyers Guild
On Elections CoveragePeter Hart interviewed the role of media in anointing candidates, and giving some candidates easier treatment than others.
—Air America's Lionel Show (2/11/08)Isabel Macdonald interviewed on KPFK's Beneath the Surface with Jerry Quickley
On Racist Talk Radio Host Bob GrantRadio & Records reportedly decided to drop the award after receiving e-mails chronicling on-air remarks Mr. Grant made in the 1990s. The list of remarks, compiled by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, was sent to members of the publication's staff by a person not affiliated with FAIR, according to Steve Rendall, a senior analyst with the liberal media-watchdog group.
A 1995 FAIR article by Jim Naureckas, titled "50,000 Watts of Hate," quoted Mr. Grant as referring to Haitian refugees as "maggots" and calling for policemen with machine guns to show up at a gay pride parade. Mr. Rendall said staff members transcribed the comments from tapes of Mr. Grant's show.
"It seems to me that Radio & Records is doing the right thing," Mr. Rendall said. "Without the bigotry, there isn't that much left of Grant."
—Washington Times (1/17/08)
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Taken 2 is a 2012 action movie.
Directed by: Oliver Megaton
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.
Clearly, Kim's music career bombed. After the events of Taken, life between Bryan Mills (Neeson), his daughter Kim (Grace) and his ex wife Lenore (Janssen) have sort of improved. Bryan is more involved in his daughter's life, like helping her prepare for her driving exam after failing it three times. Also, he discovers that his little girl isn't such a little girl anymore (Obviously, I mean, the actress is around 30 and she's playing a teenager). She has found love in her life, and knowing father's with their daughters, that's a big bomb waiting to explode. His ex-wife, Lenore is now feeling lonely after her second husband from the previous movie has left her, which opens up the possibility of a failed marriage now a rekindled love. Surprising Bryan in Istanbul, the Mills family is sought out by the the people's family Bryan killed, for vengeance.
This is the basic story. Liam Neeson's character kills a lot of men searching for his daughter from entering an eternal slave trade, and the father of one of his victims (Mr. "good luck" charm) Murad Krasniqi (Rade Serbedzija) wants to punish Mills, even though it's his son's fault, but like Neeson's characters, this father is out for revenge, much like the first movie, so the story has our main characters as the enemy rather than the heroes, when you think about it that is. It's the same, but they tackle it sort of differently.
The bad thing is, and I don't know if it was the change in directors, but the action took a toll this time. Whether it was the awkwardly fast editing or the lack of upper level choreographers, one of the first face offs between Neeson's character and some goons was atrocious. The sound mix was below it's expensive production (In mundane terms) that one might assume this sequel was rushed to a point that the studio might have not cared enough to pay close attention to the draft edition. Next you have the lead character taking his time, or rather, the writer took his time developing Mr. Mills's secondary skills that he mentioned in the previous film that we didn't get to see at full capacity. He pays attention with two of his five sense to detail when retracing his steps or getting his daughter to save his ass. I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, I'm saying the execution could have used more fast paced focus and depth of mise-en-scene then used initially. Also, given the fact that another important character was in the close line to death, you'd think Mr. Besson could have made his character run, rather than walk.
At the point that I was beginning to get uncomfortable in my seat, the movie manages to restore its credibility with certain face offs with Brian Mills and his adversaries that had me screaming in my head "FINALLY!!!", indicating that this was what the movie should had been achieving since the commencement of the second act. All bets are off, and I got my money's worth, or at least four dollars of it, with the other four dollars and fifty cents down the drain. Regardless, where most of the action and execution fails, the strong performances by the supporting roles makes up for the mistakes. And, you know how sometimes movies have certain quotes spoken by the protagonist, that you can't really decipher if it's meant for entertainment or an actually plausibility? Know what I mean?
"Because I am tired of it all"
Overall, while Taken 2 does not match or even exceed it's predecessor, it manages to give the expected entertainment to the average viewer, without joy of wanting a third one...even though it's coming.
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WASHINGTON — Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who rode voter anger to office in New Jersey last year, is endorsing Mike Castle's bid to win the GOP primary in Delaware and is joining a pack of party leaders trying to block a tea party-backed candidate's bid.
Christie, a graduate of the University of Delaware, endorsed Castle, a nine-term Republican congressman and former governor who is facing Christine O'Donnell. Republicans have rushed to paint O'Donnell as a fraud, citing shady financial records and a record of statements that are clearly not true.
"I urge every Republican out there from Delaware who believes in smaller, smarter government to send somebody like Mike Castle to the United States Senate," Christie said outside the University of Delaware football season opener.
