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CLASP Provides Model Comments on SNAP E&T Reporting Measures
By Anna Cielinski and Elizabeth Lower-Basch
Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training program (SNAP E&T), states can operate employment and training programs to serve individuals receiving SNAP nutrition assistance. Some of these programs are voluntary; others are mandatory, meaning individuals who fail to participate may lose their SNAP benefits. It has been historically difficult to assess the programs' outcomes due to lack of data. However, under the 2014 Farm Bill, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) now requires states to collect and report on participant outcomes from SNAP E&T.
On March 24, 2016, FNS issued an interim final rule regarding the SNAP E&T reporting measures. Although this rule was issued on an interim final basis, meaning it was effective immediately, FNS is accepting comments on the regulations until May 23, 2016.
In general, this is a welcome step toward better understanding SNAP E&T, its components, and the employment outcomes of its participants. However, FNS should improve the rule by capturing data to better reflect the full outcomes of the program, including the impact of mandatory participation requirements and sanctions as well as individual components within E&T programs. Further these measurements should be more closely aligned with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). CLASP's comments on the regulations are available on our website.
Feedback from workforce development practitioners and advocates, who have considerable experience with reporting outcomes, would benefit FNS. CLASP is providing model comments that organizations or individuals may use in submitting their own comments. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has also developed comments focused on the urgency of adding information on the effects of mandatory participation. We encourage you to use the model comments to make your voice heard.
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Federal Guidance Explains How the Ability to Benefit Provision Aligns with a Career Pathway
By Lauren Walizer and Judy Mortrude
The Ability to Benefit (ATB) provision in the Higher Education Act (HEA) allows low-skilled individuals to access necessary workforce training and education that can help lift them out of poverty. It does so by allowing individuals without a high school diploma or equivalent to qualify for federal financial aid for postsecondary education when they participate in an eligible career pathway. Five months ago, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 which made changes to the amount of Pell Grant for which ATB students are eligible and to the definition of career pathway used in determining eligibility for ATB. To help postsecondary institutions implement these changes, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released updated guidance last week. Individuals and organizations, like CLASP, concerned with low-skilled students' access to Title IV aid should be pleased with the results.
First, students who participate in an ATB alternative are now eligible for the full Pell award—$5,815 in the 2016-2017 award year. Formerly, ATB students were eligible for a reduced award, which created an unfair and unprecedented two-tier Pell eligibility standard.
Second, the new ATB eligible career pathway definition mirrors the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), aligning the career pathway development and implementation underway for WIOA with access to federal financial aid. The previous standard required students to be "concurrently" enrolled in both adult education and postsecondary programs, and it did not well define what could be characterized as adult education. The new definition provides that the career pathway "enables an individual to attain" a high school diploma or equivalency. This clarifies the intent of ATB to support students without a high school diploma or equivalency in both secondary and postsecondary credential attainment.
Further, in its updated Q&A document, ED clearly states that students are not required to be concurrently enrolled in both an adult education and Title IV student financial aid-eligible program, but must at least "participate in the [adult education] component" before completing the postsecondary credential (emphasis added).
ED also reiterated previous applicable guidance, including that institutions must document how their program meets each of the seven elements of the career pathway definition, how students who receive aid under ATB are eligible for such aid, and that programs do not need to obtain (and ED will have no process to undertake) formal approvals as a career pathway program. This should inspire institutions to take action, knowing there are not extensive barriers in place that limit starting up such a program.
We encourage postsecondary education officials, particularly financial aid administrators, to take notice of this guidance and consider starting your research on eligible career pathways at CLASP's ATB resource page. Since the new definition of career pathways aligns with the WIOA definition, there are likely career pathways being developed in your local area to connect with and leverage. WIOA agencies now developing such pathways should also provide information to reassure postsecondary institutions that they meet all seven elements of the "eligible career pathway" definition, which will allow individuals pursuing these pathways to obtain federal financial aid.
Two examples of adult education state initiatives illustrate how local providers are delivering programs that "enable an individual to attain a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent" and encourage innovation and partnership with postsecondary education. Both could be tailored to an ATB eligible career pathway program:
- Wisconsin's High School Equivalency Diplomas and Certificates legislation offers a menu of alternative high school credentialing processes, including the attainment of at least 24 postsecondary semester credits (Pl 5.07) or the completion of a program approved by the state superintendent (Pl 5.09).
- State of Washington's 21-Plus competency-based high school equivalency program expands existing secondary completion options with a comprehensive assessment of academic, career, and personal competencies.
With this new definition in the HEA law, it's clearer than ever that postsecondary institutions have many WIOA partners available to work with them in supporting postsecondary success of adult learners.
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Career Pathways: A Step Forward and a Potential Step Back
By Anna Cielinski and Judy Mortrude
Today, career pathways efforts around the country received another important nod from the federal government with the release of a joint Dear Colleague letter from the White House National Economic Council, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and thirteen federal agencies, all members of the Obama Administration's "Skills Working Group." The letter is intended to demonstrate the administration's continued commitment to promote career pathways, including efforts to ensure career pathways are accessible to low-skilled youth and adults. CLASP applauds the administration for bringing so many partners together to affirm and encourage the career pathways approach.
"Too often," the letter says, "our systems for preparing low-skilled youth and adults with marketable and in-demand skills can be complex and difficult to navigate…Career pathways can offer an efficient and customer-centered approach to training and education by connecting the necessary adult basic education, occupational training, postsecondary education, career and academic advising, and supportive services for students to prepare for, obtain, and progress in a career." CLASP strongly agrees that a career pathway effort that truly connects these programs and systems can help prepare low-skilled youth and adults for jobs with family-sustaining wages.
However, for these systems to work together effectively in career pathways, they should be aiming for the same or similar goals. Common performance measures across core programs in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) are a good example of aligning performance measures so programs can work together to meet participants' needs.
An important example of a shared performance measure in WIOA, the measurable skill gains indicator, holds great promise for encouraging innovative partnerships to support career pathways with braided funding from multiple programs. However, such innovative program designs would be greatly hindered by a recent proposal to restrict the types of reportable measurable skill gains that can be used by Adult Education and Family Literacy programs under Title II of WIOA. The recent Information Collection Request (ICR) issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor on WIOA Common Performance Reporting includes a detailed explanation of the five types of skill gains that can be counted toward the Measurable Skill Gain indicator:
- Achievement of at least one educational functioning level of a participant in an education program that provides instruction below the post-secondary level;
- Attainment of a high school diploma or its equivalent;
- Transcript or report card for either secondary or post-secondary education that shows a participant is achieving the state unit's academic standards;
- Satisfactory or better progress report towards established milestones from an employer/training provider who is providing training (e.g., completion of on-the-job training, completion of one year of an apprenticeship program, etc.); and,
- Successful completion of an exam that is required for a particular occupation, progress in attaining technical or occupational skills as evidenced by trade-related benchmarks such as a knowledge-based exam.
