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It's Not Rocket Science...It's Harder
It's Not Rocket Science...It's Harder
09.14.12 | By John Castellani
This week, PhRMA presented the 2012 Research & Hope Awards to researchers, academics and patient advocates for their work in the fight against Alzheimer's disease (check out video from the event here).
We selected Alzheimer's disease as the focus for this year's honors because of the looming challenge it poses to a growing number of patients, caregivers, our healthcare system and our national economy. But I want to talk for a moment about how Alzheimer's and the work being done to combat it - the successes and the setbacks -- are also examples of the challenges we face in all medical research and when creating innovative medicines and therapies.
When I spoke about these challenges at the awards ceremony, I tried to put them into an understandable context. The recent landing of NASA's Mars Curiosity mission for example.
Like so many, I was excited by the mission's success and the stunning pictures sent back from Mars. But, NASA's success - like all scientific and technological advances - was built upon prior setbacks and the ability of the scientists and engineers to learn how to do it better the next time. The significant statistic that defines this for NASA's Mars endeavors is that more than half of its 40 Mars missions failed.
In other words, there were more than 20 attempts to send a probe to Mars where the rocket didn't launch; where the probe crashed landed; where the probe deployed but we lost communications or where some other difficulty sunk the mission. But, nearly half made it. The rocket got to Mars and the probe did pretty much what the scientists hoped it would.
This is rocket science after all, and the researchers, scientists and engineers took every setback in stride, learned important lessons and made every effort to correct their errors and miscalculations in the next rocket they built.
Now, when a rocket doesn't get to Mars, it is disappointing. Years of work and a huge investment are lost. But the day after, everyone at NASA gets up, goes back to work and tries to glean what lessons they can before starting all over again.
Creating new medicines - whether for Alzheimer's disease or any condition - is a little like rocket science, but magnified. When it comes to Alzheimer's, for example, a new report released by PhRMA shows that since 1998, 101 potential drugs to fight the disease fell short in development and testing while three medicines were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
That's 34 setbacks for every approved treatment.
What's true for Alzheimer's disease is true for all biopharmaceutical research. Out of every 5,000-10,000 compounds examined as potential treatments, only one will ever be approved by FDA for patient use. That's a lot of setbacks, with many coming late in the 10 to 15 years of R&D and an average cost of $1.2 billion needed for approved medicines.
Unlike space missions, when a potential new therapy encounters a setback there is an enormous human toll. There are patients hoping for new medicines to help them battle their condition. There are caregivers waiting on new tools to help patients and provide them with relief. Also, there is the economic costs of treatment and continuing care that we all bear - estimated to be $1 trillion a year by 2050 in the case of Alzheimer's.
Today, there are nearly 100 potential new medicines in the pipeline to help treat Alzheimer's disease. Only a handful, if that, will ever be approved for patient use. But, what is critical is what we learn both researching new approved treatments as well as from potential medicines that don't make it.
The odds really do seem stacked against medical progress. Yet over 300 new medicines to treat a wide range of conditions have been created by America's biopharmaceutical research industry and approved by the FDA since 2000. That is both progress and hope.


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Every year around this time - just in time for the holidays, I suspect - the National Center for Health Statistics issues the national health report card. This yearly number-crunching gives us a glimpse at our health status but also adds the routine holiday warnings against eating too much and drinking too much. Weight and alcohol, it seems, are two major factors that impact our health, as if that's a surprise announcement.
So here's the good news. Life expectancy has hit another all-time high. On average you can expect to live 77.6 years. But that's about the only good news coming from this annual report. It seems that the older baby boomers - 55-64 years of age - have high blood pressure and 40 percent are obese. In other words, this age bracket (which includes yours truly) is in worse shape than Americans born a decade earlier. And since these boomers are nearing Medicare and Social Security eligibility, that may mean more federal dollars for health care in the short-term.
If you take a look back, you can expect to live two years longer than the average back in 1990. That's because of advancements in medicine and sanitation and a decrease in smoking. But at the same time, obesity is quickly becoming as costly as smoking. So maybe we should look for warning labels on food items like "Eating this product will make your fanny the size of a bus." Doubt it!
This report has millions of interesting statistics. Nearly one-third of the population suffers from low back pain. And we spend 15 cents of every dollar for health care related expenditures. We spend in the trillions but I'm not sure how many zeroes are in a trillion so just take my word for it.
So there you have it. Watch your lifestyle and your weight and you can expect on average to live 77.6 years. Follow the medical advice you're given and you'll likely top that life expectancy.
But throughout this report, I found something missing. It's that one aspect of our lives that the medical community dances around. It's stress.
Stress has the potential to have a greater impact on our health than all of the other lifestyle issues combined. But the medical community has little to say about stress other than to change those aspects of your life that are creating the stress. That's a whole lot easier said than done. So they turn to pills that are designed to decrease the stress and anxiety. But in reality, these have little impact.
You would think that around the holidays, the health experts would at the very least mention stress in their health report card. People this week by the millions will battle one another in malls throughout the country, juggling strained budgets and hectic schedules. We'll fight miserable weather and we'll alter our routines to adjust to the holidays. In the next two weeks, we'll balance more activities than you can shake a stick at and we'll be expected to maintain a smile throughout. All the while, stress builds and builds.
Maybe next year in the array of statistics on weight and blood pressure and smoking and drinking, the national health experts will just mention stress. Unfortunately we can measure most factors but we can't measure stress. Or at least not until it kills us.

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A Good Man is Hard to Find
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- Hiram gets out of The Misfit's car with Bobby Lee.
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- After coming back, Hiram goes with Bobby Lee to shoot June Star, the mother, and the baby in the woods.
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Republican Chris Collins attacks Democrat Kathleen C. Hochul in a new television commercial, saying that votes she took against repealing President Obama's health care plan have perpetuated planned cuts in Medicare and Medicare Advantage.
What the "Broken Promises" ad does not say is that the health care overhaul extends the life of Medicare by eight years, that it closes the prescription drug "doughnut hole" for senior citizens and that a repeal of the law would have negative consequences for seniors.
Hochul used the Medicare issue effectively in defeating Assemblywoman Jane L. Corwin in a special election for the congressional seat in May 2011, and it has once again become central to the campaign in the newly redrawn 27th District, which is heavily Republican.
Collins' latest ad features a photo of Hochul and Obama, who is generally unpopular in the district, and uses breaking mirrors and photos of seniors for effect.
The ad makes this claim: Hochul broke her 2011 campaign promise not to "touch Medicare" when she voted "to help pay for Obamacare."
Fact: Hochul voted six times against repealing the president's health care overhaul in its entirety, and three times in favor of repealing parts of it. The overhaul includes a $716 billion cut to projected Medicare spending over 10 years. Most of the savings come from lower payments to medical providers, and $156 billion comes from lower subsidies for Medicare Advantage, which costs more than traditional Medicare.