EDITOR'S NOTE – An insider's view of this year's elections based on dispatches from around the nation.
The latest example of O'Donnell's problems: Twenty-one years after she began her undergraduate work, she can accurately call herself a college graduate as of this week. A spokesman for Fairleigh Dickinson University said O'Donnell on Wednesday earned her bachelor's degree in English literature, which she has claimed for years.
Despite problems with O'Donnell's record, establishment Republicans were taking no chances on winning in November.
Castle, Washington's preferred candidate, went up with radio ads and rushed other parts of his media plan after Republicans watched Sen. Lisa Murkowski lose her Alaska primary to tea party-backed Joe Miller.
The Tea Party Express, a California-based group, has announced it is backing O'Donnell and plans to spend six figures in the race for Vice President Joe Biden's former Senate seat in Delaware.
A shadowy group calling itself "The Tea Party" – taking advantage of the popular tea party groups around the nation – won't be allowed on Michigan's November ballot after an order Friday from the Michigan Supreme Court.
The high court's 5-2 decision lets stand a ruling this week from the Michigan Court of Appeals that keeps "The Tea Party" off the ballot because it didn't comply with some technical requirements in state law.
Republicans and tea party activists consider "The Tea Party" a Democratic-supported fake aimed at siphoning away votes from conservative candidates. The effort has connections to a former Oakland County Democratic Party official.
The appeals court ruled that "The Tea Party" could not be on the ballot because of an irregularity on its petitions circulated to make the ballot. The word "The" in "The Tea Party" was not in 24-point bold face type on its petitions as required by law.
The state Supreme Court denied a request to appeal, with the majority saying it was "not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed" by the court.
"Today's decision by the court is a win for all of the dedicated grass-roots activists who are part of the true Tea Party movement and it is a win for democracy," Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ron Weiser said in a statement.
Messages were left seeking comment from "The Tea Party" chairman Mark Steffek and attorney Michael Hodge after Friday's ruling.
Republican Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte – a former New Hampshire attorney general – received more than $10,000 from executives of a Texas company charged with deceptive trade practices.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott charged Houston-based TaxMasters Inc. and its chief executive officer, Patrick Cox, in May with multiple violations of the state's deceptive practices and debt collection act. Cox, sales vice president Alex Clamon and salesman James Welch contributed a total of $10,600 last year to Ayotte's campaign.
Ayotte spokesman Jeff Grappone told the Concord Monitor that Ayotte will watch the legal process and await an outcome. He said Ayotte will return the money if they are convicted of violating the law.
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_ Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Moffett said Friday he's willing to "go to the carpet" to legalize the production of industrial hemp in Kentucky. The Louisville businessman voiced support for industrial hemp in a question-and-answer session with libertarian voters in Lexington on Thursday and again Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. Hemp is related to marijuana and currently all hemp products sold in the U.S. must be imported.
_ Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Friday endorsed an oil company-funded ballot initiative that seeks to indefinitely delay California's landmark global warming law. The announcement comes two days after the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive refused to take a position during her debate with Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
_ NBC canceled Sunday's "Meet the Press" debate between Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek and Republican Marco Rubio because the GOP nominee's 83-year-old father is ill. Gov. Charlie Crist, running as an independent, had previously declined an invitation.
_ Sen. Russ Feingold plans to speak at a massive Labor Day rally in Wisconsin. Just not when President Barack Obama will be there. Schedules show Feingold, a Democrat who faces a serious re-election challenge from Republican Ron Johnson, will be elsewhere in the state when the Democratic president speaks in Milwaukee.
Associated Press writers Tim Martin in Lansing, Mich., Norma Love in Concord, N.H., Roger Alford in Frankfort, Ky., and Judy Lin in Sacramento, Calif., contributed to this report.


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iOS Officially Lost Its Manhood. RIP Forreal This Time. "Hackulous Shuts Down."
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|class of '05 - away - #1
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What else can you do with iOS now? Damn... Anti piracy moment hitting ios.
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SO now that Hackulous is gone, how much longer will it be before cydia is sacked?
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yall gon be maddddd,
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Which if they were in some legal jam they probably did already. The next major iOS update probably wont see hacked apps for a min. A lot of the iOS hackers/modders have moved on, the glory of jailbreaking an iphone just isnt there anymore. Ask geoh0t. lol. n*gga hasnt fuked with iOS in like a year. Its a pointless journey, you spend months coding for apps, then a update is pushed you gotta recode. Apple drops these small updates that basically break apps. Its gay.
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and for sale.
Side note, hacking iOS is fuking gay as hell. Yall never wondered why it takes so long to get unlocks, and jailbreaks now. The community is dead as fuk, too many small patches that k!ll your progress before you even drop the fix.