These five types of gains, however, may not be shared performance measures for all the partners in a career pathway initiative. Appendix A of the ICR indicates that Title II Adult Education and Family Literacy will be limited to only the first skill gain, "achievement of at least one educational functioning level." This restriction will limit the ability of Title II programs to effectively partner with other core WIOA programs on innovative career pathways programs and systems that have so much promise for serving low-income participants. Such partnerships would be required to perform unnecessary assessments of participants solely for the purpose of meeting the Title II program's educational functioning level gain metric, even if the success of the integrated program as a whole would be more effectively evaluated by participants' achievement of technical or occupational skill gains.
CLASP urges OMB to allow Title II to use the same common performance measures available to WIOA's other core programs to facilitate effective career pathways, and we will submit comments to that effect. OMB is accepting comments on the IRC through May 26, 2016. We encourage others to file comments on this issue.


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Like me, I think a good majority of Americans are disgusted with the polarization — without compromise — affecting congressional activities in the past few years. The blame game is now the common excuse for not getting anything substantial done in Washington.
I have never been so angered by the legislature's actions! The Governor has proposed reasonable reductions. Decimating programs all at once is destructive. We cannot grow and diversify our economy without good education, health care, marine and regular highway maintenance, public safety and assistance for people with problems. It is government's role to provide such services. I'm willing to pay an income tax and lose some of my dividend to protect public services.
My family used to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a bit of fun for the children. Even my teenage daughters got a kick out of it. I would like to share this with the readers of the Clarion so they can enjoy it also.
To the Alaskans who are concerned:
It has come to my attention that Governor Walker is requesting the support of the citizenry in helping the budget crisis by accepting a state tax on their wages as well as the use of Permanent Fund monies in whatever form necessary.
Almost daily now we are witnessing and experiencing continued erosion of our personal property rights. For decades, those of us who chose to make our homes and businesses in the borough did so because of the freedom it gave us to pursue our own lifestyles, dreams and hopes with only minimal government regulation.
The wonderful feeling I have felt since I moved from Anchorage to Kenai has been ruined. I just sold my truck and was on my way to the bank to deposit the money to pay off my credit card and have some money to live on while looking for a new job. I remember seeing the envelope in my purse while at a local business, but by the time I was done, it was no longer in my purse. It was a white bank envelope from First National Bank Alaska with $8,500 in it. Now I have no money to pay off my credit card, pay rent and eat.
The death of another snowmachiner on Saturday near the Nelchina Glacier marks the fourth Alaskan to lose their life to an avalanche this winter. Avalanche deaths are on the rise again in Alaska. Despite the technology advances in safety equipment, avalanche forecasting and the warnings to the public of extreme avalanche danger, we continue to lose Alaskans to avalanches.
Alzheimer's disease takes a devastating toll, not just on those with the disease but also on their caregivers. My father was heartbroken having to watch my mother battle Alzheimer's for 13 years until she passed away in 2010. He needed as much support as possible to care for her.
Currently, there are more than five million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease, including 6,400 Alaskans. In addition, more than 15.7 million Americans are caring for someone with Alzheimer's or another dementia, including 33,000 caregivers in Alaska.
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My name is Gary J. Turner and I have been the director/CEO of Kenai Peninsula College, a unit of the University of Alaska Anchorage for the last 14 years. KPC has two campuses (one in Homer and one in Soldotna) and two extension sites (one in Seward and one in Anchorage). We were founded in 1964 and serve approximately 2,500 students on the Kenai Peninsula and across the state via distance education.
Although Alaska is experiencing another painful trough in the oil price cycle, it is only temporary in nature and should not be used to permanently sandblast the shine off of Alaska. To go there would cause a rapid exodus of Alaska's voluntary private sector causing a Detroit-style death spiral.
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I guess how her hypoxia came about could have been cause by toxicity. How she escaped horrible injury is probably due to what we Christians call a miracle. I know as a Christian you believe in that. If you want to look at a medical reason for how she escaped horrible injury, maybe the solution given wasn't strong enough to cause severe burns or maybe she aborted faster.. before it could burn her skin. Only God knows the answer.
Gotta run and get back to work. Lunch break over, LOL! Have a nice day.
Thankyou SO MUCH for this thread. I have read her book and wept through the entire book!! It is a MUST read for anyone serious about pro life!!!
This wasn't a lie. Read her book and get the FULL story.
We may be working at cross meanings. I was criticizing Harvey's actions with regard to the Colorado legislature and not Jessen's story. I do not doubt her story in the least.
The only exception I might have is the claimed medical relationship between the attempted abortion, the lack of oxygen during birth and her cerebral palsy and she simply may be repreating what the doctors told her at the time, and some of the medical thinking has changed since then.
There is a lot of her story that is not in the above article. Could you give me a summary of the book and what it adds?
Really? If your attitude is that the only authorative sites are yours, I'm done debating with you. I feel that you're angry because you were proven to be wrong when you stated with absolute surety that it wasn't caused by lack of oxygen to the brain and I showed sites where it was.
Not only were you so sure of yourself, you went on to insult people who didn't agree with you by putting them in the same class as John Edwards. Actually, Edwards was right in this case and you weren't.
Now I can pull up as many or more sites that contradict that of Mayo Clinic which is not as highly esteemed in America as the Cleveland Clinic. To what avail? Just to have you say that yours are more authorative? I don't have time to play games.
I never stated categorically, as you are doing, one way or the other the origin of hers or anyone elses CP. Reread my post. I'm saying it's an open question, but you just can't admit any level of uncertainty can you? You're right and everyone else is wrong? Done indeed.
Reality is far more insidious. The leftist defending the slaughter of unborn alive children know damn well the children are alive in the womb; the truly sick and dirty truth is, they deem the slaughter a right of women ... that's right, the leftists defending this holocaust believe it is right to promote the wholesale slaughter because it empowers liberalism. THAT is demonic in nature, a concept the left scoffs the louder at, spitting in God's eye every time they do it yet they do it under the satanic guise of religion, with people like Revs. Barry Lynd and Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, and professional liar politicians like Al Goreghoul, and bill'pants on fire'clinton, and Dungheap Harkin, and Babs'catbox'Boxer, Ted'the swimmer'Kennedy, and ... well, the list is too long to place it all on this thread, but suffice it to say the list is mostly full of democrat party leadership, with a Specter and a Frist tossed in here and there. There is no delusion, it is willful service to evil for empowerment's sake.