The intent is to continue to provide benefits while encouraging providers to be more efficient, Democrats have said.
The Obama plan extends the life of the Medicare hospital trust fund to 2024. Without the cuts contained in the plan, Medicare would be insolvent in 2016, according to guardians of the trust fund.
The cost of Medicare is still projected to go up, even with the health care law's cuts.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney also has used the line that $716 billion is taken from the "Medicare trust fund and [is used] to pay for Obamacare," a claim rated "half-true" by PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website.
Romney has a point, but it's more complicated than he makes it seem, according to PolitiFact.
The law uses several measures to try to reduce a projected growth in Medicare spending, and those savings are used to offset new costs in the law so it doesn't add to the deficit.
The reductions in Medicare are counted against the health care law's new spending, which includes benefits for Medicare recipients, including increasing prescription drug coverage by $43 billion and offering preventive care with no out-of-pocket costs, a $5 billion expense.
Other new spending includes tax credits for the uninsured to buy private insurance and an expansion of Medicaid.
The new law also is paid for with new taxes on the wealthy and on the health care industry.
Hochul has said she is opposed to the reductions in future funding for Medicare and Medicare Advantage.
The GOP-led House has not had a vote on repealing the part of the law that affects Medicare, Hochul's campaign noted. A budget proposal put forth by Rep. Paul D. Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee and House Budget Committee chairman, contains the same Medicare cuts that Collins has used to criticize Hochul.
Collins does not support the cuts to Medicare that Ryan calls for, said campaign adviser Christopher M. Grant.
Details on how Collins would protect Medicare weren't forthcoming from his campaign.
Grant said Collins is in favor of adopting "pro-growth, pro-business policies that increase the economy."
Collins has largely refrained from discussing the Ryan budget plan, saying only that he looks forward to being part of the debate in Washington in January. However, he also has said the budget doesn't go far enough, that it should seek to eliminate the deficit in 10 years, not 30, as the Ryan plan prescribes.
Television viewers can expect to see the ad often. The Collins campaign wouldn't disclose how much is being spent to air it but said the amount was significant in the Buffalo and Rochester markets.
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Tuesday, a junior clinic will be available to children learning the game of golf.
Wednesday is the date for the Pro-Am tournament, while the third annual Pearl River Resort Golf Classic will tee off on Thursday and wrap up Sunday.
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ICICI Bank Sells Kingfisher Debt
By Santanu Choudhury and Sudeep Jain
New Delhi – ICICI Bank Ltd. has sold all of its nearly 4.30 billion rupee ($78 million) debt in Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. to SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd., executives at ICICI and SREI said Tuesday.
Jaspreet Kaur, a spokeswoman for ICICI Bank, said that the lender doesn't have any more exposure to Kingfisher.
The loans were bought by India Global Competitive Fund, a debt fund managed by SREI Venture Capital Ltd., said Braj Kishore, a spokesman for Kolkata-based SREI Infrastructure.
The company "has invested against good security with adequate collateral," he said, adding that "the fund saw an opportunity in the securities and commensurate returns being offered for this proposal."
SREI Infrastructure — one of India's largest private-sector infrastructure financiers — funds roads, ports, power, industrial-parks and water projects.
Kingfisher, controlled by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, has been mired in losses since its inception in 2005, due to an ill-timed, aggressive expansion that included ordering Airbus A380s — the world's biggest commercial jet — and a merger with budget carrier Air Deccan.
Kingfisher owes millions of dollars to its aircraft leasing companies, suppliers, lenders, airline partners and employees, as well as in taxes. It has cut dozens of flights since late last year and stopped its low-fare operations to reduce costs.
Prakash Mirpuri, a spokesman at Kingfisher, declined to comment.


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Jazz Half Marathon runners weren't limited to the city limits of New Orleans.
Or even the borders of America.
But those who protect those borders still found a way to participate in the run as several Marines deployed in Afghanistan ran a half marathon to support the cancer program at Children's Hospital in New Orleans.
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A Family Group Conference (FGC) is a facilitated group dialogue and decision-making process in which a young person who has done harm is encouraged and supported to be directly accountable to the person who was harmed. The focus is on doing right, not on punishment. Typically, participants in a FGC include a young person accused of a crime, his/her family, the persons who were harmed and their supporters, and a trained facilitator. Depending on the severity of the crime, a member of law enforcement might also be present. Ideally, an FGC results in a consensus based plan for repairing the harm to the extent possible. When the young person completes the plan, filed charges are dropped. The participants also try to understand why the offending happened and tailor the plan to help prevent future wrongdoing.
FGC can also be used in lieu of traditional school discipline processes which would otherwise result in suspensions or expulsions for more serious negative behavior on school campuses. Ideally, a single restorative system of youth accountability which addresses both school needs and juvenile charges would result when youth commit crimes on school campuses.
Family Group Conferencing is the national model for addressing youthful wrongdoing in New Zealand. The Maori – New Zealand's indigenous people – spoke out against the disproportionate incarceration of their youth and advocated for FGC as a more effective model for dealing with youth crime. In 1989, the New Zealand government passed the Chidren, Young Persons, and Their Families Act which adopted a national model for using FGC in all youth crimes other than murder and manslaughter. Since 1989, youth incarceration has been rendered virtually obsolete, juvenile detention facilities have been closed, recidivism rates have plummeted, and victim satisfaction rates are high.
Based on the New Zealand success, and on the successes of several smaller FGC programs in this country, we promote FGC as an ideal model for addressing juvenile crime in the United States. Inspired by the Maori effort against structural racism, we are particularly dedicated to FGC as a means of reducing Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) with juvenile justice systems.
In 2008, Community Works' Restorative Justice Advisor began educating Oakland area justice officials about the safety, efficacy, and superiority of FGC as a model for addressing juvenile wrongdoing. As a result, two Alameda County police deparments (Hayward and Oakland) and the Juvenile Division of the District Attorney's office began diverting felonies and high-level misdemeanors to the FGC pilot. Two partner agencies have also dedicated staff members and volunteers to facilitating FGCs. The pilot's success is reflected by its current 15% recidivism rate — in contrast with the County's juvenile recidivism rate for similar crimes (75%) and the State's (91%).
ARE FGCs VOLUNTARY?
Participation in FGC, like all truly restorative processes, is completely voluntary. However, most people who have caused harm or were affected by a crime chose to attend an FGC so that they can be heard and to have a say in the outcome.
Research shows that FGC can prevent reoffending, increase victim satisfaction, and significantly reduce the massive costs associated with our traditional justice systems (92% savings per case diverted to FGC). FGC offers victims a more active voice in addressing harms that were done to them than the traditional criminal justice system. It encourages creative, positive, and workable solutions, and reduces reoffending and addresses underlying causes that lead to crime. FGC often improves family relationships and has the potential to build community engagement in some of our most difficult community problems.
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Do you remember Phil from a previous Friday Focus? He was getting rides to kidney dialysis in Snoqualmie through a Faith in Action volunteer.