I dont wanna say it, cause i got a ipad. But i think we are looking at the end of hacked apps on iOS. Cydia is kinda dead now, no one is making apps like they used to, and to have to recode appsync next update would take a long a.ss time.
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Cydia fu*ked itself over, though, by doing the same thing it built its reputation on. It wanted to be open source, but that whole network needs to be refined and scaled bac. There's just too much stuff on there, and too much of that is pointless. And too many tweaks and modifications that conflict with one another and eventually force you to restore.
There are thing I miss like SBSettings and AnyAttach for email that let me get into my Dropbox. But I'm happier without the jailbreak headache. Otherwise, this is also a testament to the improvements in iOS that more people feel comfortable not jailbreaking. I use my GS3 to satisfy my tweaking itch, because Android needs to be adjusted more than an iPhone to actually be usable.
As for Installous, it was the truth when I had an iPhone 3GS. I stopped messing with it years ago because download services sucked, it would be too slow or crash altogether. It wasn't worth my time to DL from there, so I just bought things outright.
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|class of '05 - away - #10
Apple pushed coders away from the os, which is bad. Geoh0t the coder who invented jb gave up during 5.0, not encouraging.
Cant even get a untethered JB like you used to. No one wants to put hours in the make it happen, and get a patch in the morning.
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According to TorrentFreak, the explanation is a bit dubious; the site still had plenty of users and the forums were already a "ghost town" by their very nature. It could be the case that the lack of a jailbreak for iOS 6, and potentially all versions of iOS to follow, was leaving Hackulous with little to do. Whatever the case, Hackulous is no more, and that particular piracy corner of the jailbreak world is probably gone for good.
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I stopped messing with Cydia with the 3G.
Android just seemed to be a better alternative in that regards. Actually, a better operating system for that kind of stuff.
Even piracy is better on Android. So if you didn't jump ship already, you're poor as sh*t and don't need to own an expensive phone.
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Hackulous Appsync = engine
Those apps = the fuking doors on the car.
Anyone can make a DB and throw up some putlocker links.
But hacking each release for appsync takes work.
iOS hacking could come to an end. :(
The communities that make apps like cydia work are dried up. Its not one nicca in his basement, its a collaboration of coders with their source code. Imagine if your a coder and 2-3 of your n*ggas are like "yo im done coding for iOS, shiit is a waste of time..." obviously dudes are not gonna want to be the only dik head trying to pull mad weight coding by himself, for free, no recognition, and your efforts will probably be patched in a month or two.
Apple should allow more play with their OS, i dont think allowing pirates openingly is right. BUT allow coding communities to have fun, make their own apps, addons, attachments. Cause in a couple months if a patch comes, appsync is broken. If no community is there to fix it, what happens then?
You basically have a very boring iOS. You user base is going to be less technically inclined individuals, old people, and preteens who play these stupid baby games on the appstore.
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|class of '05 - away - #18
Happy New year people... Old people and preteens being the main user of your device = no real innovation coming in from the tech community. Thats a shiity life to lifeee wit iOS.
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Hope BX users can band together and form a coding group to hack the next build.


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Monkees Tour: Band Announces First Concert Run Since Davy Jones' Death
08/08/2012 04:26 pm ET | Updated Oct 08, 2012
NEW YORK — The Monkees will perform their first live shows since star Davy Jones died in February.
Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, and Peter Tork announced Wednesday that the group will launch a 12-date U.S. tour in November. It's the band's first tour since 1997.
Jones died of a heart attack on Feb. 29 at age 66.
The group starred in its own NBC television show in 1966 as a made-for-TV band seeking to capitalize on Beatlemania sweeping the world. Jones rocketed to the top of the music charts with The Monkees, captivating audiences with hits including "Daydream Believer" and "I'm a Believer."
The tour kicks off Nov. 8 in Escondido, Calif. It wraps on Dec. 2 in New York. It will highlight Jones "in the show's multimedia content."
