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No matter what your age or skin issue, we can help you. From teenage acne to treatment for skin-aging issues, eliminating dandruff to dealing with skin cancer, our board-certified dermatologist and experienced staff can help make sure your skin stays healthy.
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Has the game been open in your browser the entire time? If so, and if you don't lose connection at all, you'll need to click the home tab and get your daily chest. If that's not appearing ever, post in the bug report thread or pm kingk about it.
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Disable any popup blockers. If you have Google toolbar installed you need to temporarily disable it
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Click the link to connect to the server
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You then may recieve a warning that you need to install an "ActiveX" control. Basically we need to install a set of instructions on your browser telling it what to do with the information we're going to be sending. If you want to view the webcams you need to install this. it can take a few minutes to install. Follow the prompts. I can't give you a screenshot as every one of my computers has the control already installed and I no longer get this warning message.
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Eventually after control is installed a dialog box will open asking you to enter some information. The only info you need to enter is:-
PORT ... enter 6100
Username ... enter guest (all lower case)
Password ... enter 9999
and then you need to click on MODIFY. If you miss this part out you won't be able to connect
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December 27th, 2013 - 10:28pm
Port Angeles outscored Burlington-Edison 18-7 in the last period to beat the Tigers, 43-40 in Burlington Friday.
Trailing 33-25 at the end of the third period, the Rider clamped down the Tiger offense with a pressing zone defense and, led by guard Krysta Johnson with 3 steals, battled back to get the win.
The Riders took a 34-33 lead with 5:12 left on a Johnson steal and Maddie Hinrichs layin. After a Tiger basket, Maddie Boe hit, then Nizhoni Wheeler dropped a two. Kylee Jeffers sealed the win with two free throws with 13.8 seconds left and the Tigers missed three long range attempts to tie the game.
Hinrichs had 12, Boe 11 for the Riders. PA goes to Bonny Lake Monday for a 3:15 game.
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Hello and welcome to Week #13 of our 52 Weeks of Blog Community Project. As you can tell from the title of this post, this week's task is all about choosing best posts of the month.
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2. Share the link in the comment section below. You can also tell us why you like it best.
3. Send some love to the commenter before you either by Tweeting about their favourite URL, Stumbling it, Leaving a comment, Blogging about it, etc. You can also do all, if you wish. But, just one way of sending some love is enough.
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Also, please note that this is the first task for Month #4. Tasks/Weeks inclusive for Month 4: Week #s 13 – 16.
Prizes for our fourth monthly virtual party? 1) $30 Winner's Choice Award (via Paypal) and 2) A copy of a brand new gocco print (still to be created/announced)
Anyway, thanks again to everyone who participated in last week's task (Give a Blog Star Award) –
- Em Dy, who gave a star to Toni of Wifely Steps
- Toni, who gave a star to Meredith Matthews of Lemonade Stand
- Jami, who gave stars to Mythbuster Beauty, Cheap but not Easy, and Life Candy in her post.
- Jen Hill awarded stars to Bionic Beauty, Fried Green Madness, and Grammah Hansen in her post.
- Nenette awarded these stars to Bionic Beauty, Mrs Mogul and April's CR Diary in her post.
I'm adding Nicola, who shared a Blog Star Award too – but didn't get included immediately 'cause her comment was stuck in the spam section. Yikes. Anyway, comments recovered – she's now part of this week's task too. And, yeah – it was a shock to see that she awarded me with a Star. Thanks, Nicola! Didn't really expect one. I do appreciate the kind words, though. Thank you!
I'll be updating the Blog Star Awards page soon to reflect our Batch 2 Awardees. Congratulations to all!
And yes – we're holding our 3rd Virtual Party on the 11th of April! So, mark the date and check who will win the customised art journal and b5 gear.


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The diagnosis of toxoplasmosis is typically made by serologic testing. A test that measures immunoglobulin G (IgG) is used to determine if a person has been infected. If it is necessary to try to estimate the time of infection, which is of particular importance for pregnant women, a test which measures immunoglobulin M (IgM) is also used along with other tests such as an avidity test.
Diagnosis can be made by direct observation of the parasite in stained tissue sections, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), or other biopsy material. These techniques are used less frequently because of the difficulty of obtaining these specimens.
Parasites can also be isolated from blood or other body fluids (for example, CSF) but this process can be difficult and requires considerable time.
Molecular techniques that can detect the parasite's DNA in the amniotic fluid can be useful in cases of possible mother-to-child (congenital) transmission.
Ocular disease is diagnosed based on the appearance of the lesions in the eye, symptoms, course of disease, and often serologic testing.
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In most cases, Printing Services prefers to scan all photos and line-art graphics in house that are to appear in pieces that we are to print. This way, we can make sure our customers receive the highest and most consistent quality in their printed pieces. This also gives Printing Services more control over a critical aspect of printing in which we are judged by the audience, whether we scan the images or not. This tutorial is for those customers who insist on scanning their own photos and artwork, and for those who are just interested in the process. This tutorial also includes information about scanning for other purposes besides printing such as WEB publishing.
The following information and guidelines are intended to allow someone to get the maximum quality from a given scanner. This is not to say that the quality is going to be adequate for printing. Whether or not a given scanner has high enough pixel and/or color or tonal resolution has to be determined for each particular job. These guidelines should help in making these determinations. If there are any doubts that a given scanner can do the job, it is strongly advised to let Printing Services do the scanning for printing purposes and that the scanner in question just be used to produce images used to convey positioning and cropping information only. Printing Services has a CD-ROM burner that can be used for saving high resolution photos and giving the CD back to the customer, so they can be cropped and placed into their layout packages. This provides a streamlined way to process and handle photographs, eliminating the need for FPO scanning by the customer. (Why scan it twice?)
Types of Scanning
While Printing Services is mainly concerned about scanning issues that involve the conventional printing process, our customers may need to scan images for a variety of needs. They will commonly include
- scanning for half-tone images to be printed,
- line-art images to be printed, but can include
- scanning for alternate printing methods such as color copier reproduction,
- scanning for presentation slide manufacturing, or
- scanning for computer screen presentation for use in programs or WEB pages.
Each final output method requires its own consideration. This tutorial will discuss each of the different output methods and considerations going into the scanning process for each.
Scanning Halftones for Printing
The most common question about scanning photos for halftone reproduction concern the resolution of the scan or PPI (Pixels Per Inch.) Determining the appropriate resolution for your scan involves three factors; the size of the original, the size of the final image, and the line-screen frequency at which it will be printed. Before we look at these factors in more detail, let us look at the basic process of taking a photo or slide and producing a printed image from it.