Since I wrote that email, we have two more kidney dialysis patients looking for transportation. Unlike Phil, who lives in town, these two people live in much more remote locations – one lives in a trailer park near Tiger Mountain, the other lives in May Valley. Unfortunately, because of their inaccessibility, Access will not serve either of these two locations. Right now, both dialysis patients are dependent on their elderly spouses to take them. Unfortunately, in both of these cases, the elderly wife or husband really is not capable of driving safely any more, because of limited eyesight and slow reaction time. Issaquah Hobart Road and May Valley Road have relatively high speeds and are poorly lit – it is often dark in the late afternoons during this time of the year, when a patient is finished with dialysis.
A dialysis patient requires six trips a week, every week, for the rest of the client's life. It takes a lot of volunteer time to meet the need of just one person – but the volunteer's service can mean the difference between life and death . We are actively recruiting a host of drivers to serve these two people. If you know of someone who might be interested in helping us, please let us know.
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Hi all,
This is my first post in the forum, as I am new to knitting and to this page, which I have started loving immediately (it's so useful!).
So far I have made a scarf in ribbing, which has gone pretty well, so now i would like to start a new project a bit more complicated.
I have been looking at patterns and I am in love with one to make mittens, it seems pretty basic so I think it will be good for a beginner like me... but after having a look at some patterns for mittens I have a question: do I need to know how to knit in the round and use circular needles if i want to knit something like a hat, mittens or socks? Or can I just knit them using regular needles?
For the moment I am just learning with usual needles and the thought of circular needles scares me!
Hi! Welcome to knitting help! You will find some patterns like hats and such you can knit flat. If you can, the pattern will tell you, and you just sew it up when you're done. For the most part though, hats and mittens and such will be knit in the round. For someone who is still new to knitting, I would recommend starting with a hat if you are wanting to start knitting in the round. The reason I say this is bc getting used to knitting with circular needles and dpns can be a bit tricky. I haven't even tried anything like mittens or socks yet, and I've been knitting for about 9 years now. But then again, I didn't really get the hang of the purl stitch til about a week ago either! lol. But anyway, I hope that my advice has helped you a little. And of course, if you have any questions, feel free to ask us on here!!! Good luck!!! :)
Thanks! Well, for the moment I think I'm gonna stick to the straight needles before I try the circular needles (which I had never seen ever before until a few days ago!).
This particular pattern says that I need a US 8 DPNs or circular needle of 24'', I guess this means i can try to knit them with straight needles, but then I will have to sew them together?
It's a bit dumb question, I know, but...
When a pattern tells you to use either DPNs or a circular needle, they are telling you that you can use whichever of those two methods of circular knitting. Both DPNs (Double Pointed Needles) and circular needles can be used to knit mittens in the round.
I don't think I've seen a pattern for mittens that is knit flat ... but I haven't really looked for one either, so maybe someone else here on KH will know of one for you. :thumbsup:
First of all, there's no such thing as a dumb question on here. We were all new to knitting at one point. Second, I wouldn't suggest knitting a pattern straight that is meant to be knit in the round. Here, I have a pattern for a hat that can be knit straight.....here it is!!! And you don't have to put the emblem on there if you don't want to. Good luck!!! :)
What do you know? I did find a pattern for mittens that are knit flat ... apparently there are lots of them! :rofl:
You could check out this one if you like.
If you haven't already, I would definitely recommend checking out the videos page here on KH to learn how to increase/decrease and seam before you get started. These are all very easy, so don't worry .... but it's worth being prepared so you don't get too frustrated with your new project! :thumbsup:
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Ok, now I get it! so the double pointed needles can be used for this, I think I will try that rather than the circular needles... I will have to get myself a pair of DPNs (planning a raid to the yarn store tomorrow, hehehe!).
For the moment I am also gonna have a look at those patterns for mittens to be knitted flat, thanks a mil for your help!
There are a lot of mittens and gloves patterns out there, so I would look around and choose one to fit what you can do. There are patterns where you knit flat, then seam up the edges, knit in the round, etc. There's also gusset patterns and non-gusset patterns. (The gusset is shaping worked for the thumb.) Choose what makes sense to you and you know you can do... even if it is a bit of a challenge. Also, I prefer dpns over circular. Sometimes, it's just better to do circular but dpns typically work for anything. One thing to keep in mind is to make sure your tension is correct as you knit to the next needle. Some people tend to go too loose and end up with a hole there and some too tight and you can see those spots, as well... just not as much.
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This Challange is inspired by "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" By Death Cab For Cutie, pretty much just listen to the song and write what you think it is about but there are some limitations:
1) It cannot be over 20 chapters (If you write in chapters) or if you like to write one shots it has to be MORE than 400 words.
2) It can be in any POV you want, although be sure to include a lot of details if you write in first person
3)It has to be angst filled XD The song itself is sorta sad and sweet so it can have angst but be more borderline sweet.
4)If you are writing about an anime or manga please, in the description, state which anime or manga it is...I get easily confused with ones like this...alsotry to write one for a lesser known anime or manga :)
5)Have fun writing
6)The only dead line is the end of the month.
Oh some rules to follow:
1)Please have fun
2)You don't have to like the song, listen to the lyrics and interpret them in any way you want, it can even be a song fic
3)You must also be able to clearly give your opinion of what the song means through a character of some sort.
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In the US, by contrast, there are 707 ETFs, with combined assets of 585.9 billion dollars or Rs 27.5 lakh crore. An ETF is a single security representing a basket of stocks that corresponds to a particular index, say, the S&P, CNX, Nifty or Sensex.
In the US, by contrast, there are 707 ETFs, with combined assets of 585.9 billion dollars or Rs 27.5 lakh crore. An ETF is a single security representing a basket of stocks that corresponds to a particular index, say, the S&P, CNX, Nifty or Sensex.
The ETFs trading value is based on the net asset value of the underlying stocks that it represents. Much like an index fund, an ETF offers built-in diversification. But because ETFs can be bought or sold within the trading day, they offer the flexibility of a stock.
Like individual equity securities, ETFs are traded on a stock exchange and can be bought and sold throughout the day through a broker-dealer. Why invest in an ETF? The popularity of exchange traded funds is growing: they combine diversification, cost efficiency and flexibility in a single investment.
Firstly, with an ETF, you trade a basket of stocks for a single brokerage, saving money on trades. Secondly, there are no shortterm redemption loads. Thirdly, ETFs allow you to take advantage of intraday changes in the market, as they trade throughout the day, like stocks. Fourthly, they let you benefit from sophisticated trading strategies such as hedging, diversification, and arbitraging between futures and cash market.
And lastly, you can choose from a range of ETFs, including funds that modify standard indices and sector-specific funds. Types of ETFs ETFs can be broadly classified into index, commodity, and bond funds. Most ETFs are index funds that hold securities and attempt to replicate the performance of a stock market index.