LB is a (in Seinfeld's words) 'last worder', so debating isn't really the exercise with LB, getting the last word in is what it's all about. It really cannot help itself ...
Excellent guerrilla warfare against the Party of Death.
Let's do this on some other issues, too.
The article no anyone on this thread ever said if they State House went ahead and voted to honor Rocky Mountain PP's 90th anniversary of if the vote was cancelled, failed or what.
Somebody help the boy out here. I'm assuming they went ahead and voted to give the honor to the baby killers.
Earlier in this thread or through a link to another thread on this event I think the vote went 20 to 11 to commend PP-hood.
You assert something and I suggest that the situation might be not quite be that clear cut. Neither of you can stand having someone question your dogmatic hard-wired narrow-minded point of view and then have a civil discussion about the issue wih an admission the other guy might have a point.
Your problem, not mine.
p.s. If you're getting your philosophy of life from Seinfeld you might want to work on that.
**Excellent guerrilla warfare against the Party of Death.
Let's do this on some other issues, too.**
Great idea! Thanks.
Name of the book, please.
Excuse me, but "dogmatic, hard wired narrow minded point of view" brings this conversation down to a personal level. I suggest that you take ten deep breaths and calm down.
That the majority of the world knows nothing of the realities of the Christian life--and more importantly, has little or no interest and/or respect for it--yet feels more absolute freedom i.e., greater "righteous indignation"--to jump on anyone who calls themself a Christian they perceive as having stepped over the bounds of what they think they know about being a "good Christian"--in a way that NO other group is faced with is known to be a fact by anyone who has truly attempted the Christian life in the world for any length of time.
It's just part of the spiritual warfare raging all around us that for Christians to say something is wrong is bigotry, but to make generalizations about Christians being "narrow minded", "hateful", "bigots", etc, etc is somehow exempt from such immediate blanket condemnation.
For anyone to say otherwise is about a valid as a white person dismissing the claims of personal experiences of racism by a black person by telling him or her that there is no racial prejudice toward black people in this nation and they can prove it because they them self have never experienced it.
I think it is fair to say that anyone truly attempting to live the Christian life would likely agree as result of personal experience that the world (those with zero understanding of/interest in/respect for the Christian life) feel free to criticize Christians' for perceived failures like NO other group in the world.
Personally I think it is a mistake for Christians to sound as if we see ourselves in the role of standing in judgment of the behaviors of others as if we "hold yourself up as a standard of moral authority". Many of the Christians I've known do not go around doing this, yet it is common that anyone who has publicly identified himself as Christian is attacked as if by hungry jackals as if they do whenever they have some "sin" exposed.
As Christians, we are not trying to earn our salvation or even favor with God, but rather seek to live according to a higher standard to serve and to bring honor to God-- but, of course, we fight our selfish human nature and constantly fall short.
The only real "higher standard" is between us and the Lord. And, I agree, any true believer has an obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard, according to the level of our maturity in our faith, and part of Christian fellowship includes holding each other to account. But what I was referring to is the open season on Christians, which is about a valid as someone who has never even heard of baseball before being told its about using a bat to hit a ball and score runs and then being told to go and umpire a game.
Most true Christians I know acknowledge themselves as merely "sinners saved by grace", but are accused of being "self-righteous" and "giving Christianity a bad name" if we dare say we think something is wrong.
I know for myself I DO sound "righteous" sometimes, but it is generally due to a combination my own human weaknesses--I seem to somehow fall well short of the perfection of Christ every time-- as well as an at least somewhat justified indignation at hearing the same trite criticisms from those who don't have any idea what they're talking about.
This was posted several times to the News/Activism Forum, 2 weeks ago.
But it certainly has not made it to the pages of the NYT, Baltimore Sun, OpinionJournal.com, RealClearPolitics.com, or conservative talk shows.
The more times such a powerful item is posted, the better.
New readers today and every day
Great story bump!
I sometimes wonder why some feel a need to pursue truth and others are not bothered by such a nagging need, but once we acknowledge that there is such a thing as absolute, unchanging truth among the tangle of lies and illusions it is impossible to be have any level of self-respect without making an effort to live it--imperfect as our efforts will always be.
This may be one of the best examples of democRATs looking foolish since bill clinton needed a dictionary for a two letter word or the hillary "plantation" remark.
"...honoring the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains."
Something tells me they would be more reluctant to honor the anniversary of the death-penalty. But then again, the death penalty kills murderers and rapists, so the democRATs wouldn't be able to fulfill their lust for killing babies.
PS: If all the murderers and rapists got the death-penalty, there would be no more democRAT politicians.
You have smoked too many locomotive weeds.
You don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Miss Jessen is in a new 527 ad speaking about Obama's support of infanticide.
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Im sorry to here adout your mom. My sister was diagnosis 10/17/08 after two surgerys of bowl obtruction. she has the same as your mom she has under went her firts bout of chemo.Found ouy it didnt work,now on to her second bout of chemo. I dont like what i see on statistic & out come .To answer your question on asking God ask for him to bless your mother. Have you ever read the prayer of jabez? Good book


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Skip to comments.The Man-Made Peanut Allergy Epidemic, A revealing history of a medical mystery
Posted on 10/18/2009 7:34:55 PM PDT by Coleus
It is seldom recognized, commented historian René Dubos, that each society and every civilization creates its own diseases.1 Is the peanut allergy epidemic man-made? And if so, how has it been created in millions of children in just 20 years and who or what are its architects? The features of the epidemic continue to puzzle doctors.
In the US alone, 5.6 million people 2% of the population are allergic topeanuts and nuts almost all having experienced onset as toddlers. This epidemic tipped into critical mass around 1998 when the first flood of allergic children entered kindergarten sending a shock through education systems. Prevalence of the allergy increases with parental income, education and accessible health care. It does not increase with consumption. In developing countries where peanut consumption is high, the allergy is virtually unknown. In the west, children who have never eaten a peanut experience reactions on initial exposure to the food.
Immunologists claim that this allergy is an immune system abnormality. This view is contrary to that of Dr. Charles Richet, who identified and named the condition anaphylaxis in 1901. Richet proved that anaphylaxis is an inevitable side effect of vaccination. It is a universal reaction of animals to any protein injected into the bloodstream the first injection sensitizes, the second injection or subsequent consumption of the protein unleashes the life threatening reaction.