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I am 33yrs old and almost 17 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child (I have a healthy & beautiful almost 3yr old daughter). After having the quad screen done and having "abnormal/postive" results for possible DS with my daughter I told myself that I would not take that test again. After waiting 1 1/2 months to have a Level II ultrasound we were told there were no soft markers for DS and that an amnio an option, but not recommended. We opted out of doing the amnio. Needless to say I ended up having the quad screen done again with this preganancy and received a call from my OB that it came back "abnormal/postive" again. She told me that this time, my odds of DS are 1:10. With my daughter the odds were something like 1:80. I can't get in to have the Level II ultrasound until 12/02 and I am scheduled to have an amnio done right after the ultrasound. I have been reading these posts and any other posts I can find on every possible site to try to find some comfort. I was able to speak to an RN at the maternal/fetal medicine center I am going to on 12/02 and she said that she sees numbers like this all of the time and mostly the babies end up being totally healthy. I am terrifed and feel like I am going to have a nervous breakdown. My close friends and family keep telling me not to worry b/c I already had the false positive with my first pregnancy but nobody really knows what kind of torture this is, I keep breakind down into tears and I have next to no patience with my poor daughter. Has anyone been told they have 1:10 odds of DS from the quad screen and found out that everything is fine and healthy?Ā
Abnormal Quad Screen Results (Possible Downs Syndrome)
Good luck!! :)
Try the amnio support board, too.┬Ā There are lots of moms there who have had simlilar or higher odds and found out through amnio or birth that their babies do not have DS.
There are also moms with much lower odds that do turn out to be the "1".┬Ā
It's impossible to know either way without invasive testing or birth.
I've gone through this terrible anxiety twice now in 2 pregnancies, one w/ amnio, the other w/ CVS.┬Ā I've had a clear result with the amnio--my miracle toddler--┬Āand a confirmation w/ CVS w/ my last baby┬Ā.┬Ā
There is just nothing like the horrible,dark, difficult time of waiting for answers.┬Ā I am very sorry you find yourself in this position, especially over the Thanksgiving holiday.
If you are curious about parenting a child w/ DS, you might want to check out the DS pregnancy and DS boards.┬Ā Lots of info and pictures.┬Ā The GO's are wonderful.┬Ā
If you know you may not want to continue the pregnancy, the Termination for Medical Reasons board offers unconditional, non-judgmental support.┬Ā The Go there is also great.
~ thinking of you and hoping very hard for you
Thank you to both of you for your responses. I have checked out the amnio support board too and have found it helpful. I am sure that I won't feel 100% relaxed about this until I have my US and amnio... Thank you again.
I received a 1:5 chance based on my bloodwork. ┬ĀI went through 5 months of tourture (I chose not to have an amnio). My son, Max was born perfectly fine!!!! Good luck!
@ trish0624- Did you have a level II ultrasound done? I am curious that if you did, did they see any soft markers? I am so happy to hear that your son turned out perfectly fine! That is wonderful news! Thank you for your response.┬Ā
I am with you ladies!!!!!┬Ā Received a positive quad screen for ds and began sobbing immediately.┬Ā Researched that night and called back the next day to get my ratio.┬Ā It was 1:85.┬Ā It took two weeks to get me in with the specialist for a level 2 ultrasound.┬Ā Thank God there were no soft markers reducing her chance to 1%.┬Ā I know the only way of knowing for sure was to have an amnio, but I just could not live with it if I lost her due to my need to know.┬Ā The reassurance that she did not have major defects is enough for me for now.┬Ā There was another lady on here who had the same scenario that I have and her child was born with ds, but I will worry about that if it happens.┬Ā For now I draw strength from God and people who just let me talk about it.┬Ā I don't talk about it with my husband as he is convinced all is well.┬Ā Best of luck to you!!!!┬Ā I went through the feelings that I would have a nervous breakdown as well.┬Ā I stayed sick to my stomach.┬Ā For me, the not knowing is the worst part.┬Ā The ultrasound reassured and comforted me, so I hope that you will find the same!
We had out Level II ┬Āultrasound on Friday, No soft markers!! We did go ahead and have an amnio done (which was a strange experience) because the numbers from the quad screen were so high. We just want to be prepared if we are dealing with DS. Thank you so much for your stories ladies, these boards are the only thing that kept me sane, honestly. Nobody understands unless they have experienced it. ┬Ā
Hugs.┬Ā I know the uncertainty is difficult.┬Ā We had 1:2 odds because a specific complex heart defect was confirmed at 22 weeks with our 3rd child.┬Ā We did not know at the time but found out 2 years later that she also had a hypoplastic nasal bone and crooked pinkie fingers found on the ultrasound.┬Ā We chose to do the amnio and it was positive for DS.┬Ā It was a tough time.┬Ā We were facing open-heart surgery with an infant and a lifetime of potential challenges.┬Ā At the time, I thought that was the hardest thing┬Ā I'd ever face.┬Ā My daughter was born in July of 2009 - beautiful and perfect...and yes she had Down syndrome too.┬Ā I spent 4 amazing months with her, and she changed so many people for the better.┬Ā She passed away from rare complications, two days after her open-heart surgery (not common).┬Ā Five months later, we were pg with our 4th baby.┬Ā We had automatic 1:100 odds for DS.┬Ā I had never done any screenings before but decided to do the early screen because I was curious.┬Ā I also wanted the reassurance that an ultrasound would provide.┬Ā The NT measurement was fine, but my blood testing showed a "DS pattern."┬Ā I never obtained the true odds, as the nurse made a mistake when reading the info over the phone.┬Ā Apparently, the odds were higher than 1:100, but the docs said we'd stick to those odds.┬Ā Our baby boy was born in Jan. of this year and does not have DS.┬Ā He was born with a congenital heart defect, though.┬Ā Thankfully, it resolved by 6 months and he will not need surgery.