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Third Quarter Reviews: The Twitter Edition
No, this isn't my year-end list of favorite albums; this is me catching up on the third quarter album reviews (halfway through the fourth quarter). Due to the sheer number under consideration — and in this 140-character Twitter age — each gets only one sentence because isn't something that someone's poured their heart into for months (or years) worth only one sentence of criticism?
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No More Empty Pots
Addressing the food insecurity problems that nag poverty-stricken northeast Omaha, where access to fresh, organic produce, dairy and bread products is limited, are an array of individuals, organizations, projects and initiatives. Many efforts aim to educate residents on how to grow their own food, cook healthier and eat better. That's part of the mission of a fairly new nonprofit player in the...
Unsung Hero
"I didn't set out to be the poster child for this but I want to put a face with it because I feel like a lot of the stigma is still there. People hear HIV/AIDS and they think of someone who is frail and sickly looking and I am far from that," said Tommy Dennis.
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Bu-bu-bu-bu-Bleep! What's that Noise on the new Arcade Fire Album?
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I've been interviewing rock bands for The Reader going on 20 years now. Whenever I do a phoner with a touring rock band coming through town for the first time, I ask the interviewee to list his/her preconceived notions of our fair city and Nebraska in general.
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Organizations serving at-risk kids come and go but few stay the course the way the CW Youth Resource Center, 1510 Cass Street, has since opening in 1978.
Founder-director Carl Washington hosts a Nov. 29 open house at CW from 4 to 8 p.m. to celebrate 35 years of structured youth activities. Alums, supporters and the general public are welcome.
His experience mentoring youth began a decade...
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I've never been a NASCAR fan. The idea of watching cars drive around in circles for three hours wasting gas while listening to guys with severe southern drawls describe someone changing a tire just never appealed to me.
But way back in 2001, after reading an article about how technology had been integrated into racing coverage (presumably making it more interesting) — and with a few minutes...
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This Saturday, November 16th, is judgment day for the Omaha Police Department.
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
One People
May we put the divisiveness of the campaigning season behind us and work together to heal the problems facing all beings on this planet.
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On This Election Day, 2008
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"Like a lot of us, I keep asking myself, how did we get into this mess? Since humans have innate needs and capacities for cooperation, empathy and fairness - which science now confirms - why does so much suffering and destruction continue? For many, the answer seems obvious: Humans just aren't good enough; we need to become better people; we need to overcome selfishness and evolve into more caring and cooperative creatures. I disagree. Since these positive qualities are hard-wired in virtually all of us, maybe what we really need more of is something else: backbone.
Have you ever considered we're too cooperative? Maybe we're hard-wired to follow others, even if we should say 'no way.'"
Lappe goes on to site recent studies where people were willing to administer electric shocks to others in order to induce learning. More than half conform, delivering up to 150 volts, even when the subject cried out in pain. When interviewed afterwards, those that stopped sending shocks believed themselves to be responsible for the shocks. The ones that kept going believed the experimenter was the one to be held accountable.
Maybe, because we believe our government is accountable, we don't hold ourselves accountable when we witness racial slurs, poverty, and other problems that we say are not acceptable.
"...In these do-or-die times, the future depends on how quickly we grasp that we must keep power dispersed. As it's dispersed, more of us come to feel accountable. We must master the art of positive courage. We can, for example, reward our kids from the earliest ages for speaking out against injustice.
To call forth courage in the wider culture, we can actively protect and publicly reward and honor truth-tellers willing to risk humiliation or even their livelihoods to uphold our shared values of fairness and honesty. We can work on ourselves, checking our tendency to go along with what we should not.
Preaching generosity and cooperation alone won't get us there. Evidence-driven thinking about the real challenge of our species - cultivating gutsiness - is the first step toward the world almost everyone wants."
Labels: 2008 elections
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Is This What We Want?
When I was in my early 20's, I lived in 3 different southern states. I wasn't very politically aware at the time. I just lived my life. I remember all of the wonderful neighbors I had in each of those states. I loved them. And they took me in like family. We would have done anything for each other.
As I got older, I realized that most of those neighbors were probably politically conservative. If we would have gone to the polls together, we would have discovered our very different political values. But we shared the most important things. We were kind to each other and looked out for one another. THAT'S what mattered.
The air feels different nowadays and I don't think it's all because I'm more politically aware and involved. Our country feels more divided. Is it because of the media's divisive messages of labels, lies, and name-calling?
Is this what we want?
I am really sad. This name-calling has seeped into our extended family. We were people who once loved each other; relatives who shared the exploration of ancestry; friends who emailed adventures of birds and sales. Now, names and labels and rigid rights and wrongs are hurled, dividing family into treehuggers on one hand and those who know what's "right" on the other.
And I wonder... On our deathbeds, what will matter most: Believing that we are right or knowing that we loved?
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
What Will You Do If Your Vote Isn't Counted?
As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise..."
Don't worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.
Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.
Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.
While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.
Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.
A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent."
Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging" ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.
Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast is in the current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media enquiries - Dave Falkenstein, Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via firstname.lastname@example.com.]
Check this out: Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with the Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the vote-theft 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book, which can be downloaded or obtained in print from their non-partisan website, StealBackYourVote.org
For updates and video reports, go to
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
If The World Could Vote
Click here to find out.
Then let me know if you are surprised at the results.
Labels: 2008 elections
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Won't You Please Come Up To Denver?
Labels: 2008 elections, DNC
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
(Thanks to Ward)
Labels: 2008 elections
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Can't We Just Get The Facts And Vote?
"Great" American entertainment.
And the story is created by the media.
I guess I have to admit that I have been paying more attention than necessary to my own drama. One moment, I think that I should go ahead and have surgery on my shoulder. The next, I decide that it's not really that bad - I can live with it. I have a lot of resistance to surgeries and other violent acts. AND I'd like to have my arm back.
Writing this, I realize that, while working on a drama-free life, I am pretty caught up in Days of My Shoulder. Funny how these things sneak up on me.
Hmmm... I could hold an election. Citizens could vote for either change or the status quo regarding this shoulder that has been quite the painful limiting factor for the last year. But first, I get to campaign for both sides - dirty ads and all.
OK then. Time to change the channel.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
R.I.P Fair Elections
This is an important article:
The Plot to Rig the 2008 US Election
by Johann Hari
from The Independent/UK
excerpts below
to read the complete article, click here
In the long, hot autumn of 2000, the world was shocked by the contempt for democracy shown by the Republican Party. They knew their man had lost the popular vote to Al Gore by half a million votes. They knew the majority of voters in Florida itself had pulled a lever for Gore. But they fought - amid the confetti of hanging chads - to stop the state's votes being counted, and to ensure that the Supreme Court imposed George W Bush.
Today, that contempt for democracy is on display again. In California right now, there is a naked, out-in-the-open ploy to rig the 2008 presidential election - and it may succeed.
...Today, the Republicans are trying to exploit the discontent with the electoral college among Americans in a way that would rig the system in their favour. At the moment, every state apart from Maine and Nebraska hands out its electoral college votes according to a winner-takes-all system. This means that if 51 per cent of people in California vote Democrat, the Democrats get 100 per cent of California's electoral votes; if 51 per cent of people in Texas vote Republican, the Republicans get 100 per cent of Texas' electoral votes.
The Republicans want to change this - but in only one Democrat-leaning state. California has gone Democratic in presidential elections since 1988, and winning the sunny state is essential if the Democrats are going to retake the White House. So the Republicans have now begun a plan to break up California's electoral college votes - and award a huge chunk of them to their side.
...They have launched a campaign called California Counts, and they are trying to secure a state-wide referendum in June to implement their plan. They want California's electoral votes to be divvied up not on a big state-wide basis, but according to the much smaller congressional districts. The practical result? Instead of all the state's 54 electoral college votes going to the Democratic candidate, around 20 would go to the Republicans.
If this was being done in every state, everywhere, it would be an improvement. California's forgotten Republicans would be represented in the electoral college, and so would Texas's forgotten Democrats. But by doing it in California alone, they are simply giving the Republicans a massive electoral gift. Suddenly it would be extremely hard for a Democrat ever to win the White House; they would need a landslide victory everywhere else to counter this vast structural imbalance against them on the West Coast.
I checked out California Counts' website (calcounts.com) where they list the problems with the electoral college in CA:
* In 1988, Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis received 48% of the vote, but received ZERO electoral delegates from California.
* In 2004, Republican nominee George Bush received 44% of the vote, but received ZERO electoral delegates from California.
* It has been over 30 years since presidential candidates have actively sought the votes of Californians. Without this reform initiative, they will take us for granted again in 2008.
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Conquest of Elysium 3 has a simple mission statement: conquer the world! Take control of a warlord (selecting from many different classes) and defeat all the others. That sounds simple, except achieving this differs depending on who you "are" — e.g., the Necromancer would be interested in finding graveyards and old battlefields on his way to get a huge army, while the Troll King would yawn at such endeavors.
Johan Karlsson is the game's co-creator, so he should know exactly what makes the game "tick."
Man Cave Daily: There are those who would say that CoE is "old school."
Johan Karlsson: It's good if you like how games used to be and prefer game play over stunning 3d graphics. The first version of CoE was made in the early 1990s and while the game has got upgraded graphics and more content since then it is still pretty much the same game. The animations are intentionally kept very simple to allow us to add many monsters without too much work. The game is also has a manual instead of a tutorial, although you have to print it out yourself to get that real old school feeling of actually having a paper manual.
MCD: What are the strengths of a turn-based fantasy strategy game like CoE?
JK: Most modern strategy games are realtime and require fast reactions with the mouse to do well. Being turn-based allows you to take as much time as you want to give your orders and then press "end turn" to let the enemies do their turns. One good thing with a turn-based game is that it makes for an excellent tablet game. It doesn't matter if you get interrupted while playing and the slowness of a touchscreen versus a mouse is not a problem as you can take all the time you want. Of course, being a fantasy setting, we focus on setting our races to real world mythos/historical fantasy as opposed to some of the "high magic" fantasy games you may be familiar with. In that way we can play with the idea of a Roman legion (the senator faction) fighting an army of Lovecraft-esque horrors from the deep.
The game can be described as a strategy rogue-like, it plays fast and you can die quickly if you are unlucky. Worlds are randomly generated, with a setting that depends on the scenario you have chosen. The scenarios goes from the Dark Ages where there is little civilization and the forces of nature is strong to the Empire where there is a great capital and towns all over the continent. Different factions may be stronger in some scenarios, but in every scenario the random rogue-like elements will turn a strong start into early retirement pretty quickly.
MCD: And the 18 classes that the player can take on?
JK: Most them are human. In general each faction falls into one or more categories of abilities. Barons, Barbarians, Senators, for instance all rely on recruiting in various methods to raise a giant mostly human army. Meanwhile Demonologists, Witches, Necromancers and similar factions use a non-gold resource to summon a variety of creatures with different powers. There's also the stranger hybrids and unique races, such as the Bakemono who get free units from mountain resources, summon creatures, and still focus a lot on recruiting–they do a little of everything but can't do any of them super well. Even the Voice of El, a zealot inspired race, focuses on generating random events and converting the world to the religion of El…and if things go wrong for them, can literally cause Armageddon as a last resort, though they're no safer from that than any other race.
MCD: So the classes are very different in their powers and in what resources they need?
JK: I think this is one of the best things with CoE, it makes for a very different game when you try another class, and you must adopt your strategy for the new class. E.g. the Troll King starts with himself as a one man army, he can conquer small towns and mines all by himself and should do so as soon as he sees one. On the other hand the Warlock starts with only a small number of infantrymen which he needs to keep himself out of combat, so he can cast spells from the rear. He will have to choose carefully what to conquer as he might lose some of those men even by trying to take a small village and then he might not be able to take the important things.
MCD: What about the dreaded learning curve?
JK: Any good strategy game is going to have a learning curve, and I would say CoE3 is a very oddly shaped curve. If you go into CoE3 blind, having not played or read about it, there's certain things we do that are unexpected to the player, such as not being able to directly control combat. This doesn't mean there's no strategy. What units to bring to a fight, when to avoid a fight, when and where to attack, these are all vital skills the player will learn and once you get over that first hurdle of not being able to control combat once it happens there's a myriad of strategic decision that will open up before you as you attempt to calculate not only if you can WIN a fight, but what the expected death toll is going to be on your side.
MCD: Is CoE3 too complex to have been made as a board game?
JK: Yes, and having it as a computer game definitely helps. e.g. the battles in CoE are quite complex, but they are also fully automatic, so they are easy for the players and can be resolved in a second. In a board game having these kind of battles would probably take hours to resolve. To model (all that would be needed) in a board game would be impossible, (as) neat details would end up being smashed together into something more vague. While you're rarely going to look at the goblin who lost an eye (he's replaceable easily enough), having such an event happen to your giant demon lord may have real game implications as well as help tell a narrative when you talk about the game with friends.
Conquest of Elysium 3 is available on Linux, Windows, Mac and Android platforms.
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It's hard to imagine enrolling in UC Santa Cruz in the early '70s would turn out to be such a genius career move for Paul Magid.
Of course, in those days of long hair and bell bottom trousers, nobody was thinking of careers, let alone career moves. Magid was at UCSC working vaguely toward a career as a scientist. But then he got involved with drama and, not much later, juggling. And that, hard as it may be to believe, was Magid's genius career move.
"That was when the juggling craze went through the country," said Magid, a co-founder and still-member of The Flying Karamazov Brothers, the legendary comedy juggling act that plays for one night April 17 at Livermore's Bankhead Theater, less than a week before the crazy quartet celebrates its 41st birthday. "I just became obsessed with the idea of combining theater with juggling, so we started opening for some plays on campus."
Then, as so many performers of the era did, they took the Karamazovs to the street to join the legions of al fresco vaudevillians -- jugglers, banjoists, comics, mimes, dancers and the array of performers, many of whom continue to bubble just beneath the surface under the umbrella of New Vaudeville. For the brothers, it quickly became a paying job.
"We were making more than we did with jobs in the dining halls," Magid said. "So, when we graduated, instead of grad school, we decided to be jugglers, where we'd do our shows in a way that was always theatrical, slightly silly and virtuosic."
From there, it was paying gigs and indoor venues, a hitchhiking trip to a gig at the Spokane, Wash., world's fair, when they were picked up by a VW van containing three girls, one of whom was the niece of Ed Sullivan.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, yeah," said Magid. "This was a good sign."
It turned out to be, and it was also the time when The Flying Karamazov Brothers got their name. Original member Howard Patterson was reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" and began drawing parallels between the book's characters and the members of the group.
"The name stuck," said Magid. But the company's publicity points out the Brothers don't fly, are not named Karamazov and aren't brothers at all. Such honesty is followed by Magid, who is proudly a juggler. "Juggling is the most honest of all arts. Juggling is dropping."
He allows a moment to let the thought register, something he can do as the senior member of the troupe. And, although he is the older brother, he continues to have fun performing and admits he has "good genes."
It is silly to call the Brothers simply a juggling act. They are a force of comedy, amazing observation, frenzied movement and a wild sort of Marx Brothers craziness that has taken them to Broadway, Europe (for a time, Magid lived part-time in Italy) and far more places than Magid ever imagined he'd go.
The group, now with 10 brothers, performs about half the year and does longer gigs the rest of the time. The Livermore show is 7:30 p.m. at the Bankhead, 2400 First St. Tickets, at $45 to $65 (with a $15 student ticket) may be reserved at 925-373-6800 or http://livermoreperformingarts.org.
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CDS Auction Passes Smoothly
The outcome of today's auction to settle credit default swap contracts written on Greek sovereign debt show those who held these contracts suffered little to no loss on their investment.
This actually is what credit default swap contracts are supposed to do. Protect creditors against losses.
After Greece forced its creditors into a debt restructuring, holders of old Greek bonds received compensation valued at about 22-23 cents in the bond exchange. If those had bought credit default swaps as a hedge to their investment, they would receive 78.5 as a payout, making no loss at all.
There may be adjustments, as not all the new Greek bonds trade at the same value as they have different maturities, but the process delivered its results.
"It's a tried and tested method" said Gavan Nolan, Director of Credit Research at Markit, who, together with Creditex, ran the auction.
"There have been nearly a hundred of auctions for corporate entities and they always worked pretty well. Protection buyers are supposed to end up square." he adds.
According to Richard McGuire, senior fixed income strategist for Rabobank, it's the technicality of the instrument that worked to give a favorable outcome. "The auction process was to determine the payout on CDS contracts. The payout in turn is a product of the price of the underlying bond." he explains.
The happy ending of today shows that, when credit default swaps actually come into play, they work.
So what do all bondholders need to do to make credit default swap actionable? Kick and scream against participating on a debt restructuring, until someone forces them into it, and ISDA says there is a credit event.
A committee of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the regulatory body for the credit derivatives market, finally ruled a couple of weeks ago that Greece has legally forced its creditors into a debt restructuring. Greece introduced retroactive clauses into its bond documents to legally bind creditors into a restructuring.
So ISDA declared a "credit event" had happened, kick-starting the payout process.
"Forced" was the word. ISDA declared a credit event only when the restructuring was forceful and not voluntary. But it took months of uncertainty, back-and-forth from European officials and a lot of drama in the market to deliver this outcome.
Now, the good news is that credit default swaps work and are a valid hedging instrument should a country force you into accepting losses on your debt.
"Back from the brink" as McGuire from Rabobank put it. But now, don't expect creditors to agree to any "voluntary" sovereign debt swap, should the need arise.


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New Mormon Temple Opening in Gilbert
(KFYI News) A fourth Mormon temple is opening in Arizona.
The new LDS church in Gilbert is getting ready to open its doors and in recognition of the event, the public will be able to tour the 85,000 square-foot facility.
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The U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) legalized travel to Cuba for U.S. citizens through People-to-People licenses in 2011. But it was Beyoncé and Jay-Z's trip to Cuba in April that ignited the national conversation around American travel to the island nation.
Legal travel to Cuba through the People-to-People licensed program requires that Americans participate in cultural and educational exchanges with Cubans, and get to know them through these personal interactions. This is an extraordinarily enriching experience, as art and culture are inherent in the daily heartbeats of life in Cuba. It's seen everywhere – from young school children who learn classical dance and can recite great Cuban works of poetry to seniors who spend lazy tropical afternoons discussing art and music over a game of dominoes in the cooling shade.
You can immerse yourself in all of this culture plus more, while also giving back to the country and its people, in many important ways. There is a great symbiotic relationship you can build when you visit Cuba through a People-to-People license. Here are three reasons why you should take a legal trip to Cuba.
You will definitely interact on a daily basis with real Cubans in every walk of life. In my opinion, the best reason to take a legal trip is that the mandated trip itineraries are phenomenal. I've been selling and creating travel experiences for 33 years, and People-to-People trips require you do what's most interesting about Cuba and travel in general—get to know how the people of that destination really live, while sharing a bit with them about how you live back in the U.S.


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Cowboys' 45-28 loss to Chicago Bears
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Getting to know: Leslie Allen
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Ideal or dream vacation: Ireland
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Favorite current TV show: "I don't watch TV."
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Favorite Movie: "The Lake House"
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When my computer starts up, one of the first text messages during startup
tells me my bios is too old and the computer won't shut down
automatically. It tells me I need to set: acpi=force.
Of course, I don't know how to do that.
Recently someone helped me out with the followng:
The solution is this:
add a new line with the following statement:
apm power_off=1
And that works just fine under normal shutdown. But if I hibernate the
computer, it works just the first time. The second time, I have to turn
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Canada has no commercial geothermal power plants, despite having abundant potential and, ironically, Canadian energy companies running geothermal power plants around the world.
Canada's west coast forms part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a giant horseshoe of active volcanoes and earthquake zones stretching from New Zealand all the way around Alaska to the bottom of South America. The geology putting coastal cities at risk also makes the area great for developing geothermal resources.
Ring of Fire countries New Zealand, Indonesia, the Philippines, the United States and Mexico all have commercial geothermal plants, but not Canada. A groundbreaking 2010 study of Canada's geothermal potential found the best locations were in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, but even Ontario could produce geothermal power if someone dug deep enough.
To develop a geothermal power plant, a firm needs to drill a well deep into the ground to extract hot water to generate steam to turn an electrical turbine. The water is then recycled through another well back underground. The most important factors are the temperature of the extracted water and the flow rate – the hotter the water and the more of it, the better.


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When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five.
"Ben Bagdikian has written the first great media book of the twenty-first century. The New Media Monopoly will provide a roadmap to understanding how we got here and where we need to go to make matters better."
-Robert McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy
"No book on the media has proved as influential to our understanding of the dangers of corporate consolidation to democracy and the marketplace of ideas; this new edition builds on those works and surpasses them."
-Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media?
Praise for earlier editions
"Bagdikian's The Media Monopoly has been, through six editions, an invaluable work for anyone interested in media's role in the society. Students simply must read this book, and teachers must teach it. We're very fortunate that a new edition is on its way."
-Charles Whitney, professor, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin and coauthor of MediaMaking: The Mass Media in a Popular Culture
"Bagdikian's book is eye-opening; it lays out very specific consequences of the corporate voice on the news. I have found its contents useful in teaching critical thinking to undergraduates, and the book itself has been an excellent graduate text for discussing corporate advocacy."
-Josh Boyd, assistant professor of communication, Purdue University
"An uncompromising look at the commercial dynamics of the mass media that is as disturbing as it is fascinating. Essential reading for all students seeking to understand the social psychology of mass communication within its broader economic and historical context."
-Romin W. Tafarodi, associate professor of psychology, University of Toronto
"Bagdikian's insights into damages caused by corporate ownership of mass media are essential to any examination of America's press-his vivid, relentless accounting of corporate greed, lust for power and contempt for the First Amendment make me weep for democracy."
-Tim Pilgrim, associate professor of journalism, Western Washington University
"Like no other text I have seen, Ben Bagdikian's The Media Monopoly lays out the consequences of the trend toward consolidation of ownership for media industries, audiences, and society-at-large in a way that engages students and inspires them to become involved in this important public policy debate."
-Miriam J. Metzger, assistant professor of communication and associate director of the Center for Film, Television and New Media, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Ben Bagdikian's critique of conglomeration in the media industry has become one of the classic arguments of media studies. The Media Monopoly is a must-read for anyone interested in the social role of media institutions today."
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BLOOMFIELD - Edsel D. Edwards, 78, died Dec. 8, 2004, at the John J. Pershing Veterans Administration Medical Center in Poplar Bluff.
Born Feb. 1, 1926, near Bloomfield, son of the late Everett and Nellie Ray Edwards, he was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II and served as Stoddard County Sheriff from 1969-72. Before retiring, he had been employed as a mechanic for Sigler Chevrolet in Dexter, a truck driver for Duty Trucking in Bloomfield, and by Mayo Feed Mill in Bloomfield. He was a 50-year member of Bloomfield Masonic Lodge 153.
On Dec. 24, 1947, at Piggott, Ark., he married Helen Tiller who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son, Larry Edwards of Mansfield, Ohio; two brothers, Harvey Edwards and Bryce Edwards of Flint, Mich.; one sister, Delma Obards of Bloomfield; and two grandchildren.
Also preceding him in death were one brother, Ralph Edwards; and two sisters, Vinnie Hopkins and Veda Edwards.
Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter where Masonic rites will be conducted at 7:30 p.m.
Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home with the Rev. Kenneth Lambert officiating.
Burial will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.


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Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back, 1957-1962 (1986)
Part two of the Oscar-nominated documentary about the Civil Rights Movement chronicles the obstacles to the enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling against segregated public schools, including the turbulent months at Little Rock Central High School.
I Can't Marry You (2003)
This documentary takes a look at gay marriage by exploring the experiences of 20 gay and lesbian couples. The film is narrated by Betty DeGeneres, mother of Hollywood gay activist Ellen DeGeneres, and was made by FYI Production, a company committed to "educating Americans and making the legal right of marriage a reality for every couple."


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Friday, April 30, 2010
Question of the day: What's the difference between a blogger and a journalist?
I never go.
I always say I'm not a journalist, I'm just a blogger.
When I said this recently, someone asked me - what's the difference?
So I ask, what's the difference between a journalist and a blogger?
I have my own opinion but I want to hear yours first
Please share your thoughts
12 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Linda, i fink there is only a very thin line between a blogger and Journalist, and it might take ages to dfine it...but I fink the reason u get invited to press conferences is just cos u av a medium, a popular one at that..
- April 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Bloggers are less formal than journalist...bloggers can post any story without credibility behind it.Bloggers usually dont investigate stories themselves they just copy and paste(most times) from others sources and most of them do not usually even cite their sources or give credit to the original source
- April 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Linda, A journalist is a professional while anybody can be a blogger. In order words a journalist undergoes a formal training while a blogger need not undergo any formal training.
- April 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM
This is a very good question. A blogger may not be a journalist if he or she is not qualified or trained as a journalist.
Anybody can be a blogger from various backgrounds and cannot claim to be a journalist by writing blogs and blogging events, although it is linked to online journalism.
Journalism courses are recommended for bloggers than want to become online journalists because it will be a thing of the future.
In Nigeria, you do need to register with the Nigeria Union of Journalists before you can call yourself a journalist. Other countries have their own requirements.
So studying journalism does not mean you are a journalist just as having a Law degree does not mean that you are a lawyer until you are called to the bar in Nigeria.
- April 30, 2010 at 3:32 PM
I got another idea. A journalist is someone who earns a living through the practice of journalism while a blogger may not necessarily earn a living from blogging but blogs because he or she has has access to medium to express him or herself.
- April 30, 2010 at 5:13 PM
As a print journalism graduate, I must say that blogging is an answer to the end of the traditional journalism era. Blogging is not all about posting on your blogs like blogger, wordpress; people also blog on facebook, twitter and other networking sites. Some will argue that a blogger is also a journalist. That is definitely true because anybody could transmit news through any reliable medium. Linda, since you have a lot of traffic on your blog, you share news, your points of view, photos, they are all acceptable way of nontraditional journalism today.
- April 30, 2010 at 5:33 PM
A blog is an opinion piece based on fact or fiction and could b biased but a journalist piece is based on verifiable fact and not the opinion of the writer
- April 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Linda, so what is your own opinion?
- May 2, 2010 at 5:39 PM
- Anonymous said...
A jounalist finds d news.A bloger publishes it.
- May 3, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- x-Omotade-x said...
There's a big difference.
Comments above me said it all. Anyone can blog, journalism is a profession.
- May 6, 2010 at 1:38 AM
Pretty cool site you've got here. Thanx for it. I like such topics and everything connected to them. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon.
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For let's ride the trains, they also seem to be Christian experts. I was wondering if they could put in the SpeakOut what chapter and verse in the Bible that it says it's unchristian and immoral to produce toxic waste? It has to be stored for 10,000 years and perhaps they can tell us what expertise they have in nuclear physics?
I'm really sick and tired of listening to someone down school teachers. School teachers work all year. You think that they just go to work at 8 o'clock and they get off at 3 o'clock and the rest of the day and they do nothing. Well my wife is a school teacher and has been for 19 years. Not only does she come and she spends hours and hours of grading papers till sometimes 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning, but then she has those students that the parents won't take responsibility for, and she buys them clothes and tries to take care of them. We spend money to try and buy them the things they need to do their school work, but to down the school teachers is a sin. They are the ones that are teaching our children. The ones to blame here are the parents at home who don't care if the kids are getting a good education or not. That's not to say all parents are like that. There are some wonderful parents, they're kind, get involved and help and interested and want their kids to do well because they know they have college to attend. But on the most part, you have people that come that have lice everyday, there's always something wrong that they have to be sent home. We have the best school system anywhere around. Our teachers are wonderful. They are career people. They are smart, knowledgeable and they give our kids a good education. I have three daughters that went to this school and they have been wonderful, wonderful people. I think it's a shame to blast the doctors when they need to look in the mirrors and ask what they have done for their child today. The doctors need to look to see what they can do to get a hold of the problems they are having to do a better job. We can do it if we try because we have a wonderful facility to do it. Don't down Sikeston. Sikeston is a wonderful place to live and educate our kids and we have wonderful facilities for medical care.
I'm commenting on Peter Kinder's advertisement I just seen on KFVS. He said that we should check a block on our tax form for the military fund for the families that have military overseas. I'm wondering why people have to take that out of their taxes. We are paying taxes for these people to go over there every week out of our paycheck. Why don't they take some of the money away from these schools and give it to these military families and then they'll have money? Seems like all this money from the lottery goes to the schools. I think they should give half to the schools and half to the military families. We pay taxes 52 weeks a year and I feel like every time the school needs money they get it and I feel like the military families need money too. Instead of taking it out of your income tax check, they need to take it out of state funding.
The state of Texas has given the United States three presidents with about the same agenda. All three were Republicans and if you say LBJ was Democrat you are wrong. LBJ was Republican until the 1960's and then he swapped parties because the Republicans were losing at the polls. And even at that, Texas was his state and Texas is a southern Democrat state with Republican issues. All three were Republicans and supported tax breaks to pay off their sponsors. I think it's time we gave up as Texas as a state for presidents. Maybe we can call Texas for a janitor to clean up a mess in Washington like we just had.


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A Rose By Any Other Design Would Smell Just as Sweet
As much as I'll miss the hunks from Thunder From Down Under, I think we can all let out a sigh of relief because that disaster of a challenge is over. But as it became clear through out this episode, the designers were not quite ready to see past it. (I'm talking to you, Richard.)
It's the Lord & Taylor challenge! Besides the HP challenge (Next week!), this is always my favorite challenge because it gives us, the loyal "Project Runway" fans, a chance to actually purchase the winning design. But more on that later…
I really feel for the designers. At this point of the competition, they are sleep deprived, haven't seen their families for weeks and are so close, yet so far from being crowned the winner. And you can just see the look of despair on their faces each time Tim tells them they have "some business to take care." I don't know what's better anymorehaving the judges pick the teams or the button bag. This week the teams were at the mercy of the judges again, dividing last week's teams into pairs with one trio: Stanley and Patricia, Daniel and Michelle, and Richard, Layana and Samantha.
After the usual drill of sketching (This week's inspiration: the Lord & Taylor rose) and Mood (Hi, Swatch!), it was on to 1407 for what should have been a relatively quiet day in the workroom since each person had their own design to worry about. I believe Stanley said in the beginning of the episode that it was going to be, "no drama day." He was wrong. In fact, he was the source of a good amount of drama!
If you were to ask me in the beginning of the season who would be one of the first ones to go, I would have said Patricia solely based on the fact that she typically has unconventional ideas, especially when it comes to textiles. But if there is one thing I've learned over the years, when it comes to PR, there is never a clear winner or loser at the beginning of the competition. And I must admit, Patricia has really won me over. It's a shame Stanley didn't feel the same way! Bless her heart. I would have gone total New Jersey on Stanley's @$$ if he badgered me as much as he did to Patricia. I get it Stanley, you don't like to lose, but leave her alone!
But Stanley's whining was nothing compared to the silent treatment that Richard was giving Layana. Get over yourself, dude. It's a competitionat some point, the claws will come out. I'm glad Layana didn't stoop to his level, but I would have also loved to have seen a full-on confrontation. That girl is a sassy one.
While Michelle and Daniel didn't have any drama, per se, but that pink fabric was a major sore spot for them. I'm team Michelle on this one (I hate pink). However, I do support Daniel's mantra, "Happy clothes for happy people." I do not support his tears over deconstructing his jacket. That was all a little to soap opera for me.
It was nice to see Rachel Roy back on the judges panel. She's a PR judge A-lister at this point! And as always, Bonnie Brooks brought an element of class and poise. She's pretty fab.
The looks:
-Patricia: The colors of her outfit look like sherbet to me. I'm not a huge fan of capri pants, but I thought the flowy top was beautiful. I loved the opening in the back. It's not my favorite design of hers, but it was definitely good enough to keep her safe.
-Stanley: Snore. Boring shift dress. Next.
-Michelle: Obsessed. As Heidi said, she was definitely the clear winner. Great color and the leather detail was the perfect touch. I agree with Rachel when she pointed out you could tell that Michelle really took into account what would look good on women of shapes and sizes. I'm literally running to Lord & Taylor tomorrow to buy the dress.
-Daniel: Also another boring dress. I'm just over these simple dresses. It's springhave some fun! I kinda wish he stuck with the shorts idea. It would have looked dated with the "Joan Collins" blazer he made (RIP), but at least it wouldn't have been boring.
-Layana: I'm a sucker for a good maxi dress. Unlike Heidi, I actually liked the fabric. I do wish, however, she used a lighter fabric than leather for the accents. It was too much of a "hard and soft" contrast for me.
-Richard: OMG, guys! He designed a jersey dress just like the one he did for the senior fling! Gasp. He should have been sent home this week. Richard's been given one too many chances, if you ask me. Not that his dress was bad, it just lacked creativity.
-Samantha: Sammy B, what happened?! I 100 percent get that she wanted to design for the younger L&T audience, but this dress could have easily been sold at Forever 21 or H&M. Too much frill, the heart cutout was excessive and the colors screamed middle school dance. auf Wiedersehen.


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NEW BEDFORD — A break-in at Building 19 on Hathaway Road just after midnight Monday led to the arrest of a New Bedford man, police said Tuesday.
At around 12:30 a.m. Monday, police went to Building 19 after an alarm and motion activation at the building. Inside, Officer Ronald Guerin saw three males in the warehouse area who police said immediately fled on foot.
With other officers' assistance, police apprehended Daniel Diaz, 22, of New Bedford after he fled the building into a fenced-in area. Police said the other two suspects remain at large.
The three men entered through a window in the rear of the building, police said.
Diaz was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning in New Bedford District Court on charges of breaking and entering in the nighttime and carrying a dangerous weapon (a knife).
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