Since Richets Nobel Prize winning research, doctors have known how to create anaphylaxis using a needle. Without the invention of the convenient hypodermic needle in 1853, anaphylaxis would not have gained common currency much less become epidemic. The needle allowed doctors to deliver substances directly into the blood, by-passing the modifying effects of the digestive system. And with the introduction of compulsory vaccination for diphtheria in 1895, anaphylaxis arrived en mass. Thousands of children were made ill or died from what doctors labeled serum sickness. By 1906, the sickness was understood to be a systemic allergic reaction. Extreme sickness was characterized by anaphylaxis, swelling, shock, asphyxia and death.
Serum sickness was the first man-made mass allergic phenomenon. The historical link between vaccination and mass allergy is rarely mentioned by doctors. Health officials have several rational arguments for not discussing the subject. One is that US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program guidelines make it impossible to prove a causal link between vaccination and a later onset of anaphylaxis that is, when the toddler first eats peanut butter. The guidelines only recognize anaphylaxis that occurs shortly after injection.
The second argument was summarized by Richet himself who wrote that anaphylaxis perhaps a sorry matter for the individual, is necessary to the species .There is something more important than the salvation of the person and that is integral preservation of the race..2
And that something was protecting the whole of society from disease by vaccination a goal that justifies the unavoidable casualties. A third rationalization is economic. Vaccine consumers absorb the cost of damage. Therefore, it makes financial sense to ignore the problem which cant be proven anyway. And if litigation brought by angry parents becomes unwieldy, government will intercede with legislation to protect them as it did in 2001 and again in 2008 in the wake of a leaked report that the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosol, was contributing to the massive rise in childhood autism.3 4
The framework for disease management with the needle began as business-minded makers of pharmaceuticals well over 100 years ago met the demands of government and doctors faced with massive immigrant influx during the first industrial revolution. Competition between pharmaceutical companies fed a media soon reliant upon lucrative and unregulated medical ads. In the early 20th century, a meld of compulsory vaccination for military and civilian populations and persuasive ads quickly transformed patients into medical consumers.
Consumers more afraid of disease than the side effects of treatment embraced the tradition of vaccination. For vaccine makers, however, unwanted side effects were balanced with the cost of production. They no longer used horse blood or mouse brain the former was implicated in serum sickness and the latter was known to create encephalitis. However, an irreplaceable ingredient was vegetable oil. While cost effective and potent, oils could also be dangerous -- they easily over stimulated the immune system.
Lulled perhaps by medical advance, officials were surprised by the second mass allergic phenomenon that began in the 1930s. This was the first outbreak of food anaphylaxis in history and it was caused by just one food: cottonseed oil. Refined cottonseed oil was a primary excipient in the injected wonder drug antibiotics and in vaccines.
Well documented issues had weakened the US seed crusher industry which with dropping standards was producing contaminated oils. Protein laden cottonseed oil was found to have been distributed to pharmaceutical and food manufacturers.
The outbreak might have been investigated more thoroughly if it hadnt ended so soon. Prevalence of the allergy peaked in the late 1940s, gradually declined and then fell from the medical journals, history and memory. This decline may be attributed to a change in vaccine ingredients. After WWII, oil from cottonseed was replaced.
This replacement oil was inexpensive, tariff protected, US grown and controlled tightly by a more reliable industry infrastructure; it came from peanuts. Manufacturers improved their refining processes to remove as much of the protein as possible (although not all according to a 2008 FDA report) thus preventing now well understood allergic implications. With trace peanut protein in some vaccines, the allergy built a profile very quietly in the 1950s but grew more noticeable through the late 1960s and early 70s. The first peanut allergy study in 1974 by S.A. Bock in the US identified its growing prevalence.
Vaccine innovations in this period included genetic modifications of proteins, manipulation of molecular weights to target specific antigens and the inclusion of an adjuvant. An adjuvant provokes the immune system to create antibodies while requiring less antigen (virus/bacteria). Adjuvant 65, dubbed the immunologists dirty secret increased antibody production 13 fold although no one knew exactly why or how. This useful, cost effective black box ingredient combined refined peanut oil with aluminum. It was added to childhood vaccines in the 1960s.
Two further changes to childhood vaccines were the introduction of the influenza Hib B in 1988 that was eventually rolled into an unprecedented 5 vaccines in one needle, the PENTA. Neither parents nor family doctors questioned these changes authorized by a WHO expert committee and recommended to governments in western countries. In the documented rush to pull this formula together, it seemed to escape notice that the molecular weights of proteins in the Hib B were almost identical to those in peanut. Peanut allergy tipped quietly into epidemic between 1987 and 1994. ER records in westernized countries revealed the tip of the iceberg in the early 1990s 90% of all admissions for allergy were for peanut. The allergy hit critical mass around 1998. The tipping point came when the first massive wave of food allergic children entered the public school systems at ages 4 and 5.
Pre-school and kindergarten teachers and principals were taken by surprise5 at the sudden appearance of not one but several food allergic kids in each school, hundreds in each school board, thousands across the US, the UK, Canada and other western countries.
Allergy researchers frantic for an answer to this deadly phenomenon questioned the role skin creams with poorly refined peanut oil, levels of peanut consumption, methods of peanut preparation. They examined long-shot risk factors such as birth month, blood type, gender and race. None pointed to vaccination, a common childhood event with a proven history of creating mass anaphylaxis.
It is not without irony that in virtually every medical article on the allergy mice are made anaphylactic to peanut by injection. If vaccination is the functional mechanism by which millions of children have been sensitized to peanut why isnt every child allergic? One researcher pointed out in 2004 that Adjuvant 65 offers the advantage over mineral oil used in [other adjuvants] that it can be metabolized.
Metabolized means that the body can break down and eliminate the waste vaccine. This ability to detoxify varies between individuals and is today an enormous challenge for western children increasingly weakened by digestive imbalance. And even if one does not accept the Injection Hypothesis, the balance between fear of disease and risk of side effects has clearly shifted. Educated parents for whom official rationalizations now ring hollow are beginning to refuse vaccination.
In the wake of the Thimerosol debacle in 2000 and the ongoing celebrity endorsed media campaign (generationrescue.org) which insists that vaccination causes autism, vaccine makers have been quietly phasing out the use of mercury in vaccines used in the west.
Stocked batches of these vaccines have been shipped to China and other Asian and African countries where they have been administered to children, populations of new medical consumers. In China, where peanut consumption is high, the allergy was virtually unknown in 2001.6 Recent studies in 2008 and 2009 indicate that peanut allergy is on the rise in Chinese and Singaporean children.7
Heather A. Fraser Toronto, Ontario firstname.lastname@example.com 416-466-0303
1 Reneé Dubos, The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias (New York, 1961) p. 71.
2 Charles Richet, Acceptance Lecture, Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1913.
3 Defense of vaccine damage is explicit in the transcript of famed 2000 Simpsonwood conference in which 48 government bodies and vaccine makers discuss a report linking mercury in vaccines to autism. This transcript was reviewed by R.F. Kennedy Jr., Deadly Immunity, Rolling Stone Magazine (June 20, 2005).
4 Anon, The Man Behind the Vaccine Mystery, CBS Evening News, Washington, Dec. 12, 2002. www.cbsnews.com In a post 9-11 world, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist stated, vaccine makers must be free from lawsuits so that they can protect Americans from bio-terrorist attacks.
5 Wendy Harris, Abnormal Response to Normal Things, Professionally Speaking Magazine, Ontario College of Teachers, Sept. 2000.
6 K. Beyer K, et al. Effects of cooking methods on peanut allergenicity, J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2001 Jun;107(6):1077-81.
7 Europrevall.org and Chiang Wen Chin, Food Allergy in Singapore, SingHealth.com (2009)
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"...and again in 2008 in the wake of a leaked report that the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosol, was contributing to the massive rise in childhood autism."
This is not true. A lie repeated a bunch of times is still a lie.
Makes you go hmmmmmmm. Ping.
D*mn "Carter Berries"!
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Is this another one of those tinfoil hat vaccine conspiracy nutballs?
Because we all know TB, whooping cough, measles, rubella, etc. are much much better than them suspicious gummit-run needle thingies.
There was allergy and anaphylaxis prior to 1901 (the 1901 experiment that named anaphylaxis involved injecting dogs with sea nettle venom). That was when someone wrote it up, but that does not mean it started then any more than the "ozone hole" was "created" in 1973.
It's pretty rare, and did not seem to become prevalent until there was a growing sense of entitlement in the USA helped by lawyers. Parents forcing schools to become peanut-free made the news and the concept spread, so there was a need to track prevalence in the population.
BTW the first report of human death by anaphylaxis involved green beans, not peanut. Anaphylactic death from insect stings certainly happened prior to 1901.
What in the world have the molecular weights to do with anything? It's the proteins' structure that determines reactions, not their weights.
I mean, carbon monoxide has the same molecular weight as nitrogen, but if the atmosphere we breathed was 78% carbon monoxide, we'd be really really dead.
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This is nutty.
I don't think it's appropriate to bring up scientific points on a thread of this nature.
Is it to increase the number of human beings who thrive on this blessed planet, and to increase the resources available to them and their progeny so that they may awake every morning and express genuine thanks to their Creator for their bounty?
Or is it to decrease the number of human beings, period, so that a healthy ruling class can emerge unscathed from a parched and barren landscape of dying and diseased paupers who question, every night, the reason for waking up in the morning except to receieve crumbs from their masters ample table?
Juss askin'...
More from the anti vaccination kooks. Albeit thinly disguised.
1989 : (ALAR SCARE -- See FENTON COMMUNICATIONS, NRDC, WWW) One of Fenton's most publicized achievements was his 1989 attack against the producers of Alar, a preservative used in apples that he erroneously reported as carcinogenic. The misinformation Fenton fed to the news media triggered mass hysteria and caused the apple industry to lose over $200 million in revenue. Later, in a memo uncovered by the Wall Street Journal, Fenton bragged, "We designed [the campaign against Alar] so that revenue would flow back to the Natural Resources Defense Council from the public." The Natural Resources Defense Council was another of Fenton's primary clients. --------This profile [of David Fenton] was adapted from the article titled "Peaceful Tomorrows, Leftists Todays," written by Thomas Ryan and published by FrontPageMagazine.com on March 17, 2004.
1989 : (DAIRY INDUSTRY HORMONE SCARE-- See FENTON COMMUNICATIONS, BEN & JERRY'S) Since 1989, Fenton and his company, Fenton Communications, has been largely preoccupied with creating media strategies for left-wing groups, including one of his primary clients, Environmental Media Services. Its anti-biogenetic message, which claims that genetically engineered foods are dangerous to eat, has made millions of dollars for Fenton's clients, which include such health food producers as: Whole Foods Markets, Honest Tea, Kashi Cereal, Green Mountain Coffee, and Rodale Press, a magazine publisher of periodicals concerning organic gardening and foods.
This approach has also worked for ice cream producers Ben & Jerry's, another client of Fenton's. Starting with a series of press conferences in the late 1990s, Environmental Media Services promoted the idea that a hormone given to dairy cows to produce milk could cause cancer, despite the fact that the FDA had shown the hormone to be safe. Ben & Jerry's ice cream stood to gain from the bad press aimed at the dairy industry because their ice cream is made with hormone-free milk. --------This profile [of David Fenton] was adapted from the article titled "Peaceful Tomorrows, Leftists Todays," written by Thomas Ryan and published by FrontPageMagazine.com on March 17, 2004.
And more recently :
JUNE 2009 : (STATS REPORT ON BPA FEARMONGERING----- See FENTON COMMUNICATIONS {See DAVID FENTON [See WEATHER UNDERGROUND, SANDINISTAS, MPLA, GRENADA'S MAURICE BISHOP, FMLN, WHITE PANTHERS, MOVEON.ORG, HEINZ FOUNDATION, PEACEFUL TOMORROWS, ... ]}) Last month [June] , the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization affiliated with George Mason University, released "Science Suppressed: How America became obsessed with BPA," a report which accuses the media "of ignoring the extensive research of respected scientists and major health agencies in the United States and around the world, which found BPA was not only safe but played an important role in ensuring food safety." It also confirms what countless previous studies have said; BPA is safe.
If you're unfamiliar with Bisphenol A (BPA), it is a chemical used to make lightweight, versatile, durable, high-performance plastics. It's also one of the most extensively tested products in the world. For example, as Norris Alderson, the FDA's associate commissioner for science, said just last year, "a large body of available evidence" demonstrates that products made with it are safe.
And as recently as July 15 of this year, a regulatory board in the liberal state of California, composed of seven physicians, unanimously voted that "BPA should not be covered under Proposition 65, a voter-approved measure used by regulators to identify substances that can cause birth defects, developmental or reproductive harm."
Don't trust America? The latest research by Health Canada (essentially, their FDA), demonstrated that you would have to drink 1000 liters of bottled water a day -- an amount that is literally impossible -- in order to approach the amount they deem to be the "tolerable daily intake" for the chemical bisphenol A.
Despite countless studies demonstrating that BPA is safe, reporters, environmentalists, and liberal politicians continue to make hay out of this political issue...So why is this witch hunt happening?
Until recently, this appeared to be nothing more than a typical attempt by liberals to go after business and manufacturing. But as several bloggers have recently pointed out, there appears to be a more sinister motive. You see, the radical environmental groups who fundraise off of this issue, the trial lawyers who line their pockets with class action lawsuits against BPA manufactuers, and the Democratic politicians who score political points by attacking BPA all have one thing in common: They all share the same PR guru -- David Fenton.
If the name David Fenton of Fenton Communications sounds familiar, it may be because he's the guy who invented the 'General Betray Us' ad campaign that MoveOn.org used to attack General Petreaus.
As North Dakota blogger Rob Port of the Say Anything Blog recently wrote, the one common denominator that all the anti-BPA forces share is Fenton Communications...----"Ken Blackwell: A Chemical Scare Campaign Is Good Business for Some," American Thinker ^ | July 23, 2009 | Ken Blackwell
This is certainly an interesting hypothesis. There was definitely an explosion in the number of people with peanut allergies in the decade cited in the article.
Let's hope the trial lawyers don't get any ideas.
is there.
There is a vaccine for TB???
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It's quite helpful in convincing uneducated morons on urban juries to award multi-million dollar damages against Tha Man on the flimsiest of evidence.
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Well, can we put forward another explanation for the explosion of peanut and other allergies?
I'm mainly agnostic on the whole vaccine thing in general—I'm not in the field so what do I know. Yet I do believe that pro-vaccination folks have their case dramatically undermined by pushing for vaccines against things like chickenpox where the severity is very slight, and things like HPV for young girls, a disease that can be entirely avoided almost by keeping your pants on.
Forcefully triggering an immune reaction has risks of its own. Maybe the benefits outweigh the risks for smallpox and polio. I'm not so sure in the case of chickenpox.
>>There is a vaccine for TB???
Yes, it has been available since 1921. I sure got it back when they used the "thimble" — many of my era have a little mark still.
While chickenpox maybe a minor illness in your childhood, when it comes back as shingles in adulthood there can be serious complications.
In my case I think it lead to the loss of hearing in my left ear. My first experience with shingles was on my left forehead (and subsequent concern about it getting into the left eye).
IMHO Vaccines risks to rewards have to be weighed. As does every action we make.
"Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you've had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive in nerve tissue near your spinal cord and brain. Years later, the virus may reactivate as shingles." Ref: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/shingles/DS00098
"the thimble ..."
I'm pretty sure that's from the small pox vax. I'm old enough to have one of those.
I can't speak for anyone else - but, the night I had to rush my child in to the emergency room due to a particular tree nut, was far from 'made up'.
FWIW, I absolutely recognize this as a real problem for many people. What I'm curious about is why the frequency of this problem seems to have increased. Something changed: I have no idea what.
I agree 100%. I'm immediately skeptical of the attitude "all vaccines are bad" as well as the "vaccines are perfectly safe." It's a risk analysis that should be made by parents and their doctors.
And I'm sorry to hear about your hearing loss. I thought that the risk of shingles decreased (if not was practically eliminated) if you had the chickenpox as a youngster...is that not the case?
Actually, I did not completely understand the article. But, I did find it strange in our family where no one has had food alergies - that my child popped up with a few at around 5 yo. I'm glad peanuts are fine, but I have found it odd that there are so many peanut/nut allergies as well. If someone could explain why this is, I'd love to know.
I think you got the Smallpox vaccine, not TB. Few of my generation do not have that scar as well.
Is that you, Bill? Who knew Bill Maher was a Freeper?!
Great article, thanks. Sure makes sense to me.
And a denial does not make it false, either.
I have no thoughts on this one way or the other. However, lack of proof does not mean proof of no causation.
Years ago they gave us BCG vaccinations when we went into nurses training. Nasty little thing. Created a weeping sore on our shoulders for about two weeks. I have no idea if it was useful for anything other than creating a positive skin test indicating TB "exposure" for many years.
"And a denial does not make it false, either.
I have no thoughts on this one way or the other. However, lack of proof does not mean proof of no causation."
If you read the quote that I said was not true, you'll see I was actually referring to the fact that a "report was leaked which links..." THAT was not true. There is no study (or official report of such study) that describes a link between the drug and autism. There are only opinion-based article written by the likes of Rolling Stone magazine and Jenny McCarthy. I personally don't believe the drug/autism link is true as well, but that is a secondary point which I wasn't making.
However, I understand that I wasn't very clear.
The lunch boxes were invariably based on a theme from a television show. Some of the lunchboxes I remember were of The Partridge Family, Scooby-Doo, The Archies and even Adam-12 had their own lunchbox.
Never understood why it became mandatory to prepare and serve hot lunches in the schools and install all those soda and snack machines instead of just having the kids bring their lunches from home. It took my mother maybe 10 minutes to assemble the sandwiches each morning for the three of us so I'm not buying the "working Mom" excuse either.
For the benefit of others who shared my ignorance, here is more information.
I really am sorry to get in on this one late. However, my wife and I have no allergies to speak of and we had the full compliment of vaccines, whereas my son cannot even be in the same room as peanut oil or he breaks out in hives. We discovered his allergy to peanuts when I gave him a bite of my peanut butter sandwich when he was 12 months. We took him to the ER as his airway was closing fast due to a reaction. Our children have not had vaccinations due to several anecdotal cases we know of first-hand where a kid got a shot and then developed autism.
I understand your point. That's why I said "anecdotal." I don't expect anyone else to take that as evidence, but it is my own evidence.
I am 100% sure there were TB shots, although you are probably right about that stupid thimble. I saw my childhood innoculation record and TB was on it.
But my reading says that we are now finding they were not that useful since TB appears to co-evolve with humans.
I suspect it was done in fits and starts — so maybe I was during the "on" period in California.
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As a yarncrafter, I draw inspiration from so many sources: magazines, websites, Ravelry, retail items, etc. Books are an especially valuable resource because they often feature tips and techniques in addition to the fabulous patterns. Right now, my favorite pattern book is Teeny Tiny Mochimochi by Anna Hrachevoc.
The book features so many adorable creatures, from mermaids to robots to airplanes! The patterns are written for fingering weight yarn and size 1 needles, so you end up with the cutest, tiniest projects. I used Sock-Ease and size 1 needles to make the Tiny Armadillo (pictured above), which is slightly more than an inch long, but you can really use any yarn that you like. My Tiny Cupcake and Tiny Lion were both knit with Martha Stewart Crafts Extra Soft Wool Blend and size 5 needles; you can see the difference the sizing makes! No matter how many projects I'm working on, I can always find a few minutes to whip up an adorable little knit for someone I love.
Now that I've shared my inspiration, I want to know your favorite pattern book of the moment. What do you love about it? What keeps you coming back to that particular book?
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Broomstick lace has a beautiful, open look that really shows off the character and texture of your yarn. Dating back to the 1800s, this technique creates large loops of yarn that gently twist to the left, giving the finished project especially elegant drape. For a long time I was intimidated by broomstick lace, so I wanted to share how easy it is to create this beautiful, reversible fabric!
Ready to get started? You'll need:
1. First, make a chain. For this sample I wanted to make repeats of 5, so I chained 15 stitches for 3 repeats. Draw the final chain up over the knitting needle.
2. Crochet back into the chain, drawing up a loop in each stitch and pulling it up over the knitting needle.
3. Repeat until you have drawn up a loop through every stitch in your chain and transferred them onto the knitting needle. This step creates the large loops of yarn you will see in the finished lace.
4. Slide your hook through the first group of loops (for this example that's 5 loops per repeat) and pull them off the needle. At this point, if it is easier for you to manage, you can remove the large needle from your work altogether.
5. Yarn over and pull through the group of large loops on your hook. Work one single crochet for every loop in the group on your hook (I worked 5 single crochet into the group of 5 loops). Continue this process until all the loops have been crocheted into. Note: make sure to check how many loops you have in each group to avoid accidental increases or decreases.
6. This completes your first row of broomstick lace! You can now draw loops up through each of the single crochet stitches you made in step 5, and continue to repeat steps 1-5 till your project reaches the desired length.
What new techniques have you tried that looked tricky at first? What would you tell a crafter who was nervous about trying a new craft for the first time? Leave a comment to share!
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There was a time when I did laundry and the most sorting I would do for my loads would be to separate the whites and colors. I washed everything in hot water, and threw them all into a hot dryer to dry. Needless to say, my cashmere sweater was no longer a recognizable garment. It shrunk incredibly and had multiple holes in it; that sweater was dead. Thankfully it wasn't a hand-made item, but it still hurt to lose it – so today, I'll share some tips on how to properly wash those yarn-crafted goods that you spent your precious time and energy on.
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On tomorrow's episode of YarnCraft (our radio-style podcast about the wonderful world of knitting, crocheting, and yarn), we'll be talking about projects for formals, proms, and weddings. As we enter the warmer months (at least here in the northern hemisphere), it seems like there are more parties, both indoors and out–which is why we'll be talking about purses, shawls, and even some non-traditional yarncrafting projects that you may want to tackle.
In the meantime, we often hear from customers that they've made special projects as gifts or to decorate for their own or their friends' weddings. Here are just a few fun projects that I spotted in our Customer Gallery (click on the photos to read their full stories):
|Paul created this very cool blanket for his youngest step-daughter's wedding–his own design, with a little help from his wife. He made it using Pound of Love, and you can really tell a lot of love went into this cool playing card-inspired design.
|Janice B. made an adorable little bunny bride & groom–and bridesmaid too!–based on our Cake Topper pattern. It was for a recently-married friend who loves bunnies!
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Any public coin-operated machine's cashbox which can be broken into and robbed.
We might have to smash open a piggy bank if we want malt liquor.
by Col. Dr. April 23, 2006
Piggy banking is the act of fucking a girl standing up bouncing her up and down on your dick fast like your trying to shake change out of a piggy bank.
Yeah last night Gina came over, and I gave her the old piggybank.
by minagastrostefano February 03, 2012
When you are fucking a fat chick and you place a penny up in her pussy and don't tell her about it
I gave that girl a piggy bank last night.
by JohnnyJackass January 11, 2006
When ones ass crack sticks out of the back of ones loose-fitting pants and under britches in the same manner as a plumbers crack. The reference comes from the thrilling temptation of dropping a couple of pennies down there.
I could see every hair and dingle berry in his plump piggy bank when he squatted with his back to me to pick up the quarters I threw on the floor.
by Becki February 12, 2005
1.) 50 Cent song where he disses Jadakiss, Nas and Fat Joe, among others. As known as song that's about to end 50's career once Jada and Nas fire back.
2.) Where your money goes
2.) Where your money goes
1.) 50 who? Oh, dat dude who got crushed by Nas after the "Piggy Bank" song....
2.) clickity-clank, clickity-clank/my money goes into my piggy bank
2.) clickity-clank, clickity-clank/my money goes into my piggy bank
by Clank Clickity March 02, 2005
1)To diss 3 guys using all their beats combined.
2)To ask to get shot
3)To say(In not so many words) I want a very talented rapper by the name of Jadakiss to air my ass out.
2)To ask to get shot
3)To say(In not so many words) I want a very talented rapper by the name of Jadakiss to air my ass out.
Clickity Clank, Clickity Clank, the money goes into my piggy bank.
by matt March 09, 2005
The police station in your local community.
The main place where police work.
The main place where police work.
Yo, they just arrested Jermaine and brought him to the piggy bank.
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Hours after John Edwards released a statement admitting he fathered a child with his mistress, the former North Carolina Senator arrived in Haiti.
Edwards flew in to the Port-au-Prince airport Thursday. Edwards says he was in Haiti a year ago and was touched by the people then. Edwards arrived in Haiti with a group of 25-30 people with supplies, medicine, and a group of doctors. Edwards says his plan is to figure out who needs the supplies the most and where the doctors should head. Edwards says he plans on helping in whatever way he can.
Earlier, Edwards released a statement exclusively to NBC saying he is the father of Francis Quinn Hunter, the daughter of his mistress, Rielle Hunter. Edwards also said it was wrong of him to deny being the toddler's father.
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Edwards used to be a senator from North Carolina and was the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 2004.
Edwards released a statement exclusively to NBC saying he is the father of Francis Quinn Hunter, the daughter of his mistress, Rielle Hunter. Edwards also said it was wrong of him to deny being the toddler's father.
A lawyer for Edwards spoke to NBC's Lisa Meyers in an interview that aired Thursday on the Today Show. He said Edwards is providing for Quinn financially and emotionally.
The lawyer says Edwards describes Quinn as a "beautiful and happy child." Quinn is almost two years old. When asked why Edwards waited until now to reveal his paternity, the lawyer said it was to make sure it was the right thing for Quinn and the three children of John and Elizabeth Edwards.
The report said Elizabeth Edwards learned her husband was the father of the child last summer. John Edwards' lawyer says this saga has been hardest, perhaps, on Elizabeth.
In August 2008, Edwards denied he was the father of Quinn. His lawyer said on "Today," he wasn't sure if Edwards knew he was the father at that time or not. However, he said Edwards knew that it was wrong to say it was not possible that he was Quinn's father.
The child was conceived three months after Elizabeth Edwards announced her cancer had returned and was incurable.
The report on "Today" said John and Elizabeth Edwards are separated currently. NBC says Rielle and Quinn Hunter live in Charlotte, a few hours away from where Edwards lives in Chapel Hill.
The report said Edwards is not speaking publicly right now because of the federal investigation into whether he used campaign money to pay Hunter.
There will be more coverage of Edwards on Friday morning on the "Today Show."


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A long-time favorite tool among transcoders is the Tsunami MPEG Encoder, or TMPGEnc, now owned by Pegasys in Japan. Within the video community, TMPGEnc is considered one of the highest quality transcoders available, although not necessarily one of the fastest. We used TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress with a 15-second, 1440x1080 clip supplied by Pegasys.
Unlike some other transcoders, TMPGEnc only uses CUDA for effects acceleration. The encoding process itself is currently not GPU-accelerated. You're only going to see benefits from CUDA here when the transcode process involves effects/filters such as noise reduction, sharpening, and so on. This is why you need to read the fine print before investing in acceleration technologies and the apps that use them. Make sure that not only the application you've picked but also the functions that you need from that application will deliver what you expect.
0mi1ez , 18 May 2009 16:32Good article. Very interesting. Pity you can't spell measuRing!
0Hammeh , 18 May 2009 22:17Great article!! I ran Seti@home on my GPU alone for quite a while. Although it is not a powerfull card in the slightest, a 8500GT, it still completed workunits faster than my CPU could (even more using the optimized apps). However, it has damaged my system as there are a few problems with running it. The heat generated from running the card processors at full all the time is a real pain. The fans on the lower end cards simply are not good enough to cool the cards, even if manually upping the fanspeed to 100% with RivaTuner. Secondly, if you allow it to use your GPU when you are using the computer, total utter graphic lagg even when reading webpages.
Overall, it is a good technology, still has a few bugs which need to be solved and also the lack of support for ATI cards fustrates me. I am an avid BOINC user, I crunch Rosetta@home on all of my CPU's however I now let the GPU's run idle because the problems it causes. I will probably re-enable GPU usage if I upgrade my card in the future.
0lumpy , 19 May 2009 03:40Cuda will never be suported by ati,its a Nvidia thing.
Also an 8500gt is just not powerfull enough for cuda+multitasking a pc.IMO. Hell thats a under $50.00 gpu.
0wild9 , 19 May 2009 15:53Lumpy, even an 8500 would be advantageous considering the speed hike..what's so bad about the CPU getting extra help from something that would otherwise just be displaying raster graphics or waiting for Crysis to fire up?
0wild9 , 19 May 2009 15:56Quote:AMD now has a grave challenge at its feet.
But look at AMD's platform solutions: highly integrated, highly efficient..can't say the same for Intel. I'd rather wait a bit longer for the software to be stable rather than use the GPGPU equivalent of an Intel GMA chipset trying to run GTA IV..
1cybot_x1024 , 20 May 2009 01:55wild9But look at AMD's platform solutions: highly integrated, highly efficient..can't say the same for Intel. I'd rather wait a bit longer for the software to be stable rather than use the GPGPU equivalent of an Intel GMA chipset trying to run GTA IV..
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J. J. Goldberg speaks on Israel and Palestine: Is there a way out?
In half a dozen years the Israel Defense Forces may have a cadre of commanding officers no longer answerable to the Israeli government, but to their fundamentalist rabbis back home.
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Our government bears a heavy responsibility for all these horrors; it's time to push for peace and for a humane foreign policy that puts people before profits.
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A Tennessee physician who made three bomb threats at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last year to keep his plane from leaving without...
A Tennessee physician who made three bomb threats at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last year to keep his plane from leaving without him was sentenced Friday to three years of probation and 500 hours of community service.
Kou Wei "James" Chiu, 32, of Nashville, apologized and told U.S. District Judge Richard Jones he was grateful for his good fortune and the consideration shown him by federal authorities in their recommendations for probation.
Chiu had faced up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Lang said the government recommended probation because Chiu has a "unique constellation" of qualities — including no criminal history and the ability to pay back society with medical care — that made him a candidate for the reduced sentence.
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Chiu claimed in court documents that he had failed to responsibly take his antidepressants in the days leading up to his arrest and that his "impulsive" action was connected to a "maniclike episode" brought on by fluctuating drug levels.
Bob Sheehan, a local man who said he attended the hearing on behalf of inconvenienced plane passengers and other law-abiding citizens, scoffed as the judge sentenced Chiu.
He called the punishment "a farce."
"I don't think it's very much of a deterrent," he said. "Don't make bomb threats or you might get probation."
According to court documents, Chiu admitted calling in three bomb threats in July 2007 because he had missed boarding his Northwest Airlines flight and thought he could delay it. When the first and second calls from an airport pay phone had no effect, Chiu called in a third threat, indicating there was a bomb on board the flight, he said in a November guilty plea.
The third call prompted the plane to return to the airport, and it was grounded for several hours.
Chiu was arrested after people reported hearing him at the pay phones making the threats.
When Port of Seattle police confronted Chiu and asked him if he had made the bomb threats, Chiu replied: "Regrettably, yes, I did," according to court documents.
Chiu was described in court documents filed by his attorneys as a selfless, brilliant man who worked at medical clinics for the poor and cooked meals for the homeless.
He had been on a business trip to Seattle and was headed home July 25. He missed the flight, according to statements from his travel companions, because he was late returning a rental car.
He became angry, court documents allege, when a gate attendant barred him from boarding the plane he had barely missed.
Federal prosecutors said the incident cost Northwest Airlines more than $81,000, which Chiu was ordered to pay in restitution.
The judge also indicated that all of Chiu's community-service hours would have to be fulfilled by providing free medical care to the poor and uninsured.
The judge allowed Chiu to retrieve his passport and last month released Chiu from the prohibition that kept him from riding on planes or trains.
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