Greyscale Scanning: Continuous VS Halftone
Most source photography enters the DTP arena as a photographic print or as a slide or negative. These are all called continuous tone images. Unless you looked at these images through a microscope, you can not see the picture elements that make up the image.
Tone Image (photographic print or slide):
No pixilation, no tonal stepping, and no resolution.
To the naked eye there is no pixilation or tonal stepping visible in a continuous tone image. It appears to be continuous in tonal range and image resolution. If you did look at a continuous tone image under a microscope, then you would see that they too are not truly continuous. It is just that the grain of a continuous tone image is too fine to detect with the naked eye. Since the printing process can come nowhere near this resolution, and since images are printed using a monotonic ink, namely black, a "trick" has been devised for printing these images so they appear to have a tonal range, but you don't need a microscope, or usually even a magnifying glass to see that a printed photo, or halftone, is made up of discrete picture elements called halftone dots. These dots vary in size according to the relative tonal value in the source continuous tone image. The darker the area on the photo, the larger the halftone dot. This "trick" has been employed by the printing industry for a long time, and is only now beginning to be challenged by a new process (possible with computer image processing) called stochastic screening.
Pixilation determined by resolution (PPI), maximum 256 gray levels.
Before computers and DTP, image resolution was not an issue. Since each image scanned into a computer has to have a resolution, we now have to understand how image resolution relates to halftone screen frequency. This relationship is also tied to the resolution of the output device used to create plates, which are used to print the piece. The crux of these relationships is in the plate production. The plate is in some ways an intermediate final product in the printing process. What is on the plate is what will be on the printed piece. To understand the required resolution you need to scan your images at, you have to know how these halftone dots are created on plates.
Halftone Dots on Modern Imagesetters
Let us look at an individual halftone dot and see how it is constructed on an imagesetter. Each halftone dot is constructed from smaller dots known as imagesetter device dots which are arranged in a grid. A typical resolution for an imagesetter is 2400 DPI (Dots Per Inch.) Most imagesetters are driven by a language called Postscript. Postscript has routines that construct these halftone dots. These routines are designed to create a maximum of 256 different sized halftone dots. So the maximum number of tonal values possible on a Postscript device using halftone dot production is 256. Since each halftone dot is produced in a grid of device dots, to get the maximum number of grey levels, or different sized halftone dots, there should be 256 cells in the halftone dot grid. Since the grid is square and the total number of cells should be 256, it should be 16 by 16 device dots large (16 * 16 equals 256.) If we divide 2400 by 16, we get 150. This means there can be as many as 150 halftone dots per inch and still be able to get 256 greylevels per dot.
|Halftone Image:
|Size of halftone dots determined by Line-screen frequency (LPI), maximum 256 gray levels.
|Typical halftone dot construction (16 by 16 grid allowing 256 different dot sizes.)
Bitmapped Graphics
In contrast to greyscale images are bitmapped, black and white images. You still have the same structure for the image as with a greyscale image, but each pixel is either black or white, not one of 256 tonal values. Typically, your resolution for a bitmapped image needs to be much higher than for a grayscale image. See the table below.
|Typical settings for scanned images
|DPI of Imagesetter = 600
|Image Type
|LPI of Halftone
|PPI of Scanned Image
|Bitmapped (Black and White)
|Not Applicable
|DPI of Imagesetter = 2400
|Image Type
|LPI of Halftone
|PPI of Scanned Image
|Bitmapped (Black and White)
|Not Applicable
The reason that bitmapped images need to be a higher resolution than greyscale images is because when they print on the imagesetter, you get just what you scanned. A greyscale image, on the other hand, goes through a halftone algorithm and your PPI needs only be 1.5 times your LPI.
So typically, you want to scan your greyscale images in so that the image will be 225 PPI after any resizing or cropping is done. The best way to accomplish this is to scan the original image at the optical resolution of your scanner. Then, you can set the size and cropping information in a program like Photoshop. Photoshop will do a much better job of changing the image size and resolution than the scanner software that comes with desktop scanners.


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Taking everything out of a backpack, flipping it inside out, putting the books back, and then zipping it back up. Usually done when a friend goes to the restroom during class or leaves their backpack while they go to buy food. This can also be done by stuffing the backpack into the small pouch it has in the front and zipping it up.
We burritoed Marla's backpack before she got back from the restroom.
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The skill of being a dumbass and smarting off to a kid eating a chili and cheese burrito, then having the kid throw that burrito at you and having it explode on your back and go all over you and your truck.
Getting hit by a burrito.
Getting hit by a burrito.
Brandon got burritoed by the kids in the probe cause he pissed them off.
He crow-hopped for extra power as he burritoed Brandon.
He crow-hopped for extra power as he burritoed Brandon.
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IT'S WAR! Jamba Juice, home of the Diabetes Smoothie, is having a special freebie event giving out breakfast mush or something like that. Which store will you abandon your job for next Tuesday?
noon too late for breakfast mush.
I'm a diabetic. I thought WOW a diabetic smoothie!! I never thought I was gullible… more dreams dashed soon.
@Juggernaut: Me too! I was so excited, then I clicked through and… disappointment…
coffee at work is free
Hey everybody! Come to my house April 8th, at 9am PST/ 12pm EST for a special surprise!!
isn't jamba juice owned by starbucks?
i'm pretty sure dudes.
A pal that works at Starbux told me what the "big event" is. Honestly, it isn't really that big a deal.
Both, if I feel like it. The Jamba Juice is two shops down from Starbucks. Jamba Juice announced this around March 30, so Starbucks is trying to steal the show. I think Jamba is going to win this corporate show down. I wouldn't drink Starbucks normal coffee blends if they gave me a lifetime pass. It tastes like crap and gives me a stomach ache all morning. It's unbelievable that a coffee company can sell coffee that bad.
"Starbucks and its sister company, Jamba Juice, transformed from little more than ideas to major forces in isle retailing."
here's the source:
@ptkdude: I wonder if the coffee/juice war of 08 will give executives who survived the 80s soda wars flashbacks.
@B: They can do those blind taste tests to see how many people can tell the difference between Starbucks "coffee" and Jamba Juice smoothies.
@B: I know what side I prefer in this war, coffee, because it can upscale standard DVDs…
FYI it is *not* eating too much sugar that makes you diabetic. It's being overweight (especially around the stomach), which is related to overall caloric intake and physical activity. This is an old wives' tale that people continue to believe. (However, once someone is diabetic they have to lay off the sugar since their body can't adequately control rises in blood sugar.)
The breakfast mush I guess is supposed to compare to your basic parfait of which I am a big fan of (especially Starbuck's).
I tried one of the Jamba one's earlier this week. Let's just say I won't be doing that again.
Ruh Roh – there's a Starbucks and a Jamba Juice next door to each other in my 'hood. With a bookstore in-between. Guess it's up to them to keep the piece when the two get all Sharks vs Jets with all that shivving and stuff.
It's okay. Nobody in their right mind messes w/ librarian types.
Or, lives to tell the tale.
And somehow, I live in the only town in America that has neither.
Starbucks in a walkover, as the nearest Jamba Juice is (checks) huh, New Haven? At least that was the idea… anyone know if it ever opened up in the Yale bookstore?
Hmm, considering that I'm in Baltimore, and the nearest Jamba Juice is 40 miles away in a DC suburb, I don't think I'll be going there. And given the hassle of leaving work, driving to starbucks, waiting in a long line, and then driving back to work and trying to find a parking space, I don't think I'll be going there either.
warm diet pepsi from my cubical, here I come!
@truthie: Really, an old wives' tale? I thought it based on the well-researched and understood phenomena called insulin resistance.
@truthie: You Fail.
Starbucks and Jamba Juice are close partners, not competition. In fact, many jamba and starbucks locations are owned by the same people.
@BugMeNot2: So what is the big event? Tell us.
@truthie: You know, if you gotta get fat, you gotta get fat somehow. And that somehow is by eating too much. Most of what people eat too much of is sugar and refined carbs. Having observed how our eating habits have changed in the past 30 years or so, the big change is the huge increase in sugar consumption. People got plenty of grease in the 1960s, but they didn't drink nearly as many Pepsis.
God I miss Zuka Juice. A lot better than the nasty tasting "healthy" crap that Jamba sells. No thank you, I don't want fresh cut grass in my SMOOTHIE. I want fruit, I want milk, And I want Sugar!
My mouth still waters when I think about Zuka's Pumpkin Smoothie… even though it was almost ten years ago.


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text: First I want to say Hi to everyone out there and how happy I am that I've found this forum! Then I come to the part I don't like that much: Presenting myself. It is not that I don't like talking about myself or so, but everytime I have to, I don't know where to start and where to end. So I'm going to try my best not to talk to much and not to talk too little. If you have any questions after my presentation, feel free to ask First, the basic data: I am female, 22 years old and from germany. I am studying German (semester 6) and Protestant theology (semester 3) and in the remaining time I am working as a cashier (2-3 days per week). I live in a house, together with my grandparents, my mother and all my pets. It is very nice most of the time, but not easy. My grandparents have incipient Alzheimers and I have to care for them, even if they are sometimes really annoying. My mother is living with us 3-4 days per week and over the weekend she stays at her fiancés house. So at the weekend I am mostly alone in our flat (second floor) and my grandparents are in their flat (first floor). Beside the days, when my mothers fiancé is staying at our place. I like to be alone at weekend, so I can do whatever I want. But I like it, too, when my mum and her fiancé are staying at our place, because he is for me like a father and I like him a lot! But there are so much problems in this situation, too. I have a little sister who is suffering from multiple sclerosis since 4 years. And two weeks ago, my mother was diagnosed with it, too. My stepfather has a problem with his heart and my grandma has had two strokes. So I love my studies, I love my job and I love my family, but the last month have been hard for me. I really don't want to have a moan but I need to talk about this. I am suffering from borderline personality disorder and self harm since nearly ten years now. I had two psychotherapies and have made great progress. But since three month I am suffering from depression and now I am in therapy again, which is really, really helpful for me!! Together with my therapist I am working on stabilizing my life, my behaviours and my surrounding. Therefore I first had to recognize, how many lovely and helpful people I have around me. I got to know that I have some real great friends and the best colleagues one can have. So now there are around ten people who know about my problems and who are there for me, day and night! I love them so much! After this step, I was told to make goals in life and to get some routine. My first goal is something I dreamed of for years: I want to become a dancer. I want to compete in ballroom dance. I have had two dancing classes (one with 15 and one with 20) and now I am starting my third one, together with my older brother. Hopefully, we will have our first competition in a few months And the second goal, which will hopefully give me some routine, is why I am here: I want to do sports more often and regularly and lose a few kilograms, too. Because of my depression and the stress I had during the last months, I have disregarded my body, my weight and my fitness. I ate too much junk food and sweets and haven't done any sports. The plan is to go back to a structured and healthy nutrition (I am a vegetarian and trying to life as much vegan as I am able to!) and to a fitness routine! I hope that I will find much support here and maybe even new friends If there are now any questions please just ask! I am looking forward to your comments and I am just happy to be here!


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The hypocritical distance between the idea of France and the reality of France the Nation creates the dangerous illusion that French ideals of liberty and equality and French Nationalism can be one and the same.
I learned about the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris just 24 minutes after it occurred – when in media terms it was still just a "Breaking News Headline", and not yet a "story." The vague word "casualties" had not yet been replaced with the more detailed and horribly final "12 confirmed dead, more injured."
By the early evening, photos were flooding my twitter and facebook feed of people meeting in towns and cities all over France to show solidarity against the killings. At first it didn't occur to me that I could go take part; I have grown so used to seeing pictures from various protests – whether it was Occupy awhile back, or more recently protests against police violence that I could only take part in spirit as they were half a world away. It took me a moment to realize that I could leave my home and head to the center of town to join in.
I learned the Mayor of Bayonne planned a small ceremony at 6:30 PM in front of the Hotel de Ville. It already was 6:45 PM, but I rushed out of the house anyway, feeling like it was important for some reason be there.
In truth I admit that I was propelled to the center of town for several reasons, some more noble, some just very human. On the one hand, as a writer and a journalist and a Californian, I deeply cherish the idea of freedom of speech, the idea that we should feel at least physically safe to express our ideas and opinions even if they are controversial, tendentious, or offensive. Satire is such a fundamental part of this freedom – the right to joke about society, politics, culture, religion – to knock the powerful down a bit via the amazingly undermining power of laughter. Criticism of the expressed opinion of others is also an essential ingredient to that freedom, I might add, but criticism should of course never, ever be violent. These ideals were embodied for me in the phrase spreading around France and the world, "Je suis Charlie."
On the other hand, there was some ego-driven section of me that wanted to feel close to something shocking. That part of me enjoyed knowing that I had been around the neighborhood of the shooting just days earlier (although of course that means absolutely nothing… but that kind of knowledge gives one the feeling of living close to the edge, of somehow having experienced a close shave, etc.). It's the same part of me that still feels a bit disgustingly self-important when somehow 9/11 gets brought up and I have to reveal that I was in Manhattan at the time.
So as I walked towards the center of town, I felt academically if not quite emotionally moved by the idea of freedom of expression, and somber about the murder of writers, artists, and thinkers. I headed over the beautiful bridge that spans the Adour that is lined with the flags of the European Union, and entered Petit Bayonne. I could see the Nive, and across it the Hotel de Ville perched close to the banks, but I could not see people.
I felt an increasing bizarre fear that I would miss or had already missed whatever was happening, that the moment would pass, and whatever feeling of unity that had been there would swiftly disperse. I imagined that by the time I arrived at the plaza it would be sad and empty, and everything, all that unity, would feel hollow and I would feel alone and disconnected, separate from everything and everybody. It was one of those classic moments of my subtle creeping fear of the gaping maw of nothingness represented by the potential failure of all human effort to connect with one another, or at the very least the failure of my own effort.
But as I approached step by step, the shapes of people began to form themselves from the shadow, and it soon became clear that the entire plaza was full of people.
It was in this moment that I finally felt the emotion I'd been tentatively poking around for all day. Up to that point I'd felt a kind of empty sickness, but it felt more like that uncomfortable ache just past hunger than like grief. I felt that numbed sort of thudding of horrible things, shocked but not surprised, because we are used to horrible things. Appalled, disgusted and disturbed, but feeling these things more in my head than in my heart.
That changed when I saw the people gathered by City Hall.
Hundreds of locals from our town standing in the cold night air, just to be together and share in the collective shock and outrage, and to express solidarity with the victims and their families, with one another, with all those around the country and the world who feel the same, who condemn this disgusting act of cowardice and brutality. I felt this intense wave of a joyful sadness.
I was overcome in that moment by the beauty of the act of congregation, and both the amazing power and vulnerability it represents. I couldn't help but acknowledge how easy it would be to hurt so many so quickly in space like that (how could one not at least fleetingly consider that possibility on a day like this), our squishy unprotected bodies, nothing blocking our organs but one another. And yet the power of a crowd with an idea is one of the biggest forces in the world, for good or ill.
I wandered around, listening in on conversations. It was not a particularly emotional crowd per se, but one gathered for the sake of an ideal – some there believing in that ideal passionately, others more out of habit. At some point a group of people in their early 20's holding signs that said "Liberté" and "Democratie" started to sing the French National Anthem, the Marseillaise. I was immediately struck by how out-of-place it sounded in this moment, like the singers were at a sporting event rather than a gathering acknowledging the recently murdered.
I was surprised but impressed that crowd at large did not pick it up the tune, and the anthem almost petered out and died altogether, only held aloft in the end by a few embarrassed looking young people singing softly, aware that they'd gaffed somehow but probably not quite sure why, and one particularly tone-deaf man (in two senses of the word) who defiantly sang louder, no doubt feeling superior to the rest of the crowd, sure he was one of the only true patriots present.
I felt like this moment perfectly encapsulated the crux of a problem here in France – the chasm between France the Nation, and France the Idea.
France is one of the countries that holds its thinkers and artists in the greatest esteem, and Charlie Hebdo is a French institution, a standard-bearer for French secular culture. The magazine represents some of the very things that the French hold dearest – wry humor, anti-establishment intellectualism, defiance against institutions, government, religion, the right to thumb your nose at the powers that be, the right to be irreverent, etc.
This concept was iterated in a speech made by the French President Francois Hollande yesterday evening.
In this brief speech Hollande both lauds the influence, irreverence and courage of those killed at the paper, and reiterates the concept that France IS liberty. Liberty IS French culture. That the very idea of France and the concept of liberty and freedom are inseparable, and in fact is the true meaning and definition of the nation itself. He implied that therefore in attacking a representation of French culture, this attack was on the very beating heart of France itself.
Hollande suggested in this speech that France is not so much a country, but an idea.
The problem is that France is not just an idea, France is also a real place – a country full of citizens of varying levels of education, varying political beliefs, varying religions, but who on average according to polls and voting records are increasingly fearful, protectionist and xenophobic. France the Idea is defined by liberty, while France the reality is a country that is mostly afraid of change, is gloomy about the future and its waning global influence, and resentful of a past that brought it to this point where change is being foisted upon it. As opposed to France the Idea, the concept of liberty in France the Nation is slowly being watered down by many who would prefer to keep liberty for white French people(those immigrants, the rest of Europe and the world be damned).
The French incapacity to SEE the real France behind the fiction is one of the things at the heart of Islamic extremism taking root within the country; many French people's individualism, their fear, their casual racism, and their COMPLETE lack of awareness about the effects of this racism is helping to create deep wounds, and backlash that bubbles up occasionally in violence.
While the attack on Charlie Hebdo WAS an attack on freedom of speech, an important component of the Idea of France, it was also an attack on the behavior of France the nation – a country that pretends at equality and fraternity while holding its own citizens at a distance, the France that only sends troops to fight for global justice and liberty where there are resources or beneficial relationships to be gained to make it worth the effort, the France that is in part starting to hear the siren song of separatists and xenophobes who say they want "France for the French."
The far right party, the Front National, is steadily gaining popularity, feeding on the fears of people who believe that most immigrants, Muslims in particular, are dangerous and do not belong in their country because they aren't really "French" and won't ever assimilate to the culture, to French values, to the Idea of France. These same people cherish the high ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity as their own. They believe France the nation and France the idea are one and the same – and therefore believe that in the act of defending France the nation against the enemy and keeping it for themselves, they are upholding the virtues of France the Idea.
People all over the world were horrified by the news yesterday, not just because it was a vicious massacre of innocent people, but because it was an attack on that which so many of us hold dear – the right to express our thoughts and opinions. This I believe is what most people in the square were there for – to stand up against oppression, terrorism, and to stand up for writers, artists, thinkers, journalists, and the freedom of thought and of opinion. To stand up for France the Idea.
But a few were there to stand up for France the Nation, and that had a very different sound to it, the sound of a very awkward, pitifully sung national anthem.
After the Marseillaise trickled to an end, I heard a woman remark to her friends that it was "a poor choice, in bad taste." So it's in bad taste to sing the national anthem when your country has been attacked? Really, why's that?
Oh right… because your national anthem is in fact a war song about killing the enemy, the barbarians that threaten to invade your land. Because your national anthem contains a resounding chorus that entreats young soldiers to spill the "impure" blood of their enemies into the furrows of French soil. Yes, on second thought that song in particular might have been a rather insensitive choice.
In 1992, and again a few years ago, the idea to change some of the words in the anthem to make it less bloodthirsty and racist while maintaining the admittedly rousing tune was floated around, but ultimately rejected. It would seem France still at heart loves to sing its war song, and beat its war drums, and think of the world in terms of enemies and fighting to protect the fatherland, despite how much the Idea of France might deny or try explain its way around this.
The Marseillaise reminds us of a different idea of France, a France from not all that long ago, a France of battles, of blood, of nationalism. A France for whom liberty meant defiance, not fairness. It reminds us of the violence of French history, a history where the very idea of liberty itself is highly complicated by colonization and war, where the idea of kingdom or empire or nation was almost always more important than true liberty, which was often poorly thought through and even more poorly applied.
That moment when that handful of people attempted to sing the national anthem was so horribly awkward because there seemed to be an uneasy awareness in the crowd that this was not the right moment for nationalism – but a time to grieve the attack on the high ideals of France. There seemed to be at least some vague, uncomfortable awareness that the xenophobic brand of nationalism, the protectionism, conservatism, fear, racism and traditionalism increasingly endemic to this nation was in part to blame.
From all appearances, this attack did not look like a passionate, spontaneous, angry response to what was perceived as offensive heresy, so much as an attack carefully designed to set the French people even more at odds with each other than they already are. It looks highly calculated to inspire anti-Muslim resentment while stoking the self-righteous belief that "superior" Western culture/civilization/philosophy/ideals are under attack. Simultaneously it could help inspire young disaffected French Muslims to feel even more alienated, misunderstood, vilified and rejected by their home country, which might drive them to seek community elsewhere, namely Islamic Fundamentalism.
Here we see the great danger in allowing the very different Idea of France and Nation of France to be interpreted as one and the same thing. If these two separate things become more and more intimately equated by those that feel oppressed by France the Nation, they might also feel oppressed by France the idea – oppressed by these values, or at the very least feel deep convinced in the their hypocrisy, and not be able to personally identify with them.
(In December a suicide bomber attacked a French school in Afghanistan where the French Cultural Centre was hosting a theatre performance.)
The marriage between culture and nation is also deeply problematic because it gives racist nationalists the conviction that they have the moral high ground; it justifies bigoted opinions by allowing people to self righteously believe they are on side of all the good stuff like liberty, like freedom of speech, whereas the other side is for murder and oppression. After an attack like this it's very easy for people like this to believe that "they" (in this case ALL Muslims) are against the idea of liberty, of justice, of freedom, equality, fraternity, etc – when really Muslim anger is mostly coming from oppression, racism, far-right extremism, and a commonly held belief that France is supposed to be for white people, and that anyone else is an invader, is not truly part of the "culture" not truly part of the nation (and despite all these very legitimate grievances for the vast, vast, vast majority would still never culminate in an act of violence).
For people who believe they are on the side of liberty and nation, it's so easy to see themselves as the good guy and the other dudes as the bad guys, dehumanizing and vilifying the "other." It also makes it increasingly impossible for them to notice that their own side also frequently oppresses and murders, and when they do notice such things, they justify this behavior as being all for the sake of the Ideal, all in "defense of liberty."
We see the same thing in the United States – the espousing of these ideas of liberty and justice simultaneously with racism, bigotry, protectionism, and so many close-minded, fear-based, selfish ideas. The United States also suffers from a dangerous dichotomy between the idea and the reality…
Powerful countries with great histories of eloquence, and a military to back up their narrative, seem to very easily dismiss the idea that words and actions should somehow be aligned. A country is not an idea, or not just an idea, but also collective actions. Or perhaps a country is both the idea and the reality, and the two never quite meet. The idea exists in the minds of the people and it carries its own narrative power, creates its own history and conflict and dreams and despair. The country as a verb, as collective action, is often something else entirely, and our incapacity to look at the two simultaneously and see the distance between one thing and the other is at the heart of a great deal of modern conflict and misery.
We could collectively benefit from learning that freedom of speech is not one size fits all – and in defending the freedom we do not have to agree with the speech itself. But the line between what is harmful hate speech and what is just opinion is one we are constantly having to navigate carefully. There is no hard fast and steady rule making the concept of freedom of speech itself problematically murky.
When we say "Nous Sommes Charlie," We Are Charlie – it is important to make the distinction between Charlie the Idea and Charlie the actual publication, between what the publication espoused to express versus what it actually did. The idea that I think most people are standing behind when they "Je Suis Charlie," is their fundamental belief in the freedom of expression for all. But we must not therefore confuse this belief in the freedom of expression, with the kinds of messages that Charlie Hebdo often expressed – which were coming from a place of white majority privilege, often insensitive and occasionally racist or sexist, attacking the already marginalized. Believing that this magazine has the right to express its perspective, is not at all the same thing as supporting the ideas contained therein.
We are constantly dazzled by fake enemies who we think threaten our freedom, while we allow more real and present dangers to freedom to sneak right by us. People who think differently than us do not have to be the enemy, and freedom of the press is not in fact threatened as much by terrorism and fundamentalism as it is by the capitalism that it (barely) survives off of. Censorship is much more of a reality due to the politics of money and the money in politics than the threat of attack. The biggest enemies of liberty and equality are not outside our culture but a part of it. This is what we must consciously struggle against as we move forward from this horrible tragedy.


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It was a re-enactment of "The Color Purple" at Sequoia-Redwood City's fairly new gymnasium Friday night.
Visiting Monta Vista-Cupertino wore its purple road uniforms for a Central Coast Section Div. I first-round contest, while the Cherokees wore their home white uniforms with purple trim. Sequoia then made the Matadors feel blue with a 67-52 victory to advance to Thursday's second-round boys basketball game. The 11th-seeded Cherokees (12-7) travel to face No. 6 Palo Alto (13-10) at 7 p.m.
"We're going to go to Paly and see how we play," Sequoia coach Fine Lauese said. "We need to play better defense. We had too many fouls. We may have been a little tired, but this is the best part of the season."
Paly coach Adam Sax left the Sequoia gymnasium with 1:21 to play, no doubt with enough notes on Sequoia guard/forward Chris Bene to fill a notepad. Bene, listed at 6-foot-5, personally wrecked the Matadors with 20 points, 15 rebounds, six blocks, a steal and two one-handed dunks that brought the house down. Bene did most of his blocked shot damage in the first half as the Matadors (11-14) adjusted to his length.
"We started off well," said Bene (pronounced Buh-NAY). "We struggled going into halftime and in the third quarter. We stayed together as a team and played it out."
The Matadors have a solid big man in 6-4 Ramana Keerthi, who was the adopted villain by the Sequoia student section. It was especially noticeable in the first half when the Matadors were trying to score on the same end as the raucous home throng.
"Ramana! Ramana! Ramana!" yelled the Sequoia faithful, led by a boy wearing a purple Superman T-shirt.
Keerthi, to his credit, kept his poise as he made a parade to the free-throw line, sinking 11 of 14 free throws in the first half. Keerthi made 13 of 17 charity tosses for the game, but scored just one point in the second half, ending with 19 points and 10 boards.
"We got into a zone in the second half," Lauese said. "That had a lot to do with us cutting him back."
"Our bigs did a good job in the second half on Keerthi," Bene said. "We fronted him. That's what it came down to."
The Cherokees made a move in the first period, starting with a 17-foot jumper by Riley Dunn for a 20-12 lead. Bene's breakaway slam made it a 10-point lead.
Ivan Ayarza's layin early in the second period kept the run going. And with Brady Stubblefield's second trey of the game, Sequoia had a 32-16 advantage. The Matadors got within 37-27 on a 3-pointer by Aditya Raju late in the half. Ayarza's late shot attempt rimmed off as the halftime buzzer sounded.
DJ Houston, who had 10 points for the Cherokees, scored to open the third period, drawing the foul. Houston made the free throw for the 3-point play. The Matadors, though, went on a mini-run to tighten the gap to 46-42 entering the fourth period.
No problem for Houston, who scored once more to start the final frame. John Crowell then scored on an off-balance shot for the Cherokees. Another old-fashioned 3-point play by Houston, a hoop by Bene and a layin by Bene on an assist by Crowell extended Sequoia's bulge to 57-42.
With 3:09 to play, Bene dribbled the ball coast to coast and slammed one down, making a final, emphatic point. The Cherokees are moving on.
Central Coast Section Div. I first-round game
Monta Vista 14 13 15 10 -- 52
Sequoia 22 15 9 21 -- 67
MV--Keerthi 3 13-17 19, Raju 3 3-4 11, Parsay 0 0-1 1, Lee 1 4-4 6, Khan 3 4-4 10, Keshan 1 2-2 5. Totals 11 27-33 52.
S--Bene 8 4-4 20, Crowell 3 2-3 9, Lopiparo 2 0-2 5, Padilla 2 0-0 4, Dunn 2 2-2 6, Houston 4 2-2 10, Smith 0 2-2 2, Ayarza 1 0-1 2, Stubblefield 2 3-4 9. Totals 24 15-20 67.
3-point goals: Raju 2, Keshan (MV).
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I have a very basic understanding that the questions you answer during character creation affect how your main personal bio plays out. Like with Humans, if you choose "Street Rat" you have a friend name Quinn that gives you quests.
Can someone share a link to all possible outcomes for each Q/A if there is one?
Also, do certain answers have a certain level range? I've heard like "Street Rat" is from 1-10, then the "Parents/Sister" portion is 10-20? Is this correct?
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Yesterday I got the results of my most recent blood tests–the ones I've been chomping at the bit to get and talk about with the new doctor. As it turns out, the news is not so good, although it sure does explain things. Essentially, I am sorely depleted of Vitamin D and register high on the inflammation scale, which puts me at risk for a whole host of delightful conditions that I will not document here for the universe to make true. (Knock spandex.) Not that you need to know all this, but then again, my life is an open blog…Deep breath, Jill. Deep breath…
Imagine you are a bird with long white slender wings and gliding ever higher, higher, moving up, up and up until you're invisible to even the tops of trees. As you float in a sea of blue sky, there are white clouds beneath you ready to catch you like a drop of tea even though you're a lot heavier and would probably drop clear through them into some random landfill. Isn't it always the way? (Accidental snort here.) And by the way, I have no clue as to what this whole section means but it sure does feel good. And, sounds super poetic, don't you think? As in real "Poetry". I mean, does anybody else smell a second career here or is it just me?
As if that weren't enough, my adrenal glands, which monitor the "fight or flight" instincts in our bodies, are exhausted and, as a result, are wreaking havoc.
To translate using story (because who doesn't love a good story?): I–one short chubby but tenacious and well-intentioned Jewish girl struggling to stay afloat in a world where, frankly, there are no good jobs and all the good men are taken (except you, hon, and you know who you are…)–am innocently walking in the woods when a tiger jumps in front of me from out of nowhere. My adrenals kick in to produce adrenaline that helps to prevent me from panicking so I can wrestle that tiger (i.e., work, slow metabolism, Fox News, ornery relatives, exes with voodoo dolls, personal trainers with an ax to grind looking for an easy scapegoat, and impressionable step-people, etc.) and bring it to its knees. Then, when it's over and providing I'm not ground people-meat, my adrenals come back down to normal where I remain, as always, calm. Once again.
Except, well, oops.
Seems my adrenals, out of a sea of billions, are a tad confused and instead of coming down–ever–they're convinced there's always a tiger at my donkey. So to make up for their always being "on" if you will, they're taxing the sh*& out of my other hormones for assistance (think pesky new employee: where's the bathroom, where's the coffee maker, how do I get a trashcan, why won't this printer work, a staff meeting you say, what staff meeting?, etc.).
This phenomena, in turn, leads to all kinds of craziness: Slow metabolism, fatigue, general malaise, anxiety, foggy thinking, can't locate my car keys, why are my socks in the refrigerator, blah, blah, blah. You get the drift. And so boring, really.
Suffice to say, that's it in a nutshell–the easy explanation no doctor will give you. But you can always find it here, my friends. That's right. So tip your waiters. And, please don't scrimp.
And now, it's time to answer the obvious question: After rambling on and on about inflammation, Vitamin D, and the clinical rationale for how adrenal systems should operate, let me outline the proposed treatment.
Turns out, there is no magic pill to clean this whole mess up, as I had hoped and even anticipated. To the contrary, I have to exercise, still. Eat more salmon and LESS CHICKEN–the mainstay of Jill's diet, by the way. (It's as if Stephen King and Michael Pollen got together to conspire my bleak metabolic situation.) More vegetarian crap: Beans, tofu, seitan. Lots of omega-3s. A ballet of pretty little supplements, wrapped in cotton and smoky glass. And the mandate of meditation.
Oy. How did 40-some years of diet and exercise land me here?
Anyway, I guess it could be worse (yes, I know, it could be for sure). And yet, should these things fail to make an indent in six to eight weeks, well then, we'll see. On to Plan B, I guess. (Although I'm not sure what that is yet, but in my dreams, it involves chocolate, a new rug for the living room, and a winning lottery ticket…)
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To paraphrase George Orwell's "1984," Big Brother is listening ... or at least he soon could be in Great Britain.
British authorities have what is being called an "ambitious" bill to track all electronic conversations of every single British resident. The proposed law would collect detailed information of all communications of Britons, which the government maintains is necessary to fight terrorism and crime.
In an obvious attempt to bypass privacy laws, Home Secretary Theresa May contends the program would not listen in on the conversations. But data mining experts say that even electronic communications logs can yield detailed insights about people's lives at the stroke of a key.
As scary as the U.S. Patriot Act is, this breach of privacy and personal rights goes far beyond scary ... and reaches to totalitarian control. Apparent the Brits have decided 2012 is the right time to start enacting "1984" philosophy.
Do the Wood County commissioners fail to fully fulfill the requirements pertaining to giving advance notice to the public about what they will discuss at a meeting?
Harry Deitzler, a former county prosecutor, former Charleston City Council member and a candidate for Wood County commissioner, contends the commission constantly violates the state's open meeting laws.
In a email to The News and Sentinel, Deitzler states:
"Please see the commission agenda below - this type of hidden government action has been a pebble in my shoe since day one. The county commission abstractly lists '1. Contribution Requests' on its agenda. No time is specified for the public discussion. There is no description of who is asking for what, nor the amount requested.
"No other public body would have the arrogance to try and sneak giveaways past public debate in that manner. This is a total sham when it comes to public notice regarding what they intend to do with our tax dollars. I seriously doubt that it complies with the public meetings notice requirements either.
"I hear loud and clear the song and dance 'We've always done it that way,' and I don't buy it. This is nothing but a continuation of (a former commissioner's) practices of secretly using giveaways of public money to campaign for re-election. (His) practice was, and (Deitzler's opponent) Blair Couch's practice is, to get the checks, then personally give them to the outside agency or Lions Club or airplane club or whatever in an election year.
"It's wrong to do that, it is a blatant misuse of tax dollars, and you all know it."
While I tend to agree with Deitzler that a more complete agenda should be provided to the public, if Deitzler really wants to make a point about how the public isn't being served by the commission's agenda I encourage him to fire his own bullets and file suit!
Deitzler also has maintained for many months that commissioners wait until reporters are out of earshot to discuss pertinent county business that should be presented in the light of day. Most recently, Deitzler maintains the commissioners discussed giving raises to county employees when reporters were out of the room. It should be noted that no mention of the discussion appeared on the agenda.
It also should be noted, Deitzler was not at the county commission meeting when the alleged discussion occurred, which makes me wonder how and/or from whom he got the information.
Again, if the commissioners are discussing county business that isn't on the agenda and out of the earshot of the public, they need to cease such improper, if not illegal, activity before legal ramifications cost the county money.
It's one thing for Deitzler to point a finger, it's another to present evidence in a court of law.
Unfortunately, it's nothing new for public bodies to attempt everything they can to skirt the Open Meetings law. Let's hope the county commission isn't following that distasteful pattern.
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Young voters aren't making up an unusually large share of the ballots cast, early exit polls suggest.
The Obama campaign has sunk unprecedented resources into the voting block, which clearly favors the Democratic candidate, but if they don't turn out how does it change the way the youth vote is targeted in the future?
There are two potential scenarios. The first is that campaigns, sensing it's a fruitless effort, will spend even less time on the group. Instead they could direct their efforts on more reliable voting age groups that might need a smaller — and cheaper — push toward the polls.
The second is that the Obama campaign has created a model to reach young voters, using technology and peer-to-peer outreach, that candidates will seek to perfect in the future. One way to improve that outreach, experts say, is to spend more time crafting and delivering messages that directly address young voters concerns.
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Product Description
A zany, hilarious golf game. Use a combination of cards and dice to try to win as many golf holes as possible. Use 'Terrain' and 'Hazard' cards to interfere with your opponents' game, make use of crazy equipment, and play the most looney or cards to help your own 'Drive' and 'Green' rolls.
A game for the 'hole' family, golfers and non-golfers alike. Don't get lost in the rough, and don't laugh too hard or you'll miss your putt. Loved and adored by champion golfer Mr. Lion Forest.
Product Information
Christian T Petersen
Asmodee North America, Fantasy Flight Games
David Gatzmer
Year: 1997
Players: 2 - 6
Time: 15 - 25 minutes
Ages: 12 and up
Weight: 300 grams
- 1 rules booklet
- 1 die
- 1 reference card
- 30 hole cards
- 69 game cards
Product Reviews
Average Rating: 4.2 in 4 reviews
What a pleasant surprise to find a game with very little hype containing so many laughs. This is one of the most requested games I own (and I paid the least for it). The pace is reasonably quick and can lead to some furious card playing in some stages. The 'Lost in the Woods' cards and the 'Last Call' cards are a riot (although determining the last person to call or knock can be annoying). The only bad thing I have to say about the game is that the rules have a few holes in them which required a few 'house rules', but once there is an agreement, there are no problems. Very enjoyable game for anyone.
This game is hard to explain... It is NOT a golf game; the cover art says that much. This is a surpurb beer and pretzels card game for people who like or hate golf. Where else can you get a stealth golf cart anyway?
The gameplay is simple. Draw hole card, it lists difficulty (what you need to roll on a d6 to get to the green and have a chance to win the hole), value in points (you play to 9 or 18 points a game), and hazards (alcohol, wildlife, and weather). You then play cards on the players. Then you roll to get to the hole and the players who make it roll off to take the hole card and its points. Equipment helps you, but the best cards are what you play on opponents... No one can prepare you for the first time a player plays Lost in the Woods (last player to yell for help is out for the hole) or Last Call (last player to knock on the table is out for the hole). Animals stealing the ball, blind drunks blocking your shot, lightning zapping you or your equipment (unless you have the BIG Umbrella), this game is fun for all.
It's a great game if you are willing to play a game that describes itself perfectly in the title; it's crazy golf, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Well like many others on here have said, this game is very loosly based on Golf. If anything, this feels more like either Hot Shots Golf, or Outlaw Golf from the world of video games. This is a great party game, that is really a lot of fun if you have a group to play. This game does not work well with 2 people, and is not fantastic with 3, but is still a real hoot. This game is very light, but requires paying attention, which sometimes is a bit of a pitfall for some gamers. The main thing that keeps this game playable is the sence of humor, its light, its fun, its a party game.
The cards are of Bicycle quality, and are bright, with fun little graphics. The backs of the 2 different decks are different enough that you can tell when one card is in the other deck by just fanning or ribbon spreading the deck, which is great. The die is a funny green color, which I think looks a bit tacky, but it does its job, what more can you ask. High enough quality pieces to take some abuse, so very well done on that front.
The game takes a little getting used to, since you can do a lot of things before the two major parts of the game. Each turn you are trying to win the new hole card (so this game plays 'skins' style). First each player gets to play any of the 'play' cards in an attempt to ruin the 'drive roll' of the other players. You can play any actions, get some equipment, play one terrain card on someone or use one of the animal, social or weather related pitfalls. Each hole allows 2 of the 3 types of pitfalls to be played. You can also play 'Stress' cards which in pairs can cancel any of the other cards played, which can be annoying, but that really is part of the fun. Then comes the 'drive roll' where you have to get the drive number on the hole card, or lower. Anyone who survives that gets to play more cards, then try the 'green roll', the lowest roll wins the hole. That happens for each hole, the first person to get 18 points wins. Inbetween holes you can discard one card, and redraw the rest of a hand (usually 5 cards). So its not tough, but it can take a little getting used to the cards, some of which requiring yelling 'Help' or knocking on the table. These cards make the game laugh out loud funny (at least at the point I am, having play a game or 2). So not a tough game, but you need to watch whats going on.
There is a little bit of strategy in deciding what equpiment you want to play, and when and how you want to use it. You also need to decide who and when you want to attack. However any game with 2 decks of cards, and 2 dice rolls before scoring, requires A LOT OF LUCK. I don't think this game is missing strategy, but there is not a ton of it. Not to mention if you are spending too long thinking about a plan, you will not be ready to yell for help. Which can, and will cost you a hole.
I like this as a gambling game, since it is a skins style game. I also think an order of cards being played needs to be established. The people I play with decided if you play a card fast enough, it takes presidence, but if you are a little more serious (which I dont think this game really needs) you need to work that issue out.
This game is a fun game, not too deep, and is really not very golf related at all. Some people have fun with this game in spite of themselves. Yes you need to yell for help, and knock the table, but I think that can be fun. Great beer and pretzels game for a group, a little pricy, but a good time usually costs more.
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The Irish are known for their way with words, so here is a special wish for St. Patrick's Day.
"May there always be work for your hands to do / May your purse always hold a coin or two. / May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, / May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. / May the hand of a friend always be near you, / And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
Next, a bit of Irish wisdom:
"It's easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. / But the man worthwhile is the one who can smile / When everything goes dead wrong."
Finally, here's one to make you smile:
"May those who love us, love us. / And those that don't love us, May God turn their hearts. / And if He doesn't turn their hearts, / May He turn their ankles, / So we'll know them by their limping."
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Women celebrating the passage of Amendment XIX — ratified on August 18, 1920, certified on August 26, 1920 and became the law of the land.
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Hacking the Machines: How voting machines are inherently insecure; also includes articles about suspicious actions associated with the voting machine industry.
Election Fraud: Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Against Machine Counting: Accounts of voting machines failing the people in actual elections.
For Hand-Counting: Why we need to have publicly observed hand-counted paper ballots (HCPB) elections with a secure chain of custody; several other technologically advanced countries are already doing this.
Voting Rights: The United States Constitution has two amendments forbidding discrimination in voting rights with respect to race and gender. Citizens should not then have these rights rendered meaningless on account of not being in control of vote counting.
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We are an educational and research center that provides on-site instruction and resources to state and local election officials, poll workers, and voters on how to run publicly observed hand-counted paper ballots (HCPB) elections and recounts with a secure chain of custody. Hand-counted paper ballots elections are a solution to the fraud and error associated with the use of electronic voting machines (both touchscreens / DRE's and optical scans) and the control of our elections by a privatized electronic voting machine industry that has shown itself to be willing and able to change votes against the voter's will.
(We recommend that you watch the following video full screen so that you can read the labels on the voting machine screen.)
Hand-counted paper ballots elections require new protocols to be implemented. Therefore, there is a need for information and training for election officials, other poll workers, and voters. We can also help you with ballot boxes and recruitment of hand-counters. Hand-counted paper ballots elections are not only much less expensive than buying, upgrading, maintaining, and storing electronic voting machines but also keep the money in the community.
We are against any form of voting that does not guarantee that votes are counted as cast. If you think your vote is counted as cast in our current system, think again.
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Jim Calhoun and Jim Boeheim, who each passed the 700-victory mark this season, have been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Calhoun, who last season won his second N.C.A.A. title with Connecticut, and Boeheim, who led Syracuse to its only championship, in 2003, were notified of their elections on Thursday.


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Good points, Nina. The cases of suicide that I read about tend to be more murder/suicide - where one spouse has been giving care for years and sees that it can't go on, yet they don't know what to do. They are isolated, and the caregiving spouse (often a man, likely because in rural areas they may have access to hunting weapons and such), decides it's "better for everyone" and commits the act. This is heartbreaking, and speaks to our culture where we let people get into these situations.
Thanks for your input!
Hi HuneyBee
Here is some reliable information on suicide rates of elders from the National Institute of Mental Health;
Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
Of every 100,000 people ages 65 and older, 14.3 died by suicide in 2007. This figure is higher than the national average of 11.3 suicides per 100,000 people in the general population.
Non-Hispanic white men age 85 or older had an even higher rate, with 47 suicide deaths per 100,000.
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I am not sure what you mean by older person - you are talking about dementia?
I don't know why people say it is not a concern.
However, the person with dementia do get depressed because they lose the ability to act normally and the memory loss makes them confused. So certainly they get more depressed and moody and some are even combative in late stage.
The doctors can give them antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs.
Perhaps the reason is that they cannot carry out suicude in moderate/late stage as they lose the ability to function normally in daily life. They do verbally express their depression. e.g., my FIL once got the impression that hospital could kill him (it was just his own delusion) in 2009 so he often thinks people can just put him down so he would wait in the yard to die in 2009. Last year he still would think of wanting to die. But he cannot commit suicide without "help". Now he is happy at times given the activities in the home.
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