I know the thoughts of DS can be overwhelming.┬Ā I've been there.┬Ā But knowing what I know now, I can tell you with great confidence that you would probably be surprised at how little you may really know about DS.┬Ā Even though I'd had multiple family members with DS, I did not know what it was like to parent a LO with DS. I started reading on the DS board here on BBC, and that helped so much.┬Ā I became so excited to meet my baby girl.┬Ā If God ever gives me another child with DS, I will welcome him/her with open arms.
Hugs to you.
DD(13) DD(11) DS(5) DD(2) DD in Heaven since age 4 mos (T21, AVSD) and #6 coming in August 2016!


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Americans are twice as likely to kill themselves with a gun than be murdered with a gun used by someone else.
And they are four or five times more likely to use a gun to kill themselves if they live in a gun friendly state like Alaska, Wyoming, Montana or Idaho than in a state with strict gun laws like New Jersey, New York or Connecticut.
The gun suicide rates in the three northeastern states are 1.6 per 100,000 residents in New Jersey, 2.6 in New York and 2.9 in Connecticut while the rates in the four western states range from 11 to 15 per 100,000.
These are among the findings in a study of 18,602 suicides with guns in 44 states and 9,655 murders with guns in 49 states in 2012. That's an average of 50 gun deaths by suicide and 26 by homicide every day. The study was conducted by an investigate unit of the Carnegie Corporation and the John S. Knight Foundation and reported by The Connecticut Mirror.
The study also determined firearm suicides in the 44 states made up 51 percent of all the 35,831 suicides in those states in 2012. Matthew Miller, a suicide specialist at Harvard's Injury Control Research Center, said suicide rates by gun have been higher than murder rates by other means for as long as he can remember. This is because people naturally choose a method of suicide by the method's accessibility and people with guns in their homes are more likely, therefore, to choose a gun.
Laws requiring guns to be stored securely or equipped with safety locks are common in the northeast but just about nonexistent in the far western states. The only gun control law we could find in the four western states with the highest gun suicide rates was a Wyoming law requiring non-residents to have a state permit to carry a gun, either openly or concealed. Residents do not have to have a permit.
Many in these states see any law regulating guns as a threat to their constitutional right to bear arms. The National Rifle Association has long advocated gun safety in theory but it balks at any legal attempt to require safety locks on weapons or safe storage of guns in the home as a first step toward gun control.
"Everyone knows that firearms must be stored safely but most Americans feel that it is not the government's business to dictate how people store things in their houses," according to the NRA. This view of "most Americans" was not supported by data nor by all the polls we have seen, which favor safe storage laws by healthy margins.
There are those who cite anecdotal evidence that easy access to bedside firearms has saved countless lives of innocents whose homes have been invaded by thieves and other marauders. The truth is, an accessible gun is far more likely to be used by a child or a person suffering from a buildup of depression and internal despair, than by someone defending his home and family, according to Cathy Barber, founder of a Harvard research group that studies access to various means of suicide.
Suicides are often impulsive, rather than planned. Nearly half of those who survived suicide attempts have testified they tried to kill themselves within 10 minutes of first considering it. It is, therefore, logical that these same individuals would choose the easiest means available.
"You don't want that person to have access to something that could really quickly kill them," said Ms. Barber. "You want to try to build some delay in them being able to get their hands on something that could kill them."
Stricter gun safety laws result in fewer people impulsively killing themselves with guns. Such laws are not an attack on the Second Amendment, they are sensible health policy.
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originally posted by: MerkabaMeditation
Perhaps you too will be "lucky" enough to experience this, so that you too can "brag" in internet "expert" forums and be scoffed by "the experts" that have read "600 pages" of a paper that someone else wrote and by that has such a "firm knowledge" of the subject that he/she can completly disregard 40 years of personal experience . You have no idea have you? I will ask them next time to make you a visit so you too can be so "lucky" and "special", H1ght3chHippie I will mention you.
Far fetched theory? Well, staring into your own eyes can, according to black magic, make you remember your own lives: